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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

“Don’t You Just Know It”| Huey “Piano” Smith & The Clowns — America On Coffee

His piano playing incorporated theboogie styles of Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, and Albert Ammons, the jazzstyle of Jelly Roll Morton and the rhythm-and-blues style of Fats Domino. Steve Huey of AllMusic noted that “At the peak of his game, Smith epitomizedNew Orleans R&B at its most infectious and rollicking, as showcased on his classic…

“Don’t You Just Know It”| Huey “Piano” Smith & The Clowns — America On Coffee

Hundreds of places with racist names dot the U.S. – Axios

More than 1,000 towns, lakes, streams, creeks and mountain peaks across the U.S. still bear racist names, according to a federal board under the Department of the Interior.

Why it matters: The legacies of sites with names such as Squaw Lake, Minn., and Dead Negro Spring in Oklahoma endure, even amid a national push to remove Confederate monuments and change designations of public buildings named for racists.

Source: Hundreds of places with racist names dot the U.S. – Axios

Endless Searching

Michael Stephen Wills Photography

Gulls, an omnipresent element of any beach stroll. Pestiferous, abounding and incessant the gull is simple to deal with. Keep any and all foodstuffs under wraps.

Click for “Florida” in my Fine Art Galleries.

For those who adore a crowd of gulls

Conversely, for those who adore a crowd of raucous opportunists simply pull out the food and offer it to the air. There is more about this photograph at this post, “Lady Feeding Gulls, Cocoa Beach Dawn.”

Click any photograph for a larger view.

Beach Walking

Pam and I developed a habit of hanging out in Florida during Finger Lakes Winters when the gorges are closed for safety and even walking the streets is perilous, stray black ice encounters abound. We trade icy falls for beach walks.

It is natural to become inured to the flight of gulls along the shore. For all my carting along the Sony Alpha…

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How Many People Lived in the Angkor Empire? – SAPIENS

Excerpt:

“One of the world’s largest ancient cities lies in the jungles of Southeast Asia in the greater Angkor region located in contemporary Cambodia. This medieval site was home to the Angkor or Khmer Empire from the ninth to the 15th centuries. You might be familiar with the famous Angkorian temple, Angkor Wat, one of the largest religious monuments in the world.

But most people don’t realize that Angkor Wat is just one of more than a thousand temples in the greater Angkor region. Our research suggests that this settlement may have been home to between 700,000 and 900,000 people at its height in the 13th century. This means that the population of Angkor was roughly comparable to the almost 1 million people who lived in ancient Rome at its height.

Here’s how our interdisciplinary team came up with our population estimate for Angkor and how it grew over time.” Read more at link below…

Source: How Many People Lived in the Angkor Empire? – SAPIENS

Roma nella lingua romena

Google translation of introduction: Rome in the Romanian language – In 101 d. C. a large Roman army, commanded by General Traiano, set out to conquer Dacia which, being a frontier region, served Rome to prevent invasions by the barbarians. It was foreseen the conquest of the region and the subjugation of the peoples who lived there and then the dispatch of numerous Roman settlers to the area. After 5 years of war, Dacia became another Roman province and relations between the Dacians and the Romans were good but, after 150 years of tranquility, the barbarians began to flow without stopping and so in 274 the Roman army abandoned Dacia and for hundreds of years Goths, Gepids, Huns and Avars destroyed and plundered the region.

le pagine dei nostri libri

Nel 101 d. C. un grande esercito romano, comandato dal generale Traiano, si mise in marcia per conquistare la Dacia che, essendo una regione di frontiera, serviva a Roma per impedire le invasioni dei barbari. Era prevista la conquista della regione e la sottomissione dei popoli che l’abitavano e poi l’invio di numerosi coloni romani nella zona.

Dopo 5 anni di guerra la Dacia divenne un’altra provincia romana e i rapporti fra i daci ed i romani furono buoni ma, dopo 150 anni di tranquillità, cominciarono ad affluire senza sosta i barbari e così nel 274 l’esercito romano abbandonò la Dacia e per centinaia di anni Goti, Gepidi, Unni e Avari distrussero e depredarono la regione.

Nel VI secolo d. C. numerose tribù di Slavi occuparono due zone della Dacia: la Transilvania e la Valacchia e si fusero con la popolazione dacio-romana, dando origine all’attuale popolazione.

La lingua ufficiale della…

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This Filibuster Bullsh*t

read and understand

In Saner Thought

Have you heard the word?

And that word is…..FILIBUSTER

The media has a new fixation…..the proposed fight over the ‘filibuster’….that super majority rule in the Senate…….

We have two back bench Dems in the Senate that are making sure that all attention is leveled on them…..Sen. Machin and Sen. Sinema……without this attention they would return to being a non-productive member of the Senate.

Sinema recently made the statement that the Founders created the filibuster to protect the minority…..first it is BS the idea of a filibuster is nowhere in the Constitution….the Founders did not foresee the rise of the political parties……

My suggestion is these political slugs should read the document that they use a political prop…..I can help……

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

Then there is addendum put in the Constitution to appease the whiny states like Virginia….the Bill of Rights…..

https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript

For Christ sake…read the document!

The first so-called filibuster was used…

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Are Voting Rights A Dead Issue? — In Saner Thought

With all the voter suppression tactics making the rounds in most states….there was hope to put the brakes on this suppression but one coward in the Senate will do mall he can to help the GOP take away your right to vote…..that coward is Manchin. A key Democratic senator says he will not vote for […]

Are Voting Rights A Dead Issue? — In Saner Thought

Projeto que autoriza garimpo em terra indígena e dificulta demarcação é meta bolsonarista na Câmara — Ecoamazônia

Google translation of introduction: A project that authorizes mining on indigenous land and makes demarcation difficult is a pocket-narrow goal in the Chamber — Ecoamazônia

Barbara Crane Navarro

Texto seria votado nesta quarta-feira na CCJ presidida pela bolsonarista Bia Kicis, mas foi retirado da pauta após pressão contrária no Congresso e nas redes sociais. 48 morewords

Projeto que autoriza garimpo em terra indígena e dificulta demarcação é meta bolsonarista na Câmara — Ecoamazônia

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