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Lundenwic
Oct 2001
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Nah, Scandinavian is better because it includes the post-viking ara as well. Also, the leader should be a famous Scandinavian monarch (like Gustavus Adolphus, St. Olaf, or Canute), not some obscure petty warlord like in Civ3. |
Except 'Scandinavian' is bland- Viking at least commemorates the waves of migration, conquest and the great trade routes that stretched from Baku to L'Anse aux Meadows and doesn't sound like stripped pine modular furniture. 
Adolphus was king of Sweden- a Sweden which fought against Denmark in the Kalmar War. Useful as a leader in a Thirty Years' War scenario, but not for the Vikings.
With the term Viking you also get to include the kingdoms in Ireland and England and Man, the early duchy of Normandy, the settlements in Iceland and Greenland too, and Oleg in Kiev. It's a general term but it suits the wider arena of the Viking experience.
Go Vikings.
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Lundenwic
Oct 2001
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Originally posted by Aro
I did a series of paintings based in famous masterpieces (pastiches), for a satiric magazine in Brazil called "Bundas" (what means "A$$"  ), where the persons in the picture were replaced by caricatures (politicians, etc). I was just preparing myself to start a Vermeer when the magazine closed its doors. It was shame. 
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I liked the card I saw which had Mrs Rothko cleaning the carpet- which was of course a large Rothko colour field painting....
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If it is tempting to speculate about what Mrs Whistler might be seeing, the invitation to guess what she might be thinking has proved irresistible. The early reading of the sitter's character as typically Protestant and puritanical has paved the way for recent lampoons in which her prudishness is only skin deep. "Come on, sonny boy, this picture would be a lot more interesting if I posed in the nude!" she quips in a postcard of the 1980s, while a recent internet image, entitled Whistler's Overbearing Mother: Derangement in Grey and Black, shows a grim Mrs Whistler holding a whip. Other images show her smoking a cigarette, blowing a party horn, or stripping down to her lacy undies in a card that suggests: "It's your birthday. Don't just sit there! Show 'em stuff!" Her very immobility, it seems, is provocative; we feel compelled to help Whistler's Mother loosen up, as well as stand up and stretch her legs occasionally.
Such eminent personalities as Donald Duck, Bullwinkle the Moose, Wile E Coyote, the Animaniacs, the Muppets and Barbie have struck the upright pose made famous by Mrs Whistler. Although these are characters created for children, the superimposition of Whistler's Mother is clearly meant to appeal to adults, providing the kind of inside joke that children's programming employs to keep parents watching.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/feat...,965457,00.html
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Bergen, Norway
Oct 2000
time: 06:37
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Originally posted by Odin
Nah, Scandinavian is better because it includes the post-viking ara as well. Also, the leader should be a famous Scandinavian monarch (like Gustavus Adolphus, St. Olaf, or Canute), not some obscure petty warlord like in Civ3. |
...says the guy who is from the US. You must understand that making a civ that is called "Scandinavian", a name of a region and totally wrong to use for a civ in every way, is not preferable. It's like making a civ called Western Europe really. Viking OTOH, may not represent more than one time period, but at least it represent a time period, contrary to this "Scandinavian" civ. Actually, if we should scrap the Viking name, I'd much rather have Sweden as a civ(me being a Norwegian that is saying a lot...), as Sweden was the power in the Nordic region that was most influential after the Viking age.
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Dr Zoidberg
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Communist Party of Apolyton
Jan 2002
time: 06:37
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Originally posted by GeoModder
Tell that to the Danes.  |
IKEA, Volvo, SAAB, Scania, Ericsson, The Nobel Prize, ABBA, a shitload of really good metal, etc, etc...
And the danes have what? Tuborg, Carlsberg and Kim Larsen?
You were saying...? 
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admirers of our culture (don't ask). We should nuke them now till it's not too late! 
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