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Kolkata /koʊlˈkɑːtɑː/(Bengali: কলকাতা) formerly Calcutta /kælˈkʌtə/(Bengali: ক্যালকাটা) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly river, it is the principal commercial, cultural, and educational centre of East India, while the Port of Kolkata is India's oldest operating port and its sole major riverine port. As of 2011, the city had 4.5 million residents; the urban agglomeration, which comprises the city and its suburbs, was home to approximately 14.1 million, making it the third-most populous metropolitan area in India. As of 2008, its gross domestic product (adjusted for purchasing power parity) was estimated to be US$104 billion, which would be third highest among Indian cities, behind Mumbai and Delhi. As a growing metropolitan city in a developing country, Kolkata confronts substantial urban pollution, traffic congestion, poverty, overpopulation, and other logistic and socioeconomic problems.
In the late 17th century, the three villages that predated Kolkata were ruled by the Nawab of Bengal under Mughal suzerainty. After the Nawab granted the East India Company a trading licence in 1690, the area was developed by the Company into an increasingly fortified trading post. Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah retook Kolkata in 1756 after the Company started evading taxes and due to increasing militarization of the fort. The East India Company retook it in the following year, and defeated the Nawab of Bengal (Mir Qasim) in 1764 when he tried to squeeze them out of the region. Per the treaty signed between the company and the Mughal emperor after the battle, the East India company gained the right to collect revenue from the province, thus becoming the imperial tax collector. In 1793 the East India company was strong enough and to abolish Nizamat (local rule), and assumed full sovereignty of the region. Under the Company rule and later under the British Raj, Kolkata served as the capital of British-held territories in India until 1911, when its perceived geographical disadvantages, combined with growing nationalism in Bengal, led to a shift of the capital to New Delhi. The city was a centre of the Indian independence movement; it remains a hotbed of contemporary state politics. Following Indian independence in 1947, Kolkata - which was once the centre of modern Indian education, science, culture, and politics -witnessed several decades of economic stagnation.
As a nucleus of the 19th- and early 20th-century Bengal Renaissance and a religiously and ethnically diverse centre of culture in Bengal and India, Kolkata has local traditions in drama, art, film, theatre, and literature. Many people from Kolkata - among them several Nobel laureates - have contributed to the arts, the sciences, and other areas. Kolkata culture features idiosyncrasies that include distinctively close-knit neighbourhoods (paras) and freestyle intellectual exchanges (adda). West Bengal's share of the Bengali film industry is based in the city, which also hosts venerable cultural institutions of national importance, such as the Academy of Fine Arts, the Victoria Memorial, the Asiatic Society, the Indian Museum and the National Library of India. Among professional scientific institutions, Kolkata hosts the Agri Horticultural Society of India, the Geological Survey of India, the Botanical Survey of India, the Calcutta Mathematical Society, the Indian Science Congress Association, the Zoological Survey of India, the Institution of Engineers, the Anthropological Survey of India and the Indian Public Health Association. Though home to major cricketing venues and franchises, Kolkata differs from other Indian cities by giving importance to association football and other sports.
ETYMOLOGY
The word Kolkata derives from the Bengali term Kôlikata (Bengali: কলিকাতা) [ˈkɔlikat̪a], the name of one of three villages that predated the arrival of the British, in the area where the city eventually was to be established; the other two villages were Sutanuti and Govindapur.
There are several explanations about the etymology of this name:
The term Kolikata is thought to be a variation of Kalikkhetrô [ˈkalikʰːet̪rɔ] (Bengali: কালীক্ষেত্র), meaning "Field of [the goddess] Kali". Similarly, it can be a variation of 'Kalikshetra' (Sanskrit: कालीक्षेत्र, lit. area of Goddess Kali").
Alternatively, the name may have been derived from the Bengali term kilkila (Bengali: কিলকিলা), or "flat area".
The name may have its origin in the words khal [ˈkʰal] (Bengali: খাল) meaning "canal", followed by kaṭa [ˈkata] (Bengali: কাটা), which may mean "dug".
According to another theory, the area specialised in the production of quicklime or koli chun [ˈkɔlitɕun] (Bengali: কলি চুন) and coir or kata [ˈkat̪a] (Bengali: কাতা); hence, it was called Kolikata [ˈkɔlikat̪a] (Bengali: কলিকাতা).
Although the city's name has always been pronounced Kolkata [ˈkolkat̪a] (Bengali: কলকাতা) or Kôlikata [ˈkɔlikat̪a] (Bengali: কলিকাতা) in Bengali, the anglicised form Calcutta was the official name until 2001, when it was changed to Kolkata in order to match Bengali pronunciation.
HISTORY
The discovery and archaeological study of Chandraketugarh, 35 kilometres north of Kolkata, provide evidence that the region in which the city stands has been inhabited for over two millennia. Kolkata's recorded history began in 1690 with the arrival of the English East India Company, which was consolidating its trade business in Bengal. Job Charnock, an administrator who worked for the Company, was formerly credited as the founder of the city; In response to a public petition, the Calcutta High Court ruled in 2003 that the city does not have a founder. The area occupied by the present-day city encompassed three villages: Kalikata, Gobindapur, and Sutanuti. Kalikata was a fishing village; Sutanuti was a riverside weavers' village. They were part of an estate belonging to the Mughal emperor; the jagirdari (a land grant bestowed by a king on his noblemen) taxation rights to the villages were held by the Sabarna Roy Choudhury family of landowners, or zamindars. These rights were transferred to the East India Company in 1698.In 1712, the British completed the construction of Fort William, located on the east bank of the Hooghly River to protect their trading factory. Facing frequent skirmishes with French forces, the British began to upgrade their fortifications in 1756. The Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah, condemned the militarisation and tax evasion by the company. His warning went unheeded, and the Nawab attacked; he captured Fort William which led to the killings of several East India company officials in the Black Hole of Calcutta. A force of Company soldiers (sepoys) and British troops led by Robert Clive recaptured the city the following year. Per the 1765 Treaty of Allahabad following the battle of Buxar, East India company was appointed imperial tax collector of the Mughal emperor in the province of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, while Mughal-appointed Nawabs continued to rule the province. Declared a presidency city, Calcutta became the headquarters of the East India Company by 1772. In 1793, ruling power of the Nawabs were abolished and East India company took complete control of the city and the province. In the early 19th century, the marshes surrounding the city were drained; the government area was laid out along the banks of the Hooghly River. Richard Wellesley, Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William between 1797 and 1805, was largely responsible for the development of the city and its public architecture. Throughout the late 18th and 19th century, the city was a centre of the East India Company's opium trade.By the 1850s, Calcutta had two areas: White Town, which was primarily British and centred on Chowringhee and Dalhousie Square; and Black Town, mainly Indian and centred on North Calcutta. The city underwent rapid industrial growth starting in the early 1850s, especially in the textile and jute industries; this encouraged British companies to massively invest in infrastructure projects, which included telegraph connections and Howrah railway station. The coalescence of British and Indian culture resulted in the emergence of a new babu class of urbane Indians, whose members were often bureaucrats, professionals, newspaper readers, and Anglophiles; they usually belonged to upper-caste Hindu communities. In the 19th century, the Bengal Renaissance brought about an increased sociocultural sophistication among city denizens. In 1883, Calcutta was host to the first national conference of the Indian National Association, the first avowed nationalist organisation in India.
The British moved the capital to New Delhi in 1911. Calcutta continued to be a centre for revolutionary organisations associated with the Indian independence movement. The city and its port were bombed several times by the Japanese between 1942 and 1944, during World War II. Coinciding with the war, millions starved to death during the Bengal famine of 1943 due to a combination of military, administrative, and natural factors. Demands for the creation of a Muslim state led in 1946 to an episode of communal violence that killed over 4,000. The partition of India led to further clashes and a demographic shift - many Muslims left for East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh), while hundreds of thousands of Hindus fled into the city.
During the 1960s and 1970s, severe power shortages, strikes, and a violent Marxist–Maoist movement by groups known as the Naxalites damaged much of the city's infrastructure, resulting in economic stagnation. The Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 led to a massive influx of thousands of refugees, many of them penniless, that strained Kolkata's infrastructure. During the mid-1980s, Mumbai (then called Bombay) overtook Kolkata as India's most populous city. In 1985, prime minister Rajiv Gandhi dubbed Kolkata a "dying city" in light of its socio-political woes. In the period 1977–2011, West Bengal was governed from Kolkata by the Left Front, which was dominated by the Communist Party of India (CPM). It was the world's longest-serving democratically elected communist government, during which Kolkata was a key base for Indian communism. In the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2011, Left Front was defeated by the Trinamool Congress. The city's economic recovery gathered momentum after the 1990s, when India began to institute pro-market reforms. Since 2000, the information technology (IT) services sector has revitalised Kolkata's stagnant economy. The city is also experiencing marked growth in its manufacturing base.
DEMOGRAPHICS
A resident of Kolkata is referred to via the demonym Calcuttan or Kolkatan. According to provisional results of the 2011 national census, Kolkata district, which occupies an area of 185 km2, had a population of 4,486,679; its population density was 24,252/km2. This represents a decline of 1.88% during the decade 2001–11. The sex ratio is 899 females per 1000 males - lower than the national average. The ratio is depressed by the influx of working males from surrounding rural areas, from the rest of West Bengal, and from neighbouring states, mainly Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, and Orissa; these men commonly leave their families behind. Kolkata's literacy rate of 87.14% exceeds the all-India average of 74%. The urban agglomeration had a population of 14,112,536 in 2011.
Bengali Hindus form the majority of Kolkata's population; Marwaris, Biharis and Muslims compose large minorities. Among Kolkata's smaller communities are Chinese, Tamils, Nepalis, Odias, Telugus, Assamese, Gujaratis, Anglo-Indians, Armenians, Greeks, Tibetans, Maharashtrians, Konkanis, Malayalees, Punjabis, and Parsis. The number of Armenians, Greeks, Jews, and other foreign-origin groups declined during the 20th century. The Jewish population of Kolkata was 5,000 during World War II, but declined after Indian independence and the establishment of Israel; by 2013, there were 25 Jews in the city. India's sole Chinatown is in eastern Kolkata; once home to 20,000 ethnic Chinese, its population dropped to around 2,000 as of 2009 as a result of multiple factors including repatriation and denial of Indian citizenship following the 1962 Sino-Indian War, and immigration to foreign countries for better economic opportunities. The Chinese community traditionally worked in the local tanning industry and ran Chinese restaurants.
Bengali, the official state language, is the dominant language in Kolkata. English is also used, particularly by the white-collar workforce. Hindi and Urdu are spoken by a sizeable minority. According to the 2011 census, 76.51% of the population is Hindu, 20.60% Muslim, 0.88% Christian, and 0.47% Jain. The remainder of the population includes Sikhs, Buddhists, and other religions which accounts for 0.45% of the population; 1.09% did not state a religion in the census. Kolkata reported 67.6% of Special and Local Laws crimes registered in 35 large Indian cities during 2004. The Kolkata police district registered 15,510 Indian Penal Code cases in 2010, the 8th-highest total in the country. In 2010, the crime rate was 117.3 per 100,000, below the national rate of 187.6; it was the lowest rate among India's largest cities.
As of 2003, about one-third of the population, or 1.5 million people, lived in 3,500 unregistered squatter-occupied and 2,011 registered slums: 92 The authorised slums (with access to basic services like water, latrines, trash removal by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation) can be broadly divided into two groups - bustees, in which slum dwellers have some long term tenancy agreement with the landowners; and udbastu colonies, settlements which had been leased to refugees from present-day Bangladesh by the Government. The unauthorised slums (devoid of basic services provided by the municipality) are occupied by squatters who started living on encroached lands - mainly along canals, railway lines and roads. According to the 2005 National Family Health Survey, around 14% of the households in Kolkata were poor, while 33% lived in slums, indicating a substantial proportion of households in slum areas were better off economically than the bottom quarter of urban households in terms of wealth status. Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding and working with the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata - an organisation "whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after".
WIKIPEDIA
The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America.
It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age.[7] The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia, but to any place significantly settled by Scandinavians during the period.[3] The Scandinavians of the Viking Age are often referred to as Vikings as well as Norsemen, although few of them were Vikings in the technical sense.
Voyaging by sea from their homelands in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the Norse people settled in the British Isles, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, the Baltic coast, and along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes in eastern Europe, where they were also known as Varangians. They also briefly settled in Newfoundland, becoming the first Europeans to reach North America. The Norse-Gaels, Normans, Rus' people, Faroese and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies.
The Vikings founded several kingdoms and earldoms in Europe: the kingdom of the Isles (Suðreyjar), Orkney (Norðreyjar), York (Jórvík) and the Danelaw (Danalǫg), Dublin (Dyflin), Normandy, and Kievan Rus' (Garðaríki). The Norse homelands were also unified into larger kingdoms during the Viking Age, and the short-lived North Sea Empire included large swathes of Scandinavia and Britain.
Several things drove this expansion. The Vikings were drawn by the growth of wealthy towns and monasteries overseas, and weak kingdoms. They may also have been pushed to leave their homeland by overpopulation, lack of good farmland, and political strife arising from the unification of Norway. The aggressive expansion of the Carolingian Empire and forced conversion of the neighboring Saxons to Christianity may also have been a factor.
Sailing innovations had allowed the Vikings to sail further and longer to begin with.
Information about the Viking Age is drawn largely from primary sources written by those the Vikings encountered, as well as archaeology, supplemented with secondary sources such as the Icelandic Sagas.
World Tour 2013 - 2014 - day 208
After visiting Punjab and Rajasthan I continued southward to the next province of Gujarat, homeland of Mahatma Gandhi. In this less touristic area I decided to visit countryside by myself around Budj city. Since some villages were subject of small organized tour I decided to avoid it and took a bus almost randomly looking for more genuine encounter. I ended walking alone in the land and eventually met a guy who took me by motorbike in his village. There I met very nice and welcoming family. There was so many children so I could guess the Indian overpopulation growing issue is not yet curbed. This little girl had something more from Europa than India for me , especially her hair. But really India is a multiple aspect country.
The full HD movie of the journey can be seen here:
www.dailymotion.com/video/x1d1r3j_inde-du-sud-vers-le-bou...
Σημε-ιολογικόν Επίκαιρον (ΙΙ)
Η Ανο(η)σία της Αγέλης,
ο Ιός
(Ύβρις τε και Νέμεσις)
ο Υιός του Aνθρώπου
(μεσσίας και φαντασιακός λυτρωτής)
και η Πανδημία ως Δήμιος ...
> H Γενοκτονική Νομοτέλεια του Υπερπληθυσμού
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IN ENGLISH
The image and the text above contain two COVID19-pandemic related wordplays of Homophonic Greek words. See below the full rendering in English of the Greek texts as well as the translation of the relative key-words.
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Timely Semantics in the
Times of Globalization,
with Corona Virus
as Omen.
(the) Present (is) Dark
(the) Future (to be) Worse.
(viral) Infection
and Arrogance
without Healing.
Virus
and Nonsense,
of the Herd
with No Immunity.
Nonsense
and Instinct,
as (the) Rights
(to act) at Random (without logic)
Debacle
of Logic and Measure,
(the) Supreme Hubris ...
hence,
the Nemesis,
the Pandemic,
the Bane ....
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Timely Semantics (II)
Divine Passions
(ref to Holly Week)
The Nonsense of the Herd
the Virus
(as Nemesis)
(as messiah and imaginary savior)
and the Pandemic as Executioner ...
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Key Words
Ιός = Virus
Ιολογικόν = Viral
'Iωση = Viral Infection
Οίηση = Arrogance
Παγκοσμιοποίηση = Globalization
Υιός = Son
Κορωνοϊός = Corona Virus
Oιωνός = Omen
Ανοσία = Immunity
Ανοησία = Nonsense
Λόγος = Logic (in archaic Greek)
Μέτρον = Measure or Limit (in archaic Greek)
Ύβρις = Hubris
Νέμεσις = Nemesis
Πανδημία = Pandemic
Δήμιος = Executioner
On my stroll over to Penbre (Pembrey) beach one late afternoon in October, I noticed literally tens of thousands of snails in the grass. I have absolutely no idea what this is about and whether it is seasonal and normal or not.
Zap Comix / Heft-Reihe
> Cliffy the Clown / This year, why not -- Commit Suicide!?
Verlag: Apex Novelties (Californien/USA ; 1975)
Cover: Robert Crumb
ex libris MTP
Jaylon Clawthorne, the eldest son of Duke Clawthorne and Hand of the Queen of Valmirion, made frequent journeys between Roncenoire and Ashkelon. To save time, he chose to take a more perilous route that led through a canyon in the territory of House Valor. This canyon was infamous for being filled with the failed results of human reincarnation experiments… undead creatures forever wandering in search of fresh meat.
The only way through was a series of unstable wooden boardwalks suspended above the chasm. The convoy was escorted by a patrol from House Valor, familiar with the terrain, yet the crossing remained dangerously unpredictable. The wood groaned under the weight of the horses, and every step felt like a gamble.
Was choosing the quicker path truly the wisest decision ?
This MOC was built for the “Pick Your Poison” category.
Here are the three constraints I chose:
Overpopulation – more than 15 minifigures
Beaten Track – footprints and signs of passage scattered throughout
Unstable Load – the wooden boards beneath the wagon have just given way under its weight
In the ever-expanding tapestry of the universe, the recent revelations in quantum mechanics and quantum science have ignited a fervor of imagination and inquiry. As we peer through the veil of reality, a gateway to Proxima Centauri b—a planet that mirrors Earth in so many ways—beckons us to explore its potential. This newfound knowledge has propelled humanity into a realm of possibilities, where the dream of a second home emerges not merely as fantasy but as a plausible future. With Earth facing unprecedented challenges, from climate crises to overpopulation, the concept of 'Planet B' transcends mere escape; it becomes a beacon of hope. As our thoughts race with the implications of life on Proxima, we envision a world where humanity can thrive once more, nurturing the essence of existence in a new celestial cradle.
Poem
In whispers of stars, the secrets unfold,
A dance of the atoms, a tale yet untold,
Through quantum realms where the shadows entwine,
We glimpse at a future where destinies align.
Proxima calls with its enigmatic light,
A sanctuary awaits in the velvet of night.
With dreams woven rich in the fabric of space,
We seek out a home, a new kind of grace.
Haikus
Stars twinkle above,
Proxima's shores beckon us,
Hope's new dawn arises.
Quantum dreams take flight,
Life blooms on a distant world,
A chance to restart.
In the void we reach,
Hearts yearning for a new dawn,
Planet B awaits.
One upright ear red patched American Pit Bull Terrier.
Harris County Animal Control destroys all pit bulls and mixes of when their owners don't claim them in three days. Pit bulls are not adopted to the public. Blue bully pit bulls are not rare and the pit bull population is out of control in Houston. Upset about this? Ask countypets.com to change its policy.
The southern form of this species found growing in the Appalachian foothills. Many populations have been wiped out due to overpopulation of deer. It occurs over a vast range.
APR 2005 From the Aeon of Regional Conflicts and World Wars,
to the Epoch of Clashing Civilizations & Global Uniculturalism.
[-] Notes from bilwander's suspended Facebook, now >here [-]
In the times of Globalization & the "progressive" illusion of Multicultural "Coexistence" ( i.e. devastative global uniculturalism ), Clashing Civilizations, Proxy Wars, Blind Terrorism, Uncontrolled Breeding and Consumerism, are ending this World, while ... Comics of ... Iconomics make the most epic failure ever of Democracy in the, so to say, developed societies.
Virtual Economies (thus Iconomies) generating elitist wealth out of deregulated money supply, leveraged credit expansion, permanently rolling-over and exponentially rising debt , impossible to be paid-off in any visible future, along with unsustainable consumption and "growth", and, in the end, extreme global socio-economic, geopolitical, environmental and currently, even health crises.
Crises of Massive Poverty, Misery and Migration, on a planet already crowded, littered, polluted and exploited to its limits; a planet where the wealthy suffer from diseases of affluence & longevity, and contaminated food, while the poor die early from malnutrition and lack of basic hygiene and medical care.
World Population and Inequality (Wealth Distribution Gap) grow faster than the Gross World Product (GWP) while Natural Resources are Draining Out, and Long-term Structural Unemployment & Poverty will deterministically continue to rise for at least this whole century as far as Governments and Peoples continue to ignore and defy the most crucial macroeconomic parameter (World Demographic Trend) and the components (Population Size & Quality) that define the Welfare Equation. In simple words : :
The More People On Earth The Much Worse Their Life Gets
The Mother of All Evil and Misery
In The Epoch of the Infinite Evolution of Artificial Intelligence, and Robotics and Eugenics, the forecasts for World Poverty are gravely pessimistic as far as the vast majority of people continue to over-exercise Outdated Reproductive Rights, without basic knowledge, responsibility and resources, or, even worse, with criminal and/or genetically detrimental records, factually instigating and perpetrating the most massive, continuous and silent Genocidal Crime of human history along with an Overpopulation of self-condemned people ...
A more than obvious global crime, yet ignored and absent from any agenda, a taboo not even to be quoted within a defiant World Society and an idle Academic Community; the Mother of All Evil and Misery, a ticking time-bomb of total destruction whereas populist regimes and the hypocrisy of political correctness dominate and govern the populace ...
Family Planning, Genetic Engineering and, nowadays, Sexual Transgenderism (and eventually Androidification ) though yet far from consisting mainstream social procedures, and even with law deficits, are increasingly practiced altering already the traditional patterns of human reproduction and social institutions, thus defining the rise of a new epoch within the Anthropocene.
Qualitatively Controlled Human Reproduction by individual choice, assisted by Sperm & Ova Banks via Modified DNA and combination of superior genetic "materials" along with Artificial Intelligence, will eventually lead to intellectual and physical abilities, unprecedentedly superior to those of Homo Sapiens and its contemporary Universalis, so defining the species of the Androidified Human; a Homo Superius of “his/her/its” kind; the product of the Contemporary Dark Ages where Obsolete Reproductive Rights encroach and override Basic Human Rights, transforming the decadent democracies into de facto regimes of Extreme Populism, Anarchy, Illegalism, Oligarchy & Tyranny ....
In the future, most likely, even fewer countries and smaller populations than today will be able to obtain & maintain high standards of living, provided that they will manage to sustain robust, fiscally and monetarily disciplined, economies, based on advanced technology, secured energy self-sufficiency/accessibility, demographic sustainability with social security and geopolitical stability along with effective control & regulation of the migration influx and its intensifying impact and destabilizing potential on the function of the 'developed' economies and societies.
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It's the People, stupid ! (15 APR 2016)
As usual, Soros just speaks out about preserving the Bubble of World Economy for as long as possible...
Who does actually care or can make a difference about next generations, peoples, people, proxy wars, clashing civilizations, migrants or refugees ? ... simply no one
The Bubble, like any bubble, has an undated, but deterministically approaching Burst Out Day .... and the World is already bankrupt in effect and long before the evolving Economic Meltdown, just because of its unregulated and unsustainable population size .....
We tried to persuade the owner of this mother to allow us to spay the dog (free-of-charge) once her puppies are weaned. She has had multiple litters. Still waiting to hear from the owner.
Solid black with white chest male American Pit Bull Terrier, small ears.
This dog has three days to be claimed by owner or a valid 501c3 rescue or it will be killed/euthanized as this Houston facility does not adopt pit bulls or pit bull mixes to the public.
STOP PIT BULL OVERPOPULATION!
Note: this photo was published in a Feb 2010 EveryBlock New York City blog page for zip code 10025. In addition, for reasons that I don't understand at all, this photo was published as an illustration in an undated (Feb 2010) Squidoo blog titled "Your Pets: Do You Breed, Neuter or Neither?," in a section titled "Photos of Homeless Dogs' Reality." Whatever else might be going on here, this dog certainly does not look homeless...
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This is the continuation of a photo-project that I began in the summer of 2008 (which you can see in this Flickr set), and continued throughout 2009 (as shown in this Flickr set): a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue. These are the people in my neighborhood, aka "peeps in the 'hood."
As I indicated when I first started this project, I don't like to intrude on people's privacy, so I normally use a zoom telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they're still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what's right in front of me. Sometimes I find an empty bench on a busy street corner, and just sit quietly for an hour, watching people hustling past on the other side of the street; they're almost always so busy listening to their iPod, or talking on their cellphone, or daydreaming about something, that they never look up and see me aiming my camera in their direction.
I've also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting -- literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I've learned to keep the camera switched on, and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture ... after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it's pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject. Indeed, some of my most interesting photos have been so-called "hip shots," where I don't even bother to raise the camera up to my eye; I just keep the zoom lens set to the maximum wide-angle aperture, point in the general direction of the subject, and take several shots. As long as I can keep the shutter speed fairly high (which sometimes requires a fairly high ISO setting), I can usually get some fairly crisp shots -- even if the subject is walking in one direction, and I'm walking in the other direction, while I'm snapping the photos.
With only a few exceptions, I've generally avoided photographing bums, drunks, crazies, and homeless people. There are a few of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don't want to be photographed, and I don't want to feel like I'm taking advantage of them. There have been a few opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. This is one example, and here is another example.
The other thing I've noticed, while carrying on this project for the past three years, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, far more people who are not so interesting. They're probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I've photographed ... but there was just nothing memorable about them. They're all part of this big, crowded city; but for better or worse, there are an awful lot that you won't see in these Flickr sets of mine...
Who are we?
We are the teachers trained in the regional centers of education and training professions in Morocco.
We are the ones who will teach your children in the future.
We are the ones who are supposed to manage the guardianship of the ministry and the education sector, which suffers from overpopulation and overcrowding that affects the quality and progress of education.
Why are we protest?
Previously, the trainer(s) was (were) appointed to public employment after the training period had passed.
Previously, the trained stage earned 2450 dirhams (240euro) per month during the training period.
This year, the ministry has created on the rights of the trainee teacher two disastrous decrees that:
⁃ Separate employment from training, which will cause the displacement of more than 3000 trained teachers.
⁃ Reduce the value of the subsidy to 1200 dirhams(120euro).
This is why we are protesting to overturn these two unfortunate decrees.
Could you believe that a trained teacher has passed a preliminary selection then, a written and an oral examination, after his training period he could finds himself homeless?
Is it conceivable that a subsidy of 1200 dirhams would be sufficient to cover the needs of the trained stage (rent price, buying books and courses, food, transport, ...)?
What are we looking for?
We want your solidarity with us to drop these decrees, preserve your children's the right to the public employment and help to save the education sector and raise its quality.
Muslim - Ntouma ghir kathdro 🎧
I always had the power of seeing something different in people. I had the idea of creating this project in 2014 when I realize I’m shooting a lot of portraits for my friends, clients, people on the street… So I transformed this passion into an artistic project where my goal wasn’t take just average pictures of strangers, but make portraits of them that reveals something.
It’s an on-going project which I want to take 100 portraits stories.
Jaylon Clawthorne, the eldest son of Duke Clawthorne and Hand of the Queen of Valmirion, made frequent journeys between Roncenoire and Ashkelon. To save time, he chose to take a more perilous route that led through a canyon in the territory of House Valor. This canyon was infamous for being filled with the failed results of human reincarnation experiments… undead creatures forever wandering in search of fresh meat.
The only way through was a series of unstable wooden boardwalks suspended above the chasm. The convoy was escorted by a patrol from House Valor, familiar with the terrain, yet the crossing remained dangerously unpredictable. The wood groaned under the weight of the horses, and every step felt like a gamble.
Was choosing the quicker path truly the wisest decision ?
This MOC was built for the “Pick Your Poison” category.
Here are the three constraints I chose:
Overpopulation – more than 15 minifigures
Beaten Track – footprints and signs of passage scattered throughout
Unstable Load – the wooden boards beneath the wagon have just given way under its weight
In the ever-expanding tapestry of the universe, the recent revelations in quantum mechanics and quantum science have ignited a fervor of imagination and inquiry. As we peer through the veil of reality, a gateway to Proxima Centauri b—a planet that mirrors Earth in so many ways—beckons us to explore its potential. This newfound knowledge has propelled humanity into a realm of possibilities, where the dream of a second home emerges not merely as fantasy but as a plausible future. With Earth facing unprecedented challenges, from climate crises to overpopulation, the concept of 'Planet B' transcends mere escape; it becomes a beacon of hope. As our thoughts race with the implications of life on Proxima, we envision a world where humanity can thrive once more, nurturing the essence of existence in a new celestial cradle.
Poem
In whispers of stars, the secrets unfold,
A dance of the atoms, a tale yet untold,
Through quantum realms where the shadows entwine,
We glimpse at a future where destinies align.
Proxima calls with its enigmatic light,
A sanctuary awaits in the velvet of night.
With dreams woven rich in the fabric of space,
We seek out a home, a new kind of grace.
Haikus
Stars twinkle above,
Proxima's shores beckon us,
Hope's new dawn arises.
Quantum dreams take flight,
Life blooms on a distant world,
A chance to restart.
In the void we reach,
Hearts yearning for a new dawn,
Planet B awaits.
My Dad grew up Catholic, and I have a charming picture of him in his alter boy outfit looking angelic from the neck down, and devilish in the eyes. My Mom was a little more vague- "fire, brimstone, and holy roller" was her way of saying that in her rural Indiana upbringing they worshipped with what ever traveling preacher was in town at the time. Since she was not particularly affiliated with any sect, she was a pushover for my feisty paternal grandmother who was insistent that the children be raised under the Catholic holy trinity.
I loved, loved, loved church- the Latin mass, the rituals, the nuns, the beautiful church we attended (a miniature blond wood cathedral of sorts), lighting candles in the lady chapel, and most of all Monsignor Anderson, who was a family friend. But I was a skeptical child, and a bit willful, and slowly but surely doubts began to creep into my little brain. If the scapular I was never supposed to take off was really going to guarantee the Virgin Mother would come to purgatory to fetch me to heaven if I died wearing it, shouldn't it be made of something more permanent than the red felt and cardboard that ran dye all over my eight year old neck when I took a bath? And howcome my grandfather and the monsignor needed to have a shot of Irish Whiskey in the back room before 11 o'clock mass if this ceremony was so holy?
Further circumstances began to separate me from my beloved church. In high school, I had just two years of Latin under my belt before services were changed to the vernacular. Huh??? And then, as I was going away to college in 1971- the height of the women's liberation movement- I began to feel indignant on behalf of those nuns I'd cherished all my life. Why exactly was it that they could not say mass? And as a child of the hippie era (the original one, not the neo-hippie fashion statement that has nothing to do with living close to the earth) who was concerned about overpopulation (we won't mention personal sexual freedom) I was very concerned about the church's rigid stance about birth control and abortion. I was in a terrible personal crisis.
Thinking that perhaps I'd strayed too far from the teachings, I volunteered to teach catechism classes in the church where I'd been confirmed. Every week for three months I took a bus an hour each way to my hometown to teach 7 year olds out of the Baltimore Catechism. Big BIG mistake for me. As a freshman in college, I was way too unwilling to suppress logic to faith, so teaching from that book just widened the chasm that was growing between me and my religion. Finally, in a desperate last-ditch effort to retain the anchor of a faith I'd practiced for more than 20 years, I signed up for a comparative religion class. Surely studying Catholicism in conjunction with other religions would put everything in perspective for me.
And it did. But not in the way I'd hoped. The more I studied the differing forms of faith, the more I discovered that they were- in the most basic terms- quite similar. They taught you to be good people and good neighbors. To help others. To not harm people or property. To learn lessons from wise teachers. To think about the larger world around you. To put that world into the context of history.
To make a very long story shorter, basically what I figured out was that what most people look for in religion are these four things.
They want an answer to the question of how we came to be.
They want guidance for an acceptable code of conduct.
They want a community that accepts them, no matter who they are or what they've done.
They want comforting rituals.
With my own peculiar logic, studying how much religions are basically the same made me quite comfortable- for the next almost 30 years- practicing my little religion of one.
I am perfectly content to not understand how we came to be. I don't understand physics either, but that doesn't make me skeptical that physics exists.
I learned all those "moral" ways to act in church when I was young. I don't have to be Catholic, or any other religion, to know that we need to strive to be good, helpful, giving people for the world to progress in a positive way.
I belong to many communities where I thrive... I don't NEED one to validate my beliefs.
Over the years, I've developed many personal rituals... around gardening, holidays, seasons, people... I am not lacking in ritual.
I was content. Except for one little thing. When my mother was quite ill before she died, and when my father went though a personal crisis, and when crises befell close friends... I was missing the kind of ritual that is a physical manifestation of FAITH. Like lighting candles in the lady chapel at church. Or the way some will pin the photograph of a suffering loved one near a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe. So there really was something missing. I didn't need the deity or the services. But I did need that specific sort of ritual.
Enter my sweetheart Matt. Matt has been practicing in a small sect of Buddhism for decades now. It involves chanting twice a day. For what you need. To improve yourself. To reach your goals. For those you love. There is no deity or fat little iconic Buddha... you are the buddha. There are no rules. There is simply the practice. A community full of people, each with "a little religion of one". And he didn't prostletize at all... just answered my questions when I was curious. There was a lot that was compelling. So now, after being quite content having faith without form, I'm again part of a community that believes much what I do. And I have the ritual I was seeking, even when I didn't know it.
So now, twice a day, I take the time at my altar to:
think about my place in the world
think about how I can give more than I take
focus on personal goals
think about my ancestors and loved ones who've died
think about what happens in my next lives
celebrate the wonder of the world
pray for peace
and now I'm more content
Some rescued pit bull puppies arrived with their mother from out of state. Mom and babies will be up for adoption when they are ready. Every day pit bulls are put down in shelters due to overpopulation, backyard breeding, and misperceptions. Please, don't add to this plight- adopt your dogs and puppies from the shelter or reputable rescue groups, and be sure to spay and neuter your pets to prevent accidental litters. 1 in 600 shetlered pit bulls finds a home. 8 out of every 10 in a litter will end up in a shelter at some point in their life. I don't need to tell you what happens to the rest. Adopt. Spay and Neuter. Period.
The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America.
It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age.[7] The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia, but to any place significantly settled by Scandinavians during the period.[3] The Scandinavians of the Viking Age are often referred to as Vikings as well as Norsemen, although few of them were Vikings in the technical sense.
Voyaging by sea from their homelands in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the Norse people settled in the British Isles, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, the Baltic coast, and along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes in eastern Europe, where they were also known as Varangians. They also briefly settled in Newfoundland, becoming the first Europeans to reach North America. The Norse-Gaels, Normans, Rus' people, Faroese and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies.
The Vikings founded several kingdoms and earldoms in Europe: the kingdom of the Isles (Suðreyjar), Orkney (Norðreyjar), York (Jórvík) and the Danelaw (Danalǫg), Dublin (Dyflin), Normandy, and Kievan Rus' (Garðaríki). The Norse homelands were also unified into larger kingdoms during the Viking Age, and the short-lived North Sea Empire included large swathes of Scandinavia and Britain.
Several things drove this expansion. The Vikings were drawn by the growth of wealthy towns and monasteries overseas, and weak kingdoms. They may also have been pushed to leave their homeland by overpopulation, lack of good farmland, and political strife arising from the unification of Norway. The aggressive expansion of the Carolingian Empire and forced conversion of the neighboring Saxons to Christianity may also have been a factor.
Sailing innovations had allowed the Vikings to sail further and longer to begin with.
Information about the Viking Age is drawn largely from primary sources written by those the Vikings encountered, as well as archaeology, supplemented with secondary sources such as the Icelandic Sagas.
View of south eastern Mexico City's conflicting neighborhood of Iztapalapa with nearly 2 millon people on the border of Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl. Izatapalapa is one of the city's most water deprived areas with inconsistencies in the distribution of the vital liquid. Door to door neighbors may one have and the other not. Reports that the water being distributed to this area of the city is also of the poorest quality, often even coming from the dry wells where fossilized water is being extracted.
In the ever-expanding tapestry of the universe, the recent revelations in quantum mechanics and quantum science have ignited a fervor of imagination and inquiry. As we peer through the veil of reality, a gateway to Proxima Centauri b—a planet that mirrors Earth in so many ways—beckons us to explore its potential. This newfound knowledge has propelled humanity into a realm of possibilities, where the dream of a second home emerges not merely as fantasy but as a plausible future. With Earth facing unprecedented challenges, from climate crises to overpopulation, the concept of 'Planet B' transcends mere escape; it becomes a beacon of hope. As our thoughts race with the implications of life on Proxima, we envision a world where humanity can thrive once more, nurturing the essence of existence in a new celestial cradle.
Poem
In whispers of stars, the secrets unfold,
A dance of the atoms, a tale yet untold,
Through quantum realms where the shadows entwine,
We glimpse at a future where destinies align.
Proxima calls with its enigmatic light,
A sanctuary awaits in the velvet of night.
With dreams woven rich in the fabric of space,
We seek out a home, a new kind of grace.
Haikus
Stars twinkle above,
Proxima's shores beckon us,
Hope's new dawn arises.
Quantum dreams take flight,
Life blooms on a distant world,
A chance to restart.
In the void we reach,
Hearts yearning for a new dawn,
Planet B awaits.
Welcome to NEW HASHIMA (端島), an urban landscape born from the ashes of the once-thriving Hashima Island mining colony. In a world teetering on the edge of cybernetic revolution and rampant overpopulation, this neon-lit megalopolis emerges as a gritty testament to society’s desperate pursuit of innovative development.
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Very happy to share some quality photos of my recent NH build. Definitely one of my personal favorites so far. Enjoy and stay tuned for more Cyberpsychos!!!
Anti-speller Roberta Mahoney hands out information explaining the ALC Introductory Alphabet outside the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday. Mahoney claims the difficulty of the English language is a leading cause of prison overpopulation.
Welcome to NEW HASHIMA(端島) - Sector 08. Built on the remnants of the old Hashima Island mining colony after overpopulation forced consideration of innovative development options. Sector 08 is home to middle through upper-class citizens of NewHashima and holds many of the more beautiful structures found in the island mega-city.
Buffelwever
(Bubalornis niger)
The red-billed buffalo weaver (Bubalornis niger) is a species of bird in the Ploceidae family. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is the dry savanna.
The body length of approximately 24 cm and the weight of 65 g place rank this as one of the largest of the Ploceidae (weaver birds). Visually the sexes are not greatly differentiated from one another. The red-billed buffalo weaver is differentiated from the white-billed buffalo weaver (Bubalornis albirostris) by the color of its bill.
The feathers of the male are dark chocolate brown in color. The front wing edges and the wing tips are flecked with white. His bill is a shade of red. The eyes are brown and the feet are reddish brown. The female's body is also colored dark chocolate brown, without the white flecks on the wings. However, her chin and throat feathers include broad white colored hems. Her eyes are dark brown and her legs light brown. Adolescent birds are a lighter shade of brown.
The diet of the red billed buffalo weaver consists primarily of insects, seed and fruit. Particular insects the bird feeds on include crickets, locusts, grasshoppers, caterpillars, beetles, weevils, wasps, bees, ants, flies, and spiders. Its diet also includes scorpions. Most of these food sources are located in the soil or in low vegetation. As a result, the red-billed buffalo weaver does most of its foraging on the ground. Climate changes have not significantly affected the abundance of prey for the bird.
hese birds tend to live in dry savannahs and sparse woodlands. They prefer areas usually disturbed by humans and livestock. In fact, if people living in community with a population of red-billed buffalo weavers leave, the birds often depart as well. Thus as places continue to be urbanized, these birds find more homes. Additionally, overpopulation does not tend to be a problem for the red-billed buffalo weaver seeing as they live in colonies.
The red-billed buffalo weaver has been observed in small family groups or in large flocks.
Males tend to be polygamous and control anywhere from 1 to 8 nest chambers with 3 females. Typically there is one dominant male who controls the most chambers and the most females. The males in lower social positions control fewer chambers and fewer females. These males will defend their chambers and females by showing aggressive displays and giving loud calls. However, two males sometimes cooperate with each other to build the nest, defend their territory, and help feed the chicks.
Females do not tolerate other females in their chambers while they are nesting and laying their eggs. Females typically feed the chicks (unless they are part of a cooperative breeding colony). The diet consists of insects, seeds, and fruit found near the nest.
Red-billed buffalo weavers breed in colonies. The nests are composed of an enormous mass of thorny twigs. These twigs are divided into separate lodges (compartments), each with multiple egg chambers. Each chamber has a smaller nest, typically built by the female (unless they are part of a cooperative breeding colony). The smaller nest is composed of grass, leaves, and roots. The whole nest is usually found in a thorny tree or in a windmill near areas inhabited by humans. When humans leave particular areas, so do the red-billed buffalo weavers living in the same area. White-backed vultures and bateleurs tend to construct their nests above red-billed buffalo weaver nests, which is helpful in camouflaging their nests from predators.
Male red-billed buffalo weavers possess a pseudo-penis around 1.5 cm long. It was first reported in an 1831 German anatomist's report on the birds and subsequent research has shown that it is female selected. The pseudo-penis has no blood vessels and does not carry sperm but instead appears to be favored by the females for pleasure and aids males in attracting females; males in colonies have larger pseudo-penises than males which live alone, suggesting male-male competition has also favored the growth of this peculiar organ.
Egg laying season can last from September to June, with the peak occurring between December and March. Females lay anywhere from 2 to 4 eggs and incubate them for roughly 14 days. The females are the only ones that tend to the eggs during this period. After 20 to 23 days, the birds leave the nest.
Wikipedia
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (October 6, 1573 – November 10, 1624), one of William Shakespeare's patrons, was the second son of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, and his wife Mary Browne, Countess of Southampton, daughter of the 1st Viscount Montagu.
He was born on October 6,1573, in Cowdray, Sussex, England.
When his father died, he moved to Midhurst, England, and succeeded to the title in 1581, when he became a royal ward, under the immediate care of Lord Burghley. He entered St John's College, Cambridge, in 1585, graduating M.A. in 1589:[1] and his name was entered at Gray's Inn before he left the university. At the age of seventeen he was presented at court, where he was soon counted among the friends of the earl of Essex, and was distinguished by extraordinary marks of the queen's favor. He became a munificent patron of poets: Nashe dedicated his romance of Jack Willon to him, and Gervase Markham his poem on Sir Richard Grenville's last fight. His name is also associated with Barnabe Barnes's Parthenophil and Parthenope, and with the Worlde of Wordes of John Florio, who was for some years in his personal service as teacher of Italian.
It is as a patron of the drama and especially of Shakespeare that he is best known. "My Lord Southampton and Lord Rutland," writes Rowland White to Sir Robert Sydney in 1599, "come not to the court ... They pass away the time in London merely in going to plays every day" (Sydney Papers,[2] ed. Collins, ii. 132). Venus and Adonis (1593) was dedicated to Southampton in terms expressing respect, but no special intimacy; but in the dedication of The Rape of Lucrece[3] (1594) the tone is very different. "The love I dedicate to your lordship is without end ... What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours." Nicholas Rowe, on the authority of Sir William Davenant, stated in his Life of Shakespeare that Southampton on one occasion gave Shakespeare a present of £1000 to complete a purchase. There is no documentary evidence of this, however.
Nathan Drake in his Shakespeare and his Times (1819; vol. ii. pp. 62 seq.) first suggested that Lord Southampton was the person to whom the sonnets of Shakespeare were addressed. He set aside Thomas Thorpe's dedication to the "onlie begetter of these ensuing sonnets, Mr W.H.," by adopting the very unusual significance given by George Chalmers to the word begetter, which he takes as equivalent to procurer. Mr W. H. was thus to be considered only as the bookseller who obtained the manuscript. Other adherents of the Southampton theory suggest that the initials H. W. (Henry Wriothesley) were simply reversed for the sake of concealment by the publisher. It is possible in any case that too much stress has been laid on Thomas Thorpe's mystification.
The chief arguments in favor of the Southampton theory are the agreement of the sonnets with the tone of the dedication of Lucrece, the friendly relations known to have existed between Southampton and the poet, and the correspondence, at best slight, between the energetic character of the earl and that of the young man of the sonnets. Mr Arthur Acheson (Shakespeare and the Rival Poet, 1903) brings much evidence in favor of the theory, first propounded by William Minto, that George Chapman, whose style is parodied by Shakespeare in the 21st sonnet and in Love's Labour's Lost, was the rival poet of the 78th and following sonnets. Mr Acheson goes on to suppose that Chapman's erotic poems were written with a view to gaining Southampton's patronage, and that that nobleman had refused the dedication as the result of Shakespeare's expostulations. The obscurity surrounding the subject is hardly lightened by the dialogue between H. W. and W. S. in Willobie his Avisa, a poem printed in 1594 as the work of Henry Willobie. If the sonnets were indeed addressed to Southampton, the earlier ones urging marriage upon him must have been written before the beginning (1595) of his intrigue with Elizabeth Vernon, cousin of the Earl of Essex, which ended in 1598 with a hasty marriage that brought down Queen Elizabeth's anger on both the contracting parties, who spent some time in the Fleet prison in consequence. The Southampton theory of the sonnets cannot be regarded as proved, and must in any case be considered in relation to other interpretations. However, most recently the most compelling case has been made by Hank Whittemore in his magnum opus, "The Monument" (2005) that Southampton is the principal subject of the sonnets and that they are best understood when it is recognized that Elizabeth was his mother and the 17th Earl of Oxford his father (Edward de Vere).
In 1596 and 1597 Southampton was employed in Essex's expeditions to Cádiz and to the Azores, in the latter of which he distinguished himself by his daring tactics. In 1598 he had a brawl at court with Ambrose Willoughby, and later in the same year he attended the queen's principal secretary, Sir Robert Cecil, on an embassy to Paris.
In 1599, during the Nine Years War (1595-1603), he went to Ireland with Essex, who made him general of his horse, but the queen insisted that the appointment be cancelled. Southampton remained on in personal attendance upon the earl, rather than as an officer. During his time in the Irish wars, it was reported to Cecil that he saw most of his active service in bed with a captain Piers Edmunds - he would "cole and hug" his captain in his arms, and "play wantonly" with him. However, Southampton was active during the campaign, and prevented a defeat at the hands of the Irish rebels, when his cavalry drove off an attack at Arklow in County Wicklow. He was deeply involved in Essex's conspiracy against the queen, and in February 1601 was sentenced to death. Cecil obtained the commutation of the penalty to imprisonment for life.
On the accession of James I Southampton resumed his place at court and received numerous honors from the new king. On the eve of the abortive rebellion of Essex he had induced the players at the Globe Theatre to revive Richard II, and on his release from prison in 1603 he resumed his connection with the stage. In 1603 he entertained Queen Anne with a performance of Love's Labour's Lost by Burbage and his company, to which Shakespeare belonged, at Southampton House.
He seems to have been a born fighter, and engaged in more than one serious quarrel at court, being imprisoned for a short time in 1603 following a heated argument with Lord Grey of Wilton in front of Queen Anne. Grey, an implacable opponent of the Essex faction, was later implicated in the Main Plot and Bye Plot. Southampton was in more serious disgrace in 1621 for his determined opposition to Buckingham. He was a volunteer on the Protestant side in Germany in 1614, and in 1617 he proposed to fit out an expedition against the Barbary pirates.
Southampton was a leader among the Jacobean aristocrats who turned to modern investment practices — "in industry, in modernizing their estates and in overseas trade and colonization."[4] He financed the first tinplate mill in the country, and founded an ironworks at Titchfield. He developed his properties in London, in Bloomsbury and Holborn; he revamped his country estates, participated in the efforts of the East India Company and the New England Company, and backed Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage.
A significant artistic patron in the Jacobean as well as the Elizabethan era, Southampton promoted the work of George Chapman, Samuel Daniel, Thomas Heywood, and the composer Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger. Heywood's popular, expansionist dramas were compatible with Southampton's maritime and colonial interests.
Henry Wriothesley, whose name is included in the 1605 panel of the New World Tapestry, took a considerable share in promoting the colonial enterprises of the time, and was an active member of the Virginia Company's governing council. Although profits proved elusive, his other visions for the Colony based at Jamestown were eventually accomplished. He was part of a faction within the company with Sir Edwin Sandys, who eventually became the Treasurer, and worked tirelessly to support the struggling venture. In addition to profits, Southampton's faction sought a permanent colony which would enlarge British territory, relieve the nation's overpopulation, and expand the market for English goods. Although profits largely eluded the Virginia Company, and it was dissolved in 1624, the other goals were accomplished.
His name is thought by many to be the origin of the naming of the harbor of Hampton Roads, and the Hampton River. Although named at later dates, similar attribution may involve the town (and later city) of Hampton, Virginia, as well as Southampton County, Virginia and Northampton County. However, the name Southampton was not uncommon in England, including an important port city and an entire region along the southern coast, which was originally part of Hampshire. There are also variations applied in other areas of the English colonies which were not part of the Virginia Company of London's efforts, making the origin of the word and derivations of it as applied in Virginia even more debatable.
In 1624 he and his elder son enrolled themselves as volunteers for the United Provinces of the Netherlands against Spain. Immediately on landing they were attacked with fever, to which both succumbed, the father surviving until 10 November 1624.
In 1598 Henry Wriothesley married Elizabeth Vernon, the daughter of John Vernon of Hodnet by his wife Elizabeth Devereux. Elizabeth Devereux's grandfathers were the Viscount Hereford and the Earl of Huntingdon; on her father John's side, Elizabeth's family were more obscure.
Henry and Elizabeth married while "...she was already highly pregnant". Recent speculation advances the possibility that their eldest child was actually by William Shakespeare.[6]
Henry and Elizabeth had several children including:
1. Penelope Wriothesley who married William Spencer, 2nd Baron Spencer of Wormleighton;
2. James Wriothesley b 1605 who died shortly before his father in the Netherlands;
3. Thomas Wriothesley b 1608 who became the 4th Earl Southampton;
4. Anne Wriothesley who married Robert Wallop of Farley Wallop.
Woodside.
As noted above the Johnston brothers subdivided and laid out the town of Woodside in 1850 but the major landowner here was the SA Company. Hence the town is primarily to the east of the Onkaparinga Valley Road, and even today there is little town development on the former SA Company lands to the west nearer the river. The SA Company had tenant farmers in this district right up until the 1920s when it decided to sell of its land to the long-standing tenants. The origins of the town seem to go back to the establishment of a bush inn or hotel at Woodside on the site of the present hotel. It was officially licensed from 1853. One of the first settlers in Woodside was a shepherd employed by the SA Company. From its early days police were stationed at Woodside (the old police station and courthouse are behind the present hotel) and the churches here were able to take advantage of the church glebe land grants that were only available between 1846 and 1851.
The first to do so was the Anglican Church which received a grant of 20 acres and £150 towards the construction of a church. A local resident Dr Mayo gave a further £100. The Mt Lofty purple sandstone church in Gothic style with buttresses opened in 1851 high on a hill. But the site caused problems. In 1854 repairs had to be done to stop the front wall moving down the steep hill. In 1857 the church closed. It reopened in 1866 but the small congregation had difficulty providing a stipend for the minister. The church continued to crack and move and in 1882 a decision was made to erect a second church at the bottom of the hill. Work began in 1883 but it was 1885 before the new church opened and 1898 before it as consecrated. The Pike brewers of Oakbank worshipped here. The 1851 church is boarded up and in a poor state of repair. It should be restored and conserved.
The Wesleyan Methodists also got a glebe land grant in 1851 in Woodside. Their grant was a mere 12 acres and their first church was started in 1851 and opened in 1852. Many of the original Wesleyans were from Plymouth and the south of England but some were from Scotland. Their larger congregation enabled them to erect a larger second church in 1862 which is still in current use. Although they did not get a land grant the Primitive Methodists also built a church in Woodside in the Main Street where the netball courts are now located. This church was sold after Methodist churches amalgamated in 1900 and it became a butter factory and later an AMSCOL milk depot. Much later it was demolished.
The Lutherans had a chequered early history in Woodside. St. Peters Lutheran congregation was formed in 1863 and services began 1865 but a church was not built until 1876 in Robert Street. Mr Lauterbach who later operated a butter factory in Woodside arranged a loan of £200 for the construction of the church from the Oddfellows Lodge whose building in Moffat Street was built in 1886 and it closed in 1958. The Lutheran congregation could not service the debt and the Oddfellows reclaimed the church in 1878. They then sold it to the Scottish Presbyterians who preferred services in Woodside rather than having to travel out to Inverbrackie for church. Eventually this became the main Presbyterian church of the district. It is now a private residence and probably closed after the formation of the Uniting Church in 1977. The Lutherans now have their own church in Woodside on the northern outskirts called St. Johns. It opened in 1955 and was debt free by 1958! The other grand public buildings of Woodside are: the Institute which opened in 1880 on land donated by the SA Company; and the state school which opened in 1879 after the 1875 Education Act. An earlier school had opened in the town in 1857. The headmaster’s residence next to the schoolroom was erected in 1884.
Excitement and gold fever came to Woodside in the 1880s. Early in 1880 Mr Mitchell of Woodside, whilst removing a tree stump, found a glittering tangle of quartz and gold worth £300. He formed a syndicate in 1881 with twelve men, who included two copper kings Sir Thomas Elder Smith and Robert Barr Smith, to mine for gold. A few weeks later Andrew Johnston of the brewery in Oakbank began overseeing the mining operations as he was one of the company directors. Another mining company called the Bird-in-the-Hand Mine was also formed to work on land owned by the South Australian Company, the major landowner in the Woodside district. Other mines were formed too and in total about 200 men were employed digging for gold in the district by 1882. The Bird-in-the-Hand mine was eventually purchased by an English company in 1891 and closed down when the company went into liquidation shortly afterwards. The gold had well and truly petered out by this time. It was one of many small gold finds in the Adelaide Hills. Finds were made by all the gold companies but not on a sustainable level. The region produced about 30,000 ounces of gold although more than half of that came from the Bird in the Hand mine. The names of the main mines continue as properties today- Bird in the Hand, Eureka, Blackbird and New Era. To accommodate the miners some early terrace housing in Moffat Street was used and became known as miners’ cottages in the 1880s.
When the SA Company took up nearly 9,000 acres along the Onkaparinga in 1839 they were looking at the native Kangaroo Grass and its usefulness for a dairying industry. They got tenant farmers on the river flats (74 of them by 1850) and dairying started but within a few years the Kangaroo Grass had been eaten out and the tenants turned to general mixed farming. But dairying returned as a major industry around 1890 once butter could be refrigerated and exported to England. In 1889 the SA Company established the Onkaparinga Cheese and Butter factory to purchase the milk from its tenants. The SA Company next opened a creamery at Murdoch Hill in 1890. A second dairy factory opened at Woodside in 1894 as the Onkaparinga Cheese, Butter and Produce Company.( It soon replaced the SA Company factory.) It was the largest dairy factory in SA and made a profit of £700 in its first year. In 1919 it was taken over by SA Farmers’ Union and operated until 1983. It is now Melba’s chocolate factory! By the 1920s it was handling 4,000 litres of milk a day and even into the 1960s it had around 70 employees. Then in 1905 Woodside got a third major butter factory opened by the Lauterbach brothers. It mainly produced cheese and was purchased by AMSCOL around 1928. It mainly producing cheese and bacon but from around 1943 it was a milk depot only as all AMSCOL milk was processed in its Adelaide factory. AMSCOL closed in 1981. Dairying is no longer a major industry of Woodside.
On another note Woodside provided a home for famed Australian painter Horace Trennery (1899-1958.) Many of his work are in the Art Gallery of SA, Carrick Hill and interstate galleries. Trennery worked for Faulding Chemists for a while and then attended Julian Ashton’s Art School in Sydney. At his first exhibition in 1924 all 64 works were sold. He lived at Woodside from 1923 to 1932. Prices for his paintings fell during the Depression and he moved to Willunga in 1934. He enlisted in the army in 1940 but was discharged as he had Huntington’s chorea. He entered the Home for Incurables in 1951 and died there. Two of his works were exhibited in the Tate Gallery London in the 1960s. Many of his paintings had titles incorporating Woodside, Balhannah or Oakbank in their titles.
Inverbrackie.
Land was slowly taken up here from the early 1840s. One of the first residents was Dr William Innes, a Scot who named the locality Inverbrackie after his home in Scotland near Invergordon which is across the Firth of Moray from Nairn. The Scottish McLeods had owned Inverbrackie or Inverbreakie (spellings vary) castle from the 1300s. They were related to the Innes family. In 1699 the McLeods sold Inverbrackie Castle to Sir William Gordon who was part of the Earls of Sutherland family. Sir William Gordon renamed the castle Invergordon, hence the name of today’s Scottish town. In 1873 the remains of the 14th century castle were absorbed into a newly constructed Elizabethan style mansion. Unfortunately this was totally destroyed by fire in 1928 and the castle grounds are now the Inverbreakie Golf course on the outskirts of Invergordon. Dr Innes, James Johnston of Oakbank and others met at the tiny Payne’s Inn at Inverbrackie in 1846 and decided to ask the state government for a land grant to establish a Church of Scotland there. They got a free grant of 20 acres and £150 towards the construction of the church. The Scottish church subsequently opened in 1849 and Dr Innes was the first burial in the attached cemetery that year. The church was also used as a school as the Scots placed great importance on education. 24 children were attending the Inverbrackie School by 1851. The school closed in 1857 when the first Woodside School opened. In 1852 parishioners guaranteed a stipend to entice John Macbean from Scotland to come out as the local Presbyterian minister. A manse was built on the glebe lands for him. In 1868 Macbean got the Inverbrackie church into the Presbyterian Union of SA. He finished up as minister at Inverbrackie in 1884. Later ministers served both the Inverbrackie and Woodside Presbyterian churches. Reverend Stewart was the last minister to serve Inverbrackie between 1922 and 1926 but it is not known how often services were conducted there as the Presbyterian church in Woodside was the main one from 1878. The manse and glebe lands were sold in 1925 and the church closed permanently soon after. Miraculously this 1849 church still stands on lands adjacent to Woodside Army Barracks but it is covered with ivy. It deserves restoration by the government.
Woodside Army Barracks has quite a long history. Some army cadets were first trained on leased land near Inverbrackie in 1913. As the site became entrenched as a training ground the Commonwealth government purchased some land in 1922 and then in 1926 they compulsorily acquired over 319 acres for a training camp. The Army Camp was formally established in 1927 with a spur railway line to enable quick movement of troops if needed. In 1939 an Anglican Chapel opened at the camp for trainee soldiers. After World War Two a report noted that 10,000 Australian Imperial Force and 40,000 Citizens Military Force personnel were trained at Woodside during the War. From 1949 to 1963 the camp buildings were also used as a Displaced Persons Camp for new immigrants. An estimated 26,000 people lived at Woodside in this capacity during this period. More recently Woodside Camp has been used as a detention centre for recent boat arrivals. 74 of the 81 Army housing units were used for up to 350 immigration detainees.
Manxtown.
This former locality has disappeared from maps and knowledge but it deserves to be remembered as it is the only locality in SA where residents of the Isle of Man (Manx) settled. Linkages between Scotland and the Isle of Man were strong and so the Manx families soon merged into the Scots families. Although the Isle of Man is midway between Great Britain and Ireland the closest land is Scotland. It was a Scot, Malcolm Murray, Earl of Dunmore and Duke of Athol who took control of the Isle of Man in 1406. He and his ancestors held the role of Lords of Man until an act of the British Parliament took control for the English monarch in 1765. So the Scots ruled the Isle of Man for 350 years but now the Queen is Lord of Man. The ancient parliament on the Isle of Man is called the Tynwald. Due to overpopulation many settlers left the Isle of Man in the 1840s and 1850s and a sizeable number came to SA and established Manxtown. The Wheatsheaf Hotel was licensed here in 1859; and a school under the direction of Mr Ascoli opened in the same year with 51 pupils. Mr McCreeth provided the schoolroom and Mr Duffield of Shady Grove provided support. In 1875 when the new Education Act came into force the licensed schools of the district had varying enrolments. Manxtown had 80 students, just a little behind Woodside which had 87 enrolments. A proposal for a state school was considered for some years but nothing happened and the Manxtown School closed around 1882. Gradually reference to Manxtown dwindled as the population dwindled and few references were made to it after the mid 1920s. But the names of Manx families continues in the district today. One of the first Manx settlers in 1858 was the Parr family. Other common Manx names to be found in the Adelaide Hills are Gale; Farragher (he was the blacksmith in Woodside in 1875); Cashen; Kelly; Hutchens; Kay; Cowley; Freer; etc. The most common Manx names on the Isle of Man are: Kelly, Quayle, Cain ,Corlett, Christian, Clague, Moore, Farragher, Cannell, Quirke, Kneale and Shimmin. People with these surnames could well be of Manx ancestry but not necessarily so.
Murdoch Hill.
Near Inverbrackie was the former locality of Craigdarroch. It was settled by John Murdoch of Scotland who arrived in SA with his wife Margaret in 1839 on the Indus. Also on that ship was William Smillie, son of the founder of Nairne. John Murdoch died soon after arriving and his wife Margaret registered the name of Craigdarroch in 1841. By 1844 she had five occupation licenses or leaseholds in the district. After she died in 1865 her children with the name of Mitchell continued to run Craigdarroch in the district for many years. In the 1880s gold was discovered on the Craigdarroch property (Bird in the Hand and New Era mines). At Murdoch Hill a Primitive Methodist church was erected in 1866 with the foundation stone being laid by one of Margaret Murdoch’s sons-in-law, Mr. Mitchell. The church still operates as the Uniting Church. A tiny cemetery is adjacent. A state school opened at Murdoch Hill as the one at nearby Manxtown closed. The Murdoch Hill School operated from 1882 until 1944 in the Methodist Church.
Sooo... I've been thinking. I've always wanted to write a some sort of dystopian/post-apocalyptic story (the line between them isn't very thick). I've actually already written 4 (WOW FOUR!) pages of a story back in March, but rereading it makes it look rather weird. And I'm afraid it would become a story too much filled with clichés.
Now. What if I combined Harry Potter with the theme? Wouldn't that be pretty epic? Let's say, the world has been suffered by overpopulation and many natural disasters, leading again to many diseases and poverty. On top of that, in most influential country of the world a new dictator rises and soon he starts wars "for sake of humanity". Or something like that. On the other end of the world, a group of terrorist lead by a dark person (COULD IT BE AN EVIL WIZARD?) starts to take down cities. Soon they start working together with the new dictator and they become the leaders of the world, all the cities that remained have been taken down. During all this, the wizard community tries to defend everybody a bit. Of course, this leads to them being accused of causing all the suffering (because it's magic and magic is bad). Again, something like that. It's the first time I'm actually writing these ideas down.
See where I'm going? A young adult (guy with black hair) has fled from the first town that was attacked (YES, they're attacking towns now), he soon meets up with a lady and one night someone protects them with... A WAND. Yeah. Wicked? And they become friends (of course, first not trusting him). The head of the wizard looks dumb and too young, I didn't find anything suitable. And then I should think of a good plot, they can't be wandering around.
Did you read that? :')
I'm probably exaggerating again, but that's me with ideas. I just had to write them down, and hear if it sounds decent or not. I'll probably try to work it out, or at least make some LEGO scenes of it.
If you have any ideas for me, please don't hesitate to tell them. I could use some tips and such. ;)
Phew, phew. I'm getting tired. Rereading it, makes it sounds stupid. Erhm, going to sleep now. In August I'll be done with my vacation job, and then I can started sniffing up inspiration of books and films.
IND, Indien, Kolkata, ehem. Kalkutta, Slum Tiljala Road an den Bahngleisen der Indian Railway am Bahnhof Park Circus, hier: die drei Brueder Rafiqkul,12, Maidul und Saidul,beide 10, sammeln jeden Morgen nach Sonnenaufgang Plastikmuell. Sie verdienen sich ihr Fruehstuck selbst.
Das katholische Hilfswerk Misereor und die indische Partnerorganisation Tiljala Shed bieten Hilfsprogramme in den Bereichen Bildung, Gesundheit und Wirtschaft an.
Tausende Menschen in der 13 Mio.Metropole und Hauptstadt von Westbengalen am Hooghly Fluss leben in bitterer Armut.
| India , Kolkata , former Calcutta , Tiljala Slum on the tracks of Indian Railway at Park Circus Station , capital of West Bengal , a megacity with more than 13 Mio inhabitants at Hooglhly River, most of them living in extremly poor conditions. |
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IDIOCY: feeding feral cats. Whoever wrote this stupid message syas "Don't be part of the problem" [by moving or throwing out the cat food]. I maintain that this jerk is THE problem...
Let the hate mail begin!
Horses in varying shades of dun and brown stand in a herd, with one reaching for the camera.
Jeanne Panfely, BLM
On Saturday, April 2, 2022, Mustang Yearlings Washington Youth participants picked up the newest members of their households. 🐴 💕
These kids, teens, and adults had each previously chosen one of our wild mustangs to adopt. Now, they’re taking them home—where they’ll train and develop a bond with the animal.
We’ll see them all again soon, when the participants compete with their chosen mustang.
With virtually no natural predators that can control herd growth, left unchecked wild horse and burro populations can double every four to five years. The BLM works to maintain the appropriate management level of wild horses and burros on public lands using a variety of management tools, including gathers to reduce overpopulation, fertility control to slow future growth, and adoptions to place excess animals into good homes.
The vision of Mustang Yearlings Washington Youth is to raise awareness about adopting wild mustangs and burros by pairing them with interested youth and adults for a life experience neither will ever forget. MYWY believes in versatility, adaptability, beauty and eagerness of wild mustangs and burros to learn, live, and love domesticated life!
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Some rescued pit bull puppies arrived with their mother from out of state. Mom and babies will be up for adoption when they are ready. Every day pit bulls are put down in shelters due to overpopulation, backyard breeding, and misperceptions. Please, don't add to this plight- adopt your dogs and puppies from the shelter or reputable rescue groups, and be sure to spay and neuter your pets to prevent accidental litters. 1 in 600 shetlered pit bulls finds a home. 8 out of every 10 in a litter will end up in a shelter at some point in their life. I don't need to tell you what happens to the rest. Adopt. Spay and Neuter. Period.
Red fawn male American Pit Bull Terrier with black mask and white markings.
Harris County Animal Control destroys all pit bulls and mixes of when their owners don't claim them in three days. Pit bulls are not adopted to the public. Blue bully pit bulls are not rare and the pit bull population is out of control in Houston. Upset about this? Ask countypets.com to change its policy.
23 January 2018. Monrovia: West Point is a township (the administrative equivalent of a city ward) of the Liberian capital city of Monrovia. Home to approximately 75,000 people, West Point is one of Monrovia's most densely populated slums.
Environmental degradation has gradually caused part of the peninsula to erode into the ocean. Endemic problems include overpopulation and diseases such as tuberculosis.
Photo by Albert Gonzalez Farran - UNMIL
Lion fish, as a real threat, this invasive species is seen throughout the Caribbean and we need to do our part to reduce their numbers.
Not sure if this is the correct name - but in the entrance are photos of performers -concluding this one entitled ‘Caprice de mode ‘.
We only entered the outer margins of the Kasbah, due to reasons described below.
The Kasbah was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1992. It dates back to circa 1600, and is built on a hill rising above the sea. It contains many historical sites, mosques, and building of the Ottoman era.
Nevertheless, it is in a state of neglect and certain areas are at risk of collapse.
Algerian authorities list age, neglect and overpopulation as the principal contributors to the degeneration. Estimates range from 40,000 to 70,000 people, although it is difficult to be certain due to the number of squatters in vacant buildings, which are a potential hideout for criminals and terrorists.
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Environmentalist, Jose A. Lutzenberger, who died on May 14, 2002 at the age of 75, was founder of Brazil's first modern environmental organisations, AGAPAN, and later on of the country’s leading environmental movement, Fundação GAIA. He once proclaimed;
"We must learn to look at Nature, at Creation, as something sacred of which we humans are only a part - or we will have no future. We need a new, actually very old, holistic ethics, an ethics of reverence for life in all its forms and manifestations."
In 1988, he was chosen to receive the Right Livelihood Award, known as the Alternative Nobel, one of the 85 awards he won for his work in defence of the environment, dedicating his efforts to fighting not just one threat to the ecology, but four: pesticides, overpopulation, energy waste, and nuclear power.
Some rescued pit bull puppies arrived with their mother from out of state. Mom and babies will be up for adoption when they are ready. Every day pit bulls are put down in shelters due to overpopulation, backyard breeding, and misperceptions. Please, don't add to this plight- adopt your dogs and puppies from the shelter or reputable rescue groups, and be sure to spay and neuter your pets to prevent accidental litters. 1 in 600 shetlered pit bulls finds a home. 8 out of every 10 in a litter will end up in a shelter at some point in their life. I don't need to tell you what happens to the rest. Adopt. Spay and Neuter. Period.
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If there's one creature synonymous with Rocky Mountain National Park it has to be elk. Unfortunately without any wolves around to check overpopulation, their population has boomed to the point where they are altering the park's ecology and destroying habitat.
From the Park Service EIS:
Research conducted in the park indicates that the Rocky Mountain National Park / Estes Valley elk population is larger, less migratory, and more concentrated than it would be under natural conditions and has created a host of problems in the area. The most prominent is the alteration of plant communities in the core winter range and the potential for substantial declines in biodiversity within aspen and montane riparian willow communities.
I for one, would love to see the return of the wolf to RMNP, but unless they get there on their own I doubt the NPS will reintroduce them for population control and instead will rely on birth control and other methods of culling the herd. See the EIS for more of what is planned.
Chocolate red brown female American Pit Bull Terrier puppy.
Harris County Animal Control destroys all pit bulls and mixes of when their owners don't claim them in three days. Pit bulls are not adopted to the public. Blue bully pit bulls are not rare and the pit bull population is out of control in Houston. Upset about this? Ask countypets.com to change its policy.
"Dystopia - Infinite Domain" by Christophe DESSAIGNE ( www.midnight-artwork.com )
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ESPAÑOL: EXP BELIO:031 - DISTOPÍA
Caos, guerras nucleares, cyborgs, destrucción, óxido, posapocalipsis, fin de los combustibles fósiles, esclavitud, inteligencia artificial, neonómadas, polución, superpoblación, ciberpunks, desiertos, virus, nuevas tribus, realidad virtual, megacorporaciones, industrial, anarquía, extinción de razas, biomecánico, fábricas abandonadas, tecnohippies, ciudades desiertas, contaminación, hambre, catástrofes naturales, futuro, cementerios de coches, nuevo orden mundial... DISTOPÍA.
Una distopía es una utopía perversa donde la realidad transcurre en términos opuestos a los de una sociedad ideal. El término fue acuñado como antónimo de utopía y se usa principalmente para hacer referencia a una sociedad ficticia (frecuentemente emplazada en el futuro cercano) en donde las tendencias sociales se llevan a extremos apocalípticos. [ más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distopia ]
Sin duda, las distopías son un amplio género dentro de la literatura y el cine, de gran éxito y vigencia a día de hoy. Entre sus clásicos destacan obras como 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Un mundo feliz, La máquina del tiempo, Rebelión en la granja, La naranja mecánica, El planeta de los simios, ¿Sueñan los androides con ovejas eléctricas?, Neuromante, V de vendetta, Metrópolis, Blade Runner, Rollerball, THX 1138, Terminator o Mad Max y obras más recientes como 28 semanas después, District 9, Hijos de los hombres, Soy leyenda, Æon Flux, Código 46, Inteligencia artificial, Battle Royale, Nivel 13, Dark City, The Matrix, Gattaca, Gamer, ExistenZ, Akira, Robocop, Ghost in the Shell y miles más.
Buscamos nuevas distopías... Tu PROPIA distopía.
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ENGLISH: EXP BELIO:031 - DYSTOPIA
Chaos, nuclear wars, cyborgs, destruction, oxidation, post-apocalypse, the end of fossil fuels, slavery, artificial intelligence, neo nomads, pollution, overpopulation, cyber-punks, deserts, viruses, new tribes, virtual reality, mega-corporations, industrialism, anarchy, extinction of races, bio-mechanics, abandoned factories, techno-hippies, deserted cities, pollution, hunger, natural disasters, futurism, car graveyards, new world orders ... DYSTOPIA.
A dystopia is a perverted utopia where reality takes place in opposed terms to those of an ideal society. The term was created as the antonym of Utopia and is mainly used to refer to a fictional society (often set in the near future) in which social trends are leading to apocalyptic extremes. [ more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia ]
Undoubtedly, dystopias are a broad genre in literature and film. Highly successful and effective nowadays. Among them are classic works such as 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, The Time Machine, Animal Farm, Clockwork Orange, Planet of the Apes, Neuromancer, V for Vendetta, Metropolis, Blade Runner, Rollerball, THX 1138, Terminator or Mad Max ... and more recent works such as 28 weeks later, District 9, Children of Men, I Am Legend, Aeon Flux, Code 46, Artificial Intelligence, Battle Royale, Level 13, Dark City, The Matrix, Gattaca, Akira, Robocop, Gamer, ExistenZ, Ghost in the Shell and thousands more.
We seek new dystopias... Your OWN dystopia.
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Jaylon Clawthorne, the eldest son of Duke Clawthorne and Hand of the Queen of Valmirion, made frequent journeys between Roncenoire and Ashkelon. To save time, he chose to take a more perilous route that led through a canyon in the territory of House Valor. This canyon was infamous for being filled with the failed results of human reincarnation experiments… undead creatures forever wandering in search of fresh meat.
The only way through was a series of unstable wooden boardwalks suspended above the chasm. The convoy was escorted by a patrol from House Valor, familiar with the terrain, yet the crossing remained dangerously unpredictable. The wood groaned under the weight of the horses, and every step felt like a gamble.
Was choosing the quicker path truly the wisest decision ?
This MOC was built for the “Pick Your Poison” category.
Here are the three constraints I chose:
Overpopulation – more than 15 minifigures
Beaten Track – footprints and signs of passage scattered throughout
Unstable Load – the wooden boards beneath the wagon have just given way under its weight
Easter Island, Rano Raraku
Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is a Chilean island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle. Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapa Nui people. In 1995, UNESCO named Easter Island a World Heritage Site, with much of the island protected within Rapa Nui National Park.
Polynesian people most likely settled on Easter Island in the early second millennium CE, and created a thriving and industrious culture as evidenced by the island's numerous enormous stone moai and other artifacts. However, human activity, the introduction of the Polynesian rat and overpopulation led to gradual deforestation and extinction of natural resources which severely weakened the Rapa Nui civilization. By the time of European arrival in 1722, the island's population had dropped to 2,000–3,000 from an estimated high of approximately 15,000 just a century earlier. European diseases and Peruvian slave raiding in the 1860s further reduced the Rapa Nui population, to a low of only 111 inhabitants in 1877.
Rano Raraku is a volcanic crater formed of consolidated volcanic ash, or tuff, and located on the lower slopes of Terevaka in the Rapa Nui National Park. It was a quarry for about 500 years until the early eighteenth century, and supplied the stone from which about 95% of the island's known moai were carved. Rano Raraku is a visual record of moai design vocabulary and technological innovation, where 397 moai remain.
(sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Island and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rano_Raraku)
The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) was the period during the Middle Ages when Norsemen known as Vikings undertook large-scale raiding, colonizing, conquest, and trading throughout Europe, and reached North America.
It followed the Migration Period and the Germanic Iron Age.[7] The Viking Age applies not only to their homeland of Scandinavia, but to any place significantly settled by Scandinavians during the period.[3] The Scandinavians of the Viking Age are often referred to as Vikings as well as Norsemen, although few of them were Vikings in the technical sense.
Voyaging by sea from their homelands in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the Norse people settled in the British Isles, Ireland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, Normandy, the Baltic coast, and along the Dnieper and Volga trade routes in eastern Europe, where they were also known as Varangians. They also briefly settled in Newfoundland, becoming the first Europeans to reach North America. The Norse-Gaels, Normans, Rus' people, Faroese and Icelanders emerged from these Norse colonies.
The Vikings founded several kingdoms and earldoms in Europe: the kingdom of the Isles (Suðreyjar), Orkney (Norðreyjar), York (Jórvík) and the Danelaw (Danalǫg), Dublin (Dyflin), Normandy, and Kievan Rus' (Garðaríki). The Norse homelands were also unified into larger kingdoms during the Viking Age, and the short-lived North Sea Empire included large swathes of Scandinavia and Britain.
Several things drove this expansion. The Vikings were drawn by the growth of wealthy towns and monasteries overseas, and weak kingdoms. They may also have been pushed to leave their homeland by overpopulation, lack of good farmland, and political strife arising from the unification of Norway. The aggressive expansion of the Carolingian Empire and forced conversion of the neighboring Saxons to Christianity may also have been a factor.
Sailing innovations had allowed the Vikings to sail further and longer to begin with.
Information about the Viking Age is drawn largely from primary sources written by those the Vikings encountered, as well as archaeology, supplemented with secondary sources such as the Icelandic Sagas.