elephas
Senator
Excellent! Is it an improvisation or taken from your stories?In the Carpathian empire of the Dark Ages, many of the worst horrors took place in the dismal dungeons of the capital.
Excellent! Is it an improvisation or taken from your stories?In the Carpathian empire of the Dark Ages, many of the worst horrors took place in the dismal dungeons of the capital.
Excellent! Is it an improvisation or taken from your stories?
Very interesting! A mythical Carpathia ...
Was something from this series published previously?
Of course, I know what is Carpathia as a geographic region,
Frankly, and sadly, I doubt if most Americans could point to Ukraine on a map, much less find the Carpathian Mountains.
and as a state it was never existed. I can speak in Ukrainian, if you need some words for your novel, you can ask me. For example, "lozyna" is "switch, cane", "batih" is "whip", "luptsiuvaty" is "to beat, to whip" etc.
"Ruthene" = synonym of "Ukrainian" used when they were a minority, mainly in former Czekoslovaquia (East of Slovaquia). This region were annexed by the Soviet Union in 1945Nope. At least not by me.
The Carpathians *are* an actual range of mountains in eastern Europe, and 'Carpathian Ruthenia' is an ethnically diverse region comprising parts of what is now Ukraine, Poland, and Slovakia. But AFAIK there was no Carpathian Empire in the Dark Ages. But the name has a certain macabre quality I think, so I've used it as a fantasy context for some of my captions hers.
Ruthene" = synonym of "Ukrainian" used when they were a minority, mainly in former Czekoslovaquia (East of Slovaquia). This region were annexed by the Soviet Union in 1945
Strange, an American who knows so many things...Yes. The Ruthenians lived in the area known as 'Kievan Rus' during the late middle ages. Many regions in eastern Europe have changed hands many times. Not many people in the west know that the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was the largest state in Europe in the 1400's.
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In my country such a thing would not happen. The prisoner would be made to face the driving rain, as part of her deserved punishment.
If the rain turned into sleet or hail, so much the better.
Marek, Crown Prince of Carpathia
Strange, an American who knows so many things...
Did you teach History of Europe in a University ?
You should publish your (interesting) stories in a separate topic in the forum "mainly poems and stories", please, thanks. This one is not made for it : mainly pictures or sometimes videos
I think, a own "Boccaccio's Short Stories" or "Boccacchio's Captions" thread are very useful.Are you asking me not to write 'captions' for the images, as in #1405, #1410, #1413, #1434, #1435?
Or simply not to include excerpts from my own stories as in #1427, (which was a one-time thing) which I did in response to Elephas's question about whether the 'captions' were excerpted from my stories.
Or both!I think, a own "Boccaccio's Short Stories" or "Boccacchio's Captions" thread are very useful.
I second that!I think, a own "Boccaccio's Short Stories" or "Boccacchio's Captions" thread are very useful.
I disagree with, well, a lot in Caesar and Christ, but the Durants had style.The eleven volume "The Story of Civilization" by Will and Ariel Durant, which took them more than forty years to write, constituted a liberal education in and of itself.
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3 and 5 : Elise Graves
The girls are really tortured
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