Odds and ends, What a wonderful world

 What a wonderful world

https://youtu.be/qfuw3CZQuwk

Covid update

https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/how-to-evaluate-covid-19-risk-vaccinated-or-not

 

Particle physics update

https://www.inverse.com/science/particle-collision-antarctic-ice-glashow-resonance?utm_campaign=inverse-daily-2021-3-14&utm_medium=inverse&utm_source=newsletter&utm_session=68e8c43b-cf1d-44e5-bc1f-43b02e2007da

 

Beta blockers

https://www.resperate.com/blog/hypertension/treatments/medications/what-you-need-to-know-about-beta-blockers?utm_source=RESPeRATE+USA&utm_campaign=6a53ec2dc4-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ac3cc1206e-6a53ec2dc4-297429217

Odds and ends, The end of the world.

"The End Of The World" - Skeeter Davis 

https://youtu.be/cxtUUTRBN70

Interacting with your child

https://www.verywellfamily.com/writing-letters-as-a-family-tradition-2997387?utm_campaign=parent_tod&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cn_nl&utm_content=23135941&utm_term=

 

The pea-cock throne

https://www.quora.com/What-did-Nadir-Shah-do-with-the-Peacock-Throne

Travancore Sisters refers to the trio of Padmini, Lalitha and Ragini who were actors, dancers and performers in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi films. They were active from late 1940's to early 1960's.

 https://www.oldindianphotos.in/2015/07/travancore-sisters-padmini-lalitha-ragini.html?m=1

 

Odds and ends, Moon River

"Moon River"" on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/shorts/SneFlvjTS0YSongs

Aluminum foil dangers in cooking

https://www.thealternativedaily.com/3-scary-reasons-ditch-aluminum-foil/

 

10 longest rivers

https://www.thoughtco.com/longest-rivers-in-the-world-1435149?utm_campaign=wilat&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cn_nl&utm_content=23084656&utm_term=

Does the UK use toilet paper?

When I was a child, there was a little poem we used to recite:

In days of old,

When Knights were bold,

And paper weren’t invented,

You’d wipe your arse

On a piece of grass

And walk away contented.

To be serious, we have been using it a long time. Where I lived as a child, in the Northeast of England, some people still had outside toilets, because there were still lots of Tyneside flats.

Traditionally, poor working class families hung squares of newspaper on string on a peg to use as toilet paper, though that was fast disappearing even 60 years ago.

I recall that there was a special kind of shiny paper you used to get in toilets in institutions like school, which was totally non-absorbent and utterly useless. I’m glad this has now disappeared. Horrible stuff.

 

Odds and ends, London symphony

 London symphony

https://youtu.be/6SlwnNKsidw

"Ninja technique of splitting stone" on YouTube

https://youtu.be/B7R-DW9tQSw

Does anyone call the queen by her first name? What would happen if a normal person did?

I only know of one person in the world who called her “Elizabeth” after she was about 6 or 7 years old, when her sister dubbed her “Lilibet”. That became the name her parents, sister, and cousins all used.

Prince Philip is known to call her “Bet”, when he’s not calling her “Cabbage”. “Lilibet” is still used by the older relatives. I saw a documentary filmed a few years ago where her former nanny/nurse also called her “Lilibet”. That one surprised me, but I guess it’s not easy to constantly call your charge “Your Highness” when you’re trying to get her to eat her spinach or make her bed.

So, back to the one person who called her “Elizabeth” and lived to tell the tale. This man:

Nelson Mandela called her “Elizabeth” at their first meeting.

“And during his 90th birthday party celebrated here in London, Her Majesty the Queen phoned Nelson Mandela in the middle of his party and he was handed the phone and said: ‘Hello Elizabeth, how’s the duke?’

“After which his wife Graça Machel scolded him, saying: ‘You cannot refer to Her Majesty the Queen on first name terms,’ to which he replied: ‘But she calls me Nelson.”‘ Duke and Duchess of Sussex praised by Nelson Mandela’s goddaughter

And, according to Mr Mandela’s son, their fondness for one another morphed into him calling her “Lizzie”. Nelson Mandela's sweet nickname for Queen Elizabeth

Apparently, Her Majesty quite enjoyed it.

From Quora

His majesty King Leopold II.

Background:

The Congo Free State was a corporate state in Central Africa privately owned by King Leopold II of Belgium founded and recognized by the Berlin Conference of 1885. In the 23 years (1885-1908) Leopold II ruled the Congo, he massacred 10 million Africans by cutting off their hands and genitals, flogging them to death, starving them into forced labour, holding children ransom and burning villages. The ironic part of this story is that Leopold II committed these atrocities by not even setting foot in the Congo. Under Leopold II’s administration…

A Congolese man looking at the severed hand and foot of his five-year-old daughter who was killed, and allegedly cannibalized, by the members of Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company militia.

(Just imagine yourself instead of this man )

The 

man in photograph is Nsala.

Photograph was taken by Alice Seeley.

Her written account about this photograph is in the book, Don’t Call Me Lady: The Journey of Lady Alice Seeley Harris:

He hadn’t made his rubber quota for the day so the Belgian-appointed overseers had cut off his daughter’s hand and foot. Her name was Boali. She was five years old. Then they killed her. But they weren’t finished. Then they killed his wife too. And because that didn’t seem quite cruel enough, quite strong enough to make their case, they cannibalized both Boali and her mother. And they presented Nsala with the tokens, the leftovers from the once living body of his darling child whom he so loved.

The ABIR Congo Company (founded as the Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company and later known as the Compagnie du Congo Belge) was the company appointed to exploit natural rubber in the Congo Free State. ABIR enjoyed a boom through the late 1890s, by selling a kilogram of rubber in Europe for up to 10 fr which had cost them just 1.35 fr.

Men holding hands severed from victims .

A catholic priest quotes a man, Tswambe, speaking of the hated state official Léon Fiévez:

From all the bodies killed in the field, you had to cut off the hands. He wanted to see the number of hands cut off by each soldier, who had to bring them in baskets…A village which refused to provide rubber would be completely swept clean

An illustration from HM Stanley’s “The Congo and the founding of its free state; a story of work and exploration.

Under the reign of Leopold II, the Congo’s unique wildlife was fair game for sport killing by almost any hunter who could book passage and pay for a hunting license.

King leopold II was also depicted in “Heart of darkness” by Joseph Conrad.

References:

. Father stares at the hand and foot of his five-year-old, severed as a punishment for failing to make the daily rubber quota, Belgian Congo, 1904

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http://atrocitieswatch.org/king-leopold-of-belgium-in-congo/

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Colonialism in Africa: Bondage, exploitation and developments

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The Crime of the Congo

. Responsible For 10 Million Deaths, Why Isn't King Leopold II As Reviled As Hitler?

Odds and ends, Kumbaya,

Kumbaya my Lord

https://youtu.be/bYJMtn6IJeE

Helicopter on Mars

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a35353442/ingenuity-mars-helicopter/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_pop&utm_medium=email&date=022521&utm_campaign=nl22973159&utm_term=AAA%20--%20High%20Minus%20Dormant%20and%2090%20Day%20Non%20Openers 

 

Teleporting - Lahore 700 years back

https://www.quora.com/You-are-teleported-700-years-back-in-time-exactly-where-you-are-right-now-What-do-you-see

 

Emotional abuse in children

https://www.verywellfamily.com/what-is-emotional-child-abuse-4157502?utm_campaign=parent_tod&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cn_nl&utm_content=23028942&utm_term=

Odds and ends

Nanda Malini

https://youtu.be/yMtnx9rEiYk

Spotted Dove in the home garden

 First Asian ladies, qualifying as Doctors

An Indian woman, a Japanese woman, and a Syrian woman, all training to be doctors at Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia. - October 10, 1885 Indian woman, a Japanese woman, and a Syrian woman, all training to be doctors at Women’s Medical College of Philadelphia. - October 10, 1885

Lightning strike

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-lightning-does-to-your-body-373600?utm_campaign=wilat&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cn_nl&utm_content=22996194&utm_term=

Odds and ends, Panflute

 Titanic Panflute

https://youtu.be/Ui91xOcFVmk?list=RDMM

Patriotism and Nationalism

https://www.thoughtco.com/patriotism-and-nationalism-4178864?utm_campaign=wilat&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cn_nl&utm_content=22974419&utm_term=

 

Leaders & good judgment

https://hbr.org/2020/01/the-elements-of-good-judgment

At age 80, what are your expectations?

My 78 Th birthday is quickly approaching so I checked the actuarial tables at social security as I do before every birthday. I want to see how much longer the charts say I have.

Actuarial Life Table

a 78 year old woman statistically has about 11 years of life left.

80 looks very close to me right now. I’m not one to hurry time; I’m pretty philosophical.

But there’s something about 80 that has had an effect on me.

As for expectations -I really don’t “future trip” either. I quit having expectations when I was in an auto accident in 1994 that completely changed my life. I had a lot of hopes, plans and expectations when I was younger but the accident, combined with my husbands death in 2004 angled me away from expectations.

I live a day at a time now. I suspect I’ll continue to live a day at a time in the future.

I live with chronic pain and never know from day to day how I’m going to feel.

Guess I really didn’t answer your question did I?