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broomsandbrews · 6 years ago

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Witchy Playlist and Inspiring Songs for Different Spells/Curses/Rituals (Masterpost)

Jill Andrews - No One

Donovan - Season of the Witch

Within Temptation - Neverending Story

Kelli Ali - Psychic Cat

Local Natives - Mt. Washington

Fleetwood Mac - Gold Dust Woman

Cocorosie - Smokey Taboo

Within Temptation - Mother Earth

Libana The Circle is Cast - The Earth is our Mother

Marilyn Manson - Salem

Halsey - Garden

Eagles - Witchy Woman

Florence and the Machine - Cosmic Love

Alina Baraz - Maybe

Within Temptation - Our Solemn Hour

Son Lux ft. Faux Fix - No Fate Awaits Me

Dolkins - Mountains

Tove Lo - Out of Mind

Culte de Ghoules - Children of the Moon

Gary Stadle - Fairy Nightsongs

Amy Nuttall - Scarborough Fair

Meg Myers - Numb

Tori Amos - Lust

Vienna Teng - Lullaby for a Stormy Night

LEAVES' EYES - Hell To The Heavens

Florence and the Machine - My Boy Builds Coffins

Within Temptation - Memories

Myah - Circus Freak

Trobar de Morte - Summoning The Gods

Denean - Angels Calling Me

Heather Dale - Mordred’s Lullaby

Evanescence - Whisper

Birdy ft. Rhodes - Let it All Go

Inkubus Sukkubus - Wytches

Secret Garden - Sleepsong

Wolf Gang - Lions in Cages

AMBERIAN DAWN - Magic Forest

Apocalyptica ft. Lacey - Broken Pieces

Florence and the Machine - Never Let Me Go

Within Temptation - Our Farewell

The Neighbourhood - A Little Death

Russel Brower & Derek Duke - Lament of the Highborne

Evanescence - Lacrymosa

Peter Gundry - White Witch

Culte de Ghoules - Vintage Black Magic

The Bird and the Bee - Witch

Nicholas Hopper - In Noctem

The Brothers Bright - Blood on my Name

Ruelle - Monsters (Acoustic Version)

Lana Del Rey - Young and Beautiful

Little May - Hide

Within Temptation - The Truth Beneath The Rose

Emily Afton - Lost

Sofia Karlberg - Crazy in Love

Alanis Morissette - Uninvited

Gothica - The Cliff of Suicide

Sparklehorse - Piano Fire

Within Temptation - See Who I Am

Lana Del Rey - Once Upon a Dream

Lisa Thiel - Samhain

Indica - Children Of Frost

James S. Levine - La La La

Wardruna - Fehu

Meg Myers - Monster

Silversun Pickups - Future Foe Scenarios

Joseph Van Wissem ft. SQURL - The Taste of Blood

Raffertie - Last Train Home

Halsey - Haunting

Irfan - Invocatio

The Civil Wars - Poison & Wine

Olafur Arnalds - Raein

Florence and the Machine - Only If For a Night

Aurora - Under Stars

Warbringers - Jaina (Daughter of the Sea)

Ross Copperman - Holding on and Letting Go

Love Spit Love - How Soon is Now

XANDRIA - Nightfall

Angus & Julia Stone - The Hanging Tree

Loreena McKennitt - Incantation

Marina & The Diamonds - The Outsider

Meadowlark - Fly (Acoustic)

Omnia - Wytches Brew

Panic! At the Disco - LA Devotee

Culte de Ghoules - Storm Is Coming, Come the Blessed Madness

Deadmau5 ft. Colleen D’agostino - Seeya

Gandharvak - The Time Machine: Eloi

Lana Del Rey - Born to Die

Ella Vos - Down in Flames

Nouvelle Vague - The Killing Moon

Joji - Don’t Wanna Waste my Time

Michael Holborn - Sunbird

Ed Sheeran - I See Fire

The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build a House

Crystal Fighters - Follow

Phildel - The Wolf

Skillet - Hero

Evanescence - Hello

Calla - Custom Car Crash

Ordo Funebris - A Witches Song

Daughter - Improve

Blue - Birdshake (Remix)

Evanescence - Going Under

Within Temptation - Angels

koethe ft. Riley Hawke - Taking You There

Within Temptation - The Howling

Breaking Benjamin - I Will Not Bow

Bjork - Frosti

Within Temptation - Aquarius

Loreena McKennitt - The Old Ways

Fleurie - Hurricane

Corpo Mente - Scylla

Beth - Waves

Within Temptation - Stand my Ground

Sofia Karlberg - Berlin

Helios - A Rising Wind (Instrumental)

Florence and the Machine - Blinding

Evanescence - Bring me to Life

Elle Vee - Fly Low

Koethe - Amber

Verite - Echo

Within Temptation - Faster

Little Red Lung - 50 Fingers

Little May - Boardwalks

Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen

Iko - Heart of Stone

Beach House - Levitation

The Moon and the Nightspirit - Ejkoszonto

Suuns - Pie X

Austin Wintory - Bloodlines

Loreena McKennitt - The Heart of the Witch

Lana Del Rey - Love

Jose Gonzalez - Crosses

Peter Gundry - The Forest Queen

Within Temptation - All I Need

Dead Can Dance - Yulunga (Spirit Dance)

Breaking Benjamin - Failure

Lisa Gerrard - Swans

Glass Animals - Holiest

Ingrid Michaelson - Turn to Stone

Bibio - Dye the Water Green

S.J. Tucker - Witch’s Rune

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Face to Face

Daughter - Dreams of William

Bjork - Dark Matter

Within Temptation - Forsaken

Widowspeak - Harsh Realm

Wolf Alice - Soapy Water

Erutan - Come Little Children

Artie Shaw - Nightmare

Dead Can Dance - Summoning of the Muse (Remastered)

Tove Lo - Habit

Legs Occult - Breathe

Agnes Obel - Riverside

The Soft Moon - Want

Willy Moon - I Pull a Spell on You

Fleetwood Mac - Sara

Gorillaz - Saturnz Barz

Bahari - Wild Ones

The Zombies - Time of the Season

Evanescence - Haunted

Lia Marie Johnson - Relapse

Ella Fitzgerald - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

Evanescence - Tourniquet

The Eastern Sea - The Snow

Gabriel Rios - Broad Daylight

Maty Noyes - Haunted

Kim Petras - Boo! Bitch

Lorde - Biting Down

Florence and the Machine - Seven Devils

Plumb - Cut

Rasputina - Transylvanian Concubine

Olivia Foa’i - Tulou Tagaloa

Gorillaz - Sleeping Powder

Masha - Come As You Are

Agnes Obel - The Curse

Richard Armitage - Misty Mountains

Lera Lynn - Ring of Fire

An Danzza - Hekate

Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek

Evanescence - Lithium

Gin Wigmore - Written in the Water

Russell Shaw - Temple of Light

Loreena McKennitt - The Mystic’s Dream

Lana Del Rey - Black Beauty

Marika Hackman - Deep Green

Faun - Walpurgisnacht

Agnes Obel - Stretch Your Eyes

CHVRCHES - Broken Bones

Decyfer Down - Fading

The Weeknd - Earned It

The Changelings - Melusine

Sonic Youth - Halloween

Les Rita Mitsouko - La Sorciere et l’inquisiteur

Chelsea Wolfe - Carrion Flowers

Florence and the Machine - Third Eye

In this moment - Witching Hour

Portishead - Magic Doors

Myrkur - The Serpent

Arcade Fire - Abraham’s Daughter

James S. Levine - Violet Theme

Lauren O’Connell - House of the Rising Sun

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound

Haroula Rose - Lavender Moon

The Chainsmokers - It Won’t Kill Ya

Hozier - Angel of Small Death and the Codeine Scene

Stranger Things - Theme Song

Eivor - Trollabundin

Carina Round - Do You

Son Lux - Flickers

Fever Ray - Keep the Streets Empty

Ibeyi - River

Benjamin Wallfisch ft. DiSA - New World Coming

Emily Browning - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)

Igorrr - Probleme D’emotion

Stevie Nicks & Don Henley - Leather and Lace

Whilk and Misky - Love Lost

Amorphis - Amongst Stars

Cocorosie - The Moon Asked the Crow

Linkin Park - My December

Nightwish - Turn Loose the Mermaids

Black Lullabies - Black Lullabies

Florence and the Machine - Which Witch

Kehlani - Gangsta (Harley Quinn & Joker Flashback Version)

Sara Bareilles - Winter Song

Exxus - Glass Animals

Najwa - That Cyclone

Pierce the Veil - Tangled in the Great Escape

Dotan - Let the River In

This Mortal Coil - Dreams Made Flesh P.S.: Keep in mind a lot of these songs might not be ‘‘witchy’‘ or have ‘‘witchy’‘ lyrics but some people suggested them to me because they help them with their craft, put them in a ‘’witchy’’ mood and inspire them with certain spells for certain situations like strained/toxic relationships, breakups and heartbreaks, not feeling accepted, family problems, mental illness (although if you are feeling like you want to end your life, please talk to a professional), etc. (or curses, though I’m pretty neutral about curses and hexes.) Use the ones you like, and ignore the ones you don’t or don’t do it for ya. Thank you!

KEEP THE SUGGESTIONS COMING SO I CAN ADD THEM AND IT GROWS IN SIZE!

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wtfzodiacsigns · 6 years ago

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Important Historical Figures and their Zodiacs

Aries: Thomas Jefferson, Bach, Charlamagne

Taurus: Leonardo da Vinci, Adolf Hitler, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth the Second, Florence Nightingale, Ulysses S. Grant, Sigmund Freud, Harry S. Truman, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Socrates, Malcolm X, Tchaikovsky , Machiavelli

Gemini: Queen Victoria, Ann Frank, Anastasia, John F. Kennedy, George H.W. Bush, Donald Trump

Cancer: Helen Keller, Malala Yousafazi, Alexander the Great, Julias Caesar, George Bush, John Quincy Adams, Emmeline Pankhurst, Rousseau, Henry the 8th, Nelson Mandela, Nikola Tesla, Gregor Mendel

Leo: Napoleon Bonaparte, Barack Obama, Neil Armstrong, Mussolini, Emmett Till, Fidel Castro, Amelia Earhart, Louis the 16th, Bill Clinton, Alexander Fleming, The Virgin Mary

Virgo: Elizabeth the First, Mother Theresa, Lyndon B. Johnson, Augustus, Jesse James, Henry Hudson, Caligula, Genghis Khan, Michael Faraday, John Locke

Libra: Eleanor Roosevelt, Gandhi, Confucius, Jimmy Carter, William Penn, Virgil

Scorpio: Marie Curie, Marie Antoinette, Bill Gates, Christopher Columbus, Teddy Roosevelt, John Adams, Martin Luther, Leon Trotsky, St. Augustine, Voltaire

Sagittarius: Beethoven, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, Walt Disney, Mark Twain, Noam Chomsky, Mary Queen of Scots, Jane Austen, Billy the Kid, Nero

Capricorn: Martin Luther King Jr., Mark Antony, Michelle Obama, Isaac Newton, Richard Nixon, Andrew Johnson, Robert E. Lee, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Nostrodomus, Stephen Hawking, Joan of Arc

Aquarius: Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Charles Dickens, Thomas Edison, Mozart, Rasputin, Charles Darwin, Frederick Douglass, Rosa Parks, Magellen, Francis Bacon

Pisces: George Washington, Albert Einstein, Galileo, Alexander Graham Bell, Steve Jobs, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Constantine the Great, Nicolaus Copernicus, Michelangelo, Andrew Jackson, Jesus Christ

Source: avoidantgarde

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soveryanon · 5 years ago

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Reviewing time for MAG140! … abridged version because I want to be Caught Up with these before this week’s release and Time Is An Enemy and so is my ability to do things without a deadline.

- I have not much to say about the statement itself except that:

(MAG140, John Flamsteed) “You are familiar of course with my persecutor and tormentor Edmond Halley. The one so oft descending upon me as Nemesis with her sword to avenge upon my hubris. […] I will admit that in my heart, I nurtured such dreams of revenge that when they came to me the name of God felt hollow upon my lips. Another dignity stripped from me by mine enemy. […] No. If there was to be a confrontation or action taken against Raymer, it would be I, and I alone, that would have to take it. […] Again he traced his path under that dark and hidden wood, and again I followed, quiet in my manner, keen in my observance. […] It was that in his visit, he was accompanied by Edmond Halley. My dear Raymer, whose body had gone cold and still in my own cruel hands. […] they were the eyes of my Raymer, the one I couldn’t destroy.”

… insert here Kate Beaton’s “MY NEMESIS” comic, holy Mew John Flamsteed. In the same vain (warning for description of murder by drowning):

(MAG140, John Flamsteed) “I wasted no time, and drew my smallsword, and praised to God, who gifted me foresight to carry it. I struck Raymer a fierce blow to the leg. He fell, still clutching at me, and in a moment, cast my sword away into the trees and grabbed at my coat. With a fierce strength never before awakened within me, I gripped the head of my foul adversary, and forced it down, into the dark pool before us. There I held it, the water so cold upon my skin the marks have yet to fade. And Raymer trashed, and kicked, and made such sounds as I have never before heard of the dying. And he was still. I drew him up with the black water still thickly flowing from him. He was dead at my hand, and though I well knew it to be an act of defence and retribution, I felt within me a sudden terror of discovery.”

I wonder what Flamsteed would have said, if he had been discovered spontaneously stalking and stabbing and drowning Halley – wait, no, I know, he would have muttered “Self-defence”, probably. It just escalated so quickly, as a natural progression in the way that he told the story… but seriously. You were so very chill with murder, dude. (That was a strong grudge, wasn’t it.)

- Alright, so; the events were precisely dated:

(MAG140, John Flamsteed) “I know it was the second of May [1715] when this took place, for it was no doubt the crowning glory that he had stolen from me that occupied his mind that eve, and caused his steps to quicken and grow careless.”

He is referring to the date of ~Halley’s Eclipse~, which Halley correctly predicted would take place on May 3rd 1715 – except “Note: Great Britain did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1752, so the date was at the time considered 22 April 1715.” (I know Nothing about dates of eclipses and Britain’s own calendars so I have to trust Wiki on this x”)), so oops, Jonny…? Flamsteed should not have referred to it as being in May...

So The Dark is once against tied to solar eclipses; Oliver had first seen Gertrude’s death as happening around the day of an eclipse in Ny-Ålesund in March 2015 (MAG011, MAG025), and Basira had pointed out the relation between Halley’s Comet and The Dark’s activities in MAG108. If so, that would give Jon&Basira some time to operate in the North pole, given that the next (partial) solar eclipse planned in Ny-Ålesund on August 11st. Given, however, that season 4 has constantly reminded us of the subjectivity of symbols appropriated by Fear cultists and all… I don’t think the dates will actually matter all that much, at the end of the day, and they’ll be screwed anyway.

- The way I understood it: Edmond Halley had discovered Dark cultists and was joining them, was meant to do… something, but got killed by Flamsteed before that could happen and something different happened? Did the cultists have no idea about how to free the being-that-became-Maxwell-Rayner in the water, and whatever they wanted to do around the time of the eclipse wouldn’t have worked because the thing trapped in there needed a corpse to get out?

(MAG140, John Flamsteed) “a strange and shrouded wood not a league from what might draw the interests of the pompous fool with whose whims I was now so well-acquainted. And in that quiet seclusion, while I looked on in silence and astonishment, he would meet with figures both man and woman alike, with dull clothing, and eyes that in the darkness of that wooded place seemed wholly black, and empty. Their words were soft and impenetrable to me from the spot wherein I was concealed, but they had much impact upon Raymer – who oft would stagger backwards as though struck. […] And as I waited there, the enormity of my actions settled upon me like lead, and Raymer’s dark-eyed compatriots arrived to attend him. Seeing him prostrate and lifeless upon the ground was clearly a shock, and their distress was marked upon them. And yet there seemed no sadness or horror within their passion, but surprise and confusion, and the question they cast between them was that of what was to be done, for it seemed Raymer was vital to a task as yet unfinished. […] he began to thank me. His gratitude was so plain and sincere that I could scarce understand it as he spoke, but he repeated it again and again, thanking me for his life. For his freedom. I stared into his eyes, and though they met mine, I saw spreading inside them the darkness, and mist.”

And what had trapped the creature in the water? Trapping is usually Web’s favourite activity but… here, in water…?

I was super-cautious about the idea that Rayner was body-hopping, but it seems I was wrong to be, that is what he was doing! Though I think it might not be a human-who-became-an-avatar but a full monster emanating from the power, if he was the water all along? (Aaaand it fits the fact that so many Dark-related activities involved that brackish water. We already had the connection to Svalbard, though, but it’s fitting that Rayner had been sealed in a lake or something.) Or was Rayner even older than the XVIIIth century and had been sealed in the forest for a long time, and only began to body-hop when it first came in contact with a corpse? Even Jon was unsure about a few bits:

(MAG140) ARCHIVIST: So Edmond Halley was… Rayner. Or, at least… whatever was inside him. You said he was dead, though. BASIRA: I thought he was. We shot him to hell before he could, uh… “pour himself” into that kid. ARCHIVIST: Mm. BASIRA: But I mean, didn’t you say he got blown off in World War One as well? ARCHIVIST: Ah– uh, p–possibly, the, the details are, hum… It’s not exactly clear.

And indeed, back in MAG007 Jon had noticed the name “Rayner” rang some bells (that he later identified as Maxwell Rayner’s cult when it came up in MAG009), though according to Smirke’s categorisation… “Joseph Rayner” didn’t seem be related to The Dark after all, but rather to The Slaughter (potentially with a bit of The End)?

(MAG007, Clarence Berry) “The only thing they’d found nearby were the tags of the dead man among his remains. A man named Joseph Rayner. […] You know the phrase “to pay the piper”. I thought on it a lot through those many months – the debt of Hamelin, who for their greed had their children taken from them, never to be returned. […] It was a month later that I woke up to find [Wilfred Owen] sitting next to my bed. He stared at me, not unkindly, though there was something in his eye that put my ill at ease. “Almost over now, Clarence,” he said to me. I said yes, it did seem to be all coming to an end. He smiled and shook his head.”

I had understood it as… Wilfred Owen exchanging places with “Joseph Rayner” in order to not die, until he had paid his due, and/or the fact that he was allowed to live leading to the continuation of WW1 (as Clarence was hypothesising)? I’m surprised that Jon and Basira brought this up again as potentially being the same being as “Raymer” and “Maxwell Rayner”. What would have caused it to change names, from being called “Maxwell” during Smirke’s time, then “Joseph”, then going back to “Maxwell”?

And how come it took the name “Raymer” in the first place, given how it was John Flamsteed’s nickname to designate him? Unless Abraham Sharp betrayed Flasmsteed and told “Edmond Halley” everything he knew?

What about the thing about dark water pouring out of the mouths of avatars of The Dark, since we know it wasn’t just a Rayner thing – there had been the victim taken by Darvish, too, and we know that Darvish used to be… pretty high in the hierarchy apparently (MAG135, Manuela Dominguez: “I suppose there is also an element of provocation here as well; even with the loss of Darvish, we will still be victorious.”) before Trevor and Julia stabbed him and other followers to death, as they recalled in MAG109. The homeless man (Morris? Maurice?), who was already dead, had water pouring out from his mouth – was he meant to be a host for one of the cultists too…? Is that a regular thing some Dark avatars do, not only Rayner…?

- I’m still not sold on the Elias=Jonah Magnus theory (mostly because I don’t really feel like the way people have been describing Jonah so far… matches how people talk about Elias overall?), though I admit that it could make sense given that Smirke mentioned Jonah’s fear of dying, the fact that Rayner and Elias have ~history~ (and Rayner was around during Jonah’s time), and we now we have a Precedent of body-hopping confirmed – and not just Spooks serving a god to sustain themselves into old age like Simon Fairchild or the Lightless Flame.

(Not believing in what follows, but it did cross my mind that… in a way, Isaac Newton, as described in this statement, could kind of fit, given how he was getting closer to now-possessed-Halley at the end of the story…? (MAG140: “He is a blockish creature of vanity, concerned with his appearance only, and likely to fly into an indecent heat and knavish talk at any dispute. He has no reverence for God, and I pity him the fire that awaits. […] I was… astonished at how cordial his conduct seemed, his temper even and his head steady. But it was not the attitude of the president, that robbed my tongue of speech. It was that in his visit, he was accompanied by Edmond Halley.”))

But whatever Elias is or is not, we might get a few more things about that history between them at the North Pole… ;;

- I wonder how Martin will take the news of Basira&Jon leaving for the North Pole. Will he know before they leave? Or will he notice they’re… not around anymore and Peter will shrug it off because THEY decided to leave on a trip, it’s not his responsibility if they decide to go get butchered in a dangerous place! (Martin’s Life Is Hard and no one understands, especially not Peter.)

Will Basira&Jon keep their receipts to claim their expenses at the Institute. Will Martin process the reimbursement.

- Basira mentioned a boat:

(MAG140) ARCHIVIST: […] So what’s the plan? BASIRA: I’m getting us passage on a boat heading up there. ARCHIVIST: … Right.

And I think she would have mentioned the Tundra if it was it, at least to prepare Jon psychologically? So it’s probably not it? But maybe Peter will be the one to take them back, given how his ship had a Precedent of travelling into very cold waters (Sannikov Land, described by “Michael” in MAG101). Well. “Them” if both Basira and Jon make it.

- It makes sense, and feels satisfying, that Basira is indeed heading towards Ny-Ålesund and was the one to gather clues about The Dark: as mentioned, her encounter “kinda stayed” with her.

(MAG140) BASIRA: You remember Maxwell Rayner? ARCHIVIST: Yes, of course, your… warehouse showdown? BASIRA: Yeah, well. The whole thing kinda stayed with me. ARCHIVIST: Mm, I can imagine.

Her encounter with Rayner between MAG072 and MAG073 was not another spooky story in her Section 31 career: it’s something that led to drastic changes in her life. It’s because she witnessed the cover-up of her colleague’s death, and his defaming, that she got pissed enough with the police and decided to quit (MAG075). And because she had given that statement to Jon, she was apparently pursued by the dreams until she signed her contract with the Institute in MAG092 (MAG120, Elias: “The Archivist wanders. He is searching, though, for what he does not know. He passes those places he can no longer watch: […] the empty warehouse of thick darkness and frightened children”). When she joined the Institute, her research brought her towards The Dark again:

(MAG108) BASIRA: I was reading through a bunch of stuff about the Church of the Divine Host. Did you look into that statement about the chapel in Hither Green? Because apparently, right around that time, there was a full solar eclipse going on in, guess where? MARTIN: I don’t know. BASIRA: Ny-Ålesund! And when Natalie Ennis talked about it being 300 years ago, well. How much do you know about the relationship between Edmond Halley and John Flamsteed? MARTIN: What, Halley like the comet? BASIRA: Exactly.

It’s her thing. Part of her story. So it feels satisfying that she would be the one to end up piecing things together, even without apparently consulting Manuela Dominguez’s statement from MAG135 (though Jon was thinking about sharing it with her), and to organise the journey:

(MAG140) BASIRA: You don’t know what the ritual for The Dark is, right? ARCHIVIST: Not really, no. Hum, based on this and everythi– Er, something to do with the Sun, I would guess? I– An eclipse, maybe. BASIRA: I don’t think so. ARCHIVIST: Mm. BASIRA: There’s not one due for a while, and I’ve been wondering for ages: why Ny-Ålesund? I mean, sure, that far North, it gets dark for a long time, but… there’s also really long days in the summer. […] I don’t think Ny-Ålesund is the ritual location. ARCHIVIST: Right. BASIRA: I think it’s a, er… a staging ground. ARCHIVIST: For what? BASIRA: The darkest place on the surface of the Earth: the North Pole, during the Winter Solstice. ARCHIVIST: They have an Eldritch ball of some sort of manifested dark matter, that’s going to be the focus of the ritual. BASIRA: … I thought you said you couldn’t know things about them! ARCHIVIST: I can still read. Actually, you should… probably see that sta– You know what, no. Later. [INHALE, EXHALE] So what’s the plan? BASIRA: I’m getting us passage on a boat heading up there. ARCHIVIST: … Right. BASIRA: I bring all the guns from Daisy’s old stash, you bring the spook you used to mess up that delivery guy. [SILENCE] ARCHIVIST: Wh… at? That’s it? [PAUSE] Christ, I thought my plans were half-arsed. BASIRA: It’s all about when we go. ARCHIVIST: … I don’t follow. BASIRA: Summer solstice is the 21st of June. So we leave in a fortnight. […] And should arrive about a week before. No danger of sunset or darkness for a long time. Stands to reason that they will be at their weakest.

… Though it’s coming with its fair lot of Worrisome Things:

1°) Basira still hasn’t told Jon that her intel source is Elias which… would probably make Jon way more cautious about the whole thing. If Elias read her right, Basira’s weakness is her “pride” and if he knows it, he is already using it. Elias did say that he needed Jon to be more powerful, and if he wasn’t bullshitting about that, he had a hand in Breekon’s visit at the Institute (or at least knew it would happen soon); he knows how to use Jon’s concern for people to push him further and to get him in direct contact with more Spooks. Jon is still missing a Dark scar/direct experience… and then last one of the list would be The Lonely, if it’s not already happening with Martin – he completed The Buried and The Flesh in season 4 already.

2°) Basira, stern and unimpressed but hovering, giving Jon a drink, organising the trip to Svalbard, including him in, complaining that Jon doesn’t share enough information with her, concerns me a bit. The parallel with Gertrude taking Michael as a sacrifice to stop The Spiral (by boat, even!) is a bit too obvious, especially given how Jon had called her out about how “You’re starting to sound like Gertrude.” (MAG133) recently. I’m… not sure that’s she’s not planning to try and use Jon to stop The Dark and The Beholding at the same time – since she knew The Eye still “had a chance” at its ritual at this time, and she knows that Elias has been watching and scheming. I have no idea about what Basira is thinking, but more about that later.

3°) Having BASIRA head into THE DARK’s turf is an extremely bad idea, even worse than Jon, given how… she was There when Maxwell Rayner was officially killed. If he’s still around, he will remember her. If he’s not, then the surviving members of the cult (we know there were some survivors) will identify her as responsible for his death (and I REALLY wouldn’t put it past Elias to have leaked that information to them, possibly even making it sound like she was the one to pull the trigger).

4°) If… if that Section 31 operation didn’t manage to get rid of Rayner, that means we know which body he managed to parasite. Until now, I had assumed that whatever Rayner had been trying to do, he had been stopped and killed while accidentally vulnerable, back in the warehouse, and that Leo Altman had been collateral, since he was… dead – I thought that Natalie Ennis had probably killed him thoughtlessly, in revenge?

(MAG075) BASIRA: [Maxwell Rayner’s] robe twitched violently as he staggered backwards, and all the dark liquid suddenly washed down onto the floor in a single movement, leaving Callum untouched. It still gushed from his mouth, though, and as the shots tore through him he spun about and an arc of the dark substance flew through the air. Altman had started running towards them as soon as he had seen the kid, and was almost at the chair when the wave of it spewed out. A few droplets hit him on the cheek and he started to howl and claw at his face. Goodman fired again at Rayner, dropping him to the ground, and the horrendous noise stopped suddenly, leaving only Leo’s cries of pain. The lights came on all at once, and in the sudden painful brightness none of us had time to do anything as a woman who hadn’t been there a moment ago ran up to Leo. She wore a robe similar to the old man’s, and by the time any of us had seen the knife in her hand she had buried it in Altman’s throat. […] It was too late, of course, but as I looked at his still, cold face, I saw his eyes were a milky white.”

… but MAG140 showed that the thing taking the name of Rayner had managed to get free by invading Edmond Halley’s dead body, and that his eyes were becoming white when Flamsteed met him again (matching MAG098’s bit of Rayner having “white eyes”). So: did Natalie Ennis kill Leo because he had killed Rayner for good… or did she do it in order to allow Rayner to use his corpse? Was Rayner really killed-killed back then, or did he parasitise Leo Altman’s body – which was apparently dead, back then, but… could have come back alive. Because if so: then, Basira is going to see Leo Altman again, moving and seemingly alive, and it won’t be him, and it probably will be worse than The Unknowing for her, on the scale of emotional torture.

- I worry about Basira but, at the same time, I don’t think she’ll get killed soon-ish. The thing is: Basira is still… a plain mystery, for us listeners. We know what she did in the police but we barely know anything about her personal life or thoughts, or what drives her, or… things she likes (except for reading). And she’s been a recurring character for longer than Melanie and Daisy! She has been there a lot, she has been amazing and funny and deadpan, but… I still feel like it’s hard to understand her, because she tends to hide in plain sight. She snaps and makes dry comments and talks about the others, but rarely about herself outside of what she does?

And Jonny has proven that he’s aware of such things: Melanie and Daisy both revealed themselves in MAG131 and MAG133, and these episodes were necessary pieces to understand their current-day behaviour. But Basira is still… concealing and hiding herself. The only glint of her perspective was when she snapped about trusting:

(MAG128) BASIRA: Do you know how I survived the… The Unknowing? ARCHIVIST: I… No. No, I don’t. BASIRA: No powers, no… magic or… help. I was trapped in that place, and so I tried to figure it out. And I did. A little. So I kept doing it. I kept going through until I got out. I… reasoned my way out of that nightmare. ARCHIVIST: Good lord… BASIRA: Then everything ended, and Daisy was gone. And you were gone. And Tim. And then I got back to the Institute, and Martin sent me to meet the new boss. Then I stood alone in an empty office for more than one hour. I can trust me, Jon. That’s it.

(Honestly, on the list of people likely to die soon… I would bet more on Daisy. Because we know her more, she has a drive, she has people she wants to protect. Melanie is still in a vulnerable place and it would feel too much like kicking the puppy – I’m expecting her to get something around John Amherst before she can kick the bucket. Martin is… a likely contender, too, but MAG138 gave me the impression that no, he needs Something more for a potential death to feel satisfying: he needs his story without involving Jon, or not as a constant helper/sacrifice. Basira is facing Her story right now, but, as mentioned, her feelings are still a mystery to us.

Doesn’t mean that Jon&Basira will be safe in Svalbard, I’m fully expecting them to get hit very hard but… we would need Basira’s words and perspective and feelings, I feel, before she could die.)

- On the subject of Basira being secretive… it seems like Jon’s powers get out of control around her the most? He only slipped in front of Melanie when she was heading out to see her therapist (Melanie going out was an odd thing, he was curious and accidentally compelled her) but he… tends to Know a LOT around Basira, in a way that never happens with Daisy for instance. Is it because Basira is hiding herself too much, which kicks his Beholding side into relying on his powers to dig out truths about her? Because he doesn’t understand her and wants to know her, while Daisy just spontaneously agrees to talk and… Melanie has already poured her heart out? He managed to refrain from Knowing about Martin, though, until he consciously tried to use his powers.

I’m in the minority here, but I don’t feel like Basira has been… A New Beholding Avatar in the making overall. She makes me think more about what Gertrude was trying to achieve, actually – staying outside of the box, trying to not get used by the powers and to use them instead, intervening and doing things rather than contemplating and feeding from other people’s misery? She had managed to stay out of The Hunt despite signing a few Section 31 forms (and getting in contact with various spooks: The Desolation, The End, the aftereffects of The Corruption, The Dark…); we know that, unlike Jon, she had been able to stop and quit instead of trying to dig further into the events surrounding Leo Altman’s death: it’s exactly the opposite of what Michael Shelley and Tim did (joining the Institute in order to understand what had happened to a close one who was killed by the powers) and of how Jon himself had behaved back in season 2 and 3 (pushing for knowledge at all costs, including shaking Jude’s hand because it was the only way to get more information about what was happening around him and to him). Comparatively, I tend to see Basira more as unaligned – on a very fine and dangerous line, but… not Beholding yet? She has stopped recording statements and even refuses to witness Jon doing so (“You’re not staying?” “Watching you do your thing? No.”); she constantly scolds Jon for using his powers; she followed Elias’s leads to try and do something to rescue Daisy from the coffin…

(- Aaaaand the answer to “What happened at the end of MAG139?” was that Jon both succeeded and failed to Know at the same time, because he couldn’t process everything!

(MAG140) ARCHIVIST: [SIGH] Yesterday, I tried something I… [INHALE] I–I deliberately tried to… Know something, like I did in the coffin, but… there was a lot. Too much [SIGH], and I… BASIRA: What did you find out? ARCHIVIST: [SNORT] Nothing. There was “too much”. BASIRA: You don’t remember any of it? ARCHIVIST: [SIGH] You drink the whole contents of a bar in three seconds, you don’t remember what the merlot tasted like. [SIGH] It just… hurt.

Sounds a lot like Jon personally knows about the feeling one gets when trying to “drink the whole contents of a bar in three seconds”.

Is all this information within him now, though, and will he be getting a few more coherent pieces later, or was it just a plain failure…?)

(- Even if Rayner turned out to be dead-dead, even if Manuela turned out to have been offed by Gertrude since her statement, you know what’s presumably still around and unkillable? THE DARK’S CREATURE.

I’m not super confident about Jon coming back from this with his two Actual Eyes. Not sure he would still need them to see anyway. But yeah, hum. If he needs a scar, there is a creature that is known for coming back again and again.)

(- I’m not holding out much hope but guuuuh, I wish Julia&Trevor could pop up to fight against The Dark too… given how it was Julia’s story… but she specifically said she wasn’t keen on a long boat trip (after her experience with Darvish&co told in MAG109), and their illegal status makes it hard to fly, so they’re stuck in America…

Wonder, though, if Jon will learn more things about what happened to Julia’s mother, and what Robert Montauk was trying to achieve…)

- Super small tipbits:

* Jon is a Disaster and I love him.

* I’m still Hysterical over Jon&Basira’s interactions, they’re just too damn funny… and heartbreaking at the same time. Because Basira used to find Jon funny! And it sounds like dry scolding, nowadays, with Jon being a bit more biting than joking with her.

* I friggin’ love Basira, holy heck. (“You know, we’ve actually got a group chat going, called “British Cops Who Love To Do Extrajudicial Spook-Killings On Foreign Soil”. I’ll just see if they’re free this Saturday.”)

* I also can’t believe that Jon is slowly filling up a Spook drawer next to his stationery drawer. He’s been hoarding the pens after his inability to find one in MAG123, uh? (AND HE’S KEEPING HIS RIB… I wonder if it will become useful as an anchor at some point, or never, and just be the joke that oh yeah, Jon has a rib hanging around, he has to find somewhere to store it.)

* MmMMMMMMMM, did Jon’s powers TMI about Daisy&Basira?

(MAG140) BASIRA: Coffee. Drink it. ARCHIVIST: I don’t really, er… [INHALE] Fine. [TAKING THE GLASS] BASIRA: You look awful. You tried drinking with Daisy again last night? ARCHIVIST: [CUTTING] She was here last night, as you know.

That final line sounded like JON knew too much about it.

* … That small moment of vulnerability when Basira mentioned that no, Daisy is not coming because they fear that it could make her join The Hunt again…………………. ;_;

* SVALBARD TRIP SVALBARD TRIP SVALBARD TRIP!!

Title for MAG141 is… absolutely NOT ominous at all, I can’t believe nothing bad will happen ahahahah (sob). It… really doesn’t bode well for Basira&Jon, uh… No clue about the entity involved statement-wise, though… Could it be about another journey of the Tundra? John Franklin’s expedition on the H.M.S. Terror – Rayner had been interested in that one back in MAG098, possibly because of Arctic Explorations (though according to MAG133, the crew ended up with The Hunt)?

Anyway: “Nice Boat.” I guess………………………………

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Happy Earth Baba Dr. Ben...

Dr. Yosef Alfredo Antonio ben-Jochannan [A Special Tribute]

The Black Man of the Nile and His Family

Dr. Yosef Alfredo Antonio ben-Jochannan (Dr. Ben) was the preeminent "Multi-Genius of Our Time." Therefore, he cannot be defined nor scrutinized by western academic standards given the fact that he forever altered how classical African civilizations, in particular the Nile Valley, can be viewed and examined in colleges and throughout the global African community.

Furthermore, Dr. Ben’s contributions to academia and the global African community stand alone as he represents not the floor of our potential, but the ceiling in which we can rise to. We, the global African community, adulate Dr. Ben for his groundbreaking scholarship and unprecedented service. Moreover, we praise enthusiastically his great work and sacrifice along with his love for African people and the Nile Valley.

As such, when it comes to the study and understanding of the Nile Valley, no one had a greater impact on the minds and hearts of African people at a global and grand scale than Dr. Ben. As an exceptional thinker and prolific writer, Dr. Ben’s scholarship regarding the Nile Valley along with his service within the global African community is not only exemplary, but unmatched – exceeding all others in terms of scholarly influence, community based impact, and global outreach.

In regards to the African origin of western civilization and religion, Dr. Ben’s contribution to the production of knowledge is monumental as evident in his most celebrated and best-selling magna opera: The African Origins of the Major Western Religions (1970), Africa: Mother of Western Civilization (1971), The Black Man of the Nile and His Family (1972), and We, The Black Jews: Witness to the White Jewish Race Myth (1983). Lesser-known, but no less important texts include collaborations with his frequent associate Professor George E. Simmonds, The Black Man’s North and East Africa (1971) and Understanding the African Philosophical Concept Behind the ‘Diagram of the Law of Opposites (1975) with Evelyn Walker, Dorothy Lee Cobb and Calvin Birdsong. As a spirited public intellectual and iconoclast, Dr. Ben published nearly fifty books and manuscripts.

Undaunted, and with such scholarly publications, Dr. Ben singlehandedly transformed the epistemological and pedagogical landscape of Africana (Black) Studies programs by introducing us to the Nile Valley where he frequently stated that “we came from the beginning of the Nile where God Hapi dwells, at the foothills of the Mountains of the Moon.” Indeed, for Dr. Ben, the beginning started in the Nile Valley on December 31, 1918 at Gondar, Ethiopia where he was born to an Ethiopian father, Kriston ben-Jochannan and a Puerto Rican mother, Julia Matta.

Soon after his birth, Dr. Ben’s family moved to Puerto Rico and St. Croix. After graduating from high school, Dr. Ben further embraced his intellectual quest for knowledge by pursuing higher education and advanced learning. As a result, Dr. Ben upgraded the legal training programs and services in Puerto Rico. Moreover, his thirst for knowledge was fulfilled with his remarkable expeditions around the world.

Having already traveled extensively to the Nile Valley during the summers of his youth, Dr. Ben immigrated to the United States, where he worked as an architect/draftsman in New York.

However, following in his father’s footsteps and inspired by the struggles around safeguarding Ethiopia from the invasion of Italy, Dr. Ben initiated numerous study abroad programs to Ethiopia, Egypt, and the Sudan. This particular experience along with many others laid the foundation for Dr. Ben to become one of the world’s most distinguished public intellectuals / scholars who advanced the study of Nile Valley civilizations.

By continuing his father’s admonition to return to ancient Africa as the foundation for the study of his people, Dr. Ben sparked the study tour movement among Africans away from home that has now become commonplace for African-Americans and others. His study tours of the 1960s and 70s paved the way for Dr. Ben’s historic 1987 pilgrimage to the Nile Valley which was undertaken by Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC) cofounded by Dr. Ben. Dr. Ben’s friend, Emmy Awards broadcaster Gil Noble recorded that pilgrimage for his television show “Like It Is,” and the video for that show has been seen by hundreds of thousands for whom it has become a virtual study tour of the Nile Valley.

As an authentic public intellectual and committed community activist, Dr. Ben skillfully integrated scholarship with service by bringing colleges to the community and the community to colleges. By coalescing scholarship and service, Dr. Ben warmly embraced academia and activism as he cheerfully steered both colleges and community to the Nile Valley where the God Hapi dwells. Dr. Ben, therefore, modeled institutional academic study and research with community activism until his transition on Thursday, March 18, 2015.

As an engaged scholar and involved activist, Dr. Ben, like his mentors Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X, lectured gratuitously to the masses of African people on the street corners of the United States and globally. Dr. Ben also secured teaching positions at Malcolm-King Harlem College, Marymount College, Pace University, Borough of Manhattan Community College, State University of New York at New Paltz, Temple University, Howard University, Cornell University and Al-Azhar University in Cairo.

In addition to his academic responsibilities, Dr. Ben lectured to clusters of Africans in forums as wide-ranging as corporate America, such as Bell Laboratories to the Shrine of the Black Madonna while influencing Pan-African culture-keepers Fela Kuti and Randy Weston. Whether at colleges or in the community, Dr. Ben became known for his no-holds-barred intellectualism and activism while generously embracing Black people wherever he found them. Dr. Ben also disseminated his knowledge through forums as diverse as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Harlem Academy in New York City. Dr. Ben’s 1969 text, Africa, The Land, the People, the Culture marked his preeminent work on behalf of UNESCO.

As the first widely known African scholar to analyze the Abrahamic faith based traditions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) and their origins, Dr. Ben judiciously debated scholars of all three religions and successfully traced the origins of western religions to the Nile Valley by way of primary sources. Dr. Ben’s scholarly publications, such as The African Origins of the Major Western Religions (1970), A Chronology of the Bible: A Challenge to the Standard Version (1973) and the trilogy: Our Black Seminarians and Black Clergy Without a Black Theology (1978), The Myth of Genesis and Exodus and the Exclusion of Their African Origins (1996), and The Need for a Black Bible (1996) serve to inform, inspire, and provoke generations of scholars.

The influence and presence of Dr. Ben are still felt with the likes of Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Dr. James Turner, Dr. Charles Finch, Dr. Wade Nobles, Dr. Maulana Karenga, Dr. Molefi Asante, award winning journalist Herb Boyd, Tony Browder, Ashra Kwesi, Runoko Rashidi, and Professor James Small. Dr. Ben also had a special influence on our female scholars, public intellectuals, and activists such as Dr. Rosalind Jeffries, Dr. Patricia Newton, Dr. Vera Nobles, Dr. Iva Carruthers, Dr. Marimba Ani, Dr. Adelaide Sanford, Dr. Joy DeGruy, Dr. Jewel Pookrum, Rkhty Amen, LaTrella Thornton, and Dr. Frances Cress Welsing. Furthermore, Dr. Ben has inspired a new generation of scholars, public intellectuals, and activists such as Bro. Reggie Mabry, Dr. Greg Carr, Dr. Mario Beatty, Nayaba Arinde, Manbo Asogwe Dòwòti Désir, and Professor Patrick Delices among countless others. Additionally, a special acknowledgment is extended to Dr. Georgina Falu who was also inspired by Dr. Ben and took it upon herself to translate three of Dr. Ben’s major books into Spanish while lecturing throughout Latin America on the contents of Dr. Ben’s works.

Dr. Ben is therefore recognized as the last of the great Black history scholars, public intellectuals, and activists which include the late Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Edward Scobie, Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, Dr. Charshee McIntyre, Dr. Jacob Carruthers, Dr. Richard King, Dr. Asa Hilliard, Dr. Amos Wilson, Steve Cokely, and Dr. Khalid Muhammad.

Dr. Ben’s service to the community is seen by his collaboration and partnership with Minister Louis Farrakhan, Reverend Al Sharpton, and Attorney Alton Maddox. Dr. Ben also worked closely with local community leaders and elders including Sybil Williams Clarke and Drs. Mary and Arthur Lewis in addition to the masses of African people at home and abroad.

Dr. Ben founded, cofounded, and inspired several organizations and institutions including the Africana Studies Department at the City College of New York, the African Nationalist in America [ANIA], the First World Alliance, ASCAC, the Blue Nile, the Board for the Education of People of African Ancestry, and countless others. In one of his most impactful efforts to build and sustain public spaces for African people to learn, debate and share widely the knowledge of our history and culture, Dr. Ben partnered with Bill Jones, Sister Khefa Nephtys and other Pan-African scholars and activists in New York City to initiate the First World Alliance in Harlem. The First World Alliance became one of the country’s oldest and most influential lecture forums devoted to the study of classical Africans civilizations along with the global African presence. First World’s platform hosted hundreds of scholars from the global African community - always beginning its annual lecture series with Drs. Ben and Clarke, as well as their colleagues, Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Dr. Edward Scobie, and Professor James Small.

Dr. Ben also held various pertinent executive positions at several premier organizations, schools, educational / non-profit boards, and cultural institutions. Dr. Ben's special passion was to create a Brotherhood, "The CRAFT" which would reflect the ancient sacred traditions and teachings of the Nile Valley.

In creating his own publishing company, Alkebu-lan Book Associates with his colleague George Simmonds, Dr. Ben joined Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Joel Augustus Rogers and later, Paul Coates and Haki Madhubuti in establishing independent publishing platforms for African thinkers and public intellectuals to advance their ideas and produce knowledge. His company’s distinct texts along with their colorful cardstock covers and unmistakable combination of typeset, maps, reproduced images, ephemera, and intermittent handwritten interjections created a new style of writing that was uniquely Dr. Ben’s.

As a pioneer in the field of Africana (Black) Studies and Egyptology, Dr. Ben, like his colleague and dear friend John Henrik Clarke, produced numerous curricula, lesson plans and countless professional development seminars for educators and activists to enhance the teaching of African history and culture at colleges and in the community. Dr. Ben’s publications on curriculum range from the Cultural Genocide in the Black and African Studies Curriculum (1975) to a study guide he coauthored with Dr. Clarke, which was published for the 1972 Congress of African People in African Congress: A Documentary of the First Modern Pan-African Congress. Moreover, in 1986, his lectures in London with Dr. Clarke, New Dimensions in African History: From the Nile Valley to the New World (1991) now serves as the most influential text and study guide for the teaching of global African history.

Dr. Ben’s lectures are thought-provoking and powerful, especially when examining the relationship between Black women and men – often using what appeared to be an intentionally provocative statement to simply enter a discussion of the centrality of the Black women to African life, cosmology, culture, and societies.

Ultimately, Dr. Ben’s life cannot be fully summarized in this literary tribute to him. However, Dr. Ben’s greatness can be summarized as the “Gift” that keeps on “Giving” for future African generations. In a way, Dr. Ben wrote his own epitaph in his books, manuscripts, lectures, and thousands of hours spent teaching us. Therefore, from this time forth to eternity, Dr. Ben is still teaching us, not at the colleges or in the community, but over the ancestral arc, that we came from the beginning of the Nile at the foothills of the mountains of the moon where the God Hapi dwells with our beloved Dr. Ben.

This tribute statement to Dr. Ben’s life and legacy is a written and research collaboration among Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Professor James Small, Dr. Georgina Falu, Dr. Greg Carr, Dr. Mario Beatty, ASCAC’s Board of Directors, Bro. Reggie Mabry, and Professor Patrick Delices.

Professor Patrick Delices is a political analyst/commentator for the Black Star News and the author of “The Digital Economy,” Journal of International Affairs. For nearly a decade, Prof. Delices has taught Africana Studies at Hunter College. He also served as a research fellow for the late Pulitzer Prize recipient, Dr. Manning Marable at Columbia University. Prof. Delices can be contacted at [email protected]

Via Black Star News

Also see:

- African American Registry

- Dr. Ben -- Black Jewish Historian

- The Nile Valley Civilization and the Spread of African Culture - PDF

#Dr. Ben #African History #Black History #Black Jewish Historian #Dr. Leonard Jeffries #James small #Dr. Georgina Falu #Black Star News

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freenewstoday · 4 years ago

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New Post has been published on https://freenews.today/2020/12/30/bridgertons-queen-charlotte-latest-to-stir-black-debate/

'Bridgerton's' Queen Charlotte latest to stir Black debate

Rhimes’ production company, Shondaland, is behind the new hit period Netflix drama, “Bridgerton” which includes Black and White members of early 19th century British high society.

The series was created by its showrunner Chris Van Dusen and is based on a Regency novel by Julia Quinn. In the show, Britain’s real-life Queen Charlotte is portrayed as a Black woman by actress Golda Rosheuvel.

Many have long believed that the queen, who was married to King George III and is an ancestor of the current Queen Elizabeth, had African ancestry based in part on the images of her.

Yet there are others who dispute that claim.

Quinn talked to The Times about the diverse casting of the show based on her book.

“Many historians believe she had some African background,” she said. “It’s a highly debated point and we can’t DNA test her so I don’t think there’ll ever be a definitive answer.”

Queen Charlotte is just one of many through history whose racial identity has been debated.

Here are a few others:

Ludwig van Beethoven

In September, The Guardian’s Philip Clark wrote about the belief that the famed composer was of mixed heritage.

The writer reported that the theory was floated in 1907 by British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who was mixed and said he saw a resemblance between his features and that of the likenesses of Beethoven.

It’s an idea which Clark says survived the years and was picked up by Black activists Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm X.

“Was Beethoven black? The evidence is scant and inconclusive,” Clark wrote.

“The case rests on two possibilities: that Beethoven’s Flemish ancestors married Spanish “blackamoors” of African descent, or that Beethoven’s mother had an affair. But the truth Carmichael and Malcolm X sought was not scientific. “Beethoven was black” was a grand metaphor designed to unsettle and shake certainty.”

J. Edgar Hoover

The first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was well-known for the work he did to undermine the civil rights movement and its leaders.

In 2011, Barbara A. Reynolds wrote a piece for the Washington Post which examined speculation that Hoover was of mixed heritage and “passing” as a White man prior to his death in 1972.

The story quoted Millie McGhee, author of “Secrets Uncovered, J. Edgar Hoover — Passing For White?” an African American woman who recalled being told she was related to Hoover when she was growing up in McComb, Mississippi.

McGhee said her later research unearthed that they were indeed family.

“Because of Edgar’s anti-black history, I am not proud of this lineage but history must be based on truth,” she said.

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

Was Jackie Kennedy the first Black first lady?

This theory seems to stem from research into her ancestry.

According to information from the New England Historical Society, she was descended from early New York settlers Anthony and Abraham van Salee — who were believed to have been born to Dutch pirate Jan Janszoon and a mixed-race mistress of his.

The piece notes that “When First Lady Jackie Kennedy visited England in 1961, society photographer Cecil Beaton met her at a dinner party. In his journal he commented she had a “Negroid” appearance.

Some historians have also noted that her father, Wall Street stockbroker John Vernou Bouvier III, was called “Black Jack,” which they attributed to his swarthy complexion.

Clark Gable

Gable was known as the tall, dark and handsome “King of Hollywood.”

There has long been talk that he had both Black and Native American heritage, which no one has ever thoroughly documented.

But he was well-known for his early championing of African American civil rights.

In 2005, actor Lennie Bluett told NPR’s “Hearing Voices” about being an extra on the set of “Gone With the Wind” in Culver City, California, in 1938 when he alerted Gable to the fact that there were segregated portable bathrooms marked “White” and “Colored.”

“He looked at me and he read the signs and he cussed like a sailor,” Bluett recalled.

Gable, who was the star of the film, went to the director and the property master and demanded that the signs be removed or else the hundreds of Black extras on the set that day would walk off.

Bluett said the signs were removed.

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best-supermassive-character · 11 months ago

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Hello and Happy Holidays :D

Now that the Supermassive Pairing Tournament is over, I'm happy to share all votes each pairing got :D

Laura Kearney x Max Brinly: 1.826 (245+195+237+357+258+299+235)

Ryan Erzahler x Dylan Lenivy: 1.597 (217+192+197+585+252+154)

Jamie Tiergan x Erin Keenan: 1.528 (202+119+248+423+236+222+78)

Josh Washington x Chris Hartley: 1.511 (1.314+77+120)

Sam Giddings x Hannah Washington: 1.423 (215+109+199+729+171)

The Curator x Dr. Hill: 1.318 (199+108+565+446)

Rachel King x Clarice Stokes: 1.253 (123+97+151+773+109)

Jason Kolchek x Salim Othman: 1.183 (185+142+209+647)

Laura Kearney x Travis Hackett: 1.179

The Curator x Player: 1.131 (312+102+717)

Emma Mountebank x Abigail Blyg: 1.092 (147+78+752+115)

Emily Davis x Jessica Riley: 1.091 (152+92+241+441+165)

Ashley Brown x Jessica Riley: 1.054 (160+136+142+590+26)

Matt Taylor x Jessica Riley: 1.005 (185+116+160+544)

Conrad x Brad Smith: 982 (107+65+168+258+223+161)

Nick Kay x Salim Othman: 818 (23+30+219+546)

Becky Marney x Felicity Graves: 806 (488+157+161)

Beth Washington x Sam Giddings: 728 (126+136+173+293)

Mike Munroe x Jessica Riley: 701 (116+124+180+281)

Fliss DuBois x Julia: 651 (157+94+400)

Laura Kearney x Hannah Washington: 559 (100+104+150+205)

Laura Kearney x Kaitlyn Ka: 512 (217+140+155)

Jeff Whitman x Marie Whitman: 391 (140+81+170)

Kate Wilder x The Curator: 387

Dylan Lenivy x Chainsaw: 374 (164+56+154)

Mark Nestor x Kate Wilder: 343 (88+103+152)

Dar Basri x Eric King: 334 (115+70+149) + Josh Washington x Jessica Riley: 334 (115+44+175)

Emily Davis x Ashley Brown: 311 (175+78+58)

Nick Kay x Jason Kolchek: 287 (194+93)

Kate Wilder x Jamie Tiergan: 257 (66+147+44)

John x Angela: 230 (106+124)

Nick Kay x Salim Othman x Jason Kolchek: 222 (81+141)

Ashley Brown x Chris Hartley x Josh Washington: 220 (170+50)

Emma Mountebank x Kaitlyn Ka: 219 (68+70+81)

Emily Davis x Sam Giddings: 194

Conrad x Fliss DuBois: 193 (123+52+18)

Alex Smith x Julia: 192 (109+55+28)

Chris Hartley x Ashley Brown: 183

Daniel x Taylor: 162 (127+35)

Hannah Washington x Jessica Riley: 161 (41+97+23)

Beth Washington x Laura Kearney: 159 (120+39)

Tanya Clarke x Vince Barnes: 149 (107+42)

Hannah Washington x Emily Davis: 147 (114+33)

Conrad x Josh Washington: 131 (108+23)

Eric King x Nick Kay x Rachel King: 127 (76+51)

Max Brinly x Laura Kearney x Travis Hackett: 124

Hannah Washington x Ashley Brown: 118 (89+29)

Kurum x Balathu: 110 (45+65)

Kaitlyn Ka x Ryan Erzahler x Dylan Lenivy: 108

Matt Taylor x Ashley Brown: 105 (91+14)

Brad Smith x Fliss DuBois: 103

Adam Jones x Jonathan Finn: 96 (76+20)

Granthem Du’Met x Kate Wilder: 92 (81+11)

Joseph Lambert x Amy Lambert: 83

Mike Munroe x Jessica Riley x Emily Davis: 79

Joe Roberts x Charlie Anderson: 72

Nick Furcillo x Abigail Blyg: 69

Kate Wilder x Shelby: 65

Eric King x Nick Kay: 61

Conrad x Brad Smith x Fliss DuBois: 57

Sam Giddings x Jessica Riley: 56

Kate Wilder x Erin Keenan x Jamie Tiergan: 55

Jacob Custos x Nick Furcillo: 51

Emma Mountebank x Kaylee Hackett: 49

Nathan Merwin x Joey Gomez: 48

Mark Nestor x Kate Wilder x Jamie Tiergan x Erin Keenan: 47

Rachel King x The Ancient One: 45

Kate Wilder x Julia: 42

Nick Kay x Rachel King: 41 (18+23)

Kate Wilder x Erin Keenan: 38

Brad Smith x Dylan Lenivy: 36

Erin Keenan x Rachel King: 34

Beth Washington x Emily Davis: 26 + Danny x Olson: 26

Conrad x Beer x Rachel King: 24 + Granthem Du’Met x Jamie Tiergan: 24

Granthem Du’Met x Erin Keenan: 21 + Kate Wilder x Michelle Morello: 21

Salim Othman x Dar Basri: 20

Tabitha Milton x Taylor: 19

Mark Nestor x Joseph Morello: 18

Abraham Alastor x Tabitha Milton: 17

Conrad x Jacob Custos: 16

Lady Bradshaw x Ellis van Huyten: 14

Charlie Anderson x Hodgson expedition: 10

Revenant Carver x Judge Wyman: 9

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Omg, thank you for doing these things! They are so interesting to look at

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A black boy learns contradicting lessons of manhood and masculinity on the day of his cousin’s funeral. A pronounced Bruyning production in association with Cookout Entertainment. Winner of 2020 Sundance Jury Award for U.S. Narrative Fiction. Starring Antonio J. Watson as Jeremiah Cheikh M’Baye as Junior Jaime Lincoln Smith as Joseph/Father Simbi Kali as Aunt Julia Abebaw Edward Silver as Kelon Armand Rufen-Blanchette as Isaiah Stephen Cofield Jr. as Uncle Karynrose Bruyning as Mary Crew Writer and Director: Terrance Daye Executive Producer: Karynrose Bruyning Director of Photography: Kristin Kouke Executive Producers: Wangechi Mutu, Khalid Livingston, Elegance Bratton, Jordan E. Cooper Line Producer: Lillian Hanan Al-Bilali Producers: Karynrose Bruyning, Terrance Daye, Chester Algernal Creative Producer: Alyssa Loh Casting Director: Kate Geller Production Designer: Avigail Gutfeld Costume: Zoey Wiesenborn Lighting Design: Rachel Fae Szymanski Assistant Director: Eris Qian 1st Assistant Camera: Kameron Davis 2nd Assistant Camera: Jess X. Snow Sound Mixer: Deboleena Maitra Script Supervisor: Aisha Ford Gaffer: Larry Zhang Swing: Yongxiao Yang Production Assistants: Cey Scott, Rachel Harrison Gordon, Deshon Leek, Dorian Purse, Jerrica White, Lizette Terry, Micah Ariel Watson, Efe Kabba, Blanche Akonchong, Alex Abrahams Visual Effects Artist: Richard Cabrera Colorist: Sam Daley Sound Designer: Ben Devine Artwork: Kendrick Daye, Jordyn Daye Catering: WithBee

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artwalktv · 4 years ago

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March 21, 1864, President Lincoln writes to siblings Clara Brown and Julia Brown and thanks the children for sending him an "Afghan." The Browns, of Buffalo, New York, asked Lincoln to "remember that you have little friends in Buffalo who pray for you." Lincoln answers, "I especially like my little friends; and although you have never seen me, I am glad you remember me for the country's sake, and even more, that you remember, and try to help, the poor Soldiers." [Clara Brown and Julia Brown to Abraham Lincoln, 9 March 1864, Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Abraham Lincoln to Clara and Julia Brown, 21 March 1864, CW, 7:258.] Glory for the Brave Amazon https://t2m.io/yKyvdj1X kindle https://t2m.io/Uiw7XiiC iBook https://t2m.io/BiwhKot6 Nook https://t2m.io/HPkXeCNb Google Play https://t2m.io/7mrtgMrv Kobo https://t2m.io/8m46203M

Soldier with blanket wrapped around shoulders Creator(s): Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, artist Date Created/Published: [between 1860 and 1865] Medium: 1 drawing on blue paper : pencil ; 8.9 x 5.5 cm. (sheet). Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-20254

#american civil war #soldiers #lincoln #photooftheday

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Detroit Wolf City meme ✗. Favorite pack ( Queen’s Polmadie without betas )

“ TEMAAAAAN. Queen se queda, pero prácticamente la Polmadie está deshecha… Julia ha muerto, Abraham se irá, Bastian desapareció y eso la hace… ALFA. MUAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA. TEMAN TODOS, INICIA EL REINADO DE OSCURIDAD. “ ( x ) ( @threesxuls )

#dwcchallenge #yo también necesitaba responder con esta manada HAHAHAHAHAHAHA #soy taaaaaaaaan fan de ese momento @@''''''''#y siento si el post es cutre; pero necesitaba usar esos gifs @@''''''''#y también copio el mensaje de Ale de la cuenta de Queen #¡viva Queen! hahahahahaha #edits*

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Every Baby Name We Could Possibly Think Of

Naming your baby is a big decision, and with endless options, it can also be a difficult one. Whether you're going the traditional route or want something more unique (if so, read this first!) it's helpful to have a little, or a lot, of inspiration. Ahead, you'll find nearly every baby name we could think of (close to 1,000!). These aren't just random names we found in a book or concocted ourselves - they're almost all monikers we've heard being used, or we actually know someone who goes by the name. If we missed any, tell us in the comments! A Aaliyah Aaron Abbie Abel Abigail Abraham Adalyn Adam Addilyn Addison Adelaide Adeline Adley Adora Agatha Aiden Alan Albert Aleph Alexander Alexis Ali Alma Alton Ama Amanda Amaryllis Amber Ameila Amélie Amy Anders Anderson Andrea Andrew Angie Angela Angelica Anika Anna Annalise Anne Annie Ansel Apple April Arata Archie Aria Ariane Ariel Arlee Arlo Arman Arthur Arun Arwen Arya Asha Asher Aspen Atticus Aton Aubrey Audrey August Augustus Aurora Ava Avery Axel Aziz B Bailey Barack Barbara Barney Barry Beatrice Beau Beckett Beckham Becky Ben Benedict Benjamin Bennett Bentley Bernadette Beth Bette Betty Beverly Bexley Bianca Bill Billie Bingham Bishop Bitsie Blake Blue Bobby Bodhi Bonnie Bowie Brady Braelynn Brandon Brayden Brecken Bree Brent Brenton Brett Brian Briana Briar Bridgette Brienne Brig Brigham Brinley Brio Britta Brock Brody Bronwyn Brooklyn Bruno Bryan Byron C Caden Caitlin Caity Cale Caleb Calla Calvin Camari Cameron Camilla Carena Carina Carl Carmel Carol Carrey Carter Cary Casey Caspian Cat Catherine Celine Chandler Chanel Channing Charise Charlene Charles Charlotte Chase Cher Cheri Cheriann Cheryl Chevy Chip Chloe Chris Chrissy Christian Christopher Claire Clara Clark Clary Claudia Clementine Clifford Clint Clinton Clyde Colin Collins Condoleezza Connor Conrad Constance Coolidge Cooper Cora Corban Courtney Cruz Related: 100 of the Most Beautiful Baby Names D Daisy Dale Dallas Damon Dane Danica Daniel Danielle Daphne Darby Darlene Darrel Daryl Dashiell Dave David Davina Davis Davon Dawn Dean Deanna Declan Dekel Delaney Delilah Delta Dennis Denzel Desmond Dev Devon Dexter Diane Dinah Dixie Dixon Dolores Dominique Donald Doris Dorothea Dorothy Dot Duke Duncan Dwight Dylan E Easton Ed Eden Edith Edmund Edward Effie Eleanor Elena Eli Eliana Elijah Elise Elizabeth Ella Elle Ellen Ellerie Ellie Elliott Ellis Elodie Eloise Elora Elroy Elsa Elsie Embry Emerson Emily Emma Emmett Eric Erica Esme Esmeralda Esther Ethan Ethel Eugene Evan Eve Evelyn Everett Evie Ewan Ezra F Farah Fay Felix Ferris Finn Fiona Fisher Fitz Fleur Flint Florence Floyd Flynn Ford Forrest Foster Fox Frances Frank Franklin Frederick G Gabe Gabriel Gaige Gail Gant Garrett Garth Gavin Gem Gemma Gene Genesis Gertrude George Gianna Gibson Gigi Gina Ginger Gladys Glenn Gloria Gordon Grace Grady Graham Grant Grayson Greer Gregory Griffin Grover Gus Gwen Gwyneth H Hadlee Hailey Hal Halle Hank Hannah Harding Harlow Harlyn Harold Harper Harriet Harrison Harry Hart Hartley Harvey Haven Hawk Hawthorne Hayden Hayes Hays Hazel Hector Heath Heather Helen Henley Henry Hillary Honor Holden Holly Holt Hope Hubert Hudson Hugo Humphrey Hunter Hurley Hutton Related: Based Off Last Year's Trends, These 30 Names Will Be Among the Most Popular of 2017 I Ian Ida Idris Ike Imanuel Imogen India Indy Ingrid Inizio Ireland Iris Irvin Isa Isaac Isabella Isabelle Isaiah Isla Israel Ivana Ivory J Jack Jackie Jackson Jacob Jacqueline Jaden Jaelyn Jagger Jake James Jameson Jamie Jane January Jason Jasper Jaun Jax Jaxon Jayce Jayden Jeannette Jed Jeff Jefferson Jenna Jess Jessica Jessie Jill Jillian Joan Joanna Joaquin Joe John Jones Jordan Joseph Josephine Josh Joshua Joslyn Joss Joy Joyce Judith Judy Jules Julia Julian Julie Juliet Julius June Juno Justin K Kai Kaia Kale Kalinda Kane Karah Katharine Kathryn Kate Kay Kaya Kaylee Keanu Keegan Keira Keith Kellan Kelly Kelsey Kendall Kennedy Kevin Khloe Kiah Kiele Kiera Kim Kima Kimberly Kingston Kinsley Kirk Kit Kitty Knox Krista Kristen Kurtis Kyle Kylie L Laith Lake Lana Landon Lane Larissa Larkin Laszlo Laura Lauren Lawrence Layla Leah Lee Leia Leighton Leilani Lena Lennon Leo Leonard Leslie Levi Lewis Leyona Lia Liam Liana Lida Lilith Lillian Lily Lincoln Lindsay Lionel Lisa Lisette Liz Logan Lois Lola London Loretta Lorraine Louella Louise Lucas Lucian Lucille Lucy Luke Luna Lux Lyle Lyndon Lynne Related: 100 Unusual Boy Names M Mabel Mabrey Mac Macallan Mackenzie Macy Madeleine Madelyn Madison Mae Maeby Maggie Mahershala Maia Makena Malcolm Maleeya Malia Mamie Mandy Marabelle Marcus Maren Margaret Margot Mari Maria Mariah Mariam Marilyn Marin Marion Marisole Marisse Marjorie Mark Marlene Marlon Marlowe Martha Martin Mary Mason Matilda Matthew Maui Mavis Maximus Maxson May Maya McKinley Megan Melissa Meredith Merritt Meryl Meyer Mia Michael Michelle Mika Mike Mila Mildred Miles Millie Milo Moana Molly Monica Monroe Montgomery Morgan Moses Muhammad Murray Myles N Nahall Nahla Nancy Nanette Naomie Nasima Natalie Nate Nathan Naveen Naya Neil Neisa Neo Neoma Newt Newton Niall Nicholas Nick Nico Nicole Nicolette Nigel Nile Nimah Nixon Noah Noel Nolan Nora Norma Norman North Nova O Obama Octavia Olly Olive Oliver Olivia Omar Opal Ophelia Ordell Oriana Orion Orlando Orson Orville Oscar Otis Otto Owen P Paige Paislee Paloma Pandora Paris Parker Patrick Patsy Paul Payton Pearl Peggy Penelope Penn Penny Perry Pete Peyton Phillip Phoebe Phoenix Phyllis Pierce Piper Polly Poppy Porter Posey Preston Primrose Priya Prudence Priscilla Q Quaid Quincy Quentin Quinn Quinten R Rachel Radley Rae Ralph Ramsey Rayna Rayne Reagan Rebecca Reese Reeve Reid Reign Remi Renly Rex Rhea Rhett Rhys Richard Rick Riley Ripley River Rivers Rob Robert Robin Rome Romy Ronald Ronin Rooney Roosevelt Rory Rosalind Rosalynn Rosamund Rose Rosemary Ross Rowan Roy Royce Ruby Rue Ruth Rutherford Ryan Ryder Related: 100 Unique Yet Beautiful Girls' Names S Sacha Sage Sahara Saint Sam Samuel Sandra Sandy Sansa Sarah Saul Savannah Sawyer Scarlett Schuyler Scout Sean Sebastian Selena Sena Seymour Shane Shannon Shea Shelly Sherlock Sherry Shiloh Shirley Sia Sidney Sienna Simon Skyler Sloan Sofia Solo Sonia Sophia Sophie Spencer Stacy Stanley Stella Stephanie Sterling Stetson Stuart Sue Sullivan Summer Suri Susan Sylvia T Tabitha Tad Tamera Tamsyn Tanner Tara Tate Taylor Teagan Teddy Terrance Thea Thelma Theordore Theresa Thomas Tim Tina Tinley Toby Todd Tom Tony Travis Travon Trent Trey Tricia Trinity Tripp Tristan Troy Truman Turner Tyler Tyson V Valentina Valentine Vance Vaughan Vaughn Vera Vern Victor Victoria Viggo Vince Vincent Viola Violet Virgil Vivian W Waldo Walker Wallis Walter Warren Watson Waverly Wells Wes Wesley Westley Whitney Will Willa William Willow Wilson Winter Wolfe Wren Wyatt X Xander Xavier Xeno Y Yanet Yani Yigal York Yuma Yvette Z Zachary Zahir Zander Zane Zaylee Zayn Zion Zoe Zola Zooey Zora Zuma Zuri Related: These Are the Most Popular Baby Names of 2016 http://bit.ly/2kR9iwY

#Baby Names

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