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Morbid Martian refers to two things;
Firstly, Morbid Martian is an internet web site and blog that has no specific purpose. It does three things, firstly it is a blog about anything that it's creater (James) finds interesting or has strong views about, secondly it is a games web site and thirdly it is the host for videos filmed by James and his friends. Such videos include "Prudence the Exploding Yoghurt Pot" and "Balazs Goes Hungry". The latter was named after the creator of "the mini blog" and is a sort of rival to James.
Morbid Martian is also the internet alias of the site's creater, James, who has become a very small internet star from Northamptonshire in the UK, thanks to his site. James (according to his myspace page) is about 16 years old, has a distinct lack of personnal hygiene (possibly a joke shared between him and his friends) and no sense of urgency (he reports his main weakness as being too laid back). It is his views and ideas that he writes in the blog that is on the main page. From past blog entries (which he sometimes has affectionatly called "rants") it has been made very clear that James is very disapproving of Conservatives, George Bush, "Chavs", Children acting like they are 20 and a lack of common sense in every day life.
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http://www.morbid-martian.co.uk/ - The original web site
http://www.myspace.com/morbidmartian/ - James' Myspace page
[edit] Colonel Jacob Klock's Regiment
Colonel Jacob Klock's Regiment Second Tryon County Militia in the Revolution
Colonel Klock was a man who was respected in his day and is still in this day. He was not the ignorant dolt depicted by some but was an educated man, able to read and write and a leader in his day. He fought in wars, first in the French and Indian Wars (1748-1760) on the British side and then in the Revolutionary War. During the French and Indian Wars, many of the men learned some semblance of military training for later usage in the Revolutionary War. General Herkimer served under Colonel Klock in this war. When the time of the Border Wars or Revolutionary War came, the Colonel was an exempt; meaning because of his age he was not expected to serve. By the information we have on him, he was born in the very early 1700s and he was not a young man when war once more came to him. But the Colonel bravely stepped forward as did many of the exempts and protected the home front and farms while the more able bodied men went to fight elsewhere. Klock's Regiment fought in many of the local battles and skirmishes. They had a huge territory to watch over. I have immense respect for the Colonel and all the exempts who stayed and bravely fought for what was theirs. It could not have been easy to traipse over the countryside exposed to the elements at his time in life. Like so many Mohawk Valley families, he also saw the heartbreak of a Tory son and son-in-law. The record tells us the following about him personally: JACOB KLOCK (father, HENDRICK) was born October 08, 1708 in Stone Arabia, New York, and died May 09, 1798 in Montgomery Co., New York. He married (1) ELIZABETH BELLINGER, daughter of FREDRICK BELLINGER and ANNA FOX. She was born Abt. 1712, and died Bef. 1766. He married (2) CATHARINA NELLIS July 27, 1781, daughter of CHRISTIAN NELLIS and BARVALIS KLOCK. She was born December 23, 1723, and died August 20, 1805 in Montgomery Co., New York. Tryon County was a huge county, it covered the area from Albany County up to the Indian Territory. It was named after William Tryon, the Colonial Governor, a friend of Sir William Johnson. The Colonial Governor was so hated, as soon as the Revolutionary War ended, the name was changed to Montgomery County after Richard Montgomery the hero of the siege on Quebec. Klock's Regiment was one of the five Militia Regiments in Tryon County. The Militia was not the only organization recruiting men to fight in the war. There was also the Continental Line, the Rangers, New York Line, and the Levies. In 1772 Sir William Johnson divided Tryon County into five districts. The districts were as follows: Mohawk, the eastern portion east of "The Noses"; the Palatine district on the south side and occupying the same breadth on the north side, then extending south to the Pennsylvania line; the Kingsland district, that portion on the north side of the river west of the Palatine district and the German Flatts district which was on the south side of the river extending from Little Falls to Fort Stanwix and south to the Pennsylvania line. Jacob Klock served as the Colonel of the Palatine District of Militia and is said to have been in command of Fort Plank on the south side of the river in Minden in 1779 and 1780. During the Revolutionary War he lived on Lot 13 of the Harrison Patent. The Tryon County Committee apparently followed this general division at first. After the death of General Herkimer, who was in the Canajoharie district, the Kingsland and German Flatts Regiments were consolidated. A fifth Regiment was created which embraced Cherry Valley and the section adjacent under Colonel Harper. Roberts & Mather (1898) in New York in the Revolution gives the Regiment commanding officers as follows:
First Regiment--Col. Samuel Campbell, Colonel Ebenezer Cox, Lt. Colonel Samuel Clyde. Second Regiment--Col. Jacob Klock, Lt. Colonel Peter Wagner. Third Regiment--Col. Frederick Fisher, Colonel Frederick Visscher, Lt. Colonel Volkert Veeder. Fourth Regiment--Col. Peter Bellinger. Fifth Regiment--Col. John Harper, Major Joseph Harper.
There were also separate divisions as Battalion of Minute Men under Colonel Samuel Clyde; Associated Exempts, Capt. Jelles Fonda and three organizations of Rangers under Capts. John Wynn, Christian Getman and John Kassellmann. The list of names is from state pay rolls sent in by Colonel Jacob Klock. It shows those in the Regiment before 1780 when the state government first began to function. Prior to that and especially at the Battle of Oriskany when the entire man power of the valley was under arms, there were no records because the battle was fought before there was a state government. The records of those engaged in that battle are from pension papers, private papers and family tradition. There are many repetitions in the names, and this is unavoidable. The nature of the service called for many short time services and consequent duplicate pay rolls. A man might serve in the Militia one year and in the Levies the next year, or even both in the same year. The carelessness of army clerks in recording names with the inability of the men to spell their own names often led to duplication of one individual. But on the other hand, the Palatines repeated the same names every generation and this gave us many men with the same name. It is a nightmare for genealogists to find twenty Moses Johnsons for instance! During the war there were three Major Foxes, all bearing nearly the same Christian name, two of them being named Christopher and one Christian. Three distinct and separate George Nellises fought and there seems to have been at least five Jacob Klocks, all separate individuals. As for Timmerman and Zimmerman, Crouse and Krouse, Failing and Phelan, Dillenbeck and Tillebagh -- well you see the problem!
THIS LIST IS FAR FROM A COMPLETE LISTING OF THE REGIMENT.
Removed a very long list of names in order to save vertical space.
×Meegs 22:31, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
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Colonel Jacob Klock's Regiment Second Tryon County Militia in the Revolution
Source Material:
By Lou D. MacWethy, noted author of many historical articles about families and the area as well as the owner of the St. Johnsville Enterprise & News. His granddaughter, Margaret Davis, has permitted articles by her grandfather to be used.
New York In The Revolution as Colony and State by James A. Roberts, Comptroller, Compiled by Frederic G. Mather Second Edition 1898
Documents Relating to The Colonial History of the State of New York Edited by Berthold Fernow Volume XV. State Archives, Vol. I, Albany N.Y. Wood Parsons and Company, Printers, 1887.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.97.137.225 (talk • contribs) 13:47, March 18, 2006
Grazeley is a small rural village set in Berkshire countryside. The villages of Mortimer, Burghfield, Spencers Wood & Three Mile Cross are a short distance away. Grazeley has a small parochial primary school ([[5]]) , as well as a village hall (www.grazeleyvillagehall.org.uk). The village hall is the perfect venue for celebrations, business meetings, club activities and barn dances. The hall is 1550 ft² (140 m²) with a woodblock floor, a ceiling height of over 16ft (4.9m) and a full-sized badminton court layout.(Contact 0870 383 1820.)
The Wheatsheaf is the village's local pub, and the traditonal church also located in grazeley closed its doors for the last time in January 2006. There are some picturesque walks around this area, with the 'brook' running along side the village, and eventually into the Thames. See it for yourself!
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THE VILLAGES OF SPENCERS WOOD & FARLEY HILL Local Author www.grazeleyvillagehall.org.uk
The term Viral Video refers to video content which gains widespread popularity through the process of Internet sharing, typically through email messages and media sharing websites.
Viral videos are usually humorous in nature and may range from network televised comedy sketches such as Saturday Night Live's Lazy Sunday to unintentionally released amateur video clips like Star Wars Kid.
While the viral video phenomenon has occurred in a largely unstructured manner, a number of organizations have attempted to adopt marketing strategies that rely on the distribution of viral video, often with mixed success.
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http://www.ifilm.com/viralvideo http://www.marketingprofs.com/5/page1.asp http://www.funnyplace.org http://video.google.com http://www.youtube.com 24.155.108.47 17:58, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
Filth were a seminal hardcore band who were mainstays of the Berkeley/Gilman Street scene during the late 80's and early 90's. Coupling fiery, screamed old-school style vocals with more laid back, sensible, and downright pop-punkish compositions, they quickly made a name for themselves within the East Bay punk community and eventually became one of its most well known bands. The group's short, but extremely influential, career saw them perform with such well known acts as Operation Ivy, Green Day, The Offspring, Tribe 8 and Link 80, among others.
Though they failed to record a full length before their somewhat premature 1991 breakup, the band did manage to record enough compilation and EP material (13 in all) to put out a split LP with yet another local group of beer-swilling, miscreant screamers: the psychedelia-tinged, lyrically twisted, coed hardcore outfit known as Blatz, with whom Filth had played most of their shows. The album, which came to be dubbed "The Shit Split", was initially released by Lookout Records in 1992, though in the mid-90s former members of the two bands decided to transfer the record's publishing rights to another label. Copies of the Shit Split, along with Filth's most popular EP "Live the Chaos", can now be bought via the Life is Abuse record company. Former members of Filth currently play/have played in the following bands: - Isocracy - The Vagrants - Pot Valiant - The Wynona Riders - Creeps on Candy - Dead and Gone - Fields of Shit - Dogma Mundista - Strychnine
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http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Filth
Blatz was a punk band that came out of the Berkely scene in the late 1980's, early 1990's with bands like Green Day and Operation Ivy They never went on tour, and mostly played shows at 924 Gilman. Their songs were unique and different than most punk bands at the time. They named their band after Blatz Beer, which is one of the worst, cheapest beers in the U.S. - their slogan is "Blatz: Cheaper than the beer!"
The band was founded by Joey and Eggplant when they played a show with their highschool drinking buddy John Santos. Their next gig would be battle of the bands with Kamala & the Karnivores, Surrogate Brains, and the Vagrants.
The following text is taken from the inside cover of Bitches n' Brew: "Blatz is Punk rock!! Nobody knew what the fuck would happen next. When we'd play, we were to flaky to plan stuff out. Our chaos wasn't a presentation, it was an accident. Some people said we were good. Fuck them! The highst form for praise we ever got was from this guy who drank this poison stuff in preperation for a BLATZ party so he could puke on us.
You're playing a show with two boyfreaks-one a veteran graveyard shift working DJ, wanting to figure out some BLATZ bass lines (WHY?). And the other waving 25 cents rags of protests, local gossip, overused art and misspellings at you every gig you play for two years. Then this silly, silly protest waving anarchist convention dropout whines and withers. Somehow, he's naked, punished with a new suit of cat food, cheap beer, spagetti o's and rotten eggs. And all he can do is spit at his torturers and tell 'em they suck. Jeer Jeer. Two chicks invade, hellbent on turning the whole freakshow into a Frank Sinatra lounge act. One is a Hula-dancing maniac, and the other a farm town escapee, loudmouthed and sporting a lovely cliffage. No, they don't all get together in a freaky love-foursome: you're at a BLATZ show.
I'm sure this band set out with big dreams and accomplishments. In a lot of ways, we did accomplish them, and extra squirmish fantasies to boot. Somhow, being young and naive made it possible to shoot for an impossible goal and still have fun. Who knows what things might get done not doing the original intent? Jumping into this band lent plenty of room for the unexpected. I guess all things should.
The members of Blatz were Annie Lalania-vocals Anna Joy-vocals Jesse Luscious aka: Jesse Blatz or Jesse Dangerous-vocals Marshall Stax-bass Robert Eggplant-guitars Joey Perales-drums
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http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Blatz
[edit] Mandor
Mandore: 9 kms from Jodhpur is this ancient capital of Marwar with its gardens and rock terraces. Places to visit include the shrine of 330 million Gods, the hall of Heroes where sixteen huge figures are carved out of a single rock, and the royal cenotaphs.
Mandor is an ancient regional capital just 9km north of Jodhpur. Rao Jodha moved the capital to Jodhpur in the 15th century, and by the 17th century Mandor had become a royal park which was dedicated to funerary memorials (cenotaphs) of the Jodhpur rulers.
In particular, the "temples" of Mandor, including those seen in this photo, are not temples per se. Rather, they are highly elaborated cenotaphs in temple form. They are Hindu (the religion of most of Rajasthan), and date from the 17th and 18th centuries.
In this photo, The right cenotaph (mostly hidden behind a tree) belongs to Jaswant Singh, 1638 - 1678. The left cenotaph belongs to Ajit Singh, who died in 1763.
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www.art-and-archaeology.com/.../ man1.html
142.157.194.143 18:41, 18 March 2006 (UTC)