Cythereal posted:

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StrixNebulosa posted:

this broken hill posted:

Cythereal posted:

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Dewgy posted:

If you’re on iPhone, go to the Photos app and use the Share menu to “copy”, and in the Awful app choose the img option, then paste.

Normal way works sometimes for me, this way always works. Not sure why, but whatever!

HopperUK posted:

I think my niece is trying to run away to sea.

Pinball posted:

Are you sure she's not an Elf?

Feonir posted:

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Comptroll The Forums posted:

Let me play you the song of my people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ayOA63bdiY

Comptroll The Forums posted:

Let me play you the song of my people

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ayOA63bdiY

sithwitch13 posted:

This does not stop him from being a child model.

We’ve started calling him Pike Trickleg and he is currently sitting on my chest, trying to eat my hair and also try and catch the words on my phone screen.

System Metternich posted:

So, let's talk about the last war Liechtenstein ever participated in.

Liechtenstein is a tiny microstate wedged in between Switzerland and Austria. It is ruled by the eponymous House of Liechtenstein and numbers only ~38,000 inhabitants spread over 62 square miles. Back in 1866, when Liechtenstein would last go to war, its prince Johann II "the Good" was still living in his palace in Vienna, as all of his family had done since they had purchased the small territory that would later adopt the name of their new ruling family more than one and a half centuries before. It's a small wonder then that Liechtenstein was closely allied to its vastly more powerful neighbour, the Empire of Austria.

In 1866, Austria was in trouble. The Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck had determined that the future of Prussia must lie in a united Germany under the leadership of the Hohenzollerns. This would have necessarily excluded Austria, which would never had accepted its submission to Berlin. Prussia declared war on Austria and arranged for the young state of Italy (which had only formed six years earlier) to attack Austria as well, which back at the time still held significant territory in the north and north-east of the Italian peninsula.. Austria on the other hand arranged for the German Federation to declare war on Prussia. Prince Johann didn't want to send his soldiers into war against Prussia, so he ordered them to assist Austrian troops at the Italian front instead - a move that drew a lot of ire amongst the Liechtensteiners, who would have preferred to not go to war at all or, if they had to, at least following a federal decision and not because Austria had gotten in trouble again. Johann didn't budge, however, and on July 26th Liechtenstein's army of 80 men left the country for South Tyrol - a full 1,3% of the population, which only numbered about 6,000 people at the time!


Joseph Beck, one of 80 Liechtensteiners who "fought" in their country's last war.

Luckily for the men, they didn't have to fire a single shot. On August 10th, they were able to observe Italian troops from their observation post in what is today the municipality Torre di Santa Maria and prepared for fighting the next day, but the weather grew cold and wet overnight and the Italians fell back instead. On August 12th, the war officially ended, and the small army began their way back home. In letters and later memories the soldiers would recount how much fun the whole adventure was and how they would stay up boozing every night.


Andreas Kieber (1844-1939), Liechtenstein's last surviving veteran of the 1866 war (and indeed, last surviving veteran full stop). The photograph was taken in 1935.

Even though the soldiers had all in all a good time, the whole enterprise turned out to be a pretty costly affair for the tiny principality. Prince Johann took this into consideration and abolished the military altogether in 1868. Liechtenstein's protection was now fully the responsibility of Austria-Hungary. After World War I, this duty passed on to the Swiss, who apparently just can't stop themselves from invading Liechtenstein by accident.

Two stories about Liechtenstein's involvement in the 1866 war still go around. One of them is that Liechtenstein was never mentioned in the peace treaty with Prussia and theoretically was therefore in war with them until Prussia's eventual dissolution in 1947. Seeing as they never actually fought with each other, this is probably untrue and was decried as early as in 1900 by the Prussian government. The other is that the Liechtenstein soldiers didn't go back home alone. That is true - they were accompanied by the Austrian officer Radinger, who had been posted with the Liechtensteiners by his command to assist them and had struck up a friendship with them. And therefore one can truly say that

https://twitter.com/DapperHistorian/status/998629415125946369

BrewingTea posted:

That kid's learning at 2 what I didn't figure out until my 30s. Good for him!

repiv posted:

https://twitter.com/0818Zero/status/998532700926431232

Gorilla Salad posted:

That beanbags are awesome?

sithwitch13 posted:

Newest Pike update: just out of the vet and he doesn’t need surgery! Since he’s so young, the bone is growing fast and callusing up so he’ll always have one leg shorter than the other, but he’ll adapt just fine. Pike Trickleg indeed.

repiv posted:

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