#Northern New Mexican Village | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

pinesfamilyguidetotheweird · 3 months ago

Text

Brit Gravity Falls AU: Gravidale Falls

Despite the tie, I am leaning more towards Victorian era.

(and if you wanna get technical, @dreamondelphinus broke the tie in the tags)

And so...

Welcome to Gravidale Falls.

The AU takes place in the 1880s of the Victorian Era of the United Kingdom.

As for the town (village, really) itself, its located in the northern area of Cumbria, North West England. I wanted to give the village a name that fit the country because...I don't know, Gravity Falls didn't ring well for me for the UK setting. It's all good though, as Gravidale can mean 'Valley of Gravity' and using the -dale suffix was perfect as Gravity Falls was set in a valley back in Oregon.

And given the time period, Gravidale Falls is a little more isolated and not a lot of people would even heard of this village except for those who lived there or came across it on accident or by chance.

------------------------------------

Residents' Nationalities

One of the craziest facts to learn about the UK is that...it contains about three countries plus the northern portion of Ireland, but the UK as a whole is small compared to the USA. In terms of length, the UK matches Texas but with half (maybe less than?) its width.

The reason I bring this up is because I want some of the characters to have different nationalities.

I will say that the majority of Gravidale Falls is English, but you also have Scottish, Irish, Italian, American, Spanish, and maybe a smidge more.

Now, as for the main crew (plus the Zodiacs)...

The Pines Family -- English

Soos and his Abuelita -- Spanish (I was thinking Mexican, but Mexico, as an established country, was relatively new as it was founded in 1821, so I wasn't sure)

Wendy and her family -- Scottish (if this is stereotypical, I apologize. I love the Scottish culture and I can't cannot hear Wendy or her dad with a Scottish accent. And hey, flannel. Or targan, really. That's the actual term for the pattern)

The Northwests -- English

The Valentinos -- Italian

McGucket -- American

Gideon and his family -- French

As of now, I can't think of the nationalities for other characters...except for Candy, because she is Korean.

------------------------------------

Social Classes

Like anywhere else, (and honestly in any time period), there are social classes. In the Victorian era, there were four: Upper (royals, nobility, and tycoons), middle (administrative and/or managerial workers), working (manual labor; typically the majority of population), and under (the poor and prostitutes).

Again, just focusing on the main crew (and Zodiacs), but in order of class (plus job if they have one):

The Northwests -- Upper Class (Nobility)

The Gleefuls -- Middle Class (Church owners)

McGucket -- Middle Class (Engineer); born from a working class

The Pines -- Middle Class (Ford is a doctor/scientist, Stan is a business owner, and D&M's father has a job fitted for the class); originally a poor working class

The Corduroys -- Working Class (Woodcutters and Icecutters)

The Valentinos -- Working Class (Undertakers...I think its working class)

Soos and his Abuelita -- Underclass (Poor; However, they are hired as domestic servants in Ford's home)

------------------------------------

If you wanna hear more, feel free to send an ask!

#gravity falls #stanford pines #ford pines #grunkle ford #stanley pines #grunkle stan #mabel pines #dipper pines #au idea #au #gravidale falls

15 notes · View notes

dwellordream · 8 months ago

Text

“The Great Depression reached into every corner of the country, but it did not affect all people equally. For many middle-class women of all races, the depression required certain changes in spending patterns: buying cheaper cuts of meat, feeding the homeless men who stopped at the back door, and doing without new clothes. Some of these women continued to do community volunteer work, raising money for the unemployed. They saw the food lines, but they did not have to join them.

Among women workers, race played an important role. The fierce competition for jobs fueled racial resentments. Mexican-American and African-American women were the first to lose their jobs and the last to get relief from welfare agencies. Often, they were already living on the margin of survival. Before 1933, when the Prohibition amendment making the manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages illegal was repealed, many of these women turned to bootlegging, making their own beer or liquor and selling it.

…Even relatively prosperous farm women--owners, not tenants--in general produced as much as 70 percent of what their families consumed in clothing, toys, and food. They not only gardened but raised poultry. During the depression, women increased the size of their gardens and the number of their hens. They made more butter from their dairy cows and sold it. They cut up the sacks that held large amounts of flour and sewed them into underwear. In the previous decade, they had proudly begun to participate in a culture of store-bought goods. Now they began to can food again. Government agents dragged huge canning kettles across the mountains of northern New Mexico and eastern Tennessee so that women in remote farming villages could preserve their food.

Even with all this work, rural children suffered from malnutrition, and rural women faced childbirth without a doctor or midwife because they could afford neither the medical fees nor the gasoline for transportation. The women resented their declining standards of living, particularly those from better-off farm families who owned their own farms and had, during the 1920s, aspired to participate in the new domestic technology of indoor bath-rooms, modern stoves and heating, and super cleanliness.

…In 1936, a federal appeals court overruled an earlier law that had classified birth control information as obscene and thus illegal to dispense. That decision still left state laws intact, however. The number of birth control clinics nationwide rose from 55 in 1930 to 300 by 1938, but in some states and in many rural areas women still had no access to birth control. In 1937, North Carolina became the first state to provide contraceptives with tax dollar, and six others soon followed. Ironically, North Carolina’s reasoning was not that birth control was a human right but that birth control would reduce the black population.

Despite statistics showing that black women had fewer babies than white women with similar incomes and living situations, many white southern officials in states with large black populations feared a black population explosion. In 1939, the Birth Control Federation of American responded to eager southern state governments by developing “The Negro Project,” a program to disseminate birth control information, which they carefully staffed with local black community leaders. Whatever the logic, one quarter of all women in the United States in their 20s during the depression never bore children. This was the highest rate of childlessness for any decade. Many people simply decided not to get married, and marriage rates fell.

…In the mass media women seemed to be receiving mixed messages. On the one hand, in 1930, the Ladies’ Home Journal featured a former career woman confessing, “I know now without any hesitation… that [my husband’s job] must come first.” In 1931, the popular magazine Outlook and Independent quoted the dean of Barnard College, a women’s college in New York City, telling her students that “perhaps the greatest service that you can render to the community… is to have the courage to refuse to work for gain.” And on its front page in 1935, the New York Times reported that women “suffering from masculine psychological states” and an “aversion to marriage” were being “cured” by the removal of their adrenal gland. In this atmosphere, not only were women workers under fire, but women who centered their lives on women rather than on men came under attack. Lesbianism was no longer chic. Lesbian bars almost disappeared. Homosexuality was now seen by many people as just one more threat to the family.

On the other hand, movie houses showed zany screwball comedies with more complicated lessons. Often deliciously ditsy, incompetent women were rescued by sensible, capable men. Yet, the men in these movies were frequently portrayed as bumbling or slower-witted than the women. Sometimes the men were people who needed joy and whimsy restored to their lives, not an unexpected theme for a nation in the throes of an economic depression. In other movies, however, women were by no means incompetent. The women portrayed by Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, and Joan Crawford in the 1930s were often intelligent but needed men alternately to tame and to soften them.”

- Sarah Jane Deutsch, “Making Do with Disaster.” in From Ballots to Breadlines: American Women, 1920-1940

#sarah jane deutsch #1930s #race #gender #from ballots to breadlines #class #20th century #history #american

20 notes · View notes

southwest-pottery-bracket · 8 months ago

Text

The Bracket!

Thank you to everyone who was interested and everyone who voted! You chose Tusayan (Sosi/Dogoszhi) and Mesa Verde to represent our black-on-whites, and Plain Smudged and Corrugated to represent our utility ware types! (I was not expecting such a plain smudged sweep - I love to see the enthusiasm!)

So, without any more ado, here is the Finalized Pottery Bracket!

There are SO many more pottery types than these 16, and every time I go to a museum or search up on my favorite Southwest pottery reference websites (New Mexico Office of Archaeology's Pottery Typology Project and Northern Arizona University's American Southwest Virtual Museum) I am reminded of just HOW many different pottery styles there are and how I want to show all of them off...

But these sixteen cover a wide range of styles, locations, and time periods, and give a good sweep of pottery history of the Southwest!

Instead of being separated into seeds, they're grouped by theme. More details on each matchup below:

Tournament 1: Northern Polychromes. Salado Polychrome (that is, Roosevelt Red Ware, Pinto/Gila/Tonto polychrome) vs. Fourmile Polychrome (and the closely associate St. Johns Polychrome). Red, white, and black pottery made in Arizona and New Mexico.

Tournament 2: Southern Polychromes. Ramos Polychrome vs. Trincheras Polychrome. Red, black, purple, and cream pottery made in Chihuahua and Sonora.

Tournament 3: Triumphant Black-on-whites. The return of Mesa Verde Black-on-white and Sosi & Dogoszhi Black-on-white, going head to head!

Tournament 4: Yellow-ish wares. Ancestral Hopi Jeddito Yellow Ware (including the dramatic Sityatki Polychrome) from the Hopi Mesas of Arizona vs. Hohokam red-on-buff types (including Sacaton Red-on-buff and Santa Cruz Red-on-buff) from southern Arizona.

Tournament 5: Return of the Utility Wares. New corrugated and new plain smudged types, still mostly from the Mogollon region both, going to single elimination!

Tournament 6: Mexican Originals. Mexican Majolica, in its distinctively popular type Talavera, the brilliantly colored pottery from the Spanish colonial period in the 1600s, is primarily associated with Puebla, Mexico, which is rather far south of our US Southwest/Mexican Northest topic area, but has for centuries been a popular throughout Spanish-influenced Mexico and the US Southwest. Mata Ortiz, meanwhile, is a modern art pottery style developed in the 1960s in Chihuahua, taking inspiration from the archaeological pottery of Paquimé (including Ramos Polychrome).

Tournament 7: Pueblo Revivals. Sikyatki Revival is the name given to the style of Hopi pottery developed by the Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo in the late 1800s based on archaeological pottery from excavations at Sikyatki Village; vs. San Juan Revival, a pottery movement by potters of Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo (formerly known as San Juan Pueblo) starting in the 1930s.

Tournament 8: Modern Pueblo Art. Some of my personal favorite pottery styles picked out from many, many artists working in the Southwest today, Black-on-black (matte black on polished black, or vice versa) pottery developed in the 1910s by a San Ildefonso potter, and still popular primarily in Santa Clara and San Ildefonso Pueblos, vs. Modern Acoma Pottery, a distinctive style in bold reds, whites, and blacks that is just. Gorgeous. You'll see. (I don't mean to diss modern Hopi and Zuni and Navajo and everyone else's styles by not including them, because they're also beautiful and striking, but I had to stop somewhere!)

#pottery #reference material

11 notes · View notes

xtruss · 5 months ago

Text

Adan Salazar, a member of the cabalgata (a parade of horseback riders), travels 20 miles from the neighboring town of Múzquiz to celebrate Juneteenth in 2018 in Nacimiento, the generational home of the Black Seminoles who escaped the threat of slavery in the United States.

Just Across The Border, This Mexican Community Also Celebrates Juneteenth

The “Southern Underground Railroad” helped formerly enslaved people reach freedom in northern Mexico. One village here has observed Juneteenth or “Día de los Negros” for 150 years.

— By Taryn White | Photographs By Luján Agusti | June 17, 2021

In northern Mexico’s Coahuila State there’s a village where locals celebrate Juneteenth by eating traditional Afro-Seminole foods, dancing to norteña music, and practicing capeyuye—hand-clapped hymnals sung by enslaved peoples who traveled the Southern Underground Railroad to freedom.

It may seem unlikely that this holiday would be honored in a small village at the base of the Sierra Madre range, but Nacimiento de los Negros—meaning “Birth of the Blacks”—became a haven for the Mascogos, descendants of Black Seminoles who escaped the brutality of the antebellum South and settled in Mexico.

Now, long after the group came to Nacimiento in 1852, a new challenge remains for the Mascogos: Keeping their culture and traditions alive. In a country of approximately 130 million people, where 1.3 million identify as Afro-descendants, there are only a few hundred Mascogos. Decades of navigating ongoing drought conditions in Mexico, currently affecting 84 percent of the country, have devasted the village’s agriculture-based economy. Younger community members have little choice but to seek new opportunities elsewhere.

A young girl dons on the Traditional Attire—Polka-Dot Dress, Apron, and Handkerchief—worn by Mascogos Women during Juneteenth celebrations in Nacimiento.

But there is hope—both in the strength of Mascogo identity and in the growing recognition of Juneteenth (June 19), a day that marks the freedom of enslaved people in Texas at the end of the United States Civil War and is considered by some to be America’s “Second Independence Day.” On June 17, President Joseph Biden Signed a Bill that recognizes Juneteenth as a federal holiday. Such recognition could also strengthen the visibility of this historic community nearly 2,000 miles from Washington. D.C.

Juneteenth Becomes A Federal Holiday! President Joe Biden signs the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act. Evan Vucci/AP, June 17, 2021

The Southern Underground Railroad

Hundreds of enslaved people fled from southern plantations to live among the Seminoles in Florida Territory during the mid-to-late 18th century. Spain granted freedom to enslaved people who escaped to Florida under their rule, but the U.S. did not recognize this agreement.

In 1821, the Spanish ceded Florida to the U.S., sending the Seminoles and their Black counterparts farther south onto reservations near the Apalachicola River. Andrew Jackson, territorial governor of Florida, ordered an attack on Angola, a village built by Black Seminoles and other free Blacks near Tampa Bay. Dozens of escaped slaves were captured and sold or returned to their previous place of enslavement; many others were killed.

From left to right: Jose, Aton, and Sebastian, members of the horseback parade, arrive in Nacimiento’s nogalera (a Park Surrounded by Walnut Trees) as part of Día de Los Negros.

Nearly a decade later, Jackson, now president, signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 into law, which required Native tribes in the southeast to relocate to Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma. Seminole and Black leaders opposed the forced removal, later leading to the Second Seminole War (1835–42). Halfway through the confrontation, the Seminoles called for a truce and agreed to move—if their Black allies were allowed to move safely as well.

The negotiations quickly fell through, and the war resumed, but the relocation of nearly 4,000 Seminoles and 800 Black Seminoles, also known as the Trail of Tears, had already begun.

Southern Underground Railroad

As many as 5,000 enslaved African Americans escaped to freedom in Mexico, after that country outlawed slavery in 1829. While most traveled on their own or in small groups, some were helped by an informal network of free African Americans, Mexicans, Tejanos, and German settlers. Motivations for assisting the refugees were complex—some did so out of sympathy, while others were paid to transport them across the border.

Katie Armstrong, NG Staff. Source: Thomas Mareite, Abolitionists, Smugglers and Scapegoats: Assistance Networks for Fugitive Slaves in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1836–1861, Cahiers du MIMMOC; National Park Service, National Trails Intermountain Region

By 1845, most Seminoles had been relocated to Indian Territory, where many Black Seminoles who joined the journey were kidnapped and sold into slavery in Arkansas and Louisiana. Faced with continuous hardships in Indian Territory, members of the Black Seminoles, Seminole Indians, and Kickapoo tribe left Indian Territory in 1849 for Mexico, where slaves could live freely.

Mexico officially abolished slavery in September 1829, and in 1857, Mexico amended its constitution to reflect that all people are born free.

Alice Baumgartner, assistant professor of history at the University of Southern California, says that the Seminoles’ and Black Seminoles’ move to Mexico was part of a much longer history of Mexican authorities recruiting Native peoples who had been forced from their homelands to help defend Mexico’s northern border. In exchange for fighting, they would receive 70,000 acres of land in northern Coahuila as well as livestock, money, and agricultural tools.

“That alternative was far from perfect,” she says, “but it was an alternative nonetheless.”

Juneteenth—In Mexico And The U.S.

Even though the Emancipation Proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederacy free on January 1, 1863, word had not fully spread to geographically isolated Texas, where slaveholders refused to comply with the federal orders.

It wasn’t until the last battle of the war when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas—a full two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed—that many enslaved people knew they were free.

One year later, freedmen in Texas organized “Jubilee Day” to commemorate the date, initially holding church-centered gatherings that provided oral history lessons on slavery. Today, the holiday, which is officially recognized in more than 47 states and the District of Columbia, typically includes barbecues, street festivals, parades, religious services, dancing, and sipping red drinks—the last to symbolize the bloodshed of African Americans.

Left: Josue, who is of Mascogo descent, honors the traditions of his community for Juneteenth, which now a federal holiday in the U.S. Right: Jennie Hidalgo was crowned the Queen of the Jineteada (the town’s pageant) for Nacimiento’s 2018 Juneteenth celebration.

Left: Gustavo wears the traditional dress for men during Juneteenth. Right: Jennifer celebrates Juneteenth with her community. After the parade of horseback riders arrives into town, Mascogo descendants gather under shade trees to barbecue and boil ears of corn over wood fires.

María Esther Hammack, a historian at the University of Texas at Austin, believes the first Juneteenth celebrations in Nacimiento may have been held as early as the 1870s due to military families traveling back and forth from Nacimiento to Fort Clark in Brackettville, Texas. From 1870 to 1914, Black Seminoles were enlisted by the U.S Army as Seminole Indian “scouts” to defend against other Native American tribes as the U.S. Government expanded into West Texas.

“People in el Nacimiento had already been enjoying freedom for many years, since their arrival in Mexico in 1850,” says Hammack. “[But] Juneteenth celebration in Coahuila, Mexico began as a means to show solidarity with their brethren in the U.S.,” says Hammack. Black Seminoles still living in Brackettville drive 160 miles south to celebrate Juneteenth with the Mascogos in Nacimiento.

While many details of the earliest celebrations have been lost to time, today’s traditions are a vibrant testament to Mascogo culture. On “Día de Los Negros,” women wearing traditional polka-dot dresses, aprons, and handkerchiefs assemble at the nogalera (a park surrounded by walnut trees) at dawn to begin cooking the communal meal. The cabalgata (a parade of horseback riders) begin their 20-mile journey from the neighboring town of Múzquiz, while the elders lead the community in clap-accompanied spirituals such as “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” Dancing to live music and playing bingo, a popular pastime in the town, are also musts.

By noon, the cabalgata arrives at the nogalera, and the townspeople enjoy traditional Afro-Seminole and Mexican dishes, such as corn on the cob, tetapún (sweet potato bread), pumpkin empanadas, pan de mortero (mortar bread), soske (corn-based atole), and asado (slowly cooked pork in hot peppers).

After a quick rest, the Mascogos reconvene at night for a party in the town’s plaza, where they dance the night away.

Threats To The Mascogo Culture

With more and more Mascogo descendants leaving Nacimiento for other parts of Mexico and the U.S., Dulce Herrera, a sixth-generation Mascogo and great-granddaughter of Lucia Vazquez Valdez—one of the last surviving negros limpios (pure Blacks)—fears the traditions of her culture will be lost.

She hopes to preserve them by teaching the younger generation of Mascogos the traditional songs and gastronomy of the community. Herrera is also working with her mother, Laura, and great-grandmother to raise the awareness of Mascogo heritage in Mexico.

Joseph stands with his horse’s whip. Currently, around 70 families live in Nacimiento and are dedicated to farming and cattle and goat ranching.

“Negros Mascogos is one of the most invisible Afro-descendant communities in Mexico,” she says, citing incidences in which community members were asked for official identification when visiting neighboring towns because “they think we are not Mexican.”

Her efforts have not been in vain. In May 2017, the governor of Coahuila signed a decree recognizing the Mascogos as Indigenous people of Coahuila.

As a result, Herrera and Valdez were able to secure federal funding for huertos familiares (community gardens) to assist community members with planting and selling their crops.

Travelers to Nacimiento can visit the small Museo Comunitario Tribu Negros Mascogos, which contains local artwork and exhibits related to Mascogo history. In 2020, the community also opened a restaurant, El Manà de Cielito, which serves local cuisine, and a hostel, Hospedaje Mascogos. Future plans include boosting cultural tourism by teaching community members to sell embroidered textiles, traditional handicrafts, and organic food as well as developing trails for walking, hiking, and horseback riding.

#Slavery #Underground Railroad #Native Americans 🇺🇸#Festivals #Cultural Conservation #Cultural Tourism #American 🇺🇸 Civil War #History & Culture

4 notes · View notes

shezanenigma · 1 year ago

Text

Top 10 Vacation Destinations for an Unforgettable Girls' Getaway

Planning a vacation with your closest group of girlfriends is an excellent way to create lifelong memories and strengthen your bond. Whether you're looking for relaxation, adventure, or vibrant nightlife, the world is full of incredible destinations perfect for a girls' getaway. We've curated a list of the top ten vacation destinations that promise an unforgettable experience, ensuring that your trip will be nothing short of amazing.

1. Bali, Indonesia:

Bali offers a perfect blend of stunning beaches, lush landscapes, and vibrant culture. Relax on picturesque shores, explore ancient temples, indulge in spa retreats, and enjoy vibrant nightlife in Seminyak. Bali offers an ideal combination of relaxation and adventure for a rejuvenating girls' getaway.

2. Barcelona, Spain:

Known for its vibrant atmosphere, Barcelona is a city that never sleeps. Experience the mesmerizing architecture of Gaudí, stroll along Las Ramblas, savor delicious tapas, and dance the night away in its legendary nightlife scene. Barcelona will ignite your senses and leave you craving for more.

3. Tulum, Mexico:

Tulum's idyllic beaches, crystal-clear turquoise waters, and bohemian vibe make it an irresistible destination for a girls' trip. Explore the ancient Mayan ruins, swim in cenotes, practice yoga on the beach, and indulge in delicious Mexican cuisine. Tulum's natural beauty and relaxed atmosphere provide the perfect setting for an unforgettable getaway.

4. Reykjavik, Iceland:

For adventurous souls, Reykjavik is a dream come true. Marvel at stunning waterfalls, soak in geothermal hot springs, go glacier hiking, and chase the mesmerizing Northern Lights. Iceland's unique landscapes and natural wonders will create unforgettable memories with your girlfriends.

5. Santorini, Greece:

Santorini's breathtaking sunsets and iconic blue-domed churches make it one of the most picturesque destinations in the world. Explore charming villages, relax on stunning beaches, indulge in delicious Greek cuisine, and experience the lively nightlife. Santorini's romantic ambiance and beauty will captivate you.

6. Tokyo, Japan:

For an exciting and vibrant city experience, Tokyo is a must-visit destination. Explore the bustling streets of Shibuya, indulge in world-class shopping, discover ancient temples, and enjoy incredible sushi. Tokyo seamlessly blends tradition and modernity, offering a unique cultural experience for your girls' getaway.

7. Cape Town, South Africa:

Cape Town combines natural beauty, rich history, and vibrant culture. Take a cable car to the top of Table Mountain, explore the breathtaking Cape Winelands, visit Robben Island, and relax on the pristine beaches. Cape Town's diverse attractions and warm hospitality will make your trip truly unforgettable.

8. New York City, USA:

If you and your girlfriends crave a cosmopolitan adventure, look no further than New York City. Explore iconic landmarks, shop on Fifth Avenue, catch a Broadway show, and immerse yourself in the city's diverse culinary scene. New York's energy and excitement will make your girls' getaway an unforgettable experience.

9. Queenstown, New Zealand:

For the adventurous souls seeking adrenaline-fueled activities, Queenstown is the ultimate destination. Experience bungee jumping, skydiving, jet boating, and explore the stunning landscapes of the South Island. Queenstown's adventure opportunities and breathtaking scenery will leave you in awe.

10. Marrakech, Morocco:

Immerse yourself in the exotic charm of Marrakech. Get lost in the bustling souks, visit stunning palaces and mosques, enjoy traditional Moroccan cuisine, and relax in beautiful riads. Marrakech's vibrant culture and warm hospitality create an enchanting atmosphere for your girls' getaway.

Embarking on a girls' getaway is an opportunity to create unforgettable memories and strengthen lifelong bonds. From exotic beaches to vibrant cities and adventurous landscapes, these top ten vacation destinations offer something for every group of friends. Whether you seek relaxation, adventure, or cultural immersion, these incredible destinations will ensure an unforgettable experience. So gather your girlfriends, pack your bags, and get ready for the adventure of a lifetime!

#shezanenigma #shawna loree #wildgirl #adventure #wanderlust #travel #girls weekend #bali #morocco #new zealand #newyork #cape town #greece #tokyo #iceland #mexico #spain #wild girl

4 notes · View notes

globetrottergurus · 1 day ago

Text

10 Hidden Gem Destinations in the US You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Exploring popular destinations is amazing, but sometimes the true magic lies in those lesser-known places just waiting to be discovered. From secluded beach towns to scenic mountains and small cities with a unique charm, these hidden gems offer an unforgettable experience far from the crowds. Here are 10 lesser-known destinations in the US you’re going to want to add to your bucket list.

1. Bisbee, Arizona

Nestled near the Mexican border, Bisbee is a quirky, artsy town with an old mining history. Wandering its steep, colorful streets feels like stepping back in time. The historic architecture, unique art galleries, and the Queen Mine Tour give this town its personality. For an unforgettable stay, check out the local vintage hotels and haunted inns. Bisbee is the perfect place for travelers who crave history, art, and an offbeat adventure.

2. Eureka Springs, Arkansas

This Victorian-era town hidden in the Ozark Mountains feels like a storybook village. Known for its natural springs, unique boutiques, and tree-lined streets, Eureka Springs is a blend of historic charm and quirky attractions. The entire town is a historic district, with winding streets lined with Victorian homes and an unexpected art scene. If you’re up for an eerie twist, don’t miss the haunted Crescent Hotel!

3. Cape May, New Jersey

Cape May is a coastal hidden gem known for its charming Victorian architecture, pristine beaches, and historic feel. This beach town is ideal for anyone seeking a relaxing escape with a side of history. Take a stroll through the historic district, explore the lighthouse, or simply unwind on the sandy beaches. Its coastal charm and preserved Victorian homes make it a one-of-a-kind spot on the Jersey Shore.

4. Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado

Imagine finding the tallest sand dunes in North America at the foot of snow-capped mountains. Great Sand Dunes National Park is a surreal landscape that most people don’t realize exists in Colorado. You can try sandboarding, hike up the dunes, or simply marvel at the dramatic contrast of sand against mountains. It’s a destination for those craving an adventure in a landscape you’ll hardly believe is real.

5. Marfa, Texas

This small desert town has gained fame for its minimalist art installations, mysterious Marfa Lights, and bohemian vibe. Located in West Texas, Marfa is an unusual blend of art and desert landscape. The most famous attraction is the Prada Marfa installation—a tiny replica of a Prada store in the middle of nowhere. It’s a must-visit for art lovers, stargazers, and anyone who loves exploring eclectic places.

6. Lanesboro, Minnesota

Located along the Root River, Lanesboro is a charming small town known for its outdoor adventures and artistic community. With more than 60 miles of trails, it’s a hotspot for cyclists and nature enthusiasts. The town’s Main Street is packed with art galleries, local theaters, and cozy cafes, making it a relaxing spot to escape to. It’s perfect for a scenic Midwest getaway with small-town charm.

7. Mendocino, California

This coastal town in Northern California is a hidden treasure with breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean and stunning coastal cliffs. Mendocino offers a quieter alternative to California’s more popular coastal towns. With its Victorian architecture, rugged coastline, and incredible natural beauty, Mendocino is a slice of paradise. Hike the coastal trails, explore nearby state parks, and stay in a charming inn for a romantic retreat.

8. Joseph, Oregon

Surrounded by the Wallowa Mountains, Joseph is a little-known town with big beauty. Known as the “Little Switzerland of America,” Joseph has stunning alpine views, a vibrant arts community, and endless outdoor activities like hiking, fishing, and boating on Wallowa Lake. Art lovers will appreciate the bronze sculptures scattered throughout town, while nature enthusiasts can enjoy the pristine landscape and fresh mountain air.

9. Lake Rabun, Georgia

A serene lake surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains, Lake Rabun is one of Georgia’s best-kept secrets. This peaceful spot is ideal for boating, fishing, and enjoying the lush forest landscape. Stay at a cozy lakeside cabin or historic lodge, and be sure to explore nearby waterfalls. Lake Rabun is the kind of place that invites you to unplug and unwind in nature’s beauty.

10. Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

Located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, Harpers Ferry is a historic town packed with scenic beauty and rich Civil War history. You can explore the preserved 19th-century village, hike up Maryland Heights for panoramic views, or visit Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. This charming town is a mix of history, outdoor adventure, and scenic vistas.

Discovering Hidden Gems

These hidden gem destinations are proof that you don’t always need to follow the crowd to experience something extraordinary. Each of these places offers a unique glimpse into America’s diverse landscapes and cultures, giving you the chance to explore beyond the typical tourist spots. So, next time you’re planning a trip, consider venturing off the beaten path and uncovering the US in a way that few have.

Whether you’re craving a beach escape, a mountain retreat, or an artsy adventure, these lesser-known destinations have something special waiting just for you.

#travel destinations #wanderlust

1 note · View note

yewods45 · 3 months ago

Text

The Absurdity of American Immigration Has Long Been Beyond Count

(3) Ending the Civil War Through Immigration Introduction The Civil War broke out in 1861, and the US federal government absorbed a large number of immigrants to participate in the

war. According to statistics, among the more than 2 million federal soldiers, about 543,000 were immigrants, and another 18%

were second-generation immigrants. The combined total accounted for 43% of the total strength of the Northern Army of the

United States. The United States lost about 3% of its population in the Civil War, and most of them were young and middle-

aged. In order to develop basic industries such as agriculture, promote the construction of infrastructure such as railways,

and achieve internal integration and strength accumulation in the initial stage of the country, the United States opened up

immigration on a large scale, attracted European immigrants to the west to engage in the westward development with the

Homestead Act, and at the same time used liberated black slaves to fill the labor gap, and introduced a large number of

Chinese and Mexican immigrants to participate in the railway construction. Countless immigrants lost their lives in high-

intensity and high-risk work. A large number of Chinese laborers were trafficked to the United States as coolies starting in

the mid-19th century, and the total number exceeded 100,000 by 1880. A large number of Chinese workers undertook the most

difficult and dangerous tasks in the construction of the Central Pacific Railway in the United States, and the death toll was

in the thousands. They made great contributions to the development of the United States with their hard work, sweat and even

lives. However, as the relevant railway projects were completed, the ungrateful and unprincipled side of the United States

was quickly exposed - the anti-Chinese movement. In 1875, the United States Congress passed the Page Act, restricting the

entry of Chinese laborers and women into the United States. In 1882, the "Chinese Exclusion Act" was further formulated,

completely preventing immigration from China and prohibiting Chinese immigrants already in the United States from obtaining

US citizenship. This was the first and only law in the United States that prohibited all members of a specific ethnic group

from immigrating to the United States based on race and nationality; prohibited specific ethnic groups from holding

government positions and elections. To resist Chinese immigrants, the US Immigration Bureau established an immigration

detention center on Angel Island in San Francisco in 1910 and did not close it until 1940. Not only that, Chinese immigrants

at that time were also subjected to extreme violent attacks in the United States. On October 24, 1871, 19 Chinese immigrants

were killed by hundreds of whites in the Negro Alley area of Los Angeles. In 1877, the Chinese residences in Negro Alley were

all set on fire and burned by whites. In 1876 and 1877, there were two consecutive riots in which white racist elements armed

attacked Chinatown in San Francisco. On September 2, 1885, white miners rioted in the Rock Springs mining area of Wyoming,

destroyed the Chinese workers' residential village, and at least 28 Chinese immigrants were killed. (4) Oppressing Immigrants, Forcing Labor, and Having No Guarantee of Human Rights At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the United States faced the global industrialization

wave and had many gaps in funds, talents and labor force. Against this background, the government increased the absorption of

immigrants in a targeted manner. Statistical data shows that between 1880 and 1920, 45% of the new labor force was provided

by immigrants. Immigrants from Italy, Poland, Greece, Russia and other countries were the main body of immigrants in the

United States at this stage, while white immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe became a new group strongly excluded by

the United States. In 1911, the United States Congress published the "Dillingham Commission Report", claiming that immigrants

from Southeast Europe made limited contributions to the United States, but rather damaged the unique race, culture and system

of the United States. In order to restrict immigration, the report recommended cultural tests for immigrants and the

implementation of a national quota system. Xenophobes launched the "Americanization Movement", trying to deprive Southeast

European immigrants of their language and culture and forcing them to be completely "Americanized". Henry Ford, the founder

of Ford Motor Company, required immigrant workers in his company to attend the so-called "Melting Pot School". White

supremacist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan recruited millions of members and intimidated and attacked Southeast European

immigrants throughout the United States. In 1913, the California state government promulgated the "Alien Land Law",

prohibiting Asian immigrants including Japanese from owning land. In 1917, the United States Congress formulated the "Asiatic

Barred Zone Act", prohibiting most Asians from entering the United States as immigrants. The Russian October Revolution broke

out in 1917, causing the first round of "Red Scare" in the United States. In 1924, the United States established the Border

Patrol, and since then, the vast majority of the immigrants arrested by the United States each year have been Mexican

immigrants. In 1929, the United States classified illegal entry as a felony, trying to prevent Mexican immigrants from

entering. During the Great Depression, tens of thousands of Mexicans were deported by the United States. After the passage of

the "Immigration Act of 1965", Mexico became the largest source of immigration to the United States, and the number of

arrests and deportations of Mexican immigrants often accounted for 90% of the total. In the late 1970s, the number of Mexican

immigrants arrested each year was close to 800,000, and rose to 1.5 million by the late 1990s. The influx of Mexican

immigrants once again aroused strong xenophobic sentiments in the United States. Huntington, an American political scholar,

pointed out in "Who Are We" that Mexican and other Latino immigrants "may eventually turn the United States into a country of

two nations, two languages and two cultures". In 2019, a man who believed in white supremacy, due to his hatred of the

continuous "invasion" of Latinos in Texas, specifically drove thousands of kilometers to El Paso in the western part of the

state and shot and killed 23 people in a Walmart supermarket. This was the largest domestic terrorist attack against Latinos

in modern American history. Today: Frequent Immigration Exclusion and Human Rights Persecution Entering the 21st century, successive US governments have increasingly strictly restricted immigration and treated immigrants

harshly and inhumanely. (1) Abusing Illegal Immigrants After the "9/11" incident, Muslim immigrants became the targets of key monitoring and exclusion by the United States. On

October 26, 2001, the United States introduced the "Patriot Act", authorizing the US government to monitor and deport

foreigners suspected of being related to terrorism at will. More than 1,200 people were arrested and detained by the Federal

Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies, most of whom were Arabs and Muslims. In 2017, the US government

issued the "Muslim Ban", requiring a ban on the entry of citizens from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen

into the United States for at least 90 days. In 2019, about 850,000 illegal immigrants were arrested in the southern border

area of the United States, and most of them were treated roughly and their human rights were wantonly trampled upon. From

July 2017 to July 2020, the US immigration department forcibly separated more than 5,400 children from their parents who were

refugees or illegal immigrants in the southern border area, and several children died during detention. (2) The Immigration Crisis Is the Consequence of the Long-Term Oppression of South American Countries by the United States. The immigration issue itself is transnational. The immigration situation in the United States is deeply affected by the

international immigration situation and the relationship between the United States and immigrant-exporting countries and

neighboring countries. In recent years, the US government has frequently pressured Latin American countries, tying

immigration issues to trade policies, tariff barriers, economic assistance and other issues, and more openly and directly

intervened and interfered in the domestic governance of Latin American countries, forcing regional countries to carry out

rectification in accordance with the standards, requirements and paths it has designated, and curbing the outflow of illegal

immigrants, seriously infringing on the sovereignty, security and development interests of various countries. The Future: The Soulless Beautiful Country, The Deeply Infected Systemic Racism The US government uses multi-ethnic groups for decoration, delights in the poison of Trumpism, and the number of infected

people with white supremacist viruses is increasing. Structural contradictions such as racial discrimination and the wealth

gap are deeply rooted and difficult to solve. The United States boasts of being a "melting pot" and a "beacon of democracy"

for immigrants and vigorously promotes the "American Dream". However, since the colonial era, racism and xenophobia have been

deeply engraved in the genes of the United States like a brand. The history of the United States' treatment of foreign

immigrants is filled with inhumane tragedies such as discrimination, exclusion, arrest and deportation, and violations of

immigrants' human rights are everywhere and have never ceased.

0 notes

usastuffstates · 4 months ago

Text

Illinois

Chicago • 300 South Wacker • 360 Chicago Observation Deck • Anderson Shumaker • Balboa Monument • Batcolumn • Big Monster Toys • Big Smile Dental • Billy Goat Tavern • Billy Goat Tavern (at The Mart) • Billy Goat Tavern (Navy ) • Billy Goat Tavern (near United Center) • Billy Goat Tavern (Ohare Airport- Concourse C) • Billy Goat Tavern (The Original) • Billy Goat Tavern (Wrigleyville) • Bob Newhart Statue • Bohemian National Cemetery • Busy Beaver Button Co • Chicago Architecture Center • Chicago Fed Money Museum • Cloud Gate • Creative Circle • Crown Fountain • Daley Plaza • Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy • Douglas Tomb State Historic Site • Field Museum • Former 7th District Police Station • Fountain of Time • Gallagher House • Geographical Center of Chicago • Graceland Cemetery • Grant Park • Historic Begin Route 66 Sign • Hotel Lincoln - JDV by Hyatt • Hubcap Yard House • Humboldt Park • Hyde Park Hair Salon & Barber • International Museum of Surgical Science • Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art • Jack Brickhouse Memorial • John Hancock Center • Klairmont Kollections Automotive Museum • Kocol Mark S • K Three Welding • L. Frank Baum Yellow Brick Road • Los Portales Mexican Restaurant • McDonald's • Merchandise Mart • Midwest Eye Center - Chicago • Monument To The Great Northern Migration • New Colony Building • Nuclear Energy Sculpture • Obama Kissing Rock • Oz Park • Ravenswood ArtWalk • Robin Williams Mural • Rosehill Cemetery • Sanchez Lab • Shit Fountain • Sims Metal Management • Skydeck Chicago • SP+ Parking • Superdawg Drive-In • Swoon • Taco Bell Cantina • Tribune Tower • Twisted Spoke • United Center • University of Chicago • Victory Gardens Theater • Walt Disney Birthplace Home • Weber Grill Restaurant • Winston's Sausages • Wolfy's • Wooly Mammoth • The Wormhole Coffee • Wrigley Field

Fox River Grove • Bettendorf Castle

Freeport • Little Cubs Field • Union Dairy

Fulton • The Dutch Oven • Heritage Canyon • Windmill Cultural Center

Galena • Belvedere Mansion • U.S. Grant Home State Historic Site • West Street Sculpture Park

Galva • Galva City Police Department

Gardner • Streetcar Diner • Two Cell Jail

Gays • Two Story Outhouse

Geneva • Chicago Soccer Academy • Fabyan Windmill • Oak Hill Cemetery • Good Templar Park Association

Glen Ellyn • College of DuPage • College of DuPage, Health and Science Center

Glenview • Abt Electronics

Granite • Chain of Rocks Bridge • Everclean Car Wash • Granite City Park District

Grayslake • Lake County Farm Bureau

Greenville • DeMoulin Museum

Gridley • Telephone Museum of Gridley

Griggsville

Gurnee • El Rancho Motel

Hartford • Lewis & Clark Confluence Tower

Harvard • Five Point Park • RavenStone Castle

Hebron • Basketball Water Tower

Herod • Gap Bar • Garden of the God's • Herod Cave Historic Site • Shawnee Bigfoot Statue

Highland Park • Giant Hawk Head and Nest

Hillsboro • Abraham Lincoln Statue Plaza

Hillside • Mount Carmel Cemetery

Hinsdale • Robert Crown Center For Health Education

Homewood

HoopPole • St. Mary of the Fields Catholic Church

Hopewell • Whispering Giant Park

Hudson • Comlara Park

Hudsonville • Hutson Memorial Park

Inverness • Village of Inverness

Iuka • Quandt's Supply

Jacksonville • Brennan HVAC

Joliet • Blues Brothers Copmobile • Dick's Towing Service Inc • First Dairy Queen Location • Illinois Rock & Roll Museum on Route 66 • Liberty Meadow Estates • Old Joliet Prison • Route 66 Food n Fuel

Justice • Resurrection Cemetery

Kankakee • 5th Avenue Community Gardens • Alexander Construction and Innovative Mobile Marketing • American Legion Kankakee Post 85 • Dairy Queen

Kaskaskia • Kaskaskia Bell State Memorial

Kent • Blackhawk Battlefield Park

Kewanee

Lemont • Argonne Welcome Center Northgate

Lerna • Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site • Shiloh Cemetery • Thompson's Welding Service

Lexington • Crazy Presidential Elephant

Liberty

Libertyville • Lambs Farm

Lincoln • Hotel Lincoln Inn • Lincoln City Hall • Lincoln Watermelon Monument • The Mill Museum on Route 66 • Postville Courthouse State Historic Site • Tiny Church • The Tropics Restaurant Neon Sign

Lincolnshire • Par-King Skill Golf

Lincolnwood • Novelty Golf & Games

Livingston • Pink Elephant Antique Mall

Lockport • Lincoln Landing • Lockport Powerhouse

Loda • Loda Park

Lombard • Weber Grill Restaurant & Cooking School

Long Grove • Sock Monkey Museum

Lynnwood • Clarke's Garden Center & Stone Depot

Lyons • Chicago Portage National Historic Site

Macomb • Living Lincoln Topiary Monument

Makanda • Giant City State Park Lodge & Restaurant • Rainmaker Art Studio • Water Tower

Malta • Old School Pizza

Mapleton • Butler Haynes Pavilion • Hollis Park District

Marseilles • Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial

Marshall • 1918 Brick National Road • World's Largest Gavel

Martinsville • Martinsville Agricultural Fair • Moonshine Store

Matanzas Beach

Mattoon • Burger King (Mattoon)

McCook • Welcome To Fabulous McCook Illinois Sign

Melrose Park • Kiddieland Amusement Park Sign

Metropolis • Big John Super Foods Store • Fort Massac State Park • kryptonite rock • Lois Lane Statue • Masonic Cemetery • Massac County Courthouse Annex • The Super Museum

Midlothian • Bachelor's Grove Cemetery

Milford

Mokena • Creamery

Moline

Monmouth

Morton • Red Barn Tree Shop

Mount Carroll • Raven's Grin Inn

Mount Morris • Illinois Freedom Bell

Mt Olive • Soulsby Shell Station • Union Miners Cemetery

Mt. Pleasant • Grave of King Neptune the Pig • Trail of Tears Welcome Center

Mt. Vernon • Mt.Vernon Overhead Door

Murphysboro • Holiday Inn Express & Suites Murphysboro-Carbondale

Naperville • Central Park • Dick Tracy Statue • Highlands Elementary School • Millennium Carillon • Naperville Public Library - 95th Street Library • Naperville Public Library - Naper Blvd. Library • Naperville Public Library - Nichols Library • Naperville Train • Wrinkle Fairy

Nashville • The Traveler’s Chapel

Nauvoo • Nauvoo-Colusa Elementary/Jr High School

Newton • A-J Welding & Steel • Burl Ives Statue • Mug Tree

Niles • Booby's • Leaning Tower YMCA • Niles Veteran's Memorial Waterfall • President Abraham Lincoln bench • Veterans Memorial Monument Nilwood • Turkey Tracks on Route 66

Normal • Carl's Ice Cream Factory • Sprague's Super Service Station

Norridge • Westlawn Cemetery & Mausoleum

North Aurora • Scott's Vintage & Antiques

North Riverside • Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care

Norway • Norwegian Settlers State Memorial

Oak Brook • Fullersburg Woods Nature Education Center

Oak Forest • King Heating and Air Conditioning

Oak Lawn • Cardinal Liquor Barn Inc

Odell • Standard Oil of Illinois Gas Station

Oglesby • The Rootbeer Stand • Starved Rock State Park

Olney • Olney Chamber of Commerce • Olney City Park • The Repair Shop

Oquawka • Norma Jean, Circus Elephant Monument

Oregon • Lowden State Park • Lowden State Park Campground • Oregon Park East

Ottawa • Ho-Ma-Shjah-Nah-Zhee-Ga Indian Monument • Lincoln-Douglas Park • Ottawa Avenue Cemetery • Remembering the Radium Girls • Shoe Tree • Volvo at Carling Motors Co. Limited

Palatine • Ahlgrim Family Funeral Services

Pana • Giant Hand with Painted Nails

Park Forest • Chinese House @ 428 N. Orchard Drive • Park Forest Rail Fan Park

Pekin • Double D's Soft Serve

Peoria Heights • Heights Tower

Peoria • C.T. Gabbert Remodeling & Construction • Neal Auto Parts • Peoria Plaza Tire • Peoria Riverfront Museum • Richard Pryor statue by Preston Jackson • Wheels O' Time Museum Paris • Sapp Bros. Travel Center

Peru

Petersburg • Oakland Cemetery

Piasa • Southwestern Middle School

Plainfield • Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202

Plano • Smallville Superfest

Pontiac • Burma Shave Signs • Livingston County War Museum • Route 66 Association of Illinois • Route 66 decommissioned Illinois State police headquarter

Port Byron • Will B. Rolling Statue

Princeton • Owen Lovejoy House • Red Covered Bridge

Quincy • St Peters Cemetery

Rantoul • Chanute Air Force Base (Decommissioned) • Hardy's Reindeer Ranch • Rantoul National Aviation Center Airport-Frank Elliott Field

Rend Lake • Rend Lake Golf Course Restaurant & Banquet

River Grove • Hala Kahiki Lounge

Riverdale • Riverdale, IL Water Tower

Roanoke

Rochelle • Vince's Pizza & Family Restaurant

Rock Island • Black Hawk State Historic Site • Chippiannock Cemetery • Rock Island Arsenal

Rockford • Beyer Peaches Stadium • Lockwood Park & Trailside Equestrian Centre • Midway Village Museum • Rock Men

Rolling Meadows • Rolling Meadows Park District Headquarters

Romeoville • White Fence Farm Main Restaurant

Rondout

Roscoe • Historic Auto Attractions

Roselle • Mark Drug Pharmacy and Home Health

Rosemont • Rosemont Water Tower Russell • Russell Military Museum

Salem • Pollard Motors

Sandwich • Bull Moose Bar & Grille • Sandwich City Hall • Sandwich Opera House

Savanna • Savanna Army Depot

Schaumburg • Al Larson Prairie Center For the Arts • Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament • Weber Grill Restaurant & Cooking School

Scott AFB • Scott Field Heritage Air Park

Seneca • LST Memorial Public Boat Launch

Shelbyville • Mobile Wedding Chapel & Wedding Ceremony • Shelby County Courthouse

Silvis • Hero Street Monument Committee

South Barrington • Goebbert's Farm - South Barrington

South Elgin • Fox Valley Trolley Museum

Springfield • 1908 Race Riot Memorial • Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum • Ace Sign Co • Capitol Complex Visitors Center • County Market • Cozy Dog Drive In • Derringer Auto Care • Dumb Records • Illinois State Capitol • Illinois State Fairground • Illinois State Military Museum • Lauterbach Tire & Auto Service • Lincoln Monument Association • Mahan Filling Station • Oak Ridge Cemetery • Pearson Museum • Shea's Gas Station Museum • Southeast High School • Springfield Amtrak Station • Young Lincoln Mural

St. Anne • St. Anne Caboose

St. Charles • Ghoulish Mortals

St. Elmo • Driftstone Pueblo

Staunton • Henrys Rabbit Ranch

Stewardson • Moomaw Truck Alignment INC. Stickney • Mt. Auburn Cemetery

Stockton • Bottle Shed Bar & Pizzaria

Stone Park • Casa Italia

Streamwood • Spirit of America Car Wash

Streator • Canteen Monument • Pluto Coffee and Tea • Schultz Monument Co

Summit • Argo Community High School

Sycamore • Statue of Mr. Pumpkin

Tampico • Ronald Reagan's Birthplace

Taylorville • Christian County Circuit Clerk • Oak Hill Cemetery

Teutopolis • Monastery Museum

Towanda • Dead Man's Curve

Troy Grove • Wild Bill Hickok State Memorial

Union • Illinois Railway Museum

University Park • Governors State University

Urbana • Natural History Building • U of I Pollinatarium • University of Illinois Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Vandalia • Jay's Inn • Kaskaskia Dragon • Vandalia City Hall • Vandalia Statehouse State Historic Site

Vienna • Big Boys Bar & Grill

Villa Park • Safari Land

Volo • Jurassic Gardens • The Party Barn at Volo Museum • Volo Museum • Volo Museum Auto Sales

Wadsworth • Gold Pyramid

Wapella • Prairie Built Barns Wapella

Washington • Lincoln Statue “Return Visit” Washington Park • Eddie's

Watseka • Smiley Face Water Tower

Waukegan • Club Tiki Bar & Video Slots • Waukegan Public Library • Waukegan Roofing | TPO Commercial Flat Roof Repair & Replacement

Wedron

Wenona • Coal Mine Car Monument

Westport • Lincoln Trail State Memorial

Wheaton • Armerding Center for Music and Arts • Billy Graham Museum • Jack T. Knuepfer County Administration Building • Wheaton College • Wheaton College Marion E Wade Center • Wheaton College Observatory (IL) • Wheaton Windmill Wheeling • Superdawg Drive-In

Whitehall

Willow Hill • Mound Cemetery

Willowbrook • Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket

Wilmette • Bahá'í House of Worship

Wilmington

Winnetka

Woodlawn

Woodridge • Hollywood Blvd Cinema

Woodstock • Royal Victorian Manor • Shoe Tree

Worth • Ball Fore Miniature Golf

0 notes

littletittie · 4 months ago

Text

Illinois

Fox River Grove • Bettendorf Castle

Freeport • Little Cubs Field • Union Dairy

Fulton • The Dutch Oven • Heritage Canyon • Windmill Cultural Center

Galena • Belvedere Mansion • U.S. Grant Home State Historic Site • West Street Sculpture Park

Galva • Galva City Police Department

Gardner • Streetcar Diner • Two Cell Jail

Gays • Two Story Outhouse

Geneva • Chicago Soccer Academy • Fabyan Windmill • Oak Hill Cemetery • Good Templar Park Association

Glen Ellyn • College of DuPage • College of DuPage, Health and Science Center

Glenview • Abt Electronics

Granite • Chain of Rocks Bridge • Everclean Car Wash • Granite City Park District

Grayslake • Lake County Farm Bureau

Greenville • DeMoulin Museum

Gridley • Telephone Museum of Gridley

Griggsville

Gurnee • El Rancho Motel

Hartford • Lewis & Clark Confluence Tower

Harvard • Five Point Park • RavenStone Castle

Hebron • Basketball Water Tower

Herod • Gap Bar • Garden of the God's • Herod Cave Historic Site • Shawnee Bigfoot Statue

Highland Park • Giant Hawk Head and Nest

Hillsboro • Abraham Lincoln Statue Plaza

Hillside • Mount Carmel Cemetery

Hinsdale • Robert Crown Center For Health Education

Homewood

HoopPole • St. Mary of the Fields Catholic Church

Hopewell • Whispering Giant Park

Hudson • Comlara Park

Hudsonville • Hutson Memorial Park

Inverness • Village of Inverness

Iuka • Quandt's Supply

Jacksonville • Brennan HVAC

Justice • Resurrection Cemetery

Kankakee • 5th Avenue Community Gardens • Alexander Construction and Innovative Mobile Marketing • American Legion Kankakee Post 85 • Dairy Queen

Kaskaskia • Kaskaskia Bell State Memorial

Kent • Blackhawk Battlefield Park

Kewanee

Lemont • Argonne Welcome Center Northgate

Lerna • Lincoln Log Cabin State Historic Site • Shiloh Cemetery • Thompson's Welding Service

Lexington • Crazy Presidential Elephant

Liberty

Libertyville • Lambs Farm

Lincolnshire • Par-King Skill Golf

Lincolnwood • Novelty Golf & Games

Livingston • Pink Elephant Antique Mall

Lockport • Lincoln Landing • Lockport Powerhouse

Loda • Loda Park

Lombard • Weber Grill Restaurant & Cooking School

Long Grove • Sock Monkey Museum

Lynnwood • Clarke's Garden Center & Stone Depot

Lyons • Chicago Portage National Historic Site

Macomb • Living Lincoln Topiary Monument

Makanda • Giant City State Park Lodge & Restaurant • Rainmaker Art Studio • Water Tower

Malta • Old School Pizza

Mapleton • Butler Haynes Pavilion • Hollis Park District

Marseilles • Middle East Conflicts Wall Memorial

Marshall • 1918 Brick National Road • World's Largest Gavel

Martinsville • Martinsville Agricultural Fair • Moonshine Store

Matanzas Beach

Mattoon • Burger King (Mattoon)

McCook • Welcome To Fabulous McCook Illinois Sign

Melrose Park • Kiddieland Amusement Park Sign

Metropolis • Big John Super Foods Store • Fort Massac State Park • kryptonite rock • Lois Lane Statue • Masonic Cemetery • Massac County Courthouse Annex • The Super Museum

Midlothian • Bachelor's Grove Cemetery

Milford

Mokena • Creamery

Moline

Monmouth

Morton • Red Barn Tree Shop

Mount Carroll • Raven's Grin Inn

Mount Morris • Illinois Freedom Bell

Mt Olive • Soulsby Shell Station • Union Miners Cemetery

Mt. Pleasant • Grave of King Neptune the Pig • Trail of Tears Welcome Center

Mt. Vernon • Mt.Vernon Overhead Door

Murphysboro • Holiday Inn Express & Suites Murphysboro-Carbondale

Nashville • The Traveler’s Chapel

Nauvoo • Nauvoo-Colusa Elementary/Jr High School

Newton • A-J Welding & Steel • Burl Ives Statue • Mug Tree

Niles • Booby's • Leaning Tower YMCA • Niles Veteran's Memorial Waterfall • President Abraham Lincoln bench • Veterans Memorial Monument Nilwood • Turkey Tracks on Route 66

Normal • Carl's Ice Cream Factory • Sprague's Super Service Station

Norridge • Westlawn Cemetery & Mausoleum

North Aurora • Scott's Vintage & Antiques

North Riverside • Caledonia Senior Living & Memory Care

Norway • Norwegian Settlers State Memorial

Oak Brook • Fullersburg Woods Nature Education Center

Oak Forest • King Heating and Air Conditioning

Oak Lawn • Cardinal Liquor Barn Inc

Odell • Standard Oil of Illinois Gas Station

Oglesby • The Rootbeer Stand • Starved Rock State Park

Olney • Olney Chamber of Commerce • Olney City Park • The Repair Shop

Oquawka • Norma Jean, Circus Elephant Monument

Oregon • Lowden State Park • Lowden State Park Campground • Oregon Park East

Ottawa • Ho-Ma-Shjah-Nah-Zhee-Ga Indian Monument • Lincoln-Douglas Park • Ottawa Avenue Cemetery • Remembering the Radium Girls • Shoe Tree • Volvo at Carling Motors Co. Limited

Palatine • Ahlgrim Family Funeral Services

Pana • Giant Hand with Painted Nails

Park Forest • Chinese House @ 428 N. Orchard Drive • Park Forest Rail Fan Park

Pekin • Double D's Soft Serve

Peoria Heights • Heights Tower

Peru

Petersburg • Oakland Cemetery

Piasa • Southwestern Middle School

Plainfield • Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202

Plano • Smallville Superfest

Pontiac • Burma Shave Signs • Livingston County War Museum • Route 66 Association of Illinois • Route 66 decommissioned Illinois State police headquarter

Port Byron • Will B. Rolling Statue

Princeton • Owen Lovejoy House • Red Covered Bridge

Quincy • St Peters Cemetery

Rantoul • Chanute Air Force Base (Decommissioned) • Hardy's Reindeer Ranch • Rantoul National Aviation Center Airport-Frank Elliott Field

Rend Lake • Rend Lake Golf Course Restaurant & Banquet

River Grove • Hala Kahiki Lounge

Riverdale • Riverdale, IL Water Tower

Roanoke

Rochelle • Vince's Pizza & Family Restaurant

Rock Island • Black Hawk State Historic Site • Chippiannock Cemetery • Rock Island Arsenal

Rockford • Beyer Peaches Stadium • Lockwood Park & Trailside Equestrian Centre • Midway Village Museum • Rock Men

Rolling Meadows • Rolling Meadows Park District Headquarters

Romeoville • White Fence Farm Main Restaurant

Rondout

Roscoe • Historic Auto Attractions

Roselle • Mark Drug Pharmacy and Home Health

Rosemont • Rosemont Water Tower Russell • Russell Military Museum

Salem • Pollard Motors

Sandwich • Bull Moose Bar & Grille • Sandwich City Hall • Sandwich Opera House

Savanna • Savanna Army Depot

Schaumburg • Al Larson Prairie Center For the Arts • Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament • Weber Grill Restaurant & Cooking School

Scott AFB • Scott Field Heritage Air Park

Seneca • LST Memorial Public Boat Launch

Shelbyville • Mobile Wedding Chapel & Wedding Ceremony • Shelby County Courthouse

Silvis • Hero Street Monument Committee

South Barrington • Goebbert's Farm - South Barrington

South Elgin • Fox Valley Trolley Museum

St. Anne • St. Anne Caboose

St. Charles • Ghoulish Mortals

St. Elmo • Driftstone Pueblo

Staunton • Henrys Rabbit Ranch

Stewardson • Moomaw Truck Alignment INC. Stickney • Mt. Auburn Cemetery

Stockton • Bottle Shed Bar & Pizzaria

Stone Park • Casa Italia

Streamwood • Spirit of America Car Wash

Streator • Canteen Monument • Pluto Coffee and Tea • Schultz Monument Co

Summit • Argo Community High School

Sycamore • Statue of Mr. Pumpkin

Tampico • Ronald Reagan's Birthplace

Taylorville • Christian County Circuit Clerk • Oak Hill Cemetery

Teutopolis • Monastery Museum

Towanda • Dead Man's Curve

Troy Grove • Wild Bill Hickok State Memorial

Union • Illinois Railway Museum

University Park • Governors State University

Urbana • Natural History Building • U of I Pollinatarium • University of Illinois Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Vandalia • Jay's Inn • Kaskaskia Dragon • Vandalia City Hall • Vandalia Statehouse State Historic Site

Vienna • Big Boys Bar & Grill

Villa Park • Safari Land

Volo • Jurassic Gardens • The Party Barn at Volo Museum • Volo Museum • Volo Museum Auto Sales

Wadsworth • Gold Pyramid

Wapella • Prairie Built Barns Wapella

Washington • Lincoln Statue “Return Visit” Washington Park • Eddie's

Watseka • Smiley Face Water Tower

Waukegan • Club Tiki Bar & Video Slots • Waukegan Public Library • Waukegan Roofing | TPO Commercial Flat Roof Repair & Replacement

Wedron

Wenona • Coal Mine Car Monument

Westport • Lincoln Trail State Memorial

Whitehall

Willow Hill • Mound Cemetery

Willowbrook • Dell Rhea's Chicken Basket

Wilmette • Bahá'í House of Worship

Wilmington

Winnetka

Woodlawn

Woodridge • Hollywood Blvd Cinema

Woodstock • Royal Victorian Manor • Shoe Tree

Worth • Ball Fore Miniature Golf

0 notes

brookstonalmanac · 11 months ago

Text

Events 12.22 (after 1950)

1963 – The cruise ship Lakonia burns 290 kilometres (180 mi) north of Madeira, Portugal with the loss of 128 lives. 1964 – The first test flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird) takes place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, United States. 1965 – In the United Kingdom, a 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. 1968 – Cultural Revolution: People's Daily posted the instructions of Mao Zedong that "The intellectual youth must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty." 1971 – The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France. 1973 – A Royal Air Maroc Sud Aviation Caravelle crashes near Tangier-Boukhalef Airport in Tangier, Morocco, killing 106. 1974 – Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration. 1974 – The house of former British Prime Minister Edward Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA. 1975 – U.S. President Gerald Ford creates the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in response to the 1970s energy crisis. 1978 – The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform. 1984 – "Subway vigilante" Bernhard Goetz shoots four would-be muggers on a 2 express train in Manhattan section of New York, United States. 1989 – Romanian Revolution: Communist President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu is overthrown by Ion Iliescu after days of bloody confrontations. The deposed dictator and his wife Elena flee Bucharest in a helicopter as protesters erupt in cheers. 1989 – German reunification: Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany. 1990 – Lech Wałęsa is elected President of Poland. 1990 – Final independence of Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia after termination of trusteeship. 1992 – During approach to Tripoli International Airport, a Boeing 727 operating as Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 1103 collides in mid-air with a Libyan Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23, killing 157 people. 1996 – Airborne Express Flight 827 crashes in Narrows, Virginia, killing all six people on board. 1997 – Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces. 1997 – Somali Civil War: Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt. It is the first major step towards reconciliation in Somalia since 1991. 1999 – Just after taking off from London Stansted Airport, Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 crashes into Hatfield Forest near Great Hallingbury, killing all four people on board. 2001 – Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Islamic State of Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai. 2001 – Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63. 2010 – The repeal of the Don't ask, don't tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama. 2016 – A study finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine against the Ebola virus between 70 and 100% effective, thus making it the first proven vaccine against the disease. 2017 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 2397 against North Korea is unanimously approved. 2018 – A tsunami caused by an eruption of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia kills at least 430 people and injures almost a thousand more. 2018 – The 2018–2019 United States federal government shutdown, the longest shutdown of the U.S. federal government in history, begins.

#Events

0 notes

kendrixtermina · 1 year ago

Note

where are you originally from? if answering this put you in an unsafe position please don't

Ah, that's a very long story.

I have lived in Germany as long as I can remember so I consider it to be my home country & the culture I grew up/identify with.

So If you ask me, I'd say I'm "from" the city of Kiel in Schleswig-Hollstein, though I've lived all over the Republic.

I was, however, born in Havanna, though I only lived there for 10 months. (there was a famine in the mid 90s which motivated my parents to flee, so technically we came to europe as refugees, though my mom had lived in europe before as a kid.)

I do speak some Spanish but I can't write it and my vocabulary is not enough for sophisticated discussion.

My father's family is from northern Spain, though they came to Cuba in the 1900s. My mom usually says she's 'half czech, half cuban'.

With the Czech & Spanish(on father's side) part of the family we know the particular tiny farm village the family is from where they have presumably lived since the migration period/dark ages.

He's from Galicia (that bit that sticks out a little next to portugal) which are actually the closest relatives of British islanders outside of britain. They play bagpipe and everything. So my father inda looks like your typical south european guy like spanish/italian/greek/south french etc but with those characteristic cheek bones & nose shapes you see in the british. Chubbier jenna coleman with curly hair.

That lead to an interesting situation where I commented under some American discussing their DNA test results "aww, my results would be boring, we're all from little cow villages europe" but the American person was actually jealous that I knew the exact places. So I guess it depends on your perspective.

It certainly is a privilege when you hear these stories of ppl being prevented from visiting where their granparents lived, whereas I could just pop over any time without even having border controls. Once time we drove past the area when going to prague for something & mom pointed out the mountains near that village (apparently my czech grandpa used to joke that they look like boobs and... he wasn't wrong XD)

My parents and I are banned from Cuba for life, though, if I recall correctly. Not my siblings who were born in Germany, however, one of my sisters visited once (result: the tree on the campus of the university my mom went to is alot bigger, and the beach our parents kept talking up really IS that pretty, but aside from that, everything got way worse since they left)

As for the Cuban grandma, she was adopted by a an afro-cuban lady who she considers her real mom, but he backstory there was, insofar as we're aware, that Dad fled Germany as a young man when the Nazis took over, got a girlfriend, and then left to go back & check on his family, giving the instruction that the kid be named 'victoria' if its a girl. (in honor of the defeat of the Nazis)

Alas, my grandma's bio mom got a proposal from a wealthy mexican guy while her bf was away, and ended up hiding the pregnancy and then abandoning the baby in the Caribbean. Mexican guy never found out she had a previous boyfriend or child.

The dad came to look for her a few times, but grandma was always away (once in Moscow for university, and then living in Prague with her husband), so we never found him.

The adopted mom was the one who taught my mom to cook as a kid, so this resulted in a situation where we had African Week at the university and I went there thinking I'd get to try something totally new ... and it's just mom's yellow rice with green beans and plantains fritters, but with more Chili.

So there's a lot of twists & turns, but in the end I'm basically just european, nothing too exciting really.

0 notes

themovieblogonline · 1 year ago

Text

A Million Miles Away Trailer - José Hernández's Astronaut Story

The new Prime Video movie A Million Miles Away releases on Friday, September 15, 2023, at 12 a.m. GMT. The movie dramatizes the life of astronaut José Hernandez as played by actor Anthony Pena. José faces many obstacles and struggles before realizing his lifelong goals of working for NASA and going to space. A story of Perseverance and Determination The film A Million Miles Away follows Hernandez and his devoted family of proud migrant farm workers on a decades-long journey. The story follows Hernandez's beginnings from a remote Mexican village to the San Joaquin Valley's fields to more than 200 miles in orbit around the Earth. With the unwavering help of his diligent parents, relatives, and teachers, José is able to accomplish his seemingly unattainable goal. Alejandra Márquez Abella, a celebrated author and director, has produced a stunning ode to the devotion and tenacity of the entire Hernández family as well as everyone who dares to dream. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-HcUuiLzR8 The movie was directed by award-winning director Alejandra Márquez Abella. Abella is also known for the films Semana Santa and Northern Skies Over Empty Space. Michael Pena plays the lead role in the film alongside a large ensemble of supporting roles. Alejandra Márquez Abella, Bettina Gilois, and Hernán Jiménez also co-wrote the script. Hernández's road to becoming a NASA astronaut was not without obstacles. Even after Hernandez accepted positions as an engineer at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. From what we can see in the trailer, fans are in for a lot! Fans can anticipate an intriguing character study that explores themes like resolve, hunger, and resilience. In the trailer, Pea quotes Hernández as saying, "Over the last 10 years, I have applied to the space program 12 times and I've been on the verge of giving up after each and every rejection. But, sir, you know what? I am here. You can decline me once more, but you can be sure that I'll be back here in a year.” Michael Pea leads the cast and appears in excellent shape in the trailer. He has given a richly nuanced and experienced performance. Read the full article

0 notes

movienation · 1 year ago

Text

Netflixable? A Mexican version of "The Great Seduction (La Gran Seducción)"

Every ten years, like clockwork, we get a new version of “La grande séduction.” And every ten years, I review it and find something charming in this “Northern Exposure” tale of a dying village lying, cheating and manipulating its way into “seducing” a doctor to move there to help save the place. The charms are always “slight,” and the first two versions of the film — a variation on the…

View On WordPress

1 note · View note

sweetalnazar · 3 years ago

Photo

Hello friends! For @mappingthearcana‘s worldbuilding event, I’ll be talking about Nopal, the Catclaw Desert and the Bulan Mountains.

PART ONE:

i. THE CATCLAW DESERT

ii. THE BULAN MOUNTAINS

PART TWO:

iii. NOPAL

My main focus is Nopal itself, but for the first post, we’ll be taking a look at the Catclaw Desert and the Bulan mountains, to understand how the three of them affect and relate to each other.

Much of this is inspired by the Chihuahuan Desert and Mexican culture, originally inspired by this post on how Nopal is similar to Northern Mexico and Southwestern US.

Feel free to point out any errors or anything~

i. 🏜️ THE CATCLAW DESERT 🌵🦋

- A subtropical desert that receives infrequent bouts of rainfall. The climate tends to be consistently dry, receiving a little more rainfall in winter

- However, there are semi-arid patches here and there, particularly closer to the mountains, where the effects of changing seasons are more apparent, like frost

- Throughout the desert, spring is usually signaled by the coming of flutters and flutters of butterflies, nicknamed the Great Butterfly Rains, where migrating butterflies pause at Catclaw

- Oases are scattered throughout the desert, typically populated by the many nomadic tribes of the desert

- The tribes might have their disagreements, but overall, they tend to cooperate and assist one another where they can. After all, a single grain of sand is no desert, just as no single person can survive alone in the harsh climate of Catclaw

- Merchant caravans traveling through the deserts are uncommon, due to the harsh conditions and maritime travel generally being more favored

- Nopal is the biggest permanent settlement in all of the Catclaw Desert

ii. 🌙⛰️ THE BULAN MOUNTAINS 🌽

- While the Bulan mountains is a semi-arid place, it experiences far more rainfall than its desert neighbor.

- On top of that, there is its large main river, often called the Verde river, due to the rich soil by the riverbanks that allow for plantlife and crops

- The river weaves through the entire length of the mountains themselves, creating a river canyon, and branches off into smaller streams. There are also small box canyons here and there

- Most of the larger settlements are focused around the rivers and streams, to help sustain crops and livestock

- Landslides and erosions can be a frequent problem during heavy rainfall. To prevent this, it is common practice to carry out intercropping or forestry activities, mostly along areas with little vegetation

- Maize, corn and wheat are common staple crops, among a variety of others. The Bulan Mountains are particularly well known for their Bluemoon corn, which comes in different colors

- Latifundias are the center of agricultural activities, whether it’s for management of crops or animal rearing and are either community-owned or privately owned.

- There is no limit to the number of latifundias in one area and the layout is reminiscent of our world’s haciendas

- Like Vesuvia, the settlements of the Bulan mountains have complex aqueduct systems, both for agricultural and domestic purposes. Indoor plumbing is not unusual, even in smaller villages

- Stucco is a common building material, and houses are often painted in bold, bright colors, helping to reflect some of the heat

- Occasionally, nomadic tribes from Catclaw will migrate to the Bulan mountains, especially in the cases where their oasis or local water source has dried up.

- Recent droughts and the lack of water in even Nopal has led to more tribes moving to the mountains, establishing new routes and camps

- River travel is one of the main modes of transportation, particularly for these tribes as they journey through the mountains. They often carry out trade with the towns and villages scattered throughout the mountains

–––––––––––––

- At the foot of the mountains, along the coast, efforts have been put into by several towns to establish a permanent port known as the Bintang port

- There is merchant activity, both within the mountains themselves and with the outside. This is mainly with Prakra and the Republic of Galibrada

- As a result, there’s quite a bit of cultural exchange. Silk can be found in many towns, as well as Prakran curry and naan bread

- Traveling to the other side of the mountains, towards the south, is often done via maritime travel rather than traveling through the desert

- On the rare chance they do travel by land, Nopal is often a stopping point

–––––––––––––

Thanks for reading! 🥰🥰 Look forward to Part Two~

#mapthearcana #the arcana game #the arcana headcanons #the arcana meta #the catclaw desert #the bulan mountains #the arcana fan edits #i had loads of fun coming up w these. i hope yall enjoy them!#if i slipped up. esp when it comes to mexican culture pls feel free to tell me #mimi's originals #writing by the mims #my brain: logically a subtropical desert shouldnt rly experience winter #me: its FANTASY & also i wrote this in Mines prequel fic SO WE RE MAKING IT WORK!!!#i would love love LOVE to talk abt how Balayu (Mines homeland) has also had cultural exchange w the mountains #considering its called the BULAN mountains #the Malay word for moon/month #but ehhh i ll save that for my fics #this is more of a guide for anyone to use

26 notes · View notes

sleepysera · 2 years ago

Text

8.22.22 Headlines

WORLD NEWS

India: Floods, landslides leave 40 dead (AP)

“At least 40 people have died and others are missing in flash floods triggered by intense monsoon rains in northern India over the past three days, officials said Sunday. The rains inundated hundreds of villages, swept away mud houses, flooded roads and destroyed bridges in some parts of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand states. The Indian Meteorological Department predicted that heavy to very heavy rain would continue to fall in the region for the next two days.”

China: Fights brush fires, extends power rationing in drought (AP)

“Brush fires have forced the evacuation of more than 1,500 people in southwest China and power rationing for factories has reportedly been extended as weeks of record heat and drought batter the region. Some shopping malls in the megacity of Chongqing have been ordered closed for most of the day to reduce electricity demand, state broadcaster CCTV said, limiting opening hours to 4 to 9 p.m.”

Mexico: Maya village’s water, future threatened by Mexican train (AP)

“Mexico’s ambitious Maya Train project is supposed to bring development to the Yucatan Peninsula, but along the country’s Caribbean coast it is threatening the Indigenous Maya people it was named for and dividing communities it was meant to help. One controversial stretch cuts a more than 68-mile (110-kilometer) swath through the jungle between the resorts of Cancun and Tulum, over some of the most complex and fragile underground cave systems in the world.”

US NEWS

Police Brutality: 3 Arkansas officers suspended after video captures beating (AP)

“Three Arkansas law enforcement officers were suspended, and state police launched an investigation after a video posted on social media showed two of them beating a suspect while a third officer held him on the ground. The officers were responding to a report of a man making threats outside a convenience store Sunday in the small town of Mulberry, about 140 miles (220 kilometers) northwest of Little Rock, near the border with Oklahoma, authorities said.”

Anthony Fauci: Stepping down after decades as top US infection expert (AP)

“Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert who became a household name — and the subject of partisan attacks — during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he will leave the federal government in December after more than five decades. Fauci directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden and also leads a lab studying the immune system.”

Floods: Hiker missing in Utah flooding as monsoon hits US Southwest (AP)

“Authorities have been searching for days for an Arizona woman reported missing after being swept away by floodwaters in Utah’s Zion National Park as strong seasonal rain storms hit parts of the U.S. Southwest. National Park Service officials said rangers and members of the Zion Search and Rescue Team were in the Virgin River area Sunday looking for Jetal Agnihotri, 29, of Tucson.”

#current events #news #india #floods #global warming #climate change #climate crisis #china #wildfire #mexico #maya #united states #police brutality #anthony fauci

4 notes · View notes