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In a texbook for Singapore. Title: Earth Our Home Full Geography. Secondary 3. General Editor Yee Sze Onn. Authors Khoo Ming Ghee - Tan Say Pin. Publisher Marshall Cavendish Education. Chapter 8: Floods and Droughts page 132.
They got my name right but the description is wrong. It's actually the Mississippi River at Harriet Island, in St. Paul, Minnesota. April 1997. lol
Got the TOC ( Table of Contents ) shot in Trout Unlimited Magazine "TROUT"!!! If your not a member of Tout Unlimited .. It is a fantastic conservation group and well worth the membership dues!
Who would have thought that an amazing mountain bike ride above Naramata in the Okanagan would have led to this? The largest photo on page 39 (right page, square photo) of the newly published Penticton & Wine Country 2009 Visitor's Guide is of a friend enjoying the last of a delicious gewerztraminer from Hillside winery. Happy to get a semi-clear shot on my pocket-cam after having had some of that wine myself!
My thanks and appreciation to Kerry Stansfield, executive assistant for Penticton & Wine Country Tourism.
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Suspended Animation Classic #896 First published February 26, 2006 (#9) (Dates are approximate)
Anthem
By Mark Allen
A few weeks ago, I was thrilled to see something on the spinner rack at a bookstore I hadn't expected to see; a comic written by Roy Thomas. For those who don't know, Roy is a highly-respected figure within the comics industry, having been writing and/or editing since the'60's. Not having penned a story in a number of years, however, Anthem #1 is fairly solid proof that there's no rust on that guy.
Anthem is the story of seven World War II superheroes who are awakened from a type of suspended animation during America's most desperate hour. A bit derivative, I'll admit, but not without its share of imagination. Thomas leaves lots of questions to be answered, peaking the reader's interest. Not to mention the state of the war; let's just say it's not a version you'll find in the history books. Thomas does a respectable job of pulling readers in, with some well-placed action at the beginning, some startling revelations in the middle, and a cliff-hanger ending.
Artist Daniel Acuna's work, despite appearing a bit "clunky" at times, with slightly rigid, sometimes awkward figures, reveals a great deal of insight into storytelling and characterization. His imaginative use of panels, along with his expressive characters make the book as nice to look at as it is to read. It would be interesting to watch his art develop, but, judging from the credits on a reproduction of the cover for the second issue, another artist will be replacing him. In my opinion, this is never a good thing for a book that's just starting out, as some level of consistency is necessary in order to keep readers' attention. But, I'm hoping Anthem can overcome that particular challenge.
Anthem #1 is a good start, and recommended for those who enjoy superhero action in the tradition of D.C.'s Justice Society of America and Marvel's Invaders. Look for it at comics shops, bookstores, or online retailers and auctions.
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale published by Lévy et Neurdein of 44 Rue Letellier, Paris. The card has a divided back.
Caen
Caen is a commune in north-western France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 108,365 inhabitants (as of 2012), while its urban area has 420,000, making Caen the largest city in former Lower Normandy.
It is located 15 kilometres (9.3 miles) inland from the English Channel, 200 kilometres (120 miles) north-west of Paris.
Caen is a centre of political, economic and cultural power. Located a few miles from the coast, the landing beaches, the resorts of Deauville and Cabourg, as well as Norman Switzerland and Pays d'Auge, Caen is often considered the archetype of Normandy.
Caen is known for its historical buildings built during the reign of William the Conqueror, who was buried there, and for the Battle for Caen, heavy fighting that took place in and around Caen during the Battle of Normandy in 1944, destroying much of the city. The city has now preserved the memory by erecting a memorial and a museum dedicated to peace, the Mémorial de Caen.
Caen in the Second World War
During the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War, Caen was taken back from the Nazis in early July, a month after the Normandy landings, particularly those by British I Corps on the 6th. June 1944.
British and Canadian troops had intended to capture the town on D-Day. However they were held up north of the city until the 9th. July, when an intense bombing campaign during Operation Charnwood destroyed 70% of the city and killed 2,000 French civilians.
The Allies seized the western quarters, a month later than Field Marshal Montgomery's original plan. During the battle, many of the town's inhabitants sought refuge in the Abbaye aux Hommes ("Men's Abbey"), built by William the Conqueror some 800 years before.
The spire of the Church of Saint-Pierre, Caen and the university were destroyed by the British and Canadian bombing.
Caen After the Second World War
Post-Second World War work included the reconstruction of complete districts of the city and the university campus. It took 14 years (1948–1962) and led to the current urbanization of Caen.
Having lost many of its historic quarters and its university campus in the war, the city does not have the atmosphere of a traditional Normandy town such as Honfleur, Rouen, Cabourg, Deauville and Bayeux.
The Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit filmed the D-Day offensive and Orne breakout several weeks later, then returned several months later to document the city's recovery efforts. The resulting film, You Can't Kill a City, is preserved in the National Archives of Canada.
This photo taken by me at the Incheon Asian Games 2014 (Water Polo) was used in Team Singapore's Facebook page.
Published: 17th Jun 2011
AN ambitious scheme to deliver a £31 million leisure, business support and community facility in Redcar moved a step forward today when local demolition contractors, Buckler demolition, started work on site.
The development, on the area between Kirkleatham Street and Coatham Road, has been well received by the public and includes:
•a new 6 lane, 25 meter swimming pool and leisure pool
•dance hall and performance space
•fitness suite and junior gym
•sports hall
•business space for small to medium sized enterprises
•community facilities.
Read the full press release here -
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The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale published by M. Wagener-Geraerts of Brussels bearing a photograph of D.E. Legrand in the role of Carmen. The singer has signed the card and dated it Bruxelles 1908.
The card was posted in Brussels on Saturday the 22nd. June 1907 to:
Mlle. Queenie Evans,
22, Rue du Lac,
Avenue Louise,
Bruxelles.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Avec mes bonnes
amitiés à tout le monde.
A. Pelucchi".
Queenie must have asked Ms. Legrand to sign the card the following year.
The Chinese Famine of 1907
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 22nd. June 1907, the Argus, a contemporary Australian newspaper, reported on the famine in China, and stated that 'Ten millions of Chinese' were suffering, and that half of them were doomed to death unless measures could be adopted to save them.
The famine began due to excessive rains, the worst in 40 years, during the growing season of 1906, which led to crop failures across the Anhui, Honan and Kiang-su provinces. These persistent rains flooded over 40,000 square miles (100,000 square km) of land.
Bill Kte'pi estimated that 10 percent of the population of northern Jiangsu and parts of central China may have died, and put the death toll as possibly being as high as 25 million people, which would make it is the second-worst famine in recorded history.
On the 26th. June 1907, the Argus reported that the crisis was at an end after thousands of tons of privately funded food was shipped in from the United States and elsewhere.
Published On may 23, 1980
Somber Listener -- President Carter hears tales of loss from refugees of Mount St. Helens disaster during a visit to Cascade Middle School in Kelso, Wash. With him are Washington Gov. Dixy Lee Ray (far left), Washington Rep. Don Bonker (on Carter's right) and Washington Sen. Warren Magnuson (far right).
Jimmy Carter
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The Postcard
A postcard published by Harvey Barton & Son Ltd. of Bristol. They state on the back that it is a real photograph.
The card was posted in Bristol on the 1st. June 1962 to:
Mrs. Stephens,
140, Drove Road,
Weston-super-Mare,
Somerset.
The message on the back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Auntie,
P.C. arrived this morning.
Glad Gran is enjoying the
stay with you.
Shall be seeing you some
time Sunday afternoon.
Love to All,
Dor xxx"
Harvey Barton & Son (1885-1960)
Harvey Barton & Son Ltd. of St. Michael’s Hill, Bristol, were photographers who published real photo postcards of their landscape work in southwest England.
Many of these view-cards were hand coloured.
They also produced printed art reproductions, and a set of picture postcards under the Vistasound name that could be played as 45 rpm records. They were manufactured by the Hardy Record Mfg. Co. of London.
Soviet Union Price Increases
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 1st. June 1962, the Soviet Union raised the price of consumer goods by more than 25 percent in order to cover higher operating expenses for the U.S.S.R.'s collective farm programme.
Butter was up 25%, and pork and beef by 30%.
In protest, workers walked off of the job at the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Factory, and the strike soon turned into an uprising.
Adolph Eichmann
Also on that day, Adolf Eichmann, 56, German SS officer, war criminal and a major organiser of the Holocaust, was hanged in Ramlah, Israel, after his conviction for war crimes. Eichmann once commented:
"Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down
the line, but one thing is beyond dispute:
the man was able to work his way up from
lance corporal in the German Army to Führer
of a people of almost 80 million.
His success alone proved that I should
subordinate myself to this man".
Otto Adolf Eichmann, who was born on the 19th. March 1906, was a German-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS), and one of the major organisers of the Holocaust.
He participated in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the implementation of the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned.
Following this, he was tasked by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of millions of Jews to Nazi ghettos and Nazi extermination camps across German-occupied Europe.
Eichmann was captured and detained by the Allies in 1945, but escaped and eventually settled in Argentina. In May 1960, he was tracked down and abducted by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, and put on trial before the Supreme Court of Israel.
The highly publicised Eichmann trial resulted in his conviction in Jerusalem, following which he was executed by hanging in 1962.
Biography of Adolph Eichmann
After doing poorly in school, Eichmann briefly worked for his father's mining company in Austria, where the family had moved in 1914. He worked as a travelling oil salesman beginning in 1927, and joined both the Nazi Party and the SS in 1932.
He returned to Germany in 1933, where he joined the Sicherheitsdienst (SD, "Security Service"); there he was appointed head of the department responsible for Jewish affairs – especially emigration, which the Nazis encouraged through violence and economic pressure.
After the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, Eichmann and his staff arranged for Jews to be concentrated in ghettos in major cities, with the expectation that they would be transported either farther east or overseas. He also drew up plans for a Jewish reservation, first at Nisko in southeast Poland and later in Madagascar, but neither of these plans was carried out.
The Nazis began the invasion of the Soviet Union on the 22nd. June 1941, and their Jewish policy changed from coerced emigration to extermination.
To coordinate planning for the genocide, Eichmann's superior Reinhard Heydrich hosted the regime's administrative leaders at the Wannsee Conference on the 20th. January 1942.
Eichmann collected information for him, attended the conference, and prepared the minutes. Eichmann and his staff became responsible for Jewish deportations to extermination camps, where the victims were gassed.
After Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, Eichmann oversaw the deportation of much of the Jewish population. Most of the victims were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, where about 75 per cent were murdered upon arrival.
By the time the transports were stopped in July 1944, 437,000 of Hungary's 725,000 Jews had been killed. Dieter Wisliceny testified at Nuremberg that Eichmann told him that:
"I would leap laughing into my grave because
the feeling that I had five million people on my
conscience would be for me a source of
extraordinary satisfaction."
After Germany's defeat in 1945, Eichmann was captured by US forces, but escaped from a detention camp and moved around Germany to avoid re-capture.
He ended up in a small village in Lower Saxony, where he lived until 1950, when he moved to Argentina using false papers he obtained with help of an organisation directed by Catholic bishop Alois Hudal.
Information collected by Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, confirmed his location in 1960. A team of Mossad and Shin Bet agents captured Eichmann and brought him to Israel to stand trial on 15 criminal charges, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against the Jewish people.
During the trial, he did not deny the Holocaust or his role in organising it, but said he was simply following orders in a totalitarian Führerprinzip system.
He was found guilty on all charges, and was executed by hanging on the 1st. June 1962. The trial was widely followed in the media, and was later the subject of several books, including Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, in which Arendt coined the phrase "the banality of evil" to describe Eichmann.
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Published in Tripmaster Monkey, April 2007:
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The Postcard
A postcard that was published by F. Frith & Co. Ltd. of Reigate. The card was posted in West Horsley using a halfpenny stamp on Thursday the 10th. August 1916. It was sent to:
Mr. S. G. Elliott,
J. Spicer & Sons Ltd.,
50, Upper Thames St.,
London.
The pencilled message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Having a grand time,
perfect weather.
I walked to Shere on
Monday, pity we took
the wrong road on the
Saturday as it is such a
beautiful walk from
here.
J.G.L."
The Sinking of the Kasagi
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 10th. August 1916, the Japanese cruiser Kasagi sank after running aground in the Tsugaru Strait.
The Battle of the Somme
Also on that day, the official British documentary propaganda film The Battle of the Somme premièred in London.
In the first six weeks of general release, 20 million people viewed it.
Addie L. Ballou
The 10th. August 1916 also marked the death of the American poet activist Addie L. Ballou.
Addie, who was born in 1838, was a leading advocate for women's suffrage, temperance and prison reform.
She was also the author of poetry collections Driftwood and The Padre’s Dream and Other Poems.
Charles Dawson
The day also marked the death of Charles Dawson, British amateur archaeologist.
Charles, who was born on the 11th. July 1864 in Preston, Lancashire, was charged with fraud on several archaeological discoveries including the Piltdown Man.
Charles was a British amateur archaeologist who claimed to have made a number of archaeological and palaeontological discoveries that were later exposed to be frauds. These forgeries included the Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus Dawsoni), a unique set of bones that he claimed to have found in 1912 in Sussex.
Many technological methods such as fluorine testing indicate that this discovery was a hoax, and Dawson, the only one with the skill and knowledge to generate this forgery, was a major suspect.
The eldest of three sons, Dawson moved with his family from Preston, Lancashire, to Hastings, Sussex, when he was still very young. He initially studied law, in order to become his father's apprentice, and then pursued a hobby of collecting and studying fossils.
Dawson made a number of seemingly important fossil finds. Amongst these were teeth from a previously unknown species of mammal, later named Plagiaulax Dawsoni in his honour.
Other Dawson discoveries were three new species of dinosaur, one later named Iguanodon Dawsoni; and a new form of fossil plant, Salaginella Dawsoni.
In appreciation for Charles' donation of fossils, the Natural History Museum awarded him the title of "Honorary Collector".
In 1885, he was elected a fellow of the Geological Society as a result of his numerous discoveries. He was then elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1895. He was now Charles Dawson F.G.S., F.S.A at the age of 31, without a university degree to his name.
-- Chales Dawson's Alleged Discoveries
In 1889, Dawson was a co-founder of the Hastings and St. Leonards Museum Association, one of the first voluntary museum friends' groups organised in Great Britain.
Dawson worked on a voluntary basis as a member of the Museum Committee, in charge of the acquisition of artifacts and historical documents.
His interest in archaeology developed, and he had an uncanny knack for making spectacular discoveries, leading The Sussex Daily News to name him the "Wizard of Sussex".
In 1893, Dawson investigated a curious flint mine full of prehistoric, Roman and medieval artifacts in the Lavant Caves, near Chichester, and probed two tunnels beneath Hastings Castle.
In the same year, he presented the British Museum with a Roman statuette from Beauport Park that was made, uniquely for the period, of cast iron. Other discoveries followed, including a strange form of hafted Neolithic stone axe and a well-preserved ancient timber boat.
Charles analysed ancient quarries, re-examined the Bayeux Tapestry, and produced the first conclusive study of Hastings Castle. He later found fake evidence for the final phases of Roman occupation in Britain at Pevensey Castle in Sussex.
Investigating unusual elements of the natural world, Dawson presented a petrified toad inside a flint nodule, discovered a large supply of natural gas at Heathfield in East Sussex, reported on a sea-serpent in the English Channel, observed a new species of human, and found a strange goldfish/carp hybrid.
It was even reported that he was experimenting with phosphorescent bullets as a hindrance to Zeppelin attacks on London during the Great War.
-- Piltdown Man
Dawson's most famous "find" was the 1912 discovery of the Piltdown Man, which was billed as the "missing link" between humans and other great apes. Following his death in 1916, no further "discoveries" were made at Piltdown.
Questions about the Piltdown find were raised from the beginning, first by Arthur Keith, but also by palaeontologists and anatomists from the United States and Europe.
Defence of the validity of the fossils was led by Arthur Smith Woodward at the Natural History Museum in London. The debate was rancorous at times, and the response to those disputing the finds often became personally abusive.
Challenges to Piltdown Man arose again in the 1920s, but were again dismissed.
-- Posthumous Analysis
In 1949, further questions were raised about the Piltdown Man and its authenticity, which led in 1953 to the conclusive demonstration that Piltdown was a hoax.
Since then, a number of Dawson's other finds have also been shown to be forged or planted.
In 2003, Miles Russell of Bournemouth University published the results of his investigation into Dawson's antiquarian collection, and concluded that at least 38 specimens were clear fakes.
Russell has noted that:
"Dawson's whole academic career appears
to have been one built upon deceit, sleight
of hand, fraud and deception, the ultimate
gain being international recognition."
Among these were the teeth of a reptile/mammal hybrid, Plagiaulax Dawsoni, purportedly "found" in 1891; the creature's teeth had been filed down in the same way that the teeth of Piltdown Man were to be some 20 years later).
Other 'finds' included:
-- The so-called "shadow figures" on the walls
of Hastings Castle
-- A unique hafted stone axe
-- The Bexhill boat (a hybrid seafaring vessel)
-- The Pevensey bricks (allegedly the latest
datable "finds" from Roman Britain)
-- The contents of the Lavant Caves (a fraudulent
"flint mine"
-- The Beauport Park "Roman" statuette (a
hybrid iron object)
-- The Bulverhythe hammer (shaped with an
iron knife in the same way as the Piltdown
elephant bone implement was later shaped)
-- A fraudulent "Chinese" bronze vase
-- The Brighton "toad in the hole" (a toad
entombed within a flint nodule)
-- The English Channel sea serpent
-- The Uckfield horseshoe (another hybrid
iron object)
-- The Lewes prick spur.
Of Dawson's antiquarian publications, most demonstrate evidence of plagiarism, or at least naive referencing. As Russell wrote:
"Piltdown was not a 'one-off' hoax,
more the culmination of a life's work."
Dawson claimed to have discovered a collection of fossils that had been dug up in Piltdown, Sussex, including an ape-like jawbone and a human-like skull.
However, after his death, it was proven that the remains were evidently forged. For years, the creator of these remains was unknown, though it was then determined, through a meticulous inspection of his finds and collections, that Charles Dawson was most likely responsible for this forgery.
-- Unmasking the Hoax
As more human fossils were discovered, it appeared that they had little in common with the Piltdown Man. The Piltdown Man was re-examined through new, rigorous technological methods which ultimately uncovered the hoax.
A fluoride-based test, a chemical test that dates fossils by the amount of fluorine that buried bones absorb from the soil, was used to date the Piltdown remains. This test, validated by a nitrogen-based test, dated the skull to not more than 50,000 years old, far more recent than Dawson proposed, and dated the jawbone to decades old.
This meant that the Piltdown Man could not have been an ancestor of modern humans. Furthermore, chemical tests displayed that the fossils had been artificially stained by iron and chromium to appear medieval.
Also, CT scans used to analyzed the inside of the bones indicated that many bones were loaded with gravel and were then sealed with putty.
Furthermore, X-rays indicate that the teeth have been flattened by filing or grinding in order to appear like human teeth.
Lastly, in 2016, a team of British researchers used DNA studies to provide added evidence for the provenance of Piltdown Man. It was determined that the Piltdown I jawbone and the Piltdown II molar tooth came from a single orangutan, and the cranial bones came from primitive humans.
Analyses of the material also exhibited the forger's lack of professional training, as the materials had fractured bones, putty that had set too fast, and cracked teeth.
-- Revealing the Forger
Most agree that the Piltdown Man was forged by a single individual, and that this was most probably Charles Dawson. Dawson was the suspected perpetrator in this hoax for many reasons.
First, Dawson had a previous history of deception: he was responsible for about 38 forgeries, he had plagiarized a historical account of Hastings Castle, and had pretended to act on behalf of the Sussex Archeological Society. However, most people were unaware of this.
Second, he was majorly involved in the Piltdown findings. He initiated the story of the Piltdown finds, and was the one who contacted Woodward about them. He was the sole person to have seen the Piltdown II site, and never disclosed the facts about this site.
Third, the fact that the techniques used to create both Piltdown I and Piltdown II were so similar suggests a single forger.
Fourth, Dawson was the only person present at every discovery; nothing was ever discovered at the site when he was not physically present, and no other fossils were subsequently found after he had died.
Fifth, not only did he have access to the museum and antiquarian shops that carried these objects, he was also a popular collector, a prolific networker, and knew what the British scientific community expected in a missing link between apes and humans.
It has been suggested that Dawson's motive for this forgery had been his strong desire for scientific recognition, and to join the archeological Royal Society.
Between 1883 and 1909, Dawson wrote 50 publications, though none were important enough to elevate his career. In 1909, he wrote a letter to Smith Woodward, with an unhappy heart, saying that he wanted to uncover a significant discovery, though he never seemed to come across one.
Just six weeks later, Dawson's wife wrote a letter to the Home Secretary, pleading on behalf of Dawson's expertise.
Sorrowful that he never unearthed a major discovery, he created the Piltdown Man which resulted in his election to the Royal Society.
Although there is not a substantial amount of evidence, many believe that he received aid from other experts such as Teilhard de Chardin, who worked with Dawson on early excavations, and Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, Keeper of the Department at the Natural History Museum, a friend of Dawson, and co-author of the announcement of Piltdown II.
-- The Death of Charles Dawson
Charles died at the young age of 52 from pernicious amaemia on the 10th. August 1916 in Lewes, Sussex. He died without receiving a knighthood.
John J. Loud
John J. Loud also died on that day.
John, who was born in 1844, was an American entrepreneur, and designer of the ballpoint pen.
Loud invented and obtained a patent for what is considered to be the first ballpoint pen in 1888; however, his invention was not commercialized, and the patent eventually lapsed.
The modern ballpoint pen was patented later in 1938 by László Bíró, 22 years after Loud's death.
Since László Bíró's patent, over 100 billion ballpoint pens have been sold worldwide. 100 billion pens laid end to end would form a line 15 million kilometres long; it would encircle the earth 374 times. That's a lot of pens!
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