Podcast appearances and mentions of Nancy Brown

In today's Power Surge, we're diving into the incredible true story of Dashrath Manjhi, a man who spent 22 years carving a path through a mountain—by hand! His story is one of determination, resilience, and the power of a single person to make a massive impact. Episode Highlights

The charitable giving landscape in 2024 is a tricky one. Because the truth is, Americans have become less generous in the last few years. Vox has gone so far as to say we're in the middle of a “generosity crisis,” and fewer than half of us now give to charity on an annual basis. So, how can we make sure our favorite nonprofits continue to thrive? And how can we know what type of donations and philanthropic efforts will have the most impact? Nancy Brown, CEO of the American Heart Association shares her top tips for smart charitable giving in 2024. CHAPTERS: 00:00 Charitable Giving Landscape in 2024 04:30 Women's Heart Health 16:30 The Power of Small Donations and Volunteering 31:00 Mailbag Question 1: I have multiple HSAs, should I consolidate them now?  35:00 Mailbag Question 2: I have a variable annuity, how do I evaluate if it's the best place to keep my money?  TAKEAWAYS: Donor-advised funds (DAFs) are accounts that allow charitable contributions to grow tax-free, amplifying their impact over time. Automating your monthly giving offers nonprofits much-needed financial stability. Giving appreciated securities can save donors from paying capital gains tax while offering nonprofits the full value of the assets.  Learn more about our Finance Fixx program here. Use code PODCAST for a $100 discount. Interested in learning more about investing alongside hundreds of other women? Join us every other Monday night on Zoom at investingfixx.com. Have a question for us? Write to us at mailbag@hermoney.com. While you're at it, join the HerMoney community! For the latest episode drops and financial news-you-can-use, subscribe to our newsletter at Hermoney.com/subscribe! Use promo code HERMONEY at the link below to get an exclusive 60% off an annual plan at https://incogni.com/hermoney. The HerMoney with Jean Chatzky podcast is sponsored by Edelman Financial Engines. The podcast team and its host are neither employees nor clients of EFE, however, the show does receive fixed compensation and is a paid endorser and therefore has an incentive to endorse EFE and its planners. To learn more about the sponsorship, please visit PlanEFE.com/HerMoney. Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast, and to learn more about Airwave, head to www.airwavemedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a special presentation of a recent bonus episode from our Everlasting Man Online Book Club! To sign up for the Book Club and see future live streams, visit https://chesterton.org/everlastingman To buy Nancy's book, visit https://www.chesterton.org/store/product/frances-chesterton/  

Today is the final installment of our four-part wildfire prevention and preparedness series “SoCo Ready”. In our final segment, we will be discussing what you can do to protect yourself and your family when that evacuation order comes. To help us with that we have as our guest today, Dr. Nancy Brown who is Community Preparedness Program Manager for the County of Sonoma.

Nancy Brown, CEO, American Heart Association joins KRLD's David Johnson on this episode of CEO Spotlight.

The Tom Ficklin Show: In Conversation With Nancy Brown, Dean, Yale Medical School by WNHH Community Radio

AdvaMed President and CEO Scott Whitaker sits down with Nancy Brown, President of the American Heart Association to talk about AHA's 100th anniversary and the role medical technology has played in reducing cardiovascular disease deaths. AdvaMed, the Medtech Association, is the world's largest trade association for the medical technology industry, representing nearly 500 companies around the world that are developing life-changing and life-saving medical technologies for patients. To learn more about AdvaMed, the Medtech Association, visit www.advamed.org. To learn more about the American Heart Association, visit www.heart.org.

Host, Haley Stewart, talks with Nancy C. Brown, the author of The Woman Who Was Chesterton and The Mystery of Harry Potter: A Catholic Family Guide. This episode discusses what British Catholic writer G.K. Chesterton thought were the three essential elements of a good story and it also explores the challenges of discerning what stories to share with children. Learn more about the children's literature available from Word on Fire Votive. Stay up-to-date with the latest episodes of the The Votive Podcast biweekly on WordonFire.org or wherever you get your podcasts. Do you enjoy this podcast? Become a Word on Fire IGNITE member to support the production of the Votive Podcast and other initiatives from Word on Fire. Our ministry depends on the support of listeners like you! Become a part of this mission and join IGNITE today to become a Word on Fire insider and receive some special donor gifts for your generosity.

Join us on the latest episode, hosted by Jared S. Taylor! Our Guest: Nancy Brown, General Partner at Oak HC/FT.What you'll get out of this episode:Nancy Brown's Background: Nancy shares her comprehensive experience in healthcare management and her strategic move from a non-profit to entrepreneur, detailing her pivotal roles in pioneering companies like Athenahealth.Investment Philosophy: Nancy discusses Oak HC/FT's unique approach to investing, focusing on building new systems rather than altering existing ones, and their careful selection of portfolio companies.Healthcare Challenges and Hopes: She expresses both frustration with current healthcare inefficiencies and optimism about the potential for improvement through attracting top talent into the sector.Founder Relationships: Nancy elaborates on her deep, supportive relationships with founders, emphasizing the importance of leadership qualities and operational expertise in her investment strategy.Future of Healthcare: Focusing on the cost-quality equation in healthcare, Nancy highlights Oak HC/FT's commitment to addressing complex healthcare needs through innovative solutions.To learn more about Oak HC/FT:Website: https://www.oakhcft.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oak-hc-ft-partners/Guest's Socials:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancygbrown/Our sponsors for this episode are:Sage Growth Partners https://www.sage-growth.com/Quantum Health https://www.quantum-health.com/Show and Host's Socials:Slice of HealthcareLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sliceofhealthcare/Jared S TaylorLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaredstaylor/WHAT IS SLICE OF HEALTHCARE?The go-to site for digital health executive/provider interviews, technology updates, and industry news. Listed to in 65+ countries.

Nancy Brown, a military spouse of 19 years, wrote this loving tribute for her two best deployment buddies. It honors the way the three friends formed one great big family while living through several deployments in Eastern North Carolina. Three women, no husbands and nine children all dressed in each other's hand-me-downs. On paper, they were more different than alike but maybe that's a more accurate description of a family after all. (Previously aired)

Today, we're talking about earthquakes and how to prepare for them. Joining us in that discussion is none other than our friend Nancy Brown, Sonoma County's Community Preparedness Program Manager.

In 1954, an Ohio girl goes east and gets an education. By Erlikkhan. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories. Dear Mom and Dad, I was really excited to get your letter and hear the news from home. I'm sorry I have not been very good about staying in contact. School is keeping me so busy that I barely have time to write. There really isn't much to tell that's new. I still love all my classes and the professors are excellent. My roommate Martha has been so nice to me. She's from New York and seems to know everyone. This past weekend she set me up on a date with a boy named Brian. His family has a lot of money but he wasn't at all stuffy. I plan to see him again this weekend. I have a big assignment due so I better cut this short. Please give my love to everyone. I can't wait for Christmas when I will be able to come home. Love - Nancy “Wasn't that a sweet letter, Martin? It sounds like our daughter is adjusting to life at Vassar very nicely for a girl who grew up on a farm in the Midwest. And a date with a rich boy from New York! I just hope he's a nice boy and isn't trying to take advantage of her.” “Ethel, you worry too much,” Martin replied. “I'm sure Nancy can take care of herself. She's a big girl.” At the very moment Martin and Ethel were having that conversation, Brian Castle was on top of their daughter pounding his cock straight down into her pussy. Nancy dug her fingernails into his back trying to hold on to some semblance of sanity. It was hopeless. Her pussy exploded in a violent climax. Moments later, Brian pulled out, wrapped his hand around his dripping cock, and pumped spurt after spurt of hot cum all over their daughter's tits and stomach. Two Months Earlier… Nancy Brown arrived at Vassar in September 1954. She was a pretty blond of average height with big blue eyes and a shapely figure. Her roommate Martha was a short dark-haired girl from New York City with a cute face and a bountiful chest. She seemed nice enough, but had a New York City edge and used more swear words than Nancy had ever heard from a girl. She talked about sex like it was a common everyday topic of conversation. Nancy wasn't a total prude, or at least she didn't think she was. She had kissed her share of boys and even let a few of them feel her breasts. It was clear Martha had done a lot more than that. Where Nancy came from, good girls didn't let boys touch them ‘down there' unless they were going steady. Nancy had always been curious about how it would feel to be touched ‘down there', and one night used her own fingers to find out. After that, she rubbed off almost every night and sometimes during the day. One time, she even used the handle of a hairbrush, curious to see how it might feel to have a penis inside her. Nancy wondered if Martha had ever gone all the way. The way she talked sure sounded like it. She found out during her second weekend at Vassar. Martha was late returning to the room and almost missed curfew. Nancy was shocked when she arrived in the nick of time with a boy. Boys weren't allowed to visit girls in the dorm rooms, especially at night. Violation of that rule could get one suspended or even dismissed. Martha didn't seem to care. “Hey roomie,” Martha said with a big grin on her face. “This is Roger. We snuck up the back way to avoid the old battle axe. He has a flask of whisky. Do you want to party with us?” “Won't we get in trouble?” Nancy asked nervously. “Surely Miss Grayson will report us.” “She's clueless. My older sister used to have boys up to her room when she lived here and never got caught. Come on, let's have a little fun.” Nancy didn't want to seem like a prude and took the flask from Roger when he handed it to her. She had never tasted alcohol and choked when she took a swig. They laughed. Nancy's head was spinning after two more swigs. She kept waiting for Roger to leave so she could go to bed. He didn't. Finally, Martha stood and took Roger's hand. “We're going to bed now,” she told Nancy. “We'll try not to make too much noise.” Nancy couldn't believe this was happening. It was scandalous enough to have a boy in the room after curfew, but he was spending the night. Was Martha implying they were going to have sex? It sure sounded like it. Back home only sluts did that. Martha didn't seem like a slut. She seemed more like a girl who knew what she wanted and wasn't ashamed to get it. An alcove wall separated the beds. Normally, Nancy would undress and put on her nightgown, but with a man in the room, even if it was in the next alcove, she felt exposed. She climbed under the covers and removed her dress, then pulled off her panties and bra. She would sleep in her slip. As Nancy lay in bed, she could hear the rustle of clothes and soft moans coming from the other alcove. She could even hear what Martha was whispering. “Yes… right there. Oh… use two fingers.” Roger was fingering Martha. Nancy had imagined a boy doing that to her many times using her own fingers. Listening to it happening in the next alcove made her pussy throb. The urge to touch herself was too strong. Nancy slid a hand under her slip and between her legs. She found her pleasure button and rubbed. Her head was pounding and her nipples felt like they were going to burst. Then she heard Roger whisper to Martha. “Oh god yes baby… put it in your mouth… oh fuck…” Nancy had always considered oral sex a repugnant act that only whores did to satisfy their perverted clients. Then why did the image of Martha's lips sliding down Roger's cock make the throbbing in her pussy more intense? Nancy gasped and felt her body tremble. Juices seeped from her opening and dribbled down her ass. “Hurry,” Martha begged. “Put your cock in my pussy. Yes, baby, right there. Now push… ah…” Nancy's head was spinning. Her roommate was getting fucked only a few feet away on the other side of the alcove wall. She could hear the movement of their bodies and the soft moans and gasps of pleasure. Even the bed creaked in a steady rhythm. Two fingers plunged into Nancy's soaked pussy. She imagined they were Roger's cock pumping into her. Martha's words made it seem more real. “Fuck me… fuck me… god I love your cock… deeper baby… oh fuck… ungh…” Nancy moved both hands between her legs so she could rub her clit and finger her pussy at the same time. She listened to Martha's shrieks and squeals, and could only imagine how good it would feel to have a big hard cock pounding deep into her own pussy. Nancy threw her head back and bit her lip. Her body jerked and twisted as she exploded for the second time. “Oh fuck baby… here I cum…” “Not inside me. Shoot on my tits” Roger grunted. Nancy knew he must be shooting his stuff. She could only imagine what it looked like flying through the air and landing on her roommate's tits. Never having seen cum, all she knew was that it was white and thicker than water. She had no idea how much would come shooting out. It didn't matter. Just knowing this was happening sent Nancy spinning into a third series of orgasmic spasms. Several minutes later Roger snuck out of the room. Nancy rolled over and was soon fast asleep. The next morning, Martha was still in bed when Nancy dressed and left for breakfast. She was just finishing a bowl of cereal when Martha came down and slid into the chair across the table. “Hi roomie. I hope we weren't too loud last night. I have a hard time holding back when I climax, and Roger knows how to make me do that a lot. I probably should have let you know he was coming to see me, but it was so last minute.” Nancy did not respond right away. She was too busy staring at Martha's mouth and thinking that those lips had recently been wrapped around Roger's cock. Her pussy twitched. She couldn't figure out why thinking about it made her so excited. It was a perverted act. Only whores did those things. Apparently girls from New York City did as well. “Um, it's okay. I fell asleep so I didn't really hear anything,” Nancy lied. “Your boyfriend seemed really nice. Is he still here?” “Roger's not my boyfriend,” Martha laughed. “He's just a fun guy to be with. My parents sent me here to marry a doctor or lawyer from Yale, but I may as well have some fun in the meantime, right? Anyway, he drove back to the city last night. He just came up for a quick fuck.” Nancy was having difficulty getting her head around this. Where she came from, girls didn't use words like climax and fuck, and those who had sex with guys that weren't boyfriends were sluts. “Oh, I see,” Nancy said, trying to keep her voice steady, “Aren't you worried about getting pregnant?” “Not at all,” Martha replied. “I have a diaphragm and I usually make the guy wear a rubber too, although with Roger I didn't so I made him pull out when he was shooting his stuff. Do you have a diaphragm?” “Uh, no. I…I'm a virgin.” “Oh. I should have known, you being from the Midwest and all. That's okay. I know lots of girls who won't go all the way. Most guys are happy with a blowjob or handjob. I guess you must masturbate a lot if you're still a virgin.” Nancy turned bright red, giving herself away. Back home girls never admitted it. She always thought she was oversexed because of how often she did it. Compared to Martha, she wasn't even in the same league. “Um, it's not really something girls discuss where I come from.” “Yeah, but you do it, right? I mean, who doesn't? I have a plug in device that vibrates and it drives me crazy. You'd love it. I'll let you try it sometime. Hey, how would you like me to set you up with a date?” “Um, I…I don't know. I don't usually date strangers.” “Don't worry, Nancy. You'll love Mike. He's a junior at Rensselaer Polytechnic in Troy and a real gentleman, and he's very handsome. He won't try to do anything you don't want. I know him because he grew up in my neighborhood and went to the same school as me. I know you'll like him. How about it?” “Well, I guess it would be okay. It's just a date, right? You're sure he's a gentleman?” “Absolutely. I'll call and invite him down for the weekend.” Mike turned out to be handsome and sophisticated. They went to a mixer on campus with Martha and her date. Mike was a perfect gentleman just like Martha had told her he would be. He was also a good dancer. They swirled and spun doing the jitterbug until they were exhausted. After a break to get some punch and catch their breath, a slow dance played. Mike took her hand and led her out to the dance floor. Slow dances in the Midwest were more like waltzes where bodies barely touched. Nancy was surprised when Mike put his hand on her lower back and pulled her close. She felt a little self conscious being so close to a boy in a crowded room, but many of the other couples were dancing the same way so she relaxed. Mike slid his hand lower on her back and pulled her even closer. It took Nancy a moment to realize what was rubbing dangerously close to her pussy. It was his erection. She didn't know what to do. Nothing like this had ever happened to her. Even worse, it was having a highly stimulating effect on her. All she could do was wait for the song to end. By the time they separated, Nancy's pussy was moist and her nipples felt like they were going to rip through her bra. She excused herself to use the ladies room. She locked the stall door and sat on the toilet, pulling her panties down her legs. A hand slid through the soft blonde curls. A finger parted her folds and found her swollen clit. In less than a minute she leaned forward, squeezed her thighs together, and stifled a gasp. Mike was waiting patiently by the punch bowl when she returned. Nancy looked around the room for Martha, but she was nowhere to be seen. Mike told her he was having a good time and really enjoyed her company. She smiled and said she was enjoying herself as well. He asked her about Ohio and what it was like to grow up on a farm. He finally got around to what was really on his mind. “Would you like to go for a drive in my car? It's a beautiful night. I'll put the top down.” Nancy knew what this meant. It wasn't much different from the offers boys made back home. They would eventually end up parked somewhere private. He would put his arm around her and they would kiss. Nancy didn't mind that, particularly with such a gentleman. She could say no to anything he tried to do that she didn't want, and he would honor her wishes. “I would love that, Mike.” He took her hand and walked her to his 1952 red Chevy convertible. The cool air caused her blond hair to flap in the breeze as they wove through the nearby country roads. He turned onto a small unpaved road and drove several hundred yards to a hilltop overlooking the valley below. He turned off the motor and put his arm around her shoulder. “Isn't it beautiful? You can see the shadows of the valley in the moonlight.” Nancy turned her head and smiled at him. She wanted him to kiss her. She moved her face closer. “Yes. It's very romantic,” she whispered. Their lips met. Nancy parted hers invitingly. Their tongues mingled. The kiss became more passionate. His hand went to her waist and slowly inched higher. Should she let him feel her breast? She had let several boys at home do that, but never on the first date. On the other hand, she didn't want to seem like a prude, and she was in college. Nancy lifted her arm to signal her permission. His hand slid over the large swell pushing out from her cotton blouse. His fingers squeezed and massaged the soft tissue. Nancy moaned into his mouth. Her body was on fire. Her nipples swelled. Her pussy throbbed. Mike unbuttoned her blouse and slid his hand under her bra. Only one boy had ever touched her naked breast and certainly not on the first date. Nancy thought about stopping him before it went any further. Then a fingertip brushed across her bare nipple. Nancy gasped and squeezed her thighs together, trying to control the throbbing in her pussy. Any thought of stopping him quickly evaporated. Mike slid his lips to her neck, kissing and gently biting the thin skin. He rolled her hard nipple between his thumb and forefinger, gently squeezing and pinching. Nancy was losing all control over what he was doing to her. No one had ever made her feel this way. He pulled his hand from her bra and reached behind her back, deftly undoing the clasp to her bra. Nancy's head was spinning. A voice in her brain said no, but it was a distant echo to the demands of her body. Mike's lips trailed down her neck. He pushed her back until she was lying on the bench seat with her head against the passenger door. His mouth traveled lower. He kissed the swell of her breast before clamping his lips around her protruding nipple. She gasped when he sucked it into her mouth. Any urge to resist was slowly replaced by carnal passion. Her pussy throbbed with desire. Her nipples burned with excitement. She ran her fingers through Mike's hair and gasped from the pleasure pulsing through her body. His tongue teased the hard nub poking out from her nipple. He gently nibbled on it. She trembled and gasped. Mike moved to the other nipple and repeated the ritual. A hand slid up her thigh and under her skirt. Nancy was helpless to stop him. Her body desperately wanted this. She opened her thighs in invitation. His fingers found the damp crotch of her panties. For the first time in her life a man was touching her 'down there'. Mike slid a finger along her gash through the thin cotton. Nancy moved her hips forward and pushed against him. His finger found her clit. “Uh…” Her pussy clenched. Mike moved the crotch aside and pushed a finger up her cunt. Another explosion sent her spinning. He pumped his finger in and out. Nancy lost all control. One climax after another left her breathless and exhausted. “Are you okay?” Mike asked. Nancy opened her eyes and saw Mike hovering over her. She was breathing heavily. The throbbing in her pussy was still intense. She had just let a boy finger her…another first. She slowly gathered her composure and sat up, pulling her blouse closed over her naked breasts. “Yes. I'm fine. Perhaps we should go back now.” “Uh, yes, if that's what you want. I'm sorry if I did something to upset you.” Yes, she thought, I am upset, but with myself for losing control like that. I also experienced the greatest pleasure I have ever felt. She smiled as she fastened her bra. “No. I was just thinking that it was getting late. We have a curfew.” In truth, they still had most of an hour, and campus was only a few minutes away. Nancy could see the disappointment on Mike's face in the moonlight. Against her better judgement, she relented. “I guess we could stay a little longer,” she said. “It is a beautiful setting. Tell me about your studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic? Aerospace engineering sounds fascinating.” The last thing Mike wanted to do was talk. His cock was about to rip through the front of his pants. He was hoping she would do something about it, but that didn't seem likely at the moment. She was clearly trying to change the subject from sex. He gave a brief explanation of what he was studying, then turned the conversation back to her. “You probably think people from New York are way too liberal. I imagine that people in Ohio are pretty conservative.” “That's true,” Nancy agreed. “I'm getting used to it, but my parents would be shocked to know what goes on around here.” “You must be talking about Martha. She's quite a trip, but I'm glad she set us up together. I really like you. I'm sorry if I, um, perhaps acted inappropriately on our first date.” “No, not at all,” Nancy lied. “I like you too.” And just like that they were kissing again, only this kiss was more passionate than last time. She fell back on the seat. His leg wedged between her thighs. His hands pushed her blouse open and squeezed her tits. Mike shifted. Nancy felt his hard cock pressing against her mound. She moved with him as he rubbed it up and down. Her body stiffened. She squealed. Mike watched Nancy slowly come back to earth. She smiled at him, sat up, and put her arms around his neck. They kissed some more. Nancy moved her lips to his ear and whispered. “You make me feel things no one else has ever made me feel. I should be ashamed, but I'm not.” “I'm glad I could make you feel that way,” he replied. “Unfortunately, it's harder for a guy to, um, achieve satisfaction like that.” Was he asking her to help him have a climax, Nancy wondered? Martha had used her mouth on Roger. She wasn't about to do that, and she certainly wasn't going to let him have sex with her. She really should do something after the pleasure he had given her. She knew what a handjob was. She had never given one, but she knew the basics. Nancy kissed his neck and let her hand slide down his body. Her fingers found the bulge pushing out from his trousers. She had never touched a man's penis, even through his clothes. It felt so much bigger than she thought it would be. She rubbed along his length and could feel it pulse. Mike unbuckled his trousers, pushing them down far enough to free his cock. It rose into the air from between his thighs. Nancy could see the faint outline in the moonlight. She traced her fingers along the shaft and could feel a pulse of blood pumping through the veins. She touched the swollen crown and explored its mushroom shape. Her finger found the tiny slit in the top. It was already gooey. Nancy had no idea what actually happened when a boy had a climax. She knew a creamy fluid came out that carried sperm, but she wasn't sure how much. Certainly there had to be more than the small trickle leaking from his slit. Nancy wrapped her fingers around his shaft and slowly pumped. How long would it take, she wondered. Should she go faster? Should she squeeze harder? She really didn't know what she was doing. She pumped faster and squeezed harder. It seemed like the right thing to do. She heard Mike groan. Had she squeezed too hard? She didn't think so. It sounded like a groan of pleasure. She looked up and could see his head thrown back and his eyes closed. Definitely pleasure. She continued to pump with a steady rhythm. The full moon came out from behind a cloud. Nancy moved her face closer to get a better look at his penis. The mushroom shaped knob at the tip looked swollen. More stuff was leaking out from the tiny slit. Did that mean he was about to shoot? How would she know? Would it spray out like pee or just ooze out? Either way, it was bound to make a mess. Her hand was getting tired and he still hadn't finished. Nancy thought about what Martha had done to Roger. She had put it in her mouth. Did she enjoy it or was she just doing it to please him? Back home only whores did things like that, but things were different here. Maybe Mike expected her to do it. It couldn't be that bad. It was only skin. Nancy made a decision. She lowered her head and felt the mushroom shaped tip brush against her lips. She pushed out her tongue. The stuff leaking out had a sweet soapy taste. It wasn't so bad. Her mouth opened. His hard flesh pushed across her tongue. Nancy felt her pussy twitch. Having him in her mouth was getting her aroused. Now that she had him in her mouth she wasn't sure what to do. It was called a blowjob, but blowing on it wasn't really possible. She did know that having sex involved a man moving his penis in and out of a vagina, and a handjob involved pumping up and down. Couldn't she use her mouth the same way? She clamped her lips tightly around his shaft, taking him deep into her mouth. She slid up his length and then back down again. She repeated it. Mike's groans confirmed she must be doing it right. She went faster, squeezing her lips tightly around him. The throbbing in her pussy got more intense. Having him in her mouth was like an aphrodisiac. She squeezed her thighs together to try and contain the pressure. Mike put his hands on her head and thrust up into her mouth each time it came plunging down the length of his cock. His moans became louder. She could feel his body tense. “Ohhhhh…oh god…It's happening.” Mike said it as a warning, but it didn't register with Nancy. She was too caught up in the act she was performing to think about the consequences. She felt him swell between her lips and heard him grunt. Suddenly, a spray of hot creamy fluid shot from the tip of his cock. It splashed across her tongue and filled her mouth. This was followed by a second, third, and fourth spurt. There was so much it was leaking out the sides of her lips. Mike jerked a few more times before he fell back in his seat completely drained. Nancy didn't know what to do. She still had her lips clamped tightly around his penis and a mouthful of his gooey ejaculate. His cock was hard, but she could feel it beginning to deflate. She slowly pulled off of him. When he popped out of her mouth, some of his stuff ran down her chin. She clamped her hand over her lips to keep more from escaping. Nancy sat up next to Mike who was still recovering. She didn't know what to do with the mouthful of semen. Fortunately, it didn't taste horrible, kind of like the stuff that had been leaking from his tip earlier, only not quite as sweet. She could lean over the side of the car and spit it out, but that seemed unladylike. Nancy wondered what would happen if she swallowed. Would she get sick? Could she get pregnant that way? She didn't think so, but there was a lot she didn't know. And what would Mike think? He might be disgusted. She couldn't just sit there with a mouthful of his stuff. She had to do something. “Here,” Mike said, handing her a handkerchief. Thank god, she thought. He is a gentleman after all. She put the handkerchief to her lips and let the gooey substance flow from her mouth. There was so much that some got on her fingers and dripped onto her skirt, but she was able to contain most of it in the handkerchief. She used the one dry part to wipe her lips and chin. Now she had another problem. What to do with the dripping handkerchief. Once again Mike came to the rescue. He carefully took the handkerchief between his thumb and forefinger and threw it over the side of the car. Then he put his arm around Nancy and pulled her closer. “I'm sorry,” he said. “I tried to warn you, but I just couldn't hold back. I hope you're not upset with me?” Nancy wasn't entirely sure why he was apologizing. Wasn't the whole purpose of using her hand and mouth on his penis to give him pleasure and make him shoot? Maybe he was upset that he shot in her mouth, but that seemed inevitable. It didn't bother her. If she was upset with anyone, it was herself. She had done what only sluts and whores would do back home. Still, she didn't regret it. “There is nothing to apologize about,” she said. “I had a good time, but now I really do need to get back to school.” Nancy was surprised to see Martha already back in the room when she arrived. “In case you were wondering, he had to get back to the city tonight, so we came here, had a quick fuck, and he left. How was your date with Mike?” “It was fun. You were right. He was a real gentleman.” “Not too much of a gentleman, I hope.” Nancy blushed and looked down. “Oh my god, did you…” Martha left the question hanging. “No,” Nancy replied, shaking her head. “We just, um, fooled around a little.” “Fooled around like in he squeezed your tits, or like in you sucked his cock?” Nancy's face turned beet red. Back home no one would ask such a question. “Oh my gosh,” Martha said with a grin on her face. “You did. You sucked his cock. Was that your first time?” Nancy looked down and nodded her head. “Way to go girl. I want all the details. Does he have a nice cock? Did you enjoy it? Did he shoot in your mouth? No, he's too much of a gentleman to do something like that.” Nancy's face turned even redder. “He did,” Martha stated as a fact. “Your first blowjob and you let him go off in your mouth. Did he warn you or was it a surprise?” “He, um, he said he was sorry,” Nancy replied, biting her lower lip. “Yeah, they all say that. So what did you do? Did you spit it out or swallow?” “Um, he, um, gave me his handkerchief,” Nancy said in a barely audible voice. “Now that is a gentleman. Next time, though, you should swallow. It's really not that bad and a lot less messy. Are you going to see him again?” “I hope so. He said he would call, but not until after exams.” “I guess that means you're free next weekend. John is bringing his friend Barry. He needs a date. He's really handsome and a lot of fun.” “I was kind of hoping to go out with Mike again.” “Just because you gave him a blowjob doesn't mean you're going steady. If Mike was that interested he would be up here next week, exams or not. In fact, that was probably just an excuse. I'll bet he already has a date for next weekend. He's pretty popular with the girls.” Now Nancy felt like an idiot. She thought there was something special between them. She was just another date to Mike. Well, she wasn't going to sit around and feel sorry for herself. “Would it be like a double date?” “Yes. It will be fun. By the way, you don't mind going out with someone who is Jewish do you?” “Well, um, I've never met a Jewish person.” “Don't worry. He doesn't have horns or a tail. And he's a gentleman too, so he won't do anything you don't want, but he can be pretty persuasive. So is it a date?” Nancy thought about it. She had no obligation to be faithful to Mike. They had only dated once, and if what Martha said was true, Mike was likely getting more than just blowjobs from other girls. “Sure. I'll go out with Barry.” To be continued. By Erlikkhan for Literotica

In 1954, an Ohio girl goes east and gets an education. By Erlikkhan. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories. Dear Mom and Dad, I was really excited to get your letter and hear the news from home. I'm sorry I have not been very good about staying in contact. School is keeping me so busy that I barely have time to write. There really isn't much to tell that's new. I still love all my classes and the professors are excellent. My roommate Martha has been so nice to me. She's from New York and seems to know everyone. This past weekend she set me up on a date with a boy named Brian. His family has a lot of money but he wasn't at all stuffy. I plan to see him again this weekend. I have a big assignment due so I better cut this short. Please give my love to everyone. I can't wait for Christmas when I will be able to come home. Love - Nancy “Wasn't that a sweet letter, Martin? It sounds like our daughter is adjusting to life at Vassar very nicely for a girl who grew up on a farm in the Midwest. And a date with a rich boy from New York! I just hope he's a nice boy and isn't trying to take advantage of her.” “Ethel, you worry too much,” Martin replied. “I'm sure Nancy can take care of herself. She's a big girl.” At the very moment Martin and Ethel were having that conversation, Brian Castle was on top of their daughter pounding his cock straight down into her pussy. Nancy dug her fingernails into his back trying to hold on to some semblance of sanity. It was hopeless. Her pussy exploded in a violent climax. Moments later, Brian pulled out, wrapped his hand around his dripping cock, and pumped spurt after spurt of hot cum all over their daughter's tits and stomach. Two Months Earlier… Nancy Brown arrived at Vassar in September 1954. She was a pretty blond of average height with big blue eyes and a shapely figure. Her roommate Martha was a short dark-haired girl from New York City with a cute face and a bountiful chest. She seemed nice enough, but had a New York City edge and used more swear words than Nancy had ever heard from a girl. She talked about sex like it was a common everyday topic of conversation. Nancy wasn't a total prude, or at least she didn't think she was. She had kissed her share of boys and even let a few of them feel her breasts. It was clear Martha had done a lot more than that. Where Nancy came from, good girls didn't let boys touch them ‘down there' unless they were going steady. Nancy had always been curious about how it would feel to be touched ‘down there', and one night used her own fingers to find out. After that, she rubbed off almost every night and sometimes during the day. One time, she even used the handle of a hairbrush, curious to see how it might feel to have a penis inside her. Nancy wondered if Martha had ever gone all the way. The way she talked sure sounded like it. She found out during her second weekend at Vassar. Martha was late returning to the room and almost missed curfew. Nancy was shocked when she arrived in the nick of time with a boy. Boys weren't allowed to visit girls in the dorm rooms, especially at night. Violation of that rule could get one suspended or even dismissed. Martha didn't seem to care. “Hey roomie,” Martha said with a big grin on her face. “This is Roger. We snuck up the back way to avoid the old battle axe. He has a flask of whisky. Do you want to party with us?” “Won't we get in trouble?” Nancy asked nervously. “Surely Miss Grayson will report us.” “She's clueless. My older sister used to have boys up to her room when she lived here and never got caught. Come on, let's have a little fun.” Nancy didn't want to seem like a prude and took the flask from Roger when he handed it to her. She had never tasted alcohol and choked when she took a swig. They laughed. Nancy's head was spinning after two more swigs. She kept waiting for Roger to leave so she could go to bed. He didn't. Finally, Martha stood and took Roger's hand. “We're going to bed now,” she told Nancy. “We'll try not to make too much noise.” Nancy couldn't believe this was happening. It was scandalous enough to have a boy in the room after curfew, but he was spending the night. Was Martha implying they were going to have sex? It sure sounded like it. Back home only sluts did that. Martha didn't seem like a slut. She seemed more like a girl who knew what she wanted and wasn't ashamed to get it. An alcove wall separated the beds. Normally, Nancy would undress and put on her nightgown, but with a man in the room, even if it was in the next alcove, she felt exposed. She climbed under the covers and removed her dress, then pulled off her panties and bra. She would sleep in her slip. As Nancy lay in bed, she could hear the rustle of clothes and soft moans coming from the other alcove. She could even hear what Martha was whispering. “Yes… right there. Oh… use two fingers.” Roger was fingering Martha. Nancy had imagined a boy doing that to her many times using her own fingers. Listening to it happening in the next alcove made her pussy throb. The urge to touch herself was too strong. Nancy slid a hand under her slip and between her legs. She found her pleasure button and rubbed. Her head was pounding and her nipples felt like they were going to burst. Then she heard Roger whisper to Martha. “Oh god yes baby… put it in your mouth… oh fuck…” Nancy had always considered oral sex a repugnant act that only whores did to satisfy their perverted clients. Then why did the image of Martha's lips sliding down Roger's cock make the throbbing in her pussy more intense? Nancy gasped and felt her body tremble. Juices seeped from her opening and dribbled down her ass. “Hurry,” Martha begged. “Put your cock in my pussy. Yes, baby, right there. Now push… ah…” Nancy's head was spinning. Her roommate was getting fucked only a few feet away on the other side of the alcove wall. She could hear the movement of their bodies and the soft moans and gasps of pleasure. Even the bed creaked in a steady rhythm. Two fingers plunged into Nancy's soaked pussy. She imagined they were Roger's cock pumping into her. Martha's words made it seem more real. “Fuck me… fuck me… god I love your cock… deeper baby… oh fuck… ungh…” Nancy moved both hands between her legs so she could rub her clit and finger her pussy at the same time. She listened to Martha's shrieks and squeals, and could only imagine how good it would feel to have a big hard cock pounding deep into her own pussy. Nancy threw her head back and bit her lip. Her body jerked and twisted as she exploded for the second time. “Oh fuck baby… here I cum…” “Not inside me. Shoot on my tits” Roger grunted. Nancy knew he must be shooting his stuff. She could only imagine what it looked like flying through the air and landing on her roommate's tits. Never having seen cum, all she knew was that it was white and thicker than water. She had no idea how much would come shooting out. It didn't matter. Just knowing this was happening sent Nancy spinning into a third series of orgasmic spasms. Several minutes later Roger snuck out of the room. Nancy rolled over and was soon fast asleep. The next morning, Martha was still in bed when Nancy dressed and left for breakfast. She was just finishing a bowl of cereal when Martha came down and slid into the chair across the table. “Hi roomie. I hope we weren't too loud last night. I have a hard time holding back when I climax, and Roger knows how to make me do that a lot. I probably should have let you know he was coming to see me, but it was so last minute.” Nancy did not respond right away. She was too busy staring at Martha's mouth and thinking that those lips had recently been wrapped around Roger's cock. Her pussy twitched. She couldn't figure out why thinking about it made her so excited. It was a perverted act. Only whores did those things. Apparently girls from New York City did as well. “Um, it's okay. I fell asleep so I didn't really hear anything,” Nancy lied. “Your boyfriend seemed really nice. Is he still here?” “Roger's not my boyfriend,” Martha laughed. “He's just a fun guy to be with. My parents sent me here to marry a doctor or lawyer from Yale, but I may as well have some fun in the meantime, right? Anyway, he drove back to the city last night. He just came up for a quick fuck.” Nancy was having difficulty getting her head around this. Where she came from, girls didn't use words like climax and fuck, and those who had sex with guys that weren't boyfriends were sluts. “Oh, I see,” Nancy said, trying to keep her voice steady, “Aren't you worried about getting pregnant?” “Not at all,” Martha replied. “I have a diaphragm and I usually make the guy wear a rubber too, although with Roger I didn't so I made him pull out when he was shooting his stuff. Do you have a diaphragm?” “Uh, no. I…I'm a virgin.” “Oh. I should have known, you being from the Midwest and all. That's okay. I know lots of girls who won't go all the way. Most guys are happy with a blowjob or handjob. I guess you must masturbate a lot if you're still a virgin.” Nancy turned bright red, giving herself away. Back home girls never admitted it. She always thought she was oversexed because of how often she did it. Compared to Martha, she wasn't even in the same league. “Um, it's not really something girls discuss where I come from.” “Yeah, but you do it, right? I mean, who doesn't? I have a plug in device that vibrates and it drives me crazy. You'd love it. I'll let you try it sometime. Hey, how would you like me to set you up with a date?” “Um, I…I don't know. I don't usually date strangers.” “Don't worry, Nancy. You'll love Mike. He's a junior at Rensselaer Polytechnic in Troy and a real gentleman, and he's very handsome. He won't try to do anything you don't want. I know him because he grew up in my neighborhood and went to the same school as me. I know you'll like him. How about it?” “Well, I guess it would be okay. It's just a date, right? You're sure he's a gentleman?” “Absolutely. I'll call and invite him down for the weekend.” Mike turned out to be handsome and sophisticated. They went to a mixer on campus with Martha and her date. Mike was a perfect gentleman just like Martha had told her he would be. He was also a good dancer. They swirled and spun doing the jitterbug until they were exhausted. After a break to get some punch and catch their breath, a slow dance played. Mike took her hand and led her out to the dance floor. Slow dances in the Midwest were more like waltzes where bodies barely touched. Nancy was surprised when Mike put his hand on her lower back and pulled her close. She felt a little self conscious being so close to a boy in a crowded room, but many of the other couples were dancing the same way so she relaxed. Mike slid his hand lower on her back and pulled her even closer. It took Nancy a moment to realize what was rubbing dangerously close to her pussy. It was his erection. She didn't know what to do. Nothing like this had ever happened to her. Even worse, it was having a highly stimulating effect on her. All she could do was wait for the song to end. By the time they separated, Nancy's pussy was moist and her nipples felt like they were going to rip through her bra. She excused herself to use the ladies room. She locked the stall door and sat on the toilet, pulling her panties down her legs. A hand slid through the soft blonde curls. A finger parted her folds and found her swollen clit. In less than a minute she leaned forward, squeezed her thighs together, and stifled a gasp. Mike was waiting patiently by the punch bowl when she returned. Nancy looked around the room for Martha, but she was nowhere to be seen. Mike told her he was having a good time and really enjoyed her company. She smiled and said she was enjoying herself as well. He asked her about Ohio and what it was like to grow up on a farm. He finally got around to what was really on his mind. “Would you like to go for a drive in my car? It's a beautiful night. I'll put the top down.” Nancy knew what this meant. It wasn't much different from the offers boys made back home. They would eventually end up parked somewhere private. He would put his arm around her and they would kiss. Nancy didn't mind that, particularly with such a gentleman. She could say no to anything he tried to do that she didn't want, and he would honor her wishes. “I would love that, Mike.” He took her hand and walked her to his 1952 red Chevy convertible. The cool air caused her blond hair to flap in the breeze as they wove through the nearby country roads. He turned onto a small unpaved road and drove several hundred yards to a hilltop overlooking the valley below. He turned off the motor and put his arm around her shoulder. “Isn't it beautiful? You can see the shadows of the valley in the moonlight.” Nancy turned her head and smiled at him. She wanted him to kiss her. She moved her face closer. “Yes. It's very romantic,” she whispered. Their lips met. Nancy parted hers invitingly. Their tongues mingled. The kiss became more passionate. His hand went to her waist and slowly inched higher. Should she let him feel her breast? She had let several boys at home do that, but never on the first date. On the other hand, she didn't want to seem like a prude, and she was in college. Nancy lifted her arm to signal her permission. His hand slid over the large swell pushing out from her cotton blouse. His fingers squeezed and massaged the soft tissue. Nancy moaned into his mouth. Her body was on fire. Her nipples swelled. Her pussy throbbed. Mike unbuttoned her blouse and slid his hand under her bra. Only one boy had ever touched her naked breast and certainly not on the first date. Nancy thought about stopping him before it went any further. Then a fingertip brushed across her bare nipple. Nancy gasped and squeezed her thighs together, trying to control the throbbing in her pussy. Any thought of stopping him quickly evaporated. Mike slid his lips to her neck, kissing and gently biting the thin skin. He rolled her hard nipple between his thumb and forefinger, gently squeezing and pinching. Nancy was losing all control over what he was doing to her. No one had ever made her feel this way. He pulled his hand from her bra and reached behind her back, deftly undoing the clasp to her bra. Nancy's head was spinning. A voice in her brain said no, but it was a distant echo to the demands of her body. Mike's lips trailed down her neck. He pushed her back until she was lying on the bench seat with her head against the passenger door. His mouth traveled lower. He kissed the swell of her breast before clamping his lips around her protruding nipple. She gasped when he sucked it into her mouth. Any urge to resist was slowly replaced by carnal passion. Her pussy throbbed with desire. Her nipples burned with excitement. She ran her fingers through Mike's hair and gasped from the pleasure pulsing through her body. His tongue teased the hard nub poking out from her nipple. He gently nibbled on it. She trembled and gasped. Mike moved to the other nipple and repeated the ritual. A hand slid up her thigh and under her skirt. Nancy was helpless to stop him. Her body desperately wanted this. She opened her thighs in invitation. His fingers found the damp crotch of her panties. For the first time in her life a man was touching her 'down there'. Mike slid a finger along her gash through the thin cotton. Nancy moved her hips forward and pushed against him. His finger found her clit. “Uh…” Her pussy clenched. Mike moved the crotch aside and pushed a finger up her cunt. Another explosion sent her spinning. He pumped his finger in and out. Nancy lost all control. One climax after another left her breathless and exhausted. “Are you okay?” Mike asked. Nancy opened her eyes and saw Mike hovering over her. She was breathing heavily. The throbbing in her pussy was still intense. She had just let a boy finger her…another first. She slowly gathered her composure and sat up, pulling her blouse closed over her naked breasts. “Yes. I'm fine. Perhaps we should go back now.” “Uh, yes, if that's what you want. I'm sorry if I did something to upset you.” Yes, she thought, I am upset, but with myself for losing control like that. I also experienced the greatest pleasure I have ever felt. She smiled as she fastened her bra. “No. I was just thinking that it was getting late. We have a curfew.” In truth, they still had most of an hour, and campus was only a few minutes away. Nancy could see the disappointment on Mike's face in the moonlight. Against her better judgement, she relented. “I guess we could stay a little longer,” she said. “It is a beautiful setting. Tell me about your studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic? Aerospace engineering sounds fascinating.” The last thing Mike wanted to do was talk. His cock was about to rip through the front of his pants. He was hoping she would do something about it, but that didn't seem likely at the moment. She was clearly trying to change the subject from sex. He gave a brief explanation of what he was studying, then turned the conversation back to her. “You probably think people from New York are way too liberal. I imagine that people in Ohio are pretty conservative.” “That's true,” Nancy agreed. “I'm getting used to it, but my parents would be shocked to know what goes on around here.” “You must be talking about Martha. She's quite a trip, but I'm glad she set us up together. I really like you. I'm sorry if I, um, perhaps acted inappropriately on our first date.” “No, not at all,” Nancy lied. “I like you too.” And just like that they were kissing again, only this kiss was more passionate than last time. She fell back on the seat. His leg wedged between her thighs. His hands pushed her blouse open and squeezed her tits. Mike shifted. Nancy felt his hard cock pressing against her mound. She moved with him as he rubbed it up and down. Her body stiffened. She squealed. Mike watched Nancy slowly come back to earth. She smiled at him, sat up, and put her arms around his neck. They kissed some more. Nancy moved her lips to his ear and whispered. “You make me feel things no one else has ever made me feel. I should be ashamed, but I'm not.” “I'm glad I could make you feel that way,” he replied. “Unfortunately, it's harder for a guy to, um, achieve satisfaction like that.” Was he asking her to help him have a climax, Nancy wondered? Martha had used her mouth on Roger. She wasn't about to do that, and she certainly wasn't going to let him have sex with her. She really should do something after the pleasure he had given her. She knew what a handjob was. She had never given one, but she knew the basics. Nancy kissed his neck and let her hand slide down his body. Her fingers found the bulge pushing out from his trousers. She had never touched a man's penis, even through his clothes. It felt so much bigger than she thought it would be. She rubbed along his length and could feel it pulse. Mike unbuckled his trousers, pushing them down far enough to free his cock. It rose into the air from between his thighs. Nancy could see the faint outline in the moonlight. She traced her fingers along the shaft and could feel a pulse of blood pumping through the veins. She touched the swollen crown and explored its mushroom shape. Her finger found the tiny slit in the top. It was already gooey. Nancy had no idea what actually happened when a boy had a climax. She knew a creamy fluid came out that carried sperm, but she wasn't sure how much. Certainly there had to be more than the small trickle leaking from his slit. Nancy wrapped her fingers around his shaft and slowly pumped. How long would it take, she wondered. Should she go faster? Should she squeeze harder? She really didn't know what she was doing. She pumped faster and squeezed harder. It seemed like the right thing to do. She heard Mike groan. Had she squeezed too hard? She didn't think so. It sounded like a groan of pleasure. She looked up and could see his head thrown back and his eyes closed. Definitely pleasure. She continued to pump with a steady rhythm. The full moon came out from behind a cloud. Nancy moved her face closer to get a better look at his penis. The mushroom shaped knob at the tip looked swollen. More stuff was leaking out from the tiny slit. Did that mean he was about to shoot? How would she know? Would it spray out like pee or just ooze out? Either way, it was bound to make a mess. Her hand was getting tired and he still hadn't finished. Nancy thought about what Martha had done to Roger. She had put it in her mouth. Did she enjoy it or was she just doing it to please him? Back home only whores did things like that, but things were different here. Maybe Mike expected her to do it. It couldn't be that bad. It was only skin. Nancy made a decision. She lowered her head and felt the mushroom shaped tip brush against her lips. She pushed out her tongue. The stuff leaking out had a sweet soapy taste. It wasn't so bad. Her mouth opened. His hard flesh pushed across her tongue. Nancy felt her pussy twitch. Having him in her mouth was getting her aroused. Now that she had him in her mouth she wasn't sure what to do. It was called a blowjob, but blowing on it wasn't really possible. She did know that having sex involved a man moving his penis in and out of a vagina, and a handjob involved pumping up and down. Couldn't she use her mouth the same way? She clamped her lips tightly around his shaft, taking him deep into her mouth. She slid up his length and then back down again. She repeated it. Mike's groans confirmed she must be doing it right. She went faster, squeezing her lips tightly around him. The throbbing in her pussy got more intense. Having him in her mouth was like an aphrodisiac. She squeezed her thighs together to try and contain the pressure. Mike put his hands on her head and thrust up into her mouth each time it came plunging down the length of his cock. His moans became louder. She could feel his body tense. “Ohhhhh…oh god…It's happening.” Mike said it as a warning, but it didn't register with Nancy. She was too caught up in the act she was performing to think about the consequences. She felt him swell between her lips and heard him grunt. Suddenly, a spray of hot creamy fluid shot from the tip of his cock. It splashed across her tongue and filled her mouth. This was followed by a second, third, and fourth spurt. There was so much it was leaking out the sides of her lips. Mike jerked a few more times before he fell back in his seat completely drained. Nancy didn't know what to do. She still had her lips clamped tightly around his penis and a mouthful of his gooey ejaculate. His cock was hard, but she could feel it beginning to deflate. She slowly pulled off of him. When he popped out of her mouth, some of his stuff ran down her chin. She clamped her hand over her lips to keep more from escaping. Nancy sat up next to Mike who was still recovering. She didn't know what to do with the mouthful of semen. Fortunately, it didn't taste horrible, kind of like the stuff that had been leaking from his tip earlier, only not quite as sweet. She could lean over the side of the car and spit it out, but that seemed unladylike. Nancy wondered what would happen if she swallowed. Would she get sick? Could she get pregnant that way? She didn't think so, but there was a lot she didn't know. And what would Mike think? He might be disgusted. She couldn't just sit there with a mouthful of his stuff. She had to do something. “Here,” Mike said, handing her a handkerchief. Thank god, she thought. He is a gentleman after all. She put the handkerchief to her lips and let the gooey substance flow from her mouth. There was so much that some got on her fingers and dripped onto her skirt, but she was able to contain most of it in the handkerchief. She used the one dry part to wipe her lips and chin. Now she had another problem. What to do with the dripping handkerchief. Once again Mike came to the rescue. He carefully took the handkerchief between his thumb and forefinger and threw it over the side of the car. Then he put his arm around Nancy and pulled her closer. “I'm sorry,” he said. “I tried to warn you, but I just couldn't hold back. I hope you're not upset with me?” Nancy wasn't entirely sure why he was apologizing. Wasn't the whole purpose of using her hand and mouth on his penis to give him pleasure and make him shoot? Maybe he was upset that he shot in her mouth, but that seemed inevitable. It didn't bother her. If she was upset with anyone, it was herself. She had done what only sluts and whores would do back home. Still, she didn't regret it. “There is nothing to apologize about,” she said. “I had a good time, but now I really do need to get back to school.” Nancy was surprised to see Martha already back in the room when she arrived. “In case you were wondering, he had to get back to the city tonight, so we came here, had a quick fuck, and he left. How was your date with Mike?” “It was fun. You were right. He was a real gentleman.” “Not too much of a gentleman, I hope.” Nancy blushed and looked down. “Oh my god, did you…” Martha left the question hanging. “No,” Nancy replied, shaking her head. “We just, um, fooled around a little.” “Fooled around like in he squeezed your tits, or like in you sucked his cock?” Nancy's face turned beet red. Back home no one would ask such a question. “Oh my gosh,” Martha said with a grin on her face. “You did. You sucked his cock. Was that your first time?” Nancy looked down and nodded her head. “Way to go girl. I want all the details. Does he have a nice cock? Did you enjoy it? Did he shoot in your mouth? No, he's too much of a gentleman to do something like that.” Nancy's face turned even redder. “He did,” Martha stated as a fact. “Your first blowjob and you let him go off in your mouth. Did he warn you or was it a surprise?” “He, um, he said he was sorry,” Nancy replied, biting her lower lip. “Yeah, they all say that. So what did you do? Did you spit it out or swallow?” “Um, he, um, gave me his handkerchief,” Nancy said in a barely audible voice. “Now that is a gentleman. Next time, though, you should swallow. It's really not that bad and a lot less messy. Are you going to see him again?” “I hope so. He said he would call, but not until after exams.” “I guess that means you're free next weekend. John is bringing his friend Barry. He needs a date. He's really handsome and a lot of fun.” “I was kind of hoping to go out with Mike again.” “Just because you gave him a blowjob doesn't mean you're going steady. If Mike was that interested he would be up here next week, exams or not. In fact, that was probably just an excuse. I'll bet he already has a date for next weekend. He's pretty popular with the girls.” Now Nancy felt like an idiot. She thought there was something special between them. She was just another date to Mike. Well, she wasn't going to sit around and feel sorry for herself. “Would it be like a double date?” “Yes. It will be fun. By the way, you don't mind going out with someone who is Jewish do you?” “Well, um, I've never met a Jewish person.” “Don't worry. He doesn't have horns or a tail. And he's a gentleman too, so he won't do anything you don't want, but he can be pretty persuasive. So is it a date?” Nancy thought about it. She had no obligation to be faithful to Mike. They had only dated once, and if what Martha said was true, Mike was likely getting more than just blowjobs from other girls. “Sure. I'll go out with Barry.” To be continued. By Erlikkhan for Literotica

In 1954, an Ohio girl goes east and gets an education. By Erlikkhan. Listen to the Podcast at Steamy Stories. Dear Mom and Dad, I was really excited to get your letter and hear the news from home. I'm sorry I have not been very good about staying in contact. School is keeping me so busy that I barely have time to write. There really isn't much to tell that's new. I still love all my classes and the professors are excellent. My roommate Martha has been so nice to me. She's from New York and seems to know everyone. This past weekend she set me up on a date with a boy named Brian. His family has a lot of money but he wasn't at all stuffy. I plan to see him again this weekend. I have a big assignment due so I better cut this short. Please give my love to everyone. I can't wait for Christmas when I will be able to come home. Love - Nancy “Wasn't that a sweet letter, Martin? It sounds like our daughter is adjusting to life at Vassar very nicely for a girl who grew up on a farm in the Midwest. And a date with a rich boy from New York! I just hope he's a nice boy and isn't trying to take advantage of her.” “Ethel, you worry too much,” Martin replied. “I'm sure Nancy can take care of herself. She's a big girl.” At the very moment Martin and Ethel were having that conversation, Brian Castle was on top of their daughter pounding his cock straight down into her pussy. Nancy dug her fingernails into his back trying to hold on to some semblance of sanity. It was hopeless. Her pussy exploded in a violent climax. Moments later, Brian pulled out, wrapped his hand around his dripping cock, and pumped spurt after spurt of hot cum all over their daughter's tits and stomach. Two Months Earlier… Nancy Brown arrived at Vassar in September 1954. She was a pretty blond of average height with big blue eyes and a shapely figure. Her roommate Martha was a short dark-haired girl from New York City with a cute face and a bountiful chest. She seemed nice enough, but had a New York City edge and used more swear words than Nancy had ever heard from a girl. She talked about sex like it was a common everyday topic of conversation. Nancy wasn't a total prude, or at least she didn't think she was. She had kissed her share of boys and even let a few of them feel her breasts. It was clear Martha had done a lot more than that. Where Nancy came from, good girls didn't let boys touch them ‘down there' unless they were going steady. Nancy had always been curious about how it would feel to be touched ‘down there', and one night used her own fingers to find out. After that, she rubbed off almost every night and sometimes during the day. One time, she even used the handle of a hairbrush, curious to see how it might feel to have a penis inside her. Nancy wondered if Martha had ever gone all the way. The way she talked sure sounded like it. She found out during her second weekend at Vassar. Martha was late returning to the room and almost missed curfew. Nancy was shocked when she arrived in the nick of time with a boy. Boys weren't allowed to visit girls in the dorm rooms, especially at night. Violation of that rule could get one suspended or even dismissed. Martha didn't seem to care. “Hey roomie,” Martha said with a big grin on her face. “This is Roger. We snuck up the back way to avoid the old battle axe. He has a flask of whisky. Do you want to party with us?” “Won't we get in trouble?” Nancy asked nervously. “Surely Miss Grayson will report us.” “She's clueless. My older sister used to have boys up to her room when she lived here and never got caught. Come on, let's have a little fun.” Nancy didn't want to seem like a prude and took the flask from Roger when he handed it to her. She had never tasted alcohol and choked when she took a swig. They laughed. Nancy's head was spinning after two more swigs. She kept waiting for Roger to leave so she could go to bed. He didn't. Finally, Martha stood and took Roger's hand. “We're going to bed now,” she told Nancy. “We'll try not to make too much noise.” Nancy couldn't believe this was happening. It was scandalous enough to have a boy in the room after curfew, but he was spending the night. Was Martha implying they were going to have sex? It sure sounded like it. Back home only sluts did that. Martha didn't seem like a slut. She seemed more like a girl who knew what she wanted and wasn't ashamed to get it. An alcove wall separated the beds. Normally, Nancy would undress and put on her nightgown, but with a man in the room, even if it was in the next alcove, she felt exposed. She climbed under the covers and removed her dress, then pulled off her panties and bra. She would sleep in her slip. As Nancy lay in bed, she could hear the rustle of clothes and soft moans coming from the other alcove. She could even hear what Martha was whispering. “Yes… right there. Oh… use two fingers.” Roger was fingering Martha. Nancy had imagined a boy doing that to her many times using her own fingers. Listening to it happening in the next alcove made her pussy throb. The urge to touch herself was too strong. Nancy slid a hand under her slip and between her legs. She found her pleasure button and rubbed. Her head was pounding and her nipples felt like they were going to burst. Then she heard Roger whisper to Martha. “Oh god yes baby… put it in your mouth… oh fuck…” Nancy had always considered oral sex a repugnant act that only whores did to satisfy their perverted clients. Then why did the image of Martha's lips sliding down Roger's cock make the throbbing in her pussy more intense? Nancy gasped and felt her body tremble. Juices seeped from her opening and dribbled down her ass. “Hurry,” Martha begged. “Put your cock in my pussy. Yes, baby, right there. Now push… ah…” Nancy's head was spinning. Her roommate was getting fucked only a few feet away on the other side of the alcove wall. She could hear the movement of their bodies and the soft moans and gasps of pleasure. Even the bed creaked in a steady rhythm. Two fingers plunged into Nancy's soaked pussy. She imagined they were Roger's cock pumping into her. Martha's words made it seem more real. “Fuck me… fuck me… god I love your cock… deeper baby… oh fuck… ungh…” Nancy moved both hands between her legs so she could rub her clit and finger her pussy at the same time. She listened to Martha's shrieks and squeals, and could only imagine how good it would feel to have a big hard cock pounding deep into her own pussy. Nancy threw her head back and bit her lip. Her body jerked and twisted as she exploded for the second time. “Oh fuck baby… here I cum…” “Not inside me. Shoot on my tits” Roger grunted. Nancy knew he must be shooting his stuff. She could only imagine what it looked like flying through the air and landing on her roommate's tits. Never having seen cum, all she knew was that it was white and thicker than water. She had no idea how much would come shooting out. It didn't matter. Just knowing this was happening sent Nancy spinning into a third series of orgasmic spasms. Several minutes later Roger snuck out of the room. Nancy rolled over and was soon fast asleep. The next morning, Martha was still in bed when Nancy dressed and left for breakfast. She was just finishing a bowl of cereal when Martha came down and slid into the chair across the table. “Hi roomie. I hope we weren't too loud last night. I have a hard time holding back when I climax, and Roger knows how to make me do that a lot. I probably should have let you know he was coming to see me, but it was so last minute.” Nancy did not respond right away. She was too busy staring at Martha's mouth and thinking that those lips had recently been wrapped around Roger's cock. Her pussy twitched. She couldn't figure out why thinking about it made her so excited. It was a perverted act. Only whores did those things. Apparently girls from New York City did as well. “Um, it's okay. I fell asleep so I didn't really hear anything,” Nancy lied. “Your boyfriend seemed really nice. Is he still here?” “Roger's not my boyfriend,” Martha laughed. “He's just a fun guy to be with. My parents sent me here to marry a doctor or lawyer from Yale, but I may as well have some fun in the meantime, right? Anyway, he drove back to the city last night. He just came up for a quick fuck.” Nancy was having difficulty getting her head around this. Where she came from, girls didn't use words like climax and fuck, and those who had sex with guys that weren't boyfriends were sluts. “Oh, I see,” Nancy said, trying to keep her voice steady, “Aren't you worried about getting pregnant?” “Not at all,” Martha replied. “I have a diaphragm and I usually make the guy wear a rubber too, although with Roger I didn't so I made him pull out when he was shooting his stuff. Do you have a diaphragm?” “Uh, no. I…I'm a virgin.” “Oh. I should have known, you being from the Midwest and all. That's okay. I know lots of girls who won't go all the way. Most guys are happy with a blowjob or handjob. I guess you must masturbate a lot if you're still a virgin.” Nancy turned bright red, giving herself away. Back home girls never admitted it. She always thought she was oversexed because of how often she did it. Compared to Martha, she wasn't even in the same league. “Um, it's not really something girls discuss where I come from.” “Yeah, but you do it, right? I mean, who doesn't? I have a plug in device that vibrates and it drives me crazy. You'd love it. I'll let you try it sometime. Hey, how would you like me to set you up with a date?” “Um, I…I don't know. I don't usually date strangers.” “Don't worry, Nancy. You'll love Mike. He's a junior at Rensselaer Polytechnic in Troy and a real gentleman, and he's very handsome. He won't try to do anything you don't want. I know him because he grew up in my neighborhood and went to the same school as me. I know you'll like him. How about it?” “Well, I guess it would be okay. It's just a date, right? You're sure he's a gentleman?” “Absolutely. I'll call and invite him down for the weekend.” Mike turned out to be handsome and sophisticated. They went to a mixer on campus with Martha and her date. Mike was a perfect gentleman just like Martha had told her he would be. He was also a good dancer. They swirled and spun doing the jitterbug until they were exhausted. After a break to get some punch and catch their breath, a slow dance played. Mike took her hand and led her out to the dance floor. Slow dances in the Midwest were more like waltzes where bodies barely touched. Nancy was surprised when Mike put his hand on her lower back and pulled her close. She felt a little self conscious being so close to a boy in a crowded room, but many of the other couples were dancing the same way so she relaxed. Mike slid his hand lower on her back and pulled her even closer. It took Nancy a moment to realize what was rubbing dangerously close to her pussy. It was his erection. She didn't know what to do. Nothing like this had ever happened to her. Even worse, it was having a highly stimulating effect on her. All she could do was wait for the song to end. By the time they separated, Nancy's pussy was moist and her nipples felt like they were going to rip through her bra. She excused herself to use the ladies room. She locked the stall door and sat on the toilet, pulling her panties down her legs. A hand slid through the soft blonde curls. A finger parted her folds and found her swollen clit. In less than a minute she leaned forward, squeezed her thighs together, and stifled a gasp. Mike was waiting patiently by the punch bowl when she returned. Nancy looked around the room for Martha, but she was nowhere to be seen. Mike told her he was having a good time and really enjoyed her company. She smiled and said she was enjoying herself as well. He asked her about Ohio and what it was like to grow up on a farm. He finally got around to what was really on his mind. “Would you like to go for a drive in my car? It's a beautiful night. I'll put the top down.” Nancy knew what this meant. It wasn't much different from the offers boys made back home. They would eventually end up parked somewhere private. He would put his arm around her and they would kiss. Nancy didn't mind that, particularly with such a gentleman. She could say no to anything he tried to do that she didn't want, and he would honor her wishes. “I would love that, Mike.” He took her hand and walked her to his 1952 red Chevy convertible. The cool air caused her blond hair to flap in the breeze as they wove through the nearby country roads. He turned onto a small unpaved road and drove several hundred yards to a hilltop overlooking the valley below. He turned off the motor and put his arm around her shoulder. “Isn't it beautiful? You can see the shadows of the valley in the moonlight.” Nancy turned her head and smiled at him. She wanted him to kiss her. She moved her face closer. “Yes. It's very romantic,” she whispered. Their lips met. Nancy parted hers invitingly. Their tongues mingled. The kiss became more passionate. His hand went to her waist and slowly inched higher. Should she let him feel her breast? She had let several boys at home do that, but never on the first date. On the other hand, she didn't want to seem like a prude, and she was in college. Nancy lifted her arm to signal her permission. His hand slid over the large swell pushing out from her cotton blouse. His fingers squeezed and massaged the soft tissue. Nancy moaned into his mouth. Her body was on fire. Her nipples swelled. Her pussy throbbed. Mike unbuttoned her blouse and slid his hand under her bra. Only one boy had ever touched her naked breast and certainly not on the first date. Nancy thought about stopping him before it went any further. Then a fingertip brushed across her bare nipple. Nancy gasped and squeezed her thighs together, trying to control the throbbing in her pussy. Any thought of stopping him quickly evaporated. Mike slid his lips to her neck, kissing and gently biting the thin skin. He rolled her hard nipple between his thumb and forefinger, gently squeezing and pinching. Nancy was losing all control over what he was doing to her. No one had ever made her feel this way. He pulled his hand from her bra and reached behind her back, deftly undoing the clasp to her bra. Nancy's head was spinning. A voice in her brain said no, but it was a distant echo to the demands of her body. Mike's lips trailed down her neck. He pushed her back until she was lying on the bench seat with her head against the passenger door. His mouth traveled lower. He kissed the swell of her breast before clamping his lips around her protruding nipple. She gasped when he sucked it into her mouth. Any urge to resist was slowly replaced by carnal passion. Her pussy throbbed with desire. Her nipples burned with excitement. She ran her fingers through Mike's hair and gasped from the pleasure pulsing through her body. His tongue teased the hard nub poking out from her nipple. He gently nibbled on it. She trembled and gasped. Mike moved to the other nipple and repeated the ritual. A hand slid up her thigh and under her skirt. Nancy was helpless to stop him. Her body desperately wanted this. She opened her thighs in invitation. His fingers found the damp crotch of her panties. For the first time in her life a man was touching her 'down there'. Mike slid a finger along her gash through the thin cotton. Nancy moved her hips forward and pushed against him. His finger found her clit. “Uh…” Her pussy clenched. Mike moved the crotch aside and pushed a finger up her cunt. Another explosion sent her spinning. He pumped his finger in and out. Nancy lost all control. One climax after another left her breathless and exhausted. “Are you okay?” Mike asked. Nancy opened her eyes and saw Mike hovering over her. She was breathing heavily. The throbbing in her pussy was still intense. She had just let a boy finger her…another first. She slowly gathered her composure and sat up, pulling her blouse closed over her naked breasts. “Yes. I'm fine. Perhaps we should go back now.” “Uh, yes, if that's what you want. I'm sorry if I did something to upset you.” Yes, she thought, I am upset, but with myself for losing control like that. I also experienced the greatest pleasure I have ever felt. She smiled as she fastened her bra. “No. I was just thinking that it was getting late. We have a curfew.” In truth, they still had most of an hour, and campus was only a few minutes away. Nancy could see the disappointment on Mike's face in the moonlight. Against her better judgement, she relented. “I guess we could stay a little longer,” she said. “It is a beautiful setting. Tell me about your studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic? Aerospace engineering sounds fascinating.” The last thing Mike wanted to do was talk. His cock was about to rip through the front of his pants. He was hoping she would do something about it, but that didn't seem likely at the moment. She was clearly trying to change the subject from sex. He gave a brief explanation of what he was studying, then turned the conversation back to her. “You probably think people from New York are way too liberal. I imagine that people in Ohio are pretty conservative.” “That's true,” Nancy agreed. “I'm getting used to it, but my parents would be shocked to know what goes on around here.” “You must be talking about Martha. She's quite a trip, but I'm glad she set us up together. I really like you. I'm sorry if I, um, perhaps acted inappropriately on our first date.” “No, not at all,” Nancy lied. “I like you too.” And just like that they were kissing again, only this kiss was more passionate than last time. She fell back on the seat. His leg wedged between her thighs. His hands pushed her blouse open and squeezed her tits. Mike shifted. Nancy felt his hard cock pressing against her mound. She moved with him as he rubbed it up and down. Her body stiffened. She squealed. Mike watched Nancy slowly come back to earth. She smiled at him, sat up, and put her arms around his neck. They kissed some more. Nancy moved her lips to his ear and whispered. “You make me feel things no one else has ever made me feel. I should be ashamed, but I'm not.” “I'm glad I could make you feel that way,” he replied. “Unfortunately, it's harder for a guy to, um, achieve satisfaction like that.” Was he asking her to help him have a climax, Nancy wondered? Martha had used her mouth on Roger. She wasn't about to do that, and she certainly wasn't going to let him have sex with her. She really should do something after the pleasure he had given her. She knew what a handjob was. She had never given one, but she knew the basics. Nancy kissed his neck and let her hand slide down his body. Her fingers found the bulge pushing out from his trousers. She had never touched a man's penis, even through his clothes. It felt so much bigger than she thought it would be. She rubbed along his length and could feel it pulse. Mike unbuckled his trousers, pushing them down far enough to free his cock. It rose into the air from between his thighs. Nancy could see the faint outline in the moonlight. She traced her fingers along the shaft and could feel a pulse of blood pumping through the veins. She touched the swollen crown and explored its mushroom shape. Her finger found the tiny slit in the top. It was already gooey. Nancy had no idea what actually happened when a boy had a climax. She knew a creamy fluid came out that carried sperm, but she wasn't sure how much. Certainly there had to be more than the small trickle leaking from his slit. Nancy wrapped her fingers around his shaft and slowly pumped. How long would it take, she wondered. Should she go faster? Should she squeeze harder? She really didn't know what she was doing. She pumped faster and squeezed harder. It seemed like the right thing to do. She heard Mike groan. Had she squeezed too hard? She didn't think so. It sounded like a groan of pleasure. She looked up and could see his head thrown back and his eyes closed. Definitely pleasure. She continued to pump with a steady rhythm. The full moon came out from behind a cloud. Nancy moved her face closer to get a better look at his penis. The mushroom shaped knob at the tip looked swollen. More stuff was leaking out from the tiny slit. Did that mean he was about to shoot? How would she know? Would it spray out like pee or just ooze out? Either way, it was bound to make a mess. Her hand was getting tired and he still hadn't finished. Nancy thought about what Martha had done to Roger. She had put it in her mouth. Did she enjoy it or was she just doing it to please him? Back home only whores did things like that, but things were different here. Maybe Mike expected her to do it. It couldn't be that bad. It was only skin. Nancy made a decision. She lowered her head and felt the mushroom shaped tip brush against her lips. She pushed out her tongue. The stuff leaking out had a sweet soapy taste. It wasn't so bad. Her mouth opened. His hard flesh pushed across her tongue. Nancy felt her pussy twitch. Having him in her mouth was getting her aroused. Now that she had him in her mouth she wasn't sure what to do. It was called a blowjob, but blowing on it wasn't really possible. She did know that having sex involved a man moving his penis in and out of a vagina, and a handjob involved pumping up and down. Couldn't she use her mouth the same way? She clamped her lips tightly around his shaft, taking him deep into her mouth. She slid up his length and then back down again. She repeated it. Mike's groans confirmed she must be doing it right. She went faster, squeezing her lips tightly around him. The throbbing in her pussy got more intense. Having him in her mouth was like an aphrodisiac. She squeezed her thighs together to try and contain the pressure. Mike put his hands on her head and thrust up into her mouth each time it came plunging down the length of his cock. His moans became louder. She could feel his body tense. “Ohhhhh…oh god…It's happening.” Mike said it as a warning, but it didn't register with Nancy. She was too caught up in the act she was performing to think about the consequences. She felt him swell between her lips and heard him grunt. Suddenly, a spray of hot creamy fluid shot from the tip of his cock. It splashed across her tongue and filled her mouth. This was followed by a second, third, and fourth spurt. There was so much it was leaking out the sides of her lips. Mike jerked a few more times before he fell back in his seat completely drained. Nancy didn't know what to do. She still had her lips clamped tightly around his penis and a mouthful of his gooey ejaculate. His cock was hard, but she could feel it beginning to deflate. She slowly pulled off of him. When he popped out of her mouth, some of his stuff ran down her chin. She clamped her hand over her lips to keep more from escaping. Nancy sat up next to Mike who was still recovering. She didn't know what to do with the mouthful of semen. Fortunately, it didn't taste horrible, kind of like the stuff that had been leaking from his tip earlier, only not quite as sweet. She could lean over the side of the car and spit it out, but that seemed unladylike. Nancy wondered what would happen if she swallowed. Would she get sick? Could she get pregnant that way? She didn't think so, but there was a lot she didn't know. And what would Mike think? He might be disgusted. She couldn't just sit there with a mouthful of his stuff. She had to do something. “Here,” Mike said, handing her a handkerchief. Thank god, she thought. He is a gentleman after all. She put the handkerchief to her lips and let the gooey substance flow from her mouth. There was so much that some got on her fingers and dripped onto her skirt, but she was able to contain most of it in the handkerchief. She used the one dry part to wipe her lips and chin. Now she had another problem. What to do with the dripping handkerchief. Once again Mike came to the rescue. He carefully took the handkerchief between his thumb and forefinger and threw it over the side of the car. Then he put his arm around Nancy and pulled her closer. “I'm sorry,” he said. “I tried to warn you, but I just couldn't hold back. I hope you're not upset with me?” Nancy wasn't entirely sure why he was apologizing. Wasn't the whole purpose of using her hand and mouth on his penis to give him pleasure and make him shoot? Maybe he was upset that he shot in her mouth, but that seemed inevitable. It didn't bother her. If she was upset with anyone, it was herself. She had done what only sluts and whores would do back home. Still, she didn't regret it. “There is nothing to apologize about,” she said. “I had a good time, but now I really do need to get back to school.” Nancy was surprised to see Martha already back in the room when she arrived. “In case you were wondering, he had to get back to the city tonight, so we came here, had a quick fuck, and he left. How was your date with Mike?” “It was fun. You were right. He was a real gentleman.” “Not too much of a gentleman, I hope.” Nancy blushed and looked down. “Oh my god, did you…” Martha left the question hanging. “No,” Nancy replied, shaking her head. “We just, um, fooled around a little.” “Fooled around like in he squeezed your tits, or like in you sucked his cock?” Nancy's face turned beet red. Back home no one would ask such a question. “Oh my gosh,” Martha said with a grin on her face. “You did. You sucked his cock. Was that your first time?” Nancy looked down and nodded her head. “Way to go girl. I want all the details. Does he have a nice cock? Did you enjoy it? Did he shoot in your mouth? No, he's too much of a gentleman to do something like that.” Nancy's face turned even redder. “He did,” Martha stated as a fact. “Your first blowjob and you let him go off in your mouth. Did he warn you or was it a surprise?” “He, um, he said he was sorry,” Nancy replied, biting her lower lip. “Yeah, they all say that. So what did you do? Did you spit it out or swallow?” “Um, he, um, gave me his handkerchief,” Nancy said in a barely audible voice. “Now that is a gentleman. Next time, though, you should swallow. It's really not that bad and a lot less messy. Are you going to see him again?” “I hope so. He said he would call, but not until after exams.” “I guess that means you're free next weekend. John is bringing his friend Barry. He needs a date. He's really handsome and a lot of fun.” “I was kind of hoping to go out with Mike again.” “Just because you gave him a blowjob doesn't mean you're going steady. If Mike was that interested he would be up here next week, exams or not. In fact, that was probably just an excuse. I'll bet he already has a date for next weekend. He's pretty popular with the girls.” Now Nancy felt like an idiot. She thought there was something special between them. She was just another date to Mike. Well, she wasn't going to sit around and feel sorry for herself. “Would it be like a double date?” “Yes. It will be fun. By the way, you don't mind going out with someone who is Jewish do you?” “Well, um, I've never met a Jewish person.” “Don't worry. He doesn't have horns or a tail. And he's a gentleman too, so he won't do anything you don't want, but he can be pretty persuasive. So is it a date?” Nancy thought about it. She had no obligation to be faithful to Mike. They had only dated once, and if what Martha said was true, Mike was likely getting more than just blowjobs from other girls. “Sure. I'll go out with Barry.” To be continued. By Erlikkhan for Literotica

Sean bienvenidos a otro Spaces en lo que ahora se conoce como X pero que sigue siendo Twitter para los que lo usamos para compartir cosas. Hoy hablaremos sobre la X, ese símbolo mundialmente conocido por representar algo incógnito, algo desconocido pero que está ahí. El 9 de agosto del 2023 escribí un artículo titulado “DANIEL SANCHO. MUERTE Y RESURRECCIÓN DE OSIRIS EN TRES ACTOS”, vimos los dos primeros actos con la muerte del cirujano y su troceamiento en 14 partes que como en el mito de Osiris supuestamente realizó el hijo de una saga de actores. Nos falta la resurrección y esa posiblemente se de en este 2024 ya que si no lo saben la X es “un antiguo símbolo de cambio o transformación.” Este 2024 es el año de la X aunque el sr Elon Musk se anticipó cambiando el logo de Twitter por una X. Y es que el sr Musk es buen conocedor de lo que se mueve en el mundo y un aficionado al esoterismo. Lo vimos realizando el Osiris Risen, el antiguo cruce de manos de los faraones egipcios, el signo de Osiris de eso trata la X. Del punto donde se produce la magia. Esta semana se reúnen en el foro de Davos del 15 al 19 de enero más de 60 jefes de Estado y Gobierno y cientos de líderes empresariales. Allí se decidirá lo que suceda este año en el mundo, se impulsarán políticas globales y se darán las ordenes para llevar a la humanidad a una desaceleración económica suave que apenas se note en occidente y que equilibre a todo el mundo en una pobreza igualitaria…para la mayoría claro, ya que unos pocos seguirán viajando en jet privado y consumiendo prostitutas en el obscenario. Para lograr esos objetivos necesitan crear una distracción a nivel mundial como ocurrió con el COVID. Pero en esta ocasión han decidido blindarse legalmente gracias a la creación de un Tratado de Pandemias que unifique el criterio médico, económico y legal en la supuesta lucha contra una nueva enfermedad llamémosla X. En 2017, la OMS incluyó la Enfermedad X en una lista corta de patógenos de máxima prioridad para la investigación, junto con enfermedades conocidas como el Síndrome Respiratorio Agudo Severo (SARS) y el Ébola. En marzo de 2018 podíamos leer un artículo en la web del Foro Económico Mundial titulado “La Organización Mundial de la Salud está preocupada por la Enfermedad X y tú también deberías estarlo”. Allí directamente nos amenazaban con la frase: “Se acerca la próxima pandemia”. Y nos lo decían a la cara: “Según virólogos y epidemiólogos, una gripe mutada ha sido durante mucho tiempo la candidata a ser la fuente de nuestra próxima pandemia. "Nos acercamos al centenario de la pandemia de influenza de 1918", dijo anteriormente a Business Insider George Poste, miembro del Panel de Estudio Blue Ribbon sobre Biodefensa , un grupo creado para evaluar el estado de la biodefensa en los EE. UU . "Afortunadamente, nos hemos librado de algo de esa escala durante los últimos 100 años, pero es inevitable que surja una cepa pandémica de igual virulencia”." 2 años más tarde llegó el COVID. Por eso podemos ver un video de la emisora colombiana NoticiasRCN del 21 febrero de 2019 hablándonos de cómo en el futuro se podría dar una pandemia de un patógeno llamado X. Dejare el enlace al video en la descripción del podcast junto al hilo creado por Rosany Díaz sobre la reunión del foro de Davos y la enfermedad X. Leemos en el portal Kontrainfo punto com: “La sesión denominada “Preparación para la Enfermedad X” forma parte de la Reunión Anual del Foro Económico Mundial (WEF), también conocido Foro de Davos, la entidad globalista fundada por Klaus Schwab. La llamativa disertación está prevista para el 17 de enero de 2024. ¿Un adelanto de lo que vendrá, como fue en su momento el Evento 201? Lo presentara Nancy Brown, Directora General de la Asociación Americana del Corazón y miembro del WEF. Los oradores públicos de la sesión serán: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General, OMS Shyam Bishen, director del Centro de Salud y Atención Médica; FEM Ginebra Roy Jakobs, presidente y director ejecutivo de Royal Philips Preetha Reddy, vicepresidenta ejecutiva de Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd Nisia Trindade Lima, Ministra de Salud, Ministerio de Salud de Brasil Michel Demaré, presidente de la junta directiva de AstraZeneca Plc El presidente de la OMS ha dicho que perdieron muchas personas cuando el Covid porque no había espacio en los hospitales o no tenían oxigeno. Lo que destaca es el rastreo de contactos, o sea, el control. También ha abogado porque es necesario el Tratado de Pandemias que se esta negociando ahora mismo casi en secreto. Michel Demaré, presidente de la junta directiva de AstraZeneca, ha dicho que consiguieron fabricar 3.000 millones de vacunas para el COVID sin afán de lucro. Y lo ha dicho sin despeinarse, ojo. Roy Jakobs, presidente y director ejecutivo de Royal Philips, ha dicho que cada año mueren mas pacientes por enfermedades cardiacas que todas las personas que han muerto por COVID. Lógicamente no insinuó que se ha producido un incremento sustancial tras la vacunación COVID. Palabras vacías, chachara…propaganda y mentiras para no centrarse en que toda la pandemia del covid ha sido una gran mentira, una Tragipandemia donde las mentiras las han puesto ellos y los muertos nosotros. Por su parte, la BBC de Londres informó que en el Reino Unido se viene preparando un laboratorio específico para la “Enfermedad X”: “Ubicado en la tranquila campiña de Wiltshire cerca de Salisbury, Porton Down es uno de los pocos lugares del mundo equipados para investigar algunos de los virus y bacterias más desagradables que podamos imaginar. Los congeladores aquí contienen a los causantes de enfermedades como el ébola. Uno de sus edificios vecinos es el Laboratorio de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Defensa, integrado en el Ministerio de Defensa, donde se confirmó el uso del agente nervioso Novichok en el envenenamiento de Salisbury a un doble espía ruso y su hija en 2018.”. Y expone uno de sus principales objetivos: “El trabajo en este lugar se enfoca en la “Misión de los 100 días”, una estrategia enormemente ambiciosa para desarrollar una vacuna contra una nueva amenaza en solo 100 días”. El Dr. John Campbell explica que esta 'Enfermedad X' no existe en ningún libro de texto médico pero es pregonada por el Foro Económico Mundial, la OMS y el foro de Davos. “Ahora quiero hablar sobre la enfermedad X que se encuentra aquí en este sitio web. Por lo que puedo entender, este es el sitio del foro económico mundial. Enfermedad X, así es como debemos prepararnos para el próximo Gran virus. Así que puedes escucharlo aquí o leerlo allí, es muy fácil de entender, aunque bastante difícil de entender. En cuanto a la enfermedad X, he estado enseñando este tipo de cosas a tiempo completo desde 1990. Sé que he sido enfermero clínico desde 1975 cuando era estudiante de primer año y nunca había oído hablar de esta enfermedad X. Así que mire algunos de mis libros porque cuando los escribí no recordaba haberlo puesto. Así que no estaba allí, pero fácilmente podría pasarlo por alto. No. Así que revise en patología de Rubens, estos son los textos definitivos. Tampoco pude verlo allí. Revise en el libro de superfisiología de Hall, tampoco estaba. Fisiopatología de Porth, no está ahí tampoco. Es un libro bastante grueso. Crea que podría estar por allí en alguna parte. Apenas puedes coger este. En todos estos libros de texto estándar no está allí. Entonces debe ser una enfermedad nueva. No puedo decir que me gusta el sonido de una nueva enfermedad. ¿Ya hemos tenido una nueva enfermedad, no? De todos modos esto es solo lo que quiero ofrecerles sobre algunos aspectos destacados de la charla de Davos. La enfermedad X se avecina. El mundo necesita estar mejor preparado para afrontar una futura pandemia. Y verán aquí que el texto es del sitio del Foro Económico Mundial. Continúan diciendo que al mapear los virus con potencial de convertirse en la próxima enfermedad X, la comunidad sanitaria mundial y los gobiernos podrán responder mejor la próxima vez que se reinicie una pandemia. Parece que están anticipando otra pandemia aquí. Se necesita colaboración global y financiación adecuada para mejorar la preparación ante una pandemia y garantizar una opción rápida para mantener a raya un brote vírico. Dice que se puede recorrer un largo camino para poder producir algo. Estar bastante seguro de lo que se está produciendo, pero que se puede producir una cosa u otra. En cualquier caso, que se dirigirá a un nuevo virus antes de que ese virus emerja. Supongo que aquí se refieren a medicamentos reutilizados que podrían implementarse muy rápidamente y a muy bajo costo y que podrían ser eficaces contra una variedad de afecciones. Quizás eso es lo que quieren decir, pero de todos modos algo van a producir. No puedo leer mucho sobre eso, todo lo que dicen es algo. Incluso podría significar una vacuna, no sé, sea lo que sea que quieran decir ahí. De todos modos eso apunta a un virus nuevo incluso antes de que se surja. Es un virus que aún no conocemos, pero si sabemos que está ahí fuera, ¿verdad? Entonces saben que está ahí afuera. Obviamente, no saben una ubicación geográfica precisa, pero saben que está ahí fuera. Y sabemos que tiene el potencial de derramarse de los animales potencialmente a los seres humanos. Bueno, sí, puede haber eventos de propagación natural, por supuesto, también puede haber otros orígenes de virus, tal vez mutar o adaptarse y luego comenzar a propagarse y matar a la gente más rápido de lo que podemos contenerlo. Llevar a cabo investigación y nuestro desarrollo de vacunas, llevar a cabo investigación y desarrollo de vacunas para conocidas familias virales podrían impactar a los humanos, de las cuales había 25 familias virales iguales, le darían a la humanidad una ventaja decidida sobre la próxima enfermedad, X. Entonces, Kim sabe, tal vez el Foro Económico Mundial, será lo suficientemente bueno como para desarrollar una vacuna para nosotros, los sucios. Entonces ya está todo listo para nosotros. Realmente es bastante preocupante una enfermedad EQUIS. Parece que deberíamos pensar que está llegando. Esperemos que no sepan mucho más que nosotros. Lo dejaremos ahí. Gracias por ver.” ¡Qué maravillosa idea el inventarse una enfermedad que no existe y apellidarla con la letra incógnita! Es un paso más en la loca carrera de la teoría del contagio por patógenos que ya ni siquiera podemos ver al ser de un tamaño tan pequeño que solo se pueden ver en los microscopios electrónicos. ¡Eso sí, haciendo algún que otro esfuerzo artístico para que se vea “la bola”! Como en el cuento del traje del emperador tendrás que utilizar tu imaginación para ver al bicho bola llamado X. Y tendrás que verlo si no quieres ser desterrado por la sociedad y relegado a cubrir tu cabeza con un gorrito de papel aluminio. Así que recuerda que cuando ellos hablan de enfermedad X, La X de la enfermedad eres tú. ………………………………………………………………………………………. Decir que Klaus Schwab, el actual gerifalte del Foro Económico Mundial y creador del Foro de Davos, supuestamente es judio, ya que su verdadera madre no es la madrastra que terminó casándose con su padre cuando los nazis tomaron el poder en Alemania. Los principales medios de comunicación y los propagandistas académicos de Klaus han ocultado su pasado nazi en una tormenta de premios, programas WEF, libros escritos por fantasmas, discursos, entrevistas, cátedras honorarias y doctorados de todo el mundo. Su padre fue Eugen Wilhelm Schwab, director de la fabrica Escher-Wyss en Ravensburg, Alemania. Ravensburg era un centro de transporte para el oro nazi robado al Banco Suizo de Pagos Internacionales dirigido por los espías de la Sociedad de Peregrinos Allan W. Dulles (más tarde director de la CIA, 1953-61), Edwin W. Pauley (Comité de reparaciones aliado) y William J. Donovan, director de la OSS (precursor de la CIA, el jefe de Dulles, controlado por el MI6). La empresa de la familia de Schwab, Escher Wyss, explotó el trabajo esclavo y los prisioneros de guerra aliados, fabricó tecnologías clave para la fabricación de bombas nucleares para Adolf Hitler y Sudáfrica, vendió lanzallamas suizos a los nazis y Adolf Hitler la nombró Empresa Modelo Nacionalsocialista. La película de propaganda británica de 1965 Los héroes de Telemark trata sobre la planta nazi de fabricación de agua pesada en Noruega. Esa planta fue construida por Escher-Wyss. La compañía Escher Wyss de Schwab estaba protegida no solo por Hitler, sino también por Suiza, Gran Bretaña y Estados Unidos, lo que convertía a Schwab en un entrometido criminal extranjero en todos los sentidos. Los documentos de archivo de la CIA muestran que Escher-Wyss y Sulzer estaban bajo la dirección del Departamento de Energía y el Departamento de Estado de EE. UU. Contrariamente a las historias de propaganda sobre la falta de industrias bélicas de Ravensburg (como la razón por la cual los Aliados no bombardearon la ciudad y su industria Escher-Wyss), descubrimos muchos pecados no confesados de Ravensburg que rodean a Schwab y Escher-Wyss. Durante la segunda guerra mundial suministraron turbinas, compresores y hélices para barcos y submarinos nazis, así como turbinas de gas para alimentar la maquinaria de guerra, además de su tecnología nuclear. Y cómo he dicho antes, esta ciudad nunca fue bombardeada por los aliados. Conozco de primera mano el caso de un pequeño pueblo del Tirol austriaco donde nunca vieron sobrevolar un avión aliado y sin embargo allí se fabricaron los torpedos de los submarinos alemanes y las carcasas de las bombas V2 que se lanzaron contra Londres. Y hablando de bombas, yo pensaba que era un hijo del Baby boom que se produjo en España y por eso pensé que por haber nacido en 1968 era un baby boomer, pero me di cuenta de mi error viendo el concurso de “los listos”, ya saben, Saber y Ganar. Allí quedó claro que eran los nacimientos entre 1965 y 1981 los que componían esta generación X. El nombre se lo dio “Generación X: Cuentos para una cultura acelerada”, una novela de 1991 escrita por el autor canadiense Douglas Coupland. En la wikipedia nos cuentan que este nombre aparece en el capítulo final de un libro sociológico sobre la estructura de las clases americanas titulado Class, de Paul Fussell. En su capítulo final, Fussell nombró una categoría X de personas que querían saltar del tiovivo de estatus, dinero y ascenso social que tan a menudo enmarca la existencia moderna. ¿Seremos los X los llamados a saltarnos la trampa del estatus, dinero y ascenso social tal y cómo sostenía Fussell en su libro? 2024 será un año "ocho", ya que los dígitos de 2024 suman ocho. Ya saben que simbólicamente hay que reducir todas las cifras a un solo dígito salvo que salga un numero maestro, por eso dos más dos más cuatro son ocho. Dentro de la numerología, el número ocho está regido por el planeta Saturno, al igual que el signo zodiacal Capricornio. Los rasgos clave de Saturno son la perseverancia y la ambición, por lo que aquellos gobernados por Saturno se encuentran en roles de liderazgo. Es el año de los líderes, el año de los líderes que creen en Saturno. ¿Pero que pasa si añadimos la X a la ecuación, je, je, je? Según la numerología caldea, el número 5 rige sobre la letra X. Dado que este es el número que pertenece a Mercurio, el efecto de Mercurio estará presente por ser importante este año la letra “X”. Pero este año 2024, que da el número 8, puede dar resultados aburridos. El número 8 denota tristezas y retrasos, ya que pertenece a Saturno. La letra del planeta Mercurio, que denota "X", es sin embargo de naturaleza rápida. Mercurio y Saturno son amigos entre sí. Mercurio denota inteligencia y Saturno denota oscuridad. Esta combinación de planetas Mercurio y Saturno es beneficiosa por naturaleza y se obtendrán resultados positivos e inteligentes. No será buena idea llamar a la nueva Tragipandemia “Enfermedad X” o “virus X”, no les saldrá bien ya que mucha gente va a estar peleando desde el minuto uno. Esta vez no nos pillaran desprevenidos. En la web Símbolos, Mitos y Arquetipos leíamos lo siguiente sobre el numero 8: “El 8 es el número del equilibrio, de la justicia y de la renovación. El 8 significa el comienzo de algo nuevo. El octavo día equivale al inicio de una nueva semana. En la escala musical con el ocho se inicia una nueva octava. En muchas culturas el 8 es considerado el lazo de unión que relaciona nuestro mundo con otro mundo mejor, más grande y mucho mas desarrollado. La estrella octagonal y la figura del octaedro simbolizan la unión de estos dos mundos. En la antigüedad el numero 8 se consideraba "la meta deseada". En su camino hacia la salvación el alma tenía que atravesar los 7 cielos donde estaban cada uno de los 7 planetas. Al final del viaje el alma llegaba a la octava esfera que estaba formado por todas las estrellas inmóviles. La octava esfera era donde vivían los dioses.” Esto creo que es un buen presagio. ¿No crees Yane? ………………………………………………………………………………………. Pensando en enfermedades que lleven una X enseguida nos vino a la cabeza el ántrax. Según la wikipedia “el ántrax (o carbunco) es una enfermedad infecciosa grave causada por una bacteria grampositiva y baciliforme conocida como Bacillus anthracis.” Las esporas latentes del antrax se pueden respirar, tragar o entrar al torrente sanguíneo a través de una herida en la piel. Estas esporas una vez entran a un huésped se reproducen o activan produciendo toxinas graves que pueden enfermar o matar a la persona o animal que las contraiga. El ántrax no es una enfermedad contagiosa, lo que significa que no es posible contraerla como un resfriado o la gripe. No podemos contagiar a otra persona a no ser que nuestra sangre estuviera en contacto con la suya. ¿Les suena esto? Veamos cuales son los síntomas del ántrax cutáneo: “Un grupo de pequeñas ampollas o una hinchazón que puede provocar comezón Puede presentarse inflamación alrededor del forúnculo. Un forúnculo cutáneo (úlcera) sin dolor con un centro negro que aparece luego de pequeñas ampollas o una hinchazón. Más a menudo el forúnculo aparecerá en la cara, el cuello, los brazos o las manos.” Yo no se vds, pero yo estoy viendo un grupo de zombies dando bocados y contagiando las bacterias ya activas de unos a otros. No debemos tomarnos a la ligera esto ya que en 2011 el CDC (el centro de control de enfermedades infecciosas, los putos amos en pandemias vaya) sacaron un cómic titulado “Preparación 101: Apocalipsis zombi”. ¿Les suena lo del evento 201 en noviembre de 2019, pues este fue una especie de simulación llamada 101? El director de la Oficina de Preparación y Respuesta de Salud Pública de los CDC, el contraalmirante Ali S. Khan, escribe: "Tomemos un apocalipsis zombie, por ejemplo. Así es, dije Apocalipsis zombie. Puede que ahora te rías, pero cuando suceda te alegrarás de leer esto y, oye, tal vez incluso aprendas un par de cosas sobre cómo prepararte para una emergencia real". Yo no me tomaría a broma lo que estos psicopatas son capaces de hacer. Solo hay que conocer la historia de la llamada isla del ántrax, la isla Gruinard en Escocia. “El plan del gobierno británico para luchar contra el ejército nazi con un arma biológica terminó con una pequeña isla del noroeste de Escocia contaminada con ántrax y cerrada al acceso público durante casi cinco décadas. El alcance total de la operación sigue siendo aún hoy en día un misterio. La deshabitada isla de Gruinard, conocida como "la isla del ántrax" o "la isla de la muerte" por los lugareños, fue declarada segura en 1990, pero la vida en este antaño santuario de aves, situado a menos de una milla de la costa escocesa, nunca ha vuelto a la normalidad. Todo comenzó a finales de 1941, en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ese año, ante la amenaza de una posible invasión alemana y el temor de que los nazis hubieran desarrollado una bomba biológica, un desesperado primer ministro británico Winston Churchill ordenó a los científicos de una instalación inglesa de alto secreto llamada Porton Down que pensaran en algún arma para lanzar contra los alemanes.” ¿Saben cómo se llamo en clave a dicha isla? Ja,ja, ja. Base X. Sí, volvemos a tener por duplicado la maldita X. La versión oficial es terrorífica, hay un documental del cual he extraído este párrafo: “El ántrax es una bacteria letal, especialmente cuando se inhala, y resulta mortal en casi todos los casos, incluso con tratamiento médico. "La bacteria forma esporas. Si están en el aire y las respiras y entran en tu sistema respiratorio, llegan a tus pulmones y las pequeñas semillas germinan en bacterias, las bacterias empiezan a crecer y te causa la muerte. Es bastante letal", explica la microbiologista Clare Taylor en el documental de la BBC. Además, el ántrax puede permanecer durante años en la tierra. "Las esporas pueden existir entre 40 y 50 años, pero bajo algunas condiciones, pueden seguir siendo viables después de 200 años", detalla la científica.” El psicopata de Churchill contamino una isla inglesa sin medir las consecuencias en un experimento chapucero y lo intentaron tapar con mentiras: "Enviaron agentes al norte para analizar todo y pagaron compensaciones a los granjeros, pero tenían una tapadera para lo sucedido. Les dijeron que las compensaciones venían del gobierno griego, porque el ántrax procedía de un barco griego que pasó cerca de ahí y que infectó la zona, en lugar de decir que fue un experimento del gobierno británico. De esta manera podían eludir la responsabilidad por lo sucedido", decían en el documental de la BBC. ………………………………………………………………………………………. Hoy me gustaria despedirme mandando un enorme abrazo a todas esas personas que no nos hemos dejado inocular sus caldos experimentales y que gozamos, dentro de lo que cabe, de una excelente salud. Muchos covidianos, mascarillos e hipocondriacos han corrido peor suerte y por desgracia una gran cantidad de ellos sufrirán las consecuencias en los años venideros. Ojala que vean la luz y dejen de seguir órdenes absurdas y consejos que los llevaran a la tumba más pronto que tarde. Espero que este año del 8 traiga la sabiduría y espiritualidad necesarias para que se despojen de sus malas ideas imbuidas por medios de comunicación, gobiernos y médicos pagados por la farmafia. Que logremos entre todos una solución a los problemas de la humanidad y le plantemos cara de una vez al mal que gobierna este mundo pervertido y satánico. Es vital si queremos tener futuro. Los magufos, los afirmacionistas, los no creyentes en la OMS ni en las fundaciones filantrópicas debemos estar contentos con lo conseguido hasta ahora, que no es poco. ¡Hemos sobrevivido a una Tragipandemia mortal! El 2025 debe ser el punto de inflexión donde la humanidad se plantee cambiar de dirección. Y este 2024 será el inicio de ese cambio. Ellos no lo saben, pero ya han perdido. El camino que se inició en 2020 concluirá este 2025 donde ese número 9 representa el punto de inflexión desde donde todo regresará a sus orígenes. 2020 es un 4, como 2021 es un 5 al sumar sus cifras hasta llegar a 2025 que es un nueve. Del 4 al 9, pero no al nueve que adoran los satanistas sino al número más espiritual y mas evolucionado de todos. El fin de ciclo que comienza en el uno y acaba en el nueve, como si de nueve meses de gestación se tratase. Un técnico preocupado, un tipo de la generación X os dice desde X que se pueden meter su enfermedad X por donde les quepa. Nosotros estaremos preparados para el golpe y ayudaremos a cuantos humanos estén a nuestro alcance. Nosotros somos inmunes a vuestros burdos engaños. Este tema que sonará a continuación y que es una de las pocas canciones en euskera que hemos utilizado a lo largo de estos casi 300 programas se lo dedico a Iker, ese pedazo de amigo vasco que siempre me ha acompañado en los peores momentos. Como siempre digo, cuiden a sus familias y no tengan miedo, no podrán con nosotros. ………………………………………………………………………………………. Invitados: …. Dra Yane #JusticiaParaUTP Médico y Buscadora de la verdad. Con Dios siempre! No permito q me dividan c/izq -derecha, raza, religión ni nada de la Creación. https://youtu.be/TXEEZUYd4c0 …. Placeb0 @Placeb0Mad Contra los totalitarismos. Buscador de la verdad. …. Rosany Díaz @RosanyDiaz Aprendiendo el arte de vivir feliz. Afronto con valentía hacer lo oportuno x la libertad del ser humano. ¿Buscar pareja en radio de 15 minutos o quitar barrera? …. Ira @Genes72 …. UTP Ramón Valero @tecn_preocupado Un técnico Preocupado un FP2 IVOOX UTP http://cutt.ly/dzhhGrf BLOG http://cutt.ly/dzhh2LX Ayúdame desde mi Crowfunding aquí https://cutt.ly/W0DsPVq ………………………………………………………………………………………. Enlaces citados en el podcast: UTP273 Un Tratado de Pandemias para someterlos a todos (con música) https://www.ivoox.com/utp273-un-tratado-pandemias-para-someterlos-a-audios-mp3_rf_122517711_1.html Enlace de descarga borrador en pdf del Tratado de Pandemias de la OMS https://jamesroguski.substack.com/api/v1/file/3245cc33-6480-486f-a84b-88f32def7dd9.pdf La OMS alerta de que llegará una nueva pandemia que será más mortífera: "Debemos estar preparados" https://www.elmundo.es/ciencia-y-salud/salud/2023/05/23/646c6b42e4d4d8ff7c8b45d2.html Pasos para solicitar al portal de Transparencia el nombre de las personas que están negociando el Tratado de Pandemias en España https://twitter.com/aflorrick77/status/1746554585303433643 Hilo de Rosany Díaz sobre la reunión del foro de Davos y la enfermedad X https://twitter.com/RosanyDiaz/status/1746585809619243091 Enfermedad "X" aún no existe pero aseguran que llegará https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr2scr51uA8 El Foro de Davos incluye una “Preparación para la enfermedad X” con presencia de Tedros Ghebreyesus, director de la OMS https://noticiasholisticas.com.ar/el-foro-de-davos-incluye-una-preparacion-para-la-enfermedad-x-con-presencia-de-tedros-ghebreyesus-director-de-la-oms/ Preparing for Disease X (en web de Davos) Speakers: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Shyam Bishen, Roy Jakobs, Preetha Reddy, Nisia Trindade Lima, Nancy Brown, Michel Demaré https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/sessions/preparing-for-a-disease-x/ Preparing for Disease X (en Youtube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O4n5Cf75ZM Ley sobre la enfermedad X en el Congreso USA https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2640 La Organización Mundial de la Salud está preocupada por la Enfermedad X y tú también deberías estarlo https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/03/a-mysterious-disease-x-could-be-the-next-pandemic-to-kill-millions-of-people-heres-how-worried-you-should-be/ Dr. John Campbell explica que esta 'Enfermedad X' no existe en ningún libro de texto médico https://twitter.com/liz_churchill10/status/1746387103720653211 La simbología del número 8.- Ocho https://abajocomoarriba.blogspot.com/2015/07/la-simbologia-del-numero-8.html ¿Qué es el ántrax? según el CDC https://www.cdc.gov/anthrax/es/basicos/conceptos-basicos.html "La isla de ántrax": el fallido plan británico para derrotar a los nazis envenenando a las vacas https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-internacional-62338228 Ensayos de ántrax en la base X de la isla Gruinard 1942-43 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mykjxkwwe0 Cómic del CDC sobre una pandemia zombie https://twitter.com/tecn_preocupado/status/1371495154016776193 Cómic en la pagina oficial del CDC https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6023 Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_101:_Zombie_Apocalypse La Profesora de Harvard Naomi Oreskas Condena la Plataforma X de Libertad de Expresión como un " Lugar Tóxico https://twitter.com/ezdubs_bot/status/1747517082013507888 Klaus Schwab (Foro Económico Mundial), Cuarta Revolución Industrial, Transhumanismo, IA. https://www.burbuja.info/inmobiliaria/threads/klaus-schwab-foro-economico-mundial-cuarta-revolucion-industrial-transhumanismo-ia.1620542/ ¿Quien es Klaus Schwab? Os vais a enterar https://www.burbuja.info/inmobiliaria/threads/quien-es-klaus-schwab-os-vais-a-enterar.1812662/ EUGEN WILHELM SCHWAB (padre de Klaus Schwab) https://aim4truth.org/1899-04-27-eugen-wilhelm-schwab-m-oct-02-1926-m-1938-d-1982-ravensburg-germany-b-apr-27-1899/ Emma Gisela Tekelius Schwab (madre judia de Klaus Schwab) https://twitter.com/Ron70784349/status/1594380117450821632 Sabes que son las aflatoxinas https://www.gob.mx/salud/articulos/sabes-que-son-las-aflatoxinas La enfermedad que brotó de los pavos https://instituciones.sld.cu/cimeq/2017/05/07/la-enfermedad-que-broto-de-los-pavos/ ………………………………………………………………………………………. Música utilizada en este podcast: Tema inicial Heros ……………………………………………………………….. Epílogo Menturan - Immune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9etI1XZYyA

Sean bienvenidos a otro Spaces en lo que ahora se conoce como X pero que sigue siendo Twitter para los que lo usamos para compartir cosas. Hoy hablaremos sobre la X, ese símbolo mundialmente conocido por representar algo incógnito, algo desconocido pero que está ahí. El 9 de agosto del 2023 escribí un artículo titulado “DANIEL SANCHO. MUERTE Y RESURRECCIÓN DE OSIRIS EN TRES ACTOS”, vimos los dos primeros actos con la muerte del cirujano y su troceamiento en 14 partes que como en el mito de Osiris supuestamente realizó el hijo de una saga de actores. Nos falta la resurrección y esa posiblemente se de en este 2024 ya que si no lo saben la X es “un antiguo símbolo de cambio o transformación.” Este 2024 es el año de la X aunque el sr Elon Musk se anticipó cambiando el logo de Twitter por una X. Y es que el sr Musk es buen conocedor de lo que se mueve en el mundo y un aficionado al esoterismo. Lo vimos realizando el Osiris Risen, el antiguo cruce de manos de los faraones egipcios, el signo de Osiris de eso trata la X. Del punto donde se produce la magia. Esta semana se reúnen en el foro de Davos del 15 al 19 de enero más de 60 jefes de Estado y Gobierno y cientos de líderes empresariales. Allí se decidirá lo que suceda este año en el mundo, se impulsarán políticas globales y se darán las ordenes para llevar a la humanidad a una desaceleración económica suave que apenas se note en occidente y que equilibre a todo el mundo en una pobreza igualitaria…para la mayoría claro, ya que unos pocos seguirán viajando en jet privado y consumiendo prostitutas en el obscenario. Para lograr esos objetivos necesitan crear una distracción a nivel mundial como ocurrió con el COVID. Pero en esta ocasión han decidido blindarse legalmente gracias a la creación de un Tratado de Pandemias que unifique el criterio médico, económico y legal en la supuesta lucha contra una nueva enfermedad llamémosla X. En 2017, la OMS incluyó la Enfermedad X en una lista corta de patógenos de máxima prioridad para la investigación, junto con enfermedades conocidas como el Síndrome Respiratorio Agudo Severo (SARS) y el Ébola. En marzo de 2018 podíamos leer un artículo en la web del Foro Económico Mundial titulado “La Organización Mundial de la Salud está preocupada por la Enfermedad X y tú también deberías estarlo”. Allí directamente nos amenazaban con la frase: “Se acerca la próxima pandemia”. Y nos lo decían a la cara: “Según virólogos y epidemiólogos, una gripe mutada ha sido durante mucho tiempo la candidata a ser la fuente de nuestra próxima pandemia. "Nos acercamos al centenario de la pandemia de influenza de 1918", dijo anteriormente a Business Insider George Poste, miembro del Panel de Estudio Blue Ribbon sobre Biodefensa , un grupo creado para evaluar el estado de la biodefensa en los EE. UU . "Afortunadamente, nos hemos librado de algo de esa escala durante los últimos 100 años, pero es inevitable que surja una cepa pandémica de igual virulencia”." 2 años más tarde llegó el COVID. Por eso podemos ver un video de la emisora colombiana NoticiasRCN del 21 febrero de 2019 hablándonos de cómo en el futuro se podría dar una pandemia de un patógeno llamado X. Dejare el enlace al video en la descripción del podcast junto al hilo creado por Rosany Díaz sobre la reunión del foro de Davos y la enfermedad X. Leemos en el portal Kontrainfo punto com: “La sesión denominada “Preparación para la Enfermedad X” forma parte de la Reunión Anual del Foro Económico Mundial (WEF), también conocido Foro de Davos, la entidad globalista fundada por Klaus Schwab. La llamativa disertación está prevista para el 17 de enero de 2024. ¿Un adelanto de lo que vendrá, como fue en su momento el Evento 201? Lo presentara Nancy Brown, Directora General de la Asociación Americana del Corazón y miembro del WEF. Los oradores públicos de la sesión serán: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General, OMS Shyam Bishen, director del Centro de Salud y Atención Médica; FEM Ginebra Roy Jakobs, presidente y director ejecutivo de Royal Philips Preetha Reddy, vicepresidenta ejecutiva de Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd Nisia Trindade Lima, Ministra de Salud, Ministerio de Salud de Brasil Michel Demaré, presidente de la junta directiva de AstraZeneca Plc El presidente de la OMS ha dicho que perdieron muchas personas cuando el Covid porque no había espacio en los hospitales o no tenían oxigeno. Lo que destaca es el rastreo de contactos, o sea, el control. También ha abogado porque es necesario el Tratado de Pandemias que se esta negociando ahora mismo casi en secreto. Michel Demaré, presidente de la junta directiva de AstraZeneca, ha dicho que consiguieron fabricar 3.000 millones de vacunas para el COVID sin afán de lucro. Y lo ha dicho sin despeinarse, ojo. Roy Jakobs, presidente y director ejecutivo de Royal Philips, ha dicho que cada año mueren mas pacientes por enfermedades cardiacas que todas las personas que han muerto por COVID. Lógicamente no insinuó que se ha producido un incremento sustancial tras la vacunación COVID. Palabras vacías, chachara…propaganda y mentiras para no centrarse en que toda la pandemia del covid ha sido una gran mentira, una Tragipandemia donde las mentiras las han puesto ellos y los muertos nosotros. Por su parte, la BBC de Londres informó que en el Reino Unido se viene preparando un laboratorio específico para la “Enfermedad X”: “Ubicado en la tranquila campiña de Wiltshire cerca de Salisbury, Porton Down es uno de los pocos lugares del mundo equipados para investigar algunos de los virus y bacterias más desagradables que podamos imaginar. Los congeladores aquí contienen a los causantes de enfermedades como el ébola. Uno de sus edificios vecinos es el Laboratorio de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Defensa, integrado en el Ministerio de Defensa, donde se confirmó el uso del agente nervioso Novichok en el envenenamiento de Salisbury a un doble espía ruso y su hija en 2018.”. Y expone uno de sus principales objetivos: “El trabajo en este lugar se enfoca en la “Misión de los 100 días”, una estrategia enormemente ambiciosa para desarrollar una vacuna contra una nueva amenaza en solo 100 días”. El Dr. John Campbell explica que esta 'Enfermedad X' no existe en ningún libro de texto médico pero es pregonada por el Foro Económico Mundial, la OMS y el foro de Davos. “Ahora quiero hablar sobre la enfermedad X que se encuentra aquí en este sitio web. Por lo que puedo entender, este es el sitio del foro económico mundial. Enfermedad X, así es como debemos prepararnos para el próximo Gran virus. Así que puedes escucharlo aquí o leerlo allí, es muy fácil de entender, aunque bastante difícil de entender. En cuanto a la enfermedad X, he estado enseñando este tipo de cosas a tiempo completo desde 1990. Sé que he sido enfermero clínico desde 1975 cuando era estudiante de primer año y nunca había oído hablar de esta enfermedad X. Así que mire algunos de mis libros porque cuando los escribí no recordaba haberlo puesto. Así que no estaba allí, pero fácilmente podría pasarlo por alto. No. Así que revise en patología de Rubens, estos son los textos definitivos. Tampoco pude verlo allí. Revise en el libro de superfisiología de Hall, tampoco estaba. Fisiopatología de Porth, no está ahí tampoco. Es un libro bastante grueso. Crea que podría estar por allí en alguna parte. Apenas puedes coger este. En todos estos libros de texto estándar no está allí. Entonces debe ser una enfermedad nueva. No puedo decir que me gusta el sonido de una nueva enfermedad. ¿Ya hemos tenido una nueva enfermedad, no? De todos modos esto es solo lo que quiero ofrecerles sobre algunos aspectos destacados de la charla de Davos. La enfermedad X se avecina. El mundo necesita estar mejor preparado para afrontar una futura pandemia. Y verán aquí que el texto es del sitio del Foro Económico Mundial. Continúan diciendo que al mapear los virus con potencial de convertirse en la próxima enfermedad X, la comunidad sanitaria mundial y los gobiernos podrán responder mejor la próxima vez que se reinicie una pandemia. Parece que están anticipando otra pandemia aquí. Se necesita colaboración global y financiación adecuada para mejorar la preparación ante una pandemia y garantizar una opción rápida para mantener a raya un brote vírico. Dice que se puede recorrer un largo camino para poder producir algo. Estar bastante seguro de lo que se está produciendo, pero que se puede producir una cosa u otra. En cualquier caso, que se dirigirá a un nuevo virus antes de que ese virus emerja. Supongo que aquí se refieren a medicamentos reutilizados que podrían implementarse muy rápidamente y a muy bajo costo y que podrían ser eficaces contra una variedad de afecciones. Quizás eso es lo que quieren decir, pero de todos modos algo van a producir. No puedo leer mucho sobre eso, todo lo que dicen es algo. Incluso podría significar una vacuna, no sé, sea lo que sea que quieran decir ahí. De todos modos eso apunta a un virus nuevo incluso antes de que se surja. Es un virus que aún no conocemos, pero si sabemos que está ahí fuera, ¿verdad? Entonces saben que está ahí afuera. Obviamente, no saben una ubicación geográfica precisa, pero saben que está ahí fuera. Y sabemos que tiene el potencial de derramarse de los animales potencialmente a los seres humanos. Bueno, sí, puede haber eventos de propagación natural, por supuesto, también puede haber otros orígenes de virus, tal vez mutar o adaptarse y luego comenzar a propagarse y matar a la gente más rápido de lo que podemos contenerlo. Llevar a cabo investigación y nuestro desarrollo de vacunas, llevar a cabo investigación y desarrollo de vacunas para conocidas familias virales podrían impactar a los humanos, de las cuales había 25 familias virales iguales, le darían a la humanidad una ventaja decidida sobre la próxima enfermedad, X. Entonces, Kim sabe, tal vez el Foro Económico Mundial, será lo suficientemente bueno como para desarrollar una vacuna para nosotros, los sucios. Entonces ya está todo listo para nosotros. Realmente es bastante preocupante una enfermedad EQUIS. Parece que deberíamos pensar que está llegando. Esperemos que no sepan mucho más que nosotros. Lo dejaremos ahí. Gracias por ver.” ¡Qué maravillosa idea el inventarse una enfermedad que no existe y apellidarla con la letra incógnita! Es un paso más en la loca carrera de la teoría del contagio por patógenos que ya ni siquiera podemos ver al ser de un tamaño tan pequeño que solo se pueden ver en los microscopios electrónicos. ¡Eso sí, haciendo algún que otro esfuerzo artístico para que se vea “la bola”! Como en el cuento del traje del emperador tendrás que utilizar tu imaginación para ver al bicho bola llamado X. Y tendrás que verlo si no quieres ser desterrado por la sociedad y relegado a cubrir tu cabeza con un gorrito de papel aluminio. Así que recuerda que cuando ellos hablan de enfermedad X, La X de la enfermedad eres tú. ………………………………………………………………………………………. Decir que Klaus Schwab, el actual gerifalte del Foro Económico Mundial y creador del Foro de Davos, supuestamente es judio, ya que su verdadera madre no es la madrastra que terminó casándose con su padre cuando los nazis tomaron el poder en Alemania. Los principales medios de comunicación y los propagandistas académicos de Klaus han ocultado su pasado nazi en una tormenta de premios, programas WEF, libros escritos por fantasmas, discursos, entrevistas, cátedras honorarias y doctorados de todo el mundo. Su padre fue Eugen Wilhelm Schwab, director de la fabrica Escher-Wyss en Ravensburg, Alemania. Ravensburg era un centro de transporte para el oro nazi robado al Banco Suizo de Pagos Internacionales dirigido por los espías de la Sociedad de Peregrinos Allan W. Dulles (más tarde director de la CIA, 1953-61), Edwin W. Pauley (Comité de reparaciones aliado) y William J. Donovan, director de la OSS (precursor de la CIA, el jefe de Dulles, controlado por el MI6). La empresa de la familia de Schwab, Escher Wyss, explotó el trabajo esclavo y los prisioneros de guerra aliados, fabricó tecnologías clave para la fabricación de bombas nucleares para Adolf Hitler y Sudáfrica, vendió lanzallamas suizos a los nazis y Adolf Hitler la nombró Empresa Modelo Nacionalsocialista. La película de propaganda británica de 1965 Los héroes de Telemark trata sobre la planta nazi de fabricación de agua pesada en Noruega. Esa planta fue construida por Escher-Wyss. La compañía Escher Wyss de Schwab estaba protegida no solo por Hitler, sino también por Suiza, Gran Bretaña y Estados Unidos, lo que convertía a Schwab en un entrometido criminal extranjero en todos los sentidos. Los documentos de archivo de la CIA muestran que Escher-Wyss y Sulzer estaban bajo la dirección del Departamento de Energía y el Departamento de Estado de EE. UU. Contrariamente a las historias de propaganda sobre la falta de industrias bélicas de Ravensburg (como la razón por la cual los Aliados no bombardearon la ciudad y su industria Escher-Wyss), descubrimos muchos pecados no confesados de Ravensburg que rodean a Schwab y Escher-Wyss. Durante la segunda guerra mundial suministraron turbinas, compresores y hélices para barcos y submarinos nazis, así como turbinas de gas para alimentar la maquinaria de guerra, además de su tecnología nuclear. Y cómo he dicho antes, esta ciudad nunca fue bombardeada por los aliados. Conozco de primera mano el caso de un pequeño pueblo del Tirol austriaco donde nunca vieron sobrevolar un avión aliado y sin embargo allí se fabricaron los torpedos de los submarinos alemanes y las carcasas de las bombas V2 que se lanzaron contra Londres. Y hablando de bombas, yo pensaba que era un hijo del Baby boom que se produjo en España y por eso pensé que por haber nacido en 1968 era un baby boomer, pero me di cuenta de mi error viendo el concurso de “los listos”, ya saben, Saber y Ganar. Allí quedó claro que eran los nacimientos entre 1965 y 1981 los que componían esta generación X. El nombre se lo dio “Generación X: Cuentos para una cultura acelerada”, una novela de 1991 escrita por el autor canadiense Douglas Coupland. En la wikipedia nos cuentan que este nombre aparece en el capítulo final de un libro sociológico sobre la estructura de las clases americanas titulado Class, de Paul Fussell. En su capítulo final, Fussell nombró una categoría X de personas que querían saltar del tiovivo de estatus, dinero y ascenso social que tan a menudo enmarca la existencia moderna. ¿Seremos los X los llamados a saltarnos la trampa del estatus, dinero y ascenso social tal y cómo sostenía Fussell en su libro? 2024 será un año "ocho", ya que los dígitos de 2024 suman ocho. Ya saben que simbólicamente hay que reducir todas las cifras a un solo dígito salvo que salga un numero maestro, por eso dos más dos más cuatro son ocho. Dentro de la numerología, el número ocho está regido por el planeta Saturno, al igual que el signo zodiacal Capricornio. Los rasgos clave de Saturno son la perseverancia y la ambición, por lo que aquellos gobernados por Saturno se encuentran en roles de liderazgo. Es el año de los líderes, el año de los líderes que creen en Saturno. ¿Pero que pasa si añadimos la X a la ecuación, je, je, je? Según la numerología caldea, el número 5 rige sobre la letra X. Dado que este es el número que pertenece a Mercurio, el efecto de Mercurio estará presente por ser importante este año la letra “X”. Pero este año 2024, que da el número 8, puede dar resultados aburridos. El número 8 denota tristezas y retrasos, ya que pertenece a Saturno. La letra del planeta Mercurio, que denota "X", es sin embargo de naturaleza rápida. Mercurio y Saturno son amigos entre sí. Mercurio denota inteligencia y Saturno denota oscuridad. Esta combinación de planetas Mercurio y Saturno es beneficiosa por naturaleza y se obtendrán resultados positivos e inteligentes. No será buena idea llamar a la nueva Tragipandemia “Enfermedad X” o “virus X”, no les saldrá bien ya que mucha gente va a estar peleando desde el minuto uno. Esta vez no nos pillaran desprevenidos. En la web Símbolos, Mitos y Arquetipos leíamos lo siguiente sobre el numero 8: “El 8 es el número del equilibrio, de la justicia y de la renovación. El 8 significa el comienzo de algo nuevo. El octavo día equivale al inicio de una nueva semana. En la escala musical con el ocho se inicia una nueva octava. En muchas culturas el 8 es considerado el lazo de unión que relaciona nuestro mundo con otro mundo mejor, más grande y mucho mas desarrollado. La estrella octagonal y la figura del octaedro simbolizan la unión de estos dos mundos. En la antigüedad el numero 8 se consideraba "la meta deseada". En su camino hacia la salvación el alma tenía que atravesar los 7 cielos donde estaban cada uno de los 7 planetas. Al final del viaje el alma llegaba a la octava esfera que estaba formado por todas las estrellas inmóviles. La octava esfera era donde vivían los dioses.” Esto creo que es un buen presagio. ¿No crees Yane? ………………………………………………………………………………………. Pensando en enfermedades que lleven una X enseguida nos vino a la cabeza el ántrax. Según la wikipedia “el ántrax (o carbunco) es una enfermedad infecciosa grave causada por una bacteria grampositiva y baciliforme conocida como Bacillus anthracis.” Las esporas latentes del antrax se pueden respirar, tragar o entrar al torrente sanguíneo a través de una herida en la piel. Estas esporas una vez entran a un huésped se reproducen o activan produciendo toxinas graves que pueden enfermar o matar a la persona o animal que las contraiga. El ántrax no es una enfermedad contagiosa, lo que significa que no es posible contraerla como un resfriado o la gripe. No podemos contagiar a otra persona a no ser que nuestra sangre estuviera en contacto con la suya. ¿Les suena esto? Veamos cuales son los síntomas del ántrax cutáneo: “Un grupo de pequeñas ampollas o una hinchazón que puede provocar comezón Puede presentarse inflamación alrededor del forúnculo. Un forúnculo cutáneo (úlcera) sin dolor con un centro negro que aparece luego de pequeñas ampollas o una hinchazón. Más a menudo el forúnculo aparecerá en la cara, el cuello, los brazos o las manos.” Yo no se vds, pero yo estoy viendo un grupo de zombies dando bocados y contagiando las bacterias ya activas de unos a otros. No debemos tomarnos a la ligera esto ya que en 2011 el CDC (el centro de control de enfermedades infecciosas, los putos amos en pandemias vaya) sacaron un cómic titulado “Preparación 101: Apocalipsis zombi”. ¿Les suena lo del evento 201 en noviembre de 2019, pues este fue una especie de simulación llamada 101? El director de la Oficina de Preparación y Respuesta de Salud Pública de los CDC, el contraalmirante Ali S. Khan, escribe: "Tomemos un apocalipsis zombie, por ejemplo. Así es, dije Apocalipsis zombie. Puede que ahora te rías, pero cuando suceda te alegrarás de leer esto y, oye, tal vez incluso aprendas un par de cosas sobre cómo prepararte para una emergencia real". Yo no me tomaría a broma lo que estos psicopatas son capaces de hacer. Solo hay que conocer la historia de la llamada isla del ántrax, la isla Gruinard en Escocia. “El plan del gobierno británico para luchar contra el ejército nazi con un arma biológica terminó con una pequeña isla del noroeste de Escocia contaminada con ántrax y cerrada al acceso público durante casi cinco décadas. El alcance total de la operación sigue siendo aún hoy en día un misterio. La deshabitada isla de Gruinard, conocida como "la isla del ántrax" o "la isla de la muerte" por los lugareños, fue declarada segura en 1990, pero la vida en este antaño santuario de aves, situado a menos de una milla de la costa escocesa, nunca ha vuelto a la normalidad. Todo comenzó a finales de 1941, en plena Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ese año, ante la amenaza de una posible invasión alemana y el temor de que los nazis hubieran desarrollado una bomba biológica, un desesperado primer ministro británico Winston Churchill ordenó a los científicos de una instalación inglesa de alto secreto llamada Porton Down que pensaran en algún arma para lanzar contra los alemanes.” ¿Saben cómo se llamo en clave a dicha isla? Ja,ja, ja. Base X. Sí, volvemos a tener por duplicado la maldita X. La versión oficial es terrorífica, hay un documental del cual he extraído este párrafo: “El ántrax es una bacteria letal, especialmente cuando se inhala, y resulta mortal en casi todos los casos, incluso con tratamiento médico. "La bacteria forma esporas. Si están en el aire y las respiras y entran en tu sistema respiratorio, llegan a tus pulmones y las pequeñas semillas germinan en bacterias, las bacterias empiezan a crecer y te causa la muerte. Es bastante letal", explica la microbiologista Clare Taylor en el documental de la BBC. Además, el ántrax puede permanecer durante años en la tierra. "Las esporas pueden existir entre 40 y 50 años, pero bajo algunas condiciones, pueden seguir siendo viables después de 200 años", detalla la científica.” El psicopata de Churchill contamino una isla inglesa sin medir las consecuencias en un experimento chapucero y lo intentaron tapar con mentiras: "Enviaron agentes al norte para analizar todo y pagaron compensaciones a los granjeros, pero tenían una tapadera para lo sucedido. Les dijeron que las compensaciones venían del gobierno griego, porque el ántrax procedía de un barco griego que pasó cerca de ahí y que infectó la zona, en lugar de decir que fue un experimento del gobierno británico. De esta manera podían eludir la responsabilidad por lo sucedido", decían en el documental de la BBC. ………………………………………………………………………………………. Hoy me gustaria despedirme mandando un enorme abrazo a todas esas personas que no nos hemos dejado inocular sus caldos experimentales y que gozamos, dentro de lo que cabe, de una excelente salud. Muchos covidianos, mascarillos e hipocondriacos han corrido peor suerte y por desgracia una gran cantidad de ellos sufrirán las consecuencias en los años venideros. Ojala que vean la luz y dejen de seguir órdenes absurdas y consejos que los llevaran a la tumba más pronto que tarde. Espero que este año del 8 traiga la sabiduría y espiritualidad necesarias para que se despojen de sus malas ideas imbuidas por medios de comunicación, gobiernos y médicos pagados por la farmafia. Que logremos entre todos una solución a los problemas de la humanidad y le plantemos cara de una vez al mal que gobierna este mundo pervertido y satánico. Es vital si queremos tener futuro. Los magufos, los afirmacionistas, los no creyentes en la OMS ni en las fundaciones filantrópicas debemos estar contentos con lo conseguido hasta ahora, que no es poco. ¡Hemos sobrevivido a una Tragipandemia mortal! El 2025 debe ser el punto de inflexión donde la humanidad se plantee cambiar de dirección. Y este 2024 será el inicio de ese cambio. Ellos no lo saben, pero ya han perdido. El camino que se inició en 2020 concluirá este 2025 donde ese número 9 representa el punto de inflexión desde donde todo regresará a sus orígenes. 2020 es un 4, como 2021 es un 5 al sumar sus cifras hasta llegar a 2025 que es un nueve. Del 4 al 9, pero no al nueve que adoran los satanistas sino al número más espiritual y mas evolucionado de todos. El fin de ciclo que comienza en el uno y acaba en el nueve, como si de nueve meses de gestación se tratase. Un técnico preocupado, un tipo de la generación X os dice desde X que se pueden meter su enfermedad X por donde les quepa. Nosotros estaremos preparados para el golpe y ayudaremos a cuantos humanos estén a nuestro alcance. Nosotros somos inmunes a vuestros burdos engaños. Este tema que sonará a continuación y que es una de las pocas canciones en euskera que hemos utilizado a lo largo de estos casi 300 programas se lo dedico a Iker, ese pedazo de amigo vasco que siempre me ha acompañado en los peores momentos. Como siempre digo, cuiden a sus familias y no tengan miedo, no podrán con nosotros. ………………………………………………………………………………………. Invitados: …. Dra Yane #JusticiaParaUTP Médico y Buscadora de la verdad. Con Dios siempre! No permito q me dividan c/izq -derecha, raza, religión ni nada de la Creación. https://youtu.be/TXEEZUYd4c0 …. Placeb0 @Placeb0Mad Contra los totalitarismos. Buscador de la verdad. …. Rosany Díaz @RosanyDiaz Aprendiendo el arte de vivir feliz. Afronto con valentía hacer lo oportuno x la libertad del ser humano. ¿Buscar pareja en radio de 15 minutos o quitar barrera? …. Ira @Genes72 …. UTP Ramón Valero @tecn_preocupado Un técnico Preocupado un FP2 IVOOX UTP http://cutt.ly/dzhhGrf BLOG http://cutt.ly/dzhh2LX Ayúdame desde mi Crowfunding aquí https://cutt.ly/W0DsPVq ………………………………………………………………………………………. Enlaces citados en el podcast: UTP273 Un Tratado de Pandemias para someterlos a todos (con música) https://www.ivoox.com/utp273-un-tratado-pandemias-para-someterlos-a-audios-mp3_rf_122517711_1.html Enlace de descarga borrador en pdf del Tratado de Pandemias de la OMS https://jamesroguski.substack.com/api/v1/file/3245cc33-6480-486f-a84b-88f32def7dd9.pdf La OMS alerta de que llegará una nueva pandemia que será más mortífera: "Debemos estar preparados" https://www.elmundo.es/ciencia-y-salud/salud/2023/05/23/646c6b42e4d4d8ff7c8b45d2.html Pasos para solicitar al portal de Transparencia el nombre de las personas que están negociando el Tratado de Pandemias en España https://twitter.com/aflorrick77/status/1746554585303433643 Hilo de Rosany Díaz sobre la reunión del foro de Davos y la enfermedad X https://twitter.com/RosanyDiaz/status/1746585809619243091 Enfermedad "X" aún no existe pero aseguran que llegará https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr2scr51uA8 El Foro de Davos incluye una “Preparación para la enfermedad X” con presencia de Tedros Ghebreyesus, director de la OMS https://noticiasholisticas.com.ar/el-foro-de-davos-incluye-una-preparacion-para-la-enfermedad-x-con-presencia-de-tedros-ghebreyesus-director-de-la-oms/ Preparing for Disease X (en web de Davos) Speakers: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Shyam Bishen, Roy Jakobs, Preetha Reddy, Nisia Trindade Lima, Nancy Brown, Michel Demaré https://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-annual-meeting-2024/sessions/preparing-for-a-disease-x/ Preparing for Disease X (en Youtube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O4n5Cf75ZM Ley sobre la enfermedad X en el Congreso USA https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2640 La Organización Mundial de la Salud está preocupada por la Enfermedad X y tú también deberías estarlo https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/03/a-mysterious-disease-x-could-be-the-next-pandemic-to-kill-millions-of-people-heres-how-worried-you-should-be/ Dr. John Campbell explica que esta 'Enfermedad X' no existe en ningún libro de texto médico https://twitter.com/liz_churchill10/status/1746387103720653211 La simbología del número 8.- Ocho https://abajocomoarriba.blogspot.com/2015/07/la-simbologia-del-numero-8.html ¿Qué es el ántrax? según el CDC https://www.cdc.gov/anthrax/es/basicos/conceptos-basicos.html "La isla de ántrax": el fallido plan británico para derrotar a los nazis envenenando a las vacas https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-internacional-62338228 Ensayos de ántrax en la base X de la isla Gruinard 1942-43 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mykjxkwwe0 Cómic del CDC sobre una pandemia zombie https://twitter.com/tecn_preocupado/status/1371495154016776193 Cómic en la pagina oficial del CDC https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6023 Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_101:_Zombie_Apocalypse La Profesora de Harvard Naomi Oreskas Condena la Plataforma X de Libertad de Expresión como un " Lugar Tóxico https://twitter.com/ezdubs_bot/status/1747517082013507888 Klaus Schwab (Foro Económico Mundial), Cuarta Revolución Industrial, Transhumanismo, IA. https://www.burbuja.info/inmobiliaria/threads/klaus-schwab-foro-economico-mundial-cuarta-revolucion-industrial-transhumanismo-ia.1620542/ ¿Quien es Klaus Schwab? Os vais a enterar https://www.burbuja.info/inmobiliaria/threads/quien-es-klaus-schwab-os-vais-a-enterar.1812662/ EUGEN WILHELM SCHWAB (padre de Klaus Schwab) https://aim4truth.org/1899-04-27-eugen-wilhelm-schwab-m-oct-02-1926-m-1938-d-1982-ravensburg-germany-b-apr-27-1899/ Emma Gisela Tekelius Schwab (madre judia de Klaus Schwab) https://twitter.com/Ron70784349/status/1594380117450821632 Sabes que son las aflatoxinas https://www.gob.mx/salud/articulos/sabes-que-son-las-aflatoxinas La enfermedad que brotó de los pavos https://instituciones.sld.cu/cimeq/2017/05/07/la-enfermedad-que-broto-de-los-pavos/ ………………………………………………………………………………………. Música utilizada en este podcast: Tema inicial Heros Manuela Ruiz - SOMOS VIRUS Y BACTERIAS https://youtu.be/7JkvT8FAZ10?feature=shared Claudio P. Paolini - Propaganda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvCluzpgqNo Tropa do Carallo - Por Cojones https://youtu.be/R5wAQyI36oY?feature=shared Elena del Valle - No es forma de vivir https://youtu.be/pSJwxbXgGwQ?feature=shared Stand and deliver (Van Morrison - Clapton) Subtitulos español https://youtu.be/8NFHZqa66XA?feature=shared Tropa do Carallo - Inmortal Podrido https://youtu.be/sRBvFiTmKl8?feature=shared Elena del Valle - Seguir bailando ("Danser Encore" de HK) https://youtu.be/HlT-vwnIAEk?feature=shared Kaos Urbano - Presagio https://youtu.be/Rl3XsElkeGw?feature=shared ……………………………………………………………….. Epílogo Menturan - Immune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9etI1XZYyA

Nancy joins Grettelyn to discuss her newest book, and a great present for this Christmas: The Chestertons and the Top Meadow Troupe! To get Nancy's book, visit chesterton.org/tmt (for "Top Meadow Troupe").  For the first volume, The Chestertons and the Golden Key, visit chesterton.org/goldenkey today!

Nancy Brown, a military spouse of 19 years, wrote this loving tribute for her two best deployment buddies. It honors the way the three friends formed one great big family while living through several deployments in Eastern North Carolina. Three women, no husbands and nine children all dressed in each other's hand-me-downs. On paper, they were more different than alike but maybe that's a more accurate description of a family after all.

In honor of the Solemnity of the Assumption, we present a special encore of our recording of an interview with author Nancy Brown on her book on G.K. Chesterton and the Mother of God.  Buy the book today! https://www.chesterton.org/store/product/g-k-chesterton-and-our-lady/  

LEARN ABOUT HOW BENETECH CAN SUPPORT YOUR STUDENTS WITH VISUAL CHALLENGES WITH THOUSANDS OF BOOKS AVAILABLE IN  ALL FORMATS SO ALL STUDENTS HAVE THE JOY OF READING..AND ITS ALL FREE FOR SCHOOLS WORLDWIDE. We'll focus also  on urban education and how they are working in Detroit with Benetech's . Nancy Brown and Lisa Wadors

LEARN ABOUT HOW BENETECH CAN SUPPORT YOUR STUDENTS WITH VISUAL CHALLENGES WITH THOUSANDS OF BOOKS AVAILABLE IN  ALL FORMATS SO ALL STUDENTS HAVE THE JOY OF READING..AND ITS ALL FREE FOR SCHOOLS WORLDWIDE. We'll focus also  on urban education and how they are working in Detroit with Benetech's . Nancy Brown and Lisa Wadors

In this week's episode, our guest is Nancy Brown,  CEO, American Heart Association (AHA). In this interview, we cover Nancy's amazing career and discuss what has kept her engaged and motivated to keep working with American Heart Association's critical mission. We also learn more about the work that AHA is doing to spread awareness about heart disease and stroke in America. Have questions/comments/suggestions? Email our Podcast Manager at mdebnath@give.org. Don't forget to follow or subscribe and leave a comment on iTunes.

In an effort to have more people in the Charlotte community about lifesaving measures, the Carolina Panthers will be joined by Damar Hamlin to train players and staff on CPR and other skills.The session will take place on April 3 at 10:45 a.m. at the Atrium Health Dome in Charlotte and is hosted by the American Heart Association. According to a release, the CPR automated external defibrillator (AED) course provides the highest level of training in the lifesaving skills of CPR and how to use an AED.Hamlin, Nicole Tepper, and Nancy Brown, the CEO of the American Heart Association, will be special guest speakers at the event.Kevin King, the Panthers' head athletic trainer, along with several Atrium Health and American Heart Association personnel will speak to participants.The event will also be open to Panthers PSL owners.READ MORE: https://www.wcnc.com/article/sports/nfl/panthers/damar-hamlin-panthers-teaming-up-to-teach-players-and-staff-cpr-nfl/275-e4f8932b-e79a-4f14-b0b8-9fe03984fc9dWatch Wake Up Charlotte each weekday morning from 4:30 to 7 a.m. on WCNC Charlotte, and as always, join the conversation on social media using #WakeUpCLT! 

In an effort to have more people in the Charlotte community about lifesaving measures, the Carolina Panthers will be joined by Damar Hamlin to train players and staff on CPR and other skills. The session will take place on April 3 at 10:45 a.m. at the Atrium Health Dome in Charlotte and is hosted by the American Heart Association.  According to a release, the CPR automated external defibrillator (AED) course provides the highest level of training in the lifesaving skills of CPR and how to use an AED. Hamlin, Nicole Tepper, and Nancy Brown, the CEO of the American Heart Association, will be special guest speakers at the event. Kevin King, the Panthers' head athletic trainer, along with several Atrium Health and American Heart Association personnel will speak to participants. The event will also be open to Panthers PSL owners. READ MORE: https://www.wcnc.com/article/sports/nfl/panthers/damar-hamlin-panthers-teaming-up-to-teach-players-and-staff-cpr-nfl/275-e4f8932b-e79a-4f14-b0b8-9fe03984fc9d Watch Wake Up Charlotte each weekday morning from 4:30 to 7 a.m. on WCNC Charlotte, and as always, join the conversation on social media using #WakeUpCLT! 

Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Nancy Brown of Kentucky APEX Accelerator. This APEX Accelerator is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the Department of Defense.As a valuable business development resource, they strive to improve Kentucky, one company at a time. We work with companies that sell to federal, state, and local government agencies.Their primary goal is to guide Kentucky businesses to win more government contracts and subcontracts. They accomplish this by providing free, highly personalized procurement training and coaching. Their staff works diligently to keep pace with the evolving acquisition procedures and policies, making your life easier! Kentucky APEX Accelerator is a FREE resource for you! Visit our website at kyapex.com today for more information.The Kentucky APEX Accelerator exists statewide to offer procurement assistance to Kentucky businesses. Our goal is to cultivate opportunity and improve the economic conditions of the state by helping Kentucky companies generate sales with Federal, State, and Local government agencies and buyers Learn more about them and visit their website https://www.kyapex.com/-----Do you want to be interviewed for your business?  Schedule time with us, and we'll create a podcast like this for your business:  https://www.WriteForMe.io/-----https://www.facebook.com/writeforme.iohttps://www.instagram.com/writeforme.io/https://twitter.com/writeformeiohttps://www.linkedin.com/company/writeforme/https://www.pinterest.com/andysteuer/Want to be interviewed on our Business Ninjas podcast? Schedule time with us now, and we'll make it happen right away! Check out WriteForMe, more than just a Content Agency! See the Faces Behind The Voices on our YouTube Channel!

With the accolades she had earned in the pageant world alongside her bit roles in increasingly more well-known films, it seemed as though Tammy Lynn Leppert's career was just about to skyrocket. That is, until something shifted and she began to grow increasingly paranoid— convinced that someone was out to kill her. Feeling that Tammy's fears were delusions, her family sought help. But those fears soon seemed very real when, on July 6th, 1983, Tammy left home with a friend and never returned.Etsy Merch Shop: Want your own C&C clothing? Check out our store at https://etsy.com/shop/coffeeandcasespodOr, consider supporting the pod in other ways-- like Patreon! Are you up-to-date on all our regular content? Get access to monthly mini-episodes as well as one full solved case per month by joining today! Be a part of the C & C Fam by going to https://www.patreon.com/coffeeandcases to register!

Bill Rockefeller Sr. once bragged that he taught his sons about business by swindling them: "I trade with the boys and skin 'em. I want to make 'em sharp.” But the Rockefeller name and money were established not by Bill, but by his eldest son, John D. Rockefeller Sr., who founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870. Bill, himself, had no interest in things like family or work. He liked to roam, and created a career on the road, peddling worthless trinkets and miracle elixirs. This is the story of the thorn in the side of the Rockefeller family. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Michael L. Brown is the founder and president of FIRE School of Ministry in Concord, North Carolina, Director of the Coalition of Conscience, and host of the daily, nationally, syndicated talk radio show, the Line of Fire, as well as the host of the apologetics TV show, ìAnswering Your Toughest Questions,î which airs on the NRB TV network. He became a believer in Jesus 1971 as a sixteen year-old, heroin-shooting, LSD-using Jewish rock drummer. Since then, he has preached throughout America and around the world, bringing a message of repentance, revival, reformation, and cultural revolution.He holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from New York University and has served as a visiting or adjunct professor at Southern Evangelical Seminary, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary (Charlotte), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Fuller Theological Seminary, Denver Theological Seminary, the Kingís Seminary, and Regent University School of Divinity, and he has contributed numerous articles to scholarly publications, including the Oxford Dictionary of Jewish Religion and the Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament.Dr. Brown is the author of 27 books, including, Our Hands Are Stained with Blood: The Tragic Story of the ìChurchî and the Jewish People, which has been translated into more than twelve languages, the highly-acclaimed five-volume series, Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus, a commentary on Jeremiah (part of the revised edition of the Expositorís Bible Commentary), and several books on revival and Jesus revolution. His newest books are The Grace Controversy: Answers to 12 Common Questions (2016), Breaking the Stronghold of Food: How We Conquered Food Addictions and Discovered a New Way of Living (2017, with Nancy Brown) and Saving a Sick America: A Prescription for Moral and Cultural Transformation(2017).Dr. Brown is a national and international speaker on themes of spiritual renewal and cultural reformation, and he has debated Jewish rabbis, agnostic professors, and gay activists on radio, TV, and college campuses. He is widely considered to be the worldís foremost Messianic Jewish apologistHe and his wife Nancy, who is also a Jewish believer in Jesus, have been married since 1976. They have two daughters and four grandchildren.

Harlan reports on a unprecedented recall of ventilators and CPAP machines; Howie discusses a new approach to tackling the issue of antimicrobial resistance. And they're joined by Dr. Nancy Brown, dean of the Yale School of Medicine, to discuss her career path and her investments in developing talent. Links: FDA Update: Certain Philips Respironics Ventilators, BiPAP Machines, and CPAP Machines Recalled Due to Potential Health Risks “Getting to know Yale leaders—Nancy Brown” WHO fact sheet: antimicrobial resistance PASTEUR Act of 2021 “The PASTEUR Act can help win the war against superbugs” Learn more about the MBA for Executives program at Yale SOM. Email Howie and Harlan comments or questions.

Join our hosts, Carl Newbanks and Kristi Ackley, in this classic episode as our guests share scary stories of will bequests gone wrong! Jim Dwyer and Nancy Brown have decades of experience working with nonprofits and donors to align charitable goals with mission and purpose. But these years of experience don't come without nightmare stories that would keep any development professional up at night.

Director of policy development, Nancy Brown and resolutions committee representative, Clint Hornberger discuss how these meeting are a part of Kansas Farm Bureau's grassroots efforts. 

In this episode Grettelyn and Albert talk with Maria Romine, the founder of Swords and Roses, a stage-combat show. They talk with Maria about the talk that she gave at the 41st Annual Chesterton Conference regarding Chesterton and Our Lady. That's all coming up in this episode. Nancy Brown's book, G.K. Chesterton and Our Lady: https://www.chesterton.org/store/product/g-k-chesterton-and-our-lady/

In this episode of Uncommon Sense, Grettelyn and Albert welcome back Nancy Brown to discuss her newest book, G.K. Chesterton and Our Lady. They discuss why the book was written and open up some of the writings on the inside. It is a wonderful insight into Chesterton's admiration of The Blessed Mother. The book is available at: G.K. Chesterton and Our Lady – Store | Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton JOIN THE KNIGHTS!! Interested in Nancy's new book, Chesterton and Our Lady? Now through October 7, 2022, receive a free copy when you sign up to be a Knight of the Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Learn more at chesterton.org/knights  

Links are provided where to find all three guests' organizational or personal affiliations below: Connect with Nancy:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-brown-phd-0b99336a/  Connect with Alma:  Website: https://nc707.org/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/308881973079543  Twitter: https://twitter.com/teamNC707  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nc707abowen/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alma-bowen-9381083b  Connect with Josh:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joshua.farrell.961      “Make a list of those things [that you might need]. And once you've done that, you're a long way to understanding how to support each other because you know who has what and where to go get it when you need it in a hurry.” -Nancy Brown, PhD   “I want to build a culture of preparedness where conversations around preparedness, actually preparing, and taking the steps necessary is just part of what we do and not a weird thing on the side.” -Alma Bowen   “The biggest thing that I thought of when I was coming back from the fire is… to make electronic files to put on a USB drive.— That stuff, the FEMA check. Super important!” -Josh Farrell Episode Description:  It's important to be prepared for a disaster, but it's also important to keep in mind that being prepared means being able to respond quickly. If we think we have time, that's when we really don't have time. The inevitable truth about disaster is that it does not discriminate nor does it show mercy— lives are at stake, our lives!  Disaster preparedness may seem like a lot of work, but it's worth doing. And it's not just about keeping our families safe; it's about helping our community safe too. In this episode, our guests discuss practical steps and tips on how to be prepared for a disaster as a community, as a family, and as individuals. They also share what must-have items to put in our go bags, how to prepare for when communication fails, how to keep documentation for claiming financial aid after a disaster, and how to work together as a community to meet the needs of each member. Tune in and hear from Sonoma County's Community Preparedness Program Manager Nancy Brown, Nuestra Comunidad Founder Alma Bowen, and Citizen Prepper Joshua Farrell.    Connect with After The Fire USA:  Website Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn YouTube Highlights: 01:33: Season 2 Ep 2— How to Help Communities Prepare and Respond to Disaster with Nancy Brown, PhD 03:57: Season 2 Ep 6— How To Serve Vulnerable Communities with Alma Bowen 09:40: Season 1 Ep 2&3— How to Prepare: Citizen Prepper Part 1&2 with Josh Farrell

In the third and final spring episode of the series, "Making A Difference: Inspirational Women Leaders in Environmental and Energy Law and Policy," D.C. Bar EENR Community Co-Chair Kathryn Caballero and Cathy Pagano of the Board of the Women's Bar of Association of DC (WBA) interview Nancy Brown-Kobil, who is the acting Deputy Chief Counsel at the U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee. Nancy discusses the wide range of environmental issues she encounters in her current role, and how her expertise from working with the Department of the Interior and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration supports the legislative process. She also shares how workplace flexibilities developed during the pandemic can help support parents in successfully balancing work and family life. Please note, the positions and opinions expressed by the speakers are strictly their own, and do not necessarily represent the views of their employers, nor those of the D.C. Bar, its Board of Governors or co-sponsoring Communities and organizations.

On this week's 51%, we recognize Women's History Month. We learn about Sarah Smiley, a controversial Quaker minister who dared to preach to women — and men — in the 19th Century, and Nancy Brown of the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites provides a more local lens on the women's suffrage movement. We also stop by the New York State Museum to learn about a new initiative to expand its collection on women's sports. Guests: Samantha Bosshart, executive director of the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation; Nancy Brown, National Collaborative for Women's History Sites; Ashley Hopkins-Benton, New York State Museum 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It's produced by Jesse King. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is “Lolita” by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue. Follow Along You're listening to 51%, a WAMC production dedicated to women's issues and experiences. Thanks for joining us, I'm Jesse King. All month long, we've recognized Women's History Month by taking the time to learn about prominent American women, past and present. At the end of each episode, we visited exhibits at the New York State Capitol and spoke with the National Women's Hall of Fame. This week, I wanted to take a more local approach — mostly because, as a transplant in Central New York, I'm forever catching up on my Capital Region history, but also to serve as a reminder about the wealth of history that's right in our local communities. We're also flipping the script this week — rather than ending with a “woman you should know,” let's start with one. At the end of last year, the city council of Saratoga Springs, New York, unanimously voted to designate a small cottage on Excelsior Avenue a local landmark. The Smiley-Brackett Cottage, as it's called, is thought to be a prime example of the Gothic Revival style of architecture popularized by Andrew Jackson Downing in the 19th Century — but it's also noteworthy for those who lived there. The house was owned by and built for Sarah Smiley, a popular, yet controversial Quaker minister.  "She really had this significant impact, I think, on women and public speaking," says Samantha Bosshart, executive director of the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation. The Foundation led the effort to acquire the local landmark designation. Smiley was born the daughter of a well-known Quaker family in Maine in 1830 (her father and brothers would go on to build the popular Mohonk Mountain House resort in the Catskills, which still operates today). She initially sought to become a teacher, but after the Civil War, Bosshart says Smiley went South to “relieve human suffering.”  "She traveled to Virginia and to North Carolina, aiding Quakers in organizing schools and libraries," Bosshart notes. "She helped to start a school for 1,000 free Black adults and children in Richmond, Virginia — but that's not really what made her well-known. She later spoke to what they called 'mixed audiences,' and when we say 'mixed audiences,' we're talking about men and women. Women did not speak in front of a congregation, that just wasn't happening." In 1872, popular minister Theodore Cuyler invited Smiley to preach before a mixed congregation at the Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn — making her the first woman to speak from a Presbyterian pulpit. "This caused a ruckus," says Bosshart. "This made Harper's Weekly news, and she was said to 'teach and to extort, or to lead in prayer in publ

On this episode we were joined by Dr. Michael Brown, who shared ways to Break the stronghold of food.  Are you sick and tired of being overweight? Have you had it with feeling drained, discouraged, and run down because of obesity? If so, this program will be one you don't want to miss. Michael L. Brown is the founder and president of AskDrBrown Ministries and of FIRE School of Ministry, and host of the daily, nationally, syndicatedtalk radio show, The Line of Fire. In their first-ever jointly authored book, Michael and Nancy Brown sharethe inspiring, practical, and humorous story of their own journey from obesityto vibrant health. If you want to break free from the stronghold of food and discover a wonderful new way of life, Breaking the Stronghold of Food will show you the way.

On this week's 51%, we recognize Women's History Month. We learn about Sarah Smiley, a controversial Quaker minister who dared to preach to women — and men — in the 19th Century, and Nancy Brown of the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites provides a more local lens on the women's suffrage movement. We also stop by the New York State Museum to learn about a new initiative to expand its collection on women's sports. Guests: Samantha Bosshart, executive director of the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation; Nancy Brown, National Collaborative for Women's History Sites; Ashley Hopkins-Benton, New York State Museum 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It's produced by Jesse King. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is “Lolita” by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue. Follow Along You're listening to 51%, a WAMC production dedicated to women's issues and experiences. Thanks for joining us, I'm Jesse King. All month long, we've recognized Women's History Month by taking the time to learn about prominent American women, past and present. At the end of each episode, we visited exhibits at the New York State Capitol and spoke with the National Women's Hall of Fame. This week, I wanted to take a more local approach — mostly because, as a transplant in Central New York, I'm forever catching up on my Capital Region history, but also to serve as a reminder about the wealth of history that's right in our local communities. We're also flipping the script this week — rather than ending with a “woman you should know,” let's start with one. At the end of last year, the city council of Saratoga Springs, New York, unanimously voted to designate a small cottage on Excelsior Avenue a local landmark. The Smiley-Brackett Cottage, as it's called, is thought to be a prime example of the Gothic Revival style of architecture popularized by Andrew Jackson Downing in the 19th Century — but it's also noteworthy for those who lived there. The house was owned by and built for Sarah Smiley, a popular, yet controversial Quaker minister.  "She really had this significant impact, I think, on women and public speaking," says Samantha Bosshart, executive director of the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation. The Foundation led the effort to acquire the local landmark designation. Smiley was born the daughter of a well-known Quaker family in Maine in 1830 (her father and brothers would go on to build the popular Mohonk Mountain House resort in the Catskills, which still operates today). She initially sought to become a teacher, but after the Civil War, Bosshart says Smiley went South to “relieve human suffering.”  "She traveled to Virginia and to North Carolina, aiding Quakers in organizing schools and libraries," Bosshart notes. "She helped to start a school for 1,000 free Black adults and children in Richmond, Virginia — but that's not really what made her well-known. She later spoke to what they called 'mixed audiences,' and when we say 'mixed audiences,' we're talking about men and women. Women did not speak in front of a congregation, that just wasn't happening." In 1872, popular minister Theodore Cuyler invited Smiley to preach before a mixed congregation at the Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn — making her the first woman to speak from a Presbyterian pulpit. "This caused a ruckus," says Bosshart. "This made Harper's Weekly news, and she was said to 'teach and to extort, or to lead in prayer in public and promiscuous assemblies...[it's] clearly forbidden to women in the Holy Oracles.' But what we learned, or what I learned after that, was that she was so well-received amongst her audiences that she was asked to speak across the country and abroad." Soon, Bosshart says Smiley was speaking in churches from Cincinnati, to London, to Cube. She was adamant that women could study the scriptures themselves, without the help of men. She started a home Bible study program for women, and would go on to write five books on the subject — some of which are still published today. Bosshart says Smiley's Gothic-Revival cottage was built the same year of her notorious appearance in Brooklyn. She's not sure why Smiley chose to settle in Saratoga Springs, but it appears she knew exactly what she wanted in terms of a home.  "Andrew Jackson Downing, he published his Cottage Residence in 1842, and The Architecture of Country Houses in 1850. Alexander Jackson Davis designed and drew the illustrations featured — her house looks nearly identical to one of those cottages. Perhaps because it was the gothic style that is reminiscent of churches, perhaps [she was] being influenced by seeing these rural cottages, and she wanted it to be in keeping with that," Bosshart adds. "She would come to Saratoga to study. In an article in 1874 in The Saratogian, it said, 'She speaks twice almost every day in the week. She only spends six months of the year in preaching, the remainder of the year, during the summer months, in diligent study in her cottage in Saratoga.' So I think, perhaps, it was where she had peace and quiet." Following Smiley's death in 1917, the cottage was left to The Society for the Home Study of Holy Scripture and Church History, the group she had founded to promote religious study by mail. It was ultimately bought by another famous name who owned the property until 1968: Charles W. Brackett. Brackett was a popular author, New Yorker drama critic, and screenwriter of films including Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend, and 1953's Titanic. In 1958, he received an Honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. Bosshart says the cottage ultimately fell into disrepair following Brackett's death. The building is privately owned, so she notes there's nothing the Foundation or city can explicitly do to restore it at this time, but she remains hopeful that they can work with the owner down the line. In the meantime, the Foundation is celebrating the local landmark designation, which requires a review for any demolition or new construction in the future.  "I think it's important that we continue to recognize all the people that contribute to the stories of our communities. Having an opportunity to be a part of ensuring that Sarah Smiley's story is told and preserved is rewarding," says Bosshart. Saratoga Springs, as it turns out, saw many aspects of women's history. When we talk about the Women's Suffrage Movement, we tend to start with the Seneca Falls Convention and Declaration of Sentiments in 1848 — but as our next guest will tell us, there's a lot of local history to the movement, including in Saratoga Springs. Nancy Brown is a board member of the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites, and chairperson of the National Votes for Women Trail, a database of more than 2,000 sites significant to women's suffrage across the U.S. She says the goal was to highlight the nationwide, grassroots commitment that was needed to gain women the vote, and honor the ongoing struggle for voting rights across the U.S.  How did you get involved in the National Votes for Women Trail? I think that my interest in women suffered comes from the fact that I'm a native of Johnstown, New York, and that is home to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, where not only she was born, but inspired. So I think that has always made me very interested in women's suffrage. I was a board member on the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites, and this became a project that was originally, actually, a funded project that was proposed by Hillary Clinton – to have a Votes for Women Trail. And it was passed, the legislation was passed, but there were never any funds appropriated for it. So I remember being on a phone call, years ago now, and we were bemoaning the fact that there was no money to tell the story of women's suffrage – how half of our democracy became enfranchised, which is a pretty huge story. And we got thinking that really, suffragists we're all volunteer operations. So that's how the National Votes for Women Trail got started: a number of volunteers stepped up and we ended up creating a national network. And our goal was to have 2,020 sites on a database, a mobile friendly, searchable database by 2020 – which we exceeded, and we're now at 2,300 sites, it at nvwt.org. And along the way, the William G. Pomeroy Foundation in Syracuse, New York, recognized the importance of the project and offered to fund historic markers for places of specific significance around the country. And they are doing that for over 200 markers. So it was through that project that I kind of stumbled across the wonderful suffrage history in Saratoga. So what role did Saratoga play in the women's suffrage movement? Well, I will tell you how I stumbled across it, to be honest with you. One of the most important and influential associations was the New York State Women's Suffrage Association. And when I was doing a little research on where it started, I realized that it started at a meeting in Saratoga in July of 1869. Matilda Joslyn Gage, who was famous suffragist from Syracuse, actually had called a meeting to form a state women's suffrage association, and it was held at Congress Hall, which is where the corner of Congress Park and Spring Street is in Saratoga. And it was chaired by Susan B. Anthony. And the result of it was the formation of the New York Women's Suffrage Association. Why that's so important is this will become the association that helps women win the right to vote in New York state, which happened in 1917. They lost the bid for voting in 1915, but were able to get it in 1917. And why that's so important is we were the 12th state in the nation to pass women's suffrage – but the other states were in the West, and we were the first state in the east to pass this. And Carrie Chapman Catt, the famous suffragist, called this the Gettysburg of the woman's suffrage association. So come to find out that started right in Saratoga. And when I looked back a little further, I found that that was not the first women's rights convention in Saratoga. Well, we know that the very first one was in Seneca Falls in 1848, that sort of began the idea of having women's rights conventions. And after that there was one in Rochester, but in 1854, actually – the suffragists were such strategic thinkers that there were some other associations meeting in Saratoga, and they decided to go to Nikolas Hall, which was on the corner of Phila and Broadway. And they had a meeting with Susan B. Anthony, and it was very well regarded, very well attended. It was before there was a race track, but still, it was very popular place to go for people who had money and influence, and they knew that that's what the suffrage movement needed, was money and influence. And they had another meeting again in 1855, because it went so well. Then they have the meeting in 1869, in Saratoga, that forms the New York State Women's Suffrage Association, which becomes so influential. And then what I think is so incredibly interesting is the last meeting of the New York State Women's Suffrage Association was held there in 1917. And that was the last one before the vote, and then fortunately, the vote was passed and women got the vote within our state. And that's a really interesting meeting. That is sort of a culmination of all the work that the Association had done throughout its history, and they had really won over all the legislators. They had worked during World War I, doing all kinds of anything that was asked of them. They had worked with the state military census, they had organized Red Cross chapters, they had sold bonds, they had organized food canning clubs, and every political party decided that they were going to support them. And it was quite a meeting. Even Woodrow Wilson wrote a letter and said, “I look forward to seeing the results of the meeting in Saratoga.” And it started out with a car parade, an automobile parade from Buffalo across the state to Saratoga. So that was August 1917. And hundreds of cars were coming down Broadway. And that's when about one in four people owned a car, so that must have really been quite a sight. And again, famous people like Woodrow Wilson wrote a letter, Samuel Gompers wrote a letter of support. Katrina Trask sent a letter saying that she supported suffrage and wanted to make a donation that would have been worth about $5,000 in today's money. So it was really quite an interesting place. I think what's especially interesting about it is it was a turning point, literally in the suffrage movement nationally. And Saratoga is known as the turning point of the Revolution, right? We all know that the American Revolution, and that enfranchised white men, essentially. But it was really a turning point in what many people have called the “bloodless revolution,” which was the 72-year-fight for women's suffrage over which no blood was shed, and voting rights were gained. So I think that its importance is very significant. You mentioned you're from Johnstown, and that's where Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born. And you also said it's where she was inspired. Can you go into what you mean by that for me? I sure can. Elizabeth was one of the children born to Judge [Cady] and his wife, and unfortunately, only one of their sons made it to adulthood. Eleazer. And when he came home from Union College, he passed away at the age of 20. And Elizabeth remembers in her autobiography, that, as her father, who saw this as the successor to his law practice, was sitting by the coffin, he was just despondent. She went, and she sat on his lap, and he said, “Oh, Elizabeth, if you've only been a boy.” And apparently after that, she talked to her neighbor, who was the Reverend Simon Hoosick, and asked if he thought boys are better than girls. And he said, “No, of course not.” And she vowed at that point in time that she was going to become as good as any boy. And she became a very good horse woman. And she went to the Johnstown Academy, and was in all the accelerated classes that very few girls were in. And there was a coveted Greek prize, that she won along with another gentleman at one point, and the story goes that she took that Greek prize, which was very coveted, and she ran it down the street, and she went to her father's law office and said, “There, I won the Greek prize.” And he said, “Elizabeth, if you'd only been a boy.” And because her father was a lawyer, and we believe that his law office was adjacent to their home, she spent time there and she learned about the law. And she learned how the law didn't favor women. And there's the story of a woman who came to see the judge, because she had no property rights, and her husband passed away, and her son and his wife were kicking her out of her house, and she had no rights to stay there. And Elizabeth heard this story and vowed to cut all the laws out of his logbooks. And he said, “Elizabeth, you would have to go and talk to the legislature to change a law,” never really realizing that she really would end up doing that one day, and she would help change the property law in New York state. So she really was inspired by the events of her youth that took place in Johnstown. You mentioned when you were describing the conventions that there's parades of cars and famous figures and big donations being made for the effort. Do you see it as a movement that, at the time in Saratoga, was particularly driven by the upper classes, or was there a movement for the everyday folks who wanted this too? I think that when we think about it, and we look at the suffrage movement in New York state, for example, there were women like Rose Schneiderman, who worked so hard for workers' rights as well as for suffrage, knowing that that would help the workers gain a voice in their destiny. But I also think women who had more money had more time to devote to this. And there were certainly women who were immigrants who were very interested in this and worked in suffrage, but they had so much on their plates just to survive and just to get educated and just to keep their families together. But there also were Black women who worked so hard to win the vote when the suffrage movement was not always kind to women of color. So there were really women of every class who worked terribly hard, and devoted themselves to a cause that they didn't even know if they were ever going to see. So I'm so impressed by that as well. And fortunately, I will say that the National Votes for Women Trail has worked hard to try and unearth as many stories as we could for those underrepresented women who aren't known as well as the upper class white women, who we tend to know their names. I was going to ask, as we're looking towards preserving sites that have to do with women's history, what are some things that we should keep in mind? And what are the obstacles that are we're running into nowadays to create more monuments to women in the U.S.? Well, the obstacles in terms of preserving sites are they weren't preserved, unfortunately. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's original house, for example, was moved, and a new one that she lived in was built out of stone, because there have been a number of fires in Johnstown. And it was taken down in 1963. And nobody thought a thing about it, actually. And she was a woman of means, so her family had some money. And that's why we on the National Votes for Women Trail are willing to mark sites, because so many homes, nobody preserved the history of them at all. And especially those that women of color [lived in], they're particularly hard to find. Before those names get lost, it's really our responsibility to do our best to shine a light on the information that we can find in for those few remaining places. Like fortunately, Katherine Starbucks' home is still there. So that's why it's so important to recognize it. Because so many of these homes in locations really are not. It's just, you know, ideally that that people really take some time and do their research. They can go on the National Votes for Women Trail and submit sites in their community, if they find information. We then have somebody who reviews them before they're released to populate the map. But we I just think, fortunately, with the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, there was more interested in women's history. And I think people are more interested in finding out who was in their communities that help them get the rights that they enjoy today. And we also need to be mindful of, you know, all women couldn't vote in 1920, Black Women's still had a long way to go to fight their way through Jim Crow laws before they could vote. And, you know, Native American women weren't even US citizens yet, not for another four years and women of Asian descent. Not until even after that they were not citizens yet, so they didn't get the vote. And as we know, unfortunately, today, voting rights are still being compromised in a variety of places. So I think that is equally important to commemorating their sites, I suppose is commemorating their struggle for the for the right to vote. Well, lastly, in looking at the local impact on women's suffrage movement, what has been your main takeaway? I think the main takeaways – I didn't know any of that history existed there, either. But in every county in New York state, there was an active women's suffrage association. That's how they were able to eventually get the New York state legislature to pass the amendment to the law so that they could vote. But so I think what I have learned is how widespread it was, how many people had to be involved to get this movement over the finish line, if you will. Also, there was a significant anti-suffrage movement that I wasn't aware of before I started doing research. And there were women as well as men who didn't think women voting was a good idea. They thought that they didn't need to vote to make their voice heard. If you dial it all the way back to that first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton said in her Declaration of Sentiments that she felt that women needed the right to vote, almost no one agreed with her then. They said, “Oh, that's too much. You know, we can't go quite that far.” But it was Frederick Douglass who stood up and said, “No, she's right. Without the right to vote…that's the right by which all other rights are gained.” It really was such a Herculean effort. There are so many people that we don't know about, that we should be so grateful for. I think there's so much research to do and so many people we need to try and remember their names and try and find out about them so that their efforts won't be lost. Nancy Brown is the chairperson of the National Votes for Women Trail. You can view the trail and learn more about a site near you on the website for the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites. The William G. Pomeroy Foundation has a map for all of its historic markers at wgpfoundation.org.  Lastly, on the topic of preserving women's history, the New York State Museum in Albany has launched a new effort to expand and diversify its collections — specifically, its sports collections. It's all ahead of the 50th anniversary of Title IX this June — Title IX, of course, is the federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in schools that receive federal funding. It applies to all aspects of education, but one of its most visual impacts was in sports, requiring schools to equally support girls' and boys' teams. The museum is trying to balance out its own recollection of sports history by recognizing juggernauts like the WNBA's New York Liberty, or special events like the all-female Aurora Games, which launched in Albany in 2019.  I spoke with the museum's senior historian and curator for social history, Ashley Hopkins-Benton, to learn more.  "At the New York State Museum, our entire history curatorial department has been working on really evaluating our collections, and what strengths we have, and also what stories we're missing," says Hopkins-Benton. "And diversity, of course, is always something that we're trying to get more into the collections. But a couple of years ago, in 2017, when we were working on the Votes for Women exhibit about the centennial of women's suffrage in New York state, we realized women's history collections were really lacking. And then shortly after that, Steve Loughman, who is our sports curator, also was realizing that sports were really lacking, which is crazy when you think about New York and all of the great sports teams and sports stories that we have. So simultaneously, we were both working on these things. And because of the upcoming anniversary of the passage of Title IX, it became very apparent that women's sports were a particular collection that was lacking." So what kinds of items are you looking for in this collection? Well, let me start with what we have, because it's very small. It's all out on the table in front of us right now, we really have two collections that speak to women's sports as they relate to New York state. So one is a collection of material from the New York Liberty basketball team, the WNBA team. And this came in from a woman named Pam Elam, who is a feminist and a women's history scholar, and was really interested in collecting women's history and LGBTQ history as it pertained to culture and politics and sports and everything. So this came in before we even knew that women's sports was something that was missing from our collections, and it includes tickets and calendars and bios of the players. So it's a really great snapshot of the league. And these all came from around 10 years of the league being in existence. So that was the first thing that we had. And then a couple years ago, when Albany hosted the Aurora games, a couple of us all went out to different events and collected pins and basketballs and shirts and other materials from that. So that was a great opportunity as well. So we have two examples, more on the professional sports side of things. But we would love to collect more amateur sports, girls playing in high school, women in college, and those stories. I'm definitely looking for stories of trailblazers, women who were the first to play their sports. New York has so many great stories of girls who play on their high school football team, or I spoke to a woman earlier who was the first girl in her high school to earn a letter by playing on the men's golf team back in the ‘60s. So I am also looking to speak to women. I'd like to do some oral histories of women who were involved in sports at various times in history. Cool. Now, if someone has something that they think might be a good addition to the collection, what is the process of giving that to the museum? Well, reaching out to the museum and to me in particular, and then I bring it to our collections committee, and we discuss it as a group – how it fits into the collection, if it's something that we can responsibly take care of, and if it's something that has research and exhibition value in the future. If you think you may have something you'd like to contribute to the collection, you can find more information at the museum's website. You can also email Ashley Hopkins-Benton at ashley.hopkins-benton@nysed.gov. Title IX turns 50 on June 23. 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It's produced by Jesse King. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is “Lolita” by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue.

On this week's 51%, we recognize Women's History Month. We learn about Sarah Smiley, a controversial Quaker minister who dared to preach to women — and men — in the 19th Century, and Nancy Brown of the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites provides a more local lens on the women's suffrage movement. We also stop by the New York State Museum to learn about a new initiative to expand its collection on women's sports. Guests: Samantha Bosshart, executive director of the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation; Nancy Brown, National Collaborative for Women's History Sites; Ashley Hopkins-Benton, New York State Museum 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It's produced by Jesse King. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is “Lolita” by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue. Follow Along You're listening to 51%, a WAMC production dedicated to women's issues and experiences. Thanks for joining us, I'm Jesse King. All month long, we've recognized Women's History Month by taking the time to learn about prominent American women, past and present. At the end of each episode, we visited exhibits at the New York State Capitol and spoke with the National Women's Hall of Fame. This week, I wanted to take a more local approach — mostly because, as a transplant in Central New York, I'm forever catching up on my Capital Region history, but also to serve as a reminder about the wealth of history that's right in our local communities. We're also flipping the script this week — rather than ending with a “woman you should know,” let's start with one. At the end of last year, the city council of Saratoga Springs, New York, unanimously voted to designate a small cottage on Excelsior Avenue a local landmark. The Smiley-Brackett Cottage, as it's called, is thought to be a prime example of the Gothic Revival style of architecture popularized by Andrew Jackson Downing in the 19th Century — but it's also noteworthy for those who lived there. The house was owned by and built for Sarah Smiley, a popular, yet controversial Quaker minister.  "She really had this significant impact, I think, on women and public speaking," says Samantha Bosshart, executive director of the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation. The Foundation led the effort to acquire the local landmark designation. Smiley was born the daughter of a well-known Quaker family in Maine in 1830 (her father and brothers would go on to build the popular Mohonk Mountain House resort in the Catskills, which still operates today). She initially sought to become a teacher, but after the Civil War, Bosshart says Smiley went South to “relieve human suffering.”  "She traveled to Virginia and to North Carolina, aiding Quakers in organizing schools and libraries," Bosshart notes. "She helped to start a school for 1,000 free Black adults and children in Richmond, Virginia — but that's not really what made her well-known. She later spoke to what they called 'mixed audiences,' and when we say 'mixed audiences,' we're talking about men and women. Women did not speak in front of a congregation, that just wasn't happening." In 1872, popular minister Theodore Cuyler invited Smiley to preach before a mixed congregation at the Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn — making her the first woman to speak from a Presbyterian pulpit. "This caused a ruckus," says Bosshart. "This made Harper's Weekly news, and she was said to 'teach and to extort, or to lead in prayer in public and promiscuous assemblies...[it's] clearly forbidden to women in the Holy Oracles.' But what we learned, or what I learned after that, was that she was so well-received amongst her audiences that she was asked to speak across the country and abroad." Soon, Bosshart says Smiley was speaking in churches from Cincinnati, to London, to Cube. She was adamant that women could study the scriptures themselves, without the help of men. She started a home Bible study program for women, and would go on to write five books on the subject — some of which are still published today. Bosshart says Smiley's Gothic-Revival cottage was built the same year of her notorious appearance in Brooklyn. She's not sure why Smiley chose to settle in Saratoga Springs, but it appears she knew exactly what she wanted in terms of a home.  "Andrew Jackson Downing, he published his Cottage Residence in 1842, and The Architecture of Country Houses in 1850. Alexander Jackson Davis designed and drew the illustrations featured — her house looks nearly identical to one of those cottages. Perhaps because it was the gothic style that is reminiscent of churches, perhaps [she was] being influenced by seeing these rural cottages, and she wanted it to be in keeping with that," Bosshart adds. "She would come to Saratoga to study. In an article in 1874 in The Saratogian, it said, 'She speaks twice almost every day in the week. She only spends six months of the year in preaching, the remainder of the year, during the summer months, in diligent study in her cottage in Saratoga.' So I think, perhaps, it was where she had peace and quiet." Following Smiley's death in 1917, the cottage was left to The Society for the Home Study of Holy Scripture and Church History, the group she had founded to promote religious study by mail. It was ultimately bought by another famous name who owned the property until 1968: Charles W. Brackett. Brackett was a popular author, New Yorker drama critic, and screenwriter of films including Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend, and 1953's Titanic. In 1958, he received an Honorary Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. Bosshart says the cottage ultimately fell into disrepair following Brackett's death. The building is privately owned, so she notes there's nothing the Foundation or city can explicitly do to restore it at this time, but she remains hopeful that they can work with the owner down the line. In the meantime, the Foundation is celebrating the local landmark designation, which requires a review for any demolition or new construction in the future.  "I think it's important that we continue to recognize all the people that contribute to the stories of our communities. Having an opportunity to be a part of ensuring that Sarah Smiley's story is told and preserved is rewarding," says Bosshart. Saratoga Springs, as it turns out, saw many aspects of women's history. When we talk about the Women's Suffrage Movement, we tend to start with the Seneca Falls Convention and Declaration of Sentiments in 1848 — but as our next guest will tell us, there's a lot of local history to the movement, including in Saratoga Springs. Nancy Brown is a board member of the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites, and chairperson of the National Votes for Women Trail, a database of more than 2,000 sites significant to women's suffrage across the U.S. She says the goal was to highlight the nationwide, grassroots commitment that was needed to gain women the vote, and honor the ongoing struggle for voting rights across the U.S.  How did you get involved in the National Votes for Women Trail? I think that my interest in women suffered comes from the fact that I'm a native of Johnstown, New York, and that is home to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, where not only she was born, but inspired. So I think that has always made me very interested in women's suffrage. I was a board member on the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites, and this became a project that was originally, actually, a funded project that was proposed by Hillary Clinton – to have a Votes for Women Trail. And it was passed, the legislation was passed, but there were never any funds appropriated for it. So I remember being on a phone call, years ago now, and we were bemoaning the fact that there was no money to tell the story of women's suffrage – how half of our democracy became enfranchised, which is a pretty huge story. And we got thinking that really, suffragists we're all volunteer operations. So that's how the National Votes for Women Trail got started: a number of volunteers stepped up and we ended up creating a national network. And our goal was to have 2,020 sites on a database, a mobile friendly, searchable database by 2020 – which we exceeded, and we're now at 2,300 sites, it at nvwt.org. And along the way, the William G. Pomeroy Foundation in Syracuse, New York, recognized the importance of the project and offered to fund historic markers for places of specific significance around the country. And they are doing that for over 200 markers. So it was through that project that I kind of stumbled across the wonderful suffrage history in Saratoga. So what role did Saratoga play in the women's suffrage movement? Well, I will tell you how I stumbled across it, to be honest with you. One of the most important and influential associations was the New York State Women's Suffrage Association. And when I was doing a little research on where it started, I realized that it started at a meeting in Saratoga in July of 1869. Matilda Joslyn Gage, who was famous suffragist from Syracuse, actually had called a meeting to form a state women's suffrage association, and it was held at Congress Hall, which is where the corner of Congress Park and Spring Street is in Saratoga. And it was chaired by Susan B. Anthony. And the result of it was the formation of the New York Women's Suffrage Association. Why that's so important is this will become the association that helps women win the right to vote in New York state, which happened in 1917. They lost the bid for voting in 1915, but were able to get it in 1917. And why that's so important is we were the 12th state in the nation to pass women's suffrage – but the other states were in the West, and we were the first state in the east to pass this. And Carrie Chapman Catt, the famous suffragist, called this the Gettysburg of the woman's suffrage association. So come to find out that started right in Saratoga. And when I looked back a little further, I found that that was not the first women's rights convention in Saratoga. Well, we know that the very first one was in Seneca Falls in 1848, that sort of began the idea of having women's rights conventions. And after that there was one in Rochester, but in 1854, actually – the suffragists were such strategic thinkers that there were some other associations meeting in Saratoga, and they decided to go to Nikolas Hall, which was on the corner of Phila and Broadway. And they had a meeting with Susan B. Anthony, and it was very well regarded, very well attended. It was before there was a race track, but still, it was very popular place to go for people who had money and influence, and they knew that that's what the suffrage movement needed, was money and influence. And they had another meeting again in 1855, because it went so well. Then they have the meeting in 1869, in Saratoga, that forms the New York State Women's Suffrage Association, which becomes so influential. And then what I think is so incredibly interesting is the last meeting of the New York State Women's Suffrage Association was held there in 1917. And that was the last one before the vote, and then fortunately, the vote was passed and women got the vote within our state. And that's a really interesting meeting. That is sort of a culmination of all the work that the Association had done throughout its history, and they had really won over all the legislators. They had worked during World War I, doing all kinds of anything that was asked of them. They had worked with the state military census, they had organized Red Cross chapters, they had sold bonds, they had organized food canning clubs, and every political party decided that they were going to support them. And it was quite a meeting. Even Woodrow Wilson wrote a letter and said, “I look forward to seeing the results of the meeting in Saratoga.” And it started out with a car parade, an automobile parade from Buffalo across the state to Saratoga. So that was August 1917. And hundreds of cars were coming down Broadway. And that's when about one in four people owned a car, so that must have really been quite a sight. And again, famous people like Woodrow Wilson wrote a letter, Samuel Gompers wrote a letter of support. Katrina Trask sent a letter saying that she supported suffrage and wanted to make a donation that would have been worth about $5,000 in today's money. So it was really quite an interesting place. I think what's especially interesting about it is it was a turning point, literally in the suffrage movement nationally. And Saratoga is known as the turning point of the Revolution, right? We all know that the American Revolution, and that enfranchised white men, essentially. But it was really a turning point in what many people have called the “bloodless revolution,” which was the 72-year-fight for women's suffrage over which no blood was shed, and voting rights were gained. So I think that its importance is very significant. You mentioned you're from Johnstown, and that's where Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born. And you also said it's where she was inspired. Can you go into what you mean by that for me? I sure can. Elizabeth was one of the children born to Judge [Cady] and his wife, and unfortunately, only one of their sons made it to adulthood. Eleazer. And when he came home from Union College, he passed away at the age of 20. And Elizabeth remembers in her autobiography, that, as her father, who saw this as the successor to his law practice, was sitting by the coffin, he was just despondent. She went, and she sat on his lap, and he said, “Oh, Elizabeth, if you've only been a boy.” And apparently after that, she talked to her neighbor, who was the Reverend Simon Hoosick, and asked if he thought boys are better than girls. And he said, “No, of course not.” And she vowed at that point in time that she was going to become as good as any boy. And she became a very good horse woman. And she went to the Johnstown Academy, and was in all the accelerated classes that very few girls were in. And there was a coveted Greek prize, that she won along with another gentleman at one point, and the story goes that she took that Greek prize, which was very coveted, and she ran it down the street, and she went to her father's law office and said, “There, I won the Greek prize.” And he said, “Elizabeth, if you'd only been a boy.” And because her father was a lawyer, and we believe that his law office was adjacent to their home, she spent time there and she learned about the law. And she learned how the law didn't favor women. And there's the story of a woman who came to see the judge, because she had no property rights, and her husband passed away, and her son and his wife were kicking her out of her house, and she had no rights to stay there. And Elizabeth heard this story and vowed to cut all the laws out of his logbooks. And he said, “Elizabeth, you would have to go and talk to the legislature to change a law,” never really realizing that she really would end up doing that one day, and she would help change the property law in New York state. So she really was inspired by the events of her youth that took place in Johnstown. You mentioned when you were describing the conventions that there's parades of cars and famous figures and big donations being made for the effort. Do you see it as a movement that, at the time in Saratoga, was particularly driven by the upper classes, or was there a movement for the everyday folks who wanted this too? I think that when we think about it, and we look at the suffrage movement in New York state, for example, there were women like Rose Schneiderman, who worked so hard for workers' rights as well as for suffrage, knowing that that would help the workers gain a voice in their destiny. But I also think women who had more money had more time to devote to this. And there were certainly women who were immigrants who were very interested in this and worked in suffrage, but they had so much on their plates just to survive and just to get educated and just to keep their families together. But there also were Black women who worked so hard to win the vote when the suffrage movement was not always kind to women of color. So there were really women of every class who worked terribly hard, and devoted themselves to a cause that they didn't even know if they were ever going to see. So I'm so impressed by that as well. And fortunately, I will say that the National Votes for Women Trail has worked hard to try and unearth as many stories as we could for those underrepresented women who aren't known as well as the upper class white women, who we tend to know their names. I was going to ask, as we're looking towards preserving sites that have to do with women's history, what are some things that we should keep in mind? And what are the obstacles that are we're running into nowadays to create more monuments to women in the U.S.? Well, the obstacles in terms of preserving sites are they weren't preserved, unfortunately. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's original house, for example, was moved, and a new one that she lived in was built out of stone, because there have been a number of fires in Johnstown. And it was taken down in 1963. And nobody thought a thing about it, actually. And she was a woman of means, so her family had some money. And that's why we on the National Votes for Women Trail are willing to mark sites, because so many homes, nobody preserved the history of them at all. And especially those that women of color [lived in], they're particularly hard to find. Before those names get lost, it's really our responsibility to do our best to shine a light on the information that we can find in for those few remaining places. Like fortunately, Katherine Starbucks' home is still there. So that's why it's so important to recognize it. Because so many of these homes in locations really are not. It's just, you know, ideally that that people really take some time and do their research. They can go on the National Votes for Women Trail and submit sites in their community, if they find information. We then have somebody who reviews them before they're released to populate the map. But we I just think, fortunately, with the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, there was more interested in women's history. And I think people are more interested in finding out who was in their communities that help them get the rights that they enjoy today. And we also need to be mindful of, you know, all women couldn't vote in 1920, Black Women's still had a long way to go to fight their way through Jim Crow laws before they could vote. And, you know, Native American women weren't even US citizens yet, not for another four years and women of Asian descent. Not until even after that they were not citizens yet, so they didn't get the vote. And as we know, unfortunately, today, voting rights are still being compromised in a variety of places. So I think that is equally important to commemorating their sites, I suppose is commemorating their struggle for the for the right to vote. Well, lastly, in looking at the local impact on women's suffrage movement, what has been your main takeaway? I think the main takeaways – I didn't know any of that history existed there, either. But in every county in New York state, there was an active women's suffrage association. That's how they were able to eventually get the New York state legislature to pass the amendment to the law so that they could vote. But so I think what I have learned is how widespread it was, how many people had to be involved to get this movement over the finish line, if you will. Also, there was a significant anti-suffrage movement that I wasn't aware of before I started doing research. And there were women as well as men who didn't think women voting was a good idea. They thought that they didn't need to vote to make their voice heard. If you dial it all the way back to that first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton said in her Declaration of Sentiments that she felt that women needed the right to vote, almost no one agreed with her then. They said, “Oh, that's too much. You know, we can't go quite that far.” But it was Frederick Douglass who stood up and said, “No, she's right. Without the right to vote…that's the right by which all other rights are gained.” It really was such a Herculean effort. There are so many people that we don't know about, that we should be so grateful for. I think there's so much research to do and so many people we need to try and remember their names and try and find out about them so that their efforts won't be lost. Nancy Brown is the chairperson of the National Votes for Women Trail. You can view the trail and learn more about a site near you on the website for the National Collaborative for Women's History Sites. The William G. Pomeroy Foundation has a map for all of its historic markers at wgpfoundation.org.  Lastly, on the topic of preserving women's history, the New York State Museum in Albany has launched a new effort to expand and diversify its collections — specifically, its sports collections. It's all ahead of the 50th anniversary of Title IX this June — Title IX, of course, is the federal civil rights law prohibiting sex-based discrimination in schools that receive federal funding. It applies to all aspects of education, but one of its most visual impacts was in sports, requiring schools to equally support girls' and boys' teams. The museum is trying to balance out its own recollection of sports history by recognizing juggernauts like the WNBA's New York Liberty, or special events like the all-female Aurora Games, which launched in Albany in 2019.  I spoke with the museum's senior historian and curator for social history, Ashley Hopkins-Benton, to learn more.  "At the New York State Museum, our entire history curatorial department has been working on really evaluating our collections, and what strengths we have, and also what stories we're missing," says Hopkins-Benton. "And diversity, of course, is always something that we're trying to get more into the collections. But a couple of years ago, in 2017, when we were working on the Votes for Women exhibit about the centennial of women's suffrage in New York state, we realized women's history collections were really lacking. And then shortly after that, Steve Loughman, who is our sports curator, also was realizing that sports were really lacking, which is crazy when you think about New York and all of the great sports teams and sports stories that we have. So simultaneously, we were both working on these things. And because of the upcoming anniversary of the passage of Title IX, it became very apparent that women's sports were a particular collection that was lacking." So what kinds of items are you looking for in this collection? Well, let me start with what we have, because it's very small. It's all out on the table in front of us right now, we really have two collections that speak to women's sports as they relate to New York state. So one is a collection of material from the New York Liberty basketball team, the WNBA team. And this came in from a woman named Pam Elam, who is a feminist and a women's history scholar, and was really interested in collecting women's history and LGBTQ history as it pertained to culture and politics and sports and everything. So this came in before we even knew that women's sports was something that was missing from our collections, and it includes tickets and calendars and bios of the players. So it's a really great snapshot of the league. And these all came from around 10 years of the league being in existence. So that was the first thing that we had. And then a couple years ago, when Albany hosted the Aurora games, a couple of us all went out to different events and collected pins and basketballs and shirts and other materials from that. So that was a great opportunity as well. So we have two examples, more on the professional sports side of things. But we would love to collect more amateur sports, girls playing in high school, women in college, and those stories. I'm definitely looking for stories of trailblazers, women who were the first to play their sports. New York has so many great stories of girls who play on their high school football team, or I spoke to a woman earlier who was the first girl in her high school to earn a letter by playing on the men's golf team back in the ‘60s. So I am also looking to speak to women. I'd like to do some oral histories of women who were involved in sports at various times in history. Cool. Now, if someone has something that they think might be a good addition to the collection, what is the process of giving that to the museum? Well, reaching out to the museum and to me in particular, and then I bring it to our collections committee, and we discuss it as a group – how it fits into the collection, if it's something that we can responsibly take care of, and if it's something that has research and exhibition value in the future. If you think you may have something you'd like to contribute to the collection, you can find more information at the museum's website. You can also email Ashley Hopkins-Benton at ashley.hopkins-benton@nysed.gov. Title IX turns 50 on June 23. 51% is a national production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio. It's produced by Jesse King. Our executive producer is Dr. Alan Chartock, and our theme is “Lolita” by the Albany-based artist Girl Blue.

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Today Diana and I discuss productivity and how to make the best use of your research time. We discuss various ideas including the pomodoro technique, using Google Keep, a 30x30 challenge for daily research in small increments of time, and using a time journal to notice what you spend time on and eliminate time thieves. Links Research Like a Pro: A Genealogist's Guide by Diana Elder with Nicole Dyer on Amazon.com Make the Best Use of Your Family History Time by Diana Elder at FamilyLocket.com Pomodoro Technique via Wikipedia Google Keep Google Keep Mobile App Google Keep Browser Extension Google Tasks Mobile App 30x30 Challenge by Janine Adams at Organize Your Genealogy Daily Research Challenge 2016 by Nicole at FamilyLocket.com Tips for Researching in Small Increments of Time by Nicole at FamilyLocket.com My Thirty Day Challenge: How Researching 30 Minutes a Day Brought Discoveries, Joy and Clarity by Nancy Brown at FamilyLocket.com Eliminate Your Time Thieves and Free Up Family History Time by Diana at FamilyLocket.com 10 Ways Busy Parents Can Make Time for Family History by Nicole at FamilyLocket.com Thank you Thanks for listening! We hope that you will share your thoughts about our podcast and help us out by doing the following: Share an honest review on iTunes or Stitcher. You can easily write a review with Stitcher, without creating an account. Just scroll to the bottom of the page and click "write a reveiw." You simply provide a nickname and an email address that will not be published. We value your feedback and your ratings really help this podcast reach others. If you leave a review, we will read it on the podcast and answer any questions that you bring up in your review. Thank you! Leave a comment in the comment or question in the comment section below. Share the episode on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or your favorite podcast app. Sign up for our newsletter to receive notifications of new episodes.

Diana and I tell about our background in family history and give an overview of the Research Like a Pro process. Diana got started in genealogy research when her father gave her a suitcase full of family history papers. Diana shares her journey in accreditation and tells about how she came up with the Research Like a Pro process, which resulted in a series of blog posts, a study group, book, and eCourse. The steps for researching like a pro each correspond to a chapter in the book: Create an objective, analyze sources, locality research, research planning, source citations, research logs, and report writing. I tell about my first time trying the RLP method with my Isenhour Brothers project. We discuss the ideal project size when trying the RLP method for the first time. The Research Like a Pro process is for everyone - not just those who want to become professionals. I read part of Nancy Brown's foreword in Research Like a Pro about how using this method helps you feel that you can finish a specific project, even though family history work may never be fully "done." Links: Purchase our book: Research Like a Pro: A Genealogist's Guide on Amazon Diana's blog post about receiving a suitcase full of her dad's papers: The Suitcase: Getting Started One Paper at a Time. Diana's blog post about accreditation - Becoming an Accredited Genealogy Professional – Diana Elder, AGⓇ ICAPGen Website Blog post about the first step in Research Like a Pro - What's Your Question? (Genealogy Research Objectives) Nicole's blog post about her first RLP project: Doing a Genealogy Research Project from Start to Finish Nancy Brown's blog post: Am I Up to It? A Novice's Questions About Joining a Research Study Group. Nicole's blog post about her Keaton brick wall - Solving a Brick Wall with the Research Like a Pro Method Sherri's experience with learning to research like a pro: My Research Like a Pro Study Group Experience. Thanks for listening! We hope that you will share your thoughts about our podcast and help us out by doing the following: Leave a comment in the comment section. Share the show Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest. Leave an honest review on iTunes. We value your feedback and your ratings really help this podcast reach others. Subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app.