• When Russian heiress Ida Rubinstein wished to dance nude in the role of Salome in 1908, her brother-in-law, a physician, was so upset that he committed her to a mental institution. It didn’t work. After she got out of the mental institution, she appeared nude in many roles, including that of Cleopatra.
• As Rudolf Nureyev was dancing in Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty at the Metropolitan Opera, a naked man streaked across the stage. Mr. Nureyev — a homosexual — was delighted.
Old Age
• In his old age, dancer Léonide Massine went to San Francisco to recreate his choreography of Le Beau Danube. During his stay at the Valley View Lodge, videotapes of him giving lessons to several dancers were shown, causing some elderly residents to ask, “Did you ever dance, Mr. Massine?” He smiled at the question, replied, “A little,” then taught the elderly residents a few exercises to lessen their pain from arthritis. Shortly thereafter, the elderly residents came to Mr. Massine and thanked him for his help, saying such things as, “I can move now. Thank you so much for your help — it is better than medicine.”
• Modern dance pioneer José Limón once lived temporarily at the Ruxton Hotel on West 77th Street in New York City — a hotel where many retirees lived. As a dancer/choreographer, Mr. Limón was surrounded each day at work by bodies that were nearly perfect, and he was shocked by the bodies of the retirees. Sometimes, he wondered what they had done with their lives to have ended up with such grotesque bodies.
Photographs
• Many dance photographs of Anna Pavlova exist, but people often don’t realize how much work went into taking them. The art of photography was in its infancy, and to get an adequate exposure, Ms. Pavlova sometimes had to hold a pose for 20 seconds. To get a photograph of Ms. Pavlova jumping, the photographer was forced to string her up on clotheslines.
• Gordon Anthony’s book A Camera at the Ballet: Pioneer Dancers of the Royal Ballet did much to give credit to these dance pioneers. Such credit was sorely needed, as a young Royal Ballet School dancer saw a photograph of one of her teachers (a dance pioneer) and exclaimed, “Goodness, were you once a dancer!”
Practical Jokes
• Karen Kain once played a practical joke during a dress rehearsal for Sleeping Beauty. Of course, she was dancing the role of the princess Aurelia, but she dressed herself in horn-rimmed glasses, the witch Carabosse’s fright wig, and bright blue leg warmers for the scene when her dance partner, Frank Augustyn, awakens her with a kiss. The joke amused everyone — except for management, who reprimanded her the following day for not setting a good example for the younger dancers.
• In 1966, while acting in George Bernard Shaw’s You Never Can Tell, Sir Ralph Richardson fooled the younger members of the cast by telling them anecdotes about dancing with Fred Astaire. They believed him until he went too far and told them he had also danced with Nijinsky.
Prejudice
• Sir Rudolf Bing was the major force behind the integration of the Metropolitan Opera. For example, after being hired as general manager in 1950, he immediately hired the first African-American ballet dancer to dance at the Met — Janet Collins, who danced in the triumphal scene in Aida. How did he get around the board of the Metropolitan Opera, which might have opposed the hiring of Ms. Collins? Simple. Sir Rudolf says, “I told the board about it after the contract was signed.” Sir Rudolf also was responsible for signing the first African American who sang opera at the Met: Marian Anderson, who sang the part of Ulrica in Un Ballo in Maschera.
Menno Simons (1496 – 31 January 1561), a contemporary of the Protestant Reformers, was a Roman Catholic priest until 1546, when he rejected the priesthood and became an influential religious leader in another faith. By what name are his followers known?
A "Furcula" is found in most birds and some species of dinosaurs. In the early 17th century it was called a "Merrythought". By what name is the Furcula (or Merrythought) more commonly known today?
The furcula ("little fork" in Latin) or wishbone is a forked bone found in birds and some other species of dinosaurs, and is formed by the fusion of the two clavicles. In birds, its primary function is in the strengthening of the thoracic skeleton to withstand the rigors of flight.
Several groups of theropod dinosaurs have also been found with furculae, including dromaeosaurids, oviraptorids, tyrannosaurids, troodontids, coelophysids[6] and allosauroids.
Superstitions surrounding divination by means of a goose's wishbone go back to at least the Late Medieval Period. Johannes Hartlieb in 1455 recorded the divination of weather by means of a goose's wishbone, "When the goose has been eaten on St. Martin's Day or Night, the oldest and most sagacious keeps the breast-bone and allowing it to dry until the morning examines it all around, in front, behind and in the middle. Thereby they divine whether the winter will be severe or mild, dry or wet, and are so confident in their prediction that they will wager their goods and chattels on its accuracy.", and of a military officer: "This valiant man, this Christian Captain drew forth out of his doublet that heretical object of superstition, the goose-bone, and showed me that after Candlemas an exceeding severe frost should occur, and could not fail." The Captain also said, "Teutonic knights in Prussia waged all their wars by the goose-bone; and as the goose-bone predicted so did they order their two campaigns, one in summer and one in winter."
The custom of two persons pulling on the bone with the one receiving the larger part making a wish developed in the early 17th century. At that time, the name of the bone was a merrythought. The name wishbone in reference to this custom is recorded from 1860.
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The wishbone
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
A furcula is the fancy name for the wishbone. Haven’t cured or pulled one of those in years.
Woke up to a pretty frisky downfall, with skies clearing to the west. Almost as soon as the squall moved east, the fog moved in. Typical NorCal winter, finally.
Cloris Leachman and now Cicely Tyson. I just heard her interviewed last weekend on NPR. And just like that…gone. RIP, tremendously-talented ladies.
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A wishbone.
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Wishbone
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Just as I thought, the "wishbone." I looked it up to make sure, but I was right. I'm tired.
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CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS: The 3rd One', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night on the East Coast with a RERUN'Ellen's Mean Game Of Games', followed by 'Dateline', then an old 'SNL'.
NBC opens the night early on the left coast with a RERUN'Ellen's Mean Game Of Games', followed by a LIVE'SNL', with John Krasinski hosting, music by Machine Gun Kelly, then an old 'SNL'.
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ABC fills the night with LIVE'NBA Basketball', then pads the left coast with local crap.
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MY recycles an old 'Weather Gone Viral', followed by an old 'Storm Of Suspicion'.
A&E has the movie 'A Good Day To Die Hard', followed by the movie 'The Magnificent Seven'.
AMC offers the movie 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?', followed by the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption'.
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Bravo has the movie 'Fifty Shades Of Grey', followed by the movie 'Fifty Shades Of Grey', again.
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Former "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart officially joined Twitter on Thursday and had some thoughts about Reddit-inspired traders who helped spur the meteoric rise in the share price of GameStop this week.
"This is bullsh*t," Stewart said in his first ever tweet. "The Redditors aren't cheating, they're joining a party Wall Street insiders have been enjoying for years. Don't shut them down...maybe sue them for copyright infringement instead!!"
"We've learned nothing from 2008," he added, referring to the 2008 financial crisis.
Stewart's comments appeared to be directed at online brokerage Robinhood and other major trading platforms that temporarily banned trading on GameStop and other popular stocks that saw huge surges this week. While Robinhood eventually reversed its decision on GameStop, it still drew criticism from Republican and Democratic lawmakers, who plan to have hearings on the subject.
The financial drama drew Stewart to Twitter. Less than a day after his first tweet, Stewart had gained more than 700,000 followers on the platform.
The Texas Alerts system sent out a strange message Friday morning – an Amber Alert for filmdom’s knife-wielding maniac Chucky the doll and his child.
The Amber Alert, typically used in the search for missing or abducted children, listed Chucky from the film Child’s Play as a suspect. The alert described him as a 28-year-old with red, auburn hair, blue eyes, stands at 3’1", and weighs 16 pounds. He was wearing blue denim overalls with a multi-colored striped long sleeve shirt and wielding a kitchen knife prior to his “disappearance.”
The alert also listed Glen, the son of Chucky who was introduced in the film Seed of Chucky, as an abducted child. He was described as five years old, weighing 6 pounds, standing at 2’3", and also with red, auburn hair and blue eyes. Glen was described as wearing a blue shirt and black collar prior to his “disappearance.”
Subscribers of the Texas Alert System received the email alert three times on Friday. The agency told television station KENS 5 that the alert “is a result of a test malfunction. We apologize for the confusion this may have caused and are diligently working to ensure this does not happen again.”
For the second year running, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and the Stagecoach Country Music Festival were canceled, according to a release posted by their promoter, Goldenvoice. The festival promoter posted an order from the health officer of Riverside County citing the “worldwide epidemic of Covid-19 disease.” The order referenced the worldwide appeal of the festivals and influx of “hundreds of thousands of attendees from other countries.”
In 2020, the spring events were postponed to October as Covid-19 became a global health crisis. Both events, held annually at the 78-acre Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA, were eventually canceled entirely for 2020. Interestingly, some of Friday’s press release announcing the 2021 cancelation seems to be copied and pasted directly from the 2020 document.
At the time the 2020 dates were nixed, Goldenvoice announced this year’s dates, saying all tickets from the previous year would be honored. Reading the new order closely, it cancels “Coachella and Stagecoach on dates currently scheduled,” but says nothing about the shows being canceled for all of 2021, or rescheduled to 2022. In fact, the tweet from Riverside County’s Public Health director says, “We look forward to when the events may return.” Last year’s announcement was more certain.
“Coachella weekend one will take place April 9-11, 2021 and weekend two will be April 16 – 18, 2021,” the 2020 release read. “Stagecoach is set for April 23-25, 2021. We look forward to sharing our new lineups and more information. We can’t wait to be together in the desert again when it is safe.”
Rock icon Rod Stewart and his son have reached a plea deal to settle misdemeanor battery charges stemming from an altercation with a security guard at a posh Florida hotel.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys announced Friday that Stewart and his son, Sean Stewart, would not be going to trial for the altercation at The Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach on New Year’s Day 2020, the South Florida SunSentinel r eported. Terms were not released.
Security guard Jessie Dixon told police then that the now 76-year-old Stewart and his family were at the check-in table for a private party that they weren’t authorized to attend.
Palm Beach officer Stephen Mancino said he viewed security footage at the hotel and determined that the Stewarts were the “primary aggressors.”
Two Breakers employees who were working the private event told police they saw Sean Stewart push Dixon and Rod Stewart punch the guard.
A former KGB spy is claiming the agency spent four decades grooming President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) to be a Russian asset.
Speaking with The Guardian, Yuri Shvets — a former KGB major who was stationed in Washington during the 1980s — says that the Russians began targeting the man who would become the 45th president in 1977 when he married his first wife Ivana Trump, who was a native of Czechoslovakia. Ten years later, Shvets claims, Trump made his first visit to Russia — where he was fed KGB talking points. Shvets asserts that Trump was flattered by the Russians’ suggestion that he enter politics.
“For the KGB, it was a charm offensive,” Shvets told The Guardian. “They had collected a lot of information on his personality so they knew who he was personally. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery.
“This is what they exploited. They played the game as if they were immensely impressed by his personality and believed this is the guy who should be the president of the United States one day: it is people like him who could change the world. They fed him these so-called active measures soundbites and it happened.”
Shvets went on to call the Mueller Report “disappointing” because it only investigated potential criminal wrongdoing. He lamented to The Guardian that the report included “No counterintelligence aspects of the relationship between Trump and Moscow.”
GOP campaigners have called on senators Ted Cruz (R-Sedition) and Josh Hawley (R-Sedition) to resign through billboards that condemn them for supporting claims the 2020 election was “stolen”.
The billboard campaign, which launched on Thursday, targets 10 other Republicans who also rejected Joe Biden’s presidential election win when Congress voted on 6 January – hours after they came under attack by Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)’s supporters with claims the election was “rigged”.
About $1 million (£729,000) has been spent on the billboard campaign, Politico reported, which has been set-up by the Republican Accountability Project (RAP), a group of former GOP officials who formed together in the days after the Capitol riot.
RAP has already committed to spend $50 million (£36 million) supporting GOP members of Congress who voted to impeach Mr Trump on 13 January, as well as senators who vote to convict him for “incitement of insurrection”.
Other Republicans targeted by the campaign include the House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, who met with Mr Trump in recent days, as well as a number of House Republicans who voted against the election results and Mr Trump’s impeachment.
In the latest sign of rising tensions within the U.S. Congress, a Democratic congresswoman said on Friday she plans to relocate her Capitol Hill office for safety reasons after being "berated" by an outspoken conservative Republican congresswoman.
Democrat Cori Bush, an ordained pastor from Missouri, described confrontations with Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Rhymes With Bunt) of Georgia, whose office is located near Bush's in one of the three large House of Representatives office buildings. Both are first-term House members who took office this month.
The incidents are further evidence of discord among lawmakers after a Jan. 6 riot in which supporters of Republican former President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up) stormed the Capitol attempted a coup, interrupting the formal certification of President Joe Biden's election victory and leading to the deaths of five people.
Bush wrote on Twitter that she is moving her office after Greene (R-Rhymes With Punt) "berated me in a hallway" and "came up from behind me, loud and unmasked." Public health experts have recommended masks to help curb the spread of COVID-19.
Greene (R-Rhymes With Runt) accused Bush of "lying" about the matter and on Twitter called Bush, who is Black, "the leader of the St. Louis Black Lives Matter terrorist mob." Greene (R-Rhymes With Hunt) is White.
The Dyatlov Pass incident is the mother of all cold cases: nine people found dead in 1959, deep in the Ural mountains, under circumstances no one has ever been able to satisfactorily explain. But new research uses simulation techniques from multiple eras to advance what is perhaps the least implausible story of this tragic mystery.
The paper, published yesterday in Nature Communications Earth and Environment, was accompanied by a highly readable summary in National Geographic, which is very much worth your time. (Even if the headline is the dreaded "Has science solved...?")
Essentially the mystery is this: The eight students and their ski instructor had pitched their tent on a slope that seemed safe — if not perfectly so then comparatively considering the surroundings at Kholat Syakhl, or "Dead Mountain" — but were later found spread out around the area in various stages of disrobing and destruction. The carnage seemed beyond what an avalanche would produce, and anyway there seemed to be no evidence or likelihood of one in the first place.
Enter Alexander Puzrin and Johan Gaume, from Switzerland's ETH Zürich and EPFL, respectively, two highly prestigious and advanced technical institutes. Curious about the incident for their own reasons, they began looking into how to work out once and for all what happened. An interesting personal detail:
Gaume visited the creators of the movie "Frozen," which featured highly realistic snow simulation. He met with Disney's snow simulation specialist and got permission to use and modify the code — but in this case, to see what an avalanche striking sleeping students would do to them. Their simulations showed that it wouldn't take much — a block of icy snow the size of a large car — to cause the devastation witnessed by the rescue party.
The edge of a mysterious block of limestone began to peak out from the dirt after Cesar Cabrera cleared a stretch of his family farm in Mexico where he wanted to plant watermelon.
Several weeks later, he and five other men carefully hoisted it out of the ground, and found themselves face to face with a life-size statue that had likely been buried for centuries. The accidental archaeologists had made the country's first big find of the year.
The farmers carefully lifted the statue into a truck and took it to Cabrera's house. Some internet sleuthing in the days that followed persuaded Cabrera that the statue, carved with elaborate ornaments and a flowing feather headdress, resembled the Huastec goddess of lust.
Experts think it's more likely the more than 500-year-old sculpture represents an elite woman, possibly a queen, from the Huastec culture, one of Mexico's lesser-known ancient societies due in large part to a paucity of research plus wide-scale looting over a century ago of its uniquely naturalistic art.
By the time Spanish conqueror Hernan Cortes arrived on the Veracruz coast in 1519, they had for decades been absorbed into the Aztec empire, derided as drunks and overly sexual by the more proper imperial elites but valued as a crucial link to Gulf coast riches like cacao and especially fine cotton cloth.
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