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North Kempton: A Brief History

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The area encompassing what would become North Kempton consisted of relatively flat terrain through which ran a small river known as the Paddyne River, which was 30 feet deep and 300 feet wide. In fact, the said region was a very wide and shallow river basin with a two-foot-tall, round plateau standing facing East over the down slope to the Paddyne. To the West and North stood flat plains while gentle hills dominated to the East and South. Trees were relatively sparse, existing in small clumps, like mini-forests, here and there.

Most importantly, this area was known for its extremely fertile grassland

The Early Days

This area was never settled during Wannonian times, as the Wannonians considered the place to be sacred and, out of pious respect, left it alone. However, Wannonia fell in 1176; and before long, Combrians began moving West to settle in the former territories.

To present-day Northrange County in the summer of 1187 arrived a group of settlers led by a certain man named George Kempton, aged 66, who established a settlement and, with the consent of the majority of the community that came with him, named the new town Kempton, after himself. In 1191, George Kempton and his family ventured Northeast of town, where they came across the Paddyne River Basin and established a camp along its Western Bank for fishing. The Kemptons would do the same in the summer of 1192. And in 1193, they built a cabin, the first permanent structure along the Paddyne. This was followed by the construction of another cabin, this one belonging to the Halder family, in 1194, and the construction of three more cabins, belonging to the Sterling, Thompson, and Milton families respectively, in 1195. In 1196, these five families signed an agreement designating property boundary lines dividing the Paddyne River Basin into five equal parts.

In 1203, George Kempton discovered how fertile the grassland in this area was, and established a permanent year-round farming property. The five families voted to have a community cabin built and large pieces of this land to be owned by the said community, with the numerous pieces of land eventually being sold to families desiring to settle here. The leading five families referred to this unnamed community by the name of North Kempton during this time. Though it was initially intended as a joke, the community would be charted officially as the town of North Kempton in the years to come.

Nothing eventful happened in the quiet farming settlement of North Kempton, as the leading families established the Treasury of North Kempton on November 1203 to organize the revenue gained by the properties being sold. Meanwhile, more farms would spring up throughout the Paddyne River Basin. In 1206, the Galleston family settled here, setting down their roots on the biggest and flattest crop field.

Over the next few years, the North Kempton Treasury funded the construction of a Post Office, giving the town of North Kempton its official charter, as well as a Town Hall, Schoolhouse, and buildings of infrastruture: a Police Hall, Fire Hall, and Ward of Medicine. In 1209 was established the First Church of North Kempton, located on what would become Prospect Avenue in later years. In 1211, John and George Piedmont, having just received a university education, set down roots in the Southeast region of North Kempton and established North Kempton College. Two years later, funds were raised and construction would begin on the North Kempton Cathedral of Learning, a four-wing structure completed in 1217, with the Second Church of North Kempton occupying the North Wing, North Kempton College establishing its new home in the East Wing, the North Kempton Academy of Further Learning opening its doors in the South Wing, and the Library of North Kempton establishing itself in the West Wing.

And so grew the town of North Kempton in its early days, small and modest despite its progress thus far, while its inhabitants grew and lived modest and humble lives. All of that changed, however, with the crashing of the Airship Pirafone upon the Galleston Farm on December 15, 1251.

1252 to 1276: The First Economic Boom

In the years leading up to the crash of the Pirafone, the Gallestons had been struggling to sell all of the crops they intended to sell, and had opted to sell some of their land to other property owners. However, the latter proved a struggle as well. But as the Pirafone incident gained national attention, so did the Galleston property. And in 1252, the Department of Mass Transit proposed to construct an airfield over the crash site to honor Airship Captain William Solomon. The Gallestons agreed to this and sold a large portion of their land to the federal government to be developed into the North Kempton William Solomon Airfield. Though it began operation as a small airdock in March 1253, the William Solomon Airfield after its final construction phase would dwarf the Northrange County Airfield, itself.

Another main issue in 1252 was the North Kempton Cathedral of Learning, which caught fire and burned down in June 1251, a few months before the Pirafone incident. There had been a struggle to fund its reconstruction, owing to the costs. But with William Solomon's endorsement alongside his public reverance toward the hospitality of the town, numerous donors across the Republic gave funds to have the Cathedral reconstructed as a stone-structure resemblance of its wood structure predecessor. Reconstruction would be successfully completed in 1257.

The opening of William Solomon Airfield and reconstruction of the North Kempton Cathedral of Learning gave rise to an influx of tourists and clients from around the region into North Kempton, which began to see farming families selling their produce in farmer markets, which over the years developed into grocery stores. Meanwhile, with a great influx of people moving into North Kempton between 1252 and 1258, a great deal many changes were in order. The town had, early on, been run by a de facto town council under the de facto leadership of the Reverend Jon Mark of the First Church of North Kempton. This form of government, though, was very informal and loosely organized, not sufficient to deal with the oncoming changes. So in June 1255, the Council voted in a Constitution of the Municipality of North Kempton, which called for more formalities in its structure and schedule, primarily for Mayoral elections to occur every six years starting in the year 1258. In that year, the people of North Kempton elected Lynda Marts, representing the local chapter of the Foundationist Party, to serve as North Kempton's first Mayor. Under her leadership, the elected Council of North Kempton, in 1259, passed a constitutional provision to limit a North Kempton Mayor's tenure to two six-year terms.

Retail store chains emerged in North Kempton by the late 1250s. And starting in the late 1260s, various manufacturing plants sprung up, with the West part of the so-called "Manufacturing Belt" dominated by clothing, textiles, and shoes; and the East part of the Belt dominated by cars, bicycles, and other transit-related goods. Meanwhile, the First Bank of North Kempton was established in 1261, followed by the establishment of Westmar Bank in 1263. In 1264, the lightfire firm, West Horizon, opened its financial office suite in the office space across the inside corridor from Westmar Bank. In 1267, Westmar Bank acquired the First Bank of North Kempton.

By 1270, North Kempton had a well-established Town Center which included a Market square, new City Hall, a Clock Tower, the Westmar Bank Complex, and the Trade Stone Market Exchange. Just South of the Town Center lay the Business Strip, officially Piedmont Avenue, which had restaurants, tourist attractions, and hotels. Around this part of town stood the Manufacturing Belt, around which stood the ever-expanding Suburbs, around which stood the ever-expanding Retail and Agriculture Sector.

Lynda Marts fulfilled her two terms as Mayor of North Kempton that year. And on September 16, 1270, North Kempton elected its second Mayor, Thomas Curring, who was also a Foundationist.

In 1272, the Federal Estates of Retun signed a deep-trade deal with the Acrean Kingdom. Westmar Bank saw this as an opportunity to make high-risk but high-reward investments, in the form of the purchase of mass quantities of Acrean deep-trade stones. They did so by borrowing against the credit of their accountholders.

This, of course, would prove to be one of the worst business decisions ever made by a Remikran financial institution. And there were naysayers, including Kelvin Brass, who knew this in advance and attempted to warn the leaders of Westmar Bank of the dangers of this type of investment. However, not only were the leaders of Westmar Bank unwilling to heed such advise, they also decided to terminate Brass' employment. In response, Brass and of his colleagues staged a walk-in protest in the Westmar Bank Atrium, which took place in October 1272. Westmar Bank called law enforcement on them, leading Brass and his allies to being arrested and banned from the premise. Westmar Bank actively ignored and silenced other naysayers, paying media outlets to broadcast content to distract North Kempton residents with other matters. Meanwhile, Westmar Bank CEO, Edwin Mercy, cast himself as a dreaming investor set on funding a group of scientists aiming to launch a space balloon.

Brass' prediction came to pass, however, on 8 October 1273, when the Acrean Republic, having overthrown the Acrean Kingdom, announced the complete termination of the deep-trade agreement with the Retunian Republic. This would have an impact on the Retunian economy on a national scale; however, the economic decline was not so drastic on that scale as it was in North Kempton, which had more than fifty percent of its economy invested in Acrean trade stones. On Monday October 10, as the Trade Stone Exchange opened, investors found Acrean deep-trade stone prices essentially nullified. As the day became known in North Kempton history as Black Monday, North Kempton stone investors scrambled to sell other domestic trade stones with hope to recover the losses stemming from the Acrean fallout. This led to a complete crash in the North Kempton Trade Stone Market Exchange.

By the end of October, the value of the Acrean trade stones, now seen as "duds," fell to an average of 100'000 tradestones per 1 cent of Retunian currency. Most businesses in the Manufacturer Belt had direct ties to the Tradestone Exchange, and therefore suffered major losses. Closures and mass layoffs were announced as a consequence.

November 1273 saw further deterioration of the North Kempton economy as the layoffs took effect, leading other businesses, primarily in the Retail Sector, to lose customers. By the end of that month, these retail businesses announced closures and layoffs. This spurred bank runs as well as the collapse of the North Kempton real estate market in the Suburb Belt. Westmar Bank declared bankruptcy in December 1273, prompting Retunian Council to pass, and the Jackson Administration to enact, an emergency measure to help pay the North Kempton unemployment payroll, as well as loose ends with Westmar Bank and shuttered businesses. This measure took effect in January 1274.

Deep economic depression continued in North Kempton throughout the year 1274, as many parts of the Suburb Belt went abandoned and up to 25 percent of the population moved away in search for better opportunities. Meanwhile, Piedmont Avenue almost completely shuttered as some North Kempton residents, having lost their homes, set up shantytowns there and in parts of the Manufacturer Belt.

Jon Pura, a self-proclaimed Independent member of the North Kempton Council, and a lone, long-time proponent for henshale drilling, announced his run for Mayor of North Kempton for the 1276 election. Up to this point, the North Kempton population consisted of 75 percent supporting the conservative National Foundationist Party and 25 percent supporting the liberal National Labor Party. Despite this, both sides supported the economic model having existed up until the 1273-74 crisis, and hated the idea of henshale drilling, making Jon Pura an "outsider" and a "radical." Nonetheless, Jon Pura persisted in his stance, having been continuously elected by his precint constituents. And his persistence paid off in the wake of the economic crisis, when large numbers of North Kempton citizens began to consider Jon Pura's endorsement as a viable solution. Jon Pura received a further boost from Prime Minister Edward Jackson, who, in the wake of the Acrean trade fallout, held a conference in April 1276 between himself, prominent Retunian Council figures, representatives of the Big Five Banks of Hasphitat, and representatives from businesses like West Horizon, and formed an agreement to lift a great deal of government economic regulations and add a few favorable economic stimuli to promote economic recovery. For Northh Kempton, the biggest stipulation from this agreement, which passed Retunian Council and was signed into law by Jackson, was a law banning the province of Nintel from passing laws to ban henshale drilling, a big win for Pura.

On 24 September 1276, Jon Pura won the election for the Mayor of North Kempton.

1277 to 1311: The Second Economic Boom

As the next Mayor, Jon Pura started by borrowing money from the Five Big Banks of Hasphitat and used the funds to refurbish some abandoned homes, eradicate homelessness, and buy other abandoned properties to lease out to the henshale industry. In 1278, henshale drilling began in North Kempton, which began to see a quick economic recovery as Jon Pura was able to pay back the loans to Hasphitat in a timely fashion. With the establishment and growth of the henshale industry came the return of the retail and finance sectors as well as the recovery of the real estate market. The only sector that did not come back was the Manufacturing Belt, which stood no chance against competition elsewhere. This was, however, more than compensated for by the henshale industry.

Also during his first term, Jon Pura signed an agreement with the Northrange County Commissioners to have the Northrange County High School moved from Kempton to North Kempton. Pura also enacted a requirement for all students to pass "An Examination of Moral Code" in order to graduate and be able to attend college. This "Examination" was notorious for being oppressive, because it dictated rigorous standards for dress code, behavior and social manners, how to vote and how to make your decision in that regard, and even personal matters such as religious beliefs, career choices, and family choices.

In 1279, Pura signed a contract with the town of Console, Combria, to have the henshale industry rent property there to construct a large processing plant to help convert large quantities of henshale extract into usable fuel. Sabrina Morphett, an environmental activist protesting against the henshale industry, led a demonstration down Piedmont Avenue in 1280. However, not only did Pura dispatch law enforcement on the protest; he also mounted a false accusation against Morphett, claiming that she was taking payments from the Kontacet family in Jestopole to effectively undermine the henshale industry in order to favor the competing hubstone industry. This ultimately was proven false; though popular sentiment coerced Morphett into leaving North Kempton anyway. Furthermore, credibility for the economic policies having restored North Kempton to its former level of prosperity led Jon Pura to winning a second term in 1282.

In February 1287, the Lykian Republic attacked the Retunian Republic, triggering panic on a nationwide scale. During that time, an employee at the processing plant in Console lit a self-lighting cigar during a work break. The said employee lit this cigar near a gas leak, causing a major explosion. Initially, the public thought this was another Lykian attack. And though news emerged later that this was a separate incident, Jon Pura was concerned that the incident would lead to a negative impact on the henshale economy, and so passed a measure to send funding and aid to the plant in order to make swift repairs and to upgrade maintenance standards, which had been found to be lacking. This led not only to the prevention of a decline in the henshale industry, but in fact to further growth in its business.

The year 1288 came to be the final year of Jon Pura as Mayor of North Kempton, as he drew to the end of his two-term limit. The henshale industry, despite its ethical concerns and environmental impact, grew to a prominent enough economic force to serve as competition against the hubstone industry. The two industries would volley for political favors, primarily in the form of getting numerous counties between Nintel and Combria to enact ordinances banning either henshale or hubstone cars respectively. Despite this, the North Kempton economy was strong. And in September 1288, North Kempton residents elected George Salfen, an Independent/Diplomatic Party candidate endorsed by Jon Pura, as the next Mayor of North Kempton.

George Salfen vowed to "continue the legacy" of Jon Pura by expanding on his economic policies, primarily those concerning the henshale industry. In the election year of 1288, opposition candidate, Robert Torben, had proposed to tax the capital gains of the industry, a very controversial move as while many believed that this would stabilize the economy, many believed that the said taxes would kill business. Salfen had won the 1288 election with his stance against the taxes alone. However, when Middle Remikra experienced an economic recession in 1290, which affected North Kempton, Salfen would not assign taxes on the henshale industry in order to fund very much-needed subsidies to the middle and working classes. It was on that platform that Dennis Torben, brother of Robert Torben, ran on behalf of the Progressive Party and defeated George Salfen in the 1294 North Kempton Mayoral election.

As he had promised on his election platform, Dennis Torben imposed the subsidy taxes upon the henshale industry. However, Torben went back on another promise: to repeal the Moral Code Examination requirements, as was called for by a growing demographic consisting mainly of school students. Instead, Toben worked out a compromise with the North Kempton conservatives to allow for students not having passed the Moral Code Examination to obtain a "probationary diploma" and used this for college enrollment until the Moral Code Examination was passed. Torben caused further disappointment by also allowing for a break from the subsidy tax for henshale businesses who were determined to be paying living wages to its employees. Torben also stepped up police task forces against the Darkfire Community, enforcing the prohibition, and furthermore shut down "darkfire sanctuaries."

By the year 1300, Dennis Torben was very unpopular in North Kempton. Opposing him that election year was Martin Wallard, who appealed to North Kempton conservatives, a less-divided bloc in bold support of the Diplomatic Party. After vowing to repeal the subsidy tax on henshale businesses, restore the Moral Code to its original clauses, and bring back manufacturing, Martin Wallard handily defeated Dennis Torben in the 1300 North Kempton Mayoral election.

North Kempton Mayor Martin Wallard acted true on all three of his promises, including an effort to provide capital to manufacturer businesses intending to set roots in North Kempton once again. However, this third agenda was stopped in its tracks by the 1301 economic crisis in Middle Remikra. Mayor Wallard, intending to combat the adverse economic impacts, adjusted zoning regulations to help the henshale industry, and also began donating funds to the North Kempton chapter of the Rotary Legion, who was stepping up police task forces to further oppress the Darkfire Community. This Legion had fallen under the leadership of a far-right figure named Walter Scott Mason, who had all of the Rotary Legion Chapters merge and form the Knights of the Common Good, or the KCG. Wallard endorsed him, and, owing to growing popularity from his conservative bloc, won re-election in 1306.

In 1309, a Revolution took place which put a new government in place for the Retunian Republic. Though they still considered the Retunian Republic to be in existence, Finzi's transitional government voted in constitutional amendments which fundamentally altered the principle policies of the government so that the government was more democratic in nature. This occurred as the Republic became formally recognized as the Independent Commonwealth State of Retun. Conservatives in the provinces of Gymia, Nintel, Combria, and Pimdan put forward proposals for referendums to leave the Republic. Such measures passed in Gymia and Pimdan as they both gained political autonomy, but the same type of measures failed to pass in Combria and Nintel, meaning that Nintel still remained under Commonwealth jurisdiction.

An overwhelming majority of the town of North Kempton was very much opposed to this outcome, as they had favored the referendum. This would have implications in the years to come.

The now-autonomous province of Gymia very shortly thereafter voted to recognize itself to be the nation of the Reformed Federal Estates of Retun, and, on 09 March 1311, declared war on the Commonwealth. North Kempton Mayor Martin Wallard pledged loyalty to Gymia and vowed to restrict the henshale business solely to them. Wallard also helped to recruit KCG infantry to defend the henshale pipeline running to Console, and recruited KCG pilots to fly planes out of William Solomon Airfield, running on henshale fuel.

This initially led to a boom in the henshale business, as the warring conservative bloc had a formidable force. However, in October 1311, henshale reserves in the region ran dry. News of this in November 1311 reached the intelligence of Finzi's government, following a foiled invasion carried out by the Reformed Federal Estates. Finzi, in response, sent a large concentration of Commonwealth forces to subdue William Solomon Airfield as well as the entire town of North Kempton. On December 11, 1311, Martin Wallard signed a ceasefire agreement with Finzi, which allowed Wallard to remain in office as Mayor of North Kempton and avoid prosecution.

On 21 March 1312, the Reformed Federal Estates surrendered to the Commonwealth as its territories became re-integrated. Shortly after, the Liberal Party of North Kempton formed, dedicated to the respect and protection of basic rights of the Darkfire Community. The leading figure of this new Party, Pherris Thompson, won the 1312 North Kempton Mayoral election.

1313 to 1324: Darkfire vs Lightfire

Mayor Pherris Thompson codified North Kempton law to respect Commonwealth law to completely legalize darkfire as well as ban "traditional therapy," which was known to do more harm than good. Furthermore, Mayor Thompson converted the former venue of the North Kempton Chapter of the Rotary Legion, on 1312 Prospect Avenue, into the North Kempton House of Darkfire, using funds given to the North Kempton municipality by the Finzi Administration. Meanwhile, a very sound darkfire floan market emerged here, which helped Pherris Thompson to win re-election in 1318.

Up to this point, the North Kempton William Solomon Airfield had served as a stopover for long-distance flights. However, beginning around the early 1320s, the gyroplane industry began to take over Middle Remikra. With gyroplanes flying faster and for longer distances, the William Solomon Airfield as a stopover began to lose business. In response to this, Pherris Thompson's brother, Eric Thompson, serving as the Majority Leader in North Kempton Council and also standing as the Mayor candidate endorsed by Pherris Thompson, proposed a budget to build more gyroplane landing pads at William Solomon Airfield so that business incentives could stay. This measure did eventually pass North Kempton Council but was greatly compromised thanks to pressure from the traditional airship lobby, leading to only two landing pads to be built.

As the economy began to stagnate, the popular bloc behind Pherris Thompson became more divided. As a result, in 1324, candidate Eric Thompson lost to Mary Kornell of the North Kempton Traditional Party in the North Kempton Mayoral election.

1325 to 1330: War and Disease

Serving as the Mayor between 1325 and 1330, Mary Kornell defunded the North Kempton House of Darkfire. Although they still existed, this caused the organization to lose their venue on 1312 Prospect Avenue. At this very residence was established that year the North Kempton Lightfire Residency, a lightfire business working very closely with West Horizon. Kornell also started a grant program to other lightfire business startups.

Civil conflict erupted in Middle Remikra throughout the 1320s, as Pimdan was reintegrated into the Commonwealth while Combria and Gymia gained autonomy and joined forces to form the Combrian Confederation. North Kempton fared well despite the circumstances. However, the year 1329 saw the arrival of the Neurovirus Pandemic, the deadliest outbreak of disease in Middle Remikran history. During this time, slightly more than half of the North Kempton population supported the rigorous pandemic prevention measures enacted by Holz Finzi. However, Mayor Kornell decided to allow the North Kempton implementation of these measures to be debated in public forums. With an outbreak of a brutal conflict between the Commonwealth and the Confederation, Kornell banned lightfire businesses in North Kempton, except for West Horizon, from producing weapons of war in support of the Commonwealth, showing her true stance on the war.

This led to division within the Traditional Party of North Kempton, who held primary elections in 1329 where Sidney Hughes defeated Mary Kornell. Despite the division, the Traditional Party of North Kempton held its majority in North Kempton government seats, as Sidney Hughes defeated Mary Kornell.

Mayor Sidney Highes signed a contract with the Finzi Administration in 1331 to help implement the pandemic safety measures in North Kempton, which included the adaptation of the new healthcare system in the Commonwealth designed to administer the therapy to treat the Neurovirus illness and make it survivable.

1331 to 1348: The Continuation of Darkfire vs Lightfire

After the end of the pandemic and the successful effort of the new Commonwealth Prime Minister, Alex Schraber, to end the war and reintegrate Combria and Gymia into the Commonwealth, Mayor Hughes focused her efforts upon rebuilding the local domestic lightfire market, expanding it into the civil lightfire market and even into the Ancondrian market.

In the year 1340, the First Church of North Kempton, on 1313 Prospect Avenue, caught fire and burned down. The Church organization was forced to move elsewhere and accepted that they would be relocating elsewhere permanently, leaving 1313 Prospect Avenue to be a vacant lot. The Church sold this property to the North Kempton municipality as North Kempton conservatives started a donation fund for a new Church to be built and named the Third Church of North Kempton. However, there was also a growing demographic within the North Kempton population backing a fund to purchase the property to build an official venue for the North Kempton House of Darkfire. This movement was led by Rachele Martins of the North Kempton Liberal Party; and Rachele won the 1342 Mayoral election.

Between 1343 and 1348, Mayor Martins succeeded in having the North Kempton House of Darkfire re-established on 1313 Prospect Avenue, a move which helped to spur growth in a re-emerging darkfire market. However, as the gyroplane industry continued to advance and provide more convenient travel, the William Solomon Airfield began to struggle more and more. Furthermore, funding diverted to the darkfire market drew funding away from the lightfire market, which began to struggle again. Robert Korvin, a North Kempton Traditionalist, campaigned on these issues, and defeated Martin in the 1348 election.

Korvin attempted to have funding shifted back to the lightfire industry again, beginning in 1349. However, he ran into opposition from North Kempton Liberals in City Council as well as a large portion of the North Kempton population. Finally, after a great deal of debate, Korvin signed a compromise to give "shared subsidies" to darkfire and lightfire firms who signed contracts with each other.

1359 to 1368: The Esurchian War

Korvin's policies proved a happy medium, allowing the economic and political landscape of North Kempton to hold sway until the Esurchian Occupation from 1359 thru 1362, during which the Esurchians attempted to infiltrate North Kempton society as they did the Commonwealth. They donated large sums of money to convince select residents of North Kempton to form the North Kempton Free Party. Half of the North Kempton Traditionalists joined this party while the remaining Traditionalists, including Robert Korvin himself, resisted the Esurchians by joining a group of North Kempton Liberals to form the Citizens' Party of North Kempton. Korvin, at the end of his second term, endorsed John Daniel, who won the Mayoral election of 1360.

Representing the newly-formed Citizens' Party, John Daniel enacted strong policies against the Esurchians, while converting the North Kempton lightfire market to support the war economy needed for the Esurchian War. Half of the Citizens' Party opposed the latter measure and broke off to form the Progressive Party of North Kempton, led by Lori Kane. Kane defeated Daniel in the 1366 election.

1369 to 1380: The Final Chapter

Lori Kane was very much against anything to do with any type of war, and so shifted economic incentive for the civil lightfire market again. After the end of the Esurchian War, she convened with the leaders of the local lightfire businesses and West Horizon to help coordinate a plan to rebuild lorry transit infrastructure in Ancondria. However, popular backlash in Ancondria as well as in Remikra forced West Horizon to lose business and close its doors, a fate followed by many other lightfire businesses in the late 1360s and early 1370s. However, Kane realized that there still existed a local domestic lightfire market, and so directed public funding for that, as well as directed funds toward the venue of Library of Circlaria and the new venue of the Third Level Society, both of which had set roots in North Kempton during the same time the Esurchian War was being fought in Ancondria.

As mentioned before, traditional airships had been driven out of fashion by the gyroplane industry. However, traditional airships regained public interest through the advent of "airship tourism," a trend having emerged in the 1340s, driven by airship enthusiasts willing to pay traveling fares to board these airships to fly and dock at various locations. This was solely for the tourism aspect. And during that decade, many airship tourism businesses emerged. In 1350, they collaborated and formed the Airship Travels Federation.

The issue with that economic model was that more enthusiasts were willing to travel around Ancondria and the Magnumarian Ocean than toward Canticula and the Circlarian Ocean. Thus, the Federation served its purpose in order to keep the market stable by directing extra revenue from the Magnumarian side to help with the Circlarian side.

Unfortunately, the Esurchian War led to an obvious bust in this business model; and the Federation closed its doors in 1367. Nevertheless, "airship tourism" businesses still remained. And North Kempton Mayor Lori Kane coordinated with the William Solomon Airfield to provide landing spots for one-vessel airship businesses. This, in turn, help to support the William Solomon Airfield, which was struggling in terms of business because of how gyroplanes having evolved to being able to land anywhere in any town began rendering airports and airfields obsolete.

The year 1378 saw the Office of the Mayor of North Kempton won in an election by Michael Fortin, a North Kempton Progressive candidate endorsed by Kane. Fortin vowed to continue the economic policies of Kane. However, a minor economic recession in the Commonwealth between 1380 and 1381 was enough to destroy the clientele of the remaining "airship tourism" industry.

On 01 October 1381, Horizon Discovery, the last remaining one-vessel airship tourism business, as well as the last remaining commercially-flying traditional airship, made its final landing at the William Solomon Airfield. Both the airship and the Airfield would cease operations that day.

The economic shakeup of 1380-81 led to the closure of numerous other businesses generating crucial tax revenue to North Kempton, leading North Kempton to end up in dire financial straits. This forced Mayor Fortin to forego his promise to preserve the property and structures of the former William Solomon Airfield and instead sell pieces of the land to Library of Circlaria and the newly-established National Institute of Research and Development. The one caveat to this, though, was that the Galleston Family Farmhouse remained preserved to this day as a historical heritage site.

Regardless, even these efforts proved futile for the ailing Municipality. And on November 23, 1381, North Kempton officially declared bankruptcy.

On December 2, newly-elected Retunian Prime Minister, Meghan Wen, directed her Administration to authorize the payment of all debts and payrolls of the former North Kempton government, which failed to form a consensus on an independent financial recovery plan by a December 9 deadline. As a result, the Wen Administration officially listed the North Kempton Municipality as "defunct," and directed that the former jurisdiction be split evenly between the other four Municipalities of Northrange County unless a "democratic community council" purchased the jurisdiction within one year. Maxima Tangreen and her colleagues anticipated this would happen and had formed the Established Democratic Council of Maxima in 1380. On December 18, they officially purchased the defunct municipality, and renamed it Maxima.

Michael Fortin would remain the Mayor until at least the expiration of his term in 1384, with Council Members and other government officials remaining until the end of their terms. In 1384, Skylara Mains was elected the first official Mayor of Maxima.

Maxima, Nintel: 1385 to Present

The city of Maxima, Nintel has had a stable economy and stable political dynamic since the 1380s. Today, it is home to Library of Circlaria, the Third Level Society, and the National Institute of Research and Development. Its main industries are dymensional-plane-crafting and darkfire-crafting. However, in recent years, innovators have been crafting lightfire again.

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The number one Scrabble Word Finder for finding all the words you need. Scrabble Solver is really easy to use; simply enter up to 12 letters and 3 wildcards, click the Solve button and all possible words will be found. Whatever letters you have, you can find the best combination to make the highest score possible in a single turn and make the most of your turn. Optimised for all mobile devices, including iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Mobile our word solver is better than keeping a dictionary open, as it's easy to use and gives instant results. Now available as a Progressive Web App - Scrabble Solver App, this innovative solution is great for game experts and new players alike. Our Wordle Solver will help you find the words you need to win every game. Try a fun new game from Scrabble Solver to test your word skills Letter Mix. Unscramble letters with Scrabble Solver and use our Scrabble Cheat to win every game. Originally developed in , the game of Scrabble as we now it today has evolved considerably over time, but it was initially created by out of work architect Alfred Mosher Butts. Alfred recognised that the issue with most word games at the time, and the reason they weren't as popular as card games, is that there was usually no way to keep score. So, players weren't able to know who was winning, and thus quickly got bored. Using the front page of the New York Times, or so it's said, he came up with word combinations that he felt should score highly on his new game. Combining his love of classic word games with the best attributes of card games and crossword puzzles, Alfred worked hard to create a unique game board with hundreds of word options and an innovative scoring system to make it competitive and intellectually stimulating for players of all abilities. His creation was the basis for the popular game we know and love, but initially it was rebuffed by major gaming manufacturers, who didn't see the appeal of a word game like this and weren't eager to invest. Thankfully, Alfred later met James Brunot, a word game loving entrepreneur who was enthralled by his idea and helped him to refine it and turn it into the game we love today. The pair worked together to refine the rules of the game and create advanced options, so that players of all levels could enjoy playing their new game. Alfred and James also came up with the name Scrabble, which they trademarked in The pair worked with friends from a small abandoned schoolhouse, where they hand stamped wooden Scrabble tiles. At first this fun word game was a loss-making endeavour that nonetheless gained a cult following among some word game lovers. Then in around the s, it is believed that the president of Macy's department store learned about the game while on holiday and, having enjoyed playing Scrabble himself, ordered a batch of the game to be sold in his store. When Coleco went bankrupt towards the end of the s, its primary assets, including the intellectual property rights to Scrabble, were bought by Hasbro, Inc. As the owner of the Milton Bradley Company, America's leading game manufacturer, Hasbro was able to transform Scrabble from a simple board game with letter tiles and bonus squares into a beloved household name. Today, Scrabble is as well-known as classics like chess and the crossword puzzle, and the game has been played around the world. Over the years, it has risen to become one of the most popular word games in existence and has been launched online as well as in physical form. There are even clubs and organisations dedicated to providing Scrabble Help to word game players to enhance their word game skills. It's enduring global popularity means that Scrabble is now a classic word game enthusiasts love, and it has inspired many other similar word games. Millions of related products, including multiple dictionaries and many word finders like ours have been developed as a result of this popular word game. Scrabble and other word games are not only fun, but also a great way to learn new words and skills. That's why they're considered such a valuable use of time by many fans, who often spend their time not just playing, but also studying the game and working out ways to improve their performance. Some of the many benefits of playing a daily word game such as Scrabble, word jumbles or any other of your favourite word games include:. As you're constantly having to find new words to play when you're playing word games, you'll find yourself learning new terms that you can use in everyday life. When you use a Scrabble Word Finder cheat tool like ours, you can find words that will help you win and will enhance your vocabulary. Our tool also offers definitions for the terms we suggest, so you can learn about the word and what it means. You'll quickly find you start using terms from word games in everyday conversation. Playing your favourite word games can be a helpful tool to aid your memory and using a Scrabble Finder can be even more useful. Studies indicate that word games can improve your memory and cognitive skills, leaving you less at risk from ailments such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia. While there are no guarantees, a better memory is useful for everyone, so if you love word games you've got an amazing excuse to play even more! When you have a few moments spare during a work break or on a busy commute, it's easy to while the time away doing nothing. However, with digital technology and gaming aps on smartphones, you can easily have fun, wherever you are. Whether you're alone or with a group of friends, you can have fun and challenge yourself with a game of Scrabble or another word game. Scrabble was made for entertainment purposes, so it's a great way to keep your mind occupied during some downtime without getting too overworked and tired. Our Scrabble Word Finder can be used on a mobile or desktop device, so you can always find the words you need to win big, wherever you are. There are more word games out there than just Scrabble. Since the game became popular, there have been many versions, as well as spin-offs and other word games that are completely unique. Whether you enjoy Scrabble or something new like Words With Friends, there are many word games out there for you to choose from, so you can find one that suits your sensibilities. Many of the online games are free to play, so you won't have to spend any money and can still enjoy a stimulating game that's fun and informative. Our Scrabble Finder is free to use too. If you're unsure about how to play your letters, move them around on your rack as an example before you put them down on the board. With Scrabble Solver you can see all potential words and win every game! If you're keen to play Scrabble or any word game but don't know much about them, then here's your chance to find out more. Here are some of the answers to the most commonly asked by users of our Scrabble Word Finder. Scrabble is remarkably easy to learn thanks to its simple rules, well-designed board and practical scoring system. Everyone starts with 7 tiles, which have letters on them. There could also be blank tiles, which allow you to substitute them for any letter needed to form words on the board. Whoever pulls the highest scoring letter tile out of the bag goes first, and they get a double score for their word. Each player keeps 7 tiles on their rack until there are no more tiles left in the bag, at which point you play until all the letters are used or you can't make anymore words. The letters put on the board during each turn have to be in a single horizontal row or in a single vertical column. Together with the letters already on the board, they must form a single word that can be found in the dictionary, with no gaps in between them. The game ends when all the letters are used or there are no other options to be played on the board. It is possible to play foreign terms in Scrabble, provided the words can be found in an English dictionary and you have the right letters. After all, the English language is made up of words taken from many other dialects and languages, so it's important that we recognise this and use foreign terms when they are key parts of the English lexicon. The word lists for Scrabble and similar word games are constantly evolving so you should use an up to date Scrabble Solver tool like ours to ensure that you always play the best letter choices and make more high scoring words than your opponent. If you place this on all the available bonus tiles on the board then you could net yourself an impressive 1, points. While this word isn't easy to find or place, there are many high-value terms that you can use to improve your chances of winning the game. If you have limited letters left then QI is a useful high scoring Scrabble word that can get you a lot of points, especially if it's used on a triple word score or double word score space on the board. A standard Scrabble board is a 15 x 15 square grid. As a result, there are squares and letter tiles to go be placed on these squares. Of these squares, 61 are bonus squares that could earn you more points. There are 8 Triple Word, 12 Triple Letter, 17 Double Word and 24 Double Letter squares on the board, so you've got plenty of chances to maximise your score per turn. You can also get a Super Scrabble board game with double the squares, so a 21 x 21 grid, making up for a total of squares for you to place your letters on. The highest scoring letter tiles in Scrabble are Q and Z, which are worth 10 points each. That's impressive when you consider that most tiles are worth just 1 point. So, if you want to really impress when you play Scrabble, you need to find words that include Qs and Zs. Zs are often considered more valuable than Qs, as most words with a Q in them also require a U to follow it, and this isn't always easy to find. Still, both Z and Q can be useful, and as there are is only 1 of each of these particular letter tiles in any given game, they're in high demand. Players pick randomly in Scrabble, but if you get a high scoring letter like this, it's important that you use it wisely. There are more than a thousand words with each of these letters in them, but it can be tough to think of them on the spot. That's why using a word finder like ours is a no brainer! In seconds you can find a selection of words containing the letters you have on your rack, including Qs and Zs if you have them. If you're eager to get a higher score in Scrabble, earn big points and potentially be the game winner, then our word solver is the ideal solution for you. It's a time-saving solution for devoted players who want to make the most of their letters, whether you only have enough for two letter words or you want to open up the board with more complex words. When you're stuck for a word, simply use our Scrabble Word Finder: enter the letters you have into the search bar, with a? They'll vary in word length and you can use all the available letters on the board, with up to 12 allowed with three blank tiles. There will be Scrabble words that can be used on the board or in a range of other contexts, including for other popular word games. Our Scrabble Solver is also a great anagram solver , as it will unscramble letters to make new words. J Words. Q Words. X Words. Z Words. Scrabble Cheat. Anagram Solver. Wordle Solver. Scrabble Word Finder. Words With Friends Cheat. Draw Something Cheat. Crossword Solver. Enter Letters. Add for blank tiles Enter some letters Begins with. Ends with. FAQs If you're keen to play Scrabble or any word game but don't know much about them, then here's your chance to find out more. Is Scrabble easy to learn? What's the highest scoring Scrabble word? How many squares are on the Scrabble board? What are the highest scoring letters in Scrabble? How does our Scrabble Word Finder work? Follow scrabblesolver.

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💾 ►►► DOWNLOAD FILE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Enter up to 3 wildcards (? or space) Scrabble Word Finder is a helpful tool for Scrabble® players - both on a traditional board and Scrabble Go fans. The WordFinder® word solver tool has everything you need. If you need a quick Scrabble® cheat or you're dealing with a tricky anagram or word jumble. Word finder is a convenient unscrambler tool to make Scrabble words, figure out Words with Friends answers, unscramble Wordfeud tiles, form the letters in Word. Inside SCRABBLE® Cheat Our engine has two steps. First, words are found in the database based on letters submitted. A second step is required if blanks have. The number one Scrabble Word Finder for finding all the words you need. Scrabble Solver is really easy to use; simply enter up to 12 letters and 3 wildcards. Enter some letters Please Agree All cookies to enable Advanced Options. The number one Scrabble Word Finder for finding all the words you need. Scrabble Solver is really easy to use; simply enter up to 12 letters and 3 wildcards, click the Solve button and all possible words will be found. Whatever letters you have, you can find the best combination to make the highest score possible in a single turn and make the most of your turn. Optimised for all mobile devices, including iPhone, iPad, Android and Windows Mobile our word solver is better than keeping a dictionary open, as it's easy to use and gives instant results. Now available as a Progressive Web App - Scrabble Solver App, this innovative solution is great for game experts and new players alike. Our Wordle Solver will help you find the words you need to win every game. Try a fun new game from Scrabble Solver to test your word skills Letter Mix. Unscramble letters with Scrabble Solver and use our Scrabble Cheat to win every game. Originally developed in , the game of Scrabble as we now it today has evolved considerably over time, but it was initially created by out of work architect Alfred Mosher Butts. Alfred recognised that the issue with most word games at the time, and the reason they weren't as popular as card games, is that there was usually no way to keep score. So, players weren't able to know who was winning, and thus quickly got bored. Using the front page of the New York Times, or so it's said, he came up with word combinations that he felt should score highly on his new game. Combining his love of classic word games with the best attributes of card games and crossword puzzles, Alfred worked hard to create a unique game board with hundreds of word options and an innovative scoring system to make it competitive and intellectually stimulating for players of all abilities. His creation was the basis for the popular game we know and love, but initially it was rebuffed by major gaming manufacturers, who didn't see the appeal of a word game like this and weren't eager to invest. Thankfully, Alfred later met James Brunot, a word game loving entrepreneur who was enthralled by his idea and helped him to refine it and turn it into the game we love today. The pair worked together to refine the rules of the game and create advanced options, so that players of all levels could enjoy playing their new game. Alfred and James also came up with the name Scrabble, which they trademarked in The pair worked with friends from a small abandoned schoolhouse, where they hand stamped wooden Scrabble tiles. At first this fun word game was a loss-making endeavour that nonetheless gained a cult following among some word game lovers. Then in around the s, it is believed that the president of Macy's department store learned about the game while on holiday and, having enjoyed playing Scrabble himself, ordered a batch of the game to be sold in his store. When Coleco went bankrupt towards the end of the s, its primary assets, including the intellectual property rights to Scrabble, were bought by Hasbro, Inc. As the owner of the Milton Bradley Company, America's leading game manufacturer, Hasbro was able to transform Scrabble from a simple board game with letter tiles and bonus squares into a beloved household name. Today, Scrabble is as well-known as classics like chess and the crossword puzzle, and the game has been played around the world. Over the years, it has risen to become one of the most popular word games in existence and has been launched online as well as in physical form. There are even clubs and organisations dedicated to providing Scrabble Help to word game players to enhance their word game skills. It's enduring global popularity means that Scrabble is now a classic word game enthusiasts love, and it has inspired many other similar word games. Millions of related products, including multiple dictionaries and many word finders like ours have been developed as a result of this popular word game. Scrabble and other word games are not only fun, but also a great way to learn new words and skills. That's why they're considered such a valuable use of time by many fans, who often spend their time not just playing, but also studying the game and working out ways to improve their performance. Some of the many benefits of playing a daily word game such as Scrabble, word jumbles or any other of your favourite word games include:. As you're constantly having to find new words to play when you're playing word games, you'll find yourself learning new terms that you can use in everyday life. When you use a Scrabble Word Finder cheat tool like ours, you can find words that will help you win and will enhance your vocabulary. Our tool also offers definitions for the terms we suggest, so you can learn about the word and what it means. You'll quickly find you start using terms from word games in everyday conversation. Playing your favourite word games can be a helpful tool to aid your memory and using a Scrabble Finder can be even more useful. Studies indicate that word games can improve your memory and cognitive skills, leaving you less at risk from ailments such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia. While there are no guarantees, a better memory is useful for everyone, so if you love word games you've got an amazing excuse to play even more! When you have a few moments spare during a work break or on a busy commute, it's easy to while the time away doing nothing. However, with digital technology and gaming aps on smartphones, you can easily have fun, wherever you are. Whether you're alone or with a group of friends, you can have fun and challenge yourself with a game of Scrabble or another word game. Scrabble was made for entertainment purposes, so it's a great way to keep your mind occupied during some downtime without getting too overworked and tired. Our Scrabble Word Finder can be used on a mobile or desktop device, so you can always find the words you need to win big, wherever you are. There are more word games out there than just Scrabble. Since the game became popular, there have been many versions, as well as spin-offs and other word games that are completely unique. Whether you enjoy Scrabble or something new like Words With Friends, there are many word games out there for you to choose from, so you can find one that suits your sensibilities. Many of the online games are free to play, so you won't have to spend any money and can still enjoy a stimulating game that's fun and informative. Our Scrabble Finder is free to use too. If you're unsure about how to play your letters, move them around on your rack as an example before you put them down on the board. With Scrabble Solver you can see all potential words and win every game! If you're keen to play Scrabble or any word game but don't know much about them, then here's your chance to find out more. Here are some of the answers to the most commonly asked by users of our Scrabble Word Finder. Scrabble is remarkably easy to learn thanks to its simple rules, well-designed board and practical scoring system. Everyone starts with 7 tiles, which have letters on them. There could also be blank tiles, which allow you to substitute them for any letter needed to form words on the board. Whoever pulls the highest scoring letter tile out of the bag goes first, and they get a double score for their word. Each player keeps 7 tiles on their rack until there are no more tiles left in the bag, at which point you play until all the letters are used or you can't make anymore words. The letters put on the board during each turn have to be in a single horizontal row or in a single vertical column. Together with the letters already on the board, they must form a single word that can be found in the dictionary, with no gaps in between them. The game ends when all the letters are used or there are no other options to be played on the board. It is possible to play foreign terms in Scrabble, provided the words can be found in an English dictionary and you have the right letters. After all, the English language is made up of words taken from many other dialects and languages, so it's important that we recognise this and use foreign terms when they are key parts of the English lexicon. The word lists for Scrabble and similar word games are constantly evolving so you should use an up to date Scrabble Solver tool like ours to ensure that you always play the best letter choices and make more high scoring words than your opponent. If you place this on all the available bonus tiles on the board then you could net yourself an impressive 1, points. While this word isn't easy to find or place, there are many high-value terms that you can use to improve your chances of winning the game. If you have limited letters left then QI is a useful high scoring Scrabble word that can get you a lot of points, especially if it's used on a triple word score or double word score space on the board. A standard Scrabble board is a 15 x 15 square grid. As a result, there are squares and letter tiles to go be placed on these squares. Of these squares, 61 are bonus squares that could earn you more points. There are 8 Triple Word, 12 Triple Letter, 17 Double Word and 24 Double Letter squares on the board, so you've got plenty of chances to maximise your score per turn. You can also get a Super Scrabble board game with double the squares, so a 21 x 21 grid, making up for a total of squares for you to place your letters on. The highest scoring letter tiles in Scrabble are Q and Z, which are worth 10 points each. That's impressive when you consider that most tiles are worth just 1 point. So, if you want to really impress when you play Scrabble, you need to find words that include Qs and Zs. Zs are often considered more valuable than Qs, as most words with a Q in them also require a U to follow it, and this isn't always easy to find. Still, both Z and Q can be useful, and as there are is only 1 of each of these particular letter tiles in any given game, they're in high demand. Players pick randomly in Scrabble, but if you get a high scoring letter like this, it's important that you use it wisely. There are more than a thousand words with each of these letters in them, but it can be tough to think of them on the spot. That's why using a word finder like ours is a no brainer! In seconds you can find a selection of words containing the letters you have on your rack, including Qs and Zs if you have them. If you're eager to get a higher score in Scrabble, earn big points and potentially be the game winner, then our word solver is the ideal solution for you. It's a time-saving solution for devoted players who want to make the most of their letters, whether you only have enough for two letter words or you want to open up the board with more complex words. When you're stuck for a word, simply use our Scrabble Word Finder: enter the letters you have into the search bar, with a? They'll vary in word length and you can use all the available letters on the board, with up to 12 allowed with three blank tiles. There will be Scrabble words that can be used on the board or in a range of other contexts, including for other popular word games. Our Scrabble Solver is also a great anagram solver , as it will unscramble letters to make new words. J Words. Q Words. X Words. Z Words. Scrabble Cheat. Anagram Solver. Wordle Solver. Scrabble Word Finder. Words With Friends Cheat. Draw Something Cheat. Crossword Solver. Enter Letters. Add for blank tiles Enter some letters Begins with. Ends with. FAQs If you're keen to play Scrabble or any word game but don't know much about them, then here's your chance to find out more. Is Scrabble easy to learn? What's the highest scoring Scrabble word? How many squares are on the Scrabble board? What are the highest scoring letters in Scrabble? How does our Scrabble Word Finder work? Follow scrabblesolver.

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Milton’s Old Schoolhouse

Anyone notice how many dead children there are in this game? I mean...

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George Emil Banks

The first call was chilling enough: Two lay shot on a Wilkes-Barre street.

But as Robert Gillespie headed to the scene where George Emil Banks began his massacre 35 years ago this week, the scope of the situation began to mount as the bodies piled up. Gillespie was on Interstate 81 when the next call from a detective informed him of a second crime scene, in Jenkins Township. Four shot dead.

When Gillespie arrived in Wilkes-Barre, he learned that not only were the two there shot outside a home on Schoolhouse Lane — one fatally — but eight more bullet-riddled bodies were inside. Four were children. The two youngest were 1. Decades later, Gillespie can still see them.

“You never forget seeing a child that has been brutally murdered,” said Gillespie, the former Luzerne County district attorney who prosecuted Banks.

Thirty-five years later, Gillespie and Al Flora Jr., one of the attorneys Gillespie battled in the courtroom over Banks’ culpability and competency, reflected on the details and aftermath of the murderous rampage Banks wreaked on the Wyoming Valley on Sept. 25, 1982.

Banks gunned down five of his own children and eight other people on Schoolhouse Lane and in a Jenkins Township trailer park in the largest killing spree by a single mass murderer in Pennsylvania history. Most victims were shot at close range.

After a highly publicized trial that lasted just under two weeks, a jury from Allegheny County found Banks guilty of 13 counts of first-degree murder on June 22, 1983. The next day, the panel returned 12 death sentences and one life sentence for the murders. For the prosecution, the outcome was bittersweet.

“We had done nothing but work toward it for a year and there was some pride, but no pleasure, in hearing the jury actually assert he should be put to death,” Gillespie said. “But if there was ever anyone who deserved the death penalty, in my opinion, it was George Banks.”

Yet Banks, inmate No. AY6066, was never executed. Now 75, he remains on death row at Graterford, a maximum-security prison in Montgomery County. He is a distant shadow of his former self.

First violent crime: 1961

It wasn’t long after Banks was discharged from the Army that he committed his first serious violent crime, the shooting of an unarmed tavern-keeper during a robbery in 1961. He was sentenced to six to 15 years in prison, then was hit with additional time when he briefly escaped in 1964.

Despite the escape attempt, Banks was granted parole in 1969, and his sentence was commuted by Gov. Milton Shapp in 1974.

After prison, Banks was hired by the state, first by the Department of Environmental Resources, then as a guard at the State Correctional Institution at Camp Hill in Harrisburg.

Weeks before the murder spree, Banks was suspended from prison-guard duty after he locked himself in a guard tower with a shotgun and threatened to kill himself. Fellow guards also had complained Banks had been talking about committing a mass killing.

He was placed on involuntary sick leave and was supposed to see a psychologist on Sept. 29, 1982, but four days earlier he embarked on the unprovoked killing spree that defense attorneys have long argued was a product of paranoid delusion.

The night before the killings, Banks was at a birthday party in Wilkes-Barre where he drank beer, played darts and fawned over a woman’s T-shirt that read “Kill Them All and Let God Sort It Out.”

Banks and the woman switched shirts, and he donned it underneath military-style fatigues the next morning when he methodically began walking through his home firing an AR-15 rifle.

When the rampage ended hours later, Banks had killed 13 people at two homes — seven children, his three live-in girlfriends, an ex-girlfriend, his ex-girlfriend’s mother, and a bystander in the street. Five of the seven children were his own; he has fathered at least seven.

Banks holed up at 24 Monroe St. in Wilkes-Barre, where swarms of police tried to convince him he should give himself up because his five children were alive and in need of blood. A phony radio broadcast was played to support the ruse. Banks finally surrendered after a four-hour standoff.

‘A delusion’

Flora last met with Banks in 2010.

That year, after numerous rounds of appeals, Luzerne County Senior Judge Joseph Augello ruled Banks was too mentally ill to be executed, describing the inmate’s mindset as a “tossed salad of ideas and beliefs.”

Augello wrote that Banks is not competent to be executed “because he has a fixed, false belief, a delusion, that his sentence has been vacated by God, the governor and (former President) George W. Bush. He believes he is in prison illegally, and he should be going home. He should be out there ministering to the people, but there is a conspiracy against him.”

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the ruling in 2012.

At trial, Banks’ bizarre behavior was a constant obstacle, Flora recalled. He refused to cooperate with Flora and fellow defense attorneys Basil Russin and Joseph Sklarosky Sr., who had hoped to have him declared not guilty by reason of insanity.

Banks took the stand in his own defense, then delivered a rambling account of the shootings. During that account, he showed jurors the gory photographs of his victims that his attorneys labored to keep out of trial. Banks, who is bi-racial, then claimed he had only wounded the victims and said racist police officers had fired the fatal shots to frame him.

Prosecutors argued Banks’ motive was based on his fear of losing control over his extended family.

The trial attracted such a throng of attention from relatives, onlookers and national media that presiding Judge Patrick J. Toole instituted a lottery for courtroom seating.

Gillespie said Toole was clear on courtroom decorum: There would be no emotional outbursts from relatives of Banks or his victims.

And while not an outpouring of emotion, Gillespie acknowledged he had to hide tears from the jury at one strenuous point during the proceedings, when a child victim’s young brother testified about reporting the murders to 911 using a phone covered with blood and brain matter.

“No child should ever have to see that and tell a whole bunch of strangers what had happened,” Gillespie said.

Locked in isolation;

Flora, who long has fought to have Banks declared incompetent, said the case is now considered closed, and Banks is destined to die in prison.

“Being locked in a cell 24 hours a day and being in isolation will have a profound effect on someone,” Flora said. “George has significantly deteriorated. He is severely mentally ill … and there is likely no treatment for him.”

Gillespie, now in private practice in Hazleton, said he never thought of Banks as a victim, but as a misogynist who hid behind claims of a racial divide. But, Gillespie conceded, he was smart.

“I thought that George Banks was a very intelligent person,” Gillespie said, noting that during one of his first encounters with Banks, the mass murderer draped himself in a blanket so a psychiatrist couldn’t discern reactions to his analysis.

But Banks’ hatred also defined him, Gillespie said.

“He hated women,” Gillespie said. “He cared for his sons, but he had no feelings at all towards his daughters or stepdaughters. He was, quite frankly, a cold-blooded killer.”

BANKS’ VICTIMS:

Schoolhouse Lane home:

• Regina Clemens, 29: girlfriend, struck by a bullet on her right cheek that spiraled into her heart.

• Susan Yuhas, 23: girlfriend, shot five times while holding his 1-year-old daughter, Mauritania, who was fatally shot in the head.

• Dorothy Lyons, 29: girlfriend, shot in the neck while in a chair.

• Bowendy Banks, 4: son, shot in the left cheek while turning away from his father.

• Montanzima Banks, 6: daughter, shot in the head and chest.

• Foraroude Banks, 1 - son, shot and killed while being held by his half-sister, Nancy Lyons.

• Nancy Lyons, 11: stepdaughter, died of a gunshot wound to the head.

Outside Schoolhouse Lane home:

• Ray Hall Jr., 22: bystander, shot and killed when Banks left the Schoolhouse Lane home.

Heather Highlands mobile homes, Jenkins Township:

• Sharon Mazzillo, 24: former girlfriend, shot in the chest.

• Kissmayu Banks, 5: son, single shot to the forehead.

• Alice Mazzillo, 47: Sharon Mazzillo’s mother, shot in the face.

• Scott Mazzillo, 7: Sharon Mazzillo’s nephew, shot in the head.

• Survivor — Jimmy Olson, 22: bystander, outside Schoolhouse Lane home, gunshot wound to the chest.

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Title: A Truth Universally Acknowledged Author: hullosweetpea Artist: DeanOh Rating: Mature Pairings: Castiel/April (Temporary) Wordcount: 38254 Warnings/Tags: Enemies/Friends/Lovers, Two-Person Love Triangle, Cybersex, 1990’s, Businessman Castiel, Bookstore Owner Dean, AOL, Rom-Com Posting: 11/1/2018

Summary:

Dean is a children’s bookstore owner. Castiel is an executive for book superstore, Milton Books. They can’t stand each other. Little do they know, they’ve been corresponding through e-mail from months, their identities hidden by their rules: no names, no family, no work. Of course, there’s always nuances you’ll never know about someone until you get to know them. So while they couldn’t trust their professional selves farther than they could throw them, Dean and Castiel have relied heavily on their e-mail friendships. What happens when they plan to meet IRL? Inspired by the 1998 Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan Rom-Com - You’ve Got Mail

Dean’s keys clinked together as he unlocked the roll cage to his shop. It rattled as he pushed it up to open the main door. The bell chimed as he stepped inside.

“Wait, wait, hold the door.” Kevin ran up behind him, coffee in hand, wiggled his way through. “Morning, Dean.”

He flicked on the overhead lights. “You too, Kev. How did your test go?”

“I thought I studied enough, but question twenty-two I wasn’t one hundred percent sure. And I could have made stronger points on my essay, but the overall argument was solid.”

“I’m sure you did better than you think you did. Go on and get the counter ready for open. I’ve got the front.” Dean shooed Kevin away from the floor.

Kevin backed up towards the counter. “I also need to talk about next Thursday. I’ve got a meeting with my advisor, so I won’t be able to come in at one. Is that okay?”

“Yeah, just let Krissy know. She should be able to cover for you and if not me and the old man will be here.” Dean shooed him off a final time and rested his hand on a low bookshelf.

It was his Mom’s — soft curtains and polished hardwood floors, walls packed tight with the latest bestsellers and classics: all different sizes, shapes, and colors. The window displays were themed for the beginning of the school year: apples, pencils, a bespectacled bookworm plush, a small schoolhouse which propped up Clifford and Beverly Cleary. The store lived and breathed Mary Winchester — just the way Dean liked it.

He puttered around, humming as he opened shop. Soon, frazzled parents with young children would come in looking for anything to keep their little readers busy and distracted. It wouldn’t be the same as the Saturday rush, but the beginning of the school year always brought new readers and their parents in search of a book to spark their kids’ imagination and a love for reading. Dean was eager to be the person to get a kid hooked on literature.

The bell chimed and Krissy blustered over the threshold. “You would not believe what I just saw. Milton Books, the Milton Books, building a new shop half a block away. Our street!”

“What’s all the fuss about?” Bobby came in behind Krissy, crowding the door.

“Milton Books,” she hissed.

Dean pinched the bridge of his nose. “It might not be that big of a deal. People love us and what good is New York City if you can’t come for quality, locally owned businesses? We don’t need big companies to come in and shut us down.”

“Boss, you get Starbucks,” said Kevin.

“Not the point. Let’s go see. Show us Krissy.” Dean pushed his way through his employees and back out onto the street. They followed her and it was too soon for his liking that the looming building facade emblazoned in red appeared: COMING SOON: MILTON BOOKS.

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Mr. Civil Rights

Before Brown v. Board of Education, there was Briggs v. Elliot—the case that launched Thurgood Marshall’s fight to end segregation in America’s schools.

— March 12, 2021 | Kirstin Butler | NOVA—PBS

— The Blinding of Isaac Woodard | Article | From The Collection: The African American Experience

Art by Mawhyah Milton. Source photo: Library of Congress

In May 1950, lawyer Thurgood Marshall faced a question that confronts so many activists in pursuit of a goal: Should they continue to play the long game, pressing for incremental social change, or has the time come to attempt a big leap forward, despite the risks? For Marshall, the goal was equal opportunity for Black students in America’s schools. How to arrive at that end was the question that, as head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Legal Defense and Education Fund, he needed to answer.

In the 1930s, Marshall’s legal mentor and NAACP colleague Charles Hamilton Houston had warned the association against overreach, saying, “Don’t shout too soon.” Under Houston’s steady leadership, the NAACP enacted a careful case-by-case, year-over-year strategy to undermine the doctrine of separate but equal established by the Supreme Court’s 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision. Under this gradualist approach, the NAACP pursued litigation that could clearly demonstrate that separate educational resources for Black students were unequal to those of whites. Houston’s blueprint had pushed at Plessy’s edges rather than trying to overturn it, however. Association attorneys argued for equal resources rather than attempt to abolish segregation outright.

Now Houston was gone, felled by a heart attack a month earlier, in April. Other NAACP leaders felt a more aggressive approach was required, and Marshall had to decide how to proceed.

At the height of summer, he convened a meeting at the association’s headquarters in New York City. Fifty-seven members—43 attorneys from the Legal Defense Fund and National Legal Committee and 14 branch and regional leaders—resolved “to end segregation once and for all.” They inaugurated a new era of NAACP litigation. There would be no more nudging against Plessy and other segregationist statutes; the time had come to try to topple them completely. It was an exceedingly ambitious goal given the state of American race relations at the halfway mark of the century. And Marshall still needed a strategy for achieving it.

Thurgood Marshall gives a press conference in his role as chief counsel for the NAACP, 1955. Everett Collection Historical/Alamy Stock Photo

In the country’s history, no one had ever filed a case directly challenging public school segregation. At 42, Marshall was a pragmatist with hard-won knowledge of America’s judicial system. He was on the lookout for a case outside of the deep South, where NAACP lawyers had better chances for success with more open-minded judges and juries. But in the meantime there was Clarendon County, South Carolina.

The disparities between white and Black children’s resources in Clarendon County’s School District Number 22 were indisputable. The district served a rural community that was three-fourths African American. But where the county’s white schools were brick-and-mortar structures with maintained grounds and modern facilities, Black students took classes in dilapidated wooden shacks with no indoor plumbing, forcing them to get water from a community well and use outhouses no matter the elements. Without buses, the Black children walked up to nine miles to get to school.

The one-room Oak Grove schoolhouse in Clarendon County shared its grounds with a church and a graveyard first used as a burial ground for enslaved persons, 1950. South Carolina Department of Archives and History

To Marshall, Clarendon County was a perfect opportunity to litigate for equal facilities, transportation and other resources for the county’s Black children. But it would be foolhardy to push for full desegregation. Marshall knew how slim the odds were of victory in South Carolina. He also understood how dangerous bringing a legal challenge there would be for the case’s plaintiffs, who would bear the full brunt of white supremacist retaliation for even daring to suggest integration.

Marshall’s hand was forced, however, by the presiding judge, J. Waties Waring. Waring, a white Charlestonian, was the rarest of birds: a Southern activist jurist who supported civil rights. The two first met in 1944 when Marshall argued Duvall v. Seignous, a case about disparities in teacher salaries, before the judge’s bench. Waring, past retirement age by 1950 and a pariah to much of white South Carolina for his racial views, was ready to make one last judicial strike against America’s apartheid educational system.

Marshall arrived in Clarendon County to argue Briggs v. Elliott in November 1950. The suit had come to be named after its lead plaintiffs, navy veteran Harry Briggs and his wife, Eliza Briggs, who was a maid at a local motel. But Waring challenged Marshall to refile the case as a direct attack on the constitutionality of segregation. The new suit could claim that separate educational opportunities, even if materially equal, were a denial of the Briggs’ plaintiffs’ 14th Amendment rights. Neither man was under any illusions that the case would succeed; losing seemed inevitable. But, Waring argued, by bringing this challenge in federal court, a loss guaranteed the case would hopscotch over the U.S. Court of Appeals and be placed directly on the Supreme Court’s docket.

The stakes were immense. If the NAACP were to lose this appeal before the highest court in the land, Plessy v. Ferguson would be reaffirmed and decades of dogged, meticulous work would be lost. It might be decades more before there would be another opportunity to challenge segregation head on. Marshall was conflicted, but decided to move forward with Waring’s plan. Briggs v. Elliott would now be heard before a three-judge panel including Waring.

On May 28, 1951, Black South Carolinians rose before dawn to travel to the federal courthouse in Charleston, despite the risk of reprisals that could come from merely having appeared there. Joining the hundreds of journiers were reporters who wanted front-row seats to history. The NAACP’s team was performing for a packed courtroom, but also on a national stage as reporters bore witness for The New York Times, New York Post, the Associated Press and numerous other national and local publications.

At the very outset of the hearing, the school district’s lawyer attempted to upend the trial with a surprise announcement: Clarendon County fully acknowledged that Black and white students’ educational experiences were unequal. To rectify the situation, South Carolina planned to issue $75 million in state bonds to bring Black schools up to par. There was therefore no need, the district’s lawyer reasoned, even to hear the case. Blindsided at first, Marshall recovered, arguing that the County’s “statement just made has no bearing on this litigation,” since the NAACP’s suit maintained “segregation in and of itself is unlawful.” The case proceeded, and Marshall’s team sought to demonstrate the injury inflicted upon Black children by segregated education.

Marshall lost Briggs v. Elliott as expected. Two of the three judges who heard the case agreed that Clarendon County’s Black students received an inferior education and called for the inequities to be corrected. But they held that the decision to segregate schools remained with the state. As Judge Waring had foreseen, however, the loss ensured a Supreme Court appeal. Ultimately, that appeal was consolidated with four other cases that, three years later, led to the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision mandating the desegregation of America’s public schools.

Thurgood Marshall, NAACP Chief Counsel, is shown in front of the Supreme Court, 1958. Everett Collection Historical/Alamy Stock Photo

Back outside the Charleston Federal Courthouse on that late May day in 1951, Marshall marveled at the crowd of African Americans surrounding the building and extending down the block. Many of the attendees had made the trip from hours away to witness the unprecedented case. They had also come simply to see and hear Marshall himself, the man they called Mr. Civil Rights for his seemingly fearless crusade for racial justice.

Entering the courthouse, Marshall remarked to his NAACP deputy Robert Carter, “Bob, it’s all over.” Carter asked Marshall what he meant.

As the man who would become the Supreme Court’s first Black justice looked around, he couldn’t know the role that yet awaited him. Nor could he know that, as late as 2016—62 years after the Brown v. Board decision and 23 years after his death—the United States Justice Department would still be monitoring and enforcing nearly 200 open federal school desegregation court cases.

Turning to his deputy, Marshall said, “They’re not scared anymore.”

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Anderson Schoolhouse

1202 U.S. 42 South

Ashland, OH

Anderson Schoolhouse is a registered historic building near Ashland, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on 1977-03-25. It is located at 1202 US 42 South, in Milton Township, Ashland County, Ohio, and was known as the No. 5 district out of seven in the township. The land for the schoolhouse was given from the farm of Albert Fike, but the building in the National Register of Historic Places is not the first schoolhouse built on the property. An original, likely wooden, schoolhouse could have existed on the property as early as 1850, the year the Union School plan was adopted by Ashland County. A notice of a Democratic meeting to take place in the Anderson schoolhouse appeared in the Ashland Union newspaper in 1859. The Anderson schoolhouse also appears on maps from 1861.

A brick structure with a slate roof and locally quarried stone was built on this site in 1889. This building burned down on November 22, 1899. By February 1900, a contract for building a new brick schoolhouse was awarded to Tinsley and Tobias. This schoolhouse was finished in spring 1900 and is the Anderson Schoolhouse that stands today. The building is essentially square and made of brick, sandstone, and wood. Described as “unusually ornate” for a one-room school house, it features a three-staged bell tower with archways on bottom and a roof shaped like a pyramid. It has an addition on the back and electricity, but it still does not have indoor plumbing. The original bell is missing.

The 1938–39 school year was the last time students were taught in the Anderson Schoolhouse because the school consolidated into Ashland City School District. Hilda Carpenter, who taught grades 1–4, was the last teacher in this school. L. L. Garber, an English professor at Ashland College purchased the building in 1941 for $75.00. On September 15, 1946, he sold it to the Anderson Community Club, Inc. for $200.00. It was used for its club meetings and sometimes by some 4-H clubs and was available for rental. Ruth Emmons purchased the building from the Anderson Community Club and ran her business, Thymes Past, from it until 2014.

In 1976 a restoration committee researched the schoolhouse and completed the application process for the National Register. Mrs. Emmons served as chairman of this committee. Two Ashland University education professors, Dr. Jason Ellis and Dr. Carla Abreu-Ellis, purchased the house from Emmons in September 2014. The restored, one-room school now serves as a museum, “providing immersive living history experiences to children of all ages. Field trips allow school children, who are encouraged to wear period clothing, to reenact a nineteenth-century school day. It is the only one-room schoolhouse in Ashland County and the only building in Milton Township on the National Register.

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Robert Moir, 58, Dies; His Research Changed Views on Alzheimer’s

Robert D. Moir, a Harvard scientist whose radical theories of the brain plaques in Alzheimer’s defied conventional views of the disease, but whose research ultimately led to important proposals for how to treat it, died on Friday at a hospice in Milton, Mass. He was 58.His wife, Julie Alperen, said the cause was glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer. Dr. Moir, who grew up on a farm in Donnybrook, a small town in Western Australia, had a track record for confounding expectations. He did not learn to read or write until he was nearly 12; Ms. Alperen said he told her that the teacher at his one-room schoolhouse was “a demented nun.” Yet, she said, he also knew from age 7 that he wanted to be a scientist.He succeeded in becoming a researcher who was modest and careful, said his Ph.D. adviser, Dr. Colin Masters, a neuropathologist at the University of Melbourne. So Dr. Masters was surprised when Dr. Moir began publishing papers proposing an iconoclastic rethinking of the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease.Dr. Moir’s hypothesis “was and is a really novel and controversial idea that he alone developed,” Dr. Masters said. “I never expected this to come from this quiet achiever.”Dr. Moir’s theory involved the protein beta amyloid, which forms plaques in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients.Conventional wisdom held that beta amyloid accumulation was a central part of the disease, and that clearing the brain of beta amyloid would be a good thing for patients.Dr. Moir proposed instead that beta amyloid is there for a reason: It is the way the brain defends itself against infections. Beta amyloid, he said, forms a sticky web that can trap microbes. The problem is that sometimes the brain goes overboard producing it, and when that happens the brain is damaged.The implication is that treatments designed to clear the brain of amyloid could be detrimental. The goal would be to remove some of the sticky substance, but not all of it.The idea, which Dr. Moir first proposed 12 years ago, was met with skepticism. But he kept at it, producing a string of papers with findings that supported the hypothesis. Increasingly, some of the doubters have been won over, said Rudolph Tanzi, a close friend and fellow Alzheimer’s researcher at Harvard.Dr. Moir’s unconventional ideas made it difficult for him to get federal grants. Nearly every time he submitted a grant proposal to the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Tanzi said in a telephone interview, two out of three reviewers would be enthusiastic, while a third would simply not believe it. The proposal would not be funded.But Dr. Moir took those rejections in stride.“He’d make a joke about it,” Dr. Tanzi said. “He never got angry. I never saw Rob angry in my life. He’d say, ‘What do we have to do next?’ He was always upbeat, always optimistic.”Dr. Moir was supported by the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, and he eventually secured some N.I.H. grants.Dr. Moir first came to the United States in 1994, when Dr. Tanzi was looking for an Alzheimer’s biochemist to work in his lab.Working with Dr. Tanzi’s lab as a postdoctoral fellow and later as a faculty member with his own lab, Dr. Moir made a string of major discoveries about Alzheimer’s disease.For example, Dr. Moir and Dr. Tanzi found that people naturally make antibodies to specific forms of amyloid. These antibodies protect the brain from Alzheimer’s but do not wipe out amyloid completely. The more antibodies a person makes, the greater the protection against Alzheimer’s.That finding, Dr. Tanzi said, inspired the development of an experimental drug, made by Biogen, that the company says is helping to treat some people with Alzheimer’s disease. Biogen plans to file for approval from the Food and Drug Administration.Robert David Moir was born on April 2, 1961, in Kojonup, Australia, to Mary and Terrence Moir, who were farmers.He studied the biochemistry of Alzheimer’s disease at the University of Western Australia before joining Dr. Tanzi’s lab.Once he learned to read, Ms. Alperen said, he never stopped — he read science fiction, the British magazine New Scientist and even PubMed, the federal database of scientific publications.“Rob had an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world,” she said.He shared that love with his family, on frequent hikes and on trips with his young children to look for rocks, insects and fossils. He also played Australian rules football, which has elements of rugby as well as American football, and helped form the Boston Demons Australian Rules Football Team in 1997, his wife said.In addition to his wife, with whom he lived in Sharon, Mass., Dr. Moir’s survivors include three children, Alexander, Maxwell and Holly Moir; a brother, Andrew; and a sister, Catherine Moir. His marriage to Elena Vaillancourt ended in divorce. Read the full article

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One Room School House This one room schoolhouse was once the school that Milton Snavely Hershey Went to school. He built his mansion above the hill to the left of this picture because it was one of his favorite places in town and he was within walking distance of the chocolate factory that he had built. A little gem in Hershey

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The Beatles' animated personas were based on their appearance in the promotional film for the song "Strawberry Fields Forever", with the exception of Paul being without his moustache. The film also includes several references to songs not included in the soundtrack, including "A Day in the Life", where the lyrics are referenced in the "Sea of Holes" scene, as well as the orchestral breaks earlier in the film, also from "A Day in the Life".

National and foreign animators were assembled by TVC. American animator Robert Balser and Jack Stokes were hired as the film's animation directors.[12][13] Charlie Jenkins, one of the film's key creative directors, was responsible for the entire "Eleanor Rigby" sequence, as well as the submarine travel from Liverpool, through London, to splashdown. Jenkins also was responsible for "Only a Northern Song" in the Sea of Science, plus much of the multi-image sequences. A large crew of skilled animators, including (in alphabetical order) Alan Ball, Ron Campbell, John Challis, Hester Coblentz, Geoff Collins, Rich Cox, Duane Crowther, Tony Cuthbert, Malcolm Draper, Paul Driessen, Cam Ford, Norm Drew, Tom Halley, Dick Horne, Arthur Humberstone, Dennis Hunt, Greg Irons, Dianne Jackson, Anne Jolliffe, Dave Livesey, Reg Lodge, Geoff Loynes, Lawrence Moorcroft, Ted Percival, Mike Pocock and Gerald Potterton, were responsible for bringing the animated Beatles to life. The background work was executed by artists under the direction of Alison de Vere and Millicent McMillan who were both background supervisors. Ted Lewis and Chris Miles were responsible for animation cleanup.

George Dunning, who also worked on the Beatles cartoon series, was the overall director for the film, supervising over 200 artists for 11 months. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was Dunning's idea, which he turned over to Bill Sewell, who delivered more than thirty minutes of rotoscoped images. By that time, Dunning was unavailable, and Bob Balser, with the help of Arne Gustafson, edited the material to its sequence length in the film.

The animation design of Yellow Submarine has sometimes been incorrectly attributed to famous psychedelic pop art artist of the era Peter Max, but the film's art director was Heinz Edelmann. Edelmann, along with his contemporary Milton Glaser, pioneered the psychedelic style for which Max would later become famous, but according to Edelmann and producer Al Brodax, as quoted in the book Inside the Yellow Submarine by Hieronimus and Cortner, Max had nothing to do with the production of Yellow Submarine.[14]

The film's surreal visual style, created by creative director Heinz Edelmann, contrasts greatly with the efforts of Disney Feature Animation and other animated films previously released by Hollywood up until the time. The film uses a style of limited animation. It also paved the way for Terry Gilliam's animations for Do Not Adjust Your Set and Monty Python's Flying Circus (particularly the Eleanor Rigby sequence), as well as the Schoolhouse Rock vignettes for ABC and similar-looking animation in early seasons of Sesame Street and The Electric Company. (As such, only one of the animation staff of Yellow Submarine did indeed contribute subsequent animation to Children's Television Workshop: Ron Campbell.)

[hyaenagallery]

George Emil Banks (1942 -) was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to John Mack, who was black, and Mary Yelland, who is white. His parents were not married, and he reportedly suffered severely from racism while he was growing up because of being mixed race. In 1961 at the age of 19, after being discharged from the Army, Banks and some accomplices robbed a tavern, shooting and injuring the unarmed owner. He was sentenced to six to fifteen years in prison, which was extended when he briefly escaped in 1964. He was granted parole in 1969 and his sentence was commuted by then Governor Milton Shapp in 1974. After his release, he married Doris M. Banks, who is black, on August 23, 1969. They had two daughters together. The couple divorced in 1976. After his divorce, he dated white women. By September 1982 he had broken up with girlfriend Sharon Mazillo, who had lived with him at one time, and they were disputing custody of their young son. He was living with three women in his house; they were mothers of four of his children, and one had another daughter living with her. Despite his criminal record for an armed offense, Banks had started working as a prison guard at Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, in 1980. In 1982 Banks had told coworkers at the prison that "the world would soon be consumed by a race war" and said he wanted "to prevent the five children he fathered with the four white girlfriends from [experiencing] the torment and agony of racism." He was put on "an extended leave of absence" the first week in September 1982 after a conflict with a supervisor and threatening suicide. The prison ordered Banks to be examined for mental health issues at a Harrisburg-area hospital. On the night of September 24, 1982, Banks drank a large quantity of straight gin and took prescription drugs at his home on Schoolhouse Lane in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The next morning on September 25, 1982, he used an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle to kill eight people in his house, including three women in their 20s (all girlfriends and mothers of his children) and five children, four of them his. Two of the women were sisters. #destroytheday https://www.instagram.com/p/B1RTvP2h3qj/?igshid=n3u80iz4ntn3

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What’s Up With Your Weekend, 2/1-2/3/19

Friday

First Fridays:

Florescence at Beatnik Studios

Open Studios at WAL

Aporetic: Andy Cunningham at WAL Public Market Gallery

Representation at Broad Room

Tavarus Blackmon and Kumasi Barnett at Verge

North Country Blue at The Side Door: North Country Blue emerged in the fall of 2017, when four of the best young bluegrass musicians in California – now 14 to 15 years old –decided to join forces and see what they could do. All four girls are stalwarts as performers in the California Bluegrass Association’s “Kids on Bluegrass” program and as teachers in the Youth Academy; they are already helping the next crop of young bluegrassers join the fold, even while they are earning well-deserved recognition from their adult bluegrass peers. 7-10PM $20

Harley White Jr. Orchestra at Midtown Stomp: Midtown Stomp welcomes the Harley White Jazz Orchestra to the stage for live accompaniment to live dancing. With the perfect mix of Duke Ellington and Count Basie's sound and incredibly talented players, this is sure to be a great night of dancing. 7PM-midnight. Lesson at 8PM. $12

What Rough Beast, Gold Souls & Jessica Malone at Harlows: 21+ 9PM $15

Saturday

Sacramento Museum Day: 25 local museums participate in Sacramento Museum Day, offering free admission from 10AM-5PM. Participating museums: Aerospace Museum of California – California Agriculture Museum – California Automobile Museum – California Museum  – California State Capitol Museum – California State Library – California State Railroad Museum – Don & June Salvatori California Pharmacy Museum – Folsom History Museum – Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park  – Locke Boarding House Museum – Maidu Museum & Historic Site – SSVMS Museum of Medical History – Old Sacramento Schoolhouse Museum – Powerhouse Science Center – Roseville Utility Exploration Center – Sacramento Children’s Museum – Sacramento Historic City Cemetery – Sacramento History Museum – Sojourner Truth African American Museum – State Indian Museum – Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park – Verge Center for the Arts – Wells Fargo History Museum (Capitol Mall) – Wells Fargo History Museum (Old Sacramento)

Martin Luther King Jr & The Sound of Freedom at B Street Theatre: Come feel the spirit and the power of civil rights heroes from all over the world in this original adaptation. Their stories and words will be brought to life in what will be an unforgettable theatrical experience narrated by one of the Civil Rights Movements’ most visible figures Martin Luther King Jr. Discover the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights Movement like Claudette Colvin, the Birmingham Children’s Crusade, Fannie Lou Hamer, Reverend James Reeb, John Lewis, and others. In this original production, audiences are returned to a time when the sign “whites only” was outside of bathrooms, outside of restaurants, designated in the front of buses, and even on public water fountains. Dr. King recounts the trials that needed to be overcome in order to end segregation during the 1960s. Featuring music by Harley White II. 1PM $24.

The SoundTracks/ Milton Bowens and Daphne Burgess at Brickhouse Gallery: It is the opening of Double Feature: The Soundtracks, the current exhibition being held at The Brickhouse Gallery & Art Complex / OFFICIAL, featuring original works by Daphne Burgess & Milton Bowens. This exhibit will explore the music & film genre of the African- American culture. Enjoy a screening of the movie "Cadillac Records" with a brief audience Q & A conversation with the artist. Wine & refreshments will be served. 7-10PM.

Red Museum Presents Breaking Rad (Bands): The Red Museum hosts some new bands worth a listen, including Minihahas, St. Terrible, Just Is, Mandy Zeboski, Thank You Come Again. All ages. 8PM-midnight. $8.

Sunday

Abolition by Rick Foster at Celebration Arts: John Brown and Frederick Douglass were friends and they argued passionately whenever they met. ABOLITION, the play, is the story of their twelve year friendship during the troubled decade leading up to the most deadly war we have ever fought. 2PM $20.

Graham-a-Rama Pre-Valentine’s Day Show at Capital Stage: Graham-A-Rama presents its Fourth Annual Valentine's Show on Feb 3rd, 2019 at Capital Stage.  Join Graham and some of Sacramento's most talented performers to celebrate LOVE (or just use it as an excuse to leave your Super Bowl parties at intermi...I mean, HALFTIME). Scheduled to perform: Patrick Burns, Jenny Coker, Jessica Coker, Hannah Jane Kile, Jerry Lee, and Katie Petterle. 730-930PM $34.

The Most Open Mic in the City at Sol Collective: The performance art dojo for Sacramento creatives of all kinds including poets, comedians, rappers, musicians, and more. Test yourself against the Hater Screen - the city's only live audience feedback screen - where the audience has a direct line to the performers for critiques and constructive criticism. Unpredictable fun and guaranteed creative growth. Hosted by Andru Defeye. 8:08PM -10:08PM $5

[archienewling]

I’ve been working on the house pretty much nonstop from the time I wake up until it’s time to sleep. It was too hot to sleep last night though, so when I found myself awake at 2 a.m., I started sketching.

Beatrix Brass Beetle, CB2

Roar + Rabbit Blush Figural Lamps, West Elm

The Bees Knees, Theresa Bear, Minted

Potted Philodendron, Bloomscape

Someone recently used one of my previous sketches as the basis for her entryway, and I’ve heard from others that have used design boards and ideas for their homes too. I’m always so pleased! If you ever implement any of these, please send photos my way because it makes my day.

Olive Dapple Wallpaper, Milton & King

Polaris Sconce, Schoolhouse Electric

Hand-Embossed Lotus Nightstand, Anthropologie

Hand-Shaped Trinket Tray, Gucci

I suppose if I’m going to share these occasionally (or more often?), I should come up with a better name. They’re not “sketchy” at all, it was just a quick play on words that wasn’t well thought out! Any suggestions?

Pink Cockatoos Print, Anyang Cempaka, Artfully Walls

Opalhouse Etched Terra Cotta Vases, Target

South Seas Console, Serena & Lily

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