In USA some parties urging closure of remaining open gun stores as apparent Looting and other Crimes occur, anecdotal and web info indicate. This is 3rd hand data of course. But look for the Harvard Man in charge of Handing out Vital things as well as Tiddlywinks to urge the Wharton Man (aka Command...

@ orathaic. It's call triage. Used in WWI and Korean Conflict etc. Saves on the morphine. Nueva York itself allows certain 'essential' categories of stores to remain open in the Lockdown: e.g.: Liquor stores, "Convenience stores (i.e., tobacco and vaping products) & supermarkets (AI machines have co...

Aside from B. Tuchman's address to the War College, dip fans may want to ponder Russell F. Weigley. THE AGE OF BATTLES: The quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana U.P., 1991). Modern warfare, according to Weigley, begins with Gustavus Adolphus ...

Some 5 million persons went out in all directions from the Wuhan medicine/food market before a Chinese government acknowledged the viral outbreak. Batshits were MERs or SARS viruses. Reportedly this coronavirus is from some other feral beast, maybe an endangered species. In pictures from Japan sika ...

Anomaly in Bot gameID=274481 ("slaphap") FRA/AUS:
Autumn 1907
France (bot):
A SIL - WAR (fail)
A PRU support hold SIL (fail) !
Should only happen in a human to human game ?

Chancellor Merkel said (10 March) that 60 to 70% of the German population would be infected. Extrapolation of a putative Death Toll - go beyond 1918 "Spanish" flu figures to a plague average. Thucydides had grim anecdotal plague reports (including Pericles' death from the plague). Is Daniel Defoe th...

One early report was that Low Turnout at the polls was due in part to the International Rugby tourney on telly

To clarify: Total votes in the recent UK election include 9,739 for the Monster Raving Loony Party. In Islington N. the Loony candidate noted: "I am a single issue politician, and have had a long-standing campaign for the abolition of gravity." Policies include: "All European trains will be fuelled ...

Link bbc.com/newsbeat-44601668 does not compute in the US, because bbc.co.uk here only leads to Auntie Beeb's Newsbeat.
Pray tell, what was subject - comparing Marlborough's Blenheim overreach vis a vis Sinologists' idees fixes on corruption trials - or has it all hit the '84 Memory Hole ?