Thomas Blane 🦉

"Thomas Andrew Blane was Coalition Conservative MP for Leicester South. He won the seat in 1918, but stood down in 1922. He also stood for the London County Council in Bethnal Green North East, for the Municipal Reform Party. Sources *F W S Craig, British Parliamentary Election Results, 1918–1949; Political Reference Publications, Glasgow, 1949 *London Municipal Notes, 1913 *Whitaker's Almanack, 1919 to 1922 editions Category:Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Leicestershire "

The City We Became 🦉

"The City We Became is a 2020 urban fantasy novel by N. K. Jemisin. It is the first in her Great Cities series. It was developed from her short story "The City Born Great". It is her first novel since her triple Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth series. Setting The City We Became takes place in New York City, in a version of the world in which great cities become sentient through human avatars. Plot After the avatar of New York falls into a supernatural coma and vanishes, a group of five new avatars representing the five boroughs come together to fight their common Enemy. Characters The avatars = * New York: a queer Black homeless young man. An artist, hustler, and the avatar of New York City. * Manny: a queer, multiracial man in his late 20s. When he becomes Manhattan's avatar, he loses most memory of his former life, representing his role as a new New Yorker. He is a somewhat ruthless strategist. He can allow non-avatar New Yorkers to see the Enemy if he needs to use them. *Brooklyn "MC Free" Thomason: a Black, middle-aged former rapper, lawyer, and current city councilwoman. She has a child and a sick father. Her power is rooted in music. * Bronca Siwanoy: a queer Lenape woman in her 60s. She has a PhD, a hot temper, a son, and works at the Bronx art center. She is the oldest of the six avatars and thus the holder of the city's lexicon of knowledge. * Padmini Prakash: a 25 year-old Tamil immigrant graduate student living in Queens. Her first name means "she who sits on the lotus". She can use mathematic imagination to change physical reality. * Aislyn Houlihan: a 30 year-old white woman with brown-hair who lives with her parents on Staten Island. Her father is an abusive, racist cop who calls her 'apple,' though her name means 'dream'. She can become invisible. = Other characters = * São Paulo: the avatar of the city he is named for. He is brown-skinned, lean, and a smoker. His cigarette smoke can combat the Enemy. * Hong Kong: the avatar of the city he is named for. He has a Chinese-inflected British accent. * The Enemy: an infectious, otherworldly life form that wants to kill the newly-born city of New York. It appears in many forms, including the Woman in White, Dr. White, contagious fungal fronds, and x-shaped spider- like creatures. The Enemy is revealed to be R'lyeh, the fictional lost city from H. P. Lovecraft's work. * Madison: a white woman who drives an antique Checker cab. She helps Manny defeat an outbreak on FDR Drive. * Bel Nguyen: A British transgender man and Manny's new roommate. * Josephine Thomason: Brooklyn's 14 year-old daughter. * Yijing: an Asian woman who works with Bronca at the Bronx Art Center. * Veneza: a young Black and Portuguese woman who works with Bronca at the Bronx Art Center. * Jess: a Jewish woman who works with Bronca at the Bronx Art Center. * Alt-Artistes: racist artist collective. * Aishwarya Auntie: Padmini's older relative, with whose family she lives. * Kendra Houlihan: Aislyn's mother. A talented pianist who had won a full-ride to Juilliard, but had to give it up when she became pregnant and married Aislyn's father. * Matthew Houlihan: Aislyn's father, a racist cop. * Connell McGinnis: a young neo-Nazi that Aislyn's father tries to set her up with. He has rectangular black glasses, a waxed and curled mustache, and many racist tattoos. Reception The New York Times' review stated, "In the face of current events, 'The City We Became' takes a broad-shouldered stand on the side of sanctuary, family and love. It’s a joyful shout, a reclamation and a call to arms." NPR wrote that it is, "a love letter, a celebration and an expression of hope and belief that a city and its people can and will stand up to darkness, will stand up to fear, and will, when called to, stand up for each other." A review in Slate said, "The city she sings fizzes so joyously through the veins of this novel that anyone mourning the New York before COVID-19 will likely find The City We Became equally sustaining and elegiac, a tribute to a city that may never fully return to us." References Category:2020 science fiction novels Category:2020 American novels Category:2020 fantasy novels Category:American LGBT novels Category:Literature by women Category:Literature by African-American women Category:Science fantasy Category:American science fiction novels Category:American fantasy novels Category:Afrofuturist novels Category:Novels set in New York City Category:New York City in fiction Category:Novels about racism Category:Feminist literature Category:Allegory Category:Personifications Category:Political literature Category:Womanist literature Category:Womanist novels Category:LGBT speculative fiction novels Category:2020s LGBT novels "

Tchórzew (disambiguation) 🦉

"Tchórzew may refer to one of the following locations in Poland: *Tchórzew, Lublin Voivodeship *Tchórzew, Masovian Voivodeship *Tchórzew-Plewki *Tchórzew- Kolonia "