The Humble Cow & Calf by James Belmont
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A Union Pacific TR5 has undergone repair work and awaits assignment at North Yard in Salt Lake City, Utah on Feb. 24, 1979. UP 1873/1873B were part of an order for eight 2400 HP TR5 sets, built by EMD in Sept. and Oct. 1951. UP 1873 would enter the SW10 rebuilt program, emerging as UP 1229 on Dec. 30, 1981. The 1873B was retired in June 1982, and scrapped by UP in Omaha, Nebraska.
In 1877, Thomas Edison demonstrated a hand-cranked phonograph that recorded sound on grooved metal cylinders. Edison shouted verses of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" into the machine, which played back his voice.
In 1890, the first Army-Navy football game was played. Navy won 24-0.
In 1929, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard Byrd and three crewmen became the first people to fly over the South Pole.
In 1935, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrödinger published his famous thought experiment dubbed "Schrödinger's cat," to illustrate a paradox of quantum mechanics.
In 1947, despite strong Arab opposition, the United Nations voted for the partition of Palestine and the creation of the independent Jewish state of Israel.
In 1963, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson appointed the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John Kennedy.
In 1981, actor Natalie Wood drowned while on a boat trip to Santa Catalina Island, Calif.
In 1986, movie icon Cary Grant died of a stroke at the age of 82.
In 1989, Romanian Olympic gymnastic hero Nadia Comaneci fled to Hungary. She eventually reached the United States.
In 1990, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution authorizing "all necessary means," including military force, against Iraq if it didn't withdraw from Kuwait by Jan. 15, 1991.
In 1991, a dust storm in Coalinga, Calif., triggered a massive pileup by more than 250 vehicles on Interstate 5, killing 15 people and injuring more than 100.
In 1994, voters in Norway rejected a proposal to join the European Union.
In 2001, George Harrison, lead guitarist of the Beatles, died of cancer. He was 58.
In 2011, Dr. Conrad Murray was sentenced to four years in prison for an involuntary manslaughter conviction in the death of Michael Jackson. He was released on parole Oct. 28, 2013.
In 2012, the United Nations voted 138-9, with 31 abstentions, to give Palestinians non-member observer status.
In 2021, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey announced his resignation as CEO of the social media platform He was replaced by Parag Agrawal, who was ousted in October 2022 upon Elon Musk's purchase of the company.
In 2022, 46% of people in England and Wales described themselves as Christian in a census survey, the first time that figure represented less than half the populations of the two countries.
The "soft reboot" of the UNIT era is pretty obvious, but every now and then i ponder that era when Doctor Who all but cut ties with Earth.
The Aliens Have the TARDIS 1977-1984
23 Oct 1976 - Sarah Jane leaves, end of Hand of Fear
(November: Doctor on Gallifrey, The Deadly Assassin)
1 Jan 1977 - Doctor meets Leela in Face of Evil. She might be human (?), but her people settled on another planet long ago.
1 Oct they pick up a tin dog (K9)
11 March 1978 - Leela leaves at end of Invasion of Time. Bye-bye, human.
2 Sep 1978 - Romana I joins Doctor and K9 for season 16. As with Leela, they visit Earth a few times, but most adventures are on alien planets.
Half of S18 is in a pocket universe. They pick up Adric 25 Oct 1980.
24 Jan 1981 - Romana and K9 Mark ii stay behind in e-space.
28 Feb 1981 - Tegan enters TARDIS in part one of Logopolis, final story of S18.
2 March 1984 Turlough leaves at end of Planet of Fire, S21. Last alien companion.
So that's... four and a half years in which none of the Doctor Who regulars are from Earth, and for three of those years, it's 2-3 aliens and a tin dog.
Then, during the Fifth Doctor's run, Tegan is the only human in a crew with 2-3 aliens, except near the end when she's replaced by Peri. The Fifth Doctor can't make it through a single story with a human companion before he croaks.
All together, that's seven years of the Doctor traveling with at least one non-human companion (including K9).
i'm kind of confused about spencer's birthday. i keep seeing people say his birthday is oct 28th but in s12e15 when he goes into prison, his info says that his dob is 10-12-1981. does the fandom just like the 28th better and they ignore the 12th or? asking because i'm a new fan 😂
I love the birthday problem
so October 12 comes from there and October 28 comes from the fake drivers license Mr Scratch had in Spencer’s name, but the October 12 is Emily’s birthday and they missed Spencer’s 30th birthday so if their birthdays are on the same day it would make it even more sadder (and quite unrealistic)
However, way back in season 1, he turns 24 in episode 1x04 and it’s Hotch’s birthday in 1x19 where they say he’s born on November 2 and since the whole show seems to be a year per season, it’s impossible for them to work that many cases in between October and early November
so what day is it? We don’t know. Maybe the 12th, maybe the 28th, or maybe a different random date, it’s just another plot hole and don’t worry, we’re all confused
Big Bad John! Backstage, the Moon Shadow Saloon, Atlanta, Georgia. Oct 19, 1982.
📷 Rick Diamond.
12 Days of Christmas (8/12)
WARNING! GRAPHIC STORY!! (tw gore, violence, drug use).
Somethin’ about this reminds of the times he went ballistic and hit hospital staff. But before getting to that, the backstory:
John relapsed after taking pill killers for his eye surgery, in 1981. He wrote, “then I kept taking them after I didn’t need to.” His wounds from the ostrich attack gave justification to use, but after recovering, he wrote, “I knew I was taking them because I liked the way they made me feel.” Thus, he was back on amphetamines and drinking wine to take the edge off.
He’d carry on this way until his European tour. At his lodging, in Nottingham, England, Nov 10, 1983. In which the “spider bite” incident took place. John was convinced a wood panel could turn into a Murphy bed. He tore at the wall, likely, Victorian-era splinters embedded into his right hand. His blood-soaked paw roused him from his delusion, then in bed that night, he hallucinated a big spider biting his injured hand.
After the tour, John wrote, “my hand was just a giant ball of infection.” He’d checked into the Baptist Hospital, in Memphis, Tennessee. Where internal bleeding was found in his mid-section. They removed his duodenum, parts of his stomach, spleen, and several feet of intestine. John felt he’d be in the hospital for a while, before his first surgery, so he hid a stash of drugs with him. Percodan, amphetamines, and a fifty-dose card of Valium.
Thinking he was so clever with his new hiding spot, the Valium card underneath his bandages. As he wrote, “over the freshly sutured incision on my belly.” His condition turned for the worse, medical staff didn’t know why, until he awoke to show them the dressing. Half the pills had dissolved into the wound. As John wrote, “I don’t know if it was the Valium’s fault but that was a horrible wound; it took months to heal properly.”
Following recovery, he wrote, “I was about as high as I could be anyway, lost in intensely vivid hallucinations. I half wrecked the ICU, upsetting IV poles and doing all kinds of damage, because I just had to make somebody understand about the commandos; they’d gotten into the hospital and were setting their charges all around the room.” He was in danger of his guts falling out and onto the floor, but he didn’t care. He was in a nightmare, only to be given more morphine, which John wrote. “They didn’t know who they were dealing with, or what: more dope just made me more crazy.”
While visiting Waylon Jennings after undergoing a triple bypass, on December 14, 1988. John had a check-up that day, and 24 hours later, he learned he’d also be having open heart surgery. The procedure went on Dec 19, two-and-a-half hours, and a 90% blockage to the main coronary artery. It was also during this surgery John had a close call and claimed to speak with his friend Roy Orbison, who had passed on Dec 6, of that same year. He also smoked cigarettes half an hour prior to the surgery, and you’re not supposed to do that.
Days after the surgery, he endured a bad bout of pneumonia. On a particularly restless night, he thought he’d gone to Heaven, but when awaking he was mad to not be in Heaven. So, he went crazy. He trashed around the room, pulling the tubes connected to his arm, even wrestling hospital staff. As quoted in Ron Handelman’s book of John, “An article in the Nashville Banner suggested that the doctors might have been to blame for over-medicating him.” Which could be true, but it’s not like they knew he’d rage out.
Basically, he turned into that Yeti in the clip above! From Robot Chicken (From S1/EP 3: Nightmare Generator). Nothin’ like starting the New Year with a story, even if messed up and gross.
MotörheadRemorse? No!BMGReleased: 4/20/24
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1 – Ace Of Spades (Alternate Version)2 – Motörhead (Live At Hollywood Palladium, Oct 1984)3 – Jailbait (Alternate Version)4 – Stay Clean (Live At Newcastle City Hall, March 1981)5 – Poison (Demo)6 – Killed By Death (Demo)7 – Bomber (Alternate Version)8 – Iron Fist (Jacksons Studio Demos, Oct 1984)9 – Climber (Demo)10 – Chinese (Demo)11 – Hump On…
Ontario Cold Cases - The Podcast, coming this Sunday, April 7th on the disappearance of Eric Larsfolk and John McCormick Jr.
Eric Larsfolk and John McCormick Jr. were last seen on the McCormick family farm on Horseshoe Hill Road driving a field car on August 24, 1981. They haven't been seen or heard from since.
Upcoming Episode on Philip Sit
Police are investigating a possible connection between the murder of Toronto teenager Phillip Sit in 2006 and the disappearance of three of his classmates.
Upcoming episode on the murder of Valerie Drew
On Sept. 25, 1970, Valerie Drew was walking back to her Wiley Street house in Kingston, Ontario, through a large wooded field.
Valerie never made it home.
Two nights later, her lifeless body was found in the wooded area in what is now the present-day Compton Street apartment complexes.
Upcoming Episode on the disappearance of Tammy Lamondin
In the evening of Friday, May 28, 1999, Tammy Lamondin, 20, was with friends on Main Street in Newmarket.
She was last reported seen in the Newmarket area near Fairy Lake.
She has had no contact with family, friends or her employer since that time.
Upcoming Episode on the murder of Helen Gillings
A sex trade worker named Helen Gillings was 19 at the time of her murder on Friday, February 17, 1995 in the area of King Street East and Emerald Street North in Hamilton.
Upcoming Episode on the disappearance of Erin McGonigal
Peel Regional Police said Erin McGonigal, who described working as a part-time model and go-go dancer in an online profile, was last seen by her husband on Oct. 6, 2015.
The Humble Cow & Calf por James Belmont
Por Flickr:
A Union Pacific TR5 has undergone repair work and awaits assignment at North Yard in Salt Lake City, Utah on Feb. 24, 1979. UP 1873/1873B were part of an order for eight 2400 HP TR5 sets, built by EMD in Sept. and Oct. 1951. UP 1873 would enter the SW10 rebuilt program, emerging as UP 1229 on Dec. 30, 1981. The 1873B was retired in June 1982, and scrapped by UP in Omaha, Nebraska.
Chocolate in the Underworld Space of Death: Cacao
Seeds from an Early Classic Mortuary Cave (Keith M. Prufer and William Jeffrey Hurst)
Chocolate: Cultivation and Culture in pre-Hispanic Mexico
Author(s): Margarita de Orellana, Richard Moszka, Timothy Adès, Valentine Tibère, J.M.
Hoppan, Philippe Nondedeo, Nezahualcóyotl, Nikita Harwich, Nisao Ogata, Quentin Pope,
Fray Toribio de Benavente, Motolinía, Guadalupe M. Santamaría and Daniel Schechter
Source:
Artes de México, No. 103, CHOCOLATE: CULTIVO Y CULTURA DEL MÉXICO
ANTIGUO (SEPTIEMBRE 2011), pp. 65-80
The Power of Chocolate
Author(s): Blake Edgar
Source:
Archaeology, Vol. 63, No. 6 (November/December 2010), pp. 20-25
Published by: Archaeological Institute of America
Tasting Empire: Chocolate and the European
Internalization of Mesoamerican Aesthetics
by MARCY NORTON
CHOCOLATE II: Mysticism and Cultural Blends
Author(s): Margarita de Orellana, Quentin Pope, Sonia Corcuera Mancera, José Luis Trueba
Lara, Jana Schroeder, Laura Esquivel, Jill Derais, Mario Humberto Ruz, Clara Marín, Miguel
León-Portilla, Michelle Suderman, Marta Turok, Mario M. Aliphat Fernández, Laura Caso
Barrera, Sophie D. Coe, Michael D. Coe and Pedro Pitarch
Source:
Artes de México, No. 105, CHOCOLATE II: Mística y Mestizaje (marzo 2012), pp. 73-
96
The Introduction of Chocolate into England: Retailers, Researchers, and Consumers, 1640-
1730
Author(s): Kate Loveman
Source:
Journal of Social History, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Fall 2013), pp. 27-46
Published by: Oxford University Press
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43306044
Encomienda, African Slavery, and Agriculture in Seventeenth-Century Caracas
Author(s): Robert J. Ferry
Source:
The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Nov., 1981), pp. 609-635
Published by: Duke University Press
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2514606
Accessed: 12-07-2019 16:34 UTC
The Cacao Economy of the Eighteenth-Century Province of Caracas and the Spanish Cacao
Market
Author(s): Eugenio Pinero
Source:
The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Feb., 1988), pp. 75-100
Published by: Duke University Press
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2516221
Accessed: 12-07-2019 17:03 UTC
Establishing Cacao Plantation Culture in the Western World - Timothy Walker
The Ghirardelli Story
Author(s): Sidney Lawrence
Source:
California History, Vol. 81, No. 2 (2002), pp. 90-115
Published by: University of California Press in association with the California Historical
Society
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25177676
The Evolution of Chocolate Manufacturing
Rodney Snyder, Bradley Foliart Olsen, and Laura Pallas Brindle
The Emperors of Chocolate - Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars by Joel Glenn Brenner (Random House, 1998)
Bitter Chocolate by Carol Off (The New Press, 2006)
"Cocoa's child labrorers", Whoriskey, Peter; Siegel, Rachel, The Washington Post, June 10 2019
The Harkin-Engel Protocol (Chocolate Manufacturers' Association, 2001)
"Role of Trade Cards in Marketing Chocolate during the Late 19th Century", Virginia Westbrook
"Chocolate at the World's Fairs, 1851-1964", Nicholas Westbrook
Edible Ideologies by Kathleen LeBesco (SUNY 2008)
Cosmopolitan cocoa farmers: refashioning Africa in Divine Chocolate advertisements
Author(s): Kristy Leissle
Source:
Journal of African Cultural Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2 (December 2012), pp. 121-139
Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/42005280
Chocolate Nations: Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa by Orla Ryan (Zed Books, 2011)
Cocoa by Kristy Leissle (Polity, 2018)
How Mars Inc., maker of M&Ms, vowed to
make its chocolate green. And failed.
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