Reprehensible MODERN HISTORY

CURRENT CONTENTS:
Cantankerous leaders

Clannishness

Confederate states

Crimean War

Democracy (18th century version)

Emperor of Elba

Franco-German (Cannes of Worms)

Italo-Turkish war

Submarine warfare (Charleston SC)

Broken Arrow (3 stanzas, a 'brief saga')

  

Authors' Note: More than 150 years after the conclusion of the American Civil War, the role of the Confederacy continues to generate high emotions.

Further enlightenment on this topic can be obtained by viewing a post entitled "Able Ere Elba". Click HERE.

Authors' Note:

nachbarlich (NAKH-bahr-likh): neighborly 

l'après-guerre (la-preh-GAYR): period immediately after the Second World War in France, approximately 1945-1948

Cannes (KAN): French town on the Côte d'Azur, famous for its luxury hotels and villas, and for its international film festival

Worms (VORMZ): German town (sometimes pronounced by anglophones as WUHRMZ) of about the same size as Cannes and Limerick, famed for its production of liebfraumilch 

Authors' Note: The Italo-Turkish War, also known as the Turco-Italian War, 1911–1912, was among the neo-colonial adventures pushed by the European powers (Britain, France, Italy, etc.) who took advantage of the decline of Ottoman Turkey just before the outbreak of the First World War. The territories conquered by the Italians (most of current-day Libya and also the Dodecanese islands in the Aegean Sea) remained under their control through the Second World War, with Mussolini's National Fascist party in power in the Kingdom of Italy for most of this period (1922–1943).

The treaty to end the conflict was named after the resort facility in Lausanne, Switzerland at which it was signed by the belligerents, becoming known as the Treaty of Ouchy (oo-SHEE).

SUBMARINE WARFARE - didactic material

Charleston, South Carolina played a disproportionate role in the development and deployment of submarines in warfare. 

You can read all about this in three informative blogposts on our blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense" (here, here, and here), or you could enjoy a song about nuclear submarines during the Cold War by clicking HERE.  

(Note that the three verses of this "brief saga" can be found in more readily legible larger format on the blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense"; click HERE.) 

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As of December 2024, there are 1800 unique entries available on the daily blog, displaying individual poems (often illustrated) and wordplay, but also with some photo-collages and parody song-lyrics. Most of their key elements are also presented here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections, such as this one. The "Daily" format also has the advantage of including some song-lyrics, videos and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog.