#born 8th march 1928

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Despicable Me AU - info (part 2)

In my AU Gru wasn't 11¾ years old during the "Minions: The Rise of Gru" movie - I moved his birthday to June;

Birth dates, zodiac signs and sexualities of canon/existing characters (note: some info is from wiki and some of it is by me - info from wiki is even a little changed, so it fits the timeline which I slightly changed):

Gru - 19th June 1964; Gemini = the Twins; heteroromantic gray-asexual 

Dru - 19th June 1964; Gemini = the Twins; homosexual 

Lucy - 8th March 1978; Pisces = the Fish; heterosexual 

Margo - 27th August 2002; Virgo = the Maiden; bisexual 

Edith - 13th January 2004; Capricorn = the Sea-Goat; aromantic asexual 

Agnes - 29th April 2007; Taurus = the Bull; heterosexual

Marlena - 6th February 1931; Aquarius = the Water-Bearer; heterosexual 

Dr. Nefario - 28th July 1931; Leo = the Lion; heterosexual 

Victor "Vector" - 15th February 1975; Aquarius = the Water-Bearer; heteroromantic asexual 

Mr. Perkins - 23rd December 1943; Capricorn = the Sea-Goat; heterosexual 

Eduardo - 29th July 1973; Leo = the Lion; demiromantic demisexual

Antonio - 3rd November 2001; Scorpio = the Scorpion; heterosexual 

Balthazar - 19th July 1973; Cancer = the Crab; pansexual 

Silas - 16th February 1946; Aquarius = the Water-Bearer; heterosexual 

Valerie - 26th March 1969; Aries = the Ram; aromantic asexual 

Scarlet - 1st August 1928; Leo = the Lion; heterosexual 

Herb - 2nd October 1927; Libra = the Scales; heterosexual 

Henry "Wild Knuckles" - 29th May 1902; Gemini = the Twins; heterosexual

Heights of canon/existing characters were added and/or changed (sorry, we're not using feet and inches in our country):

Gru - 186 cm

Dru - 188 cm

Lucy - 196 cm (190 cm without shoes)

Margo - 170 cm (currently; formerly 152 cm)

Edith - 165 cm (currently; formerly 127 cm)

Agnes - 160 cm (currently; formerly 108 cm)

Marlena - 158 cm

Dr. Nefario - 180 cm

Victor "Vector" - 178 cm

Mr. Perkins - 200 cm

Eduardo - 170 cm (formerly 187 cm)

Antonio - 155 cm

Balthazar - 195 cm

Silas - 193 cm

Valerie -  193 cm (187 cm without shoes)

Scarlet - 187 cm

Herb - 205 cm

Henry "Wild Knuckles" - 206 cm

Bob - 50 cm

Stuart - 59 cm

Chubby minions - 61 cm

Middle-height minions - 62 to 64 cm

Otto - 120 cm

Tall minions - 125 cm

Minions are actually very intelligent creatures but the male tribe has a tendency to hide it with their language  and with playful, childish and frolic behavior;

The female tribe doesn't hide intelligence, most of the minion girls is still playful and frolic, though - sometimes even more than the boys;

Some minions (in both tribes) are serious and less frolic, of course;

Balthazar has a daughter he never met - despite his megalomaniac personality, he had a girlfriend who he eventually left behind on his villainous way;

Her name was Roselle Moreau and she didn't tell Balthazar she's pregnant when he was leaving because she felt he wouldn't stay anyway;

Balthazar's daughter is named Colette Moreau, she's 21 years old (b. 5th October 2002; Libra = the Scales) and she's a shy and reserved yet very talented hobby dancer and a university student of Philosophy (Toronto university);

Colette doesn't know exactly who her father is/was because Roselle doesn't want to talk about him - she only told her daughter her father was a jerk and a criminal, so Collete isn't looking for him;

Fact: Balthazar is Canadian, was born there and was living there until the age of 11 - I made this headcanon because of how he spoke French in Despicable Me 3 without any problems. My first thoughts of why his French is so good were that he's either somebody who's good at learning languages or somebody whose native language is French (which appealed to me more) - however, I would expect him to have at least a slight French accent if he was meant to be from France (which is characteristic for one of my OCs of this AU). That's why I decided to put Balthazar in a country that has two official languages and one of them is French (so the accent doesn't have to be there) - I eventually chose Canada;

After 'Despicable Me 3", the male minion tribe divided - a bigger part of them ran away with Dru while the rest of the tribe, those who weren't willing to become villains again, stayed with Gru;

Mel (full name "Melvin" in my AU) is the actual alpha of the male minion tribe and the one who's in charge of Dru's group of minions;

Kevin, the second in charge, stayed with Gru and became an alpha of the smaller group of the minions at Gru's house - his reasons for it were simple: he developed slight PTSD after being in prison, he didn't feel any anger towards Gru anymore and was able to renew his loyalty and the most important, he himself wasn't interested in crime anymore and just wanted to have a nice and calm life;

A small chicken minion from "Minions: The Rise of Gru" is still alive - he lost almost all his feathers (except some feathers on his head and arms), his beak reformed into normal minion mouth, his teeth grew and even his arms and legs became more minion-like;

He also talks normally;

My headcanon: Stuart named his "child" Chico - it means "kid/boy" in Spanish and it also sounds like "chicken", a little. Chico is a complete opposite of his father: silent, shy, gentle, polite yet filled with energy. He stayed with Dave after Despicable Me 3 while Stuart ran away with Dru - Chico misses his dad but doesn't feel any anger towards him.

Fact: Minions can breed in my AU;

Mel is the oldest male minion and has seven younger brothers, (including Steve and Stuart, who's actually the youngest brother), as well as a big number of cousins;

This also means Chico is Mel's nephew;

Lucy left her relatives (those who are alive) because she wanted to take revenge on that villain who murdered her parents, grandparents and great-grandmother;

Her relatives didn't agree and one of them (Lucy's aunt, specifically) even got in an argument with Lucy, which ended up by Lucy leaving;

Lucy still feels guilty for leaving them behind and would be happy to meet them again, she doesn't have enough courage to return and fix the relationship with them, however;

Fact: Gru knows only a part of Lucy's past because she doesn't like to talk about it - he respects her and doesn't ask about it but he also told her if she ever needs to tell him, he will listen and help her;

Minions are almost immortal - they can't be injured by a lot of common things, they can't die of old age, however, there are some ways they can injure themselves and even ways they can die (for example beasts created by PX-41 serum can make them injuries they can't heal completely and they can even kill the minions);

Bonus fact!: Minions Mike and Ken (from "Panic in the Mailroom") survived the attack of three mutated kittens and currently lives with the female minion tribe;

They're covered with scars, one of Ken's eyes is missing, Mike is limping on his leg and they both also have PTSD, but otherwise they're doing pretty well;

Both Mike and Ken got married to two beautiful minion girls named Coco and Caroline "Carrie" - there are also some rumors among the female tribe saying Carrie might be pregnant;

#despicable minions #despicable me #despicableme #dm #dm au #despicable me au #minions #the minions #minions the rise of gru

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Shaheed Diwas: Remembering the Martyrs of India’s Freedom Struggle

Show your respect to India’s freedom fighters on this special day with AdBanao App. Read the special blog about Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru Ji.

Shaheed Diwas: Remembering the Martyrs of India’s Freedom Struggle

On 23rd March every year, India observes Shaheed Diwas, or Martyrs’ Day to pay homage to the three young revolutionaries who sacrificed their lives for the cause of India’s independence.

Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar, and Shivaram Rajguru were hanged to death by the British government on this day in 1931, after being convicted for the assassination of a British police officer in Lahore.

Their courage, patriotism, and sacrifice inspired millions of Indians to join the freedom movement and fight against the oppressive colonial rule.

Brief Story of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru.

Bhagat Singh was born on 28th September 1907 in a Sikh family in Punjab. He was influenced by his family’s involvement in the Gadar movement and the revolutionary activities of Kartar Singh Sarabha and Rash Behari Bose.

He joined the Naujawan Bharat Sabha, a youth organization founded by Lala Lajpat Rai, and later became a member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA), a radical group that aimed to overthrow British rule through armed struggle.

Sukhdev Thapar was born on 15th May 1907 in Ludhiana, Punjab. He was also a student of the National College in Lahore, where he met Bhagat Singh and Yashpal.

He was an active member of the Naujawan Bharat Sabha and the HSRA and was involved in various revolutionary activities such as distributing pamphlets, organizing meetings, and collecting funds.

Shivaram Rajguru was born on 24th August 1908 in Khed, Maharashtra. He was a devout Hindu and a follower of the Arya Samaj.

The trio became famous for their daring attack on the British police officer John Saunders on 17th December 1928, in retaliation for the death of Lala Lajpat Rai, who was injured in a lathi charge ordered by another officer, James Scott. Bhagat Singh and Rajguru shot Saunders dead, while Sukhdev and Chandra Shekhar Azad provided cover. They then escaped from the scene and went into hiding.

On 8th April 1929, Bhagat Singh and another HSRA member, Batukeshwar Dutt, threw two bombs and leaflets inside the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi, to protest against the repressive laws enacted by the British. They did not intend to harm anyone, but to make the deaf hear. They surrendered after the bombing and were arrested along with other HSRA members.

The trial of the Lahore Conspiracy Case, as it came to be known, lasted for two years. During this period, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru, along with other prisoners, went on a hunger strike to demand better treatment and equal rights for Indian political prisoners. They also used the court as a platform to propagate their revolutionary ideology and expose the injustice of British rule.

Download special Shaheed Diwas Posters, videos, trending reels, free statuses, audio jingles, WhatsApp stickers, and much more.

Read the full blog here.

#india #indianfreedom #bhagat singh #sukhdev #adbanao #digitalmarketing #adbanaoapp #postermaker #social media advertising #gandhi #freedom #indian #poster

[bobmccullochny]

History

December 5, 1492 - Haiti was discovered by Christopher Columbus.

December 5, 1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died a pauper at age 35 in Vienna, Austria. He had become seriously ill and rapidly declined, leading to speculation that he had been poisoned, although this was later proven false. During his brief life, he created over 600 musical compositions and is widely considered one of the finest composers who ever lived.

December 5, 1876 - President Ulysses S. Grant delivered a speech of apology to Congress claiming mistakes he made as president were "errors of judgment, not intent."

December 5, 1933 - The 18th Amendment (Prohibition Amendment) to the U.S. Constitution was repealed. For nearly 14 years, since January 29, 1920, it had outlawed the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the U.S.

December 5, 1955 - In Alabama, the Montgomery bus boycott began in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her seat on a municipal bus to a white man. Organized by the African American community, the boycott lasted until December 20, 1956, when a U.S. Supreme Court ruling integrated the public transportation system.

December 5, 1955 - The AFL-CIO was founded after two separate labor organizations, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, joined together following 20 years of rivalry, thus becoming the leading advocate for trade unions in the U.S.

Birthday - Martin van Buren (1782-1862) the 8th U.S. President was born in Kinderhook, New York. He was the first President who was born a citizen of the United States. He served from March 4, 1837 to March 3, 1841.

Birthday - George Armstrong Custer was born in New Rumley, Harrison County, Ohio. He graduated from West Point at the bottom of his class in 1861, then became a dashing cavalry officer in the Civil War and fought at Bull Run. He was appointed brigadier general and served gallantly at Gettysburg and in the Virginia campaigns. After the war, he took part in the Western expedition against the Sioux Indians. In June of 1867, Custer and over 200 of his soldiers from the U.S. 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux warriors at Little Bighorn in Montana.

Birthday - Walt Disney (1901-1966) was born in Chicago, Illinois. As a little boy, he liked to draw farm animals and eventually got a job as an artist. He moved to Hollywood and in 1928 produced Steamboat Willie, starring Mickey Mouse, in the first cartoon with synchronized sound. In 1937, he released his full length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He opened the Disneyland amusement park in Anaheim, California, in 1955. Five years after his death, Disney World opened in Florida. The company he founded has since grown into a global entertainment empire.

#today's smile

[wikiuntamed]

On this day in Wikipedia: Saturday, 22nd July

Welcome, שלום, أهلا وسهلا, Willkommen 🤗 What does @Wikipedia say about 22nd July through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?

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#OnThisDayInWikiHistory #WikiUntamed #WikiWandering #WikiWonders

[saruwein]

Hello dear people, I have been very fortunate today, to stumble across a memorial event for the Jewish casualties of the november pogroms in 1938.

November 9th is a very historical night in Germany with very high highs and very low downs, as it i among others, both the day the German wall fell, and the night in which Nazis sacked thousands of Jewish owne boutiques and burned hundreds of synagogues across Germany and neighbouring countries. We were reminded of the long history of the Jewish community in my city of birth, Aschaffenburg, and the fates of various prominent faces, and to some - beloved family members across the 1930s and up to 1942 when the last remainders of a long lasting Jewish community in Aschaffenburg were deported. Then, we marched through the city towards an inconspicouus house, very centrally located in the Steingasse, and learned about Peter Gingold. A person of Jewish faith, an adamant anti-fascist, and later a resistance fighter in France and across western Europe.

The organizers, "Bündnis gegen rechts" alliance against the right, have a page on him and his fight against naziism and fascism throughout western Europe, his continuous involvement in reestablishing Jewish life and culture in Germany after the war, and his role in the rememberance culture, as he visited schools and spoke to children about his life and experiences. http://bgr-ab-mil.de/?page_id=152 On this page you will also find a charming adaptation of the song "Chanson pour l'Auvergnat" by Georges Brassens, to comemorate Peter Gingold in a local dialect of Aschaffenburg in German. (the original song being in French, a praise from an empoverished person who thanks all three people who have treated them kindly in times of great need)

The song was played after a a short, but heartfelt series of speeches on Gingold, the victims of the shoah in Aschaffenburg, and the need to persevere against current fascist and authoritarian forces in Germany, throughout Europe, and the world.

The sign on the door is to be replaced with a plaque shortly, and reads as follows:

🇩🇪 Hier lebte Peter Gingold von 1916 bis 1928, Geboren am 08.03.1916 in der Steingasse 27, Jüdischer Widerstandskämpfer, Kommunist und Mitgliede der Résistance. Flucht aus den Fängen der Gestapo und Teilnahme am Aufstand zur Befreiung von Paris, 1944. Mitgestalter des politischen Neuanfangs in der Bundesrepublik. Erneute Verfolgung und Ausbürgerung nach Verbot der KPD. Redner auf Friedenskundgebungen, gegen Naziaufmärsche. Auftritt als Zeitzeufge in Schulen und Jugendzentren. Am 29.10.2006 von uns gegangen. Seine Maxime: "Nie aufgeben." Bündnis gegen Rechts Zu seinem 100. Geburtstag - 08. März 2016

🇬🇧 Here lived Peter Gingold between 1916 and 1928, Born March 8th 1916 in Steingasse 27, Jewish resistance fighter, communist and member of the French Résistance. Escaped from the Gestapo and took part in the insurrection to free Paris in 1944. Active co-organizer of the political new beginnings of the Federal Republic of Germany. Prosecuted and exiled again after the ban on the communist part of Germany (KPD). Speaker on peaceful protests against nazi marches. Appearances as a witness (of the shoah) in schools and youth centres. Passed on October 26th in 2006. His solgan: "Never give up". Bündnis gegen Rechts (Alliance against the political right) on his 100th birthday March 8th 2016.

And I have nothing more to add, than "Shalom".

#reichpogromnacht #pogroms #memorial #history #remember #rememberance #commemoration #shoah #jewish #november 9th #germany #jewish history #jewish community #aschaffenburg #diary #bündnis gegen rechts #peter gingold #résistance #communist #antifascism

[clarabowlover]

Happy Birthday To Beautiful Spanish Actress Sara Montiel

(Born 10th March 1928)

Pics Sources: Listal.com & Bing Images

#sara montiel #birthday girl #born 8th march 1928 #beautiful spanish actress #singer #nickname: saritisima #film debut in 1944 (15 years old) #voluptuous #famous for her roles in the last torch song (1957) and la violetera (1958) - both films became the highest grossing films in spanish history #the soundtracks to both films reportedly outsold elvis presley and frank sinatra in the world market (I.M.D.B) #best known in usa for her roles in vera cruz (1954) - run of the arrow (1957) #53 acting credits #years active 1944-97 & 2011 #pics sources: listal.com & bing images

[greekroyalfamily]

90 years since HRH Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark , Margravine of Baden Marriage 17–08–1931

Theodora was the second of five children of Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenberg.  She was born May 30, 1906 at Tatoi.   

The little Princess, who was baptized according to the rites of the Greek Orthodox church, was given the nickname, Dolla, by her older sister, Margarita, who was born in April 1905.    Margarita called her sister “dear Dolla,” as she could not pronounce Theodora.

Princess Theodora of Greece came to the attention of the international media in March 1928, when the New York Times and other newspapers reported that the 22-year-old princess was going to become engaged to Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, the eldest son of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf and his first wife, the British-born Princess Margaret of Connaught.   The Crown Prince’s second  wife, Louise, was Theodora’s aunt.  Despite the family connections, the proposed engagement was  nothing more than mere rumor. 

Finding husbands for the pretty, but poor Greek princesses, was proving to be difficult. 

Much to everyone’s surprise, 16-year-old Princess Sophie was the first of the four sisters to marry.   In December 1930, she married Prince Christoph of Hesse, .   

Two months later, Princess Cecilie married to Hereditary Prince Georg Donatus of Hesse.  In April 1931,   Margarita was wed to Gottfried, the 8th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. 

Dolla was the only one of the four sisters to not marry a descendant of Victoria.  On August 17, 1931, she was married to the Margrave of Baden.   Prince Berthold had succeeded his father, Prince Max, the last Chancellor of Imperial Germany, in 1929.

Berthold was also born in 1906.  He spoke English fluently, and studied at Oxford University. 

The couple’s civil marriage took place on August 15, 1931 at the Neue Schloss in Baden-Baden.

Two days later, Dolla and Berthold were married in the schloss’ chapel.  Two marriage ceremonies were performed: Lutheran and Greek Orthodox.  Only “relatives and intimate friends” were present for the wedding, and the guests included Grand Duchess Hilda of Baden, Princess Marie of Baden, Queen Sophie of Greece, Crown Princess Louise of Sweden, Prince Waldemar of Denmark, the Duchess of Cumberland, the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, the Grand Dukes and Grand Duchesses of Hesse and By Rhine and Mecklenburg.

Prince Andrew and Dolla’s three sisters were present, but Princess Alice, confined to a mental hospital, missed all four of her daughters’ weddings.

After the wedding, Crown Princess Louise wrote to a family friend: “I do hope Dolla will have a very happy life with Berthold because I think in some ways she expects more than her sisters.”   Dolla was once described as the most “correct” of the four sisters.

Eleven months after the wedding, Dolla gave birth to a daughter, who was christened Margarita Alice Thyra Viktoria Marie Louise Scholastica.  A son and heir, Maximilian Andreas Friedrich Gustav Ernst August Bernhard, was born in July 1933.   A second son, Prince Ludwig Wilhelm Georg Ernst Christoph, was born in March 1937.

90 χρόνια από τους γαμους της ΑΒΥ Πριγκίπισσας Θεοδώρας της Ελλάδας και της Δανίας, Margravine of Baden στις 17–08–1931

Η Θεοδώρα ήταν το δεύτερο από τα πέντε παιδιά του πρίγκιπα Ανδρέα της Ελλάδας και της πριγκίπισσας Αλίκης του Μπάτενμπεργκ. Γεννήθηκε στις 30 Μαΐου 1906 στο Τατόι.

Η μικρή πριγκίπισσα, που βαφτίστηκε σύμφωνα με τις τελετές της ελληνορθόδοξης εκκλησίας, πήρε το παρατσούκλι, Dolla, από τη μεγαλύτερη αδελφή της, Μαργαρίτα, η οποία γεννήθηκε τον Απρίλιο του 1905. Η Μαργαρίτα αποκαλούσε την αδελφή της «αγαπητή Ντόλα», αφου δεν μπορούσε να προφέρει το Θεοδώρα.

Η πριγκίπισσα Θεοδώρα της Ελλάδας ήρθε στην προσοχή των διεθνών ΜΜΕ τον Μάρτιο του 1928, όταν οι New York Times και άλλες εφημερίδες ανέφεραν ότι η 22χρονη πριγκίπισσα επρόκειτο να αρραβωνιαστεί με τον πρίγκιπα Γουσταβο Αδόλφο της Σουηδίας, τον μεγαλύτερο γιο του πρίγκιπα Διαδόχου Γουσταβου Αδόλφου και

τής πρώτης του σύζυγου πριγκίπισσα Margaret of Connaught της Βρετανίας. Η δεύτερη σύζυγος του διάδοχου πρίγκιπα, η Λουίζα ήταν θεία της Θεοδώρας. (Αδελφή της μητερας της ΑΒΥ Πριγκιπισσας Αλικης της Ελλαδος )

Παρά τις οικογενειακές σχέσεις, ο προτεινόμενος αρραβώνας δεν ήταν παρά μια φήμη.

Η εύρεση συζύγων για τις όμορφες, αλλά φτωχές Ελληνίδες πριγκίπισσες, αποδείχτηκε δύσκολη.

Προς έκπληξη όλων, η 16χρονη πριγκίπισσα Σοφία ήταν η πρώτη από τις τέσσερις αδελφές που παντρεύτηκαν. Τον Δεκέμβριο του 1930, παντρεύτηκε τον πρίγκιπα Χριστοφορο της Έσσης.

Δύο μήνες αργότερα, η πριγκίπισσα Κεκιλια παντρεύτηκε τον πρίγκιπα Γεώργιο Ντόνατους της Έσσης.

Τον Απρίλιο του 1931, η Μαργαρίτα παντρεύτηκε τον Γκότφριντ, τον 8ο πρίγκιπα του Hohenlohe-Langenburg.

Η Ντόλα ήταν η μόνη από τις τέσσερις αδελφές που δεν παντρεύτηκε απόγονο της Βασιλισσας Βικτώριας της Αγγλίας. Στις 17 Αυγούστου 1931, παντρεύτηκε τον Margrave του Baden. Ο πρίγκιπας Μπέρτολντ διαδέχθηκε τον πατέρα του, τον πρίγκιπα Μαξ, τον τελευταίο Καγκελάριο της Αυτοκρατορικής Γερμανίας, το 1929.

Ο Μπέρτολντ γεννήθηκε επίσης το 1906. Μιλούσε άπταιστα αγγλικά και σπούδασε στο Πανεπιστήμιο της Οξφόρδης.

Ο πολιτικός γάμος του ζευγαριού πραγματοποιήθηκε στις 15 Αυγούστου 1931 στο Neue Schloss στο Μπάντεν-Μπάντεν,

Δύο μέρες αργότερα, η Ντόλα και ο Μπέρτολντ παντρεύτηκαν στο παρεκκλήσι του Neue Schloss. Πραγματοποιήθηκαν δύο τελετές γάμου: Λουθηρανικη και Ελληνορθόδοξης . Μόνο «συγγενείς και στενοί φίλοι» ήταν παρόντες στο γάμο και οι καλεσμένοι ήταν η μεγάλη δούκισσα Hilda του Baden, η πριγκίπισσα Marie του Baden, η βασίλισσα Σοφία της Ελλάδας, η πριγκίπισσα Λουίζα της Σουηδίας, ο πρίγκιπας Waldemar της Δανίας, η δούκισσα του Cumberland, ο Δούκας του Brunswick-Lüneburg, οι Μεγάλοι Δούκες και οι Μεγάλες Δούκισσες της Έσσης και του Ρήνου και του Μέκλενμπουργκ.

Οι τρεις αδελφές του πρίγκιπα Ανδρεα της Ελλαδος και της Ντόλλα ήταν παρόντες, αλλά η μητέρα τους πριγκίπισσα Αλίκη της Ελλαδας κλεισμένη σε ψυχιατρείο, έχασε και τους τέσσερις γάμους των θυγατέρων της.

Μετά το γάμο, η πριγκίπισσα Λουίζα έγραψε σε έναν οικογενειακό φίλο: «Ελπίζω ότι η Ντόλα θα έχει μια πολύ ευτυχισμένη ζωή με τον Μπέρτολντ, γιατί νομίζω ότι κατά κάποιο τρόπο περιμένει περισσότερα από τις αδερφές της». Η Ντόλα είχε περιγραφεί κάποτε ως η πιο «σωστή» από τις τέσσερις αδελφές.

Έντεκα μήνες μετά το γάμο, η Dolla γέννησε μια κόρη, η οποία βαφτίστηκε Margarita Alice Thyra Viktoria Marie Louise Scholastica. Ένας γιος και κληρονόμος, ο Maximilian Andreas Friedrich Gustav Ernst August Bernhard, γεννήθηκε τον Ιούλιο του 1933. Ένας δεύτερος γιος, ο πρίγκιπας Ludwig Wilhelm Georg Ernst Christoph, γεννήθηκε τον Μάρτιο του 1937.

#kingconstantine #crownprincepavlos #greek royal family #queenannemarie #danishroyalfamily #house of romanov #princessmarieolympia #princess theodora #princeachileasandreas #princeconstantinealexios #princenikolaos #princesstatiana #crownprincessmariechantal

[canaryrecords]

Amalia Bakas was born Mazaltov Matsa in 1897 in present-day Ioannina, Greece (then Janina, Turkey). She was part of a 2,000 year old community of Romaniote Jews from Ioannina. Since the holocaust, their population there has dwindled to only dozens of individuals. Amalia was apparently the only Romaniote Jew to have ever recorded, albeit in the New World.

A beautifully researched biographical essay by David Soffa appears in the notes of the CD that he produced of her, Amalia!: Old Greek Songs in the New Land, 1923-50 (Arhoolie, 2002). Despite my best efforts to add to his work, I have largely failed to improve upon it. What follows is drawn almost entirely from his research.

She was sent to the U.S. at 15 years old in 1912 and just under a year later, she was married to Jack Saretta with whom she had two daughters Esther and Diamond (b. July 23, 1918). They lived in the Jewish Lower East Side, close to the Romaniote synagogue on Broome Street (the only one in the Western hemisphere). Mally, as she was known to her friends and family, worked initially in a garment factory, but by her early 20s she was earning a living singing in the emerging coffee houses and nightclubs patronized by Greek and Turkish speaking immigrants.

By about 1922, she had started recording under the names Amilia or Amelia, initially ten sides for the small independent labels for the New York Armenian-owned Parsekian and Sohag labels and then six sides for the Chicago-based Greek Record Company. Her career as a performer was far removed from the traditional role of a woman in her community, and her husband divorced her and sent her daughter Esther away to Greece. Diamond later used the word “kidnapped” to describe her sister’s removal. Diamond and Amalia remained very close, often working together in nightclubs and touring as a duo. In her younger years, Diamond’s babysitter was an emerging star of Greek music in New York, Marika Papagika. (Amalia had a short-lived cafe of her own on 8th Avenue around 1930, just around the corner of Papagika’s club.)

It is not out of the question that it was Papagika who brought Amalia to Victor Records, where she recorded 10 12” discs between April 1927 and February 1928. By that time, Amalia had converted to the Greek Orthodox Church to marry Gus Bakas (b. 1889; arrived in the U.S. 1910) and had taken his surname. In early 1929, she made three more 12” discs, this time for the Okeh company, accompanied by the brilliant violinist Nishan Sedefjian (with whom she worked off and on for decades) and cymbalom player Louis Rassias.

Amalia and Diamond spent the Depression playing the “oriental” nightclubs of 8th Avenue and touring - Detroit, Gary IN, Philadelphia, the Catskills, and Chicago - often with the guitarist, singer, and composer George Katsaros. An exceptionally independent woman, Amalia lived the nightlife, gambling and swearing with the men and performing flirtatiously. By 1940, she was living in Chicago’s Greektown, but within a couple of years, she moved back to New York and started recording again for the Balkan/ Metropolitan circle of labels for whom she made at least seven discs with a rotating cast of accompanists. She and Diamond performed as a mother-daughter act until 1960 when Diamond moved to Tarpon Springs, Florida where she opened a restaurant. Amalia retired from performing in the early 1960s and joined Diamond in Florida in 1974. She died there in 1979. Diamond died March 13, 2013.

======= Sarah Behar recorded only two songs - one disc - some time in the 1940s. At least three different women by that name, all born in Turkey between 1899 and 1910, appear in the 1930 and 1940 census records in the Bronx and Brooklyn. Two of the three were native speakers of Ladino, the uncommon dialect of Spanish specific to Sephardic Jews of parts of Turkey and Greece. (The language was brought to the Ottoman Empire during the late 15th expulsion of Jews from Spain.) For the time being, we remain unclear who she was.

======= In the 1940s Victoria Hazan recorded eleven songs in Turkish (plus one as a backing vocalist for Marko Melkon), two in Greek, and ten in Ladino. The Ladino language discs remain relatively scarce but fortunately can be heard on YouTube and were issued on a CD of her complete works titled Todas Mis Esperansas (Global Village, 2001). The thumbnail biography of Hazan at the sephardicmusic.org remains the best published source, although we hope to expand on it in the near future.

She was born April 15, 1896 in Salihi, Turkey. Her family (two siblings and her parents Moshe and Rivka Ninio) moved 100km due east to the port city of Izmir when she was 15 and then to New York City in 1920, shortly before the September 1922 catastrophe killed tens of thousands of Greeks and Armenians. From about 1925 to ’36, she was married to Israel Hazan. She sang and played out in her synagogue in the Bronx. When it was initially suggested that she should make records, she saw no reason to, saying that her husband “made a good living.” After her first husband’s death, she remarried Joe Rosa, and with his permission, she recorded for the Kaliphon and Metropolitan labels with Marko Melkon (who was just a year or two older than her and from Izmir himself) and his circle accompanying her.

She continued to sing within her community until her death in Brooklyn, November 21, 1995. She’s buried near family in Cincinnati, Ohio.

#Sephardic #Romaniote #greek #turkish #immigrant #78rpm #78 rpm

[experimentalpractice]

ARTIST RESEARCH

Tauba Auerbach

She was born in the year 1981 in California. Graduated the University of San Francisco and became a visual artist later on . She has been working on a different range of things like painting, books, weaving and sculpture. Some of the books she wrote are “Folds: Tauba Auerbach ” ; “Chaos: Tauba Auerbach” and etc. I personally liked the book “Folds” because the technique she was using in her paintings was quite interesting and i might even try and use it in my future projects.

Daido Moriyama

Born in year 1938 in Osaka, Japan. Daido is a very known photographer in Japan . He won an award for Lifetime Achievement in New York in 2004 and in 2019. He wrote quite a lot of books and some of them are : “Shinjuku; Hawaii; Tokyo and etc. Some of my favourite photos he made are :

I’ve liked black and white photography for quite a while and I just like the shadows and the angles that Daido used.

Sol LeWitt is an artist based on Minimalism and Conceptual art. He was born in Connecticut , United States in 9th of September 1928. Some of his most know work are :

- Wall Drawing N.804 made in 1996

- Colour Bands made in 2000

- Pyramid made in 2005

and etc.

He made different sculptures and paintings, so his projects are quite different from one another.

He sadly passed away in April 8th 2007.

Me personally , i really liked his project called Colour Bands because when i look at it it gives me joy from all the colours he included in his work. It like a rainbow.

Stephen Gill is photographer based on experiments and documentary. He was born in 1971 in Bristol . Graduated SGS College Filton and later on became quite a known photographer based in London . His photography most of the time is inspired by the surroundings . He also wrote a couple of books like for example “ Hackney Flowers “ or “Hackney Wick”.

I really like his photography because it is very unusual and has its own unique style . Here are some of his photos i really liked :

Elisabeth Tonnard

Elisabeth Tonnard is a artist and a poet with Dutch background. She was born in year 1973 in Leerdam , Netherlands. Graduated Radboud University Nijmegen. She published a lot of books ... maybe over 40 . Some of them are:

-The Man of the Crowd

-Let Us Go Then

-You and I

and etc.

Anna Atkins

Im not even sure if this is an actual photo of her . She was a botanist and photographer based in England . Anna was considered to be one of the first people or even the first person the ever publish a boom with images at her time. She was born year 1799 19th of March in Tunbridge and passed away year 1871 in June.

[greatworldwar2]

• Philippe Pétain

Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Pétain generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain, was a French general officer who attained the position of Marshal of France at the end of World War I, during which he became known as Le Lion de Verdun (The Lion of Verdun). In collaboration with Nazi Germany, he then served as the Chief of State of Vichy France from 1940 to 1944.

Pétain was born in Cauchy-à-la-Tour (in the Pas-de-Calais département in Northern France) in 1856. His great-uncle, a Catholic priest, Father Abbe Lefebvre (1771-1866), had served in Napoleon's Grande Armée and told the young Philippe tales of war and adventure of his campaigns from the peninsulas of Italy to the Alps in Switzerland. Highly impressed by the tales told by his uncle, his destiny was from then on determined by the army. After World War I Pétain married his former girlfriend, Eugénie Hardon (1877–1962), on September 14th, 1920; they remained married until the end of Pétain's life. Pétain joined the French Army in 1876 and attended the St Cyr Military Academy in 1887 and the École Supérieure de Guerre (army war college) in Paris. Between 1878 and 1899, he served in various garrisons with different battalions of the Chasseurs à pied, the elite light infantry of the French Army.

Pétain's career progressed slowly, as he rejected the French Army philosophy of the furious infantry assault, arguing instead that "firepower kills". His views were later proved to be correct during the First World War. He was promoted to captain in 1890 and major in 1900. Unlike many French officers, he served mainly in mainland France, never French Indochina or any of the African colonies, although he participated in the Rif campaign in Morocco. Pétain would never receive the rank of general as by the time of 1914 he was already nearing retirement age. Pétain led his brigade at the Battle of Guise. At the end of August 1914 he was quickly promoted to brigadier-general and given command of the 6th Division in time for the First Battle of the Marne. Pétain commanded the Second Army at the start of the Battle of Verdun in February 1916. During the battle, he was promoted to Commander of Army Group Centre, which contained a total of 52 divisions. Because of his high prestige as a soldier's soldier and success in combat, Pétain served briefly as Army Chief of Staff ,from the end of April 1917. After the war ended Pétain was made Marshal of France on November 21st, 1918.

Pétain ended the war regarded "without a doubt, the most accomplished defensive tactician of any army" and "one of France's greatest military heroes" and was presented with his baton of Marshal of France at a public ceremony at Metz by President Raymond Poincaré in December 1918. He was summoned to be present at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28th, 1919. His job as Commander-in-Chief came to an end with peace and demobilisation. in January 1920, was appointed Vice-Chairman of the revived Conseil supérieur de la Guerre (Supreme War Council). This was France's highest military position. Shortly after the war, Pétain had placed before the government plans for a large tank and air force but "at the meeting of the Conseil supérieur de la Défense Nationale in March 1920 the Finance Minister, François-Marsal, announced that although Pétain's proposals were excellent they were unaffordable". In 1928 Pétain had supported the creation of an independent air force removed from the control of the army, and on February 9th,1931, following his retirement as Vice-Chairman of the Supreme War Council, he was appointed Inspector-General of Air Defence.

Political unease was sweeping the country, and on February 6th, 1934 the Paris police fired on a group of far-right rioters outside the Chamber of Deputies. Pétain was invited, on February 8th, to join the new French cabinet as Minister of War, which he only reluctantly accepted after many representations. He improved the recruitment programme for specialists, and lengthened the training period by reducing leave entitlements. Some argue that Pétain, as France's most senior soldier after Foch's death, should bear some responsibility for the poor state of French weaponry preparation before World War II. But Pétain was only one of many military and other men on a very large committee responsible for national defence, and interwar governments frequently cut military budgets. Pétain had been made, briefly, Minister of War in 1934. Yet his short period of total responsibility could not reverse 15 years of inactivity and constant cutbacks.

In March 1939 Pétain became the French ambassador to Spain. When World War II began in September, Pétain turned down an offer of a position in the French government. However on May 18th, 1940, after Germany invaded France, Pétain joined the new government of Paul Reynaud. Reynaud hoped that the hero of Verdun might instill a renewed spirit of resistance and patriotism in the French Army. On May 26th, the invading Germans pushed back the French Army. General Maxime Weygand expressed his fury at British retreats and the unfulfilled promise of British fighter aircraft. He and Pétain regarded the military situation as hopeless. On June 5th, following the fall of Dunkirk, there was a Cabinet reshuffle, and Prime Minister Reynaud brought the newly promoted Brigadier-General de Gaulle. On June 10th, 1940, the government left Paris for Tours. Weygand, the Commander -in -Chief, now declared that "the fighting had become meaningless". He, Baudouin, and several members of the government were already set on an armistice.

Upon learning of France's surrender, the British prime minister Churchill told the French they should consider "guerrilla warfare". Pétain then replied that it would mean the destruction of the country. On June 12th, after a second session of the conference, the cabinet met and Weygand again called for an armistice. He referred to the danger of military and civil disorder and the possibility of a Communist uprising in Paris. Pétain and Minister of Information Prouvost urged the cabinet to hear Weygand out because "he was the only one really to know what was happening". Pétain strongly supported Weygand’s demand for an armistice and read out a draft proposal to the cabinet where he spoke of "the need to stay in France, to prepare a national revival, and to share the sufferings of our people". The government moved to Bordeaux, where French governments had fled German invasions in 1870 and 1914, on June 14th. Parliament, both senate and chamber, were also at Bordeaux and immersed themselves in the armistice debate. Reynaud declared his resignation as Prime Minister on June 16th, and felt he had little choice but to appoint Pétain in his place.

A new Cabinet with Pétain as head of government was formed. General de Gaulle, no longer in the Cabinet, had arrived in London on the 17th and made a call for resistance from there, on the 18th, with no legal authority whatsoever from his government, a call that was heeded by comparatively few. Cabinet and Parliament still argued between themselves on the question of whether or not to retreat to North Africa. On June 22nd, France signed an armistice at Compiègne with Germany that gave Germany control over the north and west of the country, including Paris and all of the Atlantic coastline, but left the rest, around two-fifths of France's prewar territory, unoccupied. Paris remained the de jure capital. On June 29th, the French Government moved to Clermont-Ferrand. The Chamber of Deputies and Senate, meeting together as a "Congrès", held an emergency meeting on July 10th, to ratify the armistice. The new Vichy government immediately used its new powers to order harsh measures, including the dismissal of republican civil servants, the installation of exceptional jurisdictions, the proclamation of antisemitic laws, and the imprisonment of opponents and foreign refugees. Censorship was imposed, and freedom of expression and thought were effectively abolished with the reinstatement of the crime of "felony of opinion."

Pétain championed a rural, Catholic France that spurned internationalism. As a retired military commander, he ran the country on military lines. He and his government collaborated with Germany in the years after the armistice. Pétain's government was nevertheless internationally recognised, notably by the U.S., at least until the German occupation of the rest of France. Neither Pétain nor his successive deputies, Laval, Pierre-Étienne Flandin, or Admiral François Darlan, gave significant resistance to requests by the Germans to indirectly aid the Axis Powers. However, when Hitler met Pétain at Montoire in October 1940 to discuss the French government's role in the new European Order, the Marshal "listened to Hitler in silence. Not once did he offer a sympathetic word for Germany." French government became increasingly fearful of the British and took the initiative to collaborate with the occupiers. Pétain accepted the government's creation of a collaborationist armed militia (the Milice) under the command of Joseph Darnand, who, along with German forces, led a campaign of repression against the French resistance. Pétain's government acquiesced to the Axis forces demands for large supplies of manufactured goods and foodstuffs, and also ordered French troops in France's colonial empire (in Dakar, Syria, Madagascar, Oran and Morocco) to defend sovereign French territory against any aggressors, Allied or otherwise.

On November 11th, 1942, German forces invaded the unoccupied zone of Southern France in response to the Allies' Operation Torch landings in North Africa. Although the French government nominally remained in existence, civilian administration of almost all France being under it, Pétain became nothing more than a figurehead, as the Germans had negated the pretence of an "independent" government at Vichy. Pétain however remained popular and engaged in a series of visits around France as late as 1944. Following the liberation of France, in September 1944 Pétain and other members of the French cabinet at Vichy were relocated by the Germans to the Sigmaringen enclave in Germany, where they became a government-in-exile until April 1945. Pétain, however, having been forced to leave France, refused to participate in this government. On April 5th, 1945, Pétain wrote a note to Hitler expressing his wish to return to France. No reply ever came. However, on his birthday almost three weeks later, he was taken to the Swiss border. Two days later he crossed the French frontier.

The provisional government, headed by De Gaulle, placed Pétain on trial for treason, which took place from July to August 1945. Dressed in the uniform of a Marshal of France, Pétain remained silent through most of the proceedings. De Gaulle himself later criticised the trial, stating, "Too often, the discussions took on the appearance of a partisan trial, sometimes even a settling of accounts, when the whole affair should have been treated only from the standpoint of national defence and independence." De Gaulle himself later criticised the trial, stating, "Too often, the discussions took on the appearance of a partisan trial, sometimes even a settling of accounts, when the whole affair should have been treated only from the standpoint of national defence and independence." After his conviction, the Court stripped Pétain of all military ranks and honours save for the one distinction of Marshal of France. Over the following years Pétain's lawyers and many foreign governments and dignitaries, including Queen Mary and the Duke of Windsor, appealed to successive French governments for Pétain's release, but given the unstable state of Fourth Republic politics no government was willing to risk unpopularity by releasing him. Although Pétain had still been in good health for his age at the time of his imprisonment, by late 1947 his memory lapses were worsening and he was beginning to suffer from incontinence, sometimes soiling himself in front of visitors and sometimes no longer recognising his wife. By May, Pétain required constant nursing care, and he was often suffering from hallucinations, e.g. that he was commanding armies in battle, or that naked women were dancing around his room. By the end of 1949, Pétain was completely senile.

On June 8th, 1951 President Auriol, informed that Pétain had little longer to live, commuted his sentence to confinement in hospital. Pétain died in a private home in Port-Joinville on the Île d'Yeu on July 23rd, 1951, at the age of 95. His sometime protégé Charles de Gaulle later wrote that Pétain’s life was "successively banal, then glorious, then deplorable, but never mediocre".

#second world war #world war 2 #history #world war ii #french history #long post #political history #military history #vichy france #biography

[youthincare]

[ image description is a black and white still photo of Georg Elser, mouth closed, wearing a suit and tie. ] 

Georg Elser

Born Hermaringen, Germany, 1903, died Dachau, Germany 9 April 1945

“At the end of 1936 he got work as an unqualified worker in an arms factory at Heidenheim. He quickly moved up the scale, getting a responsible post in the dispatch office in 1938. 

It was in this period, when his life had never been more stable, quiet, bland and anonymous, that he decided to kill Hitler.

Georg later explained his reasons under police interrogation. The first was that Hitler was preparing to take Germany into another war. This opinion was shared by many in Europe, and not least amongst a large number of Germans. Other reasons for his acts were that wages had been driven too low by Hitler (in fact wages in 1938 under Hitler were less than in 1929, contrary to popular misconceptions).”

Georg Elser was born at Hermaringen in Wurtemberg province in 1903. His father was a wood merchant and owned several hectares of forest and lived at Koenigsbroenn. Georg left school in 1917 and got a job as an apprentice turner in a local foundry. After the war, his father, an alcoholic, got deeper into debt and had to sell his business and his land.

Georg left the foundry after two years for health reasons and took up an apprenticeship as a joiner. He got his master’s certificate as an cabinet maker in 1922, getting the best marks in his class. Described as sociable but not very outgoing, Georg loved working with wood and metal. He set up a workshop in the basement of the family house where he repaired locks, furniture and watches and clocks.

He left Koenigsbroenn in 1925, working in the Dornier plane factories, and then at Konstanz in a watch factory. He worked there on and off during 7 years, and then when the enterprise went bankrupt, was out of work for several months, before getting work with new employers. This was a period of great tribulation for the whole working class, with many out of work or in short term work.

In his leisure time Georg played a zither with a folk dance association. He was very popular with women, and had a child with one of his many girlfriends, though he had no close male friends.

He had managed to get through the economic depression without any real difficulties, either working around Lake Constance or at Koenigsbroenn. He did not seem to have any particular interest in politics. He had joined the woodworkers union in 1920 as a teenager. Like many workers, he voted Communist up to 1933. Between 1928 to 1930 he was a member of the Roeter Frontkaemppferbund, a front organisation of the Communist Party (KPD), but this only involved paying his dues, buying the badge of the group (but not the uniform) and attending 3 or 4 meetings in 2 years. He said later – during the course of police interrogation- that : “I was never interested in the programme of the KPD. In the meetings there was no question other than wage rises, the improvement of social housing by the government and that sort of thing. That it was them who formulated these demands were sufficient to bring me to the communist side”.

He was far more active within the folk music group. From 1933, he ended all political contact but became a member of a zither club and took double bass lessons. 

At the end of 1936 he got work as an unqualified worker in an arms factory at Heidenheim. He quickly moved up the scale, getting a responsible post in the dispatch office in 1938. It was in this period, when his life had never been more stable, quiet, bland and anonymous, that he decided to kill Hitler.

Georg later explained his reasons under police interrogation. The first was that Hitler was preparing to take Germany into another war. This opinion was shared by many in Europe, and not least amongst a large number of Germans. Other reasons for his acts were that wages had been driven too low by Hitler (in fact wages in 1938 under Hitler were less than in 1929, contrary to popular misconceptions). 

Georg said that the working class had become exasperated and that something had to be done. He admitted often talking with colleagues, and unknowns met on trains or in restaurants, though he never revealed any names, even under torture.

Georg was not mad, nor a fanatic. Once he had made up his mind, he proceeded in the methodical manner like the conscientious worker he was.

In autumn 1938 he started stealing small amounts of explosives from the factory, bringing out 25 packets in a year. Georg knew that Hitler visited the Buergerbraukeller pub in Munich every year on 8th and 9th November to celebrate the anniversary of the Nazi putsch of 1923. He went to Munich on 8th November, inspected the pub and saw Hitler arrive and then returned home.

In March 1939, shortly after German troops invaded Czechoslovakia, Georg resigned from his job and went to Munich. He attempted unsuccessfully to get work at the pub. Returning to live with his parents, he got a job in a quarry, which allowed him to build up his explosives supplies. He returned to Munich in August.

Georg was an anonymous worker, one among many in a crowd. He attracted no attention.

From 5th August until 6th November he ate every evening at the Buergerbrau. At closing time he hid in a cupboard, waiting for the staff to leave. He was able to work for four hours, then returned to his hiding place and left with the arrival of the first customers. In three months, he had hollowed out a pillar big enough to house a time bomb. He planned for this to explode on 8th November at 9.20 pm.

Georg should have read the papers, where he would have discovered that Hitler had cancelled his visit. He was apprehended by customs officials when he attempted to cross the border to Switzerland, and detained on suspicion of being a spy or deserter. Incriminating evidence, including a postcard of the pub, were found on him.

Meanwhile the bomb had exploded killing 6 members of the Nazi old guard and a waitress. When this was announced on the radio, the customs officials remembered the postcard.

Transferred to Munich, Georg denied all involvement in the attack. The Gestapo was called in. After 14 hours of beatings and torture, Georg admitted his responsibility. The Gestapo refused to believe that a simple German worker had acted on his own.

Georg gave away no one. Despite his suffering, he refused to remember a single name of Roeter Frontkaempferbund members, except one who had died in 1930.

The German papers called Georg a British agent. Hitler hoped to finish the war on the Western front with a trial of British leaders at London, for which he would use Georg as a witness, and he was placed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

When it became obvious that the London trial would not happen, the Nazi leaders lost interest in him. Transferred to Dachau in 1944, he was murdered on the orders of Himmler on 9th April 1945 at the same time as other resisters, just a few days before the liberation of the camp.

From 1933 he had refused to salute the swastika and promptly left any public place where a Hitler broadcast was being played on the radio. Once he had taken his decision to act, he proceeded methodically.

Some remarkable individuals have made their lives a monument to revolt and courage. Louise Michel, Nestor Makhno and Simon Radowitzky spring to mind. Georg never thought himself anyone out of the ordinary, let alone a hero. But he had acted as he saw fit. How many in similar situations would act as he did?

#Georg elser #history #working class history #1945 #dachau #czechoslovakia #wurtemberg #KPD #hitler #wwii #germany #1938 #nazi putsch #nazi history

[manynarrators]

AESTHETIC     HEADCANON     MUSIC     CHARACTER

• QUICK STATS •

NAME :: Everett Theodore March NICKNAME :: Theo FANDOM :: Generic urban fantasy GENDER :: Male ORIENTATION :: bisexual BIRTHDAY :: October 17th, 1903, 1802 ZODIAC :: Libra SHIPS :: chemistry

• BIOGRAPHY •

Everett was born at the turn of 20th century. His parents were the working middle class, and when the war came, both his parents started working in the factories in Britain to contribute to the war effort. He remembers the war in the way that many of the children his age did-- distant enough to still be the War on the news, but with the same realization that sooner rather than later, they may be asked to fight. It ended before they were old enough, and life continued for the next several years.

He spent much of that time reading all the books he could; fiction, and science, and history. The time period he found himself drawn back to time, and time again was always the Regency period, and he remembers the evenings when exhausted from a day of work, he would curl in beside his mother and read aloud a Jane Austen novel (he thinks she always enjoyed the romantic idea that was that instead of the war-torn reality their country was facing).

In 1921, Everett got accepted to Oxford on scholarship, and he pursued history. The first four years were relatively quiet, he got his work done, and when he wasn’t working on his class work, he was learning about the Regency era, independent of his courses (the university library had far more than the collection of books he’d managed to collect during his childhood).

He finished the first degree, and continued on with his masters. In 1928, he finished, and found a job at the library, archiving papers. Much of his work had become writing out the text from faded pages, but it left him time to look into his own research, and to enjoy the life that had begun to spring up during the latter half of the 20′s. 

On October 8th, 1929, he was turned by William Price. For a week, Everett struggled to adjust to the new life. Gone was the sun in his life, and the familiar life he had lead. William helped int he ways he could, getting him blood, making sure he didn’t die by getting inside too late, and explaining what it all meant. Two weeks later, the stock market crashed, and Everett was grateful now, for the fact that he didn’t need to eat or sleep, or even, for that matter, fire.

During the early 1930′s, he started to say that he was born in 1802, because it made him sound older, and more respectable as a vampire instead of saying he wasn’t even 30 yet. He’d done a degree on the period, he knew enough to be able to convince those he met that it was true. 

Nowadays, Everett can find himself forgetting that he was ever born in something that wasn’t 1802. He’s spent enough time researching, and talking to people who have actually been through the time to make it even more believable. 

• PHYSICAL •

FACE CLAIM :: Aidan Turner HEIGHT :: 5’9″ BUILD :: lanky VISUAL AGE :: 26 ACTUAL AGE :: 117 218 HAIR :: black EYES :: dark SPECIES :: Vampire, human (formerly) HAND :: right GLASSES :: yes, however during the WWII, and the early 1950′s, they got damaged and didn’t fit terribly well. He got a new pair in 1955. IDENTIFYING :: While Everett doesn’t usually have them out, the fangs are a pretty good indication of his status as a vampire.

• MENTAL •

FAITH :: Everett was raised Church of England as most people in Britain at the time were, but he’s not much for religion, and after getting turned, he saw little need for it. MARITAL STATUS :: single, though he has a somewhat on again-off again relationship with his sire whenever. William doesn’t spend much time in London, nor are they particularly worried about seeing other people. OCCUPATION :: Historian EDUCATION :: Everett has a master’s degree from oxford in History, with a focus on the Regency era.  QUIRKS :: The necessity of the glasses isn’t as great anymore, but between habit, and the aesthetic he’d built, he keeps them. 

#Everett|character #Everett|headcanon #Mute the sound|out of character

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June 5, 2019: Obituaries

 Christine Felts

Christine Davis Felts, the matriarch of the Felts Family went home to be with the Lord, June 1, 2019 at Westwood Hills Nursing Facility. She was born March 19, 1936 to Luster and Beulah Davis in Lenoir, N.C.

     She went to work at an early age to help her husband make a living. They soon bought a grocery store in Thomasville N.C. and built that business from ground up. Then 52 years ago they moved to Wilkes County with their two daughters and purchased a grocery store in McGrady, N.C. She then helped build that business into a thriving grocery, snack bar and gas business. While they were building this business she managed to keep her family on the road spreading the Gospel in song, while faithfully serving the church and community. She always enjoyed visiting the sick. She never failed to make herself available to help with any needs whether it was food, prayers, visiting or just going in and cleaning a house. Mrs. Felts was preceded in death by her parents.

     Mrs. Felts is survived by her husband of 66 years, J.C. Felts; daughters Cathy Felts Bumgarner and spouse Garey, Vicki Felts Carty and spouse Tim all of North Wilkesboro; six grandchildren; twelve great grandchildren; two sisters; and a brother.

     Funeral services were June 4,   at Mountain Valley Baptist Church in McGrady with Rev. Ronnie McManus, Rev. Curtis Herring and Rev. Jason Bumgarner officiating. Burial   followed in Cane Creek Baptist Church Cemetery.  Flowers will be accepted.   Memorials may be made to Cane Creek Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, Cane Creek Church Road, McGrady, NC 28649 or to Mountain Valley Baptist Church, Cane Creek Church Road, McGrady, NC 28649.  Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.  

     The family would like to express our gratitude to all the family and friends who have visited our wife and mother in the last 4 ½ years at Westwood Hills Nursing Facility. We would also like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the entire staff of Westwood Hills for their kind, gentle, loving care of our wife and mother during this difficult time. A special thank you goes out to Sandra Monney for making it possible for us to leave in her loving hands.

     Pallbearers were Tim Carty, Junior Greene, Anthony Minton, Tim Benson, Sterlin Church and Bobby Lovette. Honorary pallbearers will be Garey Bumgarner, Seth Lovette.

  Daniel Wingler, 70

Daniel Richard Wingler, age 70, of North Wilkesboro, passed away Saturday, June 1, 2019 at Carolina Caring Hospice in Newton. He was born April 22, 1949 in Wilkes County to Richard Filmore and Dorothy Coltrane Wingler. Mr. Wingler was a member of Liberty Grove Baptist Church. He loved antique cars and enjoyed fishing, traveling and motoring. He was preceded in death by his parents.

     Surviving are his wife, Sylvia Adams Wingler; brother, Douglas Wingler and spouse Kathy of North Wilkesboro; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, David and Linda Adams of Austin/Traphill.

     Funeral service was June 4,  at Miller Funeral Chapel with Rev. Jimmy Gilreath officiating. Entombment followed in Mountlawn Memorial Park Mausoleum. The family has requested no flowers. Memorials may be made to Mt. Zion Baptist Church, PO Box 1603, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659.

     Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.  

 Dorothy Shealy, 73

Dorothy Louise Anderton Shealy May 28, 1946- June 1, 2019

     Heaven gained a saint as Dottie Shealy, age 73, passed away peacefully in her home in Mulberry, North Carolina on June 1, 2019 surrounded by family. For the past three years she lived with advanced cancer and was a model of dignity, strength and grace during a challenging time.

     Dottie was born in Lewisburg, Tennessee and grew up in Decatur, Alabama, the eldest of four daughters to Margaret Schoonmaker Anderton and Clebie Arnel Anderton. Faith and family were the cornerstones of her life.

     She attended the University of Alabama prior to her marriage to Frank in 1965 and moved to Mulberry, North  Carolina in 1976. She attended Salem College, earning a Master's Degree in Sociology in 1983. Throughout her adult life she served her community by directing the daycare center at Wilkes Community College as well as working for Smart Start and the school district. Dottie volunteered many hours at the Crisis Pregnancy Center and was an active member of Baptist Home Baptist Church.

     Dottie enjoyed an active retirement with many family vacations on adventures like hiking through the Grand Canyon, national parks, beach trips and many Kenyan Safaris. Dottie and Frank served as missionaries in Honduras, Cambodia, Vietnam, Brazil, Russia, Peru, and several extended trips to Kenya, where she touched many hearts and formed lifelong friendships.

     Dottie is survived by Frank Shealy, her loving husband of 54 years; daughter Stacy Shealy Cantrell of Huntsville, AL (Chris), daughter Sandy Shealy Edwards of Birmingham, AL (Alan); son Jeff Shealy of Greensboro, NC (Juliana); daughter Susan Shealy Utting of San Diego, CA (Paul); sister Ginger Shelton of Decatur, AL (Kyle), sister Jeannie Bryan of Fairhope, AL (Ed); sister Faye Willingham of Decatur, AL; sisters-in-law, Carolyn Tolbert and Sherry Snoddy; nieces and nephews, Kyle Shelton Jr., Michael Shelton, Brent Shelton, Craig Bryan, Leslie Bryan, Kenny Willingham, Kerry Willingham, and Kurtis Willingham, Robin Davidson Caine, Lori Pullen, Tracy Snoddy, Danny Snoddy, Kelley Snoddy Ward.

     Dottie had a special relationship with her 9 grandchildren and will live on in the hearts and memories of Jacob Tillman, Justin Tillman, Kayleigh Cantrell, Steven Edwards, Andrew Edwards, Camila Shealy, Marina Shealy, Sophia Utting and Alexandra Utting.

     A home-going celebration was held at Baptist Home Baptist Church on  June 2nd.   There will be a private graveside ceremony at Roselawn Cemetery in Decatur, Alabama.

     In lieu of flowers please donate to any of the following organizations, which held a special place in Dottie's heart:

Wilkes Pregnancy Care Center, 301 8th Street, North Wilkesboro NC 28659;

Seeking a Reason for Hope Ministries, c/o Jeff Pinkerton, 223 Azalea Lane, Wilkesboro, NC 29697; and Heshima.org, Providing Dignity for Children with Disabilities in Nairobi, Kenya.

     Special thanks to the medical staff at Wake Forest Baptist Health - Wilkes Medical Center, Forsyth Medical Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Wake Forest Baptist Hospice Care at Home.

  Everette Lyall, 72

Mr. Everette Lyall, "Jr." better known as Junior, age 72 of Millers Creek, passed away Tuesday, May 28, 2019.

     Funeral services were June 2,  at Arbor Grove United Methodist Church with Rev. Dr. Susan Pillsbury-Taylor and Rev. Dr. Ed McKinney officiating.                     Mr. Lyall was born July 18, 1946 in Wilkes County to Everette Lyall, Sr. and Lola Hazel Bauguess Lyall. He was retired as owner of Lyall Harley Davidson and Carolina Cycle Supply and was the former oldest dealer member of the Harley Davidson Dealers Association in N.C. For several years, Junior and his wife Betty owned and operated Cookies n Cream in the Wilkes Mall.  Junior gave greatly to his community working with the American Children's Home and serving as secretary of the Junior Order. He was a member of Arbor Grove United Methodist Church where he was a charter member and officer of the Arbor Grove United Methodist Men, Superintendent of Church School, Church School Teacher and served as the church Finance Committee Chairman, and served on the Building Committee for the new Fellowship Building. Junior spent some time in the classroom teaching at Fairplains Elementary School.  

     He was preceded in death by his parents.

     Mr. Lyall is survived by his wife; Betty Sue Shepherd Lyall of the home, two sons; Dr. Gregory Lyall and wife Mandy of Clemmons and Kevin Lyall of Winston-Salem, a grandchild; Pierce Lyall, a sister; Betty Lou Lyall Miner of Hickory, a brother; Marsh Lyall and wife Pat of North Wilkesboro and several nieces and nephews.  

     Flowers will be accepted or memorials may be made to the Arbor Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery Fund, 480 Shepherd River Road, Millers Creek, NC 28651 or American Children's Home 3844 NC Hwy 8, Lexington NC 27292.

 Daniel  Clonch, 46

Mr. Daniel "Shane" Clonch, 46, of Wilkesboro, passed away on Sunday May 27, 2019.

     Shane was born on Tuesday October 5, 1972 in Caldwell to Roger Lane Laws and Barbara Cecilia Clonch.

     Shane loved his children and enjoyed spending time with his best friend Mark Bare. Shane was also a member of the bands Life Long Hate and Armed for the Fall.

     Shane is preceded in death by his father and step father Roy Bare.

     Shane is survived by his mother, Barabara C. Clonch of Millers Creek, daughters, Sierra Nicole Clonch, Skylah Shay Clonch, Telsa Kay Clonch all of Wilkes County; sons, Zerek Sage Clonch, Danek Shadd Clonch also of Wilkes County; sisters, Leatrice Ann Clonch of Millers Creek; brother Cecil Gordon Bare and wife, Amanda of Purlear.  

     The family conducedt a memorial service on May 30, at The Church of God of Union Assembly in Wilkesboro.

     In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be given to Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes P.O. Box 396 Morvain Falls, NC 2865 to help with final expenses.  

     Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes has the honor of serving the Clonch Family.

  Gladys Handy

Gladys Grace Shumate Handy of Roaring River, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Sunday, May 26, 2019. She passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her family while they serenaded her with many of her favorite gospel songs and reading of scripture.  She was lovingly cared for by her sons and daughters as her health declined. She was visited daily by friends and extended family members. Psalm 116:15 says "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His Saints".

     Funeral services were May 29,  at Middle Cross Baptist Church with Pastor Jason Whitley, Pastor Donnie Shumate and Pastor Joe Sturgill officiating.   Burial was at Middle Cross Baptist church cemetery.  

     Gladys was born to the late Charles "Charlie" and Mamie Lowe Shumate on May 10, 1928.

     Gladys was the widow of Lonnie Caldwell Handy with whom she was married for 63 years.

     She was preceded in death by her husband, two daughters; 11 month old Clara Belle Handy and Peggy (Steven) Knox, a great grandson; Caleb Benfield, two sisters; Mable (Elder Fred) Shumate Dillard and Irene (Rayford) Shumate Handy Crouch and her brothers; Tracy (Faye) Shumate, Paul (Hazel) Shumate, Clay Shumate, Jimmy Shumate and Conard (Louie) Shumate.

     She is survived by her children; Joyce (Bobby) Handy Faw of Hays, Marie (Milton) Handy Jolly of North Wilkesboro, Carl (Tammy) Handy of Roaring River, Mary (James) Handy Minton of Hays, Ray (Deborah) Handy of North Wilkesboro.

     Gladys has fourteen grandchildren; Shelly (Bob) Faw Benfield, Alisa (Chris) Faw, Dawson, Kristina (Monroe) Faw Hawkins, Jeff (Christy) Jolly, Michael (Amanda) Jolly; Wendy McKeenan, Tim (Tara) Handy, Matt (Angel) Handy, Amy (James) Williams; Kurtis (AnnaLisa) Parker, Logan Parker, Robbie (Melissa) Martin, Stacee (Adam) Whitley, and Stephanee Lee, forty-two great-grandchildren and  seven great-great grandchildren making five generations, also several special nieces and nephews.

     Gladys worked in the cafeteria of Roaring River Elementary School and was a homemaker. She had a strong love of family and her faith was extremely important to her.  Her life verse was………"As for me and my house we will serve the Lord" Joshua 24:15, which was also her testimony throughout her life. Going to church was her greatest joy.   She was a charter member of Middle Cross Baptist Church in the Rock Creek community and was also their oldest member. She was faithful to her church as long as her health allowed and would cry on Sundays when she was not able to attend.  She especially loved her Pastor Bro. Jason Whitley and wife Elaine, and her Senior Adult Sunday Class that was taught, for years, by Bro. Earl Alexander and which is now taught by her son Ray Handy. Gladys grew up in the depression years and learned to be frugal at an early age.  She lived a simple and humble life. She liked to use things until they were worn out or rusted out and only then would they be thrown away. She was a skilled seamstress who made items of clothing for all of her children while they were young. She quilted blankets and sewed handmade items for all of her grandchildren.  She was an avid gardener especially loved helping her son Carl with his garden which they were both blessed by sharing with others. She particularly loved roses and hens and diddles. She enjoyed collecting antique glassware, hens on nest and thimbles from around the world. One of her favorite pastimes was chatting on the phone with family and friends and she always did what she could to help others.

     She will be missed by all who knew and loved her, she left a legacy that will last for generations to come; you can say hers was a life well lived.

     Special thanks to Wake Forest Care at Home Hospice; Pauline Watts, Megan Cheek, Ashley White, Kimberly Bush, Ben Lankford and retired Hospice Nurse, Judy Kirk.

     Flowers will be accepted or memorials may to Gideon's International North Camp, PO  Box 1791, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659 or Middle Cross Baptist Church Building Fund, 2305 Rock Creek Road, North Wilkesboro, NC 28659

Online condolences may be made at www.reinssturdivant.com.

   Geraldine (Gerry) Haynes Elledge, 87

Geraldine (Gerry) Haynes Elledge, 87, passed away after a long illness on Sunday, May 26, with her loving family by her side.

She was born to Alma Macy Haynes and Hayes Haynes in Jonesville, NC on March 5, 1932. She graduated from Jonesville High School and then Grace Hospital in Morganton, NC, as a registered nurse. She began her forty-one year nursing career at the old Wilkes Hospital and then at the current Wilkes Regional Hospital. She specialized in Labor and Delivery, assisting with the birth and care of thousands of newborns. She often gave the on air "Stork Report," a feature on WKBC radio.

Throughout her life, children of all ages were drawn to her, and she had a unique talent for calming their fears and tears. Many friends, neighbors, and members of her Mountain View Baptist Church family affectionately refer to her as a second mother because of her influence on them as children and adults. She was known for her kindness and for always serving others before herself.

She met her husband, John Sherman Elledge (Jack) on a blind date. The couple married in 1956, lived in North Wilkesboro, and then built a house on Haymeadow  Road in Hays where they have lived since. She was "the best mother in the world" to four children: John (Johnny) Sherman Elledge Jr., Martha Carol Elledge, Elizabeth (Beth) Haynes Elledge Gossett, and Amy Maria Elledge. She was the beloved grandmother of eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Gerry loved to read and passed this love of reading onto her children. She often would read late into the night, when she wasn't staying up late to cook, sew, or prepare for holiday celebrations. She loved to garden and created bouquets from her roses and zinnias. She established and landscaped a memorial garden for her daughter Amy. She was a talented homemaker, known for her love of cooking and baking. Her cookies, cakes, salsa, homemade strawberry jam, ice cream, and spaghetti sauce were favorites of her family, and she baked bread almost every week for decades. Her grandchildren and great grandchildren have fond memories of what they called G-bread. She collected dolls and displayed them in her home. Her nursing class held a reunion every year for over seventy years that she attended and was a highlight of her year. She enjoyed picnics and camping trips on the Blue  Ridge Parkway, trips to The Great Smoky Mountains area, and enjoyed traveling extensively throughout the United States and to Mexico, especially after her retirement. Over the past twenty years she created scrapbooks for all her children and grandchildren and for special occasions such as her husband Jack's fishing trips. In her final years she was accompanied by her loving and loyal protector, her dog Ace.

She was an active church worker at Mountain  View Baptist Church, and she established a church library and served as the librarian for many years. She quietly gave monthly donations for many years to over ten charities and organizations that helped the poor, and she had a special place in her heart for the homeless and the efforts of Habitat for Humanity. She was a role model of Christian virtue to her children, and her whole life was a lesson in service to others and humble kindness.

Geraldine Haynes Elledge was preceded in death by her parents, Hayes and Alma; a brother, Vess Haynes; and daughter, Amy Maria Elledge.

She is survived by her loving husband, John (Jack) Sherman Elledge Sr.; son, John Sherman Elledge Jr. and daughter-in-law Ellen (Ellie) Koch Elledge; daughters, Martha Carol Elledge, and Elizabeth (Beth) Haynes Elledge Gossett and son-in-law Jason Gossett; sister, Sue Haynes Tharpe; grandchildren, Jacob Gabel, Cody Gabel, Candace Gabel Nelson, Jessie Gabel, Caleb Gossett, Connor Elledge, Tristan Elledge, and Aden Gossett; six great-grandchildren, and numerous beloved nieces and nephews.

The family thanks all the nurses, doctors, and other caregivers over the past year; the employees and volunteers of Hospice; friends, neighbors, church members, and all the thoughts and prayers from churches and co-workers of the family.

A private burial ceremony will be on Saturday, June 1, 2019 at Mountlawn Memorial Park. A memorial service will be held on Sunday, June 2, 2:00 pm, at Mountain View Baptist Church in Hays with Rev. Julius Blevins and Rev. Brian Blankenship officiating. A visitation will follow after the service in the church fellowship hall. In lieu of flowers, Gerry requested donations be made to Habitat for Humanity in her name. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements. Online condolences may be made to www.millerfuneralservice.com

   Lucy Christine Church Gambill

Ms. Lucy Christine Church Gambill went home to be with Jesus and her two beloved sons, Christopher and Hobert "Craig" Gambill, on Saturday, May 25, 2019 at Wilkes Senior Village.

Lucy was born Friday, October 14, 1932 in Wilkes County to the late Doctor Loran Church and Nora Ellen Brown Church.

Lucy was a beautician and retired as a seamstress from Tom Thumb Glove.  She was of the Baptist faith. She enjoyed crossword puzzles, playing rummy, and cooking. She loved spending time with family and friends.  Lucy was also the first Miss North Wilkesboro High School when she was a teenager.

Including her parents, she was preceded in death by: two sons, Christopher Daniel Gambill and Hobert "Craig" Gambill; an infant sister, Inez Church; sister, Elsie Church Adams and her husband, William Grant Adams.

Those left to cherish her memory include:  her daughter, Tina Gambill Blankenship and husband, Paul Travis Blankenship of Mt. Pleasant; five grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and 1 great-great grandchild.

The family would like to give special thanks to our Wilkes Senior Village family and dear friends, Grace Cooper and Linda Hamby for all of your love, support, and care.

The graveside service will be held at 11 a.m., Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at Mountlawn Memorial Park, North Wilkesboro. Pastor Paul Siceloff will officiate.

Condolences may be sent to: www.adamsfunerals.com.

Adams Funeral Home of Wilkes and cremation services is honored to be serving the Gambill Family.

  Leo Prevette, age 73

Leo Prevette, age 73, of Roaring River, passed away Friday, May 24, 2019 at his home. He was born June 10, 1945 in Wilkes County to Oakery Marcus and Sallie Durham Prevette. Mr. Prevette was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Patty Harris Prevette; son, Marcus Prevette; five brothers; and three sisters.

Surviving are his son, Gary Scott Prevette and companion Diane Terry of Yadkinville; daughters, Jeannie Lynn Moore and spouse Tommy of Salisbury, Tina Annette Baker of Winston Salem; sisters, Geraldine Whitaker of Moravian Falls, Jalie Billings of Roaring River; grandchildren, Dustin Taylor Holcomb, Paige Noelle Maltba and spouse Josh, Austin Cody Cahill and spouse Amber all of Roaring River; great grandson, Brantley Ryan-Dean Chastain of Roaring River; numerous nieces and nephews.

Funeral service will be held 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 28, 2019 at Miller Funeral Chapel with Rev. Tony McCann officiating. Burial will follow in New Light Baptist Church # 1 Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Miller Funeral Service from 12:00 until 1:00 on Tuesday, prior to the service. Flowers will be accepted. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements. Online condolences may be made to www.millerfuneralservice.com

  Tommy "Tom" J. Coffey, age 74

Tommy "Tom" J. Coffey, age 74, of Purlear, passed away Friday, May 24, 2019 at his home. Tom was born October 22, 1944 in Wilkes County to Joshua "Nick" and Mabel Parsons Coffey. He was a retired truck driver for L&L Machinery and Bassett Walker, driving most of his adult life. He attended Davis Memorial Baptist Church and enjoyed watching NASCAR, bee and squirrel hunting. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Mary Ruth Coffey; three sisters, Josephine Porter, Hallie Crenshaw, and Grace Coffey; and a brother, Wade Coffey.

Surviving are his wife, Mary Soots Coffey of the home; son, Tommy Junior Coffey and spouse Mary Doris of Millers Creek; two daughters, Susie Adams and spouse Bo of Millers Creek, Brenda Stanley and spouse Barry of North Wilkesboro; two grandchildren; and one great grandson;

Funeral service will be held 1:00 p.m. Monday, May 27, 2019 at Davis Memorial Baptist Church with the Rev. Hadley Triplett officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends at Davis Memorial Baptist Church from 12:00 until 1:00 on Monday, prior to the service. Flowers will be accepted. Memorials may be made to Davis Memorial Baptist Church, 311 Red Top Road, Wilkesboro, NC 28697. Miller Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements. Online condolences may be made to www.millerfuneralservice.com

[bobmccullochny]

History

December 5, 1492 - Haiti was discovered by Christopher Columbus.

December 5, 1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died a pauper at age 35 in Vienna, Austria. He had become seriously ill and rapidly declined, leading to speculation that he had been poisoned, although this was later proven false. During his brief life, he created over 600 musical compositions and is widely considered one of the finest composers who ever lived.

December 5, 1876 - President Ulysses S. Grant delivered a speech of apology to Congress claiming mistakes he made as president were "errors of judgment, not intent."

December 5, 1933 - The 18th Amendment (Prohibition Amendment) to the U.S. Constitution was repealed. For nearly 14 years, since January 29, 1920, it had outlawed the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the U.S.

December 5, 1955 - In Alabama, the Montgomery bus boycott began in response to the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to give up her seat on a municipal bus to a white man. Organized by the African American community, the boycott lasted until December 20, 1956, when a U.S. Supreme Court ruling integrated the public transportation system.

December 5, 1955 - The AFL-CIO was founded after two separate labor organizations, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, joined together following 20 years of rivalry, thus becoming the leading advocate for trade unions in the U.S.

Birthday - Martin van Buren (1782-1862) the 8th U.S. President was born in Kinderhook, New York. He was the first President who was born a citizen of the United States. He served from March 4, 1837 to March 3, 1841.

Birthday - George Armstrong Custer was born in New Rumley, Harrison County, Ohio. He graduated from West Point at the bottom of his class in 1861, then became a dashing cavalry officer in the Civil War and fought at Bull Run. He was appointed brigadier general and served gallantly at Gettysburg and in the Virginia campaigns. After the war, he took part in the Western expedition against the Sioux Indians. In June of 1867, Custer and over 200 of his soldiers from the U.S. 7th Cavalry were killed by Sioux warriors at Little Bighorn in Montana.

Birthday - Walt Disney (1901-1966) was born in Chicago, Illinois. As a little boy, he liked to draw farm animals and eventually got a job as an artist. He moved to Hollywood and in 1928 produced Steamboat Willie, starring Mickey Mouse, in the first cartoon with synchronized sound. In 1937, he released his full length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He opened the Disneyland amusement park in Anaheim, California, in 1955. Five years after his death, Disney World opened in Florida. The company he founded has since grown into a global entertainment empire.

#Todays Smile

[beckylower]

In a time when women of the middle and upper classes were expected to spend their time within the home and women of the lower classes slaved brutally long hours in deplorable, often dangerous conditions, Frances Perkins stands out for her choice to set a very different course. In doing so, her impact is still felt today.

Born Fannie Coralie Perkins on April 10, 1880 in Boston to upper-middle class parents, Frances, as she legally chose to be called as an adult, enjoyed opportunities denied many of her contemporaries. When she was two, her father moved the family to Worcester where he opened a successful stationary business that is still in operation today. Frances’s parents must have had a progressive view of what a woman’s life should be because they provided her with an excellent education, including the expectation of a college degree, and instilled in her an understanding that she was to “live for God and to accomplish something in life.” After graduating from the predominately male Worcester Classical High School, she enrolled in Mount Holyoke where she majored in physics and minored in Chemistry and biology. It would have been understandable, albeit unusual for the time, if she had sought a career in research, but a course in American economic history in the final semester of her senior year changed the course of her focus and her life. Her professor, historian Annah May Soule, required her students to visit mills in the area around the college and to observe the working conditions.

That experience informed the remainder of her working life. Of what she saw in the mills, she would later say, “From the time I was in college I was horrified at the work that many women and children had to do in factories. There were absolutely no effective laws that regulated the number of hours they were permitted to work. There were no provisions which guarded their health nor adequately looked after their compensation in case of injury. Those things seemed very wrong. I was young and was inspired with the idea of reforming, or at least doing what I could, to help change those abuses.”[1]

Instead of coming home to a teaching position until she married as her parents expected, Frances sought positions in social work, but she was unsuccessful. That did not dampen her desire, however. She studied on her own by reading articles and books on the subject such as John Riis’s How the Other Half Lives. Ultimately, she accepted a teaching position in Lake Forest, Illinois. The move was marked by two additional displays of independence. She abandoned the long held Congregationalist tradition of her family for the Episcopal Church and legally changed her name to Frances. While living in the Chicago area, she volunteered at two of the oldest settlement houses in the nation, Hull House and Chicago Commons. Of her time there, she had this to day, “I had to do something about unnecessary hazards to life, unnecessary poverty. It was sort of up to me. This feeling … sprang out of a period of great philosophical confusion which overtakes all young people.”[2]

Having found her calling, Frances accepted a position with Philadelphia Research and Protective Association, a philanthropic organization that worked to keep immigrants and black women newly arrived from the South from prostitution. She continued her education at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School where she studied sociology and economics.

Moving to New York, she gained a fellowship at the New York School of Philanthropy and earned a Masters Degree in sociology and economics at Columbia University. Her Master’s thesis came out of her work for the NYSP for which she investigated malnutrition among the schoolchildren of Hell’s Kitchen. Her studies certainly informed her career choices, but it was a horrendous tragedy on March 25,

1911 that sealed her destiny. On that fateful day, fire engines screaming through the city drew crowds, Frances among them, to one of the worst industrial disasters of the period, the Triangle Shirt Factory fire. Witnesses watched in horror as young women jumped to their deaths rather than burn alive in a factory where the exit doors had been locked to prevent the workers leaving without permission. 146 workers died that day, including 47 of whom jumped from the building’s 8th and 9th floors. Frances was to later say that the Triangle fire was the day the New Deal was born.

Invited to join the Commission on Safety that formed in the wake of the fire, Frances became involved in politics for the first time. The work of the Commission resulted in some of the most comprehensive and important labor legislation of the early 20th century. The Commission’s work proved a turning point in American attitudes toward social responsibility.

During all of this frenetic activity, Frances found the time to fall in love. In 1913, she married New York economist and secretary to the city’s mayor Paul Caldwell Wilson. Because of her political actives and the nature of her work, she kept her maiden name, but she had to fight in court to do so. The couple had a daughter, Suzanna, in 1916. Sadly, Wilson’s mental health began to decline and he was in and out of institutions for the remainder of his life. Although Frances initially opted to care for her daughter herself and so retired from public life after the birth, her husband’s inability to work sent Frances back to work to support the family.

1928

Thereafter, Frances worked on political causes, including women’s suffrage, and to elect those she deemed worthy. Her work for New York Governor and failed presidential candidate Al Smith ultimately led to a position with Franklyn D. Roosevelt when he replaced Smith as governor. FDR appointed her the state’s Industrial Commissioner and tougher, they sought ways to deal with the rising unemployment rates. She soon developed a national reputation for her work.

When FRD was elected president in 1932, politics might have moved on and left Frances behind, but it was not to be. In 1933 in a first of its kind move, FRD asked Frances to be his Secretary of Labor. She accepted and became the first woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet and remained as one of only two cabinet members who served for the entirety of FDR’s presidency. In her position, she was instrumental in conceiving, forming, and implementing the New Deal policies, including Social Security. After FDR’s death, Frances retired to private life to write a biography of the president and serve as the American delegate to the 1946 International Labor Organization in Paris.

In 1947, President Harry Truman called her back to public service to lead the United States Civil Service Commission, a position she held until 1953. After government service, Frances entered a new phase of teaching, writing, and lecturing. When Cornell University formed its School of Industrial Relations, she accepted a position as lecturer which she held until her death in 1965 at age 85.

Frances Perkins was a woman definitely ahead of her time and a person of great vision and compassion. The world could use more of her ilk.

Historical Fiction Featuring Women of Vision 

This may seem an unusual assortment of titles covering an unexpected span of time, but these novels feature women of vision who were either real historical figures or fictional representations or compilations of real figures.

Most of us have read fiction about what it would be like to be a woman in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—but how about the twelfth? Hildegard von Bingen (also known as Saint Hildegard and Sibyl of the Rhine) was one of the most unusual women of the Middle Ages and left a most unusual legacy. Even from within a monastery and living in silence for years, she was able to have a dramatic impact on the world as a healer, writer, composer, and theologian. Her music is still performed today.

  Female journalists face even more challenges on the front lines than male journalists do, and Meg Waite Clayton was inspired to write this novel by daring, real-life female reporters like Margaret Bourke-White, Lee Miller, and Martha Gellhorn. Her characters Liv, a correspondent, and Jane, a photographer, take on great personal danger to report on Allied forces as they retake Paris from the Nazis.

The woman at the center of this sprawling, engaging novel is fictional, but the circumstances of her life are all too common. Inspired by the stories of scientists’ daughters and wives who often made their own scientific discoveries but received none of the recognition that men did, Elizabeth Gilbert created Alma Whittaker, whose scientific and personal pursuits will keep you turning pages through the night.

  Resources & Notes

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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frances-Perkins

https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/frances-perkins

https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/perkins-frances.cfm

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102959041

https://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/frances-perkins

https://www.fdrlibrary.org/perkins

https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1603.html

Linda Bennett Pennell is an author of historical fiction set in the American South or about Southerners traveling far from home. While she writes about the land of her birth, anything with a history, whether shabby or regal, ancient or closer to our own day, has fascinated her since early childhood. This love of the past and the desire to create stories of it probably owes much to her Southern roots.

Southern families are filled with storytellers who keep family and community histories alive. It is in their blood and part of their birthright. Linda’s family had many such yarn spinners who entertained the family on cold winter evenings around her grandmother’s fireplace and during long summer afternoons on her wraparound porch. And most important of all, most of those stories were true.

Click here to connect with Linda and find out more about her writing.

    FDR’s Unexpected Appointee In a time when women of the middle and upper classes were expected to spend their time within the home and women of the lower classes slaved brutally long hours in deplorable, often dangerous conditions, Frances Perkins stands out for her choice to set a very different course.

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A Trailblazer of Computer Drawing Gets Her Due

An exhibition offers a glimpse of Vera Molnar’s career, from post-Constructivist abstraction to her use of a computer to make drawings.

There were two exhibitions in New York this spring — to which you can now add a third — that shed new light on what was happening in abstract art in France after World War II. The first two exhibitions were François Morellet at Dia: Chelsea (October 28, 2017 – June 2, 2018) and Martin Barré at Matthew Marks (February 17 – April 7, 2018), which I reviewed.

These exhibitions, along with the periodic exhibitions, starting in 2010, of Simon Hantai’s paintings at Paul Kasmin, helped dispel the idea that the only interesting abstraction was happening in America, which certainly was never true. However, if you take Morellet, Barré, and Hantai, along with Yves Klein and Pierre Soulages, as a measure of what was going in abstract art in France, apart from the Support-Surface group, which has also gotten attention in New York in recent years, you get the mistaken idea that only men were making abstract art in France. We seem to have imported French chauvinism because it so perfectly complements our own.

This is one reason why the exhibition Vera Molnar: Drawings 1949- 1986 at Senior & Shopmaker (March 23 – May 12, 2018) should be on your list of things to see. The other more important reason is the work itself, which should always be case, but sometimes isn’t.

Covering nearly four decades, the works in this exhibition offer a fruitful glimpse into the trajectory of Molnar’s career, from post-Constructivist abstraction to drawings made according to a strict set of algorithmic rules to — in 1968 — her first use of a computer to make drawings, which she has continued to do for nearly 50 years. Born in Budapest in 1924, she is widely recognized in Europe as a pioneer in the use of a computer to make art. Other artists have used the computer, of course. Frederick Hammersley made a series of computer-generated geometric drawings in 1969, but Molnar was never interested in making any kind of imagery.

The journey she undertook is dazzling. Although there is nothing in the show to indicate Molnar’s beliefs, other than her devotion to establishing and following a strict set of rules, I was reminded of the opening statement in Sol LeWitt’s Sentences on Conceptual Art (1969): “Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.” The fact that she was a pioneer in the use of the computer and, by LeWitt’s definition, can be considered a conceptual artist gives us a glimpse into the unique terrain that Molnar occupies.

The exhibition contains work from four periods in her career. The first runs from 1949 until 1961, during which she aligned herself with the work of Russian Constructivism. During this period, she also took the work of Piet Mondrian and Paul Klee as starting points for her own investigations. For her, art was not about starting over or making a break. It was about pushing it forward into new areas of perception. Basic to this investigation was the relationship between the line and mathematics — what kind of rules could be used to make a drawing? Rules, of course, are central to three-point perspective and to Islamic geometric design. Josef Albers worked according to rules to learn how color interacted. LeWitt set up rules so that others could make his drawings.

Between 1959 and ’68, when she was first able to program a mainframe computer to make drawings, Molnar imagined herself to be a drawing machine, a “Machine Imaginaire.” She used the grid as a structure to determine the placement of a line or a color. By establishing a set of rules, she could predetermine how the line would shift from gridded square to gridded square. As dry as this might sound, the results are often tour-de-forces, in which the relationship between order and chaos is stretched beyond what the eye can comprehend, leaving this viewer at least in a state of visual awe.

In her hand-drawn “Distribution Aleatoire de 4 Elements (pour progr. ordinateur)” (1970), Molnar works an algorithm on a sheet of graph paper. On the left side of the sheet, she has created a gridded, maze-like square composed of short horizontal, vertical, and diagonal ink strokes, while on the right, she has meticulously plotted a matching graphite grid of alphanumeric cells, whose variations and repetitions provide a code for the number and direction of each subset of pen strokes.

Once she was able to use a mainframe computer, the grid was dropped, leaving only a field of lines, sometimes in one color and other times in two. Drawings such as the two that are titled ”Inclinaisions” (both date 1971) generate a distinct visual buzz. In “Hypertransformation of 20 Concentric Squares” (1974), Molnar uses an algorithm to do something to each square, producing vibrating groups of them while issuing an invitation to see what is distinctive about each one.

With the drawings done on a mainframe computer, Molnar does not remove the perforated edges. They were “jobs” printed up according to her algorithm, an investigation into what was possible. She never tries to make a drawing representational: it is of no interest to her. In the mid-1980s, with the advent of the personal computer and advanced printing techniques, she obtained a computer and began to work at home, where she makes drawings in sets. In each one, she is intent on discovering what can be done with a line, and with geometric structures such as squares and rectangles. She keeps coming up with fresh possibilities.

In 2009, Thomas Micchelli reviewed Pierrette Bloch (1928-2017) at Haim Chanin Fine Arts for the Brooklyn Rail (June 2009). As he pointed out, it was the first time that Bloch had shown in the United States since 1951. This is one sentence from the review:

For decades, Bloch has streaked, dripped, and blotted ink on paper or Isorel, a highly frangible type of chipboard.

Bloch and Molnar are two very different artists who made drawings for well over half a century. Both happen to be women. The fact that they worked in France is another indication of how interesting the scene was there, and how that country’s preoccupations seem distinct from what was going in America. Maybe we should open our eyes a little more than we have.

Vera Molnar: Drawings 1949-1986 continues at Senior & Shopmaker Gallery (210 Eleventh Avenue, 8th Floor, Chelsea, Manhattan) through May 12.