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Feb. 16th, 2008 07:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusHere's the kind of stuff you stumble on to checking Wikipedia's list of "unusual articles."
Two of my favourites:
The BBC (no less) reported that the United States military briefly considered a bomb that would cause gay sex among enemy combatants:
Also, those of you who are interested in Classical history will be happy to know that in AD 1985, Rome and Carthage finally ended 2,248 years of hostility. No peace treaty was ever signed at the end of the last Punic War, what with Carthage being razed and all, so Mayor Ugo Vetere of Rome, Italy, and Mayor Chedly Klibi of Carthage, Tunisia, finally settled their differences more than two decades ago and signed a treaty. Who knew?
ETA: And now my website has an update here. Nothing specifically Canadian -- just stuff about changing views of homosexuality in the late 19th century. I was looking for a way to slip in why I don't agree with Foucault's theories, and finally found a context for it.
Two of my favourites:
The BBC (no less) reported that the United States military briefly considered a bomb that would cause gay sex among enemy combatants:
"The plan for a so-called "love bomb" envisaged an aphrodisiac chemical that would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among troops, causing what the military called a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale."It actually sounds like the plot of a truly awful slash fanfic written by some pre-teen who'd been watching Dr. Strangelove after snorting powdered Tang.
Also, those of you who are interested in Classical history will be happy to know that in AD 1985, Rome and Carthage finally ended 2,248 years of hostility. No peace treaty was ever signed at the end of the last Punic War, what with Carthage being razed and all, so Mayor Ugo Vetere of Rome, Italy, and Mayor Chedly Klibi of Carthage, Tunisia, finally settled their differences more than two decades ago and signed a treaty. Who knew?
ETA: And now my website has an update here. Nothing specifically Canadian -- just stuff about changing views of homosexuality in the late 19th century. I was looking for a way to slip in why I don't agree with Foucault's theories, and finally found a context for it.