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zeldahime · 9 months ago

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Highway to Pail Bonus #2

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Bonus prompt 2: You had me at Merlot.

Keanu Hawke Harrison-Montoya, known to his friends as Halcón or Hal and to his coworkers and customers as Harry, hadn't exactly dreamed of giving wine tours in Sonoma Valley when he was a kid, but it paid okay and you met interesting people. Once some actor from like Ireland or something had been on one of his tours with his wife and oldest kid, and his sister had called him a couple days later to ask if he'd seen them, because the kid was her favorite character on the new Game of Thrones. Not exactly Johnny Depp levels of fame, but they'd been pretty nice and Brit was impressed.

Unfortunately, interesting does not always mean nice. Two of the customers on today's tour were both interesting and irritating as hell. He could tell already that by the time he got home to Pancho, he just was not going to have it in him to do date night, Wednesday or not. Maybe he'd be cool with just cuddling on the couch and watching some dumb reality TV.

The two guys were both middle-age and English and obviously loaded, but otherwise they physically were the opposite of each other in every way, like they'd been designed to be The Odd Couple in a kid's show. One looked like if the Easter Bunny was a gay professor, and the other like the former frontman in a broken-up Clash cover band who hadn't gotten a new personality yet. They argued with each other at the back of the pack like they were either: a) about to get divorced, or b) had never believed in marriage philosophically but nevertheless intended to be in one another's pockets for the next fifty years and die within five minutes of each other so they could continue arguing at the pearly gates. He would not have been surprised if one of them was an anarchist, although based on the boyfriends and girlfriends Pancho's cousins usually brought home, he figured it'd be Easter Bunny rather than Rocker. Every tight-laced looking one talked about the fine points of German philosophy and schemes they had to redistribute wealth to third-world countries and every punk-looking one introduced him to a new "Viking" rune he'd google later and find out was a Nazi symbol. (Desirée was not very good at picking boyfriends.)

It had been more than half an hour since Hal had begun this tour, and despite Easter Bunny saying several times "do be quiet, Crowley" and Rocker saying "shut up and listen, angel" just as often, neither of them had actually stopped talking that entire time. They were quiet, was the worst part, clearly trying to be polite to the other guests by keeping their conversation down, but the whispers were much more distracting than if they'd just talked at a normal conversational level and harder for Hal to call them out on.

His smile was starting to become plastic as they finally hit the first wine break and, hopefully, a break from the English couple's half-heard conversation. He poured the wine for his dozen guests and explained how wine-tasting worked for any newbies. Like he always did, he asked for the guests to first sniff the wine, see if it reminded them of anything. All but one obediently copied him, and most had the look of people who didn't smell anything in particular but didn't want to say so and look stupid; totally normal. Rocker, however, stuck his tongue into the glass, prompting Easter Bunny to nudge him and whisper "do try to act like a human, my dear," and Rocker, at a normal conversational volume, said "Merlot with notes of tea, angel, you'll like it for sure."

"Notes of tea! Very keen nose! That'll be the tannins," Hal said cheerfully, hoping to remind them that there were ten other guests plus him on this tour. "Anyone else smell anything?"

Easter Bunny at least had the grace to look a bit embarrassed. "Thank you, er," he squinted at his nametag, "Harry," presumably on behalf of Rocker, who just smirked and whispered something in what Hal thought was French. Hal assumed it was a Harry Potter joke, because it always was. He ignored them and smiled at the rest of the group.

A round of silent, politely confused faces stared back at him. "Time to taste!" he announced, modeling taking just one sip from his glass. The Englishmen, he noticed, drank their whole sample.

Christ alive. If these two were this annoying sober, he was not going to have fun dealing with them drunk.

Author's note:

I don't know a damn thing about wine, but I do know a bit about being an underpaid tour guide, and Air Conditioning would be the absolute worst. At least they'd tip well. All knowledge of wine comes from the Wikipedia article about Merlot.

Shout out to David, Georgia, and Ty Tennant in paragraph 1. Johnny Depp is mentioned because I read once that the studio had wanted to cast him as Crowley in the never-made movie, and also because he's the most famous person I didn't quite meet while living in a tourist town.

Hal is named after Keanu Reeves and Tony Hawke, and I figured he's probably about my age. Halcón is just Spanish for Hawk. I did Google to make sure it's not accidentally offensive or funny in some dialect like how Concha* can be, and some Mexican reality TV star is being called that because he's got an aquiline nose, so I think we're solid for California at the very least. If it is accidentally funny please let me know! I also liked how you could arguably get Hal from Harrison, via Harrison -> Harry -> misattribution of Harry to Henry -> Hal. Why does Hal come from Henry? Because English is weird.

*Concha means seashell and is a regular woman's name in Spain, a pastry in Mexico, and slang for vagina in Argentina.

#my writing #do it with style events #highway to pail #outsider pov #good omens #good omens fanfiction

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brookston · 1 year ago

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Holidays 7.11

Holidays

Advice to the Lovelorn Day

Bean Day (French Republic)

Beh Deinkhlan (Meghalaya, India)

Bowdler's Day

Celebration of the Golden Spurs (Flanders)

Convenience Store Day

Cow Appreciation Day

Day of the Bandoneón (Argentina)

Day of the Fire Fighter (Mexico)

Day of the Five Billion (1987)

Drummer Appreciation Day

Duel Day

Eleventh Night (Bonfire Night; Northern Ireland)

Flemish Community Day (Belgium)

International EcoBrick Day

International Essential Oils Day

International Richard Cheese Day

Ker Puja (Tripura, India)

Maritime Day (China)

Naadam (Mongolia)

National All American Pet Photo Day

National Cheer Up the Lonely Day

National Culture and Senior Citizens Day (Kiribati)

National Day of Remembrance of Victims of Genocide by Ukrainian Nationalists on Citizens of the Second Republic of Poland (Poland)

National Essential Oils Day

National Journalist Day (Chile)

National Maritime Day (China)

National Polyphenol Day

National Recovery Day

National 7-Eleven Day

National Swimming Pool Day

Orangeman’s Day (Canada)

Reading Guilt Day

Relisha Rudd Remembrance Day (DC)

Robert the Bruce Day (Scotland)

711 Day

Straw Free Day (Colorado)

Swimming Pool Day

To Kill A Mockingbird Day

World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day

World Fringe Day

World Independent Living Day

World Massage Day

World Population Day (UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Blueberry Muffin Day

Free Slurpee Day (7-11 Stores)

Hot Dog Night (Luverne, Minnesota)

International Raw Food Day

Make Your Own Sundae Day

National Mojito Day

National Rainier Cherry Day

National State Fair Food Day

Ramen Day (Japan)

Vegetarian Food Day

World Chocolate Day (Russia)

2nd Tuesday in July

Alpenfest begins (Gaylord, Missouri) [2nd Tuesday thru Saturday]

Carnival Tuesday (Saint Vincent and Grenadines) [2nd Tuesday]

Cow Appreciation Day [2nd Tuesday]

Independence Days

Mongolia (from China, 1921)

Polarveinn (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Benedict of Nursia (Christian; Saint)

Drostan of Dalcongaile (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Min (Ancient Egyptian harvest & fertility festival)

Feast of Theano (patron of vegetarianism)

Guru Rinpoche Day (Bhutan)

Imamat Day (Nizari Ismaili Shiʿi Muslims)

James, Bishop of Nisibis (Christian; Saint)

James McNeill Whistler (Artology)

Hidulphus (Christian; Saint)

Naadam begins (Three Games of Men Festival; Mongolia) [thru 7.15]

Next Generation Captain (Muppetism)

Olga of Kiev (Christian; Saint)

Pancho Villa Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Pius I, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Solstitium VII (Pagan)

St. Stephen of Hungary (Positivist; Saint)

World Population Day (Pastafarian)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Premieres

Alphas (TV Series; 2011)

Beechwood 4-5789, by The Marvelettes (Song; 1962)

Boyhood (Film; 2014)

Contact (Film; 1997)

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Film; 2014)

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (Animated Film; 2001)

Fleetwood Mac, by Fleetwood Mac (Album; 1975)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (US Film; 2007) [#5]

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Film; 2008)

Honky Tonk Women, by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1969)

Jesus Christ Superstar (Musical Play; 1971) [1st Stage Performance]

Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa (Novel; 1939)

My Bodyguard (Film; 1980)

The Newlywed Game (Game Show; 1967)

Orange Is the New Black (TV Series; 2013)

Porky’s Pet (WB LT Cartoon; 1936)

School for Scoundrels (Film; 1960)

Shall We Dance? (Film; 1997)

Sharknado (Film; 2013)

Snowpiercer (Film; 2014)

Sorry Not Sorry, by Demi Lovato (Song; 2014)

Space Oddity, by David Bowie (Song; 1969)

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (Novel; 1960)

Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh (Novel; 1993)

Wild Over You (WB LT Cartoon; 1953)

Today’s Name Days

Benedikt, Olga, Oliver (Austria)

Oleg, Olga (Bulgariaa)

Benedikt, Dobroslav, Olga (Croatia)

Olga (Czech Republic)

Josva (Denmark)

Asko, Askur (Estonia)

Eleonoora, Elli, Nelli, Noora (Finland)

Benoît, Olga, Yolande (France)

Benedikt (Germany)

Evfemia, Evfimia, Olga (Greece)

Lili, Nóra (Hungary)

Benedetto, Emanuele, Fabrizio, Olga (Italy)

Leonora, Lore, Svens, Varaidotis (Latvia)

Kipras, Kiprijonas, Pijus, Šarūnė, Vilmantas (Lithuania)

Kjell, Kjetil (Norway)

Benedykt, Cyprian, Kalina, Kallina, Kir, Olga, Pelagia, Pelagiusz, Pius, Placyd, Sawin, Wyszesława (Poland)

Eufimia (Romania)

Milota (Slovakia)

Benito, Olga (Spain)

Eleonora, Ellinor (Sweden)

Lusia, Olha, Olusia, Olia (Ukraine)

Alvia, Helga, Livia, Olga, Olive, Ollie, Oliver, Olivia, Quentin, Quincy, Quinn, Quintina, Quinton (USA)

Benoît, Alenka, Olga, Olya (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 192 of 2024; 173 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 28 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 2 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Wu-Wu), Day 24 (Geng-Wu)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 22 Tammuz 5783

Islamic: 22 Dhu al-Hijjah 1444

J Cal: 12 Lux; Fiveday [12 of 30]

Julian: 28 June 2023

Moon: 32%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 24 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Stephen of Hungary]

Runic Half Month: Feoh (Wealth) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 21 of 94)

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 21 of 31)

#calendar #Holidays

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zooterchet · 25 days ago

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Alice O'Neill (Resident Evil):

1947: Ninth child. Born, same year as Roswell. Sibling Marie, hospital nurse student, called to US Army, to study "Roswellians".

1961: Graduation from highschool, age 16, one month after turning.�� Valedictorian, keynote address, delivered to Kennedy; "Vietnam War Address".

1965: Bachelor's in the Humanities, English Literature, Naval ROTC, complete. Semenal literature, adaptation as insects and arachnids, mutations as octopoids and higher forms. Question, which is native fauna to Earth, spiders or humans.

1969: Student teaching complete, tenure signed; slave contract. Mass psychotic break to African students planning school shootings, precognition observed predicting combination lock of gun held by black student out of Dorchester. "Fat Albert" characters created, signed through campus UMass-Amherst student, William "Bill" Cosby.

1972: Feminist rally, Northern Ireland, "Scottish"; Irish pistol taught, study project of "Morton's Salt"; Charlebois owned, having traveled Pancho family, Great Lakes salt, to Lake Ponterchain. Poverty of Kiwis, bearing shame of improper salt mining, Louisiana; actually owned by Saoirse, poverty founders of Eire.

1973: Meeting with Michael Charlebois, outside "Rusty Scupper"; alien life forms, "Men in Black Hats", chasing. Michael Charlebois, asthmatic, pulls asthma pin; Alice known for smoking cigarettes, cause of temporary defenstration of alien life forms.

1975: Mugging of Whitey Bulger, for Sanjay Gupta's nursing unit, MI-6; war between Lennoxes, Northern Irish, and Bulgers, Lincoln German, breaks out, in Boston. Most costly mob war that Boston has known, splitting the liquor guilds, and the nursing guilds; Boston, Providence, and New York City, slip into drug rehabilitation efforts, fought over by police and nurses.

1979: Marriage to Michael Charlebois, after hypnotic treatment at Boston hospital, ordered by CIA Banditos and FBI agent, Steven Charlebois; "Hey Jude", played to headphones, finger painting.

1985: Birth of David Charlebois; given official statue, as "Casey Jones", from boyfriend and son combined, "April O'Neil"; "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" airs, product of mother, attempting to recover from severe imbibement of remedial healthcare medication.

1995: ECT of mother, given catch falsely, against George Soros's proper supervision, of Hopkinton "REACH" program; son qualifies except for memorization tiles, demonstrating intelligence quotient, not orders predictability.

1999: Suicide induced by police, after father of Carlin Sarkesian found without eyeball; school shooting feared imminent. Son, David Charlebois, narrowly trips and triggers suicide, on indirect orders, of own life. Qualifies, CIA agent, Hopkinton PD, Chief of Police.

Kano, Mortal Kombat, Wins.

#4chan #matrix #massachusetts #dune #spider man

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brookstonalmanac · 1 year ago

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Holidays 10.8

Holidays

Air Force Day (India)

Alvin C. York Day

American Touch Tag Day

Arbor Day (Namibia)

Back to Basics Day

Battle of Angamos Day (Peru)

Children’s Day (Iran)

Cold Dew (Chinese Farmer’s Calendar)

Colorism Awareness Day

Commonwealth Culture Day (Northern Mariana Islands)

Cosmopolite's Day

Discoverer’s Day (Hawaii)

Father’s Day (Sweden)

International Birth Registration Day

International Earth Cache Day

International Lesbian Day

International Octopus Day

International Off-Road Day

International Percy Jackson Day

International Podiatry Day

Lawyer Day (Ukraine)

Lovable Lawyers Day

National Arab American Voter Day

National Day of the Cowboy Boot

National Education Day (Kiribati)

National Harbormaster Appreciation Day

National Hero Day

National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day

National Justin Day

National Lance Day

National Mall Walking Day

National Read to a Child Day

National Shea Day

National Traveller Mental Health Day (Ireland)

Navy Day (Peru)

Nude Beach Party Day (Baker Beach, California)

Pumpkin Day (French Republic)

San Ernesto Day

Semana Morazánica (Honduras)

Tacksägelsdagen (Thanksgiving; Sweden)

Tube Top Day

Virgin Islands/Puerto Rico Friendship Day

World Circular Textiles Day

World Dyslexia Day

World MCT8-AHDS Day

World Octopus Day

World Sight Day

World Teachers’ Day (Kiribati)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Birthday of the Microbrewery

National Fluffernutter Day

National Pierogi Day

National Salmon Day

Ziua Vinului (Wine Day 2 of 2; Moldova)

2nd Sunday in October

Bokbierdag (National Bock Beer Day; The Netherlands) [ website ] [2nd Sunday]

Clergy Appreciation Day (a.k.a. Pastor Appreciation Day or Ministry Appreciation Day) [2nd Sunday]

Drink Local Wine Week begins [2nd Sunday]

Father-Daughter Day [2nd Sunday]

Good Thief Sunday [2nd Sunday]

Grandmother's Day (Florida; Germany) [2nd Sunday]

Grandparents’ Day (Hong Kong) [2nd Sunday]

Pastor Appreciation Day (a.k.a. Ministry Appreciation Day) [2nd Sunday]

Shojo Festival (Narumi Hachimangu, Nagoya, Japan) [2nd Sunday]

White Sunday (American & Western Samoa) [2nd Sunday]

World Day of Aunts & Uncles [2nd Sunday]

Independence Days

Croatia (from Yugoslavia, 1991)

Stardom of Bimba (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Aequinoctium Autumnale IV (Pagan)

Albertus Magnus (Positivist; Saint)

Bearing of Green Branches (Ancient Athens)

Bridget of Sweden (Christian; Saint)

Cornelis Troost (Artology)

Demetrius (Christian; Saint)

Evodus (a.k.a. Yves; (Christian; Saint)

Grandpa Mullally (Muppetism)

Hans Heysen (Artology)

Keyne (Celtic; Christian; Saint)

Max Slevogt (Artology)

Palatias and Laurentia (Christian; Saint)

Pelagia the Penitant (Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches)

Reparata (Christian; Saint)

San Ernesto, Che Guevara as a folk saint (Bolivian campesinos)

Sawney Beane Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Simeon (Gospel of Luke; Christian; Saint)

Tell Massive Lies Day (Pastafarian)

Thaïs (Christian; Saint)

William Dwight Porter Bliss and Richard T. Ely (Episcopal Church)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 281 [60 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (Radio Series; 1944)

Badmotorfinger, by Soundgarden (Album; 1991)

Claus and Effect or Yule Be Sorry (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 220; 1963)

The Color of Money (Film; 1986)

Demolition Man (Film; 1993)

Ed (TV Series; 2000)

Flying Tigers (Film; 1942)

Friday Night Lights (Film; 2004)

Great Balls of Fire, recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis (Song; 1957)

Hopalong Casualty (WB LT Cartoon; 1960)

Imagine, by John Lennon (Song; 1971)

It’s Kind of a Funny Story (Film; 2010)

Les Misérables (Musical Play in English; 1985)

Little Pancho Vanilla (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)

Muppet’s Haunted Mansion (Film; 2021)

A Murder of Quality, by John le Carré (Novel; 1962)

My Favorite Year (Film; 1982)

No Time to Die (US Film; 2021) [James Bond #27]

Nowhere Boy (Film; 2010)

Remain in Light, by Talking Heads (Album; 1980)

Romeo and Juliet (Film; 1968)

Rumble Fish (Film; 1983)

The Second Hundred Years (Short Film; 1927) [1st Laurel & Hardy Film]

Secretariat (Film; 2010)

Snowbank Squirrel or Bullwinkle Gets the Drift (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 219; 1963)

Song of the South (Animated Disney Film; 1980)

Spartacus (Film; 1960)

Stage Door (Film; 1937)

Too Many Girls (Film; 1940)

Unseen Academicals, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 2009) [Discworld #37]

The Waves, by Virginia Woolf (Novel; 1931)

World End’s Harem (Anime Series; 2021)

Today’s Name Days

Simeon (Austria)

Demetrije, Hugo, Pelagija, Šimun, Zvonimir (Croatia)

Věra (Czech Republic)

Ingeborg (Denmark)

Hilja, Hilje, Hilju (Estonia)

Hilja (Finland)

Pélagie, Thaïs (France)

Gerda, Günther, Hannah, Laura (Germany)

Pelagia (Greece)

Koppány (Hungary)

Pelagia (Italy)

Aina, Anastasija, Aneta, Anita (Latvia)

Brigita, Daugas, Demetra, Gaivilė (Lithuania)

Benedikte, Bente (Norway)

Artemon, Bryda, Brygida, Demetriusz, Laurencja, Marcin, Pelagia, Pelagiusz, Symeon, Wojsława (Poland)

Brigita (Slovakia)

Hugo, Thais (Spain)

Nils (Sweden)

Demetria, Demetrio, Demetrius, Demi, Dimitri, Stewart, Stuart (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 281 of 2024; 84 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 40 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 6 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 24 (Ji-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 23 Tishri 5784

Islamic: 23 Rabi I 1445

J Cal: 11 Shù; Foursday [10 of 30]

Julian: 25 September 2023

Moon: 30%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 1 Descartes (11th Month) [Albertus Magnus]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 15 of 89)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 15 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Descartes (Modern Philosophy) [Month 11 of 13; Positivist]

#Holidays

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metalindex-hu · 1 year ago

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Burning Sun – Wake of Ashes 2023

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Burning Sun – Wake of Ashes 2023

Mint azt már a hónap elején hírül adtuk a hazai power metal egén új csillag tűnt fel, mely nem más, mint Papi Zoltán által életre hívott projekt, a Burning Sun. A csapatot elsősorban Zoltán és Pancho Ireland alkotja. A lemezen olyan nemzetközi előadók tűnnek fel, mint Alessio Perardi, Cederick Forsberg, Kulcsár Edmond, Alena Krákorová, Barabás Róbert.

A július 31.- én napvilágot látott lemez borítóját Papi Zoli elképzelése alapján, Alan Lathwell festette, aki többek között a Blazon Stone, Iron Kingdom stb. zenekaroknak is készített borítót.

A lemez hangzásvilágát a ’90- es évek power metal-ja ihlette, mint pl. Halloween, Grave Digger. A Wake of Ashes nem egy koncept album, mégis végig kísérhetjük ‘Emaly‘ harcát a gonosz, élőhalott lényekkel, aki a Szent Fény erejével megvédi a Királyságot.

Az album első dala ‘Emaly’ egy igazán pörgős, ámde dallamos szerzemény. Olyan, amilyennek egy első dalnak lennie kell, bemutatva főhősünket, aki Zoli ‘World of Warcraft‘ karaktere. A basszus alapok és a dobok annyira tökéletesen kísérik a zenét, fel sem tűnik, hogy nem élő dobot hallunk. Olyan precizítással bír a keverés, masterelés, hogy le a kalappal Alessio Perardi előtt, aki még a 4., Hundred Lions dalban énekel, és gitározik is.

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Na de ne szaladjunk ennyire előre, hiszen a Bend the World visz tovább a maga gyors lendületével, melynek a zenei része Grave Digger– es, ettől olyan zseniális. Visz a lendület, visz a harc szelleme, szinte pillanatok alatt elillan az a 3:40 perc és belecsöppenünk a harmadik, Way of the Paladin nótába. Szövegét tekintve tele van erővel, energiával, melyhez lendületes tempó is párosul. Pancho remek, magas énekhangjával, tökéletes gitártémákkal szinte átéljük ezt az energiát. Ebben a dalban fellelhetünk kicsit lassabb részeket de mit sem veszít a lendületből.

A Hundred Lions érdekessége, hogy a dalt Alessio Perardi, az olasz Airborn zenekar vezetője is és ennek az albumnak a hangmérnöke- énekelte fel és gitározta. A dalban ‘Emaly‘ a Szent Fény erejével felveszi a kesztyűt az élőhalottakkal, megspékelve lendületes gitárriffekkel, gitárszólókkal, tökéletes basszus alappal.

A Templar’s Verdict Grave Digger nyomait hordozza, igazi menetelős power metal dalocska már-már némi thrash keménységgel. Ez a dal a kedvencem.

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Golden Wings elején érzem a lendületet, mely a refrénnél kicsit alább hagy. A gitárszólók nagyon jól megírtak, akár a dobtémák.

Majd jön az ugyancsak gyors, pörgős Darkfang Keep, amely egy kastély, ahová főhősünk megérkezik és a dal elején üdvözlik is. Nagyon eltalált dal a dallamát és a refrén tekintetében is. Nem megy ki az ember fejéből.

A lemez záró dala, az Under the Burning Sun a leghosszabb, a maga 5.53 percével, melyet különlegessé tesz Alena Krákorova női vokálja. A dal mondanivalója azt sugallja, hogy le kell győznünk a bennünk rejlő félelmet. Mindezen mondanivalót fülbemászó dallamokkal, hömpölygő gitárfolyamokkal, mennydörgő basszus riffekkel elevenítette meg a Burning Sun.

további linkek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3K90YtOKYU&list=OLAK5uy_kw3x3w3bH2T_2wKcnghHnMGH7As_1OlIw

https://open.spotify.com/album/5OPIz01AcXpj1ttO3sf73B?si=BBH0w9yNT9WJc-QpvTd99g

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/dp/B0CBW4RRBN/ref=sr_1_6?crid=2AMJ9EY3SSVIC&keywords=wake+of+ashes&qid=1690790655&sprefix=wake+of+ashes%2Caps%2C100&sr=8-6

#Hírek #lemezkritika

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k2kid · 4 years ago

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On the night of July 26/27 men of the 18th Battalion carried out a “minor trench raid”. The weather was “Fine but dull”[i] on that day. In that raid were two men, originals with the Battalion, who both have quite different stories.

Private Forrester

Private Alfred Forrester, reg. no. 53648[ii] war service started out rather shaky. Having enlisted at St. Thomas on the 26th of October 1914. He was an early recruit which may have indicated his willingness to service his King and Empire by joining the 18th Battalion so early in its recruitment drive. But, as things turned out, Private Forrester would cause a significant bit of trouble for the Battalion during its sojourn of training at London, Ontario.

On, or about, February 15, 1916 Private Forrester deserted. He was captured on February 16 and a headline in the Galt Reporter stated dramatically in a clipping on the 17th that Forrester “May Be Shot”[iii] referring to his escape and the apparent pursuit of him by “Col. Wigle’s mounted policemen” because, as the article claimed, that during his escape attempt Forrester had “nearly” murdered his guard.

The day prior to this dramatic announcement the London Free Press[iv] was to go on record in an article on the 16th that Forrester had recently received a letter from his mother stating how proud she was of his service:

“I was more than proud to know that my son had joined with the Canadian troops to fight for old England. I cannot tell you with how much pleasure I am looking forward to seeing you when you arrive in England.”

The article had not been able to determine the reason for Forrester’s desertion but emphasized how seriously Lt. Colonel Wigle was taking the desertion at the Battalion level quoting him that if Forrester was found guilty he would spend the rest of the war at the Kingston Penitentiary. He further elaborated that deserting after all this training made this type of desertion “worst of all” and that the Battalion had suffered “very few desertions.”[v]

The plot was thickened when The London Advertiser [vi]reported in a short article that Forrester claimed that he had been “doped” and “stripped” of his uniform in a local hotel and was afraid to go back to his unit in this state.

After his arrest he had escaped and had hidden in a shanty belonging to the Grand Trunk Railway. The manhunt for Forrester extended so far as Sarnia with a complement of soldiers from that area entering the United States to search and apprehend him, if found. The London Advertiser[vii] shared that the contingent of soldiers had to surrender their arms at the Canadian Immigration office and that it was, perhaps, the first time in 100-years that Canadian uniformed troops had entered U.S. soil. The detachment took a ferry over as it had been reported that Forrester was heading to Sarnia and they extended the search to Port Huron, Michigan.

Forrester had not made it that far.[viii] He was discovered in a Grand Trunk Railway shanty in East London and a Grand Trunk employee, Felix Fenny, was being investigated as he was under suspicion of aiding Forrester with his escape by shielding him from his pursuers. Detectives investigated and found that Fenny and his co-worker were assisting the authorities in the apprehension of the deserter as he hid in the oil house.

Forrester’s court martial occurred on March 23, 1916 with Lt.-Col. Wilson, and Captains Spry and Folder presiding.[ix] The outcome was announced on April 7, 1915. Private Forrester was not guilty of desertion but was guilty of being absent without leave. His sentence was recorded in the news clipping as 28-days hard labour.[x]

With that, the Battalion, along with Forrester, headed off to England, and the next stage of war.

Private Martin

Private William Martin, reg. no. 54172[xi], on the other hand, had a relatively normal and uneventful service career until he saw active service at the front line.

Enlisting on February 2, 1915, at London, Ontario his service record gives not indication of what kind of soldier he was before the Battalion went overseas in mid-April. Private Martin’s service record is missing documentation from his enlistment to his embarkation to England so there is no point of comparison to make between the two soldiers. However, his service record overseas has several entries illustrating he, too, was not a model soldier. In November 1915 he is charged and convicted with the sentence of Field Punishment No. 2 for theft and damaging private property. Six months would pass, and he was convicted of being absent without leave for 10 hours and elicits a 14-day stint of Field Punishment No. 1. Not 20-days pass and he is charged with being absent from a fatigue and is given 5-days of Field Punishment No. 1.

He was not able to get in too much more trouble after that, for, on July 26, 1916, it is reported that he is wounded by “bomb[xii] fragments to chest”.

The Raid with Forrester and Martin

Though these men were different in age, martial status, occupations, and status of their service records, they both served together on the raid the Battalion instigated on the night of July 26th and 27th. We know that they participated in the raid as the report specifically mentions them by as a report submitted to the 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade identifies Privates Forrester and Martin specifically as scouts.

Being so designated gives one an idea of the value of these soldiers to the Battalion.[xiii] Scouts were an elite component of a Battalion, given separate accommodations and other privileges in recognition that their duties required an additional risk for the soldier:

“Scouts should be picked men, selected for their character, physique, intelligence, and education. They should have good sight and hearing, and be expert shots.

Scouts should be men who volunteer for the work, which is often hard and dangerous. They should, therefore, receive encouragement, being excused from other duties when possible, and helped in the matter of changing clothes, and obtaining hot coffee or rum or something extra on return from a hard night’s work. The fact of a man being a Scout should never stand in the way of his promotion; rather it should help him towards promotion.”[xiv]

Forrester and Martin would have volunteered or been selected in the role of scout, clear recognition of their skills as soldiers, and the confidence the scouting officer had in them as soldiers.

In this raid Forrester distinguishes himself as reported:

“Patrol left crater at 12.15 a.m. and proceeded about 60 yards down valley towards enemy line. On being fired on by enemy patrol moved NORTH about [ten] yards. A German listening post occupied by two men was discovered in a shell-hole, both men disappearing when patrol appeared. SCOUT FORRESTER followed enemy into listening post and found it to consist of [a] shaft leading apparently from an old mine gallery.

The shaft had been recently entrenched as the timbers were new and this spot had previously been reconnoitered. The walls were shored, an excellent shaft-head having been built. Six feet from surface was a small platform head and from the platform [illegible] the shaft was a ladder. Bombs where thrown down shaft [in an] endeavour made to induce enemy to come out but they had fled alarming the garrison”[xv]

Report of Patrol. 4th Canadian Infantry Battalion. Appendix 4. July 1916 War Diary.

From this description Forrester displayed aggression and initiative in a difficult situation. The patrol was in enemy territory, unfamiliar ground by any standard, even with preparation, and to add more difficulty, the action was in the dark. Venturing off to investigate a tunnel, trench, or gallery could result in some unpleasant surprises. But Forrester forged forward into the unknown to learn about the enemy environment.

From the description of the reports made by the officers involved in the raid Forrester’s actions appear to have been significant enough to warrant the awarding of the Military Medal. He was gazetted with the medal on September 1, 1916.

The outcome for Martin was different.

During the action he was severely injured by a German grenade. From the War Diary and the three post-action reports we can deduce the circumstances of the wounding. The War Diary states simply, “Position as yesterday. 2 o.r.s. sick 6 o.r.s. wounded admitted to hospital. Scouts and bombers made raid on enemy trench.”[xvi] One of the reports is more explicit:

“The party, having been discovered, and not being able to do any further business in the front line, made a concerted dash on the 2nd line, bombers covering the charge. The party were brought to a sudden stop by heavy wire entanglements and it being impossible to make further progress returned under a heavy bombing defence. The enemy appeared to have the range from support to the front trench very accurately, because most of the bombs fell there, our casualties were 1 severely wounded – Martin – 6 wounded of which 3 are slight and 2 missing.”[xvii]

Martin was wounded somewhere between the 2nd and 1st (front) line of the German trench system. He may have been wounded on the ground above the trenches, or in a communication or main trench. In his state he was most likely a stretcher case and the report mention the important role the stretcher bearers and the support complement had in supporting the riad as they “…rendered valuable service.” No doubt by helping to retrieve Private Martin after he was wounded, along with the other soldiers what were noted as wounded.

Martin was in a bad way. On July 28, 1916, the officer commanding No. 3 Casualty Clearing Station (CCS) reported that he was “DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED”. A most detailed log of his care war kept. This document, in the author’s experience, is unique. The care at a CCS was to be brief. Give immediate surgery or care to stabilize the cases that needed further medical attention with further shipment to hospitals in France or to England for the seriously wounded. In the case of Martin, the entries outline relates the care for this soldier from July 28 to August 8, 1916. The medical authorities wanted to stabilize him for the trip to another hospital. His condition was so dire and complex that the dare not move him until it was safe to do so.

No. 13 General Hospital, Boulogne.

He was transported, initially, to No. 13 General Hospital in Boulogne, and then forwarded to the 4th Scottish General Hospital in Stobhill, Glasgow, arriving on August 13, 1916. His wound was reported as suppurating and was packed with gauze. Martin also had a fever that was reported on August 14 to range for 99.6 degrees to 103.4 degrees. His condition was not improving and on August 25th the medical records indicate that his temperature ranged from 101 and 107[xviii].

Medical entry in Martin’s service record indicating severity of his fever. Author believes last temperature recorded reads “107” degrees.

Private Martin’s condition became dire, and the medical authorities decided to operate, but Martin, “Died under influence of chloroform before operation proposed for drainage of pleural cavity,” on August 26th, 1916, a month, to the day, of his wounding.

Aftermath

Forrester and Martin were both scouts. Elite soldiers of the 18th and were tasked with being involved in a complex raid with other supporting troops of the Battalion, along with coordination of other arms, such as machine guns and artillery. They carried out their assignments and the report specifically shares one of the courageous, if not fool hardy actions, of Private Forrester. The men of the raid engage the enemy in with rifle fire and bombing which provoked the quick reaction of the Germany forces gives a clear indication of their doctrine regarding counterattacking opposing forces that were engaged in raiding. The officer’s comments about the accuracy of the German bombing is indicative of the organization and practice the Germans may have implemented to ensure that the use of grenades would be effective, even in the case of darkness. The moon was a waning crescent that night, which would offer little illumination (11%) but as reported the weather during the action was, “…dark and extremely misty.”

Forrester would earn the Military Medal, possibly for the action of this raid.

Martin would die from his wounds and be buried in his native Belfast.

Forrester would survive the war. But, again, he was a problematic soldier. A good fighter maybe, but his indiscipline would continue, and his case would continue to be unusual and unique.

After the trench raid he served until he was wounded on September 17, 1916[xix], at the Somme. He was transported to England for treatment and discharged early in November. At some point after that he is admitted to the Canadian Military Hospital, Hastings, for psychasthenia[xx] in February 1917 which appears to be related to a head wound. He also appears to have suffered issues with his memory as well, and the military authorities release him from service due to his psychasthenia.[xxi] He signs a “Statement On Discharge” form at Buxton on April 29, 1917 and then returned to Canada via the S.S. Grampian on May 4, 1917. Upon his return to Canada he was assigned outpatient status and attended an M.C.H. facility and, on or about June 12, 1917, was declared illegally absent.

Private Alfred Forrester was actually Alfred Reginald Ermekeil and a news article that appeared in the Sherbrooke (Quebec) Daily Record on May 11, 1931, tells the story:

“VETERAN SERVED IN WAR UNDER DIFFERENT NAMES

One Name Assumed to Conceal His German Ancestry and Others Taken During Lapses of Memory Caused by Head Wounds

OTTAWA, Ont., May 11.-A veteran who served in two armies under three fictitious names on Saturday was given an honorable discharge here as Alfred Reginald Ermekeil. Mr. Ermekeil, who now lives in Cleveland, Ohio, enlisted in the expeditionary forces of both Canada and the United States during the war and was given the military medal for bravery by Canada. One name was assumed to conceal his German ancestry and the others were taken during lapses in memory caused by head wounds received overseas.

Ermekeil’s military career contains all the incidents of sensational motion picture. Although born in Staffordshire, England, he feared his German ancestry might be a bar to his enlistment and when he joined the Canadian Expeditionary forces at St. Thomas, Ont., in October, 1914, he took the name of Forrester. In France he received the military medal for gallantry in action. During the second Somme offensive he was struck in the forehead by flying shrapnel and was invalided home to Canada.

Placed in the military hospital in London, Ont., he suffered a loss of memory and unaware he had already served in Frances, enlisted as Alfred Morgan. One day an officer in his military unit chanced upon the military medal. After and investigation, the veteran was identified as Forrester. In recognition of his services he was made a sergeant and later went to the United States to encourage recruiting.

Another lapse of memory occurred and again Ermekeil obeyed his instinct for army life. This time he joined the 17th United States Calvary at Columbus, Ohio, and was sent to Fort Sherman as bombing instructor. When he was able to piece the past together he got in touch with the Canadian authorities and was discharged from the Canadian forces in 1920 with a pension of six dollars a month. In the meantime, he had married.

He eventually decided to have his right name established in the Canadian Records. He is now listed at the National Defense Department under that name and the Canadian authorities have decided to raise his pension from six dollars to twenty-five a month, retroactive to 1920.

Ermekeil’s military experience is not confined to the Canadian and United States armies. In 1912 he served under Pancho Villa in Mexico and escaped across the border into Texas when the tide of battle turned against Villa’s army.”

Another news story from the Ottawa Citizen with some additional detail of Forrester/Ermekeil’s experiences.

A Reginald Ermekeil arrived via the S.S. Canada at Quebec on August 7, 1910. He age was 20-years old and his country of birth was England. This circumstantial evidence indicates this is Private Forrester/Ermekeil as his date of birth on December 1, 1889 would make him 20-years old if he arrives aboard the Canada. The 1911 Canadian census has no record of anyone with this surname lending to credence to his Pancho Villa adventure. We cannot be certain he was not in Canada and simply was not recorded in the census. But we cannot say he was not having his military adventure in Mexico.[xxii]

The now Ermekeil continued to live in Cleveland, Ohio, until his death in 1973.

From the report of a raid the world of the two men mentioned is expanded into a story rich with detail and interest. One, a butcher, is horribly wounded and is retrieved from certain death by brave, and often forgotten, stretcher bearers to be treated in a forlorn hope that he would recover. His injuries were too much, and he was to die during a last, and futile, effort to save his life. He is not a model soldier, but he has earned the designation of scout, indicating that his martial skills were above average than the other soldier of his battalion. Perhaps his behaviour was part of a rebellious spirit that reflected on a recognized conception that, as a scout, Martin was putting his life at higher rate of risk than the average soldier of the Battalion. A little leeway could be given if he was insubordinate, as he was more likely to be wounded or die, compared to his compatriots.

Regardless, he served and gave the full measure of devotion to duty. A small consolation was him being buried in his hometown, near his bereaved family.

Forrester, on the other hand, seemed to err on the side of testing the very limits of military justice before the Battalion is shipped out to England. His involvement in the circumstances leading to him being stripped of his uniform in a hotel room led to a series of actions that almost resulted in serious repercussions. The Battalion meted out military justice considering his circumstances and was rewarded with a soldier who expressed a documented expression of soldierly aggression and initiative during the trench raid, as recognized by his Military Medal.

Forrester’s behaviour is good, save for a notation of receiving 10-days of FP No. 1 for “malingering” on December, 20, 1915, his military record is clean of demerits or charges of any type, until he returns to Canada after his last wounding. There is a note of him having a medically recognized cognitive impairment, his psychasthenia, but this notation is the only mention of this condition. It is not until he arrives at London, Ontario that his behaviour leads to his desertion leading to the fantastic story of him taking on another alias when he enlists, again, with the CEF. His military record is recognized as valuable enough to have him assigned to recruiting British Nationals in the United States, where, he again, disappears again and joins the United States Army. All this occurs under the actual or simulated loss of memory resulting from the head wound (an possibly concerns of his behaviour due to his psychasthenia) that led to his discharge.

Reginal Ermekeil lived to 80-years old and died in his adopted city of Cleveland. One wonders what his reminisces were about regarding his service with the 18th Battalion. Obviously, the resolution of his rank in relation to his pension was important to him and led him to revisit his desertion and ask the Canadian Military to assist him to receive the pension due a sergeant. A soldier who served with previous battalion; who deserted its regiment; rejoining the CEF to serve in another country; deserting that duty to serve in another country’s armed forces.

Not necessarily the stuff of legend, but most unusual and colourful.

[i] Record – Library and Archives Canada. (2020). Retrieved 12 September 2020, from https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/CollectionSearch/Pages/record.aspx?app=fonandcol&IdNumber=2005800

[ii] Service Record at Library and Archives Canada. Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 3208 – 40 Item Number: 395840

[iii] Galt Daily Reporter. February 17, 1916. Page 1.

[iv] The London Free Press. February 16, 1916. Page 1.

[v] The blog article, The Bryant/Drouillard Wedding Mystery, delves into one of the more interesting desertions to occur to the Battalion before it embarked for England. The mystery is solved at this article.

[vi] London Advertiser. February 18, 1916. Page 1.

[vii] London Advertiser. February 18, 1916. Page 7.

[viii] London Advertiser. February 19, 1916. Page 13.

[ix] London Advertiser. March 22, 1916. Page 3.

[x] London Advertiser. April 7, 1916. Page 3.

[xi] Service Record at Library and Archives Canada. Reference: RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 5998 – 53 Item Number: 202231

[xii] “Bomb” and “bombing refer to the use of grenades.

[xiii] For more information about scouts in the 18th Battalion see the blog post “Scouts should be picked men…” Note that Forrester and. Martin are not identified as scouts in the article for August 4, 1915 while the Battalion was training in England.

[xiv] US Army War College. (1918). Scouting and Patrolling: A reprint of and Official British Document (p. 7). Washington, D.C.

[xv] Appendix 4. 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade War Diary. July 1916. Accessed September 15, 2020.

[xvi] Edwards, E. (2020). War Diary of the 18th Battalion: July 1916. Retrieved 18 September 2020, from https://18thbattalioncef.blog/2015/07/03/war-diary-of-the-18th-battalion-for-july-1916/

[xvii] 18th Battalion War Diary. Volume II. July 1916. Library and Archives Canada. RG9-III-D-3. Volume/box number: 4926. File number: 398. Container: T-10721. File Part 1=1915/04/29-1916/12/31; 2=1917/01/01-1918/02/28

[xviii] The image of medical record indicates to the author a temperature of 107 degrees Fahrenheit. The way the writer pens their one (I) – a straight line with no horizontal like to the left – indicates that the digit on the right is a seven (7). It is possibly 101 but the previous entry of the number 1 is not similar.

[xix] He had previously suffered an incised head wound on New Year Eve 1915.

[xx] This term, no longer in use, describes someone who subject to phobias, obsessions, compulsions, or excessive anxiety.

[xxi] There are indications of a tension between this soldier and the officers, representing authority, in several documents in the service record. On the discharge form dated January 10, 1918, the officer filling out the form indicates that the attitude of this soldier is “indifferent”. Another officer indicates that Martin used “excessive tobacco.” These comments are rare and may give a hint to this soldier’s overall attitude to authority. Certainly, his escape from custody after being charged with desertion in 1915 and his desertion before discharge in 1917 indicate a rebellious and cavalier attitude to military discipline.

[xxii] This is not the first member of the 18th Battalion to claim military experience in the conflict in Mexico Circa 1910 – 12.

Two Men. Two Scouts. One Raid. On the night of July 26/27 men of the 18th Battalion carried out a “minor trench raid”.

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Prologue Part 8, The Belligerents: United States

RMS Lusitania, Wikipedia

A common response, when asked why the United States got involved in the First World War, is to cite the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. On the way from New York City to Liverpool England, the eight-year-old ship, making its 202nd crossing of the Atlantic, was carrying nearly 2000 people on board. On May 7 1915, while just 11 miles off the coast of Ireland, the ship was spotted by the German submarine U-20. Walther Schwieger, commander of the German ship, gave the order and one torpedo was fired. The Lusitania was hit on the bow and, following two explosions, sank in just 18 minutes. Over half those on board would lose their lives, including 128 American citizens. However, it would still be almost two more years before the United States would enter the Great War.

The sinking of the Lusitania was vehemently debated in the United States, and furious diplomatic messages were exchanged with the German Empire. Kaiser Wilhelm and the German military command were convinced that they were well within their rights to target ships that were suspected to be supplying their enemy with war materials. However, just nine months into the war, the Germans were dealing with a massive public relations problem. Deservedly so, considering their actions in Belgium following the invasion. In order to try and improve their global image, the German command gave the order to stop unrestricted submarine warfare and by September of 1915 U-boat activity was all but suspended.

US President Woodrow Wilson, photo Wikipedia

American President Woodrow Wilson had his own reasons for wanting to keep the United States out of the European conflict. He strongly felt that the US should stay neutral and work as a force of mediation between the powers involved in the war. Wilson also had grand thoughts regarding his own place in history, seeing a role for himself as “great negotiator” with well-developed notions in regards to the relationships and conduct between nations following the conclusion of the war.

Additionally, Wilson was running for reelection as President in 1916. The last thing he needed during his campaign was to get the US involved in foreign war. He campaigned using a slogan that the United States was “too proud to fight.” The war was political hot potato for Wilson due to the demographics of the United States just after the turn of the century. In the previous 50 years over two million immigrants had come to the United States from Ireland. Over four million immigrants had come from Germany. These immigrants wielded social and political power. For Irish immigrants, the idea of sending their sons to fight in Europe on the side of Britain did not sit well. For German immigrants, sending their sons to potentially fight against family members still in Europe was also unappealing. With an election to win, Wilson had no desire to alienate the voters.

Following the November 1916 election, two events would occur that rapidly changed Wilson’s mind. By 1917 the war was entering its third year without an end in sight. Those caught in the conflict were desperately looking for a way to bring things to a conclusion. For the German Empire, keeping their enemy starved for supplies was thought to be their best hope.

Arthur Zimmermann, German State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and author of the German communication to Mexico in January 1917, photo Wikipedia

In January 1917, looking to keep the United States off balance and unable to help Britain, the Germans sent a secret communication to Mexico proposing an alliance. In the event that the US entered the war it was proposed that Mexico, with aid from the German Empire, declare war against the US. Following the defeat of the US, Mexico was promised the recovery of Texas, Arizona and New Mexico in compensation for their help. Regrettably for the Germans, the British intercepted and decoded the communication and then relayed the details to the Americans. Having spent the last year with American troops in Mexico dealing with Pancho Villa and his band of trouble makers, the American government was enraged to learn that the German Empire was fomenting the potential for additional conflict on their southern border!

If this misstep was not bad enough, the Germans compounded their problems by resuming unrestricted submarine warfare on February 1 1917. Britain had long since lost the ability to provide enough food for its citizenry and was unable to manufacturer sufficient munitions to supply her troops. The United States was keeping Britain supplied but by the end of March 1917 German U-boats had sent numerous American ships to the bottom of the Atlantic. America was ready to enter the conflict and on April 2 1917 the United States declared war on the German Empire. The first American troops arrived in Europe in June of 1917.

General John J Pershing, photo Wikipedia

It would take time to assemble and train sufficient American forces to make a difference in the war. While some regiments would start taking part in operations beginning November 20 1917 at the Battle of Cambrai, it was not until the May 1918 Battle of Cantigny that American forces would fully engage in the war. The US would suffer 1600 casualties at Cantigny. On June 1, the Battle of Belleau Wood began and the US would experience almost ten thousand casualties. American commanders, led by John J. Pershing, would make many of the same mistakes that the French and British commanders had made at the start of the war, and these mistakes would cost many lives. But the Americans were quickly recognized to be brave soldiers and fierce fighters, though often without caution. Germans, discussing the conduct of US soldiers, stated:

- ...the American infantryman was reckless to the point of foolishness.

- American are good fighters with nerve and recklessness.

- There were only a handful of Americans there but they fought like wild men.

- Germany...would be victors in a war with any nation in the world with the exemption of the United States.

The German spring offensive of 1918, known as the Kaiserschlacht, had achieved some initial success, but it came at the cost of 700,000 German casualties. The German Empire had no potential allies that could be brought into the war. Their soldiers were rapidly losing morale, their citizens were running out of food and their economy was collapsing. The tide had finally turned. US soldiers were pouring into Europe at the rate of 10,000 per day.

American soldiers fighting at the Meuse-Argonne, photo Wikipedia

The Germans would continue to resist until the end of the war however. The Meuse-Argonne Offensive began on September 26 1918. It involved 1.2 million US soldiers, over 16 times the number of Americans that took part in the WW2 Normandy operation of June 6 1944. The US would take 122,000 casualties in the largest and bloodiest battle in US history. American soldiers would be fighting on the Western Front until the very moment that the 11am November 11th Armistice took effect.

Postscript: Barbara Tuchman has another great book that deals with the events surrounding the secret German communication to Mexico in 1917. If you are interested in learning more about this fascinating event, as well as additional details regarding the United States entering the Great War, I highly recommend The Zimmermann Telegram.

December 27, 2018

#ww1 #worldwar1 #westernfront #greatwar #woodrowwilson #johnpershing #unitedstatesofamerica #usa #cantigny #belleauwood #meuse-argonne #lusitania

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1913

Jan 23 In Turkey, following military defeats, young military men forcibly take control of the government, overthrowing the Sultan. These are men influenced by reformers who had studied in France. Their leader, Ismail Enver, a military officer, belong to the Committee of Union and Progress.

Jan 30 The British House of Lords rejects a bill designed to give a measure of self-government to much of Ireland.

Feb 3 The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing Congress the "power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration."

Feb 19 Encouraged by President Taft's ambassador to Mexico, General Victoriano Huerta overthrows President Madero and proclaims himself Provisional President of Mexico. Huerta puts Madero under guard at the national palace.

Feb 22 Huerta has Madero murdered. The Huerta administration claims that Madero was ambushed by a group not under its orders while Madero was being transferred to a prison.

Mar 4 Woodrow Wilson succeeds William Howard Taft as President of the United States.

Mar 11 Austria-Hungary and Russia agree to demobilizations that end their war crisis. Austro-Hungarian armies in the northeastern province of Galicia are to demobilize and Russia is to allow conscripts to return home, lowering Russia's military strength to normal peacetime levels. It signals to Serbia that Russia is not going to back Serbian ambitions to gain access to the Adriatic Sea or Montenegro's ambition to take the city of Scutari (Shkodër). The Habsburg regime in Austria is left with the impression that Russia will respond to intimidation. Some Russians believe that the tsar's government has sold out the Serbs. Meanwhile, Serbia has been willing to give up gains to the Adriatic coast. It doesn't want war with Austria-Hungary.

Mar 13 Pancho Villa, who has supported the presidency of Madero and has been in self-imposed exile in El Paso, Texas, returns to Mexico to rebuild his army and fight Huerta.

Mar 22 Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Guomindang political party and an outspoken critic of President Yuan Shikai's policies, is assassinated. A military advisor to the president is implicated. Newspapers supporting the Guomindang begin attacking President Yuan. With money from foreign banks, Yuan buys the loyalty of provincial governors and their armies.

Mar 26 In Mexico the governor of Coahuila, Venustiano Carranza, a wealthy, educated and dour liberal from a cattle-raising family, begins a well-organized rebellion against Huerta's government.

Mar 26 Since mid-November, Bulgarian forces have been surrounding the Ottoman Empire's city of Adrianople, in Thrace. Today they take the city.

Apr 6 The World's Fair opens in Ghent, Belgium, to run to October. Also in Belgium, in this Age of Empire, at the Palais du Congo, an open book commemorates Belgium's imperialism. It reads: "Does she [Belgium] not owe it to herself, to her honor, to continue the work of civilisation begun by the valiant colonizers, sleeping in the African bush, far from the Mother Country?" (from 1913, by Charles Emmerson, p 4)

Apr 8 The 17th Amendment to the US Constitution is passed, dictating the elections of senators in each state by popular vote. Senators had been chosen by their state legislators.

May 5 The US has put a limit on Japanese immigration, and Japanese in the United States are excluded from acquiring citizenship. Two days ago California passed a law restricting Japanese immigrants from owning land. Today California's governor, Hiram Johnson says "We have prevented the Japanese from driving the root of their civilization deep into Californian soil."

May 14 The Japanese feel they have been slapped in the face by the California law. They are angry over what they see as Americans believing that whites and the US are superior to them. Today, US Rear Admiral Bradley Fiske warns that a war with Japan is "not only possible, but even probable."

May 30 The Treaty of London is signed at an international conference of Europe's ambassadors. It focuses on borders and settles what will be called the First Balkan War.

Jun 4 Emily Davison, a British suffragette, runs in front of the King's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby. She is trampled and dies 4 days later in hospital, never having regained consciousness.

Jun 8 In Berlin a stadium constructed for the 1916 Summer Olympics is dedicated with the release of 10,000 pigeons in front of an audience of 60,000 people. These Olympics will not be held.

Jun 8 In the New York Times, an article about Germany's emperor, Wilhelm II, appears. It's written by the founder of the German peace movement, Alfred Fried. He writes: His glory [King Wilhelm] as a man of peace, great enough now, will become greater, and his wish to figure in history as a hero of peace will be fulfilled."

Jun 11-15 In the Philippine Islands, the Battle of Bud Bagsak is won in four days by US and Philippine troops commanded by General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing. Their enemy is 500 Moro rebels, Muslims armed mostly with kampilan swords.

Jun 19 In South Africa, parliament passes a law forbidding blacks from owning or buying land from whites.

Jun 29 The Second Balkan War erupts when Bulgaria, dissatisfied with its share of the spoils of the First Balkan War, attacks its former allies Serbia and Greece. Bulgaria now has a defense treaty with Austria. Montenegro is siding with Serbia. Romania has warned Bulgaria that it will not remain neutral.

Jul 10 Romania declares war on Bulgaria.

Jul 12 The Ottoman Empire declares war on Bulgaria and advances into Thrace.

Jul 22 Bulgaria ends its alignment toward Russia and allies with Austria and German (the Central Powers).

Aug 10 Bulgaria has been defeated militarily by the combined forces of Serbia, Greece and Romania. Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, which ends the Second Balkan War. Romania is given a southern portion of the Dobruja region on the Black Sea, between it and Bulgaria. Bulgaria is granted a small portion of Macedonia and a strip of Aegean coastline including the port of Dedeagach (Alexandroúpolis). Serbia gains control over what had been northern and central Macedonia. Greece acquires what had been southern Macedonia.

Sep 16 Archduke Franz Ferdinand has plans to inspect Habsburg troops in Bosnia in 1914.

Sep 29 The Treaty of Constantinople (Istanbul) ends hostilities between the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria.

Oct 1 Pancho Villa's troops take Torreón in north-central Mexico (about 600 kilometers south of the US border) after a 3-day battle, following a retreat by Huerta's force. President Wilson announces that if Huerta doesn't resign from power the US will force him out of office.

Oct 3 President Wilson signs the Revenue Act of 1913. A federal income tax is wanted to compensate for revenue lost with the reduction of tariff duties.

Nov 6 Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

Dec 1 The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, reducing chassis assembly time from 12½ hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes.

Dec 3 A Serbian journal in Chicago editorializes on Archduke Ferdinand's proposed visit to Sarajevo in 1914: "Take holy vengeance! Death to the Habsburg dynasty!" Serb youths in Bosnia have been oppressed by Austrian authorities responding to Serb nationalism. Teenage boys in Sarajevo jumped at the opportunity to join a conspiracy to assassinate the Archduke. Their leader is a nineteen year-old: Gavrilo Princip.

Dec 9 Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm sends one of his generals, Liman von Sanders, to Turkey to advance that country militarily. This will disturb Russia's military leaders.

Dec 26 In London, The Daily Chronicle editorializes, stating: "It requires no gift of prophecy to foretell that this mad competition in military expenditure will end in disaster." (Charles Emmerson, 1913, p 448.)

Dec 31 The year 1913 ends with leading strategists in Austria-Hungary still favoring war against Serbia, and against Russia if Russia intervenes. Austria-Hungary's military leaders fear Russia's growing military capability, and they favor getting the war with Serbia over with before Russia strengthened its military forces.

Dec 31 In London, The Daily Graphic welcomes Europe having weathered wars in the Balkans. The paper expresses concern about Mexico and the Middle East but looks back on the year 1913 as having "spared us Armageddon."

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Holidays 10.8

Holidays

Air Force Day (India)

Alvin C. York Day

American Touch Tag Day

Arbor Day (Namibia)

Back to Basics Day

Battle of Angamos Day (Peru)

Children’s Day (Iran)

Cold Dew (Chinese Farmer’s Calendar)

Colorism Awareness Day

Commonwealth Culture Day (Northern Mariana Islands)

Cosmopolite's Day

Discoverer’s Day (Hawaii)

Father’s Day (Sweden)

International Birth Registration Day

International Earth Cache Day

International Lesbian Day

International Octopus Day

International Off-Road Day

International Percy Jackson Day

International Podiatry Day

Lawyer Day (Ukraine)

Lovable Lawyers Day

National Arab American Voter Day

National Day of the Cowboy Boot

National Education Day (Kiribati)

National Harbormaster Appreciation Day

National Hero Day

National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day

National Justin Day

National Lance Day

National Mall Walking Day

National Read to a Child Day

National Shea Day

National Traveller Mental Health Day (Ireland)

Navy Day (Peru)

Nude Beach Party Day (Baker Beach, California)

Pumpkin Day (French Republic)

San Ernesto Day

Semana Morazánica (Honduras)

Tacksägelsdagen (Thanksgiving; Sweden)

Tube Top Day

Virgin Islands/Puerto Rico Friendship Day

World Circular Textiles Day

World Dyslexia Day

World MCT8-AHDS Day

World Octopus Day

World Sight Day

World Teachers’ Day (Kiribati)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Birthday of the Microbrewery

National Fluffernutter Day

National Pierogi Day

National Salmon Day

Ziua Vinului (Wine Day 2 of 2; Moldova)

2nd Sunday in October

Bokbierdag (National Bock Beer Day; The Netherlands) [ website ] [2nd Sunday]

Clergy Appreciation Day (a.k.a. Pastor Appreciation Day or Ministry Appreciation Day) [2nd Sunday]

Drink Local Wine Week begins [2nd Sunday]

Father-Daughter Day [2nd Sunday]

Good Thief Sunday [2nd Sunday]

Grandmother's Day (Florida; Germany) [2nd Sunday]

Grandparents’ Day (Hong Kong) [2nd Sunday]

Pastor Appreciation Day (a.k.a. Ministry Appreciation Day) [2nd Sunday]

Shojo Festival (Narumi Hachimangu, Nagoya, Japan) [2nd Sunday]

White Sunday (American & Western Samoa) [2nd Sunday]

World Day of Aunts & Uncles [2nd Sunday]

Independence Days

Croatia (from Yugoslavia, 1991)

Stardom of Bimba (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Aequinoctium Autumnale IV (Pagan)

Albertus Magnus (Positivist; Saint)

Bearing of Green Branches (Ancient Athens)

Bridget of Sweden (Christian; Saint)

Cornelis Troost (Artology)

Demetrius (Christian; Saint)

Evodus (a.k.a. Yves; (Christian; Saint)

Grandpa Mullally (Muppetism)

Hans Heysen (Artology)

Keyne (Celtic; Christian; Saint)

Max Slevogt (Artology)

Palatias and Laurentia (Christian; Saint)

Pelagia the Penitant (Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches)

Reparata (Christian; Saint)

San Ernesto, Che Guevara as a folk saint (Bolivian campesinos)

Sawney Beane Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Simeon (Gospel of Luke; Christian; Saint)

Tell Massive Lies Day (Pastafarian)

Thaïs (Christian; Saint)

William Dwight Porter Bliss and Richard T. Ely (Episcopal Church)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 281 [60 of 72]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (Radio Series; 1944)

Badmotorfinger, by Soundgarden (Album; 1991)

Claus and Effect or Yule Be Sorry (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 220; 1963)

The Color of Money (Film; 1986)

Demolition Man (Film; 1993)

Ed (TV Series; 2000)

Flying Tigers (Film; 1942)

Friday Night Lights (Film; 2004)

Great Balls of Fire, recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis (Song; 1957)

Hopalong Casualty (WB LT Cartoon; 1960)

Imagine, by John Lennon (Song; 1971)

It’s Kind of a Funny Story (Film; 2010)

Les Misérables (Musical Play in English; 1985)

Little Pancho Vanilla (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)

Muppet’s Haunted Mansion (Film; 2021)

A Murder of Quality, by John le Carré (Novel; 1962)

My Favorite Year (Film; 1982)

No Time to Die (US Film; 2021) [James Bond #27]

Nowhere Boy (Film; 2010)

Remain in Light, by Talking Heads (Album; 1980)

Romeo and Juliet (Film; 1968)

Rumble Fish (Film; 1983)

The Second Hundred Years (Short Film; 1927) [1st Laurel & Hardy Film]

Secretariat (Film; 2010)

Snowbank Squirrel or Bullwinkle Gets the Drift (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S5, Ep. 219; 1963)

Song of the South (Animated Disney Film; 1980)

Spartacus (Film; 1960)

Stage Door (Film; 1937)

Too Many Girls (Film; 1940)

Unseen Academicals, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 2009) [Discworld #37]

The Waves, by Virginia Woolf (Novel; 1931)

World End’s Harem (Anime Series; 2021)

Today’s Name Days

Simeon (Austria)

Demetrije, Hugo, Pelagija, Šimun, Zvonimir (Croatia)

Věra (Czech Republic)

Ingeborg (Denmark)

Hilja, Hilje, Hilju (Estonia)

Hilja (Finland)

Pélagie, Thaïs (France)

Gerda, Günther, Hannah, Laura (Germany)

Pelagia (Greece)

Koppány (Hungary)

Pelagia (Italy)

Aina, Anastasija, Aneta, Anita (Latvia)

Brigita, Daugas, Demetra, Gaivilė (Lithuania)

Benedikte, Bente (Norway)

Artemon, Bryda, Brygida, Demetriusz, Laurencja, Marcin, Pelagia, Pelagiusz, Symeon, Wojsława (Poland)

Brigita (Slovakia)

Hugo, Thais (Spain)

Nils (Sweden)

Demetria, Demetrio, Demetrius, Demi, Dimitri, Stewart, Stuart (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 281 of 2024; 84 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 40 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 6 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 24 (Ji-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 23 Tishri 5784

Islamic: 23 Rabi I 1445

J Cal: 11 Shù; Foursday [10 of 30]

Julian: 25 September 2023

Moon: 30%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 1 Descartes (11th Month) [Albertus Magnus]

Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 15 of 89)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 15 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Descartes (Modern Philosophy) [Month 11 of 13; Positivist]

#calendar #Holidays

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Holidays 7.11

Holidays

Advice to the Lovelorn Day

Bean Day (French Republic)

Beh Deinkhlan (Meghalaya, India)

Bowdler's Day

Celebration of the Golden Spurs (Flanders)

Convenience Store Day

Cow Appreciation Day

Day of the Bandoneón (Argentina)

Day of the Fire Fighter (Mexico)

Day of the Five Billion (1987)

Drummer Appreciation Day

Duel Day

Eleventh Night (Bonfire Night; Northern Ireland)

Flemish Community Day (Belgium)

International EcoBrick Day

International Essential Oils Day

International Richard Cheese Day

Ker Puja (Tripura, India)

Maritime Day (China)

Naadam (Mongolia)

National All American Pet Photo Day

National Cheer Up the Lonely Day

National Culture and Senior Citizens Day (Kiribati)

National Day of Remembrance of Victims of Genocide by Ukrainian Nationalists on Citizens of the Second Republic of Poland (Poland)

National Essential Oils Day

National Journalist Day (Chile)

National Maritime Day (China)

National Polyphenol Day

National Recovery Day

National 7-Eleven Day

National Swimming Pool Day

Orangeman’s Day (Canada)

Reading Guilt Day

Relisha Rudd Remembrance Day (DC)

Robert the Bruce Day (Scotland)

711 Day

Straw Free Day (Colorado)

Swimming Pool Day

To Kill A Mockingbird Day

World Benzodiazepine Awareness Day

World Fringe Day

World Independent Living Day

World Massage Day

World Population Day (UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Blueberry Muffin Day

Free Slurpee Day (7-11 Stores)

Hot Dog Night (Luverne, Minnesota)

International Raw Food Day

Make Your Own Sundae Day

National Mojito Day

National Rainier Cherry Day

National State Fair Food Day

Ramen Day (Japan)

Vegetarian Food Day

World Chocolate Day (Russia)

2nd Tuesday in July

Alpenfest begins (Gaylord, Missouri) [2nd Tuesday thru Saturday]

Carnival Tuesday (Saint Vincent and Grenadines) [2nd Tuesday]

Cow Appreciation Day [2nd Tuesday]

Independence Days

Mongolia (from China, 1921)

Polarveinn (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Benedict of Nursia (Christian; Saint)

Drostan of Dalcongaile (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Min (Ancient Egyptian harvest & fertility festival)

Feast of Theano (patron of vegetarianism)

Guru Rinpoche Day (Bhutan)

Imamat Day (Nizari Ismaili Shiʿi Muslims)

James, Bishop of Nisibis (Christian; Saint)

James McNeill Whistler (Artology)

Hidulphus (Christian; Saint)

Naadam begins (Three Games of Men Festival; Mongolia) [thru 7.15]

Next Generation Captain (Muppetism)

Olga of Kiev (Christian; Saint)

Pancho Villa Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Pius I, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Solstitium VII (Pagan)

St. Stephen of Hungary (Positivist; Saint)

World Population Day (Pastafarian)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Premieres

Alphas (TV Series; 2011)

Beechwood 4-5789, by The Marvelettes (Song; 1962)

Boyhood (Film; 2014)

Contact (Film; 1997)

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Film; 2014)

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (Animated Film; 2001)

Fleetwood Mac, by Fleetwood Mac (Album; 1975)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (US Film; 2007) [#5]

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Film; 2008)

Honky Tonk Women, by The Rolling Stones (Song; 1969)

Jesus Christ Superstar (Musical Play; 1971) [1st Stage Performance]

Musashi, by Eiji Yoshikawa (Novel; 1939)

My Bodyguard (Film; 1980)

The Newlywed Game (Game Show; 1967)

Orange Is the New Black (TV Series; 2013)

Porky’s Pet (WB LT Cartoon; 1936)

School for Scoundrels (Film; 1960)

Shall We Dance? (Film; 1997)

Sharknado (Film; 2013)

Snowpiercer (Film; 2014)

Sorry Not Sorry, by Demi Lovato (Song; 2014)

Space Oddity, by David Bowie (Song; 1969)

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (Novel; 1960)

Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh (Novel; 1993)

Wild Over You (WB LT Cartoon; 1953)

Today’s Name Days

Benedikt, Olga, Oliver (Austria)

Oleg, Olga (Bulgariaa)

Benedikt, Dobroslav, Olga (Croatia)

Olga (Czech Republic)

Josva (Denmark)

Asko, Askur (Estonia)

Eleonoora, Elli, Nelli, Noora (Finland)

Benoît, Olga, Yolande (France)

Benedikt (Germany)

Evfemia, Evfimia, Olga (Greece)

Lili, Nóra (Hungary)

Benedetto, Emanuele, Fabrizio, Olga (Italy)

Leonora, Lore, Svens, Varaidotis (Latvia)

Kipras, Kiprijonas, Pijus, Šarūnė, Vilmantas (Lithuania)

Kjell, Kjetil (Norway)

Benedykt, Cyprian, Kalina, Kallina, Kir, Olga, Pelagia, Pelagiusz, Pius, Placyd, Sawin, Wyszesława (Poland)

Eufimia (Romania)

Milota (Slovakia)

Benito, Olga (Spain)

Eleonora, Ellinor (Sweden)

Lusia, Olha, Olusia, Olia (Ukraine)

Alvia, Helga, Livia, Olga, Olive, Ollie, Oliver, Olivia, Quentin, Quincy, Quinn, Quintina, Quinton (USA)

Benoît, Alenka, Olga, Olya (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 192 of 2024; 173 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 28 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 2 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Wu-Wu), Day 24 (Geng-Wu)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 22 Tammuz 5783

Islamic: 22 Dhu al-Hijjah 1444

J Cal: 12 Lux; Fiveday [12 of 30]

Julian: 28 June 2023

Moon: 32%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 24 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Stephen of Hungary]

Runic Half Month: Feoh (Wealth) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 21 of 94)

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 21 of 31)

#Holidays

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