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Published by O Globo, Brazil 1940
Among the earliest International publishing's of Timely Comics world-wide.
Included in these 12 Historical appearances are the 1st Appearances of the Human Torch, Submariner and Ka-Zar and the Origin Story of Submariner and the 1st Human Torch VS Submariner as well as Submariner Attacks New York.
These are among the rarest International Editions in Global History some of these editions there are less then 5 known copies known to exist.
Year one of Gibi Mensal was published in the series Gibi Globo which was a Journal format first published by O Globo and once per month in 1940 they produced a Mensal.
The first 12 editions # corresponded with the Journal editon #'s.
You may not see a collection such as this again, these are extremely rare and #100, #116, and #126 belong to a friend of ours.
All the Timely Editions are from our families Legacy collection and most of them are among the best known examples that exist.
Gibi Mensal Series 1941-1952 has 143 Editions.
These 12 pre-dated the series and were only produced in 1940.
Published in the Denver Post's Reverb blog, here:
blogs.denverpost.com/reverb/2008/08/19/scott-h-biram-and-...
Left Lane Cruiser
www.myspace.com/leftlanecruiser
Scott H. Biram
Bob Log III
3 awesome bands on one awesome night. I feel like a boob scotch on the rocks.
This show was the second time I had seen Scott H. Biram, and the first time for Left Lane Cruiser and Bob Log III. They packed the Larimer Lounge on Wednesday, 081308.
I had searched for myspace pages of performers at this year's Deep Blues Festival, and discovered two more not-to-be-missed bands to add and catch if they came to town. Lo, and behold, a tour was soon set in motion and I was ready for this great night.
The night started with a raw set from the duo Left Lane Cruiser, with "Big Mama" and "Amy's In The Kitchen" as my personal favorites.
Scott H. Biram riled up the crowd with his energy, and just about destroyed my ear-plugged eardrums with his stack of amps, especially during a sweet Metallica cover. Too bad he had a drunk heckler a couple songs in who just didn't get it and wanted him to shut up and play some music. She apparently was not ready to laugh at his between-song banter, especially at her own expense. Good riddance.
I knew just a little of what to expect from Bob Log III from a couple YouTube videos, so I politely squeezed up front on the floor just in time to get crushed by a sweaty, eager crowd. He didn't disappoint, and surfed the crowd in an entirely novel way on a rubber boat, enjoyed two expertly prepared Boob Scotches, and tried his darndest to get the knees on his blue jumpsuit a little dirty. Search for explanatory videos on your own, and turn off your safe-search option if you view these shots on Flickr.
With work looming a few hours later for my girlfriend, and me exhausted from cramming up against the stage-front amps for several hours, we left a couple songs before the end of Bob Log's set. As far as I remember, it was well past time for last call. Totally worth the calf-soreness and a shower before I fell into bed.
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Secret Solstice Festival
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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The Postcard
A carte postale published by Lévy et Neurdein of Paris.
The card was posted in Nice on Monday the 4th. May 1931 to:
T. Denman Esq.,
23, Waterloo Crescent,
Dover,
Kent,
Angleterre.
Nice is the fifth most populous city in France and the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes département. Located in the French Riviera, on the south east coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of the Alps, Nice is the second-largest French city on the Mediterranean coast.
The city is nicknamed Nice la Belle, which is also the title of the unofficial anthem of Nice, written by Menica Rondelly in 1912.
The area of today's Nice contains Terra Amata, an archaeological site which displays evidence of a very early use of fire. Around 350 BC, Greeks of Marseille founded a permanent settlement and called it Nikaia, after Nike, the goddess of victory.
The natural beauty of the Nice area and its mild Mediterranean climate came to the attention of the English upper classes in the second half of the 18th century, when an increasing number of aristocratic families took to spending their winters there.
The city's main seaside promenade, the Promenade des Anglais owes its name to visitors to the resort.
The clear air and soft light have particularly appealed to notable painters, such as Marc Chagall and Henri Matisse. Their work is commemorated in many of the city's museums, including Musée Marc Chagall, Musée Matisse and Musée des Beaux-Arts.
Nice has the second largest hotel capacity in the country and is one of its most visited cities, receiving 4 million tourists every year. It also has the third busiest airport in France, after the two main Parisian ones.
The Terrorist Truck Attack
On 14 July 2016, a truck was deliberately driven into a crowd of people by Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel on the Promenade des Anglais. The crowd were watching a fireworks display in celebration of Bastille Day.
The attack, which had taken months to plan, resulted in the deaths of eighty-seven people, including ten children. The perpetrator was shot dead by police. Another 202 people were injured, with 52 in critical care and 25 in intensive care.
Christophe Lion was the only survivor from a family group who had travelled to Nice from the French border area near Luxembourg, according to French media.
His wife Veronique Lion, 55, and her 28-year-old son Michael Pellegrini, a professor of economics, were killed along with Veronique's parents Francois and Christiane Locatelli, aged 82 and 78, and Christophe's parents Gisele Lion, 63, and Germain Lion, 68 - a total of six family members.
Paris tobacconist Timothe Fournier, 27, died protecting his heavily pregnant wife, Anais. She described how he pushed her out of the path of the lorry before being struck down himself:
"He was a young dreamer,
but he was always there for
his wife and future child".
The Terrorist Knife Attack
Nice has since suffered a further terrorist attack. On the morning of the 29th. October 2020, a woman and a man were killed by a terrorist with a 12-inch knife inside the Basilica of Notre-Dame. The woman aged 60, who had gone to the Basilica to worship, was found decapitated near the font of the church. The murdered man was the Basilica's church warden, 55 year-old Vincent Loquès, father of two.
The third victim - 44 year old mother of three Simone Silva managed to escape, and staggered to a nearby bar where she succumbed to her injuries. Her final words were:
"Tell my children I love them".
Armed police stormed Notre-Dame and shot the suspected terrorist, wounding him. The suspect was taken to hospital. Nice mayor Christian Estrosi said the attacker kept shouting "Allahu Akbar" even after he had been shot.
The terrorist was Brahim Aoussaoui, a 21 year old Tunisian migrant who had arrived in Europe by boat on the Italian island of Lampedusa 39 days earlier on the 20th. September. He arrived in Nice the night before the attack.
The Basilica attack came amid heightened security fears in France due to the ongoing row over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed published by satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
France provoked the ire of Iran and Turkey by taking a tough line in defending the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
On the 28th. October 2020, Iranian president Hassan Rouhani warned the row over the cartoons could lead to violence and bloodshed. He said:
"It's a surprise that this would come
from those claiming culture and
democracy, that they would somehow,
even if unintentionally, encourage
violence and bloodshed.
Westerners must understand the great
Prophet of Islam is loved by all Muslims
and freedom-lovers of the world.
Insulting the Prophet is insulting all
Muslims.
Insulting the Prophet is insulting all
prophets, human values, and amounts
to undermining ethic".
Samuel Paty
Samuel Paty, 47, was beheaded by 18-year-old freedom-lover Abdullah Anzorov on the 17th. October 2020 after using the cartoons to teach his students about the importance of free speech. An image he showed to students was the same one published by Charlie Hebdo that sparked the attack on the magazine's offices that killed 12.
Paty, a history and geography teacher, is being seen as a champion of free speech by many in France after his brutal death. He was posthumously given the Legion d'Honneur - France’s highest award - and French president Emmanuel Macron insisted:
"We will not give up our cartoons".
The mayor of Nice said after the Notre-Dame attack:
"Enough is enough. It's time now
for France to exonerate itself from
the laws of peace in order to
definitively wipe out Islamo-fascism
from our territory."
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 4th. May 1931 marked the death in Lisbon, Portugal at the young age of 50 of Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett.
Ellis, who was born in London on the 11th. February 1881, was an English war correspondent during the Great War.
Through his reporting of the Battle of Gallipoli, Ashmead-Bartlett was instrumental in the birth of the Anzac legend which still dominates military history in Australia and New Zealand to this day.
Because of his outspoken criticism of the conduct of the campaign, Ellis was instrumental in bringing about the dismissal of the British Commander-in-Chief, Sir Ian Hamilton – an event that led to the evacuation of British forces from the Gallipoli peninsula.
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett - The Early Years
Ashmead-Bartlett was the eldest son of Conservative Party MP Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett. Ashmead-Bartlett attended Marlborough College and served as a lieutenant in The Bedfordshire Regiment during the Second Boer War.
In April 1902 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. Two years later, Ashmead-Bartlett arrived in Manchuria to report on the Russo-Japanese War. Soon after the war, he published one of the major books on that conflict: 'Port Arthur: The Siege and Capitulation'.
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett's Arrival at Gallipoli
Ashmead-Bartlett's role as a war correspondent reached maturity during the Great War. As correspondent for the Fleet Street newspapers, Ashmead-Bartlett, who worked for The Daily Telegraph, covered the 25th. April 1915 landing at Anzac Cove.
He had gone ashore at Anzac Cove at 9.30 p.m. on the evening of the landing and, wearing a non-regulation green hat, was promptly arrested as a spy, but was released when the boatswain who had brought him ashore testified for him.
Ashmead-Bartlett was responsible for the first eyewitness accounts of the battle. His report of the landing was published in Australian newspapers on the 8th. May, before the reports of the Australian correspondent Charles Bean.
Ashmead-Bartlett's colourful prose, unrestrained by the pursuit of accuracy which hampered Bean's dispatches, was thick with praise for the Anzacs, and went down well with Australian and New Zealand audiences:
"There has been no finer feat in this war than
this sudden landing in the dark and storming
the heights, and, above all, holding on while
the reinforcements were landing.
These raw colonial troops, in these desperate
hours, proved worthy to fight side by side with
the heroes of Mons, the Aisne, Ypres and Neuve
Chapelle."
On the 27th. May 1915, Ashmead-Bartlett was aboard HMS Majestic, a Royal Navy battleship anchored off Cape Helles, when it was torpedoed by the German U-boat U-21.
Two days earlier he had seen HMS Triumph go down off Anzac, the first victim of the U-21, and he was well aware that the Majestic would likely suffer the same fate.
He had his mattress brought up on deck so that he would not be trapped in his cabin, and helped drink the last of the ship's champagne. Ashmead-Bartlett survived the sinking, but lost all his kit. He sailed for Malta to acquire a new wardrobe.
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett's Return to London
As the battle progressed, Ashmead-Bartlett's reports became highly critical, which left him in disfavour with the British Commander-in-Chief, General Sir Ian Hamilton.
Instead of returning to the Dardanelles from Malta, Ashmead-Bartlett went on to London, arriving on the 6th. June, to report in person on the conduct of the campaign. During his time in London, he met with most of the senior political figures including Bonar Law (the Colonial Secretary), Winston Churchill (by that time displaced as First Lord of the Admiralty), Arthur Balfour (Churchill's replacement at the Admiralty), and H. H. Asquith (the Prime Minister). He was also questioned by Lord Kitchener (the Secretary of State for War).
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett's Return to Gallipoli
When he returned to Gallipoli, Ashmead-Bartlett established himself on the island of Imbros, which was also the site of Hamilton's headquarters. Here Ashmead-Bartlett lived in relative safety and comfort, and even brought his own cook from Paris. Returning to the peninsula, he witnessed the new landing at Suvla during the August Offensive:
"Confusion reigned supreme. No-one seemed to
know where the headquarters of the different
brigades and divisions were to be found.
The troops were hunting for water, the staffs were
hunting for their troops, and the Turkish snipers
were hunting for their prey."
Ashmead-Bartlett had obtained a movie camera while in London with which he captured the only film footage of the battle.
On the 21st. August, he was watching from Chocolate Hill when the British IX Corps launched the final attack of the campaign, the Battle of Scimitar Hill. While filming, he was buried when an artillery shell landed nearby, but was quickly dug free.
Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett's Criticism of the Gallipoli Campaign
When the Australian journalist Keith Murdoch arrived at Gallipoli in September 1915, Ashmead-Bartlett found a receptive audience for his commentary and analysis of the campaign. Murdoch travelled to London carrying a letter from Ashmead-Bartlett which damned the campaign, describing the final offensive as:
"The most ghastly and costly fiasco
in our history since the Battle of
Bannockburn".
The letter, intended for Asquith, was intercepted in Marseilles, and on the 28th. September, Ashmead-Bartlett was told to leave Gallipoli.
On his return to London, Ashmead-Bartlett gave an "interview" to The Sunday Times (an opinion piece presented as an interview to circumvent censorship rules).
Published on the 17th. October, it was the first detailed account of the campaign and was widely circulated, published in The Times and Daily Mail as well as in Australian papers.
After Gallipoli
Short of money, Ashmead-Bartlett undertook a lecture tour of England and Australia. He reported on the fighting on the Western Front in France.
Following the war, Ashmead-Bartlett (an opponent of Communism) fought in Hungary against the Bolsheviks, and he spent two years (1924–1926) as a Conservative Member of Parliament for the Hammersmith North constituency in London. Ashmead-Bartlett later became The Daily Telegraph's India correspondent. His coverage was noted for his strong hostility to Gandhi's campaign for Indian Independence.
Apparently, I had the best photo of the worst thing in Nashville. But, as of yesterday, that worst thing (The I-65 Nathan B. Forrest statue which had no remaining defenders) was removed. It's actually a little bittersweet for me because it made me a little Internet famous, but I guess that won't happen any more. I'd sold the photo several times to comedy news shows, such as the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Quibi's America Today and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
This photo has appeared seemingly everywhere without a photo credit, such as all over Twitter. MSNBC never contacted me to use this photo, and they used it without permission. Hopefully, they find me and resolve this.
Original photo: flic.kr/p/iisrQ
I came across this article in the The Wall Street Journal, with a predominant photo display of my work during a Miami Marlins game, almost by accident. Eventually I would have received the report from the agency.
I have countless tear sheets of published photos and captions in news articles. Somehow this was special. Being the WSJ such a prestigious publication I feel honored to have my photo capture chosen for publication among so many professionals that covered the injury incident of Mike Trout during the game.
This is a screen capture of of a section of the online article.
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The Postcard
A postcard bearing an early image of the Old Temple Bar. It was published by Raphael Tuck & Sons who describe themselves on the back of the card as "Art publishers to their Majesties the King and Queen".
The card was posted in West London on Monday the 11th. January 1909 to 31, Rue du Mole, Geneva.
The Old Temple Bar
Temple Bar was the principal ceremonial entrance to the City of London from the City of Westminster. In the middle ages, London expanded city jurisdiction beyond its walls to gates, called ‘bars’, which were erected across thoroughfares. To the west of the City of London, the bar was located in the area known as the Temple.
Temple Bar was situated on the historic royal ceremonial route from the Tower of London to the Palace of Westminster, the two chief residences of the medieval English monarchs, and from the Palace of Westminster to St Paul's Cathedral. The road east of Temple Bar and within the City is Fleet Street, while the road to the west, in Westminster, is The Strand.
At Temple Bar, the Corporation of the City of London formerly erected a barrier to regulate trade into the City. The 19th. century Royal Courts of Justice are located next to it on its north side, having been moved from Westminster Hall.
To its south is the Temple Church, along with the Inner Temple and Middle Temple Inns of Court. As the most important entrance to the City of London from Westminster, it was formerly long the custom for the monarch to halt at Temple Bar before entering the City of London, in order for the Lord Mayor to offer the Corporation's pearl-encrusted Sword of State as a token of loyalty.
The term 'Temple Bar' strictly refers to a notional bar or barrier across the route, but it is also commonly used to refer to the 17th.-century ornamental Baroque arched gateway designed by Sir Christopher Wren, which spanned the road until its removal in 1878.
A memorial pedestal topped by a dragon symbol of London, and containing an image of Queen Victoria, was erected to mark the bar's location in 1880.
Wren's arch was preserved and was re-erected in 2004 in the City, in Paternoster Square next to St Paul's Cathedral.
Background
In the Middle Ages, the authority of the City of London Corporation reached beyond the City's ancient defensive walls in several places, known as the Liberties of London. To regulate trade into the City, barriers were erected on the major entrance routes wherever the true boundary was a substantial distance from the nearest ancient gatehouse in the walls.
Temple Bar was the most used of these, since traffic between the City of London (England's prime commercial centre) and the Palace of Westminster (the political centre) passed through it. It was located where Fleet Street now meets The Strand, which is outside London's old boundary wall.
Its name derives from the Temple Church, adjoining to the south, which has given its name to a wider area south of Fleet Street, the Temple, once belonging to the Knights Templar but now home to two of the legal profession's Inns of Court.
The historic ceremony of the monarch halting at Temple Bar and being met by the Lord Mayor has often featured in art and literature. It is commented on in televised coverage of modern-day royal ceremonial processions. The City of London's own website describes the ceremony as:
"The Temple Bar ceremony, which is still
occasionally re-enacted at a monument
to the Bar, involves the monarch stopping
to request permission to enter the City
and the Lord Mayor presenting the Sword
of State as a sign of loyalty".
History of Old Temple Bar
A bar is first mentioned in 1293, and was probably only a chain or bar between a row of posts. More substantial structures with arches followed. After the Battle of Evesham of 1265, Prince Edward punished the rebellious Londoners, who had befriended Simon de Montfort, by taking away all their street chains and bars, and storing them in the Tower of London.
The earliest known reference to Temple Bar is in 1327, concerning a hearing before the mayor regarding a right of way in the area. By 1351, a wooden archway had been built housing a small prison above it. In 1384, Richard II granted a licence for paving the Strand Street from Temple Bar to the Savoy, and collecting tolls to cover the expense.
On the 5th. November 1422, the corpse of Henry V was borne to Westminster Abbey by the chief citizens and nobles, and every doorway from Southwark to Temple Bar had a torch-bearer.
In 1503 the hearse of Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry VII, halted at Temple Bar, on its way from the Tower to Westminster, and at the Bar the Abbots of Westminster and Bermondsey blessed the corpse, and the Earl of Derby and a large company of nobles joined the funeral procession.
Anne Boleyn passed through the Bar on the 31st. May 1534, the day before her coronation, on her way to the Tower. On that occasion Temple Bar had been painted and repaired, and near it stood singing men and children—the Fleet Street conduit all the time running claret.
In 1554, Thomas Wyatt led an uprising in opposition to Queen Mary I's proposed marriage to Philip II of Spain. When he had fought his way down Piccadilly to The Strand, Temple Bar was forced open by him; but when he had been repulsed at Ludgate he was hemmed in by cavalry at Temple Bar, where he surrendered. This revolt persuaded the government to go through with the verdict against Lady Jane Grey.
The notable Scottish bookseller Andrew Millar owned his first London shop at Temple Bar, taken over from the ownership of James McEuen in 1728, to whom Millar had apprenticed.
Sir Christopher Wren's Temple Bar Gate
Although the Bar Gate escaped damage by the Great Fire of London of 1666, it was rebuilt as part of the general improvement works made throughout the City after the fire.
Commissioned by King Charles II, and attributed to Sir Christopher Wren, the fine arch of Portland stone was constructed between 1669 and 1672.
Rusticated, it is a two-storey structure consisting of one wide central arch for road traffic, flanked on both sides by narrower arches for pedestrians.
On the upper part, four statues celebrate the 1660 Restoration of the Stuart monarchy: on the west side King Charles II is shown with his father King Charles I whose parents King James I and Anne of Denmark are depicted on the east side.
During the 18th. century the heads of convicted traitors were frequently mounted on pikes and exhibited on the roof, as was the case on London Bridge.
The other seven principal gateways to London, (Ludgate, Newgate, Aldersgate, Cripplegate, Moorgate, Bishopsgate and Aldgate) were all demolished in the 1760's, but Temple Bar remained despite its impediment to the ever-growing traffic. The upper-storey room was leased to the neighbouring banking house of Child & Co. for storage of records.
In the 1853 Bleak House, Charles Dickens described it as:
"That leaden-headed old obstruction, appropriate
ornament for the threshold of a leaden-headed old corporation".
It was noted in jest that Temple Bar was "A weak spot in our defences", since one could walk through the adjoining barbershop where one door opened on to the City and the other into Westminster.
By 1874 the keystones had dropped and the arches were being propped up with timbers. The steady increase in horse and cart traffic led to complaints that Temple Bar was becoming a bottleneck, holding back the City trade.
Accordingly in 1878 the City of London Corporation, eager to widen the road but unwilling to destroy so historic a monument, dismantled it piece-by-piece over an 11-day period and stored its 2,700 stones.
In 1880 the brewer Henry Meux, at the instigation of his wife Valerie Susan Meux, bought the stones and re-erected the arch as a new gatehouse in the park of his mansion Theobalds Park in Hertfordshire. There it remained, positioned in a woodland clearing, until 2003. A plaque marks the site where Temple Bar once stood.
Temple Bar's Present Location
In March 1938 Theobalds Park was sold by Sir Hedworth Meux to Middlesex County Council, but the Temple Bar Gatehouse was excluded from the sale, and retained by the Meux trustees.
In 1984 it was purchased by the Temple Bar Trust from the Meux Trust for the sum of £1. In December 2001 the City's Court of Common Council resolved to contribute funds for the return of Temple Bar Gate to the City.
On the 13th. October 2003 the first stone was dismantled at Theobalds Park, and all were placed on 500 pallets for storage. In 2004 it was returned to the City of London where it was re-erected as an entrance to the Paternoster Square redevelopment immediately north of St. Paul's Cathedral, opening to the public on the 10th. November 2004.
The total cost of the project was over £3 million, funded mainly by the City of London, with donations from the Temple Bar Trust and several City Livery Companies.
The Temple Bar Memorial
Following the removal of Wren's gate, Horace Jones, Architect and Surveyor to the City of London, designed a memorial to mark Temple Bar, which was unveiled in 1880. The Temple Bar Memorial stands in front of the Royal Courts of Justice.
The elaborate pedestal serves as the base for a sculpture by Charles Bell Birch of a dragon (sometimes erroneously referred to as a griffin) bearing a shield of the arms of the City of London.
The pedestal is decorated with statues by Joseph Boehm of Queen Victoria and her son the Prince of Wales, the last royals to have entered the City through Wren's gate, which event is depicted in one of the reliefs which also decorate the structure.
The Boundary Waters Treaty
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 11th. January 1909, the Boundary Waters Treaty was signed by U.S. Secretary of State Elihu Root and British Ambassador to the United States James Bryce, at Root's home.
Ratified by both nations in 1910, the treaty regulated the usage of all waters shared by the United States and Canada, including the Great Lakes and Niagara Falls.
Four Executions
Also on that day, the death penalty was carried out in France for the first time since the turn of the 20th. century, as the four murderers in the Pollet gang died on the guillotine as a crowd in Béthune cheered.
The Advertiser in Adelaide reported the quadruple execution on the 20th. February 1909.
"On the 11th. January at dawn the guillotine appeared again in France, and the four men whose death warrants were signed by President Fallieres on Saturday were led out to execution. It was a gloomy morning, but a crowd of some 30,000 people had assembled in the square outside the gaol where the execution was to take place.
All night long people had been gathering. At midnight there were 2,000 watchers in the square, and the main street of the town was crowded, as on the eve of a fete. Men brought ladders and benches to the square and mounted them to obtain an uninterrupted view.
Others climbed into the branches of trees, where their presence was revealed by the glow of cigarettes and pipes in the dark among the branches.
As the hours went by the crowd increased steadily. Trains bringing spectators arrived from all the large towns in the area, and even from Paris.
All the hotels were crowded, and in the cafes people passed the night drinking and discussing the exploits of the four doomed men, the leaders of "The Bandits of the North."
At 4 o'clock in the morning Deibler, the public executioner and his four assistants erected the guillotine at the pre-arranged site. The troops had trouble keeping back the crowd, who wished to examine the instrument at close quarters.
Meanwhile the four prisoners, Abel Pollet and his three accomplices, Auguste Pollet (his brother), Canut-Vroman, and Théophile Deroo, were still ignorant of their approaching end.
Each man had been found guilty of three murders. Abel Pollet had confessed of his own accord to participation in no fewer than 250 crimes, including several murders. His accomplices, to judge from their confessions, were scarcely his inferiors in crime.
At 25 minutes to 6, the Public Prosecutor entered the condemned men's cells and said, to them in the traditional formula:
"I regret to have to inform you that the President
of the Republic has rejected your appeal for mercy.
You must prepare for the extreme penalty. Have
courage."
Abel Pollet replied:
"Courage I have always had."
He and his brother accepted the ministrations of a priest, their two comrades having previously received religious consolation. In bidding farewell to the priest who officiated Abel Pollet thanked him and begged him to take care of his wife and children. He said:
"If I had listened to my wife's
advice I should not be here
now."
This was the only indication of remorse that Abel displayed.
The prison barber was then summoned, and in accordance with Deibler's instructions, shaved the prisoners' necks and ripped off their collars. Canut-Vroman asked for a cordial, but was given a large glass of brandy. On the whole, all four men maintained their courage.
At 25 minutes past 7 Deroo was led out to execution. He was dressed only in shirt and trousers, and was bareheaded. As Deroo appeared his face was livid, and he walked feebly with short steps, being shackled round the ankles.
There was a painful silence, and then an outbreak of hoots and curses from the crowd. For a moment Deroo hesitated, but he was quickly hurried forward and flung face downwards on the plank of the guillotine.
Deibler released the knife, there was a flash, a sudden jarring sound, and all was over. The head fell into a basket in front of the knife, while the trunk was hastily flung into another basket at the side.
All the savage instincts of the crowd appeared to be aroused. There were frantic shouts of "Death!" "Death!" mingled with curses. The officers of the troops shouted to their men to stand firm against the threatened rush.
The guillotine was quickly cleaned, and Canut-Vroman was brought forward. He showed no sign of flinching. A moment later his head lay in the sawdust, and the crowd was giving vent to fierce cries of exultation.
Auguste Pollet came next. He fought and screamed.
Last of the four came Abel Pollet, the leader of the gang. Just before leaving his cell, Abel had written a letter of thanks to the governor of the prison, his handwriting being firm and regular.
The crowd's excitement now reached its climax. The people yelled, hissed and shouted abuse. Pollet was unmoved. His last words were:
"Down with the priests!
Long live the Republic!"
His head fell, and there was a savage rush on the part of the crowd, which seemed bent on tearing the corpse to pieces. The troops had all they could do to restrain the public frenzy.
The whole terrible scene was completed in eight minutes.
The Postcard
A postally unused Salmon Series postcard that was printed and published by J. Salmon Ltd. of Sevenoaks.
On the back of the card they have printed:
'S.S. Canberra.
P. & O. and Orient Line.
45,000 gross tons.
Length 820 feet.
Speed 27 knots'.
The S.S. Canberra
The S.S. Canberra was an ocean liner, which later operated on cruises, in the P&O fleet from 1961 to 1997.
She was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland at a cost of £17,000,000. The ship was named on the 17th. March 1958, after the federal capital of Australia, Canberra.
She was launched on the 16th. March 1960, sponsored by Dame Pattie Menzies, wife of the then Prime Minister of Australia, Robert Menzies.
Canberra entered service in May 1961, and made her maiden voyage in June.
One of her public rooms included a 'Cricketers Tavern', which contained a collection of bats and ties from cricket clubs all over the world; she also had the William Fawcett reading/writing room, named after the engine designer of early P&O ships.
She appeared in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever.
On 2 April 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, which initiated the Falklands War. At the time, Canberra was cruising in the Mediterranean. The next day, her captain Dennis Scott-Masson received a message asking his time of arrival at Gibraltar, which was not on his itinerary.
When he called at Gibraltar, he learnt that the Ministry of Defence had requisitioned Canberra for use as a troopship. Canberra sailed to Southampton where she was quickly refitted, sailing on the 9th. April for the South Atlantic.
Nicknamed the Great White Whale, Canberra proved vital in transporting the Parachute Regiment and Royal Marines to the islands more than 9,000 nautical miles (17,000 km) from the United Kingdom. Canberra was sent to the heart of the conflict.
Canberra anchored in San Carlos Water on the 21st. May as part of the landings by British forces to retake the islands. Although her size and white colour made her an unmissable target for the Argentine Air Force, Canberra, if sunk, would not have been completely submerged in the shallow waters at San Carlos.
However, the liner was not badly hit in the landings as the Argentine pilots tended to attack the Royal Navy frigates and destroyers instead of the supply and troop ships. After the war, Argentine pilots claimed they were told not to hit Canberra, as they mistook her for a hospital ship.
When the war ended, Canberra was used to repatriate captured Argentine soldiers, landing them at Puerto Madryn, before returning to Southampton to a rapturous welcome on the 11th. July.
After a lengthy refit, Canberra returned to civilian service as a cruise ship. Her role in the Falklands War made her very popular with the British public, and ticket sales after her return were elevated for many years as a result.
Age and high running costs eventually caught up with her though, as she had much higher fuel consumption than most modern cruise ships. Although Premier Cruise Line had made a bid for the old ship, P&O had already decided that they did not want the Canberra to operate under a different flag.
Canberra was withdrawn from P&O service in September 1997 and sold to ship breakers for scrapping on the 10th. October 1997, leaving for the Gadani ship-breaking yard, Pakistan on the 31st. October 1997.
Her deep draft meant that she could not be beached as far as most ships, and due to her solid construction the scrapping process took nearly a year instead of the estimated three months, being totally scrapped by the end of 1998.
In 1997 the singer and songwriter Gerard Kenny released the single "Farewell Canberra" which was specially composed for the last voyage at the request of P&O.
J. Salmon Ltd.
Alas, J. Salmon no longer produce postcards. Having churned out small coloured rectangles of card from its factory in Kent for more than 100 years, the company stopped publishing postcards in 2017.
The fifth-generation brothers who still ran the company sent a letter to their clients in the autumn of 2017, advising them that the presses would cease printing at the end of 2017, with their remaining stock being sold off throughout the following year.
The firm’s story began in 1880, when the original J. Salmon acquired a printing business on Sevenoaks high street, and produced a collection of twelve black and white scenes of the town.
In 1912, the business broke through into the big time by commissioning the artist Alfred Robert Quinton (1853 - 1934), who produced 2,300 scenes of British life for them up until his death.
From Redruth to King’s Lynn, his softly coloured, highly detailed watercolours of rosy milkmaids, bucolic pumphouses and picturesque harbour towns earned him a place in the hearts of the public, despite references to Alfred's 'chocolate-box art' by some art critics.
J. Salmon also produced photographs and cheery oils of seaside imagery captioned with a garrulous enthusiasm: “Eat More Chips!”, “Sun, Sand & Sea”, “We’re Going Camping!”
It commissioned the comic artist Reg Maurice (who often worked under the pseudonym Vera Paterson), to produce pictures of comically bulbous children with cutesy captions, alongside the usual stock images of British towns.
It was this century’s changing habits – and technology – that did for Salmon. Co-managing director Charles Salmon noted:
“People are going for shorter breaks,
not for a fortnight, so you’re back home
before your postcards have arrived."
He barely needed to say that Instagram and Facebook had made their product all but redundant, almost wiping out the entire industry in a decade.
Michelle Abadie, co-director of the John Hinde Collection, said:
“When I heard the news, I was
actually surprised they still existed."
John Hinde was once J Salmon’s biggest rival; it sold 50-60 million postcards a year at its peak in the 1960's, but it, too, shuttered four years previously. The licensing for its rich archive of images was sold off, and repurposed in art books.
However, in one sense, the death of the postcard is overstated. Like vinyl records, our fetish for the physical objects we left behind is already making its presence felt.
Michelle Abadie points out:
“If you go into Waterstones now, they
sell lots of postcards of book covers.
The idea itself isn’t dead – as a
decorative object, people still want
them.”
Terry Styron left and Capt Deemer on fishing boat Nugget out of Marathon published in an article in the Miami Herald July 26, 1981. Wright Langley Collection.
The Toronto Zoo is one of my favorite places to go and spend a day. The animals are well looked after, have lots of space and for the most part the zoo is very photographer friendly and provides lots of great photo opportunities.
This is one of my photos of the female Sumatran Tiger. (there's a breeding pair and 2 babies from 2007 housed at the Zoo). There have been days that I've gone and ended up spending the whole day at the Sumatran exhibit, leaving time for nothing else.
I submitted it to their annual photo contest and was thrilled to win first place in the Animals category. I was even more thrilled that it made the cover.
OMAM (Of Monsters And Men)
Secret Solstice 2016
Reykjavik, Iceland
June, 2016
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The four regional offices of the Black Panther Party, including the southern regional office headquartered in Washington, D.C., publish this invitation to the plenary of the Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention to be held in Philadelphia, Pa. September 5-7, 1970.
More than 10,000 people would attend the plenary in Philadelphia. However, the convention in Washington, D.C. was held without a suitable venue.
Order from high in government discouraged Howard University, the University of Maryland, American University and the D.C. Armory Board from permitting the gathering.
While several thousand came to the city and participated in workshops, there was no general meeting to ratify, amend or reject the planks put forward.
For a PDF of this two-sided flyer, see
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For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsjBUuu3J
Donated by Robert “Bob” Simpson
The Postcard
A postcard that was published on behalf of The Maid of The Mist. On the back of the card is printed:
'Maid of The Mist Boat Tour.
The most exciting way to see
Niagra Falls is aboard the world-
famous Maid of The Mist boat.
From no other place are the
Falls so magnificent'.
The card was posted in Buffalo, N.Y. on Wednesday the 16th. October 1991 to:
Mrs. F. Le Mar,
164, Hoe Lane,
Enfield,
Middx.
England.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Wednesday 16/10/91.
Dear Mum,
Arrived OK and now on
our sightseeing trip.
New York was great,
and now we are at
Niagra Falls.
Went on boat in picture.
Will write again.
Bye for now,
Love,
Allan xx"
Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls is 27 km (17 mi) northwest of Buffalo, New York, and 69 km (43 mi) southeast of Toronto, between the twin cities of Niagara Falls, Ontario, and Niagara Falls, New York.
Niagara Falls was formed when glaciers receded at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation (the last ice age), and water from the newly formed Great Lakes carved a path over and through the Niagara Escarpment en route to the Atlantic Ocean.
Niagara Falls is a group of three waterfalls at the southern end of Niagara Gorge, spanning the border between the province of Ontario in Canada and the state of New York in the United States.
The largest of the three is Horseshoe Falls, which straddles the international border of the two countries. It is also known as the Canadian Falls.
The smaller American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls lie within the United States. Bridal Veil Falls is separated from Horseshoe Falls by Goat Island and from American Falls by Luna Island, with both islands situated in New York.
Formed by the Niagara River, which drains Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, the combined falls have the highest flow rate of any waterfall in North America that has a vertical drop of more than 50 m (160 ft).
During peak daytime tourist hours, more than 168,000 m3 (5.9 million cu ft) of water goes over the crest of the falls every minute.
Horseshoe Falls is the most powerful waterfall in North America, as measured by flow rate.
Niagara Falls is famed for its beauty and is a valuable source of hydroelectric power. Balancing recreational, commercial, and industrial uses has been a challenge for the stewards of the falls since the 19th. century.
Ole Beich
So what else happened on the day that Allan posted the card?
Well, the 16th. October 1991 marked the death in Copenhagen at the age of 36 of Ole Beich.
Beich, who was born in Esbjerg, Denmark on the 1st. January 1955, was a hard rock and heavy metal musician who primarily played the bass guitar.
He is best known as the bass guitarist for the original lineups of L.A. Guns and Guns N' Roses.
Ole Beich - The Early Years
Beich, in his youth achieved a degree of fame amongst musicians and fans in Esbjerg. He played guitar with several Danish bands, and recorded an album in 1979 with a band called Rock Nalle & The Flames. He was also a member of Mercyful Fate for a brief time, before deciding to move to Los Angeles in pursuit of a career in music.
L.A. Guns (1983–1985)
L.A. Guns were first formed in 1983 by guitarist Tracii Guns and drummer Rob Gardner. The first lineup included Guns, Beich, Gardner and singer Michael Jagosz. The band recorded an EP Collectors' Edition No. 1.
Shortly after, Jagosz left the band following an arrest involving a bar fight, and was replaced by Bill Bailey (who would later change his name to Axl Rose).
Bailey had previously fronted Rapidfire with Kevin Lawrence and Hollywood Rose with Izzy Stradlin and Chris Weber. Jagosz came back after Rose left, playing with the band for 2 weeks and for 5 shows.
When L.A. Guns was reformed in 1985, Beich was replaced by Mick Cripps.
Guns N' Roses (1985)
Hollywood Rose reformed for a New Year's Eve show on New Year's Eve 1984, with Rose, Stradlin, Guns, Gardner and Steve Darrow. In March 1985 L.A. Guns merged with Hollywood Rose, changing their name to Guns N' Roses with the lineup composed of Rose, Guns, Stradlin, Beich and Gardner.
Beich played his only show with the band on the 26th. March 1985 before being fired. He was replaced by Duff McKagan. Tracii Guns left the group; he was replaced by Slash.
McKagan went on to book shows taking place between Sacramento and Seattle, which was dubbed “The Hell Tour“. During this time, Gardner quit the group and was replaced by Steven Adler. Rose, Stradlin, McKagan, Slash, and Adler became known as the "classic lineup" of Guns N' Roses.
The Death of Ole Beich
Beich died on October 16, 1991, drowning in Sankt Jørgens Lake in the center of Copenhagen. Not long before, on the 19th. August, Guns N' Roses had performed in the city. His family believed that he became depressed after leaving Guns N' Roses in 1985 and was heavily abusing drugs before returning to Denmark in 1988. Heroin, and a blood alcohol content of .148, are thought to have contributed to his drowning, but his family still believes it was suicide.
Beich is buried in Esbjerg next to his father Aksel, who died in 1995.
Bryan Adams
Also on the 16th. October 1991, the Number One chart record in the UK was '(Everything I do) I do it For You'.
i was very proud to participate in the inside-out | be the change project in athens, greece. on friday, june 21st, 2013, a group of young people plastered some portraits that i shot, along with extraordinary photographers, around klafthmonos square. this was one action of many, in which a new generation is being the change they want to see.
more information:
athens youth being the change they wish to see
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 10th of August 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
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Super Skyline has been published in 1x.com year book 2012 [No Words].
super glad!
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1x.comで1年に1回出版している写真集に掲載されました、タイトルが「No Words」。
応募が始まっていたのでダメ元で投稿したらまさかの掲載、嬉しすぎて鼻血出そうになりました。
もちろん1xの為に写真撮ってたり色々作ってるつもりは無いのですが
これは写真撮り始めて一番嬉しかった出来事かもしれません。
全部で220作品、日本の方のも10？位ありました。
ジャンルというか被写体もかなり違うのですがスゲーってただただ感心して見てます。
本自体が99ドルして僕もお金出して買ったのですが実は1x内で検索すると掲載してる作品が出てきます。
でも本で見た方がずーっとテンション上がります。
掲載されてもお金払わないと本が届かないし
サイトに審査出すのにもお金払ったし（無料アカウントでも週に1枚だけ審査に出せるけど）
そして今サイト内でやってるphoto awards(12/15発表！)でもお金払ったし
地味にお金が吸われていっています。日本円でトータル1万5千円位。
でも邪魔な広告が皆無で他のサイトよりシンプルで美しく見やすく質も一定以上保たれてるのも
わかるので払ってもそんなに損した気分になっていません。
とは言え早くも1xに通用するレベルのネタも少なくなってきている事が
自分でもわかっていて来年はこんなにうまくいくはずも無く
ここで喜びを噛みしめたいと思います（-_-;
Alexis Mag Vol.004
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Photography: Shavonne Wong (zhiffyphotography)
Styling: Raudhah Hanafi
Assistants: Ravinder Kaur
Hair and Makeup: Julyen Z L.
Model: Ksenyia Vasylchenko (Avenue)