#HENRY DURHAM : edits.

[durhams]

tags : henry

[stephensmithuk]

The Hound of the Baskervilles: Three Broken Threads

Hat tip to @myemuisemo for another excellent post that covers much of what I was planning together:

Data protection was not really a thing back in 1889. However, paper hotel registers would be something filled in by the front desk staff, not the guest. They would contain details of extra charges incurred as well, all stuff generally done by computer, but you can still buy paper copies today. Particularly for the Indian market, where less than half the population have Internet access. These registers are generally mandatory and in some countries, the data will still be passed to the police when it concerns newly arrived foreigners. That's why they ask for your passport.

Newcastle upon Tyne, the one people generally talk about as opposed to Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, was at the centre of a major coal mining area in North-East England, the Durham and Northumberland coalfields being in close proximity. The industry was still employing children - boys as young as 12 could work in mines - and was still a pretty dangerous, not to mention unhealthy industry.

The British economy was heavily reliant on coal, especially the newly built electric power stations. While the railways had a big coal trade for internal transport for domestic purposes, boats also played a big role, either going via canal or down the East Coast of Great Britain to the London Docks. This route would become vulnerable to German attack in the World Wars, particularly in the second war from fast torpedo boats known to the British as "E-boats"; the East Coast convoys are a lesser-known part of the naval war, with Patrick Troughton having served with Coastal Force Command.

The Mayor of Gloucester, like most civic mayors in England, is the chair of the council, elected to a one-year term by their fellow councillors. The current holder is Conservative councillor Lorraine Campbell. It's a mostly ceremonial role involving going to various events while wearing a red cloak and a big hat:

Gloucester's Deputy Mayor is called the Sheriff of Gloucester. There is still a Sheriff of Nottingham, by the way.

The Anglophone Canadian accent was historically noticeably different to an American one and of course had its own varieties. They've gotten closer over the decades, especially due to television.

Sir Henry would have limited luggage space on the ship over, so three pairs of boots would be reasonable. He'd have to ship over anything else at further cost, so it could be cheaper to buy new in London.

Deliveries of telegrams that weren't in the immediate area of the office cost extra. Bradshaw's Guide for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland would state the nearest telegraph office for a town, as the 1866 edition demonstrates:

Sir Charles' estate was worth around £80m in today's money, but that would not even get him onto The Sunday Times Rich List, which starts at £350m (Sir Lewis Hamilton, i.e. the F1 driver). It tops out with Gopichand Hinduja and his family at an estimated £37.2 billion, whose conglomerate is many focussed on India, but also are the biggest shareholders in US chemical company Quaker Houghton.

Westmoreland was a historical county in Northern England; it was absorbed into Cumbria in 1974, but its area became part of the Westmoreland and Furness unitary authority in 2023.

"Entailed" means that Sir Charles has stipulated in a legal document that the Baskerville estate would have to pass to Sir Henry's heir intact. This was a feudal era practice that has now been abolished in most jurisdictions, with limited remaining use in England and Wales. Simply put Sir Henry is not allowed to sell the house or the land, even part of it. He can do what he likes with the cash and probably the chattels, the movable property like the candlesticks and the toasting forks.

This page covers it in relation to the works of Jane Austen with relevant spoilers:

Borough is another name for the area of Southwark. It got a Tube station in 1890, when the City and South London Railway opened, now the Bank branch of the Northern line. It also is famous for Borough Market, then a wholesale food market under cover of buildings from the 1850s. Today it is a retail market for specialty food; kind of like a farmers' market.

In 1888, the 10:30 from Paddington would get to Exeter at 15:35, a journey of five hours. @myemuisemo provides route maps. I would add at this point, GWR services to SW England went via Bristol, adding a lot of time to the journey, while the LSWR route from Waterloo was a lot more direct. Wags dubbed the former "the Great Way Round". The construction of two cut-off lines allowed the GWR to go via Westbury and Castle Cary.

I will cover the modern day condition of the route in my Chapter 6 post.

The GWR still had some broad-gauge track at 2,140 mm(7 ft 1⁄4 in) left that Brunel had favoured, but this would be finally eliminated in 1892.

Finally, Holmes is referencing the sport of fencing when he learns the cabbie has been given his name. The foil is the lightest of the three swords used in competitive fencing, such as the Olympics.

In an age before electronic fencing equipment, point scoring relied on the eyesight of the umpire... and the honesty of the competitions.

I was in my fencing club at university. I can't say I was that great. I preferred the epee, which doesn't have the priority rules...

[mirandamckenni1]

Netflix made an educational history show. Let's assess the clothes 👀 (ft Lilla Crawford) Save up to 40% off Brooklinen's bundles by shopping their biggest sale of the year. Click my link to shop https://bit.ly/BernadetteBrooklinen . [*If you're watching this video after 11/29, you can still get a discount by using the code BERNADETTE for $20 off your orders over $100] More Lilla! https://ift.tt/307gJai ⤠ NEVER MISS AN UPDATE ⤟ 📜 (FREE) NEWSLETTER https://ift.tt/tXm7T1M 📸 INSTAGRAM @bernadettebanner https://ift.tt/VoYF1Qa ♥️ PATREON https://ift.tt/xap4rPJ RESEARCH ASSISTANT | Heathcliff McLean IG @mxheathcliff https://ift.tt/yUS1ohi ⤠ SOURCES ⤟ [1] British painter. 1572. Portrait of Walter Devereux (1539–1576), First Earl of Essex. Oil on Wood. New York, NY. Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://ift.tt/bmw1suL. [2] Osterkamp, Peggy. 2013. “What Is Velvet and How It Is Made? (Part One).” Peggy Osterkamp’s Weaving Blog. November 2, 2013. https://ift.tt/K5hUm8v. [3] After Hans Holbein the Younger. c. 1537. Portrait of Henry VIII. Oil on Canvas. Liverpool, UK. Walker Art Gallery. https://ift.tt/ODiM0Se. [4] Pickering, Henry. 1741. Sir Wolstan Dixie (1700–1767), 4th Bt, Market Bosworth. Oil on Canvas. Nottingham, UK. Nottingham City Museums & Galleries. https://ift.tt/1SanJr5. [5] Royal Ontario Museum. 2013. “A Pair of 18th Century French Panniers Arrives at the ROM!” Royal Ontario Museum. September 13, 2013. https://ift.tt/gM3DuGN. [6] Gautier-Dagoty, Jean-Baptiste-André. 1775. Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (1755-1793). Oil on Canvas. Versailles, France. Palace of Versailles. https://ift.tt/19biAtS. [7] Unknown artist, European. c. 1770. Portrait of a Lady Holding an Orange Blossom. Oil on Canvas. Ontario, Canada. Art Gallery of Ontario. https://ift.tt/ViANtSW. [8] Unknown photographer. c. 1850. Emma Gurney (1803-1860). Photograph. Durham, UK. Darlington Centre for Local Studies. https://ift.tt/e1UKwS2. [9] Unknown photographer. c.1900. Woman with Straw Hat. Photograph. Private Collection. https://ift.tt/UMqskN5. [10] Wirth, Frederick. 1860. Two Children and Woman. Carte-de-visite Photograph. Seattle, WA. University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections. https://ift.tt/FeHCdiy. [11] Unknown illustrator. 1887. Susan B. Anthony. History of Woman Suffrage Volume 1 Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage. https://ift.tt/7PS6k9s. [12] Purtich, Kirstin. n.d. “Thomson Cage Crinoline.” Bard Graduate Center. https://ift.tt/2FeB5rz. [13] N. Currier. 1851. The Bloomer Costume. Lithograph Print. Washington, D.C. Library of Congress. https://ift.tt/acn6Ovs. [14] Unknown artist. c. 1855. Amelia Bloomer. Chromolithograph. Encyclopædia Britannica. https://ift.tt/uVIUh7z. [15] Hilliard, Nicholas. 1598. Elizabeth I (1533–1603). Oil on Canvas. Derbyshire, UK. Hardwick Hall. https://ift.tt/xpBTVkR. [16] Unknown maker. 1603. Corset from Elizabeth I’s Wax Effigy. London, UK. Westminster Abbey. https://ift.tt/QNvG4XA. [17] Unknown maker. 1601-1800. Orthopaedic Corset to Fit Adult Male. Iron, Leather. London, UK. Wellcome Collection. https://ift.tt/KHp2WZ3. [18] Gheeraerts the Younger, Marcus. 1592. Queen Elizabeth I (“The Ditchley Portrait”). Oil on Canvas. London, UK. National Portrait Gallery. https://ift.tt/Y9fr7jV. [19] Unknown artist, English. 1588. Queen Elizabeth I. Oil on Panel. London, UK. National Portrait Gallery. https://ift.tt/oHKTCiX. [20] Unknown maker, English. 1750-1780. Woman’s Corset. Linen Twill and Baleen. Los Angeles, CA. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. https://ift.tt/9xTfnGb. [21] Unknown maker, Spanish. Late 16th Century. Verdugado. Linen, Reed. Zamora, Spain. Museo Etnográfico de Castilla y León. https://ift.tt/7shLGEQ. [22] Rabel, Daniel. 1626. The Royal Ballet of the Dowager of Bilbao’s Grand Ball. Pen and Black ink, Watercolour. Paris, France. Musée du Louvre. https://ift.tt/9udOgzV. via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0yAN8PHc2M

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 7.4

362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans. 414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaimed herself empress (Augusta) of the Eastern Roman Empire. 836 – Pactum Sicardi, a peace treaty between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples, is signed. 993 – Ulrich of Augsburg is canonized as a saint. 1054 – A supernova, called SN 1054, is seen by Chinese Song dynasty, Arab, and possibly Amerindian observers near the star Zeta Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula. 1120 – Jordan II of Capua is anointed as prince after his infant nephew's death. 1187 – The Crusades: Battle of Hattin: Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem. 1253 – Battle of West-Capelle: John I of Avesnes defeats Guy of Dampierre. 1359 – Francesco II Ordelaffi of Forlì surrenders to the Papal commander Gil de Albornoz. 1456 – Ottoman–Hungarian wars: The Siege of Nándorfehérvár (Belgrade) begins. 1534 – Christian III is elected King of Denmark and Norway in the town of Rye. 1584 – Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe arrive at Roanoke Island 1610 – The Battle of Klushino is fought between forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Polish–Muscovite War. 1634 – The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France (now Quebec, Canada). 1744 – The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois cede lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, was signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. 1774 – Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts. 1776 – American Revolution: The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress. 1778 – American Revolutionary War: U.S. forces under George Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign. 1802 – At West Point, New York, the United States Military Academy opens. 1803 – The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people. 1817 – In Rome, New York, construction on the Erie Canal begins. 1818 – US Flag Act of 1818 goes into effect creating a 13 stripe flag with a star for each state. New stars would be added on 4th of July after a new state had been admitted. 1827 – Slavery is abolished in the State of New York. 1831 – Samuel Francis Smith writes "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" for the Boston, Massachusetts July 4 festivities. 1832 – John Neal delivers the first public lecture in the US to advocate the rights of women. 1832 – Durham University established by Act of Parliament; the first recognized university to be founded in England since Cambridge over 600 years earlier. 1837 – Grand Junction Railway, the world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool. 1838 – The Iowa Territory is organized. 1845 – Henry David Thoreau moves into a small cabin on Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau's account of his two years there, Walden, will become a touchstone of the environmental movement. 1855 – The first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, Leaves of Grass, is published in Brooklyn. 1862 – Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels. 1863 – American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to U.S. forces under Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. 1863 – American Civil War: Union forces repulse a Confederate army at the Battle of Helena in Arkansas. The Confederate loss fails to relieve pressure on the besieged city of Vicksburg, and paves the way for the Union to capture Little Rock. 1863 – American Civil War: The Army of Northern Virginia withdraws from the battlefield after losing the Battle of Gettysburg, signalling an end to the Confederate invasion of U.S. territory. 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: The Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burned to the ground, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee. 1881 – In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens. 1886 – The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel. 1887 – The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi. 1892 – Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days. 1894 – The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole. 1898 – En route from New York to Le Havre, the SS La Bourgogne collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of Sable Island, with the loss of 549 lives. 1901 – William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines. 1903 – The Philippine–American War is officially concluded. 1910 – The Johnson–Jeffries riots occur after African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in the 15th round. Between 11 and 26 people are killed and hundreds more injured. 1911 – A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities. 1913 – President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913. 1914 – The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo. 1918 – Mehmed V died at the age of 73 and Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI ascends to the throne. 1918 – World War I: The Battle of Hamel, a successful attack by the Australian Corps against German positions near the town of Le Hamel on the Western Front. 1927 – First flight of the Lockheed Vega. 1939 – Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, informs a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considers himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball. 1941 – Nazi crimes against the Polish nation: Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv. 1941 – World War II: The Burning of the Riga synagogues: The Great Choral Synagogue in German-occupied Riga is burnt with 300 Jews locked in the basement. 1942 – World War II: The 250-day Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimea ends when the city falls to Axis forces. 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, begins in the village of Prokhorovka. 1943 – World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident moments after takeoff, killing sixteen passengers on board, including general Władysław Sikorski, the commander-in-chief of the Polish Army and the Prime Minister of the Polish government-in-exile; only the pilot survives. 1946 – The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland. 1946 – After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States. 1947 – The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented before the British House of Commons, proposing the independence of the Provinces of British India into two sovereign countries: India and Pakistan. 1950 – Cold War: Radio Free Europe first broadcasts. 1951 – Cold War: A court in Czechoslovakia sentences American journalist William N. Oatis to ten years in prison on charges of espionage. 1951 – William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor. 1954 – Rationing ends in the United Kingdom. 1960 – Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Acts (United States)). 1961 – On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-19 suffers a complete loss of coolant to its reactor. The crew are able to effect repairs, but 22 of them die of radiation poisoning over the following two years. 1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year. 1976 – Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists. 1976 – The U.S. celebrates its Bicentennial. 1977 – The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit. 1982 – Three Iranian diplomats and a journalist are kidnapped in Lebanon by Phalange forces, and their fate remains unknown. 1987 – In France, former Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie (a.k.a. the "Butcher of Lyon") is convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment. 1994 – Rwandan genocide: Kigali, the Rwandan capital, is captured by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ending the genocide in the city. 1997 – NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars. 1998 – Japan launches the Nozomi probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation. 2001 – Vladivostock Air Flight 352 crashes on approach to Irkutsk Airport killing all 145 people on board.[4] 2002 – A Boeing 707 crashes near Bangui M'Poko International Airport in Bangui, Central African Republic, killing 28. 2004 – The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the World Trade Center site in New York City. 2004 – Greece beats Portugal in the UEFA Euro 2004 Final and becomes European Champion for first time in its history. 2005 – The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1. 2006 – Space Shuttle program: Discovery launches STS-121 to the International Space Station. The event gained wide media attention as it was the only shuttle launch in the program's history to occur on the United States' Independence Day. 2009 – The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks. 2009 – The first of four days of bombings begins on the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao. 2012 – The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN. 2015 – Chile claims its first title in international football by defeating Argentina in the 2015 Copa América Final.

[gabrielokun]

[waitemaliklevison]

being human (us) ↳ 2.13 it’s my party and i’ll die if i want to

[asfaltics]

givings away

  Hawthorne was a hearty devourer of books, and in certain moods of mind it made very little difference what the volume before him happened to be. An old play or an old newspaper sometimes gave him wondrous great content, and he would ponder the sleepy, uninteresting sentences as if they contained immortal mental aliment. He once told me he found       1   givings away in some       2 gestures and beckonings, and givings away of small bunches of early violets       3 licenses, and bridesmaids, and carriages, and givings-away, and       4   (or “givings away”), a term derived from the Chinook jargon word potlatch, “to give”       5 he told me of Lamb’s “givings away”       6 the thefts, the robberies, the givings away. There was no one who would not rather have had all those things in flames       7   these givings away, as well as       8 givings away of [ ] heartsease and rue       9 here are their givings away [ ] all       10   standing there a minute And holding the thrifty man’s book of “givings-away”       11 “givings-away” in one hand, and say:       12 There are these two givings-away. What are the two?       13   across the found time between his givings away to street, or ask favors of       14 the world, with society, with the entourage consisting for him, in its most pressing form of, say, [ ] this challenge, as I have called it, in some way that will sort of meet it without givings-away. These three       15 would Two Givings-Away.       16   You know, we all make deals, I suppose, in terms of how we think about the process of our aging. It’s a series of givings away, a making       17  

sources

1 ex James T. Fields, Yesterdays with Authors (1871; 1872) : 62 (same source, different edition, for entry 6 below) 2 ex Jabez D(elano). Hammond. Life and Times of Silas Wright, Late Governor of the State of New York (Syracuse, 1848) : 552 3 ex The Daisydingle Sunday-school (Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1849) : 22 a “Sunday School Reward Book” 4 ex chapter 12, “A Compact with the Evil One” in “Stoke Dotterell; or, the Liverpool Apprentice,” in The New Monthly Magazine 105 (London, 1855) : 323 5 ex Robert Brown (1842-1895 *), The Races of Mankind : Being a Popular Description of the characteristics, manners and customs of the principal varieties of the human family. Vol. 1 (of 2; 1873) : 75 6 ex James T(homas). Fields (1817-81 *), “‘Barry Cornwall’ and some of his friends,” in Yesterdays with Authors (1871; 1879) : 359 7 ex Cicero’s oration for Sex. Roscius Amerinus, the text closely rendered and illustrated with short notes by an Oxford graduate. (Oxford, 1880) : 9 8 inscrutable OCR misread (snippet view only), Geological Survey of Canada, Report of Progress for the Year (1880?) : 119 9 OCR cross-column misread, involving reviews of two books, Sir John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life (London, 1887) and James R(ussell). Lowell, Heartsease and Rue (London, 1888), in The Oxford Magazine (May 23, 1888) : 379 on heartsease (or wild pansy (Viola tricolor), also known as Johnny Jump up, &c, &c.) on rue (Ruta graveolens, commonly known as rue, common rue or herb-of-grace...) 10 ex statement of C. W. Bennett, in Hearings before the Committee on Territories of the United States Senate in relation to the Bill (S. 1306) for the local government of Utah Territory, and to provide for the election of certain officers in said territory. (Washington, D.C.; February 11, 1892) 155 11 ex snippet view (only), Commercial West 18 (1910) : 28 12 ex “Thrift,” by Rev. Robert J. Burdette, Pastor Emeritus Temple Baptist Church, Los Angeles, California,in “Savings Bank Section,” Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Convention of the American Bankers’ Association... (Held at Los Angeles, California, October 3 to 7, 1910) : 535-538 13 ex “Chapter on Gifts, the thirteenth,” The Anguttara Nikāya of the Sutta Pitaka, Eka Duka and Tika Tika Nipāta; published by The London Pali Text Society in 1885; translated by Edmund Rowland Jayetilleke Gooneratne. (Galle, Ceylon, 1913) : 114 same volume, these errata — for passions read fascination for place read state read any other state for at least read not after cut read off for into read after for does read does not omit, by after blind read man after sandal read wood for error read ignorance after Him insert a full stop 14 ex “In North Carolina’s Calcium Light” (series), Robert Lilly Gray (1877-1945?), “‘Jule’ Carr, the Man—A Pen Picture,” in Sky-land 1:7 (April 1914) : 401-406 a literary magazine promoting a vision of “white” culture and civilization; Julian Shakespeare Carr (1845-1924), was a North Carolina industrialist, philathropist, and Ku Klux Klan supporter; aided (the Methodist and Quaker affiliated) Trinity College, that would become Duke University on Carr’s land in Durham. (much) more at wikipedia aside — it may be that usage of the expression “Sky-land” to denote that region of western North Carolina originated in a travel sketch entitled Land of the Sky (1876) by Christian Reid (1846-1920 *); her characterization was subsequently used to advertise a railroad extension to the area. 15 Henry James, The Ivory Tower (unfinished novel; 1917) : 330 16 OCR cross-column misread/jump, at “Crowns Coronets Courtiers” in The Sketch : A Journal of Art and Actuality 104 (October 9, 1918) :40 weekly magazine, devoted to “high society and the aristocracy” during the years 1893-1959 (wikipedia) list of issues available via hathitrust 17 ex Mark Singer, “David Milch’s Third Act — Despite what dementia has stolen from the cerebral creator of “Deadwood,” it has given his work a new sense of urgency.” The New Yorker (May 27, 2019 issue) : here full passage — “You know, we all make deals, I suppose, in terms of how we think about the process of our aging. It’s a series of givings away, a making peace with givings away. I had thought, as many or most people do, that I was in an earlier stage of givings away than it turns out I am. It’s kind of a relentless series of adjustments to what you can do, in particular the way you can’t think any longer. Your inability to sustain a continuity of focus. And those are accumulated deletions of ability. And you adjust—you’d better adjust, or you adjust whether you want to or not.”  

[lucile-desmoulins]

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[disturbingbookclub]

Slavoj Žižek bibliography

Reading Žižek – Where to Start?

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Author

2018 Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism

2018 Reading Marx

2017 Incontinence of the Void: Economico-Philosophical Spandrels, MIT Press

2017 The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously, Penguin Books

2017 Lenin 2017, VersoBooks

2016 Antigone, London: Bloomsbury Academic

2016 Disparities, London: Bloomsbury Academic

2016 Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours, Allen Lane

2016 The Wagnerian Sublime: Four Lacanian Readings of Classic Operas, Berlin: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

2015 Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism, Brooklyn: Melville House

2014 Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism, London: Verso, 7 October 2014

2014 Event: A Philosophical Journey Through a Concept, New York: Penguin

2014 The Most Sublime Hysteric: Hegel with Lacan, Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity Press

2014 Žižek's Jokes: (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

2013 Demanding the Impossible, Malden, MA: Polity Press

2012 The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, London: Verso

2012 Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism, London: Verso

2010 Living in the End Times, London: Verso.

2009 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce, London: Verso.

2008 Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (Big Ideas/Small Books), New York: Picador.

2008 In Defense of Lost Causes, London: Verso.

2006 How to Read Lacan, London: Granta Books (also New York: W.W. Norton & Company in 2007).

2006 The Parallax View, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

2006 Lacan: The Silent Partners, London: Verso (editor)

2006 The Universal Exception, London, New York: Continuum International Publishing Group.

2005 Interrogating the Real, London, New York: Continuum International Publishing Group.

2004 Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle, London: Verso.

2003 The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

2003 Organs Without Bodies, London: Routledge.

2002 Revolution at the Gates: Žižek on Lenin, the 1917 Writings, London: Verso.

2002 Welcome to the Desert of the Real, London: Verso.

2001 Repeating Lenin, Zagreb: Arkzin D.O.O.

2001 Opera's Second Death, London: Routledge.

2001 On Belief, London: Routledge.

2001 The Fright of Real Tears, London: British Film Institute (BFI).

2001 Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?, London: Verso.

2000 The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?, London: Verso.

2000 The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime: On David Lynch's Lost Highway, Washington: University of Washington Press.

1999 The Ticklish Subject, London: Verso.

1997 The Plague of Fantasies, London: Verso.

1997 The Abyss of Freedom, Michigan: University of Michigan Press.

1996 The Indivisible Remainder: Essays on Schelling and Related Matters, London: Verso.

1994 The Metastases of Enjoyment, London: Verso.

1993 Tarrying With the Negative, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.

1992 Enjoy Your Symptom!, London: Routledge.

1991 Looking Awry, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.

1991 For They Know Not What They Do, London: Verso.

1989 The Sublime Object of Ideology, London: Verso.

As co-author or editor

2014 Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj (with Nadya Tolokonnikova), London: Verso

2013 "From Myth To Symptom: the Case of Kosovo", Slavoj Žižek and Agon Hamza (Prishtina: KMD, 2013)

2013 What Does Europe Want? - The Union and its Discontents (with Srećko Horvat), London: Istros Books, 2013

2013 The Idea of Communism 2: The New York Conference, London: Verso (editor)

2012 God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse, with Boris Gunjević, New York: Seven Stories Press

2011 Hegel and the Infinite: Religion, Politics, and Dialectic, New York: Columbia University Press (edited by Clayton Crockett, Slavoj Žižek, Creston Davis. Preface and chapter 12 written by Žižek)

2010 Philosophy in the Present, Polity (with Alain Badiou).

2010 Paul's New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology, Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press (with Creston Davis and John Milbank)

2010 The Idea of Communism, London: Verso (Texts from "The Idea of Communism" conference, 2009, edited by Žižek and Costas Douzinas)

2009 Mythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism, Continuum (with Markus Gabriel).

2009 The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (with Creston Davis and John Milbank)

2007 On Practice and Contradiction, London: Verso (Selected texts of Mao Zedong with introduction by Žižek).

2007 Terrorism and Communism, London: Verso (Selected texts of Leon Trotsky with introduction by Žižek).

2007 Virtue and Terror, London: Verso (Selected texts of Robespierre with introduction by Žižek).

2006 Neighbors and Other Monsters (in The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology), Cambridge, Massachusetts: University of Chicago Press.

2004 Conversations with Žižek, Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly, London: Polity Press.

2001 The Fright of Real Tears: Krzystof Kieslowski between Theory and Post-Theory, London: British Film Institute.

2000 Contingency, Hegemony, Universality (authored with Judith Butler and Ernesto Laclau), London: Verso.

1998 Cogito and the Unconscious: Sic 2, Duke university press.

1993 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan... But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock, London: Verso (editor)

1990 Beyond Discourse Analysis (a part in Ernesto Laclau's New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time), London: Verso.

Contributor

1994, The Making of Political Identities

2000, Jacques Ranciere: The Politics of Aesthetics

2001, Nietzsche: Revenge and Praise (Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy)

2002, Georg Lukács: A Defence of History and Class Consciousness: Tailism and the Dialectic

2002, Lacan & Science

2002, Reading Seminar XX: Lacan’s Major Work on Love, Knowledge, and Feminine Sexuality

2004, Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy

2004, Transcendence: Philosophy, Literature, and Theology Approach the Beyond

2004, Polygraph 15/16: Immanence, Transcendence, and Utopia

2004, Hitchcock: Past and Future

2005, Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive

2007, Adventures in Realism

2009, Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader

2009, Cultures of Fear

2010, Paul’s New Moment: Continental Philosophy and the Future of Christian Theology

2010, Alain Badiou: Five Lessons on Wagner

2010, The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism

2011, The Chinese Perspective on Žižek and Žižek′s Perspective on China

2011, Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America

2011, Hegel & The Infinite

2011, Democracy in What State?

2011, What Does a Jew Want? On Binationalism and Other Specters

2012, The Case for Sanctions Against Israel

2012, Hegel’s Rabble: An Investigation Into Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

2012, Concept and Form (Cahiers pour l’Analyse)

2013, Penumbr(a)

2013, Biopolitics: A Reader

2013, Žižek Now: Current Perspectives in Žižek Studies

2014, Žižek’s Jokes

2015, The Slovene re-actualization of Hegel’s philosophy

2016, Slavoj Žižek and Dialectical Materialism

2016, Sex and Nothing: Bridges from Psychoanalysis to Philosophy

Secondary Literature

2003, Slavoj Zizek, Tony Myers: Routledge Critical Thinkers

2004, Glyn Daly: Conversations With Žižek

2004, Slavoj Zizek: Ian Parker: A Critical Introduction

2004, Matthew Sharpe: A Little Piece of the Real

2005, Rex Butler: Live Theory

2005, Geoff Boucher, Jason Glynos, Matthew Sharpe: Traversing the Fantasy

2006, Jodi Dean: Žižek’s Politics

2007, Fabio Vighi & Heiko Feldner: Žižek – Beyond Foucault

2008, Adam Kotsko: Žižek and Theology

2008, Adrian Johnston: Žižek’s Ontology

2008, Marcus Pound: A (Very) Critical Introduction

2008, Thomas Brockelman: Žižek and Heidegger

2009, Adrian Johnston: Badiou, Žižek, and Political Transformations

2009, Geoff Boucher: The Charmed Circle of Ideology

2010, Fabio Vighi: On Žižek’s Dialectics

2010, Matthew Sharpe & Geoff Boucher: Žižek and Politics: A Critical Introduction

2011, Introducing Slavoj Žižek: A Graphic Guide

2014, Žižek and His Contemporaries: On the Emergence of the Slovenian Lacan

2014, The Žižek Dictionary

2015, Žižek and Law

2018, Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture by Clint Burnham

2018, The Reception of Paul the Apostle in the Works of Slavoj Žižek by Ole Jakob Løland

Book series edited by Žižek

WO ES WAR

1995, Miran Božovič: The Panopticon Writings

1998, Alain Grosrichard: The Sultan’s Court

1998, Renata Salecl: Perversions of Love and Hate

2000, Alenka Zupančič: Ethics of the Real

2001, Alain Badiou: Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil

Short Circuits

2003, Alenka Zupančič: The Shortest Shadow

2005, Jerry Aline Flieger: Is Oedipus Online?

2005, Alexei Monroe: Interrogation Machine

2006, Mladen Dolar: A Voice and Nothing More

2007, Lorenzo Chiesa: Subjectivity and Otherness

2008, Alenka Zupančič: The Odd One In

2009, André Nusselder: Interface Fantasy

2009, Henry Bond: Lacan at the Scene

2010, Anca Parvulescu: Laughter

SIC Series

1996, Gaze and Voice as Love Objects [sic1]

1998, Cogito and the Unconscious [sic2]

2000, Sexuation [sic3]

2003, Perversion and the Social Relation [sic4]

2005, Theology and the Political: The New Debate [sic5]

2006, Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis [sic6]

2007, Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth [sic7]

2013, The Privatization of Hope: Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia [sic8]

2015, Repeating Žižek [sic9]

Reading Žižek – Where to Start?

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William Henry Monk

William Henry Monk was born in London on 16 March 1823. His youth is not well-documented, but it seems that he developed quickly on the keyboard, but perhaps less so in composition.

By age 18, Monk was organist at St Peter's Church, Eaton Square (Central London). He left after two years, and moved on to two more organist posts in London (St. George's Church, Albemarle Street, and St. Paul's Church, Portman Square). He spent two years in each. Each served as a stepping stone toward fostering his musical ambitions.

In 1847, Monk became choirmaster at King's College London. There he developed an interest in incorporating plainchant into Anglican services, an idea suggested by William Dyce, a King's College professor with whom Monk had much contact. In 1849, Monk also became organist at King's College.

In 1852, he became organist and choirmaster at St Matthias' Church, Stoke Newington, where he made many changes: plainchant was used in singing psalms, and the music performed was more appropriate to the church calendar. By now, Monk was also arranging hymns, as well as writing his own hymn melodies. In 1857, his talents as composer, arranger, and editor were recognized when he was appointed the musical editor of Hymns Ancient and Modern, a volume first published in 1861, containing 273 hymns. After supplements were added (second edition—1875; later additions or supplements—1889, 1904, and 1916) it became one of the best-selling hymn books ever produced. It was for this publication that Monk supplied his famous "Eventide" tune which is mostly used for the hymn "Abide with Me", as well as several others, including "Gethsemane", "Ascension", and "St. Denys".

In 1874, Monk was appointed professor of vocal studies at King's College; subsequently he accepted similar posts at two other prestigious London music schools: the first at the National Training School for Music in 1876, and the second at Bedford College in 1878. Monk remained active in composition in his later years, writing not only hymn tunes but also anthems and other works. In 1882 Durham University awarded him an honorary Mus. Doc.[1]

He died on 1 March 1889 and was buried in Highgate Cemetery.

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Upcoming Retro Films at the Carolina Theatre of Durham (July-December 2018)

All movies are on Fridays (unless otherwise stated) starting at 7:00pm (or so), and cost $9.50 for both films.   You can also get a season pass for $80.00 which covers every Retro double feature (but does not include Mystery Realm, RetroEpics, or Splatterflix).

July 6th-8th (Fri-Sun): RetroEpics -- James Cameron’s Aliens (1986), Davind Lynch’s Dune: 1984 Theatrical Cut (1984), Steven Spielberg’s Hook (1991), George Romero’s Knightriders (1981), David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Harry O’Hoyt’s The Lost World (1925), and Lowell Thomas & Merian C. Cooper’s This is Cinerama (1952).  These are not included in the Retro Season Pass.

July 13th: Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) and Joe Dante’s The ‘Burbs (1989)

July 20th-22nd (Fri-Sun): Mystery Realm -- Dario Argento’s The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970), Jonathan Lynn’s Clue (1985), Gerd Oswalkd’s Crime of Passion (1957), David Lynch’s Lost Highway (1997), Coen Brothers’ Miller’s Crossing (1990), Neil Simon’s Murder by Death (1976), Jean-Jacques Arnaud’s The Name of the Rose (1986), Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940), David Fincher’s Seven (1995), Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949), The Zucker Brothers’ Top Secret! (1984), and Billy Wilder’s Witness for the Prosecution (1957).  These are not included in the Retro Season Pass.

July 27th: Russ Meyers’ Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) and Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls (1995)

August 3rd: Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945) and Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious (1946)

August 10th: Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai (1947) and Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street (1945)

August 16th-19th (Thurs-Sun): NC Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

August 24th: James Frawley’s The Muppet Movie (1979) and Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s The Dark Crystal (1982)

August 31st: ???

September 7th: Jon Turteltaub’s While You Were Sleeping (1995) and George Armitage’s Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

September 14th: Charles Laughton’s Night of the Hunter (1955) and Phil Karlson’s Kansas City Confidential (1952)

September 15th (Saturday): Fan Appreciation Day -- FREE showings (with a FREE medium popcorn) of Penelope Spheeris’ Wayne’s World (1992) at 4:30pm and Lawrence Kasdan’s The Big Chill (1983) at 7:00pm, in the historic 1,000-seat Fletcher Hall.

September 21st: Sam Firstenberg’s Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984) and Keenen Ivory Wayans’ I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)

September 28th: Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future (1985) and John Hughes’ Weird Science (1985)

October 5th: James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931) and James Whale’s Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

October 12th-14th (Fri-Sun): Splatterflix -- Richard Fleischer’s Amityville 3-D (1983; 35mm presentation in 3-D!), Frank Henelotter’s Basket Case (1982; 35mm presentation in 3-D!), Don Coscarelli’s Bubba Ho-Tep (2002), Michele Soavi’s Cemetery Man (1994), Tom Holland’s Child’s Play (1988), George Romero’s Creepshow (1982), George Romero’s Day of the Dead (1985), Enrique Lopez Eguiluz’s Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror (aka The Mark of the Wolfman; 1968; 35mm presentation in 3-D!), Steve Miner’s Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982; 35mm presentation in 3-D!), John McNaughton’s Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), Kenny Ortega’s Hocus Pocus (1993), Romano Scavolini’s Nightmares in a Damaged Brain: Uncut Version (1981), Charles Band’s Parasite (1983; 35mm presentation in 3-D!), Mary Lambert’s Pet Sematary (1989), Mark Herrier’s Popcorn (1991; star & 1980s “scream queen” Jill Schoelen will be in attendance at both screenings!), Robert Hiltzik’s Sleepaway Camp (1983), and Charles Martin Smith’s Trick or Treat (1986).  These are not included in the Retro Season Pass.  EDIT: Basket Case pulled by distributor 2018/06/16, replaced by Bubba Ho-Tep on 2018/06/20.

October 19th: Robert Zemeckis’ Death Becomes Her (1992) and Andrew Fleming’s The Craft (1996)

October 26th: John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) and John Carpenter’s They Live (1987)

November 2nd: George P. Cosmatos’ Tombstone (1993) and Steve De Jarnatt’s Miracle Mile (1988)

November 9th-11th (Fri-Sun): ComiQuest (part of NC Comicon - Bull City) -- TBA

November 16th: Retro’s 20th Birthday Screening -- Steve Miner’s Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980)

November 23rd: ???

November 30th: Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker (1953) and Alfred L. Werker’s He Walked by Night (1948)

December 7th: John Hughes’ National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) and John Hughes’ Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)

December 14th: Robert Alrich’s Kiss Me Deadly (1955) and Budd Boetticher’s The Killer Is Loose (1956)

December 21st: ???

December 28th: ???

So many amazing films!!!

Carolina Theatre of Durham 309 W. Morgan St., Durham, NC http://www.carolinatheatre.org/

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Events 12.10

1041 – The adoptive son of Empress Zoë of Byzantium succeeds to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V. 1317 – The "Nyköping Banquet" - King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers Valdemar, Duke of Finland and Eric, Duke of Södermanland, who were subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle. 1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice. 1520 – Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate. 1541 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII. 1652 – Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy. 1665 – The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter. 1684 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley. 1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published. 1799 – France adopts the metre as its official unit of length. 1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state. 1861 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy. 1861 – Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance. 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia. 1877 – Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Army captures Plevna after a 5-month siege. The garrison of 25,000 surviving Turks surrenders. The Russian victory is decisive for the outcome of the war and the Liberation of Bulgaria. 1884 – Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is first published in the UK and Canada (US Feb 1885, due to printing error) 1896 – Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance. 1898 – Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict. 1901 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. 1902 – The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt. 1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize. 1907 – The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected. 1909 – Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1932 – Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy. 1936 – Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication. 1941 – World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near British Malaya. 1941 – World War II: Battle of the Philippines: Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on Luzon. 1942 – World War II: Government of Poland in exile send Raczyński's Note (the first official report on the Holocaust) to 26 governments who signed the Declaration by United Nations. 1948 – The Human Rights Convention is signed by the United Nations. 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan. 1953 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1963 – Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah. 1963 – An assassination attempt on the British High Commissioner in Aden kills two people and wounds dozens more. 1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo. 1978 – Arab–Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. 1979 – Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested. 1983 – Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín. 1984 – United Nations General Assembly recognizes the Convention against Torture. 1989 – Mongolian Revolution: At the country's first open pro-democracy public demonstration, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of the Mongolian Democratic Union. 1993 – The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages. 1994 – Rwandan genocide: Maurice Baril, military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, recommends that UNAMIR stand down. 1995 – The Israeli army withdraws from Nablus pursuant to the terms of Oslo Accord. 1996 – The new Constitution of South Africa is promulgated by Nelson Mandela. 1999 – Helen Clark is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, the second woman to hold the post and the first following an election. 2014 – Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein is killed after the suppression of a demonstration by Israeli forces in the village (Turmus'ayya) in Ramallah. 2016 – Two explosions outside a football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, kill 38 people and injure 166 others. 2017 – ISIL is defeated in Iraq. 2019 – The Ostrava hospital attack in the Czech Republic results in eight deaths, including the perpetrator.

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The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry 1919 HC $4.05

http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Gentle-Grafter-by-O-Henry-1919-HC-5917-520-BO-/322607944285

This copy of The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry dates 1919, is a hardcover with slight wear but still in great condition for its age.  It is an ex-library book from the Durham County General Hospital Auxiliary Library.  It was published by Doubleday, Page & Company for Review of Reviews Co. and is an authorized edition.  Great addition for any library. (Please Read – I’m elderly and can’t smell very well so I can’t tell if the previous owner was a smoker.  All books come from estate, tag or yard sales so I don’t know if the previous owner was a smoker nor if they had an animal.  Selling as is.