#Pope Automobiles

[johnjhalseth]

1904 Pope Tribune Runabout. Another locally made car, this time from the Pope Manufacturing Company of Hagerstown. There is also a 1903 Tribune Bicycle in the picture built by Pope.

https://www.ruralheritagemuseum.org/

https://www.facebook.com/RuralHeritageMuseum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Manufacturing_Company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope-Tribune

[ads-of-yore]

Bragging hard for 3rd place.

[mondoreb]

End Times Prophecy Headlines: February 20, 2023

End Times Prophecy Report.com HEADLINES MONDAY February 20, 2023 And OPINION “And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.” —Matthew 24:4 “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.” —Fyodor Dostoevsky ===INTERNATIONAL UKRAINE: Putin’s War Against Ukraine: The End of The Beginning RUSSIA: Russia’s War in Ukraine…

[seat-safety-switch]

When you're a Pope, nobody is going to say no to you. You can walk right into any car dealership, point to your goofy huge hat, and drive off in anything fresh and new that catches your eye. Unfortunately, I'm not (currently) a Pope. There are a lot of reasons for this, ranging from the spiritual (not Catholic) to the physical (horrific neck injury in high school causing lack of giant hat-wearing ability.) So I have to buy my new cars just like anyone else does: by waiting 45 to 50 years after their release and then pulling them out of a frozen-over swamp.

Now, depending on what part of the world you're from, you may be wondering why I specified a frozen swamp. Doesn't snow and cold make it much harder to do everything, and cause an unbroken line of scarring pain and profanity to emerge the first time you bonk your flimsy flesh hand on a piece of cold, unyielding metal in the vicinity? Yes, but it also means that I don't have to put on my swim trunks, the image of which many popular mens' fashion magazines have defined as "unsettling." As a side bonus, whatever used to live inside the car is probably dead by now, or at least Encino Man'd out the yin-yang. Most likely, we'll find out for sure about that last one in mid-April when everything in the trunk thaws out.

There's another problem, of course. These cars aren't always "free." If you are not particularly attuned to the unique nature of shitbox-gathering, you might be surprised at this fact. Aren't I helping these poor farmers dispose of a decrepit automobile? Won't they be grateful for my hard effort? Unlikely: you don't become a tax-break-gathering petit-bourgeois hobby farmer without being aware of the value of a buck, and you don't obtain a harem of fine Detroit pseudosteel unless you're willing to be a hard negotiator at the auctions in the first place. This, like the Pope thing, is a fact of life. Which is also why you have to do the extraction in the dark, and hope that they don't have night-vision goggles.

[scotianostra]

Anthony Robert McMillan was born on March 30th, 1950 in Rutherglen, we knew him better as Robbie Coltrane.

Robbie was educated at Glenalmond College, an independent school in Perthshire, from which he was nearly expelled after hanging the prefects' gowns from the school clocktower. Though he later described his experiences there as deeply unhappy, he played for the rugby First XV, was head of the school's debating society and won prizes for his art.

From Glenalmond, Coltrane went on to Glasgow School of Art, where he was ridiculed for "having an accent like Prince Charles" (of which he quickly disposed, though not before gaining the nickname "Lord Fauntleroy"), and thereafter the Moray House College of Education (part of the University of Edinburgh) in Edinburgh.

In the early 70's Robbie took the name Coltrane, due to his love of jazz musician John Coltrane, and began a career of a stand-up comedian at night clubs, at the Edinburgh Festival, as well as an actor with Edinburgh's renowned Traverse Theatre.

After picking up a few bit parts in films and TV series I first remember Robbie appearing in the BBC Scotland comedy sketch series A kick up the Eighties, he went on from there to appear in The Comic Strip Presents films during the 80's The Supergrass and The Pope must die being the most successful. At that time Coltrane had a drinking problem, downing as much as a bottle of whisky a day. In 1986 he flew to a clinic in Mexico and was treated for obesity. In 1987 his partner for 15 years, Robin Paine, left him for good. A year later he met Rhona Gemmell in a pub. They married and had a son, Spencer, and a daughter, Alice. His career took off during the early 1990s with the leading role as Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, a forensic psychologist, in the popular TV series Cracker.

Coltrane is one of only a few to have played "baddies" in 2 Bond films, playing Russian mafia man Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky in GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough. He went on to play Rubeus Hagrid in seven Harry Potter films.

Robbie has also featured in factual TV series, Coltrane's Planes and Automobiles, as well as a host of other TV series, none of which, surprisingly are Taggart! He was voted No. 11 in ITV's TV's 50 Greatest Stars and sixth in a poll of 2000 adults across the UK to find the 'most famous Scot', behind the Loch Ness Monster, Robert Burns, Sean Connery, Robert the Bruce and William Wallace.

Robbie passed away on October 14th 2022, he had become a virtual recluse, living a a rented converted barn near Stirling, living off takeaways from a local Chinese. Coltrane was cremated and his family spread his ashes around several of his favourite places around Manhattan, New York.

His death certificate shows that the actor died from a string of conditions including multiple organ failure, the causes of death given were sepsis, where an infection triggers an extreme reaction throughout the body, lower respiratory tract infection and heart block.

I always loved Robbie, from his early days right through his career, it's sad when the people you grew up laughing at and enjoyed in folms and TV pass away.............Rest in Peace big man.

[thicc-astronaut]

The whole “Car-Pope-implies-Cartholicism” thing is complicated by the fact that the first film implies that automobile manufacturers are treated akin to deities

And actually under this framework it makes Luigi and Guido’s obsession with Ferrari come across as more like a religious reverence  

[rabbitcruiser]

New Year’s Eve

New Year’s Eve takes place on the last day of the Gregorian calendar. The first New Year’s Eve festivities date back approximately 4,000 years, to the time of ancient Babylon; Babylonians celebrated the new year during the first new moon after the vernal equinox, in late March. During antiquity, the first days of the new year were celebrated at different times around the world, and the day was usually tied to an agricultural or astronomical event. For example, Egyptians celebrated their new year as the Nile flooded, and the Chinese New Year has long begun with the second new moon after the winter solstice.

In 46 BCE, Julius Caesar consulted with prominent astronomers and mathematicians, and introduced the Julian calendar, which closely resembles the Gregorian calendar. He made January 1 the first day of the year, partly to honor Janus, the Roman god of beginnings. At the time, the new year was celebrated by offering sacrifices to Janus, decorating homes with laurel branches, the attendance of parties, and the exchanging of gifts. During the Middle Ages, Christian leaders in Europe changed the date of New Year’s celebrations to coincide with religious holidays such as Christmas and the Feast of Annunciation. In 1582, New Year’s was reestablished to follow the Gregorian calendar by Pope Gregory XIII.

In modern times, New Year’s Eve is celebrated in various ways around the world. Many people in Spain and Spanish speaking countries eat a dozen grapes right before midnight, to symbolize their hopes for the following months. Ring shaped cakes and pastries are eaten in some countries, which signify that the year has come full circle. Legumes are eaten in various countries, which symbolize coins, and a hope for financial success in the upcoming year; lentils are popular in Italy, and black eyed peas are a favorite in the southern United States. Other popular festivities that cross international boundaries include the watching of fireworks and the singing of songs.

New Year’s Eve is not a federal holiday in the United States, but it is recognized by some states. Some organizations and stores are closed, offer limited services, or close early; schools are almost always closed. New Year’s Eve events in the United States began to gain prominence in the early 20th century. Many Americans celebrate the day and evening with parties at home and by attending public events at various places and entertainment venues. Often celebrations go long past midnight, into New Year’s Day.

The most prominent public celebration in the United States is the “ball drop” in Times Square in New York City, which has been held each year since 1907, except for a few years during World War II. Celebrations first took place in Times Square in 1904, sans a ball drop. Following the banning of fireworks in 1907, after hot ashes had fallen into the streets, Adolph Ochs, a publisher for the New York Times, wanted to replace them with something. The Times Square ball was inspired by time balls, which signaled to sailors on the seas; sailors set their chronometers after observing time balls with a spyglass. The first time balls were installed in Portsmouth, England, in 1829, and the first in the United States was installed in Washington, D.C., in 1845. The inaugural Times Square ball was made of wood and iron, and was made up of one hundred 25-watt light bulbs. As of 2017, the Times Square ball weighs 11,875 pounds, is twelve feet in diameter, is made up of 2,688 Waterford Crystal triangles, and has 32,256 LED lights. It takes the ball sixty seconds to drop down a seventy foot poll to the top of the roof on One Times Square, where it lands as midnight strikes. Similar events are held in towns and cities around the country. The surrounding geography, culture, and history inspires what is dropped as the new year begins—animals, fruit, vegetables, automobiles, and industrial machinery have all been used. Atlanta has a “peach drop” as Georgia is the peach state; Brasstown, North Carolina, lowers a live possum in a glass enclosure; and Port Clinton, Ohio, drops a six hundred pound walleye.

In 1928, Guy Lombardo and his band, The Royal Canadians, began playing an annual New Year’s Eve event at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Up until 1956 the event was broadcasted on the radio, and from 1956 until 1976 it was broadcasted on television, along with coverage of the ball drop. Lombardo’s group were most known for their playing of “Auld Lang Syne,” which they helped turn into the standard song of New Year’s Eve. “Auld Lang Syne” was a Scottish poem put to paper by Robert Burns in 1788. The melody is from an even older Scottish folk song. The literal translation of the song is “old long times,” meaning something close to “once upon a time.” The song first became used at British and Scottish funerals, farewells, and group celebrations, before Lombardo began playing it in the United States.

“New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” debuted on NBC in 1973, moved to ABC in 1975, and was hosted by Dick Clark for over thirty years. It was Clark’s intention that it would be a younger alternative to Lombardo’s big band music. Central Park’s Midnight Run is another New York City tradition, where fireworks are shot off, and a race around the park begins at midnight. Some other larger cities that now hold large public New Year’s Eve celebrations include Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Major theme parks such as Disney World and Disneyland also hold celebrations.

In the Catholic Church, January 1 is a day honoring the Virgin Mary, where a mass is attended. A vigil Mass is often held the night before on New Year’s Eve. Many other Christian churches have “Watch Night” services, which are services that go past midnight. Attendees give thanks for the blessings of the previous year, and pray for blessings in the year ahead. These services trace their roots back to John Wesley, the founder of Methodism.

New Year’s Eve is being observed today! It has always been observed annually on December 31st.

There are many ways you could celebrate the day and evening. Gather with family or friends at a home, find a public event, or go to an establishment that is having a New Year’s Eve party, where there may be music, dancing, drinks, and food. If you are celebrating at someone’s house, you could bring along a snack or a bottle of Champagne. Watch the ball drop and other coverage of the new year on television, or ring in the new year by setting off your own fireworks and singing “Auld Lang Syne.” If you are feeling more contemplative you could write new year’s resolutions, detailing things you hope to accomplish in the following year, or you could attend a church service or Mass.

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[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINT OF THE DAY (March 9)

Francesca Bussa de' Leoni, known as Frances of Rome, was born into a noble Roman family in the year 1384.

From an early age, Frances felt drawn to the religious life, but at the age of thirteen, her parents forced her into marriage.

As Frances became acquainted with her in-laws, she found that the wife of her brother-in-law felt the same calling to the religious life that she did.

From this point on, the two women began to work to help the poor.

Frances did not allow her charitable work to interfere with her family life and bore three children.

After the plague swept through Rome and left one of Frances' children dead, she began to turn again to charitable work.

Frances gave up all her wealth to the sick and poor. She began to go door to door raising money to aid the sick and poor.

After the plague claimed Frances' daughter, she opened up a wing of her home as a hospital for the poor.

As Frances became more deeply involved in charitable work, she began to realize the great need for it in the world.

She sought permission from the pope to form a charitable society of women to do this work.

The women followed the ideals of the Benedictine order and carried on active charity and assistance of the poor.

After setting up the foundation of this society, Frances continued to live with her husband until his death.

After his death, Frances lived the remainder of her life with the society that she formed.

Frances died on 9 March 1440.

She was canonized by Pope Paul V on 9 May 1608.

In the following decades, a diligent search was made for her remains, which had been hidden due to troubled times in which she lived.

Her body was found on 2 April 1638 and reburied on 9 March 1649, which also became her feast day.

In 1925, Pope Pius XI declared her patron saint of automobile drivers because of a legend that an angel used to light the road before her with a lantern keeping her safe from hazards.

[suboptimal-xenobiologist]

Fuck you. Popee the Performer specbio.

I'm choosing to believe that these "cracks" on Paola are actually veins and her roof is made of biomatter. Probably not flesh but definitely a body part. I also choose to believe she is 100% sapient and motivated solely by spite.

... Also, there's a lot of weird worldbuilding implications introduced by the fact that automobiles powered by the will of living things is just. The norm in the PTP universe. Like you can become a car if you want to. Maybe they're making the car parts out of a super bio-engineered species of hard plant or perhaps fungus or perhaps coral/sponge-adjascent animal and the fucked up way that animal anatomy works in this show allows creatures with brains to connect the artificial vessel to their nervous system like the world's most terrifying prosthetic. That's baseless speculation drawn from what is almost definitely an objectively incorrect interpretation of Paola's design, but it'd be cool I think

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 8.19

295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War. 43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul. 947 – Abu Yazid, a Kharijite rebel leader, is defeated and killed in the Hodna Mountains in modern-day Algeria by Fatimid forces. 1153 – Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende, and also captures Ascalon. 1458 – Pope Pius II is elected the 211th Pope. 1504 – In Ireland, the Hiberno-Norman de Burghs (Burkes) and Anglo-Norman Fitzgeralds fight in the Battle of Knockdoe. 1561 – Mary, Queen of Scots, aged 18, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France. 1604 – Eighty Years War: a besieging Dutch and English army led by Maurice of Orange forces the Spanish garrison of Sluis to capitulate. 1612 – The "Samlesbury witches", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused of practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in British history. 1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire". 1692 – Salem witch trials: In Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft. 1745 – Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan: The start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion, known as "the 45". 1745 – Ottoman–Persian War: In the Battle of Kars, the Ottoman army is routed by Persian forces led by Nader Shah. 1759 – Battle of Lagos: Naval battle during the Seven Years' War between Great Britain and France. 1772 – Gustav III of Sweden stages a coup d'état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King. 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks: The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown. 1812 – War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning the nickname "Old Ironsides". 1813 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's Second Triumvirate. 1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world". 1848 – California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January). 1854 – The First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred. 1861 – First ascent of Weisshorn, fifth highest summit in the Alps. 1862 – Dakota War: During an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way. 1909 – The Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens for automobile racing. Wilfred Bourque and his mechanic are killed during the first day's events. 1920 – The Tambov Rebellion breaks out, in response to the Bolshevik policy of Prodrazvyorstka. 1927 – Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union. 1934 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio. 1934 – The German referendum of 1934 approves Adolf Hitler's appointment as head of state with the title of Führer. 1936 – The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened. 1940 – First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber. 1941 – Germany and Romania sign the Tiraspol Agreement, rendering the region of Transnistria under control of the latter. 1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee: The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy. 1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris: Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops. 1945 – August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam. 1953 – Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. 1955 – In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives. 1960 – Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage. 1960 – Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants. 1964 – Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, is launched. Two months later, it would enable live coverage of the 1964 Summer Olympics. 1965 – Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture. 1978 – In Iran, the Cinema Rex fire causes more than 400 deaths. 1980 – Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people. 1980 – Otłoczyn railway accident: In Poland's worst post-war railway accident, 67 people lose their lives and a further 62 are injured. 1981 – Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States F-14A Tomcat fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra. 1987 – Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide. 1989 – Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years. 1989 – Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The August Coup begins when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine. 1991 – Crown Heights riot begins. 1999 – In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević. 2002 – Khankala Mi-26 crash: A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers. 2003 – A truck-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees. 2003 – Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing: A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children. 2004 – Google Inc. has its initial public offering on Nasdaq. 2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins. 2009 – A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others. 2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait. 2013 – The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar. 2017 – Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break.

[cruger2984]

THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT FRANCES OF ROME The Patron of Automobile Drivers and Christian Wives Feast Day: March 9

Frances was born in Rome in 1384 to a wealthy and aristocratic couple, Paolo Bussa and Iacobella dei Roffredeschi, in the up-and-coming district of Parione and christened in the nearby Church of St. Agnes on the famed Piazza Navona.

At the age of 12, despite her desire to become a nun, and in obedience to her parents, she married Lorenzo Ponziani, commander of the papal troops of Rome and member of an extremely wealthy family. In their four decades of married life, there was never a misunderstanding between them.

She led a life of prayer and sacrifice, visiting the sick and assisting the poor. In due time, she gave birth to a boy Battista, another boy Giovanni Evangelista, and a girl Agnes, whom she educated in the Christian faith.

Frances endured many trials with patience and faith, including the kidnapping of the little Giovanni and the early deaths of Giovanni Evangelista and Agnes. By kindness and patience, she won the affection of her daughter-in-law Mobilia, who had formerly treated her with contempt.

On August 15, 1425, the feast of the Assumption of Mary, Frances founded the Oblate Congregation of Tor de Specchi (Oblates of St. Frances of Rome), dedicated to worshiping God and to serving the poor.

After Lorenzo's death, she received the religious habit and lived in the community as the lowest of the sisters.

Frances died on March 9, 1440, and was buried in Santa Maria Nova (now Santa Francesca Romana). Canonized by Pope Paul V in 1608, she is the patron of automobile drivers.

[moserrodgers00]

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Though Bond has pushed other manufacturers, nothing is extra synonymous with 007 than the DB series of automobiles. In reality, the James Bond franchise is a hub for British-made cars, featuring Jaguars, Bentleys, Rolls-Royces, and Lotuses through the years. There have been many Bond vehicles, however few have had the affect of this model in "Goldfinger." Are you able to title it? Many wedding customs commenced in Rome and had been unfold all over Europe by the Roman Empire, so why not have a Roman marriage ceremony? The enlargement tremendously increased the casino's market share, with attendance rising to over 1,000,000 guests in the following 12 months.

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[sxrrandomfanfics]

∞ Songs best suited for OCs?

... i'd need to actually find songs that fit certain OCs, but I think I have a few playlists. Not for ALL of them though. That'd be crazy.

Maw-sit-sit "But when I kissed a cop down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine "He broke my little bottle of Love Potion Number Nine"

Sandra Bell "We perform, we rewrite the norm "The Chaos Heartbeat booming "From the void, the circus horns "Proclaim the power consuming"

Sixer "Sneaking in the pain, every truth becomes lie "I won't trust myself once I hear your call"

Hazel Nuss (Ex-Psychonaut AU) "Of the answers in my cigarette box "Yeah, the answer's in the second before the other shoe drops "And if you're blind to that "I am fine with that"

Droxy "And oh, you want to start talking "Fall together, I'm walking "Face the lie that I'm hawking "We can always fight "You can be the highlight "Pope is a rockstar"

The Princesses "Na-na-na-na-na-na-na "You can't risk falling off your throne "La-la-la-la-la-la-la, love "You don't even know"

Jade and Citrine "And I know you're going to need me here with you "But I'm losing myself, and I'm afraid you're gonna lose me too"

Hope Diamond "Go down to the ocean "The crystal tide is raising "Waters' gotten higher as the shore washes out"

Qauxcaj "In this town, "With well intentioned mothers "Starving daughters "Worried lovers "I swear to you, I'll never eat again."

Aryona "What's this passion burning? "Tell me, what's this yearning? "For the truth I know I'm meant to find "Cause in my mind "I can't help feeling that this time it's mine!"

Turquoise & Aquamarine (my transmasc SU OCs) "Well, it's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56 "'57, '58' 59' automobile "It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67 "'68, '69, '70 automobile"

J.J. "I might've saved a little trouble for the next girl "A-'cause the next time that he cheats "Oh, you know it won't be on me"

Cosmic Kwamis "Cause there’s a pain you can’t imagine "A little talk that keeps you wide awake "That somehow turns to bold determination "That you’ll never make the same mistake"

[bobmccullochny]

History

May 13, 1846 - At the request of President James K. Polk, Congress declared war on Mexico. The controversial struggle eventually cost the lives of 11,300 U.S. soldiers and resulted in the annexation of lands that became parts of Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, Utah and Colorado. The war ended in 1848 with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

May 13, 1943 - During World War II in North Africa, over 250,000 Germans and Italians surrendered in the last few days of the Tunis campaign. British General Harold Alexander then telegraphed news of the victory to Winston Churchill, who was in Washington attending a war conference. The victory re-opened Allied shipping lanes in the Mediterranean.

May 13, 1981 - Pope John Paul II was shot twice at close range while riding in an open automobile in St. Peter's Square in Rome. Two other persons were also wounded. An escaped terrorist, already under sentence of death for the murder of a Turkish journalist, was immediately arrested and was later convicted of attempted murder. The Pope recovered and later held a private meeting with the would-be assassin and then publicly forgave him.

[scotianostra]

Robbie Coltrane, the Scottish actor and comedian would have been 73 today.

When the people you have grown up admiring and laughing at pass away it makes you think about your own mortality, ut also leaves a hole in life, Robbie for me was a tremendous man, going from stand up comic, to respected actor during his life, he was a very funny and genuine guy.

Born as  Anthony Robert McMillan  on March 30th, 1950 in Rutherglen, Robbie was educated at Glenalmond College, an independent school in Perthshire, from which he was nearly expelled after hanging the prefects’ gowns from the school clocktower. Though he later described his experiences there as deeply unhappy, he played for the rugby First XV, was head of the school’s debating society he also won prizes for his art.

From Glenalmond, Coltrane went on to Glasgow School of Art, where he was ridiculed for “having an accent like Prince Charles” (of which he quickly disposed, though not before gaining the nickname “Lord Fauntleroy”), and thereafter the Moray House College of Education (part of the University of Edinburgh) in Edinburgh.

In the early 70’s Robbie took the name Coltrane, due to his love of jazz musician John Coltrane, and began a career of a stand-up comedian at night clubs, at the Edinburgh Festival, as well as an actor with Edinburgh’s renowned Traverse Theatre.

After picking up a few bit parts in films and TV series I first remember Robbie appearing in the BBC Scotland comedy sketch series A kick up the Eighties, as seen in the clips below

Robbie then went to appear in The Comic Strip Presents films  during the 80’s  The Supergrass and The Pope Must Die being the most successful. At that time Coltrane had a drinking problem, downing as much as a bottle of whisky a day. In 1986 he flew to a clinic in Mexico and was treated for obesity. In 1987 his partner for 15 years, Robin Paine, left him for good. A year later he met Rhona Gemmell in a pub. They married and had a son, Spencer, and a daughter, Alice. His career took off during the early 1990s with the leading role as Dr. Eddie “Fitz” Fitzgerald, a forensic psychologist, in the popular TV series Cracker.

Coltrane is one of only a few to have played “baddies” in two Bond films, playing Russian mafia man Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky in GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough. He went on to play Rubeus Hagrid in seven Harry Potter films. Robbie has also featured in factual TV series, Coltrane’s Planes and Automobiles, as well as a host of other TV series, none of which, surprisingly are Taggart! He was voted No. 11 in ITV’s TV’s 50 Greatest Stars and sixth in a poll of 2000 adults across the UK to find the ‘most famous Scot’, behind the Loch Ness Monster, Robert Burns, Sean Connery, Robert the Bruce and William Wallace.

Robbie picked his appearances carefully after he had undergone surgery on a replacement knee after suffering from chronic pain for years. He lost over 7 stone after in 2016 after doctors warned him not slimming down could leave him a “cripple”.  Robbie spent his final years in “constant pain” after his knee cartilage disintegrated. He told the Daily Express in one of his last interviews in 2020: 

“I was fighting pain 24 hours a day when I was in ‘National Treasure’ and ‘Great Expectations I had no cartilage in my knee. It was bone on bone.”, he found some relief after receiving joint surgery in America.

n 2020: “I was fighting pain 24 hours a day when I was in ‘National Treasure’ and ‘Great Expectations’. He added at the time: “It was just horrible. The relief from that pain since the operation and being able to sleep has changed my life.” Going on to say he wouldn’t wish such pain "on [his] worst enemy,"

Robbie passed away on October 14th 2022, he had become a virtual recluse, living a a rented converted barn near Stirling, living off takeaways from a local Chinese. Coltrane was cremated and his family spread his ashes around several of his favourite places around Manhattan, New York.

His  death certificate shows that the actor died from a string of conditions including multiple organ failure, the causes of death given were sepsis, where an infection triggers an extreme reaction throughout the body, lower respiratory tract infection and heart block.

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