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Orwell is the tall fellow at the very back, standing above the rest.

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It's most likely from 1984 because it's an episode mostly about the Olympics. Donkey Kong debuted in 1982 and that would probably have been too early to feature it on the show in time and 1986 would have been a little late for Donkey Kong.

That said, 1982 is definitely a possibility. Or even a different year if they decided to do an Olympics episode in an off-year. Unfortunately, the website regarding the episode doesn't say.

https://misterrogers.org/episodes/getting-ready-for-the-olympic-games/

Edit: Thanks to rrconkle@lemmy.zip for getting the year right!

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Matchlock muskets were first introduced into Tibet during the 16th or 17th century, probably via China and India...

...matchlocks continued to be used regularly well into the 20th century...

...The third broad category of Tibetan firearms, to which this example belongs, comprises muskets with varying degrees of decoration, but fully functional and intended for secular use.

Decorated muskets of this type were carried by individuals taking part in festivals, on ceremonial occasions, or by the guards of persons of rank...

Read more about this piece here:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/755339

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10338054

Flintlock hand mortars were use for signaling, launching fireworks, and hurling grenades.

They would be operated by two men. One who would insert a lit grenade then duck. The first man ducking would signal to the second man, the shooter, the mortar was ready to fire.

In the event of the mortar not firing when a lit grenade was inserted the operator would throw the device and reel it in by an attached strap.

Ian's Video: [5:48] https://youtu.be/kf9URQ7X0YA

InRangeTV Video: [7:01] https://youtu.be/mAzdYxa6kHA

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This Sharps rifle bears no maker’s mark; it was made especially for John Brown. Brown carried this weapon on his Kansas campaign in 1856 and later presented it to Charles Blair of Collinsville, Connecticut. In 1857, Brown contracted Blair to forge pikes for the clandestine slave insurrection he was planning for Harpers Ferry.

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It’s generally the lack of parallel institutions run by workers which sabotage such attempts. Revolutions are generally not powerful enough to do anything but take out the current power; this pretty invariably means the second-most powerful group takes over the role of the overthrown power, or the near-seconds squabble amongst themselves over it. Since dictatorships and other authoritarian regimes tend to systemically crush every alternate power base they can get away with crushing, that generally leaves only those they cannot crush - most often religion in societies which have not experienced a deep secularization, the military, and economic powers in just about every society (in the SovUnion at the end of its life, for example, this was the bureaucracy; whereas we are more familiar with it being capitalists and other private economic actors). So ‘theocracy’, ‘junta’, or ‘something amenable to the economic elite’ are most often the results.

A libertarian socialist society will emerge when low-hierarchy institutions have considerable support and deeply established roots during a time of upheaval - such as Rojava taking advantage of pre-existing Kurdish revolutionary institutions which were largely socialist or socialist-sympathetic to lay the foundation of the autonomous administration, once both the Syrian government and Islamist forces had exhausted themselves in the area.

Building parallel institutions now sets up the stage for tomorrow's victories.

The Torygraph has been pushing a great deal of "PUTIN STRONK, UKRAINE MUST SURRENDER" shite lately. While I would trust the Torygraph about as far as I could throw it, it did arouse my curiousity as to the general mood of Ukraine towards the current round of negotiations.

While I imagine war exhaustion is high - and I've certainly read no shortage of accounts of the suffering of the Ukrainian people and their thoughts on the misery and pointless death the Russian invasion has brought about - does anyone have insight as to the general mood of the civilian population in Ukraine at the moment?