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As far as I can tell Ravi is in many ways the most admirable of all the characters in Jessie.
Ravi found an egg and hatched it when he was younger than 10, and raised the tiny lizard to a 7 foot long one. Ravi has been a sort of a parent since before he was 10, and as a result he often is as mature as Jesssie and Bertram and his parents, and sometimes more so.
Ravi may be bad at doing things that most kids want to be good at, but he is very good at doing what kids need to be good at. Ravi is far better at learning than any of the other Ross kids, and almost as nice as Emma. What more could you want in a child?
In "The Blind Date, the Cheapskate, and and Primate" November 1, 2013, 12-year-old Ravi recaptures an escaped gorilla, and his boss says that Ravi saved hundreds of lives. How many other times did anyone claim that a Disney kid character saved hundreds of lives?
Way back in the middle ages when medicine was primitive, Emperor Henry IV had a daughter Agnes (1072/73-1143), who lived to be 69 to 71.
Agnes married first in 1086 Duke Frederick I of Swabia (c. 1050-1105) and second Margrave Leopold III of Austria (1073-1136).
Agnes had 11 children in her first marriage and 11 in her second marriage, (and possibly more!).
Her oldest child was Hedwig-Eilike (1088-1110), wife of Count Frederick of Legenfeld, and her youngest child was Gertrude (c. 1118-1150) wife of Duke Vladislaus II of Bohemia. So her children were born over a span of about 30 years.
Her oldest son, Duke Frederick II "The One-Eyed" of Swabia (1090-1147) was About 25 years older than her youngest son, Conrad (c. 1115-1168) Archbishop of Salzburg.
Her last surviving child, Duke Henry Jasomirgot of Austria (1112-1177) died 104 years after his parents were born and 127 years after both of his grandfathers were born.
As for long generations, Mr. Harrison Tyler (b. 1928) (and his brother if still alive) are pretty hard to beat, since they are grandsons of President John Tyler (1790-1862) who was born 228 years ago. King Idris of Libya (1889-1983) died 196 years after his grandfather Muhammed ibn Ali as-Senussi (1787-1859) was born.
I should point out to some of you that the fictional town of Val Verde is near the Rio Grande and thus over a hundred miles from San Antonio, where Mace Bishop and Ozzie Grimes are when Mace learns Grimes is going to Val Verde. I don't know when on the trip to Val Verde Mace would have stolen Grimes's stuff. It all depended on how confident Mace felt about tracking Grimes for days without Grimes noticing.
In my thread "Geography" I decided that Val Verde was probably in Maverick County near Piedras Negras, Mexico. So Mace probably would have taken Grimes's stuff somewhere along what is now Route 35 if close to San Antonio or Route 57 if closer to Val Verde. The distance from San Antonio to Piedras Negras along those routes is given as 151.9 miles here:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/San+Antonio,+Texas/Piedras+Negras,+Coahuila,+Mexico/@29.2157136,-100.6315702,8z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x865c58af04d00eaf:0x856e13b10a016bc!2m2!1d-98.4936282!2d29.4241219!1m5!1m1!1s0x865f8b99d2889193:0x954a33b442b861c2!2m2!1d-100.5408622!2d28.6916182!3e0
So even if Val Verde is 20 miles closer to San Antonio it might take about 6.5 to 13 days to get there riding 10 to 20 miles per day.
So there were two dangers with tying up Ozzie Grimes:
1) That Ozzie would get loose, form a posse, and catch Mace before Mace reached Val Verde.
2) That Ozzie would die of thirst before getting out of his bounds or being found by someone.
iN the movie we see that # 1 did not happen.
To quote Cyrano Jones in "The Trouble With Tribbles":
"If I did, what would happen to man's search for knowledge?"
But since apparently nobody wants to do any research on their own.
This is the coat of arms that was granted in 1596 to John Shakespeare of Stratford-on-Avon in England. You may have heard of John's more famous son.
https://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/blog/shakespeares-coat-of-arms/
http://theshakespeareblog.com/2011/11/the-facts-about-shakespeares-coat-of-arms/
According to the maps it looks like Victoria is about 25 miles near to, or far from, Vancouver, which has a population over 7 times that of Victoria.
And so Hatley Castle could be called close to Vancouver the same way that Lindenwold Castle, Ambler, PA, or Fonthill, Doylestown, PA can be said to be close to Philadelphia.
http://www.montgomerynews.com/amblergazette/news/lindenwold-castle-anticipated-centerpiece-of-development/article_1de3eb57-0a6f-51db-aee7-a42adb8f1fab.html
http://shadesofgreenphoto.com/photo/0456-D80/fonthillcastle/
It could be called close to Vancouver the same way that The Breakers and the other mansions in Newport, Rhode Island, can be called close to Providence, Rhode Island.
http://www.newportmansions.org/explore/the-breakers
It could be called close to Vancouver the same way that Versailles can be said to be close to Paris.
It could be called close to Vancouver the same way that Windsor Castle can be said to be close to London.
It is easier for a computer to speak than to listen and hear what you say. That takes speech recognition and voice recognition. But it is (comparatively) easy to program a computer to use the speakers to pronounce the words in its response to you. If the computer and program is capable of formulating a response in English it is capable of deciding how it should be pronounced and sending that information to the speaker while probably also displaying the response on the screen.
Back in the 1960s a massive computer was programmed to sing "Daisy". I believe that in 2001: A Space Odyssey when HAL is being disconnected and sings "Daisy" that is a recording of an actual computer singing "Daisy".
But I don't remember when it became possible for an ordinary home computer to speak as well as in the show.
I just looked it up and The episode is "The Last Good Knight" 07 August 1998 for anyone who wants to look it up and watch it sometime. But if you watch it with someone else, don't spoil the plot for them!
And quite possibly there is a restaurant chain of Olive Pits more or less based on the Olive Garden chain of restaurants.
In one the last story arcs of the third season K.C. got really bad. I discuss i the thread "K.C. Underhanded".
https://moviechat.org/tt3598030/KC-Undercover/5a6eed1796f6ed00147ceebe/KC-Underhanded
Actually there was manned star travel at least 200 years before the date of "Where No Man Has Gone Before" - whenever that was.
MITCHELL: My love has wings. Slender, feathered things with grace in upswept curve and tapered tip. The Nightingale Woman, written by Phineas Tarbolde on the Canopius planet back in 1996. It's funny you picked that one, Doctor.
DEHNER: Why?
MITCHELL: That's one of the most passionate love sonnets of the past couple of centuries. How do you feel, Doctor?
If the Canopius planet was a planet in another solar system, and if Phineas Tarbolde was an Earth man, then Earth probably had faster-than-light interstellar travel by the year 1996.
Since "couple" means "two" the date of "Where No Man Has Gone Before" must be before 2196, and probably also after 2096.
Captain's log, Star date 1312.4. The impossible has happened. From directly ahead, we're picking up a recorded distress signal, the call letters of a vessel which has been missing for over two centuries. Did another Earth ship once probe out of the galaxy as we intend to do? What happened to it out there? Is this some warning they've left behind?
So the Valiant left Earth over two centuries ago and lost contact with Earth over two centuries ago - it could not have been "missing" if it was still in contact with Earth.
KIRK: This is the Captain speaking. The object we encountered is a ship's disaster recorder, apparently ejected from the S.S. Valiant two hundred years ago.
Exactly 200 years before "Where No Man Has Gone Before" would be sometime between 1896 and 1996, and the Valiant left Earth earlier - in the calendar used by Mitchell, at least.
Thus the official Star Trek chronology should admit that either Earth had faster than light star travel by 1996 AD or else that different calendars are used in Star Trek.
You are missing the point of this thread. It is about who or what the coat of arms belongs to. It belongs to a famous person, family, or institution.
Wouldn't you find it interesting if it was the coat of arms of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who invented Zeppelins, or of the British East India Company, or of Christopher Columbus, or of the state of Pennsylvania, or of Galileo Galilei, or of the Kingdom of Hawaii, or of Yale University, or of The Seventh United states Cavalry, or of George Washington, or of MacBeth, King of Scotland, etc., etc., etc.?
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The cycle of violence in the Sierra Madre neared its climax. In 1926 the ranch of Francisco Fimbres, a leader of anti Apache posses, was raided. His wife and son were killed.
In 1930 Fimbres made headlines trying to recruit American gunslingers to exterminate the wild Apaches. The Mexican government stopped it, but Fimbres led Mexican posses to slaughter Apaches. The Apache camps they found had few or no men - perhaps the men were already killed raiding Mexicans. The posses killed Apache women and captured children to be turned into Mexicans.
One captive Apache girl, Carmela Harris, was raised by Americans, became a nurse, and died decades later in Italy.
In July, 1933, an Apache girl about 12 or 13 wandering alone was captured and brought into the town of Nueves Casas Grandes. People came to gawk at "la nina bronca" (the wild girl) curled up in a ball in a jail cell, refusing to talk or eat. She soon starved to death.
Anthropologist Grenville Goodwin tried to make contact with the Apaches of the Sierra Madre in 1934, but failed. In 1937 Norwegian Helge Ingstad and two Apaches search the Sierra Madre for wild Apaches but Ingstad found none. In the 1980s Chiricahua Apaches from Oklahoma searched the Sierra Madre for wild Apaches without success.
A number of Apache children were captured and raised by Mexicans. Other Apaches may have decided to join more peaceful tribes or Mexican society, or sneak unrecorded onto American reservations. And there may be descendants of those members of the Lost Apaches of the Sierra Madre. But all the rest of those Apaches who chose war over peace in 1886, and all their descendants, are dead and gone. As far as the historical record goes, the last might have been "la nina bronca" in 1933.
There was much that was good in the 19th century Apache lifestyle, and modern Apaches continue much of that. But the Apache practice of robbing and killing was not only evil, but suicidal, leading to "la nina bronca".
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So in 1886 the majority of Apaches lived in peace in reservations in Arizona, New Mexico, and Indian Territory, and the Chiricahuas who were the most repeatedly hostile Apaches were exiled. But General Nelson A. Miles had a problem: He had said General Crook was a failure despite pacifying thousands of Apaches because of the ever fewer Apaches who were still hostile. Now Miles, like Crook, had been partially successful with the surrender of Geronimo and Naiche's followers, with only a few still on the loose in the Sierra Madre Mountains. To avoid being called a failure as he had called Crook a failure, Miles declared total victory and ignored the few remaining hostiles.
The few lost Apaches in the Sierra Madre continued raiding in Mexico. In 1892 the Thompsons living in Cave Valley, Mexico were raided. 17-year-old Hiram was killed, 14-year-old Elmer played dead after being shot, and their mother was shot before Apache women beat her to death with stones. The wild Apaches sometimes raided into the USA, and sometimes abducted Apaches from the reservations. Generations of Apache parents told their kids to be good or the "wild ones" would take them away.
In 1895, Captain (later general) Hugh L. Scott proposed an expedition into the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico to return the remaining hostiles to the reservation. But the Mexican government forbid it, leading to hundreds of deaths.
The lost Apaches continued to raid Mexican ranches, and Mexican posses continued to chase Apaches, sometimes returning with Apache scalps and/or Apache children that would be raised as Mexicans.
In 1924 Apaches raided into New Mexico, killing cowboy Frank Fisher, and escaped back into Mexico. Their leader looked like a white man with blonde hair and beard. This "white chief" of the Apaches has often been supposed to be little Charley McComas, but could have been some less famous boy captive of the Apaches.
Nope, the heroes didn't think of it. Maybe the writers couldn't think of a plausible method to make Toby appear dead to the computer.
"Humor. A difficult concept. It is not logical".
Anyway, I like puns.
Quite possibly it was just a heraldic patch from the wardrobe department's vast collection of odds and ends.
But it seems identical with the coat of arms of a quite famous Earth person, family, or institution. Some people might want to know whose it was.
Anyway, the correct term would not be racist but speciest, since orcs are not a different race but a different species of intelligent being. If Doctor McCoy says Spock is a green-blooded, pointy-eared hobgoblin, for example, he is being speciest instead of racist.
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Besides, when Gandalf and the other Istari or wizards had been sent to Middle-earth their powers had been reduced for the duration of the mission, so that they would not seem much more powerful than elves or men. And their bodies were not the sort of robot or automation bodies, energized by the will of the ainur, that most ainur made for themselves when they wished, but real living biological bodies.
Their bodies were living bodies, with all the weaknesses of the flesh. Their bodies were those of old men at first, and continued to age like mortal men, becoming weaker and weaker, though obviously many times slower than mortal men. And they were not permitted to use full power ainur abilities, or maybe even had most of those abilities removed, for the duration of their mission. And they were probably given a one body limit, being forbidden to make new bodies if their old ones were killed.
So after killing the balrog and dying of his wounds, the spirit of Gandalf eventually returned to Valinor to report on the events of his mission. And because Gandalf had done such a good job, especially compared to Saruman, he was unexpectedly "rewarded" - or punished as the case may have seemed to him - by being given a new body and being sent back to Middle-earth with all the powers of Saruman, the most powerful wizard, since Gandalf was to replace Saruman as the white wizard.
It is said that Olorin (Gandalf's real name) never wanted to be sent to Middle-earth in the first place 2,000 years earlier, saying that he was afraid of Sauron, but had humbly accepted the mission when it was given to him.
Gandalf was very different from most characters in games, characters played by people who enjoy playing the games, and there was no automatic system for wizards to gain points by completing various tasks. So Gandalf did not level up or gain points by fighting the balrog. Gandalf did what he had to do to save the others, expecting that his body would be killed and he would be unable to return to Middle-earth to try to help Frodo succeed in destroying the Ring.
I suppose that Tolkien might roll over in his grave at such a discussion. Gandalf is a fictional character, but within the story of Lord of the Rings he is a great historic person. So referring to him as a character in a game who "levels up" would probably seem highly inappropriate to Tolkien.
In the fictional universe of Middle-earth, Gandalf was an ainur, a sort of an angel, who was sent to Middle-earth to encourage Men and Elves and Dwarves, etc. to resist Sauron. As a maiar, one of the lesser angelic beings, Gandalf normally had great powers. After all, thousands of years earlier, the ainur had built Middle-earth, organizing it out of chaos, separating land and sea and building mountains and valleys. The ainur were beings of spirit, who could make physical bodies for themselves as easy as mortals could make clothes for their bodies. If the physical body of an ainur was destroyed, he could simply make a new one if he wanted to.
But there was a limitation. If an ainur inhabited the same physical body for a long time, he would find it harder and harder to make a new physical body. Thus every time that Sauron was killed, it took him a much longer time for him to make a new physical body than the previous time. After being killed at the end of the Second Age, it took Sauron at least a thousand years to make another physical body to begin his attempt to reconquer Middle-earth.
That is why the Balrog didn't simply whip up a new physical body and go on a roaring rampage of revenge after being killed, devastating Lorien and other places. It had been inhabiting its physical body for about 6,500 years since the Great Battle and the end of the First Age, and probably for centuries or millennia before that. It had lost the ability to make a new physical body.
And Gandalf and the other Istari, or wizards, had been inhabited their bodies for about 2,000 years by the time of Lord of the Rings and probably had lost most or all of their power to make new ones.
I'm not sure your amusement at "Anne" Skywalker would be shared by Anne de Montmorency (1493-1567), Duke of Montmorency, Marshall of France, Constable of France, a famous French general and statesman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_de_Montmorency
And similarly there was Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1864), hero of the American Revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_du_Motier,_Marquis_de_Lafayette
A great grandmother of mine was Ida Elizabeth Smith Demuth, who shared her name with a famous Ida in Anglo-Saxon England. Ida, the first known King of Bernicia (reigned c. 547 to 559).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_of_Bernicia
And by an amusing coincidence, a girl in my family is named Ella. And in Anglo-Saxon times there were a few famous kings named Aelle, which is probably pronounced similarly to Ella.
Aelle, legendary first King of Sussex, was supposedly active in 477, 485, and 491.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86lle_of_Sussex
And there was king Aelle of Northumbia (killed 867) who is a character in the movie The Vikings (1958).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86lla_of_Northumbria
There are many other examples of names that were sometimes boy's names and sometimes girl's names.