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Suspended Animation Classic #880 First published November 6, 2005 (#45) (Dates are approximate)
Steve Ditko: Space Wars
By Mark Allen
Steve Ditko: Space Wars, published by Vanguard Productions, 144 pages, $16.95.
What’s better than planet-sized world-eating space-ships, an army of vengeful robots, a comic book artist’s story about alien invaders coming true, or an old man being picked up by aliens for an intergalactic party? Nothing! Or, at least very little. These and many more wonderful weavings of way-out wackiness can be found in the collection of stories entitled Steve Ditko: Space Wars.
Ditko, a long-time fan favorite in the comic book world, has always seemed to have a knack for originality, and Space Wars is a perfect example of that trait. Extremely talented, and with a singular style seen nowhere else, he seemed to have the ability to marry said style to any genre in the medium of comics. With the exception of his co-creation of Marvel’s Spider-Man character, however, his pencils melded no more seamlessly than with the wonderful world of science fiction.
Printed in black and white, Space Wars offers readers full appreciation of Ditko’s thick, bold lines, while taking nothing away from his unique vision when rendering space-shops and various gadgetry. Most appreciated by this reviewer, however, is the artist’s mastery over his characters. With a firm grasp on human anatomy, as well as an able portrayal of various expressions, Ditko enables the reader to believe in and sympathize with his characters. Whether it be the selfish scheming of a pair of lovers, the grim visage of a misguided scientist’s monstrous creation, or the unfettered joy of an alien race as they discover a way to feed their people, Ditko’s ability to engage the reader is definitely an asset.
And, as if all of the above weren’t enough to hook you, there’s NOTHING like a Ditko “twist” at the end of a story, with which this book abounds!
Steve Ditko: Space Wars is recommended to anyone who enjoys science fiction, or just a whoppin’ good yarn!
Find it at your local comics dealer, or online retailers, or auctions.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard published by G.J.
They state on the back of the card that it is guaranteed to be a real photograph.
Scarborough
Scarborough is a town on the North Sea coast of North Yorkshire. The town lies between 10–230 feet (3–70 m) above sea level, rising steeply northward and westward from the harbour on to limestone cliffs. The older part of the town lies around the harbour, and is protected by a rocky headland.
With a population of just over 61,000, Scarborough is the largest holiday resort on the Yorkshire coast. The town has fishing and service industries, including a growing digital and creative economy, as well as being a tourist destination. People who live in the town are known as Scarborians.
The Development of Scarborough as a Resort
In 1626, Mrs Thomasin Farrer discovered a stream of acidic water running from one of the cliffs to the south of the town. This gave birth to Scarborough Spa, and Dr. Robert Wittie's book about the spa waters published in 1660 attracted a flood of visitors to the town.
Scarborough Spa became Britain's first seaside resort, though the first rolling bathing machines were not noted on the sands until 1735. It was a popular getaway destination for the wealthy of London.
The coming of the Scarborough-York railway in 1845 increased the tide of visitors. Scarborough railway station claims to have the world's longest platform seat. From the 1880's until the First World War, Scarborough was one of the regular destinations for The Bass Excursions, when fifteen trains would take between 8,000 and 9,000 employees of Bass's Burton brewery on an annual trip to the seaside.
The Grand Hotel
When the Grand Hotel was completed in 1867 it was one of the largest hotels in the world, and one of the first giant purpose-built hotels in Europe.
Four towers represent the seasons, 12 floors represent the months, 52 chimneys represent the weeks, and originally 365 bedrooms represented the days of the year. A blue plaque outside marks where the novelist Anne Brontë died in 1849. She was buried in the graveyard of St. Mary's Church by the castle.
Maritime Events Associated With Scarborough
During the Great War, the town was bombarded by German warships. Scarborough Pier Lighthouse, built in 1806, was damaged in the attack.
In 1929 the steam drifter Ascendent caught a 560-pound (250 kg) tunny (Atlantic bluefin tuna), and a Scarborough showman awarded the crew 50 shillings so he could exhibit it as a tourist attraction.
Big-game tunny fishing off Scarborough effectively started in 1930 when Lawrie Mitchell-Henry landed a tunny caught on rod and line weighing 560 pounds (250 kg).
A gentlemen's club, the British Tunny Club, was founded in 1933, and set up its headquarters in the town at the place which is now a restaurant with the same name.
Sir Edward Peel landed a world-record tunny of 798 pounds (362 kg), capturing the record by 40 pounds (18.1 kg) from one caught off Nova Scotia by American champion Zane Grey. The British record, which still stands, is for a fish weighing 851 pounds (386 kg) caught off Scarborough in 1933 by Lawrie Mitchell-Henry.
On the 5th. June 1993 Scarborough made headlines around the world when a landslip caused part of the Holbeck Hall Hotel, along with its gardens, to fall into the sea.
Although the slip was shored up with rocks and the land has long since grassed over, evidence of the cliff's collapse remains clearly visible from The Esplanade, near Shuttleworth Gardens.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle 22 Aug 1916 p12.
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 and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale published by A. Richard, 84 Faub. du Temple, Paris, and printed by Edia of Versailles.
By 1916 the Basilica had sustained immense structural damage, along with the loss of its entire roof.
To see the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Brebières before it was destroyed during the Great War, please search for the tag 56ALB66
'From Albert to Bapaume'
'From Albert to Bapaume' by Alec Waugh:
'Lonely and bare and desolate,
Stretches of muddy filtered green,
A silence half articulate
Of all that those dumb eyes have seen.
A bettered trench, a tree with boughs
Smutted and black with smoke and fire,
A solitary ruined house,
A crumpled mass of rusty wire.
And scarlet by each ragged fen
Long scattered ranks of poppies lay,
As though the blood of the dead men
Had not been wholly washed away'.
The Golden Virgin
During the Great War, the statue of Mary and the infant Jesus on top of the Basilica, dubbed by British Troops as the 'Golden Virgin', was hit by a shell on the 15th. January 1915.
The shell led to the statue hanging just below the horizontal, and in danger of falling. The Germans said that whoever made the statue fall would lose the war.
The statue became very familiar to the thousands of British soldiers who fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, many of whom passed through Albert, which at the time was situated 3 miles from the front lines.
The German Army recaptured the town in March 1918 and the British, in order to prevent the Germans from using the tower as an observation post, also bombarded the Basilica. The statue fell in April 1918, and was never recovered.
'The Virgin of Albert'
George Herbert Clarke (1873-1953) wrote a poem about the statue entitled 'The Virgin of Albert'.
Here it is:
'Shyly expectant, gazing up at Her,
They linger, Gaul and Briton, side by side:
Death they know well, for daily have they died,
Spending their boyhood ever bravelier;
They wait: here is no priest or chorister,
Birds skirt the stricken tower, terrified;
Desolate, empty, is the Eastertide,
Yet still they wait, watching the Babe and Her.
Broken, the Mother stoops: the brutish foe
Hurled with dull hate his bolts, and down She swayed,
Down, till She saw the toiling swarms below, -
Platoons, guns, transports, endlessly arrayed:
"Women are woe for them! let Me be theirs,
And comfort them, and hearken all their prayers!"'
Visa Paris 568
Note the reference to 'Visa Paris 568'. This is incorrectly spelt - it should read 'Visé Paris 568'.
'Visé Paris' followed by a unique reference number means that the image was inspected and deemed by the military authorities in the French capital not to be a security risk.
'Visé Paris' indicates that the card was published during or soon after the Great War.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle 21 Aug 1916 p12.
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 and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
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Arcane Roots are a three-piece Alternative Rock band from Kingston Upon Thames, England. Founded by guitarist & vocalist Andrew Groves and drummer Daryl Atkins, the band are known for their energetic and passionate live shows and incorporating progressive music, math rock and Indie Rock into a popular song format. Their debut mini-album "Left Fire" was released in February 2011 and received strong reviews from both the press and their peers alike. The band completed their first UK Headline tour in June 2011 and ended the summer with slots at Sonisphere and Heavy Festival. Arcane Roots were asked to cover "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana for Kerrang! Magazine's Nevermind Forever Cover CD, in which they were the only unsigned band. Arcane Roots completed work on their first full length debut album 'Blood & Chemistry' in January 2013.
Andrew Groves (@AndrewRoots)
Adam Burton (@RootsBurton)
Daryl Atkins (@gunsandwolves)
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L'artista statunitense in concerto all'Ippodromo del Galoppo
Scrittore, musicista, arrangiatore dallo stile elegante e sofisticato. John Legend è sicuramente uno dei più talentuosi e sensibili cantautori black. Con il suo talento è in grado di fondere il sentimento della vecchia scuola del soul con i ritmi hip hop ed il moderno r&b. Dopo la collaborazione con Tiziano Ferro per il brano Karma e l'esperienza televisiva nelle vesti di giudice per il talent show della ABC Duets, Legend approda a Milano per una data del suo concerto.
John Legend è un artista vincitore di 9 Grammy Awards, un live performer acclamato dalla critica, un filantropo e attivista sociale ed è stato inserito da Time magazine tra le 100 persone più influenti del mondo. L'album d'esordio di Legend "Get Lifted" (2004) ha venduto più di 3 milioni di copie in tutto il mondo ha guadagnato ben 8 nominations ai Grammy con 3 vittorie nelle categorie "Best New Artist", "Best Male R&B Vocal Performance" e "Best R&B Album".
A postcard published by Heiss & Co., Graph. Kunstanstalt Coln-Lindenthal.
The card was posted on Wednesday the 23rd. July 1919 to:
Mrs. Couchman,
69, Montfort Road,
Strood,
Kent,
England.
The back of the card bears a rectangular blue censor's stamp numbered 1804. The censor has also signed the card.
The pencilled message on the back of the card was as follows:
"Rhine Army.
Hope you are alright -
haven't heard since
Saturday".
There have been two formations named British Army of the Rhine (BAOR). Both were originally occupation forces in Germany, one after the First World War, and the other after the Second World War.
The first British Army of the Rhine was set up in March 1919 to implement the occupation of the Rhineland. It originally comprised five corps, composed of two divisions each, plus a cavalry division.
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Not a lot, but two days earlier, on Monday the 21st. July 1919, there was an air accident in Chicago.
The Wingfoot Air Express was a dirigible that crashed into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago. The Type FD dirigible, owned by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, was transporting people from Grant Park to the White City amusement park.
One crew member, two passengers, and ten bank employees were killed in what was, up to that point, the worst dirigible disaster in United States history.
The craft caught fire at about 4:55pm while cruising at an altitude of 1,200 ft (370 m) over the Chicago Loop. When it became clear the dirigible was lost, the pilot, Jack Boettner, and chief mechanic, Harry Wacker, used parachutes to jump to safety. (I'm all right, Jack!)
A second mechanic, Henry Weaver, died when his parachute caught fire. Another passenger, Earl H. Davenport, a publicity agent for the White City Amusement Park, jumped from the dirigible, but his parachute got tangled in the rigging and he hung fifty feet below the burning craft; he was killed when the airship crashed.
A fifth person who parachuted from the dirigible, Chicago Daily News photographer Milton Norton, broke both legs and later died in hospital.
At the Illinois Trust & Savings Bank building at the northeast corner of LaSalle Street and Jackson Boulevard, 150 employees were closing up after the day's business in and around the main banking hall, which was illuminated by a large skylight.
The remains of the Wingfoot struck the bank's skylight directly, and flaming debris fell through to the banking hall below. The result was that ten employees were killed, and 27 banking staff were injured.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 18th of July 1916.
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 and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
We hope you enjoy looking through our collection, you are welcome to download and share our images for your own personal use, as they are to our knowledge, in the public domain. If you would like to use the images for commercial purposes, please contact us and we can provide a High Quality Digital Image for a fee. If you are able to use the Low Resolution Image from the website please do, but we would appreciate a credit: Image from the Newcastle City Library Photographic Collection, Thank you.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle 29 Aug 1916 p12.
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 and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
I was contacted recently and asked if I would sell a couple of my images so that they could be used in a magazine. I agreed, the magazine arrived in the post today. Both images were used, and one was used as a backdrop for a 2 page spread.
It's in "Paranormal" magazine, issue 27, September 2008.
I'm feeling quite chuffed :-)
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In apertura al concerto di Young The Giant ai Magazzini Generali di Milano, Jack Jaselli con la sua chitarra acustica, cantante, chitarrista e autore nato a Milano e cresciuto girando il mondo. Nei suoi viaggi e spostamenti ha svolto i lavori più disparati, dal volontario in un centro di biologia marina al riparatore di resistenze. Ha lavorato come speaker per una radio nazionale e ottenuto una laurea con lode in filosofia. La sua carriera musicale è un caso unico in Italia e rappresenta una nuova realtà di concreta indipendenza. Senza l’appoggio di alcuna casa discografica, management o agenzia di booking, Jack ha registrato il suo primo disco “It's Gonna Be Rude, Funky, Hard” in una cantina, promuovendolo dal vivo con più di 80 date l’anno ed entrando con ben tre singoli nella classifica “Ear One” dei brani più trasmessi dalle radio.
Anche all’estero, dove Jack spesso si esibisce, da solo o con la sua band, l’entusiasmo è reale, tanto che l’artista Peter Harper ha scelto il suo brano “The House In Bali” come colonna sonora ufficiale del suo sito. Jack ha suonato al fianco di numerosi artisti (Ben Harper, Gavin Degraw, Fink, Lewis Floyd Henry, The Heavy, Giusy Ferreri, Alberto Camerini per citarne alcuni) calcando al contempo i palchi storici della musica indipendente italiana. Da sempre interessato alle contaminazioni con la musica elettronica, Jack ha collaborato con artisti e produttori come Dj Aladyn e Pink Is Punk. Dal vivo Jack è accompagnato dai The Vibes, una band e una famiglia formata da Nik Taccori, Fabrizio Friggione, Max Elli e Paolo Legramandi. “I Need The Sea Beacuse It Teaches Me” è l’EP acustico da cui è tratta “I’ll Call You”, registrato in trio in una grotta sul Mar Ligure da Jack, Max Elli e Nik Taccori e prodotto dallo stesso Max Elli.
A postcard published by H.P. Co. Ltd. bearing an early image of Westminster Abbey.
Although it is postally unused, the card has the following message on the back::
"19 Oct. 32
Dear Mums,
This is a lovely place too - in
Westminster Abbey one walks
on tombs all the time.
The Unknown Warrior is buried
here. Very sweet words on the
stone.
Love Agnes"
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey is a world-famous Gothic church in London that has served as the coronation site for British monarchs since 1066, and is the final resting place for 17 kings and queens.
Officially known as the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, it is a "Royal Peculiar," meaning that it is governed directly by the British Crown rather than a church diocese.
Key Highlights of the Abbey
-- Royal Milestones: The Abbey has hosted 40 coronations (most recently King Charles III in 2023), and at least 16 royal weddings, including Prince William and Catherine Middleton in 2011.
-- Poets' Corner: The South Transept houses the burials and memorials of legendary writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dickens, and Rudyard Kipling.
-- Scientists' Corner: Towering intellectual figures are interred here, including Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Stephen Hawking.
-- The Coronation Chair: One of the oldest remaining pieces of English furniture, used in coronation ceremonies since the 14th. century.
-- Visitor Information: To visit the Abbey for sightseeing, purchasing a timed ticket online in advance is recommended to avoid extensive ticket office lines. A standard adult ticket (2026) costs £31. In the 1960's an adult ticket cost 2/6d. (12½ pence). How's that for inflation?
Lürzer's Archive Specials publish outstanding work from those areas of graphic design in which nascent trends first see the light of day: advertising photography, illustration, music, packaging, and catalogs and brochures. Indeed, the fields of Packaging Design, Advertising Photography and Illustration each now stage their very own sector competition, the results of which are published in the volumes titled 200 Best Packaging Design, 200 Best Ad Photographers and 200 Best Illustrators.
Lürzer's Archive Special presenting the new title 200 Best Illustrators 2011/12!
In our latest Archive Special, we showcase the work of 200 of the world's best illustrators in a volume numbering 320 pages.
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Vincitore di 5 Grammy Awards e di 3 Latin Grammy, ritorna al Blue Note uno dei più grandi pianisti del jazz cubano: il bandleader, compositore e arrangiatore Chucho Valdés (all'anagrafe Dionisio Jesús “Chucho” Valdés Rodriguez).
La storia di “Chucho” è intrisa di musica fin dalla nascita, nasce nella provincia di Quivicàn a L’Avana nel 1941, figlio di Bebo Valdés, famoso pianista e compositore cubano. A 15 anni Chucho aveva già fondato il suo primo trio jazz e nel frattempo si esibiva con L'Orchestra sabor de Cuba, diretta dal padre. Poco dopo, era il 1963, arriva il suo primo album, Chucho Valdés y su Combo, un nuovo impulso alla musica popolare cubana. Il resto è storia. Esibizioni in più di cinquanta Paesi, in sale importanti come la Carnegie Hall, il Blue Note di New York e il Teatre Colon di Buenos Aires, da solo o con gli Ikarere, sua band vincitrice di Grammy Awards. Gli Irakere comprendevano star come il trombettista Arturo Sandoval e il sassofonista Paquito D’Rivera.
Con il suo mix unico di jazz, rock, funk, classica e ritmi tradizionali cubani, Valdés ha formato gruppi, inciso dischi in modo costante e collaborato con alcuni dei più importanti musicisti portoricani, statunitensi e cubani, ottenendo premi e risocnoscimenti.
Border-Free, è il titolo del suo nuovo album con gli Afro-Cuban Messengers, ma potrebbe essere anche la giusta descrizione del suo modo di fare musica, o una sua dichiarazione di principi.
Esplosivo come una raffica di fuochi d’artificio, è un concerto da non perdere!
Dionisio Jesús “Chucho” Valdés Rodriguez pianoforte
Rodney Illarza Barreto batteria
Angel Gastón Joya Perrellada bass
Yaroldy Abreu Robles percussioni
Dreiser Durruthy Bombalé percussioni e voce
My photo feature ( 24-02-2012) published at a National English newspaper's weekly magazine "
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Pelicans are large water birds with a distinctive pouch under the beak. As with other members of the order Pelecaniformes, they have webbed feet with four toes. There are 8 species worldwide and only 1 species which occurs in Bangladesh.
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Il loro “Say Goodnight To The Bad Guys tour”, dal titolo esplicativo, porterà i fratelli Robinson a Vigevano per un’unica, esclusiva data italiana. I Black Crowes, assenti dall'Italia da circa 10 anni, ritornano il 7 Luglio per un'unica data in esclusiva a Vigevano.
I Black Crowes, "la rock band più rock & roll del mondo" secondo la rivista Melody Maker, hanno venduto oltre quindici milioni di copie e ottenuto un vasto consenso dalla critica. Nati nel 1984 in Georgia intorno al nucleo composto dai fratelli Chris e Rich Robinson (rispettivamente cantante e chitarrista) debuttano in maniera deflagrante nel 1990 con "Shake Your Money Maker", album di rock'n'roll ruvido e genuino. Diventano una delle band di riferimento delle charts americane e in quindici anni pubblicano cinque album di grande successo.
Published in the Western Producer - March 15, 2012
LONG LINEUPS AT THE TERMINAL
A Pioneer terminal at Mollard, Man., appears busy as rail cars line up on each side for unloading.
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James Hugh Calum Laurie è un attore, scrittore, musicista, doppiatore e regista britannico, noto soprattutto per il ruolo del dottor Gregory House, protagonista della serie Dr. House - Medical Division: ma Hugh Laurie, oltre che un apprezzato attore, è anche un pianista di talento e un sincero appassionato del blues in tutte le sue declinazioni. All’Auditorium di Milano si esibisce con la sua Copper Bottom Band.
Dopo il grande successo del suo album di debutto “Let Them Talk” del 2011, nel quale omaggiava e rivisitava brani tratti dal repertorio classico del blues di New Orleans, Hugh Laurie ha pubblicato nel 2013 il suo secondo album “Didn’t It Rain”, uscito per la Warner Music Entertainment.
“Didn’t It Rain” vede Hugh Laurie seguire la traiettoria della musica blues risalendo fino al cuore dell’America. Il disco comprende canzoni che risalgono ai primi pionieri del genere come W.C. Handy (“St Louis. Blues”) e Jelly Roll Morton (“I Hate A Man Like You”), fino ad artisti più recenti come Dr. John (“Wild Honey”) ed Alan Price dei The Animals (“Changes”).
Prodotto da Joe Henry e registrato all’Ocean Way Studio di Los Angeles, “Didn’t It Rain” è arricchito dal talento dei musicisti che hanno accompagnato Hugh Laurie, The Copper Bottom Band. L’album vede al suo interno anche molte performance vocali di ospiti: tra questi, il cantante del Guatemala Gaby Moreno e l’interprete soul Jean McClain. Il disco è anche impreziosito dalla presenza di un nome davvero speciale, quello dello storico bluesman vincitore di un Grammy award Taj Mahal, che presta la voce a una nuova versione di “Vicksburg Blues” di Little Brother Montgomery.
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale published by Cie Alsacienne des Arts Photomécaniques of Strasbourg.
The Hôtel des Anglais
The excellent website scarletfinders.co.uk tells us that in the first winter of the Great War, the Duchess of Westminster's Hospital, afterwards No. 1 Red Cross, was opened at the Casino in Le Touquet.
A pressing need arose for the housing of wives and close relatives who were allowed to visit wounded men at the hospital. Accordingly the British Red Cross Society opened the Hôtel des Anglais in October 1915 as a Red Cross hostel.
The hostel was well situated, being within 3 minutes' walk of the hospital. It had two wings connected by long dining rooms, with a shady garden on the edge of the Forest of Le Touquet.
The Hôtel des Anglais was the first hostel to receive relatives, and it acted as a pioneer for further hostels. It remained open for three years until August 1918.
The guests, who were not required to pay for their stay, were very diverse - wealthy people, village shopkeepers, labourers and their wives, suffered together, feared together, hoped together, and helped each other.
None needed help more than the wives and mothers and fathers racked by fear and anxiety, prolonged in many cases from week to week, and sometimes for months.
For much more fascinating information about the hotel's rôle in the Great War, please refer to scarletfinders.co.uk
Le Touquet
Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, commonly referred to as Le Touquet, is a commune near Etaples, in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It has a population of 5,355 but welcomes up to 250,000 people during the summer.
Le Touquet has a reputation as the most elegant holiday resort of northern France, the playground of rich Parisians (hence its full name), with many luxury hotels.
Since the mid-1990's, Le Touquet’s villas have become extremely fashionable amongst architecture lovers throughout Europe who have rediscovered the 'folie' of seaside architecture of both the Roaring Twenties and the 1930's.
Town Trails
Today the town tourist office offers organised trails to see outstanding examples of 19th and 20th century domestic architecture, which are now preserved and protected.
Le Touquet's Early Years
In the 19th. century it was an area of wild sand dunes and forest - part of a hunting estate.
In 1902 Allen Stoneham and John Whitley bought the land through their company Le Touquet Syndicate Ltd., and were instrumental in developing the town into a golf and gambling resort.
It became known as “Paris by the Sea”, and strict building regulations encouraged the most talented architects to create imaginative and innovative developments. The most famous local architect is Louis Quetelart.
The Great War
During most of World War I, Le Touquet was the home of the Duchess of Westminster's (No 1 British Red Cross Society) Hospital for wounded British troops.
The No. 2 Canadian Stationary Hospital had the distinction of being the first Canadian Unit to land on French soil. No. 2 Stationary opened at the Hotel du Golf at Le Touquet on November 27, 1914.
All the 142 British Commonwealth war graves in Le Touquet's Communal Cemetery are from the hospitals. In the same cemetery a wooden obelisk was erected by the commune's lifeboatmen in honour of the British.
H. G. Wells
In 1909, H. G. Wells and Amber Reeves fled to Le Touquet in an abortive elopement. The two returned to Britain after a number of weeks, though Amber later gave birth to Wells's daughter, Anna-Jane Blanco White, after the relationship ended.
Noël Coward
In the 1920's, Noël Coward and the 'smart set' from England spent weekends here, and commissioned more outstanding villa designs echoing traditional and ultra-modern domestic styles.
P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse lived in Le Touquet from 1934 to 1939.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 13th of August 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 and have any stories and information to add 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.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle 22 Aug 1916 p11.
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 and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
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so PLEASE indicate at request how many ROOMS (+ ADULTS and CHILDREN) and if like the airport transfers and eventual car+driver days so we can make the CORRECT BEST OFFER
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As popular Bali holiday rental the Villa offers a serene clean and cozy, spacious colorful place for relax and chill out and gives your family & friends the perfect "home away from home" feeling. Strategically located in the traditional village Umalas, overlooking the Bumbak rice-fields and bordering the water irrigation system (subak) plus offering distant ocean view and fully sunset orientated
Located just between Seminyak Petitenget Legian & Canggu Brawa EchoBeach in a still quiet area with around some villas but also close to the local banjar & temple, fresh air and open view and away from the most time bad traffic and pollution and the 3-4m high walls in Seminyak, yet close enough to beaches and all necessary touristic places thanks to our cheap CAR+DRIVER option. (we can make a package with accommodation and a certain days of car+driver included up to 12h & airport transfers, so very easy and relaxed)
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We offer cheaper than most “trendy and 5 star” villas but still offer fully staffed & serviced with the famous “Balinese hospitality”, so very worth giving our place the change to offer you a WONDERFUL HOLIDAY with BEST PRICE-QUALITY
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!!! Talk to us and we will try matching other offers you might have already to be sure having you as our satisfied guests!!!
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OPTIONS we offer:
>> daily transport or for daytrips. Car+driver option 8 or 12h. APV= 5-7pers or ELF= 11-18pers
>> chef for lunch and/or dinner, babysitting, pool fence in bamboo, extra massage, motorbike rental, ..
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Un concerto che spazia dal soul al blues, con tocchi rock e reggae. Nina Zilli arriva al Festival di Villa Arconati, il 18 luglio, con la raffinatezza che la contraddistingue e tante canzoni tratte dal nuovo album, Frasi & Fumo, percorso dai ritmi più disparati, ispirati tanto al soul quanto al jazz, e con l'influenza dei modelli di Etta James e Nina Simone.
Accanto ai successi passati, come l'indimenticabile 50mila con Giuliano Palma e Uno di qui giorni con J-Ax, Nina Zilli presenta le ultimissime creazioni e incanta il pubblico con un mix coinvolgente di stili diversi e la sua inconfondibile voce.
Cantante, e donna di spettacolo a tutto tondo, è protagonista anche in radio e tv: nel 2011 conduce il programma Stay Soul su Rai Radio Due, mentre in tv, dopo alcune esperienze come vee-jay, è co-conduttruice nello show Panariello non esiste su Canale 5, presenta la prima edizione degli MTV Hip Hop Awards su MTV, e da marzo 2015 sarà su SKY Unonella giuria di Italia's Got Talent insieme a Luciana Littizzetto, Claudio Bisio, Frank Matano.
Sul palco sarà accompagnata dalla Smoke Orchestra: Riccardo Gibertini alla tromba, Gian Luca Pelosi al basso, Heggy Vezzano alla chitarra, Nicola Roccamo alla batteria, Marco Zaghi al sax e flauto traverso e Angelo Cattoni al piano e tastiera. Inoltre ci sarà Gabriele Montanari al violoncello.
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale published by Lévy Fils et Cie of Paris.
German gunners used to target churches and cathedrals in France and Belgium, partly out of boredom, partly to practise their skills, but mainly because the height of such ecclesiastical buildings made them ideal observation posts for the Allies.
These buildings, along with châteaux and other large secular edifices, were literally sitting targets - they couldn't be moved or made smaller or camouflaged, hence the appalling damage that many of these beautiful buildings sustained from enemy artillery - they just had to sit there and take it.
Visé Paris no. 656
The card would have been published during or soon after the end of the Great War, because the reference to 'Visé Paris no. 656' indicates that the military authorities in the French capital had deemed that the image did not present a security risk.
Soissons
Soissons is one of the oldest towns in Northern France. During most of the Great War the town was behind the Franco-British lines, and was heavily bombarded before being captured by the Germans in May 1918.
tamu.edu have posted a review of a book called "Soissons, 1918" by D.V. Johnson II and R.L. Hillman Jr.
In the review they state:
"It is the last 5% of possible exertion that often wins the battle". Brigadier Gen. Hanson Ely's statement best exemplifies the efforts of his troops as part of the allied contingent at the Battle of Soissons, July 18-22, 1918.
At a cost of more than 12,000 soldiers and marines dead, wounded and missing, American troops struck the Germans with such force that they lost the initiative for the remainder of the war.
'Soissons, 1918' provides a detailed account of this pivotal battle in which partly trained, inexperienced American soldiers and marines turned the tide of war.
Despite strange French command methods, alien equipment (such as masses of tanks), immature American staff work, and difficulties in communicating with advancing troops, American enthusiasm and willingness to 'finish the job' briefly shattered German defences, caused panic, and ultimately unhinged the Germans' carefully prepared strategic plans".
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!'