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The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was photographed, printed and published by Photo Precision of St. Albans. The image is a glossy real photograph, and the card has a divided back.
Knole
Henry VIII acquired Knole from Archbishop Thomas Cranmer in 1538 for hunting purposes, and he then set about enlarging and improving the house and grounds. Earlier, the estate had been bought and the first house built by Archbishop Thomas Bourchier between 1456 and his death in 1486.
Though Elizabeth I subsequently presented it to her cousin Thomas Sackville, later 1st. Earl of Dorset, in 1566 he was not able to occupy it until he bought back the lease in 1603. Over the next two years the house underwent a transformation into a great Renaissance palace, and it largely remains unaltered from that time.
Throughout part of the seventeenth century, occupation by the Sackville family was intermittent, possibly due to lack of money, and it was sometimes leased.
It was not until the beginning of the eighteenth century that the 6th. Earl and later his son, the 7th. Earl, used the house as their principal residence, renovating, improving and embellishing what the 1st. Earl had initiated.
The family have lived at Knole ever since, but owing to the burden of upkeep and protecting the valuable collections within the house, they presented it (with the walled garden) to the National Trust in 1946, in exchange for a generous lease of 200 years.
-- More on Knole House
The excellent shelleyshouse.blogspot.com provides some fascinating information about Knole. Here are some of the highlights:
Virginia Woolf, describing Knole in her novel Orlando, 1928 wrote:
"The great house lay more like a town
than a house...with all its chimneys
smoking busily as if inspired with a life
of their own."
Underneath the Knole rooftops lies a labyrinth of apartments, each containing several rooms. These apartments once housed hundreds of people including high status staff, visitors and family members. The Sackville-West family still live in apartments here, over 400 years since the first family member lived in Knole.
Knole house stands on five acres of ground, around the size of three and a half football pitches.
There are over 300 rooms.
Knole has 51 chimneys.
The problem for me about Knole was that at the beginning of the tour most things were covered with dust sheets, in glass cases. I found it hilarious that there were signs on a lot of pieces (like enormous vases, or ornate chairs) printed with the word 'salvage'. I had to ask what this was about as I wondered if these items had been picked up from a salvage yard, though it seemed unlikely.
Turns out there is a very particular protocol in the event of a fire or other disaster about what will be saved first, and these labels referred to the priority of the items in that protocol.
Knole Park is the home of a wild deer herd. They are the descendants of those first introduced here over 500 years ago. It is Kent's last remaining medieval deer park.
Henry VIII stated in 1532:
"And as for Knole it standeth on a sound perfect,
wholesome ground. And if I should make mine
abode here, as I do surely mind to do now and
then, I myself will lie at Knole."
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer surrendered Knole to Henry VIII. The king purchased more land, and by 1556 Knole Park covered 446 acres. Today Knole Park covers 1,000 acres. It is 7.5 times bigger than St James' Park in London.
There are over 350 wild deer in Knole Park.
I remember an old bed (you know, the kind with curtains) still in pieces, being cleaned by a young man. He was using just water, and just rubbing the black pieces of wood; I think he said it was walnut, but I'm not sure. He told us that the Knole attics were so vast they still hadn't been fully explored and all the findings catalogued, even though the National Trust acquired the place in 1946 (over 70 years ago!).
In another room there was a bed covered and curtained with some sort of holey green fabric. The guide there explained that some inexperienced restorers from some workers' cooperative had used modern glue to stick the fabric back onto the wood, rather than the old fashioned fish glue.
This modern glue had eaten the fabric, and they were painstakingly trying to restore the old cloth. I had two thoughts at the time. One was how quickly they were ready to name and blame outsiders; the other was the enormous expense of restoring such a large amount of fabric. I would just frame a square or two and put up modern fabric, a copy of the original. Probably best that I don't work in restoration, eh?
Knole House is called a Calendar House, that is a house that has architectural features in quantities that mirror the numbers in a year. Knole reportedly has 365 rooms, 52 stair cases, 12 entrances and 7 courtyards (give or take).
One more thing that has come back to me is one of the guides telling me about a Knole couch. If you ever watched/drooled over Downton Abbey you know exactly what one looks like (the big red one to the left of the fireplace in the library).
Visitors from the local area and further afield have enjoyed access to Knole Park since the 17th. century. A dispute over public right of way led to Mortimer, 1st. Lord Sackville, closing the park in June 1884. Local people were furious, and on the night of the 18th. June 1884, over a thousand people stormed the park. They broke down barricades before marching to the front of the house. The town's people smashed windows and hurled abuse.
-- Knole and The Beatles
Knole was the setting for the filming in January 1967 of the Beatles' videos that accompanied the release of "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever".
The stone archway through which the four Beatles rode on horses can still be seen on the southeastern side of the Bird House, which itself is on the southeastern side of Knole House.
The same visit to Knole Park inspired another Beatles song, "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!," which John Lennon wrote after buying an 1843 poster in a nearby antiques shop that advertised Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal.
Published in Poems Written and Published During the American Revolutionary War, by Philip Freneau. 3d ed., in two volumes. Philadelphia: From the press of Lydia R. Bailey, 1809.
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Outside a tea shop | March 30, 2011 | Buying chocolate tea...
Columbia Flyway Wildlife Show presents the 34th Annual Wildlife Carving Competition and Art Fair
Clatsop County Fairgrounds & Expo Center, Astoria, Oregon.
September 23 & 24, 2023.
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"Kneeland man honored for decoy carving"
By The Times-Standard
PUBLISHED: May 21, 2018 at 6:54 p.m. | UPDATED: July 30, 2018 at 6:17 a.m.
"Kneeland man honored for decoy carving"
Leonard Rousseau of Kneeland recently won the World Championship title in the decorative decoy pairs division at this year’s 48th annual Ward World Championship Wildfowl Carving and Art Festival in Ocean City, Maryland.
This is an international event that features about 1,200 different wildfowl carvings representing more than 150 species from around the world.
Rousseau has been carving decoys for over 30 years and has won numerous Best of Show awards. His carvings have been featured in Wildfowl Carving magazine, have been purchased by collectors from across the country and can be seen in the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Visitor Center in Loleta. His winning pair of Gadwall ducks will be on display for one year at the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art.
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What is the Columbia Flyway Wildlife Show?
The show is an event where carvers, collectors, and visitors convene in Astoria, Oregon. From highly decorative works of art to functional hunting decoys, about 400 different carvings from around the United States and Canada can be viewed.
Woodcarvers of all levels – from youth to novices to world champions – compete against their peers for the chance to win prize money and ribbons. There are over 50 different categories in which an artist can compete. The show is a waterfowl, wildlife, fish, native American, Artistic Creations, and other wood carving competitions and art show.
The show's purpose is to promote these art forms.
Artists from all over come to compete and display their art forms. Most artists are from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, California, Montana, and British Columbia although there are artists from all over the United States and Canada in attendance. Mail-in entries are also accepted.
www.columbiaflywaywildlifeshow.com/what-is-show-about
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It all began with an idea to show the beauty of hand-carved waterfowl and wildlife.
Since 1988, the Columbia Flyway Show has been a labor of love for the Feather and Quill Carvers Club. The show has progressed from meager beginnings in the Columbia Art Center, a converted old church basement, to motel conference rooms, to the City of Vancouver's Water Resources Education Center. The show has enjoyed a wonderful 10-year run in Vancouver.
After the hugely successful 2019 show, the event has outgrown the Center. After two non-show years due to the Covid Virus, the 2022 event was held in Astoria, Oregon, on the beautiful Oregon Coast.
The Columbia Flyway Wildlife Show has become one of the premier wildlife carving shows in the country as a result of the dedication of a small group of carvers and artists, as well as membership in the International Wildfowl Carvers Association. Carvers come from all over the U.S. and Canada to participate in the competition and to share with and learn from other carvers and artists.
The new venue, the Clatsop County Fairgrounds and Expo Center feature a new, spacious 15,000 s/f exhibit hall. Due to the size of the Expo Center, there is ample room for displays, vendors, and demos.
A large part of the success of the Flyway Show is the ongoing seminars by Professional and World Champion carvers. Friday is dedicated to a full-day, hands-on pay class. Saturday and Sunday find non-stop free and pay seminars open to all visitors.
The banquet is held in the showroom on Saturday evening. Good food, fun, and fellowship are followed by the after-dinner auction. A wonderful evening in a beautiful setting!
This new venue is picture-perfect with every amenity for a show focusing on wildlife art. Astoria, Oregon, located at the mouth of the mighty Columbia River, is rich in history. Astoria is a wonderful area to enjoy all the sites of the beautiful Oregon Coast. Lots of hotels, restaurants, and tourist sights to enjoy.
Make your plans now to attend the wildlife carving show, “ON THE OTHER COAST”.
The Postcard
A Hi-Gloss Series postcard that was published by Bamforth & Co. Ltd. of Holmfirth, Yorkshire. The card was printed in England.
The card was posted in Bridlington, but unfortunately the stamp has been removed, along with the date of posting.
The card was sent to:
Misses E & E Williams,
11, King Street,
Failsworth,
Manchester.
The message on the back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Emma and Eva,
This is where we spent
the morning, in the Floral
Hall as it was very cold &
stormy.
Weather changeable, but
having a very nice and
interesting time.
Hoping to go for a sail
and a swim to Scarborough.
Christian greetings,
L & W Scott and family."
Bridlington
Bridlington is a coastal town on the Holderness Coast of the North Sea, situated in the East Riding of Yorkshire approximately 28 miles (45 km) north of Hull and 34 miles (55 km) east of York. The Gypsey Race river runs through the town and emerges into the North Sea in the town harbour.
In the 2011 Census the population was 35,369.
Bridlington is a minor sea fishing port with a working harbour, and is well known for its shellfish. It has a mix of small businesses across the manufacturing, retail and service sectors with its prime trade being tourism during the summer months.
The origins of the town are uncertain, but archaeological evidence shows habitation in the Bronze Age and Roman periods. The settlement at the Norman conquest was called Bretlinton, but has also gone by the names of Berlington, Brellington and Britlington, before settling on its modern name in the 19th century.
-- Bridlington in World War II
During the Second World War, Bridlington suffered many air-raids with a significant number of deaths and extensive bomb damage.
-- David Hockney
Artist David Hockney owned a house in Bridlington, at which an assistant drank a cleaning product and died in March 2013.
Wallace Hartley and The Titanic
There is a blue plaque in Bridlington for Wallace Hartley. He led an orchestra in the town in 1902, although he is particularly famous as leader of the band that played as the Titanic sank in April 1912.
Wallace Henry Hartley (2nd. June 1878 – 15th. April 1912) was an English violinist and bandleader on the Titanic during its maiden voyage.
He became famous for leading the eight-member band as the ship sank on the 15th. April 1912. He died at the age of 33, along with the rest of the band, when the ship went down.
-- Wallace Hartley - The Early Years
Wallace Hartley was born and raised in Colne, Lancashire. His father, Albion Hartley, was the choirmaster and Sunday school superintendent at Bethel Independent Methodist Chapel, on Burnley Road where the family attended services.
Albion introduced the hymn "Nearer, My God, to Thee" to the congregation.
Wallace studied at Colne's Methodist day school, sang in Bethel's choir, and learned to play the violin from a fellow congregation member.
After leaving school, Hartley started work with the Craven & Union Bank in Colne. When his family moved to Huddersfield, Hartley joined the Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 1903, Wallace left home to join the municipal orchestra in Bridlington, where he stayed for six years.
-- Wallace Hartley and the White Star Line
Wallace later moved to Dewsbury, West Yorkshire and in 1909, he joined the Cunard Line as a musician, serving on the ocean liners RMS Lucania, RMS Lusitania and RMS Mauretania.
Whilst serving on the Mauretania, the employment of Cunard musicians was transferred to the music agency C.W. & F.N. Black, which supplied musicians for Cunard and the White Star Line.
This transfer changed Hartley's onboard status, as he was no longer counted as a member of the crew, but rather as a passenger, albeit one accommodated in second-class accommodation at the agency's expense.
It later transpired that neither the shipping company nor the music agency had insured the musicians, with each claiming it was the other's responsibility.
In April 1912, Hartley was assigned to be the bandmaster for the White Star Line ship RMS Titanic.
Wallace was at first hesitant to leave his fiancée, Maria Robinson, to whom he had recently proposed, but Hartley decided that working on the maiden voyage of the Titanic would give him possible contacts for future work.
-- The Sinking of the Titanic
After the Titanic hit an iceberg on the night of the 14th. April 1912 and began to sink, Hartley and his fellow band members started playing music to help keep the passengers calm as the crew loaded the lifeboats.
Many of the survivors said that Hartley and the band continued to play until the very end. A newspaper at the time reported:
"The part played by the orchestra on board
the Titanic in her last dreadful moments will
rank among the noblest in the annals of
heroism at sea."
Though the final song played by the band is unknown, "Nearer, My God, to Thee" has gained popular acceptance.
Walter Lord's book A Night to Remember (1955) popularised wireless officer Harold Bride's account of hearing the song "Autumn".
Ellwand Moody, a musician on the Mauretania alongside Hartley, claimed that Hartley had said he would play either "Nearer, My God, to Thee" or "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past" if he were ever on a sinking ship.
-- After the Sinking
Hartley's body was recovered almost two weeks after the sinking. Several press reports confirmed that Wallace was found fully dressed with his music case strapped to his body.
His body was returned to Liverpool, where Hartley's father met the ship and brought his son's body back to his home town of Colne.
The funeral took place on the 18th. May 1912. One thousand people attended Hartley's funeral, while an estimated 30,000–40,000 lined the route of his funeral procession.
Hartley was laid to rest in the Keighley Road cemetery, Colne, where a 10 feet (3.0 m) high headstone, containing a carved violin at its base, was erected in his honour.
Frederick Cayley Robinson's 1912 oil painting The Outward Bound (see below) shows a youth in a boat watching as Titanic leaves Southampton. It was commissioned in memory of Hartley, and given to Leeds Art Gallery by the Leeds Professional Musicians. The painting was unveiled in the City Art Gallery by the Lord Mayor of Leeds on the 23rd. December 1912.
Additionally a memorial to Hartley, topped by his bust (see below), was erected in 1915 outside what was then the town library in Colne. This was later moved slightly to make way for a World War One memorial.
Hartley's large Victorian terraced house in West Park Street, Dewsbury bears a blue plaque.
In 2001, Hartley's name was still being used when naming new streets and housing in the town of Colne. In 2008, the pub chain J D Wetherspoon named a newly-opened pub, (the building having been the long-standing King's Head Hotel) in Colne after the bandleader.
-- Memorials to the Band
A memorial to the Titanic musicians as a whole was erected in Broken Hill, in New South Wales. The people of Broken Hill were so moved by the bravery of the ship's bandsmen that they launched a public appeal in order to create a memorial to them.
The memorial, in the shape of a broken pillar, was unveiled in December 1913.
The City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, has an Edwardian bandstand to commemorate the musicians lost. It was erected by the Ballarat Council with funds raised by the Victorian Band Association, and citizens of the area.
The Titanic Memorial bandstand, was unveiled on the 22nd. October 1915. Every year on the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, a band plays "Nearer, My God, To Thee", in the bandstand.
-- Wallace Hartley's Violin
In March 2013, after two years of in-depth trace analysis by The Forensic Science Service on behalf of auctioneers Henry Aldridge & Son, and seven years of evidence-gathering by the Wiltshire-based auction house, it was announced that a violin found in a British man's attic inside a leather case with the initials "W. H. H." was the instrument used by Hartley during the ship's last moments.
The identification was helped by an engraving on the German-made violin which his fiancée (Maria Robinson) had placed on the instrument in 1910 which read:
'For Wallace on the occasion of
our engagement from Maria.'
Further tests by a silver expert from the Gemmological Association of Great Britain confirmed that the plate on the base of the violin was original, and that the metal engraving done on behalf of Maria Robinson was contemporary with those made in 1910.
A CT scan enabled experts to view 3D images of the inside of the violin. The fine detail of the scan meant that experts could examine the construction, interior and the glue holding the instrument together showing signs of possible restoration.
While researching the origins of the violin, the auctioneers and Christian Tennyson-Ekeberg, biographer of Wallace Hartley and author of Nearer, Our God, to Thee: The Biography of the Titanic Bandmaster, discovered the transcript of a telegram sent to the Provincial Secretary of Nova Scotia, Canada, dated 19th. July 1912 in the diary of Hartley's grieving fiancée in which she stated:
"I would be most grateful if you could
convey my heartfelt thanks to all who
have made possible the return of my
late fiancé's violin."
After Maria Robinson's death in 1939, her sister gave the violin to the Bridlington Salvation Army and told its leader, a Major Renwick, about the instrument's association with the Titanic.
The violin was later passed on to a violin teacher, who gave it to the current owner's mother. Henry Aldridge & Sons stated:
"It's been in the same family
for over 70 years."
Craig Sopin, the owner of one of the world's largest collections of Titanic memorabilia, a leading Titanic expert, and a general skeptic of Titanic claims, stated that:
"The violin is Hartley's and
not a fraud."
The Hartley violin was exhibited in Belfast at the shipyard where the RMS Titanic was built, and in the United States at Titanic Branson and Titanic Pigeon Forge museums.
It was sold by auction house Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, Wiltshire, on the 19th. October 2013 for £900,000 ($1.7 million).
The violin now resides at Titanic Belfast Museum and is open to public viewing. It has two large cracks, and is no longer playable.
After seeing the violin auctioned at Aldridges, British folk singer/songwriter Reg Meuross was inspired to write a song about the story of the violin, "The Band Played Sweet Marie", that was released on his album England Green and England Grey in 2014.
The story of Wallace Hartley and his violin is also the inspiration behind the song "Titanically" written by Canadian singer/songwriter Heather Rankin and David Tyson, with a music video directed by American-Canadian filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald.
The music video was released the 2nd. June 2017, to honour Hartley's birthday.
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Tra le 14 date per il loro tour europeo che gli Snow Patrol hanno annunciato, la band fa tappa l’11 febbraio al Fabrique di Milano.
Il nuovo album degli Snow Patrol, intitolato Wildness, segna il ritorno della band sulla scena musicale dopo sette anni. Il disco è disponibile per l’acquisto qui.
Per celebrare l’uscita di “Wildness” gli Snow Patrol hanno pubblicato un videoclip musicale per ciascuno dei brani “Soon,” “A Youth Written In Fire,” “Life and Death,” “Wild Horses,” e “A Dark Switch.” La band aveva precedentemente pubblicato i video anche di Empress” “What If This Is All The Love You Ever Get?,” “Life On Earth,” e “Don’t Give In,” visibili a questo link
Anche l’artista inglese Ed Sheeran ha dichiarato di amare molto il progetto, supportando la band in questo video pubblicato sul suo profilo Instagram.
Fin dal loro disco di debutto Songs for Polarbears (1998), gli Snow Patrol hanno accumulato un numero impressionante di successi di critica e pubblico (oltre a quelli commerciali), vendendo complessivamente 15 milioni di copie nel mondo, conquistando oltre 1 miliardo di stream, 5 album Platino in UK e nomination ai Grammy, BRIT Awards e Mercury Music Prize.
Dopo la chiusura del loro tour Fallen Empires terminato nel 2012, i membri della band – il polistrumentista Johnny McDaid, il chitarrista Nathan Connolly, il bassista Paul Wilson e il batterista Jonny Quinn – hanno deciso di prendersi una pausa per concentrarsi maggiormente sui loro progetti solisti. Gary Lightbody ha continuato il suo progetto artistico dal nome Tired Pony assieme ai membri di Belle e Sebastian, R.E.M., Reindeer Section e Fresh Young Fellows, trasferendosi a Los Angeles per scrivere colonne sonore (si ricorda il brano “This Is How You Walk On” per il film Gifted – Il dono del talento, uscito nel 2017). Inoltre, Gary Lightbody ha co-scritto brani con Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Biffy Clyro e One Direction. Questa pausa prolungata dagli Snow Patrol è stata per Lightbody una vera e propria ‘fonte di ispirazione’ e scrivere canzoni assieme ad altri lo ha aiutato a guarire da ciò che Lightbody considerava una vera e propria “crisi esistenziale”, più che un “blocco dello scrittore”.
Gary Lightbody - voce, chitarra
Jonny Quinn - batteria
Nathan Connolly - chitarra
Paul Wilson - basso
Johnny McDaid - piano
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The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was published by Chimera Arts of London W1. The artwork was by Tom Browne.
The Artist and Illustrator Tom Browne
Tom Browne RI was born Thomas Arthur Browne on the 8th. December 1870. He was an extremely popular English strip cartoonist, painter and illustrator of the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.
-- Tom Browne - The Early Years
Born in Nottingham, Browne started earning a wage as a milliner's errand boy in 1882. From there he was apprenticed to a lithographic printer, and eked out a living with freelance cartoons for London comic papers.
He received 30 shillings for his first strip, published by the magazine Scraps, and called "He Knew How To Do It".
At the time of the census of 1891, Browne was twenty and was living in lodgings in central Nottingham. He was described as a lithographic designer, and living at the same address as John Clarkson, a lithographic artist, and Lucy Pares, a lace maker. Early in 1892, Browne married Pares in Nottingham.
-- Tom Browne's Artistic Career
In 1890, Alfred Harmsworth had founded a new British comic book called Comic Cuts. Cheaply printed, it proved to be the ideal medium for Browne's bold drawing style.
Tom's comic strips became so popular that he moved from Nottingham to London, and into a studio in Wollaton House at Westcombe Park. There, he turned out six full-page strips a week, but also produced illustrations for several British magazines.
His cartoons appeared in Punch, The Tatler and other highly-rated periodicals of the day. In 1898 Browne became a member of the Royal British Society of Artists, and in 1901 was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, which meant he could use the letters 'RI' after his name.
Browne was a founding member of the London Sketch Club, formed in 1898. The stimulating experience of these regular get-togethers, alongside other founding members including Dudley Hardy and Phil May, was seminal in its influence on British commercial art.
Tom's cycling trips took him all over the world, while illustrations of these exploits appeared in the newspapers. Returning to Nottingham, he started a colour printing firm and joined the Territorial Army.
The logo of Johnnie Walker whisky, the strutting, monocled character, was created by Browne in 1908. He also created the comic strip Weary Willie and Tired Tim, inspired by Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, which appeared on the front page of Illustrated Chips from 1896 to 1953.
Browne played a major part in the evolution of the British comic style, influencing Bruce Bairnsfather, Dudley Watkins and Leo Baxendale. His strip 'Airy Alf and Bouncing Billy' first appeared in The Big Budget around 1900, and was later continued by Ralph Hodgson aka "Yorick".
His comic, Dan Leno, portrayed the Victorian English music hall comedian and appeared in Dan Leno's Comic Journal in 1898.
More of his characters were 'Little Willy and Tiny Tim', 'Mr. Stankey Deadstone and Company', 'The Rajah' and 'Don Quixote de Tintogs'.
Echoes of his impudent urchins can still be seen in The Beano and The Dandy today.
In an article published in 1903 Browne said:
“I do alleged humorous drawings… I have
done some thousands of them, probably,
yet normally I am a sober, almost melancholy,
individual, and I started out in life with the
ambition to paint big devotional pictures.”
-- The Death of Tom Browne
After surgery for cancer, Browne died at home, Wollaton, Hardy Road, Westcombe Park, which was then in Kent, on the 16th. May 1910. He was only 39 years of age when he died.
Tom left a widow, Lucy Browne, and an estate valued at £18,529, equivalent to £2,012,285 in 2021.
He was laid to rest with military honours at Shooter's Hill. A year later, his widow was still at the same address with their three children, Dorothy, aged 17, Elsie, aged 15, and a son, Noel, 11.
One of the 25 most endangered primates in the world.
Colobus are leaf monkeys they don’t generally eat fruit, only a very small amount of unripe fruit because ripe fruit can kill them by causing bloat. Therefore they don’t come down from the trees to be fed, unlike the Lowe’s monkeys, even so seeing these monkeys at Boabeng-Fiema is easy, they hang around in the trees surrounding the village because they know they are safe. They don’t flee when they see people so it doesn’t take much effort to find them, they are just there in the trees behind peoples’ houses,
I suspect many visitors don’t pay as much attention to them as they don’t interact with people in the way that the Lowe’s monkeys do. So, I wonder how many of the tourists who come to Boabeng-Fiema actually realise that this particular species of colobus, the white-thighed colobus or Geoffroy’s black and white colobus (Colobus vellerosus) is actually now regarded as one of the 25 most endangered primates in the world. That these beautiful, black and white monkeys are on the brink of extinction. They were once widely distributed within Ghana and also in eastern Côte d’Ivoire to the west and in Togo and Benin to the east, however now only tiny remnant populations remain. A combination of habitat destruction and bushmeat hunting has severely reduced the populations of all monkey species in this region, colobus being conspicuous and loud have been hard hit.
In Ghana they have been all but wiped out by bushmeat poachers from almost all forest reserves and some of the national parks. Small numbers apparently still occur in the Ankasa Conservation Area in the southwest and in Kakum National Park, they are certainly not common in either (I neither saw nor heard any in either park). It’s thought that this population at Boabeng-Fiema that numbered 365 in 2007 is in fact the only stable population left in West Africa, making this monkey sanctuary incredibly important for the survival of these colobus. Unless protection can be stepped up it’s likely that more populations could disappear, further endangering this species. So long as the monkeys continue to be protected at Boabeng-Fiema there is hope that this colobus species will survive for the foreseeable future and not become globally extinct as has likely happened to their relative the Miss Waldron’s red colobus, that once inhabited many of the same forests in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.
I’m not too surprised visitors aren’t aware that these monkeys are close to extinction, I suspect even the local guides at Boabeng don’t know just how endangered the colobus monkeys now are, certainly my Bradt guidebook to Ghana makes no mention of the fact that they are very rare. When the IUCN assessed the species in 2008, they classified it as vulnerable and this is still what they state on their Red List website, but this classification is clearly out of date, because in 2017 the IUCN Primate Specialist Group published a report “Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates 2016-2018” that included this species of colobus.
Published 01/12/1917
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In apertura al concerto di Young The Giant ai Magazzini Generali di Milano, Jack Jaselli con la sua chitarra acustica, cantante, chitarrista e autore nato a Milano e cresciuto girando il mondo. Nei suoi viaggi e spostamenti ha svolto i lavori più disparati, dal volontario in un centro di biologia marina al riparatore di resistenze. Ha lavorato come speaker per una radio nazionale e ottenuto una laurea con lode in filosofia. La sua carriera musicale è un caso unico in Italia e rappresenta una nuova realtà di concreta indipendenza. Senza l’appoggio di alcuna casa discografica, management o agenzia di booking, Jack ha registrato il suo primo disco “It's Gonna Be Rude, Funky, Hard” in una cantina, promuovendolo dal vivo con più di 80 date l’anno ed entrando con ben tre singoli nella classifica “Ear One” dei brani più trasmessi dalle radio.
Anche all’estero, dove Jack spesso si esibisce, da solo o con la sua band, l’entusiasmo è reale, tanto che l’artista Peter Harper ha scelto il suo brano “The House In Bali” come colonna sonora ufficiale del suo sito. Jack ha suonato al fianco di numerosi artisti (Ben Harper, Gavin Degraw, Fink, Lewis Floyd Henry, The Heavy, Giusy Ferreri, Alberto Camerini per citarne alcuni) calcando al contempo i palchi storici della musica indipendente italiana. Da sempre interessato alle contaminazioni con la musica elettronica, Jack ha collaborato con artisti e produttori come Dj Aladyn e Pink Is Punk. Dal vivo Jack è accompagnato dai The Vibes, una band e una famiglia formata da Nik Taccori, Fabrizio Friggione, Max Elli e Paolo Legramandi. “I Need The Sea Beacuse It Teaches Me” è l’EP acustico da cui è tratta “I’ll Call You”, registrato in trio in una grotta sul Mar Ligure da Jack, Max Elli e Nik Taccori e prodotto dallo stesso Max Elli.
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"Deborah Placko of Clayton enjoyed Bridgeton's Sunset Lake as she painted the trees at the end of Piney Point. Deborah and her husband Michael were among many participants in the 'Plein-Air Landscape Competition' hosted by Gallery 50 in conjunction with the city-wide 'Cohansey Riverfest' held on Saturday."
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these are my pictures from the photo walk on saturday.
to tell you the truth, since this was my first time as a leader, i was much more worried that everyone was having fun than shooting. but fun, they had, and shoot, i did... a few shots, at least.
thanks, Scott Kelby , thanks RC Concepcion
thanks, everyone who worked on the Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk
and thanks everyone who came and made it wonderful!
i so want to do this again!
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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 20th of September 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.
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The Postcard
A carte postale that was published by C. A. P. of Strasbourg, The image is a glossy real photograph. The card was posted in Le Touquet using a 1 franc stamp on Sunday the 11th. September 1938. It was sent to:
Mr. Farrall,
180, Cann Hall Road,
Leytonstone,
Essex,
England.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Sunday.
Dear Pop,
We came here yesterday.
It is a lovely place - the
weather is fine.
Hope to go for a nice
bathe this morning.
It's nice to get some
fresh air after Paris.
The woods look very
nice & we want to get in
some nice walks.
This is all for now,
Love,
Mabel."
The Italian Grand Prix
So what else happened on the day that Mabel posted the card to her father?
Well, on the 11th. September 1938, Tazio Nuvolari of Italy won the Italian Grand Prix. It was the last Italian Grand Prix held until 1947.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Also on that day, Ernst Kaltenbrunner was promoted to the rank of SS-Gruppenführer.
Ernst Kaltenbrunner, who was born on the 4th. October 1903, was a high-ranking Austrian SS official during the Nazi era, and a major perpetrator of the Holocaust.
After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in May 1942, and a brief period under Heinrich Himmler, Kaltenbrunner was the third Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), which included the offices of Gestapo, Kripo and SD, from January 1943 until the end of World War II in Europe.
Kaltenbrunner joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and the SS in 1931, and by 1935 he was considered a leader of the Austrian SS. In 1938, he assisted in the Anschluss, and was given command of the SS and police force in Austria.
A committed antisemite, Kaltenbrunner played a pivotal role in orchestrating the Holocaust, and Nazi genocide intensified under his leadership.
He oversaw the coordination of security and law enforcement agencies involved in widespread extermination, the suppression of resistance movements in occupied territories, extensive arrests, deportations, and executions.
He was the highest-ranking member of the SS to face trial (Himmler having died of suicide in May 1945) at the Nuremberg trials, where he was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Kaltenbrunner was sentenced to death, and was executed by hanging on the 16th. October 1946.
-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner - The Early Years
Kaltenbrunner was born in Ried im Innkreis, Austria, the son of a lawyer, and spent his early years and primary education in Raab. He later attended the Realgymnasium in Linz.
Raised in a nationalist family, he was childhood friends with Adolf Eichmann, the infamous SS officer who played a key role in implementing the Nazis' "Final Solution" against Europe's Jews. After Gymnasium, Kaltenbrunner went on to obtain his PhD in law at Graz University in 1926.
Kaltenbrunner then worked at a law firm in Salzburg for a year before opening his own law office in Linz. He had deep scars on his face reportedly from duelling in his student days, although some sources attribute them to a car accident.
On the 14th. January 1934, Kaltenbrunner married Elisabeth Eder, who was also a Nazi Party member; the couple had three children.
In addition to the children from his marriage, Kaltenbrunner had twins, Ursula and Wolfgang (b. 1945) with his long-time mistress, Gisela Gräfin von Westarp. All the children survived the war.
-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner's SS Career
On the 18th. October 1930, Kaltenbrunner joined the Nazi Party as member number 300,179. In 1931, he was the Bezirksredner (district speaker) for the Nazi Party in Upper Austria.
Kaltenbrunner joined the SS on the 31st. August 1931; his SS number was 13,039. He first became a Rechtsberater (legal consultant) for the Nazi Party in 1929. In 1932 he began working at his father's law practice, and by 1933 he had become head of the National-Socialist Lawyers' League in Linz.
In January 1934, Kaltenbrunner was briefly jailed at the Kaisersteinbruch detention camp with other Nazis for conspiracy by the Engelbert Dollfuss government. While there he led a hunger strike which forced the government to release 490 of the party members.
In 1935, he was jailed again on suspicion of high treason. This charge was dropped, but he was sentenced to six months imprisonment for conspiracy, and he lost his license to practice law.
From mid-1935 Kaltenbrunner was head of the illegal SS Abschnitt VIII in Linz, and was considered a leader of the Austrian SS.
In order to provide Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Heinz Jost with new information, Kaltenbrunner repeatedly made trips to Bavaria. He would hide on a train and on a ship that travelled to Passau, then return with money and orders for Austrian comrades.
In 1937 Kaltenbrunner was arrested again by the Austrian authorities on charges of heading the illegal Nazi Party organization in Oberösterreich. He was released in September 1937.
Acting on orders from Hermann Göring, Kaltenbrunner assisted in bringing about the Anschluss with Germany (13th. March 1938). Controlled from behind the scenes by Himmler, Kaltenbrunner still led, albeit clandestinely, the Austrian SS as part of his duty to "coordinate" and manage the Austrian population – this entailed the Nazification of all aspects of Austrian society.
-- Mauthausen
On the 21st. March 1938, he was promoted to SS-Brigadeführer. He was a member of the German Reichstag from the 10th. April 1938 until the 8th. May 1945. Amid this activity, he helped establish the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp near Linz.
Mauthausen was the first Nazi concentration camp opened in Austria following the Anschluss. On 11 September 1938, Kaltenbrunner was promoted to the rank of SS-Gruppenführer (equivalent to a lieutenant general in the German Army).
-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner and WWII
In June 1940, Kaltenbrunner was appointed Vienna's chief of police, and held that additional post for a year. In July 1940, he was commissioned as an SS-Untersturmführer into the Waffen-SS Reserve.
Alongside his many official duties, Kaltenbrunner also developed an intelligence network across Austria, moving southeastwards, which eventually brought him to Himmler's attention for appointment as chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) in January 1943.
The RSHA was composed of the SiPo (Sicherheitspolizei; the combined forces of the Gestapo and Kripo) along with the SD (Sicherheitsdienst, Security Service).
Fearing a collapsing home-front due to the Allied bombing campaigns, and worried that another "stab-in-the-back" at home could arise as a result, Kaltenbrunner immediately tightened the Nazi grip within Germany.
According to former SS-Sturmbannführer Hans Georg Mayer, Kaltenbrunner was present at a December 1940 meeting with Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, and Heydrich where it was decided to gas all Jews incapable of heavy physical work.
Under Kaltenbrunner's command, the genocide of Jews picked up pace as extermination was to be expedited and the concentration of Jews in the Reich itself and the occupied countries were to be liquidated as soon as possible.
Kaltenbrunner stayed constantly informed over the status of concentration camp activities, receiving reports at his office in the RSHA.
In order to combat homosexuality in the greater Reich, Kaltenbrunner pushed the Ministry of Justice in July 1943 for an edict mandating compulsory castration for anyone found guilty of this offence. While this was rejected, he still took steps to get the army to review some 6,000 cases to prosecute homosexuals.
During the summer of 1943, Kaltenbrunner conducted his second inspection of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. While he was there, 15 prisoners were selected to demonstrate for Kaltenbrunner three methods of killing: by a gunshot to the neck, hanging, and gassing.
After the killings were performed, Kaltenbrunner inspected the crematorium and later the quarry.
In October 1943, he told Herbert Kappler, the head of German police and security services in Rome, that the eradication of the Jews in Italy was of special interest for general security. Four days later, Kappler's SS and police units began rounding up and deporting Italian Jews by train to Auschwitz concentration camp.
In 1944, during a meeting in Klessheim Castle near Salzburg, when Hitler was in the process of strong-arming Admiral Horthy into a closer integration between Hungary and Nazi Germany, Kaltenbrunner was present for the negotiations.
He escorted Horthy out once they were over. Accompanying Horthy and Kaltenbrunner on the journey back to Hungary, Adolf Eichmann brought with him a special Einsatzkommando unit to begin the process of rounding up and deporting Hungary's 750,000 Jews.
It was said that even Himmler feared him, as Kaltenbrunner was an intimidating figure with a height of 1.94m (6'4½"), facial scars, and a volatile temper.
Kaltenbrunner also allegedly headed Operation Long Jump, an alleged plan to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt in Tehran in 1943.
Immediately in the wake of the 20th. July Plot on Hitler's life in 1944, Kaltenbrunner was summoned to Hitler's wartime headquarters at the Wolfsschanze (Wolf's Lair) in East Prussia in order to begin the investigation into who had planned the assassination attempt.
The conspirators were soon identified. An estimated 5,000 people were eventually executed, with many more being sent to concentration camps.
Historian Heinz Höhne counted Kaltenbrunner among the fanatical Hitler loyalists and described him as being committed "to the bitter end". On the 15th. November 1944, he was awarded the Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords.
Using his authority as Chief of the RSHA, Kaltenbrunner issued a decree on the 6th. February 1945 that allowed policemen to shoot "disloyal" people at their discretion, without judicial review.
On the 18th. April 1945, three weeks before the war ended, Himmler named Kaltenbrunner commander-in-chief of the remaining German forces in southern Europe. Kaltenbrunner attempted to organize cells for post-war sabotage in the region and Germany, but accomplished little.
Hitler made one of his last appearances on the 20th. April 1945 outside the subterranean Führerbunker in Berlin, where he pinned medals on boys from the Hitler Youth for their bravery. Kaltenbrunner was among those present, but realizing the end was near, he then fled from Berlin.
-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner's Arrest
On the 12th. May 1945 Kaltenbrunner was apprehended along with his adjutant, Arthur Scheidler, and two SS guards in a remote cabin at the top of the Totes Gebirge mountains near Altaussee, Austria, by a search party initiated by the 80th. Infantry Division, Third U.S. Army.
The party climbed over mountainous and glacial terrain for six hours in darkness before arriving at the cabin. After a short standoff, all four men exited the cabin and surrendered without a shot being fired.
Kaltenbrunner claimed to be a doctor and offered a false name. However, upon their arrival back to town his last mistress, Countess Gisela von Westarp, and the wife (Iris) of his adjutant Arthur Scheidler chanced to spot the men being led away; the ladies called out to both men and embraced them. This action resulted in their identification and arrest by U.S. troops.
In 2001, Ernst Kaltenbrunner's personal Nazi security seal was found in an Alpine lake in Styria, Austria, 56 years after he had thrown it away to hide his identity. The seal was recovered by a Dutch citizen on holiday.
-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner and the Nuremberg Trials
At the Nuremberg trials, Kaltenbrunner was charged with conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Due to the areas over which he exercised responsibility as an SS general and as chief of the RSHA, he was acquitted of crimes against peace, but held responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
During the initial stages of the Nuremberg trials, Kaltenbrunner was absent because of two episodes of subarachnoid hemorrhage, which required several weeks of recovery time.
After his health improved, the tribunal denied his request for pardon. When he was released from a military hospital he pleaded not guilty to the charges of the indictment against him. Kaltenbrunner said all decrees and legal documents that bore his signature were "rubber-stamped" and filed by his adjutant(s).
He also said Gestapo Chief Heinrich Müller had illegally affixed his signature to numerous documents.
Kaltenbrunner argued in his defence that his position as RSHA chief existed only theoretically, and said he was only active in matters of espionage and intelligence. He maintained that Himmler, as his superior, was the person culpable for the atrocities committed during his tenure as chief of the RSHA.
Kaltenbrunner also asserted that he had no knowledge of the Final Solution before 1943, and went on to claim that he protested against the ill-treatment of the Jews to Himmler and Hitler.
Further denials from Kaltenbrunner included statements that he knew nothing of the Commissar Order, and that he never visited Mauthausen concentration camp, despite documentation of his visit.
At one point, Kaltenbrunner went so far as to avow that he was responsible for bringing the Final Solution to an end. In response to his denials, people in the courtroom laughed.
-- Ernst Kaltenbrunner's Conviction and Execution
On the 30th. September 1946, the International Military Tribunal (IMT) found Kaltenbrunner not guilty of crimes against peace, but guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. On the 1st. October 1946, the IMT sentenced him to death by hanging.
Kaltenbrunner was executed on the 16th. October 1946 at 1:15 am, in Nuremberg. He was 43 years of age when he died. His body, like those of the other nine executed men and that of Hermann Göring (who had committed suicide the previous day), was cremated at the Eastern Cemetery in Munich, and the ashes scattered in a tributary of the River Isar.
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