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Italian postcard by Ritolito, Roma. Photo: A. Mancori, A.M. Chretien, Roma / Cineurop, Paris. France Anglade in Caroline chérie/Dear Caroline (Denys de La Patellière, 1968).
Blonde French actress France Anglade (1942-2014) was the sweet and sexy star of many European comedies of the 1960s.
Marie-France Anglade was born in Constantine, France (now Algeria) in 1942. After the war, she grew up in Chalons-sur-Marne. In 1958 she spent the holidays with an aunt in Chelles where director Jean Delannoy made the external shots for his film Guinguette (1959) with Zizi Jeanmaire. An assistant noticed her there and France became an extra. Subsequently, she moved to Paris where she posed with Genevieve Grad for fashion photographs and advertisements for Elle magazine. As a result, she began a career in theatre and film. In 1961 her film career got on speed with parts in five films. She played the fiancée of Michel Auclair in Le rendez-vous de minuit/Midnight Meeting (Roger Leenhardt, 1961) starring Lili Palmer. She had small parts in three portmanteau (anthology) films, Amours célèbres/Famous Love Affairs (Michel Boisrond, 1961) with Brigitte Bardot and Alain Delon, Les parisiennes/Tales of Paris (Marc Allégret, 1962) starring Catherine Deneuve, and Les sept péchés capitaux/The Seven Deadly Sins (Edouard Molinaro, 1962) with Dany Saval. The following year she continued to play small parts in such French films as the erotic Douce Violence/Sweet Ecstasy (Max Pécas, 1962) with Elke Sommer and Pierre Brice, Comme un poisson dans l'eau/Like a Fish in Water (André Michel, 1962) starring Michel Piccoli, and La denunciation/The Immoral Moment (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, 1962) with Maurice Ronet.
France Anglade had her first leading role in the TV comedy Le monsieur de 5 heures (André Pergament, 1962). She also appeared in small roles in such prestigious productions as the Oscar winner Les dimanches de Ville d'Avray/Sundays and Cybele (Serge Bourguignon, 1962) with Hardy Krüger as a man suffering from war trauma and amnesia who befriends a lonely little girl. Anglade found her niche in comedies. She played the title role in the comedy Clémentine chérie (Pierre Chevalier, 1963). Soon followed parts in other comedies like Les bricoleurs/Who Stole the Body? (Jean Girault, 1963) with Darry Cowl, Du mouron pour les petits oiseaux/Chicken Feed for Little Birds (Marcel Carné, 1963) with Dany Saval, and Les veinards/People in Luck (Jean Girault, 1963) opposite Jean Lefebvre. She also appeared in Italian comedies, including Le motorizzate/The Motorised (Marino Girolami, 1963) with Totò, and Canzoni bulli e pupe (Carlo Infascelli, 1964) with the Italian comic duo Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia. In Germany, she appeared in the Krimi spoof Maskenball bei Scotland Yard/Masked Ball at Scotland Yard (Domenico Paolella, 1963) starring Bill Ramsey. These were often European co-productions with several countries involved. She had grown into leading roles and starred in the romantic comedy Comment trouvez-vous ma soeur?/How Do You Like My Sister? (Michel Boisrond, 1964). In addition to her comedies, she played some dramatic roles such as in the war drama Le repas des fauves/Champagne for Savages (Christian-Jaque, 1964) with Antonella Lualdi.
In Italy France Anglade appeared in the spy spoof James Tont operazione D.U.E./The Wacky World of James Tont (Bruno Corbucci, 1965). After the success of the James Bond films, the Italians were among the first to jump on the Secret Agent bandwagon. They were also at the fore when it came to parody them. Two James Tont adventures emerged in 1965 (‘Tonto’ is Italian for ‘Dope’ (stupid)) featuring Sicilian comic Lando Buzzanca. Tont drives in a little Fiat which can double as a submarine. This film is the second entry – ‘D.U.E’. means ‘Two’, though the initials stand for ‘Destruction Urbi Eterna’. This refers to the Vatican, whose invaluable wealth the chief villain plans on stealing via an improbably elaborate plan which would even see the cupola of St. Peter’s flying into space! She then appeared in the British, Beirut-set thriller Twenty-Four Hours to Kill (Peter Bezencenet, 1965) starring Lex Barker and Mickey Rooney. In 1968 Life magazine placed a photo of her and a big gun in the magazine. She had auditioned for the new James Bond opus, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter R. Hunt, 1969), but she never became a Bond girl. In the second half of the 1960s France Anglade only appeared in two films. She was one of the many beautiful European actresses who appeared in a sketch of the anthology film Le plus vieux métier du monde/The Oldest Profession (Claude Autant-Lara, 1967) about the history of prostitution through the ages, and she played the title role in the remake Caroline chérie/Dear Caroline (Denys de La Patellière, 1968). In the following decades, she sometimes appeared on French TV, and for long intervals, she seemed to be retired. She returned to the cinema in a supporting part in Madame Claude 2/Intimate Moments (François Mimet, 1981) starring Alexandra Stewart, a mediocre sequel to Just Jaeckin’s erotic thriller about a notorious Parisian madam. Later she appeared in the French-Senegalese coproduction Toubab Bi (Moussa Touré, 1991) and the thriller Money (Steven Hilliard Stern, 1991) starring Eric Stoltz. France Anglade’s last camera appearance was in the TV series Highlander (Peter Ellis, 1994) with Adrian Paul. France Anglade died in 2014 in La Verrière, Yvelines, France.
Sources: Mario Gauci (IMDb), Actrices de France, Life, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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Finally, managed to complete something decent... I can show 360 degree without hiding... haha... but I won't be able to show inside out... there's still many knots here and there that I don't know how to manage... lol
The girls (?) have continued the conversation, although it would appear there is a new scribe in their midst
Baby Steve Mwari is weighed at a local health clinic near his home. He’s getting regular check-ups and the nurses say he keeps putting on weight.
Thanks to the blackboard, provided by Christian Aid as part of a maternal and child health project, nurses are able to record the health information for their catchment.
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Nun sind wir unten angekommen und haben erst mal den Friedhof besucht. / Arriving in Cofete our first stop was the cemetery.
101023-N-1531D-035 - BLACKBUSH, Guyana - (Oct. 23, 2010) Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 7 Construction Maintenance Building Unit (CBMU) 202 and Marines from Special Purpose, Marine Air Ground Task Force (SPMAGTF), embarked aboard the multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), construct a storage facility during a Continuing Promise 2010 engineering site in Blackbush, Guyana. Iwo Jima is currently anchored off the coast of Guyana to conduct a Continuing Promise 2010 humanitarian civic assistance (HCA) mission. The assigned medical and engineering staff embarked aboard Iwo Jima will work with partner nation teams to provide medical, dental, veterinary and engineering assistance to eight different nations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathen E. Davis)
Warm weather provides rare moth and garden firsts
Phew wee what busy times we've had lately, I am a week behind again with my catch reports from my garden and I am literally just going to list the best moths including new for year species as I physically cannot keep up!
The heat wave continues and with temperatures soaring to 30 degrees and not dropping beflow 20 at night (making it very uncomfortable at night), the moths have been absolutely everywhere.
Last Sunday night once again there were over 70 species of Macro and Micro moths and here are the highlights...
A greased up Crambus perlella initially got the heart racing, unfortunately it must have found some oil I spilt whilst servicing the generators.
A County second record of Scythris limbella was new for me as well and really unexpected and very pleasing indeed backed up by two more new for garden Micro moths, but the Macro moth front didnt disappoint either with 3 garden first records as well!
A year first species count was broken in style with 25 Yponomeuta evonymella's!
Absolutely crazy stuff and this now brings the total moth species count for the garden since August 2012 to 604 species.
Catch Report - 18/06/17 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap
Macro Moths
1x Lilac Beauty [NFG]
1x Obscure Wainscot [NFG]
1x Tawny-barred Angle [NFG]
1x Common Emerald [NFY]
1x Coxcomb Prominent [NFY]
1x Freyer's Pug [NFY]
2x Least Carpet [NFY]
1x Maple Prominent [NFY]
1x Small Dusty Wave [NFY]
Micro Moths
1x Scythris limbella [NEW!]
1x Anarsia innoxiella [NFG]
1x Mompha ochraceella [NFG]
1x Anania coronata [NFY]
1x Argyresthia brockeella [NFY]
1x Batia lunaris [NFY]
1x Carcina quercana [NFY]
1x Crambus perlella [NFY]
1x Epinotia signatana [NFY]
1x Euzophera pinguis [NFY]
1x Lozotaeniodes formosana [NFY]
1x Lyonetia clerkella [NFY]
1x Pandemis heparana [NFY]
1x Parachronistis albiceps [NFY]
1x Udea prunalis [NFY]
25x Yponomeuta evonymella [NFY]
When I tried to take the picture in 1/3 or 1/15 a second slower which was directed in the guidelines for continued movement it did not work so I took it 1/5 of a second higher than the guideline for my continued movement picture.
The convoy continues its journey to Chibok.
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Geek week continues
My take on Amy Farrah Fowler (It appears the cultural phenomenon that is TV's "The Big Bang Theory" is not as widely spread as I may have presumed. Therefore, allow me to intoduce the character played by Mayim Bialik, former child actress and star of her own TV series, "Blossom." You may Google when ready, Gridley.)
Calling the legislation “a tribute to our beloved Beau Biden and the Biden family,” Gov. John Carney signed the Beau Biden Gun Violence Prevention Act on April 30 on the south lawn of the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware. Similar legislation, which will keep guns out of the hands of people who are deemed a danger to themselves or others, was first introduced in 2013 by the late Attorney General Beau Biden and then Rep. Mike Barbieri.
"We've been able to pass common-sense gun legislation in Delaware," Gov. Carney said.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, with Beau's sister Ashley and his wife Hallie behind him, said, the bill "fulfills a promise that our son Beau made to this great state." To the legislators who passed the bill unanimously in both houses, Biden said, "Our family deeply appreciates this commitment that you've all demonstrated." Biden said he knows the legislation will save lives, including individuals contemplating suicide. In 2016, 125 lives were lost to suicide in Delaware, and more than half -- 65 -- were the result of firearms.
Rep. David Bentz, who was the prime sponsor of House Bill 302, said, "It's a day that is five years in the making." He added that he thought the time was right this year for the bill to be brought back, and thanked the Governor and House Majority Leader Valerie Longhurst for supporting it.
The new law requires health professionals to report to law enforcement anyone they believe presents a danger to themselves or others. Appropriate law enforcement agencies must them investigate -- and may seek a court order to require individuals to relinquish firearms, if they are found to present a danger.
DHSS Secretary Dr. Kara Odom Walker, who testified on behalf of the bill and attended Monday's signing, has said while the vast majority of people with serious and persistent mental illness are more likely to be victims of violent crimes than perpetrators, a trained mental health professional can detect when someone may be a danger to themselves or others.
Bentz also thanked students wearing "March for Our Lives" T-shirts for their advocacy. The students received a standing ovation from the audience. Bentz challenged the students to continue their lobbying. "One thing I will ask of you ... is to maintain this passion, maintain this energy." Gov. Carney added his thanks to Moms Demand Action members, who also were in the audience.
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Continuing with my Ren Faire pics. Don't worry, I'll be done soon and we can all go back to your crac... er, Jack comics ^_^ I know what you come here for, and it's not art shots ^_^
Which is ok.
ANYWAY, so I'm walking around at the Faire, and my boys were elsewhere, and I catch the eye of this dude in leather pants with tattoos all over the place, and he looks at me and says, "Oh, you like that, don't you?" What's a girl to do? Grab the camera and snap a shot, of course! Everybody wins!
Nabro volcano in the African nation of Eritrea began erupting June 12, 2011 -- the first-ever recorded eruption of this stratovolcano. Ash plumes sent into the stratosphere disrupted air traffic in Sudan, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Sudan for the next week. The continuing eruption is seen in this July 5, 2011, nighttime thermal image acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft. Hot lava flows and lava in the summit crater are displayed in shades of red and white. The background is a shaded relief image created from ASTER's Global Digital Elevation Model data set. Nabro is located along Africa's Great Rift Valley, along with other volcanoes. The image covers an area of 30 by 24 miles (48 by 38 kilometers), and is located at 13.4 degrees north latitude, 41.7 degrees east longitude. The image resolution is 94 feet (30 meters).
221127-N-DF135-1130 SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Nov. 27, 2022) – An MH-60S Seahawk, attached to the “Chargers” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 26, prepares to pick up cargo from the flight deck of the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) during flight operations in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on Nov. 27, 2022. Comfort is deployed to U.S. 4th Fleet in support of Continuing Promise 2022, a humanitarian assistance and goodwill mission conducting direct medical care, expeditionary veterinary care, and subject matter expert exchanges with five partner nations in the Caribbean, Central and South America. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Deven Fernandez) www.dvidshub.net/news/433999/usns-comfort-arrives-dominic...
I was thinking of sunset and sun. Each day sun has the same job. Provide light. No matter what external pressures are there he sticks to it. May be the clouds will block his light or it may be the rain. Or may be the pollution caused mostly by the alien infected west or may be the bombs they try on the countries they want to conquer for oil. No matter what happens Sun does his job and vanishes in the west.
The dude will come back the next day with same zeal & more colours. He deserves some appreciation for sticking on.
May be his resurrection after resurrection forced the Christians to celebrate Christmas on a Roman Sun festival day
Well everyone who sticks on deserves appreciation for that matter.
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Taken on a trip to fort cochin some three years back.
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"Tree n the lake have decided to entertain any lovers that come their way roving through the beautiful valley of love enjoying the serenity of nature and fragrant breeze ....n the lovely song..."kaate nee veesharudipol,karae nee peyyarudippol,aromal thoniyilende jeevende jeevanirippu...."
Continuing this week's theme of Corgi Classic die-cast models, this is a Corgi Classics CC97080 Bedford O Series Pantechnicon in John Julian Estate Agents Cornwall livery. Made in Great Britain.
As the photographer in the family, I have been given the job of photographing items to be sold on the family business website www.thegeniescave.co.uk or on eBay under the name of the_genies_cave. There is quite a bit of variety (if you think about what might be found in a cave belonging to a genie!) and I quite enjoy doing it.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-G3, 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 ASPH OIS lens, Portaflash studio flash fired through a translucent umbrella.
Unless there is a transmitter in the building below, the downward facing Yagi is misaligned and likely to fall off soon.
We are descending in to Great Falls with awesome storm views out the window and not-so-awesome turbulence onboard. I use to love flying when I was younger and I don't know what is happening the older I get, but I was downright terrified! I have decided I don't like small airplanes. I must however continue flying as I love to travel and there is nothing quite as exciting for me as the comings and goings of a busy airport.
101023-N-1531D-009 - BLACKBUSH, Guyana - (Oct. 23, 2010) Construction Electrician 3rd Class James Abella, from the Philippines, of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 7 Construction Maintenance Building Unit (CBMU) 202, embarked aboard the multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), puts together a circuit breaker during construction of a storage building at a Continuing Promise 2010 engineering site in Blackbush, Guyana. Iwo Jima is currently anchored off the coast of Guyana to conduct a Continuing Promise 2010 humanitarian civic assistance (HCA) mission. The assigned medical and engineering staff embarked aboard Iwo Jima will work with partner nation teams to provide medical, dental, veterinary and engineering assistance to eight different nations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathen E. Davis)
malmö eastern cemetery, malmö, sweden, architect: sigurd lewerentz
'While other projects illustrate different stages and aspects of Lewerentz’s career, this project encapsulates his life’s work. He carried out site planning, landscape architecture, and building design from 1916, when he won the design competition, until the early 1970s, a testament to his longevity and versatility. He organized the Malmö Eastern Cemetery around an existing ridge extending through the site, placing a central path along that high ground connecting the eastern and western entrances. Major buildings are placed close to the ridge with graves to the north and south. These include St. Birgitta Chapel from the 1920s in Nordic Classical style, a Functionalist crematorium from the 1930s, the twin chapels of St. Gertrud and St. Knut from the 1940s that demonstrate his mastery of building materials, and the Brutalist Flower Kiosk from the late 1960s.
He separated sections of graves by hedges, providing a more intimate scale to the large burial grounds and enclosed the entire site in trees separating it from surrounding urban areas.
Even in the early 1970s, by this point involved in the project for over 55 years, he continued on various tasks including updating plans and designing the custodian’s house.
Sigurd Lewerentz passed away in 1975, age 90. His final resting place is Malmö Eastern Cemetery."
Essendon Recreation Reserve, colloquially known as Windy Hill, Located on Napier Street in Essendon between Raleigh Street and Brewster Street. It is best known has being the home of the Essendon Football Club in the Victorian (Later Australian) Football League (VFL/AFL) with home matches being played here between 1922 and 1991 when they were transferred to the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). After this the ground continued to be used as an administration and training base until a new facility at Tullamarine was completed in 2013.
The ground dates back to the 1880s and was the home of the Essendon Cricket Club with the Essendon Bowls Club occupying a corner of the site later in the decade. Despite the Essendon Football Club dating from 1872 and being a foundation club in the VFL from 1897 they did not play regular matches at this site - instead being based at the former East Melbourne Cricket Ground which was located on Jolimont Road near the MCG.
Between 1900 and 1921 the Essendon Town Football Club played matches here as part of the Victorian Football Association (VFA) which the Essendon Football Club were part of prior to the formation of the VFL. In 1921 the East Melbourne Ground was acquired by the Victorian Railways for expansion of the Jolimont Yard to build what were known as the 'Collingwood Sidings'. This forced a move of the Essendon VFL Club to the Essendon Reserve, in part helped by the local council funding new facilities. The Essendon Town VFA club disbanded following declining support and the loss of its home ground.
Today Essondon's team in the current VFL (an amalgam of the old VFA, Victorian State League and AFL Reserves) continue to play at Windy Hill.
CHAPTER XVIII
You will recall that at the beginning of the Last French War in 1756 the English colonies lived almost entirely between the Alleghany Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean. Such continued to be their narrow boundaries up to the beginning of the Revolutionary War. To understand how, at the end of this war, the western boundary had been extended to the Mississippi, we must turn our attention to those early western pioneers, the backwoodsmen, who rendered very important services to their country.
One of the most noted of these pioneers was Daniel Boone. He was born in Bucks County, Pa., in 1735. Caring little for books, he spent most of his time in hunting and fishing. The woods were his special delight, and naturally he became an expert rifleman.
The story is told that when a small boy he wandered one day into the forest some distance from home,[Pg 223] and built himself a rough shelter of logs. There he would spend days at a time with only his rifle and game for company. The rifle served to bring down the game, and this he cooked over a fire of logs. A prince might have envied his dreamless slumber as he lay on a bed of leaves with the skin of a wild animal for covering. This free, wild life trained him for his future career as a fearless hunter and woodsman.
The Kentucky Settlement. The Kentucky Settlement.
When Daniel was about thirteen years old his father moved to North Carolina and settled on the Yadkin River, where Daniel grew to manhood. After his marriage at the age of twenty, he built him a hut in the solitude of the wilderness, far removed from other settlers' homes.
Indian Costume (Female). Indian Costume (Female).
But Boone was restless. For years he looked with eager eyes toward the rugged mountains on the west and to the country beyond. Day by day, his desire to[Pg 224] visit this wild unknown region increased, until he could no longer restrain it. By the time he was twenty-five he had begun his explorations and had pushed his way as far as Boone's Creek, which is a branch of the Watauga River in Eastern Tennessee. Near this creek there yet stands a beech-tree with the inscription: "D. Boon cilled a bar on (this) tree in the year 1760."
Nine years after this date Daniel Boone, in company with five other men, started out on May 1st to cross the Alleghany Mountains. For five weeks the bold travellers picked their way through the pathless woods. But when in June they reached Kentucky, they were rewarded for all the hardships they had endured. For here was a beautiful country with an abundance of game, including deer, bears, and great herds of bison.
They promptly put up a shelter made of logs and open on one side. The floor of this camp, as it was called, was the earth, covered with leaves and hemlock twigs.
Indian Costume (Male). Indian Costume (Male).
Six months after their arrival Boone and a man named Stewart had an unpleasant experience. While off on a hunting expedition, they were captured by an Indian party. For seven days the dusky warriors carefully guarded their prisoners. But on the seventh night,[Pg 225] having gorged themselves with the game killed during the day, the Indians fell into a sound sleep. Boone, while pretending to be asleep, had been watching his opportunity. So when the right moment came he quietly arose, awoke Stewart, and the two crept stealthily away until out of hearing of the Indians. Then, leaping to their feet, they bounded away like deer, through the dark woods toward their camp. This they found deserted, and what had become of their friends they never learned.
Some weeks later Boone was pleasantly surprised by the appearance at the camp of his brother, Squire Boone, and a companion. The four men lived together without special incident, until one day Stewart was surprised and shot by some Indians. Stewart's death so terrified the man who had accompanied Squire Boone, that he gave up the wilderness life and returned to his home.
Boone and his brother remained together in the forest for three months longer, but their ammunition getting low, on May 1st Squire Boone returned to North Carolina for a fresh supply and for horses. Daniel was thus left alone, 500 miles from home. His life was in constant peril from wild beasts and Indians. He dared not sleep in his camp, but resorted at night to a canebrake or some other hiding-[Pg 226]place, where he lay concealed, not even kindling a fire lest its light might betray him. During these months of solitary waiting for his brother, Boone endured many privations. He had neither salt, sugar, nor flour, his sole food being game brought down by his rifle. But the return of his brother, in July, with the expected provisions, brought him much good cheer.
After two years of this experience in the wilderness, Daniel Boone returned to his home on the Yadkin to make preparations for removal. By September, 1773, he had sold his farm and was ready to go with his family to settle in Kentucky. His enthusiastic reports of the fertile country he had been exploring found eager listeners, and when his party was ready to start it included, besides his wife and children, five families and forty men, with a sufficient number of horses and cattle. Unhappily they were attacked on their way by Indians, and six men, one of them Boone's eldest son, were killed. Discouraged by this setback the party returned to the nearest settlement, and for a while longer the migration westward was postponed.
But it was Boone's unflinching purpose to settle in the beautiful Kentucky region. It had already become historic, for the Indians called it a "dark ground," a "bloody ground," and an old Indian Chief had related to Boone how many tribes had hunted and fought on its disputed territory.
None of the Indians held an undisputed claim to the land. Nevertheless a friend of Boone, Richard Henderson, and other white men made treaties with[Pg 227] the powerful Cherokees, who allowed them to settle here. As soon as it became certain that the Cherokees would not interfere, Henderson sent Boone in charge of thirty men to open a pathway from the Holston River, over Cumberland Gap to the Kentucky River. This is still known as the Wilderness Road, along which so many thousand settlers afterward made their way.
On reaching the Kentucky River, Boone and his men set to work to build a fort on the left bank of the stream. This fort they called Boonesborough. Its four stout walls consisted in part of the outer sides of log cabins and in part of a stockade, some twelve feet high, made by thrusting into the ground stout pieces of timber pointed at the top. There were loop-holes in all the cabins, and a loop-holed block-house at each corner of the fort.
Daniel Boone, the leader of this settlement, was a man of interesting personality. He was a tall, slender backwoodsman, with muscles of iron and a rugged nature that enabled him to endure great hardship. Quiet and serious, he possessed courage that never shrank in the face of danger. Men had confidence in him because he had confidence in himself. Moreover, his kind heart and tender sympathies won lasting friendships. He usually though not always dressed like an Indian. A fur cap, a fringed hunting shirt, and leggings and moccasins, all made of skins of wild animals, made up his ordinary costume.
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Daniel Boone in his Cabin. Daniel Boone in his Cabin.
If we should go in imagination into Daniel Boone's log cabin out in the clearing not far from the fort, we should find it a simple home with rude furnishings. A ladder against the wall was the stairway by which the children reached the loft. Pegs driven into the wall held the scanty family wardrobe, and upon a rough board, supported by four wooden legs, was spread the family meal.[Pg 229]
A Hand Corn Mill. A Hand Corn Mill.
There was an abundance of plain and simple food. Bear's meat was a substitute for pork, and venison for beef. As salt was scarce, the beef was not salted down or pickled, but was jerked by drying in the sun or smoking over the fire. Corn was also an important article of diet. When away from home to hunt game or to follow the war trail, sometimes the only food which the settler had was the parched corn he carried in his pocket or wallet. Every cabin had its hand-mill for grinding the corn into meal and a mortar for beating it into hominy. The mortar was made by burning a hole into the top of a block of wood.
A pioneer boy found his life a busy and interesting one. While still young he received careful training in imitating the notes and calls of birds and wild animals. He learned how to set traps, and how to shoot a rifle with unerring aim. At twelve years of age he became a fort-soldier, with port-hole assigned to him for use in case of an Indian attack. He received careful training, also, in following an Indian trail and in concealing his own when on the warpath. For expert knowledge of this kind was necessary in the midst of dangers from unseen foes that were likely to creep stealthily upon the settlers at all times[Pg 230] whether they were working in the clearings or hunting in the forest.
After building the fort, Boone returned to his home in North Carolina for his family. Some months after the family reached Boonesborough, Boone's daughter with two girl friends was one day floating in a boat near the river-bank. Suddenly five Indians darted out of the woods and, seizing the three girls, hurried away with them. When in their flight the Indians observed the eldest of the girls breaking twigs and dropping them in their trail, they threatened to tomahawk her unless she stopped it. But watching her chance, she from time to time tore off strips of her dress, and dropped them as guides to the pursuing whites.
A Wigwam. A Wigwam.
As soon as possible after hearing of the capture Boone, with seven other men from the fort, started upon the trail of the Indians and kept up the pursuit until, early on the second morning, they discovered the Indians sitting around a fire cooking breakfast. Suddenly the whites, firing a volley, killed two of the Indians and frightened the others so badly that they beat a hasty retreat, leaving the girls uninjured.
Early in 1778, Boone and twenty nine other men were captured and carried off by a party of Indian warriors. At that time the Indians in that part of the country were fighting on the English side in the Revolution, and as they received a ransom for any Americans they might hand over to the English, they took Boone and the other men of his party to Detroit.
Although the English offered $500 for Boone's[Pg 231] ransom the Indians refused to let him go. They admired him so much that they took him to their home, and with due ceremony adopted him into their tribe. Having plucked out all his hair except a tuft on the top of his head, they dressed this with feathers and ribbons as a scalp-lock. Next they threw him into the river and gave his body a thorough scrubbing in order to wash out all the white blood. Then, daubing his face with paint in true Indian fashion, they looked upon him with huge satisfaction as one of themselves.
Boone remained with them several months, during which he made the best of the life he had to lead. But when he heard that the Indians were planning an attack upon Boonesborough, he determined to escape if possible and give his friends warning. His own words tell the story in a simple way: "On the 16th of June, before sunrise, I departed in the most secret manner, and arrived at Boonesborough on the 20th after a journey of 160 miles, during which I had but one meal." He could not get any food because he dared not use his gun, nor would he build a fire for fear of discovery by his foes. He reached the fort in safety, where he was of great service in beating off the attacking party.
But this is only one of the many hairbreadth escapes[Pg 232] of the fearless backwoodsman. Once while in a shed looking after some tobacco, four Indians with loaded guns appeared at the door. They said: "Now, Boone, we got you. You no get away any more. You no cheat us any more." In the meantime, Boone had gathered up in his arms a number of dry tobacco leaves, and with the dust of these suddenly filled the Indians' eyes and nostrils. Then while they were coughing, sneezing, and rubbing their eyes, he made good his escape.
Indian Implements Indian Implements
But from all his dangerous adventures Boone came out safely, and for years remained the leader of the settlement at Boonesborough. He was certainly a masterful leader in that early pioneer life in Kentucky. [Pg 233] The solitude of the wilderness never lost its charm for him even to the last of his long life. He died in 1820, eighty-five years old. It has been said that but for him the settlement in Kentucky could not have been made for many years.
From American Leaders and Heroes: A Preliminary Text-Book in United States History By Wilbur F. Gordy (New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907, public domain)
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2013 Phoenix Comicon
The web series, Star Trek Continues, premiered at the 2013 Phoenix Comicon. Actors include Christopher Doohan (second from left) as Engineer Scotty, reprising the role his father originated, and Grant Imahara of Myth Busters fame as Hikaru Sulu.
Continue to blossom when life took your loved one from you, for that is exactly what he/she wishes. Keep him/her in mind, and move on.
Chen Ling Wei, Student
"Continue acelerando".Oficina de captação de recursos.Data:23/07/2016.Local:São Paulo/SP.Foto: Cris Castello Branco/Sebrae-SP
Continuing the Topaz plug-in testing, this is another NZ 2006 shot which has been through Adjust, Detail and finally, Topaz DeNoise.
DeNoise did a noticeably good job... however... it did strip out most of the EXIF data. I've been able to reinstate the capture date using LR3, but pretty much everything else has been removed from the TIF that was processed. This is very disappointing.
Comparison shot is here.
This was taken on our last night in Queenstown. We drove up to Glenorchy - which is one of my favourite bits of road in the world (the views are breathtaking) - trying to get there before dark. We almost made it. :)
This is one of those shots that doesn't look straight to me, no matter what I do...