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Unexpectedly - we found ourselves near the house that has the wonderful tiles - but I had the WRONG lens on the camera - a 70-210 Sigma that we are trying to use for some bird pictures. I think the apeture adjustment sticks and these end up being somewhat over-exposed.
Did get the opportunity to talk to the property owner - a very nice guy who chose to move to this neighborhood from Overland park, KS.
Considerable additional info can be found here
Looking up George Street, Bathgate, 1960s - before pedestrianisation.
Date: 1960s.
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In the latter half of the 19th century, Sigmund Freud failed in his efforts to study, reconstruct, and understand the human brain. And for over a century man’s attempts have all been for naught in this endeavor, until there was George Hart. George Hart may look to be a geometric sculptor, but he’s actually the only person ever to reconstruct accurate models of the living human brain. You’ll see all the intricacies and facets of the mind in each and every represenation. This makes his work incredibly rare and ultra-valuable. Only a select few will ever be fortunate enough to see these marvels in real-life, consider yourself lucky. Find out more at www.creativetempest.com
Photos in the wake of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. Most businesses along Hennepin Ave (including my office) were boarded up to prevent damage from subsequent rioting. Many of the plywood panels became canvasses for art as the week went along.
*These photos are not intended to endorse any political stance or opinion
Uptown. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
I did not really even know who George Ezra was, but I volunteered to accompany Flo and Audrey into DC last night for his concert at the Lincoln Theatre. I was pleasantly surprised with some good music and an entertaining evening.
George Takei speaking with attendees at the 2019 Phoenix Fan Fusion at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Yesterday on the sidewalk in front of my Hotel in Chicago I ran into George Wendt, or as most of us know him "Norm" from Cheers! Sorry for the quality, I only had my cell phone to take a pic with.
10/27/09
I've known George for at least forty years -- we have moved in the same circles in the university we were both students at and eventually we both worked at. He's most of a decade older than I am and so retired a few years ago. He says, "I never retired! I quit!" but, for everyone else, that's splitting hairs. I'm still working.
He dropped by my office and we chatted a while. I took three pictures of him. I didn't like the colour in any of them, and this was the best when converted.
Photograph from the Belper News, 11th January 1918
Frost, George Edward, Private, 204508, 2nd/6th Battalion, Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment
Born: Belper, Derbyshire
Enlisted: Derby
Killed in action 1st December 1917
Commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, France, Panel 8
Service Records
Resided Kilburn Road, Belper
Employed as a colliery stoker
Enlisted 10th December 1915 aged 21
5 feet 9 inches in height
Married Lily May Bower at St. Augustine’s Church, Derby, 29th May 1917
Wife later resided at 150, Crewe Street, Derby
Served in France from 26th August 1917
Treated in hospital for scabies 31st October – 20th November 1917
George Edward Frost (Index of births 1837-1915)
1911 Census
Born about 1895
A hosiery fast learner
Son of Benjamin, a farmer, and Matilda Frost, a farmer, of Pottery Farm, Belper, Derbyshire
Pension Records
Husband of Lily May Frost (born 12th May 1896), of 10 Ford Street, Belper, Derby
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this fall beauty is auburn lake at 'mount auburn cemetery. watertoewn-cambridge ,ma. i goapot of photography of the wildlife and flowers there. why go to vermont and new hampshire when i can find this spleder close to the city! george mclean
German postcard by Verlag Herm. Leiser, Berlin-Wilm., no. 9025. Collection Geoffrey Donaldson Institute.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Anglo-Irish playwright. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925. Among other things, he wrote the play 'Pygmalion', later adapted into the musical 'My Fair Lady.' Pygmalion was also often adapted to film. Shaw is the only writer to date to have received both the Nobel Prize and the Oscar, the latter for his work on the screenplay for the film version of 'Pygmalion'. Shaw was an ardent socialist, unlike his lifelong close friend the writer G.K. Chesterton, who had a conservative outlook but criticised both capitalism and socialism, and who became a Catholic in adulthood.
The St. George, Utah LDS Temple.
Groundbreaking and Site Dedication: 9 November 1871 by Brigham Young
Private Dedication: 1 January 1877 by Erastus Snow
The St. George Utah Temple is the oldest operating temple of the Church.
British postcard by K LTD. Photo: Hana, London. In 1902 Robey created the character The Prehistoric Man. He dressed as a caveman and spoke of modern political issues, often complaining about the government "slapping another pound of rock on his taxes". The character was received favourably by audiences, who found it easy to relate to his topical observations. That year he released The Prehistoric Man on a shellac disc using the early acoustic recording process.
George Robey (1869-1954) was an English comedian, singer and actor in musical theatre, who became known as one of the greatest music hall performers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a comedian, Robey mixed everyday situations and observations with comic absurdity. Apart from his music hall acts, he was a popular Christmas pantomime performer in the English provinces, where he excelled in the 'Pantomime dame' roles. He only had modest success in the cinema.
George Robey was born as George Edward Wade in London in 1869. He came from a middle-class family. His father, Charles Wade, was a civil engineer who spent much of his career on tramline design and construction. Robey's mother, Elizabeth Mary Wade née Keene, was a housewife. After schooling in England and Germany and a series of office jobs, he made his debut on the London stage, at the age of 21, as the straight man to a comic hypnotist. He soon developed his act and appeared at the Oxford Music Hall in 1890, where he earned favourable notices singing The Simple Pimple and He'll Get It Where He's Gone to Now. In 1892, Robey appeared in his first pantomime, Whittington Up-to-date in Brighton, which brought him to a wider audience. With Robey's popularity came an eagerness to differentiate himself from his music hall rivals, and so he devised a signature costume when appearing as himself: an oversized black coat fastened from the neck down with large, wooden buttons; black, unkempt, baggy trousers and a partially bald wig with black, whispery strands of unbrushed, dirty-looking hair that poked below a large, dishevelled top-hat. He applied thick white face paint and exaggerated the redness on his cheeks and nose with bright red makeup; his eyeline and eyebrows were also enhanced with thick, black grease paint. He held a short, misshaped, wooden walking stick, which was curved at the top. Robey later used the costume for his character, The Prime Minister of Mirth. The outfit helped Robey become instantly recognisable on the London music hall circuit. More provincial engagements followed in Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool, and he soon became a mainstay of the popular Christmas pantomime scene. By the start of the new century, Robey was a big name in pantomime, and he was able to choose his roles. Pantomime enjoyed wide popularity until the 1890s, but by the time Robey had reached his peak, interest in it was on the wane. A type of character he particularly enjoyed taking on was the pantomime dame, which historically was played by comedians from the music hall. Robey was inspired by the older comedians Herbert Campbell and Dan Leno, and, although post-dating them, he rivalled their eccentricity and popularity, earning the festive entertainment a new audience. Robey's music hall act matured in the first decade of the 1900s, and he undertook several foreign tours. He starred in the Royal Command Performance in 1912 and regularly entertained before the aristocracy. Robey had made his film debut in 1900, according to IMDb. The short comedy The Rats (N.N., 1900) offered a brief glimpse of some of the greatest entertainers from the late Victorian and early Edwardian stage, Dan Leno, Herbert Campbell and George Robey. In 1913, Robey appeared in two early sound shorts: And Very Nice Too (Walter R. Boots, 1913) and Good Queen Bess (Walter R. Boots, 1913), made in the Kinoplasticon process, where the film was synchronised with phonograph records. The next year, he tried to emulate his music hall colleagues Billy Merson and Charlie Austin, who had set up Homeland Films and found success with the Squibs series of films starring Betty Balfour. Robey met filmmakers from the Burns Film Company, who engaged him in a silent short entitled George Robey Turns Anarchist, in which he played a character who fails to blow up the Houses of Parliament. George Robey's Day Off (1919) showed the comedian acting out his daily domestic routines to comic effect, but the picture failed at the box office. Producers did not know how best to apply Robey's stage talents to the film. He continued to appear sporadically in film throughout the rest of his career, never achieving more than a modest amount of success. By the First World War, music hall entertainment had fallen out of favour with audiences. Revue appealed to wartime audiences, and Robey decided to capitalise on the medium's popularity. He achieved great success in The Bing Boys Are Here (1916). He was cast as Lucius Bing opposite Violet Loraine, who played his love interest Emma. The couple duetted in the show's signature song If You Were the Only Girl (In the World), which became an international success. Robey raised money for many war charities and was appointed a CBE in 1919. From 1918, he created sketches based on his Prime Minister of Mirth character and used a costume he had designed in the 1890s as a basis for the character's attire.
George Robey starred in the revue Round in Fifty in 1922, which earned him still wider notice. He returned to the cinema a further four times during 1923. The first two films were written to showcase his pantomime talents: One Arabian Night (Sinclair Hall, 1923) was a reworking of Aladdin and co-starred Lionelle Howard and Edward O'Neill. Harlequinade (A.E. Coleby, 1923) visited the roots of pantomime. One of Robey's more notable film roles was Sancho Panza in Don Quixote (Maurice Elvey, 1923), for which he received a fee of £700 a week. The amount of time he spent working away from home led to the breakdown of his marriage, and he separated from Ethel in 1923. Except for his performances in revue and pantomime, he appeared as his Prime Minister of Mirth character in all the other entertainment media including variety, music hall and radio. In the late 1920s Robey wrote and starred in two Phonofilm sound-on-film productions, Safety First (Hugh Croise, 1928) and Mrs. Mephistopheles (Hugh Croise, 1929). In 1932 Robey appeared in his first sound film, The Temperance Fête (Graham Cutts, 1932). It was followed by Marry Me (Wilhelm Thiele, 1932), starring German actress Renate Müller, which was one of the most successful musical films of his career. The film tells the story of a sound recordist in a gramophone company who romances a colleague when she becomes the family housekeeper. Robey continued to perform in variety theatre in the inter-war years and, in 1932, he starred in Helen!, his first straight theatre role. His appearance brought him to the attention of many influential directors, including Sydney Carroll, who signed him to appear on stage as Falstaff in Henry IV, Part 1 in 1935, a role that he later repeated in Laurence Olivier's film, Henry V (1944). Robey starred opposite Fritz Kortner, and Anna May Wong in a film version of the hit musical Chu Chin Chow (Walter Forde, 1934). The New York Times called him 'a lovable and laughable Ali Baba'. In the summer of 1938, Robey appeared in the film A Girl Must Live (Carol Reed, 1939) in which he played the role of Horace Blount. A journalist for The Times opined that Robey's performance as an elderly furrier, the love interest of both Margaret Lockwood and Lilli Palmer, was 'a perfect study in bewildered embarrassment'. During the Second World War, Robey raised money for charities and promoted recruitment into the forces. Robey starred in the film Salute John Citizen (Maurice Elvey, 1942), co-starring Edward Rigby and Stanley Holloway, about the effects that the war had on a normal British family. A further four films followed in 1943, one of which promoted war propaganda while the other two displayed the popular medium of cine-variety. By the 1950s, his health had deteriorated, and he entered semi-retirement. George Robey was knighted a few months before his death at his home in Saltdean, East Sussex, in 1954. He was 85. Robey was married Twice. In 1898, Robey married his first wife, Ethel Hayden, the Australian-born musical theatre actress. Ethel accompanied him on his tours and frequently starred alongside him. They had two children, a son Edward (1900) and a daughter Eileen. After his divorce from Ethel in 1938, he married Blanche Littler, who was more than two decades his junior.
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