#Route 129

[justana0kguy]

2023 FEBRUARY 11 Saturday

Pokémon Emerald (DELTA Mode) Rerun PHASE 2 (Post Champion's League) Stage 4, Part 1 - The Keys

DeepBlue, Wailord from Route 129

OldRock, Relicanth from Route 126

[hotelbooking]

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[morbidology]

This photograph shows the frozen corpse of sailor John Torrington.

Born in 1815, Torrington was a member of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition, which embarked on a perilous voyage in 1845 with the goal of navigating the Northwest Passage—a fabled maritime route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic Archipelago.

The Franklin Expedition, led by Sir John Franklin, was one of the most ambitious Arctic explorations of the 19th century. It set out with two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and a crew of 129 men, including Torrington, who served as a Royal Marine. The expedition's objective was to chart the Northwest Passage, but it became infamous for its disastrous outcome. The expedition was eventually stranded in the icy waters of the Arctic, and all members of the crew died.

John Torrington's story was brought to light during a search for the missing Franklin Expedition. In 1984, researchers discovered the remains of Torrington, along with those of other crew members, in a grave site on King William Island. The remains were remarkably well-preserved due to the extreme cold and the permafrost conditions of the Arctic.

The examination of Torrington’s body provided significant insights into the conditions faced by the expedition. Torrington was found to have suffered from tuberculosis and malnutrition, which, combined with the harsh Arctic environment, contributed to his death.

[raineandsky]

#129

“Okay,” the villain says with a sigh. “Where do you think the weakest point of your little fort is?”

The hero next to him, rope wound around his wrists and a less than clean strip of fabric stuffed in his mouth, shrugs halfheartedly. It doesn’t matter: the villain can see a little rounded entrance in his mind’s eye, some kind of sewage system perhaps. Of course. Never the easy—or the scentless—route.

Not many villains have actual powers, much less useful ones. The villain had arrived to the supervillain’s door with everyone else’s thoughts in his head and the supervillain hadn’t thought twice about taking him in. Not many supervillains get to flaunt a mind-reader as part of their team.

The villain traipses around the side of the building, his human map in tow, until he spots the little gap he saw in the hero’s mind. He lowers himself into the hole beyond, dragging the hero with him. It’s miraculously not a sewer—thank god—but some kind of underground tunnel. The gap looks more like a vent now that he’s looking at it from inside.

It only leads one way, thankfully—the two of them pop out, rather conveniently, in an empty corridor. Doors with metal plates stamped to their faces are lined against the walls, clinically white lights shining over them. The villain gives the hero a moment to get his bearings before grilling him again.

“Alright, come on.” The villain glances down the corridor. Still devoid of heroes. “[Superhero]’s office. Where is it?”

The villain sees a door with a metal plate on it, no different to the rest here. That’s all he sees.

“Directions, [Hero],” he snaps impatiently. “A door doesn’t tell me anything.”

The hero makes some whiny noise that could be an “I don’t know”, but the villain sees the hero thinking about the turn to the left so that’s the way he goes.

Left, right, straight on, another right, straight again. The two of them take a turn and the hero’s directions fizzle out.

“You- [Hero],” the villain hisses. “Directions.”

The hero glances about nervously. The villain can tell without having to read his mind that he’s lost.

“Jesus, how the hell do you get turned around in the place you spend every day in?”

The hero ignores that. He spends a moment mentally walking through corridors, and eventually he lands on a path.

They turn back and the hero directs the two of them down more corridors. Right, left, left again, pause to think, right, straight on.

The hero stops on a corner, glancing about, before his mind sets on the superhero’s door again, just around the corner they’re stopped on. The bustle of heroes nearby gives the corridor an uncomfortable ambience. Of course the superhero would choose a spot closest to their allies.

The hero’s thinking of the superhero’s office so intensely that the villain feels a little like he’s doing on purpose.

The nightmare is halfway over. Raid and retreat. “You stay here. If I hear you getting too relieved, I’m going to assume someone’s here and I’ll whoop both your asses. Alright?”

The hero nods shortly and thinks a string of colourful curses. The villain laughs—those are the words of a loser—and rounds the corner to the superhero’s office.

Or what was meant to be their office. The villain pauses in the doorway and is met with several heroes staring back at him, sitting together in what is clearly a canteen.

There’s a confused silence for a moment, before one of the heroes simply says, “First one to catch him gets lunch on me!” and all hell breaks loose.

The villain falls back, his mind assaulted by several people’s thoughts on the food they want, and through the noise he just manages to think of how this was definitely on purpose. He passes the hero on his escape, who’s looking particularly smug.

The villain makes for the way they came, but having a bad map is better than no map. He turns down a dead-end, and the heroes and their thoughts leap on him.

Capture has never been something the villain took with grace, not when he can hear the cheering in the corridor and in his head. The excitement of victory is inescapable, as if they want him to think it too.

The hero grabbing onto him is thinking very vividly of a clubhouse sandwich.

[noticiasarquelogicasjaponesas]

Sean bienvenidos japonistasarqueológicos, a una nueva entrega de arqueología japonesa, una vez dicho esto pónganse cómodos que empezamos. - Hoy nos trasladamos a las ruinas que se localizan, en la ciudad de Sagamihara, se localiza en la prefectura de Kanagawa, su situación geográfica es la región de Kanto ¿De qué periodo se trata? Se trata del período Jomon, este período estaría dentro del paleolítico. - Las primeras intervenciones arqueológicas se realizaron en 1973 para la construcción de la Ruta 129, se levantaron aproximadamente 18.000 metros cuadrados en el lado este del asentamiento circular, en dicho yacimiento se han descubierto 51 nuevas viviendas en pozos y otros restos y reliquias. - En el emplazamiento se han descubierto 51 nuevas viviendas en pozos y otros restos y reliquias, la vivienda de pozo más grande de la ciudad con un diámetro de 9 m, hay una vivienda con muchas capas de ranuras alrededor del perímetro, y se explica que ha sido reconstruida y utilizada durante varias generaciones. - 日本の考古学者たちよ、ようこそ。そう言われたら、くつろいで、さっそく始めましょう。 - 今日は神奈川県相模原市にある遺跡を紹介します。 時代は？縄文時代です。この時代は旧石器時代にあたります。 - 1973年に国道129号線建設のために初めて考古学的発掘調査が行われ、円形集落の東側で約18,000平方メートルが発掘された。遺跡からは、ピット内の51の新しい住居やその他の遺跡や遺物が発見された。 - 敷地内では新たに51基の竪穴式住居やその他の遺跡・遺物が発見され、市内最大の直径9mの竪穴式住居には、周囲に何層もの溝を持つ住居があり、数世代にわたって改築・使用されてきたことが説明されています。 - 気に入っていただけたなら幸いです。今後の記事でお会いしましょう。良い一週間をお過ごしください。 -

Welcome to Japanesearchaeology, to a new installment of Japanese archaeology. Having said that, make yourself comfortable and let's begin.

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Today we move to the ruins that are located in the city of Sagamihara, located in the Kanagawa prefecture, its geographical location is the Kanto region. What period is it? This is the Jomon period, this period would be within the Paleolithic.

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The first archaeological interventions were carried out in 1973 for the construction of Route 129, approximately 18,000 square meters were built on the east side of the circular settlement, at this site 51 new homes have been discovered in wells and other remains and relics.

- 51 new well dwellings and other remains and relics have been discovered at the site, the largest well dwelling in the city with a diameter of 9 m, there is a dwelling with many layers of grooves around the perimeter, and it is explained that it has been rebuilt and used for several generations.

[thedadkraken]

The Raven, 129 AC. With @theredripper

𖤓┊⟩» It's been a while since their last raid, Dalton saw how his men slowly soften and became a bunch of drunken sailors. Fortunately for them, soon they would have the opportunity to attack again. He knew one of them missed the assaults more than anyone, his own son Toron.

That's why today he summoned him to the Raven. Dalton's flagship was far away from any eavesdroppers. Perfect for planning without distractions. He waited on the port until Toron's figure appeared, Dalton couldn't resist the urge to hug him. So he did.

Dalton guided him to his cabin with a smile on his face. He waited until they were inside the room, surrounded by candles and maps, to speak. Nightfall was resting on the side of the table.

—There will be a ship coming out of Pentos in two months, bound for the old city of Volantis. A trading galley named the Black Crane. Inside the ship there is a Valyrian tome which details the rites of a ceremony long lost after the Doom. The Celtigars wish to acquire this book and offer to pay greatly. —Dalton open one of his many maps and extended it over the table. It detailed to the narrow sea and it already depicted the routes the Black Crane could use. Dalton traced the lines with his fingers. —The Black Crane will be guarded by two Volantine dromonds. The Volantine captains will not expect an ambush. They lack discipline. And you will be the cause of their demise.

[geekysteven]

Parasocial relationship but for the car driving on the same route. That Subaru you've seen in front of you for the last 129 miles is your buddy

[unteriors]

State Route 129, Fulton, Kentucky.

[deeisace]

Hope I’m not too late! Page 144 for the dictionary?

You're not too late but I did forget, sorry!!

144 is in B! Congrats, so few people ask for low-numbered pages!

bus, 'bus (bus) n. a popular contraction for omnibus; a vehicle, usually mechanically propelled, for public conveyance of passengers on the roads; (Slang) a motor car or aeroplane [Latin, ominbus, for all and sundry].

bus, busbar (bus, bus'-bar) n. a bar or heavy wire forming a common junction between two or more electrical circuits [etym unknown] (don't be silly, it makes a connection same way a bus route does, isn't that it?)

buss (bus) n. a hearty kiss;- v.t. to kiss, esp. boisterously [Fr. baiser, to kiss].

buss (bus) n. a two-masted fishing-boat, used by the Dutch in the herring trade [Dutch buis].

Speaking of which, I have to catch my bus in less than an hour - but, you can have one more, for my lateness -

but (but) a. (Scot.) outside - but and ben, a two-roomed cottage, with outer and inner room [Old English, butan, outside].

Also, on the next page, apparently a butt of wine is different to a butt of beer/sherry - 126 gallons, versus 108 gallons, and in America that's 129 and 3/5ths gallons, for,,,, no reason?

[animemakeblog]

Meme #129

Animes: Jujutsu Kaisen, My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, and My Dress-Up Darling

Characters: Satoru Gojo, Katarina Claes, and Wakana Gojo

I manipulate boys and girls

I manipulate School

I manipulate cosplay girls

[alsa49]

Jean Cocteau, Edipo o l’incrocio delle tre strade (Œdipe ou le carrefour des trois routes), 1951, olio su tela, 97 x 129 cm. Collezione privata ©

[malbecmusings]

Hinchinbrook Island

July 28, 2023 - Even though our flying time to Cordova was only supposed to take about four hours, we started early to allow time to buzz a couple of the more than a dozen glaciers along our route and possibly land if we found a safe (and legal) place. We decided to provision last night while we had access to a bigger, better store. That chore done, we still needed to refuel in Cordova before flying to Hinchinbrook, ideally arriving before the incoming tide swallowed our 'runway'.

Vast. A word I often read in descriptions of Alaska. Get high enough and the land seems to stretch out forever before you. I now understand what they mean. Leaving Juneau we flew direct to the coast then northwest with the northern reach of the Rocky Mountains, here the Chugach Mountain range, off to starboard and the Gulf of Alaska to port. In another plane with pressurization (and a second engine) we could have flown over the mountains, but we'd have been flying much higher and with less awesome scenery to enjoy.

The braided Copper River spills into the Gulf of Alaska via a broad delta a few miles from our first stop of the day. Thirty miles upriver we flew over the impressive Childs Glacier which lies barely 1,000 feet from the riverbank opposite the glacier. Large chunks of ice calving off the glacier have been known to send mini tsunamis to the opposite shore, which sends a wall of water and the famous Copper River salmon well inland. A couple of miles upriver is the Million Dollar Bridge, so named for its construction cost when it was built in 1910 by JP Morgan and Daniel Guggenheim. It's one of 129 bridges and 200 miles of track the Copper River and Northwestern Railway built to haul $200 million in copper ore from the now-defunct Kennicott Mine to the port at Cordova. That one was hard to mark off the itinerary but time and logistics didn't allow us to visit on this trip. Next time, maybe.

After a quick stop in Cordova, we headed toward what would be our home for the night. Hinchinbrook and Montague Islands guard the entrance to and protect Prince William Sound. Even by Last Frontier standards these are remote locations. Given how quickly the weather can change, these can be challenging places to get into... and out of. The only residents of the islands are, primarily, deer and brown bears. We're told Montague, the island to the west and our destination tomorrow, is where Alaska Fish and Game and the US Forest Service relocates aggressive "problem" bears. The guide service that runs the "FBO" in Cordova, which is a fuel pump, warned us again to be very aware of the 'residents'. "They're nearly impossible to see in thick brush and they can plow through that brush like a bulldozer." Duly noted. A graduate student from the University of Alaska Fairbanks doing research on fish populations on the Copper River put it in even more stark terms.

"You know how most animals typically run from big noises?" We nodded in near unison. "These bears don't. They aren't afraid of noise. They aren't afraid of anything. The bears on the islands have developed a Pavlovian response to gunfire. They run *toward* the sound because they've learned gunfire = hunters = food. They're very, very territorial. They can smell the blood and will fight and eat whatever they find whether it's a down deer or another bear, or the hunting party themselves if given the chance."

Our accommodation on Hinchinbrook is a small, very (very) primitive Forest Service cabin, but one with spectacular views in every direction. These cabins on the islands are very popular with hunters who come in late summer and fall to hunt deer... and the bears. I'd much rather be visiting by dinghy and sleeping on Isa but there are challenges to that, too. A lack of a protected anchorage and deep, deep water but that's a problem for another trip. After getting everyone on the ground, pulling the planes well up above the high tide line, and securing them, we ferried what we'd need to the cabin and set up camp. Not ready to settle in, we hiked a couple hundred yards across a clearing and through a patch of woods, and a live wall of mosquitos, to the beach. Another moment of realizing how vast this place is was staring across a 40 mile wide expanse of deep, cold water toward the mainland. We walked a few miles along the beach to a point where we got a good view of Montague Island before turning back. The only bear signs we saw were a couple of old looking prints in the gravel near where we turned around. We made another gourmet freeze dried dinner and played cards before fitting ourselves into jigsaw like sleeping positions inside the cabin.

Tomorrow morning we need to be up, fed, and packed up for an early launch to avoid the first high tide, or wait on the ground until late afternoon.

[gift-to-literature]

1. Pilot : 1x1

2. Wendigo : 1x2

3. Dead in the Water : 1x3

4. Phantom Traveler : 1x4

5. Bloody Mary : 1x5

6. Skin : 1x6

7. Hook Man : 1x7

8. Bugs : 1x8

9. Home : 1x9

10. Asylum : 1x10

11. Scarecrow : 1x11

12. Faith : 1x12

13. Route 666 : 1x13

14. Nightmare : 1x14

15. The Benders : 1x15

16. Shadow : 1x16

17. Hell House : 1x17

18. Something Wicked : 1x18

19. Provenance : 1x19

20. Dead Man's Blood : 1x20

21. Salvation : 1x21

22. Devil's Trap : 1x22

23. In My Time of Dying : 2x1

24. Everybody Loves a Clown : 2x2

25. Bloodlust : 2x3

26. Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things : 2x4

27. Simon Said : 2x5

28. No Exit : 2x6

29. The Usual Suspects : 2x7

30. Crossroad Blues : 2x8

31. Croatoan : 2x9

32. Hunted : 2x10

33. Playthings : 2x11

34. Nightshifter : 2x12

35. Houses of the Holy : 2x13

36. Born Under a Bad Sign : 2x14

37. Tall Tales : 2x15

38. Roadkill : 2x16

39. Heart : 2x17

40. Hollywood Babylon : 2x18

41. Folsom Prison Blues : 2x19

42. What Is and What Should Never Be : 2x20

43. All Hell Breaks Loose: Part 1 : 2x21

44. All Hell Breaks Loose: Part 2 : 2x22

45. The Magnificent Seven : 3x1

46. The Kids Are Alright : 3x2

47. Bad Day at Black Rock : 3x3

48. Sin City : 3x4

49. Bedtime Stories : 3x5

50. Red Sky at Morning : 3x6

51. Fresh Blood : 3x7

52. A Very Supernatural Christmas : 3x8

53. Malleus Maleficarum : 3x9

54. Dream a Little Dream of Me : 3x10

55. Mystery Spot : 3x11

56. Jus in Bello : 3x12

57. Ghostfacers! : 3x13

58. Long Distance Call : 3x14

59. Time Is on My Side : 3x15

60. No Rest for the Wicked : 3x16

61. Lazarus Rising : 4x1

62. Are You There, God? It's Me Dean Winchester : 4x2

63. In the Beginning : 4x3

64. Metamorphosis : 4x4

65. Monster Movie : 4x5

66. Yellow Fever : 4x6

67. It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester : 4x7

68. Whisful Thinking : 4x8

69. I Know What You Did Last Summer : 4x9

70. Heaven and Hell : 4x10

71. Family Remains : 4x11

72. Criss Angel Is a Douch Bag : 4x12

73. After School Special : 4x13

74. Sex and Violence : 4x14

75. Death Takes a Holiday : 4x15

76. On the Head of a Pin : 4x16

77. It's a Terrible Life : 4x17

78. The Monster at the End of This Book : 4x18

79. Jump the Shark : 4x19

80. The Rapture : 4x20

81. When the Levee Breaks : 4x21

82. Lucifer Rising : 4x22

83. Sympathy for the Devil : 5x1

84. Good God, Y'All : 5x2

85. Free to Be You and Me : 5x3

86. The End : 5x4

87. Fallen Idols : 5x5

88. I Believe the Children Are Our Future : 5x6

89. The Curious Case of Dean Winchester : 5x7

90. Changing Channels : 5x8

91. The Real Ghostbusters : 5x9

92. Abandon All Hope : 5x10

93. Sam, Interrupted : 5x11

94. Swap Meat : 5x12

95. The Song Remains the Same : 5x13

96. My Bloody Valentine : 5x14

97. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid : 5x15

98. Dark Side of the Moon : 5x16

99. 99 Problems : 5x17

100. Point of No Return : 5x18

101. Hammer of the Gods : 5x19

102. The Devil You Know : 5x20

103. Two Minutes to Midnight : 5x21

104. Swan Song : 5x22

105. Exile on Main St. : 6x1

106. Two and a Half Man : 6x2

107. The Third Man : 6x3

108. Weekend at Bobby's : 6x4

109. Live Free or Twi-hard : 6x5

110. You Can't Handle the Truth : 6x6

111. Family Matters : 6x7

112. All Dogs Go to Heaven : 6x8

113. Clap Your Hands If You Believe : 6x9

114. Caged Heat : 6x10

115. Appointment in Samarra : 6x11

116. Like a Virgin : 6x12

117. Unforgiven : 6x13

118. Mannequin 3: The Reckoning : 6x14

119. The French Mistake : 6x15

120. ... And Then There Were None : 6x16

121. My Heart Will Go On : 6x17

122. Frontierland : 6x18

123. Mommy Dearest : 6x19

124. The Man Who Whould Be King : 6x20

125. Let It Bleed : 6x21

126. The Man Who Knew Too Much : 6x22

127. Meet the New Boss : 6x23

128. Hello, Cruel World : 7x1

129. The Girl Next Door : 7x2

130. Defending Your Life : 7x3

131. Shut Up, Dr. Phil : 7x4

132. Slash Fiction : 7x5

133. The Mentalists : 7x6

134. Season Seven, Time for a Wedding! : 7x7

135. Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel : 7x8

136. How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters : 7x9

137. Death's Door : 7x10

138. Adventures in Babysitting : 7x11

139. Time After Time : 7x12

140. The Slice Girls : 7x13

141. Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie : 7x14

142. Repo Man : 7x15

143. Out with the Old : 7x16

144. The Born-Again Identity : 7x17

145. Party On, Garth : 7x18

146. Of Grave Importance : 7x19

147. The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo : 7x20

148. Reading Is Fundamental : 7x21

149. There Will Be Blood : 7x22

150. Survival of the Fittest : 7x23

151. We Need to Talk About Kevin : 8x1

152. What's Up, Tiger Mommy? : 8x2

153. Heartache : 8x3

154. Bitten : 8x4

155. Blood Brother : 8x5

156. Southern Comfort : 8x6

157. A Little Slice of Kevin : 8x7

158. Hunteri Heroici : 8x8

159. Citizen Fang : 8x9

160. Torn and Frayed : 8x10

161. LARP and the Real Girl : 8x11

162. As Time Goes By : 8x12

163. Everybody Hates Hitler : 8x13

164. Trial and Error : 8x14

165. Man's Best Friend with Benefits : 8x15

166. Remember the Titans : 8x16

167. Goodbye Stranger : 8x17

168. Freaks and Geeks : 8x18

169. Taxi Driver : 8x19

170. Pac-Man Fever : 8x20

171. The Great Escapist : 8x21

172. Clip Show : 8x22

173. Sacrifice : 8x23

174. I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here : 9x1

175. Devil May Care : 9x2

176. I'm No Angel : 9x3

177. Slumber Party : 9x4

178. Dog Dean Afternoon : 9x5

179. Heaven Can't Wait : 9x6

180. Bad Boys : 9x7

181. Rock and a Hard Place : 9x8

182. Holy Terror : 9x9

183. Road Trip : 9x10

184. First Born : 9x11

185. Sharp Teeth : 9x12

186. The Purge : 9x13

187. Captives : 9x14

188. #thinman : 9x15

189. Blade Runners : 9x16

190. Mother's Little Helper : 9x17

191. Meta Fiction : 9x18

192. Alex Annie Alexis Ann : 9x19

193. Bloodlines : 9x20

194. King of the Damned : 9x21

195. Stairway to Heaven : 9x22

196. Do You Believe in Miracles : 9x23

197. Black : 10x1

198. Reichenbach : 10x2

199. Soul Survivor : 10x3

200. Fan Fiction : 10x4

201. Paper Moon : 10x5

202. Ask Jeeves : 10x6

203. Girls, Girls, Girls : 10x7

204. Hibbing 911 : 10x8

205. The Things We Left Behind : 10x9

206. The Hunter Games : 10x10

207. There's No Place Like Home : 10x11

208. About a Boy : 10x12

209. Halt & Catch Fire : 10x13

210. The Executioner's Song : 10x14

211. The Thing They Carried : 10x15

212. Paint It Black : 10x16

213. Inside Man : 10x17

214. Book of the Damned : 10x18

215. The Werther Project : 10x19

216. Angel Heart : 10x20

217. Dark Dynasty : 10x21

218. The Prisoner : 10x22

219. Brother's Keeper : 10x23

220. Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire : 11x1

221. Form and Void : 11x2

222. The Bad Seed : 11x3

223. Baby : 11x4

224. Thin Lizzie : 11x5

225. Our Little World : 11x6

226. Plush : 11x7

227. Just My Imagination : 11x8

228. O Brother, Where Art Thou? : 11x9

229. The Devil in the Details : 11x10

230. Into the Mystic : 11x11

231. Don't You Forget About Me : 11x12

232. Love Hurts : 11x13

233. The Vessel : 11x14

234. Beyond the Mat : 11x15

235. Safe House : 11x16

236. Red Meat : 11x17

237. Hell's Angel : 11x18

238. The Chitters : 11x19

239. Don't Call Me Shurley : 11x20

240. All in the Family : 11x21

241. We Happy Few : 11x22

242. Alpha and Omega : 11x23

243. Keep Calm and Carry On : 12x1

244. Mamma Mia : 12x2

245. The Foundry : 12x3

246. American Nightmare : 12x4

247. The One You've Been Waiting For : 12x5

248. Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox : 12x6

249. Rock Never Dies : 12x7

250. LOTUS : 12x8

251. First Blood : 12x9

252. Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets : 12x10

253. Regarding Dean : 12x11

254. Stuck in the Middle (With You) : 12x12

255. Family Feud : 12x13

256. The Raid : 12x14

257. Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell : 12x15

258. Ladies Drink Free : 12x16

259. The British Invasion : 12x17

260. The Memory Remains : 12x18

261. The Future : 12x19

262. Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes : 12x20

263. There's Something About Mary : 12x21

264. Who We Are : 12x22

265. All Along the Watchtower : 12x23

266. Lost and Found : 13x1

267. The Rising Son : 13x2

268. Patience : 13x3

269. The Big Empty : 13x4

270. Advanced Thanatology : 13x5

271. Tombstone : 13x6

272. War of the Worlds : 13x7

273. The Scorpion and the Frog : 13x8

274. The Bad Place : 13x9

275. Wayward Sisters : 13x10

276. Breakdown : 13x11

277. Various & Sundry Villains : 13x12

278. Devil's Bargain : 13x13

279. Good Intentions : 13x14

280. A Most Holy Man : 13x15

281. ScoobyNatural : 13x16

282. The Thing : 13x17

283. Bring 'em Back Alive : 13x18

284. Funeralia : 13x19

285. Unfinished Business : 13x20

286. Beat the Devil : 13x21

287. Exodus : 13x22

288. Let the Good Times Roll : 13x23

289. Stranger in a Strange Land : 14x1

290. Gods and Monsters : 14x2

291. The Scar : 14x3

292. Nightmare Logic : 14x4

293. Optimism : 14x5

294. Unhuman Nature : 14x6

295. Byzantium : 14x7

296. The Spear : 14x8

297. Nihilism : 14x9

298. Damaged Goods : 14x10

299. Prophet and Loss : 14x11

300. Lebanon : 14x12

301. Mint Condition : 14x13

302. Ouroboros : 14x14

303. Peace of Mind : 14x15

304. Don't Go in the Woods : 14x16

305. Game Night : 14x17

306. Absence : 14x18

307. Jack in the Box : 14x19

308. Moriah : 14x20

309. Back and to the Future : 15x1

310. Raising Hell : 15x2

311. The Rupture : 15x3

312. Atomic Monsters : 15x4

313. Proverbs 17:3 : 15x5

314. Golden Time : 15x6

315. Last Call : 15x7

316. Our Father, Who Aren't in Heaven : 15x8

317. The Trap : 15x9

318. The Heroes' Journey : 15x10

319. The Gamblers : 15x11

320. Galaxy Brain : 15x12

321. Destiny's Child : 15x13

322. Last Holiday : 15x14

323. Gimme Shelter : 15x15

324. Drag Me Away (From You) : 15x16

325. Unity : 15x17

326. Despair : 15x18

327. Inherit the Earth : 15x19

328. Carry On : 15x20

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Badsansuary - Day 13 - Shadows

Word Count - 129

In which Dust is alone with his thoughts and the castle.

The castle was a little eerier when there was no-one around, especially so when he was the only one in the place. Sounds were louder, lights more blinding, and shadows cut far deeper. Being alone was something he was used to, so why did it bother him now? Maybe it had to do with it being so long since the last time he was truly alone.

Alone with nothing but the piles of dust marking what once was and the ghost that shouldn't have stuck around. Dust says it was desperation that drove him to such lengths, that if there were another way, he would have taken that route instead. But when faced with the reality that things aren’t going to get any better, wouldn’t you do the same?

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Dust belongs to Ask-Dusttale

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Razor from Franklin expedition, England, 1800-1845. This retractable blade razor is a relic of a doomed Arctic expedition. It was found in the North West Territories of Canada. In 1845, Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) embarked on his third arctic expedition to discover the North West passage. This fabled sea route lay between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and discovering a navigable passage would give Britain supremacy over trade moving between these oceans. A whaling crew spotted Franklin’s two ships, the HMS Terror and Erebus, off Canada on 26 July 1845. They were then never seen by Europeans again. Over the next 150 years, researchers and historians have pieced together the expedition’s movements. They have achieved this through the discovery of a number of corpses and relics such as this. The expedition ended with the loss of all 129 members. It appears to have met incredible hardship, including disease, poisoning and, ultimately, cannibalism. Investigations among the local Inuit people suggested some of the expedition team, desperate to escape, were still alive as late as 1850. This iron razor was bought in 1919 with six other artifacts reputedly from the Franklin expedition.

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Western history is full of the daring feats of explorers—Lewis and Clark in North America, John Cabot in Canada, Marco Polo along the Silk Road, and the list goes on.

But what about the explorers who set out with the same optimism as these navigational celebrities, only to face mysterious adversity?

Here are five explorers who had all the advantages of their more successful counterparts, only not to reach their goals and leave very little trace of their true fates.

Franklin’s failed Northwest Passage quest

British explorer Sir John Franklin left England in 1845 with 129 crew members and officers in search of the Northwest Passage, a shipping route from the Atlantic to the Pacific through Canada.

They were expertly equipped with iron-sheathed ships, three years of food and drink, even an early daguerreotype camera.

Instead of finding the passage, however, the ships became trapped in the Canadian Arctic’s most treacherous, ice-choked corner, north of King William Island.

Twenty-four men died by April 1848, including the captain.

The new captain, Francis Crozier, apparently abandoned the ships and set out with the remaining crew over the icy terrain in a desperate attempt to reach land.

Inuit hunters reported seeing bedraggled crewmen dragging sleds across the ice.

A few bodies have since been found, along with deserted campsites and bits and pieces, including silver dessert spoons and cotton shirt fragments.

In 2014, the wreck of Erebus was located, followed by the Terror in 2016.

While the wrecks themselves did not solve the mystery of what killed the men, the recovered bones of some men bore knife marks, suggesting the crew was fending off starvation by cannibalism.

Fawcett’s Lost City of Z

British explorer Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett already had undertaken several expeditions into the Amazon early in the 20th century when he came across an irresistible Portuguese document at the National Library of Brazil.

Detailing the discovery of a “large, hidden, and very ancient city, without inhabitants, discovered in the year 1753,” it told of grand ruins hidden in the Mato Grosso jungle.

Fawcett instantly decided to find the ruins, which he named the Lost City of Z.

After one failed attempt to find this awesome site, Fawcett, his son Jack, his son’s friend Raleigh Rimell, and two local laborers departed into the Brazilian wilderness in April 1925.

They wrote their last dispatch home on May 20.

Their Brazilian helpers had left them, Fawcett noted, but “You need have no fear of failure.”

No one ever heard from the party again.

Their disappearance became an obsession, with adventurers over the next decades trying to retrace their steps.

A reporter who went after Fawcett in 1930 also disappeared, as did a Swiss hunter and his search party.

Unconfirmed reports filtered out from the jungle of pale-skinned prisoners and their young children, but Fawcett and his party have never been found.

Mallory’s ill-fated Everest summit

The hopes of the world, or at least of the world’s mountain-climbing community, were pinned on George Leigh Mallory when he began his third attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest in April 1924.

The handsome English climber had reached 27,235 feet, 1,800 feet below Everest’s peak, on a 1922 expedition.

This time, he intended to make it to the top.

On June 8, Mallory and his young companion, Sandy Irvine, set out on what they hoped would be the final sprint.

A fellow climber spotted them, two black spots, about 800 vertical feet below the summit. Then a snow squall closed in, and the climbers disappeared.

Mallory’s body was not recovered for 75 years.

In 1999, climber Conrad Anker discovered Mallory’s frozen corpse at 26,760 feet on the moun­tain’s north face. Irvine’s body has not been found.

Whether Mallory was on his way up to the sum­mit or was coming down from a successful ascent is unknown.

If he did reach the peak, he would have beaten Edmund Hillary, the New Zealand mountaineer who has been lauded for being the first man to reach the summit since his successful ascent in 1953.

But the world may never know.

Amelia Earhart’s strange disappearance

Amelia Earhart was world famous. She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and the first person to fly from Hawaii to California.

Her round-the-world flight in 1937 was her final challenge.

Accompanying her when she took off from Miami on 1 June 1937 was an experienced navigator, Fred­erick Noonan.

The first legs of the 29,000-mile trip were ardu­ous, but the 2,556-mile Pacific leg from New Guinea to tiny Howland Island was the toughest of all.

From the air, Earhart radioed she couldn’t see the island and was running low on fuel. Then silence.

Recent forensic analysis suggest that bones found in 1940 on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro were those of the avia­tor.

Dimensions of Earhart’s body accord­ing to photos and clothing matched measurements recorded of the bones.

Unfortunately, the bones themselves were lost—so DNA testing cannot be done.

Researchers are still following every lead, from a skull fragment found in a museum to underwater fragments possibly from her plane, but so far, her disappearance remains a mystery.

Ambrose Bierce’s baffling Mexican quest

Ambrose Bierce isn’t the typical explorer. A Civil War veteran, he was also a journalist and poet, known for his cynical and misanthropic writings.

One such entry in his Devil’s Dictionary, for example, reads, “Fidelity: A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.”

In 1913, with his family dead and his career waning, the 71-year-old Bierce headed out to visit Civil War battlefields, including Missionary Ridge and Chickamauga, and onward to Mexico.

“I am going to Mexico with a pretty definite purpose, which is not at all presently disclosable,” he wrote to his secretary.

He may have joined up with Pancho Villa’s rebel army and traveled with it to Chihuahua.

Reports from one of Villa’s battles told of an “old gringo” killed in the fighting.

Could that have been Bierce? Or did he live on in Mexico, California, France, or Brazil, where reports have placed him over the years?