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schumi-nadal · 28 days

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Today marks the 112th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.

Some of you know that I’m passionate about the RMS Titanic’s history but did you know that I really got into tennis because of one her passengers?

His name was Richard “Dick” Norris Williams, he was a tennis player and here his story:

Richard was born on January 29, 1891, in Geneva, Switzerland in a wealthy family from Philadelphia. He started playing tennis at a young age, and at only 12, he was Swiss junior champion. In 1911, at the age of 20, he won the Swiss Championship.

In 1912, he entered Harvard University as he wanted to continue playing tennis at a higher level. His life took a drastical turn when his father and him departed from Europe on the RMS TItanic. When the ship strucked an iceberg during her maiden voyage, Richard and his father escaped the sinking ship by jumping in the icy water of the Atlantic Ocean. Unfortunately, his father died that night - it is said that he was crushed by a funnel when it fell - but Richard survived by swimming to a partially submerged lifeboat, where he spent several hours knee-deep in the cold water. The passengers of the boat were later saved and brought on the RMS Carpathia. His legs suffered such severe frostbite during the ordeal that the doctor on the Carpathia considered amputation but Richard refused.

This choice was definitely the good one because after months of persistence and determination, he started playing tennis again and later that year, he won his first US Tennis Championship (now known as US Open) in mixed doubles, but also the US Men's Clay Court Championship (which takes place in Houston now). It was his first success but not the last ones. Between 1912 and 1914, he was ranked in the world's top 10 (even became top 2) and reached the US Tennis Championship final twice times in singles, managing to win one of them. After winning the US Tennis Championship a third time, his tennis career was stopped because of WWI. As a decorated soldier, he started playing tennis again in 1920 but as a doubles player. From there to 1927, he reached 7 more major finals, winning three of them, including Wimbledon and the US Tennis Championship twice. In the 1924 Olympics in Paris, he even won the golden medal in mixed doubles with a sprained ankle! He also was part of the US team at the David Cup during that time, was also very successful in there and even became captain. Finally, he retired at the age of 44, in 1935.

After a long career, he died on June 2, 1968, aged 77 from emphysema.

His story really touched me when I first read about him. I was maybe 12 or 13 years old, obsessed with the ship liner's history, I used to watch some Roland Garros matchs on TV at that time and I like to think that he's the one who really got me into that sport: i watched more matchs when I could, read about the sport in general, etc. Also, he was a true fighter on and off the court, he never gave up even when things seem impossible!

Anyway, for those who read that, I hope this small history in the big History pleased you.

And thank you, Dick! 🤍

#i'll never forget that for sure #richard norris williams #tennis #rms titanic

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rainbowroadonsteroids · 11 months

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(Totally not me kicking myself in the fucking ass to post art on here ahaha 😀👍)

Given I'm still stuck in a TF2 phase (thanks @comet-wire /j+lh+nm) I've had to sit there and make like four separate merc OCs because they why the fuck not, and I'm gonna be posting them all soon enough. But for today, gonna post the afformentioned "ketchup and Vegemite" person, Ghost. (And also some miscellaneous stuff about him! 😀👍) Also I have not been drawing that much as of late so I need to sort of get used to drawing him lmao.

I drafted this long before the Ridley post so if some of the stuff above sounds odd that's why 🗿👍 Ghost was the second merc I made, and he's been changed a hair! Namely he was originally going to be a mechanic... but I decided fuck it; he gets to be a secondary bushman and he's a hunter now. So his official title is The Hunter. (Also, slight spoiler warning down below for the TF2 Comics!)

(Basics)

His full name is Luna Phengsavath, and Ghost is a nickname of his.

He's 5'11" (156cm) and 160lbs (72kg).

He's 25 years old in 1968, and 29 years old in 1972.

He has one of the fastest speeds outside of Scout, at 125%.

His health is 130/195. (Roughly.)

He is in the offensive class.

Similar the Sniper, Ghost is from Australia, having lived in the Outback as well. He implies even that he grew up near Sniper, living in a more gothic home decorated in a way to keep away the Mormons.

One of his item sets, Killer Kriss, is an homage to Ashrah from Mortal Kombat, as the item set has him wearing an outfit similar to Ashrah, but the outfit is in black rather than white.

Ghost has a healing item called "Surprise Sandvich"; it has the same properties as a Sandvich does, the major difference with this being the scorpion peppers that are within the Sandvich. Ghost can eat it, other mercs can too but it won't heal them as much, and it can actually cause them to take some damage from the burn. (Pyro survives this though.)

He is demisexual and transgender.

Two of his most prominent (or at least two of his most favorite weapons) are his Kriss and Kali Sticks.

His primary weapon is a set of Dual Pistols.

He's known for his gothic appearance, wearing corpse paint and plenty of black. (Oddly enough that doesn't affect him but he has to sleep with fans on him.)

His bite pattern features him having more out-turned canines, and has him missing his premolars.

He has glasses but is too stubborn to wear them like... 98% of the time. And he will never go near contacts.

(Not-so-Basics)

Ghost is a third-generation immigrant, with both sets of his grandparents having immigrated from Laos to Australia at some point. (I would say he's considered 2.5 gen, as Sa (his mum) was born in Laos; however, she was not raised there, and grew up in Australia. Loy (his dad) was born and raised in Australia, on the other hand.)

Ghost only knows certain phrases in Laotian, namely the things Sa would yell at him. ("Wash up for dinner", "clean your room", etc.)

He has autism, and as a result has texture and sensory issues. He shaves his hair down because he hates when he can't maintain it, he doesn't like certain food textures, he hates wet/repetitive noises, and he usually wears looser clothing as he doesn't like the feeling of the clothes hugging his skin.

He has issues with his mental health, and has in the past locked himself away in his room for months just due to how he was feeling. His parents always try to help him, and they at least try to get him to eat, not wanting to force him to do anything he isn't ready for yet. (He also has a fear of dentists due to his depression, as he hates being scolded by his dentist about not brushing.)

In the TF2 Comics, Ghost ends up having to deal with amputating his left hand, as well as a majority of his right leg. The hand comes from having to free himself to try and get out of the room he was locked in, and the leg... I'm still trying to figure the technicalities out with that. But, he doesn't try to push Medic to heal him solely because he knows how to manage himself for the time being, and he doesn't want to waste Medic's time when the others need healed. He later on is able to get prosthetics to use, as well as arm crutches.

He is perpetually scared of Saxton Hale.

He has been romantically interested in Sniper since around the time they were teens, and considers a sharktooth necklace (original I know) Sniper gave him to be a treasure.

He apparently did his own top surgery, and said it went smoothly. He also notes he's not into bottom surgery, and says so graciously that he's content with having a man cave.

(Miscellaneous/Random Notes)

Ghost has a brother who is 20 years older than he is, named Serina. He also has two cousins who are a bit older than he is, Celestia and Akuma.

He doesn't like sweets. A HUGE exception though is ice cream, specifically either sherbet or cotton candy ice cream.

He'd probably take the record as the most censored mercenary, as every line he'd have usually would have him cussing.

Despite not knowing Laotian, he does know German and Australian Sign Language/Auslan. He was taught Auslan as a toddler because he would go mute sometimes, and he would at least communicate that way.

A lot of his taunts are meant to insult the other mercs. Whether it be a double middle finger, "up yours" gesture, chin flick, a thumb between his index and middle finger, a forearm jerk, if it insults/pisses off the other team, he does it. (Obviously there are particularly offensive gestures he will not do.)

He's gotten high off of the Medigun before.

About two years before leaving home, Ghost and his parents found two stray kittens; an orange tabby cat and an unknown tan cat. They took the two kittens in, and named them Honey Mustard (tabby) and French Fry. French Fry was later found out to be a Maine Coon as she got to be as big as a year old great dane.

He has the highest instant noodle consumption rate in the base, eating about three to four cups of it a day. This is because instant noodles are a comfort food of his.

One of his favorite foods is a Vegemite and ketchup(/tomato sauce) sandwich. He gets a stomach ache 90% of the time he eats it but still likes it.

His last name is sometimes spelled phonetically, thus coming out to be Fengsavath. Though because of this he's sometimes gone under the pen name Luna Fang.

Ghost has a habit of either chewing his fingernails or his fingers, so his fingers look a bit weird as a result.

He's blunt. Seriously. He's called The Administrator a cunt/bitch to her face, he's called Classic Heavy a racist piece of rubbish, he's called Classic Pyro/Beatrice a cold and dry cunt, he's called Gray Mann an expired tampon, and there's plenty more examples.

He will genuinely get aggravated with the word "barbie", and will scream out "IT'S A BLOODY GRILL YOU WANK". Why this is? No one really knows.

Ghost draws in his free time, and sometimes uses his teammates as models.

#tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 oc #tf2 oc art #tf2 ghost #tf2 hunter #the hunter #ghost phengsavath #luna phengsavath #transgender #gay

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terrence-silver · 2 years

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Do you think you could write more about Twig and a frontline nurse in Vietnam? It could be headcanons or a fic, it's all up to you. I loved your previous post 🥰

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On a patrol boat riverine across the Rung Sat Special Zone, he got shot.

A positioned sniper hitting him from somewhere in the bushes.

Not a serious wound by any capacity; the bullet merely grazed him.

More luck than brains, their Commanding Officer Turner quickly remarked once they were back on shore, and the infirmary it was for Terry, aided as always by John who was due for a Tetanus shot while Ponytail was off schmoozing the nurses at the bay area, ever the popular guy. Like a cat with nine lives, the only one not injured out of the squad, Terry makes note of it partially admiring, partially envious, partially relieved once safely in a familiar, erected tent all by himself, and the provisional doctor he was often deployed to was there, pulling up his white latex gloves, clean and antiseptic. He could’ve been in his late thirties or early forties, looking like the spitting image of pa’s old movie actors back home.

A bit like Charleston Heston, perhaps.

Okay, maybe he was suffering from heatstroke.

He thought John looked a bit like that too. Then again, every man looked a bit like John.

But, Terry once watched this man amputate an arm up to the elbow without pain killers while he was laying in on a nearby bed, recovering from a broken rib once bunks for the wounded became scarce and the experience was transcendental in that crammed, makeshift hospital, the sensation frightening and disturbed at first, like something that threatened to lurch out of his stomach in the form of sick and bile, but Terry found himself staring at the live operation, transfixed until the muted sounds of screaming drifted away and all he saw was the bone, the open flesh and the blood with the doctor's assistant angrily drawing on the curtains, put off by him looking so ardently. Blood. So what? Somewhere during that lay in, he remembered John's kindly voice advising him to look away. -"If they find you staring like that at the other guys being worked on, they can send you for a psych evaluation, and well, if you fail that..."- John trailed off in warning. There was always talks of those unfit for service sent back home due to being shell-shocked and frenzied after combat, endangering both themselves and their group, but Terry never wanted to be one of them. His father would never let him live it down and it would mean leaving behind the only friends he’s made in his life. It would mean leaving Johnny behind. Ponytail. -"You can get discharged, Twig. Maybe that's safer for you, though, I mean..."-

There's a sense of empathy (and pity) in John's tone and Terry instantly shoots it down.

No!

He wouldn’t be the one sent home.

-"I'll stop looking, just for you, Johnny."-

Terry promises solemnly, tiredly smiling from his bunk bed, wrapped in bandages across his torso as the soldier with the arm lopped cleaned off was led off to the emergency room. That doctor --- his doctor --- was right there, at the helm of it all that day. Terry even remembered the date, like something jubilant. 1968, November 6th, five in the afternoon, the infirmary bay in Saigon. But, now he was back in with the same man in his first aid tent and he wasn't sure what the feelings he had were called. Intrigue? Yes, maybe Terry was intrigued by the good doctor's line of work. All those...tools. Scalpels. Turning forks. Cutters. Saws. Ways in which pain could be accentuated, controlled, cured, prolonged, made acute. Was it warmth? Whenever Terry was helped and the puss and filth was cleaned from his scars with the doctor's steady, focused hands in semblance of something like care? Was it merely the coziness he felt in the presence of someone older and in charge who didn't make a note out of demeaning him, the way Captain Turner did? The very act of someone being vaguely kind making him flush as he sat there, waiting for his wound to be cauterized. Possible. The doctor speaks to him, applying the flashlight to his eyes, spreading his lids ever so slightly to check for signs of trauma. -"Not counting the bullet,"- He inquires, patiently. -"feeling any weird side-effects? Grogginess? Nausea? Migraines?"- He lists off a couple of plausible side-reactions and Terry nods away at each, saying nothing. -"Are you out of it, Private?"- He asks plainly then, removing the blinding light, looking him square in the face as Terry blinked, examining him, as per habit. -"No, I just like it here."- Terry blurts out, cursing himself for saying just about anything he deemed fit, looking around the tent, legs dangling back and forth from the tall bench where he was seated.

Man, he really needed to get in control of what kind of shit he uttered.

-"Oh, yeah? That's a first! Don't hear that often. What do you like about it?"-

The doctor chuckles, seeming somewhat amused. The older man has soft features. Soft eyes. The type of soft eyes John’s Betsy had on that photograph he carried around as a lucky charm. Terry knows by sheer experience that the boys coming back from the bush tend to say and do the darnedest things after months lacking proper socialization with anyone but each other and the wild and the medical staff, as he observed in the aftermath often lets them have it, in one ear and out the other (makes it easier to weed out the bad apples too) but still, Terry halts himself from saying what he really, truly liked about the medical bay tent specifically, John’s warnings about developing a filter coming to mind:

How did it feel like? Cutting through the bone? Terry yearns to ask.

How does it feel, sawing through it?

Being in control of the pain?

The pain, the pain, the pain.

-"It's calm, sir."- Terry lies.

#SUBVERSION!#a young terry silver has a secret crush #on a dr. in vietnam #for some very harrowing reasons indeed #kk3 #Cobra Kai #terry silver #terry silver twig #terry silver x male!beloved #terry silver x male!oc #terry silver x reader #tw; war #tw; gore #tw; horror #tw; fluff #tw; mental trauma #tw; period typical character in closet #cobra husbands

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pricescigar · 2 years

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Kalli Aguilar

Picrew Credit Man manufacture

Born: 12th of Febuary 1936

Age: 40 (As of 1976)

Nationality: German (Half Mexican)

Gender: Male

Spouse: Mia Jäger (What if)

Parent(s): Andres & Anna Aguilar

Hair colour: Black (Small streaks of grey hair)

Eye colour: Dark brown

Height: 182cm (6ft)

Nicknames: Kal

Alter Ego: El Diablo (The Devil) _______________________________________________

Personality: Kahili is a caring man, and had no intention to harm anyone other than those who dare to harm him and all those around him. He's the one who drives the evil away, even if you have to be the evil force that has to do it.

Likes: Working, enjoying life, travelling, caring for others, fencing, drinking alcohol, the rich life

Dislikes: Perseus, his loved ones getting hurt, failing his job, arm dealers

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Backstory:

Kalli's parents moved back to Germany shortly after the first World War, his father was a Veteran of the First World War. He could no longer work properly after his leg had gotten amputated, but still... He had his ways in bringing his income. His mother was a stay at home mum taking care of him and now his father, occasionally she would have to work too.

Kalli's mother Anna who was originally from Düsseldorf, Germany, was an archelogist and Historian and went to Mexico. Where she met her soon to be husband, Andres he got drafted into the war. And she promised him she'd wait for him, so she waited for him. Until he had returned... They remained in Mexico until 1939, until Anna became pregnant and they went back to her home town in Germany.

Kalli was a bright young boy, you could say everyone loved him. After all, he had ways of capturing people's hearts, no one never doubted that. He had his ways, he was almost like his father on that way. He knew German and Spanish. When Kalli turned thirteen years old, his family moved to Germany in 1949 after his dad got a promotion. He hand his family lived on the same street as the Jäger family did, easily welcoming the Aguliar family with open arms, he also befriended Mia. Around that time he went to secondary school, before eventually graduating in 1954.

Temporarily Kalli went to Mexico to reunite with his family and stay with them until the foreseeable future, knowing one day he would eventually go back to Germany. During his time in Mexico he got involved in dangerous business with a arms dealer, (Whom he was his Uncle at the time) Unintentional or not he killed the man in cold blood after he saw what his Uncle had did.

Due to him not having any heirs, Kalli rightfully took it and turned it upside down. Destroying the "family business." One by one, making sure it all fell down to the ground, also killing off any enemies that dared to cross his path. In his home town of Toluca, Mexico they dubbed him "El Diablo."

In 1960 Kalli returned to Berlin, Germany when he was 24 years old after he got invited to Mia and Deitrich's wedding. Gladly he attended, reuniting with his friends. Also telling what he had been doing in Mexico for the last past 9 years.

In 1968 Kalli got the news that Mia had died, being deeply heartbroken he occasionally kept in contact with Dietrich to make sure he was alright.

As of 1981 his wareabouts are between Mexico and Germany occasionally wiping out the Arm dealers one by one.

(What if )

As of 1968 with Dietrich dying in Vietnam. Kalli attended the funeral and was sympathetic towards Mia, after she lost her husband. He ensured her that he'd always be there no matter what.

As the years went by he always regularly visited, and over time Elvira always got curious about the man who had always visited her mother. It wasn't until Elvira was a teenager, was when she realised his true intentions, in trying to woo her.

In 1976 Kalli and Mia got married, it was around the time Perseus was hellbent on getting Elvira, to take over her father, and finished what he almost had done. Kalli almost did anything for her to not get kidnapped, thanks to his deep connections. However, Elvira went willingly with no cause in 1979...

#call of duty #cod #black ops cold war #cod cold war #black ops #oc #ocs #kalli aguilar

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kitwallace · 2 months

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My father in Tairua

My father in Tairua in 1929. Paku is in the background.

My father, Francis Brabazon Wallace came out to New Zealand aged about 18. He worked on the Cory-Wright farm so the photo probably taken from the homestead. However the photo shows a different aspect of Paku, perhaps from along what is now Ocean Beach road.

and this we believe is his horse Karl:

which I hold is responsible for my (and my brother's) existance. Karl trod in a pot hole on the beach, throwing my father to the ground and dragging him. Not hurt but his right hand was numbed. A couple of days later he was out in the bush on Karl with a shotgun looking for a hawk which had been savaging sheep. He'd put the gun on the scrubby ground and as he was watching it, he picked up the gun , with his numbed hand and unfortunately by the muzzle, the trigger caught on scrub and the gun went of, shattering his right hand. He was able to get back to the homestead and a harrowing trip over the range to Thames and hospital where his hand was amputated. Being under age, his guardian Dr John Campbell Duncan would not undertake a disabled man so he was packed off back to Britain and an all-together different life.

I wondered if there was anything about the incident in the newspapers at the time and there is a very good archive of New Zealand newspapers. However I could find nothing on the accident itself - perhaps such accidents were commonplace - but I did find this report of a dance to raise funds for him in the Thames Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 17665, 5 July 1929, Page 4

Cory-Wright

The Cory-Wrights came from Hornsea in Yorkshire and a son Silston was an engineer who founded Cory-Wright and Salmon.

Historical photo

A friend found this photo of Paku from about the time my father was there. The aspect is similar to the one in my father's photo, but higher up.

New Zealand - A picturesque coast farm at Tairua on the East Coast of the North Island - 16 Feb. 1928 - Photo from The Weekly News

References

Newspaper archive https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers?

Tairua History Trail https://www.tairua.co.nz/tairua-history-trail

Silston Cory-Wright https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/4c37/cory-wright-silston

Ancestors https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LJLS-J52/silston-george-cory-wright-1888-1973

Tairua Aural History Project https://natlib.govt.nz/items?i[collection_any_id]=471141&i[-category]=Groups

Interview with Derek CW https://natlib.govt.nz/records/35854303?search%5Bi%5D%5Bsubject_text%5D=Wright+family&search%5Bpath%5D=items

Ohinemuri Regional History Journal https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20140721120545/http://www.ohinemuri.org.nz/journal/n.09.htm See article Tairua before the roads came by Phyllis CW

Short biography of Phylis CW http://www.ohinemuri.org.nz/journals/35-journal-9-may-1968/544-our-contributors

Jewel by the Sea by Phyllis CW https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Jewel-Sea-Memories-Tairua-Coromandel-Cory-Wright/1196224631/bd

Dr John Duncan Campbell https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/60427

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brn1029 · 2 years

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On this date in music…

July 1st

1956 - Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley appeared on NBC- TV's 'The Steve Allen Show' and performed 'Hound Dog', to a live Hound Dog. US TV critic John Crosby panned Elvis' performance, calling him an 'unspeakable, untalented and vulgar young entertainer.'

(I wonder how successful John’s career was…)

1967 - The Beatles

The Beatles started a 15 week run at No.1 on the US album chart with Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the group's 10th US No.1 album. Recorded over a 129-day period beginning in December 1966, the album widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time, includes songs such as 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' and 'A Day in the Life'.

1968 - The Band

The Band released their debut album Music From Big Pink. The album, which features their first hit single 'The Weight', was recorded in studios in New York and Los Angeles in 1968, and followed the group's backing of Bob Dylan on his 1966 tour (as The Hawks).

1969 - John Lennon

John Lennon Yoko Ono and family were involved in a car accident in Golspie, Scotland. Both John and Yoko needed hospital treatment. Lennon later had the car crushed into a cube and exhibited it on his lawn at Tittenhurst Park.

1972 - Neil Diamond

Neil Diamond went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Song Sung Blue', his second US No.1. A No.14 hit in the UK.

1975 - 10CC

10cc were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'I'm Not In Love'. Known for its innovative and distinctive backing track, composed mostly of the band's multitracked vocals, it became the second of the group's three No.1 singles in the UK and reached No.2 on the US chart.

1981 - Rushton Moreve

Rushton Moreve bassist with Steppenwolf, was killed in motorcycle accident in Santa Barbara, California, aged 32. He co-wrote their hit 'Magic Carpet Ride' with lead singer John Kay; Steppenwolf also had the 1968 US No.2 single 'Born To Be Wild'. Moreve left the band in late 1968 when he refused to fly back to California at that time, fearing it would sink into the Pacific Ocean after an imminent earthquake.

1983 - Bon Jovi

A New Jersey-based quintet calling themselves Bon Jovi signed to Phonogram's Mercury records, although they had also been considering the name Johnny Electric. The group have since sold over 130 million records worldwide, and performed more than 2,600 concerts in over 50 countries for more than 34 million fans.

1995 - DJ Wolfman Jack

DJ Wolfman Jack died of a heart attack. He was the master of ceremonies for the rock 'n' roll generation of the '60s on radio, and later on television during the '70s.

2005 - Renaldo Benson

Four Tops singer Renaldo "Obie" Benson died aged 69 in a Detroit hospital from lung cancer. He was diagnosed after having a leg amputated due to circulation problems. The Four Tops sold over 50 million records and had hits including 'Reach Out (I'll be There)' and 'I Can't Help Myself.' Benson also co-wrote 'What's Going On' which became a No.2 hit for Marvin Gaye.

2005 - Luther Vandross

American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer Luther Vandross died at the age of 54 at the JFK Medical Centre in New Jersey, two years after suffering a major stroke. His 'Never Too Much', was a No.1 R&B hit, worked with Diana Ross, Carly Simon, Chaka Khan, Donna Summer, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey and David Bowie. Vandross had won four Grammys for his final album ‘Dance With My Father.’

2008 - Whitesnake

Whitesnake guitarist Mel Galley, died at the age of 60 from cancer of the oesophagus. Galley also played with Trapeze, Glenn Hughes, Cozy Powell and the Blue Jays.

2013 - Tom Scholz

Boston guitarist Tom Scholz was ordered to pay $132,000 in court fees to the Boston Herald after he unsuccessfully sued the newspaper. The Herald had suggested that Scholz was responsible for the 2007 suicide of Boston lead singer Brad Delp, but a Superior Court judge ruled that the paper could not be held liable for defaming Scholz because it's impossible to know what caused Delp to kill himself.

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megarockradio · 2 years

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Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime (1968)

Ella Fitzgerald – Summertime (1968)

15 June 1996, US jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald died in Beverly Hills, California, aged 79. Already blinded by the effects of diabetes, Fitzgerald had both her legs amputated in 1993. Winner of 13 Grammy Awards, the 1956 ‘Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook’ was the first of eight “Songbook” sets. Appeared in the TV commercial for Memorex, where she sang a note that shattered a glass…

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#Ella #Fitzgerald #Summertime

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lucienballard · 3 years

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The Velvet Underground’s 30 greatest songs – ranked!

30. Ride Into the Sun (1969)The Velvets recorded two versions of Ride Into the Sun: a fabulous 1969 instrumental laden with fuzz guitar and a hushed 1970 vocal take backed by organ. Somewhere between the two lies one of their great lost songs; Lou Reed’s disappointingly flat 1972 solo version doesn’t do it justice at all.

29. Run Run Run (1967)For all the shock engendered by the lyrics of Heroin and I’m Waiting for My Man, the most malevolent-sounding track on the debut album might be Run Run Run, a powerful R&B groove lent a gripping darkness by Reed’s noisy guitar playing and the screw-you-I-take-drugs sneer of his vocals.

28. Beginning to See the Light (1969)The title suggests awakening, the melody is bright, but the lyrics are dark and bitter. They may have been directed at John Cale, who played on an initial version of the song, which was subsequently re-recorded after Reed sacked him, against the wishes of his bandmates. A ferocious 1969 live version amps up the tension.

27. Foggy Notion (1969)Reed was a lifelong doo-wop fan. His passion usually found its expression when the Velvet Underground recorded backing vocals for their ballads – as on Candy Says – but the tough, rocking Foggy Notion went a stage further, gleefully stealing a chunk of the Solitaires’ 1955 single Later for You Baby.

26. The Gift (1968)In which the band set a two-chord grind that may, or may not, have been based on their instrumental Booker T in one channel and a blackly comic Reed short story read by Cale in the other. “If you’re a mad fiend like we are, you’ll listen to them both together,” offered the producer, Tom Wilson.

25. Guess I’m Falling in Love (1967)Recorded at the White Light/White Heat sessions, but never completed, the April 1967 live recording of Guess I’m Falling in Love – taped at the Gymnasium in New York – will more than suffice. It boasts three chords, a distinct rhythm and blues influence, Reed in streetwise, so-what punk mode and explosive guitar solos somehow potentiated by the rough sound quality.

24. Temptation Inside Your Heart (1968)“It was not Mein Kampf – my struggle,” the guitarist Sterling Morrison once reflected of the Velvet Underground’s career. “It was fun.” A delightful late Cale-era outtake that inadvertently captured Morrison, Cale and Reed’s giggly backchat as they recorded the backing vocals, Temptation Inside Your Heart bears that assessment out.

23. New Age (1970)New Age comes in two varieties. Take your pick from the world-weary, small-hours rumination found on 1969: The Velvet Underground Live, or the more epic studio version that the Velvets biographer Victor Bockris suggested was “an attempt to present some encouraging statements to a confused audience as the 70s began”. Both are superb.

22. After Hours (1969)The Velvets’ eponymous 1969 album ends, improbably, with the drummer, Moe Tucker, singing a song that could have dated from the pre-rock era. The twist is that her childlike voice and the cute melody conceals an almost unbearably sad song, ostensibly a celebration of small-hours boozing, but filled with longing and regret.

21. I Can’t Stand It (1969)Amid the Velvets’ songs about drugs and drag queens lurked the plaintive sound of Reed pining for his college sweetheart, Shelley Albin, the subject of Pale Blue Eyes, I Found a Reason and I Can’t Stand It. The latter’s cocky strut is disrupted by a desperate lyrical plea: “If Shelley would just come back, it’d be all right.”

20. The Black Angel’s Death Song (1967)There is something folky and vaguely Dylan-esque at the heart of The Black Angel’s Death Song, but by the time Cale had finished with it – alternately strafing it with screeching, insistent viola and hissing into the microphone in lieu of a chorus – it sounded, and still sounds, unique.

19. I Found a Reason (1970)It is one of the ironies of the Velvet Underground that the most forward-thinking, groundbreaking band of their era could occasionally sound like old-fashioned rock’n’roll revivalists. Buried on side two of Loaded was one of the loveliest of Lou Reed’s loving homages to doo-wop, complete with spoken-word section.

18. Some Kinda Love (1969)Musically straightforward, sensual in tone, Some Kinda Love is a complex business, part seduction soundtrack, part refusal to be hemmed in by standard categories of sexuality – “no kinds of love are better than others … the possibilities are endless / and for me to miss one / would seem to be groundless”. Killer line: “Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.”

17. European Son (1967)European Son isn’t a song so much as an eruption. It sounds like a band overturning the established order of rock’n’roll, almost literally: after two brief verses, it bursts into thrilling frantic chaos with a verbatim crash, like the contents of an upended table hitting the floor.

16. Rock & Roll (1970)It is hard to see Loaded’s driving, joyous hymn to music’s redemptive power – “her life was saved by rock and roll” – as anything other than disguised autobiography on the part of Reed. The suggestion that music will endure “despite all the amputations”, meanwhile, seems to look forward to his departure from the Velvet Underground.

15. Candy Says (1969)No one else in 1969 was writing songs remotely like Candy Says, a stunning, tender pen portrait of the transgender Warhol superstar Candy Darling set to a gentle doo-wop inspired backing. Its melancholy seems to presage the note Darling wrote on her deathbed in 1974: “I had no desire for life left … I am just so bored by everything.”

14. Sunday Morning (1967)Sunday Morning was written at the behest of Wilson. He wanted a single that might conceivably get on the radio; he got a haunting, melancholy sigh of a song, its battered wistfulness and undercurrent of paranoia – “watch out, the world’s behind you” – the perfect encapsulation of morning-after regret.

13. What Goes On (1969)Morrison maintained that the studio incarnation of What Goes On wasn’t a patch on the live versions the band performed with Cale on organ. Maybe, but the studio incarnation featuring Cale’s replacement, Doug Yule, is great. It prickles with nervous energy, Reed’s guitar playing is amazing, its churning coda takes up half the song and it still feels too short.

12. Femme Fatale (1967)Apparently provoked by the damaged, doomed Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick – with whom Cale had a brief affair – Femme Fatale is as beautiful and fragile as its inspiration. The story of a wary, ruined former suitor warning others off the titular anti-heroine is lent a chilly edge by Nico’s delivery.

11. I Heard Her Call My Name (1968)In the Velvets’ early days, Reed purported to be “the fastest guitarist alive”. A berserk claim, but his Ornette Coleman-inspired solos on I Heard Her Call My Name are some of the most extraordinary and viscerally exciting in rock history, frequently atonal, spiked with ear-splitting feedback and pregnant pauses.

10. Ocean (1969)The Velvet Underground recorded Ocean several times – one version is supposed to feature the return of Cale on organ – but never released it in their lifetime, which seems extraordinary. It is among the greatest of their later songs, its atmosphere beautiful, the epic ebb and flow of its sound completely immersive.

9. I’m Waiting for the Man (1967)An unvarnished lyrical depiction of scoring drugs tied to music on which Reed’s rock’n’roll smarts and Cale’s background in minimalist classical music – the pounding, one-chord piano part – meld in a kind of relentless perfection. Amusingly, there is now a pharmacy at the song’s fabled location of Lexington 125.

8. I’ll Be Your Mirror (1967)A song about Reed’s affair with Nico that could just as easily be about Andy Warhol’s approach to art, I’ll Be Your Mirror is one of those Velvet Underground tracks that makes their initial commercial failure seem baffling. How could a pop song as wonderful as this fail to attract attention? Nico and Morrison on stage at the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry annual dinner in 1966.

7. White Light/White Heat (1968)A delirious paean to amphetamine, its subject reflected in the lyrics – “I surely do love to watch that stuff tip itself in” – and the turbulent, distorted rush of its sound. The band appear to be barely in control as it careers along; the chaotic finale, where Cale finally loses his grip on the bass line, is just fantastic.

6. Heroin (1967)Heroin was the deal-breaker at early Velvets gigs, provoking a “howl of bewilderment and outrage”. The shock of its subject matter has dulled with time, but its surges from folky lament to sonic riot still sound breathtaking. Oddly sweet moment: Reed’s chuckle as Tucker loses her place amid the maelstrom and suddenly stops playing.

5. Pale Blue Eyes (1969)“High energy does not necessarily mean fast,” Reed once argued. “High energy has to do with heart.” Hushed, limpidly beautiful and almost unbearably sad, Pale Blue Eyes’ depiction of a strained, adulterous relationship proves his point. In its own vulnerable way, it is as powerful as anything the Velvet Underground recorded.

4. Sweet Jane (1970)Sweet Jane started life as a ballad – see the versions recorded live at the Matrix in San Francisco in 1969 – but, sped and toughened up, it became as succinct and perfect a rock’n’roll song as has ever been written, based around one of the greatest riffs of all time.

3. Venus in Furs (1967)For a band who inspired so much other music, the Velvet Underground’s catalogue is remarkably rich with songs that still sound like nothing else; they were as inimitable as they were influential. Venus in Furs is a case in point: umpteen artists were galvanised by its dark, austere atmosphere; none succeeded in replicating it.

2. Sister Ray (1968)A monumental journey into hitherto-uncharted musical territory, where a primitive garage-rock riff meets Hubert Selby-inspired lyrics and improvisation that sounds like a psychological drama playing out between Reed and Cale, all at skull-splitting volume. Fifty-three years later, it is without peer for white-knuckle intensity.

1. All Tomorrow’s Parties (1967)Ninety per cent of the Velvet Underground’s oeuvre consists of no-further-questions classics. The astonishingly high standard of almost everything they did makes picking their “best” song a matter of personal preference, rather than qualitative judgment. So let’s go for Warhol’s favourite, on which the sour and sweet aspects of their debut album entwine faultlessly. The melody is exquisite; the music monolithic and unrelenting, powered by Cale’s hammering piano and Tucker’s stately drums; Nico’s performance perfectly inhabits the lyrics, which turn a depiction of a woman choosing what dress to wear into a meditation on emptiness and regret. It is original and utterly masterly: the Velvet Underground in a nutshell.

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Fernand Meyssonnier was the last official French executioner in charge of beheading Algerians using a guillotine. He served in that capacity from 1947 to 1958, during which time he claims to have decapitated 200 Algerians. It was none other than the then socialist Justice Minister François Mitterrand who ordered the execution of 45 of them. Meyssonnier’s father, Maurice, was a communist and a bar owner; he was chief executioner in Algiers after World War Two. His godfather was Henri Roch, chief executioner before the war, and from a long line of executioners stretching back to the 16th Century. In France, seemingly, this was considered a noble profession. ...

France’s love affair with decapitating people was not only evident in colonial Algeria but also in its other colonies. Anti-colonial resistance erupted in New Caledonia in 1878, which the French had colonised in 1854 and began to fill with colonial settlers (especially the surviving and exiled communards). The government in Paris imprisoned the native Kanak population in reservations and gave their lands to the settlers. The anti-colonial native Kanak revolt ensued, led by the native Great Chief Ataï. The French colonial administration, the settlers and a few native collaborators, crushed the revolt and beheaded Chief Ataï and two of his sons. The decapitated heads were preserved in formaldehyde by the French anthropological society and later put on display in the Museum of Natural History. The French described the Kanak resistance to the theft of their lands as a “savage uprising against civilisation.” In 2014, after 135 years, the French government finally returned Ataï’s head to New Caledonia.

Born in Tunisia in 1949 when the country was still a French settler-colony, Hamida Djandoubi emigrated and went to France in 1968 where he became an agricultural worker. He lived in Marseille at first, in the house of a French couple, former settlers in Tunisia before independence. In 1971, at the age of 22, as a result of his employer’s negligence his tractor flipped over and he lost his right leg from the knee down. He was never the same afterwards. Djandoubi’s mental state became unstable; he was unrecognisable to his friends, and never recovered from his physical and psychological trauma. In 1974 he kidnapped, tortured and killed his white French girlfriend, whom he had met at the hospital after his leg was amputated; the three psychiatrists who examined him for the court concluded that the amputation was registered by Djandoubi as castration. Despite his defence lawyer’s plea of insanity, the judge condemned him to death by decapitation. Djandoubi was the last person to be decapitated by guillotine in France, in September 1977. At the time, the then Prime Minister Jacques Chirac supported the death penalty.

During the same week that Djandoubi was on trial, Jean-Baptiste Dorkel, a white Frenchman with an amputated arm, was tried for the murder of a woman and the attempted murder of three others. Much sympathy was shown to him by the public. Unlike the non-white Djandoubi, Dorkel was sentenced to 18 years in prison....

Not only has the official response to the appalling murder of the teacher expanded France’s extant official Islamophobia (the closure of mosques has been one of the many measures taken), but this white-supremacist response also includes Interior Minister Darmanin’s moves to close down the organisation that monitors French Islamophobia, the Collectif contre l’islamophobie en France (CCIF). Thus, Islamophobic acts and crimes will continue to be committed by the French government and the white supremacist French public, but no French organisation will or can be allowed to record and register these grave violations of the rights of France’s Muslim citizens.

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The Price of a Soul

Part 1/? - Agent Russel Part 2/? - The Letter Part 3/? - Miss Lake Part 4/? - The Stewardess Part 5/? - An Assassination Part 6/? - Fallout Part 7/? - Face to Face Part 8/? - Deals, Details, and Other Devils Part 9/? - Baggage Part 10/? - Private Funding Part 11/? - Just Passing Through Part 12/? - Party of Four Part 13/? - Resolute Part 14/? - The Wreck Part 15/? - Body Snatchers Part 16/? - Out of the Frying Pan Part 17/? - A Miracle Part 18/? - A Matter of Circumstance Part 19/? - Nome Part 20/? - The Future

Kay has big plans.

Peggy had expected them to immediately board another plane and head south again, but it seemed that the aircraft in question was held up in Portland by a terrible thunderstorm, forcing them to spend the night in Nome. There was only one place in town that could really be called a hotel, and it had only four rooms for let, which created something of a problem.

“Well,” said the proprietor, an aging white man with a steel-gray mustache. “Obviously the best room will be for the guest of honour.” He held out the key to Steve.

Steve held up his hands. “Uh, thanks, Mr. Stanley, but I couldn’t, not when we have ladies with us.” He nodded to Peggy and Kay.

“Oh,” said Peggy. “Well, no, Captain Rogers really is the guest of honour here, and he’s been unwell.” Peggy had certainly seen more soft beds in the past couple of years than Steve had, no matter how anyone defined it.

“Peg, I’m fine,” said Steve.

“And I’m not?” Peggy asked.

Kay cleared her throat. “I believe,” she said, “that the guest of honour here is the hero who’s bringing Captain America home – that would be Mr. Masters.” Her voice was dripping sarcasm, but she gestured to the man with a smile on her face.

Masters frowned at her suspiciously, but only for a moment. Then he stepped up to take the key. “Thank you, Mr. Stanley,” he said.

Peggy and Steve both looked at Kay, who shrugged. “If we had to stand here all night listening to you two say I couldn’t possibly, we’d never get any sleep,” she said.

With the best room claimed, Mr. Stanley gave a second key to Steve and a third to Peggy and Kay, and then offered the fourth and final one to Howard. “Sorry to the soldiers,” he added, “but I’m sure you fellows can figure something out.”

“Guess I’ll go sleep in the Skytrain again,” said Jason. He wasn’t angry or bitter, merely resigned, which Peggy thought was probably worse.

“Don’t be silly, we can share.” Howard clapped him on the shoulder and then approached the counter. “What’s there to drink in this place? I’m buying a round for everybody… Steve and Peg have a hell of a story to tell and we’re all gonna need to be fortified for it!” His glance at Peggy told her that he wanted to hear the tale and wouldn’t let her refuse, government secrets be damned.

Half an hour later found Peggy, Kay, Howard, Jason, and Steve all sitting around a table in the nameless hotel’s tiny common room, refilling glasses from a bottle of something Mr. Stanley had confided he distilled himself. It was pretty crude and burned the throat, and Peggy didn’t want to drink too much of it. Jason had nearly choked when he tried it, Steve looked disconcerted, and Howard blinked back tears, but Kay downed it like a shot of whiskey and held out her glass for more.

Peggy took the men through the story of what had happened after she and Kay flew away with the helicopter, and how they’d dragged Steve down to the boiler room to thaw him out. Although she wouldn’t have done so in front of Masters, Peggy confessed that he, herself, had believed Steve was dead, and it was Kay who’d insisted on keeping him intact.

“How did you know?” Howard asked her.

“I just… knew,” Kay replied with a shrug.

That was enough to tell Peggy not to go into the backstory before Kay herself was ready. “The rest, I suppose is, is fairly obvious,” she concluded. “The doctors poked and prodded at Steve to make sure he wasn’t going to drop dead on them, and Masters stopped worrying about arresting us because he was far too busy calling ahead to make sure everybody will give him the credit.”

“Doesn’t that bother you?” asked Jason, who knew what it was like to have other people claim responsibility for his work.

“I could not care less what Vernon Masters says or does, as long as he leaves me alone,” Peggy replied firmly, though it was an utter lie. Whatever the man had against her, she knew he wasn’t going to drop it just yet.

“What about you?” he asked Kay.

“I’m used to working behind the scenes,” she said. She poured the last of Mr. Stanley’s moonshine into her glass, then pushed the empty bottle away. “Anyway, that already happened, and is officially in the past. I’m worried about the future.”

Peggy leaned forward. “What about it?” she asked. Of course Kay had insisted Masters take the best bedroom, she realized… it was on the top floor, far away from anywhere he could hear this conversation from. “You said you had an extensive to-do list.”

“I do. I’ve checked two items off – Ste…” Kay caught herself. “Captain Rogers is back, and Zola is dead. That’s a good start. The next items are Sergeant Barnes and the Red Room. I want to do both at once, because I know how these people operate, and if I do one first, it’s gonna be much harder to come back and take care of the other.”

Almost unconsciously, everybody else huddled in closer, too. “Bucky is dead,” said Steve. “You said the Russians found his body.”

“I said they found him,” Kay said. “You assumed he was dead.”

Steve’s eyes widened, and Peggy had a sudden vision of him sitting in that half-destroyed tavern in France, trying desperately to get drunk off something that was probably no more than soda when compared to Mr. Stanley’s brew. For him that had been only a couple of weeks ago, and the guilt and grief were still fresh. To tell him he’d abandoned not a dead friend, but a live one… Peggy reached to put her hand over his.

“I lied when I told you they found in him the valley,” Kay went on. “HYDRA found him there. They recognized him as one of Zola’s experimental subjects, and were very interested in the fact that he’d survived the fall with only a few broken ribs and a shattered left shoulder, so they put him in suspended animation so they could keep working on him. Of course, only a few days later the Valkyrie crashed and Hitler shot himself like the sniveling coward he was, and the Russians moved in to search their bases and take anything useful. He was nobody to them, just a nameless POW, but his medical records interested them enough that they took him back with them.

“That’s where he is now,” she concluded. “They’ve been training him up and brainwashing him, trying to create the perfect assassin… something like me, but with less free will and higher necklines. They had to amputate his left arm, and eventually they hope captured HYDRA scientists, people like Zola, can build him a functional prosthesis.”

There was silence at the table. Kay smiled sadly at Steve.

“Don’t feel bad, Captain Rogers, you didn’t know. How could you have known? It’s only been three years. They’re not finished yet. It’ll be much easier to save him now that it would be later, when the only thing he’s known for decades is orders and violence.” She glanced at Peggy, and Peggy realized she was the only other person at the table who knew that Kay was speaking from terrible personal experience.

Steve swallowed hard. “How do you know any of this?” he asked. “I mean… why should I believe you?”

That made Peggy think twice, too… if she assumed Kay’s story of being from the SSR of the future was a lie, then how did she have this information? Either she was making it all up, or else she knew an awful lot about what was going on with both the USSR and possible HYDRA holdouts that may or may not exist. Was that awfully convenient, or just awfully suspicious?

Kay seemed to think for a moment. “Sergeant Barnes has a sister,” she said. “Rebecca. She’s the one who named him Bucky, because then their nicknames would match – Becky and Bucky.” She thought a little longer. “Before he was drafted he wanted to be a writer. His favourite book is A Princess of Mars but he’d read almost anything in that genre… not just Burroughs but Wells and Verne and Doyle. When you were twenty-one, some relative living in London sent you a copy of The Hobbit as a gift, and you read the first chapter and then immediately gave it to Barnes because you knew he’d like it.”

Steve stared at her, not knowing how to respond.

“I know that because you would have told it to me, in a future that won’t happen now,” said Kay, “and I know it won’t happen because you’re alive in 1948 and Zola isn’t.”

“Uh, I’m sorry,” said Jason, “are you trying to tell us you’re from the future?”

“That’s what she told me,” Peggy put in, “but I didn’t want to be the one who sounded like a lunatic by bringing it up.”

“I’m from a future, Dr. Wilkes,” said Kay. “It’s not the future anymore, and you wouldn’t want it to be, because it’s a future in which you got crushed to death during a demonstration in Baltimore in April of 1968.”

“If you’re a time traveler, how did you get here?” Howard wanted to know. “We worried that some of the stuff HYDRA was building was for altering time, but I did the math and it just doesn’t work. You’d need more energy than even the tesseract could give you.”

“I don’t know,” Kay told him. “I just woke up naked in an alley in San Francisco, and once I figured out I wasn’t dreaming I sat down and made a list of things that have to change. I need you guys to trust me, because I need your help changing them.”

A moment passed in which nobody spoke, and Peggy realized that everybody was looking at her, as if she were somehow the arbiter of truth and lies in this ridiculous situation. “I don’t know,” she said. “I don’t know what to believe. It sounds absurd… but she did know about Steve. I can’t deny that.” How could she, when Steve was sitting right there at the table, in the flesh, as she’d never thought she would see him again.

That seemed to be enough for Steve himself. “Where is he?” he asked Kay.

“That’s the first problem,” she said. “I don’t know. Organizations like the Red Room don’t exactly keep meticulous records, and the details of their history weren’t part of the raise-a-spy curriculum. When they leave a place, they take everything they need and burn the rest.”

“Which is why you need Dottie!” Peggy realized.

“Exactly.” Kay nodded. “She at least knows where she was brought up and who did it, and that’s a start.”

“We haven’t had a whole lot of luck questioning her,” warned Peggy.

“We just have to figure out what she wants,” Kay said. “I’ve picked out a couple of her patterns… she’s collecting money, but also blackmail material on powerful people. I don’t know what she’s planning because in my future she obviously didn’t succeed. But I have a theory, and if I’m right, we’ll have leverage.”

“We’ll have to catch her first,” Peggy said, but for the first time in weeks, she felt as if there were some hope of that.

“What’s my future?” Howard wanted to know.

Kay cocked her head and bit her lip. “You and your wife die in a car accident just before Christmas in 1991.”

He was startled. “I’m going to get married?”

Kay rolled her eyes. “Peggy – you outlive two husbands and die in your bed at nearly a hundred years old, after saving the world over and over but never realizing the enemy you were fighting was within your own organization. Captain Rogers, they didn’t thaw you out until 2012, and then you had to realize that all this time…”

Steve winced and lowered his head. “All this time those people had Bucky.”

“Exactly,” Kay nodded, “but like I said, none of that’s going to happen now. The future is going to be better. I don’t know how I got here but I know I can do that, or at least try… some things I cannot change, but ‘til I try I’ll never know,” she added in a singsong.

There was another silence around the table. Steve cleared his throat.

“If what you said about Bucky is true, then I can’t just do nothing,” he said.

Peggy took his hand again. “We obviously have to try,” she agreed.

“You found Steve,” Howard said. “I owe you one for that.”

Jason hesitated, then appeared to make up his mind. “I’m in.”

Kay smiled. “I won’t thank you yet,” she told them, “but I’ll know when.”

Howard grinned and raised his glass. “To the future!” he said.

“The future!” They clinked their glasses together and downed the last of Mr. Stanley’s bootleg, and Peggy felt a little thrill of excitement in the pit of her stomach. Her work had long ago lost any of that, becoming just what she did with all its secrecy and all its dangers. But for some reason… this must be what Mr. Jarvis felt, when he described it as adventure.

#fanfic #captain america #agent carter #peggy carter #steve rogers #steggy #fix it fic

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I finally made a time line for my au

1410 - Amans (Shadow Bonnie) is born.

1413 - Spero Solis is born.

1486 - Mortis (Old Man Consequences) is born somewhere in Europe.

1498 - Mortis meets Lustitiae.

1513 - the Solis family is exiled from Heaven and end up in the Shadow Realm where Lustitiae takes Solis as his student after they Shadow Empress killed his parents.

1527 - Viribus and Estella are born. Lustitiae runs away from the Shadow Realm to Mortis's house with his children and Spero.

1541 - Lustitiae and Mortis are burnt alive by villagers from a near town. Spero, Viribus and Estella escape to the U.S.

1936 - Frederick Fazbear is born in Germany.

1938 - Nadia Fernández is born in Chile. Terrence Willis is born in the U.S.

1939 - Reiji Konoe is born in Japan. Henry Emily is born in the U.S.

1941 - Alfonzo Zamora is born in Puerto Rico. Avarosa Williams Afton is born in the U.K.

1955 - after a trip to Chile, Frederick married Nadia, they move out to the U.S. shortly after.

1959 - Fredbear Family Diner opens. Terrence is arrested for stealing medicines and is framed for the murder of a family. Terrence's mother, Clara, dies from cancer. Pierre (Puppet) is born in France.

1960 - after being inyected with desomorphine, Terrence makes a deal with Viribus and they fuse their bodies, taking the name of Danniel DuNoir. Danniel and Dave (Spero) start working at Fredbear Family Diner.

1966 - Federico Fazbear is born in the U.S. Benny is born in a unknown location and is abandoned by his parents.

1968 - Camila Calixto (Chica) is born in Venezuela. Felipe Zamora (Foxy) is born.

1969 - Freddy Fazbear is born in the U.S. Vanessa Hollows is born in the U.S.

1970 - Chiaki Konoe (Bonnie) is born in Japan.

1972 - Margarette (Mangle) is born in France

1973 - Cindy (Toy Chica) is born in Spain.

1974 - Tonie (Toy Bonnie) is born in the U.K.

1975 - Wilfred (White Rabit) is born.

1978 - Alfonso Zamora dies in a fishing accidente. Foxy moves out to the U.S. and starts working at Fredbear Family Diner. Chica's sister, Natalia, is born in Venezuela.

1979 - Reiji Konoe is murdered. Chiaki survives with a servered arm is sent to the U.S. by his aunt. Teodoro (Toy Freddy) is born in the U.S.

1981 - Frederick and Nadia die in a car crash, Freddy was involved, breaking his leg. Natalia dies by a loose bullet. Chica moves out with a uncle in the U.S.

1982 - Fredbear Family Diner is rebranded to Freddy Fazbear Pizza. Federico hires Avarosa and Henry to help him manage the bussiness. Estella "dies" after throwing herself in the train tracks.

1983 - Fede finds Benny after he escapes from the orphanage. Benny starts working at Freddy's. Henry attacks Danniel after firing him and Dave. Danniel starts working for a mafia. Baby is born in the U.S. Ballora is born in the U.S.

1984 - Felicciano, aka Funky (Funtime Freddy) is born.

1985 - Felix, aka Fuzzy (Funtime Foxy) is born. Lefty is born.

1986 - Avarosa gets kidnapped by Purple's organization by request of Henry, Purple saves her and takes her back to Henry only to find out to he has a family. Henry tries to kill her but Purple kills him, Avarosa kills his wife and daughter (Charlotte). Wilfred marries Amans.

1987 - Lilac kidnaps Benny and Fede, Fede escapes and Benny is tortured for a week, when he's rescued, his legs are completly destroyer and has to get an amputation, an old caretaker of him finds him and adopts him. Lilac murders 6 children at Freddy's.

1988 - Michael (Ennard) is born. Lilac is killed by Benny.

1993 - Federico sells Freddy's and opens a circus.

1994 - Chica and Bonnie get married.

1995 - Freddy and Foxy start datting.

1999 - Pierre and Margarette move to the U. S. to work in the circus. Bon Bon and Bonnet are born.

2000 - Teodoro meets Tonie and Cindy and offers them a job in the circus.

2001 - Camelia is born, her parents set her up to adoption and Chica and Bonnie take her in.

2002 - Charlie is born. Wilbert is killed by the Shadow Empress and steals Charlie from Amans.

2003 - James (Crying Child) is born. Estella kills his father so he can't hurt him. The Freddles are born. Ballora and Baby start datting.

2006 - Teodoro and Tonie start datting.

2010 - Benny starts working at the circus as a clown and a sword swallower, he starts datting Margarette.

2012 - Benny adopts Charlie, he kills the owner of the orphanage and gets the orphanage to shut down. Fuzzy and Ennard start datting.

2013 - Freddy and Foxy get married and adopts the Freddles.

2014 - Federico commits suicide, turning into Golden Freddy.

2015 - Federico kills Charlie as vengance and turns them into a flesh living doll.

2016 - Baby opens her circus with Ballora, Funky, Fuzzy, Ennar, Bon Bon and Bonnet.

2018 - Benny gets possesed by Lilac, she kills Pierre, Ballora and Fuzzy, Funky shots himself in the head before she gets to him.

2019 - Federico's spirit becomes more agressive and turns into Nightmare, the other nightmares try to keep him at bay.

2020 - Viribus brings Lilac back to life as a request from Terrence, Old Man Consequences kills her and accidentally kills Terrence, freeing the souls of the children that Lilac killed. Amans and Wilfred (as a shadow demon) track Charlie down.

2021 - Vanny start planning how to kill Benny. Baby and Ennard built Glitchtrap using a virus that was previously made by Terrence. Margarette moves out to France because of a better job offer, Benny and her break up in good terms.

2022 - Vanny gets a job at Fazbear Entretaiment and gets infected by Glitchtrap. Fazbear Entretaiment goes bankrup. Amans brings Federico back to life as a shadow demon.

2023 - Federico gets the rights back of Fazbear Entretaiment and starts making plans to built the mall. Benny and Federico make up and start datting, they marry later on that year.

2026 - The mall is completed, Federico hires all the glamrocks, Vanny finds a way into the mall.

#fnaf au #story #ref

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The John Wayne film Hellfighters (1968) was rewritten to accommodate character actor Jay C. Flippen after he developed gangrene in his legs. Shortly after the film was released, his legs were amputated.

#Jay C. Flippen #character actors

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can you inform me of the kennedys curse

the kennedies keep dying. all sorts a messed up ways. assasinations, overdoses, plane tricks. here’s some deep lit about the matter. educate yourself, and stay safe out The Kennedy curse refers to a series of deaths, accidents, and other calamities involving members of the American Kennedy family. The alleged curse has primarily struck the children and descendants of businessman Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., but it has also impacted family friends, associates, and other relatives. Political assassinations and plane crashes have been the most common manifestations of the curse. Events that have been cited as evidence of a curse include: Kennedy deaths- August 12, 1944 – Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. died when the BQ-8 aircraft he was piloting accidentally exploded over East Suffolk, England. (A BQ-8 was a B-24 Liberator converted into a radio-controlled flying bomb. For more information, see Project Anvil).May 13, 1948 – Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, formally known as Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, died in a plane crash in France. August 9, 1963 – Patrick Bouvier Kennedy died of infant respiratory distress syndrome two days after his premature birth on August 7th (the 20th anniversary of his father's rescue after the sinking of PT-109).November 22, 1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin, but, in 1979, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded that the assassination was the result of a conspiracy and that Oswald did not act alone. June 5, 1968 – On the night of his victory in the California Democratic presidential primary, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan in the Ambassador Hotel; Kennedy died the following day. April 25, 1984 – David A. Kennedy died of a drug overdose in a Palm Beach, Florida hotel room. December 31, 1997 – Michael LeMoyne Kennedy died in a skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado. July 16, 1999 – John F. Kennedy Jr. died when the plane he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The crash was attributed to pilot error and spatial disorientation. His wife and sister-in-law were also on board and also died. September 16, 2011 – Kara Kennedy died of a heart attack while exercising in a Washington, D.C. health club. Kara had reportedly suffered from lung cancer nine years earlier, but she had recovered after the removal of part of her right lung. May 16, 2012 – Mary Richardson Kennedy committed suicide on the grounds of her home in Bedford, Westchester County, New York. August 1, 2019 – Saoirse Roisin Kennedy Hill died of an accidental drug overdose at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Other incidents November 1941 – Rosemary Kennedy, age 23, struggled to read and write, and she suffered from mood swings, seizures, and violent outbursts. In an attempt to cure or treat his daughter (or, more likely, to keep her under control and avoid the potential for social embarrassment and political damage to the family), Joseph Kennedy secretly arranged for her to undergo a prefrontal lobotomy, which was seen as a promising treatment for various mental illnesses. Instead of saving Rosemary, the now-discredited procedure left her mentally and physically incapacitated. Rosemary remained institutionalized in seclusion, in rural Wisconsin, until her death in 2005. October 3, 1955 – Ethel Kennedy's parents, Ann and George Skakel, died in a plane crash in Oklahoma. December 19, 1961 – Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. suffered a massive stroke which left him paralyzed on his right side. He also struggled with aphasia, which severely affected his ability to speak. June 19, 1964 – U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy survived a plane crash that killed one of his aides as well as the pilot. The senator was pulled from the wreckage by passenger (and fellow senator) Birch Bayh. Kennedy spent five months in a hospital recovering from a broken back, a punctured lung, broken ribs, and internal bleeding. Following the crash, Bobby Kennedy remarked to aide Ed Guthman: "Somebody up there doesn't like us." July 18, 1969 – Ted Kennedy accidentally drove his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, resulting in the drowning death of 28-year-old passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne. In his televised statement a week later, the senator said that on the night of the incident he wondered "whether some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys."January 23, 1973 – Alexander Onassis, stepbrother of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Caroline Kennedy, died from injuries sustained in a plane crash in Athens, Greece. His sister, Christina Onassis, blamed the Kennedy curse. August 13, 1973 – Joseph P. Kennedy II was the driver of a Jeep that crashed and left his passenger, Pam Kelley, paralyzed. Fellow passenger, brother David A. Kennedy, was injured. November 17, 1973 – Edward M. Kennedy Jr., age 12, had his right leg surgically amputated as a result of bone cancer. He underwent an experimental two-year drug treatment to cure the cancer. April 1, 1991 – William Kennedy Smith was arrested and charged with the rape of a young woman at the Kennedy estate in Palm Beach, Florida. The subsequent trial attracted extensive media coverage. Smith was acquitted. So like, if count duckula isn’t a child, is he like immortal and super old? Did he have parents who were a draculas too and they died? Did the guy who wants to kill him kill them or did they die in a plane crash.

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