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Minneapolis, Minnesota
January 20, 2017
About 3000 people marched through Minneapolis to protest the inauguration of Republican President Donald Trump. The people gathered in south Minneapolis and then marched downtown to City Hall. They criticized Trump's policies on women, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ people, workers, and the environment.
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SS Atlantic. This is the ship on which my family and I traveled from Southhampton, England to Quebec City, Canada in May, 1954. I was 7 years old. "You can't go home again" ...Thomas Wolfe
As immigrants from the Netherlands raised in an apartment, our first rental house had an actual back yard, and my mom and dad and I plantede our first gardin at 9 years old
After 14 years of coming to and from Canada on various visas and work/study permits, and many many hours of paperwork, we landed back at Vancouver yesterday and got a stamp in our passport with no expiration date - just an "I" for immigrant.
The Hollands Grist Mill was built by Henry Hollands, an English immigrant, in the early 1880s. The mill's design is English in origin. It is a hexagonal wood structure, forty-four feet high, with four, seven-by-thirty foot blades. At the base, the diameter is twenty-four feet which narrows to twelve feet at the top. Heavy timbers form the frame which is strengthened with cross braces, filled in with two-by-four studs and clad with clapboards. Two doors face each other across the structure and the interior is lit by four windows placed on two opposite walls, two at the work level and two midway up the wall. Due to the tapering of the walls, the doors and windows which are flush with the walls at their lower sills, project beyond the wall plane. A large gear, supported by brackets and covered by an apron of vertical boards, encircles the top of the walls under the housing of the wind shaft and brake wheel. The domed roof, surrounding catwalks and blades originally pivoted to allow the blades to face the wind. New blades were installed in 1978 were reproduced from the originals. The small blades on the far side from, the main blades are not original, and date from a 1954 restoration. This mechanism originally was mounted on a complex, frame which could be used to lift these blades above the roof, and it functioned as a rudder to keep the main blades facing the prevailing winds. The grindstones, drive shafts, and wood drive wheels are all in place. The mill ceased operations in 1907.
The mill was moved twice, both times in connection with its preservation. In 1928, the mill was moved from its original site because of increased industrial development nearby. Following damage by a windstorm in 1977 the mill was moved to the grounds of the Milbank Mutual Insurance Company. The mill needed repairs and continuous maintenance. A plan was developed to restore and maintain the mill. Restoration work took place between 1997 and 2008. (Portions of text adapted from the National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form for the Hollands Grist Mill.)
Hollands Grist Mill is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
German postcard by Verlag Ross, Berlin, no. 642/1. Photo: Union. Pola Negri in Sumurun (Ernst Lubitsch, 1920).
Polish film actress Pola Negri (1897-1987) achieved fame and notoriety as a femme fatale in German and American silent films between the 1910s and 1930s. Negri was an overnight sensation in Ernst Lubitsch' Madame du Barry / Passion (1919). She moved to Hollywood where she lived in a palace, modeled after the White House.
Pola Negri was born Barbara Apolonia Chałupiec in Lipno (some sources say Janowa), Russian Empire (present-day Poland), in 1897. Her father, Juraj Chałupiec, was a Slovak immigrant tinsmith. Her mother had to make a living alone after her father, was arrested by the Russians and sent to a Siberian prison camp, where he died. In 1902, mother and her only daughter moved to Warsaw, where they lived in poverty. As a teenager, Pola auditioned for the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet. She was accepted. As a ballerina, she showed great promise until she contracted tuberculosis and was forced to cut short her dance career. She switched to the Warsaw Imperial Academy of Dramatic Arts and became an actress. Her triumphant debut as Hedwig in Henrik Ibsen's 'The Wild Duck' brought her to the attention of the prestigious and daring Little Theatre of Philharmonic Hall. After a brief stay, Pola moved on to The Rozmaitosci, the national theatre of Poland. By now, Pola had become a popular and well-known actress in Warsaw, but the outbreak of World War I interrupted her rise and left her and her mother in dire financial straits. By the time the war receded, Pola had signed with the Polish film company Sphinx and debuted as a dancer in Niewolnica zmyslów / Slave of the Senses (Ryszard Ordynski, Jan Pawlowski, 1914). She appeared in a variety of films, including Żona / The Wife (Aleksander Hertz, 1915), Bestia / Beast (Aleksander Hertz, 1915), and Studenci / Students (Aleksander Hertz, 1916). During that time, she adopted the pseudonym ‘Pola Negri’, after the Italian poetess Ada Negri. As the situation in Warsaw stabilised, the city's theatres soon became active again, and Pola gained the chance of a lifetime. David Ordynski, a Polish director currently working with Max Reinhardt at his Deutsches Theater in Berlin, returned to Warsaw to stage the Polish premiere of Reinhardt's 'Sumurun'. This is the story of a mulatto dancer bought in the slave market for the Sheik but is loved by his son. She kills the Sheik in self-defense. Pola's success in the role of the slave girl took her to Berlin.
In Berlin, Pola Negri found considerable success at the Deutsches Theater. She met German fellow actor-turned-director Ernst Lubitsch, who became famous for the ‘Lubitsch Touch’, the skillful blending of sly wit and innuendo that confounded even the strictest censor in the 1920s. Lubitsch introduced Pola to Paul Davidson, head of Germany's Union Film Alliance, and together they made such films as Die Augen der Mumie Ma / The Eyes of Mummy Ma (Ernst Lubitsch, 1918), Carmen / Gypsy Blood (Ernst Lubitsch, 1918) based on the Bizet opera, a film version of Sumurun / One Arabian Night (Ernst Lubitsch, 1920), and Die Bergkatze / The Wildcat (Ernst Lubitsch, 1921). The characters that Pola played were strong, earthy, passionate women - full of fire, and her roles to date were of women whose will and ardour were equal to Negri's own. While Pola also hit it big in such non-Lubitsch films as Arme Violetta / Camille (Paul L. Stein, 1920) and Sappho (Dimitri Buchowetzki, 1921), it was their pairing in the smash hit Madame du Barry / Passion (Ernst Lubitsch, 1919) that made them an overnight sensation. It was such a success in the USA that by 1922, Negri and Lubitsch both signed contracts with Famous Players and headed for Hollywood.
In 1923 Pola Negri landed the role of Maritana in The Spanish Dancer (Herbert Brenon, 1923) with Antonio Moreno and Wallace Beery. Her exotic style of glamour proved popular with filmgoers. They equally liked her next productions, Bella Donna (George Fitzmaurice, 1923) and The Cheat (George Fitzmaurice, 1923). Negri lived in a palace in Los Angeles, modelled after the White House. Forbidden Paradise (Ernst Lubitsch, 1924) with Adolphe Menjou and Hotel Imperial (Mauritz Stiller, 1927) were two of her most successful films. However, her vamp style began to go out of vogue and her popularity quickly began to fade. Three things conspired to end her career in Hollywood. The display that she put on at the funeral of Rudolph Valentino in 1926, changed the public mood towards her. The Hays Office codes would not allow filming the 'scenes of passion' and 'excessive and lustful kissing' that made her a sex-siren European star. And finally, her thick accent would not play in the sound pictures that were coming into vogue. In 1928, Negri made her last film for Paramount Pictures entitled The Woman from Moscow (Ludwig Berger, 1928), opposite actor Norman Kerry. The film was only Negri's second talkie (the first being Loves of an Actress (Rowland V. Lee, 1928) opposite Nils Asther, and Paramount didn’t renew her contract. Having divorced Eugeniusz Dąbski in 1921, Negri married the self-claimed Georgian prince Serge Mdivani in 1927. In 1929, Negri lost most of her fortune in the Wall Street Crash. The couple divorced, and she left Hollywood for Great Britain to make the drama The Way of Lost Souls / The Woman He Scorned (Paul Czinner, 1929).
After 1930 Pola Negri worked mainly in England and Germany, where she acted in films for the Joseph Goebbels-controlled Ufa. Mazurka (Willi Forst, 1935) gained much popularity in Germany and became one of Adolf Hitler's favourite films. She fled Germany in 1938 after Nazi officials labeled her as having "part Jewish" ancestry. She moved to France, and then in 1941 she sailed from Portugal to New York and was temporarily detained at Ellis Island. After her release, she eventually returned to Hollywood. She briefly appeared in Hi Diddle Diddle (Andrew L. Stone, 1943), though her career was essentially over. In 1951, Negri became a naturalised citizen of the United States. Her final film appearance was in the Walt Disney film The Moon-Spinners (James Neilson, 1964), with Hayley Mills. The same year she received an honorary award from the German film industry for her career. Negri lived her remaining years in San Antonio, Texas, with her companion, Texan heiress, and composer, Margaret West. In 1970, she published her autobiography 'Memoirs of a Star' (1970). Negri maintained her flamboyant persona to the end of her life and was often compared to the character role she once had turned down: Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard. Pola Negri died in 1987, in San Antonio, USA, at the age of 90. Her death was caused by pneumonia, however, she was also suffering from a brain tumor (for which she had refused treatment).
Sources: Glen Pringle and Kally Mavromatis (Silent Star of April), Tony Fontana (IMDb), Denny Jackson (IMDb), David Gasten (Pola Negri Appreciation Site), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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At the protest at Donald Trump banning Muslim's entry into the U.S. at Downing Street, London, 30 Jan 2017.
Creator: Higlett, Williams.
Location: Marburg, Queensland.
Description: Many German immigrants came to Queensland in the 1860s. Rev. H. Windolf settled at Marburg, also looking after the Lowood Church. A second building was erected in Marburg in the township in 1905, under the ministry Pastor H. Windolf. At different times the churches had ceased their connection with the Baptist Association, and Pastor Blum was instrumental in forming them all into a Union under the name of the Conference of German Baptist Churches in Queensland. (Information taken from Baptists in Australia, 2000, retrieved 18 August 2006, from www.bwa-baptist-heritage.org/bap-ger.htm). Image number: APE-064-0001-0009
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Watch video here Helen Villagracia, who emigrated from the Philippines to the U.S. six years ago, was wearing a blue and red Superman t-shirt and holding an American flag as she relaxed on a folding chair in front of the Water Tower on July 4th. The Bocce Club’s Independence Day festivities were in full gear- a bike parade, games, magic performance and free hot dogs and ice cream. I asked her what makes her patriotic, this not being her home country. The freedom here, she said, to be who she is. She is lesbian and suffered discrimination in the Philippines, including in employment. Here she works as a caregiver for children. With Villagracia and helping her respond to my questions was Aurora Hermoso, a friend of Villagracia’s partner who was at work that day. Hermoso is a nurse who was one of thirty Filipino nurses whose immigrant visas were sponsored six years ago by New Cortland Elder Services in exchange for a three-year commitment to work for the company.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams tours the City's Asylum Seeker Resource Navigation Center in Manhattan on Thursday, September 15, 2022. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
People seem to hate the girl child.
Worst people hate the harshness of my words on the girl child, what I have done to earn their ire fails me, some people shadow boxing on my views on the girl child, sparring over a kind of tree that perhaps does not grow in their garden.
I have a thought why you guys don’t want immigrants from the 3rd world, you don’t want your powdered nose to be dragged into a mire of the stories you read in newspapers.. most of them are true..
I talk of India nothing else concerns me, no, not even China, I know a family living on the streets of Bhendi Bbazar, on the pavement and on the main road, no ambushed by lane, this lady sells gemstones on a charpoy, a cane and twine bed,, she is robust and has about a dozen kids, big ones, the sons are all into drugs, smoking, and the daughters are like canned juice, the glass ones break very fast, the daughters have kids, daughters of course, one of them is about the safe side of 8, but looks grown up. all these folks live on the pavement, just where the best bus comes and empties the passengers every 5 minutes. all seeing the growth of the growing girls, the sons wives too sleep here, funny the sons wives are ugly as sin,. not the original sin.
Every friday I come to the flea market the children start all kinds of poses to tempt me shoot them, a new child and they will literally throw her in my arms for the magic of a photo, so imagine in complete public view 24/7 no walls no windows no doors,, no privacy ..a cage of humanity in an open zoo.
A human zoological garden, this Bhendi Bazar area is like Harlem, slightly meaner no rules, no returns, I am very fond of this 8 yr girl and she will be doing her home work or her granny will be combing her hair I often ask her about her studies and she gives me a beatific smile.
They trust me and I am a spender on stones, I keep my distance, on the pavement sits a somber public lavatory ,where the adults do their business the kids do it on the roads, this family is on the same pavement since 35 years or more, I learnt one golden rule don’t ask too may questions, I haven’t shot this family for about a year now.. and the other headache is the crowds; they just gather around you, a unique Indian quality and wont disperse. If i am shooting they will see that they squeeze into the frame.. as simple as that, now I ask you what is the future of th 8 yr old girl. I wont answer.
Then back at Bandra are the flower girls, the flag girls, the traffic gang kids, real good kids, but they know they have to produce fast ,another kid to add to the labor force, a kid slung on a kids shoulder brings in good healthy returns, I have seen with my inner eyes the very smile of innocence ,chubby kids turn into mothers, and the kids, the little ones 2 or 3months are drugged so they don’t feel the pain.. and what is pain in the dictionary of the underprivileged .
Pain is the name for hunger, here God does not exist, their God is Man who gives them charity and a charity of turning them into adult in a single night. I used to know a guy who could not do if he didn’t sleep with these women, he used to hunt the commercial ones at the up market Juhu beach..
Then you have the depraved middle class migrants, they bring little kids from their home towns and then,, when the wife is away do everything the wife wont do and the kid takes it lying down literally., another problem if you try to mix with the kids then they slap pedophilia charges too, but it exists in Goa, every where, and some get caught some go scott free.., the name of the game is money..
Sometimes the wolf is not a stranger but the school teacher, the relatives and the servants at home,,, demoralize the innocence that it never blooms again, E A my new friend at Buzznet told me too many pictures I post lose their impact.. if it was about impact I would be in bed with the Mrs and cajoling her instead of finger fucking my key board, I cant see the written word.. I can see an image... the imagery of lost childhood. I am not a writer, it all began with, you guys, imagine a dozen words in the sling and I am attacking goliath...the goliath of a sleeping, conscience,
The images for this journal will stun you...as they stun me I put my soul to the view finder,
This was my first written post all in large font when I set out to write the first page of my brand new Buzznet journal ..I have like the Virginia Slims come a long way.. this was written in August 2005.
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Immigrant Rights Day WE ARE AMERICA March down Constitution Avenue in front of the US Capitol in Washington DC on Thursday evening, 7 September 2006 by Elvert Barnes Protest Photography
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LAH489E was new in February 1967 to Eastern Counties as their FLF489. In March 1973 it was sent to Eastern Scottish in exchange for a Bristol VRT, and here it is late in life as AA988H, although allocated to Airdrie (SOL) it carries a window sticker for Balerno, suggesting it was covering a New Street diagram.
Ron Doig image ©Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust