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Found a rather long list of quotes on an external HD whilst sorting. I assume it's from Sierra-Oscar as otherwise I don't remember compiling it, especially as they're not all the fun ones! So below - the first two pages! Will add more here and there.

*Mickey and Duncan are going to see Santa, who is now rehearsing for Panto* Mickey: "He's behind you!" Duncan: "Oh, no he's not!" Mickey: Tell you what - it is a right laugh at murder….gallous humour me governor calls it Mickey: Good old Debbie with that big fat mouth of hers. Mickey: He held me in his arms…the grumpy old DCI….gruff Jack Meadows the guv’nor….he let me hug him…. Andrea: Really? Tell me more? Mickey: I could tell you loads girl, but I’d have to shoot ya! Andrea: What about Inspector Gold, she’s a right character! Mickey: Well she is a bit of an old dragon…..rumour has it that her and Okaro had an affair….in about 1922… Andrea: *laughs* come off it….she’s not that old….*drinks* Her and Okaro were a couple?! Eva: *walks up behind and slams the evidence bag on the table* CCTV Footage….Alan Shields office… Andrea: I….I better be going…. Mickey: Yeah….see you later…. Andrea: See you later….. *walks off* Mickey: timing….I was in there! Eva: I’ll buy a hat for the wedding….come on….. Debbie: She’s going to MIT? Jack: Do you have a problem with that? Debbie: No - I just…err… Mickey: Don’t kid yourself Debbie….please!!! Debbie: *Scottish accent* Something about the crime scene just didn’t add up, so I thought I’d flutter my incredibly long eyelashes at the DI…I mean I’m so clever! Mickey: Debbie… *Debbie looks round and sees Andrea stood behind her* Mickey: You sticking around? Andrea: Well, I’d love to….but I’ve gotta be somewhere else… Kerry: Oooh - a man!? Andrea: Just a friend! *walks off* Mickey: I thought I was in there! Kerry: You and every man in the place…..where’s my drink? Mickey: So - you’re gonna be training with my squad for 6 months….you reckon you can handle it? Eva: I’ll be showing you up mate! Mickey: Ooh come and have a go girl if you think you’re hard enough!

Smithy: The lido? Reg: Yeah - open air swimming pool….actually that one’s the scene of my triumph as a young man….. Smithy: What triumph? *Reg beckons him on, Smithy sighs and follows* Mr Hipkiss: It’s kids….they get in via the broken security grills…. Smithy: Well perhaps you need to replace the broken security grills…. Smithy: Alright every one, listen up, we’re all really pleased that Des has been nicked, and by us, not MIT….but we need to decide how we’re gonna handle him…so…off the record, no rank *sits down* Phil: Who’s on custody? June: I am Phil: Can you sort out the CCTV? June: Why? Phil: Cos some of us might like to pay Des a visit….you know what I mean… Tony: Well forget it….you heard what the Super said…anything happened to Des while he’s here, and his brief will have a field day! Phil: He killed 6 coppers Tony! Tony: Yeah – and they were my friends – not yours! Nick: And mine….you saying I shouldn’t spit in his food? Tony: Well if you do that Nick, where we gonna draw the line? Nick: *looks at Smithy* Speak freely right? Cool….well personally Tony I’d like to kick his head in….are you telling me that you wouldn’t? Tony: Yes I am…. Nick: Right…. Smithy: Ok…let’s calm down…now Des has made fools out of us for a long time….and I know we’d like to pay him back for that…and we are gonna get our chance…. Nick: Yes we will…. Smithy: Yeah – in a court of law Tony: Hear hear… Smithy: What if Des stands up in court and says we intimidated him? Who knows….he might even walk free…..what would the families of the people who died think of us then? Gary: Scum…. Smithy: Let’s not give him a glimmer of hope…. Phil: Oh come on! Smithy: Nobody touches him, nobody spits in his food….no-one even looks at him funny….while he’s in this nick, we treat him like royalty! Phil: Royalty! Are you taking the mick? June: Well I agree with Smithy….show him we’ve got a bit of bloody dignity – even if he hasn’t…..*all stand up and leave* Polly: Well said Tone…. Tony: Cheers Pol…I’m not too sure Nick isn’t right though! Smithy "But if I am right, and he was raped, he'll need support won't he?" Debbie (under her breath) "Lucky him!"

Smithy - 'But our clubs just a bit of a laugh, that's all.' Gina - 'Not if Gabriel Kent's behind it all.' Smithy - 'What's your problem with Gabriel?' Gina - 'Cos he's bad news. And you'll find that out in your own sweet time.' Gina: I quoted him word for word. He said you're a homophobe... Smithy: Not at all Gina: ...that you're a disgrace on the service... Smithy: That's not right Gina: ...and - and this is the part I particularly like - that you're probably just trying to hide your own side underneath it all! Gina: *To Smithy* "You've got a couple of keen officers. *Smithy looks puzzled.* Beauty and the Beast?" Smithy: "Sorry Ma'am?" Gina: "PC's Young and Taviner."

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The Coronation Chair: Anatomy of a Medieval throne

The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II prompted the first comprehensive archaeological study of the Medieval throne on which British monarchs are crowned.

It has been battered and vandalised over the ages, but unpicking this majestic artefact’s evolution shed new light on both its original form and that of the enigmatic Stone of Scone, as Warwick Rodwell reveals.

10 August 2013

The Coronation Chair has been illustrated and described since the 14th century, and is renowned the world over.

For hundreds of years, this piece of Medieval furniture has played a seminal role in the anointing and crowning of English monarchs.

It was last used at the coronation of HM The Queen on 2 June 1953, the Diamond Jubilee of which was celebrated this year.

To mark the occasion in 2010-2012, the Chair underwent a long-overdue programme of cleaning, conservation and redisplay in Westminster Abbey.

Concurrently, a detailed archaeological study was carried out and the Chair was comprehensively recorded for the first time.

The project led to a radically new understanding of its construction and decoration, and of its relationship to the Stone of Scone, which was embodied in its seat.

Spoils of war

The origins of the Chair are well known. Indeed, the documentation accompanying its manufacture in the 1290s is still preserved.

Following Edward I’s victory over the Scots in 1296, state documents and items of regalia were surrendered and taken to London as spoils of war.

One of those items was a ceremonial block of sandstone upon which Scottish kings had hitherto been inaugurated at Scone Abbey in Perthshire, the last being John Balliol in 1292.

The Coronation Chair and Stone of Scone.

Constructed in the 1290s on the orders of Edward I, this famous throne recently received its first comprehensive archaeological study.

The results emphasise how the current form of the Stone of Scone can only be understood alongside the evolution of the chair that held it.

Edward I treated the Stone of Scone as a relic and presented it, along with the Scottish crown and sceptre, to the shrine of St Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey on 18 June 1297.

He ordered the construction of a great gilt-bronze chair to incorporate the Stone as its seat.

The chair was cast but was scrapped before it was finished and a new one made of oak, thereby reducing its weight from three-quarters of a ton to one-quarter.

St Edward’s Chair, as it is properly known (‘Coronation Chair’ is a relatively recent naming), was designed as a liturgical furnishing that would stand close to the shrine altar, where it served as a seat for priests officiating at masses.

Opinion is divided as to when the Chair was first used in the coronation ritual, but it was no later than 1399, when Henry IV was crowned.

A manuscript illustration of the coronation of Edward II in 1308, however, shows the king seated in what is almost certainly the Coronation Chair.

It is an extraordinary fact that, like a surprising number of artefacts and structures of first-rank importance, the Coronation Chair had never been systematically studied and recorded until now.

John Carter’s sketches of 1767 provided the basis for all known drawings but neither he nor any other antiquary recorded how the Chair was constructed or unravelled the vicissitudes of its later history.

Like most ancient artefacts of complex construction, it has undergone fundamental alterations as well as suffered deterioration over the centuries.

In fact, very little has been written about the Chair at all, as opposed to the Stone that it encapsulated.

The Chair has been the subject of a dozen books, scores of articles, Parliamentary debates, a commercial film, theft, hoaxes, and much political posturing.

Myths and misdirection

The Stone has accrued a huge mythology, but that is wholly of Medieval or later invention, as Nick Aitchison demonstrated in his study Scotland’s Stone of Destiny (2000).

The block is made of Lower Old Red Sandstone and has a geological signature that confirms it derives from the Scone Formation.

It did not originate in Egypt, Ireland or the west of Scotland, as the Romantic tales would have led us to believe.

Indeed, the Stone’s spurious biblical connection (as ‘Jacob’s Pillow’ – the stone on which, according to the Book of Genesis, the sleeping Jacob had a vision) was already being ridiculed in 1600 by William Camden.

Much of the Stone’s pseudo-history is of even more recent invention.

The first archaeologically objective study of the Stone took place in 1996, when it was removed from the Coronation Chair and sent to Edinburgh Castle, where it currently resides on loan from the Crown.

Under the direction of David Breeze and Richard Welander, Historic Scotland carried out a detailed examination, the findings of which were published by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: The Stone of Destiny: artefact and icon (2003).

The Stone’s intimate relationship to the Chair has never been explored, however, resulting in the wholly unwarranted assumption by past commentators that the physical features exhibited by the block today relate to its pre-1296 history in Scotland.

This in turn has given rise to the invention of historical scenarios to explain these features.

Some writers have pronounced the block to be a Roman building stone or part of a pagan altar; others have claimed a Bronze Age or Pictish ancestry.

The iron links and rings that are attached to the two ends of the block have given rise to much comment, as well as claims that they were inserted for the purpose of carrying the Stone from site to site in Scotland, or alternatively for transporting it to London.

Finally, there are the conspiracy theorists who would have us believe that the Stone is fake.

These contentions can be refuted without exception. When we study the Chair and the Stone as archaeological artefacts, not just individually but jointly, and marry the findings with reliable historical evidence, a clear picture emerges.

The most fundamental misapprehension is that the Stone (as we see it today) was brought from Scone and placed in a made-to-measure compartment under the seat of the Chair, and that it simply sat there for the next 700 years.

In reality, the Chair and the Stone were made for one another, and both have been subjected to significant change over the centuries.

Made for each other

There is no basis for casting doubt on the authenticity of the Stone of Scone, or for claiming it as a Roman ashlar or a Pictish symbol-stone.

The upper and lower faces are natural bedding planes and are untooled, although the former is well worn through its prolonged use as a seat.

The four vertical edges were all crisply dressed in 1297 to create a close-fitting, rectangular seat for the new Chair.

One of the revelations of the 2010 study was the fact that the Coronation Chair did not have a wooden seat-board until the 16th or 17th century: the Stone itself was the seat.

The Chair frame is made of oak and comprises four corner-posts, and a series of moulded horizontal rails.

The sides of the Chair have upswept arms, which were originally decorated with carved lions.

The joints are mortised-and-tenoned but are inherently weak. The frame gets its structural strength from the lining of thick planks.

Below seat level, the sides are pierced by large quatrefoils – that is, four partially overlapping circles creating a shape akin to a stylised four-leaf clover – each of which originally had a painted heraldic shield at its centre.

By the 1820s, the shields had all been lost, and the quatrefoil grille at the front had gone too.

The gang that stole the Stone in 1950 also smashed the front rail and further weakened the frame. A replacement grille has now been fitted to restore its structural strength.

The Stone of Scone rested in this compartment and could be glimpsed on all sides; its top was fully exposed.

William Lethaby’s 1906 reconstruction of the gilt figure of a king in the back of the Chair. He is depicted seated on a low throne, with his feet resting on a lion. Only the lower part of this image survives today.

Externally, the sides and back of the Chair were carved and moulded with Gothic arcades.

The corner-posts too were embellished with blind, pointed – lancet – arches, and surmounted by pinnacles from which decorative foliage or ‘crockets’ sprouted.

No timber was originally visible, though, as the surfaces were entirely covered with decoratively punched gilding and pseudo-enamels.

There were also many pieces of coloured glass inlaid into the carved decoration. These inserts would have carried painted and gilded motifs, similar to those found in profusion on the altarpiece of Henry III known as the Westminster Retable (c. 1270).

Internally, the Chair was uncarved but was covered with gold leaf. It bore finely punched decoration - showing birds, animals, vegetation, and Gothic motifs.

Dominating the centre of the back was the seated figure of a king with his feet resting on a lion, almost certainly Edward the Confessor.

It was the work of Walter of Durham, principal painter to the court of Edward I. Unfortunately, most of this impressive display has been lost over time.

A detail of the punch-decorated gilding surviving inside the Chair’s left arm, showing birds amid vegetation.

The conservation programme of 2010-2012 was undertaken by Marie Louise Sauerberg, then of the Hamilton Kerr Institute, but now Westminster Abbey’s Senior Conservator.

Her work was key to unlocking the history of the Chair’s decoration, particularly by demonstrating that the all-over gilded appearance was primary.

In the 1950s, it had been suggested that the Chair was initially white in colour, emulating King Solomon’s ivory throne.

Royal pride

Perhaps the most striking aspect of the Coronation Chair today is the gilt plinth on which it is raised, comprising four magnificent lions with Oriental features.

These were fitted in 1727 by the royal furniture-maker for the coronation of George II and replaced an earlier plinth, which also incorporated lions.

That plinth may have been made in 1509 for the coronation of Henry VIII.

Since both lion-plinths were fixed to the Chair frame, the Stone could only be inserted into the seat compartment from above, but this was not the original arrangement.

Walter of Durham’s exquisite gilt decoration would have been wrecked by manhandling a close-fitting, 3-cwt block of sandstone through the seat compartment.

Every time the Chair was required for a coronation, it had to be taken from the Confessor’s chapel through a narrow doorway, carried down steps, and repositioned in the Abbey.

Four operations were involved in extricating and replacing the Stone.

Almost certainly, the original plinth was a separate construction that rested on the floor. The Stone was placed on it and the Chair lowered over that.

Iron links and rings are attached to the ends of the Stone by staples set into lead plugs.

Various theories about their date and purpose have been advanced, all based on the assumption that they were used for lifting or carrying.

But nobody seems to have noticed that their fixing points are below the Stone’s centre-of-gravity, which means that it would instantly rotate when lifted.

Also, the links are not long enough for the rings to clear the top of the Stone, making it impossible to thread a carrying-pole of adequate diameter through them.

It is now clear that the ironwork was attached to the block in c. 1324-1327, on the instruction of Abbot Curtlyngton, expressly for the purpose of chaining it to the floor of the chapel.

At the time, he was under pressure from Edward III to relinquish the Stone so that it could be used as a bargaining counter with the Scots.

The abbot refused and the chronicler Geoffrey le Baker tells us that ‘the stone was now fixed by iron chains to the floor of Westminster Abbey under the royal throne’.

Since enforced removal of an object gifted to a shrine would have constituted sacrilege, the king backed down.

The 13th-century marble and glass mosaic pavement in the Shrine chapel has been meticulously recorded by David Neal.

During his work, we noticed that a square area to the south of the altar, where the mass priest’s seat would have stood, had been destroyed.

Almost certainly, this marks the place where the pavement was broken through in the 1320s to embed anchors in the floor for the chains that secured the Stone.

When the Chair was fitted with the first of the lion plinths, a new means of manoeuvring the Stone in and out of the seat compartment had to be found: the only route was from above.

The iron fittings were now pressed into service as lifting devices. Channels were crudely cut into the ends of the Stone so that the links could stand up, rather than hang down, and ropes could be passed through the rings.

The tendency for the unbalanced Stone to rotate was largely mitigated by the links being constrained in channels.

It was a clumsy compromise but it worked, albeit inflicting damage on the gilded interior of the Chair, as the Stone was hauled in and out.

The institutional history of Westminster Abbey in the two decades following its dissolution in 1540 is complex, but remarkably, the shrine of St Edward and the royal tombs survived.

The later 16th century saw a fashion for attaching historical labels (tabulae) to features around the Abbey, including the shrine, tombs and St Edward’s Chair.

These were generally painted either directly on the object or on a board, but in the case of the Chair, it seems that there was initially an intention to insert an inscribed brass plate in the upper face of the Stone.

The rectangular outline for the plate was roughly chiselled. The matrix was never fully cut and the project aborted. A painted label on a board was provided instead.

The change of plan most likely resulted from a decision to fit a timber seat-board over the Stone that had two further consequences.

First, battens had to be fitted to the sides of the Chair to support the seat-board, thereby reducing the size of the Stone compartment opening.

The block had to be shortened, and both ends were cut back by c. 15mm.

Second, the iron rings projected above the top of the Stone, obstructing the fixing of the seat.

To solve this problem, housings were hacked into the top of the Stone, allowing the rings to lie flat.

13th-century survival

Since the late 16th century, travellers and antiquaries have written accounts of the Chair, from which we learn that it suffered casual abuse until Queen Victoria came to the throne.

All the glass inserts were prised out, scores of slices were removed from the frame with pocket-knives and taken as souvenirs, names and initials were liberally carved in the wood, and the shields were stolen from the quatrefoils, exposing the sides of the Stone, which was then scraped with knives to acquire samples of its dust.

Three shallow scoops scored into the front edge result from this activity.

In the 18th century, when the second lion-plinth and new seat-board were fitted, further modifications to both the Chair and Stone occurred.

Although the latter had been shortened, the iron staples to which the rings were attached projected awkwardly, gouging the sides of the Chair every time the Stone was moved.

To ease this, the crowns of the staples were filed down. Something even more barbaric happened between 1727 and 1821: the lower edges of the Stone were broken away with nine hammer-blows.

There is no obvious explanation for this – perhaps the pieces were sold as souvenirs.

Even in more recent times, the Chair has suffered periodically.

In 1887, the Office of Works painted it brown for the celebration of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee.

A public outcry ensued and great damage was done to the gilt decoration when trying to remove the paint.

In 1914, Suffragettes attached a home-made bomb to one of the Chair’s pinnacles, causing more damage.

In 1939-1945, the Chair was stored in the crypt of Gloucester Cathedral, where it narrowly escaped destruction by an infestation of dry rot.

Finally, as well as vandalising the Chair, the gang that stole the Stone in 1950 dropped it and broke it.

Given this long and varied history, it is perhaps remarkable that the Chair survives at all.

Yet our study makes it clear that, despite having fallen victim to neglect, politics and the whims of fashion, St Edward’s Chair and the Stone of Scone – in the form we know it today – are two components of a single artefact, made in the 1290s.

They have an integrated physical history, and shared archaeology: one cannot be understood without the other.

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Ian Somerhalder

This Biography is about one of the best Professional Celebrity of the world Ian Somerhalder including his Height, weight, Age & Other Detail… Express info Real Name Ian Joseph Somerhalder Nick Name Smolderholder Profession Actor, Model Popular Role Boone Carlyle (TV series "Lost") Damon Salvatore (TV series "The Vampire Diaries) Age (as in 2023) 44 Years old Physical Stats & More Info Height In Feet : 5 feet 9 inches (5' 9") In Meter : 1.76 m In centimeter : 176 cm Weight In Kilogram : 71 kg In Pounds : 156 lbs Eye Colour Blue Hair Color Dark Brown Measurements - Chest: 43 inches - Waist: 28 inches - Biceps: 14.5 inches - Neck: 12.5 inches Personal Life of Ian Somerhalder Date of Birth 8th December, 1978 Birth Place Covington, Louisiana, United States Nationality American Ethnicity Ethnicity: English, as well as French, Scottish, Northern Irish (Scots-Irish), Welsh Hometown Covington School St. Paul's School, Covington, Louisiana College N/A Education Qualifications High School Family Father : Robert Somerhalder (a building contractor) Mother : Edna Somerhalder (a massage therapist) Sister : Robyn Somerhalder Brother : Robert Somerhalder Debut TV Debut: Young Americans (2000) Film Debut: Life as a House (2001) Address Ian Somerhalder Ian Somerhalder Foundation P.O. Box 1760 Santa Monica, CA 90406 USA Hobbies Wild Life and Environment Activist Religion Roman Catholic Favourite Things Of Ian Somerhalder Favourite Food Fish Favourite Actor Sean Penn Favourite Colors Blue, Red, Yellow Favourite Sports Football Favourite Destination Maui and Hawaii & Costa Rica Favourite Movie The Graduate Girls , Affairs and More Of Ian Somerhalder Marital Status Unmarried Affairs Kate Bosworth (actress & singer), Nicky Hilton (model & fashion designer), Maggie Grace (actress), Megan Auld (Ian's friend), Ashley Greene (actress), Nina Dobrev (actress), Nikki Reed (actress & singer) Style Of Ian Somerhalder Cars Collection Audi Q7 TDI, Audi Q5 Earning Money of Ian Somerhalder Net Worth $4 Million Salary Per Episode $40,000 per episode This Biography written by www.welidot.com Read the full article

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2023 Scottish Cruises

Our wee ship, St Hilda, is back from her annual visit to the boatyard. We are looking forward to our cruising season starting in just a few days!

Many thanks to Captain Nick for sharing.

#sthildaseaadventures #WildIsles #innerhebrid #outer hebrides #lovescotland #visitscotland #onlyinscotland #smallshipcruising #innerhebrides #spring #scottishcruise #explorescotland #holidayinscotland

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Edinburgh, UK! Newly confirmed Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf leads his family in Muslim prayer during their first night at Bute House after breaking fast together during Ramadan, following his win at the Scottish National Party leadership election. Photograph: Humza Yousaf/Twitter/Reuters

Frosty Look! Dawn seen from the road bridge at Milltown of Rothiemay, looking down the River Deveron. Photograph: Ian Aitchison

Glacial Awareness! ‘“And ice, mast-high, came floating by...” (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner). Photo taken from the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica, aboard the MS Ortelius.’ Photograph: Nick Coghlan

Seeing Red! ‘This picture of an Oryx antelope in the Namibian desert was taken during an early morning trip in Namib-Naukluft national park.’ Photograph: Catherine Madzak

Tide and Glory! St Mary’s Lighthouse, North Tyneside, pictured at high tide. Photograph: Keith Fenwick

Happy Couple! ‘I spotted these two fungi while walking through our local dene.’ Photograph: Les Allan

Long Face! A llama at Staubbachbänkli, Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland. Photograph: Ed Humphrey

İzmir, Turkey! Gulls surround a fisher off the Aegean coast. Photograph: Halil Fidan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

London, UK! Little Amal, a 12ft puppet of a 10-year-old Syrian refugee that has become a global symbol of human rights, especially those of refugees, visits Paternoster Square. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

Mammoth Lakes, US! A person walks between snow banks covering condominiums in the Sierra Nevada mountains after another storm. After years of drought, the state snowpack average for California may reach a record high. Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images

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[ad_1] LONDON — The six dwelling former British prime ministers gathered for the rarest of ceremonies in London on Saturday to witness King Charles III be formally proclaimed the nation’s new monarch. During a sombre assembly of the Accession Council, the brand new king mentioned he was “deeply aware” of “the duties and heavy responsibilities of sovereignty” which have now handed to him from his late mom Queen Elizabeth II. “In taking up these responsibilities, I shall strive to follow the inspiring example I have been set in upholding constitutional government, and to seek the peace, harmony and prosperity of the peoples of these islands, of the Commonwealth realms and territories throughout the world,” he advised a packed room of senior politicians and different dignitaries at St James’s Palace. Although Charles turned king the second his mom died Thursday, according to centuries-old British convention an Accession Council should meet to formally declare his coming to the throne. It final met in 1952. This 12 months, the entire occasion was televised for the primary time. The historic event introduced collectively Conservative and Labour ex-premiers John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson, in addition to present Prime Minister Liz Truss. They had been joined by previous and current Cabinet ministers, the previous Archbishops of Canterbury and York, Queen Camilla, and the king’s oldest son and inheritor William. Also among the many counsellors was former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who misplaced his Sheffield seat in 2017 and is now president of worldwide affairs at tech big Meta, and the present and former Scottish First Ministers Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond. The historic ceremony was led by Lord President of the Council Penny Mordaunt, who was solely handed the job in Tuesday evening’s Cabinet reshuffle by new PM Truss. During the primary a part of the ceremony, Clerk of the Privy Council Richard Tilbrook learn the proclamation confirming Charles as Britain’s “only lawful and rightful liege lord.” The clerk then declared: “God save the king,” and greater than 200 counsellors repeated the well-known phrase. In the second a part of the assembly, the king made his handle and took the oath to protect the Church of Scotland, the place powers of state and church are break up. William, the brand new prince of Wales, additionally signed the oath. Outside, a crowd of hundreds sang the refrain of the — now reworded — nationwide anthem and gave three cheers for the brand new monarch. Bigger crowds waited for Charles III exterior Buckingham Palace, the place he arrived after the ceremony in his state Rolls Royce to host an viewers with Truss, members of her Cabinet and opposition leaders. Prince William additionally paid his first public tribute to the queen, whom he mentioned was by his aspect at his happiest and saddest moments. “I knew this day would come, but it will be some time before the reality of life without grannie will truly feel real,” he mentioned. On Saturday afternoon, different members of the royal household, together with the king’s three siblings and their youngsters, attended a prayer service at Crathie Kirk, close to Balmoral, the place the queen’s physique stays. In parliament, senior MPs and members of the federal government together with Truss, House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle and Labour’s longest-serving feminine MP Harriet Harman, pledged their allegiance to the brand new king, with extra anticipated to take action at a later date. The program of commemorative occasions will proceed Sunday afternoon, when the king will obtain the realm excessive commissioners and Foreign Secretary James Cleverly in illustration of the U.Ok. authorities. The queen’s coffin will probably be taken by highway to the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh Sunday at a sluggish tempo to permit mourners to pay their respects, in keeping with a senior palace official.

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A quiz for Open at St. Andrews

ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — How well do you know your British Open history? Try this St. Andrews themed quiz: 1. Which course has hosted the most British Opens? a.) Prestwick b.) St. Andrews c.) Muirfield 2. Who has the lowest score in a British Open at St. Andrews? a.) Tiger Woods b.) Nick Faldo c.) Ballesteros Sap 3. Tom Watson has won the British Open on every Scottish course in the modern…

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Virtual Sketchbook 1

1. I was assigned slide #26, which is James Turrell's "Aten Reign" (2013). The art piece has variable dimensions, depending on the time of day and refraction of sunlight. The piece itself is created by using LED lights and natural sunlight.

James Turrell is an artist most known for his works involving lights creating beautiful architectures.

The "Aten Reign"was specifically created for the hall of the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

The artwork is purposely meant to be the ideal meditation place for its visitors.

All of the artist's work is meant to reveal how vision intersects with the brain.

The art piece is surrounded by a core of daylight which is followed by five elliptical rings of shifting, colored lights.

After doing research on the art piece and the artist himself, my perspective is surprisingly similar to my initial impression. The varying dark blue colors presented the art piece as relaxing and somewhat somber at first glance. After doing research, the piece is meant to serve as a safe meditative place for its viewers all while it reimagines the rotunda of Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic building. Overall, the viewing experience is the main emphasis of the art piece as the vibrant colors are meant to influence the thought processing of the viewer.

This paining has existed inside of my house for as long as I can remember and although I do not think it is visually appealing to look at, it serves a purpose. I personally believe the painting is symbolic of showing people can act different behind their fake smile since the clown is covered in makeup. I believe this painting may have been created by the artist using oil based paints. The painting is also messy when it comes to blending and lines and a reason to this could possibly be to symbolize the imperfection of what it means to be actually human.

3. Hello, my name is Nicholas, sometimes called Nick, and I am currently 19 years old. My primary gender is male and I was born and raised here in the Bradenton/ Sarasota area. My ethnicity consists of a combination of primarily Filipino and then part Greek and Scottish. For fun I like to either cook and bake or work out. As of right now, I am not apart of any group organization; however, I used to be in various medical and math clubs in high school, as well as marching band. As for a job, I work part time as a server. What makes me unique is my extroverted introvert personality. I naturally like being around other people, but at the same time I prefer to be quiet.

This picture encompasses my lack of creativity, sorry. In my defense however, the picture reveals my appreciation for vibrant and exotic colors and art overall as this picture was taken at the art fairgrounds in St. Pete.

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estroniaid · 3 years

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only know little about your ocs which ones do you think about the most and are always on your mind? + who is your newest one? maybe an oc you always bully? do you like talking about ocs genders ? how they feel about them?

aight im putting this under a read more cause i ramble <3

i have a far too many but the ones i'm haunting actively with atm are rafael, termite, iften, and yrvacy; with my newest oc being emily!

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(iften drawing is by my friend maggie , maggie my friend who is so so skilled and is a gift to know)

majority of who (not including emily) are for interactive fiction :) some random facts? i guess: rafael: 25, morrocan/malay sephardic trans bi man, he is HOH and wears a hearing aid in one ear, he is really into gardening (flowers to be specific). he has a support animal called babka and she is a st bernard. he has five (5) piercings and four (4) tattoos. he is very quiet but once he settles in he's a jokester.... dorky troublemaker, very chaotic neutral. (he was made for greenwarden IF <3)

termite: 32, gaelic scots/turkish trans intersex lesbian. my firebug <3 my genuine fire hazard <3 mite is a mechanic/possible bomb-maker vibrating her way through life. her hands are scarred from burns and nicks from her workshop and she lost her left hand ring finger to one of her grenades. she gets a snake later on in her life, and her and raf are besties. she's a natural curly red head but dyes and straightens her hair and smears makeup (? or is it grease...) across her eyes, while not living there for a while her scottish accent is still very prominent. (she was made for greenwarden IF)

yrvacy: their age isn't decided yet and they, in universe, a kind of demon so <3 fucked up little they/them whose shit at making friends. they're short, their tail is sharp and deadly, they have ocd, and full body tattoo across their back that goes up into their scalp, and...tail piercing. it's hard to describe them without cracking open their shell which is far off in their character development but some basics are: they live off of microwave meals, they like to whittle! if they like you enough they'll make you a lil something, they are not that skilled in social interactions and cover that up with being an asshole <3. they are pathetic i love them. (they were made for snakeroot IF)

iften: no decided age, trans gnc bi man. evil cunt hours <3 he is made for the kings physician IF which isn't out yet so I don't wanna say anything in case i say? too much? but he is from a cult, he is 7 ft tall, he has massive tits, he is so evil, he will manipulate you. lots of his imagery is eye based. speaking of eyes: he's blind in one of them! he has a port-wine stain across his eye that has cataracts (not the causation but they are correlated). he has arthritis in both his hands which he helps by wearing rings that set his fingers straight (clawed rings. :) claws).

(she's new but emily is the final girl but make it cunty. final girl but she'll push you over when running from the killer in the early 2000s slasher film to get the upperhand. she IS calling the killer petite and breedable)

i bully all of my oc's equally....

#thanks anon forgiving me the chance to ramble on and I do hope these were ok . answers. <3 #um uh yeah i havent slept blows a kiss to the stars for you.#shut up naut #if the read more doesnt work i am SO sorry

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creamofthecrap · 4 years

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The Story of Cream: Masterpost

Looks like I have a mission! Pt. 1: Origins - Ginger Baker 1:1: Wee Ginger 1:2: Two fiery redheads Pt. 2: Origins - Jack Bruce Pt. 3: Origins - Eric Clapton Pt. 1-3: Summary Pt. 4: When Jack met Ginger Pt. 5: Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated 5.2: Alexis Korner’s “Jazz” Incorporated 5.3: Rolling Stones shenanigans 5.4: Trolling the Stones 5.5: Mr. nick-your-band pulls a stroke 5.6: Eric goes electric Pt. 4-5.5: Summary: Brotherly love Pt. 6: The Yardbirds 6.2: The myth of Slowhand Pt. 7: The Graham Bond Organisation 7.1: The Importance of the Graham Bond Organisation 7.2: Jack goes electric (literally) 7.3: Ready, Steady, Gaye!

Those were the days 1966 * [First photoshoot📷][Pt.2] * By the Thames-shoot📷 * Party Nights!;[Blue Moon?🔊] June 11: [It’s official!📰] July *: Green Park-shoot📷 July 29: Twisted Wheel;[Live📷] July 31: Windsor j&b festival;[Ginger📷][Fashiön][Backstage📷] Aug 16:[The Marquee][Pt.2] Sept 1: Ready Steady Go;[Backstage📷] Sept 2:[Bluesville '66] Sept 4:[Ricky Tick Club] Oct *: Wrapping Paper-shoot📷 Oct 1:[Regent Street Polytechnic;];[quote] Oct 20:[St. Gile's Youth Club] Nov 4:[Fleet Studios-shoot][Pt.2] Nov 15: Klook's Kleek;[Meet Me In The Bottom🔊] Nov 19:[Blue Moon Club] Dec 16: En route📷 Dec 16: TV France;[Wrapping Paper🎬][Sweet Wine🎬][GIF's] Dec 17: La Locomotive Club; [Live📷] Dec 30:[The Roundhouse]

1967 Jan 11: Top Of the Pops; [Backstage📷] Jan 26: [Top Of the Pops] Feb *: Westener Boutique-shoot📷 Feb 5:[Saville Theatre] Feb *: Kimono-shoot📷 Feb 24: Beat Club;[Backstage GIF Feb 25: Star Club;[Offstage📷][Backstage📷][Live📷] March 7: TV Sweden;[N.S.U.🎬] March 16: Jimi & Eric📷 March 26:[Murray the K] April 3-5: Strange Brew-Sessions;[Pt.1][Pt.2][Pt.3] April 16: Empire Pool;[backstage📷][offstage📷][Live📷] April 21: Brighton Arts Festival;[GIF's] April 25:[Pavillion Ballroom] May 7:[The Swan] May 21: Jaguar Club; [Backstage📷][Ginger📷] May 29: TeenSet-shoot June *:[Red Lion Square-shoot][Pt.2][Pt.3][Pt.4] June 1: Paris Pop Festival;[We're Going Wrong🎬][I Feel Free🎬] June 1:[Paris-shoot📷][Pt.2📷] June 21: Top Of the Pops;[Backstage📷] July *:[Petticoat Lane-shoot📷][Pt.2📷] July 8:[Scottish tour];[quotes📷][photos📷][photos📷] July 14: BBC recordings; [offstage📷] July 16: Eric at the Legalize Cannabis Rally Aug 20: [Redcar Jazz Club] Aug 21: US tour; [Airport📷][More📷] Sept *:[Roz Kelly-shoot][Pt.2]⭐ Sept *: Central Park-shoot⭐ Sept 23: The Village Theatre;[Eric quote📷] Sept 26: Cafe au Go-Go;[Backstage📷] Oct 1: Cafe au Go-Go;[GIF's] Oct 7: Cafe au Go-Go;[GIF’s][Live📷] Oct 13:[Grande Ballroom][Pt.2] Oct 29: Saville Theatre;[Backstage📷][Pt.2📷] Nov 2:[Belfast] Nov 6: Silver Blades Ice Rink;[Backstage📷] Nov 6: Partying with Miss Teen Sweden📷 Nov 11:[Denmark publicity-shoot][Pt.2] Nov 13: Helsinki; [Ginger📷][Eric📷] Nov 14: [Stockholm]; [Clipping📰] Nov 15: [Gothenburg]; [Jack📷][Eric📷] Nov 26: BBC-TV; [We're Going Wrong🎬] Dec *: The Pheasantry-shoot📷 Dec *: Linda Eastman-shoot📷 Dec 20: [Debutante Ball- Chicago] Dec 22-23: [Grande Ballroom]

1968 Jan 5: Industrial Club; [Backstage📷] Jan 10: Revolution Club; [Ulysses🎬][Spoonful🎬][SoYL🎬] Jan 12: [Fenklup] Feb 5: [Copenhagen]; [GIF’s][w. BeeGees📷] Feb 25: [Swing Auditorium] March 9: [Winterland] March 11: [Sacramento Auditorium] March 11: [Sausalito-shoot][Pt.2][Pt.3][Pt.4] March 14: Romp!! TV-appearance: [GIF's] March 15-16: [The Shrine][Pt. 2] March 20: [Eric gets arrested📰] March 21: [Beloit College] March 22: [Clowes Memorial Hall]; [Live📷] March 27: [Staples Auditorium] March 31: Houston Music Hall; [Ginger📷] April 3: [Morris Civic Auditorium] April 5:[Back Bay Theatre] April 10:[Woolsey Hall] May 13:[Mandel Hall] May 17-18:[Anaheim Convention Center]; [Live📷] May 19:[Jack gets arrested📰] May 20: CBS TV; [SoYL🎬][GIF's] June 2:[Pacific Coliseum];[Poster] June 5:[Massey Hall] June 9: Grande Ballroom;[Live📷] June 15: Oakdale;[Tree climbing] Oct 11:[New Haven Arena];[Live📷][Eric Int.][Ginger Int.][Jack Int.] Oct 13: Chicago Coliseum;[Jack📷] Oct 19: The Forum;[Ginger📷] Oct 25:[Dallas Memorial Auditorium] Oct 27:[Chastain Park] Nov 1: [The Spectrum] Nov 3: [Baltimore Civic Center] Nov 26: Royal Albert Hall; [Soundcheck📷][Introduction🎬][I'm So Glad🎬][Sitting On Top of The World🎬][Ginger📷][Jack📷] [GIF's][ GIF's Jack]

1969 * [Goodbye-shoot📷][Pt. 2📷][Ginger quote📷][Jack quote📷][Eric quote📷]

⭐=Recently added [bolded]=More ellaborate post (not just photos)

Friendly reminder to tag your original posts “Cream band” or “the Cream” NOT “Cream”!

#cream band #jack bruce #ginger baker #eric clapton #the story of cream #my posts #masterpost

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draconesmundi · 4 years

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I live in the South of England!

As a northern Englander I of course wave my hand and say “anything that isn’t Cumbria or Northumberland is THE SOUTH!” but for the sake of this discussion I’ll keep ‘southern england’ as Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Oxfordshire, West Sussex, East Sussex, Kent, Somerset, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Gloucestershire, Surrey, Greater London and Hertfordshire. (in my bio it says I live in Scotland and if I drink just enough irn bru I might one day fully be Scottish, but for the moment I am a displaced Northumbrian, hence the preamble that only a northerner would care about ;) ) As someone from the UK I have wayyyyy too much research on UK dragons so your answer may be more detailed than most!

The main difference between southern and northern UK is that you in the south get an extra dragon, you get the wonderful vouivre (Vivernus viride) or ‘green wyvern’. This dragon is especially famous for the story of the Wyvern of Mordiford, an incident that occurred in a small town in Herefordshire, where a girl tried to domesticate a dragon, with dire consequences. These days a vouivre can grow a meter or so long, but historical stories talking about how fierce this animal is means it may once have been bigger - the one depicted on a famous bench on Crowcombe, Somerset, is taller than the men trying to spear it. It is a green animal covered in ‘eye spot’ patterns.

Another difference between north and south England is that Sussex coined a good name for the lindorm (Vivernapterous fafnirus), which has a lot of names throughout the UK, the general name being ‘wyrm’, whereas in Wales it’s the ‘anfanc’ and a few areas in Scotland it is ‘beithir’. In Sussex the lindorm is named ‘knucker’, after the ‘nicor’ or water monster from a mishmash of germanic mythologies. Knuckers live in ‘knucker holes’, which are these really deep ponds found in Sussex which look like regular ponds on the surface but just dive straight down into the earth some 15 meters.

The most famous knucker story from Sussex is the one where a lad named Jim Puttock baked the dragon a poisoned pie in order to slay him. There is a similar legend in Yorkshire about a dragon eating a treacle tart to keep its jaws shut so it exploded when it tried to breathe fire. There are quite a few ‘kill a dragon with baked goods’ stories in the UK. More knuckers include the Essex Serpent and St Carantoc’s serpent of Ker Moor in Somerset.

Knuckers can grow to huge sizes (20 ft!) and spend the winter and autumn asleep either underwater with their snout at the surface like a hibernating alligator, or in a hole made by invading a badger sett or natural erosion under a tree. They eat a variety of small and large mammals. They are serpentine with very small forelimbs, and bear a wattle like a chicken’s comb on their heads.

Then we get to the most famous dragon type in the UK, the one we usually think of when we hear the word ‘dragon’, the smok (Drakon drakon), a reddish brown animal with two broad winglike fans on its back, webbed decorations on its head looking like ‘ears’ and a forward pointing nose horn. Y ddraig goch from the Welsh flag is a good idea on what these animals look like, and the name is nicked from the Polish language because in Dracones Mundi I don’t want to call this the ‘European Dragon’ or the ‘Western Dragon’ when there are many dragons in ‘the west’ and Europe. The Bisterne dragon of Hampshire and the Deerhurst dragon of Gloucestershire, as well as various sightings of dragons living near burial mounds are likely caused by these dragons. They live in mountainous environments in natural caves (unless they were purposefully placed in burial mounds in days of yore) and eat rabbits, hares, goats, sheep, deer and large birds (mythology exaggerates their size somewhat...).

Lastly, there is of course the cockatrice (Basiliskos gallimimus), the most famous of which, in the south of England, is the Wherwell cockatrice of Hampshire, which hatched out of a ‘ducks egg’ (or someone purposefully put a cockatrice egg among duck eggs for malicious reasons) and was killed by a man named Green, who introduced the dragon to a mirror, and, in a classic case of a cockatrice’s poor understanding of mirrors, the animal killed itself trying to fight its own reflection!

So southern England has a smok, cockatrice, knucker and green wyvern!

#Dracones Mundi #Here be Dragons #Southern England #England

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ofmuggleblood-blog · 5 years

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and after a very long ( but very fun day !! ) here it is at LAST ! mary’s introduction post !

war has ravaged us all, but mary macdonald remains. the twenty-two year old assistant in the dept. of international magical cooperation has aligned themselves with the ORDER to seek justice and to protect others like her. they offer connections to other ministries, a safe house, and a knack for charms. they are said to be loyal, passionate, and resolute as well as vain, garrulous, and short-tempered . even still, when you think of them, you are reminded of : a room with an unmade beds, skirts freshly pleated, records, books, and papers stacked on every surface. the scent of rose perfume faint in the air. the need to look over your shoulder even when you are all alone. a scream constantly resting in your throat. a fear forced upon you, and a desperation to return to who you were before. perhaps that too will fade.

born to a muggle family in a quiet scottish farming community, mary always wanted to be something bigger.

her parents, josephine & charles, were both freelance journalists which allowed them to mostly work from home, aside from the odd travelling for an interview or a lead.

mary, however, grew a distaste for the quiet life. she wanted noise. the city. the lights. to be someone important. to be in the spotlight.

that was a childs dream, however, and as she got older her desires would change and evolve.

during her youth, she didn’t have a solid idea of what she wanted to do - only that she wanted to be important, and that was all. she got her first real touch of that feeling when she first found out she was a witch.

she felt special.

a normal ‘muggle’ (as the word was only then introduced to her) somehow was born with magic coursing through her.

her visit to diagon alley was amazing - buying her robes, her books (plus many books she didn’t really need), and lastly her wand!

six and three-quarter inches, willow, with a unicorn hair core - holding it for the first time sent tingles up and down her spine. it was that moment that really confirmed to her that she was magical

the train to hogwarts was a whole other experience - mary spending most of her time wandering around the train from cabin to cabin, bright and bold as she introduced herself to as many people as she could. some older students seemed to catch on immediately to her heritage, sneering and calling her names, but she refused to let them wipe the grin off of her face.

during her sorting, mary was very close to being a hat stall - the debate from the hat was largely between gryffindor and hufflepuff, with a couple of moments pondering ravenclaw. eventually, it was her determination to be someone great that lead to the sorting hats decision - gryffindor.

in terms of school work, mary was much better at the theory than the practical. she was abysmal in potions, dada, and transfiguration, barely scraping by each year. she did better in charms, finding simpler spells to be easier - but mostly, found her interest in history of magic, arthimancy, ancient runes, and care of magical creatures - courses which relied more on theory and writing.

as she grew up, she also became more interested in fashion and makeup - taking great pride in her appearance. it was how people made their first impression, after all, and she always wanted to make the best one possible.

that was up until her fourth year - when mulciber, a pureblood of slytherin house decided he didn’t like a muggleborn student going around wanting to be big and important in the wizarding world.

he had cornered her in a hallway, covering her head to toe in curses and hexes before leaving her (potentially) for dead

of course, this wasn’t the case. it wasn’t long until nearly headless nick found her and sent off for a professor - she was whisked off to st. mungos and mulciber was expelled.

from then, there was a change. the once boastful extrovert turned into herself. choosing instead to keep her head down and her mouth shut.

it took two years for her to start to get back to normal.

she graduated a year after the marauders, and was pretty quickly granted a position of an assistant in the ministry - specifically, in the department of international magical cooperation.

this was a perfect fit for mary, who had by then set her sights on becoming minister. (what better way to make a change?)

she moved into her families cottage - up on a lake in northern england. alone and isolated, built by her great grandfather some seventy-odd years before. it was cozy and safe.

when albus dumbledore recruited her to the order, she was more than happy to let it be used as a safe house.

mary, however, does find her position within the order to be nervewracking. not really one for dueling, she fears that the day might come where she’ll have no choice but to try - and then fail.

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rotanawrites · 5 years

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Curly-Haired FC Masterlist

Under the cut, you’ll find a masterlist of over 150 fcs with curly hair. I’ll likely update this list with more as I find them.

RPHs who helped with names, or whose blogs I found several on: this ask, @gayagendarph's directory, @olivaraofrph, @dear-indies, @contentrpt, @rosalitadiaz

FEMALE

Miriam Margoyles (1941)

AliceWalker (1944) - Unspecified black

Cynthia Bond (1961) - Unspecified black

Judy Gold (1962) - Ashkenazi Jewish

Rena Owen (1962) - Maori, white

Kim Coles (1962) - unspecified black - body diverse

Neneh Cherry (1964) - Sierra Leonean, white

Lucia Rijker (1967) - Surnamise

Melina Kanakaredes (1967)

Yvette Nicole Brown (1971) - unspecified black - body diverse

Jill Scott (1972) - unspecified black - body diverse

Justina Machado (1972) - Puerto Rican

Marisa Jaret Winkour (1973) - Ashkenazi Jewish - body diverse

Alycia Eyo (1975)

Keala Settle (1975) - body diverse

Lauren Ridloff (1978) - unspecified black - deaf!

Chenese Lewis (1979) - unspecified black - body diverse

Rachelle Lefevre (1979) - Ashkenazi Jewish

Susie Castillo (1979) Dominican / Puerto Rican

Tiffany Limos (1980) Filipino (including Filipino, Spanish, Hawaiian, French, African, and Chinese

Fortune Feimster (1980)

Jasika Nicole (1980) - unspecified black, and unspecified other [has stated she’s biracial]

Vanesa Tomasino (1981) Salvadoran.

Gaby Moreno (1981) - Guatemalan

Giselle Itié (1982) Mexican / Brazilian.

Évelyne Brochu (1982)

Irina Castillo (1982) Afro Panamanian.

Yaya DaCosta (1982) African-Brazilian, African-American, Cherokee, Irish.

Sheron Menezzes (1983) Afro Brazilian, possibly other.

Rocsi Diaz (1983) Chilean / Honduran.

Lupita Nyong’o (1983) Luo Kenyan - Mexican-Kenyan nationality

Vannessa Vasquez (1983) Mexican.

Edy Ganem (1983) Mexican, Lebanese.

Gabourey Sidibe (1983) - Senegalese - body diverse

Janet Mock (1983) - Native Hawaiian, unspecified black - trans!

Tessa Thompson (1983) Afro Panamanian / Mexican, English, German, Scottish, Irish.

Dolly Castro (1984) Afro Nicaraguan.

Allyson Pratt (1984) Metis of Plains Cree, white

Faustina Agolley (1984) - Ghanian, Chinese, Malaysian

Lidi Lisboa (1984) Afro Brazilian.

Cintia Rosa (1984) Afro Brazilian.

Naima Mora (1984) Mexican, African-American, Unspecified Native American, Irish.

Melonie Gillette (1984) Afro Belizean.

Jade Tailor (1985) - Ashkenazi Jewish, white

Sarah Angius (1985) - Iraqi

Carmen Carrera (1985) Puerto Rican-Peruvian - trans

Giovanna Andrade (1985) Ecuadorian.

Alyssa Diaz (1985) Colombian / Mexican.

Karina Jordán (1985) Peruvian.

Leilah Moreno (1985) Afro Brazilian.

Débora Nascimento (1985) Brazilian [Italian, Unspecified Indigenous / Unspecified Black]

Aisha Jambo (1985) Afro Brazilian.

Erika Januza (1985) Afro Brazilian, possibly other.

Oona Chaplin (1986) Chilean [Mapuche, Spanish, possibly Romanian] / English, Irish, 1/16th Scottish.

Nazanin Mandi (1986) Iranian, Mexican, Unspecified Native American, Spanish.

Natalie Nunn (1986) African-American, Brazilian, Mexican.

Tammy Rivera (1986) Nicaraguan / African-American.

Sharon Aguilar (1986) Panamanian / Unspecified.

Mariluz Bermúdez (1986) Costa Rican.

Maria Mena (1986) Afro Nicaraguan / Norwegian.

K-Réena / Katherine Macarena Contreras Contreras (1986) Chilean.

Lua Blanco (1987) Brazilian.

AnnaLynne McCord (1987)

Rebecca Sugar (1987) - Jewish

Stephanie Sigman (1987) Mexican [Unspecified Indigenous, Spanish] / German, possibly other.

Brooke Westbrooks (1987) Mexican, African American, Creole [Unspecified Native American, possibly other], Indian.

Sabi / Jenice Dena Portlock (1987) Salvadoran / African-American.

Tina Desai (1987) - Gujurati and Telugu Indian

Nadia Hilker (1988) - Tunisian, white

Francia Raisa (1988) Honduran / Mexican.

Summer Bishil (1988) Indian / Mexican, Cherokee, German, English, Dutch.

Nalu Santana (1988) Peruvian.

Dandara Mariana (1988) Afro Brazilian.

Alicia Sixtos (1988) Mexican / Portuguese [including Azorean].

Heather Hemmens (1988) Afro Costa Rican / English.

Daniela Vega (1989) Cuban - trans.

Alia Shawkat (1989) - Iraqi, white - actress

Nathalie Emmanuel (1989) Dominican, St. Lucian, English

Juliana Herz (1989) Costa Rican.

Emily Rios (1989) Mexican

Kate Rodriguez (1989) Afro Panamanian.

Lorenza Izzo (1989) Chilean [Spanish, Italian, English, possibly other]

Lisa Tucker (1989) Afro Belizean.

Paula Deanda (1989) Mexican.

Marcela Amor Barnes (1989) Panamanian, Jamaican, Spanish, possibly other.

Ms Damn (1990) Honduran, Louisiana Creole / Nigerian.

Shakira Barrera (1990) Nicaraguan.

Lais Ribeiro (1990) Brazilian [Unspecified African, Unspecified Indigenous, Portuguese]

Kat Lazo (1990) Peruvian [Quechua] / Colombian [Unspecified White]

Q’orianka Kilcher (1990) Peruvian [Quechua, Huachipaeri] / Swiss, German, Belgian [Walloon], English.

Kristinia DeBarge (1990) ⅜ Mexican [Spanish, smaller amounts Unspecified Indigenous, Unspecified African], ¼ African-American, 1/32 Danish, 1/32 Norwegian, rest mix of English, Irish, French, Welsh, German, Icelandic.

Sophia Abrahao (1991) Brazilian.

Luz Pavon (1991) Afro Mexican.

Jasmine Tookes (1991) African-American, Brazilian, Barbadian, Unspecified European.

Aline Dias (1991) Afro Brazilian

Lex Scott Davis (1991) - unspecified black

Kattya Heredia (1991) Afro Peruvian.

Harmony Santana (1991) - Puerto Rican, Dominican- trans!

Carmyn Xoluv (1991) Ecuadorian, Mexican, Chinese, Filipina, Italian, French.

Kasturi Anderson (1991) Belizean, Japanese, African-American, Unspecified Native American.

Alexis Jordan (1992) African-American / Puerto Rican

Adria Arjona (1992) Guatemalan / Puerto Rican.

Nikki Glamour (1992) Mexican.

Diona Reasonover (1992) - Unspecified Black

Jamily (1992) Afro Brazilian.

Kirstin Maldonado (1992) Mexican / Spanish, Italian.

Jessica Ellen (1992) Afro Brazilian.

Mayra Goñi (1992) Peruvian.

Romina Rocamonje (1992) Bolivian.

Hazar Ergüçlü (1992) - Turkish Cyproit

Tori Kelly (1992) Puerto Rican, Jamaican, white

Raini Rodriguez (1993) Mexican - body diverse

Naressa Valdez (1993) African-American, Mexican, Unspecified Native American, Italian,

Portuguese.

Nizhoni Cooley (1993) Mexican, Navajo, Irish, Czechoslovakian.

Crystal Westbrooks (1993) Mexican, African American, Creole [Unspecified Native American, possibly other], Indian.

Bree Westbrooks (1993) Mexican, African American, Creole [Unspecified Native American, possibly other], Indian.

Mayra Tercero (1993) Honduran.

Megan Nicole (1993) Mexican / English, German, Scottish, Unspecified Native American.

Dayana Saez (1994) Panamanian.

Jana Hisham (1994-95) - 5/8 Saudi Arabian, 1/8 Malaysian, 1/8 Bangladeshi, and 1/8 Turkish

Joyjah Estrada (1994) - Belizean

Tashi Rodriguez (1994) African-American, Puerto Rican

Jaz Sinclair (1994) - unspecified black, white

Ella Eyre (1994) - Jamaican, Maltese

Indya Marie (1993) Black, Cuban, Cherokee

Indya Moore (1995) - Puerto Rican, Caribbean - trans!

Jadah Doll (1995) - unspecified black, white

Luisana González (1995) Dominican

Raven Lyn Corneil (1995) African-American, Puerto Rican, Irish and Unspecified Native American

Lorde (1996)

Alessia Cara (1996)

Samantha Logan (1996) Trinidadian, white

Poppy Okotcha (1996) - unspecified black, unspecified other (multiracial)

Imaan Hammam (1996) - Moroccan, Egyptian

Brittany O’Grady (1996) - Louisiana Creole (black, French), Irish

Marina Nery (1996) - Indigenous Brazilian, white

Foreign Doll (1997) Lebanese / Persian Iranian, Azerbaijani, Armenian - youtuber

Iréne Ekelund (1997) Swedish / Angolan.

Naomi Osaka (1997) - Japanese, Haitian

Kiana Brown / Kiana Ledé (1997) Unspecified Black, Mexican (Unconfirmed), Cherokee (Unconfirmed), Swedish.

Hiandra Martinez (1997) Dominican.

Leah Allyannah (1997) Guyanese, Chinese, Indian, Black.

Sahara Lin (1998) Chinese, Welsh, Dominican, Puerto Rican.

Jaylen Barron (1998) African, Mexican, Brazilian, Venezuelan.

Madison Pettis (1998) - unspecified black, white

Yara Shahidi (2000) - unspecified black, Iranian

Taija Kerr (?) Native Hawaiian, unspecified black - body diverse

Christina Moses (?) - Unspecified Black

MALE

Michael Urie (1975)

Javier Munoz (1975) - Puerto Rican

David Bisbal (1979)

Simon Amstell (1979) - Ashkenazi Jewish

Jon Foo (1982) - Chinese, Irish

Ray Santiago (1984) - Puerto Rican

Laith Ashley (1987) - Dominican, unspecified white - trans!

Nick Sagar (1988) Guyanese / Jamaican.

Robert Sheehan (1988)

Jakub Gierszał (1988)

Finn Jones (1988)

Erik Knudsen (1988)

Thakur Anoop Singh (1989) Indian.

Chai Hansen (1989) - Thai, unspecified white

Roshon Fegan (1991) African-American / Fillipino

Eduardo Casanova (1991)

Anthony Ramos (1991) - Puerto Rican

Marlon Teixeira (1991) Brazilian [Portuguese, ¼ Japanese, ¼ Unspecified Indigenous]

Toby Regbo (1991)

Alberto Rosende (1993) - Colombian, Cuban

David Lambert (1993) - half Puerto Rican

Ludovico Tersigni (1995)

Troye Sivan (1995) - half Ashkenazi Jewish

Jordy Baan (1995)

Jack WAy (1999) - trans!

Mars Granito (?) - unspecified black - trans!

Tom Phelan (?) - trans!

Jackson Hale (?) Indian, Trinidadian, White.

Tommy Martinez (?) - Venezuelan

NONBINARY

Jill Solloway (1965) - non-binary and gender non-conforming

Olly Alexander (1990) - non-binary - he/him

Nico Tortorella (1988) Genderfluid - they/them

Rain Dove (1989) Genderqueer - they/them.

Chella Man (1998) Chinese, Jewish - Genderqueer - he/him - deaf

Ellie Desautels (?) - trans genderqueer - they/them

Ty Vine (?) - unspecified black - nonbinary

Alok Vaid-Menon (?) unspecified South Asian - non-binary transfeminine

#dear-indies #rph #rpc #rpt #fc masterlist #**my resc.#enjoy my HIDEOUS GRAPHIC bc I can't graphic design for shit

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Far Cry 5: Naming Wank

*Marge Simpson meme but the potato is “etymology and Biblical allusions* “I just think they’re neat.” (most “special” tibits imo highlighted)

The Seeds

Joseph – “he will add” – St. Joseph, husband of Mary and patron of fathers, travelers, immigrants, and carpenters

Jacob – “holder of the heel” or “May God protect – in Old Testament, the born holding the heel of his older twin brother, Esau – twice “stole” the rights of his older brother: (1) “buying” a starving Esau’s birthright for “red pottage” or stew and (2) dressing himself, on the advice of his mother Rebecca, in goatskin to disguise himself as his hairy older brother to their blind father and receive the blessing meant for Esau

John – “God Is gracious” – John the Baptist, who baptised Jesus Christ and was executed by Herod Antipas – John the Apostle, the youngest of the 12 apostles

Faith – “to trust” –deriv. from the Latin “fidere,” but adopted as a given name in 17th c. English Puritan tradition

Rachel –“ewe” (Hebrew) – In the Old Testament, the first favorite wife of Jacob (who was tricked into marrying her older sister, but “won” the right to take her as a second wife in exchange for 7 years labour for their father); facing barrenness, she offered her handmaid to her husband but eventually had children herself, including a son named Joseph

Guns for Hire

Sharky / Charlemagne – “Charles the Great” (Old French) / derv. Charles / Karl (German) – “man” or “army, warrior”

Nick – “victory of the people” (Greek) – St. Nicholas, patron saint of children, sailors, and merchants

Adelaide – “noble” + “kind, sort, type” (French form of Germanic) –St. Adelaide of Italy, patron of abuse victims, brides, in-laws, second marriages, step-parents, and widows

Grace – “grateful” (English) – another Puritan name that took on given status in 17th century

Jess – deriv. “Iscah” for “to behold” (Hebrew) –first English usage was in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

Hurk – “glory [of Hera]” (Greek) – Hercules (?) hero of Greek and Roman myth

Other Resistance Members

Mary May – “sea of bitterness” / “rebellion” (Hebrew) + “Maia” Greek goddess & mother of Hermes -- the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus – Mary Magdalene, a woman cured of her demons by Jesus

Kim (Kimiko) – 貴 (ki) "valuable" + 美 (mi) "beautiful" + 子 (ko) "child" (Japanese Kanji) –

Jerome – “sacred” (Greek) – St. Jerome, patron of scholars, archaeologists, students, and libraries; also famous for translating Bible into Latin, among many other writings

Eli – “ascension” (Hebrew) – in the Old Testament, is an Israelite high priest who takes in Samuel and gives him guidance when God spoke to him; however, Eli and his descendants are cursed to die before old age due to the misdeeds of his sons

Sheriff's Department

Joey – feminine deriv. of “Joseph” (see above. What does that mean????)

Staci – deriv. “Anastatsius” for “resurrection” (Greek)

Earl – “nobleman, warrior” (Old English)

Cameron –” crooked nosed” (Scottish Gaelic)

#far cry 5 #fc5 #etymology #far cry #the project at eden's gate #hope county #like...how did all these fit perfectly for all of them?#anyone wants to make all this Discourse into a graphic it's all yours buddy

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