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 when the Muslims of British India were seeking a separate country of their own. Allama Iqbal had proposed a new Muslim homeland in 1930 but no one had discussed a name for it. After all there weren’t many readily available names for it. India, which meant ‘land of the Indus’ was the logical candidate, but besides being of foreign origin, it had now come to denote the entire South Asian Subcontinent. The same was true for Hindustan, the land of Hind (Sindh). The term Sindh could have been a reasonable choice but for centuries now it was limited to a small region, and it might not have been acceptable to non-Sindhis.  Enter Choudhary Rahmat Ali and his fellow firebrands. In 1933, Rahmat Ali, a young Muslim lawyer published a pamphlet in which he proposed the name ‘Pakistan’ based on an acronym denoting ‘P’ for Punjab, ‘A’ for Afghan Province (NWFP), ‘K’ for Kashmir, ‘S’ for Sindh and ‘-stan’ for Balochistan.  There was no ‘B’ for Bengal in the name as at that time Bengal was not a part

 This week we are happy to name Lawrence Pankratz as the 101st inductee in Marshfield’s 150: Heroes and Leaders, Past and Present register. Lawrence “Bud” Pankratz was nominated by his daughter, Mary Tollefson.    Dad, your story begins and ends each day in my heart. How I wish I could see the sparkle in your eyes and hear you speak of your day’s happenings again.  To the readers of this article, I will offer facts and tributes about my Dad, Lawrence Pankratz, but my heart is telling me to write this from deep within myself. Dad is now lost to this world here but in return heaven gained a good man of character as well as the character of a good soldier, husband, father and grandfather.  My father was reunited with my mother, Olive, and my brother, Jim, when he died March 4, 2020. He was never a person to celebrate a specific date, as he would say, “A day is another day, a date goes by.” For my family, there is no celebration of loss, but I can share some of the gains in my time with my

 Predjama Castle-Slovenia 🇸🇮🇸🇮🇸🇮 Predjama Castle was probably built in the 12th century but was first mentioned in the second half of the 13th century. It was built in an area that was controlled by the town of Aquilea but was contested by the Counts of Gorizia. In those times the castle was called Jama Castle (Jama translates to cave). In 1350 the castle was taken by Austrian dukes. In 1398 Aquilean troops sieged and set fire to the castle. Later on knights from the East-Tyrolean city of Lienz became owners of the castle, which they called Luegg Castle. So they called themselves Lords of Lienz and Luegg. In 1478 the castle became the property of the knight Erazem. He was probably the most famous inhabitant of Predjama Castle. In 1483 he killed a Marshall Pappenheim at the Vienna court during an argument. This Marshall was however a relative of the Austrian Emperor so Erazem fled to his castle to escape punishment. The castle was then sieged on the Emperor's orders by Gaspar

Bronco Charlie Miller (December 1850 – 15 January 1955) was an American horse tamer and Pony Express rider. He was born on the trail in California to parents travelling west for the California Gold Rush. At the age of 11, Miller claimed to have become the youngest ever Pony Express rider, claiming to have done so after witnessing a horse arrive without its rider at the station in Sacramento. Miller then worked as a horse trainer, from which he earned his nickname, including a period working on Teddy Roosevelt's cattle ranch. Afterwards, he became a performer demonstrating roping techniques, horse riding and knife throwing. On his travels, he met and married Carrie Potter, who joined and became a target girl in his act. Miller was known as a teller of "tall tales", though many of them were true. He stated that he joined the Canadian Army and fought in the First World War and also volunteered to serve in the Korean War. Miller claimed an acquaintance with many Old West figu

 Mayapan, Yucatan Mexico Mexico offers one of the best venues to view sophisticated engineering, architecture, and civic design from a highly evolved civilization known as the Maya. Over the years, I've taken numerous groups to some of the best-known Mayan cities throughout south eastern Mexico, primarily Yucatan.  A truly ancient civilization, the Maya inherited their engineering prowess and an understanding of earth's geomagnetic gravity and telluric field generating systems from an early unknown ancestry. Many of the great pyramids from early Maya were built over ley lines or energy centers and designed to capture these fields, enhance them in some unknown manner and then distribute the energy.  The Maya natives told me that the buildings were part of the community and climbing, meditating and interacting with pyramids was a part of daily life. These images are of Mayapan and the main pyramid.

 Louvre, Paris.  During World War II, in an attempt to preserve the cultural treasures held by the Louvre Museum, many of its works were moved and hidden for the duration of the conflict.  At the end of August 1939, a week before the start of the Second World War, the first works left Paris for the castles of various French regions.  Between 1939 and 1945, nearly 4,000 paintings, sculptures, and other treasures from the Louvre left their royal residence to hide in the French countryside.  The Mona Lisa, the Nike of Samothrace, the Venus de Milo... Among the hidden works, international treasures of inestimable value.  In the photo the Venus ready for the move.

 920: Women’s Suffrage > Date: Aug. 26 > Location: Washington D.C. Though the United States was founded under democratic principles, only a minority of its population — in the beginning only white landowning males over the age of 21 — could actually vote. But after the 19th Amendment of the Constitution was passed, women finally gain a voice and the right to cast their ballots, though the voting rights fight was far from over for many African American women, especially in the South

 In 1909, the Phoenix Gazette published two articles about the discovery of a massive underground citadel hidden within a cave in the Grand Canyon. The first article, published in March, only briefly mentions explorer G.E. Kinkaid's explorations down the Colorado River and his interesting archaeological discoveries. However, the second article, published in April, delves more deeply into Kinkaid's exploration, in which he discovered an ancient city hidden within hand-carved caves. According to Kinkaid's account, the tunnels and caves contained mummies, hieroglyphic writings, and various war weapons and copper instruments with sharpened edges as hard as steel. He estimated that around 50,000 people had once lived in the tunnels and caves. Moreover, Kinkaid described the city as having an oriental or Egyptian flavour, with hard-carved tunnels and caves that resembled those in ancient Egypt.

 HELLTOWN OHIO The Dark History Of Helltown, Ohio, Lives Up To Its Name From the vacated buildings to the deserted streets, ghost towns are plenty creepy. But few ghost towns could match the sheer terror and mystique surrounding Ohio’s infamous Helltown. Since being abandoned by its citizens, the place has earned a dreaded reputation. Was it really home to murderous Satanists? Or how about deadly mutants? This is the perfect time to learn more about the aptly named Helltown. The dark origins of Helltown The town’s history can be traced all the way back to 1758. At that point, the area was populated by swathes of Native Americans. The tribespeople who lived here were But barely two decades later, whatever peace that existed in the community was shattered by bloody infighting. The tribes turned against each other after some of them partnered up with nearby colonial settlers. It led to a horrifying massacre. A past of brutal battles The bloodshed didn’t end there, either. The settlement w

 When the results of The Lyric Year’s 1912 poetry competition were announced, readers were indignant, most declaring that the poem that was awarded fourth place was by far the best. The winning poet agreed with that assessment and the second-place poet even sent his prize money back. The poem that was awarded fourth place that year was “Renascence,” by 20-year-old Edna St. Vincent Millay, and its publication marked the beginning of an extraordinary career. By the 1920’s, Edna was a poetic rock star. Her volumes were best-sellers and she read her poems to packed houses. She achieved a level of fame and success that poets rarely attain. Raised by a wildly Bohemian mother, Edna was herself a radical libertine, which contributed significantly to the public’s fascination with her. A petite and alluring redhead, Edna unabashedly celebrated female sexuality (at a time when doing so was scandalous) and she had unhidden, often brief, intimate relationships with many men and women. She won the P

 Heȟáka Sápa (Black Elk) (December 1, 1863 – August 19, 1950) was a famous wičháša wakȟáŋ (medicine man and holy man) and heyoka of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) who lived in the present-day United States, primarily South Dakota. He was a second cousin of the war chief Crazy Horse. Near the end of his life, Black Elk met with amateur ethnologist John Neihardt and recounted to him his religious vision, events from his life, and details of Lakota culture. Neihardt edited a translated record and published Black Elk Speaks in 1932. The words of Black Elk have since been published in numerous editions, most recently in 2008. There has been great interest in his work among members of the American Indian Movement since the 1970s and by others who have wanted to learn more about a Native American religion. Black Elk's first wife Katie converted to Roman Catholicism, and they had their three children baptized as Catholics. After Katie's death, in 1904 Black Elk, then in his 40s, converted t

 The Möltenort U-Boat Memorial (U-Boot-Ehrenmal Möltenort), 1939 and today.  Located in Heikendorf near Kiel, Germany, the impressive 65-foot tall monument commemorates the sailors who died serving in U-Boat units during the First and Second World Wars, along with all victims of submarine warfare. It was originally built in 1930, but after suffering structural damage, it was rebuilt in 1938.  In an arched gallery area behind the monument, the names of fallen German U-Boat men of the German Imperial Navy and the Kriegsmarine, along with those who died serving in the postwar German Navy, are displayed on 115 bronze plaques. The U-Boot war badge is attached to the pillar; until 1945 its position had been occupied by a swastika.

 The Manticore, derived from the Early Middle Persian merthykhuwar or martiora, meaning "man-eater" (also known as a mantichora or a martichore), is a fearsome hybrid creature found in classical and medieval literature. It has the body of a lion, the head of a man and a scorpion tail that can shoot poisonous darts. The manticore is one of the most bizarre and ferocious creatures depicted throughout classical and medieval bestiaries. Its roots can be traced back to India and Persia (modern-day Iran). The myth of the manticore spreads over several centuries and is mentioned most famously by Ctesias (5th century BCE), Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE) and Pausanias (c. 115 to c. 180 CE). The earliest known mention of the manticore comes from the Greek historian and physician Ctesias in his Indica (written in the 5th century BCE). Although the Indica is now lost to time, fragments of Ctesias' work exist in other authors' writings, and we have a clear description of the manticore

 The Somme, such a sweet region in the north of France, was, more than a hundred years ago, a hell of fire, blood and steel for an entire generation of young men who fought here in the deadliest battles of the great war and who, in the barbed wire, under the shells and the bullets, were swept away by the brutality, the savagery of the war which drowned them in darkness, in the madness of a world which sank into despair and which pushed so many men in the prime of their lives killing each other in the mud in absolute rage and side by side, bayonets forward, in the whistling of shrapnel, in the chaos, threw themselves on each other and gave each other death in the shock of guns which rained lead and blood of young boys who gave their all in the name of peace and freedom who were won by so many sacrifices through battles in which courage was seen , the compassion, the camaraderie which brought together these heroes and who, with loyalty and honor, with bravery, did their duty until their