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alexthebordercollie · 4 months

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I made this for an Encanto secret santa. Glad my kid enjoyed their gift ^.^ you can read the attached short story below the cut.

︵‿୨ - February 14 1912 - ୧‿︵

The hike up the steep mountainside was more exhausting in the rain. Slogging through the thick sticky mud that grew deeper the higher Bruno climbed. The closer he got to the source of the storm. Bruno spotted Pepa’s ruffled yellow dress peaking out against the murky landscape. The winds whipping the bright fabric about like a flag. Contrasted against the murky shadow the clouds coated across the lush greenery. Washing out all color save for that bright yellow dress. Soggy and miserable as it looked.

“Can I sit?” Bruno carefully approached the small splash of sorry color sitting alone in the sea of sullen browns, greys, and blues. He pointed innocently to the patch of muddy ground next to his sister.

Pepa looked up at Bruno with the fattest pout. The rain blended with the tears that streamed down flushed red cheeks. Indistinguishable from each other. Green eyes narrowed before looking away. Pepa scooted an inch to the side to make space on her little patch of mud. Bruno sat down beside her. The ground squelching unpleasantly through his trousers. The wind blew Bruno’s hood about but he didn’t bother trying to keep it on his head. There wasn’t much point. He was already soaked clear through to the bone and had been for a while. From up here, the two siblings could watch the wild tears stream down the mountainside and into town. Occasionally a stray neighbor would step outside to brave the storm. They looked like ants. Scurrying wildly about the empty streets to dodge the rain.

“Julieta’s talking to Mamá right now.” Bruno stated awkwardly. Unsure how to make conversation. He knew Pepa didn’t want to talk, but Bruno figured she might feel better if they did.

He didn’t have much reasoning behind the conjecture. After all, he was the one who caused this storm. Him and his big mouth. His bad luck. Bruno had a habit of making most things worse. He knew Pepa was upset but in her moment of stunned silence, he made the rookie mistake of trying to lighten the mood with a joke. He was stupid. He knew that, but then again… things couldn’t get much worse than they were now. He still wanted to help. Even if he wasn’t very good at it.

“Good for her.” Pepa huffed.

“Mamá’s pretty mad.” Bruno observed. He pulled his poncho over his lap and watched the water collect before wringing it out tightly in his grip. Not that it mattered. He’d stretch it back out again to watch another puddle form.

“Mamá’s always mad.” Pepa spat back in frustration.

“That’s not true.” Bruno countered meekly. Wringing more water out of his poncho. “She’s never mad at Julieta.”

“At us Bruno!” Pepa snapped. Furrowing her brow in frustration at her brother.

Bruno said another stupid thing. Of course he did. “Correcto, porque somos los jodidos.” He replied simply. Not sad or resentful. Just a statement of fact. One he knew Pepa was just as self-aware of as he was.

They both knew they were the problem children. Pepa because her emotions always got the better of her and Bruno? Well… what wasn’t wrong with Bruno? He couldn’t exactly explain what the problem was. He couldn’t answer that question if he tried. He just knew he was wrong. Everything he did or said. He was strange. Stupid. Bad luck…

“Ajá.” Pepa sighed in resignation.

Bruno was just stating the obvious again.

Bruno tucked quietly under his poncho. Wrapping it tight over his knees and resting his chin on the flat surface the tent created. His rat Lupita squirmed up to his collar to poke her head out. The little doe sensed the tension in the air as the deafening silence settled between the two siblings. The storm was loud and raging around them, despite Pepa’s still silence.

“Estoy bien mija.” Bruno soothed to his furry little friend. Petting her sopping wet fur between the ears. He liked talking to his rats like this. When he talked to them he could pretend to be a grown-up. That was always nice. He somehow had a feeling he would never get to be a grown-up for real. He couldn’t explain why. It was just a feeling.

“Puaj, puf, puf, puf, puf, puf!” Pepa suddenly shrieked. Scrambling back away from Bruno. The thick mud staining the little yellow dress that stuck out against the storm. Smothering that little spark of color. “You brought one of your rats?!”

“It’s just Lupita.” Bruno defended. Plucking the small doe from his shoulder and cupping her protectively in his hands. “She’s nice. She was worried about you and wanted to come make sure you were ok.”

“It’s all soggy and smelly!” Pepa whined. She shuttering and squirming as she leaned as far from Bruno as she could without getting up.

“But she’s so nice.” Bruno protested. Holding up the dripping little doe to show his sister. Showing off Lupita’s bright beady eyes.

“Ay!” Pepa shrieked as Bruno shoved the rat into her face. Flailing and trying to shove it away. Lupita began to panic and squirm in Bruno’s hands. Attempting to flee Pepa’s shrieking. A bolt of lightning zapped the ground next to Bruno and made him jump. Barely dodging a very painful strike.

“Just hold the rat!” Bruno demanded irritably.

“I’m not holding that thing!” Pepa yelled back over the howling winds. “It’s gonna bite me!”

Bruno huffed and puffed up his cheeks. He filled his lungs with air and gathered his courage before grabbing Pepa by her arm and forcing Lupita into her hands. “Ahí, ves?” Bruno challenged. Pepa kept squirming but Bruno held her hands clasped over Lupita. The frightened little doe curled up and shook in their hands. “She’s not gonna bite. Just hold her, you’ll feel better.” He insisted.

Pepa anxiously sucked in her lips. Her shoulders bunched up around her neck. Slowly she opened one eye and looked down. She gradually relaxed as she looked at the caged little creature in their hands. Trembling and sweet. Not an ounce of malice in Lupita’s tiny body.

“Feeling better?” Bruno asked softly. Watching Pepa slowly unwind. Bruno’s chest swelled with a sense of pride. He loved his rats. Knew just how sweet they were. How good they felt to hold. Bruno slowly loosened his grip on the girls and guided Pepa’s hands till she was holding Lupita comfortably. The little wet rat continued to shake for a bit before finally looking up at Pepa with wide pleading eyes.

Pepa sniffled and the wind gradually slowed around them. “She’s warm.” She muttered softly.

“And soft.” Bruno chirped with pride.

Pepa nodded slowly before her puffy red cheeks began to swell. Her eyes welled up as she stared back down at Lupita. Broken wailing sobs escaped her, rattling her delicate frame.

Bruno’s heart lurched up into his throat. Panic setting in with the fresh wave of icy cold downpour that soaked him to the bone. “Oh, oh no, Pepa, don’t cry, I didn’t mean to…” Bruno rushed to try and hold his sister but couldn’t find an opening through the cracks of lighting and harsh winds.

“He said he dumped me 'cause I’m crazy.” Pepa sobbed.

“You’re not crazy!” Bruno scolded sternly. Shouting over the rain.

Angry tears continued to pour over Pepa’s flushed face. She sucked in a few sharp wheezing breaths before choking out her words. “I feel crazy.” She hugged Lupita to her chest and sobbed into her sopping wet pelt. “No matter how hard I try… It always rains…”

Pepa’s words dug into Bruno’s chest like a knife. They struck at something, at feelings he didn’t know how to put words yet. He knew Pepa wasn’t the crazy one. She didn’t deserve to feel like that.

“You’re not crazy.” Bruno mumbled as the howling winds died down again. The rain falling straight down like a bucket dumped onto the mountainside. Weighing Pepa’s hair and clothes down like lead. Bruno pulled Pepa close and hugged her. Resting her head on his shoulder. “You’re just a kid.” He told her. “It’s okay to be sad. It’s not your fault.”

Pepa sobbed into her brother’s neck. For a while, it was all she could do. Just sniffle and grieve. Exhausted and sad and broken. “I tried so hard.” She whimpered.

“I know you did.” Bruno replied softly.

“I was going to be the best novia ever.” Pepa grieved. “We were going to get married someday.”

Bruno winced and tilted his head. “Well… I mean, I knew that wasn’t gonna happen.” He replied.

Pepa shoved him back with one hand. Lupita still perched in the other. “You knew he was going to dump me this whole time and you didn’t say anything?”

“Oh, no,” Bruno held up his hands in submission. Shrinking back before he risked getting zapped. “I didn’t know what was going to happen I just, like, your baby, in the future, I knew they weren’t his.” Bruno told her. “I don’t know who you’re supposed to marry but I saw your daughter once in a vision.”

Pepa grew quiet and hugged Lupita again. The tired stressed little rat looked like she was growing impatient with being squished but made no effort to escape her grip. “Could you uhm…” Pepa looked away and tugged at her limp braid with one hand. “Could you see who my husband is? Maybe then I won’t have to waste my time…”

Bruno quickly shook his head. He immediately knew how that would go. A deep pit in his gut told him if he tried to it would only make life harder for his sister. “I don’t think that’s a good idea Pepa. What if I jinx it? What if I see you with someone terrible and ugly and then you're stuck with him?” Bruno challenged.

Pepa sighed. Her shoulders sagging. “I guess you’re right…” She conceded. She turned away to stare aimlessly back down the muddy slope at the town. Petting Lupita in her lap. “Mamá says real women don’t get their heart broken over stupid little boys.” She pouted softly.

Mamá was always telling them what it meant to be a grown-up. All the things they had to do and be. None of it sounded very fun. Most of it sounded impossible to Bruno. He wasn’t sure he would ever be a real man. He didn’t know how to be, and seeing the future didn’t make the answers any clearer.

Bruno curled up and hugged his knees. Staring down at the town again. “I wouldn’t know anything about that.” He admitted. Manhood was already hard enough to wrap his head around. He couldn’t begin to figure out being a woman. “I’m pretty sure Mamá thinks I’m a stupid little boy.” He chuckled awkwardly and quacked out of the side of his mouth. “So I guess you better not let me break your heart.” He teased. Turning to look back at his sister. “Then we’ll both be in trouble and I won’t even be able to help cause you’ll be too mad at me.”

Pepa let out a little snort that turned into a laugh. One laugh turned into two, before devolving into more tears again. Her genuine smile a brief flash of light that was quickly snuffed out by a fresh wave of pain. “Dios mío, duele tanto.” She wept. Overwhelmed by a pain Bruno had yet to know.

“Lo siento.” Bruno replied softly. “I don’t know how to make it better.” He looked down at his feet and hugged his knees. His hair clinging to his face and forming thick black curtains over his eyes. He could just see his toes soaking into the mud between the clumps of black. The gentle sound of his sister’s cries just barely audible over the fat lazy raindrops plopping against the ground.

Bruno’s eyes scanned over the mud. Counting the raindrops. Eventually, his gaze landed on a long sturdy branch with a fork at the end. He perked up and squinted at the stick for a moment. A thought occurring to him. Pepa looked up at him curiously as Bruno got up to pick up the stick. He didn’t mind Pepa’s stares. She’d understand in just a moment. Bruno scurried about the slippery hillside and surrounding woods looking for the right sort of branches. It took some searching but he found another similarly forked branch and broke a bit off the end to make them the same length. More sticks, some large fronds that had been knocked from the towering wax palms by the storm.

“What are you doing?” Pepa narrowed her eyes at Bruno skeptically as he approached with his bundle of waterlogged kindling.

“Helping.” Bruno replied simply.

Bruno dug a couple of holes in the mud on either side of Pepa and wedged his forked branches into them. Drilling them down into the ground and caking the base in mud till it was enough to hold them upright. Another branch draped between the two pillars. Its ends woven into the forks. Once he did so he laid a few other branches he’d stripped of any straggly bits diagonally from the ground to the top branch. He layered palm fronds over the frame he’d created till he’d built a decently solid little lean-to. The walls of packed leaves caught the rain as it fell and offered Pepa a small shelter.

Bruno could feel Pepa’s eyes burning holes into him as he came to sit back down beside her under the palm fronds. “En serio?” She chuckled softly.

Bruno shrugged. “What? I made a shelter. Now you won’t get rained on.”

Pepa laughed again. A bit more genuine this time. “And? We’re both drenched. What does it matter? We’re still wet.”

“Sí.” Bruno replied simply. “But now we’re a little less wet.” He reasoned. Hugging his knees and listening to the rain hit the leaves and slide off. “I figure that’s still better.”

“Sí, creo que sí.” Pepa replied softly. She flopped sideways, resting her head on Bruno’s shoulder. Lupita looked up at Bruno pleadingly from her perch in Pepa’s hands. Pepa didn’t really know how to hold a rat right but Lupita was doing her best to be patient. Bruno was considering taking his rat back when the next words out of Pepa’s mouth took him by surprise and disrupted his thoughts.

“Gracias Bruno.” Pepa sighed. Closing her eyes and listening to the sound of the rain.

“De nada.” Bruno assured her. Resting his cheek on top of her head.

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sunnydaleherald · 2 months

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Tuesday, February 20

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loneberry · 2 years

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Body, Power, Politics

I've been having fun drafting my syllabus for my Body, Power, Politics graduate seminar happening in the spring. This is still just a draft of the readings... We will think through the body through the lenses of psychoanalysis, affect theory, biopolitics, social reproduction theory, black feminism, queer theory, new materialism, posthumanism, disability studies, and black studies. (I'm honestly tempted to do a whole semester of Sylvia Wynter...)

Seems like grad students from across the university have gotten wind that I'm now on faculty... my class was full within hours of registration opening. Departmental administrator: "This is a first that a class is full on the first day of the registration period." Now I have an inbox of students requesting to be let into the class. What to do!

Week 1: Introduction; Psychoanalysis and the Body

January 10

Course Introduction

Selection from The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader

2: Sigmund Freud, “A Note on the Unconscious in Psychoanalysis,” 1912, p 10

6: Jacques Lacan, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience,” 1949, p 57

Week 2: Race and Psychoanalysis

January 17

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

Recommended

Lewis Gordon, “Through the Zone of Nonbeing A Reading of Black Skin, White Masks in Celebration of Fanon's Eightieth Birthday”

Week 3: Between Psychoanalysis and Neurobiology

January 24

Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain Damage

Catherine Malabou, Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience

“Introduction: From the Passionate Soul to the Emotional Brain”

“On Neural Plasticity, Trauma, and the Loss of Affects”

Week 4: Sylvia Wynter and the Human

January 31

Sylvia Wynter, “Towards the Sociogenic Principle: Fanon, Identity, the Puzzle of Conscious Experience, and What It Is Like to Be ‘Black'”

Sylvia Wynter, “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—an Argument”

Sylvia Wynter, “The Ceremony Must be Found: After Humanism”

Sylvia Wynter and Katherine McKittrick, “Unparalleled Catastrophe for Our Species? Or, to Give Humanness a Different Future: Conversations”

Recommended

Sylvia Wynter, “The Ceremony Found: Towards the Autopoetic Turn/Overturn, Its Autonomy of Human Agency and Extraterritoriality of (Self-)Cognition”

Week 5: Biopolitics, Bodies Without Organs

February 7

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“6. November 28, 1947: How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?” 149-166

Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze (editor), Biopolitics: A Reader

Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze, “Biopolitics: An Encounter,” p 1

Michel Foucault, “Right of Death and Power over Life,” p 41

Michel Foucault, “‘Society Must Be Defended,’ Lecture at the Collège de France,” p 61

Giorgio Agamben, “Introduction to Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life,” p 134

Week 6: Entangled Matter

February 14

Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning

Monika Rogowska-Stangret, “Corpor(e)al Cartographies of New Materialism. Meeting the Elsewhere Halfway”

Week 7: Social Reproduction Theory

February 21

Tithi Bhattacharya (Editor), Social Reproduction Theory

1. Introduction: Mapping Social Reproduction Theory - Tithi Bhattacharya

2. Crisis of Care? On the Social-Reproductive Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism - Nancy Fraser

3. Without Reserves - Salar Mohandesi and Emma Teitelman

4. How Not to Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working Class - Tithi Bhattacharya

5. Intersections and Dialectics: Critical Reconstructions in Social Reproduction Theory - David McNally

9. Body Politics: The Social Reproduction of Sexualities - Alan Sears

10. From Social Reproduction Feminism to the Women's Strike - Cinzia Arruzza

Mariarosa Dalla Costa, “The Power of Women and Subversion of the Community”

Silvia Federici, Chapter 2, “The Accumulation of Labor and the Degradation of Women” in Caliban and the Witch

Angela Davis, "The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective"

Week 8: Gender, Sexuality, and Capitalism

February 28

Christopher Chitty, Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System

Jules Joanne Gleeson and Elle O'Rourke (editors), Transgender Marxism

Nat Raha, “A Queer Marxist Transfeminism: Queer and Trans Social Reproduction”

Zoe Belinsky, “Transgender and Disabled Bodies - Between Pain and the Imaginary”

Nathaniel Dickson, “Seizing the Means: Towards a Trans Epistemology”

Recommended

Nat Raha, “Transfeminine Brokenness, Radical Transfeminism”

Week 9: Social Reproduction and the Family

March 7

Melinda Cooper, Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism

Week 10: Resistance and the Body

March 21

Nayan Shah, Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes

Week 11: Surrogacy

March 28

Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora, Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures

Recommended

Sophie Lewis, Full Surrogacy Now!

Week 12: Black Feminism, Flesh, Labor, and Value

April 4

Hortense Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book”

Saidiya Hartman, “The Belly of the World: A Note on Black Women’s Labors”

Denise Ferreira Da Silva, “Towards a Black Feminist Poethics”

Denise Ferreira Da Silva, “1 (life) ÷ 0 (blackness) = ∞ − ∞ or ∞ / ∞: On Matter Beyond the Equation of Value”

Denise Ferreira Da Silva, “Difference Without Separability”

Week 13: Debility/Disabilty

April 11

Jasbir Puar, The Right to Maim Debility, Capacity, Disability

Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism

“Slow Death (Obesity, Sovereignty, Lateral Agency)”

Week 14: Race and Technology April 18

Ramon Amaro, The Black Technical Object: On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being

Week 15: Antiblackness and the Human

April 25

Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World

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sirtravisjacksonoftexas · 5 months

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Marvin the Martian and Alexis Bledel: Parallelomania for Fun!!!!

1. Both originated in America (Marvin the Martian was invented in the USA, Alexis Bledel was born in the USA).

2. Both speak English.

3. Both have been on TV.

4. Both have elicited laughter (Marvin the Martian on Looney Tunes, Alexis Bledel on Gilmore Girls).

5. Marvin the Martian’s cartoons consist of two genres (comedy and science fiction): Gilmore Girls consists of two genres (drama and comedy, a “Dramedy”). Alexis Bledel has likewise played in several films that were more than one genre (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Post Grad, etc).

6. Marvin the Martian’s cartoons are partly science fiction: Alexis Bledel has played in Handmaid’s Tale, a science fiction TV series.

7. Marvin the Martian’s cartoons are partly comedy: Alexis Bledel has played in films and shows that were partly comedy (Post Grad, Gilmore Girls, etc)

8. Marvin the Martian is a villain. Alexis Bledel has played villains (Becky in Sin City, Officer Kate Logan in The Kate Logan Affair).

9. Marvin the Martian is cold blooded, having no qualms about wiping out Earth: Alexis Bledel depicted Violet, a cold blooded assassin in the movie “Violet and Daisy” who had no qualms about killing large numbers of people.

10. Both have fans.

11. Both wear skirts.

12. Both are connected to Warner Brothers (Looney Tunes, which Marvin is a character in, was made by Warner Brothers. “Gilmore Girls” was likewise made by Warner Brothers).

13. Both are soft spoken.

14. Their first names each consist of six letters.

15. Both “A” and “I” are in their first names.

16. Both “Looney Tunes” and “Gilmore Girls”, the shows that made both Marvin the Martian and Alexis Bledel famous, have each five letters in the second parts of their names.

17. In the cartoons, Marvin the Martian’s plan to destroy the Earth was foiled by Duck Dodgers of the 24½th century, a character with superhuman durability (capable of surviving explosions big enough to destroy planets, can withstand laser fire, etc). In Sin City, Becky, the prostitute that Alexis Bledel plays, plans to have the mob take back control of the prostitutes who run Old Town (a part of Basin City)…only for her plan to be foiled by Dwight McArthy, an antihero who has superhuman durability (He could fall multiple stories from a skyscraper without suffering harm, survive punches from super strong opponents, etc).

18. Marvin the Martian was armed with a ray gun called a “A-1 Disintegrating Pistol” (and was shaped like a pistol): Alexis Bledel has played characters armed with pistols (Becky in Sin City, Violet in Violet and Daisy, Officer Kate Logan in the Kate Logan Affair).

Sources:

“From Abba to Zoom: A Pop Culture Encyclopedia of the Late 20th Century” by David Mansour, 303

“Sandbows and Black Lights: Reflections on Optics” by Stephen R. Wilk, 188

“War and the Media: Essays on News Reporting, Propaganda and Popular Culture” by Barbara S. Hugenberg, Paul M. Haridakis and Stanley T. Wearden (Editors), 80

Gilmore Girls (TV Show)

“Welcome to the Gilmore Girls” Documentary

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (Miniseries)

Sin City (Movie)

Violet & Daisy (Movie)

Sin City: a Dame to Kill For (Movie)

Post Grad (Movie)

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Movie)

The Kate Logan Affair. (Movie)

The Handmaid’s Tale (TV show).

Looney Tunes (Episodes such as “Haredevil Hare”, “Duck Dodgers in the 24 ½ Century”, etc).

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Saints&Reading: Thursday, February 16, 2023

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HOLY EQUAL-TO-THE-APOSTLES NIKOLAI, ARCHBISHOP, APOSTLE TO JAPAN (1912)

Saint Nicholas, Enlightener of Japan, was born Ivan Dimitrievich Kasatkin on August 1, 1836, in the village of Berezovsk, Belsk district, Smolensk diocese, where his father served as a deacon. At the age of five, he lost his mother. He completed the Belsk religious school, and afterward the Smolensk Theological Seminary. In 1857 Ivan Kasatkin entered the Saint Petersburg Theological Academy. On June 24, 1860, in the academy temple of the Twelve Apostles, Bishop Nectarius tonsured him with the name Nicholas.

On June 29, the Feast of the foremost Apostles Peter and Paul, the monk Nicholas was ordained deacon. The next day, on the altar feast of the academy church, he was ordained to the holy priesthood. Later, at his request, Father Nicholas was assigned to Japan as head of the consular church in the city of Hakodate.

At first, preaching the Gospel in Japan seemed completely impossible. In Father Nicholas’s own words: “the Japanese of the time looked upon foreigners as beasts, and on Christianity as a villainous sect, to which only villains and sorcerers could belong.” He spent eight years in studying the country, the language, manners and customs of the people among whom he would preach.

In 1868, the flock of Father Nicholas numbered about twenty Japanese. At the end of 1869, Hieromonk Nicholas reported in person to the Synod in Petersburg about his work. A decision was made, on January 14, 1870, to form a special Russian Spiritual Mission for preaching the Word of God among the pagan Japanese. Father Nicholas was elevated to the rank of archimandrite and appointed as head of this Mission.

Returning to Japan after two years in Russia, he transferred some of the responsibility for the Hakodate flock to Hieromonk Anatolius and began his missionary work in Tokyo. In 1871 there was a persecution of Christians in Hakodate. Many were arrested (among them, the first Japanese Orthodox priest Paul Sawabe). Only in 1873 did the persecution abate somewhat, and the free preaching of Christianity became possible.

In this year Archimandrite Nicholas began the construction of a stone building in Tokyo which housed a church, a school for fifty men, and later a religious school, which became a seminary in 1878.

In 1874, Bishop Paul of Kamchatka arrived in Tokyo to ordain as priests several Japanese candidates recommended by Archimandrite Nicholas. At the Tokyo Mission, there were four schools: catechists, for women, church servers, and seminary. At Hakodate, there were two separate schools for boys and girls.

In the second half of 1877, the Mission began regular publication in the journal “Church Herald.” By the year 1878, there were already 4115 Christians in Japan, and there were a number of Christian communities. Church services and classes in Japanese and the publication of religious and moral books permitted the Mission to attain such results quickly. Archimandrite Nicholas petitioned the Holy Synod in December of 1878 to provide a bishop for Japan.

Archimandrite Nicholas was consecrated bishop on March 30, 1880, in the Trinity Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky Lavra. Returning to Japan, he resumed his apostolic work with increased fervor. He completed construction on the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Tokyo, translated the service books, and compiled a special Orthodox theological dictionary in the Japanese language.

Great hardship befell the saint and his flock during the Russo-Japanese War. For his ascetic labor during these difficult years, he was elevated to the rank of Archbishop.

In 1911, half a century had passed since the young hieromonk Nicholas had first set foot on Japanese soil. At that time there were 33,017 Christians in 266 communities of the Japanese Orthodox Church, including 1 Archbishop, 1 bishop, 35 priests, 6 deacons, 14 singing instructors, and 116 catechists.

On February 3, 1912, Archbishop Nicholas departed peacefully to the Lord at the age of seventy-six. The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church glorified him on April 10, 1970, since the saint had long been honored in Japan as a righteous man, and a prayerful intercessor before the Lord.

PROPHET AZARIAH (10TH C.B.C.)

He lived and prophesied in the tenth century B.C., during the reign of Asa, King of Judea. He predicted the help of God to this king for his piety and troubles, which must overtake the Judeans because of their sins. (2 Chronicles 15). The Spirit of God is described as coming upon him (verse 1), and he goes to meet King Asa of Judah to exhort him to carry out a work of reform. In response to Azariah's encouragement, Asa carried out a number of reforms including the destruction of idols and repairs to the altar of Yahweh in the Jerusalem Temple complex. The Bible records that a period of peace followed the carrying out of these reforms (verse 19).

Azariah is described as being the "son of Oded" (verse 1), but the Masoretic Text omits Azariah's name in verse 8, suggesting that the prophecy is from Oded himself

Source: Orthodox Churh in America

MARK 15:1-15

1Immediately, in the morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council; and they bound Jesus, led Him away, and delivered Him to Pilate. 2 Then Pilate asked Him, "Are You the King of the Jews?" He answered and said to him, "It is as you say."3 And the chief priests accused Him of many things, but He answered nothing.4 Then Pilate asked Him again, saying, "Do You answer nothing? See how many things they testify against You!" 5 But Jesus still answered nothing, so Pilate marveled. 6 Now at the feast he was accustomed to releasing one prisoner to them, whomever they requested. 7 And there was one named Barabbas, who was chained with his fellow rebels; they had committed murder in the rebellion. 8 Then the multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do just as he had always done for them. 9 But Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?" 10 For he knew that the chief priests had handed Him over because of envy. 11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd so that he should rather release Barabbas to them. 12 Pilate answered and said to them again, "What then do you want me to do with Him whom you call the King of the Jews?" 13 So they cried out again, "Crucify Him!" 14 Then Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has He done?" But they cried out all the more, "Crucify Him!" 15 So Pilate, wanting to gratify the crowd, released Barabbas to them; and he delivered Jesus after he had scourged Him, to be crucified.

JOHN 4:20-5:21

20 If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves Him who begot also loves him who is begotten of Him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. 4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world our faith. 5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? 6 This is He who came by water and blood-Jesus Christ; not only by water but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness because the Spirit is truth. 7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. 8 And there are three that bear witness on earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one.9 If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is the witness of God which He has testified of His Son. 10 He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar because he has not believed the testimony that God has given of His Son. 11 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God. 14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him. 16 If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin which does not lead to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for those who commit sin not leading to death. There is sin leading to death. I do not say that he should pray about that. 17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death. 18 We know that whoever is born of God does not sin; but he who has been born of God keeps himself, and the wicked one does not touch him. 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one. 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.21

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

#orthodoxy #orthodoxchristianity #easternorthodoxchurch #originofchristianity #spirituality #holyscriptures #bible #gospel #wisdom

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TOBIN

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Tobin (full name John Horace Tobin in the Role-Playing Game and Jonathon "John" Horace Tobin in the IDW Comics) is the author of Tobin's Spirit Guide, a book cataloging various known ghosts, goblins, spooks, spectres, and demons that is often used as a reference guide by the Ghostbusters whenever they fight an unfamiliar entity or to find information on a ghost they are trying to defeat.

Ghostbusters International - Tobin's Spirit Guide

John Horace Tobin was born in London in the 1870. He was the only child of a very affluent family and son of a successful businessman. Tobin studied at Oxford University where he earned two degrees, in Obscure Ancient Languages and Psychology. In the late 19th century, Tobin worked in middle management for a British trading company in Egypt, performing tasks such as record keeping. After the death of his father and an encounter with an Egyptian spirit named Ahagotsu in 1899, Tobin and his new friend Shrewsbury Smith vowed to spend the rest of their lives researching and fighting supernatural entities.

From 1901-1902, Tobin established an office in London with Smith then embarked on an extensive trip through the Low Countries, including France, Germany, and the Netherlands for the next three years. From 1905-1906, Tobin and Smith spent another period in their London office. In 1907-1911, they traveled to Eastern Europe then south from Turkey into Mesopotamia. Tobin spent the next two years on follow-ups and Smith would occasionally return to London to run errands. A return to Egypt followed in 1914-1916. They traveled along the Nile River, Alexandria to Aswan, by ship from Suez to Aseb, north to Damascus, east to Beirut, took a steamer to England. Luckily, they left the Middle East months before British forces began driving Turks out of Palestine.

Tobin and Smith spent another period of two years in London then made a trip to the United States of America. They mostly explored the eastern seaboard for two to three months then returned to London. In mid-February 1920, Tobin missed the deadline for his book. It didn't seem to cause any problems. On March 6th, he wrote the book's introduction and the first edition of Tobin's Spirit Guide was published in October. The rest of Tobin's life is unknown aside from the death of Shrewsbury Smith in 1924.

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Jonathon Horace Tobin earned his education at Cambridge University. Tobin made a name for himself exposing fraudulent spiritualists. In the early 1900s, he was called into investigate a creature preying on children in an East German village. Tobin encountered a Grundel. In 1909, Tobin journeyed to Russia to meet with Vladimir Belascu in the Tunguska region. Something terrible happened and it was later known as the Tunguska Blast of 1909. In 1912, Tobin went to Siberia. He stayed at the house of the alleged Witch of Krasnoyarsk. On September 14, 1912, Tobin met an explorer named Mikhael Gallon while he was working on an entry about the Werechicken. Mikhael was investigating reports of Woolly Mammoths. Tobin revealed he had glimpsed one.

Together, Tobin and Mikhael mapped out where the Mammoths could be found. He decided to accompany Mikhael's group deeper into Siberia for his research. Days went by and no Mammoths were seen. Tobin recounted an old Russian folktale about The Undying Soldier and his Mystical Sack. While contemplating the truth of the story, Tobin stated, "Every myth grows tall from the tiniest seeds of truth" and noted the renowned historian Leon Zundinger documented the actual existence of Vigo from the folktale. The group discovered an old tower and Tobin became alert and documented everything. While Mikhael's team rested, Tobin explored the tower. He discovered the corpse of the Undying Soldier. He led Mikhael to the room and shared his findings. However, Tobin stared elsewhere at Death. Tobin went undercover in the Cult of Gozer to research their methods and history for his Tobin's Spirit Guide book. He later published a more in-depth look at the cult in a smaller book titled "The Gozerians Among Us". The print run was marginal and it is believed no copies of it exist in the present. The Schoening Omnibi later spring boarded from the research on the Cult of Gozer.

Tobin completed the full text of the guide in 1929. While researching Senta, Tobin created an illustration of it based on descriptions present in the journals of Heironymus Van Aachen. However, while conducting research on this entity, Tobin passed away.

In 1934, Sam Hain purchased the home of Jonathon Tobin - nicknamed Tobin's Mansion, the largest occupied residential compound in America, located in East Hampton, New York.

In the 1990s, the Paranormal Contracts Oversight Commission kept a file on Tobin, labeled #P012.

In the backcover of his book as designed in the The Real Ghostbusters NOW Comics

In the Role Playing Game Tobin’s Spirit Guide

In the IDW Ghostbusters Comics

#ghostbusters #the real ghostbusters #NOW comics #ghostbusters 1984 #idw ghostbusters #tobin's spirit guide

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On June 10, 1865, the world premiere of "Tristan and Isolde" by R. Wagner took place in Munich.

„Isolde… wie schön…“

Here are some of the first tenors to have sung the role of Tristan over the years and contributed to the success of this work through their dedication.

Erik Schmedes (27 August 1868, in Gentofte, Denmark – 21 March 1931, in Vienna), Danish heldentenor.

Alois Pennarini (Vienna 1870 - Liberec, Czechoslovakia 1927), Austrian-Hungarian first spinto tenor then heldentenor.

Modest Menzinsky (29 April 1875 in Novosilky, Galicia - 11 December 1935 in Stockholm), Ukrainian heroic tenor.

Karl Kurz-Stolzenberg

Adolf Gröbke (May 26, 1872 Hildesheim - September 16, 1949 Epfach), German tenor.

Iwan Ershov (November 8, 1867 – November 21, 1943), Soviet and Russian dramatic tenor.

Alfred von Bary (January 18, 1873 in Valletta, Malta - September 13, 1926 in Munich), German tenor.

Alexander Bandrowsky (April 22, 1860 in Lubaczów - May 28, 1913 in Cracow), Polish Tenor.

Jacques Urlus (6 January 1867 in Hergenrath, Rhine Province – 6 June 1935 in Noordwijk, Netherlands), Dutch dramatic tenor.

Francesc Viñas (27 March 1863 – 14 July 1933), Spanish tenor.

Richard Schubert (Dessau, Germania; December 15, 1885 - Oberstaufen, Germania; October 12, 1959), German tenor.

Dr. Julius Pölzer (April 9, 1901 in Admont - February 16, 1972 in Vienna), Austrian tenor.

Giuseppe Borgatti (Cento, 17 March 1871 – Reno di Leggiuno, 18 October 1950), dramatic tenor. (with Magini-Coletti as Kurwenal)

Antonio Magini-Coletti (17 February 1855 – 21 July 1912), Italian baritone.

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Explaining one of VTMB paintings (pt 12)

The Tomb of Washington, Mount Vernon Ink on paper; steel plate engraving, etching (1840) by William Henry Bartlett (artist), John Cousen(engraver) and Virtue & Co. Publishing Company

This print shows the tomb of Founding Father and First U.S. President George Washington( February 22, 1732- December 14, 1799) who died in his bed at his family home at Mount Vernon, Virginia and is the location where he is laid to rest in accordance with his last wishes. Before his death he had made provisions for this new brick tomb to be built for him and his wife, the first First Lady of the United States, Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 2, 1731 — May 22, 1802). This was necessary because despite the Washingtons best efforts, their original family vault on the property was rapidly deteriorating beyond repair. [1]

William Henry Bartlett (March 26, 1809 – September 13, 1854) was a British artist known for his steel engravings. Born in Kentish Town, London he became one of the foremost illustrators of topography of his generation and traveled the world including vast parts of Europe, the Middle East and North America. In 1835, Bartlett first visited the United States to draw the buildings, towns and scenery of the northeastern states. The finely detailed steel engravings Bartlett produced were published uncolored with a text by Nathaniel Parker Willis as American Scenery; or Land, Lake, and River: Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature. American Scenery was published by George Virtue in London in 30 monthly installments from 1837 to 1839. Bound editions of the work were published from 1840 onward. Bartlett made sepia wash drawings the exact size to be engraved. His engraved views were widely copied by artists, but no signed oil painting by his hand is known. Engravings based on Bartlett's views were later used in his posthumous History of the United States of North America, continued by Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward and published around 1856.Bartlett's primary concern was to render "lively impressions of actual sights", as he wrote in the preface to The Nile Boat (London, 1849). Many views contain some ruin or element of the past including many scenes of churches, abbeys, cathedrals and castles, and Nathaniel Parker Willis described Bartlett's talent thus: "Bartlett could select his point of view so as to bring prominently into his sketch the castle or the cathedral, which history or antiquity had allowed".[2]

John Cousen (1804–1880) born in Yorkshire England he was a British landscape engraver, painter and print maker who apprenticed under the respected animal engraver John Scott. Cousen's involvement with the Art Journal( which was part of Virtue & Co. Publishing Company) , the leading and most popular fine art publication during the nineteenth century, which he worked almost exclusively for as an engraver and print master. From 1849 to 1866 he supplied thirty-two plates, most after works by his contemporaries. The journal provided surveys of important collections to which Cousen contributed; these included paintings in the Royal Collection and the National Gallery. It was while working for the Art Journal that he produced his only known works after Old Masters, including Hobbema's The Old Mill and Berchem's Crossing the Ford. [3]

Virtue & Co. publishing company was a major book and print publishing firm founded by George Virtue in 1820. The success of Virtue & Co was built off George Virtue choice in selecting only the most accomplished artists such as William Henry Bartlett, and employing the best engravers such as John Cousen, to produced books that were rarely surpassed in elegance and correctness for the period. Virtue created a prodigious business, issuing upwards of twenty thousand copper and steel engravings through his career.[4] In 1848 the company acquired 'The Art Union' which became 'The Art Journal' (1839-1912; for a run of impressions in series order from this journal for 1844 to 1870. In 1855 George’s son, James Sprent Virtue, took over his father's business which he had been working at in the New York branch since 1848 and initiated the series of prints after great 'galleries' of pictures including the Royal Collection, Vernon Collection(which this print is a part of) and the Turner Collection. [5]

Citations:

[1]“Tombs.” George Washington's Mount Vernon, Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, https://www.mountvernon.org/the-estate-gardens/the-tombs/.

[2]“William Henry Bartlett .” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Mar. 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Bartlett.

[3] “Collections Online: British Museum.” Collections Online | British Museum, British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG23833.

[4] “George Virtue .” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 15 Feb. 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Virtue.

[5]“William Henry Bartlett .” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Mar. 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Bartlett.

#Explaining one of VTMB paintings #vtm bloodlines #Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines #john cousen #Virtue & Co #william henry bartlett #print engraving #vtmb

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Arizona was admitted as the 48th U.S. state on February 14, 1912.

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Loretta Lynn

April 14, 1932 - October 4, 2022

Lynn was born Loretta Webb in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. She is the eldest daughter and second child born to Clara Marie "Clary" (Ramey; May 5, 1912 – November 24, 1981) and Melvin Theodore "Ted" Webb (June 6, 1906 – February 22, 1959). Ted was a coal miner and subsistence farmer. Lynn and her siblings are of Irish and Cherokee descent, although she is not enrolled with any Native tribe. She was named after the film star Loretta Young.

Loretta's father died at the age of 52 of black lung disease a few years after he relocated to Wabash, Indiana, with his wife and younger children.

Through her matriline, Lynn is distant cousins with country singer Patty Loveless (née Ramey). The former Miss America, Venus Ramey, who died in 2017, was also her distant cousin.

On January 10, 1948, 15-year-old Loretta Webb married Oliver Vanetta "Doolittle" Lynn (August 27, 1926 – August 22, 1996), better known as "Doolittle", "Doo", or "Mooney". They had met only a month earlier. The Lynns left Kentucky and moved to the logging community of Custer, Washington, when Loretta was seven months pregnant with the first of their six children. The happiness and heartache of her early years of marriage would help to inspire Lynn's songwriting.

Loretta and Oliver Lynn had six children together:

Betty Sue Lynn (November 26, 1948 – July 29, 2013)

Jack Benny Lynn, (December 7, 1949 – July 22, 1984)

Ernest Ray "Ernie" Lynn (born May 27, 1951)

Clara Marie "Cissie" Lynn (born April 7, 1952)

Peggy Jean and Patsy Eileen Lynn (born August 6, 1964; twin daughters named for Lynn's sister, Peggy Sue Wright, and her friend, Patsy Cline.)

Lynn's son, Jack Benny Lynn, died at age 34 on July 22, 1984, while trying to cross the Duck River at the family's ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. In 2013, Loretta's daughter, Betty Sue, died at age 64 of emphysema near Loretta's ranch in Hurricane Mills.

In 1953, Doolittle bought her a $17 Harmony guitar. She taught herself to play the instrument, and over the following three years, she worked to improve her guitar playing.

Lynn began singing in local clubs in the late 1950s. She later formed her own band, the Trailblazers, which included her brother Jay Lee Webb. Lynn won a wristwatch in a televised talent contest in Tacoma, Washington, hosted by Buck Owens. Lynn's performance was seen by Canadian Norm Burley of Zero Records, who co-founded the record company after hearing Loretta sing.

Zero Records president, Canadian Don Grashey, arranged a recording session in Hollywood, where four of Lynn's compositions were recorded, including "I'm A Honky Tonk Girl", "Whispering Sea", "Heartache Meet Mister Blues", and "New Rainbow". Her first release featured "Whispering Sea" and "I'm a Honky Tonk Girl". Lynn signed her first contract on February 2, 1960, with Zero. Her album was recorded at United Western Recorders in Hollywood, engineered by Don Blake and produced by Grashey. Musicians who played on the songs were steel guitar player Speedy West, fiddler Harold Hensely, guitarist Roy Lanham, Al Williams on bass, and Muddy Berry on drums. Lynn commented on the different sound of her first record: "Well, there is a West Coast sound that is definitely not the same as the Nashville sound. It was a shuffle with a West Coast beat".

The Lynns toured the country to promote the release to country stations, while Grashey and Del Roy took the music to KFOX in Long Beach, California. When the Lynns reached Nashville, the song was a hit, climbing to No. 14 on Billboard's Country and Western chart, and Lynn began cutting demo records for the Wilburn Brothers Publishing Company. Through the Wilburns, she secured a contract with Decca Records. The first Loretta Lynn Fan Club formed in November 1960. By the end of the year, Billboard magazine listed Lynn as the No. 4 Most Promising Country Female Artist.

Lynn's relationship with the Wilburn Brothers and her appearances on the Grand Ole Opry, beginning in 1960, helped Lynn become the No. 1 female recording artist in country music. Her contract with the Wilburn Brothers gave them the publishing rights to her material. She unsuccessfully fought the Wilburn Brothers for 30 years to regain the publishing rights to her songs after ending her business relationship with them. Lynn stopped writing music in the 1970s because of the contracts. Lynn joined the Grand Ole Opry on September 25, 1962.

Lynn credited Patsy Cline as her mentor and best friend during her early years in music. In 2010, when interviewed for Jimmy McDonough's biography of Tammy Wynette, Tammy Wynette: Tragic Country Queen, Lynn said of having best friends in Patsy and Tammy during different times: "Best friends are like husbands. You only need one at a time."

Lynn released her first Decca single, "Success", in 1962, and it went straight to No. 6, beginning a string of top 10 singles that would run throughout the 1970s. Lynn's music began to regularly hit the Top 10 after 1964 with songs such as "Before I'm Over You", which peaked at No. 4, followed by "Wine, Women and Song", which peaked at No. 3. In late 1964, she recorded a duet album with Ernest Tubb. Their lead single, "Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be", peaked within the Top 15. The pair recorded two more albums, Singin' Again (1967) and If We Put Our Heads Together (1969). In 1965, her solo career continued with three major hits, "Happy Birthday", "Blue Kentucky Girl" (later recorded and made a Top 10 hit in the 1970s by Emmylou Harris), and "The Home You're Tearing Down". Lynn's label issued two albums that year, Songs from My Heart and Blue Kentucky Girl.

Lynn's first self-penned song to crack the Top 10, 1966's "Dear Uncle Sam", was among the first recordings to recount the human costs of the Vietnam War. Her 1966 hit "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)" made Lynn the first country female recording artist to write a No. 1 hit.

In 1967, Lynn reached No. 1 with "Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)", which became one of the first albums by a female country artist to reach sales of 500,000 copies.

Lynn's next album, Fist City, was released in 1968. The title track became Lynn's second No. 1 hit, as a single earlier that year, and the other single from the album, "What Kind of a Girl (Do You Think I Am)", peaked within the top 10. In 1968, her next studio album, Your Squaw Is on the Warpath, spawned two Top 5 Country hits, including the title track and "You've Just Stepped In (From Stepping Out on Me)". In 1969, her next single, "Woman of the World (Leave My World Alone)", was Lynn's third chart-topper, followed by a subsequent Top 10, "To Make a Man (Feel Like a Man)". Her song "You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My Man)", was an instant hit and became one of Lynn's all-time most popular. Her career continued to be successful into the 1970s, especially following the success of her autobiographical hit "Coal Miner's Daughter", which peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart in 1970. The song became her first single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 83. She had a series of singles that charted low on the Hot 100 between 1970 and 1975. The song "Coal Miner's Daughter" later served as the impetus for the bestselling autobiography (1976) and the Oscar-winning biopic, both of which share the song's title.

In 1971, Lynn began a professional partnership with Conway Twitty. As a duo, Lynn and Twitty had five consecutive No. 1 hits between 1971 and 1975, including "After the Fire Is Gone" (1971), which won them a Grammy award, "Lead Me On" (1971), "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man" (1973), "As Soon as I Hang Up the Phone" (1974), and "Feelins'" (1974). For four consecutive years, 1972–1975, Lynn and Twitty were named the "Vocal Duo of the Year" by the Country Music Association. The Academy of Country Music named them the "Best Vocal Duet" in 1971, 1974, 1975 and 1976. The American Music awards selected them as the "Favorite Country Duo" in 1975, 1976 and 1977. The fan-voted Music City News readers voted them the No. 1 duet every year between 1971 and 1981, inclusive. In addition to their five No. 1 singles, they had seven other Top 10 hits between 1976 and 1981.

As a solo artist, Lynn continued her success in 1971, achieving her fifth No. 1 solo hit, "One's on the Way", written by poet and songwriter Shel Silverstein. She also charted with "I Wanna Be Free", "You're Lookin' at Country" and 1972's "Here I Am Again", all released on separate albums. The next year, she became the first country star on the cover of Newsweek. In 1972, Lynn was the first woman to be nominated and win Entertainer of the Year at the CMA awards. She won the Female Vocalist of the Year and Duo of the Year with Conway Twitty, beating out George Jones and Tammy Wynette and Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton.

In 1973, "Rated "X"" peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and was considered one of Lynn's most controversial hits. The following year, her next single, "Love Is the Foundation", also became a No. 1 country hit from her album of the same name. The second and last single from that album, "Hey Loretta", became a Top 5 hit. Lynn continued to reach the Top 10 until the end of the decade, including 1975's "The Pill", one of the first songs to discuss birth control. Many of Lynn's songs were autobiographical, and as a songwriter, Lynn felt no topic was off limits, as long as it was relatable to women. In 1976, she released her autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, with the help of writer George Vecsey. It became a No. 1 bestseller, making Lynn the first country music artist to make The New York Times Best Seller list.

In 1977, Lynn recorded I Remember Patsy, an album dedicated to her friend, singer Patsy Cline, who died in a plane crash in 1963. The album covered some of Cline's biggest hits. The two singles Lynn released from the album, "She's Got You" and "Why Can't He Be You", became hits. "She's Got You", which went to No. 1 by Cline in 1962 went to No. 1 again that year by Lynn. "Why Can't He Be You" peaked at No. 7. Lynn had her last No. 1 hit in 1978 with "Out of My Head and Back in My Bed".

In 1979, Lynn had two Top 5 hits, "I Can't Feel You Anymore" and "I've Got a Picture of Us on My Mind", from separate albums.

Devoted to her fans, Lynn told the editor of Salisbury, Maryland's newspaper the reason she signed hundreds of autographs: "These people are my fans... I'll stay here until the very last one wants my autograph. Without these people, I am nobody. I love these people." In 1979, she became the spokesperson for Procter & Gamble's Crisco Oil. Because of her dominant hold on the 1970s, Lynn was named the "Artist of the Decade" by the Academy of Country Music. She is the only woman to win this honor.

On March 5, 1980, the film Coal Miner's Daughter debuted in Nashville and soon became the No. 1 box office hit in the United States. The film starred Sissy Spacek as Loretta and Tommy Lee Jones as her husband, Doolittle "Mooney" Lynn. The film received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Actress Oscar for Spacek, a gold album for the soundtrack album, a Grammy nomination for Spacek, Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music awards, and several Golden Globe awards. The 1980s featured more hits, including "Pregnant Again", "Naked in the Rain", and "Somebody Led Me Away". Lynn's last Top 10 record as a soloist was 1982's "I Lie", but her releases continued to chart until the end of the decade.

One of her last solo releases was "Heart Don't Do This to Me" (1985), which reached No. 19, her last Top 20 hit. Her 1985 album Just a Woman spawned a Top 40 hit. In 1987, Lynn lent her voice to a song on k.d. lang's album Shadowland with country stars Kitty Wells and Brenda Lee, "Honky Tonk Angels Medley". The album was certified gold and was Grammy nominated for the four women. Lynn's 1988 album Who Was That Stranger would be her last solo album for MCA, which she parted ways with in 1989. She was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988.

Lynn returned to the public eye in 1993 with a hit CD, the trio album Honky Tonk Angels, recorded with Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette. The CD peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Country charts and No. 42 on the Billboard Pop charts and charted a single with "Silver Threads and Golden Needles". The album sold more than 800,000 copies and was certified gold in the United States and Canada. The trio was nominated for Grammy and Country Music Association awards. Lynn released a three-CD boxed set chronicling her career on MCA Records. In 1995, she taped a seven-week series on the Nashville Network (TNN), Loretta Lynn & Friends.

In 1995, Loretta was presented with the Pioneer Award at the 30th Academy of Country Music Awards. In 1996, Lynn's husband, Oliver Vanetta "Doolittle" Lynn, died five days short of his 70th birthday. In 2000, Lynn released her first album in several years, Still Country, in which she included "I Can't Hear the Music", a tribute song to her late husband. She released her first new single in more than 10 years from the album, "Country in My Genes". The single charted on the Billboard Country singles chart and made Lynn the first woman in country music to chart singles in five decades. In 2002, Lynn published her second autobiography, Still Woman Enough, and it became her second New York Times Best Seller, peaking in the top 10. In 2004, she published a cookbook, You're Cookin' It Country.

In 2004, Lynn released Van Lear Rose, the second album on which Lynn either wrote or co-wrote every song. The album was produced by Jack White of The White Stripes, and featured guitar work and backup vocals by White. Her collaboration with White garnered Lynn high praise in magazines that specialize in mainstream and alternative rock music, such as Spin and Blender. Rolling Stone voted the album the second best of 2004. It won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album of the Year.

Late in 2010, Sony Music released a new album, titled Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute to Loretta Lynn, featuring stars like Reba McEntire, Faith Hill, Paramore, and Carrie Underwood performing Loretta's classic hits spanning 50 years. The CD produced a Top 10 music video hit on GAC of the single, "Coal Miner's Daughter", that Lynn recorded with Miranda Lambert and Sheryl Crow. The single cracked the Billboard singles chart, making Lynn the only female country artist to chart in six decades. Lynn performed at the Nelsonville Music Festival in Nelsonville, Ohio in May 2010. Lynn also performed at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival on June 11, 2011. In 2012, Lynn published her third autobiography, Honky Tonk Girl: My Life in Lyrics. She contributed "Take Your Gun and Go, John" to Divided & United: Songs of the Civil War, released on November 5, 2013.

In November 2015, Lynn announced a March 2016 release: Full Circle, featuring Willie Nelson and Elvis Costello. The recording became Lynn's 40th album to make the Top 10 on Billboard's best selling country list and her album debuted at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 200. The recording is combination of new songs and classics, and includes duets with Elvis Costello and Willie Nelson. Lynn's Christmas album White Christmas Blue was released in October 2016. In December of the same year, Full Circle was nominated for Country Album of the Year for the 59th Annual Grammy Awards.

Lynn's album Wouldn't It Be Great, the third album of her five-album deal with Legacy Recordings, was released in September 2018 after being delayed by health issues. Her health prompted Lynn to cancel all 2017 scheduled tour dates. Lynn was named Artist of a Lifetime by CMT in 2018. On October 19, 2019, Lifetime aired the highly anticipated movie Patsy & Loretta which highlighted the friendship of Lynn and Patsy Cline. Lynn attended the Nashville release of the film.

On March 19, 2021, Lynn released her 50th studio album Still Woman Enough, the fourth album of her deal with Legacy (and to come from the cash cabin recording sessions). It features Carrie Underwood and Reba McEntire on the title track alongside original tracks and duets with Tanya Tucker and Margo Price on re-recordings of "You Ain't Woman Enough" and "One's on the Way" respectively.

Lynn owned a ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, known as Loretta Lynn's Ranch. Billed as "the Seventh Largest Attraction in Tennessee", it features a recording studio, museums, lodging, restaurants and western stores. Traditionally, three holiday concerts are hosted annually at the ranch, Memorial Day Weekend, Fourth of July Weekend, and Labor Day Weekend.

Since 1982, the ranch has hosted Loretta Lynn's Amateur Championship motocross race, the largest amateur motocross race of its kind. The ranch also hosts GNCC Racing events. The centerpiece of the ranch is its large plantation home which Lynn once resided in with her husband and children. She hasn't lived in the antebellum mansion in more than 30 years. Lynn regularly greeted fans who were touring the plantation house. Also featured on the property is a replica of the cabin in which Lynn grew up in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky.

Loretta died peacefully in her sleep on October 4, 2022.

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De fotograaf stond in 1953 of 1954 op het gebouw van de Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging op de hoek van de Coolsingel en de Van Oldenbarneveltstraat.

Dit gebouw werd in 1940 behoorlijk beschadigd maar is na de oorlog wel opgelapt en pas afgebroken voor de bouw van de nieuwe Bijenkorf. De noodwinkels op de Coolsingel voor het nieuwe bankgebouw van de Rotterdamsche Bank staan er nog maar zullen in 1955 verdwijnen om plaats te maken voor permanente paviljoens,

De voormalige Rotterdamsche Bank aan de Coolsingel is een voormalig bankgebouw in Rotterdam dat gebouwd was voor de Rotterdamsche Bank. Sinds de verwoesting van het oude bankgebouw op de Boompjes bij het bombardement op 14 mei 1940 waren werkzaamheden begonnen om een geheel nieuw bankgebouw te creëren in het nieuwe hart van het heropbouwende Rotterdam: De Coolsingel. In 1941 werd begonnen met de bouw en, na enige vertraging, was het gebouw voltooid in 1949 – vier jaar na het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Het gebouw is sinds 19 februari 2010 een rijksmonument.

Voor de oorlog stond het hoofdkantoor van de Rotterdamsche Bank aan de Boompjes 77. Dit was een monumentale, achttiende-eeuwse patriciërswoning (een woonhuis voor zeer welvarende, niet adellijke personen of regenten) waar het interieur in Lodewijk XIV-stijl was vormgegeven. In de negentiende eeuw was deze stijl grotendeels verdwenen.

In 1912 kreeg Rotterdams architect Jacobus Pieter Stok de opdracht om het gebouw in overeenstemming te brengen met nieuwe gebruikseisen. Er werd afgesproken dat de huidige voorgevel bleef staan en zoveel mogelijk zou worden teruggebracht in haar originele staat. Hetzelfde zou gebeuren met de grote zaal en de directeurskamer. Stok zou dit project uitvoeren samen met een andere Nederlandse architect, Karel Sluijterman.

Tijdens de restauratie werden achter het behangpapier een aantal wandschilderingen van Mattheus Terwesten gevonden. Deze werden tevens gerestaureerd. Verder bouwde Stok op het diepe, rechthoekige perceel een nieuwe centrale hal met loketten en glazen daken, die in een eigentijdse weergave van de Lodewijk XIV-stijl werd opgetrokken. Ook de achtergevel aan de Scheepmakershaven was geheel nieuw. De restauratie en uitbreiding van het bankgebouw werd zeer geprezen in de pers destijds.

Op 14 mei 1940 werd het gebouw en de directe omgeving, 28 jaar na de restauratie en uitbreiding, volledig verwoest tijdens het bombardement op de stad. Enkel de onverwoestbare kluis die aanwezig was in de bank bleef gespaard.

Hoewel het hoofdgebouw destijds aan de Boompjes stond, was er ook een bijgebouw van de bank aan de vooroorlogse Coolsingel, ongeveer op de plek waar nu de hedendaagse Bijenkorf staat. De Rotterdamse vestiging van de Amsterdamsche Bank stond hier vlak naast.[3] In 1939 werd het bijkantoor van het Rotterdamse filiaal verbouwd en van een nieuwe gevel voorzien. Dit werd gedaan door Hermann Friedrich Mertens, de vaste architect van de bank. Tijdens het bombardement van de stad werd dit gebouw grotendeels gespaard en al snel werden de bovenverdiepingen in gebruik genomen door het ASRO. De bank zelf gebruikte slechts de begane grond als noodoplossing.

Er was in de navolgende maanden dringend behoefte aan een nieuw hoofdgebouw in Rotterdam. Nadat stadsbouwmeester Willem Gerrit Witteveen toestemming had gegeven, werd gekozen om een nieuw hoofdkantoor te bouwen op de toekomstige, prominente plaats van de stad: De Coolsingel – specifiek op de plaats waar eerst het grotendeels verwoeste Coolsingelziekenhuis zich bevond.

De fotograaf stond in 1953 of 1954 op het gebouw van de Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging op de hoek van de Coolsingel en de Van Oldenbarneveltstraat.

Dit gebouw werd in 1940 behoorlijk beschadigd maar is na de oorlog wel opgelapt en pas afgebroken voor de bouw van de nieuwe Bijenkorf, De noodwinkels op de Coolsingel voor het nieuwe bankgebouw van de Rotterdamsche Bank staan er nog maar zullen in 1955 verdwijnen om plaats te maken voor permanente paviljoens,

Foto komt uit de collectie van @stadsarchief010 en de Informatie komt van wikipedia.

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Events 2.29

888 – Odo, count of Paris, is crowned king of West Francia (France) by Archbishop Walter of Sens at Compiègne. 1504 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse that night to convince Jamaican natives to provide him with supplies. 1644 – Abel Tasman's second Pacific voyage begins as he leaves Batavia in command of three ships. 1704 – In Queen Anne's War, French forces and Native Americans stage a raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, killing 56 villagers and taking more than 100 captive. 1712 – February 29 is followed by February 30 in Sweden, in a move to abolish the Swedish calendar for a return to the Julian calendar. 1720 – Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden abdicates in favour of her husband, who becomes King Frederick I on March 24. 1768 – Polish nobles form the Bar Confederation. 1796 – The Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain comes into force, facilitating ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations. 1892 – St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated. 1908 – James Madison University is founded at Harrisonburg, Virginia in the United States as The State Normal and Industrial School for Women by the Virginia General Assembly. 1912 – The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks. 1916 – Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom. 1916 – In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill and mine workers is raised from 12 to 14 years old. 1920 – The Czechoslovak National Assembly adopts the Constitution. 1936 – The February 26 Incident in Tokyo ends. 1940 – For her performance as Mammy in Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel becomes the first African American to win an Academy Award. 1940 – Finland initiates Winter War peace negotiations. 1940 – In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's consul general in San Francisco. 1944 – The Admiralty Islands are invaded in Operation Brewer, led by American general Douglas MacArthur, in World War II. 1960 – The 5.7 Mw  Agadir earthquake shakes coastal Morocco with a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme), destroying Agadir and leaving 12,000 dead and another 12,000 injured. 1972 – South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from Vietnam as part of Nixon's Vietnamization policy in the Vietnam War. 1980 – Gordie Howe of the Hartford Whalers makes NHL history as he scores his 800th goal. 1984 – Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement as Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister of Canada. 1988 – South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 other clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town. 1988 – Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay. 1992 – First day of Bosnia and Herzegovina independence referendum. 1996 – Faucett Flight 251 crashes in the Andes; all 123 passengers and crew are killed. 1996 – The Siege of Sarajevo officially ends. 2000 – Chechens attack a guard post near Ulus Kert, eventually killing 84 Russian paratroopers during the Second Chechen War. 2004 – Jean-Bertrand Aristide is removed as president of Haiti following a coup. 2008 – The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence withdraws Prince Harry from a tour of Afghanistan after news of his deployment is leaked to foreign media. 2008 – Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust. 2012 – North Korea agrees to suspend uranium enrichment and nuclear and long-range missile tests in return for US food aid. 2016 – At least 40 people are killed and 58 others wounded following a suicide bombing by ISIL at a Shi'ite funeral in the city of Miqdadiyah, Diyala. 2020 – The United States and the Taliban sign the Doha Agreement for bringing peace to Afghanistan.

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Holidays 2.14

Holidays

Bird Mating Season begins [Traditional]

Blessing of the Salmon Nets (Northumberland, UK)

Communist Martyrs Day (Iraq)

Day of National Mourning (Mexico)

First Day of Disco

Fjortende Februar (Denmark)

Frederick Douglass Day

Gaekkebrev/Fjörtende Februar (Denmark)

Generalissimo Day (North Korea)

Gold Heart Day (UK)

Haya Day (Pakistan)

International Book Giving Day

International Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day

Jimmy Hoffa Day

League of Women Voter's Day

Liberation Day (Afghanistan)

Marjory Stonemason Douglas High School Remembrance Day (Florida)

National Black Literacy Day

National Boone Day

National Chance Day

National Christine Day

National Donor Day (a.k.a. Organ Donor Day)

National Ferris Wheel Day

National Impotence Day

National Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency (PKD) Awareness Day

National Regenerative Agriculture Day

National Servicemen’s Day (Australia)

National Sports Day (Qatar)

No Smoking Day (Ireland)

Organ and Tissue Donor Day

Parents' Worship Day (India)

Pet Theft Awareness Day

Pris Inception Day (Blade Runner)

Pulwama Attack Day (India)

Race Relations Day

Rafik Hariri Memorial Day (Lebanon)

Read to Your Child Day

Small Soap Day (Mexico)

Valentine's Day (a.k.a. ...

Beer & Chocolate Day

Have a Heart Day (Canada)

Heart to Heart Day

International Quirkyalone Day

Juno Februa's Day (Goddess of Love)

Library Lovers Day

National Call in Single Day

National Condom Day (Australia)

National Cream-Filled Chocolates Day

National Have-A-Heart Day

National Organ Donor Day

National Simp Day

National Women’s Heart Day

Singles Appreciation Day

Sister’s Day

Think About Sex Day

Thinking About Sex Day (UK)

V-Day

World Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day

Woad Day (French Republic)

World Bonobo Day

World Day of Energy

World Sound Healing Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Creme-Filled Chocolates Day

Wine-Growers Day (Bulgaria)

2nd Wednesday in February

National RA Appreciation Day [3rd Wednesday]

Waste-Not Wednesday (UK) [Wednesday of Go Green Week]

Weekly Holidays beginning 2nd Wednesday in February

Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Staff Education Week [thru 2.21]

Love Teaching Week [thru 2.21]

National Condom Week [thru 2.21]

National Nestbox Week [thru 2.21]

Independence & Related Days

Arizona Statehood Day (#48; 1912)

Oregon Statehood Day (#33; 1859)

United Republic of Arlberg (Declared; 2003) [unrecognized; Dissolved in 2006]

Festivals Beginning February 14, 2024

Lent (Christian) [thru 3.30]

National Farm Machinery Show & Tractor Pull (Louisville, Kentucky) [thru 2.17]

Singha Park Chiangrai International Balloon Fiesta (Chiang Rai, Thailand) [thru 2.18]

Feast Days

Abraames, Bishop of Carres (Christian; Saint)

Adolf of Osnabruck (Christian; Saint)

Alfred Thomas Agate (Artology)

Antoninus of Sorrento (Christian; Saint)

Ash Wednesday [1st Day of Lent, 46 Days before Easter] (a.k.a. …

Askeonsdag (Denmark)

Carnaval (Panama)

Cussing Day

Hash Wednesday (Church of the SubGenius)

Jour Chômé d’Usage (Guadeloupe, Martinique)

Lent begins

Mercredi des Cendres (French Guyana)

National No Smoking Day (Ireland)

Oskudagur (Iceland)

Pulver Wednesday

Auxentius of Bithynia (Christian; Saint)

Aztec Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Bullwinkle Sneaks a Peek or There’s Room in the River (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 346; 1965)

Conran, Bishop of Orkney (Christian; Saint)

Cornelius the Crab (Muppetism)

Cyril and Methodius (Roman Catholic Church) [Europe]

Feast of Dylan Ail Ton (Celtic Book of Days)

Feast of Vali (Asatru/Salvic Pagan archer god)

Frederick Douglass (Writerism)

Juno-Lupa (Everyday Wicca)

Louse or 92nd Street, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 345; 1965)

Lupercalia, Day 2 (Pagan pastoral festival)

Lupercalia: Day of the Wolves (Pagan)

Manchan (Christian; Saint)

Mare, Abbot of Syria (Christian; Saint)

The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene (Novel; 1940)

Pretend to Be Romantic Day (Pastafarian)

Presentation of Jesus at the Temple (Armenian Apostolic Church)

Seka Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Self Love Magick Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Tales of Kelp-Koli (Shamanism)

Terence (Positivist; Saint)

Trifon Zarezan (a.k.a. Viticulturists' Day; Bulgarian Dionysus Festival)

Tryphon (Christian; Saint)

Valentine (Christian; Saint)

Zadoushnitza (Bulgarian All-Souls' Day; Κυρμιληνός)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 7 of 60)

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because so many reasons.)

Premieres

Adult World (Film; 2014)

Alita: Battle Angel (Animated Film; 2019)

Beat It, by Michael Jackson (Song; 1983)

Beautiful Creatures (Film; 2013)

Bluebird’s Baby (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1938)

Captain America: Brave New World (Film; 2025)

China Jones (WB LT Cartoon; 1959)

Cooleyhighharmony, by Boyz II Men (Album; 1991)

Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other, by Willie Nelson (Song; 2006)

Daredevil (Film; 2003)

The Dead End Cats (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1947)

The Deep Six or The Old Moose and the Sea (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 23; 1960)

Definitely, Maybe (Film; 2008)

Dracula (Film; 1931)

Essay on Pigs, by Hans Werner Henze (Concerto; 1969)

The Eye, by Vladimir Nabokov (Novel; 1930)

Fighting with My Family (Film; 2019)

Fools Rush In (Film; 1997)

Forward March Hare (WB LT Cartoon; 1953)

Grease (Off-Broadway Musical; 1972)

The Hours (Film; 2003)

The Importance of Being Ernest, by Oscar Wilde (Play; 1895)

Jumper (Film; 2008)

King David, by Lionel Hampton (Jazz Symphony; 1957)

Liar, by Queen (Song; 1974)

The Little Whirlwind (Disney Cartoon; 1941)

Live at Leeds, recorded by The Who (Live Concert Album; 1970)

The Lorax (DePatie-Freleng Dr. Seuss Animated TV Special; 1972)

Love Story, by Erich Segal (Novel; 1970)

Madame Web (Film; 2024)

Margaritaville, by Jimmy Buffet (Song; 1977)

Oz the Great and Powerful (Film; 2013)

Pocket Money (Film; 1972)

Pop and Mom in Wild Oysters (Animated Antics Cartoon; 1941)

The Popeye Valentine Special: Sweethearts at Sea (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1979)

Reflections in a Golden Eye, by Carson McCullers (Novel; 1941)

Respect, recorded by Aretha Franklin (Song; 1967)

Scooby-Doo! Shaggy’s Showdown (WB Animated Film; 2017)

Silence of the Lambs (Film; 1991)

The Slippery Helm or Captain’s Outrageous (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 24; 1960)

Sonic the Hedgehog (Animated Film; 2020)

Spamalot (Broadway Musical; 2005)

Sportickles (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1958)

Tarzan of the Apes (Film; 1918)

Vegas Vacation (Film; 1997)

Wayne’s World (Film; 1992)

Whitney Houston, by Whitney Houston (Album; 1985)

Wildcats (Film; 1986)

Winter’s Tale (Film; 2014)

Working Class Dog, by Rick Springfield (Album; 1981)

The World’s Greatest Athlete (Film; 1973)

YouTube (Social Media App; 2005)

Today’s Name Days

Cyrill, Method, Valentin (Austria)

Valentin, Zdravko (Croatia)

Valentýn (Czech Republic)

Valentinus (Denmark)

Valentin, Valjo, Valju, Valle, Vallo, Vallot, Vallut (Estonia)

Tino, Valentin, Voitto (Finland)

Valentin (France)

Cyril, Method, Valentin (Germany)

Valentina, Valentine, Valentini, Valentinos (Greece)

Bálint, Valentin (Hungary)

Valentino (Italy)

Aļģis, Valentīns (Latvia)

Liliana, Saulė, Saulius, Valentinas (Lithuania)

Hjørdis, Jardar (Norway)

Adolf, Adolfa, Adolfina, Alf, Cyryl, Dobiesława, Dobisława, Józef, Józefa, Konrad, Konrada, Krystyna, Lilian, Liliana, Mikołaj, Niemir, Niemira, Walenty, Zenon, Zenona (Poland)

Auxentiu, Avraam, Maron (Romania)

Valentín (Slovakia)

Cirilo, Metodio, Valentín (Spain)

Valentin (Sweden)

Lovell, Lowell, Valentin, Valentina, Valentine, Valiant (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 45 of 2024; 321 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 7 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 25 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Bing-Yin), Day 5 (Wu-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)

Hebrew: 5 Adair I 5784

Islamic: 4 Sha’ban 1445

J Cal: 15 Grey; Oneday [15 of 30]

Julian: 1 February 2024

Moon: 29%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 17 Homer (2nd Month) [Terence]

Runic Half Month: Sigel (Sun) [Day 6 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 56 of 89)

Week: 2nd Week of February

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 24 of 28)

Calendar Changes

February (a.k.a. Februarius; Julian Calendar) [Month 2 of 12]

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