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The crib dam spanned the Rappahannock River west of the Falmouth Bridge. It funneled water into the city canal.
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By RUSTY DENNEN
Next to a large metal shed behind Tim Kelly's business in Hartwood sit piles of wood, black with age.
The massive rectangular beams don't look like much. But to Henri Grissino-Mayer, a professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, they're a gold mine, or rather a treasure-trove, of information that could unlock secrets of pre-Colonial Virginia's climate.
Grissino-Mayer, 56, is a well-known dendrochronologist, a scientist who studies tree growth rings for clues to historical rainfall, temperature, environmental changes and wildfires.
Grissino-Mayer and two graduate researchers, Grant Harley and Alex Dye, also with the university's department of geography, took samples of the wood earlier this week in southern Stafford County at Kelly's invitation.
Kelly is the owner of the Woodwright Co. and Woodwright Reclamations, which acquired the wood from Fredericksburg's 1855 crib dam on the Rappahannock River. The crib dam, built with old-growth longleaf pine and white oak, was removed after Embrey Dam just upstream from the city was demolished in 2004.
"This is a gold mine. This is unparalleled in any [wood] project I've seen or been involved with," Grissino-Mayer said.
The wood is unusual for several reasons. First, it is a remnant of an old-growth forest, where towering trees stood untouched for hundreds of years.
And, because it was underwater since 1910 when Embrey Dam was built just downstream, much of it was preserved. The beams came from trees 3 to 5 feet in diameter, probably cut and milled near Fredericksburg around 1854. Some of the trees are thought to have been 250 to 300 years old, dating back nearly to Columbus' arrival in the New World.
"This represents a forest that no longer exists, a time capsule. People look at this and say, 'That's some nasty wood.' But to us, it represents our past. We can obtain so much information from this."
He pointed to a shaded spot on a cross section of one pine beam.
"That's a wildfire, and we can date when that fire occurred. We can date the forest by changes in the ring width. This literally provides information that doesn't exist anymore."
The wood-and-stone crib dam across the Rappahannock River was finished in 1855 by the Fredericksburg Water Power Co. The dam, built of sturdy old-growth longleaf pine and oak, channeled water into the Rappahannock Canal and a power plant downriver.
The crib dam was submerged
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Russian-American soprano Dina Kuznetsova has attracted the attention of the world's major opera companies for her outstanding musicianship and compelling stage presence. Dina Kuznetsova has performed in many of the world's greatest opera houses, from the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Berlin's Staatsoper unter den Linden, Wiener Staatsoper and Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper to the San Francisco and Chicago Lyric Operas.
The current season 2013/2014 season is highlighted by Ms. Kuznetsova's debut as Cio-Cio San in Anthony Minghella's production of Madama Butterfly at English National Opera under Gianluca Marciano. The season continues with the title role of Katya Kabanová at both the Hamburgische Staatsoper and Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Chile as well as a return to Opéra de Montpellier as Tatyana under Ari Rasilainen. In concert, Dina will sing Britten's War Requiem for the first time with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy.
The season 2012/2013 highlights include Dina Kuznetsova's role debut as Lisa in concert performances of Pique Dame with the Sydney Symphony under Vladimir Ashkenazy, Rusalka with Teatro di San Carlo under John Fiore, Tatyana (Eugene Onegin) with the Russian National Orchestra under Mikhail Pletnev, Desdemona (Otello) with the Gulbenkian Orchestra under Lawrence Foster, and a return to the Metropolitan Opera in Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini under Marco Armiliato.
The season 2011/2012 is highlighted by Ms. Kuznetsova's outstanding debut portrayal, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, of Dvorak's Rusalka at Glyndebourne Festival 2011. She repeated the role of Dvorak's Rusalka for Opéra de Montpellier (with Lawrence Foster) to a great critical acclaim. Dina Kuznetsova gave a grand and soulful performances of Rachmaninoff's Romances at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall and at Toronto's Glenn Gould Studio. Prestigious chamber music engagements have included appearances with the New York Festival of Song and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Other Ms. Kuznetsova's career highlights have included a return to the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Tatyana in Yevgeny Onegin opposite Dmitri Hvorostovsky and conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, Vienna State Opera debut as Gounod's Juliette and her Covent Garden debut as Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi conducted by Antonio Pappano and opposite Bryn Terfel.
Her debut at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin was as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni conducted by Daniel Barenboim and opposite Rene Pape. She returned there as Adina (role debut) in a new production of L'Elisir d'Amore at the Berlin Staatsoper opposite Rolando Villazon.
Dina Kuznetsova has worked with such conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Sir Andrew Davis, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Mikhail Pletnev, Vladimir Jurowski, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Antonio Pappano, Lawrence Foster, Donald Runnicles, Jesus Lopez-Cobos and others.
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I use Ring Plus for my phone. All I have to do is hit ## any time in a call and it records. I log into my account afterwards and I have an Mmp3 of both sides of the call, plus a transcription. It's a google voice style transcription, so it's not the best, but the mp3 and being able to download it works great.
Orange is the new black...hole...
I don't know if they are all manufacured in China, but a local company, Intermec, makes and sells scanners. They may be Chinese sourced parts though.
The article said it had an optical fiber tether. Nothing on how strong the tether was, but I am assuming it was like breaking a fishing line, so no way to retrieve a portion of the device. They did say that they found pieces floating on surface though.
I agree with that. My wife still uses hers, with cynogenmod though. It has a few cracks in the plastic, but covered that up with a cheap silicone case. WebOS was awesome, and much more friendly than Android or IOS. Shame it was not allowed to keep going.
I really don't know what they are touting, but the HP Touchpad that died at birth, had beats audio. It has surprising good quality speaker sound for a tablet. I am guessing that may be a portion of what they bought.
And how much the state is will to pay in tax breaks to get them there. Here in Iowa, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google have all put in or are putting in, large data centers.
At least they have both types of music. Country and Western.
The small town of Washington, Iowa, pop 7000. Just got a surplus MRAP.
USDA Prime.
The same issues of magazines that are currently there. They never change.
Ground sensors that are used where I am completely negate being able to time lights. The main problem with them, is that they don't use the cameras at most intersections to bias the signals to the flow of traffic. You will have 1 car on a side street stop 20 cars and trucks, when the side car could wait. Not only that, the sensors will stop traffic when there is no one on the side street, because they did a legal right turn on red. That has to waste thousands of gallons of fuel each day, just in my city.
That's the generic term for speed cameras. Our city put in red light cameras to get their feet in the door with that type of system. Where they have made bank is putting them on the interstate highway that goes through town.
Red light citations: 2,892 (4.9 percent)
Speed citations: 55,308 (95.1 percent)
Total citations: 58,200
City gross: $2,601,125
Due to Gatso: $1,017,900
Revenue: $1,583,225
They screwed up my year of birth for my SSAN for a few years. I found out when I tried to efile my taxes several years ago. Rather than go through the hassle of digging up birth certificate and spending lots of time at the social security office, I figured out what they wanted and gave it to them on my tax form. They had one of the digits as a 7 and it should have been a 1. Probably an OCR error I would guess. I eventually went in and got it fixed. Had to waste a 40 mile round trip, and 3 hours of my time to fix their fuck up.
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Institute for Life & Care ~ being a hero behind the heroes
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When LaFawn Biddle and Nancy Markham Bugbee founded the Institute for Life & Care their vision was clear and compelling. ILC is the premier community-focused, nationally recognized organization offering one-of-a-kind, life changing programs and experiences that strengthen not only the helping professionals (nurses, doctors, leaders, social workers, counselors, first responders, teachers, clergy and veterans) but also the family caregivers to become their best to give their best.
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An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.
Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined.
How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.
I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong with the world has a cure.
If you choose to spend an hour every day tinkering with your Facebook profile, or if you don't see any difference between reading Jane Austen on a Kindle and reading her on a printed page, or if you think Grand Theft Auto IV is the greatest Gesamtkunstwerk since Wagner, I'm very happy for you, as long as you keep it to yourself.
It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.
It's great that a song now costs exactly the same as a pack of gum and lasts exactly the same amount of time before it loses its flavour and you have to spend another buck.
The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone.
The fundamental fact about all of us is that we're alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real root cause of all our anger and pain and despair. And you can either run from this fact or, by way of love, you can embrace it.
The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that's indifferent to our wishes — a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance — with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self.
We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.
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My guild hosts naked runs, drag runs (male toons wearing dresses; dwarves were an obvious first choice, taurens will be next...), hunts to collect "full sets" of trash armor (knitted, crocheted, etc.) and brief events like summoning parties where we bring lowbies to useful flightpaths like Kargath, Hammerfall and Refuge Point. We also had a picnic where we gave rare recipes to the toons who increased their cooking the most in one afternoon; everyone donated uncooked food of all levels and we had helpers stationed as "spice racks" to start fires and offer spices and other ingredients. We had a farming night in Arathi to gather mats for our new and poor bank - guild members pretty much wiped the whole area and we reaped stacks of leather, ore & cloth. At Winters Veil, we made sure that every member had at least 5 small eggs to complete the Greatfather cookie quest; this took much bird killing in Mulgore, Ashenvale and Westfall! We've also done Hallow's End fun runs of low level dungeons, where costumes are required and oddball fighting styles encouraged - priests melee, hunters put their pets on aggressive, warriors and rogues equip fish or mugs. So, um...yeah. We're into games a bit.


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And I don't know how old your message is, but tumblr hid it form me :)
Nathan talks about getting stopped at the Seattle airport for wearing Family Guy PJs (x)
"A bond between someone can be separated, but it can never be broken."
some things never change
The Wanted; laughs
The first and the last one…
you can't remember how it used to be
But to you guys, we are faithful,
We've fallen so hard that it's painful
When it hurts I know the feelings are real.
I'll let nothing in the middle
Nothing in the middle
Of me and you, of me and you
Nothing in the middle, in the middle of us.
I love the way we fight and stay up all night
And the way you look in the morning light
We'll let nothing in the middle, in the middle of us.
This. This is not the end. We are a family, a family that fights, a family that cries, a family that laughs, a family that supports, a family that cares, that listens, that stands up for each other, that hugs, that loves, and sometimes slaps (metaphorically yea), if you don't call this a family so what is? all this we've done together and we will continue, because we are fighters. Nothing has been easy for us, nothing came easy for us, we fall, we fight and we rise yes it's hard, yet we certainly won't give up. We are a family, and we are here and we're never gonna leave no matter what the end hides. we tease, we argue, we love and most of all we're here for each other, this is a family to me. When I was young I read stories where princes won as I grew up, I thought the stories were wrong, because now we see that fighters are, we believe in you, you stayed strong, and you still are. We, we won so many things, the rewards? are not an insipid ones like awards, moreover we won a family. Guys, we've only just begun! this isn't a goodbye, not at all, for us? this is an opened door, that just waits for us to enter. You, yes, you, those idiots who said "We're not deserve this" you are right. you deserve much more than this, and We? yes, we want to thank you for the opportunity you gave us to be one of you, thank you for being there for us when nobody else was, thank you for being our friends practically like big or young brothers, thank you, we are proud of you. until the next time? Stay young at heart.
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I'm not sure that all your readers will see the seriousness of what you say about the general society in Mexico accepting corruption as inevitable and therefore there is little hope that the military and police forces can be freed of corruption. In my 8 years in that country as a Christian missionary, the corruption was so pervasive - even to not being able to convince seminary students or any national leaders of Christian movements to regard some lying or cheating or stealing as "necessary to survive." Unless we can get people convince to become totally honest persons ¿what chance will there be for reforming any system?


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HBO's much anticipated movie Game Change aired Saturday night. The film, depicting the 2008 Presidential election and allegedly showing the "true" Sarah Palin and John McCain will probably end Palin's political ambitions once and for all. But was it a fair depiction of Palin and all her shortcomings?
If the film, which was adapted from the Mark Halprin and John Heilemann book of the same name, is telling the truth, then we came dangerously close to having a raving lunatic "one 72-year-old's heart beat" away from the White House. Because that is how the film depicted Palin: Stupid, mentally unstable and dangerously ignorant on all things relating to our national interest.
Even for those of us who don't like Palin anyway, the film was skewering. She did not know North Korea and South Korea were separate countries? If the film had been fiction, it would be hard to believe.
If the film is "historical fiction" as Palin says, then it is sexist in the extreme. Palin is depicted as being even more incapable and unintelligent than first assumed. She only cared about Alaska and how the state felt about her. More than that, she did not even know what the Fed was. And this woman could have been leading our country?
Further, the depictions of her mental instability were perhaps the most insulting of all. It is already so hard for women in politics to be taken seriously. In every realm. We are seen as hysterical, not as smart as men, too emotional and, worst of all, we are seen as "mommies." Palin got all that and more in the movie.
If the book, which was written by two men and almost entirely about men (except for one woman who was semi smart), is true, then fine. But if it is not, it is wrong.
One does not have to be a fan of Palin (I am not) or even think she is intelligent to see how bad it was for women. If the film's events are true, then McCain and his staff were cynical and sexist in their decision -- they wanted a woman on their campaign and did not care who she was, what she stood for or how smart she was. If not, then the book's writers were. Either way, women lose.
There ARE smart women in Washington and in politics. Nancy Pelosi and Hilary Clinton and Condoleeza Rice all come to mind. But Palin is not one of them. The more we focus on her and the more we understand the way she came into Washington, the more disgusted women should be with politics.
If the movie was true, we are hurt and if it wasn't, well then we are hurt then, too. Either way we lose. We have a long, long way to go ladies.
Did you see Game Change? Did you think it was fair?
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As someone who has never liked Palin I can honestly say I have absolutley no interest whatsoever in this movie or ANY movie that pertains to her. If is was all true then it wouldn't change my opinion of her(I TOLD you I don't like her) and if it was all false then it STILL wouldn't have changed my mind about her because I still dislike her policies more than anything.Which is why I didn't watch.They SHOULD be doing movies about the strong women now and in history who fought and are fighting for their place in a male dominated field of politics/government (ie, Sandra Day O'Connor)...women who were beaten and arrested in the sufferage movement...THOSE are movies I would watch and women I'd think were actually worth paying attention and looking up to....until she actually has anything to offer her party or our country, she should just go back to her hunting cabin.and stay there.'Forever' seems like a reasonable amount of time...
Psh...don't cry any tears or do any soul-searching for Sarah, she's a complete idiot. She had to write the 3 essential tenants of her CORE BELIEFS on her HAND in order to remember them. I can tell you right now, YEARS LATER, what Palin's beliefs, so compicated they had to be cribbed, were:
1. Energy
2. tax cuts
3. Lift the American spirit
...if you can't remember *that*, not only are you not qualified to be dog catcher, you are also pretty dim and less attentive than my 10 year old. Sarah is a disgrace to women AND politics. If you think Carribou Barbie was ready fro prime time, you're as clueless as she is.
I also will not be watching this movie. Not a fan of Ms. Palin, but I think that they had an agenda. That's not news, I think most if not all political movies have an agenda. If I want political news, I watch the ACTUAL news.
I saw it last night and I have to say they created Frankstiens Monster and god help us all the village idiots have not figured out to kill hit yet .. I think it brough up the way in which woman can do amazing things but they made he look and I always felt htis was out for her own glory and all other be damned
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In the following Supreme Court Cases, the majority ruled that the right to keep and bear arms does not mean that one must be a member of the militia. District of Columbia v Heller (2008), MacDonald et al v the City of Chicago et al (2010). It would behoove those who support Gun Control to also remember upon enactment of the so-called Assault Weapons ban of 1994, Clinton and the Democrats lost both the house and Senate to a new majority of Conservative Republicans.


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thepinkgiftbag said: Are there poc from history that weren't slaves or servents? ( I'm sure there were, but were there any well known ones?)
I get why you asked this question, and I get why you framed it the way you have. But I want to take this moment to break down what you're really asking, here. Let's take your question on a world tour.
Education in the U.S. (and some other places, too), is incredibly Eurocentric, and most people don't even know the histories of places other than Europe pre-1500s, and America post-1500s.
This leads to the following assumptions that 1. all history occurred in Europe; 2. Europe was always dominant as a "continent" over all other continents; 3. That people we consider white are a world majority.
Here's a breakdown of the would population by continent. We know that they are far from racially homogenous, but a re-framing is definitely in order.
Just about 75% of the world's population lives in Africa and Asia. Notice that's 60.3% in Asia alone.
As for relative SIZE of continents, a lot of people have really confused ideas about relative sized of continents in relation to each other. A graphic designed by Kai Krause went viral in some parts of the internet a while back, but in case you missed it, here it is:
Here's the whole thing, which has the original data input the graphic was made from, as well as this image of Europe superimposed on Africa, true to proportion:
and this:
The Peters World Map, introduced in the 70s, generated a lot of controversy because it shows the continents in true area and proportion. It can look oddly "squished" to many people used to a different map:
Okay, we've discussed the size and proportion of land masses that humans occupy, and relative populousness of those land masses. But what about race? Well, in a lot of ways, the way we construct race is by skin color; dark or light. Here's a (admittedly super generalizing) map of the world's human population by approximate skin color. But it helps some people to see it [via Encyclopedia Brittanica]:
Now, the "lightest skin" areas don't necessarily reflect "white people" as we would think of it. Many East Asians and Indigenous people in the north (Inuit, Saami), have light skin.
There is no way to make an accurate estimate of what percentage of the world's population now are what race because many, many nations do not take a census that records race. Trying to determine racial demographics from past eras, especially in Medieval or Ancient times when concepts like "white people" did. not. exist. is basically impossible, for all intents and purposes. Some people say that a third of the entire world's population lived in Europe during say, the Middle Ages…as we can see that doesn't necessarily mean "white people". Moreover, what are we basing that on? Do they take Chinese documents into account? What about the documents from the library of Timbuktu, which as far as I know are still being explored, cataloged, and translated?
Let's revisit the question. "Are there poc from history that weren't slaves or serv[a]nts?"
Now, let's flip the question: For the entirety of human history, was the majority of the world's population subject to a minority of the world's population?
The answer is, of course, no. The expectation that there would be a finite list of exceptions to enslavement and servitude on the part of ALL people of color for the ENTIRETY of human history is based on our current views of the world, based on what we have been taught, and HOW we have been taught it.
These expectations are shaped by the media we consume and create.
These expectations are created by an education curricula for history that begins in Europe, a Europe that is supposedly isolated geographically and culturally, despite the fact that it isn't even separated by water from Asia.
American history begins with "first contact" or "discovery", with almost no mention of the political or social history of the continent before being "discovered". The terminology used in most books and documentaries is definitively Eurocentric: "We" discovered "The Other". We divide time and space into "The Old World" and "The New World." WHO, exactly, was this "world" NEW to?
What I would *love* to see is an analysis of how many classes that use books that DO cover non-European history, SKIP those histories because "there's no time". I am in a rather unique position to witness this, and have come to believe that this is a very common practice in American/U.S. classrooms. Because learning the same five things about the Revolutionary War and World War 2 for six years in a row takes precedence over learning even the most basic facts about anything regarding World History. WHY do we learn the same things over and over? WHY do we know what we know? WHO wrote it down and said this is not just truth, but The Truth?
I'm not asking these questions because I know the answers…I don't, really. I'm asking them because I want this questioning habit to spread as far as it can. This blog covers only the teeniest, tiniest portion of human history! The focus is incredibly narrow, because I am only one person. But look how much can be amassed in terms of knowledge, in terms of forming new questions, just by ONE person! A whole generation of people are becoming adults right now, and they should be full of questions. Who is going to write the history for the generation after this one? Can you do better?
Can we do better?
I believe with all my heart that we can.
Well, speaking to my experiences as a teacher, we do it because our kids can't even manage to remember those six basic facts and because we get fired if they can't pass the tests the state hands down to us from above.
I wish teachers would stop getting blamed for this shit. I know the difference and I try my best to insert some reality into the classroom… but it's a constant balancing act because we *have* to teach to the test. Which asks questions where the desired answer is, as far as I'm concerned is flat out wrong… but are multiple choice.
So do we run the risk of losing our job in order to teach kids a truth that they probably won't remember anyway?
It's a tough call — even for people who know better and wish we could educate kids in a wholistic manner.
At least in my district, though, we're forced to adhere pretty closely to a curriculum, to administer a county-mandated test, and to use county-generated handouts.
So please stop blaming the teachers :( We do try, it's just a lot to fight against.
I'm not really sure why you think I'm "attacking" teachers. Other than if you, specifically, have skipped the entirety of world history in favor of the same five facts as I outlined above, and even then, I blame the way education is legislated, organized and practiced as an institution in the U.S.. I have written about this extensively, and it's too bad that this is apparently the only post of mine you've seen on education.
I've made it clear on multiple occasions just how incredibly limited most American educators are on the materials they're allowed to teach, and how much pressure is on them to prepare students for standardized testing. It's a disgrace. A lot of educators whose Ethnic Studies curricula have been pressured out of existence or even banned via legislation have ended up trying to continue these works online, or in alternate venues.
Also, I'm not really sure why you're blaming the students. Education should NOT be some kind of power struggle or war between students and educators, and I don't think I've framed it that way. That being said, there ARE both teachers and professors who actively perpetuate bigotry and make false statements or claims in regard to race and history, but it's definitely not a blanket statement or universally the case. Accountability still is necessary, and I DO prioritize student experiences on medievalpoc (including the student experiences of those who are NOW educators themselves!!)
Moreover, have you considered that many students might be resistant to or uninterested in a history that teaches them they were "always slaves", have "no" history, or "were wiped out by colonists"?? When the materials teach about how various peoples of the world have been subjugated, genocided, enslaved, abused, or colonized, with NO mention of histories BEFORE or AFTER, is it any wonder they would rather forget it?
It makes me genuinely, honestly sad in my bones that your opinion of your students is so low. It's not surprising that many educators get burned out really, really quickly. But. It makes me wish you could see the feedback I get from my followers; SO many people really ARE interested in history as a discipline, young people, people who like books and movies based on history, people who want to see THEMSELVES in history! I don't think that is too much to ask.
The state of education in the U.S.: educators and students are mortal enemies with opposite goals.
Once again: WE CAN DO BETTER.
Stephen Scobie, on the Naropa Institute's 1994 tribute to Allen Ginsberg (via thisisendless)
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I'm just frozen. Absences of women in history don't "just happen," they are made.
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^could not cosign that thought harder as an historian
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Historically Authentic Sexism in Fantasy. Let's Unpack That.
As someone who originally trained as a social historian of the Medieval Period, I have some things to add in support of the main point. Most people dramatically underestimate the economic importance of Medieval women and their level of agency. Part of the problem here is when modern people think of medieval people they are imagining the upper end of the nobility and not the rest of society.
Your average low end farming family could not survive without women's labour. Yes, there was gender separation of labour. Yes, the men did the bulk of the grain farming, outside of peak times like planting and harvest, but unless you were very well off, you generally didn't live on that. The women had primary responsibility for the chickens, ducks, or geese the family owned, and thus the eggs, feathers, and meat. (Egg money is nothing to sneeze at and was often the main source of protein unless you were very well off). They grew vegetables, and if she was lucky she might sell the excess. Her hands were always busy, and not just with the tasks you expect like cooking, mending, child care, etc.. As she walked, as she rested, as she went about her day, if her hands would have otherwise been free, she was spinning thread with a hand distaff. (You can see them tucked in the belts of peasant women in art of the era). Unless her husband was a weaver, most of that thread was for sale to the folks making clothe as men didn't spin. Depending where she lived and the ages of her children, she might have primary responsibility for the families sheep and thus takes part in sheering and carding. (Sheep were important and there are plenty of court cases of women stealing loose wool or even shearing other people's sheep.) She might gather firewood, nuts, fruit, or rushes, again depending on geography. She might own and harvest fruit trees and thus make things out of that fruit. She might keep bees and sell honey. She might make and sell cheese if they had cows, sheep, or goats. Just as her husband might have part time work as a carpenter or other skilled craft when the fields didn't need him, she might do piece work for a craftsman or be a brewer of ale, cider, or perry (depending on geography). Ale doesn't keep so women in a village took it in turn to brew batches, the water not being potable on it's own, so everyone needed some form of alcohol they could water down to drink. The women's labour and the money she bought in kept the family alive between the pay outs for the men as well as being utterly essential on a day to day survival level.
Something similar goes on in towns and cities. The husband might be a craftsman or merchant, but trust me, so is his wife and she has the right to carry on the trade after his death.
Also, unless there was a lot of money, goods, lands, and/or titles involved, people generally got a say in who they married. No really. Keep in mind that the average age of first marriage for a yeoman was late teens or early twenties (depending when and where), but the average age of first marriage for the working poor was more like 27-29. The average age of death for men in both those categories was 35. with women, if you survived your first few child births you might live to see grandchildren.
Do the math there. Odds are if your father was a small farmer, he's been dead for some time before you gather enough goods to be marrying a man. For sure your mother (and grandmother and/or step father if you have them) likely has opinions, but you can have a valid marriage by having sex after saying yes to a proposal or exchanging vows in the present (I thee wed), unless you live in Italy, where you likely need a notary. You do not need clergy as church weddings don't exist until the Reformation. For sure, it's better if you publish banns three Sundays running in case someone remembers you are too closely related, but it's not a legal requirement. Who exactly can stop you if you are both determined?
So the less money, goods, lands, and power your family has, the more likely you are to be choosing your partner. There is an exception in that unfree folk can be required to remarry, but they are give time and plenty of warning before a partner would be picked for them. It happened a lot less than you'd think. If you were born free and had enough money to hire help as needed whether for farm or shop or other business, there was no requirement of remarriage at all. You could pick a partner or choose to stay single. Do the math again on death rates. It's pretty common to marry more than once. Maybe the first wife died in childbirth. The widower needs the work and income a wife brings in and that's double if the baby survives. Maybe the second wife has wide hips, but he dies from a work related injury when she's still young. She could sure use a man's labour around the farm or shop. Let's say he dies in a fight or drowns in a ditch. She's been doing well. Her children are old enough to help with the farm or shop, she picks a pretty youth for his looks instead of his economic value. You get marriages for love and lust as well as economics just like you get now and May/December cuts both ways.
A lot of our ideas about how people lived in the past tends to get viewed through a Victorian or early Hollywood lens, but that tends to be particularly extreme as far was writing out women's agency and contribution as well as white washing populations in our histories, films, and therefore our minds eyes.
Real life is more complicated than that.
BTW, there are plenty of women at the top end of the scale who showed plenty of agency and who wielded political and economic power. I've seen people argue that the were exceptions, but I think they were part of a whole society that had a tradition of strong women living on just as they always had sermons and homilies admonishing them to be otherwise to the contrary. There's also a whole other thing going on with the Pope trying to centralized power from the thirteenth century on being vigorously resisted by powerful abbesses and other holy women. Yes, they eventually mostly lost, but it took so many centuries because there were such strong traditions of those women having political power.
Boss post! To add to that, many historians have theorised that modern gender roles evolved alongside industrialisation, when there was suddenly a conceptual division between work/public spaces, and home/private spaces. The factory became the place of work, where previously work happened at home. Gender became entangled in this division, with women becoming associated with the home, and men with public spaces. It might be assumable, therefore, that women had (have?) greater freedoms in agrarian societies; or, at least, had (have?) different demands placed on them with regard to their gender.
(Please note that the above historical reading is profoundly Eurocentric, and not universally applicable. At the same time, when I say that the factory became the place of work, I mean it in conceptual sense, not a literal sense. Not everyone worked in the factory, but there is a lot of literature about how the institution of the factory, as a symbol of industrialisation, reshaped the way people thought about labour.)
I am broadly of that opinion. You can see upper class women being encouraged to be less useful as the piecework system grows and spreads. You can see that spread to the middle class around when the early factory system gears up. By mid-19th century that domestic sphere vs, public sphere is full swing for everyone who can afford it and those who can't are explicitly looked down on and treated as lesser. You can see the class system slowly calcify from the 17th century on.
Grain of salt that I get less accurate between 1605-French Revolution or thereabouts. I've periodically studied early modern stuff, but it's more piecemeal.
I too was confining my remarks to Medieval Europe because 1. That was my specialty. 2. A lot of English language fantasy literature is based on Medieval Europe, often badly and more based on misapprehension than what real lives were like.
I am very grateful that progress is occurring and more traditions are influencing people's writing. I hate that so much of the fantasy writing of my childhood was so narrow.
Wanna reblog this because for a long time I've had this vague knowledge in my head that society in the past wasn't how people are always assuming it was (SERIOUSLY VICTORIANS, THANKS FOR DICKING WITH HOW WE VIEW EVERYTHING HISTORICAL). I get fed up with people who complain about fantasy stuff, claiming "historical accuracy" to whine about ethnic diversity and gender equality and other cool stuff that lets everyone join in the fun, and then I get sad because the first defence is always "it's fantasy, so that doesn't matter."
I mean, that's a good and valid defence, but here you have it; proof fucking positive that historical accuracy shows that equality and diversity are not new ideas and if anything BELONG in historical fiction. As far as I can tell, most people in the past were too bloody busy to get all ruffled up about that stuff; they had prejudices, but from what little I know the lines historically drawn in the sand were in slightly different places and for different reasons. (You can't trust them furrigners. It's all pixies and devil-worship over there).
So next time someone tells you that something isn't "historically accurate" because it's not racist/sexist/any other form of bigotry for that matter-ist enough for their liking, tell them to shut the hell up because they clearly know far less about history than they do about being an asshole.
I found this terribly interesting, and I'm sure some of you are interested in writing fantasy so…
The more you know.
History is written by those who win. This is why you can celebrate Columbus Day but there is no Hitler Day. This is why you commemorate the Holocaust but you don't even know the extent of the genocide that was inflicted upon the Native population in the Americas. Had Nazi Germany won, nobody would have known about the suffering of the Jews and the Nazi leaders would have been looked at under a different light. Nor would the rest of the West would have shown the same consideration towards the Jews and the Holocaust as they pretend to do now in such a case. And if the Europeans had lost in the Americas, history would have narrated to us the crimes that the Europeans committed when they came here, not their glorification.
- Jahanzeb
- Elementary School: Here's a basic understanding of history and how the world works.
- High School: Actually, that's not quite right. Everything is actually a whole lot more complicated than that.
- College: EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRRROOONNNNGGGG
- History Channel: Aliens.
But my rant is actually not quite about that stuff at all. It's about history, and this notion that History Is Authentically Sexist. Yes, it is. Sure it is. We all know that. But what do you mean when you say "history?"
History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
History is actually a long series of centuries of men writing down what they thought was important and interesting, and FORGETTING TO WRITE ABOUT WOMEN. It's also a long series of centuries of women's work and women's writing being actively denigrated by men. Writings were destroyed, contributions were downplayed, and women were actively oppressed against, absolutely.
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Yes, exactly!
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Yes. This reminds me of my perpetual frustration with that "well-behaved women rarely make history" thing - not the original quote, the "rah-rah for social rebels" way it's used. Originally, it's about how the lives of most women, women who weren't The Special Woman, Not Like Those Other Girls, but who mostly tried to do what they were supposed to, those lives get ignored and were often unrecorded, the women washed out of history for their trouble.
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And then the problem gets compounded in microcosm thanks to the wealth of classic, respected and popular male-authored SFF novels which elide the presence and importance of women in EXACTLY THE SAME WAY that the historical record does, so that people who grow up reading those novels subconsciously learn that both history AND fantasy are inherently masculine spaces.
And with far too many of those people, you can't win: because on the one hand, they think it's implausible to cast female characters in what they perceive to be traditionally masculine roles, but on the other, they find it boring and irrelevant to focus on female characters occupying what they perceive to be traditionally feminine roles. Realism to them - both as relates to history, and to imaginary spaces - therefore amounts to the studied absence of women.
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Hey guys,
If any of you are going to be writing in a Victorian England -based setting (I'm looking at the Dishonored fandom in particular, but lord knows it's not just them), seriously consider checking out Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England.
It is the most useful and utterly fascinating book. Seriously. It takes you room-by-room through an upper-class family's house and discusses fucking everything. I lost an hour of the morning re-reading the chapter on the dining room and subsequent discussion of when meals should be served and what color the walls should be painted and where the soup should be placed on the table, and I am now seriously considering taking a leaf our of the lovely medievalthedas's book and posting excerpts for your reading and setting-enriching pleasure, because who says research has to be boring? This stuff is so good.
Why Gender History is Important (Asshole)
This weekend I was schmoozing at an event when some guy asked me what kind of history I study. I said "I'm currently researching the role of gender in Jewish emigration out of the Third Reich," and he replied "oh you just threw gender in there for fun, huh?" and shot me what he clearly thought to be a charming smile.
The reality is that most of our understandings of history revolve around what men were doing. But by paying attention to the other half of humanity our understanding of history can be radically altered.
For example, with Jewish emigration out of the Third Reich it is just kind of assumed that it was a decision made by a man, and the rest of his family just followed him out of danger. But that is completely inaccurate. Women, constrained to the private social sphere to varying extents, were the first to notice the rise in social anti-Semitism in the beginning of Hitler's rule. They were the ones to notice their friends pulling away and their social networks coming apart. They were the first to sense the danger.
German Jewish men tended to work in industries which were historically heavily Jewish, thus keeping them from directly experiencing this "social death." These women would warn their husbands and urge them to begin the emigration process, and often their husbands would overlook or undervalue their concerns ("you're just being hysterical" etc). After the Nuremberg Laws were passed, and after even more so after Kristallnacht, it fell to women to free their husbands from concentration camps, to run businesses, and to wade through the emigration process.
The fact that the Nazis initially focused their efforts on Jewish men meant that it fell to Jewish women to take charge of the family and plan their escape. In one case, a woman had her husband freed from a camp (to do so, she had to present emigration papers which were not easy to procure), and casually informed him that she had arranged their transport to Shanghai. Her husband—so traumatized from the camp—made no argument. Just by looking at what women were doing, our understanding of this era of Jewish history is changed.
I have read an article arguing that the Renaissance only existed for men, and that women did not undergo this cultural change. The writings of female loyalists in the American Revolutionary period add much needed nuance to our understanding of this period. The character of Jewish liberalism in the first half of the twentieth century is a direct result of the education and socialization of Jewish women. I can give you more examples, but I think you get the point.
So, you wanna understand history? Then you gotta remember the ladies (and not just the privileged ones).
Holy fuck. I was raised Jewish— with female Rabbis, even!— and I did not hear about any of this. Gender studies are important.
This is wonderful. Thank you.
In 1995, Roy Disney decided to release an animated movie about a Powhatan woman known as "Pocahontas". In answer to a complaint by the Powhatan Nation, he claims the film is "responsible, accurate, and respectful."
We of the Powhatan Nation disagree. The film distorts history beyond recognition. Our offers to assist Disney with cultural and historical accuracy were rejected. Our efforts urging him to reconsider his misguided mission were spurred.
"Pocahontas" was a nickname, meaning "the naughty one" or "spoiled child". Her real name was Matoaka. The legend is that she saved a heroic John Smith from being clubbed to death by her father in 1607 - she would have been about 10 or 11 at the time. The truth is that Smith's fellow colonists described him as an abrasive, ambitious, self-promoting mercenary soldier.
Of all of Powhatan's children, only "Pocahontas" is known, primarily because she became the hero of Euro-Americans as the "good Indian", one who saved the life of a white man. Not only is the "good Indian/bad Indian theme" inevitably given new life by Disney, but the history, as recorded by the English themselves, is badly falsified in the name of "entertainment".
The truth of the matter is that the first time John Smith told the story about this rescue was 17 years after it happened, and it was but one of three reported by the pretentious Smith that he was saved from death by a prominent woman.
Yet in an account Smith wrote after his winter stay with Powhatan's people, he never mentioned such an incident. In fact, the starving adventurer reported he had been kept comfortable and treated in a friendly fashion as an honored guest of Powhatan and Powhatan's brothers. Most scholars think the "Pocahontas incident" would have been highly unlikely, especially since it was part of a longer account used as justification to wage war on Powhatan's Nation.
Euro-Americans must ask themselves why it has been so important to elevate Smith's fibbing to status as a national myth worthy of being recycled again by Disney. Disney even improves upon it by changing Pocahontas from a little girl into a young woman.
The true Pocahontas story has a sad ending. In 1612, at the age of 17, Pocahontas was treacherously taken prisoner by the English while she was on a social visit, and was held hostage at Jamestown for over a year.
During her captivity, a 28-year-old widower named John Rolfe took a "special interest" in the attractive young prisoner. As a condition of her release, she agreed to marry Rolfe, who the world can thank for commercializing tobacco. Thus, in April 1614, Matoaka, also known as "Pocahontas", daughter of Chief Powhatan, became "Rebecca Rolfe". Shortly after, they had a son, whom they named Thomas Rolfe. The descendants of Pocahontas and John Rolfe were known as the "Red Rolfes."
Two years later on the spring of 1616, Rolfe took her to England where the Virginia Company of London used her in their propaganda campaign to support the colony. She was wined and dined and taken to theaters. It was recorded that on one occasion when she encountered John Smith (who was also in London at the time), she was so furious with him that she turned her back to him, hid her face, and went off by herself for several hours. Later, in a second encounter, she called him a liar and showed him the door.
Rolfe, his young wife, and their son set off for Virginia in March of 1617, but "Rebecca" had to be taken off the ship at Gravesend. She died there on March 21, 1617, at the age of 21. She was buried at Gravesend, but the grave was destroyed in a reconstruction of the church. It was only after her death and her fame in London society that Smith found it convenient to invent the yarn that she had rescued him.
History tells the rest. Chief Powhatan died the following spring of 1618. The people of Smith and Rolfe turned upon the people who had shared their resources with them and had shown them friendship. During Pocahontas' generation, Powhatan's people were decimated and dispersed and their lands were taken over. A clear pattern had been set which would soon spread across the American continent.
Chief Roy Crazy Horse
It is unfortunate that this sad story,
which Euro-Americans should find embarrassing,
Disney makes "entertainment" and perpetuates a dishonest and self-serving myth
at the expense of the Powhatan Nation.
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What Can I Make With Tomatillos Besides Green Sauce?
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Q: I love tomatillos. I grew them this summer and they appeared in my summer CSA basket as well. We have made vats of salsa verde this year. My question is this: the only recipes I can find for tomatillos are some variety of green sauce, be it for a sauce or a salsa. Are tomatillos a one trick pony, or are there other options for using them?
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I've enjoyed a recipe I found in Pati Jinich's book Pati's Mexican Table that uses them raw, sliced, in a salad with watermelon and feta and I think a lime dressing. Rick Bayless also has some recipes using them sliced up in baked dishes.
Sauce/stews are about all you can do with them cooked, since they collapse to nothing but pulp (and seeds).
If you can let them actually get ripe, they turn a pale creamy color, with a pear-like flavor and are fantastic raw. But fully green ones won't ripen further on your countertop.
Myra Kornfeld has an amazing stew recipe with hominy, corn, and tomatilloes in _The Voluptuous Vegan_.
This White Bean Chicken Chili is our fav, http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/White-Bean-Chicken-Chili/. I've used canned or fresh tomatillos with equal success.
They're great with avocado, garlic, cilantro, and a jalapeno (if you want some heat) for a pseudo guacamole.
I use them in a salsa with chile de arbol. I got the recipe from a coworker, but it is very similar to this one: http://www.rickbayless.com/recipe/view?recipeID=114
My friend uses tomatoes in place of a few of the tomatillos, did not recommend adding any sugar, and browns to tomatillos in a pan with olive oil instead of under the broiler.
I did that too, but that's still just basically a green dipping sauce. I was hoping for something else!
I made eggplant salad from here (http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-roasted-eggplant-salad-with-smoked-almonds-goat-cheese-164756) but found I had less eggplant than I thought, so I tossed a bunch of tomatillos in there too. They certainly weren't the star, and they cooked down to mush as expected, but the taste of it all was great!
For all of this, I finally got smart just now and found something: fried tomatillos with dipping sauce. http://www.countryliving.com/recipefinder/fried-tomatillos-creamy-cumin-dip-recipe-clx1013. Which is pretty fabulous sounding, but I wish when you searched for recipes Google did something besides cough up various salsas and sauces at you. I am going to test this out TONIGHT, y'all. Thanks for your responses!
I haven't tried this yet, but I have been thinking about a scramble or an omlette with cheddar, green onion, green chiles, cilantro, and tomatillios. It'll be all yellow and green and tangy and spicy and fresh and cheesy. Delish!
I think I remember seeing a show a long time ago where someone sliced them and cooked them on the grill to put on top of a burger. Sounds good but I've never tried it.
I feel like this was just posted but tomatillo-based green chili is huge childhood favorite of mine!
True, true, you can totally use them raw in salads, and the fried option sounds interesting, but like somebody mentioned above they do get mushy more easily than tomatoes, so I'm not sure they'd hold up to frying the same way a green tomato does?? But the idea sounds great, just use them like you would a green tomato!
I've added tomatillos to any dish where I'm using nopales (cactus), from chili to stir fry to taco-filling. I think there's a kind of pork stew you can make with tomatillos and nopales too, but I'm not sure about a concrete recipe, I just sort of toss things together to make it work. The tomatillos do breakdown quite a bit, but the texture works really well with the okra-esque gooeyness of the cactus, and their respective tangy flavors really compliment each other. With salt, lime and cilantro it's awesome!
I really like tomatillo curry. I recently used this recipe and it came out very well: http://cookieswithfriends.wordpress.com/2013/08/28/farm-fresh-tomatillo-curry/ Variants will pineapple are also fantastic.
In a similar vein, tomatillo dal is supposed to be very good, although I have not personally verified this yet.
Green chicken chili is what I usually use them in.
They're great pickled; sub them for green tomatoes in this recipe from Homesick Texan: http://www.homesicktexan.com/2010/10/pickled-green-tomatoes.html
I make soup with squash, black beans, tomatillos and tomatoes - that's another good combination.
Rick Bayless has a great Pollo Pulquero that we make in the slow cooker--layers of chicken, potatoes, onions, jalapenos and sliced tomatillos that blend together into a sort of hearty stew.
I second the chili comments. With or without any tomato products, tomatillos provided some of the best chili I have made. I think the less ripe ones actually take longer to cook than tomatoes, though. I'll add them near the beginning and let them go quite awhile.
Mark Bittman had a recipe for Green Chile Tamale Pie in Cooking Light a couple of years ago that has become a favorite for us. It uses 1/2 pound of tomatillos, and we love it so much we usually double the recipe, cook it in a 9x13 pan, and have lots of leftovers. Here's the link: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/green-chile-tamale-pie-50400000110424/.


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