Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "Biographics"
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In the book, born to run, the author talks about how Geronimo would lead his guerilla fighters against the US soldiers and let them chase him back into the canyons in Mexico, where he would vanish, and so would his pursuers, because the army would get lost, caught in flash floods, attacked by animals, snakes or die of starvation or thirst. He was great at letting nature dispose of people who were after him...the Barrancas are where a number of famous people have vanished, never to be heard from again, like Ambrose Bierce....
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@lunartears6761
I was a kid in the 60s, and there was a chicken pox epidemic that swept through our neighborhood in practically 24 hours, we ALL got it, about 27 kids. I luckily only had a couple of pox scabs, but my best friend was quite literally covered from head to toe, she even had 2 on her tongue!! Her mother was terrified she would be completely scarred for life because they itched her to death. It was the big days of doctors tranquilizing housewives to complete imbecility, so her mom gave her some dope to keep her from scratching...the only great thing was that, since we ALL had it, we got to play together, and no one was confined to the house, except for 2 kids who were very ill. You can die even from chicken pox. Every single one of them got shingles later too. I didn't, but I developed an auto immune disorder by 35, which was like waking up sick one morning, and never getting better. Vaccines are worth the risk!!
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@DuvalDiva32210
"Geronimo used to skedaddle into the copper canyons when on the run from the US Calvery, so did his protege, the Apache Kid. "By the time you saw the Apache Kid, it was entirely too late." Pursuing them into the maze of canyons meant the risk of never coming out again. John Burke, a US Calvery Captain barely survived an unsuccessful pursuit of Geronimo into the canyons. After days of baking in the sun, soldiers would welcome the relief of a few dark clouds. Within minutes, they would be trapped in a surge of water as powerful as a fire hose, scrambling desperately to escape the slippery rock walls. That's exactly how another Apache rebel named Massai wiped out an entire calvery squad. By bringing them into a shallow gorge just in time to be swept away by a mountain cloudburst. The Apache chief Vitorio used to lead calvery troops on a cat and mouse chase deep in the canyons, then lie in wait by the only waterhole. Lost, and crazed by heat, they would rather risk a quick bullet to the head than a slow choking from a thirst thickened tongue "...Christopher Mcdougall, Born To Run.
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He also had a habit of surrounding himself with very tall aides de camp, which pointed up the "little general" nickname, which was really more about his youth, not his height.
A great novel written from the point of view of Napoleon's first fiance is called Desiree. She was very young (14) and her older sister had already married the oldest brother, Joseph Bonaparte, who needed her dowry. Napoleon threw over Desiree for Josephine, needing political clout in Paris more than a large dowry.
Getting the last laugh, Desiree married a Marachel of France, who was adopted by the old house of Vasa in Sweden, ultimately becoming king, and Desiree, Queen. Her descendants are still the royal family of Sweden today.
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There is a book called captive, about two german settler brothers who were taken captive for several years, and when one was returned, he completely identified with the indians because he had been taken around 8 or 9 and went through his teen and young adult years with them, an extremely formative time. He was always very unhappy to go back to the thankless and constrained life of a farmer, and was considered an outsider by everyone around him, finally living most of the time in a cave outside of town until old age. I found this fascinating because I have family through marriage that lives in the exact area, and there are many stories passed down of indians trying to, or taking young children of all kinds. The tribe were not racially motivated, and healthy children were important to keep the tribes alive, so there were many Mexicans, black and european indians who intermarried with each other and considered themselves as indians. My mother is supposedly (we haven't gotten dna proof yet) half indian as a result of grandma falling for an indian at a reservation while her husband was working as a cowboy for a big ranch outside Dallas, Texas in the early 1920s. He was gone all the time, and I heard parts of this from grandma herself, who talked to me at length when I was a child about her best "friend" who was an indian. She obviously loved him and never got over it, as I heard about it many times, although she tried to disguise the identity of her friend. My mother DID always look like a central casting movie Indian all her life, she had black hair and eyes, was very tall and had high cheekbones and a hawk like nose. Everyone else was blond.....
Back then, it would have been disastrous to have had a child in a relationship
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Picasso was definitely complex, like most of us, but seemed more dedicated than anyone else to following his own path no matter what. I used to wonder endlessly how such beautiful and popular women could fall for him, but several of them said that when he decided to focus his attention, he was intensely giving and living and interested in everything about them. It fits a theory I've had for a long time, that the most sexy, alluring thing anyone can do to attract someone is to be completely fascinated by them, not be fascinating, but be fascinated! Nothing is more attractive than to anyone. When is the last time anyone you knew was completely enthralled by you? For most people, it never happens. Especially today, when our attentions are constantly interrupted and divided. It's something that cannot be faked well, either. What do you think? Of course, I'm not talking about crazy obsessed people, like stalkers, etc., but regular folks...
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