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Reigniting the Flame: Manchester United's Quest for Leading League Glory

Introduction

The English Leading League is without doubt The most fascinating and fiercely competitive soccer leagues on the earth. With its abundant background, passionate followers, and powerful rivalries, it's captivated audiences globally. One crew that has always been at the middle of attention is Manchester United.

In current a long time, nonetheless, the glory days looked as if it would have light for the Red Devils. Even with their illustrious previous and a great number of achievements, they may have struggled to reclaim their dominance while in the Leading League. But now, using a renewed perception of intent and dedication, Manchester United is over a Helpful resources quest to reignite the flame and get back their place at the top of English soccer.

Manchester United's Journey to Greatness

The Rise of the Soccer Empire

Manchester United's journey to greatness began in 1878 when Newton Heath LYR Football Club was shaped. Due to the fact then, they may have advanced into The most prosperous and iconic golf equipment in soccer history. Under the visionary Management of Sir Matt Busby and afterwards Sir Alex Ferguson, Manchester United remodeled right into a soccer empire.

The Golden Era

During the nineteen nineties and early 2000s, Manchester United liked an unparalleled period of accomplishment. They won a lot of domestic titles and secured two historic trebles - winning the Leading League, FA Cup, and UEFA Champions League in one period. Led by famous gamers including Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, David Beckham, and Roy Keane, they dominated English soccer.

The Submit-Ferguson Era

However, immediately after Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement in 2013, Manchester United found on their own struggling with a tough changeover period. A series of managerial improvements and inconsistent performances about the pitch hindered their progress. They struggled to locate security and didn't mount a significant title problem inside the Leading League.

Reigniting the Flame: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Impact

The Appointment of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

In December 2018, Manchester United created a bold choice by appointing previous player Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as the interim manager. Solskjaer, a supporter favorite as well as a essential determine in the club's historical past, brought with him a deep understanding of Manchester United's ethos and values.

A Fresh Approach to Management

Solskjaer's appointment marked a change in the direction of a far more holistic and long-phrase approach to rebuilding the group. He emphasised the significance of nurturing younger abilities, marketing an attacking sort of Engage in, and making a positive atmosphere throughout the squad. His person-management skills and ability to attach with gamers are instrumental in reigniting the flame at Manchester United.

The Emergence of Younger Stars

Under Solskjaer's steerage, numerous youthful players have emerged as vital contributors to Manchester United's resurgence. Gamers like Marcus Rashford, Scott McTominay, Mason Greenwood, and Brandon Williams have showcased their immense talent and potential. Their performances have injected refreshing Vitality in to the staff and provided followers renewed hope for the future.

Overcoming Rivals: The Ba

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oots-digitalmedia · 3 years

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Queer Rep in The Falcon Banner

Title: The Falcon Banner

Status: Complete

Cast: Seth Adam Sher, Chris Snyder, Brandon Cole, Laura Post, Eric Busby, MJ Cogburn, Jack Scrimshaw, John Lipsey, Shire Smith, Mark Kalita, Steve Anderson, Mike Dent, Linda Townsend, Alasdair Stuart

Based on the novel by: Christopher Patrick Lydon

Queer Producers: Unknown

Accessibility: No content warnings or transcripts.

Content Warning: This podcast features a big age gap

Summary: Two hundred years after the fall of the Terran Empire, humans find themselves the subject race, Stagnating on their own world unable to evolve either technologically or otherwise. It is into this oppressive world, that the most unlikely of men are thrust into the roles of heros. An audio theater dramatization of the novel by Christopher Patrick Lydon

Tags: queer man main character, multiple queer men

More details and/or spoilers under the break.

Check out our other queer podcast recommendations here.

ID tags: Darian Taine: mlm, Elias: mlm

Details and/or Spoilers: Darien and Elias are dating

#queerdigitalmedia #queerpodcastrecommendations #queerpodcast #queerpodcastrecommendation #the falcon banner #the falcon banner podcast #queer fantasy #queer fantasy podcast #christopher patrick lydon #darian taine

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ukdamo · 3 years

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Waterloo

Victor Hugo (translated by Timothy Ades)

Waterloo! Waterloo! disastrous field!

Like a wave swelling in an urn brim-filled,

Your ring of hillsides, valleys, woods and heath

Saw grim battalions snarled in pallid death.

On this side France, against her Europe stood:

God failed the heroes in the clash of blood!

Fate played the coward, victory turned tail.

O Waterloo, alas! I weep, I fail!

Those last great soldiers of the last great war

Were giants, each the whole world's conqueror:

Crossed Alps and Rhine, made twenty tyrants fall.

Their soul sang in the brazen bugle-call!

Night fell; the fight was burning fierce, and black.

He grasped the victory, was on the attack,

Held Wellington pinned down against a wood.

Eyeglass in hand, observing all, he stood:

Now the dark midpoint of the battle's fires,

A throbbing clutch of frightful, living briars;

Now the horizon, sombre as the sea.

He gave a sudden, joyous cry: `Grouchy!'

'Twas Blücher! Hope changed sides, the combat swayed,

Like wildfire surged the howling fusillade.

The guns of England broke the squares of France.

Amid the cries of slaughtered combatants,

The plain where our torn banners shook and spread

Was but a fiery chasm, furnace-red.

Regiments tumbled down like lengths of wall.

Like stalks of corn the great drum-majors fall,

Their plumes, full-length, enormous on the ground;

And every view revealed a hideous wound.

Grim carnage! fatal moment! There he stands,

Anxious, the battle pliant in his hands.

Behind a mamelon was massed the Guard,

The last great hope, supreme and final word!

`Send in the Guard!' he cries, and grenadiers

In their white gaiters, lancers, cuirassiers,

Dragoons that Rome would count among her sons,

Men who unleashed the thunder of the guns,

The men of Friedland and of Rivoli,

Black busbies, gleaming helms, in panoply,

Knowing this solemn feast must be their last,

Salute their god, erect amid the blast.

`Long live the emperor!' A single cry;

Then at slow march, bands playing, steadily,

The Guard came smiling on, the Imperial,

Where English salvoes raked the crucible.

Alas! Napoleon with gaze intense

Watched the advance: he saw his regiments

Under the sulphurous venom of the guns:

He saw those troops of stone and steel at once

Melted, all melted in the pit of death,

As melts the wax beneath the brazier's breath.

Steadfast and stoic, sloped arms and unbowed head,

They went. None flinched. Then sleep, heroic dead! ...

All the remainder stood and stared, held hard,

Motionless watched the death-throes of the Guard.

All of a sudden now they see her rise:

Defeat! Grim-faced, with loud despairing cries,

Putting the proudest regiments in dread,

Turning the banners to a tattered shred,

At certain times, a wraith, a smoke-wreathed ghost,

She rears erect and huge amid the host.

Wringing her hands, to soldiers terrified,

Defeat appeared: `Run for your lives!' she cried.

Run for your lives! shame, dread! each soldier bawled:

Across the fields, distraught, wild-eyed, appalled,

Between the dusty wagons and the kegs

As if a wind came blowing on their legs,

In ditches rolled, in cornfields crouched to hide,

Their shakos, coats, guns, eagles cast aside

Under the Prussian swords, each veteran

(O sorrow!) howled with terror, wept and ran.

At once, like burning straw by tempests blown,

All the Grand Army's battle-roar was gone.

Here we may stand, and dream: for from this site

They fled, who put the universe to flight.

Forty years on, this shunned and dismal field,

This Waterloo, this cranny of the world,

Where God piled nullity on nullity,

Still trembles to have seen the giants flee!

Napoleon saw them pouring like a flood:

Men, steeds, drums, flags. Facing his fate he stood,

Confused, as if repining; then he said,

Raising his hands to heaven: `My soldiers dead,

I and my empire broken in the dust.

Is this thy chastening, O God most just?'

Amid the cries, the guns, the tumult, lo!

He heard the voice that gave him answer: No!

#waterloo #victor hugo #napoleon #defeat #judgement #death #bravery #slaughter

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trecblog · 4 years

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Black People’s Contributions To The UK: A Very Small Sample

Women

Phillis Wheatley

From West Africa.Sold as a slave to a family called the Wheatleys. Named after the family to whom she was sold and the vessel that transported her to America–‘the Phillis’.Wrote her first poem at 14 years old.First volume of poetry published in 1773.Moved to England at 20. Contributed to the anti-slavery movement. Read: Poems by Phillis Wheatley

Mary Seacole

From Jamaica.Traveled to England in 1854 with the intention of an onward journey to Balaclava, Ukraineto assist the soldiers fighting in the Crimean War (1853-1856). War Office denied her request. Made her own way and established a boarding houseto successfullylook after the wounded British soldiers using traditional medicines.She then traveled relentlessly.Returned to England and is now buried at Saint Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, London.

Fanny Eaton

From Jamaica. A model for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their circle between 1859–1867.Public debut was in Simeon Solomon's painting ‘The Mother of Moses’, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1860.

The Mother of Moses - Simeon Solomon (1840-1905)

1860 Oil on canvas

Lilian Bader

From Liverpool.The first black woman to join the British Armed Forces where she was: Canteen Assistant, Instrument repairer, Leading aircraft woman, and a Corporal. On receiving her degree from the University of London, she became a teacher.

olive Morris

From Jamaica.A member of the Black Panther Movement.Campaigned for rights of black people in Manchester and South London.Whilst at university expanded her activism to an international stage, visiting China and publishing an article from that visit. Founding member of Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) and,the Brixton Black Women's Group.

Margaret Busby

From Ghana. Youngest and first black female book publisher.Founded the publishing company Allison& Busby in 1967, alongside Clive Allison.A campaigner for diversity in publishing –co-founded Greater Access to Publishing (GAP).

Malorie Blackman

From London of Barbadian parents.Qualified as a computer scientist. Writer of children and young adult novels.Author of the Noughts&Crosses series.Eight Children’s Laureate–first black person in that role.Awarded an OBE in 2008.

Dr. Shirley Thompson

From London of Jamaican parents.Professor of Music at the University of Westminster.Recently named "one of the most inspirational Black British women" by the newspaper Metro.The first woman in Europe to conduct and compose a symphony within the last 40 years,composed to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002, -New Nation Rising.A 21st Century Symphony.Named on the Evening Standard's Power List of Britain's Top 100 Most Influential Black People in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

From Jamaica. Barbara Blake-Hannah was the first ever black person to appear in a news role on British television in 1968. She paved the way for Moira Stuart, Trevor McDonald, and others.She was an on-camera reporter and interviewer on Thames Television’s Today programme. Since returning to Jamaica she has had a career in film making and written five books, including one in 1982 about the Rastafarian religion, which is her faith.

Dr. Youmna Mouhammed

From Mayotte, a small island off the coast of Southeast Africa. Dr Mouhamad has a PhD in polymer physics and is currently a Technology Transfer Fellow at SPECIFIC in Swansea University and is working on industrial coatings.She is pushing to improve the representation of black women within STEM, the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.She is the leader of the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students in Engineering Network, formed in 2019. This network aims to progress racial equality by raising awareness of the challenges that BAME students and staff experience, then suggest interventions or strategies that investigate how to overcome the challenges.

Men

Ignatius Sancho

Born on a slave ship. Ignatius Sancho was an influential figure in the arts and is the first known black British voter. He is known for his plays, poetry,and music, and had a shop in London, where other creative people like him would meet up. He spoke out against the slave trade. Read: Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho: An African

Oluada Equiano

From Southern Nigeria. He was a slave but managed to buy his freedom and moved to London.Became very involved in the abolition movement. His book about slavery is one of the earliest accounts about what it was like to be a slave and it is one of the best-selling books on the topic. His autobiography (1789) ‘The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African’ was a seminal piece to those working to abolish slavery and its sales made him a wealthy man.

George Bridgetower

From Biala Podlaska, Poland-Lived in England for much of his life. Virtuoso Violinist Year of birth vary between 1778, 1779 or 1780.The son of an African father and a Polish mother. Said to be the older of two brothers, with his younger brother being a cellist. George was a student of composer Joseph Haydn and (once) a friend of Beethoven. Whilst friends, Beethoven dedicated a violin sonata to him, which was so hard to play many gave up.

Ira Aldridge

From New York – moved to the UK. Believed he stood a better chance of accomplishing his ambitions to become a brilliant and recognised actor.He became an important actor in plays at the theatre and was one of the highest paid actors in the world.He also became well known across Europe as a brilliant Shakespearean actor. Aldridge first toured to continental Europe in 1852, with successes in Germany, where he was presented to the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and performed for Frederick William IV of Prussia; he also performed in Budapest. An 1858 tour took him to Serbia and to Imperial Russia, where he became acquainted with Count Fyodor Tolstoy, Mikhail Shchepkin and the Ukrainian poet and artist Taras Shevchenko, who did his portrait in pastel.

John Edmonstone

From British Guiana. He was born into slavery but gained his freedom. Becoming skilled in taxidermy John Edmonstone was a very important figure in the world of scientific research.He taught at Edinburgh University in the 19th century with Charles Darwin as one of his students. It is said that Darwin’s theories on how humans have developed throughout time resulted from the teaching of John Edmonstone.

Samuel Coleridge Taylor

From London. Studied at the Royal College of Music in London.He partnered with several talented musicians, worked across continents and wrote many beautiful pieces of music enjoyed all over the world and still being enjoyed today. He died at the age of 37 from pneumonia. Compositions included: The Song of Hiawatha, Hiawatha Overture, Violin Concerto in G Minor. Read:The complete poems of Samuel Coleridge Taylor

Sir Learie Constantine

From Trinidad.A member of West Indian Cricket team who settled in Lancashire. Became England’s first black peer due to his political work which included relentlessly fighting for racial equality. Described as a cricketer, statesman and advocate of racial equality. Read: Colour Bar (1954) and, Learie Constantine and Race Relations in Britain and the Empire By Jeffrey Hill (Author)

From Grenada.The second peer of African descent to sit in the House of Lords, He was the longest serving Black Parliamentarian. He was described as a revolutionary politician. He was a medical practitioner in Trinidad on completion of his studies (Edinburgh University). His involvement in politics was twinned with his medical practice. He was a funding member and leader of the West Indian National Party. He returned to the UK and lived in London. As a member of the House of Lords, he played a leading role in campaigning for the Race Relations Act 1976. He was outspoken on issues such as immigration policy, and in a debate on 24 June 1976 he noted, in part: "...it is a myth, that the fewer the numbers [of black immigrants] the better the quality of race relations. That is a myth, and it is a myth that has inspired the 1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act, the Immigration White Paper of August 1965 and the Immigration Acts of 1968 and 1971. It is designed to placate the racialists, but it is a fallacy; for to the racialist or the anti-semite the only acceptable number is nought....(Immigration Policy debate, Hansard, vol. 372, 24 June 1976.)

Stuart Hall

From Jamaica. One of the Windrush generation and an Oxford graduate he was responsible for pioneering theories of multiculturalism and the first cultural studies course in Britain, which was offered by the University of Birmingham. The Observer referred to him as “one of the country's leading cultural theorists". His ideas and books, which included The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left (1988), Formations of Modernity (1992), Questions of Cultural Identity (1996), and Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (1997), inspired a whole new generation of multicultural academics and advocates.

Paul Stephenson

From Essex. Paul was Bristol’s first black social worker. As an equal rights campaigner he worked for the Commission for Racial Equality and the Press Council to ensure minorities were both working in newspapers and being covered fairly by them.He spent his life leading campaigns to change the way black people were being treated and it is said that his work played a part in Britain’s first Race Relations Act in 1965.

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blueskywater-happiness · 4 years

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Mammon the Ambassador and his relation and similarities with Arthur in the crossover of Hetalia and Obey Me

Okay so @zephycluster (my friend) and I are discussing about our take on the crossover between Hetalia and Obey me, especially the connection between the demons and their nations. For her theory of how Lucifer’s cursed chair and Arthur’s Busby’s chair are connected: Here

So first, where did the Ambassador rank came from? According to the Dictionnaire Infernal written by Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy, demons have a hierarchy which modeled after the European Courts. He wrote Mammon as the Ambassador of England, with Belphegor for France (which I will post later if peeps are curious). For Grandblue Fantasy fans (what is this a multiverse crossover j/k) Belial is the Ambassador for Italy. Okay so let us start how fitting Mammon and Arthur’s relation is.

1. Raven So first we have the raven or crow, In Obey Me, the raven is Mammon’s symbol.

So where does Arthur fit in? Well there is an old time tradition in Britain where they kept RAVENS in the tower? Why? A group of at least six captive ravens are resident at the Tower of London. Their presence is traditionally believed to protect The Crown and the Tower; a superstition holds that "if the Tower of London ravens are lost or fly away, the Crown will fall and Britain with it." Some historians, including the Tower's official historian believe the "Tower's raven mythology is likely to be a Victorian flight of fantasy".The earliest known reference to captive ravens at the Tower is an illustration from 1883. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravens_of_the_Tower_of_London

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2. They are TSUNDERES Need I say more? (Also credit to belphies-pillowpet for this Quote: Mammon is the OG tsundere teaching others his ways )

3. Greed and its relation to the economy, the good and the bad

According to Thomas Carlyle in his book, Past and Present, the "Gospel of Mammonism" became simply a metaphoric personification for the materialistic spirit of the 19th century.

As we know, began in 1760 to 1820-1840, the Industrial revolution began in Great Britain, creating more employment. Britain was described as the “workshop of the world” in 1851. By the mid-18th century Britain was the world's leading commercial nation, controlling a global trading empire with colonies in North America and the Caribbean, and with major military and political hegemony on the Indian subcontinent, particularly with the proto-industrialised Mughal Bengal, through the activities of the East India Company.

19th century Britain was the world's richest and most advanced economy.The economy was the most industrialized in the world, with one-third of the population employed in manufacturing by 1870 (concurrently one-sixth of the workforce in the United States was employed in manufacturing). The level of quantifiable steam power (in both industry and railroad travel), was gauged at 7,600 hp in 1880, only excelled by the United States. Urbanization was so intense that by 1901 80% of the British population lived in towns.The number of towns with a population over 50,000 reached 32 between 1847–50, double that of Germany and almost five times that of the United States.

Credits to: hetascanlations As quoted by Tv Tropes: When [Greed] treated as a vital part of the economy rather than a sin, it's called "the profit motive".

4. I am Great

5. Their self esteem I notice while I was playing Obey Me, how the brothers tease Mammon reminds me of how Arthur/England was being teased by Francis and Co. For Mammon, he was called the Scummy Brother while Arthur is either the Friendless or the Black Sheep of Europe. Coincidentally it chips both characters’ self esteem.

Both characters have a hard time expressing themselves, as quoted by Hima in regards to England: “He’s quite bad at expressing himself. He himself knows that people often misunderstand him, he uses this fact for self-deprecating jokes.”

They also commonly have a sort of emotional attachment dependency on one character. For Arthur, it is his younger adopted brother, Alfred aka America, while for Mammon, it is his crush and best friend, MC. They are also quite possessive of their anchor, with Arthur being so emotionally crushed during the Revolution.

And got so traumatized to the point of coughing up blood whenever he remembers Alfred leaving and every 4th of July.

Mammon being so aggressive whenever one of his brothers or anyone desires or hints an interest on MC, oftentimes yelling he is “MC’s First”.

And there is this...

In short, please give these two therapy.

There are so many similarities between the two that it hurts but I will add another part if requested. So, in mine and @zephycluster‘s obeytalia verse, we headcanon that Mammon, before the whole closing of the portal between the Human World and Devildom, raised or at least influenced Arthur. Also I have a comic in the works where Mammon took care of chibi!England and was forced to leave him, giving poor Arthur abandonment issues. Which fridges Arthur’s depression over Alfred leaving him.

#Obeytalia #hetalia #OBEY ME #Obey me Shall we date #Shall we date Obey me #Axis Powers Hetalia #Obey me Mammon #Mammon #Obey me Belphegor #Belphegor #Arthur Kirkland #Francis Bonnefoy #Aph #Aph England #Aph France #is this obeytalia thesis #please help me #ate zephycluster me the scared

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Art Deco was flagrantly commercial, catering to an elite clientele with suavely handcrafted objects-chrome cocktail shakers, diamond and platinum wristwatch bands, sleek glass figurines of nymphs or greyhounds, cabinets inlaid with contrasting strips of high-varnish exotic woods. Whereas late 19th century Art Nouveau used undulating, organic motifs like flowers or running vines, Art Deco was based on angulat, streamlined geometry-aluminum or stainless steel chevrons, zigzags and sunbursts. In the United States in the 1930's, Art Deco became a more populist style favored by businesses and public works commissions, producing New York's Chrysler and Empire State Buildings and Rockefeller Plaza. Hollywood also embraced Art Deco, from Cedric Gibbon's chic set designs to Busby Berkley's kaleidoscopic dance routines. After it became passe in the 1940's, gay male collectors kept Art Deco alive as "camp," laying the groundwork for the style's later revival and it's current high value at auction. But Art Deco is still underrepresented in major museums and minimized or ignored by major art historians, partly because it does not support the ruling paradigm of art as leftist resistance. On the contrary, Art Deco was promptly adopted for political posters and public architecture by fascist regimes in Germany, Italy and Russia.

Camille Paglia, “Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars” (2012).

#Art Deco #Art Deco Art #Art #Art History #camille paglia

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Empires SMP character design (8/8)

Empires SMP Character design: Bruno, Busby “Buzz”

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8

All the designs

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Non-Fiction Recs

I love some good non-fiction, and I don’t see a lot of posts about it, so I thought I’d make a list of some of the one’s I’ve enjoyed over the years, most of them are crime related cos that’s my thing.

The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders (Turns out the Victorians loved murder).

Duel with the Devil by Paul Collins (You might like this if you like Hamilton the musical cos it’s about Burr and Ham).

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (H.H. Holmes and his Murder Castle plus a fascinating glimpse into how the Chicago World Fair came to be).

How to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy Moore (This guy is the worst and it doesn’t turn out all that well for him).

Death by Chocolate by Sophie Jackson (Victorian chocolate poisoning)

Working Stiff by Judy Melinek

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule (Ted Bundy worked with her)

Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson

Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker (Long Island Serial Killer)

The Witness Wore Red by Rebecca Musser (She escaped the FLDS)

The Year We Disappeared by Cylin Busby (Small town corruption and murder)

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores by Jen Campbell

Tea: Addiction, Exploitation and Empire by Roy Moxham

@anassarhenisch I know we were talking about narrative non-fiction the other day, so if you have any recs to add I would love to hear them.

Does anybody else have a favorite non-fiction book they think everyone should know about?

#booklr #revive booklr #non-fiction #narrative non-fiction #alexander hamilton #murder #mystery #historical

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Māori relied on their precise cosmological knowledge to navigate their travels, tell time, plant food and harvest kaimoana. With the arrival of Europeans, most of this knowledge was lost or misinterpreted in Western society. Indigenous views of their relationship to the natural world seem to be more natural and organic, the way that they plant and harvest is in a way that doesn't damage the planet like western society does with overplanting and genetically modifying, it is also is a guide to help with the moon phases which are important when it comes to fishing, swimming and any ocean activities as gravity pulls on the ocean.

Māori used the stars to determine the season and time by viewing the different stars that rose in the morning just before Rā rose (the sun). The science behind the knowledge and ways was that stars rise 4 minutes earlier every day, so the star that sits on the horizon lets you know what season it is. In winter, Takurua, which is the equivalent of July and the brightest star, will be the star that comes up just before the Sun, and in the summer, it's Rehua (Douglas) which is equivalent to January.

The Māori used the moon to let you know what events could take place, such as fishing, planting or sowing. When Māori arrived in New Zealand they found the land/ soil was a lot different to the land in Polynesia, so they adapted their soil to help grow their kūmara, adding sand or stones, they did trials and experiments of this until they found the perfect balance especially for the kūmara, a lot of the plants they bought with them couldn't survive the cooler climate.

Māori cosmology has a solid connection with the planting and harvesting of crops. The full moon is when different iwi planted crops because the Moon was thought to draw water nearer the surface, and when the seedling went into the ground (Douglas), they would suck up that water faster than any other time so their plants would do better.

Ralph Hotere and Bill Culbert with Blackwater, 1999

The English name for Matariki is the Pleiades, the seven sisters in Greco-Roman World, in Hotere and Culbert's work they use the light or 'little eyes' to texture the darkness to provide knowledge of navigation and also what they are yet to see. In the Māori tradition, black is transitional: te kore, the void, becomes te pō, the night followed inexorably by dawn (Bohemen).

"When Ranginui, the sky father, and Papatūānuku, the earth mother, were separated from their dark embrace by Tāne, Tāwhirimātea was distraught. He tore out his eyes, crushed them into pieces and stuck them onto the chest of the sky. This is why Tāwhirimātea is the blind god, feeling his way around the sky and bringing winds from different directions." (Matamua). Māori look to Matariki to determine what will come in the year, its read in combinations so the brightness of certain stars with others will tell you how well your crops will do or if the fishing will be good. Matariki is the Māori name for the cluster of stars that signify the start of the new year, each Iwi and Hapū have different iterations of the story behind Matariki, so the names and spelling of the stars differ depending on who you hear it from.

Māori Tradition follows a lunar calendar rather than a western calendar which is 12 months, usually the gregorian calendar. When it came to navigation, it required complete familiarity with the stars, the sun and the moon. When travelling so far in vast oceans, the Māori started to learn more about currents, clouds, waves and migration of wildlife. Its thought that Māori navigation slowly became less used once arrived into New Zealand, and possibly lay dormant for a thousand years because once in New Zealand, the main focus when from navigation to exploration to the new land. Eventually, the most knowledgeable experts on navigation would have passed away and slowly, knowledge was lost. The revitalisation of Oceanic navigation happened in the '80s started by hector busby, and it was saved from extinction by Mau Pialug who was from a long line on master navigators who had persevered their knowledge and continued to pass it on. "The great knowledge of the stars they possessed enabled them to guide their vessels from end to end of the pacific" - Smith (28). On long voyages Māori carried on their wakas with them two expert star-gazers who were men versed in the lore of Tātai Arorangi, they watched the stars in the night to direct the waka and be able to foretell weather conditions. Māori believe that the credit in these voyages lies with the gods, though, they were guided and kept safe. (Best)

Like Aboriginals, Bruce Pascoe states, Māori were looked at as just hunters and gatherers, the term being tattooed with unworthiness. Māori were the first agriculturalist, scientists and navigators of New Zealand, with their ingenuity being disregarded. Western constructs of nature have led to the almost near exclusion of indigenous cosmologies and have finally begun to be revitalised with the help of Matariki becoming such a big event in New Zealand now. In the mid-1700s, much of the Māori cosmology information was lost or retold as Myth or stories – deeming it to be untrue and disregarding it as childish and also denied as the science that it is. Matariki is the abbreviation of 'Ngā Mata o te Ariki' which translates as 'The Eyes of God' - Tāwhirimātea, is the god of the winds and weather feeling his way around the sky (Merton)

The tohunga kokorangi and tohunga tatai arorangi - the teachers and specials of Māori cosmological knowledge, were taught the more in-depth information and were in charge of looking after it and using it responsibly because knowledge is power. Māori were always careful about who they shared certain information with so it wouldn't be used in the wrong way or abused, so a lot of the knowledge has been lost - Māori are now coming together to uncover past Māori science which they are finding in many art forms like carvings and waiata. Māori look at the stars in a more spiritual way as well, deriving omens from some. Stars close to the moon was always cause for curiosity. They studied intently, if a star was near the cusp of the crescent moon it was meant that there was an enemy force quickly approaching, so Māori would be extra cautious around their Whenua. The sighting of Matariki is now a celebration of remembrance and fertility, but it was once welcomed with grief, some said that the stars housed those departed from the earth that year. They say that Taramainuku casts his net down from the sky every night to collect the souls that were lost that day, carrying them with him alongside his waka for eleven months until May when the constellation sets and he goes into the underworld and emerges a month later in June when the constellation rises to release the souls into the night to become stars - Kua Whetūrangihia Koe.

Revitalising Māori Astronomy. Edited by Megan Douglas, 31 May 2016, www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/1274-revitalising-maori-astronomy.

Merton, Eleanor. "Matariki and Māori Astronomy with Dr Rangi Matamua." McGuinness Institute, 23 July 2018, www.mcguinnessinstitute.org/foresightnz/matariki-and-maori-astronomy-with-dr-rangi-matamua/.

Best, Elsdon. "The Astronomical Knowledge of the Māori, Genuine and Empirical" Dominion Museum,

Bohemen, Catharina van. Matariki: Light and Three Artists. 24 July 2018, www.artzone.co.nz/post/matariki-light-and-three-artists.

Performance by Bruce Pascoe, A Real History of Aboriginal Australians, the First Agriculturalists, TEDxSydney, 15 June 2018, tedxsydney.com/talk/a-real-history-of-aboriginal-australians-the-first-agriculturalists-bruce-pascoe/.

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