Travel Tips: Abkhazia

BEFORE YOU TRAVEL
- I advise to learn how to speak Russian fluently before you arrive
- To get a visa, you should fill out and send a Visa application form to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia
- Once they receive duly submitted documents, the Conuslar Service usually takes 5 working days to process the Visa request. As soon the clearance is ready you will be contacted by the consular officer and an entry permit letter will be sent to you via fax or e-mail. The Entry Permit Letter only works when you ENTER Abkhazia.

GETTING IN:
- I advise to drive into Abkhazia via  Enguri Bridge, Georgia. Enguri Bridge is near Zugdidi, Georgia.

How to get into Abkhazia via Enguri Bridge:

1. Take a taxi from Zugdidi, Georgia to Enguri Bridge
2. Check your passport with the Georgian Military Checkpoint
3. Walk across the long, dilapidated Enguri Bridge to the Russian Military Checkpoint on the Abkhazian side of the border

ONCE YOU'RE IN
-Once you get into Abkhazia, get a taxi from the Abkhazia-Georgia border to Sukhumi, Abkhazia, the capital of Abkhazia. The price of the taxi is 1.500 Rubles
- You can not leave Abkhazia through Russia or Georgia; you leave where you came from
-  Once you get to Sukhumi, Abkhazia, you need to proceed to the Consular Department of the MFA of Abkhazia to obtain the visa that will serve as an exit permit you might be asked to pay the visa fees at Sberbank
- Avoid any place near the Georgia-Abkhazia border
-Keep your valuables close to you
-Dress modestly

Blog update: I will no longer be putting the whole text of plaques on the website. Now it is just the earliest and latest dates.

Plaque #2

Text:

 Lucy Louisa Flower

Social Reformer

1837-1921

When Lucy Flower saw that many abandoned or neglected children in Chicago were often arrested and jailed as adults, she declared that Chicago needed a special "parental court" for them. For years she and like-minded reformers such as Jane Addams and Julia Lathrop, negotiated a legal and political landscape that was only partially open to women in order to achieve this goal. Her success came in 1899, when Cook County established the first juvenile court to hear cases of children under 16 years. Cities around the world followed Cook County's lead in establishing juvenile court systems. Lucy Flower and her family lived here, at 1920 West Wellington Street, at the time. Flower had been a reformer and schoolteacher when she and her family came to Chicago in 1873. She joined the Chicago Home for the Friendless and the Half Orphan Asylum and founded the Illinois Training School for Nurses, the first nursing school west of Pennsylvania. She was appointed to the Chicago School Board and elected a trustee of the University of Illinois. Her campaign for children's rights led to the establishment of industrial schools for dependent boys in Illinois and the passage of a compulsory education law in 1889. In 1911 the first trade school for girls in Chicago, located near Garfield Park, was named the Lucy Flower Technical High School.

Photo Caption: The early Cook County Juvenile Court in session.

Location: 1920 West Wellington Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60657-4030

Plaque #1

Text:

City of Chicago

Community Improvement and Development Program
Roscoe Village

1978

Michael A. Bilandic
Mayor

Department of Planning City and Community Development

Thomas Kapsalis
Commissioner
Department of Public Works

Marshall Suloway
Commisioner

Jerome R. Butler, Jr.
City Architect

Location: 3401 North Western Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60618

UPDATE TO BLOG

Hi! It's been a while, and I have something I'd like to say. So, recently, I've developed an interest in plaques, and I now have become a full fledged, well, ummm... "Plaque Hunter". Now, I'm talking any kind of plaque, anything, so, State Historic Landmarks, City Landmarks, County Landmarks, practically anything that has info on any type of history, whether it be local, national, international, who cares?! So, c'mon, don't be shy, spread the word, comment on suggestions, I'll listen to anything! I'll be sure to get to every one of your suggestions! It might take a while, but trust me, that time will be worth it. Thanks!

P.S. I'm changing the name of the blog to "Plaque Hunter

MOVIE REVIEW: THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

2012

DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

STARRING CHRISTIAN BALE, TOM HARDY, MICHAEL CAINE, ANNE HATHAWAY, MORGAN FREEMAN, AND MARION COTTILARD

RATED PG-13 FOR INTENSE SEQUENCES OF VIOLENCE AND ACTION, SOME SENSUALITY AND LANGUAGE

Today I will be reviewing the film "The Dark Knight Rises" (2012), the third and final film in the Batman trilogy directed by Christopher Nolan.

I found the film to be a fitting end to this excellently made trilogy. Though not as good as the film's predecessor, "The Dark Knight" (2008), the film still manages to pull off a superb end to the trilogy. The acting was good, as well as the plot, and the music. Overall I found it to be a great film

MOVIE REVIEW: THE DARK KNIGHT

2008

DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

STARRING CHRISTIAN BALE, HEATH LEDGER, GARY OLDMAN, MICHAEL CAINE, AARON ECKHART, MAGGIE GYLLENHALL, AND MORGAN FREEMAN

RATED PG-13 FOR INTENSE SEQUENCES OF VIOLENCE AND SOME MENACE

Today I will be reviewing the film "The Dark Knight" (2008). It is the second film in the Batman trilogy directed by Christopher Nolan. I found it to be a terrific film, better than "Batman Begins", the first film in the trilogy. I found the highlight of the film to be Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker.

The film has very intense, dark scenes of violence. The plot was superb, the same with the acting, mainly Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker. With dark humor and a sadistic personality, Ledger superbly pulls off an amazing portrayal. The Music was good as well. Overall, I found the film to be the best in the trilogy.

MOVIE REVIEW: BATMAN BEGINS

2005

DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN

STARRING, CHRISTIAN BALE, KATIE HOLMES, LIAM NEESON, MICHAEL CAINE, GARY OLDMAN, CILLIAN MURPHY, AND MORGAN FREEMAN


RATED PG-13 FOR INTENSE ACTION VIOLENCE, DISTURBING IMAGES AND SOME THEMATIC ELEMENTS.


Today I will review the film "Batman Begins"(2005), the first film in the Batman trilogy directed by Christopher Nolan. It chronicles the origin of Batman.

I found the film realistic and dark, with a large aspect of the film focusing on fear. The violence in the film is intense, with disturbing images and dark, violent action scenes. It surely has resurrected the Batman film series since the corny and horrible "Batman and Robin" (1997). The acting is good, with Michael Caine excellently portraying an at times humorous Alfred. The Plot and the visuals are good, with Nolan toning down the CGI, and so is the music. Hans Zimmer's haunting Batman theme is especially superb. Overall, I found the movie to be a great chance to take Batman back to his dark, gritty roots.

Travel tips

Afghanistan

Okay, for some reason, for a few months now I've been dreaming of one day going to Afghanistan. Yeah, I know, there are still remnants of the Taliban regime and terrorist groups like al-qaeda, but I've read about the museums, and boy, are they cool. They have a museum about an ancient city, in an ancient city known as Balkh. The museum receives around 100 visitors a day, which to me is surprising as Afghanistan is an extremely poor and dangerous nation. But, if you're planning to go to Afghanistan, here are some basic tips:

- A Valid Passport and Visa are required for entry

- I would advise flying via Safi Air from Frankfurt, Germany

- The main point of starting your tour is usually Kabul International Airport

- Most of the population speaks either Dari or Pashto. I would advise learning to speak these languages fluently before departing to Afghanistan

- STAY OUT OF THE WAY OF MILITARY CONVOYS

- You should probably get some Afghani, which is the official currency of Afghanistan

Here are some safety tips:

- Be aware for IEDs and land mines

- avoid rallies and demonstrations

- In general, just be aware at ALL TIMES!!!

RED HORROR


COBUL

AFGHANISTAN

2:44 PM

JUNE 2

2016

CIA agent David Bradley sat at the Cafe, sipping his espresso. He delighted in the taste of it. He set it down on the table and opened his Macintosh Powerbook. He Typed in this Site name:


http: / / www.CIAClassified.org

Then he pushed enter. A screen Popped up. It Read:

IN ORDER TO GAIN ACCESS TO THESE TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS AND OTHER CIA INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION, YOU MUST ANSWER THIS QUESTION:

IS OPERATION DESERT CAUSE REAL?

NO

YES

That was simple. Operation Desert Cause was the codname for the Operation. Right as he Clicked the Yes button A black Screen Came Up. It Read:

YOU ARE GOING TO DIE IN

3
2
1
HASTA LEVESTA!!

BLAM!

To Be continued.

My trip to the Adler Planetarium

So, just to make sure everyone understands this post, I live In Chicago, Illinois. So on the Lakefront there's this planetarium, called the Adler Planetarium. It's the oldest planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, founded in 1930. It's kind of small, but you basically get the idea. Just giving you part 1 of the Introduction. So there's this Theory, that's proven Scientific Fact. It's called the Big Bang Theory, and it explains the origin of the Universe. It's very complicated, so if there's anything you don't understand, just look it up after you read the post. Now, I want to clear up some misconceptions about the big bang:

1. The big bang was not an explosion, it was an expansion. Even if the American Museum of Natural History in NY tells you it was an explosion, and they will, Experts say, no,no,no!
2. There was no Space before the Big Bang. The big bang created Space.

So now you know what the big bang is. So in July, a new Adler Planetarium exhibit opened. It's called The Universe: a walk through space and time, and It's about the Big Bang. So, like any Big Bang buff in Chicago, I went to see it. And let me put to you simply, it was AMAZING!. It's laid out like this. Outside the Exhibit, or what I like to call the Beginning of Everything, there's a Hologram showing the Expansion of the Universe. Then there's a tunnel, that on the floor has Atomic and Subatomic particles and Exploding Stars. As you walk along the floor you can scatter the Particles. The reason there are even particles there in the first place is because one of the first things that formed after the Big Bang is Particles. And you might be asking the question, What are the stars for?. Well, when the original stars Blew up, or went Supernova, they released Chemicals into space that actually makes up humans. So that's the Floor part. Then on One side of the Tunnel there are Boards that have Text, and on the other side Flat Screens that play little Movies. Then an Interactive thing will happen every five minutes or so, you can feel the big bang. If you go to the exhibit you'll see what I mean. Then in the second and last room,  You can basically explore the universe with little Interactives. The Exhibiton is Permanent, so if you ever come down to Chicago, Go to the adler and see It!

A Little Guy's Introduction To Super-Heroes

My mom asked me to make a list appropriate for a 4 year-old that is just starting his own adventures with super-heroes.  Maybe this will be useful for you too. I pay really close attention to the ratings of comics.

• Superman might be a good place to start. Warning: Most superman comics contain some romantic content between Superman and Lois Lane that is usually inappropriate for little kids. And also Most of the superman comics contain some violence that also may be inappropriate for Little kids. I would recommend the Super Friends cartoons from the 1970's or some other kind of 70's superhero cartoons.
• Batman comics have violence that's almost always inappropriate for little kids. It should also be known that Bruce Wayne is a Playboy, two reasons that the comics aren't good for Little kids. I would once again reccomend the Super Friends cartoons from the 70's. I would also reccomend the 1966 Batman movie starring Adam West and Burt Ward. (Both Superman and Batman are DC characters)
• The Incredibles would be a great introduction.
• Spider man cartoons would be a great place to start if you wanted an Introduction to Marvel.

Can you think of anything else to add to this list? My mom's friend would really appreciate it.

Guns, Grit, Batman, and Robin

NOTE TO READER FROM THE AUTHOR'S PARENT- Jack wrote this on a Saturday, essentially from start to finish (minus snacks and bathroom breaks.) It would likely be rated PG-13 if it were to be made into a film. The spelling, punctuation, syntax and "note to reader" within the story are the author's own. This is 100% his own work minus the copy/pasting help to get it into his blog and the formatting of the "scoreboard" that he requested. Enjoy the adventure. 


Guns, Grit, Batman, and Robin
By Jack Cummins and inspired by the work of Bob Kane and Bill Finger

Prologue
The sedan pulled up to the apartment. Out of the car came out two men, their faces shadowed by their pulled down hats. "Why'd ya bring us here, boss?" One of them said. "So you can "loot" the apartment, idiot." " yeah." "Let's go do the job already." 3 more men got out of the sedan. One of them closed the door. "I'll be waitin'." The boss said. "Now let's move it". The first one said.  The 5 gangsters walked over to the fire escape. One of them jumped up to the ladder and pulled it down. "C'mon." He said. They all climbed the ladder up to the balcony on the highest level of the building. They swung there selves over the balcony 2 at a time, then for the last man, 1 at a time. They slowly opened the balcony door silently and then slowly and silently closed it. The men had specially trained ears, so they were able to hear the soft and almost silent sighs of the sleeping victims. Two men silently inched quickly toward one bedroom, one towards another, and two to another bedroom. The first two opened the door. The Wife of the man in the bedroom popped up on one elbow, faced the gangsters, and said,” Oh, Jonathan,  take care of your--- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
The man suddenly pointed a gun at her which made her scream. It suddenly woke her Husband up. Just then the Kids’s bedroom door opened and the baby started crying and the 4 year old starting screaming repeatedly, “MAMA!!!” Just then the teenage girl’s door was opened and she screamed. “AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!” Meanwhile in the other room the one gangster said “Shut up, kid!” In the other room, the two gangsters said the same thing. The first two gangsters ran over to the Husband and Wife, grabbed them with an air-taking grip( I made up the word, which means the grip was so strong that it took the air from them.), and walked them over to the living room. One of the gangsters ran over to the kids room and said, “c’mon!” The one gangster in the kid’s room did the same as the two men in the parent’s bedroom. The two gangsters in the teenage girl’s room were told the same as in the kid’s bedroom and did the same as the other men previously. They all walked into the living room. 4 out of 5 of the gangsters got their guns out and held it at the family’s necks. The most experienced of the “loot team” was the one who was the leader of this “apartment loot” raid team. This man was the one who did not have his gun out. What he said was: “ Now, you people might be wondering what you’re doing here in your apartment here, He got right up close to the 4 year old’s face and said, your Daddy’s a Millionaire, is he or not?” The 4 yar old said, “Yes” in a shaky and scared voice. He got out of the 4 year old’s face and said, “Well, that’s the Reason we’re here, Because he’s made Millions of dollars an’ we want em’.” He faced the dad and said, “Where’s the money?” The dad said, “ How should I know?.” The gangster laughed, turned for a spilt-second, then reared and slapped the dad.”TELL ME!!!!!” The gangster slapped him again, then again, and again, and one more time. The leader of the gangsters reared back one more time and then reared back to slap him. Just as the hit was going to come down, The dad with the blood on his face yelled, “Wait!!” “Okay, I’ll tell you.” He pointed to a painting. “ There’s a (Gasp) wall safe( Gasp) behind that painting.” “The safe code is 1...4....19...7.” The lead gangster went over to the painting, removed it, and did the dial code: 1,4,1,9,7. The safe clicked and the lead gangster opened the safe, removed the briefcase, and closed the safe, and then turned the dial to 7, then to 9, to 1, to 4, and finally to 1. He walked over and set the briefcase down, and clicked the dials open, and opened the briefcase.

Meanwhile, as the lead gangster  walked over to the safe and removed the briefcase, other events were taking place outside. This is what happened: The driver waited in the car. As he chewed on a cigar, there was a nearby rooftop. On top of that rooftop, there was a man enclosed in darkness. He watched from this rooftop and sighted his quarry. He got up from his crouching position, took 4 steps back, then ran forward and leaped off the roof. He flipped in mid-air and landed on the roof of the car. The Thump was heard by the driver. He stuck his head out of the window and looked up, but seconds before that the man rolled away, so he was out of sight. The driver returned  to the frontseat of the car. The man on the roof of the car took out a gun from his pocket and shot down through the roof twice. BANG! BANG! The man screamed in pain. The man rolled over to the other edge of the roof, clasped his hands on the edge of the car, and swung into the car. He took out a curved knife and one of his guns, and then

NOTE: this scene has so much intense and violent content that it has been chosen to have been skipped.

After the job was done to the driver the man got out of the car, put his weapons back in his Pocket Weapons Cache, and jumped up to the apartment and, silently, quickly, and stealthily, he moved up the roof as quick as a panther. He jumped up to the metal bars of the balcony, flipped onto the balcony, and leaped far through the glass windows and into the apartment.

Inside the apartment, right when the man jumped through, the lead gangster was looking at the money. When the man jumped in, the men immediately started firing. The man flipped through, and with the blink of an eye, was already up and sprinting like a bullet towards one of the gangsters. He quickly ran up close to the same gangster, knocked the gun out of his hand, gripped his head, pulled it down, and kicked the neck of the gangster. Because of the pressure on the neck, the neck was snapped. SNAP! The man backflipped as the other man fell down dead. He did the exact same move and backflip on another gangster. another gangster he shot once in both Lungs, which killed him, and another he grabbed, stabbed in the chest, pulled the knife out of his chest, threw him through  the balcony window, was hit in the face by the bars on the balcony, then thrown over the balcony to his death on the sidewalk below. The man walked through the broken glass and into the living room.  and then, suddenly, the leader of the gangsters flew out from behind the couch and fired. The man fired back. The man fired 16 shots, and the other man fired 12 shots, so the 4 equaling 12 + 4 =16 means that the lead gangster was shot 4 times. When he was dead, the man went over to the family, and pulled out two guns. “Who are you?” The mom asked. “The Cause of your death” the man replied in a strong German accent. Then he raised his guns, and fired repeatedly 8 times. When he was done, the Shwarch family was gone from this world.

Chapter 1.
After the gang battle, The man took the briefcase and left the building by the balcony by leaping off the balcony. He landed on the same roof that he jumped onto the car from. he then hitched a ride on a Black 1931 Cadillac. When it passed by Green-Wood Cemetery by chance, the man jumped off the car and into the cemetery. He put on Night-Vision glasses which could make people see Infra-red in the dark. He navigated his way through the cemetery for about 15 minutes. Since he knew this cemetery, he knew all locations in the cemetery by heart. After that 15 minutes, he found the Mausoleum he was looking for. He walked to the mausoleum and looked around to make sure that no one was looking. Seeing that he was alone, he turned and unlocked the door. He went into the mausoleum and tapped twice on an edge of the mausoleum. It came apart, revealing an elevator being illuminated by a blue light. He stepped in and the doors closed. The elevator flew down through 6 million feet of Earth. It took only 15 seconds to fly down. The elevator stopped. The elevator doors opened, and the man walked into a dome of metal. He walked over to a big leather chair and sat down. He turned in the chair and picked up the Daily Globe. He Always picked up the Daily Globe. He flipped through it until he found an article that looked interesting. The article said:

MILLIONAIRE JAMES BLARE MAKING  EUROPEAN WARTIME SPEECH

He read about how the Millionaire James Blaire would make a speech in 7 days about the U.S. must not help Europe in their war against the Axis forces of Germany, Japan, and Italy. “Perfect chance to disrupt and kill a powerful man.” He said. And with that, he closed the paper and headed for his bedroom and went to sleep.

When the police arrived at the apartment, the first thing they saw was the man laying on the sidewalk, blood oozing out of him.  Then they noticed  the bloodied and scarred man with his hand hanging out of the car window. They then entered the building and inspected every room in the apartment. On the lower floors of the building and middle floors of the building they found nothing, but when they got to the highest floor they opened the door and were shocked at how many dead bodies there were. They also found the blood on the bars of the balcony. They made a report and carried the dead bodies down to the sidewalk. They called 10 ambulances for the 10  bodies from the apartment lobby phone. When the 10 ambulances arrived,  the police loaded the bodies into the Ambulances and the ambulances went to the hospital.

Chapter 2.
The next morning, at 7:00, The Dad’s business  acquatainces Released in a public announcement that the dad had died the previous night in a break-in. The world was shocked that this man who was known worldwide was dead. Simply gone, not there anymore. After the announcement Daily Globe press writers raced to get the breaking news out on paper. Luckily Bobill Fiane, a Canadian-Turkish writer, got the story out. That day, Bruce Wayne sat down in his Armchair to read the Daily Globe when he suddenly saw the headline:

MILLIONAIRE ALBERT SHWARCH DIES IN BREAK-IN!

When Bruce saw the headline and read it, he read the article and was immediately interested and yelled, “Dick!” Young Dick Grayson hurried into the room. “Look at this,” he said. Dick quickly read the article and after he read it said, “Who could have broken into the house?” “I don’t know, Dick, but we’re going to find out as Batman!” “And Robin!” Dick said.

That night, Bruce got dressed as Batman and Dick got dressed as Robin at the same time. Then they both got into Batman’s high-powered car and drove into New York.

Chapter 3.
The car pulled up 1 block away from the apartment. Batman and Robin got out of the car. They both shut their doors behind them and then jogged over to a building. Batman removed his silk rope from his belt and Robin removed his. They both threw their ropes up to a high  building. They then climbed the building up to the rooftop. They both removed their ropes from the edge of the rooftop and threw them to the adjacent apartment. They took 2 steps back, then ran forward and swung into the building by crashing through the window. They quickly removed both of their ropes and put them away. Batman took out a flashlight and searched around in the living room. He saw some dry blood on the couch. “What is it?” he said to himself. “Robin, come over here.” Batman said. Robin came over and examined it. “It looks like dry blood” he said. Batman got out a knife and cut the piece of the couch with the dry blood on it. He cut off a piece of the couch and cut the top, using it as a pouch. Batman put the piece of the couch inside the pouch and got up. “ You found any more evidence, Robin?” Batman said. “Nope” Robin replied. “ Then let’s go” Batman said. Just as they were about to leave and were walking over to the broken window 12 men burst in through the balcony window. They had a bomb with them. The Dynamic Duo were trapped.

Chapter 4.
The men pointed their Tommy guns at Batman and Robin. “Hello, Batman, you infringin’ on people’s private property again?” one of the gangsters said. “ So you want to play, eh?” the Batman said. “Get em’” one of the gangsters said. All twelve gangsters fired a spray of Tommy Gun bullets at Batman and Robin. Batman removed a glass pellet full of gas from his belt, Batman and Robin both held their breath, and Batman threw the glass pellet on the ground. Gas shot out of the pellet. “I’m chokin’!” one man said. Other men said similar things, such as, “ Gas!”, “What’s happenin’?!”, and, “Gas...Chokin’...Me!” “ Stay here, Robin” Batman said. Then he did a daring thing, he jumped right into the gas fumes. Seconds later he came out with the bomb. “C’mon, Robin, Batman said, and they jumped right out of the window and onto the car roof.
They got into the car and immediately opened a hatch in the bomb and got his knife out.
Then he cut the main cords which there colors were: white, red, and blue. The countdown timer on the bomb stopped at 2:00= 2 seconds. Then the police siren came blazing right at them and they noticed the Batman and Robin. “Batman, stand down!” One man said. “Robin, time to go”, Batman said. The car blazed off, with the police cars in pursuit.

Chapter 5.
The first thing Batman noticed as an escape route was a narrow, nearby alleyway. Batman sped off into the alley. “Car 5, Enter into alleyway right ahead on opposite side of Washington Street” the Police captain radioed to the driver of police car 5. Police car 5 turned into the alley  as the other car turned and sped forward also to crush the Dynamic Duo’s car. Right as the collision was about to happen Batman surged his foot forward on the gas pedal so hard that gas from the car shot out of the car. Batman lifted the steering wheel up and the car leaped into the air. The car landed behind the other car and the 2 police cars hit in a head-on collision. Batman’s car swerved out of the alley. “Car 3, take down the Batman by tracking him down from behind” the police captain radioed to Police car 3. Car 3  immediately sped off after the Batman’s car. The car was speeding up fast. Right when it was about to capture the Batman’s car the Batman stopped the car suddenly. When police car 3 was driving by and the Batman’s car was right next to it the Batman swerved his car and hit police car 3 with a loud Thwack! And a loud Bang! At the same time. The police car went careening into a lamp post. “Car 2, you’re coming with me” the police captain radioed to Police car 2. And with that, Police car 1 and Police car 2 sped off after the Batman. They drove on the opposite side of Washington Street from the batman.     What the street looked like was this: There was a street. In the middle of the street was a dead end, with one way to get out of it. The way to get out of the dead end was that there was an alleyway. If you went through it you would be on the same street but on a different side of Washington Street. They went through the alley. The wrecked cars from earlier were on opposite sides on the edges of the alley. Cars 1 and 2 were in a single-file line: car 2 in front, car 1 in back. 2 swerved out of the alley, split-seconds later followed by car 1. The cars were sure to be after the Batman but not to fall for his tricks and stay behind while being after him. For 5 minutes they kept up the chase. After that 5 minutes Batman’s car swerved into a nearby construction site by swerving into the gate and knocking that area of the gate down. The police swerved in and followed. There was a crane and Batman hit a pile of explosive crates, making the explosives explode and making the car fly up into the crane’s hook. Batman’s car was hanging by the crane hook. Then the Batman hit the gas pedal so hard that it made the crane’s hook drive down with him to the surface of the construction site while still both attached to the crane. At the last moment Batman hit the gas pedal so hard that the Batman’s car flew off the hook and drove away. What happened to car 2 was not so lucky: his car was attached to the hook of the crane and the hook flew up with him. Then car 2 was stuck dangling. Car 1 came after the Dynamic Duo’s car. It sped after them for 3 minutes. After that 3 minutes, The two cars were close to a pile of wet cement. When the Batman’s car and Police car 1 were right next to each other Batman started hitting the car for 15 seconds and then car 1 flew into the pile of wet cement. After the chase the Dynamic Duo’s car exited the construction site and were driving along a city road when


 BOOM!!!!!!

A building had exploded.

Chapter 6.
Batman immediately stopped the car. “C’mon, Robin,” he said. They rushed out of the car and quickly slammed the car doors behind them.  They ran up to the building and removed their ropes from their belts. They threw the ropes up and climbed up to the window. They climbed into the building. They quickly put their ropes away and ran to help the trapped in the burning building. The Dynamic Duo started helping people and threw their ropes down from the building and onto the safety of the sidewalk below. Batman suddenly saw a man throwing pellets which, seconds afterward, would blow up into flames. Of course! That was the man who started the fire and was helping it spread! “Robin, I need you to go after that man over there” Batman yelled to Robin. “Okay” Robin yelled back. And with that, Robin took off after the man. And Robin disappeared into the flames.

Shortly afterward, the man was running around, throwing pellets of Gasoline. Then he was suddenly thrown backward by a thing that hit him which immediately took the breath out of him. Robin dropped down and attacked the man. The man got up and attacked messily with a bunch of Karate moves all combined into one. Robin was overwhelmed, flying backward and getting attacked like a wolf eating a man. Robin’s legs flew upward in a strong kick to the face. The man was surprised, but not overwhelmed like Robin earlier in the fight. Robin immediately sprung up and attacked again with an overwhelming kick to the face. The man stepped back to keep his balance. This made him vulnerable to attack. So before he could even see it coming, he was struck with another overwhelming kick to the chest.  He flew backward through some wood and onto his back. Robin jumped and did a forward handstand on the man’s stomach. This move knocked the wind out of him. Robin did a bunch of messy Boxing and Karate moves on his face. The man sprung up suddenly and threw Robin through the hole in which he had crashed through earlier.  The man jumped out and removed a gasoline pellet. He threw it at Robin when suddenly, Batman leaped in front of the pellet and threw it at the man in mid-air. The pellet landed in front of the man and seconds afterward blew him back. He was thrown backwards through some wood and through the wooden floor. He crashed on the floor below. Batman and Robin leaped through the hole in the wall and  jumped down onto the floor below. Batman sprung forward and did a long leap, in the process hitting the man and sending himself and the man through a wooden wall. Batman got up and got into a stance with his fists raised. Batman did a flying to the man’s head but the man grabbed his ankle, twisted it in mid-air, and threw Batman down. The man held the Batman down but the Batman kicked the man in the Stomach and threw him away from him. Suddenly a burning beam collapsed on the man, and the man burst into flames. “C’mon, Robin, time to go” the Batman said. He and Robin walked away to the collapsing stairs and quickly got to the floor above as each stair collapsed beneath them. They ran over to the rope, climbed down to the sidewalk, and evacuated the lobby and knocked out a man in the security room. After that, they knocked out some police officers who had arrived at the scene when they were fighting the man, and stole 1 of their costumes. They then loaded the man in the surveillance room into the back seat of the car, and sped off to the Wayne Mansion.

Chapter 7.
The next morning, Bruce Wayne loaded the piece of the couch with the dry blood on it to figure out who’s blood it was. The machine was very futuristic, and could tell anyone what anything was and who it belonged to. When it scanned it it turned out it was Albert Shwarch’s blood. So he was murdered. Well of course he was. Who wouldn’t be bleeding if they were shot? He turned his attention to another problem: who had murdered him? And if he could still find out, Where was he Or She currently? Luckily he also had a device for that. He walked over to another machine in his bedroom and flicked the ON button. The machine turned on and Bruce Inserted the piece of the couch with the blood on it into the machine. The machine immediately typed out the information for him. The place where the Killer was right now was:

GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

So that was where he was.  Tonight he was going there, and no one was stopping him.

Chapter 8.
Batman and Robin got out of the car. They shut their doors behind them. The Dynamic Duo ran over to the fence and jumped up high enough so that they were at the edge of the gate. The next thing they did was swing there selves over the fence. They dropped down. Then they ran through the darkness. They searched for about 3 hours by searching every tombstone. They did not fine anything. So Batman put on his Infra-Red glasses. He saw footprints. “Robin, Get behind me” the Batman said. Robin got behind the Batman and they walked for 20 minutes following the footprints.  When the footprints finally stopped it was in front of a Mausoleum. The Batman took off his Infra-Red Glasses. He put them away and took out his Baterang. He gouged it deep in the lock, and the lock fell off. The Batman put his Baterang away and he and Robin entered the mausoleum. They did not see any entrance to any secret area. He tried jumping on every spot on the ground, but nothing came up. No secret elevator or anything. Then he tried tapping 1 one wall. That did not work. Then he tried tapping another wall. That did not work either. He tried another wall. Still did not work. He tried tapping another wall. That did not work. He tried another wall. That DID work. The wall came apart. It revealed another part of the wall. It was an elevator. Blue light shone out of it. The Dynamic Duo stepped in. The wall closed and 15 seconds later  the wall opened. Batman and Robin stepped out. They looked around at the underground hideout. It was a metal dome with a giant leather chair In the center. Right now it was facing away from them. “The Batman and Robin. I have been looking forward to this moment.” The chair swerved around, and it revealed the man, only he was not the same looking man as they had seen him before: His face was black. It almost looked like coal. In fact, His whole body was black. “ My name is Shark. I am a terrorist  From Ulm, Germany. I rule 187 small villages in Europe, Asia,  Africa, and South America. And now, I am spreading my rule to North America. So, byebie for now!” Shark immediately grabbed two guns and shot at Batman in the face, and Robin in the same area. They both fell down.

Chapter 9.
Batman woke up in a dark room. The room, for some reason, was pitch black. Then the lights flicked on, revealing Shark in the room. “So, the great Batman is the weak Batman” Shark said. “How do you know who I am?” The Batman said. “Of course I know of the criminal underworld and, I also know their aftermaths. Most of them that are in New York are taken down by the Batman. Anyway, let’s get to work.” Shark lifted the Batman up and carried him into another room. There was an operation table in the middle of the room. Shark laid the Batman down on the table and straightened him out. Shark clasped down 1 of the 4 metal bars on the table on top of the Batman’s Left wrist. He walked around to the other side of the operation table and clamped down another metal bar on the Batman’s Right wrist. Shark went around to the opposite side of the table and clamped down a metal bar on the Batman’s Left ankle. He walked over to the opposite side of the table and clamped down a metal bar on the Batman’s right ankle.

TO BE CONTINUED......

Chicago History (Note: not all Chicago history)

Doing research at The Chicago History Museum

One day in prehistoric times, a period called the glacial age began. The glaciers slowly spread across the globe, and soon enough the Laurentide ice sheet and other ice sheets spread to Canada and north America. They spread to the Midwestern United States and the area that would eventually be known as Illinois. They also covered the great lakes region. For millions of years, the area that would later be known as Chicago was covered only by the Laurentide ice sheet. (Note: this was only thousands of years from the thing I just said.) Then from about 12,000 to 10,000 years ago, the first people in the Paleoindian Perioid, migrated to Illinois and lived in small hunting bands. (Note: I had a lot more photos but I decided to just use this one because of the guys hunting.)


Then the glacial age started to end. The earth had rising temperatures and the glaciers started to move. When the glaciers moved, they left behind water, clay, gravel, and a LOT of sand. They also left behind glacial moraines. They were all filled with minerals.

Soon enough, land formed. The land that would become known as Illinois was carved into a flat land( not southern Illinois though). The glaciers carved out big holes in the earth that would later be known as Lake superior, Lake Huron, Lake Chicago, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario. Then the glaciers started to melt. While the glaciers melted, the holes filled with water. Once They were done spreading the water into the holes, they formed the five great lakes, Superior, Huron, Chicago, Erie, and Ontario. There were two waterways that helped link the great lakes to the Mississippi river, the Chicago river is one of them, it has three parts to it: the north branch, the south branch, and the main stem. There was also the Illinois river. Lake Chicago dried up and left behind a smaller lake called Lake Michigan.

Fur Trading

When the glacial age ended, trees such as maples and oaks grew in Illinois. They formed forests. The climate was very dry though. There was not enough water for the trees. So instead they formed prairies. But while that happened, wind blew the sand over plants and rocks on the lake Michigan shore. That is how sand dunes along the lake Michigan shore were created.

Chicago, on fire

Fast forward so many thousands of years and the following things will happen:

• Jean Baptiste Point Dusable will build a trading post/cabin and trade with other settlers items such as animal fur.
•  Fort Dearborn will be built in 1803 to protect settlers from Native American attacks.
• The city of Chicago was built up.
• The Great Chicago Fire occurred. 



World's Columbian Exposition

• The World's Columbian Exposition happened in 1893.

The story of Chicago is more than just plain evolution of a city, it is the truly wonderful story of an uprising from a Native American area to a truly wonderful city.

AB's ancestors part 1

Chicago IL a beachfront house. 1:42 am march 19 2134. Right when the clock hit 1:42, the alarm clock beeped. It woke a man up named James Clark suddenly. He groaned and under his breath he said, oh, already, I need more sleep. He reached over and clicked the alarm clock off. He got up and got off the bed and walked out of the room. He turned right and walked down the stairs to the kitchen. He turned left and told his computer, get me some cereal, and a plate. What kind of cereal? The computer asked. Cinnamon chex. Yes sir. The computer programmed the order and reached inside it's food order section. It got a plate and cinnamon chex. It poured it inside the bowl. It put a robotic hand out giving james the cereal. He took it and walked to a chair and a seat which was a window seat which showed the view of the lake. He eat his cereal while watching the beautiful sunrise. When he was done he put it next to the computer and walked upstairs to get dressed. He turned right and walked into his room. He changed his clothes into a suit and tie. He walked out of the room to the stairs and walked down them and turned right and walked to the door and beside it was a house lockdown station. He opened it and pressed the lockdown button. He shut the opening thing down. He walked out the door and closed it. He rounded the corner to his garage and pressed the open button. It opened And he opened the car door and got into the car and closed the door and started the car. He pulled out of the garage and closed it with a thing known as a garage closer+locker. He drove above the beach and pulled up and turned sideways and turned right and then turned straight again. He got to the Lake shore drive entrance and turned left and then a sharp left to lake shore drive. He drove and drove until he got to navy pier. He parked. He got out of the car and walked to the building known as Space station Chicago! He opened and closed the door behind him. He then showed the security guard identification. He said, right this way sir. He showed him to a hallway and he walked him down to his conference room. He opened the door and joined the conference. Well, let's refresh our buddy James Clark on what we are talking about. I know already, we are discussing the way on which we should travel to mars, and I know already, just take diameter 4.2x56=star traveler 45.67. Well everyone has agreed of that same diameter, so let's get our men. They got up out of their chairs and walked into the astronaut lounge. They got their men, Sam raflim( he is the first and only first AB.) Daniel bolnde, and Aaron Franco. They said, well let's get to work. They walked into the room known as engine room 16. Well let's just aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Some red gas released into space accidentally after the man accidentally pressed the emergency release button. The red gas swirled around the universe faster than the speed of light and turned the universe red than there was a flash which was an explosion. Than the universe was all gone leaving only darkness.

AB's ancestors update.

Hello, I want to give you an update about AB's ancestors part 1. It is that even though I said that I would only revise it once, I am going to revise it again. It will be a thing I call a " nothing left out" blog post. Now for the final time, let's begin the story of AB.

AB's ancestors part 1 revised for first and final time.

In a universe before the big bang and before the pre-big bang there was an earth much like our own only in 2129 in a very different universe. Now there was a space station in chicago IL and
It was a dome shape and had a launching station on it and an inside parking lot for workers. Now let's begin the story of AB with his ancestors. March 14 5:42 am 2123 inside the space station there sat a crowd of millions waiting in chairs to here a presentation. While they waited murmuring there was a room that was a quiet room. A man sat in there named James clark.
He heard a knock on the door. He said, come in. The door opened and a man came in. Sir, the crowd is ready to hear your speech. James got up and walked out of the door. He turned right, went straight forward, turned left, and turned right to a door. He pressed an access code on it which was A46791. The door opened and he walked into a room. The door closed behind him as he walked into a room. He walked over to a microphone and was like, is this thing on? Okay. People of this world, we have accomplished so much in exploration of mars. We have sent probes, rovers, satellites. And I think it's about time that we had a human space crew set foot on it. With my men Sam radin( he is the begginer of the whole clan that AB is in.) Alan carding, and Robert Delano, they can truly land on mars. Now goodbye. He walked out and went to where his men were to observe the fuel that they would be traveling by. They drove to a gas station but a gas testing station. He showed identification and they walked in. They were observing the gas when suddenly Alan fell onto an emergency gas release and the gas released into space and the black stuff in space turned red and then there was a flash and then there was only darkness.

AB's Ancestor's Part I

Hey, I know that i took a leave after that blog a few months ago, but i am returning back to AB now. Only taking another leave from that blog plotline and instead starting another blogline(a new word i made up) called AB's ancestors. starting in a pre- big bang universe. now: lets begin. space, 1:30 am, june 16, 2051. the ship slowly read the readings of earth. They were scanning the readings on their computers. Sir, i'm afraid we have a messup on the computer scanners the martian said. so, do you even know anything about the computer scanners? the captain said. God darnit you are so rude!. oh my god i'm just going to take a nap. the captain walked to his bedroom by getting up, walking off the bridge to the elevator, pressing the ENTER button, pressing the TOP FLOOR button, the doors closing, going up, walking out of the elevator door that was open into the top floor hallway, pressing the OPEN button on his door, and walking into his bedroom. he jumped onto his polar ice cap bed. and thought about why he had been assigned to this mission: on earth, that  little blue planet, there was a space station in chicago, well men, we have reached the moon, we have reached venus, saturn, pluto, jupiter, and that stuff, but now let's go to mars!. the speech was bold and that stuff, but he said this also, and with that, research man's observation of chicago. and with that he took his men to get books about that. and they studied, beginning with the beginning of roman observation of the red planet. and then they were ready to go. they assembled their men and blasted off like this, they walked into  their spacecraft  and sat down, all systems checked and ready sir. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 blast off! the rocket rumbled and they went into space and set a course for mars. and then they landed on mars. when they landed, a martian was working in his fields when he saw his gogunda pig running off. hey, how dare you little rascal! he took off running, he leaped and did his war cry, he ran faster. he slid off a rock and took off running down and then ran down a crater when he heard a rumble. he looked into the sky and saw a bright light.  he looked up and he saw a thing coming down fast it crashed on both him and the pig. and the astronauts were killed.  and then a man came over and he saw the remains of a mysterious white broken large thing. he let the press know about it and for 30 years it remained a mystery, until they shot a rocket off to find where they had came from and they found out it was earth. so they let the scientific community know that they were going to orbit the planet. and that leads to the current place in our story. he fell asleep and then roooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! rooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! rooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it woke him up and he jumped off his bed and it crashed onto a scientific experemint which made the black part of the universe turn red and then, in a flash, the universe is gone.

Update about AB-- again

I just wanted to tell you a major difference in ab history. the stories  are now going to take place in 2051.

A troubled kid part 4

Ab hit the ground everyone was screaming. arrows were firing at him. he ran across the city for a while. then a horse jumped at him and  a sword slashed him. Ab took the sword but something got him down...