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brookston · 8 months

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Holidays 9.7

Holidays

Air Force Day (Pakistan)

Bitcoin Day

Constitution Day (Fiji)

Day of Military Intelligence (Ukraine)

Feel the Love Day

Festa Della Rificolona begins (Paper Lantern Festival; Florence, Italy)

First Day of Peel Season

Flag Day (Kuwait)

Fluidra International Pool Pro Day

Google Commemoration Day

Grandad’s Day

Grandma Moses Day

International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies (UN)

International Manatee Day

Lusaka Peace Agreement Day (a.k.a. Victory Day; Mozambique)

Military Intelligence Day (Ukraine)

Miss America Day

Napoleon Day

National Attention Deficit Disorder Awareness Day

National Buy A Book Day

National First Day of Peel Season

National Grateful Patient Day

National Napoleon Day

National New Hampshire Day

National Regina Day

National Tatiana Day

National Threatened Species Day (Australia)

Neither Snow Nor Rain Day

Newt Day

Nijamati Sewa Divas (Civil Servants Day; Nepal)

Raggedy Ann Day

Roberto Clemente Day

Seven of Nine Day

Still’s Disease Awareness Day

Superhuman Day

Texas Energy Savings Day (Texas)

Threatened Species Day (Australia)

Turn A Cartwheel in Public Day

Victory Day (Mozambique)

Walter White Day

Wild Rose Day (French Republic)

World Day of the Diver

World Duchenne Awareness Day

World Fair Play Day

World Field Epidemiology Day

World Menopause and Work Day

Youth Mental Health Day (UK)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Acorn Squash Day

National Beer Lover’s Day

New England Apple Day

Porter's Porter Day

Salami Day

1st Thursday in September

International Day of the Orchid [1st Thursday]

Jeûne Genevois (Geneva, Switzerland) [Thursday after 1st Sunday]

Kid Lit Art Postcard Day [1st Thursday]

Independence Days

Brazil (from Portugal, 1822)

Istria (Declared; 2005) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Alchmund and Tilberht (Christian; Saint)

Alexandre Falguière (Artology)

Anastasius the Fuller (Christian; Saint)

The Apocalypse (Pastafarian)

Clodoald (a.k.a. Cloud; Christian; Saint)

Coulomb (Positivist; Saint)

Eunan (Christian; Saint)

Evurtius, Bishop of Orleans (Christian; Saint)

Festival of Durga (Goddess of Energy and the World)

Grandma Moses (Artology)

Gratus of Aosta (Christian; Saint)

Grimonia (a.k.a. Germana; Christian; Saint)

Jacob Lawrence (Artology)

Madelberte (Christian; Saint)

Marko Krizin (Christian; Saint)

Matthäus Günther (Artology)

Media Aestas VI (Pagan)

Murray Monster (Muppetism)

Old Boyfriends/Girlfriends Remembrance Day (Pastafarian)

Regina (Christian; Saint)

Stephen Pongracz (Christian; Saint)

Susan St. James Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [26 of 32]

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 41 of 60)

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [43 of 60]

Premieres

A Momentary Lapse of Reason, by Pink Floyd (Album; 1987)

Anna and the King of Siam, by Margaret Landon (Memoir; 1943)

Anna Karenina (Film; 2012)

Astro Boy (Animated TV Series; 1963)

Bad, by Michael Jackson (Song; 1987)

Brandy, by Brandy (Album; 1994)

The Brother from Another Planet (Film; 1984)

Buddy Holly, by Weezer (Song; 1994)

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, by Elton John (Song; 1973)

The Lady in Red (WB MM Cartoon; 1935)

A Momentary Lapse of Reason, by Pink Floyd (Album; 1987)

No Sail (Disney Cartoon; 1945)

Peppermint (Film; 2018)

Rock Star (Film; 2001)

The Silver Chair, by C.S. Lewis (Novel; 1953) [The Chronicles of Narnia #4]

SportsCenter (Sports TV Show; 1979)

Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying, by Wolfgang Langewiesche (Flying Book; 1944)

3:10 to Yuma (Film; 2007)

True Blood (TV Series; 2008)

The Unmentionables (WB MM Cartoon; 1963)

Video Killed the Radio Star, by The Buggles (1979)

You Send Me, by Sam Cooke (Song; 1957)

Today’s Name Days

Otto, Ralph, Regina (Austria)

Marko, Memorije, Regina (Croatia)

Regína (Czech Republic)

Robert (Denmark)

Regiina, Reina (Estonia)

Arhippa, Arho, Milo, Miro (Finland)

Reine (France)

Otto, Ralph, Regina (Germany)

Casino, Sozon (Greece)

Regina (Hungary)

Grato (Italy)

Ermins, Regīna, Valdone (Latvia)

Bartas, Bartė, Palmira, Regina (Lithuania)

Regine, Rose (Norway)

Domasława, Domisława, Marek, Melchior, Regina, Rena, Ryszard (Poland)

Marianna (Slovakia)

Judit, Judith, Regina (Spain)

Kevin, Roy (Sweden)

Raegan, Raina, Rana, Rani, Reagan, Regan, Regina, Regine, Yale (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 250 of 2024; 115 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 36 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 3 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Geng-Shen), Day 23 (Wu-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 21 Elul 5783

Islamic: 21 Safar 1445

J Cal: 10 Aki; Threesday [10 of 30]

Julian: 25 August 2023

Moon: 44%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 26 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Coulomb]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 11 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 78 of 94)

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 17 of 32)

#calendar #Holidays

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honeyleesblog · 11 months

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June 25 ZODIAC

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yellingintothedarkness · 1 year

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I can confirm Holy Spirit fell in Book of Acts Moses burning bush

This I can not confirm if photo shop or not ? But ones of angels I can confirm for I took the picture and witness

This photo has not been touched up by anyone with anything. It is the raw, real and authentic fire of God. Michal Ann was leading this short term missions trip with Iris Ministries in Mozambique, Africa all those many years ago. Recently, people have been sending notes of how her life and ministry impacted them: everything from a wind in Toronto that blew 6,000 women to their knees to the aurora borealis appearing during her meetings in Canberra, Australia. She moved in signs and wonders but never boasted in them, but only in Christ. I woke up out of a dream this morning dealing with church life and my heart ached yet again. Wishing that she were here walking by my side yet grateful I got to partner with a women who started Fires. #destiny #heritage #legacy #compassionacts #womenonthefrontlines #michalanngoll

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lboogie1906 · 2 years

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Eric Michael Bost (born August 8, 1953) is the former Ambassador to South Africa. He was sworn in as Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa by President George W. Bush on July 20, 2006, after being confirmed by the Senate on June 29. He presented his credentials to South African President Thabo Mbeki on August 15, 2006. He completed his tour as ambassador on January 20, 2009. He served as Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services at the Department of Agriculture from 2001 to 2006 under Ann Veneman. Before his appointment to that position, Bost served as Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer of the Texas Department of Human Services for four years. As FNCS Under Secretary, he was responsible for the administration of the fifteen USDA nutrition assistance programs with a combined budget of over $58 billion, including the Food Stamp Program, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, and the Commodity Distribution Programs. During his tenure at the Department of Agriculture, he led an expanded initiative to promote improved nutrition and food security in South Africa, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Brazil, Tanzania, Swaziland, Mozambique, Uganda, Madagascar, Chile, United Kingdom, Argentina, Mexico, Israel, Italy, China, and Japan. A native of Concord, North Carolina, Bost holds a BA in Psychology from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MA in Special Education from the University of South Florida. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg_weosO0X2rAiq4Dy5NGCQuQ20UtEbbYTdGlw0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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kny111 · 4 years

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Slave Ships

Slave ships were large cargo ships specially converted for the purpose of transporting slaves. Such ships were also known as "Guineamen" because the trade involved human trafficking to and from the Guinea coast in West Africa.

Atlantic slave trade

In the early 1600s, more than a century after the arrival of Europeans to the Americas, demand for unpaid labor to work plantations made slave-trading a profitable business. The peak time of slave ships to the Atlantic passage was between the 18th and early-19th centuries, when large plantations developed in the southern colonies of North America.

To ensure profitability, the owners of the ships divided their hulls into holds with little headroom, so they could transport as many slaves as possible. Unhygienic conditions, dehydration, dysentery and scurvy led to a high mortality rate, on average 15% and up to a third of captives. Often the ships carried hundreds of slaves, who were chained tightly to plank beds. For example, the slave ship Henrietta Marie carried about 200 slaves on the long Middle Passage. They were confined to cargo holds with each slave chained with little room to move.

The most significant routes of the slave ships led from the north-western and western coasts of Africa to South America and the south-east coast of what is today the United States, and the Caribbean. As many as 20 million Africans were transported by ship. The transportation of slaves from Africa to America was known as the Middle Passage of the triangular trade.

Conditions On Slave Ships

Enslaved People

The Slave Trade Act 1788, also known as Dolben's Act, regulated conditions on board British slave ships for the first time since the slave trade started. It was introduced to the United Kingdom parliament by Sir William Dolben, an advocate for the abolition of slavery. For the first time, limits were placed on the number of enslaved people that could be carried. Under the terms of the act, ships could transport 1.67 slaves per ton up to a maximum of 207 tons burthen, after which only one slave per ton could be carried. The well-known slave ship Brookes was limited to carrying 454 people; it had previously transported as many as 609 enslaved. Olaudah Equiano was among the supporters of the act but it was opposed by some abolitionists, such as William Wilberforce, who feared it would establish the idea that the slave trade simply needed reform and regulation, rather than complete abolition. Slave counts can also be estimated by deck area rather than registered tonnage, which results in a lower number of errors and only 6% deviation from reported figures.

This limited reduction in the overcrowding on slave ships may have reduced the on-board death rate, but this is disputed by some historians

Sailors and crew

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the sailors on slave ships were often poorly paid and subject to brutal discipline and treatment. Furthermore, a crew mortality rate of around 20% was expected during a voyage, with sailors dying as a result of disease, flogging or slave uprisings. While conditions for the crew were far better than those of the enslaved people, they remained harsh and contributed to a high death rate. Sailors often had to live and sleep without shelter on the open deck for the entirety of the Atlantic voyage as the space below deck was occupied by slaves.

Disease, specifically malaria and yellow fever, was the most common cause of death among sailors. A high crew mortality rate on the return voyage was in the captain's interests as it reduced the number of sailors who had to be paid on reaching the home port. Crew members who survived were frequently cheated out of their wages on their return. These aspects of the slave trade were widely known; the notoriety of slave ships amongst sailors meant those joining slave ship crews did so through coercion or because they could find no other employment. This was often the case for sailors who had spent time in prison.

Abolition of the slave trade

The African slave trade was outlawed by the United States and the United Kingdom in 1807. The applicable UK act was the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act and outlawed the slave trade throughout the British Empire. The US law took effect on 1 January 1808. After that date, all US and British slave ships leaving Africa were legally pirate vessels subject to capture by the United States Navy or Royal Navy. In 1815, at the Council of Vienna, Spain, Portugal, France, and the Netherlands also agreed to abolish their slave trade. Between 1807 and 1860 British vessels would capture slave ships and free the slaves; they captured 1,600 ships and freed 160,000 slaves in this time.

After abolition, slave ships adopted quicker, more maneuverable forms to evade capture by naval warships, one favorite form being the Baltimore Clipper. Some had hulls fitted with copper sheathing. This was very expensive work that at this time was only commonly done to Royal Navy vessels; however, it increased speed by preventing the growth of marine weed on the hull, which would otherwise cause drag. The speed of slave ships made them attractive ships to repurpose for piracy, and also made them attractive for naval use after capture; USS Nightingale and HMS Black Joke were examples of such vessels. HMS Black Joke had a notable career in Royal Navy service and was responsible for capturing a number of slave ships and freeing many hundreds of slaves.

There have been attempts by descendants of African slaves to sue Lloyd's of London for playing a key role in underwriting insurance policies taken out on slave ships bringing slaves from Africa to the Americas.

List of Slave Ships

Antelope, Spanish slave ship captured near Florida in 1820 with 283 slaves aboard, leading to The Antelope case.

Aurore, along with Duc du Maine, the first French slave ships that brought the first slaves to Louisiana.

La Amistad, general-purpose cargo ship that also carried slaves on occasion. A successful slave revolt on ship gave rise to a case that reached the Supreme Court in United States v. The Amistad.

Brookes, sailing in the 1780s.[25]

City of Norfolk, fitted out in New York City by Albert Horn.[26]

Clotilda, burned and sunk at Mobile, in 1859 or 1860.

Cora, captured by USS Constellation in 1860.

Creole, involved in the United States coastwise slave trade and the scene of a slave rebellion in 1841, leading to the Creole case.

Desire, first American slave ship.[27]

Duc du Maine, along with Aurore, the first French slave ships that brought the first slaves to Louisiana.

Elisabeth, sailing from Jamaica for West Africa.[citation needed]

Erie, the ship owned and captained by Nathaniel Gordon, the only American executed for slave trading

Esmeralda, captured 1 November 1864 off Loango, West Coast of Africa, by HMS Rattler (1864) and Taken to St. Helena to prize court by C.G. Nelson midshipman in command.[citation needed]

Fredensborg, Danish slave ship, sank in 1768 off Tromøya in Norway, after a journey in the triangular trade. Leif Svalesen [da] wrote a book about the journey.

Gallito, Spanish slave ship carrying 136 Africans when captured by HMS Nimble 16 November 1829.

Guerrero, Spanish slave ship wrecked in the Florida Keys in 1827 carrying 561 Africans.

Hannibal, an English slaver of the Atlantic slave trade.

The Hawk, The Hawk sailed for Calabar, with instructions to buy 340 slaves.[28]

Hebe, Portuguese slave ship carrying 401 Angolans when captured by HMS Nimble 13 July 1832.

Henrietta Marie, sank in 1700 near Marquesas Keys, Florida, excavated in 1980s.

Hermosa, a schooner whose 1840 grounding in the Bahamas led to a controversy between the US and Britain over the 38 slaves who had been on board the ship.

Hope, American brig that brought slaves to Rhode Island

Isabella, British slave ship that brought the first 150 African slaves to the American port of Philadelphia in 1684.

Joaquina, Spanish slave ship carrying 348 Africans when captured by HMS Nimble 10 November 1833.

Josefa, Spanish schooner carrying 206 slaves when captured by HMS Monkey 7 April 1829.

Jesus of Lübeck, a 700-ton ship used on the second voyage of John Hawkins to transport 400 captured Africans in 1564. Queen Elizabeth I was his partner and rented him the vessel.

King David, sailing from St Christophers, on St Kitts in the Caribbean 1749.[29]

La Concord, a slave ship captured by the pirate Blackbeard (Edward Teach), used as his flagship and renamed Queen Anne's Revenge. Run aground in June 1718.

La Negrita, Spanish slave ship carrying 189 Africans when captured by HMS Nimble May 1833.

Lord Ligonier. See Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley.

Don Francisco, a slave ship captured in 1837. Sold as a colonial trader and renamed James Matthews. Excavated by Western Australian Museum in 1974.

Madre de Deus, 1567. John Hawkins captured this ship and transported 400 Africans.

Manuela, built as clipper ship Sunny South, captured by HMS Brisk in Mozambique Channel with over 800 slaves aboard.

Manuelita, Spanish slave ship carrying 485 Africans when captured by HMS Nimble 7 December 1833.

Margaret Scott, confiscated and sunk as part of the Stone fleet in 1862

Meermin, a Dutch East India Company ship active between southern Africa and Madagascar, whose final voyage in 1766 ended in mutiny by the slaves: around half the crew and nearly 30 Malagasy died, and the ship was destroyed.[30]

Midas, 360-ton Spanish slave ship captured by HMS Monkey 27 June 1829. Midas had left Africa in April 1829 with 562 Africans, but only 369 were still alive when she was captured, and 72 more died of "smallpox, diarrhea & scurvy" before Monkey and HMS Nimble could take Midas into Havana.[31]

Nightingale, clipper ship captured by Saratoga near Cabinda, Angola in 1861 with 961 slaves aboard.

Pons, American-built barque captured by USS Yorktown on 1 December 1845 with 850–900 slaves.[32]

Providencia, Spanish brig carrying 400 slaves when captured by HMS Monkey in 1829.

São José Paquete Africa, a Portuguese slave ship which sank off the coast of South Africa in 1794 killing over 200 of the enslaved men and women.

Tecora, Portuguese slave ship that transported the slaves who would later revolt aboard La Amistad.

Triton captured by USS Constellation in 1861.[citation needed]

Trouvadore, wrecked in Turks and Caicos 1841. 193 slaves survived. Project commenced in 2004 to locate the ship.[33]

Wanderer, formerly last slave ship to the U.S. (November 1858) until Clotilda reported in 1859 or 1860.

Wildfire, a barque, arrested off the Florida coast by the US Navy in 1860; carrying 450 slaves.[34]

Whydah Gally, a ship that transported cargo, passengers, and slaves. Captured by the pirate Captain Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy and used for piracy, eventually grounded during a Nor'easter at Cape Cod and sunk in April 1717.

Zong , a British slave ship infamous for the1781 massacre of 132 sick and dying slaves who were thrown overboard in an attempt to guarantee that the ship's owners could collect on their cargo insurance.

Source: Wikipedia / Slave ships

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aimeedaisies · 8 months

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Today (6th Sept) is the International Day of Charity, here are 10 (of hundreds) charities and associations that Princess Anne supports.

Save the Children - Princess Anne has been the President of the Charity since 1970 and became Patron in 2017. She has spent a significant amount of time visiting Save the Children’s projects, she has travelled to Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as causes at home in the UK.

Carers Trust - The Carers Trust was formerly known as The Princess Royal Carers Trust. Princess Anne founded the charity in 1991. She found that people caring for others were a scarcely recognised group that needed support. The charity is now known as the Carers Trust.

Riding for the Disabled - Princess Anne joined the RDA as it’s Patron in 1971 and later as their President in 1985. The Riding for the Disabled association provide therapy, fitness and development for children and adults with disabilities through horse riding and carriage driving. They have centres in the UK, New Zealand and Australia.

Farms for City Children - Founded by author Sir Michael Morpurgo and his wife, Farms for City Children provides opportunities for disadvantaged city children to experience and connect with nature, learning where their food comes from, spending time with animals, which comes with many benefits such as self confidence and self worth. Princess Anne has been their Patron since 1991.

Sea Cadet Corps - Princess Anne is the Admiral of the Sea Cadet Corps, the Navy equivalent Cadet Corps in the UK.

Motor Neurone Disease Association - The MND Association focuses on improving access to care, research and campaigning for those people living with or affected by motor neurone disease. Princess Anne has been their Patron since 1991.

Sense - The National Deafblind Association - Princess Anne has been a Patron of Sense since 1989. Sense support people who are deafblind or have complex disabilities.

The Not Forgotten Association - The Not Forgotten Association provide a programme of social activities, outings, respite and breaks for veterans and wounded serving personnel which improve physical and mental health, address isolation and loneliness, and promote a sense of community and balance. Princess Mary was the original Patron of the charity from 1920 until 1965, The Duchess of Kent took over until 2000 when Princess Anne succeeded as Patron.

The Durrell Conservation Wildlife Trust - Founded by Gerald Durrell in 1963 the trust have a mission to save species from extinction. It’s headquarters are on the island of Jersey. Princess Anne has been Patron of the trust since 1972.

Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity - The charity supports sailors, marines and their families for life. Princess Anne has been Patron since 2007.

#hardest working royal 🫡#all very worthwhile causes #they do incredible things for incredible people #princess anne #princess royal #international day of charity

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princessanneftw · 4 years

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Princess Anne’s organisations ➔ Save the Children Fund

Princess Anne began her work with the Save the Children Fund on 15 August 1970 - her 20th birthday - when she accepted their offer to become their new President. She immediately wanted to see the kind of work the Fund were doing on the ground, and so embarked on her first overseas trip with the Fund to their Centre in Nairobi, which was filmed by the BBC’s Blue Peter team. This was the first in a long line of trips which would see her travel to some of the most remote, poverty-stricken, and dangerous places around the world, and which saw a colossal growth for the charity.

While the majority of her engagements for the Fund are in the UK, it is on foreign tours that she gets involved with the Fund’s most important work and witnesses at first hand how the money she helps raise is used. These extensive tours for which she became famous for, beginning in the 1980s, were when people really began to sit up and take notice.

Visiting Nepal in 1981, the Princess spent ten days visiting the SCF’s four projects in the foothills and valleys of the Himalayas, which provide basic health care for mothers and children and are run by the locals, having been educated in modern health practices by the Fund workers. Around 300 children attended the clinics daily, trekking long distances to do so. To visit one clinic, Anne had a strenuous four-hour walk through the mountains, proving her stamina.

In 1982, Anne undertook her most extensive tour with the Fund yet, which was to be a major turning point for the Fund. It took her to Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, North Yemen and Beirut. Covering 14,000 miles in three weeks by air, road and boat, she was met with poverty, starvation and disease. She visited immunization centres in places where typhoid and polio were rife, camps with tens of thousands of starving refugees, and children who were on the brink of death.

She was advised to abandon the tour halfway through when continuing hostilities between Ethiopia and Somalia had begun to reach breaking point, and the Foreign Office deemed it too dangerous. “Damn them, I’m going on” was her response. If that wasn’t enough, she rejected further warnings that she should cancel her visit to Beirut when, the day before her arrival, 62 people had been killed by a bomb close to the point where she would be travelling. It only gave her further determination. The duration of her visit to the capital, where civil war had killed hundreds, was extended by several hours which she spent touring refugee camps, medical centres and some of the worst hit areas.

Throughout the tour, the press - who had only tagged along to try and get a scoop because Mark Phillips hadn’t gone with her - were admittedly shocked and impressed by where she went, what she saw and what she did. It was a first for a member of the Royal family. Startling, shocking pictures of human suffering, highlighted by her visit, were sent around the world, alerting a previously unaware public to the plight of the impoverished, disease-ridden conditions under which vast numbers of Africans were living - and dying, thus pointing the way to a massive relief effort. The Fund organisers were delighted with the impact of the tour, and it also gave great hope to those working for the children on the ground.

In 1984, she embarked on a ten-day tour of Morocco, Gambia and Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), which she described herself as the most harrowing trip she’s ever made. When asked if she would ever consider a full-time career with the Fund, she said: “I have actually thought about it, but I think really I would only last about a year. What I saw, for instance, in Upper Volta made me realise I would not have the stamina to do it for much longer than that.”

What she saw was thousands of children who faced death within weeks. Life was in the hands of the weather: if the rains don’t come, the people starve. At the hospital in Gorom Gorom, she saw children with spindly legs and pot bellies through lack of food. Those too weak to move lay on rush mats, covered with flies. She brushed the swarming insects from one child’s face, but it was a futile task. “You have to stay remote,” she said, “or you’d just crack.”

There were no frills attached to these tours. Anne stayed in the refugee camps with the Fund workers. When asked about things like washing, her lady-in-waiting, the Hon. Shân Legge-Bourke, who often accompanied her, said: “We just stand under the shower with our clothes on - if there is a shower. But a bucket will do.” Anne neither expected nor received any special treatment for her Royal status. She slept in the same huts, was bitten by the same bed bugs - “little ‘friends’ who shared my sleeping bag” as she called them - and ate the same food.

Mark Bowden, who coordinated the African campaign, said: “There is a communal kitchen where the local staff prepare food that is either tinned, dried or heavily dominated by the only meat available - goat. There is goat stew, goat spaghetti bolonaise, goat everything you can think of... [Anne] is the most marvellous person who makes the most difficult conditions fun. Her presence gives everyone an enormous boost.”

Her position gave her immediate access to presidents and other government heads who might never have been persuaded to discuss their country’s problems. Here, she demonstrated a knowledge acquired from her experience: the need for village food banks, water schemes, locally trained health workers.

On a trip to India, Fund workers had been trying to negotiate the building of a new nutritional centre for which they were being asked to pay £200,000 for. The day after Anne arrived, it was reduced to £40,000. A donation of £750,000 from the Townswomen’s Guild, of which she is patron, was used to build other health centres. She managed to secure a further £70,000 which was used to finance long-term relief projects in Bangladesh.

In Uganda, the Fund had been trying without success for months to obtain permission to go to a certain area. When Anne visited the country, she spoke to the President personally and within days, permission was given. “That is the sort of help she can give to us which no one else can do,” said Nicholas Hinton, the Director General of the Fund at the time.

When she wasn’t on a tour, she utilized her engagements in Britain to further the cause wherever she could. When she addressed a conference of freight hauliers in Brighton, she obtained donations of services from a worldwide courier company who promised to deliver medicines to any SCF project anywhere in the world free of charge. She extracted a sizeable donation from the delegates she addressed at a meeting of the Inland Revenue Staff Federstion. When Michael Parkinson invited her on to his chat show in Australia, she only agreed after a donation of £6000 was sent to the Fund.

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She has since made further visits to Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Sudan, Uganda and Somalia. Her extensive work with the Fund has been recognised worldwide, so much so that in 1990, she was nominated by President Kaunda of Zambia for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Most recently, Anne has travelled to Bangladesh, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Mozambique, Ethiopia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition to her trips overseas, she regularly meets fundraisers and volunteers, and visits SCF shops around the UK. She also attends and speaks at many of their special events every year.

In 2016, after serving as their president for 46 years, Anne became Patron of Save the Children, taking on the role from the Queen. Accepting her new role, she said:

"I am proud of my long association with Save the Children, and I am honoured to succeed Her Majesty as its Patron. It is an organisation that embodies a spirit of compassion, openness and excellence. Its values are an inspiration; its achievements, a source of hope for millions of children. From significantly reducing malnutrition in some of the poorest parts of Bangladesh to sheltering, feeding and vaccinating the young people affected by the devastating winds and rain of typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines and ensuring children in the UK leave primary school reading competently and able to fulfil their potential, their efforts to ensure that every child survives to live a happy, healthy life are outstanding.”

#this has been sitting in my drafts for months #finally finished it #this is only a glimpse into the work shes done with them over nearly 50 years #princess anne #princess royal #save the children #scf #british royal family #brf #organisations #charity #patronage

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When the ponds where one African fish lives dry up, its offspring put their lives on pause. And now researchers have a sense for how the creatures do it.

African turquoise killifish embryos can halt their development during a state of suspended activity called diapause. Now a study shows that the embryos effectively don’t age while in that state. Genetic analyses reveal that, to stay frozen in time, the embryos put functions such as cell growth and organ development on hold, researchers report in the Feb. 21 Science.

“Nature has identified ways to pause the clock,” says Anne Brunet, a geneticist Stanford University. Knowing how killifish pause their lives could help scientists figure out how to treat aging-related diseases or learn how to preserve human organs long-term, she says.

Nematode worm larvae (Caenorhabditis elegans) can also halt development and aging when faced with a lack of food or if their environment is overcrowded. Invertebrates like nematodes, however, lack many of the features that make other animals age, such as an adaptive immune system. More than 130 species of mammals from mice to bears also have some form of diapause.

The killifish (Nothobranchius furzeri) live in ponds in Mozambique and Zimbabwe that disappear for months during the dry season, leaving the fish without a home until the rain returns (SN: 8/6/18). For adults that typically live only four to six months anyway, vanishing ponds don’t pose much of a threat. But some killifish embryos press pause on their development during dry months, until ponds fill up again.

Killifish advance from colorful, young fish to pale, old fish within a few months, making them a good animal for scientists to use to study aging.

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Killifish embryos can put their growth on hold from five months up to two years, matching or even greatly exceeding their typical adult life span. If humans could do something similar, an 80-year-old person might instead have a life span from 160 to more than 400 years, Brunet says. But if, or how, these animals protect themselves from aging while in this limbo was unknown.

In the study, Brunet and her colleagues compared killifish embryos that halted their growth with those that bypassed diapause and hatched into adults. Diapause didn’t decrease an adult fish’s growth, life span or ability to reproduce — a sign that the animal didn’t age, even if it paused its development for longer than its typical lifetime, the researchers found.

The team then analyzed the genetic blueprint of embryos suspended in diapause to determine which genes were active. Although the young killifish had developing muscles, hearts and brains before diapause, genes involved in organ development and cell proliferation were subsequently turned off. But other genes were cranked up, such as some crucial for turning other sets of genes on or off.

Killifish embryos (one pictured) can pause their development for a few months or up to two years during a state of suspended activity called diapause.

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One gene, the chromobox 7 gene, or CBX7, repressed genes involved in metabolism, but turned on those important for maintaining muscle and staying in diapause, the researchers found. Embryos without CBX7 came out of diapause sooner, and their muscles began to deteriorate after one month.

The new study shows that the embryos aren’t passively waiting for better environmental conditions — their cells coordinate responses during diapause that protect killifish from the passage of time. “We have always looked at this diapause state as more passive — nothing happens there,” says Christoph Englert, a molecular geneticist at the Leibniz Institute on Aging in Jena, Germany, who wasn’t involved in the work. But the new research “shifts the paradigm of diapause as a passive, boring state to an active state of embryonic nondevelopment.”

Researchers aren’t sure how things like temperature might spark a developing killifish to begin or end diapause. But understanding what’s going on inside an embryo is a step toward pinpointing how external signals might control when the animals suspend time, Englert says.

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Even though Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was a huge financial success, the controversy and mixed reception surrounding it made director Steven Spielberg feel guilty. After the mixed reception, Spielberg decided to complete the trilogy, not just to fulfill his promise of an Indiana Jones trilogy to his friend George Lucas, but “to apologize for the second one.” They both wanted to revitalize the series by bringing back the more optimistic feel of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Also due to Spielberg’s commitment to completing the trilogy, he dropped out of directing both “Big” and “Rain Man”.

Fun fact – Big was co-written by Steven’s sister, Anne Spielberg.

Lucas first suggested a “haunted mansion movie”, for which Romancing the Stone writer Diane Thomas wrote a script. Spielberg rejected the idea however, because it was too similar to “Poltergeist”, which he co-wrote and produced. Lucas then suggested the Holy Grail as an idea for the film’s prologue, to be set in Scotland. He intended the grail to have a Pagan basis, with the rest of the movie revolving around a separate Christian artifact. At first Spielberg didn’t care for the Grail idea. Lucas then completed an eight-page treatment titled Indiana Jones and the Monkey King, where Indiana Jones would battle a ghost in Scotland before finding the Fountain of Youth in Africa.

Writer Chris Columbus, who previously worked with Spielberg on Gremlins, The Goonies and Young Sherlock Holmes, was hired to write the script. His first draft, back in May of 1985, changed the main plot device to the Garden of Immortal Peaches. It would begin with Indiana battling the murderous ghost of Baron Seamus Seagrove in Scotland, and he’d later travel to Mozambique to aide Dr. Clare Clarke, who found a 200-year-old in Africa. The African would then be capture by the Nazis in a boat chase. In the script, Indiana would also die in the climactic battle, but the Monkey King resurrected him. Some of the characters in that script include a Nazi Sergeant with a mechanical arm, a stowaway student who is suicidal in love with Indiana, and a pirate who dies eating a peach because he’s not pure of heart.

That sounds like an absolutely bizarre movie. They eventually scrapped the Monkey King idea, not only because of its potentially controversial portrayal of Africans, but the script became way too unrealistic. The Monkey King script eventually leaked to the internet in 1997, and some people mistook it for an early draft for a fourth film, as the script was dated to 1995 by mistake.

Spielberg suggested introducing Indiana’s father, Henry Jones Sr. Lucas didn’t like the idea at first, thinking the Grail should be the main focus, but Spielberg convinced him that the father-son relationship worked as a brilliant metaphor for Indiana’s search for the Grail. Spielberg hired Menno Meyjes to write the script, having worked with him on “The Color Purple” and “Empire of the Sun”. Some of the early drafts include Indiana ascending to heaven after he finds the grail, and another one where he fought a demon at the Grail sight, defeating him with a dagger reading “God is King”. Both of his early drafts included a prologue with Indiana battling for Montezuma’s death mask in Mexico.

Spielberg then hired Jeffrey Boam for the next rewrite. Boam spent several weeks reworking the story with Lucas, which ended up with a treatment very similar to the final film. It was Boam’s suggestion that Indiana actually loses the artifact at the end of the movie, and that his father-son relationship would be the main point. He pushed for Indiana to get more character development than the first two films. Sean Connery, who plays Henry Jones Sr., helped add a lot of the movie’s comedy to the script, and he also suggested the prologue that made it into the final film.

On that note, part of the reason they hired Connery was because Indiana Jones was kind-of created to be a “better James Bond”. They wanted Connery to tie into that legacy. On that front, there’s only a 12 year age gap between Connery and Ford, despite playing father and son on-screen.

All of these rewrites eventually delayed the movie a full year. Instead of the usual 3-year-gap between George Lucas movies, The Last Crusade released in 1989, 4 years after The Temple of Doom. Filming locations include the Tabernas Desert in Spain, Arches National Park in Utah (United States), Bürresheim Castle near Mayen, in what was then West Germany, and Venice, Italy.

I actually went to the church seen in the movie in Venice when my family visited Italy in 2012. At least at the time, the building was being used as an art gallery. It looks completely different on the inside than the library in the movie, which was actually a set in London, England. That was also the year I started growing a moustache.

As for the temple built out of a canyon in the movie, that’s a real temple in Petra, Jordan, believed to have existed for nearly 2000 years. This movie made the ancient city again, increasing their annual tourists from hundreds to millions. Although after years of the inside being worn out by thousands of tourists a day, nobody’s allowed inside anymore.

Also, the tank seen in the movie was actually custom built for the movie, based loosely on the Tank Mark VIII, which was co-built by the Americans and the British to solve some of the mechanical faults with the earlier tanks in World War 1. That tank was planned to be used in an offensive in 1919, but only a few of them were even built before the war ended on November 11, 1918.

The movie’s prologue also refers to a number of events in the creators’ lives. When Indiana cracks a whip at the lion to defend himself, he accidentally scars his chin. Ford’s chin scar happened in a car accident when he was young. Indiana taking his name from his pet dog is a reference to the character being named after Lucas’s dog. The train carriage named “Doctor Fantasy’s Magic Caboose” is named after Executive Producer Frank Marshall’s magician stage name. That scene with the magic box with a false bottom was done in one uninterrupted shot.

Other new cast members include Alison Doody as Elsa Schnieder, an Austrian art professor who works with Indiana, but is in league with the Nazis. You’ve got Julian Glover as an American businessman and antiques collector who sends Jones on his quest to find the grail. Michael Byrne portrays Ernst Bogel, a brutal SS colonel. There’s also Kervork Malikyan as Kazim, the leader of a brotherhood dedicated to protecting the Holy Grail. Malikyan wanted to audition for the role of Sallah in Raiders of the Lost Ark, but a traffic jam delayed his meeting with Spielberg. On that note, John Rhys-Davies returns as Sallah, and Denholm Elliot returns as Marcus Brody, a colleague of Indy’s whose role is greatly expanded in this movie.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was a major success, earning $474 million worldwide on a $48 million budget. Despite heavy competition from Tim Burton’s Batman, The Last Crusade became the highest grossing movie worldwide in 1989, breaking records in France by selling one million admissions within two and a half weeks, and breaking the 7-day box office record domestically. It’s Opening weekend Saturday gross of $11 million made it the first movie ever to earn over $10 million in one day.

It also received mostly positive reviews. The Rolling Stone called it “the wildest and wittiest Indy of them all.” Roger Ebert particularly enjoyed the prologue with Indiana as a Boy Scout, comparing it to the “style of illustration that appeared in the boys’ adventure magazines of the 1940’s”. The BBC praised the action, but said that the drama and comedy between the father and son was more memorable. Variety said in their review, “Cartoonlike Nazi villains of Raiders have been replaced by more genuinely frightening Nazis led by Julian Glover and Michael Byrne.” They also found the moment where Indy meets Hitler “chilling”. A handful of magazines panned the movie though, including The New Republic and The Village Voice. The Washington Post actually reviewed the movie twice – the first panned the movie, and the second praised it.

The movie won the Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing, and also received nominations for Best Original Score and Best Sound (losing to “The Little Mermaid: and “Glory” respectively).

I love this movie. This was actually the first Indiana Jones movie I saw, at my babysitter’s house almost a year before I saw the other two. You could make the argument that Raiders of the Lost Ark is overall the better of the two, but The Last Crusade is the most entertaining entry in the series. It’s full of brilliant comedy, especially once Indiana reunites with his father. Despite their dysfunctional relationship and very different levels of experience with people trying to kill them, they work instinctively well together. It’s also very convincing how they repair their relationship by the end, and they both realize how important they are to each other.

This movie also features by far the best action scene in the series – the tank battle in the desert. Considering all four movies have at least one great action scene, that’s saying a lot. Even with the sillier fight scenes like the boat chase in Venice and the train scene in the prologue, there’s still a sense of danger. You didn’t always get that in every action scene from the first two entries. This movie is also loaded with brilliant scenery, top-notch special effects and overall good cinematography.

On that note, the motorcycle chase was added after test screenings. Apparently the original version was too dialogue heavy.

The acting is top-notch across the board. Harrison Ford shows a more emotionally venerable Indy than we’ve seen before, and Connery gives what is up there with his most well-rounded performances of his career. Doody is fun as the Austrian researcher, convincing in the way she seduces Indiana early on, yet you still buy that she cares about the Jones boys on some level.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is my favourite movie in this series. Raiders of the Lost Ark is arguably the better movie with a more even tone, but The Last Crusade is just so much fun. It also delves deeper into the title character. Despite being the first movie in the series to be rated PG-13 (that rating famously didn’t exist when Temple of Doom released), it happens to be the tamest of the first three movies. This is an easy recommendation for fans of adventure movies.

Sometime later this week, we’ll conclude with the very polarizing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Then next month, I’ll be watching a handful of classic Christmas movies that I’ve never seen before.

Indiana Jones 3: The Last Crusade Even though Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was a huge financial success, the controversy and mixed reception surrounding it made director Steven Spielberg feel guilty.

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Events 3.14 (after 1930)

1931 – Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released. 1939 – Slovakia declares independence under German pressure. 1942 – Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead. 1943 – The Holocaust: The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed. 1945 – The R.A.F. drop the Grand Slam bomb in action for the first time, on a railway viaduct near Bielefeld, Germany. 1951 – Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time. 1961 – A USAF B-52 bomber crashes near Yuba City, California whilst carrying nuclear weapons. 1964 – Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy. 1967 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.[ 1972 – Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashes near Kalba, United Arab Emirates while on approach to Dubai International Airport, killing 112 people. 1978 – The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon. 1979 – Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 crashes at Doha International Airport, killing 45 people. 1980 – LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team. 1982 – The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London. 1988 – In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands. 1995 – Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle. 2006 – The 2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt ends in failure. 2006 – Operation Bringing Home the Goods: Israeli troops raid an American-supervised Palestinian prison in Jericho to capture six Palestinian prisoners, including PFLP chief Ahmad Sa'adat. 2007 – The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal, results in the deaths of at least 14 people. 2008 – A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet. 2017 – A naming ceremony for the chemical element nihonium takes place in Tokyo, with then Crown Prince Naruhito in attendance 2019 – Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths. 2021 – Burmese security forces kill at least 65 civilians in the Hlaingthaya massacre.

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Holidays 9.7

Holidays

Air Force Day (Pakistan)

Constitution Day (Fiji)

Feel the Love Day

Festa Della Rificolona begins (Paper Lantern Festival; Florence, Italy)

First Day of Peel Season

Fluidra International Pool Pro Day

Google Commemoration Day

Grandad’s Day

Grandma Moses Day

International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies (UN)

Lusaka Peace Agreement Day (a.k.a. Victory Day; Mozambique)

Military Intelligence Day (Ukraine)

Miss America Day

National Attention Deficit Disorder Awareness Day

National Buy A Book Day

National Grateful Patient Day

National Napoleon Day

National New Hampshire Day

National Threatened Species Day (Australia)

Neither Snow Nor Rain Day

Nijamati Sewa Divas (Civil Servants Day; Nepal)

Raggedy Ann Day

Roberto Clemente Day

Superhuman Day

Threatened Species Day (Australia)

Turn A Cartwheel in Public Day

Victory Day (Mozambique)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Acorn Squash Day

National Beer Lover’s Day

New England Apple Day

Porter's Porter Day

Salami Day

Independence Days

Brazil (from Portugal, 1822)

Feast Days

Alchmund and Tilberht (Christian; Saint)

Anastasius the Fuller (Christian; Saint)

The Apocalypse (Pastafarian)

Clodoald (a.k.a. Cloud; Christian; Saint)

Coulomb (Positivist; Saint)

Eunan (Christian; Saint)

Evurtius, Bishop of Orleans (Christian; Saint)

Festival of Durga (Goddess of Energy and the World)

Gratus of Aosta (Christian; Saint)

Grimonia (a.k.a. Germana; Christian; Saint)

Old Boyfriends/Girlfriends Remembrance Day (Pastafarian)

Stephen Pongracz (Christian; Saint)

Madelberte (Christian; Saint)

Marko Krizin (Christian; Saint)

Murray Monster (Muppetism)

Regina (Christian; Saint)

Susan St. James Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [26 of 32]

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 41 of 60)

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [43 of 60]

Premieres

A Momentary Lapse of Reason, by Pink Floyd (Album; 1987)

Anna Karenina (Film; 2012)

Bad, by Michael Jackson (Song; 1987)

Buddy Holly, by Weezer (Song; 1994)

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, by Elton John (Song; 1973)

Peppermint (Film; 2018)

Rock Star (Film; 2001)

SportsCenter (Sports TV Show; 1979)

3:10 to Yuma (Film; 2007)

True Blood (TV Series; 2008)

Video Killed the Radio Star, by The Buggles (1979)

Today’s Name Days

Ralph, Regina (Austria)

Marko, Memorije, Regina (Croatia)

Regína (Czech Republic)

Robert (Denmark)

Regiina, Reina (Estonia)

Arhippa, Arho, Milo, Miro (Finland)

Reine (France)

Otto, Ralph, Regina (Germany)

Casino, Sozon (Greece)

Regina (Hungary)

Grato (Italy)

Ermins, Regīna, Valdone (Latvia)

Bartas, Bartė, Palmira, Regina (Lithuania)

Regine, Rose (Norway)

Domasława, Domisława, Marek, Melchior, Regina, Rena, Ryszard (Poland)

Marianna (Slovakia)

Judit, Judith, Regina (Spain)

Kevin, Roy (Sweden)

Raegan, Raina, Rana, Rani, Reagan, Regan, Regina, Regine, Yale (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 250 of 2022; 115 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 36 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 5 of 28]

Chinese: Month 8 (Guìyuè), Day 12 (Gui-Hai)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 11 ʼĔlūl 5782

Islamic: 10 Ṣafar 1444

J Cal: 10 Aki; Twosday [10 of 30]

Julian: 25 August 2022

Moon: 90% Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 26 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Coulomb]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 78 of 90)

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 15 of 31)

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