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Among the many successful businesses in Eudunda was Wiesner and Company, timber and hardware merchant. Their impressive warehouse and store still remains in the town.
The Wiesner family started a blacksmith and foundry business in Eudunda in 1884 which eventually employed 50 people. In 1905 they sold that business and opened the iron mongers and furniture store in large two storey premises to which they added. It became the largest hardware and furniture store outside of Adelaide. It sold everything from pianos, china, glassware and silver cutlery to iron, nails, tools and timber and sewing machines.
Johannes Wiesner and his son Adolph ran the business until it was sold in 1951 but they had downsized it in 1945 when they sold part of the warehouse to the Masonic Lodge.
Interestingly Adolph married an English girl Mary Cranston and he became a Methodist and his grandson became a Methodist Minister. [Ref: A Future Unlived]
Eudunda is a quiet town in the Mid North of South Australia.
Notably it is an historic German settlement.
Eudunda came into existence as an important watering hole for cattle and horses which were being overlanded to South Australia from western Queensland in the late 19th century. Their destination was Kapunda, at that time effectively owned by Sir Sidney Kidman.
Eudunda was the birthplace of the educationalist and novelist Colin Thiele who achieved fame with his hugely successful books, Storm Boy, Blue Fin and Sun On The Stubble.
Thiele’s presence is evidenced by the silhouette of one of his characters, ‘Gustav” and his kelpie dog.
Double Shed pairing of 66099 and 66007 lead the Bescot to Toton engineers train on a bright autumnal day. A successful gardening session allowed for this wider shot, sadly the sun was off the front by their arrival.
Successful morning walk - pine, palm, and yellow-rumped warblers, tree swallows, bluebirds, redwing blackbirds, great blue heron, and yellow-bellied sapsuckers.
Pine Warbler is a lifer
Another successful plunge in the snow for a vole...
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People say it is a successful trip to the mountains if you can catch one day of good light during a week’s stay. That day came on Day 3 of our Glacier National Park boot camp with attendees Alan and Aaron.
After spending a seemingly interminable night mostly in the parking lot of Logan Pass due to night time road closures, we managed to get over an hour of sleep in our cabin before setting out to our sunrise location. Two hours before sunrise, the sky was mostly cloudy with a few small openings. The sunrise conditions were looking promising. Fast forward to thirty minutes prior to sunrise, the clouds moved swiftly and mostly cleared out of the area leaving behind crystal clear skies. Having been skunked the past two days, we were on the verge of getting demoralized watching the clouds evaporate before our eyes. However, sometimes, a little patience and faith are needed to capture the light.
Mother Nature gave us a glimmer of hope as the leading edge of a storm approached from the west. They seemed too distant to reach us by sunrise time. To our luck the clouds moved and they poured over the scene within 15 minutes. Just like that the scene went from being monotonous clear blue to dramatic and textured. Moments later, the sun rose above the clouds on the horizon and lit the scene with beautiful dynamic warm light. Though not the pinks and reds of fiery sunrises, I really enjoyed seeing the warm golden yellow light burst from the horizon and illuminating the mountains. Upon seeing this light, we were practically jumping with joy. Our excitement got the better of us until our encounter…
In the midst of all the shooting and being glued to the backs of our viewfinders, Aaron noticed something moving in the distance and all of a sudden yelled out “holy sh*t!” A young adult grizzly bear popped its head up from behind the tree trunks for a look. Realizing who we were, the bear was stunned and quickly galloped across the slope not 40 feet in front of us! Perhaps it was a bit too much action for so early in the morning.
Stay tuned for more to come.
PS – The grizzly bear head is visible in the background of the photo.
Canon 5D Mark II
EF 16-35mm f/2.8L II
I was trying to break out of my normal painting routines but did not really succeed. This is large, for me: 36 x 30.
For a number of years I've dropped by Hardy Falls in the Okanagan in the hopes of seeing an American Dipper. Finally, success! We got a brief, yet entertaining glimpse of this cool aquatic songbird. I hope to see it again someday!
'Successful is one who is in possession of a heart engaged in eternal remembrance of God and a spiritual guide who may see to him even from distances.' - His Divine Eminence RA Gohar Shahi
Engineers successfully fired a 2-foot-diameter, subscale solid rocket booster June 1, 2022, at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The test, conducted in Marshall’s East Test Area, produced 92,000 pounds of thrust and was done as part of the booster obsolescence and life extension (BOLE) program, providing an upgraded booster design for the evolved configuration of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for Artemis IX and beyond. The BOLE booster will be a larger and more powerful solid rocket motor to make the SLS rocket capable of sending heavier payloads to the Moon and beyond.
Image Credit: NASA/Samuel Lott
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This Benedictine Monastery and Abbey Church,
founded as early as 1018, reputedly by King Cnut,
served under Savignac and later Cistercian rule in medieval times.
It suffered the consequences of religious persecution in the 16th. Century, when the Dissolution of the Monasteries, by direction of King Henry VIII, saw it ransacked and ultimately demolished.
The site was bought by French Benedictine monks in the nineteenth century and dedicated to St. Mary. Not until 1907 did a re-build commence followed by consecration in 1932 and completion in 1938.
Prayer and worship is only one part of a monk’s daily life.
What always strikes me is how active they are in supporting their community and earning their keep.
Vegetables, honey, beeswax, pigs, cattle, wine, fudge, publications and many other products are sold near and far.
Monks built the building, help to maintain it,
designed stained-glass windows for new chapels,
farm the land, tend the gardens and benefit from the thousands of paying visitors that come to enjoy, this thriving, yet spiritually uplifting and inspirational place.
Indeed, healthy income enables continuous development.
For example a magnificent new pipe-organ, sourced from Italy, was successfully installed in 2017.
The vibrant, ongoing work of this highly committed
and faithful community is complemented by the incredible beauty of its setting.
Nestling as it does on the edge of Dartmoor,
in the exquisite Dart Valley, where it is, and what it does, evokes the peace, solace, tranquillity of the spirit of God, to his honour and glory.
A thousand years, 1018-2018 is only the beginning!
Another successful photoshoot with the stunning Jen Kingswood, we done an extra glam look, i love how it came out!
Jen's photostream:
A pair of common moorhens has hatched in a pond within sight of my office.
We saw initially only two chicken, which even disappeared somewhat. But last week was a surprise with six others suddenly appearing.
The parents are really taking care of their breed, if any bird comes close to them, they will attack it to get the intruder away.
I had seen this dress at the Boscov's in Butler Pa and fell in love with it but they didn't have it in my size. I tried ordering it at the Boscov's close to my home but they didn't have my size there either and couldn't order it from another store for me. I took a chance and drove to the Boscov's in Warren Ohio and amazingly they had it in my size. I'll be wearing it out Saturday and taking more pictures then.
A 1954 model Hindustan Car (petrol version), originally bought for Rs.18,000/- by then Charminar MLA - Mr.Ahmed Hussain. His third generation, Mr.Muqthar Hussain is proud to own this antique, excellent running vintage vehical now. Mr.Muqthar has modified minor interiors, repainted from its original black and converted to Diesel in early 2010.
Mr.Muqthar has successfully been running Pariwar Dhaba enroute to Airport for nearly 30 years.
This HDR picture was shot with 3 multi-exposures using LR3.2
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has successfully passed the center of curvature test, an important optical measurement of Webb’s fully assembled primary mirror prior to cryogenic testing, and the last test held at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, before the spacecraft is shipped to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for more testing.
After undergoing rigorous environmental tests simulating the stresses of its rocket launch, the Webb telescope team at Goddard analyzed the results from this critical optical test and compared it to the pre-test measurements. The team concluded that the mirrors passed the test with the optical system unscathed.
“The Webb telescope is about to embark on its next step in reaching the stars as it has successfully completed its integration and testing at Goddard. It has taken a tremendous team of talented individuals to get to this point from all across NASA, our industry and international partners, and academia,” said Bill Ochs, NASA’s Webb telescope project manager. “It is also a sad time as we say goodbye to the Webb Telescope at Goddard, but are excited to begin cryogenic testing at Johnson.”
Rocket launches create high levels of vibration and noise that rattle spacecraft and telescopes. At Goddard, engineers tested the Webb telescope in vibration and acoustics test facilities that simulate the launch environment to ensure that functionality is not impaired by the rigorous ride on a rocket into space.
Before and after these environmental tests took place, optical engineers set up an interferometer, the main device used to measure the shape of the Webb telescope’s mirror. An interferometer gets its name from the process of recording and measuring the ripple patterns that result when different beams of light mix and their waves combine or “interfere.”
Waves of visible light are less than a thousandth of a millimeter long and optics on the Webb telescope need to be shaped and aligned even more accurately than that to work correctly. Making measurements of the mirror shape and position by lasers prevents physical contact and damage (scratches to the mirror). So, scientists use wavelengths of light to make tiny measurements. By measuring light reflected off the optics using an interferometer, they are able to measure extremely small changes in shape or position that may occur after exposing the mirror to a simulated launch or temperatures that simulate the subfreezing environment of space.
During a test conducted by a team from Goddard, Ball Aerospace of Boulder, Colorado, and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, temperature and humidity conditions in the clean room were kept incredibly stable to minimize fluctuations in the sensitive optical measurements over time. Even so, tiny vibrations are ever-present in the clean room that cause jitter during measurements, so the interferometer is a “high-speed” one, taking 5,000 “frames” every second, which is a faster rate than the background vibrations themselves. This allows engineers to subtract out jitter and get good, clean results on any changes to the mirror's shape.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/Chris Gunn
Read more: go.nasa.gov/2oPqHwR
NASA’s Webb Telescope Completes Goddard Testing
I not really catty! I'm just acting that way! ...Successfully too, I might add! [Giggle!]
I still do have this "thing" about tight, shiny ensembles and this catsuit, corset & thigh boots combo looks and- even better- feels absolutely delicious!
Another pic from my 2011 archive!
I'm wearing a wet look silver lycra spandex front zip catsuit from milanoo[dot]com that I've matched up with my black lurex spandex opera gloves, and my black satin over bust corset both from wickedtemptations.com, and my black vinyl thigh high platform boots with the 5½" heels from electriqueboutique.com.
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This spotted feline is indeed a thrill to watch on the savannah plains of East Africa.
Having outpaced a Thompson's Gazelle with speeds close to 100 Km per hour, the Cheetah rests for a while catching it's breath before it starts feeding. It is never at ease close to it's kill, as being the smallest in size it normally looses the prey to Hyena's, Lions and Leopards.
Female Cheetah photographed on a kill in Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya.
This lovely bumble bee fell onto my sons arm in the garden yesterday and was obviously distressed probably because awaking from it's hibernation and not having food. I dissolved sugar with a little warm water and fed it.You can see it's proboscis taking up the syrup from the wall where I put him/her.After a good feed and 20 minutes warming up in the sunshine it was off! Mission accomplished!
NASA successfully launched a NASA Terrier-Improved Orion suborbital sounding rocket carrying student experiments with the RockOn/RockSat-C programs at 6 a.m., today
More than 200 middle school and university students and instructors participating in Rocket Week at Wallops were on hand to witness the launch.
Through RockOn and RockSat-C students are learning and applying skills required to develop experiments for suborbital rocket flight. In addition, middle school educators through the Wallops Rocket Academy for Teachers (WRATS) are learning about applying rocketry basics in their curriculum.
The payload flew to an altitude of 71.4 miles and descended by parachute into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Wallops. Payload recovery is in progress.
The next launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility is a Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket currently scheduled between 6 and 10 a.m., July 7.
For more information on NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, visit: www.nasa.gov/wallops
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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This osprey isn't "empty-handed", as the next images from this series will reveal, but a clue to the full story may be seen as a small brown object sticking forward behind the point of attachment of the leading primaries. I'll post the remaining images tomorrow. The Celery Fields, Sarasota, FL: 25 February, 2020
What would become the most successful transport aircraft in aviation history had rather humble beginnings in the rivalry between U.S. airlines in the early 1930s. At that time, saying that competition in the airline industry was fierce would've been quite an understatement.
As technology continued moving forward, airlines began switching to airliners with all-metal construction. These aircraft could fly higher, faster, and were much safer than their predecessors. The first successful of these new all-metal airliners was the Boeing 247D, but United Airlines had exclusive rights to the first production run. As a result, Transcontinental and Western Airlines (TWA) convinced Douglas Aircraft to build a rival aircraft, the Douglas DC-2. American Airlines, being left behind by United, TWA, and Pan American’s flying boats, needed something to capture the public’s attention, and the airline asked Douglas to build them a "Flying Pullman Railway Car" or, in other words, a revised version of the DC-2 to replace their fleet of Curtiss Condor II biplanes.
This new design would make minor changes to the wings and tail, have more powerful engines, and have ten sleeping berths for overnight flights. As many airlines, even United and TWA, were still using daytime-only flights, with passengers opting to travel overnight having to take the train, this would give American Airlines the edge—except for fueling stops; it could fly nonstop from coast to coast. At first, Douglas was reluctant to build the Douglas Sleeper Transport (DST) as they didn't see much money in it, but they went ahead with the order anyway.
After the DST’s first flight in December of 1935, Douglas considered that other airlines might be interested in a DST with the sleeping berths replaced by 21 passenger seats and marketed this as the DC-3. American ordered DC-3s as well, with revenue service beginning in June of 1936, and was quickly followed by other airlines; KLM in the Netherlands also bought DC-3s, intrigued by its range, and flew them from Amsterdam to Sydney, the longest route of any airline in the world when it began. Sales outstripped the Boeing 247D and other types rapidly as the DC-3’s reputation as a reliable, easy-to-fly, and long-ranged aircraft spread. The large numbers of DC-3s in service by the beginning of World War II had already revolutionized passenger travel, making it possible for anyone to fly commercially—a luxury open only to the wealthy and upper class before 1935.
Given the success of the DC-3 in the civilian market, it was inevitable that it would also find employment in the military field. With World War II underway, the USAAF realized it would need reliable transport, especially as the U.S. Army had begun forming paratrooper regiments. Time was of the essence, so the USAAF ordered DC-3s directly off the production line, adding a large cargo door, reinforcing the floor, and adding cargo hooks beneath the fuselage to carry extra equipment; these were designated C-47 Skytrains.
When the United States entered World War II, the production of civilian DC-3s halted, and Douglas went over to build C-47s—thousands of them. The type rapidly became the main workhorse of the Allied air forces, serving as general transports, paratroop carriers, medical evacuation aircraft, and even staff transports. The USAAF also took possession of ex-civilian airliners and converted them to C-47 standards. However, aircraft taken from different airlines were given different designations, leading to a bewildering 22 different versions of the basic C-47/DC-3 design. It was also extensively Lend-Leased: in British Commonwealth service, it gained the name Dakota (based on the acronym DACOTA, standing for Douglas Aircraft Company Transport Aircraft). It became virtually the only transport available to Commonwealth forces. C-47s were also Lend-Leased to the Soviet Union, who obtained a license to build their own as the Lisunov Li-2. (Ironically enough, before the war, Shōwa Aircraft of Japan had also received a license to build the DC-3 as the Shōwa/Nakajima L2D—making the DC-3 the principal transport of one of the Axis powers as well. This variant was given the Allied code name "Tabby" in WWII).
The C-47s would participate in nearly every theater of the war and were instrumental in such campaigns as Operation Torch, the invasion of Sicily, the Normandy invasion, the disastrous Operation Market Garden, and flying missions over the “Hump” of the Himalayas to supply China. When production of the C-47 ended, over 10,600 aircraft had been built, to which one could add nearly 5,000 Li-2s and up to 500 L2Ds.
While Douglas turned to larger airliners, thousands of DC-3s and C-47s were now surplus and quickly bought up by airlines worldwide. Before the war, these would continue the air transport revolution and serve as starter aircraft for new and well-established airlines. Nor did the C-47 leave military service: the USAF would continue to use the type well into the Vietnam War, and turboprop-modified C-47s still fly with USAF special operations units. Finding replacements for the C-47 was hard, and many aircraft companies tried with mixed success; only the C-130 Hercules came close in longevity and production numbers. DC-3s/C-47s continue in worldwide service, with even first-generation air forces still using it, to say nothing of airlines and smaller cargo operations. More than 400 DC-3/C-47s are still flying, and many are still in revenue service. Even over 80 years later, Douglas’ ubiquitous design seems to be immortal. However, this number continues to slowly dwindle due to expensive maintenance and a lack of spare parts.
This C-47A, BuNo 42-23668, was built in 1943. It flew with various units during World War II and may have seen European service. It was retired in 1946 but was reactivated in 1949 for Air National Guard service. It began with the 123rd Fighter Group (Tennessee ANG) at Louisville, KY, where it acted as a transport and support aircraft for the unit's F-51D Mustangs. After a year's stop with the 131st Composite Group (Missouri ANG) at St. Joseph, MO, 42-23668 made its way further north in 1951 and active duty, this time with the 179th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron (later 343rd FG) at Duluth, Minnesota. In 1971, it was assigned to the Air Force Logistics Command headquarters at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio; when 42-23668 was finally retired in 1974, it was one of the last remaining C-47s in USAF service and had been converted to a C-47D after retirement. In 1984, 42-23668 was placed on display at the Beale AFB Museum until 2001, when it was moved to the Yanks Air Museum and restored as a D-Day C-47 with invasion stripes.
Italian postcard by Rotalfoto, Milano, no. 490. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
Sophia Loren (1934) rose to fame in post-war Italy as a voluptuous sex goddess. Soon after, she became one of the most successful stars of the 20th Century, who won an Oscar for her mother role in La ciociara/Two Women (Vittorio De Sica, 1960).
Sophia Loren was born Sofia Villani Scicolone in the charity ward of a Roman hospital in 1934. She was the illegitimate daughter of construction engineer Riccardo Scicolone and piano teacher and aspiring actress Romilda Villani. Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry Romilda, leaving her without support. Romilda, Sofia, and sister Maria returned to Pozzuoli to live with Sofia's grandmother. Pozzuoli was a small town outside Naples and one of the hardest hit during World War II. The family shared a two-room apartment with the grandmother and several aunts and uncles. The shy, stick-thin girl regularly went hungry and had to flee from bombings. At 14, Sofia had a voluptuous figure and entered a beauty contest. She was selected as one of the finalists but did not win. In 1950, she was one of the contestants at the Miss Italia competition. She earned the 2nd place and was awarded ‘Miss Eleganza’. While attending the Miss Rome beauty contest, earlier in 1950, she had met judge Carlo Ponti, an up-and-coming film producer, 22 years her senior. Ponti had helped launch Gina Lollobrigida's career and now began grooming Sofia for stardom. He hired an acting coach to tutor her. At 16 she was in her first film, the Totó comedy Le Sei Mogli di Barbablù/Bluebeard’s Six Wives (Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, 1950) under the name Sofia Lazzaro. She also appeared as an extra in Luci del varietà/Lights of the Variety (Federico Fellini, 1950), the smash hit Anna (Alberto Lattuada, 1951) and Quo Vadis (Mervyn Leroy, 1951). During the early 1950s, she secured work modelling for fumetti magazines. These comic-like magazines used actual photographs. The dialogue bubbles were called 'fumetti' - hence the popular name. At 17, she was cast by Ponti in her first larger role as the commoner who caught the prince's eye in the filmed opera La Favorita/The Favorite (Cesare Barlacchi, 1952). The next year she earned third billing after Silvana Pampanini and Eleanora Rossi-Drago in La Tratta Delle Bianche/The White Slave Trade (Luigi Comencini, 1953) and she played, complete with blackface and an Afro, the lead in another filmed opera, Aida (Clemente Fracassi, 1953) by Giuseppe Verdi. Her singing was dubbed by Renata Tebaldi. Ponti eventually changed her name to Sophia Loren.
Sophia Loren appeared for the first time with Marcello Mastroianni in the romantic comedy Peccato che sia una canaglia/Too Bad She's Bad (Alessandro Blasetti, 1954). They would make 13 films together, including Tempi nostri/A Slice of Life (Alessandro Blasetti, Paul Paviot, 1954), La bella mugnaia/The Miller's Wife (Mario Camerini, 1955), and La fortuna di essere donna/What A Woman (Alessandro Blasetti, 1956). L'Oro di Napoli/Gold of Naples (Vittorio de Sica, 1954), an anthology of tales depicting various aspects of Neapolitan life, was distributed internationally. At AllMovie, Jason Ankeny writes that in reviews "Loren was singled out for the strength of her performance as a Neapolitan shopkeeper, surprising many critics who had dismissed her as merely another bombshell". The film established her persona as a sensuous working-class earth mother. It also began a fruitful, career-long collaboration with De Sica. Sophia’s first film to find international success was La Donna del Fiume/The River Girl (Mario Soldati, 1955), in which she danced sensually the Mambo Bacan. Hal Erickson at AllMovie: "Through it all, Sophia Loren looks like a million lire - and she even gets to sing and dance!". She came to the attention of Stanley Kramer who offered her the female lead in The Pride And The Passion (Stanley Kramer, 1957) opposite Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra. Sophia played a Spanish peasant girl involved in an uprising against the French. This was the turning point in her career, and the film proved to be one of the top US box office successes of the year. Her next English-language film was Boy on a Dolphin (Jean Negulesco, 1957) with Alan Ladd, where she was memorable mostly for emerging from the water in a wet, skin-tight, transparent dress. With her va-va-va-voom image, she became an international film star and got a five-picture contract with Paramount Pictures. Among her Paramount films were Desire Under the Elms (Delbert Mann, 1958) with Anthony Perkins and based upon the Eugene O'Neill play, Houseboat (Melville Shavelson, 1958), a romantic comedy co-starring Cary Grant, and the Western Heller in Pink Tights (George Cukor, 1960) in which she appeared for the first time with blonde hair (a wig). Most of these films were received lukewarmly at best.
In 1960 Sophia Loren returned to Italy to star in the biggest success of her career, La Ciociara/Two Women (Vittorio De Sica, 1960). She played a widow desperately trying to protect her daughter from danger during WW II, only to end up in a destructive love triangle with a young radical (Jean Paul Belmondo). Hal Erickson at AllMovie: "A last-minute replacement for Anna Magnani, Sophia Loren brought hitherto untapped depths of emotion to her performance in Two Women; she later stated that she was utilizing 'sensory recall,' dredging up memories of her own wartime experiences." Loren won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance, and also the Cannes, Venice ánd Berlin Film Festivals' best performance prizes. Next, she played in Spain Samuel Bronston's epic production of El Cid (Anthony Mann, 1961) with Charlton Heston, followed by the De Sica episode of the anthology Boccaccio '70 (Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, 1962). On the strength of her Oscar win, she also returned to English-language fare with Five Miles to Midnight (Anatole Litvak, 1963), followed a year later by The Fall of the Roman Empire (Anthony Mann, 1964), for which she received $1 million. Among Loren's other films of this period are The Millionairess (Anthony Asquith, 1960) with Peter Sellers, It Started in Naples (Melville Shavelson, 1960) with Clark Gable, Lady L (Peter Ustinov, 1965) with Paul Newman, Arabesque (Stanley Donen, 1966) with Gregory Peck, and Charlie Chaplin's final film, A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) with Marlon Brando. Despite the failure of many of her films to generate sales at the box office, she invariably turned in a charming performance and she wore some of the most lavish costumes ever created for the cinema. Her best Italian films include the triptych Ieri, oggi, domani/Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow (Vittorio De Sica, 1963), a comedy that poked fun at a Catholic priest and gently mocked the Italian law on birth control, and Matrimonio all' Italiana/Marriage Italian Style (Vittorio De Sica, 1964) with Loren as the hooker who lures Mastroianni into marriage.
After several miscarriages and a highly-publicized struggle to become pregnant, Sophia Loren gave birth to son Hubert Leoni Carlo Ponti in 1968. She started to work less and moved into her 40s and 50s with roles in films like De Sica's war drama I Girasoli/The Sunflowers (Vittorio De Sica, 1972), Il Viaggio/The Voyage (Vittorio De Sica, 1974) opposite Richard Burton, and reuniting with Marcello Mastroianni in the mob comedy La Pupa del Gangster/Get Rita (Giorgio Capitani, 1975). An artistic highlight was Una giornata particolare/A Special Day (Ettore Scola, 1977) which earned a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film. Loren played a bored housewife on the day of the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbour (Marcello Mastroianni). As the day segues into night, Loren and Mastroianni develop a very special relationship that will radically alter both of their outlooks on life. When a dubbed version of Una giornata particolare/A Special Day found favour with American audiences, Hollywood again came calling, resulting in a pair of thrillers, The Brass Target (John Hough, 1978) and Firepower (Michael Winner, 1979) which offered her a central role as a widow seeking answers in the murder of her chemist husband. In 1980, Loren portrayed herself, as well as her mother, in Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (Mel Stuart, 1980), a made-for-television biopic adaptation of her autobiography. Actresses Ritza Brown and Chiara Ferrari played Loren at younger ages. She made headlines in 1982 when she served an 18-day prison sentence in Italy on tax evasion charges, a fact that didn't damage her career or popularity. In her 60s, Loren ventured into various areas of business, including cookbooks, eyewear, jewelry, and perfume. In honour of her lengthy career, Loren was the recipient of a special Oscar in 1991. She also made well-received appearances in her final film with Mastroianni, Prêt-à-Porter/Ready to Wear (1994), Robert Altman's take on the French fashion scene, and in the comedy hit Grumpier Old Men (Howard Deutch, 1995) playing a femme fatale opposite Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. In 1995 she received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. At the age of 72, she appeared scantily-clad in the 2007 edition of the famous calendar of Italian racing tire giant Pirelli. It made her the oldest model in the calendar's history. The photos by Dutch photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin proved that she was still a major international sex symbol. In 2007 Carlo Ponti died. It had been controversial in her native Italy when Sophia Loren had married her mentor Ponti in 1957. Not only was he 45 to her 23, but he had been married previously, and neither the Catholic Church nor the Italian government recognised his Mexican divorce. Ponti was charged with bigamy, but the charges were dropped when they had their marriage annulled. They continued living together - scandalous at the time - and remarried after his legal problems had been cleared. Ponti and Loren made three dozen films together. They had two children, symphony conductor Carlo Ponti Jr. and film director Edoardo Ponti. After four years off the big screen, Sophia Loren co-starred in a film version of the Broadway musical Nine (Rob Marshall, 2009). She played the mother of famous film director Guido Contini, portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis. According to Jason Ankeny at AllMovie, "Loren proved she still had movie star charisma with a role in Chicago director Rob Marshall's Nine - a lavish tribute to all things Italian." Loren made a two-part television biopic of her early life titled La Mia Casa È Piena di Specchi/My House Is Full of Mirrors (Vittorio Sindoni, 2010), based on of the memoir written by her sister Maria Scicolone. At 80, Sophia Loren returned to the screen in Human Voice (2014) directed by her son Edoardo Ponti. At the presentation Tribeca Film Festival in New York, 'the timeless beauty' stunned the press once again when she walked on the red carpet in a chic red pantsuit hand-in-hand with her 41-year-old son to promote the short film. Human Voice is based on the play by iconic French playwright Jean Cocteau and sees La Loren play a woman in her twilight years facing revelations from her past. In late 2014, she also presented her first memoir, Ieri, oggi, domani. La mia vita/Today and Tomorrow: My Life as a Fairy Tale. It includes old pictures, letters, and notes detailing encounters with Cary Grant and other film partners. In 2020, La Loren returned to the screen as Madame Rosa in a new film adaptation of Romain Gary's 'La vie devant soi', La vita davanti a sé/The Life Ahead (Edoardo Ponti, 2020).
Sources: Jason Ankeny (AllMovie), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Shyam Dodge (Daily Mail), Jenny (IMDb), Wikipedia, NNDB, TCM, and IMDb.
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Calle de le Chioverete, an alleyway in Cannaregio one of the six sestieri of Venice in Veneto, Italy.
Cannaregio is the northernmost of the six historic sestieri (districts) of Venice. It is the second largest sestiere by land area and the largest by population, with 13,169 people as of 2007. Isola di San Michele, the historic cemetery island, is associated with the district.
The Cannaregio Canal, which was the main route into the city until the construction of a railway link to the mainland, gave the district its name (Canal Regio is Italian for Royal Canal). Development began in the eleventh century as the area was drained and parallel canals were dredged. Although elegant palazzos were built facing the Grand Canal, the area grew primarily with working class housing and manufacturing. Beginning in 1516, Jews were restricted to living in the Venetian Ghetto.
It was enclosed by guarded gates and no one could leave from sunset to dawn. However, Jews held successful positions in the city such as merchants, physicians, money lenders, and other trades. Restrictions on daily Jewish life continued for more than 270 years, until Napoleon Bonaparte conquered the Venetian Republic in 1797. He removed the gates and gave all residents the freedom to live where they chose.
In the 19th century, civil engineers built a street named Strada Nuova through Cannaregio, and a railway bridge and road bridge were constructed to connect Venice directly to Mestre. Today, the areas of the district along the Grand Canal from the train station to the Rialto Bridge are packed with tourists, but the rest of Cannaregio is residential and relatively peaceful, with morning markets, neighbourhood shops, and small cafés.
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After a successful launch on Feb. 15, six NASA science instruments and technology demonstrations continue their journey to the Moon aboard Intuitive Machines’ lander named Odysseus. The company confirmed communications contact with its mission operations control in Houston, and its lander continues to perform as expected.
Known as IM-1, Intuitive Machines successfully transmitted its first images back to Earth on Feb. 16. These were captured shortly after separation from SpaceX’s second stage, on Intuitive Machines’ first journey to the Moon as part of the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative and Artemis campaign.
All powered NASA science instruments on board the Intuitive Machines Odysseus lander have completed their transit checkouts, received data, and are operating as expected, including LN-1 (Lunar Node 1). LN-1 has made three successful passes with NASA’s Deep Space Network, establishing real-time communications with ground stations on Earth. The anticipated landing time is now 4:24 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 22.
This image is a view of Earth captured by a 186-degree wide field of view camera aboard Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar. The start of this image sequence occurred 100 seconds after separation and lasts for two hours.
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