Dear Traveller,
check out the following link for information before your journey
… a very helpful site for all
E.
The 4th of March across time
Lots of action today and quite a few places to avoid!
As always, we begin with the good stuff:
1152 A.D. – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
1351 A.D. – Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 A.D. – Władysław II Jagiełło was crowned King of Poland.
1877 A.D. – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet Swan Lake premiers at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
And a lot of places to avoid (unless you are feeling really lucky):
1238 A.D. – The Battle of the Sit River was fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
1793 A.D. – French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands.
1804 A.D. – The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts led the colony’s only significant convict uprising.
1814 A.D. – Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London and Thamesville near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
1893 A.D. – The army of Francis, Baron Dhanis attacks the Lualaba, enabling him to transport his troops across the Upper Congo and, capture Nyangwe almost without an effort.
1894 A.D. – Over 1,000 buildings are destroyed in a fire in Shanghai.
1899 A.D. – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland – over 300 dead.
1908 A.D. – The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
1930 A.D. – Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.
1941 A.D. – The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War II.
1944 A.D. – First U.S. daylight bombing of Berlin and Anti-Germany strikes in northern Italy.
1960 A.D. – French freighter ‘La Coubre’ explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100. Fidel Castro blames the U.S.
1966 A.D. – Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
1970 A.D. – French submarine Eurydice explodes.
1977 A.D. – The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
2001 A.D. – A massive explosion in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
2001 A.D. – Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
Take care and remember,
What can go wrong in time travelling – Messing up the timeline…
Dear Traveller,
One of the most common problems a traveller might encounter is messing up the timeline (i.e. the history) and thus distorting the time-space continuum.
Examples:
-
(accidentally) talking Shakespeare out of writing Romeo and Juliet
-
(accidentally) meet Aspasia, she falls for you and never gets to be Pericles mistress and influence his political decisions (Pericles was a famous leader of the Athenian people in 500 a.d., did some great things – The Golden era of Pericles – and had a mistress called Aspasia who influenced and often wisely counsel him in governing Athens. Look it up…)
-
(accidentally) discuss the String Theory with Einstein and give him food for thought he didn’t have in his life line…
-
(accidentally) talk J.R.R. Tolkien out of writing the Lord of the Rings trilogy… or convincing him to ACTUALLY have Arwen say “If you want him, come and claim him!”…
-
(accidentally) start talking to Elvis in the coffee place he used to hang out and have him miss the audition that got him discovered…
-
(accidentally) go to Flemings lab and trust his research on Penicillin…
-
(accidentally) convince yourself not to follow that line of work…
-
(accidentally) take an object from the past, that was supposed to be there and now it’s not (cause you took it), for e.x. take Leonidas sword right before the battle of Thermopylae…
-
(accidentally) meet Bill Gates as a teenager and suggest he should be an actor… and actually having him pursuit that kind of a career…
I mean… imagine what the timeline would be like if anything like the above happened… and trust me there are more examples where those came from…
An experienced traveller is much less prone to create a problem into the time-space continuum than an inexperienced one. All experienced travellers know when something went wrong (how, will be explained another time…) The first thing that needs to be done, is check the reality you came back to (your present). If even the slightest thing is different, then something went wrong. In that case, return back to your travelling destination, follow your “past” travelling self and fix whatever went wrong. Usually, this should do the trick, as long as you leave a message to yourself in the present so as your past self will go back and fix it…
Should you can’t find what you did wrong, go back in the past and convince yourself not to take that journey. You won’t have a big problem convincing your past self: it’s you from the future telling you not to do something… so you do it! Yourself is the only one you can trust the most and even more if it’s yourself from the future…
If that doesn’t work, check you handbook (pages 140- 203)… If that doesn’t work contact your mentors…
Keep in mind though, that asking them to fix your mess will be frowned upon, and will somehow end up in your record… which is not a very good thing in the long run…
Generally, mind you don’t mess the timeline. Try to be as discrete as possible and keep a low profile.
It will all be fine… 
Until the next post,
Goodnight to you, “whenever” you are…
E.
