• American artist Keith Haring sold paintings and drawings for thousands of dollars, but he also used to create art for free in such locations as the New York City subways in order to attract a wide audience. Since Mr. Haring didn't want to be a vandal, he created his art on the black paper used to cover unused billboards. Nevertheless, creating art on the black paper was illegal and on a few occasions he was arrested by police officers who fingerprinted him, then asked for his autograph.
• Oscar Wilde had a low regard for Americans' knowledge of art. He told a story about a former Rocky Mountain miner ordering a plaster reproduction of the Venus de Milo and being shocked that when it arrived, it had no arms. He sued the company that had sold it to him - and an American court awarded him damages.
• When Valerie Solanis shot Andy Warhol, he collapsed onto the floor, bleeding profusely. Factory regular Billy Name got to him first, and Mr. Warhol told him, "Don't … don't … don't make me laugh. It hurts too much."
• Pablo Picasso once arrived home to find that he was the victim of a burglary. However, none of his paintings were stolen, only some table linen and his bed.
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• After art critics panned the work of Sarah Bixby Smith, the wife of author Paul Jordan Smith, he was angry, and he decided to paint a work of art in a style that he thought the critics would like. Therefore, he created a crude painting of a woman holding a banana, and he showed it to his wife. They had a good laugh, then forgot about the painting until one of their sons brought home as his guest the art critic of the local newspaper. The art critic loved the painting and asked for information about the artist. Being a creative person, Mr. Smith made up on the spot a name - Pavel Jerdanowitch, a foreign-sounding version of his first two names - and a school of art that he called Disumbrationism. Amazed by the reaction of the local art critic, Mr. Smith then entered the painting in a major art exhibit in 1925. A Paris art magazine published a long article about the painting, and its editor wrote Mr. Jerdanowitch for information about his life. Mr. Smith happily responded to the letter with made-up information. The following year, Mr. Smith created another painting - portraying a large woman washing clothes - and exhibited it in Chicago. This time, Art World magazine published a story about the exhibition and printed a photograph of the painting in its article. Mr. Smith kept the hoax going for a while longer before revealing it. Even that didn't stop interest in Mr. Jerdanowitch. In 1927, the Vose Galleries of Boston exhibited four "Jerdanowitch" paintings so that the public could see what had fooled the experts.
• Nineteenth-century cartoonist Bernhard Gillam's first attempt at oil painting was a dismal failure. When he was eighteen years old, he painted a battle between the Aztec Native Americans and the Spanish explorers. The painting was filled with dead and dying soldiers, but when exhibited at the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Arts as number 93, it did not produce the seriously dramatic effect Mr. Gillam wanted. A reviewer in the Brooklyn Eaglewrote, "The sensation of the hour is number 93. There was never anything funnier than the dying men in 93, unless it is the men who are already dead. Don't fail to see it; it's the greatest show on earth!" Mr. Gillam used to stand near his painting, listening to people laugh at what he had meant to be a deadly serious painting.
The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, is a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to a shrine. How many stories are told in The Canterbury Tales?
Sirius (designated a Canis Majoris (Latinized to Alpha Canis Majoris, abbreviated Alpha CMa, a CMa)) is the brightest star in the night sky. Its name is derived from the Greek word Seirios "glowing" or "scorching". With a visual apparent magnitude of -1.46, Sirius is almost twice as bright as Canopus, the next brightest star. Sirius is a binary star consisting of a main-sequence star of spectral type A0 or A1, termed Sirius A, and a faint white dwarf companion of spectral type DA2, termed Sirius B. The distance between the two varies between 8.2 and 31.5 astronomical units as they orbit every 50 years.
Sirius is known colloquially as the "Dog Star", reflecting its prominence in its constellation, Canis Major (the Greater Dog). The heliacal rising of Sirius marked the flooding of the Nile in Ancient Egypt and the "dog days" of summer for the ancient Greeks, while to the Polynesians, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, the star marked winter and was an important reference for their navigation around the Pacific Ocean.
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
you cannot be SIRIUS
Dave wrote:
Sirius.
Alan J answered:
Sirius A.
Mac Mac said:
Sirius A
zorch responded:
Sirius.
Jacqueline replied:
Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. Venus is the brightest star in our solar system, just thought I'd throw that in.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Sirius A, the Dog Star. I would have thought it to be The Beautiful Shining Maiden or some such, but no.
DJ Useo said:
As a former telescope owner, I say the answer is "the dog star". Woof!
Daniel in The City answered:
Sirius
Deborah, the Master Gardener, responded:
I had to look this up: Procyon. I thought it was Alpha Centauri but I guess not.
The warrior dog had her drain removed today, but the stitches stay until next week. We got a couple little tank tops at a baby-stuff consignment to protect the drain site, so she doesn't have to wear her cone. After that we took her to the local Italian deli for lunch, the proprietors were amazed at her story, and the Nonno (grandfather) proclaimed: "In bucco al lupo!" Literally, in the mouth of the wolf. My feelings won't be hurt if we have less drama in the coming days.
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) replied:
That would be the Dog Star.
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Idiots say one way to open schools is to have classes outside? So the children can have heat stroke this August? And what about the ice on their fingers and snow on their notebooks December through February? They talk about children falling behind if they can't be in classrooms or missing out on socializing experiences. Hard to fall farther behind than being dead. Lasting physical and mental debilitation is tough on socialization too. Don't try another failed experiment at saving Predator's economy by killing our children, their teachers, and the school staff!
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We are all only temporarily able bodied.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Magnum PU', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 3rd One', then '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline', followed by an old 'SNL'.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, (from 02/29/20) with John Mulaney hosting, music by David Byrne.
ABC starts the night with the FRESH'NBA Countdown', followed by a RERUN The Good Doctor'.
The CW offers some local crap and some old '2½ Men'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'MLB Baseball', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY recycles an old 'Major Crimes', followed by another old 'Major Crimes'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Fugitive', followed by the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - The Hardest Challenge
[7:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Arctic
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Jungles
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Oceans
[10:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Plains
[11:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Coasts
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - The Hardest Challenge
[1:00PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Arctic
[2:00PM] PLANET EARTH II - Cities
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH II - Islands
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH II - Mountains
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH II - Jungles
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH II - Deserts
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH II - Grasslands
[8:00PM] WILD INDIA
[9:15PM] PLANET EARTH II - Islands
[10:15PM] PLANET EARTH II - Mountains
[11:15PM] PLANET EARTH II - Jungles
[12:15AM] PLANET EARTH II - Deserts
[1:15AM] PLANET EARTH II - Grasslands
[2:15AM] WILD INDIA
[3:30AM] PLANET EARTH II - Cities
[4:30AM] PLANET EARTH II - The Making of Planet Earth II
[5:30AM] HIDDEN HABITATS - Canada's Coastal Forests (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has the movie 'The Holiday', followed by the movie 'Legally Blonde', followed by the movie 'Legally Blonde', again.
Comedy Central has the movie '50 First Dates', followed by the movie 'Grown Ups 2'.
FX has the movie 'Sicario: Day Of The Soldado', followed by the movie 'xXx: Return Of Xander Cage'.
History has 'The UnXplained', another 'The UnXplained', followed by a FRESH'The UnXplained', then a FRESH'Unidentified: Inside America's UFO Investigation'.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Godfather
[10:00A] The Godfather, Part II
[2:30P] A Few Good Men
[5:45P] Lethal Weapon 2
[8:15P] The Godfather
[12:15A] The Godfather, Part II
[4:45A] The Three Stooges - Idiots Deluxe
[5:10A] The Three Stooges - Idle Roomers
[5:35A] The Three Stooges - Loco Boy Makes Good (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] where eagles dare
[9:30am] rambo iii
[12:00pm] gladiator
[3:30pm] the hunt for red october
[6:30pm] gladiator
[10:00pm] the hunt for red october
[1:00am] clear and present danger
[4:00am] joe kidd (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'The Bourne Ultimatum', followed by the movie 'Doctor Strange'.
Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia will be honored in a nine-day livestream event hosted by the Rex Foundation and the Jerry Garcia Family.
The event, christened Daze Between, will feature exclusive live music performances and storytelling, and will take place August 1st through 9th this year to mark the 25th anniversary of Garcia's death. Proceeds will benefit the Rex Foundation, Grateful Dead's nonprofit organization created in 1984.
In addition to Grateful Dead themselves, Daze Between will feature performances by Dead and Company, Bob Weir and the Campfire Band, the Jerry Garcia 75th Birthday Band and the Jerry Garcia 75th Birthday Acoustic Band, along with dozens of other acts including Amos Lee, Hiss Golden Messenger, Graham Nash and more.
Daze Between will also include a screening of Move Me Brightly, the 2012 concert film put on by Bob Weir to celebrate what would have been Garcia's 70th birthday. This year, Garcia's birthday celebration will be held within the livestream on August 1st with the day-long event Rock My Soul.
Beyond the livestream, Daze Between will host an online auction for memorabilia such as a guitar signed by Bob Weir, copies of Jay Blakesberg's books of photography and a complete set of Jerry Garcia-inspired posters by Chuck Sperry.
The Connecticut Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a sanction against Infowars host Alex Jones over an angry outburst on his web show against an attorney for relatives of some of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, who are suing him for defamation.
The court issued a 7-0 decision rejecting Jones' claims that his comments aimed at attorney Christopher Mattei were protected by free speech rights, and upholding a lower court's ruling that Jones violated numerous orders to turn over documents to the families' lawyers.
The lower court judge barred Jones from filing a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, as a penalty for his actions.
The families of eight victims of the 2012 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, and an FBI agent who responded to the massacre are suing Jones, Infowars and others for promoting a theory that the shooting was a hoax. A 20-year-old gunman killed 20 first-graders, six educators and himself at the school, after having killed his mother at their Newtown home.
The families have been subjected to harassment and death threats from Jones' followers because of the hoax conspiracy.
When a deadly typhus outbreak struck Poland's Warsaw ghetto during WWII, Jewish doctors helped stop the disease in its tracks, saving thousands.
More than 400,000 Jewish people were crammed into the 1.3-square-mile (3.4 square kilometers) ghetto in the Nazi-occupied country, and severe overcrowding, exposure to the elements and starvation created a perfect incubator for epidemics. When typhus broke out in 1941, it should have devastated the ghetto's vulnerable population.
But the disease began to sharply decline far sooner than expected, a new study finds. Swift containment efforts by the ghetto's Jewish community succeeded in ending it sooner than if it had naturally run its course, sparing more than 100,000 people from infection and likely preventing tens of thousands of deaths.
Typhus is caused by the bacteria Rickettsia prowazekii, and is transmitted rapidly by infected fleas or body lice that travel from person to person, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The disease causes high fever, chills, coughing and severe muscle pain, and it is fatal in about 40% of cases if untreated, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. "Explosive epidemics" of typhus are especially likely to surface when people live in overcrowded conditions with poor hygiene, according to WHO.
Such was certainly the case in the Warsaw ghetto. All Jewish residents in Warsaw and several thousand from Germany were forcibly relocated to the ghetto by November of 1940; authorities then sealed the ghetto off from the rest of the city, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). In addition to the overcrowding, soap and water were scarce, and food rations were "not sufficient to sustain life" - an estimated 83,000 Jewish people died of starvation and disease between 1940 and 1942, the USHMM says. (The ghetto was ultimately "liquidated" by the Nazis in 1943, and the Jews who were not murdered there were sent to concentration camps.)
A Pentagon UFO unit will make some investigations public as ex-advisors suggest that "vehicles not made on this earth" were placed in US government storage.
The team will update the US Senate's Intelligence Committee on its unidentified flying object (UFO) research every six months, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
Publicly named in 2019 as the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, the Pentagon unit succeeded an investigative UFO program that was said to have been disbanded prior to 2017.
One former official, Eric Davis, told The Times that he briefed the US Department of Defense in March about the retrieval of "off-world vehicles not made on this earth".
The Pentagon consultant and subcontractor said objects he believed "we couldn't make…ourselves" were discovered during his time on the unit, where he has worked since 2007.
Journalists covering protests in the United States should be permitted to do their jobs without fear of attack or arrest, the United Nations human rights office said on Friday.
A mounting crackdown on reporters by authorities has been seen in recent weeks as the Trump administration has deployed federal agents to several cities where demonstrators are calling for racial justice.
And now, UN human rights spokesperson Liz Throssell has spoken out to protect the press.
"[The protests] must be able to continue without those participating in them and also the people reporting on them, the journalists, risking arbitrary arrest or detention, being subject to unnecessary disproportionate or discriminatory use of force or suffering other violations of their rights," she said at a news conference in Geneva.
Her comments come after weeks of US authorities attacking and arresting the journalists who are covering the historic racial protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd.
The Trump administration is going to proceed with the development of the largest gold and copper mine in the country, a mine the Obama administration did not develop after learning it could permanently harm the region's sockeye salmon population.
Pebble Mine, which would provide access to gold, copper and other minerals worth up to $500bn, would be built in Alaska over the Bristol Bay watershed, which is also the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery.
The Washington Post obtained the US Army Corps of Engineers' final environmental analysis on the mine. The report suggested that the mine "would not be expected to have a measurable effect on fish numbers" in the region.
The mine could receive a green light from the federal government as early as the end of this year, but local activists and national environmental groups have been working to stop its construction through protests and legal battles.
Building the mine would destroy nearly 2,300 acres of wetlands and 105 miles of streams, according to the US Army Corps of Engineers' report.
A new DNA study published Thursday sheds fresh light on the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade, from the legacy of rape that can be seen in today's genetics to how disease likely decimated some groups forced to work in deadly conditions.
For example, DNA from one African region may be under-represented in the US because so many slaves from there died of malaria on American plantations.
The grim results from a paper, which appeared in the American Journal of Human Genetics, compiled genetic data from 50,000 consenting research participants from both sides of the Atlantic.
It cross-referenced these with detailed records from slave ships that transported 12.5 million men, women and children between 1515 and 1865. Some two million died on the journey.
The researchers found that while the genetic contributions from major African populations largely correspond to what they expected based on historic records, there are major exceptions.
Some Vikings may have died from now-extinct strains of one of humankind's deadliest pathogens: smallpox.
Researchers collected DNA from viruses in the remains of northern Europeans living during the Viking Age, some of whom were likely Vikings themselves, and found that they were infected with extinct but related versions of the variola virus that causes smallpox, the team reports in the July 24 Science. The new finding pushes back the proven record of smallpox infecting people by almost 1,000 years, to the year 603.
Researchers had previously discovered ancient traces of variola virus DNA in a mummy from the mid-1600s, which put the common origin of modern strains in the 16th or 17th century (SN: 12/8/16).
It is still uncertain when the virus that causes smallpox first began to infect people. The disease is estimated to have killed as many as 500 million people and is the only human pathogen to have been eradicated globally.
An Egyptian woman who was mummified with her mouth open in a silent scream may have died of a heart attack, new research finds.
A computed tomography (CT) scan of the mummy found widespread atherosclerosis, deposits of fatty plaques within the blood vessels. Egyptologists argue that the woman died alone of a massive heart attack and was not found for several hours, by which point rigor mortis set in. Her jaw, which may have fallen open in death, was then frozen open forever.
However, outside researchers are skeptical of this story. Mummification was a long process, and rigor mortis lasts only a few days, Andrew Wade, an anthropologist at McMaster University, told Gizmodo.
"It is far more likely that the wrappings around the jaw were simply not tight enough to hold the mouth closed, as it does tend to fall into an open position if left to its own devices," Wade said.
The mummy was discovered more than a century ago, in 1881. She had been interred at Deir el-Bahari, a tomb complex on the opposite side of the Nile from the city of Luxor. The name "Meritamun" was inscribed on her wrappings, but Egyptologists aren't sure who she was. There were several princesses in ancient Egypt named Meritamun, including the daughter of the 17th-dynasty ruler of Thebes, Seqenenre Taa II (also spelled Seqenenre Tao II), who ruled around 1558 B.C., and the daughter of the powerful Ramesses II (also known as Ramesses the Great), who became pharaoh in 1279 B.C.
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