• The great black dancer Bill Robinson, aka Mr. Bojangles, fought prejudice. One day, some members of Duke Ellington’s band ordered coffee and doughnuts but were refused service. They ran into Mr. Bojangles and told him what had happened. He told them to follow him, and they all went back to the restaurant. Mr. Bojangles sat down, pulled out his gold-plated gun with the pearl handles, laid the gun on the table, and ordered coffee and doughnuts for himself and his friends. This time, they were served.
• After turning age 13 in 1930, Wah Ming Chang took dancing lessons in a school in California. Unfortunately, soon he was told to leave and never come back. Later, he found out that some parents had complained after discovering that their daughters were dancing with a boy of Asian heritage. As an adult, Mr. Chang became a famous artist and award-winning creator of special effects for such television series as Star Trek and such movies as The Time Machine.
• In the Jim Crow days, black dance pioneer Katherine Dunham toured the South, where she often confronted race prejudice. In a segregated theater in Louisville, Kentucky, she was outraged because blacks were forced to sit in the balcony. After the performance, she stood on stage, looked at the white members of the audience, and stated, “This is the last time we shall play Louisville because the management refuses to let people like us sit by people like you.”
• During the Jim Crow days, Sir Rudolf Bing took the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Aida on tour to Washington, where he was informed that Janet Collins, the Met’s African-American ballerina, would not be welcome at a party at the Mayflower Club. Therefore, Sir Rudolf stayed away from that party and hosted his own, at which Ms. Collins was very welcome.
• In 1937, while traveling in the pre-civil rights south, Norma Miller and some other touring Lindy Hop dancers stopped at a White Castle hamburger joint to order food, only to be told, “We don’t serve Negroes here.” One of the dancers replied, “We don’t eat Negroes — just serve us a burger!”
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• Comedian Fanny Brice always had a talent for singing, but she soon realized that her weakness was dancing — a weakness for which George M. Cohan once fired her from the chorus line of one of his shows. Being ambitious, Fanny began to work on her weakness. Before leaving on tour with a show, the young Fanny went through her family’s home and gathered up all the female undergarments she could find, using the excuse that as the star of the show she had to make many costume changes and couldn’t possibly wear the same bloomers during an entire show. (Actually, she had only one song in the show.) On the road, she began to ask girls in the chorus to teach her dance steps in return for the undergarments. As soon as one girl got tired of teaching her, Fanny would offer some bloomers to another girl. In time, she learned to dance.
• Fern Helsher, an attractive woman, worked as a press agent for Ted Shawn at his dance retreat, a former farm called Jacob’s Pillow. One day, a road crew was putting tar topping on the road by Jacob’s Pillow, but they were stopping about 100 feet from the driveway leading to Jacob’s Pillow. Mr. Shawn mentioned to Ms. Helsher that he had asked the town officials to extend the tar topping another 100 feet but they were unwilling to do so. Ms. Helsher said, “Let me handle this.” She then dressed very provocatively, mixed a pitcher of martinis, and went down to the road crew. She stood at the point to which Mr. Shawn wanted the tar topping poured and told the members of the road crew, “If you build the road to this line, you can have everything you see just beyond it.” The road crew raced to build the road, and when they had finished, Ms. Helsher put down the pitcher of martinis and ran to safety.
Born George Kelly Barnes in 1895, this American gangster of the prohibition era spent 21 years in prison for kidnapping, bootlegging, and armed robbery. By what name is he more commonly known?
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?
Menno Simons (1496 – 31 January 1561) was a Roman Catholic priest from the Friesland region of the Low Countries who became an influential Anabaptist religious leader. Simons was a contemporary of the Protestant Reformers and it is from his name that his followers became known as Mennonites.
"Menno Simons" is the Dutch version of his name; the Frisian version is Minne Simens, the possessive "s" creating a patronym meaning "Minne, son of Simen" (cf. English family names like Williams and Rogers).
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Mennonites.
Billy in Cypress U.S.A. said:
Mennonites
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Mennonites. All 900,000 of 'em.
Alan J answered:
Mennonites.
Dave responded:
Mennonites. There is a Mennonite church (or meeting house) ½ mile from my house in Michigan, although I have never met anyone who said he was a Mennonite. I knew Mennonite sect was related somehow to the Amish, although the Mennonites drive automobiles.
Randall replied:
Mennonites
Mac Mac said:
Mennonite
David of Moon Valley wrote:
ah'm gonna take a guess here...
….and go with Mennonites….i could be wrong, haven’t sipped my caffeinated beverage of choice yet, so alla what’s left of cells in my brain are not all fully engaged….but that’s it, Marty, that’s my guess and i’m sticking with it…..
Jacqueline replied:
Mennonites. Holmes County in Ohio has a lot.
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
Those folks are Mennonites. I don’t believe that I know any IRL.
The storms moved eastward and by mid-afternoon the sidewalks were drying. Now for the yard clean-up — a couple dozen oranges fell off the tree and if they’re merely bruised, I’ll juice them, or make marmalade. This is the tree’s 21st year producing oranges; it’s a real champ.
Ed K answered:
Superstitious Morons.
Try H.E.R.B. - Had Enough Religious Bullshit
Joe S (We resisted, we voted, we won. Get over it) said:
Just a guess, but judging from the name, my guess is Mennonites. That's my story, and I'm stickin to it. I have a bunch of Mennonite relatives I've never met, so I guess that's something.
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Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night, as usual, with '60 Minutes', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The Expendable One', then a RERUN'NICS: The 3rd One', followed by a RERUN'NCIS'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Weakest Link', followed by a RERUN'The Wall', then a RERUN'Chicago Med', followed by 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?', then a FRESH'Card Sharks', followed by a RERUN'The Rookie'.
The CW offers a FRESH'Batwoman', followed by a FRESH'Charmed'.
Faux has a RERUN'Name That Tune', followed by a RERUN'The Simpsons', then a RERUN'The Great North', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a RERUN'Call Me Kat'.
MY recycles an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
A&E has the movie 'Jack Reacher: Never Go Back', followed by the movie 'Jack Reacher'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Shawshank Redemption', followed by the movie 'Forrest Gump'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[9:00AM] THE WATCH - NOT ON MY WATCH
[10:00AM] ZERO DARK THIRTY
[1:30PM] AIR FORCE ONE
[4:30PM] THE PATRIOT
[8:00PM] THE WATCH - THE DARK IN THE DARK
[9:01PM] AIR FORCE ONE
[12:00AM] ZERO DARK THIRTY
[3:30AM] THE WATCH - THE DARK IN THE DARK
[4:30AM] DOCTOR WHO - DEEP BREATH (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live', followed by a FRESH'Bravo's Chat Room'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Grown Ups', followed by the movie 'Grown Ups 2', then a whole lotta 'South Park'.
FX has the movie 'Deadpool 2', followed by the movie 'Bohemian Rhapsody'.
History has 'Swamp People', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People', then a FRESH'Swamp People: Blood & Guts'.
IFC -
[6:00am - 7:30am] Saved By The Bell
[8:00am - 1:00pm] Three's Company
[1:30pm] The Running Man
[3:45pm] Escape From New York
[6:00pm] The Matrix Reloaded
[9:00pm] The Matrix Revolutions
[12:00am] Escape From L.A.
[2:15am] Escape From New York
[4:30am - 5:30am] Parks And Recreation (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] monk - Mr. Monk Meets His Dad
[7:00am] monk -Mr. Monk And The Leper
[8:00am] monk - Mr. Monk Makes A Friend
[9:00am] monk - Mr. Monk Is At Your Service
[10:00am] monk - Mr. Monk Is On The Air
[11:00am] to be announced
[11:30am] the hunt for red october
[2:30pm] platoon
[5:00pm] fury
[8:00pm] star trek
[11:00pm] star trek
[2:00am] the hunt for red october
[5:00am] hogan's heroes
[5:30am] hogan's heroes (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Guardians Of The Galaxy, Vol. 2', followed by 'Resident Alien'.
Vermont teacher Jen Ellis, 42, has received thousands of emails about Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Inauguration Day mittens.
During President Joe Biden’s inauguration, photographer Brendan Smialowski captured a now-viral image of the Vermont lawmaker bundled up in his coat, the mittens Ellis made for him, and a slightly crooked medical mask. The image has become a meme sensation, with people photoshopping Sanders into funny settings and historical photos.
Sanders told CNN he was happy the photo went viral, because it “makes people aware that we make good mittens in Vermont ... we have some good coats, as well.”
Ellis made the mittens for Sanders in 2016, after he lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton. She asked Sanders’ daughter-in-law, who owns the preschool Ellis’ daughter attended at the time, to deliver them to the senator.
Since the inauguration, Ellis — who lives in Essex Junction with her wife, Liz, and their 5-year-old daughter — said she’s been “cast into the international spotlight” in a way for which she wasn’t ready. She said she’s received at least 16,000 emails from people who want to buy mittens.
Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up)’s former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (R-Vulture Capitalist)’s wife Louise Linton ($-Rhymes With Bunt) is making her directorial debut, and her upcoming film only highlights how truly disconnected from the world she is. Linton wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the new film Me You Madness and plays opposite of Gossip Girl’s Ed Westwick. Her character in the film, Catherine Black is a “materialistic, narcissistic, self-absorbed misanthrope” hedge fund manager — at least, that’s how Linton describes her. The trailer for Me You Madness was shared this week in the midst of, well, the madness that ensued at Wall Street; which was perfect timing to make an extremely tone-deaf entrance in Hollywood.
“My name is Catherine Black. You may think that I’m a materialistic, narcissistic, self-absorbed misanthrope. I don’t deny it. I’m a hedge fund manager. I’m addicted to fashion, the accumulation of money, exercise, and sex. My life is incredible,” Linton says at the start of the trailer.
Her husband, a former hedge fund manager himself, told The New York Times, “I watched Louise create this film from first draft to final edit. I’m proud of her drive, tenacity, and spirit. The movie is highly entertaining and very good fun.” Prior to his time in the Trump administration, he worked as a Goldman Sachs banker and Hollywood film producer.
During Linton’s time in Washington, she landed herself in hot water after she posted a photo on Instagram showing her leaving a government plane with Mnuchin and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Per Vanity Fair, her post included hashtags that showed off her seemingly lavish lifestyle, “#hermes, #valentino, #roulandmouret, #tomfordsunnies.”
The New York Times reporter, who has already seen the film, described it as a “sort of cinematic middle finger to the haters.”
Ever heard of the band Sparks? If you haven’t, you’re not alone. If you have, it’s not unlikely that they’re one of your favorite bands.
The pop rock duo formed by brothers Ron and Russell Mael has in their five-decade run gained a cult following of some seriously creative people, from Beck and Weird Al to Mike Myers and Amy Sherman-Palladino. And they are the subject of “The Sparks Brothers,” a new documentary from filmmaker Edgar Wright that explores the question of how a band can be “successful, underrated, hugely influential and overlooked all at the same time.” The film premieres at the Sundance Film Festival Saturday night.
Wright has been a fan since he first saw them on Top of the Pops in 1979 at age five and said they “kept coming back into his life” in the pre-Internet age of music fandom. Over the years it grew into a bit of an obsession.
“At some point when you’re a fan of a band like Sparks you become a sort of evangelist for them,” Wright said.
The documentary even provided an opportunity for a reunion. Todd Rundgren, who produced their first album, had not seen the brothers since 1972. When Rundgren came in to do his interview, Wright didn’t tell him that the Maels were also there and did a full “This Is Your Life.” He said if there’s ever a DVD, he’ll put it in the bonus materials.
A former QAnon supporter has apologised to Anderson Cooper for previously believing that the CNN anchor ate babies.
Jitarth Jadeja, who believed in the baseless conspiracy movement until June 2019, spoke with Cooper for an upcoming CNN report investigating the QAnon movement titled “Inside the QAnon Conspiracy”.
In a preview released ahead of the special report, Cooper began by acknowledging that he, as well as other high-profile individuals, have been the target of some of QAnon’s most “outlandish” conspiracies.
“It’s also something of a personal project, as the QAnon fringe has previously focused on me and a bunch of other reporters, as well as many other public figures, as somehow being responsible for some of their more outlandish, should we say, and bizarre conspiracies,” the journalist said ahead of the interview, adding that he was called a “paedophile” and linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein through “phony flight logs”.
During the interview, Jadeja, who lives in Sydney, Australia, also revealed that his belief in the baseless theories spouted by Q also extended much further, telling Cooper that he believed “that QAnon was part of military intelligence, which is what he says,” and that “the people behind him were actually a group of fifth-dimensional, intradimensional, extraterrestrial bipedal bird aliens called blue aliens”.
An heiress to the Publix Super Markets chain donated about $300,000 to fund a rally that preceded the deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol this month by supporters of former President Donald Trump (R-Lock Him Up), the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
The Journal said the funding from Julie Jenkins Fancelli, a prominent donor to Trump's 2020 campaign, was facilitated by far-right show host Alex Jones. It said her money paid for the lion's share of the roughly $500,000 rally at the Ellipse park where Trump spoke and urged his supporters to "to fight."
More than 135 people have been arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as Congress met to certify Democrat Joe Biden's victory in the November election. Five people including a Capitol Police officer died.
According to the Journal, Jones personally pledged more than $50,000 in seed money for the rally in exchange for a speaking slot of his choice. Jones, who has publicized discredited conspiracy theories, has hosted leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, two extremist groups that were prominent at the riot, on his popular radio and internet video shows, it said.
One of the main suspects in the infamous unsolved hijacking of a flight from Portland to Seattle 50 years ago carried out by the mysterious “DB Cooper” has died in California aged 94.
Sheridan Peterson, who passed away on 8 January according to memorial website Legacy.com, was thought to possibly be the “Dan Cooper” who hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305 on Thanksgiving eve 1971.
Mr Peterson was considered a chief suspect due to his experience as a smokejumper — a firefighter that parachutes into remote areas to tackle wildfires — and love of skydiving. He served as a marine during the Second World War and later worked as a technical editor at Seattle-based Boeing.
Indeed he wrote about possibly being DB Cooper in an article for the National Smokejumper Association’s magazine.
“Actually, the FBI had good reason to suspect me,” he wrote. “Friends and associates agreed that I was without a doubt DB Cooper. There were too many circumstances involved for it to be a coincidence.”
Mr Peterson is by no means the only person identified as DB Cooper. An HBO documentary released in 2020 called The Mystery of DB Cooper profiled several contenders.
A Jewish Austrian has left a bequest believed to be worth nearly £2m to the French village that sheltered him from the Nazis during the Second World War.
Eric Schwan, who died on December 25 at the age of 90, left a large part of his fortune to Chambon-sur-Lignon, a remote mountain village in south-east France that took in some 2,500 Jews fleeing Nazi persecution.
The exact value of the bequest has not been made public, but a former mayor of the village told a local website it was more than €2m (£1.8m).
A small village of fewer than 2,500 inhabitants perched on a mountain plateau, Chambon-sur-Lignon is famous for the extraordinary courage of its people during the Vichy regime and Nazi occupation. The village's largely Protestant community is known for giving shelter to those in need.
Led by the local pastor André Trocmé, the villagers protected thousands of Jews from the Nazis, hiding them in private homes and farms. When patrols came to search the village, the Jews would be hidden in the surrounding forests. When the soldiers left, the villagers would signal it was safe to come out by singing.
A four-year-old girl has made a big discovery. Walking along a beach in Wales with her father and pet dog, she spotted an extremely well-preserved dinosaur footprint that has excited paleontologists worldwide.
Lily Wilder made the discovery near Bendricks Bay in south Wales, U.K., finding an imprint thought to have been left 220 million years ago.
"It was on a low rock, shoulder height for Lily, and she just spotted it and said, 'look Daddy,'" her mother Sally Wilder, 41, told NBC News by telephone on Saturday.
"She is really excited but doesn't quite grasp how amazing it is," Sally, an engineer, said. Adding that her husband took photos at the beach and later shared them with the family. It was Lily's grandmother who encouraged them to reach out to local experts and fossil enthusiasts for further investigation.
Although it is impossible to identify exactly which type of dinosaur left the 10-centimeter (3.9-inch) footprint, some facts are discernable, Cindy Howells, Amgueddfa Cymru National Museum of Wales paleontology curator, told NBC News.
The Moon gets plenty of credit and blame for human activities, but on investigation most claims turn out to be mere astrology; good stories lacking reliable evidence. Nevertheless, two newly published studies find statistically significant evidence for lunar effects on two old favorites, sleep and menstruation, albeit partially suppressed by electric lights.
Professor Horacio de la Iglesia of the University of Washington gave sleep-tracking wristwatches to 98 members of Toba-Qom Indigenous communities in Formaosa Argentina, and compared their sleep patterns with the amount of moonlight.
The Toba-Qom were chosen because many live in communities with little or no access to electricity. With more opportunities to do things after the Sun had set, this group went to bed later and slept less as the Moon approached full. Even in urban areas, where street lights outshine the Moon, sleep was similarly reduced, de la Iglesia reports in Science Advances.
Toba-Qom participants slept 46-58 minutes more around the dark of the Moon as when it was nearly full, falling asleep about 20 minutes later.
Horacio de la Iglesia used sleep data from 464 college Seattle-area students collected for another study to check his findings. "Although the effect is more robust in communities without access to electricity, the effect is present in communities with electricity, including undergraduates at the University of Washington," he said in a statement.
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