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I didn't see this mentioned on the forums here, but recently the Scottish comedian Brian Limond aka Limmy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limmy) did a Civ 6 playthrough on Twitch. Suffice it to say he used the opportunity to get vengeance on England for its various wrongs against his country...

Not often that I post articles on the history forum these days, but recently I came across an article about the origins of the English that is stunning because 1) it's argument is at least plausible if not compelling (it is based on an oral presentation and probably needs go be developed...

It's great that there will be a chance to play the Scottish civ in this franchise after all these years. However, some of the implementation of this is a bit mad. The capital is Stirling, which was never a capital. Scotland's historic capital before it was Edinburgh was Scone / Perth, where its...

Just saw the EPL is beginning again at the weekend. I renewed the league from last year, and the code appears to be: Standard League: Head-to-Head (begins Week 2): https://fantasy.premierleague.com/

Another year is about to begin: http://fantasy.premierleague.com/ This is the code for the standard league: 254996-68563 This is for the head-to-head league: 254996-68632 Following the 2013–14 year when the league was filled with search-and-play surfers (one of whom won the league)...

Everyday I have my social media newsfeed bombarded with political stories. Despite the apparent variety of sources, the stories themselves tend not to have that much variety. One type is the leftish outlet complaining about religion. Whether the topic is creationism in schools or pro-lifers...

Another year is about to begin: http://fantasy.premierleague.com/ This is the code for the standard league: 435693-112918 This is for the head-to-head league: 435693-112921 Following last year when the league was filled with search-and-play surfers, the codes will be removed and available...

Question for American leftists. In the last month or so your rex designatus -- or rather regina designata -- Hillary Clinton has been going around making obnoxious comments in interviews, everything from condemning Scottish independence to urging Snowden to hand himself in. I understand that...

I've set up a fantasy league for the upcoming world cup. The link is: http://en.mcdonalds.fantasy.fifa.com/leagues/944 The set-up process was a bit confusing, I don't know if you need a password, but if you do it's 'westminsterspikes'.

http://rt.com/usa/155540-house-sale-paltry-debt/ An interesting example of how debt and convoluted rules accessible only to the elite allow predation on the wealth of the weak.

For those who're interested, a series of recordings of spoken Irish Gaelic made early in the 20th century has been recently made available online. http://www.doegen.ie/counties The collection consists of a series of spoken recordings of stories, poems, and various other pieces of folk culture...

It's literally true: That Anglo-Saxon kings could issue Arabic coins is a big lesson on the dynamics of the 8th century world. The coin also uses Latin. So if England's coinage is a Roman inheritance of later medieval Europe for the most part, it has to also be, in part, an Arabic...

Not seeing one already open, I've started a fantasy league for the Champions League http://en.uclfantasy.uefa.com/ Code is: 986882-516798 17 Sep 20.30 CET is the deadline. So there's not long to go and timing not ideal, but better than never! :)

If you are debating intervention in Syria, and not war-related human rights in Congo, or apartheid in Israel, or civil rights in Saudi Arabia, or the fact that the US-backed military regime in Egypt has just overthrown the leader of a new democracy and is as we speak killing the...

The about us portion of this website lacks any information about any links or lack of links between this website or its staff and the current (or past) developers of the Civilization games. It would help if this page were to provide details of any formal or informal links between the two...

Noticed no-one had opened a league yet, so went ahead and did it. Here is the site: http://en.euro2012fantasy.uefa.com/ Here is the code for the classic league: 216644-49962 Here is the code for the head-to-head: 216644-49973

Reading this interesting blog this week, by John Cassidy: How Long Will the Apple Cult Endure I have conversations about Apple with my friends, and say "it's the same Chinese slave-factory junk with some extra branding gimmicks" and they tell me "it's an objective fact that Apple computers...

Full story on the Guardian Same story on MSNBC (with pictures) Unbelievable brutality at one of the centres of modern civilization. Another reminder that much as we idealize humans and continually congratulate ourselves on our mental and moral superiority to the scum in the [rest of the]...

FULL STORY A figure perhaps loved by Americans as much as Czechs, presided over Czechoslovakia's transition out of communism and into the US sphere (leading the way for other countries in eastern Europe), as well as the peaceful division of the country into Czech Republic and Slovakia.

FULL STORY He and I were not allies ideologically, but his voice in American public debate was an individual and influential one. He will be missed!