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If the Lincoln assassination had happened in the 1900s or 2000s do you think there would have been conspiracy theories about it like the JFK assassination?

Abraham Lincoln's assassination really WAS part of a conspiracy. I feel that people sometimes forget what "conspiracy" or "conspiracy theory" actually means and automatically think of some dark plot by the government when the actual definition is pretty straightforward:

John Wilkes Booth and his group of conspirators met at Mary Surratt's boarding house and initially considered kidnapping President Lincoln before deciding to kill him. The Booth conspiracy called for simultaneous attacks in Washington to decapitate the federal government: Booth was supposed to kill the President, George Atzerodt was supposed to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson, and Lewis Powell/Paine was supposed to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward. Another conspirator, David Herold, was meant to help Powell gain access to Seward's home and then lead the way for the conspirators during their escape from Washington.

While Booth succeeded in shooting the President, the rest of the conspiracy quickly fell apart. Atzerodt lost his nerve and got drunk, so he didn't even attempt to kill Vice President Johnson. Powell did gain admittance to Seward's home and very nearly killed the Secretary of State, but Seward somehow survived the vicious stabbing. Herold, who was waiting for Powell during the attack on Seward, also panicked and took off, leaving Powell to find his own way out of the nation's capital. Herold did hook up with Booth after Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre and helped Booth, who had broken his leg while jumping down from the Presidential box after shooting Lincoln, get out of Washington and escape into Virginia where the Confederate sympathizers expected to be safe and welcomed as heroes for killing Lincoln.

So, the events of the Lincoln assassination are pretty much the textbook definition of a conspiracy. And while Booth refused to surrender after being tracked down by Union soldiers and was eventually killed, Herold, Powell, and Atzerodt were all arrested, as was Mary Surratt (the woman whose boarding house was where the conspirators had met and planned the assassination) and Dr. Samuel Mudd, a doctor who set Booth's broken leg in the hours after the assassination. All of the surviving conspirators were put on trial and convicted. Herold, Powell, Atzerodt, and Mrs. Surratt were sentenced to death and executed by hanging. Dr. Mudd narrowly avoided the death penalty, but was sentenced to prison along with three other men who were convicted of being complicit in the conspiracy but not involved deeply enough to warrant the death penalty.

There were rumors of a bigger conspiracy in the days immediately after the assassination. The Civil War had ended just six days before Lincoln's death, so there were questions about whether or not the Confederate government had played a role in the assassination. Even after Booth was hunted down and killed, the federal government considered Confederate President Jefferson Davis a suspected conspirator and issued a $100,000 reward for Davis's capture, with a poster suggesting that the Confederate President "incited and concerted the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, and the attack upon Mr. Seward".

Davis was eventually captured, but there was no evidence that the Confederate President -- or any other high-ranking officials of the Confederate government played a role in Lincoln's assassination. Davis himself would later suggest that "Next to the destruction of the Confederacy, the death of Abraham Lincoln was the darkest day the South has ever known." Davis and the defeated Confederate leadership would have much rather preferred Lincoln's plans for Reconstruction than those of Andrew Johnson, who was the only Senator from one of the states that seceded from the Union to join the Confederacy who refused to join the rebellion and held on to his seat. As Davis would later write, "For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political consequences, it could not be regarded otherwise than as a great misfortune to the South. [Lincoln] had power over the Northern people, and was without personal malignity toward the people of the South; his successor [Andrew Johnson] was without power in the North, and the embodiment of malignity toward the Southern people, perhaps the more so because he had betrayed and deserted them in the hour of their need."

The only direct ties between the Confederate government and John Wilkes Booth's conspiracy seemed to be those of Mary Surratt's son, John, who was friends with Booth and introduced the actor to several of the conspirators. John Surratt was a Confederate spy, so he was suspected of involvement despite being out of state and in the north on the day of Lincoln's murder. When he was eventually put on trial for his involvement, Surratt admitted that he had been part of the earlier plan to kidnap Lincoln but did not join the plot to kill the President. Surratt was never convicted of being involved in the assassination.

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4K Ultra HD Review: Scarface

With Scarface, the immense talents of three icons of American cinema - director Brian De Palma (Carrie, Mission: Impossible), writer Oliver Stone (Natural Born Killers, Platoon), and star Al Pacino (The Godfather, The Irishman) - coalesce in a rare way that works on every level. It's based on Armitage Trail’s 1930 novel and its 1932 film adaptation of the same name, along with the then-contemporary cocaine wars in Miami. While De Palma's vision takes place in a heightened reality, Stone (who was struggling with his own cocaine addiction at the time) researched Miami police records to ensure accuracy.

The 1983 classic clocks in at nearly three hours, but the story's momentum never falters. Tony Montana's (Pacino) character arc is a warped perspective of the American dream by way of Dante's Inferno. Refusing to settle for being a low-level hitman after coming to Miami from Cuba, the volatile, arrogant gangster works his way up the ranks to become drug kingpin. It culminates in an operatic hail of bullets, showing that fame and fortune can be taken away just as swiftly as it can be attained.

Despite casting a full-blooded Italian as a Cuban lead, Scarface remains a shining moment in Pacino's five-decade career full of outstanding performances. A relatively unknown Michelle Pfeiffer (Batman Returns) co-stars as Tony's love interest; she has since been vocal about being treated more like a prop than an actor. The cast also includes Steven Bauer (Ray Donovan), Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (The Abyss), Paul Shenar (Raw Deal), Robert Loggia (Big), F. Murray Abraham (Amadeus), and Harris Yulin (Ghostbusters II). Cinematographer John A. Alonzo (Chinatown) captures each actor in all their glory through a vibrant ‘80s lens.

Much has been noted about the film's glorification of crime, particularly upon its initial release. A decidedly different kind of gangster story than the original film or even the influential works of Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, Scarface features chainsaws and high-power guns used as weapons. It originally received an X rating, but De Palma was able to persuade the MPAA to give it an R. It also held the record for most uses of the word "fuck" in a film (at 207) for several years. Gratuitous though it may be, the graphic violence adds to the intensity.

Scarface has been restored in 4K with High Dynamic Range and a DTS:X master audio track for Universal Pictures' recent 4K Ultra HD release. The presentation is immaculate, with crystal-clear picture that never sacrifices the inherent film grain. "The World Is Yours" limited edition gift set is also available; in addition to the film on 4K UHD and Blu-ray, the handsome set includes the 1932 version of Scarface and a replica statue, which has some heft to it.

In addition to the fresh scan, the new release boasts an exclusive special feature: a 35th anniversary conversation with De Palma, Pacino, Pfeiffer, and Bauer from the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival. Given the limited time (the edited version runs for 27 minutes), the moderator’s questions are not particularly thoughtful, but the filmmaker and cast have plenty of interesting anecdotes to share. The casual chat sees them open up about beating the rating board, the record-setting F-bombs, and a potential remake, among other topics.

Archival special features are ported over. Scarface Phenomenon is a three-part retrospective from 2011 in which cast, crew, and notable admirers such as filmmakers Eli Roth (Hostel) and Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) and Cypress Hill rapper Sen Dog discuss the film's legacy. In The World of Tony Montana, DEA agents and entertainment journalists break down the character's criminal lifestyle. The Rebirth, The Acting, and The Creating are a trio of featurettes from 2003 in which cast and crew detail the making of the film over the course of 55 minutes. Deleted scenes, a comparison showing the humorous dubbing in the film’s censored television cut, and The Making of Scarface: The Video Game round out the extras.

As mentioned, the original Scarface is featured in the limited edition set. Produced by business magnate Howard Hughes, the first take on the material is directed by Howard Hawks (The Thing from Another World) and written by Ben Hecht (Notorious). Like De Palma's version, it's quite violent for its time, and the censors insisted it glorified crime. As such, it opens with title cards declaring the film an indictment of gang violence and challenges the government's perceived indifference toward it.

The skeleton of the plot is the same in both adaptations - tracking the meteoric rise and subsequent fall of a ruthless gangster - but the details are altered. Paul Muni (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang) stars as Tony Camonte, a Tommy gun-toting bootlegger reeking havoc during prohibition. He was a proxy for the infamous Al Capone, who was still active when the film was made. Muni plays the role fairly broadly, but he has the charisma to pull it off. Boris Karloff (Frankenstein) appears as a rival gangster.

Housed on its own Blu-ray disc, the 1932 version of Scarface is included in both its original, 93-minute theatrical cut and alternate censored version, which actually runs two minutes longer. It also has special features: an introduction by Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne and an alternate ending, in which Tony is tried and hanged for his crimes.

Scarface's cultural impact is immeasurable; "Say hello to my little friend!" is one of the most-quoted lines in cinema history, the film's iconography has been adopted by the rap community, and its posters and merchandise remain plastered in dorm rooms around the country. The picture remains so ingrained in pop culture that it's easy to lose sight of what propelled its status in the first place, but one viewing of the new 4K restoration is an instant reminder that the film is deserving of every bit of praise it has received.

Scarface is available now on 4K Ultra HD via Universal Pictures.

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I Dare You. (A WKM Story.)

(A/N: LONG ASS ONESHOT I’M SORRY I’M STILL OBSESSED.)

Every town has their ghost stories, and their haunted places. Some have huge hotels full of sordid affairs and midnight rondesvous gone wrong, some have old farm houses in the backcountry, steeped in the folklore of the hills and the mists of the early mornings. Los Angeles is no exception. There's no shortage of ghosts and spectres haunting the City of Angels, no want for dark pasts and dangerous deeds in this hotbed of Hollywood fame and infamy. Such a case of infamy is that of Markiplier Manor, the huge, sprawling estate of actor Mark Fischbach in the hills that used to house the most influential people in town, back in the early '10s. No one really knows what went down on October 11th, 2017, and the few days that followed. All we had to go on was a pseudo-reporter's rambling blog on tumblr and a few short articles with fantastically gruesome headlines.

"3 Found Butchered in Markiplier Manor." "Public Despair at the Discovery of Mayor Damien Noir's Mutilated Corpse." "Unstable Colonel Ford Prime Suspect in the Murders of Markiplier Manor."

Everyone had a guess. Everyone had a theory. But no one knew the truth. No one knew exactly why, on the 14th of October in 2017, the butler from the manor had come running into the LAPD Headquarters, screaming about demons and murder. What everyone did know, however, was that when the police, with sirens blaring, went to investigate the butler's claims, they'd been sickened to find three rotting corpses scattered around the manor, in various states of dismemberment and decay. They said that the mayor's body was the worst, looking like it'd been torn limb from limb by animals, almost without a single bone that wasn't broken, his tortured form found on the balcony outside the foyer. Then there was the body of a woman later identified as Fischbach's former wife, Celine, found in a small room upstairs, surrounded by occult items. It was practically perfect in appearance, but when they tried to do an autopsy, they found her insides had been practically liquified. The last body was the most tame, a detective by the ironic name of Abraham Lincoln, shot through the right side and left to die slowly at the top of one of the staircases. It was the worst murder case they'd seen in years. They couldn't get anything sensible out of the butler, who, according to his friends and family, had been a perfectly sensible man before the tragedy. But now he was spouting nonesense about "dens of evil" and "forces far beyond our understanding". They did manage to get the names of the other people present at the poker party out of him, and found everyone but the colonel and another party member whose name was never given to the public, and a statement as to the death of Mark Fischbach on the 11th. Mark's body was never found. Of course, the media had opinions as to what had actually happened.

I mulled over the headlines and the stories again in my head as I pulled onto the long gravel driveway, overgrown with weeds and bramble in the years of disuse. A stupid thing had led me to my dismal destination today: a dare. A simple, ridiculous dare among friends, and the fatal phrase, "You're not chicken, are you?" I was never one to turn down a good dare, and honestly, I'd never been particularly superstitious. The worst thing I feared was the cold of this year's record-breaking October nights, and the animals that had likely taken up residence in the absence of human habitation. Stepping out of my borrowed vehicle and shouldering my duffle bag of provisions, I surveyed the area, and my first thoughts were, I won't be lacking in places to camp out for the night, that's for sure. I trekked up to the rusting gate and chucked my belongings over it, climbing (with much difficulty) after them and landing about as gracefully as they had. Excellent, I thought as I rubbed a bruise on my knee, only another thousand yards to walk before I'm actually inside this place. The front garden was beautiful, even in its wild state. There was something to be said for the mossy stonework and the dry fountains, a kind of dystopian beauty that a city-slicker like me seldom gets to see, that made the walk bearable, and before I knew it, I was at the wide front doors, testing the handle to see if it was locked. Fortune was on my side, or so I believed, and I found it open, so stepped into the once-lavish front hall. The ceilings were high and covered in cobwebs, and nearly every surface was caked with a layer of dust thick enough to be snow, including a shattered mirror whose shards glittered on the table below it. The sight of my own exercise-reddened face in it gave me an unexpected chill, which I chalked up to the weather hastily, and I decided to move on. As I walked, I glanced up the stairs, wondering if these were the ones that'd once seen a detective's final breaths, and the panicked screams of a man running for his life. What had these walls seen, I wondered? If they could talk, what tale of terror would they recount? My eyes wandered into the foyer as I passed, and I was forced to stop and double take. Lines of weather-worn yellow caution tape lay strewn around a body's outline in front of the fireplace. This time, I accepted the chill as my own reaction. There'd been no mention of a fourth body. Was this where Fischbach had met his end? Was this the place where the detective had sussed out the murderer, and decided to confront him, thereby sealing his own fate? I didn't think I wanted to know the answer, and I decided to try to look for a bedroom, as it was getting late. I climbed the stairs by phone-flashlight, careful not to touch the railings as I went. A dark stain on one wall had me frozen on the top step. That was the unmistakable stain of blood, and the discolored wall around it looked almost like an outline of its own. I had a moment of silence for the fallen man, then moved quickly past his old resting place to the hall beyond, and into an open bedroom out of the line of sight of the stairs. Perhaps I'd sleep better if I couldn't see it; I'd underestimated my own detachedness. The room I'd entered looked as if it'd been through hell. There were books and papers all over the floor, the musty bed was in total disarray, and a table in a nook on my left had been overturned, scattering a few broken picture frames to the ground. I dared to look at one of the pictures, and found smiling back at me the same faces that'd smiled out of the articles proclaiming their deaths and disappearances. The mayor, the colonel, the actor, and the ex. Looking away quickly, I decided to set up camp and drown my fears in a few hours of portable game system distraction. My bag thudded dully down beside the bed, and I thudded dully down beside it, rummaging and humming an old happy tune to break the silence. I couldn't help but feel that something was inherantly wrong with this place, but I brushed that aside. I had no use for silly superstition and fanciful interpretations of old stains and pictures. After all, this place had been empty for going on fifty years. The killer was either long gone or long dead; I had nothing to worry about.

It was 2:15am when I squinted at my dying phone's screen, startled out of my uneasy sleep by a loud thud downstairs. "It's an animal," my brain told me lazily. My heart, however, wasn't listening, and was instead trying to leap out of the frosted glass doors to freedom and safety. Sighing, I stood and stretched. It looked like tonight was going to be an exploring night rather than a resting one. I pulled the real flashlight out of my bag, grabbed the extra batteries and stuck them in my pocket, put my phone in there with them, on power-saving mode, and went for a walk, carefully avoiding the small room to my right, and the stairs down the hall. This place was definitely living up to the status of the word "manor": it seemed like an endless maze of halls and bedrooms and bathrooms and studies and media rooms and dining halls. Even the kitchen was enormous, and from its window I could see the vast balcony and the backyard that seemed more like a safari jungle, the green-watered swamp of a pool its oasis and the dilapidated golf-holes its plains of the Sarangheti. I wandered without thinking for the most part, trying to distract myself from the ever-lasting night with searching games. Where were the drinks stored (I didn't go down into the wine cellar), where were the games played (I didn't touch the royal flush still sitting on the poker table)? This worked until I found myself pushing open a door and the beam of my light fell across what I can only describe as a crime show "murder board". Red yarn connected various fading, fragile Polaroids of a bygone age's people, some of whom I recognized from the news, some of whom were strangers to me. Yellowing articles and criminal profiles were thumb tacked to the cork boards that lined the walls. Looking a little closer, I could see that they were not the sensationalizations that I carried in my phone's picture gallery, but various stories of the lives of the victims. An old campaign poster that bore Mayor Noir's reserved, smiling face was connected to an article about one of Mark's movies and its failure in the box office. A front page bearing the title "Safari Hunt Gone Wrong!" sat in front of a copy of the marriage certificate for the Fischbachs. Even the faces of the chef and the butler glared judgmentally back at me, their records sitting beside them as if to ask what my credentials were to enter this dangerous estate. What investigation had led the detective here, then? I frowned at some of the hand-written notes peppering the boards, but I couldn't make heads or tails of it. The most I could get was that Fischbach had been in financial trouble, and the mayor had apparently been working with him on...something. The colonel, it seemed, had always been a bit of a wild card, and perhaps had been a very dangerous man; several of the notes seemed to accuse him of the murder of Mark Fischbach. Oddly, none of the other murders were mentioned. Celine Fischbach was notoriously absent. Another thud, close to my room this time, shocked me out of my investigation, and I hid as I recognized the sounds of footsteps. I was technically trespassing, though who owned the land now I didn't know. Perhaps my friends had thought it funny to call the police and send them to pick me up. I decided that they'd pay for that later, but my main concern was staying out of sight. I ducked under the desk and held my breath as the footsteps came into the room. I didn't think about it until much, much later, when I was recounting the tale to my awestruck friends over mediocre school lunches, but from the moment I heard the first steps, a high pitched whine had droned in the background, as if some feedback from a cellphone on a cheap radio were being played constantly.  At the time, I was more focused on not making a noise as what I assumed was a cop wandered around the room, stopping every once and a while, and occasionally pacing on one end of the room, as if he were studying something on that wall. There was one point when the man had stood so near to the desk that I'd been able to see him in profile, but not being able to use my flashlight without giving myself away, I hadn't seen much other than the outline of a man in a suit, with disheveled hair falling in a sweep over the left side of his face, the only side I could see. Oddly, it was as if he were giving off a little light of his own, a red and blue hue defining some of his smaller features, like his stubbley jaw and the creases in the elbow of the otherwise immaculate suit. Perhaps he'd brought something with him to light his way, some weird lamp or flashlight. Maybe it was his phonescreen. Either way, this was a detective, I guessed then, fervently ignoring the sense of wrongness that radiated from him like waves, though why they'd sent him and not a normal beat cop, I didn't know. My heart almost stopped when I was almost certain I heard him speak, a low, gruff voice that seemed to have too many layers, but it was so quietly that I couldn't tell whether it'd been "You've stayed" or "Betrayed." I was certain that I heard, "Never again," though. By this point, keeping myself from shivering was a constant, conscious effort.

"It's quite amusing to me that you think you can hide by simply being out of my sight and 'keeping quiet.'" This time, there was no guesswork. This time, my heart did stop, and I couldn't tell whether I was going to shit myself or scream. But the man didn't seem to care that I was there. He simply seemed to want to acknowledge my presence, as if out of a want not to be rude in ignoring me. "Stay, if you like. Read all of these old lies. Make guesses, everyone else seems to have done so already. Let's see if you can get any closer to the truth of the famous 'Murders at Markiplier Manor'." I could practically hear the cold smile leaving his voice, and it was as if part of it had dropped half an octave, if that makes any sense. "Or you can go now, and forget you ever saw this place. Pretend it's just another mystery tale to tell each other while you waste your time with meaningless relationships." It went back to the pitch it'd been before, and the cold smile was back in it, if backed by a bit of bite this time. "It is, of course, your choice."

He never said another word that I heard, and it seemed to take forever for him to leave, but when he had gone, I stayed hidden for another long minute, until I was sure he had left the house (though I ignored that fact that I never once heard a door open). I stood shakily, flicking  my flashlight on again, and froze. There was only a single set of footprints in the room, and that was the diamond-patterned prints of my own Chucks in the dust on the old wood floor. I don't think I'd ever run faster in my life, or broken more rules of the road, than I did as I got the hell out of that place.

Everyone always asks me what I think I saw. Was it a ghost? Or a demon? Maybe a shade of the mayor, or of the actor? All I can respond is...I don't know. I don't know what I saw, or what spoke to me, or what those words meant, in the long run. And I'm certainly no closer to a positive ID of the murderer than anyone else. But there're certain things I never say, like how I don't think the butler was mad anymore, and how it was almost as if I could hear voices calling as I left, the strange red-and-blue light never completely dissipating until I had scrambled back over the front gate and shakily started my car, not daring to even turn on the headlights until I had made it back off of the estate, just praying and following the gravel path back to the main road by memory and feel. If you want a solid opinion, then here's what I think: I think I never want to know what I encountered, and that I never want to encounter it again. I think I'm going to follow his advice, and let the mystery stay unsolved. 

After all, it makes for a damn good story, doesn't it?

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Every Golden Yellow Object In Twin Peaks The Return Part 6

∆∆ Part 6: The Rancho Rosa “RR” circle brand and disk is a golden yellow.

∆∆ Part 6: Golden gunfighter statue against darkness.

∆∆ Part 6: Dougie grips yellow manilla case files before dark golden gunfighter statue in courtyard outside Lucky 7 insurance.

∆∆ Part 6: Dougie touches the golden badge of the officer than brought him home. 

∆∆ Part 6: yellow dome lamp illuminating golden light, Janey’s blonde hair and pale yellow sweater, manilla case files (note blue square post-it) screen left, goldenrod folder with extortion note screen right.

∆∆ Part 6: Dougie offers Sonny Jim a golden yellow potato chip from a yellow and red bag. Note “M” emblazoned on the bag, resonating ∆∆ Twin Peaks.

∆∆ Part 6: Sonny Jim’s “Cowboy Light” light illuminates room with golden light. Dougie’s chip offering lays on Sonny’s starry blue blanket with yellow trim.

∆∆ Part 6: Janey, speaking into yellow phone, sets up meeting with loan sharks at “noon thirty” tomorrow at the corner of Guinevere and Merlin. Golden lock and doorknob screen left, golden orange dome lamp screen right.

∆∆ Part 6: Golden lamp with yellow light meets Dougie’s right temple. Golden orange dome light screen left.

∆∆ Part 6: Dougie’s plate and jacket are green. Janey’s sweater and plate are yellow.

∆∆ Part 6: Yellow street light, presumably at the iconic corner of Sparkwood and 21 in Twin Peaks, WA, where, in Cooper’s words, “A yellow light means slow down, not speed up.” (As the light switches to red, we hear the telltale sound of electricity,) 

∆∆ Part 6: After hearing MIKE’s warnings to “WAKE UP” and “DON’T DIE,” Dougie grips yellow pencil to go to work on the case files. (The pencil appears more orange in later shots.) Golden orange dome lamp screen right.

∆∆ Part 6: Golden yellow folders lay beneath pale manilla folders as Dougie marks the case files, guided by little white spot lights. The golden yellow light of the orange dome light illuminates.

∆∆ Part 6: Driver Bill’s pale yellow sheep skin seat cover as he drives Carl and Mickey into town.

∆∆ Part 6: bit of pale yellow material above Mickey’s head. Mickey is going into town to get Linda’s mail for her and he explains the trouble they’ve had getting Linda help from the government. (Linda’s is by inference, a wounded war veteran.)

∆∆ Part 6: Yellow countertop and lights at the RR Diner. Ever notice how diners always have ketchup out, but you have to ask for mustard?

∆∆ Part 6: A yellow barrette behind Miriam’s right ear. She does not have a matching barrette on her left side.

∆∆ Part 6: Yellow signage reflected in Richard’s windshield after he says, “I’ll show you fucking ‘kid’.” Golden yellow interior.

∆∆ Part 6: More golden yellow truck interior. Note spiked green reflection at Richard’s temple and red alligator clip screen left.

∆∆ Partv 6: Golden yellow leaves behind Carl in his morning reverie. (Is he looking for a vortex portal?)

∆∆ Part 6: yellow-leaved trees separate mother and child. 

∆∆ Part 6: Double yellow lines mean do not cross. Yellow diamond stop sign means extra caution. Double yellow do not park strips flank driveway screen right. Yellow-leaved trees alternating screen left. Note dark wiper extending screen left. 

∆∆ Part 6: The yellow line protects the corner.

∆∆ Part 6: Yellow tassel screen left as driver waves mother and child on. Note blue square on dash.

∆∆ Part 6: yellow lines and signs all around, but boy is exposed, alone on white rectangle.

∆∆ Part 6: Darkness enters screen left. Golden yellow line curves towards neon yellow diamond sign, green awning, curtains and evergreen trees. Note green trim on windows above truck and boy and 3x3 window design.

∆∆ Part 6: Yellow leaves surround the head of the woman in green t-shirt with yellow screen-printed rectangle and green Kokopelli figure with pan flute. She curiously has a large jeweled ring on her right middle finger. Other onlookers step upon the double yellow line. Yellow trees in back ground.

∆∆ Part 6: The yellow line bisects the woman’s head in her anguish.

∆∆ Part 6: Golden-lit columned gateway image in orange window screen right.

∆∆ Part 6: Yellow car over Carl’s right shoulder as he observes the tragic scene.

∆∆ Part 6: Dark figure with long, black hair, recalling Mr. C, exits vehicle as yellow flame rises from the body of the dead boy. 

∆∆ Part 6: The yellow flame rises to intersect with the power lines.

∆∆ Part 6: Male onlooker displays gold wedding ring and golden glasses.

∆∆ Part 6: Male onlooker with blond hair raises hand to display golden wedding ring. 

∆∆ Part 6: Yellow sign with numbers 324810 above the numeral 6. This pole also appears in Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me, in a scene also associated with Carl.

∆∆ Part 6: Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino screen right.

∆∆ Part 6: a golden line bisects the window screen right of Duncan. Nine golden lights emit from the dark orange box lamp.

∆∆ Part 6: left to right on Duncan’s desk, gold pen set, golden pages in black note book, golden box.

∆∆ Part 6: Yellow light atop corner’s van. Yellow t-shirt on boy in the lower right corner of the Rancho Rosa billboard.

∆∆ Part 6: Yellow police tape, yellow numbered markers. 8, 28, 4 visible. Yellow caution lights on tow truck.

∆∆ Part 6: Yellow detail on police badge. Golden sunlight.

∆∆ Yellow safety tips of ladder, golden trim on rooftop.

∆∆ Part 6: Golden orange pill bottles.

∆∆ Part 6: Yellow “PREMIERE” sign on motel, address 5333.

∆∆ Part 6: Dougie’s yellow jacket in photo stabbed by Ike The Spike.

∆∆ Part 6: Yellow line bisects rug in Lucky 7 Insurance lobby.

∆∆ Part 6: Yellow cube inside square rock garden sculpture as Dougie approaches Bud’s office. Absurdly large, blonde wood doors.

∆∆ Part 6: Yellow chairs and golden artwork in Anthony’s office. Something yellow reflected below in the metallic crossbeam below Anthony’s knees.

∆∆ Part 6: Golden ram’s head to the right of Bud’s mouth.

∆∆ Part 6: Dougie’s gold watch on his left hand as he mirrors Bud’s boxing stance. Note no wedding ring. (Bud doesn’t wear one either.)

∆∆ Part 6: Pen holder with four shiny golden pennies, head’s up, as Bud studies Dougie’s scribblings on the case files, suggests the tiny spotlights that guided Dougie’s research. Abraham Lincoln motif permeates the narrative. (The woodman’s “Abe” beard, Lincoln towncars, etc.) 

∆∆ Part 6: Red and black on yellow poster of “Battling” Bud as Dougie mirrors his handshake. Double golden lamps and golden boxing trophy.

∆∆ Part 6: While not exactly yellow in color, important to note the two loan sharks enter from the sand, rocks screen right and a camel screen left. Recalls Jesus’ parable, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”

∆∆ Part 6: The sunlight illuminating Janey’s blonde hair on her right side as she finger-pointing lectures the loan sharks about current recession era economics, and reverses the numerals of their demand for $52,000 to her "first, last, and only” offer of $25,000.

∆∆ Part 6: Yellow chair and golden carpet as Ike the Spike attacks Lorraine.

∆∆ Part 6: Yellow car screen right as Richard passes in his truck.

∆∆ Part 6; Getting deep here, but notice Richard is wearing Dr. Marten boots, with their trademark yellow stitching marked over in black, just like the Ford with it’s yellow interior has also been painted over in black, with the black paint obscuring the chrome Ford lettering on the hood.

∆∆ Part 6: Golden name plate and badge as Hawk drops a coin.

∆∆ Part 6: Hawk discovers yellowed pages from Laura Palmer’s diary.

∆∆ Part 6: Yellow detail on map. Yellow words “CRIME” on officer’s jacket screen right

∆∆ Part 6: Frank takes blonde haired Doris into a golden-hued hallway to calm her down.

∆∆ Part 6: Sharon Van Etten plays golden sunburst guitar next to blonde haired keyboardist with the uncanny middle name of “Pennypacker.”

What are the yellow objects? Art, police badges and signage, lamps, files and papers, pencils, traffic lights, signs and lines, car parts, tabletops, furniture, buildings, medicine, clothes, wedding rings and jewelry, trees and leaves, sunlight, blonde hair, a telephone, and a mystic flame. 

Why yellow objects? The golden hued logo at the start of Part 6 suggested I pay attention to that color.

What did I find? Yellow objects in almost every scene. Except the Diane scene and “coin trick” scene between Richard and Red, where black, white and silver dominate. Telling that Richard drives a yellow truck painted black and white, just like he blacked out the yellow stitching of his Dr. Marten’s. Richard is suppressing the yellow and causing nothing but destruction. 

What does yellow mean? Authority, power, trouble, safety, caution, danger, aid, help, wealth, marriage, fear, beauty, ferocity, age, but ultimately in the color spectrum, yellow is a liminal line before the warmer colors hit the cooler colors. Next on the spectrum is green. Yellow is the border between the Red Room/Black Lodge and the earthly Twin Peaks. 

∆∆ Part 10: The Rancho Rosa logo before Part 10 is the inverse of Part 6. Instead of a yellow brand over a grey background, we have a grey brand over a yellow background. Is Part 10 an inverse of Part 6? Stay tuned for another installment of KPJK253 ... 

[everythingtimeless]

Welcome to EverythingTimeless’ Weekly Roundtable, a sprawling discussion in which your friendly neighborhood Mod Time Team breaks down episodes of our favorite show, Timeless. We can’t promise to be coherent, but we’ll try our best. 

This week: Season 1, Episode 2 - The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Sarah: Friends, family, Time Team. We are gathered here today. To talk about Robert Todd Lincoln. (Right? That’s what we’re here to talk about?) 

Kate: Can I say it is still to soon even if I was supposed to be prepared to? Because, RTL. 

Gissane: That’s exactly what I signed up for. I also think we should make a fan club. Posters. Tees. Mugs. ALL THINGS RTL.

Ann: Girls, we must be PROFESSIONALS about this now. We are SERIOUS bloggers. So we can only squee over Dreamboat Lincoln in due order of the episode conversation.(Also maybe set up a side-side RTL appreciation blog?)

Kate: Maybe? Definitely.

Sarah: Decorum is the name of the game. (What do you think - Robert Toddless? Thinkin’ Lincoln? Todd Team?)

Gissane: Todd Team. YES. Can we be the Todd Team?

Kate: Alright, perhaps we gather what is left of our dignity and start at the top of the episode. I shall begin with the brave opinion that John Wilkes Booth is a toady dumpster fire of a human.

Sarah: Opinion super sustained.

Ann: I always appreciate the complete and utter loathing he inspires.

Gissane: Agreed. Very much agreed.

Sarah: It really does quickly pull you into the episode - something so recognizable and startling.

Ann: It absolutely does.

Kate: Like every time I see Titanic and think they will avoid the huge chunk of floating ice, I saw it and was still somehow shocked he was assassinated? Timeless knows how to deliver the drama, even when we see it coming.

Gissane: Yup, because on a show like this, we somehow hope that it can happen, but at the same time, we know that it shouldn’t. And a huge part of that drama was that amazing debate among the Time Team. It breaks me every single time.

Ann: Well and there is the *actual* chance they can change history, they could right a wrong. And even if we know that would royally fuck up so much more, a part of us still wants to save Abraham Lincoln, you know?

Kate: I love that the team members each have a voice though. Like a passionate though respectful debate about changing the entire course of history because how do you pass up the chance to save Abraham Lincoln?

Gissane: Always save Lincoln. Always.

Sarah: Well, Rufus’s point of view actually makes me cry.Because for him the ramifications of Lincoln’s death are so rooted in his oppression.

Kate: Rufus always providing such an important representation of a perspective rarely entertained.

Sarah: And seeing the hope in the soldier’s eyes as they talked about freedom - devastating.

Ann: That scene where the soldiers asked him to write letters for them? I cried.

Kate: And the whole while Rufus knows what is coming for them historically, so then when he might have a chance to save Abraham which would go a long way in saving them all? Gahhhhh. I am undone.

Gissane: It literally doesn’t matter how many times I watch this episode, I will choke up like a baby every time. I don’t think any episode has gotten to me as much as this has, to be honest.

Sarah: Right Kate - Lucy idolizes Lincoln, Wyatt sees saving Lincoln as proof that fate can and should change - which would in turn save his wife. But to Rufus, he still lives with a piece of that. 

And agreed so much, Giss. One of the soldiers - who had fought for the country, for his freedom - hasn’t seen his wife since she was sold. Timeless took this Lincoln episode seriously, and it shows. 

Kate: Rufus is the character that won’t allow us to conveniently forget the implications of history. HE IS SO IMPORTANT.

Gissane: I feel like we’ll say this every week, but I love how unapologetic this show is in regards to painting the ugliest sides of history to remind viewers of just how awful it was and essentially still is at times.

Sarah: Yes and yes.

Ann: It’s scary how much these lessons both still resonate and beg to be learned, you know?

Gissane: I love that even though we can definitely mess with history, the show still sticks to telling us truths that we may have forgotten upon learning or that may have been concealed from the textbooks.

Kate: Both, so so much Annie. 

Let us take a sojourn to another important little piece of the episode. In which the impeccable Jiya offers to help Lucy figure out what happened to her sister.

Sarah: Here. For. Lady. Friendship.

Gissane: You mean in the second episode of a show two women had a conversation that didn’t revolve around a man!?And it was done so effortlessly, you could tell right away that because both these women are incredibly kind, they’d get along perfectly with one another.

Kate: Meanwhile Conner “I have the sympathy of a plastic bag” Mason is all like, ummm sorry bout your sister maybe not really.

Gissane: Connor “No Chill, No Grace” Mason.

Sarah: Someone did not attend Mason Industries sensitivity training. 

Kate: It tickles me that every time the Time Team returns and reports a disturbance in the history force that Denise and Connor are all like, whatttt? Nooooo. How?!?!?! 

Ann: I also live for Denise’s face every time Connor speaks.

Gissane: She is all of us.

Kate: She wants to hit him so hard. Upside the head, really quickly and repeatedly.

Sarah: Can you imagine, though, finding out that not only is your sister just…not in existence…but the man who you thought was your father was, in fact, not your father…and then you are pushed into a small deathtrap and flung back to the assassination of your country’s greatest leader?

Kate: Also she is engaged to a stranger. Lucy has way more composure than pretty much anyone ever.

Gissane: And we can talk about how Wyatt slams Connor about being a little more sensitive. But in all seriousness, if I was Lucy, I’d lose my head in a heartbeat. Actual QUEEN.

Ann: Oh I would have crumbled immediately, if not sooner. I would have traveled back in time to crumble sooner probably.

Kate: This is where Wyatt really begins to take a stand for his team and I love it. First with assuring Lucy that they would fix the timeline and get her sister back. Then with Rufus, building up his self confidence.

Gissane: YES. I love his moments with Rufus too much to be able to form words.

Kate: Wyatt started becoming more than just a super pretty face with a head that rocks a hat like nobody’s business this episode.

Sarah: It also begins one of my favorite pieces of this stupid (wonderful) show - which is Wyatt helping Lucy with her seat belt. (And Wyatt’s perpetual motion sickness.) 

Ann: Sarah no.

Kate: Yes Sarah. YESSSSSSS. Yep. 

Gissane: SO. MANY. EMOTIONS.

Sarah: I don’t know what I did in a past life to be punished? rewarded? thusly. But I curse and praise some deity.

Ann: I swear to god every time I put on a seatbelt now I am pissed as hell that it’s my hands and not Wyatt Logan’s adjusting the strap for safety.

Kate: Wyatt Logan is the sear belt fastener we all deserve.

But also, and finally going back to where we feverishly began. Lucy and RTL. Going to the Ford Theater. Making eyes at each other. DISCUSS.

Gissane: THE WAY HE WALKS IN. Just. I need to go lay down.On a serious note though, the thing that gets to me is how proud he is to be Abraham Lincoln’s son. He doesn’t feel pressured to live in the shadow, he appreciates it. An absolute babe with a heart of gold? I cannot handle. 

Sarah: It is a beautiful thing.

Kate: I will never get over the anguish in his face when he found Lucy outside of the theater.

Sarah: I think all of it is so lovely in setting this scene - it’s a story we (or, well, we as Americans in this chat) know well. But he helps to humanize it. All of the small details - including the mailroom and the dimly lit theatre and trying to avoid the show (or help Ulysses avoid the show).

Kate: I feel like we think of Abraham Lincoln as ours, you know? Leader of a country through one of the most tumultuous times in our history. But he belonged to others, and this show allowed us to see the imitate cost.

Gissane: Oh man. I have chills. 

Sarah: Yes, Kate. 

Gissane: KATE. SARAH. Wow.

Sarah: Even seeing Ford’s Theatre now, it’s hard to place it back to that time. But I think that Timeless really succeeds. All while weaving an interesting story and building this new relationship between our 3 main nuggets.

Gissane: The first time I ever passed by Ford’s Theatre. I couldn’t describe that feeling even if I tried.

Kate: Yes. It gives new breath and dimension to characters or stories we felt we knew, and draws us into the new stories of this team.

Sarah: There’s a Sephora about 300 feet from Ford’s Theatre now, so it really is worlds removed. It also created a high stakes mission. 

There were several moments where I thought, “Oh damn. Lucy is going to save Lincoln.” And Lucy had to make the choice (Though, in that moment, the chaos made it impossible to save him anyway. And here we see Fate in action once again.)

Gissane: But I also love that she clearly tried towards the end, but it was too late. It was just not meant to be I guess. IT HURTS. 

Kate: And considering she was in the box when it happened. How traumatic. Lucy Preston is so damn strong I cannot.

Sarah: SO strong. (Of course RTL sees that and comes to her immediately after…)

Kate: A small aside. Garcia. We don’t know him yet, his motivations, his past. It is jarring to be attached to him  now (because damnit I am) and go back and see him at his most detached.

Sarah: He was outright terrifying. He killed Lincoln point blank, no hesitation. 

Kate: But I swear there was regret in his eyes when he shot Lincoln, so this is when I started wondering just what the hell he was up to. Or maybe I imagined it because he has really pretty eyessssss.

Gissane: But I feel like Flynn is the kind of man who’d look up to Lincoln in one way or another. If there’s one president that could win even the cruelest hearts, it’s Lincoln.

Sarah: True, Giss.Which makes his desperation all that much more apparent.

Well, friends and Todd Teamers. Final thoughts? 

Kate: Other than poor Lucy, she goes from watching the president be assassinated to an engagement party to a man she is just meeting? Time Travel Whiplash, my friends

Gissane: After this episode, I became Timeless trash. There was no turning back.

Sarah: Mostly I think they’ve started to really carve a few important paths for the show: There seem to be no stakes too high for Garcia. Fate appears to be unavoidable. And time is malleable. 

I cannot wait to see what timeline our friends mess up next - and hopefully we get some Amy-related answers? P.S. I would also not cry about seeing Wyatt shirtless again

Kate: Until Atomic City, location Trash Vegas, my friends.

Gissane: Good day, darling souls! 

Kate: (On to dream about Wyatt shirtless, thanks muchly!) 

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[saddayfordemocracy]

Black History Month !

Since former President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History Month as a part of the United States' bicentennial celebrations in 1976, the U.S. has celebrated it during the month of February.

In 1915, Carter Woodson, a historian often referred to as the "Father of Black History", developed an association in Chicago with several of his friends to bring attention to the importance of studying and spreading knowledge about black life and history. 

At the time, it was called the “Association for the Study of Negro Life and History”, since then, it has been renamed the “Association for the Study of African American Life and History”.

The founders created reading and study materials for teachers, wrote plays and made posters sharing important information and dates about black history, according to ASALH. In 1926, they also announced that "Negro History Week" would take place during the month of February. Over time, and especially as a response from college students during the Civil Rights movement, a push came for the celebratory week to be expanded to a month.

Woodson chose February partly because it was the birth month of two people who'd played important roles in black history: Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.

Black History Month wasn't just about celebrating Lincoln and Douglass, Woodson stressed. According to the ASALH, he wanted to both ask people to expand their celebrations and traditions as well as to help them understand that the black community "should focus on the countless black men and women who had contributed to the advance of human civilization."

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Courage Quotes About Life, Strength and Facing Fear

Looking for motivating courage quotes that will help you be brave in the face of challenges?

Many people think it is in the grand gestures and the major acts.

However, courage can be in the small choices that we make each day, in doing something despite being afraid of it.

It’s facing a fear, or jumping into something, even if we are unsure of the outcome.

What does it mean to have courage? How can we be more courageous in our daily life?

If we take stock in ourselves and our thoughts and actions, we may find that we have more courage than we give ourselves credit for.

More importantly, we need to refine our definition of what courage truly is.

Here are some inspiring, wise, and powerful courage quotes, courage sayings, and courage proverbs on what it is, and how different it can look to each and every one of us.

Courage quotes for pushing past fear

1.) “One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”- Maya Angelou

2.) “Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.”- Baltasar Gracian

3.) “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”- Anais Nin

4.) “When things go wrong as they sometimes will,

When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,

When the funds are low and the debts are high,

And you want to smile but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit

Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.

Success is failure turned inside out,

The silver tint on the clouds of doubt,

And you can never tell how close you are,

It may be near when it seems afar.

So, stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit

“It’s when things go wrong that you mustn’t quit.”- Unknown

5.) “Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”- Bertrand Russell

6.) “The best way out is always through.”- Robert Frost

7.) “Only be you strong, and very courageous, then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.” – Joshua 1:7-8

8.) “The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”- R. G. Ingersoll

9.) “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”- Theodore Roosevelt

10.) “Don’t get discouraged; it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.”- Unknown

Courage Quotes about life

11.) “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”- Soren Kierkegaard

12.) “Remember that failure is an event, not a person.”- Unknown

13.) “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

14.) “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities . . . because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” – Winston Churchill

15.) “The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you can live through that you can live through anything.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, `I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it.

If you fail anywhere along the line, it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn By Living (1960)

16.) “The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.” – Tacitus, Roman historian

Quotes about courage and success

17.) “I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflections.” – Thomas Paine

18.) “There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.” – Seneca

19.) “Bravery is a complicated thing to describe. You can’t say it’s three feet long and two feet wide and that it weighs four hundred pounds or that it’s colored bright blue or that it sounds like a piano or that it smells like roses. It’s a quality, not a thing.” – Mickey Mantle, The Quality of Courage

20.) “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” – Eddie Rickenbacker, World War I hero

21.) “Fight hard when you are down; die hard—determine at least to do—and you won’t die at all.” – James H. West

Inspiring Courage Quotes about fighting for your dreams

22.) “Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.” – Henry David Thoreau

23.) “What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.” – Donald Trump

24.) “Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody’s looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you’re misunderstood.” – Charles Swindoll

25.) “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” – Babe Ruth

26.) “No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.” – Admiral Horatio Nelson

27.) “[Admiral Nelson’s counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemy turned away.

All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his!” – Admiral William “Bull” Halsey

28.) “Trust the still, small voice that says, “this might work and I’ll try it.” – Diane Mariechild

29.) “Come to the edge, He said.

They said: We are afraid.

Come to the edge, He said.

They came. He pushed them,

And they flew . . .” – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet

Courage quotes about strength and love

30.) “Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.” – Karl von Clausewitz

31.) “Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister

32.) “To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.” – Henri Matisse

33.) “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not the absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.” – Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson

34.) “Courage is being scared to death—but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne

35.) “Begin it now. The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. ”

36.) “We need to wake up from a thought that lasts too long.” – Paul Valéry

37.) “In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity’s approval.” – Gerald R. Ford

38.) “To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.” – Picabo Street

39.) “Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.”- Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn By Living (1960)

40.) “I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.” – Abraham Lincoln, November 2, 1863 in letter to James H. Hackett

41.) “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” – Marie Curie

Courage quotes on following your dreams

42.) “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.  It matters that you don’t just give up.” ― Stephen Hawking

43.) “I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.” ― Anne Frank

44.) “We need a backbone, not a wishbone.” ― Joyce Meyer

45.) “Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.” ― Madeleine L’Engle

46.) “When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don’t feel that I’m being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. […] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love. ” ― Michael Jackson

47.) “I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don’t be afraid — if you are afraid, you can’t move forward.” ― Malala Yousafzai

48.) “The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

49.) “What we know matters but who we are matters more.” ― Brené Brown

50.) “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.” ― Aristotle

Courage quotes to help you find your inner bravery

51.)  “I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.” – Catherine the Great

52.) “Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.” – Confucius

53.) “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” – Maya Angelou

54.) It takes courage to examine your life and to decide that there are things you would like to change, and it takes even more courage to do something about it. – Sue Hadfield

55.) “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

Motivational courage quotes

56.) “Courage is looking fear right in the eye and saying, “Get the hell out of my way, I’ve got things to do.” – Unknown

57.) “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”― E.E. Cummings

58.) “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”― William Faulkner

59.) “Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.” ― Erica Jong

60.) “Courage is found in unlikely places.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

Powerful courage quotes

61.) “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller

62.) “With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.” ― Margaret Mitchell

63.) “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali

64.) “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill

65.) “Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.” ―Franklin P. Jones

66.) “You can choose courage, or you can choose comfort, but you cannot choose both.” ―Brené Brown

67.) “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

68.) “Courage is grace under pressure.” ― Ernest hemingway

69.) “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.” ―Steve Jobs

70.) “Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.” ―P. T. Barnum

Other uplifting courage quotes

71.) “Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward.” ― Roy T. Bennett

72.) “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”― Lao Tzu

73.) “The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.” – Daniel J Boorstin

74.) “It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.” – Horace

75.) “Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.” – Ovid

76.) “Without fear there cannot be courage.” ― Christopher Paolini

77.) “Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it. – Timothy Dalton

78.) “Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson

79.) “If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.” ― Dr Roopleen

80.) “The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.” ― Charles Bukowski

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Joseph Benincasa (right), president and CEO, Actors Fund of America, and Ellis Nassour with photo of actress Marian Seldes. Submitted Photo

Curators of the Mamie and Ellis Nassour Arts and Entertainment Collection at the University of Mississippi have created a unique archive to honor the late actress Marian Seldes and the Actors Fund of America, the latter for its generous donations of theatrical memorabilia.

The Marian Seldes/Actors Fund Archive, housed in the J.D. Williams Library’s Department of Archive and Special Collections, includes signed Broadway posters and other materials.

To mark its establishment, representatives of the Actors Fund donated a framed poster signed by the original cast of Broadway’s longest-running musical, “The Phantom of the Opera.” Representatives of the fund also gave a commemorative Actors Fund 125th anniversary ornament to Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter and his wife, Sharon, for use at Carrier House, the UM chancellor’s residence.

“At the University of Mississippi, our arts and cultural programs are among the best, and one of our most passionate supporters is alumnus Ellis Nassour,” Vitter said. “We are extremely grateful to Ellis and to the Actors Fund for their gifts to Ole Miss.

“These donations enhance our Department of Archives and Special Collections and are a great resource for our students, faculty and staff.”

In celebration of the gift, the Department of Theatre Arts staged a reading with Ole Miss students John Brahan, a senior acting major from Hattiesburg and Ole Miss Hall of Fame Inductee, and Rachel Staton, a senior musical theatre major from Atlanta who won an Outstanding Performance Award from the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival, performing excerpts from Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee plays in which Seldes starred. The performance was directed by Rory Ledbetter, associate professor of theatre arts.

Co-founded in 1882 by classical actor Edwin Booth, the Actors Fund of America is a nonprofit human services organization that serves professionals in theater, film, television, music, opera and dance through programs that address their unique and essential needs. Joseph Benincasa is president and CEO of The Actors Fund, with Tony-Award-winning actor Brian Stokes Mitchell as board chair. With offices in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, it directly serves more than 8,000 entertainment and performing arts professionals, and approximately 300,000 more through web resource programs.

“We were happy to support this archive and the memory of Ms. Seldes, who was an ardent supporter of The Actors Fund,” Benincasa said.

The Actors Fund gifts, which began in 2015, include framed and signed Broadway posters from noteworthy performances and annual Actors Fund all-star fundraising galas.

Ellis Nassour, a Vicksburg native and member of the Ole Miss Class of 1964, suggested that the archive be named for Seldes, his longtime friend.

“Marian was among the most admired and hardest-working actors on any stage,” Nassour said. “Her 60-year career covered theater, television, film and radio. Her conversational abilities are still legendary. She was indefatigable until the very end.”

Seldes was honored with Tony and Drama Desk awards, as well as numerous nominations. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995 and presented a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2010. She died in 2014.

The Mamie and Ellis Nassour Arts and Entertainment Collection, dedicated in 2004, was donated by Ellis Nassour in honor of his parents.

The collection includes posters, bound film and theater scripts, photos, caricatures, circus posters, show souvenir books and theatrical memorabilia. It also includes an impressive assortment of playbills, many of which are autographed, from performances worldwide.

A third of the collection is designated for exhibition display, and another third is archived for research. The most important third, Nassour said, is a growing collection of DVDs of film, opera and dance and CDs, ranging from country and pop to Broadway, classical and opera, that is available for circulation.

“We are extremely grateful to both Mr. Nassour and the Actor’s Fund of America,” said Jennifer Ford, the library’s head of special collections. “Donations such as these help to ensure the outstanding nature of the unique archival collections at the University of Mississippi.”

The collection is an amazing resource, said Ed Meek, an Ole Miss classmate of Nassour, former UM assistant vice chancellor and founder of the Meek School of Journalism and New Media.

“When he was director of social affairs for the Associated Student Body in the ’60s, the innovations he brought to revamping campus entertainment were impressive,” Meek said. “This is another first for the university that could only be made possible by an alumnus who loves Ole Miss.”

Nassour points out that he had help from ASB presidents Douglas Abraham, Dick Wilson and Tom Cleveland, volunteers on various committees and the late Tom Hines, dean emeritus of students.

Early in his life, Nassour developed an interest in the performing arts. At UM, he was a contributor to The Daily Mississippian, where his first interview was Bob Hope, who was performing on campus.

Nassour began collecting materials related to the entertainment industry while at The New York Times, where, under the tutelage of Mississippian Turner Catledge – at the time the newspaper’s managing editor – he climbed the ranks.

He later became director of artist relations of MCA Music/Universal Pictures, where he worked with Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber on their landmark studio album “Jesus Christ Superstar,” and artists Elton John, Neil Diamond, The Who, Brenda Lee, Clint Eastwood, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn.

Nassour has written two biographies of Patsy Cline: the first, “Patsy Cline, An Intimate Portrait,” in 1981 and “Honky Tonk Angel: The Intimate Story of Patsy Cline,” in 1993. The entire spoken portion of the revue “Always, Patsy Cline” is taken from four pages of Nassour’s biography.

By Christina Steube

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