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Wikipedia:
Mary Jane "Mae" West (August 17, 1893 –
November 22, 1980) was an American actress, singer, playwright,
screenwriter, and sex symbol whose entertainment career
spanned seven decades.
Known
for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself
in vaudeville and on the stage in New York City before
moving to Hollywood to become a comedian, actress, and writer in the
motion picture industry. For her contributions to American cinema,
the American Film Institute named West 15th among
the greatest female stars of classic American cinema.
One
of the more controversial movie stars of her day, West encountered
many problems, including censorship. When her cinematic career
ended, she continued to perform in Las Vegas, in the United
Kingdom, and on radio and television, and to record rock and roll
albums. Asked about the various efforts to impede her career, West
replied: "I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it."
Wikipedia: Samuel
Goldwyn (born Szmuel Gelbfisz (Yiddish: שמואל
געלבפֿיש);
August 17, 1879 – January 31, 1974), also known as Samuel
Goldfish, was a Jewish Polish American film producer.
He was most well known for being the founding contributor and
executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood. His
awards include the 1973 Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award,
the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1947, and the Jean
Hersholt Humanitarian Awardin 1958...
...Samuel
Goldwyn was also known for malapropisms, paradoxes, and other
speech errors called 'Goldwynisms' ("A humorous statement or
phrase resulting from the use of incongruous or contradictory words,
situations, idioms, etc.") being frequently quoted. For example,
he was reported to have said, "I don't think anybody should
write his autobiography until after he's dead." and "Include
me out."...
...Some
famous Goldwyn quotations are misattributions... ...Upon being told
that a book he had purchased for filming, The Well of
Loneliness, couldn't be filmed because it was about lesbians, he
reportedly replied: "That's all right, we'll make them
Hungarians." The same story was told about the 1934 rights
to The Children's Hour with the response "That's okay;
we'll turn them into Armenians."...
Wikipedia:
...During both terms in office, Brown commuted 23 death sentences,
signing the first commutation on his second day in office. One of his
more notable commutations was the death sentence of Erwin
"Machine-Gun" Walker, whose execution in the gas chamber
for first-degree murder had been postponed because of an
attempted suicide some hours before it was scheduled to
take place. After Walker recovered, his execution was postponed while
he was being restored to mental competency. After Walker was declared
sane in 1961, Brown commuted Walker's death sentence to life without
the possibility of parole. Walker was later paroled after the
California Supreme Court held that Governor Brown could not legally
deny a prisoner the right to parole in a death-sentence commutation.
Another prisoner whose death sentence was commuted by Brown committed
at least one murder after being paroled.
While Governor, Brown's attitude
toward the death penalty was often ambivalent, if not arbitrary. An
ardent supporter of gun control, he was more inclined to let
convicts go to the gas chamber if they had killed with guns than with
other weapons. He later admitted that he had denied clemency in one
death penalty case principally because the legislator who represented
the district in which the murder occurred held a swing vote on
farmworker legislation supported by Brown, and had told Brown that
his district "would go up in smoke" if the governor
commuted the man's sentence.
In contrast, Governor Brown
approved 36 executions, including the highly controversial cases
of Caryl Chessman in 1960 and Elizabeth Duncan; she
was the last female put to death before a national moratorium was
instituted. Though he had supported the death penalty while serving
as district attorney, as Attorney General, and when first elected
Governor, he later became an opponent of it.
During
the Chessman case, Brown proposed that the death penalty be
abolished, but the proposal failed. His Republican successor, Ronald
Reagan, was a firm death penalty supporter and oversaw the last
execution in California in 1967, prior to the US Supreme Court ruling
that it was unconstitutional in Furman v. Georgia (1972).
Wikipedia:
Saint Patrick (Latin: Patricius; Irish:
Pádraig [ˈpˠaːd̪ˠɾˠəɟ]) was a
fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in
Ireland. Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the
primary patron saint of Ireland, along with saints Brigit of Kildare
and Columba. He is also venerated in the Anglican Communion, the Old
Catholic Church and in the Eastern Orthodox Church as
equal-to-apostles and the Enlightener of Ireland....
...Legend
credits St. Patrick with teaching the Irish about the doctrine of the
Holy Trinity by showing people the shamrock, a three-leafed plant,
using it to illustrate the Christian teaching of three persons in one
God. This story first appears in writing in 1726, though it may be
older. The shamrock has since become a central symbol for St
Patrick's Day.
In pagan Ireland, three was a
significant number and the Irish had many triple deities, a fact
that may have aided St Patrick in his evangelisation efforts
when he "held up a shamrock and discoursed on the Christian
Trinity". Patricia Monaghan says there is no evidence that
the shamrock was sacred to the pagan Irish. However, Jack
Santino speculates that it may have represented the regenerative
powers of nature, and was recast in a Christian context. Icons of
St Patrick often depict the saint "with a cross in one
hand and a sprig of shamrocks in the other". Roger Homan writes,
"We can perhaps see St Patrick drawing upon the visual concept
of thetriskele when he uses the shamrock to explain the
Trinity"...
...The version of the details of
his life generally accepted by modern scholars, as elaborated by
later sources, popular writers and folk piety, typically includes
extra details such that Patrick, originally named Maewyn Succat, was
born in 387 AD in (among other candidate locations, see above) Banna
venta Berniae to the parents Calpernius and Conchessa. At the age of
16 in 403 AD Saint Patrick was captured and enslaved by the Irish and
was sent to Ireland to serve as a slave herding and tending sheep in
Dalriada. During his time in captivity Saint Patrick became fluent in
the Irish language and culture. After six years, Saint Patrick
escaped captivity after hearing a voice urging him to travel to a
distant port where a ship would be waiting to take him back to
Britain. On his way back to Britain Saint Patrick was captured again
and spent 60 days in captivity in Tours, France. During his short
captivity within France, Saint Patrick learned about French
monasticism. At the end of his second captivity Saint Patrick had a
vision of Victoricus giving him the quest of bringing Christianity to
Ireland. Following his second captivity Saint Patrick returned to
Ireland and, using the knowledge of Irish language and culture that
he gained during his first captivity, brought Christianity and
monasticism to Ireland in the form of more than 300 churches and over
100,000 Irish baptised...
www.quora.com
question: Are US politicians bought, leased, or rented?
Margaret Weiss, USA: I live
here
Leased. Out
of the three, this is the one that makes more sense, in my
opinion. "Bought" implies a long-term relationship and
would require the politician to be on top of his/her game while
remaining clean on standards like morality and ethics. Yes,
that's unlikely to happen. "Rented" implies a relatively
short relationship and may not be as committed as both parties want
it to be, renewals may be up to just one party which would make
another party rather unsettled and nervous, thus rattling the
foundation of the whole business enterprise. "Leased"
has a more weight from the ownership perspective, a deeper
involvement, yet of a finite duration, and would require some time to
untangle (to get out of), giving both parties more leverage and
forcing better commitment and care.
Wikipedia:
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was
the 33rd President of the United States (1945–53),
an American politician of the Democratic Party. He served as
a United States Senator from Missouri (1935–45) and
briefly as Vice President (1945) before he succeeded to the
presidency on April 12, 1945 upon the death of Franklin D.
Roosevelt. He was president during the final months of World War
II, making the decision to drop the atomic bomb onHiroshima and
Nagasaki. Truman was elected in his own right in 1948. He
presided over an uncertain domestic scene as America sought its path
after the war, and tensions with the Soviet Union increased,
marking the start of the Cold War...
...On
June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union blocked access to the
three Western-held sectors of Berlin. The Allies had never
negotiated a deal to guarantee supply of the sectors deep within the
Soviet-occupied zone. The commander of the American occupation zone
in Germany, General Lucius D. Clay, proposed sending a large
armored column across the Soviet zone to West Berlin with
instructions to defend itself if it were stopped or attacked. Truman
believed this would entail an unacceptable risk of war. He
approved Ernest Bevin's plan to supply the blockaded city
by air. On June 25, the Allies initiated the Berlin Airlift, a
campaign that delivered food and other supplies, such as coal, using
military aircraft on a massive scale. Nothing like it had ever been
attempted before, and no single nation had the capability, either
logistically or materially, to have accomplished it. The airlift
worked; ground access was again granted on May 11, 1949.
Nevertheless, the airlift continued for several months after that.
The Berlin Airlift was one of Truman's great foreign policy
successes; it significantly aided his election campaign in 1948...
...According
to historian Daniel R. McCoy in his book on the Truman presidency,
Harry Truman himself gave a strong and far-from-incorrect
impression of being a tough, concerned and direct leader. He was
occasionally vulgar, often partisan, and usually nationalistic... On
his own terms, Truman can be seen as having prevented the coming of a
third world war and having preserved from Communist oppression much
of what he called the free world. Yet clearly he largely failed to
achieve his Wilsonian aim of securing perpetual peace, making the
world safe for democracy, and advancing opportunities for individual
development internationally.
Wikipedia:
Garry Emmanuel Shandling (November 29, 1949 – March 24,
2016) was an American comedian, actor, writer, producer and director.
He was best known for his work in It's Garry Shandling's
Show and The Larry Sanders Show.
Shandling died on March 24,
2016. The Los Angeles Police Department reported that he
suddenly collapsed and was rushed to a hospital, suffering from an
apparent medical emergency. He had suffered "a massive heart
attack". It's Garry Shandling's Show
Shandling and co-writer Alan
Zweibel went on to create the surreal comedy series It's
Garry Shandling's Show in 1985. It ran for 72 episodes on the
Showtime cable television network through 1990. The edited reruns
played on the Fox network beginning in 1988. Shandling
wrote 15 episodes of the show. The series subverted the standard
sitcom format by having its characters openly acknowledge that they
were all part of a TV show. Building on a concept that harked back
to The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, in which George
Burns would frequently break the "fourth wall" and
speak directly to the audience, Shandling's show went so far as to
incorporate the audience and elements of the studio itself into the
storylines, calling attention to the artifice of the show. The
show was nominated for four Emmy Awards, including one for Shandling.
He won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Male Performance in a
Series, and won four CableACE awards, two for Best Comedy Series. The
show also won an award for Outstanding Achievement in
Comedy from the Television Critics Association.
segítség a nyelvtanhoz: nincs... Wikipedia:
An equinox is an astronomical event in which the plane of
Earth's equator passes through the center of the Sun, which
occurs twice each year, around 20 March and 23 September...
...The
equinoxes are the only times when the solar terminator (the
"edge" between night and day) is perpendicular to the
equator. As a result, the northern and southern hemispheres are
equally illuminated.
In
other words, the equinoxes are the only times when the subsolar
point is on the equator, meaning that the Sun is exactly
overhead at a point on the equatorial line. The subsolar point
crosses the equator moving northward at the March equinox and
southward at the September equinox.
The
equinoxes, along with solstices, are directly related to
the seasons of the year. In the northern hemisphere, the vernal
equinox (March) conventionally marks the beginning of spring in
most cultures and is considered the New Year in the Persian calendar
or Iranian calendars as Nouroz (means new day),
while the autumnal equinox (September) marks the beginning
of autumn. In the southern hemisphere, the vernal equinox occurs in
September and the autumnal equinox in March... ...A number of
traditional spring and autumn (harvest) festivals are celebrated on
the date of the equinoxes.
Prison
officer injured in New IRA car bomb attack in Belfast dies
A
prison officer blown up in a New IRA car bomb attack has died. Adrian
Ismay, a 52-year-old who trained staff at the top-security Maghaberry
prison, had undergone surgery after being injured in the blast
underneath his van in east Belfast on 4 March.
The
Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) originally said the victim
had not suffered life-threatening injuries in the explosion in the
Woodstock area of the city. But the officer was rushed into hospital
on Tuesday after a suffering a heart attack and later died.
The
New IRA claimed responsibility for the bombing and linked it to an
ongoing dispute between the prison authorities at Maghaberry and
dissident republican inmates.
Ismay
is the second prison officer to die at the hands of republican
dissidents over the last four years. In November 2012, the New IRA
ambushed David Black along the M1 motorway near Portadown as he was
driving to work at Maghaberry prison. The 52-year-old’s car was
riddled with bullets during the shooting.
The
east Belfast attack demonstrates that republican dissident terror
groups have an intelligence-gathering capacity that allows them to
garner information on targets who live in predominantly loyalist and
Protestant areas of Northern Ireland.
The
terror group said the officer was among a number of people on a
so-called hit list drawn up by dissident republicans. The New IRA
said it had used semtex explosive in the booby trap device, which has
prompted unionists to question if all the previous arsenal of the
Provisional IRA had been decommissioned as Sinn Féin had promised
back in 2006-07.
Following
the attack, senior officers of the PSNI revealed that the force had
thwarted at least four other terror attacks across Northern Ireland
and warned of a spike in dissident republican violence in the run-up
to the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising against British rule.
The
New IRA is the largest of the three main terror groups opposed to the
peace process. Its formation was announced through a communique to
the Guardian in 2012.
Andy
Allen, the Ulster Unionist MLA for East Belfast, condemned those
behind the killing of the prison officer.
Allen
said: “This is devastating news and my heartfelt sympathies are
with the prison officer’s family. We must ensure that all necessary
support and assistance is given to the family at this difficult time.
The people responsible for this despicable attack must be brought to
justice.
“I
would again reiterate that the people responsible do not represent
wider society. They cannot and will not be allowed to take this
society back to the past.”
(www.theguardian.com
– Tuesday 15 March 2016 13.52 GMT)
Wikipedia: The Irish Republican
Army (IRA) is any of several armed movements in Ireland in
the 20th and 21st centuries dedicated to Irish republicanism,
the belief that all of Ireland should be an independent republic. It
was also characterised by the belief that political violence was
necessary to achieve that goal.
The first known use of the term "Irish Republican Army"
occurred in the Fenian raids on Canada in the 1860s. The
original Irish Republican Army formed by 1917 from those Irish
Volunteers who refused to enlist in the British
Army during World War I. It was the army of the Irish
Republic, declared by Dáil Éireann in 1919. Some Irish
people dispute the claims of more recently created organisations that
insist that they are the only legitimate descendants of the original
IRA, often referred to as the "Old IRA". The playwright and
former IRA member Brendan Behan once said that the first
issue on any IRA agenda was "the split". For the IRA, that
has often been the case. The first split came after the Anglo-Irish
Treaty in 1921, with supporters of the Treaty forming the
nucleus of the National Army of the newly created Irish
Free State, while the anti-treaty forces continued to use the
name Irish Republican Army. After the end of the Irish
Civil War, the IRA was around in one form or another for forty years,
when it split into the Official IRA and the Provisional IRA in 1969.
The latter then had its own breakaways, namely the Real IRA and the
Continuity IRA, each claiming to be the true successor of the Army of
the Irish Republic...
...In April 2011, former members of the
Provisional IRA announced a resumption of hostilities, and that "they
had now taken on the mantle of the mainstream IRA." They further
claimed "We continue to do so under the name of the Irish
Republican Army. We are the IRA." and insisted that they "were
entirely separate from the Real IRA, Oglaigh na hEireann (ONH), and
the Continuity IRA." They claimed responsibility for the April
killing of PSNI constable Ronan Kerr as well as
responsibility for other attacks that had previously been claimed by
the Real IRA and ONH.
Wikipedia:
Randall Jarrell (May 6, 1914 – October 14, 1965) was an
American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist,
novelist, and the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of
Congress, a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate...
http://www.poetryfoundation.org:
...Best known as a literary critic but also respected as a poet,
Randall Jarrell was noted for his acerbic, witty, and erudite
criticism. In a volume of essays about Jarrell titled Randall
Jarrell, 1914-1965, nearly all of the writers praised his critical
faculties. They also noted, commented Stephen Spender in
the New York Review of Books, "a cruel streak in Jarrell
when he attacked poets he didn't like." John Berryman wrote
that "Jarrell's reviews did go beyond the limit; they were
unbelievably cruel, that's true.... He hated bad poetry with such
vehemence and so vigorously that it didn't occur to him that in the
course of taking apart
– where he'd take a book
of poems and squeeze, like that, twist
– that in the course of
doing that, there was a human being also being squeezed."...
Wikipedia:
James Allen "Jim" Hightower (born January 11, 1943) is
an American syndicated columnist, progressive political
activist, and author who served from 1983 to 1991 as the elected
commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture...
...Soon after Clinton was elected,
Hightower became a critic of the president. He criticized Clinton for
having accepted corporate soft money contributions,
his support of NAFTA, his health care plan, and his refusal to
crack down on "corporate welfare", as well as what
Hightower viewed as inadequate efforts at fighting
unemployment and poverty...
...The "Doug Jones Average,"
a concept created by Jim Hightower, is the proposal that in order to
check the true health of the American economy, it is less useful to
look at the Dow Jones Industrial Average than it is to
check up on how Doug Jones down the street is doing. If Doug Jones is
on welfare, cannot feed his family, is blowing his savings, and is
three weeks behind on his bills, the Doug Jones average is "down."
If Doug just got a raise, can pay his bills and Doug and his family
are looking into owning a nice but not too expensive house, the Doug
Jones average is "up."...
Wikipedia:
John Arbuthnot (baptised 29 April 1667 – 27 February
1735), often known simply as Dr Arbuthnot, was a Scottish
physician, satirist and polymath in London.
He is best remembered for his contributions to mathematics, his
membership in the Scriblerus Club (where he inspired
both Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels book III
and Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, Or the Art of Sinking in
Poetry, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus, and possibly The
Dunciad), and for inventing the figure of John Bull...
...Arbuthnot
was one of the founding members of the Scriblerus Club, and was
regarded by the other wits of the group as the funniest, but he left
fewer literary remains than the other members. His satires are
written with an ease, a humanity, and an apparent sympathy. Swift and
Arbuthnot had similar styles in language (both preferred direct
sentences and clear vocabulary) with a feigned frenzy of lists
and taxonomies, and sometimes their works are attributed to each
other. The treatise on political lying, for example, has been
attributed to Swift in the past, although it was definitely
Arbuthnot's. Generally, Arbuthnot's writings are not as vicious or
nihilistic as Swift's, but they attack the same targets and both
refuse to hold up a set of positive norms for their readers.
Because
of Arbuthnot's own insistence on not being recognized, it is
difficult to speak definitively of his literary significance. Dr.
Johnson describes him as the 'most universal genius' and we know
that he was at the heart of many of the greatest satires of his age.
He was a conduit and source for a great many of the finest literary
accomplishments for over half a century of writing, but Arbuthnot was
zealous that he not receive credit.
Wikipedia: Frederick
Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington
Bailey, c. February 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an
African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer,
and statesman. After escaping from slavery in
Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement
from Massachusetts and New York, gaining note for his dazzling
oratory and incisive antislavery writings. In his time he was
described by abolitionists as a living counter-example to
slaveholders' arguments that slaves lacked the intellectual capacity
to function as independent American citizens. Even many Northerners
at the time found it hard to believe that such a great orator had
once been a slave...
...Douglass
was a firm believer in the equality of all peoples,
whether black, female, Native American, or
recentimmigrant. He was also a believer in dialogue and in making
alliances across racial and ideological divides, and in the liberal
values of the American Constitution. When radical abolitionists under
the motto "No Union With Slaveholders", criticized
Douglass' willingness to dialogue with slave owners, he famously
replied: "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody
to do wrong."
Dorothy Parker: Journalist,
writer, and poet. Born Dorothy Rothschild on August 22, 1893, in West
End, New Jersey. Dorothy Parker was a legendary literary figure,
known for her biting wit. She worked on such magazines
as Vogue andVanity Fair during the late 1910s. Parker
went on to work as a book reviewer for The New Yorker in
the 1920s. A selection of her reviews for this magazine was published
in 1970 as Constant Reader, the title of her column. She
remained a contributor to The New Yorker for many years;
the magazine also published a number of her short stories. One of her
most popular stories, “Big Blonde,” won the O. Henry Award in
1929...
...In
addition to her writing, Dorothy Parker was a noted member of the New
York literary scene in 1920s. She formed a group called the Algonquin
Round Table with writer Robert Benchley and playwright Robert
Sherwood. This artistic crowd also included such members as The
New Yorker founder Harold Ross, comedian Harpo Marx, and
playwright Edna Ferber among others. The group took its name from its
hangout – the Algonquin Hotel, but was also also known as the
Vicious Circle for the number of cutting remarks made by its members
and their habit of engaging in sharp-tongued banter.
Wikipedia:
...Encouraged by his family to study the violin, Youngman began in
show business as a musician. He led a small jazz band
called the "Swanee Syncopaters", and during their
performances he often told jokes. One night, the club's regular
comedian didn't show up and the owner asked Youngman to fill in. He
enjoyed it and began his long career as a stand-up comic...
...Like
many comedians, Henny Youngman treated his profession as a working
job, one where it is difficult to make a living, and getting paid for
the work is all-important. In numerous interviews, Youngman's advice
to other entertainers was to "nem di gelt" (Yiddish for
"take the money"). He was quoted in an interview with
the Web-based magazine Eye: "I get on the plane. I go
and do the job, grab the money and I come home and I keep it clean.
Those are my rules. Sinatra does the same thing, only he
has a helicopter waiting. That's the difference."...
...When
the New York Telephone Company started its Dial-a-Joke line
in 1974, over three million people called in one month to hear
30 seconds of Youngman's material – the most ever for a
comedian.
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Wikipedia:
Liberal Conservatism is a variant of
conservatism that combines conservative values and policies with
classical liberal stances. As these latter two terms have
had different meanings over time and across countries, liberal
conservatism also has a wide variety of meanings. Historically, the
term often referred to the combination of economic liberalism,
which champions laissez-faire markets, with the classical
conservatism concern for established tradition, respect for
authority and religious values. It contrasted itself with classical
liberalism, which supported freedom for the individual in
both the economic and social spheres...
...A secondary meaning for the
term liberal conservatism that has developed in Europe is
a combination of more modern conservative (less traditionalist) views
with those of social liberalism. This has developed as an
opposition to the more collectivist views of socialism.
Often this involves stressing what are now conservative views of
free-market economics and belief in individual responsibility, with
social liberal views on defence of civil
rights, environmentalism and support for a limited welfare
state. In continental Europe, this is sometimes also translated
into English as social conservatism.
Wikipedia: Conservative Liberalism is a variant of liberalism that
combines liberal values and policies with conservative stances, or,
more simply, the right wing of the liberal movement. The roots of
conservative liberalism are found at the beginning of the history
of liberalism. Until the two World Wars, in most European
countries the political class was formed by conservative liberals,
from Germany to Italy. Events after World War
I brought the more radical version of classical liberalism to a
more conservative (i.e. more moderate) type of liberalism.
Wikipedia:
National conservatism is a political term used primarily in
Europe to describe a variant of conservatism which concentrates more
on national interests than standard conservatism as well as upholding
cultural and ethnic identity, while not being outspokenly
nationalist or supporting a far-right approach. In
Europe, national conservatives are usually eurosceptics.
National conservatism is heavily
oriented towards the traditional family and social
stability as well as in favour of limiting immigration...
Wikipedia: Walter
Richard Sickert (31 May 1860 – 22 January 1942), born
in Munich, Germany, was a painter and printmaker who was a
member of the Camden Town Group in London. He was an
important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde
art in the 20th century.
Sickert
was a cosmopolitan and eccentric who often favoured ordinary people
and urban scenes as his subjects. His oeuvre also included portraits
of well-known personalities and images derived from press
photographs. He is considered a prominent figure in the transition
from Impressionism to Modernism...
...Sickert
took a keen interest in the crimes of Jack the Ripper and
believed he had lodged in a room used by the infamous serial killer.
He had been told this by his landlady, who suspected a previous
lodger. Sickert did a painting of the room and titled it "Jack
the Ripper's Bedroom." It shows a dark, melancholy room with
most details obscured. This painting now resides in the Manchester
City Art Gallery in Manchester...
...Although
for over 70 years there was no mention of Sickert's being a suspect
in the Ripper crimes, in modern times three books have been published
whose authors maintain that Sickert was Jack the Ripper or his
accomplice.
Wikipedia:
The Boat Race is a set of annual rowing races between
the Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge
University Boat Club, rowed between eights on the River
Thames in London, England. It is also known as
the University Boat Race and the Oxford and Cambridge
Boat Race, or by a title that includes the name of its
current sponsor (from 2016, the Cancer Research
UK Boat Race). It usually takes place on the last weekend of
March or the first weekend of April. The most recent race was
the 2015 race which took place on Saturday 11 April
2015, with Oxford winning the race by 20 seconds.
The
first race was in 1829 and the event has been held annually since
1856, except during the First and Second World
Wars. The course covers a 4.2-mile (6.8 km) stretch of
the Thames in West London, from Putney to Mortlake. Members
of both teams are traditionally known as blues and each
boat as a "Blue Boat", with Cambridge in light blue and
Oxford dark blue. As of 2015 Cambridge have won the race 81 times and
Oxford 79 times, with one dead heat...
...The
race is well-established and popular. Upwards of 250,000 people watch
the race from the banks of the river each year (in 2009, a record
270,000 people watched the race live) while a further 15 million
or more watch it on television; currently no other
non-country-representative rowing races are broadcast by a television
station.
Wikipedia: The United States
Senate is a legislative chamber in the bicameral legislature of
the United States, and together with the House of
Representatives makes up the U.S. Congress....
...The
Constitution requires that senators take an oath or affirmation to
support the Constitution. Congress has prescribed the following oath
for new senators:I, ___ ___, do solemnly swear (or affirm)
that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States
against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true
faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely,
without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will
well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am
about to enter. So help me God...
...Norris H. Cotton (May 11,
1900 – February 24, 1989) was
an American Republican politician and a United
States Representative as well as United States Senator from
the state of New Hampshire...
...One of his
most controversial votes came when he was the only senator from New
England to vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However,
Cotton would vote for later civil rights acts such as the Voting
Rights Act of 1965 and theCivil Rights Act of 1968...
Wikipedia:
Florynce Rae "Flo" Kennedy (February 11, 1916 – December
21, 2000) was an American lawyer, activist, civil rights advocate,
lecturer and feminist.
Kennedy
was born in Kansas City to an African-American family. Her father
Wiley Kennedy was a Pullman porter, and later had a taxi business.
The second of her parents' five daughters, she had a happy childhood,
full of support from her parents, despite experiencing poverty in the
Great Depression and racism in her mostly white neighborhood. The Klu
Klux Klan being present in her neighborhood, Kennedy remembered a
time in her neighborhood with her father having to be armed with a
shotgun in order to ward off the Klan who was trying to drive her
family out of the neighbourhood. She later commented: "My
parents gave us a fantastic sense of security and worth. By the time
the bigots got around to telling us that we were nobody, we already
knew we were somebody."...
...Kennedy
often dressed in a cowboy hat and pink sunglasses. Once, to protest
the lack of female bathrooms at Harvard, she led a mass urination on
the grounds. When asked about this, she said:
I'm
just a loud-mouthed middle-aged colored lady with a fused spine and
three feet of intestines missing and a lot of people think I'm crazy.
Maybe you do too, but I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other
people. The mystery to me is why more people aren't like me...
...In
1974, People magazine wrote that she was "The biggest, loudest
and, indisputably, the rudest mouth on the battleground."
Wikipedia: Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and spokeswoman for the feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 70s.
She
was a columnist for New York magazine and a founder
of Ms. magazine. In 1969, she published an article, "After
Black Power, Women's Liberation," which brought her to national
fame as a feminist leader.
In
2005, Steinem, Jane Fonda, and Robin Morgan co-founded
the Women's Media Center, an organization that works "to
make women visible and powerful in the media."
Steinem
currently travels internationally as an organizer and lecturer and is
a media spokeswoman on issues of equality...
...Steinem
has stated, "I think the fact that I've become a symbol for the
women's movement is somewhat accidental. A woman member of Congress,
for example, might be identified as a member of Congress; it doesn't
mean she's any less of a feminist but she's identified by her nearest
male analog. Well, I don't have a male analog so the press has to
identify me with the movement...
...Although
Steinem did not mention or advocate same-sex marriage in any
published works or interviews for more than three decades, she again
expressed support for same-sex marriage in the early 2000s,
stating in 2004 that "the idea that sexuality is only okay if it
ends in reproduction oppresses women — whose health depends on
separating sexuality from reproduction — as well as gay men and
lesbians." Steinem is also a signatory of the 2008 manifesto,
"Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision For All Our
Families and Relationships", which advocates extending legal
rights and privileges to a wide range of relationships, households,
and families...
...abortion
is supposed to make us a bad person. But I must say, I never felt
that. I used to sit and try and figure out how old the child would
be, trying to make myself feel guilty. But I never could! I think the
person who said: 'Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be
a sacrament' was right. Speaking for myself, I knew it was the first
time I had taken responsibility for my own life. I wasn't going to
let things happen to me. I was going to direct my life, and therefore
it felt positive. But still, I didn't tell anyone. Because I knew
that out there it wasn't...
Wikipedia:
James Bovard (born 1956) is a libertarian author and lecturer whose
political commentary targets examples of waste, failures, corruption,
cronyism and abuses of power in government. He is the author of
Attention Deficit Democracy, and eight other books. He has written
for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New
Republic, Reader's Digest, The American Conservative, and many other
publications. His books have been translated into Spanish, Arabic,
Japanese, and Korean.
Wikipedia:Benjamin
Disraeli (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British
politician and writer, who twice served as Prime Minister. He played
a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party,
defining its policies and its broad outreach. Disraeli is remembered
for his influential voice in world affairs, his political battles
with the Liberal Party leader William Ewart Gladstone, and his
one-nation conservatism or "Tory democracy". He made the
Conservatives the party most identified with the glory and power of
the British Empire. He is the only British Prime Minister of Jewish
birth...
...Despite
the gravity of Disraeli's condition, the doctors concocted optimistic
bulletins, for public consumption. The Prime Minister, Gladstone,
called several times to enquire about his rival's condition, and
wrote in his diary, "May the Almighty be near his pillow."
There was intense public interest in the former Prime Minister's
struggles for life. Disraeli had customarily taken the sacrament at
Easter; when this day was observed on 17 April, there was discussion
among his friends and family if he should be given the opportunity,
but those against, fearing that he would lose hope, prevailed. On the
morning of the following day, Easter Monday, he became incoherent,
then comatose. Disraeli's last confirmed words before dying in the
early morning of 19 April were "I had rather live but I am not
afraid to die".
During
his 50-year career as a comedy writer, Gene Perret has written for
some of the greatest comedians and television shows in history.
Perret started writing stand-up material in the early 1960s, working
for greats like Phyllis Diller and Slappy Writer. Perret joined Bob
Hope’s writing staff in 1969 and was Hope’s head writer for the
last 12 years of Hope’s career...
...Perret
has received seven Emmy nominations, including one for original
music, and two Writer’s Guild Award nominations. He has captured
three Emmy awards and one Writer’s Guild Award.
Perret
has also helped start the careers of many television comedy writers
through his books, conferences, and classes. He is the author of over
40 books, including the classic guide to comedy writing, “The New
Comedy Writing Step-by-Step” and his latest book, “The Ten
Commandments of Comedy.”
