The Man in the Bag, Photo by Francesc Català-Roca, c. 1950
Sand Dune, Brett Weston, 1937, MoMA Photography
Cinema Entrance, Havana, 1933. Walker Evans.
Antonio Sena da Silva Lisbon Portugal 1956
Art for the Blog of It: A LECTURE ON STAINED GLASS
Art for the Blog of It: A LECTURE ON STAINED GLASS: A LECTURE ON STAINED GLASS BY PROFESSOR R. ANNING BELL Published at The Royal College of Art Students’ Common Room, South Kensington, S.W....
As weird as this story
As weird as this story is, it’s been verified as true by newspaper accounts of the day.
In 1883 Henry Ziegland, of Honey Grove, Texas, broke off his
engagement to which his fiancée, causing the girl to take her own life.
The fiancé’s brother was so enraged that he sought revenge and
set out to kill Henry. He went out to Henry’s farm and shot him and then he
turned the gun on himself.
However, Henry didn't die. The bullet only grazed him before
landing in a tree.
Twenty years after he escaped death, Henry and his son were
cutting firewood when they decided to take down the tree with a bullet in it
but the wood was so tough it was almost impossible to split it with an ax so
they board some holes in the tree in the small amounts of dynamite.
Henry and his son stood about 50 feet back away from the tree
when they set the explosives off . The bullet was blown out of the tree with
such great force that it hit Henry in the left temple killing him instantly.
TRUE CRIME: Solved
Spc. Darlene Krashoc was a 20-year-old active-duty soldier stationed at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs Co when she was murdered on March 16, 1987. She had gone out for the evening with members of her unit to a local club called Shovels and was last seen leaving the club between 12:00 and 1:00 AM.
The next day her body
was found behind a Korean restaurant. She had been strangled. Investigators
were able to collect DNA that belonged to an unknown male from a wire hanger
that was used to strangle her.
In 2016 investigators
submitted DNA evidence to the US army criminal investigation lab for additional
testing. They were able to narrow down predictive traits for the suspect
including eye color hair color skin color in face shape two composite sketches
were made showing what a suspect may have looked like at 25 years old and 55
years old.
In 2019, investigators
made use of genetic genealogy by submitting the DNA they had to ancestry sites
(Ancestry.com) Forensic scientists
found people in Wisconsin and Texas who had similar DNA to the samples from the
crime scene and eventually they narrow down suspects to 58-year-old Michael
White who, in 1987, Michael lived just a few miles from the crime scene and was
also a soldier at Fort Carson.
Investigators followed
him from his house to his work and watched him drink from fast-food cup
investigators. From that cup, recovered from the trash, were then able to
gather enough DNA for testing which confirmed that his DNA matched the DNA from
the crime scene. He was arrested later that day and in 2021 he was sentenced to
life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The (odd) Dogs of War
Just 22 hours off the German surrender, Joseph Stalin received a radio message informing him that Russia had literally run out of vodka. (I can’t say I blame them)
During Lichtenstein's last military engagement, none of the 80 soldiers sent into the battle were injured and 81 returned including their new Italian friend.
During the French Revolution, storming the Bastille freed a total of seven prisoners (Some say six) and one of them was a lunatic Irishman named James F.X. Whyte who had no idea what was going on.
The surname Smith
The surname Smith is the most common surname in the English language. The reason is very simple. In the 11th century when the concept of surnames was brought to England during the Norman invasion, surnames were chosen as a means of additional information such as the location of origin or occupation, and the surname Smith was given to those with the Smithy occupation. During times of war, the king could and often did conscription virtually every man he could. Except the Smiths since they were considered skilled labor and were needed to make the weapons of war. Kept safe from death on the battlefield, they remained home and had children, a lot of children.
Scandinavian women
This is subjective of course, but the reason Scandinavian women are so beautiful is that for hundreds of years the Vikings were very successful in raiding coastal cities all across Europe and during these raids would kidnap the most beautiful local woman as their own and take them back to Norway-Sweden.
Mississippi John
A little bit of everybody has recorded material created by Mississippi John Hurt including Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, Jerry Garcia, Beck, Doc Watson, John McCutcheon, Taj Mahal, Bruce Cockburn, David Johansen, Bill Morrissey, Gillian Welch, Josh Ritter, Chris Smither, Guthrie Thomas, Parsonsfield, and Rory Block.
Hurt was raised in Avalon, Mississippi, taught himself to play the guitar around the age of nine while he worked as a sharecropper. He began guitar and singing at dances and parties. His first recordings, made for Okeh Records in 1928, were commercial failures, and he continued to work as a farmer.Dick Spottswood and Tom Hoskins, a blues enthusiast, located Hurt in 1963 and persuaded him to move to Washington, D.C. where he was recorded by the Library of Congress in 1964. Hurt returned to Mississippi, where he died, in Grenada, in 1966, aged about 73 years old.*** OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLAYWRIGHTS ***
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We are accepting monologues and one-act plays that have diversity, inclusion, and equity of Black and Brown characters for our 10th Annual Columbus Black Theatre Festival (CBTF) that will be held July 8-10 2022, at The Columbus Performing Arts Center and July 16-17 2022, at The Abbey Theatre of Dublin, Ohio.
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Drip Action Theatre Trail 2022 seeks one-act plays
Plays should be between 30 and 40 minutes long, with practicable casting, props and effects and a maximum of five performers. We do not insist on premieres.
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Submissions are now open for the Theatre Southwest - Readers' Theatre Matinee
All genres are accepted (light comedies, heavy dramas, thrillers, mystery, sci-fi, satire) with no regard to language or subject matter). All plays should be 5 to 10 minutes long, no exceptions. (If using standard play format a good gauge is 4-11 pages, excluding title page).
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