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“Others will create your reality if you can’t make it for yourself.”
― James doty, Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
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Die International Neuroscience Institute GmbH (INI) in Hannover im Stadtteil Groß-Buchholz ist eine neurochirurgische Privatklinik, die 1998 von dem Neurochirurgen Madjid Samii gegründet wurde. Sie dient der Diagnostik und Behandlung von Erkrankungen des menschlichen Nervensystems. Daneben verfügt die Klinik über Einrichtungen für (tier-)experimentelle und klinische Forschung. Wegen ihrer außergewöhnlichen Architektur wird die Klinik im Volksmund auch „Hirn von Hannover“ genannt.
The International Neuroscience Institute GmbH (INI) in Hannover in the district of Groß-Buchholz is a neurosurgical private clinic founded in 1998 by the neurosurgeon Madjid Samii. It serves the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the human nervous system. In addition, the clinic has facilities for (animal) experimental and clinical research. Because of its extraordinary architecture, the clinic is popularly known as "brain of Hannover".
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Spontane Tour in meine Heimatstadt Hannover unternommen.
Auf die kleine Anfrage erklärte sich Heiko Röbke sofort bereit auf einen Fotowalk. Das hat mich sehr gefreut.
Besten Dank an Heiko.....
Die International Neuroscience Institute GmbH in Hannover im Stadtteil Groß-Buchholz ist eine neurochirurgische Privatklinik, die 1998 von dem Neurochirurgen Madjid Samii gegründet wurde. Sie dient der Diagnostik und Behandlung von Erkrankungen des menschlichen Nervensystems.
The International Neuroscience Institute GmbH in Hanover in the Groß-Buchholz district is a neurosurgical private clinic that was founded in 1998 by the neurosurgeon Madjid Samii. It is used to diagnose and treat diseases of the human nervous system.
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Die International Neuroscience Institute GmbH (INI) in Hannover im Stadtteil Groß-Buchholz ist eine neurochirurgische Privatklinik, die 1998 von dem Neurochirurgen Madjid Samii gegründet wurde. Sie dient der Diagnostik und Behandlung von Erkrankungen des menschlichen Nervensystems. Daneben verfügt die Klinik über Einrichtungen für (tier-)experimentelle und klinische Forschung. Wegen ihrer außergewöhnlichen Architektur wird die Klinik im Volksmund auch „Hirn von Hannover“ genannt.
The International Neuroscience Institute GmbH (INI) in Hannover in the district of Groß-Buchholz is a neurosurgical private clinic founded in 1998 by the neurosurgeon Madjid Samii. It serves the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the human nervous system. In addition, the clinic has facilities for (animal) experimental and clinical research. Because of its extraordinary architecture, the clinic is popularly known as "brain of Hannover".
Website: www.heiko-roebke-photography.de
Part Two :*
Taken ‘& Edited Byy Mee (Different Edit ;p)
Dedicated To My Sister , Browns (Future NeuroSurgeon *Inshallah*)
- - May Yuu Be The Most Sucsessful ‘& Prettiest Surgeon Poeple Have Ever Layed Eyes On - -
I♥You :*
I Hope Y'aalll Like It :*
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My daughter took this picture of Hilda and I, had it printed and framed and gave it to me for my birthday.
Update on Hilda. We called an ambulance and took her to a hospital ER. They took CT scans and found two fractures in her spine plus severe arthritis. They gave her a back brace and sent her home. We have to find a neurosurgeon to give her shots in the fractures to cement them and stabilize them. That has been a nightmare. We see her primary Dr. tomorrow and then get an MRI. then hopefully her primary Dr. will get her an appointment with a Neurosurgeon. I will be off Flickr until we get her some relief.
As the whole 2024 had its ups and downs,
my heart so longed for winter, knew it has to come, the nature aligned with the lives and gave us storms every now and then. and then, just as I wanted, it came, Alhamdulillah :)
I'd like to give an account of whatever happened and why I couldn't come here much -
the yr kinda started with row in a family matter
I was depressed a whole January, mostly bedridden and while missing many classes in the toughest year
I wasn't allowed to sit for some of my exams (and attended altogher later which worsened my health at the end)
there was a fire that in my building during vacation when everyone was out but I didn't go, so I caught it first saving from the spread but later got busted instead
I fell in love for the first time
I had been in love with whatever I was doing during free times, attended many surgeries.
the country had issues and we had to fight in the hospital during casualty days. I was homeless for some time and stayed with some friends and in the hospital.
I got my heart broken so many little times.
I've been bullied by toxic people in profile ground too, facing how professional life is for the first time, which worsened my health again.
I made many good friends and well-wishers too.
I learnt many skills while couldn't attend exams, so it wouldn't go to waste.
I think at the same time I was ahead of the curve and got lost.
So many in and around my life judged me and got me wrong too. Lastly I got into fight with many due to my temper and attacks, but also made amends as much as I could.
I read some great books - When breathe becomes air (written by dying neurosurgeon that I'd recommend every doc and patients to read), Man's search for meanings(written by a concentration camp survivor psychiatrist), some stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Metamorphosis, currently The midnight library.
Long story short, I survived :)
Now attending exams but weren't up to my satisfaction, and still in love :)
Winter has warmed my soul
Send my some prayers so I get rid of health issues soon, and get through these exams.
How was your year?
What are the books that you have read and loved?
How's the weather?
Sending love and well-wishes to all 💕🍂🍃
I was telling chip here that our 23 year old niece had to have a craniotomy today as she had a tumor with a cyst attached and it was a tricky one because of the proximity to her optic nerve. I asked him to say a little prayer for her.
She was wheeled in to the OR at 0800 this morning and as of 1600 she was just coming out of anesthetic with an excellent prognosis from her neurosurgeon to my brother-in-law and sister-in-law. The tumour was benign and she will have a CT scan later and more tests but we are all happy that she is out of surgery. Her mom and dad will be able to see her in about 4 - 6 hours or so. It has been a long trying day for them no doubt.
I may not always get to thank you for every fave or reply to a comment that you might leave here on my image but, just know each comment is read and very much appreciated. .
of the beautiful Red Admiral butterfly out front in God's garden.
I'll be absent tomorrow, tons of labs to get first thing in the AM ... my PCP and two new doctors (Rheumatologist for my life-threatening Autoimmune Diseases I've inherited from Immunotherapy and my new Neurosurgeon in the afternoon for the new tumor in my brain that showed up in my recent Brain MRI).
So I had a little bit of fun today editing and painting and posting.
Trusting in the Lord! PS: My appointment went well. Neurosurgeon wasn't worried. Very small tumor. Will do a few labs but feels confident they will be normal. Then Brain MRI after 2 years. Then 5 years. Then 10 years. All good. Thank You, Jesus! Can I get a Hallelujah!
Part One o:)
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Dedicated To My Sister , Browns (Future NeuroSurgeon *Inshallah*)
I Was Never The Smart One ..
‘& That Was Obvious Y3ni ;p
Bass Yu Always Were Browns *-*
Im So Proud Of Yuu ♥
I'm Not Saying this Cause Im Your Sister,
But Cause Im Your BestFriend !
Don't Ever Give This Dream Away :*
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I♥You :*
I Hope Y'aalll Like It :*
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Thanks to everyone with your thoughts & prayers. Last Friday I suddenly started having serious problems with my eye that led to 2 afternoons at the eye doctor & lots of tests. In the midst of that, our pup who had spine surgery this Spring started having serious health issues and spent a full day at the Vet, then yesterday a long drive to her Neurosurgeon at 6 a.m. Neither of us is out of the woods, but things are certainly looking up!
Thanks to everyone for your kind thoughts & prayers. I really truly plan to catch up today - Lord willing. It's cooler here at last - and we've had some more rain. Lots of good dragonflies out there and Tiger's are still busy. I'm covered up with those caterpillars - that are doing great!
Have a good Friday everyone - I'd love to hear good news or just fun stories ;-) Vicki
>> lady Tiger in my zinnias, North Georgia
Thanks for all the good wishes recently. I appreciate all my Flickr friends tremendously. As you will know I've been moaning about a bad back for years; well, finally I found a neurosurgeon that can help me. I'll be having spinal fusion surgery at the end of October. I have a chance to get my life back to normal and I am thrilled. Three months of hell after the op. to come......but it will be worth with when I come out the other side. Thanks for all the support
An interesting book about how our brains are wired and what can happen when that "wiring" goes wrong. As it was written by a Neurosurgeon it could get a bit bogged down and technical at times but all in all a most educational read.
Can lead to back pain, the chiropractor said. Learn to live with it he says, do exercises, eat right and get plenty of rest too. Ok, I may not be a neurosurgeon, but that seems like a fairly generic prognosis. If dude is sucking up my hard-earned insurance coverage, I wanna hear some 4th and 5th lumbar degeneration terminology, or that really long porosis word being thrown around a few times on my next visit. Take me for a spin around the block in your new Lexus ( that I partially bought ) you cheap prick.
Again, will catch up on comments when I have a chance, between working overtime, and visits to that prick, I have not had much time for Flickr.
When viewed super duper size, you can see some spider mites hanging off the bottom of this plant, tsk tsk. Now to finish off the voodoo doll of you know who……..
This is Connie's sister, (in real life and mini life), Doctor Di and her adopted daughter Dani (my very 1st Ruruko!).
Diane is a neurosurgeon in LL and dates Adrian, (Lauren's neighbor and manager of Isabelle's Antiques), who has a son, Ian who does odd jobs around Lauren's house for extra money.
An oldie from last Spring
I have been way to busy lately to either take photos or do any editing
Found this cleaning up the archives .....so well there you have it
Thanks for the good thoughts, positive energy and prayers for my Mother in law
She is still in the ICU and will be seeing the neurosurgeon sometime this morning
HBW !!
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Well hey again Flickr'ers. I've been MIA for a while now and I wanted to give everyone an update on how I'm doing.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, back almost 9 weeks ago, I suffered a herniated / ruptured disc in my cervical spine (C-5, C-6). It's been a long road back to reasonably good health. I'm still not even close to 100% and the struggle with pain continues every day. With any luck, my neurosurgeon thinks I'll be back to myself within 6-8 weeks after surgery (scheduled for April 3rd at the moment).
Some of you guys had sent me some messages with some good wishes and I wanted to say thanks. Also, I wanted people to know, the ninja lives still.
Today though, I had to struggle with the camera a bit. All my pain is on my right side so manipulating a camera is a bit difficult for me, but today was so nice, an exception had to be made. After such a long time, it felt like I was missing my touch a bit. I'll be back in the saddle again in no time though. Spring heals all right ? ;)
Canon 7D | Canon EF 135mm f/2L
Lightroom 3 | Alien Skin Exposure 3
So I went and saw the neurosurgeon again today and he basically told me to keep taking the B12 supplement since my B12 levels are low and it can take months to see the effect of taking them. I can handle that.
But then he said the unthinkable...he said I should stop drinking for 3 months to see if that has any effect on it! THREE MONTHS WITH NO BEER, are you kidding me :-(
But I guess I gotta do it to see if it will help make things better.
So I go back to my regular Doc in a month to see if my B12 levels are improving. So it's just more waiting.
I wanted to thank all of you once again for your support, it really helps :-)
Random Fact: I will not be quitting drinking till next Monday! I have a growler and a half that I got a few days ago. No way I am putting that wonderful goodness to waste...heh.
Yes I am making a joke of a serious condition but thats my way of dealing with it so please don't think I am not taking this serious
America
the experiment in democracy................
where congressman and senators are all millionaires
where they fight instead of unite
where feelings mean more than REAL things
where reality no longer matters
Where the presidents since GHB have never even held a gun to defend our nation...
George W. beat the BRITISH got them to leave us alone
no KINGS or QUEENS for AMERICA
and yet ask
a YOUNG person about this history and they would shrug their shoulders and say who gives a crap!
Where without a billion dollars you cant even run for president
Where greed and "entitlement" has finally hit us in the asses really bad.....
Where those who are rich and criminals themselves get away literally with murder and are pardoned by presidents.
where DISTRICT ATTORNEYS let murderers go free!
where we out source instead of hiring our own
Where we award athletes, actors and other non talented entertainers incredible, OBSCENELY enormous sums of money
BUT
cops and firemen get paid relatively little bucks though they put their lives on the line ....
and a baseball player gets 1/3 of a billion dollars to hit a spherical object with a wooden stick
while a NEUROSURGEON takes out a tumor from your spinal cord and gets nothing near that...........
where a. President was awarded the NOBEL PEACE prize and thousands have died since he took office in the longest unnecessary war in American history.............
America
still in its very very very early stages...........
Photography’s new conscience
The former Middlesex Hospital Chapel was built in 1891–92 within the central courtyard of the Middlesex Hospital. Between 1929 and 1935, the decaying 18th-century hospital building was gradually demolished and rebuilt around the chapel memoirsofametrogirl.com/2017/08/24/fitzrovia-chapel-galle...
The Temple of Wadi el-Sebua. Lake Nasser, Egypt
Wadi el-Sebua Temple was built by Ramesses II in Nubia on the west bank of the Nile. The temple was dedicated to the worship of god Ra- Hor-Akhty, Amon, and Ramsis II as a deified person. It is built out of stones except the sanctuary and the inner vestibules which are carved into the bed rock. The temple consists of a sphinx avenue, an entrance, 3 pylons, 3 courtyards, a hypostyle hall and inner sanctuary. The walls of the temple are decorated with many religion scenes and important relief.
During the Christian Era many parts of it have been converted in to a church. The temple was moved in 1964 as the waters were rising in Lake Nasser after the High Dam was built.
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Medical update - I have two very rear forms of cancer according to my family doctor and that the neurosurgeon should call in a day or two. He said at the least I will be talked about throughout the medical community. The facts about both are above the knowledge of my family doctor so I will wait and see. I will probably be referred to the cancer center immediately and more treatment will be done on me.
The lump removed from my chest is a real puzzle.....he said. The two cancers are not related to each other which is great.
I've been worried about some medical tests I had scheduled yesterday. The night before, my baby started crying in pain and we rushed her to an emergency vet where they couldn't find the cause of her pain. Barely slept as we then rushed her to the equivalent of a Level 1 trauma center for pets - they have specialists like neurosurgeons on-call 24/hours. Literally while I was in a CT scan my baby was in a CT scan and surgery - the neurosurgeon took her immediately into (spine) surgery. She's doing well but we don't know yet when she can come home.
To make this a little cheerier - we saw the first non-overwintered butterflies yesterday - 3 Tiger swallowtails (yay!) and a possible sulphur as it hit 84o here. Please pray for my sweet little pup, and please leave me some FUN stories of Spring - are you seeing butterflies? snakes? hummers? L - my Sapsucker is out the window right now!
>> our little pup putting her head down for kisses from hubby - a routine she loves
UPDATE at 5:00pm 3-16-16: I wrote this earlier but am just now posting. Neurosurgeon called today and said my baby is walking! That's GREAT news. She'll be home soon ;-)
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Temple I, (Temple of the Great Jaguar) closes the Great Plaza at Tikel on the east, the temple is 148 feet high (45 m.), and was built around 700 A.D. This picture was taken from the top of Temple II. Tikal, Guatemala
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Neurosurgeon called and sent me for a MRI that happened the very next day, wow that was fast. I was surprised that a MRI was a very noisy machine and a scan just of my head was about 20 minutes. Now I will get the results soon and then I will know what they will do. Thanks to everyone for your positive thoughts.
An evening honoring one of our neurosurgeons last night, and I loved this standing ovation moment. He is dearly loved by patients and their families and colleagues alike
This is memory to my flickr friend Clive in his appointed time made the journey back to the Lord .
I have no doubt you are back home now my friend.
I'll pray for the Lord's strength to your family and dear Rosey
who are left behind and who are going through difficult
period of loose . Thank you also of your many gentle ,
kind hearted comments on my photo stream. It's one
of many pleasant flickr memories to remember of you.
You will always be missed my dear friend Clive.
"For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain"
Philippians 1: 21
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Dear flickr friends I barely have time for flickr these past few weeks
and still very busy now. In case you haven't seen me commenting
on your photos , it's not deliberately ignoring . It's a struggle
to catch up, flickering my way is a very slow process at the moment.
I'm moving like the speed of snail. I will surely find my way
to your stream.
Thank you of all your views, comments ,
favs and your patience.
Take care and God bless !
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Simply a repost , as I find these accounts of people who have glimpse of
what is heaven like very interesting and maybe
uplifting especially of those who experience severe
loose of a love one who is a believer in Jesus Christ.
It's not the end, it's a transition of something great
of the glory of God. No pain, no sorrow , no stress
out there and a plus, we will look younger, no sagging skin
or grey hair , looking like 20 something. Everything is superb.
Fantasy ? These are many verifiable accounts of people who
are pronounced dead who claim there is afterlife.
A Harvard graduate neurosurgeon agrees to this when he himself
experienced near death coma .
Proof Of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into The Afterlife with Dr. Eben Alexander III
A Glimpse of Heaven & Second Chance At Life Part 1
A Glimpse of Heaven & Second Chance At Life Part 2
Man visits Heaven and meets God ! Part 1
Man visits Heaven and meets God ! Part 2
Proof of Life After Death!! This Man Died At The Hospital
Many people do have experiences of seeing
heaven and hell and I do believe this doesn't contradict to what were stated
in the Holy Scriptures Joel 2:28 and Acts 2:17 to encourage many to yearn
and live for God. Don't leave a day without even sure of your Salvation .
We can't play and gamble our eternity . Why pay attention to the
unbelieving who fervently bury the truth , ridicule God and reject Jesus
with all their might , debunking the death and resurrection of Jesus which
is the truth.
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Signs of the Times
"Crocodiles Take Flooded Streets" in Acapulco DANGER!!
*Colorado Floods "Oil Spills" Super Typhoon Philippines, China, Hong Kong !
*BREAKING: "Dead Sea Being Swallowed By Sinkholes"
*HUGE SINKHOLE APPEARS IN PORTUGAL APRIL 10, 2013
*OCALA, FLORIDA RESIDENTS SHOCKED AS SINKHOLE OPENS UP
SWALLOWING 5 ACRE POND TUESDAY (AUG 23, 2013)
*Activating Prison Camps Across the nation
*The Feast of the Tabernacles. What Exactly Is This? Should Christians Observe It?
Ephesians 5:11
"Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them."
Watch out for the prosperity gospel preachers , Joel Osteen is surely one . The
Spirit of God in you will tell you he is NOT of God !!!!!! Be discerning my friends.
*JOEL OSTEEN DENIES JESUS CHRIST & OPRAH WINFREY EXPOSED! Joel Osteen hoax parody
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SIGNS IN THE SKY
Look up !!!
4 Blood Moons: Signs In The Heavens (Solar And Lunar Eclipse 2014; 2015) by John Hagee
The expulsion of the Sephardic Jews in Spain in 1492 sent the Jews not
only to the US of A but to other colonies of Spain , some through Mexico
then to the Philippines, never accounted for.
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La Martre Lighthouse was erected in 1906 and still operational, this lighthouse has a unique wooden structure. The rotation of the lighting module is still operated by the original clockwork system (cable and weights). Spectacular view from the top of the walkway.
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Car is all fixed now. I may or may not be posting for a while as I have some family business to take care of.
Neurosurgeon is sending me for a MRI and I expect things are going to happen fast. Apparently a MRI can tell how deep etc. the bone cancer is, much more detail than a CT Scan.
Just got a call and have to go in tonight (23 March) at 5:15pm for the MRI, wow that was fast.
Something I rarely do but today I will ask for some prayers for my son in law Josh. Josh and Emily (my daughter) woke up to a scary situation last Saturday morning as Josh was having a seizure. After being taken to the ER it was found that Josh has a golf ball sized mass (tumor) in his brain (or noggin as Josh says :). It is still not known if it is benign or malignant but the neurosurgeon is optimistic. Josh is now recovering from his brain surgery in ICU with Emily by his side. The picture below was taken a few days ago.The neurosurgeon said the operation went well though not all of the tumor was removed which is typical in this situation. He also said Josh was cracking jokes during most of it. You must all realize you are rarely if ever put under during brain surgery. So now the road to recovery begins. It will be a week before we learn if the tumor is benign or cancerous. If the later is true there is treatment with chemotherapy. If it's benign then its just getting back to normal life which will take a bit of time which means in a week or so I will be able to pick him up in the afternoon after I am done working and we can do some fishing. Well, until he has to go back to work that is. Thank you all for your support, prayers and well wishes. It really all does mean a lot to us. So now lets let the story move on to brighter, happier days to come. And lastly, below is a link to a T-Shirt fund raiser that a friend of Emily and Josh started. You can purchase a shirt or just donate a bit to help my daughter and husband out. All proceeds go to help with their medical bills.
If you would like to lend a hand that would be cool. If not, also cool! Love you all and God bless.
www.customink.com/fundraising/strength-of-a-fischer?share...
"we can rebuild her..."
Today's the day.
After years of my back supporting me through three decades of competitive sports, the births of two beautiful children and more difficult situations than I can remember...it's time for me to give my spine the care it needs to carry me through the rest of my life.
Today I'll have some serious hardware added to this vital yet delicate structure...6 screws and 4 rods will be attached to my lower spine during a double level spine fusion surgery.
But no worries...I am in good hands; very good hands. I found a brilliant and talented neurosurgeon (Dr. Sean Markey) who also happens to have a passion for photography! I told him that I'd like to document this process with photos and he was right on board. In fact, he's bringing his Canon 40D to the hospital so he can photograph the surgery. (i just want to see the drill and screwdriver in action!!!)
It's all good...with a bit of rest, a good amount of rehab and two months wearing an oh-so-sexy back brace, I'll come out of this experience healthier and stronger...and one centimeter taller!!!
Our bodies are amazing...
Medical technology is incredible...
and
Life is beautiful.
:)
©2007 kelly angard
Another photo from yesterday with the Canon 7D MK II and the Tamron 150 - 600 lens.
I heard from my sister in law about an hour ago that my brother came through the operation okay. He is still a bit groggy but said he is feeling fine. We will know more after he sees the Neurosurgeon.
So next Tuesday I will be seeing the neurosurgeon about this peripheral neuropathy crap I am dealing with. I will then know if there is anything that can be done about it. Most of the time it's not that big of a deal, but sometimes it can get so bad it kinda makes me feel like this!
The good thing is that it hasn't prevented me from doing the things I enjoy doing. Like tonight I have another late night soccer game.
Random Fact: I love sour candy and my all time favorite is ShockTarts. The more it makes you pucker the better it is :-)
It's amazing that you can feel so alone at times even when you are surrounded by people.
In other news, tomorrow I am finally going to see the neurosurgeon about my little condition and see what if anything he can do to help. It's about effing time!
Random Fact: It was about 20 degrees outside when I shot this.
In a tradition dating back to 2012, I take a few photographs from our balcony on December 31 and write a brief summary of the year. It traditionally has not been snowing on this day. Given the many events of 2023, I will be less brief.
By the time of our third trip of the year (New York City in February, Arizona in March and Southern California in late April), I was suffering debilitating lower back pains for which I’d started physical therapy. An MRI found severe spinal stenosis – narrowing of the spinal column causing nerve compression – that in early May resulted in my right knee buckling and a fall that landed me overnight in Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
My Spring, Summer and early Fall were basically lost. I attended two baseball games in two days – Cubs’ first Sunday game and Sox’s Opening Day – in early April and one more Cubs game, then that was it for the season. At least my non-attendance at Sox games saved me hundreds of dollars and untold aggravation. My Chicago photowalks ended between April 11 and August 30, when I ventured a few blocks from a North Side park on a sunny afternoon. We cancelled a May trip to Croatia, for which we were reimbursed 100% from travel insurance.
After six months of physical therapy and three steroid epidurals, I underwent surgery on September 29. The laminectomy (you can look it up) also involved removing part of a disc, compressing my spinal cord and moving around the nerves. Mostly at-home recuperation lasted six weeks, then two more months of physical therapy, I’m pain-free with still some residual stiffness in my knee, which my orthopedic surgeon found was fortunately the result of nerve compression.
So, as the year ends, I thank my many friends and family who called/wrote/visited during this long ordeal. Special thanks go to Ana Menjivar, who twice came to our residence to cut my hair; April Venson, my PT at Athletico who started with me when I couldn’t walk unaided for more than a few minutes; Dr. Aruna Ganju, my neurosurgeon whose extraordinary skill has made me whole again; and Anna Balling, my pre- and post-op PT at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, who not only brought me to a pain-free existence but also helped my mental healing from a point when I wondered if my life would ever be normal.
Lastly, Janet, with whom I will mark 51 years of marriage next month, took care of my many needs while sacrificing much of her time and interests. My recovery would never have been this successful without her. We’re off to Hawaii at the end of January and a combination rail/river cruise in Europe in June. I’m photowalking again, and I’ll make it to the United Center this winter and the ballparks in Spring. Life will be normal again!
Best wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year!
I came across a well-known Toronto news reporter named Austin Delaney today reporting live outside of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario**.
Mr. Delaney was very friendly when I asked to take a photo of him, and he wished me to stay safe and well.
He was reporting on the disciplinary hearing of a very tragic event. The brutal murder of a well-liked (female) family doctor by her husband, a formerly well-respected neurosurgeon in a domestic violence. The murderer already admitted guilt and is spending a long time in jail, but until his licence has been officially revoked, he is technically still a neurosurgeon and can practise.
** College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) is the regulatory college for medical doctors in Ontario, Canada.
Don't know why, but among all the flowers I always find taking photos of the orchids a challenge, and I have never done it well. This is probably one of the better ones that I'm happy with.
Taken at the 2015 Orchids Show 知蘭而行
Ben Carson is an American author, politician and retired Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon. In 2015 he was running for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election. [Source: Wikipedia]
... there is no doubt, Mafalda has a big disc herniation and she needs surgery.
Surgery that will be done on the morning of October 21. The risks are the paralysis of lower limbs and more ...
The neurosurgeon is really a good one ... everything will be fine.
Plattsburg New York where a Neurosurgeon agreed that it was obvious that I needed spine
surgery .
The system in New York State really do not care about their Volunteer Firefighters and I am
fixing to make a wave
The message went through me like a wind, and I instantly understood that it was true. I knew so in the same way that I knew that the world around us was real—was not some fantasy, passing and insubstantial. The message had three parts, and if I had to translate them into earthly language, I’d say they ran something like this:
"You are loved and cherished, dearly, forever.”
“You have nothing to fear.”
“There is nothing you can do wrong.”
The message flooded me with a vast and crazy sensation of relief. It was like being handed the rules to a game I’d been playing all my life, without fully understanding it.
('Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife.' - Dr. Eben Alexander)
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British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, no. 1169. Photo: Capitol.
Canadian-born American actress Fay Wray (1907-2004) attained international recognition as the first 'scream queen' in a series of horror films during the early 1930s. Through an acting career that spanned nearly six decades, Wray is best known as Ann Darrow, the girl held in the hand of King Kong (1933). Two days after her death, the lights of the Empire State Building, the location of King Kong's climax scene, were dimmed for 15 minutes in memory of the "beauty who charmed the beast".
Vina Fay Wray was born in 1907 on a ranch near Cardston in the province of Alberta, Canada. Her American parents, Elvina Marguerite Jones and Joseph Heber Wray, were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was one of six children. Her family returned to the United States a few years after she was born, in order for her father to find better work than what was offered in Alberta. They moved to Salt Lake City in 1912, and later they relocated to Los Angeles, where Fay attended Hollywood High School. Her parents divorced, which put the rest of the family in hard times. Being in entertainment-rich Los Angeles, there was ample opportunity to take advantage of the chances that might come her way in the entertainment industry. At the age of 16, Wray made her film debut, when she landed a role in a short historical film, Gasoline Love (1923), sponsored by a local newspaper. The film was not a hit, nor was it a launching vehicle for her career. It would be two more years before she ever got another chance. Wray landed a major role in the silent film The Coast Patrol (Bud Barsky, 1925), as well as uncredited bit parts at the Hal Roach Studios. In 1926, the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers selected Wray, along with Janet Gaynor and Mary Astor, as one of the 'WAMPAS Baby Stars', a group of thirteen starlets whom they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom. She was at the time under contract to Universal Studios, mostly co-starring in low-budget Westerns opposite Buck Jones. The following year, Wray was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures. In 1926, director Erich von Stroheim cast her as the main female lead in his film The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim, 1928), released by Paramount two years later. Over the six months of filming, Stroheim shot over 200,000 feet of film. The film's original budget was estimated at $300,000 ($4,333,000 today). By the time film producer Pat Powers shut down production, the budget had risen to $1,250,000 ($18,398,000 today). While the film was noted for its production values, it was a financial failure. After her first lead role, Wray stayed with Paramount to make more than a dozen films, including Thunderbolt (Josef von Sternberg, 1929) with George Bancroft, and made the transition from silent films to 'talkies'.
After leaving Paramount, Fay Wray signed to various film companies. Under these deals, Wray was cast in various horror films, including Doctor X (Michael Curtiz, 1932), The Vampire Bat (Frank R. Strayer, 1933) and Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz, 1933), all starring Lionel Atwill. In addition, she appeared in many other types of roles, including in The Bowery (Raoul Walsh, 1933) and Viva Villa (Jack Conway, 1934), both of which starred Wallace Beery. However, her best-known films were produced under her deal with RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. Her first film under RKO was The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1932), co-starring Joel McCrea. It was followed by Wray's most memorable film, King Kong (Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933) with Bruce Cabot. The Most Dangerous Game was shot at night on the same jungle sets that were being used for King Kong during the day, with Wray and Robert Armstrong starring in both films. When first-choice Jean Harlow proved to unavailable, Wray was approached by director Merian C. Cooper to play the role of Ann Darrow, the blonde captive of King Kong. Cooper told her that he had a part for her in a picture in which she would be working with a tall, dark leading man. What he didn't tell her was that her "tall, dark leading man" was a giant gorilla. Wray was paid $10,000 ($200,000 in 2020 dollars) to play the role. Tony Fontana at IMDb: "Perhaps no one in the history of pictures could scream more dramatically than Fay, and she really put on a show in "Kong". Her character provided a combination of sex appeal, vulnerability and lung capacity as she was stalked by the giant beast all the way to the top of the Empire State Building." The film was a commercial success and Wray was reportedly proud that the film saved RKO from bankruptcy. Ann Darrow became the role with which Wray was most associated. In 1933, Fay Wray also became a naturalised citizen of the United States. She continued to star in various films, including the romantic comedy The Richest Girl in the World (William A. Seiter, 1934), a second film with Joel McCrea, but by the early 1940s, her appearances became less frequent. She retired from acting in 1942 after her second marriage but due to financial exigencies soon resumed her acting career.
Over the next three decades, Fray Wray appeared in several films and frequently on television. Wray was cast in the sitcom The Pride of the Family (1953-1954) as Catherine Morrison. Paul Hartman played her husband, Albie Morrison. Natalie Wood and Robert Hyatt played their children, Ann and Junior Morrison, respectively. Wray appeared with fellow WAMPAS Baby Star Joan Crawford in the Film Noir drama Queen Bee (Ranald MacDougall, 1955). Wray appeared in three episodes of Perry Mason: The Case Of The Prodigal Parent (1958); The Case of the Watery Witness (1959), as murder victim Lorna Thomas; and The Case of the Fatal Fetish (1965), as voodoo practitioner Mignon Germaine. Other roles around this time were in the episodes Dip in the Pool (1958) and The Morning After of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In 1960, she appeared as Clara in an episode of 77 Sunset Strip, Who Killed Cock Robin? She ended her acting career in the made-for-television film Gideon's Trumpet (Robert Collins, 1980), starring Henry Fonda. In 1988, she published her autobiography 'On the Other Hand'. In her later years, Wray continued to make public appearances. In 1991, she was crowned Queen of the Beaux-Arts Ball presiding with King Herbert Huncke. She was approached by James Cameron to play the part of Rose Dawson Calvert for his blockbuster Titanic (James Cameron, 1997) with Kate Winslet to play her younger self, but she turned down the role, which was played by Gloria Stuart. In 1998, King Kong wound up being named one of the 100 greatest films of all time by the American Film Institute. On the 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998), Billy Crystal introduced a clip of her in King Kong (1933) and then came offstage and stood next to Miss Wray in the audience, and introduced her as the "Beauty who charmed the Beast, the Legendary Fay Wray". In 2003, the 95-year-old Wray appeared at the 2003 Palm Beach International Film Festival to celebrate the documentary film Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (Rick McKay, 2003), which she also appeared in. She was honored with a 'Legend in Film' award. In 2004, Wray was approached by director Peter Jackson to appear in a small cameo for his remake of King Kong (Peter Jackson, 2005). Jackson wanted Fay to say the closing line of the film. She met with Naomi Watts, who was to play the role of Ann Darrow, but she politely declined the cameo and claimed the original "Kong" to be the true "King". Before the filming of the remake commenced, Wray died in her sleep of natural causes on 8 August 2004, in her apartment in Manhattan, five weeks before her 97th birthday. Wray is interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California. Fay Wray married three times. Her husbands were the authors John Monk Saunders (1928-1939; divorce) and Robert Riskin (1942-1955; his death), and the neurosurgeon Sanford Rothenberg (1971-1991; his death). She had three children: Susan Saunders, Victoria Riskin, and Robert Riskin Jr. Denny Jackson at IMDb: "She was an excellent actress who never was given a chance to live up to her potential, especially after being cast in a number of horror films in the '30s. Given the right role, Fay could have had her star up alongside the great actresses of the day. No matter. She remains a bright star from cinema's golden era."
Sources: Tony Fontana (IMDb), Denny Jackson (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Kingman is a city in, and the county seat of, Mohave County, Arizona, United States. It is named after Lewis Kingman, a civil engineer. According to the 2010 census, the population of the city is 28,068.[3] Kingman is located approximately 105 miles (169 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada and about 165 miles (266 km) northwest of the state capital, Phoenix.
History
Lt. Edward Fitzgerald Beale, a U.S. Navy officer in the service of the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, was ordered by the U.S. War Department to build a federal wagon road across the 35th Parallel. His secondary orders were to test the feasibility of the use of camels as pack animals in the southwestern desert. Beale traveled through the present day Kingman in 1857 surveying the road and in 1859 to build the road. Beale's Wagon Road became part of Highway 66 and Interstate Highway 40. Remnants of the wagon road can still be seen in White Cliffs Canyon in Kingman.
Kingman was founded in 1882 before statehood, in Arizona Territory. Situated in the Hualapai Valley between the Cerbat and Hualapai mountain ranges, Kingman had its modest beginnings as a simple railroad siding near Beale Springs. Civil engineer Lewis Kingman supervised the building of the railroad from Winslow, Ariz. to Beale Springs. This spring had been used by Native Americans living in the area for centuries.
The Mohave County seat was originally located in Mohave City from 1864 to 1867. In 1865, the portion of Arizona Territory west of the Colorado River was transferred to Nevada after Nevada's statehood, and became part of Lincoln County, Nevada, now known as Clark County, Nevada. The remaining territory of Pah-Ute County became part of Mohave County. Its seat was moved to Hardyville (which is now within Bullhead City) in 1867. The county seat transferred to the mining town of Cerbat in 1873, then to Mineral Park near Chloride. After some time, the county seat and all instruments were permanently moved to Kingman in 1887.
During World War II, Kingman was the site of a U.S. Army Air Force (USAAF) airfield. The Kingman Army Airfield was founded at the beginning of WW II as an aerial gunnery training base. It became one of the USAAF's largest, training some 35,000 soldiers and airmen. The airfield and Kingman played a significant role in this important era of America's history. Following the war, the Kingman Airfield served as one of the largest reclamation sites for obsolete military aircraft.
Postwar, Kingman experienced growth as several major employers moved into the vicinity. In 1953 Kingman was used to detain those men accused of practicing polygamy in the Short Creek raid, which was at the time one of the largest arrests in American history. In 1955, Ford Motor Company established a proving ground (now one of the Chrysler Proving Grounds) in nearby Yucca, Arizona at the former Yucca Army Airfield. Several major new neighborhoods in Kingman were developed to house the skilled workers and professionals employed at the proving ground. Likewise, the development of the Mineral Park mine near adjacent Chloride, Arizona, and construction of the Mohave Generating Station in nearby Laughlin, Nevada, in 1971 contributed to Kingman's population growth. Also, the location of a General Cable plant at the Kingman Airport Industrial Park provided steady employment.
Kingman explosion
The Kingman Explosion, also known as the Doxol Disaster or Kingman BLEVE, was a catastrophic boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) that occurred on July 5, 1973. The explosion occurred during a propane transfer from a Doxol railroad car to a storage tank on the Getz rail siding near Andy Devine Avenue/Route 66.
Firefighters Memorial Park in Kingman is dedicated to those 11 firefighters who died in the blaze.
Notable people
Andy Devine (1905–1977), actor, was raised in Kingman, where his father opened the Beale Hotel. One of the major streets of Kingman is named "Andy Devine Avenue" and the town holds the annual "Andy Devine Days".
Timothy McVeigh (1968–2001), who carried out the Oklahoma City bombing, was a resident of Kingman for various periods between 1993 and 1995.
Michael Fortier, Timothy McVeigh's co-conspirator, lived in Kingman from the age of seven.
Miki Garcia, model and Playboy magazine's Playmate for the January 1973 issue, was born in Kingman.
Doris Hill (1905–1976), born Roberta M. Hill, was an American film actress of the 1920s and 1930s.
Paul Kalanithi (1977–2015), neurosurgeon and writer, was raised in Kingman.
Doug Mirabelli, former Boston Red Sox catcher, was born in Kingman.
Aron Ra, atheist activist, regional director of American Atheists, and public speaker born in Kingman.
Joseph Rosenberg, worked as a banker in Kingman before moving to Los Angeles. Rosenberg was later Walt Disney's banker.
Tarik Skubal, MLB pitcher for the Detroit Tigers.
Karen Steele, actress, lived and died in Kingman.
In popular culture
Off screen
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard were married at the rectory of Saint John's Methodist Episcopal Church in 1939, during a break in the shooting of Gone with the Wind.
Onscreen
Kingman has been featured as a filming location for several movies and television shows.
In films
The films Roadhouse 66 and Two-Lane Blacktop were shot in Kingman.
The movie Management takes place but was not shot in Kingman.
Scenes from the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas were filmed at the Kingman Airport; in the scene, it is possible to see a clear shot of the Hualapai Mountain.
Scenes from the 1992 movie Universal Soldier were filmed in the downtown area as well as a local grocery store and at the Kingman Airport.
In television
In "Otis", an episode from the television series Prison Break, LJ Burrows is sent to an adult facility in Kingman, Arizona. In a subsequent episode "Buried", LJ is released from the aforementioned facility.
In "Native Tongue", an episode from the television series "Medium" (NBC: 2005–09; CBS: 2009–2011), Alison has a dream about a man being threatened to be burned alive unless he revels the whereabouts of something the killer wants. The man tells the killer that 'it' is near Kingman, where his partner lives. As the story progresses, it is discovered that the man is associated with the Navajo Reservation located 20 E of Kingman.
In the HBO Series The Sopranos, when Tony Soprano was shot in the beginning of Season 6, he fell into a coma and believed he was involved in a case of mistaken identity with Kevin Finnerty who lived in Kingman, Arizona (see "Join the Club").
In "The Locomotion Interruption," the season 8 premiere of The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon Cooper finds his belongings stolen at the Kingman, Arizona train station.
In episode 2 of the Showtime political satire documentary Who Is America?, members of the town are shown making racist anti-Muslim and anti-black statements when told by a disguised Sacha Baron Cohen that a mosque would be built in Kingman.
In literature and publications
The town is mentioned in Barbara Kingsolver's novel Pigs in Heaven.
In the post-apocalyptic novel Warday, Kingman is the "point of entry" to California; the Golden State, spared by the nuclear attacks that hit much of the rest of the country, is strictly guarded by troops, and "illegals" are jailed.
Pamela Anderson did one of her 1992 Playboy photo shoots at the corner of 4th Street and Andy Devine Avenue (U.S. Route 66), and was brought into the Kingman Police Department for indecent exposure. She was not charged, but was asked to write a letter of apology.
In music
The town is mentioned in the lyrics to Bobby Troup's song "Route 66".
Points of interest
Hualapai Mountain Recreation Area
Mohave County Fairgrounds
Kingman is well known for its location on Route 66.
Oatman, Arizona, a nearby "ghost town" tourist attraction.
Keepers of the Wild, a wild animal sanctuary featuring lions and tigers among other animals.
Kingman is the closest city to the Grand Canyon Skywalk, a transparent horseshoe-shaped cantilever bridge and tourist attraction on the edge of the Grand Canyon, owned and operated by the Hualapai Tribe.
The Grand Canyon Caverns, one of the largest dry caverns in the United States, is located in Peach Springs, Arizona.
Cella Winery is an award winning winery just off Route 66. The oldest vines in Northwest Arizona and all wines made on site.
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Kingman ist eine Stadt im Mohave County im US-Bundesstaat Arizona und zugleich Verwaltungssitz (County Seat) des Countys.
Lage
Kingman liegt am östlichen Rand der Mojave-Wüste im äußeren Nordwesten Arizonas an der historischen Route 66. Die Stadt bildet zudem an der Kreuzung von Interstate 40, U.S. Highway 93 und Arizona State Route 66 einen wichtigen Verkehrsknotenpunkt vor der Spielerstadt Las Vegas und Laughlin.
Geschichte
Im Oktober 1857 passierte der Offizier Edward Fitzgerald Beale auf der Suche nach einem geeigneten Treck entlang des 35. Breitengrades erstmals die Gegend um das heutige Kingman] Die von ihm erkundete Wegstrecke sollte später auch als sogenannte Beale Wagon Road bekannt werden.
In den folgenden Jahren wurde in den umliegenden Bergen Gold und Silber gefunden, was einen verstärkten Zuzug von Menschen zur Folge hatte. Im Verlauf dieser Entwicklung errichtete die Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Anfang der 1880er-Jahre eine Eisenbahnlinie zwischen Needles und Albuquerque. Auf der Höhe einer Ausweichstelle entstand schließlich 1882 im Hualapai Valley eine kleine Siedlung, die nach Lewis Kingman, dem Konstrukteur der Bahnlinie, benannt wurde.
Zunehmende Bedeutung erlangte das Städtchen im Jahre 1887, als der Verwaltungssitz des Mohave County hierher verlegt wurde. Besonders die umliegenden Minen trugen zu einem ständigen Wachstum Kingmans bei, das bis in die Jahre nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg anhielt. Mit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg erlangte die Stadt schließlich als Stützpunkt der U.S. Air Force Bedeutung.
Der landesweite Ausbau des Interstate-Netzes in den 1960er-Jahren hatte den Niedergang der alten Fernverkehrsverbindungen wie der Route 66 zur Folge. Der Verkehr rauschte nun auf der neuen Interstate 40 an Kingman vorbei und die Stadt geriet immer mehr ins Abseits. In den letzten Jahren wurde die sogenannte Mother Road jedoch zunehmend zu einem Anziehungspunkt für Touristen und Nostalgiker. Die verkehrsgünstige Lage zu den Ballungsräumen von Las Vegas und Phoenix, dem Grand Canyon sowie Kalifornien hat Kingman als Zwischenstopp für Touristen beliebt gemacht.
Sehenswürdigkeiten
Innerorts
Die Anzahl der Sehenswürdigkeiten in Kingman ist überschaubar. Das Visitor Center ist im alten Powerhouse an der Andy Devine Avenue untergebracht und informiert über die lokalen Attraktionen. Besonders erwähnenswert sind hierbei:
Downtown Kingman, der alte Stadtkern um das Mohave County Court House herum gelegen. Neben der St. Mary’s Church sind etwa 60 weitere historische Gebäude aus der Anfangszeit des Orts erhalten.
Das historische Hotel Beale an der Andy Devine Avenue gegenüber dem Bahnhof. Der Schauspieler Andy Devine verbrachte hier seine Kindheit.
Das 1915 erbaute Bonelli House im Stile englischer Landhausarchitektur an der 5th Street.
Das Route 66 Museum im Powerhouse, es informiert über Geschichte und Gegenwart der alten Fernstraße Route 66, die einst von Chicago nach Los Angeles führte.
Der Locomotive Park, wo seit 1957 die historische Dampflokomotive Nr. 3759 der Santa Fe Railway ausgestellt ist. Sie wurde 1928 gebaut und befuhr mehr als 20 Jahre lang die Strecke zwischen Kansas City und Los Angeles.
Das Mohave Museum of History & Arts in der Beale Street gibt einen Einblick in die Geschichte und Kultur der Gegend.
Umgebung
Die Gegend um Kingman besteht meist aus trockener Wüste und ist daher sehr karg. In unmittelbarer Nähe der Stadt lohnen dennoch folgende Umwege:
Das ehemalige Camp Beale Springs etwa 2 Meilen (3 km) westlich der Stadt, eine verfallene Siedlung, die zunächst von Indianern bewohnt wurde und im 19. Jahrhundert als Fort diente.
Der Hualapai Mountain Park, ein Erholungsgebiet ca. 12 Meilen (19 km) südlich der Stadt. Neben verschiedenen Freizeitaktivitäten wie Wandern und Campen kann man mit etwas Glück auch die seltenen Berglöwen beobachten.
Die historische Route 66, sie verläuft außerhalb Kingmans durch dünnbesiedeltes Wüstengebiet und konnte einige Überbleibsel aus ihrer Blütezeit erhalten. Der Abschnitt östlich von Kingman ist heute Teil der AZ 66.
Kingman in Kunst und Medien
In Film und Fernsehen
In Kingman fanden Dreharbeiten zu mehreren Filmen statt, darunter:
Asphaltrennen (1971)
Universal Soldier (1992), Szenen zu dem Film von Roland Emmerich wurden unter anderem in Crazy Fred’s Truck Stop gedreht.
Mars Attacks! (1996), in der Anfangssequenz des Science-Fiction-Films sind die Hualapai Mountains in der Nähe der Stadt zu sehen.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), wurde unter anderem am Flugplatz Kingman gedreht.
Zoom (2006), eine Szene entstand im örtlichen Wendy’s-Restaurant.
Namentlich erwähnt wird die Stadt ebenso in:
Otis, einer Episode der Fernsehserie Prison Break, in der LJ Burrows Jr. (Marshall Allman) in ein Gefängnis in Kingman gebracht wird.
Der Träumer und die Parasiten, einer Episode der Fernsehserie Die Sopranos, in der Anthony Soprano (James Gandolfini) von einem Vorfall mit einem Mann aus Kingman träumt.
The Big Bang Theory, in Episode 160 (1. Episode der 8. Staffel) endet Sheldons Eisenbahnreise durch die USA nach 45 Tagen in Kingman, da man ihn im Schlafwagen aller Habseligkeiten beraubt hat.
In der Musik
Kingman wird ebenfalls in dem Lied Route 66 genannt. Es wurde 1946 von Bobby Troup komponiert und im selben Jahr von Nat King Cole erstmals vorgestellt. Mittlerweile existieren dutzende Coverversionen des Liedes, darunter auch von den Rolling Stones.
Sonstiges
Pamela Anderson veranstaltete 1992 eines ihrer Playboy-Fotoshootings an der Ecke von 4th Street und Andy Devine Avenue (Route 66) und wurde daraufhin zum Kingman Police Department gebracht.
Berühmte Einwohner
Der Schauspieler Andy Devine (1905–1977) wuchs in Kingman auf, wo sein Vater 1906 das Hotel Beale eröffnete. Eine Straße der Stadt wurde in Andy Devine Street umbenannt, sie ist zugleich Teil der Route 66.
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P. 385 in: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a triumph by T.E. Lawrence.
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Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer. He was renowned for his liaison role during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia—a title used for the 1962 film based on his wartime activities.
He was born out of wedlock in Tremadog, Wales in August 1888 to Sarah Junner, a Scottish governess, and Thomas Chapman, an Anglo-Irish nobleman from County Westmeath. Chapman left his wife and family in Ireland to cohabit with Junner; in 1914 he became Sir Thomas Chapman, 7th Baronet. Chapman and Junner called themselves Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence, a name probably adopted from Sarah's likely father; Sarah’s mother had been employed as a servant for a Lawrence family when she became pregnant with Sarah. In 1889, the family moved to Kirkcudbright in Scotland where his brother William George was born, before moving to Dinard in France. In 1896, the Lawrences moved to Oxford, where Thomas attended the high school and then studied history at Jesus College from 1907 to 1910. Between 1910 and 1914, he worked as an archaeologist for the British Museum, chiefly at Carchemish in Ottoman Syria.
Soon after the outbreak of war, he volunteered for the British Army and was stationed in Egypt. In 1916, he was sent to Arabia on an intelligence mission and quickly became involved with the Arab Revolt as a liaison to the Arab forces, along with other British officers. He worked closely with Emir Faisal, a leader of the revolt, and he participated in and sometimes led military activities against the Ottoman armed forces, culminating in the capture of Damascus in October 1918.
After the war, Lawrence joined the Foreign Office, working with the British government and with Faisal. In 1922, he retreated from public life and spent the years until 1935 serving as an enlisted man, mostly in the Royal Air Force, with a brief stint in the Army. During this time, he published his best-known work Seven Pillars of Wisdom, an autobiographical account of his participation in the Arab Revolt. He also translated books into English and wrote The Mint, which was published posthumously and detailed his time in the Royal Air Force working as an ordinary aircraftman. He corresponded extensively and was friendly with well-known artists, writers, and politicians. For the Royal Air Force, he participated in the development of rescue motorboats.
Lawrence's public image resulted in part from the sensationalised reporting of the Arab revolt by American journalist Lowell Thomas, as well as from Seven Pillars of Wisdom. In 1935, Lawrence was fatally injured in a motorcycle accident in Dorset.
Thomas Edward Lawrence was born on 16 August 1888 in Tremadog, Carnarvonshire (now Gwynedd), Wales in a house named Gorphwysfa, now known as Snowdon Lodge. His Anglo-Irish father Thomas Chapman had left his wife Edith after he had a son with Sarah Junner, a young Scotswoman who had been governess to his daughters. Sarah was the daughter of John Lawrence and Elizabeth Junner, a servant in the Lawrence household; she was dismissed four months before Sarah was born—although she identified Sarah's father as "John Junner, Shipwright journeyman".
Lawrence's parents did not marry but lived together under the name Lawrence. In 1914, his father inherited the Chapman baronetcy based at Killua Castle, the ancestral family home in County Westmeath, Ireland, but he and Sarah continued to live in England. They had five sons, and Thomas was the second eldest. From Wales, the family moved to Kirkcudbright, Galloway in southwestern Scotland, then to Dinard in Brittany, then to Jersey. The family lived at Langley Lodge (now demolished) from 1894 to 1896, set in private woods between the eastern borders of the New Forest and Southampton Water in Hampshire. The residence was isolated, and young Lawrence had many opportunities for outdoor activities and waterfront visits. Victorian-Edwardian Britain was a very conservative society where the majority of people were Christians who considered premarital and extramarital sex to be shameful, and children born out of wedlock were born in disgrace. Lawrence was always something of an outsider, a bastard who could never hope to achieve the same level of social acceptance and success that others could expect who were born legitimate, and no girl from a respectable family would ever marry a bastard.
In the summer of 1896, the family moved to 2 Polstead Road in Oxford, where they lived until 1921. Lawrence attended the City of Oxford High School for Boys from 1896 until 1907, where one of the four houses was later named "Lawrence" in his honour; the school closed in 1966. Lawrence and one of his brothers became commissioned officers in the Church Lads' Brigade at St Aldate's Church.
Lawrence claimed that he ran away from home around 1905 and served for a few weeks as a boy soldier with the Royal Garrison Artillery at St Mawes Castle in Cornwall, from which he was bought out. However, no evidence of this appears in army records.
At age 15, Lawrence and his schoolfriend Cyril Beeson cycled around Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire, visiting almost every village's parish church, studying their monuments and antiquities, and making rubbings of their monumental brasses. Lawrence and Beeson monitored building sites in Oxford and presented the Ashmolean Museum with anything that they found. The Ashmolean's Annual Report for 1906 said that the two teenage boys "by incessant watchfulness secured everything of antiquarian value which has been found." In the summers of 1906 and 1907, Lawrence and Beeson toured France by bicycle, collecting photographs, drawings, and measurements of medieval castles. In August 1907, Lawrence wrote home: "The Chaignons & the Lamballe people complimented me on my wonderful French: I have been asked twice since I arrived what part of France I came from".
From 1907 to 1910, Lawrence read History at Jesus College, Oxford. In the summer of 1909, he set out alone on a three-month walking tour of crusader castles in Ottoman Syria, during which he travelled 1,000 mi (1,600 km) on foot. He graduated with First Class Honours after submitting a thesis titled 'The Influence of the Crusades on European Military Architecture'—to the End of the 12th Century, based on his field research with Beeson in France, notably in Châlus, and his solo research in the Middle East. Lawrence was fascinated by the Middle Ages; his brother Arnold wrote in 1937 that "medieval researches" were a "dream way of escape from bourgeois England".
In 1910, Lawrence was offered the opportunity to become a practising archaeologist at Carchemish, in the expedition that D. G. Hogarth was setting up on behalf of the British Museum. Hogarth arranged a "Senior Demyship" (a form of scholarship) for Lawrence at Magdalen College, Oxford to fund his work at £100 a year. He sailed for Beirut in December 1910 and went to Jbail (Byblos), where he studied Arabic. He then went to work on the excavations at Carchemish, near Jerablus in northern Syria, where he worked under Hogarth, R. Campbell Thompson of the British Museum, and Leonard Woolley until 1914. He later stated that everything which he had accomplished he owed to Hogarth. Lawrence met Gertrude Bell while excavating at Carchemish. He worked briefly with Flinders Petrie in 1912 at Kafr Ammar in Egypt.
In January 1914, Woolley and Lawrence were co-opted by the British military as an archaeological smokescreen for a British military survey of the Negev Desert. They were funded by the Palestine Exploration Fund to search for an area referred to in the Bible as the Wilderness of Zin, and they made an archaeological survey of the Negev Desert along the way. The Negev was strategically important, as an Ottoman army attacking Egypt would have to cross it. Woolley and Lawrence subsequently published a report of the expedition's archaeological findings, but a more important result was updated mapping of the area, with special attention to features of military relevance such as water sources. Lawrence also visited Aqaba and Petra.
Following the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, Lawrence did not immediately enlist in the British Army. He held back until October on the advice of S. F. Newcombe, when he was commissioned on the General List. Before the end of the year, he was summoned by renowned archaeologist and historian Lt. Cmdr. David Hogarth to the new Arab Bureau intelligence unit in Cairo, and he arrived in Cairo on 15 December 1914. The Bureau's chief was General Gilbert Clayton who reported to Egyptian High Commissioner Henry McMahon.
The situation was complex during 1915. There was a growing Arab-nationalist movement within the Arabic-speaking Ottoman territories, including many Arabs serving in the Ottoman armed forces. They were in contact with Sharif Hussein, Emir of Mecca, who was negotiating with the British and offering to lead an Arab uprising against the Ottomans. In exchange, he wanted a British guarantee of an independent Arab state including the Hejaz, Syria, and Mesopotamia. Such an uprising would have been very helpful to Britain in its war against the Ottomans, greatly lessening the threat against the Suez Canal. However, there was resistance from French diplomats who insisted that Syria's future was as a French colony, not an independent Arab state. There were also strong objections from the Government of India, which was nominally part of the British government but acted independently. Its vision was of Mesopotamia under British control serving as a granary for India; furthermore, it wanted to hold on to its Arabian outpost in Aden.
At the Arab Bureau, Lawrence supervised the preparation of maps, produced a daily bulletin for the British generals operating in the theatre, and interviewed prisoners. He was an advocate of a British landing at Alexandretta which never came to pass. He was also a consistent advocate of an independent Arab Syria.
The situation came to a crisis in October 1915, as Sharif Hussein demanded an immediate commitment from Britain, with the threat that he would otherwise throw his weight behind the Ottomans. This would create a credible Pan-Islamic message that could have been very dangerous for Britain, which was in severe difficulties in the Gallipoli Campaign. The British replied with a letter from High Commissioner McMahon that was generally agreeable, while reserving commitments concerning the Mediterranean coastline and Holy Land.
In the spring of 1916, Lawrence was dispatched to Mesopotamia to assist in relieving the Siege of Kut by some combination of starting an Arab uprising and bribing Ottoman officials. This mission produced no useful result. Meanwhile, the Sykes–Picot Agreement was being negotiated in London without the knowledge of British officials in Cairo, which awarded a large proportion of Syria to France. Further, it implied that the Arabs would have to conquer Syria's four great cities if they were to have any sort of state there: Damascus, Homs, Hama, and Aleppo. It is unclear at what point Lawrence became aware of the treaty's contents.
The Arab Revolt began in June 1916, but it bogged down after a few successes, with a real risk that the Ottoman forces would advance along the coast of the Red Sea and recapture Mecca. On 16 October 1916, Lawrence was sent to the Hejaz on an intelligence-gathering mission led by Ronald Storrs. He interviewed Sharif Hussein's sons Ali, Abdullah, and Faisal, and he concluded that Faisal was the best candidate to lead the Revolt.
In November, S. F. Newcombe was assigned to lead a permanent British liaison to Faisal's staff. Newcombe had not yet arrived in the area and the matter was of some urgency, so Lawrence was sent in his place. In late December 1916, Faisal and Lawrence worked out a plan for repositioning the Arab forces to prevent the Ottoman forces around Medina from threatening Arab positions and putting the railway from Syria under threat. Newcombe arrived and Lawrence was preparing to leave Arabia, but Faisal intervened urgently, asking that Lawrence's assignment become permanent. Lawrence remained attached to Faisal's forces until the fall of Damascus in 1918.
Lawrence made a 300-mile personal journey northward in June 1917, on the way to Aqaba, visiting Ras Baalbek, the outskirts of Damascus, and Azraq, Jordan. He met Arab nationalists, counselling them to avoid revolt until the arrival of Faisal's forces, and he attacked a bridge to create the impression of guerrilla activity. His findings were regarded by the British as extremely valuable and there was serious consideration of awarding him a Victoria Cross; in the end, he was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath and promoted to Major.
Lawrence travelled regularly between British headquarters and Faisal, co-ordinating military action. But by early 1918, Faisal's chief British liaison was Colonel Pierce Charles Joyce, and Lawrence's time was chiefly devoted to raiding and intelligence-gathering. By the summer of 1918, the Turks were offering a substantial reward for Lawrence's capture, initially £5,000 and eventually £20,000 (approx $2.1 million in 2017 dollars or £1.5 million). One officer wrote in his notes: "Though a price of £15,000 has been put on his head by the Turks, no Arab has, as yet, attempted to betray him. The Sharif of Mecca has given him the status of one of his sons, and he is just the finely tempered steel that supports the whole structure of our influence in Arabia. He is a very inspiring gentleman adventurer."
The chief elements of the Arab strategy which Faisal and Lawrence developed were to avoid capturing Medina, and to extend northwards through Maan and Dera'a to Damascus and beyond. Faisal wanted to lead regular attacks against the Ottomans, but Lawrence persuaded him to drop that tactic.
Medina was an attractive target for the revolt as Islam's second holiest site, and because its Ottoman garrison was weakened by disease and isolation. It became clear that it was advantageous to leave it there rather than try to capture it, while continually attacking the Hejaz railway south from Damascus without permanently destroying it. This prevented the Ottomans from making effective use of their troops at Medina, and forced them to dedicate many resources to defending and repairing the railway line.
It is not known when Lawrence learned the details of Sykes-Picot, nor if or when he briefed Faisal on what he knew, However, there is good reason to think that both these things happened, and earlier rather than later. In particular, the Arab strategy of northward extension makes perfect sense given the Sykes-Picot language that spoke of an independent Arab entity in Syria, which would only be granted if the Arabs liberated the territory themselves. The French, and some of their British Liaison officers, were specifically uncomfortable about the northward movement, as it would weaken French colonial claims.
In 1917, Lawrence proposed a joint action with the Arab irregulars and forces including Auda Abu Tayi, who had previously been in the employ of the Ottomans, against the strategically located but lightly defended town of Aqaba on the Red Sea. Aqaba could have been attacked from the sea, but the narrow defiles leading through the mountains were strongly defended and would have been very difficult to assault. The expedition was led by Sharif Nasir of Medina.
Lawrence carefully avoided informing his British superiors about the details of the planned inland attack, due to concern that it would be blocked as contrary to French interests. The expedition departed from Wejh on 9 May. and Aqaba fell to the Arab forces on 6 July, after a surprise overland attack which took the Turkish defences from behind. After Aqaba, General Sir Edmund Allenby, the new commander-in-chief of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, agreed to Lawrence's strategy for the revolt. Lawrence now held a powerful position as an adviser to Faisal and a person who had Allenby's confidence, as Allenby acknowledged after the war:
I gave him a free hand. His cooperation was marked by the utmost loyalty, and I never had anything but praise for his work, which, indeed, was invaluable throughout the campaign. He was the mainspring of the Arab movement and knew their language, their manners and their mentality.
Lawrence describes an episode on 20 November 1917 while reconnoitering Dera'a in disguise, when he was captured by the Ottoman military, heavily beaten, and sexually abused by the local bey and his guardsmen, though he does not specify the nature of the sexual contact. Some scholars have stated that he exaggerated the severity of the injuries that he suffered, or alleged that the episode never actually happened. There is no independent testimony, but the multiple consistent reports and the absence of evidence for outright invention in Lawrence's works make the account believable to his biographers. Malcolm Brown, John E. Mack, and Jeremy Wilson have argued that this episode had strong psychological effects on Lawrence, which may explain some of his unconventional behaviour in later life. Lawrence ended his account of the episode in Seven Pillars of Wisdom with the statement: "In Deraa that night the citadel of my integrity had been irrevocably lost."
Lawrence was involved in the build-up to the capture of Damascus in the final weeks of the war, but he was not present at the city's formal surrender, much to his disappointment. He arrived several hours after the city had fallen, entering Damascus around 9 am on 1 October 1918, but he was the third arrival of the day; the first was the 10th Australian Light Horse Brigade led by Major A.C.N. 'Harry' Olden, who formally accepted the surrender of the city from acting Governor Emir Said. Lawrence was instrumental in establishing a provisional Arab government under Faisal in newly liberated Damascus, which he had envisioned as the capital of an Arab state. Faisal's rule as king, however, came to an abrupt end in 1920, after the battle of Maysaloun when the French Forces of General Gouraud entered Damascus under the command of General Mariano Goybet, destroying Lawrence's dream of an independent Arabia.
During the closing years of the war, Lawrence sought to convince his superiors in the British government that Arab independence was in their interests, but he met with mixed success. The secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between France and Britain contradicted the promises of independence that he had made to the Arabs and frustrated his work.
In 1918, Lowell Thomas went to Jerusalem where he met Lawrence, "whose enigmatic figure in Arab uniform fired his imagination", in the words of author Rex Hall. Thomas and his cameraman Harry Chase shot a great deal of film and many photographs involving Lawrence, which Thomas used in a highly lucrative slide-show presentation that toured the world after the war. His lectures were "supported by moving pictures of veiled women, Arabs in their picturesque robes, camels, and dashing Bedouin cavalry", and he was well received by his audiences at Madison Square Garden in New York. He was invited to take his show to England, and he agreed to do so provided that he was personally invited by the King and provided the use of either Drury Lane or Covent Garden. He opened at Covent Garden on 14 August 1919 and continued for hundreds of lectures, "attended by the highest in the land".
Lawrence returned to the United Kingdom a full colonel. Immediately after the war, he worked for the Foreign Office, attending the Paris Peace Conference between January and May as a member of Faisal's delegation. On 17 May 1919, the Handley Page Type O crashed at the airport of Roma-Centocelle carrying Lawrence on a flight to Egypt. The pilot and co-pilot were killed; Lawrence survived with a broken shoulder blade and two broken ribs. During his brief hospitalisation, he was visited by King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.
In August 1919, Lowell Thomas launched a photo show in London entitled With Allenby in Palestine which included a lecture, dancing, and music and engaged in "Orientalism", depicting the Middle East as exotic, mysterious, sensuous, and violent. Initially, Lawrence played only a supporting role in the show, as the main focus was on Allenby's campaigns; but then Thomas realised that it was the photos of Lawrence dressed as a Bedouin which had captured the public's imagination, so he had Lawrence photographed again in London in Arab dress. With the new photos, Thomas re-launched his show under the new title With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia in early 1920, which proved to be extremely popular. The new title elevated Lawrence from a supporting role to a co-star of the Near Eastern campaign and reflected a changed emphasis. Thomas' shows made the previously obscure Lawrence into a household name.[112] Lawrence served for much of 1921 as an adviser to Winston Churchill at the Colonial Office. He hated bureaucratic work, writing on 21 May 1921 to Robert Graves: "I wish I hadn't gone out there: the Arabs are like a page I have turned over; and sequels are rotten things. I'm locked up here: office every day and much of it".
Lawrence had a sinister reputation in France during his lifetime and even today as an implacable "enemy of France", the man who was constantly stirring up the Syrians to rebel against French rule throughout the 1920s. However, French historian Maurice Larès wrote that the real reason for France's problems in Syria was that the Syrians did not want to be ruled by France, and the French needed a "scapegoat" to blame for their difficulties in ruling the country. Larès wrote that Lawrence is usually pictured in France as a Francophobe, but he was really a Francophile.
In August 1922, Lawrence enlisted in the Royal Air Force as an aircraftman, under the name John Hume Ross. At the RAF recruiting centre in Covent Garden, London, he was interviewed by recruiting officer Flying Officer W. E. Johns, later known as the author of the Biggles series of novels. Johns rejected Lawrence's application, as he suspected that "Ross" was a false name. Lawrence admitted that this was so and that he had provided false documents. He left, but returned some time later with an RAF messenger who carried a written order that Johns must accept Lawrence.
However, Lawrence was forced out of the RAF in February 1923 after his identity was exposed. He changed his name to T. E. Shaw and joined the Royal Tank Corps later that year. He was unhappy there and repeatedly petitioned to rejoin the RAF, which finally readmitted him in August 1925. A fresh burst of publicity after the publication of Revolt in the Desert resulted in his assignment to bases at Karachi and Miramshah in British India (now Pakistan) in late 1926, where he remained until the end of 1928. At that time, he was forced to return to Britain after rumours began to circulate that he was involved in espionage activities.
He purchased several small plots of land in Chingford, built a hut and swimming pool there, and visited frequently. The hut was removed in 1930 when the Chingford Urban District Council acquired the land; it was given to the City of London Corporation which re-erected it in the grounds of The Warren, Loughton. Lawrence's tenure of the Chingford land has now been commemorated by a plaque fixed on the sighting obelisk on Pole Hill.
Lawrence continued serving in the RAF based at RAF Mount Batten near Plymouth, RAF Calshot near Southampton, and RAF Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire. He specialised in high-speed boats and professed happiness, and he left the service with considerable regret at the end of his enlistment in March 1935.
In the inter-war period, the RAF's Marine Craft Section began to commission air-sea rescue launches capable of higher speeds and greater capacity. The arrival of high-speed craft into the MCS was driven in part by Lawrence. He had previously witnessed a seaplane crew drowning when the seaplane tender sent to their rescue was too slow in arriving. He worked with Hubert Scott-Paine, the founder of the British Power Boat Company (BPBC), to introduce the 37.5 ft (11.4 m) long ST 200 Seaplane Tender Mk1 into service. These boats had a range of 140 miles when cruising at 24 knots and could achieve a top speed of 29 knots.
Lawrence was a keen motorcyclist and owned eight Brough Superior motorcycles at different times. His last SS100 (Registration GW 2275) is privately owned but has been on loan to the National Motor Museum, Beaulieu and the Imperial War Museum in London. He was also an avid reader of Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and carried a copy on his campaigns. He read an account of Eugene Vinaver's discovery of the Winchester Manuscript of the Morte in The Times in 1934, and he drove by motorcycle from Manchester to Winchester to meet Vinaver.
Lawrence was fatally injured in an accident on his Brough Superior SS100 motorcycle in Dorset close to his cottage Clouds Hill, near Wareham. He was 46, just two months after leaving military service. A dip in the road obstructed his view of two boys on their bicycles; he swerved to avoid them, lost control, and was thrown over the handlebars. He died six days later on 19 May 1935. The location of the crash is marked by a small memorial at the roadside.
One of the doctors attending him was neurosurgeon Hugh Cairns, who consequently began a long study of the loss of life by motorcycle dispatch riders through head injuries. His research led to the use of crash helmets by both military and civilian motorcyclists.
The Moreton estate borders Bovington Camp, and Lawrence bought it from his cousins the Frampton family. He had been a frequent visitor to their home Okers Wood House, and had corresponded with Louisa Frampton for years. Lawrence's mother arranged with the Framptons to have his body buried in their family plot in the separate burial ground of St Nicholas' Church, Moreton. The coffin was transported on the Frampton estate's bier. Mourners included Winston, E. M. Forster, Lady Astor, and Lawrence's youngest brother Arnold.
The grave of T. E. Lawrence in the separate churchyard of St Nicholas' Church, Moreton. The phrase Dominus illuminatio mea is from Psalm 27 and is the motto of Oxford University. It translates as "The Lord is my light."
Lawrence was a prolific writer throughout his life, a large portion of which was epistolary; he often sent several letters a day, and several collections of his letters have been published. He corresponded with many notable figures, including George Bernard Shaw, Edward Elgar, Winston Churchill, Robert Graves, Noël Coward, E. M. Forster, Siegfried Sassoon, John Buchan, Augustus John, and Henry Williamson. He met Joseph Conrad and commented perceptively on his works. The many letters that he sent to Shaw's wife Charlotte are revealing as to his character. Lawrence's linguistic abilities enabled him to communicate throughout his travels; he could speak French, German, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Turkish, and Welsh, and he had demonstrated adeptness in learning other dialects and ancient languages.
Lawrence published three major texts in his lifetime. The most significant was his account of the Arab Revolt in Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Homer's Odyssey and The Forest Giant were translations, the latter an otherwise forgotten work of French fiction. He received a flat fee for the second translation, and negotiated a generous fee plus royalties for the first.
Lawrence's major work is Seven Pillars of Wisdom, an account of his war experiences. In 1919, he was elected to a seven-year research fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, providing him with support while he worked on the book. Certain parts of the book also serve as essays on military strategy, Arabian culture and geography, and other topics. He rewrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom three times, once "blind" after he lost the manuscript while changing trains at Reading railway station.
There is a long list of alleged "embellishments" in Seven Pillars, though many such allegations have been disproved with time, most definitively in Jeremy Wilson's authorised biography. However, Lawrence's own notebooks refute his claim to have crossed the Sinai Peninsula from Aqaba to the Suez Canal in just 49 hours without any sleep. In reality, this famous camel ride lasted for more than 70 hours and was interrupted by two long breaks for sleeping, which Lawrence omitted when he wrote his book.
In the preface, Lawrence acknowledged George Bernard Shaw's help in editing the book. The first edition was published in 1926 as a high-priced private subscription edition, printed in London by Herbert John Hodgson and Roy Manning Pike, with illustrations by Eric Kennington, Augustus John, Paul Nash, Blair Hughes-Stanton, and Hughes-Stanton's wife Gertrude Hermes. Lawrence was afraid that the public would think that he would make a substantial income from the book, and he stated that it was written as a result of his war service. He vowed not to take any money from it, and indeed he did not, as the sale price was one third of the production costs, leaving him in substantial debt (Wikipedia).
I came across a well-known Toronto news reporter named Austin Delaney today reporting live outside of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario**.
Mr. Delaney was very friendly when I asked to take a photo of him, and he wished me to stay safe and well.
He was reporting on the disciplinary hearing of a very tragic event. The brutal murder of a well-liked (female) family doctor by her husband, a formerly well-respected neurosurgeon in a domestic violence. The murderer already admitted guilt and is spending a long time in jail, but until his licence has been officially revoked, he is technically still a neurosurgeon and can practise.
** College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) is the regulatory college for medical doctors in Ontario, Canada.
I came across a well-known Toronto news reporter named Austin Delaney today reporting live outside of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario**.
Mr. Delaney was very friendly when I asked to take a photo of him, and he wished me to stay safe and well.
He was reporting on the disciplinary hearing of a very tragic event. The brutal murder of a well-liked (female) family doctor by her husband, a formerly well-respected neurosurgeon in a domestic violence. The murderer already admitted guilt and is spending a long time in jail, but until his licence has been officially revoked, he is technically still a neurosurgeon and can practise.
** College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) is the regulatory college for medical doctors in Ontario, Canada.
Power Play is a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CTV from 1998 to 2000. The series was filmed at Copps Coliseum (now TD Coliseum) in Hamilton, Ontario. The show starred Michael Riley as Brett Parker, a former New York City sports agent who became the general manager of a (fictional) National Hockey League franchise, the Hamilton Steelheads. One of the throughline plots of the series dealt with Parker's ongoing love–hate relationships with the sport, the team and his superior at McArdle Industries, corporate executive Colleen Blessed, played by Kari Matchett.
The cast also included Gordon Pinsent as team owner Duff McArdle, Jonathan Crombie, Jennifer Dale and Al Waxman. The show's theme song was a modernized version of the Stompin' Tom Connors classic, "The Hockey Song", performed partly by Connors himself, and then transitioning to the performance of the band Rusty. The show was briefly aired on the United States broadcast network UPN, starting in 1999, but was pulled after two episodes. The second episode aired in the United States has the distinction of being the lowest-rated episode (since the Nielsen ratings service began in the 1950s) of any prime-time TV series ever aired by any United States network.
Autographs are:
1. Jonathan Rannells – (Todd Maplethorpe) - Jon Rannells is an award winning actor/writer/filmmaker and self-taught mixed media artist. As an actor, Jon has more than 70 appearances in commercials, TV shows and films. As a playwright, Jon’s plays have been produced in North America and Europe and translated into several languages. Jon co-wrote the cult dark comedy feature film, ‘Eddie The Sleepwalking Cannibal’ which premiered at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival, and went on to win the Black Tulip award at the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival and the European Fantasy Film Grand Prize at Leeds International Film Festival. Jon also wrote and directed the feature film ‘Ruby Booby’, which won Best Actor at the International Film Festival Of Manhattan. Originally from Toronto, Canada, Jon now lives in Highland Park, Los Angeles, with actress Kathryn Winslow and their two daughters.
2. Unknown - could be Tanja Jacobs??
3. Caterina Scorsone - (Michelle Parker) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her role as neurosurgeon Dr. Amelia Shepherd on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy (2010–present) and its spin-offs Private Practice (2010–2013) and Station 19 (2020–2024). Prior to this, she made her debut as a child actor on the Canadian children's program Mr. Dressup. She also appeared in a number of films, including 2010's Edge of Darkness and 2014's The November Man. Other television credits include Jess Mastriani on Missing, Callie Wilkinson on Crash, and Alice Hamilton on Alice. Scorsone was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is the middle child of five in her family. Her father, Antonio Bruno Scorsone, is a social worker, and her mother, Suzanne Rozell Scorsone, is a social anthropologist. Scorsone's first TV appearances were in Goosebumps adaptation of Night of the Living Dummy II, then she progressed to regular guest spots as a child on the Canadian children's TV show Mr. Dressup. In 1998, she had a role in one installment of CBC Radio's The Mystery Project called Peggy Delaney as Amber, an estranged fifteen-year-old daughter who comes from Vancouver to stay with her mom for a school term in Toronto.
4. Kari Matchett – (Colleen Blessed) - Kari Matchett is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles as Colleen Blessed on Power Play, Joan Campbell on Covert Affairs, Kate Filmore in the science fiction movie Cube 2: Hypercube, and U.S. president Michelle Travers on The Night Agent. She has also appeared in films such as Apartment Hunting (2000), Angel Eyes (2001), Men with Brooms (2002), Cypher (2002), Civic Duty (2006), The Tree of Life (2011), and Maudie (2016). Matchett was born in Spalding, Saskatchewan. She attended high school at Lethbridge Collegiate Institute in Lethbridge, Alberta. She attended the National Theatre School in Montreal and the Moscow Theatre School. In Canada, her first major role was on The Rez, and her first starring role was as Colleen Blessed in Power Play (1998–2000). Matchett was a cast member on the A&E Network TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002), with Timothy Hutton in which she played several characters, including a recurring role as Lily Rowan.
5. Michael Riley - (Brett Parker) - Michael Riley (born February 4, 1962) is a Canadian actor. From 1998 to 2000, he portrayed Brett Parker in Power Play. He has acted in over 40 films and television series, including This Is Wonderland, for which he received a Gemini Award, and the Emmy-nominated BBC / Discovery Channel co-production Supervolcano. He also portrays, Dr. Tom, a leading character in the 2009 to 2011 CBC Television series Being Erica. Riley was born in London, Ontario, and graduated from the National Theatre School in Montreal, Quebec in 1984. Riley's first screen appearance was in the film No Man's Land (1987). As a stage actor, he received a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for his performance as Arkady in George F. Walker's Nothing Sacred in 1988. He has voiced the animated title character of Ace Lightning.
6. Dean McDermott – (Mark Simpson) - Dean McDermott (born November 16, 1966) is a Canadian actor best known as a reality television personality with his former wife, actress Tori Spelling, and as the host of the cooking competition Chopped Canada. He played the role of Constable Renfield Turnbull on the TV series Due South. McDermott was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to David and Doreen McDermott. He has three sisters, Dale, Dawn, and Dana. He graduated from North Albion Collegiate Institute in Toronto's Rexdale neighbourhood. McDermott has performed in films Open Range, Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy and Against the Ropes. McDermott has appeared in several TV movies including Always and Forever, Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe and A Christmas Visitor. McDermott has had a variety of guest and recurring roles on television series, such as Earth: Final Conflict, Tracker, 1-800-Missing, NCIS and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. 2016 saw Dean McDermott take on a starring role, portraying Iain Vaughn on Slasher.
7. Krista Bridges – (Rose Thorton) - Krista Bridges (born 4 November 1968) is a Canadian actress. She has appeared in more than 110 film and television productions since 1988, and received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 13th Genie Awards in 1992 for The Shower.
8. Lori Anne Alter – (Renata D'Allesandro) - Lori Alter is a Canadian actress, singer, and writer whose multifaceted career spans film, television, theatre, and music. She is best known for starring as Juanita Simmons in Disney's hit The Cheetah Girls franchise. Lori Alter is known for House at the End of the Street (2012), The Cheetah Girls (2003) and Goosebumps (1995). She has been married to William Laurin since 3 August 2003. They have two children.
9. unknown - could be Normand Bissonnette??
10. Neil Crone – (Harry Strand) - Neil Crone (born May 29, 1960) is a Canadian actor and writer. He is known for portraying Fred Tupper in Little Mosque on the Prairie, Jerry Whitehall in Cube 2: Hypercube and the voices of Gordon, Diesel 10 and Splatter in Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000) and voiced Dr. Chu In The Pecola Series. Crone reprised his role as Gordon in the US dub of the Thomas & Friends reboot, Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go (2021-2025). He appeared in films with roles as Officer Strauss in New York Minute (2004), Chuck in Hollywoodland (2006), Keith in The Rainbow Kid (2015), Chief Borton in the 2017 remake It (2017) and its 2019 sequel, and George in Through Black Spruce (2018). His television credits include Bud Topper in the PBS Kids children's television series Noddy (1999–2000), Ed Barnes in the sitcom I Love Mummy (2002–2003), Ray Cooper in Really Me (2011–2013), Chief Crown Attorney Gordon in Murdoch Mysteries (2013–2016), Ollie Jefferson in Wind at My Back (1996–2000) Ronnie Stewart in When Hope Calls (2019, 2021) and Mr. Leopold in Endlings (2020–2021).
11. Gordon Pinsent – (Duff McArdle) - Gordon Edward Pinsent CC FRSC (July 12, 1930 – February 25, 2023) was a Canadian actor, writer, director, and singer. He was known for his roles in numerous productions, including Away from Her, The Rowdyman, John and the Missus, A Gift to Last, Due South, The Red Green Show, and Quentin Durgens, M.P. He was the voice of King Babar in the Babar the Elephant television and film productions from 1989 to 2015. Pinsent's professional acting career began in 1957 at Winnipeg's Theatre 77 (later known as the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre) under the direction of John Hirsch. In the years that followed, he performed in many theatrical productions in Winnipeg, Toronto and at the Stratford Festival. In 1979, he was made an officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1998. In 2006, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2007, it was announced that Pinsent would receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame.
Recurring actors: (the two autographs I can't figure out, are in this group)
Mark Lutz – Jukka Branny-Acke
Normand Bissonnette – Al Tremblay
Greg Spottiswood – Joe Harriman
Johanna Black – Andrea Stuyvesant
Jonathan Crombie – Hudson James
Fiona Highet – Rayanne Simpson
David Keeley – Bud Travis
Jennifer Dale – Samantha Robbins
Tanja Jacobs – SM3 Reagan Sexsmith
Chris Tessaro – Marshak
Sean McCann – Ray Malone
LINK to video - Stompin' Tom Connors - The Hockey Song - www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxJvrD80nJ4
The back is.... back!
This is the most physical activity I've done in the last four weeks while recovering from surgery.
Oh the joy!
My neurosurgeon would be horrified, but what else can you do? Horizontality was making my head implode and the body go to mush (actually looking forward to getting back to the office)... thus the randomness...
I had wanted Alex instead of Ruby to be in this picture as he really is under-represented here... but Ruby really is just a better model / takes instruction better...
Highly recommended, {VLoW}
It’s been a long time since I’ve been on flickr and unfortunately, I’m back with some bad news… my little Pokey has a serious problem.
This past Friday evening, Pokey just wasn’t himself… he didn’t want to play and was just acting mopey. As the night went on, he began to cry out in pain every once in a while. We couldn’t figure out what was wrong! By 6:00 a.m. he was having trouble walking (his little back legs were wobbly). I decided we couldn’t wait for our regular vet to open, so we drove him to the only animal emergency hospital in the area (an hour away).
To make a long story short, Pokey has degenerative disc disease in his back, and may possibly have a herniated disc. I thought he was awfully young to have this kind of problem (he’s about 2 ½ or 3 years old), but the ER vet said this usually occurs in dogs between 3 and 7 years.
The vet prescribed a muscle relaxant and anti-inflammatory and told us that Pokey has to be on strict crate rest for 3 -4 weeks. He’s not allowed to walk, and must be carried everywhere. I am breaking the rules a bit, and allowing him to sleep in our bed, which he has always done (he looks like he thinks he’s being punished when I tried to make him spend the night in the crate)
The poor little guy is still in a lot of pain, but the medicines seem to help a bit. He can’t sit normally – he keeps both his back legs to one side, his back is always hunched and he keeps his head pointed towards the ceiling. It breaks my heart to see him like this, and to know that this is likely a life-changing problem for him. Pokey LOVES to run and play, jump off our bed and wrestle with his girl Darla… now he may possibly never be able to do those things again. It’s so sad!
The vet said that if Pokey does not improve within a month, or if he gets worse, he will need spinal surgery. I’ve already started searching for a good veterinary neurosurgeon to perform the surgery (which is going to be very expensive!) and I think I’ve found a great specialist located in Louisville KY. This Thursday we’ll be going to our regular vet to get a referral to the specialist (the neurosurgeon won’t see a dog without a referral - geez it’s worse than my own medical insurance!)
Please keep little Pokey in your thoughts! And if anyone has a dog that had spinal surgery, I'd love to know how it went and how they did afterwards!
French postcard by Europe, no. 720. Photo: Paramount. Fay Wray in Pointed Heels (A. Edward Sutherland, 1929).
Canadian-born American actress Fay Wray (1907-2004) attained international recognition as the first 'scream queen' in a series of horror films during the early 1930s. Through an acting career that spanned nearly six decades, Wray is best known as Ann Darrow, the girl held in the hand of King Kong (1933). Two days after her death, the lights of the Empire State Building, the location of King Kong's climax scene, were dimmed for 15 minutes in memory of the "beauty who charmed the beast".
Vina Fay Wray was born in 1907 on a ranch near Cardston in the province of Alberta, Canada. Her American parents, Elvina Marguerite Jones and Joseph Heber Wray, were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was one of six children. Her family returned to the United States a few years after she was born, in order for her father to find better work than what was offered in Alberta. They moved to Salt Lake City in 1912, and later they relocated to Los Angeles, where Fay attended Hollywood High School. Her parents divorced, which put the rest of the family in hard times. Being in entertainment-rich Los Angeles, there was ample opportunity to take advantage of the chances that might come her way in the entertainment industry. At the age of 16, Wray made her film debut, when she landed a role in a short historical film, Gasoline Love (1923), sponsored by a local newspaper. The film was not a hit, nor was it a launching vehicle for her career. It would be two more years before she ever got another chance. Wray landed a major role in the silent film The Coast Patrol (Bud Barsky, 1925), as well as uncredited bit parts at the Hal Roach Studios. In 1926, the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers selected Wray, along with Janet Gaynor and Mary Astor, as one of the 'WAMPAS Baby Stars', a group of thirteen starlets whom they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom. She was at the time under contract to Universal Studios, mostly co-starring in low-budget Westerns opposite Buck Jones. The following year, Wray was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures. In 1926, director Erich von Stroheim cast her as the main female lead in his film The Wedding March (Erich von Stroheim, 1928), released by Paramount two years later. Over the six months of filming, Stroheim shot over 200,000 feet of film. The film's original budget was estimated at $300,000 ($4,333,000 today). By the time film producer Pat Powers shut down production, the budget had risen to $1,250,000 ($18,398,000 today). While the film was noted for its production values, it was a financial failure. After her first lead role, Wray stayed with Paramount to make more than a dozen films, including Thunderbolt (Josef von Sternberg, 1929) with George Bancroft, and made the transition from silent films to 'talkies'.
After leaving Paramount, Fay Wray signed to various film companies. Under these deals, Wray was cast in various horror films, including Doctor X (Michael Curtiz, 1932), The Vampire Bat (Frank R. Strayer, 1933) and Mystery of the Wax Museum (Michael Curtiz, 1933), all starring Lionel Atwill. In addition, she appeared in many other types of roles, including in The Bowery (Raoul Walsh, 1933) and Viva Villa (Jack Conway, 1934), both of which starred Wallace Beery. However, her best-known films were produced under her deal with RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. Her first film under RKO was The Most Dangerous Game (Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1932), co-starring Joel McCrea. It was followed by Wray's most memorable film, King Kong (Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933) with Bruce Cabot. The Most Dangerous Game was shot at night on the same jungle sets that were being used for King Kong during the day, with Wray and Robert Armstrong starring in both films. When first-choice Jean Harlow proved to unavailable, Wray was approached by director Merian C. Cooper to play the role of Ann Darrow, the blonde captive of King Kong. Cooper told her that he had a part for her in a picture in which she would be working with a tall, dark leading man. What he didn't tell her was that her "tall, dark leading man" was a giant gorilla. Wray was paid $10,000 ($200,000 in 2020 dollars) to play the role. Tony Fontana at IMDb: "Perhaps no one in the history of pictures could scream more dramatically than Fay, and she really put on a show in "Kong". Her character provided a combination of sex appeal, vulnerability and lung capacity as she was stalked by the giant beast all the way to the top of the Empire State Building." The film was a commercial success and Wray was reportedly proud that the film saved RKO from bankruptcy. Ann Darrow became the role with which Wray was most associated. In 1933, Fay Wray also became a naturalised citizen of the United States. She continued to star in various films, including the romantic comedy The Richest Girl in the World (William A. Seiter, 1934), a second film with Joel McCrea, but by the early 1940s, her appearances became less frequent. She retired from acting in 1942 after her second marriage but due to financial exigencies soon resumed her acting career.
Over the next three decades, Fray Wray appeared in several films and frequently on television. Wray was cast in the sitcom The Pride of the Family (1953-1954) as Catherine Morrison. Paul Hartman played her husband, Albie Morrison. Natalie Wood and Robert Hyatt played their children, Ann and Junior Morrison, respectively. Wray appeared with fellow WAMPAS Baby Star Joan Crawford in the Film Noir drama Queen Bee (Ranald MacDougall, 1955). Wray appeared in three episodes of Perry Mason: The Case Of The Prodigal Parent (1958); The Case of the Watery Witness (1959), as murder victim Lorna Thomas; and The Case of the Fatal Fetish (1965), as voodoo practitioner Mignon Germaine. Other roles around this time were in the episodes Dip in the Pool (1958) and The Morning After of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In 1960, she appeared as Clara in an episode of 77 Sunset Strip, Who Killed Cock Robin? She ended her acting career in the made-for-television film Gideon's Trumpet (Robert Collins, 1980), starring Henry Fonda. In 1988, she published her autobiography 'On the Other Hand'. In her later years, Wray continued to make public appearances. In 1991, she was crowned Queen of the Beaux-Arts Ball presiding with King Herbert Huncke. She was approached by James Cameron to play the part of Rose Dawson Calvert for his blockbuster Titanic (James Cameron, 1997) with Kate Winslet to play her younger self, but she turned down the role, which was played by Gloria Stuart. In 1998, King Kong wound up being named one of the 100 greatest films of all time by the American Film Institute. On the 70th Annual Academy Awards (1998), Billy Crystal introduced a clip of her in King Kong (1933) and then came offstage and stood next to Miss Wray in the audience, and introduced her as the "Beauty who charmed the Beast, the Legendary Fay Wray". In 2003, the 95-year-old Wray appeared at the 2003 Palm Beach International Film Festival to celebrate the documentary film Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (Rick McKay, 2003), which she also appeared in. She was honored with a 'Legend in Film' award. In 2004, Wray was approached by director Peter Jackson to appear in a small cameo for his remake of King Kong (Peter Jackson, 2005). Jackson wanted Fay to say the closing line of the film. She met with Naomi Watts, who was to play the role of Ann Darrow, but she politely declined the cameo and claimed the original "Kong" to be the true "King". Before the filming of the remake commenced, Wray died in her sleep of natural causes on 8 August 2004, in her apartment in Manhattan, five weeks before her 97th birthday. Wray is interred at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California. Fay Wray married three times. Her husbands were the authors John Monk Saunders (1928-1939; divorce) and Robert Riskin (1942-1955; his death), and the neurosurgeon Sanford Rothenberg (1971-1991; his death). She had three children: Susan Saunders, Victoria Riskin, and Robert Riskin Jr. Denny Jackson at IMDb: "She was an excellent actress who never was given a chance to live up to her potential, especially after being cast in a number of horror films in the '30s. Given the right role, Fay could have had her star up alongside the great actresses of the day. No matter. She remains a bright star from cinema's golden era."
Sources: Tony Fontana (IMDb), Denny Jackson (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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