Update: I think I have them figured out, I put Berlin/Danzig back together, took out Standefer and realized that there were two locations listed on the copyright notice page. That makes 19 total. And after I updated this post, I remembered that geekyzen had found some additional info on Calais for me. That's been added too.
I know there had been some discussion as the whether the vintages in Vevoda's relate the Eotvos Wheel as a cipher. Maybe they are, but it just occurred to me that all the wines of Vevoda's wine that we know start with word noir, or the french word for black, and there have been 19 of them possibly identified on the
SFiles22 blog. The first 11 come direct from Vevoda's cellar, but on page 262, Eric notes that the five cities and dates listed are similar to the markings on the barrels and Eric makes a note about "Standefer 2010" as a joke in relation to the other vintages. Could these be related to Straka's novel
The Black Nineteen in some way as also noted by MJCarp at
SFiles22?
- Noir Calais 1912: Fictional riot that takes place in 1912 at Calais, France in SOT. Calais built the monument Le Pluviose in 1912 to commemorate the death of 27 when the steamer Pas de Calaise accidentally cause the submarine, Pluviose, to sink in May 1910, and the monument was not dedicated until 1913. Per gz: Fourteen people were killed in a coal
mine
explosion at the Clarence Coal Company at Pas de Calais,
France.
- Noir Ypres 1915: Ypres, Belgium. Second battle of Ypres during World War I, notable because the it was the first time that the Germans used poison gas on a mass scale.
- Noir NV: Still not sure on this one, as noted in the comments on the SFiles22, state codes weren't in use yet, so I haven't tracked this one down yet. (edited to note: it was discussed in the comments that the NV might be an abbreviation to denote current events. I'm not sure and would like to research some more before I come to a conclusion.)
- Black Taranaki 1863: The Second Taranaki War was a conflict between the Maori and New Zealand government.
- Noir Odessa 1871: The Odessa pogrom, one in a series of violence targeting the Jews in Odessa, a city in Ukraine.
- Noir Dahomey 1840: Dahomey was an African country ruled by a monarchy in what is now Benin. Dahomey was involved in the profitable slave trade. In 1840, Dahomey attempted to take over Yoruba territory.
- Noir Galway 1831: This one is interesting doesn't appear to reference an act of violence. The Wardenship of Galway was dissolved by the Church of Ireland in 1831. Edmund Ffrench was the last warden. Galway may also reference the tribes of Galway, a group of a powerful families that ran Galway until the late 19th century. A magistrate does note that something was happening in Galway in 1831, but the details were not given in The Edinburgh Review.
- Noir Bijapur 1791: Doji Bara famine in South Asia. An El Nino event caused a drought in the area from 1791-1792. In one estimate, famine and disease may have contributed to the deaths of 11 million people.
- Noir Adana 1909: The Adana Massacre occurred in Adana Province of the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population there.
- Noir Rio Negro 1879: Basically a state-sponsored land grab from the indigenous populations, in 1878, a massive campaign started to clear the land between the Negro River and the Alsina Trench by armed forces.
- Noir Barkol 1756: Refers to the Qing Dynasty's annexation of the area formerly controlled by the Zunghar Khanate. In 1756, the Chinese emperor ordered the death of all men in Barkol or Suzhou. The murdered men's wives and children were given to soldiers in the emperor's army.
- Tangier (Jun) 1905: The First Moroccan Crisis refers to Germany's support of Morocco as an independent state, but the support damaged Germany's relations with France and the U.S. The crisis reached a peak in June 1905, and is considered a contributing factor to WWI.
- B___ (Oct) 1906: Unable to locate, still researching.
- Los Angeles (Dec) 1910: Llewellyn Iron Works bombing was preceded by a bombing of the Los Angeles Times in October and resulted in the arrest and conviction of labor leaders.
- Tripoli (Sep) 1911: The Italo-Turkish war was Italy's attempt to assert it rights over parts of what is now Libya. It marked the use of the first aerial bomb dropped from an airplane.
- Salonika (Thessaloniki) (Mar) 1912: Geekyzen and Jillp have brought it to me that Salonika is an alternate name for Thessaloniki. And in 1912 Greece sunk an Ottoman ship, the Feth-i_Bülend in the harbor of Thessaloniki.
- Berlin/Danzig 1908: The line from Berlin to Danzig(Gdansk) is a rough border for the Polish corridor. The German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia confiscated land and evicted the ethnic Polish population (although this was reversed in 1925).
- New York 1949: (from the SOT copyright notice) Airplane crash on October 28th in the Azores. The plane was headed for New York. Also, the Peekskill riots happened in 1949.
- Toronto 1949: (from the SOT copyright notice) The SS Noronic disaster, a fire started in a linen closet and was fueled by the lemon scented furniture polish which led to several fatalities.
(edit: minor grammar/spelling fix)
(1/27/2014 added additional places and dates)
