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The George Mason Memorial is a memorial to Founding Father George Mason, the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights that inspired the United States Bill of Rights. The Memorial is located in West Potomac Park within Washington, D.C. at 24 E Basin Drive SW, which is a part of the Tidal Basin. Authorized in 1990, with a groundbreaking in 2000 and dedication in 2002, the memorial includes a sculpture of Mason, a pool, trellis, circular hedges, and numerous inscriptions. It was the first memorial in the Tidal Basin area to be dedicated to someone who was not a former President of the United States .
Big George lives with his family in Lion Park, Johannesburg, S.A.. Lion Park is a vast savannah land with many African animals living almost in the wild . Meaning, their enclosures are huge, and appropriate to their needs.
The lions of the Lion Park are taken care by vets and fed by the Lion Park programme. The fact that they do not hunt does not mean that they do not have a normal life. Their very big enclosures are part of the natural African savannah. Each lion family/pride lives in separate enclosure, because each dominant male lion is the head of his pride and he protects it even against other lions.The lions are the only big cats that form a family/pride. Each pride consists of one or more males, but the one of them is the dominant.
The Lion Park has about 85 lions!! That are NEVER bred or moved elsewhere for “canned hunting” www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jun/03/canned-huntin... !! Canned hunting is a fast-growing business in South Africa, where thousands of lions are being bred on farms to be shot by wealthy foreign trophy-hunters!! According to me , ALL these persons involved in canned hunting are sick!! ”
“Sport Hunting” is a sickness, a perversion and a danger, and should be recognized as such!!
People who get their 'amusement' from hunting and killing defenseless animals, can only be suffering from a mental disorder.
In a world with boundless opportunities for amusement, it's detestable that anyone would choose to get thrills from killing others, who ask for nothing from life but the chance to remain alive. ” Sir Roger Moore
( All these photos are taken from a protected , "caged" Savannah jeep, where I had to place my camera to shoot through the iron protection holes. Wherever the photo shows a foggy area , these are the iron protection bars of the jeep. In this splendid case, I was the caged one and not the adorable lions!)
(Note: I have been looking or Gershwin's passport application for a long time. I knew he had gone to London for the 1922 production of "The Rainbow". Finally I hit on the version of his name that he was using at the time, Jacob Gershwine.)
George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn in 1898, the second of four children from a close-knit immigrant family. He began his musical career as a song-plugger on Tin Pan Alley, but was soon writing his own pieces. Gershwin’s first published song, “When You Want ‘Em, You Can’t Get ‘Em,” demonstrated innovative new techniques, but only earned him five dollars. Soon after, however, he met a young lyricist named Irving Ceaser. Together they composed a number of songs including “Swanee,” which sold more than a million copies.
In the same year as “Swanee,” Gershwin collaborated with Arthur L. Jackson and Buddy De Sylva on his first complete Broadway musical, “La, La Lucille”. Over the course of the next four years, Gershwin wrote forty-five songs; among them were “Somebody Loves Me” and “Stairway to Paradise,” as well as a twenty-five-minute opera, “Blue Monday.” Composed in five days, the piece contained many musical clichés, but it also offered hints of developments to come.
In 1924, George collaborated with his brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin, on a musical comedy “Lady Be Good”. It included such standards as “Fascinating Rhythm” and “The Man I Love.” It was the beginning of a partnership that would continue for the rest of the composer’s life. Together they wrote many more successful musicals including “Oh Kay!” and “Funny Face”, staring Fred Astaire and his sister Adele. While continuing to compose popular music for the stage, Gershwin began to lead a double life, trying to make his mark as a serious composer.
When he was 25 years old, his jazz-influenced “Rhapsody in Blue” premiered in New York’s Aeolian Hall at the concert, “An Experiment in Music.” The audience included Jascha Heifitz, Fritz Kreisler, Leopold Stokowski, Serge Rachmaninov, and Igor Stravinsky. Gershwin followed this success with his orchestral work “Piano Concerto in F, Rhapsody No. 2″ and “An American in Paris”. Serious music critics were often at a loss as to where to place Gershwin’s classical music in the standard repertoire. Some dismissed his work as banal and tiresome, but it always found favor with the general public.
In the early thirties, Gershwin experimented with some new ideas in Broadway musicals. “Strike Up The Band”, “Let ‘Em Eat Cake”, and “Of Thee I Sing”, were innovative works dealing with social issues of the time. “Of Thee I Sing” was a major hit and the first comedy ever to win the Pulitzer Prize. In 1935 he presented a folk opera “Porgy and Bess” in Boston with only moderate success. Now recognized as one of the seminal works of American opera, it included such memorable songs as “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” “I Loves You, Porgy,” and “Summertime.”
In 1937, after many successes on Broadway, the brothers decided go to Hollywood. Again they teamed up with Fred Astaire, who was now paired with Ginger Rogers. They made the musical film, “Shall We Dance”, which included such hits as “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” and “They Can’t Take That Away From Me.” Soon after came “A Damsel in Distress”, in which Astaire appeared with Joan Fontaine. After becoming ill while working on a film, he had plans to return to New York to work on writing serious music. He planned a string quartet, a ballet and another opera, but these pieces were never written. At the age of 38, he died of a brain tumor. Today he remains one of America’s most beloved popular musicians.
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Tony Benn's Funeral.
For all those outside the UK, this man courts controversy like no one else.
website: www.svenloach.org/
Sven's extras Flickr site
The George Washington Bridge Fort Lee, New Jersey on the west side of the Hudson as seen from J. Hood Wright Park in Manhattan.
Movie trivia: Before moving to Los Angeles for better light the studio that would become 20th Century Fox did a lot of filming in Fort Lee. The word 'cliffhanger' arose from the studio filming a number of serials that ended with a woman tenaciously clinging to the edge of the cliff that’s to the left of the bridge (only to be rescued by the hero in the next episode).
The George Hotel is famous as the birth place of Rugby League Football because the meeting that founded it was held at the hotel in 1895.
In Concert in Vancouver in 1974
25/02/1943 - 29/11/2001
"If I Needed Someone" by yours truly www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC8ZKm-4N0c