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Updated 14 July, 2019 - 17:28 Ed Whelan
Sneferu's Distinctive Bent Pyramid Opened to the Public
In Egypt, the Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Anany has announced that two pyramids are being opened to the public for the first time since 1965. Soon visitors can once again get up close to the famous Bent Pyramid and a smaller satellite monument. These pyramids are among the oldest ever constructed in Egypt. The Bent Pyramid is very important historically, as its construction played a significant role in the development of the pyramid structure. The announcement is expected to give the North African nation's tourist sector a timely boost.
The two monuments being re-opened are located in the Dahshur Royal necropolis that dates from the Egyptian Old Kingdom. This necropolis includes some of the oldest pyramids ever built, including the famous Red Pyramid . According to Time, the "Dahshur necropolis area is home to what is considered to be some of the earliest pyramids". It has been designated by UNESCO a World Heritage Site. Dahshur is part of the larger Memphis necropolis and is popular with tourists.
Sneferu's Bent Pyramid is one of the oldest pyramids in Egypt at 4600 years. ( CC BY 2.0 )
The Bent Pyramid
The Bent Pyramid and its satellite monuments were built on the orders of King Sneferu , "the first pharaoh of Egypt's 4th dynasty" reports the Citizen. This massive funerary monument dates to approximately 2600 BC.
The Bent Pyramid is one of the most important in the development of pyramids in Egypt. AP reports that the monument "is unique in that it has two internal structures". This is something that is not found in any of the other giant structures. It is also atypical as it has entrances on different sides, two on the north side as is usual of all other pyramids, but it also has one high up on the west side.
It is seen by experts as marking a transition from a step-pyramid to a smooth-sided pyramid . AP reports the Egyptian Minister as stating that it is "a transitional form of pyramid construction between the Djoser Step Pyramid (2667-2648 BC) and the Meidum Pyramid (also about 2600 BC)". The pyramid is unique and does not have the even sides of later structures.
It is thought that the bent design is because of its builders' miscalculations, the angle of the top section of the pyramid was changed in order to reduce the excessive weight which would have caused damage to the internal blocks and chambers. This irregular shape of the structure is what gave it its name.
The second pyramid, being opened to the public, is much smaller and is in a poor condition, compared to the Bent Pyramid. It is thought that this was possibly constructed for the king's wife Heterpheres, although some experts claim the satellite pyramid was for some other purposes.
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A number of sarcophagi have recently been unearthed in Dahshur. ( Ministry of Antiquities )
Other discoveries in the necropolis
The minister also announced that a number of sarcophagi have been unearthed in the Dahshur Necropolis and are in good condition, some containing mummies. They have been preliminarily dated to the period from 664 to 332 BC. Tools used for cutting stones and blocks were also discovered. Interestingly, some stone fragments may indicate that even more burials may be present in the vicinity of the two soon-to-be-opened pyramids.
Dr. Khaled Al-me, also announced the discovery of a zigzag wall dating from the Middle period has also been unearthed in the Dahshur Necropolis by another archaeological team. It is some 180 ft (60m) in length and is situated south of the pyramid of 12th dynasty pharaoh King Amenemhat II, according to the announcement.
The announcement of the opening of the two pyramids and the latest finds in their vicinity is expected to attract more visitors to the area. This is very important for the Egyptian economy as tourism is the nation's most important industry and a very significant employer. Since 2011, the country has been plagued by instability and terrorism and this led to a large drop in foreign visitors. The re-opening of the two pyramids and the announcement of the discoveries are part of a policy to generate more interest in the country's heritage and to increase tourist numbers.
Top image: The Bent Pyramid at Dahshur necropolis is being reopened to the public. Source: WitR / Adobe Stock
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Real Name/Full Name Gilbert Jay Arenas Jr.
Nick Name/Celebrated Name: Gilbert Arenas
Birth Place: Tampa, Florida
Date Of Birth/Birthday: 6 January 1982
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Parents Name: Father –N/A
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School: Grant High School, Los Angeles
College: Arizona
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
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Kids/Children Name: Aloni Arenas, Alijah Arenas, Izela Arenas & Hamiley Arenas
Profession: Former professional basketball player
Gilbert Arenas is a former professional basketball player. The American celebrity is popularly known as an NBA Star since 2001. And as part of the Golden State Warriors. He is one of the legends to reckon with when it comes to the basketball world. Over the years, regardless of his retirement, he is a man that society looks up to up to date. Learn more about this basketball legend from the details below.
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Gilbert Jay Arenas Jr was born in 1982, January 6. His place of birth is Tampa, Florida, in the United States of America. He is one of the few celebrities who have kept their details private during their days in the limelight. His paternal grandfather, Hipolito Arenas Sr, is of the Cuban ancestry. He grew up in San Fernando Valley Section, Los Angeles. Gilbert interest in basketball started during his days in the Ulysses S. Grant High School.
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The Most Unique Bus Stops That I Found In Abkhazia (13 Pics)
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You might have never heard of Abkhazia – it's a small plot of land between Georgia and Russia along the Black Sea. It's surprisingly beautiful and populated by friendly people. Nevertheless, it's a disputed region. This de facto state has been struggling for international recognition for many years, and the conflict is still not resolved yet, sadly.
Traveling in this region was a great experience. I was surprised by the amazing bus stops we saw on the side of the road. I couldn't drive by without taking a picture of them.
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In many countries, these stops are just a place where you wait, a shelter from the weather elements. However, Abkhazia's stops have extraordinary designs and are so unique. These surreal places are very uncommon for Soviet times. Architectural freedom was not allowed into the Soviet Union, the regulations were very strict, and the technology was limited. You'll find specially designed shelters everywhere across the former Soviet Union, but the ones at the Black Sea in Abkhazia are the most peculiar and unique.
You'll find most of them on the highway between Gagra, Pitsunda and New Athos. One man was responsible for these amazing designs – an architect, a painter, and sculptor Zurab Tsereteli. Since he got his inspiration from the Black Sea, several stops are shaped like giant seashells, waves or fishes. Back in the day, local people were surprised and intimidated by this style and creativity, it was too western. Most of them didn't like the shelters but now those places are landmarks and tourist sites.
This remarkable bus stop brings a flood of memories back. While we were photographing, an old Mercedes pulled up and the driver emerged, walking over to us. He struck up a friendly conversation, pleased and honored that we were commemorating the site through pictures. As we spoke, he picked up litter off the ground, a poignant effort rooted in pride for his country and a desire to present it at its best.
Stops made from mosaics, stone, concrete or plastic were built almost 60 years ago, and some are in a bad condition. They were some efforts to restore them but without any success; a group of local people want to preserve and see this shelter on the list of historical monuments. So far, the government of Abkhazia hasn't done anything.
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Photography is the passion in my life, an escape from reality and my adventure around the world.
In my journey I explore the unseen and obliterated, magnificent buildings that are left behind, forgotten by locals and consumed by nature. Before these fascinating constructions are gone I want to capture this neglected world, so the history won't be forgotten and erased.
After getting her BA in Communication, watching more guilty-pleasure films and TV series than she should have and becoming interested in how it's all made, Violeta wandered into the Film Industry and got to see and experience the mysterious behind-the-scenes of film production: from finances to sets to marketing. But being a self-proclaimed captain of the Internet with close to no activity on social media, scrolling through the web for a living and sharing its treasures was always at the back of her head. So a year ago, she joined the army of Bored Pandas as a Community Manager and have been fighting the boredom ever since. Her mission is to shine a spotlight on talented artists and inspiring stories...
Dwayne Dixon 1 week ago
There are absolutely beautiful, thank you for sharing
George Salukvadze 1 week ago
Other than that, great photos and a very unique photographer's eye
You do know that it's Abkhazian Autonomous Republic, Georgia? And not a separate country and not a plot of land BETWEEN Georgia and Russia, but WITHIN Georgia?
Andrew Gunner 1 week ago
You do realize what "de facto" means, right? And you do know that Georgia haven't controled Abkhazia for the past 30 years, and that the Georgia-Abkhazia war is over, and Abkhazia won, right?
Felix Feline 1 week ago
The ethnic cleansing of Georgians and Greeks in Abkhazian A.R. is another modern day genocide.
I am talking about the tens of thousands Georgians, Greeks, and Armenians who were "cleansed" in the 1990s; the scores of thousands who were displaced and fled to other countries; the tens of thousands of houses destroyed.
Igor Kulikov 1 week ago
Where were you in 1990s? I dont think you know what you talking about. Armenians and Greeks were cleansed in Abkhazia in 1990s? you must be out of your mind. I know of plenty atrocities that took place mostly done by Georgian. War is always ugly, but cleansing never heard of it. Born in Abkhazia lived in Abkhazia had georgian, Armenian, greek, russian, Abkhazia neighbors. Everyone equally hated war and wanted peace.
I lived in Abkhazia I had greek friends and Georgian teacher. What are you talking about?
You do know that Abkhazia is a separate country right?
Greta Toločkaitė 1 week ago
right? it belongs to the same universe where Crimea is a separate country, and you enter it by hitting your head really hard
Prove me wrong. Take a georgian passport, take lari and only speak georgian, cross the border in Gali and travel through Abkhazia. If you cant do that then stop your BS about Abkhazia part of Georgia. It's simply not and anyone that ever visited knows it's not.
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abandoned,
abandoned places,
abkhazia,
architecture photography,
bust stops,
forgotten places,
Garga,
Isabelle Van Assche,
landmarks,
lost places,
soviet architecture,
soviet bus stops,
unique bus stops,
Zurab Tsereteli


I've been parched. I've been dry. My throat was raw and my eyes were red and puffy. Things I'd been able to see were blurred, or dull, without texture or importance. I have been moving as if in fog, uncertain which direction to turn, or even if there was room for me to turn. And what would I turn toward?
I've been in a drought. A slow and steady drying out. A drinking of my skin, my earth, my roots. It happened so steadily and slowly over time that I did not see it for what it was. I kept adapting, and shifting my expectations and my workload, carrying heavier burdens as I weathered longer days of heat and sunshine that failed to ignite the spark of life, but only deadened the worn out bits that were trying to cling to life.
the rains came. Not enough, they said, to wipe away all the damage, but some rain. Enough rain fell to allow small seeds to sprout. Enough water soaked into the ground to give life a chance and a hope that it would not fail. Rainbows are glorious, but this, this little display is a real celebration. A tiny chorus of beauties dared to come to life and bloom and open up to look joyfully and unflinchingly at the sky. So tiny, so bold, so possible, they are.
"My name is not pretty," whispered the chorus, "but we think we are gorgeous. We are Amaranthus blitoides, or prostrate pigweed (if you insist on using common names)." I smiled to see such tiny beauties, blossoms no bigger than a grain of rice. I smiled as my earth began to hold life again. I smiled to see such promise at my feet.
Thank you, rain. Thank you seeds. Thank you those who held out hope.


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Comic Paper Recollections
During the war, it was still possible to get comic papers, even though they had shrunk in size. The Dandy and Beano were the main ones, but as we grew older, the ones we read were such as Wizard, Rover, Hotspur and Adventure. The Dandy and Beano had characters like Our Gang, a cartoon version of the Hal Roach comedies of the same name. I can see some of the characters now, Scotty Becket, Alfalfa Switzer, Rosie, etc. Also in the Dandy was the legendary "Desperate Dan" who lived with his Aunt Aggie and ate cow pies complete with horns sticking from the crust, Keyhole Kate, the nosy girl who enjoyed peeping through keyholes. Doubting Thomas, who had a curl on top of his head in the shape of a question mark, and whose catch phrase, when asked to do something was "I doubt it but I'll try." The front of the Dandy was covered with the adventures of Korky the Kat, whilst the Beano had an ostrich named Big Eggo. The Beano had Lord Snooty and his Pals, Big Fat Joe, Snitch and Snatch, the twins.
There was another character introduced into the Beano during the war and this was a caricature of Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator. Musso da Wop, he's a big a da flop. He was always portrayed as doing really stupid things I recall one such incident that "Musso" did. He was playing with the other children and he built a snowman on top of the cellar grating of a bakery shop, and as the hot air rose, the snowman melted!
We looked forward to these week in and week out. The Dandy and The Wizard were delivered with the daily paper "The Daily Dispatch" but all the others were read by means of swapping amongst the other children in the neighbourhood. Gordon Ackers was one who would swap with me on a regular basis and we would sit in the vestibule in the dark, swapping comics. The Wizard had stories of schooldays like "Smith of the Lower Third" The story of a boy from the slums of a Northern town, who gained a scholarship to a public school, and we waited for each episode agog with excitement, as Smith outwitted the "toffs". I think that we related to Smith as he was always portrayed as the underdog it also had stories of great adventure like "the Wolf of Kabul", where an Englishman, disguised as an Afghan, had all kinds of hair-raising adventures with his companion Chung, who was of Mongolian descent, with Asiatic features and built like a bus. The Wolf had twin daggers that he kept sheathed at his waist, and Chung was armed with an ancient cricket bat, bound with brass wire. He called this "clicky ba'" and he used it with some force on the ungodly. Stirring stuff indeed!! It was in the Wizard that we first encountered the legendary Wilson. He was an athlete of some 140 years of age, who had as a young man, gone to the Himalayas, and there met up with a mystic who gave him a drug which slowed his heart down to some 4 beats per minute, thus enabling him to run at a fantastic speed, annihilating all the opposition. He was the only man to run up Everest without oxygen and barefoot, clad only in an old fashioned woollen running suit!! We lapped it up as small boys.
The story that sticks in my mind from the Hotspur comic is the one about another public school named Red Circle. The adventures that the boys got up to were fantastic to say the least. Stuff like midnight feasts in the dorm, playing practical jokes on the Headmaster and teachers, and as we were Grammar School boys at the time, we could relate to their antics.
Dad liked to read comics as well and one day, a workmate of his gave him a pile of Wizards from prewar days. These were a lot bigger in content than the wartime editions, and as they were in sequence, he hid them from us, so that he could enjoy them himself, reading them. He only gave us the ones that he had read, until we prevailed on Ma to tell us where he kept them, and then we had them all out when he came in from work!! I don't think that he was really pleased, but he didn't say anything, at least not to Billy and me.
Before renovation.
After renovation. Peter Collier's shop is on the left. The Bay Horse pub can be seen on the right.
The Shop in Hallgate
About this time during the war, we only went to school for half a day, as the shelters hadn't been built and the government didn't want a lot of children there at any one time, so as to minimize the risk of casualties in case of air raid. Some of us went during the morning and the rest in the afternoon. Ma was helping Grandma Bradshaw with her pie shop in Hallgate, so I was told to get the bus and make my way to Wigan after school. The shop was situated at No 47 Hallgate in a very old piece of property. We kids thought that it was fantastic. When we went into the shop, the counter always looked high. I suppose that it was normal size but with us being small it just looked big. Grandma sold sweets, cigarettes and a bit of grocery which she bought from Holland and Clough, the wholesalers who had a place in Great Acre.
She used to make pies in the back room, meat and potato, and steak and kidney, I can see it all now, the old cast iron stove, two big pans with double handles, filled with potatoes, onions and stew beef, bubbling away, ready to be put into the pie cases. There was a baking table where Ma and Grandma kneaded and rolled out the pastry. Dad made her some cutters from tinplate and soldered handles on them so that she could cut out the bases and lids. Grandma lined the tins with pastry and then, using a big spoon, ladled mixture into the pies. Ma then lidded and crimped them, trimming the surplus off with a knife, made a hole in the top, and they were ready for the oven. The room behind the shop where the pies were made was only small and the ceiling had been removed to allow the steam to escape. We kids used to go up the narrow winding stairway and lie there looking down on the work being done. Ma, seeing us would say "Mind what you are doing up there and don't fall down." Grandma used the front room upstairs as a store room for the shop supplies, and I remember seeing bundles of bags and paper up there. Just inside the stairwell was the bin where the flour was kept and this had a hinged lid and a scoop to get the flour out with. Grandma had a regular clientele for the pies and it was Granddad's job to go out at dinnertime with the pies in a big square basket, covered with a chequered cloth. He took a jug of gravy with him and sometimes slices of bread and butter. I think that Grandma must have had some of the first sliced bread in Wigan. It came from Rathbones and was held together by an elastic band, not wrapped in any way.
Granddad went down to Santus's and also Coops and the hosiery factory in Dorning St, taking his pie orders at dinnertime. He had worked in the mines but he had nystagmus, which is a disease that affects your eyes, due to working in poor light, and he had had to leave. Grandma opened the shop as a livelihood for them both, and not being aware of it at the time, had employed Granddad instead of him employing her. This fact cost them their old age pension at 65 and they both had to work until they had reached the age of seventy.
The shop was closed down about 1943 because Grandma didn't want the hassle of ration books and coupons, and by then they had both reached the age of 70 when they could draw the old age pension, a princely sum of 10 shillings a week (50p) She only lived for another two years before dying from cancer.
Next door to Grandma's shop was a boot and shoe repairers, run by a crippled man, Peter Collier. Boot and shoe repairing seemed to be a trade that crippled people were put to, probably from the fact that the job could be done sitting down. We kids were fascinated to watch him work. He had one of those spindles that are common in all boot repairers, with the polishers and buffers on.
By the side of the shop there was a narrow entry, which was kept, locked with a brass Yale lock and key, and in this passage were two toilets, one for each shop, and each toilet had a lock on the door. We thought this was great when we could go to the toilet and lock ourselves in! There must have been another building attached to the wall of the shops, because on the passage wall were stuck pieces of plaster and horsehair which we pulled off to use as chalk.
Next door to the entry was a clothing factory, "Standwear Manufacturing Co". It was a sewing factory that made shirts and they had a folding gate that was put across the doorway when they locked up at night. We children used to play in this doorway, pretending that we were in a lift, and sliding the gate back and forth.
As I spent quite a lot of time in Hallgate, I got to know some of the children who lived there quite well. Two of my playmates were Jimmy Horsfall and Norman Green. Norman's Grandma was Mrs Havard, who along with her husband had a fruit stall on Wigan market. Where the sorting office stands today, there was a big pond called an EWS (emergency water supply). It had been put there in case of fire through enemy action, but it drew all the children like a magnet, as water usually does.
We all gathered there during the school holidays to sail boats or just throw stones into the water. Hallgate those days was quite a thriving community, with lots of shops and people living in the houses there. In "Little Hallgate" i.e. the part from the Crofters down to the pub on the corner, there were a lot of shops, such as The Olde Englishe Cheese Shoppe, Clarke's fish shop higher up where the window could open on to the street, Florrie Jackson's newsagents, Swifts chip shop with its coal fired range, Mayalls paint and wallpaper, and many others.
We watched the draymen come up in their horse drawn dray, wearing aprons made from sacking, delivering barrels of beer to the Bay Horse pub on the corner, watching them drop the barrel on to a thick mat and then with a rope round either end, and through an iron ring set in the pavement, lower it down into the cellar on a sort of ramp that they carried for the purpose. All cellars those days had the same sort of smell about them, damp and musty and smelling of stale beer.
One day, as I was going to Grandma's shop I had a very lucky escape. It was when the school was only open for half a day and I had finished at dinnertime. I got off the bus at the L&Y station and made my 'way towards the churchyard as I always did. I must have been daydreaming because when I reached the corner of Bishopgate and Hallgate, I ran across the road there without looking. A car was coming down Hallgate and how he avoided me I will never know. In those days the car door handles stuck out more than they do today and, as I was wearing gloves (they were Ma's old leather ones), I put out my hand to save myself and the glove caught on the handle, tearing it off my hand. I thought my arm had been pulled off, it was tingling with shock.
The driver jumped from the car "Are you alright?" he said. I must have been as white as a sheet! When he could see that I was ok he took me up to Florrie Jackson's and bought me a book! He then took me back to Grandma's, where he told Ma all about it.
Across the road from the shop was the All Saints Tavern and here lived a Mrs Jowitt and her husband. They had a cat by the name of Toby. It was a spoiled thing and Ma was scandalized when she heard that Mrs Jowitt fed the cat on liver. She said "How can she do such a thing, doesn't she know there's a war on?"
Uncle Joe Bradshaw was a coal dealer and he delivered coal to some of the shops in Hallgate, such as Swifts chippy and The Olde Englishe Cheese Shoppe. I sometimes went with him on his rounds, we had some fun! Uncle Joe was a real character and very humourous. He had a young fellow working for him at one time called Teddy. Teddy was "a few bricks short of a load" as you might say. That of course didn't matter because you don't need brains to hump coal bags. In the wagon was an ignition switch that was "live" In fact, if you touched it when the engine was running you got a shock. Uncle Joe sat me between himself and Teddy and, touching the switch, held my hand, I then held Teddy's hand and Teddy touched the door, at which he got a shock and shouted "Aoww" I used to think it was hilarious. I don't know what Teddy's thoughts were!
One time when Uncle Joe was delivering in Longford, Warrington he was having problems with boys grabbing the tailboard and swinging on it. He said to Teddy "Ride on the back of the lorry and if anyone swings on the tailboard, throw a lump at them," Teddy lobbed a lump of coal at one and split his head for him, Uncle Joe had to beat a hasty retreat!!
I had a narrow escape once in the coal lorry. I must have been around ten years old at the time, and we were delivering coal at Little Budworth in Cheshire. We only went once a month and we took 40x1cwt bags, delivering these in 4 drops to farmhouses. The coal wagon at that time was an old Ford and the handbrake was one with a stud at the top, which was depressed to lift the brake. Uncle Joe had gone to pick up his money and had left me pretending to drive the wagon. We still had 3/4 of a load on and I managed to release the brake. As we were at the top of a hill, the wagon began to roll forward, and Uncle Joe came out of the farmhouse just in time to save the situation from turning nasty. I shudder to think what the outcome could have been!!
During the war, the only things that affected us children was the fact that toffee was rationed and that we couldn't get fruit from overseas like bananas, otherwise life seemed pretty normal. Dad got the canteen women at the pit to put plenty of butter on some barmcakes and when he brought them home, Ma scraped it off again to use on some other sandwiches. I recall seeing a bunch of bananas on a stall in Wigan market. They weren't for sale, it was just that the stallowner's son was a sailor and had brought them home for her, and she was just showing people what they looked like!!
Wigan fruit market in those days was under canvas along Market St. The stallholders stood on a row of upturned orange boxes behind the displays of fruit, which was always stacked in neatly They, served from the back. "Don't touch the front love, they'll fall over" was the cry. All the rough stuff was piled up at the back and that was what you got. The stalls were lit with kerosene lamps, which gave out a yellow glow. The names of the stallholders spring to mind, Highams, Silcocks, Havards. Ma traded with Mrs Silcock, and one day she sent me for some Victoria plums to make jam. I got 4lb but on the way home I ate "one or two" on the bus, spitting the stones on the floor of the upper deck. When I got home Ma said to me "How many plums did Mrs Silcock give you?" When she weighed them I'd eaten a full pound. Ma thought that I would have "the runs" but I didn't!
Dad got extra cheese because he worked in the pit as this sort of work was classed as "essential" We swapped eggs for all sorts of things like sugar and butter. One day, Ma had a brilliant idea; we could churn our own butter. She saved the cream from the milk for a whole week and then put it in a big Horlicks jar. After the cap was screwed on, we all took it in turns to shake the jar and lo and behold, we made butter! Ma then mixed it with "Special" margarine (this was the only margarine being made during the war) to make it go further. (She used the margarine paper for baking sheets, when she made "divilsnose", a flat currant cake) She also made us some white bread. Let me explain, during the war, flour wasn't purified, and the bran etc. was left in. We didn't realize it at the time but it was healthier for everyone, therefore, when bread was baked, using whole-wheat flour it had a greyish tinge to it. She got an old silk stocking and sieved the bran out, and there was just enough to make a few barmcakes, we thought it was wonderful to eat white bread when everyone else had grey.
Meat was rationed but offal and sausages were not. The only problem with sausages was that there was so much biscuit meal in them that whatever you did with them, prick them all over, cook them slow, fry, grill or bake them, the filling came out of the skins, and all over the pan. To feed the hens, Dad got "lights" i.e. Lungs etc from Cunningham's and these were cooked in a big pan on the fire, then chopped and mixed with potato peelings and any other household waste, bound together with what bit of mash we were allowed and any bran that could be scrounged. It must have worked because the hens kept producing eggs. Sometimes fish waste was used as well.
We got marrowbones from Cunningham's, and after breaking the ends off, we broke open the shaft, extracted the marrow and rendered it down in the oven to get the dripping. This was used instead of lard, which was in short supply, to cook chips and to use for baking. Ma made all sorts of pies at weekend, custard, naturally as we had plenty of eggs! Jam lattice pie, beef pie on a flat plate, rice pie with currants in when we had any, all kinds of fruit pies like blackberry, blackcurrant, and apple. We went to Halsall's farm near Tanpits for apples and these were wrapped in newspaper to preserve them and stored them on the rack under the stairs that we slept on if there was any enemy activity.
We even used to preserve eggs. When there was a lot of eggs coming in from the pen, Dad got some "Waterglass" This was beer finings, and, mixed with water, it was put in the big brown bread mug and eggs placed in it. It set like a white jelly and thus stop any air getting to the eggs. We used the eggs when the hens started their moult and stopped laying.
During the war all sorts of things were done to eke out the rations that we had. Butter, sugar, meat, cheese, tea, all these were rationed, as well as chocolate and toffee. Everything else was in "short supply" We had to be "registered" with a shop to get our rations; I think that we were registered with the Coop or "stores" as it was known. Our meat ration was from Tom Cunningham at Union Bridge, and this was supplemented a bit by swopping eggs for any offal that was going like liver and kidneys. When you bought anything from the shop, you had to have your book marked or the appropriate coupon cut out. The ration books were made from re-processed paper, which had little squiggly marks in it. The sweet coupons were known as "points". All coupons were ABCorD each one having a different value.
Pigs could be kept but they had to be "registered", so that when they were killed, the meat could go into the food chain. Of course, if you could get a piglet and not register it could be raised and slaughtered in the shed by having its throat cut, thus giving you plenty of pork to barter with. This was done quite a lot and "home cured" bacon was readily available if you knew where to look for it.
Delph Garage was built on illicit dealings. Bill Demings, who built it, was well known as a dealer. He could get you anything, at a price, and consequently had a large amount of ready cash that he couldn't bank. He showed Ma a money belt one day and said "there's four hunderd pahnd theer" Which I reckon would have been close on £4,000 today. When he had built the garage and filling station, the Inland Revenue got him for tax evasion!!
There was a pen on some land in Bold St where pigs were kept during the war. Ted Fishwick had it originally but he had a stroke and couldn't keep it on. I used to push Ted from the chapel on a Sunday sometimes, in his wheelchair. When Ted gave up the pen, Jack Hilton took it on and kept pigs there and he got caught killing one illegally and was fined. A disgruntled customer whom Jack had disappointed was waiting for the sound of the pig being butchered and tipped off the inspector. He caught Jack red handed, literally!!
Everyone was encouraged to "Dig For Victory" and we dug over part of the pen to grow vegetables and potatoes. We bought our seeds from Bell's the seed merchant who had a shop in Market St. When you entered the shop, you were faced with loads of small drawers in a wall fitment, where the seeds were kept. Mr. Bell would weigh these out in 1oz packets and write the name of the seed on the front. The shop always had a "garden" smell about it! I recall names of potatoes that were grown like "Kerrs Pink", "Arran Banner" "King Edward" We grew marrow stemmed kale to feed to the hens to supplement their mash, and quite a few good cabbage and peas, but our attempts at growing onions and carrots met with abject failure because we got fly in them. In the pen were quite a lot of sheds for all the hens. Although when the war was on Dad limited the amount of hens that he kept. We were supposed to have a bird for each ration book, but this never applied and we had about 30 or so.
Dad hatched his own chickens from incubators, with names like "Gloucester Glevum". He set the incubators up in the long room in the house, this being before I had it for a bedroom. There were 3x100 egg incubators in the room and he got the plumber to run gas pipes to them. The incubators had heat regulators to keep the heat constant, and every night, Dad would get the eggs out and turn them all. The eggs had a pencilled cross on one end to enable him to know which way to turn. After three weeks, the chicks would hatch and we children were allowed to go and see them. After a day, the chicks were gathered up in a box and taken to the pen and placed in a "brooder", where they stayed for about a month, after which they went into "night arks" with runs attached and allowed to graze the grass on the pen. As they got older, the cockerels were segregated to be fattened up for Christmas, and the pullets put in the hen sheds.
As I remember it there was a feeding shed as you went through the pen gate, and in here was kept all the mash and a mixing trough, cod liver oil, etc. From here there was another small shed built over an old cast iron boiler where the bones and meat that came from Cunningham's was cooked up later on in the war.
The Bone Cutter Incident
Dad had obtained a bone cutter from somewhere. This consisted of a round drum with a divider down the middle and a door at the base. At the bottom of the drum was a crown wheel with slots in it to hold the cutting blades, held in position by setscrews, and as the crown wheel rotated, the blades shaved pieces from the bones placed in the drum. To keep up pressure on the bones, there was a casting, shaped to fit into both sides of the drum and held in place by a clip placed on the projecting threaded shaft that ran from the centre of the crown wheel, up through the division in the drum. When pressure needed to be applied, the clip could be held and stopped from turning. This action screwed the pusher (for want of a better word) down onto the bones and forced them on the blades.
To drive the machine, a motive source was needed and a place for it to stand. Dad had a shed with a second storey and it was always known as the "double decker" There was a set of steps that led up to the top deck. Well, this shed had 5x4 beams to support the upstairs floor so Dad devised a real "Heath Robinson" set up. He had obtained from somewhere, an AJS motorbike with a flat tank, about 1926 vintage. This he mounted, without wheels, in between uprights bolted to the roof members and to brackets set in concrete on the floor. He took the back wheel to work and got the fitters there to remove the rim and spokes, and braze a drum on to the hub. This was fitted to the bike frame, with a driving belt over it and over the driving pulley on the bone cutter, which was anchored down on a concrete plinth, and lo and behold it worked!
He had to run this contraption on paraffin as petrol was rationed, so to start it up he managed to get a bottle of petrol from Tom Rollins the coal dealer in the nearby yard. He took the carburetor top off and filled it with petrol, kick started the bike, and once going opened the valve on the tank and the paraffin took over. It made a horrible noise when running on paraffin, so to deaden the exhaust, he passed it through a 2ins pipe which went all round the outside of the shed. As the bike had a hand change clutch and lever controls for the throttle,(advance and retard,) it was simple enough to set these so that it didn't need anyone to sit on the bike. To cool the engine, he got his fitters to weld a pulley to the primary chain sprocket, and, getting a fan from a car engine he mounted this on a piece of angle iron from a bedstead, and ran it with a fan belt from the pulley. The hens loved to eat the bone meal and it made a welcome addition to their diet.
Dad also had a couple of sheds that he had built himself called "Half-monitors" these were built with a sort of split roof with windows set in to give more light in the shed. They were built from brand new timber during the period that he was a "master poultry farmer" We also had a long shed down at the bottom end of the pen and this lost its roof during a whirlwind in 1947, killing a couple of hens in the process. In the top pen, facing the railway line, was an advertising board in the shape of two men carrying a ladder, and on the ladder were the words HALL'S DISTEMPER, and underneath LUXURY COLOURS. We would climb up the back of the hoarding and swing from the ladder!
When Dad got the bone cutter, he would send me, along with our Billy to Cunningham's shop on a Saturday afternoon, taking with us the big truck that Dad had made from a box and two motor bike wheels. We would bring back any stale sausages, cow heads, and other bones that had been left over from the week's work. We had an old army cleaver with a long handle that Dad had picked up from somewhere, and with this, we split up the heads, ready for boiling in the coal boiler.
Getting some coal from Tom Rollins's wagon, we lit a fire under the boiler. Sometimes I would imagine that I was a train driver and I would stand at the shed door, with smoke billowing from the chimney, thinking that I was on the main line! We used to use paraffin to start the fire off, and this was kept in a tin with a spout. When I think back to the harebrained things that we did, I shudder. We found that if we heated the tin over the fire, the paraffin would vaporize, and then, holding a lighted match to the spout, we got a flare, which would go on as long as there was paraffin in the tin. It never occurred to us that the tin could have exploded!!
One day, when I was emptying the boiler I got a shock, a bird had fallen in and drowned, and I grabbed hold of it as I was picking the bones out, Ugh-----! I've never forgotten it. Later on, Dad obtained a small stationary petrol engine, which delivered a bit more power and was a lot quieter. It was after this was installed that he managed to lose his finger.
It happened like this, as the bone shavings dropped on to the tray, they piled up and need levelling off. Dad would do this with his hand, and one day as he was doing it, the projecting studs that held the blades in place caught hold of his coat sleeve. His index finger on his right hand passed through the cogs of the crown wheel and pinion, and was crushed severely. Ma had to get a taxi and she took him to the infirmary. We kids were dropped off at Grandma Foster's until they got back.
On their return, Dad was groggy from the anesthetic, as he had been put to sleep whilst the surgeon removed the piece of lacerated finger. As they came through Market Place, Dad was singing in the taxi, and Ma said that she felt ashamed to think that folk might imagine that Dad was drunk!! He had to wear a fingerstall for quite a while after that and the end of his finger was always cold, as the nerve had been damaged. His writing, which was never brilliant, went really bad when he lost the fingertip.
Visits to Yorkshire
Whilst I have the pen in mind there was one incident that took place there that's worth recording. It was during the war, I think, or it may have been just before it started. We never went away as a family for a holiday, because "Th'ens allus needed seein' to." We had odd days out at the seaside, Southport, New Brighton, but even these were spoiled because "th'ens" needed feeding, and we had to come home early. We were martyrs to a flock of feathered fowls, which had to be fed twice daily, come what may. I can see Dad now, "Ah'm just gooin' feedin'" he would say, as he set off from the house with a couple of buckets of boiled up offal or potatoes and hot water. When he was working, Ma fed the grain, which had to be mixed in the correct proportion, in the morning, and he gave them the mash. He poured the hot water into the mixing trough and added the old bread and potato peelings, together with all the other stuff like "thirds", bran, layers mash, cod liver oil. He always used to mix by hand as he said that this was the best way. Personally, I couldn't see the point of it all. If ever a flock of hens were a liability, ours were. They never paid; we always owed more for the food than what we got for the eggs.
Irene, Arthur, Fred, Marjorie, Kathleen
Irene and Arthur were my cousins from Yorkshire. Marjorie and Kathleen lived at St.Annes. The picture was taken in the back garden in St. Annes.
The only time that I went away from home was when we went to stay with Aunt Lucy and Uncle Ernest in Fryston, which was a small pit village in Yorkshire. This was "New Fryston" which distinguished it from Monk Fryston, which is up near Selby.
We went from the L&Y station and I recall the station announcer as she said "Bolton, Bury, Heywood and Rochdale". This was where you had to change to the York train, and this went through the Woodhead Tunnel. It was a big adventure going to Yorkshire. As the train went into the tunnel the lights came on and there was a smell of smoke in the carriage from the engine. We made part of the journey by bus, as the train stopped at Castleford.
Uncle Ernest was the undermanager at the Fryston Main Colliery, and he and his family lived in a pit house in the village that surrounded the pit. No 2 South View was the address, and I can still remember what it looked like. My cousins, Irene and Arthur were older than me, but we had some fun there. Arthur took me into Pontefract to the licorice works where they sold miss-shapes for a shilling a bag. We also visited a park there.
Arthur took me fishing in the Aire and Calder canal, which ran close to their house. I don't remember catching anything there, but we went to Roundhay Park in Leeds and there we caught a couple of tench. When we got them home, Arthur revived them in the bath and they were swimming around. He decided to try and make them swim faster so he put hot water in and it killed them! When they were dead, we shot them to bits with his air gun, propping them up on the back gate. It's funny the things that you remember. We thought that Uncle Ernest was really posh, having a telephone, but it wasn't until a while later that I found out it only went to the pit!! Uncle Ernest took Dad for a look round underground one day, -- talk about a busman's holiday!
When we got back home again from Yorkshire, Ma had a tale to tell us. She had been feeding the flock and was giving them their last feed at night. Our Billy was with her and they went into the big half monitor shed. The fence bordering the backfield was down, due to the farmer's shire horses pushing it over in their quest for grazing. Our grass must have looked better than theirs!! When Ma and Billy were in the shed, the two horses, smelling food, went to the shed door, thinking that they were getting fed. Ma was scared stiff of them and she and Billy were marooned there. It was getting dark when Granddad Foster, finding them missing, went to look for them. He had to shoo the horses away to allow them to get out!
When Edna and Irene were growing up, they always managed to get away for a week during the summer. Ted Twigg was only a surface hand at Baxter Pit but somehow they schemed and saved for that vital break. Their holidays were spent at Old Colwyn in Uchydon Avenue, with a Mrs Newall. or at Bispham. Edna's mum would ask for "apartments" and this meant that you bought your own food and the landlady cooked it for you. It must have been a satisfactory arrangement because it went on for years and allowed them to take a holiday each year, even during the war years.
Edna and Irene with Mum and Dad, Colwyn Bay circa 1937.


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Time-dependent prognostic effect of high sensitivity C-reactive protein with statin therapy in ...
Journal of Cardiology, 2019. 74(1), 74-83, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jjcc.2018.12.022
Time-dependent prognostic effect of high sensitivity C-reactive protein with statin therapy in acute myocardial infarction
Dong Oh Kang, Yoonjee Park; Ji Hoon Seo; Myung Ho Jeong; Shung Chull Chae; Tae Hoon Ahn; Won Young Jang; Woohyeun Kim; Eun Jin Park; Byoung Geol Choi; Jin Oh Na; Cheol Ung Choi; Eung Ju Kim; Seung-Woon Rha; Chang Gyu Park; Hong Seog Seo
• The prognostic impact of baseline high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) was mostly confined to the first 6 months.
• High-intensity statin attenuated the prognostic impact of baseline hs-CRP elevation.
• Dose-dependent anti-inflammatory effect of statin is dominant over the first 6 months.
• High-intensity statin persistently improved outcome after first 6 months of acute myocardial infarction.
Elevated high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has prognostic value for future cardiovascular events. This study aimed to ascertain a valid prognostic time-period for predicting cardiovascular outcome based on baseline hs-CRP in AMI patients undergoing successful PCI on statin therapy.
Overall, 4410 AMI patients were enrolled from the Korea Acute Myocardial Infarction-National Institutes of Health (KAMIR-NIH) registry. Participants were divided into groups according to cut-off values of baseline hs-CRP (1.0, 3.0, and 10.0 mg/L) and statin therapy intensity. The primary outcome was 36-month major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), a composite of all-cause mortality, any myocardial infarction, and repeat revascularization. The secondary outcome was MACE developed 0–6, 6–12, and 12–36 months after AMI.
The overall incidence of 36-month MACE was significantly higher as baseline hs-CRP increased (by groups: 8.8% vs. 8.6% vs. 10.7% vs. 15.4%, log-rank p < 0.001). The prognostic effect of baseline hs-CRP was mostly confined to the first 6 months after AMI (0–6 months MACE by groups: 1.6% vs. 2.3% vs. 4.3% vs. 6.1%, log-rank p < 0.001) and attenuated in high-intensity statin users. Six months after AMI, this prognostic effect of baseline hs-CRP was remarkably reduced (6–12 month MACE by groups: 2.4% vs. 2.1% vs. 2.8% vs. 4.0%, log-rank p = 0.111, 12–36 month MACE by groups: 4.7% vs. 4.1% vs. 4.0% vs. 6.2%, log-rank p = 0.218); however, high-intensity statin treatment showed a consistent improvement in outcome. The observed time-dependent prognostic effects remained consistent following multivariate analysis.
The prognostic impact of elevated hs-CRP at baseline was most evident during the first 6 months after AMI; however, the use of high-intensity statin persistently improved the clinical outcome even after the resolution of inflammatory reactions.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jjcc.2018.12.022


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New Year's Honours: West Indies star Clive Lloyd knighted
Clive Lloyd knighted (Photo via BBC)
(BBC) Clive Lloyd, whose West Indies side dominated international cricket, has been knighted in the New Year Honours.
The Guyana-born batsman, now 75, has been honoured for his service to the game.
He captained the West Indies from 1974 until 1985 and played for Lancashire from 1968 until 1986, later settling in the Greater Manchester area.
Since retiring, he has coached West Indies and worked for the International Cricket Council.
The left-handed middle-order batsman made his Test debut aged 22 against India and scored 7,515 runs at an average of more than 46 in 110 appearances.
His former Lancashire team-mate Farokh Engineer, who also played for India, said the honour was "well overdue because a lot of his colleagues were knighted, so I am so glad".
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MULCIBER, Anabelle "Hitame" Violet
Potter's Army :: The Character :: Character Applications :: Archived Characters :: Graduates
by Anabelle Mulciber on Mon Aug 15, 2016 11:56 pm
ANABELLE "HITAME" VIOLET MULCIBER
NICKNAMES/ALIAS: Ana(previously), Hitame/Hit
AGE: Sixteen | b. December 5th - going into her sixth year.
ALLEGIANCE: Potter's Army
HOGWARTS HOUSE: Gryffindor
WAND: 11 3/4 Holly wand with a unicorn hair core, flexible
PLAY BY: Taissa Farmiga
GENERAL APPEARANCE:
There's something about Anabelle that just makes her come off as dark. She doesn't mean to be that way or anything, but maybe it's because of the way she dresses. The girl does not like light colors, she thinks they make her seem weak and girly, though it would be okay to seem girly unless you're her. Darker colors help her blend it, which is good as she does not like to stand out. She's never been good at being in the spotlight so anything that would keep her from it would always be greeted well.
She is on the shorter side of the spectrum, standing at 5'1. She dislikes her height so she wears boots that add a bit of height to her, though it is only two more inches but that's better than nothing. She has a slender figure, and disliking too much weight gain she likes to exercise. She has fairly long, brown hair that she likes to either have down or put in a side swept braid that hangs down from her left side.
001. Brave
002. Loyal
003. Ambitious
004. Honest
005. Reserved
006. Determined
007. Resourceful
008. Not very confident
009. Intelligent
010. Clever
011. Driven
012. Careful
013. Hardworking
014. Stubborn
015. Naïve
016. Hot headed
017. Over protective
018. Disorganized
019. Caring
020. Worrier
LIKES & DISLIKES:
001. Family
002. Singing
003. Tea
004. Music
005. Drawing
006. Japanese Culture
007. Nights
008. Sunset
009. Hot Chocolate
010. Muggles
011. Sports
012. Hogwarts
001. Bright lights
002. Crowds
003. Losing
004. Not knowing things
005. Being left alone
006. Waiting
007. Others touching her stuff
008. Candy
009. Flavored water
010. Reading from textbooks
011. Big bags(like purses)
012. When it gets too hot
001. Be allowed to live her life
002. Graduate
FAMILY & POSSESSIONS
FATHER: Alexander Mulciber - Slytherin Graduate | b.1978 | Fifty-one | Death Eater | Pureblood
MOTHER: Iris Mulciber [neé Williams] - Beauxbatons Graduate | b.1983 | Forty-six | Neutral | Pureblood
SIBLING/S:
Names used for NPC Purposes
Walter "Xem" Mulciber - Seventeen | Older Brother | Oldest sibling | Pureblood
Naomi Mulciber - Fifteen | Younger sister | Second youngest Mulciber sibling | Pureblood
Josiah Mulciber - Fourteen | Younger brother | Youngest Mulciber sibling | Pureblood
OTHER: Ryo Hiroku - Best friend | Like an older brother | Vampire
Sayuri Hiroku | Like an older sister | Vampire
Raphael Arista - Political Uncle | Muggleborn | Hated by most of the Mulciber family
Lucinda Arista[neé Mulciber] - Paternal Aunt | Pureblood | Muggle lover | Disowned
SPECIES/BLOODTYPE: Human/Pureblood
SOCIAL STATUS: Wealthy
EARLY YEARS: Being the oldest in a family puts pressure on a child because a lot was expected out of them. Being the youngest in a family puts pressure on a child because not enough is expected of them and they seek attention the oldest sibling gets. But what about the middle children who don't exactly get recognition? Especially when you're a girl.
Anabelle was born on a cold December evening to Alexander and Iris Mulciber. She was the second child of the semi newlyweds, her brother Walter being the first. Shortly after Anabelle was born, she was passed over to nanny who was supposed to be in charge of her education and well being. Basically, she was passed over to another person who was meant to replace her mum. It wasn't only to Anabelle that it happened though, this was also the case for her younger brother and sister, Josiah and Naomi. The only child who was really taken care of by their parents, was Walter simply because he was the first born and he would be the heir to the Mulciber family's name. He would be the one to keep the family name going strong, though Josiah was also there but being the youngest, he didn't stand much of a chance against Walter.
Their aunt, Lucinda, didn't like the idea of her nieces and nephew being in the care of nannies and she tried her best to get them away from the nannies as much as possible. The only ones that really took to being with their aunt were Anabelle and Naomi. Josiah, while she realized that spending time with her aunt was better than spending time with a bunch of nannies, did not take to her as much being of her particular likes. Anabelle connected with Lucinda more because she had always been curious about muggle things and she had learned that her aunt was what she liked to call herself, a "muggle-watcher".
Muggles were always a somewhat.. forbidden thing for the Mulciber siblings. This made an interest in the non magical humans peak within Ana and caused her to grow very close to Lucinda. Another thing that drew both Naomi and Ana's attention was Lucinda's love for the Japanese culture. Josiah, having a very flighty personality was always changing her mind about the things she liked, which wasn't exactly strange for a child, eventually ended up losing interest in the Japanese culture and her like for muggles began fading as well. Ana's interest in both never faded, in fact it was always growing, no matter how old she got.
HOGWARTS YEARS: First Year: When she received her letter to attend Hogwarts, her parents were initially not going to let her attend. Walter had already been at Hogwarts for a year and they knew it wasn't a bad school as Alexander had graduated from said school. They wanted to send her to Beauxbatons, as well as Naomi. They thought it would be a good experience for the girls to go to school in a different area from the boys. However, thanks to Lucinda's advice, they decided that Anabelle and Naomi would not be separated from their brothers and they would all go to the same school, and that school would be Hogwarts. Her first year didn't go as planned when she learned that her parents were completely beside themselves with anger because she had been sorted into Gryffindor of all houses. She wasn't too sure what to expect of the house as she had come from a family who had pretty much all been Slytherins from her father's side. She actually quickly came to like the house and that just ended up making matters worse for herself.
Second Year: Nothing of much importance happened during Anabelle's second year, during the year itself. An important event occurred the summer of her second year, one that would change her family and her ability to see her aunt Lucinda. Apparently, her aunt was getting married that July, but to whom no one really knew. Well, everyone except Anabelle. She knew who her aunt was getting married to, however she refused to say a word because she knew the harm it would cause if her parents found out, particularly her father. Lucinda was going to marry a half Japanese, half English muggle man named Raphael whom she and Anabelle had met during a summer trip to Japan a couple of years ago, just before she started school. Anabelle liked the man very much and she thought her aunt would be happy with him, except for the part about her family disliking muffles, of course. Raphael wasn't a bad person though, he'd even started calling her Hitamé or Hit for short, a nickname that was based off of the Japanese name Hitomi(which broken down is a combination of "Hito" meaning wisdom and intellect + "mi" meaning beautiful) because he was always telling her what a beautiful and intelligent young lady she was. It quickly became a very important name to her and she would start using it more than her birth name everywhere.
Third Year: Aside from not being allowed to see her aunt anymore, she had moved to Japan with Raphael after being disowned by her father, not much happened in her third year. She began to meet new people, interact with others from different houses, she rarely saw her siblings. Xem, which she had begun to call her older brother as a joke but was now just her nickname for him, was practically avoiding her because she was a Gryffindor and he a Slytherin. It was Naomi's first year and she had also been sorted to Gryffindor like her so she spent more time with her than him because he began pushing her away as well. Josiah was still a year away from being able to go to Hogwarts and Hit had a funny feeling that he would be a Slytherin as well. So their family would be divided by what the Sorting Hat had chosen for them.
Fourth Year: This was the year Josiah was finally able to come to Hogwarts. Hitamé could feel her nervousness during the Sorting Ceremony when it was Josiah's turn. The hat seemed to take an eternity for her, and for Josiah too no doubt, but when it screamed out Slytherin, she felt her heart drop a bit because what she had thought actually came true. Xem would no doubt take Josiah under his wing, having three years over him in school and he would tell him to have as little contact with his sisters as possible. It made her sad but she knew that even without Xem's help, Josiah would eventually push the two of them away anyways. During that year, Hit had an encounter with a drug that had been given to her by a girl who was a year younger than her but she ended up befriending because of said drug. She became addicted to it, but she did not want anyone knowing, so she tried to hide it as best as she could.
Fifth Year: Her fifth year was possibly the worst year of her life. It had started out okay, this year being the one where she had gotten involved with Potter's Army. She had joined because her closest friends, ex-Hufflepuffs Ryo and Sauyri, had joined during their time in Hogwarts and she had been curious about it. She was nervous, at first, when she heard about what they were as her family fought along side the opposite faction and she thought everyone would think of her as some sort of spy or something worse. But when she attended her first meeting, she noticed that even Slytherins attended and that a couple of them were from families the same as hers. The part that made the year the worst for her was when Naomi showed up to a meeting, saying that she had also joined, and later on when there was a battle between both sides her younger sister had gone missing. She didn't want to believe that the Death Eaters had taken her, they knew she was a Mulciber.. but that could have made things worse for her. She didn't need more things to worry about now that she was still somewhat struggling to get away from the drug she had been exposed to the previous year.
As much as she hadn't wanted to ask her father for help, she knew she had to and if the Death Eaters had taken her for some reason then she would have to have been with their father at some point. But when she heard back from Alexander, he told her he hadn't seen or heard from her. Later on, Hit would find out that she had been kidnapped but not by any of the factions but by a psychotic man who got a kick out of torturing people. After Naomi's disappearance, there had been others that had gone through the same thing but those people eventually came back with horrid stories to tell. Naomi hadn't come back and Hit, along with Ryo and a couple of other friends, decided they were going to look for her. Some thought Naomi was dead already but if she was some trace of her would have been found by now.
After searching for the last few months of the school year and most of the summer, Naomi finally came back. But she was different. She seemed.. darker and angry, when she came back. Hit tried to talk to her but Naomi would always lash out at her whenever she got near her, saying she abandoned her and she hated her. Those words really hurt Hit, she couldn't handle losing her sister, especially since she didn't know what she had done wrong. She tried explaining to Naomi that she had been searching for her the entire time, but the younger girl would not believe it. Naomi left Potter's Army, and Hit had a sinking feeling that she would join the Dark Followers now, just as her brothers had. They would all follow in their father's footsteps, leaving Hit to finally be the black sheep of the family. A Gryffindor, Potter's Army member Mulciber. Hit isolated herself from he family after that, not knowing what else she was supposed to do, they all seemed to hate her. The only person she had left in that family was Lucinda, who she wasn't even allowed to speak to and she wasn't even near her anyways, she had moved to Japan with Raphael.
So really, the only people she had left were Ryo, who had graduated a few years before, and Sayuri, who had graduated two years prior. When she going home at the end of the year on the train, she found herself sitting with two other Gryffindor girls and Slytherin boy who kept staring at her. Hit didn't pay much attention to him, only talking to her two housemates and she was shaken up when she realized the train did not end up where it was supposed to.
(I included things that happened to Hit before, like the Sugar addiction and Naomi hating her and such, but if anything doesn't work, let me know. Also, she's going to be in Ilvermorny as well.)
ADULTHOOD: Close but not yet.
ALSO KNOWN AS: Kim/Hit
RP EXPERIENCE: Almost four years
HOW YOU FOUND US: Former member
MAIN CHARACTER: Kaiden? Nah, Hit.
Last edited by Anabelle "Hit" Mulciber on Tue Aug 30, 2016 4:39 pm; edited 5 times in total
Anabelle Mulciber
Sixth Year Gryffindor
Special Abilities : Seer
Occupation : Prefect, Transfiguration Aide
Re: MULCIBER, Anabelle "Hitame" Violet
by Anabelle Mulciber on Tue Aug 16, 2016 7:01 pm
Alright! I think she's done. I hope. Maybe.
by Khaat Lupin on Tue Aug 16, 2016 8:13 pm
she looks fine to me. i can see where you had some difficulties in blending hitame with ana, so i'm hoping that doesn't end up being an issue as you go forward with her, but you certainly can try. don't be surprised if you find you feel like doing a bit more editing somehow or another as you go forward with her.
accepted and sorted to gryffindor!
Khaat Lupin
Special Abilities : Energy Worker, Medium, Heightened Sensitivity
Occupation : Director of St. Mungos, Owner of Sparks Bistro
Okay Thanks Khaat!
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