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There can be only one!

Intussen, in een parallel universum

(Soms hoop je dat iets nepnieuws is.)

Clowns are only funny in their own circus

Clowns are only funny in their own circus
Blatantly presented by Plague Recordings & Corpse-Rendering Works
Morbus Gravis - Music Space (Facebook)

HALLO, ik been Frits van Dijk

De Hollandse methode – oplichters ontmaskerd!

Scam warning: Irish Method, Hollandse Methode and Swiss Methode

Sensorgevoeligheid

Over sensorgevoeligheid gesproken: deze foto is 's nachts rond 01.30 u gemaakt met een Nikon Coolpix S9900. Er was een volle maan en er lag sneeuw, maar toch is het bijna ongelooflijk dat dat een foto oplevert die overdag lijkt te zijn gemaakt.

Je gaat je bijna afvragen of je dat wel wilt bij een avond- of nachtfoto. Maar goed, deze foto is op de automatische stand genomen en je kunt natuurlijk altijd andere instellingen gebruiken.

(Foto: Winny de Meij, februari 2017)

Poëzie in dezen tijd.

[...]

Wanneer iemand na lezing van een gedicht mij naar de beteekenis daarvan vraagt of gaarne leert wat de dichter heeft willen zeggen (alsof dichters ooit iets zèggen), besluit ik daaruit onmiddellijk en op goede gronden dat die iemand, althans tot nader bevel, niet vermoedt waar het in poeticis om te doen is en tot het geslacht der barbaren gerekend moet worden. Want zij die, zònder ervaring of kennis van poëzie, er van nature ontvankelijk voor zijn, zullen nooit zulke nuchtere en onbetamelijke vragen stellen.

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Fabrieksgeheimen, J. Greshoff
J.L. van Schaik, Beperk. Pretoria
1941

Politicion's grandmother

Image source: Royal BC Museum
Title proper - Mrs. Alexander Strachan Sr., grandmother of politicion Robert [Bob] M. Strachan.
Attributions and conjectures - The photographer is undetermined.
Date(s) - [1900] (Creation)

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Wilson Chinn

Image source - Civil War Image Database, Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia
(http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/images_search_results.html?q=db:images).
Image date - 00-00-1863
Source - U. S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks
Subject type - African Americans
Title - Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana, also exhibiting instruments of torture used to punish slaves

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Kru

A wall painting on a house near Robertsport depicts the motif of a mask dance of the Kru people.

Image & text source: Culture of Liberia

While several distinct ethnic groups have inhabited what is today Liberia for at least a thousand years, no large kingdoms arose there on the lines of those found further east along the coast, like Dahomey, Asante, or the Benin Empire.

Histories of the region, therefore, generally begin with the arrival of the Portuguese traders in the mid-1400s, and the rise of the trans-Atlantic trade. Coastal groups traded several goods with Europeans, but the area became known as the Grain Coast, because of its rich supply malaguetta pepper grains.

Navigating the coastline was not that easy, though, particularly for the large ocean-going Portuguese vessels, and the European traders relied on Kru sailors, who became the primary middlemen in the trade. Due to their sailing and navigation skills, the Kru began working on European ships, including slave trading ships. Their importance was such that Europeans began referring to the coast as Kru Country, despite the fact that the Kru were one of the smaller ethnic groups, amounting to only 7% of Liberia's population today.

In 1816, the future of Kru Country took a dramatic turn due to an event that took place thousands of miles away: the formation of the American Colonization Society (ACS). The ACS wanted to find a place to re-settle free-born black Americans and freed slaves, and they chose the Grain Coast.

In 1822, the ACS founded Liberia as a colony of the United States of America. Over the next few decades 19,900 African-American men and women migrated to the colony. By this time, the United States and Britain had also outlawed the slave trade (though not slavery), and when the American navy captured slave-trading ships, they liberated the slaves on board and settled them in Liberia. Approximately 5,000 African 're-captured' slaves were settled in Liberia.

Image & text source: A Brief History of Liberia