The 1911 Revolution, also known as the Xinhai Revolution or Hsinhai Revolution, ended China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing dynasty, and led to the establishment of the Republic of China. The revolution was the culmination of a decade of agitation, revolts, and uprisings. Its success marked the collapse of the Chinese monarchy, the end of over two millennia of imperial rule in China and the 200-year reign of the Qing, and the beginning of China's early republican era.

The Qing had struggled for a long time to reform the government and resist foreign aggression, but the program of reforms after 1900 was opposed by conservatives in the Qing court as too radical and by reformers as too slow. Several factions, including underground anti-Qing groups, revolutionaries in exile, reformers who wanted to save the monarchy by modernizing it, and activists across the country debated how or whether to overthrow the Qing dynasty. The flash-point came on 10 October 1911, with the Wuchang Uprising, an armed rebellion among members of the New Army. Similar revolts then broke out spontaneously around the country, and revolutionaries in all provinces of the country renounced the Qing dynasty. On 1 November 1911, the Qing court appointed Yuan Shikai (leader of the powerful Beiyang Army) as prime minister, and he began negotiations with the revolutionaries.

In Nanjing, revolutionary forces created a provisional coalition government. On 1 January 1912, the National Assembly declared the establishment of the Republic of China, with Sun Yat-sen, leader of the Tongmenghui (United League), as President of the Republic. A brief civil war between the North and the South ended in compromise. Sun would resign in favor of Yuan, who would become President of the new national government, if Yuan could secure the abdication of the Qing emperor. The edict of abdication of the six-year-old Xuantong Emperor, was promulgated on 12 February 1912. Yuan was sworn in as president on 10 March 1912.

In December 1915, Yuan restored the monarchy and proclaimed himself as the Hongxian Emperor, but the move was met with strong opposition from the population and the Army, leading to his abdication in March 1916 and the reinstatement of the Republic. Yuan's failure to consolidate a legitimate central government before his death in June 1916 led to decades of political division and warlordism, including an attempt at imperial restoration of the Qing dynasty.

The revolution is named Xinhai because it occurred in 1911, the year of the Xinhai (辛亥) stem-branch in the sexagenary cycle of the traditional Chinese calendar. The governments of Taiwan and China both consider themselves the legitimate successors to the 1911 Revolution and honor the ideals of the revolution including nationalism, republicanism, modernization of China and national unity. 10 October is the National Day of the Republic of China on Taiwan, and the Anniversary of the 1911 Revolution in the PRC.

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Mazda recently surprised customers by requiring them to sign up for a subscription in order to keep certain services. Now, notable right-to-repair advocate Louis Rossmann is calling out the brand.

It’s important to clarify that there are two very different types of remote start we’re talking about here. The first type is the one many people are familiar with where you use the key fob to start the vehicle. The second method involves using another device like a smartphone to start the car. In the latter, connected services do the heavy lifting.

Transition to paid services

What is wild is that Mazda used to offer the first option on the fob. Now, it only offers the second kind, where one starts the car via phone through its connected services for a $10 monthly subscription, which comes to $120 a year. Rossmann points out that one individual, Brandon Rorthweiler, developed a workaround in 2023 to enable remote start without Mazda’s subscription fees.

However, according to Ars Technica, Mazda filed a DMCA takedown notice to kill that open-source project. The company claimed it contained code that violated “[Mazda’s] copyright ownership” and used “certain Mazda information, including proprietary API information.”

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Archaeologists have identified the cannibalized remains of a senior officer who perished during an ill-fated 19th-century Arctic expedition, offering insight into its lost crew’s tragic and grisly final days.

By comparing DNA from the bones with a sample from a living relative, the new research revealed the skeletal remains belonged to James Fitzjames, captain of the HMS Erebus. The Royal Navy vessel and its sister ship, the HMS Terror, had been under the command of Sir John Franklin, who led the voyage to explore unnavigated areas of the Northwest Passage. The treacherous shortcut across the top of North America meanders through the islands of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

A different team of researchers in 1993 found 451 bones thought to belong to at least 13 of Franklin’s sailors at a site on King William Island in Canada’s Nunavut territory. The remains identified as Fitzjames’ in the new study, published September 24 in the Journal of Archaeological Science were among them.

Accounts gathered from local Inuit people in the 1850s suggested that some of the crew members resorted to cannibalism. While these reports were initially met with disbelief in England, subsequent investigations conducted over the past four decades found a significant number of bones had cut marks that offered silent evidence of the expedition’s catastrophic end.

Master Racing to the ground

my partner is at her mom's out-of-state helping with some family stuff and enjoying reliable utilities. thank god.

i have been napping whenever possible. i have been eating normal meals. i am going to try a new strategy of trusting windows blindly as a way of fitting back into society again. that last part is a joke, please laugh

news on the leasing office - no one is here because there is a new owner. i called the old company and they told me that i got a notice in the mail about the change. i did not but ok. i am supposed to hear from the new landlord at any time

i first heard this from shelly in 220, who walked up to me on one of my daily "stand at the leasing office window" rituals. she handed me half of a case of bottled water and insisted i would need it. actually, specifically, she said, "happy birthday" (it is not my birthday)

i personally don't plan on needing this pepsi crap. i am going to make sure that new landlord fixes the pipes before they fail completely.

i spent about 30 minutes just chatting to shelly about all of the stuff going on. she is actually pretty legit because she is a witch. i can say whatever the hell i want about being consumed by the shadows and having figures appear outside of my windows. none of it phases her.

it felt like the first time i have spoken to someone other than my partner in a month.

daytime kicked ass. i went to sleep feeling totally normal, like i wasn't dealing with anything.

i woke up from my day-sleep at 7:30 pm. the sun was down already. i could hear a bit of rainfall, but most of the sound was the wind. the streetlight outside has a loose bolt, so the whole lamp sways just so slightly. if i look at it for too long i get nauseous. i could hear the wind beating against the glass panes.

i'm not sure if the storm was the first thing to unsettle me, or if it was the dog. the dog was awake, and fully alert. this means that i now have to go through a process that i have.

how to: clear your apartment of night-time intruders

luckily, the pipes haven't started their shit yet. i still couldn't hear anything over the wind. i will trust that the apartment is quiet otherwise

i sit still for a while and make sure nothing has moved. why am i on alert now? this is ridiculous. things aren't that weird.

i'll leave the bedroom now.

the bathroom is clear. i love that frosted glass window. a window you can trust.

the laundry closet. it's quiet. that is my preferred state of the laundry closet

the kitchen. the pantry is open, and i can see that it is clear.

where is the stock pot. i know i left that stock pot on the stove. i knew things were disappearing---- nevermind, it's drying on the counter. i am losing it.

the living room. i will steer clear of the window, favoring a nice, opaque wall. everything looks fine out here, except that the closet is closed. what is the worst that could happen? the worst that could happen is i open it and there's a creature of the night inside and it devours me. the worst is a serial killer. the worst is... well, it's simply the closet, with a spot where my junk box used to be. you know, i bet she took the junk box with her when she left. or was that before she left? suddenly, the door--

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

okay. its all over. its over. what do i even do. how do i manage this. what should i do, get my baseball bat? will it do any good? i feel like the pressure changed. my head hurts

at this point i got to thinking about another night five or six months back where there had been another storm, much stronger than this one. it was the first time i heard the noise outside. the rain beat on the windows, and it went on for so long that the storage units downstairs flooded.

i am a suburban kid. i don't know what all of the barnyard animals sound like. i know what i heard wasn't a fox, or a wolf, or a cat. it had a mewl to it. it had a bleating to it. to me, it was an unknown thing, and could have been an alien for all i knew. i expected to see a goat, or a sheep, or hell, even a raccoon. whatever it was, it was making enough noise that i could hear it under the downpour. when i looked out the window i saw something else

i'm not sure how long i sat there just staring at the door, recalling the flooding night. i was finally pulled out of my daze by my phone

vvb vvb vvb vvb

Incoming Call

Shelly (220)

thank god.

i answered and clambered to my feet

"hey, i just knocked on your door a minute ago."

i'm such a fool, i think to myself. i turn around to get a look at this rainstorm.

"i just wanted to warn you that your guy is outside. he's been staring at your window for the last fifteen minutes."

he was, but he is now more interested in staring at me so casually in his soaked, tattered clothes. a dark hood climbing out from under his heavy coat. galoshes

how long do we stand here, staring at each other? who moves first? who would i want to move first?

past the kitchen, in the laundry closet, i can hear the moaning starting.

outside, a man opens his mouth. it is a bleating. it is a mewling. it is totally alien to me.

but it would be funny if it was.

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So we all know The Lopen (The Once King of Alethkar) likes to mess around with his radiant powers, like attempting to eat while upside down.

The question I have is when lashing a bowl of cereal upwards, would the milk and cereal come with it. I know the answer is "no you idiot only the bowl would fall up", but god do I want lopen to randomly flip someone's stew and they have to fly after it or eat it upside down.

Also I tagged dawnshard, this is because I couldn't remember if lopen bonded Rua at the end of oathbringer or the start of dawnshard. Figured it was a safer bet.

Haunt is a 2019 American slasher film written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. The film stars Katie Stevens, Will Brittain, and Lauryn McClain. Set on a Halloween night, it follows a group of friends who encounter a haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears, unknowing that the performers have a murderous intent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunt_(2019_film)#

https://fxtwitter.com/businessbarista/status/1844492227948765609

In the heart of World War II, as the Nazis took control of Copenhagen, a peculiar situation took place at the Institute of Theoretical Physics, led by physicist Niels Bohr. Two Nobel laureates Max von Laue and James Franck, fearing the confiscation of their gold Nobel Prize medals by the Nazis, had sent their medals to Bohr for safekeeping.

On the day the Nazis arrived in Copenhagen, Hungarian chemist Georgy de Hevesy, who was working in Bohr's lab, devised a plan to prevent the discovery of the medals. Initially considering burying the medals, they quickly dismissed the idea, fearing the thorough searches the Nazis would conduct. Instead, de Hevesy proposed a chemical solution — literally. Utilizing a mixture known as "aqua regia" (a blend of hydrochloric and nitric acids), he set about dissolving the gold medals. This concoction is one of the few substances capable of dissolving gold, a notably unreactive element. As the Nazis marched outside, de Hevesy dissolved the precious medals, reducing them to a colorless solution that eventually turned bright orange. The liquid containing the dissolved gold was then placed on a high shelf in the laboratory, where it remained unnoticed throughout the Nazi occupation​.

Post World War II, upon returning to the laboratory after V-E Day, de Hevesy found the beaker undisturbed on the shelf. The gold was recovered from the solution and returned to the Nobel Prize committee, who then reminted the medals and presented them back to Laue and Franck in a ceremony in 1952.

Source: Fermat’s Library via LinkedIn