Lets pretend we're five thousand years into the future, we're historians, and we're trying to find out what the hell happened during the 1900 and 2000's. Naturally, the number of historical sources begins to erode with time. In essence, we are playing:
The Telephone Game - With Modern History.Game Format- The first poster chooses a time frame and geological location to study. They also choose the maximum number of news stories that may be plucked per year/month/week, etc and a specific topic to research.
- The first poster then chooses an obscure news story from that time which is "discovered."
- Poster number 2 then picks the next news story - while following the rules, of course - and explains if it is relevant to the previous post or not.
- After every 10 news stories have been recovered, we must put them into story form as if it were the most important historic event of that time - ever.
- Once the max number of news stories have been drawn from a requested time period, the short stories must be summarized as an advertisement of the official history book of X location and Y event to be refrenced by eager people around the world!
- Repeat from step 1
General Rules- Players may forgo their turn to have intellectual debate on historic items retrieved at any time.
- No insulting your fellow intellectual historial colleagues or his theories into important historic events.
- Maximum of 30 news stories per research project.
- Sources must be provided for your historic finds.
- Although the historic find can be anything, from news article to random picture, it must come from the time frame in question. Forgeries will not be tolerated!
- Historians are unable to magically know things about the source material that is not presented by the source material.
- We don't have time for more than a page of information, we have space volleyball to attend, you know!
and as the first poster, I choose.
Summary of World History between the years 1899 and 1999Max 1 news story per 5 years. Stories may originate from anywhere and be of any topic.((A reminder that the news story found is considered the most important event for that time period))
For this great undertaking into uncovering the mysteries of the 19th century, I present this public health report.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1999136/?page=1Apparently an area known as the United States, had been battling some disease called "Typhus Fever" between the years of 1883 and 1909. the report also mentions "New York", "Philadelphia", and "Baltimore" Which I believe are "States" of this "United States" As there is no information as to the population of the United States at this time and they have published this as the main health report on the front page stating 255 total cases. We can deduce the total population of the United States to be below 100 000 people, why else would they take the time to report, (on the front page.) A total of 255 cases of this affliction!