• In the early 20th century, a French landscape painter named Andre Marcellin decided to branch out into portraits. He painted the portrait of a banker, and a few days after the painting was finished, the banker died. He painted the portrait of a woman, and a few days after the painting was finished, the woman died. He painted the portrait of a friend, and a few days after the painting was finished, the friend died. After that, he declined to paint any more portraits for five years. Then he met a woman and became engaged to her. She insisted that he paint her portrait, even though he explained that his portraits were cursed. Eventually he gave in because she told him that she would not marry him unless he painted her portrait. A few days after the painting was finished, she died. Soon afterward, Mr. Marcellin painted his last portrait: a portrait of himself. A few days after the painting was finished, he died.
• In 1955, when she was 95 years old, artist Grandma Moses was interviewed by journalist Edward R. Murrow for his television show See It Now. During the show, Mr. Morrow asked, "What are you going to do for the next 20 years, Grandma Moses?" In reply, she pointed upward and said, "I am going up yonder. Naturally, naturally I should. After you get to be about so old, you can't expect to go on much further." Grandma Moses died at age 101. (Mr. Murrow had wanted to do the interview in Grandma Moses' bedroom, where she did her painting, but she didn't think any man other than a husband had any business in a lady's bedroom, so she moved her painting supplies to the living room, where the interview took place.)
• Leon Bakst, a Russian painter and set designer for Sergei Diaghilev's ballets, once fell in love with a beautiful young Frenchwoman in Paris. He took her to Versailles because he hoped that such a romantic location might make her romantic. They sat down together, Mr. Bakst moved closer to her, and she remarked to him, "What a wonderful place for a suicide."
• In Highgate Cemetery in London, many tourists visit the grave of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, who was the wife and model of the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. When she died in 1862, Mr. Rossetti buried some poems with her. However, in 1869, he reconsidered and had her grave dug up so he could retrieve the poems.
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• East German gymnast Erika Zuchold quickly discovered another career after leaving gymnastics following the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, where she won silver medals on both vault and uneven bars. As a gymnast, she often drew pictures before and during competitions to reduce her nervousness. In addition, after she tore her Achilles tendon and could not compete in the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, she drew as a means of coping with her disappointment. Fans had sent flowers to her hospital room, and so she drew flowers. Each time she drew the flowers, her drawing became more skilled. After retiring from gymnastics, she studied art education at Karl Marx University in Leipzig. Since then, she has taught art and has had art exhibitions in Germany, Iraq, Spain, and Switzerland.
• Jackson Pollack was an American rebel at a young age. While attending Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, he distributed an underground newspaper that criticized the values of the school, suggesting that academics should be valued more than football. One sentence of the newspaper stated, "Instead of 'hit that line,' we should cry 'make that grade.'" After being caught twice distributing the underground newspaper, young Jackson was expelled for the rest of the school year. When he returned to school, he was wearing long hair. In pursuit of conformity, some members of the football team forcibly cut his hair.
When introduced to England in the 18th century, one breed of dog quickly became the carriage-dog breed of choice. What breed of dog became synonymous with "carriage dog"?
Mortimer "Morty" and Ferdinand "Ferdie" Fieldmouse are Mickey Mouse's twin nephews. They first appeared in Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse Sunday page storyline titled "Mickey's Nephews" (1932). Since then they have appeared in lots of comic strips and comic book stories starring Mickey Mouse and Pluto. Morty and Ferdy were first shown as wearing shirts, but no pants or underpants. Pants were later added to their wardrobe.
Ferdie disappeared from the Mickey Mouse comic strip in 1943 because Gottfredson thought the nephews were too much alike. He had plans to bring Ferdie back later as a bespectacled, intellectual, bookworm mouse with an Eton hat and coat with the explanation that he had been away at school. However, Gottfredson never got around to bringing Ferdie back and Morty remained in the strip alone. Morty should not be confused with Mickey Mouse's originally proposed name "Mortimer Mouse," or Mickey's ofttimes rival of the same name Mortimer Mouse, or Minnie's wealthy rancher Uncle Mortimer.
In animation, Mickey's nephews first appear in the 1933 Mickey Mouse film Giantland, although the film shows Mickey with as many as 14 nephews at the same time. The following year the nephews appear again in Gulliver Mickey. The following film, Mickey's Steam Roller, is the first to show Mickey with only two nephews, who can be presumed to be Morty and Ferdie, although they are unnamed in the film itself. This was two years after the twins debuted in the comic strip. Morty and Ferdie also make a cameo towards the end of 1938's Boat Builders and appear again in 1983's Mickey's Christmas Carol in speaking roles, albeit at different ages as one of the twins took on the role of Tiny Tim. In 1999 they make a cameo in the two-part Mickey Mouse Works segment "Around the World in Eighty Days", which was used again in Disney's House of Mouse.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Mickey Mouse.
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Mickey Mouse.
Dave said:
Mickey Mouse. I don't know where I used to see Disney shorts? Probably on Walt's Sunday night TV show or Mickey Mouse Club reruns. As a kid I thought Disney cartoons were just about the least funny of all the classic cartoon shorts. My sons and my grandchildren agree.
Roy, Still a Libtard Snowflake Corn Teening in Tyler, TX wrote:
First of all, Happy 19th Birthday! I have been a fan since Bartcop introduced me to you page from the beginning. I don't know how you manage to tickle my funny bone, entertain me, educate me, and get my blood pressure spiking every doggone day! See you tomorrow... and the day after that... and... Okay, after I check out my morning funny pages.
But back to business, Morty & Ferdie are the cute little, impish twin nephews of Mickey Mouse.
Again, Happy 19th,
Mac Mac responded:
Mickey Mouse
Randall replied::
Mickey Mouse
Cal in Vermont said:
Mickey damn Mouse.
Deborah, the Master Gardener, wrote:
Morty and Ferdie are the twin nephews of Michey Mouse. I remember them from the old-school Mickey Mouse cartoons.
Happy Birthday! I can't believe it's been 19 years already. Time's fun when you're having flies. -Kermit the Frog
zorch responded:
They're the cousins of Michael (Mickey) Mouse, the next president of the United States.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Happy belated.....Mortimer "Morty" and Ferdinand "Ferdie" Fieldmouse are Mickey Mouse's twin nephews.
Kenn B said:
Mickey Mouse
Billy in Cypress U$A wrote:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BartCop Entertainment !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (19 inverted candles)
Mortimer "Morty" and Ferdinand "Ferdie" Fieldmouse are Mickey Mouse's twin nephews.
Dave in Tucson answered:
Don't know today's answer but not going to let that keep me from with wishing Bartcop Entertainment a Happy 19th Birthday!
John I from Hawai`i says,
Congratulations Marty, your blog makes my day!
Jacqueline replied:
Mickey Mouse
DJ Useo responded:
It seems to me that they're Mickey Mouses' blood (er, ink?) relatives. Yep, a quick check confirms it.
@Marty - Big congratulations on your sites' anniversary. It's always top of my reading.
Rosemary in Columbus wrote:
Mickey Mouse
David of Moon Valley said:
…the Mickster…aka Mickey the Mouse…
Happy Birthday to the Page!
Great going Marty!
Thank You!!!!!
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame answered:
The answer is Mickey Mouse.
Congratulations on the 19th anniversary of the web site!
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) replied:
M-I-C, K-E-Y Mouse. Trust me, I'm a history major.
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Scheduled on a FRESHConan is Jesse Eisenberg.
Ryan Reynolds is used to playing a superhero on the big screen, but the Canadian actor is willing to help out close to home too.
On Saturday, Reynolds, 43, took to Twitter to offer up a $5,000 reward to whoever locates a missing teddy bear in his hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia. But it turns out the the stuffed animal is far more than just your average lost toy.
"Vancouver: $5,000 to anyone who returns this bear to Mara. Zero questions asked. I think we all need this bear to come home," Reynolds wrote, retweeting the original post from a reporter in the city.
The story behind the stuffed bear was revealed in a CBC article, and has proved to be truly heartbreaking. It turns out Mara is actually 28-year-old Mara Soriano, who said her mother's voice was recorded and put into the custom Build-A-Bear shortly after she went into hospice.
When the Voyager spacecrafts launched in 1977, ready to study the outer limits of our solar system, they brought with them two golden phonograph records that each contained an assemblage of sounds and images meant to represent life on Earth. But in the future, the perfect next-gen space capsule could be found within our bodies.
That's because DNA is millions of times more efficient at storing data than your laptop's magnetic hard drive. Since DNA can store data far more densely than silicon, you could squeeze all of the data in the world inside just a few grams of it.
"Because DNA has been chosen by all of life as the information storage medium of choice...it turns out to be very robust," Ilya Finkelstein, an associate professor of molecular biosciences at the University of Texas at Austin, tells Popular Mechanics. "Long after our magnetic storage becomes obsolete, nature will still be using DNA."
In a new paper published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Finkelstein and company detail their new error correction method, which they tested out on a classic film. They were able to store the entirety of The Wizard of Oz, translated into Esperanto, with more accuracy than prior DNA storage methods ever could have. We're on the yellow brick road toward the future of data storage.
Elton John's ex-wife, Renate Blauel, is seeking an estimated £3M ($3.8M) in damages over claims the singer broke the terms of their divorce agreement.
Blauel, who was married to the star for four years in the 1980s, is suing over sections of John's 2019 memoir Me, and hit movie biopic Rocketman.
Blauel claims these revealed details of the marriage, breaking an agreement they made when they divorced in 1988, and that her mental health was impacted by the disclosures.
The legal dispute first emerged last month, when Blauel filed for an injunction at London's High Court. Further details have emerged after John's team filed a response this week.
Blauel's lawyer, Yisrael Hiller, told the BBC that Elton John had "ignored" his promise to keep the details of their marriage private.
Stranded on a tiny Italian island, a cancer researcher grew increasingly alarmed to hear that one, and then three more visitors had fallen ill with COVID-19.
Paola Muti braced for a rapid spread of the coronavirus to the 800 closely-knit islanders, many of whom she knows well. Her mother was born on Giglio Island and she often stays at the family home with its charming view of the sea through the parlor's windows.
But days passed and none of Giglio's islanders developed any COVID-19 symptoms even though the conditions seemed favorable for the disease to spread like wildfire.
Dr. Armando Schiaffino, the island's sole physician for around 40 years, shared Muti's worry that there would be a local outbreak.
"Every time an ordinary childhood illness, like scarlet fever, measles or chicken pox strikes, within a very few days practically all get" infected on Giglio, he said in an interview in his office near the port.
The Arkansas Republican senator Tom Cotton (R-Tool) has called the enslavement of millions of African people "the necessary evil upon which the union was built".
Cotton, widely seen as a possible presidential candidate in 2024, made the comment in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette published on Sunday.
He was speaking in support of legislation he introduced on Thursday that aims to prohibit use of federal funds to teach the 1619 Project, an initiative from the New York Times that reframes US history around August 1619 and the arrival of slave ships on American shores for the first time.
He added: "We have to study the history of slavery and its role and impact on the development of our country because otherwise we can't understand our country. As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as [Abraham] Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction."
Donald Trump (R-Nero) famously fell out with the Bush family and has regularly claimed to be the greatest Republican president since the first, Abraham Lincoln. He has largely avoided attacking another claimant to that title, Ronald Reagan (R-Mommy). Until now.
On Sunday, after the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation asked Trump and the Republican party to stop fundraising off the 40th president's name, the 45th fired a characteristic volley in return.
"So the Washington Post is running the Reagan Foundation," Trump tweeted on Sunday afternoon, linking Reagan to a mortal media enemy, shortly after sallying out of his New Jersey golf club to throw red campaign hats to a group of supporters.
Like most Republican politicians, he has sought to tie himself to Reagan. In July 2019, for example, Trump shared a tweet which contained a fake Reagan quote pasted over the same picture used in the fundraising email.
"For the life of me," the fake quote read, "and I'll never know how to explain it, when I met that young man, I felt like I was the one shaking hands with the president."
A surge in coronavirus cases in rural Texas has forced one hospital to set up "death panels" to decide which patients it can save and which ones will be sent home to die.
Doctors at Starr County Memorial hospital, the only hospital in Starr county, have been issued with critical care guidelines to decide which Covid-19 patients it will treat and which ones will be sent home because they are likely to die. The committee is being formed to alleviate the hospital's limited medical resources so doctors can focus on patients with higher survival rates.
The guidelines have been referred to as "death panels" by critics of the Trump administration. The phrase was first popularized by Republican critics of Barack Obama's healthcare reforms when they falsely claimed "death panels" would be used to decide who received critical treatment.
Starr county is not the first place to be forced to draw up guidelines for which Covid-19 patients it will treat. Critical care standards were first enacted in the US in Arizona on 3 July in response to requests from health service providers around the state. In early July, Arizona became a global coronavirus hot spot, though rates of positive cases have decreased since then.
A couple in Minnesota wore red face masks emblazoned with swastikas to a Walmart in a video posted on social media.
Police were called Saturday to the Walmart in Marshall, in the southwest part of the state, on a report that two shoppers were wearing the mask with the symbol used by the Nazi Party. Another shopper, Raphaela Mueller, who is a vicar of a southwest Minnesota parish, posted video on Facebook of the man and woman being confronted by others in the store, the Star Tribune reported.
"If you vote for (Democratic presidential candidate Joe) Biden, you're going to be living in Nazi Germany, that's what it's going to be like," the woman with the swastika mask said in the video as her husband loaded bags of groceries into a shopping cart.
Mueller said when she first saw the couple, she felt "nauseated and I wanted to cry, which I ended up doing."
"I was speechless and shocked. I have heard of (things like this) happening in other places but I never thought I would see something like that," she told The Associated Press on Sunday.
The old adage says that consumers will vote with their wallets, but David Lesperance has a different analogy: voting with their feet.
Lesperance, a double-decade American expatriate who's made his career out of helping wealthy people around the world move their citizenships and acquire secondary passports for any multitude of reasons, says business is booming this year. And with one of the most closely watched elections in history unfolding in the upcoming months, he says the ultra-wealthy are worried about more than just a global pandemic.
Wealthy people sitting in developed countries where anti-billionaire rhetoric is ratcheting up are in "wildfire zones," according to Lesperance.
"What do you do when you're in a wildfire zone?," he said. "Well you engage in fire-prevention techniques. For an American, you may do things like harvest capital gains so I'm paying 23.5% as opposed to 48% or higher in the future. 'I'm going to get fire insurance; I'm going to get alternate residences and citizenships; and I'm going to have a fire escape plan in case of whatever it is.'"
That's where careful planning comes in, because not all markets are created equal. While countries like Saint Kitts and Nevis will sell a family of four passports for as low as $100,000 in a bid to raise revenue in the tourism-dependent nation, it might not get you far.
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