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Testing out the S&B proofing press with some Gmund Bier paper and proofing some wood type for reference, might stick these on the front of my type drawers.
Tout ce que l'on ne peut pas dire, il ne faut pas le taire, mais simplement l'écrire;
All you can not tell, don't hush it up, just write it.
J Derrida
Creator: Vernon Orlando Bailey
Local number: SIA2011-1409
Summary: The poem and the drawings of animal tracks are from a field book kept by Vernon Orlando Bailey during his collecting efforts in Nevada and California in 1890-1891. Bailey served as field naturalist for the United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Biological Survey and its predecessor, Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy.
Dates: 1890-1891
Collection: RU 007267, Vernon Orlando Bailey Papers, 1889-1941 and undated, Box 1, Folder 4.
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Related blog post: Mammalogy at the Intersection of Mercy and Truth
Hekate is back after a brief reprieve.
Aug 20-27, All color packs are marked down to 100L.
This includes the new appliers!
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Grób szer. Artura Hammonda z Dover, żołnierza 4 Batalionu Royal East Kent Regiment (The Buffs), który poległ 18 listopada 1943 r. podczas bitwy o Leros.
Cmentarz Wojenny na Leros znajduje się po wschodniej stronie wyspy, nad brzegiem zatoki Agia Marina. Jest on miejscem spoczynku 183 osób: 13 marynarzy, 162 żołnierzy i 4 lotników z Wielkiej Brytanii oraz 2 lotników kanadyjskich i 2 żołnierzy z Południowej Afryki.
Gdy Niemcy zaatakowali Leros w listopadzie 1943 r., siły brytyjskie na wyspie składały się z ok. 3000 żołnierzy (wspieranych przez 8000 Włochów), z których 600 poległo w ciągu czterech dni walk, zakończonych kapitulacją sił alianckich.
Ogółem, 1400 osób straciło życie w krótkich, ale zaciętych walkach o panowanie nad Leros, małą egejską wyspą, pozbawioną już wówczas jakiegokolwiek strategicznego znaczenia.
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A grave of Pvt Arthur Hammond from Dover, soldier of the 4th Battalion of Royal East Kent Regiment (The Buffs), who died on 18th November 1943 during the Battle of Leros.
Leros War Cemetery is on the eastern side of the Island of Leros, on the shore of Agia Marina Bay. The total number of burials is 183. This is made up by 13 sailors, 162 soldiers and 4 airmen belonging to the forces of the United Kingdom; 2 airmen of the Royal Canadian Air Force; and 2 soldiers of the South African Forces.
When Germans attacked Leros in November 1943, the British forces on the island of Leros numbered ca. 3,000 men (supported by 8,000 Italians). Most of them belonged to the 2nd Battalion of The Royal Irish Fusiliers, the 4th Battalion of The Buffs (The Royal East Kent Regiment) and the 1st Battalion of The King's Own Royal Regiment.
The British lost 600 men killed in action during the battle which lasted 4 days, and ended with the capitulation of the Allied forces.
Altogether, 1,400 people lost their lives in a short but fierce fighting for the control of Leros, a small Aegan island of virtually no strategic importance at that time.
It was late spring in the year 1832.
A guy named William Davis had dammed up a creek about fourteen miles north of Ottawa Illinois so that he could use water power to turn the wheels and the saw of his mill.
Davis had moved there from Kentucky about two years before with his wife and six children.
Tensions had been running high between the natives and the new Illinoisans.
Some dude named Blackhawk was stirring shit up a little north of there and a lot of the indians, having been pretty much pushed around for a number of years, they liked Blackhawk's attitude and the fact that him and a large force of indians had returned to Illinois from reservations they'd been forced onto out west.
Life really sucked back then and lots of people were looking for someone's ass to kick.
The local band of Potowatami were tryin' to stay out of the whole thing... what would later become known as 'The Blackhawk War.'
They told Blackhawk that they wouldn't help him.
But William Davis...
he wouldn't remove that dam and that was causing the Potowatami to go hungry.
They were dependent of the fish they would catch at their village on Indian Creek.
Davis puts up a dam and all of the sudden they're going hungry.
That wasn't real cool.
They asked Davis to take the dam down and Davis told 'em to bug off every time.
Then one day Davis caught one of the Potowatami dudes tryin' to tear the dam down and he beat him up with a stick.
Chief Shabbona tried to keep all of his Potowatami cool but tribal politics were pretty democratic and the people were hungry and the dude who got beat with the stick was pissed off too.
Shabbona went to Davis and told him he was about to get his ass kicked and maybe he should high tail it outta there until things cooled off.
A lot of the settlers decided to take a vacation and get out of town.
But not Davis.
In addition to being an asshole he was kinda stupid... and manipulative... because he convinced a few families that there was no danger and that they should stay.
He had interests to protect.
Namely the mill he'd built that had started all of this shit.
The fuse was lit on what might have been the biggest massacre of American civilians by the indians ever.
And the fuse was pretty short.
They say between forty and eighty Potowatami warriors headed out to Davis' mill and they were packin' heat and really pissed off.
It's not cool to take away people's food like that.
It's also not cool to kill innocent women and children...
which is what the Potowatami did.
They slaughtered Davis, a few other guys and a bunch of women and children.
The indians killed 15 people that day in May of 1832.
They mutilated the bodies in ways that contemporary writers refused to describe.
They took hostage a couple of sisters who were 19 and 17, one of whom fainted as they took her away on horseback when she recognized one of the scalps tied to the horse as her mother's.
People were pretty brutal back then.
Davis seems kinda like an asshole for not listening to the indians pleas that he remove the dam.
And his act of building that dam not only violated the indian treaty it also violated their water rights.
I'm sure they didn't like seeing their families go hungry because some new guy messed up the creek they'd been eating from for generations.
The indians shoudda stopped after they killed Davis and maybe the other adult males because killing innocent women and children isn't cool and never scores you PR points.
But then I wondered how the indians felt seeing their wives and children go hungry because of what Davis did.
The viciousness of the massacre was a propaganda victory for the US Government and it enraged the white population and led to popular support against Blackhawk and his crew up north even though they had nothing to do with the Indian Creek Massacre.
In the end, a whole bunch of people died and many indian women and children were massacred too.
I just wanted a good excuse to draw a map today and a little roadtrip to the site of the massacre would give me that excuse.
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I haphazardly collect old and new hymn books. I bought these two from the historical library at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA, while doing some research there. The open book is The Sacred Hymnal, a shape note tunebook from the Ruebush Kieffer Co., the main focus of my recent research efforts. Edited by J. H. Hall, J. H. Ruebush, and W. H. Ruebush, the book was published in 1899 and intended for worship services, prayer meetings, Sunday school, revivals, and other religious meetings. It contains 200 hymns divided into 7 sections: worship, man’s ruin and redemption, the Christian life, the Christian church, young people’s department, the life beyond, and miscellaneous.
The other book is Sacred Songs No.1, edited by Ira D. Sankey, James McGranahan, and George C. Stebbins. The book is in round notes and published by the Biglow and Main Company of New York in 1896. Sankey and Philip Bliss were instrumental in the formation of gospel music, publishing their first collection of songs for gospel meetings in 1875. The book includes many new songs along with “useful and popular pieces,” making it “practical and desirable.” Many sacred and gospel music publishers in the late 19th century issued new songbooks on a regular basis, suggesting that the public sang regularly from the published books and had an appetite for new songs. The editors express their hope that the book will be useful in churches and prayers meetings, as well as in the home so that “the good old-time custom of singing the praises of God in the home may again be revived.”
Some things were more fun before computers. Kindergartners checking out library books was one of those things.
PORTIA
You were to blame, I must be plain with you,
To part so slightly with your wife's first gift:
A thing stuck on with oaths upon your finger
And so riveted with faith unto your flesh.
I gave my love a ring and made him swear
Never to part with it; and here he stands;
I dare be sworn for him he would not leave it
Nor pluck it from his finger, for the wealth
That the world masters. Now, in faith, Gratiano,
You give your wife too unkind a cause of grief:
An 'twere to me, I should be mad at it.
The Book of Runes: A Handbook for the Use of an Ancient Oracle, the Viking Runes by Ralph Blum, St. Martin's Press, NY, 1982.
These scans are from the endpapers. These are "Viking Runes".
بلا دراسه بلا وجع قلب ذذ
اخيييييييييييييييرا خلصت الامتحانات والواجبات
وبديييت العطله
اووف احس انه هم وانزااح
الحمدلله الحمدلله الحمدلله
والف الف الف مبروووك العطله لكل الطلبه
استمتعوا بكل ثانيه فيها ذذ
يلا عاد ابي تعليقاتكم وردودكم الحلوه مثلكم
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شكرا لكم
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