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Advertisement published in the magazine "l'Illustration" dedicated to the 1928 motor show.
The brand, which sold very little in France, was then known as the symbol of the American luxury car.
Annonce publicitaire publiée dans la revue "l'Illustration" consacrée au salon de l'automobile de 1928.
La marque, très peu vendue en France, était alors connue comme le symbole de la voiture Américaine de Grand Luxe.
The Postcard
A postally unused cartolina postale that was published by Garami of Milan. The card was printed in Italy.
History of The Bikini
The bikini was introduced in modern times by French engineer Louis Réard and fashion designer Jacques Heim in Paris in 1946.
Réard was a car engineer, but by 1946 he was running his mother's lingerie business in Paris. Heim was working on a new kind of beach costume.
It comprised two pieces, the lower large enough to cover its wearer's navel.
Bikini Atoll
Réard named his swimsuit the 'bikini', taking the name from Bikini Atoll where the testing of the new atomic bomb was taking place that summer.
The Atoll's inhabitants were forced off the island prior to the testing, and high radiation levels mean that the Atoll remains uninhabited to this day.
The Launch of the Bikini
Réard found that no model was prepared to wear his bikini, so he hired 19-year-old nude dancer Micheline Bernardini to model it at the Molitor swimming pool in Paris for the unveiling in 1946.
Micheline received more than 50,000 fan letters after photos of her were published wearing the new style. However there was also criticism from people who thought the bikini was too revealing and sexual.
The bikini first went on sale on the 5th. July 1946, and after a slow start, soon became the most popular beachwear for women across the globe, with the bottom half becoming much smaller than its original size (above the navel as in the photograph), along with the top half.
The Bikini
The postcard appears to have been published during the early stages of the development of the bikini.
The bikini was introduced in modern times by French engineer Louis Réard and fashion designer Jacques Heim in Paris in 1946.
Réard was a car engineer, but by 1946 he was running his mother's lingerie business in Paris. Heim was working on a new kind of beach costume.
It comprised two pieces, the lower large enough to cover its wearer's navel.
Bikini Atoll
Réard named his swimsuit the 'bikini', taking the name from Bikini Atoll where the testing of the new atomic bomb was taking place that summer.
The Atoll's inhabitants were forced off the island prior to the testing, and high radiation levels mean that the Atoll remains uninhabited to this day.
The Launch of the Bikini
Réard found that no model was prepared to wear his bikini, so he hired 19-year-old nude dancer Micheline Bernardini to model it at the Molitor swimming pool in Paris for the unveiling in 1946. Micheline received more than 50,000 fan letters after photos of her were published wearing the new style. However there was also criticism from people who thought the bikini was too revealing and sexual.
The bikini first went on sale on the 5th. July 1946, and after a slow start, soon became the most popular beachwear for women across the globe, with the bottom half becoming much smaller than its original size, along with the top half.
Early Roman Bikinis
The bikini's first appearance was long before the 1940's.
Bikini Girls are featured in a mosaic in the Villa Romana del Casale in Sicily, a large agricultural estate that was probably owned by a member of the Roman Senate or, possibly, Emperor Maximian (who was Roman emperor from 286 to 305).
The room is named after the mosaic and is referred to as the Sala delle Dieci Ragazze (“Room of the Ten Maidens”).
Of the ten women depicted in the mosaic, nine wear what look like two-piece bathing suits. The girls in the mosaic are engaged in sports; the “bikinis” are clearly intended as sportswear, not swimwear. The girls in the ancient Roman villa are engaged in a number of activities, such as long jumping with weights in their hands, throwing discus, running, and playing a form of handball.
Contrary to popular belief, women in the Roman Empire participated in sports shows. Upper-class women were granted some personal freedoms in the realms of entertainment and leisure, often frequenting bathhouses, racetracks, theaters, and even gladiator stadia with their husbands.
However, there were some rules. For example, women were not allowed to compete with men. Female public nudity was not welcome. The ancient “bikini” allowed women to exercise comfortably.
The bikini-style bottom was a wrapped loincloth made of cloth or leather. In Ancient Rome, it was called a subligaculum. The top part of the “bikini” worn by these girls consists of a breast band (called a strophium). These breast bands were often made of linen.
They may have been used to flatten big breasts by being wrapped several times round the body, and sometimes they were padded to make them similar to contemporary push-up bras.
One of the first published depictions of cyborgs:
“On the moon cyborgs unreel a cable to explosives for a seismic blast. On the front cyborg’s belt, tubes pump chemicals to his blood to control his blood pressure, pulse, energy, tranquility, blood sugar, body temperature, radiation tolerance. Pumps obey sensors like the radiation counter in his left thigh or blood-pressure gauge in his right thigh. His heart, in the X-ray view, sends blood to the implanted converter which remakes oxygen and carbon from carbon dioxide, taking the place of lungs. On the back of the other cyborg are a food supply, master fuel cell, food processor and wastes canister.” [Image description]
“Striding buoyantly across the low-gravity surface of the moon, there may someday be strange new men – part human, part machine – like the ones above. They will have a strange name: CYBORGS (for CYBernetic ORGanisms). Cyborgs, according to a daring new idea, will be men whose body organs and systems are automatically adjusted for life in unearthly environments by artificial organs and senses. Some of these devices will be attached, others implanted by surgery. With their aid cyborgs can dispense with clumsy, easy-to-puncture space suits in which earth conditions are re-created. Instead, they can move about safely wearing not much more than they would at home . . .” [Opening paragraph]
Fred Freeman (1907-1988) was a graphic artist who designed and illustrated books on naval history, space exploration and other subjects. He was a successful commercial artist in New York City from the late 1920's through the 30's, doing many illustrations and magazine covers for publications including The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's.
After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, he turned mainly to book design and illustration. He illustrated books on submarines and destroyers from World War II, for the United States Naval Institute. In 1956, with Theodore Roscoe, he designed the ''Picture History of the U.S. Navy,'' published by Charles Scribner's Sons. In 1960, he illustrated a children's book, ''First Men to the Moon,'' written by the scientist, Werner von Braun.
Published work: This is the latest release of the Wedding Directory featuring my portrait of Chuchay Maronilla on the cover.
I wanted to highlight the beautiful flow of the textile and the beautiful design of the wedding gown, while keeping the atmosphere classy and classic. I saw some antique colored bottles on location and decided to highlight these using a strobe back lit.
I have a conservative arsenal of 3 AC powered strobes and 3 Flash heads, but I always try to keep things simple, that is as a matter of taste. I used 3 strobes on this image.
Strobist Info: 250 Jinbei 3/4 power, 80x100 softbox, placed left side, another 150 Heinman Strobe at 1/4 power, bare, on the upper right rear. 430EX placed behind colored glass bottles. Triggered wireless Cactus type mixed in with remote optical triggers.
Using Silhouette Zebra background, tag, and sentiment.
Blogged: sarahjmoerman.blogspot.ca/2013/02/born-to-be-wild-card.html
Graeme Butler images from the 1992 survey for the Macedon Ranges Cultural Heritage and Landscape Study published 1994
Quoting from the `Lancefield Mercury' 6.11.1891: `A DESIRABLE RESIDENT- During the week Mr.Daniels, who recently purchased the greater portion of the Dunsford Estate close to this township, visited the locality for the purpose of selecting a site for a large dwelling house which he intends to erect on the property. After examining various positions Mr.Daniels was unable to decide whether he would have the building erected on the site of the old milking yards or on the high ground on the opposite side of the creek. He recognised the difficulty of carrying on communication with the township and railway station if the latter site were selected, and in all probability the homestead will be built at the first-mentioned spot. We are glad to welcome Mr.Daniels as a fellow resident of the district, especially as he intends to expend a great deal of money in the way of improvements.' The house and outbuildings were built for J C Daniel and the architect was F.De Garis & Son. Daniel was a haberdasher, serving the goldfields towns as far as Bendigo. He also had a property in Malvern, Cleveland being his country seat. He reputedly went broke in the 1890s and the place was left empty for some 50 years prior to the arrival of the present owners. Victorian Post Office Directories of that era do not list a JC Daniel(s) or a Daniel at this address or in Malvern. The nearest listing, in terms of occupation, is Daniel & Co. drapers of Riversdale Road, Camberwell{ see WD1888-9..1895-6}. A John Clark Daniel was a Kyneton grazier of the period 1860s to the 1880s{ WD18889-90; `Pioneers Index' children at Kyneton 1866-78} Prior to the construction of the complex, this area (west of Talbots Lane) was Dunsford's Lancefield preemptive purchase and Cleveland is sited between Dunsford's house (to the south) of his `home station' (to the north), as they were located in the 1850s{ CPO DIST 4, 1854}. De Garis The Frederick De Garis listed designs include: two houses at 153, 155 Cecil Street, South Melbourne (1885, 1890){ AHC Register}. Other contemporary projects linked with De Garis (who had an office in Bank St, South Melbourne) include: a two storey villa in the Sydney Road, Parkville for P Ward (1881); a three storey factory in Lonsdale Street, Melbourne; three two storey shops and residences in Clarendon Street, South Melbourne for C Skeats; J Shaw's Hall of Commerce in South Melbourne; and brick stables for Thistlewaite in Southey St, St Kilda.
My Solitude photo was published in the November issue of DP - Arte Fotográfica.
DP is the Portuguese version of Digital Photographer Magazine.
Pure joy :)
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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One of my photos was recently used for the cover of a shopping guide in Rio de Janeiro. They sent me a few copies today.
Lord Smith has today published his recommendations for further devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament.
John Swinney - Deputy First Minister & Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution & Economy.
PUBLISHED in the May 2013 issue of Modern Luxury's Riviera Orange County Magazine. Shot taken from the San Clemente Pier in CA with a Canon 5D Mark II and a Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS lens.
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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.
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I 1975 arrivano finalmente in Italia per due date evento! Il 12 aprile 2016 si esibiranno davanti al pubblico milanese del Fabrique di Milano.
A distanza di tre anni dal loro ultimo concerto italiano e con migliaia di follower in più, i quattro di Manchester promettono uno show pieno di emozioni e carica rock.
I The 1975 (stilizzato come THE1975) sono un gruppo musicale indie rock britannico formatosi nel 2002 a Manchester. È composto da Matthew "Matty" Healy, Adam Hann, George Daniel e Ross MacDonald.
Nonostante la loro giovane età, (classe 1989), da subito si distinguono per i testi cupi e i temi profondi, il tutto viene poi visivamente consolidato da un rigoroso uso del black&white per video, foto e copertine di EP ed album.
Il loro stile musicale può essere definito come un crossover originale di electro, R&B e pop ’80. Non a caso il loro produttore è Mike Crossey (Foals, Arctic Monkeys).
Il 1° giugno 2015 segna un momento di svolta per il quartetto: viene infatti postata sui profili social un’immagine a colori (bianco e rosa) del tipico logo della band. La data non è stata scelta a caso, il 1° giugno è infatti il giorno della nascita della band. Il restyling significa quindi una rinascita simbolica per una band che può e vuole suonare per quante più persone possibili e continuare a fare musica.
Matthew Healy – vocals, guitar
Adam Hann – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
George Daniel – drums, backing vocals
Ross MacDonald – bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
The Postcard
A postcard that was published by G. D. & D. It was posted in Haslemere, Surrey on Thursday the 3rd. March 1910 to:
Miss P. Harrington,
14, Myrtle Villas,
Bright Hill,
Guildford,
Surrey.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Polly,
I shall be pleased if you
can make my skirt.
I shall be coming up on
Tuesday March 8th. by
the 11.22 train if I can
catch it. If not, the 1.28.
Give my love to all.
From Emmie."
A Paris Accord
So what else happened on the day that Emmie posted the card?
Well, on the 3rd. March 1910, Morocco signed accords with France in Paris, permitting the French to occupy Casablanca and Oujda in return for military training, as part of the refinancing of loans.
Stock in Sears
Also on that day, stock in Sears began trading for the first time on the New York Stock Exchange.
Joseph Yablonski
The 3rd. March 1910 also marked the birth in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania of Joseph Yablonski, UMWA President. Joseph was murdered in Clarksville, Pennsylvania at the age of 59 by his rival in 1969.
Joseph Albert "Jock" Yablonski was an American labor leader in the United Mine Workers in the 1950's and 1960's known for seeking reform in the union and better working conditions for miners.
In 1969 he challenged Tony Boyle for the presidency of the union and was defeated. He asked for a Department of Labor investigation, claiming that the election was fraudulent. In addition, Yablonski filed suit against the UMWA on five different charges related to fraud.
On December 31, 1969, three hitmen fatally shot Yablonski, his wife Margaret, and his 25-year-old daughter Charlotte, as they slept in the Yablonski home in Clarksville, Pennsylvania. The bodies were not discovered until the 5th. January 1970 by one of Yablonski's sons, Kenneth.
The day after the bodies of the Yablonskis were discovered, 20,000 miners in West Virginia walked off the job in a one-day strike, protesting against Boyle, whom they believed was responsible for the murders.
An investigation found that the killings had indeed been ordered by Boyle, who had demanded Yablonski's death on the 23rd. June 1969, after a meeting with Yablonski at UMWA headquarters degenerated into a shouting match.
In September 1969, UMWA executive council member Albert Pass received $20,000 from Boyle (who had embezzled the money from union funds) to hire gunmen to kill Yablonski. He hired Paul Gilly, an out-of-work house painter, and two drifters, Aubran Martin and Claude Vealey.
The murder was ordered to be postponed until after the election, however, to avoid suspicion falling on Boyle. After three aborted attempts to murder Yablonski, the killers completed the assassinations, deciding to kill everyone in the house. They left so many fingerprints behind that the police identified and captured them within three days.
A few hours after Yablonski's funeral, several of the miners who had supported Yablonski met in the basement of the church where the memorial service was held. They met with attorney Joseph Rauh and drew up plans to establish a reform caucus within the United Mine Workers.
A total of seven persons were convicted of murder and conspiracy to commit murder; two of the assassins were sentenced to death for first-degree murder.
The Department of Labor completed its investigation, aided by the FBI, and won a suit to overturn the 1969 election by 1972. A new election was held in December of that year, and a reform candidate elected, defeating Boyle.
Boyle was indicted in 1973 for the three Yablonski murders; he was convicted in 1974 and received three life sentences. The union made important reforms.
Kittens Reichert
Also born on that day was the American silent film child actress Kittens Reichert, in Yonkers, NY.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Reichert, she was born Catherine Alma Reichert, but was nicknamed "Kittens", which she adopted as her stage name.
When she was 2 years old, Reichert was a stand-in for a film that was being made in Yonkers. Beginning in 1914, she played supporting juvenile roles to many of filmdom's biggest stars, including Theda Bara, Pauline Frederick and William Farnum.
Her career effectively ended when she was 9 in 1919 because her family did not want to move out to California, where the film industry had shifted, though she did make a further appearance in So's Your Old Man (1926), starring W. C. Fields.
In 1927, Reichert portrayed Hope Toombs in a Fiske O'Hara Players production of The Circus Girl at the New Warburton Theatre in Yonkers.
Reichert died in Louisville, Kentucky on the 11th. January 1990, at the age of 79.
Filmography of Kittens Reichert
Notable films of Kittens Reichert include:
-- The Eternal City (1915)
-- A Soldier's Oath (1915)
-- The Eternal Sapho (1916)
-- The Great Problem (1916)
-- The Fool's Revenge (1916)
-- Ambition (1916)
-- The Primitive Call (1917)
-- Every Girl's Dream (1917)
-- So's Your Old Man (1926).
The Boy’s Own Paper (BOP) was a weekly children’s comic published by the Lutterworth Press (during the time this badge was in use). BOP readership was very much aimed at boys and there was also a sister publication titled the Girl’s Own Paper. The BOP was first published on January 18th 1879 as a monthly magazine and as a weekly from 1913 until it ceased publication in 1967.
The BOP was first published by the Bible Tract Society and its editorial content had strong moralistic and Christian overtones along with emphasis on sports, Empire, literature, hobbies and to promote a more ‘wholesome lifestyle’ for young boys. As well as adventure stories, BOP included a mix of educational and non-fiction such as science, natural history, puzzles and competitive essays was also a regular feature.
When the BOP was first proposed, it was intended to provide alternative reading for young boy’s reading as opposed to the 'Penny Dreadfuls' of the day. However, despite this the BOP proved a great success and so remained popular until its circulation began to decline after the 1950’s, in line with that of other children’s comics. BOP was also exported to over 50 countries worldwide at the peak of its circulation.
This badge bears the BOP emblem and it’s motto ‘quicquid agunt pueri nostri farrago libelli’ which roughly translates as ‘whatever boys do makes up the mix for our little book’. I understand this Latin phrase was adopted from the writings of the Roman author Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis c.80 – c.130 AD).
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References:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy's_Own_Paper (Wikipedia article on the Boy’s Own Newspaper).
www.stellabooks.com/articles/featuredbooks/boys_own.php (a short Boy’s Own paper article).
www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/bop.html (Excellent article on the Boy’s Own Paper).
www.flickr.com/photos/mando_gal/sets/72157628253684177/ (Boy’s Own Paper images – a Flickr set).
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Enamels: 3 (red, white & blue).
Finish: Gilt.
Material: Brass.
Fixer: Pin.
Size: ¾” diameter (20mm).
Process: Die stamped.
Imprint: J R GAUNT, LONDON.
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Published in 'Aeroplanes in Detail' a book of cutaway drawings of contemporary British aeroplanes and engines dating to roughly 1948.
Published by Amberley. In collaboration with my friend in Israel, Alon Siton. British steam locomotives are beautiful and foreign ones are not ;)
Candids of audience during the Elizabethtown family movie night (shot for the Etown Advocate newspaper)
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.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 19th of October 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 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.