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Summary Data
State or Country of birth: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Home prior to enlistment: Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana
Occupation prior to enlistment: farmer
Service:
...Co. I, 22nd Indiana Inf. - 1861 - 1865
Rank at enlistment: private
Highest rank attained: sergeant
Principal combat experience:
...Pea Ridge, Arkansas
...Siege of Corinth, Mississippi
...Perryville, Kentucky
...Stones River, Tennessee
...Missionary Ridge, Tennessee
...Rome, Georgia
...Chattahoochie River, Georgia
...Atlanta Campaign, Georgia
...March to the Sea, Georgia
...Bentonville, North Carolina
Casualties:
...WIA, Perryville
...WIA, Chattahoochie
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CDV Photograph by: W. Giles, Photographic Artist, West Aurora, Illinois
Inscription in period ink on back: "Alex W. Douglas, Comp. A 22nd Ind. Vols."
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Alexander Wallace Douglas / Wallace A. Douglas
Alexander Wallace Douglas was born at Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada about 1842. At some point he moved to the United States, with his residence at Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana. On July 10, 1861 he enlisted at Madison, Indiana for 3 years in Company I, 22nd Indiana Infantry. He was listed as a 19-year-old farmer. He stood 5 feet 4 inches tall, had a light complexion, grey eyes, and dark hair. The regiment was mustered into Federal service on August 15, 1861.
The 22nd Indiana was sent west to Missouri and took part in its first significant combat at the battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas in March 1862, which succeeded in pushing the southerners out of Missouri for the next two years. By late spring, the regiment moved to Mississippi and joined in the Union siege of Corinth. Here, Douglas became ill with swelling or "Dropsy in the legs". On July 11, 1862 he was sent to the hospital in Jacinto, Mississippi. Records show he was admitted July 26, 1862 for Anasarca [fluid swelling] to the USA Hospital Steamer Stephen Decatur and was later transferred to a hospital and Convalescent Camp in Evansville, Indiana. By the end of August he had recovered and was back in the ranks, rejoining the Regiment at Iuka, Mississippi. About this same time he was promoted from private to corporal.
At battle of Perryville, Kentucky, on October 8, 1862, the 22nd Indiana was sent forward with two other infantry regiments and a battery of artillery to bolster an area of the Union line that had been badly cut up with the Federals retreating under a hot pursuit by the enemy. The new arrivals were formed in line of battle with the 22nd Indiana on the far right. The opposing armies traded volleys of musketry while the artillery sent shells in the Confederate ranks. As the sun sank behind the hills, fresh confederate troops advanced, creating confusion as to who were friends and who were enemies. Believing the troops in front of him were friendly, Confederate General Leonidas Polk rode forward to investigate and stumbled into the midst of the 22nd Indiana. Realizing his mistake he bluffed his way through in the fading light by ordering the Yankees to cease firing on their "friends" before making a dash back to his own lines. He then ordered his own troops to open fire on the by-now thoroughly confused Federals. The surprise Confederate volley mowed down many men in the 22nd Indiana. Many of the survivors did not realize that they had been visited and victimized by a Confederate general. An officer of the regiment later stated, "The 22nd marched into line of battle under fire at three o'clock p.m., and fought till night, which put an end to the conflict. On calling the roll at 8 o'clock that night, to nearly every other name in the regiment there was no answer. Fifty-two were killed, one hundred and thirty-seven wounded and forty-one taken prisoners...During the night the Confederates retreated. Upon visiting the battle field next day, a sad sight was presented to view. The dead of the 22nd, with hundreds from other regiments, lay just as they had fallen." [Historical Sketch of the Twenty-Second Regiment Indiana Volunteers by Lieut. R. V. Marshall, 1877]
Alex Douglas was one of the wounded. He had been shot on the left side, receiving a "Gunshot wound of breast, ball struck sixth rib a little to the left of nipple and glanced off." His company officer later explained, "Wound not thought serious at the time. Ball having past through his blanket which was rolled and tied over his shoulder and under his arm passing across his breast." Apparently his blanket roll had significantly slowed and deflected the bullet enough to prevent a more serious injury. Eventually the wound would be described as "perfectly healed, leaving a very light scar."
A few months later the regiment was heavily engaged at the New Year's Eve and New Year's Day battle of Stones River in Tennessee. Here the Union army took over 20% casualties. And while Douglas was not injured in the fighting, he did suffer from "an attack of Lung Fever at Stone River caused by exposure in line of duty." Fellow soldier William Hepley recalled that Douglas contracted a severe cold that January after "wading Stone River when the water was cold & a sleeting rain falling. He took cold & from this exposures & hardships then & before, he coughed much and was hoarse. We laid on the ground several days & nights without any fire in our wet clothes. Our clothes froze on us from wading said river."
Throughout 1863 the regiment occupied middle Tennessee, and was engaged in the siege of Chattanooga and the fights around Mission Ridge that fall. On December 23, 1863, at their camp near Blaine’s Cross Roads, Tennessee, Douglas and many others of the 22nd Indiana reenlisted as veteran volunteers. The spring campaign of 1864 saw the Union army fighting its war south towards Atlanta. On July 7 there was a slight skirmish at Chattahoochie River in which the Confederates fell back behind their works in front of Atlanta. Douglas was listed as "wounded in right eye," but again the injury must have been slight. There are no hospital records of his treatment.
After the fall of Atlanta, the 22nd Indiana took part in Sherman's March to the Sea, and the subsequent campaign through the Carolinas. At Bennett's Farm, North Carolina, General Joe Johnston surrendered his Confederate forces on April 26, 1865. The victorious Union troops then marched to Washington, D. C., via Richmond, Virginia. At Washington the men took part in the Grand Review on May 24, then moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where they were mustered out July 24, 1865. But before his discharge, Douglas received a promotion to sergeant.
In his later history of the 22nd Indiana, Lieutenant R. V. Marshall wrote, "Of all the regiments leaving Indiana and participating in the struggle of the great rebellion, the reports of Adjutant-General Terrell show that the losses in killed and wounded in action, among the field and line officers of the 22nd, exceeded those of any other Indiana regiment. In the ranks the proportion is equally large." [Historical Sketch of the Twenty-Second Regiment Indiana Volunteers by Lieut. R. V. Marshall, 1877]
On a more particular note, Captain A. R. Ravenscroft was quoted as saying, "Alex W. Douglas was a good soldier, never shirking any duty when able to perform the same."
In 1868, a few years after the war, Douglas relocated to Belle Plain, Benton County, Iowa. For some reason he dropped his first name and started using his middle name. Now known as Wallace A. Douglas, he was employed as a railroad locomotive engineer. The census of 1870 lists him as 28 years old. Also in his household at that time were Jessie, his 23-year-old wife; Frank, his 3-year-old son; and Emma Snell a 20-year-old woman who was his sister-in-law.
Ten years later, the 1880 census shows Wallace A. Douglas as a 37-year-old railroad engineer living in Boone, Iowa, with his 12-year-old son Frank and an 8-year-old daughter Maud. But Douglas' wife is now listed as 22-year-old Sarah E. Douglas. Jessie had passed away three years earlier on June 29, 1877. Sarah, his second wife, must have died early as well, because Douglas later married for a third time. On March 21, 1898, he wed Amanda M. Brown Snell in Cook County Illinois. She was the widow of James P. Snell who had died in Iowa in 1882. One wonders if James Snell may have been Douglas' brother-in-law by his first wife. In fact, James Snell and Jessie Douglas share the same tombstone. The union between Wallace and Amanda did not last long, however. Douglas died on September 26, 1899 at Tioga, Iowa. He was about 57 years old at the time.
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FIRST ASIAN AMERICAN STAR!
Written by PHILIP LEIBFRIED
Her complexion was described as "a rose blushing through old ivory;" she was beautiful, tall (5'7"), slender, and Chinese-American. The last fact kept her from attaining the highest echelon among Hollywood's pantheon of stars, but it did not affect her popularity, nor keep her from becoming a household name. She was Anna May Wong, nee Wong Liu Tsong, a name which translates to "Frosted Yellow Willows," and she was born, appropriately enough, on Flower Street in Los Angeles' Chinatown on 3 January 1905, above her father's laundry. Anna May Wong's contribution to show business is a unique one; she was the first Asian female to become a star, achieving that stardom at a time when bias against her race was crushing. With determination and talent allied to her exotic beauty, she remained the only Asian female star throughout her forty-year career, never fully overcoming all prejudices in maintaining that position. Perhaps the rediscovery of her art will elevate her star to the pantheon of great performers and serve as a guiding light to Asian performers who still struggle to find their rightful place. Anna May Wong's life and career is something that is important for all who value greatly the Asian / Asian Pacific American communities' many artists and what we can all contribute!
Excerpt from : That Old Feeling: Anna May Wong
Part II of Richard Corliss' tribute to the pioneer Chinese-American star.
Daughter of the Dragon. Paramount 1931.
Based on a Fu Manchu novel by Sax Rohmer.
Daughter of the Dragon extended the curse sworn by Dr. Fu on the Petrie family to the next generation. Fu Manchu (Warner Oland), long ago injured and exiled in an attempt on Petrie Sr., returns to London and confronts the father: "In the 20 years I have fought to live," he says in his florid maleficence, "the thought of killing you and your son has been my dearest nurse." He kills the father, is mortally wounded himself and, on his deathbed, reveals his identity to his daughter Ling Moy (Wong) and elicits her vow that she will "cancel the debt" to the Fu family honor and murder the son, Ronald (Bramwell Fletcher)... who, dash it all, is madly infatuated with Ling Moy. Ronald has seen "Princess Ling Moy Celebrated Oriental Dancer" perform, and the vision has made him woozy. "I wish I could find a word to describe her," this calf-man effuses. "Exotic that's the word! And she's intriguing, if you know what I mean." In a near-clinch, Ling Moy wonders if a Chinese woman can appeal to a British toff. When he begs her to "chuck everything and stay," she asks him, "If I stayed, would my hair ever become golden curls, and my skin ivory, like Ronald's?" But the lure of the exotic is hard to shake. "Strange," he says, "I prefer yours. I shall never forget your hair and your eyes." They almost kiss ... when an off-camera scream shakes him out of his dream. It is from his girlfriend Joan (Frances Dade), and the societal message is as clear and shrill: white woman alerting white man to treachery of yellow woman. Ling Moy, a nice girl, previously unaware of her lineage, might be expected to struggle, at least briefly, with the shock of her identity and the dreadful deed her father obliges her to perform. But Wong makes an instant transformation, hissing, "The blood is mine. The hatred is mine. The vengeance shall be mine." Just before his death, Fu mourns that he has no son to kill Ronald. But, in a good full-throated reading, Wong vows: "Father, father, I will be your son. I will be your son!" The audience then has the fun of watching her stoke Ronald's ardor while plotting his death. When she is with him, pleading and salesmanship radiate from her bigeyes. But when an ally asks her why she keeps encouraging the lad, she sneers and says, "I am giving him a beautiful illusion. Which I shall crush." As a villainess, she is just getting started. Revealing her mission to Ronald, she tells him she plans to kill Joan "Because you must have a thousand bitter tastes of death before you die." (The ripe dialogue is by Hollywood neophyte Sidney Buchman, whose distinguished list of credits would include Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Here Comes Mr Jordan and The Talk of the Town.) She soon ascends on a geyser of madness as she decides on a new torture: "My vengeance is inspired tonight. You will first have the torture of seeing her beauty eaten slowly away by this hungry acid." An aide holds a hose gadget over Joan's soon-to-be-corroded face, and Ronald cries for Ling Moy to stop. Very well she says. "Ling Moy is merciful." She barks at Ronald: "Kill her!" He must decide if his favorite white girl is to be etched with acid or stabbed to death. Great stuff! Melodrama is the art of knowing how precisely too far to goThe film is a triangle: not so much of Ling Moy, Ronald and Joan as of Ling Moy, Ronald and a Chinese detective, Ah Kee, played by Sessue Hayakawa, the Japanese actor who in the teens was Hollywood's first Asian male star. He's not plausibly Chinese here, and he is in a constant, losing battle with spoken English. But he is a part of movie history, in the only studio film of the Golden Age to star two ethnically Asian actors. And he gives his emotive all to such lines as "It is the triumph of irony that the only woman I have ever deeply loved should be born of the blood that I loathe." And in the inevitable double-death finale neither the villainess nor the noble detective can survive the machinations of Hollywood justice he gently caresses the long hair of the lady he would love to have loved. "Flower Ling Moy," he says, a moment before expiring. "A flower need not love, but only be loved. As Ah Kee loved you."
The Personal Anna May Wong
This 5'7 beauty loved to study and could speak in an English accent, as well as being fluent in German and French with more than a passing knowledge of other tongues including Italian and Yiddish. For exercise she rode horses, played golf, and tennis. She liked to cook and regaled her guests with succulent Chinese dishes at frequent dinner parties. She preferred casual clothes, wearing slacks and sweaters at home, but cultivated an oriental motif in her very smart formal wardrobe. She studied singing with Welsh tenor Parry Jones before she participated in the film Limehouse Blues as George Raft's mistress. Anna loved to dance to contemporary music. Anna was quoted as saying, "I think I got my first chance because they thought I was peculiar. But, now I like to believe that the public are fond of me because they think I'm nice."
The story of Anna May Wong’s life traced the arc of triumph and tragedy that marked so many of her films. Wong's youthful ambition and screen appeal got her farther than anyone else of her race. But her race, or rather Hollywood's and America's fear of giving Chinese and other non-whites the same chance as European Americans, kept her from reaching the Golden Mountaintop. We can be startled and impressed by the success she, alone, attained. And still weask: Who knows what Anna May Wong could have been allowed to achieve if she
had been Anna May White?
Anna May Wong passed away on Feb. 3rd 1961 she was 56 years old.
Filmography:
The Red Lantern. Metro 1919. The First Born. Robertson Cole 1921.
Shame. Fox 1921. Bits of Life. Assoc. First National 1921.
The First Born. Robertson Cole 1921. Thundering Dawn. Universal 1923
The Toll of the Sea. Metro 1922 Drifting. Universal 1923 Fifth Avenue. PRC 1926.
Lillies of the Field. Assoc. First National 1924. The Thief of Bagdad. United Artists 1924
The Fortieth Door. Pathé serial 1924. The Alaskan. Paramount 1924.
Peter Pan. Paramount 1924. Forty Winks. Paramount 1925.
The Silk Bouquet/The Dragon Horse. Hi Mark Prod. 1926 The Desert's Toll. MGM 1926.
A Trip to Chinatown. Fox 1926. The Chinese Parrot. Universal. 1927.
Driven from Home. Chadwick 1927. Mr. Wu. MGM 1927.
Old San Francisco. Warner Bros. 1927. Why Girls Love Sailors. Pathé short 1927.
The Devil Dancer. United Artists 1927. Streets of Shanghai. Tiffany 1927.
Across to Singapore. MGM 1928. Pavement Butterfly (aka City Butterfly).
The City Butterfly. German 1929. Across to Singapore. MGM 1928.
The Crimson City. Warner Bros. 1928. Song. German 1928
Chinatown Charlie. First National 1928. Piccadilly, British International 1929.
Elstree Calling. British International 1930. The Flame of Love. British International 1930.
Hay Tang. German 1930. L'Amour Maitre Des Choses. French 1930.
Daughter of the Dragon. Paramount 1931. Shanghai Express. Paramount 1932.
A Study in Scarlet. World Wide 1933. Tiger Bay. Associated British 1933.
Chu Chin Chow. Gaumont 1934. Java Head. Associated British 1934.
Limehouse Blues. Paramount 1934. Daughter of Shanghai. Paramount 1937.
Hollywood Party. MGM short subject 1937. Dangerous to Know. Paramount 1938.
The Toll of the Sea. Metro 1922. The Thief of Bagdad 1924
Shanghai Express 1932
For TOTW It's Vampire week!
~ Song: This Is For Keeps~ By: The Spill Canvas~
The streets are dark, my pulse is flat-lined
as I'm running to you
You sit completely unaware of what I'm about to do
The air is thick with tension much like when we are together
My fangs are aching as I'm pondering about you and I forever
As I round your corner
I am nervous that you won't be my lover
I knock three times and hope that my pale complexion won't blow my cover
You answer the door with your innocent face
Would you like to leave this human race, tonight?
Eternity will never be enough for me
and eternally we'll live our infallible love
My brain is pumping an unusual secretion of lust
Your eyes are softer now
and your chin, it drips a bloody color of rust
I am raising up the stakes of this round, I am playing for keeps
Oh, would you like to leave this human race, tonight?
Eternity will never be enough for me
and eternally we'll live our infallible love
Follow me into the sea
We'll drown together and immortalize you and me
Leave behind this lonely town
We're both better than this, it's not worth being down
Eternity will never be enough for me
and eternally we'll live our infallible love
Follow me into the sea
We'll drown together and immortalize you and me
Leave behind this lonely town (eternally)
We're both better than this, it's not worth being down (eternally)
Song: This Is For Keeps By: The Spill Canvas
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i hide from the sun. I am fair-complexioned. Fortunately i live in California. It's sunny pretty much all the time. Therefore people don't feel they have to go out in the sun just because it's sunny - it's always sunny. In england, if it's sunny, you feel guilty for staying indoors, because it might rain for the next month.
So I stay in with the air-conditioning turned on.
The Father of the Nation,Don Stephen Senanayake
By Wasantha Senanayake
The Father of the Nation and Sri Lanka’s first Prime Minister paints in our minds an instant image of a well-built broad shouldered six footer, dark complexioned with rugged features and predominant gray walrus-like moustache.
Much has been written of his fine statecraft that transformed a British colony into an independent nation and the vast strides he took in the spheres of agriculture farming and irrigation. When visualizing him as the “Father of the Nation” and how he stood tall in the face of British Imperialism, it is easy to lose sight of him as a man.
Certainly, young Stephen did not follow the scholarly path of older brother Fredrick (FR) that led the latter to Cambridge University and subsequently was called to the Bar. Neither did the sophisticated administrative offices situated at Kanatte Road Colombo (as known then) where oldest brother Charles (D.C. Senanayake) managed the family estates and plumbago mines, hold much appeal.
Stephen’s approach to things was more “hands-on”, and he was happiest working in the deep mines of Botale or engaging in one of his numerous agricultural endeavours in the vast acres of Babilipitaya, Botale or Koul wewa. This was perhaps how D.S was able to inspire, many years later, the simple farming community to find new agricultural settlements in areas known to be inhospitable wastelands. The settlements that stand at Minneriya, Padaviya Gal Oya, just to mention a few tell us much of his achievements in a relatively short time. For agriculture, he knew, he had a life long love; he experimented with it and developed it with an obsessive passion and almost always mastered it.
The three Senanayake brothers though extremely close were very distinct personalities. This is even evident in the coining of nicknames by friends, which clearly show off their different personalities. D.C was ‘Colombo John’ as he was well established in the mercantile sector in Colombo and known to be a bit of a dandy. ‘London John’ was what F.R. was called by with allusions to the years of study and academic achievements in England and D.S was simply known as ‘Kele (Jungle) John’ for obvious reasons.
His grandson Ranjit fondly recalls an instance when he and his older brother Devinda were lifted up in the air by their grandfather and bundled into the bullock cart, taken through a lengthy excursion in the Ambewela farm and made to experience the not entirely palatable taste of freshly drawn milk of one of the cows. The remainder of that bullock cart journey resulted in both boys being physically sick throughout the bumpy ride back and granddad the carter being somewhat amused.
D.S, as a young man was reputed for his extra ordinary physical strength. Standing six feet and two inches tall and extremely energetic, he was the youngest son of Mudaliyar Don Spater Senanayake and his wife Catherine Elizabeth Senanayake. His formative years were in the village of Botale in Ambepussa, under the watchful eyes of the old Mudaliyar who was a shrewd and sharp •businessman. His mother was a deeply religious woman, who encouraged D.S in all his agricultural endeavours. Apart from his parents, one can easily infer that his elder brother F.R. had a great influence on his life after the temperance movement was founded by their father and the active role played by older brother FR. which resulted in the incarceration of all three brothers on false allegations of involvements in the riots of 1915. D.S. himself began to take an interest in public life. The execution of Henry Pedris by British officers left a deep impression on the Senanayake brothers and strengthened their resolve to carry out the struggle for independence. Leadership was left in the capable hands of F.R. Senanayake, until his sudden death while on pilgrimage in India on 1st January 1926. It was then that D.S. was suddenly propelled to the forefront, aided as always by the oldest brother D.C. Senanayake the philanthropist. It would not be incorrect to state that D .S’s advent into politics was somewhat an accident, that is, his joining the temperance movement was more of a means to please his father than any desire on his part to be in public life. He stuck however to the principles of the movement throughout his life abstaining from alcohol. He was however a hard smoker, who found it difficult to sit still without the puff of a cigarette every ten minutes or so. He enjoyed relaxing at his clubs, the Orient and the Sinhalese Sports Club, although after assuming office of premier this was relatively rare.
Whatever be the official duties, he was never too busy for his school. The spirit of S. Thomas, reigned in his heart and rushed through his veins. He never missed the Royal Thomian and was delighted to see both his Sons Dudley and Robert play at the “big matches”. In particular Robert distinguished himself by captaining S Thomas’and earning himself a place in the record books for a brilliant unbeaten half century. D.S. had himself played in the big matches of 1901 and 1902. He had however less luck with the bat than his sons, earning a pair of specs in 1901 and doing marginally better in 1902 where he made a single. It must be mentioned however that he made his contribution to his side behind the wickets bringing off several splendid catches. When once a commentator stated that Prime Minister Senanayake put his school before his country, Senanayake corrected the misconception by adding “the country before the school, but only by a short head”. Wrestling, boxing and football apart from his brilliance as a horseman made him somewhat of a 1egend in the sporting arena of S. Thomas’ where he distinguished himself, although not in the academic sense. The warden at the lime W.A. Stone wrote the following account on his leaving certificate. “D. S. Senanayake has been a pupil of the College since January 1893 where he entered the lowest form, and leaves from five. His conduct has been irreproachable his work satisfactory and his influence most salutary. He has held the position of dormitory prefect for the last few months here.”
A little known fact about D.S. Senanayake was his love for drama and theatre. As a young man his portrayal of King Rajasingha the first at the Gampaha pageant was highly commended at the time. For him. participating in village affairs, pageants and fairs was natural. He loved life in Botale where the ancestral home stood; he loved the village and the village folk and participated in the village events. Even as Prime Minister he would make sure to keep in touch with his roots and so found himself there on the weekends, reclined in his favourite armchair in his characteristic sarong and long sleeved banyan, in the spacious verandah of the Botale walawwa. Often, the heads of hundreds of villagers to whom he was friend and advisor surrounded him and if a dispute arose looked to him for judge and jury. They loved, respected and absolutely trusted him. His closeness to the community amongst whom, he grew up is reflected by an account related by the older villagers of Botale, about an incident of the then fatal small pox epidemic breaking out, and how one particular villager was isolated and not visited by anyone on account of the infection:
D.S not only visited the patient but carried him on his shoulders to the nearest hospital some miles away. His closeness to these people must have grown during the numerous years he spent reaching the depths of the earth in the plumbago mines of Botale or when planting up the vast acres of their land of which he is supposed to have planted some 80 acres of rubber and tapped them all himself!
At home he was a devoted father and a good husband. His wife Emily (Molly) Dunuwille was the sister of his oldest brother D.C.Senanayake’s wife. While the marriage of D.C Senanayake was an arranged one, D.S’s was a love marriage, meeting his bride- to- be when accompanying his older brother to their home. He is supposed to have first set eyes on Miss Dunuwille, as she returned to the house after a well bath, with her hair flowing to her waist and her ivory complexioned skin glistening, and not to mention the slightly plump figure clinging to the diya redda she was wearing. It was love at first sight! During the younger years of his sons, D.S. took great interest in teaching them to ride, making them as good horsemen as he was. In the later years of his life, he enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren when time permitted. His grandchildren had always been fascinated by his walrus-like moustache, and he once commented that it was his grand children’s favourite plaything. Like his son Dudley, who was notorious for his greater than average appetite, D.S too was a ‘big eater’. He was especially fond of manioc, jak and kurakkan, and of course ripe mangoes. It is said that during the days he worked in the paddy fields, a diet of kiribath and treacle was what he appreciated most. If there was anything he could not do, it was to wind his watch, for if he ever attempted this feat, Mrs. Senanayake knew she would have to send it to the watch repairers. Although he loved to read, and had a vast library in his home “Woodlands”, he seldom found the time, and instead it was used regularly by his sons. On the rare occasion he actually did visit his I library, more often than not he would search for Bernard Shaw. Although not known for his eloquence in the legislature, he was always armed with all his facts and figures and had done copious research on the subject under discussion. He spoke plainly, and clearly as to what was on his mind. He was so direct in his approach, that a spade was called a spade and nothing but a spade! He often disarmed opponents with a common sense answer or solution. This was so even on the sensitive issue of Tamil representation in the first Ceylonese Parliament: when Senanayake was asked how many Tamils he wanted in the house, he replied “1 don’t care if they are all Tamils, provided they are elected as Ceylonese”. Fellow politicians, often commented of D.S’s favourite phrase, which was “actually, as a matter of fact” and is very frequently used in the beginnings of many of his speeches, which were almost always spontaneous. It is said that upon D.S’s entry into politics an initial written and memorized speech failed him in mid-oration and that he never resorted to that practice ever again! On the contrary, D.S spoke plainly and clearly, but there were times that some of his speeches bordered on the heights of eloquence! The Independence speech I should imagine was one such:. “On February 4, 1948, the British Crown has re-transferred that sovereignty: We glory in the fact that this transfer has been effected without a single drop of blood being shed. lt is in the fitness of things that this be so. For the shedding of blood is altogether repugnant to the religion of the Buddha which is professed by so many in Lanka.”
And another of D.S’s gems is the time he lashed out at the Colonial Office (pre independence) in August 1938. “Though England is a democratic country, there is no more an undemocratic institution anywhere than the Colonial Office.” Senanayake further added that the Colonial Office system was “Government of an autocrat with the assistance of bureaucrats” and summed up by noting “The reason there is so much dissatisfaction in the Colonial Empire is that England is trying to encourage democracy in a most undemocratic manner”.
Many who worked with him knew him to be precise, well informed and punctual. He woke up everyday at 4.00 a.m. and often rode for a while in the early hours. Immediately prior to setting off for official business, he made a visit to his orchid house situated at the front of his home in Woodlands. He had a large and rare collection of orchids which he treasured and tended himself. After a brief inspection he would choose the orchid that would honour his buttonhole that day.
On 22nd March 1952, Mr. Senanayake died at the Central hospital Colombo. His death resulted from a fall from the police horse Chithra, after suffering from a stroke brought on by vigorous riding. His riding companion Sir Richard Aluvihare noticed the premier lilt in an uncharacteristic fashion as he rode behind him, and then the fall that ended life. His last words spoken to Sir Richard Aluvihare had been “Richard let’s canter”. And so in characteristic style we may assume that D.S.Senanyake cantered to the next world. It was appropriate perhaps that a man of such strength and vigour should exit the scene in such dramatic action.
Courtesy Hi Magazine
I love the morena complexion and the beautiful face of the BVM and the Holy Child Jesus. What I can't understand is why NS de Candelaria in this image is wearing a black cape and a Dominican scapular.
Any explanation from the owner would be nice.
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DESERTED, from a recruiting party of the 93rd regiment of foot, on Tuesday the 12th of May, late at night. John Hughes, alias Davis, five feet five inches and three quarters high, swarthy complexion, grey eyes, Brown hair, by trade a shoemaker. One guinea reward for whoever will apprehend the above deserter, and lodge him in any of his Majesty's Jails, or deliver him up to his recruiting party at Manchester. If he delivers himself up to his Party, on or before Saturday next, all shall be well and he freely pardoned. May 18th, 1795.
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BURGLARY, Manchester, May 18th, 1795, one o'clock this morning, No. 46 King-Street was Broken into, the following items were stolen: one silver teapot, one silver waiter, four silver tablespoons, four silver teaspoons, two silver salt spoons. Two guineas reward for information leading to conviction by applying No. 46 King Street, plus forty pounds reward allowed by Act of Parliament for this offence.
DESERTED, from the 120th Regiment, at Shrewsbury, May 21st, 1795; James Ward, five feet eleven inches high, dark hair and eyes, pitted with the smallpox, accent of a Lancashire man. Whoever apprehends him, lodges him in jail and gives notice to Capt. Langley at the Castle Inn, Birmingham or at Shrewsbury, shall receive one guinea reward over what is allowed by act of Parliament.
STOLEN, on Sunday night, the 24th, or early Monday morning, 25th May, 1795, out of the croft adjoining the Dye House of Mr. Ralph Crompton of Prestwich, 3 pieces of tabby king cords, and one piece of corduroy. Reward for information leading to conviction of five guineas from Mr. Crompton and five guineas from Society for the Prosecution of Felons.
Garza real
Ardea cinerea
Familia: Ardeidos – Ardeidae
Aspecto: Garza grande, de complexión robusta, predominantemente de color gris, con un pico recto, fuerte, en forma de daga. Las garzas pueden diferenciarse de las grullas durante el vuelo, y a menudo también cuando están de pie, por la forma en que encorvan su cuello.
Tamaño: Largo 84-102 cm, envergadura alar 155-175 cm, peso 930-1.150 g.
Nido: Una gran pila desarreglada de ramas, generalmente construido muy alto en un abeto o pino. Las aves pueden usar el mismo nido durante muchos años.
Reproducción: Pone 6 huevos en mayo, incubados de forma alternada por los padres, en 4 a 6 períodos, durante 25 a 28 días. Las aves jóvenes aprenden a volar aproximadamente a los 50 días. Muchas garzas reales anidan en colonias.
Distribución: Ave migratoria de verano que se reproduce poco en Finlandia (solo hay alrededor de 100 parejas). En los últimos años, los avistamientos de invierno se han vuelto más comunes.
Migración: Pasa el invierno en el oeste y sur de Europa. La migración de otoño puede tener lugar entre mediados de agosto y principios de noviembre, y las aves regresan de marzo a mayo.
Alimentación: Acecha inmóvil a lo largo de costas, lista para emboscar, en espera de que peces y animales acuáticos pequeños estén a su alcance.
Sonidos: Un chillido fuerte, molesto, similar al llamado de la pagaza piquirroja.
La garza real tiene partes superiores de color gris claro, y partes inferiores de color blanco grisáceo. Su cabeza es mayormente blanca, excepto por una raya negra que se extiende desde encima de sus ojos hasta la parte posterior de su cuello, donde algunas de sus plumas se alargan para formar una cresta. Los adultos con plumaje de apareamiento pueden tener un color rosáceo a los lados del cuello, y algunas filas de rayas oscuras en el cuello y el pecho. La garza real tiene el pico de color amarillo o naranja amarillento, patas de color marrón opaco e iris amarillo.
Las aves inmaduras generalmente se parecen a las adultas, pero su capuchón y su cuello son más grises (y el cuello no tiene color rosáceo). Su pico es más pardusco y el iris es blanco.
UMKC Conservatory Dance welcomes Edgar Anido, dancer with Complexions Contemporary Ballet, NYC. Mr. Anido works with dance students on one of his choreographed works for the Fall Dance Concert, Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2013, 7:30 p.m. White Recital Hall. Mr. Anido is on the right, next to dance faculty DeeAnna Hiett.