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Reply: RPGGeek Suggestions:: Re: This Week In Geek History - Discussion
Posted: Mon, 15 Dec 04:01:32

This week's cuts:

December 14
1546
- Danish astronomer and mathematician Tycho Brahe [microbadge=8205]
1896
- World War II American air ace "Jimmy" Doolittle [microbadge=11400]

December 15
37
- Roman emperor Nero [microbadge=14939]
1612
- German astronomer Simon Marius 1st to observe Andromeda Galaxy thru a telescope [microbadge=3060]
37
- Roman emperor Nero [microbadge=14939]
1612
- German astronomer Simon Marius 1st to observe Andromeda Galaxy thru a telescope [microbadge=3060]

December 16
1773
- The "Boston Tea Party" [microbadge=37935]
1866
- Artist Wassily Kandinksy [microbadge=5644]
1943
- TV Producer Stephen Bochco (Hill Street Blues, Doogie Howser, NYPD Blues) [microbadge=40416]
1944
- WWII: Battle of the Bulge begins in the Ardennes [microbadge=5237]

December 17
1807
- American poet John Greenleaf Whittier [microbadge=17268]
1900
- Prix Guzman: Prize of 100,000 francs offered for communication with extraterrestrials (response required), Martians excluded (too easy) [microbadge=22798]
1949
- Bad Company frontman Paul Rodgers [microbadge=10140]

December 18
1870
- British short story writer Saki (H.H. Munro) [microbadge=1743]
1892
- Tchaikovsky's Ballet The Nutcracker premieres [microbadge=16785]
1943
- Rolling Stones guitarist singer-songwriter Keith Richards [microbadge=1194]
1963
- American actor Brad Pitt [microbadge=10744]

December 19
1922
- Theresa Vaughn, 24, confesses in court in Sheffield, England, to being married 61 times over 5 years in 50 cities in three countries [microbadge=10899][microbadge=4352]
1941
- Singer-songwriter & Earth Wind & Fire frontman/founder Maurice White [microbadge=42444][microbadge=42445][microbadge=42446]

December 20
1868
- American industrialist Harvey Firestone [microbadge=25045]

- Branch Rickey, the Brooklyn Dodgers General Manager who signed Jackie Robinson and integrated Major League Baseball [microbadge=56927]
1984
- 33 unknown JS Bach keyboard works found in Yale Library [microbadge=25454]

This Week in Geek History December 14 - December 20
Posted: Mon, 15 Dec 04:00:56

by Steve

December 14
1503
- French astrologer Nostradamus [microbadge=9887]
1900
- 'Birth' of Quantum Physics: German physicist Max Planck presents theoretical derivation of the black-body radiation law [microbadge=35633]
1911
- Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole [microbadge=29821]
2015
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens premieres [microbadge=32325]
2015
- First airing of The Expanse [microbadge=37673]

December 15
1832
- French engineer/architet Gustave Eiffel [microbadge=4213]
1859
- Polish linguist Ludwik Zamenhof, creator of the international language Esperanto [microbadge=992]
37
- Roman emperor Nero [microbadge=14939]
1612
- German astronomer Simon Marius 1st to observe Andromeda Galaxy thru a telescope [microbadge=3060]
1973
- Pirates of the Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland [microbadge=4458]
1979
- Chris Haney & Scott Abbott develop Trivial Pursuit: Genus Edition [microbadge=1848]

December 16
1770
- German composer Ludwig von Beethoven [microbadge=1634]
1775
- English novelist Jane Austen [microbadge=6955]
1897
- 1st submarine powered by internal combustion engine demonstrated [microbadge=8868]
1917
- English sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke [microbadge=6721][microbadge=2773]
1928
- American sci-fi author Philip K. Dick[microbadge=3012]
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December 17
1903
- Wright Bros make 1st sustained motorized flight [microbadge=17203]
1908
- American chemist Willard Frank Libby (carbon dating) [microbadge=24242]
1989
- The Simpsons premieres on Fox [microbadge=5086]

December 18
1856
- English physicist J.J. Thomson (Discoverer of the electron ) [microbadge=24883]
1939
- English fantasy/sci-fi author Michael Moorcock [microbadge=32468]
1946
- American director Steven Spielberg[microbadge=19738]
1966
- Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas premieres on CBS [microbadge=39403]
1843
- Dickens' A Christmas Carol published [microbadge=26733]

December 19
1906
- Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev [microbadge=11530]

- The United Nations General Assembly endorsed the Outer Space Treaty, binding the parties to use outer space only for peaceful purposes. [microbadge=50235][microbadge=35684]

- The sci-fi drama A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of a novel by Anthony Burgess, had its world premiere. [microbadge=1525]

- James Cameron's Titanic, a drama about the doomed ocean liner starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, premiered. [microbadge=28979]
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December 20
1812
- Grimm's Fairy Tales published [microbadge=28103]
1901
- Nuclear physicist Robert Van de Graaff [microbadge=29053]
1946
- Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life premieres [microbadge=17267]
1974
- The Godfather Part II premieres [microbadge=41414]

I'm sure this list is incomplete. Feel free to offer suggestions for this and upcoming weeks. If you want your birthday included just add it to this geeklist: RPG Geek Birthday List

Reply: General Role-Playing:: Re: QOTD DEC 14: Has a clock or other timepiece played a central role in a game or scenario? In what fashion? Was timepiece component interesting/useful?
Posted: Mon, 15 Dec 03:57:41

by playdead1414

I ran a scenario called The Town that Drowned for Vaesen. We only had a limited time to play (it was either two or three hours) as part of Free RPG Day. I used an iPad app that produces the sounds of different church bells and “rang” one each hour. This served as both an in-game and real world timer.
If only I could get a regular game going….

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