#Archibald Roosevelt

[ted-calling-orson]

so I thought it would be silly if I turned the roosevelt family into warrior cats and added a rose theming to their names but my god it was harder than I thought

if I missed your favorite roosevelt then pls inform me and I’ll try to think of a name for them

[fatehbaz]

"The globe"

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By the dawn of a century christened as both the American and the geographic century, [...] European explorers and cartographers actively filled the last [apparently] remaining terrae incognitae [on their maps and globes] [...] and excited economic [...] interest [...] in near and far parts of the world and their markets. As imagined [...] in ambitious [...] projects such as the "Millionth Map" [...] in 1891, this world was deemed a sufficiently homogeneous entity […]. [A]t least among the white, free populations of various metropoles[,] […] Europeans [...] established one single imaginary of the world, [...] a meticulously surveyed global environment. [...] On the Western side of the Atlantic, on the other hand, maps and globes heralded, braced, and promoted the expansionist projects of [...] a century of national coming of age for the United States [...] [and its] spatially unsettled, globalizing empire. [...] Americans viewed maps and globes [...] as "arbiters of power" [...]. Drawing a direct line between geography and wars of empire, President McKinley, for instance, told an audience of missionaries […] that, once his prayers to God about the “Filipino question” had been answered, his first presidential order was for “the chief engineer of the War Department (our map-maker) to put the Philippines on the map of the United States” [...]. Americans [...] needed to pay special attention [...] to those recently-made-cognita regions (such as the Philippines, Hawaii, Guam, and Puerto Rico [occupied by the US]) [...]. [H]oping to materialize the "global Monroe Doctrine," [...] Americans' lives were mapped onto a cartographically known, commercially accessible, cognitively smaller world [...], inscribing it in their own “imperial vernacular” [...].

Text by: Mashid Mayar. "What on Earth! Slated Globes, School Geography and Imperial Pedagogy". European Journal of American Studies 15-2. Summer 2020.

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Simply put, World War II made the United States a planetary presence. State Department officials furiously churned out wartime memos establishing U.S. policy - often for the first time - regarding every nation, colony, region, and sub-duchy on the map. [...] In 1898 imperial expansion had inspired new maps. The 1940s wartime expansion yielded a similar burst of cartographic innovation. [...] Life devoted a fifteen-page spread to the “Dymaxion map” [...]. More popular was the “polar azimuthal projection” perfected by the dean of wartime cartography, [R.E.H.]. [...] The map was an enormous hit, reprinted and copied frequently. [...] The U.S. Army ordered eighteen thousand copies, and the map became the basis for the United Nations logo, designed in 1945. “Never before have persons been so interested in the entire world,” gushed Popular Mechanics. [...] The world must be seen anew, the poet Archibald MacLeish wrote, as a “round earth in which all the directions eventually meet.” “If we win the war,” he continued, “the image of the age which now is opening will be the image of a global earth, a completed sphere.” That word MacLeish chose, global, was new. [...] If the last war was a world war, this one was, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt put it in September 1942, “a global war.” That was the first time a sitting president had publicly uttered the word global, though every president since has used it incessantly. For Christmas that year, George Marshall presented FDR with a five-hundred-pound globe for the Oval Office. Placed next to Roosevelt’s desk, it was comically large. It resembled the globe with which Charlie Chaplin had performed an amorous dance two years earlier in The Great Dictator, only bigger. [...] “Just as truly as Europe once invaded us, with wave after wave of immigrants, now we are invading Europe, with wave after wave […],” wrote the journalist John Hersey in 1944. Except it wasn’t only Europe. The “invasion” landed in force on every continent [...].

Text by: Daniel Immerwahr. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. 2019.

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[A]n empire's use of narratives of technological progress to expand towards the "ends of the earth" [...] naturalize[d] dominance over the global commons [...]. As the Pentagon declared in 1961, the “environment in which the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps will operate covers the entire globe and extends from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of interplanetary space” […]. Extraterritorial spaces, such as the high seas, Antarctica, and outer space, are imaginatively, historically, and juridically interconnected. Their international legal regimes […] [were] developed in the midst of the Cold War […]. [M]odern ways of imagining the earth as a totality [...] claimed for militarism […] derive from colonial histories of spatial enclosure. Denis Cosgrove [...] points to the [...] [late eighteenth-century British Empire's] encirclement of the globe through Cook's navigation of the seas, which allowed for colonial claims to expand to a planetary scale. [...] This circumnavigation in turn led to [...] establishment of Greenwich mean time as a world standard [...]. [T]his encirclement is both a spatial claim to the planet and a temporal one, in that it plots time from a British center. [...] In the memorable words of [...] McLuhan [from 1974, relating to US surveying] [...]: "For the first time the natural world was completely enclosed in a man-made container [...]." The first photograph of the earth from outer space was taken by a V-2 rocket shot from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico in 1946 […]. [A]n Apollonian eye, [...] the [...] photographs [...] were part of a context in which […] popular US magazines used wartime cartography in ways that naturalized militarism and empire under the guise of a unifying view of the globe.

Text by: Elizabeth DeLoughrey. "Satellite Planetarity and the Ends of the Earth". Public Culture, Volume 26, Issue 2, pages 257-280. Spring 2014.

[im-phoenix-black]

I don't know but I copy pasted the whole thing enjoy

Lisa Alther, author, born and grew up in Kingsport

Edward L. Ayers, Bancroft Prize-winning historian and ninth president of the University of Richmond, raised in Kingsport

Barry Bales, Grammy Award-winning musician with Alison Krauss and Union Station

James F. Barker, president of Clemson University (1999–2013)

Nick Castle, actor who played Michael Myers in the original Halloween, was born in Kingsport and makes appearances at the local haunted houses.

Jeff Chapman-Crane, Appalachian artist

Harry Coover, inventor of Super Glue

Denny Crawford, professional football player

Amy Dalley, country music artist

Bobby Dodd, College Football Hall of Fame inductee as both a football player (University of Tennessee) and coach (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Bobby Eaton, professional wrestler

Elle and Blair Fowler, online beauty retailers who spent part of their childhoods in Kingsport

Daniel Kilgore, professional football player, Kansas City Chiefs

Cliff Kresge, Nationwide Tour golfer who splits his time between homes in Kingsport and Florida

Mark H. Landes, U.S. Army major general[37]

Hal Lawton, President & CEO of Tractor Supply, graduate of Sullivan South High School

Blake Leeper, Paralympic silver medallist[38]

Cripple Clarence Lofton, noted boogie-woogie pianist and singer, born in Kingsport

Matt Mahaffey, musician, frontman of pop/rock band Self

Brownie and Stick McGhee, brothers and blues musicians, grew up in Kingsport and other East Tennessee towns

Ken Mellons, country music artist

John Palmer, former NBC News correspondent, born in Kingsport and a graduate of Dobyns-Bennett High School

Jimmy Quillen, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 1st congressional district (1963–1997)

John Shelton Reed, sociologist and essayist, author or editor of eighteen books, most of them dealing with the contemporary American South

Selwa Showker "Lucky" Roosevelt, Chief of Protocol of the United States from 1982-1989 and former journalist for the Washington Post, married Archibald B. Roosevelt, grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt

Coty Sensabaugh, cornerback for the Pittsburgh Steelers

Gerald Sensabaugh, retired NFL cornerback, played for the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Dallas Cowboys

LeRoy Sprankle, high school multi-sport coach, author, and general manager of the Canton Independents

Adam Steffey, bluegrass artist

Bill Streever, biologist and author

Cyrus Thomas, entomologist and ethnologist

Steven Williams, actor who starred in 21 Jump Street and The Blues Brothers

I mean I didn't recognize any of the names and I'm from there

[happilyshadowyfest-blog]

Major Archibald Butt

"Major Archibald Butt was a journalist, U.S. Army officer, and military aide to U.S. presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft. During his tenure of service to President Taft, Butt perished in the sinking of the Titanic." (New Georgia Encyclopedia)

Aide and confidant to two American Presidents (T.R. Roosevelt and Taft) he traveled to Europe in 1912 where it is reported he visited American embassies in Paris and Berlin, met the pope in Rome, and visited England.

Major Butt was accompanied by a close friend, the artist Frank Millett. Some modern historians speculate that the two had a homosexual relationship.

In Jack Finney's 1995 science fiction novel, From Time to Time, 'Archie' travels as an envoy of Presidents Taft, Roosevelt and Wilson, bearing a critical message which will prevent world war and save the lives of millions.

No one alive today knows the reasons for Major Butt's European trip.

Jack Finney died in 1997.

[shesboundtobruise]

A few random headcanons:

Lou loves German beers.

She texts like she writes: Proper spelling and punctuation ( best to her ability, which is high ). She doesn’t like shorthand and she refuses to do it even while intoxicated. While on the texting subject, she also hates autocorrect and the option is turned off on her phone.

Karaoke favorites include “What’s Up?” by 4 Non Blondes and “Dancing With Myself” by Billy Idol.

Her temper flares at some of the silliest things, but she’s gained a bit of control over that ( for instance: when the toilet paper is put in the “wrong” way ). It's called growth.

Lou tends to name electronic devices or anything she owns and uses often. Her car, as I’ve noted many times before, is Roosevelt, her phone is Archibald, her laptop Duchess of Earl ( after the Pearlettes song ).

[whosaidberenice]

Archibald Roosevelt playing with his pony on the White House in 1902.

[petiteclover]

The Roosevelts in 1903.

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Colorized by me

[guyboulianne]

Le livre du militant anticommuniste Manning Johnson, « Couleur, communisme et bon sens », est maintenant disponible aux Éditions Dédicaces. Ce livre fut publié une première fois en 1958 par Alliance, Inc., sous le titre : « Color, Communism and Common Sense ». Manning Rudolph Johnson, né à Washington, DC le 17 décembre 1908, était un chef afro-américain du Parti communiste américain et le candidat du parti pour le représentant américain du 22e district du Congrès de New York lors d’une élection spéciale en 1935. Il quitta plus tard le Parti et devint informateur et témoin du gouvernement.

L’Association nationale pour la promotion des gens de couleur (NAAC) a-t-elle aidé le Noir américain, ou l’a-t-elle empêché d’avancer dans la société ? À qui revient la mission de déclasser une communauté noire en « ghetto » et de voir à ce qu’elle reste un « ghetto » ? Qu’a fait la Cour suprême des États-Unis à la vie de plus de 130 000 enseignants noirs qualifiés dans le Sud ? Qu’ont fait les communistes, en 1928, pour assurer l’insurrection des « droits civils » d’aujourd’hui ? Qui a vraiment commencé la ségrégation des églises dans le Sud ?

Ces questions provocantes et beaucoup d’autres trouvent une réponse superbement approfondie dans ce livre de 124 pages — abondamment documenté et illustré — par un Noir américain patriotique et serviteur de Dieu qui a été attiré par le communisme avec des promesses utopiques, qui a gravi les échelons élevés de la conspiration, puis soudainement et dramatiquement a vu la réalité à travers les flatteries. Ce fut le jour où Manning Johnson a été confronté à la réalisation soudaine qu’il était utilisé comme activiste dans le complot visant à détruire sa terre natale. Le livre inclut la retranscription d’un discours non daté, enregistré sous le titre de : « Discours d’adieu de Manning Johnson ».

Ce livre de Manning Johnson, « Couleur, communisme et bon sens », a été cité par G. Edward Griffin dans sa conférence cinématographique du 3 avril 1969, intitulée : « More Deadly Than War: The Communist Revolution in America ». Archibald Roosevelt, un fils du président américain Theodore Roosevelt et agent de la Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a écrit la préface du livre en tant que président de The Alliance, Inc. En décrivant son expérience communiste, il a affirmé que le Parti communiste des États-Unis d’Amérique (CPUSA) était sous le contrôle du Politburo soviétique, dont il prétendait être membre, et que Gerhart Eisler (nommé en 1946 par Louis F. Budenz à la tête de l’espionnage soviétique aux États-Unis) était le représentant du pays soviétique.

Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Manning Johnson a servi dans la marine américaine. Il est décédé des suites d’un accident de voiture survenu le 26 juin 1959, juste au sud du village de Lake Arrowhead, en Californie. Il est enterré au cimetière militaire de Fort Rosecrans à San Diego, en Californie.

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« Il faut lire cet ouvrage pour comprendre comment l’opposition contrôlée peut être prise en charge par l’ennemi du peuple. » — Guy Boulianne

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Manning Johnson, par l’éditeur Bill Bowman

Peu de gens ont entendu parler de Manning Johnson (1908 – 1959). C’était un homme noir unique, intelligent et influent de New York qui a été recruté avec succès par le Parti communiste américain à un très jeune âge. Son travail en tant qu’organisateur communautaire communiste était de convaincre les Noirs américains que l’Amérique blanche continuerait de les supprimer et que leur vie serait tellement meilleure sous un gouvernement socialiste / marxiste / communiste.

En 1953, Manning Johnson (à gauche) accusa le révérend Jack Richard McMchael (à droite), un ministre méthodiste, d’être un ancien communiste. Photo de presse 1953 (7 x 9,25 pouces). Collection privée: Guy Boulianne.

Il était très bon dans son travail et a gravi rapidement les échelons du Parti communiste jusqu’à ce qu’il occupe l’un des postes les plus élevés de leur comité national. Là, il a été formé pour perturber les villes et les villages, organiser des foules, inciter à des émeutes, attaquer la police pour comprendre comment « jeter une brique et se cacher de manière stratégique et avec tact ».

Tout cela vous semble-t-il familier? Cela le devrait.

Miraculeusement et surtout à cause de son éducation chrétienne, Johnson a eu une révélation et a réalisé que les stratégies, tactiques et mensonges communistes n’étaient pas du tout bénéfiques pour les Noirs américains et ne faisaient que causer plus de difficultés et de répression. Il a vu la tromperie et comment le rejet des valeurs américaines traditionnelles et le mépris du christianisme ont abaissé la valeur de l’humanité et la qualité de vie. C’est à ce moment qu’il est devenu le témoin du gouvernement opposant le socialisme et le communisme.

Beaucoup de gens ne connaissent pas ce patriote américain qui a précédé le Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Johnson aimait l’Amérique et aimait son peuple et, comme le Dr King, a finalement donné sa vie en faisant passer le mot, en éduquant et en avertissant les Noirs américains de la cruauté et des stratégies diaboliques utilisées par la gauche libérale en colère dans leur tentative de remettre les États-Unis au Parti socialiste et communiste. C’était la mission et la passion de Johnson jusqu’à sa mort prématurée en 1959.

Johnson a témoigné devant le Congrès à plusieurs reprises sur le complot communiste visant à prendre le contrôle de l’Amérique. Son témoignage est l’affaire d’un enregistrement. Son témoignage et les menaces qui pèsent sur notre démocratie sont aussi pertinents aujourd’hui qu’ils l’étaient alors. Après avoir quitté le Parti communiste en 1940, il a écrit un livre étonnant intitulé « Couleur, communisme et bon sens ». Ce livre aurait pu être écrit hier. Il détaille ses expériences avec les dirigeants communistes et la conspiration de la gauche libérale et les tactiques sordides qu’ils utilisent. Mettre fin à la démocratie et au capitalisme ne nous apportera jamais la paix et la prospérité. Personne ne peut nommer même un seul pays où le socialisme a réussi.

J’encourage tout le monde à lire le livre de Manning Johnson et à écouter son discours d’adieu en ligne. Remarquable! C’était un homme formidable. Ce livre est extrêmement pertinent et aurait pu être écrit hier. Rien qui se passe en Amérique aujourd’hui n’est nouveau. Le socialisme et le communisme ne sont PAS une bonne chose pour l’Amérique et, à la fin, la Constitution des États-Unis perdurera. Les Américains s’uniront sans distinction de religion, de race, de couleur ou d’affiliation politique. Ensemble, nous rejetterons ces tentatives non américaines de perturber et de démanteler notre pays.

Bill Bowman, éditeur “Up & Coming Weekly” www.upandcomingweekly.com

Le livre de Manning Johnson a été cité par George Edward Griffin dans sa conférence cinématographique du 3 avril 1969, intitulée « More Deadly Than War: The Communist Revolution in America », sur la théorie et la pratique communistes de la révolution, particulièrement appliquée aux États-Unis (numéro OCLC: 5549058).

Malgré la croyance répandue que le communisme est mort, cette conférence donnée en 1969 est loin d’être dépassée. Le communisme a changé son nom en social-démocratie mais continue d’être une force révolutionnaire dynamique dans le monde. S’appuyant sur les manuels révolutionnaires marxistes, M. Griffin montre qu’il existe deux types de révolution: violente et non violente. L’étape non-violente est accomplie au nom de la démocratie, et c’est là que la plupart de l’action se déroule en Amérique aujourd’hui. 76 min de vidéo, noir et blanc.

Le livre du militant anticommuniste Manning Johnson (1908-1959) : « Couleur, communisme et bon sens » est maintenant disponible Le livre du militant anticommuniste Manning Johnson, « Couleur, communisme et bon sens », est maintenant disponible aux Éditions Dédicaces.

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Life With Father

If you’ve ever come across the byline B.H. Arkwright, you were most likely reading the work of Clarence Day Jr., who in February 1931 began writing for the New Yorker under that pseudonym and also under his given moniker, which in four short years would become a household name. Jan. 21, 1933 cover by Theodore Haupt. In the Jan. 21, 1933 issue Day would publish his first humorous story in the New…

[zuko-always-lies]

So, question, because I see people saying it often that Iroh has the right to feel animosity towards Azula because she made fun of/derided Lu Ten's death (or something like that), but does she actually do that in that scene? Or does she express disdain for Iroh's reaction, which considering the culture could easily be interpreted as Iroh being the one to make light of it? (Pretty sure there's at least one instance in _Romance of the Three Kingdoms_ where one character absolutely annihilates an opposing force because his brother/father/friend dies, if we want a real-world example of the mentality. Or, like, all of _The Hagakure_.)

Does Azula call Lu Ten a coward for dying? Or does she say that Iroh is for not "getting justice" or revenge for his son's death? For not finishing the task and abandoning the cause Lu Ten died for?

Because one of these means Iroh's dislike could be justified (nevermind the fact that he wasn't present for this conversation, so if he knew about it, he would have only heard about it from Zuko). But the other is an angry/disappointed/disgusted child calling an adult out.

Good question! I think I should start by talking about what Zuko and Azula actually say about Iroh.

"The Western Air Temple"(featuring 13 year old Zuko!):

Iroh: (Iroh looks on, concerned) Prince Zuko, it's only been a week since your banishment. (Cut to a far back view shot of the 2) You should take some time to heal and rest. Zuko: (turns around and raises his voice) What else would I expect to hear from the laziest man in the Fire Nation? (Cut to a close up of Iroh's slightly appalled face as he looks down and sighs) The only way (Cut back to a frontal shot of uncle and nephew) to regain my honor is to find the Avatar. So I will.

"The Headband":

Zuko: (standing at the bars) You brought this on yourself, you know. We could have returned together. You could have been a hero! (Iroh turns a shade further away from Zuko.) You have no right to judge me Uncle. I did what I had to do in Ba Sing Se, and you're a fool for not joining me. (Iroh is silent.) You're not gonna say anything? (Enraged, he kicks a stool and bends a blast of fire at the wall.) Argh! You're a crazy old man! You're crazy, and if you weren't in jail, you'd be sleeping in a gutter!

Zuko says some pretty negative things about Iroh, right to Iroh's face!

Now, what negative things does 14 year old Azula say about Iroh? Surprisingly little, even though she clearly doesn't like him. She implicitly calls him a traitor a couple times(during times when he is, in fact, a traitor by all reasonable definitions), but never really explicitly does so. Beyond that, there's very little. This is the only thing I can think of:

Azula: So...I hear you've been to visit your Uncle Fatso in the prison tower. Zuko: (standing, incensed) That guard told you.

Which is actually way less harsh than what Zuko says about Iroh! If anything, Azula's behavior in the present suggests that she only rarely criticized, much less mocked Iroh's behavior to his face when she was younger.

Now let's turn to the meat of your question, "Zuko Alone." There are two scenes in that episode where Azula criticizes Iroh. The first comes before Lu Ten's death:

Ursa: "And for Azula, a new friend. She wears the latest fashion for Earth Kingdom girls." (As Ursa speaks, Azula picks up a doll wearing Earth Kingdom green. The Princess makes a face of disgust.) Azula: If Uncle doesn't make it back from war, then dad would be next in line to be Fire Lord, wouldn't he? (In the background, Zuko runs around practicing with his new dagger.) Ursa: (disappointed) Azula, we don't speak that way. It would be awful if Uncle Iroh didn't return. And besides, Fire Lord Azulon is a picture of health. Zuko: How would you like it if cousin Lu Ten wanted dad to die? Azula: I still think our dad would make a much better Fire Lord than (looking at the doll with disdain) his royal tea loving kookiness. (She holds out the doll and makes its head burst into flame. The screen flashes white and the flashback ends.

There are several things which seem to be driving Azula's actions here. The first is a reaction to the massive favoritism Iroh just showed toward Zuko. The second is a belief, no doubt inspired by Ozai's poisonous statements about his brother, that Ozai, who Azula idolizes, would make a better Firelord than Iroh. Finally, Azula is a confused child who is asking inappropriate questions because she's too young to understand proper boundaries. Nothing she says here is actually that serious, and I would expect a responsible adult(i.e. not Ursa) to either shrug it off, or to carefully reason with Azula in order to explain why what she is saying is problematic.

Now we turn to the other main scene, the one right after Lu Ten's death, and the one you probably actually wanted me to talk about:

Azula: (getting up and walking over to him) By the way, Uncle's coming home. Zuko: Does that mean we won the war? Azula: No. It mean's Uncle's a quitter and a loser. Zuko: What are you talking about? Uncle's not a quitter. Azula: Oh yes, he is. He found out his son died and he just fell apart. (leaning against a nearby pillar) A real general would stay and burn Ba Sing Se to the ground, not lose the battle and come home crying. Zuko: (angry) How do you know what he should do? (looking down, sadly) He's probably just sad his only kid is gone... forever.

You might note that, again, Azula doesn't say anything negative about Lu Ten. You've already noted that Iroh is thousands of miles away at the moment, so having him be "justified" in his hatred of Azula by a conversation he didn't hear doesn't make sense.

Azula is also very angry in this scene, quite possibly the angriest we ever see her at any point. That does suggest that she's taking what's happened, either Lu Ten's death or the abandonment of the siege, very personally. I don't know enough to comment specifically on this, but you are right in that there might be cultural background which specifically proscribes the achievement of vengeance as being of particular importance, and Azula is thus outraged that Iroh failed to fulfill his duty to his son.

But that not at the core of Azula's critique here. What Azula is attacking Iroh for is that he responded to a personal loss by abandoning his duty in the heat of battle, and she is 100% right on this, not only by the standards of Fire Nation cultural but also by the standards of modern western culture. Fun fact: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and Robert E. Lee(screw the latter two, but that's another story) all suffered the loss of children they dearly loved in the middle of the American Civil War, yet none of them abandoned their duty. Archibald Roosevelt(another problematic figure) had two brothers die in WWII, yet he continued fighting on the front line. John W. Geary literally had his son die in his arms in the middle of battle, yet he continued commanding his unit well enough to prevail. Hell, we can even turn to Joseph Stalin here, to some extent.

Again, the core of what Azula says here is absolutely correct. Iroh is a "quitter" because he responded to Lu Ten's death by falling apart and abandoning the siege when it seemed on the brink of success, rather than continue the operation until victory. I don't think we need to go further than that to establish that Azula is entirely justified calling Iroh out here. And again, she doesn't criticize or mock Lu Ten at all, instead only attacking Iroh's reaction to Lu Ten's death.

[ted-calling-orson]

guys should I write down some ideas/headcanons for my Roosevelt animated tv show?

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The Forgotten Muckraker Who Inspired UC To Start A Football Team

As the University of Cincinnati Bearcats suit up for their 135th season, it is almost assured that no one will recall the name of David Graham Phillips. He never played for any UC team and – although enrolled – never attended any UC classes, yet Phillips was profoundly influential as UC organized its first football squad.

Archibald Irwin “Arch” Carson Sr. (1864-1951) ought to know. Carson was there at the very beginning, team captain for UC’s first two football seasons. Since 1910, UC’s teams have competed on Carson Field, named in recognition of his role. Carson recalled the earliest days of Cincinnati’s pigskin enthusiasm on several occasions with slight variations, but he always credited novelist and crusading journalist David Graham Phillips for providing the initial impetus. Here is the version as reported in the 1927 Cincinnatian yearbook:

“Arch I. Carson was the captain of that first Cincinnati eleven. It was he who organized the team upon the suggestion of David Graham Phillips, the year before, and it was he who sent away to a big commercial house in the east for the first football, because there were none in the city of Cincinnati at that time.”

And here is the version as recorded by the Cincinnati Enquirer [17 December 1934] in a profile of Carson:

“The first team at the University was organized largely through the interest of David Graham Phillips, famous author, who aroused interest in football in Cincinnati two years prior to the organization of the team . . . Local sporting goods stores did not handle football equipment in those days. In 1885, Phillips had to send to New York to get a football.”

Even though Carson was the source for both of these reports, they differ in significant details. The 1927 Cincinnatian story has Carson sending to New York in 1884 for a football and a first game against some Mount Auburn amateurs in 1885. The 1934 Enquirer piece has Phillips sending for the football in 1885 and the first game against Mount Auburn in 1886. Both, however, agree that the initial idea for a UC football team originated with Phillips.

Few people today have ever heard of him, but David Graham Phillips was an A-list celebrity during his lifetime. Born and raised in Madison, Indiana, Phillips apparently enrolled simultaneously at Asbury (later DePauw) University in Greencastle, Indiana, and at the University of Cincinnati. Although he actually attended classes in Greencastle, the 1883 UC Bulletin lists Phillips among the freshman class in Cincinnati that year – along with Archibald Carson.

In 1885, when he was either buying a football for Carson or urging Carson to buy a football, Phillips dropped out of Asbury and transferred to Princeton University as a junior. Phillips returned to Cincinnati soon after graduating from Princeton, working first at the Cincinnati Times-Star where he was a general assignment reporter and later at the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette as a feature writer and gossip columnist.

While Phillips was earning his journalistic bona fides at the Cincinnati dailies, UC scheduled its first intercollegiate match against Miami University in Oxford on 8 December 1888. It is not clear whether Phillips attended that earliest game. The local papers gave it little mention.

Not long after that first UC-Miami game passed into the record books, Phillips departed Cincinnati for New York, where he wrote for the New York Sun and the New York World. In his spare time, he wrote his first novel, “The Great God Success.” The novel sold well enough that Phillips resigned from newspapers to embark on a career as a free-lance journalist. His hard-hitting 1906 investigation of political corruption, published as a series titled “The Treason of the Senate” by Cosmopolitan magazine, earned him a national reputation. President Theodore Roosevelt was not amused; it is believed that Teddy coined the term “muckraker” specifically to describe Phillips. On the other hand, that series of articles was instrumental in removing 17 Senators from office and in passing the Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution providing for the direct election of Senators, rather than their appointment by state legislatures.

Phillips published 18 novels, many delving into controversial topics at the time, including prostitution, pre-marital sex, predatory capitalism, political corruption and urban blight. The plot of his 1909 page-turner, “The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig,” is representative of his interests and explorations. According to the South Bend, Indiana, Tribune [16 January 1909]:

“The title of the book gives at once a suggestion of the character of the story – a story of strong, virile personality set among the frothy superficialities of society life in Washington. Joshua Crag, a young western lawyer, is striving to make a name for himself in national politics. In spite of his utter disregard of conventionalities and his frank contempt of the narrowness of the aristocracy, he finds among them one true woman, Margaret Severence. He fights for the supremacy of his fundamental ideas, and slowly but surely the ‘lady’ in her gives way to the ‘woman,’ and she finally yields; and becomes the quiescent wife of a future governor.”

Buried in the details of that novel, a disgruntled violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra named Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough imagined clues that Phillips was plotting against him and his family. Goldsborough, scion of a prominent Maryland political family, stalked the famous author as he traveled around New York City and, on the afternoon of Sunday, 22 January 1911, shot him outside the Princeton Club at Grammercy Park. Phillips lingered for two days until he died. Goldsborough shot himself immediately after the attack and died at the scene. In the years after his death, at least six of Phillips’ novels were adapted for the movies, with one, “Old Wives For New,” directed by Cecil B. DeMille.

Today, David Graham Phillips is hardly remembered at all, his books gathering dust and the films they spawned unwatched and even lost. As the UC team charges out for another season on Arch Carson Field, it is fitting to spare a thought or two for the man who first got the ball rolling for the university, so to speak.

[fatehbaz]

Regarding this map, in How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr writes: ‘Richard Edes Harrison’s polar azimuthal projection, first published by Fortune in July 1941 and copied widely thereafter [...]. The original accompanying text explained how “the entire conflict pivots around the U.S.” Arrows extending out from New York and San Francisco show the global flow of lend-lease aid.’

Also from How to Hide an Empire, Immerwahr writes: ‘The original UN emblem, designed by Donal McLaughlin, a member of the Office of Strategic Service (the precursor to today’s Central Intelligence Agency). McLaughlin modified the emblem a year later, adding the bottom of South America and tilting the map in order to make North America less obviously the center of the world.’

Excerpt:

Simply put, World War II made the United States a planetary presence. State Department officials furiously churned out wartime memos establishing U.S. policy -- often for the first time -- regarding every nation, colony, region, and sub-duchy on the map. One can almost see the cartoon sweat-bullets popping out from their faces as they wrestled with what position to take vis-a-vis Outer Mongolia, Northern Bukovina, [...] or Subcarpathian Ruthenia -- all places that appeared on their agendas. [...]

In 1898 imperial expansion had inspired new maps. The 1940s wartime expansion yielded a similar burst of cartographic innovation. Writers tapped surprisingly deep reservoirs of feeling as they touched on the subject of map projection. The long-familiar Mercator map, which showed North America protected on both sides by enormous oceans, became an object of scorn. It had worked well enough in an age of east-and-west sail, but the editors of Life deemed it “a mental hazard” in an age of aviation, when planes could reach Eurasia from North America by flying over the Arctic Sea.

There were other options [...]. Life devoted a fifteen-page spread to the “Dymaxion map” by the inventor Buckminster Fuller: fourteen detachable segments that could be folded into a tetradecahedron or assembled into various flat maps, as the user chose.

More popular was the “polar azimuthal projection” perfected by the dean of wartime cartography, Richard Edes Harrison. It showed the continents huddled around the North Pole, a jarring angle of view that highlighted aviation routes and showed how dangerously close North America was to Germany’s European empire.

The map was an enormous hit, reprinted and copied frequently. Joseph Goebbels waved it in reporters’ faces as proof of the United States’ world-conquering ambitions.

The U.S. Army ordered eighteen thousand copies, and the map became the basis for the United Nations logo, designed in 1945.

“Never before have persons been so interested in the entire world,” gushed Popular Mechanics. Certainly the technicalities of representing a spherical planet on a map’s flat surface had never commanded such fascination. As public consciousness expanded, the details of cartographic projection mattered. The world must be seen anew, the poet Archibald MacLeish wrote, as a “round earth in which all the directions eventually meet.”

“If we win the war,” he continued, “the image of the age which now is opening will be the image of a global earth, a completed sphere.”

That word MacLeish chose, global, was new. There are scattered instances of its use to refer to the world starting in the nineteenth century, but not many before the 1940s. [...]

If the last war was a world war, this one was, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt put it in September 1942, “a global war.” That was the first time a sitting president had publicly uttered the word global, though every president since has used it incessantly.

For Christmas that year, George Marshall presented FDR with a five-hundred-pound globe for the Oval Office. Placed next to Roosevelt’s desk, it was comically large.

It resembled the globe with which Charlie Chaplin had performed an amorous dance two years earlier in The Great Dictator, only bigger. [...]

“Just as truly as Europe once invaded us, with wave after wave of immigrants, now we are invading Europe, with wave after wave [...],” wrote the journalist John Hersey in 1944. Except it wasn’t only Europe. The “invasion” landed in force on every continent save Antarctica.

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From: Daneil Immerwahr. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. 2019.

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if you could rename the characters from life and death, what names would you use? for example Alice's name is Mary Alice so Archie could have a name beginning with M, the same applies to Bella. The only name I find beautiful is Jessamine kkk

I love the name Jessamine too.  It didn’t come off as “weird” to me because I knew a Jessamyn in high school, so it sounds pretty normal and natural but I get that to some others it might sound strange!

“Clarissa” or “Clarice” have a lot of the same letters as Carlisle and a similar ‘weird’ vibe, although both are unlikely for the era. They also both mean something like ‘bright’ or ‘shining’ which is nice.. More realistic C names from the era might be something like Catherine or Cecily (also similar letters and weird-to-modern ears), or virtue names like Clemence or Charity or Constance. But since ‘Carlisle’ itself is so unrealistic for the era, maybe go weird and use Clarissa or Clarice? 

Earnest is fine, although I can’t help but think of the nickname “Ernie” and that sort of ruins it for me because I just picture Ernie from Sesame Street which goes against the whole alluring vampire vibe for me. Honestly ‘Esme’ especially with the single E at the end spelling can be used as a male name.  But to me the name most similar to “Esme” in feeling is probably “Ezra.” 

Royal is … not my favorite. “Robert” was popular for the era, but probably not ‘special’ enough for him.  Roscoe? Russell? Roland? Rodney? “Roosevelt” was apparently used in the era, and means ‘field of roses’ so echoes “Rosalie” well. I don’t particularly like it as a first name though. I’d probably settle for ‘Russell’ if I had to, but nothing really feels right. 

Eleanor is a fine name but doesn’t seem to parallel “Emmett” to me at all.  I mean, Emma is right there, and has a similar cuddly vibe. 

Archie doesn’t bother me but I’m bothered by whether his full name is Archibald, especially since he had an eternally shaved head.  “Alistair” would be a cool masculine twist on Alice if it weren’t already in use in the original canon. Albert, Alexander, Alvin.  “Alex” sounds the most like Alice, but Albert and Alvin have more of the “grandparent name” vibe. Although with Albert now we get Bert to go with our Ernie… 

I’d keep Jessamine!

What I liked about ‘Edward’ is that she gave him a frumpy old man name and didn’t try to hide it, so I found it weird that she insisted that her female vampire heartthrob needed a frilly special name. Edtih is fine! Better than Edwina or Edna anyway. 

Beau obviously matches Bella well, but Beaufort is worse than Isabella by an order of magnitude. Like, I get why Beau would hate his name, but Bella’s reaction seemed extreme. I don’t think hating the full version of their names really matters in the scheme of things, though; you could take it out and the story would be the same, so let’s just have Beau be his full name? 

Julie doesn’t feel much like Jacob, but the “Julie of the wolves” reference is spot-on so it can say. 

[ailedhoo]

A video on the Bengal Famine and Winston Churchill’s by BadEmpanada.

BadEmpanada examines the cult of personality around Churchill with how the Bengal Famine have been left out the “ideal leader” narratives, along with how British imperialism shaped the famine & the racist imperial ideology of Churchill. The suffering of India under the British Empire is examined by the video, along with the Indian independence movement .

Additional summary of elements from the video below:

The starvation in Bengal around 1941 is examined and the responses of the colonial authorities, along with how food was taken out of Bengal to far off lands during the famine, along with seizure of land by the imperial forces of Britain. The Quit India Movement is also examined and the crackdown by the British authorities against the Indian National Congress.

Churchill’s attitude and policy on Bengal is examined, along with how even parts of the British imperial authorities in India ended up frustrated with Churchill. The actions of the British Empire had been harmful to the food situation in Bengal. When the famine in Bengal begins how the British reacted is examined, relative historically to the Irish potato famine. As BadEmpanada  notes:

“the response or lack to a famine can determine how severe it is.”

The excessive taking of food by Britain is examined, along with the censoring of the situation in Bengal by the British central government, along with the exposure of the famine by India’s Statesman newspaper. Churchill response to requests to relief the famine was... sickening, particular in certain... similarities to Nazi policy in occupying the countries they invaded. The refusal for shipping requests for food... Churchill and the War Cabinet were not interested in relieving the Bengal Famine.

When relief was set by a official it was too late... when then it was blocked by Churchill, blocking shipping relief to Bengal by the dominions in the British Empire, including Australia and Canada.  The only mercy came from a rice harvest in Bangel but the population was weakened by the famine.

After 1944 the Bengal Famine became world news but Churchill continued to drag his feet on him. Churchill only approached Roosevelt only because a threat of resignation from Archibald Wavell in his War Cabinet.

Winston Churchill was not the only figure responsible for the severeness of the Bengal Famine: many in the British imperial administration, including Archibald Wavell himself, had some hand in priorities and local Indian political figures had some issues but none of this was akin to Churchill’s stance to want India to get as little as possible, through his racist hatred of Indians. He had the power and countless chances to stop the damage from the Bengal Famine but for him excess of the British Empire was more important than starving Indians.

As BadEmpanda remarks: one of the most spiteful injustices in history. One can only imagine how many would starve to death if Churchill got his way...

[guyboulianne]

[Par Guy Boulianne] — J’aurai bientôt la joie de publier la première traduction française du livre du militant anticommuniste Manning Johnson, sous le titre : « Couleur, communisme et bon sens ». Ce livre fut publié une première fois en 1958 par Alliance, Inc., sous le titre : « Communism, and Common Sense ». Manning Rudolph Johnson, né à Washington, DC le 17 décembre 1908, était un chef afro-américain du Parti communiste américain et le candidat du parti pour le représentant américain du 22e district du Congrès de New York lors d’une élection spéciale en 1935. Il quitta plus tard le Parti et devint informateur et témoin du gouvernement.

L’Association nationale pour la promotion des gens de couleur (NAAC) a-t-elle aidé le Noir américain, ou l’a-t-elle empêché d’avancer dans la société ? À qui revient la mission de déclasser une communauté noire en « ghetto » et de voir à ce qu’elle reste un « ghetto » ? Qu’a fait la Cour suprême des États-Unis à la vie de plus de 130000 enseignants noirs qualifiés dans le Sud ? Qu’ont fait les communistes, en 1928, pour assurer l’insurrection des « droits civils » d’aujourd’hui ? Qui a vraiment commencé la ségrégation des églises dans le Sud ?

Ces questions provocantes et beaucoup d’autres trouvent une réponse superbement approfondie dans ce livre de 124 pages — abondamment documenté et illustré — par un Noir américain patriotique et serviteur de Dieu qui a été attiré par le communisme avec des promesses utopiques, qui a gravi les échelons élevés de la conspiration, puis soudainement et dramatiquement a vu la réalité à travers les flatteries. Ce fut le jour où Manning Johnson a été confronté à la réalisation soudaine qu’il était utilisé comme activiste dans le complot visant à détruire sa terre natale. Le livre inclut la retranscription d’un discours non daté, enregistré sous le titre de : « Discours d’adieu de Manning Johnson ».

Ce livre de Manning Johnson, « Couleur, communisme et bon sens », a été cité par G. Edward Griffin dans sa conférence cinématographique du 3 avril 1969, intitulée : « More Deadly Than War: The Communist Revolution in America ». Archibald Roosevelt, un fils du président américain Theodore Roosevelt et agent de la Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a écrit la préface du livre en tant que président de The Alliance, Inc. En décrivant son expérience communiste, il a affirmé que le Parti communiste des États-Unis d’Amérique (CPUSA) était sous le contrôle du Politburo soviétique, dont il prétendait être membre, et que Gerhart Eisler (nommé en 1946 par Louis F. Budenz à la tête de l’espionnage soviétique aux États-Unis) était le représentant du pays soviétique.

Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Manning Johnson a servi dans la marine américaine. Il est décédé des suites d’un accident de voiture survenu le 26 juin 1959, juste au sud du village de Lake Arrowhead, en Californie. Il est enterré au cimetière militaire de Fort Rosecrans à San Diego, en Californie.

« Il faut lire cet ouvrage pour comprendre comment l’opposition contrôlée peut être prise en charge par l’ennemi du peuple. » — Guy Boulianne

Oui, je souhaite être averti(e) de la publication du livre

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Manning Johnson, par l’éditeur Bill Bowman

Peu de gens ont entendu parler de Manning Johnson (1908 – 1959). C’était un homme noir unique, intelligent et influent de New York qui a été recruté avec succès par le Parti communiste américain à un très jeune âge. Son travail en tant qu’organisateur communautaire communiste était de convaincre les Noirs américains que l’Amérique blanche continuerait de les supprimer et que leur vie serait tellement meilleure sous un gouvernement socialiste / marxiste / communiste.

En 1953, Manning Johnson (à gauche) accusa le révérend Jack Richard McMchael (à droite), un ministre méthodiste, d’être un ancien communiste. Photo de presse 1953 (7 x 9,25 pouces). Collection privée: Guy Boulianne.

Il était très bon dans son travail et a gravi rapidement les échelons du Parti communiste jusqu’à ce qu’il occupe l’un des postes les plus élevés de leur comité national. Là, il a été formé pour perturber les villes et les villages, organiser des foules, inciter à des émeutes, attaquer la police pour comprendre comment « jeter une brique et se cacher de manière stratégique et avec tact ».

Tout cela vous semble-t-il familier? Cela le devrait.

Miraculeusement et surtout à cause de son éducation chrétienne, Johnson a eu une révélation et a réalisé que les stratégies, tactiques et mensonges communistes n’étaient pas du tout bénéfiques pour les Noirs américains et ne faisaient que causer plus de difficultés et de répression. Il a vu la tromperie et comment le rejet des valeurs américaines traditionnelles et le mépris du christianisme ont abaissé la valeur de l’humanité et la qualité de vie. C’est à ce moment qu’il est devenu le témoin du gouvernement opposant le socialisme et le communisme.

Beaucoup de gens ne connaissent pas ce patriote américain qui a précédé le Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Johnson aimait l’Amérique et aimait son peuple et, comme le Dr King, a finalement donné sa vie en faisant passer le mot, en éduquant et en avertissant les Noirs américains de la cruauté et des stratégies diaboliques utilisées par la gauche libérale en colère dans leur tentative de remettre les États-Unis au Parti socialiste et communiste. C’était la mission et la passion de Johnson jusqu’à sa mort prématurée en 1959.

Johnson a témoigné devant le Congrès à plusieurs reprises sur le complot communiste visant à prendre le contrôle de l’Amérique. Son témoignage est l’affaire d’un enregistrement. Son témoignage et les menaces qui pèsent sur notre démocratie sont aussi pertinents aujourd’hui qu’ils l’étaient alors. Après avoir quitté le Parti communiste en 1940, il a écrit un livre étonnant intitulé « Couleur, communisme et bon sens ». Ce livre aurait pu être écrit hier. Il détaille ses expériences avec les dirigeants communistes et la conspiration de la gauche libérale et les tactiques sordides qu’ils utilisent. Mettre fin à la démocratie et au capitalisme ne nous apportera jamais la paix et la prospérité. Personne ne peut nommer même un seul pays où le socialisme a réussi.

J’encourage tout le monde à lire le livre de Manning Johnson et à écouter son discours d’adieu en ligne. Remarquable! C’était un homme formidable. Ce livre est extrêmement pertinent et aurait pu être écrit hier. Rien qui se passe en Amérique aujourd’hui n’est nouveau. Le socialisme et le communisme ne sont PAS une bonne chose pour l’Amérique et, à la fin, la Constitution des États-Unis perdurera. Les Américains s’uniront sans distinction de religion, de race, de couleur ou d’affiliation politique. Ensemble, nous rejetterons ces tentatives non américaines de perturber et de démanteler notre pays.

Bill Bowman, éditeur “Up & Coming Weekly” www.upandcomingweekly.com

Publication prochaine du livre du militant anticommuniste Manning Johnson (1908-1959) : « Couleur, communisme et bon sens » — J'aurai bientôt la joie de publier la première traduction française du livre du militant anticommuniste Manning Johnson, sous le titre : …