#elizabeth cavell

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Alison, Liz, and Rebecca welcome guest Amanda Tyler, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee and lead organizer of BJC’s Christians Against Christian Nationalism campaign. They discuss the urgent threat that Christian nationalist ideology poses to American democracy, how nonreligious and religious Americans alike can fight back, and Amanda explains the strong historical tradition of supporting state/church separation in the Baptist movement.

Show Notes

Amanda Tyler’s Bio

How to End Christian Nationalism by Amanda Tyler

Baptist Joint Committee 

Respecting Religion Podcast

Roger Williams Symposium: Is This a Christian Nation?

BCJ and FFRF’s joint report “Christian Nationalism and the January 6, 2021 Insurrection” 

Christians Against Christian Nationalism

Previous episode that talks about the Texas chaplain bill

BJC’s "say 'no' to chaplains in public schools"

FFRF’s 2023 Convention Panel on Christian Nationalism 

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Prompt list

My first prompt list and I’m honestly not quite sure how this works. But send me a prompt and a character (you can find the characters I write for in my guidelines) :) I’m happy about request and recommendations

1. “I’m not stupid, who is s/he?

2. “I’m not flirting with anyone”

3. A: “We have a problem”

B: “no, you got a problem. I got you”

4. “If I could, I would kiss all your scars away”

5. “You’re so cute when you’re half asleep like this”

6. “I don’t want to think about what life would be like without you”

7. “Do you want to stay tonight?”

8. “I killed him and I’d gladly kill him again”

9. “Don’t panic, but I think there’s someone in our house”

10. “How bad is it?”

11. “Cmon, I’ll carry you”

12. “I can’t get up”

13. “I threw up”

14. “You’re burning love”

15. “I can protect myself”

16. “Don’t touch me! GET OFF”

17. “You look beautiful”

18. “You left me. I stayed, I waited”

19. “You have the most amazing eyes”

20. “How’d you this scar?”

21. “We have time”

22. “You can still use your legs, so don’t say that I was jealous again”

23. “If even one of them touches you again, I’ll make sure they aren’t able to ever again”

24. “I’m overreacting?”

25. “Don’t cover my bite marks, or I might just have to add more”

26. “Wow, you really thought you could trust me?”

27. “You belong to me”

28. “I dare you”

29. “You can’t restart life once you make a mistake”

30. “You should be with someone who values you”

31. “I do not like (x), I like you you idiot”

32. “(X) doesn’t understand what they’re missing”

33. “If I was your girlfriend, I’d …”

34. “Can you picture me and you together?”

35. “My grandma thinks we are dating”

36. “Can’t sleep again”

37. “It’s past midnight, why are you still up?”

38. “Let’s get you some sleeping pills”

39. “She’s not your property”

40. “There is us, there never was”

41. “Keep lying and I’m out”

42. “Is this all I was to you?”

43. “You thought this was real?”

44. “All they ever did was take advantage of you. Why can’t you see that?”

45. “Tell me a story”

46. “It’s time to move on”

47. “I’m gonna take a shower, you should join me. You know, save water”

48. “Calm down! You’re scaring me”

49. “I’m done trying to fix you”

50. “I see your face everywhere… don’t you understand that?”

51. “I wasn’t enough for you, you made that clear”

52. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to wake to. Go back to sleep my love”

53. “Can I borrow your hoodie?”

54. “It kills me to imagine you with somebody else”

55. “You don’t own me”

56. “Can you come and get me?”

57. “You’re freezing, let’s go inside. I don’t want you to catch a cold”

58. “I don’t want you to be disappointed”

59. “It’s cute, this thing you’re doing”

60. “You should eat something”

61. “Who did this to you?!”

62. “You look like you need a hug”

63. “I love you, but you need to shut up”

64. “They’re coming. Kiss me”

65. “I’m flirting with you”

66. “I’m just so tired all the time”

67. “Would you like to take a nap with me?”

68. “Can I braid your hair?”

69. “You’re not your past”

70. “That’s not what I meant and you know it”

71. “You can cry, there’s no shame in it”

72. “You don’t do that with me”

73. “You’re not making sense dear”

74. “You feel like home”

75. “Is s/he really just a friend?”

76. “I promise I am trying”

77. “I can fix it, I will fix it”

78. “I can’t breathe around you”

79. “Don’t give me space. That’s the last thing I want”

80. “If you were any less threatening, you’d be a dandelion”

81. “I just adore you”

82. “Did I do good?”

83. “Let’s run away then”

84. “You shouldn’t trust me”

85. “What if you get hurt?”

86. “I like to do it for the plot”

87. “You are ticklish, that’s so cute”

88. “Can you warm me? I’m freezing”

89. “If you steel the blanket I’m gonna put my cold feed on you”

90. “This is low, even for you”

91. “I promise it didn’t mean anything”

92. “How much cold medicine did you take?”

93. “Get behind me”

94. “Touch her one more time and I’m gonna kill you”

95. “I want a family… with you”

96. “You’re more than a one night stand”

97. “Say that one more time and I’ll whoop your ass”

98. “My family likes you more than they like me”

99. “Every day feels like a burden”

100. “I may be a hero but I’d end the world for you”

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Hi there! Just recently found your blog and I love it 🩷 you've probably answered this before but I was wondering if you had any insight on why Elizabeth of Yorks cornation was delayed almost two years. People who are anti Henry VII say it's becasue he didn't want to share power with Elizabeth or that he was jealous of her popularity etc. But from what I read there were good reasons for the delay. First Elizabeth became pregnant near instantly after getting married and couldn't go through the ceremony until after the birth and recovery period. Then the Simnel rebellion happened. After the battle of stokes she was crowned 5 months later which doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me. Anyways just wondering if you had any further insights or details.

Hi, anon! First of all, I'm so very sorry for taking so long to reply to this ask. Thank you for letting me know you love this blog 🤍 I've discussed Elizabeth's delayed coronation before but I don't think I've ever organised my thoughts in a single post. I'm going to discuss the circumstances of the first two years of Henry's reign so we can look at them together. All in all, the delay in Elizabeth's coronation seems a logical outcome of the political circumstances of Henry VII's early years and not spite-motivated as Francis Bacon claimed in his work and what the scholarship based on Bacon usually repeats.

Regarding Henry's jealousy/insecurity, one of the theories is that Henry wanted to avoid a joint rule by avoiding a joint coronation. It's not that simple because such a coronation was simply not feasible at that time. For a joint coronation in October 1485, Henry and Elizabeth had to have been already married by that time, and that couldn't happen before he had re-legitimised her in parliament—for that to happen in turn, Henry had to sit in parliament as a crowned ruler. It was paramount to acquire the spiritual legitimacy only a coronation could give to boost his own authority. Edward IV had done the same (had crowned himself before sitting in his first parliament), and we can tell how much of a rushed affair Henry's coronation was by the simple fact that they used the same device for his predecessor's coronation: they literally simply crossed out Richard's name and wrote Henry's instead. A platform inside the church collapsed and several spectators were hurt during the occasion.

That's not to say Henry couldn't shake his shoulders at all those impediments and marry and crown Elizabeth immediately after Bosworth despite the legitimacy and dispensation issues hanging over them: although unorthodox, it could (theoretically) be done, but it's clear Henry had to tread carefully to establish his own legitimacy independent from the house of York if he wanted to be seen as an indisposable ruler in his own name. Whether it was the technical difficulties or Henry's wish to be seen as more than Elizabeth's husband—someone who could be booted off the throne in the case of her death—or both the technical difficulties and Henry's need for self-assertion, it seems unreasonable to expect a double coronation at that time and attribute this fact to Henry's malice and/or jealousy.

A coronation could have happened right after Henry and Elizabeth's marriage as it customarily happened. There are clear signs that indicate that this is what Henry had originally intended: in December 1485, he ordered horses for Elizabeth's coronation, and the plan was still in motion in January 1486 when he ordered 'tawnings of ermyns', 'canapye stavez', 'cherez of estate', 'skarlate rede clothe' as well as the 'furryng of dyvers of ye quenes robe' and diverse other items 'agenst the coronation of our soverayne lady ye queen'. It seems clear they weren't prepared for a coronation straight after their wedding (which seems to have been a rather more diminished affair comparatively)—Henry being short of cash and entagled in debts from his own previous coronation seems like a possibility, and even Edward IV, who married for love and had no reason to want to obfuscate his consort, took almost a whole year to be able to crown his own wife. What's unclear is why the coronation plans didn't advance through 1486.

Anna Duch has speculated Elizabeth's possible difficult pregnancy halted the plans for her coronation. A couple of queens were indeed crowned whilst pregnant: Anne Boleyn, who had a secret wedding and was in urgent need of legitimacy (so that her child could be seen as legitimate in turn), and Philippa of Hainault, who was married amidst the chaos of the power struggle between her in-laws and had held little visibility up to that point. It seems it was the news of Philippa's pregnancy that led to her coronation, and I don't see why the same wouldn't have happened to Elizabeth of York if what they claim to have been Henry's intention—to reduce Elizabeth to be simply the bearer of his heirs and hold no power whatsoever—was true.

Henry didn't rush to crown her at that point, although we don't know if Elizabeth's medical condition would have allowed her to go through a coronation. Not only Elizabeth's pregnancy might have prevented her from going through a coronation, but she also didn't follow the king in his northern progress despite arrangements for her appearance by his side at York where Henry's device of the red and white rose would come together for the first time. Maybe Elizabeth's mobility in the first trimester was hindered by morning sickness or the like, and soon Henry had other problems to worry about. As pointed out by Retha Warnicke, 'it is possible that Henry did not wish to expose his queen in a public ceremony that would draw great, sometimes unruly, crowds during a time of so many disturbances'.

By mid-1486 Henry had to deal with various rebellions in the north and even an assassination attempt at York. His northern progress, besides being conventional for a newly crowned king, was also motivated by Henry's need to show himself and impose his royal will onto his rebellious and disaffected subjects. A month before Henry set out north, contemporary correspondence circulated that 'the king purposyse northward hastyly after the Parlement, & it is sayd he purposses to doe execution quickly ther on such as hath offended agynst him'. The same letter, dated from February 1486, suggested that he intended to lead north a great company of men 'in harnesse' (in armour) together with some 200 lords and knights. Correspondence dated from December 1485 shows that Henry and his advisors feared a major outbreak of violence around that time, and back in October, Henry had written of his 'knowledge that certeyne our rebelles and traitours being of litell honour or substance conferred with our auncient ennemyes the Scottes… made insurreccion and assemblies in the north portions of our realme'.

By the time Henry approached York, he was reportedly surrounded by 'great noblesse, as above saide, and merveolous great nombre of so short a warnyng of esquires, gentlemen and yeomen in defensible array'. Lovell's rebellion was already underway, and frankly, it sounds like quite an unsafe atmosphere for Henry's pregnant queen to make an appearance. At the same time, Henry had to spend money on ordering materials and clothes for his public appearances in the cities he visited in his northern progress, and considering the royal treasury was still suffering from the expenses of the previous years I wonder if Elizabeth's coronation plans were also put on hold because of that royal progress in spring 1486. By the time Henry and his lords returned to London, Elizabeth's pregnancy was already advanced and his top priority seems to have been to get her to Winchester safely before her delivery.

After Arthur's birth and christening, Elizabeth's subsequent illness and churching, etc, the court could barely go back to a normal schedule as talks of Edward of Warwick's escape were circulating in London already by November 1486. Correspondence from January 1487 makes it clear that Henry had known of certain developments of the new rebellion since the beginning of that year. There were disturbances in Devon and Cornwall in early February and in Ireland in March. Henry had to call for a general council to discuss the security of his kingdom in February because of the boy pretender they already knew to be in Dublin at that time. By mid-March, Henry was already on the road to make arrangements for a foreign invasion, and it wouldn't be until after the Battle of Stoke in June that Henry would be able to devote his attention to his wife's coronation.

Henry's situation in 1486-1487 was, as described by Emma Cavell, 'ominously reminiscent of his own challenge to Richard III only two years earlier: a challenge in which the pretender had defeated the king'. All through this period we can identify the influence of unforeseen circumstances on Henry's actions and plans for his public appearances, especially where rebellion and challenges to his rule were concerned. It's clear too that Elizabeth's coronation was a grand affair, very likely bigger than Henry's own coronation, and an occasion where the yorkist symbols of the white rose and sun in splendour were displayed in great pomp for all to see. It sounds illogical to think Henry had been up to that point consumed with fear for Elizabeth's rights but after exactly what had been a yorkist rebellion and invasion, he would simply forget about his fear/jealousy and proceed with legitimising the yorkist inheritance in the public imagination.

What we have evidence of—and what I think we should focus on—are Henry's own words regarding 'ye quenes coronacyon' that he was planning as early as December 1485, and the various items that he bought for the occasion. Why the coronation didn't go ahead until 1487 is a matter of speculation but what is certain is that Henry didn't wait for Elizabeth to become pregnant to 'reward' her with a coronation (and thus reduce her to a human oven), as has been so often claimed. What do you all think? 🌹x

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**Shots of the Episode**

The Crown (2016)

Season 5, Episode 10: “Decommissioned” (2022) Director: Alex Gabassi Cinematographer: Adriano Goldman

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Who I Write For

Please note that I only write characters when I have ideas for them, so if they are on this list and have no fics, I promise some will be coming soon. Also, please note that these will all be either fem! reader or GN! reader.

DC

Kate Kane 

Harley Quinn

Poison Ivy

Marvel

Wanda Maximoff

Natasha Romanoff

Yelena Belova

Kate Bishop

Kamala Kahn

Carol Danvers

Darcy Lewis

OITNB

Nicky Nichols

Alex Vause

Stella Carlin

Criminal Minds 

JJ

Emily Prentiss

Penelope Garcia

Actors

 Natasha Lyonne

Ruby Rose

Margot Robbie

Scarlett Johansson

Elizabeth Olsen

Fiona Dourif

Jenna Ortega

Lachlan Watson

Horror

Jaxx Herd (The Meg)

Clarice Starling (Silence Of The Lambs)

Sidney Prescott (Scream)

Tara Carpenter (Scream)

Sam Carpenter (Scream)

Nica Pierce (Chucky)

Glenda Ray (Chucky)

Sabrina Spellman (Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina)

Theo Putnam (Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina)

MISC. 

Charlie Cale (Poker Face)

Abby Sciuto (NCIS)

Adele Wolff (XXX: Return Of Xander Cage)

Victoria De Angelis (Måneskin)

Vada Cavell (The Fallout)

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The Scottish nurse Mary Helen Young was born on June 5th 1883 in Aberdeen.

Another very brave lady who is little known in Scotland.

Her mother died while she was a baby, after which she moved with her family, her father and two elder siblings, to Edinburgh. After school, she worked as a dressmaker at Jenners department store.

She left Edinburgh in 1904 to go to Surrey to train as a nurse, gaining state registration in 1908. In 1909 she travelled to Paris, France, to work as a private nurse.

At the outbreak of World War I Young volunteered for service with the British Red Cross, working in the British Army zone in France, nursing wounded troops on the Western Front. Young's fiancé was killed during the war.

After the war, she returned to private nursing in Paris travelling occasionally to Scotland to visit her sister Annie Sutherland in Aberdeen and her aunt in Bllater.

When the Nazis occupied Paris in June 1940 Young chose to remain in the city and continue her nursing work. In December of that year, she was sent to an internment camp for allied civilians near Besançon and released after about six months as result of poor health, from where she returned to Paris. Despite being under surveillance by the Gestapo she received, into her home at 69 Rue Laugier, people sent from Britain who were assisting with the French Resistance. Her apartment was also used as a base for sending and receiving covert radio transmissions from London.

On 11 November 1943 she was arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo on suspicion of helping British servicemen escape. In February 1944 she was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp for women, as a political prisoner. News of her death did not reach Scotland until September 1945.

After the war, investigations by the British Embassy in Paris and United Nations War Crimes Commission proved that Young had been put to death by the Germans by being "put in a gas chamber or otherwise" sometime between February and March 1945.

Her sister and sole next-of-kin, Elizabeth Ann Sutherland, raised a legal action to settle Young's estate. On 30 January 1948 at the Court of Session, Lord Blade issued a judgement that presumed Young's death had occurred on 14 March 1945. Evidence given at the trial included letters that spoke to her courage and cheerfulness.

The French novelist, Simone Saint-Clair, who was also an inmate at Ravensbrück, said of her, "She always kept her chin up ... and all of us liked the little Scotswoman, Mees Young".

Young has been compared to nurse Edith Cavell who was executed by firing squad by the Germans in World War I.

After the Second World War the Aberdeen Press and Journal learned that Mary-Helen had ‘died as she lived, a brave Scotswoman’. The newspaper proudly acclaimed her as Scotland’s very own Edith Cavell - ‘Right up to the very end nothing could break her. She would smile, even in this hell that the Germans had made for us, she was a brave woman, the bravest of the brave’

[jjsmaybank20]

Who I Write For

Romantic:

Marvel: Wanda Maximoff, Natasha Romanoff, Kate Bishop, Yelena Belova, Maria Hill, Carol Danvers, Gwen Stacy

Scream Franchise: Sidney Prescott, Sam Carpenter, Tara Carpenter, Amber Freeman

The Sex Lives of College Girls: Leighton Murray, Whitney Chase

Celebrities: Elizabeth Olsen, Scarlett Johansson, Hailee Steinfield, Florence Pugh, Reneé Rapp, Kaylee Bryant, Sydney Sweeney, Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jenna Ortega, Billie Eilish, Madelyn Cline, Phoebe Bridgers, Taylor Swift

WOSO: Alexia Putellas, Mapi León, Ingrid Engen, Aitana Bonmatí, Ona Batlle, Lucy Bronze, Leah Williamson, Alessia Russo, Vivianne Miedema, Daniëlle Van de Donk, Steph Catley, Ellie Carpenter, Katrina Gorry, Emily Sonnett, Rose Lavelle, Kelley O’Hara

Stranger Things: Robin Buckley, Nancy Wheeler, Joyce Byers

Criminal Minds: Jennifer Jareau, Emily Prentiss, Penelope Garcia

Wednesday: Wednesday Addams, Enid Sinclair

Outer Banks: Sarah Cameron, Kiara Carrera

Euphoria: Maddy Perez, Cassie Howard, Lexi Howard

Teen Wolf: Lydia Martin, Allison Argent, Kira Yukimura, Malia Tate, Cora Hale, Erica Reyes

Misc: Vada Cavell, Mia Reed, Rebecca Welton, Whisky, Marta Cabrera

Platonic ONLY:

Marvel: Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, Peter Parker, The Avengers

Scream Franchise: Dewey Riley, Chad Meeks-Martin, Mindy Meeks-Martin

The Sex Lives of College Girls: Kimberly Finkle

Stranger Things: Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson, Jonathan Byers, Jim Hopper, the Kids

Criminal Minds: Spencer Reid, Derek Morgan, David Rossi, Aaron Hotchner

Wednesday: Bianca Barclay, Yoko Tanaka, Ajax Petropolus, Eugene Ottinger

Outer Banks: John B. Routledge, JJ Maybank, Pope Heyward

Euphoria: Fezco, Rue Bennett, Jules Vaughn, Kat Hernandez, Ashtray

Teen Wolf: Scott McCall, Stiles Stilinski, Isaac Lahey, Derek Hale, Liam Dunbar

Celebrities: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan, Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, Joe Keery, Joseph Quinn, David Harbour, Dylan O’Brian

Misc: Benoit Blanc, Miles Bron

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Holidays 10.12

Holidays

Asexuality Visibility & Education Day

Child Rambunctiousness Appreciation Day

Children’s Day (Brazil)

Columbus Day [original date]

Commonwealth Culture Day (Northern Mariana Islands)

Cookbook Launch Day

Day of the Pluricultural Nation (Mexico)

Day of the Six Billion (1999)

Destiny Day

Did de la Rasa (Day of Race; Mexico)

Fiesta Nacional de España (Spain)

The First of October! (Dr. Seuss)

Freethought Day

Geoscience Day

Global Scream Day (30-second scream at 1200 GMT)

Harry Potter Book Day

Hemp Day (French Republic)

Hispanic Day (Spain)

Indigenous Peoples Day (San Francisco)

Indigenous Resistance Day (Venezuela)

International Cassette Store Day

International Day Against DRM

International Moment of Frustration Scream Day

International TFMR Awareness Day

Lady of Aparecida Day (Brazil)

National Bandana Day (South Africa)

National Doodle Bug Day

National Education Day (Kiribati)

National Farmer’s Day

National Fungus Day (Japan)

National Hug a Bassist Day

National Loggers Day

National Martin Day

National Monogram Day

National Peyronie’s Disease Awareness Day

National Salesperson's Day

National Savings Day

National Vermont Day

Native Americans' Day

Old Farmer's Day

Piomingo Day (Chickasaw Nation)

Rice Day (Texas)

Superstar Day

Women Pharmacist Day

World Algae Day

World Arthritis Day

World Burpee Day

World Spanish Language Day UN)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Black Jewish Drinking Day

Drink Local Wine Day

Märzen Day

National Gumbo Day

National Know Your Lemons Day

National Pulled Pork Day

National Pumpkin Pie Day

2nd Thursday in October

Children’s Environmental Health Day [2nd Thursday]

Day of Children’s Hospice Work (Germany) [2nd Thursday]

International RSE Day [2nd Thursday]

National Children’s Hospice Palliative Care Day (Canada) [2nd Thursday]

National Dessert Day [2nd Thursday] (also 10.14)

National Student Day [2nd Thursday]

Ombuds Day [2nd Thursday]

World Chicken Day [2nd Thursday]

World Sight Day [2nd Thursday]

Independence Days

Asgardia (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Equatorial Guinea (from Spain, 1968)

Wasteoftimeistan (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Al Held (Artology)

Ayathrem begins (Zoroastrianism)

Carlo Acutis (Christian; Saint)

Crowleymas (a.k.a. Feast for Life of Aleister Crowley; Thelema)

Day of Fortuna Redux (Ancient Rome)

Day of Giving the Black Land to Horus and the Red Land to Set (Ancient Egypt)

Edith Cavell and Elizabeth Fry (Church of England)

Edwin of Northumbria (Christian; Saint)

Feasts of the Spirits of the Fire (Pagan)

Fiacc (Christian; Saint)

Fortuna Redux (Old Roman Goddess of Successful Journeys & Safe Returns)

Frank Sinatra Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Guido Molinari (Artology)

Herbert (Roman Catholic)

International Rastafarian Headgear Day (Pastafarian)

Louis Brisson (Christian; Blessed)

Montaigne (Positivist; Saint)

Our Lady of Aparecida (Brazil; Christian; Saint)

Our Lady of the Pillar (Fiestas del Pilar; Christian; Saint)

Prince Humpty Dumpty (Muppetism)

Radim Gaudentius (Czech Republic; Christian; Saint)

Seraphin of Montegranaro (Christian; Saint)

Wanting Wonton Day (Pastafarian)

Wilfrid of Ripon, Bishop of York (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [55 of 71]

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

Argo (Film; 2012)

Bad Times at the El Royale (Film; 2018)

The Blind Owl, by Sadegh Hedayat (Novel; 1936)

The Caves of Steel, by Isaac Asimov (Novel; 1953)

Chimp and Zee (WB MM Cartoon; 1968)

Crazy Little Thing Called Love, by Queen (Song; 1979)

The Doctor and the Soul, by Viktor E. Frankl (Philosophy Book; 1946)

Don’t Knock the Rock (Film; 1956)

Fairy Tail (Anime TV Series; 2009)

First Man (Film; 2018)

The Gay Divorcee (Film; 1934)

Got My Mind Set On You, by George Harrison (Song; 1987)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams (Novel; 1979)

The Hot Spot (Film; 1990)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1957)

If I Ran the Zoo, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1950)

Inherit the Wind (Film; 1960)

It’s in the Bag or Rocky Gets the Sack (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 309; 1964)

Jesus Christ Superstar (Broadway Rock Opera; 1971)

Kick, by INXS (Album; 1987)

Lady Sings the Blues (Film; 1972)

Look Now, by Elvis Costello (Album; 2018)

Memphis Belle (Film; 1990)

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton (Children’s Book; 1939)

The Narrows, by Ann Petry (Novel; 1953)

October, by U2 (Album; 1981)

Please Try to Remember the First of October!, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1977)

Rollin’, by The Bay City Rollers (Album; 1974)

The Saint Abroad, by Fleming Lee (Short Stories; 1969) [Saint #42]

A Short Weight for All Seats or One of Our Trunks (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 310; 1964)

Sideways (Film; 2004)

Touché and Go (WB MM Cartoon; 1957)

Trout Fishing in America, by Richard Brautigan (Novel; 1967)

Tusk, by Fleetwood Mac (Album; 1979)

Today’s Name Days

Edwin, Gottfried, Horst, Maximillian (Austria)

Maksimilijan, Serafin, Velibor (Croatia)

Marcel (Czech Republic)

Maximillian (Denmark)

Aare, Aaro, Are (Estonia)

Aarre, Aarto (Finland)

Edwin, Séraphin, Wilfried (France)

David, Horst, Maximilian, (Germany)

Andromahi, Andromahos, Valantios (Greece)

Miksa (Hungary)

Serafino (Italy)

Kira, Lase, Monvids, Valfrids, Vitenis (Latvia)

Deimintė, Gantas, Salvinas (Lithuania)

Valter, Vibeke (Norway)

Cyriak, Eustachiusz, Eustachy, Grzymisław, Maksymilian, Ostap, Salwin, Serafin, Witold, Witołd, Witolda (Poland)

Andronic, Prov, Tarah (Romania)

Maximilián (Slovakia)

Pilar (Spain)

Manfred, Valfrid (Sweden)

Christopher, Cristopher, Kester, Kristofer, Kristopher (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 285 of 2024; 80 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 41 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Gort (Ivy) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 28 (Gui-Mao)

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

Hebrew: 27 Tishri 5784

Islamic: 27 Rabi I 1445

J Cal: 15 Shù; Oneday [15 of 30]

Julian: 29 September 2023

Moon: 4%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 5 Descartes (11th Month) [Montaigne]

Runic Half Month: Wyn (Joy) [Day 1 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 19 of 89)

Zodiac: Libra (Day 19 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Wyn (Joy) [Half-Month 20 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 10.25)

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Holidays 10.12

Holidays

Asexuality Visibility & Education Day

Child Rambunctiousness Appreciation Day

Children’s Day (Brazil)

Columbus Day [original date]

Commonwealth Culture Day (Northern Mariana Islands)

Cookbook Launch Day

Day of the Pluricultural Nation (Mexico)

Day of the Six Billion (1999)

Destiny Day

Did de la Rasa (Day of Race; Mexico)

Fiesta Nacional de España (Spain)

The First of October! (Dr. Seuss)

Freethought Day

Geoscience Day

Global Scream Day (30-second scream at 1200 GMT)

Harry Potter Book Day

Hemp Day (French Republic)

Hispanic Day (Spain)

Indigenous Peoples Day (San Francisco)

Indigenous Resistance Day (Venezuela)

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Chimp and Zee (WB MM Cartoon; 1968)

Crazy Little Thing Called Love, by Queen (Song; 1979)

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Inherit the Wind (Film; 1960)

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Jesus Christ Superstar (Broadway Rock Opera; 1971)

Kick, by INXS (Album; 1987)

Lady Sings the Blues (Film; 1972)

Look Now, by Elvis Costello (Album; 2018)

Memphis Belle (Film; 1990)

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, by Virginia Lee Burton (Children’s Book; 1939)

The Narrows, by Ann Petry (Novel; 1953)

October, by U2 (Album; 1981)

Please Try to Remember the First of October!, by Dr. Seuss (Children’s Book; 1977)

Rollin’, by The Bay City Rollers (Album; 1974)

The Saint Abroad, by Fleming Lee (Short Stories; 1969) [Saint #42]

A Short Weight for All Seats or One of Our Trunks (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 310; 1964)

Sideways (Film; 2004)

Touché and Go (WB MM Cartoon; 1957)

Trout Fishing in America, by Richard Brautigan (Novel; 1967)

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Wyn (Joy) [Half-Month 20 of 24; Runic Half-Months] (thru 10.25)

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Directed by 

Drew Harwood

Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)  

Drew Harwood

Cast  

Gareth Koorzen...Jake Drew Harwood...Brandon Sidney Edwards...Sandra Chris R. Taylor...Aj Heather Fay...Cali Aja Nicole...Sofia Mary Charles Miller...Chanler Amber Hutchins...Zoey Katie Garland-Noble...Leanne Johnny Mocker...Ivan Makar Tony Suriano...Vok Chip Heidt...Axl Roger Jerome...Grandpa Jezebel Luxure...Burlesque Dancer Jean Robert De-Cavel...Chef

Other cast:

Bradley Paynter...Party Guest Randy Bruce...Party Goer Richelle Talor...Party Goer Angel Lane...Party Goer Jake Kopronica...Party Goer Brian Lally...Delivery boy Nick Coleman...Kyle (uncredited) Jai Sahai...Priest (uncredited) John Christian Schulte...Spencer (uncredited)

Produced by 

Katie Garland-Noble...producer Drew Harwood...producer Chip Heidt...executive producer Calvin Herbst...line producer Gareth Koorzen...producer Johnny Mocker...executive producer Jared Safier...executive producer

Music by 

Jeanne-Peri Foucault

Cinematography by 

Brandan Haskell

Editing by 

Sam Zarrin

Casting By 

Brittany Kirby

Production Design by 

Rachel Z. Meyer...(as Rachel Meyer) Drew Vecellio

Art Direction by 

Drew Vecellio

Costume Design by 

Robin K Fields...(as Robin Fields)

Makeup Department 

Celeste Blandon...assistant makeup artist Libby Dietrix...assistant makeup artist Patricia Martinez...makeup artist

Production Management 

Calvin Herbst...production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director 

Samantha Sather...second assistant director Jeff Seemann...first assistant director

Art Department 

Rachel Z. Meyer...set dresser (as Rachel Meyer) Tony Suriano...art department assistant Drew Vecellio...set dresser

Sound Department 

Sam Costello...sound designer Chen Shen...ADR & VO recordist Mike Teeters...sound mixer Dean White...re-recording mixer

Stunts 

Bryan Carlisle...boat driver/water safety

Camera and Electrical Department 

Aria Brice...best girl grip Jon Cibella...key grip Jack Miller...second assistant camera Mitchell Sacco...first assistant camera John Christian Schulte...gaffer

Costume and Wardrobe Department 

Elizabeth M Galbraith...costume assistant Julianna Weis-Palacios...assistant set costumer

Editorial Department 

Strack Azar...colorist Jack Kanner...assistant editor

Location Management 

Katie Garland-Noble...location manager Drew Harwood...location scout Gareth Koorzen...location scout

Script and Continuity Department 

Shawn Tira...script supervisor

Additional Crew 

Frank Batten...production assistant Hunter Deno...production assistant Jeremy Jardine...Additional Music Brian Lally...on set paTim Lally...driver double Brodie Mccauley...production assistant Olivia R. Ramage...production assistant Benjamin Willis-Teff...Key PA (as Ben Willis-Teff)

Thanks 

Kimberly Carlisle...special thanks Jean Robert De-Cavel...special thanks (as Jean-Robert de Cavel) Pattie Lally...special thanks Lynn Michele Latta...special thanks Marilou Lind...special thanks D. Lynn Meyers...special thanks Kristen Schlotman...special thanks Tassy Taylor...special thanks

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Review: Under the Cover of Mercy

Synopsis:

November 1914

The Great War has come to Brussels, the Germans have occupied the city, and Edith Cavell, Head Nurse at Berkendael Medical Institute, faces an impossible situation. As matron of a designated Red Cross hospital, Edith has sworn an oath to help any who are wounded, under whatever flag they are found. But Governor von Lüttwitz, the ranking German officer, has additional orders for her. She and her nurses must also stand guard over the wounded Allied prisoners of war and prevent them from escaping.

Edith feels that God called her to be a healer, not a jailer. How can she heal these broken boys, only to allow them to be returned to the hands of their oppressors to be beaten again?

So when members of the Belgian resistance, desperate for help, bring two wounded British soldiers to her hospital in secret, she makes a decision that will change everything: she will heal the soldiers, and then attempt to smuggle them out of the hospital to freedom.

With her loyal friend and fellow nurse, Elizabeth, by her side, Edith establishes her hospital as a safe house for the resistance, laboring tirelessly to save as many soldiers as she can. Working under the watchful eyes of the German army, Edith faces challenging odds and charges of treason—which carries the death penalty if she is caught—as she fights alongside the resistance to bring—and keep—hope to her small corner of a war-torn world.

Plot:

As a nurse, it was Edith Cavell's duty to serve those who are hurt. As Head Nurse at Berkendael Medical Institute, she was there when Germany took over Brussels and forced them into military rule. Under German leadership, Governor von Luttwitz told her to treat German and allied soldiers, but the Allied must be kept under prison guard. Refusing to see her patients as prisoners, Edith and her righthand nurse, Lizzie, treated the patients as fairly as they could. When the opportunity came to Edith to treat two wounded English soldiers, unknown to the Germans, Edith quickly hid the men and nursed them back to health. With more Allied soldiers speaking out about Edith's medical aid, unbeknown to the Germans, Edith converts her hospital to act as a hideaway where Allied soldiers could heal and escape Brussels, without the German’s knowledge. Where Edith is willing to lay down her life for her cause, Lizzie sees the true dangers. With German inspectors showing up unknown, German guards guarding them at night, and fellow nurses who do not know what Edith is doing, Lizzie fears for all their safety. Yet, Lizzie knows what Edith is doing is for the right cause, and loyal to her friend, Lizzie is willing to help Edith make her sacrifice and help the Allied soldiers escape Brussels, while not getting caught as a traitor by the Germans.

Thoughts:

Rebecca Connolly beautifully crafts this remarkable story of an unsung hero from World War One: Edith Cavell. Told from the third person perspectives of Edith and her friend Lizzie, you get to see Edith in action and hear her thoughts as Connolly tells readers about who Edith was, and what she gave up to serve her nation. With easy writing and a compelling plot, Connolly makes this historic novel easy to read, and stands out as it is one of few available to tell the story of Edith Cavell. This is sad because there is nothing to dislike about Edith or Lizzie for that matter; and more people should know about Edith and her sacrifices. Both women are strong characters, with strong morals and a willingness to do what they can to help others. The identity of nurses is strong throughout the novel in the way they care for others and each other. Connolly writes both action scenes, with Edith and Lizzie getting questioned by the Germans, and heart-wrenching as Edith and Lizzie talk to each other about what they are doing. Readers can truly relate to Lizzie, who sees the goodness and benefit of what Edith is doing, but is selfishly afraid for her friend and fellow nurses' lives. Where Edith never wavers in her plan, Lizzie is one questioning if they are doing too much, and if it is worth risking all of their lives. With a conclusion not a shock if you know history, but upsetting if you do not, Connolly does a fantastic job keeping readers engaged and educated on who Edith Cavell is, and why we should all remember her and thank her for her sacrifice.

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BOOKS I READ IN 2022 Mostly academic books I read for research purposes or to expand my knowledge of a topic, though this year was much more scattershot then 2021 in terms of topic, and I read a lot less. Indeed, this year, while there was a lot of books I loved and luxuriated in, or am proud I finished, there were a bunch of very frustrating or not particularly appealing academic works I almost regret reading, such as the Cavel & Noakes volume! Also, far more fiction - I somehow read sections from almost every volume of Christopher Tolkien's History of Middle Earth series. Generally, I read the majority of the book - monographs or collections where I read a single chapter or introduction aren’t included. I also included a few of the best or most interesting articles I read, though there are dozens and dozens more. Books marked with a cross are ones I particularly recommend. The first two entries are books I started reading in 2021 and the last three I’m still reading!

FIRST ROW:

Anne Guérin, Prisonniers en révolte: Quotidien carcéral, mutineries et politique pénitentiaire en France, 1970-1980  +

Larry Wolff, Venice and the Slavs: The Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment

Murar Ergin, 'Is The Turk A White Man?': Race and Modernity in the Making of Turkish Identity

Douglas Hamilton and John McAleer, ed., Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail

Allain Millard, Communaute Des Egaux: Le Communisme Neo-Babouviste Dans La France Des Annees 1840 +

SECOND ROW:

Blaise Cendrars, L'Homme foudroyé

Victor Serge, Notebooks, 1934-1947 +

Peter Cole, Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly +

John Deak, Forging a Multinational State: State-Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War

Brock Millman, ed., Polarity, Patriotism, and Dissent in Great War Canada, 1914–1919

THIRD ROW:

Elinor Barr, Silver Islet: Striking It Rich in Lake Superior

Gerry Boyce, Eldorado: Ontario's First Gold Rush

Nancy B. Bouchier & Ken Cruikshank, The People and the Bay: A Social and Environmental History of Hamilton Harbour

Franca Iacovetta, Roberto Perin & Angelo Principe, ed., Enemies Within: Italian and Other Internees in Canada and Abroad

Janice Cavell & Jeff Noakes, Acts of Occupation: Canada and Arctic Sovereignty, 1918-25

FOURTH ROW:

Élisabeth Vonarburg, The Maerlande Chronicles

J. R. R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien, Morgoth's Ring (and bits and pieces of the rest of the History of Middle Earth series)

Elizabeth Hand, Winterlight

Jonathan Haslam, The Spectre of War: International Communism and the Origins of World War II +

William Clare Roberts, Marx's Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital +

FIFTH ROW:

Ruth Bleasdale, Rough Work: Labourers on the Public Works of British North America and Canada, 1841-1882  +

Dale Gibson, Law, Life, and Government at Red River, Volume 1: Settlement and Governance, 1812-1872

Fabrice Grenard, Une légende du maquis: George Guingouin, du mythe à l'histoire

Jesper Vaczy Kragh, Lobotomy Nation: The History of Psychosurgery and Psychiatry in Denmark

Serge Chakotin, The Rape of the Masses: The Psychology of Totalitarian Political Propaganda (1940)

Select articles I read:

Matthew Pehl, “Between the Market and the State: The Problem of Prison Labor in the New Deal,”

Ernest Allen, “Waiting for Tojo: The Pro-Japan Vigil of Black Missourians, 1932-1943.”

Sarah Carter, “Two Acres and a Cow: 'Peasant’ Farming for the Indians of the Northwest, 1889-97.”

David Thompson, “Convalescent Comrades: The 1935 Siege of Winnipeg’s Deer Lodge Hospital.”

Benjamin D. Weber, “The Strange Career of the Convict Clause: US Prison Imperialism in the Panamá Canal Zone.”

Ernest Ming-Tak Leung, “The Japanese Factor in the Making of North Korean Socialism.”

Eugeny Morozov, “Critique of Techno-Feudal Reason.”

Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, “Fascist Spectacle.”

Tiziana Terranova and Ravi Sundaram, “Colonial Infrastructures and Techno-social Networks.”

Looking forward to reading in 2023:

Ruan O'Donnell, Special Category: The IRA in English Prisons, Vol. 1 & 2

Garrett Felber, Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State

Gavin Walker, ed. The Red Years: Theory, Politics and Aesthetics in the Japanese '68

Cheryl D. Hicks, Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935

Sebastein Elsbach, Eiserne Front: Abwehrbundnis Gegen Rechts, 1931 Bis 1933

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I’m a school teacher here in England. Nowhere in the national curriculum is there anything about teaching Diana to primary school children, especially children just starting.

What is usually taught, and is very light and doesn’t go into much detail.

Pupils should be taught about:

changes within living memory – where appropriate, these should be used to reveal aspects of change in national life, events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally [for example, the Great Fire of London, the first aeroplane flight or events commemorated through festivals or anniversaries]

the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements, some should be used to compare aspects of life in different periods [for example, Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria, Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong, William Caxton and Tim Berners-Lee, Pieter Bruegel the Elder and LS Lowry, Rosa Parks and Emily Davison, Mary Seacole and/or Florence Nightingale and Edith Cavell]

significant historical events, people and places in their own locality

changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age, the Roman Empire and its impact on Britain, Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots, the Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor, a local history study, a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066, the achievements of the earliest civilizations – an overview of where and when the first civilizations appeared and a depth study of one of the following: Ancient Sumer, The Indus Valley, Ancient Egypt, The Shang Dynasty of Ancient China, Ancient Greece – a study of Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world, a non-European society that provides contrasts with British history – one study chosen from: early Islamic civilization, including a study of Baghdad c. AD 900; Mayan civilization c. AD 900; Benin (West Africa) c. AD 900-1300, ideas, political power, industry and empire: Britain, 1745-1901, challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day, womens suffrage, the First World War, Second World War, history of NHS, social, cultural and technological change in post-war British society, Britain’s place in the world since 1945.

This year there are special history lessons on Queen Elizabeth II for the Platinum Jubilee. My class are in the younger end of the schooling age, and we are doing a royal dress up day, bringing in something from the previous jubilee years (one of my students is bringing in her grandma’s handbag from the 1950s) and we are having grandparents come in to talk about growing up too, and having a royal afternoon tea.

Hello! It is wonderful to hear from a school teacher in England. Thank you for such a detailed and informed response. Also may I also add that you have the most wonderful activities planned for Platinum Jubilee year for your classroom. This is for you as a thank you 🍎

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The Scottish nurse  Mary Helen Young  was born on June 5th 1883 in Aberdeen.

Another very brave lady who is little known in Scotland.

Her mother died while she was a baby, after which she moved with her family, her father and two elder siblings, to Edinburgh. After school, she worked as a dressmaker at Jenners department store.

She left Edinburgh in 1904 to go to Surrey to train as a nurse, gaining state registration in 1908. In 1909 she travelled to Paris, France, to work as a private nurse.

At the outbreak of World War I Young volunteered for service with the British Red Cross, working in the British Army zone in France, nursing wounded troops on the Western Front. Young's fiancé was killed during the war.

After the war, she returned to private nursing in Paris travelling occasionally to Scotland to visit her sister Annie Sutherland in Aberdeen and her aunt in Bllater.

When the Nazis occupied Paris in June 1940 Young chose to remain in the city and continue her nursing work. In December of that year, she was sent to an internment camp for allied civilians near Besançon and released after about six months as result of poor health, from where she returned to Paris. Despite being under surveillance by the Gestapo she received, into her home at 69 Rue Laugier, people sent from Britain who were assisting with the French Resistance. Her apartment was also used as a base for sending and receiving covert radio transmissions from London.

On 11 November 1943 she was arrested and interrogated by the Gestapo on suspicion of helping British servicemen escape. In February 1944 she was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp for women, as a political prisoner. News of her death did not reach Scotland until September 1945.

After the war, investigations by the British Embassy in Paris and United Nations War Crimes Commission proved that Young had been put to death by the Germans by being "put in a gas chamber or otherwise" sometime between February and March 1945.

Her sister and sole next-of-kin, Elizabeth Ann Sutherland, raised a legal action to settle Young's estate. On 30 January 1948 at the Court of Session, Lord Blade issued a judgement that presumed Young's death had occurred on 14 March 1945. Evidence given at the trial included letters that spoke to her courage and cheerfulness.

The French novelist, Simone Saint-Clair, who was also an inmate at Ravensbrück, said of her, "She always kept her chin up ... and all of us liked the little Scotswoman, Mees Young".

Young has been compared to nurse Edith Cavell who was executed by firing squad by the Germans in World War I.

After the Second World War the Aberdeen Press and Journal learned that Mary-Helen had ‘died as she lived, a brave Scotswoman’. The newspaper proudly acclaimed her as Scotland’s very own Edith Cavell - ‘Right up to the very end nothing could break her. She would smile, even in this hell that the Germans had made for us, she was a brave woman, the bravest of the brave’.