- Bashar al-Assad (Wikipedia)
Bashar al-Assad (born 11 September 1965) is a Syrian politician who is the current and 19th president of Syria since 17 July 2000. In addition, he is the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces and the secretary-general of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party, which nominally espouses a neo-Ba’athist ideology. His father and predecessor was General Hafiz al-Assad, whose presidency in 1971–2000 marked the transfiguration of Syria from a republican state into a de facto dynastic dictatorship, tightly controlled by an Alawite-dominated elite composed of the armed forces and the Mukhabarat (secret services), who are loyal to the al-Assad family.
- Ebey’s Landing House (hub.catalogit.app)
Photograph of the second house on the Ebey farm built at Ebey’s Landing in the late 1850s. C. 1953 or 1961. The newspaper clippings pasted on the reverse of the photo describes the Ebeys, relations with Indigenous islanders, the Engle family, and the murder of Judah Church.