the "Middle Elamite period". The last king to claim this title
was Shutruk-Nahhunte II (ca. 717-699 BC)[5].

Cradle of Achaemenid
Persia

Anshan fell under Persian Achaemenid rule in the
7th century
BC, having been captured by Teispes (675–640
BC), who styled himself "King of the city of Anshan". For another
century during the period of Elamite decline, Anshan was a minor
kingdom, until the Achaemenids in the 6th century BC embarked on a series of
conquests from Anshan, which became the nucleus of the Persian Empire.

Archaeology

The site of Anshan covers around 200 hectares. The main feature
is a low flat-topped mound of about 130 hectares running 4-6 meters
in height. On three sides are the remains of a city wall 5
kilometers in length dating from the Late Banesh and Kaftari
periods. Finds at Tall-i Malyan included primarily Proto-Elamite and
Middle Elamite cuneiformtablets, seals, and a pottery sequence
important to dating the chronology of the region. The most notable
find was a building brick of Elamite king Hatelutus-Insusinak which
confirmed that the site was indeed Anshan.

The site was first worked by Ferydoun Tavalloli of the
Archaeological Service of Iran in 1961. No records or publications
of that effort appear to exist, though some artifacts ended up in
the Persepolis Museum. Scientific excavation began in 1971 with a
team, led by William Sumner, from the University of Pennsylvania
and Ohio State University after a
survey in 1968. [6][7][8][9] The dig
continued for several seasons until 1978, when the Iranian
Revolution intervened. Most recently, Tal-i Malyan was
excavated by Kamyar Abdi in 1999. [10]


The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Hydrangea plant, botanically known as Hydrangea macrophylla and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Hokomathyst’.
The new Hydrangea plant is a naturally-occurring whole plant mutation of Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Xian’, not patented. The new Hydrangea plant was discovered and selected by the Inventors as a single flowering plant from within a population of plants of ‘Xian’ in a controlled greenhouse environment in Boskoop, The Netherlands in July, 2006.
Asexual reproduction of the new Hydrangea plant by vegetative cuttings in a controlled greenhouse environment in Boskoop, The Netherlands since August, 2006, has shown that the unique features of this new Hydrangea plant are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.President Donald Trump is looking to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo in the coming weeks, according to The New York Times.

The Times reports that Trump has “soured” on Tillerson and “is ready to make a change at the State Department.” The pair's relationship has been strained in recent months, especially following a report that alleged that the secretary of state questioned Trump's intelligence, a claim Tillerson has yet to fully deny.

Senior administration officials told the Times on Thursday that Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) would replace Pompeo at the CIA and that Cotton has shown interest in the gig.

Pompeo replacing Tillerson had been rumored for weeks, and according to the report, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly has worked up a transition


plan that should happen around the end of the year.

Tillerson also was reportedly talked out of resigning earlier this year by Vice President Mike Pence. However, he's denied that such an exchange ever occurred.

“The vice president has never had to persuade me to remain as secretary of state because I have never considered leaving this post,” Tillerson said during a press conference addressing the reports.

However, in the weeks following Tillerson's denial, more signs emerged that Trump's relationship with the secretary of state was on the rocks.Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Look at this cool website I just discovered! For the last 17 years, the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) in Los Angeles has hosted an annual exhibit of the year's best movie costumes during Oscar season (February-April). The exhibit is not limited to the year's Best Costume nominees (although they are included), but covers films of all genres and budgets for an annual look at the most interesting onscreen clothes. (That's Arwen's coronation gown, designed by Oscar winner Ngila Dickson, and worn by Liv Tyler in The Lord of the Ring: The Return of the King, in situ at the FIDM exhibit from 2004.)

This years exhibit (costumes from 20+ movies from 2010, including all five Oscar nominees, up close and personal) runs through


the nominees from the lurid '50s melodrama of Far From Heaven, the sassy, Depression-era '30s of Chicago, and the bohemian '20s and '30s of Frida.

And sometimes, it's all about the props, like the year Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis were both nominated for Thelma and Louise.

The Best Actor costumes are rarely as much fun, but I made an exception for Captain Jack Sparrow. I had to go to Goodwill and pop two bucks for a recycled Ken doll, but seriously, Ken never looked better.

So kids, in the spirit of this year's Best Picture nominee, Toy Story 3, the moral is, never throw your toys away. Recycle them to the Goodwill instead. You never know what sort of swashbuckling afterlife is waiting for them there!

Friday, February 18, 2011

This justin from Julian Soler at the Santa Cruz Film Festival. A new film sure to be dear to the hearts of anyone who's lived in Santa Cruz for longer than about four minutes will have its World Premiere at this year's fest (May 5 to 14). The Catalyst is a feature-length documentary devoted to the life and times—and, of course, the music—of that most venerated and enduring local nightclub, put together by two local folks who probably know the subject better than anyone. Producer Dean Newbury was the Catalyst booking agent for years, during the proprietorship of the late Randall Kane (whom Newbury refers to as his "father figure"). Director Michèle Benson is herself something of a Santa Cruz institution as longtime court photographer/historian/archivist at the Cat, as


to my friend Mary Offermann, you know you're a real Santa Cruz old-timer when you can remember all the previous businesses that used to be in this or that downtown retail space.(Remember when Kianti's was the original Pretty Mama's? Remember when the Walnut Avenue Cafe was The Old Theatre Cafe? Remember when the Gap building housed Woolworth's?) Those of us who have been here forever still think of the club's current Pacific Avenue location as "the new Catalyst." When I first arrived as a dewy coed in the early '70s, we used to hang out at the "old" Catalyst under the St.George Hotel. The main entrance was on Front Street, or you could take the scenic route, a surreal stroll from Pacific Avenue through the St. George lobbyBlack Orpheus (Orfeu Negro) first cast its simmering spell over me. I seem to remember watching it in a classroom, probably in 16mm, on one of those rickety, square pop-up screens, so it was probably with the after-hours movie club I joined in high school. But I've never forgotten the impact of this moody, romantic 1959 update of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice with the pulsing samba beat.

Set in vibrant Rio de Janeiro during Carnaval, it's about a guitar-strumming young bus conductor, Orfeu (Breno Mello) who falls in love with Eurydice (the beauteous Marpessa Dawn), newly arrived in Rio.But her past catches up to her in the lurid figure of Death during the riotous Carnaval parade, and Orfeu must literally descend into a kind of hellish


underworld to reclaim the woman he loves.

Shot in Portuguese by French filmmaker Marcel Camus, the story is set to a propulsive score by Luis Bonfa and Antonio Carlos Jobim, introducing their hip samba fusion music to the world. The haunting "Manha de Carnaval,"soon to spark the entire bossa nova craze of the early '60s, was the theme song from Black Orpheus. An international hit, it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and both an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Picture. None of which made any difference to me; all I knew was I absolutely loved this movie to pieces when I saw it back in my misspent youth. Will it hold up after all these years? Let's find out this weekend, Saturday and Sunday,through the implied narrative when figures take center stage. So pardon my bias, but the most exciting discovery for me at the ACGA show is Bay Area ceramicist Fred Yokel. His sly, whimsical sculptural vignette, "The Build," is the highlight of the show for both Art Boy and me. It was love at first sight; one look, and our eyes were bugging out of our heads like a Tex Avery cartoon.

In this piece, a monumental human form is being constructed out of stone blocks by four or five small worker drones; they're still bustling about the litter of blocks at its feet, trying to fill in the last couple of open spaces in the form. Are they constructing a man-shaped temple to their god? A ceremonial effigy? A


them have dynamic pieces in the show. So does Tom Wolver, whose "Contemplation" features a brooding "Thinker"-like character with a typically Wolverian, jackal-headed demon laughing over his shoulder.

Among other intriguing out-of-town artists I "discovered" at this show is Natasha Dikareva. I love her "Shell Dweller" (above) with its poignant little human face emerging from the organic cocoon of the shell. I was also drawn to Vicki Gunter's "The Reading Chair," an evocative ceramic representation of a stuffed, saggy old armchair covered in flowered chintz. The object itself is one thing, but the story that goes with it (written out in the artist's attached note), about memories of the old family chair she crawled into as a child to hear stories, completes the narrative in the most fitting way—withto make an impact? This is the dilemma faced by the hard-luck protagonist played with furious grace by the great Javier Bardem in Biutiful, a man clawing a living out of the urban underbelly of Barcelona who discovers he has only a short time left to straighten out his messy life for the sake of his beloved children. Brooding and heartfelt, it's a dark, yet tender vision of life on the fringe from the always provocative Alejandro González Iñárritu. (Read more.)

(High Hopes)

Here's the thing about Mike Leigh. From the very first of his films that I saw, the irrepressible High Hopes, in 1988, I knew that he and I were on the same wavelength. This most passionate bard of Britain's working class has always been a champion of


the disenfranchised, with a dry, often scathing wit coupled with a huge heart for the human condition.

High Hopes is a blisteringly funny look at class warfare and family ties in Margaret Thatcher's England. At its heart is a scruffy young, leftist couple in the Kings Cross district of London;she's a nurturing earth-mother, he's a disappointed Marxist always railing scornfully (in unprintable but hilarious terms) about the evils of government by the corporate rich. Sadly, not much has changed in the world since then, except that the corporate stranglehold is even more severe and the plight of the lower classes even more desperate.

Leigh's absolutely wonderful new film, Another Year, could be about the same couple, 25 years later. Indeed, the same marvelous actress, Ruth Sheen, plays the wife inboth films, and in both cases, she is the wry, good-humored, compassionate soul of the story. This time out, she's paired with the great Jim Broadbent; he's Tom, a geologist bursting with sly wit and bonhomie who does not suffer fools gladly, but most of the time just manages to keep a lid on his snarky opinions. Sheen plays his wife, Gerri, a caring mental health counselor at the local hospital. They live in a comfy brick flat north of London, but spend most of their free time at the neighborhood "allotment," an open plot of land where they tend their garden of vegetables and herbs. Their marriage has been long and happy, produced one droll and loving son (Oliver Maltman), and they still spend all their free


time together, cooking, gardening, laughing, and hanging out.

Things have not worked out so well for their friends, most of them alone or unhappily wed, miserable in their jobs, dissatisfied with themselves, and no longer able to ignore the grim fact that life is passing them by. Time, not politics, is the enemy this time around, and the film takes place over the seasonal cycles of one year, from spring through winter, as time's wingéd chariot inevitably whooshes onward. (When Gerri comments on the book he's reading in bed, Tom dryly observes, "I never liked history in school, but the older I get, the more relevant it seems.")

But Tom and Gerri have faced life's challenges and made something of their lives together. The delicate tension wrought by Leigh inthe film comes from the desperation with which their misfortunate friends are lured to the nurturing flame of their happiness and stability. Chief among these is Lesley Manville in a fearless and devastating performance as Mary, a lonely, long-divorced secretary at Gerri's hospital clinging to the memory of youth with her too-revealing clothes and too-brittle perkiness, who keeps pushing the boundaries, desperately trying to upgrade from work mate to surrogate family status. Peter Wight plays Tom's old school chum, also divorced, compulsively gorging himself on food, drink, and cigarettes to fill up the emptiness inside. (His neighborhood pubs are now "full of young people, talking about nothing!" he complains.) Tom's elderly old codger of a brother, Ronnie (David Bradley, best known as sinister Hogwarts groundskeeper Filch in the


Harry Potter movies), is a new widower reduced to near catatonia, with an explosively angry son.

(David Bradley and Lesley Manville)

Leigh famously workshops his story ideas with his cast to arrive at a script, and there's not a false syllable in the entire movie. Every conversation, however fragmented, has the ache and vitality of real life, as well as every potent glance, and all the things that remain unspoken as these characters face up to life's disappointments. And the movie teems with sudden, breathtaking insights; when Mary talks to Ronnie about the music they loved as kids—The Beatles and Elvis—we realize this is what's become of the generation that was going to change the world back in 1968.

Working with his longtime cinematographer Dick Pope to replicate the changing seasonswithin a rigorous eight-week shooting schedule, Leigh also masters the look of the film as the year and his dramatic themes evolve. As vibrant as their kitchen is, with its warm, curry-colored walls and vivid tiles, the same interior looks washed out and cold in a later, winter scene when Tom and Gerri are not in it.

Despite the wistful melancholy of its theme, this is a delicious, savvy, and resonant film, peppered with irreverent wit and real feeling. Do not miss it.

(Trivia note: look out for Phil Davis—Sheen's co-star in High Hopes, pictured above—in a cameo in Another Year as a guest at a backyard BBQ.)

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Sorry, but I'm not one of those people who gets all worked up about Oscar's sins of omission.I know my


personal taste in movies is way off in the outer limits of mainstream Hollywood culture, so I never expect the movies I like best in any given year to even be in the running, let alone win gold. Imagine my shock in 2009 when my second-favorite film of the previous year, Slumdog Millionaire, actually won the Academy Award for Best Picture. I figured either the Academy was getting smarter or I was getting more lenient in my dotage. Or Door Number Three: the Academy had been taken over by aliens, still the most logicalexplanation.

(What beat out Slumdog for my favorite movie of 2008? It was the magnificent The Fall, which went on to rank #3 in my Top Ten Movies of the Decade, although—surprise!—it received zero recognition fromAcademy voters.)

So I have to say that this year's Oscar nominations are at least (and at best) par for the course. This year's safe, "Masterpiece Theatre" entry, The King's Speech, cleans up in nominations—as well it might, excellent as it is in every department.Expanding the Best Picture category to 10 titles gives the Academy a chance to recognize some smaller, dark horse contenders that might formerly have slipped through the cracks at awards time (like the equally excellent—in its own, weird way—Winter's Bone), although we all know the five serious contenders are those whose directors are also nominated in their category. With the addition of Toy Story 3D, that places three of my personal 10 favorite movies of the year on Oscar's list—a pretty remarkable average, all things


Rooster Cogburn, or Paul Newman in The Color ofMoney, or Martin Scorsese for, erm, The Departed?). Or at least retroactive. Don't get me wrong, Heath Ledger deserved every inch of Oscar gold he won for his breathtaking Jokerin The Dark Knight, but you know the Academy was suffering a collective case of (posthumous) bestowers' remorse over not having awarded him the Best Actor Oscar he so richly deserved for Brokeback Mountain a couple of years earlier. The retroactive factor is the primary reason we can expect to see Colin Firth claim the gold this year for The King's Speech, after his fine performancelast year in A Single Man lost out to Jeff Bridges—who was winning HIS well-deserved cumulative award for Crazy Heart. (How Bridges himself managed to evadeOscar recognition for so long in such incredible performances as Fearless, and Starman remains one of the great mysteries of the age. Not to mention his criminally un-nominated performance as the scruffy, disorderly children's book author/artist in The Door in the Floor in 2004. He even did his own artwork!)

(Jeff Bridges in The Door in the Floor. Go stream it this minute!)

I'm convinced the main reason Johnny Depp was getting all those nominations for awhile (Finding Neverland; Sweeney Todd) was because Oscar voters neglected to hand him the gold after nominating him for Best Actor in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. I'm serious! Nothing against Sean Penn (who won that year for Mystic River), but any great actor can act. What Depp did was create a


classic and enduring movie icon, virtually out of whole cloth. Captain Jack Sparrow as we know him was not conceived in the script or out of the director's vision; he sprang as fully-formed as Athena out of the fervid, goofball imagination of Johnny Depp.

But I digress. Despite my habitually lowered expectations, there is one especially glaring omission among this year's Oscar nominees that can neither be ignored nor rationalized away. The category is Best Actress, and, Academy voters, I have two little words to say to you: Noomi Rapace. She is, of course, the woman who played Lisbeth Salander in all three of the "Millenium Trilogy" movies released this year: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked thein The Machinist, or downed Air Force pilot Dieter Dengler in Rescue Dawn? And what other actor would even consider American Psycho?) He's paid his Hollywood superhero dues as well, but he's savvy enough to know you don't win Oscars for playing Batman; you win them for playing The Joker.Bale gets his juicy Joker role in The Fighter, as a jittery, crack-addled ex-boxer running on the fumes of a once-promising life (and career), and he makes something pretty amazing out of it.

Finally, in the Heath Ledger Memorial "What's A Guy GottaDo To Get An Oscar Around Here?"category, consider Christopher Nolan. It's one thing that he's not nominated for directing Inception, one of the year's most intriguing thrill rides (although the film itself made it on to Oscar's Top


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About Me

I'm the author of the novels,"Beast: A Tale of Love and Revenge" (coming in 2018), "Alias Hook," and "The Witch From the Sea," proprietress of the entertainment blog, Lisa Jensen Online Express, and longtime film critic for the alt weekly, Good Times, in Santa Cruz, CA. My movie reviews also appear on Rotten Tomatoes.Kirby Krackles Brush Set credit and download here: www.deviantart.com/pascal-verh…

Based on my Infinity Train FANFIC story.These are the Alternate Selves of Tulip, a girl who has been traveling on the Infinity Train Ouroboros (to differentiate from Infinity Train Prime from the canon show) for over a century. Having her memory constantly erased, thus allowing infinite Tulips from infinite timelines to take over, creating countless incarnations of this one single girl, because on the IT Ouroboros, time works very differently, forcing all your infinite selves to exist on a singular timeline, the timeline where the train is, which is outside of the traditional space and time.Infinite Tulips, many so drastically different, but all falling under these four main Tulips from these four main timelines. Conductor Tulip, Paranoid Tulip, the Tulip


who is the protagonist of the fic, and Pilut who is the original Tulip from the original timeline, the first one to board the train.Conductor Tulip Profile: Conductor Tulip - Infinity Train AU Paranoid Tulip Profile: Paranoid Tulip - Infinity Train AU Pilut Profile: Pilut - Infinity Train AU Tulip AU Profile: Universe #0 Tulip - Infinity Train AUKerrigan (eds), The Thing About Roy Fisher: Critical Essays on the Poetry of Roy Fisher, Liverpool University Press, 2000.
 Peter Robinson (ed.), An Unofficial Roy Fisher, Shearsman Books, 2010.
 Tony Frazer (ed.), Roy Fisher: Interviews Through Time, Shearsman Books, 2013.

References

External links
Roy Fisher at West Midlands Literary Heritage
Roy Fisher in conversation with John Tranter. Jacket 1, December 2001.
An essay on Fisher by Marjorie Perloff
Some Aspects of the Poetry of Roy Fisher by J. D. Needham ,1975
review of the "Long and the Short of It" by August Kleinzahler
William Wotton, "The Measure of the Muse" (review of the Long and the Short of It). The Guardian, 29 October 2005.
review of The Long and the Short of It by Martin Caseley
Peter Robinson, "Keeping it Strange" (review of The Long and the Short


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'Biggest Loser's' Ken Andrews of Pasadena dishes on Rulon and more

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It's everyone versus Rulon.

Rulon Gardner has been seen as a contender for the Season 11 win -- and how could he not be, considering his Olympic background. And this week, we got the sharpest sense yet that everyone is just waiting for Rulon to slip up so they can send him on his way. Clearly, the big man hasn't been making any friends. Olivia was dead set on beating him in the board challenge, and she did. Irene had an "anyone but Rulon" attitude as well. And even affable Ken Andrews, the pastor from Pasadena, said that he wished he'd been on the chopping block Tuesday night with Rulon -- because he


and the way he treated others, and it wasn't something that we wanted to support or be a part of." Ken said that he and Austin formally told Rulon that they would no longer be part of an alliance with Rulon, and that if given the chance they would vote him off the island. I mean the ranch. He said Rulon became "angry, very angry."

What do you think about Rulon?

Ken said he had no ill will toward Hannah, even though he was eliminated over her (and even though she is closer to her goal weight than he is.)

Did you notice when Austin remarked that he was grateful to "The Biggest Loser" for helping his dad deal with certain "memories" and other issues, and putting him on track tobetter health? Well, Ken explained a heartbreaking incident that took place when he was just a young child, about 4. It was an incident that Ken had all but forced himself to forget. And he ate to cover it up. The deep psychological work that the contestants do at the ranch helped him unearth the painful memory.

"I witnessed my mother being raped, and it was a brutal attack," Ken said. Ken, who was also beaten by the assailant, said the attack took place on a military base, when his father was stationed overseas. The assailant remarked that the father was not there -- which makes Ken think that the attacker was a military man. Ken said the attack sent his mother into a deep depression, and she never


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Street Art Coming to Lennox & Brookfield

Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), RHIC, Blue Water Baltimore, John Eager Howard Recreation Center, and Reservoir Hill Mutual Homes partnered on the design of a street mural that highlights Reservoir Hill’s connection to our local watershed. Fifteen Reservoir Hill folks participated with MICA students from the Design for Change class in the design of the concept, and Reservoir Hill residents will participate in the painting.

Reservoir Hill residents and MICA students put together their favoriteneighborhood features into a combined design

At the Reservoir Hill April Community Meeting, MICA students presented the design for a street mural at Lennox Street and Brookfield Avenue.below is the design super-imposed on the site. After incorporating comments from Community Meeting participants the students will work


with Reservoir Hill residents, youth and adults, to paint the mural.The target date for installation is 1 May.

The intersection at Lennox & Brookfield will be transformed into a work of art this spring

The project will also produce a range of stencils that can be used to create sidewalk art and to place creative messages by the storm drains in the community encouraging people to not dump liter in the drains.The latter stenciling is intended as a youth project.

In addition to being a great piece of environmental art that’s community-designed and installed, street art helps slow down traffic and transforms a normal intersection into a work of art.

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Revisiting Melbourne

I first lived in Melbourne in 1972 after I left school. I found work and at different times rented in the City, East Melbourne, West Melbourne and Brunswick. We left Melbourne first in 1980 to go and work in the Northern Territory and then finally said our goodbyes in 1982 when we moved to Western Australia.

I travelled from Western Australia to Victoria dozens of time over the years but didn’t ever stay in Melbourne as my folks lived in the country north of the Melbourne. For a while now I have been hankering for a walk down memory lane. We finally booked a holiday staying in the centre of Melbourne with five days to explore old haunts and recent additions such as


....She's the "victim" here...but her wishes for a quiet mystery writing career under a pseudonym is lost to her. Probably forever, unless she starts all over again from scratch with new characters and stories; a likely multiyear effort

My thoughts exactly as I was reading through. First, I took it as a marketing effort. But now I could understand how disappointed she would be.

She probably started writing this in say 2007-08 and finished by 2009-10. She waited for almost 2/3 years for the book to get a publisher: to prove that she was really talented and Harry Potter was not an accident. She even got great comments she was hoping for. And now what, we are back on page one; selling again because of brand name, not on merit.has accepted a substantial charity donation from the law firm that revealed she was writing under a pseudonym.

The writer brought a legal action against Chris Gossage, a partner at Russells Solicitors, and his friend, Judith Callegari.

Rowling was revealed as the writer of crime novel The Cuckoo's Calling in a Sunday Times article.

The author had published the book under the pen name Robert Galbraith.

Rowling's solicitor told Mr Justice Tugendhat that Russells had contacted the writer's agent after the story was published, revealing it was Mr Gossage who had divulged the confidential information to Ms Callegari.

Ms Callegari then revealed the information in the course of a Twitter exchange with a journalist.

The court heard Rowling had been "left dismayed and distressed by such a fundamental betrayal of trust".

Mr Gossage, Ms Callegari


and Russells all apologised and the firm agreed to pay the author's legal costs.

It also agreed to make a payment, by way of damages, to the Soldiers' Charity, formerly known as the Army Benevolent Fund.

Rowling explained that she was donating the money "partly as a thank you to the army people" who helped her with research.

"But also because writing a hero who is a veteran has given me an even greater appreciation and understanding of exactly how much this charity does for ex-servicemen and their families, and how much that support is needed," she said.
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Rowling said she would also be donating all the royalties for the book to the charity.
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The fact that a solicitor betrays a client's trust is indeed shocking. He was very lucky indeed to getmost rushing yards ever recorded a game by a Bengals opponent was 227 by Ravens RB Priest Holmes 1998 Cincinnati.Former five- recruit Brian Bowen saw his would-be college career become the center of a FBI investigation into corruption within college basketball, and he has decided to forego school to play professionally overseas.So far this , ‘ defense has been gouged for 140 yards per game on the ground, good enough for 29th the NFL.


the best you'll do in New York City and its environs. Yet, despite finally having things comfortably within his pay grade, Obama in many respects was no better than the first time.
He lost the...(Read Full Article)these types of explanations are actually included in some of the standard historical accounts of the Bronze Age period, though many problems still remain: no single explanation appeared to account for all the evidence.

Immanuel Velikovsky upset everyone by suggesting that the Exodus - but only the Exodus - was caused by a bombardment of rocks, dust, carbons and so on as a result of Venus running amok in the Solar System. He collected an amazing assortment of myths and legends from around the world that strongly suggested that some sort of global cataclysm was being described, but when, where and how, exactly, it happened was rather iffy. There were others who wrote and talked about these matters before Velikovsky, including Ignatious Donnelly, who deserves an honorable mention for


of alternative ideas as an unwitting tool of disinformation, it is highly probable that most of it was literally created by them as cointelpro. According to analysts, cointelpro was the FBI's secret program to undermine the popular upsurge, which swept the country during the 1960s. Though the name stands for 'Counterintelligence Program', the targets were not enemy spies. The FBI set out to eliminate 'radical' political opposition inside the US. What a lot of people do not realize is that this was a high-level psychological operation specifically set up to vector 'ideological' trends - beliefs...

Now, let us take a few logical steps. The UFO problem emerged into the national consciousness in 1947, or thereabouts. Not long afterward, a lot of people began asking a lot of questions. Thetime, protecting the religious status quo - mainly the social controls that stem from religion - was iffy at best. After a century of scholarly investigation into many religious texts, and the raising of many questions about the 'old time religion', there were a lot of people in society who were most definitely turning away from religious dogma. It's fairly simple to take the next logical step and see that a combining of the questions of those who were disenchanted with religion, with the questions of those who wanted to know just what the heck was going on in terms of possible 'extraterrestrials', was seen as a dangerous and explosive mixture. Something had to be done.

The activities of COINTELPRO in attempting to neutralize political opposition have been pretty


texts that they are immersed into, etc." (Fomenko, op. cit.)

"What strikes me as an essential turning point in this cointelpro operation was the beginning of the 'expose' of two particular items that hold sway in certain 'conspiracy' circles to this very day: alien abduction and Satanic Ritual Abuse.

The Gray alien scenario was 'leaked' by Budd Hopkins. Whitley Strieber's alien abduction books, including Communion, followed a few years after. Prior to the publication of these books, the ubiquitous 'Gray aliens' had never been seen before. In fact, a review of the history of 'contact' cases shows that the type and variety and behavior of 'aliens' around the world are quite different across the board. But, along came Budd, followed by Whitley and his glaring alien on the cover, andof SRA were aimed at working-class people with limited resources, and with a few exceptions, the media and other groups that are ordinarily skeptical either remained silent or joined in the feeding frenzy of accusations. The few professionals who spoke out against the hysteria were systematically attacked and discredited by government agencies and private organizations...

Now, let's go back and think about our timeline. As it happens, Michelle Remembers was published in 1980, co-written by Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder, M.D. Budd Hopkins finished Missing Time in December of 1980, with an 'afterword' by Aphrodite Clamar, Ph.D. It's looking pretty 'coincidental' from where I sit." (Knight-Jadczyk, op. cit.)

"The secrets of evolution are death and time - the deaths of enormous numbers of life-forms that were imperfectly adapted to the


Israel would be reborn with Jerusalem as its capital and that there will eventually be a great, final, and dramatic last battle between Israel and an alliance of various nations, including one 'from the uttermost parts of the north.' (Ezekiel 39:2), a reference many see as pointing to Russia.

As everyone knows, Israel has in fact been reborn. As recently as 1980, the Israelis proclaimed Jerusalem as their eternal, indivisible capital. And almost every week the political realities in the Middle East can be seen falling ever more precisely into the pattern required for consummation of the ancient prophecies that are yet to be fulfilled.

This obvious and enormous fact hardly ever enters the argument, and yet the contemporary Middle East situation probably has more to do with the resurgencepossible for mankind to develop a high level of civilization. The Platonic story of Atlantis in interpreted as an essentially correct description of a political power active in the final period of the last glaciation."

"But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away..." (Matthew 24:37-38.)

"Perhaps the most intriguing and enigmatic aspects of the Middle Paleolithic period is how and why it came to an end, after a period of around 200,000 years of remarkable stability. From the preceding


earth-wide flood was also the result of the water in the comet tail falling onto earth during the same or similar encounters... Most scientists do not realize that comets can become very large and that the volume of water, oil, etc. that is produced in the tail of a very large comet would dwarf the atmosphere of planet Earth. When the oil in the Mid-East was first used in quantity it was laying in pools on the ground. When this was used up, they dug into the sand and now we are drilling into oceans of oil that seeped into the sand after falling from above during the many comet encounters that Earth has seen.

Another aspect of the arrival of new objects from outside the solar system isflint-knapping technology to the Solutrean flint technology in Spain at the end of the Ice Age. In addition, Clovis points are very unlike flint points from Asia, their supposed land of origin. Since blood types show a connection with Europe, perhaps there is one rather than Asians, maybe the Solutreans really discovered the New World - or perhaps others did, because, remarkably, recent studies of early South American skulls suggest aboriginal or African origins.

Although type O blood is common everywhere, it is nearly universal among natives of South and Central America, and much more common in North American than in Asia or Europe. If people populated the Americas from Asia at the end of the Ice Age after types A and B arose, those people neglected to bring


their normal distribution of blood types with them.

Another blood-typing system has been used to demonstrate the Asian origin of Native Americans. Called Diego, it evolved recently as a mutation, and all Africans, Europeans, East Indians, Australian Aborigines, and Polynesians are Diego-negative. East Asians and Native Americans are the only people that are Diego-positive. But Diego-positive is more common among Native Americans than among East Asians, raising the question of who got these genes first? From blood types alone, a case can be made that the oldest indigenous people are the Native Americans!" (Firestone, et al., op. cit.)

"When David Levy was born ... his mother Sima noticed at once that he was different from other baby boys. He had been born already circumcised, for the foreskin was entirely missing."

"Theto pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose... There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually." (Genesis 6:1-5, excerpts.)

"[This] also makes social change possible, change based not on any genetic transformation,


how, during the presidential campaign the previous autumn, Ronald Reagan had told an audience in Texas that he had "a great many questions about evolutionary theory" and further asserted that the theory "is not believed in the scientific community to be as infallible as it once was believed." Obviously, Reagan was courting the Bible-Belt voters. But, since Reagan had presumed to speak for the scientific community, it was not a surprise when said 'community' wanted to respond and this was the item that Dan Rather was reporting.The spokesmen for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) characterized Reagan's statement as "tremendously unfortunate." One scientist stated categorically that the "100 million fossils identified and dated in the world's museums constitute 100 million facts that prove evolution beyondexact I scratched my head and said "Huh?!" when I noticed it. It relates to something I wrote about in my book, Secret History:Of particular note in the above passage is the fact that "with a few exceptions, the media and other groups that are ordinarily skeptical either remained silent or joined in the feeding frenzy of accusations. The few professionals who spoke out against the hysteria were systematically attacked and discredited by government agencies and private organizations." Keep this in mind as we review what the media was - at the same time - publishing about science.The Time magazine article mentioned above gave more background on the Reagan/AAAS affair noting that Reagan had said that if evolution is taught in public schools, "the biblical story of creation


and glib, but more damning is the fact that he presented Darwin's ideas as though nothing had been thought about or reconsidered since then, though most certainly that is not the case. Sagan writes:Sagan emphasized the term "by accident" by italicizing it. He was making it clear that accident is the fundamental factor in the emergence of life forms including, and especially, the very emergence of life itself in the vastness of the Cosmos. Fix writes:If this is seen in the context of what I mentioned above: the media promotion of SRA and alien abduction, things begin to look very strange indeed. With the people being worked up about spiritual matters on one side, and the scientific establishment being set up on the other side to appear asagents of Hell and Damnation, and the media behaving like demons with pitchforks jabbing first one side and then the other, is there any wonder that the average person in the U.S. has fled in terror back to the 'faith of our fathers'?! In short, the exchange between Reagan and the AAAS was just the tip of the iceberg of much more serious problems in science where some force within it is working to discredit it rather than enhance it. William Fix writes:Back in 1984 when this book, The Bone Peddlers, was published, Fix was noticing the upsurge of a phenomenon that has become a frightening reality in our own day - witness George Bush and his use of fundamentalists to justify his pre-emptive war policy, not to


revisionists with the facts presented out of context by the mainstream falsifiers as described by Zinoviev above? And most important of all: Is there a relationship between what is happening in our world today and what may have happened in a previous high civilization that fell? Are we replaying 'Atlantis'?The myth of a lost paradise, or Golden Age, is almost universal around the globe. The Golden Age was supposed to be a time when humanity was pure and good, and evil was unable to achieve dominance. The most well-known treatment of the theme is found in Greek mythology. The Greeks explained that life and civilizations run in grand cycles, rather like the seasons of the year. There was the Golden Age which, after a time, began to declineand gave way to the Silver Age, which declined to the Bronze Age, which declined into the Iron Age which, eventually, became Darkness.This is echoed in the Hindu or Vedic culture, with its model of cycling Yugas: The Satya Yuga (Golden Age), Treta Yuga (Silver Age), Dwapara Yuga (Bronze Age), and Kali Yuga (Iron Age). We are said to be living in the final days of the Iron/Dark Age, the Kali Yuga, at the end of which Brahma will awake from his dream and the whole cycle will begin again.The length of these ages varies from one system to another and have been interpreted and re-interpreted - much like biblical texts - to support various theories at various times.The theme is represented as the Garden of Eden in


the current Iron/Dark Age/Earth Era and began subtracting these Earth Era periods and, as you can see, the numbers turned out to be very interesting.The first subtraction gives us 1492 which is when Columbus 'discovered' America. The second date, 971, is the year the Mosque Azhar was built in Cairo, Egypt (970-972). It is believed that the Norse explorer, Leif Eriksson, was born in this year. What we do know is that, at the beginning of the 9th century, Celtic Britain lay in ruins. This suggests that there had been destruction of some sort prior to this time. Nennius compiled a history of his people which makes fascinating reading about this time, though it is often rejected as pure confabulation by 'experts'. Perhaps it wasn't?The next date thatto our topic, there is a great deal of uncertainty about the dates of various types of early humans. What I want to say is that the Golden Age of legend was a Great Golden Era as depicted in the first graphic and that more than one civilization has arisen and fallen in the 300,000 years since the present Epoch began. Perhaps the Great Deluge, the alleged destruction of Atlantis, estimated to be 12 to 13 thousand years ago was just the ending of an age within an age within an age?Perhaps entire sub-cycles of ages as described in the theory of the Yugas played out between the time of the first appearance of Cro-Magnon in Europe and the end of the Pleistocene around 12,000 years ago? I


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Sexist remarks: Hardik Pandya, KL Rahul suspended; out of Australia ODI series

NEW DELHI: In a fresh war of words, Supreme Court-appointed committee of administrators (CoA) member Diana Edulji has objected to BCCI CEO Rahul Johri doing the preliminary inquiry into the misconduct of Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul On Saturday morning, CoA chairman Vinod Rai sent out a mail citing the need to hurry the process as they ‘cannot afford to debilitate team strength due to delinquent behavior on the part of some player.’ Rai has suggested that the players must give their explanations early.Interestingly, in the statement released by the BCCI on Friday night, undersigned by the CoA, it was mentioned that selection committee will soon name their replacements for the ODI series against Australia and the Feb. 8, 1990.Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied March 13, 1990.

Allen P. Hayes, appellant pro se.
Thomas J. Ziko, Office of the Attorney General of North Carolina, for appellees.
Before DONALD RUSSELL and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.
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Then this February, purely by process of elimination, basically as he was the one guy could get confirmed, Barr became Attorney General of the United States once again.

The Mueller investigation was nearly over when he got the job. Barr probably didn't expect to become a major figure in the Russia story because he had nothing to do with it.

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Less than 24 hours after Rick Scott announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate, he faces a Federal Election Commission complaint accusing him of breaking election laws by raising and spending unlimited campaign donations to prepare for his senate campaign.

Gov. Scott a year ago launched his New Republican PAC, which described its mission as re-branding and re-inventing the Republican Party to help Donald Trump's agenda, as well as appealing to young and Hispanic voters.

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Kipling stated that the first syllable of "Mowgli" should rhyme with "cow" and is pronounced this way in Britain, while in America and India it is almost always pronounced to rhyme with "go".


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Puritans

For a more detailed treatment, see Puritans.
The Puritans, a much larger group than the Pilgrims, established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629 with 400 settlers. This group was the Puritans who sought to reform the Church of England by creating a new, pure church in the New World. Within two years, an additional 2,000 arrived. The Puritans created a deeply religious, socially tight-knit and politically innovative culture that still lingers on in the modern United States. They hoped this new land would serve as a "redeemer nation." Seeking the true religion, they fled England and in America created a "nation of saints" or the "City upon a Hill," an intensely religious, thoroughly righteous community designed to be an example for all of Europe. Roger Williams, who preached religioustoleration, separation of Church and State, and a complete break with the Church of England, was banished and founded Rhode Island Colony, which became a haven for other religious refugees from the Puritan community, including Anne Hutchinson, a preacher of Antinomianism.

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the South and Europe.

The Middle Colonies, consisting of the present-day states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, were characterized by a large degree of diversity—religious, political, economic, and ethnic. Many Dutch and Protestant Irish immigrants settled in these areas, as well as in Long Island and Connecticut. The Germans, called "Pennsylvania Dutch," were included in this emigration.

Mid-Atlantic Region

Unlike New England, the Mid-Atlantic Region gained much of its population from new immigration, and by 1750, the combined populations of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania had reached nearly 300,000 people. By 1750, about 60,000 Scots-Irish and 50,000 Germans came to live in British North America, many of them settling in the Mid-Atlantic Region. William Penn, the man who founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1682, attracted aninflux of Quakers and other immigrants with his policies of religious liberty and freehold ownership. "Freehold" meant that farmers owned their land free and clear of leases. The first major influx of immigrants came mainly from Ireland and consisted of Scots-Irish Presbyterians. The second major immigration came with Germans trying to escape the religious conflicts and declining economic opportunities in Germany and Switzerland.

Ways of life

The Baptism of Pocahontas, 1614, Oil study for mural by John Gadsby Chapman, circa 1837-40.

Much of the architecture of the Middle Colonies reflects the diversity of its peoples. In Albany and New York City, a majority of the buildings were Dutch style with brick exteriors and high gables at each end while many Dutch churches were shaped liked an octagon. Using cut stone to


build their houses, German and Welsh settlers in Pennsylvania followed the way of their homeland and completely ignored the plethora of timber in the area. Thus in Germantown, Pennsylvania, 80% of the buildings in the town were made entirely of stone. On the other hand, the Scots-Irish took advantage of America's ample supply of timber and constructed sturdy log cabins.

Ethnic cultures also effected the styles of furniture. Rural Quakers preferred simple designs in furnishings such as tables, chairs, chests and shunned elaborate decorations. However, some urban Quakers had much more elaborate furniture. The city of Philadelphia became a major center of furniture-making because of its massive wealth from Quaker and British merchants. Philadelphian cabinet makers built elegant desks and highboys. German artisans created intricate carved designs on theirchests and other furniture with painted scenes of flowers and birds. German potters also crafted a large array of jugs, pots, and plates, of both elegant and traditional design.

There were ethnic differences in the treatment of women. Among Puritan settlers in New England, wives almost never worked in the fields with their husbands. In German communities in Pennsylvania, however, many women worked in fields and stables. German and Dutch immigrants granted women more control over property, which was not permitted in the local English law. Unlike English colonial wives, German and Dutch wives owned their own clothes and other items and were also given the ability to write wills disposing of the property brought into the marriage.

Farming

The Europeans brought entirely new animals, which transformed the landscape, such as


a tool with wooden fingers that arranged the stalks of grain for easy collection. This tool was able to triple the amount of work down by farmers in one day. Farmers also began fertilizing their fields with dung and lime and rotating their crops to keep the soil fertile.

Before 1720, most colonists in the mid-Atlantic region worked with small-scale farming and paid for imported manufactures by supplying the West Indies with corn and flour. In New York, a fur-pelt export trade to Europe flourished adding additional wealth to the region. After 1720, mid-Atlantic farming stimulated with the international demand for wheat. A massive population explosion in Europe brought wheat prices up. By 1770, a bushel of wheat cost twice as much as it did in 1720. Farmers alsoexpanded their production of flaxseed and wheat since flax was a high demand in the Irish linen industry and a demand for wheat for slaves existed in the West Indies.

Some immigrants who just arrived purchased farms and shared in this export wealth, but many poor German and Scots-Irish immigrants were forced to work as agricultural wage laborers. Merchants and artisans also hired these homeless workers for a domestic system for the manufacture of cloth and other goods. Merchants often bought wool and flax from farmers and employed newly-arrived immigrants, who had been textile workers in Ireland and Germany, to work in their homes spinning the materials into yarn and cloth. Large farmers and merchants became wealthy, while farmers with smaller farms and artisans only made enough for subsistence.


The Mid-Atlantic region, by 1750, was divided by both ethnic background and wealth.

Seaports

Seaports, which expanded from wheat trade, had more social classes than anywhere else in the Middle Colonies. By 1750, the population of Philadelphia had reached 25,000, New York 15,000, and the port of Baltimore 7,000. Merchants dominated seaport society and about 40 merchants controlled half of Philadelphia's trade. Wealthy merchants in Philadelphia and New York, like their counterparts in New England, built elegant Georgian-style mansions.

Shopkeepers, artisans, shipwrights, butchers, coopers (barrell makers), seamstresses, cobblers, bakers, carpenters, stonemasons, and many other specialized professions, made up the middle class of seaport society. Wives and husbands often worked as a team and taught their children their crafts to pass it on through the family. Many of these artisans and tradersmade enough money to create a modest life.

Laborers stood at the bottom of seaport society. These poor people worked on the docks unloading inbound vessels and loading outbound vessels with wheat, corn, and flaxseed. Many of these were African American; some were free while others were enslaved. In 1750, blacks made up about 10 percent of the population of New York and Philadelphia. Hundreds of seamen, some who were African American, worked as sailors on merchant ships.

The Southern Colonies were mainly dominated by the wealthy slave-owning planters in Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina. These planters owned massive estates that were worked by African slaves. Of the 650,000 inhabitants of the South in 1750, about 250,000 or 40 percent, were slaves. Planters used their wealth to dominate the local


tenants and yeoman farmers. At election time, they gave these farmers gifts of rum and promised to lower taxes to take control of colonial legislatures.

South: Chesapeake Bay area

Jamestown

The first successful English colony was Jamestown, established in 1607, on a small river near Chesapeake Bay. The venture was financed and coordinated by the London Virginia Company, a joint stock company looking for gold. Its first years were extremely difficult, with very high death rates from disease and starvation, wars with local Indians, and little gold. The colony barely survived, by turning to tobacco as a cash crop. By the late 17th century Virginia's export economy was largely based on tobacco, and new, richer settlers came in to take up large portions of land, build large plantations and import indenturedservants and slaves. In 1676 Bacon's Rebellion occurred, but was suppressed by royal officials. After Bacon's Rebellion, African slaves replaced English indentured servants as Virginia's main labor force. The indentured servants became independent farmers at age 21, and mostly became subsistence farmers.

The colonial assembly that had governed the colony since its establishment was dissolved but was reinstated in 1630. It shared power with a royally appointed governor. On a more local level, governmental power was invested in county courts and sheriffs, also not elected. Voters could vote for a member of House of Burgess.

As cash crop producers, Chesapeake plantations were heavily dependent on trade. With easy navigation by river, few towns and no cities developed; planters shipped directly to Britain. High death rates and a very young population


profile characterized the colony during its first decades.

Lower South

The colonial South included the plantation colonies of the Chesapeake region (Virginia and Maryland) and the lower South (Carolina, which eventually split into North and South Carolina, and Georgia).

Carolinas

The first attempted English settlement south of Virginia was the Province of Carolina. It was a private venture, financed by a group of English businessmen calling themselves the "Lords Proprietors," who obtained a Royal Charter to the Carolinas in 1663, hoping that a new colony in the south would become profitable like that of Jamestown. Carolina was not settled until 1670, and even then the first attempt failed because there was no incentive for emigration to the south. However, eventually the Lords combined their remaining capital and financed a settlement mission tothe area led by John West. The expedition located fertile and defensible ground at what was to become Charleston (originally Charles Town for King Charles II, thus beginning the English colonization of the mainland. The original settlers in South Carolina established a lucrative trade in provisions, deerskins and Indian captives with the Caribbean islands. They came mainly from the English colony of Barbados and brought African slaves with them. Barbados, as a wealthy sugarcane plantation island, was one of the early English colonies to large numbers of Africans in plantation style agriculture. The cultivation of rice was introduced during the 1690s via Africans from the rice-growing regions of West Africa. North Carolina remained a frontier through the early colonial period.

At first, South Carolina was politically divided. Its ethnic


makeup included the original settlers, a group of rich, slave-owning English settlers from the island of Barbados; and Huguenots, a French-speaking community of Protestants. Nearly continuous frontier warfare during the era of King William's War and Queen Anne's War drove economic and political wedges between merchants and planters. The disaster of the Yamasee War, in 1715, set off a decade of political turmoil. By 1729, the proprietary government had collapsed, and the Proprietors sold both colonies back to the British crown.

Georgia

James Oglethorpe, an 18th century British Member of Parliament, established Georgia as a common solution to two problems. British feared that Spanish Florida was threatening the British Carolinas. Oglethorpe established his colony in the contested border region of Georgia and populated it with the poor and debtors whowould otherwise have been imprisoned. This plan would both rid Britain of its undesirable elements and provide her with a base from which to attack Florida. The first colonists arrived in 1733.

Oglethorpe established his colony on strict moralistic principles. Slavery was forbidden, as was alcohol. The colonists rejected any puritanical lifestyle and complained that their colony could not compete economically with the Carolina rice plantations. Georgia initially failed to prosper, but in 1752 the trustees turned over control of the colony to the royal government and the restrictions were lifted, slavery was allowed, and it became moderately prosperous.

Plantations

By the 1720s, a sew aspiring planters began to construct large Georgian-style mansions, wear bright red attire, and hunt deer from horseback. Wealthy women in the Southern colonies shared in the


British culture and spent large sums on the latest fasions and furniture.

The wives of the plantation owners supervised the household slaves, handled medical services for all the slaves, and put on elaborate dinners and festive balls. These efforts were the most successful in South Carolina, where wealthy rice planters lived in townhouses in Charleston, a busy port city. Active social seasons flourished in the few towns, such as Annapolis, Maryland, and on tobacco plantations in Virginia.

Slaves

The African slaves who worked on the indigo, tobacco, and rice fields in the South came mostly from the Caribbean sugar islands (plus a few who came directly from Africa). In 1700, there were about 9,600 slaves in the Chesapeake region and a few hundred in the Carolinas. About 170,000 more Africans arrivedover the next five decades. By 1750, there were more than 250,000 slaves in British America; in South Carolina they made up about 60% of the total population. Very favorable food and health standards contributed to rapid population growth.

Economy

Estimated income in constant 1840 dollars. Source: Alice Jones, Wealth of a Nation to Be (1980); Susan B. Carter et al. The Historical Statistics of the United States (2006) vol 3.

The great majority of people throughout the colonial era were farmers and their income was not cash but the value of the crops and animals produced on farms, and mostly consumed by the family. The estimates are based on inventories of estates when people died. Most people lived in poverty--with very few possessions such as a small stock of clothes,


book form, and partly by dissatisfaction with the predominant Puritan origins narrative and a swelling interest in transnationalism. New anthologies include Myra Jehlen and Michael Warner's The English Literatures of America, 1580–1800 (Routledge, 1996), Vincent Carretta's Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century (Lexington, Ky., 1996), Sharon M. Harris's Early American Women Writers to 1800 (Oxford, 1996), and Thomas W. Krise's Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657–1777 (Chicago, 1999), Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer, The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology (Oxford, 2001) Carla Muford's Early American Writings (Oxford 2002), and Susan Castillo's, Colonial Encounters in New World Writing, 1500–1786: Performing America (Routledge, 2006). Add in the University of Massachusetts Press series on native writersshared identity as British subjects was the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) in Europe. This conflict spilled over into the colonies, where it was known as "King George's War"; most of the fighting took place in Europe, British colonial troops attacked French Canada.

At the Albany Congress of 1754, Benjamin Franklin proposed that the colonies be united by a Grand Council overseeing a common policy for defense, expansion, and Indian affairs. While the plan was thwarted by colonial legislatures and King George II, it was an early indication that the British colonies of North America were headed towards unification. Franklin did not give up; more than anyone, he invented the idea of a United States of America.

Great Awakening

For a more detailed treatment, see First Great Awakening.
One event that


began to unify the religious background of the colonies was the First Great Awakening, a Protestant revival movement that took place in the 1730s and 1740s. It began with Jonathan Edwards, a Massachusetts preacher who sought to return to the Pilgrims' strict Calvinist roots and to reawaken the "Fear of God". Edwards was a powerful speaker and attracted a large following with sermons such as "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God". English preacher George Whitefield and other itinerant preachers continued the movement, traveling across the colonies and preaching in a dramatic and emotional style.

Followers of Edwards and other preachers of similar religiosity called themselves the "New Lights," as contrasted with the "Old Lights", who disapproved of their movement. To promote their viewpoints, the two sides establishedacademies and colleges including Princeton and Williams College. The Great Awakening has been called the first truly "American" event, and as such represented at least a small step towards the unification of the colonies.

A similar pietistic movement took place among some of the German and Dutch Lutherans, leading to internal dvisions. By the 1770s the Baptists were growing rapidly both in the north (where they founded Brown University, and in the South where they challenged the previously unquestioned moral authority of the Anglican establishment.

French and Indian War

For a more detailed treatment, see French and Indian War.
The French and Indian War (1754-1763) was the American extension of the general European conflict known as the Seven Years' War.

The war is called the French and Indian because the Iroquois confederacy—which had


been playing the British and the French against each other successfully for decades fought on both sides. The French were defeated and in the Treaty of Paris (1763), France surrendered its vast North American empire to Britain.

The French and Indian war took on a new significance for the North American colonists in Great Britain when William Pitt the elder decided that it was necessary to win the war against France at all costs. For the first time, North America was one of the main theatres of what could be termed a "world war". During the war, the status of all the British Colonies (including the thirteen colonies) as part of the British Empire was made truly apparent, as British military and civilian officials took on an increased presencein the lives of Americans. The war also increased a sense of American unity in other ways. It caused men, who might normally have never left their colonies, to travel across the continent, fighting alongside men from decidedly different, yet still "American," backgrounds. Throughout the course of the war, British officers trained American ones (most notably George Washington) for battle which would later benefit the American Revolution. Also, state legislatures and officials had to cooperate intensively, for arguably the first time, in pursuit of the continent-wide military effort.

The British and colonists triumphed jointly over a common foe. The colonists' loyalty to the mother country was stronger than ever before. The war produced prosperity, as royal officials hired American troops and sent in well paid British troops. The French


were defeated, and the British took Canada. Most important, the military threat from any foreign power ended, and the colonies no longer needed the protection of the Royal Navy. The British army handled Indian affairs on the frontier, so Indians were no longer a major threat to the Americans.

Ties to the British Empire

Although the colonies were very different from one another, they were still a part of the British Empire and each looked to London for leadership. military protection, and trade.

The political institutions of the colonies were originally patterned after English models, but by the 1760s there was a very different tone. Americans ignored the Royal Court and paid attention to the "country" party in Britain which was opposed to the Court; this was the origin of republicanismwhich increasingly dominated American political values.

The codes of law of the colonies were drawn directly from English common law, which was carefully studied by the hundreds of lawyers in the colonies.[3] Eventually, it was a dispute over the meaning of the English Constitution and the rights of Englishmen that animated a new generation after 1760 to demand respect for their historic rights as Englishmen.

Another point on which the colonies found themselves more similar than different was the booming import of British goods by international merchants based in American seaports. Socially, the colonial elite imitated British styles of luxurious consumption, dress, dance, and etiquette. This social upper echelon built its mansions in the Georgian style (named after King George), copied the furniture designs of Thomas Chippendale, and participated in


the intellectual currents of Europe, such as Enlightenment. To many of their inhabitants, the seaport cities of colonial America were truly British cities. The British economy had begun to grow rapidly at the end of the 17th century, and by the mid-18th century, small factories in Britain were producing much more than the nation could consume. Finding a market for their goods in the British colonies of North America, Britain increased her exports to that region by 360% between 1740 and 1770. Because British merchants offered generous credit to their customers, Americans began buying staggering amounts of English goods. Economic integration across the Atlantic was more and more a reality, as the economy of each colony matured and was more involved in oceanic trade.

From unity to revolution

Royal Proclamation

Thegeneral sentiment of inequity that arose soon after the Treaty of Paris of 1763 was solidified by the Proclamation of 1763, which temporarily prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. Colonists resented the measure, and it was never enforced.

Acts of Parliament

Parliament had generally been preoccupied with affairs in Europe and let the colonies govern themselves. It was no longer willing to do so. A series of measures resulting from this policy change, while affecting the New England colonies most directly would continue to arouse opposition in the 'thirteen colonies' over the next thirteen years, leading to the American Revolution:

Bruce, Philip A. Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry into the Material Condition of the People, Based on Original and Contemporaneous Records. (1896), very old fashioned


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