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Black Abyss Babe
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Iron Brody
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I'm glad the site is back. I hope the issues can get solved soon
Talking to my students about the marriage of Alexander the Great and Roxane.
Me: "So what is the message given to the local elites if Alexander marries one of their daughters?"
Student: "That he appreciates their position and elevates them in the empire's structures."
Me: "Precisely, and what in particular is it that he promises them?"
Student: "Uh, that they're important and close to him?"
Me: "And what else?"
Students: *silence*
Me: "What happens when a man and a woman who really like each other end up in a room together?"
Students: "Ohhhhh!"
Me: "So what is the message given to the local elites if Alexander marries one of their daughters?"
Student: "That he appreciates their position and elevates them in the empire's structures."
Me: "Precisely, and what in particular is it that he promises them?"
Student: "Uh, that they're important and close to him?"
Me: "And what else?"
Students: *silence*
Me: "What happens when a man and a woman who really like each other end up in a room together?"
Students: "Ohhhhh!"
Diesel 11
As you scream into the web of silence...
I guess Alex told her she didn’t have to put on the red light long before Sting made it cool.
Black Abyss Babe
I live for my dreams and a pocket full of gold
So we're back now, are we? Good.
Would anyone here like to admit to having been in the (left-of-stage) Side Circle at Portsmouth Guildhall for Bellowhead's gig on Saturday evening? I ask because I was sitting next to a bloke in a leather jacket who, at one point, was audibly complaining about the price of Maiden tickets for next year. He declined to respond when I tried to speak to him.
If that was you: hello
Would anyone here like to admit to having been in the (left-of-stage) Side Circle at Portsmouth Guildhall for Bellowhead's gig on Saturday evening? I ask because I was sitting next to a bloke in a leather jacket who, at one point, was audibly complaining about the price of Maiden tickets for next year. He declined to respond when I tried to speak to him.
If that was you: hello
Welcome back!
Magnus
Pica Serdica
Thank you @____no5 and @Black Abyss Babe !
The Solo game I mean is this
a German board game, the first in a series by Kurt Heuser that combines halma with draughts (or checkers, for those of you beyond the pond), an early version of Xerxes
aka Ritterschlacht: you leap over your own pieces and capture the opponent's by leaping over them, and you must occupy the enemy's camp. Frundsberg and Napoleon are further developments. The basic idea of Halma x Draughts / enemy camp was already present in a British game from the 1900s, Suffragetto.
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The Solo game I mean is this
a German board game, the first in a series by Kurt Heuser that combines halma with draughts (or checkers, for those of you beyond the pond), an early version of Xerxes
Suffragetto - Wikipedia
Black Abyss Babe
I live for my dreams and a pocket full of gold
So it's like Solitaire but for two players ...Thank you @____no5 and @Black Abyss Babe !
The Solo game I mean is this
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a German board game, the first in a series by Kurt Heuser that combines halma with draughts (or checkers, for those of you beyond the pond), an early version of Xerxes
aka Ritterschlacht: you leap over your own pieces and capture the opponent's by leaping over them, and you must occupy the enemy's camp. Frundsberg and Napoleon are further developments. The basic idea of Halma x Draughts / enemy camp was already present in a British game from the 1900s, Suffragetto.
Suffragetto - Wikipedia
Black Abyss Babe
I live for my dreams and a pocket full of gold
I was getting my head around the concept of "a game for two players called Solo" and that scene from Airheads was the first thing that came to mind
____no5
Free Man
Thank you @____no5 and @Black Abyss Babe !
The Solo game I mean is this
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a German board game, the first in a series by Kurt Heuser that combines halma with draughts (or checkers, for those of you beyond the pond), an early version of Xerxes
aka Ritterschlacht: you leap over your own pieces and capture the opponent's by leaping over them, and you must occupy the enemy's camp. Frundsberg and Napoleon are further developments. The basic idea of Halma x Draughts / enemy camp was already present in a British game from the 1900s, Suffragetto.
Suffragetto - Wikipedia
It seems there’s a whole mythology around board games, whereas I know the absolute classics, like chess, “solitaire” solo and the doors.
The doors (πόρτες), not to be confused with the musical group is pretty much what we call backgammon elsewhere.
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