#Younghusband

[thunderstruck9]

Adele Younghusband (New Zealand, 1878-1969), Untitled, 1962. Oil on board, 49.8 × 36.8 cm.

[oldsardens]

Adele Younghusband - Begonia Still Life

[sinister-things]

I JUST MET ANDREW YOUNGHUSBAND

FROM CANADA'S WORST DRIVER

HE SAID IM AN AMAZING ACTOR

IM INTERNALLY SCREAMING

[lianlaspinas]

The phenomenal event of the Filipinos

The fashion show is now five years and six months old now. The now-successful franchise featuring activewear and top designers received a warm, vast-ballroom-filled welcome in the Queen City over the weekend on November 8, 2008 at the Pacific Grand Ballroom of the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel & Casino in Cebu City, following a triumphant debut last July 31, 2008 at the Rigodon Ballroom of the…

[dear-ao3]

*andrew younghusband voice* HAVING TO CHANGE SHOES IN THE PARKING LOT BEFORE YOU DRIVE DOESN'T MAKE YOU LOSE AURA. YOU KNOW WHAT MAKES YOU LOSE AURA? GETTING INTO A CAR CRASH BECAUSE YOU PRIORITIZED FASHION OVER COMMON SENSE

[vintagegeekculture]

there was Chinese interest in the Out Of Asia theory, in both the Republic, Chiang Republic and People’s Republic periods before the Out Of Africa theory became commonly accepted. Was the 1954 Yeti expedition done just from the Nepalese-Indian side or were the American agents and “anthropologists” given access on the Sino-Tibetan side of the Himalayan border?

During the early part of this century, it was absolutely believed for a long time that the deserts of Western China were the most likely place of human origins, as seen in this migration map from 1944, made from the best available knowledge of the time:

Remember, the oldest fossil remains at this point were in China, where Homo erectus was discovered (originally known by his initial place of discovery in Chungkotien Cave, nicknamed "Peking Man"). The discovery of Australopithecus and Homo habilis in Olduvai Gorge and South Africa, which place human origins in Africa, were not until the 50s and 60s, so it seemed entirely reasonable that Homo sapiens evolved in Western China.

The idea that China's desert regions were the origin of modern humans and culture is seen a lot in pop culture from 1900-1950, mainly because there were tremendous explorations in the region, especially Aurel Stein's expedition of 1908, who ventured into the Taklamakan Desert to find the Dunhuang Caves and Khara-Khoto, a city destroyed completely by Genghis Khan and vanished in the desert.

If you've ever heard of Roy Chapman Andrews and his famous expeditions in the 1920s, it's worth noting that he ventured into the Gobi Desert looking for human remains....not dinosaurs, and the discovery of dinosaur eggs was an unexpected surprise.

For that reason, there was a short lived Silk Road Mania that seemed to be a smaller scale predecessor to the pop culture dominating Egyptomania of the 1920s. It's bizarre to read adventure and fantasy fiction of the 1910s-1920s that features mentions of Silk Road peoples like the Kyrgyz, Sogdians, Tajik, Uigurians, and Tuvans. The best example I can think of would be the Khlit the Kossack stories of Harold Lamb (who also wrote a biography of Tamerlane), which together with Tarzan and Tros of Samothrace, formed the core inspiration for Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian.

The most interesting example of this would be A. Merritt's Dwellers in the Mirage, which featured a lost city in Xinjiang that was the home of the Nordic race, who worshipped their original religion, the kraken-like squid devil god Khalkru. It was widely believed in this era that Nordics emerged from Central Asia originally, and while it's easy to write this off as turn of the century racialist claptrap pseudohistory (along with Hyperborea legends), in this case, it is actually true: a branch of the Indo-European family lived in West China, and 5,000 year old redheaded mummies have been found in the region. As usual, A. Merritt was right on the money with his archeology, more so than other 1920s authors. After all, his "Moon Pool" was set around the just discovered ruins of Nan Madol, the Venice of Micronesia.

Jack Williamson's still chilling Darker Than You Think in 1948 was also set in the Silk Road/Central Asian region, as the place the race of shapeshifters emerged from, Homo magi, who await the coming of their evil messiah, the Night King, who will give them power over the human race.

H. Rider Haggard set "Ayesha: the Return of She" (1905) in Xinjiang, among a lost Greek colony in Central Asia (no doubt based on Alexandria on the Indus, a Greek colony in modern Pakistan that was the furthest bastion of Greek Culture). This was also two years after the Younghusband Thibetan Expedition of 1903, where the British invaded Tibet. At the time, the Qing Dynasty was completely declining and lost control of the frontier regions, and the power vacuum was filled by religious authority by default (this is something you also saw in Xinjiang, where for example, the leader of the city was the Imam of Kashgar).

This is one of the many British invasions they have attempted to cram down the memory hole, but if you ever see a Himalayan art piece that was "obtained in 1903-1904" ....well, you know where it came from.

Incidentally, there's one really funny recent conspiracy theory about paleontology, fossils, and China that I find incredibly interesting: the idea that dinosaurs having feathers is a lie and a sinister plot spread by the Communist Chinese (who else?) to make American youth into sissy fancylads, like Jessie "the Body" Ventura. How? By lying to us and making up that the manly and vigorous Tyrannosaurus, a beast with off the charts heterosexuality and a model for boys everywhere, might have been feathered like a debutante's dress. What next - lipstick on a Great White Shark? The long term goal is to make Americans effeminate C. Nelson Reilly types unable to defend against invasion. This is a theory that is getting steam among the kind of people who used to read Soldier of Fortune magazine, and among abusive stepfathers the world over.

...okay, are you done laughing? Yeah, this is obvious crackpottery and transparent sexual pathology, on the level of the John Birch Society in the 60s saying the Beatles were a Communist mind control plot. Mostly because animals just look how they look, and if it turned out that the ferocious Tyrannosaurus had feathers and looked like a fancylad Jessie Ventura to you, well, that's your problem and mental baggage, really.

I was left scratching my head over this one. But there is (kind of) something to this, and that is that a huge chunk of recent dinosaur discoveries have been in China. I don't think it has anything to do with a Communist plot to turn American boys into fancylads, but more to do with a major push in internal public investment in sciences in that country, and an explosion of Chinese dinosaur discoveries. If you want to see a great undervisited dinosaur museum, go to the Zigong Dinosaur Museum in Sichuan.

Pop quiz: what living scientist has named more dinosaur discoveries? It's not Bakker or Horner. The greatest living paleontologist, Xu Xing, which is why a lot of recently found dinosaurs are named things like Shangtungasaurus.

[newsfromstolenland]

Now. there isn't a lot that I like about canada and its legacy of colonialism, but occasionally funny shit does happen here, so im starting a tag for it (#everyday canadian bullshit)

Here are some examples:

there's famed TV host Andrew Younghusband (yes that's his real last name) who hosted a show teaching canada's worst drivers how to drive. the person crowned worst driver would just. be handed their keys back and told good luck

there was the politician who pissed in a coffee mug live on a zoom call, and in a separate incident appeared nude on another zoom call

of course, everyone knows about Rob Ford (the so-called crack smoking mayor of toronto), but did you know that after being accused of talking about wanting to perform oral on a staffer, he told the press he would never say he wanted to "eat her pussy" because he had "more than enough to eat at home"? cause he said that

or when Doug Ford was accused of antisemitism so he said his wife is Jewish, and she was forced to hold a press conference saying she doesn't practice "Judism" (not Judaism, Judism)

[rjzimmerman]

A mini-fan cools down an osprey chick following its examination at Baker’s Lake Younghusband Prairie on June 12, 2024, in Barrington. Over the next couple of weeks, staff at the Forest Preserves of Cook County are banding, performing health care checks, and recording data on more than a dozen osprey chicks scattered throughout forest preserve properties. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

Excerpt from this story from the Chicago Tribune:

Wildlife biologist Chuck Rizzo climbs into what looks like an enormous white bucket and slowly begins to rise.

The metal arm of an aerial lift truck propels him higher and higher, above thick underbrush and then even some treetops, toward a striking sight in an otherwise ordinary Cook County forest preserve: a sturdy, stick-strewn platform built on top of a 50-foot telephone pole.

“How is it?” the lift operator yells as he maneuvers the bucket carrying the wildlife biologist. “Want it over?”

“Yeah, get it closer,” Rizzo says.

Then he reaches toward the sticks and lifts out two pudgy osprey chicks with bulging chocolate-brown eyes and bellies covered in fluff.

The chicks, which will be examined by a vet and returned to their high-rise home, are a sign of success for a Forest Preserves of Cook County program that aims to increase the number of once-endangered ospreys in the Chicago area by constructing towering nesting platforms.

The Forest Preserves program now bands up to 30 chicks a year, all raised by wild osprey — also known as sea hawks — that choose to build their massive nests on human-built platforms standing 50 to 80 feet above the ground.

That’s up from a handful of chicks in the first year of banding in the 1990s, according to Forest Preserves wildlife biologist Chris Anchor, who started the osprey nesting program after spotting nesting platforms in northern Wisconsin.

“What we’ve done is we’ve greatly increased the speed at which ospreys have populated Cook County,” Anchor said.

Studies of similar programs have found that the platforms attract ospreys and produce successful nests, and the platforms are widely used in many areas of the United States.

[rock-sandyt]

EVERYONE PLEASE WELCOME MY SILLY GUY MANDREW YOUNGHUSBAND THE FOURTH!!!!! (AKA: Mandrew 😎)

He is the first furby I designed way back in 2021 and he is gasoline (the black and purple furby)’s brother :3 he is 47 inches long!!! he is an indoor furby and loves the simple things in life like tea time, reading his newspapers, and plotting! (You’ll never know what he is plotting he just is) Gasoline is ecstatic about his new fluffy brother xD

[brenluke]

'Younghusband Woolstore Building, Kensington' Ink on bristolboard, Bren Luke, 2022.

[kaiisens]

i can’t go to drivers ed ill start hallucinating andrew younghusband in the backseat every time i try to reverse

[oldsardens]

Adele Younghusband - Gulls Resting

[royal-diaries-podcast]

Queen Victoria, Mother of Empire

Queen Victoria was the matriarch of the British Empire. She epitomized the values of the era and carved out a new role for the monarchy. 

The Royal Family in 1846

The royal family’s public image conformed to 19th-century ideals of domesticity in the English-speaking world. Images of Victoria, Albert and their children celebrating Christmas and taking family vacations influenced broader parenting trends.

Thomas Younghusband and His Family Meet Queen Victoria and Her Family at Crystal Palace 

During her 20-year marriage to Albert, she shared his commitment to such domestic reforms as reducing tariffs and raising the minimum working age to reduce child labour. Over the course of her widowhood, she became an enthusiastic imperialist and emphasized her role as “mother” of the British Empire. 

Albert, Victoria and their nine children, 1857

[pastorhogg]

No Orders, Except From the King

The phrase “no orders, except from the King” resonates deeply with the Christian mandate to follow Christ’s commands with unwavering loyalty. In Matthew 28:20, Jesus instructs His followers to observe all that He has commanded. This directive comes from the highest authority—Jesus, our King. Just as Major-General Sir George Younghusband, the Keeper of the Jewel House, took orders only from the…

[adventurewhitehimalayas]

A Journey Through the History of the Kanchenjunga Region

Introduction: The Kanchenjunga region, nestled in the eastern Himalayas, is renowned for its majestic peaks, rich biodiversity, and cultural heritage. Spanning across Nepal, India, and Bhutan, this region has a long and storied history shaped by indigenous communities, explorers, and mountaineers. Let's embark on a journey through the fascinating history of the Kanchenjunga region.

Early Settlements and Indigenous Cultures:

Ancient Inhabitants: The Kanchenjunga region has been inhabited for millennia by indigenous peoples such as the Limbu, Rai, Sherpa, and Lepcha communities. These resilient populations have adapted to the challenging mountain environment, practicing agriculture, herding, and trade along ancient routes.

Cultural Heritage: The region is rich in cultural heritage, with vibrant traditions, festivals, and folklore passed down through generations. The indigenous peoples have a deep spiritual connection to the land, reflected in their reverence for sacred mountains like Kanchenjunga, the third-highest peak in the world.

Exploration and Discovery:

Early Explorers: European explorers began venturing into the Kanchenjunga region in the 19th century, drawn by tales of uncharted territories and lofty peaks. British surveyors, including Joseph Dalton Hooker and Sir Francis Younghusband, conducted pioneering expeditions, mapping the terrain and documenting the flora and fauna.

First Ascents: The first recorded attempt to climb Kanchenjunga was made by a British team in 1905. Despite failing to reach the summit, subsequent expeditions in the 1950s and 1960s led to the first successful ascents. These feats marked a turning point in mountaineering history and sparked global interest in the Himalayas.

Conservation Efforts and Environmental Protection:

Establishment of Protected Areas: Recognizing the ecological significance of the Kanchenjunga region, governments in Nepal, India, and Bhutan have established protected areas and national parks to preserve its biodiversity. These include the Kanchenjunga Conservation Area in Nepal and the Khangchendzonga National Park in India, home to diverse species of flora and fauna.

Community-based Conservation: Conservation efforts in the Kanchenjunga region often involve collaboration with local communities, who play a vital role in sustainable resource management and ecotourism initiatives. Community-based homestays and trekking programs offer visitors an immersive experience while supporting local livelihoods.

Conclusion: The history of the Kanchenjunga region is a tapestry woven with threads of ancient cultures, intrepid exploration, and conservation endeavors. As we continue to discover its wonders, let us strive to preserve its natural beauty and cultural heritage for future generations to cherish and enjoy.