#Iroquois music

[autismsupermusicalassassin]

History Summarized: Iroquois Native Americans

[theunderestimator-2]

Watching Peter Murphy within almost breathing distance while performing with Bauhaus on their first US gig at Tier 3, New York on Sept. 5, 1980, in support of their debut album 'In the Flat Field', as captured by Eugene Merinov.

Upon arriving at The Iroquois Hotel in NY for their first US tour, the band was all fired up and excited to hit the town for some NY nightclubbing, all but one who preferred to have a quiet night in: Daniel Ash decided to grab a quiet drink in the hotel bar, where, to his astonishment, got to meet two of his all-time heroes, Mick Ronson & Iggy Pop, and also got invited up to his room for a little party. He eventually handed them a copy of their single, “Terror Couple Kill Colonel”. Iggy actually attended their gig at Danceteria one week later and as Kevin Haskins recalls in his book 'Bauhaus Undead':

"...A few numbers in and I hear a heckler yelling loudly above the music and can hear Peter giving back as good as he’s getting. As Peter moved to the right, I looked for the heckler and saw a guy jostling about down the front wearing a motorcycle jacket. It was Iggy Pop! The gig continued with Iggy and Pete launching verbal missiles at each other throughout our set. Afterwards, Iggy came backstage and congratulated us on a great show! He explained that he had a driver outside, and told him he’d only be about 10 minutes, but as we were so good he decided to stay the entire set ... then he was off to some “dark and dangerous S&M club,” and then disappeared into the night..."

***This remarkable photo was sourced from the FB page of former hc punk vocalist Eddie Morgan (Condemned To Death, Ice 9, Balls of Steel), who is also captured in this one (the second kid off the wall), but there are more pix from that particular Bauhaus gig on Eugene Merinov's Flickr photostream.

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[hometoursandotherstuff]

OMG, you gotta see this stunning Romanesque revival gem in Detroit, Michigan. 1906 mansion has 4bds., 4ba.,3 1/2ba. and is listed for $1,199,900.

As you as you enter, you can see how perfect it is. Look at this entrance. 

The wood is spectacular in this home and look at the ceilings.

Huge, carved fireplace.

Just look at these carvings.

Elegant parlor may be a music room.

Look at that firpelace.

Niches.

Gorgeous big dining room. 

Now, this i unbelievable. I don’t know if it’s the original kitchen or a skullery, or what.

Just look at that curved glass cabinet.

Isn’t this home incredible? 

And, this is the modern kitchen. I like that they put in curved cabinets to match, but it’s really not that great in comparison to the rest of the house.

This is crazy- look at that sink on the right and the original ice box on the right.

Cute powder room. That toilet looks pretty oribinal.

The stairs are phenomenal. Look at the curving railings.

Amazing stained glass and we can catch a glimpse of the ceiling.

Look at the carvings. Have you ever seen a home like this?

Huge upstairs landing.

Light, airy, and large main bd.

Another big, bright bd. You can see that they have vintage en-suites.

This bd. is set up as a den.

And, this is a light filled home office.

This has to be a ballroom. Wow, that fireplace and mirror, the walls, and columns. Can you imagine having a party in here? 

Here’s a fabulous man cave/ game room w/a brick fireplace. This home is knock out gorgeous.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1089-Iroquois-St-Detroit-MI-48214/88390382_zpid/

[hcenvs3000f24]

Unit 1 Blog Post

In grade five, our teacher took us on a field trip. As a young child, I was ecstatic. We boarded the bus and started our long drive through farmland. Finally, we arrived at our destination, Crawford Lake Conservation Area. Waiting for us in the parking lot was our nature interpreter for the day. My naïve younger self would fail to recognize the long-lasting impact this excursion would have on my future; the nature interpreter had offered me “a sense of place”.

We were introduced to the Iroquois people who lived on this land in the fifteenth century, long before settlers arrived. I was fascinated by how they lived using the environment around them. The nature interpreter did a wonderful job educating, entertaining, and enriching the experience to give me a sense of fulfillment. They left me with thousands of questions. The nature interpreter embraced the beauty, wonder, and why the area was so special and shared it with me. As we reached the end of our tour, the interpreter led us to the last stop, a gift shop. Luckily, my parents had given me some money to spend. I bought myself a magnet. Ten years later, it is still on my fridge.

(My magnet from Crawford Lake)

This trip was the catalyst in shaping my relationship with nature today. Before, nature seemed to be a faraway concept. Growing up on the outskirts of Hamilton, I was always surrounded by it. I see the Niagara Escarpment daily through my window. It was a nice and distant view; that was about it. Growing older allowed me to get into the world more. Field trips taught me more about local environments and history, which endlessly fascinated me. Hiking through the woods allowed me to admire everything up close. I started to prefer the quiet peace that nature offered, away from the chaos of people. My perspective changed, just as the seasons do.

In the present, I feel at home with the nature surrounding me. Nature became an escape; an activity I partake in, like listening to music. What once was foreign became a familiar friend. When life threw unexpected changes in my path, the only constant that kept me grounded was nature. Fall has become my favourite time of year The leaves changing into gorgeous reds, yellows, and browns fills me with peace. Seeing these changes forces me to slow down, take a breath and admire the world around me. I recently had the pleasure of visiting British Columbia this summer. I was excited to take in all the beautiful sights, learn about the history, read the signs they had up and listen to the nature interpreters talk.

I may not know what the future may hold, but one thing is certain. No matter where I am, nature is always something I look for. It has integrated to become a part of me. Get to experience every season and all kinds of weather. I get to experience so much natural beauty and scenery daily. This is how my relationship with nature has evolved. What once was something I did not care for is now something I cannot live without.

(Myself at the Queen Elizabeth Park in British Columbia)

[canyounotexistelias]

As a fan of ghosts bbc who has never watched the American version but has heard that’s it’s not nearly as good, here’s my ideal list of characters. Because really, American history is so bonkers, how do you not make it incredibly entertaining? Just the premises of the time era/

Character 1: Native American, 1200’s/BEFORE Christopher Columbus

I don’t know what area of America the reboot takes place, but in my ideal version, it’s in upstate New York for reasons I’ll elaborate on later. Bc of that, the character is form the Iroquois Confederacy- I think maybe part of the Oneida tribe? (Also for reasons I’ll explain later). Either way, they’re not quite like Robin as they’re not the “appear stupid but smart” type of character, a bit more like Humphrey I think.

Character 2: a Viking

I just think it’d be neat. I don’t know nearly as much about the Vikings as other characters, but that way we’d get a bit of variety. Maybe a bit more like Robin, but mainly a side character that appears every once in a while, like how Humphrey does.

Character 3: pilgrim/puritan

Ideally mid-1600s, so before revolutionary war but at height of witch burning frenzy. Could be similar to Mary, but I’m thinking more so in uptight, rule-following in the beginning, but secretly far more adventurous than most (more similar to Fanny maybe).

Character 4: utopia member

I’m not a huge fan of the revolutionary era, I’m afraid, so no revolutionary characters. However, I absolutely adore the antebellum era as a time to study because it was so wild, so a character from that time! We have a relatively normal, nice ghost, except they were part of a utopia cult- bonus points if it’s the Oneida community or the shakers.

Character 5: almost a flapper from the 20’s.

This is our almost-kitty! She’s the younger sister of a flapper, loved music, and had obviously family issues- maybe also communist to deal with Red Scare #1? Would be interesting.

Character 6: man of the house in the 50’s.

This is the alternate version of the Captain. He’s a WW2 vet who came back to the US, died in 53 and is very, very gay. probably a government person who had to go through the lavender scare as well? (The captain’s my favorite I had to make sure they did him respect)

Character 7: Reagan fan

In honor of Julian the Tory, we have a Reaganite as well. NOT like Julian in any other respect simply bc I think that fits better for the next character- mostly a Traditional Family person who appears very kind but can be CRUEL- think your republican aunt. She’s a 45 year old who has some Very Pointed Opinions about trickle-down economics, but still died early into reagan’s reign.

Character 8: stockbroker from 2000’s

This is Julian. He died right before the stock market crash out of humiliation from a sex scandal, of course, while residing in his families’ upstate house. Why, you may ask? Well, because it’s funny.

Anyways, I have no idea if this matches any of the ghosts CBS characters, but I think this would be an ideal American Cast. Feel free to add anything if you disagree/have ideas.

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 8.30

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Five For Friday [Every Friday]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Forgive Your Foe Friday [Friday of Be Kind to Humankind Week]

Friday Finds [Every Friday]

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Peruvian Coffee Day (Peru) [Last Friday]

Positive Twitter Day [Last Friday]

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Tracky Dack Day (Australia) [Last Friday]

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Sheep Market Fair begins (Denmark) [Last Friday through Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning August 31 (4th Full Week of August)

Labor Day Weekend (U.S. & Canada) [Begins Friday before 1st Monday in September]

Benton Neighbor Day (Benton, Missouri)

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Hopkinton State Fair (Contoocook, New Hampshire)

Iroquois Arts Festival (Howes Cave, New York)

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Lifelight Outdoor Music Festival (Worthing, South Dakota)

Mackinac Bridge Walk (St. Ignace, Michigan)

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Festivals Beginning August 30, 2024

Battle of Flowers (Laredo, Spain) [thru 8.30]

Brisbane Festival (Brisbane, Australia) [thru 9.21]

California Garlic Festival (Los Banos, California) [thru 9.1]

Calumet County Fair (Chilton, Wisconsin) [thru 9.2]

Casey Popcorn Festival (Casey, Illinois) [thru 9.2]

Coconino County Fair (Fort Tuthill County Park, Arizona) [thru 9.2]

Dice Con (Lviv, Ukraine) [thru 9.1]

Eastern Idaho State Fair (Blackfoot, Idaho) [thru 9.7]

European Medieval Festival (Horsens, Denmark) [thru 8.31]

Fall Fest 2024 (Schweitzer Mountain Resort, Idaho) [thru 9.2]

Galveston Island Wine Festival (Galveston, Texas) [thru 9.1]

Giant Cabbage Weigh-Off (Palmer, Alaska)

Great Pershing Balloon Derby (Brookfield, Missouri) [thru 9.2]

Harmony Fair (Harmony, Maine) [thru 9.2]

Marshall County Blueberry Festival (Plymouth, Indiana) [thru 9.2]

Michigan Bean Festival (Fairgrove, Michigan) [thru 8.31]

Midway Swiss Days (Midway, Utah)

National Hard Crab Derby (Crisfield, Maryland) [thru 9.1]

Nauvoo Grape Festival (Nauvoo, Illinois) [thru 9.1]

North Carolina Apple Festival (Hendersonville, North Carolina) [thru 9.2]

Obetz Zucchinifest (Obetz, Ohio) [thru 9.2]

Oktoberfest (Beaver Creek, Colorado) [thru 9.1]

PAX West, a.k.a. PAX Prime (Seattle, Washington) [thru 9.2]

Payson City Golden Onion Days (Payson, Utah) [thru 9.2]

Red Rooster Days (Dassel, Minnesota) [thru 9.2]

St. William Seafood Festival (Guntersville, Alabama) [thru 8.31]

Washington State Fair (Puyallup, Washington) [thru 9.22]

Wilhelm Tell Festival (New Glarus, Wisconsin) [thru 9.1]

Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw & Festival (Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin) [thru 8.31]

Woodstock Fair (Woodstock, Connecticut) [thru 9.2]

Feast Days

Agilus (a.k.a. Aile; Christian; Saint)

Alexander of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox)

Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster (Christian; Blessed)

Anne Line, Margaret Ward & Margaret Clitherow (Christian; Saints)

Black (Positivist; Saint)

Camilla Läckberg (Writerism)

Candle in a Wine Bottle Day (Pastafarian)

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Chatter Champion Announcement Day (Shamanism)

Day of Satisfying the Hearts of the Ennead (Nine Major Gods; Ancient Egypt)

Eustáquio van Lieshout (Christian; Blessed)

Evelyn De Morgan (Artology)

Charles Chapman Grafton (Episcopal Church)

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Isaac Levitan (Artology)

Jacques Louis David (Artology)

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Jeanne Jugan (Christian; Saint)

Leonor Fini (Artology)

Mary Shelley (Writerism)

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The Pullover Sweater (Muppetism)

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The Three Arts Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Virginia Lee Burton (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 16 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [16 of 24]

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [39 of 60]

Premieres

Alice Chops the Suey (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1925)

Anna Karenina (Film; 1935)

Bad Girl, by The Miracles (Song; 1959)

Beer (Film; 1985)

The Big Snooze (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1957)

A Bird in a Guilty Cage (WB LT Cartoon; 1952)

Carnival Row (TV Series; 2019)

Dance, Girl, Dance (Film; 1940)

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (TV Series; 2019)

Emma (Film; 1996)

Flesh + Blood (Film; 1985)

The Funny World of Fred and Barney (Live Action/Animated TV Variety Show; 1978)

The Good Girl (Film; 2002)

Heart-Shaped Box, by Nirvana (Song; 1993)

Hey Jude, by The Beatles (Song; 1968) [1st Apple Records release]

Highway 61 Revisited, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1965)

Kravn the Hunter (Film; 2023)

The Late Show with David Letterman (Talk Show; 1993)

Little Cesario (MGM Cartoon; 1941)

Medúlla, by Björk (Album; 2004)

A Mouse in the House (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1947)

Music of the Sun, by Rihanna (Album; 2005)

Never Kick a Woman (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1936)

Otello (Opera Film by Franco Zeffirelli; 1986)

Putting on the Act (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1940)

Santana, by Carlos Santana (Album; 1969)

The School for Scandal, by Samuel Barber (Overture; 1933)

Short in the Saddle (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1963)

Side to Side, by Ariana Grande (Song; 2016)

Slow Days, Fast Company, by Eve Babitz (Short Stories; 1977)

State Fair (Film; 1945)

Surf’s Up, by The Beach Boys (Song; 1971)

Terror on the Midway (Fleischer Cartoon; 1942) [#9]

The Three Bears (Ub Iwerks ComiColor Cartoon; 1935)

Top Hat (Film; 1935)

What Happened to Monday (Film; 2017)

Today’s Name Days

Felix, Herbert, Rebekka (Austria)

Aleksandar, Aleksandra (Bulgaria)

Didak, Margarita, Petar (Croatia)

Vladěna (Czech Republic)

Albert, Benjamin (Denmark)

Emil, Meljo, Mello, Miljo (Estonia)

Eemeli, Eemi, Eemil (Finland)

Fiacre (France)

Alma, Felix, Heribert, Rebekka (Germany)

Alexandra, Alexandros, Evlalios, Filakas (Greece)

Rózsa (Hungary)

Donato, Fantino (Italy)

Alija, Alvis, Jolanta (Latvia)

Adauktas, Augūna, Gaudencija, Kintenis (Lithuania)

Ben, Benjamin (Norway)

Adaukt, Częstowoj, Gaudencja, Miron, Rebeka, Róża, Szczęsna, Szczęsny, Tekla (Poland)

Ružena (Slovakia)

Íngrid, Pedro (Spain)

Albert, Albertina (Sweden)

Raisa, Rhoda, Rosa, Rosabelle, Rosalie, Rosalind, Rosalinda, Roseanne, Rose, Rosemary, Rosetta, Rosie (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 243 of 2024; 123 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of Week 35 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Coll (Hazel) [Day 28 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 27 (Bing-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 26 Av 5784

Islamic: 24 Safar 1446

J Cal: 3 Gold; Threesday [3 of 30]

Julian: 17 August 2024

Moon: 11%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 19 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Fulton]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 8 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 72 of 94)

Week: 4th Full Week of August

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 9 of 32)

[french-unknown]

𝖍𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖊𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖒𝖊

𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖘: chopper, franky, brook, bepo 𝖈/𝖜: fluff, domestic 𝖜/𝖈: 920 +

| m a s t e r l i s t | - | p t . 1 | - | p t . 2 | | e v e n t . s u m m a r y |

𝖈𝖍𝖔𝖕𝖕𝖊𝖗

post-trick and treat

Night had just fallen and you and Chopper were slowly returning to the Sunny.

The reindeer chattered happily with his little Jack-o'lantern-shaped basket filled with candy between his hooves. You watched him with your hands in your pockets while he was gesticulating in waves . You briefly remembered how he had moaned earlier in the evening from the bench at the aquarium because he didn't want to go. He had proclaimed loudly that he was too old for this childish activity.

Yet here he was now, with a stock of impression candy, jumping around after having wreaked havoc among the women of the island.

As you got on the boat, you passed Robin coming out of the library. Chopper immediately ran towards her.

“Robin!” he shouted, banging his basket over his head. “Trick or Treat, please?”

The woman froze but, under your unimpressed gaze, she smiled before putting her hand in her pocket. The reindeer's eyes sparkled as she took out some sweets and placed them in the hollow pumpkin.

And, happy, Chopper thanked her then left for his quarters humming.

It had its advantages to have such a cute face.

𝖋𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖐𝖞

hairstyling for halloween costum

“Go ahead, do your magic.” Franky proclaimed loudly as he sat down in front of your mirror, his arms crossed over his chest. “I must be fantastic for tonight!”

With that, he raised his index finger to his nose and remained there until, three seconds later, his usual cut transformed into a star cut. Then on an antenna. And in Iroquois cut. Before having the aesthetic equivalent of a broom on your head. Finally, after his hair took the shape of a cannon, it changed one last time to become a long, smooth, blue mass of hair. They were so long that they reached down to the small of his back over his short-sleeved black and white striped t-shirt.

“Who do you want to be for the party?” you asked, pulling out an assortment of brushes and hair products.

A smile formed on the lips of the cyborg who retrieved a red ball from his pocket before hanging it on his nose. The smile on his lips was now bright.

"You're joking?" you tried to reassure yourself.

But Franky simply told you that Luffy-boy had told him that he was wearing a long ponytail when he met him in Impel Down. You budded a little but you still got to work. After three-quarters of an hour of work, and countless complaints that you were pulling too hard or that it was too tight, you finally finished your work. Franky then stood up to admire the beautiful, shiny, bouncy blue ponytail that rested at his back.

He raised his thumb in recognition and happily walked away, his hair flying in the wind.

𝖇𝖗𝖔𝖔𝖐

visit the graves

Where the music of his violin normally resonated on the deck of the boat, only silence reigned supreme on board. And it was only thanks to the presence of faint lights flickering towards Robin, Nami and Usopp's garden that you knew where the musician was.

Sure enough, you found him sitting in that exact spot with his back to the hatch.

You then went toward him, curious to know the reason for his calm, and you were surprised to see a multitude of candles lit in front of him. They had been placed haphazardly on the ground but they remained close together, as if they were all connected with a single flame. In front of them, Brook looked at them without moving.

Not daring to break the moment, you sat next to him without saying a word.

"I miss them." you heard him whisper after a while without moving his eye sockets.

Then, without you being able to respond, he began to hum softly with the breeze of the wind as his only instrument.

"Yo-hohoho, Yo-hoho-ho Yo-hohoho, Yo-hoho-ho Yo-hohoho, Yo-hoho-ho Yo-hohoho, Yo-hoho-ho Gather up all of the crew! It's time to ship out Bink's brew! Sea wind blows. To where? Who knows? The waves will be our guide! O'er across the ocean's tide Rays of sunshine far and wide Birds they sing of cheerful things, in circles passing by!"

𝖇𝖊𝖕𝖔

halloween decoration

Arms loaded with a crate filled with lights, pumpkin garland and paper decorations, you followed Bepo without slowing down. The polar bear spoke happily - for once - while he himself held another crate overflowing with decorations.

He finally dropped her off when you arrived at the Polar Tang dining hall.

He then immediately began to pull chairs in order to climb on them to attach the Halloween banners that he had made especially for the occasion. Then came the fairy lights and fake spiders.

It felt a little strange to see the normally minimalist submarine transform before your eyes and yet, despite what one might think, Bepo had Law's approval to change the layout of the entire ship. The only prohibition he had was against adding dust or fake cobwebs. This seemed not hygienic enough for the surgeon.

On the table, he placed a skull for each person with their first names written on it.

In the corridors, he placed candles on which he had drawn ghost heads, then, on the walls, he stuck swarms of cardboard bats. On the other hand, he let customized balloons fly up to the ceiling. He finally finished by erecting small personalized tombs in front of each crew member's rooms.

He then went to find his captain when he was satisfied with the result, proud as a child, so that he could present to him a preview of the result of his hard work.

𝖘𝖊𝖊 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖙𝖔𝖒𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖜!

𝖏𝖔𝖎𝖓 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖙𝖆𝖌𝖑𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖎𝖋 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖉𝖔𝖓'𝖙 𝖜𝖆𝖓𝖙 𝖙𝖔 𝖒𝖎𝖘𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖞 𝖚𝖕𝖉𝖆𝖙𝖊

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SUBMARINE! 1812 an Alternate History

Chapter 6 : KRAKEN

(Part 2 of 5)

by

De Writer (Glen Ten-Eyck)

5462 words

© 2023 by Glen Ten-Eyck

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Our carriages thrust through the press of the rejoicing crowd that presently filled Liberty Square. Arnold Way was the street that formed the north side of the Square. The Presidential Mansion took up the entire north side of the Square.

Green Jacket Marines kept back the cheering throng, as we filed into Number One, Arnold Way, the residence of presidents and the seat of administration since the revolution. We were met by none other than President Benedict Arnold, himself. Now in his seventies, he was still hale and hearty. He grasped the hand of each of us as we entered the foyer and greeted us by name.

“Commodore Marks! Gentlemen! You are most welcome! Your journey has been long. To make up for that, dinner has been laid out on the sideboards in the dining room. Commodore Martin is here along with many other notables ... Even,” and here he smiled yet more broadly, “the ambassador of the United Kingdom, Sir Lional Humphries.”

In a high good humor, he conducted us to the dining room. Many candle sconces provided the light, showing high ceilings and a simple understated elegance of decor that spoke volumes about the man who lived here and ran the country.

Among the guests, I saw the unmistakable frowning profile of Sir Lional. I also saw the jubilant Mr. Smollet, chief naval architect of the Cuttlefish Project. Admiral Martin waved to me from his place at the table. I was headed his way, while some heads turned in surprise. Sir Lional’s eyes followed me with calculation. I was stopped by a hand on my elbow.

A firmly commanding yet friendly voice said, “Tecumsah, I have not been able to spare the time to visit your mother’s lodge, these last few years. I have missed my other family. We write back and forth, but it is not the same as a visit. Will you share news from home with me?”

“Mister President, ...” I began, turning to him.

“Such formality from one who first made himself known by spitting up on my weskit,” he interrupted with mock severity. “What happened to ‘uncle Benny’?”

About the room many mouths formed ‘o’s of surprise. Even Sir Lional seemed taken aback.

“I thought the occasion too formal for such familiarity,” I excused myself.

“Never. This dinner is as much a chance to see you again, and hold converse with a friend old and honest enough to hold me in no awe, as it is to celebrate mighty deeds of war. After this pow-wow is over, we shall have to have a long talk of old friends and family.”

“I shall look forward to it,” I replied with true enthusiasm. “Is that centerpiece on the buffet what it appears to be?”

“Indeed, to honor you, son of my spirit. Bison hump and haunch from the Onida herds,” he said in perfect Iroquois.

“Then I shall have to get some, to honor the giver, Uncle,” I responded in the same language. Then in English, I added, “That food looks too good to miss and I see another old friend over by the buffet. I haven’t seen Jean since the Academy. He was a year behind me, and I sort of took him under my wing.”

“Go then, youngster, so long as we talk later.”

“My word on it.”

I made my way across the crowded room to the buffet.

By the sideboard was the French Ambassador, Jean, Count du Coucy, an old school chum. He had been fortunate enough to be studying at the Continental Congress Naval Academy when the French threw off their royalty. When Napoleon had come to power, the First Citizen had instated him as Ambassador, and returned his estates.

“So, filling your plate with meat and treats outranks words with your President?”

“Jean,” I smiled, “it is good to see you again. Letters, be they ever so often, are no substitute for a handshake and word face to face. Mister Arnold and I were merely arraigning time for a real talk, later.”

Sir Lional was edging closer, to overhear what a mere Lieutenant of the Navy might have to say to both the President and the French Ambassador. I decided to give him an earful.

“How is it that you never mentioned Mr. Arnold during our Academy days?” inquired Jean.

“Then, as now, he hates notoriety. He is an old family friend from the days of the War of Independence, no more.”

“No more!?” Jean seemed shocked. “The hero of the Great War, the conqueror of Canada, the man who formed, and brought to your Union, the Indian State, Senator for how many years, and now President twice over, only an old family friend? How did that happen?”

“It goes back to when my grandfather, on my mother’s side, Tall Bear, saved the general’s life at the second battle of Ontario ...” I began, but was interrupted.

“Do you mean the Tall Bear, who took the colonies of St. Laurence and New Found Land?” cut in the impeccably British accents of Sir Lional.

“Why yes, I do. My grandfather. Though I wasn’t talking to you,” I rebuked gently. “Yet you are welcome to join us. The minced bison pasty is excellent.”

“I thank you, but no. I am not here to eat. You have the ear of the President and the French Ambassador.” He shot a poisonous look at Jean. “You must be a valuable go-between. I am surprised that President Arnold would allow you to be risked in a small squadron at war on the high seas.”

“The risk seemed small enough. Besides I have been involved in improving the range and accuracy of our Congreves for the last ten years. I wanted to see them perform in field conditions.”

“Should he be hearing that?” asked Jean. “It is a secret, yet.”

“My tongue is not so loose as all that. We will be unveiling them tonight. Besides, little goes on in the Continental Congress that Sir Lional does not know of. You have had reports of our activities in rocketry for what, about ten years?”

Sir Lional had the grace to look away in embarrassment. “Something like that,” he muttered.

“If you are not here for the party and food, why are you here?”

To be continued

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As weeks turned to months and seasons changed, over West Rukongai a certain iconic thumping sound could be heard from the night skies with increasing frequency. Always distant at first, it emanated from floating lights in red, green, and white, which older souls might take for some kind of onibi. The newer denizens among the towns and villages, however, might know them for what they really were: aircraft running lights.

Whether anyone who knew that really believed what they were seeing or not was a different matter entirely. People this far out could barely find basic personal comforts like shoes; to imagine that a helicopter or plane was flying around sounded rather ridiculous given that.

What was perhaps most curious about this nocturnal apparition was that if it drew close enough overhead, one could hear music too. To begin with, it was usually too far away to be heard clearly. However, as time passed, it tended to fly lower and in more visually interesting ways, and the lyrics accordingly gained intelligibility.

It was especially common to hear, "Wasure wa shinai kimi no koto wa kanawanu michi ni nao hitori tachi." The meaning of that, given the sporadic, whispered stories coming from the direction from which the apparition usually came, was left open to individual interpretation...

That mystery was soon enough overshadowed by another, as it became clear there was more than one of them. They started out far apart from one another, seeming to operate independently much as before on opposite ends of the horizon.

Night after night, more of them gradually appeared, and it wasn't long before they began to move in more complex ways together. They quickly came to take on formations, and those formations grew increasingly complex and multitudinous in their participants as time wore on.

Soon enough, from the setting of the sun until the crack of dawn, at any given time it was common to see several of the apparitions at various points in the sky, usually in pairs but sometimes more. Over the course of the night, they gathered and dispersed, sometimes flying higher and sometimes much lower—as though to land, though never near populated places.

Thus things proceeded until one spring night, when winter's chill was finally receding and the sakura were in bloom. For once, the apparitions did not appear at sundown. They had become such a staple fixture that there was some confusion about that at first, only for it to eventually be largely shrugged off. Who could say what logic such things were motivated by?

They did come, however, perhaps two hours before most settled down for sleep—all of them.

Their combined sound heralded their approach long before they came into view, a whirring chop notably louder than any single one of them alone, heightened further still by their low approach. They drew in at tree top height in staggered echelons, four across and ten deep, forty in total. It was clearly a parade, and for the first time—by any massed group anyway—they could be seen at least somewhat properly by the glow of their navigational lights.

They were Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopters, at least mostly UH-1H models. Uniformly painted matte black, the lights of each lit up titanium white lettering on the sides of adjoining aircraft: "UN" in big letters and "United Nations" in smaller text on the doors, a United Nations emblem in place of a roundel on the tail boom, "UNREF" in big letters further down the boom, and tail codes further back still. It was absolutely not the standard coloration such aircraft ought to have of black text on white skin. Rather more concerningly, they all appeared to be armed with what might readily be imagined to be rocket packs behind their doors.

As they drew nearer, that same song as ever could be heard above the thump of their rotors. On a certain line of it, "Kienai koe yo ima yomigaere chikara e to," their noses pitched up as one, bringing them to a halt in mid-air. The move flashed another logo emblazoned upon their underbellies: substantially the same United Nations emblem, but encased within a hexagon, and with a negative space interrupting it which resembled... a cat?

All at once, those packs of tubes roared to life, drowning out the song for a few seconds as they filled the night air with rockets arcing skyward. As soon as the last ones had fired, the helicopters turned in unison, banking off to the left in formation as their noses pitched back down.

As they retreated into the distance just as they had come, fireworks burst to life above the town they had passed over, their motors tuned and fuses timed to keep the show going vibrantly for a solid two minutes.

Likely momentarily forgotten, the aerial procession made another correction in order to return whence they'd come, there to resupply for another performance elsewhere.

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Traditional Water Drums

Water drums are a category of membranophone characterized by the filling of the drum chamber with some water to create a unique resonant sound. The presence of the water within gives the sound far greater carrying power than a dry drum possesses. At close range, the tone of the water drum is often a dull thud, but when properly tuned by an experienced drummer it has a resonance that can be heard for miles. No drum can be heard so far; it is on record that water drums have been heard eight to ten miles over a lake. This capacity to be heard distinctly at a distance, coupled with a peculiar tone quality, gives the water drum a very unique voice.

Water drums are used all over the world, including African music and American Indian music, and are made of various materials, with a membrane stretched over a hard body such as a metal, clay or wood. The Native American Church uses a black iron kettle with three tripod legs. The leather drum head is soaked in water before being stretched over the kettle. Clay pot drums were common among many eastern and southern tribes in the ancient days, those of the South using a semicircular-shaped bowl with legs. The pottery water drum of the Pueblo Indians is a vase-shaped pot with a flared out top. Pueblo water drums vary in size from small pots holding a gallon of water up to huge ones measuring thirty or more inches in diameter. These are filled about one-fourth full of water and the wet hide is tied over the top. When not in use the tanned drumhead and rawhide thong for tying it are kept inside the pot.  

Wooden water drums are the traditional percussion instrument for the Native American Anishinaabe (Ojibwe), Ottawa, Potawatomi, Huron and Iroquois peoples. The Eastern Woodland tribes made far greater use of water drums than any other Native peoples, and attached a greater significance to them. To the Anishinaabe and their many neighboring tribes, the water drum is a true medicine drum of great power, the sacred drum of the Midewiwin or Grand Medicine Society, which is at the core of Anishinaabe religion. Water is synonymous with life, hence it adds great potency to the water drum. Its sacred sound is regarded as one of the most effective ways of establishing connections with the spirit realm, since it travels through space, permeates visual and physical barriers, and conveys information from the unseen world. It is widely used today in traditional Longhouse social dances and ceremonies.

Wooden water drums are made either by hollowing out a solid section of a small soft wood log, or assembled using cedar slats and banded much like an old keg. The drum is filled about one-fourth full of water and a wet leather hide is stretched over the top. For detailed instructions on crafting, tuning and playing water drums, download the free eBook, How to Make Drums, Tomtoms, and Rattles by Bernard S. Mason. This classic 1938 edition is now a free public domain eBook.

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Currently at Marc Straus is Marie Watt’s impressive exhibition, Singing Everything.

From the press release-

A member of the Seneca Nation, Watt also has German-Scott ancestry. Her layered and complex influences include Indigenous knowledge and Iroquois proto-feminism, the matriarchal structures of certain Native American nations, the rise of social activism throughout the 20th century, and the anti-war and anti-hate content of the 1960s and 1970s music scene.

Central to the exhibition are three Sewing Circle pieces that were initiated at communal gatherings at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2022. Watt’s sewing circles are cross generational, multicultural gatherings that she has been organizing for over a decade. Inspired by poet laurate Joy Harjo’s (Mvskoke/Creek) poem Singing Everything, Watt collects words from the participants of her sewing circles with the prompt, “what do you want to sing a song for in this moment?” The submitted words are then embroidered or sewn onto patches of fabric during the sewing circle. For the Whitney Sewing Circle, with over 300 participants, Watt, for the first time, used all the submitted words. Each panel is patterned in a way that stays true to the original hand. She thinks of ones handwriting as an extension of the cadence of one’s voice and in this project, it becomes part of a larger chorus. By composing large-scale wall works from these pieces of fabric, Watt creates collaborative artworks that interweave many individual handwritings, touches, and the stories that were exchanged in a shared space.

When entering the gallery, the visitor is greeted by a sweeping, 24-foot-long neon sign spelling out the words “deer, skywalker, heron, bass, great lake, woodland, beaver, turtle, wolf, lowly, muskrat, rat” in various hues that evoke the sky on the horizon during sunset and sunrise. While the piece represents a new direction in Watt’s work, she views neon as an extension of beadwork. The glass itself is at once thread and bead, and both neon and beads have a relationship to trade. They both envelop light, color, and sound, embodying sunrises and sunsets on the horizon.

Two blanket towers, her signature sculptural works, appear in the show but now with tin bells or jingles added to the reclaimed wool blankets. This choice of added material felt like a natural extension to Watt. She writes: “Blankets are danced and so are jingles, there is something healing about them both. They are objects of comfort” – by way of touch or sound. “Jingles acknowledge the Jingle Dress Dance which began as a healing ritual in the Ojibwe tribe in the 1910s during the influenza pandemic. The Jingle Dress Dance was also a radical act. In 1883, the United States banned Indigenous ceremonial gatherings. Though the ban was repealed in 1978 with the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, during its century-long prohibition the Jingle Dress Dance was shared with other tribal communities. Today it is a pow-wow dance and continues to be associated with healing. The relevance of this dance extends beyond pandemics.” By including jingles Watt brings the potential of sound into her work, adding to their visual and tactile aspects.

While drawing from long craft traditions such as textile or glass work, Watt is expanding her work by including contemporary stories and both individual and collective experiences. Her primary interest is to think about art as more experiential, rather than only visual, a direction she plans to explore further.

This exhibition closes 5/20/23.

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Gratitude

  Robin Wall Kimmerer, botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, writes in her book Braiding Sweetgrass:  "The exchange of recognition, gratitude, and reciprocity for these gifts [of the earth] is just as important in a Brooklyn flat as under a birch bark roof."

    In one chapter of the book, she quotes from the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Thanksgiving Address:

    We are thankful to our Mother the Earth...

     We give thanks to all the Waters of the World...

    With one mind, we honor and thank all the Food Plants...

    Now we turn to the Medicine Herbs...

    Standing around us we see all the Trees...  

    We gather our minds together to send our greetings and thanks to all the beautiful Animal Life...

    We...thank all the Birds who move and fly about over our heads...

    We are thankful for the powers we know as the Four Winds...

    We now send greetings and thanks to our eldest brother the Sun...to our eldest Grandmother, the Moon...to the Stars who are spread across the sky like jewelry...

    We...thank the enlightened Teachers...

     We now turn our thoughts to the Creator, or Great Spirit...

Sound like St. Francis?  "St. Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life and a beautiful mother who opens her arms to embrace us." (Laudato Si', 1)

Please watch this beautiful brief slideshow.  (Sadly, there is no music to accompany it.)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJAehMTphlU

Hoping you might still find a moment to do this survey:  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lFTgcniaKsoZR_q7CyhgFy3bWXeGQ5mJJjkOnJ-QWMs/edit

Happy Thanksgiving!

Sharing Laudato Si' comes to you from the St. Andrew the Apostle Care for Creation Ministry, Brooklyn, New York, affiliated with the Metro New York Catholic Climate Movement.

           Please share!

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RAS #665 - The Map Makers

On Ron's Amazing Stories, Ron dives into a captivating Audible original story titled Isaac Steele and the Forever Man. book one of the Isaac Steele Chronicles by Daniel Rigby. Next, Ron presents two eerie tales submitted by listeners. In one, a mysterious ghost boy haunts a pool party. In the other, a headless woman taunts a ghost hunter, leaving us questioning the boundaries of reality. Our featured story takes us on a journey beyond the stars with one from the classic sci-fi OTR series X-Minus One. In this captivating tale, a starship finds itself lost in the vastness of space, adrift and alone.

But how does Ron kick off this episode of his podcast? He begins with a thought-provoking exploration of the concepts of light and darkness. Ron delves into the duality of these opposing forces, examining how they shape our perceptions of the world and how they influence our lives.

Featured Story - The Map Makers

Our featured story comes from the OTR series X-Minus One. It ran on NBC from 1955 to 1958. Our story first appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction in May of 1955 and was written by Frederik Pohl. A tiny space rock crashes into the Terra II, causing a lot of damage and hurting the ship's navigation system. Now, the crew is floating around in the middle of nowhere, possibly millions of light-years away from anything familiar. They need to do whatever it takes to stay alive. The story is titled The Map Makers and it first aired on X-Minus One on September 26, 1956.

Other Stories Include - Light vs. Darkness (and Why We Need Both), Isaac Steele and the Forever Man - Review, Ghost In The Pool, and The Night at Iroquois Park

Ron’s Amazing Stories Is Sponsored by: Audible - You can get a free audiobook and a 30 day free trial at audibletrial.com/ronsamazingstories.

Your Stories: Do you have a story that you would like to share on the podcast or the blog? Head to the main website, click on Story Submission, leave your story, give it a title, and please tell me where you're from. I will read it if I can. Links are below.

Music Used In This Podcast: Most of the music you hear on Ron’s Amazing Stories has been composed by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. Other pieces are in the public domain. You can find great free music at FreePd.com which is a site owned by Kevin.

Program Info: Ron’s Amazing Stories is published each Thursday. You can download it from Apple Podcasts, stream it on Stitcher Radio or on the mobile version of Spotify. Do you prefer the radio? We are heard every Thursday at 10:00 pm and Sunday Night at 11:00 PM (EST) on AMFM247.COM. Check your local listing or find the station closest to you at this link.

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Check out this episode!

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Glubb Contributions

Duvalier Bounty: The rescue of five Mosaics, African-blooded, from Haitian-Jamaican waters.

Lake Champlain: The discovery and charting of Great Lakes of Canada.

Defense of Montreal: The confrontation with Benedict Arnold, and the spearing through of Quebec City, by New York tariffs out of Native Tribal Scouts.

Citizen's Rights: The print of a baby's foot print, as proof of citizenship; held under nursery pageants, the veterans of gang fights in urban cities of dominatrix conflicts.

Vicksburg City Defenses: The rallying of Vicksburg, under General Robert E. Lee; clandestine infiltrator, under Johnson's papers, of Tennessee.

Charlebois and Sons: The lumber slavery of interdependent families; academy graduation, with both grades and finals, however having refused professor's service at any level.

Iroquois Confederacy War Act: The declaration of war on Germany, for reasons of a sperm stolen son, Adolf Hitler, having been visible in charge of a congregant of any nation-state or business. Madison Acts, imbued, illegal, through French Indochina; Pearl Harbor.

Latrun Civilian Defenses: The sculpting of Israel as a State, by the arrangement of Arab Legion defenses on Latrun Hill, for the witness of the power of the Death Camp survivor; Transjordan positions held until running out of ammunition, at Pavlach led forces; gentleman adventurers, of Rome and Britain and Poland, having stolen Death Camp texts from personal witness. Now imbued, to Jordanian tactics, taught by Britain; the Israeli Defense Forces Paramilitary Reconnaissance, the Mafia.

Palestinian War Camps: The trap of any Muslim, of homosexual refusal of lotus, as false war hero, out of Egypt and Gaza; however, the proper Muslim, now changed to an Arabic speaker, having inserted penis in anus, the lesbian dog groomer; hence any Arab, having completed Catechism's studies, and having brother as Israel, having spoken Urdu, outside of dog ownership as self in complaint of canine in courts.

Blue Man Group: The birth of a harlequin icytheosis, to Joe Nameth, blocking the MI-6 Pittsburgh Steelers takeover of national resources for MI-6, out of prison captivity and letters of state requesting steak and beef, instead of pork and chicken, at corrections incarceration, to eliminate masturbation for heterosexual inmates, instead replacing with heart disease and canal failure, outside of potato, the barrister's consumption of brain disease; the understanding of foreign ways, through creativity of women, bacon and whiskey.

Niggas With Attitude: The conversion of Jerry Heller, to Judaism, to eliminate Jesuits from the music industry; therefore cop instruction, to music band, and therefore fans, is gone, leaving law enforcement to the police, and intelligence, to the theaters; the rackets of common boycott, lost in the neighborhoods, with the wholesale slaying of those listening to sports and kayfabe logic.

Mortal Kombat: Noob Saibot (David Charlebois), Sub-Zero (Alexandra Gaetano), Tremor (Jawad Hussein), Rain (Jenna Williamson), Reiko (Robert Scarpato), Dan Monahan (Jax), Sonya Blade (Ashley Hamilton), Scorpion (Christiano Marisco), MIleena (Jessica Long), and Kano (Ivan Tomasic), placed in close region to each other, each with a syndicate built of appropriate power and level, to approach the War on Terror with the Sega game series, removed from fact of status from novels and literature, intended for CIA Corporate under Arab-Suzerein status, of British war with America over novels being ignored by common library bearing populace.

Arkham Asylum: Games printed through specialized system, allowed to be stolen by Ivan Tomasic, and then reimprinted with a separate fact of logic, hence the system only works for the "Arkham" print, not "Saint's Row", a broken system, as a deficient form of FBI's Rockstar Games and Take Two; the French program of national sabotage, replaced instead with industrial sabotage, proper American espionage.

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Holidays 8.31

Holidays

African Traditional Medicine Day

Anniversary of the Withdrawal of the Last American Soldier (Afghanistan)

Baloch-Pakhtun Unity Day (Balochistan, Pakistan)

Cow Chip Tossing Day

Crop Dusting Day

Day of Solidarity and Freedom (Poland)

831 Day

Festal Day (Order of the Eastern Star)

Flag Day (India)

Franchise Appreciation Day

Hari Kebangsaan (Malaysia)

International Blog Day (a.k.a. International Day of Blogs and Bloggers)

International Day for People of African Descent (UN)

International Day of Obstetrics & Pregnancy

International Lawn Day

International Overdose Awareness Day

Jack the Ripper Day [Killed 1st Victim: Mary Ann Nichols; 1888]

Limba Noastra (Day of Our Language; Moldova)

Long-Haul Truck Driver (Russia)

Love Litigating Lawyers Day

Memorial Day for the Victims of Repression (Uzbekistan)

Merdeka Day (Malaysia)

National Asiatic Cheetah Day (Iran)

National Box Car Day

National Cinema Day (UK)

National Cowgirl Day

National Dan Day

National Day (Vietnam)

National Diatomaceous Earth Day

National HalfCut Day (Australia)

National Language Day (Moldova)

National Leslie Day

National Matchmaker Day

National South Carolina Day

National Zoo Awareness Day (UK)

Nature Day (Finland)

North Borneo Self-Government Day

Opioid Misuse Prevention Day

Overdose Awareness Day

Princess Diana Memorial Day

Rabbit Rabbit Day [Last Day of Every Month]

Romanian Language Day (Romania)

Sărbătoarea (a.k.a. Limba noastră; Language Day; Moldova)

Take a Seat Day

Tank Day (Lešany, Czech Republic)

Teacher’s Day (Singapore)

Walnut Day (French Republic)

We Love Memoirs Day

White Rose Day (Australia)

Withdrawal of the Last American Soldier Anniversary Day (Afghanistan)

World Distance Learning Day

World Sanskrit Day

World Solidarity Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Eat Outside Day

Grape Blessing Day (Armenia)

International Bacon Day [also 12.30]

Invent A New Sandwich Day

National Chourico Day

National Trail Mix Day

Vegetable Day (Japan)

Independence & Related Days

Befshire (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Kyrgyzstan (from USSR, 1991)

Malaysia (from UK, 1957)

North Borneo (Self-Government Day; Sabah, Malaysia)

Surigao City Charter Day (Philippines)

Trinidad and Tobago (from UK, 1962)

5th & Last Saturday in August

International Bacon Day [Saturday before 1st Monday in September]

International Bat Night [Last Saturday]

International Cosplay Day [Last Saturday]

International Play Music on the Porch [Last Saturday]

Iroquois Indian Festival (Albany, NY) [Begins on Last Saturday]

Pony Express Day [Last Saturday]

Sandwich Saturday [Every Saturday]

Schemitzun begins (Green Corn Pow Wow; Mashantucket Pequot, Connecticut) [Last Saturday]

Six For Saturday [Every Saturday]

Spaghetti Saturday [Every Saturday]

Speak Kind Words Saturday [Saturday of Be Kind to Humankind Week]

World Day for the End of Speciesism [Last Saturday]

Weekly Holidays beginning August 31 (4th Full Week of August)

National Buffalo Chicken Wings Days (Buffalo, New York) [thru 9.1]

Festivals Beginning August 31, 2024

Amish Country Cheese Festival (Arthur, Illinois) [thru 9.3]

Apple Harvest Celebration (Willcox, Arizona) [thru 9.8]

BBQ & Craft Beer Festival (Monmouth Park, Oceanport, New Jersey) [thru 9.2]

Bloemencorso Eelde (Eelde, Netherlands) [thru 9.1]

Boothbay Harbor Tuna Challenge (Boothbay Harbor, Maine)

Bremerton Blackberry Festival (Bremerton, Washington) [thru 9.2]

Bumbershoot (Seattle, Washington) [thru 9.1]

Canadian International Air Show (Toronto, Canada) [thru 9.2]

Caribbean Food And Wine Festival (West Friendship, Maryland)

Connecticut Renaissance Faire (Lebanon, Connecticut) [thru 10.14]

Corn Maze (Middlefield, Connecticut) [thru 11.3]

Eastport Salmon and Seafood Festival (Eastport, Maine) [thru 9.1]

Food Truck Festival (Waterloo, Iowa)

Garlic Town U.S.A. (Bennington, Vermont)

Girdwood Fungus Fair (Girdwood, Alaska) [thru 9.1]

Harvest Wine Fest (Albuquerque & Las Cruces, New Mexico) [thru 9.2]

Hatch Chile Festival (Hatch, New Mexico) [thru 9.1]

John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival (High Point, North Carolina) [thru 9.1]

Kansas City Renaissance Festival (Bonner Springs, Kansas) [thru 10.14]

Keystone’s Oktoberfest (Keystone, Colorado)

King Richard’s Faire (Carver, Massachusetts) [thru 10.20]

Milan Melon Festival (Milan, Ohio) [thru 9.2]

National Buffalo Wing Festival (Buffalo, New York) [thru 9.1]

Ohio Renaissance Festival (Harveysburg, Ohio) [thru 10.27]

Okinawan Festival (Waikiki, Hawaii) [thru 9.1]

Renaissance Faire at Sleepy Hollow (Des Moines, Iowa) [thru 9.15]

Richmond County Fair (Staten Island, New York) [thru 9.2]

Romeo Peach Festival (Romeo, Michigan) [thru 9.2]

Seafood Festival & Craft Show (Westport, Washington)

Taste of Hamburg-er Festival (Hamburg, Pennsylvania)

Taste of Madison (Madison, Wisconsin) [thru 9.1]

Taylor Sweet Corn Festival (Taylor, Arizona)

West Cape May Tomato Festival (West Cape May, New Jersey)

West Jefferson Annual Ox Roast (West Jefferson, Ohio) [thru 9.2]

Wild Rice Day (McGregor, Minnesota)

World Championship BBQ Goat Cook-Off (Brady, Texas)

Feast Days

Aidan of Lindisfarne (Christian; Saint)

Alter Ego Day (Pastafarian)

Aristides of Athens (Christian; Saint)

Bryan Organ (Artology)

Cuthburh (Christian; Saint)

Dominguito del Val (Christian; Saint)

DuBose Heyward (Writerism)

Feast of Grapes (Ancient Minoa; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Fourth Onam (Rice Harvest Festival, Day 4; Kerala, India)

Frey’s Blot (Pagan)

Gai Jatra (Cow Festival, in remembrance of people who died the previous year; Kathmandu Valley, Nepal)

G. Willow Wilson (Writerism)

Henry (Muppetism)

Isabel (Christian; Saint)

Joseph of Arimathea (Christian; Saint)

Jouffroy (Positivist; Saint)

Mária Balážová (Artology)

Nicodemus (Christian; Saint)

Paulinus of Trier (Christian; Saint)

Paul Reubens Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Raymond Nonnatus (Christian; Saint)

The Ritual Walk of the Eyos (Lagos; Everyday Wicca)

Roger Dean (Artology)

Wala of Corbie (Christian; Saint)

Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria (Christian; Saint)

William Saroyan (Writerism)

Yumiko Ōshima (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [48 of 71]

Premieres

All Or Nothing At All, recorded by Frank Sinatra (Song; 1939)

American Idiot, by Green Day (Song; 2004)

Andor (TV Series; 2022)

Bad, by Michael Jackson (Album; 1987)

The Big Sleep (Film; 1946)

Bolero (Film; 1984)

Bugsy and Mugsy (WB LT Cartoon; 1957)

The Commuter, by Philip K. Dick (Short Story; 1953)

The Constant Gardener (Film; 2005)

Document, by R.E.M. (Album; 1987)

Fly, by Dixie Chicks (Album; 1999)

Foundation and Earth, by Isaac Asimov (Novel; 1986) [Foundation #5]

Get Rich Quick (Disney Cartoon; 1951)

Goat’s Head Soup, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1973)

The Great Gildersleeve (Radio Series; 1941)

Jack Ryan (TV Series; 2018)

Only Murders in the Building (TV Series; 2021)

Orient Express, by Graham Greene (a.k.a. Stamboul Train; Novel; 1932)

Pluto’s Judgement Day (Disney Cartoon; 1935)

The Psychology of Intelligence, by Jean Piaget (Science Book; 1947)

Radetzky March, by Johann Strauss (March; 1848)

Raising Demons, by Shirley Jackson (Memoir; 1957)

Solid Serenade (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1946)

Soul on Ice, by Eldridge Cleaver (Memoir & Essays; 1968)

The Threepenny Opera, by Bertolt Brecht (Play with Music; 1928)

Wildest Dreams, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2015)

The World According to Garp, by John Irving (Novel; 1978)

You Gotta Be a Football Hero (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1935)

Today’s Name Days

Paulinus, Raimubd (Austria)

Josip, Nikodem, Optat, Paulina (Croatia)

Pavlína (Czech Republic)

Bertha (Denmark)

Arved, Arvi, Arvid (Estonia)

Arvi (Finland)

Aristide (France)

Aidan, Anja, Paulinus, Raimund (Germany)

Bella, Erika (Hungary)

Aristide (Italy)

Aigars, Aira, Labite, Vilma (Latvia)

Raimunda, Raimundas, Vilmantas, Vilmantė (Lithuania)

Berta, Berte (Norway)

Bohdan, Paulina, Rajmund, Rajmunda, Świętosław (Poland)

Nora (Slovakia)

Ramón (Spain)

Arvid, Vidar (Sweden)

Aden, Aidan, Aiden, Ayden, Edan, Edana, Eden, Edina, Egan, Egon (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 244 of 2024; 122 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of Week 35 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 1 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 28 (Ding-Mao)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 27 Av 5784

Islamic: 25 Safar 1446

J Cal: 4 Gold; Foursday [4 of 30]

Julian: 18 August 2024

Moon: 5%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 20 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Thilorier]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 73 of 94)

Week: 1st Full Week of September

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 10 of 32)

Calendar Changes

Muin (Vine) [Celtic Tree Calendar; Month 9 of 13]

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Power Couple Rosewood Ave Debut Gorgeous Duet “Talk About Us”

Nestled in the heart of Ontario's true north, Rosewood Ave is a country duo that's taking small town dreams to new heights. Fate brought Dave and Sabrina together when his family was forced to move to the small town of Iroquois Falls after a local paper mill shutdown. Luckily for them, Dave moved across the avenue from Sabrina. It didn’t take long until they fell in love and became high school sweethearts, and now they're making music as husband and wife.

Their romantic single, “Talk About Us,” is an enthralling high-energy duet sharing another chapter in the power couple’s love story. Written by country superstar Lainey Wilson and hit songwriters Trannie Anderson and Drew Green, and produced by Bart McKay (Brett Kissell, Kalsey Kulyk), it seamlessly blends a contemporary feel with their traditional and soothing voices.