Here are some great places to go if you love the idea that made Los Angeles County and its neighbors so desirable in the first place. Know that the Basin was NOT a desert, it was a GARDEN.
http://wheredothechildrenplayla.wordpress.com/ (check out their marvelous sidebar of links, including botanical gardens and parks)
http://www.theriverproject.org/about.html
http://www.theriverproject.org/people.html (particularly useful!)
http://www.naturalareafriends.net/
http://www.naturalareafriends.net/links
http://radio.weblogs.com/0138798/stories/2005/12/02/aStatusReportOnLaCountysRemainingOpenSpaces.html
http://www.savethemissingmiddle.org/index.htm
http://www.hillsforeveryone.org/about-the-corridor/native-people.htm
http://lacreekfreak.wordpress.com/
http://wheredothechildrenplayla.wordpress.com/
http://www.amigosdelosrios.org/
http://dominguezchannelws.wordpress.com/
http://lasgrwc2.org/Default2.asp (Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council)
might as well search it~~~
http://us.forestle.org/en/search.php?q=L.A.%20County%20green
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Film Anniversaries for 2009
Most of this culled from Wikipedia. Wish the links worked, however, you can just do the usual en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ and add the phrases you wish to search, remembering to separate each word (hyphenated words count as one word) with an underline character, as ...wiki/1959_in_film. 1889 films 1899 films 1909 films 1919 films 1929 films 1939 films 1939 in film (major excerpts below) 1949 films 1959 films 1969 films 1979 films 1989 films 1999 films 2009 films
Strictly personal (=pretty much irresistible) picks follow: I'll be leaving out loads of big hits and critically exalted stuff, as well as highly significant births, deaths and film debuts (except super-year 1939):
1889: American inventor George Eastman's celluloid base roll photographic film becomes commercially available.
1919: February 5 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
Oscar Micheaux releases The Homesteader, starring pioneering African-American actress Evelyn Preer, becoming the first African-American to produce and direct a motion picture.
Harold Lloyd begins holding test screenings of his films and modifying them based on audience feedback, a technique which is still used today.
Tri-Ergon sound-on-film technology is developed by three German inventors, Josef Engl, Hans Vogt, and Joseph Massole; however, the era of sound films is over 6 years away.
Broken Blossoms
1929:
January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released. The film was the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors.
May 16 - The first Academy Awards, or Oscars, are distributed.
July 13, The first all color talkie (in Technicolor), On with the Show is released by Warner. Bros. who led the way in a new color revolution just as they had ushered in that of the talkies.
Hallelujah!, first Hollywood film to contain an entire black cast.
Atlantic (1929 film) is the first sound on film movie made in Germany. It is also the first Titanic movie with sound.
The Broadway Melody is released by MGM and becomes the first major musical film of the sound era, sparking a host of imitators as well as a series of Broadway Melody films that would run until 1940.
The Canary Murder Case Bulldog Drummond The Cocoanuts Disraeli Gold Diggers of Broadway Rio Rita The Virginian
1939: Events
'Movie historians and film buffs often look back on 1939 as "the greatest year in film history". Hollywood was at the height of its Golden Age, and this particular year saw the release of an unusually large number of exceptional movies, many of which have been honored as all-time classics, when multitudes of other films of the era have been largely forgotten.'
Films released in 1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, starring Mickey Rooney and Rex Ingram as Jim
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker and Fay Holden
Another Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Ask a Policeman, starring Will Hay, Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott
At the Circus, starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx
Babes in Arms, Starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland
Bachelor Mother, starring Ginger Rogers and David Niven
Barricade starring Alice Faye and Warner Baxter
Beau Geste, starring Gary Cooper and Ray Milland
Boys' Reformatory, starring Frankie Darro and Grant Withers
Confessions of a Nazi Spy, starring Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders and Paul Lukas
Dark Victory, starring Bette Davis (favorite role), George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Ronald Reagan (Academy Award Nominee)
Daughter of The Tong, starring Evelyn Brent and Grant Withers
Destry Rides Again, starring Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart
Dodge City, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
Drums Along the Mohawk, directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert
Each Dawn I Die, starring James Cagney and George Raft
Everything Happens At Night, starring Sonja Henie and Ray Milland
The Four Feathers starring John Clements and Ralph Richardson
Five Came Back starring Lucille Ball and Chester Morris
Frontier Marshal, starring Randolph Scott, John Carradine and Lon Chaney, Jr.
Gone with the Wind, starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh (Academy Award for Best Picture)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips, starring Robert Donat and Greer Garson (Academy Award Nominee)
The Gorilla, starring Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz and Al Ritz
Gulliver's Travels starring Jessica Dragonette and Lanny Ross
Gunga Din, starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Sam Jaffe
The Hardys Ride High, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker and Fay Holden
Hollywood Cavalcade, starring Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg and Alan Curtis
The Hound of the Baskervilles, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara
The Marines Fly High, starring Lucille Ball and Richard Dix
In Name Only, starring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard and Kay Francis
Idiot's Delight, starring Clark Gable and Norma Shearer
Intermezzo, starring Ingrid Bergman and Leslie Howard
Jamaica Inn, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Charles Laughton and Horace Hodges
Jesse James, starring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly and Randolph Scott
Judge Hardy and Son starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker and Fay Holden
Le Jour se lève (Daybreak)
Let Us Live starring Maureen O'Sullivan and Henry Fonda
The Light that Failed, starring Ronald Colman
The Little Princess, starring Shirley Temple and Richard Greene
Love Affair, starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer (Academy Award Nominee)
Mexicali Rose, starring Gene Autry
Midnight, starring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur and Claude Rains (Academy Award Nominee)
Mr. Wong in Chinatown, starring Boris Karloff
The Mystery of Mr. Wong, starring Boris Karloff
The Oklahoma Kid, starring James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Donald Crisp
Of Mice and Men, starring Burgess Meredith, Betty Field and Lon Chaney Jr. (Academy Award Nominee)
The Old Maid, starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins
On Dress Parade, starring The Dead End Kids
Only Angels Have Wings, starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur
On Your Toes, screenplay by the playwright Lawrence Riley et al. (film mentioned in article)
Ninotchka, starring Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire and Bela Lugosi (Academy Award Nominee)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, starring Bette Davis and Errol Flynn
Q Planes, starring Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier
Range War, a Hopalong Cassidy western starring William Boyd
The Roaring Twenties, starring James Cagney, Priscilla Lane and Humphrey Bogart
The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu), by Jean Renoir
Seven Little Australians directed by Arthur Greville Collins
Son of Frankenstein, starring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
The Spy in Black, starring Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson
They Shall have Music, starring Jascha Heifetz, Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds and Walter Brennan
Stagecoach, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Berton Churchill and John Carradine (Academy Award Nominee)
Stanley and Livingstone, starring Spencer Tracy and Sir Cedric Hardwicke
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums, a Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Susannah of the Mounties, starring Shirley Temple and Randolph Scott
The Three Musketeers, starring Don Ameche and The Ritz Brothers
Three Texas Steers, starring John Wayne, directed by George Sherman
Tower of London, starring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff and Vincent Price
The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr and Jack Haley (Academy Award Nominee)
The Women, starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell
Union Pacific, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea and directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Wuthering Heights, starring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven and Flora Robson (Academy Award Nominee)
Wyoming Outlaw, starring John Wayne, directed by George Sherman
Young Mr. Lincoln, directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda and Alice Brady
Births
January 10 - Sal Mineo, actor (+ 1976)
February 3 - Michael Cimino, director
February 6 - Mike Farrell, American actor
February 9 - Janet Suzman, actress
March 5 - Samantha Eggar, actress
April 7 - Francis Ford Coppola, director, producer, writer
April 12 - Alan Ayckbourn, writer
April 13 - Paul Sorvino, actor
May 13 - Harvey Keitel, actor
May 19 - Nancy Kwan, actress
May 25 - Ian McKellen, actor
May 30 - Michael J. Pollard, actor
July 30 - Peter Bogdanovich, director
July 31 - France Nuyen, actress
August 2 - Wes Craven, director, producer, writer
August 12 - George Hamilton, actor
August 25 - John Badham, director
August 29 - Joel Schumacher, director
August 30 - Elizabeth Ashley, actress
September 1 - Lily Tomlin, actress
September 18 - Frankie Avalon, actor, singer
September 29 - Larry Linville, American actor (d. April 10, 2000)
October 8 - Paul Hogan, actor
October 22 - Tony Roberts, actor
October 24 - F. Murray Abraham, actor
October 27 - John Cleese, actor
October 28 - Jane Alexander, actress
November 22 - Allen Garfield, actor
Film Debuts
Greer Garson
Maureen O'Hara
William Holden
Veronica Lake
Anne Gwynne
Deaths
June 9 - Owen Moore, actor
August 23 - Sidney Howard, writer
September 24 - Carl Laemmle, producer
October 23 - Zane Grey, writer
October 28 - Alice Brady, actress
December 12 - Douglas Fairbanks, actor
1949: Pinky She Wore a Yellow Ribbon They Live by Night White Heat
1959: Anatomy of a Murder Ben-Hur Black Orpheus Donald in Mathmagic Land Journey to the Center of the Earth North by Northwest The Nun's Story Plan 9 from Outer Space Porgy and Bess Rio Bravo Sleeping Beauty Some Like It Hot
1969: Anne of the Thousand Days The April Fools The Assassination Bureau Ring of Bright Water They Shoot Horses, Don't They? True Grit The Undefeated Z
1979: Alien Apocalypse Now Being There The Black Stallion Breaking Away The Muppet Movie Murder by Decree Norma Rae The Onion Field The Rose
1989: Born on the Fourth of July The 'Burbs Casualties of War Driving Miss Daisy The Experts Farewell to the King Field of Dreams Fletch Lives Glory Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Sea of Love Steel Magnolias
1999: The 13th Warrior American Beauty Magnolia Three Kings
I thought Halloween & H20 were '79 & '99, respectively, but, no, they were '78 & '98. Oh.
P.S., R.I.P. Jennifer Jones, heroic and tragic life. Her unique achievement in being fully adult, yet entirely believable as a child in The Portrait of Jenny and after Duel in the Sun remains astonishing; miraculous.
Strictly personal (=pretty much irresistible) picks follow: I'll be leaving out loads of big hits and critically exalted stuff, as well as highly significant births, deaths and film debuts (except super-year 1939):
1889: American inventor George Eastman's celluloid base roll photographic film becomes commercially available.
1919: February 5 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
Oscar Micheaux releases The Homesteader, starring pioneering African-American actress Evelyn Preer, becoming the first African-American to produce and direct a motion picture.
Harold Lloyd begins holding test screenings of his films and modifying them based on audience feedback, a technique which is still used today.
Tri-Ergon sound-on-film technology is developed by three German inventors, Josef Engl, Hans Vogt, and Joseph Massole; however, the era of sound films is over 6 years away.
Broken Blossoms
1929:
January 20 - The movie In Old Arizona was released. The film was the first full-length talking film to be filmed outdoors.
May 16 - The first Academy Awards, or Oscars, are distributed.
July 13, The first all color talkie (in Technicolor), On with the Show is released by Warner. Bros. who led the way in a new color revolution just as they had ushered in that of the talkies.
Hallelujah!, first Hollywood film to contain an entire black cast.
Atlantic (1929 film) is the first sound on film movie made in Germany. It is also the first Titanic movie with sound.
The Broadway Melody is released by MGM and becomes the first major musical film of the sound era, sparking a host of imitators as well as a series of Broadway Melody films that would run until 1940.
The Canary Murder Case Bulldog Drummond The Cocoanuts Disraeli Gold Diggers of Broadway Rio Rita The Virginian
1939: Events
'Movie historians and film buffs often look back on 1939 as "the greatest year in film history". Hollywood was at the height of its Golden Age, and this particular year saw the release of an unusually large number of exceptional movies, many of which have been honored as all-time classics, when multitudes of other films of the era have been largely forgotten.'
Films released in 1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, starring Mickey Rooney and Rex Ingram as Jim
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker and Fay Holden
Another Thin Man, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
Ask a Policeman, starring Will Hay, Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott
At the Circus, starring Groucho Marx, Chico Marx and Harpo Marx
Babes in Arms, Starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland
Bachelor Mother, starring Ginger Rogers and David Niven
Barricade starring Alice Faye and Warner Baxter
Beau Geste, starring Gary Cooper and Ray Milland
Boys' Reformatory, starring Frankie Darro and Grant Withers
Confessions of a Nazi Spy, starring Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders and Paul Lukas
Dark Victory, starring Bette Davis (favorite role), George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Ronald Reagan (Academy Award Nominee)
Daughter of The Tong, starring Evelyn Brent and Grant Withers
Destry Rides Again, starring Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart
Dodge City, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland
Drums Along the Mohawk, directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda and Claudette Colbert
Each Dawn I Die, starring James Cagney and George Raft
Everything Happens At Night, starring Sonja Henie and Ray Milland
The Four Feathers starring John Clements and Ralph Richardson
Five Came Back starring Lucille Ball and Chester Morris
Frontier Marshal, starring Randolph Scott, John Carradine and Lon Chaney, Jr.
Gone with the Wind, starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh (Academy Award for Best Picture)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips, starring Robert Donat and Greer Garson (Academy Award Nominee)
The Gorilla, starring Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz and Al Ritz
Gulliver's Travels starring Jessica Dragonette and Lanny Ross
Gunga Din, starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Sam Jaffe
The Hardys Ride High, starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker and Fay Holden
Hollywood Cavalcade, starring Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg and Alan Curtis
The Hound of the Baskervilles, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara
The Marines Fly High, starring Lucille Ball and Richard Dix
In Name Only, starring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard and Kay Francis
Idiot's Delight, starring Clark Gable and Norma Shearer
Intermezzo, starring Ingrid Bergman and Leslie Howard
Jamaica Inn, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Charles Laughton and Horace Hodges
Jesse James, starring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly and Randolph Scott
Judge Hardy and Son starring Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker and Fay Holden
Le Jour se lève (Daybreak)
Let Us Live starring Maureen O'Sullivan and Henry Fonda
The Light that Failed, starring Ronald Colman
The Little Princess, starring Shirley Temple and Richard Greene
Love Affair, starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer (Academy Award Nominee)
Mexicali Rose, starring Gene Autry
Midnight, starring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur and Claude Rains (Academy Award Nominee)
Mr. Wong in Chinatown, starring Boris Karloff
The Mystery of Mr. Wong, starring Boris Karloff
The Oklahoma Kid, starring James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Donald Crisp
Of Mice and Men, starring Burgess Meredith, Betty Field and Lon Chaney Jr. (Academy Award Nominee)
The Old Maid, starring Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins
On Dress Parade, starring The Dead End Kids
Only Angels Have Wings, starring Cary Grant and Jean Arthur
On Your Toes, screenplay by the playwright Lawrence Riley et al. (film mentioned in article)
Ninotchka, starring Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Ina Claire and Bela Lugosi (Academy Award Nominee)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, starring Bette Davis and Errol Flynn
Q Planes, starring Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier
Range War, a Hopalong Cassidy western starring William Boyd
The Roaring Twenties, starring James Cagney, Priscilla Lane and Humphrey Bogart
The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu), by Jean Renoir
Seven Little Australians directed by Arthur Greville Collins
Son of Frankenstein, starring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
The Spy in Black, starring Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson
They Shall have Music, starring Jascha Heifetz, Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds and Walter Brennan
Stagecoach, directed by John Ford, starring John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Berton Churchill and John Carradine (Academy Award Nominee)
Stanley and Livingstone, starring Spencer Tracy and Sir Cedric Hardwicke
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums, a Japanese film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Susannah of the Mounties, starring Shirley Temple and Randolph Scott
The Three Musketeers, starring Don Ameche and The Ritz Brothers
Three Texas Steers, starring John Wayne, directed by George Sherman
Tower of London, starring Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff and Vincent Price
The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr and Jack Haley (Academy Award Nominee)
The Women, starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell
Union Pacific, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea and directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Wuthering Heights, starring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven and Flora Robson (Academy Award Nominee)
Wyoming Outlaw, starring John Wayne, directed by George Sherman
Young Mr. Lincoln, directed by John Ford, starring Henry Fonda and Alice Brady
Births
January 10 - Sal Mineo, actor (+ 1976)
February 3 - Michael Cimino, director
February 6 - Mike Farrell, American actor
February 9 - Janet Suzman, actress
March 5 - Samantha Eggar, actress
April 7 - Francis Ford Coppola, director, producer, writer
April 12 - Alan Ayckbourn, writer
April 13 - Paul Sorvino, actor
May 13 - Harvey Keitel, actor
May 19 - Nancy Kwan, actress
May 25 - Ian McKellen, actor
May 30 - Michael J. Pollard, actor
July 30 - Peter Bogdanovich, director
July 31 - France Nuyen, actress
August 2 - Wes Craven, director, producer, writer
August 12 - George Hamilton, actor
August 25 - John Badham, director
August 29 - Joel Schumacher, director
August 30 - Elizabeth Ashley, actress
September 1 - Lily Tomlin, actress
September 18 - Frankie Avalon, actor, singer
September 29 - Larry Linville, American actor (d. April 10, 2000)
October 8 - Paul Hogan, actor
October 22 - Tony Roberts, actor
October 24 - F. Murray Abraham, actor
October 27 - John Cleese, actor
October 28 - Jane Alexander, actress
November 22 - Allen Garfield, actor
Film Debuts
Greer Garson
Maureen O'Hara
William Holden
Veronica Lake
Anne Gwynne
Deaths
June 9 - Owen Moore, actor
August 23 - Sidney Howard, writer
September 24 - Carl Laemmle, producer
October 23 - Zane Grey, writer
October 28 - Alice Brady, actress
December 12 - Douglas Fairbanks, actor
1949: Pinky She Wore a Yellow Ribbon They Live by Night White Heat
1959: Anatomy of a Murder Ben-Hur Black Orpheus Donald in Mathmagic Land Journey to the Center of the Earth North by Northwest The Nun's Story Plan 9 from Outer Space Porgy and Bess Rio Bravo Sleeping Beauty Some Like It Hot
1969: Anne of the Thousand Days The April Fools The Assassination Bureau Ring of Bright Water They Shoot Horses, Don't They? True Grit The Undefeated Z
1979: Alien Apocalypse Now Being There The Black Stallion Breaking Away The Muppet Movie Murder by Decree Norma Rae The Onion Field The Rose
1989: Born on the Fourth of July The 'Burbs Casualties of War Driving Miss Daisy The Experts Farewell to the King Field of Dreams Fletch Lives Glory Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Sea of Love Steel Magnolias
1999: The 13th Warrior American Beauty Magnolia Three Kings
I thought Halloween & H20 were '79 & '99, respectively, but, no, they were '78 & '98. Oh.
P.S., R.I.P. Jennifer Jones, heroic and tragic life. Her unique achievement in being fully adult, yet entirely believable as a child in The Portrait of Jenny and after Duel in the Sun remains astonishing; miraculous.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
1000 Years of Years Ending in 9, pt. 1
Cribbed from Wikipedia and memory, perhaps unreliable; stuff notable to me, not necessarily the most important. Copied material in quotes, or hyperlinked (if they come through) bits, otherwise my phrasing and commentary. Some years omitted through lack of interest!
1009 : First known mention of LITHUANIA in recorded history.
1059 : Big year for alleged heirs of allegedly holy Roman Imperial pontificates.
1069 : William the Conqueror does stuff to show he's just another brute-diabolical viking steaming pile and a total hypocrite by way of having rights by way of 'holy' kinships.
1079 : Omar Khayyam, now remembered mostly for his pretty Sufi poetry, did some really important math 'n' science calculations that make my head hurt just to read about in barest discription.
1089 : 'The Synod of Melfi under Pope Urban II imposes slavery on the wives of priests.' WTF?!
1099 : Horrible hypocritical conspiratorial Crusader crappe. But then, any '99s seem pretty bad (?).
1119 : " " " " " . And on it goes .
1139 : 'priestly celibacy is made mandatory in the Catholic Church'.
1159 : 'In the Roman Catholic Church, cardinals are given the right to elect the Pope. Prior to this, the pope was elected by the clergy and congregation of the church.'
1179 : Not content with the schisms and Crusade-fiascos of the past century, the 3rd Lateran Council makes great downward strides toward turning what started as the Church of the Savior of All into a paranoid, persecuting, central-hierarchy cabal.
1209 : The Albigense Crusade: Wha'd I tellya! --And in another 10 years, the Northern Crusades. Meanwhile, Genghis Khan is swallowing points-East.
1229 : Pragmatic egomaniac Frederick II pursues his grand career of ticking everybody off for the next decade and beyond, inspiring the heck out of Great Man Theory ambitious adherents.
1249 : 'Roger Bacon publishes a major scientific work, including writings of convex lens spectacles for treating long-sightedness and the first publication of the formula for gunpowder in the western world.' ...Ushering in the age of looking closely at triggering devices to blow up distant folks.
1259 : Neither brother-war nor gunpowder bombs stop the Mongols.
1269 : Almohad dynasty of alleged caliphs replaced by Berber Marinid dynasty in Moorish Empire. France lays heavy fines on Jews who don't wear 'Jewish i.d.' yellow badges.
1279 : Kublai Khan (~Yuan Dynasty) ends the Song Dynasty; takes all China. Mongol Empire at its peak. Kublai's 'diplomat' tries for Japan: Not rotsa ruck!
1289 : Franciscan friars begin missionary work in China. Promising start fizzles as usual on account of lack of Christianity among representative Christians--including the friars themselves, who put down the Nestorians, who had previously gained much more.
1299 : Assorted dynstic changes. Mongols finally been gettin' seriously butt-kicked.
1309 : Avignon becomes new comfy chair of papacy, which Clement V (of a line of popes with wildly ironic names) needed after secretly absolving the Templars but allowing a lot of the old catchables of them to be sadistically persecuted by Phil the (Outrageously Un-)fair.
1319 : Norway & Sweden unite.
1329 : Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland dies, replaced by David II.
1339 : Kashmir (which may have been previously Israelitish) is conquered by Muslims. All streets in the city of Florence are paved, making it the first European city to do so. This would no doubt help in the following centuries, so that great works of art could be moved without danger of going codpiece-deep in kaky mud. The Kremlin in Moscow is built.
1349 : The Black Plague blamed on Jews, who are burned en masse.
1359 : Lots of Muslim-world thrones reshuffled.
1369 : Damned Crusades in the hole (and embracing converso bloodlines of David & Mohammed), Western Europe goes back to fighting with each other. They could help against Turkics in the South and East, but NOoooooooo*. Throne changes in Southeast Asia, too.
1379 : *The Venetians and Ottomans invade Constantinople.
1389 : Overthrows throwing up all over.
1399 : Muslims, Christians & Tatars continue to fight amongst 'their own' and cross-ally.
1429 : Joan of Arc has a buncha victories, probably not envisioning that France will hardly have a decent native general after her, or Jacques Chirac will be scared of his Maltese (no, not a Knight of Malta, but a dog resembling a particularly cute dust bunny with the biting power of a chip bag clip).
1439: The Great Ordinance is adopted by the French Estates-General. This measure grants the king the exclusive right to raise troops, and establishes the taxation measure known as the taille in support of a standing army. They thought it seemed like a good idea at the time :( . Alleged and unlikely Miracle of the Moose; unfortunately an ouch for Alces. Let us pray for no more armies and only FUN moose miracles.
1459 : Bucharest first mentioned; Jodhpur founded.
1469: Ferdinand of Aragon marries Princess Isabella of Castile. This event will lead to a unified Spain in 1492. Niccolò Machiavelli, Manuel I of Portugal, Guru Nanak Dev Ji, & Vasco da Gama born. Now we're gettin' real quattrocento!
1479 : Lots of events leading to the Age of Exploration.
1499 : Bernardino de Sahagún and Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo are born. Already guys like these have led to the making of statements like this: 'Lake Maracaibo is discovered' --when the indigenes knew it was there all along.
1509 : Hard times in Italy and Istanbul, while Henry VIII looks good. Puts one in mind of what the Bible said about the King of Tyre.
1519 : Huge NEW WORLD year: Reformation & Counter-Reformation stars get goin' by way of activism or birth. Discoveries and conquests in the Western Henisphere lead to agonies, HOWEVER, the good thing: Cacao comes to Europe. Quattrocento superstars die.
1529 : Lots of important and interesting things happened, but Dude! Catch the pic of Suleiman's beanbag chair sized turban! What is it with warmongering megalomaniac tyrants and wildly impractical hats? It seems to have faded in recent decades, but ya hafta figure Saddam, Cheney, etc. got something like a papal tiara pimped out for a Las Vegas showgirl, with nuclear power.
1539 : More like the above, Mosaic horrors in Henan, and Guru Nanak dies.
1549 : 'In the Kingdom of England, it was known as 'The Year of the Many-Headed Monster', because of the unusually high number of rebellions which racked the country.' Including: The first Book of Common Prayer is published in England. The Prayer Book Rebellion breaks out in England.
1559 : Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey. John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the beginning Scottish Reformation. Francis II becomes King of France following the death of his father, Henry II, in a jousting accident. Frankie would die the next year, widowing his teen bride, Mary, Queen of Scots, who would have a helluva time with Bess and Knox (among others), too.
1569 : Flat-out wars, both sides in the name of the Prince of Peace.
1579 : Birth-pangs of an independent Netherlands. 'Sir Francis Drake, during his circumnavigation of the world, lands in what is now California, which he claims for Queen Elizabeth I. With an English claim here and in Newfoundland, it becomes the basis for English colonial charters which will claim all land from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from "sea to sea." Drake's claim is called "Nova Albion" (New England), and subsequent maps will show all lands north of New Spain and New Mexico under this name.'
1589 : Job is elected as the first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. Protestants have civilized and barbarous occasions.
1599 : Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex beats up on Ireland, as will Oliver Cromwell, born this year.
1609 : Major startup events in English North America. Spain cools down foreign hostilities with 'heretics', but expels homegrown moriscos.
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I may not finish this project. My original idea was just to point out the many notable by-decade MOVIE ANNIVERSARIES IN 2009... Since they seem to have been woefully ignored.
1009 : First known mention of LITHUANIA in recorded history.
1059 : Big year for alleged heirs of allegedly holy Roman Imperial pontificates.
1069 : William the Conqueror does stuff to show he's just another brute-diabolical viking steaming pile and a total hypocrite by way of having rights by way of 'holy' kinships.
1079 : Omar Khayyam, now remembered mostly for his pretty Sufi poetry, did some really important math 'n' science calculations that make my head hurt just to read about in barest discription.
1089 : 'The Synod of Melfi under Pope Urban II imposes slavery on the wives of priests.' WTF?!
1099 : Horrible hypocritical conspiratorial Crusader crappe. But then, any '99s seem pretty bad (?).
1119 : " " " " " . And on it goes .
1139 : 'priestly celibacy is made mandatory in the Catholic Church'.
1159 : 'In the Roman Catholic Church, cardinals are given the right to elect the Pope. Prior to this, the pope was elected by the clergy and congregation of the church.'
1179 : Not content with the schisms and Crusade-fiascos of the past century, the 3rd Lateran Council makes great downward strides toward turning what started as the Church of the Savior of All into a paranoid, persecuting, central-hierarchy cabal.
1209 : The Albigense Crusade: Wha'd I tellya! --And in another 10 years, the Northern Crusades. Meanwhile, Genghis Khan is swallowing points-East.
1229 : Pragmatic egomaniac Frederick II pursues his grand career of ticking everybody off for the next decade and beyond, inspiring the heck out of Great Man Theory ambitious adherents.
1249 : 'Roger Bacon publishes a major scientific work, including writings of convex lens spectacles for treating long-sightedness and the first publication of the formula for gunpowder in the western world.' ...Ushering in the age of looking closely at triggering devices to blow up distant folks.
1259 : Neither brother-war nor gunpowder bombs stop the Mongols.
1269 : Almohad dynasty of alleged caliphs replaced by Berber Marinid dynasty in Moorish Empire. France lays heavy fines on Jews who don't wear 'Jewish i.d.' yellow badges.
1279 : Kublai Khan (~Yuan Dynasty) ends the Song Dynasty; takes all China. Mongol Empire at its peak. Kublai's 'diplomat' tries for Japan: Not rotsa ruck!
1289 : Franciscan friars begin missionary work in China. Promising start fizzles as usual on account of lack of Christianity among representative Christians--including the friars themselves, who put down the Nestorians, who had previously gained much more.
1299 : Assorted dynstic changes. Mongols finally been gettin' seriously butt-kicked.
1309 : Avignon becomes new comfy chair of papacy, which Clement V (of a line of popes with wildly ironic names) needed after secretly absolving the Templars but allowing a lot of the old catchables of them to be sadistically persecuted by Phil the (Outrageously Un-)fair.
1319 : Norway & Sweden unite.
1329 : Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland dies, replaced by David II.
1339 : Kashmir (which may have been previously Israelitish) is conquered by Muslims. All streets in the city of Florence are paved, making it the first European city to do so. This would no doubt help in the following centuries, so that great works of art could be moved without danger of going codpiece-deep in kaky mud. The Kremlin in Moscow is built.
1349 : The Black Plague blamed on Jews, who are burned en masse.
1359 : Lots of Muslim-world thrones reshuffled.
1369 : Damned Crusades in the hole (and embracing converso bloodlines of David & Mohammed), Western Europe goes back to fighting with each other. They could help against Turkics in the South and East, but NOoooooooo*. Throne changes in Southeast Asia, too.
1379 : *The Venetians and Ottomans invade Constantinople.
1389 : Overthrows throwing up all over.
1399 : Muslims, Christians & Tatars continue to fight amongst 'their own' and cross-ally.
1429 : Joan of Arc has a buncha victories, probably not envisioning that France will hardly have a decent native general after her, or Jacques Chirac will be scared of his Maltese (no, not a Knight of Malta, but a dog resembling a particularly cute dust bunny with the biting power of a chip bag clip).
1439: The Great Ordinance is adopted by the French Estates-General. This measure grants the king the exclusive right to raise troops, and establishes the taxation measure known as the taille in support of a standing army. They thought it seemed like a good idea at the time :( . Alleged and unlikely Miracle of the Moose; unfortunately an ouch for Alces. Let us pray for no more armies and only FUN moose miracles.
1459 : Bucharest first mentioned; Jodhpur founded.
1469: Ferdinand of Aragon marries Princess Isabella of Castile. This event will lead to a unified Spain in 1492. Niccolò Machiavelli, Manuel I of Portugal, Guru Nanak Dev Ji, & Vasco da Gama born. Now we're gettin' real quattrocento!
1479 : Lots of events leading to the Age of Exploration.
1499 : Bernardino de Sahagún and Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo are born. Already guys like these have led to the making of statements like this: 'Lake Maracaibo is discovered' --when the indigenes knew it was there all along.
1509 : Hard times in Italy and Istanbul, while Henry VIII looks good. Puts one in mind of what the Bible said about the King of Tyre.
1519 : Huge NEW WORLD year: Reformation & Counter-Reformation stars get goin' by way of activism or birth. Discoveries and conquests in the Western Henisphere lead to agonies, HOWEVER, the good thing: Cacao comes to Europe. Quattrocento superstars die.
1529 : Lots of important and interesting things happened, but Dude! Catch the pic of Suleiman's beanbag chair sized turban! What is it with warmongering megalomaniac tyrants and wildly impractical hats? It seems to have faded in recent decades, but ya hafta figure Saddam, Cheney, etc. got something like a papal tiara pimped out for a Las Vegas showgirl, with nuclear power.
1539 : More like the above, Mosaic horrors in Henan, and Guru Nanak dies.
1549 : 'In the Kingdom of England, it was known as 'The Year of the Many-Headed Monster', because of the unusually high number of rebellions which racked the country.' Including: The first Book of Common Prayer is published in England. The Prayer Book Rebellion breaks out in England.
1559 : Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey. John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the beginning Scottish Reformation. Francis II becomes King of France following the death of his father, Henry II, in a jousting accident. Frankie would die the next year, widowing his teen bride, Mary, Queen of Scots, who would have a helluva time with Bess and Knox (among others), too.
1569 : Flat-out wars, both sides in the name of the Prince of Peace.
1579 : Birth-pangs of an independent Netherlands. 'Sir Francis Drake, during his circumnavigation of the world, lands in what is now California, which he claims for Queen Elizabeth I. With an English claim here and in Newfoundland, it becomes the basis for English colonial charters which will claim all land from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from "sea to sea." Drake's claim is called "Nova Albion" (New England), and subsequent maps will show all lands north of New Spain and New Mexico under this name.'
1589 : Job is elected as the first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. Protestants have civilized and barbarous occasions.
1599 : Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex beats up on Ireland, as will Oliver Cromwell, born this year.
1609 : Major startup events in English North America. Spain cools down foreign hostilities with 'heretics', but expels homegrown moriscos.
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I may not finish this project. My original idea was just to point out the many notable by-decade MOVIE ANNIVERSARIES IN 2009... Since they seem to have been woefully ignored.
Friday, December 4, 2009
It's caveat emptor for food & drug expiration dates
A Foretaste of the Peaceable Kingdom
http://www.pawnation.com/2009/11/30/unlikely-animal-friendships/
SUPER CUTE combos of commonly-inimical animals whose hearts have gone out to each other.
SUPER CUTE combos of commonly-inimical animals whose hearts have gone out to each other.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Ships' Cats
Darlin' article from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship's_cat. Basic history, plus sweet and noble tales of real ships' cats, fictional usages, and loads of good links.
p.s. : I hope all you lovers of our furry friends know about the mystery-solving animals in the (series) works of Shirley Rousseau Murphy and the dynamic duo of Rita Mae Brown and Sneakie Pie Brown. They're my top favorites, but web searching ("Cat mysteries" for instance) will lead you to many more, including those in which animals are significant but peripheral...But can be excellent, nonetheless, such as Blaze Clement's topnotch amazing combination of 'hardboiled' and heartfelt sentiment in her series starring Dixie Hemingway, Siesta Key's ex-deputy sherriff petsitter.
p.s. : I hope all you lovers of our furry friends know about the mystery-solving animals in the (series) works of Shirley Rousseau Murphy and the dynamic duo of Rita Mae Brown and Sneakie Pie Brown. They're my top favorites, but web searching ("Cat mysteries" for instance) will lead you to many more, including those in which animals are significant but peripheral...But can be excellent, nonetheless, such as Blaze Clement's topnotch amazing combination of 'hardboiled' and heartfelt sentiment in her series starring Dixie Hemingway, Siesta Key's ex-deputy sherriff petsitter.
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