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Whilst perusing the back streets of Cambridge we came across this on a slab of stone type material just lying randomly in the street.
Is this a question, or an answer?
Hello, and it's time to answer those burning questions Glamour magazine is teasing its potential readers at the checkout counter with.
12 LITTLE THINGS EVERY GUY WANTS IN BED - Definitely Not What You'd Expect!
Yes, but this is because Mary-Kate & Ashley Olson have become anorexic druggies with famous boyfriends that die suddenly, so the surprise is that they've been replaced by Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning now that "Runaways" has come out. Taylor Swift has finally made it to #12 and for the fourth year in a row #1 is still Emma Watson.
TEN LAZY WAYS TO LOSE WEIGHT - One Will Work For You
You know... stop eating at McDonalds, crunch carrots instead of Cheetohs, walk that three blocks to your destination rather than driving, and so forth.
EVERYDAY HABITS THAT SAVE YOU $1,000 (And Help The Planet, Too)
Don't buy designer shoes and handbags. Oh, and buy some land... forget spinning rims.
AMANDA SEYFRIED - Hey, That Mama Mia Girl Is A Bombshell!
Never forget the name of the bombshells that were dropped on Nagasaki were named "Fat Man" and "Little Boy". Just a bit of trivia for you.
THE 50 MOST GLAM WOMEN OF 2010
Today is March 22 and this hit the newsstands the other day after a couple weeks of prep work so it's more like "The 50 Most Glam Women In The Last Sixty Days -- list will be updated quarterly."
SEXY IN 60 SECONDS - One-Minute Tricks For Your Hair, Wardrobe, and Makeup
• 1 min trick for your hair: Find a hat. Wear it. Girls will notice, guys will not.
• 1 min trick for your makeup: Look in the mirror after a shower to make sure you don't have a big zit, then say "dammit, I look fine as I am."
• 1 min trick for your wardrobe: Take it off. Damn straight you'll be sexy in your bra and panties. It need not be any more complicated than this.
This has been a public service message by Mushroom, who shot this with his cell phone while trying to buy a head of cabbage.
81/365
Yo, con mis pensamientos, buscando respuestas en el mar.
En ocasiones, hasta las encuentro.........
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The answer is within you
Love
Love
Love
Love
5 more in comments :D I don't know which one to choose ah! I think I'm back to my old style and I like it more (: What do you guys think? Do comment and suggest! (:
Inspired by this, but I like hers better because she has a nicer dress and bokeh (: If anyone has not seen her photostream you must have come from mars :D
Western Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus) male display flight Germany_w_0040
It's that time again, when our Marsh Harriers return from Africa & Iberia to get read for the coming breeding season. Males, like this lovely adult, arrive first, patrolling their 'patch' calling as they fly in soft nasal-whining call repeated twice.
Although the temperature is still pretty cold with ground frost these birds will wait, assess what has changed since last season and generally feed and wait until the arrival of his mate or another suitable mate if she fails to arrive. Migration over long distances can be hazardous.
The western marsh harrier (Circus aeruginosus) is a large harrier, a bird of prey from temperate and subtropical western Eurasia and adjacent Africa. It is also known as the Eurasian marsh harrier. The genus name Circus is derived from the Ancient Greek kirkos, referring to a bird of prey named for its circling flight (kirkos, "circle"), probably the hen harrier. The specific aeruginosus is Latin for "rusty"
Remember God's previous answers to prayer to have faith for the ones you're waiting on. - Kevin Shorter
His 10th anniversary gift may have been the new haircut from me, but Ezra also asked for a very special gift - it just took a little time to set it up :)
jsc2019e004418 (Feb. 21, 2019) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 59 crew member Nick Hague of NASA answers a reporter’s question Feb. 21 during a pre-launch news conference. Hague, Christina Koch of NASA and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos will launch March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station...Andrey Shelepin/Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
At the end of the first fit-check day, 12 days before launch, the prime crew of the Soyuz TMA-20 (Dmitry Kondratyev, Paolo Nespoli, Cady Coleman) and the back-up crew (Anatoly Ivanishin, Satoshi Furukawa, Mike Fossum) are questioned about any discrepancies, complaints or requests. These will need to be addressed before the next final fit-check,a few days before launch. Baikonur, 4 December 2010
Dodici giorni prima del lancio, alla fine della giornata della prima ispezione da parte dell’equipaggio, l’equipaggio titolare (Dmitry Kondratyev, Paolo Nespoli, Cady Coleman) e l’equipaggio di riserva (Anatoly Ivanishin, Satoshi Furukawa, Mike Fossum) fanno rapporto indicando le discrepanze che hanno trovato e eventuali richieste addizionali. Tutto dovrà essere sistemato per la prossima e ultima ispezione che avverrà pochi giorni prima del lancio. Baikonur, 4 Dicembre 2010
Credit: ESA
"There are some things you simply must ponder in your heart. Your heart has the answer that you cannot get from anywhere else." -Iyanla Vanzant
at 2016 Rattlesnake Avoidance Training for Dogs, "Gov Snake" helps people recognize the differences between gopher snakes and rattlesnakes. "Gov Snake" is a Great Basin gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer deserticola). 1st of a series of pictures. Photo by Frank. .
Sin Edición . Ne Ŝanĝita . Not Edited
Ciudad de México, México
Q&A: Knowing which way to follow, even is not clear
By the time I was finished with the goons in the Industrial District it wasn't even 11'o clock. If Mr. Patton was still in his office, I likely had time to talk to him as well.
I got to Patton Arms by 11:30 on the dot. I could see Arnold's office light was still on, meaning he hadn't left yet. I found a vent on the rooftop and crawled in. It was more cramped than most other vents, but I was still able to locate Arnold's office. I could see him enjoying a mug of coffee while filling out some paperwork. I gently remove the vent cover and drop into his office.
"Good evening, Mr. Patton."
"Wh-what, hey---oh...!"
He's jumpy and nervous. Not good.
"Mr. Patton, you have nothing to worry about. I'm not going to hurt you."
I pick up his coffee mug and sniff it. Seems he's having coffee with his whiskey. I lift my eyes to see him holding a small 9 millimetre pistol.
"I'd put that down before you make a bad mistake, Mr. Patton." I grab his wrist and take the gun. He won't be needing it.
"Look, Batman, I haven't done anything wrong... why are you here, man, you're freaking the shit out of me...?"
"Friend of mine went missing." His eyes widen immediately. "Her name's Zulu, you may or may not know her true name, but nonetheless, she is missing. Word on the street is she came in here a few weeks back with company. Know anything about that?"
Arnold slumps down into his chair and leans his head in his hand.
"Shit... you don't know already? You mean... Bloodfall didn't tell you...?"
Bloodfall? That's who she was with? This can't be good...
"What happened?"
He just shakes his head.
"What. Happened. Mr Patton?"
He sighs deeply.
"I think you'll wanna see for yourself."
"And where might I 'see for myself' in this case?"
"Antarctica."
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- are the questions for the answers we already have real questions? Or am I just trying to get away with murder?
-if cigarettes killed your father, is it possible that they raped your mother?
-If freedom is a lady, then are feelings a young girl looking for an husband? Or freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose? Should I talk like this?
- When I'll be dead, will it be useful to bring me a cup of coffee, so that I can come back to life?
-To defend democracy, do we also have to practice it?
-Is masturbation at least sex with someone you love?
-A part for the mistakes we make, are we completely useless? Why am I looking forward to be useful for someone?
-If we want someone to take care about, should we really buy a dog? And what about the human touch of a dog?
-If pop music is just the moderne way to say " fuck me", could we say rock music was just the old way to say "fuck you"?
-If she's got him by the balls, is it so bad, or it just depends on the grip?
-if someone shoots you in a dream, should he wake up and apologize?
-Is Texas No Limit Hold'Em the Cadillac of Poker?
-Did God create the man just because a dildo can't open tans?
-If she says " we have to talk about something serious", how can I be sure we do to do it dressed?
-Is Jazz a "form", or it's just a collection of tags and tricks?
- If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, are you the sucker?
-If they ask you "how many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man)", does it make sense to answer " twentythree"? More? Less? Would you suggest I shouldn't answer?
-In a poker table, can you lose what don't put in the pot? Can you win much either?
-Isn't it easier to fight against the bottle when you're drunk?
-If Elton John calls you and says he wants his shirt back, should you buy a new one?
-Is it possible to have a first date with a girl who's born after Metallica's Master Of Puppets, or then you have to say you like Bon Jovi and puppets?
-When it rains, are we supposed to dance in the time between a drop and the next one?
-Does the american dream smell like vaseline?
-I'm fully convinced that Silvester Stallone speaks exactly like Bruce Springsteen. Do they both look insane?
-Is a Jewish princess with sunglasses, a brand new nose and titanic tits a smart way to work it out?
- Does cheating get it faster or it's just an hangover we don't deserve?
-What would Eddie Vedder think about me now? Would he think about me now? Am I too old to worry about Eddie Vedder's opinion?
-If the Red Hot Chili Peppers published "californication" 8 years ago, is it completely true that I'll be 30 just in time fon another "californication"?
-Can the Radiohead be the ones to blame if I don't have success with girls?
-What am I supposed to do with a full of aces if he goes "all in"? Do you think I should act like a ragged clown? Do you think i'm numb?
-In the poker game of life, are women the rake? Or in the rake game of life, women are a poker?
-Can you say to a girl "we have a depravation agreement, you can't leave me now" and still wait for her to come back?
-Do we need friends when we're right?
-If you're a dogman, half a dog and half a man, are you yourself's best friend?
-Is the coffee smell in the morning a good reason to wait until she wakes up?
-Is a Jack Daniel''s without a cigarette an incomplete sin? I mean, is it worhty?
-Is it wisdom not to get drunk all togheter, so that someone can drive home? How many times we think it's wisdom, and actually we're just afraid?
-Am I just too drunk to write something serious, or it's that having a bottle in front of you will always be better then a frontal lobotomy?
Weel, all those are just questions to the answers I already have,,, I just wanna know your answers... choose a question, and have some fun!
(I don't own any Elder Scroll names,locations,etc.. They are property of Bethesda) I opened the heavy doors of Fort Dawnguard,the rusty hinges moving slowly. The fort itself was glorious more than ever.
Young vampire hunters training,and veterans cleaning their bloody weapons.
I walked up to one of the guards
-Where's Isran?
Guard- Dead..sir. Dour is in charge now.
-Dour?
Guard- Yes sir. Here he comes now.
A hooded man walked up to me
-I'm guessing you're Dour.
Dour- Correct. I was one of the solider in the raid of Castle Volkihar. It's an honor to meet you, Chosen One.
Dour stretched his arm forward,shaking my hand
-Hmm,I like what you've done with the place. Anyway.to get to the point,I need your help. I've been noticed by one Champion of Molag Bal. He wants me to pay for killing Harkon.
Dour- You got yourself in deep crap. We've been getting reports of multiple Vampire raids all over the Nine Holds,lead by..the Champion. A brute Vampire,strong enough to kill a bear with just one punch.
-I met him,he's not that scary.
Dour- Must be one of the copy cats he sends to scare the hell out of villagers. You have not met the real Champion, He never goes in alone.
When Dour finished,one of the soliders yelled "VAMPIRES! WE'RE UNDER ATTACK BY VAMPIRES!"
AN: HIIII PEEPLS!
Not the best build I know,butt oh well. So,cliffhanger! I'll be focusing on Skyrim and SW maily,and not as much on other builds. Next scene wil be pretty epic,so get ready! Fav,comment,all that good stuff and I'll see y'all later!
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I went to Rock Creek Station, State Historical Park on 6/2/18 for their annual historical reenactment. The reenactment involved people dressed in historically accurate costumes doing some of the activities common in the 1850's and 1860's when the station was active on the Oregon and California trails and also when it was one of the stations in the short lived Pony Express system. One of the main attractions was a reenactment of the "McCanles - Hickok Fracas". This 'fracas' was the start to Wild Bill Hickok's legendary status as a lawman, soldier, gunfighter, and gambler. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Bill_Hickok). McCanles was the first person Hickok killed in the establishment of his reputation.
"Established in 1857 along the Oregon and California Trails, Rock Creek Station, near what is now Fairbury, Nebraska, is today preserved as a Nebraska State Park.
The history here is rich in its tales of emigrating pioneers as well as legends of the Old West. Located along the west bank of Rock Creek, the station served as a supply center and resting spot for the many travelers headed westward in the 19th century.
When it was originally built by S.C. Glenn, the "station" consisted of little more than a cabin, a barn, and a make-shift store, where Glenn sold limited supplies, hay, and grain.
In the Spring of 1859 along came a man named David C. McCanles, and his brother, James, who were on their way to the Colorado gold fields.
David became discouraged as he continually met miners returning from Colorado with nothing in their pockets but disappointment. Changing tactics, David McCanles bought the Rock Creek Station from Glenn in March, deciding to take up "road ranching" rather than gold prospecting.
McCanles continued to operate the small store and built a toll bridge across the creek. Prior to the bridge, pioneers were required to hoist and lower their wagons down into the creek, before pulling it up on the other side - quite a tedious process that could take hours for each wagon. When the toll bridge opened, each wagon paid from 10¢ to 50¢ to cross the bridge depending on the size of their load and their ability to pay. McCanles also built a cabin and dug a well on the east side of Rock Creek which became known as the East Ranch.
The following year, McCanles leased the East Ranch to the Russell, Waddell, and Majors Company, which owned the Overland Stage Company and founded the Pony Express. They installed Horace G. Wellman as their company agent and station keeper and hired James W. "Doc" Brink as a stock tender. Later, the company made arrangements with McCanles to buy the station with a cash down payment and the remainder in installments.
The East Ranch was then used as a stage and Pony Express relay station, while the West Ranch continued to be used as an emigrant rest stop, a freight station, and the home of the McCanles family.
In April 1861, McCanles sold the West Ranch to freighters Hagenstein and Wolfe and moved his family to another location about three miles south of Rock Creek Station. Always trying to make money, McCanles sold the toll bridge several times with a number of specific requirements in the contract. When the new owner failed to meet the stipulations, he would take it back and sell it again.
In April or early May of 1861, the station hired on then-24-year-old stock tender James Butler "Bill" Hickok and he became immediately at odds with David McCanles, who had earned a reputation as the local bully. Allegedly, McCanles teased Hickok unmercifully about his girlish build and feminine features, as well as nicknaming him "Duck Bill" referring to his long nose and protruding lips.
Perhaps in retaliation, Hickok began courting a woman by the name of Kate Shell, who, even though McCanles was married, apparently had his eye on.
In the meantime, the Overland Stage Company had fallen behind on their installment payments and on July 12, 1861, McCanles, along with his 12-year-old son, Monroe, and two friends by the names of James Woods and James Gordon came to the station to inquire upon the status of the installments.
Not long after their arrival, an argument ensued and profanities were exchanged, soon leading to gunfire. In the melee, Hickok shot David McCanles, and both James Woods and James Gordon, who was seriously wounded, later died of their wounds. Twelve-year-old Monroe escaped to his home some three miles south of Rock Creek.
Though the details of what actually happened on that fateful day continue to be debated, the versions vary widely. Monroe McCanles, who witnessed the entire event, told a version something like this: When David McCanles had not received full payment from the Overland Stage Company, he planned to take it up with the station manager, Horace Wellman. That very day, the station manager had allegedly gone to the company office in Brownville in order to obtain the money, he returned empty-handed.
Upon hearing this, an angry McCanles soon arrived with two options in mind - either collect the money owed or repossess the ranch. Showing up with his son, and two employees - James Woods and James Gordon, McCanles called for Wellman to come out. Instead, Jane Wellman, the station managerâs wife, appeared at the door, closely followed by James (Bill) Hickok. Horace Wellman's specific whereabouts are unknown, but he was obviously close by.
Disconcerted by Hickok's interference, McCanles alleged asked, "Jim, haven't we been friends all the time?" After Hickok assured him that they were, McCanles, biding his time, asked for a drink of water and came inside. The other three stayed outside the cabin.
Suddenly, McCanles sensed danger, returned the dipper and moved toward the other door at about the same time Hickok moved behind a curtain partition. Unarmed, McCanles said, "Now, Jim, if you have anything against me, come out and fight me fair."
However, Hickok's answer was a blast from a rifle, killing McCanles and dropping him to the floor. Ironically, the story tells that it was McCanles' own rifle that he had left with Wellman to defend the station that he was killed with. Hearing the blast, Woods and Gordon rushed toward the cabin, but Woods was stopped with Hickok's Colt revolver. In the meantime, Wellman bludgeoned him with a hoe, until he died. Gordon, who was also wounded by gunfire, fled to the creek but was followed by Doc Brink, the station's stock tender, who killed him with a blast from his shotgun. Monroe dodged a blow from Wellman's hoe and escaped to his home some three miles south.
McCanles and Woods were originally buried in a single crude box on Soldier Hill. Gordon was buried in a blanket at the spot where he was killed near Rock Creek. In the early 1880's the construction of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad intersected Soldier Hill and the bodies of McCanles and Woods were re-interred at the Fairbury Cemetery.
In the meantime, James A. McCanles, David's brother, filed an arrest warrant for Hickok, Wellman, and Brink on July 15, 1861, and the trio were charged for the murders of McCanles, Woods, and Gordon. A trial was held in Beatrice and though Monroe McCanles adamantly claimed that his father and the other two men were unarmed, he was not allowed to testify because of his age. After the trio plead self-defense and defense of company property, all three were acquitted.
Later, when Hickok's fame began to spread, he told an entirely different version of the tale, making McCanles out to be a ruthless killer and an outlaw, who was the leader of a vicious gang who was terrorizing the region. This story, told by Colonel Ward Nichols and published in Harper's Monthly Magazine in 1867, tells a version that is embellished to the degree that Wild Bill had polished off ten of the West's most dangerous desperados and was left with eleven buck-shot and thirteen knife wounds.
Hickok's tale describes himself as scouting for the U.S. Cavalry detachment when he arrived at Rock Creek that fateful day, rather than working as a stock tender. Describing the McCanles' Gang as reckless, blood-thirsty devils, he said he came upon the station to hear a tale from Mrs. Wellman that McCanles was within minutes of the cabin, dragging a preacher by his neck with a rope.
His tale goes on to describe how he fought off the entire McCanles Gang with only a revolver and a bowie knife, killing all of them in the end and spending weeks recovering from his own injuries.
This event, called the McCanles Massacre, by writers, was the beginning of the Wild Bill Hickok legend. Though Hickok's "legend" was already well-known by the time the article appeared in Harper's Magazine in 1867, Nicholl's glamorized version of the fighting frontier hero, further perpetuated his fame.
No one really knows the specifics of this bloody and seemingly one-sided fight, with numerous versions having been provided, including tales of jealousy, theft, and the ongoing conflict between the north and south. Some tales even allege that it was not Bill Hickok who killed McCanles, rather, it was Horace Wellman.
Continuing to be scrutinized years after the incident and long after Bill Hickok's death, a man named F.G. Elliott was interviewed by a WPA writer in 1938. His tale, though not supporting the glorified story told by Nichols in Harper's Magazine, does support Hickok's rightful killing of David McCanles. It may or may not add more light on the actual events of that fateful day, depending upon your point of view.
By 1866, the railroad had reached Kearney, Nebraska and trail traffic dramatically diminished, leaving the road ranchers to find other occupations.
In 1980, the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission began to develop the area as a state historical park. Today, the buildings of the original Rock Creek Station and Pony Express have been reconstructed in the park that now includes some 350 acres, a visitor's center, hiking trails, picnic areas, and a campground. The terrain includes prairie hilltops, timber-studded creek bottoms, and rugged ravines, along with the deep ruts of the Oregon and California Trails, carved more than a century ago by the many wagons that traveled westward along this path." (www.legendsofamerica.com/ne-rockcreek/2/)
“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”
- Douglas H. Everett
Baywalk, Roxas Blvd.
Manila, Philippines
Yes, it was the Yellow-orange Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria var. formosa)... the GUESS WHAT from two days before .....
A slightly poisonous Fungus or mushroom (or would you all call it toadstool then?) ... so not to use for pizza ... lol .... nor for mushroom dinners ....
Besides you want some physical problems ....or visions or deliriums ... it was used as halluzinogen in former times....
But beautiful it is ... one of the most beautiful mushrooms i know, seems to have jumped directly out of the fairy-tale universes .....
Sorry, the photographic quality is not the best. I have some wonderful pictures, taken with my macro lens, but somehow i cant upload them to flickr , as i am not at home and surfing only on a stick .....
So this image taken by the i-phone must do it for now ....
Wish you all great and tasty lunch - and dinner - meals ..... maybe mushrooms,, too , but not from this species ..... LOL
Love is the answer
to so many questions
it has the power
to make a heart soar
or break it in an instant
it comes in many forms
and levels of intensity
we wish for it
we work at it
we worry about it
at times we curse it
we love with all we are
even when it may be difficult
to love ourselves
we love a friend
nurture a child
adore a spouse
worship our God
not all love is true
often not returned
but as they say
it is better to have loved
for we are far
better a person
to be one who
has loved
and more importantly
allowed to BE loved.
Zulu had to be found, I knew that. Mr. Patton's lead seemed to be the only real one I had. Acting on instinct, I followed it. I dug up a bunch of financial records of Mr. Patton's. One of which was a gasoline bill for a large airplane. Where had it stopped for gas? Just a few hundred miles shy of Antarctica. This made the lead seem solid, and so I chased it.
I readied a jet to leave for Antarctica within the next five days, with Alfred piloting. Only he could know of this. I packed the suit I had designed for combat against Mr. Freeze, as Antarctica would be consistently below -20 degrees.
The plane ride took a while. During the flight, one thought would not leave my mind; why WAS Zulu even in Antarctica? Least of all with Bloodfall...
Once the cowl was over my head, Alfred opened one of the cargo doors for me to jump out of.
"Good luck, Master Wayne." He called out as I plummeted down towards the freezing earth below.
I landed atop an icy plateau, giving me a good view of my surroundings. To the left it was, well...mostly ice and more snow, but to the right I could make out a small grey building no more than ten kilometres away. I decided there might be some decent leads there, if anywhere.
I glided down off the plateau and landed in a snowbank. Luckily, my suit took most of the edge off the cold. I could clearly see the building now, and I began to jog towards it.
When I finally reached the building, I was fairly tired. The door was swinging open in the wind and making a spooky sort of whispering sound, beckoning me inside.
Once inside, a sudden uneasiness hit me. Was Zulu being held here? Had she gone insane and become a hermit? I had no idea, but I didn't feel good about even being there.
I climbed a short set of stairs. At the top were several dead bodies of men in odd militaristic black armour. Strangely, they all held German Heckler and Koch guns. Interesting. As I continued down the hall, I saw several more bodies, until I nearly tripped over one. Its head was barely on its shoulders, the blood sprayed on the wall had dried. Weeks old by now. I glance farther down the hall to see a large blade stuck in the wall. I walk up to it and begin tug. It takes a lot of effort, but it finally comes out. I look down at it once and immediately realize something disturbing; the blade is Zulu's, and there is blood on the hilt.
"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”
Oscar Wilde
Yoko Ono's Wish Tree at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
My library system has 17 copies of Forks Over Knives, the vegan answer to chronic disease. This is the only documentary I could find that gives any credence to a meat eater's diet. It has just been released and there are no copies at the library so I had to buy it. The science offered in it makes the China Studies look like pure conjecture. The style of the film is also much less inflammatory in that there are no oversimplified graphics or giant numbers flashing across the screen and not a whiff of corporate conspiracy taking over our diet.
It is narrated by CJ Hunt, a journalist. He narrates the film as his own personal journey to finding health after a heart attack at a young age. What follows is a series of interviews with historians such as the Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation which showcases the work of Weston Price and his studies of tribal dietary habits over generations, and continues with current research by doctors and anthropologists.
The perspective of the film is that if you really want to understand the effect of diet on humans look at a traditional population whose diet has been unchanged for generations. A scientific study done with a handful of people over ten years, at most, is not going to give a true picture of the effects of diet over the long haul. Weston Price wrote a book about the amazing health of indigenous people and their later decline as they adopted the diet of modern settlers. His legacy kept alive by the Weston A. Price Foundation.
One professor, studying Australian Aborigines had a group of city dwelling volunteers of Aborigine heritage do a seven week return to the land where they hunted for food much in the same way as their ancestors had done resulting in a diet that was 64% animal based. In that time they lost weight, their insulin resistance disappeared and so were no longer subject to diabetes. Yet they were even less active than they had been living in the city.
Another doctor studying first nation people in Canada found that their diet of origin was a very low carb diet with traditional foods full of fat. He reintroduced these foods to the descendants along with the idea that their health problems were caused largely by their eating a Standard American Diet (SAD). The tribal people had a very strong resonance to this message and began rediscovering their old family recipes.
The film warns us that everything we are hearing in this film is not what we will hear in the general discourse. Some clips shown of speakers at a vegan conference denouncing meat, then Hunt interviews a woman selling soy jerky who claims that humans are herbivores. Thus is introduced the only graphic in the movie, showing how herbivores have four stomachs to wring every last nutrient out of the grass that they eat, sometimes even eating their own feces just to make sure no nutrient is overlooked plus they must eat all their waking hours. Meanwhile a lion, with the same carnivorous one-stomach digestive system as humans, can eat at one sitting and go for a long time without eating. The telling fact of a vegetarian diet is that it cannot provide the vitamin B12 which is essential for human health.
My nutritional savior, Gary Taubes author of The Big Fat Lie makes the point that obesity was, until the '50s, treated with a high fat, low carbohydrate diet. In the '50's concerns that eating fat caused heart disease (by then an epidemic), persuaded the medical community to change strategy even though there was no evidence to support that this was true. Ancel Keyes is not mentioned, but his picture is shown on the cover of Time magazine.
Meanwhile the most extensive study done on the issue is the Framingham Study which did indeed disprove the fat-makes-cholesterol theory, but it was ignored because by then government standards had been set. Speaking of the Food Pyramid, a story is told about asking a feedlot farmer what he feeds his cattle. The diet described was then nutritionally analysed. The results showed the same distribution of carbohydrates, protein and fat as the Food Pyramid created by the government. We can now call it the Feedlot Pyramid to make the point that our national diet is a fattening diet. Little was changed when it was revamped as the Food Plate graphic.
The film then follows the research of physiological anthropologists, at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, who talk about humans evolving a bigger brain as a direct result of eating more protein from an animal based diet, including animal brains and bone marrow. Our early ancestors also ate a much more diverse diet than we do. A research team that has analyzed the bones of pre modern man show that all were carnivores.
When grains were introduced we got shorter, our skulls got narrower, our jaws became too small for all our teeth (thus we must remove our wisdom teeth) and our brains shrunk. It was also pointed out that whole grains contain minerals that block the absorption of nutrients into the body. The only reason given for turning to an agriculture based diet was that the hunter lifestyle was quite dangerous, so presumably humans wanted to settle down and live a quiet life.
(I have also heard it suggested that grains, especially wheat, are so unlike any other plant on the planet, that it may have been introduced by an alien intelligence. Perhaps the same ones that keep making those crop circles in the wheat fields. The introduction of grain certainly allowed humans to take up art and architecture in a big way so perhaps that was their agenda. After all, man does not live by bread alone. ha. And our spiritual growth was much enhanced by not being constantly threatened by mammoths.)
The final interview of the film is with a doctor, Lane Sebring of Wimberley Texas, who is applying these findings with actual patients, prescribing a diet of large cuts of meat and lots of vegetables with no cereals, bread or anything with high fructose corn syrup and trans fat or man made sweeteners. He talks about how a slice of white bread is the equivalent of half a cup of sugar and produces a higher reaction in some people than sugar, while the whole grain breads which are supposed to be so good for us, introduce a slew of other problems because of their mineral content. The walk around the local grocery store is a helpful segment to demonstrate what is the ideal human diet. What we were designed to eat. Finally Hunt, who has tried all sorts of diets, attests that, after following this diet for some time now, his blood work is outstanding.
The film's revelations make a great deal of sense and in so doing is not nearly as exciting as Fork Over Knives which creates excitement with stories that we've never heard before based on the China Study and on little publicized ideas. Both Catherine and I wanted to be vegans after watching Fork Over Knives, but the complexity of this Perfect Human Diet film just makes us have to think more about what we will find to eat. And it's not a very snappy title on top of a death like cover.
It's way easier to eliminate meat, cheaper too, but it is also inevitably a nutrient reducing diet and over time it takes it's toll. You can eat vegetarian, but you have to carefully watch that it is supplemented with the missing vitamins. This is never really addressed in Fork Over Knives. And when the evils of eating meat is tied with heart disease, no one ever mentions that every time an American eats a steak they are going to eat a potato, corn and bread right along with it, just as a hamburger is not a hamburger without the bun (and fries). It is much harder to eliminate grain products from a SAD diet. And there is no restaurant touting a carnivore menu so it is taken for granted, but now that the low carb diet has been reintroduced (first made the cover of Time in 1999) restaurants are adapting by offering to substitute carbs with more veggies. And grass fed beef has redeemed us from planetary destruction which we can blame equally on agriculture destroying natural habitat.
Expedition 40/41 flight engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agencyn dressed in his Russian Sokol suit, ready for launch to the International Space Station, on 28 May 2014 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
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We were reviewing for our National Achievement Test (NAT) today and it was absolutely boring. The studying part, I mean. But in total, today was F U N.
The Postcard
A postcard bearing no publisher's name with artwork by Bob Wilkin.
The card was posted in Notting Hill on Wednesday the 7th. August 1957 to:
Mrs. R. Butler,
Fir Tree Cottage,
Lower Way,
Thatcham,
Berks.
The message on the back of the card was as follows:
"Had a nice time.
Peg & Fred".
Oliver Hardy
So what else happened on the day that the MacCreadys posted the card?
Well, the 7th. August 1957 was not a good day for Oliver Hardy, because he died of cerebral thrombosis on that day.
Oliver Norvell Hardy, who was born on the 18th. January 1892, was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted from 1926 to 1955.
Oliver appeared with his comedy partner Stan Laurel in 107 short films, feature films, and cameo roles.
He was credited with his first film, Outwitting Dad, in 1914. In most of his silent films before joining producer Hal Roach, he was billed on screen as Babe Hardy.
-- Oliver Hardy's Early Life and Education
Oliver Hardy was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia. His father, Oliver, was a Confederate States Army veteran of the American Civil War who had been wounded at the Battle of Antietam on the 17th. September 1862, and was a recruiting officer for the 16th. Georgia Regiment.
The elder Oliver Hardy assisted his father in running the remnants of the family's cotton plantation. He then bought a share in a retail business, and was elected full-time Tax Collector for Columbia County, Georgia.
Hardy's mother, Emily Norvell, was the daughter of Thomas Benjamin Norvell, who was descended from Hugh Norvell of Williamsburg, Virginia, and Mary Freeman.
The elder Hardy and Emily married on the 12th. March 1890; it was her second marriage, and his third.
The family moved to Madison, Georgia, in 1891, with Norvell's father dying less than a year after Norvell's birth. Hardy was the youngest of five children. His older brother Sam drowned in the Oconee River; Norvell pulled him from the river, but was unable to resuscitate him.
As a child, Hardy was sometimes difficult. In the fifth grade he was sent to Georgia Military College in Milledgeville. In 1905, when he was 13, Norvell was sent to Young Harris College in north Georgia for the fall semester which he completed successfully.
Norvell Hardy had little interest in formal education, although he acquired an early interest in music and theater. He joined a theatrical group, and later ran away from a boarding school near Atlanta in order to sing with the group.
Norvell's mother recognized his talent for singing, and sent him to Atlanta to study voice and music with singing teacher Adolf Dahm-Petersen. Oliver skipped some of his lessons in order to sing in the Alcazar Theater for $3.50 a week.
In 1912, he signed up for a course at the University of Georgia as a law major for the fall semester just to play football. He never missed a game.
-- The Change of Name
As a teenager, Hardy began styling himself as "Oliver Norvell Hardy", adding the first name "Oliver" as a tribute to his father. He appeared as "Oliver N. Hardy" in the 1910 U.S. census, and he used "Oliver" as his first name in all subsequent legal documents, including marriages and divorces.
Hardy was initiated into Freemasonry at Solomon Lodge No. 20 in Jacksonville, Florida which helped him with room and board when he was starting out in show business. He was inducted into the Grand Order of Water Rats along with Stan Laurel.
-- Oliver Hardy's Early Career
In 1910, The Palace, a motion picture theater, opened in Hardy's hometown of Milledgeville, and he became the projectionist, ticket taker, janitor and manager.
He soon became obsessed with the new motion picture industry, and was convinced that he could do a better job than the actors that he saw on-screen.
A friend suggested that he move to Jacksonville, Florida, where some films were being made, which he did in 1913. He worked in Jacksonville as a cabaret and vaudeville singer at night, and at the Lubin Manufacturing Company during the day.
It was at this time that he met Madelyn Saloshin, a pianist, whom he married on the 17th. November 1913, in Macon, Georgia. The following year he made his first movie, Outwitting Dad (1914), for the Lubin studio, billed as O. N. Hardy.
In his personal life, Hardy was known as "Babe" Hardy, and was billed as "Babe Hardy" in many of his later films at Lubin, such as Back to the Farm (1914). The name "Babe" originated from an Italian barber taking great pleasure in patting powder onto Hardy's freshly scraped chin, uttering “nice-a babee, nice-a babee." His fellow actors quickly latched on to this, and "Babe" became his lifelong nickname. In the Laurel and Hardy silent film, Big Business, Stan can clearly be seen shouting “Babe” when trying to to get his attention.
Hardy was a big man, standing 6 feet 1 inches (1.85 m) high, and weighing up to 300 pounds (c. 136 kg); his size placed limits on the roles that he could play. He was most often cast as the villain, but he also had roles in comedy shorts, his size complementing the character.
By 1915, Babe Hardy had made 50 short one-reel films at Lubin. He moved to New York and made films for the Pathé, Casino and Edison Studios. He returned to Jacksonville, where he made films for the Vim Comedy Company. That studio closed after Hardy discovered that the owners were stealing from the payroll.
Hardy then worked for the King Bee studio, which bought Vim, and worked with Billy Ruge, Billy West (a Charlie Chaplin imitator), and comedic actress Ethel Burton Palmer. He continued playing the villains for West well into the early 1920's, often imitating Eric Campbell to West's Chaplin.
Between 1916-1917, Hardy experienced a brief directorial career. He is credited for directing or co-directing ten shorts, all played by him.
In 1917, Hardy moved to Los Angeles, working freelance for several Hollywood studios. He made more than 40 films for Vitagraph between 1918 and 1923, mostly playing the "heavy" for Larry Semon.
In 1919, he separated from his wife, ending with a provisional divorce in November 1920 that was finalized on the 17th. November 1921.
On the 24th. November 1921, he married actress Myrtle Reeves. This marriage also proved to be unhappy, and Myrtle was said to have become an alcoholic.
In 1921, Hardy appeared in the movie The Lucky Dog, produced by Broncho Billy Anderson and starring Stan Laurel. Hardy played the part of a robber trying to hold up Stan's character. They did not work together again for several years.
In 1924, Hardy began working at Hal Roach Studios with the Our Gang films and Charley Chase. In 1925, he starred as the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz.
Also that year he was in the film Yes, Yes, Nanette!, starring Jimmy Finlayson and directed by Stan Laurel. (In later years, Finlayson was frequently a supporting actor in the Laurel and Hardy film series.)
Hardy played a supporting role in Isn't Life Terrible? with Charley Chase and Katherine Grant (1925).
Hardy also continued playing supporting roles in films featuring Clyde Cooke and Bobby Ray. Hardy played two other shorts directed by Laurel, Wandering Papas and Madame Mystery, both in 1926.
In 1926, Hardy was due to appear in Get 'Em Young, but he was unexpectedly hospitalized after being burned by a hot leg of lamb. (... How can a hot leg of lamb put you in hospital?)
Stan Laurel had been working as a gag man and a director at Roach Studios, so he was recruited to fill in. Stan Laurel continued to act, and appeared in 45 Minutes from Hollywood with Hardy, although they did not share any scenes together.
In 1927, Laurel and Hardy began sharing screen time together in Slipping Wives, Duck Soup (no relation to the 1933 Marx Brothers' film), and With Love and Hisses.
Roach Studios' supervising director Leo McCarey recognized the audience reaction to the two, and began teaming them together, which led to the start of a Laurel and Hardy series later that year.
They began producing a huge body of short movies, including The Battle of the Century (1927) (with one of the greatest pie fights ever filmed), Should Married Men Go Home? (1928), Two Tars (1928), and Unaccustomed As We Are (1929, marking their transition to talking pictures).
Other shorts included Berth Marks (1929), Blotto (1930), Brats (1930), Another Fine Mess (1930), Be Big! (1931), and many others.
In 1929, Laurel and Hardy appeared in their first feature, in one of the revue sequences of Hollywood Revue of 1929, and the following year they appeared as the comic relief in a lavish Technicolor musical feature entitled The Rogue Song. This film marked their first appearance in color, yet only a few fragments of this film survive.
In 1931, they starred in their first full-length movie Pardon Us, and they continued to make features and shorts until 1935. The 1932 film The Music Box won an Academy Award for best short film, their only effort to receive such an award.
-- Oliver Hardy's Later Career
In 1937, Hardy and Myrtle Reeves divorced.
Oliver made Zenobia with Harry Langdon in 1939 while waiting for a contractual issue to be resolved between Laurel and Hal Roach. Eventually, however, new contracts were agreed upon, and the team was lent to producer Boris Morros at General Service Studios to make The Flying Deuces (1939).
While on the lot, Hardy fell in love with Virginia Lucille Jones, a script girl whom he married the next year. They enjoyed a happy marriage for the rest of his life.
In 1939, Laurel and Hardy made A Chump at Oxford and Saps at Sea before leaving Roach Studios. They began performing for the USO, supporting the Allied troops during World War II.
In 1941 Laurel and Hardy were signed by 20th. Century-Fox (as well as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1942). These studios produced films on a larger scale, and initially the comedians were hired only as actors in the B-picture division, forced to yield the writing and editing decisions to the production teams.
The films proved very successful, and gradually both Laurel and Hardy were allowed more creative input. Laurel and Hardy completed eight features during the war years, with no loss of popularity.
M-G-M's two-picture pact expired in August 1944, and Fox's series of six Laurel & Hardy pictures ended when the studio discontinued B-picture production in December 1944.
In 1947, Laurel and Hardy went on a six-week tour of the United Kingdom. They were initially unsure of how they would be received, but they were mobbed wherever they went. The tour was lengthened to include engagements in Scandinavia, Belgium, France, and a Royal Command Performance for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
They continued to make live appearances in the United Kingdom and France until 1954, often using new sketches and material that Laurel had written for them.
In 1949, Hardy's friend John Wayne asked him to play a supporting role in The Fighting Kentuckian. Hardy had previously worked with Wayne and John Ford in a charity production of the play What Price Glory? while Laurel began treatment for his diabetes a few years previously.
He was initially hesitant, but he accepted the role at Laurel's insistence. Frank Capra invited him to play a cameo role in Riding High with Bing Crosby in 1950.
During 1950–1951, Laurel and Hardy made their final film Atoll K (also known as Utopia). It was a simple concept; Laurel inherits an island, and the boys set out to sea where they encounter a storm and discover a brand new island, rich in uranium, making them powerful and wealthy.
However, the film was produced by a consortium of European interests, with an international cast and crew that could not speak to each other. In addition, Laurel had to rewrite the script to make it fit the comedy team's style, and both suffered serious physical illness during the filming.
Laurel and Hardy made two live television appearances: in 1953 on a live broadcast of the BBC show Face the Music, and in December 1954 on NBC's This Is Your Life. They also appeared in a filmed insert for the BBC show This Is Music Hall in 1955, their final appearance together.
On screen, Laurel and Hardy fitted together perfectly, physically, emotionally, temperamentally, and comedically. In real life, however, they weren't all that close, and didn't socialize together that often. Hardy saw himself as an act-for-hire, a professional who would show up and do the work.
The pair contracted with Hal Roach, Jr. to produce a series of TV shows based on the Mother Goose fables in 1955. They were to be filmed in color for NBC, but the series was postponed when Laurel suffered a stroke and required a lengthy convalescence.
Later that year while Laurel was recovering, Hardy had a heart attack and stroke from which he never recovered.
-- The Death of Oliver Hardy
Hardy suffered a mild heart attack in May 1954, and he began looking after his health for the first time in his life. He lost more than 150 pounds (68 kg) in a few months which completely changed his appearance.
Letters written by Laurel refer to Hardy having terminal cancer, and it was speculated that this was the reason for Hardy's rapid weight loss. Both men were smokers; Hal Roach said that they were:
"A couple of freight train
smoke stacks".
Oliver Hardy suffered a major stroke on the 14th. September 1956 that left him confined to bed and unable to speak for several months. He remained at home in the care of his wife Lucille.
After suffering two more strokes in early August 1957, Oliver slipped into a coma, and died from cerebral thrombosis on the 7th. August 1957, at the age of 65.
After Oliver was cremated, his ashes were interred in the Masonic Garden of Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood.
Stan Laurel was inconsolable at the loss of his "dear pal and partner." He was absolutely devastated by Hardy's death, and never fully recovered from it; Stan's wife told the press that he became physically ill upon hearing that Hardy was dying.
Stan's doctor advised Laurel against attending the funeral, due to his own poor health, and Laurel said that:
"Babe would understand."
-- Legacy of Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel
-- There is a statue of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy outside the Coronation Hall Theatre, Ulverston, Cumbria, England.
-- Oliver Hardy's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is located at 1500 Vine Street, Hollywood, California.
-- There is a small Laurel and Hardy Museum in Hardy's hometown of Harlem, Georgia, which opened on the 15th. July 2002. The town holds an annual Oliver Hardy Festival.
-- The biographical film Stan & Ollie (2018) starred Steve Coogan as Laurel and John C. Reilly as Hardy.
-- Final Thoughts From Oliver Hardy
"We never see ourselves
as others see us."
"If you must make a noise,
make it quietly."
"A knick-knack is a thing that
sits on top of a whatnot."
"You're actually using your brain.
That's what comes from associating
with me."
"You know, there's a right and
wrong way to do everything."
“As a child, I got into a habit that I still have. One could call it lobby watching. I sit in the lobby of any hotel where I stay and just watch people. I like to watch people. Once in a while, someone will ask me where Stan and I dreamed up the characters we play in the movies. They seem to think these two fellows aren’t like anyone else. I know they are dumber than anyone else, but there are plenty of Laurels and Hardys in the world. Whenever I travel, I am still in the habit of sitting in the lobby and watching the people that walk by – and I can tell you I see many Laurels and Hardys. I used to see them in my mother’s hotel when I was a kid: the dumb, dumb guy who never has anything bad happen to him, and the smart, smart guy who’s dumber than the dumb guy, only he doesn’t know it.”
“Those two fellows we created, they were nice, very nice people. They never get anywhere because they are both so dumb, but they don't know they're dumb. One of the reasons why people like us, I guess, is because they feel superior to us.”
"I don't know much, but I know
a little about a lot of things."
"Well here's another nice
mess you've gotten me into."
The last quote was earlier used by W. S. Gilbert in both The Mikado (1885) and The Grand Duke (1896). It was first used by Hardy in The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case in 1930.
Oliver Hardy's last words were spoken to his beloved wife Lucille, who nursed her darling 'Babe' through his final illness. He said:
“I love you.”
Voronezh is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on the Southeastern Railway, which connects western Russia with the Urals and Siberia, the Caucasus and Ukraine, and the M4 highway (Moscow–Voronezh–Rostov-on-Don–Novorossiysk). In recent years the city has experienced rapid population growth, rising in 2021 to 1,057,681, up from 889,680 recorded in the 2010 Census, making it the 14th-most populous city in the country.
For many years, the hypothesis of the Soviet historian Vladimir Zagorovsky dominated: he produced the toponym "Voronezh" from the hypothetical Slavic personal name Voroneg. This man allegedly gave the name of a small town in the Chernigov Principality (now the village of Voronizh in Ukraine). Later, in the 11th or 12th century, the settlers were able to "transfer" this name to the Don region, where they named the second city Voronezh, and the river got its name from the city. However, now many researchers criticize the hypothesis, since in reality neither the name of Voroneg nor the second city was revealed, and usually the names of Russian cities repeated the names of the rivers, but not vice versa.
A comprehensive scientific analysis was conducted in 2015–2016 by the historian Pavel Popov. His conclusion: "Voronezh" is a probable Slavic macrotoponym associated with outstanding signs of nature, has a root voron- (from the proto-Slavic vorn) in the meaning of "black, dark" and the suffix -ezh (-azh, -ozh). It was not “transferred” and in the 8th - 9th centuries it marked a vast territory covered with black forests (oak forests) - from the mouth of the Voronezh river to the Voronozhsky annalistic forests in the middle and upper reaches of the river, and in the west to the Don (many forests were cut down). The historian believes that the main "city" of the early town-planning complex could repeat the name of the region – Voronezh. Now the hillfort is located in the administrative part of the modern city, in the Voronezh upland oak forest. This is one of Europe's largest ancient Slavic hillforts, the area of which – more than 9 hectares – 13 times the area of the main settlement in Kyiv before the baptism of Rus.
In it is assumed that the word "Voronezh" means bluing - a technique to increase the corrosion resistance of iron products. This explanation fits well with the proximity to the ancient city of Voronezh of a large iron deposit and the city of Stary Oskol. As well as the name of Voroneț Monastery known for its blue shade.
Folk etymology claims the name comes from combining the Russian words for raven (ворон) and hedgehog (еж) into Воронеж. According to this explanation two Slavic tribes named after the animals used this combination to name the river which later in turn provided the name for a settlement. There is not believed to be any scientific support for this explanation.
In the 16th century, the Middle Don basin, including the Voronezh river, was gradually conquered by Muscovy from the Nogai Horde (a successor state of the Golden Horde), and the current city of Voronezh was established in 1585 by Feodor I as a fort protecting the Muravsky Trail trade route against the slave raids of the Nogai and Crimean Tatars. The city was named after the river.
17th to 19th centuries
In the 17th century, Voronezh gradually evolved into a sizable town. Weronecz is shown on the Worona river in Resania in Joan Blaeu's map of 1645. Peter the Great built a dockyard in Voronezh where the Azov Flotilla was constructed for the Azov campaigns in 1695 and 1696. This fleet, the first ever built in Russia, included the first Russian ship of the line, Goto Predestinatsia. The Orthodox diocese of Voronezh was instituted in 1682 and its first bishop, Mitrofan of Voronezh, was later proclaimed the town's patron saint.
Owing to the Voronezh Admiralty Wharf, for a short time, Voronezh became the largest city of South Russia and the economic center of a large and fertile region. In 1711, it was made the seat of the Azov Governorate, which eventually morphed into the Voronezh Governorate.
In the 19th century, Voronezh was a center of the Central Black Earth Region. Manufacturing industry (mills, tallow-melting, butter-making, soap, leather, and other works) as well as bread, cattle, suet, and the hair trade developed in the town. A railway connected Voronezh with Moscow in 1868 and Rostov-on-Don in 1871.