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shads-shipposts · 2 months

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Shadow omg I’m LOSING IT I wanna hear more ship stories!!! The snowman made me cry laughing 😂

Oh man the group I was with were definitely characters lol

Wish I had more amazing stories, but seven days didn't allow for too too much. A lot of it was kinda dull and repetitive work.

But the captain was a sliding glass door (unhinged) and such a cutup. One of the hydraulic pulleys broke, hit the deck, and more or less exploded, less than a foot from the captain, and he laughed it off. Two of my fellow scientists (a guy and a girl) were on the bow while I was up in the wheelhouse with the captain and he joked to the first mate that he should hit the horn (pretty sure the guy was trying to flirt with the girl). He often sang along to the radio too, which was entertaining. He caught a shark at one point after night fell and was very animated about that.

I got decently close to the first mate, consider him between friend and acquaintance. Still have his contact actually. We were chillin' under one of the overhangs chatting when we both heard a roar and we looked out just in time to see an F22 Raptor zip past. I could see the pilot's head he was so close, and according to the captain they like to use the ship as target practice.

In that same vein, when I was out there I was keeping an eye out for cargo ships (for obvious reasons lol) and I noticed something that was neither cargo ship nor yacht. A few minutes later the captain came over the radio and said "Hey y'all, Warship Five says hello!". Turns out it was the USS Milwaukee, and the captain asked for "fireworks" from them but they said no. Also I just checked and the USS Milwaukee apparently was decommissioned in 2023, and I had my research cruise in 2022 so that's kinda cool.

That's the main cool ones, the others are kinda mundane/boring but can confirm through my chats with the first mate that a love for the Second Amendment is very much alive and well in sailors lol

Something of note was the cook was sweet, there are certain foods I can't stand for taste/sensory reasons and he often made me special versions. The galley rules sheet was also pretty funny, though they were apparently from the past cook.

I didn't bond too too much with the scientist crew (I thought I did but was proven wrong later) but they did have this cup which was funny.

One main thing I learned about the sailors (and why I remember them more fondly than the scientist crew) is they are the type to talk shit to your face but nice about you behind your back. They're also very blunt and straightforward, and you don't have to worry about them pretending to like you to "keep the peace" or "keep things positive". They address issues when they happen and while they may not always get along, they don't pretend to like someone for some social reason.

Went off on a bit of a tangent there, but I'm still (ironically) salty about some things that went on in that internship ^^;

#2022 research cruise

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daisiesonafield-blog · 1 year

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Info for Faith In The Future World Tour MILWAUKEE, WI - JUN 13 2023

With special guests THE ACADEMIC & SNARLS!

Important Times:

4:00 PM - Venue parking opens

6:00 PM - Doors Open (enter thru South Gate)

7:00 PM - Snarls

8:00 PM - The Academic

9:00 PM - Louis Tomlinson

Times are all approximate and subject to change.

General admission (pit tickets):

GA in the back of the venue

Rain expected - prepare accordingly!

Guests with General Admission Standing Room Only can begin lining up no earlier than 9am on 6/13.

Sequentially numbered wristbands will be given out on a first-come first served basis. All guests must be present to receive wristbands.

Any guest camping overnight or arriving before 9 am will not be given wristbands and be sent to the back of the line.

Guests are encouraged to return at 3pm for Standing Room Only entry.

If you have seats there's no need to line up!

Subject to change. Check the venue’s socials for updates!

⚠️ HYDRATION REMINDER ⚠️

Hydrate before the show, while waiting in line and during the show

For optimal hydration drink something with electrolytes such as Gatorade or LiquidIV

Rain expected - prepare accordingly!

Eat well!

Here are important policies:

The venue is CASHLESS! Pay with a card!

Parking: Parking is first come, first serve. Reserve in advance here ($25). SpotHero for nearby parking here ($5-20).

ADA info here

Cameras: No cameras or recording devices of any type are allowed into the venue.

Water: Patrons may bring in an empty, clear plastic water bottle, one liter or smaller.

Concession food options info here

NO food - exception made for patrons with a medical necessity and/or special dietary requirements.

NO alcohol

NO Animals (except service animals)

NO smoking or vaping. Designated smoking areas will be available outside the venue.

NO Marijuana or any cannabis products

NO drugs

NO Aerosol sunscreen/bug spray (except spray sunscreens 6oz or less, 1 per patron)

NO Coolers, umbrellas, strollers

NO Glass, Metal, or Hard Plastic Containers

NO knives, firearms, Brass knuckles, Tasers & mace/pepper spray or weapons of any kind

NO Foot powered or electric scooters, Bicycles, tricycles or unicycles, Wagons, Skateboards, roller skates, inline skates or hoverboards

NO Kites, Hula-hoops, Frisbees, or beach balls

NO Booster seats or Car seats

NO Fireworks

NO Laptops

NO Lawn chairs

NO Selfie sticks

NO Laser Pointers

There is NO RE-ENTRY!

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*This list is not exhaustive. Items not appearing on the list may still be prohibited at the discretion of MWF Security if the items pose a potential threat to safety of our guests or due to event restrictions.

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Bag Policy:

No backpacks at all or bags larger than 9x10x12

All bags larger than 9X10X12 will need to be returned to a vehicle or home before entering the Park.

All bags are subject to inspection prior to entering the grounds.

Any prohibited items will be confiscated by security and will not be returned.

Banners, signs and flag policy:

Signs are allowed but cannot be on poles

NO Banners or flags on poles

Contact:

For additional questions please call the venue at 414-273-2680. You can also access their website. Email:[email protected] Message them here. Check their twitter here and IG here for updates. Address: Milwaukee World Festival, Inc, 639 E. Summerfest Place, Milwaukee, WI 53202 USA

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archivyrep · 2 years

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Archivists on the Issues: Sophisticated Bureaucracies, Archives, and Fictional Depictions [part 2]

Continued from part 1

Archivists on the Issues is a forum for archivists to discuss the issues we are facing today. Today’s post is by Burkely Hermann (me), Metadata Librarian for National Security Archive and current I&A Blog Coordinator. There are spoilers for each of the books, animated series, films, and other media he will be discussing. It was originally published on the Issues and Advocacy blog on Jan. 3, 2023. Also posted on my Wading Through the Cultural Stacks WordPress blog on Feb. 13, 2022.

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While bureaucracies are famously criticized in novels like Catch-22 and The Trial, they are a major part of other media, like the acclaimed animated series, Futurama. In the series, Hermes Conrad (voiced by Phil LaMarr), is a bureaucrat who works for the Central Bureaucracy, which manages legal, financial, and business matters in the city of New New York. In one episode, "Lethal Inspection", a physical file archive is shown, with Hermes taking a folder out of a file cabinet. It is later revealed that he was the inspector who approved a defective robot named Bender (voiced by John DiMaggio), after be burns the file.

Brad Houston, a Document Services Manager for the city of Milwaukee, said the physical file archive is really a records center because it has semi-active records. He described how the Milwaukee records center works, noting the importance of filling out transfer forms correctly, pointing out that records are organized by box with specific assigned numbers, and importance of records management training. As another archivist put it, information and records management is as much about understanding bureaucratic processes and human behavior as it is about the records and information.

While there are many other examples of fictional bureaucracies, [10] one specifically comes to mind: the Elven bureauacracy in the children's adventure and supernatural comedy-drama animated series, Hilda. An elf named Alfur (voiced by Rasmus Hardiker) is a series protagonist. Like the other elves in the series, they can only be seen if their tiny paperwork is signed and filled out. In the first episode, the protagonist, Hilda (voiced by Bella Ramsey), tries to come to peace with the elves, who see her as a menace because she stepped through their houses for years without realizing it. In the process, she goes through various Elven political officials who declare there is nothing that can be done and that the matter is out of their hands.

As the series continues, Alfur becomes a correspondent in the city of Trolberg, and files reports about his daily activities in the city, where Hilda is now living. Characters such as Frida (voiced by Ameerah Falzon-Ojo) and Deputy Gerda (voiced by Lucy Montgomery) are shown to care about paperwork as much as him, as does the witchy librarian named Kaisa (voiced by Kaisa Hammarlund). In other episodes, Alfur proudly tells a legendary Elf story about a fight over a real estate contract, he meets a society which doesn't use paperwork, and emphasizes the importance of reading the fine print. The series also features elf-mail, known as "email", which is sent from the countryside into the city with various couriers. Alfur later states that elves pride themselves on the accuracy of historical records and says he is impressed by how Hilda uses loopholes. In the next to last episode of the show's second season, Alfur convinces an elf sent as his replacement to write an eyewitness confirmation form, confirming that his reports from Trolberg, said to be "the most requested from the official archive", are accurate and true.

Hilda, emphasizes importance of accountability within hierarchies more than fictional bureaucracies shown in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Futurama. Alfur is graded on a performance management system and experiences some level of bureaucratic accountability. The latter is achieved, within institutions, through strategies, administrative rules, budget reviews, and performance management. It can also be accompanied by citizen accountability, which attempts to hold government administrators accountable through forums and laws, using communication technologies to directly access bureaucratic information, monitor government activities, and give feedback on delivery of public services. However, Futurama and Hilda make clear the value of records managers (and archivists) who have developed strategies and experience with relationship-building and negotiating bureaucratic politics.

Many archives, these days, are not "faceless" or "nameless" as those in fiction, nor do they encourage falsification of information to protect individuals. Instead, some likely came into existence during the Progressive Era to "lessen anxiety" about issues such as race. While some bureaucratic records, within archives, may be considered "cold", there have been efforts to humanize the files, especially those about human atrocities. Even so, some archivists remain impatient with "inanities" of bureaucracies they are part of. [11]

Bureaucracy remains part and parcel of archives. There have been efforts, in recent years, to reduce bureaucracies said to be "overlapping" and related claims that government by bureaucracy is dead or no longer necessary. Despite this, committing information to paper, then managing, or shuffling, that paper within a bureaucracy remains a "source of an essential power." After all, records have the power to legitimize bureaucracy, while promoting political hegemony and constructing social memory. In fact, in the 1985 film, Brazil, a controlling bureaucracy rules people's lives and crushes spirits. [12] The film's protagonist, Sam Lowry, has been described by some as an archivist who has "dreamlike moments" and sees himself as a winged superhero. He tries to tamper with data in order to save the woman he loves before his vision is shown to be an illusion.

While there won't be any "bureaucratic cock-ups" or Vogan Constructor Fleets demolishing Earth to make way for a hyperspace expressway, [13] sophisticated and complex bureaucracy will remain an integral part of archives, whether we like it or not.

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[10] The Wikipedia category "Bureaucracy in fiction" lists 50 entries, including Loki TV series, the anti-communist novel 1984, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and The Pale King.

[11] Yakel, Elizabeth. "Reviews." The American Archivist 64, no. 2 (2001): 407-409; Pierce, Pamela. "Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge." The American Archivist 81, no. 1 (2018): 262; Arroyo-Ramirez, Elvia. "Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala." The American Archivist 80, no. 1 (2017): 244-245; Jimerson, Randall C. "Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia." The American Archivist 78, no. 1 (2015): 265-266; Radoff, Morris. "Recent Deaths." The American Archivist 42, no. 2 (1979): 264.

[12] Baker, Kathryn. "The Business of Government and the Future of Government Archives." The American Archivist 60, no. 2 (1997): 237, 241, 252; Cline, Scott. "'To the Limit of Our Integrity': Reflections on Archival Being." The American Archivist 72, no. 2 (2009): 331-333, 340. Cline also says that records can reinforce cultural mythology, and bolster democracy and democratic institutions.

[13] Adams, Douglas. “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” In The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide, 16, 25-26. New York: Gramercy Books, 2005. Vogans are also described, on page 38. as "one of the most unpleasant races in the galaxy...[not] evil, but bad-tempered, bureaucratic, officious and callous".

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aestheticvoyage2023 · 1 year

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DAY 267: Sunday September 24, 2023 - "San Diego Zoo"

We had looked forward to the San Diego Zoo for so long and I may have over-hyped it because William was up and ready to go at 5am, despite my coaching that it didn't open until 9. Rough start to the morning in California - I regretted going a little too hard at the baseball game last night. But we had plenty to look forward to, aside from the biggest Zoo in the country getting thrown onto our list, Chad and the Fehr family was coming down from LA to help show us around. We met at the entrance and did some intros for William and Brooklyn - William was in complete awe of the older girl in the giraffe dress and was happy following her around for the next 5 hours.

We started by riding the big double decker blue bus around the zoo, getting the lay of the hilly land. Thats how big this zoo was. We lucked out and got cut off at the very front of the line for the next bus which meant instead of packing into a full one, we got the very best seats up at the top level front row! William enjoyed standing in front of the glass watching the San Diego Zoo go by in front of him as we got a narrated tour of the place seeing fun animals on both sides. My favorite was the maned wolf who smelled like a skunky fox.

After the bus, we rode the "air boats" high up over the zoo to transport to the other side. I was nervous about how William would handle the heights, and he handled it better than me! Just him and me up on the sky tram looking out at the city of San Diego without any worries. The air sure was nice up there. That was worth the price of admission ($69) and I wished we could have rode that 10 more times. We'll come back to ride the air boats again.

The best animal habitat we saw today was the Red Pandas - they had several. We had all thought that maybe we'd see real pandas, but they went back to China in 2019. But the Red Pandas were more than enough. That was cool - fascinating animals. And while it felt like we'd spent plenty of time at the Zoo, it felt like we maybe only saw half. Plenty to see the next time we come around.

When I sat down to think about where the San Diego Zoo ranked in the list of 9, I slotted it in as #2 deciding that the cost vs free was the biggest difference between this and St Louis. Granted, St Louis didnt have air boats or double decker busses, but you could say, its nice that it didnt need it. Maybe I'll adjust after we go there next, and maybe if we don't wake up at 5am, after a month of solo parenting. Regardless, the best part of this day was seeing the Fehr Family and letting William run around with Brooklyn - playing in the seal tunnel, running across the big bridge, and playing on statues together like lizards and polar bears. Fun day and I am grateful to have this good lifelong friend to come down and see us on a Sunday. It was just enough to get me through another long hard day.

Song: SZA - Snooze

Quote: The Days are long, but the years are short. ~Gretchen Rubin

William’s Zoo List: 1. Tucson Zoo (5) 2. Phoenix Zoo (8) 3. St Louis Zoo (1) 4. Detroit Zoo (6) 5. Milwaukee County Zoo (3) 6. Los Angeles Zoo (9) 7. Honolulu Zoo (7) 8. San Francisco Zoo (4) 9. San Diego Zoo (2) Where will we go next?!

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holoraindrops · 2 years

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2023 Convention Schedule

Hey all! I took a few minutes to update my convention schedule here on Tumblr.

Anime Milwaukee February 3-5, 2023 / Milwaukee, WI

Genghis Con February 23-26, 2023 / Denver, CO

Planet Comicon March 17-19, 2023 / Kansas City, MO

Times of Future Past June 10-11, 2023 / Kewaunee, WI

Fan Expo Denver June 30-July 1, 2023 / Denver, CO

Metrocon July 14-16, 2023 / Tampa, FL

Tekko July 20-23, 2023 / Pittsburgh, PA

FanX Salt Lake September 21-23, 2023 / Salt Lake City, UT

Daku Con November 3-5, 2023 / Denver, CO

Come by and visit if you’ll be at any of these! :D Hope to see you there!

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gentlechaosgoblin · 2 years

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My first year at AMKE! It was so great! One more day tomorrow and then we will call it a wrap! The Radish Spirit from Spirited Away Friday and Sunday, and Undyne from Undertale. Look for me as the Radish Spirit again tomorrow, Sunday and snap a pic ☺️

#AMKE 2023 #anime Milwaukee #anime Milwaukee 2023 #undyne #radish spirit #spirited away #undertale #convention

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searincosplay · 2 years

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As some of you already know, I am delighted to be one of the masquerade judges at AMKE this year! I can't wait to see everyone's costumes and geek out over your craftsmanship.

My costume lineup will be a bit scaled back due to being tied up most of Fri and Sat with judging, but I am working on a small new assembled project to bring. Any guesses based on the WIP?

📸 by InsightFoto

#anime milwaukee #amke 2023 #cosplay judge #cosplay #costume

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aurlworthfightingfor · 2 years

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Anime Milwaukee had “gender neutral” signs on all the bathrooms which was bad ass, a plus move. Didn’t bother me in the slightest; but I still used the one normally assigned to “women” because no matter what label is on them - one side had like 12 stalls, and the other had 4, with 4 urinals.

At one point the 12 stall one was closed for cleaning and I was like fuck this line, I’m going to another floor to find a 12 stall open. Lmao

So glad they had gender neutral signs on tho. Like then I didn’t have to worry about people being weird about my brother in whatever bathroom he wanted to go to. Good on y’all

#anime milwaukee #amke 2023 #gender neutral bathrooms

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xtruss · 10 months

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Officials from the National Turkey Federation and the Poultry and Egg National Board Present a Thanksgiving Turkey to President John F. Kennedy. Photograph By Robert Knudsen, National Archives

Turkeys Can Swim—and Other Fun Facts For Thanksgiving Table Talk! There's Much More To America's Holiday Bird Than White and Dark Meat.

— Published: November 21, 2018 | Thursday November 23, 2023 | By Mark Strauss

Every year at Thanksgiving, families and friends gather to share personal stories and perhaps reflect on the early history of the United States. But aside from deciding whether to ask for seconds, not much is said about the guest of honor at the holiday table: the turkey. That’s a shame, since that big, tasty bird has left a significant mark on history, science, language, and culture. So maybe on this Thanksgiving, take a moment to appreciate the turkey’s story with these remarkable facts and anecdotes gathered from across the centuries.

A Cooked Turkey—in this case deep fried—is the centerpiece of the traditional Thanksgiving dinner in millions of U.S. homes. Photograph By Jim Lo Scalzo, EPA/Redux

Alpha Turkeys 🦃🦃🦃

After an exhaustive study of wild turkeys in southeastern Texas, researchers were startled to discover that the community of birds is “characterized by an astonishing degree of social stratification, greater than had previously been seen in any society of vertebrates short of man.”

“The Social Order of Turkeys,” published in the June 1971 issue of Scientific American, described an avian dystopia where the permanent status of each individual is determined in the first years of its life. Young males, for instance, engage in a grueling two-hour battle. The victor gains alpha male status and the right to bully the vanquished turkey for as long as it lives. During breeding season, the dominant males gather together and literally strut their stuff in unison before the females, like a scene out of West Side Story. But despite the synchronous display, only the most dominant of the alpha male turkeys—six out of 170—are allowed to mate.

Turkeys 🦃🦃🦃 Among the Maya

"For the Maya, turkeys were quintessential animals for feasting and for sacrificial offerings,” writes University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee art historian Andrea Stone. The reverence for the turkey among the ancient Maya is apparent in their stunning artistic depictions of the bird—with its characteristic drooping wattle—on vases and in codices. Historians had long thought that the Maya had domesticated the turkey sometime between A.D. 250 and 1000, but upon closer examination of turkey bones found in the ancient city of El Mirador, researchers at the University of Florida concluded that the Maya had domesticated the birds a thousand years earlier than previously estimated.

Text found in the Dresden Codex reveal that the Maya cooked turkey tamales. If you’d like to add a little spice to your traditional Thanksgiving meal, chef Julie Powell has re-created the recipe.

Male Turkeys Strut their Stuff to Win the Attention of Females. Turkeys adhere to a strict social pecking order established by intense sparring. Photograph By Patricio Robles Gil, Sierra Madre/National Geographic

Watch Your Language

Considering that it was once deemed indecent for a woman to expose her ankles, we shouldn’t be surprised that prurient diners adopted anatomical euphemisms while serving turkey and other poultry.

In the mid-1800s, the term “drumstick” entered popular use to avoid the scandal of expressing desire for a bird’s lower leg. Likewise, according to culinary historian Mark Morton, “Prudery was also the impetus behind the adoption of the terms ‘white meat’ and ‘dark meat,’ which arose in the 1870s as euphemisms for the breast and legs.”

All-Star Athletes

Look! Up in the sky! Wild turkeys can fly short distances at 40 to 50 miles an hour. (Domestic turkeys can’t, a factoid that was used to great comedic effect in the famous Thanksgiving episode of WKRP in Cincinnati.) Wild turkeys can also run 12 miles an hour and, completing the triathlon, they are actually adept swimmers. They move through the water by tucking their wings in close, spreading their tails, and kicking.

Wild Turkeys are able to fly short distances at considerable speed. They can also run and swim. Photograph By Roy Toft, National Geographic

Granted, wild turkeys don’t swim often. As John James Audubon wrote in 1831, “I have been told by a friend that a person residing in Philadelphia had a hearty laugh on hearing that I had described the Wild Turkey as swimming for some distance, when it had accidentally fallen into the water. But be assured, kind reader, almost every species of land-bird is capable of swimming on such occasions, and you may easily satisfy yourself as to the accuracy of my statement by throwing a Turkey, a Common Fowl, or any other bird into the water.” (Actually, please don’t do that.)

Ben Franklin and the National Bird

Although the esteemed Founding Father once declared the wild turkey to be more virtuous than the bald eagle, there’s scant evidence that he preferred it as the national symbol of his new country.

Franklin’s feathers got ruffled when, in 1783, he learned that the Society of the Cincinnati—a group of officers under the command of George Washington—wanted to establish a hereditary order of merit, to be passed down from oldest son to oldest son. Franklin, a fifth-generation youngest son, expressed disdain for the officers and their aristocratic trappings, including their choice of the eagle as the emblem for their badge.

In a letter to his daughter, Sarah Bache, he wrote, “For my own part I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly … For in truth, the turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.”

But did Franklin truly regret the eagle as the national symbol? As author Elizabeth Gawthrop Riely writes in the journal Gastronomica, “The sober historian must be skeptical. After all, eight years earlier, in 1776, he himself had served on the committee with Jefferson and Adams when the turkey was not chosen, and at other instances Franklin used the eagle rather than the turkey as an emblem. No other evidence in the vast Franklin archive mentions his support of the turkey as national bird.”

More likely Franklin, knowing that his lengthy letter would probably be published in U.S. newspapers, singled out the eagle as part of a larger cautionary tale against creating aristocratic institutions.

The Turkey-in-Chief

The tradition of sending a Thanksgiving turkey to the White House began during the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant, who was gifted with a 34-pound bird by Rhode Island Senator H.B. Anthony on behalf of turkey growers in his state.

However, Cornell University anthropologist Magnus Fiskesjö writes that the formal custom of pardoning a Thanksgiving turkey began in Alabama, “where the ceremony was first invented in the 1940s as a governor’s ritual,” before it was “exported to the capital.”

John F. Kennedy is sometimes credited with the first presidential pardon of a turkey when he declared, "Let's keep him going." According to the White House Historical Association, “The formalities of pardoning a turkey gelled by 1989, when George H. W. Bush, with animal rights activists picketing nearby, quipped,"'Reprieve,' ‘keep him going,’ or ‘pardon’: It's all the same for the turkey, as long as he doesn't end up on the president's holiday table.”

Talking Turkey 🦃

Turkeys produce several different distinct sounds beyond their famous gobble (more of an ill-obble-obble-obble), which is uttered to attract females and establish territory. Other “words” in the turkey lexicon: a contact call that sounds like a yelp (keouk, keouk, keouk), an alarm (putt), and a cluck that’s used as an assembly note (kut).

A Wily Opponent

While domesticated turkeys are regarded as docile dullards, hunters across the centuries, including Theodore Roosevelt, have deemed the bird’s feral brethren to be cunning adversaries.

“The wild turkey is, in every way, the king of American game birds,” the future president wrote in 1893. “[It] really deserves a place beside the deer; to kill a wary old gobbler with the small-bore rifle, by fair still-hunting, is a triumph for the best sportsman.”

This Life-size Watercolor of a Wild Turkey appears in John James Audubon's famous Birds of America, printed between 1827 and 1838. Photograph By Field Museum Library/Getty Images

Born to be Wild

Concerns that wild turkeys might become extinct peaked in the early 20th century, when the U.S. government released dire statistics on their declining numbers nationwide. “These are diminishing so fast that 1920 will see the finish of the turkey tribe unless the authorities take a hand,” declared an editorial in the December 19, 1912, issue of the Aberdeen Herald.

Some sought to save the bird through a raise-and-release program. “The experiment is being made in California, and also in New York State, where the Game Breeders’ association (an influential and wealthy organization of public spirited men), is already raising wild turkeys on a considerable scale on its breeding farms, some hundreds of the birds having been trapped in Virginia and the Carolinas for this purpose,” reported the El Paso Herald on November 25, 1911.

But the game-farm idea was a failure. "Turkeys that were raised in those situations did not have the opportunity for the hen to teach what predators would eat them,” explained James Earl Kennamer of the National Wild Turkey Federation in Edgefield, South Carolina. “It was like taking a kid out of New York City and putting him in the woods and saying, 'Go hunt.' They didn't know what to do."

The turning point came in 1951 when wildlife biologists in South Carolina devised a method of capturing wild turkeys with a net shot from a cannon—enabling the biologists to release them into habitats where wild turkeys were scarce or nonexistent. By 1973 the wild turkey population had rebounded to 1.5 million, and today it numbers nearly seven million.

Beautiful Turkeys 🦃🦃🦃

Narragansett Turkey lets it all hang out at the Knoxville Zoo. Photograph By Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark

This Brightly Colored Ocellated Turkey (Meleagris Ocellata) at Texas’ Dallas World Aquarium might remind some readers of a Peacock. Photograph By Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark

An Australian Brush Turkey (Alectura Lathami) keeps it real at Sylvan Heights Bird Park in Scotland Neck, North Carolina. Photograph By Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark

A Female Rio Grande Wild Turkey (Meleagris Gallopavo Intermedia) chills out at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Photograph By Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark

#Thanksgiving #Turkeys 🦃 🦃 🦃#Wild Turkey 🦃#White & Dark Meat #Alpha Turkey 🦃#Maya

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