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the-starlight-writer · 5 years ago

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The Positivity Patrol

~Clementine and her circle of friends~

Clementine Reed

16-year-old British-Ghanaian, born and raised in England. Eldest child born 25th of March. She’s the chaotic good, brightly-coloured friend and the most positive person you’ve ever met. 5′9″.

She’s an avid observer and daydreamer and will notice what makes you sad before you do. She loves to look after other people and counsel people who need help even if they don’t have the confidence or courage to ask for it.

As the eldest sibling, she’s basically a second parent in her house but when she’s not at home, she’s excitable and giddy and child-like. She’s also a straight-A student so she’s always busy. Clementine spends her infrequent alone time storyboarding and drawing webtoons. She dreams of making people smile with her stories and art.

When she can afford it, she goes to concerts and festivals just to soak in the energy of others. And to listen to music. That too.

Her mother is her role model and they have a cordial relationship with the occasional show of affection. Clementine wishes she would pay more attention to her but she’d rather die than tell her already-busy mother that she needed help.

(more under the cut if you’re interested in my WIP “The Moon’s Boy”!)

Dahlia Natarajan

16 and a half British Desi. High-functioning lesbian. Middle child. Born 17th of July. Goth aesthetic princess with a heart of gold. 5′4″.

Dahlia’s been Clementine’s best friend since they were about 11 years old and she’s always been the parent friend who stops Clementine from jumping off buildings holding umbrellas, thinking she can fly.

She’s the kind of girl that wakes up at dawn to drink milk boba and bullet journal. Dahlia writes long, winding poetry about death that will never see the light of day and dreams of having a hanging basket chair in her bedroom.

Her presence is understated and people tend to forget when she’s around because of how quiet she is but Clementine always knows where she is. Hope, her equally quiet girlfriend learned how to translate her facial expressions into feelings for when Dahlia just can’t find the words to express herself.

Dahlia’s constantly dripping in silver jewellery and is really looking forward to getting her earlobe pierced three more times. Wants Demonia boots for her birthday.

Despite her dark exterior, she loves small children and wants to be a nursery/kindergarten teacher when she gets older.

London Cordova

17-year-old Spanish demiboy (he/they) living his best pastel life. Only child. True neutral person that just wants the world to burn sometimes. Big D&D fan - he’s always a mage. Tea fan. 5′11″.

London loves to paint dark images in bright, pastel colours and happy things in dark colours. He once made Dahlia a customised set of notebooks and bullet journal books for her birthday and made Clementine a fanart book of the characters in her webtoon. His art is a means of self-expression but if it makes someone happy, he’s pleased to make something for them.

He grows flowers in his dad’s back garden and on his windowsill to press them into his scrapbooks and to give to his favourite people. He used to keep them in a vase on his desk but watching them wilt made him sad. Despite all his brightness, he’s chronically depressed.

London’s chubby and he thinks it makes him cuter. He occasionally wears eyeliner, blush and regularly draws hearts under his eyes. His signature look consists of large, colourful, oversized sweaters, joggers, a black coat and a brown bag with his sketchbook and art supplies in it. Sometimes, he wears formal clothes but that’s because his dad asks him to. His dad never asks him for anything.

London is an excellent listener and gives the best advice he can but it doesn’t usually turn out very well. He directs the people he can’t help properly to Clementine.

Avery Blue

An 18-year-old English boy with soft edges and dark insides, Avery is the guardian friend. He’s very quiet and supportive, the kind of person that encourages his friends to pursue the things that they enjoy. The youngest child of two. President of the school newspaper club. 6′2″.

Avery is your quintessential casual, hipster boy. His favourite season is autumn, he wears dark, layered clothes; takes photos for fun with his Nixon camera and lights incense to calm his spirit.

He loves writing essays on topics that interest him and does a lot of research for his articles. Clementine is his favourite person in the Positivity Patrol. She brings him new ideas to write about and listens to him talk about the things he likes. They hang out after school.

He and London share gardening tips, he’s always trying to convince Dahlia to let him publish her poetry in the newspaper and works on Clementine’s webtoon with her.

He prefers iced tea to coffee but he drinks it when he’s with Clementine so that she doesn’t feel strange for drinking it.

He’s a people person and gets along with everyone he talks to because of his calm, welcoming demeanour.

Let know if you want to be added to the taglist for my WIP - The Moon’s Boy!

taglist: @itismakyo @joyful-soul-collector @straysvoices

#character info #character dump #character building #character description #moodboard #character moodboard #wip #wip: the moon's boy #writers #writers on tumblr #oc #my oc #protect them at all costs

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jennacolemans · 6 years ago

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The Man in the High Castle - Character Bios from Amazon’s X-ray feature - requested by anonymous

John Smith

John Smith was born in Manhattan in 1917, the second son of a prosperous Wall Street Banker. In many ways, John's early life looked picture perfect. Any hint of superiority, however, was tempered by his father, who instilled a deep sense of civic duty and propriety in his sons. The boys were four years apart in age. John looked up to older brother Chris, a star athlete and an A-student, following in suit. In 1927, when John was 11, Chris collapsed and was soon wheelchair bound. In March, 1929, The Wall Street Crash struck, and overnight American banking institutions folded. John's father was financially ruined and promptly took his own life. And so, at 13 years old, John Smith swore to himself that he would never allow himself to break. Even when his beloved brother passed away, two years later, John Smith pressed on. Despite witnessing a New York City that had become decrepit and corrupt, and a failing America that had been gutted once more by the 1933 assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, John was still determined and still a patriot. He earned a degree at Princeton, he joined the New York Mayor's office, implementing programs to get America back to work, and, when war loomed, he signed up for officer training at West Point. where he proved a natural solder and tactician. Graduating to a post within the US Signal Corps. By 1942. John Smith was a 1st Lieutenant. In 1943, he was promoted to Captain and re-deployed to the Pentagon to advise all branches of the military on intelligence gathering. During this time, he met and married Helen McCrae, the beautiful, accomplished daughter of two Harvard academics. Helen became pregnant with their first child in July, 1945. Just a few months later, the American government fell to the New Reich. Smith saw surrender as the right thing to do. America had lost. Nothing in the US arsenal could compete with Nazi nuclear power. So, John Smith assimilated into the interim government, in sincere hope he could lessen the brutality of Nazi retaliation against rebel uprisings. He could save American lives. He could keep those he loved safe. Nazism is survival.

Wyatt Price

Wyatt Price is the alias of an Irishman who fled Nazi Europe in 1944 to seek refuge in unconquered North America. Though Ireland had remained neutral at the outset of The War, large numbers of Irishmen had been called to fight and more took to the front after nearly 400000 British soldiers were killed or otherwise defeated at the beachhead in Dunkirk, France in 1940. In September of that year, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was killed in a German air raid, and the war raged on. Young Liam had been away from home for a year, fighting for the British Army. In January, 1942, the British Government fell to the Reich. England was occupied, but fierce resistance continued in Wales and Scotland for two more years. In 1944, the remnants of the British Isles were finally conquered. When Ireland capitulated to German rule, Irish men and women left the mainland In droves, pushing off the coasts by night, bound for the Americas. Young Liam was among those who fled. In America, Liam became Wyatt Price. He had seen his fair share of horrors back in Europe. He had lost almost his entire family, and wanted to start anew. But war was encroaching on North America as well, and in 1945 Germany took the continent, dropping the A-Bomb on the capital. For two years, Wyatt fought in the Rebel American War. By 1947, badly beaten, and starved of resources, the resistance was forced underground. Wyatt's surviving network spread out. Some military comrades stayed on the East Coast in the Greater Nazi Reich, while others dispersed to the Neutral Zone in the former American heartland, where 'freedom' became simply another word for ‘lawlessness’. It was in this wild, neutral territory that Wyatt established himself. He became known as a shrewd, resourceful fixer. He was depended on by many, but trusted no one. He never spoke of the past, he never told anyone his real name. He shrouded himself in secrecy and misinformation. He could smuggle anything, obtain official-looking documents; it was impossible to know whose side he was on. And Wyatt liked it that way. It was the best way to stay alive while doing so-called dirty work. He had long abandoned the fight for liberty and justice in this world. He resigned himself to mating for justice in the next one.

Juliana Crain

Juliana has a tendency for deep introspection and even depression - a result of her father's death, which cast a shadow over her life. She was 10 and her sister Trudy nearly 3 when the A bomb fell on Washington, D.C. Within days, the American government had surrendered. Intense resistance followed and life became hard for white Californians. The Japanese occupation was brutally enforced. White people were denied ownership of major businesses. Anyone not bowing to a Japanese citizen in the street was shot dead. By the time Juliana completed high school, the San Francisco where she was born was unrecognizable. But, despite the horrors, many things about Japanese culture fascinated Juliana - its orderliness, beauty, food, and subtle philosophy. She persuaded a Japanese Dojo to take her on as an Aikido student and found she had a talent for the martial art and its focus on energy, poise, and balance. Nevertheless, the atmosphere of oppression and obedience in the JPS was draining. Over the years Juliana's depressions deepened until, one day, she stepped in front of a bus, determined to set herself free. Death, however, was not In store for Juliana Crain. Instead, she found herself injured and in the arms of a young passerby, Frank Fink. Over the course of her recovery, the two established a strong bond that became a deep love. But as she began to settle into a life with Frank, a restless searching began to rise once more within her. On the night she witnessed her sister Trudy's execution at the hands of the Kempeitai, Juliana Crain stepped once more into the unknown, this time to answer the call of a transcendent force, somewhat akin to destiny.

Takeshi Kido

Takeshi Kido was born in 1917 in the town of Koriyama, Japan. The son of a tenant farmer, Kido was the fourth of eight children. Theirs was a hard life with no prospects for improvement, of backbreaking work, and unpredictable, often swift, death. In 1930, a 13-year-old Kido took the intelligence test given to 15-year-old prospective students for the Japanese Intelligence Service and scored off the charts. In 1932, he ran away from home to join the Army and was recruited into the Kempeitai — the highly respected Japanese military police and intelligence force. Kido excelled not just because of intellect but because of his strength of will and unyielding sense of patriotic duty. His drive to succeed was unmatched. Orders that might give others pause had no effect on the young officer. Kid0 was serving in Manchuria when the Japanese army invades deeper into China in 1937. The infamous Rape of Nanking occurred during this campaign, and Kido was confronted with a level of brutality he had never before imagined. Such horrors left an indelible mark on him. In the intervening years, Kido became a seasoned officer, serving honorably across many bloody campaigns. He witnessed many horrors including the Rape of Nanking and, later, the carnage of the Solomon Islands offensives, which claimed the lives of many American and Japanese troops. Having risen In the Japanese societal hierarchy, Kido took a wife in 1950. He would father two children with his bride, but the family was divided by Kido's duty to the Empire. Kido took up a post in the Japanese Pacific States of America in 1952. In 1957, he was promoted to Chief Inspector of the Kempeitai, one of the most senior positions in the JPS, and by 1962, the year he shot and killed a young rebel by the name of Trudy Walker, Kido had spent five years crushing American resistance firmly under his boot and almost seventeen years away from mainland Japan, a place he would never again call home.

Joe Blake

Joe believed he was born in Brooklyn in 1938, the single child of a single, German mother who claimed Joe's German father abandoned them before he was born. When the A-bomb dropped on Washington. D.C. the Nazis assumed power, and, by 1950, the American Reich was firmly established. But young Joe Blake was never totally certain who he was or what he wanted to be. He still wanted to hide his mother's German-ness. Most of all, he never felt worthy of an absent father's love. This confusion and shame came out in a rebellious streak. Joe stole a car at age 15 and, at the police station, he heard his mother tell a desk sergeant about what an important man his father was, back in Berlin. Later that day, he received a visitor - a GNR colonel named John Smith, who offered him a ride home. Joe's run In with Smith helped him turn a corner. He got an apprenticeship in construction, did a year of mandatory military service and signed up to the Corps of Engineers. He was a charming young than who kept intimacies at a distance. He did honest work for an honest Mark. His mother died of Septicemia when he was 21 years old, and Joe buried his grief along with her. That muted sadness turned into a silent rage at their poverty, at their abandonment by his father, a man he longed to have known. Two years later, John Smith - now Obergruppenführer - re-appeared In Joe's life. Smith had a Job for him if he was willing to commit. Joe didn't care about the Reich or duty to his country but Smith fascinated Joe and so did the prospect of finding out more about his elusive father. Joe agreed to Smith's terms for he had nothing to lose.

Nicole Dörmer

Nicole was born to a pretty, young ward of the Lebensborn nursery where every aspect of her upbringing was designed to indoctrinate her and her Lebensborn fellows. One of Nicole’s earliest memories was a visit by Himmler to the orphanage. Nicole was only four and already a starling beauty. She as chosen to hand Himmler a bouquet and sing a patriotic song. Himmler raised her in his arms and kissed her cheeks, telling Nicole that he was her father. Then, in the spring of 1944, Otto Dörmer, Nicole’s real, biological father arrived. Young Nicole was taken to Dörmer’s grand family home in Potsdam, where she had the run of the mansion. By 1944, the Lebensborn program was being phased out by the Reich; thusly, its products were becoming more and more valuable. Private schools vied for the privilege of taking Nicole and her comrades. With their privileged status, the Lebensborn children often found they could get away with behaviors or attitudes that would have placed other citizens in danger. They illicitly collected Jazz, read banned books, and made mildly critical observations of about the state. But despite this rebelliousness, they were proud believers in the clear superiority of the Nazi regime. Nicole traveled the world before college. She dined at all the fashionable restaurants and attended all the best parties, plays and film galas. Fascinated by the media as an instrument of State Control, she enrolled at the Brandenburg Studios Propaganda Arts course and dropped out after four semesters, bored by the conventionalism. She experimented with LSD and had liaisons with both men and women in an attempt to free herself from conventional norms. In 1960, at age 21, Nicole was expected to find a husband, but she wanted a career, she wanted to be noticed, and she wanted to make a difference. Later that year, she was arrested under suspicion of publishing a seditious pamphlet. Upon release, she was cowed but far from broken. It was a wake-up call that she was not immune from harm and that she shouldn't be foolishly outspoken. But in other ways, it made her even more determined to challenge the received wisdom of the "fossils" in power.

Robert Childan

Robert Childan was born in San Francisco in 1919. He was an only child and the apple of his mother's eye. Robert's father was a stern and emotionally closed man who ran a kitchen and housewares business. Robert was 10 when the Great Depression hit and his father's enterprise went bust. The family moved into a small downtown San Francisco apartment and lived in the midst of Mrs. Childan's sprawling book collection. After college, Robert got a junior curator position at the San Francisco Museum of Art and managed to avoid going to war after a mild cardiac arrhythmia was detected during his medical examination. In 1942, Robert's father died, and, in 1945, his mother passed away too, just before the Germans dropped the A-bomb. As Japan began its occupation of San Francisco, Robert realized he'd need to adapt quickly or he'd likely wind up dead or arrested. His resourcefulness ultimately led him to the idea of starting a bookstore using his mother's collection as initial inventory. The white-collar jobs Robert was suited for were not open to him in the San Francisco of the JPS, but Japanese hunger for Americana and curiosity about American literature was taking hold all over the city. He knew he could exploit this. Robert began to buy up old heirlooms and American antiques. Very soon sales of American object's d'art outstripped book sales. His livelihood depended upon a growing Japanese client base. Over the years, he grew to admire the distinctive and aloof cultural superiority of his patrons and envied their grace and beauty. He was becoming part of a new class of 'Nippophile' aesthetes, an inevitable side effect of Japan's cultural imperialism in California. But, deep down, Robert resented those he seemed to adore.

Edward McCarthy

Edward was born in Oakland in 1934 to proud second-generation Irish Americans. His father had grown up in the Bay area, inheriting a small metalworking factory from Ed's grandfather. After his family moved into a modest townhouse near the factory, Ed met and quickly befriended his neighbor, Frank Frink. The war with Japan began in April 1941 and many factory workers signed up, leaving wives and daughters to keep factory production lines moving. Ed spent a lot of time there; he loved the smell, sound and vitality. In July 1944, when Ed and Frank were 10 years old, the war with Japan arrived on America's doorstep. Planes swooped down on San Francisco to unleash their bombs. The family survived the raid, but later that year, the Japanese dropped Chlorine explosives on the city, leaving Ed poisoned and on the edge of dying. Ed's mother perished in the attack. At the hospital, Ed spent many hours alone, in pain and in fear. With this isolation and suffering came an extraordinary strength of resilience to endure. And though he did not recognize it as a boy, he felt a deep love towards Frank who came to visit him every day for months. It was a bond of affection that would be a guiding light for the rest of his life. By 1946, Ed would need this kinship for survival. The Bomb had been dropped on Washington, the factory had been taken over by the Japanese, and Ed's father had been dragged into the factory courtyard, forced to his knees and shot in front of all the workers; Ed went to live with his grandparents. Churches closed, St. Patrick's Day was banned, and San Francisco filled with waifs and strays fleeing the Nazis in the East and migrant workers from the Japanese Empire in Asia. But Ed never hated the Japanese; he hated war and violence and brutality. Ed's deepest reaction to loss was always to love. This was his gift.

Frank Frink

Frank was born in 1934, his older sister had been born two years earlier. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in April, 1941, Frank and his sister went to live with their grandmother. They worked jobs after school, cooked, cleaned and helped to pay the bills with what meager funds they could scrape together. Their father died on the front lines in 1943, fighting the Japanese, and five years later, their mother passed away too. It was around this time that Frank's best friend's father was shot dead in the courtyard of his metalworking factory by Japanese occupiers who had come to take over. Frank and his friend, Ed, were bonded in unspoken shared pain. At age 16, Frank got a job at the factory where he helped craft handguns for the Japanese market. Frank's first passion had always been art; drawing and painting had been a way for his mind to escape. Unfortunately, there was little appreciation or legitimate outlet for Frank's gifts. One morning, on the way to the factory, Frank was shocked to see a beautiful young woman purposely step into the street in front of an oncoming bus. It was Juliana Crain. The two moved in together shortly after Juliana got out of hospital and began a life together. They were happy, for a time. But, as much as Frank and Juliana loved each other, a series of tragedies and shocking experiences would set them on very different paths. Frank supported Juliana as she committed herself to a purpose he couldn't fully understand, making the best of a bad situation, until finally, they parted. The young artist also fell victim to the encroachment of racial purity laws on the JPS and Frank Frink, once passive and resigned, found himself consumed by hatred for the leader of the Kempeitai who cruelly and capriciously enforced the laws of the Reich.

Helen Smith

Helen was born in Boston in January 1922 to parents who were academics. Helen was being raised to think for herself and challenge conventional wisdom. After the Great Depression hit in 1929, she witnessed deep poverty and hunger in addition to the birth of a fierce political environment, which helped incite the assassination of President Roosevelt in 1933. With Stalin's rise in the Soviet Union and Hitler's imposition of Fascism in Germany, it seemed to young Helen that America was itself on the brink of totalitarian take over. And why not? If it got America working again. In 1940, Helen went to study at the prestigious NYU School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance and, in 1941, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, she dropped out to volunteer as a secretary in the New York War Office. Then, in June, 1943, Helen's life changed again. A young Captain, named John Smith, came to City Hall to set up an intelligence bureau. He and Helen became friends, then lovers. A year later, they were married in a modest ceremony, just before John left to fight in the war raging in the Pacific. Every day, Helen dreaded bad news from the front. But in 1945, Helen discovered she was pregnant; this good news was accompanied by word that her husband was to take up a permanent post at the Pentagon. The couple shipped their belongings to Washington, D.C. and drove down from New York together, stopping for the night, just outside of the city. That night, the Nazis dropped the Heisenberg device on Washington; overnight, the world changed. John Smith was a profoundly moral man who shared Helen's belief in a benevolent and supportive community. It seemed the only way towards that future would be to fully capitulate to Reich, avoiding potential nuclear annihilation. And so began Helen's embrace of the Nazi way of life. She wanted a safe world in which to raise her son, and eventually her daughters. Despite her parents' executions in 1949 at the hands of the GNR, she had made peace with the realities of Fascist America, the means and methods by which it was achieved, and was grateful for the benefits it brought her - if only for a time.

Nobusuke Tagomi

Tagomi was born in Tokyo in 1887, in the Meiji era - when Japan restored the Emperor and rapidly began to militarize and modernize. Tagomi's family was Samurai caste from the ruling elite, with close ties to the royal family. He and his younger brothers were raised from the cradle to understand that their life would be in service to the Japanese State. At age 11, Tagomi was sent away to Navy Cadet School. There he was schooled in English, French and German, served in the Japanese fleet for several years, and became a junior Naval Attaché. He soon realized his aptitude for diplomacy and negotiation was better suited to work in the Trade department and in 1916, he left the Navy for a position at the Japanese Trade Mission. Years later, in 1933, Tagomi met and wed the daughter of another elite Samurai family from Yokohama. He was 38 years old at the time. Their son, Yoshi, was born the following year, and, in many ways, this era was the happiest of Tagomi's life. Professionally, he continued to rise in stature, but clouds were gathering. Fascism in Germany, coupled with the emerging political influence of Major General Hideki Tojo, was an increasing threat. In 1939, the war in Europe began, and in 1940, Japan allied with Hitler. Tagomi became crucial to the war effort as Japan was challenged by lack of oil in its territories. He went on a series of trade missions to California to negotiate oil imports and was successful in his negotiations. The irony: US oil would fuel the conflicts that eventually defeated her. Despite much success, death was slowly closing in on Tagomi's loved ones. His brothers perished in the Pacific at the start of the war. After the family moved to San Francisco in 1947, so Tagomi could help set up a colonial administration, Yoshi joined the Japanese Imperial Army and died serving in Manchuria in 1952. Tagomi's wife returned to Tokyo, heartbroken, and succumbed to Pneumonia in 1953. Tagomi went into himself, seeking solace in meditation. There must be some purpose to this life. Some reason to the world. Could he find it, alone in San Francisco?

#the man in the high castle #tmithc #john smith #Helen Smith #Juliana Crain #joe blake #frank frink #wyatt price #inspector kido #nobusuke tagomi #nicole dörmer #ed mccarthy #robert childan

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magicalrocketships · 5 years ago

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it's funny sometimes, to be American and a fan of 1d and nick, because sometimes I have to look up some of those brit words, like I had to search "minging" (which I swear I had misheard), and then certain brands, and then Tesco's, and you guys calling popsicles "ice lollys" it's quite funny really. (i just tried to be british there) ALSO do you guys actually eat beans on toast? like baked beans? doesn't that make the toast soggy? what is it supposed to taste like? and you have electric kettles??

... i thought kettles heated up water on the stove? and you guys have egg cups? when is teatime? is it dinner? is it lunch? do people actually say "blimey"? someone should make a tag #askabrit

I LOVE THIS STUFF.

When I was in sixth form, everything was minging, EVERYTHING. I went to a fairly down-at-heel comprehensive and then I went to a university where there were loads of posh people and I swear they didn’t understand half of what I said (or chose not to, but that’s another story).

YES we eat beans on toast, it’s the perfect comfort meal. It does make the bread all soggy, but you eat it with a knife and fork (if you REALLY want a comfort meal then you can get the tin of beans with mini sausages in). It’s like... you’ve had a shit day at work, you want to expend virtually zero effort, and you want your food to essentially give you a hug, then you go for beans on toast. Also it’s good for you, it’s packed full of protein because it’s haricot beans, it counts as one of your five a day, it’s dead cheap (although less so if you buy Heinz) and you can have it with toast or a potato and there you have it, full AND comforted in five minutes flat.

When I found out that people don’t have electric kettles, I think I just heard a lot of strange buzzing in my head as bits of my world shut down. I know now that because the voltage is lower in the US, it takes longer for an electric kettle to boil than it does over here, but still, I can’t remember a time when I haven’t got in the house and put the kettle on. That’s what you do! You get to work, you put the kettle on, you get home, you put the kettle on, you get up, you put the kettle on, a guest arrives, you put the kettle on. Much faster than boiling on the stove. Someone once tried to tell me that you could make tea in the microwave, but I refuse to consider that as an option. You boil water in the kettle to then pour into a pan on the stove for pasta or whatever, because it’s significantly faster than waiting for it to boil by itself on the stove. I was given my kettle when I was seventeen, by my then best friend who worked in Debenhams, who, because they worked there, and because it was dented, and then staff discount, and then blue cross sale, got it reduced from £50 to 50p, and it has been with me through thick and thin.

Yes! Egg cups! I have one that’s got a little rabbit face on it (idk, because Easter?) and a couple of boring, generic silver ones. I think it was only recently that I learnt that having a soft boiled egg wasn’t a universal thing? And therefore you wouldn’t need an egg cup? But there’s a delight in having a boiled egg and soldiers, and you can have it for breakfast or lunch or dinner or whatever you want, because perfection.

Tea time is a complicated one (it is always time for a cup of tea). If you are northern (but #notallnortherners) then you might have dinner in the middle of the day and go home and have your tea, but if you grew up in the south you would probably have lunch and then go home and have your dinner, but you basically just cherry pick what’s most familiar to you. I still say ‘what shall i have for my tea’ and it means the evening meal, because that’s what it was like where I come from in Yorkshire. Distinct from afternoon tea, which is tea and cakes and tiny sandwiches. And Nursery Tea which is what posh olde fashionede children used to have.

And I say blimey :D

#ask a brit

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historymaiden · 6 years ago

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Moments That the Words Don’t Reach

What?? Me??? Stealing @peonymoss ‘s characters. I wouldn’t D A R E. @truth-renowned is a good person, even though she went to my rival school. (She get’s my summers, it’s okay. we’re still friends even though she went to the wrong university)

Summary: Bill Tipton loves his friends. So much that he decides to pull a prank on them. It goes shocking well. Full of hardcore banter, fluffiness, and Love

Honestly, Bill Tipton wasn’t quite sure what he was expecting when he called Daniel, then Henry, that he was at the hospital with Hazel, who had just given birth.

What he for sure wasn’t expecting was Daniel knocking at his door three weeks later with Peggy in tow.

“So, how’s the kid?” Daniel smiles as Bill opens the door.

Bill sighs and yawns. “I have never been so tired in my life.”

“Duh, you have a kid.” Daniel smiles.

“Yeah, that I signed up for, I know, I know.” Daniel nods.

“I’m going to use the restroom.” Peggy smiles and nods.

“All right.” She waits with Bill. “So, would it kill you to tell me a hospital story?” She wonders.

“Oh goodness.” He chuckles. “I guess not, let’s see.” He thinks for a few moments. “Right. It’s a few weeks after I’m allowed around Thomas England by myself, and to my surprise, my brother Andrew comes to visit me. Now, Andrew is the brother who will embarrass me in front of anyone.” She looks up for a second and smiles. “I figure that this would be like Ines and Tillie?”

“Yes, but worse,” he nods. “So, I’m talking to Hazel about how the bandages on my hands have come off so I can go out by myself in the hospital, and Andrew comes up behind me and says, ‘Well, that means he can finally hold hands with a girl now. Our mom now has something to use against him.”

He smiles as Peggy dissolves into laughter. “Typical brothers.” She laughs.

“Typical brothers.” He nods. “He was my best man at my wedding and sheesh, there were a lot of jokes at me.”

“Worse than Henry’s speech?” She perks her head at him.

“About the same, you know best man speeches, making the bride always look good, having the man looking like a fool.” He shrugs and smiles.

“Besides, I told Andrew to not bring up medical stuff and he kinda did, so.”

Daniel comes back and smiles. “Whatcha talking about?” “Andrew’s best man speech,” Bill grins.

“It wasn’t as bad as Henry’s at mine.” He shrugs and takes Peggy’s hand.

“Isn’t he dating Angie now?” Bill says confused.

“Yeah, they’ve been dating for two months, started after he got that promotion and he moved to New York.” Daniel nods.

Bill yawns. “I’m going to make myself a coffee, do you want some Peggy? Daniel?”

Daniel and Peggy nod, they go into the kitchen and Bill starts the perculator.

Peggy leans onto Daniel's shoulder and takes his hand. “Think he’s nervous?”

“I wouldn’t be surprised,” Daniel says, kissing her hand. She nods, and Bill grabs a cup, before starting to pour the coffee.

“Is Hazel okay?” Daniel says, going into the living room with Peggy.

“She’s fine, the kid came out a little early, so we had to stay in the hospital a little longer. She’s just checking on the kid.” Bill nods at the nursery and fiddles with his wedding ring. Daniel nods and before taking a sip and hearing a knock at the door. Bill goes over and opens it to see Henry Grahn.

“So, my three favorite people, all in one space.” Henry smiles. “Man, it’s been too long. What has it been, 3 months?” He jokes as Bill punches his arm. “How are you?”

“Good, nervous, worried.” Bill shrugs, “What about you Mr ‘I met my girlfriend at my best friend’s wedding’.” He grins as Henry rolls his eyes.

“Hey, that’s mean.” Henry pouts and runs his hand through his hair.

“It’s true.” Daniel teases.

“Peggy, please, help me.” Henry says looking over at her.

“You brought this on yourself Henry.” She pauses and smiles. “By the way, how is Angie doing?”

“Angie’s fine. Misses you, threatens to move to California constantly.” Henry shrugs.

Peggy chuckles, “Well, that does make sense. Los Angeles does have a pretty big movie business here.”

“That too.” Henry smiles and nods. Bill smiles and lets Henry walk in, pouring him a cup of coffee, and takes a sip from his.

“No one’s sick right?” He looks at them questioningly.

They all shake their head and Bill nods.

Hazel comes out from the nursery and smiles at them.

“Hello Daniel. Hey Peg. Hi Henry.” She smiles and yawns.

“Hi Hazel! How are you doing?” Daniel asks.

“Good. Exhausted, but it’s okay. Since there’s three of you and one chair in the nursery, why don’t you guys go sit in the living room? And I heard someone talking about coffee?”

“Bill made us some.” Daniel nods and turns to go to the living room, sitting down in a chair.

“And he didn’t make any for me?” She smiles, as Bill requisitions his cup of coffee to her.

“Thanks honey.” She smiles and kisses his cheek.

“No problem wife.” He kisses her head before going into the nursery. She smiles as he walks to the nursery and takes a sip of now her coffee before walking into the living room and smiles.

“So do you two have a name yet?” Peggy asks sitting down.

“We do.” She smiles as Bill brings the baby out and handing him to Hazel who sits down after he takes him.

“He’s so precious,” Peggy smiles.

“Cute kid.” Henry smiles, “What’s his name?” Bill smiles and goes back to the nursery while everyone is crowded around Hazel.

“Nathan Henry Tipton.” She catches Bill’s eyes and grins.

“I got the middle name, 10 bucks Daniel.” Henry smiles. Daniel sighs and gives him 10 bucks.

“Are you serious?” Hazel says.

“What?” Henry shrugs.

“And this one, is named Christopher Daniel Tipton.” Bill says, holding him in his arms, to the shocked faces of Daniel, Peggy, and Henry.

“Twins?” Daniel says.

“Two twin boys.” Hazel smiles.

“How can you? Tell them apart?” Henry says.

“Chris has grey eyes and Nathan has brown eyes.” Bill comes over holding Christopher.

“Did you two know beforehand?” Peggy asks.

“We have twins running all up and down my side, and Bill has some twins on his side as well. We weren’t sure at first, but we figured it out later.” Hazel smiles.

“And you didn’t tell us two weeks ago because…” Henry says.

“For the fun of it.” Bill smiles. “You two gave me so much grief for so many years, that I had to pull something on you two.”

“Gotta do well by my namesake and his parents,” Henry says, returning the 10 dollars to Daniel.

“Yeah, no kidding.” Daniel murmurs. “Can we hold our namesakes?” “Yes, of course.” Hazel smiles and stands to give Nathan to Henry. Bill hands Christopher to Daniel and smiles. “Be careful with him Daniel.” “I will.” Daniel nods and holds him. “I’m not ready for this kind of responsibility.” Henry murmurs, looking at Nathan.

“It’s not even your baby! It’s mine!” Bill smiles and watches them, with Peggy smiling over Daniel’s shoulder.

Hazel smiles and rolls her eyes. “Taking your uncle responsibilities seriously I see.”

“Don’t worry, already planning on teaching every kid I meet Portuguese. You, little one, may call me Tio or Uncle Daniel.” He says to Christopher, as his grey eyes open in wonder at Daniel. “

Not even surprised Lieutenant Snooza.

Not even surprised.” Henry grins as Daniel rolls his eyes.

“One time, it was one time,” Daniel murmurs.

“Lieutenant Snooza?” Peggy shares a look with Hazel.

“Long story short I slept through rounds, and almost slept through breakfast as well.” Daniel says and shrugs.

“But that’s not as bad as the ice cream caper Grahn got into.” Bill smiles evilly.

“Say anymore-” Henry starts.

“And I will get ice dumped down my back okay, I get it.” Bill smiles.

Peggy looks at Daniel and he murmurs a “I’ll tell you later.”

“No you will not.” Henry says.

Peggy smiles and chuckles before asking, “May I hold one?”

“Of course.” Daniel says.

Daniel hands Chris to Peggy, who beams holding him. “Hi Christopher, my name’s Aunt Peggy.” She smiles. “I’m British, and I married your Uncle Daniel. But, if Peggy is too hard for you, I won’t mind if you called me Aunt Peg.”

Christopher sneezes and everyone starts laughing, filling the house with love and laughter. Bill looks around and smiles, seeing his friends and family in one place, and thinks about how lucky he is. He catches Daniel’s eye and smiles at him, before catching Henry’s eyes at smirking at him, seeing that he was talking to the baby.

“Whatcha telling my kid over there?” Bill smiles.

“Oh, just about how much you cheated at bridge with Uncle Daniel.” Henry grins.

“No fair.” Bill pouts.

“It’s okay, I love you even if you cheat, honey.” Hazel smiles at him. Bill beams and smiles before kissing his wife.

“Ewww, Bill’s kissing Hazel,” Henry smirks. Bill comes away from his wife.

“Do you want to do diaper duty, Henry Grahn?” He grins at Henry’s cringing and Peggy, Daniel, and Hazel laugh.

“It could get you ready for a life with Angie.” Daniel teases.

“We’ve only been dating for a few months! Not everyone is like you, Mr. ‘I dated my girlfriend for 6 months and then proposed.’” Henry blushes. Daniel opens his mouth to retort and then shuts it. “Well, I know Angie is expecting a ring sometime in the future, Mr. ‘I got caught kissing the maid of honor by the bride’” Peggy smiles.

“I hate you all.” Henry sighs as everyone starts laughing.

“Well, the next baby will definitely be doted on by all of us. Especially if it’s Peggy’s and Daniel’s kid.” Hazel smiles.

“Hey!” They exclaim, to everyone’s laughter.

#bill tipton #daniel sousa #peggy carter #this was fun

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Ho, ho, ho, it’s time for Panto...

I’ve been tagged on a lengthy (50 questions!) ask-meme aimed at writers, so I’m giving it my best shot even if some of the answers are a bit terse because of Obvious. (Some other answers are considerably longer, because of Me.)

It’ll go in the queue for later, but just a while ago @dduane heard me grumbling about one question - “pet writing-peeves” - because I’ve a got new one based on my current bedtime reading, a stack of 1970s sword & sorcery short-story anthologies.

Where else, I wonder, do you see the word “thews” used so much when “muscles” is perfectly adequate, and what’s with heroes always having a “mane” of hair?

But the main peeve from that source is about the use of “Ho!” in dialogue (not in the modern sense..) There’s one story, about 15 pages long, in which “Ho!” opens a speech six times.

“Ho, villain…”; “Ho, rogue…”; “Ho, scoundrel…”; “Ho, rascal…”; “Ho, pig…”; “Ho, jailer…” It even rises to seven if you include “Ho there, wizard…”

Ho, ho, ho.

At which D pointed out, “You sound like Santa, or panto,” and I see her point: that’s the way Principal Boys in Christmas pantomime used to sound while they were still played by girls. They would strut and swagger about the stage in their abbreviated jackets and high-heeled boots with their voices a lot lower than their hemlines, slapping their expanse of exposed thigh (I don’t know why, it’s a thing they did) and being as masculine as a 36D bust allowed.

The only woman in this shot is playing a man...

Now that Principal Boys are usually played by boys, it’s just not the same.

Tumblr is very American, so a word about British (and Irish) Christmas theatrical entertainment is in order. First thing to establish is that “panto” is the important syllable. “Mime” suggests silence, and that’s something panto definitely lacks.

Take one of about a dozen plots based on fairy tales or nursery rhymes – Aladdin, Jack and the Beanstalk, Babes in the Wood, Mother Goose...

Add popular songs with lyrics revised for local or current events, and a lot of audience participation. At some stage it’s traditional for a curtain emblazoned with the words of some simple, silly or tongue-twisting song to be hung across the stage while the right and left sides of the auditorium compete with each other to sing it loudest (or if properly tongue-twisting, most coherently). This sort of contest always finishes with a declared draw, so everything works out right in the end.

Add a lot of slapstick comedy, often including some kind of animal – usually a Pantomime Horse or Pantomime Cow – performed by two people in a costume, where the head-end and the arse-end are in constant disagreement, though everything works out right in the end.

Even if you’re not sure which end.

Add a Pantomime Dame, who is a snarky, innuendo-laden old woman, often the mother, aunt or guardian of the hero or heroine but always played by a man of mature years in a dubious-looking dress, an even more dubious wig and a thoroughly disreputable enormous false bosom. Speaking in a Northern English or “Blackpool landlady” accent happens a lot. This is automatically funny.

The Dame’s patter is usually laden with double-entendres which entertain parents while the kids are being entertained by the silly doings of that funny man in a dress. Such funny men include Sir Ian McKellan, whose Dame, Widow Twankey in “Aladdin”, often all but dropped the double part of the entendre yet sailed right over innocent little heads.

As one review appropriately put it: “We have seen McKellan’s Twankey, and it is huge...”

In “Cinderella” the presence of Dames is tripled by the inclusion of The Ugly Sisters, which means there is a Principal Dame and two Subsidiary Dames. Though sometimes played by drag queens like Danny La Rue...

...a Traditional Pantomime Dame should never look that well-dressed. Rather than a perfectly made-up and costumed female impersonator a Dame should be, and look like, an obvious and distinctly homely “bloke in a frock” such as Les Dawson.

But don’t worry, glam or glum, everything works out right in the end.

Add a Principal Boy, who is played by a leggy woman in a Sexy Halloween Version of the appropriate male costume – when a Principal Boy wears a “bum-freezer” jacket, she doesn’t mess about with half measures.

The Principal Boy’s principal function - apart from striding about, slapping their thighs (once again, I’ve never understood that bit) and standing legs akimbo with fists on hips in a manly posture that fools nobody - is to brighten the day of fathers who’ve been dragged to the panto by their kids. If the jackets are short enough and the legs are long enough, everything works out right in the end.

This is panto’s notion of the bold hero and later Lord Mayor (but not Lady Mayoress) of London, “Dick Whittington”.

Add the Principal Boy’s romantic interest, the Principal Girl, actually played for a change by a girl (though I’ve heard of at least one Cinderfella) who is Very Put-Upon but Very Sweet.

She often has a comedy companion in the form of a witty or clumsy fellow servant, frequently called Buttons, or a goose...

...or cat...

...played by someone in the appropriate costume.

Dick Whittington’s cat is traditionally male and called Tommy, but with panto being what it is, a tom-cat being played by a woman shouldn’t surprise anyone by now (and if you still believe the Dame wouldn’t dare get some innuendo mileage from Dick and Pussy, you haven’t been paying attention.) The help provided by these companions often causes mayhem, but everything works out right in the end.

Add the Pantomime Villain, who can be anything from a Demon King...

…to a Rat King...

...to Captain Hook…

...but who nowadays can also be a Wicked Queen...

...and often a sexy one for those fathers in the audience again.

Pantomime villains rant, roar and stamp (or purr and sashay as appropriate), chewing the scenery as if it was prime rib and they hadn’t eaten all day. “Subtle” and “understated” is not in their performance vocabulary.

Every villain appearance, usually accompanied by dry-ice smoke and a sickly green or blue spotlight so the audience is SURE, must be greeted with boos and hisses. This response is usually loudest from the youngest, but 80-year-old grannies can get into it as well.

In addition, whenever a plot device, missing character or some potential unpleasantness appears from the wings while another character is talking...

...the audience must yell: “It’s behind you!”

This is when the on-stage character looks round just as the Whatever is concealed by some totally inadequate cover, then responds with “Oh not it isn’t!”, and the subsequent witty exchange of audience-actor repartee – “Oh yes it is!” / “Oh no it isn’t!” - continues to almost, but not quite, the point when the most over-excited members of the audience are ready to storm the stage.

That’s when the character turns around just an instant after the Whatever has finally left the stage and smugly announces “Oh-No-It-ISN’T!” They then ad-lib their way through the inevitable heckling about their intelligence, eyesight, hearing etc.

Once the villain gets an appropriate come-uppance and virtue is triumphant, true love conquers all...

...and after a finale that’s often far more impressive than anything before it...

...everything really does work out right in the end.

For foreigners, especially Americans with their sensitivity to protecting children from any form of perceived smut, a British/Irish Christmas panto has to be seen to be believed, and sometimes not even then. The level of cross-dressing and sexual innuendo delivered in a performance ostensibly for under-tens has left many jaws hanging open, and romantic encounters between the Principal Boy and the Principal Girl can lead to uneasy stirrings in the stalls.

The appearance of non-traditional characters such as Churchill – not the famous politician, but a nodding-head dog who shills motor insurance – or a meerkat who was never near “The Lion King” but who also shills insurance (in a Russian accent) will only increase the confusion.

Take a classic Walt Disney cartoon, mix with “Monty Python” at its pepperpot-lady best, stir in a late-night showing of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and serve well-warmed and dusted with glitter to an audience of sugar-buzzed children.

That’s panto.

And no matter how chaotic the plot, it’ll always work out right in the end.

Ho, ho, ho.

#writing #writer notes #panto #British pantomime #pantomime dame #principal boy

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👫👫👫 #ImmigrantChildren #History “What World War II’s ‘#OperationPiedPiper’ taught us about the trauma of family separations Nearly 80 years later, Pam Hobbs can still recall the day her older sister came home from school with a note that would alter their lives. All children in Leigh-on-Sea, the seaside village in southeastern England where Hobbs lived with her parents and six sisters, were to be evacuated that very weekend. Their schools were shut down immediately. “The letter came on a Friday,” Hobbs, now 88, remembered in a recent interview with The Washington Post. “We had to report to the school on a Sunday and bring some clothes with us.” It was June 1940 — about a year into World War II — and the German army had advanced to Dunkirk, France, just across the Strait of Dover. “An enemy invasion appeared imminent,” Hobbs would write in her memoir decades later. Hobbs, then 10, was told to stuff her belongings into old burlap sandbags. She and her sister Iris, then 11 years old, were placed on a train and spirited away to the English countryside. Young Pam and Iris Hobbs were just two of the millions of children in England who were evacuated from cities and towns during World War II, in what was dubbed “Operation Pied Piper.” The mass evacuations were intended to keep British children safe — or safer, theoretically — from German air raids, while their parents stayed behind to work and help out with war efforts. Operation Pied Piper started in earnest in the summer of 1939, with more than 3 million children removed from London and other cities in the first four days of evacuations alone. Photos from the evacuations show children lined up without their parents, clutching knapsacks or small backpacks, identified only by name tags hung around their necks. Children whisked to the countryside were supposed to be able to escape not only bombs but the psychological scars of war. However, former child evacuees and experts learned later that Operation Pied Piper had an unexpected side effect: The separations seemed to impart long-term trauma that was in many cases as severe as if they had stayed behind and faced the bombs. Decades later, Pam Hobbs’s voice still carries a hint of sadness when she speaks of being separated from her parents. Her mother didn’t accompany the girls to the school that Sunday because she knew it would be too painful, Hobbs said. Her father, a bricklayer, was tasked with dropping them off instead. He didn’t say much, but wiped at his eyes. “When he left, he said [to Iris], make sure you take your sister. She has to go where you go,” Hobbs said. “I was very timid. I cried a lot. I blinked a lot.” She and Iris were ultimately deposited in Derbyshire in central England, some 180 miles away from home, where they were shepherded into a one-room schoolhouse with about a dozen other children from the train. There, they lined up while prospective foster parents inspected them and picked who they wanted. Not all of the host families seemed thrilled about taking in a child, Hobbs remembered — and the children who were better looking or who could help out with farm work were chosen first. “If you had a bed, you took a child,” Hobbs said. “They would point to a child, come out [and say], ‘We want that one.’ My sister and I and a little boy were the last ones left.” The sting of being passed over in that way was one of many unsettling memories from Operation Pied Piper that would linger with Hobbs. In total, Hobbs lived with four different host families and wouldn’t see her parents again for two years, she recounted in her 2002 memoir, “Don’t Forget to Write: The true story of an evacuee and her family.” “Some of my ‘pretend parents’ loved me as if I was their own. One couple showed me what it was like to feel unwanted, to live with hostility and complete indifference to my welfare, and to be hungry,” Hobbs wrote. “For me, the really sad aspect of this billet was that for the first time in my life I knew what it was like to be unwanted. It founded fears of being unloved and created a lack of self-confidence that stayed with me for years.” Hobbs’s experience was not unique. Later that year, the psychoanalyst Anna Freud began studying children at the Hampstead War Nurseries in London who had been evacuated to the countryside as well as children who had stayed behind in cities and towns with their parents and witnessed bombings. After 12 months, she concluded: “London children … were on the whole much less upset by bombing than by evacuation to the country as a protection against it.” There were a few caveats to Freud’s study, said Lee Jaffe, president-elect of the American Psychoanalytic Association. It was conducted in the 1940s, with a limited sample size, and relied largely on quotations and observations. But it was clear that the child evacuees had not avoided the traumas of war as expected. “What they observed over and over again was that the internal trauma of being sent to the calm countryside was resulting in significantly greater mental health issues and problems for these children, of various ages, than war,” Jaffe said. For children under 2, the immediate reactions to separating were “particularly violent,” Freud and Dorothy Burlingham wrote in their 1943 book, “War and Children.” One 17-month-old child reportedly repeated “Mum, mum, mum, mum, mum …” in a deep voice for at least three days after being taken from her mother: The child feels suddenly deserted by all the known persons in its world to whom it has learned to attach importance…. For several hours, or even for a day or two this psychological craving of the child, the “hunger” for its mother, may over-ride all bodily sensations. There are some children of this age who will refuse to eat or sleep. Very many of them will refuse to be handled or comforted by strangers. The children cling to some object or to some form of expression which means to them, at that moment, memory of the material presence of the mother. “That kind of research that was done by Anna Freud and their collaborators really confirmed what we sort of know in a sort of common-sense way,” said Mark D. Smaller, a Michigan psychoanalyst. “I really think it’s one of probably the first bits of research in terms of the long-term impact of this type of trauma on a child’s life.” Some of those impacts are higher risk of depression, anxiety, the inability to learn and other symptoms of post-traumatic stress, Smaller said — especially if there isn’t an early intervention after this kind of separation. And it wasn’t just the younger children who were affected. “I will tell you certainly the younger the child, the more significant the potential traumatic event can be,” Smaller said. “But I want to underscore that even a child who’s a preteen or adolescent is going to be traumatized by that kind of separation.” The child evacuees from Operation Pied Piper suffered negative effects from these separations, even though they were done with their parents’ permission and the best of intentions, both Jaffe and Smaller noted. That’s what makes recent accounts of migrant families being forcibly separated at the U.S.-Mexico border even more “cruel, inhumane and harmful,” their group said. Their concerns are echoed by the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the National Association of Social Workers and nearly 10,000 mental health professionals who have condemned the family separations. “You don’t forget these things,” said Hobbs. Though she now lives in Canada and it has been decades since her evacuation, news reports of migrant children being taken from their parents and placed in detention centers have dredged up painful memories for her, she said. “I can readily imagine the terror of these youngsters, most of whom don’t speak English, and probably have little idea of what’s happening,” Hobbs said. “Hamburgers and electronic games won’t cut it. Every one of them will be asking, ‘What did I do wrong?’ and the emotional scars will be everlasting.” “ By Amy B Wang The Washington Post June 19,2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/06/19/what-world-war-iis-operation-pied-piper-taught-us-about-the-trauma-of-family-separations/

#immigrant children #operation pied piper #WWII

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Catherine the Great's Lost Treasure, the Rise of Animal Rights and Other New Books to Read

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Catherine the Great's Lost Treasure, the Rise of Animal Rights and Other New Books to Read

By the end of her reign, Catherine the Great had acquired more than 4,000 paintings, 38,000 books, 10,000 engraved gems, 16,000 coins and medals, and 10,000 drawings. But as writers Gerald Easter and Mara Vorhees point out in The Tsarina’s Lost Treasure, this collection—which later formed the foundation of the State Hermitage Museum—could have been even greater. A cache of Dutch masterpieces acquired by the art-loving Russian empress vanished when the ship carrying them sank in 1771 with its priceless artwork aboard.

The latest installment in our series highlighting new book releases, which launched in late March to support authors whose works have been overshadowed amid the COVID-19 pandemic, explores the loss and rediscovery of Catherine the Great’s sunken merchant ship, a leader of the fledgling animal rights movement, the stories of three daughters of World War II leaders, humanity’s connection to the cosmos, and the life of “Black Spartacus” Toussaint Louverture.

Representing the fields of history, science, arts and culture, innovation, and travel, selections represent texts that piqued our curiosity with their new approaches to oft-discussed topics, elevation of overlooked stories and artful prose. We’ve linked to Amazon for your convenience, but be sure to check with your local bookstore to see if it supports social distancing-appropriate delivery or pickup measures, too.

The Tsarina’s Lost Treasure: Catherine the Great, a Golden Age Masterpiece, and a Legendary Shipwreck by Gerald Easter and Mara Vorhees

When Dutch merchant Gerrit Braamcamp died in June 1771, his executors held an estate sale featuring what Easter, a historian, and Vorhees, a travel writer, describe as “the most dazzling assemblage of Flemish and Dutch Old Masters ever to reach the auctioneer’s block.” Highlights included Paulus Potter’s Large Herd of Oxen, Rembrandt’s Storm on the Sea of Galilee and Gerard ter Borch’s Woman at Her Toilette. But one work eclipsed the rest: The Nursery, a 1660 triptych by Rembrandt student Gerrit Dou, who was—at the time—widely believed to have surpassed his teacher’s already prodigious talents.

Following an unprecedented bidding war, Catherine’s representatives secured The Nursery, as well as a number of other top lots, for the empress, a self-proclaimed “glutton for art.” The cultural trove departed Amsterdam on September 5, stowed in the cargo hold of the Saint Petersburg-bound Vrouw Maria alongside sugar, coffee, fine linen, fabric and raw materials for Russian craftsmen.

Just under a month after it left port, the merchant vessel fell afoul of a storm in the waters off of modern-day Finland. Though all of its crew members escaped unscathed, the Vrouw Maria itself sustained significant damage; over the next several days, the ship slowly sank beneath the waves, consigning its contents to the ocean floor.

The czarina’s efforts to recover her artwork failed, as did all salvage missions undertaken over the next 200 years. Then, in June 1999, an expedition led by the aptly named Pro Vrouw Maria Association located the wreck in a state of almost perfect preservation.

The Tsarina’s Lost Treasure deftly catalogs the fierce legal battles that ensued following the ship’s discovery. Buoyed by the tantalizing possibility that the vessel’s cargo remained intact, Finland and Russia both laid claim to the wreckage. Ultimately, the Finnish National Board of Antiquities decided to leave the Vrouw Maria in situ, leaving the question of the artworks’ fate unresolved. As Kirkus notes in its review of the book, “[I]t’s an entertaining yarn whose ending is yet to be written.

A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement by Ernest Freeberg

For most animals, life in Gilded Age America was fraught with exploitation and violence. Workers pushed horses to the limits of their endurance, dogcatchers drowned strays, and merchants transported livestock on lengthy journeys without food or water. Dog fighting, cockfighting, rat baiting and other similarly abusive practices were also common. Much of this mistreatment stemmed from the widespread belief that animals lacked feelings and were incapable of experiencing pain—a view that Henry Bergh, a wealthy New Yorker who’d previously served as a diplomat in imperial Russia, strongly contested.

Bergh launched his campaign for animal rights in 1866, establishing the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) as a nonprofit with the power to “arrest and prosecute offenders,” per Kirkus. As Ernest Freeberg, a historian at the University of Tennessee, writes in his new biography of the unlikely activist, some Gilded Age Americans responded with “a mix of applause and mockery,” while others “who resented this interference with their economic interests, comforts, or conveniences” fiercely resisted Bergh’s call to action.

One such opponent was circus magnate P.T. Barnum, who’d built his empire by exploiting animals and people alike. Pitted against Barnum and other leading figures of the period, the naturally theatrical Bergh often found himself subjected to ridicule. Critics even labeled him a “traitor to his species.” Despite these obstacles, Bergh persisted in his campaign, arguing that while humans had the right to use animals (he personally was fond of both turtles and turtle soup), they lacked the authority to abuse them. By the time of Bergh’s death in 1888, notes Kirkus, “[M]ost states were enforcing ASPCA–backed anti-cruelty laws, and [the] universal feeling that animals did not suffer had become a minority view.”

The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War by Catherine Grace Katz

The February 1945 Yalta Conference is perhaps best known for producing a photograph of three Allied leaders—U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin—posing alongside each other as if they were the best of friends. In fact, these blithe smiles belied the contentious nature of the peace summit, which acted less as an affirmation of alliance than as a predecessor to the Cold War.

In The Daughters of Yalta, historian Catherine Grace Katz offers a behind-the-scenes look at the eight-day conference through the eyes of Roosevelt’s daughter, Anna; Churchill’s daughter Sarah, who was then serving in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force; and Kathleen Harriman, daughter of American ambassador to the Soviet Union Averell Harriman. Each played a key role in the meeting: Anna helped her father hide his rapidly declining health, while Sarah assumed the role of Churchill’s “all-around protector, supporter, and confidant,” according to Katz. Kathy, a competitive skier and war correspondent, actually learned Russian in order to act as Averell’s “de facto protocol officer,” notes Publishers Weekly.

An array of personal ties compounded the many political factors already at play during the conference. Churchill’s daughter-in-law Pamela was having an affair with Averell, for instance, and Kathy had had a brief affair with Anna’s married brother. But while Katz dedicates ample space to Yalta’s interpersonal intrigue, her main focus is the women’s roles as “daughter diplomats. As she explains on her website, “Their fathers could work through them to gather information, to deliver subtle but important messages that could not be explicitly expressed by a member of the government, and to give the leaders plausible deniability on thorny diplomatic issues in which they could not be directly involved.”

The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars by Jo Marchant

Humans’ fascination with the night sky is as old as civilization itself, writes Smithsonian contributor Jo Marchant in The Human Cosmos. Citing case studies as varied as Ireland’s Hill of Tara, the Native American Chumash people, ancient Assyrians who associated lunar eclipses with their king’s demise, and drawings of what could be constellations at Lascaux Cave, the journalist traces the trajectory of humanity’s relationship with the stars from prehistoric times to the present, covering 20,000 years in just 400 pages.

Marchant’s overarching argument, according to Publishers Weekly, is that technology “separates people from the actual world.” By relying on GPS, computers and other modern tools, she suggests that society has created a “disconnect between humanity and the heavens.”

To correct this imbalance, Marchant prescribes a shift in perspective. As she explains in the book’s prologue, “I hope that zooming out to survey the deep history of human beliefs about the cosmos might help us probe the edges of our own worldview and perhaps look beyond: How did we become passive machines in a pointless universe? How have those beliefs shaped how we live? And where might we go from here?”

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh

As alluded to by its title, Sudhir Hazareesingh’s latest book centers on a larger-than-life figure: Toussaint Louverture, a Haitian general and revolutionary whom the historian describes as the “first black superhero of the modern age.” Born into slavery around 1740, Louverture worked as a coachman on a plantation in Saint-Domingue (later Haiti). “[I]ntelligent, daring and athletic,” writes Clive Davis in the Times’ review of Black Spartacus, he gained his freedom in the 1770s and proceeded to embark on a number of business ventures, including renting a coffee plantation staffed by at least one enslaved individual.

In 1791, enslaved people living on Hispaniola, the French-controlled half of Saint-Domingue, revolted. Though Louverture initially stayed out of the conflict, he was eventually spurred to action by both his Catholic religion and Enlightenment belief in equality. Given command of thousands of formerly enslaved rebels, the burgeoning military man soon emerged as one of the movement’s key leaders.

Afraid that the unrest would spread to its own colony of Jamaica—and eager to cause trouble for its European neighbor—the British government sent in troops to put down the rebellion. France, faced with the possibility of defeat, sought to secure the rebels’ loyalty by abolishing slavery across its colonies. Louverture, in turn, allied with his former enemy, fighting Spanish and British colonizers on behalf of France.

By the end of the century, notes David A. Bell for the Guardian, “[H]e had outmaneuvered a series of French officials, overcome black rivals, emerged as the colony’s uncontested strongman, and brought it to the brink of independence.” In doing so, Louverture attracted the attention of newly minted French leader Napoleon Bonaparte, who sent 20,000 French troops to reassert control over the island. Though the French campaign ultimately failed, Napoleon did manage to end his rival’s grasp on power. Promised safe passage to peace talks, Louverture instead found himself arrested and imprisoned in France, where he died in 1803—just one year before Haiti officially won its independence.

Black Spartacus draws on archival documents housed in Britain, France, the United States and Spain to present a comprehensive portrait of an oft-mischaracterized man. “Toussaint,” writes Hazareesingh, “embodied the many facets of Saint-Domingue’s revolution by confronting the dominant forces of his age—slavery, settler colonialism, imperial domination, racial hierarchy and European cultural supremacy—and bending them to his will.”

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The Best Places to Visit in Sri Lanka

The minuscule tear drop molded island in the Indian sea has become the most recent hotspot for vacationers. After the finish of the 30 years common war, and all the tourism warnings lifted, vacationers just can hardly wait to take off to the outlandish island of Sri Lanka. The neighborly and accommodating individuals of Sri Lanka, in their turn, with hands collapsed and 'Ayobowan' all the rage are prepared to make your vacation the most vital you've at any point had.

The travel industry in Sri Lanka can, comprehensively, be isolated into three classifications. The sea shores, the urban areas of social, authentic and strict significance and last yet unquestionably not the least, the nature saves. Try not to be tricked by the size of the nation. The small island is rich with spots to visit from all these three classifications. Go along with me as I disentangle the miracles of Sri Lanka.

The clamoring city of Colombo is the biggest in Sri Lanka. It is about an hour's drive from the Bandarnaike universal air terminal. Much the same as other metropolitan urban communities, Colombo is a center point of action. There are numerous spots worth seeing. It being a beach front town, you can appreciate staggering perspectives on the ocean alongside the crowds that head to Galle Face greens at night. Whenever abandoned sea shores are what you are after, at that point you can make a beeline for different spots, which will figure later in my rundown. Other than that, you can visit the National gallery, the National zoological nurseries, and the Independence square which was worked to stamp Sri Lanka's opportunity from the British. You can shop your heart out at Majestic City, Liberty square or Odel. It is anything but difficult to drive around the city, with transports, radio taxicabs and auto carts called tuk-tuks locally, promptly accessible.

Sri Lanka isn't just about sea shores. On the off chance that you travel inland there are numerous fortunes to be found. In the event that you are an aficionado of the cooler atmosphere, there aren't numerous spots in Sri Lanka yet Nuwara Eliya would be one of them. Nuwara Eliya is a slope station situated in the focal point of Sri Lanka, only a little toward the south. When Sri Lanka was under the standard of the British, this is the place the greater part of the British desired a perfect summer escape. The effect of the frontier time can in any case be found in the city, regardless of whether it might be in the moniker 'Little England' or in the design or in the different exercises that you can inundate yourself in while there, for example, drifting, golf or pony riding.

Another significant part of Nuwara Eliya is that it is one of the most significant towns undoubtedly. So be set up to see unlimited stretches of tea estate on the two sides while you are drawing nearer Nuwara Eliya. Remember to drop in on one of the numerous tea industrial facilities dabbed en route there, for example, the Labukele Tea domain. The individuals there will readily talk you through the way toward making tea from picking the leaf, to handling it, while they show you around their domain. Get ready to be confounded by the assortment and kinds of tea you can purchase there best places to visit in december in asia.

Undoubtedly, Nuwara Eliya has many. For the individuals who know about the Hindu legendary epic of Ramayana, the 'Seetha Kovil' or the Sita sanctuary would be a position of intrigue. As per legend, ruler Ravana of Sri Lanka snatched sovereign Sita from her realm in North India and carried her to Sri Lanka. It is accepted that it was here, where this sanctuary is found, that he kept her. There is a monster foot mark there too, accepted to be of Lord Hanuman. Indeed, even the direst non-devotees will encounter an unusual and stunning sensation beat them as they remain there viewing the rich green fog secured slopes, thinking about what this spot more likely than not been observer to for such a significant number of hundreds of years.

Only somewhat in front of the Seetha Kovil is the Hakgala Botanical Garden, which is another fascinating spot to visit. Spread over a huge territory, it is sufficient to keep the nature darlings out there involved for quite a long time.

After Colombo, the city of Kandy (called Maha Nuvara locally) is the most significant in Sri Lanka. There is no deficiency of activities and spots to visit here. Verifiably, Kandy is significant as it was one of the last realms to stay autonomous from colonization. In transit from Colombo, it will be the main significant town that you experience while going towards the Central Highlands.

The primary thing you will see about Kandy will most likely be the enormous lake in the focal point of the town. Flanking this lake on one side is one of the most significant journey places for Buddhists, the sanctuary of tooth or Sri Dalada Maligawa. It is accepted that, along the term of numerous hundreds of years, the blessed relic of Lord Buddha's tooth subsequent to voyaging numerous miles from India, and afterward inside the island itself for shielding it from the individuals who needed to pulverize it, discovered its last resting place in this sanctuary. It was pronounced an UNESCO world legacy site. You can see the different customs that are acted in the sanctuary three times each day, generally around 5.30 and 09.00 in the first part of the day and 06.30 at night.

The yearly celebration of the Esala Perahera, which falls on the full moon around July or August, is to pay tribute to this relic. This entire event is a sight to see with the conventional Kandyan artists, perfectly improved elephants, fire acts and so forth. It is likewise intriguing to take note of that at whatever point the tooth relic has been taken out for open piece, it has quite often come down.

There are numerous acceptable inns spotted around the lake on all sides. In closeness to the sanctuary of tooth is the cutting edge Kandy downtown area, and the shopping complex, which is a genuine case of the lovely mix of present day and old that this great town is.

A suburb of Kandy is the town of Peradeniya. It is home to the distinguished University of Peradeniya and the Royal Botanical Gardens, the biggest in the island.

Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa are two towns which, along with Kandy, complete the supposed social triangle of Sri Lanka. In the event that you are a history buff, and are keen on the antiquated legacy of Sri Lanka, these spots are not to be missed. Both of these towns are UNESCO world legacy locales and were once thriving capitals of old realms of Sri Lanka. Anuradhapura was the primary antiquated capital of Sri Lanka, and the remains that can be seen here today tell the story of a rich and stable realm which thrived from fourth century BC till the eleventh century AD when it was sacked by the South Indian Chola realm after which the capital moved to Polonnaruwa. The reign of King Parakramabahu I in Polonnaruwa was viewed as the brilliant period of Polonnaruwa.

The two towns have numerous sanctuaries, water tanks and lakes, stupas, sculptures of Kings and Lord Buddha and remnants of royal residences spread around and are certainly worth visiting to get a thought of the rich verifiable and archeological criticalness of these two towns. Not to be missed in Anuradhapura, is the Sri Maha Bodhi tree, which is said to have developed from a sapling acquired third century BC from the holy Bodhi tree in Gaya, India under which Lord Buddha achieved illumination. In Polonnaruwa, the Parakrama Samudra is a spot worth visiting. It is really a supply which was worked in the fourth century AD to keep the town independent yet looks as tremendous as a sea, thus the name 'Samudra.'

Another unquestionably not-to-be-missed spot in Sri Lanka and furthermore an UNESCO world legacy site is Sigiriya or the Lion Rock. As you approach, you will be staggered at this fifth century royal residence which sits on head of a 600ft stone and is noticeable for a significant distance around as it raises its head out amidst miles of lavish green level land. It is said to have been worked by King Kasyapa, who dreaded intrusion by his stepbrother and manufactured this castle for his own security. You can wonder about the various stone sanctuaries or water gardens at the base or as you move up the 1200 odd strides to the top, look at the frescoes mid-path to the top and the mirror divider which sometime in the distant past went about as a mirror for the ruler yet now has become a spot for spray painting demonstrating antiquated Singhalese content. The lion door, called so due to the huge lion paws at the passageway, drives you to the highest point which is an enormous level region dissipated over which are the remnants of antiquated royal residence, including an old seat and a pool. The view from the top is stunning. You can even observe Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa out yonder. Frequently, it is breezy to the point that you feel you'll be overwhelm. Remember to take water alongside you as there are no shops in transit. Apply a lot of sun square, and wear full-sleeved garments and a top. These insurances are essential not exclusively to shield you from the blasting sun, yet in addition from infrequent wasp assaults.

There is significantly more to the town of Dambulla than cricket! Indeed, there is a universal standard cricket arena here however did you realize that this verifiable town additionally houses a world legacy site? Dambulla, situated close Sigiriya, is likewise celebrated for its cavern sanctuaries. These cavern sanctuaries are arranged around 160m over the town. The five most significant gives in here are grouped together and can be seen in the wake of paying a little expense for the ticket. Numerous aides are accessible who will acquaint you with the historical backdrop of the spot and the imagery of the different sculptures of Lord Buddha and different divine beings and goddesses. It is intriguing to contemplate over the way that a portion of these caverns go back to the second century B.C. also, were utilized by King Valagamba as sanctuary during his time estranged abroad.

In the event that we talk about the social triangle of Sri Lanka, at that point Sigiriya and Dambulla structure the focal point of this triangle. It is astute to base yourself in Sigiriya and travel and find Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa on roadtrips.

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d) Living the slower pace of life below isn't the people's thing so they back to their own nations where rate of life is quicker as well as matches them much better. I lived in the UK for 8 years while schooling myself and afterwards going to college.

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Cyprus has no general minimum wage requirement. However,a minimum wage rate or €870 per month is required for shop assistants,nurses' assistants,clerks,hairdressers,and nursery assistants. The minimum wage rises to €924 after six months' employment.

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Nevertheless, Cyprus does experience a periodic dust storm, particularly in the spring. If you intend to live in a stunning, refuge with a very reduced crime price, Cyprus is the area to go. The country appreciates one of the lowest cases of crime anywhere in Europe, and it has ended up being an incredibly popular expat location for both experts and young family members. Staying in a jammed location can be an extremely undesirable experience.

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Cyprus - Poverty and wealth. The people of the Greek zone are among the most affluent in the world. According to the World Bank's Development Report, Cyprus is ranked 16th in terms of per capita income adjusted for purchasing power. In 1988 per capita income was US$15,500, according to the CIA World Factbook .

Similar to a lot of Mediterranean countries, food is as well as plays a crucial function to be delighted in at a leisurely speed with loved ones. Among the very first Greek phrases to find out in Cyprus is siga siga, which means 'slowly', and also is a rule one will certainly listen to nearly daily. The wonderful Cypriot food is to be enjoyed unhurriedly, usually al fresco with family and friends. Showcasing the abundant viticulture of the island, Cyprus has developed a red wine path job, providing six various organised routes for visitors to visit the island's wine-producing regions.

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In general, services are around two-thirds of those billed for similar commercial areas in continental Europe, and offices, other or retail business room is commonly available for purchase or for rent. It is naturally impossible to talk about Cyprus without pointing out the food.

Is Cyprus good place to live?

Jobs in Cyprus Finding work can be difficult for foreigners as you'll compete against locals for jobs. However there are a number of ways to boost your chances of employment. For example, while the main business language is English, the majority of employers demand some knowledge of Greek.

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Popular since the very early 1980s with British and other European holidaymakers, Cyprus is well attached to Europe's primary cities, along with to Asia as well as the Center East. Flights from landmass Europe are quick, progressively low as well as frequent price. By air, Cyprus is 1.5 humans resources away from Athens, 4hrs from Frankfurt, 3.5 hrs from Dubai as well as 5hrs from London.

set up an account, is a rapidly-growing community that is increasingly prominent for young households as well as the retired.

Fitzgerald Characteristic has been successfully participated in the sale of buildings to worldwide clients considering that 2003.

One of the most prominent location for British purchasers has traditionally been Paphos, in the south-west, and the villages around.

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Mortgages in Cyprus are widely available and the terms are similar to those in the UK. You'll need a deposit of at least 30% and the loan is usually repayable over 15 years depending on your age. All mortgage applications will require a property valuation before the loan is approved.

The economic climate of Turkish-occupied north Cyprus has to do with one-fifth the dimension of the economic situation of the government-controlled area, while GDP per capita is around half. Since the de facto administration is recognized just by Turkey, it has had much problem setting up international financing, and also international firms have actually been reluctant to spend there. The economy mainly focuses on the farming market as well as government service, which together utilize about fifty percent of the work force.

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To compensate for the economy's weakness, Turkey has been understood to supply considerable financial aid. In both components of the island, water scarcity is a growing trouble, and also several desalination plants are planned.

While the exclusive, top-level market is currently one of the most demanded, the island has a great supply of residential or commercial properties available, from condominiums and apartment or condos, to rental properties as well as sea-side bungalows in luxury growths. Office space is readily available in purpose-built workplace blocks, in transformed homes or apartments. A number of organisation centres also supply ready-to-move into serviced workplaces. They normally include fully-equipped offices that are offered on demand with versatile terms, conference room and a receptionist service.

In addition, the economic climate took advantage of the close teamwork between the private and also public sectors. Given that acquiring freedom from the United Kingdom in 1960, Cyprus has actually had a document of effective financial performance, reflected in solid development, complete work problems and also loved one stability. The underdeveloped agricultural economic climate inherited from colonial rule has actually been transformed into a modern-day economic climate, with vibrant services, industrial and farming sectors and an advanced physical as well as social framework.

It provides unique cultural customs, gorgeous views, miles and miles of beaches, and numerous exciting places to check out. The temporary home authorization is released to non-Cyprus residents that can supply proof of enough revenue in order to supply a decent living in Cyprus.

The Cypriots are amongst one of the most thriving people in the Mediterranean area, with nominal GDP per capita going beyond $28,000 in 2018. You will certainly be impressed at the beautiful conditions that exist in Cyprus if you have actually experienced living in a location that experiences high pollution prices. Since Cyprus does not have very much hefty industry, the country's water, air and also land do not include industrial contamination.

I found that studying in London at university for 4 years had passed so fast. Tourist (specifically from Russia and UK) is a significant part of the Cypriot economic climate, so most locations have the ability to suit English and also Russian. WIth Cyprus' background as an English crown nest till the center of the 20th century, English is obviously additionally still talked by the majority of Cypriots. Furthermore, the little economy has seen some failures since the Turkish lira is legal tender.

Can I retire to Cyprus?

The people of Cyprus are nice and warm The people of Cyprus are known to be very friendly and accommodating to foreign nationals living on the island. Cypriots are very loyal and have a love for food, traditions and their cultural heritage. From my experience, Cypriots are well educated and often speak fluent English.

Contrasted to Sweden or other European nations, the outcomes are not terrific, but it is definitely workable. When relocating to Cyprus is whether to locate in Larnaca or Paphos, the huge entrepreneurial inquiry. Ultimately, both cities offer great possibilities for business owners residing in Cyprus. If you desire pressure with lots going on, Larnaca would certainly be my suggestion, If you intend to transfer to Cyprus to loosen up and also have a slower pace of life, Paphos would certainly be for you. Under these programs, foreign business owners can stay in Cyprus versus an investment which can guarantee long-term home or perhaps citizenship.

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The good news is, that is not the scenario in Cyprus, which has a populace of concerning 850,000 dispersed throughout the country's five major residential areas. Cyprus is a gorgeous island country situated to the southeast of Greece and also southern of Turkey. It is the third-largest island in the Mediterranean and is tactically located at the junction of Europe, Africa as well as Asia.

This paper stands for 5 successive years of residence and also does not require to be renewed. From a mobile point of view, the typical download is tape-recorded at 45.09 Mbps and upload being 15.95 Mbps.

Where is the best place to live in Cyprus?

If you are looking for a place for retiring, you might consider Cyprus as one of the most comfortable retirement destinations. Compared to other European countries, the price for houses and apartments in Cyprus are some of the most competitive in Europe.

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At number-one for a second week is Ed Sheeran with “Take Me Back to London” featuring Stormzy, Aitch and Jaykae, which surprises me since it was such a race to #1 last week, where really anyone could get it, although that remix did let the song stand its ground for two weeks, which must mean something. The song’s not great though, but it’s listenable, I suppose, so I’m not complaining that this could see longevity in comparison to say, Lewis Capaldi.

What I thought would be at #1 this week is actually the runner-up spot, “Higher Love” by Kygo and Whitney Houston keeping pretty stable at the number-two spot. Like Mark said on Billboard BREAKDOWN, this week pre-Post Malone album bomb does not matter, so don’t expect a long or busy episode here.

Thanks to the release of Aitch’s mixtape, AitcH2O, the lead single, “Taste (Make it Shake)” is up three spaces to number-three, which is a new peak, to my dismay because this song is incredibly dull.

AJ Tracey’s “Ladbroke Grove” is up a single position to number-four this week.

This means that “3 Nights” by Dominic Fike has had a slight drop down one spot to number-five.

What I’m pretty sure is the Love Island theme song, “Sorry” by Joel Corry featuring uncredited vocals from Hayley May, reaches a new peak up a space to number-six.

Also reaching a new peak is unfortunately the utterly mindless garbage from Lil Tecca, “RAN$OM”, up two spaces to number-seven, probably taking a boost thanks to the debut mixtape.

Sam Smith is sticking at number-eight with “How Do You Sleep?”.

Up a single chart position to number-nine is “So High” by MIST and Fredo.

Finally, to round off the top 10, we have a new top 10 entry, which is from Young T & Bugsey with Aitch, the rising hit “Strike a Pose”, up two spaces to #10 after more than 10 weeks on the chart. It’s Aitch’s third UK Top 10 hit and Young T & Bugsey’s first to reach these heights.

Climbers

There really isn’t much here to talk about, but there are a few notable climbers and a couple more notable fallers this week, although once again it’s a slow, unimportant chart week prior to the impact of Post Malone, so first of all, “Dance Monkey” by Tones and I is looking to be a sleeper hit and replicate its international success up nine spaces to #31 off of the debut, similarly to the trajectory of “3 Nights” except being an exponentially worse song. Our second large increase in the ten-space boost for Sam Feldt’s “Post Malone” featuring RAMI, becoming Feldt’s second UK Top 20 entry and RAMI’s first. The third and final increase here is Headie One’s “Both” as it leaps five spaces within the top 20 to #13; I’m predicting it’ll reach the top 10 sooner than you think.

Fallers

There are more of these than I expected in all honesty but going down the list these are all pretty inevitable drops, and will probably be out of the chart next week: #1 hit “Beautiful People” by Ed Sheeran featuring Khalid tanks a whopping 16-space crash down to #19 thanks to streaming cuts, “Lover” by Taylor Swift falls flat after the album loses impact down six to #22, “I Don’t Care” by Ed Sheeran featuring Justin Bieber slowly but surely continues its eventual drop during the tail-end of its overlong chart run, down seven this week to #27, paralleling Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus also down seven to #29 as the phenomenon starts to wear off, another pair of identical drops for massive Summer hits zooming down the charts as both “bad guy” by Billie Eilish and “Hold Me While You Wait” by Lewis Capaldi drop six spots to #34 and #35 respectively, “The Man” by Taylor Swift collapses 15 positions off the debut to #36 and that’s all.

Dropouts & Returning Entries

Starting with the dropouts, we have only four here, which is still more than most weeks to be honest, as “Cruel Summer” by Taylor Swift drops off from the debut at #27 as expected, “Never Really Over” either suffers from streaming cuts or has just imploded on itself (Which is believable considering Katy’s track record) out from #32, “Money in the Grave” by Drake featuring Rick Ross definitely struggles from streaming cuts out from #36 and finally, D-Block Europe’s “Home” lasted a lot longer than it really had any right to, out from #39 after somehow lasting about nine weeks in the top 40.

We also have a returning entry here, which is “You Need to Calm Down” by Taylor Swift, which would have returned with an album cut if it hadn’t been less successful than “Cruel Summer”–UK chart rules mean that only three songs from one album can chart at a time. It’s back at #28, which is an oddly high return for its 11th week. Otherwise, there isn’t anything to cover other than the new arrivals, although I should comment on the album bomb outside of the UK Top 40 and instead occurring within the top 75, which honestly shocked me as I expected there would at least be some impact higher than #42 for Lana Del Rey’s #1 album, Norman Fricking Rockwell. Regardless, I feel obligated to say the Sublime cover and her biggest single in years “Doin’ Time” returned to #42, the title track is at #44 and “Frick It I Love You” debuted at #59. Now, we can move onto our three new arrivals, however...

NEW ARRIVALS

#37 – “Lalala” – Y2K and bbno$

Produced by Y2K – Peaked at #6 in the Czech Republic and #55 in the US

I’ve already talked about this song... in-depth... in June. To put it bluntly, I’m a fan of bbno$ and felt the need to point out this song’s existence as it was gaining traction on release week as a Featured Single on the episode dated 23rd of June (Man, I haven’t done one of those in a while – although there is a new JPEGMAFIA album coming out soon...). If you’re interested more, you should probably read that, but to summarise my thoughts, this is a really fun, catchy banger that reeks of a certain smugness that should be irritating but is self-aware to the point of ridiculousness. If a song could be called “overly meta”, it’s probably this one. Bbno$’ charisma and delivery is really snot-nosed and nasal and could get annoying, since it is pretty tiresome, in fact, it’s soured on me since, but Y2K’s cheap Latin-tinged production is just as vibrant. I’m also disappointed that bbno$ does not in fact say “wristicle” in the chorus. My favourite song from bbno$ is “nursery” with Lentra, if you like this one. Sorry this is too short, but I’ve already discussed it, you can read it here. Next.

#25 – “Ride It” – Regard

Produced by Regard

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I have never been so happy to see an absolute nobody chart with a song I’ve never heard before. Let me explain: Do you remember, no pun intended, the late 2000s and early 2010s club boom? There are a lot of fantastic songs that came out of the pop music during that time, and I’m glad there’s been some sort of revisionism of them amongst music communities because some of these are awesome and always have been. One of the most commonly brought up, most popular and definitely one of the best of these dance-pop singles is a song featuring Lil Wayne called “Down”, in which he ends his verse with this, may I add:

And honestly, I’m down like the economy

Listen, it’s one of my favourite songs of all time. I could gush on and on about how that song is near-perfect, but it’s not the time. The dude who is singing on that song isn’t a one-hit wonder like Iyaz, known for the iconic “Replay”, but “Down” hit #1 in the States and despite prolonged success in the UK ever since 2004 with R&B songs, he disappeared entirely after 2012, funnily enough after making a song with Nicki Minaj called “2012 (It Ain’t the End)”. It very much was for the dude’s career, at least in the pop climate, and the dude was talented but admittedly he could only really make one song that was even close to the heights of “Down”... and that was “Down”. Don’t get me wrong, he has a couple amazing singles but none of them pop as well. Maybe it’s J-Remy and Bobby Bass on production, maybe it’s the transcendent guest verse from Weezy, I don’t know, but even his direct follow-up, “Remember the Name”, was just “Down” but so much worse it’s nonsensical. After doing a tiny bit of research on this new single, I found out it’s not an original break-out song by an unknown singer called Regard as I thought it would be. Welcome back, Jay Sean.

The original “Ride It” is a really sweet 2008 Indian-tinged R&B tune with very Timbaland-esque production, and it’s a pretty great single, with very tribal percussion, a Kanye reference and yet somehow it’s still really smooth. It peaked at #11 in the UK and was massive in Russia for some reason. There’s also a rap verse that sounds pretty great, and is the only part in Jay Sean’s career for all I know where he sounded explicitly British to be honest, but the dude is English. The instrumental bridge between the rap verse and final chorus is ethereal, really great stuff, and Jay Sean sounds pretty fantastic on it as well. I didn’t expect the relaxed sex jam to be the EDM remix, especially since it’s nearly Autumn so there’s not as much audience for that... but it’s honestly not a bad remix at all. This is Regard’s first ever UK Top 40 hit, he’s a DJ who released a couple flop singles, and Jay Sean’s eleventh, albeit his first uncredited appearance on the chart, and it’s not a bad house remix at all, to be honest, although it is a tad generic with the typical house-pop drum pattern and drowned-out, pitch-shifted vocals against some synth loops and keys. The vocal mixing is shoddy but it is a remix of a 2008 R&B song that probably does not have an acapella vocal track out there on YouTube, it’s not going to sound perfect by any means, and hell, Jay sounds great against the bouncy 808s here, and while there is a pretty non-existent build-up, that drop, again despite being very weak, is reminiscent of a very 80s synth tone, which I like as it makes a song that would have definitely worked as a hi-NRG track back in the day sound pretty similar to how it probably would have sounded if made so. Yeah, this is pretty cool, I’m just ecstatic to see Jay Sean on the charts again. The drop also reminds me of the chorus “Only Human” by Jonas Brothers. Just a stray observation.

#11 – “Circles” – Post Malone

Produced by Frank Dukes, Louis Bell and Post Malone – Peaked at #2 in Ireland and #7 in the US

Oh, yeah, the bigger story should have been the top 20 debut for Post Malone’s new single “Circles” straight off of his third album, Hollywood’s Bleeding, but I decided to ramble on about Jay Sean. I’m honestly not particularly interested enough to write a lot about this one, and I didn’t want to spoil myself by listening to another single before the album but I have yet to hear the record in its entirety so here we are. This particular single has been quite polarising from what I can gather and apparently it’s an acoustic pop-rock jam which seems promising, although I’m not entirely sure Post can even try and hit the heights of “Goodbyes” with Young Thug – in fact, that album better be good because not only does it feature “Goodbyes” but also “Sunflower” with Swae Lee and “Wow.”, two of his best ever songs released in his career so far. It’s produced by Post and all of his right-hand men, and is his eleventh UK Top 40 hit, and, well... it definitely isn’t awful, in fact, I do appreciate a lot of this sonically. The acoustic guitars drowned out by typical kick-heavy indie-rock percussion and wiry synths as well as Post’s really subdued vocal delivery initially that somehow peaks in the mix just as much as his more intense, reverb-heavy signature Post Malone warbling during the chorus, it doesn’t sound bad. It just feels very much out of Post’s element. He can do pop songwriting, and when it’s just bass and drum in the start of the second verse, that sounds great, but the second verse is also fitted to a trap beat the way “Better Now” is, except this song doesn’t have that heavy trap beat to elevate it, but a weaksauce indie pop beat that is compressed to hell and doesn’t sound great, especially due to really crappy mixing overall. This isn’t bad at all, but incredibly disappointing coming off of the other singles.

Conclusion

There’s not much to judge off of here and while I’d love to give the song with more novelty Best of the Week, the song really isn’t as good as “Lalala” so bbno$ and Y2K are getting Best of the Week, with Worst of the Week going to Post Malone for “Circles”, which is just a really underwhelming single. Oh, and Jay Sean of the Week goes to DJ Regard for “Ride It”, although I don’t think that title will be coming back anytime soon. Follow me on Twitter @cactusinthebank for more musical ramblings and I’ll see you next week!

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Modern Farmhouse with Traditional Interiors

Recently renovated by Hyland Homes and located in Western Springs, Illinois, this home features a modern farmhouse exterior and reinvented traditional interiors. Here, the designer shares more details:

“Our clients in Western Springs were looking to expand their new home by doing a whole home remodel. This cute, little ranch was transformed into a beautiful bungalow. Formal living room welcomes you from the front door, which leads into the expansive, open kitchen with seating, and the formal dining and family room off to the back. Four bedrooms top off the second floor with vaulted ceilings in the master.”

I hope this home inspires you today!

Modern Farmhouse with Traditional Interiors

Traditional collides with farmhouse and sleek lines in this whole home remodel. The exterior paint color is “Benjamin Moore White”.

Foyer

The black front door opens to a traditional foyer with hardwood flooring and coat closet. A wallpaper creates a focal point.

Main Floor Wall Paint Color: Benjamin Moore White Christmas.

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A classic white kitchen is your best bet for resale! Recently renovated, this white kitchen features full overlay shaker by Wheatland Custom Cabinetry & Woodwork cabinets in finished “Benjamin Moore Simply White”.

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People Put Trump And Boris Johnson Side By Side, And The Resemblance Is Uncanny (9 Pics)

“We have a really good man who is going to be the prime minister of the UK, Boris Johnson,” Donald Trump enthused yesterday. “They call him Britain Trump.”

Now, nonsense manner of speech aside, this comparison between the two leaders has understandably been a popular subject recently. But how similar are they, really? Are we just lazily noting the ridiculous hair and buffoonish personas, without looking deeper below the surface? Let’s take a closer look at these two mold-breaking politicians, and check out whether the moniker of the ‘British Trump’ is a worthy one.

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Both Johnson and Trump are, first and foremost, showmen. They both rose to prominence on the back of TV appearances; Trump with The Apprentice and Johnson on the quiz show “Have I Got News for You.”

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Both of these charlatans also have a reputation for telling barefaced lies; Johnson has been sacked twice for dishonesty, while Trump’s misleading statements have journalists working 24/7 trying to set the record straight.

The stigma of dishonesty also surrounds their personal lives – both Trump and Johnson have been rumored to have had extra-marital affairs, as well as other sordid revelations around their private lives.

A large part of the popularity of these pair (to a certain demographic at least) is their straightforward, no-nonsense way of speaking. Both have made numerous offensive comments about minority groups, Johnson his referred to gay men as “bumboys,” Muslim women “letterboxes” and black Africans “piccaninnies” with “watermelon smiles.”

Trump famously dismissed many non-white nations as ‘shithole’ countries and has recently told American-born women of color to ‘go back’ to where he apparently feels that they actually belong.

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The pair have been largely responsible for re-normalizing divisive and hate-filled rhetoric in their respective countries, stoking fear and prejudice against the ‘other’ to appeal to frustrated voters looking for someone to blame for their discontent.

Not to mention their rejection of fact-based, scientific research in favor of conspiracy and outright lies. Johnson, formerly in favor of remaining in the EU, used the specter of Turkey’s imminent accession to the Union to whip up support for Brexit, warning of a flood of Syrian refugees. In reality, Turkey is nowhere near close to joining the EU.

Trump has falsely called climate change a “hoax” invented by China, and regularly retweets conspiracy theorists and people who have been banned for hate speech.

Post-truth politics has entered the lexicon largely as a result of the popular appeal of these two sinister clowns, as they evoke a mythical past when everything was happier, richer, whiter and less PC.

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These leaders, both born into wealth and privilege, claim to represent the best interests of the common man. Trump inherited his wealth from his father, while Johnson is a product of the famous Eton College, which has been described as ‘the nursery of England’s gentlemen’ and has produced Five British Prime Ministers since 1945.

Why people struggling to make ends meet feel that these men, completely out of touch with the everyday reality of 99% of people, have their best interests at heart is a mystery that has yet to be solved.

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Yet there are also big differences between the pair; many feel that Johnson is actually much more liberal than his populist campaigning suggests and that he will switch back to a more centrist figure now that his ambition to become PM has been realized.

Trump, on the other hand, relies heavily on his base support and continues to push the envelope of acceptable behavior for a President, it seems that the more controversial he is, the more his supporters love him.

And while Johnson has a solid education and keen intellect beneath the bumbling persona, Trump is, well, pretty much as he appears on the surface.

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What do you think that the election of these two divisive figures tells us about the state of the U.S. and the UK, two supposedly powerful bastions of freedom, democracy and moral authority? Will they last long? Are we heading into a period where truth and scientific fact matter less than populist rhetoric? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!