Odd Occurrences in the Year of Your Post

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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This is post # 1,912 for me, so in the year 1912:
Mount Katmai in Alaska exploded in June of 1912, and in the wake of the eruption a gigantic caldera took the place of the peaks that had earlier graced the Alaskan landscape. Scientists investigating the eruption discovered that material, ash and rock, in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes was almost entirely from the nearby volcano of Novarupta, and not from Katmai. The current location of Mount Katmai’s innards is unknown…
So, in your post, please share a mystery from the year represented by the same number (we can get really imaginative if your post takes place in the future!).

[sub]For the geology buffs: there are some ideas out there about where the innards of Mt. Katmai went, but I’m not going to spoil a good mystery with them here ;)[/sub]

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In the year 12,556, half a dozen northern hyverunners crossripped into the black vasculon and slaughtered nearly a hundred of the unblood’s digital children. It was the first such attack in over a septade, since the weaving of the blue gates. This was how the unblood knew the stickymen had returned, and that the hyve had either made peace with them or been overwilled. The appetite of the stickymen for the unblood’s prechondria had not abated in the intervening years, and the long and chilly ponderwall had finally (and some said inevitably) crumbled before the sudden coming of handwar.

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In the year 6,682
It looks like man is through
This old earth is nearly done
We’ll be burned up by the sun

My apologies to Zager and Evans

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In the year 8218, the Southern Hyverunners were just starting to emerge as a global power in line with the defeated Hertrums. This was a pivotal year for the Unblood and ensured their rise for the next several hundred years. Domato Patti ordered the weaving of the blue gates and they were finished in grandeur later in the century.

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I’m tempted to wait another 14 posts so I can begin “In the year 2525, if woman and man are still alive…”

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Rome begins the conquest of Britain in the 43 c.e, found the cities of London and Peterborough, while in 43 b.c.e legend has it that the Emerald Buddha, a jade buddha statue clothed in gold, was created by Nasagena in the modern day city of Patna where it remained for 300 years and, after being moved and lost and captured, now resides in the temple of Wat Phra Kaew in Thailand.

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In the year 2446, Duck Dodgers will protect and avenge the Earth (and much beyond it).

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Some dude named Gavrilo Princip killed some other dude and his wife, apparantly some other people got upset.

A fat kid named Ruth made the Red Sox roster.

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howoldistheearth.htm

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1122 AD Carlisle Cathedral was founded by King Henry I.

The Chinese finally defeated the Kitan empire in 1122 AD

1122 AD A compromise is drawn between pope and emperor over the issue of investiture. 1122 The Concordat of Worms settles a struggle between the Holy Roman Emperor and the papacy over the control of church offices. While the clergy chooses bishops and abbots, the emperor retains the power to decide contested elections. This, in turn, gives the local nobility greater influence in the choice of church officials, and increased independence from the imperial crown.

In 1122 AD the Croats came under the control of the Hungarian crown.

Between 1066 and 1122 A.D., the Object-Verb (OV) order of Old English underwent linguistic evolution specifically, the replacement of OV order with Verb-Object (VO) order (Lightfoot 1991, Bean 1983, Canale 1978, among others).

In 1122 A.D., William’s (William II, Duke of Aquitaine) granddaughter, Eleanor, became Queen of both France and England. She set up cultured courts and established the Court of Love, which codified and promoted courtly love. In Eleanor’s court, a cleric named Andre wrote a love manual, Tractatus de Amore et de Amoris Remedio (Treatise on Love and Its Remedy). This was a serious exposition on courtly love and its rules.

Okay, this is the ‘oddest’ one that I could find:

Opinions differ regarding the origin of hockey. It is, however, commonly believed that hockey originated in Greece about five thousand years ago. However, drawings of hockey game can be seen in a three thousand years old Egyptian Pyramid. Information about hockey is also available from the game’s representation in a European mural painting of 1122 AD.

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May 5, 1415 - the Council of Constance condemns the writings of John Wycliffe and asks Jan Hus to recant in public his heresy; after his denial, he is tried for heresy, excommunicated then sentenced to be burned at the stake. (source)

Woohoo! Heresy and burning at the stake!

'Twas a good year, 1415. Aye.

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In the year 6373, the Maple Leafs finally won the Stanley Cup in the final playoffs with Detroit.

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In the year 2516, Swedish-born Pope John Paul Augustine Charles I finished her transition to Papisse Jane Pauline Augustine Charlotte I. This was condemned by Mexican-born Pope John XXIV in his bula “Dejar Tranquilos Los Cojones, You Fucks”, written in his usual Spanglish vernacular with Japanese footnotes. Meanwhile, Chinese-born, Peking-based Pope Huey Ping Zhi Mao* ignored them all, because after all who gives a shit about people born outside of the Celestial Lands so long as they buy our products.

  • apologies if this happens to be a string of bad words. Ain’t got nothing against bad words but I like my own to be intentional.
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In the year 217, the Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated. Blame rests on his bodyguard and successor, Marcus Opelius Macrinus, but nobody knows what really happened at that poker table that night.

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In the year 4858, Captain James T. Kirk is commissioned to captain the U.S. Space Force’s new battleshooter, the Enterprise. The U.S. government is subsequently sued by ViacomDisneyAOL for infringing on the Star Trek intellectual property. The Supremest Court finds in favor of ViacomDisneyAOL, making them the first ever corporation to own an entire nation. Walt Disney is unfrozen and named President. His first order of business: turn Washington, D.C. into the Happiest Capital on Earth™.

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An excellent book on the area is “Valley of 10,000 Smokes” by Robert Griggs, written after his exploration of the area soon after the eruption. Another is “Cradle of the Storms” by Bernard Hubbard, SJ. You will probably have to search antique bookstores to find them.

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1855: The U.S. Military tries to get their Camel Corps off the ground.

I like how they put that. Their “habit of frightening horses”, as if it was something they did for kicks during their downtime.

Apparently they turned some of them loose in the southwestern U.S. after the Civil War started, where they went feral. The last one was seen in Texas in 1941. And I wouldn’t have known any of this if I hadn’t looked up my post number in Wikipedia! Cool.

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…people are hermetically sealed at birth.
…eyebrows are a renewable food source.
…insect power has been harnessed.
…road rage is considered foreplay.