Spring 1901
News of the World

Max Planck Formulates Quantum Theory

Sigmund Freud Publishes The Interpretation of Dreams

First Nobel Prizes Awarded: A pacifist at heart and an inventor by nature, Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite. Not wanting to go down in history for creating such a deadly device, Nobel created a will that left the bulk of his fortune to the establishment of five prizes: physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace.

And speaking of peace…The leaders of Europe begin to test their boundaries and expand their interests. Minor skirmishes sprinkle the map of Eastern Eruope but in the West armies and fleets arrived safely at their destinations. The specific movement of forces was as follows:

Austria:
A Budapest - Trieste (*Bounce*)
F Trieste - Albania
A Vienna - Galicia (*Bounce*)

England:
F Edinburgh - North Sea
A Liverpool - Wales
F London - English Channel

France:
F Brest - Mid-Atlantic Ocean
A Marseilles Hold
A Paris - Gascony

Germany:
A Berlin - Kiel
F Kiel - Holland
A Munich - Ruhr

Italy:
F Naples - Ionian Sea
A Rome - Apulia
A Venice - Trieste (*Bounce*)

Russia:
A Moscow - Ukraine
F Sevastopol - Black Sea (*Bounce*)
F St Petersburg(sc) - Gulf of Bothnia
A Warsaw - Galicia (*Bounce*)

Turkey:
F Ankara - Black Sea (*Bounce*)
A Constantinople - Bulgaria
A Smyrna - Constantinople

There are no retreats required, so the next due date is in five days.

Fall 1901 Movement Orders due Wednesday August 27th, 2008 at 1200 GMT

As always, if I have orders identified as “final” from all current players I will adjudicate as soon as possible and that will of course change the schedule.