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Just spent several days in this apartment with my family and we all agree that it is a true value. The owner was very cuties in helping us make the arrangements. I'd recommend this apparent to anyone. Carlet
Best combination of city and suburb!
1. The photos here don't do any justice to the property. It is by far much nicer and more elegant than shown here. Besides being tastefully furnished the place is meticulously clean! From the kitchen utensils to the bathroom to the linen. Everything smelled fresh and clean. 2. The condo is located just 5 minutes drive either way from either Sosua or Cabarete. Close enough to the action and far enough for its hoo haa. A short spring in either direction puts you in the heart of restaurants, beaches, surfing, shops, clubs, nightlife, etc etc. 3. The staff is highly attentive. I miscalculated my arrival time with 2 hours, I arrived to the condo at 5:30 AM. I woke up Saskia and she was there within 30 minutes, saw me in with a personal printed out welcome paper. (Nice touch Anthony!) 4. A car is recommended here but you can manage well without it. From the condo to the main gate is a 10 minute walk. Once at the gate you can flag down a moto, taxi, bus, etc. 5. The place is double secured. There's a community gate at the main entrance and then another gate for this condominium itself. Security personnel were friendly and attentive. 6. The swimming pool is a 3 minute walk from the condo. It was mostly empty which was awesome! Highly recommended for both families and the single explorer who wants to rest away from the action while being close enough to it.
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Had a great time in cabaret at Pats condo ,everything was as described only nicer.We walked everyware,the beach is 2 min. away,and the pool was great (had it mostly to ourselves.Pat was a great host.and took care of all our needs.Would deffinately stay again highly recommend.Thanks again for everything...rick sandy and sally


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Very dangerous aera!!! Would not stay there even if a night was $1 .
We were robbed 10min away from the hotel. Nobady seemed to care! We lost all our money, camera and phone. Very dangerous neiberhood! We were so scared we left the city. Nobady spoke english English at the hotel, nobady gave u sany map or advice about the city. The room was so old and dirty we felt like in a prison. Stay away if you can from this place.
perfect location, 15 minute walk from zona colonial very helpful staff aircon PRICE! good option for budget and not very demanding travelers
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Location. Only if price is good for You 25USD + 28% TAX=32USD/nigth. Can pay only cash. Local RD. For 1nigth including tax 1344RD. We have rent car, so location for us very good and in street no problem whit space of parking.
Small, old, not clean enaugth, wifi not work in room, only in reception. TV very old. Hot water only in day time. Better spend 5-10USD more and select another place. No change towel or linen every day. Give only two small soap. No shower gel. Entrance fence always lock and if you wanna go or in need ask unlock. Not have ring. Don't have idea if back 3:00 at night what need do? Key not have. Room lock by key and market by small paper pcs. Of courses only one key.
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Enjoy fishing? Looking for a place to stay on beautiful Portage Lake where there are many outdoor activities to enjoy with your family and friends? You found the right place! Located 3 miles South of Houghton, we are just minutes away from dining, golfing, shopping, Michigan Technological University, and the gateway to the Keweenaw Peninsula for some fantastic site seeing along the shores of beautiful Lake Superior. Did I mention great fishing too! Portage Lake has hosted the PWT more than once!
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Bode Miller is known for a few things. He's an Olympic gold medalist, he's flaked on his effort in more than one race (allegedly) because he'd rather party, and now he's known as perhaps the world's worst golfer.
I'm not feeling so hot. Line drive to the face today with a golf ball from my darling husband I still love — Morgan Miller (@MorganEBeck) December 13, 2012
Miller was out with his wife, professional volleyball player Morgan Miller (nee Beck), when both the world and the beautiful Mrs. Miller discovered that while Bode may be able to ski at an Olympic level (and party at one), he's not going to be chasing Arnold Palmer or Jack Nicklaus anytime soon. While the duo were golfing yesterday, Bode accidentally drilled his gorgeous wife in the face with a stray ball and the result is not so attractive.
The volleyball star formerly known as Morgan Beck, suffered a pretty gruesome laceration above an eye that's going to be swollen and black for a very long time.
Beck was in good spirits about it though, which is surprising given how nasty the injury is. But she tweeted a bloodied photo of herself, so we're going to assume she rubbed some dirt in it and finished the round.
She gave an update this morning on her Twitter saying she was feeling better but that she still can't see out of her eye and the swelling hasn't gone down much. That and hospital beds are not equipped to comfortably support a female volleyball player. But she also noted that the sunglasses she was wearing at the time of the accident likely saved her from losing an eye.
A huge thank you to @kaenonBy absorbing a 160mph line drive I only got 50+ stitches instead of losing my eye #lucky twitter.com/MorganEBeck/st…
— Morgan Miller (@MorganEBeck) December 13, 2012
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Get the first look at our Fall 2011 Programs & Activities Catalog now available as a digital flipbook! Registration for new programs begins Saturday, September 10 at 9 am.
Saturday, October 15, 9 am to 5 pm | Munden Point Park
Ladies, once again, on October 15, your opportunity to get outside and participate in outdoor recreation activities is yours and yours alone!A full day at Munden Point Park is being planned with you in mind. We'll have local experts on hand to professionally instruct you on the ins and outs of exciting outdoor activities in a fun and relaxed environment. You will be able to choose four of the following sessions to attend:
The cost is only $65 per person and includes lunch. Registration begins September 10. Registration forms will be available at all recreation centers and online at VBgov.com/parks. Grab your friends and register early as spaces fill quickly for this program!
Winter Wildlife Festival
January 27-29, 2012
Princess Anne Recreation Center
Witness winter wildlife all around Virginia Beach, whether it's following fascinating bird activity, spectacular whale sightings or the musings of harbor seals near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. Learn what it takes to properly observe and identify wildlife. Free and open to the public (with a fee required for only some sessions), this event includes educational workshops and engaging excursions that are sure to captivate outdoor enthusiasts, both novice and expert.
Free and open to the public (with a fee required for only some sessions), this event includes educational workshops and engaging excursions that are sure to captivate outdoor enthusiasts, both novice and expert.
Registration will begin November 15.
Virginia Beach city parks and natural areas offer plenty of opportunities to get out and get moving. Whether you want to walk, run or ride your bike, consider one of these locations to log some mileage. Click the links for a trails map of each location.
If you are looking for an escape into nature, then West Neck Creek Natural Area and Stumpy Lake Natural Area are two ideal destinations for you. West Neck Creek and Stumpy Lake are wooded areas that are perfect for a nature walk with the family, or a place to get away from the hustle and bustle of city living. West Neck Creek has three loops of soft trail, equaling 2.5 miles long and one small paved trail path that is about a third of a mile in length. Stumpy Lake's trail consists of two loops, totaling 1.65 miles in length. You can truly experience nature and wildlife as you venture through the woods at either location.
Prefer a location with a little more activity? Try visiting one of our city parks. Red Wing Park features two soft trails totaling just under a mile. This site is perfect for a nice walk in the park and offers the chance to stroll through the many gardens featured here. Bring your dog and after you finish a walk together, you can give him some off-leash time in the dog park.
Providence Park has two hard trail loops which circle the park. If you stay on the outer loop, the distance is .7 miles. Bring the kids with you for a visit to the playground near the intersection of the loops.
City View Park has a quarter-mile soft trail and a hard trail that is just over a mile in length. This park also offers a playground, making it ideal if you are bringing the family.
Probably our most well-known park is Mount Trashmore Park. The first of its kind, this park transformed a waste site into a beautiful park that has become a mecca for all types of fitness and leisure activity. Mount Trashmore Park consists of paved trails that intersect between Lake Trashmore and the famed mountain. The perimeter trail that surrounds the park is 1.84 miles long. You can also choose to just go around the mountain (1.19 miles) or around Lake Trashmore (1.45 miles). If you're up for a challenge, make the stairs a part of your course and cross over the mountain and down the other side!
New VBgov.com Website to Launch on Monday, August 29
Help Mount Trashmore Win a $100,000 Recreation Grant
Did you know that being active at Mount Trashmore Park this summer could help it win $100,000? The title of "America's Favorite Park" and a recreation grant are up for grabs. So get out, play and vote for Mount Trashmore Park before September 6!
America Is Your Park encourages families to get active outdoors in parks across the country and vote to help their favorite win one of three recreation grants made possible by the Coca-Cola Live Positively initiative. So, if you like biking, running, skateboarding, walking your dog or taking the kids to play, there's no better place to enjoy these activities than at Mount Trashmore Park.
You can help Mount Trashmore Park by:
You can also help by spreading the word about the contest - urge people to vote by reminding park visitors, sending emails, posting a status on Facebook or sending a message on Twitter about why you love Mount Trashmore Park.
The pool at Seatack Recreation Center will be closed for renovations beginning August 22 and lasting approximately three months.Great Neck Recreation Center will be closed for maintenance from August 29 to September 5.
The pool, weight room and racquetball courts are expected to remain closed until September 19 for additional maintenance and ceiling painting.
All Virginia Beach Recreation Centers and Owl Creek Tennis Center will be closed on Monday, September 5 for Labor Day.
Princess Anne Recreation Center will be closed for maintenance September 12-18. The pool is expected to remain closed through October 2.
The pool, weight room and racquetball courts are expected to remain closed until September 19 for additional maintenance and ceiling painting.
All Virginia Beach Recreation Centers and Owl Creek Tennis Center will be closed on Monday, September 5 for Labor Day.
Princess Anne Recreation Center will be closed for maintenance September 12-18. The pool is expected to remain closed through October 2.
Don't forget that your membership is good at all six Virginia Beach Recreation Centers! If your usual center is closed for maintenance, take the opportunity to visit another center. Use this locator to help you find one!


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The recent spate of leaked HTC devices has been exciting, with quad-core monsters the Edge and Zeta on the phone side, and the Quattro on the tablet side, but if those weren't enough, the HTC Ville has now joined the party. Although the design doesn't look all that different from other efforts, the word is the Ville will be the slimmest HTC phone yet, measuring just 8mm thick!
That's closing in on the Motorola RAZR, which at a mere 7.1mm thick will still hold the 'slimmest phone' crown, but what's a millimetre between friends? The Ville will easily trump the 9.3mm thick iPhone 4S and the 8.5mm (at its thinnest point) Galaxy S II, plus from the pictures the Ville appears to have a cool metallic unibody construction too.
The Ville name appeared at the beginning of November when BGR outed it as being one of HTC's 2012 range of Android Ice Cream Sandwich handsets. The spec sounds good, although not quite as exciting as the Edge or Zeta, as it will use a dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon processor instead of some massive quad-core chip.
Additionally, the Ville will have a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED touchscreen, an 8 megapixel camera with 1080p video recording and version 4.0 of HTC Sense. Rumours have also suggested Beats Audio will be a feature, however the leaked shots don't show the Beats branding, so this may not be the case.
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FT. SILL, Okla._ More than 4,000 soldiers will leave post over the next two days to spend the holidays with loved ones.
The annual Block Leave is a day many have been looking forward to for a while, some even keeping a countdown, but tonight the clock ran out and the thousands of soldiers will scatter out across the country.
"I need this break," says Private Tarrance Bryan, 434th Field Artillery Brigade, who is seven weeks into his basic training at Ft. Sill.
"It's everything because I miss food, I miss personal time, I miss my boyfriend and my mother," says Private Lily Cortez, giggling in excitement. "I am ready to feel loved again and not told what to do."
Colonel Mike Dvoracek says this two-week leave builds up his soldiers' morale.
"We've had lots of rules for them here and they're getting ready to go be able to make decisions on their own and see family and see friends," says Dvoracek, who says planning for their departure begins in July. "It takes that kind of detailed coordinated planning over time to make sure that you can get all those moving pieces together."
He calls Block Leave "organized chaos" – making sure everyone's there, getting them the bus and plane tickets they need to get home, checking their bags and briefing them on what they can and can't do while they're away.
The colonel says they'll be given more freedoms. They probably won't be told when to turn their lights off for bed, but he tells all his trainees keeping up with physical fitness is important to the success of their basic training completion when they return.
"They got to come back fit, healthy, and prepared…," the colonel says.
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Gretchen Adams - U.S. Political and Cultural History to 1877, History and Memory
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Dr. Adams primary research interests are in both the real and perceived legacy of British colonial rule over what later became the United States. This lingering cultural memory of colonial rule pervades print and oratory from the Revolution forward to present day. Adams' central interest is the political context of symbolic representations of events and individuals in the colonial historical record. How they are recalled, recast, and re-imagined to persuade, unite, and exclude Americans from the mainstream of American life over the past two centuries is a subject of continuing research interest.
Selected Publications:
Adams, Gretchen. The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. ISBN: 0-226-00541-0
Awards: "Outstanding Academic Title, 2009." Choice (January, 2010).
Adams, Gretchen. Pictures of the vicious ultimately overcome by misery and shame: The Cultural Work of Early National Schoolbooks. In Children and Youth in a New Nation, edited by James Marten. New York: New York University Press, 2009, Hbk ISBN: 0814757421
Adams, Gretchen, Associate Editor. The Records of the Salem Witch Hunt. Cambridge: University Press, 2009. ISBN-13: 9780521661669
Awards: National Historical Publications and Records Commission subvention grant (May 2004).
Forthcoming major book projects:
Benedict Arnold and the Limits of Collective Memory is concerned with the concept of treason in the Anglo-American imagination from the 17th through the 20th centuries
Colonial Cautionary Tales, focuses on the various ways in which Americans have historically sought to both embrace and repudiate their colonial past.
Alan Barenberg
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Alan Barenberg works on the social and economic history of the Soviet Union in the 1930s-1970s. He is currently completing a major research project on the history of the arctic Russian community of Vorkuta, which was built in the 1930s and 1940s as a Gulag camp complex but was transformed into a Soviet company town after Stalin. Future research projects include an examination of the development of the Soviet welfare state in the second half of the twentieth century and a study of the role that cotton played in transforming social and economic life in the Russian and Soviet empires.
Refereed Articles:
From Prisoners to Citizens? Ex-Prisoners in Vorkuta during the Thaw in The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture in the 1950s and 1960s, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming (2012).
Discovering Vorkuta: Science and Colonization in the Early Gulag, Gulag Studies 4 (2011): 21-40.
Tiede ja asuttaminen varhairsessa Gulagissa, Idäntutkimus (Finnish Review of East European Studies), 4/2010: 33-45.
Prisoners Without Borders: Zazonniki and the Transformation of Vorkuta after Stalin, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas 57:4(2009): 513-34.
Gary Bell
Research Description:
Dr. Bell is currently involved in two very different prongs of historical research.
In the first, He is completing a manuscript for a monograph on the evolution of British diplomatic administration and practices, 1485 through 1688. This draws from data found in his first book, A Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives, 1509-1688, and is an attempt to identify the trends and "traces of modernity" in a highly active, and somewhat beleaguered diplomatic cadre that represented a small, and entirely threatened sovereignty sitting isolated in the North sea in this era. Beginning with an entirely medieval diplomatic establishment under Henrys VII and VIII, what emerged by the Civil War (1642) was much more sophisticated, and probably more effective than any comparable institution at the time. Perhaps foremost, this included the emergence of a modern ambassadorial corps, but also included proto-modern compensation practices.
From another perspective, wildland fire fighting has always intrigued Dr. Bell. He is writing a history of the evolution of the theories and practices of such activity in the last two centuries in America and abroad. From all fires out by 10:00 A.M. of the next day, to let it burn—if not threatening life or property, there have been some pretty substantial alterations in how we treat the threat of woodland fires.
Selected Bibliography:
A Handlist of British Diplomatic Representatives, 1509-1688 (The Royal Historical Society, Sept., 1990).
John Man, the Last Elizabethan Resident Ambassador to Spain, The Sixteenth Century Journal (October, 1976)
Thomas Chaloners Diplomatic Expenses in Spain, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research (May, 1980)
Elizabethan Diplomatic Compensation: Its Nature and Variety, Journal of British Studies (Spring, 1981)
Sir Francis Drake, Sir John Hawkins, and Queen Elizabeth I in Olson, James S. and Shadle, Robert (eds.) Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism (Greenwood Press, 1996)
The 1560 Articles of Berwick, The 1560 Treaty of Edinburgh, The 1562 Articles of Richmond, The 1564 Treaty of Troyes, The 1572 Treaty of Blois, The 1574 Treaty of Dover, The 1586 Treaty of Berwick, in Fritze, Ronald, Historical Dictionary of Tudor England, 1485-1603 (Greenwood Press, 1991)
Elizabethan Diplomacy: The Subtle Revolution, in Thorpe, Malcolm and Slavin, A. J. (eds.), Studies in Early Modern Europe: A Festschrift forDe Lamar Jensen (Sixteenth Century Studies Press, 1995)
The Spanish Marriage Negotiations, 1625, The Peace of 1604, The Massacre of Amboyna, The Secret Treaty of Dover, 1672, and Dudley Carleton, in Robinson, William, Historical Dictionary of Stuart England, 1603-1714 (Greenwood Press, 1994)
Tudor-Stuart Diplomatic History and the Henrician Experience, in Charles Carleton, State, Sovereigns and Society (Sutton, 1997).
William Waad, Robert Beale, Philip Hoby, and George Gilpin, (entries in the New Dictionary of National Biography, OUP, 2003. Additionally, my publications received over 50 citations in this source.)
Paul Bjerk
Research Description:
Paul Bjerk researches modern African history. His dissertation documented the accession of sovereignty in Tanzania, and the leadership of Julius Nyerere in the early 1960s.
His research on Tanzania continues with the consolidation of that sovereignty in the philosophy and policy of Tanzania from 1965-1975. Mixing oral and archival history, this new research seeks to identify elements of pre-colonial economic theory hiding in domestic language and philosophy in the practice of the post-colonial era.
He has also begun research on the first post-colonial decade in Uganda.
Selected Publications:
The Way of the Lips: Julius Nyerere and the Establishment of Sovereignty in Tanzania (under review)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
History in Africa, 37 (2010), 275-319: Sovereignty and Socialism in Tanzania: The Historiography of an African State
Journal of African History, 47.1 (2006), 1-19: They Poured Themselves Into the Milk: Zulu Political Philosophy Under Shaka – Ranked among the 5 most-read articles in JAH in 2008.
Journal of Religion in Africa, 35.3 (2005), 324-61: Building a New Eden: Lutheran Church Youth Choir Performances in Tanzania
International Journal of African Historical Studies (forthcoming): A Federation for Liberation: Tanganyikas Foreign Policy Under Nyerere, 1960-1963
Other Publications
Oxford Dictionary of African Biography, (forthcoming): Entries for Julius Nyerere, Rashid Kawawa, Oscar Kambona, Job Lusinde, Paul Bomani, and Mrisho Sarakikya
Laura Calkins
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Areas of Expertise: Modern East and Southeast Asia, Modern History of International Relations, International Radical Movements and Communism. Research areas also include biopolitics, law, ethics, and human and national security; transnational political history of broadcast and new media; resistance and revolution; and economic and political intelligence history.
Refereed Articles:
Calkins, Laura. Recapturing an Urban Identity: Chinese Communists and the Commune at Shantou, 1927, Studies on Asia, Series IV, Vol 1, No 2, Summer 2011, 35-73.
Calkins, Laura, Patrolling the Ether: US-UK Open Source Intelligence Cooperation and the BBCs Emergence as an Intelligence Agency, 1939-1948, Intelligence and National Security 26 (1) Feb 2011, 1-22.
Calkins, Laura. Detained and Drugged: A Brief Overview of the Use of Pharmaceuticals for the Interrogation of Suspects, Prisoners, Patients, and POWs. Bioethics 24:1 (Jan 2010), 27-34.
Calkins, Laura. Historical Records and Homeland Security: The Declassification and Retraction of Government Documents on Human Radiation Experiments. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, Special Issue on Research Ethics 2(1), 2008:163-173.
Calkins, Laura and Richard Burks Verrone. Voices from Vietnam: Eyewitness Accounts of the War 1954-1975. London: David and Charles Publishers, 2005.
Published Book Reviews:
Calkins, Laura. Review of The Conduct of Hostilities Under the Law of International Armed Conflict by Yoram Dinstein (Cambridge University Press, 2010) in Human Rights Review, June 2012.
Calkins, Laura. Review of The Independence of East Timor: Multi-Dimensional Perspectives – Occupation, Resistance and International Political Activism (Sussex Academic Press, 2011) in Michigan War Studies Review, No. 2012-014 (February 2012).
Calkins, Laura. Review of Southeast Asia and the Vietnam War by Ang Chen Guan, (Routledge, 2010) in H-Diplo Roundtable Review Vol XI No. 46 (2010), 22 Oct 2010.
Calkins, Laura. Review of Ruptured Histories: War, Memory and the Post-Cold War in Asia edited by Sheila Miyoshi Jager and Rana Mitter, (Harvard University Press, 2007) in Canadian Journal of History 44:1 (2009), 166.
Calkins, Laura. Review of The Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850-1920, by Padma Anagol. (Ashgate, 2005) in Itinerario 33:1 (March 2009), 115-17.
Encyclopedia Entries:
Spies, Wiretaps, and Secret Operations: An Encyclopedia of American Espionage (2010). Foreign Broadcast Information Service; Vietnam War; UK-USA Sigint Agreement.
African American National Biography (2008). Samuel Watson; William H. Fitzbutler; J.R. Francis; Ida Gray Nelson Rollins; D. A. Straker; Sophia Bethena Jones; Mary Graham; Grace M. Roberts; Abner J. Howell; Emily H. Williams; and J.A Chiles.
Encyclopedia of Military Communications History (2008). The Vietnam War, 1959-1975; Phu Lam; Military Affiliate Radio System; Naval Research Laboratory; Signal Security Agency; Government Code & Cipher School; Naval Radio Laboratory.
Encyclopedia of Chinese-American Relations (2006). Conger, Edwin H. (1843-1907); Institute of Pacific Relations; Judd, Walter H. (1898-1994); Kung, H.H. (1880-1967); Maoism; Military Assistance Advisory Group in Taiwan; and Angell, James B. (1829-1916).
Sean Cunningham
Research Description:
Dr. Cunninghams research explores the dynamics of political realignment, and specifically, the rise of modern conservatism in the post-1945 Sunbelt. Using Texas as a lens for analysis, Cunningham argues for a multi-causal explanation to Texass shift away from Democratic loyalties during the 1960s and 1970s. Within this argument, Cunningham highlights the significant role of image and public relations in altering public perceptions toward ideological labels, and more specifically, what Texans understood conservatism and liberalism to actually mean or imply during this tumultuous period of evolving political culture.
Selected Publications:
Cunningham, Sean P. The Contested Ascendancy: Sunbelt Politics since 1945. New York: Cambridge University Press, in progress, under contract.
Cunningham, Sean P. Cowboy Conservatism: Texas and the Rise of the Modern Right. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2010.
Book Chapters:
Cunningham, Sean P. John Tower, Texas, and the Rise of the Republican South in Seeking a New Majority: The Republican Party and American Politics, 1960-198, edited by Robert Mason and Iwan Morgan, Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2013.
Cunningham, Sean P. The Paranoid Style and its Limits: The Power, Influence, and Failure of the Postwar Texas Far Right in The Texas Right: The Radical Rots of Lone Star Conservatism, edited by David Cullen and Kyle Wilkison, College Station: Texas A&M University Press, forthcoming.
Cunningham, Sean P. The Political Culture of West Texas in The Giant Side of Texas: A History of West Texas, edited by Paul H. Carlson and Bruce A. Glasrud, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, under consideration.
Cunningham, Sean P. Modernizing Texas, 1945-1980 in Writing Texas History: A Guide to the History of the Lone Star State, edited by Bruce A. Glasrud, Light Townsend Cummins, and Cary D. Wintz, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, under consideration.
Stefano DAmico
Research Description:
Stefano DAmico is a specialist in early modern socio-economic European history and urban history, with a focus on Italy. His more recent articles have focused on Milanese society and economy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and specifically on industrial transformations, immigration patterns and residential strategies, prostitution and womens conditions. He is currently completing his second book, tentatively titled A City within the Empire: Spanish Milan, 1535-1706.
Selected Publications:
DAmico, Stefano. Le contrade e la città. Sistema produttivo e spazio urbano a Milano fra Cinque e Seicento. Milano: Franco Angeli, 1994.
Chapters in Books:
DAmico, Stefano. Population and Economy in Lombardy in the Age of Charles V (1535-1560). In Carlos V y la quiebra del humanismo politico en Europa, Madrid:2001.
DAmico, Stefano. Assistenza o reclusione? I rifugi per peccatrici e fanciulle pericolanti nella Milano della Controriforma. Dimensioni e Problemi della Ricerca Storica (2008).
DAmico, Stefano. Shameful Mother: Poverty and Prostitution in Seventeenth-Century Milan. Journal of Family History vol#? (2005).
DAmico, Stefano. The Question of Economic Decline in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Myth or Reality? History Compass (2004).
DAmico, Stefano. Edilizia e commercio: correnti migratorie piemontesi in Lombardia, 1630-1659. Archivio Storico Lombardo (2002).
DAmico, Stefano. The Rebirth of a City: Immigration and Trade in Milan, 1630-1659. Sixteenth Century Journal XXXII/3, (2001).
DAmico, Stefano. Crisis and Transformation: Economic Organization and Social Structures in Milan, 1570-1630. Social History XXV/1, (2000).
Lynne Fallwell
Research Description:
Lynne Fallwell is Assistant Professor of German History and specializes in the 20th Century, with particular interest in the Third Reich/Holocaust and Comparative Genocide. Her broader research interests involve the intersections between national identity formations, constructing social frameworks, and forums of public education. She is in the process of finishing a book-length manuscript, Birthing By the Book: Professionalization of German Midwifery Education, on the interplay between German midwives and doctors within German obstetrical training. Utilizing similar analytical frameworks of reading education and ensuing impressions, she has also published on German-American relations within post-World War II mass tourism.
Selected Publications:
Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. s.v. Holocaust Documentaries and Holocaust in Sequential Art (forthcoming with Routledge).
Fallwell, Lynne. Through the Looking Glass Darkly: Considering Theories of Nazi Film and Concepts of Transgression. In Arthouse to the Grindhouse, edited by Rob Weiner and John Cline (forthcoming with Scarecrow Press).
Fallwell, Lynne. Beating Nazis and Selling Socialism: Representing East German War Memory to Foreign Tourists. In Memorialisation in Germany since 1945, edited by Bill Niven and Chloe Paver. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Fallwell, Lynne Typische Deutsch: Culinary Tourism and the Presentation of German Food in English Language Travel Guides. In Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning, edited by Katie LeBesco and Peter Naccarato. New York: SUNY University Press, 2008, 127-147.
Barabara Hahn
Research Description:
Dr. Hahn studies and teaches southern history and global history, agriculture, business and economic history, and especially the history of technology. Her recent book, Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commodity, 1617-1937 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011) examined the relationship between the tobacco industry and tobacco agriculture over three centuries. She is at work on a book about cotton futures trading and the regulation of new financial instruments in the Progressive Era, and has begun research on an undergraduate-level history-of-technology treatment of the Industrial Revolution.
Selected Publications:
Hahn, Barbara. Making Tobacco Bright: Creating an American Commodity, 1617-1937. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Hahn, Barbara. Paradox of Precision: Bright Tobacco as Technology Transfer, 1880-1937. Agricultural History 82 (Spring 2008): 220-235.
Hahn, Barbara. Making Tobacco Bright: Institutions, Information, and Industrialization in the Creation of an Agricultural Commodity, 1617-1937. Enterprise and Society 8 (Dec. 2007): 790-798.
Hahn, Barbara. Into the Belly of the Beast: The 2002 North Carolina Flue-Cured Tobacco Tour. Southern Cultures 9 (Fall 2003): 25-50.
Hahn, Barbara. Union Terminal: Business Clubs, Railroads, and City Planning in Cincinnati, 1880-1933. Journal of Urban History 30 (July 2004): 707-28.
Justin Hart
Research Description:
Justin Hart is now completing a book, Empire of Ideas, which examines propaganda, culture, and image in U. S. foreign relations, 1936-1953. This book is the culmination of his long-standing interest in the role of ideas in conceptions of U. S. foreign policy and U. S. foreign relations, particularly as they relate to the emergence of the United States as a dominant global power since World War II.
Selected Publications:
Book chapters:
Hart, Justin. Foreign Relations, Domestic Affairs: The Role of the Public in the Origins of U. S. Public Diplomacy. In The United States and Public Diplomacy: New Directions in Cultural and International History, edited by Kenneth L. Osgood and Brian Ethridge. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
Hart, Justin. In Terms of Peoples Rather Than Nations: World War II Propaganda and Conceptions of U. S. Foreign Policy. In The United States and the Second World War: New Perspectives on Diplomacy, War and the Home Front edited by G. Kurt Piehler and Sidney Pash. New York: Fordham University Press, 2010.
Encyclopedia of the Modern World. s.v. American Century Containment Marshall Plan United States: Cold War and the American Century and Voice of America.
Hart, Justin. Archibald MacLeish Rediscovered: The Poetry of U. S. Foreign Policy. Historically Speaking 8, (January/February 2007): 20-22.
Hart, Justin. Making Democracy Safe for the World: Race, Propaganda, and the Transformation of U. S. Foreign Policy During World War II. Pacific Historical Review, 73, (February 2004): 49-84.
Jorge Iber
Research Description:
Dr. Ibers training is in Mexican American history however, over the past few years his research has focused on issues relating to the participation of Latinos, particularly Mexican Americans, in US sports history during the 20th century. He has just finished coauthoring a book entitled Latinos in US Sport: A History of Isolation, Cultural Identity and Acceptance for Human Kinetics which appeared in April of 2011. This is the leading publisher of materials on sports history and sociology. Dr. Iber edited a 2009 edition of The International Journal of the History of Sport, which will be published by Texas Tech University Press as an anthology sometime in 2013.
Dr. Iber's new work includes a short book on the life and career of MLB pitcher Mike Torrez. Mr. Torrezs career intersects with a great many of the key issues of sport history over the past four decades; including free agency in baseball and the rise to prominence of Latino athletes in the Majors. In addition, the life of the Torrez clan sheds light upon the history of Mexican American workers in the state of Kansas during the 20th century. Finally, the story of this individual also brings into focus the important role of sport in the lives of the Mexican American community in this state.
He is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of the History of Sport and series editor for Sports in the American West for Texas Tech University Press. Dr. Iber served as guest editor for Hispanics in the American West, a special issue of Journal of the West (November, 2006), Sports in the American West, a special issue of Journal of the West (Fall, 2008) and More than Just Peloteros (Baseball Players): Latino/a Athletes in US Sports History issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport (June 2009).
Selected Publications:
Iber, Jorge, Arnoldo De Leon, Jose Alamillo, and, Samuel O. Regalado. Hispanics/Latinos in US Sports History. 2011
Encyclopedia of North American Sport History. s.v. Pittsburgh Pirates and Latinos.
Latino America: A State-by-State Encyclopedia. s.v. Utah.
Iber, Jorge. "The Voice of Utahs Others: The Life and Career of Eliud Pete Suazo, Utahs First Hispanic State Senator, 1950-2001, Utah Historical Quarterly (Spring 2008).
Iber, Jorge. Introduction: Sport in the American West, Journal of the West 47, No. 4 (Fall 2008): 10-13.
Iber, Jorge. Prologue: The Perils and Possibilities of Quarterbacking While Mexican Mexican: A Brief Introduction to the Participation of Latino/a Athletes in US Sports History. The International Journal of the History of Sport, (26: 7) June 2009: 881-888.
Iber, Jorge. Mexican Americans of South Texas Football: The Athletic and Coaching Careers of E.C. Lerma and Bobby Cavazos, 1932-1965. The International Journal of the History of Sport, (26: 7) June 2009: 966-980.
Iber, Jorge. . Epilogue: From 'Quarterbacking While Mexican' to New Horizons in Sports History. The International Journal of the History of Sport, (26: 7) June 2009: 1001-1004.
Allan Kuethe
Research Description:
Dr. Kuethes research interest encompasses Spanish colonial policy during the eighteenth century. The focus addresses the causation and chronology for reform, particularly as it related to the army, the Armada, and commerce. The geographical focus has been New Granada, Cuba, Mexico, and Seville. An addition dimension has recently become Mexico´s northern frontier.
Selected Publications:
Kuethe, Allan. Military Reform and Society in New Granada, 1773-1808. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1978.
Kuethe, Allan. Cuba, 1753-1815: Crown, Military, and Society. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986.
Kuethe, Allan. Relaciones del poder y comercio colonial: Nuevas perspectivas. Seville, 1999.
Kuethe, Allan. Soldados del rey: Ejército borbónico en América colonial en vísperas de la independencia. Castellón, 2005.
Miguel A. Levario
Research Description:
Miguel A. Levario specializes in US-Mexico Borderlands, with emphasis on the twentieth century. His research focuses on the transnational context of immigration, militarization, and race in the U.S. West and Northern Mexico. His book, Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy (Texas A&M University Press, 2012), traces militarization and its affect on race relations on the US-Mexico border. Levario recently published an essay titled, The El Paso Race Riot of 1916 in Arnoldo De Leons War Along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities (Robert A. Calvert Book Prize 2011). Additionally, Levario recently finished a chapter covering the social history of the Trans-Pecos region, to be published in a forthcoming survey of the history of West Texas, edited by Paul Carlson and Bruce Glasrud. Levario has presented research at the Organization of American Historians, Texas State Historical Association, as well as, several other national, international, state and local conferences. Levario has published in the Journal of American History, Aztlán, The Chronicles of Oklahoma, Civil War History, among others. Several national and international media outlets have sought Levario for expert commentary on current and past conditions regarding immigration, drug smuggling, and national security along the US-Mexico border.
In 2011, Texas Tech University awarded Levario with the Scholars Incentive Award. In 2010, Levario was honored with the President's Excellence in Diversity and Equity Award. He was also nominated for this award in 2009. In 2009, Levario was awarded the Marlene Nathan Meyerson Fellowship by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
Selected Publications:
Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, September 2012)
The El Paso Race Riot of 1916, In War Along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities, edited by Arnoldo De León. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, January 2012. Robert A. Calvert Book Prize 2011
The Giant Side of Texas: A History of West Texas, Paul Carlson and Bruce A. Glasrud, eds., Chapter, History of the Trans-Pecos and Big Bend Region, (University of Oklahoma Press, forthcoming)
Articles, Essays, and Reviews
Cowboys and Bandidos: Authority and Race in West Texas, 1913-1918, West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, vol. LXXXV, October 2009.
Review of Los Brazos de Díos: A Plantation Society in the Texas Borderlands, 1821-1865 by Sean M. Kelley. Civil War History vol. 58, no. 2 (June 2012).
Website review of Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History. Journal of American History (June 2011), 308.
Review of The Making of the Mexican Border by Juan Mora-Torres. Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies vol. 30, n. 2 (Fall 2005), 201-202.
Texas Tech Honors College Faculty of the Year Award (2011-2012)
Texas Tech College of Arts & Sciences Scholar's Incentive Award (Spring 2011)
President's Excellence in Diversity and Equity Award, Presidents Office, Texas Tech University (Spring 2010)
Marlene Nathan Meyerson Fellowship Endowment, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin (Fall 2009)
Faculty Diversity Development Award, Cross-Cultural Academic Advancement Center, Texas Tech University (Fall/Spring 2008-2009)
Randy McBee
Research Description:
Dr. McBee's research focuses primarily on the history of the working class in the United States throughout the twentieth century. His work pays particular attention to issues of class, race, and gender and the broader intersections between places of work and leisure. His first book, Dance Hall Days, explored the relationship between the rise of commercial leisure in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the influx of working-class immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, and male culture. His current book project explores the history of motorcyclists and the rise of the "biker" since the Hollister Rally in 1947. It examines the motorcyclist's largely working-class roots and the rise of the "outlaw" motorcyclist in the 1940s and 1950s through the development of the motorcycle rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s. He considers how that image and that movement shaped the public's understanding of motorcycling and motorcyclists and their larger impact on American culture and politics.
Selected Publications:
Harley-Davidsons Future (Abroad), International Journal of Motorcycle Studies, Volume 7, Issue 2: Fall 2011 (ijms.nova.edu)
Born to Be Wild: A Post-World War II History of Motorcyclist in the United States, International Journal of Motorcycle Studies, July 2006 (ijms.nova.edu)
A Potential Common Front: Hunter Thompson, the Hells Angels, and Race in 1960s America, International Journal of Motorcycle Studies, July 2005 (ijms.nova.edu)
Dance Hall Days: Intimacy and Leisure Among Working-Class Immigrants in the United States, (New York University Press, 2000)
He Likes Women More Than He Likes Drink and That is Quite Unusual: Working-Class Social Clubs, Male Culture, and Heterosocial Relations in the United States, 1920s-1930s, Gender and History, Volume 11, #1 (April 1999)
John R. Milam
Research Description:
Dr. Milams research is in military history, particularly in the relationship between soldiers, marines, sailors, and airmen in battle situations. Once his second book on the Vietnam War is completed, he will begin research on soldiers experiences once they come home and are faced with assimilation into society. This work will cover all American wars, regardless of era or area. Issues such as the Newburg Conspiracy in 1783, the Bonus Army in 1932, and the necessity for the passing of the Vietnam Era Veteran Readjustment Act in 1974 will be dealt with to determine the American attitude toward it's warriors.
Selected Publications:
Milam, Ron. Not a Gentlemans War: An Inside View of Junior Officers in the Vietnam War. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Milam, Ron. The Vietnam War. In Companion to American Military History, London: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2009.
Forthcoming Publication:
Milam, Ron. The Siege of Phu Nhon: Montagnards and Americans as Allies in Battle
Barton A. Myers
Research Description:
Dr. Barton Myers teaches courses on nineteenth century U.S. and American military history, specializing in the American Civil War Era. He is actively researching and writing on the history of soldiers and atrocity in Civil War America and the history of violent political dissent in the Confederacy.
Selected Publications:
Myers, Barton. Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coastal Carolina Community, 1861-1865. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009). (Paperback, 2011).
Book Prizes:
*Winner of the Jules and Frances Landry Award for the Best Book in Southern Studies, LSU Press Board, 2009.
* Selected as Best Study on the History of the Confederacy in 2009 by Civil War Memory Blog.
Current Book Project:
Rebels Against a Rebellion: North Carolinas Unionists in the Civil War Era
*Supported by a research fellowship from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, New York, New York, for innovative research on violence, aggression, and dominance.
Journal Articles:
The Future of Civil War Studies: Military History, The Journal of the Civil War Era vol. 2, no. 1 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Official Publication of the Society of Civil War Historians, March 2012). Invited by editorial board as one of eight junior scholars to reflect on the future of sub-fields in Civil War studies.
Book Chapters:
Dissecting the Torture of Mrs. Owens: The Story of a Civil War Atrocity, Stephen Berry ed. Weirding the War: Stories from the Civil Wars Ragged Edges (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2011). Volume named to Best of 2011 list at Civil War Memory Blog as Best Edited Volume.
A More Rigorous Style of Warfare: Wilds Raid, Guerrilla Violence and Negotiated Neutrality in Northeastern North Carolina, Paul D. Escott ed., North Carolinians in the Era of the Civil War and Reconstruction (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008).
Chapter Nine: Guerrillas, Aaron Sheehan-Dean ed., The Blackwell Companion to the U.S. Civil War (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, in press).
Patricia Pelley
Research Description:
Patricia Pelley teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses on world, Japanese, Southeast Asian, and Vietnamese history. Her first book, Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past, explores historiographical debates in contemporary Vietnam. Her current research, which examines the intersections of global, Catholic, and colonial histories of Vietnam, focuses on the Redemptorist writer Marcel Van (Thầy Nguyễn Tân Văn).
Selected Publications:
Barbarians and Younger Brothers: The Remaking of Race in Postcolonial Vietnam. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 29/2 (1998): 374-391.
Colonial Benedictions, in Balachandra Rajan and Elizabeth Sauer, eds. Imperialisms: Historical and Literary Investigations 1500-1900 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 163-176.
Constructing Southeast Asian Pasts: A New Retrospective, in Norman Owen, ed. The Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian History (Routledge, forthcoming).
The History of Resistance and Resistance to History in Post-Colonial Constructions of the Past, in Keith W. Taylor and John K. Whitmore, eds. Essays into Vietnamese Pasts (Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Publications, 2005), pp. 232-245. Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past (Duke UP, 2002).
Vietnamese Historical Writing, in Daniel Woolf and Axel Schneider, eds. Oxford History of Historical Writing, Vol. 5: Historical Writing Since 1945 (Oxford UP, 2011), pp. 559-574.
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, First Book Prize (2003)
Texas Tech University Chancellor's Research Award (2003)
Texas Tech University President's Book Prize (2004)
Ethan Schmidt
Research Description:
Ethan Schmidt specializes in The Atlantic World, with an emphasis on the interactions between Indigenous People and European Colonists. His book manuscript tentatively titled, To Ruin and Extirpate All Indians in General: Customary Rights and Ethnic Conflict in Seventeenth-Century Virginia, examines the way in which the social divisions that Virginia colonists brought with them from England led to violence against the Native people of Virginia and eventually led to an agreement between the classes that killing Indians forland was a permissible act for all social classes. His article The Well-Ordered Commonwealth: Sir Thomas Mores Utopia and the Colonization of the Americas, published in the journal Atlantic Studies, argues that English colonial planters expected that they would create a commonwealth similar to that described by More in Virginia where Native Americans would take their place as members of the English producing classes. Dr. Schmidt is currently working on his second major study, which will synthesize the Native American experience in the American Revolution. That book, tentatively titled The Greatest Blow that Could Have Been Dealt Us: Native Americans and the American Revolution, is under contract with Greenwood Praeger/ABC-CLIO publishing. American Indian Quarterly will publish his article Cockacoeske, Weroansqua of the Pamunkey and Indian Resistance in Seventeenth Century Virginia, later this year. He is also currently revising an article on the changing perspectives of Native Americans in Colonial NewEngland historiography for the Massachusetts History Journal.
Selected Publications:
Under Contract Due in October2012- Schmidt, Ethan. The Greatest Blow that Could Have Been Dealt Us: Native Americans and the American Revolution. Greenwood Praeger Publishing.
Book Manuscript- Schmidt, Ethan. For the Destruction of the Indians: Social Conflict and Indian Hatred in Seventeenth-Century Virginia. (Under Review)
Forthcoming- E. Schmidt, Cockacoeske, Weroansqua of the Pamunkey and Indian Resistance in Seventeenth Century Virginia, American Indian Quarterly
Currently in Revise and Resubmit Status- E. Schmidt, Changing Interpretations of New England Native American History, Massachusetts History Journal
E. Schmidt, Nathaniel Bacon, William Berkeley, House of Burgesses, Indentured Servants, Susquehannock Indians, Tobacco, and Bacons Rebellion, in Encyclopedia of Revolts, Protests and Rebellions in American History. ABC-CLIO Publishing, (December 2010).
E. Schmidt, The Well-Ordered Commonwealth: Humanism, Utopian Perfectionism and the English Colonization of the Americas, Atlantic Studies Vol. 7, No. 3, September 2010, 309-328.
E. Schmidt, When Indians Play Indian Symposium Proceedings, History of Anthropology Newsletter Vol. 36, No. 2, December 2009, 14-15.
E. Schmidt. Review of Gunlög Fur, A Nation of Women: Gender and Colonial Encounters Among the Delaware Indians, in Chronicles of Oklahoma. (Spring 2010)
E. Schmidt. Review of Camilla Townsend, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma. H-Net, H-AmIndian Discussion Network.
E. Schmidt, Review of The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763 by Steven C. Hahn, Indigenous Nations Journal. (Spring 2008)
E. Schmidt. Review of Alden T. Vaughan, Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500-1776, in Itinerario (January 2008)
Emily Skidmore
Research Description:
Emily Skidmore's research interests are U.S. women's and gender history, queer studies, and citizenship studies. More specifically, Dr. Skidmore's research is focused on the constructions of normative identity categories, and understanding the interplay between legal definitions of citizenship and popular and scientific definitions of normative race, gender, and sexuality in the modern United States. She is currently revising her manuscript, titled "Exceptional Queerness: Defining the Boundaries of Normative U.S. Citizenship, 1876-1936" for publication.
Selected Publications:
Constructing the Good Transsexual: Christine Jorgensen, Whiteness, and Heteronormativity in the Mid-Twentieth Century Press, Feminist Studies 37, no. 2 (Summer 2011): 270-300.
Ralph Kerwineos Queer Body: Narrating the Scales of Social Membership in the Early Twentieth Century, in Connexions: Histories of Race and Sex in North America, edited by Jennifer Brier, Michele Mitchell, and Jennifer Morgan (accepted by editors)
Mark Stoll
Research Description:
Mark Stoll investigates the influence of religious upbringing on attitudes towards nature and the environment. Recent publications have looked at how the vision of Eden in Miltons Paradise Lost played a role in the creation of national parks and how American conservation grew out of the Puritan legacy in the Connecticut River Valley. He recently published an online exhibition on the international reception and impact of Rachel Carsons Silent Spring, and an article on the Protestant influence on the French Green movement is in press. Stoll is currently working on a book-length manuscript, Nature in the Colors of the Spirit: The Religious Roots of American Environmentalism.
Selected Publications:
Stoll, Mark. Rachel Carsons Silent Spring, a Book That Changed the World. The Environment & Society Portal. A project of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum. www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/silent-spring/overview. May 2012.
Stoll, Mark. Sagacious Bernard Palissy: Pinchot, Marsh, and the Connecticut Origins of Conservation, Environmental History 16 (January 2011): 4–37.
Stoll, Mark. Milton in Yosemite: Paradise Lost and the National Parks Idea. Environmental History 13 (April 2008): 237–74.
Stoll, Mark. Protestantism, Capitalism, and Nature in America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.
Abigail Swingen
Research Description:
Dr. Swingens research explores how English politics and ideas of political economy influenced the development of colonial politics as well as African slavery and other forms of coerced labor in Englands West Indies colonies during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. She argues that the development of these labor systems was intimately connected to the evolution of early English imperialism, and that issues of empire frequently intersected with metropolitan concerns.
Books and articles:
Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire, book manuscript under contract with Yale University Press.
Unfree Labor 8,000-word article in edited volume Rethinking Mercantilism: New Perspectives in Early Modern Economic Thought, Philip Stern and Carl Wennerlind, eds., under review by Cambridge University Press.
Book Reviews:
Catherine Molineux, Faces of Perfect Ebony: Encountering Atlantic Slavery in Imperial Britain (Harvard, 2012), reviewed in Huntington Library Quarterly, forthcoming, June 2012.
James Sidbury, Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic (Oxford, 2007), reviewed in British Scholar, March 2010 (available online: http://britishscholar.org/bookofthemonthaugust2009.html)
Meredith Baldwin Weddle, Walking in the Way of Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century (Oxford, 2001), reviewed in Journal of Religion, April 2003Fellowships:
Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Long-Term Fellowship, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, 2011-2012.
Frederick A. and Marion S. Pottle Fellowship in 18th-century British Studies (short-term), Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven CT, 2011-2012.
Richard Verrone
Research Description:
Dr. Verrones general research interests are modern U.S. history, American foreign policy, Southeast Asian history, and Oral History.
Verrone, Richard Burks and Caulkins, Laura. Voices from Vietnam: Eyewitness Accounts of the War, 1954-1975. London: David and Charles, 2005.
Julie Ann Willett
Research Description:
Dr. Willetts research focuses on the intersection of gender, labor, sexuality and social ethics. Her first monograph entitled Permanent Waves: The Making of the American Beauty Shop traces the social and cultural history of womens work and community in beauty culture, paying particular attention to the degree to which the hairdressing industry as well as hair styles developed along lines of race. The monograph examines how race, class and gender defined and redefined skill, the everyday experiences of beauty shop culture as well as contested meanings of beauty, respectability and politics. Dr. Willett more recently edited The American Beauty Industry Encyclopedia - an interdisciplinary resource that examines the social, cultural, and economic ramifications of beauty and business.She is particularly interested in the study of social ethics, something that shapes several of her current research projects. Using the discourse of masculinity and contested meanings of childcare,Dr. Willett looks at paid and unpaid caregiving against the backdrop of late capitalism to reveal neoliberal assumptions about the nature of womens work. A related book project looks more specifically at feminisms and masculinities in the 1970s. She is also collaborating on a series of interdisciplinary articles that center social ethics and comedy in conversation with critical race theory, feminism, and speciesism.
Permanent Waves: The Making of the American Beauty Shop, New York: New York University Press, 2000. The American Beauty Industry Encyclopedia, Santa Barbara: Greenwood Press, ABC-CLIO, 2010, Editor.
Going to Bed White and Waking up Arab: On Xenophobia, Affect Theories of Laughter, and the Social Contagion of the Comic Stage, coauthored with Cynthia Willett, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, (forthcoming)
Trayvon Martin and the Tragedy of the New Jim Crow coauthored with Cynthia Willett in Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics, ed. George Yancy and Janine Jones, (Lexington Books, forthcoming, 2012).
The Seriously Erotic Politics of Feminist Laughter, with Cynthia Willett and Yael Sherman. Social Research: An International Quarterly Vol. 79 No. 1 (Spring, 2012); expanded version to be reprinted in Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture editors Joanne Waugh and Sharon Crasnow, (Lexington Books, forthcoming, 2012).
Behaving Like Brando: Transgressing Race and Gender in The Wild One. Roundtable: Brando and The Wild One, The International Journal of Motorcycle Studies (March, 2009).
A Father's Touch: Negotiating Masculinity and Sexual Subjectivity in Child Care, Sexuality and Culture (December, 2008).
Hands Across the Table: The Manicurist in the Twentieth Century, Journal of Womens History (Fall, 2005).
Beauty Shops and Bouffants: The Political Uses of Beauty, Style and Domestic Space in Containing America: Cultural Production and Consumption in Fifties America, edited by Nathan Abrams and Julie Hughes, Birmingham (England): University Press, 2000.
The Prudes, The Public, and The Motion Pictures The Censorship Campaign in St. Louis, 1913-1917, Gateway Heritage, Spring, 1995.
Aliza Wong
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Aliza S. Wong is a historian of modern Italy who focuses on nationalism, race, and identity. She most recently published a monograph entitled, Race and Nation in Liberal Italy, 1861-1911: Meridionalism, Empire, and Diaspora (Palgrave, 2006) and continues to work on issues of diaspora and cultural exchange. She is currently completing a new project inspired by her experiences in the Southwest and at Texas Tech as well as her expertise in Italian history. Her new book manuscript, tentatively titled, How the Italian West Was Won: Italian Constructions of the American Old West, 1890-1971, examines the ways in which the American West figures prominently in the Italian imagination, both as a challenge to Italian masculinity and as evidence of their own sense of adventure and spirit. This book discusses Italian constructions of the American Old West and the Old West in Italy through the Italian leg of Buffalo Bills European tour, childrens literature, comic books, film, and fashion.
Race and Nation in Liberal Italy, 1861-1911: Meridionalism, Empire, and Diaspora (Palgrave: October, 2006)
Chapters in Books
The Chinese in Italy, Encyclopaedia of the Chinese Overseas, ed. Lynn Pan (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998 – second edition, 2007).
"Pirates, Cowboys and Other Adventurers: Sergio Leone and the Influence of Emilio Salgari, in Cynthia Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper (eds.), (Re)Locating the Frontier: International Western Films (forthcoming, 2014)
Protecting the Palate: Racial Discourse and Xenophobia in Italian Food Culture, ECHIOLTREMARE (forthcoming, 2013)
Women Faculty of Color Transgressing Multiple Marginality in Academia: Voices, Gender, and Expression of Our Multiple Identities in Advancing Women in Leadership, 2011, (with Marbley, A. F., Ross, W., and Jaddo, L.)
Una Storia dei Primi Incontri, www.golemindispensabile.com (edited by Umberto Eco)
Book Reviews
Review of Mark Choate, Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad in the American Historical Review (February, 2010)
Review of Labanca and Venuta, Bibliografia della Libia coloniale, 1911-2000 in The Journal of Modern Italian Studies (forthcoming, 2006)
Review of Patrizia Palumbo, A Place in the Sun: Africa in the Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present in The Journal of Modern Italian Studies (2005)
Works in Progress:
The Making of the (Italian) West: The Imaging of America in Italy


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An elite scholarship is available in the area of health policy, targeting health services for chronic disease prevention and treatment in rural communities. The successful applicant will develop methods for measuring and improving how well health services meet the needs of those with chronic disease. A social inclusion approach will be taken that targets groups with unequal health outcomes in rural Australia who are experiencing particular disadvantages such as social exclusion through socio-economic disadvantage. The project will involve a strong policy development focus and step-wise consultation with state and national, as well as international, policy-makers and health agencies. The successful applicant will review existing methods for benchmarking health services in the area of chronic disease, including benchmarking data from such bodies as the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Australian Institute for Health and Welfare; consult with policy-makers and community stakeholders about appropriate indicators and approaches; develop methods and a model for better assessing service performance for disadvantaged and socially excluded groups. Applicants with a background in quantitative methods are particularly encouraged to apply. The successful applicant will be supervised by Associate Professor Erica Bell, Deputy Director at the University Department of Rural Health (UDRH), and work within the UDRH's health policy research program at the Hobart office of the UDRH. As a key outcome being sought for this thesis is a benchmarking method that is useful to Australian policy-makers, the successful candidate will be required to work with a community stake-holder group predominantly comprised of state and national health policy-makers.
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Last night thousands of Camping's followers went to bed disappointed and confused. Their pride bubbles deflated rather quickly when 6:01 came. This morning, however, millions of evangelicals woke up not with rapture fever, but with a bad case of pride. We woke up this morning praying, "Lord, I thank you I am not like other men. I don't follow embarrassing gurus. I have a nice and respectable millennial position. I don't cause you embarrassment on the national news, giving the devil room to laugh" and of course, the devil laughs, roars in fact, his plan a success.http://rcsprouljunior.blogspot.com/2011/05/humility-in-name-of-love_6237.html
It is not my desire to make light of Camping's errors. I want neither to mock them nor to minimize them. They are egregious, his views on the church most egregious of all. It is my desire, however, to own my sin, to guard against my own temptation more than to point and laugh at others. It is my desire daily to hope that Jesus would come back, and that He would find me not pointing and laughing at others, not either looking up to heaven in expectation, but looking to the ground in humility, beating my breast and praying, "Lord be merciful to me, a sinner."
These rubes are not the back bone of our country, they are uneducated, racist, xenophobic, sexist, homophobic, theocratic, inbred halfwits who should be disenfranchised and cared for as one would care for a child. They should not be allowed to run their own police forces or their local governments. Those should be handled by people who have some sense. Let the peasants have their Jesus and their meth, but for god's sake stop acting like they have any place in a functioning democracy.Certainly, you can see a difference between these two statements. The former is taking issue with an idea, and doing so in a way that isn't derogatory to anyone. The latter is just ugliness.
For both liberal[-sceptical] cynics and religious fundamentalists, religious statements are quasi-empirical statements of direct knowledge: fundamentalists accept them as such, while sceptical cynics mock them. No wonder that religious fundamentalists are among the most passionate digital hackers, and always prone to combine their religion with the latest findings of science. For them, religious statements and scientific statements belong to the same modality of positive knowledge. The occurrence of the term 'science' in the very name of some of the fundamentalist sects (Christian Science, Scientology) is not just an obscene joke, but signals this reduction of belief to positive knowledge. [...] This is what we can learn from Lacan about the rise of religious fundamentalism: its true danger does not reside in its threat to secular scientific knowledge, but in its threat to authentic belief itself.(My interpolation in the first line of the above quote is for clarification and comes from an earlier point in the longer quotation linked above.)
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;posted by empath at 12:20 PM on May 27, 2011
he suffered, died, and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in fulfillment of the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.


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20 Arrested In Operation Candlelight Arson And Insurance Scam
A major arson and insurance scam has been busted in Miami.
Police Clear Woman In Michael's Craft Store Arson
A woman seen in surveillance video the day three fires were set inside a Michael's Arts and Crafts store has been cleared of any wrongdoing.
Woman With Stroller "Person Of Interest" Cleared In Michaels Store Arson
Miami-Dade police spent the day Wednesday looking for a woman captured in a surveillance video, calling her a person of interest in connection with three fires started in a Kendall arts and crafts store. Late Wednesday, they said they had found the woman and decided she had no connection to the fire.
11th Victim Found Days After Deadly I-75 Pileup
The death toll now stands at 11 in the deadly I-75 pileup outside Gainesville after the body of another person was found in a pickup truck days after the accident.
Gov. Scott Orders FDLE Investigation Into Deadly I-75 Pileup
Fla. Gov. Rick Scott wants some answers in the wake of a deadly pileup on I-75 near Gainesville over the weekend.
Fla. Highway Reopen After Chain Reaction Crash Kills 10
All lanes of a Florida interstate finally reopened Monday after ten people died in a mass pileup that tossed wreckage across the asphalt and left rescuers to search for survivors in the dark by listening for their screams.
Fire That Led To Deadly I-75 Crashes May Have Been Arson
At least ten people died in a series of crashes apparently caused by heavy smoke and fog overnight on I-75 in north Florida and now officials are investigating whether an arsonist set the fire that caused the smoke that led to the deadly traffic crash near Gainesville.
Home Detention Ordered For Boy In Kohl's Fire Case
A Coconut Creek boy was ordered into home detention Friday after he allegedly set a fire at a South Florida Kohl's department store.
Boy Accused Of Setting Fire At Coral Springs Kohl's
Coral Springs police have taken a Coconut Creek boy into custody because they say he's a pint sized fire bug who had a thing for Kohl's department store.
Couple Burned Out Of Dania Beach Home
An early morning fire burned a pregnant woman, her two children and her boyfriend out of their Dania Beach home.


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Donald Trump. Mark Cuban. The Twitter war of the Billionaires is on!
The beef started with Cuban offering Trump $1 million to shave his head in a response to Trump's $5 million offer to President Obama to produce his college transcripts.
That was November, and the Smart Phone Smackdown has only intensified since. Last week on the Tonight Show, the Dallas Mavericks owner stoked the flames.
Cuban produced a letter he received from Trump in 2004, when his show The Benefactor, an obvious takeoff on Trump's The Apprentice, had just been canceled.
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Maine Caucus Results:
Mitt Romney 39% 2,190
Ron Paul 36% 1,996
Rick Santorum 18% 989
Newt Gingrich 6% 349
Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C.
Mitt Romney — 38%
Rick Santorum — 31%
Newt Gingrich — 15%
Ron Paul — 12%
3,408 activists voted from 9am Thursday through 1pm Saturday,
Straw poll conducted on-line for the Washington Times by Tony Fabrizio.
Per the Washington Times — Romney's 38% was the highest of any candidate since George W. Bush won 42 percent of the vote in 2000, en route to the nomination and the White House. The poll wasn't held from 2001 through 2004, but has been held every year since then.
Rick Santorum wins the Minnesota and Colorado caucuses and also wins the non-binding primary in Missouri.
CBS News projects that Rick Santorum will win the Minnesota caucuses and the non-binding Missouri primary. The results from Colorado are still being counted.
CBS News projects that Mitt Romney will win the Nevada caucuses with a sizable victory. Romney had gone into the caucuses with a lead in the polls and strong organization, and it clearly paid off tonight. Meanwhile Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich are battling for second place.
Tallied votes have started to come in and the state party expects to count votes from Clark County, the state's largest.
Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president at a rally at his Las Vegas hotel saying Romney has an "extraordinary ability" to understand the US economy.


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UPLOADED: The Asian American Story
"This documentary explores the visibility of Asian Americans in pop culture since the inception of new media such as YouTube. The documentary will focus on the current struggles and successes of important Asian Americans in the areas of music, film, and dance from both new media creators and long time industry professionals."
Cast includes: AJ Rafael, Clara C, Cathy Nguyen, David Choi, Traphik, Poreotics, Victor Kim, Happy Slip, David So, Freddie Wong, Just Kidding Films, KevJumba, Nigahiga, Wong Fu Productions, and moreeeeee!
Came across this by chance and it looks really cool! No set release date yet but stay posted!
Cali Cali Cali Music Video made for Alyssa Bernal . Alyssa is signed under a major label called star trak and wong fu's first time making a music video for a major label ! Make sure you show your support by liking the video and spreading the word since the video is not uploaded on the Wong Fu Channel!
PS- How many other Youtube star cameo's can you spot in this music video?
Wong Fu just posted 3 stops to their autumn tour for 2010 here are the stops :
10/16: Northeastern University
Saturday: 9p-11p
Blackman Auditorium
342 Huntington Avenue in Ell Hall
NEU student: $9. General: $12
Special show with Ryan Higa, Kevin Wu, David Choi and Afterschoolspecial!
10/17: Brandeis University
Sunday: 6p-9p
Levin Ballroom
415 South St., Waltham, MA
Brandeis student: $3. General: $5
10/29: UC San Diego
afterschoolspecial Album Release!
Friday: 8p
The Loft at UCSD – Price Center East
This is a special event for our friends "afterschoolspecial", an alternative rock band. We'll be premiering the music video we made for them, "Name". Special guests Paul Dateh, Magnetic North + Taiyo Na, hosted by Just Kidding Films.


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Matchup: Lions at Vikings
1 p.m. ET, Sunday at Mall of America Field
Published: Nov 08, 2012
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Each week Fantasy Source experts break down the matchups for NFL games from a fantasy perspective. Our tiered star ratings tell you how strongly we feel about each player's chances for a breakout performance. We analyze players based on how well their opponent defends that position and other factors such as statistical trends, playing-time potential and the talent level of the players and the teams involved.
5-Star Players
Adrian Peterson, RB, Vikings. Peterson is officially superhuman. In his return from major knee injuries suffered late last season, Peterson ranks third among all fantasy running backs in standard formats. Start him each and every week.
Calvin Johnson, WR, Lions. Though he missed practice all last week and was a game-time decision with a knee injury, Johnson still played a normal number of snaps and caught seven passes for 129 yards. Be patient -- the touchdowns are coming.
Percy Harvin, WR, Vikings. Harvin suffered a sprained ankle in Week 9 and is uncertain for Sunday's game against Detroit. This is a simple game-time call for fantasy owners: if he's active, start him.
4-Star Players
Blair Walsh, K, Vikings. Walsh's scoring has slowed with just three field goals in the past three weeks. Two of those were from 50-plus yards, however, and the rookie is 19-for-20 on the season. With a strong, accurate leg, Walsh is always a threat for a big fantasy day, and we're expecting the Vikings to move the ball well against the Lions, who are fairly generous to fantasy kickers.
3-Star Players
Matthew Stafford, QB, Lions. Although the yards have been there all season for Stafford, who's averaging nearly 300 per game, he's stuck on just eight passing TDs with seven picks. This week, however, the yards may be hard to come by, but owners can expect Stafford to add to that TD total. Although the Vikings' top-10 pass defense has been limiting yardage, it has allowed a generous 14 passing scores and the sixth-most fantasy points per game (FPPG) to quarterbacks. Keep the faith with Stafford.
Mikel LeShoure, RB, Lions. LeShoure rushed for 70 yards and a whopping three TDs last week on 16 carries. It was more a case of him being in the right place at the right time for the scores rather than being unstoppable like Doug Martin, but the takeaway is that the Lions offense is starting to come around. We're expecting LeShoure to take advantage of a mediocre Vikings run D while the Lions put him in position to score once again. He can be used as a No. 2 fantasy running back this weekend.
Titus Young, WR, Lions. Young followed up a huge game in Week 8 with a two-catch, 20-yard performance last week. He and rookie Ryan Broyles will likely continue to share targets and rotate big games behind Megatron, but we're giving Young the slightly higher odds of making an impact for now. Don't be scared of this matchup, either. Although Minnesota ranks ninth against the pass, this secondary is vulnerable without CB Chris Cook and it will be focused on stopping Johnson, leaving Young in great one-on-one matchups. He's a WR3 play with WR2 upside.
Brandon Pettigrew, TE, Lions. Pettigrew is coming off his worst game of the season, catching one of three targets for 11 yards. Until last week, though, he was seeing a healthy dose of targets each game, so last week's lack of involvement was likely a fluke. Expect him to be more active Sunday against the Vikings, who are allowing the 11th-most FPPG to TEs and have allowed four TDs in nine games to the position. Another 50 yards and possibly a score from Pettigrew aren't out of the question.
Lions defense/special teams. Although Detroit is sporting the league's No. 7 overall defense, this has been a disappointing unit from a fantasy perspective. The Lions' pass rush is good for a couple sacks each game, but there haven't been enough other big plays to satisfy fantasy owners. That could change this week against a struggling Christian Ponder and the Vikings, who are allowing the ninth-most FPPG to D/STs. Plus, the Vikings offense would become one-dimensional without Harvin. This is a solid unit that still has enough upside to trust this week if necessary.
2-Star Players
Kyle Rudolph, TE, Vikings. With Christian Ponder struggling, Rudolph has been a bust lately. The TE has been shut out in two of the last three games and he caught just two passes for 17 yards in between. On the bright side, Rudolph has a good matchup against the Lions, who are allowing the 10th-most FPPG to TEs, and he could see an uptick in targets if Harvin is out or limited. Just keep in mind his spotty production lately. He's a boom-or-bust gamble.
Jason Hanson, K, Lions. Unfortunately for Hanson, the Lions have been getting in the end zone more often rather than leaving him with field-goal attempts. He has made just one field goal on two attempts the past three games while converting nine extra points in that stretch. Hanson is still a solid fantasy option because of the Lions' high-upside offense, but his points may continue coming one at a time unless the Vikings D can hold strong in the red zone.
Jerome Simpson, WR, Vikings. If Harvin is active, Simpson isn't worth considering against a top-10 Lions pass defense that's doing a good job of limiting WR fantasy points. However, if Harvin is out, Simpson is in the conversation as a long-shot WR3. Still, this isn't a great matchup, and we haven't seen enough from Simpson to trust him. Plus, the Vikings will likely attack the Lions' weakness with Peterson anyway.
Ryan Broyles, WR, Lions. Broyles has been a steady contributor since Nate Burleson went down, catching 12 passes for 140 yards and two TDs the past three games. However, his value depends heavily on getting into the end zone because he's sharing Johnson's leftovers with Young. There's a decent chance he scores against a banged-up Vikings secondary, making Broyles a solid WR3 gamble in a pass-oriented attack.
Vikings defense/special teams. Earlier this season the Lions were a team to pick on for fantasy owners because of poor special teams play and offensive struggles. But Detroit has fixed those special-teams flaws and is putting points on the board lately. Meanwhile, the Vikings have allowed 30-plus points in three of the last four games and have struggled to make up for that generosity with big plays for fantasy owners. In short, find a unit with more momentum and a better matchup this weekend.
1-Star Players
Joique Bell, RB, Lions. Bell, who rushed 13 times for 73 yards and a touchdown in Week 9, is getting plenty of touches behind LeShoure lately on passing downs and in garbage time. That could be the case again this weekend against a so-so Vikings run defense. The unheralded rookie is shaping up as a decent bye-week flex in point-per-reception (PPR) leagues.
Christian Ponder, QB, Vikings. Ponder has hit the skids lately. He hasn't notched multiple TDs since Week 6 and has failed to even reach 70 passing yards in two of the last three games. He can't be trusted against a fierce Lions pass rush, especially if Harvin is out.
Tony Scheffler, TE, Lions. Scheffler's only fantasy role is to siphon TE targets from Pettigrew and steal the occasional TD. He's not a legit option as the Lions' fifth receiving option, at best.
0-Star Players
Michael Jenkins, WR, Vikings. Jenkins is in the mix if Harvin is inactive, in which case he would serve as Minnesota's No. 2 (or maybe even No. 1) receiver. He would be a better play in PPR leagues, but still a desperation option.
Toby Gerhart, RB, Vikings. Gerhart is no more than a handcuff with Peterson healthy.


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First-time buyer lending up 74%
CML members are banks, building societies and other lenders who together undertake around 95% of residential mortgage lending in the UK. There are 11.3 million mortgages in the UK, with loans worth more than £1.2 trillion.
Remortgaging activity was flat in the month, with the £3.6 billion advanced unchanged from February and lower than March last year.
Overall there were 51,200 loans for house purchase and remortgage, an increase of 44% on February.
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Twitch Plays Pokémon's final battle against Blue's Blastoise.
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This was based on my own experience ahahah, my Latias is 8 years old now, she's a great Pokemon :')
Best shit ever
Lilina: Marcus, what kind of couple were Lord Eliwood and his wife?
Marcus: Well, my lady, when the two were youths, they were such a happy pair that just looking at them would cheer one up. The people of Pherae were truly happy for them.
Lilina: Wow… That's nice…
Marcus: Lord Eliwood loved his wife deeply. And one night…before the two became engaged, Lord Eliwood suddenly disappeared from the castle. When he returned to his love three days later, he presented her with a beautiful white flower which only grows in the snowy highlands. It was the flower which she loved the most.
Lilina: Lord Eliwood is so…romantic. Sigh… Now look at Roy…
Here are a few outtakes of a comic I did for http://fireemblem-club.deviantart.com/ annual secret santa for http://lenh.deviantart.com/
The pairing was Eliwood and Ninian and I decided to illustrate Marcus and Lilina's B support!
I've been waiting for this gifset my whole life.
So I'm assuming at least 95% of tumblr is hearing this whole scene perfectly in their head, right?
"This is America! Speak English!"
Yeah, well, by that logic we should all be speaking one of the hundreds of beautiful native languages that are now dying out because of an insistence on "education" in English at the expense of the language and culture of the (at many points, unwilling) student.
Let's not forget the timing and location involved here.
1. The Super Bowl commercial that inspired the whole "This is America! Speak English!" blowback from ignorant people (my dad being one of them and I already had words with him) was a Coca-Cola commercial. Coke is a huuuuuuuuuge sponsor of the World Cup, which, to many of the aforementioned bigots' chagrin, is the biggest sporting event on the planet and one hell of a celebration of diversity but also unity. Seeing as this is a World Cup year, Coke's planting the seeds early for that celebration.
2. Metlife Stadium, where the game was played, is a mere 12 miles from Ellis Island. 12 miles from the most recognizable and most iconic statue in American history, and it's a work of art celebrating the melting pot that America is.
3. The United States does not have an official language. Some states do, but regarding the federal level, English is just as valid as anything else.
So let me correct "This is America! Speak English!"
This is America. Speak English, speak Spanish, speak German, speak French, Japanese, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Arabic or/and whatever else you want to speak. Our diversity unites us more than certain people would care to acknowledge or admit.
"I may have lost the game…but I feel I have won the commentary!"
Ryan, you're fucking gold.
in the south
- we only refer to people as y'all. that group of people over there? y'all. our mamas? y'all. you? y'all.
- everyone chews tobacco
- we have wells where we can draw up sweet tea from the ground
- nobody pursues education past the age of 12
- we all know how to run a farm
- we cry about the civil war at least once a day, twice on sundays
- only country music plays. ever
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Tonight's the night - let the monster within come out and play. Happy Halloween! RETWEET this new #IFrankenstein pic! pic.twitter.com/g9IV2MZVDg— I Frankenstein (@IFrankenstein) October 31, 2013
I, Frankenstein was released January 24th, 2014 and stars Aaron Eckhart, Yvonne Strahovski, Miranda Otto, Bill Nighy, Jai Courtney, Socratis Otto, Aden Young, Caitlin Stasey. The film is directed by Stuart Beattie.