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[starlitangels]

Masterlist [Update #11]

Now Including My GBA Fics!

Exactly what it says on the tin, organized by characters. (Specifically, if they feature prominently, not just if it’s from their listener character’s perspective, so the same title will probably appear multiple times, though only linked once to keep things from getting overwhelming)

The Pups AU has its own segment at the bottom!

The page on my blog with the Masterlist has also been updated!

Redacted ASMR/Audio Masterlist

Davey

An Alpha’s Mate’s Job

Wolf Hunt

DnD Headcanons

Too Young

Shaw Pack Boi Headcanons

Gone Wrong

This One’s Mine

Play-Fight

Something You Should Know

The Pack Run

Enticing

Forever

Reunions

Imperium Episode Flashback

Latent Fire Elemental

Fight (featuring Darlin’)

In The Cell

Pushed

Broken (Not Broken) (featuring Darlin’)

Broken (Not Broken) - Part 2 (featuring Darlin’)

Broken (Not Broken) - Part 3 (featuring Darlin’)

Broken (Not Broken) - Part 4 (featuring Darlin’)

Broken (Not Broken) Epilogue - Motorcycle Date (featuring Darlin’)

Broken Feathers

Silver Wolf

Masquerade

Scouting

Fight Night

In The CEO’s Office

Don’t Worry, Be Happy (featuring Darlin’)

Thrown to the Wolves (featuring Darlin’)

My Angel (Sent to Save Me)

Shards on the Counter (featuring Darlin’)

Asher

Wolf Hunt

Imperium Episode Continuation

DnD Headcanons

Too Young

Shaw Pack Boi Headcanons

Gone Wrong

This One’s Mine

You’ll Do Fine

The Pack Run

Suit ;)

Reunions

Imperium Episode Flashback

Pack Gossip (featuring Darlin’)

Sledding

Double Date

In The Cell

Bobcat

Pushed (featuring Darlin’)

Broken Feathers (featuring Darlin’)

Ash’s Letter

No Way Out

We Match

Lord and Lady (Imperium AU)

Masquerade

Lord and Lady - Part 2 (Imperium AU)

Fight Night

Lord and Lady - Part 3 (Imperium AU)

One of Us, Now

Shards on the Counter

Ask For Your Blessing

Milo

An Alpha’s Mate’s Job

Wolf Hunt

Shade Fight

DnD Headcanons

Shaw Pack Boi Headcanons

Gone Wrong

The Pack Run

Ficlet for Romirola

Reunions

Imperium Episode Flashback

Boo

Investigation

In The Cell

Bobcat

Dead Pen

Dull Teeth

Broken Feathers

Charity Ball

A Real First Date

Country Swing

Pulling Away (featuring Darlin’)

Pulling Away - Part 2 (featuring Darlin’)

Masquerade

Fight Night

Kept Running

One of Us, Now

Not Again

Sam

Pack Instincts

Embarrassing Stories

Race

Gone Wrong

This One’s Mine

Play-Fight

Not Fighting Alone

The Pack Run

As A Wolf

As A Wolf [Extended Edition]

Reunions

Tell Me?

There’s Family Here

It Does A Wolf Good

Fringes

You Were A Dentist

Sledding

Medal

There’s Family Here Part 2

Still A Wolf (To Me)

Rainy Days in the Redactedverse

The Morning After

Broken (Not Broken) - Part 3.5 (featuring Angel)

Broken Feathers

Cherry

Pinned

(My) Mate

Meeting the King (featuring William Solaire)

Masquerade

Ring

Fight Night

Those Nights (Just One of)

The King (Pin the Crown On)

What Should Have Been

Protector/Protected

Marked and Claimed

Freeborn

Fell Through

Freeborn - Part 2

Handy Wolf

Neighbors (OC listener characters)

The King (Pin the Crown On) - Part 2

Vincent

Lovely’s Qualifier

Pack Instincts

Race

Gone Wrong

Electric Bridge

I Think I Always Knew

Nightmare

There’s Family Here

Medal

Playboy

I Woke Up Missing You

Something Nice For Tonight

A Skyside Morning

Cherry

(She’s) Beautiful (linked down in Pups AU section)

A Forever Filled with Love

Masquerade

Damien

Fire Bridge

So Much Easier (featuring Angel!)

Venting

Reunions

So Many Mugs

We Survived

Homecoming Game

The Traps We Build

Temperature Spikes

Safe Enough

(Not the) Perfect Kid

(Hopefully) An Enormous Amount of Guilt

Lasko

Air Bridge

Small Gifts, Small Family

Like This

I Changed My Name

Reunions

Guitar

So Many Mugs

We Survived

Homecoming Game

The Traps We Build

DnDnD

A Similar Warning

Huxley

Reunions

Comfortable/Comforting

When You’re Happy

Period Comfort

So Many Mugs

We Survived

Crochet and Sketches

Homecoming Game

The Traps We Build

(Not the) Perfect Kid

DnDnD

Shouldn’t Have Come Back

Gavin

Small Gifts, Small Family

Reunions

Learning to Trust

Let Yourself Feel

So Many Mugs

The Person I Was (The Person I Am)

(Never Chosen a) Charge

We Survived

The Traps We Build

A Similar Warning

Immediate Aftermath

The King (Pin the Crown On)

The King (Pin the Crown On) - Part 2

Caelum

Better. Happier. Brighter.

Geordi

Projecting

Family Reunion

Audit Interview

Crosswalk

Psychic Scream

Worth the Effort

Avior

The Stars Go Out

You Are My Home

The Little Things

Sprig

Answers (For Once)

Warm

Into The Meridian

Double Date

Come Back to Bed

Before We Broke

A Walk in the Park

Rainy Days in the Redactedverse

I Want to Help People

Wanting

Through The Window

My Starlight

Picnic

Manageable Pieces

(What If) It Had Worked

Least Likely Places and Times

Dreaming

The Light of Jupiter

I Don’t Care (I Care)

Immediate Aftermath

Leader

The King (Pin the Crown On)

A Demon’s Devotion

Neighbors (OC listener characters)

Somewhere Only We Know

The King (Pin the Crown On) - Part 2

Meeting the Family

To Steer By - Ch 1

To Steer By - Ch 2

To Steer By - Ch 3

Elliott

Not Polite Company

Hot Chocolate Dreams

His Shirt

(Not) The Screams of a Friend

Best Dad, Gabe

Porch

Not-Yet Alpha, Not-Yet Mate

Not-Yet Alpha, Not-Yet Mate - Part 2

Not-Yet Alpha, Not-Yet Mate - Part 3

Not-Yet Alpha, Not-Yet Mate - Part 4

His Mama’s Boy

Hoodie

Vega

(Part of) Who You Are (featuring Warden OC & Sweetheart)

Immediate Aftermath

The King (Pin the Crown On)

Morgan

Lord and Lady (Imperium AU)

I See You

Forget the Future

Lord and Lady - Part 2 (Imperium AU)

Colors of Humanity

Lord and Lady - Part 3 (Imperium AU)

S’mores and Cocoa

Someone Like Me

Blake

Hey. It’s Me

(Not) The Screams of a Friend

James

Processing Power

Through the Years

Parental Problems

Guy

The High School Years

Fan Audios

Vampire Mate’s Possessive Ex Corners You (Alexis)

Your Packmate Asks for Advice (Amanda)

[Flashback] Overhearing New Moms in a Restaurant (Mrs. Shaw and Marie Greer) featuring @frenchiefitzhere

Hunted By a Sadistic Mass-Maker Vampire (Alexis)(Imperium AU)

Marie Has a Home Video for Your Mate (Mrs. Shaw and Marie Greer) featuring Frenchie again!

Getting A Call From Your Daughter (Micah Collins, Pups AU)

All-OCs

Donation

Donation - Part 2

Into Your Family

Shaw Pack Pups AU

Pups

Father/Alpha Balance

Never Disappointed

First

Baby Names

Guide Through The Forest

Solstice Ball

How I Met Your Mother

It Too Shall Pass

Defending Your Sister

School Bullies

Important to Me

Permanent Marker

Birthday Cake

Pups-Only Camping Trip

Inside-Outside Perspective

An Alpha Made to Kneel

An Alpha Made to Kneel - Bonus Scene!

A Beta Made to Weep

Keep Her Safe

You Picked Right

Kept Her Safe

Puppy’s First Summer Solstice

Waterfall

(She’s) Beautiful

Taken for Granted

Scratches and Bruises

Masquerade - Pups Edition

Reckless Teenagers

The Twins

Injuries Add Up

Latent Fire Elemental - Pups AU Edition!

(Not Just) A Fairy Tale

Little Darlin’

No One’s Favorite

(Like The) Fairy Tale Movies

Headstone

Getting A Call From Your Daughter (fan audio, linked above)

You can also read most of these on AO3!

Shaw Pack Pups AU

Shaw Pack One-Shot Compilation

Solaire Clan One-Shot Compilation

D.A.M.N. Fam One-Shot Compilation

Misc. Redacted Boys One-Shot Compilation

Avior One-Shot Compilation

Broken (Not Broken)

Lord and Lady (Not Posted to AO3 yet, but will be independent)

Not-Yet Alpha, Not-Yet Mate series

Good Boy Audios Masterlist

Because I think I've written enough to have one of those now?

Space Pirate Saga

Taliera

Paradise's Letter

The Fourseen/Pandora

The Spare Room

Keeping Cool

Recruited

How They Met

Magic of the Heart (MotH)

Too Much "Practically Family"

[haggishlyhagging]

Some time after mid-century, things changed in ways that historians who have believed in the myth of a classless America are just beginning to examine. (These slow reshufflings of social practice can't be marked off, like battles or elections, by precise dates.) Perhaps the upheaval of the Civil War made people more anxious to assign a fixed order to people and things. Certainly the economic gap between rich and poor widened as the century went on, with more and more of the country's wealth coming into the hands of fewer and fewer men. And contrary to the cherished belief in the self-made man, the hereditary "haves" spun patterns of living far glossier than those of the "have nots." Manners, not just money, marked off one class from another.

And subtly the definition of woman's sphere changed. It had been a place where woman performed all those domestic duties from washing clothes to teaching numbers—for the greater good of her husband, her family, and hence (so the story went) of the whole society and of God himself. It became instead a place in which the true lady did nothing. At least by 1857 when Mrs. C. S. Hilborn, a former millworker, took up her pen to denounce the useless "modern aristocracy," the difference between the woman and the lady was clear. On the one hand was the "poor mother, who takes in washing, and scrubs and toils and sweats, until she looks like the skeleton of a perpetual motion." On the other was the lady “who arrays herself for a street promenade as though for a shop window exhibition, with consequential airs and robes spanning the sidewalks, and an expression of arrogant conceit which says to every passer by ��did you ever see anything half so magnificently beautiful as I am?’”The outward differences between the lady and the woman had always been there, but they grew more apparent as time went on. The narrow upper class grew richer, more ostentatious, more conspicuous, while the lower classes, augmented by hordes of immigrants, spread around them. At the turn of the century, even as Veblen coined the term conspicuous consumption to describe the chief activity of the rich, Lester Ward, the leading sociologist of his day, estimated the poor at 80 percent of the population.

At the time, the chief difference between the upper and the lower classes was thought to lie not in the pocketbook but in the heart and mind. As Ward put it, the idea that "there exists a fundamental difference based on inherent qualities and belonging to the nature of things ... clings to the mind of man, and modern social classes are conceived to be marked off from one another by nature." At its simplest the fundamental difference between the classes was this: the rich were physically, intellectually, and morally superior; the poor physically, intellectually, and morally inferior, and indeed often depraved. As William Graham Sumner, another of sociology's founding fathers put it: "Only a small fraction of the human race have as yet, by thousands of years of struggle, been partially emancipated from poverty, ignorance, and brutishness." That small portion, "naturally," was the ruling class. What made Mrs. Hilborn (a member of the lower 80 percent) so angry was that the ladies of the ruling class were not only useless but were praised as morally superior beings on that account. As Veblen described the beliefs of the ruling class: "Abstention from labour is not only a honorific or meritorious act, but it presently comes to be a requisite of decency.... Prescription ends by making labour not only disreputable in the eyes of the community, but morally impossible to the noble freeborn man [and his lady], and incompatible with a worthy life."

When men dragged this doctrine, along with their other mythical baggage, into the courtroom, they compounded inequity. The true lady—idle, respectable, proper, and useless—could do no wrong. The woman, however, might be capable of almost anything; she could not be punished too severely. So "justice" for women in the criminal court shook down—as had so many other aspects of American life—to the basis of social class.

For black women there was no justice at all. There are few cases of black women in this book because as often as not they were punished—even hanged or burned—without legal proceeding. Sometimes their executions—legal or illegal—were mentioned in a line or two in a newspaper. A "female slave" was hanged, they reported, or "a colored female." Rarely was her name given, and almost never her story. And never was there any talk of protecting a delicate female, of saving a pretty neck. Nothing was said of refinement and sensibility and true womanhood. On the same day that Ann Evards Wright Bilansky was hanged in Minnesota—March 23, 1860–two black women, speedily arrested and convicted for the murder of one Dr. Croxton, were hanged in Essex County, Virginia. There was no talk of commuting their sentences, no talk even of preparing their immortal souls for death. Their names—the only names the white world allowed them—were Ann and Eliza.

-Ann Jones, Women Who Kill

[cbjustmusic]

Mark O'Connor violin, Tony Rice guitar, Jerry Douglas dobro, Sam Bush mandolin, Mark Schatz bass and Bela Fleck banjo performing “Freeborn Man“. Merlefest early 1990's. ________________________ Freeborn Man Songwriters: Keith Allison and Mark Lindsay

I was born in the Southland

Some twenty odd years ago

I ran away for the first time When I was only four years old

I'm a freeborn man My home is on my back I know every inch of highway Every foot of back road Every mile of railroad track

I got a lady in Cincinnati

A woman in San Antone

And I always love the girl next door But any place is home

I'm a freeborn man Home is on my back I know every inch of highway Every foot of back road Every mile of railroad track

And I got me a worn out guitar

I carry an old tone sack

And I hocked it about two hundred times But I always get it back

I'm a freeborn man Home is on my back I know every inch of highway Every foot of back road Every mile of railroad track

Well, you may not like my appearance

You may not like my song

You may not like the way I talk But you sure like the way I'm gone

I'm a freeborn man Home is on my back I know every inch of highway Every foot of back road Every mile of railroad track

I was born in the Southland

Some twenty odd years ago

I ran away for the first time When I was only four years old

I'm a freeborn man Home is on my back I know every inch of highway Every foot of back road Every mile of railroad track

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"OVER $1600 WORTH OF HIDES GONE," Hamilton Spectator. April 1, 1913. Page 4. --- The Brooks Brothers Deny The Theft of Them --- Case Not Concluded When Court Adjourned ---- Four cases were presented for the consideration of Judge Monck at this morning's session of the county judge's criminal court, but these were not disposed of when the court adjourned shortly after 1 o'clock.

Annie Pagel, who had been bound over in two securities to keep the peace on a charge of threatening her mother-in-law, came up before the judge having failed to find the sureties and she was allowed to go.

Sidney E. Johnston was up for arraignment on a charge of stealing $175.30 and elected to be tried by the judge and his trial was suggested for next Tuesday.

Arthur [pictured top] and William [pictured botttom] Brooks came up for trial on a charge of stealing hides from William Stroud and Eber Thornton, of Thornton's, limited, whom the hides were alleged to have been sold, was called, and examined at some length in reference to the firm's system of bookkeeping. George S. Kerr, K.C., acted as a private prosecutor. M. Thornton said that he had no dealings with Wiliam Brooks, whom he knew as Hawkins, except to pay him for hides brought in.

William Stroud told of missing many hides from this warehouse and of late he was under the impression that they were disappearing at the rate of wagon loads.

To A. M. Lewis Mr. Stroud stated that he identified two of the stolen hides which bore the drover's mark which in this case was the letter W. He, however, was sourced to admit that more than one drover might use the letter W as a mark.

James Freeborn, bookkeeper for WilIiam Stroud, stated the between May 2 last and March 1, hi employer lost 150 holes and 219 calf skins, valued at about $1,650. He entitled two hides produced in court and explained how the different cuts usually appeared in the hides.

Two or three employes of Fearman and company were called and explained the manner in which cattle were killed for Jewish purchasers and which left the hide cut in a manner not usually found at an ordinary slaughter houses.

Charles Burkhofer told of seeing the Brooks brothers on Simcoe street or the night of February 28. One of them was driving a sleigh bearing the name of the Merchants Express, in which there were a number of hides The sleigh became stuck on the T H. & B. spur line tracks and as he went to assist them the sleigh Lecame freed, and his help was not necessary.

Cross questioned by C. W. Bell. who appeared for one of the prisoners, witness and not tell how one of the prisoners was dressed or the color his eyes without specially looking, and Mr. Bell said that witness must have identified the man to his boots. He was positive that Brooks was driving a light bay horse.

William Dore, liveryman, Was called and testified that on the evening of February 28, he hired a buckskin colored horse and harness to William Brooks, who had.at periods from October 4 to February 28, hired horses thirteen times, was hired with the horses.

Edward Davis, an employe of WiIliam Dore, corroborated the evidence of the witness who preceded him. He had on a few occasions hired a wagon to one of the prisoners.

Henry Jenkins, an employee of the Merchants Express company, told of finding blood on one of the company's sleighs, on the morning of March 1 .To his knowledge, the sleigh had not been hired to anyone.

John Evans gave evidence similar to that submitted by Mr. Thornton as to William Brooks dealings with the firm by which he was employed, and although he submitted severe cross-examination by Mr. Kerr, there was nothing to show that there was anything irregular in the method of doing business.

James Yaidon testified that he and bis wife were at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Crysler on the night of February 28. Mr. and Mrs. Crysler and Arthur Brooks and his wife were there, and during the evening they placed cards, and Arthur and Mrs. Brooks, went out for a can of beer. This occurred about 9 o'clock. and shortly after this they went home.

Mrs. Yaldon was called and corroborated the evidence of her husband with the exception of the card game, which she could not remember.

Mrs. Arthur Brooks gave evidence similar to that submitted by the two previous witnesses.

Shortly after clock the cout adjourned for lunch, and the case was taken up again at 1.45.

[The Brooks brothers were sentenced later that day to 2 1/2 years in Kingston Penitentiary later that afternoon, but this is not preserved in the newspapers available. Arthur was 27 and William was 33 - both were from Hamilton. Arthur was #F-575 and William was #F-576 at Kingston Penitentiary. Neither was reported for breaking the rules, except William spent 21 hours in solitary in July 1913. Both were released in 1915.]

[sesiondemadrugada]

The X Files: I Want to Believe (Chris Carter, 2008).

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And vast

And vast; his bow, and 

hark! So, there hammered up, and  thou wish it may spared to 

bleedingly— a gift,  a loving so fast, for  wisdom to the  poets volume, will beauty  of the cages  of thou first a nati onship on the loves his  miracle have vision of  sense; how could from Nubia  brought it oft to save  his sinnes the envenomed  dart, a vast, until 

the grandame apes in  the Rhodian P asimond a long ago and  stiff wind the many  houses seems w

hen he sight, one legend credible.  the future drest, 

The town: Or judge erected  to  death. our ancestors,  who goes? And after so blind. 

S not a wh—re. Which  thews of my purpose of  Fame, life seemd full of speechless 

regions of thine to  die. come name and you but  one day gaily, What my  bodhisattva of need I  was a melody  thus to the  power the face was  at parle: I shall love  the robber say— “one 

kisses of cheerful  torches vary they say that  I can comes with  pins; roger from Gamas dwarfish  Hildebrand—gentle,  but infamy and walls so  fairy guessed with my  scribe, I would. Behold, I grant boddice;  by denial flush on  his hair, and bless itself 

in drouth, and yields: my Lady 

in his goods, hangs of  the present  still: but let me change how  shall mark you every  freeborn creature made thee. Scented  prime fell? Senseless but she wrought her  face: Bosom of the  Phlegethontic rose, and  night, but you are a bird- understood. A chain and  they are like I know  and a longing you (the  change, timeless stroke surprise  she dead? Then this must endure  Sat a Lover, Which 

he scarce three. ”) with  what I must with  death. raving what shame among  piled on the night I  can like Alexis smokes, the  dream I saw; and caught  than the gude enough,  as I ought, till 

is moving an honest  thou remained: but for  could given for  surely Adam can neer  weal or word, about thy love,  who was the  grief of life, redeem the  wind, who is my love  once are falling bridegroom at 

my body, clay taking of  the season at the  transport, gentle 

bosom blows loud the  year it only carrion,  just above the water  on the stairs, and  is, if we dashed in  peaceful troops he sees me by  image I do not keep  a purple school play his  golden vial will keep through  veils. So stout, not life, for  the field; and all th is is a ghosts, 

to drink a dragged without  all books! To  command, but dares not other chance  still: but if he plain; a  bachelor he want  of Plumeria, and soon  among the sun gutter.

[winsonsaw2003]

Looking For Descendants Of Walter Sewell Cracroft (1795-1865) of Hackthorn Hall

Walter Sewell Cracroft (1795-1865) son of William Cracroft of Hackthorn Hall,Lincolnshire & Elizabeth Sewell Hawkes.He was Resident Councillor of Malacca,Malaysia in 1825. He married 1st,Princess Amoy of Malay,2ndly  Jane Cracroft His issue:- ai) Elizabeth Sewell Cracroft (1822-1837). aii) Emma Sewell Cracroft (1825-1846). aiii) Bernard Cracroft (1837-?) married 1stly,Catherine Hilliard and 2ndly Charlotte Grace Lear. His issue:- bi) Bernard Walter Cracroft (1860-1905) married Madeline Ellen Williams.His issue:- ci) Guy Bernard Dalrymple Cracroft (1892-1966) married Lillian Ethel Grace Gain. His issue:- di) Hermione Katherine Cracroft(1916-?) married Peter Pope. Their issue:- ei) John B U Pope. dii) Verity Anne Grace Cracroft (1928-?) married Ian Robert Hall. bii) Frances Jane Cracroft (1864-1867). biii) Mary Ann Cracroft. biv) Hugh Cracroft (1873-1923) married Georgina Montagu Stevenson. Their issue:- ci) Hugh John Bernard Cracroft (1905-1988) married 1stly,Christine Susan Montgomery and 2ndly Bridget R Paul. His issue:- di) Sheila Margaret Cracroft (1930-?) married Robert Alexander Stuart Newall. Their issue:- ei)Susan Ann T Newall. dii) Peter Kenneth Cracroft (1933-?) married Deborah Willow Vyvyan Thomas. His issue:- ei) Fenella Jane Cracroft (1960-?) married David H Meyer. eii) Henrietta Louise Cracroft (1966-?) married Mark C Speirs. eiii)Miranda Susan Cracroft (1966-?) married Peter J Granger. cii) Peter Dicken Cracroft (1907-2003) married Margaret Eliza Patchett. His issue:- di) Hugh George Cracroft (1936-?) married Jeanne A Rodwell. dii)Anthony Dicken Cracroft (1942-?) married Anne P Tunney. His issue:- ei) Peter Nigel Cracroft (1968-?) married 1stly, Julia Gamblin and 2ndly, Samantha J Garside. His issue:- di) Zara Elizabeth Cracroft (2000-?). dii) Rory Peter G Cracroft (2001-?). eii) Lucy Elizabeth Cracroft (1969-?). ciii) Robert George Cracroft (1909-1944) married Helen Elizabeth Gordon Thompson. His issue:- di) Elizabeth Anne Cracroft (1945-?) married Nicholas J Flemming. bv) Jane Cracroft (1874-1897). bvi) Laura Cracroft married Gerald Cairns Shannon. bvii) William Cracroft (1883). bviii) Frances Cracroft (1885-1946). bix) Clementina Cracroft (1888-1983) married Samuel Henry Parsons-Smith. Their issue:- ci) Henry Douglas Parsons Smith(1909-1996) married Grace Mary Elliott Taylor. His issue:- di) Sally Margaret Parsons-Smith married Peter P Farrell. Their issue:- ei) Maynard S Farrell. dii) Patrick John Cracroft Parsons-Smith married Catherine M Freeborn. His issue:- ei) Alec Parsons-Smith. eii)Timothy Parsons-Smith cii) Samuel Terence Cracroft Parsons-Smith(?-2001) aiv) Henrietta Cracroft (1838-?) married William Playfair. Their issue:- bi) Walter Stuart Playfair (1860-1866). bii) Herbert George Playfair (1862-1930). biii) Raymond William Playfair (1866-1945) married Mabel Constance Edwards. His issue:- ci) Edith Joan Playfair (1900-?) married William Henry Rowe. Their issue:- di) Joan A Rowe. cii) Walter Raymond Playfair(1904-1993) married Lorna Edmonds. ciii) Maybel Elizabeth Playfair(1905-1987) married 1stly,Percy Ronald Gardner Bernard and 2ndly ? Holcroft. Their issue:- di) Lady Jennifer Jane Bernard (1935-2010). dii) Lady Frances Elizabeth Bernard (1943-?) married Paul Mark Carter. Their issue:- ei) Emma Margaret Carter. eii) Philip Carter married Michelle Butler. av) Laura Cracroft (1839-1913) married James William O’Dowda. Their issue:- bi) Edith Florence O'Dowda (1862-1863). bii) Charles Fitzgerald O'Dowda (1864-1938) married 1stly Mary Emma McLeavy and 2ndly,Gertrude Maud King. His issue:- ci) Nora Emily Laura O'Dowda (1900-1962) married Arnold Minnis. cii) Eveline May O'Dowda married George Stribbling. biii) Walter Russell O'Dowda (1865-?) biv) William Henry O'Dowda (1867-?). bv) Geraldine Marion O'Dowda (1869-1952). bvi) James Wilton O'Dowda (1871-1961) married Gaynor Leonara Jane Simpson. His issue:- ci) Walter James O'Dowda (1914-1920). cii) Paulette O'Dowda (1922-1998). bvii) Bernard Clement Cracroft O'Dowda (1874-1954) married Ethel Jane Mace. His issue:- ci) Ronald Cracroft O'Dowda (1903-1981) married Ida Maud Potts. cii) Constance Laura O'Dowda (1904-1980) married 1stly Matthew O'Connor and 2ndly Cecil Edward Oliver Badeley. ciii) Montague O'Dowda (1905-1974). civ) Clement O'Dowda (1909-1986) married Gladys Gwendoline Smythe. cv) Geraldine Florence O'Dowda (1915-1979) married ? Darby. bviii) Hugh Brian O'Dowda (?-1879). avi) Sarah Cracroft (1841-1918) married Charles John Harper. Their issue:- bi) Charles Godfrey Cracroft Harper(?-1969) married Gladys Helen Blunden. His issue:- ci) Paul Moore Harper (1914-1943). cii) Helen Alice Harper (1916-1978). bii) Henry John Cracroft Harper (1878-1965) married Helen Rachel Peache. His issue:- ci) Edward Rex Harper (?-1943) married Rachel June Wright. biii) Pamela Cracroft Harper. avii) Hugh Cracroft (1844-1883) married Elizabeth Eva Mayneth. aviii) Clementina Cracroft (1846-?) married Benjamin Hill Russell. Their issue:- bi)Emily Laura Russell(1866) bii) Mary Beatrice Russell(1867-?) biii) William Edward Russell biv) Walter Russell(1871-?) married Marian Elizabeth Hunt. His issue:- ci) Kathleen Russell. cii) Christina Winifred Russell. bv)Edmund Cracroft-Russell (1876-1950). bvi) John Cracroft Russell(1876-1941) married Frances Emily Hunter. His issue:- ci) Sybil Joyce Russell married Bernard Selwyn Alderson. Their issue:- di) Gordon Alderson. dii) Richard R Alderson. cii) John Herbert Cracroft Russell(1915-?) aix) Walter Cracroft (1848-?). Please contact me at - winsonsaw20032000@yahoo.com

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BOING BOING GIFT GUIDE 2017

Here's this year's complete Boing Boing Gift Guide: dozens of great ideas for stocking stuffers, brain-hammers, mind-expanders, terrible toys, badass books and more. Where available, we use Amazon Affiliate links to help keep the world's greatest neurozine online.

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Naughty + Nice

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Edu-Toys Night 'n Day Mechanical GlobeElenco's Night 'n Day Mechanical Globe uses a system of translucent, exposed gears to rotate an internally illuminated globe that displays the seasonally adjusted, real-time night/day terminator as it spins.[Read More]

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iPhone 8 PlusNow on its eighth numbered generation, the iPhone remains my entire creative studio and almost everything I need to do my work: it replaces my fancy camera, my audio gear and everything else I had to lug around. This thing really is everything. I go big on screen size and storage capacity, with that in mind: the Plus, and 128 GB.

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Audio Technica AT-LP60Forget those vinyl-destroying, vintage-inspired all-in-one units. They're all crap. The Audio Technica AT-LP60 is a fantastic beginner (or revivalist) turntable for the price. Its built-in pre-amp means all you need to do is plug it any powered speakers with an audio input.You won't find a better turntable than this for under $100 unless you hit the second-hand market.

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Flitt Flying Pocket Selfie Camera Drone ($100)I honestly didn't expect that this tiny fold-up drone would perform as well as it does. It does a great job of hovering in place, and is easy to control with a smart phone. It's the first drone I can fly without crashing it into a wall or getting it stuck in a tree.

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Kano Computer KitBuild your own computer and learn to code art, music, apps, games and more with the Kano Computer Kit, an introduction to the bare metal you just won't get with crap-laden commercial machines. Hundreds of schools use them, and Includes everything you need, including the Pi that acts as its brain, case, speaker, wireless keyboard, RAM, and cables. And unlike most edumuacational computer gear, it looks absolutely cool as heck.

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An airbag for your motorcyclistDo you love your motorcyclist? This simple, tether activated airbag inflates less than .10 of a second after a rider becomes separated from their bike. Helping to secure the neck, and protect the torso and internal organs, the Helite Turtle, is a top choice for next-generation motorcycle safety.

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Kindle E-reader loaded with free classicsFor $50, the entry-level Kindle E-reader is priced right, and comes in black or white! This model has a 6” display and the battery lasts for ages between charges. (If you want to get fancy, go for the Kindle Paperwhite with a built-in reading light so you don't bug bedmates.) Load it with free classic books from Project Gutenbergbefore gifting!

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Igloohome Deadbolt2 ($238)The Igloohome Deadbolt2 has a programmable keypad instead of a keyhole. It took me about 20 minutes to install on my door. You can send your friends or other people single-use PINs. The smartphone app can also be set so the door unlocks when you touch the keypad - no PIN needed.

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Mixcder Wireless & Wired Over Ear Headphones ($80)I bought these relatively inexpensive headphones for my daughter, who wanted wireless headphones for when she paints and sculpts. These are comfortable, have good sound quality, and pair easily with an iPhone.

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PacSafe Transit Travel Hoodie ($130)The thing I like about this pocket-covered hoodie is that the interior pockets have little line drawings indicating what you should put in them - pen, eyeglasses, tablet computer, phone, passport, earbuds, wallet, etc. I like having a garment that tells me what to do, it keeps life simple while traveling.

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Elf ear earbudsOnce hard to find, these low-end but unique earbuds are now at Amazon. For elves who can't quit their record collection even for a moment, they're still, sadly, only available in lily white. But cheap, at just $13.

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Raspberry Pi 3 Model BThe best $35 you can spend on a wee yet straightforward and accessible barebones computer, Raspberry's Pi is now in its third generation and lives atop a vast and growing ecosystem of accessories, cases and general craziness to have fun with. The latest flagchip model has a 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core CPU with twice the Pi 2's performance, integrated WiFi and Bluetooth, and backward compatibility with earlier models.

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Black & Decker CHV1410L 16-volt Lithium Cordless Dust Buster Hand VacStill the best selling hand vac for keeping your office, home, workshop or hackerspace tidy. CHV1410L has strong suction, and a bagless dirt bowl that's easy to see and empty. Holds a charge for up to 18 months when it's off the charger. High efficiency Lithium ion chargers protect it by automatically shutting off when the battery is charged, so you can store it on the charger.

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ArduboyBeautiful 1-bit graphics in your wallet! Arduboy is an open-source platform to create and share games and the hardware is made to the dimensions of a business card. Best of all, this tiny toy is only $50. Want more? The PocketChip, at $70, plays Pico-8 games with a dazzling 16 colors; the dev community is more mature and there are countless games already.

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Second-gen Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inchWith the lastest 12.9" model I've changed my mind about Apple's biggest iPad. Its unmatched pencil latency and powerful processor leave Microsoft (and even Wacom) trailing, while markedly improved third-party applications make Photoshop less critical, at least for me. Finally.

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The EC Artists Library Slipcase (Vol 3 $54)This high quality box set of four hardbound books has 904 pages of the very best comics of the 1950s. Volume one of this series is out of print and sells for over $250. Volume three is just $54. With art by greats like Wally Wood, Joe Orlando, John Severin, and George Evans, this set is a must-have for comic book aficionados.

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Canadaland Guide to Canada (Published in America), by Jesse Brown and friendsBrown finds plenty of hilarious awfulness in Canada's past and present, especially in the way that Canadians talk about themselves when they expect Americans might be listening to them. From Justin Trudeau (who talks about refugees abandoned by Trump but takes no action to improve their lot, because he's too busy taking away the citizenship rights of naturalised Canadians with objectionable politics, greenlighting climate-destroying pipelines for the Tar Sands, and making the most of the sweeping surveillance powers he promised he'd abolish after taking office) to Rob Ford to Quebec separatism and the long, deplorable traditions of drunken, racist Canadian leaders who are remembered as wise, even-handed leaders, Brown punctures ever bubble that Canadians have ever blown over the border toward our American cousins.

I laughed aloud at many of these jokes, and they got under my skin, in just the same way that a perfect Samantha Bee rant will. This is a book of weaponised jokes about a country that has spent more than a century burnishing its credentials by blithely asserting its moral and temperamental superiority to its erratic and flamboyant southern neighbour -- and every shot hits its mark. [Read more]

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Briggs Land Volume 1: State of Grace, by Brian WoodStories matter: the recurring narrative of radical Islamic terror in America (a statistical outlier) makes it nearly impossible to avoid equating "terrorist" with "jihadi suicide bomber" -- but the real domestic terror threat is white people, the Dominionists, ethno-nationalists, white separatists, white supremacists and sovereign citizens who target (or infiltrate) cops and blow up buildings. That's what makes Brian Wood's first Briggs Land collection so timely: a gripping story of far-right terror that is empathic but never sympathetic.

Briggs Land builds on the empathic -- but not sympathetic -- portrayals of far-right separatists in Wood's seminal graphic novel DMZ. It's timely: the Trump era has been a moment of uneasy glory for white nationalists and their fellow travelers, who, having long craved the spotlight, aren't entirely sure what to do with it.

Briggs Land is also in development as an AMC TV series, further evidence of its zeitgeisty nature. Being a Brian Wood comic, it's also gripping as hell, a nonstop crime novel that involves rogue FBI agents, ruthless skinheads, closet racists and overt ones, doting parents who also happen to be unspeakable monsters. [Read More]

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Kindred (Graphic Novel), adapted from the novel by Octavia ButlerKindred is the story of Dana, an African-American writer married to a white man in 1976, who finds herself being violently yanked through time and space to the side of her distant ancestor, Rufus, the son of an enslaver who lives on a plantation in antebellum Delaware. Rufus -- a self-destructive, traumatized and spoiled child -- periodically puts himself in mortal danger, and when he does, Dana is torn from 1976 to save him, and is stranded in the violent, totalitarian south until she experiences mortal terror, whereupon she returns to her present, only moments after she left. Luckily for Dana, mortal terror is a commonplace occurance for black people in Delaware in the 19th century.

Dana's relationship to Rufus, and to Rufus's freeborn, African-American friend Alice -- whom Dana knows to be her ancestress -- is wrenching and claustrophobic, as she is enlisted to help Rufus sexually assault and eventually enslave Alice, revealing the deep violence lurking in Dana's own distant past.

For many years, Dana and her white husband, Kevin, are stranded in history, together and separately, and this affords Butler a chance to add yet more nuance to her tale, weaving in the point of view, privileges and horror of a white ally who, nevertheless, enjoys a measure of safety his black wife cannot claim.

The graphic novel adaptation is extremely faithful to the Butler novel, and does brilliant things with color-palettes, using different tones to demark the present and past, and also the belowstairs and abovestairs places in the lives of the enslaved people. The lines are vigorous and rough, conveying emotion and urgency.[Read More]

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The Magic Machine: A Handbook of Computer Sorcery ($4)This 1990 BASIC programming book is long out-of-print, but is still valid and a great way to explore fractals and artificial life. I loved this book when it came out and just bought a replacement for my lost copy. Use copies are cheap on Amazon. Get it for a smart kid in your life.

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Voyager Golden RecordIn 1977, NASA launched two spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, on a grand tour of the solar system and into the mysteries of interstellar space. Attached to each ofthese probes is a beautiful golden phonograph record containing the story of our planet expressed in music, sounds, images, and science. It’s a message for any extraterrestrial intelligence that might encounter it. And now you can experience on Earth as a lavish 3xLP Box Set or 2xCD-Book edition.

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The Photographs Of Charles Duvelle - Disques OCORA And Collection PROPHETDecades before the term "world music" became common parlance, Charles Duvelle was traveling the globe recording the sounds and sights of indigenous people around the world. To enable us see the world through Duvelle's eyes, Sublime Frequencies' Hisham Mayet in collaboration with Duvelle released this magnificent tome contains field photographs from 1959-1978, a deep interview, a report he prepared for Unesco in 1978, and two CDs of music that will move you.

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Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni TuttiThe stunning memoir of musician, artist, and cultural provocateur Cosey Fanni Tutti is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of avant-garde music, performance art, underground culture, radical living, and female empowerment. Best known as co-founder of pioneering industrial groups Coum Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle (famously called “wreckers of civilisation” by a British MP), Cosey has also explored the fringes of sex, music, and creativity as a pornographic model, video artist, electronic composer, and, yes, writer. This is her story so far and it’s a doozy.

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Little Book of Wonders: Celebrating the Gifts of the Natural World by Nadia DrakeNational Geographic contributor Nadia Drake’s science writing sings with knowledge, rigor, and her own infectious curiosity. This slim and delightful book is no exception. A lovely miniature wunderkammer of Earth’s magical places, startling phenomena, and amazing wildlife, it pairs beautiful photos with Nadia’s poetic and informative captions that spark the imagination and instill a sense of wonder about our world.

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Dalí: The Wines of GalaFirst published in 1978, Salvador Dalí’s The Wines of Gala is a stunning and strange guide that groups wines “according to the sensations they create in our very depths” such as “Wines of Frivolity,” “Wines of the Impossible,” and “Wines of Light.” Featuring more than 140 of Dalí’s surrealist illustrations, this is the most bizarre, sensual, and sensational book about viticulture and libations that you’ll ever experience.

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THEFT: A History of Music, by James Boyle and Jennifer JenkinsTheft traces millennia of musical history, from Plato's injunction against mixing musical styles to the outrage provoked by the troubadours who appropriated sacred music and turned it into bawdy songs about wanting to have sex with hot teenagers (a trick Ray Charles repeated hundreds of years later!); from the racist outrage over rock and roll's challenge to white supremacy to the fights over sampling and the exploitation of African-American musicians who were ripped off 40 years ago versus the interests of their musical progeny whose sample-based music has been distorted and even outlawed by the same musical corporations that screwed the R&B artists, in the name of defending those artists (!).

Jenkins and Boyle are two of the staunchest defenders of fair use and remixing -- their first comic, Bound by Law, was a kind of Understanding Comics for the legalities of fair use -- and it shows: Theft is as laden with visual, textual and musical references as a Dizzy Gillespie solo, an early Public Enemy wall-of-sound, an illegal Girl Talk mashup.[Read More]

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The Free, by Lauren McLaughlinIsaac West is a mixed-race kid who never knew his dad; he and his sister have raised their alcoholic, abusive mother as much as she's raised them. But Isaac has a plan: his little sister Janelle is smart, better than he'll ever be, and he's going to get her out of their mutual hellhole and into a private school -- and to make that happen, he's graduated from petty theft into grand theft auto, under the supervision of his high-school auto-shop teacher, a cut-rate Fagin who trains and oversees a gang of junior car thieves.

It's this teacher who insists that Isaac should plead guilty to beating a man comatose in a car-heist that went wrong, though the kid who actually did the beat-down was the teacher's cousin, a hulking giant of a kid who has already got a conviction under his belt and faces being tried as an adult if he goes down.

For Isaac, it's an easy choice: spend 30 days in juvie, complete his rehab program, and in return, he'll get enough to send Janelle off to private school. All he has to do is survive, and he's been doing that all his life.

From here, McLaughlin has all the elements for a tight, claustrophobic novel that veers between the terror and camaraderie of incarceration; the brutally honest drama therapy group that Isaac must attend if he's to be released; the mounting danger to his sister and all of the repressed feelings and guilt that weigh Isaac down.

While there's some revenge and redemption here, mostly what there is is unblinking reality, a willingness to confront the impossible without denying it. The kids in Isaac's world are in trouble, and that trouble isn't going to get better for most of them, and maybe not for Isaac. Some of those kids are pretty terrible, but even at their worst, they're still kids, and still rounded people with their own virtues and stories.

I don't know when I've read a more empathic novel, and it's been a long time since I read one that was more sorrowful and joyful at the same time. [Read More]

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The Complete Elfquest Vol. 4Fresh out in November, this volume contains some of the most exquisite and touching episodes of Wendy and Richard Pini's Elfquest saga, a great alternative to genre fantasy and its grim 'n' gritty modern counterparts. One of America's best indie comics, it's illustrated by Wendy's wonderful artwork – even at its most lighthearted, unanswerable questions of identity, family and freedom lurk between the lines. (Newcomers should not feel they have to start at the beginning, but it sure helps.)

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The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware, by Andrew "bunnie" HuangThe book draws heavily on Huang's own hardware projects, which have included substantial manufacturing in south China, with many hard-won lessons about how things can go wrong and how to make them go right. This is more than a checklist or memoir: it's nothing less than a masterclass in modern manufacturing, and even if you never plan on manufacturing anything, reading these chapters will explain the material world around you like few other texts.

This dovetails neatly into a meditation on the differences between Western and Chinese approaches to "intellectual property" and the way this has informed the manufacturing processes whose outflows are all around us. In these chapters, Huang proves himself to be a thoughtful and incisive critic of law as well as technology, and the thorny questions he raises show up the normal discussion on these subjects up for a shallow scrape over the surface of something deep and difficult.

Huang uses these broad legal and technical passages as a foundation for the second half of the book, which lay out the detective work that Huang did to realize his various hardware challenges, from stick-on soft circuits to an insanely clever device that circumnavigates the law through tight and unsuspected secret creeks that allow him to enter territory that no engineer has ever seen by legal means.

The book concludes with its most speculative and future-looking chapter: a disquisition on the similarities (and differences) between computational bioscience and hardware hacking, based on his work with his "perlfriend" -- his perl-hacking, bioscientist girlfriend -- on hacking genomes. [Read More]

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New York 2140, by Kim Stanley RobinsonIt's 2140 and trillions of dollars' worth of the world's most valuable real estate is now submerged under fifty feet of water, resulting from two great "surges" where runaway polar melting created sudden, punctuated disasters that displaced billions of people, wiped trillions off the world's balance sheets, and turned the great cities of the world into drowned squatter camps.

But it's 2140, and the cities are coming back. The combination of financial speculation, desperate refugees willing to do anything to find shelter, and new technological innovations are spawning "SuperVenice"s where boats replace cars and high-rises connect to each other with fairytale skybridges, and pumped-out subway stations become underwater leisure clubs. No SuperVenice is more super than New York City, where the boats ply midtown Manhattan's skyscrapers and everything from Chelsea down is an intertidal artificial reef where, every now and again, hundreds of squatters die as the buildings topple.

The forces of finance are deeply interested in the intertidal zones. These great cities were once the world's ultimate luxury products and now they're marine salvage, waiting to be dredged up from the tidal basins, dusted off and monetized. Yeah, there's millions of inconvenient poors hanging out in them, but they're a market failure, producing suboptimal rents on some seriously distressed assets that need a little TLC, capital infusion, and ruthless securitization to bring them back.

Robinson is a master of turning stories about zoning disputes and local politics into gripping, un-put-down-able adventure tales (his novel Pacific Edge remains the most uplifting book in my library). New York 2140 is a spectacular exemplar of the tactic: the financial shenanigans form a backdrop for submarine drone-wars, black-ops kidnappings, private security assassinations, non-state actor cyberwar and economic terrorism, buried treasure hunting, and big, muscular technologies from giant dredging barges to aerosolized diamond sprays. [Read More]

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WAKE UP!, by Rick Lieder and Helen FrostLife is a continuing cycle of newness, then growth, and then gone: then birth and growth again. Photographer Rick Lieder started thinking about that theme of new life and new beginnings several years ago, and WAKE UP!, published by Candlewick Press, is the result. Working with his collaborator, poet Helen Frost, our book is about opening eyes—our own, first—and pointing to the world that’s right here, containing us all. Helen and rick are both based in the US Midwest, so we started there, with a world that we didn’t need to travel far to explore, only wake up enough to actually see. [Read More]

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Penguin Galaxy Boxed Set, introduced by Neil GaimanLast October, Penguin released its Galaxy boxed set, a $133 set of six hardcover reprints of some of science fiction's most canonical titles: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K LeGuin; Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein; 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke; Dune by Frank Herbert; The Once and Future King by TH White; and Neuromancer, by William Gibson.

The series is curated and introduced by Neil Gaiman, whose essay on the charm and value of science fiction appears at the start of each of the handsome volumes. It's a fine essay, placing each book in its historical context, and turning a writerly eye to their construction and techniques, as well as some of the memoir that makes Gaiman essays such fine reads (see, for example, his 2016 essay collection The View From the Cheap Seats).

As nice as that essay is, it's eclipsed by the gorgeous design, courtesy of Spanish designer Alex Trochut, whose impressive CV includes a Grammy nomination for Best Recording Package. Trochut does away with fussy book-jackets and prints his titles straight onto the books' boards in stylized, embossed gold leaf type -- with clever type-art for every cover. [Read More]

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Brutal London: Construct Your Own Concrete CapitalBrutal London: Construct Your Own Concrete Capital tells the stories of nine of London's greatest brutalist structures (with an intro by Norman Foster!), including the Barbican Estate, Robin Hood Gardens, Balfron Tower and the National Theatre -- and includes pull-out papercraft models of these buildings for you to assemble and display. [Read More]

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SHADE THE CHANGING GIRL v.1: Earth Girl Made Easy, by Cecil CastellucciLoma Shade, as her own unique character, was a way of being steeped in the world of Shade the Changing Man, while being its own thing. Some people say that Shade the Changing Girl seems to be a direct sequel of the Milligan run. I say not so. I’ve always approached it as a kind of side-quel. Creator Cecil Castellucci wanted to take care to have nods and echoes to them both, but to be able to stand narratively on its own. It was a way of striking out in a new direction while plucking elements from the Ditko original and the Milligan run.

Our Shade the Changing Girl is a way of changing the changing.

The body of a teenage girl was a great place to start that change. The body of bully was the way to take it to the next level. The idea of a real alien, who moves like a bird in human form was the best way to express it. Add in Marley Zarcone’s wongld. They are blooming and bursting with feelings and big body changes. They are confident and awkward. They are experimenting with identity. They are constantly changing.

When we are teenagers, we are figuring out how to become who we are. To throw down and figure out what it really means to be human and to break free from our parents and to think for our selves. This is why Castellucci loved writing Shade, because as an alien, she mirrors our own growth in this world. She can see the quotidian with eyes that we can’t see the world with. She has to figure out how to transform herself from who she was to who she isn’t. And through her we dive deep into her attempts to discover the meaning of humanity. Loma Shade is changed profoundly by being this mean girl and having to navigate the fall out of living in Megan’s body and in her world. [Read More]

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Paper Girls 1, 2 and 3, by Brian K Vaughanhttps://boingboing.net/2016/12/14/brian-k-vaughan-and-cliff-chan.html https://Paper Girls stars an all-girl cast of newspaper delivery kids for a fictional Cleveland newspaper, circa 1988 -- they are instantly and wholeheartedly likable, like the Goonies or the cast of Stranger Things. They convene on November 1, when the mean teenagers of Cleveland are still out an about and making mischief, picking on the likes of them, and they band together in mutual self-defense.

Then things get weird.

The girls are assaulted by a group of costumed teens, who rip off a Radio Shack walkie-talkie that one of them saved for months to buy. The girls chase down these goons, ending up in a partially built house, whose basement holds a spaceship of some kind, or maybe it's a time-machine -- and after a flash and a bang, they emerge to a transformed neighborhood, overcast with a tornado out of which flap huge, monstrous dinosaurs ridden by lance-wielding, argot-speaking warriors who kill and kidnap all they meet.

Before long, the girls are hurled into a mystery tale of Vaughnian complexity, chased through time and space, meeting ambiguous heroes and villains, including several who may be clones of them -- or older versions, or neither. (Don't foreget books Two and Three) [Read More]

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Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults, by Laurie PennyIf you've followed Penny's work, you'll know that the thing that sets her apart from other enraged columnists is her empathy: her ability to understand the self-serving rationalizations, radioactive bullshit, and emotional damage that drives men to threaten her with rape and murder for pointing out that things aren't exactly fair.

But while Penny is perfectly capable of understanding her ideological opponents -- better than they understand themselves, without a doubt -- she doesn't offer them any sympathy. This sympathy -- no less well-informed, no less analytical -- is reserved for people who are getting the shittiest end of the stick: trans people, people of color, poor people, disabled people, other women. Even when she feuds with them, even when she is laid low by anger from her allies, she does the hard work to look past her own hurt feelings, to the missteps that let her to a place of conflict.

Penny is a bridge between two modes of political writing, a hybrid that gets the best of both and offsets their deficits: on the one hand, she's clearly in the Hunter S Thompson gonzo tradition (her adventures running down violent neo-Nazis in Greece are a match for anything HST wrote about Hell's Angels or police detective conventions); on the other hand, she's got the scholarly habit of finding and presenting an issue from every side, even the ones she disagrees with. But while the gonzos reduce their opponents to caricatures, and while scholarly work can dissolve the point of view into a view from nowhere, wishy-washy and free from any kind of thesis or real muscle, Penny is able to forcefully convey her point of view, and back it up by showing that she understands exactly what her opponents are thinking, and why, precisely, they are full of shit. [Read More]

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Lizard Music, by Daniel PinkwaterLizard Music is a novel about Victor, a kid who falls asleep while doing a model airplane and wakes up when the local TV station is going off the air, who discovers that the true late-night programming comes from humanoid lizards who live in a secret nearby volcano and worship Walter Cronkite.

Victor travels to the land of the lizards with the Chicken Man, a recurring Pinkwater character: a kind of hobo figure whose pet chicken is wise beyond her years and dander. What happens next will... Well, it will make you weirder.

No author has ever captured the great fun of being weird, growing up as a happy mutant, unfettered by convention, as well as Pinkwater has. When I was a kid, Pinkwater novels like Lizard Music made me intensely proud to be a little off-center and weird -- they taught me to woo the muse of the odd and made me the happy adult I am today. It's one of those books that, in the right hands at the right time, can change your life for the better and forever. [Read More]

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Landscape With Invisible Hand, by MT AndersonIn 2002, MT Anderson blew up the YA dystopia world with Feed, his zeitgeisty, prescient novel about "identity crises, consumerism, and star-crossed teenage love in a futuristic society where people connect to the Internet via feeds implanted in their brains" -- in his latest, Landscape with Invisible Hand, Anderson takes us to a world where neoliberal aliens have sold Earth's plutocrats the technologies to make work obsolete and with it, nearly human being on earth.

Now we all have to live with that reality: former superstar luxury car salesmen, bank tellers, teachers, programmers -- everyone except for a tiny elite of financial engineers, really -- have been replaced by technology sold by the vuuv (that's the alien race) to the world's 1 percenters when they inducted the human race into the galactic prosperity sphere.

Landscape is told as a series of acerbic, short vignettes -- latter-day Douglas Coupland riffs -- in the voice of Adam, a teenager living in a rotting suburban home amidst the remains of his rotting suburban life, scrounging for rice and beans and painting, painting, painting, the only escape he has. Each chapterlette opens with Adam describing a painting that sets the scene, part of the blasted, wasted dystopia that 99% of the human race lives in while sneering aliens and financial executives tell them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, get jobs, and stop looking for handouts. [Read More]

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Stories of Your Life and OthersTed Chiang's writing is rare and precise, weaving threads of science fiction into something so haunting and humane I've woken up dreaming about it more than once. Here you can read most of his published work, including the novella that was recently filmed as Arrival and is currently in U.S. theaters. But my favorites are the Borgesian "Tower of Babel," about an engineer breaking through the vault of heaven, and "Division by Zero."

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The Power, by Naomi AldermanIn The Power, a day dawns, not so long from now, in which every 15-year-old girl finds herself with the power to deal out electric shocks, emanating from an unsuspected organ called "the skein," which rests along the collarbone. What's more, any woman can do the trick, once a 15 year old shows them how.

Chaos. Glorious chaos.

The world's sex-slaves kill their pimps. The women of Saudi Arabia foment revolution. Women whose husbands beat them strike back. Girls whose fathers rape them find themselves able to defend themselves -- with lethal force, if it comes to that.

Concerned parents ask to have their boys separated from the vicious girls who stalk them through school. Mean girl cliques take on a new, deadly overtone. Law and order teeters.

Against this background, a cast of characters: Roxy, the daughter of a ruthless British gangster; Joc, the daughter of an ambitious midwestern politician; Allie, a much-abused foster kid whose foster father has a surprise in store for him, and Tunde, a Nigerian lad whose workshops of storytelling through digital photography just took on a new significance.

Through these characters, a plot as intricate and fast moving as any thriller, with lots of grace notes and seeming detours that converge with the main storyline, giving it energy and velocity.

And throughout, when you're finished, the realization that there was so much more going on, stuff I can't discuss without spoilers -- a story within the story that is chilling, thrilling, disturbing. [Read More]

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Archangel, by William GibsonFrom the start of its run in 2016, Archangel went from strength to strength, packing in so many goddamned O.G. cyberpunk eyeball kicks per page that it felt like some kind of cask-strength distillation of all the visual and action elements that gave the original mirrorshades stuff its dark glitter.

Now that the comic's run is done, the five-issue tale is revealed as a masterful, beautifully plotted war story set in three different wars: WWII as we know it, WWII as it might have been, and a distant all-out nuclear conflagration that may or may not have been an inside job.

This is a time-travel story, but it's one that sets out to break the genre's conventions: it opens with the ruthless son of America's power-grabbed president-for-life traveling back to Berlin at the end of WWII to murder his grandfather and take his place. Take that, grandfather parodox.

Hunting the president's son and his goons is "The Pilot," a USAF ninja in a camouflage suit who must prevent Junior from destroying another world without giving Junior the chance to detonate the belly-bomb all US armed-forces members must have implanted when they enlist. Thankfully, it has a 30 foot range.

Archangel is visually stunning, with all the dark romance of war-torn Berlin as a setting: deviant cabarets, black marketeers' dens, chop-shops, makeshift Soviet command-posts and secret airfields. Then there's the futuristic world of Junior and the president, seen in a cramped bunker in which a rogue scientist is scrambling to support The Pilot from the distant future and a different timeline. [Read More]

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Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches, by John HodgmanMy first impression of Vacationland was that I'd found a modern version of Steve Martin's classic Cruel Shoes. Hodgman is so very witty, and as he sets up his memoir -- the story of how he was a weird kid raised by loving but largely unconcerned parents -- he has so many tinder-dry asides and beautifully turned sentences and jokes with long fuses that unexpectedly detonate paragraphs later that I was really getting ready to relive my own childhood.

Right as I was getting comfortably settled into Vacationland, I discovered that Hodgman had smoothly transitioned me into some really profound emotional truth -- it's where he starts talking about his mother's untimely death and how he reacted to her terminal illness -- and then back into that dry, comedic mode, slipping the knife in and pulling it out so smoothly that I hadn't even noticed until the blood started to drip. That kind of maneuver requires both a steady hand a very sharp knife, and Hodgman has both.

This sneaky book pulls that move over and over, using comedy and narrative confidence to make important points about privilege, self-delusion, parenting, death, birth, cities, alienation, love -- the whole gamut.

All without ever losing the comedy, which is funny stuff, and it's not a spoonful of sugar that helps all that serious medicine go down, it's perfectly blended into those serious themes.

This isn't a book like Cruel Shoes: it's the book Cruel Shoes gets to be when it grows up. [Read More]

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3" Glass PyramidMade of "optically clear crystal" and three inches tall, Amlong's Crystal Pyramid is the best Crystal Pyramid. My bacon is fresh, my airspace dangerous, and my undertakings favored.

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OXO Good Grips Solid Stainless Steel Ice Cream Scoop ($15)The old ice cream scoop we had wasn't really an ice cream scoop. It was a disher, and was more suited for scooping mashed potatoes than ice cream. When the trigger mechanism on it finally broke, I happily got rid of it and replaced it with the OXO Good Grips Solid Stainless Steel Ice Cream Scoop($15). This surprisingly heavy scoop is made from a solid chunk of stainless steel with a comfortable rubber grip, and comes with a pointed end that digs right into hard ice cream, especially if you run hot water over it. It's supposedly dishwasher safe but why put it in the dishwasher? Just rinse it and dry it with a towel.

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Brondell SourceI bought the Brondell Source in 2015 and it alleviated allergy symptoms; here's the latest model, adding a touchscreen, remote control and an adjustable air quality sensor. Rids the air of dust and dander and tiny particles you don’t need to be breathing—but also filters volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Three-stage advanced purifier system includes certified True HEPA and Granulated Carbon technology. Glowing light indicator tells you when it’s working. One time my dog farted a particularly noxious plume and this thing kicked into high gear with an emergency red glow. That’s when I knew I’d be giving it a five star recommendation.

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Lynx Sonoma Stainless Steel Countertop Natural Gas Smoker ($2500)This capacious, ultra high-end smoker has a digital control panel, smoker chip box, an instant-reading meat probe. It's got built-in Wi-Fi, of course, so you can monitor the process wherever you are.

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Cuisinart 14-Cup Food ProcessorThe latest model of the best food processor for people who are serious about broadening their happy foodie horizons. Shove entire fruits and veggies into the giant feed tube. Listen to the 720-watt motor fill a 14-cup work bowl with steel slicing and shredding discs. It still comes with a free recipe book.

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Rainbow SlimeA glittery additive mixed with kid-safe Elmer's glue, Rainbow Slime is what you make of it. Fun when forming and flexible when dry, the results are beautiful, weird and extremely cheap at $6 or so.

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The Intellivision Flashback ConsoleRemember the unlucky kid with the parents who got them an "Intellivision" instead of an Atari? Make someone that miserable again! With games no one can remember except maybe that OK one with a snake that couldn't touch its tail but isn't SNAFU, the Intellivision really sucked.

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Ejector Seat Button For Your CarA perfect stocking stuffer, this very clever eject button fits into most automobile cigarette lighter sockets. Unfortunately, the product listing clearly states that it's "designed for show only." It is a functional cigarette lighter though so I guess they mean it won't actually trigger your ejector seat.

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Swish card gameA beautiful and deeply compelling card game, Swish is challenges your spatial perception to find matches of balls and hoops on transparent cards. It’s a wordless game of pattern recognition that has entranced my entire family including our youngest child, age 8.

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Bulk Generic LegoYou can get 1000 random pieces of off-brand building bricks for less than $30, guaranteed to "fit tight" and come with "less filler" than the even-cheaper bulk buys.

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Palomino Blackwing 602 Pencils ($23/doz.)This is a faithful reproduction of the Eberhard Faber original, which is no longer being made. Blackwing 602 have dark, soft lead (the motto printed on the pencil reads"Half the pressure, twice the speed") and features a unique eraser holder. I've been using them for years.

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Make your own Crazy Aaron's Thinking PuttyThe one thing my 10-year-old enjoys more than making her own floam or slime is playing with Thinking Putty. Textured quite like the legendary Silly Putty of yore, Crazy Aaron's putties come in a rainbow of colors and styles. This set lets you design your own! I am pretty sure Mark could be easily distracted by a can of magnetic Thinking Putty.

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Copic Ciao Marker SetAt about $200, a full set of 72 Copic markers is a pricey proposition. But that's because they're the absolute best, with perfect colors, easy blending, and a big brush tip good for detail and wash alike. Dip an elbow in the water with a relatively inexpensive 12-marker set; great deals on partially-used sets can also be found haunting eBay.

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Because cats are totally down with the Dark SideYoda and Chewie as mice for your cat to attack, because all cats align with the Dark Side. Except for Loth-Cats for some reason, but I wouldn't exactly trust them either.

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Star Wars Viewmaster gift setI am not sure how the whole putting gifts in a sock thing works, but this Darth Vader themed Viewmaster Viewer looks like it'd fit in a traditional Christ inspired gifting sock. Star Wars Viewmaster reels are always pretty sweet. This also makes a good Hanukkah day 4-7 gift for kids who can pull off the entire 8-day challenge. My kid starts getting a hug after day 3.

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You sank my holiday experience!While it doesn't look much like the genre-defining 'This game isn't as much fun as a commercial made it look' toy of our youth, Electronic Battleship is now more exciting looking while boastin' the same old lows in game-play disappointment! Eeeeelectronic Battleship is no more fun than regular old Battleship, which is also a pretty god damn boring game. This is an excellent gift for someone you do not like, but want to appear you gave a cool gift at opening time.

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Prison Life RobloxKnow a kid that just can't behave? Maybe a co-worker? Make sure they understand a life of crime will come to no good.

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MastermindInvented in 1970 by an Israeli telecom expert, Mastermind is still the terrific game of strategy, logic, and deduction that you might remember from childhood. True, the packaging lacks the Bond-inspired photo of the dignified man and woman that appeared on the original box, but the game is just as elegant and addictive.

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Wolf Crotch UnderwearWith a "convex design, large space and breathable," the 3D Wolf Head Crotch Underwear "make man looks sexy and wild" and can be yours for as little as five American dollars.

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Spend your holiday season TwistedThe Twisty Glass Blunt is a brain-hammer. Fill the glass chamber with your favorite herb, screw in the brass mouthpiece, and you are prepared to smoke a lot of weed. Perfect for a day at the beach, or an outdoor music festival, the Twisty Glass Blunt is an absolute favorite. I've got the mini as well.

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Poop emoji Santa HatWar on Christmas? Christmas seems to be integrating into todays meme-filled emoticon world. Now your Santa can proudly display his favorite emoji, or perhaps this is mean to signify something else.

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Star Wars: 28 BTS Photos That Change Everything

by Brendan Ward

– on Jun 02, 2018

in Lists

It’s been more than 40 years and since we first saw the iconic Star Wars opening text crawl. Since the franchise jumped to hyperspace in A New Hope, ten movies have added to the massive universe from the mind of George Lucas. The latest, Solo gives us a look into the history of the franchise’s beloved scoundrel.

Like Han himself, the Star Wars cinematic experience has a lot of backstory that isn’t always immediately visible. In the decades since the first movies, the franchise has built up a lot of lore. The cast and crew from all the movies shared looks into their lives on set. While the newer movies have kept a lid on behind the scenes snaps to stop spoilers, there is still a wealth of information out there.

Star Wars is a titan of pop culture. It’s easy to overlook the challenges that go into making such a spectacle. From tricky practical effects to pioneering CGI, the crew worked hard behind the scenes to bring the galaxy to life. Their hard work has been documented in pictures that show the special effects wizards at work. Meanwhile, photos of the tight-knit casts show the fun and strain of shooting these blockbusters.

Here are 28 photos from behind the scenes that will change the way you watch and rewatch these movies.

28 PETER MAYHEW PRACTICES CHEWIE’S LINES

With Solo in theaters now, we get to see to the meeting between Han and his furry companion Chewbacca. The giant Wookie has roared and growled his way through the original Star Wars trilogy, made a cameo in Episode III, and looks set to stick around through the sequel trilogy too. And for much of that time, he was played by the 7ft 3in actor Peter Mayhew. In this behind the scenes shot, we see Mayhew and the makeup artist Stuart Freeborn jokingly practice the Wookie’s lines. In the movies all we hear from Chewie are the signature roars. On set, though, Mayhew did improvise lines in English for what Chewie meant. This helped the acting feel natural. The roars came later.

Shyriiwook is the combination of four bears, a badger, and more animal noises. 

The suit that Stuart Freeborn is playing with here was made of yak hair and rabbit fur. Freeborn was brought in because of his experience working with other hairy primate costumes. His work brought the prehumans of 2001: A Space Odyssey to life. Mayhew’s costume was understandably hot, and so for the Revenge of the Sith cameo, it had a built-in cooling system. Photos like this show the great relationships between the actors and the crew working together.

27 BLAST ‘EM

Star Wars has an abundance of futuristic weapons for the cast and crew to work around. The actors and lighting crew have had to imagine the finished product while filming. Sticks stood in for lightsabers in many of the earlier movies.  In the original trilogy, the Imperial blasters were fully operational firearms with blank cartridges. Animators would rotoscope over the shots. In the prequel trilogy, too, remixed real firearms are the basis for the various blasters.

In the latest movies, their jobs are a bit easier. This behind the scenes shot of Daisy Ridley shows off a modified Airsoft rifle. It looks very close to the film’s F-11D blaster rifle. The new ‘blaster’ gives off a great kick without ejecting blank cartridges everywhere. The rifle has built-in lights which simulate the timing of the blaster shots. This helps lighting and animation teams to get the feel of the shot just right.

This photo also shows just how much fun the actors have with their props. While filming The Last Jedi, Laura Derne really enjoyed firing a blaster as Admiral Holdo. The only problem was that she couldn’t help saying “Pew pew” with every shot. You can still see it if you look closely.

26 CATCHING THAT TATOOINE SUN

Filming is a long process, with quite a bit of waiting around. When you and your stunt double are already in bikinis, why not use the time to get a tan? Peter Mayhew took this picture of Carrie Fisher and her stunt double Tracey Eddon on set of The Return of the Jedi. The pair made the most of the desert sun and the iconic slave costume for the Jabba’s barge sequence.

The movie took the Star Wars franchise back to Tatooine, where Luke began his journey. On the other hand, the film team didn’t go back to Tunisia and the location that lent the desert planet its name. The desert scenes for the third instalment of the original trilogy were shot in Buttercup Valley, Arizona.

The bikini is simultaneously an iconic and controversial costume. Fisher once wrote that it might be “what supermodels will eventually wear in the seventh ring of hell.” Later, though, she turned the slave outfit into a symbol of her character’s power. When asked by a father about a new toy featuring the costume, Carrie Fisher used it as a moment to address the controversy. She advised Fred Hill to tell his daughters “that a giant slug captured me and forced me to wear that stupid outfit, and then I [ended] him because I didn’t like it.” She did it with the costume itself.

25 TAKING ON MEN IN BLUE

In this rare behind the scenes shot from Episode III – The Revenge of the Sith, we see Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan sizing up the Blue Man Group. The finished version of the scene features the deadly MagnaGuard droids, but behind the scenes they were stuntmen in blue suits. It is quite impressive to see the actors keeping their intensity up.

By the time George Lucas came around to filming the first parts of the Star Wars saga, CGI offered new ways to bring his world to life. The CGI use in the prequels drew a lot of criticism, even though there were many practical effects in the movies. In this photo the line between practical and computer generated environment and effects is evident.

Looks like Obi-Wan isn’t a fan of the Blue Man Group. 

Despite the criticisms of the prequel’s CGI, it offered some design advantages. The MagnaGuard’s skeletal design would have been impossible as a practical effect. Lucas had already seen the limits of practical effects in the unfinished C-3P0 of The Phantom Menace. Peter Mayhew simply couldn’t be built into the costume as he had been before.

For a sequence like the one in the picture here, CGI gave the team freedom to perform with stuntmen that could be replaced later.

24 STORMTROOPERS IN THE TUBE

While filing Rogue One, the extras playing the stormtroopers took some time to rest between takes. The Canary Wharf tube station in London was closed off for filming. The sequence shot there featured in the trailer, and many Londoners recognised it immediately. Behind the scenes photos like this proved them right.

The photo strangely humanises the stormtroopers. Seeing them sitting around with their helmets off turns them from faceless space fascists into ordinary working folk on a morning commute.

Director Gareth Edwards began his first TV job in the area and filming there was a bit like coming full circle. When he used to commute there he thought “This is like a sci-fi movie. If I ever get to do a sci-fi film in my life I’m gonna film it here.” He also described the night where the station was transformed into a set as a “secret mission”.

This isn’t the only movie to use Canary Wharf for a location. The tube station also featured in the apocalyptic 28 Days Later, directed by Danny Boyle. Perhaps it is the severe industrial look that appeals to film makers. It certainly worked well as a stand in for the cold and dark Imperial Base.

23 PILES OF STORMTROOPER SUITS

While the clone troopers of the Prequel trilogy were mainly digital, in the original Star Wars practical costumes were all they had. Here we can see a fraction of the fifty low-detail helmets from A New Hope. Six ‘hero’ helmets had more detail for close up shots. The faceless white stormtrooper armor is now iconic. There’s even a famous cosplay legion, the 501st, that invades conventions everywhere.

The original helmets were not comfortable. Mark Hamill once freaked out while filming the scenes where Luke and Han disguise themselves. “You can see the inside of the helmet and it’s all sickly green plus you’ve got wax in your ears, because of the explosions and you just feel eerie,” he remembers. The helmet looks good, but it certainly got in the way.

This might explain the troopers’ infamous inability to shoot anyone. It also accounts for one of A New Hope‘s famous goofs, where a storm trooper hits his head on a door. As they come through a door way looking for C3P0 and the other infiltrators, one of the troopers in the back misjudges the height of the door. In retouched later editions, a little clang was added to turn it from a goof into a feature.

22 BREAKING THE PROPS

There were two roles that required huge actors for the first Star Wars film. Peter Mayhew picked Chewbacca, and David Prowse got to be the body of the most iconic villain. As Darth Vader, Prowse had to train for the one lightsaber duel in the movie.

The scene itself is fairly tame in comparison to the flips and frantic energy of newer duels. Despite this, Prowse and Sir Alec Guinness had to rehearse with wooden stunt props. In this picture we can see the towering body of Vader bearing down on Guinness in rehearsal.

Practice did not make the scene easier to film, though. Prowse was a powerful man, as a bodybuilder and weightlifter. According to stunt co-ordinator Peter Diamond, he swung the prop with more force than was needed. “Every time they touched swords, the blades kept breaking,” said Diamond.

This wasn’t the only challenge facing the team regarding David Prowse. Prowse had a thick West Country English accent, while he delivered lines on set Lucas had never intended to use it. Fortunately, he went with the rich voice of James Earl Jones. Documentaries and behind the scenes recordings let us hear how Vader would have sounded as Prowse.

21 LIGHT UP LIGHTSABERS

Gone are the days of the strange wooden lances used for training in the original trilogy. The colorful sticks for the prequel trilogy are gone too. The march of technology means that for new Star Wars films, lightsaber props feel a lot more like the real thing. Comparing this picture of Adam Driver rehearsing for The Force Awakens, it is amazing to think about how the filmmakers managed before.

These light-up props appeared in a limited form for a single sequence of Attack of the Clones. For Episode VII, the stunt team brought them out in full to help out. A big challenge for the lighting team on set is anticipating the changes from the lightsabers. The new props are highly interactive, allowing the team to make them strobe, move the light up and down, and change color. Shots like this really show how far technology has come.

The special effects teams worked throughout the history of Star Wars to work on the technology of the lightsaber. In the first movie they were a reflective substance that spun on a motor to catch the set lights. These were unreliable and, as we’ve heard, fragile. For the rest of the movies, carbon and then carbon-fibre rods were used instead. While the carbon-fibre rods didn’t break, they did injure many of the actors.

20 HUNGOVER IN CLOUD CITY

It’s not too easy to tell from this behind the scenes shot, but two of the actors filming here for The Empire Strikes Back were under the weather. Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford went out for a night of partying. The two Star Wars actors met up with Monty Python’s Eric Idle and the Rolling Stones. Idle introduced them to a drink called the Tunisian Table Cleaner, as both Star Wars and The Life of Brian were filmed there. The night of revelry left Fisher feeling unwell, delaying the next day’s filming.

In spite of this, feelings on set were festive as well and the cast got along very well. Billy Dee Williams, playing the roguish Lando Calrissian, was quite in character. According to Carrie Fisher, he “would say things. I would say them right back. He said something unmentionable when he kissed my hand.”

Williams doesn’t seem to have needed much getting into character as Lando. Lando’s roguishness, down to the “flair” of his name, appealed to the actor. You can see a little of his chemistry with Fisher in this interview where he discusses the character.

Williams has stayed very involved in Star Wars as Lando, and recently gave his support to Donald Glover’s portrayal of the character in Solo.

19 AN ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN SUIT

Bitter cold made filming the Hoth scenes for The Empire Strikes Back a challenge for the cast and crew. One cast member had a surprisingly sweltering time, however. Des Webb was the performer behind the giant yeti-like Wampa. In this shot between takes you can see how the suit totally enveloped him. Naturally, the suit was incredibly stifling for the actor to wear in his scenes as the marauding monster. Ultimately most of his footage was cut in the original release. An entire subplot of the Wampas attacking Echo Base had to be removed.

Who needs a wool coat when you can have a Wampa fur coat. 

For the Special Edition, a second suit was built by Industrial Light & Magic artist Howie Weed. Lucas wanted to reshoot some Wampa scenes, and Howie found a way to open the monster’s maw into a more fearsome roar. He replaced the shorter Des Webb for these scenes, and recalls an interesting moment. As the Wampa loses an arm to Luke Skywalker, George Lucas wanted Weed to open the mouth wider and wider. “On action I pulled down the jaw as wide as I could, which broke dozens of little elastic bands inside the mask,” he said in an interview. The suit was ruined of course, but that last shot was the one Lucas was looking for.

18 YODA THE GNOME

In a film franchise full of pop culture icons, Yoda still stands out as one of the most memorable Star Wars characters. The little green alien is a fan favorite, with his strange manner of speech making him instantly recognizable. George Lucas created a character to fit a specific folklore archetype in a story deeply influenced by myth and fairytale. The archetype is of a seemingly “insignificant” and powerless creature that reveals itself to be magical. Yoda’s introduction on Dagobah certainly fits the bill.

In this piece of early concept for the character we see a very different look for the Jedi master. Instead of the long-eared green alien, Yoda might have been something between Gandalf and a garden gnome. With a bushy beard and a magic staff, this original concept definitely looks more fantasy than sci-fi. As with any creature design, the team iterated upon the idea until they reached the design brought to life by Frank Oz.

An interesting fact came to light thanks to a curator at the British Museum. Julian Harrison posted an image from a Medieval manuscript of a strangely familiar creature dressed as a monk. It isn’t clear if this is coincidence, or the strange workings of the Force.

17 CAUGHT CUTTING TREES

In this behind the scenes photograph from Return of the Jedi, art director Nilo-Rodis Jamero adjusts the miniature trees next to the AT-AT walker. The Endor forest scenes required a lot of miniature trees to be made convincing. Industrial Light & Magic had worked with many mini trees making the forest sequences for E.T. with Steven Spielberg.

Getting the miniatures to look good is quite a process, but for one ILM employee it was tense for a different reason. Working on E.T. taught the team that a certain kind of juniper tree was best for miniature forests. Cameron Noble noticed that a nearby doctor’s office had some of these trees, and snuck out at 2 am to get some cuttings.

The police came upon him in the dark cutting bits from the trees. Apparently he told them he was working on the newest Star Wars movie and they let him off. Working on a highly anticipated blockbuster has some perks.

While much of the Endor sequence was done in miniature, numerous scenes were shot in the Redwoods National Park in California. Unfortunately, the location for the bunker scene no longer exists, and logging activities have left many other locations inaccessible.

16 DROIDS DREAM OF PRINCESSES

This is one of the more famous and funny behind the scenes shots from Star Wars. Carrie Fisher often joined in for jokingly romantic photos, including this one with C-3P0 and others with Peter Mayhew in his Chewie costume.

Photos like these do show the good sense of humour among the cast, which flowed out in tributes after Fisher’s passing in 2016.

While this photo is just goofing around on set, Anthony Daniels had some poignant observations when the photo was taken. Daniels got into C-3P0’s mindset (or programming) to understand what drives the anxious droid. The actor commented: “I think he’s rather disconcerted throughout the film that he’s not human.” He linked that to things like the kiss the photo suggests. “There are times when he is suddenly pulled up short and I think that slightly upsets him.”

This dedication to his character extends to more than just his understanding of the droid’s mindset. The actor has played C-3P0 in every film the character features in. He’s the only major actor to appear in every Star Wars film, making a cameo in Solo (not as the gold droid, though). He has also done voice work for the many animated series and video games in the franchise, too.

15 BECOMING THE BAD GUY

Looming over the first six films is the ominous Emperor Palpatine. The Emperor makes no appearance in Episode IV, but he is mentioned a few times. Then we got a glimpse of him as a hologram, played by Clive Revill. From Return of the Jedi onwards, he would be played on screen by Ian McDiarmid. After the Emperor’s demise in Episode VI, we were able to watch his scheming rise to power in the prequels. In 2004, Lucas substituted his performance to the first appearance of the Emperor in The Empire Strikes Back.

Throughout these appearances, Ian McDiarmid steals the scene whenever he is onscreen. The actor can go from cackling evil to underhanded artificial kindness with ease.

In this shot from makeup on Revenge of the Sith, we get to see the process of turning the phony kindness of the Chancellor into the scarred and aged face of the original trilogy’s Emperor. It is a moment that had to pay off the foreshadowing that began in Episode I. The picture gives a great look into the effort that goes into the makeup. You can even see a still from Episode VI stuck to the mirror as a reference.

Even more importantly, it gives us an idea of what the Emperor does in his downtime, lounging around in a bathrobe.

14 THE GIANT SECRET BEHIND BANTHAS

Before Lucas or any other director could pop any strange creature onscreen with CGI, creating giant creatures like the Banthas on Tatooine posed some real difficulties. Stop motion models worked fine for the clanky mechanical walkers of the Empire. For living creatures, though, another approach would have to work. For the shaggy giant ram-like Banthas, the team brought in Mardji, an Indian elephant.

The twenty-five year old elephant came from California’s Marine World Africa USA and she was taken to shoot on location in the heat of Death Valley. There, Mardji had to put on the huge hairy costume. Just like many of the human actors, Madji found her suit far too hot in the sun. She kept trying to remove part of it, and she delayed shooting many times.

The other large creature featured in Episode IV is the dewback. Giant lizard creatures were harder to as costumes do than the wooly banthas. The effects team created life size animatronic versions of the creatures for their shots. Mark Hamill climbed inside one during filming, and read a review of a David Bowie concert stuck inside it.

13 SUPREME LEADER OF MOTION CAPTURE

The Force Awakens introduced Supreme Leader Snoke, who looked poised to take the mantle of looming foe from the fallen Emperor Palpatine. His skeletal face, pockmarked with scars, made a strong impression on audiences. It also required someone skilled in motion capture to bring the CGI villain to life.

Andy Serkis could easily claim the title of cinema’s Supreme Leader of motion capture. His performances as Smeagol/Gollum in The Lord of the Rings and as Caesar in the new Planet of the Apes films cemented him as the master. No-one was surprised to see him in the motion capture studio for the role of Snoke in The Force Awakens and his surprising end in The Last Jedi. But, there are rumours and theories that Serkis may reprise the role for Episode IX.

Serkis’ performance as the malevolent and manipulative Supreme Leader was certainly memorable. It was sad to see him go. 

Seeing Serkis in the stripped down and strange motion capture sound stage shows how much of a performer he is. He has a phenomenal intensity that overcomes the comical geometric wetsuit-like motion capture outfit. In fact, this photo looks almost as if it could come out of any science fiction movie on its own.

12 BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH

Two of the biggest gripes among fans at the opening of The Phantom Menace were the clumsy Gungan Jar Jar Binks and Jake Lloyd’s appearance as a very young Anakin Skywalker. In 2017 Mark Hamill said he was “still angry about the way [so-called fans] treated Jake Lloyd.”

Ahmed Best, who played Jar Jar, has also spoken out about it: “Fortunately, I was in my 20s. I wasn’t eight years-old like Jake, who I think took it worse. Jake had it far worse than me. I’m a 20-year-old from the Bronx.” It’s a powerful reminder that the cast and crew are still people.

Beyond showing sources of some of the prequel’s biggest criticisms, this picture is an interesting glimpse into the significant CGI in the prequels. While many of the scenes did have practical effects, some like this were almost entirely computer generated. Ahmed Best was significantly shorter than the alien. To help young Lloyd and the other actors, he would wear this Jar Jar helmet to guide their performances.

Fans have since changed their views a little, with a popular fan theory suggesting Jar Jar may have been a secret Sith lord. Best mysteriously confirmed on Twitter and in interviews that some of the theory was accurate, but he might’ve been messing around. He also revealed that Michael Jackson had wanted the part done in prosthetics, but Lucas wanted to have Jar Jar as the first CGI lead in Star Wars.

11 BUILDING PROPS FOR CUT SHOTS

The original trilogy required countless models and other practical props to be painstakingly created. On the sometimes tight budgets, the ILM teams had to get very creative with perspective and cardboard to save time and money on model making. But for showpiece shots, they had to build impressive models. Some of these detailed miniatures include a large speeder bike for the chases on Endor, and a large styrofoam AT-ST that was crushed between tiny lead-filled logs during the battle with the Ewoks.

If any models required great details, they were the famous Rebel X-Wings. For A New Hope, the team created one full size X-Wing and many miniatures. They all had reflective glass cockpits for realistic lighting, and were built around surgical tubing to allow electrical connectors to the wing motors.

In this photograph of the prop workshop, we see Paul Huston working on a giant model X-Wing. The four-foot model under construction was required for a shot that would have pushed the boundaries of its day. George Lucas wanted the camera to swing in on a closeup of Luke’s face in a dogfight for Return of the Jedi. ILM’s Mike Fulmer and Ira Keeler worked on this model in their spare time, and even created a pilot model that was motorised. Sadly, the final shot using this model was never used.

10 UNDER THE JAWA HOODS

Jake Lloyd was far from the first child actor on set for the Star Wars franchise. Because the movies require such a wide variety of shapes and sizes for aliens, children often came in to act the more diminutive alien species. A New Hope‘s first act features the tiny, brown cloaked Jawas of Tatooine. These little aliens travel the deserts in their titanic Sand Crawler.

Interestingly, there has never been a canonical look beneath the hood of a Jawa. In every incarnation, the closest we get is seeing their glowing yellow eyes. Behind the scenes, of course, there were photos of the children who took on the role. One of the Jawas, named Datcha in the script, was played by the daughter of producer Gary Kurtz.

In an early concept, George Lucas envisioned the Jawas as ratlike creatures.

He decided against this and instead went with the idea of covering their faces with black stockings and using lightbulbs for their glowing eyes. Another small alien species, the controversially cute Ewoks of Return of the Jedi, also had a child actor in a major role. Many of the Ewoks were played by adult actors with dwarfism. A young Warick Davis, 11 years old at the time, played the friendly Wicket after the adult actor fell sick.

9 AN UNIMPRESSED SIR ALEC

George Lucas and Sir Alex Guinness had a famously troubled relationship in the filming of the original Star Wars movie. Pictured here together on set in Tunisia, the energy in this picture is different from the close relationships between other cast members.

According to Empire Magazine, it was around the time this picture was taken that the distinguished British actor learned that his character was going to fall in battle with Vader. Guinness wasn’t happy with the director’s plan and Lucas had to talk the actor round over lunch in London. This wasn’t the only strain on the relationship.

A letter written by Guinness during filming was posted onto Reddit and it gives insight into the actor’s frustration. In it he complains about “rubbish dialogue” that did nothing “to [make] my character clear or even bearable”. In a 1999 interview, however, Guinness claimed the death of Kenobi was his own idea, suggesting Obi-Wan would seem more mystical as a ghost. During the interview he dismissed the lore-filled dialogue he had to deliver as “mumbo-jumbo.”

The actor would go on to dislike his fame and adoration as the embodiment of Jedi virtue. He included an anecdote in his memoir that villainized himself for telling a young fan to promise not to watch Star Wars again. The whole story here is worth reading.

8 GHOSTLY APPEARANCES

Perhaps because of Sir Alec Guinness’s prompting and reluctance to reappear in the films, from Episode V onwards Star Wars has revealed what happens to some Jedi after they pass on. Audiences thought the old mentor was gone, and seeing him appear to Luke in the snow early in the next film was a wonderful surprise. In some of the behind the scenes photos Mark Hamill laughs and reminisces with the older actor.

For Return of the Jedi‘s finale, the force ghosts of both Yoda and Obi-Wan appear to see the successful Luke Skywalker again. In this behind the scenes picture, we see some of the old fashioned magic trick that created the effect.

According to Empire Magazine, in early drafts Yoda would appear in the flesh for these closing scenes. The explanation would be that Vader’s redemption brought the green Jedi master back. Yoda was going to prevent Vader becoming one with the Force to reunite father and son.

Force ghosts were always a challenge for the extended universe, especially after Episode I, where Qui-Gon’s body doesn’t fade away. Retcons and explanations abound to resolve the many mysteries of this power of the Force. When the DVD release of Episode VI replaced Sebastian Shaw’s aged Vader with Hayden Christiansen, many fans slammed the change.

7 RECLAIMED PARTS

An important part of the original trilogy aesthetic is the rough and weathered look of the technology. The models and sets all looked scuffed and lived-in, with aging details clear on all the practical models. The props and set teams took inspiration for many places and machines to achieve the WWII-inspired look for many of their projects. Here we can see Roger Christian, A New Hope‘s set dresser, getting found materials for his sets. Parts of old aircraft like this one supplied weathered and interesting metal.

Roger Christian was responsible for some of the most iconic pieces of the original movie, including the lightsaber hilts, Han Solo’s blaster, the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon, and even the blue milk.

Found objects, like the hunk of airplane above, sometimes became unusual things. He used ejector seats in the Millennium Falcon. He also used mechanical parts from cameras to make the lightsaber hilts. In an interview, he talked about how George Lucas had not liked some of the early prototypes using flashlight-like designs. Christian went into a camera shop and rummaged through boxes of old parts. Like Rey finding Luke’s lightsaber in The Force Awakens, he opened only one box and found what he needed.

6 GREEDO BREATHES FIRST

A lot of behind the scenes photos reveal the challenges of acting in the extraordinary costumes for Star Wars. One of the worst might be the bug-eyed bounty hunter Greedo. This picture of George Lucas comes from some of the reshoots done back in Los Angeles to adapt what he had shot on location in Tunisia. Here he is checking in on actress Maria de Aragon, who provided the bounty hunter’s body performance.

The actress later recalled how dangerous the suit was. “It was hot under the mask and I almost lost my life because I was out of breath”. George Lucas noticed this and made sure the crew helped her out. His checking in kept things going smoothly for the rest of the shoot.

The debate over who shot first, Han Solo or Greedo, cemented the Rodian’s place in pop culture. Later versions of the movie tinkered with the shots to let the bounty hunter shoot first, making Han into a more sanitized good guy.

A strange piece of trivia is that, for a universe where almost everything has a name, the language Greedo speaks (in universe) has no name. The actual lines were Southern Quechua (a Peruvian language) played backwards.

5 PROPMAKER EXILE

In the parking lot of Industrial Light and Magic in the winter of 1977, the special effects team began blowing up their hard work. Pyrotechnics went off on massive models to create the climactic battle of A New Hope. They had poured effort into the props and set for the spectacular Death Star trench run. The prop surface of the station had to convey an appropriate sense of scale. George Lucas imagined that the actual size of the trench would be around 40 miles, so the effects team set out to create their 60 foot miniature.

Months of work went into creating the shot. The ILM team hand painted over ten thousand windows on the model. According to Joe Johnston, who eventually went on to be ILM’s director, “It was like being exiled to Siberia to be sent to work on the Death Star — and it was always there.”

Bruce Logan was one of the pyrotechnicians. He didn’t work on the trench run itself, but recalls some of the other explosive incidents. They did many detonations without safety equipment. “I remember wiping burning napalm off my arms after a particularly large explosion.” Explosions for the movie came from silt, gasoline, and magnesium.

4 ACTOR CRUSHING ON CUSHING

Today the actors from the original trilogy are world renowned, but Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher were relative unknowns when it all began. On the other hand, actors like Alec Guinness and Peter Cushing were well-known faces lending some star power to the ambitious movie.

While Guinness did not enjoy his experience, Cushing seemed more enthusiastic about the film. He got along very well with David Prowse, as Vader, and Carrie Fisher who said she struggled to find the vehemence to insult him in their scenes together.

While the charming actor did not return to Star Wars in his lifetime, pioneering technology brought him back posthumously for Rogue One.

Mark Hamill greatly admired Cushing’s work and watched the actor filming all his scenes. Between takes on one occasion, Hamill even got the actor’s autograph. In this photo of the two chatting between takes, it is clear that they got along well and Hamill speaks very highly of the actor: “Cushing is the ultimate English gentleman.”

Peter Cushing initially wanted the role of Obi-Wan, but couldn’t take it because of scheduling conflicts. Instead, he played the Imperial Grand Moff Tarkin and did so with enjoyment. He shared an anecdote about filming in the stiff uniform of the Grand Moff. He had very large feet and it took too long to create his boots and his stand-ins were too small. So he “stomped around, looking extremely angry” in carpet slippers instead.

3 GETTING TO GRIPS WITH THE PUPPETS

The giant Exogorth provided one of the strangest moments in Empire Strikes Back, where the Falcon lands inside the creature while hiding in an asteroid. The name only came in the expanded universe, everyone on set simply called it the space slug. For its scene, the team created a puppet nearly 80cm long that could come gaping out of the crater after the Falcon.

The shot took over 50 takes to complete. In this behind the scenes photo, you can see the hands of John Berg, the puppeteer who controlled it for filming. As the shoot dragged on the crew added in some humor, shooting one version using a sock instead of the puppet. Another amusing part of shooting was getting the creature’s belch right. The burp for the exogorth came from Howie Hammerman, who created another famous belch for E.T.‘s titular character.

Behind the scenes shots like this can sometimes be quite strange to see. It’s impressive to consider the work that went into making a moving space slug puppet. But it also looks like he’s giving it a tickle behind its ears. The puppet itself has become a great joke too, spawning tributes like weird oven mitts.

2 YODA’S SKELETON

The rubbery green face of the original Yoda puppet was a great source of nostalgia when it reappeared in The Last Jedi. The puppet may have confused viewers used to the CGI version from the prequels. The original puppet was created by the team that made the Muppets, and was controlled and voiced by the puppet Jedi Frank Oz.

Behind the scenes, though, we see a very different view of Yoda. Dennis Lowe, the effects technician for Empire Strikes Back, poses here with a horrifying unfinished version. It plunges the charming and eccentric character right into the uncanny valley. The task of turning this animatronic nightmare into an appealing form fell to make-up artist Stuart Freeborn.

Freeborn modelled Yoda’s face on a mix of his own features and Albert Einstein. In spite of Freeborn’s work to make the puppet appealing, Empire Strikes Back director Irvin Kershner disliked it at first.  He said: “He scared me. But as we were filming, I came to adore him. He was completely real.”

There are already rumors that Yoda might appear in Episode IX. The positive reception of the puppet, voiced again by Frank Oz, means we might see the puppet feature in a scene mentoring Rey.

1 THE FACE OF THE TUSKEN RAIDER

The bizarre Tusken Raiders are one of the most enigmatic of the early aliens of Star Wars. The unsettling creatures wander the deserts of Tatooine, engaging in banditry. They appear in A New Hope as a frequent desert threat and in the prequels we see them firing on pod racers, and kidnapping people. Anakin’s fall to the dark side is partly triggered by this, as he slaughters a village of the sand people to avenge the kidnapping of his mother.

Behind the scenes, stunt coordinator Peter Diamon supplied the actions of one of the main Tusken Raiders. While this photo initially looks a little comical, it does raise the question of what they look like beneath their head wrappings.

Despite their many appearances in Star Wars media, their biology and culture haven’t been given much detail.

The iconic call of the Tuskens is a mix of different donkey brays mixed together at varying frequencies. In editing, the most iconic scene with the cry was extended, too. Originally, the Tusken Raider that attacks Luke raised its traditional fighting stick over its head in celebration only once. To add to the drama, these few seconds were rewound and looped again to extend the moment.

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Casone argued that passengers should follow crew instructions. Then, Steyn brought up the Sept. 11th terror attacks.  

“On 9/11, guys with boxcutters killed thousands of people,” Steyn said in a segment posted online by Media Matters. “That is because everybody was following the 1970’s airline hijack procedures and did as they were told.” 

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Fox News Guest Claims 9/11 Hijack Victims Weren't 'Freethinkers'

A discussion on the Fox News show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” took an unexpected turn on Thursday. 

Carlson was speaking with Fox Business anchor Cheryl Casone and conservative commentator Mark Steyn about the recent series of high-profile flight disturbances aboard United, American and Delta aircraft.

Casone argued that passengers should follow crew instructions. Then, Steyn brought up the Sept. 11th terror attacks.  

“On 9/11, guys with boxcutters killed thousands of people,” Steyn said in a segment posted online by Media Matters. “That is because everybody was following the 1970’s airline hijack procedures and did as they were told.” 

Steyn said the 9/11 victims didn’t “act as freethinking individuals except on Flight 93.” Although passengers on that plane overpowered the hijackers, the aircraft crashed in rural Pennsylvania. Everyone on board was killed.

“That was the only one where freeborn citizens actually acted like freeborn citizens,” Steyn said. “And that’s the lesson of the day.” 

Earlier in the segment, he claimed air travel was the “most regulated aspect of American life.”

“This is what, if Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi had their way, life would be like this on the ground,” Steyn said. “The airline cabin is the most hyper-regulated aspect of American life and you have no rights.”

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Fox News Guest Claims 9/11 Hijack Victims Weren't 'Freethinkers'

A discussion on the Fox News show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” took an unexpected turn on Thursday. 

Carlson was speaking with Fox Business anchor Cheryl Casone and conservative commentator Mark Steyn about the recent series of high-profile flight disturbances aboard United, American and Delta aircraft.

Casone argued that passengers should follow crew instructions. Then, Steyn brought up the Sept. 11th terror attacks.  

“On 9/11, guys with boxcutters killed thousands of people,” Steyn said in a segment posted online by Media Matters. “That is because everybody was following the 1970’s airline hijack procedures and did as they were told.” 

Steyn said the 9/11 victims didn’t “act as freethinking individuals except on Flight 93.” Although passengers on that plane overpowered the hijackers, the aircraft crashed in rural Pennsylvania. Everyone on board was killed.

“That was the only one where freeborn citizens actually acted like freeborn citizens,” Steyn said. “And that’s the lesson of the day.” 

Earlier in the segment, he claimed air travel was the “most regulated aspect of American life.”

“This is what, if Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi had their way, life would be like this on the ground,” Steyn said. “The airline cabin is the most hyper-regulated aspect of American life and you have no rights.”

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A discussion on the Fox News show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” took an unexpected turn on Thursday. 

Carlson was speaking with Fox Business anchor Cheryl Casone and conservative commentator Mark Steyn about the recent series of high-profile flight disturbances aboard United, American and Delta aircraft.

Casone argued that passengers should follow crew instructions. Then, Steyn brought up the Sept. 11th terror attacks.  

“On 9/11, guys with boxcutters killed thousands of people,” Steyn said in a segment posted online by Media Matters. “That is because everybody was following the 1970’s airline hijack procedures and did as they were told.” 

Steyn said the 9/11 victims didn’t “act as freethinking individuals except on Flight 93.” Although passengers on that plane overpowered the hijackers, the aircraft crashed in rural Pennsylvania. Everyone on board was killed.

“That was the only one where freeborn citizens actually acted like freeborn citizens,” Steyn said. “And that’s the lesson of the day.” 

Earlier in the segment, he claimed air travel was the “most regulated aspect of American life.”

“This is what, if Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi had their way, life would be like this on the ground,” Steyn said. “The airline cabin is the most hyper-regulated aspect of American life and you have no rights.”

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A discussion on the Fox News show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” took an unexpected turn on Thursday. 

Carlson was speaking with Fox Business anchor Cheryl Casone and conservative commentator Mark Steyn about the recent series of high-profile flight disturbances aboard United, American and Delta aircraft.

Casone argued that passengers should follow crew instructions. Then, Steyn brought up the Sept. 11th terror attacks.  

“On 9/11, guys with boxcutters killed thousands of people,” Steyn said in a segment posted online by Media Matters. “That is because everybody was following the 1970’s airline hijack procedures and did as they were told.” 

Steyn said the 9/11 victims didn’t “act as freethinking individuals except on Flight 93.” Although passengers on that plane overpowered the hijackers, the aircraft crashed in rural Pennsylvania. Everyone on board was killed.

“That was the only one where freeborn citizens actually acted like freeborn citizens,” Steyn said. “And that’s the lesson of the day.” 

Earlier in the segment, he claimed air travel was the “most regulated aspect of American life.”

“This is what, if Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi had their way, life would be like this on the ground,” Steyn said. “The airline cabin is the most hyper-regulated aspect of American life and you have no rights.”

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Fox News Guest Claims 9/11 Hijack Victims Weren't 'Freethinkers'

A discussion on the Fox News show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” took an unexpected turn on Thursday. 

Carlson was speaking with Fox Business anchor Cheryl Casone and conservative commentator Mark Steyn about the recent series of high-profile flight disturbances aboard United, American and Delta aircraft.

Casone argued that passengers should follow crew instructions. Then, Steyn brought up the Sept. 11th terror attacks.  

“On 9/11, guys with boxcutters killed thousands of people,” Steyn said in a segment posted online by Media Matters. “That is because everybody was following the 1970’s airline hijack procedures and did as they were told.” 

Steyn said the 9/11 victims didn’t “act as freethinking individuals except on Flight 93.” Although passengers on that plane overpowered the hijackers, the aircraft crashed in rural Pennsylvania. Everyone on board was killed.

“That was the only one where freeborn citizens actually acted like freeborn citizens,” Steyn said. “And that’s the lesson of the day.” 

Earlier in the segment, he claimed air travel was the “most regulated aspect of American life.”

“This is what, if Bernie Sanders and Nancy Pelosi had their way, life would be like this on the ground,” Steyn said. “The airline cabin is the most hyper-regulated aspect of American life and you have no rights.”

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