Regarded as a tomboy and known by the nickname Fike, she was born Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg in Prussia. By what name is she more historically known?
Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987) was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings Campbell's Soup Cans (1962) and Marilyn Diptych (1962), the experimental film Chelsea Girls (1966), and the multimedia events known as the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966-67).
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Warhol initially pursued a successful career as a commercial illustrator. After exhibiting his work in several galleries in the late 1950s, he began to receive recognition as an influential and controversial artist. His New York studio, The Factory, became a well-known gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons. He promoted a collection of personalities known as Warhol superstars, and is credited with inspiring the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame". In the late 1960s he managed and produced the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and founded Interview magazine. He authored numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties. He lived openly as a gay man before the gay liberation movement. After gallbladder surgery, Warhol died of cardiac arrhythmia in February 1987 at the age of 58.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Cal in Vermont said:
Yinz might be surprised to learn the art guru of The Counterculture was born and raised in Picksburgh.
Alan J answered:
Pittsburgh.
Randall wrote:
The Andy Warhol Museum, PIttsburgh
Dave responded:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
mj replied:
He always reminds me of this exchange from one of my favorite movies
Patrick Dennis: Is the English lady sick, Auntie Mame?
Mame Dennis: She's not English, darling... she's from Pittsburgh.
Patrick Dennis: She sounded English.
Mame Dennis: Well, when you're from Pittsburgh, you have to do something.
Andy Warhol hails from the Burgh, as do I. And Rachel Carson and Stephen Foster.
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, said:
Pittsburgh, PA.
Deborah wrote:
Andy Warhol was born and raised in your old stomping grounds - Pittsburgh, PA. Cheers to you, Marty!
zorch replied:
Andy Warhol was from Pittsburgh, Penna.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Born Andrew Warhola on August 6, 1928, in the neighborhood of Oakland in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
Pittsburgh, PA
DJ Useo answered:
It's Pittsburgh, where the Warhol museum is. A good tour, but overall, I felt I could do better. Of course, There's no Useo museum. Lol.
Jacqueline replied:
Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Btw, David Bowie put out a cool song about him.
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• Joey Ramone, lead singer of the Ramones, suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder, making him do repetitive and unnecessary actions. Before leaving an elevator, he would sometimes get in and get out of it 10 times before finally exiting for good. In Spain, he once got off the curb, then on again, so many times that a driver who was waiting for him to cross the street finally drove by him, clipping him slightly. On one tour, the Ramones flew to England, and after they landed in London, Joey said that he needed to go back to his apartment in New York so he could exit through his door one more time. (He wasn't able to do it, of course - he had to stay on tour.) Suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder did have one benefit. His friend Joan Tarshis would visit him, and he would hug her before she left. However, he would have to hug her more than once before his obsessive-compulsive disorder would allow him to let her leave. Ms. Tarshis says, "I'd be halfway down the hall, and he'd call me over and I'd go back for another hug. This'd go on three or four more times, every time."
• After a skiing accident, cellist Pablo Casals called a press conference to announce that he had broken his arm and therefore would be forced to cancel several concerts. The reporters were surprised to see Mr. Casals in a good mood and asked why he was so happy instead of being upset by his accident. Mr. Casals explained, "Because now I don't have to practice." (Chances are excellent that this anecdote is apocryphal.)
• Nineteenth-century pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk had a bad habit of biting his nails until he almost had no nails. In fact, a friend of his, fellow pianist Richard Hoffman, remembers looking at the piano keyboard after Mr. Gottschalk had played and seeing that the keys were covered with blood.
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• Jazz musicians strive for perfection in their improvising; in fact, this striving is what Oscar Peterson calls the "will to perfection," which he explains by saying that "it requires you to collect all your senses, emotions, physical strength, and mental power, and focus them entirely onto the performance, with utter dedication, every time you play. And if that is scary, it is also uniquely exciting … you never get rid of it. Nor do you want to, for you come to believe that if you get it all right, you will be capable of virtually anything." As important as perfection is, however, one thing is more important than perfection: the striving toward perfection. Coleman Hawkins recorded a brilliant solo in the Freedom Now Suite, but as brilliant as the solo was, a squeak appeared in it. The squeak could easily have been edited out for the album, but Mr. Hawkins insisted, "Don't splice that! When it's all perfect in a piece like this, there's something very wrong."
• While Patricia McBride and Edward Villella were dancing the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet to Prokofiev's music as performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony, the conductor set the tempo way too slow, forcing Ms. McBride and Mr. Villella to dance ahead of the music and to finish dancing before the music stopped. What to do? Ms. McBride started to bourrée off stage on pointe, but Mr. Villella grabbed her wrist and pleaded, "Patty, just stay with me." The two then improvised - well - a few minutes of dance.
Pulled out the meat hammer and made Bracciole - a word I grew up thinking had a "J" in the middle.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night, as ususal, with '60 Minutes', followed by the movie 'Forrest Gump'.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Feeding America Comedy Festival', followed by 'SNL: Mother's Day'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'The Disney Family Sing-Along: Volume 2', followed by a FRESH'American Idol', then a FRESH'The Rookie'.
The CW offers a FRESH'Batwoman', followed by a FRESH'Supergirl'.
Faux has a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a FRESH'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Duncanville', then a FRESH'Bob's Burgers', followed by a FRESH'Family Guy'.
MY rcycles an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by an old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
AMC offers the movie 'Con Air', followed by a FRESH'Killing Eve', another 'Killing Eve', then the movie 'Con Air'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH - From Pole to Pole
[7:00AM] HIDDEN HABITATS - Them & Us
[7:30AM] REAR WINDOW
[10:00AM] VERTIGO
[1:00PM] THE BIRDS
[4:00PM] PSYCHO
[6:30PM] THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
[9:00PM] KILLING EVE - Are You From Pinner
[10:00PM] THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
[12:30AM] KILLING EVE - Are You From Pinner
[1:30AM] THE BIRDS
[4:30AM] DOCTOR WHO - Deep Breath (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', another 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Married To Medicine: LA', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Mr. Deeds', followed by the movie 'Blended', then the movie 'Call Your Mother'.
FX has the movie 'Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising', followed by the movie 'Bad Moms'.
History has 'American Pickers', and 'Buried: Knights Templar & The Holy Grail'.
Sundance -
[6:00am] Law & Order
[7:00am] Law & Order
[8:00am] Law & Order
[9:00am] Law & Order
[10:00am] Law & Order
[11:00am] Law & Order
[12:00pm] Erin Brockovich
[3:00pm] Runaway Bride
[5:30pm] The Princess Bride
[7:30pm] The Heartbreak Kid
[10:00pm] Runaway Bride
[12:30am] The Princess Bride
[2:30am] The Heartbreak Kid
[5:00am] Hogan's Heroes
[5:30am] Hogan's Heroes (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The Mummy Returns', followed by the movie 'The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor'.
Former President Barack Obama, talking privately to ex-members of his administration, said Friday that the "rule of law is at risk" in the wake of what he called an unprecedented move by the Justice Department to drop charges against former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn.
In the same chat, a tape of which was obtained by Yahoo News, Obama also lashed out at the Trump administration's handling of the coronavirus pandemic as "an absolute chaotic disaster."
"The news over the last 24 hours I think has been somewhat downplayed - about the Justice Department dropping charges against Michael Flynn," Obama said in a web talk with members of the Obama Alumni Association.
"And the fact that there is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free. That's the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic - not just institutional norms - but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk. And when you start moving in those directions, it can accelerate pretty quickly as we've seen in other places."
Still, Obama's unvarnished remarks were some of his sharpest yet about the Trump administration and appeared to forecast a dramatically stepped-up political role he intends to play in this year's election. The comments came during a lengthy chat in which he also sharply criticized the response to the coronavirus pandemic, blaming it on the "tribal" trends that have been stoked by the president and his allies.
The governor of South Dakota has issued ultimatums to two Sioux Native American tribes to remove travel checkpoints on state and US highways aimed at protecting themselves from the coronavirus.
Governor Kristi Noem sent letters to the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe on Friday requesting that they remove the checkpoints surrounding their reservations within 48 hours or "the state will take necessary legal action".
But the letters prompted a stern response Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold Frazier, who declined the request. In a statement, he said he "absolutely agreed" it was necessary for everyone to work together.
"However, you continuing to interfere in our efforts to do what science and facts dictate seriously undermines our ability to protect everyone on the reservation," he said. "Ignorant statements and fiery rhetoric encourage individuals already under stress from this situation to carry out irrational actions."
He cited Article 16 of the 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty for why his tribe could issue travel restrictions onto the reservation.
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf on Friday signed into law a ban on child marriage, making it the third state to fully outlaw marriage for people under the age of 18. Only Delaware and New Jersey also ban child marriage.
Pennsylvania's legislature unanimously voted to approve the ban and Wolf signed it into law as part of House Bill 360, which set 18 as the minimum age to obtain a marriage license. Before the ban, an applicant younger than 16 could obtain a marriage license with court approval, and those between the ages of 16 and 18 could obtain one with parental consent, CBS News Pennsylvania affiliate WKBN reports.
According to Unchained, an organization that works to end forced and child marriage in the United States, an estimated more than 2,300 children between 15 to 17 living in Pennsylvania were married under those exceptions since 2014.
According to marriage-license data from across the United States analyzed by Unchained, some 248,000 children at least as young as 12 years old were married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010. An overwhelming majority of them were females.
The minimum marriage age in most U.S. states is 18, according to Unchained, but 47 states allow people under 18 to get married through exceptions like parental consent or judicial approval. Several states do not have any minimum age for which children cannot marry.
Nerds around the world felt like they'd just been given a wedgie when San Diego Comic-Con had to cancel its annual July event.
But wait…there's more. The conference announced Friday that an at-home version of the event will be streamed this summer, date to be announced.
"Coming soon… Free parking, comfy chairs, personalized snacks, no lines, pets welcome, badges for all, and a front-row seat to… Comic-Con at Home," the announcement video declared.
The convention was originally slated to begin July 23. Presumably the digital version will be held on or around that date.
Trump reflected on how his mother shaped the person he is today in a new interview, saying he "couldn't do any wrong, which is a big problem," the AP reports.
In an interview with "Fox & Friends" ahead of Mother's Day on May 10, Trump paid tribute to his mother Mary MacLeod Trump, who died in 2000, aged 88.
"She was so good to me. I couldn't do any wrong, which is a big problem," he said.
"Maybe that's why I ended up the way I ended up. I don't know. I couldn't do any wrong in her eyes."
"My mother was somebody that gave me a lot of confidence and she believed in me ... My father was the same, Trump added.
Republican-controlled legislatures are increasingly trying to strip Democratic governors of their executive authority to close businesses and schools, a power grab by lawmakers that channels frustration over the economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic but could come with long-term consequences for how their states fight disease.
The efforts to undermine Democratic governors who invoked stay-at-home orders are most pronounced in states such as Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, all three of which have divided government and are key to President Donald Trump's path to reelection. Democratic governors there face lawsuits, legislation and other moves by Republicans trying to seize control of the response to the virus. All three states have also been hotbeds of right-wing protest pushing for a faster reopening.
The GOP lawmakers' strategy echoes earlier attempts in some states to curb the powers of Democratic governors. But this round comes with added health and political risk. By pressing for a faster reopening and seeking to override their governors, Republicans are betting that Americans are ready to restart economic activity - even if that risks steady infection rates and death in the months leading to the November election.
The moves come despite a recent survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research that found a wide share of Americans say they are in favor of requiring people to stay at home, except for essential errands. But Republicans are mindful of other data, such as unemployment spiking toward 15 percent and higher - levels not seen since the Great Depression.
"A lot of people have this idea that we can just wait until it's gone. ... We've got to live with this thing and you can't live on unemployment forever, you can't live on federal stimulus forever," said Pennsylvania Republican state Rep. Russ Diamond, who boasted on social media of shopping without a mask this past week.
People, get a grip. Yes, the Asian giant hornet, now famously known as the "murder hornet," is one huge scary wasp, capable of decimating an entire colony of honeybees and savagely stinging and possibly killing humans who get in their way.
But since last week, when it was reported that two hornets were spotted for the first time in Washington state, the national panic has led to the needless slaughter of native wasps and bees, beneficial insects whose populations are already threatened, said Doug Yanega, senior museum scientist for the Department of Entomology at UC Riverside. (Bees, for one, are the planet's pollinators-in-chief, pollinating approximately 75% of the fruits, nuts and vegetables grown in the United States, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
"Millions and millions of innocent native insects are going to die as a result of this," Yanega said today. "Folks in China, Korea and Japan have lived side by side with these hornets for hundreds of years, and it has not caused the collapse of human society there. My colleagues in Japan, China and Korea are just rolling their eyes in disbelief at what kind of snowflakes we are."
Asian giant hornets are native to Southeast Asia, Yanega said, so finding a knob of them at the western point of the Washington-British Columbia border was reason for alarm. A nest had been discovered and destroyed earlier that fall in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, around 80 miles from Blaine, Wash., but genetic tests showed that the dead hornet found on the porch was not related to the colony destroyed in Nanaimo, Yanega said.
The capacity of some animals to climb vertical surfaces, and even hang upside down from ceilings, has inspired engineers and science fiction writers alike. Scientists unraveled how creatures such as geckos manage to apparently defy the laws of physics, and engineers have replicated it. Nevertheless, you haven't seen their work appearing at your local supermarket because production has been too difficult and expensive for widespread use. Now, however, a team think they've found an easier way to make devices that will have you climbing the walls (in a good way).
Tiny hairs are the key to small climbing animals' overcoming gravity. Geckos have ridges on their toes covered with flat extensions known as fibrils or setae that have a surface attraction to the atoms in solid objects. Weak as this attraction is, with enough setae packed onto the little lizard's disproportionately large toes they can hold up their body weight, even after death. Disengagement occurs by changing the angle at which the foot meets the wall.
Humans have a much larger mass to surface area than small reptiles, so simply covering our hands with fibrils wouldn't be enough to turn us into Spiderpeople. Nevertheless, the possibility of climbing vertical glass walls has been demonstrated, provided the pads used are about 10 times the size of a human hand.
Past efforts relied on making incredibly fine-scaled templates and filling them with liquids that form a polymer when they set. The process is slow and expensive. Other climbing pads have been made by military researchers, but their methods have not been disclosed, and if they're any cheaper to produce it's a state secret.
A Californian man in only his underwear climbed beneath a moving tanker truck filled with red wine before opening a valve, drinking from the tanker, and spilling thousands of bottles worth of wine onto the road.
According to police reports, a Cherokee Freight Lines tanker truck travelling Highway 99 near Moreno, California, was flagged down by a man in a sedan. The man - Gabriel Moreno - signalled for the truck to pull over.
At that point, the truck driver - startled by the bizarre encounter - began backing his truck away in an attempt to leave the scene. As the truck pulled away from Mr Moreno, he ran up along the side of the vehicle and leapt onto the vehicle, out of sight of the driver.
As the truck travelled down the highway, Mr Moreno began to climb underneath the vehicle, where he had access to a valve connected to the truck's liquid cargo tank. He unscrewed the valve and began drinking from it as red wine poured out and onto the highway.
The trucking company estimated it lost approximately 1,000 gallons of wine - enough to fill about 5,000 bottles - as a result of the high speed, low clothes heist.
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