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rods have been symbols of power for some time, eg (sorry no time to find original: in higher detail probably a mace) https://images.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593599730

renaissance: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2H4WND3/moscow-russia-02nd-mar-201... (I want to show you the baton here, but if you find other views of this statue you'll find Gattamelata agreed with Crazy Horse on ponytails)

napoleonic: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Le_maréc...

in our time: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Ch...

and of course the riding crop is very reminiscent of a baton: https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediu...

EDIT: https://people.com/thmb/ZJaQKjc4HVLggDfDH-DeTRMtz50=/4000x0/... (here Charles can also channel his inner Hector, via his pseudo-greaves)

other examples:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/56581/56581-h/images/illus1....

https://people.com/thmb/RwFHUIN5BrzehzaJ9Ib41nhw8eE=/4000x0/... (you can tell it's a popular rag because they really could've chosen a more flattering moment, ie a few seconds before or after, to publish)

EDIT: can't resist adding this pair; mirrored at birth?

https://salsaworldtraveler.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ds...

https://media.gettyimages.com/id/1257966015/photo/windsor-un...

Lagniappe: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20071108.gif

Forgot the archetype: https://fastdecals.com/shop/images/detailed/30/cartman-respe...

https://archive.is/Ubbfx

i recall a soviet movie whose title was something like “King and Cartman” but i can somehow neither find it nor recall the romantic era poem that it was based on

https://archive.is/QrowT

Once upon a time in Odessa, Schiller or Hoelderlin might have been the rage.. ?

(You might have missed that Sir William above hacked (together) the gentlemen’s dues that gate-kept riffraff)

Pace Seibel, one of my conspiracy theories is that the "Smuglyanka Moldavanka" was not moldavian, but from the Moldavanka neighbourhood of Odesa (as he is now).

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSc3fVBjYks

had missed it, thx.

Sir William, had he been in Uncle Sam's service, would've been a "mustang": the DoD equivalent of a brumby (and apparently uncommon —to the point of uniqueness?— in His Majesty's service).

Unlike mustangs, he never had any command.

Whether this was general policy[0] or specifically due to his Achilles' Heel[1] (the dutch say "now the ape['s arm] comes out of the cuffs") is difficult to discern from a single article, however.

Lagniappe: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_eastwest.htm

> And thou must make a trooper tough and hack thy way to power / Belike they will raise thee to Ressaldar when I am hanged in Peshawur!

[0] compare COL Benjamin Davis'[2] command of the 51 FIW (as it was then) in 1950.

[1] I'd thought the unorthodox baton grasp was what you'd meant to convey with that pic...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_O._Davis_Jr.#Creator_...

[1] Certainly.. this part of the photoop was deeply unappealing to the recovering Victorians..? did you notice he was more of a cunning linguist, having had to fall back on his translation skills more than once in his career? (having first signed on as a cavalryman)

The lancers took a cavalier view of his age! Yes, he rivals Kipling's[0] Kim[1] for south asian languages ... and exceeded him in literacy.

[0] Did Kipling delve into early pair programming advice?

> > I'd fly him with a make-hawk. He's in yarak

[1] any link to EES' Kimball Kinnison?

just got through the credits for BiK; Urgant's father plays in it — small world.

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njHNHbK9jDI&t=75s

EDIT: well, the cops are obviously not Starovery; I was a little disappointed that Ivan Grozny (when with Shurik) was not obviously one.

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