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2024.05.15 02:29 como365 City recognizes historic properties related to agriculture, Black history
 | Black history and agriculture were primary points of emphasis as the city’s Historic Preservation Commission honored 10 locations as Most Notable Properties last week. submitted by como365 to columbiamo [link] [comments] Every year, the commission recognizes properties over 50 years old that play a part in the history of architectural influences that help identify Columbia. This year saw nearly double the usual number of awardees. “It’s a way of honoring homeowners and property owners who preserve local history,” commission chair Stephen Bybee said. “Either who preserve it by maintaining a property or who preserve it by historically rehabilitating a property.” Since 1998 when the designation was first developed, 205 Columbia properties have been recognized by the commission. That number includes civic and educational structures, homes and commercial spaces. Each undergoes a process of research and photography and is added to a digital map and archive maintained by the city. It is a purely honorary award, which imposes no impediments on what owners can do with their property. The 2024 awardees include homes, family farms, a park, a diner and a college library. One, the Alspaugh Farm, is one of Columbia’s newest parks and contains a cemetery believed to include the unmarked graves of enslaved people. Three of the properties have connections to Boone County’s coal industry. Also among the properties selected are the home of Henry Kirklin, a prize-winning gardener and horticulturist, the Hugh Stephens Resource Library at Stephen’s College and Broadway Diner, one of the last remaining transportable diners in Missouri made by the Valentine Manufacturing Company. Additionally, the commission recognized the home of Lewis Monroe Noble, the businessman who assembled Columbia’s first Black subdivision. Noble moved to Columbia with his wife, Mary Jennings Noble, in the early 1930s, where he owned and operated a coal business and later a merchandise exchange. They created Noble Court, Columbia’s first Black subdivision, to create high-quality housing specifically for Black families. The Nobles’ residence was the first home built in the subdivision, where they lived for 50 years. Lewis Monroe Noble worked with attorneys to advocate for prospective homebuyers who were denied financing because of their race. Today, Brenda Hartley, a retired guidance counselor from Columbia Public Schools, owns and lives in the home and is the co-chair of the Noble Court Neighborhood Watch Group, which Hartley says aims to preserve the neighborhood and keep its history alive. {/span} “We may be small, but we’re mighty,” Hartley said in a speech. “I just want to recognize the members here tonight.” In addition to the members of the neighborhood watch group, Noble’s grandchildren attended the ceremony, as did representatives from the Columbia NAACP, the president of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Columbia alumnae chapter, Hartley’s two children and several local clergy. One theme of the presentation was the remembrance of Henry Kirklin, who is thought to have been the first Black person to teach classes at MU. His home is one of the awardees and is currently on the market. Members of several local groups are fundraising with the aim of buying and preserving the property. Beyond Kirklin’s home itself, two of the other properties recognized also had connections to him. One was the residence of John Charles Whitten, an MU professor of horticulture who worked with Kirklin, and the other a farmstead on Rustic Road once owned by contemporaries of Kirklin. The property on Rustic Road housed one of Boone County’s few Black-owned farms when the house was built in the 1920s. It was built for Lethean (L.W.) and Mattie DeCrouch, who moved from Chicago and ran a dairy and crop farm on the property from the 1910s until 1951. DeCrouch also owned a property in the historic Sharp End business district, which was torn down in the 1950s and 60s during urban renewal. Mattie DeCrouch grew up in a home adjacent to Kirklin’s farm. After her death in 1956, L.W. DeCrouch remarried Elizabeth Ryan in 1957. He later passed away in a chair in the living room, according to current homeowner Susan Neenan. “I think his spirit is still there — and Mattie and Elizabeth too, they’re protecting us,” Neenan said. “We take care of the home, the home takes care of us.” Neenan has lived in DeCrouch’s home with her husband, Peter Neenan, for 33 years. In the coming weeks, the Historic Preservation Commission will be adding information about the new properties to its digital map, which allows users to find information about historic locations across Columbia. Information about the 2024 properties is also available on the city’s website, como.gov/boards/historic-preservation-commission/most-notable-properties-program/. |
2024.05.14 23:36 therealhumbler Alternative reality: Had a Utica Avenue subway line been built as a spur off the 14th Street-Canarsie Line during the Dual Contracts era, things would've been very different for development in southeast Brooklyn in later years. And of course, this part of Brooklyn would already have its own train...
 | Newspaper clip from the early 1920s depicting the proposed Utica Avenue Line before the IND Second System submitted by therealhumbler to nycrail [link] [comments] |
2024.05.13 07:13 thinkingstranger May 12, 2024
I write a lot about how the Biden-Harris administration is working to restore the principles of the period between 1933 and 1981, when members of both political parties widely shared the belief that the government should regulate business, provide a basic social safety net, promote infrastructure, and protect civil rights. And I write about how that so-called liberal consensus broke down as extremists used the Reconstruction-era image of the American cowboy—who, according to myth, wanted nothing from the government but to be left alone—to stand against what they insisted was creeping socialism that stole tax dollars from hardworking white men in order to give handouts to lazy minorities and women.
But five major stories over the past several days made me realize that I’ve never written about how Trump and his loyalists have distorted the cowboy image until it has become a poisonous caricature of the values its recent defenders have claimed to champion.
The cowboy myth originated during the Reconstruction era as a response to the idea that a government that defended Black rights was “socialist” and that the tax dollars required to pay bureaucrats and army officers would break hardworking white men.
This weekend, on Saturday, May 11, Paul Kiel of ProPublica and Russ Buettner of the New York Times teamed up to deliver a deep investigation into what Trump was talking about when he insisted that he must break tradition and refuse to release his tax returns when he ran for office in 2016 and 2020, citing an audit.
The New York Times had already reported that one of the reasons the Internal Revenue Service was auditing Trump’s taxes was that, beginning in 2010, he began to claim a $72.9 million tax refund because of huge losses from his failing casinos.
Kiel and Buettner followed the convoluted web of Trump’s finances to find another issue with his tax history. They concluded that Trump’s Chicago skyscraper, his last major construction project, was “a vast money loser.” He claimed losses as high as $651 million on it in 2008. But then he appears to have moved ownership of the building in 2010 from one entity to a new one—the authors describe it as “like moving coins from one pocket to another”—and used that move to claim another $168 million in losses, thereby double-dipping.
The experts the authors consulted said that if he loses the audit battle, Trump could owe the IRS more than $100 million. University of Baltimore law professor Walter Schwidetzky, who is an expert on partnership taxation, told the authors: “I think he ripped off the tax system.”
The cowboy myth emphasized dominance over the Indigenous Americans and Mexicans allegedly attacking white settlers from the East. On Friday an impressive piece of reporting from Jude Joffe-Block at NPR untangled the origins of a story pushed by Republicans that Democrats were encouraging asylum seekers to vote illegally for President Joe Biden in 2024, revealing that the story was entirely made up.
The story broke on X, formerly Twitter, on April 15, when the investigative arm of the right-wing Heritage Foundation, which promises to provide “aggressive oversight” of the Biden administration, posted photos of what it claimed were flyers from inside portable toilets at a migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, that said in broken Spanish: “Reminder to vote for President Biden when you are in the United States. We need another four years of his term to stay open.” The tweet thread got more than 9 million views and was boosted by Elon Musk, X’s owner.
But the story was fabricated. The flyer used the name of a small organization that helps asylum seekers, along with the name of the woman who runs the organization. She is a U.S. citizen and told Joffe-Block that her organization has “never encouraged people to vote for anyone.” Indeed, it has never come up because everyone knows noncitizens are not eligible to vote. The flyer had outdated phone numbers and addresses, and its Spanish was full of errors. Migrants who are staying at the encampment as they wait for their appointments to enter the U.S. say they have never seen such flyers, and no one has urged them to vote for Biden.
Digging showed that the flyer was “discovered” by the right-wing video site Muckraker, which specializes in “undercover” escapades. The founder of Muckraker, Anthony Rubin, and his brother, Joshua Rubin, had shown up at the organization’s headquarters in Matamoros asking to become volunteers for the organization; they and their conversation were captured on video, and signs point to the conclusion that they planted the flyers.
Nonetheless, Republicans ran with the story. Within 12 hours after the fake flyer appeared on X, Republican representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Dan Bishop (R-NC) brought posters of it to Congress, and Republicans made it a centerpiece of their insistence that Congress must pass a new law against noncitizen voting. Rather than being protected by modern-day cowboys, the woman who ran the organization that helps asylum seekers got death threats.
The cowboy image emphasized the masculinity of the independent men it championed, but the testimony of Stephanie Clifford, the adult film actress also known as Stormy Daniels, in Trump’s criminal trial for falsifying business records to cover up his payments to Clifford to keep her story of their sexual encounter secret before the 2016 election, turns Trump’s aggressive dominance into sad weakness. Covering Clifford’s testimony, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times yesterday wrote that “Trump came across as a loser in her account—a narcissist, cheater, sad Hugh Hefner wannabe, trading his satin pajamas for a dress shirt and trousers (and, later, boxers) as soon as Stormy mocked him.”
In the literature of the cowboy myth, the young champion of the underdog is eventually supposed to settle down and take care of his family, who adore him. But the news of the past week has caricatured that shift, too. On Wednesday, May 8, the Republican Party of Florida announced that it had picked Trump’s youngest son, 18-year-old Barron, as one of the state’s at-large delegates to the Republican National Convention, along with Trump’s other sons, Eric and Donald Jr.; Don Jr.’s fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle; and Trump’s second daughter, Tiffany, and her husband.
On Friday, May 10, Trump’s current wife and Barron’s mother, former first lady Melania Trump, issued a statement saying: “While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments.” It is hard not to interpret this extraordinary snub from his own wife and son as a chilly response to the past month of testimony about his extramarital escapades while Barron was an infant.
Finally, there was the eye-popping story broken by Josh Dawsey and Maxine Joselow in the Washington Post on Thursday, revealing that last month, at a private meeting with about two dozen top oil executives at Mar-a-Lago, Trump offered to reverse President Joe Biden’s environmental rules designed to combat climate change and to stop any new ones from being enacted in exchange for a $1 billion donation.
Trump has promised his supporters that he would be an outsider, using his knowledge of business to defend ordinary Americans against those elites who don’t care about them. Now he has been revealed as being willing to sell us out—to sell humanity out—for the bargain basement price of $1 billion (with about 8 billion people in the world, this would make us each worth about 12 and a half cents).
Chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration Richard Painter wrote: “This is called bribery. It’s a felony.” He followed up with “Even a candidate who loses can be prosecuted for bribery. That includes the former guy asking for a billion dollars in campaign cash from oil companies in exchange for rolling back environmental laws.”
The cowboy myth was always a political image, designed to undermine the idea of a government that worked for ordinary Americans. It was powerful after the Civil War but faded into the past in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s as Americans realized that their lives depended on government regulation and a basic social safety net. The American cowboy burst back into prominence with the advent of the Marlboro Man in 1954, the year of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, and the idea of an individual white man who worked hard, wanted nothing from the government but to be left alone, was a sex symbol, and protected his women became a central myth in the rise of politicians determined to overturn the liberal consensus.
Now it seems the myth has come full circle, with the party led by a man whose wife rejects him and whose lovers ridicule him, who makes up stories about dangerous “others,” cheats on his taxes, solicits bribes, and tries to sell out his followers for cash—the very caricature the mythological cowboy was invented to fight.
—
Notes:
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-audit-chicago-hotel-taxes
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/10
/1248599505/migrants-vote-biden-conspiracy-theory-social-media
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/10/1250585392/takeaways-migration-biden-flyer-matamoros
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/opinion/trump-stormy-daniels-trial.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/barron-trump-florida-delegate-republican-national-convention-rcna151388
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/barron-trump-declines-invitation-delegate-republican-convention-rcna151761
Twitter (X):
rwpusa/status/1789632040054165516
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-12-2024
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But five major stories over the past several days made me realize that I’ve never written about how Trump and his loyalists have distorted the cowboy image until it has become a poisonous caricature of the values its recent defenders have claimed to champion.
The cowboy myth originated during the Reconstruction era as a response to the idea that a government that defended Black rights was “socialist” and that the tax dollars required to pay bureaucrats and army officers would break hardworking white men.
This weekend, on Saturday, May 11, Paul Kiel of ProPublica and Russ Buettner of the New York Times teamed up to deliver a deep investigation into what Trump was talking about when he insisted that he must break tradition and refuse to release his tax returns when he ran for office in 2016 and 2020, citing an audit.
The New York Times had already reported that one of the reasons the Internal Revenue Service was auditing Trump’s taxes was that, beginning in 2010, he began to claim a $72.9 million tax refund because of huge losses from his failing casinos.
Kiel and Buettner followed the convoluted web of Trump’s finances to find another issue with his tax history. They concluded that Trump’s Chicago skyscraper, his last major construction project, was “a vast money loser.” He claimed losses as high as $651 million on it in 2008. But then he appears to have moved ownership of the building in 2010 from one entity to a new one—the authors describe it as “like moving coins from one pocket to another”—and used that move to claim another $168 million in losses, thereby double-dipping.
The experts the authors consulted said that if he loses the audit battle, Trump could owe the IRS more than $100 million. University of Baltimore law professor Walter Schwidetzky, who is an expert on partnership taxation, told the authors: “I think he ripped off the tax system.”
The cowboy myth emphasized dominance over the Indigenous Americans and Mexicans allegedly attacking white settlers from the East. On Friday an impressive piece of reporting from Jude Joffe-Block at NPR untangled the origins of a story pushed by Republicans that Democrats were encouraging asylum seekers to vote illegally for President Joe Biden in 2024, revealing that the story was entirely made up.
The story broke on X, formerly Twitter, on April 15, when the investigative arm of the right-wing Heritage Foundation, which promises to provide “aggressive oversight” of the Biden administration, posted photos of what it claimed were flyers from inside portable toilets at a migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, that said in broken Spanish: “Reminder to vote for President Biden when you are in the United States. We need another four years of his term to stay open.” The tweet thread got more than 9 million views and was boosted by Elon Musk, X’s owner.
But the story was fabricated. The flyer used the name of a small organization that helps asylum seekers, along with the name of the woman who runs the organization. She is a U.S. citizen and told Joffe-Block that her organization has “never encouraged people to vote for anyone.” Indeed, it has never come up because everyone knows noncitizens are not eligible to vote. The flyer had outdated phone numbers and addresses, and its Spanish was full of errors. Migrants who are staying at the encampment as they wait for their appointments to enter the U.S. say they have never seen such flyers, and no one has urged them to vote for Biden.
Digging showed that the flyer was “discovered” by the right-wing video site Muckraker, which specializes in “undercover” escapades. The founder of Muckraker, Anthony Rubin, and his brother, Joshua Rubin, had shown up at the organization’s headquarters in Matamoros asking to become volunteers for the organization; they and their conversation were captured on video, and signs point to the conclusion that they planted the flyers.
Nonetheless, Republicans ran with the story. Within 12 hours after the fake flyer appeared on X, Republican representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Dan Bishop (R-NC) brought posters of it to Congress, and Republicans made it a centerpiece of their insistence that Congress must pass a new law against noncitizen voting. Rather than being protected by modern-day cowboys, the woman who ran the organization that helps asylum seekers got death threats.
The cowboy image emphasized the masculinity of the independent men it championed, but the testimony of Stephanie Clifford, the adult film actress also known as Stormy Daniels, in Trump’s criminal trial for falsifying business records to cover up his payments to Clifford to keep her story of their sexual encounter secret before the 2016 election, turns Trump’s aggressive dominance into sad weakness. Covering Clifford’s testimony, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times yesterday wrote that “Trump came across as a loser in her account—a narcissist, cheater, sad Hugh Hefner wannabe, trading his satin pajamas for a dress shirt and trousers (and, later, boxers) as soon as Stormy mocked him.”
In the literature of the cowboy myth, the young champion of the underdog is eventually supposed to settle down and take care of his family, who adore him. But the news of the past week has caricatured that shift, too. On Wednesday, May 8, the Republican Party of Florida announced that it had picked Trump’s youngest son, 18-year-old Barron, as one of the state’s at-large delegates to the Republican National Convention, along with Trump’s other sons, Eric and Donald Jr.; Don Jr.’s fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle; and Trump’s second daughter, Tiffany, and her husband.
On Friday, May 10, Trump’s current wife and Barron’s mother, former first lady Melania Trump, issued a statement saying: “While Barron is honored to have been chosen as a delegate by the Florida Republican Party, he regretfully declines to participate due to prior commitments.” It is hard not to interpret this extraordinary snub from his own wife and son as a chilly response to the past month of testimony about his extramarital escapades while Barron was an infant.
Finally, there was the eye-popping story broken by Josh Dawsey and Maxine Joselow in the Washington Post on Thursday, revealing that last month, at a private meeting with about two dozen top oil executives at Mar-a-Lago, Trump offered to reverse President Joe Biden’s environmental rules designed to combat climate change and to stop any new ones from being enacted in exchange for a $1 billion donation.
Trump has promised his supporters that he would be an outsider, using his knowledge of business to defend ordinary Americans against those elites who don’t care about them. Now he has been revealed as being willing to sell us out—to sell humanity out—for the bargain basement price of $1 billion (with about 8 billion people in the world, this would make us each worth about 12 and a half cents).
Chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration Richard Painter wrote: “This is called bribery. It’s a felony.” He followed up with “Even a candidate who loses can be prosecuted for bribery. That includes the former guy asking for a billion dollars in campaign cash from oil companies in exchange for rolling back environmental laws.”
The cowboy myth was always a political image, designed to undermine the idea of a government that worked for ordinary Americans. It was powerful after the Civil War but faded into the past in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s as Americans realized that their lives depended on government regulation and a basic social safety net. The American cowboy burst back into prominence with the advent of the Marlboro Man in 1954, the year of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision, and the idea of an individual white man who worked hard, wanted nothing from the government but to be left alone, was a sex symbol, and protected his women became a central myth in the rise of politicians determined to overturn the liberal consensus.
Now it seems the myth has come full circle, with the party led by a man whose wife rejects him and whose lovers ridicule him, who makes up stories about dangerous “others,” cheats on his taxes, solicits bribes, and tries to sell out his followers for cash—the very caricature the mythological cowboy was invented to fight.
—
Notes:
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-irs-audit-chicago-hotel-taxes
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/10
/1248599505/migrants-vote-biden-conspiracy-theory-social-media
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/10/1250585392/takeaways-migration-biden-flyer-matamoros
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/opinion/trump-stormy-daniels-trial.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/barron-trump-florida-delegate-republican-national-convention-rcna151388
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/barron-trump-declines-invitation-delegate-republican-convention-rcna151761
Twitter (X):
rwpusa/status/1789632040054165516
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-12-2024
2024.05.12 18:55 itrustyouguys Fuck the shorties and bears. They have the exchanges in their pockets, and have been trying to destroy companies for over a hundred years.
Just happened to catch something on the History Channel thus morning. Prior to around the 1910's, grocery stores were much different than what we know today. The real 2 innovators were Bernard Kroger in Cincinnati OH, who is the namesake of Kroger today; and Clarence Saunders in Memphis TN, who started Piggly Wiggly.
Kroger decided to own stores and provide distribution. That's why they are a large employer in America today. But Saunders decided to patent his store designs and layouts so he could sell franchises of his Piggly Wiggly stores.
Here is the rest from wiki: In the early 1920s Saunders began construction of a pink marble mansion in Memphis. Then, in early 1923, a group of franchised outlets in New York failed. Merrill Lynch(*needs citation) and other speculators on Wall Street attempted a bear raid on the price of Piggly Wiggly stock, gambling the price would fall. With a loan of $10 million from a number of Southern bankers, plus a bit of his own money, Saunders counteracted by buying a large amount of Piggly Wiggly stock in hopes of driving up the price. He flamboyantly declared his intent in newspaper ads. Saunders bought Piggly Wiggly stock until he had orders for 196,000 of the 200,000 outstanding shares. The firm's share price went from a low of $39 in late 1922 to $124 by March 20, 1923. Pressured by the 'bears', the New York Stock Exchange declared a 'corner' existed, and gave the 'bears' five days rather than the usual 24 hours to deliver the stock Saunders had bought. The additional time meant "a flood of stock poured [in] from distant points and gave the shorts opportunity to deliver."[7]
In the words of John Brooks, "...in mid-August, with the September 1st deadline for repayment of two and a half million dollars on his loan staring him in the face and with nothing like that amount of cash either on hand or in prospect, he resigned as president of Piggly Wiggly Stores, Inc., and turned over his assets—his stock in the company, his Pink Palace, and all the rest of his property—to his creditors."[5]
The exchanges have never been about protecting the individual investors. It's always been about the bankers and bears on Wall St. And we are to believe they will self regulate with all these other agencies? They are all in on it too. Fines are just a taste for allowing crime to happen. Until people's professions and livelihoods are on the table, nothing will ever change.
I think it's time to refocus on how important and frightening the phrase "NO CELL, NO SELL" truly is to these hedgefucks. Like a said OVER 2 YEARS AGO
NOTHING BUT FORTUNES AND FREEDOMS WILL SUFFICE.
When this does finally play out, apes will give name to a new type of trader. Spartan Pirates. We do not sell until people are in jail. Hoist the colors, give no quarter, leave them nothing, but take from them everything.
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Kroger decided to own stores and provide distribution. That's why they are a large employer in America today. But Saunders decided to patent his store designs and layouts so he could sell franchises of his Piggly Wiggly stores.
Here is the rest from wiki: In the early 1920s Saunders began construction of a pink marble mansion in Memphis. Then, in early 1923, a group of franchised outlets in New York failed. Merrill Lynch(*needs citation) and other speculators on Wall Street attempted a bear raid on the price of Piggly Wiggly stock, gambling the price would fall. With a loan of $10 million from a number of Southern bankers, plus a bit of his own money, Saunders counteracted by buying a large amount of Piggly Wiggly stock in hopes of driving up the price. He flamboyantly declared his intent in newspaper ads. Saunders bought Piggly Wiggly stock until he had orders for 196,000 of the 200,000 outstanding shares. The firm's share price went from a low of $39 in late 1922 to $124 by March 20, 1923. Pressured by the 'bears', the New York Stock Exchange declared a 'corner' existed, and gave the 'bears' five days rather than the usual 24 hours to deliver the stock Saunders had bought. The additional time meant "a flood of stock poured [in] from distant points and gave the shorts opportunity to deliver."[7]
In the words of John Brooks, "...in mid-August, with the September 1st deadline for repayment of two and a half million dollars on his loan staring him in the face and with nothing like that amount of cash either on hand or in prospect, he resigned as president of Piggly Wiggly Stores, Inc., and turned over his assets—his stock in the company, his Pink Palace, and all the rest of his property—to his creditors."[5]
The exchanges have never been about protecting the individual investors. It's always been about the bankers and bears on Wall St. And we are to believe they will self regulate with all these other agencies? They are all in on it too. Fines are just a taste for allowing crime to happen. Until people's professions and livelihoods are on the table, nothing will ever change.
I think it's time to refocus on how important and frightening the phrase "NO CELL, NO SELL" truly is to these hedgefucks. Like a said OVER 2 YEARS AGO
NOTHING BUT FORTUNES AND FREEDOMS WILL SUFFICE.
When this does finally play out, apes will give name to a new type of trader. Spartan Pirates. We do not sell until people are in jail. Hoist the colors, give no quarter, leave them nothing, but take from them everything.
2024.05.12 17:49 ZappaOMatic [OC] In 1939, DePauw running back Alex Vraciu threw an eraser at his professor during a quiz and jumped out the second-story window as part of a prank that made national news. He went on to become a flying ace in World War II with 19 victories, including 6 in the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot.
Alexander Vraciu was one of the Navy's finest flying aces during World War II. But before that, he was a simple lad at DePauw University who played football and a prank for the ages.
Upon matriculating at DePauw that fall, he tried out for football—in secret, against his parents' wishes—and joined the freshman team as a halfback.[3] They struggled early on, getting shut out 32–0 by Butler (in fairness, Butler's freshmen had not lost to anyone in four years at this point) while playing Wabash to a scoreless tie.[4] Still, his contributions earned him a starting spot on the varsity roster.[5]
In 1938, DePauw's 50th season began with a 13–0 win over Franklin. Playing in all three phases like many at the time, Vraciu was the backup halfback behind the baseball team's star pitcher Karl "Curly" Randells while also doubling as a linebacker and the Tigers' lead return man. His special teams value came in handy in the third quarter when Franklin was forced to punt from their own end zone and Vraciu returned it to the 17-yard line, which set up John Scott's one-yard touchdown run to break the scoreless draw.[6]
His season was upended in the following week's 41–0 victory over Evansville College when he twisted his knee in the second quarter; fellow backup running back Robert Soule was also knocked out for the year with an arm injury.[7][8] Not wanting his parents to know that he was playing football behind their backs, he had to hide the injury from them, which proved difficult as he was also a member of the mile relay and tennis teams.[3] Even with his football career cut short, he still earned a spot on a postseason all-American roster, kind of: he was first-team All-Unpronounceables, for players whose names all-star team creator Ed Nace could not say properly.[9]
Tired of this, Vraicu decided to see if Fay "could take some of his own medicine." On the final day of class, while taking a quiz, he suddenly stood up and threw an eraser at the professor. Vraciu then proclaimed, "I just can't stand it any longer!", and made a beeline for the window before jumping out.[10]
Since the classroom was on the second floor, Fay immediately rushed to the window in horror. Upon gazing down, he saw Vraciu laying on a tarp held by his Delta Chi fraternity brothers and thumbing his nose at him.[10][11]
The prank made national headlines. The Chicago Tribune, who had Vraciu and his friends re-enact the prank for a photo, quipped, "Give him an A in the course!"[11][12]
"I like to see students on their toes," Fay remarked.[13] "Vraciu is an excellent jumper and a good student besides. I'm giving him an A in the course."
In November, while training in California, his training plane collided with another mid-air, forcing him to "re-enact" his prank again as they hopped out.[16] DePauw's student newspaper even headlined their story "Vraciu Parachutes from Wrecked Plane; Repeats Procedure of Stuent Prank."[11]
His first assignment was over Wake Island in October 1943, flying an F6F Hellcat for Fighter Squadron 6 (VF-6) under Edward O'Hare, who would receive the Medal of Honor after being killed in action the following month. Vraciu scored his first victory in just his second day, then became a flying ace with his fifth kill by January of the following year. By the time VF-6 was rotated out, he already had nine wins.[17]
Still, he elected to continue serving and was reassigned to VF-16.[17]
Vraciu's finest day came on June 19, 1944, during the Battle of the Philippine Sea. In a day that came to be known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot", he shot down six Japanese bombers flying close in formation in eight minutes. He told a correspondent for The New York Times:[18]
"I do not, in any way, mean to detract from the very enviable record made by Lt. Vraciu during the war," began Murray.[20][21] "His superior performance of normal duties brought distinction upon himself. His failure, if it had occurred, to engage the enemy, on 19 June 1944, would have brought censure upon himself."
In 1990, Army veteran and aviation buff Harry Block convinced Rep. Andy Jacobs Jr. to organize a United States House Committee on Armed Services hearing to review the case. Although most of the committee including chairman Les Aspin were supportive of Vraciu, Navy assistant secretary for manpower and reserve affairs Barbara S. Pope—the lone Navy representative in attendance—questioned the need for a hearing 46 years later. Although Vraciu was supposed to testify, the hearing ran out of time and ended without a decision. The only positive takeaway was that the committee agreed Murray's reasoning for denying him the MOH was poorly written and missed numerous key points like listing Vraciu with the wrong squadron and aircraft carrier.[22][23]
By Vraciu's death in 2015, he was still without the MOH.
His last combat flight came in December 1944 when his oil tank was punctured by a Japanese bullet over the Philippines, forcing him to—you guessed it—jump from his plane. He was rescued by the Filipino resistance and supported them before returning to American ends.[18] At war's end, he had 19 victories in the air and 21 on the ground.[17]
[2] DEPAUW LISTS 110 RECTOR AWARDS, The Indianapolis Star, May 2, 1937
[3] STORY OF LEGENDARY WORLD WAR II HERO ALEX VRACIU '41 TOLD BY CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER, DePauw University, February 24, 2003
[4] Shooting From Taw—Out of Butler's Delta by Wm. F. Fox Jr., The Indianapolis News, November 11, 1937
[5] 21 Varsity Letters, 15 Frosh Numerals Awarded at DePauw, The Indianapolis News, November 20, 1937
[6] Tigers Tally Twice in Second Half For 13-to-0 Triumph Over Franklin, The Indianapolis Star, September 25, 1938
[7] TIGERS SWAMP EVANSVILLE ELEVEN, 41-0, The DePauw, October 3, 1938
[8] Aces Smothered By Tiger Passes, The Indianapolis Star, October 2, 1938
[9] Inside Stuff, The Morning Call, November 20, 1938
[10] Prof. Proves He Can Take It As Well As Dish It Out to Class by the Associated Press, The Courier-Journal, June 2, 1939
[11] Pranker pursued flying by Heather Crawford, The DePauw, November 15, 1996
[12] STUDENT SCORES 'A' MARK FOR LEAP OUT OF WINDOW, Chicago Tribune, June 8, 1939
[13] Psych Pupil Turns Tables On Professor, The Honolulu Advertiser, June 9, 1939
[14] Always a diverse city, many contributed to rise of culture by Lu Ann Franklin, The Times of Northwest Indiana, February 23, 1993
[15] TRAINING CAMP NEWS, Chicago Tribune, December 28, 1941
[16] DePauw Alumnus (December 1942)
[17] Vraciu, Alexander, Gathering of Eagles Foundation
[18] Five Down and Glory: A History of the American Air Ace by Gene Gurney (1958)
[19] World War II pilot anticipates Medal of Honor by the Associated Press, Journal and Courier, July 25, 1990
[20] H.J.Res. 33 (104th): For the relief of Alexander Vraciu.
[21] Medal of Honor sore subject for World War II flying ace by Rex Redifer, The Indianapolis Star, September 13, 1988
[22] Navy won't reconsider medal for Hoosier by Rex Redifer, The Indianapolis Star, January 31, 1990
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At DePauw
The son of an East Chicago policeman, Vraciu earned the four-year Edward Rector Foundation Scholarship to DePauw on May 3, 1937 out of Washington High School, where he was the editor-in-chief for the school yearbook and captained the tennis team.[1] The scholarship, worth $1,000 ($21,689.72 today), was awarded to 110 high schoolers across sixteen states that year.[2]Upon matriculating at DePauw that fall, he tried out for football—in secret, against his parents' wishes—and joined the freshman team as a halfback.[3] They struggled early on, getting shut out 32–0 by Butler (in fairness, Butler's freshmen had not lost to anyone in four years at this point) while playing Wabash to a scoreless tie.[4] Still, his contributions earned him a starting spot on the varsity roster.[5]
In 1938, DePauw's 50th season began with a 13–0 win over Franklin. Playing in all three phases like many at the time, Vraciu was the backup halfback behind the baseball team's star pitcher Karl "Curly" Randells while also doubling as a linebacker and the Tigers' lead return man. His special teams value came in handy in the third quarter when Franklin was forced to punt from their own end zone and Vraciu returned it to the 17-yard line, which set up John Scott's one-yard touchdown run to break the scoreless draw.[6]
His season was upended in the following week's 41–0 victory over Evansville College when he twisted his knee in the second quarter; fellow backup running back Robert Soule was also knocked out for the year with an arm injury.[7][8] Not wanting his parents to know that he was playing football behind their backs, he had to hide the injury from them, which proved difficult as he was also a member of the mile relay and tennis teams.[3] Even with his football career cut short, he still earned a spot on a postseason all-American roster, kind of: he was first-team All-Unpronounceables, for players whose names all-star team creator Ed Nace could not say properly.[9]
The Prank
In the summer of 1939, Vraciu was attending a psychology class taught by Paul J. Fay. The class was intended to study "a human's ability to observe, and accurately recall what was observed," and Fay tested his students perhaps a bit too zealously as he frequently started random "fights" before asking the class who was involved and what happened.[3][10]Tired of this, Vraicu decided to see if Fay "could take some of his own medicine." On the final day of class, while taking a quiz, he suddenly stood up and threw an eraser at the professor. Vraciu then proclaimed, "I just can't stand it any longer!", and made a beeline for the window before jumping out.[10]
Since the classroom was on the second floor, Fay immediately rushed to the window in horror. Upon gazing down, he saw Vraciu laying on a tarp held by his Delta Chi fraternity brothers and thumbing his nose at him.[10][11]
The prank made national headlines. The Chicago Tribune, who had Vraciu and his friends re-enact the prank for a photo, quipped, "Give him an A in the course!"[11][12]
"I like to see students on their toes," Fay remarked.[13] "Vraciu is an excellent jumper and a good student besides. I'm giving him an A in the course."
World War II
A pre-medicine major, Vraciu had plans of becoming a doctor after graduating.[14] Those plans were dropped when the United States entered the Second World War, and he opted to enlist in the Navy in 1942 as an aviation cadet. He underwent training at Naval Air Station Glenview.[15]In November, while training in California, his training plane collided with another mid-air, forcing him to "re-enact" his prank again as they hopped out.[16] DePauw's student newspaper even headlined their story "Vraciu Parachutes from Wrecked Plane; Repeats Procedure of Stuent Prank."[11]
His first assignment was over Wake Island in October 1943, flying an F6F Hellcat for Fighter Squadron 6 (VF-6) under Edward O'Hare, who would receive the Medal of Honor after being killed in action the following month. Vraciu scored his first victory in just his second day, then became a flying ace with his fifth kill by January of the following year. By the time VF-6 was rotated out, he already had nine wins.[17]
Still, he elected to continue serving and was reassigned to VF-16.[17]
Vraciu's finest day came on June 19, 1944, during the Battle of the Philippine Sea. In a day that came to be known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot", he shot down six Japanese bombers flying close in formation in eight minutes. He told a correspondent for The New York Times:[18]
We went out at a high altitude and from a far range we could see scattered groups of from twenty to fifty Jap planes each coming toward our carriers. They were all Judys. As squadron leader, I tallyhoed to the carrier and climbed to 25,000 feet, about 2,000 feet above the enemy planes.Although nominated by seven Navy admirals for a Medal of Honor for his performance that day, Vice Admiral George D. Murray of the medal review board instead gave him a Navy Cross. They tried again after the war in 1947 but was rejected by Murray again.[19]
For unknown reason they were all massed together with the groups at various altitudes. It was a brilliantly clear day, about 10:30 a.m. and from my observations there were enough Japs around to satisfy everybody in my squadron.
They were thirty-five miles away when we started after them, and as they tried to separate from their groups I was able to apply the simple process of picking them off the edges. You might say it was comparable to riding herd in the sky.
Just as the first Jap approached, my belly tank ran dry and I shifted to an auxiliary and took that one out easily. In making the shift, a lot of oil got on my windshield and made the vision so poor I had to go within 150 yards of the next one before stopping it. The next two were knocked out on a run of about fifteen seconds.
Next in line were three heading for an American destroyer. I was able to get two of those, and must have hit the bomb of one of them, for he exploded, scattering plane parts through the air. The third was foolish enough to attack a battleship, which was the end of him.
"I do not, in any way, mean to detract from the very enviable record made by Lt. Vraciu during the war," began Murray.[20][21] "His superior performance of normal duties brought distinction upon himself. His failure, if it had occurred, to engage the enemy, on 19 June 1944, would have brought censure upon himself."
In 1990, Army veteran and aviation buff Harry Block convinced Rep. Andy Jacobs Jr. to organize a United States House Committee on Armed Services hearing to review the case. Although most of the committee including chairman Les Aspin were supportive of Vraciu, Navy assistant secretary for manpower and reserve affairs Barbara S. Pope—the lone Navy representative in attendance—questioned the need for a hearing 46 years later. Although Vraciu was supposed to testify, the hearing ran out of time and ended without a decision. The only positive takeaway was that the committee agreed Murray's reasoning for denying him the MOH was poorly written and missed numerous key points like listing Vraciu with the wrong squadron and aircraft carrier.[22][23]
By Vraciu's death in 2015, he was still without the MOH.
His last combat flight came in December 1944 when his oil tank was punctured by a Japanese bullet over the Philippines, forcing him to—you guessed it—jump from his plane. He was rescued by the Filipino resistance and supported them before returning to American ends.[18] At war's end, he had 19 victories in the air and 21 on the ground.[17]
References
[1] Washington High Senior Given $1,000 Scholarship, The Times, May 3, 1937[2] DEPAUW LISTS 110 RECTOR AWARDS, The Indianapolis Star, May 2, 1937
[3] STORY OF LEGENDARY WORLD WAR II HERO ALEX VRACIU '41 TOLD BY CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER, DePauw University, February 24, 2003
[4] Shooting From Taw—Out of Butler's Delta by Wm. F. Fox Jr., The Indianapolis News, November 11, 1937
[5] 21 Varsity Letters, 15 Frosh Numerals Awarded at DePauw, The Indianapolis News, November 20, 1937
[6] Tigers Tally Twice in Second Half For 13-to-0 Triumph Over Franklin, The Indianapolis Star, September 25, 1938
[7] TIGERS SWAMP EVANSVILLE ELEVEN, 41-0, The DePauw, October 3, 1938
[8] Aces Smothered By Tiger Passes, The Indianapolis Star, October 2, 1938
[9] Inside Stuff, The Morning Call, November 20, 1938
[10] Prof. Proves He Can Take It As Well As Dish It Out to Class by the Associated Press, The Courier-Journal, June 2, 1939
[11] Pranker pursued flying by Heather Crawford, The DePauw, November 15, 1996
[12] STUDENT SCORES 'A' MARK FOR LEAP OUT OF WINDOW, Chicago Tribune, June 8, 1939
[13] Psych Pupil Turns Tables On Professor, The Honolulu Advertiser, June 9, 1939
[14] Always a diverse city, many contributed to rise of culture by Lu Ann Franklin, The Times of Northwest Indiana, February 23, 1993
[15] TRAINING CAMP NEWS, Chicago Tribune, December 28, 1941
[16] DePauw Alumnus (December 1942)
[17] Vraciu, Alexander, Gathering of Eagles Foundation
[18] Five Down and Glory: A History of the American Air Ace by Gene Gurney (1958)
[19] World War II pilot anticipates Medal of Honor by the Associated Press, Journal and Courier, July 25, 1990
[20] H.J.Res. 33 (104th): For the relief of Alexander Vraciu.
[21] Medal of Honor sore subject for World War II flying ace by Rex Redifer, The Indianapolis Star, September 13, 1988
[22] Navy won't reconsider medal for Hoosier by Rex Redifer, The Indianapolis Star, January 31, 1990
2024.05.12 14:45 Cheap_Coffee Boston Globe: Riots, arson, and executions: Immigrants have long faced a hostile reception in Mass.
Boston Globe
A burned convent in Charlestown. The execution of two Italian anarchists. Harassment of businesses in Chinatown. Antisemitic beatings in Dorchester and Roxbury. Vandalism targeting Cambodian refugees in Fields Corner.
Currently buffeted by waves of immigrants, and the scattered patches of concern and resistance that have followed, Massachusetts has a painful history of newcomers being met with violent resistance that lives alongside the region’s legacy as a beacon of liberty and a sanctuary for the oppressed.
Xenophobia. Racism. Riots. Murder. In Boston’s immigration story, it’s all there. Also courage, resilience, privation and pluck — and the gradual acceptance of some newcomers and their rise to to social and political influence.
It is, in short, not a new story but one we should know.
“Even the Puritans were very distrustful of outsiders,” said William C. Leonard, a professor of Boston history at Emmanuel College.
The ongoing migrant crisis has resulted in families sleeping on the floor of Logan Airport as state and local authorities scramble to find accommodations in an already overtaxed shelter system. It has also provoked pushback in some quarters.
Massachusetts-based resettlement agencies logged more than 11,000 migrants from October 2022 through September 2023, the federal fiscal year, but state officials don’t know for sure how many migrants are actually arriving.
It’s unclear what the long-term impact of this influx will be. But what is undeniable, according to Jonathan Sarna, a history professor at Brandeis University, is that immigration changes the social, cultural, and demographic fabric of communities.
“When I hear broad criticisms of today’s immigrants, one has déja vu,” said Sarna during a recent phone interview.
Marilynn S. Johnson, a Boston College research professor made a similar observation., “Boston was a real center of immigration and continues to be,” she said, “and that often brings about negative responses.”
“And it’s also been a place that’s had economic ups and downs; when that collides with immigration, it can produce a lot of resentments,” said Johnson, co-director of Global Boston, a digital project at Boston College that chronicles the history of immigration in the region.
Today, Johnson said, the region’s housing crisis may be contributing to unease. Where will all the new arrivals live? And who will foot the bill? Governor Maura Healey’s administration has projected it will cost $915 million to run the state’s emergency shelter system at current levels during the fiscal year that begins July 1.
“I don’t want to say everyone who is opposed to migrants coming in is necessarily racist or nativist,” Johnson said, “because there are real problems here in terms of the housing situation.”
“Often people feel like their communities are overrun, and there’s no support forthcoming from the federal government because of all the gridlock in Washington,” she said. “So it is a source of frustration, but it’s one that we’ve seen before in the past.”
Indeed, one of the earliest and most-cited instances of violent xenophobia locally is the burning down of a Catholic convent in a section of then-Charlestown, now Somerville, by an angry Protestant mob in 1834, in the middle of a decade when the number of Irish Catholics in the city doubled. That brought about religious and ethnic tensions and stoked stories of papist plots on street corners and in taverns.
The burning of the Ursuline Convent was a precursor to fierce anti-Catholicism in the years to come, as the Irish continued to pour into Boston. Three years later, a huge Irish funeral procession and a group of Yankee firefighters engaged in a brawl so large and violent that it took 800 armed troops to restore order in what would become known as the Broad Street riot. In the 1840s, in the midst of the Great Famine in Ireland, a stream of new arrivals were met with a fierce local backlash. (J. Anthony Lukas’s Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction book “Common Ground” has 130,000 Irish disembarking at the port of Boston between 1846 and 1856.)
“Our country is literally being overrun with the miserable, vicious, and unclean paupers of the old country,” The Bunker Hill Aurora newspaper in Charlestown proclaimed in 1847.
In the 1890s, as newcomers from Italy and southeastern Europe arrived at a time of sweeping industrialization and urbanization, a trio of Boston Brahmin intellectuals founded the Immigration Restriction League, which laid the intellectual groundwork for many contemporary hardline anti-immigration beliefs.
The league’s great ally in Washington, Henry Cabot Lodge, a well-known US senator from Massachusetts and a Boston Brahmin, was known as a staunch, anti-immigrant nationalist during his political career. In 1891, Lodge wrote that immigration was increasing at that time, adding that “it is making its relative increase from races most alien to the body of the American people and from the lowest and most illiterate classes among those races.”
“In other words, it is apparent that, while our immigration is increasing, it is showing at the same time a marked tendency to deteriorate in character,” he wrote.
Lodge also hailed the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which prohibited new immigration from China and blocked those already here from becoming naturalized citizens. The wisdom of the act, Lodge wrote, “everybody now admits.”
In the decades after that act, police routinely raided businesses in Boston’s Chinatown, searching for people who may have entered the US illegally. In one such raid, in 1903, police cordoned off the neighborhood as authorities burst into houses and businesses alike without warrants, according to Boston College researchers. Of the 234 people arrested by police during that raid, 50 were deported.
The trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both Italian immigrants and anarchists, in Massachusetts in the 1920s is still debated today.
Despite their pleas of innocence, they were convicted and sentenced to die in the electric chair for fatally shooting two people during an armed robbery in Braintree. Political dissidents, unionists, Italian immigrants, and other supporters — including poet Edna St. Vincent Millay — demonstrated across the US and Europe, arguing the two were targeted for their political beliefs and immigrant status. Decades later, Governor Michael Dukakis said their trial “was permeated by prejudice against foreigners and hostility toward unorthodox political views.”
Additionally, the Ku Klux Klan established a foothold locally in the early decades of the 20th century. By 1925, the KKK had more than 130,000 members in Massachusetts, according to research from historian Mark Paul Richard, with the group taking aim at Catholic and Jewish immigrants as well as Black people.
Indeed, antisemitism found a home in Greater Boston, and it festered as the region’s Jewish population grew. During World War II, bands of Irish Catholic youths assaulted Jewish people in Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan, according to one historian. The New York-based Yiddish daily newspaper The Day referred to the violence in Dorchester as “a series of small pogroms,” according to American Jewish History.
Driven from their homelands by war and genocide, Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees began arriving in larger numbers in the late 1970s and 1980s, carving out enclaves in Dorchester’s Fields Corner and Lowell. During the 1980s in Massachusetts, at least three Asian refugees were killed by white assailants, according to media coverage of the time.
Unrest in Latin America has dramatically altered Greater Boston’s demographics in recent decades. In the 1980s, Chelsea’s Latino population surged as thousands of refugees fleeing violence and civil wars in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala settled in.
Lorna Rivera, director for the Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development & Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston, said Latinos locally have faced discrimination in housing, employment, health care, and education.
“Immigrants have always been the scapegoat,” she said. “Always.”
In 1984, a race riot erupted in Lawrence, when a blue-collar neighborhood erupted into multiple nights of violent turmoil. The spark was believed to be an argument between different groups about a broken car windshield that spiraled out of control. In a front-page dispatch, The New York Times reported, “Dozens of young Hispanic residents and some of their parents spoke bitterly of the prejudices they said they faced from whites. They spoke of trouble finding jobs and of harassment by the Lawrence police.” Lawrence’s population is currently more than 80 percent Hispanic, according to the US Census.
In more recent years, xenophobia has surfaced again amid rising anti-immigrant rhetoric in national politics. In 2015, a pair of South Boston brothers were charged with beating and urinating on a homeless Mexican immigrant. Police alleged one of the brothers said, “Donald Trump was right; all these illegals need to be deported.” The brothers pleaded guilty to several charges in the case.
In 2020, a white woman attacked a mother and daughter in East Boston while they were speaking Spanish, with the assailant allegedly saying, “This is America” and “Go back to your [expletive] country.”
Dina Haynes, a professor at New England Law and an immigration expert, applauds the state’s response to the latest surge of migrants. Here, she said, officials have resisted anti-immigrant narratives that are grounded in national security concerns or “limited resource arguments.” Massachusetts has thus far avoided legislation such as an immigration proposal recently signed by the Iowa governor that criminalized “illegal entry” into that state.
“Massachusetts has done a remarkable job in resisting pitting vulnerable groups against one another for scarce resources,” she said, “and I’m really proud of us for that.”
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A burned convent in Charlestown. The execution of two Italian anarchists. Harassment of businesses in Chinatown. Antisemitic beatings in Dorchester and Roxbury. Vandalism targeting Cambodian refugees in Fields Corner.
Currently buffeted by waves of immigrants, and the scattered patches of concern and resistance that have followed, Massachusetts has a painful history of newcomers being met with violent resistance that lives alongside the region’s legacy as a beacon of liberty and a sanctuary for the oppressed.
Xenophobia. Racism. Riots. Murder. In Boston’s immigration story, it’s all there. Also courage, resilience, privation and pluck — and the gradual acceptance of some newcomers and their rise to to social and political influence.
It is, in short, not a new story but one we should know.
“Even the Puritans were very distrustful of outsiders,” said William C. Leonard, a professor of Boston history at Emmanuel College.
The ongoing migrant crisis has resulted in families sleeping on the floor of Logan Airport as state and local authorities scramble to find accommodations in an already overtaxed shelter system. It has also provoked pushback in some quarters.
Massachusetts-based resettlement agencies logged more than 11,000 migrants from October 2022 through September 2023, the federal fiscal year, but state officials don’t know for sure how many migrants are actually arriving.
It’s unclear what the long-term impact of this influx will be. But what is undeniable, according to Jonathan Sarna, a history professor at Brandeis University, is that immigration changes the social, cultural, and demographic fabric of communities.
“When I hear broad criticisms of today’s immigrants, one has déja vu,” said Sarna during a recent phone interview.
Marilynn S. Johnson, a Boston College research professor made a similar observation., “Boston was a real center of immigration and continues to be,” she said, “and that often brings about negative responses.”
“And it’s also been a place that’s had economic ups and downs; when that collides with immigration, it can produce a lot of resentments,” said Johnson, co-director of Global Boston, a digital project at Boston College that chronicles the history of immigration in the region.
Today, Johnson said, the region’s housing crisis may be contributing to unease. Where will all the new arrivals live? And who will foot the bill? Governor Maura Healey’s administration has projected it will cost $915 million to run the state’s emergency shelter system at current levels during the fiscal year that begins July 1.
“I don’t want to say everyone who is opposed to migrants coming in is necessarily racist or nativist,” Johnson said, “because there are real problems here in terms of the housing situation.”
“Often people feel like their communities are overrun, and there’s no support forthcoming from the federal government because of all the gridlock in Washington,” she said. “So it is a source of frustration, but it’s one that we’ve seen before in the past.”
Indeed, one of the earliest and most-cited instances of violent xenophobia locally is the burning down of a Catholic convent in a section of then-Charlestown, now Somerville, by an angry Protestant mob in 1834, in the middle of a decade when the number of Irish Catholics in the city doubled. That brought about religious and ethnic tensions and stoked stories of papist plots on street corners and in taverns.
The burning of the Ursuline Convent was a precursor to fierce anti-Catholicism in the years to come, as the Irish continued to pour into Boston. Three years later, a huge Irish funeral procession and a group of Yankee firefighters engaged in a brawl so large and violent that it took 800 armed troops to restore order in what would become known as the Broad Street riot. In the 1840s, in the midst of the Great Famine in Ireland, a stream of new arrivals were met with a fierce local backlash. (J. Anthony Lukas’s Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction book “Common Ground” has 130,000 Irish disembarking at the port of Boston between 1846 and 1856.)
“Our country is literally being overrun with the miserable, vicious, and unclean paupers of the old country,” The Bunker Hill Aurora newspaper in Charlestown proclaimed in 1847.
In the 1890s, as newcomers from Italy and southeastern Europe arrived at a time of sweeping industrialization and urbanization, a trio of Boston Brahmin intellectuals founded the Immigration Restriction League, which laid the intellectual groundwork for many contemporary hardline anti-immigration beliefs.
The league’s great ally in Washington, Henry Cabot Lodge, a well-known US senator from Massachusetts and a Boston Brahmin, was known as a staunch, anti-immigrant nationalist during his political career. In 1891, Lodge wrote that immigration was increasing at that time, adding that “it is making its relative increase from races most alien to the body of the American people and from the lowest and most illiterate classes among those races.”
“In other words, it is apparent that, while our immigration is increasing, it is showing at the same time a marked tendency to deteriorate in character,” he wrote.
Lodge also hailed the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, which prohibited new immigration from China and blocked those already here from becoming naturalized citizens. The wisdom of the act, Lodge wrote, “everybody now admits.”
In the decades after that act, police routinely raided businesses in Boston’s Chinatown, searching for people who may have entered the US illegally. In one such raid, in 1903, police cordoned off the neighborhood as authorities burst into houses and businesses alike without warrants, according to Boston College researchers. Of the 234 people arrested by police during that raid, 50 were deported.
The trial and execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both Italian immigrants and anarchists, in Massachusetts in the 1920s is still debated today.
Despite their pleas of innocence, they were convicted and sentenced to die in the electric chair for fatally shooting two people during an armed robbery in Braintree. Political dissidents, unionists, Italian immigrants, and other supporters — including poet Edna St. Vincent Millay — demonstrated across the US and Europe, arguing the two were targeted for their political beliefs and immigrant status. Decades later, Governor Michael Dukakis said their trial “was permeated by prejudice against foreigners and hostility toward unorthodox political views.”
Additionally, the Ku Klux Klan established a foothold locally in the early decades of the 20th century. By 1925, the KKK had more than 130,000 members in Massachusetts, according to research from historian Mark Paul Richard, with the group taking aim at Catholic and Jewish immigrants as well as Black people.
Indeed, antisemitism found a home in Greater Boston, and it festered as the region’s Jewish population grew. During World War II, bands of Irish Catholic youths assaulted Jewish people in Dorchester, Roxbury, and Mattapan, according to one historian. The New York-based Yiddish daily newspaper The Day referred to the violence in Dorchester as “a series of small pogroms,” according to American Jewish History.
Driven from their homelands by war and genocide, Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees began arriving in larger numbers in the late 1970s and 1980s, carving out enclaves in Dorchester’s Fields Corner and Lowell. During the 1980s in Massachusetts, at least three Asian refugees were killed by white assailants, according to media coverage of the time.
Unrest in Latin America has dramatically altered Greater Boston’s demographics in recent decades. In the 1980s, Chelsea’s Latino population surged as thousands of refugees fleeing violence and civil wars in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala settled in.
Lorna Rivera, director for the Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development & Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Boston, said Latinos locally have faced discrimination in housing, employment, health care, and education.
“Immigrants have always been the scapegoat,” she said. “Always.”
In 1984, a race riot erupted in Lawrence, when a blue-collar neighborhood erupted into multiple nights of violent turmoil. The spark was believed to be an argument between different groups about a broken car windshield that spiraled out of control. In a front-page dispatch, The New York Times reported, “Dozens of young Hispanic residents and some of their parents spoke bitterly of the prejudices they said they faced from whites. They spoke of trouble finding jobs and of harassment by the Lawrence police.” Lawrence’s population is currently more than 80 percent Hispanic, according to the US Census.
In more recent years, xenophobia has surfaced again amid rising anti-immigrant rhetoric in national politics. In 2015, a pair of South Boston brothers were charged with beating and urinating on a homeless Mexican immigrant. Police alleged one of the brothers said, “Donald Trump was right; all these illegals need to be deported.” The brothers pleaded guilty to several charges in the case.
In 2020, a white woman attacked a mother and daughter in East Boston while they were speaking Spanish, with the assailant allegedly saying, “This is America” and “Go back to your [expletive] country.”
Dina Haynes, a professor at New England Law and an immigration expert, applauds the state’s response to the latest surge of migrants. Here, she said, officials have resisted anti-immigrant narratives that are grounded in national security concerns or “limited resource arguments.” Massachusetts has thus far avoided legislation such as an immigration proposal recently signed by the Iowa governor that criminalized “illegal entry” into that state.
“Massachusetts has done a remarkable job in resisting pitting vulnerable groups against one another for scarce resources,” she said, “and I’m really proud of us for that.”
2024.05.12 05:01 zadraaa Demonstration against Prohibition. Chicago, 1920s
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2024.05.11 21:16 LengthinessBubbly229 rice munching chinese male cooks EA rounds, get cooked in RD rounds but clutches up at the end
Made an chanceme post 5 months ago, here's the results of my application!
Demographics
Standardized Testing
**Extracurriculars are not ranked by importance here, just grouped by category**
1 - Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center Internship (Two summers, sophomore and junior year, and got paid a little bit for it) shadowed attendings, did computational research. Got a letter of rec from my mentor thanks to this! I also ended up getting to co-author publications thanks to this, but neither are fully published yet (probably hurt me in the admissions process bc I could only say they were submitted)
2 - Varsity Badminton Captain, four year starter, #1 doubles ranking in my school. I'm also a volunteer counselor at the summer badminton camp for our school. Named top 15 players in my region (Long Island). While I was on the team, we also were the County Champs runner ups, 2x League Champions, and created history by reaching the County Finals for both the boys and girls team (can you tell i love badminton)
3 - Organized weekly community badminton training sessions at the local YMCA for the past three years. I also help train current and prospective Varsity players alongside my doubles partner, and actively train at a badminton center where I participate in tournaments. Honestly, despite all the high school stuff, I still have a lot to improve at in this sport. Hopefully I'll find time in college.
4 - Varsity Fencing (for the school), we won League and County Championships, and were 2nd on Long Island. I was a starter for foil. I only did this for a year, but was still a ton of fun.
5 - Competitive Swimming (7 years) - competed in independent swim clubs, I qualified for this huge meet in Maryland that got cancelled cuz of COVID... then I quit swimming bc it made me depressed. Go figure.
6 - Marching Band Drum Major (and former trumpet section leader), I did Marching Band all four years of HS, I also help run the Pep Band during the off-season and got featured on a local newspaper!
7 - High School Select Ensembles - 2nd chair trumpet player, 1st chair pianist, and tenor for Wind Ensemble, Pit Orchestra (School Musical), Chamber Chorus, Jazz Band, and Jazz Messengers (smaller version of Jazz Band and invite only, we play at fundraisers and community events, we got featured on local news once, that was cool) I had to audition to join each of these ensembles, and had 2 hr rehearsals for each of them once a week after school. Thank goodness they were all on different days and didn't overlap too much. Concert nights were brutal tho but I love music so what can I say.
8 - TRI-M Music Honor Society President... except I actually had to do a lot of work - reached out to local elderly homes and community library to organize music events where students could sign up to perform in the community. (I've been president for two years, a member ever since 7th grade)
9 - President's Council - Student government group, but only for presidents of honor societies - we often go to leadership conferences and we meet with building administration to pretty much give input on things we can improve within the school. We also organize an annual festival at the end of the school year (we literally cancel class and organize events for students to go to instead, so it's like a huge community-oriented celebration)
10 - Chinese Culture - I've been attending a Chinese School that rents out a building at a local university, where I've been learning Chinese since kindergarten (I'm fluent now). I also was a TA for the Children's Chorus at the Chinese school, sang Peking Opera and Chinese music at annual performances, was a master of ceremony for some of those very same performances, and briefly hosted some episodes of the Chinese School Children's Podcast. I also went to a culture exchange camp in China (summer before COVID) where I performed a Peking Opera piece and got interviewed by a local CCTV news station. I was extremely privileged to even get that opportunity, as my Chinese school had offered it to us all-expenses paid.
Essay/Letter of Rec:
Common App Essay on activity #3 (Community Badminton), I made it very cute, our group was named the Badminton Besties and I talked about how I wanted to promote the sport more within the school and community, and the challenges I had to overcome before settling down at the YMCA, and how I never originally expected to be asked to train other people but slowly began to appreciate it.
Not the greatest essay though - this essay will neither make nor break my application, but badminton is definitely a unique topic for me.
Math Teacher LoR: He wrote a lot of LoRs, I think his letter is good but not outstanding or anything. 6.5/10
Band Teacher LoR: I've known her for four years, she cooked rlly hard on her letter however I prioritized her letter lower bc music isn't a "core" subject. 9/10
Stanford Alumni LoR: He was the attending doctor and my mentor for research when I was at MSK. 10/10
Counselor LoR: Better than the math teachers LoR I think, me and my counselor are pretty tight. 8.5/10
Supplements:
I slaved away for hours and hours each week to write them. Of course I was then able to repurpose them for many schools (THANK GOD) Overall, solid 7/10, just felt like some of them didn't make me stand out enough, but I just wrote about things that genuinely showcased me as a person.
Interviews
MIT- 10/10 loved by interviewer, he was a older guy with a lot of great stories to tell. We chatted for like 3 hours inside the Panera until the sun set. Great guy!
Princeton - 8/10 really nice interviewer who was a doctor at a hospital not far away from me. We talked about Princeton's clubs, campus life, and webtoons!
UPenn- 8/10 my interviewer was a really young student who just graduated, he showed me his pet cat (it climbed in front of his camera lol), talked a lot about our favorite foods
Harvard- 6/10 it was ok, my interviewer was nice but clearly not very interested. He was a masters graduate from Harvard, not undergrad, so it was kinda hard to talk to him and ask him questions about what the undergrad experience was like. He also sort of just rapid fired questions at me.
Stanford - 8/10 super cool dude, this guy was so well rounded and I got to talk to him about my math IA (he was really into math), what the food and student life in Palo Alto was like, sports, and music.
Duke - 7.5/10 interviewer responded to my email 3 hours before the actual interview... we did it by phone call instead of via Zoom, and ig Duke interviews are only 30 minutes long, unlike the other ones which were around 45 minutes. However, the actual interview went REALLY well, it was clear she just understood me. I talked about the things that truly made me happy, like jazz and badminton. I talked about how I enjoyed science research a lot, particularly presenting (which many people probably dread). She talked about the Duke student life with me a lot, and we got through a lot of stuff in 30 minutes!
The only weird thing was that she asked me where I ED'd to (nowhere), and asked me what my top choice was. I actually took a HUGE risk with my answer - I told her that Duke was one of my top 3 schools, but in no particular order because I don't feel like there's only one school where I can be happy, successful, or satisfied at. Duke was one of those schools to me, one where the weather, student life, campus, and academics are great, and that it was a school I could try imagine myself (something I could not say for many of the colleges I applied to). I think she genuinely appreciated the honesty though.
**Final thing about Duke's interviews - apparently not everyone gets interviews anymore, and they are given only to students they need more information for**
Decisions
**I DID NOT ED ANYWHERE, and all schools were RD unless specified EA*\*
Rejections
Final Thoughts
All you need is one! I was incredibly lucky to have gotten off the Duke waitlist, as it was my top choice after getting rejected from the other schools. I was already satisfied going to UMich, but now that Duke accepted me, go Blue Devils!
To all high school students out there stressing about college - remember that you define your own worth, and that in the end, you should attend a university that is both financially a good fit, but also a school that you know you will be happy at. I know that for me, comparison was the biggest thief of joy. Don't let yourself get dragged down too much by the accomplishments of others, because everyone moves at their own pace. However, if you put in the time and effort, results will inevitably follow. I was a good student, but never the smartest. It took me hours upon hours to studying to get the SAT score I wanted, and a lot of the time I spent on my ECs and internship came at the cost of my relationships with friends and family.
Good luck to everyone!! If you have questions for me, please feel free to reach out and DM!!
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Demographics
- Gender: Male
- Race/Ethnicity: Chinese
- Residence: domestic, suburbs
- Income Bracket: ~120k (a little less)
- Type of School: non-feeder public
- Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): None
- Intended Major (s): Biology/Computational Biology/Data Science/Bioinformatics
- GPA (UW/W): 97.91/100 UW, 102.48/100 W
- Rank (or percentile): n/a, but probably top 15-20/520, so top 3-4%
- Honors/AP/B/Dual Enrollment/etc: 4 APs, 7 IBs (3 HL, 3 SL, 1 TOK), 2 Dual Enrollment
- Senior Year Course Load: IB HL Math Analysis (also doubles as AP Calc BC), IB HL History, IB HL Literature, IB SL French, IB SL Music, IB Theory of Knowledge (TOK), Science Research, Symphonic Band
Standardized Testing
- SAT: 1540 superscore, 760 English, 780 Math
- ACT: None
- AP/IB: AP Chinese (5), AP World History (5), AP Music Theory (4), AP Calc BC (5, manifesting), IB Physics SL (4)
- Other (ex. IELTS, TOEFL, etc.): N/A
- Two co-author cancer publications (International x2)
- New York State Science and Engineering Fair (NYSSEF) 2nd Place (State)
- Unnamed regional science fair 2nd place, Regional JSHS fair 3rd place (Regional)
- PSAT Commended, Ap Scholar (National)
- Top Cohort, High Honor Roll (School)
- Top 15 badminton players in my region (Regional)
- Pit Orchestra "Best Pit" and "Best Musical" awards from a local music award (Local)
- Misc. local swimming awards (Top 12 in event), not rlly that important (Local)
- Toshiba EXPLROAVISION Science Competition Honorable Mention (Regional)
- 1st Place at regional jazz competition for jazz piano (Regional)
- "Best Piano Player" Award from school (School)
**Extracurriculars are not ranked by importance here, just grouped by category**
1 - Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center Internship (Two summers, sophomore and junior year, and got paid a little bit for it) shadowed attendings, did computational research. Got a letter of rec from my mentor thanks to this! I also ended up getting to co-author publications thanks to this, but neither are fully published yet (probably hurt me in the admissions process bc I could only say they were submitted)
2 - Varsity Badminton Captain, four year starter, #1 doubles ranking in my school. I'm also a volunteer counselor at the summer badminton camp for our school. Named top 15 players in my region (Long Island). While I was on the team, we also were the County Champs runner ups, 2x League Champions, and created history by reaching the County Finals for both the boys and girls team (can you tell i love badminton)
3 - Organized weekly community badminton training sessions at the local YMCA for the past three years. I also help train current and prospective Varsity players alongside my doubles partner, and actively train at a badminton center where I participate in tournaments. Honestly, despite all the high school stuff, I still have a lot to improve at in this sport. Hopefully I'll find time in college.
4 - Varsity Fencing (for the school), we won League and County Championships, and were 2nd on Long Island. I was a starter for foil. I only did this for a year, but was still a ton of fun.
5 - Competitive Swimming (7 years) - competed in independent swim clubs, I qualified for this huge meet in Maryland that got cancelled cuz of COVID... then I quit swimming bc it made me depressed. Go figure.
6 - Marching Band Drum Major (and former trumpet section leader), I did Marching Band all four years of HS, I also help run the Pep Band during the off-season and got featured on a local newspaper!
7 - High School Select Ensembles - 2nd chair trumpet player, 1st chair pianist, and tenor for Wind Ensemble, Pit Orchestra (School Musical), Chamber Chorus, Jazz Band, and Jazz Messengers (smaller version of Jazz Band and invite only, we play at fundraisers and community events, we got featured on local news once, that was cool) I had to audition to join each of these ensembles, and had 2 hr rehearsals for each of them once a week after school. Thank goodness they were all on different days and didn't overlap too much. Concert nights were brutal tho but I love music so what can I say.
8 - TRI-M Music Honor Society President... except I actually had to do a lot of work - reached out to local elderly homes and community library to organize music events where students could sign up to perform in the community. (I've been president for two years, a member ever since 7th grade)
9 - President's Council - Student government group, but only for presidents of honor societies - we often go to leadership conferences and we meet with building administration to pretty much give input on things we can improve within the school. We also organize an annual festival at the end of the school year (we literally cancel class and organize events for students to go to instead, so it's like a huge community-oriented celebration)
10 - Chinese Culture - I've been attending a Chinese School that rents out a building at a local university, where I've been learning Chinese since kindergarten (I'm fluent now). I also was a TA for the Children's Chorus at the Chinese school, sang Peking Opera and Chinese music at annual performances, was a master of ceremony for some of those very same performances, and briefly hosted some episodes of the Chinese School Children's Podcast. I also went to a culture exchange camp in China (summer before COVID) where I performed a Peking Opera piece and got interviewed by a local CCTV news station. I was extremely privileged to even get that opportunity, as my Chinese school had offered it to us all-expenses paid.
Essay/Letter of Rec:
Common App Essay on activity #3 (Community Badminton), I made it very cute, our group was named the Badminton Besties and I talked about how I wanted to promote the sport more within the school and community, and the challenges I had to overcome before settling down at the YMCA, and how I never originally expected to be asked to train other people but slowly began to appreciate it.
Not the greatest essay though - this essay will neither make nor break my application, but badminton is definitely a unique topic for me.
Math Teacher LoR: He wrote a lot of LoRs, I think his letter is good but not outstanding or anything. 6.5/10
Band Teacher LoR: I've known her for four years, she cooked rlly hard on her letter however I prioritized her letter lower bc music isn't a "core" subject. 9/10
Stanford Alumni LoR: He was the attending doctor and my mentor for research when I was at MSK. 10/10
Counselor LoR: Better than the math teachers LoR I think, me and my counselor are pretty tight. 8.5/10
Supplements:
I slaved away for hours and hours each week to write them. Of course I was then able to repurpose them for many schools (THANK GOD) Overall, solid 7/10, just felt like some of them didn't make me stand out enough, but I just wrote about things that genuinely showcased me as a person.
Interviews
MIT- 10/10 loved by interviewer, he was a older guy with a lot of great stories to tell. We chatted for like 3 hours inside the Panera until the sun set. Great guy!
Princeton - 8/10 really nice interviewer who was a doctor at a hospital not far away from me. We talked about Princeton's clubs, campus life, and webtoons!
UPenn- 8/10 my interviewer was a really young student who just graduated, he showed me his pet cat (it climbed in front of his camera lol), talked a lot about our favorite foods
Harvard- 6/10 it was ok, my interviewer was nice but clearly not very interested. He was a masters graduate from Harvard, not undergrad, so it was kinda hard to talk to him and ask him questions about what the undergrad experience was like. He also sort of just rapid fired questions at me.
Stanford - 8/10 super cool dude, this guy was so well rounded and I got to talk to him about my math IA (he was really into math), what the food and student life in Palo Alto was like, sports, and music.
Duke - 7.5/10 interviewer responded to my email 3 hours before the actual interview... we did it by phone call instead of via Zoom, and ig Duke interviews are only 30 minutes long, unlike the other ones which were around 45 minutes. However, the actual interview went REALLY well, it was clear she just understood me. I talked about the things that truly made me happy, like jazz and badminton. I talked about how I enjoyed science research a lot, particularly presenting (which many people probably dread). She talked about the Duke student life with me a lot, and we got through a lot of stuff in 30 minutes!
The only weird thing was that she asked me where I ED'd to (nowhere), and asked me what my top choice was. I actually took a HUGE risk with my answer - I told her that Duke was one of my top 3 schools, but in no particular order because I don't feel like there's only one school where I can be happy, successful, or satisfied at. Duke was one of those schools to me, one where the weather, student life, campus, and academics are great, and that it was a school I could try imagine myself (something I could not say for many of the colleges I applied to). I think she genuinely appreciated the honesty though.
**Final thing about Duke's interviews - apparently not everyone gets interviews anymore, and they are given only to students they need more information for**
Decisions
**I DID NOT ED ANYWHERE, and all schools were RD unless specified EA*\*
Rejections
- All ivies I applied to (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UPenn, Cornell, Columbia)
- Stanford
- MIT
- Northeastern (deferred EA -> rejected RD)
- USC (deferred EA -> rejected RD)
- NYU
- UC Berkeley
- UC Santa Barbara
- UCLA
- UC Irvine (Withdrew)
- Boston University (Withdrew)
- Duke (waitlisted -> accepted)
- UMich LSA Honors (Accepted EA)
- UC San Diego
- Rutgers with 15k scholarship (Accepted EA)
- Fordham with 45k scholarship (Accepted EA)
- University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) with 8k a year (Accepted EA)
- SUNY Bing with 5k a year (Accepted EA)
- SUNY Buffalo with 5k a year
Final Thoughts
All you need is one! I was incredibly lucky to have gotten off the Duke waitlist, as it was my top choice after getting rejected from the other schools. I was already satisfied going to UMich, but now that Duke accepted me, go Blue Devils!
To all high school students out there stressing about college - remember that you define your own worth, and that in the end, you should attend a university that is both financially a good fit, but also a school that you know you will be happy at. I know that for me, comparison was the biggest thief of joy. Don't let yourself get dragged down too much by the accomplishments of others, because everyone moves at their own pace. However, if you put in the time and effort, results will inevitably follow. I was a good student, but never the smartest. It took me hours upon hours to studying to get the SAT score I wanted, and a lot of the time I spent on my ECs and internship came at the cost of my relationships with friends and family.
Good luck to everyone!! If you have questions for me, please feel free to reach out and DM!!
2024.05.10 12:56 CJO9876 More information about RMS Adriatic’s air mail operation on August 14, 1919
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2024.05.09 20:07 PoorZushi Seasonal 1920s OC Fic
I've just reached right around the halfway mark of releasing the first season of my 1920s fic that takes place in my own region with original characters (still the same pokemon we know and love)! I thought I'd come by here to share it with you guys and hopefully get some feedback. But mostly, I just want to share my story with as many people as I can.
Here's the synopsis: Countless dreamers. One million pokédollars. One legendary pokémon.
Jonas Brooks dreams of adventure, but a life of hard work looms ahead. When drought hits his hometown, Jonas leaves home for the big city, where he hopes to find work. Everything changes when he stumbles upon a newspaper ad for the Pokéball Run—a race sponsored by Steel Innovations. The mission? Capture the wishmaker Jirachi and win one million pokédollars.
Seizing the opportunity to help his family and town, Jonas embarks on the challenging journey. Allies emerge, like the spunky circus performer Adelaide and the pokémon ecologist Professor Aspen. But obstacles abound, from ruthless competitors like Victor and his houndour to the mysterious Team Forge grunts Ned and Kelly.
Jonas isn't afraid of hard work, but will that be enough to find the legendary pokémon and save his town?
And here's the link: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/85511/pokeball-run-oc-pokemon-fanfic
I update every Sunday and Wednesday, but as stated in the title, it is seasonal (treating it like a tv series), and I plan to take a short hiatus after each season.
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Here's the synopsis: Countless dreamers. One million pokédollars. One legendary pokémon.
Jonas Brooks dreams of adventure, but a life of hard work looms ahead. When drought hits his hometown, Jonas leaves home for the big city, where he hopes to find work. Everything changes when he stumbles upon a newspaper ad for the Pokéball Run—a race sponsored by Steel Innovations. The mission? Capture the wishmaker Jirachi and win one million pokédollars.
Seizing the opportunity to help his family and town, Jonas embarks on the challenging journey. Allies emerge, like the spunky circus performer Adelaide and the pokémon ecologist Professor Aspen. But obstacles abound, from ruthless competitors like Victor and his houndour to the mysterious Team Forge grunts Ned and Kelly.
Jonas isn't afraid of hard work, but will that be enough to find the legendary pokémon and save his town?
And here's the link: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/85511/pokeball-run-oc-pokemon-fanfic
I update every Sunday and Wednesday, but as stated in the title, it is seasonal (treating it like a tv series), and I plan to take a short hiatus after each season.
2024.05.09 18:50 Ok_Pay6836 Sefirat HaOmer - Day 17 - a long one!
 | I don’t get it - some of these numbers have been worn by multiple Jewish players of the 1930s; I couldn’t find any. But, I did spend some time researching whether Irv Stein (Irvin Michael Stein!) who played for the Athletics in 1932 was in fact not Jewish. I couldn’t find anything definitive, even on his tombstone. Then I looked at his son’s tombstone and… submitted by Ok_Pay6836 to jewishbaseball [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/irocbp97kfzc1.jpg?width=3917&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c07747f47f368ecc653f17a3b26ce0be556bf6c https://preview.redd.it/kcr0nyk8kfzc1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0964b9b10debcd17976303636314e374c7dc8eb7 Another interesting one about #17 - Johnny Klippstein wore it for the Indians and Senators in 1960 and 1961 (he also played for the Cubs, Reds, Dodgers, phillies, Twins and Tigers in his 18 year career). Baseball Almanac has him listed as Jewish, but I had never heard that before. I found his tombstone at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Huntley, IL, which leads me to the conclusion that he did not identify as Jewish: https://preview.redd.it/jt7928aikfzc1.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0711e22d65725a46090d5bb7b64afdc514af74e5 And, while we are at it ….. Baseball Almanac also claims that Denny McLain was Jewish (and he wore #17 for most of his career, including in 1968 when he won the MVP and Cy Young Award). An article in the Am-Pol Eagle (a newspaper for Polish Americans) in 2016 included this “He confirmed that his mother, the former Betty Koss, was of Jewish Polish heritage, while his father was Irish American. Denny added that his mother’s family was very fortunate to leave Poland just before the German invasion of Poland prior to World War II.” A book review of Larry Ruttman’s American Jews & America’s Game in the New York Journal of Books included this line: “One striking story revealed that Denny McLain, then a minor-league pitcher, had been fined and suspended for shouting anti-Semitic remarks to opposing player Al Clark after a game.” And then I found this anonymous (!) comment from the jewornotjew blog from March 2009 (all typos in original): “How did Dennis ever get tagged as a Jew? Because someone here believed his pathological lying? I'm his first cousin, and his mother and mine were sisters, born in Detroit, were Polish-American, and were Roman Catholic. Dennis was baptized and educated Roman Catholic, having attented Ascension Grammer in Harvey, Illinois, and Mount Carmel High in Chicago.” I am done with that rabbit hole. Others who wore #17 were Al Rosen for 9 games in his first season with the Clevelanders in 1947; Steve Hertz for the Colt 45s in 1964; Dave Roberts for the Tigers in 1976 and 1977; Bob Tufts for the 1981 Giants; Adam Greenberg for the Cubs in 2005; David Newhan for the Mets in 2007; Ike Davis for the A’s in 2015; Craig Breslow for the Marlins in 2016; and Kevin Pillar for the Braves in 2023. You may remember from Day 12 that Hertz managed the Tel Aviv Lightning in the lone season of the Israel Baseball League. The Lightning finished the regular season in second place with a 26-14 (.650) record, and lost to the Modi'in Miracle in the playoff semifinals. He only played in 5 games in the majors. His first appearance was coming in as a defensive replacement to play 3b in the 9th in an April game against the Reds. He struck out to end the game in the bottom of the 9th. His 2nd game was on May 1 against the Cubs, and he again spelled Aspromonte at 3b to begin the 9th. In the bottom of the 9th, he was the second Colt 45er to bat, and he reached 2nd on an error (by Lou Brock) - he came around to score when Staub reached on an error by Ernie Banks; but, the Cubs won. 19 days later, he pinch hit in the 6th and struck out and was lifted for the pitcher. On the last day of May, he pinch ran for Aspormonte in the 7th and scored, and then did not play defense. He played in his last game on June 7, 1964, striking out as a pinch hitter in the 6th inning and did not play defense. So, to cut to the chase: Hertz had 4 plate appearances, with no hits, no walks, and 2 runs. His slash line was .000/.000/.000. On defense, he had one chance and one put out. And, you may remember from Day 10 that Adam Greenberg also played for the Marlins wearing that number. Adam made his MLB debut on July 9, 2005 for the Cubs against the Marlins. He came in as a pinch hitter for the pitcher in the top of the 9th to face Valeria de los Santos. On the very first pitch he saw, he was struck in the side of the head, suffering a skull fracture and was removed from the game. Carlos Zambrano ran for him and did end up scoring. But, Adam suffered from dizziness, double vision and other physical effects for years. He attempted a comeback, but could not make it. In 2012, a Cubs fan started an online campaign to get him another big league plate appearance. The Marlins offered him a one-day contract to play in their October 2, 2012 home game against the Mets. He led off the bottom of the 6th as a pinch hitter and walked up to the song "Dream On" by Aerosmith. After a standing ovation, he struck out on 3 pitches by eventual Cy Young Award winner, R. A. Dickey. His slash line ended up being .000/.500/.000, but if he did not take that at bat in 2012, he would have had a 1.000 OBP. |
2024.05.09 09:16 KCNA_Official Kim Ki Nam Dies
Kim Ki Nam, former secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, died at the age of 94 at 10:00 of May 7, Juche 113 (2024) while being treated in sickbed for decrepitude and multiple organ dysfunction since April 2022.
An obituary of his death was announced on May 7 in the joint name of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK and the Cabinet of the DPRK.
The obituary said that Kim Ki Nam was a veteran of the WPK and the revolution and a prominent political activist who devoted his all to the sacred struggle for defending and strengthening the ideological purity of our revolution and firmly guaranteeing the steady victory of the socialist cause politically.
Born into a stevedore's family in the late 1920s, he spent his childhood in hardships. After Korea's liberation he was trained into a reserve backbone of a new Korea under the deep trust of President Kim Il Sung and was engrossed in study abroad from the period of democratic construction to the days of the war.
When the fierce war was in full swing to defend the country from the invasion by the imperialist allied forces, he was engaged in educational work at Kim Il Sung University. He devoted himself to training competent talents who would contribute to the sacred cause of building a powerful socialist country on the debris of war as desired by the President.
He worked at the Central Committee of the WPK from May 1956 thanks to the great political trust of the President. For over 60 years he devoted his all to consolidating the ideological and theoretical foundation of the Party and victoriously advancing the Juche revolution.
In the 1960s when the work of establishing the monolithic ideological system in the whole Party and defending the Party Central Committee politically and ideologically from the moves of all counter-revolutionary trends that emerged in the international communist movement became an urgent requirement, he made a great contribution to the Party's cause with high degree of political insight, theoretical level and mature writing.
In the 1970s, he made positive contributions to the Party's ideological building and strengthening of its leadership ability while working as a leading official in charge of editing and publishing the political and theoretical magazine Kulloja and the newspaper Rodong Sinmun, organs of the WPK Central Committee.
He displayed his transparent outlook on the leader, party principle and high political and theoretical qualifications while consecutively holding an important post of the information and publicity field of the Party in the period of succession to the leadership of the WPK. He also performed distinguished feats in demonstrating in every way the prestige and militant might of the WPK, remaining loyal to the ideas and leadership of Chairman Kim Jong Il in the van.
He played a distinguished role in thoroughly establishing the monolithic leadership system of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and steadily enhancing the political and ideological might of Korean-style socialism at a crucial period of historic turn in carrying forward the revolutionary cause of Juche.
He devoted himself to backing the victorious journey of building a powerful socialist country by maintaining the powerful offensive and fresh development in the new era in all spheres of the Party's ideological work always with sincere attitude and high sense of responsibility before the revolution and people.
Kim Ki Nam was awarded Order of Kim Il Sung and Order of Kim Jong Il, the highest order of the DPRK, watches bearing the august names of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and high-ranking party and state commendations, including the title of Labor Hero, for his feats for the Party, the revolution, the country and the people.
Though he passed away, his feats for the Party, the revolution, the country and the people will always go down in the whole historic course of accomplishing the great cause of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, the obituary said.
That day the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK and the Cabinet of the DPRK announced that the deceased Kim Ki Nam will be accorded a state funeral and formed the state funeral committee with the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un as its chairman and Kim Tok Hun and other 99 persons as its members.
The state funeral committee said that the bier of Kim Ki Nam is placed at the Sojang Club of Pothonggang District in Pyongyang and that the mourners to the deceased will be received from 09:00 to 20:00 of May 8 and the coffin of the deceased will be carried out at 09:00 of May 9.
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An obituary of his death was announced on May 7 in the joint name of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK and the Cabinet of the DPRK.
The obituary said that Kim Ki Nam was a veteran of the WPK and the revolution and a prominent political activist who devoted his all to the sacred struggle for defending and strengthening the ideological purity of our revolution and firmly guaranteeing the steady victory of the socialist cause politically.
Born into a stevedore's family in the late 1920s, he spent his childhood in hardships. After Korea's liberation he was trained into a reserve backbone of a new Korea under the deep trust of President Kim Il Sung and was engrossed in study abroad from the period of democratic construction to the days of the war.
When the fierce war was in full swing to defend the country from the invasion by the imperialist allied forces, he was engaged in educational work at Kim Il Sung University. He devoted himself to training competent talents who would contribute to the sacred cause of building a powerful socialist country on the debris of war as desired by the President.
He worked at the Central Committee of the WPK from May 1956 thanks to the great political trust of the President. For over 60 years he devoted his all to consolidating the ideological and theoretical foundation of the Party and victoriously advancing the Juche revolution.
In the 1960s when the work of establishing the monolithic ideological system in the whole Party and defending the Party Central Committee politically and ideologically from the moves of all counter-revolutionary trends that emerged in the international communist movement became an urgent requirement, he made a great contribution to the Party's cause with high degree of political insight, theoretical level and mature writing.
In the 1970s, he made positive contributions to the Party's ideological building and strengthening of its leadership ability while working as a leading official in charge of editing and publishing the political and theoretical magazine Kulloja and the newspaper Rodong Sinmun, organs of the WPK Central Committee.
He displayed his transparent outlook on the leader, party principle and high political and theoretical qualifications while consecutively holding an important post of the information and publicity field of the Party in the period of succession to the leadership of the WPK. He also performed distinguished feats in demonstrating in every way the prestige and militant might of the WPK, remaining loyal to the ideas and leadership of Chairman Kim Jong Il in the van.
He played a distinguished role in thoroughly establishing the monolithic leadership system of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and steadily enhancing the political and ideological might of Korean-style socialism at a crucial period of historic turn in carrying forward the revolutionary cause of Juche.
He devoted himself to backing the victorious journey of building a powerful socialist country by maintaining the powerful offensive and fresh development in the new era in all spheres of the Party's ideological work always with sincere attitude and high sense of responsibility before the revolution and people.
Kim Ki Nam was awarded Order of Kim Il Sung and Order of Kim Jong Il, the highest order of the DPRK, watches bearing the august names of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and high-ranking party and state commendations, including the title of Labor Hero, for his feats for the Party, the revolution, the country and the people.
Though he passed away, his feats for the Party, the revolution, the country and the people will always go down in the whole historic course of accomplishing the great cause of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, the obituary said.
That day the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK and the Cabinet of the DPRK announced that the deceased Kim Ki Nam will be accorded a state funeral and formed the state funeral committee with the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un as its chairman and Kim Tok Hun and other 99 persons as its members.
The state funeral committee said that the bier of Kim Ki Nam is placed at the Sojang Club of Pothonggang District in Pyongyang and that the mourners to the deceased will be received from 09:00 to 20:00 of May 8 and the coffin of the deceased will be carried out at 09:00 of May 9.
2024.05.09 05:25 Diapersnweed This hit in a unique way that I can’t describe
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2024.05.08 19:37 Journeyman12 My Oma was born in 1934 in Germany, but had Czech citizenship - am I eligible?
I read through the guide and it seems to say that I would be eligible to apply under Section 15 of the Nationality Act, but I wanted to post to this community to get your opinions.
My great-grandfather was a Czech Jew who emigrated to Germany sometime in the 1920s - several other members of my family emigrated around the same time to work in the family printing business in Ludwigshafen. When my grandmother was born, in 1934, she inherited her father's Czech citizenship. The family fled Germany after Kristallnacht in 1938, eventually reaching the United States, where my grandmother applied for and received naturalization as an American citizen in 1947. I do not know if my great-grandparents ever applied for, or indeed wanted, German citizenship; if they did apply, I have no documents to prove it.
I have two questions for the experts here.
1) although none of my family members had German citizenship, my reading of the guide and of Section 15 indicates that they would be eligible because they were Jews who "lost their ordinary residence in Germany, if established before 30 January 1933 or, if they were children at the time, after that date" (emphasis mine). Oma was not born in 1933, and as Jews they were part of a group who would have been ineligible upon application under Nazi laws at the time. Can I still apply based on her story?
Note: the answer might be to apply in the name of my great-grandfather instead, but while I have several important documents for my Oma, including her German birth certificate and her American naturalization paperwork, I don't have any of those documents for Ur-Opa.
2) The wiki says that one needs proof that one's ancestor was a German citizen, but as noted, Oma was not. I have focused instead on assembling documents that prove, as best I can, that she and other members of the family were residents in the Mannheim/Ludwigshafen area of Germany. From searching through the family archives, my mother and I have uncovered the following:
Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.
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My great-grandfather was a Czech Jew who emigrated to Germany sometime in the 1920s - several other members of my family emigrated around the same time to work in the family printing business in Ludwigshafen. When my grandmother was born, in 1934, she inherited her father's Czech citizenship. The family fled Germany after Kristallnacht in 1938, eventually reaching the United States, where my grandmother applied for and received naturalization as an American citizen in 1947. I do not know if my great-grandparents ever applied for, or indeed wanted, German citizenship; if they did apply, I have no documents to prove it.
I have two questions for the experts here.
1) although none of my family members had German citizenship, my reading of the guide and of Section 15 indicates that they would be eligible because they were Jews who "lost their ordinary residence in Germany, if established before 30 January 1933 or, if they were children at the time, after that date" (emphasis mine). Oma was not born in 1933, and as Jews they were part of a group who would have been ineligible upon application under Nazi laws at the time. Can I still apply based on her story?
Note: the answer might be to apply in the name of my great-grandfather instead, but while I have several important documents for my Oma, including her German birth certificate and her American naturalization paperwork, I don't have any of those documents for Ur-Opa.
2) The wiki says that one needs proof that one's ancestor was a German citizen, but as noted, Oma was not. I have focused instead on assembling documents that prove, as best I can, that she and other members of the family were residents in the Mannheim/Ludwigshafen area of Germany. From searching through the family archives, my mother and I have uncovered the following:
- 1932: A postcard written by a family member and sent from Czechoslovakia to Mannheim. (I have other documentation of the family's presence in that specific town, Tachau, in then-Czechoslovakia.)
- 1934: A copy of a local (Mannheim-Ludwigshafen area) Jewish newspaper that was most likely printed by my family's print shop.
- 1935: An invitation to my great-great-grandfather's 70th birthday party, to be held in Ludwigshafen.
- 1938: A personal, contemporaneous account, written by my great-grandfather, describing his experience of Kristallnacht in Ludwigshafen/Mannheim and the family's flight to Switzerland.
- 1960: An article in a regional German newspaper which mentions the name of the business among a list of pre-Nazi-era Jewish businesses in Ludwigshafen.
- 1974: My great-grandfather's obituary, which mentions Ludwigshafen.
- 1982, 1990: Accounts from two different family histories, of different people, that both describe the family moving from Tachau to Ludwigshafen.
- 2008: A letter from my Oma describing her own experiences on Kristallnacht.
- Undated: A business card from my great-grandfather, listing business offices in Ludwigshafen, Mannheim and Saarbrücken.
- Ludwigshafen apparently has Stolpersteine, memorial stones, for the houses where my great-great-grandparents and my great-uncle once lived.
- An online database of “Revoked German Citizenship and Property Seizures 1933-45” has entries for my great-grandfather, as well as my great-uncle, great-great-grandmother, and another great-uncle. The text by their names translates as “Jewish, Bohemia-Moravia, Sudetengau, expatriation with confiscation, expropriation reported separately”.
Thank you in advance for your time and consideration.
2024.05.07 22:28 WereTakingWater I watched and ranked all 96 Best Picture Oscar winners.
I was watching the movie Babylon toward the end of 2023 and started to wonder about what movies were popular at that time in America. After looking at the list of best picture winners and nominees back to 1928, I realized I had seen very few of them. After renting a few of the early winners, I decided to keep going and watch the whole list. I watched them in a completely random order, first so I wouldn’t disadvantage the early years, and second because I was dependent upon the library. I paid very little to do this and requested almost all of them through the Columbus Library. It took about 6 months to complete.
These are my rankings. I initially used tiers for categories before I started to individually rank. These are my opinions, and I would not change many of them by more than a few positions. Others would probably come up with very different lists. The 1970s and the 1990s were notably excellent film periods.
Tier 1 - Highly Recommended
Tier 3 - Great 25. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 26. The Apartment (1960) 27. West Side Story (1961) 28. The Great Ziegfeld (1936) 29. Gandhi (1982) 30. Dances with Wolves (1990) 31. Million Dollar Baby (2004) 32. Gentleman's Agreement (1947) 33. CODA (2021) 34. The Sting (1973) 35. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) 36. Marty (1955)
Tier 4 - Good 37. Rocky (1976) 38. Spotlight (2015) 39. Patton (1970) 40. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 41. Annie Hall (1977) 42. The Last Emperor (1987) 43. The Hurt Locker (2009) 44. Argo (2012) 45. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 46. The Lost Weekend (1945) 47. The English Patient (1996) 48. On the Waterfront (1954)
Tier 5 - Pretty Good 49. Amadeus (1984) 50. Ben-Hur (1959) 51. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 52. Slumdog Millionaire (2008) 53. Unforgiven (1992) 54. Green Book (2018) 55. Birdman (2014) 56. Midnight Cowboy (1969) 57. A Beautiful Mind (2001) 58. The French Connection (1971) 59. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) 60. Oliver! (1968)
Tier 6 - Interesting 61. You Can't Take It with You (1938) 62. Around the World in 80 Days (1956) 63. The King's Speech (2010) 64. Rain Man (1988) 65. Wings (1928) Best of 1920s 66. Mrs. Miniver (1942) 67. Going My Way (1944) 68. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) 69. My Fair Lady (1964) 70. Moonlight (2016) 71. All the King's Men (1949) 72. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Tier 7 - Not as Good 73. A Man for All Seasons (1966) 74. Chicago (2002) 75. American Beauty (1999) 76. Gigi (1958) 77. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 78. How Green Was My Valley (1941) 79. Shakespeare in Love (1998) 80. The Life of Emile Zola (1937) 81. Crash (2005) 82. Grand Hotel (1932) 83. The Shape of Water (2017) 84. Out of Africa (1985)
Tier 8 - Not Recommended 85. From Here to Eternity (1953) 86. An American in Paris (1951) 87. Terms of Endearment (1983) 88. Nomadland (2020) 89. Rebecca (1940) 90. Cavalcade (1933) 91. Hamlet (1948) 92. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) 93. Ordinary People (1980) 94. The Broadway Melody (1929) 95. Cimarron (1931) 96. Tom Jones (1963)
I am considering a few other lists to spin off from this, like less popular hidden gems or movies that should have won. One thing that shocked me was how often subjects that I considered modern issues came up in these older movies. For example: addiction in The Lost Weekend, Antisemitism in Gentlemen’s Agreement, Indigenous discrimination in Cimmaron, and political intimidation riots in All The King’s Men (gave me Jan 6 flashbacks). Somethings were poorly portrayed, and there is obviously rampant racism in some movies, but overall, it gave me a greater respect for American cinema and overall movie history.
Update 1: I appreciate all the comments, good and bad. I didn't expect this much of a response so it was exciting to see. The only things I disagree with are the comments saying never to watch certain things. This is all art, it's meant to be viewed, good or bad.
I tried to fix the weird formatting, the original draft definitely did not look like that, so I was surprised after I submitted.
There are a couple movies I want to go back and watch again; Ordinary People, Amadeus, Forest Gump, and On The Waterfront. Maybe I missed something with these and need to look again. I still think Oppenheimer was a great movie, and Nomadland wasn't. Not budging on these ones.
I have nothing against Moonlight, it was heartbreaking to watch the loneliness that kept following him every step. I just didn't like the ending and was hoping for something more definitive and it seemed anticlimactic to me.
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These are my rankings. I initially used tiers for categories before I started to individually rank. These are my opinions, and I would not change many of them by more than a few positions. Others would probably come up with very different lists. The 1970s and the 1990s were notably excellent film periods.
Tier 1 - Highly Recommended
- The Godfather (1972) Best of 1970s
- Schindler's List (1993) Best of 1990s
- Forrest Gump (1994)
- Braveheart (1995)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Platoon (1986) Best of 1980s
- Gladiator (2000) Best of 2000s
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
- Oppenheimer (2023) Best of 2020s
- The Godfather Part II (1974)
- Casablanca (1943) Best of 1940s
- Gone with the Wind (1939) Best of 1930s
Tier 3 - Great 25. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 26. The Apartment (1960) 27. West Side Story (1961) 28. The Great Ziegfeld (1936) 29. Gandhi (1982) 30. Dances with Wolves (1990) 31. Million Dollar Baby (2004) 32. Gentleman's Agreement (1947) 33. CODA (2021) 34. The Sting (1973) 35. Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) 36. Marty (1955)
Tier 4 - Good 37. Rocky (1976) 38. Spotlight (2015) 39. Patton (1970) 40. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 41. Annie Hall (1977) 42. The Last Emperor (1987) 43. The Hurt Locker (2009) 44. Argo (2012) 45. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 46. The Lost Weekend (1945) 47. The English Patient (1996) 48. On the Waterfront (1954)
Tier 5 - Pretty Good 49. Amadeus (1984) 50. Ben-Hur (1959) 51. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 52. Slumdog Millionaire (2008) 53. Unforgiven (1992) 54. Green Book (2018) 55. Birdman (2014) 56. Midnight Cowboy (1969) 57. A Beautiful Mind (2001) 58. The French Connection (1971) 59. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) 60. Oliver! (1968)
Tier 6 - Interesting 61. You Can't Take It with You (1938) 62. Around the World in 80 Days (1956) 63. The King's Speech (2010) 64. Rain Man (1988) 65. Wings (1928) Best of 1920s 66. Mrs. Miniver (1942) 67. Going My Way (1944) 68. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) 69. My Fair Lady (1964) 70. Moonlight (2016) 71. All the King's Men (1949) 72. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Tier 7 - Not as Good 73. A Man for All Seasons (1966) 74. Chicago (2002) 75. American Beauty (1999) 76. Gigi (1958) 77. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 78. How Green Was My Valley (1941) 79. Shakespeare in Love (1998) 80. The Life of Emile Zola (1937) 81. Crash (2005) 82. Grand Hotel (1932) 83. The Shape of Water (2017) 84. Out of Africa (1985)
Tier 8 - Not Recommended 85. From Here to Eternity (1953) 86. An American in Paris (1951) 87. Terms of Endearment (1983) 88. Nomadland (2020) 89. Rebecca (1940) 90. Cavalcade (1933) 91. Hamlet (1948) 92. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) 93. Ordinary People (1980) 94. The Broadway Melody (1929) 95. Cimarron (1931) 96. Tom Jones (1963)
I am considering a few other lists to spin off from this, like less popular hidden gems or movies that should have won. One thing that shocked me was how often subjects that I considered modern issues came up in these older movies. For example: addiction in The Lost Weekend, Antisemitism in Gentlemen’s Agreement, Indigenous discrimination in Cimmaron, and political intimidation riots in All The King’s Men (gave me Jan 6 flashbacks). Somethings were poorly portrayed, and there is obviously rampant racism in some movies, but overall, it gave me a greater respect for American cinema and overall movie history.
Update 1: I appreciate all the comments, good and bad. I didn't expect this much of a response so it was exciting to see. The only things I disagree with are the comments saying never to watch certain things. This is all art, it's meant to be viewed, good or bad.
I tried to fix the weird formatting, the original draft definitely did not look like that, so I was surprised after I submitted.
There are a couple movies I want to go back and watch again; Ordinary People, Amadeus, Forest Gump, and On The Waterfront. Maybe I missed something with these and need to look again. I still think Oppenheimer was a great movie, and Nomadland wasn't. Not budging on these ones.
I have nothing against Moonlight, it was heartbreaking to watch the loneliness that kept following him every step. I just didn't like the ending and was hoping for something more definitive and it seemed anticlimactic to me.
2024.05.07 22:21 BigDaddySloth The Cardinals have been no-hit four times and it isn’t even August
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2024.05.07 16:32 spartachilles Election of 1948 - Round 2 A House Divided Alternate Elections
 | While many expected that the Federalist Reform Party would suffer a dire electoral defeat after the challenging circumstances of former President Alvin York’s resignation from office, the leadership of President Charles Edward Merriam seems to have restored the confidence of the American people in his party. Securing the backing of organizations ranging from the American Legion to the American Federation of Labor and riding on the coattails of a strong post-war economy even despite the turbulence of widespread labor unrest and record low global temperatures, the Federalist Reform Party managed to secure a near majority in the House of Representatives as well as several new Senate neats. However, an absolute majority in the first round of the election proved out of its reach and per the provisions of the 32nd Amendment, a second round of the presidential election must be held. submitted by spartachilles to Presidentialpoll [link] [comments] Skeptical of the Popular Front’s failure to exclude Marxist-Hansenists and other socialist radicals from their movement as well as their staunchly leftist political platform, Solidarity presidential candidate Walter Judd and his running mate Mary McLeod Bethune have both endorsed the Federalist Reform ticket while urging President Merriam to accept the broad-based support of the world federation and federal civil rights legislation as a political consensus. Now faced with an uphill battle to clinch the presidency, Popular Front candidate Vito Marcantonio has thus taken to an aggressive campaign arguing that the Federalist Reform Party has left behind workers and minorities in its platform and that it responsible for a brutal war crime in the atomic bombing of Germany that makes it little different from the Integralism of the countries of the Pact of Steel. For his part, Merriam’s allies have sought to paint him as a master administrator who will usher in a new era of prosperity and unprecedented global influence without surrendering the national sovereignty of the United States. Federalist Reform Party Incumbent President Charles Edward Merriam Returning to the helm of his party 20 years after he was first its nominee, 73-year-old incumbent President Charles Edward Merriam now fights to preserve Federalist Reform after the successive collapses of two of its administrations. Beginning his career as a professor of political science, Merriam first achieved political office as a city alderman in Chicago shortly after the Second American Revolution. Channeling the widespread disgust at the rampant corruption in the state government, Merriam brought the local Solidarity and Federalist Reform Parties into an alliance that propelled him to the Illinois Governor’s Mansion in 1920. His following two terms in the office would turn him into a national superstar with his dramatic prosecution of corrupt teamster’s president Cornelius Shea. Thus well positioned at the Federalist Reform National Convention of 1928, Merriam led a radical transformation of the party in abandoning its past equivocation for the dictatorship in favor of a new vision of a powerful yet responsive federal government under the principles of Herbert Croly’s New Nationalism. However, his hopes for the presidency were dashed both that year and when his nomination was denied in 1932 in the face of the rising Formicist movement. Rather than making another attempt at the presidency, Merriam instead became one of the country’s inaugural Censors to help establish the precedents and principles that would guide the nation’s new auditory branch. Yet with President Alvin York seeking an experienced elder statesman to help guide him after rising to the office, Merriam accepted the offer of the vice presidency from York. But when York ordered the nuclear destruction of Germany without consulting even his own cabinet and subsequently resigned from office, Merriam was thrust into the presidency himself with a charge to repair a country left broken by this national crisis. In the months since then, Merriam has tirelessly worked to stabilize the national economy while soothing persistent labor unrest and has taken a keen interest in overseeing the reconstruction of a world left scarred by war to help repair America’s international reputation. In light of his advanced age, Merriam has suggested that he would retire at the end of his full term to avoid the risk of another premature presidential transition, yet this has not spared him from attacks on his fitness to serve a full term. Incumbent Vice President Edward J. Meeman Capturing the minds of many within the Federalist Reform Party as its chief advocate of the Atlanticist concept of a world federation, 58-year-old incumbent Vice President and former Governor of Tennessee Edward J. Meeman joins the ticket as a stark internationalist. Introduced to politics by his father who was a two-term state legislator, Meeman joined the Social Democratic Party after the Second American Revolution and applied himself to a career in journalism. However, as he rose through the ranks of the newspaper trade to become the editor of his own magazine, he switched his affiliation to the Federalist Reform Party due to his increasing disdain for the corruption and bossism of his former party. Becoming the editor and business manager of the Memphis Press-Scimitar at the same time as Louis Brownlow became the Governor of Tennessee, Meeman was an indefatigable crusader against the influence of Social Democratic Boss E.H. Crump and supporter of the transformation of the state into a laboratory of Federalist Reform democracy. Widely regarded as one of the state’s premier journalistic figures throughout the governorship of Gordon Browning, Meeman emerged as his natural successor when Browning ascended to the vice presidency. Taking charge of his state amidst the Second World War, Meeman chiefly preoccupied himself with mobilizing Tennessee for the war effort but also notably brought many of the state’s African Americans into his coalition by liberalizing civil rights laws as well as his efforts to improve environmental conservation in the state. Inspired in part by his own German heritage, Meeman emerged as a harsh critic of the atomic bombing of Germany and later became the standard-bearer for the Atlanticist movement within his party. Commanding a crucial section of the party in its National Convention, Meeman was tapped as Merriam’s running mate to win over his support for the President’s renomination and thereafter appointed by Merriam as his Vice President. Though Meeman has handily survived an intraparty challenge to dump him from the ticket in the first round of the election, many Federalist Reform politicians remain concerned about his Atlanticist position especially given the real possibility of him assuming office in the following term. Although the party sports many adherents to world federalism and remains deeply influenced by the movement, Merriam and the Federalist Reform Party at large have withheld their endorsement of a world government. Instead, Merriam has proposed the formation of a supranational international association to mediate international conflicts, promote the spread of democracy around the globe, and coordinate international action to rebuild after the war and meet the increasingly pressing challenges of global famines. Envisioning representation of all nations of the world but a special role for major powers such as the United States, United Kingdom, and China, Merriam has called for collective security and the establishment of enforceable international laws to be the basis of this organization. However, he has not shied away from suggesting the creation of international economic planning boards and even more ambitious proposals for a baseline common world citizenship and the creation of an international currency. Moreover, while Merriam has not endorsed the world federalist movement, he has not explicitly ruled it out either and promised to appoint delegates to an international convention to discuss the Atlanticist model of federation between Western-style democracies. With a Hansenist revolution having gripped the island nation of Haiti and threatening to spread communism in Latin America and beyond, Merriam has argued in favor of an intervention to restore the democratic government of Haiti and block it from exporting revolution. Claiming that the nationwide labor unrest has spiraled to the point of crisis, Merriam has strongly endorsed the National Labor Arbitration Act compelling unions and employers to submit to government arbitration. However, he has called for an even handed approach to such arbitration recognizing the needs of both labor and capital to ensure a harmonious economy. Furthermore, Merriam has called for a law to implement a corporatist scheme of industrial associations formed in partnership between employer and employee syndicates to steer economic policy such as wage and price levels. However, Merriam has refused to tolerate violent or criminal actions by labor unions and called for the strengthening of anti-racketeering laws as well as a federal criminal syndicalism law to outlaw the advocacy of violent revolution. To further support economic activity, Merriam has called for the proliferation of government planning agencies staffed by subject matter experts tasked with analyzing the economy for profitable, environmentally beneficial, or socially desirable investments and working with private industry towards their implementation. In addition, Merriam has supported the continued reduction of wartime taxes and tariffs alongside reductions in government spending to bring the budget into balance and limit inflation. Adhering to the longtime platform of his party, Merriam has also supported the implementation of a peacetime universal military training program. As a longtime opponent of political corruption, Merriam has promised to rid the federal government of graft and wasteful spending and pledged to bolster the powers and funding of the Council of Censors. Believing that the primary purpose of the national education system is to groom the next generation of leaders, he has called for the reformation of the Dewey Education Act towards heightening civic education and national identity. To implement his agenda, Merriam has also strongly supported an overhaul of the executive branch to further empower the presidency with added staff, full discretion to reorganize the federal government, and the line item veto on budgets passed by Congress. Popular Front New York Representative Vito Marcantonio Successful in bringing together the Social Democratic and Socialist Workers Parties under a joint ticket and alliance agreement known as the “Popular Front”, 45-year-old New York Representative Vito Marcantonio has thus become the face of a newly united American left. Born to humble beginnings in an immigrant family residing in a crime-wracked neighborhood of Harlem, Marcantonio excelled at academics despite the challenges of his youth and began a successful career in law soon after his graduation. Building his reputation by taking on cases defending workers wronged by their employers and protestors arrested during demonstrations against the Mitchel presidency, Marcantonio built crucial connections within the Social Democratic Party that propelled him to an appointment as a United States Attorney and later election to the House of Representatives. While quick to make a name for himself first with his opposition to President Howard P. Lovecraft and later for his opposition to the declaration of war upon Japan, Marcantonio always remained sensitive to the needs of his constituents and returned to Harlem every weekend to solve their governmental problems and thereby earned their undying loyalty with every election. With his initial opposition to the war tempered by his loyalty to the Social Democratic Party and flexibility regarding supporting certain war measures, Marcantonio found himself uniquely positioned to earn the joint nomination of the Social Democratic and Socialist Workers Party and thereby take a leading role in uniting them electorally under the Popular Front while maintaining their formal political independence. After an incident where a Federalist Reform election worker was beaten to death in Harlem during the first round of the election, Marcantonio’s opponents have pounced on the opportunity to paint him as an unsavory machine politician with ties to the Italian Mafia that is known to operate in his district. Washington Governor Harry E. B. Ault With the Popular Front agreement demanding the nomination of a Socialist Workers politician for the vice presidency, 64-year-old Washington Governor Harry E. B. Ault stands as the candidate of the more radical side of the electoral alliance. Born to a family of committed socialists, when he was a teenager Ault moved into a blossoming cooperative socialist colony in Washington state. Serving as a press secretary for the ill-fated 1908 presidential campaign of Eugene V. Debs, Ault became a wanted man during the Grant dictatorship and witnessed the death of his political mentor Hermon F. Titus at the hands of Grantist Blueshirts. Surviving until after the Second American Revolution, Ault became the editor of Seattle's premier labor-owned newspaper, the Union Record. Thus, he became a central figure in the Seattle General Strike opposing the influence of William Z. Foster and urging a pragmatic balance of direct and political action. Appointed as a United States Marshal by President Frank J. Hayes as an olive branch to pacifists amidst the rapid split of the Social Democratic Party over the issue of the Second World War, Ault was placed into the impossible situation of enforcing laws such as the Alien Registration Act that he found fundamentally unjust and resigned his position soon after. Nonetheless, this service was enough for him to be marked for arrest by his former employee Anna Louise Strong when she took leadership over the Seattle commune during the Syndicalist Revolt against President Howard Hughes. After a brief spell of Federalist Reform control over the state following the suppression of the revolt, Ault led the Socialist Workers Party to sweep elections in the state in 1944. Although he drew some consternation from his allies for his pragmatic choice to avoid excessively obstructing the war effort in order to stave off another federal intervention in state politics, Ault nevertheless became a national voice for the war-weary searching for a quick end to the war. Yet with a newfound wave of nationalism following victory in the war, Ault has been ruthlessly attacked not only as a political radical but also an unpatriotic coward. Arguing that the formation of a world government is the only possible path to ensure world peace, Marcantonio has strongly endorsed the creation of a worldwide federal union. While supporting the delegation of powers to control nuclear power and international armaments, Marcantonio has also gone a step further than his opponents in suggesting that the federation be granted a relatively broad power to provide for the “general welfare” and regulate “international commerce” in a model similar to that of the United States. Seeing leftist governments abroad as the principal allies of the United States in forming a world federation, Marcantonio has called for closer relations with Aneurin Bevan’s United Kingdom and Alvaro de Albornoz’s Spain while calling for more support of leftist movements in the occupied countries of the Pact of Steel. Curiously, Marcantonio has also reportedly exchanged letters with Italian world federalist Santi Paladino and Sicilian political leaders regarding the annexation of Sicily to the United States as a precursor to the world federation. Strictly opposed to the European colonial empires, Marcantonio has called for their immediate dismantlement and the creation of new nations under the principle of self-determination. Additionally, Marcantonio has harshly criticized his opponent’s proposals for intervention against international communist movements as warmongering efforts that would needlessly spill the blood of workers. Attacking the National Labor Arbitration Act as being designed to suppress the right of workers to strike, Marcantonio has campaigned upon its repeal while suggesting that his administration would back the efforts of workers to achieve increases in wages and reductions in working hours as recompense for their wartime sacrifices. Additionally, Marcantonio has called for the nationalization of monopolistic industries such as banking, shipping, electric power, gas, and oil, as well as the nationalization of any industries dependent on government purchases with the defense industry chief among them, arguing that they exploit both the consumers they service as well as the workers they employ. In light of the struggles of the American healthcare system during the deadly Japanese biological attack of bubonic plague and the continued issue of homelessness stemming from destruction in the Bakuhatsu, Marcantonio has called for the creation of a socialized system of national healthcare as well as an ambitious public housing program to guarantee homes for the poor and dispossessed. To fund his extensive governmental proposals, Marcantonio has called for a vast reduction in defense spending as well as the maintenance of many wartime taxes as well as stiffer capital gains, excess profits, land value, and estate taxes. Meanwhile, attacking postwar inflation as the result of unbridled corporate greed, Marcantonio has supported the maintenance and extension of broad price and rent controls. Having built a reputation as a champion of immigrant and minority communities in his district, Marcantonio has supported federal civil rights legislation to bar segregation in housing, employment, and public accommodations as well as an opening of the American immigration system. View Poll |
2024.05.07 14:02 ThrowAway7s2 "Battle of Corinth." from the October 25, 1862 Door County Advocate
 | submitted by ThrowAway7s2 to DoorCountyALT [link] [comments] Battle of Corinth. Battle of Corinth.——————The following letter was received from Lieut. Kinzie Bates. of the 1st U.S. Infantry—son of Hon. Geo. C. Bates, of Chicago—Lieut. Bates was in the Corinth fight and he gives a good account o£ it: CORINTH, Miss., Oct. 6. DEAR FATHER: The telegraph has already told you of the desperate and bloody conflict of day before yesterday. We have again defeated the enemy in the most desperate engagement of the West. All say that Shiloh was nowhere to the fight of October 4th. I can hardly give you a description of the fight.— We had two batteries overlooking the town of Corinth, one on one side the, railroad cut, and another on the other about 200 yards apart. "They were common field redoubts, one mounting three 20-pound Parrotts, the other which I was in mounted four 30-pound Parrotts, one 8-inch howitzer, and supported on the flanks by a field battery of the 2d Regular Artillery, of six guns. The 1st day's fighting the enemy drove our troops back on our fortifications that joined a semi-circle around the town. On the morning of the 4th, at 3½ o'clock they opened upon us with a rifle battery of eight guns, which they boldly placed within 500 yards of our two works that were manned by our men, and to us they devoted their entire attention during the day. The other works not being able to do much, we soon dismounted and silenced their battery in front of us, and after taking one gun from the enemy retired to consolidate their forces for the purpose of storming our works. Near noon on they came, in solid column, sweeping in a semi-circle from the railroad cut to the left of the town. Rushing down at a ran, they came on with a gallantry worthy a better cause. We opened a most terrific fire; shell, bullets and every missile fell like hail. We completely enfiladed their line, but on they came; our troops fell back; a brigade of rebels led by a Texas Colonel rushed up to Lieut. Roffinett's redoubt; the support falls back; he doubleshotted his guns with canister, but on they come and the Texas Colonel places the rebel flag on the redoubt. They crowd through the embrasures; our men abandon their guns and take to their muskets. The volunteers rally—we turn once again on the redoubt, and the enemy are driven back, leaving some twenty persons inside the redoubt and 500 in front of it. The Texas Colonel, his Adjutant, and 70 dead lay in the ditch in front of the battery. This is a fact, for last night I buried them with a party of our own men. I gave the gallant Colonel a decent burial on the spot where he lost his life, but buried his men in one trench. In the meantime where was I, I suppose you want to know. Commanding two guns that commanded their line leading into town. I kept hard at work. At time the 30 pounder shell would make gaps 300 feet long In their ranks, but in spite of the tremendous resistance, the fire of our batteries and twenty fieldpieces they reached the town and some are killed in the yard of Gen. Rosencrans' headquarters. We work with desperate energy. Our guns are so hot you can hardly touch them.—The battery resounds with the voices of the officers encouraging the men. I yelled till I was hoarse. The rebels cannot stand the fire, and retreat to the woods leaving their dead and wounded on the field and 1000 prisoners. I cannot say how many were killed. I went over the field yesterday, and I saw 2,000 dead rebels, killed mostly by artillery. We lost five men killed and one officer (Lieut. Roffinett), and nine men wounded. Our loss altogether must be 1,500 wounded and killed. Rosencrans is in hot pursuit. Gen. Ord is in their rear. We hear his heavy guns now. Reinforcements are pouring in. They are sending in oceans of prisoners from the front, in fact the rebel army is annihilated and destroyed. https://archive.co.door.wi.us/jsp/RcWebImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=ea91eb62-96e3-4ad5-b0c2-0fc095b362be/wsbd0000/20120910/00000032&pg_seq=1 Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive Articles relating to the Civil War https://doorcounty.substack.com/t/civil-war |
2024.05.07 05:22 MamaWeegee2401 [DC] What if Superman existed in our world but with a twist
When people ask or answer question it's usually about today right now. So instead this time, what if Superman appeared in our world in 1938, the year where he first appeared canonically (or 1934 considering those comics strips were written that year and would later be published in 1939 on the newspaper), and instead of those scenarios of how realistic would Clark be in our world, let's just make it the real world of that time period meeting and discovering the Superman we know and love.
How much would this impact the world in that year and how much would it impact today?
You could also even add his other mythos (villains, or other characters that appeared exclusively to his franchise) as to how even they would also impact our world.
Also as a bonus, a thing to make it neater because "real world" type thing, his irl smallville is Metropolis, Illinois. Considering that's a small place irl, maybe somewhere else in Illinois becomes his Metropolis like Chicago maybe.
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How much would this impact the world in that year and how much would it impact today?
You could also even add his other mythos (villains, or other characters that appeared exclusively to his franchise) as to how even they would also impact our world.
Also as a bonus, a thing to make it neater because "real world" type thing, his irl smallville is Metropolis, Illinois. Considering that's a small place irl, maybe somewhere else in Illinois becomes his Metropolis like Chicago maybe.
2024.05.06 22:25 mattbellphoto Brassing on an antique newspaper camera
 | I was told my the camera dealer 15 years ago that this Nikon F2 used to be a loaner for a newspaper in Chicago starting around 1971. It sat on a shelf and every time a photojournalist signed it out, it’d be dragged across that wooden shelf and handed to them. submitted by mattbellphoto to Wellworn [link] [comments] Still my workhorse 35mm. Adding plenty of my own wear. Repaired and CLA’d multiple times. |
2024.05.06 19:32 Allifeur The Economic Assets of the Venture Co. and why we will return to the Undermine
From the old 1999 maps of Warcraft, only one place never made to the game : The Undermine, the underground economic capital of the goblin cartels, located in the South Seas. It was originally planned to be implemented as part of World of Warcraft, but was later scraped due to the excessive amount of work it would have required. We only saw a glimpse of it during the goblin starting zone, before a volcanic eruption supposedly destroyed Kezan and its undergrounds. We later learned that only the northen coast of the island has been affected by the event and that the Venture Trading Company invested it.
The Exploring Azeroth books tell us that the Venture Co. is still in activity, despite us raiding the mogul in charge of Crapopolis, demonstrating that their main headquarter probably wasn't located there. I wouldn't be particularly surprised to learn that a large chunk of the underground tunnels have been unaffected or reconstructed since then.
The Venture Co. is still doing perfectly well economically and we don't know why. We have rarely seen any faction buy from them : Canonically, only the defias brotherhood, the iron Horde and a gnome loyal to the Burning Legion have been shown making deals, which doesn't seem to fit what they have been extracting for the past decades. For you to have a better grasp of their power, here is a list of everything they possess :
Since they have never shown any interest in the several Kajamite mines around the world, it's probably safe to assume they already possess a large quantity of it and have no interest fighting the Bilgewater cartel over it, as it would only devalue their own mine.
Since we never hear about who they're trading with, it either mean these resources are mainly be used for their own industry, or that they're trading with factions we have not seen yet and willingly keep some secrets from the rest of the world.
But that's not all! Another card has been walking of the turf of the Venture Company : Trade Prince Gallywix. He purchased Crapopolis from his own pocket money, gaining control of the previous Azerite mine, workshops and research facilities found there. It is likely Gallywix has big plans to become a big player once again and he won't stop until he's able to buy the property of the rival trade princes.
During Shadowlands, he has been seen with the brokers of the cartel Xy within a bar of Tazavesh. While we can't know what he was negociating with them, I would speculate that he's interested in bringing back the soul of the genius Helix Blackfuse, the mind behind all the designs of the iron Horde. We know from Revendreth there is a special afterlife for engineers called Craftenium which the Brokers would know about, which would definitely help Gallywix up his game against the Tinker Union.
In any case, it is clear that next time we'll see Gallywix, he'll be even more powerful than before, and might very well have made his own place within the Undermine. And considering his past tendancy of allying with larger forces to gain power, he will certainly do it again now more than ever.
I still have some big hopes for the potential of what this area could be : A 1920s big city vibe with crazy road tracks going over lava, giant buildings covered in light bulbs, giant goblin vilas amongst the slums, a casino held by trolls, disco dance floors, and crazy factories.
As you can see the potential is very large, and I doubt Blizzard would miss an opportunity to show it.
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The Exploring Azeroth books tell us that the Venture Co. is still in activity, despite us raiding the mogul in charge of Crapopolis, demonstrating that their main headquarter probably wasn't located there. I wouldn't be particularly surprised to learn that a large chunk of the underground tunnels have been unaffected or reconstructed since then.
The Venture Co. is still doing perfectly well economically and we don't know why. We have rarely seen any faction buy from them : Canonically, only the defias brotherhood, the iron Horde and a gnome loyal to the Burning Legion have been shown making deals, which doesn't seem to fit what they have been extracting for the past decades. For you to have a better grasp of their power, here is a list of everything they possess :
- Grizzlyhills : Several sawmills and a few mines, collecting mainly high quality wood
- Sholazar Basin : A strip mine specifically targeted to extract the sun-touched crystals.
- Stranglethorn : A sawmill, several oil rigs and an enormous diamond mine which used to be their own (called the Silvershard Mines)
- They also obtained Zanzil's mixture, which they use to reanimate undead slaves workers. They are seen being used in Westfall, Barrens, Grizzlyhills and Tanaris
- Stonetalon mountain : Several sawmills, as well as a large abandoned mining network containing tin or angry elementals. (Might have been targeted at the unique jewels of the region such as resonite cristals)
- Azuremyst Isle : A small undercover operation targeted at obtaining cristals from the Exodar. Surprisingly their leader has never been stated to have died.
- Isle of Conquests : Since the Alliance and the Horde are no longer fighting for the northrend, the oil rigs might supposedly returned to the Venture Co. like it used to. (Oil & cobalt)
- Mulgore : They still hold a large mine in the mountains, though we don't know what they're specifically extracting, probably just copper?
- (?) The Blackfuse company is speculated to have had some hidden connection to the Venture Company.
- Stormsong valley : Just an Oil Rig
- They stole some gnomish technology from Mechagon
- War Within Spoils : They are shown to have captured the Cinderbrew Meadery, located on the isle of Dorn.
- Probably several more mines on uncharted islands
Since they have never shown any interest in the several Kajamite mines around the world, it's probably safe to assume they already possess a large quantity of it and have no interest fighting the Bilgewater cartel over it, as it would only devalue their own mine.
Since we never hear about who they're trading with, it either mean these resources are mainly be used for their own industry, or that they're trading with factions we have not seen yet and willingly keep some secrets from the rest of the world.
But that's not all! Another card has been walking of the turf of the Venture Company : Trade Prince Gallywix. He purchased Crapopolis from his own pocket money, gaining control of the previous Azerite mine, workshops and research facilities found there. It is likely Gallywix has big plans to become a big player once again and he won't stop until he's able to buy the property of the rival trade princes.
During Shadowlands, he has been seen with the brokers of the cartel Xy within a bar of Tazavesh. While we can't know what he was negociating with them, I would speculate that he's interested in bringing back the soul of the genius Helix Blackfuse, the mind behind all the designs of the iron Horde. We know from Revendreth there is a special afterlife for engineers called Craftenium which the Brokers would know about, which would definitely help Gallywix up his game against the Tinker Union.
In any case, it is clear that next time we'll see Gallywix, he'll be even more powerful than before, and might very well have made his own place within the Undermine. And considering his past tendancy of allying with larger forces to gain power, he will certainly do it again now more than ever.
I still have some big hopes for the potential of what this area could be : A 1920s big city vibe with crazy road tracks going over lava, giant buildings covered in light bulbs, giant goblin vilas amongst the slums, a casino held by trolls, disco dance floors, and crazy factories.
As you can see the potential is very large, and I doubt Blizzard would miss an opportunity to show it.