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I ordered the red mania record and I got a standard black. How do I swap it or am I screwed

Two bags of Garganelli

Broccoli Rabe

Olive oil

4 garlic cloves

1 red pepper

White wine

Black pepper

Pecarino Romano

Homemade Toasted Bread crumbs

June 11th 1943 the beginning of the first world war

Ottoman forces invade the greek anatolian coast and soviets mobilize near the baltic states and Poland hoping to take territory while the world is distracted 

June 13th 1943 Soviets declare on the baltics and poland hellbent on taking back “russian lands”

June 15th 1943 Germany Declares war on Soviets and the Ottomans

June 16th 1943 France Joins the Soviet side 

June 17th 1943 France mobilizes its troops in africa 

June 18th 1943 Roumania joins the Soviet alliance

June 19th 1943 Poland joins the central powers 

June 22nd 1943 Hungary joins the central powers after being attacked by Roumania and Illyria 

June 23th 1943 start of the spanish civil war between the monarchists and other right leaning groups and the Socialists 

July 8th 1943 France attacks the Italian alps, the low countries and germany with mixed results

July 11th 1943 Russia launches its assault on the baltics and poland along with roumania attacking transylvania 

July 16th 1943 Battle Of Brussels ends in a French Victory 

July 17th Battle of Antwerp results in a French pyrrhic victory 

July 18th 1943 breakthrough in the netherlands as the french reach the rhine 

July 19th 1943 Soviets take Lwow with heavy casualties stopping the offensive 

August 2nd 1943 battle of rotterdam starts 

August 3rd 1943 italian counter attack in savoy 

August 8th 1943 French and Italian forces both achieve breakthroughs in africa

August 11th 1943 Djibouti falls to Italian forces 

September 2nd 1943 Hejaz is attacked by arabia and pushed in land 

September 3rd 1943 French push to the Libyan coasts

September 7th 1943 Greeks make pushes into anatolia 

September 9th 1943 Bulgaria and Germany push into illyria 

September 11th 1943 an airship barely misses the empire state building 

September 17th 1943 german counter offensive in poland 

October 6th 1943 Spanish Communists win multiple victories and attack Portugal 

October 8th 1943 the British empire joins the german side to honor the british portuguese treaty but contain fighting to only iberia unless provoked in other theaters 

 October 11th 1943 Battle of Seville starts with massive casualties preventing any further communist advances 

October 22nd 1943 German and British expeditionary forces arrive in Iberia to stabilize the lines 

October 31st 1943 Finns advance slightly threatening Leningrad

November 5th 1943  Battle of Amsterdam starts 

November 16th Amsterdam is retaken by the dutch and a counter attack pushes them back to the rhine 

December 1st 1943 Rhine line breaks and the dutch and germans push to Brussels 

December 7th 1943 Italians take the alps and set up defensive lines 

December 16th 1943 Italians push all the way to oran collapsing the french lines in Algeria 

December 22nd 1943 French retreat back to French Africa to reinforce Oran 

January 3rd 1944 Italians take Algiers

January 5th 1944 Hejaz launches offensive to retake lost lands and into the Arabian desert 

January 9th 1944 Britain launches offensive from gibraltar 

January 17th 1944 Battle of Burgos is a Central Powers victory pushing the communists back 

January 19th 1944 Battle of Smyrna results in a greek victory 

January 26th 1944 Greek revolt in Pontus opens a new front 

March 3rd 1944 French forces routed in the ardennes fall back to the pre war border 

March 7th 1944 Italy Takes Corsica 

March 9th 1944 Hejaz Front devolves to Trench Warfare 

April 3rd 1944 Polish and German Forces push into Belarus 

April 22nd 1944 Polish Liberation of Lwow

April 27th 1944 Battle of Madrid starts up as a long siege 

May 8th 1944 Battle of Constanța ends in a Bulgarian victory pushing the front to the danube and black sea 

June 6th 1944  an american cruise ship accidentally lands in Normandy 

June 11th 1944 Italians and Spanish take the coast of Africa forcing french troops into the saharan jungle and redirected into central Africa to fight in other colonies 

June 29th 1944 Bulgaria breaks through the Danube and pushes into Bessarabia 

July 7th 1944 Battle of Monaco ends in an Italian Victory 

July 10th 1944 Battle of Nice and Savoy Start 

July 29th 1944 Italians Take Nice and Savoy and push the front lines all the way to the Rhone River 

August 3rd 1944 The Germans push into the ardennes 

August 8th 1944 Dutch Retake most of the Netherlands after a rout at Antwerp 

August 30th 1944 Battle Of Lilie and Calais 

September 22nd 1944 Calais and Lilie Fall to a combined german and dutch offensive 

September 31st 1944 Greeks push into anatolia as the ottoman defensive lines fall

October 11th 1944 Greeks encircle Ankara 

October 15th 1944 Pontic greeks join the greek union officially 

October 22nd 1944 Hejaz breaks through the arab lines 

November 30th 1944 Polish-German offensive into Belarus and Ukraine 

December 2nd 1944 Germans push the baltic front back and rout the soviet troops before winter 

January 11th 1945 Germans push into northern France despite heavy losses 

February 22nd 1945 France launches a failed counter offensive 

March 2nd 1945 Spanish kingdom launches massive offensive  

May 6th 1945 Communists lose Valencia and Barcelona in the offensive and result in massive casualties on both sides ending an all out victory 

May 27th 1945 All out hungarian and italian offensive collapse illyria 

June 8th 1945 Bulgaria annexes all Illyrian claims 

June 22nd 1945 Italian Albania expands 

June 26th 1945 Hungary and Germany Occupy the rest of illyria

July 2nd Battle Of Lyon is a French victory pausing progress westward  

July 19th 1945 Roumanians revolt return to a monarch after a german backed coup after continued losses and concessions to be offered if they join the central powers 

August 23rd 1945 Roumania joins the german alliance and enters into the customs union mobilizing against the soviets 

September 30th 1945 Massive Roumanian and Hungarian assault along with Ukrainian separatists succeed into reaching the Dnieper river 

November 11th 1945  Ankara falls to the greeks and the ottomans move all government operations to Aleppo ]

November 27th 1945 All of anatolia is now under greek possession

December 25th 1945 The Greeks Declare themselves the Eastern Romans at Christmas Mass at the Hagia Sophia with The King being renamed to the emperor 

February 8th 1946 Armenians freed and given extra lands 

March 11th 1946 Germans launch invasion into France pushing near paris 

April 7th 1946 Paris is besieged 

April 23rd 1946 Madrid falls to the Monarchists ending the Iberian war 

May 1st 1946 Armenia fights into the caucus mountains 

May 6th 1946 greek troops land in lebanon and aleppo 

May 18th 1946 Russian troops push back after a massive offensive taking back some of the soviet heartline 

June 2nd 1946 Battle of Leningrad ends in a German victory 

June 16th 1946 Paris falls to the germans 

July 3rd 1946 France Surrenders 

September 7th 1946 Battle of Moscow ends with a German victory crippling the soviet army and public 

September 19th 1946 Soviets send out diplomats to Germany for a conditional surrender 

December 17th 1947 Treaty of Königsberg

Soviet Union pays war reparations to Poland, Finland, The Baltics and Germany 

The Soviet Union loses Armenia, Ukraine, Belarus and minor territories near Finland. 

The Polish and Lithuanians form into The PLC again 

The Baltic Union joins Germany as a state 

Finland and Poland Join the German Customs union 

France loses most of its colonies to Italy, Germany, Portuguese, Spanish and British 

France loses Iron mines to Germans 

Hejaz becomes the ruler of Arabia 

Palestine is Handed to Italy 

Byzantium is reformed and keeps anatolia 

Kurds get their own state supervised by the Byzantines 

Iraq is Taken by the British 

Roumania takes bessarabia 

Italy takes the Dalmatian coast 

Bulgaria takes all of southern Illyria 

Croatia Is formed as a Hungarian Puppet 

Netherlands take all of belgium including the french parts

Calm Before The Storm and The Chinese Calamity  

June 16th 1930 Greek government moves elements to Constantinople and holds a victory parade honoring the return to the Queen city 

October 11th 1931 Socialist elements start an uprising in Paris 

December 16th 1931 Paris Police end the riots but socialism remains popular 

May 8th 1932  elections take place in France with the socialists winning in a landslide 

June 16th 1932 France and The Soviet Union sign a treaty of friendship 

April 30th 1933 Chinese rebellion against treaty ports 

June 2nd 1933 British and German Navies reinforce their ports against the Chinese rebellions 

September 11th 1933 Rebellions intensify in china 

February 7th 1934 Soviets send aid and arms to rebelling Chinese provinces 

June 6th 1934 Soviets back a new communist Chinese government centered in Peking 

July 8th 1934 Chinese forces storm shanghai 

August 5th 1934 British retreat to treaty ports and india

September 16th 1934 German treaty ports are sieged by chinese communist troops 

December 7th 1934 Germans break the sieges and sign a treaty ending the Chinese conflict with germans for six months 

February 16th 1935 Communist china forms in the north of china allied with the soviets 

March 2nd 1935 France and the Netherlands divide Belgium as Germany and the british are busy in china  

March 6th 1935 Germany and Britain place minor sanctions on France and netherlands 

July 4th 1935 Kaiser Wilhelm is rushed to the hospital after a stroke 

November 3rd 1935 Kaiser Wilhelm dies at home at the age of 76 

November 4th 1935  a state of mourning is issued 

November 7th 1935 Kaiser Wilhelm III is crowned in Berlin 

December 11th 1935 Germany introduces a joint currency with Hungary,Poland and the Baltics 

December 25th 1935 Greece and Bulgaria join the german customs union 

March 2nd 1936 Netherlands join the german customs union 

June 11th 1936 minor uprising in Italian Ethiopia 

July 23rd 1936 Uprising put down by the Italian army 

November 6th 1936 Roumanian socialist party coups government 

January 5th 1937 Roumania enters Soviet-Franco Sphere over Transylvanian claims 

March 6th 1938 Illyrian Socialist coup and entering Russian sphere over slavic nationalism 

May 17th 1938 Italy and Britain sign a trade deal over the red sea 

December 8th 1938 Princess Samantha of Austria Marries into the Italian Royal family in an unconventional way 

December 16th 1938 Italy signs a treaty of friendship with Germany and signs a defensive alliance with plans to join the German customs union at some point 

April 6th 1939 France annexes monaco with italian protests 

August 2nd 1939 A Bohemian Corporal makes local news after getting lost in the Alps   

September 1st 1939 a german car manufacturer Porsche advertises a new car that can go from berlin to warsaw in just one tank 

October 4rd 1939 soviets grant ukraine limited autonomy after riots 

May 16th 1940 The BBC announces there is no news 

June 18th 1940 Trotsky slips on a banana peel in Mexico city and dies 

July 22nd 1941 France begins construction a defensive line in the ardennes 

October 3rd 1941 Germany signs several treaties to curb soviet and french ambitions with Poland, Hungary, Italy and the Dutch 

June 14th 1942 a hot dog eating contest in Boston turns deadly

November 8th 1942 The British and Germans sign a trade deal 

January 18th 1943 Artichoke season is cut short in Italy due to a crop failure in Lazio

Prelude to War 

March 16th 1943 Soviets and Ottomans Partition Armenia 

March 17th 1943 Greeks and Bulgarians Protest to germany and britain but no direct action is taken 

April 2nd 1943 Armenian governments flees to greece

April 17th 1943 Soviet and Ottoman troops meet in the center of Armenia and establish borders and repression of local riots 

May 1st 1943 Greece and Bulgaria Secretly meet to discuss territorial ambitions 

May 30th 1943 Bulgaria and Greece form an alliance with German approval and coastal lands given to Greece to connect it to Constantinople and in return greece cedes all claims on bulgarian ambitions 

June 6th 1943 Ottoman sponsored riots form in Smyrna and they demand the territory or threaten war 

June 11th 1943 the beginning of the first world war

Fun Color Guide!

Red Comintern

Blue Central Powers

White Neutral

Ottoman Crisis and Rising tensions 

June 7th 1927 Ottoman collapse starts after the death of the sultan 

June 8th 1927 Greek revolts start in Anatolia and the black sea

June 11th 1927 Greek revolts in Constantinople break out 

June 22nd Riots end in Constantinople as order is brought back but the outskirts and Greeks town surrounding the capital still rebel

June 26th 1927 Armenian massive revolt 

July 2nd 1927 Armenians declare independence backed by the soviets 

July 7th 1927 Arab revolts in Hejaz start backed the British and Italians 

July 22nd 1927 Hejaz declares the ottomans illegitimate 

July 30th 1927 massive revolts in Jerusalem 

August 8th 1927 uprising in Trebizond

August 17th 1927 revolt in Aleppo starts 

August 30th 1927 revolt in Aleppo results in a breakaway Arab rebellion

September 3rd 1927 Hejaz gets a guarantee of independence for a land exchange and merchant passage and no tolls

September 5th 1927 Massive Jewish revolt in Jaffa

September 6th 1927 Jewish revolt in Jerusalem and Hebron 

September 9th 1927 British sends volunteers to Hejaz and Palestine 

September 22nd 1927 Palestine declares independence and attempts to seek a deal with the British 

October 6th 1927 British claim Palestine as a protectorate

October 7th 1927 British enter the conflict although take a strictly defensive stance to avoid other powers intervention 

October 22nd 1927 Ottomans cannot agree on a new Sultan and political infighting tears apart the loyalists 

October 31st 1927 Bulgaria declares neutrality 

November 2nd 1927 British troops land in Acre and Jaffa

November 5th 1927 Ottomans and British navies clash in the Aegean sea

November 11th 1927 Armenian front breaks open leading to heavy ottoman losses 

November 23rd 1927 Ottoman forces slows Armenian offensive  

December 1st 1927 the Caucasus front stalemates in the winter 

January 7th 1928 Arabs launch a massive attack on southern turkey targeting Kurd's and Turkish Civilians near lake Van 

January 18th 1928 Ottomans push back the Arabs from lake Van and stabilize the line and start to get Kurdish recruitment in droves to avenge their families 

January 26th 1928 Greece declares war on the ottomans after revolts in Anatolia target Greeks

January 31st 1928 Ottomans launch a naval invasion off the coast of the Peloponnese islands into Attica and Salonica

February 16th 1928 Ottoman Invasions of Athens and Salonica start 

February 18th 1928 Ottomans land in Athens and engage in a fierce battle

February 22nd 1928 Ottomans land in Salonica and take it despite heavy resistance 

March 11th 1928 Ottomans fail to take Athens and retreat to Patras and are harassed on all sides 

March 16th 1928 Arabs rebels push back into Anatolia and face a stalemate after taking a bunch of land   

March 29th 1928 Ottomans take Salonica back from a rebel uprising but are heavily damaged 

April 1st 1928 Ottomans encircle Greek defenders near Salonica 

April 16th 1928 battle of bursa begins 

May 6th 1928 Ottomans are pushed out of bursa and much of western Anatolia is under the Greeks and rebels control 

May 12th 1928 Greeks retake much of southwestern Anatolia and push the ottomans into a near rout

May 28th 1928 Ottomans retake Aleppo and Antioch and push into the Syrian desert 

June 1st 1928 Erzurum falls to the Armenians

June 28th 1928 Armenia Signs a treaty with the ottomans ending the war and recognizing Armenian independence

July 2nd 1928 Greeks push ottomans out of Attica and 600,000 ottoman troops are surrounded 

July 16th 1928  the ottomans surrender in southern Greece

July 25th 1928 ottomans retreat from Greece to fight in the Arab campaign 

August 8th 1928 Greek offensive continues encircling the ottoman defenders in western Anatolia 

August 17th 1928 Greek control over Aegean sea established 

August 30th 1928 Greeks surround Constantinople and begin the siege 

September 9th 1928 ottomans push Arabs out of Anatolia 

September 22nd 1928 Ottomans push into the northern Levant and set up defenses around Aleppo

October 19th 1928 British pull out but expand the Egyptian colony 

December 8th 1928 Greek siege fails and return to Smyrna 

January 31st 1929 Ottomans and British sign a peace treaty expanding British Kuwait and Egypt but ending the war and recognizing Ottoman claims on the Levant and Arabia 

February 6th 1929 second siege of Constantinople starts up 

May 8th 1929 Greeks take Constantinople and set up defensive lines against

May 22nd 1929 peace talks start in Constantinople

June 5th 1929 The Treaty Of Constantinople is signed by Britain, The Ottomans, The Greeks, Hejaz and Armenia recognizing the new territorial realities

After the war the divisions of territory and the lingering resentment between the new countries surely wouldn't cause a major conflict, would it?

First Map The Treaty of Constantinople's Borders

Second Map May 1928

Third Map September 1928

Fourth Map March 1929

The date is June 7th 1927 , the Ottoman Empire is in total collapse as the Sultan Mehmed VI Vahideddin has died and the throne remains empty, in the coming years the Ottomans will face many trials and massive revolts from all sides. Will they survive?

The map's date is January 26th 1928 on The Eve of the Greek Uprising.

July Crisis and the Collapse of the Hapsburgs 

June 28th 1914 The July Crisis 

August 22nd 1914 Austria sends ultimatum 

August 25th 1914 German support withdrawn 

August 27th 1914 Russo-Austrian War 

August 30th 1914 Hungarian Succession and frontlines move in on austria proper 

September 7th 1914 Austrian troops in Lemberg surrender  

September 17th 1914 Siege Of Wien

September 22nd 1914 German Intervention 

September 31st 1914 Britain and Germany offer mediation 

October 31st 1914 Treaty of Frankfurt 

Dissolution of the Hapsburg’s empire, Hungarian independence, creation of a Slavic state in Illyria and the absorption of Austria and Bohemia into the German empire, a creation of a polish state to act as a buffer between russia and germany. 

Russian Civil War and Rise of the Soviets 

January 17th 1919 The January Crisis, Russian reforms are never implemented and an outraged public demand change and Nicolas steps down and is given refuge in London temporarily. 

January 30th 1919 Beginning of The Russian Civil War and breakaway states form

February 25th 1919 Finnish Independence  

March 6th 1919 Ukrainian Independence 

March 8th 1919 Belorussian Independence 

March 25th 1919 Azerbaijan Independence 

April 2nd 1919 Baltic Independence movements secretly supported by germany  

April 6th 1919 Massive Famine in Russia Exacerbates the war 

April 11th 1919 Soviet army offensive gears up

May 6th 1919 Battle of Petrograd starts 

May 11th 1919 Soviets win at Petrograd

May 18th 1919 Battle Of Moscow starts 

June 4th 1919 white russians gain a pyrrhic victory at Moscow holding it but a great cost 

June 19th 1919 Soviet offensive to the south starts up

June 27th 1919 Second battle of Moscow starts up 

July 18th 1919 Second battle of moscow ends in a soviet victory, whites retreat to Tsaritsyn 

August 22nd 1919 Battle of Tsaritsyn starts 

October 17th 1919 Battle of Tsaritsyn ends with a white victory and a stop to the soviet offensive

December 24th 1919  several clashes along the outskirts of Tsaritsyn result in the second battle of Tsaritsyn 

January 11th 1920 the second battle of Tsaritsyn results in another white victory and devastation on both sides ending the offensive in the harsh winter 

April 7th 1920 Soviet offensive restarts hell bent on taking Tsaritsyn 

May 26th 1920 Third battle of Tsaritsyn begins 

July 28th 1920 Third battle of Tsaritsyn ends with a white victory but at a massive cost and a loss of popularity 

August 30th 1920 Soviet offensive goes east uncontested 

December 8th 1920 Soviets reach the Urals and receive popular support 

January 6th 1921 White offensive picks up in the winter 

February 19th 1921 Whites reach the tula factories 

March 4th 1921 Whites reach the gates of moscow 

March 26th 1921 Third battle of Moscow starts 

May 2nd 1921 third battle of Moscow ends with a white victory and the retaking of the kremlin 

October 26th 1921 Soviet counter attack and the siege of Moscow 

March 1st 1922 siege of Moscow and the fourth battle of Moscow ends in a crushing defeat for the whites and a hasty retreat south 

March 16th 1922 Bulgaria and Hungary offer land and citizenship to retreating whites 

April 8th 1922 Whites start defecting in masse after the guarantees 

April 16th 1922 Finland and Ukraine offer similar deals to whites trapped on the front

May 11th 1922 Soviets push to the gates of Tsaritsyn 

May 15th 1922 soviets siege Tsaritsyn after mass defections 

June 6th 1922 Soviets take Tsaritsyn after a hard campaign 

July 8th 1922 Soviets push to Vladivostok and wrestle control from local warlords after months of campaigns  

September 30th 1922 last of the white forces defect to neighboring countries and the soviets take full control of western russia but guerilla fights continue 

December 1st 1922 soviet Campaign against finland starts 

December 22nd 1922 white uprisings start in petrograd after soviet troop harassment and disastrous campaign in finland 

January 8th 1923 Soviets lose the battle of Helsinki and are pushed out of Finland and sign a humiliating peace treaty to deal with Ukraine and Belarus 

March 3rd 1923 soviets starts offensive in ukraine and belarus 

March 8th 1923 battle of Kyiv starts 

March 30th 1923 Soviets win against the ukrainians and push past the Dnieper closing in on the polish border 

April 9th 1923 Soviets start belorussian offensive 

April 25th 1923 Soviets siege Minsk 

June 16th 1923 Soviets take Minsk after two months of firefights, whites flee to Poland after the fight 

October 16th 1923  Ukraine Surrenders and rejoins the Soviets 

October 22nd 1923 Belarus Joins the Soviet Union 

December 17th 1923 Azerbaijani campaign starts 

January 22nd 1924 Soviets retake Azerbaijan and declare the USSR 

March 11th 1924 Soviets sign treaty with Germany recognizing the Baltics as independent but allow sea access for merchants 

Why is he so stretchy?

Grana arso orichette

Garlic

Broccoli rabe

White wine

Olive oil

Lemon

Pecarino Romano

Pasta water

Thought I'd give a southern Italian dish a chance for the spotlight tonight

Recently got a new .38mm to try and I wrote down some stuff to test out the new pen, as usual, Pelikan 4001 Königsblau royal blue

Guanciale, crushed san marzanos, Pecorino Romano, Bucatini, pasta water and red pepper

No onions this time

Pound of linguine, 6 garlic cloves, red pepper, bit of onion and parsley and olive oil