Suggestion Survey Part 2! The theme is "Disaster!"
Added 2018-09-13 21:00:00 +0000 UTCPlease suggest topics that you think fit the theme "Disaster." We WANT to see a wide variety of suggestions: economic, political, natural, scientific, artistic, all kinds of disasters! And creative takes or interpretations of this theme are always encouraged.Some notes about your suggestions:
- Submit between now and 11:59 PM Pacific standard time on Sunday, September 16. Only one suggestion per person please! Multiple suggestions from the same person during any given survey period will be manually removed.
- Anything that happened or started before 1920 is fair game to suggest. We typically don't cover more recent events, unless we're working with sponsors who can provide more documentation about that historical topic.
- We have a ratio of 2 suggestion surveys to every 1 voting poll. So if/when we ever do a theme for the survey, that theme will appear twice in a row. The results of both surveys are collected and added together when we determine patron suggestions to include in the next voting poll. Our next voting poll will be next week!
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How about the brazilian Crisis and unenployment because of Lula and Dilma rouseff
Lumina
2018-09-20 00:07:22 +0000 UTCHalifax Explosion
Lewis Farberman
2018-09-16 07:27:37 +0000 UTCI did. Suggested it again. Just in time in fact. I almost didn’t make it.
Lewis Farberman
2018-09-16 07:27:11 +0000 UTCI had already submitted, and now I wish I could change it. I'd like to do the Battle of Cap Bon instead. That horrible battle in 468 in north Africa that was mentioned in the first season of Justinian and Theodora.
Cindy Franklin
2018-09-16 02:10:43 +0000 UTCHow about the Great Depression of British Agriculture? Eliminating tariffs and shattering an entire section of the British economy would qualify as a "disaster." Not to mention it's a great way to examine the benefits and disadvantages of free trade.
Benjamin Patz
2018-09-14 17:34:09 +0000 UTCWanggongchang explosion, over 20,000+ deaths, occurred in 1626, half of Beijing was in the blast zone and was the closest thing to a nuke at that time.
Hugh Mccabe
2018-09-14 17:28:27 +0000 UTCI agree that this is an interesting and significant topic. Spain avoided both World Wars and yet was in political chaos for about 50 years; arguably still suffering today.
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-09-14 14:50:24 +0000 UTCHalifax Explosion
Joël Quenneville
2018-09-14 14:22:32 +0000 UTCI don't know why modern Peru has anything to do with this, but I am interested in the Time of Troubles.
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-09-14 14:19:31 +0000 UTCit's more cultural than just artistic, but I am interested in the history of inquisitions.
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-09-14 14:13:12 +0000 UTCmaybe Nicholas If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned Barbon will return for a cameo.
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-09-14 14:09:58 +0000 UTCThe Disaster of the 98: The end of the Spanish-American war brought a crisis of identity to the whole of Spain. Not only had shown the lack of it's military in a succession of clumsy defeats that shouldn't had happened so easily, but it also meant practically losing it's empire and it's national pride. It brought Spain from being a world player to an isolated nation, that not even today, had been able to recover any semblance of international recognition. It brought also a cultural renovation with the Generation of the 98, that began exploring all the questions about spanish society that had been practically ignored before. It brought a sense of dread and pessimism about the future, and changed the view of spanish society about itself. A change of view that's still present even today.
JohnnyElRojo
2018-09-14 10:33:21 +0000 UTCWhat does a volcano in what is now Peru have to do with the rise of the Romanovs? Possibly quite a bit. I suggested the Time of Troubles, an era of severe political instability in Russia.
General Luigi
2018-09-14 02:35:03 +0000 UTCThe Halifax Explosion, Jonestown flood or New Madrid Earthquake? Which one?
Rossum
2018-09-14 00:41:26 +0000 UTCI decided to stick with Islamic Iconoclasm. I know this maybe a controversial topic but, I think it is important to recognise what has been lost in terms of the art that showed the history of the various cultures that existed before the rise of Islam. Also to recognise why this act of Iconoclasm occurred and continues to occur, as James pointed out here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-GgknZYu3s" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-GgknZYu3s</a> From a point of view, this can be considered an artistic disaster.
Xenin
2018-09-13 23:33:20 +0000 UTCThis time, I proposed the twin disasters that struck London in the 1660s: The Great Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of 1666.
Julia Augusta
2018-09-13 21:34:05 +0000 UTC1556 Shaanxi earthquake: an earthquake that killed almost 1 million people and permanently weakened the Chinese Ming Dynasty.
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-09-13 21:24:06 +0000 UTCPyrrhic War: such a disaster that it created a new word for it.
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-09-13 21:22:07 +0000 UTCI want to hear about one of the most disatrous rules in history, Ranavalona I. She oversaw Madagascar's population being halved, with millions of people dead yet I'd never heard of her before looking up topics for this.
GooGhoul
2018-09-13 21:17:13 +0000 UTCSomeone suggested the Halifax Explosion the last time we had a poll. That sounded like a great idea so I submitted it this time :)
Joël Quenneville
2018-09-13 21:09:20 +0000 UTC
