Suggestion Survey! The theme is "Disaster!"
Added 2018-08-22 21:03:53 +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 AM Pacific standard time on Sunday, August 26. 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 survey, and next official voting poll, will be in late September.
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Civilisational disater, the loss of knowledge with the destruction of librairies (Alexandria and others...)
Mauvy Léo
2018-08-26 21:26:49 +0000 UTCThe Wasa, it was a true disaster. Supposed to be the flagship of Sweden, sunk on it's maiden voyage right outside Stockholm.
Jonathan Luoto
2018-08-24 19:27:37 +0000 UTCMaybe the next one should be the Potato Famine of the 1840s.
Rossum
2018-08-24 12:59:47 +0000 UTCI was going to suggest the destruction and/or erasure of the videotape archives from the Golden Age of Television by a number of networks (most notably CBS and BBC). But that doesn't really fit the time scale in question, obviously (hence why I am editing this). So instead, I am going to recommend one of the most significant events in the history of engineering: the Tay Bridge collapse of December 1879, and the massive reform efforts that followed it.
Joseph Osako
2018-08-23 20:43:21 +0000 UTCHang on, I think the failure of the Pirate Republic should do it! Even though they didn't exactly fail as a country/government, they just lost to Woods Rogers; the man who put in more effort to bring the Golden Age of Piracy.
Lady Bug
2018-08-23 19:26:21 +0000 UTCOr Prince Albert unable to become King-Consort of England; I always wondered why this wasn't done, but all you get from the internet is a quick answer of: men don't take the title king in the UK when married to a female monarch. But apparently there's more to it than that if everyone, and I mean everyone, at the time expected him to have the title. His cousin became king consort of Portugal, and Albert expected the same for himself.
Lady Bug
2018-08-23 19:17:36 +0000 UTCHow about the failure of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots to take the English throne from Queen Elizabeth I?
Lady Bug
2018-08-23 19:11:55 +0000 UTCThe Spanish Armada and the Counter Armada: Military disasters are a common thing in history. But rarely are they followed up to so quickly, and rarely are they related to each other. First, the Spanish Armada failed to take land, and lost a third of it's size do to the storm. Next, a year later, the english sent a Counter Armada to get rid of what was left of the spanish fleet, and suffered an equal, if not greater, loss. Not only they failed to take an almost undefended city, but they went to take Lisbon in expecting an alleged portuguese uprising that never happened, and without the proper preparation for a siege. The two greatest empires of the time, and both failed catastrophically do to military incompetence.
JohnnyElRojo
2018-08-23 16:05:19 +0000 UTC...which one?
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-08-23 15:36:06 +0000 UTCBrock's Onix used Earthquake, it's super effective. Brock has been banned from Kanto Gyms in response.
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-08-23 15:35:38 +0000 UTCyes; we need more pirate history
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-08-23 15:34:04 +0000 UTCthat is way too broad
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-08-23 15:33:30 +0000 UTCActually there is evidence to suggest that the Library survived the fire and that a lesser known event destroyed the structure later on.
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-08-23 15:33:20 +0000 UTCwho hasn't already talked about the Titanic? SS Eastland is even more interesting; it was an overcompensation of lifeboats in response to the Titanic that ironically caused the Eastland to sink.
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-08-23 15:31:38 +0000 UTCAlso the Global Flood Myths: there is evidence to suggest that Noah's global flood did exist, although it didn't destroy civilization. Various cultures have made similar myths around the same time period.
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-08-23 15:27:50 +0000 UTCoh oops. Well in that case: The Toba Catastrophe. It's mostly a theory, but there's evidence to suggest that this Stone Age volcanic eruption almost killed the human race.
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-08-23 15:24:38 +0000 UTCIt prevents them from doing Gustavus Adolphus every series
Joshua Evans-Lowell
2018-08-23 15:03:35 +0000 UTCProbably won't be chosen since it's after 1920. But that's a really important and undercovered topic so who knows - maybe they'll make an exception
Joshua Evans-Lowell
2018-08-23 15:01:38 +0000 UTCI suggested Old World Diseases
Joshua Evans-Lowell
2018-08-23 15:00:22 +0000 UTCAnd Boston gets a Christmas tree every year. I was in Halifax this summer and the Citadel Hill still has a dent from the explosion. It utterly destroyed the black section of the city as well. Well among many other horrors.
Rossum
2018-08-23 12:46:35 +0000 UTCJohnstown Flood.
Rossum
2018-08-23 12:44:52 +0000 UTCI chose Famines of WWII: Soviet Union (Leningrad), Greece, China, Rwanda (Ruzagayura), Bengal, Indonesia (Java), Dutch, Morocco & Vietnam. Like the recent Spanish Flu episode; a world war tens to overshadow other severe atrocities. Many of these famines motivated revolution forces post-war: ending European imperialism.
Thomas Alfred Weaver
2018-08-23 11:18:14 +0000 UTCI chose the 1916 Rising in Dublin. The result of which was a disaster for Irish rebels but slowly afterwards became a disaster for the British.
Robert Sheehy
2018-08-23 10:53:31 +0000 UTCI just looked up the Halifax Explosion and its an interesting topic. I think I'll put that one in as well so as to increase the likelihood it is drawn. Good luck!
Christopher Pitterle
2018-08-23 07:11:01 +0000 UTCI’m so mad that I can’t suggest Apartheid South Africa as a topic for this.
Pope Urban II
2018-08-23 04:26:24 +0000 UTCI submitted the Halifax Ecplosion as well. I have done a report on it and have been fascinated ever since. It definitely deserves more recognition outside of the US and Canada.
Lewis Farberman
2018-08-23 04:14:58 +0000 UTCI suggested the Halifax Explosion. It is fascinating to me and is relevant today for improving US-Canada relations.
Lewis Farberman
2018-08-23 04:10:05 +0000 UTCI did Napoleon's invasion of Russia, since that is one of the biggest disasters for a country in a war
Aidan Forero
2018-08-23 02:49:59 +0000 UTCI suggested 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
2018-08-23 01:14:34 +0000 UTCI like that they mix it up every now and then. It helps me to be creative and come up with something different that I'm still excited about. Otherwise, I'd probably just be submitting Xenophon and the march of the 10,000 every month :D
Joël Quenneville
2018-08-23 01:13:06 +0000 UTCI suggested the history of astrology, as the word "disaster" originated as an astrological term that meant "ill-starred". (What I <i>wanted</i> to suggest was the Red River Bridge War, as a one or two off. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_Bridge_War" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_Bridge_War</a> )
Jorlem
2018-08-22 23:10:25 +0000 UTCI wish you wouldn't do these "themed" surveys. It's bad enough our suggestions have only a tiny chance of being selected; now we have to shoehorn them into a theme, or come up with something other than what we actually want to suggest to fit into the category?
Jim Schofield
2018-08-22 23:01:45 +0000 UTCGreat Kanto Earthquake I meant.
CGMFA
2018-08-22 22:28:43 +0000 UTC1923 Great Kant Earthquake
CGMFA
2018-08-22 22:28:10 +0000 UTCThe 1692 Earthquake which destroyed the pirate haven Port Royal and a history of Port Royal then and now.
CGMFA
2018-08-22 22:27:15 +0000 UTCThe collapse of any 'great' empire (Rome, Egypt, Olmec, Aztek ...)
F. P. P.
2018-08-22 21:40:53 +0000 UTCAnyone looking for some good alternative disasters (in no particular order): The Fourth Crusade, the Columbian Exchange, the 1904 Olympics, the Athenian expedition to Sicily during the Pelopennesian War, the XYZ Affair and the Quasi War, Anything involving Gregor MacGregor
Julia Augusta
2018-08-22 21:28:38 +0000 UTCAll good topics! I almost suggested Krakatoa myself. Of the three here, I think I'd most like to hear about the Halifax Explosion :)
Joël Quenneville
2018-08-22 21:22:33 +0000 UTCThe burning of the Library of Alexandria is a type of disaster that changed human history.
Jelani Pride
2018-08-22 21:20:27 +0000 UTCI was torn between Napoleon's Egyptian expedition and the Black Death. Submitted the Black Death for now. Will probably submit a Napoleon topic next time (the Spanish Ulcer and the invasion of Russia... I guess the entire Continental System was a disaster).
Julia Augusta
2018-08-22 21:20:01 +0000 UTCI was really torn between the Halifax explosion of 1917, the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa or the Pompeii/Mount Vesuvius catastrophe of 79 AD. So many interesting topics!
Simen Engebretsen
2018-08-22 21:19:53 +0000 UTCI suggested "The year without a summer" (1815 eruption of Mt. Tambora)
Joël Quenneville
2018-08-22 21:17:48 +0000 UTCThe sinking of the Titanic, and the views about technology at the time.
David Chipman
2018-08-22 21:12:37 +0000 UTC
