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If any stalker sees this and wants to steal the idea, feel free. Just let me know. Awien (talk) 23:01, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Bosque eterno de los niños

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The Children's Eternal Rainforest, Spanish Bosque Eterno de los Niños, is the largest private reserve in Costa Rica with an area of 220 square kilometres.

History The initiative to raise funds towards the purchase and preservation of forest in Costa Rica came from a group of schoolchildren in Sweden in the late 1980s. The idea was soon taken up by groups, schools and individuals in 44 countries, with the funds raised making possible the acquisition of 23000 hectares of old-growth and second-growth forest and adjacent land. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Albert D. J. Cashier (December 25, 1843 – October 10, 1915), born Jennie Irene Hodgers, was an Irish-born immigrant who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Cashier adopted the identity of a man before enlisting, and maintained it almost for life. Cashier became famous as one of a number of women soldiers who served as men during the Civil War, although the consistent and long-term commitment to the male identity has prompted some contemporary scholars to suggest that Cashier was a trans man.

Early life

Hodgers was born in Clogherhead, County Louth, Ireland on December 25, around the year 1843. According to later investigation by the administrator of Hodgers's estate, the child's parents were Sallie and Patrick Hodgers. Hodgers's later accounts of moving to the United States and reasons for enlisting were taken when Hodgers was elderly and disoriented. Hodgers was also typically evasive about life prior to emigrating; these narratives are therefore contradictory. Typically, Hodgers's stepfather was said to have dressed the child in boy's clothing in order to find work. Even before the advent of the war, Hodgers adopted the identity of Albert Cashier to work. Hodgers's mother died prior to 1862, by which time Hodgers had traveled as a stowaway to Illinois and was living in Belvidere.

Enlistment

Hodgers first enlisted in July 1862 after President Lincoln's call for soldiers. As time passed, the need for soldiers only increased. On August 6, 1862, Hodgers enlisted in the 95th Illinois Infantry for a three-year term using the name "Albert Cashier", and was assigned to Company G. A company catalog lists Cashier as nineteen years old upon enlistment, a farmer from New York City, 5 feet 3 inches tall, blue-eyed, and of a fair complexion.

During the war

The regiment was part of the Army of the Tennessee under Ulysses S. Grant, and fought in approximately forty battles, including the siege at Vicksburg. This campaign proved to be a challenge for Cashier, who was captured while performing reconnaissance. Cashier managed to escape, however, and returned to the regiment. After the Battle of Vicksburg, in June 1863, Cashier contracted chronic diarrhea and entered a military hospital but somehow evaded detection. The regiment was also present at the Red River Campaign and the combat at Guntown, Mississippi, where they suffered heavy casualties. Throughout the war, the regiment traveled a total of about 9,000 miles during its term. Other soldiers thought that Cashier was small and preferred to be alone, which were not uncommon characteristics for soldiers. Cashier fought with the regiment through the war until August 17, 1865, when all the soldiers were mustered out. Cashier was honorably discharged on August 17, 1865.

Postwar

Cashier's postwar residence, since moved to Saunemin

After the war, Cashier returned to Belvidere, Illinois for a time, and worked for Samuel Pepper while maintaining the Cashier identity. After moving to Saunemin, Illinois, in 1869, Cashier worked as a farmhand as well as performing odd jobs around the town, and is attested on records of the town payroll as Albert Cashier. Joshua Chesebro, who employed Cashier, also provided a one-room house. In over forty years living in Saunemin, Cashier was a church janitor, cemetery worker, and street lamplighter. Living as a man, Cashier was able to vote in elections, and later claimed a veteran's pension under the name Albert Cashier. In later years, Cashier ate with the neighboring Lannon family. Later on, when Hodgers fell ill and was examined by a nurse, the Lannons learned that the person they had believed to be a man was physically a woman, but did not make their discovery public.

In 1911, Cashier's leg was broken in a collision with a car. A physician discovered Cashier's secret in the hospital, but did not disclose the information. On May 5, 1911, as a result of no longer being able to work, Cashier was moved to the Soldiers and Sailors home in Quincy, Illinois. During this stay, Hodgers was visited by many fellow soldiers from the Ninety-fifth Regiment. In March 1914, a deteriorating mental state led to Cashier being moved to the Watertown State Hospital for the Insane. It was at the Watertown State Hospital that attendants giving Cashier a bath discovered their patient's biological sex, and after fifty years Cashier was made to wear women's clothes again.

Death and legacy

Albert Cashier died on October 10, 1915, and was given an official Grand Army of the Republic funerary service, along with burial with full military honors in the uniform that had been kept intact all those years. The tombstone was inscribed "Albert D. J. Cashier, Co. G, 95 Ill. Inf." It took W.J. Singleton (executor of Cashier's estate) nine years to track down Cashier's birth name of Jennie Hodgers. None of the would-be heirs proved convincing, and the estate of $418.46 was deposited in the Adams County, Illinois, treasury. In the 1970s, a second tombstone, inscribed both Albert D. J. Cashier and Jennie Hodgers, was placed beside the first.