#J N Chaney

[dzelonis]

Mēneša grāmata(s) #115 - Augusts 2024

[coleslawr02]

No one asked or cares, but I’m answering every question from this 2018 Monkees Ask Game for personal archival.

1. First Monkees song you heard?

Last Train to Clarksville as a kid.

2. Favorite Monkees song?

Tapioca Tundra, Can You Dig It?, Pleasant Valley Sunday

3. Favorite Monkees album?

Lately Headquarters, but I listen to PAC&J more. Additionally, Missing Links Vol. 2, it features some some of their best songs in higher production quality.

4. Least favorite Monkees album?

Changes

5. Favorite Monkees album cover?

Visually: The Birds, The Bees, & The Monkees — I have some earrings based on it.

Conceptually: Head — The symbolism in removing their faces, color, & zaniness for a gray minimalist slate. Their name looping the border represents the films’ cyclical nature. Reflective material is a mirror because YOU ARE BOXED!

6. Least favorite Monkees album cover?

Missing Links Vol. 3

7. Favorite Monkee? Why?

Micky — Thoughtful & curious person, fun character, kind voice. But I think about all the monkees relatively equal.

8. Favorite solo work?

Does Dolenz Sings Nesmith count? It’s my best friend. Otherwise Tantamount to Treason & And The Hits Just Keep on Comin’. Rarely listen to Peter or Davy solo.

9. Favorite song title?

Propinquity or Early Morning Blues and Greens

10. Favorite lyrics?

“It’s amazing how time can so softly change your ways, and make you look at things that can’t be seen. How the years that roll by can start you listening, not just to what they say, but what they mean. […] our relationship has grown, not just in how it’s shaped, but how it’s shown.” — Carlisle Wheeling

11. Favorite photo of all four Monkees?

12. Guilty pleasure song?

I get embarrassed to admit Secret Heart & Shorty Blackwell.

13. Best Monkees song to sleep to?

Pillow Time — literally a lullaby.

14. Best Monkees song to dance to?

She Hangs Out — literally about dancing.

15. Best Monkees song to sing in the shower?

Salesman — “yep yep”

16. Best Monkees song for karaoke?

Goin’ Down — the best because it would be impossible.

17. A Monkees song you think is overrated?

Mary, Mary — always thought it didn’t deserve to be Mike’s most popular piece of songwriting.

18. Which Monkees albums do you own on vinyl?

N/A

19. Which Monkees albums do you own as CDs?

The “Original 5” Box Set + Dolenz Sings Nesmith.

20. A Monkees song that reminds you of a good memory?

Don’t have anything particular. Sometime in the Morning is generally nostalgic.

21. Favorite song with Davy on lead vocals?

You and I (Instant Replay) — Why did he write 2 totally different songs with the same title.

22. Favorite song with Micky on lead vocals?

Mommy & Daddy (alternate version) — Basing #21-24 off vocal performance, not overall song, that I haven’t listed yet.

23. Favorite song with Mike on lead vocals?

If I Ever Get to Saginaw Again

24. Favorite song with Peter on lead vocals?

Tear the Top Right Off My Head

25. Favorite episode of the series?

Personal Fave: The Chaperone

Best: The Devil & Peter Tork

26. Least favorite episode?

The 6 racist ones (Monkees Chow Mein in particular)

27. Favorite romp?

Gonna Buy Me a Dog :)

28. Favorite fourth-wall-breaking moment?

“If you get lost I’ll be a single— BA DUM” “Here I come…”

29. Favorite running gag?

Tall Guy Little Guy

30. Favorite Guest Appearance?

Lon Chaney Jr. or Julie Newmar

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14. The Amber Project, by J N Chaney

Owned: Yes Page count: 354 My summary: The world was lost long ago. A mysterious gas spread over the land, killing most organic life and mutating the rest, leaving the Earth uninhabitable. A fraction of humanity survived underground, waiting until the surface can once more be traversed. Hope comes with a genetic experiment - children born both human and Variant. But will they bring salvation? My rating: 2.5/5  

This was a Christmas present and, I’m sad to say, a rather bland one. If I had to guess, I’d say this book’s inception was during the YA dystopia trend sparked by the popularity of the Hunger Games books. It follows the format reasonably well - kids being used by their government, It Turns Out We Were The Real Apocalypse, the main kid being the specialest of all the special characters, but I didn’t really see any merit other than that, sadly. Were it not for the fact that this is going to be sitting on my bookshelf, I’d probably forget it existed after a few days. But here we are.

The book’s focus is between two/three groups of characters. There’s the kids, genetically engineered to be able to live on the surface, the mother of the main kid who’s slowly turning against the system, and the scientists and military who created and are teaching the kids (though they overlap immensely with the first two groups). This gave a wide view into the world and its various factions, but I feel like we lost some personalisation with it - you don’t spend as much time with the characters as individuals, so you get less of an insight into their personal worlds. In particular, the inciting incident of the climax is two boys escaping to the surface, but I think their reasons for doing so could have been better foreshadowed and explored if the narrative had spent more time with them.

Itself, the world of this book is a pretty standard dystopia. One neat thing was that there wasn’t so much delivered as exposition, the reader picking up on cues from the environment to clue them into what was going on in this world, which was a good way to do it. Still, by the time the climax hit with its Big Revelations, I found myself not caring. I didn’t feel invested enough in the world to care.

Because overall, this book’s just kind of bland? The characters weren’t very deep, and the dialogue was stilted and clumsy in places. I didn’t connect with it at all, and I doubt I’ll be reading this book again. Sorry, but that’s just how it is sometimes.

Next up, more horror, and more Junji Ito.

[lostitjohannahairas]

Frankenstein Adaptions

1823: Richard Brinsley Peake's adaptation, Presumption; or, the Fate of Frankenstein, was seen by Mary Shelley and her father William Godwin at the English Opera House.

1826: Henry M. Milner's adaptation, The Man and The Monster; or The Fate of Frankenstein opened on 3 July at the Royal Coburg Theatre, London.

1887: Frankenstein, or The Vampire's Victim was a musical burlesque written by Richard Henry (a pseudonym of Richard Butler and Henry Chance Newton).

1910: Edison Studios produced the first Frankenstein film, directed by J. Searle Dawley.

1915: Life Without Soul, the second film adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel, was released. No known print of the film has survived.

1920: The Monster of Frankenstein, directed by Eugenio Testa, starring Luciano Albertini and Umberto Guarracino.

1931: Universal Studios' Frankenstein, directed by James Whale, starring Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Edward Van Sloan, Dwight Frye, and Boris Karloff as the monster.

1935: James Whale directed the sequel to the 1931 film, Bride of Frankenstein, starring Colin Clive as Frankenstein, and Boris Karloff as the monster once more. This incorporated the novel's plot motif of Frankenstein creating a bride for the monster omitted from Whale's earlier film. There were two more sequels, prior to the Universal "monster rally" films combining multiple monsters from various movie series or film franchises.

1939: Son of Frankenstein was another Universal monster movie with Boris Karloff as the Creature. Also in the film were Basil Rathbone as the title character and Bela Lugosi as the sinister assistant Ygor. Karloff ended playing the Frankenstein monster with this film.

1942: The Ghost of Frankenstein featured brain transplanting and a new monster, played by Lon Chaney Jr. The film also starred Evelyn Ankers and Bela Lugosi.

1942–1948: Universal did "monster rally" films featuring Frankenstein's Monster, Dracula and the Wolf Man. Included would be Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, House of Frankenstein, House of Dracula and Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. The last three films introduced Glenn Strange as Frankenstein's monster.

1957–1974: Hammer Films in England did a string of Frankenstein films starring Peter Cushing, including The Curse of Frankenstein, The Revenge of Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. Co-starring in these films were Christopher Lee, Hazel Court, Veronica Carlson and Simon Ward. Another Hammer film, The Horror of Frankenstein, starred Ralph Bates as the main character, Victor Frankenstein.

1965: Toho Studios created the film Frankenstein Conquers the World or Frankenstein vs. Baragon, followed by The War of the Gargantuas.

1972: A comedic stage adaptation, Frankenstein's Monster, was written by Sally Netzel and produced by the Dallas Theater Center.

1973: The TV film Frankenstein: The True Story appeared on NBC. The movie starred Leonard Whiting, Michael Sarrazin, James Mason, and Jane Seymour.

1981: A Broadway adaptation by Victor Gialanella played for one performance (after 29 previews) and was considered the most expensive flop ever produced to that date.

1984: The flop Broadway production yielded a TV film starring Robert Powell, Carrie Fisher, David Warner, and John Gielgud.

1992: Frankenstein became a Turner Network Television film directed by David Wickes, starring Patrick Bergin and Randy Quaid. John Mills played the blind man.

1994: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein appeared in theatres, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, with Robert De Niro and Helena Bonham Carter. Its all-star cast also included John Cleese, Ian Holm, and Tom Hulce.

2004: Frankenstein, a two-episode mini-series starring Alec Newman, with Luke Goss and Donald Sutherland.

2006: Frankenstein, A New Musical, composed by Mark Baron, book by Jeffrey Jackson, and based on an adaptation by Gary P. Cohen.

2007: Frankenstein, an award-winning musical adaptation by Jonathan Christenson with set, lighting, and costume design by Bretta Gerecke for Catalyst Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta.

2011: In March, BBC3 broadcast Colin Teague's live production from Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds, billed as Frankenstein's Wedding, Live in Leeds. About the same time, the National Theatre, London presented a stage version of Frankenstein, which ran until 2 May 2011. The play was written by Nick Dear and directed by Danny Boyle. Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch alternated the roles of Frankenstein and the Creature. The National Theatre broadcast live performances of the play worldwide on 17 March.

2012: An interactive ebook app created by Inkle and Profile Books that retells the story with added interactive elements.

2014: Penny Dreadful is a horror TV series that airs on Showtime, that features Victor Frankenstein as well as his creature.

2015: Frankenstein, a modern-day adaptation written and directed by Bernard Rose.

2015: Victor Frankenstein is an American film directed by Paul McGuigan.

2016: Frankenstein, a full length ballet production by Liam Scarlett. Some performances were also live simulcasts worldwide.

Loose adaptations: 

1967: I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night and its sequel, Frankenstein Unbound (Another Monster Musical), are a pair of musical comedies written by Bobby Pickett and Sheldon Allman. The casts of both feature several classic horror characters including Dr. Frankenstein and his monster.

1971: Lady Frankenstein is an Italian horror film directed by Mel Welles and written by Edward di Lorenzo. The strory begins when Dr. Frankenstein is killed by the monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue with his experiments.

1973: The Rocky Horror Show, is a British horror comedy stage musical written by Richard O'Brian in which Dr. Frank N. Furter has created a creature (Rocky), to satisfy his (pro)creative drives. Elements are similar to I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night.

1973: Andy Warhol's Frankenstein. Usually, Frankenstein is a man whose dedication to science takes him too far, but here his interest is to rule the world by creating a new species that will obey him and do his bidding.

1974: Young Frankenstein. Directed by Mel Brooks, this sequel-spoof has been listed as one of the best movie comedies of any comedy genre ever made, even prompting an American film preservation program to include it on its listings. It reuses many props from James Whale's 1931 Frankenstein and is shot in black-and-white with 1930s-style credits. Gene Wilder portrayed the descendant of Dr. Frankenstein (who insists on pronouncing it "Fronkonsteen"), with Peter Boyle as the Monster.

1975: The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the 1975 film adaptation of the British rock musical stageplay, The Rocky Horror Show (1973), written by Richard O'Brien.

1984: Frankenweenie is a parody short film directed by Tim Burton, starring Barrett Oliver, Shelley Duvall and Daniel Stern.

1985: The Bride starring Sting as Baron Charles Frankenstein and Jennifer Beals as Eva, a woman he creates in the same fashion as his infamous monster.

1986: Gothic, directed by Ken Russell, is the story of the night that Mary Shelley gave birth to Frankenstein. Starring Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands, Natasha Richardson.

1988: Frankenstein (フランケンシュタイン) is a manga adaptation of Shelley's novel by Junji Ito.

1989: Frankenstein the Panto. A pantomime script by David Swan, combining elements of Frankenstein, Dracula, and traditional British panto.

1990: Frankenstein Unbound.Combines a time-travel story with the story of Shelley's novel. Scientist Joe Buchanan accidentally creates a time-rift which takes him back to the events of the novel. Filmed as a low-budget independent film by Roger Corman in 1990, based on a novel published in 1973 by Brian Aldiss. This novel bears no relation to the 1967 stage musical with the same name listed above.

1991: Khatra (film) is a Hindi movie of Bollywood made by director H. N. Singh loosely based on the story, Frankenstein.

1995: Monster Mash is a film adaptation of I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night starring Bobby Pickett as Dr. Frankenstein. The film also features Candace Cameron Bure, Anthony Crivello and Mink Stole.

1998: Billy Frankenstein is a very loose adaptation about a boy who moves into a mansion with his family and brings the Frankenstein monster to life. The film was directed by Fred Olen Ray.

2004: Frankensteinmade-for-TV film based on Dean Koontz's Frankenstein.

2005: Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove, a 90-minute feature film homage of classic monsters and Atomic Age creature features, shot in black and white, and directed by William Winckler. The Frankenstein Monster design and make-up was based on the character descriptions in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel.

2009: The Diary of Anne Frankenstein, a short film from Chillerrama.

2011: Frankenstein: Day of the Beast is an independent horror film based loosely on the original book.

2011: Victor Frankenstein appears in the ABC show Once Upon a Time, a fantasy series on ABC that features multiple characters from fairy tales and classic literature trapped in the real world.

2012: Frankenweenie, Tim Burton's feature film remake of his 1984 short film of the same name.

2012: In the Adventure Time episode "Princess Monster Wife", the Ice King removes body parts from all the princesses that rejected him and creates a jigsaw wife to love him.

2012: A Nightmare on Lime Street, Fred Lawless's comedy play starring David Gest staged at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.

2014: I, Frankenstein is a 2014 fantasy action film. The film stars Aaron Eckhart as Adam Frankenstein and Bill Nighy. The film is based on the graphic novel.

2014: Frankenstein, MD, A web show by Pemberly Digital starring Victoria, a female adaptation of Victor.

2015: The Supernatural season 10 episodes Book of the Damned, Dark Dynasty and The Prisonerfeature the Styne Family which member Eldon Styne identifies as the descendants of the house of Frankenstein. According to Eldon, Mary Shelley had learned their secrets while on a visit to Castle Frankenstein and wrote a book based on her experiences, forcing the Frankensteins underground as the Stynes. The Stynes, through bioengineering and surgical enhancements, feature many of the superhuman features of Frankenstein's monster.

2015: The Frankenstein Chronicles is a British television drama series, starring Sean Bean as John Marlott and Anna Maxwell Martin as Mary Shelley.

2016: Second Chance, a TV series known at one point as Frankenstein, was inspired by the classic.

[fred-ott]

El Terror Clásico

El cine de terror nació junto con el mismo cine: los Hermanos Lumière grabaron en 1896 la cinta "L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat" (La llegada del tren). En esta película, como su nombre indica, únicamente se mostraba la llegada de un tren; sólo que, dado que el cine era un invento desconocido para la mayoría de los espectadores, éstos creían que el tren se iba a salir literalmente de la pantalla para arrollarlos; los primeros espectadores de la cinta gritaban y escapaban de la sala aterrorizados.

Lon Chaney en El fantasma de la ópera (1925)

Pero la primera película deliberada de terror fue realizada en 1910 por J. Searle Dawley, para los Edison Studios se trató de la primera adaptación del mito de Frankenstein. En esta época del cine mudo aparecieron otras películas que aun hoy ponen los pelos de punta, como El Golem (Paul Wegener, 1915), El jorobado de Notre-Dame (Wallace Worsley, 1923) o El fantasma de la ópera (Rupert Julian, 1925).

El siglo XX conoció, pues, desde muy pronto excelentes cultivadores del miedo. Quizá el director más importante de esta primera época sea el alemán F. W. Murnau (1889-1931), responsable de la lóbrega y expresionista Nosferatu, el vampiro (1922), película basada en el Drácula de Bram Stoker. (Dentro del cine expresionista, véase también Fritz Lang — El testamento del doctor Mabuse, M, el vampiro de Düsseldorf— y El gabinete del doctor Caligari.) El famoso vampiro transilvano ha conocido decenas de versiones a lo largo del siglo XX. Son destacables la neogótica (basada en Murnau: como en la película de éste, los dientes largos del vampiro no son los colmillos, sino los incisivos) Nosferatu, vampiro de la noche, a cargo del alemán Werner Herzog (1979), y la espectacular puesta en escena de la película Drácula de Bram Stoker (1992) del norteamericano Francis Ford Coppola.

En los años 1930 dominó el cine de monstruos. Se produjeron obras maestras -según gran parte de la crítica, nunca superadas- del género como El doctor Frankenstein (de James Whale, 1931), La parada de los monstruos (de Tod Browning, 1932) y la muy alabada King Kong (de Merian C. Cooper y Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933).

Obtuvieron asimismo un éxito espectacular el director Rouben Mamoulian con Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde, de 1931, y Michael Curtiz con Los crímenes del museo, de 1933, película oscurecida por su remake Los crímenes del museo de cera (1953), de André de Toth.

La productora Universal se adentró en los años 40 con El hombre lobo (1941), la película más influyente sobre el tema. En esta década, Universal produjo también secuelas de Frankenstein. La compañía RKO Radio Pictures produjo que ya había producido el citado "King Kong" realizó convincentes películas de terror, como La mujer pantera, de Jacques Tourneur (1942), Yo anduve con un zombie (Tourneur, 1943) y The Body Snatcher (Don Siegel, 1956), esta última basada en el relato de Robert Louis Stevenson Ladrones de cadáveres.

Años 50 y 60 

Si se habla de cine de terror, no se puede pasar por alto a la productora británica Hammer (ver Hammer Productions), que a lo largo de los años 50, 60 y 70 desencadenó una avalancha de películas del género, algunas de gran calidad, como La maldición de Frankenstein (1957), Drácula (1958) y La Momia (1959). Su director estrella fue el inglés Terence Fisher.

También debe recordarse al norteamericano Roger Corman (n. 1926), director de serie B (películas de bajo presupuesto) especializado en la adaptación, quizá en exceso libre y colorista, de relatos de Edgar Allan Poe: House of Usher ('La caída de la casa Usher', 1960), The Pit and the Pendulum ('El pozo y el péndulo', 1961), Premature Burial ('El entierro prematuro', 1962), Tales of Terror ('Cuentos de terror', 1962) The Raven ('El cuervo', 1963), The Masque of the Red Death ('La máscara de la Muerte Roja', 1964) The Tomb of Ligeia ('La tumba de Ligeia', 1964), entre otras. Todos estos filmes, salvo Premature burial, fueron protagonizados por el especialista en el género Vincent Price (1911-1993).

Otros actores legendarios del género: Béla Lugosi (1882-1956), Boris Karloff (1887–1969), Lon Chaney Jr. (1906–1973), Peter Cushing (1913–1994) y Christopher Lee (1922), éste aún en activo.

El actor español Paul Naschy (Jacinto Molina Álvarez, n. 1934, Medalla de Oro al mérito en las Bellas Artes de 2001) es considerado internacionalmente gran especialista, habiendo participado, ya sea como actor, director o guionista, en un centenar de películas aproximadamente. Otros autores europeos muy valorados del género: el español Jess Franco y los italianos Mario Bava y Dario Argento, entre otros.

Alfred Hitchcock, llamado el mago del suspense, es autor de por lo menos dos cumbres del terror moderno: la película de terror psicológico Psicosis (1960) y la de terror naturalista Los pájaros (1962).

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Best World War II Non-fiction History Books

ABRAMSKY, C. (ed.), Essays in Honour of E. H. Carr ('The Initiation of the Negotiations Leading to the Nazi-Soviet Pact: A Historical Problem’, D. C. Watt) Macmillan, 1974

ABYZOV, VLADIMIR, The Final Assault, Novosti, Moscow, 1985

ALEXANDROV, VICTOR, The Kremlin, Nerve-Centre of Russian History, George Allen 8: Unwin, 1963

ALLILUYEVA, SVETLANA, Only One Year, Hutchinson, 1969

Twenty Letters to a Friend, Hutchinson, 1967

AMORT, R., and JEDLICKA, I. M., The Canan's File, Wingate, 1974

ANDERS, LIEUTENANT-GENERAL W., An Army in Exile, Macmillan, 1949

ANDREAS-FRIEDRICH, RUTH, Berlin Underground, 1939-1945, Latimer House, 1948

ANON, A Short History of the Bulgarian Communist Party, Sofia Press, Sofia, 1977

ANON, The Crime of Katyn, Facts and Documents, Polish Cultural Foundation, 1965

ANON, The Obersalzberg and the Third Reich, Plenk Verlag, Berchtesgaden, 1982

ANTONOV-OUSEYENKO, ANTON, The Time of Stalin, Portrait of a Tyranny, Harper & Row, New York, 1981

BACON, WALTER, Finland, Hale, 1970

BARBUSSE, HENRI, Stalin: A New World Seen Through One Man, Macmillan, New York, 1935

BAYNES, N. H. (ed), Hitler’s Speeches, 1922-39, 2 vols, OUP, 1942

BEAUFRE, ANDRE, 1940: The Fall of France, Cassell, 1968

BECK, JOSEF, Demier Rapport, La Baconniére, Brussels, 1951

BEDELL SMITH, WALTER, Moscow Mission 1946-1949, Heinemann, 1950

BELOFF, MAX, The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia, Vol Two, 1936-1941, Oxford, 1949

BEREZHKOV, VALENTIN, History in the Making, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1983

BIALER, S., Stalin and His Generals, Souvenir Press, 1969

BIELENBERG, CHRISTABEL, The Past is Myself, Chatto & Windus, 1968

BIRKENHEAD, LORD, Halifax, Hamish Hamilton, 1965

BOHLEN, CHARLES E., Witness to History, 1929-1969, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973

BONNET, GEORGES, Fin d’une Europe, Geneva, 1948

BOURKE-WHITE, MARGARET, Shooting the Russian War, Simon 8: Schuster, New York, 1942

BOYD, CARL, Magic and the Japanese Ambassador to Berlin, Paper for Northern Great Plains History Conference, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 1986

BUBER, MARGARETE, Under Two Dictators, Gollancz, 1949

BUBER-NEUMANN, MARGARETE, Von Potsdam nach Moskau Stationens eines Irrweges, Hohenheim, Cologne, 1981

BULLOCK, ALAN, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, Pelican, 1962

BURCKHARDT, CARL I., Meine Danziger Mission, 1937- 1939, Munich, 1960

BUTLERJ. R. M. (editor), Grand Strategy, Vols I-III, HMSO, 1956-1964

BUTSON, T. G., The Tsar’s Lieutenant: The Soviet Marshal, Praeger, 1984

CALDWELL, ERSKINE, All Out on the Road to Smolensk, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1942

CALIC, EDOUARD, Unmasked: Two Confidential Interviews with Hitler in 1931, Chatto & Windus, 1971

CARELL, PAUL, Hitler’s War on Russia, Harrap, 1964

CASSIDY, HENRY C., Moscow Dateline, Houghton Mifilin, Boston, 1943

CECIL, ROBERT, Hitler’s Decision to Invade Russia, 1941, Davis-Poynter, 1975

CHANEY, OTTO PRESTON, JR., Zhukov, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972

CHAPMAN, GUY, Why France Collapsed, Cassell, 1968

CHURCHILL, WINSTON S., The Second World War. Vol. I: The Gathering Storm, Vol. II: Their Finest Hour, Vol. III: The Grand Alliance, Penguin, 1985

CIENCIALA, ANNA M., Poland and the Western Powers, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968

CLARK, ALAN, Barbarossa, Hutchinson, 1965

COATES, W. P. and Z. K., The Soviet-Finnish Campaign, Eldon Press, 1942

COHEN, STEPHEN (ed.), An End to Silence (from Roy Medvedev’s underground magazine, Political Diary), W. W. Norton, New York, 1982

COLLIER, RICHARD, 1940 The World in Flames, Hamish Hamilton, 1979

COLVILLE, JOHN, The Fringes of Power, Downing Street Diaries, 1939-1955, Hodder & Stoughton, 1985

COLVIN, IAN, The Chamberlain Cabinet, Gollancz, 1971

CONQUEST, ROBERT, The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Thirties, Macmillan, 1968

COOKE, RONALD C., and NESBIT, ROY CONGERS, Target: Hitler’s Oil, Kitnber, 1985

COOPER, DIANA, Autobiography, Michael Russell, 1979

COULONDRE, ROBERT, De Staline a Hitler, Paris, 1950

CRUIKSHANK, CHARLES, Deception in World War II, CUP, 1979

DAHLERUS, BIRGER, The Last Attempt, Hutchinson, 1948

DALADIER, EDOUARD, The Defence of France, Hutchinson, 1939

DEAKIN, F. W., and STORRY, G. R., The Case of Richard Sarge, Chatto 8: Windus, 1966

DEIGHTON, LEN, Blitzkrieg, Jonathan Cape, 1979

DELBARS, YVES, The Real Stalin, George Allen 8: Unwin, 1953

DEUTSCHER, ISAAC, Stalin. A Political Biography, CUP, 1949

DIETRICH, OTTO, The Hitler I Knew, Methuen, 1957

DILKS, DAVID, (ed.), Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan 1938-1945, Cassell, 1971

DJILAS, MILOVAN, Conversations with Stalin, Penguin, 1963

DOBSON, CHRISTOPHER and MILLER, JOHN, The Day We Almost Bombed Moscow: Allied War in Russia 1918-1920, Hodder & Stoughton, 1986

DOLLMANN, EUGEN, The Interpreter, Hutchinson, 1967

DONNELLY, DESMOND, Struggle for the World, Collins, 1965

DOUGLAS, CLARK, Three Days to Catastrophe, Hammond, 1966

DRAX, ADMIRAL SIR REGINALD PLUNKETT-ERNLE-ERLE-, Mission to Moscow, August 1939, Privately, 1966

DREA, EDWARD J., Nomohan: Japanese-Soviet Tactical Combat. 1939, Combat Studies Institute, Leavenworth Papers, January 1981

EDEN, ANTHONY, Facing the Dictators, Cassell, 1962

The Reckoning, Cassell, 1965

EDMONDS, H.J., Norman Dewhurst, MC, Privately, Brussels, 1968

EHRENBURG, ILYA, Eve of War, MacGibbon & Kee, 1963

EINZIG, PAUL, In the Centre of Things, Hutchinson, 1960

EISENSTEIN, SERGEI M., Immoral Memories, Peter Owen, 1985

ENGEL, GERHARD, Heeresadjutant bei Hitler 1938-1943, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt,

Stuttgart, 1974

ERICKSON,J., The Road to Stalingrad Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975

The Soviet High Command, Macmillan, 1962 ‘Reflections on Securing the Soviet Far Eastern Frontier: 1932-1945’, Interplay, August-September 1969

EUGLE, E., and PAANEN, L., The Winter War, Sidgwick 8: Jackson, 1973

FEILING, KEITH, The Life of Neville Chamberlain, Macmillan, 1946 FESTJOACHIM C., Hitler, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1974

The Face of the Third Reich, Weidenfeld 8c Nicolson, 1970

FISCHER, ERNST, An Opposing Man, Allen Lane, 1974

FLANNERY, HARRY W., Assignment to Berlin, Michael Joseph, 1942

FLEISHER, WILFRID, Volcano Isle, Jonathan Cape, 1942

FOOTE, ALEXANDER, Handbook for Spies, Museum Press, 1949, 1953

FRANCOIS-PONCET, ANDRE, The Fateful Years, Gollancz, 1949

FRANKEL, ANDREW, The Eagle’s Nest, Plenk Verlag, Berchtesgaden, 1983

GAFENCU, GRIGOIRE, The Last Days of Europe, Frederick Muller, 1947

GALANTE, PIERRE, Hitler Lives and the Generals Die, Sidgwick 8: Jackson, 1982

GARLINSKI, JOZEF, The Swiss Corridor, J. M. Dent, 1981

GIBSON, HUGH (ed.), The Ciano Diaries, 1939-1 943, Doubleday, New York, 1946

GILBERT, MARTIN, Finest Hour, Heinemann, 1983

The Holocaust, TheJewish Tragedy, Collins, 1986

Winston Churchill, The Wildemess Years, Macmillan, 1981

GISEVIUS, HANS BERND, To the Bitter End, Cape, 1948

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Are social media platform the creators of echo chambers?

Social media's goal is to build a sense of community, to engage in deep and meaningful conversations with other users, and to find people who share similar interests (Van Dijck, 2013). Although it might seem counterproductive to the original intention, social media platforms can function as echo chambers. This blog will discuss how social media platforms push members into echo chambers from the very moment you join the platform.

In echo chambers, beliefs are reinforced and magnified as a result of communication vacuums (Colleoni et al., 2014). A shared narrative is created when like-minded individuals recycle the same information and ideas (Jamieson & Cappella, 2008). Alternative information and ideologies are excluded from these bubbles in order to preserve these shared narratives. The main characteristic of echo chambers is that they are formed in settings where there are distinct differences in ideologies (Campante et al., 2013). The social media sphere is a big space where people share their differing ideologies continuously, so why do echo chambers flourish there at any given moment.

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We need to consider the algorithmic formation of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter (Lim, 2017). When we join these platforms, we connect with our friends or people that we are familiar with and select our interests. This self-selection model is one of the many factors that fuel echo chambers (Dubois et al., 2018). The history of all our engagements, likes, follows, shares, even people we blocked or words we've muted form the foundation of the algorithmic amplification we are exposed to. Pasek et al. (2019) describe algorithm amplification as when one viewpoint becomes inflated at the expense of other viewpoints in the process of dismissing alternative ideas. Our seemingly innocent action in selecting our entertainment preference has lulled us into an echo chamber trap otherwise referred to as algorithmic confounding (Chaney et al. 2018).

The danger of this echo changer formation is that it leads us closer to the state of confirmation bias. Oswald and Grosjean (p. 80) describe confirmation bias as confirmation bias "means that information is searched for, interpreted, and remembered in such a way that is systematically impeded the possibility that the hypothesis could be rejected." Confirmation bias creates a feedback loop when algorithms picking up our inputs in the form of engagements on their platforms and provide an output that mirrors our input. These loops gradually result in political and social polarization.

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While Nguyen (2020) argues that we, the users, must take the responsibility to ensure we actively avoid being stuck in echo chambers. Williams (2018) disagrees, saying that it is not the responsibility of the users as social media platforms algorithms push us into bubbles and create effective filter bubbles that sieve unfamiliar ideas, further pushing us deeper into the chamber in a scheme to maintain our attention. Overall, it seems the more we try to break away, the more entangled we become in the false promise of what social media is supposed to be.

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References

Campante, F. R., & Hojman, D. A. (2013). Media and polarization: Evidence from the introduction of broadcast TV in the United States. Journal of Public Economics, 100, 79-92.

Chaney, A. J., Stewart, B. M., & Engelhardt, B. E. (2018, September). How algorithmic confounding in recommendation systems increases homogeneity and decreases utility. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (pp. 224-232).

Colleoni, E., Rozza, A., & Arvidsson, A. (2014). Echo chamber or public sphere? Predicting political orientation and measuring political homophily in Twitter using big data. Journal of communication, 64(2), 317-332.

Dubois, E., & Blank, G. (2018). The echo chamber is overstated: the moderating effect of political interest and diverse media. Information, communication & society, 21(5), 729-745.

Jamieson, K. H., & Cappella, J. N. (2008). Echo chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the conservative media establishment. Oxford University Press.

Lim, M. (2017). Freedom to hate: social media, algorithmic enclaves, and the rise of tribal nationalism in Indonesia. Critical Asian Studies, 49(3), 411-427.

Nguyen, C. T. (2020). Echo chambers and epistemic bubbles.

Oswald, M. E., & Grosjean, S. (2004). Confirmation bias. Cognitive illusions: A handbook on fallacies and biases in thinking, judgement and memory, 79.

Pasek, A., Bivens, R., & Hogan, M. (2019). Data segregation and algorithmic amplification: A conversation with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun. Canadian Journal of Communication, 44(3), 455-469.

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Williams, J. (2018). Stand out of our light: freedom and resistance in the attention economy. Cambridge University Press.

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this is literally an essay i wrote in 2018. it’s almost 2021.

Generation Z: Too Incredulous to Participate, too Ingenious to be Tethered

One thing that sets today’s youth apart from other generations is the inherent irony in their character. Generation Z (Gen Z) or the cohort of individuals born between 1995 and the late 2000s (Chaney, Touzani, & Slimane, 2017) is troubled with problems such as economic decline and financial insecurity, but they managed to make room for thinking they might not want a job. As a result, their predecessors brand them as idle or unprepared for employment, much less a career. This may be true in some cases, but in true ironic fashion, Generation Z’s reluctance to be employed is just a manifestation of their incredulous ingenuity.

Primarily, Gen Z trusts corporations and the government less than any other generation. Gen Z came of age in a time after the world witnessed events like the Great Recession and 9/11 Attacks, which brought about economic downslope and political upheaval (Scott, 2016). These trends continued and imposed financial insecurity and political reinvention, illustrated by events such as, but not limited to, the rise of strongman leaders, the domination of global corporations, and the hike of college education rates. Such events continued to jeopardize stability of existing social constructions in the eyes of Gen Z; and as a result, they developed incredulity toward these constructs, specifically the government and multinational corporations.

An 18-month long investigation conducted by economist and professor Noreena Hertz (2016) revealed that only 6% and 10% of Gen Z trusts corporations and the government, respectively. Words such as “exploitative” and “untrustworthy” were even used to describe multinational corporations. This educated skepticism proved to be a key factor when Gen Z started to turn away from the idea of employment and dependence on the government.

Predictably, Gen Z became self-directed realists who would rather engage in entrepreneurial ventures than be employed. Majority of them—61% of high school students and 43% of college students—prefer ingenious income sources like opening their own businesses over traditional means like being an employee (Schawbel, 2014). More evidences of Gen Z's inventive mindset include the rise of crowdsourcing applications like Kickstarter, which allows anyone to fund the creator of an entrepreneurial project; and the ubiquity of monetized content-creation on sites like Youtube and Instagram in the form of videos and strategic product promotion. All aforementioned evidences illustrate how Gen Z favors to direct their lives while utilizing their interests and innovative pragmatism over traditional dependency on social (sic) institutions.

In brief, Generation Z’s distrust in societal stability makes them reluctant to pursue what the older generation often refer to as “real jobs” that can lead to a more definite career path. Consequently, their disinclination may be misinterpreted as laziness; however, as what was previously discussed, Gen Z is wired to exert creative efforts to direct their lives and stay away from instability as much as they can. The youngest generation may be too perplexed at this point to arrive at a final decision regarding their careers, but they are clever enough to ask the right questions and trust the right people. The future is in good hands, after all. (500 words)

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Jason Asnpach, J. N. Chaney - Wayward Galaxy #4-6

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h hackett hagan hahn hale haley hall halsey hamilton hammond hampton hancock hanley hanna hansen harding hardy harper harrington harris harrison hart hartley harvey hastings hatch hawkins hayden hayes haynes healy heath henderson henry hensley hernandez hewitt hickey hickman hicks higgins hill hodges hoffman hogan holbrook holden holland hollis holloway holman holmes holt hood hooper hopkins hopper horton houghton houston howard howe howell hubbard huber hudson huffman hughes hull humphrey humphries hunt hunter hurley hurst hutchinson hutchison 

i ingram 

j jackson jacobs james jamison jarvis jensen johnson jones jordan joyce 

k kane kearney keating keegan keene kehoe keith kelleher keller kelly kemp kendall kennedy kent kerr kidd kilgore kincaid king kinney kirby kirk kirkland kirkpatrick klein knight koch koenig krause 

l lacroix lafferty lake lamont lancaster lane larkin larsen law lawrence lawson leblanc lee leslie levesque lewis lindsay little lloyd lockhart long lopez love lowe lucas lynch lyons 

m macdonald macgregor mackay mackenzie mackinnon maclean macleod macmillan macpherson madden maher mahoney maldonado malloy malone maloney manning marsh marshall martin martinez mason massey matthews maurer maxwell may maynard mcallister mcbride mccabe mccaffrey mccain mccall mccann mccarthy mccartney mcclellan mcconnell mccormack mccoy mccullough mccurdy mcdaniel mcdaniel mcdermott mcdonald mcdonough mcdowell mcgrath mcgraw mcgregor mcguire mchugh mcintosh mcintyre mckay mckee mckenna mckenzie mckinley mckinney mckinnon mcknight mclain mcleod mcmahon mcmillan mcnally mcnamara mcneill mcpherson mcqueen mead meadows medina meier melton merritt meyer middleton miles miller mitchell molloy monaghan monroe montgomery moody mooney moore morales moran moreno morgan morris morrison morrow moss mueller munn munro murdock murphy murray myers 

n nash neal nelson neville newton nichols nicholson nielsen noble nolan norris north norwood 

o o'brien o'connell o'connor o'donnell o'grady o'hara o'keefe o'leary o'neal o'neill o'reilly o'rourke o'sullivan ogden oliver olson orr ortega ortiz owens 

p page palmer parker parks parrish parsons patterson patton payne pearson penn pennington pereira peters peterson phillips pierce pike piper pittman pollard pollock poole porter potter powell power powers pratt preston price prince pritchard proctor pruitt purcell putnam 

q quinlan quinn 

r rafferty ralston ramirez ramos ramsey randall rankin ray reece reed reeves regan reid reilly reyes reynolds rhodes richards richardson riley ritchie rivera roberts robertson robinson roche rodgers rodriguez rollins romero rooney rose ross rossi roth rowe roy russell russo ryan 

s salisbury sampson sanders sandoval santiago saunders sawyer schaefer schmidt schneider schofield schroeder schultz schwartz scott sears serrano sharp shaw shea sheehan shelton shepherd sheridan sherwood shields short simmons simpson sims sinclair skinner slattery sloan smart smith snow snyder somerville soto sparks spears spence spencer stack stafford stanley stanton steele stephens stevens stevenson stewart stiles stokes stone strickland strong stuart suarez sullivan sutherland sutton sweeney 

t taylor temple tennant thomas thompson thomson thornton thorpe thurston tierney tilley timmons tobin todd torres townsend trevino tucker turner 

u underwood upton 

v vance vaughan vega vogel 

w walker wallace walsh walton ward ware warner warren watkins watson weaver webb weber weeks wells welsh wentworth west whalen wheeler whitaker white wiley wilkinson williams williamson willis willoughby wilson wood woodard woodruff woods woodward wren wright wyatt 

y yates york young 

z ziegler

[hermanwatts]

Fantasy New Releases: 2 October 2021

This week’s new releases are fill with vengeful spirits, apprentice alchemists, Israeli soldiers stranded in new worlds, and more.

Alchemist Adept (The Alchemist #4) – D. K. Holmberg and Dan Michaelson

Sam must master his connection to the source—and understand alchemy—if he wants to save the Academy.

Sam had come to the Academy powerless and used his wits to keep his place until learning that he can command a different magic. With the Nighlan attacking along the border of the city in the hopes of freeing Rasan Tel, Academy students are called upon to fight.

Having used his power to protect the Academy, Sam finds himself in a new struggle. Somehow, he has to balance his classes, lessons with a new alchemy instructor, all while working on a secret assignment in the war against the Nighlan.

As he begins to learn the truths of alchemy and his unique connection to power, Sam knows that he holds a key to stopping the fighting, but only if he can master his power.

The lessons he needs can’t be found in books, and the only person with the knowledge he needs is the same person he must defeat.

Dark Mountain (Dragon Wars #20) – Craig Halloran

As one well-planned attempt to destroy Black Frost fails after the other, he only grows in power.

Grey Cloak and Dyphestive have tried everything to bring their greatest enemy to a dead halt. With one final valiant effort, against impossible odds, they lead Talon and the Children of Cinder into the greatest battle of their lives that can only end in their inevitable massacre.

Will the Blood Brothers think of something in time, or will the fate of the world and all mankind be crushed in Black Frost’s talons and scorched to death in the fires of dragons all consuming breath?

Light Unto Another World #2 – Yakov Merkin

Sometimes, the right choice is not an easy one to make. But even when it is, the right choice is often not the easy one. But when one knows right from wrong, the choice is clear.

Uriel Makkis didn’t know what to expect when he finally met the king of Fulnar, apart from learning exactly why he had been pulled to this new world.

He did not expect to become an immediate enemy of the state.

The twin revelations that he was summoned to be used as a weapon of conquest, and that his fellow Swords were evil people from back on Earth, however, made that inevitable.

Without intending to do so, Uriel finds himself embroiled in a far larger conflict, one that has the potential to alter the balance of power on this alien world. Knowing that his new friends stand on one side, with their enemies, and his own enemies from Earth on the other, Uriel doesn’t need to think long about what he will do. However, as he throws himself into the fight alongside his rebel friends, it also becomes clear how outmatched they are.

But for a Jewish soldier, fighting in the face of bad odds is nothing new. The only way to move is forward.

Ruin of Kings (King’s League #3) – Jason Anspach and J. N. Chaney

Party at Dawnshire.

Graydon’s Armor is bestowing its power on players throughout King’s League, and not all of them think like Dirk.

When a vicious player-killer begins to wreak havoc in his own corner of King’s League, Dirk decides that the only way he can put a stop to it is by gathering up his friends and creating a balanced party capable of standing up against some of the game’s toughest challenges.

As Dirk helps Stoneburner and others level up to survive the coming encounter, he discovers that finding Graydon’s Sight wasn’t just good luck…it was the start of a game-changing development that will impact every player in King’s League!

Spirits of Vengeance – Rob J. Hayes

He’ll die as many times as it takes.

The Ipian Empire was once a land that welcomed dragons and spirits alike, but a century of war and bloodshed saw them all but vanish. Now, the lost things are returning and the Onryo have gathered. Five legendary spirits with mysterious powers, bent on freeing an ancient evil that would wreak havoc on humanity.

Haruto swore his soul to the God of Death for the chance to hunt down the vengeful ghost of his wife. Now an onmyoji, he’s tasked by the Imperial Throne to hunt down monsters and malicious spirits. But he knows not all spirits are evil and not all deserve the peace of the sword.

Kira is a student at Heiwa, an academy for children with dangerous techniques. But she has a secret, she’s not like the other students. When the school is attacked, she flees with one of the tutors, determined to hide both from those who would kill her, and those who would use her.

As a plague of spirits sweeps across the land, the Onryo leave a bloody trail for Haruto to follow. But who’s hunting who?

The Wasting Desert – David V. Stewart

For Millenia, the Wasting Desert has stood as an impassable barrier between the kingdoms of the Divine Strand and the ancient Draesenith Empire. Those who enter never return to say why it cannot be crossed.

Alastan, a disgraced soldier and merchant, believes he can cross to the empire and return, bringing with him a valuable secret that will allow him to settle his debts and repair his tattered life. Guiding him is the enigmatic dark elf Mondal and the warrior-mage Thokar, himself a descendant of the empire’s strange race of giants. They alone know the secret of the blasted miles of sand.

Once they enter, they soon find that the ever-shifting paths of the desert are but one hazard. Phantoms and forgotten spirits wander, lost and hungry for the human soul. But, within the shifting sands and ruins, too, lives an ancient terror far more dangerous than lost souls—a horror that frightens even the mighty Thokar and the ageless killer Mondal.

And the only escape is through to the other side.

Fantasy New Releases: 2 October 2021 published first on https://sixchexus.weebly.com/

[monkeygroove]

Review: "Resonant Son" by J. N. Chaney and Christopher Hopper

Review: “Resonant Son” by J. N. Chaney and Christopher Hopper

(This review contains some mild spoilers.  Don’t say I didn’t warn you.)

Let me start off by saying that I liked this book. I don’t know how I feel about the fact that Chaney has started yet another series that I want to dive into. It seems like most of my TBR is filled with his books. I don’t know how I will find all the time that I need to read everything he puts out. But I digress.

Even though…

[inhumansforever]

It would be interesting to see anti-hero/anti villain Emma having to work with the people she hates to take down Hydra. She wouldn't like it but she would be smart enough to know that as soon as Hydra gets more power and has dealt with the Inhumans that they would inevitably turn there attention to the Mutants. I just really want the Inhumans and Mutants to unite. Something i really had hoped would have happened before the mist debacle given there similar backgrounds and struggles.

I’m not expecting a change of tune from Emma any time in the near future, but it’s a very sure bet that she is going to rise up to fight back against Hydra.  

The Mutants and Inhumans are both minority groups who have been marginalized in different ways by the grander status quo.  It would be great if they were to be able to pool their resources and unit against a common, superordinate foe.  Sadly this isn’t happening and it’s quite similar to how things all too often go down in the real world.  

At risk of being confrontational, the strained relations between Mutants and Inhumans reminds me of similar animosities that occurred between Blacks and Jews in America in the years leading up the the civil rights movement of the 1960′s.  Both groups were viewed and treated poorly by the white, Christian majority, but rather than banding together, the two groups were quite often at terrible odds with one another.  

Dr. King suggested that many Black Americans’ feelings of animosity toward Jews were the result of the despicable habits of Jewish landlords who rented to Black tenets.  The sentiment was echoed by writer, James Baldwin, who noted, “[I]n Harlem.... our ... landlords were Jews, and we hated them. We hated them because they were terrible landlords and did not take care of the buildings. The grocery store owner was a Jew... The butcher was a Jew and, yes, we certainly paid more for bad cuts of meat than other New York citizens, and we very often carried insults home along with our meats... and the pawnbroker was a Jew—perhaps we hated him most of all.”

Jews were marginalized by the majority, but to a lessor degree compared to Blacks, and this appeared to often contribute to a trickle-down of oppression.  It was only after the Jewish activists, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, and the Black activist, James Chaney, were all murdered by the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi, 1964, that Black and Jewish interrelations began to gradually improve.  

In the Marvel Universe, the Inhumans have been feared and hated by the human populace, but to a significantly lessor degree to which The Mutants are feared and hated.  And once more this has led to something of a trickle-down of oppression wherein The Inhumans of Attilan were much more concerned with maintaining good optics with the Human world as opposed to addressing the terrible things that were happening to the Mutants due to the Terrigen Cloud.  

It is possible that The Secret Empire to-do will act as a similar catalyst as the murders in Philadelphia, Mississippi... something that causes a gradual banding together of the two groups.  

apologies in advance to any who are offended by this comparison.  

[rocklandhistoryblog]

DAWN REDWOOD: A CONIFER FROM PREHISTORIC DAYS (C) Historical Society of Rockland County South of the Mountains 1973-10, Vol. 17, No. 4 The historical society owns a horti­cultural conversation piece—the Dawn Redwood on the west lawn of the Jacob Blauvelt homestead History Cen­ter, New City. Nature writer Eric Haas says, "The tree is not only a fine orna­mental, it’s a fascinating conversation piece as well.” Ours has certainly proved to be an interesting subject for correspondence and research. The correspondence was with the tree’s donor, W. E. Mackenzie of Tappan, who also provided a new hardy boxwood and a hybrid holly for the history center’s grounds. Mr. Macken­zie says the only Dawn Redwoods he knows of in Rockland are the ones at his Tappan homesite, one he donated to the Masonic Shrine at Tappan (the DeWint House that was Washington’s headquarters) and ours. "I have seen a Dawn Redwood on the Princeton University grounds in New Jersey and one on an estate on Long Island,” he continues. "They seem to be hard to transplant. Some of those I purchased did not grow and a larger tree planted by nurserymen on the Washington headquarter’s grounds died within a few months.” "Like the redwoods of California,” he concludes, "we hope this Dawn Redwood will thrive for many, many hundreds of years together with the historical society and its museum.” In another letter, Mr. Mackenzie writes, "Several years ago I got seed from the Pearce Seed Company of Moorestown, N. J. Some came up but in a few days disappeared. The Dawn Redwood is doing well in my mixed clay soil.” This deciduous conifer, classed as Metasequoia, is a genus of only one species, M. glyptostroboides. It’s origin, like that of Taxodium, to which it is related, dates back millions of years. A member of the Pine family (Pinaceae), it was first described from fossil remains. These remains, unearthed in Oregon, Alaska, Siberia, Spitzbergen, China and Japan, were until 1941 believed to those of Sequoia, the genus to which our westcoast redwoods belong. In that year Prof. S. Miki, a paleobotanist at Osaka University noted distinct differences in the fossils found in Japan and the Sequoias: the Japanese fossils had opposite arrangements of shoots, needles and cone scales; the coast redwoods had a spiral, or alternate, arrangement. So Prof. Miki proposed a new generic name for redwood fossils like those found in Japan, Metasequoia (meaning 'with the sequoias”). Three years later the "fossil tree” was found to be alive and well! Believed extinct since the Eocene period, a huge tree "the like of which he had never seen before” was discovered by a Chinese forester, T. Wang. It was grow­ing near the village of Mo-tac-chi, Szechuan province, Central China. Natives of the area, who called it shui-so (water fir) had built a small temple around the tree’s base. When Dr. W. C. Cheng, professsor of forestry at National Center University, Nanking, to whom Wang took specimens of the tree’s needles and cones, studied the samples he knew at once this tree had never been recorded in Chinese botanical annals and thought it was closely allied to the California redwoods. Dr. Chang consulted Dr. H. H. Hu, director of Fan Memorial Institute of Biology, Peking Dr. Hu, who had Prof. Miki’s paper on Metasequoias, realized a fossil had come to life! An expedition organized in 1945 by the Fan Memorial Institute with financial assistance from the Arnold Arborteum, Jamaica Plain, Mass., discovered three living Metasequoias in the area where Wang had made his discovery. Later about a thousand trees were found in the northeastern part of Szechuan province. The largest of these trees was over 100 feet tall and eleven feet in diameter. In 1948, Dr. Ralph W. Chaney of the Save-the-Redwoods League, and Milton Selverman, science editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, flew to Chung­king, traveled the bandit-infested Yangtze River to Wanh-Sein and trekked over three mountain ranges to visit the last remnant of the once great Meta­sequoia forest. Through the Save-the-Redwoods League and the Arnold Arboretum, thousands of seeds from this stand of Metasequoias were distributed in America, Europe and Asia. Although it is not certain they will prove amentable to culti­vation, early trials indicate they are amenable to cultivation by cuttings and young trees appear to be hardy and to grow without difficulty. Conditions which suit the deciduous Cypress (Taxodium distichum) seem to satisfy the Meta­sequoias, which were found growing near streams at an elevation of little more than 4,000 feet. From data gathered in the United States and Europe, the Arnold Arboretum believes the Dawn Redwoods grow best with a generous supply of moisture, though wet soils (as well as dry sandy soils) do not appear suitable for its well being. The tree’s native climate provides a long growing season with mild winters that have temperatures about 32°. In the U. S., trees have survived temperatures of —30° but have shown injury to tender growth in late spring freezes. Meta­sequoias have been grown successfully as far north as Southern Alaska and are listed as Zone 6 hardy in cata­logues. Zone 6 is considered by the U. S. D. A. as having temperatures from —10° to zero in average winters. A reminder^ of stately trees from prehistoric days, our Dawn Redwood puts out fern-like foliage in the spring and should grow into a tall, pyramidal shaped tree. www.RocklandHistory.org