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A shaded relief in green of Hopedale. This was just done using a lightening colorisation of the hillshade and a green color ramp, but it makes me wonder what could be done with a bit more color editing.

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George Armstrong Custer

George Armstrong Custer (l. 1839-1876) was an officer in the US Army, serving in the cavalry from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War and the wars against the Plains Indians 1866-1876. Although he became a widely recognized hero during the Civil War, he is best remembered for his death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Custer established a reputation for recklessness, courage, and self-promotion early in the Civil War and, by 1863, after the Battle of Gettysburg, was a national hero. He blocked the retreat of General Robert E. Lee (l. 1807-1870) in April 1865 and was present at Appomattox Court House when Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant (l. 1822-1885). After the war, he oversaw Reconstruction in Texas before taking command of the newly formed 7th Cavalry in campaigns against the Native Americans of the West.

He led his troops against the Cheyenne people at the Washita Massacre/Battle of the Washita River in November 1868 and, ignoring the terms of the Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1868, marched his troops into the Black Hills in 1874 where he discovered gold. News of this discovery soon brought more settlers and miners into Sioux and Cheyenne territory, igniting the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877. At the Battle of the Little Bighorn (25-26 June 1876) Custer and his men were slaughtered by Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Sioux warriors under chief Sitting Bull (l. c. 1837-1890). Afterwards, thanks in large part to the efforts of his wife, Elizabeth Bacon "Libbie" Custer (l. 1842-1933), George Armstrong Custer came to be regarded as a great American hero.

His legacy and reputation held until shortly before the Second World War (1939-45) when scholars began challenging the traditional narrative. Today, Custer is a controversial figure, often condemned for his brutality and ruthlessness. Although Custer should certainly be held accountable for his actions, it must also be recognized that he was primarily advancing the genocidal policies of his government which saw the American Indian as an obstacle to progress, civilization, and Manifest Destiny.

Early Years & West Point

George Armstrong Custer was born on 5 December 1839 in New Rumley, Ohio, to Emanuel Henry Custer, a blacksmith, and his second wife, Marie Ward Kirkpatrick. He was named after a minister as his mother hoped this would encourage him to follow that path. He had three older half-siblings from his mother's first marriage and four full siblings, including Thomas and Boston, who would also join the military and die with him in battle.

He was sent to live with his older half-sister and her family in Monroe, Michigan, to attend school and met the girl who would one day become his wife, Elizabeth Clift Bacon. After graduating, he moved to Hopedale, Ohio, and enrolled at the Hopedale Normal College, pursuing a teaching degree. He began his teaching career in Cadiz, Ohio, in 1856 and boarded at the home of the Holland family, where he fell in love with the daughter, Mary Jane Holland. He hoped to marry her but found little opportunity for advancement in Ohio, so he decided to change careers and apply to West Point Military Academy. Scholar Nathaniel Philbrick comments:

He'd been a seventeen-year-old schoolteacher back in Ohio when he applied to his local congressman for an appointment to West Point. Since Custer was a Democrat and the congressman was a Republican, his chances seemed slim at best. However, Custer had fallen in love with a local girl, whose father, hoping to get Custer as far away from his daughter as possible, appears to have done everything he could to persuade the congressman to send the schoolteacher with a roving eye to West Point.

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Custer entered West Point in July 1857 and, before the end of his first session, had earned 27 demerits. By graduation, he had been given more demerits than any of the other cadets in his class. After graduation in June 1861, he faced court martial for failing to break up a fight between cadets but was only reprimanded as the American Civil War was already underway. Many of Custer's classmates had left to fight for the Confederacy and the Union forces were in dire need of trained officers. Custer was commissioned a second lieutenant and sent to drill volunteers in Washington, D.C.

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UFO Invasion of 1909

Most people assume that if UFOs do exist, they didn't appear until the 1940s and 1950s. The fear of being invaded by a foreign power during the Second World war and the cold war had people watching the skies-and seeing things they couldn't explain. But the postwar UFO boom wasn't the first: The beginning of the modern UFO-spotting era began in 1909 with the appearance of a mysterious "airship" or "aeroplane" in countries all over the world. In July 1909, newspaper in New Zealand and Britain were already theorizing that the lights in the sky were flying machines peopled by creatures from another planet. By the end of that year, most newspaper reports seemed to assume that the epicenter of this activity was Worcester, Massachusetts.

The Worcester sightings began the Wednesday before Christmas, when crowds on the street saw a strange moving light, apparently the search light of a dirigible. The following night, similar lights appeared in Marlboro, South Framingham, Natick, Ashland, Grafton, North Grafton, Upton, Hopedale, and Northboro. And in Fitchburg, according to the Christmas Eve issue of the Fitchburg Sentinel, "Over the peak of Rollstone Hill a wonderfully bright light glowed, and hundreds watched it with wonder, not unmixed with awe."

The spate of sightings reached a fever pitch on December 23 in Boston's North Station, when the Evening Limited rolled northward on the Boston and Maine Railroad. As it approached Ayer, a messenger on board looked out the window to see a cigar-shaped object descend form on high and hover above the train. The Fitchburg Sentinel takes up the story:

He says the powerful light of the ship played upon the cars of the train, and it followed along until this city was reached. Then it temporarily disappeared and was not picked up again until the train got up the line, and for some time the light played over and around the cars.

The issue of the Springfield Union-News reported that many passengers also saw the bright searchlight, including a policeman from Springfield.

The machine kept ahead of the train from Athol until near Miller's Falls when it shot off to the side and went away. The machine was driven ahead of the train and then would wait until the train caught up and would go ahead again. It seemed to be a good height in the air and kept about at the same height during all the time it was following the train.

According to a Connecticut newspaper, Willamantic Chronicle:

From Boston the light passed to the northeast, circling over Chelsea and Revere, through Lynn toward the Salem line, then returning as far as Framingham where it mysteriously disappeared. . . .

Some say there were two men in the craft. One was standing forward near the headlight, which has been seen by thousands of people, and the second man was in the stern, where a much dimmer light was burning. They say the craft at times attained a speed of fully 80 miles an hour, while again it remained stationary for fifteen minutes at a time.

These dramatic holiday-season lights were almost immediately credited to (or blamed on) a businessman from Worcester named Wallace E. Tillinghast. Tillinghast had announced the previous September that he had designed a "heavier than air" flying machine that he would soon unveil to the world. In fact, Tillinghast boasted he had already flown the machine from Boston to New York and back-an unheard-of distance for flight at the time. But three months later he had failed to show a shred of evidence of his machine.

The sight of lights in the sky immediately prompted the local newspapers to mention Tillinghast machine. But oddly enough the wily self-promoter had not announced the flight and had been seen in Worchester on the day it occurred.

From our vantage point a century later, the trail has gone cold. If there ever was a terrestrial explanation for the lights, it is now lost to history. It's hard to believe that a 1909 businessman, even one from Massachusetts, could design a flying machine capable of crossing the Atlantic and the Pacific to appear in the skies above Europe and the antipodes. There must be some other explanation. But what? -Matt Lake

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MassLiveHS Scoreboard: Click to see scores from across the state on Dec. 27

BAY STATE CONFERENCE Brookline High School 70, Brockton High School 49 – Box Score Concord-Carlisle High School 78, Weymouth High School 51 – Box Score Abington High School 67, Braintree High School 64 – Box Score Milford High School 73, Walpole High School 45 – Box Score Hopedale Jr./Mr. High School 45, Wellesley High School 40 – Box Score Newton North High School 48, Newton South High School 41…

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伊州Hopedale醫院急診室等候時間最短

【芝加哥時報/快訊】身體發生緊急狀況時，能夠快速就醫是許多人所期盼的。在美國，急診室等候時間最短的8家醫院中，唯一一家位於伊利諾州的醫院是Hopedale醫院，距離芝加哥西郊Rockford約兩個半小時車程。根據最新研究，在這家位於Hopedale的小鎮醫院中，患者的急診室等候時間通常不超過一小時，平均僅需50分鐘。這項研究由個人傷害律師事務所Bader Scott發布，該醫院在全美國排行第三。對於那些希望快速獲得醫療服務的患者來說，即使需要駕車前往也可能 Continue reading 伊州Hopedale醫院急診室等候時間最短

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A map of the region of Hopedale. I prepared this to look at label movement patterning, and it looks good. But I think that the best possible solution will be to use the geometry generator for label positionining instead.

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Damn it! Inspiring morning turned into rotten afternoon. Hey it’s only 1:20 maybe things will look up. Yeah it would be crazy of me to think thinks could not possibly switch up fabulously. What a day. Hopedale mall! WHERE AM I WHERE DID IT GO

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Minister 'not proud' of lengthy maintenance delays for housing on Labrador's north coast

A quarter of public housing units in Nain and Hopedale are vacant and in need of repairs, and the MHA for the region is tired of waiting.

from CBC | Newfoundland and Labrador News https://ift.tt/0be2GMu