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The Effort Rose
"Action mime shows us that everything a person does in their life can be reduced to two essential actions: ‘to pull’ and ‘to push’. We do nothing else! These actions include the passive ‘I am pulled’ and ‘I am pushed’ and the reflexive ‘I pull myself’ and ‘I push myself’ and can go in many different directions: forwards, to one side or the other, backwards, diagonally etc. I call this the effort rose.
It comprises a multi-directional space which can be adapted to all human movements, whether physical or psychological, whther a simple movement of the arm or an all-consuming passion, a movement of the head or a profound desire, everything brings us back to pull/push. …
Three main directions are contained within the effort rose: verticals, horizontals, diagonals. … These three movements refer to three different dramatic worlds. Horizontal 'pull/push' corresponds to 'you and me'. This is dialogue as found in commedia dell'arte or the clown routine. Vertical movement situates man between heaven and earth, between zenith and nadir, in a tragic event. Tragedy is always vertical: the gods are on Mount Olympus. Bouffons are also vertical, but in the other direction: their gods are underground. As for the diagonal, it is sentimental, lyrical, it flies off an we cannot tel where it will come down. This is the terrain of the broad emotions of melodrama."
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Portrait of Lotte Lenya
Portrait of Lotte Lenya by Saul Bolasni, 1954. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / Gift of Lee Boltin.
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Flicka Från Backafall / Kullerullvisan
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Standing Bear
By 1789, when Juan Baptiste Munier acquired trading rights with the Ponca, they had villages along the Niobrara River near its mouth, and ranged as far east as present-day Ponca, Nebraska, at the mouth of Aowa Creek. A smallpox epidemic had reduced their numbers from approximately 800 to 100 at the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1807.
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Milwaukee Dharmadhatu established at David and Jane's house
Newspaper clipping of the Dharmadhatu Center and the growing influence of Buddhism in the West.
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The Sounds of Shambhala
Pictured here is the main mediation room at the Shambhala Center, which has dividers covering the space which displays a picture of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. The recording comes from one of the Center's open houses, which is overlaid with interviews with Center director Jessica Bizub and member Kirk Ferguson.
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The Advanced Meditation Room
The advanced meditation space at the Shambhala Meditation Center of Milwaukee at their current location on Oakland Ave.
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West Rogers Park Congregation First Building
While most of Chicago’s Jewish population had lived in the Lawndale neighborhood since the early 1900s, after World War II, many Jewish families began moving north to the Rogers Park neighborhood due to increasing prosperity and decreasing restrictions on where they could live. As more Jewish people moved into Rogers Park, new synagogues were founded, including West Rogers Park Congregation, which was a Traditional synagogue founded by ten families. At the time, West Rogers Park Congregation did not have their own building and so they began meeting in a storefront at 2642 W. Pratt Boulevard in April 1951 (the exact storefront is in the middle of this picture, where the black and white window signs are located). They did not intend to stay in that storefront for long though, as evidenced by the fact that their rabbi, Rabbi Louis N. Levy, purchased land for their own building a month later in March 1951. By September 1952, West Rogers Park Congregation had moved into their own building located at 2800 W. North Shore.
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Esther Porush Oral History
Photo of Esther Porush in a room in K.I.N.S after conducting an oral history interview with Adam Yunis. Recording of interview, transcript.
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K.I.N.S. Articles of Incorporation
After World War I, many Jewish people in Chicago began moving from Maxwell Street, where the earliest Jewish immigrants had settled, to the Lawndale neighborhood. Moving to a new neighborhood meant that many new congregations were founded as well, one of which was K.I.N.S. This item is a booklet written in Yiddish that contains the original articles of incorporation for K.I.N.S., dated back to 1926. While there is evidence that K.I.N.S. existed earlier than 1926, this is the first known official document produced by K.I.N.S. leadership. The inside text is meant to be read right-to-left instead of left-to-right. Currently, the exact contents are untranslated.
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A machinic portrait of Kant
"We could imagine a machinic portrait of Kant, illusions included (see schema).
The components of the schema are as follows: 1) the ""I think"" :is an ox head wired for sound, which constantly repeats Self = Self; 2) the categories as universal concepts (four great headings): shafts that are extensive and retractile according to the movement of 3); 3) the moving wheel of the schemata; 4) the shallow stream of Time as form of interiority, in and out of which the wheel of the schemata plunges; 5) space as form of exteriority: the stream's banks and bed; 6) the passive self at the bottom of the stream and as junction of the two forms; 7) the principles of synthetic judgments that run across space-time; 8) the transcendental field of possible experience, immanent to the "I" (plane of immanence); and 9) the three Ideas or illusions of transcendence (circles turning on the absolute horizon: Soul, World and God)."
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Red Cloud
Red Cloud (Lakota: Maȟpíya Lúta; 1822 – December 10, 1909) was a leader of the Oglala Lakota from 1868 to 1909. He was one of the most capable Native American opponents whom the United States Army faced in the western territories.
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"Sherlock's Farewell"
Brief article about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's new book, "The Last Bow," published by John Murray.
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United States Enlists other Apaches to find Geronimo (Example)
On May 17, 1885, a number of Apache including Nana, Mangus (son of Mangas Coloradas), Chihuahua, Naiche, Geronimo, and their followers fled the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona after a show of force against the reservation's commanding officer Britton Davis. Department of Arizona General George Crook dispatched two columns of troops into Mexico, the first commanded by Captain Emmet Crawford and the second by Captain Wirt Davis. Each was composed of a troop of cavalry (usually about forty men) and about 100 Apache Scouts recruited from among the Apache people.[39] These Apache units proved effective in finding the mountain strongholds of the Apache bands, and killing or capturing them.[40] It was highly unsettling for Geronimo's band to realize their own tribesmen had helped find their hiding places.;They pursued the Apache through the summer and autumn through Mexican Chihuahua and back across the border into the United States. The Apache continually raided settlements, murdering other innocent Native Americans and civilians and stealing horses.[42] Over time this persistent pursuit by both Mexican and American forces discouraged Geronimo and other similar Apache leaders, and caused a steady and irreplaceable attrition of the members of their bands, which taken all together eroded their will to resist and led to their ultimate capitulation.
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Mexico Allows the United States to Pursue Geronimo (Example)
The "breakouts" and the subsequent resumption of Apache raiding and warfare caused the Mexican Army and militia as well as United States forces to pursue and attempt to kill or apprehend off-reservation "renegade" Apache bands, including Geronimo's, wherever they could be found. Because the Mexican army and militia units of Sonora and Chihuahua were unable to suppress the several Chiricahua bands based in the Sierra Madre mountains, in 1883 Mexico allowed the United States to send troops into Mexico to continue their pursuit of Geronimo's band and the bands of other Apache leaders.[
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Raiding (Example)
From Mexico, Apache bands also staged surprise raids back into the United States, often seeking to replenish their supply of guns and ammunition. Utley refers to a specific raid in March 1883, in which Geronimo's people split up with Geronimo and Chihuahua raiding in the Sonora River valley to collect livestock and provisions, while Chatto and Bonito raided through southern Arizona to gather weapons and cartridges.[37] In these raids into the United States, the Apaches moved swiftly and attacked isolated ranches, wagon trains, prospectors and travelers. They often killed all the persons they encountered in order to avoid detection and pursuit as long as possible before they slipped back over the border into Mexico
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Breakouts from the reservation (Example)
Geronimo led his band of followers in "breakouts" from the reservation to return to their former nomadic life associated with raiding and warfare.[4] Following each breakout, Geronimo and his band would flee across Arizona and New Mexico to Mexico, killing and plundering as they went, and establish a new base in the rugged and remote Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains.[14] In Mexico, they were insulated from pursuit by U.S. armed forces. The Apache knew the rough terrain of the Sierras intimately,[36] which helped them elude pursuit and protected them from attack. The Sierra Madre mountains lie on the border between the Mexican states of Sonora and Chihuahua, which allowed the Apache access to raid and plunder the small villages, haciendas, wagon trains, worker camps and travelers in both states.
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Daring Exploits and Numerous Escapes (Example)
Though outnumbered, Geronimo fought against both Mexican and United States troops and became famous for his daring exploits and numerous escapes from incarceration from 1858 to 1886.[28] One such escape, as legend has it, took place in the Robledo Mountains of southwest New Mexico. The legend states that Geronimo and his followers entered a cave, and the U.S. soldiers waited outside the entrance for him, but he never came out. Later, it was heard that Geronimo was spotted outside, nearby. The second entrance through which he escaped has yet to be found, and the cave is called Geronimo's Cave, even though no reference to this event or this cave has been found in the historic or oral record. Moreover, there are many stories of this type with other caves referenced that state that Geronimo or other Apaches entered to escape troops but were not seen exiting. These stories are in all likelihood apocryphal
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Mexican attack on the Apache (Example)
The Mexicans once again attacked the Apache. After months of fighting in the mountains, the Apaches and Mexicans decided on a peace treaty at Casas Grandes. After terms were agreed, the Mexican troops gave Mezcal to the Apaches, and while they were intoxicated, they attacked and killed 20 Apaches and captured some. The Apache were forced to retreat into the mountains once again.
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Surprise attack on the Mimbres River (Example)
30 miners surprise attack an encampment of Bedonkohes Apaches on the west bank of the Mimbres River. The miners killed 4 Indians, wounded others, and captured thirteen women and children. Attacks by the Apache again followed, with raids against U.S. citizens and property.
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Janos (Example)
A company of 400 Mexican soldiers led by Colonel José MarÃa Carrasco attack Geronimo's camp outside Janos (kas-Ki-Yeh in Apache) while men were in town trading. Carrasco justified the attack because of a claim that the Apaches had conducted a raid in Sonora, taking livestock and other plunder after badly defeating the Mexican militia. Geronimo's wife, children, and mother were killed. The loss of his family resulted in Geronimo's lifelong hatred of Mexicans.
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Early Life of Geronimo (Example)
Born to the Bedonkohe Band of the Apache near Turkey Creek - a tributary of the Gila River, His parents raised him according to Apache traditions.
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The Disappearance of Lady Frances Cafax
Watson travels around Europe, doing Holmes' work for him.
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The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
Mrs. Ronder tells her story.
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The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier
Science saves the day.