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26/12/13 - Boxing Day family fun
A visit to Al's sister and family near Sheffield today. Lovely foggy views along the Snake Pass and minus 1 degrees.
Spent a happy hour playing Good King Wenseslas on the Garage Band piano on iPads with one of the nieces - we were rubbish. Al's sister did a magic show with Marvin the rabbit - she was rubbish... and we all played Cluedo. I was clueless - years since I'd played but gave me a prop for my T3.
Mrs Peacock did it in the Library with the candlestick if you're wondering!
"A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog."
© Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Hound of the Baskervilles"
Beware of the Black Dog! As for crime stories, I'm more of a fan of Dame Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, but "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is my favorite story about him, and one of my favourite detective stories. It wasn't just a mystery of "whodunnit?", no! It was a mystery of supernatural creature, family curse and foggy moorland...
The legend of the hound that haunted the House of Baskervilles is quite horrible, not because of the demonic dog (it was actually kind of an avenger, it killed the bad guy and probably dragged him to hell), but because Hugo Baskerville and his friends kidnapped a young maiden. The dog was not a villain in the story, the only evil was the man. There are a lot of different folk stories about ghostly black dogs in the UK, and the one that inspired Conan Doyle is about evil squire, who enjoyed hunting and, according to rumors, murdered his wife, and after his death the villagers claimed to see his ghost leading the pack of phantom hounds across the moor.
But I've searched on Wikipedia and I found another tale linked to Black Shuck (the dog from East Anglia folklore, not the dogs from Devon, which is South West), in which a huge black dog rescued local girl from a lustful friar, killed him, but died in the struggle too. The locals buried the dog with honour, and it haunted the area. It's a different story from a different part of the country, but it has something in common with the legend in the book. So there are also stories about good black dogs, and being black with glowing muzzle doesn't make someone bad. :)
Thank you to Mulewings~ who gave an advice on how to make a fog. Mine doesn't look so good because I had to place it between the dog and the hills to avoid getting my stickers wet. I hope it does look like Dartmoor in the night, I've searched a lot of pictures, it looks beautiful. :)
A piece of art on display next to the cafeteria in the Blue Fin Building. Unfortunately, it was not accompanied by any information on whodunnit ...
1. Cow, 2. Build it and they will come, 3. No. 1 Bestseller, 4. Wet wet wet, 5. Tyson, 6. flickr.com/photos/137379197@N08/26887094073/, 7. Skygate stroll, 8. Oxford Grove, Mitchelton, 9. Through the back fence, 10. Shadows, 11. Lanita rail trail, 12. Grey day, 13. Knit one, purl two, knit tree, 14. Blue, 15. Sleeping soundly, 16. Ice, 17. Double Bass, 18. Boondall Wetlands, 19. Sunday evening rain, 20. After the rain, 21. Alyssum, 22. Light show, 23. Happy days at Maccas, 24. Afternoon sun, 25. Whodunnits, 26. Bargain hunting, 27. Untitled, 28. Rugged up, 29. Sunny nasturtium, 30. Bird on a wire
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"What's your favorite scary movie?"
Next to the original Halloween, Scream is probably my favorite slasher movie while Scream 2 and 4 aren't too bad either as sequels go. I love the self-aware whodunnit.
I've wanted a figure like this in 1/6 for ages but the costume rights are tangled mess of red tape that would rival the Blade Runner liscense. This one is a custom I haven't shown off on Flickr yet. The mask is sculpted/painted by me and the robe outfit is done by Deniz at D-Art Studios. Truly awesome craftsmanship I might add.
talk with Dexter bull calf....WhoDunnit.
Part of the story I am creating for the 7th in a series with Morris's Toys.
A new adventure. Photographing living animals reactions to stuffed animals is always hilarious.
Commentary.
These two cottages have become iconic, National Treasures, almost legendary.
The one on the left was “Tom’s Cottage” in the superb
film, “Goodnight, Mr.Tom,” that chronicles the experiences
of a young boy, William Beech, when he is evacuated from London to Weirwold, in the country, and billeted to stay with
the apparently irascible widower, Tom Oakley during World War Two.
Both have had difficulties in their lives and the story explores very honestly and graphically the struggles they must bear to adapt to yet another immense challenge.
Several Junior classes, I taught over the years, studied this story as part of their History and English curriculum.
They then watched the film version starring John Thaw as Tom and Nick Robinson as William.
They were set the task to do a Critic’s comparison of the two.
The overwhelming consensus was that they preferred the book because it inevitably painted a fuller, more detailed picture.
However, they were totally absorbed by some of the emotional drama in the film version.
Quite a number of the pupils enjoyed buying their own version of book and film, by choice.
The cottage on the right was the Vicarage of Dibley’s new female Vicar, Geraldine Granger, played by Dawn French in the hilarious hit B.B.C. Sitcom. “Vicar of Dibley.”
The crazy idiosyncrasies and eccentricities of the characters making up the Parish Council of this English village is little short of a masterpiece.
On the chalky Chiltern Hill above and to the north of the village stands Cobstone Windmill.
This featured in the film “Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang” starring Dick Van Dyke.
Turville was also the setting for another World War Two film, “Went the Day Well.”
Television Crime “Whodunnit” dramas like “Midsomer Murders,” “Jonathan Creek” and “Marple” have also used Turville as the archetypal English village.
And that is it, that is why it has been used as a setting for so many filmed stories.
It has the essential qualities and features set in a gorgeous, lush green Chalk valley.
Hills, fields, windmill, old half-timbered rose-covered cottages,
the classic towered Parish church and graveyard, the ubiquitous village pub, “The Bull and Butcher,” the Village Hall, school, Post Office and grocer’s and Village Square or to be more exact, Circle.
If a first-time visitor to the U.K. said to me:-
“Show me a typical, classic English village.”
Turville would be high, if not first, on my list!
Never before had so many artworks been stolen in broad daylight. Around the globe authorities had no idea who could be behind these despicable deeds. And so it was, Cyberduck, the most famous Belgium duck detective was assigned to the case. Cyber was undercover at the New York Met. A master of disguise, he was almost invisible to the untrained eye. It was the during the fourth month of the stakeout that Cyber sensed something was about to happen.........
Note :Please comment with your ideas of what the next frame in the series should be...hopefully I can turn one of those ideas into an image and we will go on from there...thanks krap
It’s time to put your sleuthing skills to the test! Join us for the 3rd Crimson Clues Hunt Crawl on Sunday, June 8th from 11AM to 1PM SLT. The crawl activity is: Whodunnit?
Make sure to grab your Crawl Exclusive Collectible Pin. Only available during the crawl!
🚕 Taxi: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/MadPea%20Adventures/128/10...
When I think of a murder mystery, I always picture a revolver, along with a dagger, a candlestick, and a rope. Even though pistols have replaced revolvers in media, and actual use, the revolver will always have an old-fashioned aura that newer guns just can't match.
For these two shots I used a single light source, taken at night, in the living room so there would be no other ambient light. I like this type of lighting for a darker mood. At first I tried using the 70-200 lens but the lighting was just too low. I wanted to stay with an ISO at 200 or below, to keep the detail, but the tricky part was the balance between shutter speed and depth of field. Given that the camera and lens (24-105) were so close to the subject, I wanted to use a wide DoF, so that more of the gun would be in focus, but that made the shutter speeds so slow that even on the tripod, it was tough to keep it from blurring with the 2 second-plus shutter speeds.
Much better when viewed large.
Loving the sun on my balcony. I'm only a quarter of the way into the Connecticut Yankee but it's great fun, with over 200 illustratons by Dan Beard and copious notes that include Twain's comments on some of the drawings, details of the models and inspiration behind them. Very pleased with this edition which I found in the Lausanne free book box.
Selma Lagerlöf's Childhood Journal (she was actually 14 when she wrote it) is very interesting; I have restuck the cover onto the spine so will pass it on even though it's quite fragile.
I don't usually read English books in translation but the Durrell was interesting and amusing as always, set in S.America.
The Song and the Silence is the story of a Cree/Stoney chief Sitting Wind, very moving.
Gyles Brandreth: I found this book and since I read it, another two in the same series, witty and enjoyable.
The Summer Book, tales of Tove Jansson's childhood, highly recommended.
Pierre Lemaître: aftermath of WWII, mostly in Paris, surprising, sad, very French "débrouillard".
Company of Liars: medieval England, a sort of whodunnit dabbling in sorcery, runes, herbal lore, wolves... exciting and a fast read.
This caterpillar had had half its body fluid sucked out from it, leaving it to hand like so much damp washing on the line! Not sure who the culprit was. A spider? A bird? A grizzly murder scene in need of investigation! [Blue Mountains, NSW]
Blown inks, and fineliner pens on shiny card.
One of my DDDD's, that is 'Denouement Deficiency Disorder Doodles'
This winter I made 5 mohair jumpers, one for me, one for my grandaughter, two for a friend and one which now it is finished I don't really want, although it was to be for me.
So now it is back to doodling to keep me awake till the end of the murder mystery so I can find out whodunnit!
See a postworked version, which I prefer here www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2520358
Arm of Human
(Serves 5)
Ingredients:
Human arm joint, hand removed and quartered
Rosemary
Salt and Pepper for seasoning
Method:
Heat oil in a wok or frying pan. Season arm cuts well with salt and pepper. When oil is hot, add in rosemary then the arm. Cook on medium heat for five minutes.
Best served rare.
Mrs Rachel and myself went to see 'The Mousetrap' on Saturday. She'd solved it by the end of the First Act.
Holmes was wrong. John Clay was a patsy. The entire tunnel affair was a ruse to preserve the secrecy of the occult rites of the August League of Red Haired Keepers of the Sacred Shrine of Tinbuckle.
The Rogue Players: Sherlock Holmes
Flickr Group Roulette: Sherlock Holmes
Strobist: AB800 with HOBD-W camera left. Gold reflector camera right. Triggered by Cybersync.
© 2014 Lyn Randle.
Please DO NOT USE, copy, sell, share or download this image. It is illegal to use someone else's images without their permission. My work is NOT for free.
Should you encounter three wise men going under the names of Gaspar, Melchior and Balthazar, do not approach them, they are armed and dangerous!
1-Sep-10 Silesian Station by David Downing
Utterly breathtaking. Russel is finally forced to choose a side in the coming war. And he finds reserves of courage in himself he never expected. Can't wait to read the sequel.
3-Sep-10 The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson (borrowed from www.librarywala.com)
Kiddie ghost stories are more addictive than I had realized.
5-Sep-10 The Guy Not Taken by Jennifer Weiner (borrowed from www.librarywala.com)
Nice collection of mostly women centric short stories.
8-Sep-10 Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark (borrowed from www.librarywala.com)
I really really expected bigger things from a woman with such a long name. The tale starts with a bang, plods along for a bit and then draws to a fizzle of a conclusion. Absolutely no surprises anywhere, the plot is wafer-thin and the only saving grace is Clark's surprisingly credible rendition of the varied characters that populate an otherwise damp squib of a book.
12-Sep-10 The Host by Stephenie Meyer (nook)
There were good bits, there were tedious bits, but I liked this one overall. One gets attached to all the characters. And its not as Young Adult-ish as the first few Twilights.
14-Sep-10 The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber (nook)
Very very similar to The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs. Nice likeable characters, predictable plot, absolutely no humour whatsoever. The story revolves around four women - a middle aged woman with a failing marriage who hates her daughter in law, a woman in her late thirties who is trying and failing to have a baby, a woman in her early thirties who has had cancer twice, and a woman in her twenties who has a major chip on her shoulder, a rebel without a cause. These unlikely characters come together in a knitting class and become friends. Of course their problems work out in due course, and there's a good dose of happy endings.
21-Sep-10 House Rules by Jodi Picoult (nook)
Enthralling. I couldn't help worrying about the characters, worrying about my son. A boy who looks healthy, but has Asperger's. A murder in the neighbourhood. The protagonist is suspected, since he had fiddled around with the evidence. But this is not a whodunnit. Its an insightful investigation of what makes a family, what keeps it together and how much a mother can endure!
23-Sep-10 Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner (borrowed from www.librarywala.com)
Beautiful! The characters are so real. Mom lit with no holds barred.
26-Sep-10 Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (nook)
As my bookworm friend puts it - the worst book Kinsella has every written. But I guess all shopaholicists will end up reading it sooner or later.
30-Sep-10 The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer(ebook)
Reading Heyer is like going home for the weekend. The plot is the same, the locale is the same, the characters are also more or less the same. Real peace and comfort!
What has been eating the plums in the garden? Various traps used in a fruitless attempt to find the answer.
Sadly there's no back cover (or inner cover for that matter) plot summary on this book, so this is from the Amazon website:
In the sticky summer of 1943, and with her husband out of town on war work, a secluded cottage in the Berkshires sounds just the ticket to the newly married Clara Gamadge. The resident ghost, a slender woman in a sunbonnet, merely adds to the local color, even with the news that the bonneted woman died just one year ago, in the cottage that Clara is now renting. It's all nothing more than a deliciously spooky game, until the woman's sister is strangled while Clara dozes in a chair by her bed. The only clue: Clara's panicked memory of a woman in a sunbonnet standing at the door. Happily, Henry Gamadge - that supremely civilized gentleman-sleuth - arrives in time to calm his wife and solve the mystery (though not without some stellar help from Clara!).
Bantam Books, 1945
BePuzzled Classics 33118
A Mystery Jigsaw Puzzle
cardboard
1,000 pieces, used and complete
29 x 23 in
74 x 58.5 cm
2022 piece count: 28,644
puzzle: 31
TED: "Dad luvs them Sherlock 'Omes books so 'e new whodunnit, an' 'e wispered in me ear when I wuz doin' this pussle that it wuz the ----- ! Sorry, I ain't gonna tell yew! Akchully it wuz a dead easy pussel to make an' it diddunt take long to do."
this is inside a shed on the harbour at whitehaven lol.....
not sure if its supposed to be art or a warning not to stay out late at night......
really i mean a shed just stuck on the harbour.......
it has bars over the door so it was tricky to get this shot with out them.........
sorry but i made a note of the artist who installed this when i took the shot but lost it lol...
ill credit them when i find out....
Illustration of Hercule Poirot for Agatha Christie's novel 'The ABC Murders', currently being serialised in the newspaper 'Asahi Weekly,' Japan. Poirot is depicted in a checkered blue suit, holding a cigarette while standing against a striped background. His expression seems contemplative and there's a distinct shadow behind him.
Manuel Francisco dos Santos (October 28, 1933 – January 20, 1983), known by the nickname "Garrincha" ("little bird"), was a Brazilian football right winger and forward who helped the Brazil national team win the World Cups of 1958 and 1962, and played the majority of his professional career for Brazilian club Botafogo. FIFA considers him the best Brazilian player ever after Pelé,[4] and in 1999, many eminent football historians in Brazil have also referred to him being at least the equal of Pelé. Widely regarded as the best dribbler in football history, he was also an excellent crosser and free-kick taker.
The word garrincha itself means wren. Garrincha was also known as Mané (short for Manuel) by his friends, a name which in Brazil also means "fool" or "half wit".[6] It was possibly used in that sense at some point – or even as a double entendre due to Garrincha's child-like personality. The combined "Mané Garrincha" is common among fans in Brazil. Due to his immense popularity in Brazil, he was also called Alegria do Povo (Joy of the People) and Anjo de Pernas Tortas (Angel with Bent Legs)
Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American pianist, composer and jazz icon.
His career started with Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in both classical music and jazz, as a group leader and a solo performer. His improvisation technique combines not only jazz, but also other forms of music, especially classical, gospel, blues and ethnic folk music. One of Jarrett's trademarks is his frequent, highly audible vocalization (grunting, groaning, and tuneless singing), similar to that of Glenn Gould, Thelonious Monk, Erroll Garner, and Oscar Peterson. Jarrett is also physically active while playing, writhing, gyrating, and almost dancing on the piano bench. Jarrett is notoriously intolerant of audience noise, including coughing and other involuntary sounds, especially during solo improvised performances. He feels that extraneous noise affects his musical inspiration. As a result, cough drops are routinely supplied to Jarrett's audiences in cold weather, and he has even been known to stop playing and lead the crowd in a "group cough."
Nastassja Kinski (born Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski, January 24, 1961) is a German actress, who appeared in more than 60 international movies. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of 'Tess Durbeyfield' in Roman Polanski's film Tess, her roles in two erotic films (Stay As You Are and Cat People), and her parts in Wim Wenders' films The Wrong Move, Paris, Texas, and Faraway, So Close!. During the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Kinski was widely regarded as an international sex symbol.
Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, comedian, and playwright.
Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him one of the most respected living American directors. He is also distinguished by his rapid rate of production and his very large body of work. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, European cinema, and New York City, where he was born and has lived his entire life.
Allen is also a jazz clarinetist. What began as a teenage avocation has led to regular public performances at various small venues in his Manhattan hometown, with occasional appearances at various jazz festivals.
Major Anya Amasova (aka Agent XXX) is a fictional character in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, portrayed by Barbara Bach. In the film Amasova is an agent of the KGB. Barbara Bach (born August 27, 1947) is an American actress and model, best-known as the Bond girl from the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). She is married to musician Ringo Starr, former drummer of The Beatles.
Max Zorin is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film A View to a Kill. He was portrayed by Christopher Walken, (born March 31, 1943) is an American film and theatre actor.
Walken is a prolific actor who has spent more than 50 years on stage and screen. He has appeared in over 100 movie and television roles, including The Deer Hunter, The Dead Zone, A View to a Kill, At Close Range, King of New York, Batman Returns, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, The Funeral, and Catch Me If You Can, and in TV's Kojak and The Naked City. Walken gained a cult following in the 1990s[citation needed] as the Archangel Gabriel in the first three The Prophecy movies, as well as his frequent guest-host appearances on Saturday Night Live. In the United States, films featuring Walken have grossed over $1.8 billion. He has also played the main role in the Shakespeare plays Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Coriolanus. His most famous film roles were Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter and in Pulp Fiction, as Captain Koons, a Vietnam War veteran, which has since become a pop culture icon, despite his appearance being less than ten minutes at length.
John Steinbeck III (February 27, 1902—December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novella Of Mice and Men, published in 1937. In all, he wrote twenty-five books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and several collections of short stories. In 1962 Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Seventeen of his works, including The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Cannery Row (1945), The Pearl (1947), and East of Eden (1952), went on to become Hollywood films (some appeared multiple times, i.e., as remakes), and Steinbeck also achieved success as a Hollywood writer, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Story in 1944 for Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat.
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 — July 2, 1961) was a novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation." He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Hemingway's distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement, and had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. His protagonists are typically stoical men who exhibit an ideal described as "grace under pressure." Many of his works are now considered classics of American literature.The influence of Hemingway's writings on American literature was considerable and continues today. James Joyce called "A Clean, Well Lighted Place" "one of the best stories ever written". (The same story also influenced several of Edward Hopper's best known paintings, most notably "Nighthawks."[41] ) Pulp fiction and "hard boiled" crime fiction (which flourished from the 1920s to the 1950s) often owed a strong debt to Hemingway.
During World War II, J. D. Salinger met and corresponded with Hemingway, whom he acknowledged as an influence.[42] In one letter to Hemingway, Salinger wrote that their talks "had given him his only hopeful minutes of the entire war," and jokingly "named himself national chairman of the Hemingway Fan Clubs."[43]
Hunter S. Thompson often compared himself to Hemingway, and terse Hemingway-esque sentences can be found in his early novel, The Rum Diary. Thompson's later suicide by gunshot to the head mirrored Hemingway's.
Hemingway's terse prose style is known to have inspired Charles Bukowski, Chuck Palahniuk, Douglas Coupland and many Generation X writers. Hemingway's style also influenced Jack Kerouac and other Beat Generation writers. Hemingway also provided a role model to fellow author and hunter Robert Ruark, who is frequently referred to as "the poor man's Ernest Hemingway".
Popular novelist Elmore Leonard, who has authored scores of western- and crime-genre novels, cites Hemingway as his preeminent influence, and this is evident in his tightly written prose. Though Leonard has never claimed to write serious literature, he has said: "I learned by imitating Hemingway.... until I realized that I didn't share his attitude about life. I didn't take myself or anything as seriously as he did."
Salma Hayek Jiménez (born September 2, 1966) is a Mexican and American actress, director, television and film producer. Hayek has appeared in more than thirty films and performed as an actress outside of Hollywood in Mexico and Spain.
Hayek is the first Mexican national to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. She is one of the most prominent Mexican figures in Hollywood, since the legendary Dolores del Rio. She is also, after Fernanda Montenegro, the second of four Latin American actresses to achieve a Best Actress Oscar nomination.
Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino (May 18, 1895 – February 21, 1934) was a Nicaraguan revolutionary and leader of a rebellion against the U.S. military presence in Nicaragua between 1927 and 1933. He was labeled as a bandit by the U.S. government, and his exploits made him a hero throughout much of Latin America, where he became a symbol of resistance to U.S. domination. Drawing the United States Marines into an undeclared guerrilla war, his guerrilla organization suffered many defeats, but he successfully evaded capture. US troops withdrew from the country after overseeing the inauguration of President Juan Bautista Sacasa. Sandino was assassinated by General Anastasio Somoza García, who went on to seize power in a coup d'état two years later, establishing a family dynasty that would rule Nicaragua for over forty years. Sandino's legacy was claimed by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), which overthrew the Somoza government in 1979.
Roberto Boninsegna (born November 13, 1943 in Mantua) is an Italian former football player. He started his career in Serie B (Italian 2nd division) with Prato in 1963-64 season. He transferred to FC Potenza, who was Serie B team in 1964-65 season. He also played for Varese in 1965-66 and Cagliari between 1966-1969. Boninsegna gained a status as an efficient striker with Internazionale and Italy in the 1970s. In Series A he totaled 171 goals in 281 games, and was top goalscorer in Italy in 1971 and 1972. He transferred to Juventus F.C. in 1976 and played 3 seasons for them. He finished his career at Verona end of 1979-80 season.
Boninsegna scored Italy's only goal (though at the time it was an important equaliser) in the 1970 FIFA World Cup final against Brazil, which Italy ultimately lost 4–1.
Leighton Koizumi was and is the lead singer of Gravedigger V and the Morlocks, two seminal garage punk band of the 80's. After the third album in the 1991, Leighotn Koizumi haddisappeared; someone guessed the aids killed him in 1990 but two years later some rumours from San Diego gave him out clean and ready to start again, then nothing else… Till the beginning of 1998 when they spread the groundless piece of news that he left us forever…but finally in the 1999 Koizumi had reformed the Morlocks.
Alberto Juantorena Danger (born 3 December 1950) is a former Cuban track athlete. At the 1976 Summer Olympics, White Lightning became the first and so far only athlete to win both the 400 and 800 m Olympic titles.
Born in Santiago de Cuba, Juantorena first played basketball, until he was discovered by a Polish track coach, Zygmunt Zabierzowski, who convinced him to start running. Only a year later, Juantorena was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 400 m event at the Munich Olympics (1972).
Juantorena became better known in the next years, winning a gold medal at the World University Games (1973) and a silver at the 1975 Pan American Games, both in the 400 m. He only seriously took up running the 800 m in 1976, so few thought he was a serious candidate for the Olympic gold that year. However, Juantorena made it to the Olympic final, and led the field for most of the race, eventually winning in a world record time of 1:43.50. Three days later, he also won the 400 m final, setting a low-altitude world record of 44.26.
Juantorena, now known at home as El Caballo (the horse), continued his career, although he would never reach the same level as in Montreal. He just missed out on a medal in the 400 m at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, placing fourth. At the 1983 World Championships, his last international appearance in a major event, he broke his foot when he stepped on the inside of the track after qualifying in the first round of the 800m. Juantorena later served as the Vice Minister of Sports for Cuba.
Chris Cornell (born Christopher John Boyle on July 20, 1964) is an American rock musician best known as the lead singer and songwriter for rock bands Soundgarden (1984–1997) and Audioslave (2001–2007). He was the founder and frontman for Temple of the Dog.
Philippe Leroy , of his true name Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu , is a Acteur French, born on October 15th 1930 in Paris. It is revealed by the Film the Hole (1960) of Jacques Becker. It is directed quickly towards the Italy, where he becomes a much in demand actor. It obtains a great success by holding the main role of the whodunnit Seven men out of gold (1965) of Mario Vicario, where it interprets the organizer of a daring holdup. It shares then its career between the France and Italy, with a very clear preference for Italy, where it resides.
Colonel Rosa Klebb is a fictional character and the antagonist from the James Bond film and novel From Russia with Love. She was played by Lotte Lenya in the film version. Her name punningly derives from the popular Soviet phrase for women's rights, khleb i rozy, which in turn was a direct Russian translation of the internationally used Labor slogan bread and roses. Lenya was born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer (October 18, 1898 – November 27, 1981) to working class Roman Catholic parents in Vienna, Austria. She moved to study in Zürich, Switzerland in 1914, taking up her first job at the Schauspielhaus using the stage name Lotte Lenja.
Vladimir Pyotrovich Tkachenko (September 20, 1957 in Golovinka, USSR) is a retired Ukrainian basketball player. The 7'3" (2.21m), 243 lbs, (110 kg) center won two Olympic medals and three FIBA World Championship medals in a career that lasted 16 years. He was named Mr Europa player of the year in 1979.
A great defensive player, Tkachenko could block out 2-3 opponents to give teammates a chance to grab a rebound. His offensive ability was however important too: His post up moves were basic but effective and his shooting was good for a player his size, with a range of approximately 17 feet.
Tkachenko began playing for Stroitel Kiev in 1973-74, when he was 16 years old. He continued to play for them through the 1980-81 season. In 1983 he began playing for CSKA Moscow and he stayed there until his retirement after the 1988-89 season.
From 1976 to 1987 Tkachenko played on the Soviet national team, participating in many European and World competitions. Highlights would include the two bronze medals at the Olympics (1976 and 1980), the gold medal at the 1982 FIBA World Championship (also silver medals in 1978 and 1986) and three gold medals in the European Championship in 1979, 1981 and 1985 (and silvers in 1977 and 1987).
Emilio Largo is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the James Bond novel Thunderball. In the novel he is depicted according to the British stereotypes about Italians as a large, olive-skinned, powerful man exuding animal charm, with a profile of a Roman emperor and hairy hands which are likened to crawling tarantulas. He also appears in the 1965 film adaptation, with Italian actor Adolfo Celi filling the role. Born in Messina in the 1922, Sicily, Celi appeared in nearly 100 movies, specializing in international villains. He also appeared as a protagonist in some Italian comedies like Amici Miei and Brancaleone alle Crociate. Another well-known role of his was as camp commandant Battaglia opposite Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard's Allied POWs in the 1965 World War II escape drama Von Ryan's Express.
Celi was fluent in several languages, but his thick Sicilian accent meant that he was usually dubbed when appearing in an English language film.
During his early career, Celi was also successful as a stage actor in Argentina and Brazil, where he owned an actors' company along with the Brazilian stage greats Paulo Autran and Tonia Carrero. He directed three films in South America in the 1950s, including the Brazilian hit Tico-Tico no Fubá in 1952.
Fabrizio De André (Genova, February 18, 1940 - Milano, January 11, 1999) was an Italian singer-songwriter and poet. In his works he often told stories of prostitutes, marginalized and rebellious people. In Italy he is considered as a poet because of the quality of his lyrics.
Alessandro (Sandro) Pertini (September 25, 1896 - February 24, 1990) was an Italian socialist, probably the most popular President of the Italian Republic.Born in Stella (Province of Savona) as the son of a well to do landowner, Alberto, he studied at a Salesian college in Varazze, and completed his schooling at the "Chiabrera" lyceum (high school) in Savona. His philosophy teacher was Adelchi Baratono, a reformist socialist who contributed to his approach to Socialism and probably introduced him to the inner circles of the Ligurian labour movements. Pertini obtained a Law degree from the University of Genoa. Sandro Pertini was against Italy's participation in World War I, but served as a lieutenant and was awarded several medals as for bravery. In 1918 he joined the United Socialist Party, PSU, then he settled in Florence where he also graduated in political science with a thesis entitled La Cooperazione ("Cooperation"; 1924). While in the city, Pertini also came into contact with people such as Gaetano Salvemini, the brothers Carlo and Nello Rosselli, and Ernesto Rossi. Pertini was physically beaten by Fascist squads on several occasions, but never lost faith in his ideals. In 1935 he was interned on Santo Stefano Island, Ventotene (LT), Pontine Islands, an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, where he remained through Italy's entry into World War II and until 1943. There he saved the famous diaries of Antonio Gramsci. Although he had begun suffering from severe illness, Pertini never demanded pardon. He was released a month after Benito Mussolini's arrest, and joined the Italian resistance movement against the Nazi German occupiers and Mussolini's new regime - the Italian Social Republic. Arrested by the Germans, he was sentenced to death but freed by a partisan raid. After April 25, 1945 (the end of the war in Italy) he was elected to the first Parliament of the Italian Republic (the parliament which created the modern Italian Constitution, and thus was called La Costituente). In the postwar era he was a prominent member of the directive board of the Italian Socialist Party. He was appointed president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1968, and in 1978 President of the Italian Republic, the highest office in the Republic. As President he succeeded in regaining the public's trust in the State and institutions. During the Brigate Rosse terrorism period of the Anni di piombo, Pertini was a defender of the institutions he represented. His death in Rome was viewed by many as a national tragedy, and he is arguably one of modern Italy's most accomplished politicians.
Still having fun with the film noir look... I think I might be compiling a list of 'Whodunnit' suspects. Stay tuned... :)
Playing with lights today. Reminds me of an old gangster mob movie with the face shadowed so that you can't see who dunnit