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Title: Oathbringer

Author: Brandon Sanderson

Summary: Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.

Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar's blood-soaked past and stand together--and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past--even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization.

Rating: ★★★★★

Review:

This review will a be a bit different, I won’t have commentary for the first 33 chapters because I already made comments on them since late-August. Tor has been releasing 3 chapters of Oathbringer a day. So if you’d like to see what I thought about those then you can follow this link. It’ll have all my reactions and my commentary.

Eventually I’ll be rereading this book, so that’ll be a more in-depth review, this is more of my first reaction.

“This is the middle book of the series. And as everyone knows, the heroes always lose in the middle book. It makes the series more tense.”—Page 215, Alcatraz: Knights of Crystallia

Y’know what I don’t regret? Staying up till 3 am listening to Oathbringer.

We started off this book with an interlude about an ardent reading smut. Okay then.

How could people forget to read their own language? Oh boy. Do not translate the Dawn Chant, I’ve read Alcatraz.

“Sequels always have to be bigger.”

Brandon Sanderson I will end you.

A particular patron wants the Dawn Chant to be translated? That can’t be good.

Oh, I’m so sure that Eshonai is dead. Unless the sister is going to be a main character.

Spren of remption?

Whoa! Jasnah is getting chapters! Also it’s weird that “Bridge 4” get chapters. It’s so awesome to hear from them but still a little weird.

JASNAH KHOLIN IF YOU DID NOT HUG YOUR MOTHER I WILL SLAP YOU!

Yes! We got to see Eyebrow Queen in vision! And she rounded up the town and turned them into an army Castlevania style!

Oh my god, I never realized how much of a cutie Sigzil was.

I’m glad that Dalinar didn’t kill a kid.

I assume that Rock’s chapter is the longest chapter because of his name.

Renarin being part of Bridge 4 gives me life. He’s going to hang out with Rlain!

ROCK’S FAMILY!

Ay, a Stoneward! So they can create handholds? Cool.

BRANDON SANDERSON LET ME SEE THAT JASNAH-NAVANI REUNION!

Oh shit! It’s the Honorblades!

Okay so Odium took the spren of the dead Parshendi and that’s how they created the Fused.

So the Voidbringers were only trapped when the Heralds were being horrifically tortured. My god, that’s horrible.

Talenel spent 4,500 years being tortured. That man is fucking beast.

Oh shit the Fused never die. Well, I guess that Eshonai is fine but SHIT! This is so bad.

Oh great so there’s some secret that’s going to make the Radiants abandon their oaths.

Um, what was that epigraph?

YOU LOST TALENEL?!

Hey, guys, maybe genocide isn’t the answer.

So, are no storms going through Kholinar?

Alright, let’s see if Kaladin and Jasnah can go an entire book without killing each other.

“If it’s not a lowly task, then perhaps you should have done it.” OH SNAP!

LET ME HEAR JASNAH AND RENARIN’S CONVERSATION!

“Perhaps act like an adult.” The sass in this book.

HELERAN WAS A SKYBREAKER?!

HOLY SHIT WE’RE GETTING INFORMATION ABOUT THE SONS OF HONOR!

Gavilar brought Amaram into the Sons of Honor.

Sons of Honor wanted to the return of the Desolations to get the Heralds to show themselves. It was restore the Knights Radiant and the classical strength of the Vorin church.

Wait, the Skybreakers? So either Mraize doesn’t know about The Diagram or he’s keeping that information to himself for the time being. The Diagram knows about him.

So Mraize probably doesn’t know about Lift helping Nale.

So technically the Skybreakers are another secret organization. I’ll have to update my chart.

This must be a letter to Hoid.

Teft? Are you okay?

It has finally arrived and that’s why you’ll suddenly see quotes with actual page references!

Shallan’s sketches are very concerning…

Wait! The letter is to Hoid! Now it’s time to reread the epigraphs because this reviews is already a cluster fuck.

“You think yourself so clever, but my eyes are not those of some petty noble, to be clouded by a false nose and some dirt on the cheeks.”—Page 361

Wait, noble? Is that a reference to Scadrial? Is this Demoux?

“No good can come of two Shards settling in one location. It was agreed that we would not interfere with one another, and it disappoints me that so few of the Shards have kept to this original agreement.”—Page 411

Could this be a letter from Preservation before everything went to hell?

Who’s Uli Da? THESE FREAKING EPIGRAPHS!

So Teft is a drug addict.

“Cephandrius, bearer of the First Gem, You must know better than to approach us by relying upon presumption of past relationships.”—Page 435

What?

Jezerezeh!

Wow, Gax knows a lot.

“‘Yeah,’ a voice piped up. ‘You’re old.’”—Page 439

LIFT! Even the Stormfather is like “how the fuck did this girl get here?”

Pale white eyes?

“‘Don’t,’ she said. ‘He’s got too nice a butt.’”—Page 440

OH MY GOD!

Oh…oh god, Moash’s chapter has the Bridge 4 patch ripped off. Good.

Well, there goes Graves. Sucks.

Oh god, are they going to recruit Moash?

“‘Brightlord?’ Janala asked. ‘Are you perhaps secretly an artifabrian? Studying engineering by night, reading the women’s script?’ Several of the others chuckled. Renarin blushed deeply, lowering his eyes farther.”—Page 455

BITCH!

“Renarin nodded, then looked up at her. ‘Thank you.’ ‘For?’ ‘Defending my honor. When Adolin does that, someone usually gets stabbed. Your way was pleasanter.’”—Page 456

While this is a funny line LOOK! FRIENDSHIP!

“Renarin shrugged. ‘I’ve found the best way to avoid doing what Jasnah says is to not be around when she’s looking for someone to give orders to.’”—Page 457

Renarin, sweetie, I love you but telling Shallan to avoid her problems IS REALLY BAD ADVICE!

I really like Lyn and Skar’s relationship.

Oh, the cardforms that Kal saved are now slaves. Man, Kal is going to hate himself for that.

ADOLIN IS BORN! Oh god this is so sweet….

“‘It’s your daughter,’ Dalinar guessed. ‘Her lunacy.’”—Page 493

What’s with this?

“‘And the things you did in conquering Alethkar?’ Kadash said. ‘No divine mandate, Dalinar. Everyone accepts what you did because your victories were proof of the Almighty’s favor. Without him…then what are you?’”—Page 502

A warlord.

Tests?

Finally! Shallan and Elhokar interactions!

“The boys were by Evi’s wagons. Little Adolin was terrorizing one of the chulls, perched atop its shell and swinging a wooden sword about, showing off for several of the guards—who dutifully complimented his moves. He’d somehow assembled ‘armor’ from strings and bits of broken rockbud shell.”—Page 516

My heart.

“Friend, You letter is most intriguing, even revelatory.”—Page 520

Is this a response from Hoid?

Jasnah can read lips, Jesus Christ.

“I would have thought, before attaining my current station, that a deity could not be surprised. Obviously, this is not true. I can be surprised. I can perhaps even be naïve, I think.”—page 529

HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! HOLY SHIT! IT’S HARMONY/SAZED AHHHHH!

Moash, you’re going to have to be Kaladin.

“‘You need nothing but what we give you,’ the Fused said. ‘But your desire is to be granted.’”—Page 532

Grammar nazi.

“No. Not you. It’s not your fault.”—Page 534

Is this one of the Unmade or Odium?

Rlain perspective!

Lift doesn’t trust Dalinar?

“The man was old, with a wide furrowed face and bone-white hair that swept back from his head as if blown by wind. Thick mustaches with a hint of black in them blended into a short white beard. He seemed to be Shin, judging by his skin and eyes, and he wore a golden crown in his powdery hair.”—Page 547

What the…? ODIUM!

PUNCH HIM THE FACE!

“Tight-butt” I love this book.

NOPE NOPE NOPE THE HOLY SHIT NOPE CREMLING WOMAN!

“I won’t make policy decisions, and I’ll avoid ordering the murder of any further groups of melodic children. Fine? All right? Now leave me alone. You’re stinking up the place with an air of contented idiocy.”—Taravangian, Page 570

Good?

Oh good they’re not going to assassinate Dalinar.

Alright, so The Diagram wants to figure out a way to keep Odium from destroying everything. Good luck with that.

A paternal voice? Oh no…Why is Brandon determined to make me fear kind, elderly male voices? He did this with Ruin in Well of Ascension.

Oh, so the thing that Renarin found were like diary entries. Huh.

Kaladin has lands. Weird.

Send Renarin to help these people.

…What did Sadeas do?

“‘More scowls, then?’ She sighed. ‘More scowls.’ He grinned.”—Page 592

They’re so cute.

“Unite us. Please.”—Page 596

What?

Dalinar is putting the temple back together…odd.

“For a moment Dalinar felt he could almost understand what they were saying. As if a part of him were stretching to bond to man.”—Page 598

It’s like the Southern arm band things.

Aw, Adolin is scared.

“No sure if it’s dignified.”—Page 610

At least it’s not a fork.

Your…tailor….

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?

“Yes, she thought, taking another Memory of Elhokar. Yes, you are king. And you can live up to your father’s legacy.”—Page 625

Yay!

“And beyond that, deep within the mirror, something turned—”—Page 634

Wasn’t that what Elhokar was seeing?

“It clicked. ‘Stormfather!’ Yes?”—Page 638

These two are great.

“‘When…when were you thinking of information me of this?’ When you asked. When else would I speak of it? ‘When you thought of it!’ Dalinar said. ‘You know things that are important, Stormfather!’”—Page 638

That sass.

“Yours is the power of Connection, of joining men and worlds, minds and souls.”—Page 639

Interesting.

An essay.

Lift has eaten the Blackthorn’s lunch.

Dalinar…smells like the Nightwatcher?

Elhokar has been drawing.

Gavinor, that’s Elhokar’s son’s name and probably a future character…if he hasn’t died.

“‘It’s a good plan, Elhokar,’ Adolin said. ‘Nice work.’ A simple compliment probably should not have made a king beam like it did. Elhokar even drew a glory—”—Page 667

I believe in you, Elhokar! He just wants approval! I’m honestly so worried for this boy.

Wit! Thank god! Story time!

“‘Yes,’ he said. Then he added, ‘I miss my flute.’ ‘Your what?’ He hopped up and began gathering his things. Shallan slipped forward and glanced inside his pack, catching sight of a small jar, sealed at the top. It was mostly black, but the side pointed toward her was instead white.”—Page 676

First of all, dammit Kal, why did you have to lose Wit’s flute? Second, WHAT IS THAT?!

Chull eggs?

“‘Heavens no,’ Wit said. ‘I’m not stupid enough to get mixed up in religion again. The last seven times I tried it were all disasters. I believe there’s at least one god still worshipping me by accident.’”—Pages 678-679

Who?

Everyone thinks Wit is a Herald.

“‘Maybe I’m one of those punchy guys.’ Adolin stopped in place and grinned at Kaladin. ‘Did you just say ‘punchy guys’?’ ‘You know, ardents who train to fight unarmed.’ ‘Hand to hand?’ ‘Hand to hand.’ ‘Right,’ Adolin said. ‘Or ‘punchy guys,’ as everyone calls them.’ Kaladin met his eyes, then found himself grinning back. ‘It’s the academic term.’ ‘Sure. Like swordy fellows. Or spearfish chaps.’”—Page 690

I love these two.

Who. Is. The Sibling. Christ, we’re never going to find out, are we?

Azure is a woman. She’s either a Radiant or Herald.

Sadeas was always a traitorous bastard.

Shallan wants to take someone’s place? Weeeeeird.

*sighs and adds Cult of Moments to the list of secret organizations*

Maybe Azure is using regrowth?

“What is that design on your skirt? It…seems familiar to me.”—Elhokar, Page 734

Yes! WAIT! GO BACK GO BACK! TALK ABOUT PATTERN!

‘Is that what I look like?’ he whispered. ‘Yes.’ It’s what you could, at least. ‘May I…may I have it?’ She lacquered the page, then handed it to him. ‘Thank you.’ Storms. He almost seemed to be in tears!”—Page 735

Yes! Elhokar development!

“Sadeas was not a trait.”—Page 738

First time for everything, I suppose.

“Dalinar nodded slowly. ‘They must bleed,’ he whispered. ‘I want them to suffer for this. Men, women, children. They must know the punishment for broken oaths. Immediately.’”—Page 741

Oh shit.

Oh god, oh no Evi…Renarin and Adolin don’t know.

Aw, Adolin paid for Shallan carving into the table.

“Just another spren, Shallan/Veil/Radiant thought. That’s what I am. Emotion made carnal.”—Page 761

Much concern.

Vathah is a Lightweaver squire? Weird.

Shallan is making all these men cry.

“But Veil is a false face, a part of her said. You could always abandon her. She strangled that part of her, smothered it deep. Veil was too real, too vital, to abandon. Shallan would be easier.”—Page 764

VERY CONCERNED.

Is that Ardant from that one epigraph (I know so specific).

Oh great now there’s Kishi.

“Chasing you? Kaladin cocked his head.”—Page 771

Huh?

Who’s Melishi?

“Since the first day, you storming woman. Hate…hate you…Others too. We all…hate you…”—Page 782

I’m sure this’ll be fine for Shallan’s psyche.

“We are uncertain the effect this will have on the parsh. At the very least, it should deny them forms of power. Melishi is confident, but Nae-daugther-Kuzodo warns of unintended side effects.”—Page 784

This is what happened to the Parshmen.

Metal.

“She sniffed, looking away. ‘I have to become Veil to escape the memories, but I don’t have the experience that she pretends to have. I haven’t lived life.’ ‘No,’ Wit said softly. ‘You’ve lived a harsher one, haven’t you?’ ‘Yet still, somehow, a naïve one.’”—Page 789

I feel yah.

“I half, the child ignores her parents, wanders out into the woods, and gets eaten. In the other half she discovers great wonders. There aren’t many stories about the kids who say, ‘Yes, I shall not go into the forest. I’m glad my parents explained that is where the monsters live.’”—Wit, Page 790

Alcatraz, is that you?

“Blasphemy! Art is not art if it has a function.”—Wit, Page 791

So Wit subscribes to Kantz’s idea.

“A sense pulsed through her from it, memories and pain. And…and something smothering them… Forgiveness. For herself.”—Page 793

Cry count: 2

“He checked the glyphward Shallan had made him at his request—determination—wrapped around his forearm.”—Page 796

You are filled with determination.

We could really use a Rioter.

“‘Weeks?’ Sidin said. ‘Surely it’s only been a few days, Brightlord.’ He scratched at a beard that seemed to argue with that sentiment. ‘We’ve only eaten…what, three times since being thrown in here?’”—Page 805

Is time moving differently in Kholinar?

This…seems too easy.

I’m so terrified to find Elhokar’s wife and child.

Are the Unmade all parts of the human body? Like that Edgedancer-Holy-Fuck-No-Cremling-Dude?

OH THANK GOD THE KIDDO IS SAFE!

“‘Stop!’ he finally bellowed. ‘Stop it! Stop killing each other!’ Nearby, Sah rammed Beard through with a spear. ‘STOP! PLEASE!’”—Page 818

Cry count: 3

NO! MOASH! NO! HE WAS GOING TO BE A GOOD KING! HE WAS TRYING! OH GOD MOASH!

Cry count: I AM A MESS!

“But you’re a good king, Taravangian. You didn’t murder your way to your throne.”—Page 825

Hahahaha.

OH FUCK THEY’RE IN SHADESMAR!

“Mraize did like his clothing to look sharp.”—Page 836

Ah, yes, the perspective of Mraize’s laundry woman. An obvious perspective.

So Adolin, Shallan, Kaladin, Dalinar, Navani, Szeth, Taravangian AND Venli get perspectives.

“‘That’s not a standard-issue uniform, soldier,’ Dalinar said to him. ‘I know!’ Adolin said. ‘I had it specially tailored!’ Storms… His son was becoming a fop.”—Page 851

Aw.

“‘Which one got to you, little child?’ Ahu asked. ‘The Black Fisher? The Spawning Mother, the Faceless? Moelach is close. I can hear his wheezing, his scratching, his scraping at time like a rat breaking through walls.’”—Page 853

I’m sure he’s not actually crazy.

Wait wait wait so that thing is Adolin’s spren. Huh.

WAIT WAIT AZURE HER HAIR IS CHANGING COLORS! VIENNA! AHHH! Wait her sword…is it another like Nightblood? Welp let’s go back to Radiant HQ so Vivenna and Vasher can chill.

“Szeth-son-son… Szeth-son… Szeth, Truthles… Szeth. Just Szeth.”—Page 864

A thus a meme died that day. Moment of silent for a dead meme.

“You should draw me, Szeth! I would love to see the lake. Vasher says there are magic fish here.”—Page 865

Vasher!

I forgot how great Nightblood is, now I want to reread Warbreaker.

Nazh is a lot sassier in this book.

Dalinar can’t remember how old Renarin is.

“A small bottle. ‘I…’ Renarin swallowed. ‘I got you one, with the spheres the king gave me. Because you always go through what you buy so quickly.’”—Page 890

Pain.

“Renarin stepped in and hugged him. Dalinar flinched, bracing as if for a punch. The boy clung to him, not letting go.’—Page 890

Cry count: END ME!

Navani possess a modicum of social skills, guess she’s not a Knight.

“‘You Cryptics mimic…weird stuff?’ ‘The fundamental underlying mathematics by which natural phenomena occur. Mmm. Truths that explain the fabric of existence.’ ‘Yeah. Weird stuf.’”—Page 909

I love Pattern and Syl.

I guess living in his tailor’s house really made Adolin’s…um, true passion for fashion come out.

“‘How? Impossible. Unless…you’re Invested. What Heightening are you?’ He squinted at Kaladin. ‘No. Something else. Merciful Domi…A Surgebinder? It has begun again?”—Riino, Page 913

Okay, so he’s from Sel.

“As he was sipping the water, Syl walked over—her skin, her hair, and dress still colored like those of a human. She stopped next to him, placed her hands on her hips, and went into full pout. ‘What?’ Kaladin asked. ‘They won’t let me ride one of the flying spren.’ ‘Smart.’ ‘Insufferable.’”—Page 928

Syl, don’t ride the spren.

Oh great now Dalinar has been excommunicated from the church.

“A little of both. I discovered when I was younger that being too open with strangers…went poorly for me.”—Page 945

Just…just a little….

“‘It’s a unique piece, human,’ she said. ‘From the far-off Court of Gods, a painting intended only for divinity to see. It is exceptionally rare that one escapes being burned at the court, and makes its way onto market.’”—Page 956

Wow there’s a lot of references to Warbreaker.

Nohadon?

“Lectured by my own daughter again.”—Page 975

Poor Navani.

I SWEAR TO GOD RENARIN BETTER JUST BE A RADIANT.

“Then, when he returned to Kholinar, he controlled his drinking. And he’d never again yelled at his sons, as he at poor Renarin during that day on the way back from the Shattered Plains.”—Page 978

DALINAR KHOLIN!

“‘May I see?’ Ialai asked. ‘No,’ Jasnah replied.”—Page 995

This made me laugh.

A mistspren, huh?

So Vivenna is hunting Nightblood.

“‘All memories are bad,’ she said immediately, then looked away, blushing.”—Page 1012

This is bad.

“‘I…’ He pulled her tight again as the ship rocked. ‘Shallan, I killed Sadeas.’”—Page 1013

Damn!

“Like the quintessential bully, the Stormfather didn’t know how to face someone stronger than himself.”—Page 1022

Hahahaha.

“She was using the old rhythms. She’d never been able to do that when Odium’s attention had been on her.”—Page 1024

She is a lot like Marsh.

“Through his bond, Dalinar sensed weeping. The Stormfather had kept Odium back, but storms, he had paid a price. The most powerful spren on Roshar—embodiment of the tempest that shaped all life—was crying like a child, whispering that Odium was too strong.”—Page 1029

Oh, Stormy…what if ALL the Spren helped?

“‘Because,’ Renarin said. He didn’t say anything more.”—Page 1038

Helpful, Renarin.

“You could call me Vargo, if you wish,”—Taravangian, Page 1039

How about bastard? Though this may getting confusing see how that’s also Amaram’s nickname.

Who…is saying “Unite them”? Please just be Cultivation.

Fuck an Everstorm.

More? Great?

Humans…are Voidbringers.

NONONONONONONONO!

Finally, Tarah!

What world did the Radiants destroy?

I just realized that it’s ironic that Nale wears black and white. Symbolic if his view on the world. Black and white.

“Rysn was bored.”—Page 1059

Lucky girl.

Aw, she can’t walk.

HELL YEAH PALONA GETS A POV!

“What boon drives you, Son of Honor? Son of Odium?”—Page 1077

Good question.

Cultivation!

“SOMEONE BEYOND YOUR AUTHORITY TO QUESTION.”—Page 1078

Snap.

“A spren rose from his back, bright red, shimmering like the heat of a mirage. A crystalline structure, like a snowflake, though it dripped light upward toward the ceiling.”—Page 1085

SAVE RENARIN!

“‘Vengeance?’ the sailor said, looking to his fellows for support. ‘We’re glad to be free. But…I mean…some of them treated us pretty nice. Can’t we just go settle somewhere, and leave the Thaylens alone?’”—Page 1087

I like these guys.

Odium is making himself look like a Parshman.

“Urithiru was under attack.”—Page 1089

Huh so this is like Knights of Crystallia. Also SHIT!

Chapter 115: We are so fucked.

“Ten thousand Alethi in green uniforms gripped their weapons, their eyes glowing a deep, dangerous red.”—Page 1092

Oh god.

“Renarin Kholin was a liar.”—Page 1098

No, please, no.

“The Alethi have turned against the Thaylens, and now seek to conquer them! They’ve been allied with the parshmen all along. Your Grace, by feeling, we have narrowly avoided a trap!”—Page 1103

SHIT!

YOU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!

Amaram has been possessed, too.

“‘So…’ a sudden voice said from his right. ‘What’s the plan?’”—Page 1108

Thank the Almighty for Lift.

“Doesn’t like…Dalinar blinked. What kind of world did he live in where swords didn’t like hurting people?”—Page 1109

A strange one.

Aw! The Deadeye is protecting Adolin!

Szeth, are you going to follow Dalinar? HE IS!

“‘Take a deep breath, my friend,’ Odium whispered. ‘I’m afraid that this will hurt.’”—Page 1122

Dalinar…Dalinar is the champion. FIGHT IT DALINAR!

“He closed his eyes, breathing out, listening to a sudden stillness. And within it a simple, quiet voice. A woman’ voice, so familiar to him. I forgive you.”—Page 1136

Ahhhhhh!

I’m kind of amused that Dalinar like “well, I guess Szeth is a Skybreaker.”

“‘Greaaaaaaaaat,’ Lift said. That’s greaaaaaaaat,”—Pages 1147-1148

Nightblood and Lift should be friends.

Adolin’s sword’s name is Maya.

Timbre captured the voidspren. Timbre is truly the best.

So is Venli actually going to be the main character in the next book?

“Then why do you still hurt?”—Page 1176

Yeah!

He’s capturing the Thrill into the ruby.

And Amaram is dead.

“Dalinar met his eyes. ‘I want you to teach me how to read.’”—Page 1193

The times are a changin’.

“That’s worrisome, Shallan.”—Page 1200

Adolin just summed up a large chunk of this book.

THANK GOD THE LOVE TRIANGLE IS DEAD! I’m perfectly fine with Shallan and Adolin.

Taravangian…is being truthful…

“The final death of Jezrien. Yaezir. Jezerezeh’Elin, king of Heralds.”—Page 1206

Moash…killed him. Oh god.

Brandon you can’t tell me that Jezrien is dead and then make me smile with a Lopen section.

DREHY AND SKAR ARE THERE!

ELHOKAR’S SON!

“Little man. Why did you write to us? Why did you have your Surgebinder unlock the Oathgate, and allow our armies to attack Urithiru?”—Page 1214

Dick!

The Diagram is now working with Odium.

Jasnah is the new monarch.

WELL FUCK NOW MOASH HAS THE WINDRUNNER HONORBLADE! Or Vyre.

Huh, I didn’t know that Brandon could write a wedding scene without someone nearly bleeding out.

SHALLAN’S BROTHERS!

“The most important words a man cay say are, ‘I will do better.’”—Page 1227

Favorite quote.

“‘Life before death, little one,’ Wit whispered.”—Page 1233

Holy fuck.

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buri-art · 8 years ago

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Detective Genius: Part 3 of 8

Chapter Three: The Justice-Selling Nurse and the Case of the Missing Creme Puffs

Synopsis: Yoon is a financially struggling nurse and recognizes a trauma victim, Taejun, as someone from his boarding house. The victim’s brother, Kyoga, suspects foul play and offers Yoon money to figure out who caused this. The landlord, Soo-won, discourages Yoon from getting involved, but in order to support himself and his adoptive father Ik-soo, Yoon investigates the suspicious other residents--and then some. Genre: Modern Day AU, (Attempted!?) Murder Mystery in Classic ‘Who Done It?’ Style, General. Could be read as comedy, drama, or melodrama. Words: 2,470 Warnings: I don’t kill anyone, but I do make them suffer a little (sorry, Taejun, somebody had to be the victim). Probably nothing that would make people squeamish, as the focus is on the plot. Find the other chapters in the master post.

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Hak stomped in so quickly that I barely had time to move out of his way. I was pushed up against Soo-won’s door when the other man followed him; he looked to be in his 30’s or 40’s and had a large scar on his right cheek. Hak marched straight to the elevator and turned to face the man while he waited for it.

“Quit hounding me. If you’re not going to listen, then I have nothing else to say to you.”

“Look, Hak, I’m trying to help. I’ve been trying to help this whole time, but you’re not even working with me. Hey! Look at me when I’m talking to you!”

The elevator doors finally opened. When Hak went inside he had his hands up to keep the man from following him inside, and he hit the button to close the doors several times.

“Hak—”

Hak was out of sight. The man let out a mix of a grumble and a sigh, and when he turned around, our eyes met. There was no way to pretend I hadn’t witnessed what happened, and I tried to lighten the air. “Are you… uh… one of his relatives?”

“Tch,” he scoffed with a wry smile. “I’m his social worker.”

My face lit up, but dread also churned in my stomach. “I feel you! I’m a nurse.”

His expression softened as well, like he had found a kindred spirit in me. “Then you know how it is.”

“Is everything alright with Hak?”

“You know him?” his brows knit upward. “I can’t overshare.”

“I’m worried about him,” I said. I worried in some sense of the word, anyway.

“Me too. I don’t know why he started backtracking like this. Maybe being out on his own in the world was too much stress for him.”

“What do you mean?”

“He’s barely aged out of the system. Moved into his friends’ place and said he’d be fine. He doesn’t want to rely on any of the adults in his life anymore, so he won’t tell us anything.”

“He’s got his pride to protect.”

“What’s he got to prove by punching some guy in the face!?”

My eyes widened. So did his, but for different reasons.

“One minute he says he did it, the next he tells me he’s not to blame. That he wasn’t in his right mind. That’s what we call an anger issue, but he has the gall to say he doesn’t have one! Argh!” The man put a hand to his temple and looked away. “Please excuse me, I’ve said too much.”

“Wait!” a reached out to him as he tried to pass me by. “Can you… can I get your name? And a phone number?”

His eyes lingered on me for a moment, trying to read my face. I did my best not to show any of the connections my brain was fearfully putting together. I had already told myself I couldn’t implicate Hak until I was sure he was the guilty one! But if Hak really was violent, then I couldn’t dive into this alone.

The man stuck a hand into his pocket, but found it empty. “Do you have a pen and paper?”

“Y-Yes,” I fumbled, quickly turning several pages away from my notes. He took it, wrote something down, handed it back, then said a simple good-bye as he headed out. The note was only a phone number and his first name, Joo-doh.

*********

After making a few notes, I went outside, turned left, then left again. It was time to investigate the alley.

The was no immediate trace of yesterday’s incident; the last of the drizzle must had washed away the footprints of the emergency responders and any of Taejun’s blood. There were big piles of trash there, some stacked well above my head, and there were old housewares, kitchen scraps, and tired looking, bright flowers strewn about. The smell made me gag; I could not imagine what business Taejun, who always liked to dress well, would have in this place. If he had come here and if someone wanted to harm him, the garbage and shadows would have provided plenty of cover even during the daytime. I peered around the piles, trying to imagine how a full-grown man could fit among them.

Something above my head made a skidding noise.

I let out a shriek and tried to get away, but my back was square against the neighboring building. With nowhere to flee I looked up at what it was and saw Joon-gi, the man in room 202, staring back from his window.

“An awful stench, isn’t it?” he said. “People who don’t even live here toss all their rubbish here. Makes it easier for the beggars to find a meal, I suppose.”

“You—you see homeless people around here?”

“Oh, yes. This is such a dreadful area. Thankfully my daughter is safe away at boarding school.”

“…You can afford boarding school and you live here?”

“Ahem. That’s why I live here.”

“I see. That’s… that’s really terrible that you’ve got the window closest to this dump.”

“It’s truly awful. But that’s why I am the neighborhood watch committee. Self-appointed, I might add. Someone had to do it after all that toilet paper was going missing from the supply closet and someone started stealing my cream puffs from the communal freezer.”

“A committee is more than one—nevermind. Did you see anything happen here yesterday?”

“I didn’t see it happen. I have terrible eyesight, you know, especially in the dark.”

“…”

“But I heard it happen.”

“You did?”

He smiled. “You’re referring to that boy’s injury, aren’t you? Terrible, isn’t it. That’s what he gets for loitering in an alley in the inner-city. What did he think was going to happen? My guess is that one of the bums got him. Maybe the tall one with the squirrel.”

“What exactly did you hear happen yesterday?”

His squinty eyes lingered on my notepad ready in hand. There was a hiss in his voice when he asked, “Why do you want to know?”

“I was his nurse at the hospital.”

“Is that really why you want to know?”

I felt caught for a moment. Before I could answer, he went on.

“You should be careful. If it wasn’t a bum that did it, you’ll be putting the target on your back next.”

“Would you please tell me what happened?”

“I was making myself a cup of tea when I heard the sound of ‘gyah!’ outside. I thought it was odd and it reminded me of Taejun—he’s my neighbor across the hall, so I hear him a lot, you see.”

“What time was that?”

“Oh, sometime between 6 and 6:30, I suppose.”

“And then what?”

“Well, I drank my tea, of course.”

“That was it? You only heard him, and that was it?”

“No, of course not! I was the one who called the ambulance.”

“Before you drank your tea?”

“No, after I had a few cups of it.”

“………Why didn’t you—”

“I decided there was no reason to rush. As long as he didn’t make any other noise like calling for help, I assumed he was fine.”

“When did do you finally figure out he wasn’t fine?”

“When I finished my tea.”

“So, about five or ten minutes later?”

He chuckled coldly. “Yoon, you’ve never had good tea, have you? You have to take at least half an hour. I already in the process of it when I heard him, so by the time I looked out the window, it was closer to 6:45. My kitchen cast enough light for me to see his legs very clearly, and I knew by the quality of his shoes that it couldn’t have been one of the bums, and I then I called an ambulance.”

“How much later did you do that? An hour later?”

“What do you take me for?” he huffed. “Of course I called as soon as I saw the body! They got here within ten minutes of me seeing him, and then had him on the stretcher and shipped out within a few minutes after that. I heard Soo-won go out and talk to them, and they asked him to contact his next of kin, and that was that, another job well done for the neighborhood watch.”

I didn’t even know where to start. Joon-gi took a sip of his tea then asked if I had any other questions. I said no, and thanked him for his important service.

**********

It was about time to go run some errands before making lunch. Today I would have to make extra for Yuno, so it would require some extra effort as well. While I was out, I bought a canned coffee and took a seat in the deli area of the supermarket so that I could organize my notes. I wanted to get out of the boarding house to give myself a wider view of the situation. I started with a list of what I knew. “5 or 6” (according to Jaeha): Yona and Taejun talk/fight. Yona says he didn’t seem to have plans to hurt himself. Between “6 and 6:30” (Joon-gi): Taejun is struck by something and falls unconscious in the north alley. Between “6:20 and 6:40” (Kija): Kija gets home, sees Hak. About 6:45: Joon-gi calls the ambulance. About 6:55: The ambulance arrives and takes Taejun away. Yona hears sirens. Soo-won talks to paramedics. 7:10-ish: Taejun arrives at the hospital and receives treatment.

Between 6pm and 6:45pm: Rm 502: Kija arrived home at some point and talked to Hak on 5th floor. Rm 501: Hak arrived on the 5th floor at some point. Grouchy, flushed, wet. Rm 402: Yona was likely still in her apartment after having been bothered by Taejun. Rm 401: Yuno was probably still out on her date and came back this morning. Rm 302: Ik-soo was home, I was at work. Rm 301: Jaeha stayed long enough to overhear Yona and Taejun, likely left before hearing sirens. Rm 202: Joon-gi was drinking tea and heard Taejun, later called the ambulance. Rm 201: Taejun was in Yona’s room at some point, and later in the alley. Rm 100: Soo-won was mopping the stairwell (???????)

I know he had to have been in there long enough to have mopped all five flights of stairs, and he was still doing it when I arrived home after 9. But when he did start? He was outside around 6:55 talking to the paramedics. He could have started after that and finished in two hours. But why would he do something like that after one of his tenants suffered a serious injury?

Soo-won had also spoken to Kyoga at some point between 7:00 and 8:00, and he told Kyoga not to make a big deal of this.

What did Soo-won have to hide?

I jotted down some other notes:

Soo-won, Hak, Yona: Childhood friends/relatives Joon-gi, Jaeha: Nosy Taejun, Yona: Taejun was bothering Yona. Witnessed by Jaeha and Kija (yesterday, Tuesday), confirmed by Yona (yesterday) Hak, Yona: Fighting, according to Jaeha and Kija Hak: In trouble with his social worker Joo-doh for punching someone in the fa--

My phone buzzed in my pocket. It made me jump, and I hurriedly pulled it out and flipped it open. “Hello?”

“Yoon? This is Kyoga. Taejun woke up!”

“Oh, that’s good. How is he doing?”

“It’s good, but he’s… not good.”

I furrowed my eyebrows. “Can you elaborate?”

“I asked him what happened, but he’s babbling on about something. I can hardly make sense of it. One second he’s trying to answer my question about the alley, and the next minute he’s talking about flowers, flowers everywhere, and of all things, a pineapple, and then he starts crying. Is he… is he going to be okay?”

“My guess is that he’s still medicated, but that’s a question for the nurses on duty. Is that all you can get out of him?”

“Yes. It’s been the same conversation three times in a row. He just gets a little more animated every time, and that’s making it more and more confusing to try to follow.”

“I’d take that development as a good sign.”

“Have you figured things out on your end?”

“Not yet, but I’m… yes, you could call this progress.”

“Do you know who did it?”

I paused, looking at the list of names. My eyes lingered on Hak’s. “Not yet.”

“Please tell me as soon as you can.”

“I’ll do my best. You have to remember that I’m not a detective by trade, but given your choices in the boarding house, I’m probably the best person you can ask. This might be unrelated, but have you heard anything about… well…”

“What?”

“Has Taejun been punched in the face?”

“Yes.”

“When?”

“When we kids.” He sighed and went on, “To be fair, he usually had it coming. Do you mean recently?”

“Yes. He hasn’t mentioned anything like that to you?”

“Not that I’ve heard. Let me ask… no, he’s asleep again. He’s got some bruises on the left side of his face, probably from hitting the ground last night, but that’s about all I can tell. Maybe if I look really hard there are some spots on his other cheek, but…”

“That’s alright. Don’t worry about it.”

“Why do you ask?”

I felt a knot in my throat, as though I was choking on silence.

Kyoga filled the silence. “Is there someone who would have punched him?”

“It was just a guess to see if there was,” I lied. “It could have been anything, not necessarily a punch to the face. I was only hoping for a lead.”

“What have you found out so far?”

“Ah! My battery! Sorry, I’m out of the boarding house right now and my phone’s about to die. Send a text if you get anything else out of Taejun!”

“Alri—”

“Bye!”

I slammed the phone shut with a loud clack and threw it on the table, as if that would keep the pressure to figure things out further away from me. It would be easy to make assumptions, but I couldn’t turn in an innocent person. I had to be sure before meddling with someone’s life, especially if someone like Hak already had a rough start. I would never be able to face Ik-soo if I did, and I had no choice but to face Ik-soo every day because of our cramped living quarters.

But we also needed money to pay for those living quarters. All I needed to do was find the truth and sell it to Kyoga. If Hak really was guilty, then it was his own fault.

To find out, I would have to talk to him. And I was going to have to get more information out of Soo-won too.

#Akatsuki no Yona #Yoon #fanfic

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brookstonalmanac · 1 year ago

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Events 8.9 (after 1900)

1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.[6] 1907 – The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England. 1925 – A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India, by the Indian independence revolutionaries, against British government. 1936 – Summer Olympics: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games. 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island: Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force. 1944 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time. 1944 – World War II: Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war. 1945 – World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. Thirty-five thousand people are killed outright, including 23,200–28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers. 1945 – The Red Army invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria. 1960 – South Kasai secedes from the Congo. 1965 – Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly. 1969 – Tate–LaBianca murders: Followers of Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent. 1970 – LANSA Flight 502 crashes after takeoff from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport in Cusco, Peru, killing 99 of the 100 people on board, as well as two people on the ground. 1971 – The Troubles: In Northern Ireland, the British authorities launch Operation Demetrius. The operation involves the mass arrest and internment without trial of individuals suspected of being affiliated with the Irish Republican Army (PIRA). Mass riots follow, and thousands of people flee or are forced out of their homes. 1973 – Mars 7 is launched from the USSR. 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. Vice President Gerald Ford becomes president. 1991 – The Italian prosecuting magistrate Antonino Scopelliti is murdered by the 'Ndrangheta on behalf of the Sicilian Mafia while preparing the government's case in the final appeal of the Maxi Trial. 1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership. 1995 – Aviateca Flight 901 crashes into the San Vicente volcano in El Salvador, killing all 65 people on board. 1999 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet. 2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists are arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests are made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation. 2007 – Air Moorea Flight 1121 crashes after takeoff from Moorea Airport in French Polynesia, killing all 20 people on board. 2012 – Shannon Eastin becomes the first woman to officiate an NFL game. 2013 – Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least ten people and injuring 30. 2014 – Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and unrest in the city. 2021 – The Tampere light rail officially starts operating.

#Events

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tiffanie-nicole2011-blog · 5 years ago

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Farrah Fawcett sweet smile Barbie Doll.

The most beautiful women in TV and Movie History now become Barbie Collector Dolls created by acclaimed re-paint Artist Donna Brinkley.

Farrah Leni Fawcett is known as the world’s Sexiest Star of all time… she will forever be one of Hollywood’s greatest Icons. She was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the younger of two daughters.[3] Her mother, Pauline Alice January 30, 1914 – March 4, 2005), was a homemaker, and her father, James William Fawcett (October 14, 1917 – August 23, 2010), was an oil field contractor. Her sister was Diane Fawcett Walls (October 27, 1938 – October 16, 2001), a graphic artist. She was of Irish, French, English, and Choctaw Native American ancestry. Fawcett once said the name Ferrah was made up by her mother because it went well with their last name.

A Roman Catholic, Fawcett’s early education was at the parish school of the church her family attended, St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in Corpus Christi. She graduated from W. B. Ray High School in Corpus Christi, where she was voted Most Beautiful by her classmates her Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior years of High School. For three years, 1965–68, Fawcett attended the University of Texas at Austin, living one semester in Jester Center, and she became a sister of Delta Delta Delta Sorority. During her Freshman year, she was named one of the Ten Most Beautiful Coeds on Campus, the first time a Freshman had been chosen. Their photos were sent to various agencies in Hollywood. David Mirsch, a Hollywood agent called her and urged her to come to Los Angeles. She turned him down but he called her for the next two years. Finally, in 1968, the summer following her junior year, with her parents’ permission to try her luck in Hollywood, Farrah moved to Hollywood. She did not return.

Upon arriving in Hollywood in 1968 she was signed to a $350 a week contract with Screen Gems. She began to appear in commercials for UltraBrite toothpaste, Noxema, Max Factor, Wella Balsam shampoo and conditioner, Mercury Cougar automobiles and Beauty Rest matresses. Fawcett’s earliest acting appearances were guest spots on The Flying Nun and I Dream of Jeannie. She made numerous other TV appearances including Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, [Mayberry RFD]] and The Partridge Family. She appeared in four episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man with husband Lee Majors, The Dating Game, S.W.A.T and a recurring role on Harry O alongside David Janssen. She also appeared in the Made for TV movies, The Feminist and the Fuzz, The Great American Beauty Contest, The Girl Who Came Giftwrapped, and Murder of Flight 502.

She had a sizable part in the 1969 French romantic-drama, Love Is a Funny Thing. She played opposite Raquel Welch and Mae West in the film version of, Myra Breckinridge (1970). The film earned negative reviews and was a box office flop. However, much has been written and said about the scene where Farrah and Raquel share a bed, and a near sexual experience. Fawcett co-starred with Michael York and Richard Jordan in the well-received science-fiction film, Logan’s Run in 1976.

In 1976, Pro Arts Inc., pitched the idea of a poster of Fawcett to her agent, and a photo shoot was arranged with photographer Bruce McBroom, who was hired by the poster company. According to friend Nels Van Patten, Fawcett styled her own hair and did her make-up without the aid of a mirror. Her blonde highlights were further heightened by a squeeze of lemon juice. From 40 rolls of film, Fawcett herself selected her six favorite pictures, eventually narrowing her choice to the one that made her famous. The resulting poster, of Fawcett in a one-piece red bathing suit, was a best-seller; sales estimates ranged from over 5 million[12] to 8 million to as high as 12 million copies.

On March 21, 1976, the first appearance of Fawcett playing the character Jill Munroe in Charlie’s Angels was aired as a movie of the week. Fawcett and her husband were frequent tennis partners of producer Aaron Spelling, and he and his producing partner thought of casting Fawcett as the golden girl Jill because of his friendship with the couple. The movie starred Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith and Fawcett (then billed as Farrah Fawcett-Majors) as private investigators for Townsend Associates, a detective agency run by a reclusive multi-millionaire whom the women had never met. Voiced by John Forsythe, the Charles Townsend character presented cases and dispensed advice via a speakerphone to his core team of three female employees, whom he referred to as Angels. They were aided in the office and occasionally in the field by two male associates, played by character actors David Doyle and David Ogden Stiers. The program quickly earned a huge following, leading the network to air it a second time and approve production for a series, with the pilot’s principal cast except David Ogden Stiers. Fawcett’s record-breaking poster that sold 12 million copies.

The Charlie’s Angels series formally debuted on September 22, 1976. Fawcett emerged as a fan favorite in the show, and the actress won a People’s Choice Award for Favorite Performer in a New TV Program. In a 1977 interview with TV Guide, Fawcett said: When the show was number three, I thought it was our acting. When we got to be number one, I decided it could only be because none of us wears a bra.

Fawcett’s appearance in the television show boosted sales of her poster, and she earned far more in royalties from poster sales than from her salary for appearing in Charlie’s Angels. Her hairstyle went on to become an international trend, with women sporting a Farrah-do a Farrah-flip, or simply Farrah hair Iterations of her hair style predominated American women’s hair styles well into the 1980s.

Fawcett left Charlie’s Angels after only one season and Cheryl Ladd replaced her on the show, portraying Jill Munroe’s younger sister Kris Munroe. Numerous explanations for Fawcett’s precipitous withdrawal from the show were offered over the years. The strain on her marriage due to her long absences most days due to filming, as her then-husband Lee Majors was star of an established television show himself, was frequently cited, but Fawcett’s ambitions to broaden her acting abilities with opportunities in films have also been given. Fawcett never officially signed her series contract with Spelling due to protracted negotiations over royalties from her image’s use in peripheral products, which led to an even more protracted lawsuit filed by Spelling and his company when she quit the show.

The show was a major success throughout the world, maintaining its appeal in syndication, spawning a cottage industry of peripheral products, particularly in the show’s first three seasons, including several series of bubble gum cards, two sets of fashion dolls, numerous posters, puzzles, and school supplies, novelizations of episodes, toy vans, and a board game, all featuring Fawcett’s likeness. The Angels also appeared on the covers of magazines around the world, from countless fan magazines to TV Guide (four times) to Time Magazine.

The series ultimately ran for five seasons. As part of a settlement to a lawsuit over her early departure, Fawcett returned for six guest appearances over seasons three and four of the series.

In 2004, the television movie Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie’s Angels dramatized the events from the show with supermodel and actress Tricia Helfer portraying Fawcett and Ben Browder portraying Lee Majors, Fawcett’s then-husband.

In 1983, Fawcett won critical acclaim for her role in the Off-Broadway stage production of the controversial play Extremities, written by William Mastrosimone. Replacing Susan Sarandon, she was a would-be rape victim who turns the tables on her attacker. She described the role as the most grueling, the most intense, the most physically demanding and emotionally exhausting of her career. During one performance, a stalker in the audience disrupted the show by asking Fawcett if she had received the photos and letters he had mailed her. Police removed the man and were able only to issue a summons for disorderly conduct.

The following year, her role as a battered wife in the fact-based television movie The Burning Bed (1984) earned her the first of her four Emmy Award nominations. The project is noted as being the first television movie to provide a nationwide 800 number that offered help for others in the situation, in this case victims of domestic abuse. It was the highest-rated television movie of the season.

In 1986, Fawcett appeared in the movie version of Extremities, which was also well received by critics, and for which she received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.

She appeared in Jon Avnet’s Between Two Women with Colleen Dewhurst, and took several more dramatic roles as infamous or renowned women. She was nominated for Golden Globe awards for roles as Beate Klarsfeld in Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story and troubled Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton in Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story, and won a CableACE Award for her 1989 portrayal of groundbreaking LIFE magazine photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White in Double Exposure: The Story of Margaret Bourke-White. Her 1989 portrayal of convicted murderer Diane Downs in the miniseries Small Sacrifices earned her a second Emmy nomination[20] and her sixth Golden Globe Award nomination. The miniseries won a Peabody Award for excellence in television, with Fawcett’s performance singled out by the organization, which stated Ms. Fawcett brings a sense of realism rarely seen in television miniseries (to) a drama of unusual power Art meets life.

Fawcett, who had steadfastly resisted appearing nude in magazines throughout the 1970s and 1980s (although she appeared topless in the 1980 film Saturn 3), caused a major stir by posing semi-nude in the December 1995 issue of Playboy.[citation needed] At the age of 50, she returned to Playboy with a pictorial for the July 1997 issue, which also became a top seller. The issue and its accompanying video featured Fawcett painting on canvas using her body, which had been an ambition of hers for years.

That same year, Fawcett was chosen by Robert Duvall to play his wife in an independent feature film he was producing, The Apostle. Fawcett received an Independent Spirit Award nomination as Best Actress for the film, which was highly critically acclaimed.

In 2000, she worked with director Robert Altman and an all-star cast in the feature film Dr. T the Women, playing the wife of Richard Gere (her character has a mental breakdown, leading to her first fully nude appearance). Also that year, Fawcett’s collaboration with sculptor Keith Edmier was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, later traveling to The Andy Warhol Museum. The sculpture was also presented in a series of photographs and a book by Rizzoli.

In November 2003, Fawcett prepared for her return to Broadway in a production of Bobbi Boland, the tragicomic tale of a former Miss Florida. However, the show never officially opened, closing before preview performances. Fawcett was described as vibrating with frustration at the producer’s extraordinary decision to cancel the production. Only days earlier the same producer closed an Off-Broadway show she had been backing.

Fawcett continued to work in television, with well-regarded appearances in made-for-television movies and on popular television series including Ally McBeal and four episodes each of Spin City and The Guardian, her work on the latter show earning her a third Emmy nomination in 2004.

Fawcett was married to Lee Majors, star of television’s The Six Million Dollar Man, from 1973 to 1982, although the couple separated in 1979. During her marriage, she was known and credited in her roles as Farrah Fawcett-Majors.

From 1979 until 1997 Fawcett was involved romantically with actor Ryan O’Neal. The relationship produced a son, Redmond James Fawcett O’Neal, born January 30, 1985 in Los Angeles.[26] In April 2009, on probation for driving under the influence, Redmond was arrested for possession of narcotics while Fawcett was in the hospital.[citation needed] On June 22, 2009, The Los Angeles Times and Reuters reported that Ryan O’Neal had said that Fawcett had agreed to marry him as soon as she felt strong enough.

From 1997 to 1998, Fawcett had a relationship with Canadian filmmaker James Orr, writer and producer of the Disney feature film in which she co-starred with Chevy Chase and Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Man of the House. The relationship ended when Orr was charged with and later convicted of beating Fawcett during a 1998 fight between the two.

On June 5, 1997, Fawcett received negative commentary after giving a rambling interview and appearing distracted on Late Show with David Letterman. Months later, she told the host of The Howard Stern Show her behavior was just her way of joking around with the television host, partly in the guise of promoting her Playboy pictoral and video, explaining what appeared to be random looks across the theater was just her looking and reacting to fans in the audience. Though the Letterman appearance spawned speculation and several jokes at her expense, she returned to the show a week later, with success, and several years later, after Joaquin Phoenix’s mumbling act on a February 2009 appearance on The Late Show, Letterman wrapped up the interview by saying, I’m sorry you couldn’t be here tonight and recalled Fawcett’s earlier appearance by noting we owe an apology to Farrah Fawcett.

Fawcett’s elder sister, Diane Fawcett Walls, died from lung cancer just before her 63rd birthday, on October 16, 2001.[33] The fifth episode of her 2005 Chasing Farrah series followed the actress home to Texas to visit with her father, James, and mother, Pauline. Pauline Fawcett died soon after, on March 4, 2005, at the age of 91.

Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006, and began treatment, including chemotherapy and surgery. Four months later, on her 60th birthday, the Associated Press wire service reported that Fawcett was, at that point, cancer free.

Less than four months later, in May 2007, Fawcett brought a small digital video camera to document a doctor’s office visit. There, she was told a malignant polyp was found where she had been treated for the initial cancer. Doctors contemplated whether to implant a radiation seeder (which differs from conventional radiation and is used to treat other types of cancer). Fawcett’s U.S. doctors told her that she would require a colostomy. Instead, Fawcett traveled to Germany for treatments described variously in the press as holistic aggressive and alternative. There, Dr. Ursula Jacob prescribed a treatment including surgery to remove the anal tumor, and a course of perfusion and embolization for her liver cancer by Doctors Claus Kiehling and Thomas Vogl in Germany, and chemotherapy back in Fawcett’s home town of Los Angeles. Although initially the tumors were regressing, their reappearance a few months later necessitated a new course, this time including laser ablation therapy and chemoembolization. Aided by friend Alana Stewart, Fawcett documented her battle with the disease.

In early April 2009, Fawcett, back in the United States, was hospitalized, with media reports declaring her unconscious and in critical condition, although subsequent reports indicated her condition was not so dire. On April 6, the Associated Press reported that her cancer had metastasized to her liver, a development Fawcett had learned of in May 2007 and which her subsequent treatments in Germany had targeted. The report denied that she was unconscious, and explained that the hospitalization was due not to her cancer but a painful abdominal hematoma that had been the result of a minor procedure. Her spokesperson emphasized she was not at death’s door adding – She remains in good spirits with her usual sense of humor … She’s been in great shape her whole life and has an incredible resolve and an incredible resilience. Fawcett was released from the hospital on April 9, picked up by longtime companion O’Neal, and, according to her doctor, was walking and in great spirits and looking forward to celebrating Easter at home.

A month later, on May 7, Fawcett was reported as critically ill, with Ryan O’Neal quoted as saying she now spends her days at home, on an IV, often asleep. The Los Angeles Times reported Fawcett was in the last stages of her cancer and had the chance to see her son Redmond in April 2009, although shackled and under supervision, as he was then incarcerated. Her 91-year-old father, James Fawcett, flew out to Los Angeles to visit.

The cancer specialist that was treating Fawcett in L.A., Dr. Lawrence Piro, and Fawcett’s friend and Angels co-star Kate Jackson – a breast cancer survivor – appeared together on The Today Show dispelling tabloid-fueled rumors, including suggestions Fawcett had ever been in a coma, had ever reached 86 pounds, and had ever given up her fight against the disease or lost the will to live. Jackson decried such fabrications, saying they really do hurt a human being and a person like Farrah. Piro recalled when it became necessary for Fawcett to undergo treatments that would cause her to lose her hair, acknowledging Farrah probably has the most famous hair in the world but also that it is not a trivial matter for any cancer patient, whose hair affects [one’s] whole sense of who [they] are. Of the documentary, Jackson averred Fawcett didn’t do this to show that ‘she’ is unique, she did it to show that we are all unique … This was … meant to be a gift to others to help and inspire them.

The two-hour documentary Farrah’s Story, which was filmed by Fawcett and friend Alana Stewart, aired on NBC on May 15, 2009.[47] The documentary was watched by nearly nine million people at its premiere airing, and it was re-aired on the broadcast network’s cable stations MSNBC, Bravo and Oxygen. Fawcett earned her fourth Emmy nomination posthumously on July 16, 2009, as producer of Farrah’s Story.

Controversy surrounded the aired version of the documentary, with her initial producing partner, who had worked with her four years earlier on her reality series Chasing Farrah, alleging O’Neal’s and Stewart’s editing of the program was not in keeping with Fawcett’s wishes to more thoroughly explore rare types of cancers such as her own and alternative methods of treatment. He was especially critical of scenes showing Fawcett’s son visiting her for the last time, in shackles, while she was nearly unconscious in bed. Fawcett had generally kept her son out of the media, and his appearances were minimal in Chasing Farrah.

Fawcett died at approximately 9:28 am, PDT on June 25, 2009, in the intensive care unit of Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California, with O’Neal and Stewart by her side. A private funeral was held in Los Angeles on June 30. Fawcett’s son Redmond was permitted to leave his California detention center to attend his mother’s funeral, where he gave the first reading.

The night of her death, ABC aired an hour-long special episode of 20/20 featuring clips from several of Barbara Walters’ past interviews with Fawcett as well as new interviews with Ryan O’Neal, Jaclyn Smith, Alana Stewart, and Dr. Lawrence Piro. Walters followed up on the story on Friday’s episode of 20/20. CNN’s Larry King Live planned a show exclusively about Fawcett that evening until the death of Michael Jackson several hours later caused the program to shift to cover both stories. Cher, a longtime friend of Fawcett, and Suzanne de Passe, executive producer of Fawcett’s Small Sacrifices mini-series, both paid tribute to Fawcett on the program. NBC aired a Dateline NBC special Farrah Fawcett: The Life and Death of an Angel; the following evening, June 26, preceded by a rebroadcast of Farrah’s Story in prime time. That weekend and the following week, television tributes continued. MSNBC aired back-to-back episodes of its Headliners and Legends episodes featuring Fawcett and Jackson. TV Land aired a mini-marathon of Charlie’s Angels and Chasing Farrah episodes. E! aired Michael and Farrah: Lost Icons and the The Biography Channel aired Bio Remembers: Farrah Fawcett. The documentary Farrah’s Story re-aired on the Oxygen Network and MSNBC.

Larry King said of the Fawcett phenomenon, TV had much more impact back in the ’70s than it does today. Charlie’s Angels got huge numbers every week – nothing really dominates the television landscape like that today. Maybe American Idol comes close, but now there are so many channels and so many more shows it’s hard for anything to get the audience, or amount of attention, that Charlie’s Angels got. Farrah was a major TV star when the medium was clearly dominant.

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner said Farrah was one of the iconic beauties of our time. Her girl-next-door charm combined with stunning looks made her a star on film, TV and the printed page.

Kate Jackson said, She was a selfless person who loved her family and friends with all her heart, and what a big heart it was. Farrah showed immense courage and grace throughout her illness and was an inspiration to those around her… I will remember her kindness, her cutting dry wit and, of course, her beautiful smile…when you think of Farrah, remember her smiling because that is exactly how she wanted to be remembered: smiling.

She is buried at the Westwood Village Memorial Park in Los Angeles.

The red one-piece bathing suit worn by Farrah in her famous 1976 poster was donated to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) on February 2, 2011.[65] Said to have been purchased at a Saks Fifth Avenue store, the red Lycra suit made by the leading Australian swimsuit company Speedo, was donated to the Smithsonian by her executors and was formally presented to NMAH in Washington D.C. by her longtime companion Ryan O’Neal.[66] The suit and the poster are expected to go on temporary display sometime in 2011–12. They will be made additions to the Smithsonian’s popular culture department.

The famous poster of Farrah in a red swimsuit has been produced as a Barbie doll. The limited edition dolls, complete with a gold chain and the girl-next-door locks, have been snapped up by Barbie fans.

In 2011, Men’s Health named her one of the 100 Hottest Women of All-Time ranking her at No. 31

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John Gardner Wilkinson, Modern Egypt and Thebes: Being a Description of Egypt, 1843

Page 500: 1517. Sultan Selim abolished the monarchy, but left the aristocracy of the Memlooks on certain conditions; the chief of which were, annual tribute, obedience in matters of faith to the decisions of the mufti of Constantinople, and the insertion of the name of the sultan of the Osmanlis in the public prayers and on the coin. And, having settled the new form of government, founded on the previous basis of that already existing in Egypt, he left it in the hands of a viceroy, with the title of pasha. This officer, whose appointment depended on the pleasure of the Porte, resided at Cairo, and governed the country in the name of the sultan; all matters relative to the levying the tribute and transmitting it to Constantinople being committed to his charge. Under him was the divan, composed of twenty-four beys, each of whom governed one of the sanjaks or provinces into which the whole of Egypt was divided: the principal bey having the post of shekh-beled, or mayor of Cairo; and during the absence of the bey, each province was administered by a kachef or superintendent, under whom were the native sheikhs.

Page 501: The Pasha knew that he had excited the suspicions of the divan of Constantinople, which construed his friendly intercourse with the beys into a desire to foment a revolt in Egypt, and thereby render himself independent of the Porte. To execute the order publicly was to run a great risk, and expose himself to a dangerous resistance; to disobey or delay its execution was to expose his own head to the vengeance of the Ottoman divan, and justify the suspicion of his rebellious intentions. After hesitating for some time, and calculating the various chances, Regib-Pasha resolved to employ perfidy towards his friends, the beys. Having posted armed attendants in his palace, he ordered them at a signal to massacre the beys, whilst they were sitting with him at a general council. The fatal blow was partly executed, and three were assassinated; but the others defended themselves courageously, and the Pasha was bitterly reproached for a treason they had so little reason to expect after their mutual friendship.

Page 502: As his justification, Regis-Pasha showed the imperial firman. The Pasha’s life was spared; but he was instantly deposed by the divan of Cairo, who sent to Constantinople to ask for another governor to succeed him. Regis-Pasha was transferred to one of the pashalics of Anatolia, and nine years after was made grand vizier by the Sultan Mustafa Elon Ahmed; in which capacity he had an opportunity of showing his benevolence to Ali Bey, to whom he was principally indebted for his life when deposed at Cairo.

The rise of this remarkable person, Ali Bey, originated in the following circumstance.

Ibrahim Kehia, his master, having taken him, as well as Soolayman, in his suite, when, in the office of Emir el Hag, he conducted the caravan of pilgrims to Mecca in the year 1163 A.H. (1750 A.D.); an event occurred, which recommended them both to the attention of their chief. The caravan was attacked by several tribes of Arabs, and Ali, then Kasher, having put himself at the head of the secret, repulsed the assailants with such courage, that he received the name of Gin Ali, or “Ali the Devil.” On his return to Cairo, Ibrahim rewarded Ali and Soolayman, by persuading the divan to name one of them bey, and the other Kasher. The elevation of Ali to the Sanjakate met with violent opposition from one of the beys, named, like his protector, Ibrahim, but who, bing Circassian by birth, was surnamed e’Tcherkassy, Ibrahim Kehia, however, carried his point, and from thence arose that irreconcilable hatred between them, to be extinguished only in the blood of the latter, who was murdered by Ibarhaim e’Tcherkassy.

Page 503: “It was not without reason that Ali Bey endeavoured to surround himself with faithful and devoted adherents: the terrible vengeance he had just exercised upon Ibrahim e’ Tcherkassy put his life and authority in danger. He had consulted his gratitude to Ibrahim Kehia, and his resentment against Ibrahim e’Tcherkassy, more than was prudent; and the consequence was the resentment of all the beys who were the creatures or the partisans of him whom he had sacrificed to his vengeance. He could only find safety in a precipitate flight to Cairo, and from thence to Syria, where he obtained an asylum with the Mohassel, or Motsellem, of Jerusalem, his old friend. But this asylum could only protect him for two months. The beys, his enemies, had accused him before the great divan of Constantinople, and an imperial firman brought an order to the Mohassel to give up his protégé, and to send him prisoner to the Ottoman Porte.

Page 504: Being informed of this, Ali Bey escaped to Acre, where he made friends with the Shekh Daher, son of Omar, prince of that strong town. Supported by him, and seconded by his friends at Cairo, above all by the ancient partisans of Ibrahim Kehia, in whose opinion the murder of Ibrahim e’Tcherkassy was far from being a crime, he succeeded in having the orders of the imperial divan revoked, and returned the same year to Cairo to resume the functions of shekh-el-beled.

Page 506: El Tantáwee, upon whose fidelity he could spend, was sent with twelve Memlocks disguised as Arabs, with orders to post himself at some distance from Cairo, on the road by which the Kapigi Bashi, the bearer of the sultan’s orders, was to pass. The ambuscade had complete success. After three days’ waiting, the Kapigi Bashi appeared, with a suite of only four men. They were killed and buried in the sand, and the imperial firman was put into the hands of Ali Bey. Having assembled a general divan of beys, he showed them the firman; and having persuaded them that in striking at his head the Ottoman court aimed at the destruction of the whole corps, he advised them to defend their lives, their rights, and their power; adding that Egypt having been formerly governed by other Memlook dynasties, belonged to them, and that this was a favourable opportunity for throwing off the yoke, which the wicked policy of the sultan imposed upon that fine kingdom. The members of the divan were carried away by these arguments; the eighteen beys of his creation strongly supported him, and those even who had signed his accusation did not dare to oppose the general assent. The divan immediately ordered the pasha to quit the Egyptian territory in two days under pain of death, and Egypt was declared independent. “The Shekh el Móhdy was sent to Acre to make these resolutions known to Shekh Daher, and with an express mission to persuade him to join in the bold enterprise. The secretarygeneral of the divan succeeded in his embassy. He persuaded the prince of Acre to assist Ali Bey with all his forces, united to those of his seven sons, and his sons-in-law; and in Syria, as well as Egypt, preparations were made for war. To the 12,000 which had been raised, were joined, not only the 6000 Memlooks of Ali Bey, but all those who composed the household of the hostile beys; who were too weak to refuse their co-operation. The pasha of Damascus, who had received orders from Constantinople to hasten with 20,000 men to prevent the junction of the Syrian and Egyptian troops, was beaten by Shekh Daher, with only 10,000 men, between Mount Lebanon and the Lake of Tiberias (Tabareëh), A.D. 1769. This defeat seemed to terminate the war with the Turks. They sent no more troops, and appeared to have entirely forgotten that a portion of Syria and all Egypt had proclaimed their independence.

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