On this day in 1968, the May 68 Rebellion, the largest general strike in French history, began when school officials shut down the University of Paris after months of student protests, escalating to nationwide unrest.
In mid-March, leftist students had occupied an administration building there, although they left peacefully after their demands were published. On May 6th, more than 20,000 students, teachers, and supporters engaged in a protest march. The march was attacked by police and devolved into a riot.
The state repression of protesters caused two major left union federations, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) and the Force Ouvrière (CGT-FO), to call a one-day general strike on May 13th. More than one million people demonstrated that day.
By the middle of May, demonstrations had extended to factories, though their demands were different from the students'. Across France, students occupied university structures and up to one-third of the country's workforce was on strike.
The protests were so widespread and energetic that many political leaders feared civil war or revolution. President Charles de Gaulle secretly fled France to Germany at one point, and the national government at times ceased to function.
Revolution was averted when de Gaulle dissolved the National Assembly and scheduled an election that the left dissidents agreed to participate in. Revolutionary fervor subsided and the government banned a number of leftist organizations in the following months.
In the election, de Gaulle's party won the greatest victory in French parliamentary history, taking 353 of 486 seats versus the Communists' 34 and the Socialists' 57.
How Beautiful It Was - Jacobin https://jacobin.com/2018/05/how-beautiful-it-was/
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Tolkein really named his scheming vizier character Grima Wormtongue
He gets the moniker 'Wormtongue' after he's become the scheming vizier
Me now:
still better than anything JK Rowling lazily cranked out
Okay, so...the language of Rohan is literally Anglo Saxxon English and there is this whole meta narrative with the Hobbit and LOTR that Tolkien was translating a text passed down over lost generations. So Wormtong derived from Wyrm Tong, which means Dragon Sword. I'm sure he knew how it would come across to the reader but he did know what he was doing when it came to names and languages, if tou find yourself questioning Tolkien's use of language the first step should be looking up why you're wrong about it. If he hadnt written a lick of fiction he would still be remembered for his massive academic contributions. When a publisher tried to correct him by citing the Oxford English Dictionary he asked them to look at the list of contributors cause he wrote a decent amount of it. Ive seen this point made before in a 4chan greentext screenshot and ama huuuuge Tolkien nerd, to the point I have made academic contributions to the study of his work, really stupid ones regarding elven eyesight relative to the curvature of the earth and why it makes sense they can see beyond the curve of the earth cause they can sail a ship beyond the curve to get to Valinor and that the bombs used to breach Helm's Deep were probably reverse engineered from Gandalf fireworks that he brought to the Shire. So I've gone over it a few times. In matters of language it is a stone cold fact, not even a safe assumption, he knew more than you.