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Where Nothing Will Grow: The Devil's Tramping Ground

In North Carolina you will find The Devil's Tramping Ground where it is said that the Devil walks at night and because of it, nothing will ever grow there. It is also connected to the story about Croatan and the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island.

In North Carolina you will find The Devil’s Tramping Ground where it is said that the Devil walks at night and because of it, nothing will ever grow there. It is also connected to the story about Croatan and the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island. In the depths of the Harper’s Crossroads area in Bear Creek, North Carolina, lies a camping spot that has become the epicenter of persistent local…

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Looking to move to Birdneck Lake neighborhood in Virginia Beach? It’s a very, very nice area! It’s close to Oceana Naval Air Station and Dam Neck Naval Air Station (Training Support Center Hampton Roads). It’s near Ocean Breeze Fun Park and Motorworld. It is a short bike ride to premium surfing and the resort area.  Access to Interstate 264 is right down Birdneck Rd. And it is quite near Redwing Lake Golf Course.

Nearby neighborhoods are Croatan, Rudee Heights and Ocean Lakes. The neighborhood resides in the Ocean Lakes School District. Here are Birdneck Lake homes for sale!

We have a page with all the homes for sale in Birdneck Lake. Click on this button to see everything currently listed there.  When you find a home you would like to see, please let me know! Call (757)589-1237 and I will arrange a showing! Or, on the property, complete the Find Out More form and click submit. I will get information to you right away!

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This is the story of thirteen-year-old Adnan. In the turmoil of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina he witnesses the brutal murder of his parents and sister, himself severely wounded by a gunshot. This moment marks the beginning of his struggle for survival. 

Completely on his own, he manages to save himself with his last ounce of strength to a house damaged by the fires that have been set, hoping to escape the still raging battles, to survive and to finally be rescued. But in his hiding place, a period of martyrdom begins for him. A psychological masterpiece of historic importance - the tragedy of a small Bosnian village at the 20th century. A shocking example of how ethnically different groups that have lived together and accepted each others' religion, customs and habits for many generations were sucked into a human abyss. The boy, badly injured himself, had witnessed the killing of his parents and his little sisters. Only his irrepressible will allowed him to survive these eight days.

Hon. Prof. Mag. Dr. Thomas Müller, criminal psychologist, former head of Kriminalpsychologischer Dienst, Austrian Ministry of the Interior - Vienna

An exceptional text of greatest importance to grab - after almost three decades - the madness of the »ethnic cleansing« in former Yugoslavia. Thomas Obruca, who investigated the HVO forces attack on the village of Ahmici on April 16th, 1993 for the International Yugoslavia Tribunal in The Hague, describes the inconceivable. The unimaginable experience of the thirteen-year-old Adnan to watch the killing of his family and live through eight days full of anxiety before being found by UN-peace forces. By delving into the matter there might be a way out of similar atrocities. Hopefully!

Manfred Nowak, Univ. Prof. for Human Rights - Vienna, General Secretary of the Global Campus of Human Rights - Venice

Chief Ladybug: Croatan, Two-spirit, Ph. D. - Currently I am working to bring visibility to Massachusetts tribes by conducting land acknowledgement ceremonies at colleges. https://noevil.co/3qyMhWO

The smoke has reached as far as my area. It's very yellow outside right now. So far no ash or anything falling yet.

Detective Story Magazine Apr 24, 1923

John Coughlin

book cover - Croatan - 1923

Remington Schuyler

A Century Ago: Sylvester Joins the Blackfeet

A Century Ago: Sylvester Joins the Blackfeet

December 1 was the birthday of Sylvester Clark Long, otherwise known as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance (1890-1932. The Chief’s heyday was the late ’20s and early ’30s, when he published a popular memoir Long Lance (1928) and co-starred in the Paramount film The Silent Enemy (1930), a story set amongst the Ojibwe. As a result of these projects his calendar was full of lucrative speaking…

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The “Lost Colony” of Roanoke, which vanished without a trace in the late 16th century, is one of the enduring mysteries of the United States. A new excavation may just have found the answer.

La “Colonia Perdida” de Roanoke, que desapareció sin dejar rastro a finales del siglo XVI, es uno de los misterios perdurables de los Estados Unidos. Es posible que una nueva excavación haya encontrado la respuesta.

Ilex vomitoria / Yaupon Holly at the Croatan National Forest in Cedar Point, NC

Day 22: National Poetry Month

There’s a forest fire in the Croatan National Forest a few miles away from me. Close enough so we have air quality alerts and I got ash in my hair when I walked my dog yesterday. And there was a meteor shower last night but I didn’t even try to watch it because of the ash. But I was sad about it. It occurred to me how very subjective our experiences are. The trees are dying. People are risking…

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Lost Colony: Thuộc địa đã mất Roanoke và sự kiện hàng trăm người "bốc hơi"

Lost Colony: Thuộc địa đã mất Roanoke và sự kiện hàng trăm người “bốc hơi”

Được xem là một trong “Tứ đại kỳ án” liên quan đến việc mất tích tập thể khó hiểu nhất trong lịch sử nhân loại, sự kiện đoàn di cư Roanoke Colony 115 người (còn gọi là Lost Colony) biến mất không để lại dấu vết nào vào khoảng năm 1590 trở thành bí ẩn khiến sử gia và các nhà khoa học day dứt hàng trăm năm. Số phận của những người dân di cư đặt chân đến “Tân thế giới” vẫn là bài toán hóc búa đối…

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the american “mysteries” that pisses me off the most is roanoke. bc historians are constantly like “ugh if only we knew what happened to them it could have been anything” as if one of the main residents wasn’t a man named manteo who mom was a tribal leader of the CROATANs. the word carved into the wood at the abandoned colony. and then john white conveniently never looked for his daughter & granddaughter and told everyone they were dead (lol)

some rough alfred language headcanon thoughts:

the first languages he knows how to speak are carolina algonquian and english. carolina algonquian because i see alfred having a link to the so-called "lost colony" of roanoke, which had interacted with the croatan people (and carolina algonquian is their language).

he learns french growing up under arthur's authority, as arthur thought it practical given its pre-eminence as a diplomatic lingua franca, but spanish is another one he picks up because of his neighbours—mexico and cuba. today, he is perhaps most fluent in mexican spanish.

during the old china trade period with Yao, right after the american revolutionary war, he picks up some casual cantonese from the southern chinese port of guangzhou, where western ships were confined to.

he and Kiku converse in dutch when they first meet, before the latter becomes fluent in english. alfred imo started learning dutch due to buying arms from jan (ned) during the revolution, and more or less posed as a young naval officer serving as a dutch-english linguist throughout the whole perry expedition.

i think alfred does eventually learn japanese, but compared to jan (netherlands) who imo, is strong at both written and spoken japanese (and can even read the original form of old japanese classics like the tale of genji)—alfred's better at speech but weaker at reading kanji or kana.

after his victory in the spanish-american war which also leads to the philippines coming under american rule, alfred picks up at least some tagalog (if not more). alfred is someone i think, who can both be genuinely gregarious and charming—but also see learning other languages also as a strategic advantage to intelligence gathering and magnifying his own cultural power.

overall, imo alfred's a polyglot because most nations are, plus when he was born, english doesn't quite have the cultural dominance it does today. it was quite essential to know multiple languages as a nation—and for all the stereotypes, a huge proportion of his people today are also multilingual.