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bowdre · 5 months

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Dear, Don. My beloved

February 7th, 1942.

Dear, Don. My beloved.

You haven't been gone for very long, but it already feels like a lifetime. The baby moves a lot, I think it misses it's daddy more than I do. I'll be sure to write you as soon as I give birth.

How are you? Are they treating you okay? You've always been a strong man, I have not a doubt you'll be okay. Please, try not to think about the accident too much. About your brother, God rest his soul. He would want you to carry on, he was never a vengeful person.

I miss you terribly. The house is so lonely. My dad and brother came by to finish painting the nursery and building the crib. Alex tried to enlist in the Army after you went away, but because of his eyesight he wasn't approved. I have a feeling he envies you, because you get to fight for America. But he's only 19, so naive still.

I'm sure you're very busy, I won't eat up any more of your time.

I love you so very much, Don. Be safe out there, wherever you are.

Your beloved, Susannah.

February 20th, 1942.

Dear, Susannah. My beautiful wife.

No words can express how much I miss you and our baby. Not a day goes by that I don't think of you, and the mistakes I made.

I haven't touched a drop of alcohol since the accident.

My crewmates are named Boyd, Gary, Gordo and Red. We call Boyd Bible, since he was in divinity college before he was drafted. Gary is called Grady and Red prefers his nickname over his real name.

We are being shipped to Africa. My crew fights in a tank, I'm the sergeant. We call the tank Fury. The guys found your picture when I accidently left it in the tank. They say you are quite beautiful.

I love you more than anything, my darling, Susannah. Take care of yourself and our baby.

Your beloved, Don.

March 10th, 1942.

Dear, Don. My beloved.

I gave birth today, to a healthy and happy baby girl. Her name is Anastasia Grace Collier. She weights 6 pounds and 2 ounces. My parents are here, my mother will stay with me for a few weeks to help with Ana. Your parents haven't visited or called.

I hope I can go home soon. It hurts to walk. I wish you were here.

How are you? How's Africa? I bet it's hotter than the sun. Try and make sure you boys are eating and drinking water, though I can't imagine it's easy.

I try not to imagine the conditions you're in. My sweet husband, you don't deserve this. Come home to me, I beg you. Baby Ana deserves to meet her father.

Much love to you and your crew.

Your beloved, Susannah.

May 5th, 1942

Dear, Susannah. My beautiful wife.

Anastasia Grace, my beautiful daughter is very lucky to have such a wonderful mother. I wish I could hold you both right now.

There's word we'll be leaving Africa soon, but no one truly knows. It's hot here, disgustingly hot. I can't seem to find the words to tell you much else than that.

Bible says he'll pray for you and our baby girl. He also says he prays for our crew to all go home. He means well, but ever since the accident I find it hard to believe in faith. Though, I hope you continue going to Sunday Church. I do miss the church, it always reminds me of our wedding day.

How long are these dear babe letters supposed to be?

I miss you.

Your beloved, Don.

April 10th, 1942.

Dear, Don. My beloved.

Ana is growing like a weed, and she smiles a lot. She cries all night, I'm not quite sure what to do with her during those hours. I fear she'll get sick, my momma says it'll happen eventually.

My dad was in the hospital, I think it had something to do with his lungs. Those damned factories, he ought to retire.

I don't have much free time, my love. Ana is a full time job. I hope you're doing well, I miss you more than anything.

Your beloved, Susannah.

May 30th, 1942.

Dear, Susannah. My beautiful wife.

We're in France now. We spend a lot of time in little towns.

How's your father? I hope he's well. Grady caught a bad bug on the boat and shit himself practically every night. It was quite funny.

How's our little Ana? I bet she's growing to be as beautiful as her mother.

There's a lot of work to be done here. I don't have much time.

I love you, my darling.

Your beloved, Don.

June 25th, 1942.

Dear, Don. My beloved.

Daddy died today. The funeral is next week. Ana babbles a lot, I think her first word will be dada.

Momma said I should get a job at the factories. She says I won't be able to live off daddy's inheritance forever, and with you being away, it's almost guaranteed we'll lose the house.

I'm always sad, Don. I hardly have enough will to feed and change Ana. What's wrong with me?

I hope you're well. Be safe.

Your beloved, Susannah.

August 6th, 1942.

Dear, Susannah. My beautiful wife.

We're still in France. I think we'll be here for a while. I miss you. Please take care of yourself, and our baby girl.

There's so much to do, I hardly have time to write.

I love you, my precious girl.

Your beloved, Don.

January 1st, 1943.

Dear, Don. My beloved.

Our first Christmas and New Years without you. Almost a year since you left us.

Momma sewed Anastasia a lot of different clothes. My favorite is a little pink dress that she's still a bit too small for.

It snowed a lot during the holidays. It was lonely without you and daddy. Alex spent Christmas in the hospital, he broke his leg on a ski trip. How was your Christmas?

I think I'll get a job at one of the factories, my mom said she'll take care of Ana during the day.

I love you so much, my handsome husband.

Your beloved, Susannah.

February 3rd, 1943

Dear, Susannah. My beautiful wife.

Christmas and New Years was lonely. Bible sang hymns and Gordo got drunk.

Why haven't you sent a picture of my beautiful daughter yet? I love her more than my own life and yet I don't know what she looks like.

This war is hell.

Your beloved, Don.

May 25th, 1943.

Dear, Don. My beloved.

Here's a photo of our beautiful baby. She's growing and changing everyday. She looks just like her daddy. She's already 14 months old, can you believe it?

I work a lot. I volunteered as a nurse at the hospital but it was just too much blood. Blood and screaming. I can't imagine what you have to endure, my love.

A new neighbor moved in. Madame Smith passed away nearly 6 months ago, and this new neighbor took over her house. A young man, not married. Mama thinks he's handsome. Mama practically lives with me and Ana now.

I love you, Don.

Your beloved, Susannah.

July 4th, 1943

Dear, Susannah. My beautiful wife.

Anastasia Grace is beautiful. I think about you two often. Bible prays for Ana a lot. Gordo and Grady say she's the cutest baby they've ever seen. Red says she reminds him of his own daughter, Mary. I've hung her picture up in the tank. She's my motivation. I think she's everybody's motivation, even though the boys have their own families. Ana is lucky to have such caring uncles. I hope we can all meet her soon.

Your beloved, Don.

January 1st, 1944

Dear, Don. My beloved.

I haven't received a letter from you for months. I fear that you've died.

Please, write to me.

Your beloved, Susannah.

March 10th, 1944

Dear, Susannah. My beautiful wife.

Happy second birthday to my darling daughter, Anastasia Grace.

Your beloved, Don.

June 3rd, 1944.

Dear, Don. My beloved.

It's my birthday today. Did you forget? I turn 26 today.

Your parents called. The first time since you've left us. They wished me a happy birthday and requested to meet Ana. I'm seeing them next weekend. They want to visit your brother's grave.

Our neighbor, Mark Blanch has invited me for dinner. I told him no. I think that made him quite angry.

Come home to your family, Don. You're missed very much.

Your beloved, Susannah.

October 24th, 1944.

Dear, Susannah. My beautiful wife.

We're in Germany now.

This war has ruined us.

Your beloved, Don.

December 25th, 1944.

Dear, Don. My beloved.

Merry Christmas. I miss you.

Ana asks lots of questions about her daddy. I don't know what to tell her, what's appropriate to tell her. Your father has told her that her daddy is away in a fantasy land, fighting bad guys. I wish he didn't tell her that.

I hate this war. Probably not as much as you do, but I hate it. I have a hard time getting out of bed most mornings.

Please, come home.

Your beloved, Susannah.

March 10th, 1945.

Happy 3rd birthday to my darling daughter, Ana.

The boys wanted to send her a gift. Gifts are hard to come by in Nazi Germany.

I love you both.

Your beloved, Don.

April 24th, 1945.

Dear, Susannah. My beautiful wife.

I'm going to die. I know it. Gordo, Grady and Bible are dead. Red died a long time ago. We got this new kid, Norman. He looks like my Norman. He reminds me of my little brother.

I want to die, Susannah. My time has come. I have done nothing right in life besides make you my wife. I killed my brother. I couldn't keep my crew alive. I never got to meet my own daughter. I deserve to die.

I have loved you since we children, Susannah. I have never loved anyone more than you. I miss you so much. I've missed you for the last 3 years. I thought about you 24/7. You were my light, my will to keep living.

I'm sorry I can't keep living. Keep living for me.

I love you, Susannah.

Your beloved, Don.

Susannah received Don's final letter in the mail nearly a month after it was written. She wrote dozens of letter back to him, never getting a reply. She tried her darndest to find any information she could about her husband, and his crew mates. Upon her failure, Susannah fell into a two year long depressive state.

Ana's grandmother raised her for these two years.

Susannah never forgot her beloved husband, Don Collier. When Anastasia was old enough, in 1957 when Ana was 15 to be exact, Susannah told her everything there was to know about her father. That he accidently killed his brother, that he went to war instead of prison, that he died at war.

Susannah remarried in 1960 at the age of 42. She married Mark Blanch, who was 50. Anastasia never called him dad.

Susannah never changed her name to Blanch.

She died in 2004 at the age of 86.

She was buried beside the gravestone marked for Don Collier in their home town in Oklahoma.

Her gravestone read;

Here lies Susannah Collier. 1918-2004. Beloved wife and mother.

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cloned-soldier · 1 year

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Some characters + expression doodles

2 submissions and a Grady I just wanted to draw.

#fury #fury 2014 #fury movie #art #my art #grady travis #grady coonass travis #don wardaddy collier #don collier #norman machine ellison #norman ellison

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cobbssecondbelt · 2 years

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The Tragedy of Norman Ellison's Character Assassination

#Poor man gets no respect #norman machine ellison #norman ellison #fury 2014 #fury movie #fury

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wornflowers · 3 months

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hi mutual application/intro :)

my name is gail, i am thirteen and im hungarian. i use they/them and im autistic, i write a lot and i also edit.

i’m really into ww2 and ww2 media, mainly fury, jojo rabbit and saving priv ryan. my tiktok is @moldyfarts69 LOL and my discord + insta is wornflowers :). i do draw sometimes so ill occasionally post ab that

pls follow me! i need friends

#norman ellison #fury 2014 #moots #looking for moots #mutuals

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akamoeteivi · 1 year

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Since no one’s gave Don and Norman a proper ship-name, i’m calling them “WarMachine” from this point onward.

#Don Collier #Norman Ellison #Wardaddy #Machine #WarMachine #Fury 2014

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hungry-hobbits · 3 months

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a dad, a mom, and their pathetic little boy

#fury #fury 2014 #don 'wardaddy' collier #boyd 'bible' swan #norman 'machine' ellison #meme

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rihtual · 9 months

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SHUT UP YOU SILLY MAN AND KISS ME. [ … ] @annalisevogel

A ritual-maker, the war-follower, night-walker. What is left of your soul, asks the mirror. What is left of your duty, asks the world. Norman has realized that there are bloodstains better left unwashed — grief stays with him in all forms, after all. Mud, hail, rain. There is always something alien inside of him, always something left of a weeping earth. So, it’s no wonder that those particular pieces of mourning seem to return to him, the grave left behind and filled with the yellowed-teeth vermin of the cemetery. A lesson in yearning: hands seize the woman’s waist, fingers digging lightly into the flesh of her hips, pulling her towards him. Ravaged by some sort of moral greed, a heavy exhale that encourages him to bow his head, leaning forward to brush his lips across the curve of her neck. She smells like springtime — a new beginning, white flowers, red soil, the gold of a dawn. ‘I don't know if I'll be able to stop once I do.’ A rasped out murmur, voice hoarse and gravel-fed, desperation that comes from a place of worship and obsession. Palm slides up to nest against her nape, guides her slightly so her throat is bared. Mouth becomes possessed, teeth nip gently up to her jawline before his mouth claims hers. Dirt from all he had been through is forgotten about, washed away down the river with the feeling of her soft skin and the warmth of her body. He takes a few steps forwards, knee resting in the space between her thighs, wall meeting her spine. Hunger in the shape of a man embracing his very own immortal tomb.

#NORMAN ELLISON.#it's HAPPENING !!!!!! SHUT UP !!! SHUT P UP !!!!

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spaceintruderdetector · 1 year

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https://archive.org/details/the-1974-annual-worlds-best-sf-wollheim-donald-a.-ed/mode/2up

Cover by Victor Valla

"Introduction" (Donald A. Wollheim)

"A Supplicant in Space" (Robert Sheckley)

"Parthen" (R. A. Lafferty)

"Doomship" (Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson)

"Weed of Time" (Norman Spinrad) (Originally published in 1970)

"A Modest Genius" (translation of "Skromnyi Geniy", 1963) (Vadim Shefner)

"The Deathbird" (Harlan Ellison)

"Evane" (E. C. Tubb)

"Moby, Too" (Gordon Eklund)

"Death and Designation Among the Asadi" (Michael Bishop)

"Construction Shack" (Clifford D. Simak)

#Victor Valla #science fiction literature #science fiction #sf #the 70s

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manicpixieginger · 1 year

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Wake up babe, new Fury fic dropped

#fury 2014 #don collier #grady travis #trini gordo garcia #norman ellison #boyd swan #fury movie

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mandowifey · 1 year

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Character Masterlist.

Note: This list will be updated regularly when I get a new blorbo.

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Ethan Hawke:

James Sandin (The Purge)

Russel Millings (Adopt a Highway)

Arthur Harrow (Moon Knight)

Edward Dalton (Daybreakers)

Ellison Oswalt (Sinister)

Albert Shaw/The Grabber (The Black Phone)

Ray Harris (Raymond and Ray)

Ernst Toller (First Reformed)

Lars Nystrom (Stockholm)

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The Boys Universe:

Homelander

William/Billy Butcher

Ben/Soldier Boy

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Stephen Lang:

Norman Nordstrom/Blindman (Don't Breathe)

Commander Nathaniel Taylor (Tera Nova)

Colonel Miles Quaritch- Human & Na'vi (Avatar)

John Korver (Gridlocked)

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Hamish Linklater:

Father Paul Hill/John Pruitt (Midnight Mass)

John Tyler (Tell Me Your Secrets)

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Oscar Isaac:

Santiago "Pope" Garcia (Triple Frontier)

Marc/Steven/Jake (Moon Knight)

Kane Double (Annihilation 2018)

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Pedro Pascal:

Din Djarin/Mando (The Mandalorian)

Joel Miller (The Last of Us)

Frankie 'Catfish' Morales (Triple Frontier)

Deiter Bravo (The Bubble)

Javi G (Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent)

Max Phillips (Blood Sucking Bastards)

Maxwell Lord (Wonder Woman 88)

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John Krasinski:

Lee Abbott (A Quiet Place)

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Patrick Wilson:

Ed Warren (The Conjuring)

Orm Marius (Aquaman)

Josh Lambert (Insidious)

Daniel Dreiberg/Nite Owl (Watchmen)

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Jensen Ackles:

Tom Hanniger (My Bloody Valentine)

Soldier Boy (The Boys)

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Tony Dalton:

Lalo Salamanca (Better Call Saul)

Jack Duquesne (Hawkeye)

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Michael Fassbender:

Erik Lehnsherr (X-Men)

David / Walter (Alien Covenant/Prometheus)

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Karl Urban:

Commander Vaako (Riddick)

Billy Butcher (The Boys)

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Jon Bernthal:

Frank Castle (The Punisher)

Shane Walsh (The Walking Dead)

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Jason Bateman:

Marty Byrd (Ozark)

Michael Bluth (Arrested Development)

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Patrick Fabian

Howard Hamlin (Better Call Saul)

Cotton Marcus (The Last Exorcism)

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Spider-Verse

Peter B Parker

Miguel O'Hara

Venom

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Jake Gyllenhaal

Detective Loki (Prisoners)

Quentin Beck/Mysterio (Spiderman: FFH)

Danny Sharp (Ambulance)

Other Chars (Unsorted)

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Overwatch

Cassidy

Soldier 76/Jack

Reaper/Gabriel

Hanzo Shimada

Genji Shimada

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Critical Role (S1)

Grog

Vax

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Baldur's Gate 3

Astarion

Enver Gortash

Gale Dekarios

Halsin

Zevlor

Cazador Szarr

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Negan Smith (Walking Dead)

Rick Grimes (Walking Dead)

Daryl Dixon (Walking Dead)

Jamie Lannister (Game of Thrones)

Captain Rex (Star Wars)

Boba Fett (Star Wars)

Kylo Ren (Star Wars)

Saul Goodman/Jimmy McGill (BCS/BB)

Barry Berkman (Barry HBO)

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videbi · 3 years

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The Best Books

The list is made from an academic point of view. More books may be added or any book may be taken out of the list at anytime.

Books that enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted us

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1813

Emma by Jane Austen, 1815

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, 1844

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, 1847

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1848

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 1860

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, 1862

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, 1868

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot, 1874

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 1877

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, 1884

Germinal by Émile Zola, 1885

The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov, 1888

The Ambassadors by Henry James, 1903

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, 1913

Dubliners by James Joyce, 1914

The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain, 1916

Ulysses by James Joyce, 1922

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, 1924

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, 1925

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, 1927

Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead, 1928

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque, 1929

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 1929

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, 1933

Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, 1936

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, 1937

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen, 1937

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, 1937

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 1939

Romola by George Eliot, 1940

Black Boy by Richard Wright, 1945

Hiroshima by John Hersey, 1946

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, 1946

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, 1947

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, 1947

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 1949

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, 1951

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 1952

Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 1954

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, 1954

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, 1955

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin, 1955

Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene, 1958

The Civil War by Shelby Foote, 1958

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by JD Salinger, 1959

Rabbit, Run by John Updike, 1960

Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster, 1960

The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, 1961

The Making of the President by Theodore H. White, 1961

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, 1962

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre, 1963

A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, 1964

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, 1965

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown, 1965

Against Interpretation, and Other Essays by Susan Sontag, 1966

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, 1966

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967

The American Cinema by Andrew Sarris, 1968

The Double Helix by James Watson, 1968

The Electric Kool_Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, 1968

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 1969

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 1969

The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles, 1969

Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume, 1970

Ball Four by Jim Boutton, 1970

The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor, 1971

The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam, 1972

The Politics of Nonviolent Action by Gene Sharp, 1973

All The President’s Men by Bob Woodwad and Carl Bernstein, 1974

The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro, 1974

Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow, 1975

Sociobiology by Edward O. Wilson, 1975

The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer, 1979

The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel, 1980

Follow The River by James Alexander Thom, 1981

Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm, 1981

The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoit Mandelbrot, 1982

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill by William Manchester, 1983

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 1984

The Center of the Cyclone by John Lilly, 1985

Great and Desperate Cures by Elliott Valenstein, 1986

Maus by Art Spiegelman, 1986

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes, 1986

And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts, 1987

Beloved by Toni Morrison, 1987

The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, 1987

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, 1988

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPerson, 1988

The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky, 1988

Summer’s Lease by John Mortimer, 1989

A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving, 1989

A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin, 1991

Mortal Questions by Thomas Nagel, 1991

PIHKAL by Alexander and Ann Shulgin, 1991

Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos by Dennis Overbye, 1991

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir, 1991

Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose, 1992

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, 1992

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, 1993

Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama, 1995

Montana Sky by Nora Roberts, 1996

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom, 1997

War Before Civilization by Lawrence Keeley, 1997

How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, 1997

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, 1998

In the Name of Eugenics by Daniel Kevles, 1998

Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, 1998

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, 1999

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, 2000

Nonzero by Robert Wright, 2000

Chocolat by Joanne Harris, 2000

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, 2001

The Illusion of Conscious Will by Daniel Wegner, 2002

Atonement by Ian McEwan, 2003

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, 2003

The Known World by Edward P. Jones, 2003

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, 2004

My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult, 2004

Portofino: A Novel (Calvin Becker Trilogy) by Frank Schaeffer, 2004

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak, 2005

The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, 2008

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World, 2009

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, 2010

Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow, 2010

Orientation: And Other Stories by Daniel Orozco, 2011

Books that inspired debate, activism, dissent, war and revolution

The Torah

Bhagavad Gita

I Ching (Classic of Changes) by Fu Xi

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu

The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, 1266

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 1321

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, 1605

Ethics by Baruch de Spinoza, 1677

Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, 1678

Candide by Voltaire, 1759

Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1781

Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, 1781

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 1843

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, 1851

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852

Walden (Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau, 1854

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 1857

Experiments on Plant Hybridization by Gregor Mendel, 1866

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, 1869

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883

Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang, 1898

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell, 1914

Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein, 1916

Psychological Types by Carl Jung, 1921

Mein Kampf (My Struggle or My Battle) by Adolf Hitler, 1925

Der Process (The Trial) by Franz Kafka, 1925

The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Karma-glin-pa (Karma Lingpa), 1927

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1932

The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes, 1936

The Big Book by Alcoholics Anonymous, 1939

Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943

The Road To Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek, 1944

Animal Farm by George Orwell, 1945

Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity by Primo Levi, 1947

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, 1947

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, 1949

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, 1949

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt, 1951

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 1958

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 1960

Guerilla Warfare by Che Guevarra, 1961

Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman, 1962

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, 1962

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn, 1962

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (The Little Red Book) by Mao Zedong, 1964

Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader, 1965

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, 1969

The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer, 1970

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974

The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer, 1987

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 1988

The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, 1995

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling, 1997

Books that shook civilization, changed the world

The Holy Bible

The Qur’an

The Analects of Confucius

The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer

The Histories by Herodotus, 440 BC

The Republic by Plato, 380 BC

The Kama Sutra (Aphorisms on Love) by Vatsyayana

On the Shortness of Life by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (The Younger), 62

Geographia by Ptolemy, 150

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, 160

Confessions by St. Augustine, 397

The Canon of Medicine by Avicenna, 1025

Magna Carta, 1215

The Inner Life by Thomas a Kempis, 1400’s

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, 1478

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1532

On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne, 1571

The King James Bible by William Tyndale et al, 1611

The First Folio by William Shakespeare, 1623

Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton, 1687

A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift, 1704

Encyclopaedia or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts, 1751

A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, 1755

Patent Specification for Arkwright’s Spinning Machine by Richard Arkwright, 1769

Common Sense by Thomas Paine, 1776

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, 1776

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, 1776

The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762

On the Abolition of the Slave Trade by William Wilberforce, 1789

Rights of Man by Thomas Paine, 1791

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792

On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt, 1826

Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday, 1839, 1844, 1855

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1848

On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, 1855

On Liberty by John Stewart Mill, 1859

On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, 1859

The Rules of Association Football by Ebenezer Cobb Morley, 1863

Das Kapital (Capital: Critique of Political Economy) by Karl Marx, 1867

On Art and Life by John Ruskin, 1886

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, 1898

The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, 1899

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 1906

Why Am I So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1908

Married Love by Marie Stopes, 1918

Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence, 1928

A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, 1929

Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud, 1930

Why I Write by George Orwell, 1946

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cloned-soldier · 7 months

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Here. Have a smol Normie.

I already made two Nendoriod sketches because I want those to be real.... but it probably never will. Sadly.

And it was time for a Norman post since I rarely draw him somehow..

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cobbssecondbelt · 2 years

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So let's say I make a Fury server.

Would anyone be in?

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─ •✧ WILLIAM'S YEAR IN REVIEW : MARCH ✧• ─

1 March - William and Catherine carried out engagements in Wales to mark St. David's Day. They started their day out by visiting Pant Farm in Llanvetherine before being received by Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of Gwent (Brigadier Robert Aitken). They later visited Abergavenny Market and Hwb Torfaen in Blaenavon. Subsequently William and Catherine planted a tree for The Queen's Green Canopy at Blaenavon World Heritage Centre.

2 March - William held a Meeting for the Earthshot Prize.

8 March - He received Mr. Alastair Martin (Secretary of the Duchy of Cornwall).

9 March - William and Catherine received the Lord Hague of Richmond (Chairman). Later in the afternoon they visited the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in London where they were recieved by the Ambassador of Ukraine (His Excellency Mr. Vadym Prystaiko).

11 March - William received received the High Commissioners of Belize, Jamaica and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas (Her Excellency Mrs. Therese Rath, His Excellency Mr. Seth George Ramocan, His Excellency Mr. Ellison Greenslade) at Kensington Palace.

14 March - William and Catherine attended the Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey. William later appeared in a video segment during the BAFTA Film Awards.

16 March - William attended a Trustees' Meeting for the Royal Foundation via video link.

17 March - William and Catherine attended the 1st Battalion Irish Guards' St. Patrick's Day Parade in Aldershot.

19 March - William and Catherine kicked off their Platinum Jubilee Tour of the Caribbean as they arrived at the Philip S.W. Goldson International Airport in Belize where they were recieved by the Governor-General of Belize (Her Excellency Ms. Froyla Tzalam). They later met the Hon. Juan Antonio Briceño (Prime Minister of Belize) and Mrs. Rossana Briceño at the Laing Building in Belize City.

20 March - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited Che'il Mayan Chocolate Factory in Stann Creek. They later attended a festival of Garifuna culture and met marine conservation experts in Hopkins. William and Catherine also spent time diving at South Water Caye above the Belize Barrier Reef.

21 March - They visited Caracol Natural Monument Reservation and attended a training session of the British Army Training Support Unit Belize (BATSUB) in the Chiquibul Forest. Afterwards William held an Investiture at the San Ignacio Hotel. The Duke and Duchess attended a Reception to mark The Queen's Platinum Jubilee at Cahal Pech ruins where they were received by the Governor-General of Belize (Her Excellency Ms. Froyla Tzalam).

22 March - William and Catherine released photographs and videos of them scuba diving over the Belize Barrier Reef before departing Belize. They arrived in Jamaica for the next leg of their tour and were received by the British High Commissioner to Jamaica (Her Excellency Ms. Judith Slater) and Senator the Hon. Kamina Johnson Smith (Representative of the Prime Minister of Jamaica) at Kingston Norman Manley International Airport upon arrival. Afterwards they met Governor-General of Jamaica and Lady Allen at King's House and attended a Sports and Cultural Event at Trench Town Culture Yard.

23 March - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met the Hon. Andrew Holness MP (Prime Minister of Jamaica) at 1 Devon Road, Kingston. Afterwards they visited Shortwood Teachers' College and Spanish Town Hospital. Subsequently, Willliam and Catherine visited the Caribbean Military Technical Training Institute before attending a Reception Dinner to mark the Platinum Jubilee hosted by the Governor-General of Jamaica (the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen) at King's House.

24 March - William and Catherine attended the Commissioning Parade for the inaugural Initial Officer Training Programme at the Caribbean Military Academy before departing Norman Manley International Airport for the Bahamas where upon arrival at Lynden Pindling International Airport in Belize City they were recieved by the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas (Sir Cornelius Smith). Afterwards The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met the Rt. Hon. Philip Davis, MP (Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas) and Mrs. Davis at Sir Cecil Wallace Whitfield Centre in Nassau.

25 March - William and Catherine visited Sybil Strachan School and attended a Celebration for key workers for their work during the pandemic, at the Garden of Remembrance. They subsequently visited Parliament Square and took part in a Platinum Jubilee Sailing Regatta at Montagu Beach in the afternoon. Afterwards they attended a Reception at the Baha Mar Hotel hosted by the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas (Sir Cornelius Smith) to mark The Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

26 March - On their final day while on tour of the Caribbean, William and Catherine visited Daystar Church in Abaco. Afterwards they unveiled a Memorial at Memorial Garden, Abaco to commemorate those who lost their lives in Hurricane Dorian before visiting a beach area in Abaco to meet local stall holders. William and Catherine then visited Grand Bahama Children's Home and Coral Vita (Winners, 2021 Earthshot Prize to Preserve our Oceans) in Grand Bahamas for their final two stops on their tour. In the evening they departed Lynden Pindling International Airport for the United Kingdom in the evening.

27 March - William and Catherine arrived at the Royal Air Force Brize Norton from the Bahamas after wrapping up their Caribbean tour.

29 March - William attended the Service of Thanksgiving for The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey along with Catherine and their eldest children Prince George and Princess Charlotte.

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