History Basket
Articles & essays by many contributors
** * Audio
Histories: Music, Recording, and Radio * **
(Update 10 February 2015)
The Rain
Island Military Syndicates
Update 3 March 2011
The
Gunboat
Wars
& the 'Pirate Raids' of 1912
Reports, Commentary & Stories by various Authors,
including raid tales by Walt Reimer & a trial transcript from Eric
Costello
Upload 11 March 2009
"The Battle of Blefuscu Atoll"
A Busy Half-Century
BY
WALTER D. REIMER
A history of
the Rain Coast told in story
Part
One:
Proclamation: Upload 8 June 2008
Part Two: Recognition: Upload 20 June 2008
Part Three: Constitution: Upload 27 June 2008
Part Four: War (and Peace): Upload 7 July 2008
Part Five: Gunboats: Upload 22 July 2008
Part Six: Contracts: Upload 24 August 2008
Part Seven: Changes: Upload 11 October 2008
The alternate world of the
Spontoon Island
Archipelago
(several versions by several amateur geographers)
beginning with a couple
of essays by Ken Pick
on Geopolitics and Naval Affairs
Articles from The International
Hydrographic
Magazine
collected by Walter Reimer
"Islands of the Nimitz
Sea: History and Mystery"
"Vanirge, Where One
Lands In Hot Water"
A
timeline history
of the settlement
of the Spontoon Island Archipelago
Spontoon
Island
'Custom': Constructed myth and history
(Airplane racing and other contests)
Spontoon Island Racing Association (SIRA)
May Day celebrations on Spontoon Island
essay by Ken Fletcher, and an archive of stories and art
Why Seaplanes?
Comments on 1930s air transport
by Ken Fletcher
An
anthropomorphological
report
by
Tim Susman & Derrick
Dasenbrock:
Keyho-Ra-Ra
(the legend of the 'Fire
Crystal')
The ISLAND
BIRDWATCHER newspaper
(Seaplanes, airplanes and home island history)
The DAILY
'ELELE newspaper
a clipping scrapbook of events on the Spontoons
(with various contributors of art & articles)
The SPONTOON
MIRROR newspaper
a tabloid newspaper published on Casino Island
An update with a facsimile tabloid page - 28 January 2008
Update with "Speed Week" Supplement cover - 16 July 2008
Policing Spontoon Island:
The
Constabulary Service
* Movies on Spontoon Island *
(Opens to a separate expanded webpage)
** 1930 #3 (Wednesday meets the Lizards) by Sublimate **
mature art: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/sublimate/
Short background essay in Movie History
A
Rain
Island movie serial:
The
Adventures of
Rocket Rat
Screenplay
by
Walter D. Reimer
Series
1:
“THE MINES OF THE MOON”
Chapter
1:
“A CRY FOR HELP”
Uploaded 6
June 2009
Chapter 2: “MOON OF MYSTERY”
Uploaded
22 July 2009
Chapter 5:
“CAVERN OF DOOM”
Uploaded
30 April 2010
(concluding this serial's scripts)
"Wednesday & Kit" - 1930s
toons
Upload 3
December
2008
Update 14 June 2011: more art & text
by "Sublimate"
"Cels from
Animation"
Upload 1 February 2008
Update 18 April 2013
"Baybee, the Blue Fox"
(mature) art added by O. T. Grey
& essay by 'A. Kinoyev'
Universal Spontoon Picture Corporation
Spontoonie Golden Age Cinema
a short history by Antonia T. Tiger
"Hula from Mars!" movie poster by Antonia T. Tiger
antonia@zhochaka.org.uk
from a late 30s movie serial produced on Spontoon Island
(read the article: Universal Spontoon Picture Corporation)
"The Trojan Horse"
A short anti-Rain Island film, produced in the USA in 1935.
Screenplay transcribed by Walter D. Reimer
Uploaded 29 May 2009
More Spontoon Island History:
Religious
Missionaries
in the Spontoon Archipelago
The Tale of Bertrille's Mission
(mature) with additional art & background by Dennis Clarke
(Updated and expanded 18 April 2013)
The
Great Pandemic
An alternative History allowing for a (reduced) Human population
The Brotherhood of the Boneless
Pumpkin Sacrifices!
(Update 31 October 2012)