Back with another episode of The Latest. 

 

Prompt the 1st 1783 - Highlander and Ukraine 

I flipped back and forth on "Ukraine" and "Crimea" in the episode: 1783 was annexing Crimea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_the_Crimean_Khanate_by_the_Russian_Empire

 

Prompt the 2nd - Can a Gen xer have an opinion on Olivia Rodrigo

On Olivia Rodrigo - bad idea right? Is 3’04” - a properly short radio single

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Idea_Right%3F

From the album Guts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guts_(Olivia_Rodrigo_album)

Vampire, the first single from the album - similar in type, very different in style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_(Olivia_Rodrigo_song)

"This is supposed to be gen z’s hayley williams/avril lavigne, there’s truly no hope"

https://twitter.com/maryarchived/status/1700621540998488219

"Anyone over the age of 20 doesn’t get to give their opinion on Olivia Rodrigo"

https://x.com/honestpapito/status/1701261920022512014?s=20

 A search of "olivia rodrigo over 20"

https://twitter.com/search?q=olivia%20rodrigo%20over%2020&src=typed_query

I mentioned "late '80s glam" by which I really meant "late '80s glam metal" which maybe is better known as "hair metal" because how they wore their hair was seen as a big part of it. Guns n' Roses, that is, and often also represented by Poison, Cinderella, Warrant, Skid Row. (I avoid including Motley Crue because they were one of the first ones who took on such a look, when they started, while a lot of the others were following a style.)

Prompt the Third: October the 7th.

To start, here's what 40 years ago looked like

A civilian 747 shot down by air defense forces of the USSR after flying over restricted space, killing all 269 aboard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007

Military exercises two months later that may have brought the US and USSR very close to nuclear war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83

The Day After, a depiction of what such a nuclear war might have looked like, which ran a few weeks later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After

WarGames, released in June 1983

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames

Red Dawn, released about a year later, in 1984

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dawn

 

Tracing back through the Ottoman Empire is going to be a bit of a maze but here's some of my links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire

Treaty ending of the Greek War of Independence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Constantinople_(1832)

Austro-Russian–Turkish War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanzimat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Ottomans

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Constitutional_Era

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Turks