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Description: Handwritten note from Polly Thomson to Nella Braddy Henney.
Note: Note written on index card.
Full Text:
...soon after noon as possible.
Always,
Polly
Jo is doing the bust of President of France—Auriol. He is terribly bucked—the first commission since Tito.
Makes me happy.
Our love
P.
Creator: Polly Thomson
Date: July 25, 1950
Format: Letter; Envelope
Provenance: From AG151 The Nella Braddy
Henney Papers, Box 3. Donated by Keith Henney, Nella Braddy Henney's spouse, circa 1975.
Digital Identifier: nellabraddyhenne0000vari_m1b3_0070
Rights: Perkins Archives, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
I don't have a true macro. I actually tote around a point and shoot Sony Cybershot DSC-P51. But I can get some nice field of view type shots, I've discovered. It just takes a lot of work to hack it out.
Behind the scenes: Lhean & Nasty Notes :: Wero interview.
www.site2.nobodiesfromnowhere.com/wp/2010/02/23/lhean-nas...
Note to self...do not forget real camera. The Smartphone can't get good distance landscapes. Oh well, La Jolla after take off from SAN
Part of my mom's birthday present: new license plates. (I know...aren't I such a caring son?) When I had them originally ordered, they kinda did it wrong. It took two trips to the SOS to get it right.
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Note the scratches on the edge of the focus ring and filter ring. They do not affect the glass or the filter ring. Cosmetic only.
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25.10–17.11.2019
Exhibition Laboratory
Developed and curated by Basak Senova.
Participating artists include Heba Y. Amin, Nisrine Boukhari, Benji Boyadgian, Yane Calovski, Ramesch Daha, Ricarda Denzer, Nikolaus Gansterer, Inma Herrera, Barbara Holub, Otto Karvonen, Ebru Kurbak, Bronwyn Lace, Marcus Neustetter, Behzad Khosravi Noori, Egle Oddo, Isa Rosenberger, Lina Selander, Tamsin Snow and Timo Tuhkanen.
Note the overhead cabinets have a top hinge and have gas struts to hold them open and out of the way.
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Found amongst the logs
Seek Ye
Not far to go now 'til you're back with me
But look for the man who jumped high up the tree
When ye have seen him, don't seek on the right
There's no clues on that side, just a river of shite
(text at the bottom describes how actually london is the cleanest city river or something)
See where this photo was taken at maps.yuan.cc.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard, on the divided back of which is printed:
"Society of Olympic Collectors.
Postcard No. 2
Stampex 1988.
Dorando finished first, was
disqualified for assistance
to the tape, but was awarded
the Queen's Cup in recognition
of his achievement.
Printed by Interprint, Scotton,
Knaresborough HG5 9JA"
Dorando Pietri
Dorando Pietri, who was born on the 16th. October 1885, was an Italian long-distance runner. He finished first in the marathon at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, but was subsequently disqualified.
-- Dorando Pietri - The Early Years
Pietri was born in Mandrio, a frazione of Correggio, but spent his youth in Carpi (Emilia-Romagna region). Here he worked as a shop-boy at a confectionery shop. He was 1.59 m (5 ft., 2½ in.) tall.
In September 1904 the most famous Italian runner of the time, Pericle Pagliani, took part in a race in Carpi. According to tradition, Pietri was attracted by the event and, still wearing his work clothes, ran to the finish ahead of Pagliani. A few days later Pietri débuted in a distance race, finishing second in the 3,000 m of Bologna.
-- Dorando Pietri's Career
The following year he achieved his first international success, winning the 30 km in Paris. On the 2nd. April 1906 Pietri won the qualifying marathon for the Olympic Games to be held in Athens that same year. However during the race he retired due to intestinal illness when he was leading by 5 minutes.
In 1907 he won the Italian championships. He was by then the undisputed leader of Italian long distance races from 5000 metres to marathon distance.
-- Dorando Pietri in the 1908 Olympics
Dorando Pietri trained hard for the 1908 Olympics in London. In a race in Carpi he ran 40 km (25 mi) in 2 hours and 38 minutes, an extraordinary result for the times.
The marathon, which took place on the 24th. July 1908, started with 56 competitors, including Pietri and fellow Italian Umberto Blasi. It began at 2:33pm.
The weather was particularly hot by British summer standards. The London course measured 42.2 km (26 mi); the distance later became the official marathon length from 1921.
Pietri began his race at a rather slow pace, but in the second half of the course began a powerful surge, moving him into second position by the 32 km (20 mi) mark, 4 minutes behind South African Charles Hefferon. When he knew that Hefferon was in crisis, Pietri further increased his pace, overtaking him at the 39 km (24 mi) mark.
However the effort took its toll, and with only two kilometres (1.2 mi) to go, Pietri began to feel the effects of extreme fatigue and dehydration.
When he entered the stadium he took the wrong path, and when umpires redirected him, he fell down for the first time. He got up with their help, in front of 75,000 spectators.
He fell four more times, and each time the umpires helped him up. In the end, though totally exhausted, he managed to finish the race in first place. Of his total time of 2h 54min 46s, ten minutes were needed for that last 350 metres (380 yd).
Second was American Johnny Hayes, with a time of 2h 55min 18s. The American team immediately lodged a complaint against the help Pietri received from the umpires. The complaint was accepted, and Pietri was disqualified and removed from the final standings of the race.
Note: You would have thought that the Olympic umpires of all people would have known the consequences of assisting Pietri.
-- Dorando Pietri the International Celebrity
As a compensation for the missing medal, Queen Alexandra gave him a gilded silver cup. Arthur Conan Doyle had been commissioned by the Daily Mail to write a special report about the race. He was very impressed by the effort of the Italian at the stadium, which he descibed as follows:
"The Italian's great performance can
never be effaced from our record of
sport, be the decision of the judges
what it may."
Conan Doyle proposed the tht the Daily Mail should start a subscription to raise money and help Pietri to open a bakery in his native town. The fund reached the considerable sum of 300 pounds (equivalent to £39,564 in 2023), to which the same Conan Doyle contributed the initial 5 pounds (equivalent to £659 in 2023).
Pietri suddenly became an international celebrity. Composer Irving Berlin dedicated a song to him entitled "Dorando," and Pietri received requests to participate in exhibition races in the United States.
On the 25th. November 1908, in Madison Square Garden, New York, a race between Hayes and Pietri was organized. Pietri won the race as well as a second similar race on the 15th. March 1909. Pietri won 17 of the 22 races on his tour of America.
He returned to Italy in May 1909, and continued racing professionally in his native country and abroad for two more years.
Pietri ran his final marathon in Buenos Aires, on the 24th. May 1910, where he achieved his personal best of 2h 38min 48:2s.
Pietri's last race in Italy was a 15 km (9 mi) race held in Parma on the 3rd. September 1911, which he won.
He also won his very last race, this time in Gothenburg (Sweden), in October of the same year. He was 26 at the time.
In three years as a professional runner Pietri earned 200,000 lire in prize money alone, an enormous sum for the time.
Pietri invested his earnings in a hotel which he opened in collaboration with his brother. Unfortunately he was not as successful an entrepreneur as he was athlete, and the hotel went bankrupt.
He moved to Sanremo, where he directed a car workshop. Pietri lived in Sanremo until his death, of a heart attack, at the age of 56.
-- Dorando Pietri in Popular Culture
Il Sogno del Maratoneta is an Italian book and TV movie about Pietri's run.