![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Again from The Big Sea:įor a few weeks I also sold the Appeal to Reason for an old gentleman with a white beard, who said his paper was trying to make a better world. Odd jobs included the cleaning of the lobby and the toilets of the old hotel near his school and delivering the Lawrence paper. He was well cared for and enjoyed the next two years, becoming Class Poet of his seventh grade class. When Hughes was twelve his grandmother died, and he went to live with his grandmother's friend, Auntie Reed. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books-where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas (p.16). And I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. When I was in the second grade, my grandmother took me to Lawrence to raise me. He writes in his autobiography, The Big Sea: From the time he was seven to about the time he was twelve-approximately 1909-1914-Hughes lived in Lawrence with his grandmother. His mother was a native Kansan, the daughter of free blacks who had homesteaded near Lawrence in the 187's. ![]() Langston Hughes was born in 1902 (now 1901-because of 2019 research by Kansas poet Eric McHenry) in Joplin, Missouri. ![]()
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![]() Go to the darker side/grittier/realistic side of hunting. Id love this to be the shows new direction instead of Colonel Sanders wanna be characters. As he digs deeper into Ocacea’s past, he must confront the differences between reality and myth. andrewdabb 13.11 Breakdown This darker realism really seemed to suit the show and the age of the boys so much better. Out of desperation he follows the trail of an ancient myth on a quest to save his planet, and kidnaps bootlegger Jared of Vosk to help him. The story begins when Jen’sen inherits leadership of his conquered world and tries to pull together the tattered remnants of his people and his culture. One such planet is the once-bountiful planet of Ocacea. Summary: The Kreeg have taken over and enslaved planet after planet in the Alpha quadrant. Warnings: Non-con, kidnap, attempted rape, slavery, graphic violence, dark fic, intercrural sex, M/M, transformation, interspecies sex, freedom fighter!Jensen, mermen, Merman!Jen’sen, Smuggler!Jared, Merman!Jared ![]() Space Opera written for: spn_j2_bigbang 2020 ![]() ![]() ![]() KELLOGG, March 5th, 1850, resigned November 7th, 1850. ![]() George TIBBITS, appointed, April 1st, 1830-1836. ![]() Samuel MCCOUN, appointed, February 7th, 1828, died March 28th, 1830. Thomas TURNER, appointed, July 3d, 1819, declined to serve.Įsaias WARREN, appointed, February 10th, 1820-1828.Īlbert PAWLING, appointed, February 14th, 1821, declined to serve. Under the Act of May 11th, 1880, they were elected at the general electionĪlbert PAWLING, appointed, April 15th, 1816-1820. Under the Act of May 3rd, 1870, they were elected once in two years. Under the Act of February 13th, 1840, they were elected at the charterĮlections on the first Tuesday of March, in every year. Governor and Council of Appointment until 1822.įrom 1822 to 1840, they were elected annually by the Common Council. Under the Act of April 12th, 1816, the mayors were appointed by the The Village of Troy became the City of Troy in 1816. Under the Act of March 25th, 1794, the Trustees were elected annually on They were transcribed and contributed by Bill McGrath of Clifton Park, Saratoga County, NY. These are excerpts from Troy's One Hundred Years 1789-1889, compiled by Arthur James Weise, M. Troy's One Hundred Years 1789-1889 - City Officials ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Food Wars! by Yūto Tsukuda![]() ![]() Teenager Soma Yukihira aspires to become a full-time chef in his father Joichiro's family restaurant and surpass his father's culinary skills, but Joichiro gets a new job that requires him to travel around the world, and closes his shop. The series is rated TV-MA-S on Adult Swim. The fifth season made its Toonami premiere on Saturday, Maat 1:00 AM. The third season premiered on Toonami from Februto Jand, after a brief hiatus, was followed by the premiere of season four from Augto November 27, 2021. The series premiered on Adult Swim's Toonami block on Jat 1:00 AM and completed its run on April 18, 2020, with only the first two seasons aired. In April 2015, Sentai Filmworks obtained the North American broadcasting and distribution rights to the series and also produced an English dub in 2017. Crunchyroll began streaming the series on April 3, 2015, as it aired in Japan. Five seasons have been produced with the final episode airing on September 26, 2020. The series premiered in Japan on Apas part of the "Animeism" block on MBS. The anime adaptation is produced by production studio J.C.Staff and directed by Yoshitomo Yonetani. 1:00 AM Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma is a Japanese anime series based on the manga series Shokugeki no Soma, written by Yūto Tsukuda and illustrated by Shun Saeki. ![]() ![]() ![]() John was getting married in a week, and the two of us wanted to go somewhere authentic, which notion was important to us-him studying art and me studying creative writing-even if we would never say such a thing publicly. No strippers, no tequila shots, no wild night in Vegas with a bunch of friends. This was the bar where we chose to celebrate John Puglia's "bachelor party," such as it was. You don't really want goldfish swimming in open waters surrounded by people carrying glasses of alcohol, especially when you know that some of them will get the shakes before the night is through. This was unfortunate for many reasons, but mainly because the Taj Mahal was directly across the street from the Mayflower Hotel, which had once offered the finest lodgings in town, but now was a subsidized flophouse for drunks and crazies. ![]() Off to one end of the bar, displayed on a table, was a large model of the actual Taj Mahal, complete with a moat that was stocked with goldfish. He'd spent his life visiting ruins, which was good training for operating a tavern in downtown Akron, Ohio, as the eighties drained down. ![]() The old man's bar was called the Taj Mahal because one of the ancient brothers who owned the place was something of a world traveler and had decorated the interior with photographs of himself in European capitals and on African safari and shaking hands with Pygmies and whatnot. ![]() From David Giffels' brilliant new collection, The Hard Way On Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments The open road wind in the willows![]() ![]() In the introduction to his stage play adaptation, Toad of Toad Hall, A. ![]() In their defense, those are the elements that are probably the trickiest to nail down. Most Wind in the Willows adaptations, animated or otherwise, emphasize the comedic elements, which were a real but secondary part of the book, and downplay or don’t bother with the poetic elements. Toad’s Wild Ride (1996) is basically a Monty … Continue reading I haven’t seen it, but from what I’ve heard, Mr. I’m probably exaggerating by calling it the worst in this post’s title. Looking back, I can see that in many ways it was a better introduction to it than the average adaptation would have been, but in one crucial way it was much worse. ![]() The 1995 made-for-television animated movie of The Wind in the Willows was my introduction to Kenneth Grahame’s book as a kid. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Need joelle![]() ![]() ![]() To remain in the game, you are going to have to learn not only how to get the most out of the events you attend, but also how to execute your own informative and entertaining events for candidates looking to know more about your company.īelow are 50 recruitment event ideas that you can explore - which include career fairs you can attend and events you can host yourself - as you strategize how to attract and retain top talent. As the market for early career talent gets more competitive, you’ll be expected to do more to attract top talent. They open the door for you to connect with candidates and follow up with resources and applications, and give candidates a friendly, human connection to your company who they can feel comfortable reaching out to with any questions or concerns they might be grappling with.īut while attending career fairs and presenting your company to interested candidates remains an important part of a recruiting events strategy, it’s only the beginning. Events allow recruiters to meet and engage with top candidates either in-person or virtually, and help candidates learn more about your company and get excited about starting a career in your industry. Recruitment events are a critical component of any campus recruitment strategy - and benefit both recruiters and candidates alike. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When she arrives at school, she finds the strange symbols from the medallions etched into walls and books, which leads Emmy and her new friends, Jack and Lola, to Wellsworth's secret society: The Order of Black Hollow Lane. But then she finds a box of mysterious medallions in the attic of her home with a note reading: These belonged to your father. With a dad who disappeared years ago and a mother who's a bit too busy to parent, Emmy is shipped off to Wellsworth, a prestigious boarding school in England, where she's sure she won't fit in. and it may be the answer to Emmy's questions about her missing father. But her new home is hiding a secret society. For fans of The Mysterious Benedict Society and The Blackthorn Key series comes an award-winning boarding school mystery about twelve year old Emmy, who's shipped off to a prestigious British school. ![]() 5/25/2023 0 Comments At Any Cost by Steven T. Collis![]() ![]() When the weather finally gave him an opening, Wachter was ready to strike.Īfter midnight, on February 3, just hours from their destination, the Dorchester was torpedoed and sank, throwing its passengers into the frigid waters and creating the worst single loss of an American personnel convoy during WWII. ![]() The Nazi U-boat captain, Karl-Jurg Wachter, had been stalking the Americans for days. All offered comfort, reassurance, and prayers following a warning from the captain that a German submarine was hunting their convoy. Alexander Goode, a Jewish rabbi John Washington, a Catholic priest George Fox, a Methodist minister and Clark Poling, a Baptist minister. Four chaplains were assigned to the Dorchester with more than 900 men on board. During World War II, on January 29, 1943, the SS Dorchester and a small convoy sailed the perilous route from Newfoundland toward the Army Command Base in Greenland. ![]() 5/25/2023 0 Comments Against the Cage by Sidney Halston![]() So what takes his breath away isn’t the low blow, but the woman who dealt it: a gorgeous knockout with legs Jack wouldn’t mind being pinned under-who just so happens to be his best friend’s nerdy little sister, all grown up. After all, when he’s not chasing reckless drivers, he’s kicking ass in a mixed martial arts ring. Then Chrissy realizes that the hot cop on the receiving end of her right hook is none other than the man from her teenage fantasies. ![]() ![]() Now a routine traffic stop has ended with her accidentally punching an officer. The day starts with a breakup text, followed by a jailhouse phone call from her troublemaker brother. ![]() In her Loveswept debut, Sidney Halston turns up the heat as a sexy cage fighter shows a former bookworm how delicious a few rounds between the sheets can be.įor Chrissy Martin, returning to her Florida hometown always seems to bring bad luck. ![]() |