2024年10月26日 星期六

militia, campground, campsite,‘ Roughing It’, strange happenings, militiamen. Crossing Death Valley NP. In & out of Whitney Portal campground.

Pro-Russian militiamen keep watch as Dutch forensic investigators prepare to inspect bodies. CreditMauricio Lima for The New York Times



Crossing Death Valley NP. In & out of Whitney Portal campground.

The Los Angeles Times fills in the strange happenings at the end of the speech, when the Ayatollah "began lamenting his physical condition and weeping," apparently a sort of signal to loyalists to crack down on demonstrators. The Basij, the government's plain-clothes volunteer militia, has "already been deployed to the streets," the Wall Street Journal adds.


By MICHELLE HIGGINS
Private campgrounds across the country have been reinventing themselves from sleepy, rustic campsites to bustling “camp resorts.”


Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. It was written during 1870–71 and published in 1872 as a prequel to his first book Innocents Abroad. This book tells of Twain's adventures prior to his pleasure cruise related in Innocents Abroad.
Roughing It follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861–1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman, he joined his brother Orion Clemens, who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brother's diary to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for many stories in the novel.
Roughing It illustrates many of Twain's early adventures, including a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver prospecting, real-estate speculation, and his beginnings as a writer.
In this memoir, readers can see examples of Twain's rough-hewn humor, which would become a staple of his writing in his later books, such as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

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militia

Line breaks: mil|itia
Pronunciation: /mɪˈlɪʃə 
  
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NOUN

1A military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency:creating a militia was no answer to the army’s manpower problem[MASS NOUN]: small detachments of militia
1.1A military force that engages in rebel or terrorist activities in opposition to a regular army.
1.2(In the US) all able-bodied civilians eligible by law for military service.

Origin

late 16th century: from Latin, literally 'military service', from milesmilit- 'soldier'.

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