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12024-09-09T13:13:31-04:00Olive Colesfb4fbcee067a941cdd754bb445e31c29ce94b225Who's Who in the Infamous Watermelon RebellionKelly O'Neill123It's the interactive guide you've been waiting for!plain2024-09-20T08:33:04-04:00Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
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12024-09-13T12:49:39-04:00Olive Colesfb4fbcee067a941cdd754bb445e31c29ce94b225Five "Wait, What Did We Do?" Guilty Sailors8Overheard spreading word among sailors that Kherson was going to be looted. Worse for the drink. Arrested, interrogated, and confined to the shadows of history until now. Their names? Sebastian Gladyshev, Gavril’ Vasil’yev, Fedor Pivovarov, Osip Kuz’min, and Osip Maksimov.plain2024-09-19T14:31:44-04:00Image generated with DALLE-3 using prompt: Can you generate an image of six low ranking sailors in Kherson in late-18th century imperial Russia?Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12024-09-19T14:17:13-04:00Olive Colesfb4fbcee067a941cdd754bb445e31c29ce94b225Foreign "Just Pretend We Aren't French" Subjects6Thrown into the spotlight and under the bus by Pustoshkin's report. Everyone from Volkov to Catherine would agree that the least reputable of this disreputable group were the French and Jewish. The former had recently executed a monarch, after all, while the Jewish people who became Russian subjects under Catherine were defined as outsiders in every way imaginable.plain2024-09-19T15:02:37-04:00Image generated with DALLE-3 using prompt: can you generate an image of a group of late 18th century French spies in a sea port town in imperial Russia?Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12024-09-13T12:52:30-04:00Olive Colesfb4fbcee067a941cdd754bb445e31c29ce94b225Two "It's Me, hi, I'm the Problem" Sailors6Here they are, the unnamed sailors from Nikolaev (Mykolaiv) arrested for first bringing word of riots to celebrate the birth of Grand Duke Nikolai Pavlovich.plain2024-09-20T08:44:54-04:00Image generated with DALLE-3 using prompt: Can you please generate me an image of two lowly, young sailors you might find in 19th century imperial Russian Kherson?Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12024-09-19T13:50:32-04:00Olive Colesfb4fbcee067a941cdd754bb445e31c29ce94b225Five "Should've Been Quieter" Carpenters5They spent their days building ships for the Black Sea fleet and talking about looting watermelon sellers to celebrate the birth of the grand duke. When interrogated they passed blame for the rumors to sailors from Nikolaev.plain2024-09-19T14:59:25-04:00Image generated with DALLE-3 using prompt: Can you please generate me an image of 5 carpenters at work in Kherson in a 19th century Russian imperial shipyard?Kelly O'Neilldc20b45f1d74122ba0d654d19961d826c5a557f5
12024-09-19T15:33:07-04:00Olive Colesfb4fbcee067a941cdd754bb445e31c29ce94b225The Local "We Don't Just Sell Watermelons" Women2plain2024-09-19T15:33:43-04:00Image generated with DALLE-3 using prompt: Can you generate me an image of a group of women working hard selling watermelons and gossiping about the fact that there would soon be an “Uraaa!” and a crushing of melons and watermelons in late 18th century Kherson in imperial Russia?Olive Colesfb4fbcee067a941cdd754bb445e31c29ce94b225
