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I love this series, as I loved the books, and one of the reasons is that the author knows how to write women who are believable and as varied in terms of personality as men.
"Like The Handmaid's Tale, and unlike Wonder Woman, Game of Thrones also explores women's relationship to institutional power in a variety of ways – while acknowledging that whatever this relationship might be, it is always categorically gendered. If Wonder Woman is a celebratory story of warrior queens, and The Handmaid's Tale is a cautionary tale of female enslavement, Game of Thrones offers women who are emperors, slaves and everything in between. It is a world in which women who seem to be pawns have a way of turning out to be queens; but it is also a world that knows queens can always be taken.
Each of the women in Game of Thrones might be said to embody a certain archetypal female experience in relation to power. They cover the spectrum: from the initially conventional femininity of Sansa Stark, submissively learning needlepoint and manipulated by those around her; to her sister Arya, who rejects this sort of femininity in favour of a sword she ironically names "Needle"; to the knight Brienne of Tarth, who is mocked for her lack of femininity but lives like a man in a male-dominated world; to the priestess Melisandre, a fanatic who uses sexual power in the name of religious power; to the heroine Daenerys, whose story arc takes her from rape victim to conquering ruler; to the queen regent Cersei, whose evil is contextualised, if not justified, within a story of rage and thwarted ambition. Yara Greyjoy is a daughter trying to be like a man to please her ferociously misogynist father; Margaery Tyrell is a post-feminist pragmatist, using whatever power she can find to achieve her ends, while her grandmother Olenna (played to the hilt by Diana Rigg) is a cross between Catherine de Medici and the Mother Superior from The Sound of Music, wimple and all. And as the story has evolved, even the most submissive women, like Sansa, are emerging from their violent experiences with a survivor's sense of strength – and vengeance."
They forgot Catelyn Stark, one of my favorite characters except for her treatment of John Snow: the strong, proud, loyal wife and loving, protective mother, with a firm grasp of the politics of her world, but like her son perhaps not the best judge of character.
I don't agree on the author's take on Cersei. Hey, a lot of people have terrible fathers...it doesn't excuse how evil she becomes.
Still, she does have some great one-liners from a woman's point of view:
" In season one, she tells Sansa Stark that when her brother "was taught to fight, I was taught to smile. He was heir to Casterly Rock, I was sold like a horse." When Margaery coos that they will be just like sisters, Cersei snaps: "If you ever call me sister again, I'll have you strangled in your sleep." When a warrior from another land informs her that in his kingdom, "We don't hurt little girls", she replies: "Everywhere in the world, they hurt little girls."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jul/22/game-of-thrones-handmaids-tale-wonder-woman-female-power
I love GoT. BTW, Euron reminded me of the old Viking raids. What an episode (season 7, ep. 2)! I hope Yara will not perish :(
So do I. I don't think I've missed a single episode.
Euron is an animal.
The only terribly written women in Game of Thrones were the Sand Snakes, also known as cringe snakes.
I've never been happier for a character's death, not even when Joffrey died (RIP beloved) plus I didn't forget they killed Myrcella :sad-2: and her handsome boyfriend, whoever that guy was.
One memorable quote from the sand snakes :
You want a good girl, but you need the bad pussy
simply genius :sad-2:
where did they get that line from ? Nicki Minaj ?
Doesn't every man want that!?
"You want a good girl, but you need the bad p*&#y"
the only character (and it was female) I like on GoT was Nymeria the direwolf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Q-MUj47hg
wild, team spirit and pure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcqxqmr9gic
How can anyone not like Jon Snow and Daenerys?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoLwd4bQbJ4
The prince that was promised may be Jaime.
I doubt it. I think it's either Jon or Daenerys.
Regardless, Jon is my absolutely favorite character...honorable, honest, just, compassionate, loving, as well as strong and determined. Since the prince (or princess) is supposed to be able to yield a sword of fire it might seem that it is Daenerys, and it might indeed be her, but as Jon is half Targaryen, it's possible he will transform further as his trials test him.
The prince that was promised will have a rare Valyrian Y-DNA that was found among the ancient remains of the dragon lords of Valyria, they were the first people to tame dragons and forge Valyrian steel, they also spoke proto Valyrian, the ancestral language of the Valyrian language family.
Jon and Khaleesi are too obvious. If one of them is Azor Ahai, then I rest my case. Too easy bro!
Next season is the last. How will they be able to reveal so much in so small time?
Yes and its Ben or Bran
Soon he and Night King will be one
we know what is underneath each castle except Winterfell
Arya is going to find out, (maybe the spiders?)
Arya is one with faceless men etc
and Ben or Bran will be one with Night King
Winterfell and Stark are connected with Targaryen, they are the same
anyway I never understood why Martin change the boook in the story of Waif
what he earned? or us?
''The dire wolfs have always remained loyal''
but why Numeria turns her back to Arya?
Ever since I posted that youtube video about GOT, things have been popping up in my inbox.
This is a great one of Olenna's best one liners. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f2mD_DccWshttps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f2mD_DccWs
Someone mentioned the Dornish prince who was killed. He was played by an English actor named Toby Sebasatian, another one of these good looking black curly haired, brown eyed and olive skinned Brits.
http://watchersonthewall.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Toby-Sebastian.jpg
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/gameofthrones/images/8/81/Toby-sebastian-gallery.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160712061218
Ok, now I've had it. :) I'm going to write to HBO and complain about Jon Snow's hair lately.
I want this:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0e/b2/2f/0eb22fa93241c3b2d8c7a65a1f1cfdef--john-snow-eye-candy.jpg
I want no more of this...For goodness' sakes, it's his only really beautiful feature, so leave it alone. Also, can't he afford some new animal fur cloaks now that he's King of the North? The ones he wears look filthy; they're probably crawling with fleas and lice. If they aim at realism in terms of living conditions they should have him scratching all the time. I mean, I know Daenerys had to put up with Drago and the Dothraki, but she's back in civilization now, or what passes for it in this world. :)
https://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/entertainment/television/2017/07/31/the-mother-of-dragons-finally-meets-jon-snow-in-game-of-thrones-and-its-epic/got-jon-snow.jpg.size.custom.crop.1086x722.jpg
All I can say about last night's episode is: WOW!
The Dothraki look like the Apaches in this scene.
Jamie is at his best here. Still not a good guy, though...throw young boy out of a building because he saw you and your sister having intercourse...uh, no!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQtGZYEvFhA
Well, it's almost here. :)
I have a feeling it's going to live up to the hype.
I've resigned myself that probably not only Dany but Jon Snow, my favorite, is going to die. He'll probably go out in a blaze of heroism and self-sacrifice, which would be just like him, but which will still be really sad.
Sansa will probably survive, whom I can't stand, both the character and the actress :), perhaps as regent for Jon's and Dany's baby if they have one? Or maybe everyone will decide to submit it to a vote and someone else wil get it. As long as the Night King is defeated and Cersei gets killed, it's ok.
For us nerds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sL-1z167Bc
TardisBlue
For book readers: there's a theory online that says that Jon is Azor Ahai, and Dany Nisa Nisa which means he'll have to kill her to defeat the While Walkers. Or Dany might be AA and Jon Nisa Nisa? Whatever the case, my bet is on Dany dying. I like her far more in the books than in the show, though she's been less annoying since she met Jon.
I want to see more of Ghost this seasonl! Apparently, he's gonna make a big come-back, which is great. I wonder how the meeting between Dany, her dragons and Ghost will go.
Will we ever see the release of the Winds of Winter? I'm still hoping.
exceededminimumso..
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I think Martin has not overpass his meloDrama syndrome
of beauty and the beast
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/tv/2017/03/03/beautybeast_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqNvLtDx75wZSR0MSb26ou _3gVU_kHLfS6zy1KZpNOoWk.jpg?imwidth=450
^^^"Peter Stringfellow's Lord of the Rings" lol! Yes - I fully agree with Stewart!
What happened to the direwolf story line, its connection with the Stark family sigil and the mind-meld that seemed to exist between the wolves and the Starks? Was it simply forgotten or will it reappear in the last episode?
I was "underwhelmed" by the first episode. It only picked up for me with the scenes between Arya and Jon, and Jon and Sam.
I get the feeling Sansa is on the rise. If she wins it will spoil the whole show for me. I can't stand her. She's always been everything I hate about some women's character and behavior.
Hopefully the rest will be better.
I was unhappy to see in the last season that Littlefinger was killed off with so little attempt to give the scene some lift - he deserved some appropriate final words. Tyrion and Varys also got little scope for wit. I don't dislike big battle scenes or low politics, but I miss the sparkle of the early seasons.
I first found LOR as a paperback in the late 1960's and fell in love with it. I read those books so often the pages fell out. Then I bought the hardback and finally the Kindle edition. I re-read it again on a regular basis. I've read everything Tolkien wrote and everything about him . . . . I hate and loathe the LOR movies because they are not the Tolkien vision. I've tried to watch the movie several times (my boys love it), but I can't stand that this isn't the movie I imagined as I read the book. The numerous changes they made to characters, dialogue and situation are, to me, beyond the pale.Well, I got that off my chest.
Wow, wow, wow. Last night's episode sums up what I (and many people) like about GoT. It was absolutely riveting. Slow paced, no action, mainly conversations and character development, heavy and gloomy atmosphere… yet I was on the edge of my seat for the whole hour.
What a gripping episode, full of emotional intensity and a palpable sense of dread and urgency permeating every scene. The night setting and the indoors scenes with candle/fire light, the eerie atmosphere, the play of light and shadows, the sense of intimacy and poignancy you get from the interactions between the characters… especially given that half of them are probably going to die in the next episode. It was pure gold, first class episode. 10/10.
And we got to get a gimpse of Ghost :-)
Took the words right out of my mouth. :) I was riveted too. This is one I'll watch again.
Just saw a behind the scenes video and the director was talking about how it was so important to him that each character be given "space" in this episode before the battle, because everyone loves them so much. He almost broke down crying.
When the creators of a show are just as in love with the characters and the story as the viewers, that's when you get great art.
I so don't want them to die, but die most of them will. :(
Interesting that no one has commented on episode three. Kind of a let down that the chief bugaboo since the opening sequence of the series is so suddenly gone. I know the show likes to up-end expectations, but the rest of the series now seems like anti-climax.
Couldn't agree more. That's one of the reasons I haven't commented. :)
I don't mean to say it wasn't a great episode in a lot of ways imo: the battle sequences, the character exposition, the suspense, all of that.
In addition to your point, I'm disappointed that they picked Arya to kill the Night King. I thought it was supposed to be about the Prince Who Was Promised who would save the world. Evil as Cersei is, that isn't'wasn't the existential threat, and Arya is not the Prince or Princess who was promised. She's more like a ninja girl suddenly leaping to the rescue.
Ever since they ran out of source material I haven't been as happy with the show. Maybe I'm short changing them, but it's almost like "let's make fantasy politically correct now and let the girl or young woman save the day." She would be totally unfit to rule Westeros. The only one who should rule is the one who doesn't want it and hates killing, as much as he might be good at it.
Now I know why there were all those episodes of Arya training. I thought they were boring. Only ones I skimmed through after taping the show.
Plus, it was too damn dark even after I used the settings to lighten it as much as possible. I couldn't tell what was happening in the air.
I'll still watch it, but I'm not expecting much.
I had the same reaction to "The Walking Dead". It was great in the beginning and then clunk. As it went on and got past the half way mark it was as if suddenly the local PTA was writing the scripts. I half expected them to have a training session on bullying.
My chief disappointment has been the number of dead story lines. What about the dire wolves, the ability of the Starks, and some north of the wall, to mind meld with animals, the catacombs under Winterfell, and what the heck has Bran been doing? He supposedly knows everything that has ever happened, why doesn't he share this info?
There's a new thread for you, catalog the number of forgotten plot lines in GOT.
season 8 is just a fast bad screenplay, to end the series,
Catapults outside the wall, coffee drinks, total black for many sec',
most silly death of frozen zombies, etc
the main thing I will always say
IT IS BRAN THE PATHETIC
He knows all, But never say who made him like this,
He enjoys his status, as revenging all others.
simply outrageous,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHfaQhVRf-U
They would probably need another season or two, which would be great with me, but maybe the show runners, after ten years, want to move on.
I think either Arya or Jaime will kill Cersei. Maybe Jaime will try to protect her, and gets killed first. Jon will kill Daenerys, but he won't be king. He'll go north of the Wall to the Wildlings.
So who will rule? Maybe Sansa and Tyrion. Stark and Lanister.
It's not what I would like to happen, though. Sansa has become Littlefinger Lite, and Tyrion likes his drink too much. She's as cold as a snake and would just completely dominate him.
I just think the foreshadowing when Jon and Tormund were talking might be the way it will go. Sort of like Paul in the Dune Series. Jon is too good for the game of thrones.
So, after last night, is GOT dead to you? If not, why not?
Tough one. I've declared fan bankruptcy after episode 3, so I'm mainly watching for the spectacle at this point and I'm ignoring the plot holes and the glaring inconsistencies, the simplifications, the shortcuts, the reduction of complex characters to mere caricatures of their former selves. I'm just curious to know how it will end (not gonna give up the show when there's only one episode left). They decided to go full "Dany the mad queen" mode, fine. I never liked show Dany anyway - arrogant, entitled, borderline. Some people seem surprised by her "sudden" change, I'm not really. The clues and hints of her madness were there all along, starting at season 1. While she'd somewhat kept a hold on her worst instincts till now, she just "snapped" in episode 5. I hope she gets what she deserves… she most certainly will.
I wouldn't rate this episode as low as episode 4 (which was really bad), the visuals were terrific and the scenes of destruction truly horrifying. But it'll never compare to the excellence of the first 3 seasons, and to the books, of course. Let's just hope Martin finishes the series and offers us the ending that we, readers and show watchers alike, deserve.
That's an interesting point. When/if Martin finishes the books, will he follow the series lead, or find his own way and possibly contradict the series? The latter might lead to greater sales . . .
No, it's not dead to me.
I know a lot of people have big problems with Daenerys going full on mad queen but it makes sense to me. Half the Targaryens go mad, and the signs were always there. She never had the stability and moral compass of Jon/Aegon. Vaserys was right, imo.
I was initially upset about Jaime's arc seeming to change, but on the other hand I understand how you can be so bonded to someone that if you know they're going to die alone you'd go to them, no matter what they've done, and the death of the Lannister twins in the keep is poetic, as is Sandor choosing to die in fire to kill his monster of a brother. I didn't need to see Cersei made to pay by having another Ninja moment with Arya or something.
I think a whole paper could be written about the sibling relationships in these books/show. Speaking of which, I got very emotional at the leave taking between Jaime and Tyrion.
I think my problem is really going to come next season. Poor Jon is going to have to kill Daenerys and I think they'll make him pay with his life. I get that he doesn't want it, I get that they'll make his life hell, but as was said, he'd make a good and wise ruler.
Maybe the showrunners, in addition to wanting to move on, thought that was too obviously the direction and wanted to shake things up and do something different. The problem for me is that anything else will be unsatisfactory. Sansa is Littlefinger Lite who betrayed her brother in an instant, Arya doesn't have the right skills, Tyrion, if he doesn't get killed, just makes too many mistakes. Who else is there? Bran? That's the solution?
My point would be, not that you can't explain character arcs or plot twists, but what happened to the subtle politics and wit of the first years? What happened to the careful pacing? It can't be that they were in a hurry to finish, they're making lots of money on this so why not spin it out?
My issue is that, personally, I'm not into big death scenes and lots of carnage, I want characters that evolve, at a human pace, and interact with other humans in a believable fashion.
They've spent ten years on this, and word is they have another project lined up. I'm sure HBO would have been happy to see it go on forever.
As to the carnage, people like to see extravagant set pieces like that, i.e. battles. Think of "Saving Private Ryan". Unless someone makes it real you don't really understand it. It's exciting, gets the pulse racing, and is cathartic. I like character driven movies too, but there's also room for the other kind, imo, although unlike me most of my women friends don't like them.
I also personally think some people need to be reminded what war is like on the ground, not only for innocent women, children, and other noncombatants, but for soldiers on the other side as well. All these whooping 20 and 30 somethings need a reality check.
Some people also need a reality check in terms of this to me inexplicable desire to be related to the aristocracy or royalty. I think of the conversation Bron had with the Lannister brothers: kill a couple of hundred, you get to be a Lord; kill thousands and tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, and you get to be King. Jon is a good fighter, but he hates war. That's the way it should be. It's the amoral Brons of the world who enjoy power and found lasting dynasties.
All good points, but we'll agree to differ on carnage-driven stories.
Your comment about 20 and 30 somethings reminds me of an episode of Big Bang Theory. All of the show's characters are dressed as super-heroes, on the way home from a party where they played at being strong and virtuous; they come on a scene, a group stealing car, that requires an heroic act, and they all turn and slink away. Easy to play-act, hard to act.
As to Bron and Jon, it's been said that the only man who should lead is the one who doesn't want the job. Isn't there a Roman that fits that description?
Do you mean Cincinnatus? He left his farm to take absolute power perhaps more than once at a time of extreme peril for the Republic, and when the crisis was over he gave up power and returned to his farm.
George Washington is in some ways a Cincinnatus like figure. He was so revered that there were even calls for him to become King, or at least to rule indefinitely, but he refused to serve longer and returned to his farm as well, if a more wealthy farm.
There is also the story that Claudius, hiding somewhere in the palace while Caligula was being assassinated was found by the Praetorians and forced to become Emperor. It may or may not be true. He could just as well have been plotting with them. He was the last adult male of the family, and Caligula was mad as a hatter. Sounds familiar, I guess.
Have you read "I, Claudius" ? If you haven't, it's a lot of fun even if a lot of it is probably exaggerated.
I suppose you could also say something like that of Marcus Aurelius. From childhood he was destined for the purple, and yet he supposedly didn't want or perhaps was even afraid of the life of pomp at the imperial court. You would expect that of someone whom you could call a Stoic.
My husband still has and reads his university copy of "The Meditations".
To me, there's no way Martin will follow the series lead. The show has diverged so much from the books at this point - some characters are dead in the series and not in the books, some have been completely omitted (Lady Stoneheart, Arianne Martell, Aegon/Young Griff, to name a few), Sansa's storyline has been completely changed, etc. – and though Martin apparently gave D&D a very general idea of the direction of the story, I'm sure we're gonna read something completely different when/if the books come out, something that will make much better sense than what we're seeing now. It's obvious that the show runners wanted to move on, that's why the final season looks so rushed and lacks all the complexity, character development, political games and twists that are precisely what define Martin's books and why we love those books (and the early seasons). In an interview, Martin said he was sad about how D&D will end the series… Here's the full quote (https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/1123230/Game-of-Thrones-George-RR-Martin-HBO-ending-books-change-differences-Iron-Throne-die).
"Some storylines and characters have continued to diverge from the books and Martin has been more vocal about the subject recently, telling Rolling Stone: "Of course you have an emotional reaction. I mean, would I prefer they do it exactly the way I did it? Sure.
In another frank chat this week with Fast Company he revealed: "It can also be... traumatic. Because sometimes their creative vision and your creative vision don't match, and you get the famous creative differences thing — that leads to a lot of conflict. Martin revealed one of his greatest frustrations: "You get totally extraneous things like the studio or the network weighing in, and they have some particular thing that has nothing to do with story, but relates to 'Well this character has a very high Q Rating so let's give him a lot more stuff to do.'"The author had previously said he would have liked the show to run across more series, to give all his complex storylines room. Instead, the HBO team entirely removed some characters or reassigned storylines.
Martin said: "The series has been... not completely faithful. Otherwise, it would have to run another five seasons."
In the new interview he added: "You know, it's complex. I'm a little sad, actually. I wish we had a few more seasons."
If you read between the lines, it's obvious that Martin is quite bitter about the series' ending and what D&D and HBO have done to his story.
Re, Jaime: I agree with Angela about the apparent change of Jaime's arc being upsetting at first. It seemed out of character for Jaime, given how much he'd changed from Season 1. I was pretty sure his aim in coming to K's landing was to kill Cersei, but after watching the episode and their final scene together, it makes sense to me too that he should choose to reunite with his twin at the very end. Seeing her so helpless and lost, well I almost felt sad for her! Actually, I did feel sad - forgetting for a moment that she was always a monster. That scene was quite moving.
Anyway, brace yourselves! Finale is coming.
Dibran
Actually, while the story leading up to the end will be different in the books, Martin has openly stated the ending to this series will be the same as the book, with the difference being the fate of secondary characters, and story beats to how he reachs that end. Sadly I read the leaks for episode 5 and 6 a month ago. Episode 5 was 80 percent correct. This suggests the claims that the final episode would be shakespearan tragedy coupled with a Sopranos style cut to black may be true. It will kill half its fan base in the process. Guaranteed. You never end the show too open ended that you provide no closure. It appears to be exactly what we are going to get.
I am hopeful the long night series will be better than this final season, including the second spinoff thats currently in the writing stage. Focused on the fire and blood book, which is a targaryen story from Aegons conquest up to roberts rebellion. It would be interesting if that spinoff covers all that ground up to the rebellion.
Actually, while the story leading up to the end will be different in the books, Martin has openly stated the ending to this series will be the same as the book, with the difference being the fate of secondary characters, and story beats to how he reachs that end.
Yes, that's what I meant. I didn't mean it will necessarily be different in terms of outcome, but in terms of how it will all happen. Because yes, it's highly probable that Cersei will die but how she will die will hopefully be different in the books, if Martin sticks to the Valonqar prophecy. Yes, we know he tends to subvert prophecies, but up to now, all that Cersei was told by the witch when she was a teen came to pass (in the show… we can expect it'll be the same in the books, regarding Myrcella and Tommen and her being replaced by a more beautiful, younger queen… Sansa?) Dany going mad and destroying KL is also probable. There's been enough foreshadowing about that.
But at least with Martin, we'll get to follow the characters' respective journeys instead of (both literally and figuratively) being teleported from point A to point B without any organic and natural progression.
And we can expect all the characters' arcs to be resolved in a satisfying way. (Bran's arc, for ie, is a disaster in the show).
Shakespearean tragedy is the right analogy, I think, although none of this, books or series is on the artistic level of that. Take someone who has never seen one of those plays to a production of Lear, or Hamlet, or Othello, or even Romeo and Juliet. The good die either through human mistakes, or stupid chance, or the machinations of the evil, and at the end you're looking at the survivors standing in a field of ruin.
Or look at Greek tragedies. The Trojan Women, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, all of them really. The "hero" who is willing to sacrifice all, atone for all, dies.
Human history is a Shakespearean tragedy, I think.
How does Hamlet end? When he was napping, his brother Claudius poured a poison into this ear which caused his skin to develop horrible sores. He dies a victim of his brother's betrayal.
Lear is betrayed by almost everyone. At the end he says to Cordelia:
"No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison:
We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage:
When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down,
And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,
Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;
And take upon's the mystery of things,
As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out,
In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones,
That ebb and flow by the moon."
It's a pipe dream: they're going to prison, and Jon and Igrit or Jon and the old Dany can't flee the world for some hidden paradise.
In a way it's good to know that however it ends, and however much of a disservice the show runners may have done to subplots and characters (probably indeed mandated by studio executives) and rushed the ending, much to my dismay as to everyone else's, this is the way Martin saw the ending. He was aiming at a grand tragedy, not just another fantasy series where the hero wins.
In real life, in classical tragedy, the hero never wins. The wheel is never broken because the wheel is formed by human nature. Think of the wheel of life in eastern religions. It is formed by "wanting". As long as you live, you want, you are on that wheel. Only when you evolve to not "want" anymore can you stop the suffering by ceasing to be reborn and thus finally getting off the wheel.
When Daenerys says she wants to break the wheel, she means to stop the constant reshuffling of royal houses. How will she do that? By putting herself at the head. Even were she not a Targaryen, with mental instability, absolute power corrupts absolutely. That's no solution.
Okay, here is my theory on how Danny dies, one day ahead off the last episode airing. Danny and Jon confront each other; Danny demands absolute loyalty and Jon won't give it. Danny tells her last dragon to fry Jon. The dragon, understanding better than anyone else who the real heir to the throne is, refuses and fries Danny instead. Jon, reluctantly, assumes the throne.
Ownstyler
Even with the unbelievably superficial "twists" they have introduced this year, this one seems to absurd for me. If they develop such a scenario, maybe Drogon will fry him but Jon survives since Targaryens seem to be immune to fire in the series. Also, if lore means anything anymore, note that Targaryens have been killed by the dragons on several occasions.
I am just hoping to see Nymeria again (unlikely) and have Bran do something.
I don't think Jon will take the throne, he'll probably go back to the North (and finally get to pet Ghost!!). Dany will die / be murdured and Sansa or someone else will reign over Westeros. BTW, be careful if you don't want to be spoiled: the script of the finale has leaked online.
So after plastic coffee drinks
In winterfell they had discover also water bottles
https://imagevars.gulfnews.com/2019/05/20/Water-Bottle-GOT-1558338448295_16ad435aba7_original-ratio.jpg
Jovialis
I really liked last night's episode. I can't wait for the prequel.
Goes to show how different we all are.
I wish I'd never watched any of Season 6, but especially this last episode. That way, my memories of Game of Thrones would be fond ones.
Beyond terrible, imo.
In another thread there is a discussion about who the best Roman emperors were. How do we think Bran will do as King? A little detached and other-worldly to attend to the day-to-day needs of rule, don't you think?
Well, detached is the word, don't you think? Looked like two minutes with the council and then off to go to la la land.
Even Robert Baratheon spent more time on matters of state than that.
I hated the whole thing. Why would anyone think a hereditary oligarchy is that much better than a hereditary kingship? Most of the real life, historical examples usually deteriorated into internal wars. Plus, the interaction of the members of the small council, especially with BRON on it, of all people, didn't inspire me with much confidence that really good decisions would be made.
Maybe part of my reaction to Bran as King is that the actor gives what I think are terrible performances. The only thing I see on his face is smug satisfaction. I wanted to smack him. :)
Perhaps I was on to something with my theory of the tragic hero. They really threw Jon under the bus. He goes off into exile, and these mediocre people are left in charge.
Or maybe HBO just wants to milk the franchise as much as it can and forced certain things on the writers. In addition to a prequel, can't you just see a whole "Arya" series? I'll be giving that one a pass. Or how about this one? They muck everything up in Westeros, so Jon has to come back riding Drogon to straighten it all out. The possibilities are now endless.
I yelled at the screen when they came up with that stupid let's send Jon to the Knight's Watch. :) What Knight's Watch? There are no knights there. Was he supposed to camp out there like a hermit? Even if there were some ex-Knights there, what would be their function? What would be HIS function? There's a huge freaking chunk down. How are they going to keep anyone out? The Wildings don't even want to be south of it. In another bit of stupidity they have Jon and the Wildings going out the gate. Just go out the huge missing chunk for goodness' sakes. Not everyone has forgotten it came down.
Maybe I'm too logical for this stuff. Sometimes it seemed like the writers forgot what happened in prior scenes.
Didn't Diocletian try "something" like an hereditary oligarchy with the tetrarchy? It worked out just as you might think it would. However, when I complain about illogic in a show with dragons and the undead, my wife just laughs at me.
Wheal
I haven't seen any of this season, and I have to say, the books were much better than the series. On another note, I just returned from a trip to Ireland and was able to visit the Game of Thrones Touring Exhibition. It was very interesting.
There are conventions in certain kinds of literature which you either like or don't like, don't you think?
I'm a great fan of South American fiction, which contains many elements of what they call "magical realism". Or, there are fables/allegories like the "Chronicles of Narnia". Going in you have to accept that these are magical worlds.
However, they're not "illogical" worlds. Even the "magical" creatures or "events" have to follow the "rules" of logic.
Some people like it; after all, Marquez got himself a Nobel Prize for literature.
Some people hate it.
I like it; my husband hates it, and GOT. I tell him it's a failure of imagination and an inability to see beyond the surface of things. :) All in good humor, of course. :)
The thing is, if something, book, movie, television show, is well done, I'm up for almost every genre. He's not. I often watch things like Bruce Willis movies with him. There's no way he's going to watch yet another Jane Austen movie.:)
On the other hand I don't like certain kinds of fantasy i.e. The Marvel comic book heroes stuff. I've tried to watch it, but it's torture. Yet he'll watch that.
It takes all kinds to make the world, right?
season 8 is just a fast, (come on, lets finish it) very bad screenplay, and very cheap production, not to use another word,
they should put a fine in the production managers and teams, and specially screenmakers,
Catapults outside wall? whos idea was this?
The breach is in a different part of the Wall, at Eastwatch, a hundred miles from Castle Black (which is where Jon went back to at the end). I gathered that he (and Ghost!) left to live beyond the Wall with the Free Folk. The outcome for each character is satisfying to me, if only the story had been told better, in a less rushed manner which leave so many questions unanswered. Oh well. Bittersweet indeed.
There will be no sequels. Martin and HBO have confirmed as much. Everyones moving onto other projects and only 2 prequels are confirmed. One is filming its pilot(the long night) with the working title of Bloodmoon. Based in the age of heroes. Already casted and filming this summer. Second in the writing stage is based on the 2018 novel fire & blood which chronicles Aegons conquest up to roberts rebellion if im not mistaken. It remains to be seen whether that series will cover all that ground or only a section of it.
Also The ending in the show is exactly the ending we will get in the books, obviously with vastly different and better written plot device making sense of those final close outs. Martin already said in an interview that Bran/3ER would be the best king given his abilities. Additionally, its not really his acting. The 3ER is almost robotic, and so when he became him his soul was lost, Bran no more.
While horribly executed, the finale did have a few strong moments. Drogon burning the throne. To me(due the maesters saying they're smarter than humans) Drogon knew the throne is what corrupted his mother and led to her demise. This is why he spared Jon, not because hes a targaryen.
Jon wasn't really exiled in a literal sense. If you notice when he rides beyond the wall, the wildlings have their things packed as if a migrating party. Jon looks back at the gate one last time, and notices plants growing in the snow covered forest, and smirks. This is in some poorly written way showing he is happy beyond the wall and feels accomplished. Spring comes, along with an everlasting Summer. This means the land north of the wall will become lush and habitable again, eventually growing rich with game. I took it as Jon and the wildlings migrating to form a new people in new and uncharted northern regions, including the land of always winter(maybe now always summer? lol).
Its obvious they set out to have powerful moments but completely mishandled their execution. You just have to head cannon the aftermath to fill in the blanks.
Knut85
I´ve never seen game of thrones so far ...
Efrain Garve
Goooosh, Euron is my #love !
I think you should do it :) you won't regret I promise
Last seasons were too disappointing.
Yes, a complete sociopath. What a role model.


Also, if anyone is interested in helping with subbing I can make a tutorial or something: no need to have any kind of experience .-.
^ Many thanks to Varete and all who were involved!
Can you guys subtitle the webradio shows of Kajiura-san for elemental ? I am curious as to what she says for each song.
The interview has already been subbed.
But I can help if we're doing our own.
The youtube channel died, can you reupload some of the interviews, aki?


A 21 gun salute was fired across the Pool of London on Tuesday evening to mark the 100th anniversary of the first full day of World War One in 1914.
The salute, with rounds discharged at one minute intervals by the Honourable Artillery Company from Tower Wharf at sunset, was to honour the dead of the four year conflict with Germany.
River navigation was paused just before the first round echoed across the water at 9.10pm.
Meanwhile, actor Tim Pigott-Smith, standing among poppies in the Tower of London moat, began reading aloud 140 names of the war dead. The reading and salute was followed by the sounding of the Last Post on a single bugle.
The growing ceramic poppy installation Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red in the moat is a collaboration between artist Paul Cummins and stage designer Tom Piper.
The reading of names will continue daily until November when the number of poppies should have grown to 888,246. Each one represents a military fatality.
As Tuesday's ceremony came to an end spectators could see the pillar of light rising behind City Hall and The Shard. The huge 'candle', first seen on Monday at the close of the Lights Out hour marking the centenary of the declaration war, is being beamed upwards nightly from Victoria Tower Gardens until Sunday.
Spectra, as the light installation by Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda is called, has been commissioned by Mayor of London Boris Johnson and WW1 Centenary Art Commissions.


Michelle Kydd Lee is one of the women who first declared Time's Up and helped start the movement.
Amplifying the Truth: When former Vice President Al Gore visited the CAA office to give a slideshow on climate change, Kydd Lee made sure there was a filmmaker, producer and financers in the audience. That's where An Inconvenient Truth began. "We just added rocket fuel to the movement," she says. Not to mention an Academy Award.
MICHELLE KYDD LEE: My father wanted to make sure that I was a leader and not a follower. I cannot tell you how many times we heard that phrase, be a leader, not a follower. And now as a parent myself, I understand what that's all about, which is, don't follow those bozos. Do your own thing and be your own person. But ultimately it was a great mantra, because it actually defined things really quickly for me, which is, there's two positions. Choose the front. Go. So, I tried to do that.
MICHELLE KYDD LEE: Here's what I love about the community that I work in. It's really about, do you have great ideas, and do you have a great work ethic? That's really what matters. It doesn't matter where you went to school. It doesn't matter who your parents are. What matters here is, how good are your ideas, and how much work are you going to put behind it?
MICHELLE KYDD LEE: The best advice I ever got was to be myself and not try to pretend to be anybody else. Because, in the long run, people are going to find out anyway, so just start with who you really are. That was good advice.
MICHELLE KYDD LEE: Men have the great privilege of being a part of making history. And making history means seeing women through the light of complete equals. I am surrounded by great friends, and great coworkers, and colleagues who feel the same way. And my great hope is that other women get the same opportunity that I have.


Concerning the uncertainties may be existed in DC motor servo system and the control quality that the external disturbance may influence the control algorithm of traditional PID, a kind of PID control algorithm based on grey prediction theory was proposed. With the grey theory's processing ability on the unknown information data, the algorithm established the grey model for the uncertainties, and real-time compensated the system's unmodelled feature and disturbance signal, thus improving the control precision. The simulation result can show that the proposed PID control algorithm based on grey prediction theory can effectively predict and compensate the unmodelled feature and disturbance signal in DC motor servo system and improve the control precision of the controller, thus providing the theoretical basis for the industrial application of PID control algorithm based on grey prediction theory.


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Artists Acres
An Artist's Legacy
Women Wearin Pants
Letter to Bill Gates
Recollections & Reflections
Biography & Honors
Selected Solo Exhibitions
History of Artists Acres
Englewood Links
Lois Bartlett Tracy Studio
Artists Acres Grounds
A History of Artists Acres
Englewood, that charming town on Florida's west coast, 29 miles south of Sarasota, bids fair to become Florida's outstanding artists' Colony. For Lois Bartlett Tracy, nationally-known artist and her husband, Harry e. Tracy, have founded Artistss' Acres for the artists' colony they hope to develop (and will, we know) on their beautifully wooded 80-acre tract. Here, all creative workers, be they painterse, etchers or pencil pushers, be they writers, or workers in any of the far-flung creative arts, will be welcome as members of this artists' Colony.
At a modest price, the prospective dweller in this artists' Arcadia may purchase an acre, well-wooded and adaptable for the raising of fruit, flowers and children. Just three miles to the beautiful shell beaches on the Gulf of Mexico and half a mile to Lemon Bay with its oysters, clams and scallops for the gathering, it is an ideal place for those that not only work in creative fields, but those who work to be able to work at their often non-sheckle-gathering profession. For here where it's summer all the year round, the creative worker can build a modest studio and live to work or work to live.
Mr. and Mrs. Tracy are no new hands or minds in the creation of an artists' colony. For years, they conducted "Tall Timbers" at Sanbornton, N.H. Here the creative artists, art student or non-painting member of the family found in the farm house and cottages, an opportunity to live and paint in one of the most beautiful spots in New England. Here the artists found in the companionship of their fellow artists not only pleasure, but stimulation in their work.
Unfortunately for those who spent many pleasant weeks at "Tall Timbers" the art colony that was different, it was destroyed by a forest fire in '47.
Ever since the loss of their colony the Tracys have been searching for a location for the new artists' Colony, which they hoped would succeed "Tall Timbers."
Having spent many years in the Venice Area before Lois Bartlett Tracy attained national fame as an artist, Mrs. Tracy decided to return to her home of her first love. The Tracys were rewarded by finally locating the ideal tract for their Artists' Acres. And so the town of England finds itself in the artists' spotlight in the country as being the first of the artists' Colonies to be established in Florida.
Lois Bartlett Tracy was born in Jackson, Mich., but came to Florida as a child. She was graduated from Rollins' college, Winter Park in 1929. Interested in art since childhood, she devoted her time to painting and etching. Her fame as an artist began to spread and soon after her graduation from Rollins her exhibitions at the Central Florida Fair, Southern States Art League and Florida Federation of Art immediately brought her to the attention of art critics throughout the country. She was one of ten artists who represented Florida in the first national exhibit at Rockefeller Center, and her works have been shown at the Great Lakes Exhibition and the New York World's Fair.
Mrs. Tracy's first one-man, or rather one-woman, show was held at the Stuidio Guild in New York, and she had one-man shows at the Norlyst Gallery in New York and in other galleries throughout the country.
The Swope Museum, Terre Haute, Ind., the Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, O., and the High Museum, Atlanta, GA., have been amongst the forty or more museums throughout the country which have exhibited her paintings.
A current exhibition of her paintings is being held at the headquarters of the Florida Writers' Colony in Venice.
Mrs. Tracy was president of the New Hampshire Art Association and is a member of the Pen and Brush Club of New York, and the National Association of Women Painters.
By Joseph Lawren
Literary Florida
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"School children on a field trip to Mack Nugget's farm save the lives of eight turkeys in this poem based on 'The Night Before Christmas'."
"With Thanksgiving only one day away, can Turkey find a place to hide from the farmer who's looking for a plump bird for his family feast?Maybe he can hide with the pigs . . . or the ducks . . . or the horses . . .Uh-oh! Here comes the farmer!Run, Turkey, run!"
"Mr. and Mrs. Moose invite all their animal friends for Thanksgiving dinner and the only one missing is Turkey. When they set out to find him, Turkey is quaking with fear because he doesn't realize that his hosts want him at their table, not on it."
I'm very hungry; I eat all day.
Then I know it's time to run.
Turkey on the table, what do you say?
Have you ever seen a turkey?
Have you ever seen a turkey, a turkey, a turkey?
Have you ever seen a turkey with feathers so bright?
We walk very proudly and gobble so loudly.
Read one of the Turkey books and then play the "Where is Mr. Turkey Game?" (similar to the game hot and cold). Have child leave the room and then hide the turkey (the turkey can be a small printout on paper, or it could be a small stuffed animal turkey, or turkey figurine etc...--use whatever you have) When the child returns to the room, give clues by gobbling softly when he/she is far away from the turkey and gobbling loudly when close. Once the turkey is found, let your child take a turn hiding Mr. Turkey, while you leave the room.
You may want to copy and paste the images into a word document to make them smaller, so you can fit four on a page. Read "A Turkey For Thanksgiving" by Eve Bunting. Lay the animal pictures on the floor or table and have your child pick out the animals that were at the Thanksgiving feast in the story. Refer back to the pages in the book if you need to.
Read a book together and then make a yummy turkey snack, using an apple for the body, 8 toothpicks (1 for the neck and 4 for the feathers, and 3 for the base so the apple is balanced), 1 Large Marshmallow for the head, a candy corn for the beak and two small candies or chocolate chips, or raisins for the eyes. You'll also need some finger food for the feathers. Here are some ideas: grapes, cheese cubes, banana slices, cheerios, fruit loops, raisins, mini Marshmallows or any other finger food that can be stacked or pierced through a toothpick easily. You can also use gumdrops if you want a candy version.
Set out the finger food items in small bowls or on a plate, ready to go, before hand. It is safer to have the toothpicks already poked into the apple, ready to decorate, before calling your child over to the table. ***Make sure that you are extremely attentive during this activity so that no one gets hurt with the toothpicks. When putting the eyes and beak on, it helps to pinch out and remove a little piece of the large marshmallow, so the candy can be pushed into the marshmallow and stay in place.
Read one of the book titles above and make your own turkey. I like this activity because even though it is a little more product oriented, the kids can still show their own creativity decorating the feathers.
Cut out six feathers, each of a different color paper. For the body, head, and feet you will need some brown, yellow, and red construction paper, and some googly eyes. Using brown paper, cut out a pear shaped head and a large circle for the body (I traced a pot lid). Cut out a triangle beak and some bird feet out of the yellow paper, and a turkey wattle out of the red. Do all of this in advance. Set out a variety of art supplies (crayons, markers, glue, glitter, sequins, buttons, scrapes of paper, tissue paper, ribbon, paint, scissors).
Encourage your child to make each feather unique and different from the others. I had my kids choose one feather at a time to work on. With younger children you will have to help guide them through each feather and the choices they have for materials to use. If using glitter, set the feather on top of a paper plate to catch the stray glitter. After decorating all five feathers, set aside to dry.
Have your child assemble their turkey body, gluing the head, legs, beak, wattle, and eyes.
When feathers are dry(or mostly dry), tape feathers on the back of the turkey body.
Read one of the turkey stories and then have fun making mini turkeys. This activity is also a little more product oriented. The focus should be on the process of stamping and painting with a sponge. If your child wants to help assemble the turkey later, great. Here are the supplies you'll need: 1 large craft stick, 1 popsicle stick cut in half, 1 sponge, 1 paper plate cut in half, Tempera Paint (orange, red, yellow, green, and brown), googly eyes, tiny scrapes of felt or colored paper (colors:red, yellow, and black), glue and scissors.
Paint the craft stick and popsicle stick in advance so your child can just assemble later.
Cut out a tiny hat, beak, and wattle out of your felt or colored paper. Cut a sponge into small pieces,so they are easier to hold and so you can have one for each color paint.
Using green, brown, orange, and red paint, let your child dip the sponge pieces into the paint and stamp their paper plate.
Once they have covered the paper plate with a neat sponge texture of colors, set aside to let dry.
Once dry, cut the edge of the plate to resemble a fan of feathers.
Tape the popsicle stick legs to the back of the feathers. Attach the turkey face, hat and stick body to the paper plate feathers using glue.
That's neat the way you used the paper plate!!


Got 20 minutes and want to get the kid's into something creative? There is a bit of cutting involved in this one so they'll need some 'grown up' help but I'm sure you will agree this sweet little project is worth a bit of your time.
Have the kids draw a house on paper then, depending on their age, they can cut around the edge and you help with the windows (a scalpel would save a lot of time here). They can embellish however they like with colouring in, pasting patterned paper and other bits and pieces on, adding glitter – whatever they like!
Then all you need to do is attach to the window with double sided tape. You could also use contact instead of paper for the house then stick the whole thing to the window for a more permanent option.


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The title sounds like something you would get in your all night student haven but what you are reading is absolutely right scientist have created a one of a kind machine that makes wine.
The latest invention is still in its early day but already tried and tested the formula has proven to work. So how does this little beauty work? "Nonstop wine" might sound like something too good to be true, but it's not—this is something far more promising and cutting edge. Iowa State University professor and self-professed "wine connoisseur" Daniel Attinger has developed what he calls a "micro winery" which can continuously ferment and produce wine at the rate of one millilitre per hour.
So what is the purpose of the machine? Many would guess that its wine forever, this isn't quite the case. The machine is designed to give winemakers a better understanding of the fermentation process and fine tune it to the climates of the world. The results should in theory and practise help global wine manufacturing.
A good example of this is let's say a winemaker in Switzerland finds a certain type of yeast or a certain fermentation temperature leads to an overly bitterly wine, with the machine test, this could be quickly carried out to find an alternative. With traditional wine making this is a process that takes week to achieve as the yeast is mixed and would need to separate from the wine.
Using Daniel Attinger machine the process would merely take a few hours and the wine would be ready. The process will help winemakers around the world have a better understanding of the hundreds of yeast available commercially to aid them in the manufacture of wine.
So the question remains is this wine drinkable? Philippe Renaud a scientist working on the micro winery project joked "that it was more of a gimmick". So the process sees wine being made quickly and in abundance could this lead to a domestic appliance being made commercially available for all to have at home? The thought of impressing your friends with homemade wine named Chateau Big Paul or The Blonde BombShell ?
Leading wine merchants Atalay from Moncharm, London explained "the idea is fabulous and a major breakthrough in helping those producing wines, but like anything traditional the original is always the best and the novelty could wear off". Atalay added "Like any fad it comes along and soon after fades away, an original always reigns supreme".
So before we run out to buy one let's wait to hear what the wine experts and consumers say when it comes to machine manufactured wine.


A group of Spain's leading artists and intellectuals, along with prominent ex-political leaders, have signed an open letter calling on the country's parties to do everything in their power to avoid a third national election in Spain within a year.
The 47 signatories, whose political affinities range from the Socialist Party (PSOE) to the conservative Popular Party (PP) as well the upstart Ciudadanos, include six ex-ministers under Socialist governments and one ex-minister under the PP.
Writer Fernando Savater and former NATO secretary general Javier Solana are also on the list of individuals who are saying that "the priority" for Spain right now is getting a new government up and running.
"The time has come to seek agreements and solutions, instead of remaining obsessed with finding culprits to assign unassignable blame to," reads the letter, which is also signed by historian Santos Juliá and film director Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón.
"All leaders and parties should know that they have already competed against each other at the polls on two occasions, and that they are under the obligation to make all efforts and sacrifices necessary, including the most personal ones, to end this untenable, government-less situation," ends the letter.
Spain has been under a caretaker government since the original election of December 20, which yielded a hung parliament. Attempts at cross-party negotiations were mostly fruitless, and the only candidate who stepped up for the prime minister's job, the Socialist Pedro Sánchez, was voted down at an investiture vote in Congress. The acting prime minister, Mariano Rajoy of the PP, declined to bid for the post as he knew that he lacked congressional support.
This pushed the country into a fresh election which was held on June 26. The PP conservatives won the most seats again, but fell short of a parliamentary majority once more.
With the country's legislative activity at a standstill for over half a year, and Brussels pressuring Madrid to meet its deficit reduction commitments, King Felipe VI has given Rajoy one week to produce an agreement that will enable him to form a government.
But so far, leaders seem to have done little to bridge the political divides. The Socialist Party and the anti-austerity Podemos, who once seemed on the verge of forming an alternative leftist coalition that would have made Sánchez the prime minister, are now increasingly distanced from one another.
Neither party has made the slightest effort to reach out to the other following the June 26 election. Instead, both party leaders are blaming one another for the fact that the PP will very likely hold on to power in La Moncloa if he manages support from Ciudadanos and a few regional parties, and gets the rest to at least abstain from voting against him at the investiture vote that is due to be held in the coming weeks.
Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias said on Tuesday that he thinks the Socialists will help Rajoy into office by abstaining at the run-off of that vote. "The decision is up to them. They will have to decide whether, through their abstention, they make Mariano Rajoy the prime minister," he said earlier this week.
Meanwhile, the PP is seeking to convince the reform party Ciudadanos, which had previously reached a deal with the PSOE following the first elections, to support Rajoy in order to avoid a leftist government that, it claims, would be destabilizing for Spain.
But Ciudadanos, which began life as a Catalan non-nationalist party and defends the unity of Spain, is wary of the PP's apparent deals with the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) and the Catalan Convergència.


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Daughters of York
For more than five centuries, the world has wondered, "What happened to the Princes in the Tower?" Rarely do we ever ask, "What about their sisters?"
Whether they were murdered by their uncle, who became King Richard III, or by their brother-in-law, who became King Henry VII, or happened to die naturally with immaculate timing, the little King Edward V and his younger brother Richard Duke of York have been the subject of one of history's ultimate unsolved mysteries. With the exception of their eldest sister, Elizabeth of York, who is a barely more than a footnote in the biographies of her husband and son (Henry VII and VIII) respectively, we hear almost nothing about their sisters. Despite this, we do know quite a bit about their lives.
The daughters of the Yorkist King Edward IV and his wife Elizabeth Woodville were plentiful: Elizabeth (1466-1503), Mary (1467-1482), Cecily (1469-1507), Margaret (b. and d. 1472), Anne (1475-1511), Catherine (1479-1527) and Bridget (1480-1517). Had they been boys, there would have been a LOT of princes in the Tower to be murdered!
Elizabeth Woodville
Their story starts as a love story between their parents. Elizabeth Woodville's first husband Sir John Grey had died fighting for the Lancastrians before she caught the eye of the Yorkist heir. She already had two sons, when Edward of York won his throne and then secretly married her. Some said, he was already contracted to marry someone else, and it was upon this basis that all of his children by Elizabeth would later be declared illegitimate. Despite the constant political and military turmoil of the ongoing Wars of the Roses, Elizabeth and Edward had a fruitful marriage, producing 10 children in 14 years. (A third son, George Duke of Bedford, died at age 2).
Despite his reputation as a soldier, Edward grew increasingly subject to illness and succumbed to natural causes (pneumonia? typhoid?) shortly before his 41st birthday. One of his final acts was to name his trusted brother, Richard Duke of Gloucester, as the Protector for his young son and heir. While little Edward was taken to live in the royal castle known as the Tower of London, Queen Elizabeth's father and one of her Grey sons were taken prisoner for attempts to monopolize power. Elizabeth gathered all of her daughters and the little Duke of York and fled into sanctuary. Gloucester soon accused her of plotting his murder and had several of her allies, including her father and son, executed.
When he demanded that the Duke of York be sent to keep his brother company, she had no choice but to let him go. He also enticed the former Queen and her daughters to come out of sanctuary and live instead under house arrest, eventually bringing some of the girls to court to serve as ladies in waiting to his wife Queen Anne Neville. Meanwhile he had Edward IV's marriage declared invalid based on witness testimony that he had been contracted to someone else when he married Elizabeth Woodville. This meant that all of his children were now considered bastards.
Elizabeth of York:
daughter, sister, niece, wife & mother of kings
Elizabeth was an ambitious woman and she soon found her equal in Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry Tudor, a Lancastrian claimant to the throne. The mothers agreed that Elizabeth's oldest daughter would marry Henry, if he could secure the throne. The young man, defeated Richard (who was killed) at the Battle of Bosworth and declared himself King Henry VII by right of conquest, but solidified his claim by marrying Princess Elizabeth, who by now, was generally thought to be the Yorkist heir due to the disappearance of her brothers. She went on to be immortalized with her portrait on playing cards. She also is best remembered as the mother of the much-married King Henry VIII, although she produced a total of eight children. Her last child died about a week after her birth and Elizabeth followed her the next day having succumbed to infection caused by the birth. It was her 37th birthday.
The second York sister, Mary, had died a year before their father, at the age of 15. Daughter #3, named Cecily for Edward IV's mother, was married off by her uncle to one of his supporters, Ralph Scrope, but it was annulled when her brother-in-law seized the crown. Henry VII married her off to one his supporters, his uncle John Welles 1st Viscount Welles. The couple had two daughters who died young, but their marriage seems to have been happy. After Welles' untimely death, she chose her third husband for herself, a country Squire named Thomas Kyme and lived the rest of her life in relative obscurity. She appears to have had children by Kyme, but the records are rather sketchy and, if they existed, they certainly never took up life at the royal court. She died at age 38.
The fourth York sister, Margaret, died at just eight months old but the fifth sister Anne survived the tumultuous reigns of her father and uncle to be married to Thomas Howard, to whom she had been betrothed by King Richard. After Richard's defeat and death, Howard was not about to lose his claim on marrying a royal princess (since the York children's legitimacy had been re-established so that their oldest sister could marry King Henry.) Henry allowed the wedding. Anne died at age 36, having outlived any children they had, and Thomas remarried. He became very famous indeed as the 3rd Duke of Norfolk; he was the uncle of two of King Henry VIII's unfortunate wives, the two who were beheaded, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.
Five daughters of Edward IV on a stained glass window:
Elizabeth, Cecily, Anne, Katherine & Mary of York
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Le tabac est un produit psychotrope manufacturé élaboré à partir de feuilles séchées de plantes de tabac commun (Nicotiana tabacum), une espèce originaire d'Amérique appartenant au genre botanique Nicotiana (famille : Solanaceae).

L'usage du tabac s'est largement répandu dans le monde entier à la suite de la découverte de l'Amérique. Sa commercialisation est promue par l'industrie du tabac (monopole d'État dans certains pays) et soumise à des taxes qui varient fortement selon les pays.

Le tabac cause une forte dépendance et sa consommation est responsable de près de 6 millions de décès par an dans le monde dont  sont des non-fumeurs exposés à la fumée (tabagisme passif). De nombreuses maladies sont liées au tabagisme (maladies cardiovasculaires et cancers, entre autres).

Production

Les Nicotiana sont des plantes néotropicales nitrophiles, originaires des régions chaudes et nécessitant un sol riche en humus. La température et la nature des sols jouent un rôle prépondérant sur les propriétés du tabac : la culture ne peut s'effectuer qu'entre des températures allant de , et avec une hygrométrie voisine de 70 %.

Culture

Les pathogènes spécifiques à la plante incluent : le virus de la gravure du tabac, le virus de la mosaïque du tabac et le virus A de la nécrose du tabac.

Les ravageurs incluent : la noctuelle orientale du tabac, le thrips du tabac et de l'oignon.

Traitement

Le séchage à l'air chaud est la principale méthode ; il nécessite environ une semaine ( Effets sur l'environnement).

Composition
La composition du tabac est complexe : sa fumée contient environ  chimiques, dont 250 sont dangereux pour la santé et 50 sont reconnus cancérigènes.

Dans la plante fraiche de Nicotiana tabacum, on trouve un mélange d'alcaloïdes composés de 93 % de (S)-nicotine, 3,9 % de (S)-anatabine, de 2,4 % de (S)-nornicotine, et de 0,5 % de (S)-anabasine.

Lors de sa croissance, la plante absorbe plusieurs produits radioactifs, qu'on retrouve dans la fumée, le filtre et moindrement le papier des cigarettes ou des bidis, puis dans les poumons, via l'inhalation de la fumée. On y trouve des traces de thorium, polonium et d'uranium. Le polonium du tabac engendre le plus de radioactivité inhalée.

L' a montré, en , que les « majors » de l'industrie du tabac, Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, British American Tobacco, ont volontairement caché au public, depuis les années 1960, la présence dans les cigarettes de polonium 210, une substance hautement cancérigène, utilisée pour l'assassinat de l'espion Alexandre Litvinenko. Une des explications de cette présence de produits radioactifs dans le tabac est l'utilisation fréquente aux États-Unis d'engrais à base d'apatites, utilisés pour donner une saveur spécifique au tabac ; le tabac produit dans certains pays en développement peut ainsi avoir jusqu'à un tiers de radioactivité en moins que celui cultivé aux États-Unis. Une étude de 1975 a constaté qu'une variété du nord du Bengale contenait moins de radon et de polonium.

L'industrie du tabac ajoute des additifs (arômes, sucres, humidifiants) dans le tabac de cigarettes, notamment des composés d'ammoniac qui modifient le pH de la nicotine (plus alcalin), en facilitent l'absorption tout en renforçant la dépendance à celle-ci (ouverture plus importante des récepteurs à la dopamine).

Consommation

Le tabac est consommé principalement fumé sous forme de cigares, de cigarettes, à l'aide d'une pipe ou d'un narguilé ; il peut aussi être mâché (chiqué), sucé (snus) ou prisé.

Au début du , le tabac est cultivé et consommé sur tous les continents. Les progrès techniques et industriels font évoluer sa production et la consommation de cigarettes supplante dès lors la chique, la prise, la pipe et le cigare. En 1880, il est vendu cent millions de cigarettes dans le monde, en 1900 un milliard de cigarettes. Sa consommation se diffuse massivement au milieu du  avec l'essor de la publicité. En 1940,  de cigarettes sont vendues dans le monde,  en 1960,  en 1980,  en 2014.

La consommation de tabac entraine généralement une dépendance durable.

Effets et toxicité

Effets sur la santé
La consommation de produits du tabac est la cause de nombreuses maladies mortelles.

Effets sur l'environnement

En mai 2022, l'Organisation mondiale de la santé alerte sur les dégâts dus à l'industrie du tabac : plus d'un milliard de personnes fument encore. Environ  de mégots sont jetés tous les ans. Cela fait de ce déchet l'un des plus importants au monde. Les experts en retrouvent des traces dans 70 % des oiseaux et 30 % des tortues ; sur les bords de la Méditerranée, 40 % des déchets ramassés sont des mégots, dont certains composants sont toxiques pour les animaux comme pour les plantes. La culture du tabac nécessite beaucoup d'énergie, d'engrais, et 22 milliards de tonnes d'eau. La production annuelle (32 millions de tonnes) contribue à près de 84 millions de tonnes équivalent , soit 0,2 % du total des émissions ; elle serait en outre responsable de 5 % du déboisement mondial. 90 % des cultures sont concentrées dans les pays en développement, où elles concurrencent les cultures vivrières.

La culture du tabac a nécessité 3,24 millions d'hectares () de terres arables dans le monde en 2020.

Le séchage du tabac nécessite par ailleurs une grande quantité de bois. Le séchage à l'air chaud nécessite environ  de bois pour  de tabac. Ce mode de séchage est le premier utilisé : environ 6 tonnes de tabac sur 10 sont traitées par ce processus. Il entraîne une déforestation importante. Au total, on estime qu'environ 2 à 4 % de la déforestation mondiale est due à la production du tabac, soit 600 millions d'arbres chaque année. Cette proportion s'élève à 5 % dans les pays en développement, notamment dans certains pays comme le Zimbabwe.

Les mégots de cigarettes sont par ailleurs une source de pollution majeure, notamment pour les cours d'eau.

Économie

La consommation extensive du tabac dans le monde a engendré la constitution de majors d'industrie puissantes.

Le premier producteur mondial de tabac est le monopole chinois China National Tobacco Corporation.

Plus de 70 % du marché hors Chine est réalisé par quatre multinationales aux diverses marques. Ce sont, dans l'ordre décroissant de chiffre d'affaires :
 l'américain Philip Morris International (Bond Street, Chesterfield, L&M, Marlboro, Philip Morris) ; afin d'éviter un risque de procès aux États-Unis relatif à ses activités à l'international, PMI s'est séparé de sa maison-mère Altria, société de tabac qui se limite désormais au marché américain, et a délocalisé son siège opérationnel à Lausanne, en Suisse ;
 le britannique British American Tobacco (Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike, Winfield, Vogue) ;
 le japonais Japan Tobacco (Benson & Hedges, Camel, Mild Seven, Silk Cut, Winston) ;
 le britannique Imperial Brands (Davidoff, Fortuna, John Player Special, News, West… et les anciennes marques françaises Gauloises et Gitanes, ainsi que les principales marques de tabac à rouler et de papier à cigarettes : Amsterdamer, Golden Virginia, Drum, Rizla+).

La production de tabac, estimée à près de 7 millions de tonnes, est dominée par la Chine, l'Inde et le Brésil, qui à eux trois réalisent plus de 60 % de la production mondiale. Dans l'Union européenne, les principaux producteurs sont l'Italie, la Pologne, l'Espagne et la Grèce.

En 2010, la manufacture du tabac était dominée par la Chine, la Russie, les États-Unis, l'Allemagne et l'Indonésie. Le tabac est essentiellement utilisé pour la production de cigarettes et de cigares. La production de cigarettes représente l'essentiel de la production et est estimée à plus de  d'unités en 1993,  d'unités en 2005.

L'Allemagne, la Bulgarie et la Suisse sont les seuls pays européens où la publicité pour le tabac est encore autorisée dans l'espace public. La Revue médicale suisse relève également en 2015 que .

Histoire

Lorsque Christophe Colomb arrive en Amérique en 1492, il constate que les Indiens utilisent le tabac pour ses propriétés magiques et médicamenteuses. André Thevet en rapporte des graines et la culture du tabac commence en Europe. Bartolomé de las Casas commente plus tard cet usage, en précisant que ces tisons .

Selon des découvertes récentes, l'usage du tabac remonte à au moins . Des graines de tabac ont été découvertes près du Grand Lac Salé dans l'Utah, aux États-Unis.

Étymologie
Le substantif masculin tabac est un emprunt à l'espagnol , substantif masculin lui-même emprunté à l'arawak de Cuba et Haïti tsibatl, mot qui désignait soit un ensemble de feuilles, soit l'action du fumer, soit surtout le tuyau de roseau dont les Amérindiens se servaient pour aspirer la fumée.

Le mot « tabac », désignant à l'origine, pour les Européens, à la fois la plante et le cigare confectionné avec ses feuilles, vient de l'espagnol tabaco, lui-même emprunté à un mot arawak désignant une sorte de pipe, un instrument à deux tuyaux. Il est attesté sous sa forme espagnole depuis la première moitié du . Les Arawaks, ensemble de peuplades amérindiennes des Antilles et d'Amazonie, possédaient donc probablement un autre mot pour désigner la plante que nous appelons tabac (digo selon l'archéologue Benoît Bérard) ; ce mot est apparu en espagnol par glissement sémantique, le contenant (pipe, instrument) finissant par désigner le contenu (feuilles séchées de la plante) puis la plante elle-même.

Origine en Amérique

Les peuples autochtones d'Amérique cultivaient et consommaient le tabac avant l'arrivée des colons européens.

Débuts en Europe

En 1492, lors de son expédition en Amérique, Christophe Colomb découvre le tabac et le rapporte en Europe, à la Cour espagnole et portugaise, où il est pendant longtemps utilisé comme simple plante d'ornement. Ce n'est qu'au milieu du  que le médecin personnel de Philippe II d'Espagne commence à le promouvoir comme « médicament universel ». La première description écrite serait le fait de l'historien espagnol d'Oviedo.

Il est introduit en France en 1556 par un moine cordelier, André Thevet qui au retour de son séjour au Brésil, en fit la culture dans les environs de sa ville natale d'Angoulême. On l'appelle alors « herbe angoulmoisine » ou « herbe pétun ».

Dès 1775, les premiers soupçons de relation entre tabac et cancer sont exprimés.

Tabagies

Les tabagies (en allemand Tabakskollegium) étaient des réunions réservées aux hommes aux  pour discuter d'affaires entre eux, en particulier après la chasse. Le roi Frédéric-Guillaume  y était très assidu dans son château de Wusterhausen, où il s'entourait de ses proches conseillers, en fumant de longues pipes.

Tabac de troupe

Dès 1917, on voit apparaître le tabac dans les rations alimentaires de l'armée française.

La Ration K, introduite par l'armée des États-Unis le  pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, était une ration alimentaire quotidienne de combat individuelle contenant des cigarettes.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Discours du tabac, où il est traité particulièrement du tabac en poudre. Avec des raisonnements physiques sur les vertus & sur les effets de cette plante, et de ses divers usages dans la médecine.  : 1668, , 1677, , Jean Jombert, 1693. Edme Baillard, pseudonyme de Jean Royer de Prade
 Monographie du tabac comprenant l'historique, les propriétés thérapeutiques, physiologiques et toxicologiques du tabac, par Charles Fermond, Paris : Imprimerie de Napoléon Chaix, 1857

 Éric Godeau, Le tabac en France de 1940 à nos jours, Paris, PUPS, 2008
 Cigarettes : le dossier sans filtre, bande dessinée de Pierre Boisserie et Stéphane Brangier, Dargaud, 2019
  Tobacco in History, de Jordan Goodman
  The Making of New World Slavery, de Robin Blackburn
 Pour ou contre le tabac ? (Éditions du Sonneur, 2010), recueil d'opinions sur le tabac d'écrivains français de la fin du  (Joris-Karl Huysmans, Pierre Loti, Stéphane Mallarmé, Jules Verne, Hector Malot…)
  Robert N. Proctor, Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition, 2012
  (à l'occasion de la publication du livre de Robert N. Proctor)

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 Fumer, Tabac non destiné à être fumé
 Cigarette, Cigarette mentholée, Cigare, Cigarillo, Pipe, Snus, Tabac à mâcher, Tabac à priser, Tabac chauffé
 Contrebande de tabac
 Effets du tabac sur la santé
 Histoire de la culture du tabac, Industrie du tabac
 Législation sur le tabac, Avertissements sur les paquets de cigarettes
 Tabac en France

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Завод поставляет тормозные системы, пневмоприводы тормозов для Минского автозавода и ряда других белорусских и российских производителей, а также другую продукцию. На предприятии занято около 1,5 тысяч человек.

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When an alopecia-suffering opossum was dropped off at South Plains Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Lubbock, Texas, executive director Gail Barnes thought it was a hairless cat. But the opossum was lucky she found a new home because it would have been difficult for her to survive without her fur to protect her against chilly Texas winters.
In a post, the center appealed for community support, and boy they were surprised by the outpouring! "This is the first for us at the Wildlife Center. This 3-to 4-month-old hairless opossum was found in Lubbock. She would never survive in the wild. This opossum is going to need a winter wardrobe," it said. The post was shared by animal lovers and the little opossum got clothes and love in abundance.
If you see her subsequent videos, you will see the animal in an incubator, dressed up for Halloween, and receiving her first hand-knit sweater in the mail. She is doing well and has almost doubled in weight, one video shared.
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Monster Gator
Alligators are common in Florida. They are often spotted bathing or trotting, and residents have become used to them. But this one monster gator inspired a social media frenzy when it was seen strolling at the Valencia Golf & Country Club in Naples during storm Eta. The sheer size of it ignited comments about dinosaurs and Jurassic Park on social media. This is as crazy as 2020 gets.
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Golden Tiger Cubs
An amusement park in China has welcomed four golden tiger cubs. The Taihu Lake Longemont Paradise is now home to these incredibly rare cubs, one male and three females. These blond cubs are being watched by zookeepers because their mother, also a golden tiger, hasn't bonded with them yet, the Daily Mail reported.
Their blonde fur and brown stripes are caused by a genetic mutation of the Bengal tiger. Only 30 of these golden tigers exist in the world, making them very special. The breeding rate is lower than the white tiger and the snow tiger, and it's rarer than the Chinese panda, the park wrote in a social media post.
Another golden tiger went viral this year—this one was an adult spotted at the Kaziranga National Park in Assam.
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Yellow Frog
Back in July, netizens were all hearts for a video of yellow bullfrogs frolicking in the rain in Madhya Pradesh. Indian Forest Officer Parveen Kaswan celebrated the video online with his tweets and explained that it's normal behavior for frogs to change color during monsoons to find their mate.
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