May Day mayday

 If you can get your hands on it the reading for Mayday is definitely Carl Sandburg the Windy City it's a poem but it's from the 60s so it's not in the public domain

 Agnes gray and Bronte check out my YouTube a m a r t a i n g i r l the booktube playlist in the playlist section for information

Stephen crane the Bride Comes to Yellow sky

 I've enjoyed everything I picked up by Stephen crane his short stories his books and his poetry .this is a book review on the Bride Comes to Yellow sky.

 this is about Newly Weds on a train going from one end of Texas to the other .... A Thousand Mile Journey  on a Pullman steam engine that has to stop for water when some action happens............anyway dude went across Texas and eloped and now they're on their way back together.... from San Antonio to Yellow sky Texas ....now yellow sky is a fictional town on one end of Texas .....

The dude is actually a Marshall the town Marshall's name is Jack Potter.... went clear across the state and eloped  this bride he picked up is older then the normal Brides .....  eloped in a blue cashmere dresss steel buttons .... Her name is not mentioned at all other than Mrs Potter..........anyway marriage was important to the people in yellow sky and they were on a train that was a beautiful Pullman they had a parlor car with Fresco's on the ceiling and then there was a dining car with a Negroes and dazzling white suits .......he was bringing his bride to this Society.... she came from San Antonio .there Was snobs on board this train and the embarrassed her..... as under class. Steam engine had two engines actually  had to stop for water and so they got out and they were in a bar and they was like the drunk man looking to scrap he wanted a gunfight you know three paces and then turn around  and shoot.....but this groom was not armed the other guy did back down ...the armed Guy Backed Down and refuse to shoot an unarmed man

Jack Potter was nervous about bringing his new bride back to Yellow Sky because he didn't even tell the people in yellow sky that he was going to get married and now he's coming back with this woman

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  The saddest day of the year in Judaism is Tisha B'Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, a solemn fast day commemorating the destruction of both the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem, as well as numerous other tragedies and exiles throughout Jewish history, including the Holocaust. Observances include a 25-hour fast from food and drink, refraining from bathing, wearing leather shoes, and engaging in joyful activities, focusing instead on mourning, study, and reflection on loss and resilience.
  
  Key Aspects of Tisha B'Av:
  Date:
  The 9th of Av (usually in July or August).
  
  Commemorates:
  Destruction of both Temples, Crusades, Inquisition, expulsions, and the Holocaust.
  
  Practices: 

  A full fast (no food or water), avoiding luxuries like music, bathing, and leather shoes; reading Lamentations (Eichah) and dirges. 
• Significance: 

  A day to remember historical pain, reaffirm Jewish identity, and commit to rebuilding and learning from the past. 

Why It's So Sad:

• Destruction of the Temples: 

  The loss of the First Temple (Babylonians, 586 BCE) and Second Temple (Romans, 70 CE) were catastrophic events, leading to massive loss of life and exile. 
• Historical Tragedies: 

  Many other calamities, from expulsions to the Shoah (Holocaust), are linked to this date, making it a focal point for collective Jewish grief. 
• Spiritual Loss: 

  The Temples represented the heart of Jewish spiritual and national life, and their destruction marked a profound spiritual void. 

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Tisha B'Av - Wikipedia

Tisha b'Av precedes the end of The Three Weeks. This day is regarded as the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. It is categorized ...

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Today is Tisha B’Av, the saddest day in the Jewish calendar. A day when tragedy after tragedy struck our people. The First Temple. The Second Temple. The Crusades. The Inquisition. Expulsions from England and Spain. Deportations to death camps. All of it, again and again, on this day. Tisha B’Av is a day shaped by grief, a date when generation after generation faced destruction, exile and loss. But the Jews don’t let tragedies define us. We use them as a catalyst not just survive, but to thrive. We remember these events to help us preserve what others try to erase, to reconnect to our identity, to remember the pain and to powerfully commit to learning, to growing and to rebuilding with love.

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What Is Tisha B'Av? - Chabad.org

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Tisha B’Av – the saddest day in the Jewish calendar - PolskiFR

Jul 26, 2023 — The customs of Tishah B'Av ... During that period people avoid scheduling their weddings as well as getting haircuts.

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Great love poems which is an anthology or rather a collection of poems put together by Shane Weller

Winter Dreams F Scott Fitzgerald Bernice Bobs her hair F Scott Fitzgerald the offshore pirate F Scott Fitzgerald HG Wells the Apple the magic shop

2026 books read

 2026 books 

 babbit by Sinclair Lewis

Thomas Bracken hurrah for New Zealand not understood and how Von tempski died

Fahrenheit 451 ray bradbury

old New Zealand frederick manning (maori life/Polynesian)

Rudyard Kipling poems....the thousandth man (FAVORITE)

.........tommy....the law of the jungle....gunga din....power of the dog....

Rikki tikki tavi

Oscar Wilde Ballad of reading gaol

bram stoker squaw

Olive Shriner story of an African Farm

the lake gun James Fenimore Cooper

 ts Eliot wasteland

the false gem guy de Maupassant 

crazy night Tennessee Williams

Bloomsbury girls Natalia jenner

roughing it in the bush Susan Moodyu

Bartleby the scrivener story of Wall Street Herman Melville

Agatha Christie Hercules Pro Christmas

The lightning rod man Herman Melville

 Barnaby rudge Charles Dickens 

 the scandal in Bohemia sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

Erehwon Samuel butler

Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

summer Edith Wharton 

trumpet Major Thomas Hardy

 Edgar Allan Poe Annabelle Lee

 ghost Patrol Sinclair Lewis 

war is kind Stephen crane

 truth said a traveler's Steven crane 

Snows of Kilimanjaro Ernest Hemingway

 The Octopus Frank Norris

 Malachi's Cove Anthony trollope 

Edwin Abbott Flatland

 Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 

willa cather o pioneers 

Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe

 House of pomegranates Oscar Wilde ( fisherman and his soul)

christabel Samuel Coleridge Taylor

the Amalfi curse Sarah Penner

Narrative of Gordon PYM... Edgar Allan Poe

h g Wells the magic shop

Barnaby rudge tale of the Riots of 1780 Charles Dickens

 Barnaby rudge by Charles Dickens A Tale of the Riots of 1780 starts out with a preface about London and a raven becoming extinct and this takes place IN an inn called the maypole, was a place of public entertainment ...it was a gabled old building..... talks about the constitution of mermaids and that mermaids are not women...

this place of entertainment called the Maypole was  a hostel .....an inn.....was called  a human man trap a Decoy for husband......

the Gordon riots  were anti-catholic riots. AI confirms they were real and were the result of a piece of legislation called the Catholic Relief act 1778

no popery riots...no kings.... These people did not want to Pope set up next to their King there was a riot

the leader of the riots was Lord George Gordon 

locksmith a landlord treason by King George II 

chapter one ends in a crime ...MURDER a gardener 

the Protestants did not want Mary Catholics 

 talks about a ghost Freemason 

 House of pomegranate by Oscar Wilde is three different stories  the first one is called the Young King it starts out he's meeting the professor of etiquette a lesson and then there was also a dead woman and a child abduction .Swift Italian poison slew the mom the princess was lowered into a grave on top of another body tied up...... this young king .......on the day before his coronation that he's meeting with the etiquette professor... he's 16 acknowledge heir... talks about King's Raiment

 Daniel Defoe Robinson cruso 1719 he was born in 1632 city of York father is from Germany he was Shipwrecked during a storm island of Despair no food no weapons no clothes drank and strong punch Shipwrecked headed to gonilla Africa when began to blow to see the rise he was seasick 7 days out and see the wind was contrary unnamed ship sprung a leak this was all after his friend offered him a free ride on the boat it sinks on September 30th 1659 near or WinCo River three men were killed eight were wounded they were carried prisoners Cape de Verde Islands they were going to set up themselves as a guinea Trader trading slaves Canary Islands there was Negroes leopards Muhammad they taught a pair to talk his name was Paul they grew corn they built a canoe out of a tree 28 years he was there it said online

Flat land

 Flatland by edwin abbot it's about these two dimensional shapes , flat like a shadow walking around on the earth , you know , envisioning the three in four dimensional worlds

Quote about the acute angle

Space land tradesman of respectable class, peace cry, under penalty of death, involuntary, sneezing, and illegal action isosceles, women were straight lines isosceles were soldiers working class equilateral, middle class squares was gentlemen.  Pentagons were professionals

 Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess Dr pretends to cure an STD that's about space Peter George dim Georgie died boys in a corrective School 15 State Jail nasda slang Russian influenced Alex the government is trying to get you to destroy yourself they were wearing tights they were holding his eyelids open to make him watch Nazi videos with Beethoven music to produce an adverse reactionaction cured grown up at the end beat up by police

 flat earth ai

The concept of the Northwest Passage on a flat earth map, specifically referring to the 1892 "Gleason's New Standard Map of the World," presents the Arctic region as the center of a circular, disk-shaped world. 

Key Details of the Northwest Passage on Flat Earth Maps:

• Central Location: Unlike globe maps where the North Pole is just a point, on the Gleason azimuthal projection (often used in flat earth, 0.1.2), the Arctic regions, including the Northwest Passage, are depicted encircling or directly around the center point.
• The "Ice Wall": In this model, the Arctic is in the center, while the outer edge of the map is bordered by a massive, all-encompassing ice wall, rather than Antarctica being a continent at the bottom.
• 1892 Gleason Map: This map specifically represents the earth "as it is," stretched and flattened into a circular plane, which is often used by modern flat earth proponents.
• Navigation Challenges: Some users note that navigating East or West on this type of map requires traveling in a circle around the center rather than a straight line, which contradicts actual compass navigation, a point often used to challenge the map's validity.
• Historical Context: The Northwest Passage was long sought by explorers in the 18th and 19th centuries as a shortcut to Asia, and early, non-flat maps sometimes showed it as a direct, open, or mythical strait, which aligns with the "wishful mapping" of that era. 

While the 1892 map was intended as a projection to aid in mapping the globe, it has been adopted as a cornerstone of the flat earth, or "stationary earth," theory.