#James Cleveland

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Horrorcon UK 2024

Myself and a few voice actors from the NoSleep Podcast will be appearing at Horrorcon UK in Sheffield this May!

We’ll also be promoting other audio fiction in horror, so if you have any promo stuff (postcards/stickers) you’d like us to giveaway on our table, please get in touch.

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[deadthehype]

October 29, 2003: LeBron James makes his NBA debut vs. Sacramento Kings

(via solecollector)

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[milksockets]

charles james in expedition: fashion from the extreme - thames + hudson (2017)

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[tomorrowusa]

Happy Presidents Day! It's time for the results of the annual Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey

So here are the five best and five worst presidents according to the 2024 survey. BTW, Grover Cleveland only gets counted once for this survey.

Here are the historians' collective rankings for the top five and bottom five.

I'm fully in agreement with #1 and #45.

The entire 12 page article (PDF) can be read here.

Lincoln, FDR, and Washington are in an exclusive group of greatness by themselves. Trump is in an exclusive group of odium all by himself. The ghosts of James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson are undoubtedly pleased that thanks to Trump, they'll never need to worry again about being considered the worst ever POTUS.

Some other tidbits from the survey.

Jimmy Carter (#22 overall) was chosen as the most underrated POTUS.

John F. Kennedy (#10 overall) was chosen as the most overrated.

The biggest rise in the rankings was by Barack Obama who rose 9 places since 2015.

The biggest decline goes to Andrew Jackson who tumbled 12 places since 2015.

Joe Biden is at #14 overall – in between John Adams and Woodrow Wilson. Though Biden is essentially tied with Adams; both having received scores of 62.66 points.

The ratings average which Republican historians gave to Biden (47.69) was significantly higher than the ratings average which Democratic historians gave to Trump (6.66). No, I didn't make up that 666. 👿

It's only history scholars who participated in this survey. They tend to take a longer view than most of us.

My biggest disagreements are that I would have placed Gerald Ford and John Quincy Adams higher and George W. Bush much lower.

A couple of articles about the 2024 rankings...

MAGA freaks out after Fox News reports Obama in top 10 presidents — and Trump in dead last

Presidential experts rank Biden 14th among presidents in survey, Trump comes in last

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John Rogers Cox - Gray and Gold - 1942- (Cleveland Museum of Art)

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To what does the soul turn that has no therapists to visit? It takes its trouble to the trees, to the riverbank, to an animal companion, on an aimless walk through the city streets, a long watch of the night sky. Just stare out the window or boil water for a cup of tea. We breathe, expand, and let go, and something comes in from elsewhere. The daimon in the heart seems quietly pleased, preferring melancholy to desperation. It’s in touch. ~ James Hillman [alive on all channels]

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[ethanryanpunal]

“A KID FROM AKRON”

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Ken hasn't posted a lighthouse in a while. While driving up to this lighthouse, Ken saw the God rays and knew exactly what he wanted to do here. It's like the skies were pointing at this pretty lighthouse in Cleveland.

📸 by Ken James @openshutter21_photography

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[deadpresidents]

Are there any less famous presidents that you find especially interesting?

All you have to do is take a quick glance at my archives to realize that I am unusually fascinated in Franklin Pierce. I always have been.

Lately, I've been interested in reading more about the run of obscure Presidents from the end of Reconstruction to the beginning of the 20th Century -- Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, and William McKinley --which Adam Goodheart called "the bewhiskered blur of Gilded Age Presidents."

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Scoring King, 2004