#Dystentry

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Alex Kidd drives a car and it's whacky and wheelie.

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a victorian child could kill ME those kids were so fucking coked up and full of like dystentry or whatever people back then had loads of

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What in your opinion was England's greatest battle?

Well, I’m going to follow the letter of the law on this one and take England’s greatest battle to mean its greatest victory pre 1707. Let’s examine the potential candidates. 

The battle of Ethandun. A decisive victory of the Anglo-Saxons under Alfred the Great over the Danes/Vikings. Arguably preserved “England” from destruction, but as the England in question was more a proto-England that may well have survived even after complete conquest by the Vikings, I feel like it has to be discarded. 

The battle of Agincourt. First up, this one is obviously similar to its Hundred Years War triplets, Crecy and Poitiers, except it’s even more extreme. A badly outnumbered English force, trapped in hostile territory, running out of supplies, with literal shit running down their legs from dystentry, are then forced to go on the offensive against a host consisting of some of the best warriors France has to offer. Just for good measure, they’re also close to being outflanked. They win a shock victory. Even denuded of the myth-making that has come since, it’s a contender for England’s greatest victory. Where it falls down, of course, is the fact that the campaign which culminated at Agincourt was virtually an unmitigated disaster, and while Henry V did succeed in subsequently expanding English dominion in France, the Hundred Years War ended in a clear defeat. While tactically Agincourt was a great victory, strategically it was a fighting retreat that can’t even match up to Corunna or Dunkirk (which at least ended with wars won). 

The battle of Flodden. The 1513 near-annihilation of Scotland’s nobility, Flodden was without a doubt England’s greatest victory over Scotland (and they’ve had a fair few of them, the bastards). However, once again it suffers from a lack of follow-up or wider success. While it threw Scotland into turmoil, it didn’t lead to any English campaigns north of the border, or any territory gained. 

The battle of Pinkie Cleugh. A later English victory over the Scots, this one is often overlooked, but was a rout almost on par with Flodden. It’s of particular interest because it was essentially a “modern” mid 16th century renaissance army defeating a medieval one, with the English even employing cannons from ships in the forth neighbouring the battlefield. Ultimately though it again had little wide-scale strategic or political impact.

The sinking of the Armada. The famous defeat of the great Spanish fleet of 1588. Two caveats follow this one - firstly that the weather was heavily responsible, rather than a single fleet action, and secondly that the Spanish went on to defeat an even larger English armada at Cadiz in the following years. However, it can be safely said that the divergent operational objectives of those two engagements made one victory more important than the other. Drake’s Cadiz expedition was designed to cripple Spain’s navy and prestige, while the proposed Spanish invasion of 1588 intended nothing less than the conquest of England and the installation of a Roman Catholic puppet regime. The defeat of the Spanish armada secured the direct Tudor/Stuart succession and the Reformation in England. For that reason I’d give it as the most significant battle.

Honourable mentions must got to the many “civil” war battles of English-on-English - the battles of Bosworth and Towton in the Wars of the Roses, Naseby and Maston Moor in the English Civil Wars, and I’ll also include the Boyne and the other conflicts of the pre 1707 Jacobite risings. These are both mighty English victories and defeats. 

tl;dr the defeat of the Spanish armada is England’s greatest victory.

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05/03/19 Across the River, Heroes Sleep: Arlington Cemetery and Civil War America’s Changing Perspectives on Death

Last week I visited Arlington Cemetery: the national cemetery of the United States. It covers 624 acres of land and is the final resting place for over 400,000 military veterans. All American conflicts are represented; the nation’s earliest war dead who fought the Red Coats during the Revolutionary War (1775-1783) lie feet from those who fought the Taliban. The cemetery sits in prime position on the Virginia side of the Potomac River. The cemetery’s location, separated from Washington, DC by wide waters, got me thinking about how it reflects the changing perspectives and rituals surrounding death during the Civil War era, when the site was first used as a burial ground.

Arlington Cemetery occupies the land that once belonged to General Robert E. Lee. Lee was a General in the United States Army prior to the Civil War. But when war broke in 1861, he defected from the Union and joined the newly formed Confederate States Army. During the war, his land was ceased and initially used to grow food to feed Union soldiers. When the war was finished, the land was repurposed and Arlington National Cemetery was established.

The cemetery is an enormous site and is still expanding with several funerals held for deceased service-people every day. The site is so large that an app named the ‘ANC (Arlington National Cemetery) Explorer’ is availbale to help visitors find the graves they are looking for.

For me, it is interesting that the site initially belonged to General Lee. The site was seized from the Confederacy’s greatest military leader and was then permanently occupied by the Union - even in death. I see this as a symbolic act of reclamation of control by the United States. Yet, as well as Union soliders, monuments and graves of Confederates can also be found at Arlington. Through this, the nation as a collective can reconcile and grieve the loss of America’s bloodiest war.

As well as being symbolically the former Lee estate, Arlington occupies a prime position close to the nation’s capital on the western bank of the Potomac River. Shakespeare’s Hamlet called death ‘an undiscovered country’ from which ‘no travelers return’. And in mythology and legend, the crossing of rivers has been of key importance when signifying a point of no return (Caesar’s Rubicon and Ancient Greece’s Styx - the river Goddess separating Earth from the land of the dead). So, the Potomac River is a physical barrier separating the living world of Washington from the land of the heroic dead at Arlington.

Additionally, I have recently read Gary Laderman’s 1995 article on the cultural history of death in Antebellum (pre-Civil War) America. In the article, Laderman notes how families would gather round their dying relatives bed. The witnessing of death and the observation of religious and spiritual readiness for death was crucial to convince those watching that their loved one was sure to ascend to Heaven and without difficulty. Clearly, when war broke, this perfect ‘deathbed scene’ and the idea of the ‘good death’ that surrounded it was no longer possible as young men were mangled and mutilated miles from mothers, fathers, sweethearts and home.

The old notion of the ‘good death’ surrounded by family was forcibly eroded by the Civil War. Death was already becoming less of a public community act during the Antebellum; yet, it was the war hastened the shift of death into the private sphere. Family’s were unable to publically display the body of a missing solider, nor could they bury them close to home. Consequently, the deaths of soldiers were private regardless of survivors’ desires; and the central need for a public death was lost with the young war dead. And crucially, with this came the relocation of cemeteries from the highly visible urban centres to the out-of-sight outskirts of communities.

Arlington Cemetery has a vast geological barrier separating itself from the living city - displaying how death became a private affair and the resting places of the deceased were moved out of view of the day-to-day dealings of the mortal world.

Overall, my day at Arlington was a thoughtful one. The cemetery is a powerful reminder of the sacrifice of war. Although separated from the mortal world, the location of the dead’s final resting place allowed me to think more clearly about what the cemetery means, as the graves are all encompassing and the air has reverent quiet touch about it. The most memorable moment of the day for me was visiting the grave of Jonathan Letterman and his wife. The cemetery does not just honour those who died during war but those who died later, as all sacrificed a part of themselves during their stuggles. Letterman worked tirelessly to improve the medical provision of the Army of the Potomac and would eventual die from dystentry related to his time during the war; he sacrificed himself for the medical needs of his comrades. Below are my photographs of his grave:

In Memory of Jonathan Letterman. Surgeon, U.S. Army.

Who brought order and efficiency into the medical service and was the orginator of modern methods of medical organisation in armies.

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"For the record, and I know there is one, I place all the blame on you, Hannah." I almost wail as we dodge the seemingly never ending undead. "You're part of this fandom! And you're the one that got me into it so suck it up and repress." Hannah yells as she uses her bat to hit a Z. "I'm not the one with the Murphy fetish." God of all the places to end up, we had to end up in a zombie infested world. I was totally content with ending up in those bodice ripping fandoms. Damsel in distress who only had to worry about dystentry and syphillus? No problem drink wine and keep the legs shut. "You shipped him and Warren too! I am sensing a lot of resentment." It was like a Hamilton song. Dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot and living in squalor. @lucid-dreamer-dreams

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Papua New Guinea aid workers race to deliver supplies as aftershocks strike

MELBOURNE/WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Aid workers struggled to reach remote areas of Papua New Guinea’s rugged highlands on Tuesday as aftershocks rattled the region, more than a week after a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake killed dozens of people.

Damage is seen after an earthquake and aftershocks in Nipa-Kutubu district, Papua New Guinea March 6, 2018. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) / via REUTERS

Two aftershocks above magnitude 5 hit the mountainous Southern Highlands, about 600 km (370 miles) northwest of the capital Port Moresby, with the constant shaking driving people from their homes to makeshift shelters for fear of landslides.

Local media outlets on Tuesday reported the death toll had grown to 75, after government officials said previously that 55 people had been killed.

James Komengi, a United Church project officer, speaking from Tari, the capital of quake-affected Hela province, said his church’s assessment and response center had counted up to 67 deaths in that province alone.

“Mothers and children are so traumatized. Even my own children are refusing to sleep in our house. Every little movement scares them,” said Komengi.

Concerns were also growing about access to safe drinking water after the shaking destroyed many water tanks, while land slips had poured mud into natural water sources.

“Because of the landslides … it’s very dirty water,” said Udaya Regmi, Director the International Red Cross in Papua New Guinea. Provincial health officials and Red Cross volunteers were urgently trying to improve sanitation systems and carry out hygeine training to avoid an outbreak of dystentry, Regmi said.

Damage is seen after an earthquake and aftershocks in Nipa-Kutubu district, Papua New Guinea March 6, 2018. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) / via REUTERS

Local hospitals had seen a number of people with stomach conditions, but it was not yet confirmed whether these were due to contaminated water, he added.

(For a graphic on ‘Papua New Guinea quake’ click tmsnrt.rs/2ow1YLR)

Aid agencies were struggling to get aid by helicopter to all of the nearly 150,000 people who remained in urgent need of emergency supplies.

“The logistics are still a massive problem,” said Anna Bryan, an aid worker for CARE Australia based in the capital Port Moresby.

Australia, New Zealand and the Red Cross have all pledged aid, although reaching the remote area has proved difficult as forbidding terrain and bad weather, as well as damaged roads and runways, have delayed aid efforts.

“Right now the main challenge in the affected areas is accessibility by roads. There are big cracks along the roads and even roads completely cut off. So that’s making it quite difficult to get water, food and medicine to the remote areas,” said Milton Kwaipo, Caritas Australia’s disaster response and management officer in Papua New Guinea.

The quake has also been felt on global gas markets, with ExxonMobil Corp declaring force majeure on exports from Papua New Guinea, according to an industry source, pushing up Asian spot liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices.

The company declined to comment on the force majeure, but said it would take about 8 weeks to restore production.

Reporting by Sonali Paul in MELBOURNE and Charlotte Greenfield in WELLINGTON; editing by Richard Pullin

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