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Editor's Introduction:
On March 25th, 2017, the collective Florida scene put on a BMX event loosely based around the idea of wild "southern" BMX fun. The Florideah Swampfest looked to many of us like events we had seen in the past (See FBM's Ghetto Street and the Bone Deth Jam). The chaotic and loose environment at this event is somewhat standard in BMX culture and the ridiculous and offensive things spray-painted on ramps and obstacles were nothing new to the BMX-event experience. As coverage of the event spread across social media, a few offensive things did draw attention as possibly having crossed the line into "actually offensive" as opposed to "ironically offensive." The flying of a Confederate flag as well as a Gay Pride flag--debatably upside-down--turned more than a few heads. The first serious treatment of this issue was seen over at Can You Dig It, where one of the editors wrote a piece addressing the complex issues surrounding the Confederate flag, the south, and racism. Shortly thereafter, I was contacted by Chelsea Fietsgodin to see if Imprimatur would host another response to the issues at-hand in order to give another perspective--one both pertinent and connected directly to the event, the flags, and the location. That response is below.
- Mike Hinkens, Editor
by Chelsea Fietsgodin
I'm coming in a little late on this but I feel that it needs to be discussed. Jon at Can You Dig It made a post questioning the flags on the roll in at the Florideah Swamp Fest. The controversial flags were a Confederate flag and a gay pride flag allegedly being flown upside down. I write this as a member of the Florida BMX community, as a member of the LGBT community two-fold, and as a southerner with a bachelor's degree in political science that understands why the Confederate flag is not an appropriate symbol of our heritage. I want to explain the situation from my perspective so people can learn from it as well as to help prevent the Florida BMX scene from getting a bad wrap as a bunch of racist homophobic hics. I've come across too many people that I know can do better dismissing Jon's post because they feel like he just wants to ruin a good time that was had at an event that he didn't attend. As someone who did attend and thoroughly enjoyed the event, my purpose here is to confirm and amplify Jon's voice and then use my voice to speak on the aspects that affect me.
Prior to being approached about this situation I read Jon's post on Can You Dig It and fully agree with what was said regarding the Confederate flag. I hold the same sentiments and I commend Jon and Can You Dig It for making a statement, even if it is unpopular. Simply, if one's sense of pride stems from a history fraught with violence and oppression, we need to consider why exactly that pride is felt. As a Florida native, the Confederacy is something that I feel shame for as one would expect a German to feel shame for the swastika and the associated history. I'm as proud as the next person to be from Florida, and the Florida BMX scene, but we have the state flag and an endless supply of flogrown stickers to express that without honoring a stain on our history.
I wasn't involved in the flying of the Confederate flag at the Florideah Swampfest (short of not taking a stand and tearing it down) so I cannot speak to the specific reasons the flag was flown in the first place however, knowing Trey and Jeff, I know that their motives were not malicious. Jeff has replied to the original article with an apology and explanation that the flag was flown to express southern pride. As mentioned and to be explained in a moment, I believe this was misguided and we should learn from this discussion that this symbol is hurtful and should be replaced with something else. There may also have been an element of sarcasm as everything at this event was a joke and mockery of American society as whole, but as a majority-white group this is not our joke to make (as proven by the negative emotions felt by those affected). Their offense is not misguided and they have every right to claim ownership of the meanings of the Confederate flag as the people who have been negatively impacted by the ideals which it has and continues to espouse.
I do not believe that most of the people supporting the flying of the confederate flag are overtly racist. They may genuinely believe that it is not a symbol of violence, hatred, and white supremacy. Their belief, however unfounded in the facts and the history of the flag, is that it represents resistance to a tyrannical government. I understand why the idea of a symbol that represents that concept would sound enticing to people who are into this type of event (it serves as the best alternative reprieve from the hyper-organization that BMX is currently facing); however the Confederate flag is a terrible symbol to use for this. Aside from its seemingly obvious history of white supremacy, the Confederacy was simply another government just like the Union in many ways. Ironically, the modern southern states which historically belonged to the Confederacy tend to be the ones that over-regulate citizens' personal lives. I mean hell, they want to illegalize me taking a piss in a public bathroom.
It is not up for debate whether the Confederate flag has origins stemming from white supremacy. There may have been other initial intentions and there may be some now, but you cannot realistically divorce the Confederate flag from some connection to the toxic and unacceptable white supremacy it has been tainted with. It can be seen clearly in the negativity created by the decision to display the flag at the Florideah Swamp Fest that it is not removed from its violent past. The people who are offended by this are not grasping for straws to ruin a good time. They are experiencing genuine hurt because of the insensitivity and disregard for their legitimate complaints of oppression. What tarnished an otherwise perfect weekend was the ignoring of the fact that the people who have experienced the negativity that this symbol has promoted and continues to promote are not accommodated for nor supported in our community. Whatever the flag means to you as a supporter of it does not matter because your intentions are irrelevant when the results of your actions create a rift in our community. A community that we pride ourselves on as being diverse and inclusive. White people have not been victimized by the negative impacts of white supremacy to understand what the flag promotes and if we disregard the voices of our fellow riders for the sake of keeping the vibe non-political we are promoting white supremacy by default.
In the larger sense, I've also seen a lot of "I didn't own slaves" excuses, which isn't entirely an absolution from past sins because many of our ancestors did own slaves and the wealth that the institution provided has grown into our modern economy. Additionally, once slavery was abolished (sort of) the division of race was used by the bourgeoisie (upper class) whites to foster a beneficial relationship with the proletariat (working class) whites in an alliance against colored minorities. The reason that the United States went from small and dependent colonies to an economic powerhouse is because we exploited slaves to build our infrastructure and create our goods and agriculture for trade. The wealth that was stolen by slave owners was invested into the country and the stock market when modern capitalism rose. All done while ignoring the needs of the newly "freed" blacks. The hundreds of years of slavery and decades more of de jure (upheld by law) discrimination have created gaps in the state of well-being between races before we even consider the effects of de facto (socially upheld) discrimination. Even today fully legal slavery exists within the United States. The 14th Amendment only abolished slavery except for as punishment for a crime. With that in mind, think about who is in jail and why.
"The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people," former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper's writer Dan Baum…"
"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities," Ehrlichman said. "We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/ - March 24, 2016
The goal that everyone involved has in mind is to be able to think back on the Florideah Swamp Fest and remember only the good times. The event was everything that we hoped it would be and more and I feel bad for anyone who missed it. Realistically, only good times were had during the weekend itself. It was a fine example of the BMX community coming together to create something great. As is pointed out by many defending the use of the Confederate flag, the cast of people who attended the event was diverse. What I hope we learn from the negativity post-event is that we can avoid this type of problem in the future by promoting inclusion for everyone. The more people we can bring together to get stoked on tiny bikes and miniature explosions the better. To foster growth in that direction we must listen to our fellow riders when we've done something to hurt them. I hope that we can extend our southern hospitality to all guests.
In regards to the gay pride flag being flown upside-down: as a queer trans woman I can honestly say that I and many of my friends don't know if there even is a right side up and which side that may be. (Edit: after extensive research [I asked around] a friend has confirmed that the flag was upside down.) If there is a right way I can assure you that the finer points of pride flying etiquette are too obscure for Trey and Jeff and whoever might have put it there to know what they are. Even if the flag were flown intentionally upside down I can say with absolute confidence that it would have been done as a sarcastic means of voicing support because I experience extremely positive support as a member of the LGBT community in the Florida BMX scene. When I walked in and saw the pride flag on the roll in I felt positive emotions as it made me think of how much the FL BMX community supports me. That being said I understand why, given the context of the misguided flying of the Confederate flag, Jon may have worried that it was malicious so I want to stress that his reaction was not a reach to get attention and I appreciate his support for my community.
For us Floridians, this is a wonderful opportunity to learn from a past mistake as well as educate a young and impressionable segment of the population that probably doesn't pay too much attention in history class. Do not pass up this opportunity to grow. All we ask for is an open mind. This event was a slip up because many involved genuinely did not know better. This moment is a an educational one. Support for the Confederacy and any of its imagery will be taken as support for white supremacy. And that is not welcome in our community.
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Student-athletes honored, visit NC Sports Hall of Fame
Written by EARL VAUGHAN JR.
A group of student-athletes and chaperones from Cape Fear High School was among the 258 student-athletes from all over North Carolina participating in the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame's Salute To Student-Athlete Program earlier this year.
The program recognized students from across the state and exposed them to the many positive lessons to be learned from North Carolina's outstanding sports heritage.
Those attending from Cape Fear included student athletes Mark Burks, Jaylen Hudson, Matt Raynor, Walker Brittain, Amelia Shook and Taylor Melvin. The chaperones included Amey Shook and Kelly Melvin.
A total of 39 different schools from 21 different counties across the state were represented by the student-athletes who attended the program.
The two-day event included a special reception and attendance at ceremonies where the newest class of inductees to the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame were inducted at the Raleigh Convention Center. On the following day, the student-athletes toured the state's hall of fame exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of History and participated in a seminar involving some of North Carolina's most celebrated sports figures.
Speakers at the seminar included former UNCChapel Hill basketball star Phil Ford, former professional football star Jeff Bostic and a special panel discussion featuring several members of the induction class.
The student-athletes were invited to sign up for Hall Pass, a free program that offers special opportunities. Each Hall Pass member receives interesting information about the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame and the state's sports heritage, including a monthly newsletter and special features in advance before the general public. Any student athlete can sign up to become a Hall Pass member by visiting www.ncshof.org and clicking on Hall Pass.
N.C. Sports Hall of Fame members being inducted this year included golfer Donna Andrews, former major league baseball player Scott Bankhead, Olympic speedskater Joey Cheek, former Duke football star Wes Chesson, champion surfer and basketball standout Mindy Ballou Fitzpatrick, football coach and administrator Bill Hayes, college baseball coach Mike Martin, major league umpire Joe West and Charlotte Hornets executive Fred Whitfield.
Posthumous inductees were high school coaching legends Jack Holley and Paul Jones, tennis standout Laura DuPont, former major league baseball players Hal "Skinny" Brown and Jakie May, and former N.C. State baseball all-American Chris Cammack of Fayetteville.
PHOTO: L to R: Dr. Jerry McGee, Lilly Terwilliger, Mark Burks, Jaylen Hudson, Tyler Britt, Amelia Shook.

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TIFF 2012 Wishlist
I am waiting with anticipation for this morning's press conference for TIFF2012, so thought perhaps I should make a list of what I hope I'm going to see amongst the announcements:
1. Gangs of Wasseypur Parts 1 and 2
It's no secret that director Anurag Kashyap is a favorite around these parts. I've seen all his films, and it's been killing me that I've yet to see Gangs of Wasseypur 1, even as they're gearing up for the release of Part 2 in India. So I would love to see both parts come to TIFF. Both parts showed at Cannes (Un Certain Regard), and Part 1 is releasing in France this week, so here's the trailer for the French release, with subtitles:
2. Miss Lovely
Ashim Ahluwalia's film was screened in the Un Certain Regard category at Cannes this year, and features Nawazzudin Siddiqui, (who has become a pretty hot property in the last few months -- he's also in Gangs of Wasseypur) and Anil George as two Ramsey-like brothers who work in the C movie industry, making pulpy, soft-porn laced horror pictures.
3. Aiyya
Aiyya is directed by Sachin Kundalkar, but it's produced by Totally Filmi Casa Fave Anurag Kashyap. It is, of course, the Bollywood debut of Malayalam cinema star Prithviraj, pairing him with another Casa Fave, the delectable Rani Mukherjee. I sort of thought this would be a good bet for TIFF, but now I'm not so sure -- apparently the original release date of September 28th has been pushed back, and the film is now supposed to release the end of October. So, although I would adore to see this at TIFF, I'm sort of suspecting it might not be ready (even if it were a candidate). No trailer, because one hasn't been released yet.
4. Talaash
I adored director Rima Kagti's first film, Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd, and have been really looking forward to Talaash, which stars festival favorite Aamir Khan, along with Rani Mukherjee and Kareena Kapoor (not to mention that hot fave, Nawazzudin Siddiqui. But the film's release is currently in a bit of limbo, and it's not certain the film will be finished in time for TIFF. I'm crossing my fingers though -- I would so love to see it in this year's line-up.
5. Heroine
Director Madhur Bhandarkar is set to bring us the behind-the-scenes story of a Bollywood superstar heroine, played by Kareena Kapoor. I think it's a good bet to show at TIFF -- perhaps in the City-to-City category, because Bhandarkar is no stranger to films set in Mumbai (this year's featured city). Chandi Bar featured Tabu as a woman who ends up working in the city's dance bars; Page 3 has the delightful Konkona Sen Sharma as a young woman who comes to Mumbai to work as a journalist, and who ends up covering celebrities on the titular Page 3; Traffic Signal documents the lives of people who live around a traffic signal in Mumbai.
(And I just had to edit this post to add in the just-released Heroine trailer. I would totally not be unhappy to see this at TIFF2012):
6. Peddlers
This is another film that was screened at Cannes (International Critics week), and I, for one, am dying to see Vasan Bala's directorial debut. It's another City-to-City candidate, as it's the story of two young guys who fall into Mumbai's drug trade and the cop who stalks them. It's also another Anurag Kashyap production (and yes, I'm as interested in what he produces as in what he makes himself).
7. Life of Pi
Ang Lee's adapation of Yann Martel's novel -- and yes, I want to see it for a number of reasons, but mostly because the adult Pi is played by Irrfan Khan, and also because Pi's mother is played by Tabu. I'm also curious about Suraj Sharma's debut performance as Pi.
8. Midnight's Children
When I first read Salman Rushdie's epic book about partition, I adored it. When I first heard it was going to be made into a film, I wondered how it could be possible. I can't wait to find out if Deepa Mehta will succeed in bringing it to the big screen. But the cast list is delicious, and I think it's probably a safe bet to say this will be a big film at this year's TIFF.
Posted on Tuesday, 24 July 2012 at 09:17 in TIFF City to City, TIFF2012 | Permalink
Tags: Aiyya, Ang Lee, Anurag Kashyap, Ashim Ahluwalia, Deepa Mehta, Gangs of Wasseypur, Heroine, Life of Pi, Madhur Bhandarkar, Midnight's Children, Miss Lovely, Peddlers, Rima Kagti, Sachin Kundalkar, Talaash, Vasan Bala
Thank you so much for this list! There are a couple of films on your list that I'm also really looking forward to, Heroine and Talaash. Mostly, though, I wam grateful for your mentioing Midnight's Children, reminmding me that i's one of those "why haven't I read this yet?" books, and prompting me to correct that as soon as possible. That way, I'll be in a positrion to see if Mehta can bounce back from the disappointing Water.
Posted by: Maxqnz | Tuesday, 24 July 2012 at 17:27
And I forgot to add Mira Nair's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which is on the list of films coming to TIFF -- as is Midnight's Children (probably no secret there, really).
For a while I thought Talaash might make the list, but now I'm not so sure. Cameron Bailey did a little hemming and deflecting about it in an interview earlier in the week. That could just be him not wanting to give anything away, but I think there is a question of when exactly that film is going to be ready.
The biggest surprise today was to hear that Gauri Shinde's English Vinglish is getting a premiere spot at the festival. I think that's a nice testament to the importance of Sridevi in Indian cinema, that her comeback film is worthy of a prime spot at TIFF.
Posted by: katherine | Tuesday, 24 July 2012 at 17:47


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I Witness History: I, Horn of Africa
January/February 2018 PDF I Witness History
Written by Frank Holt // Illustration by Norman MacDonald
Let me give you some sound advice. We all live in a world of noise. Mine echoed with the grunts of crocodiles, the tramp of cattle, the banter of workmen and the wails of mourners. Yours endures the rumble of traffic, the pounding of jackhammers, the blare of televisions and the thump-thump-thumps escaping alike from nearby headphones and helicopters. In all this chaos and cacophony, your ears struggle to identify the sounds that matter: Is that my car backfiring? Are those crocs near my feet? Is there an aircraft landing on me, or is that just the heavy bass of someone's playlist? You need help, and that's where I come in. At least I did, long ago.
Called a sheneb in the language of the pharaohs, I am a royal trumpet. I was invented to cut through useless noise and let it be known that something important should be heeded. In full-throated blare, I announced to his people the god-king's arrival on state occasions; I summoned worshipers to religious observances; I even commanded armies on the battlefield. Whereas your modern trumpets play, we sheneb worked for our livings. Our mission was never to make idle toes tap, but to bring order to the world around pharaoh. We were the ultimate communication technology of our day—megaphones, microphones and mass media all in one.
Our usefulness made us the mainstays of war and religion throughout the Middle East. My ancestors spread across North Africa and then into Spain and far beyond. In many places, the sheneb-like nafir still trumpets during Ramadan, and some say your English word "fanfare" actually derives from al-nafir. Many diverse believers expect us to make the final sounds of this world on Judgment Day. This expectation reminds me of the Egyptian legend that it was Osiris, lord and judge of the underworld, who invented the very first sheneb.
Sadly, only two of my family members survive from the long age of the pharaohs. Both of us were buried together in the legendary tomb of Tutankhamun. For years, my brother and I had given voice to the boy-king's every command. Our different pitches allowed the right people to respond appropriately to our distinct calls, much as you program your cell phones with personal ringtones. Do not doubt, however, that I commanded the greater respect, as established by my fancier uniform. I, glistening in silver and gold, am the general; my little brother is my adjutant. I stand 58.2 centimeters tall, whereas he is shorter and made of copper alloy. My shape resembles, quite deliberately, a tall lotus in bloom. In fact, the unmistakable design of Nymphae caerulea Savigny has been pressed indelibly into my bell. There, too, a pair of my pharaoh's many names may be read, recorded in two sets of cartouches that spell out Nebkheperuretutankhamun, followed by one of his royal titles. These hieroglyphs have been oriented so as always to be read from the vantage point of the trumpeter, meaning that no matter who might sound me on his behalf, I am the voice of Tut himself.
As a sheneb, I lack the separate, cupped mouthpiece found on modern trumpets, nor do I have those three valves to vary my length and, thereby, my pitch. This means that I cannot hum a tune, not even something as simple as a bugle's "Taps" or "Reveille." My natural voice is limited to a single harsh note (Greek writer Plutarch later likened me to "a braying ass"), but in my day a sheneb's bold intonation could not be ignored: "Heed Pharaoh, Lord of the two lands," say I! My voice carried across the Nile Valley, resonated with conviction and communicated in limited pitch, but with long or staccato bursts, rather like your simple Morse code.
Producing this sound was hard on the trumpeter. The trumpeter gripped me tightly by the throat, usually with both hands, and with a firm kiss issued the requisite number of blasts to convey pharaoh's bidding. This took skill and stamina; in fact, the Greeks later made trumpeting an Olympic sport.
Because I needed to be with Tut wherever he traveled, in peace and in war, I required a wooden insert to protect me from dents and other damage. This body double, called a core or stopper, preserved my shape during the busy nine years of my pharaoh's reign, and for the 33 centuries since. Painted red, blue and green to appear also as a lotus, this core is removed only when I am called upon to speak for pharaoh. In some Egyptian artwork, the trumpeter can be seen cradling the stopper under his arm while blowing the horn itself. Given my long tubular construction, I am ironically a fragile thing of power—as one of your bumbling modern musicians can personally attest. You will soon learn that after what he did to me, I am lucky to be alive.
Imagine pharaoh's palace, filled with people, all answering to my every call.
Many of you would shudder at all I have seen and signaled. Imagine pharaoh's palace, filled with people, all answering to my every call. Picture grand processions marshaling under my orders. Contemplate the thunderous ranks of the god-king's army as it wheeled at my whim. I sounded off at the center of it all, at a time when Egypt was the envy of the world. With me at his side, Tutankhamun restored to pre-eminence the ancestral gods of the Nile after the experiment of his predecessor Akhenaten, who had embraced monotheism. Egypt's priests and generals found fresh hope in the reign of the boy-pharaoh whose potent voice I was. All seemed well.
Then, in a year now called 1323 BCE, I fell silent alongside my pharaoh. No one knows to this day exactly what illness or injury transformed Tut from living Horus to resurrected Osiris. The news that winter came as a terrible shock, since he had been idolized as the very image of youthful vitality in spite of his limp. Tutankhamun stood 1.7 meters tall, less than three times my own height, but he towered in the minds of his people. He smiled with unusually healthy teeth (a sheneb notices), and he enjoyed an adventurous if abbreviated life. Tut had a great fondness for chariots, and it is still rumored that a violent crash may have injured his left thigh and contributed to his death. No royal tomb was ready to receive him so young, thus attendants piled into a borrowed grave the treasures of this fallen teenager: six of his favorite chariots, eight fine shields, four swords and daggers, 50 bows and other weaponry. They also stacked boxes, beds and model boats. Clothing and cosmetics vied for space next to jewelry and jugs of wine. Even the two tiny mummies of Tut's stillborn children were stowed inside the tomb. I, along with my brother, joined pharaoh in these cramped quarters—he in the antechamber, but I more prestigiously in the burial chamber, my mouthpiece oriented toward Tut.
Before taking my place beside the royal sarcophagus, I let skilled artists attire me for the occasion. They added to my gilded bell a design showing the triad of Egyptian deities: Amun-Ra, Ptah, and Ra-Horakhty. These particular gods embodied all the worthies of the vast Egyptian pantheon, perhaps as a final repudiation of Akhenaten's heresy. They also represented three divisions of pharaoh's army. Thus, the decoration that altered me from active sheneb to funerary offering had the added benefit of pleasing both the priests and the generals of Tutankhamun's entourage. This must have been the brilliant idea of old Aye, who buried my pharaoh and soon became the next god-king of Egypt.
Do not imagine, in your modern way, that in that dark abyss I despaired. Along the Nile, the buried stay busy. Tut the eternal teenager lived on; I could hear his bird-like ba (soul/ personality) come and go as it pleased, its flight unhindered by the eight meters of rock above us. Sometimes, I sensed tremors as workmen nearby chiseled out more tombs, followed by the faint trudge of feet as funeral followed funeral in the Valley of the Kings. I now know that a tomb begun by Ramses v crossed directly over Tut's and continued 116 meters into the rock, angling over the tomb of Horemheb (whom I knew as one of Tut's generals) and eventually crashing into the tunnels of yet another grave! It was like a gigantic ant farm.
Yet, not every sound was welcomed. Three times impious tomb robbers disturbed the king and me. The first came early in Tut's afterlife. Brutes broke through the outer doorways of the tomb and rifled through the pharaoh's personal effects. Their unclean hands pawed at Tut's jewelry, perfumes, oils, linens and even the chest that contained my copper brother in the antechamber. Thankfully, local authorities swooped in and restored order to the violated sepulcher. The heavy doors were resealed, only to be breached a short time later by more determined thieves. They prowled the entire tomb, passing right by me on their way to the so-called treasury.
Much was taken, but so were some of the robbers. I suppose these captives were tortured and then impaled according to custom. A great deal is known about the tomb robbers of ancient Thebes thanks to the survival of their case files. Papyrus records immortalize their misdeeds. I am ashamed to say that a sheneb player named Perpethewemōpe was among the worst of these thieves. He dared supplement his wages by plunder and even falsely accused a fellow trumpeter named Amenkhau, with whom he had a grudge.
In Tutankhamun's tomb the mess was heartbreaking. The royal scribe Djehutymose inventoried the disheveled tomb and hastily repacked its contents, leaving me beside the king's burial shrine, wrapped in reeds beneath a beautiful alabaster lamp. There I lay contented until the third— and worst—of the plunderings.
For a very long time the funerals had ceased, but then the digging began again. I noted the noise of tramping feet above and wondered what pharaohs now were seeking their rest. Little did I know that a new kind of grave robber was looking for me. I heard their leader long before I saw him. He spoke an alien language, and he directed his band of thieves with annoying patience, as though he had no concern at all for the necropolis police. He called himself "Howard Carter," "Englishman" and "archeologist." According to his strange calendar, his gang found the first hidden steps leading down to Tutankhamun's tomb on November 4, 1922. I could hear their scrabbling and their excited chatter, and then it suddenly stopped. For some reason, the men reburied the entrance they had found. I learned later that the looters had decided to wait for the arrival of Howard Carter's overlord, a rich man with almost as many names and titles as Pharaoh: "George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, fifth Earl of Carnarvon." When he and his daughter Evelyn arrived, the shoveling began again in earnest. A few days later, I heard someone bang a hole through the antechamber door; the next day, the robbers entered. From the other side of the sealed passageway to the burial chamber, I could hear them.
Knowing something of tomb robbery, I was not surprised by what transpired next. Late one night, three of the band—Carter, Carnarvon and Lady Evelyn—tunneled into the burial chamber looking for the body of Pharaoh. I bristled as they stepped past me, taking note of their faces in the pale but painful flicker of their candles. Light of any kind had long been banished from my world. I wanted to sound an alarm but could not myself remove the protective core inside my throat.
Muted, I watched the robbers creep away. They painstakingly concealed the breach they had made in the door as if to deceive the necropolis police. Many months would pass before two of them came back; the third had apparently died in the meantime from the infected bite of an insect, and his demise was immediately blamed on Tut, just as I would eventually be accused of killing Howard Carter—along with 60 million other of his fellow humans.
On February 16, 1923, Carter and his crew "officially" opened the burial chamber in the presence of a small audience seated comfortably in the antechamber. Few of these spectators knew anything about the secret intrusion made some weeks earlier, so the robbers feigned surprise at everything they found, including me. I was scooped from the floor and studied, as recorded in Carter's notes. I was given an unpleasant cleansing in ammonia and water; my wooden core was treated with something called celluloid. In a letter he later wrote, Carter let slip another of his little secrets involving me: "Though I am no expert with such musical instruments, I managed to get a good blast out of it which broke the silence of the Valley." Yet the alarm I finally sounded (in Tut's name, you recall) brought no one—no necropolis police, no royal troops, no one at all. Where had they all gone? Incensed at such insubordination, I soon was posted to the Egyptian Museum at Cairo, 600 kilometers away from the crypt and king to whom I still belonged.
I fumed without another sound until February 1933, when I was summoned before a visitor named Percival Kirby, who had taken a keen interest in all the musical instruments of Africa. Naturally, he wished to study me. With the encouragement of my museum keeper, this professor put me to his lips and the one loud note that he produced was, on your Western musical scale, a C.
Six years later, I spoke up again, but in a strange new way. A radio pioneer named Rex Keating arranged for me to broadcast a message from the Cairo Museum that would be heard all around the world. Keating, of course, knew that I could only issue a single note, and this he deemed unworthy of the event. So, he allowed a military trumpeter stationed in Egypt to stuff a modern mouthpiece down my throat in order to play some sort of tune. During the second rehearsal, the strain was too much, and I cracked. Then and there, in the presence of a latter-day pharaoh named Farouk, I fell to pieces. The horrified king, trumpeter and museum staffers dropped to their knees and scrambled to recover my broken remains. All witnesses to this disaster were sworn to secrecy, lest the world be outraged at my mistreatment. While experts labored feverishly to restore me to life, much as Isis had done for Osiris, Keating searched for a more reliable musician. He chose a British bandsman named James Tappern, who treated me with greater respect according to my superior rank.
The one loud note he produced was, on your Western musical scale, a C.
At the appointed hour on an April evening in 1939, Keating and Carter's old associate Alfred Lucas introduced me to millions of rapt listeners. A BBC announcer with a sonorous voice intoned with all the gravity he could muster: "The Trumpets of Pharaoh Tutankhamun! Lord of the Crowns, King of the South and North, Son of Ra!" On cue, trumpeter Tappern, using a modern mouthpiece now held safely in place by cotton batting, teased from me notes I had never heard in my life. I was quite shrill, climbing in flourishes well above my native C, all to Keating's great satisfaction. Tappern made me perform something called the "Post-horn Gallup," a lively tune unknown to the sheneb of ancient Egypt. I suppose this exploit was therefore historic, if not quite historical. I am told that my performance can still be heard by anyone at any time simply by searching through a communications maze called Internet. On that day my adjutant brother played a little, too, but no one paid him much heed. I, on the other hand, apparently killed.
Many frightened listeners insisted that my voice unleashed a curse, one that murdered, at that very moment, my abductor, Howard Carter. This was nonsense, of course: He had already expired several weeks earlier. No less surprising, many people even claim that I caused the carnage you call the Second World War. My mighty voice allegedly summoned to battle a host of nations wielding weapons no pharaoh imagined. I vow I gave no such order! As I said, Tappern's mouthpiece gave me a modern voice, not an authentic mandate from either my pharoah or ancient Egypt. Keating had apparently been warned that listeners might misunderstand me, especially given the infamous "Curse of King Tut's Tomb" that allegedly began with the death of Lord Carnarvon. I must say such talk of murderous mummies reflects poorly on your civilization. Statistics actually show that Carter's gang lived full lives that generally exceeded the norms of the time: Carnarvon died at 57, Carter at 65, Lucas at 78, and Lady Evelyn at 79.
I have only performed twice more since that day. In 1941 I sounded a few notes as part of an acoustic experiment conducted at the Cairo Museum. Later, in January 1975, I blared another brief solo. The trumpeter, famed musician Philip Jones, said of me: "Its sound was not exactly melodious ... but it was probably the most thrilling experience I shall have as a trumpet player."
Probably? Can you think of anything grander than touching your lips to the sheneb of Tutankhamun? I am sure he spoke in jest—after all, I am the horn of Africa. Those present were among the last ever to hear a sound from an ancient civilization.
Now, given my advancing age and recent misadventures, I may never sound again, although, in the fashion of your civilization, I have been on tour for some time now. I have been traveling first class again, learning along the way that beyond my native Nile, many lands exist. Your towns are of course much harder to pronounce than my Tjeb-nut-jer, Hut-Tahery-Ibt, and Taya-Dja-yet. Go ahead, try to say them: Fort Lauderdale, Chicago, Dallas, London, Melbourne. I find the fan-frenzied exhibitions in these exotic places fascinating from my side of the glass. Children no older than Tut when he ruled an empire crowd around my case, their mouths blowing into their little fists as if to make me speak. Kids naturally appreciate anything meant to make a noise. They jostle and joke about mummies and curses, while their elders hum a trumpet-laden parody linked to a certain Steve Martin and his band, the "Toot Uncommons." Apparently, Tut was once celebrated in a festival called Saturday Night Live. I watch these antics indulgently, mindful that you honor Nebkheperure Tutankhamun in your outlandish way even as I, still dressed for his funeral, cherish for eternity his memory in my traditional fashion.
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I Witness History
Norman MacDonald
When artist Norman MacDonald compared his own brushes, inks and watercolors in his Amsterdam studio to records of those in Egypt as long as 3,500 years ago, he says he "realized again how little the tools of a painter's craft have changed."
Frank L. Holt
Frank L. Holt ([email protected]) is professor of ancient history at the University of Houston as well as founder and director of the Houston Mummy Research Program, to whose members and contributors he expresses his thanks.
The World's Fastest Scientist
Written by Andrew A. Sicree // Photographs by Nik Wheeler
Born in the Nile Delta, Ahmed Zewail became the first scientist to record molecules while they were undergoing chemical reactions that take place in a few millions of a billionth of a second. This established the field of femtochemistry and earned him the 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In November 2009, he was appointed one of the first three US Science Envoys to the Middle East, and he passed away on August 2, 2016.


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Man working on roof dead after coworker trips, gun goes off in Riverview
by: WFLA 8 On Your Side Staff, Victoria Price
Posted: May 8, 2019 / 03:59 PM EDT / Updated: May 8, 2019 / 10:26 PM EDT
RIVERVIEW, Fla. (WFLA) – The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is investigating a homicide that occurred Wednesday afternoon.
Officers responded to the area of to the 8900 block of Riverlachen Way in Riverview sometime around 1:45 p.m. The house deputies responded to is being remodeled and no one currently lives there.
According to officials, the shooter, who is part of the construction team, said that he had just gotten out of his vehicle and was moving his gun from his waist band to his pocket when he slipped on construction debris and his gun fired.
The victim, a 44 year old man who was working on the roof, was shot. Detectives explained that the victim was roughly ten feet from the shooter's own son working on the roof at the time.
The victim was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead.
The man who shot the gun is cooperating with deputies. He told deputies that he and the victim are longtime friends.
"I'm so sorry this happened, it's just such a freak accident," said Brenda Bingham who lives next door to the house being remodeled on Riverlachen. Bingham was home when the shooting happened but said she didn't notice the gunshot because loud construction noises had been coming from next door all day.
Bingham explained the house has been under construction for about six months. She didn't know the construction workers by name but they would often chat and exchange pleasantries.
In fact, Bingham says she had been in her driveway chatting with the shooter and victim about half an hour before the gun went off.
"It's sad, it really is sad to see that happened," she added. "Very nice people."
The remodeled home's owner told News Channel 8 over the phone that his prayers go out to the friends and families of those involved.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Tampa Bay Lightning to host first-ever 'Bolts Beach Bash'
by WFLA 8 On Your Side Staff / Jul 16, 2019
CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) - Break out the hockey sticks for this beach party!
The Tampa Bay Lightning will be hosting their first-ever Bolts Beach Bash on Saturday, July 27 at Pier 60 at Clearwater Beach.
TAMPA (WFLA) - The number of times you take the trash to the curb could drop in the coming year as Hillsborough County contemplates picking up less often.
The County says as the deadline for contracts with private trash companies nears they're looking at all options before throwing any away.
by Chip Osowski / Jul 16, 2019
TAMPA (WFLA) -Residents of a South Tampa mobile home park are frustrated and upset. On Saturday, the owner of the park, Henry Williams, told them they had to move out.
Karen Leutheuser has lived in the park for the last several years. "It's devastated, everybody. Everybody's having to scramble now and find something," said Leutheuser. "Some people frankly don't have anything or anybody."


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THE HISTORY OF NOVA CAESAREA
A brief view of the discovery of America, and of the present prevailing
opinion respecting the manner it originally became peopled.
The first effectual discoverers of America among the moderns, were
Christophoro Colon, or Colombo, and Americo Vespucci, or Vesputius; of
these the former is supposed to have been a Genoese by birth, the other a
native of Florence: From him the new world took its name, yet his history
in other particulars is too intricate to afford much satisfaction.1 That
of the first under the well-known name of Christopher Columbus, is readily
traced; with him therefore we begin, as the person principally concerned
in the discovery.
He had applied himself to the study of astronomy and geography, and very
early appeared to have a more than common desire to understand the state
of all countries upon the face of the globe, and to make new discoveries;
which probably was his reason for settling at Lisbon, no nation having
push'd their discoveries further than the Portuguese at that time; here he
employed himself in drawing maps and charts, and preparing himself for
future enterprizes. He married and settled in Lisbon, was of a good
family, a grave and temperate man,2 of competent learning, studious in the
mathematicks, and from his youth bred to navigation.
What the particular motives were that induced him to search after this new
world, are not certainly known; some attribute it to informations he had
received, others to his skill in the nature of the globe; that this made
him conclude it probable there must be a great tract of land to the
westward of Spain, that it was not to be imagined the sun when it set in
that horizon gave light to nobody: Whatever gave rise to the project, a
discovery he resolved to attempt, and being unable to do it at his own
charge, he first offered his service to the Genoese, next to the king of
Portugal; not meeting with encouragement from either, he sent his
brother Bartholomew to England to offer his service to Henry the seventh:
King Henry approved his proposals; but the brother on his return being
taken by pirates, and Columbus receiving no answer, left Portugal and went
to Spain: On his application to Ferdinand and Isabella, king and queen of
Castile and Arragon, he succeeded so well, that in the year 1492, they
provided him with money, and entrusted him with three small ships for the
expedition; he also obtain'd a grant from them to be admiral of the
western seas; all civil employments as well as governments in the
continent or world to be discovered were to be wholly at his disposal; and
besides the revenues of the posts of admiral and viceroy, he was to
enjoy a tenth of all the profits arising by future conquests; his little
squadron manned only with ninety men set sail from Palos for the Canaries
the third of the month called August, 1492, and arriving at those islands
the twelfth, sailed from thence the first of September, upon his grand
design: He had not sailed a fortnight to the westward before his men began
to murmur at the enterprize; they observed the wind constantly set from
east to west, and apprehended there would be no possibility of returning
if they missed the land they were made to expect; on the nineteenth
observing birds to fly over their ships, and on the twenty-second weeds
driving by them, they began to be better satisfied, concluding they were
not far from land: they continued their course several days farther
westward, and meeting with no land, the seamen mutinied to that degree,
that they were almost ready to throw the admiral overboard, and return
home, when happily for him they saw more birds, weeds, pieces of boards,
canes, and a shrub with the berries upon it, swim by them, which made them
conjecture there must be islands thereabouts: It was on the eleventh of
October, about ten at night, that the admiral first discovered a light
upon the island of Guanahani,3 or St. Salvador, as he named it, in
consideration that the sight of it delivered him and his men from the fear
of perishing: It is one of the Bahama islands, about fifteen leagues long,
in the north latitude of 15 degrees.4 Day appearing, the ships came
to anchor very near the island; the natives crowded the shore, and beheld
the ships of these newcomers with astonishment, taking them for living
creatures.5 The admiral believing there was no great danger to be
apprehended from them, went ashore in his boat, with the royal standard,
as did the other two captains, with their colours flying, and took
possession of the country in the name of the king and queen of Spain with
great solemnity; the Indians meanwhile stood gazing at the Spaniards
without attempting to oppose them. The admiral ordered strings of glass
beads, caps and toys to be distributed among the natives, with which they
seemed much pleased: The principal ornament about them was a thin gold
plate in the form of a crescent, hanging from the nose over the upper lip;
the admiral demanding by signs, whence they had their gold plates, they
pointed to the south and south-west; he rowed in his boats about the
island, to discover if there was anything worth his settling there,
followed by the natives every where, who seem'd to admire him and his
people as something more than human: From this island coasting southward
180 leagues, he arrived at another, which he called Hispaniola, where his
own ship striking on a hidden rock was lost; he and his crew were taken on
board one of the other vessels; landing here, the natives, instead of
behaving as the others had done, fled from him; but taking one of their
women, treating her kindly, and then letting her go back among them, she
brought numbers to traffick, who seem'd very peaceably dispos'd; and by
some means, or other finding there were gold mines in this island,
Columbus, aided by the natives, built a fort, left thirty-nine men, with
provisions for a year, seeds to sow, and trinkets to trade with the
natives: After discovering a good part of the north and east coast of
Hispaniola, trading with the Indians in diverse places, and near three
months stay in the island, he bent his course homewards, and arrived at
Palos, in Andalusia, early in the spring 1493; having perform'd the voyage
in seven months and eleven days: Here the people received him with a
solemn procession and thanksgiving for his return, most of his seamen
belonging to that port; the king and queen of Spain being at Barcelona,
when the admiral drew near the city, the court went out to meet him; he
was receiv'd with the honors due to a sovereign prince: Having given an
account of his Voyage, he begged to be equipped according to the dignity
of his character of admiral and viceroy, that he might plant colonies in
the places he had thus discovered, which was readily granted; and he
afterwards made diverse other voyages to America.6
The fame of the discovery, and of the rich cargoes brought to Old Spain at
several times from thence, being spread through other nations, gave rise
to other adventurers. The next attempt was made by Sebastian Cabot, a
Venetian by extraction, but born in England, and being much given to the
study of navigation, and well skill'd in cosmography, he believed there
might be a passage found by the north-west to the East Indies shorter than
that lately discovered by the Cape of Goodhope; he made Interest with
Henry the seventh of England, who fitted out two ships to make the
discovery.
In 1497, Cabot sailed from Lisbon, in the beginning of summer, and
steering his course north-west, came up with land about 60 degrees north
latitude, supposed to have been Greenland;7 but perceiving the land still
run north, he changed his course, in hopes of finding a passage in less
latitude. About the 50th degree, he saw that which is now well known by
the name of Newfoundland: Here he took three of the natives, and coasted
southward to the latitude of 38 degrees; (about Maryland) his provisions
growing scarce, and no supplies there to be expected, he return'd to
England, where the natives he brought lived a considerable time.8 From
this voyage and discovery made by Cabot, the English have claimed the
country ever since, from the well known Jus Gentium, LAW OF NATIONS, that
whatever waste or uncultivated country is discovered, it is the right of
that prince who had been at the charge of the discovery.9 This from
universal suffrage gives at least a right of preemption, and undoubtedly
must be good against all but the Indian proprictors.10
We have seen that in the discovery of North and South-America, inhabitants
were found at the places touch'd at; in all probability they were as
plentifully dispersed throughout the different countries of America; but
how these people originally came there, is a question not easily solved;
tho' it has for above two centuries, been the subject of much enquiry, it
is not yet arrived at a decision.11 All therefore that can be done, is to
give a short view of the most probable conjectures that have been hitherto
offered.
It is not unlikely the new world was known to the Phoenicians, even a
considerable time before the days of Plato; who in all likelihood found
but few (if any) inhabitants there; that they contributed towards the
planting of it, we have some reason to believe, as they are supposed to
have made three voyages thither; however that colonies from other nations
crossed the Atlantick, and landed in America, cannot be well denied;
neither the Egyptians nor Carthaginians are supposed void of some
traditional knowledge of America, since they are believed 12 to have
communicated such knowledge to other nations: which if we admit, it
follows, that some of the ancient Egyptians and Carthaginians had been
there, and contributed towards peopling the continent, as well as the
Phenicians. The Author of the book de Mirabilibas Audit supposed to be
Aristotle; expressly asserts the Carthaginians to have discovered an
island beyond Hercules's pillars, abounding with all necessaries, to which
they frequently sailed; and there several of them even fixed their
habitations; but the senate, adds he, would not permit their subjects to
go thither any more, lest it should prove the depopulation of their
own country.13 Several of the original American nations we are told, rent
their garments, the more effectually to express their grief on any
malancholly occasion; the Hebrews, Persians, Greeks, Sabines, and Latins,
according to various authors, did the same; from whence some may possibly
imagine, that those Americans deduced their origin from one or more of
those nations; but this is too slender a foundation for such belief:14 So
that Menasseh Ben Israel, appears to have wrongly concluded from thence,
that the Israelites were the progenitors of the Americans. Theophilus
Spizelius seems to have refuted this opinion: Though the Phenicians,
Egyptians and Carthaginians, might have planted some colonies, yet the
bulk of the inhabitants must certainly have deduced their origin from
another part of the world: Had the Phenicians and Egyptians peopled even a
considerable part of America, it would scarcely have been taken so little
notice of by the antients; even supposing those nations had industriously
endeavoured to conceal their western discoveries; for in such case, there
must have been a constant communication kept open between America, Egypt,
and Phenicia, and a very extensive trade carried on: so that many
particulars relating to the new world, must necessarily have transpired;
nor could even the sailors themselves, who navigated the Phenician ships,
have omitted divulging many accounts of what they observed on this
continent; some of which would undoubtedly have been transmitted to us.
That therefore, the Americans in general, were descended from a people who
inhabited a country not so far distant as Egypt and Phenicia, must be
admitted: Now no country can be pitched upon so proper and convenient for
this purpose, as the north-eastern part of Asia, particularly great
Tartary, Siberia, and more especially the Peninsula of Kamtschatka; that
probably was the tract through which many Tartarian colonies passed into
America, and peopled the most considerable part of it. This however, seems
the most prevailing opinion.
There is great reason to believe, that some of the western provinces of
North-America, must either be continuous to, or at no great distance from
the northeastern part of Asia; which, we are not yet informed; but it is
probable east of Kamtschatka, there is an immense tract approaching to
North-America, and that to this day, there remains at least a kind of
communication between them, by means of a chain of islands; it may also be
supposed that Asia and America, were formerly connected by an isthmus,
which might have been destroyed by an earthquake: such a supposition may
be supported by the authority of those writers who have rendered parallel
instances credible, such as the disjunction of Britain from Gaul, and
Spain from the continent of Africa: A communication between Asia and
America, seems agreeable to truth, not only from what has been advanced by
Reland, but from the discoveries made by the Russians; an account of which
we find in the publick prints of the year 1737, and since: According to
these, some of the Czarina's subjects have touched at several islands,
which lie at a distance in the eastern direction from Japan and
Kamtschatka, and consequently between those countries and America. The
people of these islands, in some points are said to resemble the Japanese,
and to use pieces of money with characters not unlike those of Japan.
Leonard Enler, professor of mathematicks, and member of the imperial
society at Petersburgh, seems to imagine, that the north-eastern cape of
Asia, discovered by Capt. Behring, is not thirty degrees off the last
known head-land of California; but the ingenious Dobbs, governor of
North-Carolina, places them at a much greater distance: Be that however as
it may, that the sea between the most north-eastern coast of Asia, and the
most western part of California, allowing such a sea to exist, is
interspersed with many islands, at no great distance from each other, may
be very naturally supposed; nay, if any credit may be given to the advices
lately received from Petersburgh, the connection of Asia and America, or
at least the communication between them, by means of such islands, is as
good as discovered.
That part of America next to Asia, is said to be much more populous than
the remoter eastern provinces or kingdoms; which is a manifest indication,
that this was first planted, by colonies coming from the nearest parts of
Asia, who settled here, and afterwards spread themselves gradually over
the new world; from whence we may conclude, that the bulk of the Americans
are descended from the Tartars, Sibenaus, and people of Kamtschatka.
The people inhabiting the extreme north-eastern part of Asia, entirely
want horses, those animals not being able to live in so cold a region; it
seems to be agreed, that no horses were found in America, at the first
discovery of it; for that in several places, the natives used reindeer and
large mastiff dogs 15 instead of them, as many of the posterity of the
antient most northern Scythians or Tartars did. The Epicerini, a people of
Canada, when the Europeans first came among them, asserted, that very far
from them, in a western direction, there lived a nation, who affirmed that
foreign merchants, without beards, in great ships, frequently visited
their coasts: we are also told, that in Quivira, several ships have been
found, whose sterns were adorned with silver and gold, which was a
distinguishing characteristick of the Chinese and Japanese ships,
according to some good authors: That some Chinese vessels of considerable
force, were found wreck'd in the Mare del nord, above Florida, which might
have been the same with those seen at Quivira, we learn from Ancosta. In
Quatulia too, a tradition prevailed, intimating that foreign merchants
after a long journey from the westward, arrived there, and that these
merchants were cloathed in silk: From whence we may collect, that the
Chinese visited America, and communicated some of their customs to the
people of that country,16 especially as the Chinese manner of writing in
Hieroglyphics, sufficiently agrees with the American dialect. We learn
from Hornius, the Hunns, or at least a branch of that people, placed in
the farthest part of Asia, had the appellation of Cunadani, or Canadani,
from Cunad, a place not far from the sea, where some of them had their
situation; hence we find a city in the upper Hungary, built by their
descendants, denominated Chonod, or Chunad, the inhabitants of which, and
those of the neighbouring district, still retain the name of Chonadi, or
Cunadi; from these Hornius believes the natives of Canada to have deduced
both their origin and denomination.
No small accession of strength will be brought to the opinion before
advanced, with respect to the peopling of America, by one particular
incident, mentioned in a short narrative of the late discoveries of the
Russians. They found peopled, as should seem, Captain Behring's new land
before mentioned, above fifty German miles to the east of Kamtschatka; for
coming to the entrance of a great river, he sent his boats and men ashore,
but they never returned, being probably either killed or detained by the
natives; nay, the publick prints in October, 1737, mention some
particulars relating to the inhabitants of certain islands between
Kamtschatka,17 Japan, and America, which seem to carry with them an air of
authority. This will amount to a fair presumption, that the islands
or continent between Kamtschatka, Japan, and California, still unknown to
the Europeans, are likewise inhabited; and if so, that those inhabitants
must have advanced gradually, from Tartary, Japan, and Kamtschatka to the
places wherein they are fixed: From whence we may infer, that even the
natives of California, and the adjacent parts of America, took originally
the same route; for that Tartary, and Japan, must have been, peopled
before America, as lying nearer to the land of Shinar, where the whole
race of mankind was assembled before the dispersion, will admit of no
dispute; and that America should have received many colonies from such
neighbouring countries as Tartary, Japan, and Kamtschatka, whether they
are continuous or contiguous to it, or connected with it, by some
intermediate continent, chain of islands, &c. is very natural to
suppose.18 So that from the tract lately discovered to the east of Japan
and Kamtschatka, and the people settled there, we may infer the
probability of America's being planted in part by colonies drawn from the
north-eastern regions of Asia; for by such discovery, a nearer approach is
made from Japan and Kamtschatka, to the coast of California; and from this
approach, a presumptive argument is drawn in favour of the opinion here
advanced.
But it is time now to proceed to other matters: Such as may incline to see
the subject further discussed, are for brevity's sake, on a point not
material enough to dwell long upon here, referred to the Univ. Hist.19
Whence many of the arguments on this head, are selected; and where the
inquisitive reader, amidst much of the incredible, (with which it hath
been usual to load the subject) will find convincing proofs in favour of
what is here proposed.
Although the English had very early made the discovery of North-America, a
considerable time elapsed before any advantages accrued: Sir Walter
Raleigh, in 1584, was the first Englishman who attempted to plant a colony
in it.20 In this year he obtained a patent from Queen Elizabeth, for him
and his heirs, to discover and possess for ever, under the crown of
England, all such countries and lands as were not then possessed by any
christian prince, or inhabited by christian people: Encouraged by this
grant, Raleigh and other partners, at divers times, fitted out ships, and
settled a colony at Roanor,21 in Virginia; but notwithstanding various
attempts, they met with such discouragements, that no great improvements
were made until some time afterwards.
In the year 1606, King James, without any regard to Raleigh's right,
granted a new patent of Virginia; in which was included New-England, New-
York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland; from queen Elizabeth's time
to the time of this patent, the whole country bearing that name, which was
given it by Raleigh, in honour of his virgin mistress, as some say; others
have it that it took its rise from the country's not being settled before.
The patentees were Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Summers, Richard Hackluyt,
clerk, Edward Maria Wingfield, Thomas Hanham, and Raleigh Gilbert, Esqrs.
William Parker, George Popham,22 and others: The extent of the land
granted, was from 34 to 45 degrees of north latitude, with all the islands
lying within 100 miles of the coast. Two distinct colonies were to be
planted by virtue of this patent, and the property ascertained in two
different bodies of adventurers: The first to belong to Summers, Hackluyt,
and Wingfield, under title of the London adventurers, or the London
company; and was to reach from 34 degrees to 41, with all lands, woods,
mines, minerals, &c. The other colony was to reach from the end of the
first, to 45 degrees, granting the same priviledges to Hanham, Gilbert,
Parker, and Popham, under the name of the Plymouth company, with liberty
to both colonies to take as many partners as they pleased; forbidding
others to plant within those degrees, without their licence; only
reserving the fifth part of all gold and silver mines, and the 15th part
of copper, to the use of the crown. By virtue of this grant, the London
company fitted out several ships with artificers of every kind, and all
things requisite for a new settlement; which sailed for America, and
planted a colony there; but in the year 1623, there were so many
complaints made of bad management, that on enquiry a Quo warranto was
issued against the patent; and after a trial had in the king's bench, it
was declared forfeited;23 since which time Virginia has been under the
immediate direction of the crown.
In the same year the patent was granted, the Plymouth company also
attempted to make a settlement; but with no great success, until about the
year 1620, when they sent a fresh recruit from England, under the command
of Capt. Standish, who arrived at Cape Cod in the latitude of 42 degrees,
and having turned the cape, found a commodious harbour opposite the point,
at the mouth of the bay, at the entry of which were two islands well
stocked with wood: Here they built a town, which they called Plymouth.
About this time the colonies in New-England were much augmented;
multitudes of dissenters thinking this a good oportunity of enjoying
liberty of conscience, offered their service to the Plymouth company; and
the grand patent being delivered up to the king, particular patents were
granted to the Lord Musgrave, the duke of Richmond, the earl of Carlisle,
the lord Edward Georges, and new colonies were planted in diverse places.
1 He made two voyages in 1497 and 1498, in the service of Spain: Another
in 1501, in the service of Portugal: In the first he fell in among the
Caribbee islands; and the last with three ships arrived to and discovered
the eastern continent of America, in five degrees of south latitude.
"America is a more common than fitting name, seeing Americus Vespucius the
Florentine, from whom this name is derived, was not the first finder nor
author of that discovery: Columbus will challenge that, and more justly,
with whom and under whom Americus made his first voyage; howsoever after
that he coasted a great part of the continent which Columbus had not seen,
at the charges of the Castilian and Portugal kings; but so it might more
rightly be termed Cabotia or Sebastiana, of Sebastian Cabot, a Venetian,
which discovered more of the continent than they both, about the same
time, first employed by king Henry the seventh of England. Columbus yet as
the first discoverer deserveth the name, both of the country for the first
finding, and of modesty, for not naming it by himself, seeking rather
effects than names of his exploits." Purchas's Pilgrim, p. 792.
2 His son who wrote his history, says, he was moderately tall and long
visaged, his complexion a good red and white, that he had light eyes, and
cheeks somewhat full, but neither too fat nor too lean; that in his youth
he had fair hair, which turned grey before he was thirty years of age;
that he was moderate in eating and drinking, affected a plain modest garb
or dress; that he was naturally grave, but affable to strangers, and
pleasant frequently among his domestics, strict and devout in religious
matters, and tho' a seaman, was never heard to swear or curse.
3 A bay or harbour of sea or water.
4 All that is commonly remembered of the sailor who first discovered land,
is, that expecting some great reward from the king of Spain, and
disappointed, he took it in his head in a rage to renounce Christianity,
and turn'd Mahometan.
5 One of the River Indians, in his speech at the treaty of Albany, 1754,
relates the surprize of their forefathers at the sight of the first ship
that came up the North river in the same manner; his speech so far as
relates to this subject was as followeth:
"FATHERS, we are greatly rejoiced to see you all here; it is by the will
of heaven that we are met here, and we thank you for this opportunity of
seeing you altogether, as it is a long while since we had such a one:
FATHERS who sit present here, we will just give you a short relation of
the long friendship which hath subsisted between the white people of this
country and us: Our forefathers had a castle on this river; as one of them
walked out he saw something on the river, but was at a loss to know
what it was; he took it at first for a great fish; he ran into the castle,
and gave notice to the other Indians; two of our forefathers went to see
what it was, and found it a vessel with men in it; they immediately joined
hands with the people in the vessel, and became friends."
6 He died in the city of Validolid in Spain, in the spring 1506, and was
buried in the cathedral of Seville, with this inscription on his tomb,
that Columbus had given a new world to Castile and Leon.
7 This country is considered as part of the American continent, both by
Hornius and Grotius. Grotius apud Horn. de orig. Gent. American, Lib. iii.
c. 5, 6, pp. 149, 162. ut et ipse Horn. ibid.
8 "King Henry VII. commissioned John Cabot (5th of March, in the eleventh
year of his reign) and his three sons, to sail in quest of unknown lands,
and to annex them to the crown of England; with this clause, which before
this time have been unknown to all christians. His first essay as related
by Sir Humphry Gilbert, who was employed in the like service afterwards by
queen Elizabeth, was to discover a north-west passage to Cathay or China;
in which voyage he sailed very far eastward, with a quarter of the north,
on the north side of Terra de Labrado; 'till he came into the north
latitude of sixty seven degrees and a half in his next voyage, which was
made with his son Sebastian, in the year 1497; he steered to the south
side of Labrador, and fell in with the island of Baccalaos, which is
Newfoundland, and took possession both of that island and all the coast of
the north-east part of America, as far as Cape Florida; which he also by
landing in several parts of it, claimed in the name of his master, the
king of England.
"In the memory of this discovery, and by way of evidence, there was a map
or chart of the whole coast of North-America drawn by Sebastian Cabot
himself; with his picture and this title, Efligies Seb. Caboti Angli,
Filii Jo. Caboti, Venetiani, Militia Aurati, &c., and with the following
account of the discovery above mentioned,
"'In the year of our Lord 1497, John Cabot, a Venetian, and his son
Sebastian (with an English fleet) set out from Bristol, and discovered
that land, which no man had before attempted. This discovery was made on
the 24th of June about five o'clock in the morning. This land he called
Prima Vista (or the first seen) because it was that part, of which they
had the first sight from the sea. It is now called Bonavista. The island,
which lies out before the land, he called the island of St. John, probably
because it was discovered on the festival of St. John Baptist.'
"This map was hung up in his Majesty's privy-gallery at Whitehall; and, it
is to be feared, the nation was deprived of such a valuable testimonial of
their American title to the whole coast of North-America, by the fire
which destroyed that gallery in the late King William's reign." Entick's
Gen. Hist. of the Late War, Vol. I., p. 168, &c.
9 Grotius de jure belliac pacis, Lib. 2. Cap. 2. Sect. 17. Molloy de jure
Mar. 422, 423. Justinian Inst. Lib. 2. Tit. 1. Sect. 12 & 22.
10 Lex Mercat. 156. Molloy ut supra.
11 "If we are not astonished (says Voltaire) that the discoverers found
flies in America; it is absurd to wonder that they should meet with men."
Univ. Hist. If European whites, and African negroes, are not descended
from the same original stock; a supposition confessedly adopted by the
celebrated historian, (it must be allow'd) easy to come to a decision in
the present case.
12 Perizonius and Cellarius seem to have inferr'd from thence, that the
new world was not entirely unknown to the remoter ages of antiquity.
13 Aristot de mund. c. 3. et de Mirah Audit. Christ. Cellar. ubi supra, p.
253. Jacob Perizon in Aelion. Var. Hist. Lib. 111. c. 18.
14 William Penn, in his letter to the committee of the free society of
traders in London, in 1683; gives a short sketch of his opinion, touching
the origin of the Indians here, whom be imagines to be of the stock of the
Jews, that after the dispersion of the ten tribes emigrated through the
easternmost parts of Asia, to the westernmost of America.
15 Some of the back Indians beyond Detroit, now make use of dogs to draw
wood and other matters on sleds.
16 The people (says M. de Guignes, in a memoir upon the ancient
navigations of the Chinese to America) whom we have always believed to
have been confin'd within the bounds of their own country, penetrated into
America in the year 458 of the Christian aera. That they went thither by
Japan and the countries of Ven-chin and Ta-han. By considering what the
Chinese geographers say of the distance and productions of these remote
regions, he proves that Ven-chin is Jesso or Yedzo, and that Ta-han is
the most eastern part of the north of Asia. From thence the Chinese sailed
towards the east, and fell in with the country of Fou-sang, which,
according to the Chinese distances, should lie to the north of California.
He gives us, from the annals of China, a short account of the manners of
the inhabitants of Fou-sang; he informs us further, that several islands
in the south sea were known to the Chinese; and also that coast which John
de Sama discovered in his passage from China to Mexico. To give a more
exact idea of these navigations, M. de Buache hath constructed a chart, on
which he hath traced with a great deal of accuracy, the route of the
Chinese, and noted the distances of the several countries. By this chart
it appears, that the geography of these parts, taken from the ancient
books of the Chinese, agrees very well with the late discoveries of the
Russians. To this chart is added part of another ancient chart drawn by
the Japonese, in which are laid down the north of Asia, and all the
western coast of America, according to the knowledge they had of it. This
continent there appears entirely terminated on the side of Asia, and we
there see the isles which have been lately known to the Russians only; and
this proves the truth of the former Japonese discoveries. This chart was
brought from Japan by the celebrated Kempfer, and afterwards lodg'd in the
cabinet of the deceased Sir Hans Sloane, president of the royal society of
London, who sent a copy of it to M. de Guignes.
After having determined the situation of all the countries to the east of
China, M. de Guignes remarks, that Chr. Columbus was not the first who
attempted discoveries towards the west: Long before him, the Arabians,
whilst they were masters of Spain and Portugal, enterprized the same thing
from Lisbon; but after having advanced far to the west, they were obliged
to put back to the Canaries; there they learnt that formerly the
inhabitants of these islands had sailed towards the west for a month
together, to discover new countries. Thus we see, that the most barbarous
people, without the knowledge of the compass, were not afraid to expose
themselves to the open sea in their slight small vessels, and that it was
not so difficult for them to get over to America, as we imagine.
These researches, which of themselves gives us a great insight into the
origin of the Americans, led M. de Guignes to determine the rout of the
colonies sent to this continent. He thinks the greatest part of them
passed thither by the most eastern extremities of Asia, where the two
continents are only separated by a narrow streight, easy to cross. He
reports instances of women, who from Canada and Florida, have travelled to
Tartary without seeing the ocean.
The commerce of the Chinese would naturally open a way to America, augment
the number of the inhabitants, and contribute to polish them. On this
occasion M. de Guignes observes, that the most civilized nations of the
American continent are situated on the coast which looks towards China,
and that they come originally from the north of America, i.e. from the
neighbourhood of countries where the Chinese landed, as Quivin and New
Mexico, whence the Mexicans came to settle in Mexico, properly so called,
after having expelled the ancient inhabitants.
M. de Guignes cites some authorities, which give us reason to believe,
that the streights of Magellan were known to the Chinese, and that the
Coreans had a settlement in Terra del Fuego. These navigations of the
Chinese, and of the most uncivilized nations, incline him to believe, that
the people dispersed in the isles to the south of the Indies, after having
multiplied, migrated from island to island, and by means of that chain of
islands which reaches almost to America, insensibly approached that
continent. The example of the inhabitants of the Canaries gives a
probability to this conjecture. Gentleman's Magazine, 1753, p. 607.
17 The new history of Kamtschatka, lately published in the Russian
language, and translated into English by J. Grieve, M.D. gives a
particular description of the customs and way of living of the inhabitants
there, which agrees in several particulars, and in the whole manner seems
not very different from the original customs of the North American
Indians. For a brief account of this history, see Monthly Review, vol.
30, p. 282.
18 Vide a memoir of M. La Page du Pratz, containing an account of the
travels of Moncacht-ape; a civilized Indian of Louisiana, to the north-
west parts of America, Gent. Mag. for Sept. 1753.
19 Vol. xx, Lond. Edit. 1748, p. 157.
20 That is a regular colony under grants - "Sir Armigell Wadd, of
Yorkshire, clerk of the council to Henry VIII. and Edward VI. and author
of a book of travels, was the first Englishman that made discoveries in
America." H. Walpole's anecdotes of painting, vol ii. Catalogue of
engravers, pp. 18, 19. A note.
21 Now Roanoke, in North-Carolina.
22 L. C. J. of England.
23 Other accounts say, the patent was dissolved by the king's roclamation,
in 1624; and that tho' a quo warranto was issued against it, no
determination followed in the courts of justice.


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Q: get data from web service by jquery here is my web service :
public class Header : System.Web.Services.WebService {
    public Header () {}
    [WebMethod]
    public string GetArchive(string PageID)
    {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        BusinessRules.News news = new BusinessRules.News();
        BusinessObject.NewsItemList newsList =
            news.GetListbySectionID(int.Parse(PageID));

        foreach (BusinessObject.NewsItem item in newsList)
        {
            sb.Append(item.ID + " : " + item.Date);
        }
        return sb.ToString();
    }

}

where

    <form id="form1" runat="server">

            View

    </form>

and

it doesn't work is anyone who can help me ?

A: First of all for should use [ScriptMethod (ResponseFormat = ResponseFormat.Json)] attribute for the web method or configure the same in the web.config if you use .NET 4.0. In both cases you need not impelemnt any kind of JSON serialization manually. Instead of that you can just return the object itself. In other words you should follow the advice of tvanfosson, but return the List
 directly:
[System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptService]
public class Header : System.Web.Services.WebService {
    [WebMethod, ScriptMethod (ResponseFormat = ResponseFormat.Json)]
    public List
 GetArchive(int PageID)
    {
        BusinessRules.News news = new BusinessRules.News();
        BusinessObject.NewsItemList newsList = news.GetListbySectionID(PageID));
        return newsList.Select (a => new Article
                       {
                           ID = a.ID,
                           Date = a.Date
                       });
    }

    public class Article
    {
        public string ID { get; set; }
        public string Date { get; set; }
    }
}

I changed the type of the input parameter PageID from the string to int to show that the input parameters must not be a string only. It can be a class instance also (see my old another).
On the client side inside of the $(document).ready(function () {/*the code here you will see below*/});:
var ParamValue = $.getUrlVar("id");
var pageID = parseInt(ParamValue,10);

$('#LinkBtnAll').click(function () {
    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        url: "Services/Header.asmx/GetArchive",
        data: {PageID: JSON.stringify(pageID)},
        contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
        dataType: "json",
        success: function (msg) {
            $('#Content').text(msg.d);
        }
    })
    return false;
});

the decoding of the results from msg.d you should implement in other way, because the msg.d is an array, but it would be a simple JavaScript code.
I recommend you to look at the old answer and another one for more information.

A: I have written a jquery plugin for this purpose. It makes your call and parameter passing very easier. you can download it from: http://www.4shared.com/file/Y72VBeLc/PageMethod.html

A: Your JSON syntax is wrong, for one.  The entire thing needs to be enclosed in braces, your properties need to be separated by commas, and you should quote your property names and probably values, since the values likely have spaces.
public class Header : System.Web.Services.WebService
{
    public Header () {}

    [WebMethod]
    public string GetArchive(string PageID)
    {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("{");
        BusinessRules.News news = new BusinessRules.News();
        BusinessObject.NewsItemList newsList = news.GetListbySectionID(int.Parse(PageID));
        foreach (BusinessObject.NewsItem item in newsList)
        {
            sb.Append("\"" + item.ID + "\" : \"" + item.Date + "\"," );
        }
        return sb.ToString().TrimEnd(",") + "}";
    }
}

Having said that, a better way would be to use a JSON serializer.  Note the format in the following example will be different a collection of JSON objects rather than a single JSON object holding all the properties.  You'll have to change your client code to account for this.
public class Header : System.Web.Services.WebService
{
    private class Article
    {
        public string ID { get; set; }
        public DateTime Date { get; set; }
    }

    public Header () {}

    [WebMethod]
    public string GetArchive(string PageID)
    {
        var articles = new List
();
        BusinessRules.News news = new BusinessRules.News();
        BusinessObject.NewsItemList newsList = news.GetListbySectionID(int.Parse(PageID));
        var articles = newsList.Select( a => new Article
                       {
                           ID = a.ID,
                           Date = a.Date
                       };
        var stream = new MemoryStream();
        using (var serializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(articles.GetType());
        serializer.WriteObject( stream, articles );
        return Encoding.Default.GetString( stream.ToArray() );
    }
}

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Biden's Big Speech Bombed
RUSH: Now, Plugs Biden, I've had so many people ask me today, "Why did the media ignore Plugs today?" I mean, yesterday that's all that mattered. Joe Biden was gonna eviscerate Trump. Joe was gonna mention Trump's name 75 times. Joe Biden was gonna destroy Trump.
So why isn't there any video highlights of that happening yesterday? And the answer to it is, it didn't happen, see? The proof of the matter is the optics for Joe Bite Me in Ottumwa, Iowa, yesterday were not good. It did matter that Bite Me was not wearing even a jacket much less a tie. It mattered that there wasn't a single shot that showed the whole crowd. Therefore, the crowd had to be very small. The crowd looked very close to Biden.
I mean, it looked like he was at a cocktail party. That's what this looked like. The people were that close. He's holding the microphone in his hand. There was no podium. There was no oratory whatsoever. It was a conversational thing.
And he looked feeble, if you want to get right down to it. He looked a little feeble. And it looked to me like that there might have even been a railing that he was holding onto now and then during his performance.
But there's another factor here, and this we thank our old buddies at CNN. CNN spent all morning yesterday assuring everybody that Biden was gonna eviscerate Trump. Biden was gonna destroy Trump. When Biden finished, it was gonna be the end of Trump.
And Biden did not eviscerate Trump. In other words, CNN raised expectations so high that Plugs had no way of meeting them. And so they pretty much had to ignore it. Now, for those of you saying, "Well, wait a minute, Rush. You know, Hillary Clinton couldn't stand up half the time. She couldn't get on a bus half the time. She couldn't go down the steps half the time, and they still propped her up."
Yes. What does that tell you? It tells you the media doesn't even really want Plugs. They're offering no assistance to Joe Biden today. If Hillary Clinton had done what Biden did yesterday back in 2016, there would be nothing but glowing support for Hillary Clinton today.
They would have ignored the lowlights, they would have lied about the highlights, they would have followed through and said that she did eviscerate Trump. They would have hidden any video that made her look weak or unsure on her feet. They would have hidden any video that made her stumbling across words.
They didn't do any of that with Biden. And it tells me that Plugs is not really their guy. I'm just giving you a heads-up here that Plugs isn't gonna last. And this thing yesterday is what tells me this. And it wasn't just CNN.
All kinds of media were really hyping Biden in Iowa yesterday, and the point that he was gonna "eviscerate" Trump. (impression) "He was gonna destroy Trump. He was gonna do what Mueller couldn't do. He was gonna do what Nadler failed to do. He was gonna do what John Dean didn't do! He was gonna take Trump out yesterday," and if you look at Trump today, Trump is on Cloud Nine. He's comfortable; he's calm, cool, relaxed — and we can't find Plugs anywhere. Plugs is gone, and now we got Crazy Bernie making the pitch for Democrat socialism today.
So I think… It'll never be announced. You're just gonna have to see it. I think the media, because of yesterday, is gonna start backing away from Plugs, backing away from Biden. Yesterday, he didn't get there. He didn't meet the expectations. He didn't "eviscerate" Trump. He didn't even raise his voice. He didn't get all that passionate about it. This is not what people want. If you're gonna "eviscerate" Trump, you better do it.
If you're gonna criticize Trump, you'd better do it. If you're gonna mention Trump 75 times, you better make every one of those 75 times memorable and sound-bite worthy — and Trump was not even touched by Plugs yesterday, and the Drive-Bys know it. And, you know, you go to CNN earlier today. Alisyn Camerota hosts a morning show there. (She used to be on Fox.) She said to her colleagues there on camera, "You know, socialists need to rebrand."
She didn't say "we," although she could have. She said, "Socialists need to rebrand because socialism does conjure Orwellian thoughts." I can't imagine why that would be true! Socialism conjuring up thoughts of George Orwell, 1984? How could anybody assume that? So she's admitting that socialism is Orwellian (which ain't good) and that they need to come up with a new name for it. So what's happening? Crazy Bernie is out rebranding it today.
Gone is socialism and in is "Democratic-socialism," complete with attacks on (Bernie accent) "authoritarians and the oligarchs."
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