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Davide, Enrica, Giosada e gli Urban Strangers, i quattro finalisti di #XF9, in diretta dal Mediolanum Forum di Assago, Milano, giovedì 10 Dicembre 2015, avranno l’onore di condividere lo stesso palco con giganti della musica come i Coldplay, in vetta alle classifiche in 53 paesi. Chris Martin & Co si esibiranno live in esclusiva per l’Italia proprio sul palco della Finale per regalare al pubblico ben due successi del nuovo album: "A Head Full of Dreams" e "Adventure of a Lifetime".
X Factor Italia vuole siglare un altro primato: l’intera giuria si esibirà sulle note dei propri successi e con le proprie band: Elio e le Storie Tese, Skunk Anansie e Fedez e Mika.
Alessandro Cattelan vi racconterà questo grandissimo evento musicale scandendo i ritmi di una serata che si preannuncia veramente intensa. Avrete modo di assistere a una sfida davvero speciale tra Enrica, Davide, Giosada e Urban Strangers al fianco di un grande artista italiano: Cesare Cremonini. Dopo 34 date del Logico Tour, la pop star bolognese accompagnerà al pianoforte i ragazzi nella prima manche dedicata ai duetti, al termine della quale uno di loro lascerà la gara, oltre ad eseguire "Lost in weekend".
La sfida proseguirà con la manche degli inediti, appena presentati e già in cima alla classifica iTunes. Per lo scontro decisivo, i due super finalisti si giocheranno il podio con un brano scelto da ciascuno di loro tra quelli interpretati durante il lungo percorso ad X Factor. Solo uno di loro si aggiudicherà un contratto con Sony Music Italia e la possibilità di pubblicare un album.
Non finisce qui: un inedito duetto infiammerà il Forum, quello di Fedez & Mika, che si esibiranno per la prima volta live nel loro "Beautiful Disaster". Elio e le Storie Tese si porteranno al Forum uno dei classici storici della band, "Servi della gleba", mentre gli Skunk Anansie la nuovissima "Love Someone Else".
Il vincitore della nona edizione di X Factor Italia è Giosada.
I feel very proud to have my first music photograph published, accompanying an interview with Biffy Clyro in FAULT magazine...
My First Published in autowrorks magazine.
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L'eclettica violinista californiana Lindsey Stirling, giovane talento lanciato nel 2010 da America's Got Talent, amatissima in Italia tanto da registrare un "sold out" a Milano lo scorso giugno, ritorna a Milano in data unica. Le sue performance tra musica e ballo spopolano su YouTube, registrando milioni di visualizzazioni. Dall'età di cinque anni suona il violino con maestria, spaziando su un'ampia gamma di generi: oltre al classico, il country, l'hip hop, l'elettronica, accompagnando ogni esecuzione con balli e coreografie spettacolari di cui cura personalmente ogni aspetto.
Lindsey Stirling nasce il 21 settembre 1986 in Ohio. All’età di cinque anni, dopo essere stata avviata alla musica classica dal padre, impara a suonare il violino. Prende lezioni private di violino per 12 anni; quando ha 16 anni si unisce alla rock band Stomp on Melvin; nello stesso periodo scrive una canzone rock per violino cosa che le permette di vincere due concorsi prestigiosi. Attualmente frequenta la Byu, dove conosce il regista Devin Graham con cui collabora per diversi video.
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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 1st of July 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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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty metres at 12:32pm on Wednesday 22nd August 2018, off Place Joffre and Avenue Emile Acollas, in the grounds of Champ de Mars, looking towards the Tour Eiffel located at Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, 75007 in Paris, France.
The Eiffel Tower was originally designed by Gustave Eiffel and constructed between 1887-1889 as the entrance to the worlds fair in that year. It is now the worlds most visited paid monument, standing 324 metres tall (1,063ft) with three floors and eight lifts and was the tallest building in the world from 1889 to 1930.
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Radar Concerti presenta Charlotte Gainsbourg. La cantante e attrice franco-britannica arriva in Italia per un’unica data italiana, il 5 dicembre al Fabrique di Milano per presentare Rest, l’ultimo album uscito nel 2017 per Because Music e accompagnato dai singoli Deadly Valentine, I'm a Lie e dal nuovo Sylvia Says, uscito per Pitchfork.
Con oltre trent’anni di carriera, Charlotte Gainsbourg è considerata oggi una venere del cinema e della musica d'oltralpe; film come L'effrontée - Sarà perché ti amo?, e la lunga collaborazione con Lars Von Trier per Antichrist, Melancholia Nymphomaniac, si sono incastonati nel firmamento artistico internazionale, insieme ai vari riconoscimenti, che l'hanno resa una delle attrici francesi più richieste e amate. In ambito discografico ha dimostrato di avere un talento puro e universale fin dall'esordio del 1984 con il singolo Lemon Incest (Charlotte Forever, 1986), tanto che il suo ultimo disco, Rest, in cui Charlotte si racconta con un’elettronica di alto profilo e del tutto originale, vede la collaborazione di Paul McCartney, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (Daft Punk), SebastiAn, Connan Mockasin, Sylvia Plath.
A differenza dei precedenti - in cui Charlotte collabora con artisti del calibro di Air, Jarvis Cocker, Beck - in Rest i brani portano la sua firma fin dalla composizione: l’intimità dei testi, in un delicato equilibrio tra l’autobiografico e il confessionale, ne è la diretta conseguenza. Il risultato è una reinterpretazione soggettiva e ricercata del french touch, con il quale Charlotte sembra voler fare luce sui suoi ricordi e sulle sue sensazioni, anche quelle più dolorose. L’esaltazione della critica è stata universale: “Gainsbourg’s gripping new album finds her in the tangles of grief. It is at once scorchingly intimate and fantastically oversized” (Pitchfork)
Un talento che non prende in considerazione definizioni. Una creatività che non conosce compartimenti stagni. Ma, soprattutto, quello che non si potrebbe che descrivere se non come un carisma irresistibile. Qualunque cosa faccia.
Facile, si potrebbe dire, quando papà è Serge Gainsbourg e mamma è Jane Birkin. Eppure Charlotte Gainsbourg ci ha messo molto, anzi moltissimo di suo, per diventare l’artista rispettata, dall’indole cristallina ma sfaccettata, che è oggi. Oggi, e da trent’anni a questa parte, tanto è lunga la sua carriera.
Il 5 dicembre, al Fabrique di Milano, Charlotte Gainsbourg regalerà una serata unica, durante la quale il pubblico italiano potrà ammirare un personaggio unico, dal talento artistico istintivo e cristallino.
Image of a “help wanted” ad published in the Washington Post Nov. 3, 1942. Due to the war, there was a scarcity of white men and streetcars and buses often stayed in the barns due to lack of operators.
Despite this situation, the Capital Transit Company still refused to hire African American platform workers—streetcar operators and conductors and bus operators.
Similar ads were published almost daily in all major newspapers in the city.
For an article on desegregating Capital Transit, see
washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/the-fight-agains...
For additional photos, please see set description, “Fighting Capital Transit Racism 1941-55," flic.kr/s/aHsjCrE9RH
PUBLISHED IN THE MANITOBA CO-OPERATOR - November 11, 2010
REMEMBRANCE: A reminder that both men and horses sacrificed their lives in the battles of 1914-18.
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Il trio che ha conquistato le platee internazionali, trionfato al Festival di Sanremo, si è aggiudicato il doppio disco di platino per l’album “Sanremo Grande Amore” e ha rappresentato l’Italia all’Eurovision Song Contest 2015
Alla luce dello straordinario successo del tour estivo con 12 sold out già registrati a meno di un mese dalla prima data, nel 2016 i ragazzi de Il Volo saranno protagonisti dei principali palasport con “Il Volo 2016 Live nei Palasport”, il tour con cui il celebre trio porterà la sua musica dal respiro internazionale e le sue straordinarie doti canore nelle più importanti città italiane.
Il singolo “Grande Amore” e l’album “Sanremo Grande Amore” hanno conquistato le charts iTunes dei Paesi eurovisivi. Il grande affetto della gente è stato dimostrato anche dagli ascolti durante l’esibizione del trio nella finale, che risulta essere la più vista della serata. Non solo il pubblico, ma anche la critica musicale si è espressa in suo favore, conferendogli il prestigioso Marcel Besançon Award 2015 della stampa internazionale.
Il Volo è un gruppo musicale italiano costituito da due tenori e un baritono: Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto e Gianluca Ginoble.
Sono stati i primi artisti italiani ad aver firmato un contratto diretto con una major statunitense. Interpretano brani perlopiù appartenenti alla tradizione classica italiana e internazionale, con stile e arrangiamenti moderni, e brani pop in chiave classica. Hanno inciso anche brani in lingua spagnola, inglese, francese, tedesca e latina.
Nonostante la giovane età, la carriera de Il Volo, il trio, che ha scalato le classifiche di tutto il mondo, è già costellata di record: sono stati i primi italiani nella storia a sottoscrivere un contratto con una major discografica in USA, unici artisti italiani invitati da Quincy Jones a “We Are The World for Haiti” insieme a 80 star internazionali, un disco di debutto che conquista il platino in Italia ed entra in una sola settimana nella Top10 di “Billboard 200” dedicata agli album più venduti negli Stati Uniti, milioni di copie vendute su scala mondiale, due nomination ai Latin Grammy Awards come “Best new artist” e “Best pop album by a duo or group with vocal”, tournèe e live in tutto il mondo, esibizioni nei più importanti show (“Tonight Show”, “American Idol e “Ellen De Generes Show” per citarne alcuni), numerose collaborazioni con star internazionali (tra cui Barbara Streisand, di cui sono stati Special Guests duettando in 12 date del suo tour nel 2012), vincitori del Latin Billboard Award come “Miglior artista dell’anno Duo/Gruppo interprete di album latino”.
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published by Lévy Fils et Cie of Paris. The card has a divided back.
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Boulogne-sur-Mer is a coastal city in Northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the département of Pas-de-Calais.
Boulogne lies on the Côte d'Opale, a touristic stretch of French coast on the English Channel between Calais and Normandy.
Boulogne is its département's second-largest city after Calais, and the 60th.-largest in France. It is also the country's largest fishing port, specialising in herring.
Boulogne in the Great War
During the First World War, Boulogne was the arrival port for the first unit of the British Expeditionary Force to land in France, and for many others thereafter.
Boulogne was one of the three base ports most extensively used by the Commonwealth armies on the Western Front throughout the First World War.
It was closed and cleared on the 27th. August 1914 when the Allies were forced to fall back ahead of the German advance, but was opened again in October, and from that month to the end of the war, Boulogne and Wimereux formed one of the chief hospital areas.
Until June 1918, the dead from the hospitals at Boulogne itself were buried in the Cimetière de L'Est, one of the town's cemeteries, the Commonwealth graves forming a long, narrow strip along the right hand edge of the cemetery.
In the spring of 1918, it was found that space was running short in the Eastern Cemetery in spite of repeated extensions to the south, and the site of a new cemetery at Terlincthun was chosen.
To see a photograph of the cemetery, please search for the tag 45TBC33
Boulogne in World War II
In World War II, on the 15th. June 1944, 297 aircraft (155 Avro Lancasters, 130 Handley Page Halifaxes, and 12 De Havilland Mosquitos) of the Royal Air Force bombed Boulogne harbour to suppress German naval activity following D-Day.
Some of the Lancasters carried Tallboy bombs, and as a result, the harbour and the surrounding area were completely destroyed.
In August 1944 the town was declared a "fortress" by Adolf Hitler, but it succumbed to assault and liberation by the 3rd. Canadian Infantry Division in September. In one incident, a French civilian guided the Canadians to a "secret passage" leading into the walled old town and by-passing the German defenders.
Reconstruction of Boulogne After World War II
To replace the destroyed urban infrastructure, affordable housing and public facility projects in functional, brutalist building styles were carried out in the 1950's and 60's.
The Boulogne Basilica
The Basilica was built between 1827 and 1875 on the site of Boulogne's medieval cathedral.
The original cathedral flourished until the French Revolution, when it was brought under government control. After a period as a military warehouse, the cathedral was sold and demolished in stages. In 1783 its celebrated miraculous statue of Our Lady of the Sea was burned. Only a small portion of the statue's hand survived and is still on display.
When construction on the new church started in 1827, workers discovered a crypt that had lain unknown for centuries, having probably been filled in during the 1544 siege of Boulogne by Henry VIII of England.
The crypt is 128 metres long, and is the oldest in France. The many rooms include the foundations of a Roman temple dedicated to Mars. Cannon balls from the 1544 siege lie alongside offerings from the site's many medieval pilgrims.
The area beneath the dome of Notre-Dame was initially designed to form the complete church, but additional funding allowed the expansion to the nave and transept that form a Latin cross. This gives the finished building the unusual internal appearance of being formed by two distinct churches.
Suspended Animation Classic #797 First published April 4, 2004 (#14) (Dates are approximate)
Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel
By Michael Vance
1) What is a graphic novel?
2) If "NBM became America's first graphic novel publisher" in 1976, how can Will Eisner's A Contract With God (1978/Baronet) be the first graphic novel? If you are interested in answers, you wont find them in Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel.
The Rise... is an essay on the short history of the graphic novel and the relatively long history of comic strips and books, the grandparent and parent of author Stephen Weiner's subject.
1a) One would think that Weiner would define the subject of his essay. But, in his defense, the definitions of the much older short story, novel, comic strip and comic book were only recently codified. Graphic novels are very young.
2b) The discrepancy in who was the first publisher and first graphic novel is impossible for this reviewer to resolve.
There are other discrepancies. As example, it's difficult to understand why books about comics are included in an essay about graphic novels.
But crepancies do abound in The Rise...
Will Eisner is a comics genius and deserves inclusion. Jules Feiffer (Tantrum), Wendy and Richard Pini (Elfquest), Alan Moore and Steve Bissette (Swamp Thing), Art Spiegelman (Maus), Neil Gaiman (Sandman) and others also played roles in the increasing popularity of the graphic novel.
It's equally true that a single story told in a single volume adds nuances to comics that are difficult or impossible to achieve in a daily comic strip. But there the praise ends.
Drum roll. Announcing an editorial comment that has nothing to do with The Rise…:
Graphic novels are not better than comic strips or books. They are simply different. They should be welcomed into the comics family, but should replace no family member.
The Rise... is recommended for those curious about graphic novels.
Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel/80 pg. hardback, $14.95 from NBM/ available at www.ebmpublishing.com, and comic and bookstores.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was published by J. Beagles & Co. Ltd., Printers and Publishers, of London E.C. They modestly claim on the back of the card: 'Beagles' Postcards - Best in the World'.
The firm of J. Beagles & Co. was started by John Beagles (1844-1909). The company produced a variety of postcards, including an extensive catalogue of celebrity (stage and screen) portrait postcards. After Beagle’s death, the business continued under its original name until it closed in 1939.
The card, which was printed in England, is a glossy real photograph.
Although the card was not posted, there is a recipient's name and address written on the right-hand side of the divided back:
Flora Cottage,
5, Beechen Grove,
Watford.
There was also a message on the left-hand side:
"28/3/18.
Dear Fred,
Just a card with my
best wishes for Easter.
With kind love,
Bessie".
Sophus Kahrs
So what else happened on the day that Bessie wrote the card?
Well, Thursday the 28th. March 1918 marked the birth in Bergen, Norway of Sophus Kahrs.
Sophus Magdalon Buck Kahrs was a Norwegian commander in the German SS during the Nazi era. Following the war, he was convicted of treason.
Sophus Kahrs' SS Career
Kahrs was born into a family of German origins. He joined the Nasjonal Samling in 1934. At around the same time he also joined the party's paramilitary wing, the Hird, and from 1936 the NS Battle Organization.
After the outbreak of World War II, Kahrs volunteered for service in the Norwegian Legion of the Waffen-SS. In the summer of 1944 he was made acting commander of the SS Ski Jäger Battalion "Norwegen".
In 2013 the Norwegian daily Dagbladet's reported:
"The Norwegian company commander
failed - and fled the combat zone, while
many were killed or captured".
Kahrs disappeared early in the battle - later reappearing uninjured in the rear echelons. However he reported on his own actions in a favourable light, and this positive spin led to him avoiding court martial.
Later he was put in charge of Vidkun Quisling's bodyguard detail.
The Criminal Conviction of Sophus Kahrs
After the war, Kahrs was arrested and charged with treason. He was convicted and sentenced to 10 years of hard labour, and 19 years in prison.
He escaped on the 3rd. July 1947, along with three other inmates, from Espeland concentration camp. The camp, which was near Bergen in Norway, was built under the direction of German occupation forces between 1942 and 1943.
The escapees joined up with three other former SS members and sailed to Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was later joined by his wife and son.
The Death of Sophus Kahrs
Kars found work as an electrician, and later as a foreman at an American car company, until his death at the age of 68 in Buenos Aires on the 18th. November 1986.
My photo of the deck of the Rainbow Warrior on the inside cover of the German Greenpeace Magazine. Note the Isle of Grain Chimney in the background!
Woohoo! My first officially published pictures. They made it into the August 2010 edition of "The Lutheran" magazine.
It's a nice article that involves an excellent feature about my friends at Humble Walk.
You can see the whole set here. And I'll also try to link to the issue when it's online. Otherwise head to you local Lutheran dealer to pickup your own copy.
Strobist info: sb900 at 1/4 bounced into the white part of a 5-in-1 reflector over the subject. Triggered via manual CLS.
The Lutheran Magazine - August 2010, pgs. 28-29, Augsburg Fortress
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Title: Simmons College, Boston, Mass. [back]
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Date issued: ca. 1915-1930
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Official Press release
ROYAL NAVY STATEMENT – 20 July 2016
From:Ministry of DefenceFirst published:20 July 2016
At approximately 1330 local time today, HMS AMBUSH, an Astute-class submarine, while submerged and conducting a training exercise was involved in a glancing collision with a merchant vessel off the coast of Gibraltar. We are in contact with the merchant vessel and initial indications are that it has not sustained damage.
Ministry of Defence
The submarine suffered some external damage but there is absolutely no damage to her nuclear plant and no member of the ship’s company was injured in the incident.
An immediate investigation is being conducted.
The submarine will be entering Gibraltar later this evening for further checks. There are no safety concerns associated with HMS AMBUSH being alongside.
Published:
20 July 2016
Ministry of Defence
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The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published by Lévy Fils et Cie of Paris, with photography by Charles Ledieu of Arras. The card has a divided back.
Mont St.-Éloi and the Abbey
Le Mont Saint-Éloi is 8 km. north-west of Arras. The Abbey was was founded in the 7th. century, and rebuilt in the middle of the 18th. century.
During the French Revolution, the Abbey was abandoned and sold to the State. Subsequently it was partially demolished, although the two towers survived the demolition.
The towers are on a 120 metre-high hill and dominate the whole valley. They were therefore used by the Allies as observation posts until the Germans destroyed their upper parts along with a significant part of the Abbey.
To see what the St.-Éloi towers looked like after bombardment, please search for the tag 54MSE67
A Poem by Ezra Pound
Here is a poem about St.-Éloi by Ezra Pound (1885-1972):
'Over the flat slope of St.-Éloi
A wide wall of sandbags.
Night,
In the silence desultory men
Pottering over small fires,
cleaning their mess tins:
To and fro, from the lines,
Men walk as on Piccadilly,
Making paths in the dark,
Through scattered dead horses,
Over a dead Belgian's belly.
The Germans have rockets. The
English have no rockets.
Behind the lines, cannon, hidden,
lying back miles.
Before the line, chaos:
My mind is a corridor. The minds
about me are corridors.
Nothing suggests itself. There is
nothing to do but keep on'.
The Use of Artillery in the Great War
Artillery was very heavily used by both sides during the Great War. The British fired over 170 million artillery rounds of all types, weighing more than 5 million tons - that's an average of around 70 pounds (32 kilos) per shell.
If the 170m rounds were on average two feet long, and if they were laid end to end, they would stretch for 64,394 miles (103,632 kilometres); the line would go round the equator over two and a half times. If the artillery of the Central Powers of Germany and its allies is factored in, the figure can be doubled to 5 encirclements of the planet.
During the first two weeks of the Third Battle of Ypres, over 4 million rounds were fired at a cost of over £22,000,000 - a huge sum of money, especially over a century ago.
Artillery was the killer and maimer of the war of attrition.
According to Dennis Winter's book 'Death's Men' three quarters of battle casualties were caused by artillery rounds. According to John Keegan ('The Face of Battle') casualties were:
- Bayonets - less than 1%
- Bullets - 30%
- Artillery and Bombs - 70%
Keegan suggests however that the ratio changed during advances, when massed men walking line-abreast with little protection across no-man's land were no match for for rifles and fortified machine gun emplacements.
Many artillery shells fired during the Great War failed to explode. Drake Goodman provides the following information on Flickr:
"During World War I, an estimated one tonne of explosives was fired for every square metre of territory on the Western front. As many as one in every three shells fired did not detonate. In the Ypres Salient alone, an estimated 300 million projectiles that the British and the German forces fired at each other were "duds", and most of them have not been recovered."
To this day, large quantities of Great War matériel are discovered on a regular basis. Many shells from the Great War were left buried in the mud, and often come to the surface during ploughing and land development.
For example, on the Somme battlefields in 2009 there were 1,025 interventions, unearthing over 6,000 pieces of ammunition weighing 44 tons.
Artillery shells may or may not still be live with explosive or gas, so the bomb disposal squad, of the Civilian Security of the Somme, dispose of them.
A huge mine under the German lines did not explode during the battle of Messines in 1917. The mine, containing several tons of ammonal and gun cotton, was triggered by lightning in 1955, creating an enormous crater.
The precise location of a second mine which also did not explode is unknown. Searches for it are not planned, as they would be too expensive and dangerous. For more on this, please search for "Cotehele Chapel"
The Somme Times
From 'The Somme Times', Monday, 31 July, 1916:
'There was a young girl of the Somme,
Who sat on a number five bomb,
She thought 'twas a dud 'un,
But it went off sudden -
Her exit she made with aplomb!'
© Rankin's Heidilicious, published by teNeues, www.teneues.com, Photo © 2009 Rankin. All rights reserved.
The nice people at Fuse recently licensed 35 of my photographs from the BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend in Derry (Northern Ireland) for their gallery of the weekend.
A LOT more from this weekend will be up soon.
The Photograph is © Ollie Millington
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