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Schönhardt ist der Name folgender Orte:

 Schönhardt (Iggingen), Ortsteil der Gemeinde Iggingen im Ostalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg
 Schönhardt (Mainhardt), Ortsteil der Gemeinde Mainhardt im Landkreis Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg

Schönhardt ist der Familienname folgender Personen:
 Erich Schönhardt (1891–1979), deutscher Mathematiker

Siehe auch:
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Sometimes it'd be nice to be able to make a change in System Preferences without going to the trouble of opening that utility and then navigating to the preference pane you want. Hints reader BrentT had that problem: He wanted a simple way to turn Internet Sharing on and off. His solution: a clever little AppleScript. Even if you don't care about Internet Sharing, you could use his code as the basis for a script of your own.
When you're done, save it as an application somewhere convenient—your Desktop or Dock, say. Now, whenever you double-click on that application, the state of Internet Sharing will change to on or off.
The code is pretty straightforward, which makes it a good base for other applications that would change other settings. The basic idea is: Open a preference pane, click a box on it, make sure Airport is on, then implement the change. By altering some of the details—the name of the preference pane and the checkboxes to be clicked, among others—you could adapt this to other preference panes and so control other settings.


Sometimes when you get into a crash, you are pumped up with adrenaline and do not feel every source of pain.
The critical factor you need to fully understand when making an auto accident claim is the extent of your injuries. Unfortunately, this is not as simple as you might think. While an acute injury, like a broken bone, is very apparent and easy to diagnose, there are less visible ailments that may fly under the radar. One way this can happen is when injury symptoms are delayed for days after your incident. If you have experienced any type of injury, it is a good idea to consult with a St. Louis auto accident lawyer. Additionally, if your injury symptoms are delayed, your case will be more complicated and will benefit from experienced legal representation. Here are some of the most common delayed injury symptoms.
The most grave of all damage sustained in a car accident is a traumatic brain injury. Not only are they immediately life-threatening, but they also have long-term lifestyle consequences. Unfortunately, their symptoms do not always show at first. If you are getting headaches after your auto accident, you should not ignore them. You could have a concussion, blood clot, or some other deadly injury, so you should seek medical attention as soon as possible if you start experiencing headaches.
Two more indications of injury following an accident are neck and shoulder pain. Sometimes when you get into a crash, you are pumped up with adrenaline and do not feel smaller sources of pain. Then, a few days later, you could start to feel pain in your shoulders or neck. This can be indicative of a herniated disc, muscle strain, or spinal injury.
After an accident, victims sometimes start to feel intense stomach pain. This could be hours after the incident, but sometimes it takes days. If this happens to you, do not assume that it is a dietary issue that will go away. It could be deadly internal bleeding, so you should see a doctor right away.
Similar to neck and shoulder pain, back pain often does not start to take hold until days after an accident. It can indicate spinal injuries, whiplash, or a herniated disc, so don't try to "tough it out," even if you have a history of chronic back pain. Instead, head to the doctor for an assessment.
While tingling or numbness may not seem like a significant issue, they could be the results of a more substantial problem. The two most common causes of numbness are herniated discs and pinched nerves, both of which require medical attention.
One critical thing to note is that early recognition helps you in many ways. The first is that it is essential for your health. Certain injuries are not apparent at first but are very deadly if not caught. You will want to discover those ailments before they get worse. The second is that early recognition will bolster your car accident claim. Once you enlist a St. Louis car accident lawyer, you will have a stronger case going forward. To facilitate early recognition, be sure to see a doctor as soon as possible after your crash.


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Inequity
By Catalina Margulis and Arthur Rossi
Countries are moving fast toward creating digital currencies. Or, so we hear from various surveys showing an increasing number of central banks making substantial progress towards having an official digital currency.
Africa's Free Trade Area Opens for Business
By Franck Kuwonu
African countries opened their markets on 1st January under the continental free trade agreement and duty-free trading of goods and services across borders is now underway despite the COVID-19 pandemic and other teething problems.
By Saul Escobar Toledo
The new year has arrived, but the situation is worse than in the last months of 2020. The pandemic is still unleashed: the end of the year holidays, the official permissiveness, and the slowness of the distribution of vaccines seem to announce that the disease will continue to wreak havoc for several months in most of the world, particularly in America, Europe, and parts of Asia like India. It has therefore been required to redouble preventive measures: a new lockdown and the disruption of almost all economic and school activities. Therefore, the recovery looks still uncertain and distant.
Making African Continental Free Trade Area Work for Women in a Post-COVID-19 World
By Angela Lusigi
On 1st January 2021, trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement commenced after months of delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reflecting Back and Imagining Forward
By Anis Chowdhury
What a challenging year 2020 has been! A year of living dangerously – "Tahun vivere pericoloso"- perhaps these words of late President Soekarno of Indonesia are the best description. Fortunately, I managed to remain sane, reading and writing op-eds (mostly about the pandemic, here, here).
By Isabel Ortiz
The year 2020 is ending with the world caught up in an unprecedented human and economic crisis. The pandemic has contaminated 75 million people and killed 1.7 million. With the lockdowns, the global economy has suffered the worst recession in 75 years, causing the loss of income for millions of people. In such a bleak environment, what will the new year bring? Whilst uncertainty is the only certainty, eight points are likely to be key in the year ahead:
R & D Expenditure: How to Raise It and Why
By Raghbendra Jha
Economic growth is the time-tested method of raising living standards and, if not accompanied by large increases in inequality, lowering poverty. Since World War II, economic growth has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, including in South Asia.
Africa Readying for Free Trade, Come January 2021
By Kingsley Ighobor
One day in February 2020, Accra-based coffee and cocoa trader Meron Dagnew visited the Secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to introduce herself, even before the Secretariat was fully operational.
A Vaccine That Was Hijacked by the Rich
By Thalif Deen
There is a longstanding belief that virtually everything in this world is stacked up against the poor and the downtrodden. The Covid-19 vaccine is no exception because some of world's richest nations, including the US, Canada and UK, seem to have cornered most of the supplies -- whilst marginalizing the world's poorer nations.
Human Rights Must Be at the Heart of the COVID-19 Recovery
By Siddharth Chatterjee
On 10 December every year, we celebrate Human Rights Day, marking the anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Universal Declaration guarantees a spectrum of human rights that belong to each of us equally, and unite us as a global community and upholds our humanity.
Education Is a Fundamental Human Right and the Priority of the 21st Century
By Yasmine Sherif
Education is not a privilege. It is a fundamental human right. Yet, education is undervalued even at the best of times. We often fail to connect the dots between the right to education and the realization of all human rights. As noted by the Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen, we have failed to give 'this massive potential in transforming human lives' the attention it deserves.
La Niña Weather Phenomenon Could Endanger Colombia's Food Security
By Carmen Arroyo
After ten years without a strong La Niña weather phenomenon in Colombia, the climate pattern, coupled with the COVID-19 pandemic, could create a vacuum in food production and supply. Multilateral organizations, along with the Colombian government, are trying to implement measures to reduce malnutrition risk. Still, the population is already overwhelmed by a year of struggles that have deepened socio-economic differences.
Urgently Needed Deficit Financing No Excuse for More Fiscal Abuse
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury
Fiscal and monetary measures needed to fight the economic downturn, largely due to COVID-19 policy responses, require more government accountability and discipline to minimise abuse. Such measures should ensure relief for the vulnerable, prevent recessions from becoming depressions, and restore progress.
How to Reap the Benefits of Food as Medicine
By Busani Bafana
COVID-19 has magnified global food insecurity and is driving unhealthy eating and worsening malnutrition, food experts say. They have called for deliberate global investment in food as medicine on the back of growing diet-related illnesses.
UN Special Session on COVID-19 Must Recognize Right to Health & Access to Vaccines
By Riccardo Petrella
The holding of this Special Session (the 37th in the history of the UN) is of considerable importance. It is a unique opportunity to define and implement joint actions at the global level to fight the pandemic in order to ensure the right to life and health for all the inhabitants of the Earth. As the President of the UN General Assembly wrote in his letter of convocation: "Let us not forget that none of us are safe until we are all safe".
Food as Prevention – Rising to Nutritional Challenges
By Gabriele Riccardi
The risks factors contributing to the dramatic rise in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in recent decades have been known for a long time but the Covid-19 pandemic has brutally exposed our collective failure to deal with them.
Tobacco Industry Capitalizes on Pandemic to Increase Influence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
By Jennie Lyn Reyes
While the COVID-19 pandemic has elevated public health to a top priority in every country in the world, it has left many poorly resourced governments receptive to any and all aid that can provide immediate assistance to help their people.
My Voice, Our Equal Future! Joining the Chorus of Girls Who Are Speaking up for Change
By Jean Gough and Yasmine Sherif
Girls are change makers and world shapers! When girls speak up, they are a powerful force to be reckoned with.
Our Development Priorities Have Shifted to the Immediate Task of Saving Lives & Livelihoods.
By Hugh Hilton Todd
We have come to the point in the agenda where we must take a 'deep-dive' in reviewing the lessons learnt so far in our response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to chart a way for the future. But the future, by its very definition, must be relative. Flexibility and change will define policy making and the scope of action needed for development.
COVID-19 Compounding Inequalities
The United Nations' renamed World Social Report 2020 (WSR 2020) argued that income inequality is rising in most developed countries, and some middle-income countries, including China, the world's fastest growing economy in recent decades. Inequality dimensions While overall inter-country inequalities may have declined owing to the rapid growth of economies like China, India and East Asia, national inequalities have been growing for much of the world's population, generating resentment.
The Silence of the International Community on Western Sahara
By Enguiya Mohamed Lahu
For my entire life, I have been forgotten. I am a Sahrawi refugee, born and raised in the Algerian desert, where my people have remained displaced for 45 years, awaiting the moment when we can finally return to our homeland, Western Sahara.
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Parliamentarians Working to Meet SDG's
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Alison Kentish | Biodiversity | Global
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Flipping Arizona: Hispanic Movements Flex Political Muscles
Peter Costantini | Democracy | North America
Imprisoned Saudi Activist and Other Rights Defenders Seek Justice in 2021
Mandeep Tiwana | Middle East & North Africa
Sania Farooqui | Asia-Pacific
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We have a team of investigators who probe safety issues across the state, and we run community education campaigns about the potential dangers of energy.
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ZINC is proud and excited to exhibit the works of California Artist Danäe Anderson. This will be Anderson's 27th solo exhibition and her debut exhibition with ZINC contemporary. Anderson, a Pollack Krasner Foundation Grant recipient, has work in many public and private collections internationally. Her works are comprised of layers of beautiful textures, subtle hues and a playful language of improvisation and choreography.


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Vol. VII No. 4 October - December 2004
Shri Ramsvarup Chaudhuri has donated Sri Ramacarita manasa and Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana (2 parts). The books were brought by Saurav Agarwal, a 3rd year B. Com student of St. Xavier's college.
An ex-student of SXC, Mr. Md. Khalid Mustafa (B.Sc.) donated the Feynman lectures on Physics, Vol. I, II & III to the library. These lectures were delivered to students of the California Institute of Technology by the Nobel laureate Dr. Feynman.
Mr. Julian Sunil Martin Roy has donated a copy of his book "Brief History of Portuguese Converts" to the library.
International Seminar: Fr. Felix Raj was at Aquinas College, Colombo, November 26-30, as the Convener of the 6th IIDS International Seminar on "Ten Years of WTO and Towards an Asian Union". He presented a paper on "WTO and Asian Developing Countries". Around 75 Economists from India participated, including two from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata. A shorter version of Fr. Raj's paper was published in 'The Statesman' on December 7, 2004.
Fr. Felix Raj, "Globalization and its impact on Tribals in India", Xavier Research Journal, Ranchi, Vol. 3, No. I, Jan-April 2004. pp 11-19.
WTO and Asia, The Statesman, December 8, 2004, Calcutta.
Towards a New World Order, Indian Currents, 28 November, 2004, Delhi.
Researchers at Goethals
Dr. Indrajit Bose of Presidency College: on Early Travellers to India.
Dr. Gupta: on Writings of Early Travellers to India.
Fr. Mary John, Tamil Nadu: to refer "The Herald", "Indo-European Correspondence" and "Modern Review".
Prof. Charlotte Simpson of St. Xavier's College: on West Bengal, Indian Art, History of Bengal and Jainism.
Dr. Rila Mukherjee of Jadavpur University.
Sr. Irene of Loreto House: on Church of Our Lady of Dolours, Baitakhana.
Mr. Rezam Rahman from the UK: to refer St. Xavier's Magazines.
Fr. Samuel Lepcha from Kalimpong, Darjeeling: on History of Christianity in Sikkim.
Mr. Dilip Ranjan Bose: on History of the crematorium building in Calcutta.
Fr. J Arockiasamy from Morning Star College: on History of the Santals.
Fr. S Amal Raj from Krishnagar: on social structure and the belief of all Santhals.
Mr. Nicholas Gervase Rhodes: on history of Darjeeling.
Ms. Chayanika Chakraborty a student of St. Xavier's college: on history, Hinduism and Christianity.
Darjeeling: The Tea Industry
Progress of the Industry: The establishment of the tea industry in Darjeeling is due to the enterprise of Dr. Campbell, who was appointed Superintendent of Darjeeling at a time when attention was being attracted to the possibility of starting and developing the cultivation and manufacture of tea in the territories under the East India Company. In 1834 the Governor-General, Lord William Bentinck, had appointed a committee "for the purpose of submitting a plan for the introduction of tea culture into India." This committee was apparently ignorant of the fact that in 1821 Major Bruce, and in 1824 Mr. Scott, had discovered the tea plant growing wild in Assam; and much expense and considerable delay were consequently incurred in bringing plants and seed from China, and importing Chinamen to teach the people of India how to grow the plant and manufacture tea. Satisfied that a great future might lie before the industry, Government itself undertook the formation of experimental plantations in Upper Assam and the districts of Kumaon and Garhwal; in 1839 private speculation took the field, and the Assam Tea Company was formed.
Introduction of Tea
In 1840 Dr. Campbell was transferred from Kathmandu to Darjeeling, and there started the experimental growth of tea. It was soon found that the plant throve readily, at this altitude, and others began to follow Dr. Campbell's example, seed being distributed by the Government to those who desired to cultivate the plant. Writing in 1852, Mr. Jackson says in his Report on Darjeeling- "I have seen several plantations in various stages of advancement, both of the Assam and China plant, and I have found the plants healthy and vigorous, showing that the soil is well adapted for the cultivation. In the garden of the Superintendent, Dr. Campbell, in Darjeeling, in the more extensive plantations of Dr. Withecombe, the Civil Surgeon, and Major Crommelin, of the Engineers, in a lower valley called Lebong, the same satisfactory result has been obtained: the leaves, the Blossom and the seeds are full and healthy; the reddish clay of the sides of the hill at Lebong seems to suit the plant better than the black loam of Darjeeling itself, at a height of 7,000 feet; but the opinion of Dr. Hooker and of others competent to judge seems to be that there is too much moisture and too little sun at Darjeeling to admit of the cultivation on a large scale becoming remunerative: this objection, however, does not apply to the lower sites of Pankhabari and Kurseong, where a plantation of both tea and coffee has been established by Mr. Martin, and the plants are now in a highly-thriving condition. In this tract of country, between the Morung and Darjeeling, every variety of elevation and aspect is to be found, and there seems to be little or no doubt that tea cultivation in that tract would answer.
- Bengal District Gazetteers- Darjeeling by LSS O' Malley. Logos Press, New Delhi. 1999 (1907). Book No: 5B/25(B). pp 72,73.
The Dancing Deer
A famous place in the old days for geese and duck shooting, was the Logtak Lake in Manipur. Manipur is situated between the Naga Hills of India and Burma, and used to be a small princely state. It now has the status of a Union Territory of India. Not much shooting is done there nowadays, I think, owing to the very high cost of 12-bore cartridges.
At a corner of this large lake lives a very rare and extremely elegant deer-the brow-antlered deer (Pl. 47). It is so called because the brow tines of its antlers sweep forwards and the beams backwards in a continuous, graceful curve. It officially became "extinct" in 1951, but a few years later was reported to be still existing in this very swampy area of tall grasses and reeds. I had always been interested in the preservation of this rare deer, and very much welcomed the chance to go there and investigate.
The I.U.C.N. sponsored my visit and the I.B.W.L. gave me moral support.
There are three subspecies of this deer: this one in Manipur, another one in Burma said to be becoming rarer each year, and a third one in Thailand and other parts of south-east Asia reported to be very nearly extinct. We in India are responsible for the survival of the first-mentioned, which the Manipuris call sangai, or "the animal that looks at you".
Accordingly I set out for Manipur by road in October 1959, and motored up the Brahmaputra valley and then through the Naga Hills to Manipur, where I was received by the courteous and co-operative Chief Forest Officer. After collecting all the information I could in Imphal the capital, I then moved on to the south-west corner of the Logtak Lake to start my field study.
When you walk on this phumdi it moves and shakes; and if you disappear through it into the black oozy water underneath, you know you have trodden where its thickness is only a few inches! The deer by living there for thousands of years, have developed slightly splayed-out hooves; and their pasterns are hairless and horny so that they can walk with them bent down on the reeds and grasses and not sink through the phumdi.
There are floating islands on lakes in Kashmir, Burma and North America that I have heard of, but I think that KEIBU L LAMJAO in Manipur in north-east India is the only floating wild life sanctuary in the world.
-The Wild life of India by E P Gee Collins London. 1965. Book No: 17A/101. pp 130,131.
Howrah, the second biggest city of West Bengal emerged as one of the most important industrial cities in India in the late nineteenth century. With the exception of Calcutta it was the biggest among the towns of the lower Hooghly industrial region.' Though it was part and parcel of Calcutta it was often called "Collie Town".
Some situational advantages e.g. good anchorages, foreign market, a reputed place of worship etc. helped form the nucleus of a commercial centre. The city of Howrah could exploit certain advantages. Its old railway hubs, industries, influx of population, municipality, places of worship, roads and bridges gave the city the urban character. Batore and Salkia were two trade centres of Howrah. Batore was to Satgaon what Zedda was to Mecca. The importance of these two trade centres has been discussed in another chapter.
Docks, mills and factories in Howrah gave this city an industrial character. Its population came mostly from factory workers and for which this city was called a coolie town. With the advent of the Europeans the social and cultural life began to take a new shape. The introduction of missionary schools and Christian religion in Howrah brought a new turn in social life. From the census report of 1872 we find that there were 1484 Christians, and 354 souls of other religions excluding Hindus and Muslims in this city.
- Howrah: A study in Urbanization by A K Mukherjee. Chatterjee Publisher, Calcutta, 1992. pp1.Book No: 9B/144.
Ambedkar's perspective on Buddhism and other Religions by C D Naik. Kalpaz publications, New Delhi. 2004.
Ancient India, in Historical outline by D N Jha. Manohar. New Delhi. 1998.
Bengal Obituary by Holmes & Co. Punthi Pustak, Calcutta. 1991.
Brief History of Portuguese converts – Atharo Gram, Dacca Catholics by J S Martin Roy. Roy Sumusti Publications. Kolkata. 2004.
Caste in Bengal Border by P K Bhowmick. R N Bhattacharya. Kolkata. 2002.
Cult of Goddess Sitala in Bengal by S K Mukhopadhyay. Firma KLM. Kolkata. 1994.
Development programmes and tribal scenario – A study of Santal, Kora, Oraon by Md. Ayub Mallick. Firma KLM. Kolkata 2004.
Early Bengali Serials 1818-1950 by A Mukhopadhyay. K P Bagchi & Co. Kolkata. 2004.
Feynman Lectures on Physics (3 Vols) by R P Feynman. Narosa Publishing, New Delhi. 1990.
Gitanjali – Song Offerings by Rabindranath Tagore. UBSPD, New Delhi. 2004.
History of Indian Social and Political Ideas by B B Majumdar. Firma KLM. Calcutta. 1996.
History of Science and Technology in Ancient India (3 vols) by D Chattopadhyaya. Firma KLM. Calcutta. 1996.
History of the Calcutta Press by P T Nair. Firma KLM, Calcutta, 1987.
Laws of Manu by G Buhler. Cosmo Publications. New Delhi. 2004.
People and culture of Bengal: A study in Origins (2 vols) by A Chattopadhyaya. Firma KLM. Kolkata, 2002.
Raj and the Bengali people by S K Datta. Firma KLM Kolkata, 2002.
Scenario of Population growth in India by D N Kokar. Akansha Publishing House, New Delhi. 2004.
South Indians in Kolkata by P T Nair, Punthi Pustak. Kolkata. 2004.
Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana (2 vols.). Gita Press. Gorakhpur. 2001.
Srimad Ramacaritamanasa, Gita Press. Gorakhpur. 2001.
I am doing research on the history of the Jesuit missions to the court of Emperor Akbar, and would be most grateful if I could obtain a photocopy of two publications. Fr. H. HOSTEN, List of Jesuit missionaries in Mogor, 1580-1803 and E.D. MACLAGAN, Jesuit missions to the Emperor Akbar.
Dirk Collier, Belgium.
I am an alumnus of St. Xavier's College and I am looking for some biographical information of Fr. Goreaux and Fr. Verstraeten. I am interested in learning about their scientific background - where and what they studied before coming to India. Thank you also for the wonderful website of the Goethals library.
Amitabha Sen, Chicago.
I have in my possession a sword presented to a Cadet in 1810. It is inscribed: "Honorary Award, Cadet Company, Barraset, 18 June, 1810,G.H. Johnstone, Cadet". Could this have been a cadet at St. Xaviers?
J. R. N. Virginia, USA
I am an undergraduate student at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA. I am assisting professor Devesh Kapur in his research regarding the 'Indian Diaspora'. During his research he came across excerpts from the book "Biographies of Eminent Indians" by Natesan which is listed under the "Biographies" section leading off your front page. Please send me more information about the publication. Yours is the only institution we have been able to find possessing a copy of this publication.
Daniel Littlejohn-Carrillo, Harvard College
Director: Fr. Felix Raj, SJ; Library Asst: Mr. Warren Brown; Computer Asst: Mr. Sunil Mondol


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Swimming Away by Clare Reddaway
Swimming Away
Rosie and her Mum have a day at the beach.
Clare Reddaway
She is sitting on the beach, alone. Her legs are curled under her, and her hands are feeling the pebbles at her side. They are smooth, like ducks' eggs. They fit snugly into her palm. The kind of pebble David used to kill Goliath, she thinks. She looks out over the sea. It is pewter, it is lead. The waves are bloated and sullen. They clutch at the shore and rasp as they retreat, surly as a kicked cur. The wet shore shines with the slug trail residue of the waves. The cliffs, honey and butter in sunshine, are the grey of gravestones and loneliness.
She turns the pebbles over and over, rhythmically, rocking. The wind has turned her long hair into whips which lash her cheeks red and raw. She does not tuck it behind her ears. She does not look at the bag that squats beside her. She thinks back, to the time before. She can't help it. Then, the sun was shining and the beach was innocent.
"Mum!" The child's voice is high and excited. "Look!"
Rosie is holding up a strand of bladder wrack as long as her whole body. It is wrapping itself around her legs and slapping against her plump little tummy encased in its white, poppy-splattered costume.
"Great!" says Rosie's Mum. "The mermaid's tail." She is busy fashioning the stones into a face and body: dried seaweed for hair, razor bills for earrings, limbs a line of carefully chosen white pebbles. Together they place the bladder wrack under the limpet-shell belt and curve the tip towards the sea.
"She's taller than me," says Rosie, and she lies flat on her back, arms outstretched, to demonstrate the exceptional height of the mermaid with her weedy tail.
"When the waves come in, will she swim away?"
"Maybe," says her Mum. "Maybe she will."
She starts to dig. At first, she is careful. She lifts the pebbles out, one by one, and piles them to one side. They form a cairn. As she gets down below the first layer, the stones are smaller, spikier, wetter, with more sand in the mixture. She scrabbles at them but, as she scrapes, the sides cave in on top of her hands. The hole remains shallow. The fingernail on the middle finger of her left hand jangles with pain as a flint drives under the nail. Pleased, she presses down on the stone. A drop of blood falls into the mix. It is deep enough. She begins to widen, lengthen and shape the trench.
*Hand in hand they skip down the beach. The waves are big today, topped by white horses whipped up by a summer breeze, but they are clear and clean as they slap on the shingle. The sea has left a sandy strip which snakes the length of the pebbly beach. Rosie and her Mum want to see their footprints: two big, two small. The sand sucks at their feet as they leap.
"Look how far I can jump, Mum!" cries Rosie, and leaps so high and so far that her Mum thinks she will reach the sun.
"Look how far Mum can jump!" cries Mum, and it is not so very far, really, but she laughs and hugs Rosie and the sun catches her daughter's hair and turns it into mermaid gold.
She has finished. There is a shape gouged out of the pebbles. A human figure. A head, two arms, a torso, legs, no tail. Recognisable. Carefully she selects a pebble, white, round, a duck's egg, and places it on the edge of the shoulder. She finds a second, pure white, and lays it next to the first, not quite touching. She is drawing an outline. Like a murder victim at an American crime scene, she thinks, but the bubble of laughter does not rise in her throat. She does not know why she glances up, at that moment. A man is standing on the edge of the cliff. To her, he is the size of the middle finger of her left hand. Panic sweeps over her like sweat. He is too far away to hear her when she screams, to far to feel the stone she throws, David at Goliath.
"When's Daddy coming back?" says Rosie.
"In a while," says her Mum, but she's been wondering too. He's gone for ice-creams and a stroll. He doesn't like the beach. He says the cliffs make him claustrophobic. That the stones dig into his feet.
"I want to paddle," says Rosie and she grabs at her beach shoes. They are at the bottom of the basket, under the picnic. As she pulls the shoes out, the Tupperware box with the sandwiches in it breaks open and the ham and the cheese and the wholemeal bread slices fall into the sand, butter side down.
"Rosie! Watch what you're doing!" Her Mum is sharp, harsh. Rosie shrinks, crouching to pull on her shoes, head bowed, face concealed. Her Mum sighs.
"Never mind. We'll be mermaids when we eat it. I bet they're used to sand in their sandwiches." Rosie lifts her head and grins.
"D'you think mermaids' bread gets soggy underwater, Mum? D'you think they have Weetabix for breakfast? Can I stick seaweed on my legs to make a tail?" Rosie chatters as her Mum picks up the food, carefully brushing the sand from each piece to make it clean.
The man has gone. She is alone again. Alone with her shape, white-rimmed, bleached. She smoothes the body, strokes the face. Arms and legs splayed, it is like the sand angel a child makes when she throws herself spread-eagled on to the first beach of the summer. She wonders whether it is a comfortable shape. Should she have formed a curled figure, foetal, protected, warm? Is the sand angel too exposed? Or does it feel wild and free?
The mobile trills. Rosie's Mum scrabbles through the beach bag. I can c u, the text reads. Her heart thuds as if they were still new lovers and she looks up and around, smiling. There are families on the beach, throwing balls, eating, lying in the sun. She can't see him. She looks further up. She shades her eyes against the sun with her hand. There is a man, the size of the middle finger of her left hand, standing on the top of the cliff. He is waving. She laughs, and stands up, waving back. He is still waving. Now, he is waving with both arms. She waves back, with both arms, amused. His arms are flailing, urgent. She is puzzled. Is he pointing? She turns around.
On the top of the nearest wave bobs a white swimming costume splattered with poppies. It disappears from sight.
She reaches into her bag, lifts out the tin canister and stands it on the pebbles. She hesitates before she unscrews the lid and her hand trembles as she reaches inside. There is not much in there, considering. She takes a handful of ash. The flakes are large and sticky. She starts with the head. She trickles the cinders into her outline, filling it in, turning it pale grey.
*Running in slow motion. She must go faster, her legs are rocks, she is dragging them and then she is in the water, diving, gasping, down, under, eyes open, arms out stretching, searching, empty, up for air, screaming 'Help!', swallowing and choking, then under again, into the swirl of the waves, the water thick, roaring in her ears, blocking her but clear and clean and she sees floating down a flash of white and thrusts towards it, grabbing and pulling, bubbles coming from a tiny mouth, hair weed flowing from a tiny head and out of the water bursting, gasping, holding her daughter in her arms and crying and hugging and struggling to the shore, she puts the little body flat on the sand and wipes the hair from the face.
Rosie's eyes open and she smiles.
"I was a mermaid, Mum, swimming like a mermaid!"
She is laughing and crying and hugging and kissing the beloved cheeks, still shiny salty wet. Rosie has held her breath. No water in her mouth, no water in her lungs, no damage, the smile wide and warm. Alive.
Her breathing slows and her heart calms. She remembers. She looks up, expectant, to the cliff edge, a wave and a smile hovering. There is no-one there. At the bottom of the cliff there is a huddle of people, their backs to the sea, bending over something, staring. A woman is running away from the group, towards the café at the end of the beach. All the families on the beach are staring at the group at the bottom of the cliff.
As if it belongs to someone else, she hears her heart begin to pound and the blood rush into her ears.
The shape is coloured in. The ash covers the body in a thin layer from the top of its head to the tips of its fingers and down to the heel, instep and toes. She pats it down into a thin paste layer. She had wanted to lie down beside the body, to close her eyes and feel the length once more, but her creation chills her. It is lifeless, flat, colourless. No muscles, no skin, no sinews. No blood. She takes a step back.
*Holding her child clasped close to her body, Rosie's Mum runs up the beach. She screams, demanding to know what has happened, has someone fallen, but she doesn't need to ask. As they turn towards her, their faces greyed by shock, she knows. They part to let her through. They try to take her child but she clings on even as she falls to her knees beside a body, limbs awkward and misshapen, head broken like a duck's egg.
She sits at the base of the cliff, watching the waves. They are coming closer now. Licking and biting at the shore, they have almost reached the body. It lies, a grey, cold smudge. The waves are nibbling at the fingers. Soon they will swallow the whole shape, and the ash will be absorbed by the water and swept out into the ocean, a thousand particles floating apart and away, dissolved. All that will be left tomorrow will be some of the outline in white stones. A mother will come to the beach and show her daughter. They will copy, laughing as they lie like angels and draw their outlines in the sand. Next week, next month the white stones will have gone, scattered back into the thousands already on the beach.
Her mobile rings.
"Mummy? When will you be back?"
"Not long now, Rosie. I'll be home soon." And she stretches her legs, stiff with cold, as she waits for the waves to take away her love.
The Toys Of Peace
An uncle tries to interest his young nephews in some experimental non-violent toys.
A Most Ambitious Experiment
Fiction,	Science Fiction,	Humour	by Mike Krath
A perfectly simple time travel experiment is made increasingly complex by the involvement of the inventor's other half.
Fiction	by Dean Hovey
A young boy talks about his grandfather.
The Glugs of Gosh - The Rhymes of Sym
Children's,	Age 4-6,	Age 7-12,	Children's Poetry,	Fairy tale	by C.J. Denis
The enchanting poem about the Glugs who live in Gosh, a land of adventures and magic.


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Today I'm excited to welcome Caroline Beaton to The Quarter Life Comeback podcast.
Caroline is the perfect guest for the show, as she's both an expert on millennials as well as a quarter life comeback success story herself!
After coming across one of her articles and doing my research (which is the professional term for social media stalking), I realized how awesome Caroline's story was and immediately reached out to have her on the show.
Caroline moved to Canada after graduating and doing a bit of traveling, but soon found herself unhappy in her work situation. She subsequently created herself a 4-month bootcamp for getting out of her quarter life crisis and creating her ideal life, and has gone from secretary to self-employed at age 24!
Caroline now writes about the psychology of millennials at work for some of the biggest publications in the world, including Forbes, The Huffington Post and Psychology Today.
Can you have a life you love AND a successful career?
Caroline's transformation process here, here and here.
Thanks again for joining me on the show, Caroline, and for sharing your story.


The new brand would have a premium appeal.
More than once, Rajiv Bajaj, Managing Director of Bajaj Auto, went on record to confirm that his firm will not enter the burgeoning automatic scooter segment but recently, he clarified his stand by adding that the company is not interested in IC-engine powered scooters.
He also said that Bajaj Auto is working on fully electric products that would be to the Indian two wheeler market what Tesla has been for the global car market. To sum it up, if Bajaj Auto launches a scooter in the near future, it will carry a pure electric powertrain.
Iconic Bajaj Chetak scooter. Image for reference.
With Indian government pushing for mass electrification in the mobility sector, we think it is wise of Bajaj who is thinking about venturing back into the scooter segment after a long sabbatical to focus on zero emission technologies rather than developing conventional solutions with BS-VI compliance. If the previous statements of the MD are anything to go by, the electric two wheelers from Bajaj will have an upmarket appeal with superior performance standards than the current crop of affordable electric runabouts.
According to a recent media report, Bajaj is working on a new stand-alone two wheeler brand called Urbanite which will spearhead the company's EV business. The keyword 'urban' hints at scooters as well as electric powertrain. The Urbanite brand is expected to be launched before the end of 2019 with exclusive outlets across the country. These will be completely new retail outlets, which will deliver premium experience to buyers.
While the Urbanite brand may have motorcycles in its portfolio in long term, the first product is most likely to be a scooter. There are a set of allegedly leaked design sketches doing the rounds on internet, suggesting that the first Urbanite electric scooter would adopt a retro classic design like the Vespa's. Premium positioning would also mean state-of-the-art connectivity, infotainment, color TFT display, and a whole host of new features.
As things stand now, Bajaj's Urbanite electric scooter will be competing with the Ather 450 which has limited availability. We think, in order persuade urban commuters in India to consider an electric scooter, it needs to have a portable battery which can be easily removed from the vehicle and charged at regular power socket at homes. Majority of the target audience live in multi-story apartments and find it impractical to charge their EVs overnight if the battery is not removable. It would be interesting to see what Bajaj has in store.


Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh on Monday said that as a party worker he genuinely wants the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to win in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Speaking to media persons here on Saturday, Singh said, "As a worker of BJP, I genuinely want BJP to win. We want that once again Narendra Modi should become the Prime Minister of India. It is important for nation and society that Narendra Modi should become Prime Minister again."


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De Embassy of the Free Mind is een Nederlands museum, een bibliotheek en een platform voor het vrije denken, geïnspireerd op het gedachtegoed van de Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica-collectie. In het museum staat het Europese vrije denken van de afgelopen 2000 jaar centraal met als inspiratiebron de hermetische wijsheid: inzicht in de samenhang tussen God, kosmos en mens.

Geschiedenis
De wortels van het museum liggen in de Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (The Ritman Library). Deze wetenschappelijke onderzoeksbibliotheek, met een collectie van 25.000 boeken, een eigen onderzoeksinstituut en uitgeverij, vormt de basis waaruit het museum is voortgekomen.

De Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica ontstond in 1958 als privébibliotheek van de Amsterdamse zakenman Joost Ritman. In 1984 verhuisde de bibliotheek naar de Bloemstraat in Amsterdam en werd zij toegankelijk voor publiek. Ritman bracht onder één dak handschriften en gedrukte boeken samen op het gebied van de hermetische traditie en zorgde zodoende dat de samenhang tussen de diverse verzamelgebieden en hun relevantie voor vandaag de dag zichtbaar werd.

Sinds haar openstelling stonden de activiteiten van de bibliotheek in het teken van de opbouw van de collectie, de ontwikkeling van de expertise binnen het Ritman onderzoeksinstituut en de uitbreiding van het fonds van de eigen uitgeverij In de Pelikaan. In 2009 verkreeg de bibliotheek de status van een algemeen nut beogende instelling (ANBI).

In 2017 verhuisde de bibliotheek naar het Huis met de Hoofden en verkreeg het museumstatus, resulterend in de Embassy of the Free Mind. De Embassy of the Free Mind werd in oktober 2017 geopend door auteur Dan Brown.

Huisvesting
De Embassy of the Free Mind is gevestigd in het 17e-eeuwse Amsterdamse rijksmonument het Huis met de Hoofden aan de Keizersgracht 123. Het grachtenpand is in 1622 gebouwd door Hendrick de Keyser en behoort tot de 'Top 100 van de Rijksdienst voor de Monumentenzorg'. Op de voorgevel prijken zes hoofden. Zij verbeelden de Romeinse goden Apollo, Ceres, Mercurius, Minerva, Bacchus en Diana. God van de handel Mercurius en godin van de wijsheid Minerva zijn in de 17e eeuw links en rechts van de centrale ingang geplaatst om duidelijk te maken dat dit het woonhuis was van een wijze koopman (Mercator Sapiens).
Lodewijk en Laurens de Geer, vanaf 1634 bewoners van het Huis met de Hoofden voor 150 jaar, waren naast welvarende ondernemers tevens beschermheren van vrije denkers en maakten het drukken van hun werken mogelijk. Hun huisbibliotheek van circa 6.000 boeken vertoont overeenkomsten met de boeken die nu opnieuw in de kast van de museumbibliotheek staan.

Collectie
Het museum beschikt over een collectie van meer dan 25.000 werken over de hermetica, rozenkruisers, alchemie, mystiek, gnosis, westerse esoterie en godsdienstwetenschap. Andere verzamelgebieden van de bibliotheek zijn onder meer het soefisme, de kabbala, antroposofie, vrijmetselaars, judaica en betreffende de graal. De bibliotheek beschikt over ca. 4.500 manuscripten en boeken die voor 1900 zijn vervaardigd, en ruim 20.000 boeken (primaire en secundaire bronnen) die na 1900 zijn gedrukt. In de collectie van de Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica bevindt zich onder meer het Corpus Hermeticum, gepubliceerd in 1503 en gedrukt op perkament, en Robert Fludds Utriusque cosmi historia, gepubliceerd in 1617. Bovendien beschikt het museum over Atalanta Fugiens van Michael Maier, Biblia Polyglotta van Christoffel Plantijn en een grote collectie werken van Gustav Meyrink.

Topstukken (selectie)

Boekprenten (selectie)

Digitale toegang
De Embassy of the Free Mind is bezig met de digitalisering van ruim 2000 werken van de kerncollectie. Het grootste deel is al beschikbaar via de online catalogus. De digitalisering draagt bij aan de wens van het museum om toegankelijk te zijn voor een groot, internationaal publiek.
Auteur Dan Brown, die voor het onderzoek van zijn boeken de bibliotheek verschillende malen bezocht, schonk 300.000 euro aan het digitaliseringsproject. In een video vertelt Brown: 'Ik voel me vereerd een kleine rol te mogen spelen in dit proces'. Ook het Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds draagt bij aan het online zetten van eeuwenoude teksten dankzij een donatie van 15.000 euro.

Tentoonstellingen
De permanente tentoonstelling van de Embassy of the Free Mind bestaat uit tweehonderd reproducties van afbeeldingen uit handschriften en oude gedrukte boeken van vóór 1900. De afbeeldingen maken de inhoud van de boeken over de verzamelde wijsheid uit haar collectie van 25.000 boeken letterlijk zichtbaar. Daarnaast zijn er themavitrines met zeldzame boeken, een leeszaal met circa 2.000 moderne boeken en vormen enkele kunstwerken, zoals de 'Graal van Amsterdam', het hart van het museum.
In het museum worden dagelijks rondleidingen aangeboden tijdens de openingstijden om 10.30 uur en 14.30 uur. Bovendien zijn er regelmatig thematische rondleidingen door de conservatoren. Iedere derde vrijdag van de maand vindt er een lunchconcert plaats. Met museumkaart/stadspas/icom/Amsterdam City kaart is toegang gratis

Externe links
 Website van de Embassy of the Free Mind
 Website van de Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica

Museum in Amsterdam
Bibliotheek in Amsterdam
Bouwwerk in Amsterdam-Centrum


I have quite possibly the easiest meal you will ever need to make on those nights when you are short on time, but don't want to order takeout. In our family, eating a yummy dinner not from a paper bag is very important to us (though we do love take out every once in awhile!). Since moving to Dublin, I have made cooking dinner a huge priority. This is one place where I severely lacked as a wife when we lived in Alexandria, but now that I have more time dinner is cooked by me almost every single night.
Even with more time, I'm still busy and there are still plenty of nights where I need something fast! Enter this yummy pork chops and rice recipe. My mother is the brains behind this recipe, so she gets all the credit.
Now I'm not claiming this is the healthiest dinner on the block, but it is homemade and it is fast! Take what you can get!!!
1.) Coat the bottom of a pan with oil. Place pork chops in the pan and brown on both sides (cook about 4 minutes on each side).
2.) Once pork chops have been browned, pour 2 cans Chicken and Rice Soup over top.
3.) Add additional rice and about half a can of water (I pour water into the can to get out any remaining rice).
4.) Bring to a simmer, cover and cook for 20 minutes.
That's it! Easy peasy right? What I love about this is the prep time only takes about 10 minutes and then you can walk away until it's finished. This is such a comfort food meal in our family! I will sometimes add broccoli straight to the pan while it is simmering. Or I'll serve a salad or another vegetable on the side. Every time I make this dinner, I wonder why I haven't made it more often. It is so good and so easy.
I love me some pork chops!
I love chicken and rice, thanks so much for sharing this nice and easy recipe!


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Isaiah, Jude
Isaiah 57:2-21; Jude 1:12-15
Sunday, August 28, 2022 at The First Congregational Church of Marshalltown, Iowa
• Introduction:
One of the classics we read in high school was Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, a series of medieval character studies involving a group of people on a pilgrimage. Several characters are people of authority in the church who are depicted as selfish and corrupt. God, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the souls of women and men; those are matters of little importance. They are good examples of false spiritual leaders, in contrast to the poor rural priest who was the opposite of the others; not that interested in money, concerned about people, humble and reverent before God. The contrast shows some of the differences between true and false spiritual leaders. There were false leaders in the Middle Ages, there were false spiritual leaders in the early days of the church, according to Jude, and there are false spiritual leaders now.
• Set the stage:
Jude is a strange book. Just one chapter long, Jude is nestled between 3 John and Revelation. It is notable for quoting the Book of Enoch, widely in use in the days of the New Testament, but not part of the Canon, and for the author being a brother of Jesus Himself. Scholars believe that both Jude and James were written by men who literally grew up with Jesus and counted Him as their brother, but they say little or nothing about it in their writings. Jude wrote specifically to warn the church about false spiritual leaders
• Main Point:
They are spots in your love feasts and raging waves of the sea.
Jude, though very short, has much to say about leadership and who shouldn't be in it. A couple of phrases in his critique are that false spiritual leaders are "spots in your love feasts" and "raging waves of the sea." In the early days of the church they would have "love feasts", a gathering that would be a combination of the Sacrament of Holy Communion as well as a potluck all rolled into one. False spiritual leaders would be completely at home in such gatherings perpetually trying to bolster themselves at the expense of others. They would be like "spots" in that their behavior would not be fitting for a Christian gathering. They will always prefer to make excuses for themselves rather than apologize or accept responsibility or accountability. Such people crave authority abut will never submit to authority. In fact, a sure giveaway about a false spiritual leader is that they do not ever try to make their behavior in casual settings match the standards they present in their sermons. They are like spots on an otherwise pristine garment. By the way, some scholars believe that "spots" could also mean rocks submerged just under the waterline that can rip a hole in a boat. The social application is pretty clear.
The description of "raging waves of the sea' is also in our passage from Isaiah and waves and rough sea were ancient symbols of humanity at its worst. It's more than someone who has a short temper, although that is bad in itself. Someone like a "raging wave of the sea" is someone who is constantly surrounded by drama and trouble and seems to thrive in it. They like being the center of attention and they like being controversial. The Apostle Paul mentioned such people in Romans (16:17) when he wrote: "Now I urge you, brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and avoid them." I remember a man, a relative of a respected elder in the church, came to the pastor's study about ten minutes before worship was to begin (they seem to always pick that time) with a request that he be allowed to address the congregation during worship. I had never met this man before. I felt that if he attended church for a year and we all got to know him we could consider what he had to say at that time. He didn't like the idea and shared his thoughts with people at random during fellowship time for the next several Sundays. I was so glad I did not let him speak to the congregation and was glad when he finally left. The last thing he said to me was telling. "I like to go around and stir things up." I have no doubt that he is in some church causing trouble and irritation to this day.
One application is not to place people in any position of authority unless you know them fairly well. Beware of anyone who does not submit to authority, as such people should never be in a position of leadership regardless of any skill or talent they have. Know that we are all accountable to one another. Within reason, everyone in a church is accountable to each other and to their pastor, and the pastor is accountable to everyone in the church. Anyone can find themselves in a controversy but watch out for people who seem to need to be in the middle of trouble. If someone causes drama simply because they like drama, do not make that person a leader.
• Conclusion
Jude, so many centuries ago, wrote his only epistle for the New Testament. He was, along with James, a brother of Jesus who grew up with Him and probably knew Him better than almost anyone, yet he chose to write about false spiritual leaders, see them as a pressing problem in those days. They were still there when Chaucer wrote his great poems and they are still around today. Anyone wanting to be in leadership should welcome accountability and submit to authority themselves, or they should not lead.
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Today's wedding styled shoot cleverly mixes two of the biggest trends right now, boho and minimalist, then layers a hint of vintage…. and whilst it may sound like this eclectic mix shouldn't work, it most definitely does! Against a blank canvas of The Ruby, each color, design detail and moment sings – I do hope you have your pinning finger ready!
Before we lose ourselves in her lovely images, a few words from photographer Mandy Liz….. "Fruit and Flora is a Spring bohemian inspired styled shoot where we focused on pops of colors and natural elements. The venue is a historic church in Nashville that was restored. Our vintage rugs added color to our ceremony and we felt they were a perfect for a boho bride to walk down the aisle.
Our bride wore a stunning yet simple dress, and she accessorized with boho gold cuffs, bracelets, and stackable rings. She held an oversized bouquet to complement her minimalist gown.
Our reception table was lined with blue velvet and fresh fruits. Our mismatched vintage china from The Wedding Plate added elegant touches of soft pink, and created a sweet and romantic vibe. We lit candles to set the mood, and let the wax organically melt into place. We used pomegranates and blackberries to add fresh elements.
We had 3 cakes on display on the dessert table, and each one was topped with fresh flowers and fruits. The 2 tier cake was drizzled with caramel and topped with blueberries. Our baker used pomegranate seeds and matching macaroons to garnish the cake.
Mandy Liz Photography who captured it all so perfectly. If you love Mandy's images and would like to see more of her work do pop over to her website at www.mandyliz.com and don't forget to find and follow her on Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest.
Or if this editorial has left you wanting more industrial and minimalist wedding inspiration you might like this stunning shoot in red, black and white, or this Fall Scandinavian wedding editorial is beautiful and this understated elegant wedding inspiration is a must see – the muted color palette is so calming.


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Who are the Edith Hamiltons of the 21st Century?
Edith Hamilton
Who is the Edith Hamilton of the 21st century?
Last November, Donna Zuckerberg wrote an article in the TLS about Edith Hamilton, author of The Greek Way (1930) and The Roman Way (1932), two popular books that inspired millions of readers, among them Robert F. Kennedy, to appreciate Greek and Roman culture. Edith Hamilton was out-of-date when I studied classics in the late 20th century: a professor warned us against Hamilton's sentimental translations of Greek tragedies. "Perhaps he was jealous," a friend later suggested.
But at the (low-paying) posh schools where I taught Latin for a few years after finishing grad school, I sometimes let my students sit and read bits of The Roman Way (there were old copies in the classroom) after the rigorous exams that jangled their nerves. They enjoyed The Roman Way, and what's more, they understood it. And that is the point, isn't it?
And so I was wondering as I mused on Edith Hamilton, Who are the popularizers of classics today? I came up with three names.
1. Mary Beard, a classicist, professor at Cambridge, critic, and the author of several best-selling books, including Women & Power: A Manifesto and SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, is a celebrity. She is the classics editor of the TLS, a star of a BBC documentary on Pompeii and a series on Rome, author of the popular blog "A Don's Life" at the TLS, and a reviewer at the New York Review of Books, the LRB, and the TLS.
Her books are well-written, intelligent, and clear. She is known for asking questions about accepted versions of Roman history. She is also often interviewed about politics and controversial issues on TV and the radio in the UK. And she manages to be both popular and scholarly: that is a feat! Is she the 21st-century British Edith Hamilton (only she gets respect)?
Bryan Doerries
2. Bryan Doerries is the founder of Theater of War and the co-founder of Outside the Wire, two groups that give dramatic readings of plays for soldiers, prisoners, and health professionals. He also translates Greek tragedies.
I admired Doerries's All That You've Seen Here Is God, a collection of his "versions" of four tragedies: Sophocles' Ajax, Philoctetes, The Women of Traxis, and Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound.
Doerries explains that he is not interested in literal translation, though he starts with the Greek text. He writes that he is trying "to build a bridge between the ancient and contemporary worlds."
He writes, "Tragedy is an ancient military technology, a form of storytelling that evokes powerful emotions in order to erode stigmas, elicit empathy, generate dialogue, and stir citizens to action. When you plug a tragedy into a community that is ready to receive it, the story does what it was designed to do. Like the ancient Athenian audience in the Theater of Dionysus, the war-hardened Marines who gathered [at one of Doerries's productions] knew the plays, not as representations of war and its aftermath, but as lived experience."
His translations are spare and accessible, and the traumas of the heroes are vivid and moving to the military audiences. What a brilliant approach! I wrote a longer piece about his book here. He has also written The Theater of War: What Ancient Tragedies Can Teach Us Today– on my TBR.
And so he is a 21st-century Edith Hamilton!
Emily Wilson
3 Emily Wilson, a professor of classics at the University of Pennsylvania, was the first woman to translate Homer's Odyssey into English. She is the author of several other books, among them The Greatest Empire: A life of Seneca and Translations of four tragedies of Euripides, in The Greek Plays, Modern Library: Bacchae, Helen, Electra and Trojan Women.
Wilson was the subject of a profile in The New York Times Magazine last fall after the publication of her translation of the Odyssey. And isn't that unprecedented? Amazon was sold out of Wilson's Odyssey after the profile was published. I know, because I tried to buy it.
So is she a new Edith Hamilton?
Naturally, there are many, many brilliant classicists, but few manage to be both popular and scholarly. Do let me know any of your favorites. Or if there are celeb popularizers/translators in other languages–French, Russian, German, Italian, you name it!–let me know.
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Making Things Better by Anita Brookner
In a recent essay in the New York Times, "In Praise of Anita Brookner," Rumaan Alam wrote, "Reading is an intellectual exercise (and as a writer, I can claim it as work) but I binge only when writers offer me pleasure. It's less graduate seminar than love affair. I endorse this immersive way of reading, especially when it comes to Anita Brookner."
I am a fan of the Booker Prize-winning Anita Brookner. Her style is elegant and graceful, and I admire her dry humor. Most of her heroines are single, but it doesn't matter if you're single or married: you can identify, at least on occasion, with the emotions of her solitary heroines. I especially love The Rules of Engagement (which I wrote about here), a novel about two childhood friends who reconnect after they are widowed. They become doubles, much to the narrator Elizabeth's chagrin.
And so, mesmerized by the New York Times, I went to my bookcase and took out my copy of Brookner's 2002 novel, Making Things Better. It is a perfect novel, but it is relentlessly grim.
The Jewish narrator, 73-year-old Julius Herz, is an uninteresting hero, and yet every detail of his day is made interesting by Brookner. He has been dutiful, always lived with his parents, and devoted his life to "making things better" for his family. After they left Nazi Germany and came to England, they lived like mice. He and his father worked in a music shop. When their employer-landlord asked them to leave the big flat for a tiny flat above the store, they obeyed, but Julius's wife moved out. And now he has retired, and the time goes slowly. He takes walks, sits in the park, reads Thomas Mann's Death in Venice (he prefers Buddenbrooks). visits the National Gallery, and goes to bed very early. He enjoys his routine.
He has never had a great passion, though he and his wife had good sex. And now, quite suddenly, he falls in love with his new neighbor, Sophie, a beautiful young financial advisor. When he accidentally lets her know–a slip of old age, a blurring of boundaries–it is disastrous. He does not understand quite what sexual harassment is. He goes into hiding, curtains closed, emotions shut down, leaving the flat only after she has gone out, and feeling hunted. The lease on his flat is running out. Could he escape to Switzerland and live in a hotel with his cousin Fanny, who rejected him long ago? And he realizes, finally, that he has lived his whole life as an exile.
He remembered, almost with impatience, the humble gratitude he had felt when he first took possession of the flat, the amazed delight with which he had furnished it, added to it, his timid pride at being a householder. Now that very timidity saddened him. He saw that he had lived his life as if it were under threat, as if he still bore the marks of the original menace and of the enormity that might have been his. This, he was convinced, made transience the only option, exile, impermanence, the route indicated for him so long ago. And it had taken a lifetime for him to understand this! At last he would take his place in history. In making his home in a country famed for its neutrality he would be obeying ancestral impulses. In that direction lay the safety he might yet come to desire.
Making Things Better is brilliant and Thomas Mann-ish, but I miss Brookner's humor. And yet why should I expect humor? This is truly one of the saddest novels I have ever read.
I do love Brookner, but it might be good to drink some cocktails with little umbrellas in them to cheer you up while you read this.
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Wild Poets in Horace's "Ars Poetica" ("The Art of Poetry")
Why do we think poets are mad, wild, and disheveled?
Did it begin with Horace? I have been reading Horace's Ars Poetica (The Art of Poetry), a witty guide to the history and composition of classical poetry. A little more than halfway through this charming didactic poem, Horace mocks unkempt Roman poets who affect madness. Horace's hexameters are labyrinthine and his expression of thoughts so interwoven with abstruse ancient culture that English translations are unclear without notes: if you don't read the Latin, good luck to you. Here is my rough, mostly literal prose translation of this passage, with notes in parentheses.
Because Democritus ["the laughing philosopher"] believed talent was a luckier advantage than [knowing] the wretched art, and excluded sane poets from Helicon [a mountain sacred to the Muses], most poets do not bother to cut their fingernails, nor their beards; they seek seclusion and avoid the baths. For a man will obtain the esteem and name of poet if he never entrusts his head– which couldn't be cured of insanity in the three Antyricas (three towns where hellebore, used to treat insanity, was grown]–to a barber.
This satiric passage seems very modern. Certainly we have met our share of disheveled poets at poetry readings, though I mostly see professor poets these days. Some modern translations of this passage, however, make it more difficult than it already is. In Smith Palmer Bovie's 1959 translation, he substitutes Swiss psychiatrists for the three Antyricas towns where hellebore grows. He writes,
For surely the name
And the fame of the poet will attach itself to that dome
Which has never entrusted itself to the shears of Licinus,
Which trips for treatment three times as many
As even Swiss harbors have failed to set straight.
Bovie's translation is clever but too coy for my taste. Swiss psychiatrists in a Roman poem composed in the first century B.C.? I finally remembered "dome" used to be slang for "head." But it was only after I read the Latin that I realized Bovie was trying to update the Latin passage for a 20th-century audience.
Are modern poets mad? Certainly many have had depression or manic-depressive illness (bipolar disorder): Edgar Allen Poe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, to mention a few. Some believe madness is part of creativity. Personally, I think it must have hindered their work. Think of how brilliant they would have been without that pain.
Who are your favorite mad poets? And what is your theory? Does madness enhance or obstruct creativity?
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In Praise of Free Ebooks: Two by Monica Dickens and One by Howard Spring
'It was a real scroller. I couldn't put down my screen.'
A headline caught my attention last month at The Guardian: 'Ebooks are stupid', says head of one of world's biggest publishers." Arnaud Nourry, CEO of Hachette Livre, told a publication in India: "The ebook is a stupid product. It is exactly the same as print, except it's electronic. There is no creativity, no enhancement, no real digital experience."
What a confusing description of the e-book! If it's "exactly the same as print," why is it "stupid"? The gist of the article is that e-books are unprofitable for publishers.
I love books, but I also love e-books. Personally, I think the e-reader is a very "smart" product. We now enjoy access to out-of-print titles for free in e-book form at the Internet Archive.
Here are three stunning free e-books you can download at Internet Archive! Monica Dickens and Howard Spring are two of my favorite middlebrow authors.
Two by Monica Dickens.
The Winds of Heaven by Monica Dickens, a brilliant novelist and memoirist.
The heroine, Louise Bickford, a 57-year-old widow, is a superfluous woman. She is unwanted, shunted from one daughter's house to another's. Her winters at a friend's hotel are equally stressful, because her friend moves her out of a nice room into an inconvenient corner for the sake of a customer. And then one day in London, Louise is at a tea room and meets Gordon, a kind, obsese man who writes her favorite pulp mysteries. Their friendship inspires her to become more independent. It takes time: her daughters will not let her apply for a job at a department store. The book is charming, realistic, and comical!
The Nightingales Are Singing by Monica Dickens. Set in post-war London and Washington, D.C., this fascinating novel is part domestic comedy, part analysis of a marriage. The unmarried 34-year-old heroine, Christine, head saleswoman of the book department at a department store, is known as "the estimable Miss Cope." She "moved calmly about the alleys between the bright new paper jackets, knowing that book customers liked to take their time, unlike the thrusters who stampeded through the Notions with never a moment to spare." She finally meets a man, an American naval commander who wants to marry her. He gives her family much-appreciated food that Americans have access to. Christine does not particularly like him but she does not want to end up like Aunt Jo, a spinster. In Washington, D.C. she must adjust to her husband's conservatism and a new culture.
Parts are screamingly funny. When they move to a new house, Christine gets scammed by a charming vacuum cleaner salesman, but she insists to her husband that the vacuum is first-rate. She takes sewing lessons from a woman who cannot thread the machine. The marriage has ups and downs, sometimes comical, sometimes very sad. Dickens has written an insightful domestic novel.
One by Howard Spring.
My Son, My Son by Howard Spring. The Welsh writer Howard Spring wrote several spellbinding novels. In his brilliant, partly-autobiographial novel, My Son, My Son, he explores the influence of a successful writer's poverty-stricken childhood on his later relationships–especially the bond with his golden, tragically ruined son, Oliver.
In clear, simple prose, Spring relates this heart-rending story of filial love, success, and ruin. The narrator, William Essex, is looking back at his life. His childhood was Dickensian: his mother took in washing; Bill was taunted and beaten up when he picked up the laundry bundles. When he is 12, a minister, Mr. Oliver, teaches him to read and gives him a job. When Bill commences work as an office boy, he meets the most faithful friends of his life: he rooms with the O'Riordans, who read Dickens aloud after dinner, and their son, Dermot, an Irish radical patriot who has never been to Ireland, dreams of making handmade furniture as beautiful as that of William Morris. Eventually, Bill marries for money and becomes a writer. But when Dermot carves wooden toys for Bill's son, Bill suggests they go into the toy business together. And so both men make a fortune, and at the same time have time to perfect their arts, Bill in writing and Dermot in furniture-making.
Bill and Dermot want their sons to help them fulfill their fantasies, but Bill spoils Oliver, who becomes a liar, cheater, and general ne'er-do-well. Dermot raises his son Roray as an Irish radial and perversely ships him to Ireland when he is in teens.
This well-written, well-crafted fast read creates a believable world–and, yes, it makes you cry, so be prepared to wallow!
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Ursula K. Le Guin's Rocannon's World & No Time to Spare
Last year the Library of America published two volumes of Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish stories and novels. I was not familiar with her early work: I began reading her in the 1990s. My favorite of her books is The Birthday of the World and Other Stories. I also admire her famous novel, The Left Hand of Darkness.
I recently finished her first novella, Rocannon's World, a simple, endearingly awkward effort that does not, I must stress, presage her later brilliance. It is an uncomplicated swords-and-sorcery fantasy, albeit with an anthropologist hero, primitive races in need of the future's help, and a queen who wastes years traveling in a spaceship to recover a stolen necklace. It isn't a bad book; it's just not something I would ordinarily read. If you don't know her work, you should start with two of her SF Classics, The Left Hand of Darkness, which won the Hugo and Nebula awards in 1970, and The Dispossessed (both in this volume). And then you'll understand what she tries to do in her first book.
I also recently read her last book, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters, a collection of writings from her blog. She writes in the preface that she was inspired to write a blog after reading Jose Saramago's blog, which was published in the U.S. as The Notebook.
Some of her blog entries are brilliant. In the first blog, "In Your Spare Time," she asks questions about aging, the future, and the bland prevarications of the Harvard establishment. She writes analytic answers to an alumni questionnaire she received from Harvard before the 60th reunion of the class of 1951. Le Guin graduated from Radcliffe, which is affiliated with Harvard, but Harvard sent the silly questionnaire. She points out how shallow the questions are. Question 12 asks how her grandchildren have done, "given your expectations."
Actually, I don't exactly have expectations. I have hopes, and fears. Mostly the fears predominate these days. When my kids were young I could still hope we might not totally screw up the environment for them, but now that we've done so, and are more deeply sold out than ever to profiteering industrialism with its future horizon of a few months, any hope that coming generations may have ease and peace in life has become very tenuous, and has to reach far, far into the dark.
She comes right out and says what she thinks, not softening it. She can sound a bit cranky, as she summarizes her political views in the coded language of sociology–and I don't always agree with what she says–but what she says is always thought-provoking.
She is incensed by the imprecise language on the questionnaire, and what she sees as right-wing assumptions. And then there is the lack of knowledge about old age. She writes,
But it was Question 18 that really got me down. "In your spare time, what do you do? (check all that apply)." And the list begins: "Golf…"
She asks, Do people in their eighties have "spare time"? She writes about how people nowadays are programmed to be on a treadmill of activities, but her generation grew up with time to read, write, and daydream. She says her time is fully occupied: she embroiders, writes, shops for groceries, cooks, washes the dishes, construes Virgil, and reads Krazy Cat. She says Harvard relegates her writing of poetry and prose to "a creative activity." As more and more of her time is devoted to body maintenance, an aspect of aging that none of us likes to think about, she finds Harvard's questions absurd and infuriating.
"The Sissy Strikes Back" is also about aging. She paints a realistic picture of what aging really entails: it is not "You're as old as you feel." There is pain, arthritis, the slowing down, needing rides to the grocery store, and luck and money may or may not prolong life: it is not about positive thinking or fitness.
She writes many charming blogs about her cat, Pard. If you're a cat person, you'll love them! I loved them. She finds the constant repetition of the word "fucking" in movies and books boring. Proverbs like "You can't have your cake and eat it too" make no sense to her. She also rages about the lowering of educational and moral standards.
Since our betrayed public school system can no longer teach much history or reading, people may find everyone and everything before about twenty-five years ago unimaginably remote and incomprehensibly different from themselves. They defend their discomfort by dismissing people before their time as simple, quaint, naive, etc. I know Americans sixty-five years ago were nothing of the sort.
I agree with so much here. She is eloquent: I kept marking pages with post-its. In "About Anger," she admits on a personal level to jealousy, hatred and fear. She says anger is a mixed blessing in political activism: necessary but nursed too long it can be destructive. She hopes "our republic survives this orgy of self-indulgent rage." She thinks that the "prolonged 'festival of cruelty' in our literature and movies is an attempt to get rid of repressed anger by expressing it, acting it out symbolically." (It makes her sick and scares her.)
Her writing is sharp, not quite as polished as her essays, but that's the nature of the blog. These are quick, pointed, interesting, and always astute. I
| Tagged No Time to Spare, Rocannon's World, Ursula K. Le Guin | 4 Comments
Shut up! or Don't Shut up?
Didn't we have a lot of hair?
A LOST PHOTO. My husband recently returned from his parents' house with several vintage photos of ourselves. We have always been indifferent to photos, and don't have many, but his parents documented our breif visits with rolls of film. Here we are in our twenties at Niagara-on-the-Lake, hanging out with his family after our first year of teaching. Isn't he adorable? I was so tired: my lips are weirdly puckered . "Maybe you were tired of hanging out with my family," he says.
Wasn't my husband cute? I was cute when I wasn't puckering into the sun.
THE BLOG. I love reading. I love writing my blog. I don"t write reviews; I write up my notes and consider this my book journal. Even so, I occasionally offend writers. Writers don't like criticism, and who can blame them? I have written favorable reviews and made friends of writers. I have written bad reviews and made enemies of writers. I have written good/bad reviews and made "frenemies" of writers. The best way not to offend writers? Shut up!
I also like to rant about what I perceive to be problems in publishing. I am upset about dumbing down, whether it is the New York Times reviewing romances, or Webster's Dictionary defending the use of the non-word, "irregardless." This kind of issue always gets to me. Not long ago, after I read something that seemed particularly "dumb"at one of the dozens of publications I read, I wrote a brief letter to the editor.
And in today's world, I got an email response from the editor. Oh, no, I thought. That wasn't what I intended at all. I didn't want to write to THE editor; it was just "a letter to the editor." Surely what I wrote couldn't have been that upsetting? Cranks write letters to the editor, and there was a slight indication they thought I was a crank. I wrote back what I hope was an appropriate response, praising the publication and repeating my criticism more mildly.
Dumbing down is a minor issue in today's world. There's war, climate change, famine… In retrospect, I really should NOT have written that letter to the editor.
Shut up? Don't shut up?
Boundaries, Kat! There are no boundaries on the internet.
And that's why I prefer to read and write about dead writers!
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The three "B's": How to Behave on a Trip to London
I learned three "B's" on a recent trip to London:
Bring your own book.
Don't bother with ticketed museum exhibitions at peak times.
The first "B." At different ages, we view the concept of safety differently. One night when I was a young woman, I went out and screamed at the noisy junkies in the alley behind our house. May I just say, Thank God they ignored me! I didn't understand the situation. Still, you can find yourself in that situation again.
The hotel in London was seedy. (The pictures lied.) I arrived at midnight, too tired to find another hotel, and checked in with great trepidation. I looked incredulous when the desk clerk told me I had to go outside to another building. He escorted me, but was obviously terrified of the people on the street: a sensible reaction. I wanted to say, "Don't show fear!" And I was sorry that he had to trek back by himself.
How unsafe was it? I thought, well, it's only for a few nights. But the next night someone climbed the stairs at midnight and pounded on the door. I sat very still and hoped he'd go away. Eventually, he did.
The next day I schlepped my suitcase on the tube and went to a relatively "luxurious" hotel where I had stayed before. I enjoyed the rest of my trip.
The Second "B." Bring your own book, or e-reader. When the weather is slushy and you tire of looking at portraits of the Tudors, go to the British Library and look at the manuscript of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss. I was thrilled. Then sit down (if you can find a chair) and read it on your e-reader. (N.B. The terrace in front of the British Library was cordoned off like a crime scene because of the snow. Being an American, I thought this was funny.)
Though I brought my own books, I also went to bookstores My two favorites are the flagship Waterstones in Picadilly; and next door is Hatchards, founded in 1797.
I finished five books in London, a record for me. (The weather was bad, so I had lots of reading time!) I read Rumer Godden's Kingfishers Catch Fire (her best book), Virginia Woolf's A Common Reader, Virginia Woolf's The London Scene, Susan Hill's Jacob's Room Is on the Landing, and Annette Williams Jaffee's Adult Education.
The Third "B." London has the best art museums. But you know what? I often enjoy the free exhibits more than the ticketed ones. That's because the paid exhibitions are crowded. On a quiet weekday I enjoyed Julia Margaret Cameron's portraits at the "Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography" exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, but the Royal Academy of Arts was so crowded on a weekend that I couldn't get close enough to see the paintings in the "Charles I: King and Collector" exhibition.
What I learned? Pick your times. Meanwhile, see many of the greatest paintings in the world for free.
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'1923' Trailer Breakdown: Everything We Learned About the 'Yellowstone' Prequel
by Jon D. B. November 29, 2022
written by Jon D. B. November 29, 2022 1:42 pm
Harrison Ford as Jacob Dutton in 1923 streaming on Paramount+ 2022. Photo Credit: James Minchin III/Paramount+
A range war is coming. 1923's first full trailer showcases a dangerous early 20th century and the Duttons fighting to rule it.
Just when we thought 1883 would be impossible to top, Paramount+ releases the trailer for 1923. This next chapter in the Yellowstone 'Dutton Origin Story' series brings the early 20th century struggles of television's #1 family to life, all anchored around Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford as our leads. How's that for a one-up?
And the trailer doesn't hold back, either. Much more than that original teaser, the full 1923 trailer gives us a solid idea of the plot, globe-spanning setting, and how a plethora of new characters (both heroes and villains) factor into each. Which is exactly what you'll find in our full 1923 trailer breakdown below. Let's go to work!
Plot: Land Wars Rule '1923'
Right off the bat, we learn that Timothy Dalton's villain, Donald Whitfield, is in it for the land. "I want the whole valley," he scowls nefariously. While this may seem every bit a retread of Yellowstone's plotline, this is entirely on purpose. 1923 will showcase just how long the Duttons have been fighting to keep the land they originally settled in 1883.
Dalton's Whitfield is obviously a wealthy, confident man, as he acquires the "Stratford Ranch" that borders the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch in this prequel. And who does he bring on as a henchman other than Game of Thrones vet Jerome Flynn as Banner Creighton, a "hard-headed Scottish brogue and the leader of the local sheep men," as Paramount+ describes.
Somehow bought by Dalton's grinning villain, Flynn's Creighton becomes the ground-level adversary for the Duttons. This creates an almost Hatfields & McCoys feel to the series, in which a full on "range war" ensues over Dutton land.
Characters: The Duttons of '1923'
We also hear Helen Mirren as Cara Dutton for the first time in 1923's trailer. Cara is Scottish, the same ancestry as the Duttons (as we learned in the teaser). How she came to meet American settler Jacob Dutton (Ford) is unclear, but what is clear is that these two are a perfect match, as each are tougher than nails.
Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren as Jacob & Cara Dutton in 1923. (Photo credit: James Minchin III/Paramount+)
Ford's Jacob Dutton (the brother to 1883's James Dutton, played by Tim McGraw) rules early Montana, too, with fellow townsfolk like Creighton looking to knock him down a peg or six. But Jacob has backup in the form of his kin. Chiefly, John Dutton I is his right hand man, literally, as he is always at his uncle's side.
James Badge Dale will portray John Dutton I for 1923. This is the same John Dutton we met through adorable 5-year-old actor Audie Rick in 1883. Now, Dale will give life to John Sr. in his prime. The way the Dutton family tree works out, Dale's John Sr. is the great-grandfather to Kevin Costner's John Dutton III.
Right alongside is John I.'s son, Jack Dutton, played by Darren Mann, who features heavily in the 1923 trailer. This is, no doubt, because of his future role as the inheritor of the Yellowstone.
Setting: Early 20th Century America & Beyond
John I's younger brother, Spencer, is also set to play a pivotal role in 1923. As a veteran, Spencer witnessed the atrocities of World War I; something we're set to experience in gripping flashbacks.
We've only met Spencer Dutton as a child (and very briefly) in Yellowstone's own flashbacks. But 1923 aims to change that as Brandon Sklenar of The Offer and Westworld has joined the cast as the adult version of the character.
In the trailer, Spencer is also a world-famous hunter, and we're set to see his African exploits in detail. How he factors into the larger legacy of the Dutton ranch, however, is unknown.
Speaking of the ranch, the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch Homestead is seen in the 1923 trailer in its early form. A fantastic shot of the family on the homestead's iconic porch wraps up the trailer.
Before that, we see that series mastermind Taylor Sheridan will incorporate Indigenous American history into 1923, too, as he has in all his Yellowstone properties. For 1923, the forced assimilation of Indigenous Peoples by Christian schools is another setting we'll visit. And we'll do so with a Rainwater ancestor as the focal point, a young woman we're sure to learn more about.
Watch the Trailer Now
Knowing what we do above, give the trailer another watch below, and be sure to subscribe to Paramount+ to experience the full first season of 1923 when it hits December 18.
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Greed will be the thing that kills us all. Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford star in 1923, streaming December 18, exclusively on Paramount Plus.