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"Toy Soldiers" is a song by American singer-songwriter #Martika, appearing on her self-titled debut album (1988) and released in the United States as the second single from the album on April 26, 1989. It was her only song to top the charts in the United States, reaching the number-one on #Billboard #Hot100 for two weeks in mid-1989. An edited version of the song is included in the imported version of the album #ToySoldiers: The Best of Martika.
youtube.com/watch?v=LvdLovAaYzM

YouTubeMartika - Toy SoldiersBy MartikaVEVO
50+ Music

"Toy Soldiers" is a song by American singer-songwriter #Martika, appearing on her self-titled debut album (1988) and released in the United States as the second single from the album on April 26, 1989. It was her only song to top the charts in the United States, reaching the number-one on #Billboard #Hot100 for two weeks in mid-1989. An edited version of the song is included in the imported version of the album #ToySoldiers: The Best of Martika.
youtube.com/watch?v=X4i0XkKFTs8

YouTubeMartika - Toy Soldiers - Live - Arsenio Hall Show - 9/29/89By TheKamherst
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1979 Guard of Honor

The image depicts a group of toy soldiers dressed as guards, standing on what appears to be a wooden surface.
They are in front of an assortment of old uniforms and cannons, suggesting they might represent historical or ceremonial figures.
Tags: Toy Soldiers, Guardsmen, Historical Uniforms, Artistic Composition

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#photography#illustration#madman
The Vinyl Ape 🦍

MARTIKA
Toy Soldiers
1988 U.S. 7” single

Another great #80s single that I remember vividly as a kid. Both of my older sisters loved this song, and they played it as nauseum.

About her good friend’s cocaine addiction, it’s a song that’s been covered a ton of times by a lot of different artists in a lot of different styles. However, NONE of them capture the magic of Martika’s original.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #80s #80smusic #1980s #ToySoldiers #martika #80spop

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Did you know that wargaming, and by extension the tabletop roleplaying hobby, can claim descendence from a H.G. Wells book?

In 1913 already well-known novelist H.G. Wells published Little Wars: a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys’ games and books which provided a simple system for wargaming with miniatures.

Now, wargaming was older of course (I mean, there was chess after all, and Kriegsspiel was created as a training tool for the Prussian army in the 18th ct., and he does acknowledge a relation), but I think this might have been the first (published) ruleset to involve using toy soldiers and terrain built from toys.

According to the book the idea for the game came to notable pacifist Wells during a visit by his friend Jerome K. Jerome, where they began shooting toy soldiers with a toy cannon after dinner, which spiraled into a mess on the floor as more and more toys and written rules were added over time.

He even started with further extensions, and with thoughts how to integrate this whole system into the larger context of Kriegsspiel and make this into a strategic campaign. That all sounds very familiar.

What takes it from just interesting into adorkable territory though are the pictures. Pictures of soldiers and terrain, yes, but also of Wells and his friends playing the game properly dressed in some casual suit and tie.

The book often is reprinted alongside the previous book Floor Games, in which he describes games to be played by kids on the floor that do not involve war. Notably he described himself and his friends playing the war game, obviously trying to make a difference between children’s games and games for adults here. (although his subtitle indicates kids could be interested in it as well)

Where to get it

There’s reprints that can be found easily enough on various internet bookshops. But as these books are very much in the public domain right now the texts can be found on Project Gutenberg, archive.org, WikiSource, even as a free audiobook version on LibriVox

Little Wars on Project Gutenberg, Archive.org, WikiSource, Librivox (audio)
Floor Games on Project Gutenberg, Archive.org, WikiSource, Librivox (audio)

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https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2023/10/26/h-g-wells-and-the-beginning-of-miniature-wargaming/

#h#Miniatures#scienceFiction
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Assoc for Scottish Literature

“the war game was constantly improved and elaborated, until from a few hours ‘war’ took weeks to play, and the critical operations in the attic monopolized half our thoughts.”

—from “Stevenson at Play”, by Lloyd Osbourne. Scribner’s Magazine, December 1898

#RobertLouisStevenson & #wargames #wargaming

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #games #boardgames #toysoldiers

Read the article online here:
www-personal.umich.edu/~beatti

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