#eskimos & egypt

[kemetic-dreams]

The term 'Sub-Saharan' Africa is a colonial language that was used to belittle African nations south of the Sahara and to separate the other countries from North Africa– Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Sudan due to them being Arab states.

Colored, Negro, Black, Nigger

Every one of these terms come from the mindset of Europeans not Africans. Indigenous African societies do not use the term black as a racial identity outside of influences brought by Western cultures.

Contemporary anthropologists and other scientists, while recognizing the reality of biological variation between different human populations, regard the concept of a unified, distinguishable "Black race" as socially constructed.

Black is a term developed in the Colonial Assembly of Maryland, after a rebellion called Bacon's Rebellion, fought from 1676 to 1677.

The alliance between European indentured servants and Africans (a mix of indentured, enslaved, and Free Negroes) disturbed the colonial upper class. They responded by hardening the racial caste of slavery in an attempt to divide the two races from subsequent united uprisings with the passage of the Virginia Slave Codes of 1705.

White took on the meaning "British, Christian and having rights. Black meaning not having rights.

These divided the two populations, by giving poor Europeans with no power, unprecedented power over all non-Europeans.

The laws were devised to establish a greater level of control over the rising African slave population of Virginia. It also socially segregated white colonists from black enslaved persons, making them disparate groups and hindering their ability to unite. Unity of the commoners was a perceived fear of the Virginia aristocracy, who wished to prevent repeated events such as Bacon's Rebellion, occurring 29 years prior.

By refusing to call you an African, it belittles you, no such thing as black names, black land or black languages. It is like calling a woman big lips or flat butt and refusing to call the woman by her actual name. "Hey colored girl, or black boy".

In social psychology, a stereotype is a generalized belief about a particular category of people.

African populations have the highest levels of genetic variation among all humans. 

Why You Probably Shouldn't Say 'Eskimo'

People in many parts of the Arctic consider Eskimo a derogatory term because it was widely used by racist, non-native colonizers. Many people also thought it meant eater of raw meat, which connoted barbarism and violence. Although the word's exact etymology is unclear, mid-century anthropologists suggested that the word came from the Latin word excommunicati, meaning the excommunicated ones, because the native people of the Canadian Arctic were not Christian.

According to the Constitution of India, we are “the people of India that is Bharat”

In English language discourse, the word ‘India’ is used and in Hindi expressions, the word ‘Bharat’ is used. The Anglicised call it ‘India’, and the indigenous call it ‘Bharat’. Our ruling class calls it ‘India’, the others, the janata, call it ‘Bharat’. It has become a trend and fashion to prefer the word ‘India’ over ‘Bharat’. We converse with the country in Hindi and other vernaculars while we govern it in English.

Japanese people usually refer to their country as Nihon or Nippon 

The name "Japan" in English is derived from the Portuguese word "Japão," which was used during the 16th century when Portuguese traders and explorers first arrived in Japan. The Portuguese term "Japão" likely evolved from the Malay word "Japang" or "Japang Pulau," which referred to the Japanese archipelago.

The Japanese people themselves refer to their country as "Nihon" (日本) or "Nippon" (日本), and these terms have been used in the Japanese language for centuries.

As European seen themselves as the elites of all races and god's chosen people. They took on the mindset of what I say makes the most sense.

Renaming essentially all populations they came in contact with, using their language as opposed to learning the language of the natives.

And whatever religion or spirituality people had Europeans demonized it and forced converted people to Christianity.

#african #afrakan #kemetic dreams #africans #brownskin #brown skin #afrakans #manifest destiny #colonization #colonialism #europeans #european #slavery #mindset #christianity #religion #spiritual #spirituality #asians #gujarat #gujarati people #india #bharat #nippon #nihon #english #eskimo #yupik #inuit #bacons rebellion

[iishmael]

Global Reading Challenge: 109/200

A personal reading project, where I endeavour to read a book from each of the 193 United Nations member states plus 7 extra* ones. My main goal is to have fun and to learn, but I do have rules for myself:

The book should be fiction, and preferably a novel. I allow plays and poetry, but non-fiction only as the very last resort

The author should have the nationality of their country. If they have lived a good portion of their life there and genuinely represent the local culture, then it's ok if they've been born somewhere else

I want to read books that represent the local literary tradition. Preferably a "classic", a book that illustrates the local culture, or a book that is famous within the country. I avoid popular and contemporary fiction, and books that play outside of the country.

*Extra states have been determined based on UNESCO membership and personal interest where I want to read more books from. This is not a political statement.

The List

Afghanistan: Atiq Rahimi - Earth and Ashes

Albania:

Algeria: Albert Camus - The Stranger (FR)

Andorra: Teresa Colom - Mlle Keaton et autres creatures (FR)

Angola: José Eduardo Agualusa - The Book of Chameleons

Antigua and Barbuda

Argentina: JL Borges - Fictions

Armenia: Raffi - The Fool

Australia: Doris Pilkington/Nugi Garimara - Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence

Austria

Azerbaijan

Bahamas: Telcine Turner - Woman Take Two

Bahrain

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus: Uladzimir Karatkievich - King Stakh's Wild Hunt

Belgium

Belize: Zee Edgell - Beka Lamb

Benin

Bhutan

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Botswana: Bessie Head - Maru

Brazil: Paulo Coehlo - The Alchimist

Brunei Darussalam: K.H. Lim - Written in Black

Bulgaria: Elias Canetti - Komödie der Eitelkeit (GER)

Burkina Faso: Norbert Zongo - Le parachutage (FR)

Burundi: Samoya Kirura - La femme au regard triste (FR)

Cabo Verde: Germano Almeida - The Last Will & Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo

Cambodia

Cameroon: Francis Bebey - King Albert

Canada: S. Alice Callahan - Wynema: A Child of the Forest

Central African Republic: Étienne Goyémidé - Le dernier Survivant de la caravane

Chad: Told by Starlight in Chad - Joseph Brahmin Seid

Chile

China

Colombia

Comoros: Ali Zamir - A Girl Called Eel

Congo

Cook Islands*: Kauraka Kauraka- Oral tradition in Manihiki

Costa Rica: Carlos Luis Fallas - Mamita Yunai (Die Grüne Hölle, GER)

Côte D’Ivoire

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus: Kyriakos Charalambides - Selected Poems

Czech Republic: Jan Neruda - Prague Tales

DPRK (North Korea)

DRC

Denmark

Djibouti

Dominica: Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

Egypt

El Salvador: Horacio Castellanos Moyà - Le bal des vipères (FR)

Equatorial Guinea: Trifonia Melibea Obono - La Bâtarde (FR)

Eritrea: Helen Berhane - Song of the Nightingale

Estonia

Eswatini: Malla Nunn - A Beautiful Place to Die

Ethiopia

Fiji: Rajni Mala Khelawan - Kalyana

Finland

France: Pierre Louys - Aphrodite: Ancient Manners

Gabon: Daniel M Mengara - Mema

Gambia

Georgia

Germany: Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks

Ghana: Ayi Kwei Armah - The beautiful ones are not yet born

Greece

Greenland*: Knud Rasmussen - Eskimo Folktales

Grenada: Merle Collins - The Colour of Forgetting

Guatemala: Miguel Angel Asturias - Strong Wind

Guinea: Camara Laye - The Radiance of the King

Guinea Bissau: Abdulai Sila - The ultimate tragedy

Guyana Haiti

Honduras: Froylan Turcios - El Vampiro (SPA)

Hungary: Arthur Koestler - Darkness at Noon

Iceland

India: Rabindranath Tangore - The Home and the World

Indonesia

Iran: Sadegh Hedayat - The Blind Owl

Iraq: Andrew George - The epic of Gilgamesh

Ireland: James Joyce - Dubliners

Israel

Italy: Italo Calvino - If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

Jamaica: Andrew Salkey - Hurricane

Japan

Jordan: Amjad Nasser - L'ascension de l'amant (FR)

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Kiribati: Teresia Teaiwa & Vilsoni Hereniko - Last Virgin in paradise

Kosovo*

Kuwait

Kyrgyzstan: Chingiz Aitmatov - Jamila

Laos: Outhine Bounyavong - Mother's Beloved

Latvia

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia: Bai T. Moore - Murder in the Cassava Patch

Libya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania: Vingas Kreve - The Herdsman and the Linden Tree

Luxembourg: Norbert Jacques - Dr Mabuse der Spieler (GER)

Madagascar: Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo - Traduit de La nuit (FR)

Malawi

Malaysia

Maldives: Abdullah Sadiq - Dhon Hiyala and Ali Fulhu

Mali

Malta

Marshall Islands: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner - Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter

Mauritania: Moussa Ould Ebnou - L'Amour Impossible (FR)

Mauritius

Mexico: Mario Bellatín - Beauty Salon

Micronesia: Emelihter Klieng - My Urohs

Monaco: Louis Notari - La légende de Sainte Dévote (FR)

Mongolia: Galsan Tschinag - Die Karawane (GER)

Montenegro: Petar II Petrovic Njegos - The Mountain Wreath

Morocco: Abdellatif Laâbi - Le bâpteme chacaliste (FR)

Mozambique

Myanmar

Namibia

Nauru: Nancy Viviani - Nauru, phosphate and political progress

Nepal

Netherlands

New Zealand: Witi Ihimaera - The Whale Rider

Nicaragua: Rubén Dario - Azul… (SPA/ENG)

Niger

Nigeria: Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Niue*: John Puhiatau Pule - The Bond of Time: An Epic Love Poem

North Macedonia

Norway: Henrik Ibsen - A Doll's House

Oman

Pakistan: Jamil Ahmad - The Wandering Falcon

Palau: Hermana Ramarui - The Palauan Perspective: a poetry book

Panama: Ricardo Miró - Las Noches de Babel (SPA)

Palestine*: Ibrahim Nasrallah - Prairies of Fever

Papua New Guinea: Vincent Eri - The Crocodile

Paraguay

Peru: Mario Vargas Llosa - In Praise of the Stepmother

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Qatar

Republic of Korea

Republic of Moldova

Romania

Russian Federation: Leo Tolstoi - The Death of Ivan Ilyich

Rwanda

Saint Kitts and Nevis: Caryl Philips - Cambridge

Saint Lucia: Derek Walcott - Omeros

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Samoa: Albert Wendt - Leaves of the Banyan Tree

San Marino: J. Theodore Bent - A freak of Freedom: or, the Republic of San Marino

Sao Tome and Principe:

Saudi Arabia

Senegal

Serbia

Seychelles: Antoine Abel - Coco Sec (FR)

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Slovakia: Milan Rúfus - Strenges Brot

Slovenia: France Prešeren - Poems

Solomon Islands: John Saunana - Cruising Through the Reverie

Somalia: Hadraawi - The Poet and the Man

South Africa: JM Coetzee - Disgrace

South Sudan: Nyuol Lueth Tong - There is a country

Spain: Miguel de Unamuno - Abel Sanchez and Other Stories

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Suriname

Sweden: August Strindberg - The Red Room

Switzerland

Syrian Arab Republic: Ibn al-Nafis - Theologus Autodidactus

Taiwan*

Tajikistan: Shavkat Niyazi - At the Foot of Blue Mountains: Stories by Tajik Authors

Thailand

Timor-Leste: Xanana Gusmão - Mar Meu

Togo

Tonga: Epeli Hau'ofa - Tales of the Tikongs

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia: Albert Memmi - The Pillar of Salt

Turkey

Turkmenistan: Magtymguly - Poems from Turkmenistan

Tuvalu: Neil Lifuka - Logs in the current of the sea

Uganda: Okot p'Bitek - Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol

Ukraine: Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Penguin

United Arab Emirates

UK: Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway

United Republic of Tanzania

USA: John Steinbeck - Grapes of Wrath

Uruguay

Uzbekistan: Abdullah Qoqiriy - Bygone Days

Vanuatu: Grace Molisa - Black Stone

Vatican City*: Andrew Graham-Dixon - Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

Venezuela

Viet Nam

Yemen: Abdul-wali - They die strangers

Zambia

Zimbabwe

#booklr #currently reading #reading challenge #classic literature #literature #books #book recommendations #global reading #Sam reads #PLEASE let me know if the Read More breaks since this is a very longue post #I will link to my book reviews of the books I've read when I post them!!!

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Today in Christian History

Today is Friday, July 7th, it is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 177 days remain until the end of the year.

303: Procopius of Sycthopolis is martyred as the first of the Palestine victims in the Diocletian persecutions.

1438: The Pragmatic Sanctions of Bourges, issued by King Charles VII of France, asserts Gallican liberties against the papacy.

1522: The Zurich council summons Conrad Grebel and three of his friends and forbids them to speak out against monks during their sermons.

1755: John Berridge is admitted to the vicarage of Everton, an obscure village on the edge of Bedfordshire, England. He will retain the position for the rest of his life, even after he becomes a famous evangelist.

1818: Walter Scott arrives in New York from Scotland, and soon will become a leader and educator in the growing Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement.

1821: Moravians at Okkak, Labrador, report that the sky toward the west becomes black at 7 AM and soon their settlement is plunged into darkness. They are forced to use candles until about 10 AM after which the sky becomes fiery red. Some Eskimos at sea will report afterward that something like ash fell upon their boat.

1859: Episcopalian bishop William Jones Boone the elder consecrates Samuel Schereschewsky with deacon’s orders in St. George’s Church, New York. Schereschewsky will become a notable missionary to China and a bishop.

1873: Lottie Moon is appointed to China by the Foreign Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention.

1878: Francis J. Grimké is ordained a Presbyterian minister. He will emphasize honesty, hard work, thrift, and eternal values. “It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time,” he declares. He will also join in organizing the American Negro Academy in 1897.

1896: The Gospel Missionary Union becomes the first “faith mission” to enter Ecuador in the persons of J. A. Strain, F. W. Farnol, and George Fisher.

1907: Death of Anna Louisa Walker Coghill at Bath, England. She had authored many poems and the popular hymn “Work, for the Night Is Coming.”

1935: Death in Alexandria, Egypt, of Orthodox patriarch Meletius Metaxakis, a zealous reformer who had also taken steps to create a Greek Archdiocese in North America. He was the only man successively to lead three autocephalous (independent) Orthodox Churches. He had also sought to bridge the gap between Orthodoxy and the Anglican Church.

1944: Death of George Washington Truett, who had pastored the largest Baptist church in the world—the First Baptist Church of Dallas.

[davidalmeida]

Puns Galore

(An email forwarded to me on October 16, 1999)

Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, but when they lit a fire in the craft it sank-proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it, too. Two boll weevils grew up in South Carolina. One went to Hollywood and became a famous actor. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much. The second one, naturally, became known as the lesser of two weevils. A three-legged dog walks into a saloon in the Old West. He slides up to the bar and announces: "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw." Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused his dentist's Novocaine during root canal work? He wanted to transcend dental medication. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?" they asked, as they moved off. "Because," he said, "I can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer." There was a man who entered a local paper's pun contest. He sent in ten different puns, in the hope that at least one of the puns would win. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did. A woman has twins, and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named "Amal." The other goes to a family in Spain; they name him "Juan." Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his mom. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Amal. Her husband responds, "But they are twins-if you've seen Juan, you've seen Amal."

And the worst of the bunch: These friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise the funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, the rival florist across town thought the competition was unfair.\

He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him. He asked his mother to go and ask the friars to get out of business. They ignored her too.

So, the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to "persuade" them to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he'd be back if they didn't close shop. Terrified, they did so -- thereby proving ... (Are you ready for this?) that Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist friars.

(Let the mass groaning commence! LOL)

[siamkram]

“As I read, I recalled that somewhere along the pathway of my life I had been told—and accepted the idea—that the sun, great and powerful, was naturally worshiped as male, while the moon, hazy, delicate symbol of sentiment and love, had always been revered as female. Much to my surprise I discovered accounts of Sun Goddesses in the lands of Canaan, Anatolia, Arabia and Australia, while Sun Goddesses among the Eskimos, the Japanese and the Khasis of India were accompanied by subordinate brothers who were symbolized as the moon.

I had somewhere assimilated the idea that the earth was invariably identified as female, Mother Earth, the one who passively accepts the seed, while heaven was naturally and inherently male, its intangibility symbolic of the supposedly exclusive male ability to think in abstract concepts. This too I had accepted without question—until I learned that nearly all the female deities of the Near and Middle East were titled Queen of Heaven, and in Egypt not only was the ancient Goddess Nut known as the heavens, but her brother-husband Geb was symbolized as the earth.

Most astonishing of all was the discovery of numerous accounts of the female Creators of all existence, divinities who were credited with bringing forth not only the first people but the entire earth and the heavens above. There were records of such Goddesses in Sumer, Babylon, Egypt, Africa, Australia and China.” -When God Was A Woman, Merlin Stone

#goddesses #goddess #when god was a woman #merlin stone #divine feminine #women’s religions

[brookston]

Holidays 9.22

Holidays

American Business Women’s Day

Band-Aid Day

Breakfast, Snack, Elevenses, Snack, Lunch, Snack, Tea, Snack, Dinner, Snack, More Snacks, Supper, Snack, and Bilgewack Celebration Day

Canterbury South Day (New Zealand)

Car-Free Day (Europe; Montreal, Canada)

Chainmail Day

Chong Chao (Macau)

Day of Bilbo

Day of Frodo

Dear Diary Day

Elephant Appreciation Day

Emancipation Day (Ohio)

Festival of Disappearances

First Day of Fall [Autumnal Equinox, Northern Hemisphere] (a.k.a. …

Alban Elfed (Celtic Winter Finding)

Autumnal Equinox (a.k.a. Mabon, Alban Elfed; Celtic, Pagan) [6 of 8 Festivals of the Natural Year]

Feast of Carpo (Celtic Goddess of Autumn)

Festival of Ragutiene and Ragutis (Slavic Goddess & God of Beer)

Festival of the Sea Goddess (Eskimo)

French Republican New Year (France)

Higan (Japan)

Kukulcan Snake God Celebration (Ancient Mayan)

Mabon begins (Northern Hemisphere; Neopaganism)

Miķeļi Festival begins (Latvia; The Week of Iron)

National Falls Prevention Awareness Day

Oenach Carman (Ancient Celtic)

Ostara begins (Southern Hemisphere; Neopaganism)

Proposal Day

Sendai Great Tug-of-War (Japan)

Shubun no Hi (Japan)

Spring Day (Argentina)

Svarog’s Day (Asatru/Slavic Pagan Mead Drinking Festival to God of Fire & Sky)

Flag Day (Norway)

Flaunt Your Favorite Beach Towel Day

Hobbit Day

International Day of Radiant Peace

Jeans for Genes Day (UK)

National Centenarian's Day

National Day (Saudi Arabia)

National Elephant Appreciation Day

National Girls’ Night In Day

National Laundry Workers Day

National Legwear Day

National Online Recovery Day

National Rock ’n’ Roll Dog Day

One Web Day [ website ]

Remote Employee Appreciation Day

Resistance Fighting Day (Estonia)

Thrue Bab (Blessed Rainy Day; Bhutan)

Treaty of Basel Day (Switzerland)

Trumpet Day (Mormons)

U.N.C.L.E. Day

World Car-Free Day

World Rhino Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Cask Ale Week begins (UK; through 10.2)

Ice Cream Cone Day

National White Chocolate Day

4th Thursday in September

Arthur's Day (Arthur Guinness) [4th Thursday]

Remember Me Thursday [4th Thursday]

Independence Days

Brunei (from UK, 1984)

Bulgaria (from Ottoman Empire, 1908)

Mali (from France, 1960)

Switzerland (Becomes independent state, 1499)

Feast Days

Believe the Impossible Day (Pastafarian)

Boidromia (Honoring Apollon, god of rescue during war; Ancient Greece)

The Bottle (Muppetism)

Brother Dave Gardner Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Candidus (Christian; Saint)

Coya Raymi (Incan Moon Goddess Quilla)

Digna and Emerita (Christian; Saint)

Emmeram of Regensburg (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Mikeli (Harvest Celebration; Ancient Latvia)

Felix and Constantia (Christian; Saint)

Ignatius of Santhià (Lorenzo Maurizio Belvisotti; Christian; Saint)

Laud of Coutances (Christian; Saint)

Maurice (Western Christianity)

Paul Chong Hasang (Christian; One of The Korean Martyrs)

Phocas (the Gardener, or of Sinope; Christian; Saint)

Phocas, Bishop of Sinope (Christian; Saint)

Sadalberga (Christian; Saint)

Saintin (Sanctinus) de Meaux (Christian; Saint)

Septimius of Iesi (Christian; Saint)

Theban Legion (Christian; Saint)

Thomas of Villanova (Christian; Saint)

Philander Chase (Episcopal Church)

Ritual of the Netjers and the Two Lands (Ancient Egypt)

Schiller (Positivist; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Premieres

The Band, by The Band (Album; 1969)

Baywatch (TV Series; 1989)

Black Rain (Film; 1989)

Das Rheingold, by Richard Wagner (Opera; 1869) [Ring of the Nibelung #1]

Dizzy Up the Girl, by The Goo Goo Dolls (Album; 1998)

Family Matters (TV Series; 1989)

Family Ties (TV Series; 1982)

Fiddler on the Roof (Broadway Musical; 1964)

Friends (TV Series; 1994)

Full House (TV Series; 1987)

Kingsman: The Golden Circle (Film; 2017)

The Lego Ninjago Movie (Film; 2017)

Lost (TV Series; 2004)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series; 1964)

Maverick (TV Series; 1957)

Prometheus Unbound, by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Lyrical Drama; 1820)

Queens of the Stone Age, by the Queens of a Stone Age (Album; 1998)

Se7en (Film; 1995)

Sports Night (TV Series; 1998)

Two and a Half Men (TV Series; 2003)

Veronica Mars (TV Series; 2004)

The West Wing (TV Series; 1999)

Calendar Changes

Libra (Balance) begins [Zodiac Sign 7; thru 10.23]

Today’s Name Days

Moritz (Austria)

Emerita, Katarina, Mauricije, Toma od Villanove (Croatia)

Darina (Czech Republic)

Mauritius (Denmark)

Marvo, Maur, Mauri, Maurits (Estonia)

Mauri (Finland)

Maurice (France)

Emmeram, Gundula, Mauritius, Moritz (Germany)

Fokas, Loizos, Louise, Phokas, Zografia (Greece)

Móric (Hungary)

Maria, Maurizio (Italy)

Maigurs, Māris, Marisa, Mariss, Morics (Latvia)

Tarvinas, Tomas, Virmantė (Lithuania)

Kåre, Kyrre (Norway)

Joachim, Joachima, Maurycy, Prosimir, Tomasz (Poland)

Móric (Slovakia)

Mauricio (Spain)

Maurits, Moritz (Sweden)

Druce, Drucilla, Maurice, Mauricio, Maury, Merrick, Morell, Morris, Morrison, Murray (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 265 of 2022; 100 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 38 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 20 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Guìyuè), Day 27 (Wu-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 26 ʼĔlūl 5782

Islamic: 25 Ṣafar 1444

J Cal: 25 Aki; Threesday [25 of 30]

Julian: 9 September 2022

Moon: 22%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 12 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Metastasio]

Runic Half Month: Ken (Illumination) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 1 of 90)

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 30 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Autumn (a.k.a. Fall) [Season 4 of 4]

#calendar #Holidays

[sumpix]

A brand-new blue may be the most eye-popping blue yet

Meet a spectacular new blue—the first inorganic new blue in some time.

Credit: Oregon State University

Combine yttrium, indium, and manganese, then heat and serve.

The new blue was synthesized by chemists at Oregon State University.

YInMn Blue is the latest character in the weird history of the color blue.

Yttrium, Indium, and Manganese, and the pigment was invented by a team of chemists led by Mas Subramanian at Oregon State University (OSU).

The color was invented in 2009, but it took until last spring for the EPA to approve it for general use — the agency refers to it as “Blue 10G513.” Before that, in 2016, the Shepherd Color Company had licensed it for exterior use, and knockoffs of the color popped up here and there in Etsy offerings. It even inspired a new Crayola color called “Bluetiful.” Appropriate.

YInMn Blue is the latest character in an odd story: humanity’s relationship with the color blue.

For a long time, humans apparently took no note of blue, which is weird. Though blue isn’t especially common in vegetation and stone, there’s no other color that so envelops us — in the sky above and on the face of the oceans that surround us. (BTW, the late George Carlin once lamented a paucity of blue foods.)

some African cave art. There’s no mention of it in the Bible. Though there are plenty of references in Homer’s Odyssey to white and black, and a few to red and yellow, there’s no blue. He refers to the color of the sea as “wine-dark.”

Some historians hypothesize that early humans might have been color-blind, capable only of seeing black, white, red, and eventually yellow and green. Perhaps they just weren’t very interested in the idea of color altogether.

Maybe, though, a more likely explanation is that lacking a concept and a word for blue, ancient people lacked a frame of reference for understanding what they were seeing. Radiolab did a fascinating episode about this possibility.

A BBC documentary found that people from a Namibian tribe with no separate words for green and blue couldn’t differentiate green from blue squares, though there’s some controversy about the experiment. What is true, though, is that Eskimos see more types of snow because they have 50 words for it. (The word “Eskimo” groups together the people of the Inuit and Yupik families.) We see just a few.

While Homer, et al., were stumbling around clueless, it seems that the first folks to get blue were the ancient Egyptians, who were entranced by the semiprecious Afghan stone lapis lazuli about 6,000 years ago. They gave the color a name—ḫsbḏ-ỉrjt—and used the stone liberally in jewelry and headdresses.

The Egyptians even attempted to make paint from the mineral, but failed. In 2,200 B.C. they finally succeeded at producing a light-blue paint, cuprorivaite or “Egyptian blue,” from heated limestone, sand, and azurite or malachite. Egypt’s precious blue pigments eventually became valued by royalty in Persia, Mesoamerica, and Rome.

The earliest successful lapis lazuli paint—and ultimately Europe’s first great blue—appeared in 6th century Buddhist paintings from Bamiyan, Afghanistan. Imported into Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries, ultramarine—from ultramarinus, or “beyond the sea”—was used only in expensive commissioned artwork until a French chemist developed a cheaper, synthetic version in 1826. True ultramarine was both so coveted and pricey that, according to the Metropolitan Museum, Vermeer impoverished his family to purchase it, and there’s a story that one of Michelangelo’s paintings, “The Entombment,” was left unfinished because he couldn’t afford the ultramarine it required. At the other end of the cost spectrum was the affordable blue dye indigo, made from the plant Indigofera tinctoria, and imported to Europe in the 16th-century.

Over time, more blues appeared. In 1706, German dye-maker Johann Jacob Diesbach came up with Berliner Blau, or Prussian blue, accidentally when potash he was using to make red pigment was contaminated with animal blood that paradoxically turned it blue. 1802 saw the invention of cobalt blue, based on the 8th- and 9th-century blue pigments used in Chinese porcelain, by French chemist Louis Jacques Thénard. Cerulean blue—from caerulum, meaning “heave” or “sky”—was the last major blue introduced before YInMn Blue. It was invented by Albrecht Höpfner in 1789.

The discovery of YInMn Blue occurred when chemistry grad student Andrew Smith was heating manganese oxide to approximately 1200 °C (~2000 °F) to investigate its electronic properties. To his surprise, what emerged from the heat was a brilliant blue compound. Recalls Subramanian: “If I hadn’t come from an industry research background — DuPont has a division that developed pigments, and obviously, they are used in paint and many other things — I would not have known this was highly unusual, a discovery with strong commercial potential.”

Subramanian knew, he told NPR in 2016, “People have been looking for a good, durable blue color for a couple of centuries.” OSU art students soon began experimenting with the new color, incorporating it in watercolors and printing. In 2012, Subramanian’s team received a patent for YInMn Blue.

Bonus: Previous blue pigments are prone to fading and are often toxic. These are problems that don’t afflict YInMn Blue. “The fact that this pigment was synthesized at such high temperatures signaled that this new compound was extremely stable, a property long sought in a blue pigment,” says Subramanian in the study documenting YInMn Blue.

Subramanian and his colleagues have been developing colors ever since, including new bright oranges, new purples, and turquoises and greens. Currently, they’re on the hunt for a chromatic Holy Grail: a stable, heat-reflective, and brilliant, red. It’s a challenge. While red is among the oldest colors, Subramanian calls the shade he seeks “the most elusive color to synthesize.”

#blue jeans #new #colour #pigment

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 1.24

Holidays

BCPB (Black & Can’t Play Basketball) Awareness Day

Bell Let’s Talk Day (Canada)

Bull Day (French Republic)

Change a Pet's Life Day

Colorist Appreciation Day

Economic Liberation Day (Togo)

Fiesta de Ekeko (Bolivia)

Foreign Intelligence Service Day (Ukraine)

Global Belly Laugh Day (at 1:24 pm local time)

Gold Rush Day

Heart to Heart Day

International Day of Education

International Day of the Endangered Lawyer

International Mobile Phone Recycling Day

Juan Pablo Duarte Day (Dominican Republic)

"Just Do It" Day

Macintosh Computer Day

Microwave Oven Day

Minimoog Day

Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day

National ALGS Awareness Day

National Compliment Day

National Girl Child Day (India)

National Heroes Day (Cayman Islands)

National Matthew Day

National Readathon Day

Paul Pitcher Day (UK)

Social Sipping and Nibbling Rehearsal Day

Square Dance Day [also 11.29]

Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day

Tax Ruled Unconstitutional Day

Tricknology Day

TV Game Show Day

Uttar Pradesh Day (India)

World Day for African and Afro-descendant Culture

Zaevion Dobson Day (Tennessee)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Beer Can Day (a.k.a. Beer Can Appreciation Day)

Eskimo Pie Day

National Hot Cereal Day

National Lobster Thermidor Day

National Peanut Butter Day

4th Wednesday in January

Library Shelfie Day [4th Wednesday]

Weedless Wednesday (Canada) [4th Wednesday]

Independence & Related Days

Ziua Unirii (Unification Day of the Romanian Principalities; Romania)

Festivals Beginning January 24, 2024

The Blues of Achilles: Homer Iliad [Annual Raglas Lecture] (San Diego, California)

Iowa Pork Congress (Des Moines, Iowa) [thru 1.25]

Sioux Falls Farm Show (Sioux Falls, Iowa) [thru 1.26]

Sustainable Foods Summit (San Francisco, California) [thru 1.25]

Temple Bar TradFest (Dublin, Ireland) [thru 1.28]

Feast Days

Alacitas (Aymara Indian Pot-Bellied God of Property; Everyday Wicca)

Babylas of Antioch (Christian; Martyr)

Cadoc Day (Wales)

Cat Sacrifice Day (Aix-En Province, France)

Ekeko Festival (God of Abundance; Bolivia) [Lasts 3 Weeks]

Exuperantius of Cingoli (Christian; Saint)

The Fairy-Four Paganalia (Shamanism)

Feast of Our Lady of Peace (Roman Catholic)

Feast of Seed-Time (Feati Sementini; Ancient Rome)

Felician of Foligno (Christian; Martyr)

Francis de Sales (Christian; Saint) [Journalists, Editors, Writers]

Gillis van Coninxloo (Artology)

Invent a God Day (Pastafarian)

John Belushi (Hedonism; Saint)

Jools Holland (Humanism)

Klaatu Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Konstantin Bogaevsky (Artology)

Macedonius of Syria (Christian; Saint)

Paganalia: Gaea’s Day (Celebration of the Country Farmer; Pagan)

Pendulum Dowsing to Find Lost Things (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

The Pendragon Legend, by Antal Szerb (Novel; 1934)

Pratulin Martyrs (Greek Catholic Church)

Robert Motherwell (Artology)

Sailing of Bast (Ancient Egypt)

Sementivae begins (Ancient Roman festival honoring Ceres (Goddess of Agriculture) and Tellus (Mother Earth)

Solomon (Positivist; Saint)

Stanley the Mouse (Muppetism)

Suranus of Umbria (Christian; Saint)

Timothy, disciple of St. Paul (Christian; Martyr)

Twrch Trwyth Day (Boar hunted by King Arthur; Celtic Book of Days)

Vasily Surikov (Artology)

Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown]

Tu BiShvat [14-15 Shevat]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Alice Foils the Pirates (Disney Cartoon; 1927)

Amerika, by Franz Kafka (Novel; 1927)

Chicago (Film; 2003)

Clement Lorimer, by Angus Reach (Novel; 1848)

The Courier (Film; 2020)

Danse Macabre, by Camille Saint-Saëns (Tone Poem; 1874)

Farewell My Ugly or Knots to You (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 18; 1960)

Fierce Creatures (Film; 1997)

Go Ask Alice, by Beatrice Sparks (Novel; 1971)

Grand Hotel, by Vicki Baum (Novel; 1929)

The Grapes of Wrath (Film; 1940)

Hairless Hector (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1941)

A Hollywood Detour (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1942)

Ideas on the Aesthetics of Music, by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubert (Essays; 1787)

Jirel of Joiry, by C.L. Moore (Novel; 1934)

Mickey’s Toontown (Disneyland Attraction; 1993)

Mouse-Placed Kitten (WB MM Cartoon; 1959)

My Chauffeur (Film; 1986)

The 19th Hole Club, featuring Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1936)

Noah’s Outing, featuring Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1932)

Pluto’s Playmate (Disney Cartoon; 1941)

Setting Free the Bears, by John Irving (Novel; 1968)

Shift: Third Shift — Pact, by Hugh Howey (Novel; 2013)

Skid Row, by Skid Row (Album; 1989)

Snake in the Gracias (Tijuana Toads Cartoon; 1971)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Film; 1948)

21, by Adele (Album; 2011)

Two for the Ripsaw or Goodbye Mr. Chips (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 17; 1960)

Waco (TV Mini-Series; 2018)

The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy, by Viktor E. Frankl (Philosophy Book; 1969)

Today’s Name Days

Franz, Thurid, Vera (Austria)

Bogoslav, Felicijan, Franjo (Croatia)

Milena (Czech Republic)

Timotheus (Denmark)

Naima, Naimi (Estonia)

Senja (Finland)

François (France)

Bernd, Franz, Thurid, Vera (Germany)

Filon, Polyxene, Polyxeni, Xene, Xeni, Zosimas (Greece)

Timót (Hungary)

Francesco (Italy)

Eglons, Krišs, Ksenija (Latvia)

Artūras, Felicija, Gaivilė, Mažvydas, Šarūnas, Vilgaudas (Lithuania)

Jarl, Joar (Norway)

Chwalibóg, Felicja, Mirogniew, Rafaela, Rafał, Tymoteusz (Poland)

Xenia (Romania)

Timotej (Slovakia)

Francisco, Paz, Xenia (Spain)

Erika (Sweden)

Roxanna, Roxoliana (Ukraine)

Oral, Orel, Tim, Timmy, Timon, Timothy, Vera, Verena (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 24 of 2024; 342 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 4 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 4 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Yi-Chou), Day 14 (Ding-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 14 Shevat 5784

Islamic: 13 Rajab 1445

J Cal: 24 White; Threesday [24 of 30]

Julian: 11 January 2024

Moon: 99%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 24 Moses (1st Month) [Solomon]

Runic Half Month: Peorth (Womb, Dice Cup) [Day 15 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 35 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 3 of 28)

#Holidays

[imrreport]

Global Temporary Tattoo Region Global Analysis and Forecast, 2022–2028.

After drying, the film adhered and retained the image after multiple washes. For religious or cultural reasons, images of artificial skin have been used by men and women for thousands of years. Tattooing is a popular type of skin decoration that involves the use of needles to apply colored patterns directly to the skin. Although the method was developed in ancient Egypt, the characters’ names are taken from a Tahitian language, likely spread across the Pacific by Nautilus. Many different civilizations have different characters. For example, the Eskimos used bone needles to pull soot-coated threads into the skin, while the Japanese used small metal needles to inject various pigments.

Read more: https://introspectivemarketresearch.com/reports/temporary-tattoo-market/ 

#Global Temporary Tattoo Market #Global Temporary Tattoo Marketsize #Global Temporary Tattoo Market growth #Global Temporary Tattoo Market share #Global Temporary Tattoo Marketindustry

[longliverockback]

Rammstein Engel • Feuerräder • Wilder Wein • Rammstein [Eskimos & Egypt] 1997 Motor Music —————————————————

* Long Live Rock Archive

#Rammstein #Single #CD #Limited Edition #Neue Deutsche Härte #1997

[udayg]

The Hypnosis of Words

The Hypnosis of Words

Seeing through the Perceptual Filters of Language and Narrative Meditation enables one to gain access to a clearer, truer perception and experience of reality Linguistic Relativism: How Language and Culture Alter Perception The Eskimo (Inuit and Yupik peoples) of the arctic Tundra regions are said to have as many as 50 or 100 – or even, according to some sources, thousands – of distinct words…

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#blue #brain&039;s operating system #color perception #consciousness expansion #culture #education #Egypt #eskimo #Himba #Homer #hypnosis #ideas #Inuit #language #linguistic relativism #Meditation #mental chatter #my-featured-post #Namibia #narrative filter #Odyssey #perspective #philosophy #selective attention test #sensory gating #silence #thought #verbal consciousness #William Gladstone #words

[electronicadaily]

Plastico - Communicate (Skeemos Acid Mix) [1995]

One of my favourite acid trance tracks of all time, yet it’s nearly entirely unknown and that’s a great shame. So here I bring it to you all. Spread the word around, I’d love to hear this on some DJ mixes that aren’t mine someday!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlLpuCsiKYs

(alt. link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8CVg3bSn1Y)

#electronica #daily music #music #dance music #1995 #90s music #acid #acid trance #breakbeat #plastico #communicate #skeemos #eskimos & egypt #remix

[generalghosty]

ancient egyptians apparently kissed with their noses. this is probably one of my favorite history facts.

i propose, in the name of historical accuracy, that we rename “eskimo kissing” (which is racist anyway) to “egyptian kissing” or “pharaoh kissing”.

who’s with me?

#ancient egypt #kissing #eskimo kissing #egypt #pointless banter

[artzychic27]

I’m bored, so here’s some MLB iCarly quotes

Nora: Okay, everyone! Today was an amazing achievement, thanks to the teamwork of everyone here, and I just wanna tell you all how sincerely grateful I am-

Marinette: Text message from Alya. She's on her way up!

Nora: Everybody get out of my house!

—

Adrien: Last night I slept with my socks on.

Nino: So?

Adrien: Just my socks.

—

Marinette: When temperatures get too high, the elderly will start to die!

Kim: … That is a freaky rhyme.

—

Juleka: See anything?

Rose: Just trees... and some bushes... and two squirrels wrestling.

Juleka: Rose?

Rose: Yeah?

Juleka: They’re not wrestling.

Rose: Oh.

—

Alix: C’mon, Nath. Get up.

Nathaniel: Why? Is the Queen of England here to tell me I’m ugly and have no friends?

—

Nathaniel: Nice! First they insult my art, then they call me dead! Which incidentally I'm not!

—

Nathaniel: I once met a freaky rabbi in vegas.

—

Nino: See, Marinette and Alya are in a big fight, and both girls think they're right.

Marinette: I am right.

Alya: You am wrong.

Marinette: You am obnoxious.

—

Nathaniel: *In response to being called a twig* I'm getting curvier everyday.

Marc: *checking him out* I know.

—

Alix: You don't really want Nathaniel.

Nathaniel: I’m a mess!

Rose: He has no job.

Nathaniel: Who would hire me?

Rose: He doesn't hang out with anyone.

Nathaniel: I’ve never been popular.

Alix: He drinks juice in the shower.

Nathaniel: All naked and wet!

Rose: And he hasn't had a steady girlfriend since high school.

Nathaniel: Ok, maybe not a steady girlfriend "per se"...

Juleka: And just look at his flat butt.

Nathaniel: Too far!

—

Nathaniel: My butt is not flat!

Juleka: Yeah it is.

Nathaniel: This... *Turns around* looks flat? Come on, it's like two fresh apples back here!

—

Myléne: He's not cheating on me.

Alix: Denial's not just a river in Utah

Myléne: Egypt!

—

Marinette: Felix told me I'm one of a kind.

Rose: Yeah, and my dad once told my mom that he was coming back… So, moving on...

—

Lucien: Your work disgusts me.

Nathaniel: Yeah, well, Lucien’s a stupid name!

—

Nino: You hired a personal chef?

Adrien: Well, my dad doesn't feed me.

—

Marinette: You know, maybe Adrien’s right. Maybe you're just jealous of Kagami.

Chloé: Okay, just... forget it. Don't believe me.

Marinette: Tell me one reason why I should believe you.

Chloé: Because I came here. Have I ever come to you for help before? For anything?

—

Alix: This is worse than the time you dared me to lick the swing set.

Nathaniel: I didn't dare you to lick the swing set. I said, "Alix, don't lick the swing set," you said, "Don't tell me what to do," punched me, and then licked the swing set.

—

Alix: Dude, why is your voice so deep?

Nino: I dunno, puberty?

—

Sabrina: You know what? You are so right. And I'm sitting here with an Australian Eskimo with ointment all over his bumbleberry!

—

Chloé: Well, let's just say one of you is gonna win a date with an awesome guy.

Marc: Nathaniel?!

Chloé: I said awesome guy, not ridiculous goob.

—

Marinette: Marc, what size dress do you wear?

Marc: Ten. Why?

—

Marinette: I don't need a robotic boyfriend. I guarantee you, twenty years from now, I'll be Adrien’s second wife.

Adrien: What happened to my first wife?

Marinette: Nothing you can prove.

—

Kim: Stairs! Stairs! Stairs!

Alix: … She meant panties…

Kim: … Now I’m embarrassed.

—

Adrien: Just apologize to the chicken!!!

Nathaniel: … I'm sorry I b'smeared your name by calling you stupid!… And that I've eaten thousands of your relatives.

—

Marinette: We'll tell ya what's goin' on! We've been held hostage here all night by your psychotic daughter!

Nino: And your demented wife!

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous #mlb incorrect quotes #incorrect quotes

[sebastianstanbuckybarnes]

The Order Season 2 (SPOILERS)

2x01 

I like Blond Jack <3 

GABRIELLE DUPRES IS IN JACK’S BED?!?!

That goddamn powder 

“And you think all blonde girls are stuck-up skanks,” WOW GABRIELLE 

Jack. Is. Dancing. For. Cheer. Squad.

It hurt me to see all the Knights not know each other and be in the same area 

I don’t trust Professor Foley 

A guy’s body just burned with bright light - are we sure angels don’t exist in The Order? 

For reals though, who’s that witch in the corridor? 

I forgot Brandon was in the cat ornament 

Can I sAY i love Werewolves? 

 Deja vu, you say Hamish? I WONDER WHY. 

The Knights taking down those acolytes gives me so much satisfaction

 “Stuck-up skank,” Dammit Gabrielle 

Huh, a body disguised as a statue? The rogue witch? 

“Alien Superheroes,” Never change Randall <3

Jack transforming into his wolf form to get the others too is high-key awesome 

DID YOU JUST REMOVE THEIR MEMORIES AGAIN, ALYSSA?! 

OH, THANK GOD! I may hate you Alyssa, but thank you for returning their memories. 

KILL THE ORDERRRRR 

2x02 

The cleaning returnsssss

“Youthful optimism,” I say this again, Randall, never change 

Poisonous Kombucha - out of curiousity, why are people so obsessed by Kombucha?

More cleaningggg 

Andddd Vera just cleaned it up for them 

I love a good Star Wars reference 

THE ADEPTI 

HAM SANDWICH?!?!? RANDALLL

Randall awkwardly sitting there, my poor boy :( 

No, Lilith making Randall even more sad :(

Does Jack have two hides now?

PROFESSOR CLARKE RETURNSSS 

HAM RADIO?!?!? Omg RANDALL 

That remembering potion made everyone go temporarily insane. 

I LOVE PROFESSOR CLARKE, THEY DID DIRTY BY KILLING HIM 

DAMN! ALYSSA JUST KILLED THAT ELLIE TAYLOR WITCHY PERSON 

Jack being really sweet while Alyssa was upset just shows how wholesome Jack actually is after everything she did to him 

2x03 

HAMISH AND RANDALL. THE KISS AND THE ESKIMO KISS. NEED I SAY MORE?

LILITH AND NICOLE KISS TOO! 

MAGIC HEIST! 

Honestly, I get Hamish’s fear, I hate dolls, including ventriloquist ones.   

Hamish making cocktails is life. 

I had a feeling it wouldn’t work, mostly because it was only 20 minutes in 

I’VE SEEN FROM ENOUGH MOVIES AND TV SHOWS THAT YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND ANY CIRCUMSTANCES SUMMON A MOTHERFUCKING DEMON! IT’S COMMON SENSE!

Randall drinking milk is so wholesome and sweet 

Alyssa is now drinking the milk 

Zecchia looks like me from my goth/alternative days 

Can I say that I’m loving Lilith’s blue streaks in her hair? Looks awesome! 

AND SOMEONE STOLE THE ARTIFACTS 

2x04 

Honestly, Zecchia is all of us on Tumblr 

The Excidium sounds like a very bad thing. 

CAPTAIN SEAN RENARD IS EMPEROR ROGWAN?! 

aND aLYssa’s fears have been eaten 

Gabrielle deserved that punch but maybe not from Alyssa...Maybe Nicole? OR BRANDON?! 

Of course Vera knows that they have their memories back 

NO! HAMISH! RANDALL! 

SHE PUT HER HAND IN THE BLENDER?! 

hONESTLY, I like Alyssa without her fears, she’s so much more fun 

Alyssa saying goodbye to Lilith and Jack is actually really sweet, and made me hate her less... 

NO! LILITH! FUCK! 

2x05 

Brunette Jack returns 

Sending Jack and Alyssa, a werewolf and a broken witch, behind enemy lines is the worse idea ever - remember the necromancer incident? 

“Remember when she murdered Kyle,” I love Randall so much 

For some reason, I don’t trust these Prometheans 

Randall walking in heels and succeeding is making my day 

“Hold my purse,” RANDALL <3 

Hamish being an absolute gentleman and holding out his arm for Randall to hold onto as he walks - i’M LIVING FOR THIS

THat juice is having a weird effect on Alyssa - STOP DRINKING IT! 

A surprising team up between Randall and Gabrielle - I actually like it 

“Dear God, help us,” HAMISH 

I’m kinda shipping Orbin and Alyssa in a way

WTF?! THERE IS AN EYE IN THAT TREE! 

Jack writing SOS on his forehead to tip Vera off was genius 

2x06

CANNIBALISM! 

This is why you don’t trust Foley 

Alyssa is withdrawing 

FUCKING BLOOD ATONEMENT?!?!

THEY’RE TURNING JACK INTO A TREE AND ALYSSA IS JUST FUCKING STANDING THERE!? 

YES! YOU GO GABRIELLE!

Jack is still turning into a tree

Vera using their Egregore connection and her pain to her advantage - you go Queen! 

And Jack is now cured with no help from Alyssa whatsoever

Gabrielle having a concussion and Randall taking care of her is goals <3 

AND the Prometheans are dead

2x07 

Poor Nicole :(

ALyssa is clearly not coping well

Hamish mentioning Cassie :( 

Invoking Privilege = Beer Pong  

Lilith is going to kill the boys for joining the Order 

Orbin lives on Campus?! 

I really hate Kepler - can someone kill her?

I really don’t like Alyssa or Salvador 

I love Vera messaging Hamish for a drink 

KARAOKE! <3 

OMG HAMISH 

OMG VERA 

Dat KISS and SEX?!

ALYSSA! After sex etiquette does not include stealing their hair! 

Gabrielle slapping Jack is so dramatic of her but I love it 

But then Gabrielle has Randall’s shirt, so, I’m pretty sure they slept together? Or at least made out? 

Jack going werewolf at Angus because he tries to keep Jack out of the Temple is hilarious

VERA IS ALIVE! THANK GOD! 

Because Improvising plans always goes well, Jack 

Alyssa, you are very selfish for drinking that tea even if it didn’t work 

...How did Salvador choke hold a supposed werewolf against a wall? 

Clearly, Salvador is the leader and playing the long game 

Foley is eating a blue scarab? I wonder what that does... 

The way Vera asks if “everyone is okay?” when they drag Foley in but looks at Hamish the entire time who briefly smirks is everything 

I SWEAR TO GOD IF THIS IS ANOTHER ATTEMPT ON VERA’S LIFE AND SHE DIES, I’M SUING THE WRITERS! 

2x08 

Well, she’s alive

What exactly does Angus have against werewolves? 

I really hate Angus at the moment 

That poor man who I don’t know the name of..? 

Quarantining? How on point for what’s happening at the moment... 

Alyssa committing B&E 

Adepti walking in is very sinister 

A cameo from Ian Ziering playing himself 

And Salvador hits Alyssa with the sleeping spell 

TWO PRINCESS BRIDE REFERENCES?! YASSSSSS! 

Ew. You just ruined your white shoe, Randall.

FFS ANGUS! 

And Jason Priestley is a part of the Adepti too! 

THEY ARE NEGOTIATING COMIC CON APPEARANCES!

JASON PRIESTLEY IS DEAD! 

Kepler certainly changed her tune 

OMG! THEY POWDERED ALYSSA! 

Ian Ziering is now Jason Priestley?! 

So, Alyssa does remember because Salvador protected her memories with the Risotto

2x09 

And Alyssa has stabbed her hand

3 month time skip? 

VERMISH?! 

Randall and puppies <3

I still really hate Angus. Like he’s cute but also a dick 

Magistratus though, they’re moving up in the ranks 

Salvador cured a blind woman? 

“You’re like a little sister,” Did Gabrielle just get friend-zoned by Randall? 

“She kinda scares me,” Oh, Randall, all women should scare you :) 

More sex

Hamish having Vera’s lipstick on him. I CAN’T BREATHE 

The Plagues of Egypt. Pompeii. Tunguska. All caused by an apocalyptic eruption. Damn. 

I STILL HATE ANGUS. AND SELENA.

Hame-Burger Helper. Jesus, Randall!

Randall and Jack trying to pull a fast one on Hamish, but hurting Hamish’s feelings as well. Of course he would help Lilith, you nimrods! 

Plausible deniability! You’re failure in pre-law is coming in handy Hamish! 

Kepler’s eye is now lizard like? 

Alpha is in Salvador? 

“Does anyone have classes anymore?” Gabrielle speaks the truth! Why aren’t you all in classes? 

No, Gabrielle! YOU ARE BETTER THAN THIS! 

Vera and Salvador meet...this isn’t going to go well

Yes, Gabrielle! You are better than this! CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT! 

Wait, no! Midnight! I swear to god if you hurt her!

OMG! EW! But pretty cool effect of Vera’s fingers splitting open 

Vera using a gun rather than magic is awesome - shows human weapons work just as well as magic 

And Alyssa has disappeared...again. 

2x10 

“Simply slowed time,” Can time be slowed that simply, Vera?

 “Cut the head off a snake?” In the words of many Supernatural and Superhero based TV shows and films I have watched, two more grow back in it’s place. *Cough* HYDRA *Cough*. Just saying...

“She’s just waiting to make an entrance,” That basically sums Gabrielle up if we’re being honest! 

KYLE IS IN THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS?!?! For real though, Jedidiah Goodacre making a brief cameo as Kyle is awesome! I love him as Dorian Gray too!

Goddammit, Alyssa! 

Gabrielle saying no to killing Jack is definite Character Development! 

“Bring it,” Gabrielle standing up for herself! 

“Open a passage to the demon realm,” Jack has finally hit the brick wall of oh god, this is all real? How is this all real? Jack only wanted to be a marine biologist 

Okay, yeah, Midnight is totally riding Gabrielle around while Gabrielle is going through hell in the collective unconscious 

Yaldson = Archaic; term for the son of a prostitute! I’m using that! 

Tartarus eruption almost killing the knights...

...But they opened a portal to hell in Timber’s locker

Fuck, Alyssa knocked out Hamish and paralysed Vera with that stupid necklace that Salvador used against her 

Randall chopping off the heads of demons that come through the portal <3 

Midnight collapsing as Gabrielle 

VERA DOESN’T HAVE HER POWERS?!?!?! 

Jack poking Gabrielle with a stick :’) 

gABRIELLE waking up briefly to tell Jack midnight wants to kill him before fainting again 

Midnight not killing Jack and going with Jack’s plan instead. Character development from Midnight! 

And Alyssa’s in the toilet 

So, they need a witch not an owl, how did she get them mixed up?

Randall making use of the powder on Nicole 

MAddox makes a reappearance?! 

Randall kidnapping Kepler. Probably killing her for the ritual! 

LILITH IS BACK! I HAVE BEEN WAITING HALF A SEASON GUYS! 

OH, NO! HOW DARE YOU! YOU MADE LILITH A DEMON?! ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?! 

oH, WELL, Alyssa got her just desserts! 

Randall burying a body again 

Oh, poor Gabrielle, she’s really upset and I’m upset with her. And Randall hugging her, I ship them so hard <3 

I’m shipping Vera and Hamish too but I hope Vera doesn’t break Hamish’s heart... 

And Jack carrying Alyssa with the Vade Maecum through the meadow and forest

with the song in the background...

MAGNIFICENT! 

#the order #the order season 2 #jack morton #alyssa drake #lilith bathory #randall carpio #hamish duke #vera stone #gabrielle dupres #nicole birch #zecchia #rogwan #elizabeth kepler #spoilers

[brookston]

Holidays 1.24

Holidays

BCPB (Black & Can’t Play Basketball) Awareness Day

Bell Let’s Talk Day (Canada)

Bull Day (French Republic)

Change a Pet's Life Day

Colorist Appreciation Day

Economic Liberation Day (Togo)

Fiesta de Ekeko (Bolivia)

Foreign Intelligence Service Day (Ukraine)

Global Belly Laugh Day (at 1:24 pm local time)

Gold Rush Day

Heart to Heart Day

International Day of Education

International Day of the Endangered Lawyer

International Mobile Phone Recycling Day

Juan Pablo Duarte Day (Dominican Republic)

"Just Do It" Day

Macintosh Computer Day

Microwave Oven Day

Minimoog Day

Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day

National ALGS Awareness Day

National Compliment Day

National Girl Child Day (India)

National Heroes Day (Cayman Islands)

National Matthew Day

National Readathon Day

Paul Pitcher Day (UK)

Social Sipping and Nibbling Rehearsal Day

Square Dance Day [also 11.29]

Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day

Tax Ruled Unconstitutional Day

Tricknology Day

TV Game Show Day

Uttar Pradesh Day (India)

World Day for African and Afro-descendant Culture

Zaevion Dobson Day (Tennessee)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Beer Can Day (a.k.a. Beer Can Appreciation Day)

Eskimo Pie Day

National Hot Cereal Day

National Lobster Thermidor Day

National Peanut Butter Day

4th Wednesday in January

Library Shelfie Day [4th Wednesday]

Weedless Wednesday (Canada) [4th Wednesday]

Independence & Related Days

Ziua Unirii (Unification Day of the Romanian Principalities; Romania)

Festivals Beginning January 24, 2024

The Blues of Achilles: Homer Iliad [Annual Raglas Lecture] (San Diego, California)

Iowa Pork Congress (Des Moines, Iowa) [thru 1.25]

Sioux Falls Farm Show (Sioux Falls, Iowa) [thru 1.26]

Sustainable Foods Summit (San Francisco, California) [thru 1.25]

Temple Bar TradFest (Dublin, Ireland) [thru 1.28]

Feast Days

Alacitas (Aymara Indian Pot-Bellied God of Property; Everyday Wicca)

Babylas of Antioch (Christian; Martyr)

Cadoc Day (Wales)

Cat Sacrifice Day (Aix-En Province, France)

Ekeko Festival (God of Abundance; Bolivia) [Lasts 3 Weeks]

Exuperantius of Cingoli (Christian; Saint)

The Fairy-Four Paganalia (Shamanism)

Feast of Our Lady of Peace (Roman Catholic)

Feast of Seed-Time (Feati Sementini; Ancient Rome)

Felician of Foligno (Christian; Martyr)

Francis de Sales (Christian; Saint) [Journalists, Editors, Writers]

Gillis van Coninxloo (Artology)

Invent a God Day (Pastafarian)

John Belushi (Hedonism; Saint)

Jools Holland (Humanism)

Klaatu Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Konstantin Bogaevsky (Artology)

Macedonius of Syria (Christian; Saint)

Paganalia: Gaea’s Day (Celebration of the Country Farmer; Pagan)

Pendulum Dowsing to Find Lost Things (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

The Pendragon Legend, by Antal Szerb (Novel; 1934)

Pratulin Martyrs (Greek Catholic Church)

Robert Motherwell (Artology)

Sailing of Bast (Ancient Egypt)

Sementivae begins (Ancient Roman festival honoring Ceres (Goddess of Agriculture) and Tellus (Mother Earth)

Solomon (Positivist; Saint)

Stanley the Mouse (Muppetism)

Suranus of Umbria (Christian; Saint)

Timothy, disciple of St. Paul (Christian; Martyr)

Twrch Trwyth Day (Boar hunted by King Arthur; Celtic Book of Days)

Vasily Surikov (Artology)

Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown]

Tu BiShvat [14-15 Shevat]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

Alice Foils the Pirates (Disney Cartoon; 1927)

Amerika, by Franz Kafka (Novel; 1927)

Chicago (Film; 2003)

Clement Lorimer, by Angus Reach (Novel; 1848)

The Courier (Film; 2020)

Danse Macabre, by Camille Saint-Saëns (Tone Poem; 1874)

Farewell My Ugly or Knots to You (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 18; 1960)

Fierce Creatures (Film; 1997)

Go Ask Alice, by Beatrice Sparks (Novel; 1971)

Grand Hotel, by Vicki Baum (Novel; 1929)

The Grapes of Wrath (Film; 1940)

Hairless Hector (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1941)

A Hollywood Detour (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1942)

Ideas on the Aesthetics of Music, by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubert (Essays; 1787)

Jirel of Joiry, by C.L. Moore (Novel; 1934)

Mickey’s Toontown (Disneyland Attraction; 1993)

Mouse-Placed Kitten (WB MM Cartoon; 1959)

My Chauffeur (Film; 1986)

The 19th Hole Club, featuring Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1936)

Noah’s Outing, featuring Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1932)

Pluto’s Playmate (Disney Cartoon; 1941)

Setting Free the Bears, by John Irving (Novel; 1968)

Shift: Third Shift — Pact, by Hugh Howey (Novel; 2013)

Skid Row, by Skid Row (Album; 1989)

Snake in the Gracias (Tijuana Toads Cartoon; 1971)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Film; 1948)

21, by Adele (Album; 2011)

Two for the Ripsaw or Goodbye Mr. Chips (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 17; 1960)

Waco (TV Mini-Series; 2018)

The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy, by Viktor E. Frankl (Philosophy Book; 1969)

Today’s Name Days

Franz, Thurid, Vera (Austria)

Bogoslav, Felicijan, Franjo (Croatia)

Milena (Czech Republic)

Timotheus (Denmark)

Naima, Naimi (Estonia)

Senja (Finland)

François (France)

Bernd, Franz, Thurid, Vera (Germany)

Filon, Polyxene, Polyxeni, Xene, Xeni, Zosimas (Greece)

Timót (Hungary)

Francesco (Italy)

Eglons, Krišs, Ksenija (Latvia)

Artūras, Felicija, Gaivilė, Mažvydas, Šarūnas, Vilgaudas (Lithuania)

Jarl, Joar (Norway)

Chwalibóg, Felicja, Mirogniew, Rafaela, Rafał, Tymoteusz (Poland)

Xenia (Romania)

Timotej (Slovakia)

Francisco, Paz, Xenia (Spain)

Erika (Sweden)

Roxanna, Roxoliana (Ukraine)

Oral, Orel, Tim, Timmy, Timon, Timothy, Vera, Verena (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 24 of 2024; 342 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 4 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 4 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Yi-Chou), Day 14 (Ding-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 14 Shevat 5784

Islamic: 13 Rajab 1445

J Cal: 24 White; Threesday [24 of 30]

Julian: 11 January 2024

Moon: 99%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 24 Moses (1st Month) [Solomon]

Runic Half Month: Peorth (Womb, Dice Cup) [Day 15 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 35 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 3 of 28)

#calendar #Holidays