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I often pass George on my drive to East New York, panhandling at a busy corner, weaving in and out of cars. Today I was walking, and when he saw me with my camera, he gave a big smile, stretched out his arms, and said "Take a picture of me."
Sixty five and originally from Puerto Rico, George lives in a homeless shelter not far from the intersection. He has been homeless for most of the last twenty years, having no family left in the states and a few run ins with the law. He messed with drugs long ago, but now he only drinks here and there.
When I asked him how he wanted to be described he said, "as everyone calls me, Anciano, or old man."
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1-3. Fired clay black-topped beakers, pre-dynastic Egypt (Naqada culture) c. 4000 - 3200 BC.
4. The left hand of a mummy with a blue faience amulet, New Egyption Kingdom (probably 18th dynasty), c. 1350 - 1250 BC.
5. Ushabti, servant of the deceased in the afterlife, in mummy position, arms at chest, hands together holding a crook and flail, Late Dynastic or Ptolemaic Egypt, c. 600 - 100 BC.
Originally a lot taller this statue of George 111 was too close to a nearby WW2 RAF bomber base's approach pattern. The RAF decided to blow it up to eliminate the danger posed to aircraft, the top section was recovered and placed in the grounds of Lincoln castle where this image was taken.
The derelict George Lamb Memorial Chapel, morning of 15/4/15. Just a few short weeks after the issue of a compulsory purchase order.
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George Barbier (1882–1932) became one of the most renowned French Art Deco illustrators after his exhibition of ninety costume drawings at the Galerie Boutet de Monval in Paris. Being a distinguished artist of the Art Deco movement, he created fashion designs for several leading couturiers and fashion houses during the time. Barbier was widely acclaimed for the design of costumes, jewelry, wallpaper, and glasswork. His creations were published in famous magazines including Gazette du Bon Ton, La Vie Parisienne, and Vogue. We have digitally enhanced his magnificent fashion plates from the gilded jazz age of 1920s for you to download for free and use under the CC0 license.
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Accession Number: 1997:1957:0001
Maker: Nadar (1820-1910)
Title: Georges Sand
Date: ca. 1860
Medium: woodburytype print ca. 1877
Dimensions: 23.2 x 18.7 cm.
George Eastman House Collection
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Another image from Crich Tramway's World War 2 Weekend but this time of the amazing George Formby lookalike who did some singing in the bandstand tent.
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It’s Christmas Eve, and like in all the movies, it’s snowing with many of our favourites having come out to watch the morning goods trundle through before they all head to the pub. What’s so special about this train, I’m not sure, but I needed to write something to establish today’s post.
And much to my surprise, and quite likely yours too if you’re a regular reader of my drivel, it would appear that Farmer George and Deidre Dinkle, flirty darling of the butter blending department have finally got together after all this time. Phew, it was getting rather tiresome, so, 1, 2, 3 … aaaarrrhhhh, bless.
You’ll notice that most are dressed to suit the weather, but not George or Deidre. But I’ve since found out, having never spoken to them until a short while ago, that they’re both from Yorkshire, so this is like summer. Readers and viewers of this post from the grim north, I’m sure will confirm that a coat, hat and scarf is just for those namby pamby bloody southerners.
To the left, Arthritic Arthur is struggling a little with his joints, but hopefully as soon at the train has passed, Deliberation Dave will guide him to the pub for a bit of boozy lubricant to loosen him up.
Posh photographer ‘Oh Dear Boy’ Ivan Locksmith, is standing next to Barry Bullhead with his back to us photographing the passing train on his trusty Rolleiflex. Barry for once is just enjoying the moment, but I’m sure will be back to his old ways at The Ministry of Misery as soon as the festive season is over.
Outside the pub you’ll notice a 3 wheeled Scammell ‘Mechanical Horse’, for Dizzie Lizzie’s latest job is dropping off ale to local pubs. Lizzie, as I’m sure many of you know by now, only hangs on to a job for a week or two, this being her 17th job since September. And if you look closely, it would appear that Neil is proposing to her, but it’s most likely that he’s just grovelling for something - the snivelling little tick. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him stand up to be honest. Anyway, Lizzie is married to an accountant with aspirations of becoming a lion tamer.
Local cad and ladies’ man, Terry Tuttle-Thomas-Smythe is stood next to his Triumph Roadster in his standard ‘Hello Ladies’ pose. Once Neil has scuttled away on all fours, Terry will turn his attention to Lizzie, hoping that a quick spin in his roadster she’ll find more appealing than watching hubby get chased by lions at the nearby zoo.
And finally, Hubert the conversational Latin speaking horse is giving Harry the Hammer some tips on how to swear in Latin for when he stubs his thumb - such a clever horse.
GEORGE FREEMAN QUARTET - live@inntoene Festival 04.06.2017 - weitere Fotos unter:
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Jazz am Bauernhof
Besetzung:
George Freeman: guitar
Osian Roberts: sax
Jan Korinek: hammond organ
Jeff Boudroux: drums
This is George, he's deaf now, he's 15 years old or so, but he's very smart and knows sign language. He was on "That dog can dance" in 2013.
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How many cats that played with Charlie Parker, Lester Young, John Coltrane, Johnny Griffin, Gene Ammons and Richard "Groove" Holmes are not only still around, but still making music...still gigging...still having a ball...and still pushing themselves musically? My guess is very few. Here's one: The great jazz guitarist George Freeman. His late brother Bruz Freeman played drums with Hampton Hawes on the fabled "All Night Session" albums. His late brother Von Freeman is a tenor sax legend. His nephew Chico Freeman is a world-renowned multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader and educator. When Gene Ammons passed away in '74, Freeman decided to head back to Chicago to take care of his mother-a move he never regretted but one that clearly kept him from having the kind of fame and career he so deserved. Since his brother Von's passing in 2012, the 88-year-old George has experienced something of a renaissance. His latest album is "All In The Family" with nephew Chico, who says "I've heard him earlier (in life) playing a lot of notes, playing fast, and he could run through (chord) changes a lot. Now it's like pure – just pure expression of himself. There's no wasted notes in what he plays.The spaces he leaves are equally as important as the notes he plays".
George Corn Tassel (Utsi'dsata) Probably was the son of Cherokee Chief Old Tassel (1738 to 1788). Was a Cherokee (Tsalagi) man illegally tried, convicted, and executed by the State of Georgia on December 24, 1830. This led to the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Worcester v. Georgia, which stated that the states do not have jurisdiction in Native American territories. In 1830 George Corn Tassel was charged with the murder of another Cherokee man named Sanders at Talking Rock Ford while under the influence of alcohol. Talking Rock (now Pickens County, Georgia) was within the Cherokee nation and 50 miles from Hall County. Since the Cherokee Nation was considered sovereign by U.S. law, Corn Tassel should have been tried in a Cherokee court. Corn Tassel was tried on November 22, 1830 in Gainesville, Georgia in Hall County's little 30x50 log Courthouse set in the center of town. A jury of 12 white men found Corn Tassel guilty of murder. Superior Court Judge Augustin Smith Clayton sentenced Corn Tassel to be hanged by the neck until dead. After he was sentenced to be hanged, his Defense counsel asked him how he liked the sentence. He answered that he would “rather go to his own country and be shot.” He was told that could not be done. “Well, then,” he said, “rather than be hung, I will go to Arkansas.” Corn Tassel's case was appealed and went before a “convention of judges" of Georgia superior courts, at that time the Georgia Supreme Court. The judges who denied Corn Tassel's appeal included Augustin S. Clayton (who had himself adjudicated Corn Tassel's case), William Law, William H. Crawford, William H. Holt, L.Q.C. Lamar, Charles Daugherty, C.B. Strong, G.E. Thomas, L. Warren, John W. Hooper, and H. Warner. At the request of Cherokee Chief John Ross, U.S. Attorney-General William Wirt brought up Corn Tassel’s appeal before the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court accepted the appeal and issued a mandate forbidding Corn Tassel’s execution. The Court also ordered the state to produce the records of the trial. They would also order Georgia Governor George Gilmer to appear before them in January 1831. Gilmer responded by calling together an emergency session of the state's General Assembly on Dec. 22, 1830. In that session, laws were enacted nullifying any contracts between Georgia and the Cherokee people. Governor George Gilmer refused the Supreme Court's demand for trial records and proceeded with Corn Tassel's hanging on Dec. 24, 1830. On Christmas Eve morning, Sheriff Jacob Eberhart took Corn Tassel from the Hall County Jail in an oxcart to gallows erected for the hanging two blocks south of the log courthouse in a field on the end of Collage Ave. between Main and Grove streets. In a story published in the Gainesville Eagle on May 11, 1888, an eye-witness to the event recorded …What a day; cloudy, dark, rain, hail and sleet through the entire day. Every road leading to the town was thronged at an early hour with men, women and children from all parts of the county and many from adjoining counties until a vast multitude had assembled to witness the death of a human being while suspended between heaven and earth. Other accounts state that Corn Tassel spoke with “great calmness” to those assembled for the event. Some three hundred of Corn Tassel's friends were on hand to bid him farewell…. The prisoner (who had ridden to the site sitting on his own coffin in the back of a ox cart ) was ordered by the Sheriff to rise and stand upon his coffin, on which for some time he had been sitting. The arms were tied down, the cap drawn down over the face, the ox cart was driven forward leaving the body suspended in the air. A few shrugs of the shoulders, a little drawing up of the feet, and all was still and within twenty minutes the doctors in attendance pronounced him dead. When he was cut down from the scaffold, his body was given to fellow Cherokees who buried him "several hundred yards away," the witness wrote. On this occasion a conflict was anticipated by the whites, and a strong guard was provided, but the Cherokee peaceably dispersed after Corn Tassel was buried. So distraught were some that they were said to have gotten drunk that night. One froze to death on Soapstone Hill, which is the present site of Alta Vista Cemetery. Corn Tassel's gravesite remains a mystery, but he is probably near South Bradford Street. This was brought on by the discovery of gold near Dahlonega Georgia in 1828, or the Dahlonega Gold Rush. Then came the Cherokee removal in 1838 that caused the death of Approximately 2,000 to 6,000 of the 16,543 Cherokee and is called ( The Trail of Tears ). In 1966, Gainesville, Georgia, held its first annual crafts festival named the Corn Tassel Festival. The name continued to be in use until 1993 when, after the shameful discovery of what the State of Georgia did to Corn Tassel, the name was changed, by the Gainesville Jaycees, to Mule Camp Festival after the Cherokee trader outpost of the same name which became Gainesville Georgia.
Photo of Topp Scout is at Mule Camp Spring.
Ffestiniog Railway Double Fairlie no 12 David Lloyd George head a train of Victorian coaches past Rhiw Goch farm crossing
George Washington Bridge towers illuminated for MLK Day 2018. Nikkor Q 200mm f/4 @ f/8. Shot from Yonkers PIer.
President George Washington thought political parties were self-serving tyrants that exacerbated tribal and regional differences for their own benefit at the expense of the country, e.g. North or South, city or rural. In his farewell address, America's first outgoing President asked Americans to step outside the hypnotic spell, which he called the "awe", of political parties and party leaders in order to serve the greater good of the country and its citizen government. "Unawed" would mean carefully deliberated, uninfluenced by party hyperbole and seduction. Washington declared to his fellow countrymen:
"This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support. Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.
However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
–Declared President George Washington in his Farewell Address to the nation in 1796.
I give George regular hugs like she is my little baby but Sometimes I forget that she is a vampire Ouch...
GEORGE FREEMAN QUARTET - live@inntoene Festival 04.06.2017 - weitere Fotos unter:
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Jazz am Bauernhof
Besetzung:
George Freeman: guitar
Osian Roberts: sax
Jan Korinek: hammond organ
Jeff Boudroux: drums
“In affectionate remembrance of George Ball who died January 18th 1891 aged 58 years.
“Blessed Are The Dead Which Die In The Lord”
Also Sarah Ann the beloved wife of the above who died January 2nd 1905 aged 74 years.
“Peace Perfect Peace”
Original caption: George Harrison, 22, Hugs his bride, model Patti Boyd, 21, after they were married at the register office in Epsom, January 21st. Harrison became the third member of the popular singing group to get married. Paul McCartney is the only unmarried beatle. January 21, 1966 Epsom, England, UK
American Arcade card.
George Montgomery (1916-2000) was an American actor who starred in over eighty films throughout his sixty-year career. He starred in many low-budget Westerns and War films.
George Montgomery Letz was born in Brady, Montana, in 1916. George was the youngest of 15 children of German immigrants from Ukraine and was raised on a Montana homestead. He was a boxing champion at the University of Montana, where he majored in architecture and interior design. Dropping out a year later, he decided to take up boxing more seriously. He moved to California, where he was coached by ex-heavyweight world champion James J. Jeffries. While in Hollywood, he came to the attention of the studios. Montgomery was an expert rider and was hired as a stuntman in 1935. After doing this for four years, George was offered a contract at 20th Century Fox in 1939, but found himself largely confined to leads in B-Westerns. He did not secure a part in anything even remotely like a prestige picture until his co-starring role in Roxie Hart (William A. Wellman, 1942), opposite Ginger Rogers. Next, in Orchestra Wives (Archie Mayo, 1942), he played the love interest for Ann Rutherford, but the biggest stars were Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. George attracted as much publicity for his acting as for his liaisons with glamorous stars, like Ginger Rogers, Hedy Lamarr (to whom he was briefly engaged) and singer Dinah Shore, whom he married in 1943. He left Hollywood in 1943 to enlist in the US Army Air Corps. After his discharge in 1946, he went back to Hollywood and resumed his career.
In 1947, George Montgomery got his first serious break when he was cast as Raymond Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe in The Brasher Doubloon (John Brahm, 1947). I.S. Mowis at IMDb: "Reviewers, however, compared his performance unfavorably with that of Humphrey Bogart and found the film 'pallid' overall. So it was back in the saddle for George. Unable to shake his image as a cowboy actor, he starred in scores of films with titles like Belle Starr's Daughter (1948), Dakota Lil (1950), Jack McCall, Desperado (1953), and Masterson of Kansas (1954) at Columbia, and for producer Edward Small at United Artists. When not cleaning up the Wild West with his six-shooter, he branched out into adventure films set in exotic locales." For two years, he starred in the TV series Cimarron City (1958-1959). He was also notable as Harry Quartermain in Watusi (Kurt Neumann, 1959). During the 1960s, he appeared in the War film Battle of the Bulge (Ken Annakin, 1965) starring Henry Fonda. He also wrote, directed and starred in several long-forgotten, low-budget War films made in the Philippines. After he retired from the film business, he devoted himself to his love of painting, furniture-making and sculpting bronze busts, including one of his close friend Ronald Reagan. George Montgomery died in Rancho Mirage, California, in 2000. He had two children with Dinah Shore, daughter Melissa Montgomery and adopted son John 'Jody' David Montgomery.
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This was the first ever picture that I took of George. This was his first night with us.
He's changed so much.
Although just a few yards from, and parallel to, Princes Street, George Street in Edinburgh always had a more staid and sober demeanour than its commercialised near neighbour. Onced again showing an assortment of local authority crests, LRT's 359's restrained livery complements the grey stone buildings.
Vehicles of this batch first entered service at about the time of the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, and many were initially used for athletes' transport between the Games Village (which became Edinburgh University's Pollock Halls of Residence) and the games venues. I recall long queues of these buses outside Meadowbank stadium.