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You can’t believe everything you read in Quora so here is the straight poop.Whiskey traders from the United States had moved into the southern prairies, present day Alberta in particular. Murders, assaults, and cheating of the native people usually involved these traders.Concerned about lawlessness in the west, the government of John A. MacDonald established the North West Mounted Rifles in 1873. Sensitive to potential American upset at a military unit in the Canadian west, the name was changed to the North West Mounted Police. (One commentator said President Theodore Roosevelt objected to a military unit in the Canadian West. That is unlikely since Teddy was only 15 years old at the time!)After about a year of recruiting a force of some 275 men was dispatched from Dufferin, Manitoba in July 1874 on what proved to be a grueling march west. (The Canadian Pacific Railway wasn’t founded until 1881.)One of their first targets was Fort Whoop Up near present day Lethbridge, Alberta. Col. James Macleod had cannon set up near the fort and called on the Americans to surrender. When no answer was received, a constable was sent down to find the fort had been abandoned about a week before when the Americans heard of the arrival of the police.The role of the NWMP was to bring the presence of the Government of Canada into the undeveloped North West Territories (current day Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba). This presence meant patrolling of the region, enforcing the law and delivering the federal government’s services to the native people and trappers who inhabited the region.Two years later, in 1886, following the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Superintendent James Walsh went out to meet Sitting Bull and thousands of his followers as the crossed the 49th parallel into Canada fleeing the U.S. Army.Walsh told the tribal leaders they were welcome to remain in Canada as long as they kept the Queen’s peace. And they did. Efforts by the U.S. Army to keep bison from migrating north of the 49th Parallel was, for all intents and purposes, starving the tribes. After more than a year some of the tribes decided to return to the U.S. while others decided to settle elsewhere in Alberta and Saskatchewan.When the Canadian Pacific Railway came into the west the NWMP played a key role negotiating treaties that allowed building of the railway and settlement of the west.Eventually, Queen Victoria designated the force as the Royal North West Mounted Police.In 1920 the Dominion Police and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were merged to become Canada’s national police force.The movements of the internationally celebrated RCMP Musical Ride are based on old cavalry drills. Often the moves were used in little camp contests between constables.In 2020 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is a fully modern police force, perhaps more so than the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The RCMP polices the largest country in the western hemisphere. They do that by individual constable who, during ceremonies, ride horses, drive cars, trucks, boats, snow mobiles, and fly planes and helicopters.The RCMP manages the Canadian Police Information Centre. They provide security services for senior Canadian officials as well as internationally protected persons such as Her Majesty the Queen who is accompanied below by the Commissioner of the RCMP inspecting the force’s equestrian centre. (Her Majesty was riding an RCMP police service horse, Burmese, trained by the force, when a man attempted to assault the Queen in 1981.)The RCMP also secures the Canadian border and border waters with the Canada Border Services Agency.Primarily, the RCMP provide national policing services. In addition, they provide contracted police services in eight provinces and the three territories. Within the provinces the RCMP is also contracted to provide policing for many municipalities and co-ordinated with other municipal police.

I was working on embalming a sweet Lil old lady while I was in North West Ohio. I had shaved her face, raised her vessles, set her features, and begun to inject my normal mix of fluid. While I was working the rigor out of her right hand, watching the drainage, making sure everything was going smoothly, I noticed her left thumb was making a slight, but obvious twitch or contraction, in towards her palm, as if she were trying to grab something.I called for the other funeral directors/embalmers to come in so someone else could verify what I was seeing. they popped their heads in and verified what I was seeing. None of them had experienced something like this before.I wanted to feel how strong the twitch was so I felt her hand and I felt her kind of grab mine. I was pretty excited that she was twitching but I realize it is likely a chemical reaction causing it. The twitch was rhythmic, and consistent but not very strong. She also stopped within about 4 minutes of when I had noticed it start.For those that are wondering if she could possibly be alive, no. This lady was dead. If someone is swabbing our your nose, eyes, and mouth with cotton and dis-spray, then cutting into your shoulder/neck and digging up your vessels, you would have reacted before the formaldehyde solution hit you.I've also had a few guys become semi erect, and one come to full attention. The halfies usually happen when the vascular pressure is too high in that region due to poor drainage, a block, or some other obstruction causing extra fluid to force the erection. I'm not sure what made the guy become fully erect unless he may have been when he died, it subsided, then the increased vascular pressure revived it, so to speak…or, I was just that good….of an embalmer. (jk)

Afghanistan during the Durrani Period.In the life of a person, nation and history in general when great changes are seen they are usually the result of either great positive events or more often than not very great negative occurrences. Afghanistan was flourishing nation some centuries ago. It had avoided the fate which much of India was facing as though India had finally freed itself from foreign rule, it had done so just in time for the British East India Company to decide that it no longer had the means to pay for Indian exports with gold and silver so it was willing to try to gain direct control of the Subah of Bengal which had been Mughal India’s wealthiest province and alone represented 12% of all global trade in the world. Yet, what seemed at the time to be a generosity of fate for Afghanistan did not pan out so. Though it was not colonized, it would after the fall of the last free Indian Empire, known as the Sikh Empire of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1840 to the British, begin to lose large parts of its territory. The unfortunate occurrence of the fall of the Sikh Empire, placed the border of the British Empire directly with Afghanistan. At this time, the Sikh Empire had conquered a great deal of Afghan territory, but Afghanistan was not a land locked nation at this time. The Emirate, had access to the Indian Ocean through Baluchistan, and even though the Sikh Empire was in place, Afghanistan was still allowed to access the waterways. Afghanistan's zone of influence also stretched to the Indus in many places and the Khyber pass, North West Frontier and much of what today is considered part of Pakistan was actually under Afghani influence. There is credence to this, and I will give two familial descriptions which really show true.The Sikh Empire was the last Indian Empire to fall to the British Empire.When my Great Grand Father began his first contract to build railway infrastructure it would be in the North West Frontier. His employees were largely Pathans, and they told him very straight forwardly that this was Pathan territory historically and not India, even though Maharaja Ranjit Singh had conquered some of it. The Pathans at this time still viewed that rule as favorable as they were not restricted from their freedom of movement and trade. The Pathans had gripes about the 1893 Durand Line, and the fact that Pathan lands had been officially divided in half. They had lost access to Baluchistan and Afghanistan though not land locked yet on a practical level was on a potentially tactical level. For my Great Grand Father it would take more social tact and knowledge of history than even hard work to get this first project done. Decades later in 1915 he took my Grand Father to this very place, to show him where he had started. It was a spiritual journey back to a place where he had faced hardship but come out successful. He had incredible respect for the Pathans and their straight forward nature. My Grand Father would tell this story many times to me, and he would always tell it when we would go to see one of my fathers real-estate projects as on the way barren hills would come, which reminded him of that place.Pathan Tribesmen, late 1800s, North West India.Another example of comes to me from my maternal grand father, who in the early 20th century had been in the Indian Army. Much of his stationing had been in the North West Frontier and he came back with a similar idea that Afghanistan really continued well over the border into North West India at that time. Afghanistan at this time was not subject to a tight border, as India did not vigorously control the border. Freedom fighters from India being pursued by the colonial police would cross over to Afghanistan at night and either never be seen again or comeback much stronger like Subhas Chandra Bose. Afghani Pathans would come to India to seek work and return home during the hot Indian Summer, so trade continued.The problems for Afghanistan began with World War II, and the closure of Indian-Afghan Border by the British. For the first time in history free movement was not occurring between India and Afghanistan. It was only a sample of what was to come. But, for Afghanistan it was a clear indicator that the Durand Line which had been imposed on Afghanistan was not acceptable. The Royal Government of Afghanistan would ask that the Durand Line be renegotiated before the departure of the British Empire from India, but instead no interest was shown by the British in this proposal. They would partition India and create Pakistan on Afghanistan’s border which continued to state that the Durand Line was the official border.Prime Minister Daud Khan being remembered in Modern Afghanistan.The later part of the 20th Century would see Afghanistan's Monarchy overthrown in the game of balance between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Pakistan would through out the 1960s and 1970s support radical groups in Afghanistan to combat the Socialists who had gained control of Afghanistan via reformed royalist Prime Minister Daud. The U.S. with the intention of creating a “Vietnam” for the Soviet Union pushed this agenda, and Pakistan saw this as an opportunity to treat Afghanistan as it’s fifth province. Finally, in 1979 the situation became so unstable in Afghanistan that the socialist government needed far more just assistance. Repeated failures had resulted even with reforms which in every other socialist nation had brought about temporary economic booms. The land reforms in Afghanistan should have created an air of prosperity for the poor, but this had not happened, as U.S. and Pakistani supported rebels created havoc in Southern Afghanistan. The repeated destruction had created a war zone long before the world realized the reality in Afghanistan. The economic lead Afghanistan had in terms of income for its average citizens over both India and Pakistan at this time had been consumed in this geopolitical game.The Soviet Union would invade Afghanistan in 1979. The reality was that it feared the spread of Iran’s Islamic revolution to its southern republics and at the same time it was largely believed that Afghanistan’s government would be toppled by the joint U.S. and Pakistani effort which had resulted in large parts of the nation being ruled by warlords. The result is well known, as this was the trap the Soviet Union should have avoided. Though occupying Afghanistan in less a month, the occupation would prove impossible as radicalized elements would flow in from Pakistan with the U.S., Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and China supplying arms and financing to wage gorilla warfare. The Soviet Union was now doing battle with five nations, and Pakistan would in essence be given the green light to have an atomic weapon, as the Reagan Admiration believed this created balance with the Soviet Union.Kabul 1970sKabul 1993Afghanistan emerged out of this decade long war, in literal ashes. It had gone back to the 10th century, electricity resources, roads, hospitals and schools were nearly all destroyed. Pakistan would place the Taliban in control, after a lengthy civil war. Terrorists would find safe haven in this radicalized atmosphere. Women and even young adults would be publicly executed over moral allegations in public stadiums and the Hindu and Sikh minority were ordered to wear patches similar to tactics used in NAZI Germany. The nightmare would grow worse. Both India and Iran would finally back the Northern Alliance of Ahmed Shah Masood, to try to end this nightmare of oppression. It would be a cowardly act which would end the life of Ahmed Shah Masood just days before the 9/11 terror attacks.Kabul 2019, emerged again as a capital city with on going new construction.The 9/11 attacks would clear the way for U.S. intervention in Afghanistan and the removal of the Taliban. A process of rebuilding would start. but Afghanistan remained a nation which was poor and trade within Central Asia remained a nonfactor in creating wealth. Sadly, Afghanistan today is readily being handed back to the Taliban, as the U.S. wishes to exit. Afghanistan is a nation which has a highly favorable view of India and of Democracy though at the same time it is a conservative Muslim nation. The recent attacks on India Nationals in Kabul, have been claimed by radical groups linked to the Taliban. Once more the idea of an Afghanistan which could move towards progress and selective modernity is being lost. Instead, the goals of Pakistan and China are taking precedence. Once more Afghanistan is being sold to the wind, and it will only be paid attention to again when either larger Geopolitical goals are at stake or eminent threats once more come from Afghanistan. The lesson of history is once more lost, that Afghanistan is more prone to spiral down hill than any nation in the region. It is land locked and dependent on foreign assistance such as it received from India and the U.S. during the past 20 years. Without this type of assistance Afghanistan has little chance to progress as the forces around it only wish to dominate through theological ideology. Ultimately they will benefit from Afghanistan’s untapped mineral wealth. Afghanistan is at a turning point in its history and it seems the last 20 years will be more an anomaly than a trend as Afghanistan is once more being forgotten about all too soon.Prime Minister Modi inaugurates Afghanistan’s Parliament, which was built completely with Indian Assistance.