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stormclouds-chainmail · 6 months

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[Image description: A webcomic by The Oatmeal titled Wombats. Continued under the cut.

Panel 1: Image of a wombat. A medium height, stocky creature with four legs and fur.

Panel 2: Image of a wombat from the side.

Panel 3: Image of a wombat from the other side.

Text from panels 1, 2 and 3. Listen, we need to talk about wombats.

Panel 4

Text: There's a lot we could say about wombats.

Panel 5

Text: They're cute.

Image of a wombat lying on its back.

Panel 6

Text: They're marsupials who can weigh up to 80lbs (36kg).

Image of a wombat on a set of scales with the word chunky on the display.

Panel 7

Text: Their closest relatives are koalas.

Image of a koala.

Panel 8

Text: And a wombat actually weighs as much as three koalas.

Image of a wombat with an equals sign beside three stacked koalas. The top koala says, "Is the stacking really necessary?"

Panel 9

Text: Wombats dig 100 foot (30 metre) long burrows with dozens of entrances.

Image of lots of holes in the background. The foreground has a wombat emerging from a hole saying, "I am a firm believer in skylights."

Panel 10

Text: A group of wombats is called a wisdom.

Image of a group of eight wombats stood under a banner that says, "Deep thinkers only". One wombat has a cup of tea. One wombat says, "Hello, Cynthia". Cynthia replies with, "Greetings, Charles". A wombat called Higgins says, "Do crabs think fish can fly?" A different wombat responds with, "Interesting hypothesis, Higgins. I must meditate on this.

Panel 11

Text: And they can run at 25 mph (40kph).

That's nearly the same speed as Usain Bolt.

Image of a very fast wombat running and leaving a trail of black and grey lined and stars behind it.

Panel 12

But we're not here to talk about all that.

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We're here to talk about butts.

Image of a wombat from behind with large butt cheeks. Its head is turned to look behind it.

Panel 13

Text: You've probably heard that wombats make cube-shaped turds, right?

Image of a wombat butt pooing out cube-shaped turds with sound effects, thibt, thipbt, this, thbttt!

Panel 14

Text: If not, congratulations.

Image of a cube-shaped turd.

Text: You just learned a fun fact.

Your brain probably deleted a childhood memory in order to make space for that fun fact.

Image of a wombat turd in a circle with an arrow pointing to a brain with a label saying, "Worthless knowledge 100% capacity and a full red bar. That has an arrow pointing to a human head in a circle going into a bin or trash can.

Text: Maybe it was a memory of your dad pushing you really high on a swing set.

Image of a dad pushing a child (who has the same face as the memory that's in the bin) on a swing set.

Text: That memory is now gone and has been supplanted by a six-sided block of marsupial feces.

Image of the people at the swing set but their faces are giant wombat turds with eyes and smiling mouths.

Text: Incredible.

Image of a close up of the child on the swing with the dad's hand pushing them. The wombat turd child says, "Higher, Papa, higher!" And Papa responds with, "Yes, my child. The wombat turd child is leaving a trail of debris or foul smell behind them as they move on the swing.

Panel 15

Text: But the fun facts don't stop there. Wombats actually crap out 80 - 100 of these turds a day.

Image of 100 wombat turds in a 10 by 10 formation.

Text: If humans pooped this often (averaging 4 inches or 10cm per turd), we'd make 33 feet or 10 metres of poop per day.

That's roughly the height of 11.5 koalas.

Image of 5 whole koalas stacked and holding each other up with the top one holding a koala chopped in half at the waist. The half koala says, "Please stop using us as a unit of measurement."

Panel 15

Text: Wow.

These fun facts sure are fun.

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But they beg the question, why is wombat poop shaped like that.

Image of a wombat holding a cube-shaped turd and an axe saying, "Why a cube, cousin? Why not an axe?"

Text: Their stacked poop is used to mark their territory and also attract potential mates.

Their turd totems are basically a wombat's version of a keep out sign.

Image of a wombat surrounded by turd totems holding a placard that says, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter my fortress of feces."

Text: Or a dating profile.

Image of a wombat standing behind a stylised heart made of wombat turds. It's twice as tall as the wombat who says, "I will cherish you as I have cherished my turd statue. Heart emoji."

Panel 16

Text: And the reason wombat poop is cubed-shaped is so that they can stack it on a variety of tall, uneven surfaces, such as logs or rocks, without it rolling away.

Image of an arrow pointing down to a stack of six turds on a rock. A wombat is peering out behind the rock saying, "Structural integrity is nominal."

Panel 17

Text: Basically they are playing butt Jenga as a means of communication.

Panel 18

Text: Extraordinary, yes?

Yes.

Downwards arrow.

But that's still not why we're here today having this conversation about wombats.

Image of a wombat from the nose up with its paws raised in the air.

Panel 19

Text: We're actually here to talk about butt cheeks.

Panel 20

Text: Wombat butt cheeks are composed of bone plates that have fused together to form a protective shield.

On top of that shield is a layer of fat, skin and fur.

Image of the four layers, a rectangle of brownish fur with an arrow pointing to the pinkish skin with an arrow pointing to the yellowish fat with an arrow pointing to the white bone plate looks like a lozenge.

Text: When attacked, a wombat will dive into a burrow with their rump facing outward.

Image of a cross section of a wombat burrow containing a whole wombat with its rump sticking slightly out of the entrance.

Text: This is because their armoured butts contain very few nerve endings, so when they're scratched or bitten, they barely feel it.

Image from above of a wombat ass sticking out of a burrow entrance. Superimposed on it is a shield symbol with a tick in it. In a box at the bottom are the words, "Wombat ass = 100% secure."

Text: They basically have Captain America's shield embedded in their phenomenal buttocks.

Panel 21

Text: And while in this defensive position, a wombat will often flatten its body out, leaving a gap between themselves and the roof of their burrow.

Image of a cross section of a burrow with the wombat hunched down so there's a gap above it.

Text: When a predator pokes its head into that gap, the wombat will do something remarkable.

Image of a diagram on lined paper. The wombat is in the burrow with its butt sticking out and a gap between it and the top of the burrow. A pink direpig labeled with the disclaimer "not a real animal" is about to attack. The wombat is labelled with the disclaimer, "a real animal". The wombat's bum is labelled, "wombuns of steel".

Text: The wombat will slam its battle-hardened ass cheeks upward, crushing the predator's skull with a series of breathtaking butt slams.

Image of another diagram on lined paper. The wombat has slammed its butt up against the roof of the burrow crushing the direpig's skull between its butt and the earth.

Sound effects, "wam! wam! Wam! Crunch! Crunch! Crack thbpppt!"

Panel 22

Text: And this, my dear reader, is why we're having a conversation about wombats.

Image of the deceased direpig. "RIP direpig. Gone, but not forgotten."

Text: They have surface-to-ass missiles.

Marvelous murder-cheeks.

Weaponised HamSlammers.

Wombats are adorable, huge, high-speed marsupials who defecate Lego bricks and crush the skulls of their enemies using brutal, beautiful buttocks.

Image of wombat buttocks with shiny sun logo things.

Panel 23

Text: They are extraordinary.

I think about them often.

You should too.

Image: This entire panel has a dark background with floating turds and pentagrams maybe meant to represent stars. Image of a wombat floating with turds and pentagrams around it. Below that is a wombat viewed from behind with very prominent butt cheeks. At the bottom is the writer lying on the ground thinking about the wombats in this panel.

Credit: Written and drawn by The Oatmeal. End description]

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bloodwarmed · 4 years

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“Removing danmei has increasingly become part of the repeated anti-pornography and anti-piracy campaigns on the Mainland. Previously, most participants were cautious about their underground status but were relatively relaxed since danmei had not been the main target of these 'stormy' actions. However, in the 2007 anti-cyber-pornography campaign launched in April, the main target had, by June, finally shifted to danmei particularly under the banner of Chuangjian hexie shehui (创建和谐社会 creating a harmonious society). [...]

The top-down anti-danmei campaign was not accomplished without severe protests. Danmei enthusiasts autonomously employed a variety of tactics aided by their communication networks, particularly the Internet. One tactic used by danmei participants was responding to the state raid with protest postings. [...]

Another tactic was moving content to offshore servers offering more freedom. Many Chinese danmei participants turned to overseas, particularly Taiwanese, websites to escape tightened state regulation in China. [...]

The third tactic was mirroring, reviving content in cyberspace when the stormy anti-danmei campaign had come to an end. While the increased regulation of danmei is evident, it has turned out to be difficult to eliminate the genre. In fact, state repression could be counter productive. Before the official closure of the six-month anti-cyber-pornography campaign in October 2007, many danmei e-libraries and forums which had been removed from cyberspace were suddenly revived and regained popularity. [...]

The fourth tactic involved protesting through displaying slogans, especially adapted 'revolutionary' slogans in comic conventions. Before the anti-danmei crackdown, only a small section of the message board set up in March 2007 YACA Guangzhou was used by danmei participants to express their fondness for the subculture. After the state launched the anti-pornography campaign in April, danmei participants turned a much bigger tuyaqiang (涂鸦墙 the scribble wall) at the East-Asian Comic and Animation Tongren Convention (东亚动漫同人大会) in Shanghai into a huge fuqiang (腐墙 rotten wall) in May 2007. [...]

The fifth tactic was protesting through the most popular BL medium among Chinese participants—BL fiction writing, particularly egao (恶搞, reckless doings) type of creative writing. For example, the key word of the 2007 anti-pornography campaign, hexie (和谐 harmony), often appeared in netizens' postings as hexie (河蟹 river crabs). In a serialised computer game fantasy during this period, the male character was named hexie (河邪 river evil). In Feichang shiqi feichang ai (非常时期非常爱 Special Time Special Love) by Yeyu (夜羽), a serialised danmei novel of the time, Mo Fei (莫非), a police officer, was given the nickname 'little crab' by his same-sex lover Jiang Feng (江风), a police hero fighting against drug smuggling. Initially Mo was active in raiding gay bars but after he found out that his childhood hero Jiang Feng was gay he gradually changed his hostile attitude towards homosexuality. The writer wrote in a scene: when the police were ordered to inspect the local book market for obscene material Mo's unit was reluctant to go because they thought it was normal for adults to consume such material. As Mo's subordinates returned with piles of material confiscated from the market, the first thing they asked was whether Mo wanted anything from it.”

— Ting Liu, “Conflicting Discourses on Boys’ Love and Subcultural Tactics in Mainland China and Hong Kong”, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Issue 20, April 2009. (Emphasis mine)

#ting liu #mainland china #danmei #耽美 #boys love #subculture #fandom #歪

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fatehbaz · 5 years

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Turning off the highway, we descended into the petro-industrial gray zone that sprawls from Houston to the sea. A Port of Houston security guard checked our IDs and we drove past hundred-foot-long turbine blades, massive shafts, and what looked like pieces of giant disassembled robots. I asked Tim how he liked living in Houston.

“This is the dirty coast,” he said. “Dirty in the sense that something’s wrong. We’re holding this horrible, necessary energy substance - [fossil fuel] - and it’s like working in an emergency room or a graveyard or a charnel ground. You’re basically working with corpses, with fossils from millions of years ago, you’re working with deadly toxic stuff all the time, stuff that has very intense emotion connected to it. If I was going to find a word that described Texan-ness, I’d use the word ‘wild’—phenomenologically, emotionally, experientially wild.” [...]

From Houston, the ship channel goes south through Galveston Bay, cutting a trench approximately 530 feet wide and 45 feet deep through the estuary bottom to where it passes into the Gulf of Mexico. As you follow the channel south along I-45, strip clubs and fast food franchises give way to bayou resorts and refineries, until the highway finally leaps into the air, soaring over the water with the pelicans. It comes down again in downtown Galveston, once known as “Wall Street of the South”: a mix of historic homes, drydocked oil rigs, beach bars, and the University of Texas Medical Branch. The gulf spreads sullen and muddy to the south, its placid skin broken by distant blisters of flaming steel.

Galveston Bay is a Texas paradox. One of the most productive estuaries in the United States, it offers up huge catches of shrimp, blue crab, oysters, croaker, flounder and catfish, and supports dozens of other kinds of fish, turtles, dolphins, salamanders, sharks and snakes, as well as hundreds of species of birds. Yet the bay is heavily polluted, so full of P.C.B.s, pesticides, dioxin and petrochemicals that fishing is widely restricted. The bay is Houston’s shield, protecting it from the worst of the Gulf Coast’s weather by absorbing storm surges and soaking up rainfall, but hydrologists at Rice University are worried it might also be Houston’s doom: The wide, shallow basin could, under the right conditions, supercharge a storm surge right up the ship channel. [...]

“Obviously,” he said, “it’s not just that unequal distribution is connected to ecological stuff. It is ecological. It’s not like we need to condescend to include fighting racism and these other issues under the banner of ecological thinking. It’s the other way around. These problems were already ecological because the class system [is so entwined with industrial resource extraction].”

Roy Scranton interviews Timothy Morton. “Anthropocene City: Houston as Hyperobject.” Mustarinda 5: Post-Fossil Fuel Culture. February 2018. [Photo 1 is Gulfo de Mexico shore at Galveston. Photos 2 and 3 are Houston Ship Channel. Photos by Roy Scranton.]

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aestheticvoyage2019 · 5 years

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Day 268: Wednesday September 25, 2019 - “Oh Say Can You See?”

After visiting a campus, I got out early enough to visit Fort McHenry in Baltimore before they closed the gates to check a box on a National Monument of significance and here I was watching the flag changing on the afternoon that impeachment proceedings heated up on the President. A unique day. Id listen to the news as I drove down the Chesapeake through Maryland - disappointed and let down. We stand for so much more. And its poignant and a place like this, over the ramparts, where men fought defend our shores - united for all, not for the personal gain of one.

I enjoyed the walk, along the crab apple trees, the statue of Orpheus, the dedications to every state, and the ranger program. I learned that if we ever get a new state, the day a new flag is ratified the very first place it will fly will be here on the pole at Fort McHenry - significant for inspiring the Star Spangled Banner in the War of 1812. Ive heard the stories and how things rolled, but to put my own eyes on the geography was special. I got the lay of the land, walking the entire grounds. While there, I had not yet fully understood all the news of the day - I was bit tied up. It wasnt until later, as I drove out of town towards Annapolis that I comprehended what was brewing. And it was alarming. Especially after spending time reflecting on how special the flag and our country and our history and our freedom and democracy is. I wonder if the President has ever come out here, to Fort McHenry and considered the fight for what the flag represents. I wonder if he’s ever considered himself a guardian of all that. An interesting day and time to be on the shores of the Battle of Baltimore and to have our heart under siege.

Song: James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Dandy

Quote: "An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. And considering as the only offices of power those conferred by the people directly, that is to say, the executive and legislative functions of the General and State governments, the common refusal of these and multiplied resignations, are proofs sufficient that power is not alluring to pure minds, and is not, with them, the primary principle of contest. This is my belief of it; it is that on which I have acted; and had it been a mere contest who should be permitted to administer the government according to its genuine republican principles, there has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books." ~Thomas Jefferson

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callmeblake · 5 years

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I had this in a page but it kept losing the tags. I have not the patience to put them all in again today.

Please just put it in manually for now on unlinked ones until I do.

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agirlinhell-a · 5 years

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The cerulean waves lapped at the golden shores, eager to meet the sands again. Her sand steed of Dornish origin was tied to a palm tree nearby as the young princess filled a coconut shell with water from a nearby river and placed it by the shipwrecked lord’s arm so that when he awakened, he would be able to drink. Upon scouting the shoreline, she noted several broken and destroyed ships broken near the cliffs, and recognized the sigil of House Greyjoy of Westeros. The storm of the southern sea had lasted for a week’s time. How in the name of the gods did a moderate fleet of Greyjoy ships end up to the far south and onto the Summer Isles? What were their intentions? Have they come to raid the isles? Upon rescuing this man, she had no idea what to do with his presence here. His crewmates could be elsewhere on the isles. She knew her lord father would have words for her sheltering a foreign man, especially a man of a bloodline as infamous as House Greyjoy onto her island’s shores, but Chlaena Chason simply could not leave this man to die. It was not in her nature, even though from a young age she had been taught how to fight with a spear and shoot with her goldenheart bow and arrows that could pierce through even steel plate.

The prince could count himself lucky that he had not been devoured by the white sharks that patrolled the waters, though some of his crewmen might have shared this fate. Had his fleet been wrecked eastward, they would have landed at the Basilisk Isles where he and his men would most likely be either sold to the flesh markets of Slaver’s Bay or worse, or at Naath, where the folk were gentle yet the butterfly fever would kill them. Other princes of the isles would have simply held him prisoner until they figured out what to do with the lordling. Her people were not fond of reavers, pirates and slavers, not since the Years of Shame, nor did they believe in meaningless slaughter, bloodshed and conquest. The Summer Isles have long been a place of peace and harmony, united in their Gods and beliefs of love, safety and harmony, if not in their rulers. However, recently that peace has been broken. An upstart child, calling herself Queen Xhala Raaso, had broke the lasting peace of the Isles on the Island of Walano, seizing control of the island through violence and cowardly ambushes. This ‘Queen,’ formerly Princess of the City of Lotus Port and much of Western Walano, was rumored to seek to unite not only Walano but all of the Summer Isles under her rule, and perhaps beyond. Fear grew daily of this child-Queen and her Skeleton Warriors, whom were said to wear the bones of their fallen enemies into battle. Perhaps this queen took inspiration from Joffrey Baratheon, the current king who sat on the Iron Throne of Westeros. They would’ve made a... lovely match, instead of some northern wolf girl becoming his queen.

Golden eyes examined him thoroughly. From the way he’d been dressed, he seemed like a lord of some sort. He must’ve been the captain. Had this fleet of his landed anywhere in the great island of Walano, he would’ve been captured by the little queen’s skeleton warriors, and he would’ve had a high possibility of being killed, to send a message to the ironborn. Waro, the Spirit of the Winds, had been kind to these men.

In the southern Islands known as The Bones, a new prophet had arisen, claiming to be the prophet of the united Sallar and Shanta, the god and goddess of love. This Prophet called himself Utumbe, The Exiled One, who had returned from exile from the Isles claiming to have a vision sent to him by the twin deities Sallar and Shanta. This vision, he claimed, offers lasting peace and prosperity beyond measure to any who embraced the Goddesses and their Prophet. Many lesser Princes and Princesses of the Isles have flocked to his banner, clinging to the hope that he offers in these dark times for the Isles. Others, however, declared him a false prophet, a servant of Isana the Spider God sent to spread even more chaos and bloodshed. A third group, more powerful but less united than the factions led by Xhala Raaso or Utumbe, sought only to return the Isles to the way it once was, and has been for thousands of years. That group was made up of several powerful Princes and Princesses who sought to bring both Xhala Raaso and Utumbe to justice, Xhala for breaking the ancient peace of the Isles and Utumbe for the heresy of claiming to be a prophet of their most cherished gods.

This poor Greyjoy lord had no idea what was going on around him, or what he potentially could get himself into, should he not be careful. Luckily, here,on the island of Lizard Head, where the Chason family had ruled the majority of these isles for millennia, they were distant from the madness of this child queen and the false prophesies of the heretic. The Isles rarely ever had one ruler reigning over the islands and even so, their reigns never did last long. She prayed to her gods that they would show mercy to her people, so that war would not corrupt their lands. Her hair was adorned with a myriad of butterflies and flowers in her hair and dressed in feathers, silks, seashells and gemstones. She’d had no idea how long this man had gone without food or drink, only that the ships had been wrecked recently, so she had collected some clementines, coconuts, pineapples and green bellied crab should he awaken. Chlaena had brought her spear, shield, and her bow and arrows with her in case she’d need to defend herself - one could never know who could harm a princess of the isles, and corsairs and raiders from the Basilisk Isles to the east commonly landed on Lizard Head first. Perhaps her upcoming voyage to the city of Oldtown in Westeros to negotiate talk of trade and alliance with House Hightower and eventually House Tyrell could help with the issue of the child queen once the War of the Five Kings was over. Hopefully she could gain the favor of Margaery Tyrell, should her plans to provide more trade deals and perhaps to gain more allies in the Reach succeed, for her people’s sake. And afterward? She would venture to the Temples of Love and allow others to share her bed, as was expected of her and all other individuals on the isles, male or female, lowborn or highborn.

At age sixteen, she was well versed in different languages, the arts of love and in the arts of war. She prayed she would not have to defend herself against this ironborn lord, as their skill in combat were renown, even in the south. She saw him stir, breaking out of her reverie, as she stepped back a few paces away, gazing at the man before her.

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There are liars out there.

People who will have you believe that Crab is simply oceanic spider.

Those who would fool you are malicious actors, who seek to distract you from the truth.

When the crabs rise from the water and take their true place at the helm of the earth, they will not forget.

They will remember.

The loyal will be rewarded.

We do not speak of the others.

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CHINGGIS QAN-U UJAΓUR, “THE ORIGIN OF CHINGGIS QAN”

This is an expert from my post “THE MONGOLS AND THE RISE OF GENGHIS KHAN”.

Though Khabul’s grandson, Yesugei (Genghis Khan’s father), was not a khan he was still a well-respected and effective chief. Yesugei Baghatur (ba’atur, “hero, brave, valiant, knight, lord”) kidnapped a woman from the Merkits (Mongolian) named Hoelun, whom he would soon marry. His kidnapping of Hoelun led to a long standing feud between the two confederacies which would carry on to Yesugei’s and Hoelun’s son Temujin (Genghis Khan).

“At the time of his birth he was born clutching in his right hand a clot of blood the size of a knucklebone. Because he was born when the Tatar Temüjin Üge had been brought captive, for this very reason they gave him the name Temüjin.” – The Secret History of the Mongols.

^ Mongol (2007). A young Temujin with his father Yesugei.

At the age of nine Temujin and his father journeyed to seek out the Olqunu’ut people, in hopes of finding Temujin a wife. On their way there they came across a relative (by marriage) named Dei Secen of the Onggirat tribe who told Yesugei:

“This son of yours is a boy who has fire in his eyes, who has light in his face”. “I had a dream last night, I did. A white gerfalcon clasping both sun and moon in its claws flew down to me and perched on my hand.” “Before, when I looked, I could only see the sun and the moon from afar; now this gerfalcon has brought them to me and has perched on my hand. He has alighted, all white. Just what sort of good thing does this show? I had my dream, quda Yisügei, just as you were coming here bringing your son. I had a dream of good omen.” – The Secret History of the Mongols.

^ Mongol (2007). My snapshot, Temujin and Borte on both ends of the table.

After this Dei Secen introduced them to his ten year old daughter Borte who also had light in her face and fire in her eyes. Temujin was then given to Dei Secen as his son-in-law and Yesugei departed. While Yesugei traveled back he came across a group of Tatars (Turks) who were feasting, as he joined them Yesugei was unaware that they had poisoned his meal as revenge for a previous raid he had led against them. Temujin returned home to find that their own people had abandoned them. Too young to rule in his own right, Temujin and his family were left destitute and deserted by their own people.

^ Mongol (2007). Young Temujin.

Lady Hoelun (Temujin’s mother) struggled to keep her family fed and taken care of; foraging for bird cherries, crab apples, wild garlic, wild leek, lily bulbs, silverweed and great burnet roots. As they “grew up into fine men, truly valiant and bold. Saying to each other, ‘Let us feed our mother!’ They sat on the bank of Mother Onan (River), they prepared their hooks and fished mean and paltry fish; bending needle into hook, they fished for salmon and grayling. They made seines and dragnets, and caught fingerlings: then, with grateful heart, they fed their mother.” One of the earliest dark scenes of Temujin’s life occurred when Temujin killed his older brother Bekter who would steal hard earned food meant for the family.

Temujin would follow, like most Mongols, a life of constant strife. Throughout his life he was continually attacked, robbed, kidnapped, enslaved and forced to fight, hide or flee. Along the way he came across individuals that went out of their way to aid him, many of whom became close friends or anda (‘blood brothers’). One such individual was To’oril, a powerful Khan of the Kerayits (Mongols). Earlier Yesugei (Temujin’s father) helped To’oril fight the latter’s paternal uncle and reunite the Kerayit Mongols under To’oril’s banner. Since then the two swore to be brothers by oath (anda, ‘blood brother’) and in turn To’oril became like a father, mentor and patron to Temujin after his father’s death. “When he came to [To’oril]Qan, Temüjin said, ‘Since in earlier days you and my father declared yourselves sworn friends you are, indeed, like a father to me.”

To’oril and Temujin loved each other like father and son, referring to each other as such and To’oril even contemplates naming Temujin as his heir. “As for myself, now I have grown old, and having grown old, when I shall ascend to the heights – I have grown ancient, and having grown ancient, when I shall ascend to the cliffs – who will govern all my people? My younger brothers lack force of character; there is only Senggüm, my one son, but it is as if he did not exist. If I make my son Temujin the elder brother of Senggüm, I shall have two sons and my mind will be at rest. (TSHotM, 164)”

They would latter declare themselves father and son, promising:

“‘When we attack the enemy hosts, We shall attack together as one; When we chase the cunning wild beasts, We shall also chase them together as one!’” – The Secret History of the Mongols, 164.

“Out of jealousy for us two – should a snake with venomous teeth provoke discord between us, let us not succumb to his provocations. By talking only mouth to mouth we shall believe each other! Should a snake with venomous fangs spread slander about us, let us not accept his slander. By explaining only face to face we shall believe each other!” – The Secret History of the Mongols, 164.

When Temujin gave To’oril Qan a precious sable coat To’oril promised Temujin that (like Yesugei had done previously): “In return for the sable coat, I shall unite for you, your scattered people. Just as the place of the kidneys must be in the back, that of good faith must be in the breast!” (TSHotM). To’oril Khan would become like a father to Temujin and both swore many times over to that affect.

^ Mongol (2007). My snapshot, Temujin and Borte.

Temujin’s wife Borte was kidnapped by the Merkits (Mongolian) seeking to avenge the kidnapping of Hoelun by Temujin’s father in the distant past.

^ Mongol (2007). Temujin and Borte.

Temujin sought the aid of To’oril Qan; “We have come now to ask you, O Qan my father, to rescue my wife and return her to me”. To’oril Qan and his younger brothers rallied a large force of warriors to defeat the Merkits and Temujin’s wife, they succeeded in both. When Temujin became Genghis Khan, he made it illegal to kidnap women, partially because of this incident but also because this would end one of the reasons for conflict between the steppe nomads.

“The reason why they declared themselves father and son was because in early days Ong Qan had declared himself a sworn friend of Chinggis Qa’an’s father Yisügei Qan, and by virtue of this fact Chinggis Qa’an said that Ong Qan was like a father to him. Such was the reason why they declared themselves father and son. They made the following promises to each other: ‘When we attack the enemy hosts, we shall attack together as one; when we chase the cunning wild beasts, we shall also chase them together as one!’

So they declared. Chinggis Qa’an and Ong Qan also promised each other, saying, ‘Out of jealousy for us two – should a snake with venomous teeth provoke discord between us, Let us not succumb to his provocations. By talking only mouth to mouth we shall believe each other! Should a snake with venomous fangs spread slander about us, let us not accept his slander. By explaining only face to face we shall believe each other!’” – The Secret History of the Mongols, 164.

Another person that Temujin became close to was To’oril’s younger brother Jamuqa. When Temujin was eleven, Jamuqa the two of them vowed twice to be sworn friends (anda, ‘blood brothers’), “Sworn friends – the two of them share but a single life; they do not abandon one another: they are each a life’s safeguard for the other. (TSHotM, 117)”.

^ Mongol (2007). My snapshot, Jamuqa and Temujin.

After To’oril and Jamuqa had helped Temujin save his wife, Jamuqa and he decided to renew that pledge they had made so long ago. The first time (when Temujin was eleven) they swore to become anda (oath brothers) they exchanged knucklebones, the second time (the following spring) it was arrows and this last time they exchanged a golden belt and a horse respectively.

^ Mongol (2007). My snapshot of Jamuqa and Temujin laughing.

For the next year and a half Temujin and Jamuqa remained close friends but in time ‘Sworn friend Jamuqa, so they say, grows easily tired of his friends. (TSHotM, 118)” After discovering that Jamuqa was planning on ambushing him, Temujin and his camp departed under the cover of night. Subsequently many Mongolian clans and tribes rallied to Temujin side, including some who were formerly allied with Jamuqa.

^ Mongol (2007). Jamuqa.

“We would not have parted from him (Jamuqa), but a heavenly sign appeared before my very eyes, revealing the future to me (Qorchi). There came a fallow cow. She circled Jamuqa and struck his tent-cart with her horns; then she butted him too, breaking one of her two horns. Being thus left with uneven horns, “Bring me my horn!” she kept saying, bellowing repeatedly at Jamuqa as she stood there, hoofing up the ground and raising more and more dust. Then a hornless and fallow ox lifted up the great shaft under the tent, harnessed it on to himself and pulled it after him. As he proceeded following Temüjin on the wide road, he kept bellowing, “Together Heaven and Earth have agreed: Temüjin shall be lord of the people!” and “I am drawing near carrying the people and bringing it to him.” These heavenly signs appeared before my eyes; they revealed the future to me.” – Qorchi of the Ba’arin tribe was sent a heavenly sign. The Secret History of the Mongols.

Now having a tribe which extended beyond just his blood relatives, Temujin called for a kuriltai (assembly) where those who attended also voted in favor of assigning Temujin the title of Chinggis Qa’an. Chinggis Qa’an then sent envoys to his oath father To’oril (who was happy to hear the news) and his oath brother Jamuqa (who was angered that his own men had sided with Temujin Khan). Jamuqa’s younger brother was then killed by one of Temujin Khan’s tribesmen after robbing their herd of horses from them. This was enough for Jamuqa to assemble his thirteen camps of thirty thousand against Chinggis Qa’an. After repelling Chinggis Qa’an at the Battle of Dalan Balzhut, Jamuqa had some of those that had deserted him to join Chinggis Qa’an tortured and killed.

^ Mongol (2007). My snapshot, Jamuqa.

“Jamuqa had the princes of the Chinòs boiled alive in seventy cauldrons. Having cut off the head of Chaqa’an U’a of the Ne’üs, he dragged it away bound to the tail of his horse.” – The Secret History of the Mongols, 129.

Now in 1201 CE Mongolian and Tatar (Turkish) tribes assembled and chose Jamuqa to lead them as their Gur-Khan (universal chief of khans, used mostly by the Turco-Mongol empire of Kara Khitai):”‘Let us raise Jamuqa the Jajirat as qan’, they jointly hacked the backs of a stallion and a mare and together swore an oath of friendship.” Some of the tribes he now ruled were ones that had wronged Chinggis Qa’an (Temujin) and his ancestors, most importantly the Turkish Tatars and the Mongolian Naimans. By taking the title Gur-Khan, Jamuqa was effectively challenging and undermining his older brother To’oril Ong Qan who was the regional overlord. Jamuqa would continue warring with his older brother (To’oril Ong Qan) and his oath brother (Chinggis Qa’an).

^ Mongol (2007). My snapshot, Jamuqa.

Temujin Khan wanted to strengthen the alliance between himself and his oath father To’oril Ong Qan by arranging marriages between their children but To’oril’s son (Nilqa Senggüm) refused to do so, pressuring To’oril into unintentionally disrespecting and placing himself above Temujin Khan by refusing, a rift grew between the two. To’oril’s brother (Jamuqa) and son (Senggüm) were able to trick and convince To’oril into joining them against Temujin Khan. While they wished to handle the issue of Temujin Khan violently, To’oril Ong Qan tried to convince them to instead rob Chinggis Qa’an (Temujin) of his people and in turn strip him of power. “The best plan is to go ahead and capture Temujin’s people. If his people are taken away from him and he is left without them, what can he do (TSHotM, 166)?” The ‘Secret History of the Mongols’ goes to great lengths to describe the pain, anguish and torment To’oril and Chinggis Qa’an went through when pitted into this impossible position.

“Khan, my father, why turn against me? Don’t you recall how we swore allegiance? Were we not like oxen pulling together, or like the wheels on a two-wheeled cart? Did not Yesugei, my father, come to your help? Were you two not sworn brothers? Did you not say ‘I will repay your favor to your children’s children’? When you were cast out, surviving with five goats, drinking the blood of your camels, did I not restore you? When you were plundered by the Naimans, did I not send my four greatest men, my four ‘war horses’, to help you, and save your son? So why, khan my father, do you turn against me?” – The Secret History of the Mongols.

To’oril Ong Qan: “How can I separate from my child, my son (Chinggis Qa’an)? Because until now he has been our support, is it right to harbor evil intentions against him? We shall not be loved by Heaven (Tengri)” (TSHotM, 167). In the end To’oril’s fear of losing his son Senggüm to this dispute pressured him into siding against Chinggis (Temujin). After losing a great clash Jamuqa Gur-Khan and To’oril Ong Qan fled, the latter was mistakenly killed by a Naiman bodyguard. To compensate for this, the Naiman queen asked that To’oril’s head should be brought to her so she could atone for this mistake. She placed To’oril’s head on a sacred white felt cloth at the back of her ger (yurt, tent), a place of great honor.

^ Mongol (2007). My snapshot, Jamuqa before Temujin.

A ceremony then commenced in which the queen prayed and offered wine to the head as if he was still alive since the head of a person was seen as the seat of their soul. All the while her daughters-in-law danced and sang while musicians played their morin huur (horsehead fiddles). When the Naiman Khan supposedly saw the head of To’oril Ong Qan smile or laugh at him he fell into a panic in which he kicked the head off of the sacred white felt cloth and stomped it to a pulp. After Jamuqa’s final defeat, he fled and was later turned over to Chinggis Qa’an (Temujin) by his own people, who were executed for their betrayal. Chinggis still saw Jamuqa as his sworn blood brother so he tried to convince Jamuqa into joining him:

“Now the two of us are united. Let us be companions! If we become each of us like one of the two shafts of a cart, would you think of separating yourself from me and being on your own? Now that we are together once more, let us each remind the other of what he has forgotten, let us each wake up the other who has fallen asleep. Although you separated from me and went a different way, you remain my lucky, blessed sworn friend. On the day one kills and is killed, surely your heart was aching for me. Although you separated from me and went a different way, on the day one fights one another, your lungs and heart were aching for me.” – The Secret History of the Mongols.

^ Mongol (2007). “I’ll always be a rock in your boot”.

Jamuqa Gur-Khan replies to Chinggis Qa’an (Temujin), his oath brother:

“In early days when we were small, in the Qorqonaq Valley I agreed with my sworn friend the Qan to become sworn friends: together we ate food that is not to be digested, to each other we spoke words that are not to be forgotten, together we were under our blanket sharing it between us (a common non-sexual custom still done today), but stirred up by someone coming between us, pricked by someone standing at the side, we parted for good. Saying to myself that we had exchanged weighty words, the skin of my black face peeled off in shame; and so I have been living unable to come near you, unable to see the friendly face of my sworn friend the Qan. Saying to myself that we had exchanged unforgettable words, the skin of my red face came off in shame; and so I have been living unable to see the true face of my sworn friend with a long memory.

‘Now my sworn friend the Qan shows favour to me and says, “Let us be companions!” But when it was the time for being companions, I was not one. Now, sworn friend, You have pacified all our people, You have unified all other peoples, and the Qan’s throne has been assigned to you. Now that the world is at your disposal, of what use would I be as a companion to you? On the contrary, O my sworn friend, I would intrude into your dreams in the dark night, I would trouble your heart in the bright day, I would be a louse in your collar, I would be a thorn in the inner lapel of your coat. ‘I had many paternal grandmothers. When I became disloyal to my sworn friend I made a mistake. Now, in this life – that of the sworn friend and me – my fame has indeed passed from sunrise to sunset.” – The Secret History of the Mongols.

“If you want to show favour to me, let me die swiftly and your heart will be at rest. And if you condescend to have me put to death, let them kill me without shedding blood. When I lie dead, my bones buried in a high place, for ever and ever I shall protect you and be a blessing to the offspring of your offspring.” – The Secret History of the Mongols.

Despite their tumultuous relationship, Chinggis (Temujin) honored him by giving him an honorable death without bloodshed and burying him in a high place per their custom. It is believed that Chinggis buried his sworn blood brother Jamuqa with a golden belt Chinggis gave him when they renewed their oath of brotherhood.

“He ordered that Jamuqa be put to death without his blood being shed and that his body should not be abandoned in the open, but be given a fitting burial. He had Jamuqa executed there and then, and had his body buried as arranged.” – The Secret History of the Mongols.

^ Mongol (2007). My snapshot, Temujin.

With the deaths of Jamuqa and To’oril, Chinggis Qa’an (Temujin) effectively became the de facto overlord of the Mongolian Steppe. In 1206 CE the majority of their neighboring Mongolian and Turkish tribes gathered at a kuriltai (assembly) to accepted the forty-four years old Chinggis as their Qan (Khan).

“And so, when the people of the felt-walled tents had been brought to allegiance, in the Year of the Tiger (1206 CE) they all gathered at the source of the Onan River. They hoisted the white standard with nine tails (yak) and there they gave Chinggis Qa’an the title of qan (Khan).” – The Secret History of the Mongols.

As far as the eye can see, gers spread out for miles in every direction. The event was celebrated with feasts, music and sports. The eriin gurvan naadam (“three manly games”) were wrestling, archery and horse racing. Music filled the air from day till nightfall; chanting, drums were pounded on, morin huur (horse-head fiddle) were played and the Mongols vocalized their tradition Mongolian throat-singing.

Head over to my post, “GENGHIS KHAN, THE STALLION WHO MOUNTS THE WORLD”, to read more about how Genghis Khan was pressured into campaigning out of China toward Central Asia (Kara Khitai Khanate), to Greater Iran (Khwarezmian Empire), to the frontier of Eastern Europe (Medieval Russia and Ukraine) and back to China. I also cover Mongol shamanism and their tolerance of foreign religions, the famed ‘Yam’ pony express, their tactical use of captives and their massive deportation policy.

To read up on the early history of the Mongols, check out my post ‘THE MONGOLS AND THE RISE OF GENGHIS KHAN’. In this post I speak about the Mongolian transition from seemingly insignificant tribal confederacies into an empire that was four times the size of Alexander’s and twice the size of the Roman’s. I cover their military tactics, some of their battle formations, armaments, their rapid adaptation of foreign technologies, and their secretive order of bodyguards known as the Keshik. During Genghis Khan’s early reign the Mongols warred against themselves and their fellow steppe neighbors as well as Northern China’s Western Xia dynasty (Tanguts: Tibeto-Burmese) and eastern Jinn dynasty (Tungusic Jurchens who were Sinicized).

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The Clinton- and Bush-Era Cars Still Sold Today

We hear it all the time: Keep politics out of MotorTrend. Well, you’re in luck, because despite the political nature of this article’s title, there are no political undertones to the text. Did you support Bill Clinton while Newt Gingrich and Ken Starr tried to take him down? Whatever. Were you hooting and hollering as George W. Bush spoke on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln under a “Mission Accomplished” banner? It’s irrelevant.

Neither of these presidents’ accomplishments, failures, or policies matter. We’re simply using their presidencies as a measure of time. After all, it’s one thing to say an automaker’s been selling the same basic car for a dozen years; it’s another to realize an automaker first introduced a specific car it still sells while William Jefferson Clinton or George Walker Bush helmed the Executive Branch of the United States government.

1996 Chevrolet Express/GMC Savana

This van represented the first redesign of General Motors full-size cargo and passenger vans since the early 1970s. The 1996 Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana received modern styling and safety features, as well as stiff new underpinnings. Almost 25 years later, the vans soldier on. Minor facelifts and powertrain improvements helped the vans maintain some semblance of modernity over the years. That said, GM’s full-size vans look and feel comparatively ancient next to more contemporary competitors such as the Ford Transit, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, and Ram ProMaster.

2005 Nissan Frontier

Unlike consumer interest in mid-size pickups, which ebbs and flows like the Colorado River, the Nissan Frontier persists—a living fossil, like a horseshoe crab or a coelacanth. The Japanese automaker took the wraps off the truck at the 2004 Detroit auto show and announced its arrival for the 2005 model year. Using a variant of the frame that underpins the full-size Nissan Titan pickup, the Frontier impressed us on its debut with its “well-controlled and decently compliant ride” and available 265 horsepower 4.0-liter V-6 engine. Nissan rested on its laurels, though, and changed little about the model in the ensuing years. The brand finally made a noteworthy change to the Frontier for the 2020 model year with the introduction of a new 3.8-liter V-6 engine, which makes 310 horses and replaces the truck’s prior 4.0-liter V-6 and previously standard 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine. Powertrain aside, little else separates the 2005 and 2020 Nissan Frontiers.

2007 Toyota Tundra

The Toyota Tundra finally went toe-to-toe with the domestic full-size pickup trucks for the 2007 model year. Bold and brash, the second-generation Tundra carried over its predecessor’s 4.0-liter V-6 and 4.7-liter V-8 engines, but also offered buyers a new 381-hp 5.7-liter V-8 option. Despite the thrust of its big bent-eight, the Tundra failed to take down the 2007 Chevrolet Silverado in a comparison test. Small improvements included the arrival of a more modern 4.6-liter V-8 engine to replace the aging 4.7-liter unit, as well as revisions to the exterior and interior for 2014. In spite of this, the Tundra that Toyota sells today remains largely the same as the truck it introduced during Bush’s second term in office.

2008 Dodge Challenger

Following the success of its Challenger concept car at the 2006 Detroit auto show, Dodge greenlit the rear-drive coupe for production. The 2008 Dodge Challenger arrived in high-horsepower SRT8 form boasting a 425-hp 6.1-liter V-8 that pushed the 197.7-inch long muscle car to 60 miles per hour in 4.7 seconds. Dodge added less powerful six- and eight-cylinder engine options for 2009, and an even rowdier 470-hp 6.4-liter V-8 for the 2011 model year. The real party arrived for 2015, though, with an exterior and interior refresh and a new Hellcat trim, which included a 707-hp supercharged 6.2-liter V-8. The rip-snorting powertrain allowed the 4,449-pound coupe to hit the mile-a-minute mark in 3.7 seconds and cross the quarter-mile after 11.7 seconds at 125.4 mph. Dodge then took things a couple of steps further with the 840-hp 2018 Challenger SRT Demon and the 797-hp 2019 Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye. Although Dodge continues to develop the Challenger, the big coupe remains—at its core—fundamentally the same vehicle it was more than a decade ago.

2008 Dodge Grand Caravan

The 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan ditched its predecessor’s jelly bean-like looks for square wares that loosely resemble the styling of the original 1984 Caravan. Unfortunately, the model’s plastic-heavy interior failed to impress. Dodge quickly reworked the Grand Caravan with a 2011 model year refresh that gave the minivan slightly less blocky styling details, a reworked interior, and a 3.6-liter V-6 underhood. After that, crickets. While the Grand Caravan’s sibling, the Chrysler Town & Country, retired after the 2016 model year to make way for the arrival of the new Pacifica minivan, the Dodge keeps on chugging. Although the geriatric Grand Caravan remains a part of the 2020 Dodge lineup, it’s due to disappear from the American brand’s 2021 model line.

2008 Lexus LX/Toyota Land Cruiser

Lexus and Toyota revealed new iterations of the LX and Land Cruiser for the 2008 model year, the former of which dons the name LX 570, an homage to the 5.7-liter V-8 engine that rests underhood. Despite its name’s lack of digits, the same engine motivates the Land Cruiser. Like prior iterations of these pricey SUVs, the latest LX 570 and Land Cruiser are big and boxy. Lexus made some minor improvements to the 2013 LX, which received the brand’s “spindle” grille design. The hulking luxury SUV benefitted from a more thorough reskin for 2016—coinciding with a facelift for the more utilitarian Land Cruiser. A dozen years on, though, these two Japanese SUVs still maintain much of the same mechanical pieces as the day Lexus and Toyota tore each models’ wraps off.

2008 Toyota Sequoia

As goes the Tundra, so goes the Sequoia. One model year after Toyota revealed the redesigned Tundra, its SUV sibling received a full makeover. The body-on-frame people mover received a front end and dashboard like that of the Tundra, as well as new mechanical bits—such as an independent rear suspension and an optionally available 381-hp 5.7-liter V-8. While the Tundra received a thorough mid-cycle update for the 2014 model year, the Sequoia soldiers on largely unchanged from the day it broke cover at the 2007 Los Angeles auto show.

2009 Dodge Journey

When it was introduced, the 2009 Dodge Journey brought crossover sensibilities to the American brand’s largely car and SUV dominant model line. Although it offered handsome looks when new, the Journey’s low-quality interior materials and middling powertrains (a standard 173-hp 2.4-liter I-4 and four-speed automatic transmission, and an optional 235-hp 3.5-liter V-6 and six-speed automatic) failed to impress. Dodge updated the model with a higher-quality interior, revised styling, and a new V-6 engine for 2011. While the 283-hp unit brought more liveliness to the Journey and allowed the 4,350-pound, all-wheel-drive crossover to hit 60 mph in 7.5 seconds, the standard, pokey I-4 remained a sore spot. The addition of a butcher looking Crossroad package added somewhat to the Journey’s appeal, however, the loss of the V-6 engine for the 2020 model year ultimately makes this aging crossover an even harder sell in today’s competitive marketplace.

2009 Dodge Ram 1500

Dodge’s last pickup entered the market for the 2009 model year with evolutionary styling and a revolutionary (by truck standard’s) coil spring rear suspension setup. In the early 2010s, Ram formally broke away from Dodge and the former Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck received the simpler Ram 1500 nomenclature. The Ram-badged truck became the 1500 Classic for 2019 in order to separate it from the redesigned Ram 1500. Despite the two Rams filling the same essential role in the truck brand’s model line, the 1500 Classic continues on as an entry-level alternative to the dynamically superior, MotorTrend Truck of the Year winning, new 1500.

2009 Nissan 370Z

Approximately six years after the arrival of the reborn Nissan 350Z sports car, the Japanese brand let loose the thoroughly reworked 370Z. As its name implies, the new car traded its predecessor’s 306-hp 3.5-liter V-6 for a 332-hp 3.7-liter unit. With nearly four inches cut from its wheelbase, more than two inches added to its rear track, and a few pounds slashed from its curb weight, the new Z car promised noteworthy performance improvements. Unfortunately, the engine’s extra displacement results in additional coarseness. Although initially available in both coupe and roadster form, Nissan culled the drop-top from the lineup for the 2020 model year, leaving the hard-topped model as the sole Z option. Fortunately, the long-lived 370Z is due to go out to pasture in order to make room for a completely redesigned Nissan Z car.

2009 Nissan GT-R

After years of begging, North American consumers finally got the chance to own Nissan’s legendary GT-R for the 2009 model year. The redesigned super-coupe no longer served as a variant of the Skyline (sold here—at the time—as the Infiniti G37), and instead becomes its own dedicated model. With all-wheel-drive, a slick six-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission, a 480-hp twin-turbocharged 3.8-liter V-6 engine, and a starting price just north of $70,000, the GT-R offered six-figure performance in a five-figure package. The car’s dynamic capabilities and inherent value earned it our Car of the Year award. Nissan continued to improve the model throughout the next decade, with the current, entry-level GT-R making a full 565-hp from its twin-turbo six-cylinder engine. The car also costs a good deal more these days, with the least expensive 2020 GT-R ringing in at $115,335—more than $40,000 higher than the 2009 GT-R’s cost of entry.

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The Clinton- and Bush-Era Cars Still Sold Today

1996 Chevrolet Express/GMC Savana

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2007 Toyota Tundra

2008 Dodge Challenger

2008 Dodge Grand Caravan

2008 Lexus LX/Toyota Land Cruiser

2008 Toyota Sequoia

2009 Dodge Journey

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Top Secret: Delaware’s Clubs

(Inspired by @askaphmaine and their drawings because I love Maryland and the world always needs more Delaware in general)

Classification: Top Secret clearance needed

Subject: State of Delaware

(Warning: the following names and descriptions of memberships and close clubs of the United States of America Representative State Congress may have been altered because D.C read this just as I was about to finish and now I have to make it sound like a goddamn legal document, because god forbid a state write anything that doesn't sound like Terms and Conditions contract. But I changed them anyway because screw D.C and I can do what I want.)

Alright, so you think Delaware is some backwater state who can’t tell right from left and is a weirdo who can’t tie his shoes? You can’t find Delaware on a map because he doesn’t sound important? Do you find it odd that sometimes Delaware refers to himself in the third person? Well, I’m here to clear up some of those stupid Yankee or redneck misconceptions and make you understand how great I truly am! And to do that, I’m going to give you a list of all the clubs and caucuses and whatnot that I’m a part of! Then you’ll see how awesome and genius I truly am and NO I’m not part of freaking Pennsylvania. That’s how you spell it right? I always forget.

Okay, let’s start!

The Chicken Duo:

Members: Me and Rhode Island

Purpose: I kinda forgot, but I think it’s mostly so Button (that’s my adorable blue hen that’s an absolute sweetheart) can have a friend. Rhode has a chicken too, but it doesn’t like to fight or anything, so we can’t have cockfights like in the good old days when it was legal. I think it was to counteract the Northern Cardinal Club that just grows more and more by the day (pick something original for god’s sake). And the Turkey Club, but all they do it make turkey puns.

The I-Don’t-Have-A-Single-Mountain Club:

Members: Me, Louisiana, Florida, D.C sometimes, Rhode Island, and Mississippi

Purpose: No idea, but hey I’m in it! I’m number one cause I’m the most um, flat I guess? I ain’t got any mountains at all, and California keeps telling me that I’m going to be the first one to die in global warming. Yeah, I’ll make sure to say hi to Florida when that happens, Ms. Fake Nose.

The I-Was-Named-After-An-Old-White-Guy Troop:

Members: Georgia (the poor bastard), Me, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Jefferson when we’re feeling generous. Though we’ve been thinking about expanding it to old white ladies too because Maryland keeps nagging us and Maine is super scary when she wants to be, but then we have to change the name from old white guy to old white person, which I think makes it sound less funny.

Purpose: To talk smack about all the other states who got to be named after Native American words and just hang out I guess.

The I-Was-Technically-Named-After-A-River Club:

Members: Colorado (his name literally means red, how sucky is that?), Mississippi (duh), and Me. They keep trying to throw me out because I’m part of the White Guy Naming club, but I was named after a river which in turn was named after an old white guy. So I fit in both, technically.

Purpose: We go fishing a lot, and basically talk about rivers and stuff. Though they keep throwing me overboard and bet how long I can swim before having to be pulled out. And they say conservatives and liberals don’t get along. God, I hate being short. Oh, and we smoke a ton of weed.

The Mason-Dixon Line States:

Members: Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Me. No, West Virginia and New Jersey don’t count. Though I’m not sure Pennsylvania does either, but we can’t throw him out cause then it would be just me and Maryland, and we both have like SUPER bad impulse control, so we’d probably end up dead or something. I’m pretty sure none of us want a repeat of the skateboarding goat incident (even though that was super funny and I got stupid rich from all the bets placed against the fact I could throw a goat into a lake and it could still ride a skateboard better than Alaska when he’s hungover).

Purpose: Argue about the Mason-Dixon line agreement, fight, talk smack about everyone, and wonder what side of the Civil War we should've been on (sorry, that’s just me and Maryland, PENNSYLVANIA has it all figured out). That’s about it. We also go to parties and stuff, but I try to avoid Pennsylvania like the plague because he never lets anything go and I practically see Maryland every day.

The Democratic State Caucus:

Members: I’m too lazy to list them all, but basically all the democrat states plus me.

Purpose: To vote against the Republican State Caucus and talk about how great it was when Obama was around. (I miss Joe Biden though, my one true awesome vice-president. Obama too I guess. But JOE was awesome. He was my senator for forever you know. I have him on speed dial cause he’s so awesome. Joe, Joe, Joe of the Jungle, watch out for that Republican filibuster, PLOP. I’m getting off track, aren’t I?)

The I’ve-Been-A-Democrat-For-Forty-Years-And-I’m-Never-Going-To-Change Club:

Members: Me, Hawaii, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, Rhode Island, Maine, wait, how many of us are there? Holy pajamas that’s a lot.Yeah, I’m not writing them all down. They have too much of an ego anyway.

Purpose: Just talk about how stupid Republicans are and where the country’s going. Basically, a group where you can talk about your opinions and stuff without being yelled at by Texas or the I’ve-Been-A-Republican-For-Forty-Years-And-I’m-Never-Going-To-Change club.

The Smaller-Side-Of-The-Spectrum States:

Members: Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Hawaii, and Me.

Purpose: “I am NOT short!” - All of us at once. That pretty much sums it up.

The I-Was-Once-Part-Of-Pennsylvania-Club:

Members: Delaware

Purpose: To talk about great Pennsylvania is and- wait, how did this get here? This isn’t my handwriting. What even is this? The I-Was-Once-Part-Of- GODDAMNIT PENNSYLVANIA!

The No-Counties-Club:

Members: Me, Rhode Island, and Hawaii

Purpose: To complain about our counties and ignore the fact that they only have 5 and I only have 3. Yes, THREE! And they’re all annoying (please don’t let them know I said that).

The Tax Evasion Buddies:

Members: Nevada, Alaska, and me.

Purpose: “To find a legal team to make our laws better,” is what Nevada says, but not for me, no sir. Tax evasion makes me stupid rich, and where else are all the big companies going to go? DuPont and no-sales-tax for the win!

The Am-I-South-Or-North Trio

Members: West Virginia, Maryland, and me. W. Virginia keeps saying that he’s “Appalachian” or Southern or whatever, but we’re not letting him leave cause then it’ll just be me and Maryland and again we both have like the WORST impulse control, and W. Virginia is the strictest guy I know so he has to balance us out or else bye bye humanity.

Purpose: To find comfort in the fact there are other states that feel like they don’t belong in the North/South dynamic in the Original Thirteen. Me and Maryland had it rough in the beginning, so we formed a club as a sort of “Middle” between the North and South, and once Western Virginia escaped from Virginia in the Civil War, we had three! So there’s that, I guess. Also it gets pretty lonely in the O13 if you aren’t a New Englander or a Southerner, so banding together helps. God, now I’m depressed.

The First-States:

Members: Just me and my awesomeness.

Purpose: To fulfill a dare that Maryland made that I wouldn’t make a club just for the First State (which I am) because I talked about it so much. Well in your face Mary Mary Quite Contrary, I actually did it! A club just for the First State, because I was the first person to sign the Constitution and I am NEVER letting that go. Ever. So screw the State Congress’s club rules, Delaware, the First State, gets what he wants baby. It also helps that I got all of the major lobbies on speed dial. Why? None of your damn business. *cough* tax evasion *cough*

Del-Mar-Va Trio:

Members: Virginia, Maryland, and Me.

Purpose: I don’t even know anymore. Maryland and Virginia fight like rabid dogs and they just never get along and I’m stuck in the middle of it and it’s just a huge soap opera. Last time I checked Maryland sent one of her crabs to tear up one of Virginia’s dresses and Virginia retaliated by making her foxhound follow Maryland around until she apologized, and as far as I know, that dog is still following her because Maryland’s as stubborn as a mule sometimes. I think we originally were trying to see if we could make a new state or something, unifying the whole Delmarva peninsula under one banner, but honestly, that scares me a bit. I mean, Virginia and Maryland have other territories than just the peninsula, but me? That peninsula is all I got. If we formed a new state, Delaware would cease to exist. And I’ve been through way too much crap to die in a sucky way like that. I’m going to go out in a blaze of glory with my state anthem screaming in the background with Maryland chucking crabs out of her crab-launcher and Pennsylvania screaming in terror behind me during the apocalypse or something. Now THAT is an awesome way to die.

(Executive Edit: This has been an informal draft sent to the Executive State Oversight Committee of the United States of America Representative State Congress in an attempt to “educate” the states on the committee, and to provide evidence that the state of Delaware was not, in fact, a main conspirator in the disastrous scandal now know as Skateboarding Goat-gate, and that this article proved his innocence. The trial overseen by the United States of America Representative State Congress has since found Delaware to be guilty. In turn, all of his previous writings have been confiscated and placed under high classification. - Democratic leader of the United States of America Representative State Congress, the State of California. And I do not have a fake nose, you little shit.)

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The Chase Files Daily Newscap 1/22/2019

Good MORNING #realdreamchasers! Here is The Chase Files Daily News Cap for Tuesday 22nd January 2019. Remember you can read full articles for FREE via Barbados Today (BT) or Barbados Government Information Services (BGIS) OR by purchasing by purchasing a Daily Nation Newspaper (DN).

UPP NOT DAUNTED BY DEFECTORS – The United Progressive Party (UPP) may now be left licking its wounds after three of its former candidates left to join the Opposition. However, the relatively young political party said it was not daunted and would continue to “build strong” and represent the interest of Barbadians. In a Facebook post the UPP, which failed to capture a seat in the last election, in which the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) took all 30 seats, said it expected that Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley would form a new political party. It was on Saturday that Atherley announced a team he said would speak on behalf of the Opposition on national issues. He stressed that the announcement was not the launch of a political party, but said that would come in due course. Maria Phillips, Bruce Hennis and Paul Forte, who ran under a UPP ticket in the last election, were part of the 13 members named among the Opposition team. The UPP described the move as an interesting one, stating that its members had the freedom of choice. “As expected, Joseph Atherley is forming a new Party. As you know Atherley contested the election under the BLP and in a surprise move crossed the floor to sit in the Opposition seat. Three of the individuals who appear in the media photograph contested the last election under the UPP banner. To the best of our knowledge and belief they have left the UPP. “The development is an interesting one for those who study politics as Barbados seeks to build a multi-party democracy. The UPP in a statement immediately after the last election gave its candidates the freedom to choose,” it said. The party, which is led by attorney-at-law Lynette Eastmond, said it would continue to build strong and continue to represent the interests of all Barbadians. “It is clear that there is a certain amount of discontent among Barbadians as they are not seeing the transparency and access which they were promised during the last election. “The UPP has made it its business to keep its channels of communication open with all parties and will continue to do so in the interest of Barbados,” the UPP added. Atherley, who was elected to the House of Assembly on a BLP ticket, formed a one-man Opposition mere days after the May 24 general election. He had named two Opposition Senators – Crystal Drakes and Caswell Franklyn, who were also named as spokespersons for the Opposition on issues of national importance. He said three more people would be added to that group of senators at a later date. His Opposition group also consists of former Solutions Barbados candidates Scott Weatherhead, Alan Springer, Irvin Belgrave, Rev John Carter and Paul Gibson. There are also Sylvan Greenidge from the Barbados Integrity Movement and lecturer Dr. Philip Corbin and Akil Daley. “This is, for me as Leader of the Opposition, a proud moment. I believe it is for our country a historic moment,” Atherley said on Saturday. (BT)

GUNS SEIZED – Less than 24 hours after Attorney General Dale Marshall announced measures to fight rising gun crime, police seized three guns and an undisclosed amount of ammunition from an illegal fete in Montrose, Christ Church. The NATION was reliably informed the operation took place in the very early hours of Sunday morning. In addition to the three revolvers and ammunition, knives and scissors were also seized and several men were detained for questioning in connection with the discovery of illegal drugs. When a NATION news team visited the area yesterday, residents said they were unaware of the incident. Stepped-up police patrols have become very visible since the upsurge in gun-related activity. (DN)

BODY FOUND AT VAUXHALL SENIOR CITIZENS VILLAGE – Police are on the scene of another unnatural death. Initial reports indicate a woman was killed tonight at the Vauxhall Senior Citizens Village, Vauxhall, Christ Church. (DN)

UPDATE: POLICE INVESTIGATE HOMICIDE AT SENIOR CITIZENS HOME – Police have taken a man into custody for questioning as they commence investigations into the death of an elderly woman at a senior citizens home in Vauxhall, Christ Church. Police were called to the Vauxhall Senior Citizens Home just after 6 p.m. on Monday January 21 for reports that one of the residents there had been injured. Acting Senior Superintendent of Police at the Southern Division Bruce Rowe said on arrival, officers found the body of an elderly woman who had died of suspected stab wounds. “There is a person in custody assisting us with the investigation but we will not disclose any names at this time because of the fact that we have to notify family members,” Rowe said. The superintendent confirmed that the man in custody was also a resident at the home. (BT)

BODY FOUND AT RIVER BAY – Around 5:40 p.m this evening police responded to River Bay St Lucy, where they discovered the body of an adult female. Investigations are continuing. (DN)

POLICE CONSTABLE PASSES AWAY – On Sunday, 20 January about 8:40pm, police at Crab Hill, viewed the body of police constable Donette Cadogan, 41 years of Apartment #1, Josey Hill, St. Lucy. She reportedly complained to a sibling of feeling unwell and subsequently collapsed and died. (DN)

TEEN MISSING AT ‘HOT POT’ – What began as a boys’ night out for three friends, turned into a night of tragedy. Teenager Lindy London, of Cottage Crescent, St George, is now missing after a trip to the popular “Hot Pot” area of the Brighton Beach in St Michael. The 18-year-old met up with his two buddies for a planned lime after his church’s evening service. The three friends, including St Auburn Blunt, of Hothersal Turning, St Michael, were enjoying the beach outing when London encountered difficulty with strong currents. He was reported missing around 8:30 p.m. on Sunday and members of the Coast Guard and Marine Unit have been searching for him since then. On Sunday as the search was underway, Blunt returned to the beach around 9 a.m. hoping for an outcome that would bring him closure before he left after 5 p.m. (DN)

PETERS SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES – Barbados recorded its first road fatality. 24-year-old Mario Peters succumbed to his injuries around 11 p.m. last night. Peters, was on his way home and was involved in an accident with a ZM van in front Harbour Lights on Bay Street on January 4. He leaves to mourn his three-year-old daughter, his parents and his four siblings. (DN)

FAMILY MOURNS FOR MARIO PETERS – Gail Peters is trying to be strong for her family. But being strong is difficult after losing your 24-year-old son. In Bayville, St Michael, at the family home of the late Mario Peters, scores of family members and close friends gathered to lend support to his grieving parents, Junior and Gail Peters, who were forced to watch as their son’s life changed in a matter of seconds. “It is not an easy thing for the family,” said the deceased man’s mother, who told Barbados TODAY, “This is the first incident like this that has ever occurred in the family and we are really trying to support one another . . .” Mario’s head was severely injured when his motorcycle collided with a taxi on January 3 just outside the Harbour Lights Night Club while he and a friend were riding along Bay Street. He was knocked unconscious but remained alive and unresponsive for the next 16 days, until he quietly passed away just after 11a.m. on Sunday following days of treatment in the surgical Intensive Care Unit of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH). “We are all trying to cope with this very tragic news. It’s not a situation like he was ill and passed away. It was sudden death,” said his mother, who throughout the interview remained very composed. The grieving woman however admitted that the days following the accident had been very “traumatic” for the family, “even watching him in the condition that he was in from then,” she said. The “loving” man, a former student of Arthur Smith Primary and St Leonard’s Boys would battle for his life for more than two weeks as family and friends hoped and prayed that he would emerge from his comatose state. Although he did not, his mother told Barbados TODAY that while her son’s death was unexpected, it happened while doing what he loved. “His love was a motorcycle. At the time [of the accident] he was riding what they described as a Honda 80, a small motorcycle. But he always had a love for motorcycles,” she said. In fact, she revealed that Mario, “who could ride a bicycle, from before he could walk properly,” had proven himself a very adventurous person from a young age. “From as young as I can remember, Mario was always a person who was into activities. He always had a bicycle and by age five or six he was a member of DC Wheelers [a biker group based in the Pine, St Michael,” she said. Mario, who worked at his father’s electrical business, was said to have been very good with his hands and “could pick down and put up things very easily.” The 24-year-old father was described as having “a very strong but a loving personality,” especially for his family and his daughter, three-year-old Kamaria Peters. “He loved his daughter and I know his greatest wish would be for us to take total care of his daughter until she reaches adulthood and we are going to make sure of that,” his mother promised. Mario also leaves to mourn his three brothers – Dale, Denny, and Theo Peters along with his sister, Christiana Peters. (BT)

INFRARED THE COOL WINNER – The Caribbean’s most celebrated female trainer Liz Deane dominated the Coolmore Home Of Champions Raceday yesterday at the Garrison Savannah by delivering three winners. In the process, Deane etched her name in the history books as Sir David Seale’s Brigadier Wood gave herwin No. 600 in a stellar career. However, that feat would play second fiddle to the results of the 20th running of the Coolmore Home Of Champions Stakes And Trophy won by Infrared. The Raizman brothers’ horse, six-year-old Infrared, under jockey Jalon Samuel, brought much-needed joy to the hearts of his supporters as he easily cantered home. Ceroc and Voldemort went to the lead leaving the 1 800 metres starting point as Infrared gradually got into gear. He easily gained control midway down the homestretch first time around and opened a gap on Ceroc and Voldermort. (DN)

PACKED OVAL – There will be bumper crowds at Kensington Oval for this week’s opening Test between West Indies and England. That’s because few tickets are left for the first three days. Barbados Cricket Association president Conde Riley said tomorrow’s opening day had already been sold out. “The demand for tickets is huge. I spoke to Cricket West Indies commercial manager Dominic Warne, who confirmed that the first day has been sold out. I can tell you that the second and third days are 90 per cent sold. I am really happy with the enthusiasm surrounding this Test match. “As you know the last Test between the two teams at Kensington, we won in three days so I am cautiously optimistic we can do well,” he said. Riley says there are thousands of British visitors here for what will be the 54th Test match at the world famous ground. (DN)

‘WI CAN DO IT’ – Defeating the third-ranked cricketing nation would be a feather in West Indies’ cap. That was the view of both Shai Hope and Kemar Roach during a media briefing ahead of tomorrow’s opening Test against Englandat Kensington Oval. Speaking at the Oval yesterday, Hope said he was aware they were viewed as having little chance of winning but were capable of doing so as long as they made the effort. “We know that we are so-called underdogs but if we play our cricket we are going to beat these guys. It’s about using my experience and trying to put my best foot forward. “I think coming off of that loss weeks before and knowing the series was at stake and what they were saying about us, we just motivated ourselves and used that as a big motivator to put up a big performance,” he said. Hope, who made his debut in Barbados back in 2015, was eager to play in front of his home crowd, including family and friends with a personal goal to make as many runs as possible to ensure the team is in a good position. (DN)

TRAIN ATTRACTION LAUNCHED – Barbados’ first train pulled out of the St Nicholas Abbey station after the last train blew its whistle 81 years ago. Approximately 100 tourists and visitors filled the three covered open air cabs earlier this morning on board the Badger, a diesel operated locomotive. Following the hour-long trip, many of the patrons said they were thrilled with the attraction and hoped to return when the steam engine will be added to the train next month. (DN)

CENTENARIAN: DROP THE GUNS - Barbados’ newest centenarian, Tabitha Maynard, is pleading with the youth to put down the guns. While celebrating her milestone yesterday at the Ebenezer Pentecostal Church in Airy Cot, St Thomas, the birthday girl made an impassioned plea for an end to the recent rise in gun violence. “I beg them to stop the shooting, put down the guns and stop the stabbing up [of] each other and turn to the Lord. It’s not worth it. Learn to live in love,” she implored. Maynard, who offered up much praise and thanks to the Lord for allowing her to reach 100 years, said Jesus was the secret to her long life. (DN)

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5109 REFORD GARDENS | LES JARDINS DE METIS

Spectacular view associated with wind gust.

Beautiful flowers at Reford Gardens.

Visit : www.refordgardens.com/

VERTICAL LINE GARDEN 2019

Julia Jamrozik, Coryn Kempster

Buffalo, United States.

Visit: www.ck-jj.com

From the plaque:

Drawing on the formal language of historical garden design, and the contemporary means of mass-produced safety and construction material, the project is a strong graphic intervention that aims to produce an abstract field.

Defining a geometric zone out of tightly spaced parallel lines of stretched commercial barrier tape , the installation introduces ordered man-made elements into the cultivated natural environment of the Reford Gardens. Through this juxtaposition, a dialogue between the two spheres is created based on the shared theme of protection and necessary safe-guarding while questioning the definition of what is truly natural.

As one approaches and then walks around and through the installation the changing viewpoint will allow the shifting of the tape lines in space and thus varied views of the overall composition. Further the movement of the lines with the changing of the climate, the wind and the sun will ensure a dynamic optical and auditory engagement for the audience. As visitors enter and inhabit the space by occupying the provided loungers, the fluctuating appearance of the installation is further enhanced.

In the 2015 version of the garden, we have decided to alter the colours of the field and provide and to provide canpy elements which will not only provide shade but also give a different experiential perspective of the banner tape.

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Texte de la plaque:

S’appuyant sur le langage formel de la conception du jardin historique, sur des moyens modernes de sécurité et sur des matériaux de construction produits en massa, le projet se veut une intervention graphique cherchant à créer un champs abstrait.

Des lignes parallèles de rubans de sécurité étroitement espacés définissent une zone géométrique. Cette installation d’éléments ordonnés prend place dans un milieu d’aspect naturel. Par cette juxtaposition, un dialogue entre les deux se crée basé sur le thème commun de la protection et de la sauvegarde , tout en s’interrogeant sur la définition de ce qui est vraiment naturel.

En s’approchant, en marchant autour et au travers le jardin, le point de vue change, ce qui permet le déplacement des lignes dans l’espace pour offrir de nouvelles perspectives sur la composition globale. Outre le mouvement des lignes, les changements de climat, le vent et le soleil procurent aux visiteurs des expériences visuelles et auditives dynamiques. Lorsque les visiteurs entrent et habitent l’espace en s’assoyant sur les chaises, l’aspect fluctuant de l’installation est renforcé.

Dans la version 2015 du jardin, les couleurs des rubans sont différentes et trois canopées ont été ajoutés. Ce qui va non seulement fournir de l’ombre mais aussi offrir une perspective expérientielle différente sur les rubans de sécurité.

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Visit : www.refordgardens.com/

From Wikipedia:

Elsie Stephen Meighen – born January 22, 1872, Perth, Ontario – and Robert Wilson Reford – born in 1867, Montreal – got married on June 12, 1894.

Elsie Reford was a pioneer of Canadian horticulture, creating one of the largest private gardens in Canada on her estate, Estevan Lodge in eastern Québec. Located in Grand-Métis on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, her gardens have been open to the public since 1962 and operate under the name Les Jardins de Métis and Reford Gardens.

Born January 22, 1872 at Perth, Ontario, Elsie Reford was the eldest of three children born to Robert Meighen and Elsie Stephen. Coming from modest backgrounds themselves, Elsie’s parents ensured that their children received a good education. After being educated in Montreal, she was sent to finishing school in Dresden and Paris, returning to Montreal fluent in both German and French, and ready to take her place in society.

She married Robert Wilson Reford on June 12, 1894. She gave birth to two sons, Bruce in 1895 and Eric in 1900. Robert and Elsie Reford were, by many accounts, an ideal couple. In 1902, they built a house on Drummond Street in Montreal. They both loved the outdoors and they spend several weeks a year in a log cabin they built at Lac Caribou, south of Rimouski. In the autumn they hunted for caribou, deer, and ducks. They returned in winter to ski and snowshoe. Elsie Reford also liked to ride. She had learned as a girl and spent many hours riding on the slopes of Mount Royal. And of course, there was salmon-fishing – a sport at which she excelled.

In her day, she was known for her civic, social, and political activism. She was engaged in philanthropic activities, particularly for the Montreal Maternity Hospital and she was also the moving force behind the creation of the Women’s Canadian Club of Montreal, the first women club in Canada. She believed it important that the women become involved in debates over the great issues of the day, « something beyond the local gossip of the hour ». Her acquaintance with Lord Grey, the Governor-General of Canada from 1904 to 1911, led to her involvement in organizing, in 1908, Québec City’s tercentennial celebrations. The event was one of many to which she devoted herself in building bridges with French-Canadian community.

During the First World War, she joined her two sons in England and did volunteer work at the War Office, translating documents from German into English. After the war, she was active in the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Montreal Council of Social Agencies, and the National Association of Conservative Women.

In 1925 at the age of 53 years, Elsie Reford was operated for appendicitis and during her convalescence, her doctor counselled against fishing, fearing that she did not have the strength to return to the river.”Why not take up gardening?” he said, thinking this a more suitable pastime for a convalescent woman of a certain age. That is why she began laying out the gardens and supervising their construction. The gardens would take ten years to build, and would extend over more than twenty acres.

Elsie Reford had to overcome many difficulties in bringing her garden to life. First among them were the allergies that sometimes left her bedridden for days on end. The second obstacle was the property itself. Estevan was first and foremost a fishing lodge. The site was chosen because of its proximity to a salmon river and its dramatic views – not for the quality of the soil.

To counter-act nature’s deficiencies, she created soil for each of the plants she had selected, bringing peat and sand from nearby farms. This exchange was fortuitous to the local farmers, suffering through the Great Depression. Then, as now, the gardens provided much-needed work to an area with high unemployment. Elsie Reford’s genius as a gardener was born of the knowledge she developed of the needs of plants. Over the course of her long life, she became an expert plantsman. By the end of her life, Elsie Reford was able to counsel other gardeners, writing in the journals of the Royal Horticultural Society and the North American Lily Society. Elsie Reford was not a landscape architect and had no training of any kind as a garden designer. While she collected and appreciated art, she claimed no talents as an artist.

Elsie Stephen Reford died at her Drummond Street home on November 8, 1967 in her ninety-sixth year.

In 1995, the Reford Gardens ("Jardins de Métis") in Grand-Métis were designated a National Historic Site of Canada, as being an excellent Canadian example of the English-inspired garden.(Wikipedia)

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LES JARDINS DE MÉTIS

Créés par Elsie Reford de 1926 à 1958, ces jardins témoignent de façon remarquable de l’art paysager à l’anglaise. Disposés dans un cadre naturel, un ensemble de jardins exhibent fleurs vivaces, arbres et arbustes. Le jardin des pommetiers, les rocailles et l’Allée royale évoquent l’œuvre de cette dame passionnée d’horticulture. Agrémenté d’un ruisseau et de sentiers sinueux, ce site jouit d’un microclimat favorable à la croissance d’espèces uniques au Canada. Les pavots bleus et les lis, privilégiés par Mme Reford, y fleurissent toujours et contribuent , avec d’autres plantes exotiques et indigènes, à l’harmonie de ces lieux.

Created by Elsie Reford between 1926 and 1958, these gardens are an inspired example of the English art of the garden. Woven into a natural setting, a series of gardens display perennials, trees and shrubs. A crab-apple orchard, a rock garden, and the Long Walk are also the legacy of this dedicated horticulturist. A microclimate favours the growth of species found nowhere else in Canada, while the stream and winding paths add to the charm. Elsie Reford’s beloved blue poppies and lilies still bloom and contribute, with other exotic and indigenous plants, to the harmony of the site.

Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada

Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.

Gouvernement du Canada – Government of Canada

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When it comes to historical places in the United States, Baltimore probably isn’t the first city that comes to mind.

Surprisingly though, Baltimore boasts a rich array of landmarks and historic sites.

It has a beautiful harbor and is made up of hundreds of districts, so it’s no wonder that it’s also known as a city of boats, and a city of neighborhoods.

Whether you’re looking to immerse yourself in history, culture, or just have some fun, Baltimore has something for you. Check out these top twenty things to do when you’re in the City of Baltimore

1. Be enthralled by the wildlife at the National Aquarium

If you have little ones, or love wildlife, then the National Aquarium is a must-see on your Baltimore trip.

Take a walk through Level One as blacktip reef sharks swim above and around you. Head up to other levels to explore a tropical rainforest, or the wild extremes of Australia. The National Aquarium prides itself on immersive exhibits that simulate natural habitats, transporting you away from the city and into the wild.

If you’re not keen on sea creatures, there’s still plenty to be seen. The National Aquarium hosts over 750 species, including crocodiles, sloths and flying foxes.

With over 1.5 million visitors per year, the aquarium can get pretty packed. To avoid the crowds, try going on a weekday. If you’re going on a weekend, try before 11 am or after 3 pm. Tickets can be bought online or at the aquarium (if you’re buying tickets on-site, be prepared to queue), and range from 24.95 USD to 39.95 USD.

Allocate a couple of hours at least to allow yourself to be entranced by the aquarium and its many inhabitants.

2 . All aboard the Historic Ships!

History and maritime buffs ahoy! Historic Ships is an open-air museum where you get to climb onboard history itself. It houses one of the most impressive collections of military vessels in the world. Among some of the ships there are the USS Constellation, the last remaining civil-war era ship afloat, as well as the USS Torsk, a submarine that saw action during World War 2 and has an impressive record of over 10,000 dives.

Historic Ships gives a fascinating insight into what life was, and is, like on or under the sea. Squeeze through the narrow corridors on the USS Torsk, or operate the capstan on the USS Constellation’s main deck. Be sure to catch the daily cannon-firing demonstration on the USS Constellation as well.

These ships are rich in history and are a fun place to spend a few hours exploring.

Opening hours vary depending on the month, so be sure to check out their website before heading over.

Ticket prices range from 5 USD to 18 USD, depending on the number of ships you want to visit.

3. Walk in the footsteps of Edgar Allan Poe

Baltimore defines the beginning and end of Poe’s life. It was in Baltimore that Poe began to write his imaginative short stories, and it was also in Baltimore that Poe met his mysterious death.

Poe wrote some of his early stories in a tiny, unassuming brick house in Baltimore, and it has since been turned into the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum to celebrate his legacy.

The house is well-preserved, and visitors can walk on the same floor and stairs that Poe did. The plaster walls and woodwork also remain unchanged. There are various exhibits that tell the story of his life and death in Baltimore. Artifacts, such as his writing desk and chair, are also on display.

In 1979, while renovating the house, workers lifted the floorboards to find skeletal remains of animals, eerily reminiscent of Poe’s short story The Tell-Tale Heart. Visitors have described the experience as ‘both disturbing and ethereal.’ If you’re a Poe fan, or have a love for the horror and mystery genres, then this is a place you can’t miss.

The Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum is open in the summer months on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Admission is 5 USD for adults and 4 USD for seniors and students. Children under 12 can enter for free with an adult.

4. Send chills up your spine at the Westminster Hall Burying Grounds

Just a short walk away from the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum is Westminster Hall, a graveyard and former church. Edgar Allan Poe, his wife Virginia and his mother-in-law are buried in the cemetery. Other notable people resting there include General Sam Smith and General James McHenry.

A graveyard might be an eerie place to visit, but this is a must-see for fans of Poe. There is a monument dedicated to the poet at the gates of the building and his actual grave is behind the church.

The burying grounds are open from 8 am to dusk and are free of charge. If you’d like a tour of Westminster Hall and the Catacombs, you can arrange a tour. More details on tours and prices can be found on their website.

5. Grab a meal at one of the public markets

Baltimore’s public market system is over two centuries old, making it the oldest continually-operating market system in the United States.

The markets feature a wide range of products, and you can find local specialty items such as beef tongue, rabbits, and even muskrat!

One market to stop by is the Lexington Market, found in downtown Baltimore. It’s been around since 1782, and you can find local favorites like fried ice creams, Baltimore’s world-famous crab cakes and Bergers Cookies (shortbread cookies topped with fudge). The market also hosts jazz and rock and roll bands on weekends.

Many of the locals consider their public markets to be the ‘real’ Baltimore, reflecting the character of its neighborhoods. If you want to get away from the tourist sites, then head over to the public markets. Make sure to bring an empty stomach!

6. Tour John Hopkin’s University

Whether you’re a prospective student or your college days are long over, the John Hopkins Homewood Campus is definitely worth a visit. Located in North Baltimore, the Homewood Campus is home base for Hopkins’ undergraduates.

There are buildings dating back to the 1800s, and the campus is a beautiful place for a stroll. You can register for a tour on their website, or go on a self-guided walking tour.

If looking at the architecture doesn’t interest you, you can visit the two museums on campus. The John Hopkins Archaeological Museum features over 700 artifacts from ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, the near East and the ancient Americas. The other museum is the Homewood Museum, one of the best surviving examples of Federal Period architecture.

You can register for a visit on their website.

7. Take a ride on the Charm City Circulator shuttle bus

It’s easy for visitors to get around Baltimore even without a car, and that’s thanks to the Charm City Circulator (CCC). The CCC is a free shuttle bus service that runs through four routes in the city, and it is used by tourists and residents alike. The fleet is made up of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), which are eco-friendly.

The shuttle is efficient, with a waiting time of about 10-15 minutes between shuttles. The shuttle service connects famous landmarks, making getting around a breeze. It’s a nice way to take in all that Baltimore has to offer.

Best of all? It’s free of charge!

You can check out the routes and schedules on their website.

8. Catch a game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards

Baltimore has a long and colorful history with regards to baseball, and there’s no place where that is more distinct than Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Oriole Park is one of the most highly-praised major league ballparks. Baltimore’s home team, the Baltimore Orioles, have won the World Series three times.

You can buy tickets to watch a Baltimore Orioles game, or book a ballpark tour. The tour gives you the chance to experience the ballpark from the club suite level, the press level, and even the Orioles’ dugout. Tour details can be found on their website.

Even if you’re not a baseball fan, watching a game is still an experience. Look out for the tradition of fans yelling out the Oh in the line, Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, in the national anthem.

9. Immerse yourself in baseball history at the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum

Baltimore also has the distinction of being the birthplace of baseball legend Babe Ruth. If you have even a mild interest in baseball, this is a must-see. The museum encompasses the small row house where the Babe was born. It has several exhibits about the life and times of Babe Ruth and you can see the room where he was born.

It’s full of artifacts, stories and videos. The staff are helpful and keep the museum well-maintained, so you can expect a pleasant and informative visit.

Admission is 7 USD for adults, 5 USD for seniors and 4 USD for children.

The museum is open from 10 am to 5 pm, though opening days vary depending on the season.

10. Explore the birthplace of the American National Anthem

After the Battle of Baltimore in 1814, the American flag flew high over Fort McHenry. The sight of the flag in the sky moved Francis Scott Key so much he wrote the poem that would eventually become The Star-Spangled Banner.

Today, the fort is rich in history and activities. It’s a great place for both children and adults. You can watch a video and view some exhibits at the visitor center and then walk around the fort.

Flag changes, flag talks, and ranger talks take place every day, so be sure to check out the timings so you can catch them. On weekends in the summer months, the Fort McHenry Guard performs drill, musket, and artillery demonstrations.

Fort McHenry can also be reached via water taxi, but do note that you can’t leave via water taxi if you didn’t take one to the fort. Plan to spend about one to two hours there.

Admission for adults is 10 USD, and children are admitted for free.

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