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The Cloisters demo is the name we've given to the SCA's encampment at The Medieval Festival at Fort Tryon Park, New York City's largest annual medieval event, with over fifty thousand visitors.
For the first time this year, we had a dedicated youth combat list field fenced off, which alternated between bouts of youth armored combat and periods of pell practice open to the younger members of the public.
I quickly lost count, but somewhere well over two hundred kids came through during the course of the day, eager to handle a padded sword and take a few whacks at our target.
We also had five first-time Division I fighters who had made arrangements to join us on the field, get strapped into our loaner armor, and face off against our two more-experienced fighters.
At the annual two-day Queens County Fair, the members of the Crown Province of Østgarđr provided demonstrations of a wide range of medieval activities, from many types of arts and crafts to archery, thrown weapons, fencing and armored combat.
We supported this effort with a display of the weapons and armor used for youth combat, allowing members of the public to strike a practice pell.
A youth fighter also worked with the adult fighters to demonstrate the tools and techniques of armored combat.
The weather was perfect for fighting at Barleycorn, held every fall in Northpass (just north of New York City).
We had a half-dozen youth on the field, ranging from age six to sixteen, and from a first-timer to an experienced veteran.
Thanks to Eikaterine and Lorenz for sharing the marshaling duties.
Last photo by Oliver deBainbrig.
We traveled down to Iron Bog (in New Jersey, a bit east of Philadelphia) for this weekend's River War.
Saturday's weather wasn't great, so we moved youth combat into the shelter of one of the 4H barns, but by Sunday it had cleared up and we were back out on the field.
My thanks to the handful of adult fighters who spent time with the kids, showing them techniques and giving them feedback.
In addition to combat, some of the youth fighters also participated in a rough-and-tumble game of hurley and a comedic improv stage performance.
I usually say "zombies" rather than "dragons," but otherwise this is pretty much me.
As expected, Pennsic was packed with youth combat activities. There were at least forty hours of fighting over the course of the week, and over a hundred youth fighters took the field.
It's been more than a month since our last youth combat event, due to a series of conferences and family vacations, but suddenly our calendar is just packed, with events nearly every week for the next three months!
July 29 – August 12: Pennsic is the definitive event of the year for youth combat, at least in this corner of the known world, with eight days in a row of two and often three opportunities to take the field, facing off with dozens of kids from all many kingdoms.
September 1 – 3: River War is in southern New Jersey, two hours from Manhattan. We'll be driving down and running the youth combat event there.
September 9: Barleycorn is held up in Northpass, an hour north of Manhattan, and is a wonderful event; it's where Alex fought for the first time two years ago, and where I first got my feet wet as an assistant youth marshal.
September 23 – 24: Queens Farm is a local demo near Little Neck, about an hour's drive east of us, well attended by local families. We'll be letting visitors take a whack at the pell, and hopefully a small squad of our youth fighters will put on a show for the onlookers.
October 1: The Cloisters Demo is the largest event held here in Manhattan every year, with tens of thousands of members of the public walking past our pavilions. The king and queen of the East Kingdom will be in attendance, so we're hoping to make this even bigger and better than usual.
October 20 – 22: Goat's Tavern is held in Northpass, and we'll be running a youth combat area.
If you're interested in attending any of these events and getting your children into youth combat, drop me a line!
There are weapons construction guides on the East Kingdom Youth Combat web site, but sometimes a video is more helpful than words and pictures alone.
Thanks to Lady Karrah the Mischievous, we now have such a video, showing the construction of a basic sword from PEX and two layers of pipe insulation.
Greetings, all. I've set up this site in recent days to provide a home for information related to our local youth combat activity here in the New York City region, as well as more general commentary that might be applicable to youth combat activities throughout the Society for Creative Anachronism.
I've started by posting some archived photos from events over the last year, and notes I've previously written up for parents about how to get involved.
We had a small youth meet at Blood & Axes in Northpass. The site was fantastic, and I look forward to future returns of this event.


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Q: RestKit, Core Data, Magical Record, Lots of data and Lagging UI I got an app which stores data about restaurants. Their menu, schedule and so on.
Theres ~200 restaurants in the DB by now. The app used to retrieve those places by a single shot, but it was taking too much time to load, so i decided to load the data one by one. On the start app asks the server for an array of place's ids, then get the data via API.
I set completion blocks for RK's operations to background queues, but it didn't help. Scrolls are running not smoothy enough and sometimes the app even deadlocks(sic!) or crashes with no error output in the console. I've tried using Instruments to locate what makes UI go jerky, but didn't succeed. I even turned off image loading and sorting functions. I used to have RK's requests calls wrapped in @synchronized, so i removed it, but no effect.
Never thought i'd be facing this kind of issue after few weeks of experience with objective-c. I've tried every possible way that came to my mind, so now im kinda giving up.
Please help me :)
The code below gets called 200 times right after the app start.
NSURLRequest *request = [[DEAPIService sharedInstance].manager requestWithObject:nil
                                                                              method:RKRequestMethodGET
                                                                                path:path
                                                                          parameters:params];
    //DLog(request.URL.absoluteString);

    NSManagedObjectContext *context = [NSManagedObjectContext MR_contextWithParent:[NSManagedObjectContext MR_contextForCurrentThread]];

    RKManagedObjectRequestOperation *operation = [[DEAPIService sharedInstance].manager managedObjectRequestOperationWithRequest:request
                                                                                managedObjectContext:context
                                                                                success:success
                                                                                failure:failure];

    // dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_BACKGROUND, 0);
    dispatch_queue_t backgroundQueue = dispatch_queue_create("com.name.bgqueue", NULL);
    operation.successCallbackQueue = backgroundQueue;

    [[DEAPIService sharedInstance].manager enqueueObjectRequestOperation:operation];

Response descriptors are set before that. And also there's many relations in the DB. I've looked up the DB's file size - it's ~1.5Mb. I wonder what will happen if there would be over 1k restaurants. Is it a good way to load this kind of data? What are the best practises?

A: Ok, from the information provided you should be able to simplify a lot. At the moment your code is dropping down to a low level and getting involved in threading and context management that you want to leave for RestKit to sort out. You have a properly configured object manager and core data stack by the looks of things so you should let it do the work.
This means removing the request, context and request operation code and simply calling `getObjectsAtPath:parameters:success:failure:'. RestKit will then deal with all of the download and mapping in the background and save the context.
You should also really be using fetched results controllers throughout your app, and if you are they will automatically detect the changes that RestKit has saved and update your UI.
Once you have that, any blocking of the UI is unrelated to RestKit and your download requirement and should be related to subsequent image management / downloads.

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February 10, 2013 by Melissa
A 20th Century Pioneer
In these days of an enormous to-read list on goodreads and an online library reserve system, I don't spend a lot of time browsing the stacks any more. Though I probably stop by the library about once a week, I truly get in and get out. On Saturday, the same song was playing on the radio when I got back to the car! But a few weeks ago, I felt like browsing. My branch library is less than a year old, so browsing is a true pleasure–all the books are bright and shiny! It was there that I found Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson.
Two things convinced me to check it out: a homestead story from 1918, past what people assume is the "pioneer" era and the fact that the book is based on the author's family history.
Hattie is a wonderful character–just 16, she's an orphan that has been shuffled from home to home. Her aunt has found her a job at a boarding house, so tells Hattie that it's time to quite school and move out. And then a letter arrives–an uncle has died and left her his homestead, though she has to "prove up." So, she heads to Montana.
Those first few chapters about her life in Montana are amazing. Here's a girl that has left a community with running water, cars, and other "creature comforts" and is now living in a shack. She is grateful that her aunt had refused to upgrade her stove, so she knows how to cook on a wood stove. She arrives in the dead of winter–on the first morning, her hand freezes to the water pump. Can you imagine going back in time that way?
In our tendency to generalize about the past, we forget how long the frontier era lasted, and how long it took for modern technology to reach all the corners of the United States. I applaud this book for reminding us that the West wasn't settled as soon as the Pa Ingalls decided to settle down.
Throughout the novel, Larson weaves in the bigger story of World War I (Hattie is writing a friend from school who is serving abroad) and anti-German sentiment (her closest friends are German). It's a solid, engaging novel and none of the extra bits of history seem tacked on.
Hattie also has a close, personal relationship with God. When she's alone, working her land, she talks to God and I'm so glad these conversations became a part of the novel. I adore this passage:
To keep myself company, I'd taken to conducting chore-time conversations with God. My self-imposed rule was that each conversation must start on a thankful note. Sometimes that kept the discussion from really getting going. I lifted my petticoat out of the wash basket.
"Lord, I do thank you for that warm wind and the promise of spring." I bent for another clothespin to secure the petticoat. "And I am very thankful that my wash load is small." Here I thought of Perilee, washing for her family of five. "I count it a true blessing that there are no diapers in my wash." I shuddered to think of that. "Now, you know I've been working on keeping a sunny lookout on life, but I must speak to you about Violet, who is more devil than cow."
How can you not fall in love with a character that has that kind of spunk?
But there is one thing about this book that just breaks my heart. It's this passage, from the author's bio:
Thanks to her eighth-grade teacher, Kirby Larson maintained a healthy lack of interest in history until she heard a snippet of a story about her great-grandmother's homesteading by herself in eastern Montana. Efforts to learn more about Hattie Wright's homesteading felt like detective work; why hadn't anyone told Kirby research could be this much fun?
Sigh. I do wonder what this teacher did that turned her off so much. But at least Larson shared her new-found love of history in a delightful book. Hopefully, she's been able to convert a few more folks into history lovers.
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January 2, 2012 by Melissa
Story first, history second
Perhaps I was a wee bit prejudiced as I started reading. Friends that I trusted had very mixed reviews, but I didn't quite believe them. After all, the book had won the 2011 Newbery award. And it was set in 1936, flashing back to 1917 and 1918. Quite possibly one of my favorite time periods. I should have loved Moon Over Manifest, but generally speaking, the friends were right. I became annoyed within the first 50 pages, and downright upset not long after. And I continue to be puzzled as to how this book rose to the top of children's fiction in 2011.
For those not familiar with the book, it's the story of a 12 year old girl, sent to a small town in Kansas in 1936. During her summer there, she uncovers the town's past, with frequent shifts in narrative to 1917 and 1918. Abilene is a lovely little girl, but she doesn't have as strong a voice as many other narrators in similar books. But this wasn't what bothered me. What bothered me was the history.
I've talked before about the historical fiction trap that so many modern writers fall into: that habit of trying to pull as many historical threads into a story as possible. You know, to teach children about the past. It very, very rarely works, and usually annoys folks that have any knowledge about the period in question (The Hope Chest springs to mind). But very, very rarely does a book inspire me to scurry over to google to check facts in the middle of a chapter. Here's the sentence that did that: "Alcohol was against the law then as much as it was in 1917, but folks could usually get a bottle of the stuff here or there." Now, I had just finished Ken Burns' new documentary, Prohibition, and I was pretty sure that the 18th Amendment wasn't passed until 1920, but FDR had repealed it in 1933. Some quick checking revealed that Kansas didn't repeal until 1948. Plus, prohibition laws got started in Kansas in the 1880s, and the "Bone Dry Act" passed in 1917. In going back through the book before starting this post, I did see a mention of the Bone Dry Act that I had forgotten about that occurred earlier in the book than the above sentence. Technically, everything Vanderpool wrote is perfectly correct. But it clashed with everything in my fairly well-educated historical head, and I just couldn't get over it. And I don't recall anything being said that might have explained that Kansas was different from other states. And the prohibition thread is a pretty important one for the story. We're not talking about a minor, nit-picky detail.
So what does it matter? After all, the target market for this book isn't public historians in their 30s. It's kids that have probably never heard of prohibition. They're not going to be confused by the timeline the way that I was. I guess my annoyance happens on a couple of different levels. First, this confusion could very easily have been solved. Abilene had traveled throughout the country and was new to Kansas. Couldn't she have made a comment or asked a question about Shady and his still? A brief explanation, and the story continues. Problem solved! And yet, not even the author's note (which is quite possibly one of the weirdest author notes ever) mentions the fact that Kansas was one of the last states to repeal prohibition. I just don't know how that wasn't mentioned somewhere.
But my real issue is this: generally speaking, we as a society are not very well educated about the past. Whenever I ponder historical accuracy issues in films or books, I tend to look at the big picture. If the big ideas–the things that people will actually remember a few months after they've read the book or seen the movie–are correct, I'm okay. If people won't be completely confused if they look something up later, I'm okay. But I don't think that tenet holds true for this book. I must have looked up Kansas liquor laws three or four times while I read this book. Kind of interrupts the narrative flow, don't you think? And can you imagine trying to teach this book?
My other issue with this book is that it seems to have taken every big historical headline from 1917/1918 and made sure the issue happens in that tiny town. The immigration stuff totally made sense, and I was happy to the stuff about the relationship between the town and its people. (It made me think of Thurber, TX, a very similiar town). But throwing in the KKK? Technically, the KKK did revive itself in 1915, but it wasn't a huge thing again until after WWI–the whole soldiers coming back and wanting a better life thing caused a bit of strife. And I don't think this small incident did anything to move the story along.
And of course, there's WWI drama, a brief visit from Woodrow Wilson, war deaths, and the big 1918 flu epidemic is foreshadowed for almost the whole book and then barely discussed. It's just all a very strange mish-mash of history.
Honestly, I think this would have been a stronger, tighter book if the flashback portions of the book were set in the 1920s. Yes, much of the WWI stuff would be left out, but the flow of the narrative would have worked better. And timeline issues would have been solved.
The best historical fiction are the works that put the story first and history second. And yes, I'm saying this as a historian. But I'm saying this as a historian that wants people to like history and get wrapped up in it, and books like this just won't do it. The narrative is the important thing, and the history behind it just deepens the story. In this book–and there's nothing I've found either in the author's note or on her website to contradict this–she found some cool tidbits about the past and then built a story around it. And it just doesn't work for me at all.
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In celebration of Rilla
There are some stories that never quite let you go. My love for Rilla of Ingleside has been mentioned here more than once. That love led me to my senior thesis and, more recently, to my most recent publication on the Dallas homefront during WWI. So is it any wonder that I was thrilled that Benjamin Lefebvre and Andrea McKenzie were coming out with a new edition of one of my favorite books? And that I was also just a wee bit jealous?
There are many, many things that thrill me about this book. Finally, all your major questions sparked by the history in this book are answered within it! The original text is restored, after having been "silently" cut decades ago. And it's just a pretty book.
But my biggest thrill is that I finally have proof that people besides me value this book and realize how important it is–to both literature and history. When I was doing my research for the article on Dallas clubwomen during WWI, I knew I wanted to focus not on the extraordinary–the women who worked outside the home, went to France as nurses, or did any number of remarkable things. No, I wanted to focus on what most women would have done–fit war work into existing lives. Those lives were stretched, but not completely undone. And as I wrote that paper, I desperately wanted to quote Rilla, though I just couldn't quite justify it.
If I had to pick just one book to explain my whole thesis about kidlit history–that there is some history that is be found in children's literature and can't be found anywhere else, this book would be the one I would pick. Primary sources on the emotions and daily lives of the women that watched and waited are hard to find. We tend to document the extraordinary. Though these women were living in extraordinary times, I don't think they realized how much their lives were changing.
Montgomery knew she was telling the story of the masses of Canadian women that worked at home and waited. She wrote "In my latest story, 'Rilla of Ingleside,' I have tried, as far as in me lies, to depict the fine and splendid way in which the girls of Canada reacted to the Great War–their bravery, patience and self-sacrifice. The books is theirs in a sense in which none of my other books have been: for my other books werew written for anyone who might like to read them: but 'Rilla' was written for the girls of the great young land I love, whose destiny it will be their duty and privilege to shape and share." Lefebvre and McKenzie go on to say "Rilla of Ingleside thus pictures, as no other war novel of its time does, a uniquely Canadian perspectie about the women and families who battled to keep the home fires burning throughout this tumultuous era."
Frankly, I can't think of another novel, from any country, written so closely after the war that takes the time to talk about the home front. So, I lift my glass to Montgomery for writing this wonderful book in the first place. And I lift my glass to Benjamin Lefebvre and Andrea McKenzie for working so hard to put this book in a wider context and give it the attention it so richly deserves.
For now, United States readers have to order this book directly from Canada. Here's hoping that one day it will be easily available in the United States. The good news is that the exchange rate is currently almost even. Trust me–you need this book in your personal library.
| Tagged L. M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside, WWI | 9 Comments
October 26, 2009 by Melissa
Following the recommendation of a dear reader, I picked up The Singing Tree by Kate Seredy. For those unfamiliar with the book (like I was), this is a sequel to The Good Master. It's the story of two cousins,Kate and Jancsi, growing up in the Hungarian country side during the early part of the last century. I very rarely jump ahead in series fiction, but the whole WWI setting of the sequel caused me to skip to the good stuff (so to speak).
First, some things that I loved about the book:
1. It's set in Hungary. Which means this is a story about WWI from the other side. Bonus: the war is also not an ocean away, making certain aspects of life on the homefront much more immediate. They take in Russian prionsers of war to work on the farm. They take in orphans from Germany. They create a whole community–made by war, but as expected in a children's book, they all find common ground and become a big family.
2. The illustrations. Though I will admit that the crayon portraits Kate and Jancsi freaked me out a bit. But the charcoal? pencil? (I am bad about artistic mediums–I only know crayon because it says so right there on the page) are amazing. Soft and lovely and evocative. I just wanted to soak them up.
3. Wonderful characters. Kate is a little spitfire (though I wish there had been a bit more about her, somehow). Uncle Moses is a wonderful character too–the way his mind works in his store!
4. Beautiful imagery. Near the beginning of the book, the kids are told the story of hte poplar lane. There's a monument there to the 1848 revolution. Kate's father explains to the children: "Your great-grandfather Marton Nagy was one of the last great feudal landlords. Moses Mandelbaum, grandfather of Uncle Moses, was one of the first Jews who opened a store under the new laws. And this avenue of trees' –he pointed ahead into the green lane–'had been planted in March 1848, one tree by every one of those whose names you have just read. The former master, who was one of his people now, all the peasants, who were now his equal in rights, and Moses Mandelbaum, they each planted a tree. A green, living thing to grow and remind them always that they were brother Hungarians, first and last." It's a simply beautiful scene, even with the shadow of war hanging over it. And then the image of the Singing Tree itself at the end of the book. Well, I'll let you discover that yourself.
5. A taste of Hungary. There were lots of little mentions of cultural traditions that I really enjoyed. The description of the wedding traditions was fascinating (and sounded quite exhausting!). Children's books are such a great, non-threatening way to introduce other cultures.
All that being said, I didn't love this book. Oh, I liked it. But the emotion that's in Rilla or even Betsy just wasn't there. And I admit it–I like emotion with my history. The war certainly affects them–fathers go off to war, a neighbor runs away from the army to see his child (and must be hidden), young people are forced to grow up more quickly. But something is just missing.
I did a small amount of digging on Kate Seredy, trying to figure out where history and biography overlap. Some of the connections are pretty obvious (hello! Kate and Kate!). In real life, her father was also a teacher. She spent time on the land. But what kills me is that she was a nurse during WWI. She had been studying art in Budapest (the fictional Kate is still at home) and according to the online biography at University of Oregon (which holds almost all of her Caddie Woodlawn illustrations–another kidlit history connection!): "When World War I interrupted her studies, she served as a nurse and studied anatomy sporadically "between bouts of patching up anatomy." Now what an amazing book that would have been! Kate would have been quite young when the war broke out (she was born in 1899)–can you imagine a coming of age story with battlefield nursing as the central plot? I think I would find the emotion I was perhaps missing in The Singing Tree.
There were certain aspects of the book that seemed heavy-handed–the "we're all really the same–this disagreement is not between the people, but the rulers. . ." Which is to be expected from a book written by a former "enemy," now living in America. But there's even more resonance to this theme when you flip to the front of the book and see the original publication date: October, 1939. As Seredy was writing, war was again brewing. In 1940, as war was raging, it was named a Newbery Honor Book. This extra bit of context makes the story all the more meaningful.
Not enough to make me fall in love with Seredy, but definitely enough for me to respect her. And add her to the list of Kidlit Historians.
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October 4, 2009 by Melissa
Emotional history
I finished my reread of Rilla of Ingleside the other night. I'm not sure how many times I've read this book over the years, but it's one that still gets me. Every. Single. Time.
When I read, I'm not one to cry or even laugh out loud often. I think part of it is that I read so quickly. And for a long time, I rarely cried at movies. Growing older has softened me up a bit, but I'm pretty sure Rilla was the first book that ever made me cry. It may have been Walter's death, but I'm also pretty sure it was the story of Dog Monday.
On this read, I teared up often. When Jem enlisted. When Jem came home and Dog Monday greeted him. Strangely enough, not when Walter dies. But the part that got me the most, the part where I had to reach over to my nightstand to find a kleenex, was when Bruce Meredith brought Anne the first mayflowers. I can't resist sharing the scene with you:
The mayflowers bloomed in the secret nooks of Rainbow Valley. Rilla was watching for them. Jem had once taken his mother the earliest mayflowers; Walter brought them to her when Jem was gone; last spring Shirley had sought them out for her; now, Rilla thought, she must take the boys' place in this. But before she had discovered any, Bruce Meredith came to Ingleside one twilight with his hands full of delicate pink sprays. He stalked up the steps of the veranda and laid them on Mrs. Blythe's lap.
"Because Shirley isn't here to bring them," he said in his funny, shy, blunt way.
"And you thought of this, you darling," said Anne, her lips quivering, as she looked at the stocky, black-browed little chap, standing before her, with his hands thrust into his pockets.
"I wrote Jem today and told him not to worry 'bout you not getting your mayflowers," said Bruce seriously, "'cause I'd see to that. And I told him I would be ten pretty soon now, so it won't be very long before I'll be eighteen and then I'll go to help him fight, and maybe let him come home for a rest while I took his place."
So often, we grownups assume that children don't really see the world around them. I have long argued that children "get" a lot more than we give them credit for. Bruce's gesture and thoughtfulness were completely unexpected, but at ten, he definitely understands that this war has been going on for a while and there's no sign of it ending. And his willingness and confidence that he would go–in eight long years–just kills me.
Though this is far from a perfect book, it's the emotion of it all that made such an impact on my life. You feel the ache and pain as the folks at home wait for news. And though this book is largely about Rilla, it's as much about Susan, the Blythe's housekeeper. I've always loved Susan, but I fell in love with her all over again in this read. She went from only being concerned about her backyard to carefully studying the world situation. I love that she kept asking how to pronounce these distant places as she struggled to keep track of troop movements. As Dr. Blythe comments towards the end of the novel, "Susan, you've been a real brick."
Part of the reason that kidlit history makes such an impact on our lives is this emotion. There are so many wonderful stories in history–and there are also quite a few historians who, while fabulous researchers, can't write in a way to attract a general audience. Montgomery followed the war very closely–she agonized over the war news, as any reader of her published journals becomes keenly aware. She began writing Rilla in March 1919–less than six months after armistice. Though she never says it explicitly, I feel that she knew she was writing a history of the war years. There is this journal entry, from March 1921:
Ewan said a letter had come from Stokes complaining that "Ingleside" was "too gloomy," and wanting me to omit and tone down some of the shadows. Also, subtly intimating that I had not "taffied up" the U.S. enough in regard to the war–this last being the real fault, though they did not like to say so bluntly.
Well, I didn't and I won't!
In my opinion, Montgomery wrote one of the first histories of the war years. She used her journals, she used first person accounts (many her own), she used news accounts to check her facts–she was a historian. But I'm not sure how many see it as that. All I know for sure is that if my first exposure to WWI had been in an average classroom, I wouldn't be returning to it as a topic of interest over and over again.
Have any of you had a similiar experience–where a book leads to a completely new interest? (historical or not!)
September 13, 2009 by Melissa
Opening Shots, Part 2
For a very different look at the first days of WWI, look no further than Betsy Ray. In Betsy and the Great World, she is almost, but not quite, in the middle of all the action, traveling through Europe in 1914. When books are set in certain years (1861, 1914, 1939), you just something historic and bittersweet will happen.
She has spent time in Germany and France and has gotten to know some locals. Like Rilla, Betsy hears of the murder of the Archduke, but did not worry. Instead, "she had amused herself as the train sped through the night by plotting a romantic novel full of titled corpses, spies, and intrigue." She is spending some time in France, doing many of the tourist things. She visits Napolean's grave and notices a wreath with the banner: "Let no French soldier rest, while there is a German in Alsace." She thinks, "The French and German really hated each other." Foreshadowing much? There is more foreshadowing later, when she sees the first batch of English soldiers. She notices: "They were very young and slim, with fresh pink cheeks. The German soldiers had been so big and capable!"
When war does break out, Betsy is in England. She is staying in a boarding house, with a cast of characters. As the war news develops, Lovelace in a few brief sentences explains the alliances that were such a contributer to the War. Betsy thinks "this was too complicated to follow."
But Betsy has a special concern–if England declares war, how will she get home? She is grateful to be in England, as Americans were fleeing the Continent. Plans among her crowd are changing rapidly, and very soon, her father sends her a telegram, urging her to come home.
When England declares war, they stay up all night, waiting for the clock to strike midnight. There is a cheer and then the crowd breaks into "Rule Britannia." As the news settles in, "presently, as before, her ears caught a change. The singing became words, two words, intoned ove and over. Newsboys were running up and down crying them. "War declared! War declared!" Finally it was fused into one word. "War! War! War!" Betsy did the only thing she could do at such a moment. She got down on her knees."
The last chapter of the book concerns her stuggles to book passage (along with the best romantic cliffhanger in kidlit, but that's another blog).
For Rilla, the war doesn't affect her right away, but Betsy is thrown into it immediately. I love this portrait of Europe before it's torn apart, and the turmoil when war begins. When history books talk about the beginnings of war, it's usually about armies and navies mobilizing. But what do you do if you're traveling and suddenly the country you're visiting is at war? How does your mind get around the fact that someone you're friends with is now your enemy? These are the kind of personal experiences that so often have to be left out of the history books (especially military history, which usually misses the social history aspect completely), but they make the war so much more real for those of us who weren't there.
In these opening shots of the war, Rilla and Betsy are very alike. Their primary concern is how these events will affect them personally. In some ways, you can tell Betsy is a few years older, as she makes some of those connections regarding What It All Could Mean much more quickly than Rilla. But wouldn't you love the two of them to have a conversation in 1920, talking about their war experiences?
As I've been thinking about this blog, I've been trying to decide whether to jump around a bit in topics or to dive in deep to certain historical themes. Obviously some subject, such as WWI, are going to be easier than others to do this with. I've also thought about taking one key author at a time and exploring all of there books. Just not sure, and it may be that I should just let the writing be my guide. But, do you have any thoughts?
I know many of my readers (well, at least based on the comments) know this, but just in case I have a few that are not on the BT List-serve, did you know the marvelous Betsy-Tacy books are being re-issued? And they are gorgeous? And it's the most exciting thing to happen in the kidlit history world, since, well, probably the BT convention? For more information or to order your very own copies, check out the Betsy-Tacy Society.
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September 6, 2009 by Melissa
Opening Shots. . .
For years now, I've had a strong interest in World War I. Not the battles so much, but the social changes surrounding the Great War. And I can place the blame firmly on Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery, since I certainly didn't learn much about WWI in school.
I must have read Rilla for the first time shortly before the first Gulf War, because I certainly remember making all kinds of comparisons in my head about the two. In my mind, this was the smallish thing that was going to turn into WWIII. In a way, it almost has, since we're still embroiled in the Middle East (but that's all for someone else's blog).
As I became more interested in history, I was always (and continue to be) surprised at how little mention is made of WWI in American history classes. I know that much of this is because we really weren't involved for very long, and a generation of young men wasn't wiped out. But I had grown up on Rilla, and it seemed to me that this was the war that had changed everything–when the 20th century had truly begun. I remember being highly incensed during my US since 1875 class in college in which we spent about 15 minutes on WWI. I made up for it later though, with my thesis that used the war years a centerpoint. Since then, I've also done some research on Dallas clubwomen and their efforts during WWI.
The other night, I got out Rilla again, for the first time in years. It was time to revisit PEI and figure out why I had never been able to let go of my interest in this war.
For those that aren't familiar with Rilla, this is the final book (chronologically, not the final book published) in the Anne series. Though Anne is certainly in it, it's really about Rilla and coming of age during the war years. Somehow it's always felt like a separate book from the rest of the Anne series, perhaps because there is such intrusion by the "real" world on the almost too perfect world of Avonlea and Glen St. Mary.
In fact, I was surprised at how quickly the war was mentioned. On page 2: "There was a big, black headline on the front page of the Enterprise, stating that some Archduke Ferdinand or other had been assassinated at a place bearing the weird name of Sarajevo, but Susan tarried not over uninteresting, immaterial stuff like that; she was in quest of of something really vital. Oh, here it was–"Jottings from Glen St. Mary." Ferdinand was killed on June 28, 1914.
In the following pages, there is much foreshadowing about what is to come. Gertrude Oliver, a family friend, has a terrifying dream that involves waves of blood lapping at the Ingleside porch. But Rilla is a teenager, and much more focused on the possibilities of her first real dance and being considered a real "grown up."
I've always thought the scene where everyone learns that England declares war on Germany would make an excellent opening for a movie (we will not discuss the abomination of the 3rd Anne movie, set during WWI, except to say it was a truly horrible Anne movie and an almost equally bad WWI movie. I might have thrown things at my television). The scene is set at a lighthouse–crowds of young people are dancing the night away. It's Rilla's first party, and she's asked to dance over and over again, including by someone she just might have a long-time crush on. And then: "There was a little disturbance among a group of boys crowded around the door; a young fellow pushed through and halted on the threshold, looking about him rather sombrely. . . . 'Ask him — ask him,' she said feverishly to Allan Daly. But somebody else had already asked him. The room grew very silent all at once. Outside the fiddler had stopped for a rest and there was silence there too. Afar off they heard the low moan of the gulf–the presage of a storm already on its way up the Atlantic. A girl's laugh drifted up from the rocks and died away as if frightened out of existence by the sudden stillness. 'England declared war on Germany today,' said Jack Elliot slowly. 'The news came by wire just as a I left town.'"
And just like that, everything changes. Some are thrilled at the prospect of war, others are terrified at what it could mean. Many think that it will last just a few months. Walter, Rilla's brother argues: "Do you think a war for which Germany has been preparing for twenty years will be over in a few weeks?" said Walter passionately. 'This isn't a paltry struggle in a Balkan corner, Harvey. It is a death grapple. Germany comes to conquer or die."
In just a few pages, Montgomery outlines all the major themes that I've read over and over in my study of WWI–no one realizing how prepared Germany is and how unprepared England and France are. Surprise that war is even possible in such a "modern" era. Gender roles that emerge during war time. And thus, I got hooked.
I'll be spending some time on WWI in the coming weeks, looking at Rilla, but also looking at the final two books in the Betsy-Tacy series. Are there any other children's books that use WWI as a backdrop?
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Cultural invasion of Pakistan
As is seen, the Sino-Pakistan relationship is becoming closer and the communication between the two countries is increasing. In spite of tremendous efforts from both countries to keep this partnership afloat, stark differences in ideologies, backgrounds, and cultures are still prominent. This issue needs serious attention because a deep undercurrent has already started rocking Pakistan, tremors of which are felt occasionally. For further reading: Express Tribune article https://tribune.com.pk/story/1771321/1-pakistani-buy-chinese/ and Dawn article https://www.dawn.com/news/1337997
Cultural Differences because of Religious Differences
China has been influenced by Confucianism for a long time while Pakistan is a country with a firm belief in Islam, which gains the two countries distinctive cultural features. Confucianism doesn't belong to the religion. However, it has developed and ruled people's mind as an official thought for more than two thousand years in China, which gains Confucianism a religious-equal status. In this respect, Confucianism goes beyond religion. It imposes subtle impacts on Chinese people's mind even without their awareness.
Pakistan is a Muslim country with about 97 percent of people believing in Islam. As a result, Islam is the national religion and exerts great influence on all aspects of life. People can feel a strong religious atmosphere in Pakistan. A large part of social activities, traditions, customs are centered on it and the religion further affects the values, culture, and ways of thinking and behavior of people in Pakistan. Therefore, Pakistan, a religious country, presents a totally different society compared with China.
Cultural differences mainly manifest in the religious area, customs area and the ideological area in which communication, food habits, festival and others, social view, gender view, marriage view, and time view play important roles.
Gender view is also an important dimension which reveals cultural differences. In China, gender equality is what the whole society pursues. Women play an important role as men in all walks of life and receive the same popularity in the workplace. But in Pakistan, gender discrimination is so common and normal that almost everyone takes it for granted. "Culturally, women are seen as inferior to men and are expected to be obedient to their husbands and other male members of the family." From this, the gender discrimination goes without saying.
Greatly influenced by the religion, Pakistan is a much more conservative country. A relationship between a boy and a girl not aiming at marriage is not allowed. Thus, dating is not common. Before the marriage prospects, the relationship is kept secret and young people are restrained to show love in the public. Most Pakistani girls are traditional and want to get married. A large portion of marriages is arranged by parents. The marriage view of Pakistani people is generally based on traditional culture and in accordance with religious demands.
Chinese people keep a relatively open mind to the marriage and their understanding of marriage has a modern approach, which increases the freedom and flexibility of the marriage.
In a complex Pakistani society, a new phenomenon is in vogue 'CPEC marriages'.
Privacy is an alien concept in Chinese culture
People say privacy is a common phenomenon that exists in every culture but is just interpreted and expressed differently. Yeah, right! Go tell any Chinese and see their reactions. Chinese are bent on dismissing privacy as a bad thing, and their zeal might have something to do with its negative connotation. In Chinese, "si yen" means seclusion and implies secrecy. Chinese have little comprehension of personal boundaries or personal space.
On the other hand, the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan enshrines the right to privacy as a fundamental right. Article 14(1) of the Constitution confirms that "[t]he dignity of man and, subject to law, the privacy of a home, shall be inviolable." As a fundamental constitutional right, the right to privacy is meant to take precedence over any other inconsistent provisions of domestic law.
Are Pakistanis going the Chinese way?
However, it is now seen that surveillance across all of Pakistan's communications networks is becoming more widespread. Intermittent but devastating attacks within Pakistan's major cities by armed groups, such as the 2014 Peshawar school attack by a Taliban-affiliated group, have been cited as a reason to expand surveillance in Pakistan. Interception across Pakistani networks is therefore pervasive; some of it is also unlawful.
A Supreme Court hearing about a case concerning phone tapping revealed that the ISI intelligence agency had tapped 6,523 phones in February, 6,819 in March and 6,742 in April 2015. The impact of surveillance in Pakistan by both the State and other actors has become increasingly reported on and documented by civil society groups, with some research conducted with particular groups in society such as female journalists and women.
Chinese promote self-criticism, Muslims are more tolerant
Taking the history and current situation into consideration, people in Pakistan have been experiencing great changes of regime, culture, and religion that they are adaptable and tolerant. According to the creeds in the Quran, everything in life is arranged by God and Pakistanis believe in fate. So it is nobody that should be to blame for or take responsibilities for failures which are considered as acts of God. If a calamity or tragedy, unfortunately, occurs to someone, others will comfort each other with the word kismet.
In China, although humility and mildness are national ethos, introspection and self-criticism are absolutely necessary after a failure and the person who is supposed to be in charge will be investigated and hold responsibility.
While Chinese are detaining and imprisoning millions of Uyghur Muslims in disguised concentration camps, the Chinese version of the infamous Russian gulags, Pakistani premier Imran Khan claims to be completely oblivious of the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Uyghur Muslims in China. Why is he tight-lipped? Is Pakistan already a slave of China? The Chinese economic and strategic promise is extravagant and almost blinding for Pakistan. However, it has unleashed a new cultural wave posing serious challenges to the already ethnically vulnerable Pakistani society. Presently, Pakistanis seem to be enamored by a foreign bait, happily embracing China's moral void.
16 Jan 2019/Wednesday Written by Afsana


At home in Derry young Joe Logan is tormented by the demands of his father, once a hero, now a weak and wasted man At school Joe dreams away the days, waiting for better times to come Times when the bullets cease and the nights are free from fear.Befriended by Kathleen, a teacher at a nearby school, he finds a new companionship and understanding Then Brendan, Joe s oldeAt home in Derry young Joe Logan is tormented by the demands of his father, once a hero, now a weak and wasted man At school Joe dreams away the days, waiting for better times to come Times when the bullets cease and the nights are free from fear.Befriended by Kathleen, a teacher at a nearby school, he finds a new companionship and understanding Then Brendan, Joe s older brother, returns home from London with a gun and a pocketful of secrets, and the brutality and ugliness of war close in on Joe, destroying his dreams for ever.
I both loved and hated this book. Hated only because of what was happening at that time in Northern Ireland. I personally cannot imagine such an existence-to live in fear and uncertainty. Jennifer Johnston is an amazing writer. She captures the time and the people so well. It really is a memorable novel. The final 3 pages are burned into my mind and soul.
Not so good as expected since I've read better books on this subject.
This is a skillfully told story set in Derry during the Troubles, a child protagonist, a teacher, a brother on the edge of the IRA, parents filled with anger and bitterness.
Books about the troubles are always depressing but she does well in describing the influence of the forces of oppression (security forces/facist-like provos) on a family and the bitter useless father is well done.
Interesantna i dosta mračna knjiga koja odlično prenosi sumornost postojanja običnih ljudi u ratom zahvaćenoj Sjevernoj Irskoj."Ne znam točno za što sam uopće rođena. Ponesu me vlastiti osjećaji. Jamam svrhe. Što to znači? Valjda to da ne znam koja je svrha mog životai to mi smeta. Puno ljudi ne zna, i to im ne smeta. Meni smeta. Htjela bih znati kamoti sigurna u nešto."
Beautiful sad read. Captures the awfulness and divisiveness of life under occupation through the eyes of a young boy. The story is told with sympathy but without sentimentality. Highly recommended.
A moving small novel taking place in Northern Ireland during the uprisings in that country from the eyes of a bright child who is on the cusp of manhood. The reader is transported to that time and place by the beautiful writing of the author.
Four and one-fourth stars, really. This was a beautiful, delicate, sad little book. The perfect quick read for a rainy afternoon.


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8 Largest Pyramids in the World
Last updated on June 7, 2020 in Culture 19 Comments
Modern and ancient pyramids come in many forms and sizes. To determine which is the largest pyramid one could compare their heights for example. At a height of 260 meters (853 feet), the Transamerica Pyramid would certainly be a serious candidate.
Many big pyramids however come with a very large base but are not very tall. A better measure of size therefore is probably the volume of a pyramid. The volume of a pyramid can be calculated by the following formula: Length_of_base * Width_of_base * Height * 1/3. This is 54 x 54 x 260 x 1/3 = 252,720 m³ for the Transamerica Pyramid, which isn't even close enough to be included in our list of biggest pyramids.
So with this formula it shouldn't be too difficult to find the largest pyramids in the world. Unfortunately it isn't that easy. Many pyramids are not true smooth sided pyramids but stepped pyramids. Another problem is that some of the largest pyramids on earth are still not completely excavated.
8. La Danta, El Mirador (0,9 million m³)
photo/Julie Hillebrant
El Mirador was a major Mayan city that flourished from about the 6th century BC, reaching a peak population of perhaps more than 8,000 people between the 3rd BC and the 1st century AD. After a hiatus of a few centuries further constructions were undertaken until the city was abandonment at the end of the 9th century. The ruins were rediscovered in 1926 but received little attention due to its remote location deep in the jungle of northern Guatemala. Today the site remains largely covered by tropical jungle and the two largest structures at El Mirador, the "El Tigre" complex and the "La Danta" complex, give the impression of two large hills.
The La Danta complex consists of a number of platforms. The lowest platform measures 310 by 590 meters (1017 by 1936 ft), is 7 meters (23 ft) high and supports a series of buildings. The next platform is about 190 by 240 meters (623 by 787 ft) and rises another 7 meters. Above that is another platform around 21 meters high (69 feet), which is topped off by three pyramids, the tallest of which is 21 meters high. At 70 meters (230 feet) the Danta Complex is somewhat higher than El Tigre (about 55 meters or 180 feet high) although La Danta incorporates a low natural hill.
According to some source the La Danta complex has a total volume of 2,800,000 cubic meters which would make it one of the largest structures in the word. The question is however, how accurate this calculation is and if the entire complex can be considered one single pyramid. One could argue that a part of the first platform should be excluded as it supports several buildings.
7. Pyramid of the Sun (1,2 million m³)
The Pyramid of the Sun is the largest building in Teotihuacán and one of the largest Pyramids in Mesoamerica. The name comes from the Aztecs, who visited the city of Teotihuacán centuries after it was abandoned. The pyramid was constructed in two phases. The first construction stage, around 100 AD brought the pyramid to nearly the size it is today. The second round of construction resulted in its completed size of 225 meters (733 feet) across and 75 meters (246 feet) high.
6. Luxor Hotel (1,228 million m³)
flickr/Daniel Coomber
The Luxor Pyramid was among the first of a decade-long wave of new megaresorts to emerge on the Las Vegas Strip in the 1990s. Opened in 1993 after only eighteen months of construction, the Luxor debuted with 2,526 guest rooms, a gigantic casino area, a showroom, restaurants, and entertainment venues on its 2nd floor. At a base length of 183 meters (600 ft) and a height of 110 meters (350 ft) it is considerably smaller than its famous model, the Great Pyramid at Giza.
5. Bent Pyramid (1,237 million m³)
The Bent Pyramid located at Dahshur was the second pyramid built by pharaoh Sneferu. Mysteriously, the Egyptian pyramid rises from the desert at an angle of 55 degrees and then suddenly changes to a more gradual angle of 43 degrees. One theory holds that due to the steepness of the original angle the weight to be added above the inner chambers and passageways became too large, forcing the builders to adopt a shallower angle. The base of the pyramid is 188.6 meters (619 ft) and the height 101.1 meters (332 ft).
4. Red Pyramid (1,69 million m³)
flickr/acaaron816
Built by Pharaoh Sneferu, the Red Pyramid is the world's first successful attempt at constructing a true pyramid. The pyramid measures 220 by 220 meters (722 ft) and is 104 meters (341 ft) high. It was the largest pyramid in Egypt until the construction of the Giza pyramids. What really makes the Red Pyramid special today is the lack of crowds that plagues the Giza Plateau and the comparatively unregulated interior access.
3. Great Pyramid of Cholula (1,8 million m³)
flickr/ogal
The Great Pyramid of Cholula in Mexico appears to be a natural hill topped by a Catholic church. This is the "Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios" which was built by the Spanish in 1594 on the site of a pre-Hispanic temple. According to the Guinness Book of Records, this temple is in fact the largest pyramid ever constructed anywhere in the world, with a total volume estimated at over 4.45 million m³. This is based on a size off 450 by 450 meter (1476×1476 ft) and a height of 66 m (217 ft).
Closer examination of the site reveals a different volume however. The complex consists of several structures built on top of each other, starting from the 3rd century BC until the 9th century AD. The picture below shows a pyramid standing on a huge platform. The base of the pyramid itself is 'only' 295 by 270 meters (968 by 886 ft) which gives a much smaller volume, although the Cholulu Pyramid is still the third largest pyramid ever built.
flickr/charmedsara
2. Pyramid of Khafre (2,21 million m³)
The Pyramid of Khafre is the second largest pyramid at Giza, after the Great Pyramid built by Khafre's father Khufu. It appears to be slightly larger however as it is build at a higher elevation. The pyramid has a base length of 215.5 meter (706 ft) and originally rose to a height of 143.5 meter (471 ft) but is now 12 meters shorter. The most distinctive feature of Khafre's Pyramid is the topmost layer of smooth stones that are the only remaining casing stones on a Giza Pyramid.
1. Pyramid of Khufu (2,58 million m³)
The Great Pyramid of Khufu is the oldest and sole remnant of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Over 2 million blocks of stone were used to construct the pyramid, during a 20 year period concluding around 2560 BC. The pyramid is 230 meters (755 ft) in length and an awe-inspiring 139 meters (455 feet) high (originally 146.5 meters or 480.6 ft). So in the end, after reviewing all the biggest pyramids the Great Pyramid of Khufu remains the largest pyramid ever built.
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Ulla says
The largest pyamid in the World is actually the "La danta" in El Mirador. It is around 172 meters (564 feet), and around 2.80million m^3
Gabe K says
Completely missing the 321 ft / 98 meter tall Bass Pro Shop in Memphis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Pyramid
Mark Hathaway says
You left out the Huaca del Sol in Trujillo, Peru. Unfortunately, about 2/3 of this pyramid was destroyed, but it is believed to originally have had a base of 340 x 160 m. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huaca_del_Sol
Jack says
There is a Pyramid bigger and older than Giza pyramid, but the pyramid is buried in the ground and become a mountain, the name is Sadahurip, locate in Indonesia. Unfortunately researchers stop working on it, Lead researcher has been changed, The Minister of local research has also been changed, and they are not concerned with this giant structure. I hope there are researchers from foreign parties that would complete the discovery. Sadahurip Pyramid.
Kurt says
I guess it depends on what you'd consider a "pyramid".
I think this is a well thought out article, and the scepticism is largely justified, in my opinion. The La Danta "pyramid" is not comparable with the Egyptian pyramids at all, and the low base is in no way a "pyramid", as it is an irregularly shaped low platform. The La Danta complex may be the biggest temple complex, but calling this entire structure a single "pyramid" is surely stretching the truth.
There are many other, similar Mayan complexes and they're never viewed as a single pyramid. For example, the entire central plaza and acropolis of Tikal resides on an interconnected platform, which would make all of it a "pyramid", according to the "La Danta" way of measuring things. It would also make Temple 1 almost 10 m taller than it is usually described as.
The biggest really pyramid shaped pyramid in Mexico is Pyramid of the Sun, if we're generous with the term then it's Cholula. The tallest is the Tonina pyramid, as recent excavations and research show that it is manmade – it was considered a natural hill with temples on top, but it is largely artificial, only a part of it is natural.
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/researchers-confirm-recently-discovered-tonina-pyramid-largest-pyramid-mexico-020433
It remains to be seen how much of it which is natural, but it does have a single vaguely "pyramidal" form, unlike the La Danta "pyramid" complex.
In any case, for a single pyramidal structure, where all of the structure is pyramid shaped, the biggest may have been the Chinese emperor Qin's funeral mound, which is 350 x 350 m, and which was about 70 m tall when new – due to the earthen construction it has now sunk, unfortunately. A "pyramid" is entirely a shape, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the material it is made of, despite what Fester writes above. If such strictness is applied, then one could argue that only the Egyptian and Sudanese structures are true pyramids, made of large blocks of limestone, and terminating in a point. Then none of the other structures are pyramids, and therefore not the nth largest pyramids.
prasansa says
Excellent research! Amazing pictures!!
Fester says
If its not stone then it's not a pyramid. Dirt mounds may be bigger than the pyramids but that's because it's easy to find dirt. They pyramids are impressive because they were one huge engineered building. So the southwestern us ones and Bosnian ones don't even count in this list and the Central American ones are several different building on top of each other so adding them together is a joke. I have to agree with this list except I wouldn't even put cholula at 3. More like 15,23,and 78 all added up.
n0r8 says
Look on pyramids of Bosniya and chinese pyramids they are bigger http://world-pyramids.com/en/world-pyramids/asian-pacific/chinese-pyramids/# and this one http://world-pyramids.com/en/world-pyramids/europe/bosnian-pyramids/#.
mrtunnel says
I've visited the Egyptian Pyramids in Giza and gone thru tunnels to the center of Khafre. However, Cholula is the largest, based on all mainstream reference sources, and I've also gone thru the inside tunnels on that as well. The Great Pyramid of the Sun in Mexico, however, somehow presents as the most impressive, although that's subjective.
miken says
The Bosnian "pyramids" are Provence natural formations. Let's not get distracted by a new age hoax.
ian s says
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/piramides/esp_piramides_china_3.htm the ones in China are the biggest!
Chad S says
I believe the largest pyramid ever built is now called Cahokia Mounds in Cahokia, IL, just outside of St. Louis, Missouri, USA. It is believed that it was 10 times bigger than the Great Pyramid in Egypt when completed, though it did not come to a point, but was flat at the top.
TruSunGods360 says
The Kemetic (Egyptian) pyramids had flat surfaces and were plated with precious stones (that were stripped and stolen to build Rome) to reflect the sunlight. Structures so complex they could not be penetrated with dynamite… Don't hate.. just know who was the first to start civilization.. AFRICANS!
Runge says
Get over it. It's simple geometry.
Both La Danta and Cholula are complexes ( Big piles of earth) with pyramids on top of them. whereas the Giza pyramids are true pyramids build from the bottom up. All in the shape of a pyramid.
That makes the ranking simple and just.
crazy sexy fun traveler says
Cholula is the biggest one so far!
http://www.crazysexyfuntraveler.com/great-pyramid-of-cholula-the-largest-pyramid-of-the-world/
Pau says
Typographical error in first paragraph of your article:
"260 meters (85 feet)" – one meter equals 3.28 feet so even if we reverse the numbers, they are inaccurate. It should read "260 meters (853 feet, including the 212-foot spire)"
Source: Transamerica.com
*About the ranking: As you pointed out, La Danta's structure is 2,800,000 cubic meters. I am not sure why you don't give it the ranking that it deserves.*
Igor says
Cholulu is the largest known pyramid in the world. Confirmed by Guinnes record book. Apparently, 5 new pyramids, un excavated, in Bosnia, might as well be the ones.
What about Bosnia?
Laughingatyou says
Who wrote this article? From how it discredits the mexican pyramid and glorifies egyptian pyramids I'd have to take an educated guess and say this article is a propaganda article. Yes the egyptian pyramids are amazing and are spectacular feats of determination and design. However if The Great Pyramid of Cholula is larger in volume its larger in volume.


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More cougar sightings
More Connecticut residents are reporting seeing an animal they believe to be a mountain lion.
A great examination of mountain lion "sightings" in the Northeast
Four years on from the South Dakota cougar that made it all the way to Connecticut, people in northeastern states are still enthralled by the idea that mountain lions might be roaming the forests. While there are some who strongly believe the cats are present, experts agree that any reported sightings of cougars are pets that have been released or misidentifications (of coyotes or bobcats).
Could this possibly be in the future?
At least one cougar expert believes the cat could someday recolonize the northeast United States.
Experts: Cougars Could Return to Northeast
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Many biologists agree that the northeast US possesses large tracts of suitable habitat for the cats. Now, some believe that recent long-distance dispersals suggest cougars are capable of recolonizing northeastern states they have long been extirpated from.
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Integrating Values and Ethics into Wildlife Policy and Management—Lessons from North America
Fox and Bekoff (2011)
Abstract: Few animals provoke as wide a range of emotions as wolves. Some see wolves as icons of a lost wilderness; others see them as intruders. As the battle continues between wolf proponents and opponents, finding solutions that resolve conflicts while supporting the integrity of nature is challenging. In this essay we argue that we need to make room for wolves and other native carnivores who are re-colonizing areas from which they were extirpated. Strategies that foster coexistence are necessary and wildlife agencies must consider all stakeholders and invest adequate resources to inform the public about how to mitigate conflicts between people/domestic animals, and predators. Values and ethics must be woven into wildlife policy and management and we must be willing to ask difficult ethical questions and learn from past mistakes.


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Since my time in school soon is coming to an end I thought I should take the opportunity to share a little bit of my study technique. Starting with my study set-up. The focus here is that is needs so be lightweight, easy to move around and quick to set up.
First out in this study set-up is the most important thing, my Ipad Pro 9.7. It works perfectly for writing, surfing the webb, taking notes etc. And with the Apple Pencil it's also perfect to sketch on. I also use it for simpler edits of pictures but for more heavy work a Macbook Pro is needed. (Works just fine for blogging though!) To keep safe I aslo bring my iPad charger!
And I thought this would be the perfect post to discuss a rather revolutionizing thing that I just discovered. The Logitech Create Keyboard. Even though the Ipad Pro works just perfectly by itself the big disadvantage is that it doesn't got a physical keyboard.
Usually when I've been on the move the iPad has been a bit of a fuss to bring with me. I've kept the Apple screen protector thing on it to keep it from scratching and to be able to keep it standing up. On top of that I've had a pleather sleeve to put the whole thing in. The Apple Pencil I've then stored in it's original box out of convenience. All these things have taken up a rather large amount of space and are not the easiest to set up on e.g. a train.
So when I learned that i could minimize all of that stuff to just the Logitech Create Keyboard I was sold! It gets a lot larger that the iPad alone. (but that's still just as big as a small book, which is not that bad if you ask me) And it's still a lot smaller and simpler than my last set-up.
First up is Klean Kanteen. It's the perfect water bottle for studying. Even though I believe everyone should have a water bottle to decrease the amount of plastic bottles purchased everyday, this one is really nice for studying. This since it's in metal and can take almost all the bashing my bag can produce. The material also keeps it from smelling bad if you forget it in you bag when you get home. That it also looks like an old milk jug is just a bonus!
The key to study at school (or a café if you got the money) is a good pair of headphones. In this department I'm a bit of a sucker for Bose. The sound is just so good! I got a pair of over-ears that I really like but to bring with me these Bose in-ear headphones are perfect. The last items is my glasses. Long days staring at a small screen has made me need them to save my head from feeling like it's getting thrown around in a washing machine. Mostly I forget, but when I do I'm stuck with a headache for the better part of the day.
And that was it for my ultimate study set-up. Hope you got some tips! I would love to hear what you bring with you when you study. Please leave a comment down below!


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Beyoncé and Jay-Z have reportedly registered to trademark two new names in the US - Rumi and Sir Carter - leading to speculation that the monikers are for their newborn twins.
The move follows the couple's decision to (unsuccessfully) try and trademark the name of their first child, Blue Ivy, with the same company shortly after she was born five years ago.
So, what do the names Rumi and Sir Carter mean?
Rumi, which is of Japanese origin, is a girl's name meaning "beauty" and "flow". However, the most notable Rumi in history was actually a male 13th century Muslim poet, famed for his sufi poem The Diver's Clothes Lying Empty.
There is no official name meaning for Sir, although it's an obvious indication of both importance and status.
And what does it mean for the couple to trademark the names?
Essentially, trademarking a name protects it from being used by other people and companies, particularly ones who might want to use the names to try and profit from them.
For example, TMZ reports that the trademark applications for Rumi and Sir Carter include protection from those names being used for "fragrances, cosmetics, key chains, baby teething rings, strollers, mugs, water bottles, hair ribbons, playing cards, tote bags, sports balls, rattles and novelty items".
And it appears to be a smart move, with Inc reporting that just a few days after Blue Ivy's birth back in 2012 companies were already attempting to register the names "Blue Ivy Carter NYC" for a children's clothing brand and "Blue Ivy Carter Glory IV" for a line of fragrances.
The birth of the twins is yet to be confirmed by either Beyoncé or Jay Z, and the pair have released no official statement, although they are rumoured to have been born last month.
And the post was even 'liked' by Beyoncé's mum, Tina Knowles, adding to speculation that the twins had been born.
One thing we know for sure is that when Beyoncé does decide to announce the arrival of her second and third children, it will be in spectacular fashion.
After all, who can forget her epic Instagram pregnancy announcement (below), which remains the most liked image on the social media platform of all time with a casual 11 million likes (and counting)?


I've been pinning so many fantastic recipes lately - so many wonderful recipes that I haven't had ANY time to try. When the sun FINALLY came out on Sunday after a week of rain, I knew what I had to do ... send my husband to the grocery store ;).
I decided I would spend the afternoon cooking (which I enjoy so much more than the marking that was piling up), then we would take the kids on a drive to see the beautiful leaves and have a picnic supper. Our picnic supper was totally Pinterest-inspired.
I started with Baked Parmesan Garlic Chicken Wings. I normally don't like chicken wings, but everyone else in the family does, so I made them ... and they were DELICIOUS!!! Definitely on the "to-make-again" list. My husband said they were better than the wings at his favourite restaurant ... can't beat that compliment!
Then I made Cheddar Bacon Ranch Pull-Apart Bread (a.k.a. - Crack Bread). WOW!!! It definitely deserves it's nickname. It was still warm from the oven when we started our picnic, and it smelled wonderful! Glad I had four other people to help me eat it, 'cause I definitely would've eaten the whole thing myself.
We finished our meal with Caramel-Swirled Pretzel M&M Blondies ... ummmmm .... YUMMY!!! The perfect finish to the perfect picnic. The kids thought this was the best dessert ever - and I'd have to say they're not far off.
We had a fabulous day full of family fun, great food, and colourful nature. What a GREAT way to spend a Sunday!!!
Thanks for sharing!! I am definitely going to try that pull apart bread!! Sounds delicious!!
I enjoy your blog. I gave it a "I Heart Your Blog" award.
I want to come to your next picnic, lol! That bread looks delicious!


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BEST LOFT OR CONDO PROJECT
Le Parisien Flats and Marketplace
While admittedly Le Parisien Flats and Marketplace reminds us of the French village at Epcot Center or the Paris Casino in Las Vegas (both elaborate efforts to capture the real deal in places that are nothing like the eternal City of Light) it still earns this year's nod because the 13-unit condo development incorporates a number of innovative, eco-friendly, and creative elements into its design. Developer Mark Dzuik offers up something called "building biology," which sounds a little germy but in fact encompasses a wide range of green building practices and products such as solar heat, a garden rooftop, and kitchen cabinetry composed of "agriboard" made from agricultural cellulose rather than wood. The lack of common hallways will cut down on noise pollution, and a courtyard will provide a small oasis and extra oxygen. There are also plenty of other attractive components, such as in-floor radiant heating and floors featuring the same herringbone parquet design that can be found in the Louvre near that diva Mona Lisa. The floor plans were even analyzed by a feng shui consultant, so aesthetic and architectural harmony are in line. Finally, buyers get a say in the decor by purchasing their condo "on the half shell" and working with a designer (developer and contractor approved) to complete the interior. The building will also feature a bakery and organic wine loft for those who wish to purchase an elegant repast while wearing their slippers. Ultimately, Le Parisien may only possess just a bit of that je ne sais quoi peculiar to the French, but the attempt at beauty and whimsy is appreciated, and the depth of environmental concern behind this project is to be commended and hopefully duplicated in other developments.
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Serious BRAND GROWTH for Serious People--More brand share, more brand equity and more bucks to the bottom line!
Serious MARKET GROWTH for Serious People--Most Marketing Stinks, But Yours Can Smell Like Money!
Serious BUSINESS GROWTH for Serious People--Business Growth For The Long Haul!
Jack Sims is one of those rare people who started his business education at the age of eleven, by working in his parents Mom and Pop store in England. That's where he first learned the importance of customers and treating them correctly. This awareness of looking after your customers, keeping your promises and developing a brand that people will go out of their way to get, and pay a premium price for, has stood the test of time and enabled him to create the largest Marketing Agency in America.
Starting in the embryonic Promotional Marketing industry Mr. Sims quickly realized that to attain substantial business growth that forward thinking companies are looking for, they must make sure that their marketing, branding and business basics are on track. This is the same thinking he used when he started his first company in the UK, and it worked, it became consistently ranked as one of the top creative groups in the country.
Jack Sims came to America and opened his marketing agency out of his apartment in White Plains, New York. It quickly started gaining some brand awareness, which led to gaining clients who are some of the biggest and best brands on the planet, companies like Polaroid, British Airways, Burger King, Lever, General Foods, Nestle signed on as retainer clients. His company won the promotional marketing industries highest awards, not once but twice, on the way to becoming the #1 ranked and largest marketing agency in the country, and it retained that position two years in a row.
Why did this happen? Because Mr. Sims' vision is all about moving the business, brand or market share growth needle, and this comes through in every project he works on.
After selling his business to Wall Street, Jack Sims wrote his first book Growing Small Businesses Into Big Brands that explains the whole process of how to build a successful brand, and it is now in its third printing. He has since written You Can't See Your Backswing--How to Win at Business & Golf that is based on his experiences as a professional golfer and combined with his lifelong experiences of growing businesses. He has been a marketing consultant for major fast moving companies who are serious about attaining sustainable business growth and has achieved some amazing success. He has worked his magic with small companies too, one of the companies he consulted for, managed to gain a whopping 35% compounded growth for seven years and became the brand leader in the category, too.
Jack Sims still consults, between appearing on TV and radio shows as a business growth expert and speaking to corporations and associations who are looking to improve their business bottom line through marketing, branding, and the business basics. Just a few of the corporations he speaks for are Harley-Davidson, Novartis, LexisNexis, Washington Group International and he also speaks for associations as diverse as American Perfume Society, Industrial Fabrics Association, American Locksmith's, National Frame Building Association, and dozens more.


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Rotherham United vs Southend United preview: Stuttering Millers hoping to reignite League One promotion push
Rotherham United face Southend United at the New York Stadium on Saturday looking for their first win in three outings, as they look to get their League One season back on track.
By Kelham Hilton 12 March 2020 20:46
Photo by Jacques Feeney/MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Rotherham United host troubled Southend United at the New York Stadium on Saturday, as they seek to maintain their position in the League One automatic promotion places.
The Millers are sitting second in the League One standings, but have failed to win any of their last three games. This sequence has seen them slip five points behind leaders Coventry City.
With the race for promotion hotting up in the third tier, Paul Warne's side find themselves just three points clear of eigth-placed Wycombe Wanderers.
Southend's relegation is all but sealed, but Sol Campbell's young team continue to battle gamely amidst financial uncertainty.
Their win over Bristol Rovers last weekend ended a run of six league defeats on the spin, but the Blues are still a mammoth 16 points from safety.
Story behind the game
The home side will be hoping to get back to winning-ways following their 3-1 loss at Rochdale last Saturday.
The Millers have been held in both of their previous home clashes against sides in League One's bottom six.
Southend will be hoping for a similar outcome when the two sides meet, but will have to end a run of four successive away losses to gain a positive result.
It ended all square when the pair met back in December. After falling behind to an own-goal, the Blues rallied to lead through Jason Demetriou and Sam Mantom.
Their lead only lasted eight minutes though, as Freddie Ladapo struck to rescue a 2-2 draw for the Millers.
Defensive stalwart Michael Ihiekwe is set to spend up to six weeks on the sidelines with a knee injury. Joe Mattock is also expected to be absent with a tight hamstring.
Southend skipper Timothee Dieng remains sidelined along with John White. Mark Milligan could feature, while frontman Stephen Humphrys could also come into contention.
Predicted line-ups
Rotherham United:
Iversen, Thompson, Tilt, Wood, Olosunde, Adelekun, Lindsay, Crooks, Ogbene, Smith, Vassell.
Southend United:
Gunnarsson, Mitchell-Nelson, Bwomono, Shaughnessy, Clifford, Egbri, Kinali, Demetriu, Gard, McLaughlin, Kelman.
What the managers have said
Millers boss Paul Warne expects Saturday's opponents to play without fear when they travel to South Yorkshire.
He told the club's official website:
"After winning against Bristol Rovers last time out, Southend will have confidence and they have a youthful exuberance. They can come here fearless, and I don't mean this disrespectfully, but when you're at the bottom end of the league and you go away to someone at the top anything is a bonus.
"Their a decent footballing side so they'll enjoy playing on our pitch, so it will be a tough game. I don't think there are any teams who will just turn up and get their bellies tickled, we have to find ways to break them down."
Shrimpers boss Sol Campbell believes his side are ready for the challenge against the League One high-flyers.
"We've had to chop and change. The goal we conceded last week showed a little bit of naivety at the back, but we'll get better. As long as we learn from them kind of mistakes and go again that's what it's all about.
"We take positives but it's going to be a tough game. The guys are ready to compete and hopefully we take our chances when they arise, and we'll get something from the game."


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Today's adventures included a journey to Caesarea, a unique lunch hosted by the Druze, and a walk around Tel Megiddo.
We left our hotel in West Jerusalem for Caesarea, a city located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea between Tel Aviv and Haifa. We watched a short video about the history of the city, which covered its construction, conquests, and modern development. After the video, we surveyed the city accompanied by our tour guide. We explored the ruins of Caesarea, which included ancient aqueducts, gladiator arenas, and performance stages. We then boarded the bus to go eat lunch.
We ate lunch in a Druze village just south of Haifa. The Druze are a splinter sect of Islam and are most prevalent in various countries in the Middle East. They provided us with a delicious meal of falafel and Mediterranean vegetables.
The next stop was a place called Tel Megiddo. The last battle before the Armageddon, as mentioned in the New Testament, is said to take place at Tel Megiddo. The site is actually a hill made up of 25 layers of the ruins of ancient cities, and the word "tel" in Hebrew literally means "hill". We took a look around the areas surrounding Tel Megiddo, where our tour guide Sam explained the history of the site. We then walked up the hill and viewed the ruins and beautiful landscape. Even though the sun was hot, the breeze coming off the Mediterranean Sea kept us cool. We then went through a system of underground tunnels where we saw underground wells, which were used to support life in Tel Megiddo. The ruined settlement is now a modern tourist attraction, but cattle and agriculture farmers still utilize the surrounding areas.
We boarded the bus after another long, but fascinating, day in the Middle East and headed to our new hotel in Haifa.


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BCE, Astral submit new merger proposal to CRTC
by Sean Buckley |
Bell Canada Enterprises (NYSE: BCE), the parent company of Bell Canada, and broadcaster Astral Media on Monday submitted a revised merger proposal to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
In its revised proposal, reports The Globe and Mail, the pair promised that they would reduce their market clout by divesting various TV, radio and other media assets.
According to unnamed sources cited in the article, BCE has already held talks with a number of parties that would like to purchase the assets, including Astral's English-language television properties and other assets, it wants to sell.
While the revised deal is still worth about $3.4 billion, it still has to get the approval of both the CRTC and the Competition Bureau, one that would make BCE a power player in Canada's broadcast market. It could take the CRTC until next spring to review the revised proposal.
However, BCE's asset sale could also get the attention of other players in the video business, including Rogers Communications (NYSE: RCI), which expressed interest in Astral's English specialty channels if they came up for sale, and Corus Entertainment.
Another likely bidder would be Cogeco, a major radio provider in Quebec that also considered making a bid on Astral before BCE moved to acquire the company.
Regardless of whether the revised deal goes through it will continue to draw fire from consumer competition groups and Bell's main rival Telus (Toronto: T.TO).
Telus previously said that a Bell/Astral combination would mean that BCE would have a 49.5 percent share of the English-language TV audience in Canada and would drive up prices and limit programming choices for consumers.
- The Globe and Mail has this article
BCE Q3 wireline revenue declines 4% despite focus on FTTx, IPTV service sets
Bell Canada appeals to feds after Astral Media acquisition rejected
CRTC rejects Bell Canada's Astral Media acquisition
Telus protests Bell Canada's Astral Media acquisition
Bell Canada's Astral Media acquisition gets green light from shareholders
LF Edge serves up second helping of Arkraino Edge Stack
LF Edge, an umbrella organization that's part of the Linux Foundation, announced the second release of its Akraino Edge Stack.
by Mike Robuck Jan 17, 2020 3:49pm
McAfee replaces CEO ahead of possible IPO
Chris Young is leaving his role as CEO of cybersecurity firm McAfee to become a senior advisor with TPG Capital, which has a majority stake in McAfee.
by Mike Robuck Jan 17, 2020 11:58am
CenturyLink lands $1.6B Department of Interior contract
CenturyLink wins a $1.6 billion contract with the U.S. Department of Interior to upgrade its network services and modernize its IT solutions.
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Caspar Gottlob Moltke (30. april 1668 i Mecklenburg – 19. oktober 1728 på Nygård) var en dansk amtmand.

Han fødtes 30. april (13. maj) 1668 i Mecklenburg. Forældrene var Claus Joachim Moltke til Streitfeld og Walkendorf og Christine Amalie Moltke. Faderen stod en tid lang som dansk kaptajn ved Ebbe Ulfeldts regiment, men vendte tilbage til sit fædreland, hvor han levede som godsejer. Sønnen udnævntes 1692 til dansk hofjunker og rejste året efter udenlands. Som ypperlig idrætsmand modtog han ved en ringridning på Amager 1695 en guldkårde som ærespris af kongens hånd. 1700 udnævntes han til amtmand over Fredrikstad og Smålenene (Østfold), men maatte af hensyn til klimaet allerede 1703 opgive denne post og blev endnu samme år beskikket til amtmand over Møns Amt, hvilket embede han beklædte indtil sin død.

1708 blev han etatsråd og var 1711-14 medlem af Generalpostdirektionen. Kong Frederik 4. yndede Moltke i høj grad og besøgte ham oftere på Møn. Moltke, der roses som en retskaffen og human embedsmand, døde 19. oktober 1728 på Nygaard (Marienborg), som kongen havde overladt ham til embedsbolig. Han er i 1701 gift med Ulrikke Augusta Hausmann (5. oktober 1683 - 14. december 1759), datter af gehejmeråd Caspar Herman Hausmann.

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~1475, Jane born in England, d/o 475326. Sir John Trethurffe & 475327. Elizabeth Courtnay.
John of Cornwall, Esq. and Court in Brannel.
1504-05, "John Tregarthen v. John Davy, of Grampound.: Detention of deeds relating to a messuage and land in Tregonyburgh.: Cornwall." (S) UKNA.
i. Joan Tregarthen (118831), born ~1495 in England.
ii. Margaret Tregarthen, born ? in England.
1552, "Ayssheforth, Nicholas Esq; … husband of Margaret daughter and heir of John Tregarthen Esq".


We all have them. The stash of goodies crammed into cupboards, under beds, behind furniture. My 100 days will be spent going through that stash and finally creating some of my planned projects. Maybe even some unplanned ones as well.


Rachel Boillot is a photographer and documentary filmmaker based in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. She received her BA and BFA from Tufts University and earned her MFA at Duke University. Her artwork documents both disappearing and newly emergent facets of American culture, particularly in the South, where she makes her home.