View allAll Photos Tagged Humiliated
Press photo. Sissy Spacek and William Katt in Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976).
Sissy Spacek (1949) is an American actress and singer with an enduring and award-winning career in film and television. She became a star with her Oscar-nominated performance in Carrie (1976), in which she played a humiliated prom queen who goes postal with her telekinesis. She won the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance as country singer Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980).
Mary Elizabeth ‘Sissy’ Spacek was born in Quitman, Texas, in 1949. She was the daughter of Virginia Frances and Edwin Arnold Spacek Sr., a county agricultural agent. Spacek was nicknamed ‘Sissy’ by her older brothers. Sissy attended Quitman High School and was homecoming queen. During her senior year in 1967, she was violently shaken by the death of her 18-year-old brother Robbie from leukaemia. She decided life was way too short to waste it in four years of college and she moved to New York. Spacek began her career as a country singer. Under the name ‘Rainbo’, she recorded the single, ‘John, You Went Too Far This Time’, about John Lennon. When sales of her music sputtered, Spacek was dropped by her record label. She switched her focus to acting. Spacek worked as a photographic model represented by Ford Models and as an extra at Andy Warhol's Factory. With the help of her cousin, actor Rip Torn, she was able to enrol at Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio and then at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. In her early career, she often played girls younger than her age. Her first film role was in Prime Cut (Michael Ritchie, 1972), starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman in which she played a young woman sold as a sex slave. The film led to a guest role in the television series The Waltons (1973), which she played twice. The first role in which she was noticed was in Terrence Malick's Neo Noir Badlands (1973). She played Holly, the film's narrator and 15-year-old girlfriend of serial killer Kit (Martin Sheen). Her performance earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer. On the set, she met art director Jack Fisk, whom she would later marry. She worked as the set dresser for Brian De Palma's film Phantom of the Paradise (1974), to assist Fisk, who was the film's production designer.
Sissy Spacek broke through with the lead role in the supernatural Horror film Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976). She played an unpopular and emotionally confused teenager with telekinetic abilities. For this, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, which, however, was not cashed. She then starred in Robert Altman's psychological drama 3 Women (1977). Spacek helped finance Eraserhead (1977), David Lynch's directorial debut and is thanked in the film's credits. She received the Oscar in 1980 for Coal Miner's Daughter (Michael Apted, 1980), in which she played country star Loretta Lynn from the age of about 13 to near middle age and did her own singing. The soundtrack peaked at no. 2 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and garnered her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. Spacek subsequently released her debut studio album, 'Hangin' Up My Heart' (1983). She received four more Academy Award nominations for her roles in Costa-Gavras's biographical thriller drama Missing (1982) opposite Jack Lemmon, the drama The River (Mark Rydell, 1984) with Mel Gibson, Crimes of the Heart (Bruce Beresford, 1986), and In the Bedroom (Todd Field, 2001). Spacek won a Golden Globe Award for her portrayal of the grieving Ruth Fowler in Inthe Bedroom. Her other notable films include Raggedy Man (Jack Fisk, 1981), 'night, Mother (Tom Moore, 1986), JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991), Affliction (Paul Schrader, 1997), The Straight Story (David Lynch, 1999), North Country (Niki Caro, 2005) starring Charlize Theron, and the period drama The Help (Tate Taylor, 2011). In 2011, Spacek received a star on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2012, Spacek published her memoir, 'My Extraordinary Ordinary Life', with co-author Maryanne Vollers. Sissy Spacek married Jack Fisk in 1974. They had two daughters, Schuyler Elizabeth and Madison Fisk. Schuyler Fisk also acts in films. Spacek lives with her family on a horse ranch near Charlottesville, Virginia. She is an activist for women's rights. Her recent films include The Old Man & the Gun (David Lowery, 2018) starring Robert Redford, and Sam & Kate (Darren Le Gallo, 2022) with Dustin Hoffman.
Sources: KD Haisch (IMDb), Wikipedia (Dutch and English) and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Theresa May; humiliated and embarrassed she rushed into "coalition" with the far right nutters, the DUP.
The DUP opposes same-sex marriage, and formerly campaigned against the legalisation of homosexual acts in Northern Ireland, and let's not forget those worrying "terrorist" skeletons in their closet.
Today Theresa May has called The DUP her "friends." She is in a hole and she just keeps digging.
The Daily Mail and the Express makes no mention of this today but is happy to continue peddling the lies about Jeremy Corbyn.
And let's not forget May's alleged criminal breach of the Representation of the People Act 1983 being investigated by North Yorkshire and Metropolitan police, who are taking the allegations "extremely seriously." This refers to May's lies about Diane Abbott.
This would be another matter not covered by the main stream media including The Daily Mail and the Express.
It will come as a surprise to many, including me, that candidates lying about other candidates is a criminal offence. Lying seems almost de rigueur in British politics. Mr Corbyn being the only exception.
And then the Abuse of public funds... What cost #GE17?
Tommy forced by his Sister to wear her Swimsuit. Then she Tied and Gag him with Tape. A Bad Situation.
Palestinians are living in another world where Killing, Child abuse and women humiliation are the order of the day. This is the civilization and culture the Israelis demonstrate daily. What the International Community has done about these crimes? Our Voice is so low. Our Taxes is being used to finance the killing machine. Can we stop the killing? YES WE CAN.
#Cuckold #Collection: #Stories #of #Cuckoldry #and #Humiliation nu voor maar: € 5,59 Bespaar: %50!
Uitgegeven door: #K.C. #Ripley
#eBook #bestseller #Free / #Giveaway #boekenwurm #ebookshop #schrijvers #boek #lezen #lezenisleuk #goedkoop #webwinkel
Bestel hem nu! www.boekshop.net/erotische-romans/86330-cuckold-collectio...
It's simply ridiculous of NBC to describe the settlement as "lucrative"! $1.5 million is hardly lucrative. She lost her job, may be her pension and health benefits as well, plus ten years of suffering and humiliation, not to mention the attorney fees and other legal defense costs she had to pay. Adding insult to her injuries, this settlement money is subject to federal income tax but her lawyers' fees are not tax deductible.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/after-being-falsely-accused-...
After being falsely accused of spying for China, Sherry Chen wins significant settlement
An Asian American scientist who was wrongfully accused of spying for China is speaking out after reaching a lucrative settlement with the U.S. government last week.
Sherry Chen, a Chinese American hydrologist who was arrested in 2014 before her case abruptly collapsed the following year, was awarded Thursday more than $1.5 million in damages for her wrongful prosecution and termination from her job at the National Weather Service (NWS).
Chen, one of several Asian Americans across science and academia who have been wrongfully accused of espionage, said in a statement that she sees the settlement as a step toward accountability.
“I have finally achieved justice in my case. It’s long overdue. I hope that my settlement inspires other Chinese Americans who were wrongly investigated and prosecuted to continue to fight for justice,” Chen told NBC News in an email.
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, which backed Chen, the hydrologist will receive $550,000 from the Commerce Department and an annuity over 10 years valued at $1.25 million. Additionally, a senior official from the department will meet with Chen and provide her a letter recognizing her accomplishments during her tenure at the NWS, the ACLU said.
The Commerce Department declined NBC News’ request for comment, but Salvador A. Dominguez, first assistant U.S. attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio, said in a statement to NBC News, “We are pleased the parties reached a mutually-agreed resolution of this lawsuit.”
The settlement concludes Chen’s legal battles against the government, the ACLU said. Roughly eight years ago, Chen, the only woman of color and only Asian American working at her Ohio-based NWS office at the time, was accused of economic espionage. The allegation was prompted by a 2012 visit to China during which she connected with a former classmate who worked in the Chinese government. Chen said she contacted the former classmate because she was seeking to help in a dispute between the local water bureau and a family member who worked on a water pipeline project, according to court documents. The family member was allegedly not paid for the work, she said.
Her classmate also asked her about how the U.S. financed water projects, a topic Chen didn’t know much about at the time, but she sought out public information from her work superiors when she returned to Ohio, according to her own account. She briefly continued the conversation with her former classmate over email, but the exchange, one she thought was a casual one, would eventually get the hydrologist flagged, Chen previously said.
A week before the trial, which was set to begin in March 2015, federal prosecutors abruptly dropped all charges without explanation.
“My lifetime of outstanding scientific work was destroyed. And my entire life was shattered,” Chen previously recalled to NBC News. “I was arrested in front of my co-workers, led out of a building in handcuffs, and held in solitary confinement at a courthouse jail.”
A former Department of Commerce security unit behind Chen’s case, the now-terminated Investigations and Threat Management Service (ITMS), has since been accused by advocates and officials of misconduct and opening investigations based on race and national origin, among other offenses. A Senate review from July 2021 said ITMS had mutated “into a rogue, unaccountable police force across multiple presidential administrations.” Citing Chen’s case, the report showed ITMS conducted investigations typically reserved for domestic law enforcement agencies, and did so in “an overzealous manner whereby agents abused steps in the investigative process.”
“The Department conducted a thorough review of ITMS, published a detailed accounting of its findings, disbanded the unit, and is implementing a series of policy changes to ensure greater accountability in its security operations,” a Commerce Department spokesperson previously told NBC News in a statement.
Other findings came to light during Chen’s previous employment proceedings. Among the allegations made against Chen was that she had used a stolen password to download information about U.S. dams and passed it off to a Chinese official. It was revealed during the proceedings, however, that Commerce officials may have disregarded evidence which would have exonerated her, including the fact that the password was an officewide one. But, Chen had still been unable to get back to work, her lawyers said.
Neither the Commerce Department nor the DOJ commented further on Chen’s ordeal.
In her employment suit, a judge from the Merit Service Protection Board (MSPB) previously sided with Chen in 2018, ordering her reinstatement plus back pay. However, the Commerce Department appealed the decision and placed her on administrative leave. After a second suit, an administrative complaint to Commerce and DOJ, the parties went into settlement negotiations.
As part of the settlement, Chen is retiring from the NWS, her lawyers said.
Chen’s win has prompted an outpouring of support from several Asian American and civil rights organizations, in addition to lawmakers. Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., said in a statement Monday that she was pleased the ordeal reached a “fair conclusion.”
“It has been over a decade since Sherry Chen was accused of espionage, yet another Chinese American who was targeted because of their race, this time by the Department of Commerce’s rogue ITMS unit,” Chu said in a statement. “This historic settlement is a welcome symbol to restore justice to Ms. Chen, and I’m pleased that at long last, Ms. Chen’s ordeal has reached a fair conclusion.”
Chen is among several Asian Americans across science and academia who have been accused of espionage, experts said. Under the Trump administration, the government formally implemented a security program, aimed at addressing the national security issue, entitled the “China Initiative.” The highly controversial program was accused by scholars and advocates of encouraging racial profiling, and was sunsetted by the Biden administration earlier this year.
“While I remain focused on the evolving, significant threat that the government of China poses, I have concluded that this initiative is not the right approach,” Matthew Olsen, head of the National Security Division at the DOJ, said in a speech at George Mason University earlier this year.
But the anxiety and fear of being racially profiled still lingers among many academics, studies show.
Research by the nonprofit Committee of 100, published in October, shows that more than 50% of scientists of Chinese descent “feel considerable fear and/or anxiety” that they are under U.S. government surveillance.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
www.aclu.org/press-releases/historic-settlement-us-govern...
IN HISTORIC SETTLEMENT, U.S. GOVERNMENT TO PAY WRONGLY PROSECUTED CHINESE AMERICAN SCIENTIST MORE THAN $1.5 MILLION IN DAMAGES
SETTLEMENT DELIVERS LONG-OVERDUE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR DISCRIMINATION AT DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Attorneys for Sherry Chen, a Chinese American scientist with the National Weather Service, today announced a historic settlement in two lawsuits seeking accountability for her wrongful prosecution and termination from her job.
In 2012, the Commerce Department’s internal security unit, known as the Investigations and Threat Management Service (ITMS), began unlawfully investigating Ms. Chen as part of a broad pattern of discrimination directed at Chinese Americans, leading to her baseless arrest and prosecution by the FBI and Justice Department. ITMS was officially disbanded last year, following a Senate report detailing how the unit had become a “rogue, unaccountable police force” that operated outside the law and “opened frivolous investigations on a variety of employees without evidence suggesting wrongdoing.”
The settlement is one of the largest paid to an individual plaintiff in Commerce Department history. Ms. Chen will receive $550,000 from the Commerce Department and an annuity from the U.S. government valued at $1.25 million over 10 years. The Commerce Department will host a private meeting between Ms. Chen and a senior National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official, where she plans to discuss wrongdoing at multiple levels of the agency and the importance of antidiscrimination reforms. The Commerce Department will also provide Ms. Chen with a letter acknowledging her extensive accomplishments during her years of service as a government hydrologist.
“The government’s investigation and prosecution of me was discriminatory and unjustified,” said Sherry Chen. “The Commerce Department is finally being held responsible for its wrongdoing and for the conduct of its illegal security unit, which has had a devastating impact on my life and the lives of so many other federal employees. No one else should have to endure this injustice.”
Based on ITMS’s improper investigation of Ms. Chen, the Justice Department charged her with making false statements to government investigators and unlawfully downloading data from a restricted government database. The government’s unfounded allegations rested on Ms. Chen’s use of a shared, office-wide password to access a database relevant to her work. The Justice Department eventually dropped all charges in 2015, but not before Ms. Chen was publicly arrested in front of her colleagues and faced 25 years in prison and $1 million in fines. The Commerce Department also fired Ms. Chen from the job she had worked at for years. After a federal administrative judge found that her termination was unlawful, and that Ms. Chen had been the victim of a “gross injustice,” the department appealed and placed her on indefinite leave. That appeal has been pending since 2018 before the Merit Systems Protection Board, an agency that hears claims from federal employees.
Today’s settlement marks the end of the Merit Systems Protection Board litigation and a separate federal lawsuit against the U.S. government, filed in 2019 by Ms. Chen’s counsel, Peter Toren and Michele Young. The American Civil Liberties Union and Cooley LLP joined as co-counsel in that suit last year. Stephen A. Simon, partner with Tobias, Torchia & Simon, represents Ms. Chen before the Merit Systems Protection Board.
“Ms. Chen’s historic settlement is a victory for her and for Chinese American communities,” said Ashley Gorski, senior staff attorney with the ACLU National Security Project. “It makes clear that profiling and discrimination are unacceptable, and that the government will be held to account.”
Additional statements from Ms. Chen’s attorneys are below:
“For years, the Commerce Department refused to take responsibility for destroying Ms. Chen’s career,” said John Hemann, partner at Cooley LLP. “Today’s settlement is a win for the rule of law and helps to ensure that rogue units like ITMS will not be allowed to take root.”
“Today, a great blow was struck against bigotry and for the rights of Asian Americans, as the government was forced to reckon with and be held accountable for the devastating damage to an award-winning scientist’s life,” said Michele Young, Managing Partner at Michele Young Co., LPA and Counsel to Gregory S. Young Co., LPA. “After a ten-year battle, from Congress to the Courts to Commerce, finally, there is justice. Sherry patriotically fought not only for herself, but to secure the rights of all Asian Americans. It was a privilege to be on this dream team that fought day and night for this moment.”
“Ms. Chen’s ordeal has lasted more than ten years,” said Peter Toren, counsel for Ms. Chen. “She bravely persevered in this fight, inspiring countless others who have experienced similar forms of discrimination,"
Letter from Shirley Chen re: the settlement with the U.S. government:
My dear friends:
Today is a day for celebration. I’m writing to announce a historic settlement in my two lawsuits seeking accountability for the government’s illegal and discriminatory investigation of me, its wrongful prosecution, and its termination of my employment with the National Weather Service.
The settlement is one of the largest paid to an individual plaintiff in Commerce Department history. As compensation, the Commerce Department is paying me $550,000, and I’ll receive an annuity from the U.S. government valued at $1.25 million over ten years. In addition, the Commerce Department is hosting a private meeting between me and a senior agency official, and it is providing me with a letter that acknowledges my extensive accomplishments during my tenure as a U.S. government hydrologist.
Today’s settlement is not only a victory for me; it is also a victory for our community and for the rule of law. It makes clear that profiling and discrimination are unacceptable, and that rogue investigative units like ITMS have no place in a democratic society. The government cannot escape the consequences for these wrongs. It will be held to account.
Of course, no amount of money can ever fully repair the injustices I’ve experienced. But today’s settlement is a critically important step toward achieving justice for myself and for so many Chinese Americans who have been subjected to unjustified government scrutiny.
Your unwavering support has been essential to this fight every step of the way. Although I’m unfortunately unable to celebrate with each of you in person, please know that I’m thinking of each of you, and I am so grateful for your kindness and generosity over this years-long fight. You’ve given me the strength to go on. Thank you so much!
A hidden straitjacket with a heavy hut with a flab in front of my face and a rubber inner side of flab
Sati was a social funeral practice among some Indian communities in which a recently widowed woman would immolate herself on her husband’s funeral pyre. The practice was banned several times, with the current ban dating to 1829 by the British.
The term is derived from the original name of the goddess Sati, also known as Dakshayani, who self-immolated because she was unable to bear her father Daksha's humiliation of her husband Shiva. The term may also be used to refer to the widow. The term sati is now sometimes interpreted as "chaste woman". Sati appears in both Hindi and Sanskrit texts, where it is synonymous with "good wife"; the term suttee was commonly used by Anglo-Indian English writers.
ORIGN
Few reliable records exist of the practice before the time of the Gupta empire, approximately 400 CE. After about this time, instances of sati began to be marked by inscribed memorial stones. The earliest of these are found in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, though the largest collections date from several centuries later, and are found in Rajasthan. These stones, called devli, or sati-stones, became shrines to the dead woman, who was treated as an object of reverence and worship. They are most common in western India. A description of suttee appears in a Greek account of the Punjab written in the first century BCE by historian Diodorus Siculus. Brahmins were forbidden from the practice by the Padma Purana. A chapter dated to around the 10th century indicates that, while considered a noble act when committed by a Kshatriya woman, anyone caught assisting an upper-caste Brahmin in self-immolation as a "sati" was guilty of Brahminicide.
The ritual has prehistoric roots, and many parallels from other cultures are known. Compare for example the ship burial of the Rus' described by Ibn Fadlan, where a female slave is burned with her master.
Aristobulus of Cassandreia, a Greek historian who traveled to India with the expedition of Alexander the Great, recorded the practice of sati at the city of Taxila. A later instance of voluntary co-cremation appears in an account of an Indian soldier in the army of Eumenes of Cardia, whose two wives jumped on his funeral pyre, in 316 BC. The Greeks believed that the practice had been instituted to discourage wives from poisoning their old husbands.
Voluntary death at funerals has been described in northern India before the Gupta empire. The original practices were called anumarana, and were uncommon. Anumarana was not comparable to later understandings of sati, since the practices were not restricted to widows – rather, anyone, male or female, with personal loyalty to the deceased could commit suicide at a loved one's funeral. These included the deceased's relatives, servants, followers, or friends. Sometimes these deaths stemmed from vows of loyalty, and bear a slight resemblance to the later tradition of junshi in Japan.
It is theorized that sati, enforced widowhood, and girl marriage were customs that were primarily intended to solve the problem of surplus women and surplus men in a caste and to maintain its endogamy.
Apart from the Indian subcontinent, origins of this practice have been found in many parts of the world; it was followed by the ancient Egyptians, Thracians, Scythians, Scandinavians, Chinese, as well as people of Oceania and Africa.
Sati remained legal in some princely states for a time after it had been abolished in lands under British control. Jaipur banned the practice in 1846. Nepal continued to practice Sati well into the 20th century.
On the Indonesian island of Bali, sati (known as masatya) was practised by the aristocracy as late as 1905, until Dutch colonial rule pushed for its termination.
Following outcries after each instance, the government has passed new measures against the practice, which now effectively make it illegal to be a bystander at an event of sati. The law now makes no distinction between passive observers to the act and active promoters of the event; all are supposed to be held equally guilty. Other measures include efforts to stop the 'glorification' of the dead women. Glorification includes the erection of shrines to the dead, the encouragement of pilgrimages to the site of the pyre, and the derivation of any income from such sites and pilgrims.
Another instance of systematic Sati happened in 1973, when Savitri Soni sacrificed her life with her husband in Kotadi village of Sikar District in Rajasthan. Thousands of people witnessed this incident.
Although many have tried to prevent the act of sati by banning it and reinforcing laws against it, it is still being practiced (on rare occasions) in India under coercion or by voluntary burning, as in the case of Charan Shah: a 55 year-old widow of Manshah who burnt herself on the pyre of her husband in the village of Satpura in Uttar Pradesh on 11 November 1999. Her death on the funeral pyre has provoked much controversy, as there have been questions as to whether she willingly performed the Sati or was coerced. Charan Shah had not professed strong feelings to become a Sati to any of her family members, and no one saw her close to the burning body of her husband before she jumped into the fire. The villagers, including her sons, say that she became a Sati of her own accord and that she was not forced into it. They continue to pay their respects to the house of Charan Shah. It has become a shrine for the villagers, as they strongly believe that one who has become a sati is a deity; she is worshipped and endowed with gifts.
NUMBERS
There are no reliable figures for the numbers who died by sati across the country. A local indication of the numbers is given in the records kept by the Bengal Presidency of the British East India Company. The total figure of known occurrences for the period 1813 to 1828 is 8,135; another source gives a comparable number of 7,941 from 1815 to 1828, thus giving an average of about 507 to 567 documented incidents per year in that period. Raja Ram Mohan Roy estimated that there were ten times as many cases of Sati in Bengal compared to the rest of the country. Bentinck, in his 1829 report, states that 420 occurrences took place in one (unspecified) year in the 'Lower Provinces' of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, and 44 in the 'Upper Provinces' (the upper Gangetic plain).
WIKIPEDIA
A hidden straitjacket with a heavy hut with a flab in front of my face and a rubber inner side of flab
A hidden straitjacket with a heavy hut with a flab in front of my face and a rubber inner side of flab
Read more about me and my life on my website with lots of pictures, videos and texts (en/en). You can find the link on the info/start page on the right side under the showcase pictures.
I love to wear women's underwear and girdles, I don't own men's underwear since a long time. But I don't want to simulate femininity and I don't have transsexual ambitions. I'm just a fat, effeminate loser, who always failed in relationships with women as a real man. I was brought up to be a sissified, feminized boy who wore girly panties, camisoles and tights, so I grew up to be a feminized sissy. For many, many years I expose my shame in public for my humiliation. I do this on the Internet and I wear blouses and skirts, bras and silicone breasts, girdle suspenders and stockings on the street and in parks, as can be seen in some photos. I am very well known in the neighborhood as a ridiculous, effeminate sissy.
Venue for James Joyce short story Counterparts, scene of the humiliating arm-wrestling contest.
Established in 1732, Mulligan's remains relatively unchanged since that time, retaining a rich interior and the unique original ceiling attracts many visitors. There is one bar and a lounge with heavy Victorian furniture where the merchants from the local Corn Exchange used to banquet frequently.
Mulligan's pint of Guinness has been reputed to be one of the best in Dublin and has been enjoyed by many famous names, among them John F. Kennedy, who stopped in as a regular in 1945 during his days working for the Hearst newspaper chain.
Mulligan's was associated with the Theatre Royal which was located across the street and its walls are decorated with posters and photographs of that period. In 1951 American singing legend Judy Garland (who had Dublin roots) and her manager husband Sid Luft were frequent visitors chatting to locals and relaxing between shows. In addition to autographed photographs of Kennedy and Garland the walls boast showbills going back to the early 19th Century. Stars like Gracie Fields, Slim Whitman, Judy Garland, Carmel Quinn, Maureen O'Hara, Nat King Cole and Roy Rogers all frequented Mulligan's when appearing in or visiting Dublin. Local heroes such as writer James Joyce (Mulligan's features in his celebrated work; Ulysses), Brendan Behan, Jimmy Campbell, Jimmy O'Dea, Peggy Dell, Ruby Murray, Joseph Locke and Noel Purcell figure in this pub's rich folklore.
Dublin, Ireland
1991
Appears in the Pubs group
Plates describing the offense committed by people sentenced to the stocks.
The plates read:
Top left: Heelster van gestolen goed / Buyer (female) of stolen goods
Mid left: Diefstal bij nacht door meer dan een persoon / Theft by night by more than one person
Bottom left: Zware verwonding / Grave injury
Top right: Muntschennis / Coin forgery
Mid right: Bedrieger / Deception (or Adultery, same word in Dutch)
Bottom right: Bedriegelijke bankbreuk / Concealment of property during a bankruptcy
Dieses Dhimmi Dienstmädchen hat das Standardtraining deutscher Dienstmädchen für arabische Haushalte durchlaufen und kann
vollständig in allen Bereichen verwendet werden. Diese Dhimmi Dienstmagd ist in der erstklassigen Dhimmi Dienstädchenschule für arabische Haushalte in Duisburg ("DDarabH,Duisburg") Marzahn ausgebildet worden. Dienstmädchen der "DDarabH,Duisburg" genügen sogar den strengen Anforderungen Saudi Arabiens!
AND HERE
IN THIS PLACE
OF SACRIFICE
IN THIS VALE OF HUMILIATION
IN THIS VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
OF THAT DETATH OUT OF WHICH
THE LIFE OF AMERICA, ROSE
REGENERATE AND FREE
LET US BELIEVE
WITH AN ABIDING FAITH
THAT TO THEM
UNION WILL SEEM AS DEAR
AND LIBERTY AS SWEET
AND PROGRESS AS GLORIOUS
AS THEY WERE TO OUR FATHERS
AND ARE TO YOU AND ME
AND THAT THE INSTITUTIONS
WHICH HAVE MADE US HAPPY
PRESERVED BY THE
VIRTUE OF OUR CHILDREN
SHALL BLESS
THE REMOTEST GENERATION
OF THE TIME TO COME
- Henry Armitt Brown
The National Memorial Arch, the dominant feature of Valley Forge National Historical Park, was dedicated on June 19, 1917. Originally conceived of in 1908 as a pair of entrance gates to the park by Congressman Irving P. Wanger of Norristown--one to honor George Washington and one to honor Von Steuben, it was finally approved by Congress in 1910 as a singular monument to Washington. The 45-foot by 60-foot by 38-foot granite arch was designed by Paul Philippe Cret, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who modeled it after the Arch of Titus in Rome.
At the top of the archway, on both the front and back, is a keystone adorned with a tiny figure of Athena carrying a shield. Filling the corners above the archways, are reliefs of two angels--one blowing a trumpet and the other carrying a shield. The coffering on the inside is adorned with small rosettes. A bronze seal with inscription appears on each of the inner sides.
The top panel of the arch front reads the inscription "To the officers and private soldiers of the Continental Army, December 19, 1977 - June 19, 1778." The top panel of the arch backs reads the inscription: "Naked and starving as they are we cannot enough admire the incomparable Patience and Fidelity of the Soldiery - Washington at Valley Forge, February 16, 1776." Around the edge of the archway's back reads: "They shall hunger no more neither thirs any more."
Valley Forge National Historical Park, encompassing 3,466-acres eighteen miles northwest of Philadelphia, preserves and reinterprets the site where the the main body of the Continental Army--between 10,000 and 12,000 troops--was encamped during from December 19, 1778 to June 19, 1778, the American Revolutionary War.
After the Battle of White Marsh (or Edge Hill), Washington chose Valley Forge as an encampment because it was between the Continental Congress in York, Supply Depots in Reading, and British forces in Philadelphia. Undernourished and poorly clothed through the harsh winter, Washington's troops were ravaged by disease, suffering as many as two thousand losses, with thousands more listed as unfit for futy. Despite the conditions, the winter at Valley Forge proved invaluable for the young army, which underwent its first uniform training regimen, under the guidance of Prussian drill master, Baron Friedrich von Steuben.
Valley Forge, named for the iron forge built along Valley Creek in the 1740's, was established as the first state park of Pennsylvania in 1893 by the Valley Forge Park Commission. In 1923, the VFPC was brought under the Department of Forests and Waters and later incorporated into the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in 1971. In 1976, Pennsylvania gave the park as a gift to the nation for the the Bicentennial. The National Park System established the area as Valley Forge National Historical Park on July 4, 1976.
Valley Forge National Historical Park National Register #66000657 (1966)