"Germany’s focus, meanwhile, is on
ramping up the number
of its bunkers and protective shelters after an official estimate that the nation of 84 million
has fewer than 600 public shelters,
together capable of holding just 480,000 people."
But how much peanut butter, hefeweitzen
The name caribou was probably derived from the Mi'kmaq word xalibu or qalipu meaning "the one who paws".
-Maopeltoog “Henri” Membertou
(13 GG)
Birth 1507
Nova Scotia, Canada
Death
18 Sep 1611 (aged 103–104)
Annapolis Royal, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/268830354/louis-membertou
Ameckmite “Marie” Mitcsamegke Membertou
Birth
1535
Death
1600 (aged 64–65)
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Louis Membertou
Birth 1550
Death
18 Sep 1611 (aged 60–61)
Grace Marie Membertou Granger
(11th Great Grandmother)
Birth 1584
Nova Scotia, Canada
Death 1643 (aged 58–59)
Port Royal, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada
____
John Granger IV
Birth
1576
Isle of Wight, England
Death
1643 (aged 66–67)
Bedfordshire, England
____
Launcelot Granger Sr.
Birth
1609
Bedfordshire, England
Death
17 Feb 1687 (aged 77–78)
Bedfordshire, England
Elenor Wilmot Granger
Birth1609
Bedfordshire, England
Death
3 May 1691 (aged 81–82)
____
Launcelot Granger Jr.
Birth
25 Jun 1637
Shillington, Central Bedfordshire Unitary Authority, Bedfordshire, England
Death
3 Sep 1689 (aged 52)
Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Joanna Elinor Adams Granger *
Robert Adams 1602 – 1682 *
*Sir John Lord of Beverston Adams Sr.
Birth
7 Jan 1472
Somerset, England Death 2 Aug 1557 (aged 85)
Stoke Gabriel, South Hams District, Devon, England
*
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Mary Granger Burbank
Birthunknown
Death 18 May 1734
Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
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Capt Abraham Burbank
Birth
8 Sep 1703
Death
20 Nov 1767 (aged 64)
Suffield, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
Mehitabel Burbank Ripley
1729 – 1813 • South Westfield Street Cemetery
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Jerusha Ripley Lamb
Birth
28 May 1756
Windham, Windham County, Connecticut, USA
Death
9 May 1838 (aged 81)
Lambs Creek, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, USA
Maria Lamb Pickard
Birth
30 Oct 1795
Wilbraham, Hampden County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
24 Apr 1873 (aged 77)
City and County of Denver, Colorado, USA
Alice Pickard Champlin born 8 Aug 1845
Pennsylvania, USA
Death
17 Apr 1914 (aged 68)
McPherson, McPherson County, Kansas, USA
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Born on 1600 to Mikmaw (Mikmaq)
"Marie" (MicMac Indian)
AdenakI (Abenaki) (Chiefs Wife Membertou).
Grace Micmac passed away on 1640 in England. (from ancestry.com)
_____
Frederic Charles “Fred” Champlin
Birth
17 Oct 1871
Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois, USA
Death
7 Feb 1936 (aged 64)
Enid, Garfield County, Oklahoma, USA
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Chief Henri Membertou
(c. 1507 – 18 September 1611)
"was the sakmow (Grand Chief) of the Mi'kmaq First Nations tribe situated near Port Royal, site of the first French settlement in Acadia, present-day Nova Scotia, Canada.
Originally sakmow of the Kespukwitk district, he was appointed as Grand Chief by the sakmowk of the other six districts. Membertou claimed to have been a grown man when he first met Jacques Cartier, which makes it likely that he was born in the early years of the sixteenth century.
Before becoming grand chief, Membertou had been the District Chief of Kespukwitk, a part of the Mi'kmaq nation which included the area where the French colonists settled Port-Royal
In addition to being sakmow or political leader, Membertou had also been the
head autmoin or spiritual leader of his tribe – who believed him to have powers of healing and prophecy.
Membertou was known to have acquired his own French shallop which he decorated with his own totems.
He used this ship to trade with Europeans far out at sea,
gaining first access to this important market and allowing him to sell goods at more worthwhile exchanges ("forestalling the market")
Membertou became a good friend to the French. He first met the French when they arrived to build the Habitation at Port-Royal in 1605, at which time, according to the French lawyer and author Marc Lescarbot,
he said he was over 100 and recalled meeting Jacques Cartier in 1534.
Both Lescarbot and explorer Samuel de Champlain wrote of having witnessed him conducting a funeral in 1606 for Panoniac, a fellow Mi'kmaw sakmow who had been killed by the Armouchiquois or Passamaquoddy tribe, of what is now Maine.
Seeking revenge for this and similar acts of hostility, Membertou led 500 warriors in a raid on the Armouchiquois town, Chouacoet, present-day Saco, Maine, in July, 1607, killing 20 of their people, including two of their leaders, Onmechin and Marchin.
He is described by the Jesuit Pierre Biard as having maintained a beard,
unlike other Mi'kmaq males who removed all facial hair.
He was larger than the other males and despite his advanced age, had no grey or white hair.
Also, unlike most sakmowk who were polygamous, Membertou had only one wife, who was baptised with the name of "Marie".
Lescarbot records that the eldest son of Chief Membertou had the name Membertouchis (Membertouji'j, baptised Louis Membertou after the then-King of France, Louis XIII), while his second and third sons were called Actaudin (absent at the time of the baptism) and Actaudinech (Actaudinji'j, baptised Paul Membertou). He also had a daughter, given the name Marguerite.
After building their fort, the French left in 1607, leaving only two of their party behind, during which time Membertou took good care of the fort and them, meeting them upon their return in 1610.
Baptism
On 24 June 1610 (Saint John the Baptist Day), Membertou became the first native leader to be baptised by the French, as a sign of alliance and good faith. The ceremony was carried out by priest Jessé Fléché, who went on to baptize all 21 members of Membertou's immediate family.
It was then that Membertou was given the baptismal name Henri, after the late king of France, Henry IV. Membertou's Baptism was part of the entry by the Mi'kmaq into a relationship with the Catholic Church, known as the Mi'kmaw Concordat.
Membertou was very eager to become a proper Christian as soon as he was baptized. He wanted the missionaries to learn the Algonquian Mi'kmaq language so that he could be properly educated
Biard relates how, when Membertou's son Actaudin became gravely ill, he was prepared to
sacrifice two or three dogs to precede him as messengers into the spirit world,
but when Biard told him this was wrong, he did not, and Actaudin then recovered.
However, in 1611, he contracted dysentery, one of the many infectious diseases spread in the New World by Europeans.
By September 1611, he was very ill. Membertou insisted on being buried with his ancestors, something that bothered the missionaries.
However; Membertou soon changed his mind and requested to be buried among the French. He died on 18 September 1611. In his final words, he charged his children to remain devout Christians.
In 2007 Canada Post issued a $0.52 stamp (domestic rate) in its "French Settlement in North America" series in honour of Chief Membertou.
A portrait of Membertou painted by the noted Mi'kmaq artist, Alan Syliboy, was presented to Queen Elizabeth II during the 2010 Royal Tour of Canada.
The portrait is on permanent display at Government House (Nova Scotia).
Three songs of Membertou survive in written form, and provide the first music transcriptions from the Americas.
The melodies for the songs were transcribed in solfège notation by Marc Lescarbot.
The time values of each note were recorded in an arrangement of Membertou's songs in mensural notation by Gabriel Sagard-Théodat.
The melodies use three notes of the solfege scale – originally transcribed as Re-Fa-Sol by Lescarbot, but more easily sung as La-Do-Re. Transcriptions of these songs are available for Native American flute. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Membertou
Sigogne Membertou
Birth
1555
"Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip reference Jacques Cartier in their 1992 song "Looking for a Place to Happen". The song deals with the subject of European encroachment in the New World and the eventual annexation of indigenous lands in North America."
"Marc Lescarbot (c. 1570–1641) was a French author, poet and lawyer. He is best known for his Histoire de la Nouvelle-France (1609), based on his expedition to Acadia (1606–1607) and research into French exploration in North America.
Considered one of the first great books in the history of Canada, it was printed in three editions, and was translated into German."
One of his clients, Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt, who was associated with the Canadian enterprises of the Sieur Du Gua de Monts, invited Lescarbot to accompany them on an expedition to Acadia in New France, and he quickly accepted. He wrote "Adieu à la France" in verse, and embarked at La Rochelle on 13 May 1606.
The party reached Port-Royal in July and spent the remainder of the year there. The following spring they made a trip to the Saint John River and Île Sainte-Croix, where they encountered the Algonquian-speaking indigenous peoples called the Mi'kmaq and the Malécite.
Lescarbot recorded the numbers from one to ten in the Maliseet language, together with making notes on the native songs and languages.
When de Monts's licence was revoked in the summer of 1607, the whole colony had to return to France"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Lescarbot
"He devoted the last section of his Histoire to describing the aboriginal natives. Keenly interested in the First Nations peoples, he frequently visited the Souriquois (Micmaq) chiefs and warriors while in La Nouvelle France.
He observed their customs, collected their remarks, and recorded their chants.
In many respects he found them more civilized and virtuous than Europeans
but, in his book, he expressed pity for their ignorance of the pleasures of wine and love.
Lescarbot introduced the Mi'kmaq word
caribou
into the French language in his publication in 1610"
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The boreal woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou; but subject to a recent taxonomic revision.
See Reindeer: Taxonomy), also known as Eastern woodland caribou, boreal forest caribou and forest-dwelling caribou, is a North American subspecies of reindeer (or caribou in North America)
found primarily in Canada with small populations in the United States. Unlike the Porcupine caribou and barren-ground caribou, boreal woodland caribou are primarily (but not always) sedentary.
"They prefer lichen-rich, mature forests, and mainly live in marshes, bogs, lakes and river regions.
By 2019, the last individual in the Lower 48 (a female) was captured and taken to a rehab center in British Columbia, thus marking the extirpation of the caribou in the contiguous U.S
The boreal woodland caribou was designated as Threatened in 2002 by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC).
Environment Canada reported in 2011 that there were approximately 34,000 boreal woodland caribou in 51 ranges remaining in Canada"
"In North America, DNA analysis shows that woodland caribou (originally Cervus tarandus caribou Gmelin 1788)
diverged from primitive ancestors of tundra/barren-ground caribou not during the last glacial maximum, 26,000–19,000 years ago,
as previously assumed, but in the Middle Pleistocene around
357,000 years ago."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreal_woodland_caribou
It's there, under ice, life
To get to continue it we stomp
Breath cloud halo
Antler digging scratching
Full body muscle lichen made
Thaw out heart
Give a shit spring summer flies break it down
It feeds we feed we're eaten climb the tree it falls in centuries ice comes goes summers visit women birth man hunts is hunted
Keep moving caribou rehab is just a minute away the wet museum cement bog inducts an ice friendly to loafers, not paws
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"in the 1800s and early 1900s, woodland caribou numbers declined following settlement.
The decline continued along the southern edge of woodland caribou distribution throughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s with the direct loss of habitat to logging, mines and dams. The increase of roads led to increased hunting and poaching and increased predator/prey densities"
"According to the 2021 census, 9,245 people identified as speakers of the Mi'kmaq language. 4,910 of which said it was their mother tongue, and
2,595 reported it to be their most often spoken language at home. "
'In southwestern Nova Scotia, there is archaeological evidence that traces traditional land use and resources to at least 4,000 years.
In Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site, there are canoe routes that have been used for thousands of years by Indigenous people travelling from the Bay of Fundy to the Atlantic ocean.
Research published in 1871 showed that some Mi’kmaq believed they had emigrated from the west, and then lived alongside the Kwēdĕchk.
According to Mi'kmaw traditions recorded by S. T. Rand, the Kwēdĕchk were the original inhabitants of the land. The two tribes engaged in a war that lasted "many years", and involved the "slaughter of men, women, and children, and torture of captives", and the eventual displacement of the Kwēdĕchk by the victorious Mi'kmaq
In the chapter "Late Prehistory of the East Coast" in the Smithsonian's 1978 Handbook of North American Indians, archaeologist Dean Snow says that the fairly deep linguistic split between the Mi'kmaq and the Eastern Algonquians to the southwest suggests the Mi'kmaq developed an independent prehistoric cultural sequence in their territory. It emphasized maritime orientation, as the area had relatively few major river systems.
In the chapter "Early Indian-European Contact" in the 1978 Handbook, ethnologist T. J. Brasser, described how pre-contact small semi-nomadic bands of a few patrilineally related families indigenous people who lived in a climate unfavorable for agriculture, had subsisted on fishing and hunting.
Developed leadership did not extend beyond hunting parties.
In the same 1978 Handbook, anthropologist Philip Bock described the annual cycle of seasonal movement of precontact Mi'kmaq. Bock wrote that the Mi'kmaq had lived in dispersed interior winter camps and larger coastal communities during the summer "
"The spawning runs of March began their movement to converge on smelt spawning streams. They next harvested spawning herring, gathered waterfowl eggs, and hunted geese. By May, the seashore offered abundant cod and shellfish, and
coastal breezes brought relief from the biting black flies, deer flies, midges and mosquitoes of the interior.
Autumn frost killed the biting insects during the September harvest of spawning American eels. Smaller groups would disperse into the interior where they hunted moose and caribou.
The most important animal hunted by the Mi'kmaq was the moose, which was used in every part: the meat for food, the skin for clothing, tendons and sinew for cordage, and bones for carving and tools. Other animals hunted/trapped included deer, bear, rabbit, beaver and porcupine"
*
"Braser described the first contact between the Mi'kmaq and early European fishermen.
These fishermen salted their catch at sea and sailed directly home with it, but they set up camps ashore as early as 1520 for dry-curing cod. During the second half of the century, dry curing became the preferred preservation method.
Brasser said that trading furs for European trade goods had changed Miꞌkmaw social perspectives.
Desire for trade goods encouraged the men to devote a larger portion of the year away from the coast, trapping in the interior.
Trapping non-migratory animals, such as beaver, increased awareness of territoriality. Trader preferences for good harbors resulted in greater numbers of Miꞌkmaq gathering in fewer summer rendezvous locations.
This in turn encouraged their establishing larger bands, led by the ablest trade negotiators "
"According to the Nova Scotia Museum, bear teeth and claws were used as decoration in regalia. The women used porcupine quills to create decorative beadwork on clothing, moccasins, and accessories. The weapon used most for hunting was the bow and arrow.
The Mi'kmaq made their bows from maple. They ate fish of all kinds, such as salmon, sturgeon, lobster, squid, shellfish, and eels, as well as seabirds and their eggs.
They hunted marine mammals such as porpoises, whales, walrus, and seals."
"Miꞌkmaw territory was the first portion of North America that Europeans exploited at length for resource extraction.
Reports by John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, and Portuguese explorers about conditions there encouraged visits by Portuguese, Spanish, Basque, French, and English fishermen and whalers, beginning in the 16th century."
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'The war was the greatest calamity in seventeenth-century New England and is considered by many to be the deadliest war in Colonial American history.
In the space of little more than a year, 12 of the region's towns were destroyed and many more were damaged, the economy of the Plymouth and Rhode Island Colonies was all but ruined and their population was decimated, losing one-tenth of all men available for military service.
More than half of New England's towns were involved in the conflict. Hundreds of Wampanoags and their allies were publicly executed or enslaved, and the Wampanoags were left effectively landless."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Philip%27s_War
The New England Confederation consisted of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, New Haven Colony, and Connecticut Colony; they declared war on the Natives on September 9, 1675.
The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations tried to remain neutral, but much of the war was fought on
Rhode Island soil;
Providence and Warwick suffered extensive damage from the Natives."
*
"The colonial force found the Narragansett fort on December 19, 1675 near South Kingstown, Rhode Island. About 1,000 troops attacked, including about 150 Pequot and Mohegan allies. It is believed that the militia killed about 600 Narragansetts. They burned the fort (occupying over 5 acres (20,000 m2) of land) and destroyed most of the tribe's winter stores."
"In the spring of 1676, the Narragansetts counterattacked under Canonchet, assembling an army of 2,000 men. They burned Providence, including Roger William's house."
"In December 1675, Metacomet established a winter camp in Schaghticoke, New York
His reason for moving into New York has been attributed to a desire to enlist Mohawk aid in the conflict.[42] New York was a non-belligerent, but Governor Edmund Andros was nonetheless concerned at the arrival of the Wampanoag sachem.
Either with Andros' sanction, or of their own accord, the Mohawk—traditional rivals of the Algonquian people
—launched a surprise assault against a 500-warrior band under Metacomet's command the following February.
The coup de main resulted in the death between 70 and 460 of the Wampanoags Metacomet withdrew to New England, pursued by Mohawk forces who attacked Algonquian settlements and ambushed their supply
"Natives attacked and destroyed more settlements throughout the winter of 1675–1676 in their effort to annihilate the colonists. "
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"Bloodgood was made secretary to the Colonies on the Delaware River in 1659. They moved to Flushing, and Bloodgood was appointed Schepen of Flushing in 1673.
Bloodgood had acquired land, sheep and cattle by the time of his death.Frans Bloetgoet and his wife both belonged to the New York Dutch Church, and all but two of their children were baptized there.
On 24 May 1674 he was made chief officer of the Dutch militia of the settlements of Flushing, Hempstead, Jamaica and Newtown. He died on 29 December 1676."
Franz Jansen Bloetgoet (Francis Bloodgood) prospered in New Amsterdam, both financially and politically. His official occupation on some legal documents is listed as a carpenter; in 1660, he built a "magnificent structure for that era. It stood on beautiful spacious grounds and was surrounded with very lovely gardens, trees and scrub." He went on to own considerable land, cattle and sheep.
On 31 August, 1673, under the acts of Governor Cornelis Evertse, Jr., and the Council of War, he was made magistrate and schepen (alderman). At this time the flag of the House of Orange once more waved over Manhattan after an interregnum of nine years of English government, but this was to last less than a year.
By appointment of Governor Colve, on March 24, 1674, he became schout-fiscal (sheriff), and chief-military officer of the Dutch people of the Villages of Flushing, Hempstead, Rustdorp (Jamaica) and Middledorp (Newtown).
His primary duties were "to guard the interest of the Dutch inhabitants" of that precinct, to "instruct them to be always ready upon the receipt of notice of the arrival of an English ship to repair with arms to New Orange."
This is presumably when he received the rank of Captain.
He was Privy Councilor to Governor Colve
during the surrender of the Dutch colony
back to the English in November of 1674.
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LB86-317/capt.-franz-jansen-bloetgoet-1632-1676
Frans is said to have been wounded in a “skirmish” with Indians at White Stone,
Long Island, and states in his will dated 29 December 1676
that he was “sorely wounded and very weak.”
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"The home built by Capt. Frans Janse Bloetgoet in 1660 on Main Street in Flushing, Long Island was truley a magnificent structure for the era.
It stood on beautiful spacious grounds and was surrounded with very lovely gardens, trees, and shrubs. This home was proudly possessed by descendants and kept in the family for many generations until it was finally razed in the early 1900's to make way for a city block.
According to history, the estate was either purchased or inherited by members of the family.
It is believed Capt. Frans lost his life in a skermish with the Indians who were known to make raids at that time but it
could have been the English."
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Captain Geoffrey Champlin, Sr.
Also Known As: "Geoffrey", "Jeoffrey or Jeffrey"
Birthdate: July 28, 1621
Birthplace: Biddeford, Devon, England (United Kingdom)
Death: December 06, 1695 (74)
Westerly, Washington Co., Rhode Island
"Geoffrey Champlin settled in Aquidneck, now Rhode Island in 1638; he settled first at Pocasset (Portsmouth) on the north end of the Island, but removed the next year to Newport, at the south end;
was admitted as an inhabitant of the Island, 24th November, 1638; and a Freeman, 14th Sept 1640; in 1661 he removed with many others, to Misquamacut, (Westerly) in the Narragansett country, but
returned to Newport in 1675, during King Phillip's War and probably died there; married probably in Newport prior to 1650, but his wife's name has not been preserved.
From Jim Hughes comes the note: "In 1661, Jeffrey migrated to the region of Misquamicut along the Pawcatuck River (in the western part of what is modern day Rhode Island) with another group of dissatisfied settlers comprising 24 other families. there, they founded the town of Westerly --
Jeffrey signing a document which purchased Misquamicut from Chief Socoa in 1661.
About 75 people signed this document, but only a few actually removed to what was to become Westerly.
He took the Oath of Allegiance to Rhode Island on May 17, 1671, and three days later he was fined 20 shillings for refusing jury duty."
"At Newport, Jeffrey engaged in the buying and selling of property and was thought to have become a cordwainer. A cordwainer was a leather worker who made use of cordovan leather to design and make custom made shoes.
This was considered to be a pre-eminent profession in those days. marriage or the certain identity of his wife - although it is believed that her name was Ulalia Garde. It is believed by some that Jeffrey may have been married twice. He probably would have married first in England as there is no record of his marrying in Rhode Island and he would NOThave been granted land at Newport in 1640 if he wasn't married.
Moderator of the Westerly Town Meetings from 1680-1684. He was Deputy in the Rhode Island Assembly from 1681-1686. In 1685 he was assigned to survey highways "
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"The warriors then dragged the bodies into the house, along with the cattle, and burned the house to the ground.
During the attack, Hutchinson's nine-year-old daughter Susanna was out picking blueberries; she was found, according to legend, hidden in the crevice of Split Rock nearby.
She is believed to have had red hair, which was unusual to the Indians, and perhaps because of this curiosity her life was spared. She was taken captive, was named "Autumn Leaf" by one account, and lived with the Indians for two to six years (accounts vary) until ransomed back to her family members,"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hutchinson
"Susanna's ancestry on her father's side was published by John D. Champlin in 1913, and he published much of her ancestry on her mother's side the following year."
Llllhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_early_settlers_of_Rhode_Island
"The Sons of Champlin are an American rock band, from Marin County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, formed in 1965.
They are fronted by vocalist-keyboardist-guitarist Bill Champlin, who, after leaving the group in 1977, joined the rock band
Chicago from 1981 to 2009, reforming the Sons of Champlin in 1997.
They brought to the late ‘60s music scene in the Bay Area a soulful sound built around a horn section, Hammond B3 organ, sophisticated arrangements, philosophical themes, Bill Champlin's songwriting and blue-eyed soul singing, and Terry Haggerty's unique jazz-based guitar soloing.
They are one of the enduring 1960s San Francisco bands, along with Jefferson Airplane, the Grateful Dead and Moby Grape."
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Granger
''English (of Norman origin): occupational name for a farm bailiff, responsible for overseeing the collection of rent in kind into the barns and storehouses of the lord of the manor.
This official had the Anglo-Norman French title grainger, Old French grangier, from Late Latin granicarius, a derivative
of granica ‘granary’ (see Grange )."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_air_capture
"M.I.A. attributes much of her success to the "homeless, rootlessness" of her early life.
Due to her and her family being displaced from Sri Lanka because of the Civil War, M.I.A. has become a refugee icon.
The EMP Museum's 2008 Pop Conference featured paper submissions and discussions on M.I.A. presented on the theme of "Shake, Rattle: Music, Conflict, and Change."
She has used networking sites such as Twitter and MySpace to discuss and highlight the human rights abuses and war crimes that Sri Lanka is accused of perpetrating against Tamils, citing news articles, human rights group reports, government reports, her own experiences as a child and on her return to the island in 2001 to support calls for a ceasefire.
M.I.A. has also used a great deal of tiger print and imagery, a symbol for the Tamil Tigers in both album artwork and music videos, such as seen in "Galang".
Being the only Tamil widely known in Western media, M.I.A. has discussed how she feels a responsibility to represent the Tamil minority"
"She has been accused of being a "terrorist sympathiser" and "LTTE supporter" by the Sri Lankan government, even by public figures such as Oprah Winfrey, as was stated in a Rolling Stone magazine article, where the singer recalled their exchange:
"She shut me down. She took that photo of me, but she was just like, 'I can't talk to you because you're crazy and you're a terrorist.'
And I'm like, 'I'm not. I'm a Tamil and there are people dying in my country and you have to like look at it because
you're fucking Oprah
and every American told me you're going to save the world.'"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.I.A._(rapper)
"His sales were boosted during the United States' abortive experiment with prohibition, and he was apparently able to do so while staying within the confines of both Canadian law, where prohibition laws had been previously repealed, and American law.
His renamed company, Seagram Co. Ltd., became an international distributor of alcoholic beverages, and a diversified conglomerate which included an entertainment branch.
Under his leadership, in the 1950s the Seagram company developed a headquarters in New York City, the Seagram Building.
Because of changes to US tax law in the Lyndon Johnson administration, it became advantageous for Bronfman to purchase an oil company, which he did with the purchase of
Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company in 1963 for $50 million.
In 1980, the Bronfman heirs sold the Texas Pacific Oil holdings to Sun Oil Co. for $2.3 billion.
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Sunoco LP
/səˈnoʊkoʊ/
is an American master limited partnership organized under Delaware state laws and headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Dating back to 1886, the company has transitioned from a
vertically integrated energy company to a distributor of fuels and operator of midstream services.
It was previously engaged in oil, natural gas exploration and production, refining, chemical manufacturing, and retail fuel sales, but divested these businesses.
Products
Fuel
Diesel fuel
Jet fuel
Heating oil
Lubricants
Kerosene
Propane
Chemicals
Diesel Exhaust Fluid
Additives
CardLock
Ethanol
Renewable Fuels
Asphalt
Ammonia
Butane
Crude Oil
'Its current operational focus dates back to 2018 when it divested the non–core convenience store operations to 7-Eleven for $3.2 billion, which allowed for Sunoco LP to improve its financial position"
As of 2024, the company distributes over 8 billion gallons of fuel
across more than 40 U.S. states and territories,making it one of the largest independent fuel distributors in the United States. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bronfman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Bronfman
"Benjamin Zachary Bronfman (born August 6, 1982) is an American businessman and musician.
Bronfman is a founding partner and board member of Global Thermostat, a direct air capture company that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Bronfman met British rapper M.I.A. in 2008.
They became engaged and M.I.A. gave birth to their son on February 13, 2009.
In February 2012, it was announced that the two had separated. "
(Son Oil )
"He has served on the boards of the following non-profit organizations: Pioneer Works, Liberty Science Center, Americans for Safe Access, and 15 Percent Pledge.
In 2017, Bronfman fought Kweku Mandela in a charity boxing match in London to raise awareness and funds against animal poaching."
"Bronfman received a Grammy nomination for Best rap song for his collaborative contribution to Kanye West's single "New Slaves" featured on the album Yeezus.
He co-produced the track "Monster" which was included on Kanye West's Grammy Award-winning album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
Bronfman is the founder of Green Owl, which claims to be the world's first sustainability-focused record label. "
"An industrial hip hop, political rap, and gothic rock song with electro and heavy metal elements, the production of "New Slaves" is minimalist and based on synths.
The song samples "Gyöngyhajú lány" by Omega and "HBA War" by Dutch E Germ. Lyrically, West discusses racial politics as he connects black people's wealth classes to how consumerism holds them back.
The song received widespread acclaim from music critics, who mostly highlighted West's lyrical message about racism.
Some commended the style of the industrial production and saw it as an album highlight, while a few critics praised Ocean's contributions.
The song was listed as one of the best tracks of 2013 by multiple publications, including Complex and Paste. At the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, it received a nomination for Best Rap Song."
"In a 2014 interview with Zach Baron of GQ, West recalled having engaged in around 30 meetings where he was advised to
"Stay in your place".
West elaborated that the conversations encouraged to "Stay in your box"
and not go outside of his creative reach, to which moved him to create tracks such as
"New Slaves" and "Blood on the Leaves" for Yeezus, ideally setting out
"a protest in music".
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"Direct air capture (DAC) is the use of chemical or physical processes to extract carbon dioxide directly from the ambient air.
If the extracted CO2 is then sequestered in safe long-term storage (called direct air carbon capture and sequestration (DACCS),
the overall process will achieve carbon dioxide removal and be a "negative emissions technology" (NET)."
"DAC relying on amine-based absorption demands significant water input.
It was estimated, that to capture 3.3 gigatonnes of CO2 a year would require
300 km3 of water, or
4% of the water used for irrigation."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_air_capture
"Under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the U.S. Department of Energy will invest $3.5 billion in four direct air capture hubs.
According to the agency, the hubs have the potential to capture at least 1 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually from the atmosphere.
Once captured, the CO2 will be permanently stored in a geologic formation."
"Hegseth’s 2020 book exhorts conservatives to undertake “an AMERICAN CRUSADE”, to
“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist opponents”,
to “attack first” in response to a left he identifies with “sedition”,
and he writes that the book “lays out the strategy we must employ in order to defeat America’s internal enemies”.
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“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist opponents
“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist opponents
“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist consumers
“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist neighbors
“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist clients
“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist inlaws
“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist army compatriots
“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist centrists
“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist electorate
“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist unions
“mock, humiliate, intimidate, and crush our leftist majority
____
hegseth the gurgle of censor swill backed out the sewer in overdrive
plowing his oligarch buddies into the leftist squish
foundations his spork tongued soliloquy began
foundations gave patton the boot
foundations funded the rounds and times
eating brain while driving
adding jacked off imported mule seed
a octopus wired to the console hegseth consulted
flimdations his gleep the octopi slathered
wipe off the foundations
hoity indentured cephalopod
hegseth enraptured by the brass stars lapel chains to a ginormous virtual wallet
it's a discretionary foundation
flam and flim and film and strainers
a group endeavor hegseth orated
the cubicle footing a sea glacier unsettled
it's auto compensate his frontal implant fixed his left brain
pushing langley arlington foggy bottom
into the backseat pothole
hegseth his lima bean limo musked over
donner future-past
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Rubber-stamp
Rubber-stamp
Goose stepping glue sniffing beltway tramp
Two feet made for marching
Trail of leers red tape tears
Rubber stamping jugular damping
Beltway vamp
Squeaky in by a margin
Just seated no ruckus barging
Rubber-stamp the court and curtsy
Drink the blood don't be blurtsy
Rubber stamp the lobby chosen
Better that than find funds frozen
Cart Blanche go before the fall
Back to slavery 4 y'all
Kiss and make up milley will he
Rubber-stamp rip up the Bill silly willy
There a cramp in the stylus
Frequent fascist mileage
Add quadrillion zeros or no bondage
Pam the Pam Pardon
Dupont Teflon no charges stick
The university accreditation one syllable thick
No No No egg on face on Bondi
Rubber glamping fucking Bambi
Play Ballard ball tweedle dee
The Disney log ride in Moscow pee
Ritzy ditzy Carlton
Open in your town
Recording rubber pimping rubber thumping
In Ukraine sequin gown
Rosneft dating Exxon
Shell finger twats BP
Aramco lusting Citgo
Osage Iran needs
Goat roper all the Taliban
Add in the sheiks of Gaza
Mixing asphalt holy
Build a corporate Plaza
Rubber stamping the post office
Screen the mail for lefty
Mustafa twerk all her shift
Eye slits Bondi hand crafted
Etsy chastity belts
Every denomination
Just use a drone not your phone
Viper Amazon station
Ask Oracle Bloomberg bezos
A wax seal signet albatross
Circle who to snuff out
Rubber-stamping clout
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Grey goose euro euphoric
It victory stank the Pyre
Fill the Knight with basketbull
A crowded theatre don't yell Liar
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Million man March, of ides
Change yer stripes zebra Nashville
Withdraw the jack white cry
Looking at the cash till
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Bruce a billion bono even more
Flag the wave Garth
a javelin shotput cow
Rubber-stamping proxy protest
Jay z two step tailored swiftly foo ball
Floating dance floor Clooney clowny brother art thou
De Nero Denaro boy cotting peon stomping
Gibberish stew been here b4
"mock,
humiliate,
intimidate,
and crush our leftist opponents”
And Love Thy Hatred as It Be Rubber-stamp
"The team then conducted digs in Belize’s Crooked Tree wildlife sanctuary. The ancient canals, paired with holding ponds, were used to channel and catch freshwater species such as catfish.
archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what’s now Belize. The findings were published on Friday in the journal Science Advances."
“The aerial imagery was crucial to identify this really distinctive pattern of zigzag linear canals”
running for several miles through wetlands,
said study co-author Eleanor Harrison-Buck of the University of New Hampshire."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/nov/22/ancient-fishing-canals-belize
"The canal networks were built as early as 4,000 years ago by semi-nomadic people in the Yucatán coastal plain.
According to the study, the canals were used for about 1,000 years or longer,
including during the “formative” period when the Maya began to settle in permanent farming villages and a
distinctive culture started to emerge."
reasons and excuses
seasons and crucifixes
words are good trouble
send me these, on the double
po-lice and senators
burglars and creditors
sharing a pizza pie
while nukeing earth's 3rd eye
good moms and holy men
never tire of supporting them
their community base is strong
thru profits from the Hall of Wrongs
sight-see the warzone
(fertile thoughts were wince sown)
here on the mainframe
the reference point is our brain
1999 Klickitat, Wa
Swale Creek
"The DoJ also said Google should give publishers and content creators the ability
to block their data
from being used to train its artificial intelligence models. "
Poetry in motion(s)
Filed by DoJ
Pooretry fleeced
woke up in a stupor and my knees weren't even bent
I broke up in a giggle, my jello so content
I'd wore down all my morals till our soul was soundly spent
But I couldn't no I wouldn't say please
I hushed up and said grace, gravy on my face
I bashed the party growers, a hardon for a mace
I did my part and meant it when I laid the jail to waste
But fer the photo I did not say cheese
I yessired all the officers and pleaded my case
I drew upon old charm pool, Gibraltar, and my base
I told you when we handcuffed I was hardly chaste
But for the show you were good to go
I splintered up my hangnails, made a picture frame
Glued back my eyelashes, sheltered all the blame
I spoke a long lost fabric and feigned a rabid shame
But I vote not to let my leaves all blow
I felt a lowly vermin and justified the trap
Chewed off my best credit, tourniqueted my SAP
I jettisoned the headache and did a victory lap
But I couldn't purge the file
I dwelled in abject entropy, sponsor keeping dibs
Counted out my morsels as they took my tidbits in
I brung my story to the cave and hollered Drinker's Lib
Then took notice of a big hairy trial
I downplayed all the romance, good times gone as god
I ronnyraygunned memories, said listen to da flood
I swore they were my floatie, my duckie, and my blood
But I didn't mean to mean what they need
They shot me to a forum, put me on a chair
They voted all the dunces inferior at our fair
They falsified my vapidness, called me on the dare
And i spread out all my plumage like a bird
They voted me a heathen a king and a fake
I abstained all over the tally, a consumate rake
All all agreed on one thing and that's thou auto forsake,
But the object of our scorn was divided
I plead the cuss O justice, O freedom and the dunce
Cuss if yer not all of them, Just one you will be once
The game so tidy neat, my football needs no punts
But ya love the drama runback that's provided
2003
the Dalles, Portland
"The international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister,
Benjamin Netanyahu,
the country’s former defence minister
Yoav Gallant
and the Hamas military leader
Mohammed Deif
for alleged war crimes relating to the Gaza war.
It is the first time that leaders of a democracy
and western-aligned state
have been charged by the court, .
in the most momentous decision of its 22-year history."
"The chamber ruled there were reasonable grounds to believe Netanyahu and Gallant bore criminal responsibility as co-perpetrators for
“the war crime of starvation
as a method of warfare;
and the crimes against humanity of
murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts”.
"The US national security council issued a statement “fundamentally” rejecting the court’s decision.
_____
Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor: Jake Sullivan
"He was a Coca-Cola Scholar, debate champion, president of the student council, and voted "most likely to succeed" in his class."
"He also worked for Brookings Institution president Strobe Talbott at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization"
Senior Advisor to the National Security Advisor: Ariana Berengaut
Deputy Assistant to the President & Chief of Staff and Executive Secretary for the National Security Council: Curtis Ried
Advisor to the Chief of Staff and Executive Secretary for the National Security Council: Medha Raj[37]
Deputy Chief of Staff and Deputy Executive Secretary: Ryan Harper
Deputy Director for Visits and Diplomatic Affairs: Darius Edgerton[38]
Associate Director for Visits and Diplomatic Affairs: Nicole Fasano[39]
Director of Operations Ryan Abdelnabi[40]
Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor: Jonathan Finer[36]
Senior Advisor to the Principal Deputy National Security Advisor: Ella Lipin
Assistant to the President and Homeland Security Advisor and Deputy National Security Advisor: Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall[36]
Senior Advisor to the Homeland Security Advisor: Hilary Hurd[41]
Senior Advisor to the Homeland Security Advisor: John MacWilliams[42]
Deputy Assistant to the President & Deputy Homeland Security Advisor: Joshua Geltzer[43]
Senior Director for Counter-terrorism: Clare Linkins
Director for Counter-terrorism: Caitlin Conley[44]
Director for Counter-terrorism: Alexandra Miller[45]
Director for Counter-terrorism: Annie Rohrhoff[46]
Director for Counter-terrorism - Global Threats / Embassy Security: Derek Dela-Cruz
Director for Counter-terrorism - Homeland Threats: Michael Massetti
Director for Threat Finance & Sanctions: Samantha Sultoon[47]
Director for Counternarcotics: Coqui Baez Gonzalez[48]
Senior Director for Resilience and Response: Caitlin Durkovich
Director for Resilience and Response: Nabeela Barbari[49]
Director for Resilience and Response: Capt. Jason Tama (US Coast Guard)[50]
Deputy Assistant to the President & Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology: Anne Neuberger[36]
Senior Advisor to the Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology: Sezaneh Seymour
Deputy Assistant to the President & Co-ordinator for Technology and National Security: Jason Matheny[51]
Senior Director for Technology and National Security: Tarun Chhabra
Director for Technology and National Security: Saif M. Khan[52]
Director for Technology and National Security: Michelle Rozo[53]
Director for Technology and National Security: Sarah Stalker-Lehoux[54]
Director for Technology and Democracy: Chanan Weissman[55]
Senior Director for Cyber: Andrew Scott[56]
Director for International Cyber Policy: Teddy Nemeroff[57]
Senior Director for Cybersecurity and Policy: Steven Kelly[58]
Director for Cybersecurity and Emerging Technology Policy: Jonah Force Hill[59]
Director for Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity: Elke Sobieraj[60]
Director for Cybersecurity Policy and Cyber Incident Response: Travis Berent[61]
Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics: Daleep Singh
Senior Director for International Economics and Competitiveness: Peter Harrell
Director for International Economics and Competitiveness: Adam Deutsch[62]
Director for International Economics and Competitiveness: Jessica McBroom[63]
Director for Digital Technology Policy and International Economics: Ruth Berry[64]
Senior Director for International Economics and Labor: Jennifer M. Harris
Director for International Economics: Brian Janovitz[65]
Director for International Economics: Mimi Wang[66]
Director for Strategic Workforce Planning: Leila Elmergawi[67]
Assistant to the President, Deputy Counsel to the President and National Security Council Legal Advisor: John R. Phillips III
Associate Counsel and Deputy Legal Advisor to the NSC: Ashley Deeks
Deputy Legal Advisor to the NSC: Capt. Florencio Yuzon (US Navy)[68]
Director for Global Criminal Justice: Steven Hill[69]
Deputy Assistant to the President & Co-ordinator for Defense Policy and Arms Control: Cara Abercrombie
Senior Director for Defense:
Director for Defense Innovation and Cyber Policy: Lt. Col. Nadine Nally (US Army)[70]
Director for Space Policy: Audrey Schaffer[71]
Director for Strategic Capabilities: Brigadier General John Edwards (US Air Force)[72]
Director for Military Personnel & Readiness/ Senior Advisor, Gender Policy Council: Cailin Crockett[73]
Senior Director for Arms Control, Disarmament & Non-Proliferation: Pranay Vaddi
Senior Director for Strategic Planning: Thomas J. Wright[74]
Director for Strategic Planning: Alexander Bick[75]
Director for Strategic Planning: Rebecca Lissner[76]
Director for Strategic Planning: Brett Rosenberg[77]
Senior Director for Partnerships and Global Engagement: Amanda Mansour[78]
Director for Partnerships: Jim Thompson[79]
Senior Director for Legislative Affairs: Casey Redmon
Director for Legislative Affairs: Amanda Lorman[80]
Director for Legislative Affairs: Nicole Tisdale[81]
Chief of Staff & Policy Advisor for Legislative Affairs: Gershom Sacks[82]
Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense: Raj Panjabi
Director for Biodefense: Daniel Gastfriend[83]
Director for Biotechnology Risks and Biological Weapon Nonproliferation: Megan Frisk[84]
Director for Countering Biological Threats & Global Health Security: Mark Lucera[84]
Director for Medical and Biodefense Preparedness/ Director for International COVID Response: Hilary Marston[84]
Senior Advisor and Director for Emerging Biological Threats: Maureen Bartee[85]
Deputy Assistant to the President & Co-ordinator for the Indo-Pacific: Kurt M. Campbell
Senior Director for East Asia and Oceania: Edgard Kagan
Director for East Asia: Christopher Johnstone[86]
Director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands: Kathryn Paik[87]
Senior Director for South Asia: Sumona Guha
Deputy Senior Director for China and Taiwan: Rush Doshi[88][89]
Special Assistant, National Security Council Indo-Pacific Directorate: Sarah Donilon[90]
Senior Director for Intelligence Programs: Maher Bitar[91]
Director for Information Sharing and Identity Intelligence: Lauren Hartje[92]
Senior Director for Development, Global Health & Humanitarian Response: Linda Etim
Director for Global Health: Ladan Fakory[84]
Director for Global Health Response: Nidhi Bouri[84]
Director for Humanitarian Coordination: Rachel Grant[84]
Director for Refugees: Jacqui Pilch
Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs: Juan Gonzalez
Special Assistant to the Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs: Alejandra Gonzalez[94]
Director for the Caribbean and Summit of the Americas: Neda Brown[95]
Director for Central America and Haiti: Megan Oates[96]
Director for North America: Isabel Rioja-Scott[97]
Director for Regional Protection and Migration Management: Eric Sigmon[98]
Assistant to the President & White House National Security Communications Advisor: John Kirby
Senior Director for Press & NSC Spokesperson: Adrienne Watson[99]
Director of Strategic Communications/ Assistant Press Secretary: Patrick Evans[100]
Director of Strategic Communications/ Assistant Press Secretary: Dean Lieberman[100]
Director of Strategic Communications/ Assistant Press Secretary: Kedenard Raymond[100]
Director of Strategic Communications/ Assistant Press Secretary: Sean Savett[100]
Policy Advisor, Office of the Spokesperson and Senior Director for Press/ Strategic Communications: Jasmine Williams[100]
Senior Director for Africa: Dana L. Banks[101]
Director for African Affairs: F. David Diaz[102]
Director for African Affairs: Peter Quaranto[103]
Director for Africa: Deniece Laurent-Mantey[104]
Special Advisor for Africa Strategy: Judd Devermont[105]
"South Sudan’s 2008 Child Act prohibits early and forced marriage, but according to Unicef, child marriage is “still a common practice” and “recent figures indicate that 52% of girls [in South Sudan] are married
before they turn 18,
with some girls being married off as young as 12 years old"
"After the ceremonial part of the wedding in June, when she was given as a wife to Chol Marol Deng, for a payment of
123 cattle,
120m South Sudanese pounds (about $44,000 or £33,000) in cash
and a plot of land, she was dubbed
“the most expensive bride in South Sudan”
"Globally, 12 million girls are married in childhood every year, according to another Unicef report. Across sub-Saharan Africa, more than a third of young women were married before the age of 18."
"Questions around Athiak’s age were sparked by a Facebook post by her maternal uncle, Daniel Yach, a Canadian citizen, who said “she is a minor” and condemned the proposed marriage as “a classic example of pedophilia”.
"I was very shocked because I had not seen Athiak since I left to Canada in 2015,” he says in a phone call. “By then she was six years old. Then I saw the posts about the marriage and I discovered
how tall she had become.
“But she’s just a child. This little girl is being brainwashed. It’s the craziest stuff ever.”
"Sarah Diew Biel, a protection manager for the South Sudanese development organisation Nile Hope, says: “When you’re going against
a thousand people who are saying ‘this marriage is OK’,
you become a traitor in the eyes of the community, with a khawaja [foreigner] mentality. It’s mentally and emotionally draining.”
Athiak’s mother tried to stop the wedding.
“I tried telling the family that Athiak should not be married,” she says. “But they all insisted.
"They were looking for the cows. They saw that Athiak will bring them that great wealth. When I refused, they separated me from my daughter.”.
"The lawyer, Adhet Deng, believes Athiak is now probably in Nairobi with the family of
Chol Marol Deng, who has returned to Canada, where he works."
"Athiak has never spoken publicly about the controversy surrounding her marriage. But, on the eve of the agam celebration in June, she told the Guardian that, had the marriage process not started, she would have
“preferred to study"
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'The author Cormac McCarthy, who died last year aged 89, began a relationship with a 16-year-old when he was 42
(42-16 =26)
and the woman became his “secret muse”, Vanity Fair has reported.
The author of The Road and Suttree gave very few interviews, so little is known of his private life other than that
he married three times and lived in Spain and Texas before settling in New Mexico.
(Spain plus Texas equals NM)
"Augusta Britt, now 64, told Vanity Fair she was “in and out of foster care” when she first saw McCarthy at a motel pool in Tucson, Arizona, that she would frequently visit. "
" The author looked familiar, and when she got home she realised she had recognised him from the author photo on the back of the novel she was reading, McCarthy’s debut, The Orchard Keeper."
"The next day, she brought her copy of the book to the motel, along with a Colt revolver, which she said she had stolen from the man who ran her foster home and “had taken to wearing”, having experienced violence at the hands of her father and foster parents. "
" The author was still there, and apparently asked her if she was planning to shoot him – to which she responded no, she wanted him to sign her book.
Britt said the pair began a relationship and in 1977... ."
Britt said the pair had sex for the first time when McCarthy was 43 and she was 17.
“I loved him,” she told Vanity Fair. “He was my safety. I really feel that if I had not met him, I would have died young.
What I had trouble with came later.
When he started writing about me.”
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He was my revolving safety revolver trouble
I coulda popped off babies
Rather I troubled pops
Flip switch fire Europe USA
Always writing the head head in charges not filed
Reading reading always sex on safety the eyelashes pop
The bikini pop the novel tee peep oops pops
Novelty trouble stag stagnates
Horny thorny trouble sells double
So different than South Sydan, Texas New Mexico Canada
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"Israeli attacks have destroyed huge areas of land used for crops, with 90% of cattle killed, analysis shows"
'More than 90% of cattle have died and about 70% of land for crops in Gaza has been destroyed or damaged since the beginning of the war in the territory, an analysis of satellite imagery by the UN has found.
More than half of sheep and goat herds have been wiped out, while more than three-quarters of the territory’s famous orchards have been destroyed or damaged, the survey in September found."
"Satellite images … indicate that heavy vehicle tracks, razing, shelling and other conflict-related pressures have damaged large areas of farmland, infrastructure, wells and other productive infrastructure,” Paulsen told the UN security council, adding that the destruction substantially increased the risk of famine there.
Before the outbreak of war last year, farms covered about 40% of Gaza and produced enough vegetables, eggs, fresh milk, poultry and fish to meet around a third of local demand. Many families had their own olive or fruit trees."
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