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Out of Africa (1985) | dir. Sydney Pollack

MERYL STREEP as Karen Blixen OUT OF AFRICA (1985, dir. Sydney Pollack) HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE QUEEN OF QUEENS   👑 📌  Here is the list of all the Meryl films I've seen, ranked in order of preference: letterbox. I'm curious, which are your favourites?

Out of Africa

Now take back the soul of Denys Finch Hatton  who you have shared with us. He brought us joy, and we loved him well. He was not ours, he was not mine. Tania Blixen

Scientists from Estonia claim they have located the area that it is most likely all present-day non-Africans lived for the 20,000 years that followed their migration Out of Africa, and where they mixed their genes with those of Neanderthals.

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1929 De Havilland DH60GM Gipsy Moth

One of the most famous models of aviation’s cradle era, the De Havilland Gipsy Moth occupies the same space in its category as the Model T Ford in automobiles—a dependably engineered, reliable vehicle, that brought its mode of transportation to more people than any other before it.

Hundreds of examples were built and were flown by several significant aviators of the era, including the noted British aviatrix Amy Johnson, who in 1930 became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia in her Gipsy Moth, “Jason.”

Then-owner Cliff Lovell supplied this aircraft in early 1985 for the filming of Out of Africa, starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in the epic love story of the Danish countess Karen Blixen and British aviator Denys Finch-Hatton.

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Out of Africa: Not just once, but many times

A new analysis of an ancient hominin fossil sheds light on the "Out of Africa" dispersal events that occurred more than one million years ago.

In the story of how early hominins evolved and spread across the planet, few places are as important as the Levantine corridor, the land bridge that connects Africa with Eurasia. It was through this passage that many ancient hominins left Africa. The remains of those who crossed, and the artifacts they left behind, offer a wealth of evidence into when and how these migrations — or “dispersal events” — occurred, the first of which took place nearly two million years ago.  These dispersal events form the basis of the “Out of Africa” theory of early hominin migration. Although the theory is widely accepted, there are still many open questions regarding exactly when early hominins migrated into Eurasia, whether that migration occurred in waves or a single event, and what ecological factors might have pulled many of them to the north.  A recent analysis of a 1.5-million-year-old vertebra discovered in modern-day Israel sheds light on ancient dispersal events. The study provides solid evidence that, in the Early Pleistocene period, there were at least two distinct waves of hominin migration, each of which involved distinct hominin species. The fossil is also the second-oldest hominin bone found outside of Africa. The results were published in Scientific Reports...

Read more:

https://bigthink.com/the-past/out-of-africa-events/

Marilyn Monroe by Richard Avedon, 1957

"I think Marilyn is bound to make an almost overwhelming impression on the people who meet her for the first time. It is not that she is pretty, but she radiates, at the same time, unbounded vitality and a kind of unbelievable innocence. I have met the same in a lion-cub, which my native servants in Africa brought me. I would not keep her, since I felt that it would in some way be wrong...I shall never forget the most overpowering feeling of unconquerable strength and sweetness which she conveyed. I had all the wild nature of Africa amicably gazing at me with mighty playfulness."

- Karen Blixen (1885-1962), author of Out of Africa, who met Marilyn Monroe in 1959

One evening. In a suburban English garden.

[Ian Sanders]

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“I turned to the animal world from the world of men; my heart was heavy with the tragedy of the night.” ― Karen Blixen, Out of Africa

Out of Africa (1985)

Early northern Africa dispersal

Populations of Homo sapiens migrated to the Levant and to Europe between 130,000 and 115,000 years ago, and possibly in earlier waves as early as 185,000 years ago.

A fragment of a jawbone with eight teeth found at Misliya Cave has been dated to around 185,000 years ago. Layers dating from between 250,000 and 140,000 years ago in the same cave contained tools of the Levallois type which could put the date of the first migration even earlier if the tools can be associated with the modern human jawbone finds

These early migrations do not appear to have led to lasting colonisation and receded by about 80,000 years ago. There is a possibility that this first wave of expansion may have reached China (or even North America )as early as 125,000 years ago, but would have died out without leaving a trace in the genome of contemporary humans

There is some evidence that modern humans left Africa at least 125,000 years ago using two different routes: through the Nile Valley heading to the Middle East, at least into modern Israel (Qafzeh: 120,000–100,000 years ago); and a second route through the present-day Bab-el-Mandeb Strait on the Red Sea (at that time, with a much lower sea level and narrower extension), crossing to the Arabian Peninsula and settling in places like the present-day United Arab Emirates (125,000 years ago) and Oman (106,000 years ago),and possibly reaching the Indian Subcontinent (Jwalapuram: 75,000 years ago.) Although no human remains have yet been found in these three places, the apparent similarities between the stone tools found at Jebel Faya, those from Jwalapuram and some from Africa suggest that their creators were all modern humans.These findings might give some support to the claim that modern humans from Africa arrived at southern China about 100,000 years ago (Zhiren Cave, Zhirendong, Chongzuo City: 100,000 years ago;[note 9] and the Liujiang hominid (Liujiang County): controversially dated at 139,000–111,000 years ago ). Dating results of the Lunadong (Bubing Basin, Guangxi, southern China) teeth, which include a right upper second molar and a left lower second molar, indicate that the molars may be as old as 126,000 years.

Since these previous exits from Africa did not leave traces in the results of genetic analyses based on the Y chromosome and on MtDNA (which represent only a small part of the human genetic material), it seems that those modern humans did not survive in large numbers and were assimilated by our major antecessors. An explanation for their extinction (or small genetic imprint) may be the Toba eruption (74,000 years ago), though some argue it scarcely affected human population

Karen (Meryl Streep) Brown outfit & shawl.. Out Of Africa (1985).. Costume by Milena Canonero.

Oscar Nominee of All Time Tournament: Round 1, Group A

(info about nominees under the poll)

KLAUS MARIA BRANDAUER (1943-)

NOMINATIONS:

Supporting- 1985 for Out of Africa

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ROSEMARY HARRIS (1927-)

NOMINATIONS:

Supporting- 1994 for Tom & Viv