Announcing Rheinsberg: Frederick the Great discussion post 10

[cahn]

So for anyone who is reading this and would like to learn more about Frederick the Great and his contemporaries, but who doesn't want to wade through 500k (600k?) words worth of comments and an increasingly sprawling comment section:

We now have a community, rheinsberg, that has quite a lot of the interesting historical content (and more coming regularly), organized nicely with lots of lovely tags so if there's any subject you are interested in it is easy to find :D

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Re: But what is really going on here?: The Austrian Dossier (Seckendorff III)

[cahn]

I already opined on Fritz and EC, did they do it or not? (I still come down on the side of "probably twice, and then he gave up forever," but it does seem like the kind of thing where he might also be utterly making up stuff) but a couple of things I missed:

The Devil makes me read the Roman History of Des Echarts and points out the character of Junior, who is the same as that of Emperor Hadrian.

HAHAHAHA

Seckendorff the nephew is asked to give his assessment on the topic: Fritz: Hot or not? Well, he also has to say whether or not he thinks FW is still trustworthy, but we have our priorities here, don't we?

lol forever, I don't get tired of how "Hot or not?" is what all correspondents have to report on (and I know it's because they didn't have cameras, but still)