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i know you've been dying to tell me what a perfect daniel rper i am in every possible way, and so here is a post on which to do so!
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101 things that Daniel personally pre-dates because he's a nerd from 1839 The Anglican Church. Kind of. In Daniel's time, it was called the Protestant Episcopal Church, or the Reformed Episcopal Church if you didn't want yourself associated with those Protestant fellows. Darwinian evolution. The dude was around and writing, but it was a long time till he'd publish On the Origin of Species (1859) and cause all that upheaval. Dinosaurs. Pause for laughter. Megalosaur had been dug up and identified, along with maybe one or two others, but they were just regarded as some more big old dead animals, and proof of a global Flood. The name 'dinosaur' wasn't even coined until the 1840s. Dumas. The Three Musketeers wasn't serialised until 1844. Lifts. Or, more accurately, popularised lifts for people. Elevators existed in 1839 for conveying goods between floors, but they weren't safe enough for use by the general public. It wasn't until 1853 that Elisha Otis would demonstrate an elevator with a safety device to keep it from falling if a cable snapped. HOWEVER there was the odd "ascending room" around that people could ride on (eg in the Colosseum, where it was a tourist attraction). Photography. Almost. Before Daniel's time, there was the camera obscura and whatnot, but it wasn't until several inventions came together that the daguerreotype process was announced in January of 1839. However, it would not come to England until after August of that year. Prussia's dissolution. At this point it was a monarchy, and its currency was the thaler. Prussia and the UK spent the Napoleonic Wars (1801-1815) kinda glaring across the channel and shoving each other. But they were also allied against France for a bit, so who knows what was going on there. The Separation of Church and State in England. Nobody had ever heard of rendering unto Caesar what was Caesar's, and the government was basically a bunch of Anglicans. |