International criminal court, The Hague

ICC?

I bet it was a pound or two Sterling of paint, not a pound in weight.

I guess my simplification does come off as super evil. The money to gain by doing what the population would want is a long term. Their control was slipping in India so the Empire was on full decline. To me it was reactionary damage control to try and keep it.

I appreciate your input though so I’m not tryin to come off as argumentative. But I’m not always good at that. Definitely learning a lot from the comments as a whole.

And even if he weren't, Paddie would be soon!

EtOH drinks have been around since beer and barley bread were used to build the pyramids. 4500 yrs. ago, at least. EtOH is addictive. End of story.

The addition of more people doesn’t reduce the amount of money made though does it?

For sure, they intended to maintain control, but how can you argue the british losing control during WW2 would be good for anyone?

Who benefits from a vastly larger Jewish populations fighting Arab rebels with the British unable to intercede due to the Germans and Italians moving west from Libya?

Sometimes there’s a bit more to things than the British being a super villain. They were wrong to take that area in the first place, but the actions they took there aren’t turbo evil 24/7.

This is not what we know is the case. Here, the saloons in the 19th C. Were largely owned by the Irish. So I find the assertion here not only historically dubious, but not supportive of what we call Irish Whiskey, either. The Irish have so many slang words for Hooch, is yet another reason not to believe such above stories about some of my ancestors.

And sure, laddie, we have NO pubs in All of Ireland to this day!! Not in Dooblin, sure. (hic!)

Human beings drink. The Irish are humans, ergo.....

But both can be true. All the allies, not just Britain should have done more. And Britain had plenty to gain by leaning more towards the arabic people. They took the land for money and they tried to maintain control for money. There is no other reason for them to be there other than that.

And if I came across hostile towards you, completely unintentional. Just adding to the conversation.

What an amazing bird. I've seen birds that know a lot, some less, but nevermore

Hollywood already bought the rights and they’re doing a movie, Cocaine raven.

Why else would you control land that is not yours to begin with? You don’t get to just pick “middle east hotbed” and not acknowledge why colonialism happened in the first place. The whole comment chain started because of it being on the British.

By stemming the tide of jewish refugees and putting the process in the hands of the Arabis, they fully intended to fix their image and maintain control. So they absolutely had money to gain.

Hussein bin Ali al Hashimi named himself the king of those regions after the Arab Revolt. But then once World War I ended Syria and Lebanon were given to France and Palestine was given to the United Kingdom.

The British said that if the Arabs lead a revolt they'd be entitled to an independent Arab state from Syria to Yemen. The Arabs then did in fact lead a successful revolt and the British refused to grant them the independent state that they promised. Do you have a source for you 1/1000 figure?

The British promised Jewish people "a national home in Palestine" in the Balfour Declaration in 1917. The British then arrested Jewish people migrating to Israel up through 1948.

The Soviet Union didn't exist from 1917-1919 when the famine happened. You must be confusing this famine with another event.

For your edit, Because you were factual, until your last remark.

What “money” did the British gain from not allowing Jews to enter Palestine?

That area was quickly turning into a hotbed, it’s why the British would pull out in the next decade. But at the time, WW2 was ongoing. If the Arabs revolted mid war the British would not have the capacity to answer it. Ignoring even the strategic reasons, the Arabs would likely end up killing a lot of the Jewish refugees.

My understanding is that Dickens and Poe actually met. I’ve heard two versions. One where Poe actually met Grip and one where Grip had recently died from the paint and Dickens told Poe about it.

ooks like Grip was a real-life pirate buried treasure and all, but instead of a parrot, Dickens had a raven to keep his secrets safe

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This made my entire day

Now I'm just waiting for a horror spinoff of Untitled Goose Game.

How is a raven like a writing desk?

Poe wrote on both.

More interesting facts about Grip from the same article:

• Her favorite phrase was "halloa old girl". Like her novel counterpart, she may have also said "Polly, put the kettle on, we'll all have tea", "keep up your spirits", and "bow wow wow".

• She roamed freely around the household until she repeatedly bit the children's ankles, at which point she was banished to the stables, where she slept "generally on horseback".

• Among the items she enjoyed burying are coins, cheese, potatoes, a brush, and a hammer that was apparently stolen from a carpenter.

• She was succeeded in the Dickens household by two other "Grips" who were regarded as impudent and less intelligent.

• Upon her death, she was taxidermied and mounted above Dickens's desk until his death, at which point she was auctioned for 120 guineas (around $20,000 USD in today's money). After which, having had various owners, she was purchased by an American businessman who willed her to her current owner, the Free Library of Philadelphia.

Truly a remarkable bird.

The original boofers. It's a fast way to get drugs into the system and we sometimes use it in medicine when IV/PO meds can't be used. Or as we used to say, is it friend, or Enema?

It's very, very dangerous, tho, as the EtOH is absorbed very rapidly and can cause terminal events. 8 oz. of steel beer by mouth is safe. But from the other end can cause real troubles.

The higher the EtOH blood levels the more liver damage, too.

It was in the middle of a war. There was also widespread Influenza, Cholera, and Typhus epidemics. The most productive land in Iran was a war zone between the Ottomans and the Russians. Inter-country transport and international import of grain was disrupted by the conflict, and there was also unusually low snowfall in the mountains, which led to a drought. 3 of the 4 major players disintegrated during or shortly after the war (Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire, and the Qanjaz Dynasty) leading to paucity of reliable sources.

Not particularly easy to study.

The British did give the Arabs the land they promised Hussein bin Ali and his sons got given control of Jordan, Syria and Iraq.

An enormously generous reward for there contribution when you consider that the total force of the Arab revolt were barely 1/1000 that of the British forces during the war who did most of the work of taking these land from the Turks who has previously ruled the Arabs.

The Jews also got the right to migrate to Israel as the British promised but after the arab started resistance to high levels of migration did they start putting a limit on the speed of migration.

The British never promised the Jews a literal Jewish nation nor unlimited migration merely that they could settle in underpopulated area of palestine Nor were the British responsible for the famine in Iran it was mainly the civil war in the soviet union that spilled over into Iran that caused the famine because Russia and the northern part of iran were where the food would have been imported from in the case of a drought.