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Meet the American who never flinched in the fight for independence, Abigail Adams
“These are the times that try men’s souls,” Thomas Paine wrote near the end of the turbulent, fear-filled year of 1776.
It was the soul of a woman, however, that defiantly withstood the weight of the trial — the miraculous fight for American independence — with five children at her hip.
Abigail Adams never flinched, never wavered.
Neither the crown then nor fellow citizens today can mistake her gamble on a bold new nation called the United States.
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“We are no ways dispirited here. We possess a spirit that will not be conquered,” Adams wrote to her husband, John, on Sept. 20, 1776, days after George Washington’s colonial army was routed by the British in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Adams was just 31 with five small children at her humble farmhouse, with her husband far from home for much of their marriage.
Engraved portrait of Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818), late 1700s. She was the wife of the second American president, John Adams, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth American president. (Stock Montage/Getty Images)
Running a wartime home without a husband by her side appeared to only fuel her defiant independence. She added in that same letter: “If all our men are drawn off and we should be attacked, you would find a race of Amazons in America.”
The now-former first lady is remembered as a gifted writer, wife and confidante of a Founding Father and the first of just two women to be both wife and mother of U.S. presidents. She was joined in that distinction, nearly 200 years later, by Barbara Bush.
“She was a revolutionary in every sense of the word.”
But as her combative words proved, the 5-foot-6-inch New England mother was harder than the granite in the hills of Massachusetts. She stands among the greatest patriots in American history.
The toughest times in American history tried Adams’ soul. The toughest times lost.
A defiant letter written by Abigail Adams on Sept. 20, 1776, as the American Revolutionary was going badly for the rebels. “If all our men are drawn off and we should be attacked, you would find a race of Amazons in America,” she wrote. (Collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society)
“No woman in the history of our nation contributed more or sacrificed more for our country than Abigail Adams,” said Tom Koch, mayor of Quincy, Massachusetts, where Abigail lived most of her life, and a devoted scholar of Adams history.
She rests today within the Church of the Presidents, across from his office at Quincy City Hall.
He added, “She was a revolutionary in every sense of the word.”
‘My bursting heart must find vent at my pen’
Abigail Smith was born on Nov. 22, 1774 in Weymouth, Massachusetts.
Her father, William Smith, was a Congregational minister. Her mother, Elizabeth (Quincy) Smith, was born into a prominent political family in colonial Massachusetts.
Abigail Adams was born in this house in Weymouth, Massachusetts on Nov. 22, 1744. (Kerry J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)
Abigail Adams’ first cousin, Dorothy Quincy, was born and raised in the community of Quincy that would later bear the family name.
The first lady-to-be married a man born in Quincy, John Adams, in 1764.
Cousin Dorothy Quincy, for her part, married another rebel born in Quincy just a few hundred yards away from her. She and John Hancock wed in Oct. 1775, only six months after the Battle of Lexingon and Concord.
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Adams and Hancock had betrothed themselves to a family steeped in warrior spirit and tradition.
“The origins of the Quincy family lie in Cuincy in northwestern Normandy, France, where a knight named ‘de Cuincy’ joined the 1066 invasion of Britain,” historian Harlow Giles Unger wrote in “John Quincy Adams,” a biography of Abigail’s oldest son, the sixth U.S. president.
The name evolved to Quincy, he writes, noting that a nobleman, the Saer de Quincy, led a rebellion against John, King of England, and “appears at the signing of the Magna Carta at Runnymede.”
Attack on Bunker Hill and the burning of Charlestown. The British defeated the American rebels, but at the cost of over 800 wounded and 226 killed. From E. Barnard, “History of England,” 1790, “A Short History of the English People” by Richard Green, vol IV, Macmillan & Co, 1894. (Culture Club/Bridgeman via Getty Images)
The two women, Abigail and Dorothy, in other words, provided the genetic link between the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence.
Both women bore eyewitnesses to the bloody birth of American independence.
Quincy watched the Battle of Lexington – April 19, 1775 – as 700 British troops marched on the tiny town in a quest to capture rebel munitions and her rebel beau, Hancock.
“The day, perhaps the decisive day, is come on which the fate of America depends. My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.”
Adams watched the rebellion intensify two months later. She climbed a hill near the humble family farmhouse, which doubled as her husband’s law office, and watched the Battle of Bunker Hill erupt across Boston Harbor with her 7-year-old son, John Quincy.
“The day, perhaps the decisive day, is come on which the fate of America depends,” she wrote afterward. “My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.”
She knew a difficult life lay ahead, yet never wavered.
Abigail Adams watched the Battle of Bunker Hill from a hilltop across Boston Harbor with her 7-year-old son, future U.S. President John Quincy Adams. The site where she stood is memorialized today in Quincy, Massachusetts at the Abigail Adams Cairn. (Kerry J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)
“While her husband was away serving the new nation, she was raising five children and running their farm in time of war,” Massachusetts historian Alexander Cain told Fox News Digital.
“The Siege of Boston was essentially outside her front door. She had to deal with inflation and food shortages and a daughter [Nabby], who was gravely ill.”
She remained devoted to American independence in its darkest hours despite enormous risk.
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“She would have lost everything. Her husband would have been tried for treason, her property confiscated,” said Cain.
“But she was devoted to the cause and knew she had to set an example for her fellow women and fellow patriots. She was tough. She was absolutely tough.”
One rebellion not enough
The voluminous correspondence of 1,100 letters between Abigail and John Adams provide perhaps the most important primary source of study of the American Revolution.
Paintings of former President John Adams, right, and his wife Abigail Adams are displayed at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston, Massachusetts, on Monday, June 29, 2015. In acid-free, low humidity stacks are 13 million pages of the personal letters and diaries of men and women who helped create the world we live in. Photographer: Shiho Fukada/Bloomberg via Getty Images. (Shiho Fukada/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Abigail (Smith) Adams did not have a formal education, but proved to be an extremely resourceful partner to John Adams,” reports the website of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the repository today of the correspondence between the two.
“While he was away on numerous political assignments, she raised their children, managed their farm, and stayed abreast of current events during one of the country’s most turbulent times.”
“Abigail Adams proved to be an extremely resourceful partner to John Adams.”
The letters, the site observes, “demonstrate her perceptive comments about the Revolution and contain vivid depictions of the Boston area.”
Adams proved her steel during the Second Continental Congress, where the delegation born in Quincy – her husband, Hancock and Samuel Adams – went to Philadelphia to convince the other colonies to join the revolt.
The rebellion was over in Massachusetts, the colony that effectively revolted against the British alone at first.
The Old House at Peacefield, the Adams family farmhouse estate in Quincy, Massachusetts, part of the Adams National Historical Park. It was the family home of two U.S. presidents, John and John Quincy Adams, and several ambassadors to the United Kingdom. (Keith Noble)
The Redcoats fled Boston in humiliation on March 17, 1776. They never returned.
The war moved elsewhere, to New York and the southern colonies.
But the stakes only grew higher. So did the fear.
But one rebellion wasn’t enough for Abigail.
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The Founding Fathers understood that they sat on the cusp of an unprecedented opportunity in history, to remake a more equitable society for mankind.
Adams saw the same unprecedented opportunity to remake a more equitable society for womankind.
“I desire you would remember the Ladies,” Adams wrote to her husband in the days before the passage of the Declaration of Independence.
Abigail (Smith) Adams statue in Quincy, Massachusetts. The first lady and patriot firebrand is entombed beside her husband and son, Presidents John and John Quincy, and fellow first lady Louisa Catherine Adams, in the Church of the Presidents in the background. (Keith Noble)
The two sentences that follow “remember the ladies” portray the fire of her revolutionary spirit and signature defiance.
“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could,” she wrote. “If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies, we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.”
“The Ladies … are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice.”
The demand represented a conviction to independence displayed by American women not often chronicled in history books, according to Cain.
“Women played a significant role in the build-up of the war,” he said. “They were the ones boycotting British goods and hosting spinning bees to make their own fabric so they didn’t have to buy British fabric. They were the ones who had to protect the home front and care for the children.”
Debbie Rizzo, a tourist from Wyoming, at the Adams family crypt at the Church of the Presidents in Quincy, Massachusetts. The crypt contains the granite tombs of Presidents John and John Quincy Adams and first ladies Abigail and Louisa Catherine Adams. (Kerry J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)
Adams’ cry to “remember the ladies” was a demand, Cain said, to recognize the role women played in American independence.
‘Brightened the prospects of the race of man on Earth’
Abigail Adams died on Oct. 28, 1818. She was 73 years old.
John Adams lived six more years.
He died hauntingly on July 4, 1826 – the same exact day as Thomas Jefferson – the 50th anniversary of the American Independence both men famously helped forge.
Abigail Adams (1744-1818), American first lady, wife of President John Adams and mother of President John Quincy Adams. Portrait, Mather Brown, 1785. (Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The couple’s oldest son, John Quincy, was serving as secretary of state under President James Monroe at the time of Abigail Adams’ death.
She never got to see her son, the scared little boy who watched the Battle of Bunker Hill at his mother’s side, ascend to the White House — which he did in 1825.
She did not get to see her son ascend to the White House.
John and Abigail Adams, plus John Quincy Adams and his wife, Louisa Catherine Adams, lie side by side today in granite tombs in the family crypt in the United First Parish Church in Quincy.
It’s better known locally as the Church of the Presidents. The congregation dates back to 1639. The Rev. John Hancock, father of the patriot, was once its minister. He’s buried across the street in a nearly 400-year-old cemetery alongside 69 veterans of the American Revolution.
Yorkist roses planted by Abigail Adams in 1788 still bloom each spring today at Peacefield, part of the Adams National Historical Park in Quincy, Massachusetts. Adams brought the rose bush root stock with her from England, where husband John Adams represented the new nation after victory in the American Revolution. (Kerry J. Byrne/Fox News Digital)
John and Abigail Adams moved into an estate in Quincy after the war, which they dubbed Peacefield, the name reflecting their hopes after decades of turmoil.
It’s now the centerpiece of the Adams National Historical Park, along with the nearby birthplaces of the two presidents.
The site where mother and son watched the Battle of Bunker Hill on “that decisive day” is memorialized today with the Abigail Adams Cairn, a fieldstone monument with the inscription of her words.
Abigail Adams has been remembered in numerous dramatic accounts and biographies. The white Yorkist roses she brought back from England after the war in 1788 and planted at Peacefield still bloom every spring.
John and Abigail Adams passed their gift for words to John Quincy Adams, who spoke or read nine languages.
Abigail Adams and the Battle of Bunker Hill, which she witnessed from across Boston Harbor with her 7-year-old, future president John Quincy Adams. (Stock Montage/Getty Images; Culture Club/Bridgeman via Getty Images)
He penned a tribute to his parents, scripted on a white marble tablet above the altar of the Church of the Presidents.
It captures in poetic beauty the profound gift his parents gave to the world through times that try men’s and women’s souls.
“During a union of more than half a century they survived in harmony of sentiment, principle and affection the tempests of civil commotion; meeting undaunted and surmounting the terrors and trials of revolution which secured the freedom of their country, improved the condition of their times; and brightened the prospects of futurity to the race of man upon Earth.”
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New York state Assemblymember Claire Valdez, an ally of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, has mounted a bid for the U.S. House of Representatives.
“I’m a union organizer, Assemblymember, and democratic socialist running for Congress in NY-07. I came to politics through low-wage jobs and the labor movement. That’s the perspective I’ll bring to Washington to take on oligarchy, fascism, and war — and win for working people,” she wrote in a post on X.
Valdez has called for the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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New York Assemblymember Claire Valdez. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)
“When we called this administration fascist last year, we were called hyperbolic. We were called hysterical,” she said in recent public remarks.
“We must abolish ICE at the federal level,” she asserted, calling it a “militarized terrorist organization that is destroying our country.”
Her campaign website makes clear that she is an advocate for “Medicare for All.”
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani attends a news conference at the headquarters of the NYPD on Jan. 6, 2026, in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
“Claire will fight to pass Medicare for All, paid for by taxing billionaires and corporations that have rigged the system, and deliver universal health care for every New Yorker,” the site notes.
“Housing is a human right — but Congress has chosen to side with landlords and speculators instead of working people. Claire will fight to guarantee safe, affordable housing for all, because housing is not a commodity. It’s a necessity,” the site also states.
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Valdez will compete in a Democratic primary in June for the seat being vacated by Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y.
Velazquez, who currently represents the Empire State’s 7th Congressional District, is not seeking re-election in 2026. Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso already announced his 2026 primary bid for the House seat last year.
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Boston Catholics offer mixed views on pope’s remarks following US operation in Venezuela – The Boston Globe
Digennaro’s wife, Judy, shook her head in disagreement.
“I feel quite the other way,” said Judy Digennaro, 72. “It might start rifts, but what’s most important is people talking, and that’s what the pope is trying to do.”
During a news conference with Vatican reporters in December, the pope called for dialogue between the United States and Venezuela. On Friday, he said violence had replaced dialogue as a means of resolving conflict and reiterated an earlier call to “respect the will of the Venezuelan people, and to safeguard the human and civil rights of all, ensuring a future of stability and concord.”
Some local Catholics said the remarks felt like an overstep. David Digennaro said he supports the Trump administration’s move to shift Venezuela’s leadership away from Maduro and would prefer the pope to limit his comments to humanitarian issues.
“If he’s talking about the people that live [in Venezuela,] that’s fine,” he said. “But if he’s referencing Maduro, that’s politics, and I’d turn away from it.”
Outside St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine in Back Bay, parishioners in crisp suits and colorful dresses filed out onto the sidewalk after Mass on Sunday afternoon. Several people said the pope’s address had not been mentioned during the service and praised the clergy for keeping the news separate from religious teaching.
Others voiced support for Pope Leo’s broader message of peace and dialogue but said they prefer that the pontiff avoid specifics.
Jordan Williamson, 35, of Quincy, said the pope is not the authority on international affairs. She said she looks to politicians for details about global conflicts and to Leo for moral guidance.
“The pope should be a moral voice that lays down the framework for why we do things,” said Williamson, who has attended the Boylston Street church for more than a decade. “But we all have jobs … and Mass is meant to transcend all of that.”
Williamson’s friend, Sandra Pastrana of Arlington, agreed, saying she often steers her Bible study group away from political debate. Still, she said she recognizes that there are moments when religious leaders need to speak their minds.
“It’s never good for the church to get involved in politics, but as a moral voice of how the world should live within what’s going on, the church has a duty to say these things,” said Pastrana, 63.
Judy Digennaro said Leo’s address was encouraging, adding that society cannot move forward positively without open discussion.
“I’m happy when the pope has something to say and when he promotes peace and justice,” she said. “As Catholics, that’s what we’re all about, so if he’s willing to speak and say something, all the better.”
Many Boston churchgoers were unaware of the pope’s address and said that they focused more on the words of their individual priests.
Gobran Hanna, an electrical engineer who moved to Cambridge in June and attends St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine, said he tends to spend time with members of the Catholic community who are less focused on politics, but conversations with fellow congregants about Israel, Ukraine, and Venezuela help keep him informed about global affairs.
Hanna said he welcomes Leo’s efforts to speak out against international injustices.
“When the pope makes a statement that might be related to politics, I look at that and see how it applies to my own life,” said Hanna, 23. “It’s not about somebody on this side or somebody on that side, it’s about how we can apply the lessons that the pope is teaching us.”
Lila Hempel-Edgers can be reached at lila.hempeledgers@globe.com. Follow her on X @hempeledgers and on Instagram @lila_hempel_edgers.
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Built in 1928, the hillside home is packed with original millwork, charming details and loads of storage.
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When Alena Taylor Keefe was in elementary school, her family moved to 2035 Biggs Ave. in Pittsburgh’s Fineview neighborhood.
The year was 1975, and she recalls being delighted with the Craftsman-style home built from a Sears housing kit that her family would call theirs for the next 50 years.
“It’s a place that you can call home,” she says. “Some places you can’t really say that about, but it’s just such a great family home.”
Built in 1928, the house has three bedrooms and one bathroom packed into 1,500 square feet.
“I grump about the fact that there’s only one bathroom and the kitchen is small because I love to cook, but I still made it work for many family suppers,” Keefe says. “We hosted holiday dinners where we extended the dining table into the living room to accommodate everybody. It was just home.”
The first floor of the home has that small, yet functional kitchen, a nicely sized dining room and a large living room that spans the front of the home. Keefe warmly recalls coming down the front staircase on Christmas mornings and posing in formal dresses beside the steps before school dances. She says her family also enjoyed the long front porch that runs along the living room.
“My dad would come out and read the newspaper, and I’d be on the swing with my mom while she worked on her crochet,” she says.
On the second floor, three equally sized bedrooms share a hallway bathroom with double sinks. A set of pull-down stairs leads to ample storage under the eaves.
Now in their 80s, Keefe’s parents have moved to a maintenance-free home near Keefe’s current home in Beaver County, so they can continue to enjoy family dinners together, but without the responsibility of home ownership.
While Keefe is wistful about selling the home her parents carefully loved for half a century, she is certain a new buyer will recognize its charm and value.
“So much has never been touched,” she says. “There is original woodwork, an original fireplace that still has a coal chute to the outside and a lovely built-in China cabinet in the dining room.”
Keefe also touts the home’s plentiful storage; there’s a clean, dry basement, attic storage and a detached two-car garage with a lower level could be space for a workshop, studio or general storage.
Keefe notes the roof was replaced in the last decade; there also were updates to the HVAC, including adding air conditioning, and the family replaced the upstairs flooring in preparation to sell the carefully maintained home.
The house is now listed by Brian Larson of Howard Hanna for $245,000. He says it checks all the right boxes for a first-time homebuyer — or anyone shopping for a clean, well-maintained home.
“This is a home that has clearly been loved and lived in with care,” says Larson. “Over the years, attention has been given to maintaining and improving the property in a way that supports comfortable, everyday living. While no home of this era is ever ‘finished,’ per se, the overall condition reflects consistent stewardship rather than deferred maintenance.”
Larson says buyers should not have issues with financing for this home, including loans through the Federal Housing Administration or other specialized lending programs. Priced right around the city’s median home price, Larson encourages shoppers to check it out.
“Many first-time buyer programs are available that may offer down payment assistance and competitive interest rates, helping make homeownership more attainable for qualified buyers,” he says.
Larson adds that he loves the sun-soaked room that runs along the front of the home, as well as the wide front porch and the property’s proximity to Fineview Park.
“Fineview is also known as one of the best vantage points in the city for fireworks and skyline views,” he adds. “With convenient bus access and an easy commute to Downtown, the neighborhood offers a unique blend of tranquility, accessibility and city connection.”
Keefe says that while the neighbors have changed over the course of 50 years, her family has always been thankful for the close-knit Fineview community.
“There are some chickens running loose, but everybody up there is so kind,” she says with a laugh. “The mailman lives up on the corner; everybody knows everybody. It’s just so nice.”
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function gtx_gallery_paginated_thumbs_lazy(slide_obj){
var slide=(typeof slide_obj == “object” && slide_obj.animatingTo ? slide_obj.animatingTo : 0);
//LAZY LOAD THUMBS
if($all_thumbs!==”” && navigation == “paginated_thumbs”){
range=1;
var $slides_to_hanle=$all_thumbs.slice(slide, slide + range + 1);
if(slide – range >= 0){
$slides_to_hanle=$.merge($slides_to_hanle, $all_thumbs.slice(slide – range, slide ));
}else{
$slides_to_hanle=$.merge($slides_to_hanle, $all_thumbs.slice(0, range ));
$slides_to_hanle=$.merge($slides_to_hanle, $all_thumbs.slice(range * -1 ));
}
if(slide + range >= $all_thumbs.size()){
//handle first slides
$slides_to_hanle= $.merge($slides_to_hanle, $all_thumbs.slice(0,range));
}
$slides_to_hanle.each(function () {
$(this).find(“img[lazy-src]”).each(function () {
var src = $(this).attr(“lazy-src”);
if(!src) return;
$(this).attr(“src”,src).removeAttr(“lazy-src”);
$thumbs.find(“img[lazy-src=””+src+””]”).attr(“src”,src).removeAttr(“lazy-src”);
});
});
}
}
function adjustNavHeight(){
imageHeight = flexSlider.find(“.gtx-slide-img.flex-active-slide .gtx-image-container”).outerHeight();
if(imageHeight > 0){
flexSlider.find(“.flex-prev,.flex-next”).css(“top”,Math.round(imageHeight/2));
}
}
var nextSlotId = 1;
function generateNextSlotName() {
var id = nextSlotId++;
return “adslot_” + id+”_”+Math.floor( Date.now() / 1000 );
}
function addAdInto(selector,options) {
try{
gtx_gallery_enable_dfp();
}catch(err) {
}
var slide=options.slide || -1;
var slotName = generateNextSlotName();
var ad_index = 0;
// Create a div for the slot
var slotDiv = document.createElement(‘div’);
slotDiv.id = slotName; // Id must be the same as slotName
$( selector ).append( slotDiv );
try{
ad_index=$( selector ).closest(“.gtx-ad-slide”).attr(“data-i-only-ads”);
}catch(err) {
}
// Define the slot itself, call display() to
// register the div and refresh() to fetch ad.
googletag.cmd.push(function() {
slideshow_ad_loaded = true;
adslots[slotName] = googletag.defineSlot(‘home-design’, [300, 250], slotName)
.addService(googletag.pubads())
.setTargeting(“placement”, “gallery”)
.setTargeting(“slide”, slide)
.setTargeting(“post”, ‘350640’)
.setTargeting(“category”, ‘[“hot-property”]’)
.setTargeting(“galleryAdIndex”, ad_index);
googletag.display(slotName);
googletag.sizeMapping().addSize( [0,0], [[300,250]])
googletag.pubads().refresh([adslots[slotName]]);
});
}
gtx_gallery_syncHash = function(path){
pic = “”;
re = /pic/?([0-9]+)/?$/i;
if(!path && window.location.hash && window.location.hash.match(re)) path = window.location.hash;
if(!path && window.location.pathname && window.location.pathname.match(re)) path = window.location.pathname;
if(path){
matchslide = path.match(re);
if(matchslide && matchslide[1]>0){
pic = parseInt(matchslide[1]);
}
if(!isNaN(pic) && pic > 0){
slide=get_slide_by_attachment_id(pic);
if(slide>0){
avoid_next_pageview = true;
flexSlider.flexAnimate(slide – 1, true);
}
}
}else{
gtx_track_slide( )
}
}
function debounce(func, wait, immediate) {
var timeout;
return function() {
var context = this, args = arguments;
var later = function() {
timeout = null;
if (!immediate) func.apply(context, args);
};
var callNow = immediate && !timeout;
clearTimeout(timeout);
timeout = setTimeout(later, wait);
if (callNow) func.apply(context, args);
};
};
// delay the url state replacement to avoid overload
// RAYOS-271
var efficientlyReplaceState = debounce(function(title, path){
window.history.replaceState({}, title, path);
}, 1250)
function changeURL(pic){
basepath = window.location.pathname.replace(//pic/?([0-9]+)/?$/i,”/”);
if(isNaN(pic)) return;
path = basepath + “pic/”+pic+”/”;
title = “Pic “+pic;
if (typeof(window.history.replaceState) == “function”) {
efficientlyReplaceState(title, path)
} else {
window.location.hash = path;
}
}
function get_slide_by_attachment_id(id){
var slide=$slider.find(“.slides li[data-attachment_id=”+id+”]”).attr(“data-i”);
return parseInt(slide, 10);
}
function gtx_track_slide( slide_obj ){
if(slide_obj){
var slide = slide_obj.animatingTo;
}else{
var slide = 0;
}
$active_slide=$all_slides.eq(slide) ;
if(!avoid_next_pageview){
try{
var loc = location.pathname + “#slide” + (parseInt(slide) + 1);
if (rayos_gtm_gallery_pageviews) {
// Add gallery navigation info to dataLayer
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
window.dataLayer.push({
‘event’: ‘rayos_virtual_pageview’,
‘location’ : loc
});
}
// Legacy support for GA tracking
ga(“send”, “pageview”, loc);
if (ga.getByName(“gtxcelTracker”)) {
ga(“gtxcelTracker.send”, “pageview”, loc);
}
}catch(err){
}
}
avoid_next_pageview = false;
}
//Add a callback on ad render
googletag.cmd.push(function() {
googletag.pubads().addEventListener(‘slotRenderEnded’, function(event) {
var slotName=event.slot.getSlotElementId();
if(typeof adslots[slotName] !==”undefined” && !event.isEmpty){
$slider.clearQueue();
$slider.removeClass(“gtx-gallery-loading”);
}
});
});
jQuery(“#gtx-gallery-thumbs-350640”).flexslider({
animation: “slide”,
controlNav: false,
animationLoop: false,
slideshow: false,
itemWidth: 100,
itemMargin: 5,
move: 1,
//asNavFor: “#gtx-gallery-slider-350640”,
prevText: “”,
nextText: “”,
after: gtx_gallery_thumbs_after,
after: gtx_gallery_thumbs_before
});
$thumbs=$(“#gtx-gallery-thumbs-350640”).data(“flexslider”);
$thumbs.find(“li.gtx-thumb-img”).first( ).addClass(“flex-active-slide”);
$(“#gtx-gallery-slider-350640”).flexslider({
animation: “slide”,
pauseOnHover: true,
controlNav: false,
//animationLoop: false,
//slideshow: false,
//sync: “#gtx-gallery-thumbs-350640”,
prevText: “”,
nextText: “”,
slideshow: false,
init: gtx_gallery_slide_init,
start: gtx_gallery_slide_start,
before: gtx_gallery_slide_before,
after: gtx_gallery_slide_after
});
if(mobile_mode){
$slider.find(“.flex-direction-nav”).hide();
}
});
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