i could be completely wrong here, but wasn’t McKinley the guy who got shot but would have survived if it wasn’t for the meddling of his incompetent surgeons? i seems to remember stories of mercury poisoning and other medical adventures.
if that was the case, should the anarchists even get credit for this guy?
I always laugh when someone claims to be an anarchist. Usually someone very young. I suppose there have been a few in the history of the world, but the real ones are as rare as hen’s teeth. And the wanna-be’s are oh so easy to convert.
“So how’d you get to be King, anyway?”
Satch
Hey, for you modern-day anarchists, all hope is not lost! You can join here.
Anarchist Black Cross Federation
There’s a really good book by the historian Barbara Tuchman called “The Proud Tower” that is almost certainly available in any good library. It’s sort of an overview of western history leading up to WWI. There’s a good chapter with a lot of details about the anarchist movement and I recall that it has all the details pertaining to the OP…the heads of states and nobility assassinated, who by, the stories of the various anarchist movements. It was great reading.
It was funny to read about the attempts to organize the anarchists when, by their nature, the fundamentalist anarchists rejected all forms of leadership. Their vision of utopia was quite bizarre also - everyone just doing whatever they felt like doing, no government, no police, central warehouses where the necessities of life could be picked up on the honour system.
It is also interesting to read about the world the anarchists were rebelling against. There was appalling and genuine widespread human suffering. For all the flaws of the anarchist and communist movements, they were born out of real injustice and were desperate attempts to help the ordinary people.
I have quote in my notes here, but I don’t know where it’s from:
“The aim of all utopias, to a greater or lesser extent, is to eliminate real people. Even if it is not a conscious aim, it is an inevitable result of their good intentions. In a utopia, real people cannot exist, for the very obvious reason that real people are what constitute the world that we know, and it is that world that every utopia is designed to replace.”
You’re not remembering the clue quite right. I distinctly remember that the clue spoke of ice, not water. Ice, being already frozen, can’t freeze and so it has no freezing point. (At least you can make that argument). I too wondered if “fusion point” would have been acceptable, and I think it would, since “fusion” is a synonym for “melting.”
hapaXL, I believe that you are speaking of President Garfield as this link here shows.
Also bibliophage is correct in his statement about the Jeopardy question.
Thanks all for answering too!
Many Anarchist and Nihilist groups orginated in Russia at the time. That’s probably how bibliophage was misled.
[troll alert]
The People’s Will really were a bumch of assholes. Killed the guy right in front of his grandson (Nicky II). Might explain why Tsar Nicholas II never had any balls to lead Russia.[/troll alert]
Could we have a source on that, please? I’ve never heard this, and neither Dominic Lieven’s bio of Nicholas II nor Avrahm Yarmolinsky’s detailed account of the assassination in Road to Revolution mention Nicholas II being present.
Sure. It was in The last tsar : the life and death of Nicholas II by Edvard Radzinsky; translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz. (thankyou Peletier Library Online Card Catalogue!)
Read that, you’ll learn more about Nicky II than you’d ever want to know.
I’ll check it out. I’m dubious, however. Radzinsky’s biography of Stalin is unreliable from beginning to end. His literary past leads him to make up good stories when the facts won’t do.
Try “Nicholas and Alexandria” by Robert Massie for the complete life story of Nicholas II.
Nicholas and Alexandria…
Wasn’t that the picture book I saw at Barnes and Noble?
On another note, yeah, Radzinski does make up a few details. But based on the facts he finds, it doesn’t seem like he’s very far from the truth most of the time. They (Russian gov) gave him access to Nicky II’s private journals for this one, so he had a lot of accurate material for it.
“Nicholas and Alexandria” is no picture book. Massie is a serious historian and wrote that book in the 1960s. His other well known book is “Dreadnaught” a European history of the fifty years up to WWI, with a focus on the dreadnaught battleship arms race between Britain and Germany.
Actually, I believe Massie might ALSO have published (or helped publish) a coffee table picture book of the Romanovs. (I’ve seen it, just don’t remember who the author was.)
Guinastasia would know.