#Craig Missouri

[my-52-weeks-with-christie]

Rough on Rats: One Doctor's Suspicions

Dubious of Gertrude’s lucky escape, Dr. Kaltenbach swiftly sussed out Gertrude’s choice of water over coffee was inconsistent with her regular suppertime eating habits. With this nugget of knowledge stuck in his craw, Dr. Kaltenbach continued to care for the rest of the poison-stricken Taylor family — who now needed to contend with making funeral arrangements for their patriarch, Dillon. And…

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American Auto Trail-Missouri Route 1 (Mound City to Fairfax MO)

American Auto Trail-Missouri Route 1 (Mound City to Fairfax MO) https://youtu.be/-jBGHMhKZ7g This American auto trail explores the former Missouri Route 1, from Mound City to Fairfax, Missouri.

[ktvifox2celebrating70yearsstl]

Jim Brady & Craig Blair, KTVI Channel 2 - St. Louis, Missouri, 1957

[justforbooks]

When Tina Turner, who has died aged 83, walked out on her abusive husband Ike in Dallas, Texas, she feared it would spell the end of her showbusiness career. It was 1976, and she had been performing with Ike for two decades, since she had first jumped onstage and sang with his band at the Manhattan club in East St Louis, Missouri. Yet, although she was desperate and had only 36 cents in her pocket, she was on her way to a renaissance as one of the most successful performers in popular music during the 1980s and 90s.

She had to endure several lean years, but a turning point came in 1983, when David Bowie told Capitol Records that she was his favourite singer. A version of Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together followed. Produced by the electro-poppers Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh from Heaven 17, the track went to No 6 in the UK, then cracked the US Top 30 the following year.

Turner cemented the upturn in her fortunes with the album Private Dancer (1984). Driven by the huge hit What’s Love Got to Do With It? (her first American No 1), the album became a phenomenon, lodging itself in the American Top 10 for nine months and going on to sell more than 10m copies. Suddenly Turner was one of the biggest acts in an era of stadium superstars such as Michael Jackson, Dire Straits and Phil Collins.

In 1985 she was recruited to play Aunt Entity in the film Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, for which she recorded another international chartbuster, We Don’t Need Another Hero. A second Thunderdome single, One of the Living, won her a Grammy award, and she was an automatic choice to join the Live Aid benefit concert in that year, as well as to participate in its American theme song, We Are the World.

Her follow-up album, Break Every Rule (1986), launched Turner on a global touring campaign, during which a crowd of 184,000 watched her in Rio de Janeiro. The tour spun off a double album, Tina Live in Europe (1988).

The album Foreign Affair (1989) sold 6m copies and generated another trademark anthem, The Best, which was subsequently used to add oomph to numerous TV commercials and adopted both by the tennis ace Martina Navratilova and the racing driver Ayrton Senna. The subsequent Foreign Affair tour ended in Rotterdam in 1990, after which she duetted with Rod Stewart on the old Tammi Terrell/Marvin Gaye hit It Takes Two. Designed as the theme for a Pepsi advert, the track was a chart hit across Europe.

Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee, to Zelma Currie, a factory worker, and her husband, Floyd Bullock, a Baptist deacon. Abandoned by their father and temporarily by their mother, in 1956 Annie and her elder sister, Alline, moved to St Louis, Missouri, where they encountered Ike Turner and his band the Rhythm Kings. After Annie had talked the initially reluctant Ike into letting her sing with the band, he recruited her as one of his backing singers.

It was in 1960 that Tina – who had by then changed her name because it reminded Ike of the cartoon character Sheena, Queen of the Jungle – first sang a lead vocal with Ike’s band. A session singer failed to turn up, and Tina’s stand-in performance of A Fool in Love was a hit on both the pop and R&B charts. Ike immediately rebuilt his act around Tina, and christened it the Ike and Tina Turner Revue. They married in 1962.

Featuring nine musicians and a trio of skimpily dressed backing singers, the Ikettes, the Revue took the R&B circuit by storm. Tina rapidly developed into a mesmerising performer, radiating raw sexuality and bludgeoning audiences with the unvarnished force of her voice. They began to pepper the charts with hits, including I Idolise You, Poor Fool and Tra La La La La, and even if they only intermittently crossed over from the R&B charts to the pop mainstream, the band’s performing reputation was second to none. Evidence of their stage prowess was preserved on the 1965 album Live! The Ike and Tina Turner Show, recorded on tour in Texas.

However, the seeds of the couple’s destruction were being sown in their successful but intense lifestyle. Ike was a habitual womaniser, and also developed a destructive cocaine habit. This provoked violent outbursts against Tina, who, as she later revealed in her 1986 autobiography, I, Tina, was beaten, burned with cigarettes and scalded with hot coffee. She gained a glimpse of what life beyond Ike’s intimidating orbit might be like when she worked with the “Wall of Sound” producer Phil Spector in 1966. To Ike’s frustration, Spector refused to allow him in the studio while he worked on the single River Deep, Mountain High, which subsequently became regarded as a high point of both Spector’s and Turner’s careers.

The Turners’ work won them the admiration of many of their peers, not least the Rolling Stones, who invited them to open a UK tour for them in 1966, then to join them on their American tour in 1969. Mick Jagger was regularly spotted at the side of the stage during Tina’s performances, fascinated by her stage presence and dance routines. One of the high points of Live Aid in 1985 was Tina and Jagger performing together at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.

Working with the Stones prompted the Turners to import a rock-orientated edge into their work, a ploy that worked most successfully when they recorded John Fogerty’s Proud Mary in 1971. It was their first million-selling single and a Top five hit on the American pop charts. In 1973 they notched up another landmark with Tina’s feisty composition Nutbush City Limits, inspired by her Tennessee origins. She took the role of the Acid Queen in Ken Russell’s film of The Who’s rock opera, Tommy (1975): her performance was one of its few critically acclaimed moments, though her spin-off solo album, The Acid Queen, made little impression on the charts.

After her split from Ike, Tina stayed with friends and was forced to survive on food stamps. When their divorce was finalised in 1978, she preferred to take no money or property from the settlement, to establish a complete break from her husband. She earned cash from TV guest appearances on the Donny & Marie and the Sonny & Cher shows, but her late-70s albums Rough and Love Explosion sold poorly.

In 1980 she signed a management deal with Roger Davies, an Australian promoter working in the US, who secured some lucrative engagements in Las Vegas. The following year the Rolling Stones galloped to the rescue once again by booking her as the opening act on their Tattoo You tour of the US, and she also appeared with Stewart in a California concert broadcast internationally by satellite.

By the time she was inducted (with Ike, though he was then in jail) into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, Turner had little left to prove. She was able to spend more time at the homes in Switzerland and the Cote d’Azur that she now shared with the German record executive Erwin Bach. A singles collection, Simply the Best (1991), reeled in more platinum discs as Turner entered the senior stateswoman phase of her career.

In 1993, as she launched her first US tour in six years, her film biography, What’s Love Got to Do With It, based on I, Tina, was released, starring Angela Bassett as Turner. The film brought forth a bestselling soundtrack album and another hit single with its opening track, I Don’t Wanna Fight.

A three-disc anthology, The Collected Recordings – Sixties to Nineties, appeared in 1994, and the following year came Turner’s recording of GoldenEye, the theme tune of the eponymous James Bond movie. The tour that accompanied her eighth studio album, Wildest Dreams (1996), became another record-breaker, grossing more than $100m in Europe alone. Twenty Four Seven (1999) teed up what Turner announced would be her last major arena and stadium tour. She had intended to tour with Elton John, but the idea was scrapped after she argued with him about the piano arrangement for Proud Mary during rehearsals for a TV special, Divas Live ’99. Her subsequent solo dates became the top-grossing tour of 2000.

A quiet period ensued, during which Turner confined herself to hand-picked events, such as a 2005 performance on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She contributed a version of Edith and the Kingpin to River: The Joni Letters (2007), a tribute album produced by Herbie Hancock. She performed alongside Beyoncé at the Grammy awards in 2008.

That October she went back on the road with the Tina! 50th Anniversary Tour, synchronised with the compilation album Tina: The Platinum Collection. In 2010 she became the first female artist to score top 40 hits in the UK in six consecutive decades (1960s-2010s) when The Best bounced back into the UK Top 10. Her Love Songs compilation appeared in 2014, and her remix of What’s Love Got to Do With It with the Norwegian DJ Kygo in 2020 made for a seventh decade containing UK hits.

Between 2009 and 2014 Turner appeared on four albums by Beyond, an all-woman group formed with her neighbours in Küsnacht, near Zürich. The music reflected the spiritual and religious beliefs of the participants, with Turner considering herself a Baptist-Buddhist (she was raised as a Baptist, but began practising Nichiren Buddhism in 1973).

In 2013 she married Bach and gave up her American citizenship to become a Swiss citizen. Three weeks after the marriage she suffered a stroke, and in 2016 she was diagnosed with intestinal cancer, then suffered kidney failure when “the toxins in my body had started taking over”, as she put it in her second autobiography, Tina Turner: My Love Story (2018). Her husband volunteered to give her one of his kidneys and a transplant operation was carried out successfully in 2017.

The following year, the biographical stage musical Tina opened at Aldwych theatre in London, directed by Phyllida Lloyd and starring Adrienne Warren in the title role. Turner received a Grammy lifetime achievement award, to go with her existing tally of eight Grammy awards and three Grammy Hall of Fame awards. Among her vast collection of honours, Turner also had five American Music awards, two World Music awards and three MTV Video Music awards.

In 2021 she joined the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an outright solo performer and sold the rights to her music catalogue to the publishing company BMG for an estimated $50m. Ready to retire fully, she bade farewell to her fans with the two-part HBO documentary Tina.

Alline died in 2010. Tina’s eldest son, Craig, from a relationship with the saxophonist Raymond Hill, took his own life in 2018. Ronnie, her son with Ike, died in 2022.

She is survived by Erwin and two sons, Ike Jr and Michael, from Ike’s first marriage.

🔔 Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock), singer and songwriter, born 26 November 1939; died 24 May 2023

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[alexanderpearce]

ooh i would absolutely love a media rec list from you (im a different anon but 👀)

omg u flatter me.. here are some pieces of media that i really love that i consider to be somewhat lesser known outside of my circles.. i do have lots of favourites not mentioned here that are far more mainstream (my favourite book ever is, embarrassingly, still The Secret History) but it's nice to shine a light on the more niche. i'll add content warnings but they're not comprehensive because i am just going by memory. im also not tagging gore because To be honest with me that's a given.

books and plays

Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499) by Anonymous/Francesco Colonna; very strange book where the author (who is actually revealed in an acrostic poem in Latin made by the first letter of each chapter) clearly has a sexual fetish for buildings and architecture. cw misogyny.

Seneca's Phaedra (1st century AD); i live here. Seneca's tragedy about doomed fatal diseased love. sorry i don't have a translation to recommend but you will be able to read mine one day i promise. cw pseudo-incest, misogyny.

The Pepsi-Cola Addict (1982) by June Alison Gibbons; vanity-published in the 1980s and only existing in five libraries around the world (until i suppose its republishing this or last year), this is a fascinating and very weird little book, and the story behind it too is very sad and interesting. i have a pdf if anyone wants it. cw predatory relationships, incest references, suicide.

The Doloriad (2022) by Missouri Williams; strange and swirling little debut set in a post-apocalyptic future, some really incredible prose. cw incest.

Geek Love (1989) by Katherine Dunne; What if the mother of sideshow freaks was purposefully consuming poisons and alcohols and cetera while pregnant to engineer her kids to be attractions Would that be fucked up for what. cw incest and the ableism inherent in the sideshow "freaks" scene.

Equus (1973) by Peter Shaffer; just read this fucking play man (or watch the 1977 movie!). cw animal death

movies

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) dir. Darren Lynn Bousman; sorry not sorry but this is my favourite movie ever. i've seen it 17 times. complete garbage trashy 2000s comedy-horror-gore-musical. insane cast. literal genius.

Caligula (1979) dir. Tinto Brass; Do you want to watch a two and a half hour long porno filled with torture and gorgeous costumes and conversations on power. well do i have the movie for you. cw rape, incest, i know i said i wouldnt tag gore but this one does have explicit penis mutilation so.

Van Diemen's Land (2009) dir. Jonathan auf der Heide; a pretty good movie adaptation of alexander pearce's first descent into cannibalism!! my main real criticism is that they desaturated the gorgeous green and vibrant west coast to grey doomy fakeness. cw beautiful gay love

Żywot Mateusza (1968) dir. Witold Leszczyński; incredible little Polish movie set in a rural village, on youtube with english subtitles.

May (2002) dir. Lucky Mckee; literally the most relatable movie of all time to me. socially awkward (super autistic) girl has trouble with love, you won't Believe what happens next

The Lair of the White Worm (1988) dir. Ken Russell; peter capaldi and hugh grant's earth shattering gay love story... super campy phallic lesbic homoerotic vampiric wyrmesque weirdo horror. peter capaldi wears a kilt and plays the bagpipes. you MUST watch this movie.

Ravenous (1999) dir. Antonia Bird; can cannibalism represent manifest destiny AND homosexuality? find out now!

And Then There Were None (2015) dir. Craig Viveiros; Agatha Christie could only dream of writing Burn Gorman's gay homophobic character in this. transcends the book hundredfold and if you disagree you genuinely have shit taste.

albums

At Least For Now by Benjamin Clementine; just listen to this right now i mean it this shit is fucking phenomenal. incredible voice and lyrics and piano and strings.

Stygian Bough Volume I by Aerial Ruin and Bell Witch; gorgeous atmospheric doomy metal

Ludevo by Ifi Ude; Polish folk with a modern twist as well as influences from Ude's Nigerian background, songs about death and drunkenness and love and ancient pinewoods

Songs About Teeth and To The Dark Tower by Cake Bake Betty; the vibe you have created is so freaky and awesome

Juniverbrecher by The Indelicates; something something brexit punch and judy isn't englishness awful etc etc. seriously underrated.

Bath Time by Maija Sofia; super atmospheric devastating album with lots of songs focusing on specific female figures throughout history. her recent album is also great.

honourable mention to The Thick of It (2005-2012) which if you follow my sideblog you will know ive been spiralling into depravity over for months now. you may ask, if you compare my posts to what the show is actually like, What on earth is she talking about and to that i have nothing to say

[archinform]

Rosehill Mausoleum, Chicago

The mausoleum features a rotunda with relief panels of the four seasons by Leon Hermant, sculptor

Rosehill Masoleum. Source: Rosehill Cemetery, Dignity Memorial

Background:

Rosehill Cemetery, in northwest Chicago, is the city's largest and oldest cemetery, dating back to 1859, and contains at least 200,000 grave sites in a 350-acre garden setting.

Dedicated in 1914, the cemetery's Rosehill Mausoleum was designed by architect Sidney Lovell, who is interred within. The interior is almost entirely of marble, with the floors composed of Italian Carrara marble. Several later additions would be made to the building; there were six additions made after 1913, and a final one in 1975.

Leon Hermant (1866–1936) was an American sculptor best known for his architectural sculpture. Hermant was born in France, educated in Europe and came to America in 1904 to work on the French Pavilion at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri.

For most of his career he was based in Chicago, working mostly in the American midwest, and frequently with a partner Carl Beil.

From 1904, when they met in St. Louis, until 1927, Hermant and Beil were partners at their Sculpture Studio at 21 East Pearson Street in Chicago.  Leon was the Artist, Carl, the "Executioner."  Hermant continued his art after Beil's death in 1927, receiving a major commission for the Indiana State Library in 1934. Hermant exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1920s, and would complete many sculptures throughout the U.S. [Chicago Sculpture in the Loop]

In 1928 Hermant was awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government for his Louis Pasteur Monument in Grant Park, Chicago.

Pasteur Monument, Grant Park, Chicago

In the 1929 Fourth Addition to Rosehill Mausoleum, a marble rotunda features relief panels of the four seasons executed by Hermant, placed between engaged marble columns. Each panel contains a brief quote below, appropriate to the season. Leon Hermant's signature appears on the bottom right of only one panel, Winter.

The yellowish lighting within the rotunda is so dim that photography is difficult, and one strains to appreciate the quality of the sculptures. I'd admired these panels before, but it was thanks to some thorough research by Jim Craig of Under Every Tombstone that I was alerted to their sculptor's identity.

Leon Hermant, 1866-1936 Source: Under Every Tombstone

Construction News, February 22, 1913, pp. 6-7. Click to view larger

See detail of ad below:

Photos from my recent visit to Rosehill Mausoleum, July 19, 2024:

Rosehill Mausoleum, corridor leading to the rotunda

Rotunda east side, Winter (left), Spring (right)

Rotunda west side, Summer (left), Autumn (right)

The south of the rotunda is occupied by the elegant Rawson family crypt. The north opens to a corridor leading to other areas of the mausoleum.

The Four Seasons

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Inscriptions at the base of the four panels:

SPRING

Hail bounteous May, that dost inspire

Mirth, and youth and warm desire

Hill and dale dost boast thy blessing

This we salute thee with our early song

and welcome and wishe thee long.

                                          Milton.

SUMMER

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

…So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

                                             Shakespeare

AUTUMN

There is no death! The stars go down

To rise upon some other shore.

And bright in heaven's jeweled crown

They shine for evermore.

…For all the universe is life…

There are no dead."

                                       Maeterlink

WINTER

When once our heavenly souls shall climb

Then all earthly grossness quit.

Attired with stars we shall forever sit

Triumphing over death and change and thee

O time!

                                       -Milton-

Detail of Autumn

Signature of Leon Hermant Sc. [sculptor] on the Winter panel

A sculpture inside a family crypt [not attributed to Hermant, but I liked it]

Plan of main level of Rosehill Mausoleum; yellow circle indicates location of the four seasons rotunda.

Beil and Hermant created the relief sculptures above the mausoleum's main entrance (see below).

The mansions of the silent, by Booth, A.L. Published in: Fine arts journal, 1916.

Leon Hermant's other works in Chicago include:

Former Illinois Athletic Club, now SAIC MacLean Center; 12th floor frieze (1908); Zeus presiding over athletic contests.

William Shakespeare, (1915) Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Louis Pasteur Monument, (1928) Grant Park, Chicago

City Hall and Cook County Building, (1911), Chicago

Radisson Chicago Hotel [Medinah Athletic Club] Reliefs, (1929), Chicago; According to an article in the Chicago Tribune from Sept 16, 1928 entitled “Building art inspires panels,” “The friezes were designed by George Unger, in collaboration with Walter Ahlschlager, and carved by Leon Hermant."

One North Lasalle Street (1930), Vitzthum and Burns architects, Chicago

via Prabook site

SOURCES/ LINKS:

Léon Hermant, Wikipedia

Sidney Lovell, Wikipedia

"The Mansions of the Silent," by Anne Lisle Booth, Fine Arts Journal, Vol. 34, No. 6 (Jun. - Jul., 1916), pp. 265-274

"Rosehill Cemetery Mausoleum," Construction News, February 22, 1913, pp. 6-7.

[mrs-stans]

G Flip to Host Star-Studded G’Day USA Arts Gala Event Honoring Samara Weaving, More (Exclusive)

The G'Day USA Arts Gala is making its return in February to celebrate some of the best in Australian achievement — from actress Samara Weaving to director Craig Gillespie.

Taking place Feb. 1 in Los Angeles, the event will be hosted by recording artist G Flip. "For the past 21 years, the G'Day USA program has fostered deeper ties between the United States and Australia and promoted Australian achievement, creativity and talent, with the support of the Australian government," the press release noted.

Honorees include bestselling author and recording artist Delta Goodrem, who will be awarded the Excellence in the Arts Award by Kelly Rowland. Weaving, who starred in Nine Perfect Strangers, Babylon and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, is set to take home the Rising Star Award.

Gillespie, whose directing credits include I, Tonya and Dumb Money, will be presented with the Excellence in Film & Television Award by actor Sebastian Stan.

It will be an evening of music as well, with performances from Morgan Evans, Kita Alexander and Mi-kaisha. All money raised will go to the American Australian Association and its Arts Fund, which supports American and Australian emerging artists studying in each other's respective countries.

Last year's event pulled in a number of high-profile attendees, including Katy Perry, who presented her husband Orlando Bloom's ex-wife, Miranda Kerr, with the Excellence in the Arts award.

"Many of you may be confused as to why I'm presenting Miranda with this award," Perry said at the time. "It doesn't fit the ex-wife, new wife narrative. Many in the media would like to see us mud wrestle…but this is about love, and Miranda is love."

[ambersock]

First Lines Game

Rules: share the first lines of up to ten of your most recent fanfics and tag up to ten people. If you have written fewer than ten, don’t be shy and share anyway.

tagged by @yourmadnesswon <3 <3

Chrysalis

The thin, jagged crack of light hovers undulating in the air in a beckoning dance, promising sanctuary on the other side. 

Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

Sam waits, kneeling, for his execution.

He watches Dean pull the scythe back for the fatal strike and closes his eyes, half out of dread, half out of mercy.

Make All of My Nightmares Come True

Kearney, Missouri is miles behind them, and a chasm still fills the space between Dean, behind the wheel, and Sam, pretending to try to sleep on the passenger side. Sam is supposed to be getting some shut-eye so he can take over driving in a few hours, but he’s still wound up and sleep won’t come despite the soft rock Dean put on.

Your own brother trying to kill you will do that.

Threshold

He’s standing at the threshold, but he can’t quite seem to make himself go any further. The double doors in front of him challenge him, judging, questioning, repudiating his worthiness. It’s difficult to find the will within himself to move forward, but going back is not an option. Not anymore.

Enemy Within

Bobby and Sam pull into the drive that leads to the burned-out shell that was once Bobby’s home. The place where Sam and Dean could once turn to when they needed to regroup and lick their wounds. The place that once was the only occasional island of stability Sam knew other than the Impala.

With ice cold hands takin’ hold of me

“I think you’ll want to see this for yourself.”

He doesn’t, as a rule, concern Himself with individuals; they are not in and of themselves important to the whole of the species. They are molecules of water compared to the tide, necessary, providing a medium to shape a pattern, but one more or less has little impact in the grander scheme.

Taking Care of Business

He’s just settled in with a glass of Craig and The Drama of the Gifted Child when the King of Hell is interrupted by the irritating sound of a throat being cleared. He shuts his eyes and pushes aside the urge to disintegrate the offender. There is a delicate balance between instilling the correct level of fear and retaining enough staff to run a functioning court.

Penny for your Thoughts

In retrospect, Garth should’ve known better. 20-20 hindsight is a harsh mistress.

He should’ve known that the automatic fight-or-flight reaction causes muscles to tense, not relax. He should’ve stepped in front of Dean again, blocked his line of fire. He should’ve made sure that the gun was pointed away from Sam before he threw the punch.

Convergence

Bright dim bright dim bright dim

We need bait that fits the demo… Chain around neck choking… I don’t think I want it back…

Filet of Soul

Sam glances across the Impala to the passenger seat to Dean, who has finally conked out, leaving Sam alone with his thoughts in the aftermath of nearly losing him to an Amazon.

“Now isn’t that ironic. And here you thought we were the unstable one.”

Almost alone.

No-pressure tags, just including some folks who I know are writers and might enjoy participating. Apologies to anyone I didn't tag because I can't keep different Tumblr/AO3 handles straight; please consider yourself tagged!

@wilsonthemoose @adirotynd @a-wondrous-thing @petrichorsam @quickreaver @themegalosaurus @trials-era-sam @tigerlilynoh

[popculturelib]

Haunted States of America: Kansas

Ghost Stories of Fort Leavenworth (1988) by the Musettes Fort Leavenworth Museum, illustrated by Craig Streeter

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is an active army installation that was established in 1827. It protected the Santa Fe Trail and areas near the Missouri River as an important part of the westward expansion of the United States. Today, it is the oldest active Army post west of the Mississippi River.

Ghost Stories of Fort Leavenworth was written by the Musettes of the Fort Leavenworth Museum, a museum advocacy group, in an attempt to document stories of the many ghosts in and around Fort Leavenworth, which include:

A tea party held at 624 Scott Avenue

Faces seen in the fire and smoke of hearths

Ghosts of men who were executed at the US Disciplinary Barracks, a military prison

General George Armstrong Custer

Fort Leavenworth currently does ghost tours in and around the Fort if you live nearby and want to learn more. The museum is now called the Frontier Army Museum.

The Fort Leavenworth Historical Society also has a book titled The Haunted Houses of Fort Leavenworth (1995) by John Reichley. If you're interested in more stories about haunted Kansas, check out the aptly titled Haunted Kansas: Ghost Stories and Other Eerie Tales (1997) by Lisa Hefner Heitz in our collection.

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

[goalhofer]

2023 Philadelphia Phillies Roster

Pitchers

#22 Michael Lorenzen (Fullerton, California)*

#25 Matt Strahm (West Fargo, North Dakota)*

#27 Aaron Nola (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)

#30 Gregory Soto (Bajos De Haina, Dominican Republic)*

#31 Craig Kimbrel (Huntsville, Alabama)*

#43 Yunior Marte (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)*

#45 Zach Wheeler (Dallas, Georgia)

#46 José Alvarado (Maracaibo, Venezuela)

#54 Dylan Covey (Pasadena, California)*

#55 Ranger Suárez (Pies De Cuesta, Venezuela)

#58 Seranthony Domínguez (Esperanza, Dominican Republic)

#61 Christopher Sánchez (La Romana, Dominican Republic)

#68 Jeff Hoffman (Colonie, New York)*

#99 Taijuan Walker (Yucaipa, California)*

Catchers

#10 J.T. Realmuto (Del City, Oklahoma)

#21 Garrett Stubbs (Del Mar, California)

Infielders

#5 Bryson Stott (Clark County, Nevada)

#7 Trea Turner (Lake Worth Beach, Florida)

#17 Rhys Hoskins (Sacramento County, California)

#28 Alec Bohm (Omaha, Nebraska)

#29 Rodolfo Castro (El Llano, Dominican Republic)*

#33 Edmundo Sosa (Ciudad Panama, Panama)

Outfielders

#3 Bryce Harper (Las Vegas, Nevada)

#8 Nick Castellanos (Plantation, Florida)

#12 Kyle Schwarber (Middletown, Ohio)

#16 Brandon Marsh (Buford, Georgia)

#18 Johan Rojas (San Francisco De Macorís, Dominican Republic)**

#19 Cristian Pache (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)*

#44 Andrew Cave (Hampton, Virginia)*

Coaches

Manager Rob Thomson (St. Clair Township, Ontario)

Bench coach Mike Calitri (Canton, Massachusetts)

Hitting coach Kevin Long (Phoenix, Arizona)

Assistant hitting coach Jason Camilli (Peoria, Arizona)

Pitching coach Caleb Cotham (Mt. Juliet, Tennessee)

Assistant pitching coach Brian Kaplan (St. Joseph County, Indiana)

Bullpen coach David Lundquist; Jr. (Carson City, Nevada)

Bullpen catcher Brad Flanders (Frisco, Texas)

Bullpen catcher Hector Rabago (Riverside, California)

1B coach Francisco Figueroa (Miami, Florida)

3B coach Dusty Wathan (Blue Springs, Missouri)

Infield coach Bobby Dickerson (Laurel, Mississippi)

[shadowcow]

For the longest time I've been an uncultured philistine as far as movies go, but lately I've been trying to change that! Been on a good streak for the past couple of weeks, so far I've seen:

No Country for Old Men (title misleading; country sucks dick primarily for middle-aged and younger men. Also really good movie with a great antagonist)

Grand Budapest Hotel (Fun and entertaining, Ralph Fiennes was great)

Death of Stalin (Very much enjoyed and sent me down a rabbit hole to brush up on relatively recent Russian history since there were a few characters I didn't know much about. Very much enjoyed its humour)

Glass Onion (not as good as the first imo, but the first was a tough act to follow. Rapidly finding I'm a Daniel Craig enjoyer. Fun movie)

Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (Very bleak a lot of the time but I really enjoyed its dark sense of humour as well as what I felt it wanted you to think about. Frances McDormand is incredible and I rather liked Sam Rockwell and Woody Harrelson too, especially)

Gonna keep plugging away at these, but I've been digging everything I've taken the time to check out!

[onwardshimmer]

Okay bestie want to know why I think KC is lit up like a Christmas tree and the west coast is sparse?

Have you seen the flour theory? Jakarta flour mill etc. etc. Well. Here’s some midwestern lore, KC is Wheat Central. The rest of Missouri is corn and soybeans, but Kansas is wheat wheat wheat. That’s why it’s so bright on the map, at least that’s my THEORY.

Further, I think the big dark patches in the west are due to unlivable conditions, i.e. desert and mountains!!! the plains have plenty of people out in the middle of nowhere - the desert? Not so much. Obviously cities have infrastructure, but without it those are harsh areas to live in, therefore hard to infect and spread spores (which need viable hosts!)

Omg I love this whole discussion that’s happening. I was really focused on the darker areas of the map and didn’t register at all the spots that are bright and concentrated. In the opening scene with the epidemiologists they mention ergot, a fungus that grows on wheat. So I wonder if it would naturally just be easier for cordyceps to flourish there since there would already be a common fungus affecting those crops. OH and didn’t they mention Jakarta on the radio, reporting news on the ~mysterious~ issues arising? WAIT WAIT (I keep google searching and editing and adding) Craig Mazin said in the TLOU podcast that “careful viewers” (us, anon) will be rewarded in reference to the grandma-eating-biscuits moment. In the show it’s canon that Jakarta was the start of the outbreak and it’s home to the largest flour mill in the world. Did granny get sick from the biscuits??? Joel and Sarah didn’t eat the biscuits but they were offered to them!! Holy shitballs anon.

I didn’t consider the desert either! That would be a really cool region to explore in TLOU, the concept art showed some different clickers adapted to their environment, and I wonder what they would look like in the desert. The scientist also mentioned that the fungus can’t live in a host over 94* unless it adapted to a warming earth. So I wonder if it would really really struggle to thrive in a desert setting where the temperatures are regularly over 100* during the day. Could be another reason adding to why that spot on the map is so sparse.

YAY SCIENCE

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BNSF Railway 170 was built by EMD as a GP60B (ATSF 347), but was rebuilt with a cab (donated from Union Pacific SD40-2 3751) into a "regular" GP60. The unit is seen here at Mid America Car in Kansas City, Missouri, having just been painted into full BNSF colors. Photo by Craig Walker

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Hurricane Francine tears through Louisiana, unleashing powerful winds and torrential rains, leaving 400,000 without power.

New Orleans recorded wind gusts of 78 and 76 mph as Hurricane Francine's eyewall swept through the city on Wednesday evening. Dulac reported a gust of 97 mph, while Eugene Island experienced a gust of 105 mph. Although Francine has since weakened to a tropical storm, its impacts are expected to continue through the end of the week.

Hurricane Francine struck the Louisiana coast on Wednesday, unleashing destructive 100 mph winds and a dangerous storm surge that left hundreds of thousands without power across the Southeast. The storm dumped several inches of rain, triggering a rare Flash Flood Emergency.

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Francine's eye made landfall at 5 p.m. CT in Terrebonne Parish, bringing hurricane-force gusts to the southern part of the state, including areas near Baton Rouge.

New Orleans recorded wind gusts of 78 and 76 mph as Hurricane Francine's eyewall passed through the city on Wednesday evening. Dulac experienced a gust of 97 mph, while Eugene Island saw a gust of 105 mph.

Though Francine has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, its dangerous and potentially life-threatening effects are expected to persist well inland.

Power outages continued to rise throughout Wednesday and into Thursday morning, with nearly 400,000 outages reported in Louisiana and about 17,000 in Mississippi, according to poweroutage.us.

A Flash Flood Emergency was declared for parts of the New Orleans metro area, where 0.50 inches of rain fell in just 9 minutes and 4.5 inches accumulated within three hours. Life-threatening flooding remained a concern as rain persisted.

As water levels rose, emergency services began receiving calls for help from individuals trapped with no means of escape.

According to Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre, more than two dozen people, including young children, required rescue from the flooding.

The sheriff's office reported that deputies responded to calls from residents trapped in housing units in Thibodaux due to rising floodwaters from the heavy rain.

All residents were safely evacuated, with most being taken to emergency shelters.

Additionally, Francine's conditions posed a risk of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms, with these threats expected to continue into Friday morning.

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Francine disrupts travel in New Orleans as emergency responders remain on standby.

Travel in the region has been significantly affected, with airlines canceling flights to and from Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport through Thursday morning. Some parishes, including Cameron Parish, which experienced flooding before landfall, have imposed mandatory curfews from Wednesday afternoon until sunrise on Thursday.

In response to Francine's impact, President Joe Biden has approved an emergency declaration for Louisiana.

"After declaring a state of emergency, it has become clear that the severity of this storm exceeds the capabilities of state and local governments to effectively respond," said Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry. "Federal assistance is crucial to save lives and protect property."

Where is Francine headed next?

According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Francine is projected to gradually turn north, moving its center across southeastern Louisiana and southwestern and central Mississippi on Thursday.

While the center of the storm is expected to track well inland, its effects could extend hundreds of miles outward.

Weather alerts, including wind advisories, Flood Watches, and other hazardous weather warnings, have been issued as far north as southern Missouri and as far east as Tennessee as the remnants of the cyclone move through the South.

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Since 2000, Francine marks the eighth hurricane to make landfall in Louisiana. FOX Weather Correspondent Robert Ray has reported on most of these landfalls.

“These people are tough as nails,” Ray remarked from Houma, Louisiana, on Wednesday.

Francine, which became a hurricane on September 10, arrived at the peak of the 2024 hurricane season when named storms are most likely to impact the Atlantic Basin. As Francine moves north and eventually dissipates, the NHC is also monitoring several other systems in the Atlantic.

Francine was the third hurricane to make landfall in the continental U.S. during the 2024 season. Hurricane Beryl struck Matagorda, Texas, on July 8 as a Category 1 storm. Approximately a month later, Hurricane Debby intensified into a Category 1 hurricane before making landfall near Steinhatchee, Florida, on August 5.

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Ilhan Omar Successfully Defends House Seat Amid Primary Challenges to Progressive ‘Squad’

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Ilhan Omar Successfully Defends House Seat Amid Primary Challenges to Progressive ‘Squad’

MINNEAPOLIS — Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, one of the progressive House members known as the “Squad” and a sharp critic of how Israel has conducted the war in Gaza, has won her primary race in Minnesota.

Omar successfully defended her Minneapolis-area 5th District seat against a repeat challenge from former Minneapolis City Council member Don Samuels, a more centrist liberal whom she only narrowly defeated in the 2022 primary.

Omar avoided the fate of two fellow Squad members. Rep. Cori Bush lost the Democratic nomination in her Missouri district last week, and Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York lost his primary in June. Both faced well-funded challengers and millions of dollars in spending by the United Democracy Project, a super political action committee affiliated with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which appeared to sit out the Minnesota race.

Samuels had criticized Omar’s condemnation of the Israeli government’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war. While Omar has also criticized Hamas for attacking Israel and taking hostages, Samuels said she’s one-sided and divisive. He also stressed public safety issues in Minneapolis, where a former police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020.

Conservative populist and former NBA player Royce White defeated Navy veteran Joe Fraser in Minnesota’s primary election for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar in November.

Former federal prosecutor Joe Teirab also won a contested GOP primary for Minnesota’s 2nd District seat held by Democratic Rep. Angie Craig.

Teirab has the support of former President Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson and the National Republican Congressional Committee.

His opponent, defense attorney Tayler Rahm, won the endorsement at the district convention with support from grassroots conservatives.

While Rahm announced in July that he was suspending his campaign and would instead serve as a senior adviser for Trump’s Minnesota campaign, he remained on the ballot.

Teirab will face Craig in what’s expected to be Minnesota’s most competitive House race in November.

Craig issued a statement following Teirab’s win calling him “a guy who recently moved to the district because he saw a political opportunity.”

“He’s a guy who has spent months doing anything to win the support of Washington Republicans,” Craig said. “And he’s a guy who has made it his life’s mission to take away reproductive freedoms from families and give those decisions to politicians.”

Omar—a Somali American and Muslim—came under fire from the Jamaican-born Samuels and others in her first term for comments that were widely criticized for invoking antisemitic tropes and suggesting Jewish Americans have divided loyalties. This time, Samuels has criticized her condemnation of the Israeli government’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war.

While Omar has also criticized Hamas for attacking Israel and taking hostages, Samuels says she’s one-sided and divisive. He’s also been stressing the public safety issues he focused on in 2022. The big issue at the time was policing in Minneapolis, where a former police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020.

Omar will face Republican Dalia Al-Aqidi, an Iraqi American journalist and self-described secular Muslim who calls Omar pro-Hamas and a terrorist sympathizer.

In the U.S. Senate race, White—an ally of imprisoned former Trump aide Steve Bannon and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones—shocked many political observers when he defeated Fraser at the party convention for the GOP endorsement.

White’s social media comments have been denounced as misogynistic, homophobic, antisemitic and profane. His legal and financial problems include unpaid child support and questionable campaign spending, including $1,200 spent at a Florida strip club after he lost his primary challenge to Omar in 2022. He argues that, as a Black man, he can broaden the party’s base by appealing to voters of color in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area and others disillusioned with establishment politics.

Fraser has said White’s confrontational style and message won’t attract the moderates and independents needed for a competitive challenge against Klobuchar, who’s seeking a fourth term. He said he offers a more mainstream approach, stressing fiscal conservativism, a strong defense, world leadership and small government. Fraser has also highlighted his 26 years in the Navy, where he was an intelligence officer and served a combat tour in Iraq.

Neither has anywhere near the resources that Klobuchar has. White last reported raising $133,000, while Fraser has taken in $68,000. Klobuchar, meanwhile, has collected about $19 million this cycle and has more than $6 million available to spend on the general election campaign. She faced only nominal primary opposition.

Another clash between establishment and grassroots Republicans played out in western Minnesota’s 7th District. Trump-backed GOP Rep. Michelle Fischbach, considered one of the most conservative members of Congress, defeated small businessman Steve Boyd. Boyd ran to her right on a religious platform and blocked her from getting endorsement at the district convention. Boyd has reported spending $170,000, while Fischbach has spent over $1 million.

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Kay Adams

Kay Adams

Kay Adams: The Resonant Voice of the NFL

There is a voice that is recognized as the voice of American football. Sportscaster Kay Adams has an unmatched love for the game and an in-depth knowledge of the NFL. Fans all across the world have fallen in love with her deep voice and she has offered an unique perspective that has improved our understanding of the game.

In this blog, We are showcasing some information about beloved NFL game announcer and global favorite Kay Adams.

Introduction: Kay Adams

Kay Adams is a sportscaster and TV personality from the United States. She was born on 6 April, 1986 in Chicago. Her parents were Polish immigrants. Czesio Adams is her father name. She has two siblings, one of whom is Sylvia Wrobel. She is a native Polish speaker who speaks it freely.

While attending Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, she became interested in a career in the media.

Adams attended the University of Missouri after graduating from high school for majoring in communications and working numerous part-time jobs to pay for her studies including bartender at a sports bar, radio personality on local music and sports radio stations.

Early Career

Kay Adams began her career as an in-game host for the St. Louis Cardinals at their home games.

Adams’ first professional football appearances were on fantasy football shows such as SiriusXM’s Livin the Fantasy and SiriusXM Fantasy Drive, as well as DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket Fantasy Zone.

Kay Adams is still the host of DirecTV Fantasy Zone. She appeared as a guest on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on 17 October, 2012.