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[RUPD3658]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

I just activated the Russians in my PBEM. My Thread, what have I done?

Ummm... unleashed the fury of Uncle Joe on your poor benighted forces? Brought an earlier doom upon the Empire?? Brought shame upon yourself and your Ancestors??? (should i go on???? [:'(])

I just hope I was given correct intel about the Russian not upgrading until 6/45. The invasion will begin in 8/44 and I hope to clean out Russian out before they upgrade.

[rtrapasso]

Year 1243:

The Golden Horde led by Batu Khan advances beginning in January from Erzurum to Sivas, sacks that city without mercy, and wipes out Seljuk Turkish forces June 26 (see 1241). The sultan and his mother flee for their lives.

Hostilities between France and England end in a truce that will continue for 5 years.

Venice forces Hungary's Béla IV to cede Zadar but he retains Split and other Dalmatian provinces.

Castilian forces take possession of Murcia almost without resistance but leave the Iberian Peninsula country's autonomous administrative system intact (see 1144).

Crusaders in southwestern France lay siege to Montsegur Castle, last stronghold of the Cathar "heretics" (see 1234). The castle's noblewomen make an arrangement with the bishop to give them the consolamentum in the event that they are wounded and cannot speak, they fight alongside the men, the bishop makes good on his promise as their situation becomes hopeless, and while the castle's military defenders are permitted to withdraw unharmed some 200 male and female Cathars are burned on a pyre (see 1244).

The vacancy in the papal throne ends with the election June 25 of the Genoa-born Sinibaldo Fieschi, 43, who will reign until 1254 as Innocent IV. Sinibaldo's father, Ugo, has been the first member of the family to assume the name Fieschi; allied initially with Sicily's Angevin kings, the family will later support the kings of France, and it will produce another pope, to say nothing of 72 cardinals and a great number of admirals, ambassadors, and generals as it works with the papal (Guelph) party in affairs of state.

Famine sweeps the German states, whose towns are infested like most in Europe by black rats that have come westward with the Mongols (see Black Death, 1340).

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

I just activated the Russians in my PBEM. My Thread, what have I done?

Vladivostok makes a great airbase for strategic bombing[:D]

[rtrapasso]

Off to bed for me... [>:] [>:] [>:]

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

Mynok, how are you doing with the turn?

Oops, I meant Niceguy.

Working on it now.

I want you to know I am making a huge sacrifice...I am going to do the turn instead of cleaning my house. [:D]

Wow, that is a sacrifice[&o][:D]

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

I just activated the Russians in my PBEM. My Thread, what have I done?

Ummm... unleashed the fury of Uncle Joe on your poor benighted forces? Brought an earlier doom upon the Empire?? Brought shame upon yourself and your Ancestors??? (should i go on???? [:'(])

Yes, you should[:D]

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

I just activated the Russians in my PBEM. My Thread, what have I done?

Ummm... unleashed the fury of Uncle Joe on your poor benighted forces? Brought an earlier doom upon the Empire?? Brought shame upon yourself and your Ancestors??? (should i go on???? [:'(])

I just hope I was given correct intel about the Russian not upgrading until 6/45. The invasion will begin in 8/44 and I hope to clean out Russian out before they upgrade.

I think you will be in trouble. Movement slows in the winter.

[BrucePowers]

Good night, Bob.[:)]

[BrucePowers]

Hmmm, it grows strangely quiet as the evening turns to night.

[BrucePowers]

As the night lengthens and people drift off to bed, strange things can happen in the Thread.

[BrucePowers]

Normally sane individuals have this desire to post to the thread in long sets of unbroken posts.

[BrucePowers]

Alas, I must follow Bob and say goodnight to all. Perhaps another evening.[>:]

[alaviner]

Strange things can happen when Thread bretheren are left alone

[alaviner]

Has T been paroled yet [&:]

[alaviner]

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[alaviner]

Still no one to stop me

[alaviner]

I guess a Faber may be in the making

[alaviner]

I am soon going to be off line for a while

[alaviner]

I have to turn in this laptop

[alaviner]

and I will not get my new one for a week or so