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George Washington ZombieHunter

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:49:40 PDT

George Washington was known for many things...Being a great general, Having wooden dentures (Okay they weren't really wooden, Cutting down the cherry tree, and being nicknamed the Destroyer of Villages. But what many don't know is he was an avid Zombie Hunter, this is a picture of one of his many adventures out into the night to give some Liberty and Justice to all.

Buy a High quality Print of this here==> [link]

Be sure to check out the other President prints while they last:

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I promised everyone I would do something more epic then the last, hopefully this works for you guys.

PS CS5
Pizza and Nachos
Trailer Park Boys

George Washington The Original Master Chief

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 23:41:55 PDT

The unfinished portrait of George Washington, Finally finished. The finished version reveals his origins as the original Master Chief.

Get an 11x17 Print here--->[link]
Get a 24x36 Poster here-->[link]

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CS5
BBQ Chicken, and Cheesy Rice

George Washington

Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:03:42 PDT

If Koei made a "Revolutionary Warriors" game, this is what I imagine George Washington would end up looking like.

Sketched in pencil, colored in Photoshop.

George Washington Design

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:10:57 PDT

:edit:
I added my Maquette statue to the design sheet. I did this a couple months ago.

I have been doing a lot of simple designs lately.. and rendering the heck out of stuff lol. Really stretching myself out in therms of style. This is more simple for animated cartoons, and I'm doing it as a Maquette. Basically a small sculpture. Also changing his left arm in the Maquette so its planting a American flag. Which I will put up later

Also George Washington is Bad A$$ check out this song if you don't believe me lol [link]

Anyway I hope you dig it

george washington

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:12:27 PST

a portrait of george washington as requested by mcpricorn! I hope you like it! ;u;

George Washington Bridge HDR

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:41:53 PDT

this is an HDR attempt at the gwb, which i feel came out rather cool. i hope you like it.

George Washington with Style

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:21:28 PST

Assignment from class, to illustrate George Washington crossing Delaware with humor.

Washington

Sun, 03 Sep 2006 22:09:18 PDT

Washington, six foot eight, weighs a fucking ton. Opponents beware, opponents beware; he's coming, he's coming, he's coming...

Connor Kenway meets George Washington

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 19:15:18 PDT

Connor Kenway se encuentra con George Washington

(C) Ubisoft/Assassin's Creed
(C) The Simpsons / Fox / Matt Groening

Seguinos tambien en:

Nuestro grupo:

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Washington Vs. Tiger

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:42:14 PST

George Washington VS. Bengal tiger....during a hurricane.

PS CS4

Detail shot. [link]

George Washington

Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:43:15 PDT

George Washington was the best President in history. He set the standards that the other presidents need to follow. Not only was he a great leader for a great country, he lead the army for said country. He was one of Americas Founding Fathers. He signed the Declaration of Independence. He knew the risk of signing the Declaration as well of everyone who sign it. That's why he is one of my favorite presidents.

George Washington was the 1st.

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:14:25 PDT

_{Heigh ho!
Do you know,
The names of the US Residents
Who then became the Presidents
And got a view from the White House loo
Of Pennsylvania Avenue....

....You see he once chopped down a cherry tree!

I am so surprised no one has done this yet.
(I tried a more cartoonish style.)

George Washington (c) Himself, History.
"Art" (c) Me
The Presidents Lyrics (c) Animaniacs/Warner Bros.}

George Washington Tribute

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:25:55 PST

Merry Christmas, and whatever else, everyone! This is a piece I've just finally competed for my father for Christmas. One of his and my favorite historical individuals, George Washington. I wanted to depict him in a truly epic way. I first had the idea of depicting him as he was as a colonel in the French/American Indian war, as that is where the most famous of instances with him being shot at and surviving happened. Well, then there was this time the British sharpshooter had him in his sights when he was a General in the American Revolution, but he just felt the need to drop his weapon... At any rate, as a colonel, he was ordered to deliver a message by horseback across the battlefield to his acting general. He did so, but not before surviving two horses shot out from under him and three bullet holes through his clothes -- two through his coat and one through his hat! Needless to say, that's quite the image of a man having his horse shot out from under him and his clothes riddled with bullets, yet still he doesn't waver, presses ever forward, and survives unscathed! I liked the uniform probably better from his colonel days, being an awesome red and blue. But, ultimately, I decided to meld that in with this showing him in his General regalia, leading his men in the Revolution, instead. So, it's a piece more depicting the seminal character and symbol of George Washington now than any one particular event.

My next thought was animating this to music, and I really got crazy ambitious with all of that. First, I've never animated a flash piece before and second, I've never composed a musical score before. I was very rusty on my reading of music, and have only ever played the trumpet over a decade ago in my Elementary through High School days (graduated in 97). However, I have mixed musical scores for films before, and I found that I could work midi through Garageband and also ProTools. I wish I would have started with ProTools, because having to switch back and forth due to Garageband not having adequate ways to share was painful. But, anyway, I was intending to use the Star Spangled Banner as inspiration. This is The George Washington March, as I've now labeled it. *One final master was mixed to give little more separation to the instruments by a friend that offered to do it really quickly, once he heard it. I eventually animated this piece, fighting it tooth and nail because of how large and slow it was, through After Effects, then had to search around crazily to try and get it properly converted to swf. After Effects, let's just say, while it can do it, I wouldn't recommend it for something this large. A 1GB to 5GB flash file also is completely useless. I wound up saving the portion I could get working to an MOV file, editing that in Final Cut Pro, and taking that MOV file and using a converter to make it into a workable swf file. The MOV, I think I will upload to YouTube later. *later is now

With all of that together, though, and after 2 1/2 months of composing, photoshoping, and animating (the animation itself didn't take but a night, or two), literally forgoing lots and lots of sleep, exercise, and working sometimes all night and all day (I felt like I was possessed), here I finally have my ode to Washington and a tribute to him for my dad -- the best dad I could ever ask for

I hope you enjoy it, too. PS: if you're not American, I hope the piece at least speaks to you also in some way

View the Painting by itself here:

[link]

George Washington

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:18:33 PDT

On the way home, we got blasted by the rain.

This was a shot taken through the windshield on the George Washington Bridge in NYC.

Black and White conversion done in adobe camera raw.

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5D | 70-200L IS

Facebook - King George III

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:19:34 PDT

King George III goes through the first stage of the grieving process- DENIAL.

Happy (early) 4th of July everyone! I know a lot of you miss my Facebook series and I haven't made any in a while so HERE'S GEORGE III, everyone's favorite Facebook troll.

Other Historical Facebook Characters--
Louis XVI; [link]
Napoleon (Waterloo); [link]
Marie Antoinette; [link]
Santa Anna; [link]
NEW! Napoleon (haircut); [link]

George Washington

Sat, 31 May 2008 00:27:46 PDT

George Washington

42: WASHINGTON

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:36:36 PDT

IT'S FINALLY DONE THANK GOODNESS.

I forgot about the state-tan project thing entirely until I was reminded again. XD;; Sorry about that. But anyways here's my state Washington. _{I couldn't do NY because it was already taken. -sob-} But nevertheless WA is a pretty cool state too. -3- Okay here is some other facts about WA besides the ones above:

-Eastern Washington is actually the younger brother to Western Washington since people haven't settled in the Eastern part of the state until much later. (Age App: 16-17)

-Eastern Washingtonians have considered to separate from the Western part and form it's own state with Northern parts of Idaho to form the Lincoln state. (Thus East WA's name is Samuel A. Lincoln)

-WA hates the fact that he's sometimes mistaken for Washington D.C. on the East coast. Therefore people call Washington "The state of" and such to not be mistaken for the capitol.

-Seattle is the most cultural city in the state of Washington, you may never know what kind of art you'll see there.

-The six largest reported ancestries in Washington are: German (18.7%), English (12%), Irish (11.4%), Norwegian (6.2%), Mexican, (5.6%) and Filipino (3.7%). So surely WA is part German. lol

-Washington is the most non-religious state other than Colorado which has 31% population of non-religious people.

-Washington is the only state named after a U.S. president (George Washington).

- Nearly one hundred Orca whales, in three family pods, reside in the San Juan Islands during the summer months.

-The Space Needle in Seattle, built for the 1962 World’s Fair, attracts more than a million visitors each year.

-Mount St. Helens is the only volcano in the continental United States to erupt in recent history. The 1980 eruption devastated an area of 250 square miles (400 sq km).

-Washington’s Grand Coulee Dam is one of the largest hydroelectric facilities in the world.

-Washington’s state flag is the only state flag that is green.

-Lake Chelan was once a river, but glaciers blocked the river with dirt and rock, thus creating a lake.

-One of the world’s largest totem poles is in Tacoma. It is 105 feet (32 m) high. (It's only in the North West that Native Americans are known for Totem Poles not Natives in the southern states. Now you know.)

And so I might fix him a bit in the future but eh. xD Just glad to be over with it.

George Washington on a Horse

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:51:14 PST

Heres a drawing of President George Washington riding a horsey! And he loves it SOOOOOO much! Besides puppet shows and having false ivory teeth George Washington's passion was horses. You can quote me as a historian on this matter. I glanced at a Washington's biography once. I also looked up his wikipedia page! I didn't read either of them though. I was too busy drawing him on a horsey! WEEE!!!! Look at him go! I bet he's riding like 12 mph on that bad stallion.

The British army was all: "Well he looks absolutely adorable on that horse there. It would be a shame to hinder his enjoyment with this silly war. Perhaps it's best that we go across the pond and leave these Americans alone. It's only polite that we do so." And thus we won the American Revolution.

George Washington, and YOU

Sun, 16 May 2010 13:15:41 PDT

I jst saw this ad

WHAT IN THE HELL MAN

EDIT: Bloody hell people, this is my most popular deviation ever.
And I made it in 5 minutes xD
YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME. THANK YOU
Now if you would fave something else out of my gallery, I would be very happy C:

EDIT AGAIN: This thing now has over 1,000 views. Now I owe someone a cookie xD

George Washington was The Hulk

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:23:50 PST

After reading Cracked.com's The 5 Most Badass Presidents of All-Time, I felt compelled to draw this George Washington fanart.

George Washington

Wed, 01 Jun 2005 12:50:54 PDT

One of the greatest Americans ever to have lived. Known as the father of America. It is George Washington praying to God for help during Valley Forge.

-History Lesson-
Taken from [link]

Valley Forge was the site of a camp of the American's in the winter of 1777–1778 in the Revolutionary War. This was a time of great suffering for George Washington and his army—but also a time of retraining and rejuvenation.

The army that entered camp on December 19, 1777 was reeling from defeats at Brandywine and Germantown. The British had occupied the revolutionary capital of Philadelphia, about 20 miles away. The American army was weak, poorly supplied, and ill. An estimated 2,500 men (out of 10,000) would die over the winter.

My own 2 cents.
It appears God helped Washington and his men to survive, though 2,500 men died. It shows how the American spirit can endure. We should thank God for the miracles that helped shape the country to what it is today. We should also thank the men and women who have broken their necks for the freedom we brush so lightly, the women and men who have died for the freedom of speech, either in America or anywhere in the world.

Although, it may seem that our country isn't as poetic as it sounds through history, we should still comprehend that these things did happen. One day, down the line, the freedoms we love will be gone. The Bible describes this as a beast and it's image. Which stand for the two unknown forces, they will team up and together rid the world of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Together my brothers and sisters we will survive. Together we will see of LORD coming to down to take us home. God be with you.

AMEN

George Washington

Fri, 21 May 2010 07:41:36 PDT

This was a portrait of George Washington I did for a toy company project.

King Washington

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:04:58 PDT

Promotional art for the 'The Tyranny of King Washington' DLC to be released fro Assassin's Creed 3 after launch.
I do not own this material.

George Washington

Fri, 20 May 2011 00:35:12 PDT

He is George Washington, 1th President of the United States. My Manga's character!

George Washington: The Original Captain America

Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:39:17 PDT

I am getting in the Independence Day spirit a little early. Above is a drawing of George Washington, Father of the United States, done in a comic book style.

George Washington 5-08

Thu, 22 May 2008 06:04:26 PDT

I'm not even going to try to explain what all is going on in this picture.

George Washington

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:05:50 PDT

For the last week I've been doing simple caricatures of the US Presidents as a way to unwind a bit. Today I just realised that it's only 22 weeks until the election, and there have been 44 presidents. I'm going to challenge myself to chronologically draw two presidents a week until November - Starting with number 1 - George Washington.

I'm hoping this will be a bit of a history lesson for myself as well. I can name from presidents 1-7 and 35-44, but everything in between is a bit muddled (except for #16 of course).

George Washington Bridge

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:47:23 PST

NDx400 filter

George Washington

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:41:58 PDT

Fuck yeah George Washington

Washington Card

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:39:13 PDT

Might as well join the bandwagon too. xD This is for the #Statetan-Project here on DA. :'D And my own personification of Washington state. Okay that's it!

George Washington Moon Bun

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 06:44:01 PST

Because it's President's Day and I really wanted to make the "wig"

Adopt?: [link]

Moon Buns are designed by me and are protected by law, unless otherwise noted. & © 2007-2011 M. Bridges.

George

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:09:40 PST

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George Washington Bridge

Thu, 17 May 2012 18:40:40 PDT

George Washington Bridge, New York NY.

NO photoshop whatsoever... I wouldn't even know how to use it if I tried

General Washington

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:09:17 PST

Mon cher général, George Washington. Ballpoint pen.

George Washington

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:34:13 PST

George Washington President's Day Card

Washington Character Design

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:42:02 PST

I suppose I don't have to keep this one secret anymore...! I was holding onto it until he made his grand entrance in The Dreamer. I wanted it to be a surprise!

General George Washington circa 1776. Enjoy!

George Washington Bridge

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:34:01 PDT

5 manual exposures -2 to +2 Lanscape mode ,Boosted Saturation and Contrast in the camera picture style settings just slightly above normal .

Double tonemapped in Photomatix , Cleaned up sensor dust with healing tool and smart sharpened image .
hope you like it .

George Washington

Tue, 08 May 2012 16:40:04 PDT

24" X 30" Oil painting of George Washington I just completed for the local theater stage production of Annie. They will be in the scene in the Whitehouse where Daddy Warbucks takes Annie to meet President Roosevelt.

Washington's Aide-de-Camp

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:15:30 PST

Conceptional art designs, inspired significantly from their looks in an episode of Liberty's Kids. I had to look towards multiple references for basic anatomy and uniform distinctions.

General George Washington and his young aide-de-camp Lt. Colonel Alexander Hamilton.

Washington Memorial

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:24:51 PST

Memorial to President George Washington
Washington DC, USA

© Copyright Juan C. Irizarry 2008. Please do not use my work without my direct written permission. All rights reserved.

George Washington

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:19:23 PDT

a friend told me this joke, i heard it somewhere before i guess

and apparently it was just a myth, just a myth...
and i just realized cherry has a tree.

George Washington Bridge IV

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 00:08:20 PDT

The George Washington Bridge as seen from Fort Lee, NJ.

George Washington's home

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 03:32:48 PST

George Washington's home at Mount Vernon, Virginia (2008)

Washington in the Wilderness

Fri, 18 May 2012 13:28:50 PDT

Before he was President of the United States, before he was overseer of the Constitutional Convention, before he was Commander of the Continental Army, before he was a congressional delegate from Virginia, before he was the Master of Mount Vernon, George Washington was a young and promising officer in the British Army on Colonial America's frontier. During the French and Indian War, as the Seven Years' War (1756-63) was referred to in the North American theater of the conflict, Washington served in multiple engagements - confrontations that were both successful and disastrous - that did much to mold the character of a young man that many contemporaries regarded as someone selected by Providence for greater things.

Georgeous George Washington

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:34:44 PDT

This is the last time George Washington would walk over for a race. He never made it home. The gorgeous, popular European colt broke down near the end of the Breeders' Cup Classic and had to be humanely euthanized. I will never forget "Gorgeous George."

Cry Washington

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:18:09 PST

(EDIT: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THE FAVORITES AND LOVELY COMMENTS! I tried really hard to thank everyone who favorited but it really is exhausting, I'm sorry. Thanks you guys, so much you da bestest)

Ouch my fingers ;-;

God damn it. More Cryaotic fan art.

I'M OBSESSED. HELP.
SOMEBODY PLEASE I CAN'T TELL LIGHT FROM DARK NOW.

Anyway. Scott Jund gave his drawing of the 'Sup Guy George Washington hair made out of marshmallows.

This branches from that.

Grass roots.

This is kind of disturbing. Maybe I should put a filter on it for Ideologically Sensitive. Or Sexual Themes. What?

Anyway.

(Original painting of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart Williamstown. He's the bomb diggity.)

OH WASHINGTON-STATE-

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:37:22 PDT

Because it's Twilight overload plus Lady Gaga for Washington state.

Happy April Fools!

West!WA: DB NOT THE LLAMA EDWARD.

East!WA: ... :C ;;;

_{Will scrap later}

Washington Face Palm

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:11:02 PST

I guess the government is supposed to give us houses, medical care, transportation, education and meet all our basic needs...at least according to this text book. [link]

Whaaaaat?

George Washington

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:28:14 PDT

Portrait illustration produced for Break Of Day Design, for use by one of their clients. Project called for portraits of George Washington, Helen Keller, Martin Luther King Jr, and Cesar Chavez. Pen and Ink on Bristol paper.

Washington

Sun, 04 Apr 2010 19:13:25 PDT

Edit:
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edited a bit on photoshop
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yes.
yes I did.

Because George Washington is that awesome
also this [link]
and this [link]

~ENA
GOD BLESS AMERICA

HiG no.1: George Washington

Sun, 03 May 2009 01:43:21 PDT

HiG = History is GAR
GAR = All things manly, badass, and just plain out hot-blooded.

As a US History student, I can't help but notice how many badasses actually existed back in the day. I figure it'd be fun to try and portray them with my style...and in overly ridiculous and anochronistic situations.

So the first one is for George Washington (George GARshington); Revolutionary badass. Did you know that George Washington was such a badass, that at Braddock's Defeat, he was shot at SEVEN times, all MISSED, yet still came back later to kick Britain's ass 20 years later (well technically 21 at the battle of Trenton)? Or that he wasn't either political party? Or that his teeth actually weren't wooden?

Because I doubt I'll color these, anyone who wants to try coloring it simply needs to press the download button the side. If you're crazy and need the PSD, message me and we'll see what happens (the PSD and the JPEG here on dA are the same size).

YES, I am referencing Gurren Lagann's pose from episode-8.

Roosevelt- [link]

Has George Washington Lost It?

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:56:31 PDT

I got the idea for this one from when a kid in class of mine that was stumbling on his homework spouted out "don't piss off George Washington" under his breath. Upon hearing that, the first thing that went through my mind was "I am SO deviantARTing this". So that's where you come in. Here's the George Washington I drew, weilding his axe in a tree cutting frenzy. I guess that's what happens when he has an off day. This one was drawn in Flash with a mouse, PLEASE GIVE IT A FULL VIEW FOR IT WILL LOOK MUCH BETTER.

Mr. Washington

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 08:02:28 PDT

_{Mr. Washington

100% illustrator

Hope you like it!

George Washington (1732 – 1799) was a central and critical figure in the founding of the United States, and is commonly referred to as father of the nation. He led America's Continental Army to victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War, and in 1789 was elected the first President of the United States of America.He served two four-year terms from 1789 to 1797, winning reelection in 1792. His devotion to republicanism and civic virtue made him an exemplary figure among early American politicians.}

George Washington

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:37:32 PST

Statue of George Washington in Trafalgar Square

Washington's ID card, ver. 4

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:16:08 PDT

_{Yes, dear reader, I know what you're thinking.
"Colin, this is the fourth bloody time you've redrawn Washington's ID card. Stop it already."
I would stop, but my art keeps improving, and it's bothering me how un-updated the others are.
Deal with it.

Anyhow. Incoming wall of text that is his bio. If anything in it talks about boyfriends or marriages or what have you, that has to do with my roleplay account and doesn't correspond with his general character. Want proof he's actually married to an England and I'm not just making excuses? Go here, kids. [link] < n >

-- ;;|[ Contents // τнєrє's α ℓστ σƒ sнiτ τyρє∂ нєrє ]

❶ … Character Information
❷ … Headcanons
❸ … Relationships
❹ … Washington State Info
❺ … History
❻ … Facts
❼ … About & Rules

[[ To get to a specific part, hit ctrl+F to bring up page search. ]]

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❶ -- ;;|[ Character Information // cσℓiท נσทєs-grєєทє ]

Full name: Colin George Jones-Greene
‘Birthdate’: November 11th, 1889
Age (physical): 19-21
Age (actual): 400 y/o (born in the early 1600s)
Height: 6'
Weight: 167 lbs.
Nationalities: Makah Native American, Spanish, English (influenced by Scandinavian and Asian cultures as a result of his state’s demographics)

{{ intelligent | clever | polite | hardworking | trustworthy | resourceful | innovative | organized | calm, cool, and collected | ;;
irritable | supercilious at times | criticizer | judgmental | pessimistic | lover of solitude | all bark and no bite }}

Colin is an average yet complex person; a bit of an enigma to those who are merely looking for simplicity in people. His personality seems to be dependent on who he is around or is not around; and this assumption couldn’t be any more true. Around strangers or people he otherwise finds himself uncomfortable with, he’s closed off, completely so. He will display manners and be as polite as possible, but his walls will remain up. This is called the ‘Seattle Freeze’, for those of you who aren’t from around here. ♥
On his own or with those he’s comfortable around, Colin is a rather entertaining person. He smiles, he laughs, he cracks jokes and is willing to open up to just about anything. He’s adventurous and brave, but not daring – very, very careful, in fact, in everything he does. He’s not one to make rash decisions, though he is quick to solve problems and make his choice.

Colin has (rather bulky) reddish-brown hair and emerald green eyes with milky, alabaster skin with dustings of pink on his cheeks, nose, ears, fingertips, hips, and other joints. Various scars have been carved into his body, including a light burn scar over his right chest. Freckles that represent the San Juan islands litter the bridge of his nose and a curl that represents the Olympic peninsula sticks prominently out from the left side of his head. Having a slightly athletic build and a delicate grace to each movement he makes gives off the impression of being a living porcelain doll.
He dresses in predominantly casual but fashionable clothes, everyday outfits consisting of anything between cashmere sweaters to v-neck tee shirts. He never did care much for dressing up, and only happens to do so when attending formal events. However, I normally draw him wearing a white flannel shirt, a green cashmere sweater, brown slacks, and black converse. Mustn’t forget his bow, however, which you can find a headcanon about further down.
His season 5 (Hetalia: The Beautiful World) outfit consists of a thin green athletic jacket, a dark green v-neck, brown skinny jeans, and blue converse. u v u

❷ -- ;;|[ Headcanons // στнєr ƒαcτs ]

==> Possibly the most important of them all; Colin has a younger brother named Acelin that personifies Eastern Washington. Before the big cultural split, east Washington was historically Democratic, still making Colin the representation of the whole state, but because of the split that eventually rolled around, Acelin popped up. To me, personifying = embodying the present culture, and representing = embodying not only geographically but culturally.

==> Colin has a bow and pin set that he always wears around his collar. The pin is silver with the silhouette of a douglas fir engraved into it, and the bows change depending on his outfit. For casual outfits his bow is black (which was taken from England’s ‘boss’ back in the day, Queen Victoria), and for formal outfits and his military outfit, his bow is green, a bow that was on his white dress as a child.

==> Colin is a great musician, among other things, though he predominantly reigns in the string family. As a child he was taught how to play the cello, but his interests moved to guitars and electric bases in the 1980s, when grunge became a growing genre of music in Seattle, its birthplace. His favorite bands and inspiration come from Coldplay, although he does indeed like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, et cetera.

==> Being the quirky boy he is, Colin also has a knack for fashion. He makes for a decent tailor and designer, but today’s fads in the clothing world aren’t necessarily top priority. He wears what he wants, when he wants, to matter what, so long as it’s comfortable…it’s just that he has good taste. (He probably has everything Eddie Bauer has ever produced in his closet.)

==> Colin is the God of Starbucks. It being his pride and joy, he knows the menu up and down to the last details like the back of his hand. He can tell you how much something is, how many calories are in something, what is available when and where and for how long. He has tried every single thing the company has whipped up and enjoys all of it, coffees, teas, and pastries alike. He couldn’t pick favorites, but if he had to tell you his usual, it would be a mocha frappuccino – chilled – with a cheese danish on the side.

==> Starbucks aside, Colin also has a bit of a love for wine and beer. Washington is second in line after California when it comes to alcohol production, though he’s in first when it comes to hop growing. Personally, red wine is much too strong for him (he prefers white wine), and beer is his last choice. He can stomach quite a lot of both, but the morning after he’ll be puking everywhere if he moves a single inch from his bed. It practically grounds him for a full twenty-four hours.

==> Even if he’s not drunk, it’s not wise to force Colin from his bed. He’s one of those people who values sleep as though it were the world’s most precious diamond, and waking him from it could possibly result in a concussion. No way in hell is he a morning person, either…just spend one in his office with him and you’ll believe me.

==> While he’s not your stereotypical “oh my god, Becky, your butt is /so/ big!” kind of homosexual, Colin is indeed gay. Very much so. He’s not only turned on by dicks, but he’s sassy and fierce. (He’ll slap a bitch.) This headcanon comes from Washington’s record of having America’s gayest cities, Seattle having surpassed San Francisco in 2012, and Tacoma (plus two other WA cities) come in first as gayest in 2013. The rainbow flag has also been seen flying over the Space Needle, and gay marriage has been legalized in the state as of January 2013.

==> Messy or disorganized places is not where you will find Colin. Ever. He could be described as a bit OCD when it comes to the neatness of his home and office, or any place he regulates; he’s one of those people who will spend hours cleaning a room, chronologically filing papers, or even picking up after other people. This is shown through the all-around cleanness and pollute-free makeup of the state.

==> Colin has two pets, both being dogs. Bill is a Golden Retriever, about ten years old, and Dubs is an Alaskan Malamute, seven years old. Bill is named after Bill Clinton and Dubs after the University of Washington’s mascot, Dubs the Husky. (These animals can’t die. They just can’t. They never will. Don’t fight me on this. Colin will throttle you if you so much as lay a hand against them. 8()

==> Colin has a Cascadian accent. A Cascadian accent is when the speaker’s voice is a bit creaky and they have a tendency to pronounce all of their ‘a’s with exaggeration (pronouncing ‘bag’ like ‘bayg’ at times). My headcanon voice for him is Teddy Geiger’s voice.

==> Colin detests hot weather; hot being eighty and above. Whenever the temperature rises to those levels he’ll either hole himself up in his house with the air running and the blinds closed or float around in the Skykomish River all day. Literally all day. He won’t leave the water until the sun goes down.

==> As a result of his affiliation with settings for horror movies (such as The Ring), Colin has the ability to distort his voice and contort his body in odd ways. He’s flexible and uses that to his advantage when he wants to creepy people out. His ‘victim’ is, for the most part, Alfred.

==> The Makah people, the tribe that accepted him into their community when he was born, dubbed Colin ‘Child of the Mountains’ because they believed he was a gift from the mountains, embodiments of gods in their beliefs. Of course, he’s no god, but taking into consideration his apparent immortality, wisdom, and urge to protect what he has left of his first cultures, he certainly resembles a type of deity in Native American legends.

==> Colin is extremely smart. While it’s personal headcanon that all personifications use 15% of their brains (whereas humans use only 10%), he can use one or two points more. His strong points lie in technology, engineering, mathematics, and political science. If anyone in the U.S. is capable of taking over companies such as Microsoft (which was founded and HQ’d here) and Apple, Colin is. (I promise you I have reasoning for this. Washington is an extremely tech-savvy and innovative state. It actually unseated Vermont, which is home to an ivory league school, in terms of graduation rates and high standardized testing scores. :l Plus, it’s not like he’s super genius or anything. Some things still stump him and he can’t move things with the power of telekinesis. > n > ;

==> English is his second language. His primary, but not his first. He has always spoken Coast Salish, and still speaks it today. Sometimes he’ll incorporate it into daily speech, replacing “hello” with “klahowya”, and goodbye with “kloshe konaway”. (Kloshe konaway actually means “good to all” and can be used as a greeting, farewell, or a toast.)

[[ I’ve got a ton of other headcanons, but there’s no way I’ll be able to list them here. If you’ve got a question about something or want to know why something is the way it is, talk to me about it and I’ll be happy to discuss. c: ]]

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ღ Arthur Carpe-Pluvia Kirkland: Arthur and Colin have known one another since the late seventeen hundreds, and have been close ever since. In his younger years Arthur served as a father figure alongside the Chief of the Makah tribe. He was torn to pieces when they were forced to separate, but they’re together again, as a married couple. U v U Arthur is Colin’s universe, everything beautiful in his life, and it’s very possible that if you try to hurt him or take him from his life, you’ll be suffering limb loss within a matter of seconds.

ღ Alfred Frederick Jones: Quite simply, Colin’s America. They’ve known one another since joint occupancy began in Oregon Country in the early eighteen hundreds, and have acted as brothers since – Alfred being the ‘oldest’. Though Colin acts horribly and much like a little brat towards Alfred,he loves him very much and would sacrifice a lot for him. If he ever does anything rash in his name, it’s only to protect him. (Excluding shitting in his kitchen sink and beating up his boyfriend with a soup ladle.)

ღ Lovino Marino Vargas: Though they’re not historically related, or connected by means of demographics, Colin does get a kick out of bothering Lovino out of spite of being Alfred’s boyfriend. They fight a lot and have actually fired shots at one another before (ah yes crack roleplay), but they hardly get physical anymore. They’re like friends that would rather not admit it.

ღ Anya Braginskaya: Anya serves as a close mother figure, and has been since the early eighteen hundreds. Even though Russia had signed documents stating they had no claims south of the parallel that created the American-Canadian border, Colin refuses to let Anya go as a family member. Before those documents were signed, they often spent time together, painting and drawing and teaching one another their respective languages.

ღ States Colin talks to include Catalina Jones-Villanueva (FL), Macen Jones-Hawkins (GA), Lizzie Jones (OH), Michael Jones (NY), James Jones (NorCal), and Samuel Baranov (AK). Notably Acelin Jones-Greene, or Eastern Washington, his younger brother.

ღ Nations otherwise associated with the state, politically or culturally, are China, Japan, Canada, Spain, and Norway. Possibly France, but I’m still looking into that.

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Nickname: The Evergreen State (official; others include the Green Tree State and the Chinook State)
Area: 71,300 sq.mi // 184,827 km2 (18th in the U.S.)
Ratification: November 11, 1889 (123 y/o)
Capital: Olympia
Biggest city: Seattle
Current governor: Jay Inslee (D)
Languages: English, some Scandinavian and Asian languages, Spanish
Motto: “Alki.” (Chinookan for “By and By” or “Hope for the Future”)
Demograpics:
- Population: 6.9 million est. 2k13 (25thin the U.S.)
- Nationalities: German, English, Irish (three largest); others include Mexican, Norwegian, and French. Washington also has the fourth largest Asian population in the United States. Seattle is influenced by Japanese and Korean cultures, with bits of Thai, Chinese, and Vietnamese.

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Washington is the northwestern most state in the contiguous United States. To the north it borders British Columbia, to the east it borders Idaho, and to the south it borders Oregon. Its eastern border runs along the Snake River, its southern border runs along the Columbia River and its western border coasts the Pacific Ocean. It’s also a part of the region Pacific Northwest, which includes Oregon, Western Montana, Northern California, British Columbia, Alaska, and the Yukon Territory.
Western Washington mainly has a marine west coast climate with mild temperatures and wet seasons, except for summer, which is always unusually dry. Western Washington also supports temperate rainforests and conifer forests. East Washington, in contrast, has a year-round dry climate with large regions of semiarid steppe and a few arid deserts lying in the rainshadow of the Cascade Range.

Western Washington is home to the Olympic Mountains, whose tallest mountain is Mouth Olympus (7,962 ft), and the Hoh Rainforest, all on the Olympic Peninsula. The Hoh Rainforest receives 140 to 170 inches of rain annually. Portions of the range and its sister rainforest lie within the federally protected Olympic National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Three of Washington’s most populated cities, including its capital, make their home in Western Washington as all. Seattle, the most populated; Tacoma, the third most populated; and Vancouver, its fourth most populated. Its capital is Olympia.

Puget Sound, located in Western Washington and on the coast, is a sound in the Salish Sea. Its average depth is about 205 ft with its maximum depth being 930 ft. Puget Sound’s deepwater harbors serve leading roles in maritime trade with Alaska, Canada, and the rest of the Pacific Rim. America’s largest ferry fleet serves the many islands that dot the sound. Rivers that drain into it include the Deschutes River, the Nisqually River, the Puyallup River, the Duwamish River, the Cedar River, the Snohomish River, the Skagit River, and the Skokomish River.
Western Washington also accounts greatly towards ice glaciers in the contiguous United States.

In complete contrast, eastern Washington’s deserts receive an average rainfall of six to seven inches annually. Farther east towards the border the average rainfall is 21 inches annually. In the southeast, the Palouse region of Eastern Washington is grassland that has mostly been converted into farmland.

The Cascade Range, what bisects the state, runs North-South, starting in British Columbia and ending in Oregon. Within Washington there are several major active volcanoes. From top to bottom, they are; Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams. Washington also has Mount Rainier, another volcano 50 miles outside of Seattle. Standing at 14,411 feet tall, Mount Rainier is considered the deadliest volcano in the continental US due to its proximity to a heavily populated city. Mount Rainier is listed as a Decade Volcano.

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True to its title as the state of contradictions, Washington is divided not only geographically, but culturally. To the west is where the majority of Washington’s population resides; 60% of it lives in Seattle alone. Western Washingtonians have a tendency to think and act like liberal democrats – kindhearted, humorous, and charitable, but very serious when it comes to civil rights and environmentalism. Western Washingtonians are notorious for being big on gay rights and recycling. Fun fact; West Washington’s largest city, Seattle, has banned the use of plastic bags in the city. No Walmart, Target, or store otherwise uses plastic bags there any longer.

Also making their homes in West Washington are businessmen, some America’s richest. For example, Bill Gates of Microsoft and Howard Schultz of Starbucks. Despite being a naturally democratic region, business and the advancement of technology plays in everyday lives there. Microsoft, Starbucks, Costco, Boeing, all sorts of world-renowned companies were founded in West Washington and still flourish there today.

Seattle in itself is a hub of urban life that has been neatly woven in with the nature around it. The Emerald City proudly boasts not only economic and cultural richness, but the cleanest air of America’s most populated cities. Seattleites are very proud of their city as their personalities reflect on it; intelligent and appreciative of nature yet cool to hang around.

Eastern Washingtonians are a completely different story. East Washington only houses a measly 20% of Washington’s general population, and that tiny twenty percent is composed mainly of hardcore conservative republicans. Like polar opposites of the Western Washingtonians, Eastern Washingtonians hate the idea of gay marriage and generally don’t quite care what happens to the West’s precious environment…which honestly sucks for them, considering East Washington relies on nothing but agriculture. Pretty dumb, don’t you think?

Because of these vast cultural differences, there have been movements to separate the two halves, West Washington remaining as Washington whilst East Washington breaks off to become the independent State of Lincoln (or sometimes Jefferson). Proposals to create a 51st state out of East Washington have never made it to state legislature, however. The idea is rather silly, always, considering that again, East Washington wouldn’t be anywhere without West Washington.

There have also been movements to remove Washington state from America due to very big culture difference, along with Oregon, bits of Alaska, and British Columbia from Canada to form the Republic of Cascadia. Cascadia is the liberal democratic environmentalist ideal nation; gay marriage rights, nature conservation, the like; but, again, proposals never made it to the national level. Apples, apple juice, and other goods made in Washington are often labeled ‘Made in Cascadia’.

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Archaeological evidence shows that the Pacific Northwest was one of the first places in North America to have a human population - human bones as old as 13,000 years have been found all across Washington. This dates back to about 9,000 BCE, 5,000 years after the massive flooding of the Columbia River. These humans crossed into North America via the Bering Land Bridge, which connected current-day Russia to Alaska.

An estimated 125 Northwestern tribes and 50 languages existed before the arrival of Euro-Americans. Thought Puget Sound, coastal tribes lived off of abundant natural resources; their diets consisted mainly of salmon, halibut, shellfish, and whale. Cedar wood was an important resourced, which was used to build longhouses, large canoes, and even clothing was made from cedar bark.

Tribes along the Columbia River became the most successful of the Washington tribes through their control of Celilo Falls, the richest salmon fishing location in the entire Northwest.

Eastern tribes, called the Plateau tribes, survived off seasonal hunting, gathering, and fishing.

The principal tribes of the coastal areas include the Chinook, Lummi, Quinault, Makah, Quileute, and Snohomish. The Plateau tribes include the Cayuse, Nez Percé, Okanogan, Palouse, Spokane, Wenatchee, and Yakima.

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Spaniard Juan Pérez, in 1774, was the first to record a landing on the Washington coast. One year later Captain Don Bruno de Heceta, on board the Santiago (part of a two-ship flotilla with the Sonora), landed near the mouth of the Quinault River and claimed the coastal lands up to Russian possessions in the north.

In 1778, British explorer James Cook sighted Cape Flattery at the entrance to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Though the strait itself was not explored until Charles William Barkley, captain of the Imperial Eagle, sighted it in 1787.

The Spanish-British Nootka Conventions of the 1790s ended Spanish exclusivity and opened the Northwest coast to explorers and merchants from other nations, most notably Britain, Russia, and the fledgling United States. Further explorations of the Strait of Juan de Fuca were executed by Spanish explorers Manuel Quimper (1790) and Francisco de Eliza (1791), and then by British George Vancouver in 1792. Captain Vancouver claimed the sound for Britain and named the waters south of the Tacoma Narrows Puget’s Sound. From 1792 to 1794, Vancouver and his expedition mapped the Washington coast. Also in 1792, British Captain Robert Gray discovered the mouth of the Columbia River and there established a trade post for sea otter pelts.

Under orders of American President Thomas Jefferson, the Lewis and Clark Expedition entered Washington on October 10, 1805. Lewis and Clark were surprised to find the differences between Pacific Northwestern tribes and other Indian tribes they had encountered previously in the venture.

Canadian explorer David Thompson thoroughly explored the Columbia River in 1807. There the Columbia and Snake Rivers joined, he posted a notice, claiming the land for Britain and stating the intentions of building a fort there in the name of the North West Company. Around the same time, Fort Nez Perces trading post was established near present-day Walla Walla, Washington. Thompson’s notice was found by Astorians looking to establish an inland fur post. It contributed to David Stuart’s choice, on behalf of the American Pacific Fur Company, of a more northerly site for their operations at Fort Okanogan.

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American interest in the region grew as part of the concept of manifest destiny. Spain ceded their rights north of the 42nd Parallel to the United States by the 1819 Adams-Onís Treaty, (but not possession, which was disallowed by the terms of the Nootka Conventions).

Britain had long standing interests through the Hudson’s Bay Company and a well established network of fur trading forts along the Columbia River in what is called Columbia District. These were headquartered from Fort Vancouver near present day Vancouver, Washington.

By the Treaty of 1818, Great Britain and the United States established the 49th parallel as the border west to the Continental Divide of the Rocky Mountains; but agreed to joint control and occupancy of Oregon Country. Oregon Country consisted of present-day Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.

Joint occupancy was renewed on a year to year basis. Eventually, increased tension between U.S. settlers arriving by the Oregon trail and fur traders led to the Oregon boundary dispute. Despite its requests to keep land north of the Columbia River, on June 15, 1846, Britain ceded its claims to the lands south of the 49th parallel, and the U.S. ceded its claims to the north of the same line, in the present day Canadian border in the Oregon Treaty.

In 1848, the Oregon Territory, composed of present-day Washington, Oregon, and Idaho as well as parts of Montana and Wyoming, was established. Washington Territory, which included Washington and pieces of Idaho and Montana, was formed from Oregon Territory in 1853. In 1872, an arbitration process settled the boundary dispute from the Pig War and established the US–Canada border through the San Juan Islands and Gulf Islands.

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American settlements in eastern Washington were very agricultural and revolved around missionaries aiming to ‘civilize’ natives in Walla Walla Valley. As racial tensions rose in 1847, missionaries Marcus Whitman and Narcissa Whitman refused to abandon their mission - in response, Umatilla and Cayuse natives kidnapped and killed 14 of their fellow missionaries. Other outlying causes of the Whitman Massacre were disease outbreaks, harsh attempts at lifestyle conversion, and contempt of the native Indians shown by the missionaries, particularly by Narcissa Whitman.

The Provisional Legislature of Oregon immediately raised companies of volunteers to go to war against the Cayuse if deemed necessary; though a peace commission was also sent. Later, when, the United States Army came to support the militia forces, both friendly and hostile natives felt provoked and intimidated. In 1850, five Cayuse were convicted for murdering the Whitmans in 1847, and hanged. Sporadic bloodshed continued until 1855, when the Cayuse were decimated, defeated, bereft of their tribal lands, and placed on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon. These events are called the Cayuse and Spokane Wars.

The conflicts over the possession of land between the natives and the American settlers led the Americans in 1855, by the ‘treaties’ at the Walla Walla Council, to coerce not only the Cayuse, but also the Walla Walla and the Umatilla tribes, to the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon; fourteen other tribal groups to the Yakama Indian Reservation in southern Washington State; and the Nez Perce to a reservation in the border region of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. That same year, gold was discovered in the newly established Yakama reservation and white miners encroached upon these lands. The tribes - first the Yakama, eventually joined by the Walla Walla and the Cayuse - united together to fight the Americans in what is called the Yakima War. The U.S Army sent troops and a number of raids and battles took place. In 1858, the Americans, at the Battle of Four Lakes, defeated the natives decisively. In a newly imposed ‘treaty’, tribes were, again, confined to reservations. (Keyword: ‘treaty’.)

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As American pioneers moved west along the Oregon Trail, some veered off towards northern Oregon and settled in the Puget Sound area - this settlement was called Fort Nisqually, a farm and fur-trading outpost owned by Puget’s Sound Agricultural Company, a branch of the Hudson’s Bay Company. Along with African American George Washington Bush (and his Caucasian wife Isabella), Colonel Michael T. Simmons led four white families into the territory and settled New Market, now known as Tumwater, in 1846. They settled in Washington to avoid Oregon’s racist settlement laws. After them, many more settlers, migrating along the Oregon trail, wandered north to settle in the Puget Sound area.

Contrasting other American occupations in western Washington, there was little violence between settlers and Native Americans, though several exceptions, such as Territorial Governor Isaac Ingalls Stevens’ extensive campaigns in 1853 to force natives into ceding lands and rights, are notable. The Puget Sound War, Cayuse War, Yakima War, and Spokane War have since been the largest conflicts between the new American authorities and native governments. This is also called ‘the War of Extermination’.

Raids by Haida, Tlingit and other northern tribes from British and Russian territory terrorized Native Americans and settlers alike in Puget Sound in the 1850s. Miners bound for the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush in British Columbia in 1858 using the Okanagan Trail travelled under arms as there were many instances of violence along the route.

Lumber industries attracted settlers to Washington. Coastal cities like Seattle (est. 1853 and originally called Duwamps) were established because of them. These early trading settlement were mostly populated by single young men, unlike wagon trains that carried entire families to Oregon. Liquor, prostitution, and gambling were actually supported by one of Seattle’s founders, David Swinson ‘Doc’ Maynard, who was convinced that organized prostitution could maintain itself as a functioning part of an economy.

Due to the admission of the State of Oregon to the union in 1859, the eastern portions of the Oregon Territory, including southern Idaho, portions of Wyoming west of the continental divide (then Nebraska Territory), and a small portion of present-day Ravalli County, Montana were annexed to the Washington Territory. In 1863, the area of Washington Territory east of the Snake River and the 117th meridian west was reorganized as part of the newly created Idaho Territory, leaving that territory with only the lands within the current boundaries of the State of Washington.

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After the passage of the Enabling Act of 1889, Washington became the 42nd state in the United States on November 11, 1889 - though the state was originally vouched to statehood under the name Columbia. This name was rejected because of the already established District of Columbia. The proposed state constitution originally included women’s suffrage and prohibition, but both of these issues were defeated and removed from the accepted constitution. Women had previously been given the vote in 1883 by the Washington Territorial Legislature, but the right was rescinded in 1887 by the Washington Territorial Supreme Court as a response to female support of prohibition. (Despite these initial defeats, women in the Pacific Northwest were given the right to vote earlier than the rest of the country with Washington passing a suffrage amendment in 1910.)

Early industries in Washington included agriculture, lumber, and mining. In eastern Washington, Spokane was a major hub of mining activity and the Yakima Valley was known for its apple orchards and wheat fields. The heavy rainfall to the west of the Cascade Range produced dense forests and the ports along Puget Sound prospered from the manufacturing and shipping of lumber products. In 1905, Washington State became the largest producer of lumber in the nation. Seattle was the primary port for trade with Alaska and for a time possessed a large shipbuilding industry. Other industries that developed in Washington include fishing, salmon canning and mining. For a period of time, Tacoma was known for its large smelters where gold, silver, copper and lead ores were treated.
In 1916, tension between labor unions and business had taken over Everett - a city in depression - and caused a number of violent crimes to occur between the two opposing forces. Many of the police officers in town specifically targeted members of the Industrial Workers of the World (who called themselves Wobblies), often making up excuses to arrest and beat them.
It was November 5th when about 300 men from the IWW set on protesting met up in Seattle and boarded two steamboats that were bound for Everett. One of the ships got there before the other, and was met with sheriff Donald McRae, who had caught wind of the scheduled rally and gathered other police officers and ‘citizen’ forces to help him keep the Wobblies at bay.
When that one ship landed at the docks, there was this whole western-cowbody-style confrontation between a single Wobblie and McRae. Afterwards, for about ten minutes there was a lot of gunfire, mostly on the deputy’s side, as the Wobblies had come unarmed. People were killed due to both gunshot and drowning, when the ship nearly capsized.
In total, there were about ten deaths, forty-seven injuries, and close to a hundred arrests. This became known as the Everett Massacre.

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During the depression era, a series of hydroelectric dams were built along the Columbia river as part of a project to increase the production of electricity. This culminated in 1941 with the completion of the Grand Coulee Dam, the largest concrete dam in the United States.

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During WWII, western Washington became a focus for war industries. Headquartered in Seattle, Boeing Company produced the U.S. Army’s heavy bombers, whilst deep water ports in Seattle, Bremerton, Vancouver, and Tacoma were available for the manufacturing of war ships.

In eastern Washington, the Hanford Works nuclear power plant was opened in 1943 and played a major role in the construction of the nation’s atomic bombs. One of atomic bombs (nicknamed ‘Fat Man’ and dropped on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945) was fueled by Hanford plutonium and was transported in Boeing B-29s, also designed in Washington State.

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On May 18, 1980, after a period of strong tremors, the northeastern face of Mount St. Helens erupted and exploded up and out, destroying a large portion of the top of the volcano and flattening forests around it. 57 deaths were directly linked to the eruption.

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Washington is one of only seven states that does not levy a personal income tax. The state also does not collect a corporate income tax or franchise tax.

Washington's state base sales tax is 6.5 percent which is combined with a local rate. As of April 2010, the rate is 9.5 percent in Seattle and other cities. These taxes apply to services as well as products. Most foods are exempt from sales tax; however, prepared foods, dietary supplements and soft drinks remain taxable.

Washington is a leading agricultural state. For 2003, the total value of Washington's agricultural products was $5.79 billion, the 11th highest in the country. The total value of its crops was $3.8 billion, the 7th highest. The total value of its livestock and specialty products was $1.5 billion, the 26th highest.

In 2004, Washington ranked first in the nation in production of red raspberries(90.0 percent of total U.S. production), wrinkled seed peas (80.6%), hops(75.0%), spearmint oil (73.6%), apples (58.1%), sweet cherries (47.3%), pears (42.6%), peppermint oil (40.3%),Concord grapes (39.3%), carrots for processing (36.8%), and Niagara grapes (31.6%). Washington also ranked second in the nation in production of lentils, fall potatoes, dry edible peas, apricots, grapes (all varieties taken together), asparagus (over a third of the nation's production), sweet corn for processing, and green peas for processing; third in tart cherries, prunes and plums, and dry summer onions; fourth in barley and trout; and fifth in wheat, cranberries, and strawberries.

The apple industry is of particular importance to Washington. Because of the favorable climate of dry, warm summers and cold winters of central Washington, the state has led the U.S. in apple production since the 1920s. Two areas account for the vast majority of the state's apple crop: the Wenatchee–Okanogan region (comprising Chelan, Okanogan, Douglas, and Grant counties), and the Yakima region (comprising Yakima, Benton and Kittitas counties).

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Politics in Washington have been generally Democratic since the 1950s and 60s and President John F. Kennedy’s election. The state’s system of blanket primaries, in which voters may vote for any candidate on the ballot and are not required to be affiliated with a particular political party, was ruled unconstitutional in 2003. The party-line primary system was instituted for the 2004 presidential and gubernatorial elections. In 2004, voters elected Governor Christine Gregoire into office, making Washington the first state to have a female governor and two female senators, Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell.

Protests against the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle, sometimes referred to as the “Battle of Seattle,” took place in 1999 when the WTO convened to discuss trade negotiations. Massive protests of at least 40,000 people included organizations such as NGOs involved in environment issues, labor unions, student groups, religious groups, and anarchists.

On January 30, 2006, Governor Christine Gregoire signed into law legislation making Washington the 17th state in the nation to protect gay and lesbian people from discrimination in housing, lending, and employment, and the 7th state in the nation to offer these protections to transgender people. Initiative activist Tim Eyman filed a referendum that same day, seeking to put the issue before the state’s voters. In order to qualify for the November election, the measure required a minimum of 112,440 voter signatures by 5:00 p.m. June 6, 2006. Despite a push from conservative churches across the state to gather signatures on what were dubbed “Referendum Sundays,” Eyman was only able to gather 105,103 signatures, more than 7,000 signatures short of the minimum. As a result, the law went into effect on June 7, 2006. The Washington legislature introduced more advanced converge of domestic partnerships in 2008.

In January 2013, however, gay and lesbian marriages were fully legalized. In the same year, Tacoma became ‘the gayest city in America’, with Seattle and Spokane following up in third and fifth places.
a law was also passed in 2013 that neutralized language in the state, turning law documents with words such as “freshmen” or “firemen” in them into “first years” and “fire tenants”.

[[ Many thanks to Wikipedia, the Seattle Times archives, HistoryLink, and historians at the University of Washington library for helping me with this. ]]

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==> Washington ranks second in the United States in the production of wine, behind only California. By 2006, the state had over 31,000 acres of vineyards, a harvest of 120,000 short tons of grapes, and exports going to over 40 countries around the world from the 600 wineries located in the state. While there are some viticultural activities in the cooler, wetter western half of the state, the majority (99%) of wine grape production takes place in the desert-like eastern half.

==> Washington has an extensive ferry system which is the largest in the nation and the third largest in the world.

==> Washington is home to four of the five longest floating bridges in the world: the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge and Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge over Lake Washington, and the Hood Canal Bridge, which connects the Olympic Peninsula and Kitsap Peninsula.

==> Washington was rated the best state (amongst fifty U.S. states) in the 2011 American State Litter Scorecard, for overall effectiveness and quality of its public space cleanliness from state and related litter/debris removal efforts, unseating Vermont, the previous topmost winner.

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Also, no, I didn't use a template for this. I made my own; not to sound like a prick, but the card templates that are on dA are a little too...low-quality. They're all saved and uploaded as .jpegs and they don't have layer options for the flag or the map, so.
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George Carlin

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:51:44 PDT

Let’s say a water main breaks in downtown Los Angeles and it floods an electrical substation, knocking out all the traffic lights and tying up the entire city and emergency vehicles can’t get through. And at the same time, one of those month long global warming heat waves comes along, but there’s no air-conditioning, there’s no water for sanitation, so cholera, smallpox and dysentery break out and thousands of people start dying in the streets. But before they die, parasites eat their brains, and they go completely fucking crazy, and they storm the hospital, but the hospital can’t handle all the casualties, so these people rape all the nurses and set the hospital on fire. And the flames drive them even crazier, so they start stabbing social workers and garbage men. And a big wind comes along, and the entire city goes up in flames. And the people who are still healthy, they get mad at the sick people, and they start crucifying them, nailing them to crosses, trying on their underwear, shit like that. Then everybody smokes crack and PCP, and they march on city hall, where they burn the mayor at the stake, they strangle his wife and take turns sodomizing the statue of Larry Flint.
And at this point it looks like pretty soon things are gonna start to get out of control.

So everyone panics and tries to leave the city at the same time, and they trample each other to death in the streets by the thousands and wild dogs eat their corpses. And the wild dogs chase the rest of the people down the highway and one by one the dogs pick off the old fucks and the slow people, because they’re in the fast lane where they don’t belong. Get the fuck out of the fast lane if you’re an old fuck, if you’re a slow fuck, get over on the right, get over on the right. And the lucky ones, the lucky people who manage to make it all the way to the outside of town, they discover when they get there, that big sparks from the city have lit the suburbs on fire. And the suburbs burn uncontrollably. And thousands of identical homes have identical fires have identical smoke, killing all the identical soccer mums and their identical kids named Jason and Jennifer. And now, the fire spreads to the farmlands and the farmlands burn intensely, at 425 degrees, creating millions of baked potatoes. As the farmlands burn, thousands of barns and farmhouses begin to explode from all the hidden methamphetamine labs. And the meth chemicals run downhill into the rivers and streams, where wild animals drink the water and get completely geeked on speed. So bears and wolves amped up on crack roam the countryside looking for people to eat, even though they’re not really hungry.
And the fire spreads to the forests and the forests burn furiously. And hundreds of elves and trolls and fairies come running out of the woods screaming, “Bambie is dead! Bambie is dead!”
And he is, he is, finally that fucking little cunt, Bambie is dead. Dead.

Now hundreds of fires of regional fires come together into one huge interstate inferno. And all 12 of the western united states are burning out of control, except Utah where the Mormons don’t allow fires. And the fire spreads across the Great Plains, toasting the wheat and cooking the cattle, producing hamburgers actually. Then it leaps to Mississippi, and races through the south, blowing up stills, interrupting lynchings and killing millions of inbred people. And then it turns north-east and it heads to Washington DC, where George Bush can’t decide if it’s an emergency or not. He can’t decide because Dick Chaney is in prison. So, instead he takes a nap, he puts his empty fucking brainless head on the little pillow that his mother gave him at Christmas time, and he takes a nap. So the fire moves to Philadelphia, but it’s a weekend, and Philadelphia’s closed on the weekends. So the fire moves to New York City and the people in New York tell the fire to go fuck itself. And it does, so instead it burns down Long Island and Connecticut, killing all the rich white assholes and completely destroying their evil faggoty golf courses. And while all this is going on, Canada burns to the ground, but nobody notices.

And now the entire North American Continent is on fire, producing a huge thermal updraft, and creating an in seminary cyclonic macro system that forms a hemispheric mega-storm, breaking down the molecular structure of the atmosphere and actually changing the laws of nature. Fire and water combine, burning clouds of flaming rain fall upward, gamma rays and solar winds ignite the ionosphere, creating huge clouds of ionized plasma, bolts of lighting twenty million miles long begin shooting out of the north pole, AND THE SKY FILLS UP WITH GREEN SHIT. And then suddenly, the entire fabric of space-time splits in two, a huge crack in the universe opens. And all the dead people from the past begin falling through. Big Ruth, Groucho Marks, J.B. Crocket, Tiny Tim, Porky Pig, Hitler, Janise Joplin, Allan Linden, my uncle Dave, your uncle Dave, everybody’s uncle Dave, an endless stream of dead uncle Daves falling through the crack.

And all the dead Uncle Daves gather around a heavenly kitchen table, they light up cigarettes and begin to talk. They talk about they never got a break, how their parents didn’t love them and their children were ungrateful. They talk about how their government screwed them out of money and they just missed out on a big job. They say the Jews own everything and the blacks get special treatment. And all the hatred and bitterness drips out of these people, and forms a big pool of liquid hate. And the pool of liquid hate begins to spin, round and round it spins, faster and faster, and the faster it spins the bigger it gets, faster and faster, bigger and bigger, until the wurling pool of hate is bigger than the entire universe. And then suddenly it explodes into trillions of tiny stars, and every star has a trillion planets, and every planet has a trillion Uncle Daves. And all the Uncle Daves have good jobs, perfect eyesight and shoes that fit. They have great sex lives and free healthcare. They understand the internet, their kids think they’re cool, and they all love their neighbours. And every week, without fail, Uncle Dave wins the lottery, forever and ever until the end of time every single Uncle Dave has a winning ticket. And Uncle Dave is finally happy.

Now do you see why I like it when nature gets even with humans?"
-George Carlin

Assassins Creed 3- George Washington

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:27:42 PST

As many of you know, George Washington was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, which lasted from 1775 to 1783, and served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797. What you didn't know was that in Assassins Creed, Washington was in possession of an Apple of Eden. He also had strong connections to the asassin order and was a friend of Connor, an assassin of native american and (ironically) english descent and the main character for assassins creed 3.

George Washington VS Zombies

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:07:45 PST

Free Comic Book Day Fubar special cover I drew, with colors by Jeff McComsey.

More info here - [link]

Best,
Mike

George

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 18:47:24 PDT

This was an entry to a contest at FN called "Caricature Paintings". The rules required that we take any famous art work (painting, drawing, fresco) and turn it into caricature. I chose a classic, George Washington. It didn't do so well in the contest. It came in 4th .

George Washington Wallpaper

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:49:43 PST

I made my own wallpapers that are Liberty's Kids themed. I have another one up, Benedict Arnold. The next in the series is Thomas Jefferson, after that I may have Alexander Hamilton or Benjamin Franklin. Let me know if you have any issues!

Drawing from: [link]