News and Stories from the North

[Walter]

A few bits to finish of the 1910 news.

December 4, 1910
The railway line from Flisa to Elverum opened.

December 19, 1910
The Alhambra Theatre in Glasgow opened.

December 26, 1910
Aviator Archibald Hoxsey set a new altitude record for an airplane, ascending to 3497 meters over Inverness.

Archibald Hoxsey

[Walter]

January 1, 1911
"The North's two foremost aviators, John B. Moisant and Archibald Hoxsey, fell to death yesterday at widely separated cities," read a report today in the Bergen Times. At 9:45 a.m. near Trondheim, John B. Moisant, fell out of his airplane from an altitude of 30 meters. Hours later, Archibald Hoxsey was told of Moisant's death before attempting a new altitude record in Inverness, and said to reporters, "From what I hear, Moisant was careless ... it is too bad, but accidents are liable to happen to all of us." After flying to an altitude of about 2,130 meters, Hoxsey was at 243 meters when his plane suddenly plunged to the ground.


John Beavis Moisant


Archibald Hoxsey


January 2, 1911

The 532 page 1911 edition of the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack was released. Henry Foster, Alfred Hartley, Charles Llewellyn, William Smith and Frank Woolley were selected as the 1910 cricketers of the year.


January 14, 1911
Exploration vessel Fram reaches the Bay of Whales.

January 28, 1911

Constuction of the base at the Bay of Whales is completed.

Framheim: "the home of Fram".

[The Rock Doctor]

Not a great day for Northern aviation...

[Walter]

3 guys dead in less than 2 months. Just shows you how dangerous flying was back in those days. One tiny error, mistake or part failure and you were dead.

[Kaiser Kirk]

I had intended on having a 'aircraft trials' with crashes, but like most of my grand story arc for 1911, it's been skipped.
It's why the Parthians finally started an air service...with dirigibles.  Scouting over Aden area.
Planes will come very soon, but the attrition rate and limitations are a bit much right now for them.

[Walter]

February 1, 1911
Thirty people were killed in an explosion at Communipaw, Scheyichbi in the Confederation of the Five Nations. Employees of the Five Nations Railroad had been unloading cases of black powder from the Norse freighter Katherine W, when the accident happened at one minute past noon. The blast was felt 50 miles away, rocking buildings and breaking windows in Manahata, on the other side of the Muhheakantuck River. Eight officials of the railroad and the Lenape Powder Company were indicted for the disaster.


February 8, 1911
As the explosive accident last week involved a vessel of the Northern Kingdom, the government made money and materials available to help the Confederation of the Five Nations rebuild the damaged community of Communipaw.


February 11, 1911
Exploration vessel Terra Nova under the command of Shackleton joins the Fram at the Bay of Whales. The Terra Nova made a slight detour via Sørlandsk (*) where the crew traded with the Noongar for additional fresh food for the expedition.


February 18, 1911
The Mark Twain Library, housing most of the works of Samuel Clemens, was opened today in Redding, Scotland.


(*) The name the Northern Kingdom uses for Australia. I would assume that the other nations would have their own name for it.

[The Rock Doctor]

(*) The name the Northern Kingdom uses for Australia. I would assume that the other nations would have their own name for it.

...challenge accepted.

[Walter]

March 21, 1911
The tercentary (300th anniversary) of the introduction of the King James Version of the Bible was observed. Pope Benedict XIV presented a specially bound copy of the King James Bible to High Queen Valeria.


March 29, 1911
The Northern Kingdom Army formally adopted the .45 caliber M1911 pistol made by Colt's Manufacturing Company as its standard sidearm.

The new standard sidearm of the Northern Kingdom Army.

John Browning, designer of the M1911.


April 14, 1911
William J. Burns, his son Raymond J. Burns and police officers from Aberdeen arrested Ortie McManigal and James B. McNamara. Dynamite, blasting caps and alarm clocks were found in their suitcases. While told that they were being arrested for robbing a bank in Dundee they are actually suspected to have been involved in last year's Edinburgh Times bombing.


April 22, 1911
Burns and two local police detectives burst into an executive board meeting of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers in Perth and arrested John J. McNamara, who was named a suspect in the Edinburgh Times bombing by the police after his arrest.

The McNamara Brothers. John (right) was arrested today while James (left) was arrested on the 14th.


May 9, 1911
A fire broke out at the Empire Palace Theatre in Edinburgh, during a performance of the variety and magic show of The Great Lafayette. The audience of 1,500 was evacuated, without panic, in four minutes, but eleven members of the troupe, including Lafayette himself, died in the blaze.


May 16, 1911
The liner SS Ivernia struck a rock as she entered Queenstown harbour. The ship remained afloat but it is estimated that she will be out of service for about half a year for repairs.

SS Ivernia prior to the accident.

[Walter]

May 30, 1911
Ray Harroun won the very first running of the Belfast 500 automobile race, driving car #32, a Marmon Wasp. At an average speed of 120.04 kilometers per hour, Harroun, who was the only driver not to have a mechanic riding with him, completed the race in 6 hours and 42 minutes.

Ray Harroun

Harroun's Marmon "Wasp"


May 31, 1911
The White Star liner SS Titanic, the largest mobile object ever constructed, was launched from Belfast today at 12:13 pm. It is 883 feet long, 58 feet high and weighs 46,000 tons.




June 14, 1911
SS Olympic departed from Belfast today on its maiden voyage, carrying with it 1316 passengers and 850 crew.


June 16, 1911
The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company was incorporated today in Belfast.


June 17, 1911
The University of Iceland was founded today in Reykjavik with the consolidation of a theological college, a medical school and a law school.


June 21, 1911
The SS Olympic completed its first transatlantic trip, arriving in the city of Manahata in the Confederation of the Five Nations after a voyage of 5 days, 16 hours and 42 minutes. Many Manahata citizens have come to the sides of the entrance to Manahata's port to marvel at the "Giant Of The Seas That Carries People Between Two Nations Separated By An Ocean".

The people of Manahata and not unfamiliar with passenger ships arriving and leaving their port. Numerous citizens of the Confederation of the Five Nations have even made use of White Star Line's Manahata-Belfast route to visit the Wondrous and Mysterious Akamaskihk (*) Kingdom on the other end of the route. However, this marks the first time that a ship of this size arrived in Manahata.

With the current expansion campaign of the Northern Kingdom to the North and Northwest of the Confederation of the Five Nations as well as the well-established port facilities and location of Manahata, it is believed that there will be a big jump in visitors and trade for the Confederation which will give its economy a significant boost.

Olympic arriving in Manahata.


June 22, 1911
Today, the Wanamaker Grand Organ, the largest operating pipe organ in the world, was first played at the Grand Court in Wanamaker's Department Store in Glasgow.


June 28, 1911
SS Olympic departed Manahata today for her maiden eastbound voyage back to Belfast. Traveling aboard is new Five Nations Ambassador Hippoquonow, who will take over from current Ambassador Sagnhoora.


(*) "The land across an ocean". Just looked for something quickly and got this from a English-Cree translator.

[Kaiser Kirk]

May 31, 1911
The White Star liner SS Titanic, the largest mobile object ever constructed, was launched from Belfast today at 12:13 pm. It is 883 feet long, 58 feet high and weighs 46,000 tons.

Cue song "I've got this Sinking Feeling"

English-Cree? I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. Good to see the online translators cover that.

[Walter]

Cue song "I've got this Sinking Feeling"

Hmm... let's see...

Looking at the information I can find on wiki:

- Captain Edward Smith was English so is Roman here. Safe.

- Bruce Ismay was English so is Roman here. Safe.

- Thomas Andrews was Irish so is Irish here. Fail.

- The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company (a.k.a. White Star Line) was English so is Roman here therefore the Northern Kingdom's White Star Line is not the same company. Safe.

- Built in Belfast which means it is Irish built. Fail.

- Edward Harland was English so is Roman here and Gustav Wolff was German so is from the Vilnius Union. Therefore Harland and Wolff who created the Northern Kingdom's Harland & Wolff are different people. Safe.

- James Cameron's paternal great-great-great-grandfather emigrated from Scotland, in 1825. Fail.

- Leonardo DiCaprio is mixed Italian-German-Russian but the DiCaprio part comes from Italy. Safe.

- Kate Winslet is English. Safe.

- Céline Dion is from Quebec and probably if you go far enough in her family tree you get to France. Safe.


... so with a score of 7-3, it is safe to say that in Navalism we won't be tortured by a movie about a Norse Ocean Liner hitting an iceberg and sinking and all that dramatic romantic stuff around it. :)

English-Cree? I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. Good to see the online translators cover that.

Well, one issue is that the language spoken in the Confederation of the Five Nations is probably not Cree... but that name was a last minute addition so I just looked for the first thing that came to mind.

[Desertfox]

It'd be interesting to hear an anthropologist's viewpoint on how a post-Industrial revolution independent Iroquois Confederation would look like.

What you are saying is that "My Heart Will Go On" will be sung in Latin...?

[Walter]

It'd be interesting to hear an anthropologist's viewpoint on how a post-Industrial revolution independent Iroquois Confederation would look like.

With tipi-shaped factories of course. ;D

What you are saying is that "My Heart Will Go On" will be sung in Latin...?

Either that or French. Depends on the language discipline in the Roman Empire. Must they all speak Latin and no other language or can they speak their regional language as long as they can also speak Latin (or some other language) in order to be able to talk with those from other parts of the Roman Empire.

For the Northern Kingdom, each part speaks their own language but all also taught to speak Ynglis which is used as the language to communicate with people of the other parts of the Kingdom.

[The Rock Doctor]

I'm prepared to host a Hague Convention on the Governance of Motion Pictures if it means we don't get a Titanic later on.

[Walter]

If a movie like that would come out, it might have a different name.

The Northern Kingdom hopes a convention like that would also block the appearance of Shakespeare's Tale of Lies in motion picture form. That accursed Roman propaganda piece that is The Bard's Play. *spits on the ground*