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Arthur Treadwell Walden (May 10, 1871 โ March 26, 1947) was a Klondike Gold Rush adventurer, dog driver and participant in the first Byrd Antarctic Expedition. He is also known as an author and developer of the Chinook sledgedog breed.
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Arthur Treadwell Walden was born on May 10, 1871, in Indianapolis, Indiana, to an Episcopal clergyman named Rev. Treadwell Walden and his wife, Elizabeth Leighton. Walden spent much of his youth in Minnesota and was educated at the Shattuck Military School in Faribault. In 1890 his father was appointed minister of St. Paul's Cathedral in Boston. Disliking city life in Boston, Arthur went to live at his father's vacation home in Tamworth, New Hampshire.
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Restless and wanting adventure, Walden travelled to Alaska in March 1896. In August 1896 gold was discovered in the Klondike. During the gold rush, Walden found himself working as a freighter carrying supplies and mail down the Yukon River. He became experienced with sledge dogs that were used to pull freight over vast distances. The use of sledge dogs led to freighters being called "dog punchers"
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After returning to New England, Walden married Katherine Sleeper on December 9, 1902, in Tamworth, New Hampshire. She was a relative of his stepmother and the daughter of a wealthy Boston newspaper family. The couple operated the 1300-acre Wonalancet Farm and Inn. Walden began training and breeding sledge dogs at the farm. On January 17, 1917, a litter of three dogs was born that Walden had bred from a female Greenland Dog and a male Mastiff/St. Bernard mixes farm dogs. One of those dogs, Chinook, was the progenitor of the breed that bears his name. He named the dog after a favourite Eskimo dog he worked with in the Yukon. The breed would eventually be named the state dog of New Hampshire. In 1922, he convinced a local newspaper to sponsor the first 123-mile Eastern International Dog Derby, bringing the sport of dog sledge racing to New England. Walden founded the New England Sled Dog Club in 1924. In 1928 Walden published his memoir, A Dog-Puncher in the Yukon.
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In 1927, Richard Byrd selected Walden to run the dog teams during his first Antarctic Expedition. Walden would only agree to accompany Byrd if he guaranteed that no dogs would be shot to save supplies, as had been done in previous expeditions. A few members of the expedition spent the winter of 1927-1928 at the Walden farm training and testing trail gear. During the expedition, Walden and his 13 dogs moved thousands of pounds of supplies from the ship over the 16-mile trail to base camp. Chinook, the first dog of his breed, disappeared (presumably dying) on January 17, 1929, while moving supplies to base camp. Walden received the Congressional Medal for his efforts during the Antarctic Expedition in 1931.
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Walden died on March 26, 1947, while saving his wife from a fire in the kitchen of their farmhouse.
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According to the myth, the younger god Marduk challenges Tiamat's authority and defeats her in a great battle. Marduk then splits Tiamat's body in two, creating the heavens and the earth from her remains. This myth is often seen as symbolizing the triumph of order over chaos.
joeb631a
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I must have been doing that wrong for years.The Earth is Round and my ass is flat from scratching so much.
My ass has a crack in it.
NewbOldster
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Crack? Mine has a hole in it!
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Thought that was Italy and Sicily
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thinks thats normal .its not normal if that hole is bigger ,prevalent and encompasses said location ( so to speak)
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The Innis house at the stone wall on Sunken Road in Fredericksburg, 1866.
On December 13, 1862 Confederate infantrymen stood at the this wall, in ranks as many as four men deep. After firing his weapon, the rebel soldier at the wall would then step to the rear and reload his gun. The next man stepped up and shot at the oncoming Union soldiers. In this way, a steady fire was poured into the charging Federals.
Directly behind this position, the Washington Artillery from New Orleans dug positions in the front yard of Brompton. Supported by other batteries, the Washington Artillery added to the maelstrom into which U.S. soldiers vainly tried to advance.
The Innis house was owned by Martha Stephens, whose son from her first common-law marriage, John B. Innis, occupied the house at the time of the battle. As you would expect, the house was shot full of holes during the fight.
Martha Stephens was a rough-edged, uneducated pipe-smoking entrepreneur of sorts. She operated an unlicensed grocery and gin joint on the premises and may have been the employer of ladies of easy virtue.
Some historians say that Martha stayed at the house during the battle and aided wounded soldiers on both sides, but there is some doubt about that.
On December 13, 1862 Confederate infantrymen stood at the this wall, in ranks as many as four men deep. After firing his weapon, the rebel soldier at the wall would then step to the rear and reload his gun. The next man stepped up and shot at the oncoming Union soldiers. In this way, a steady fire was poured into the charging Federals.
Directly behind this position, the Washington Artillery from New Orleans dug positions in the front yard of Brompton. Supported by other batteries, the Washington Artillery added to the maelstrom into which U.S. soldiers vainly tried to advance.
The Innis house was owned by Martha Stephens, whose son from her first common-law marriage, John B. Innis, occupied the house at the time of the battle. As you would expect, the house was shot full of holes during the fight.
Martha Stephens was a rough-edged, uneducated pipe-smoking entrepreneur of sorts. She operated an unlicensed grocery and gin joint on the premises and may have been the employer of ladies of easy virtue.
Some historians say that Martha stayed at the house during the battle and aided wounded soldiers on both sides, but there is some doubt about that.
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interesting history
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It only comes out when taunted, if that's what you mean.
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Oops wrong thread.
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Oops wrong thread redux
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This thread certainly lives up to its name! 
joeb631a
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basically some peeps are all asz holesIt only comes out when taunted, if that's what you mean.
i can be from time to time
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Oops wrong thread TRI-EFFIN-FECTA!
That's it. I gotta go to Homeless Despot to get a GFCI, then drag the washer out and replace the one it uses.
Those things are a pain.
That's it. I gotta go to Homeless Despot to get a GFCI, then drag the washer out and replace the one it uses.
Those things are a pain.
NewbOldster
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I can be, but much prefer to not be. It takes a bigger one than me to make me be one, is how I try to approach it.basically some peeps are all asz holes
i can be from time to time
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perfect ,my way also
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puttin a gfi on the washer?
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Heil Polaris!
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Replacing the one it plugs in to, yes. Tomorrow. I'm too lazy to do it today, and such projects are a daylight start time for me.
I have a front load washer and matching dryer on storage stands, and they're in between big storage cabinets, so it's a major pain to drag it out - then ya' gotta clean the floor and the wall and I'll probably check the dryer vent hose while I'm at it.
Then level everything up again. Did I mention I gots a lazy streak today?
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