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[dutchjan]

April 14, 2023

[theesirrichard]

The city of Townsville! (Providence,RI)

[davidbrussat]

Providence lost and regained

Rhode Island State Capitol (1901), designed by McKim, Mead & White. (Photo by author) Editor’s note: This is the first section of the epilogue of Lost Providence, entitled “Providence Lost, Providence Regained.” *** The purpose of the D-1 District is to encourage and direct development in the downtown to ensure that: new development is compatible with the existing historic building fabric and the…

[eirinstiva]

The Sussex Vampire: a bit about Perú

In the last two letters from my dear friend Watson we know about The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire so I have an excuse to dust my old book of history, some English-Spanish dictionaries and Todo Sherlock Holmes.

Mrs. Ferguson (we don't know her name. ACD, how hard was to call her María or Violeta?) and her maid Dolores come from Perú (I know I shouldn't use ´ but I have my Latino ID so I'll do what I want). She was daughter of a Peruvian merchant related to importation of nitrates.

After the Pacific War came a National reconstruction period (1884–1895). During this period Peru has huge external debt and lost many industries related to nitrate production, the occupied provinces of Tacna and Arica were under Chilenization. Latex and oil industries become relevant due to Industrial Revolution but the country was in bankruptcy. In 1886 the Grace Contract was signed between Peru and British bondholders to settle this debt, and the Peruvian Corporation was formed. This corporation agreed to cancel Peru's debt in exchange for £80,000 in annual payments, mining rights, and ownership of the Peruvian rail for 66 years. The corporation also agreed to build 160 kilometers of new railroad.

Nicolás de Piérola was elected president of Peru 1895, and the country began its period known as the Aristocratic Republic. During this time the economy was highly dependent of Britain: The Peruvian Corporation (trains), London Pacific (oil), Cerro de Pasco Minning Corporation (copper), Peruvian Amazon Company (latex rubber) Sugar Company (sugar) and Banco Perú Londres (bank) were the motors of the economy.

Mrs. Ferguson was probably from an aristrocratic family and received a proper education for a woman of her social status, including learning a foreign language like English. Her "alien religion" was Catholicism like the biggest part of the country because that religion reached almost every corner in South America (by choice or force) during the Colonial Era.

The maid Dolores had brown skin, so I guess she was indigenous or mestiza (Spaniard+Indigenous). Like her employer she was Catholic too but she hadn't the same education. There were efforts to increase the number of people able to read, but it was a common practice for kids to leave school and work in the same industries as their parents.

Dolores didn't study English like Mrs. Ferguson, that's why she use Spanish grammar when she speaks:

“She verra ill,” cried the girl, looking with indignant eyes at her master. “She no ask for food. She verra ill. She need doctor. I frightened stay alone with her without doctor.”

She no ask for food = Ella no pregunta por comida ✔

The translation into Spanish made by Juan Manuel Ibeas reflects this with the absence of some sounds and words:

—Ta my enferma gimió la muchacha, mirando con ojos indignados a su señor—. No quere comía. Mu enferma. Necesita doctor. Me da miedo estar sola con ella sin doctor.

And "leesten", IIRC in Spanish we don't have long/short vowels, so the /ɪ/ in listen can be /iː/ like in heel, details that make English a hard language for Latinos, and harder for someone with Dolores' background.

ACD wrote a whole chapter of "The Mystery of Cloomber" with some Scottish accent, so I doesn't surprise me. I like the level of accuracy of this accent. There are high chances that Dolores doesn't even read in Spanish, so this details are more accurate that I expected.

I understand (a bit) why Mrs Fergurson didn't dare to tell her husband what his son did. She was in a foreign country alone with her maid, she had to deal with another language, another religion and she doesn't have her family or friends there. I can't imagine going back to Perú by steamship in times when the Panama Canal was in construction.

[a-mayan-joy-has-nuts]

Leesten…

Cucarachhaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!

[iminaworldofpureimagination]

there are 25 eps of season 1 of Mystery INC and it was like maybe i dunno 3/4 eps about the missing gang and Mr. E.. so much FILLLER .. some eps were completely useless and added nothing like that lame one about the racist indiana jones buff man a dumb episode with a lame ending .. leesten tumblr while asthetically pleasing/ and loveable fred this aint the best scoob show not by a long shot it does not deserve that title

[incorrectlooneytunesquotes]

Penelope: It's too quiet out here.

Pepe: Penelope, what would you do? Leesten not just to ze sounds, but what's behind ze sounds. Always remembair zat ah love you.

[rtvideaal]

Skate en BMX festijn in Zutphen

Skate-workshops, demonstraties, muziek, foodtrucks en een wedstrijd: op zaterdag en zondag was het feest bij Skatepark The Canyon in de Zutphense wijk Leesten. Op de zaterdag werd een inline en skateboard contest georganiseerd. Skatepark Zutphen “De Canyon” werd in 2007 gebouwd. Een mooi betonnen skatepark met street en verf elementen. Het park bestaat uit een grote stair, rails, een hele hoop…

[argleblarg]

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[hafffff]

Calathea deel 2

Ik zet de plant bij thuiskomst in de slaapkamer, die te donker is, en vergeet net iets te vaak water te geven. De reddingsactie, die inhoudt dat de plant naar de woonkamer verhuist en regelmatiger water krijgt, mag niet baten, en al na enkele weken in het grauwe januarilicht is het aantal bladeren gehalveerd, sterven ze één voor één af, tot er nu, in oktober, nog één klein groen blaadje zijn best aan het doen is, maar ook al droge randen laat zien, terwijl ik er nu bovenop zit qua water en verzorging en aandacht. Ik wil voorkomen dat ook deze laatste opdroogt tot ik het in mijn hand kan verkruimelen, ondanks dat ik ook elke dag mijn kledingkast zie en daarbovenop de leesten heb gezet. Ik probeer er met alle macht niet iets symbolisch in te zien.

[alittlebitoftruthcan]

‘Osho, your jokes are far out! Ease up a little on the priests. I rejoice with existence because of your enlightenment! I feel good to be here, to be home after years of searching.’

Deva Chintana, I am sorry if it hurts you. I know that Deva Chintana has been a nun. She has been courageous. She dropped out of the monastery and became a sannyasin. And my jokes about the priests must be looking a little hard to her, naturally. I should have thought of her. I will be more careful in the future, Chintana.

A joke for you: The pope died, and naturally assumed that he would go to heaven. So, dressed in all his papal finery, he went striding up toward the Pearly Gates, brushed past Saint Peter, and made straight for the entrance. ‘Hey, you! Where are you going?’ shouted Saint Peter, and two guardian angels stepped forward to bar the way. ‘Look-a here,’ said the pope. ‘I am-a da popa.’ ‘Who?’ ‘Da popa!!! I am-a da popa of da Catholic-a Church-a and I wanna go to heaven.’ ‘The pope?’ said Saint Peter. ‘Never heard of you. We don’t have anyone of that name in our books, do we, Gabriel? No, sorry sir, you cannot come in.’ ‘Hey, come on! I am-a da popa! You gotta let me in. Ask-a God da Father—he knows me!’ Saint Peter calls God the Father: ‘Hey, God, this is Saint Peter—gate duty. Sorry to disturb you but there is a guy here who calls himself the popa and wants to come inside—says you know him.’ ‘Who?’ asks God the Father. ‘The popa.’ ‘Who?’ ‘I think that’s what he said.’ ‘No, never heard of him.’ ‘Sorry, pope—God the Father says he doesn’t know you.’ ‘What? But leesten, I am-a da popa. He must know me! Look-a here, you ask God da Son. For sure he knows me—I am-a his representative on da earth-a, he must-a know me!’ Saint Peter calls God the Son, but the answer is the same: ‘The pope? No, I’ve never heard of him!’ The pope is in despair: ‘Look-a, you gotta help me. Ring-a the Holy Ghost—for sure he knows me! I am da popa—da popa of the Catholic-a Church-a, the spiritual representative of Jesus Christ-a on da earth-a!! He has just gotta know me!’ Saint Peter calls the Holy Ghost. ‘Hmmm, the pope, you say!’ answers the Holy Ghost. ‘Hmm, yes, I’ve heard that name before somewhere. Wait a minute! He’s that bastard who goes on spreading rumors about me and Virgin Mary. Tell him to go to hell!’

Chintana, I will try my best. But the priests are the priests; they are the ugliest people on the earth, the most cunning and the meanest, although their appearance is totally different. I am not saying that there are not some good people. Some good people are also caught in the net, but those good people are childish. Those good people are gullible, those good people are easily exploitable.

Humanity has to get rid of the priesthood, only then can there be religion. They have been very destructive. It is because of them that the world is not religious yet. They have divided humanity instead of making humanity one whole. Much more blood has been shed in the name of religion than in the name of anything else. In fact, I am not really hard on them, I am very soft with them, they need to be hit harder.

When I am hitting them, I am not really hitting them, but simply hitting your conditioning. What do I have to do with the pope or the shankaracharya or the imam or Ayatollah Khomeiniac? I have nothing to do with these people. But when I hit them I am simply hitting the chains inside you that keep you in bondage.

My jokes about the priests are just to help you to come out of the prison, laughing. I don’t want it to become a serious affair for you to come out of the prison, because if it becomes a serious affair you will be affected by your seriousness and you will carry that load with you. And there is every danger that you will start projecting your seriousness on me. I can free you from the priest very easily, but the danger is that you may start projecting all that you have been projecting on the priest, on me. That is not freedom at all; only your chains are changed.

— Osho (The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 10)

[ididgettomeetyou]

Yo Fandom leesten to meeee

Multishipping... multishippers.. Exist... she prob liked both.. like me even dante has been more open to maiko/zukka..

[sumeshi-t]

i now

FOREVER SIMP

for iwaizumi hajime 

i blame u @bubbleteaa

[pibza]

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[kindleaf]

fia's like please meester kindleaf i am every character archetype you enjoy please leesten to my campaign and erlin goes duuuuuuude in his squeaky wiener voice and i look at fia sadly as she tumbles into the bottomless pit of my mind

eldermourne and b2mia and hot boy summer crawling emaciated and skeletal at my feet like please for the love of gd listen to us we're dying....... and i kick them out of the way with my steel toed boot so i can see egwene in all like six episodes of bahumia she's in

[incorrectlooneytunesquotes]

Angel, ah hear you speak, ah leesten, stay bah mah side-guide me.

Pepe le Pew to Penelope Pussycat