• L. Frank Baum’s books, including The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, have occasionally been censored. In 1957, Ralph Ulveling, the Detroit Library Director, ordered the book taken off library shelves because, he charged, it had a “cowardly approach to life.” The Detroit Times had an interesting response — it serialized the children’s novel, adding a notation that this book had been banned.
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• Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of F. Scott, was named after a character — a gypsy queen — in a novel. Throughout her life, she liked to have attention drawn to her. When she was a little girl, she telephoned the fire department, told them that a little girl was stuck on a roof, and gave her own address. She then hung up the telephone, crawled out on the roof, and enjoyed all the commotion she had created. When she was a young unmarried woman, her house was still the center of commotion — young military pilots used to perform aerial stunts over her house to get her attention.
• While attending school in Berkeley, California, Yoshiko Uchida was a member of the Girl Reserves, along with several white girls. One day, a photographer from the local newspaper arrived to take a photo of the Girl Reserves, and he tried to move Yoshiko out of the photo. Fortunately, a white friend, Sylvia, saw what was happening and said, “Come on, Yoshi. Stand next to me.” The two friends linked arms and stood firmly together, forcing the photographer to photograph them. Later, Ms. Uchida became the renowned author of Journey to Topaz.
• The first of the two most important events in Orville Prescott’s life (the other was becoming daily book critic for The New York Times in 1942) occurred when he was six years old and his Grandmother Sherwin offered him a $5 gold piece if he would learn how to read. Although he didn’t quite know what a $5 gold piece was, he knew that it was desirable, and therefore, a few days later, he read a few pages out of a first grade primer to his grandmother and received his rewards — the $5 gold piece and the discovery of the joy of reading.
• Playwright Lillian Hellman was born in 1905, and she was a young girl when the United States fought Germany in World War I. Determined to help the war effort, she and a friend went looking for German spies in Manhattan. They spotted two men wearing raincoats. One of the men carried a violin case, which young Lillian thought might hold a machine gun. She reported the two men to a police officer, who investigated and discovered that the two men were a concert violinist and a college professor.
• In addition to being a practical joker, Hugh Troy was a writer and illustrator of children’s books. Often, he made up series of stories to tell his little niece. One series starred the popular child actress Shirley Temple, but eventually Mr. Troy got tired of his heroine, so he ended the series by having Shirley Temple run over by a steamroller and flattened like a pancake. His niece loved the ending.
• As a school child, Madeleine L’Engle Camp entered one of her poems in a school contest. She won first prize, only to have a teacher accuse her of plagiarizing the poem. Young Madeleine’s mother successfully defended her by showing the teacher other poems and stories that Madeleine had written. As a grownup, Madeleine became famous as Madeleine L’Engle, the author of A Wrinkle in Time.
First flown in 1969, and entering service in 1976, what is the name of this turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner that was operated until 2003?
The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde is a British–French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner that was operated until 2003. It had a maximum speed over twice the speed of sound, at Mach 2.04 (1,354 mph or 2,180 km/h at cruise altitude), with seating for 92 to 128 passengers. First flown in 1969, Concorde entered service in 1976 and continued flying for the next 27 years. It is one of only two supersonic transports to have been operated commercially; the other is the Soviet-built Tupolev Tu-144, which operated in the late 1970s.
Concorde was jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) under an Anglo-French treaty. Twenty aircraft were built, including six prototypes and development aircraft. Air France and British Airways were the only airlines to purchase and fly Concorde. The aircraft was used mainly by wealthy passengers who could afford to pay a high price in exchange for the aircraft's speed and luxury service. For example, in 1997, the round-trip ticket price from New York to London was $7,995 (equivalent to $12,700 in 2019), more than 30 times the cost of the cheapest option to fly this route.
Among other destinations, Concorde flew regular transatlantic flights from London's Heathrow Airport and Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia and Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados; it flew these routes in less than half the time of other airliners.
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Billy in Cypress U. $. A. was first, and correct, with:
Concorde
Mark. said:
Concorde.
Randall wrote:
Concorde
Alan J answered:
The Concorde.
Micki replied:
Concorde. I remember it was the plane the rich used and recognized it from the upward tip.
Dave responded:
Concorde. My Dad’s Uncle had attended university at Oxford in his youth and for years made an annual pilgrimage to London. Toward the end of his long and distinguished life Uncle Wendell treated himself to flying on the Concorde as he was rich enough the expensive tickets didn’t phase him. He told me that the 3.5 hour flight was easier on him than the usual 8 hour flight.
Stephen F said:
Concorde
mj wrote:
My former boss flew it once
The Concorde was a SuperSonic Transport (SST) jet. It was supposed to
revolutionize air travel, but the fact that it broke the sound barrier,
creating a window rattling sonic boom, caused most (all?) nations to
restrict its flight over land, limiting it's routes.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
That would be the Concorde, a joint venture between the British and the French. I was working the annual airshow in Oshkosh, Wisconsin many years ago and I got to stand under one after it landed and was secured and it dripped jet fuel on me and I smelled like it all day and I couldn't have been happier!
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Concorde
Mac Mac answered:
Concorde
Deborah, the Master Gardener responded:
I think that’s the Concorde. Never flew in one, and if it was so great, why weren’t more built and flown today? Inquiring minds, you know.
Air quality is still improving, both in the visual and olfactory senses, and it’s cool this morning; I’m going for a bike ride. Happy Friday, Jr.
John I from Hawai`i says,
SST
Kenn B replied:
Concorde
Dave in Tucson wrote:
That's the European version of the SST (Supersonic Transport) - The
Concorde.
Michelle in AZ said:
Concorde
Daniel in The City answered:
The Concorde
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) replied:
That's the Concorde, fine aircraft. Impractical, but fine.
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Music: "Spanccanapoli" from the album LOVE IS A TEMPORARY MADNESS
Artist: Vanessa Perica Orchestra
Artist Location: Melbourne, Australia
Info: Vanessa Perica is a composer, arranger, and conductor.
Sven B. Schreiber, a fan, wrote: Vanessa Perica is a new name in the big band business, and her debut album proves that we can expect a lot of pleasant surprises from her in this genre. I’m noticing with contentment that an increasing number of women pushes forward into this traditionally male-dominated realm — with quite convincing musical arguments. Favorite track: Woody’s Lament.
Price: $2 (AUS) for track; $15 (AUS) for seven-track album
Listening to "Box Lunch" was a startle for me, being very familiar with almost all of his music from an early age; must've been one of the new releases. I can guess why; it sounds like a train wreck. It's almost as if somebody threw notes into a blender with little care for the sludge it turned out. I DO encourage your readers to explore the more melodious offerings; esp. the ones he composed himself. Most is pretty marvy.
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Turns out the unexpected cat didn't run away - she's now living under the house.
We've decided to name her "Diabla", or DeDe for short.
While my hand is healing, 3 fingers are nearly twice as wide as normal and still can't make a fist.
Tonight, Friday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'MacGyver', followed by a FRESH'Love Island', then a RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 5/21/20) is Joe Biden.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 8/10/20) are Rachel Brosnahan and Anderson .Paak.
NBC starts the night with a RERUN'America's Got Talent', followed by 'Dateline'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 7/30/20) are Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Alanis Morissette.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 8/10/20) are Tracee Ellis Ross and Luke Bryan.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 11/25/19) are Thomas Middleditch, Martin Starr, Zack Woods, and Amanda Crew.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel it's TBA.
The CW offers a FRESH'Masters Of Illusion', followed by a RERUN'Masters Of Illusion', then a FRESH'Being Reuben', followed by another FRESH'Being Reuben'.
Faux fills the night with FRESH'WWE Friday Night SmackDown'.
MY recycles an old recycles an old 'CSI: Miami', followed by another old 'CSI: Miami'.
A&E has 'Live Rescue', followed by a FRESH'Live Rescue'.
AMC offers the movie 'Jurassic Park', followed by the movie 'The Goonies', then the movie 'Road House'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Rapture
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Darkness and the Light
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Begotten
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - For the Uniform
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - In Purgatory's Shadow
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - By Inferno's Light
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Firstborn
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Bloodlines
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Emergence
[3:00PM] POINT BREAK
[5:30PM] THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT
[8:00PM] FAST & FURIOUS
[10:30PM] FAST & FURIOUS
[1:00AM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - A Celebration Prequel
[1:04AM] THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT
[3:33AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Emergence
[4:32AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Preemptive Strike
[5:31AM] HIDDEN HABITATS - Galapagos (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has the movie 'A League Of Their Own', followed by the movie 'Little Fockers', then the movie 'Little Fockers', again.
FX has the movie 'Hidden Figures', followed by the movie 'Avatar'.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', another 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'MonsterQuest: Serpentine Creatures: Chasing Bigfoot'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Grips, Grunts and Groans
[6:30A] The Three Stooges - A Pain in the Pullman
[7:00A] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return - The Land That Time Forgot
[9:00A] Life of Brian
[11:00A] Piranha 3D
[1:00P] Airplane II: The Sequel
[3:00P] Airplane!
[5:00P] Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
[7:30P] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
[10:00P] Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
[12:30A] Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
[3:00A] Airplane II: The Sequel
[5:00A] Saved by the Bell
[5:30A] Saved by the Bell (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] perry mason
[7:00am] perry mason
[8:00am] perry mason
[9:00am] the andy griffith show
[9:30am] the andy griffith show
[10:00am] the andy griffith show
[10:30am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am] the andy griffith show
[11:30am] the andy griffith show
[12:00pm] the andy griffith show
[12:30pm] the andy griffith show
[1:00pm] law & order
[2:00pm] law & order
[3:00pm] law & order
[4:00pm] law & order
[5:00pm] law & order
[6:00pm] law & order
[7:00pm] law & order
[8:00pm] law & order
[9:00pm] law & order
[10:00pm] law & order
[11:00pm] law & order
[12:00am] law & order
[1:00am] law & order
[2:00am] the age of adaline
[4:30am] the andy griffith show
[5:00am] the andy griffith show
[5:30am] the andy griffith show (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Men In Black III', followed by the movie 'Gone In 60 Seconds'.
The Daily Show is continuing to poke fun at President Trump (R-Oaf) – this time in print across three of the country’s biggest newspapers.
The Comedy Central nightly talk-show has taken out a faux lawyer advert in The New York Times, Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times.
The advert comes as The Daily Show with Trevor Noah bagged six Emmy nominations including Outstanding Variety Talk Series as it hopes to displace Last Week Tonight with John Oliver from the top talk prize.
The faux legal ad offers legal services to a “soon to be ex-president” which includes a real phone number 1-210-WH-CRIME (1-210-942-7463) with a pre-record message from Trevor Noah & Associates & Sons.
NBC has figured out a way to offer up a healthy amount of programming this fall during the pandemic, though you'll have to wait until November to catch up with the Pearsons and all things Chicago.
Hollywood shut down production in March as COVID-19 began to spread across the globe, but slowly, filming has begun again. The delay was significant enough that several key shows will not meet their normal September or October launch dates. The second week of November will prove to be a big one for the Peacock, as This Is Us returns for its fifth season on Tuesday, Nov. 10. And for your patience, you'll receive a two-hour premiere, from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET/PT. (The show will air the following week in its normal 9 p.m. slot.)
On Wednesday, Nov. 11, Chicago Med will kick off its sixth season at 8 p.m., while Chicago Fire unveils its ninth season premiere at 9 p.m. Chicago P.D. closes out the night at 10 p.m. with its eighth season premiere.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit commences season 22 (!) on Thursday, Nov. 12, at 9 p.m., while The Blacklist begins season 8 on Friday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m.
October will see some key premieres as well. The Voice returns for season 19 in the middle of the month, with shows on Monday, Oct. 19, and Tuesday, Oct. 20 from 8-10 p.m. Superstore rings up its season 6 premiere on Thursday, Oct. 22, at 8 p.m. And — this should be, erm, interesting — Ellen's Game of Games returns with a two-hour premiere on Tuesday, Oct. 6 from 8-10 p.m. Connecting, the friends-stay-in-touch-via-Zoom-during-a-pandemic comedy you've been waiting for (or at least, expecting) premieres on Oct. 1 at 8:30 p.m.
Fox has announced that its wildly popular guessing game show will debut its fourth season on Sept. 23 in its usual 8 p.m. time slot. Not only that, but the network has decided to fast-track singing competition series “I Can See Your Voice,” hosted by “Masked Singer” judge Ken Jeong.
The new series, also based on a Korean format, will premiere right behind “Masked Singer” on the same day. “Masterchef Jr.” was originally scheduled to have “Masked Singer” as a lead-in, but sources say the cooking show has now been pushed as it has been unable to return to set due to COVID-19.
“I Can See Your Voice” was ordered to series only seven months ago, and features actress Cheryl Hines and television host and vocalist Adrienne Bailon-Houghton, who will join Jeong and a rotating panel of celebrity detectives to help one contestant tell the difference between good and bad singers, without ever hearing them sing a note.
With $100,000 on the line, the contestant will attempt to weed out the bad “Secret Voices” from the good, based on a series of clues, interrogation, and lip synch challenges.
The Republican National Convention aired a video meant to paint the George Floyd protests and Black Lives Matter demonstrations as inherently violent, chaotic events, but included a scene from protests in Barcelona, Spain.
A public broadcaster in Catalonia reported that the images in question - of fires burning in the streets - were captured in 2019 in Barcelona. The protests in Spain began after a Spanish court sentenced Catalan separatists to prison.
A pair of sisters provides a voice over for the video, offering a dire warning for viewers that "this is a taste of Biden's America" as images of protests play.
"The rioting, the crime. Freedom is at stake now and this is going to be the most important election of our lifetime," they said.
While the voices warn that the images are a look at life under Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, they are in fact - with the exception of the image from Barcelona - a look at conditions in the US under Donald Trump.
The federal government appears to have backtracked on COVID-19 testing guidance, according to a statement released late Wednesday from the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Disputed recommendations posted to the CDC website on Monday suggested people exposed to the coronavirus "do not necessarily need a test" unless they're having symptoms, are older or are otherwise medically vulnerable.
In the new statement, the CDC's director, Dr. Robert Redfield, now says that "all close contacts of confirmed or probable COVID-19 patients" may consider testing. Despite Redfield's statement, the CDC's website had not changed as of Thursday afternoon.
"I think this is a black eye for the CDC. They've got materials on their website that really can't be scientifically justified," said former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden, who is now president of Resolve to Save Lives, a global public health initiative.
A chief aide of Vice President Mike Pence (R-Short Leash) has called NBA protests being staged over the shooting of Jacob Blake ”absurd” and “silly”.
Marc Short, Mr Pence’s chief of staff, lashed out at the association’s postponement of a number of scheduled games in a demonstration against racial injustice in an interview with CNN on Thursday.
Jared Kushner (R-Feckless), one of president Donald Trump (R-Grifter)’s senior advisers, and his son in law, also criticised the protests in an interview with CNBC on Thursday.
“NBA players are very fortunate that they have the financial position where they’re able to take a night off from work without having to have the consequences to themselves financially,” he said. "So they have that luxury, which is great."
In another interview, Mr Kushner said he is planning to pursue a meeting with Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James, who has frequently used his public position to vocally condemn racial injustice across the US.
The future of the world’s flora may depend as much, if not more, on what’s below the ground as what’s above. Beneath 90% of all plants lies an invisible support system—subterranean fungal partners that form a network of filaments connecting plants and bringing nutrients and water to their roots. In return, the plants provide a steady supply of carbon to the fungi. Now, researchers are learning that these hidden partners can shape how ecosystems respond to climate change.
The right fungal partners can help plants survive warmer and drier conditions, according to a study reported earlier this month at the online annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. But other studies at the meeting showed climate change can also disrupt these so-called mycorrhizal fungi, possibly speeding the demise of their host plants. “The picture is becoming clearer that we really cannot ignore the responses of mycorrhizal fungi to climate change,” says Matthias Rillig, an ecologist at the Free University of Berlin.
These fungal associates come in two forms. Arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM), common in tropical and some temperate forests as well as fields and meadows, invade root cells and extend thin hairs called hyphae into the soil. Ectomycorrhizal (EM) fungi, in contrast, associate with conifers as well as oak, hickory, alder, and beech. They settle on the outside of roots, and their networks of hyphae give rise to the mushrooms that pop up on moist forest floors.
Both types absorb phosphorus and other nutrients, capture nitrogen from decaying organic matter, and help store carbon in the soil. “Mycorrhizal associations are arguably the most important symbioses in terrestrial ecosystems because of their importance for plant productivity,” says Christopher Fernandez, a soil ecologist at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Climate change might alter these associations, he says. Fernandez is part of the B4WARMED (Boreal Forest Warming at an Ecotone in Danger) project, a large-scale effort to monitor the impact of warming and drying on the boreal forests that stretch across northern latitudes. The study is also artificially warming and drying plots of forest, and Fernandez studied the impact of the simulated climate change on the hidden fungi by sequencing soil and root samples from plots.
A rare egg fossil containing an unhatched dinosaur suggests baby sauropods were not miniaturized versions of the four-legged, long-necked behemoths we all know and love, exhibiting a unique set of physical characteristics that included a little rhino-like horn.
Baby titanosaurs—the largest group of sauropods—featured a prominent facial horn and a pair of forward-facing eyes that enabled stereoscopic vision, according to new research published today in Current Biology. These facial characteristics eventually disappeared as the babies matured into adults, but not before serving a valuable purpose, speculate the authors, led by Martin Kundrat from Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Slovakia.
“Titanosaur babies were on their own right after hatching,” explained Kundrat in an email. “They had to search for their food and defend themselves—two of the most important survival activities.”
Indeed, life during the Late Cretaceous couldn’t have been easy for these hatchlings. Accordingly, it would’ve been prudent for them to hide in a forest-like environment until they were big enough to move around in the open, said Kundrat. The baby titans, with their stereoscopic vision, were better able to source food and recognize danger. But their most striking feature—their beak-like premaxillary horn—could’ve been used to search for food and possibly even for defense, “at least for the period when they were most vulnerable,” Kundrat said.
These findings were made possible by analyzing a rare egg fossil found in Patagonia, Argentina. Or at least, that’s where Kundrat and his colleagues believe the fossil came from. They can’t actually be certain, because the fossil was illegally exported from the country.
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