• Ham Fisher created the comic strip Joe Palooka and took some sample panels to McNaught Newspaper Syndicate, which was not interested in the strip but offered him a job selling comic strips to newspapers. Mr. Fisher accepted the job, and he traveled from newspaper to newspaper selling various comic strips to them, including Joe Palooka, which he pretended the syndicate was offering. When he returned to the home office, he had 20 newspapers signed up to carry Joe Palooka and the syndicate decided to carry it.
• When Arthur Yorinks and Richard Egielski decided to collaborate on a children’s picture-book titled Louis the Fish, author Yorinks wrote that Louis was a salmon. However, illustrator Egielski didn’t know how to draw a salmon, so he went to a grocery store, where he found a picture of one on the label of a can of salmon. Since he watched his money carefully in those days, he didn’t buy the can, but instead tore off the label and smuggled it out of the store. Mr. Egielski says, “The salmon on that can is what I used to draw Louis.”
• When Robert McCloskey was creating his picture-book Make Way for Ducklings, he bought and kept six ducklings in his bathtub so he could sketch them. One problem he ran into was that the ducklings were so active that he found it difficult to sketch them, so he needed to find a way to slow them down. Eventually, he discovered the solution to his problem — red wine. The ducklings loved the wine, and it made them so mellow that they moved in slow motion.
• A nobleman once commissioned William Hogarth to paint his portrait, which Mr. Hogarth did, but then the nobleman refused to accept and pay for the painting. Mr. Hogarth wrote the nobleman, saying that unless the portrait was paid for, he would add a tail and other such embellishments to the portrait, then sell it to an exhibitor of wild beasts. The threat worked — Mr. Hogarth received the money the nobleman owed him.
• Comedian Anita Wise was in a store, looking at miniature paintings on very small boxes. She wasn’t interested in buying anything, just looking, but a salesman began talking to her about the miniature paintings, pointing out that the artists had created them by using a single camel hair as a brush. Ms. Wise asked, “Why don’t they just get bigger boxes?”
• One winter, Impressionist painter Claude Monet started painting a tree without leaves. Unfortunately, he had not finished painting the tree when spring arrived and leaves appeared on the tree. In order to finish his painting, he paid the owner of the tree 50 francs to remove all of its leaves. In May, Mr. Monet finished his painting.
• Spanish painter Francisco Goya usually painted in the bright light of the morning, but he sometimes did a few finishing touches at night. Electric lights had not yet been invented, so he painted by candlelight. In fact, while painting at night he often wore a hat that had a rim set with metal brackets to hold candles.
• The show must go on. Painter Georges Rouault was behind schedule in creating the costumes and sets for the premiere of George Balanchine’s Prodigal Son by the Ballets Russes. Members of Ballets Russes locked Mr. Rouault in a room until he had finished the costumes and sets.
• Renaissance painters and sculptors often showed draped clothing in their art. So that a model would not have to pose for hours while the artists worked on the draped clothing, the artists would take cloth, soak it in plaster, pose it and let it harden to serve as their model.
Lemurs (from Latin lemures – ghosts or spirits) are mammals of the order Primates, divided into 8 families and consisting of 15 genera and around 100 existing species. They are native only to the island of Madagascar. Most existing lemurs are small, have a pointed snout, large eyes, and a long tail. They chiefly live in trees (arboreal), and are active at night (nocturnal).
Lemurs share resemblance with other primates, but evolved independently from monkeys and apes. Due to Madagascar's highly seasonal climate, lemur evolution has produced a level of species diversity rivaling that of any other primate group. Until shortly after humans arrived on the island around 2,000 years ago, there were lemurs as large as a male gorilla. Most species have been discovered or promoted to full species status since the 1990s; however, lemur taxonomic classification is controversial and depends on which species concept is used.
Lemurs range in weight from the 30-gram (1.1 oz) mouse lemur to the 9-kilogram (20 lb) indri. Lemurs share many common basal primate traits, such as divergent digits on their hands and feet, and nails instead of claws (in most species). However, their brain-to-body size ratio is smaller than that of anthropoid primates. As with all strepsirrhine primates, they have a "wet nose" (rhinarium). Lemurs are generally the most social of the strepsirrhine primates, and communicate more with scents and vocalizations than with visual signals. Lemurs have a relatively low basal metabolic rate, and as a result may exhibit dormancy such as hibernation or torpor. They also have seasonal breeding and female social dominance. Most eat a wide variety of fruits and leaves, while some are specialists. Two species of lemurs may coexist in the same forest due to different diets.
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Lemurs are primates, an order that includes monkeys, apes and humans. There are approximately 32 different types of lemurs in existence today, all of which are endemic to Madagascar; a single island country off the southeast coast of Africa.
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
one - Madagascar
Mark. said:
One -- Madagascar.
Billy in Cypress U.$.A. wrote:
One (1), lemurs are native only to the island of Madagascar.
Alan J answered:
One. Madagascar.
mj replied:
They're kind of isolationist
They're only native to Madagascar.
Dave responded:
One country. Madagascar.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
A trick question the answer to which is Madagascar.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Lemurs are native only to the island of Madagascar.
DJ Useo said:
Another one I can't answer. If this were the Cash Cab game show, I'd be worried about being kicked out!
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
Just 1: Madagascar.
111° today, with more hothothot days ahead. Even at 6 am it’s too warm to use the whole-house fan. And next week looks just as toasty. So grateful for A/C (I think I say that every summer). Stay cool, people.
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) answered:
One is the loneliest number.......Just Madagascar.
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Music: "Love Wil Tear Us Apart" bound with “Leaders of Men”
Artist: Joy Division
Artist Location: Manchester, UK
Info: “Joy Division were an English rock band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band consisted of singer Ian Curtis, guitarist and keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bass player Peter Hook, and drummer Stephen Morris.”
Bart Furp, a fan who bought vinyl, wrote: “I didn't need this record. But first of all, it's Joy Division, the finest band on the planet. Second, it supposedly GLOWS IN THE DARK. I can't wait for the next power outage.”
Price: $1 (USD) for track; $2 (USD) for three-track EP (includes 12” remix of “Love Will Tear Us Apart”). Vinyl also available.
Saw the following offered for 99 cents in a book newsletter:
A Very Funny Murder Mystery: A British Comedy Spoof (Clinton Trump Detective Genius Book 1) by Paul Mathews
Who will read this?! I don't want to read any book--even an amusing one with a protagonist named Trump! And I can't imagine any Predator-lover wanting to read a book that puts Clinton as their beloved's first name.
"I'm an author; let me choose a character and name him after two of the most polarizing figures in recent American history. That ought to totally sabotage US sales." Good going!
Linda >^..^<
We are all only temporarily able bodied.
CBS starts the night, as usual, with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a RERUN'NCIS: The Expendable One', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 3rd One'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Stanley Cup Stuff', then pads the left coast with local crap and a FRESH'Cannonball'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a RERUN'Celebrity Family Feud', then a RERUN'Press Your Luck', followed by a RERUN'Match Game'.
The CW offers a FRESH'Fridge Wars', followed by a RERUN'Supernatural'.
Faux has a RERUN'Last Man Standing', followed by a RERUN'Duncanville', then a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bless The Harts', then a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', followed by a RERUN'Family Guy'.
MY recycles an old recycles an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then 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'.
AMC offers the movie 'GoodFellas', followed by a FRESH'NOS4A2'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Creatures of the Deep
[7:00AM] PLANET EARTH: LIFE - Plants
[8:00AM] TOP GEAR
[8:59AM] TOP GEAR
[9:58AM] AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN
[12:56PM] FATAL ATTRACTION
[3:27PM] ROAD TO PERDITION
[6:00PM] THE GREEN MILE
[10:00PM] NOS4A2 - Welcome to Christmasland
[11:08PM] THE GREEN MILE
[3:10AM] ROAD TO PERDITION
[5:45AM] MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS - Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Potomac', another 'Real Housewives Of Potomac', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Potomac', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Megamind', followed by the movie 'Shrek', then hours of old 'South Park'.
FX has the movie 'Spider-Man: Homecoming', followed by the movie 'Spider-Man: Homecoming', again.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'Apocalypse Earth'.
IFC -
[6:45A] Monty Python and the Holy Grail
[8:45A] Zookeeper
[11:00A] White House Down
[2:00P] John Wick
[4:15P] I Am Legend
[6:30P] Inglourious Basterds
[10:00P] Oblivion
[1:00A] Inglourious Basterds
[4:30A] The Three Stooges - Violent Is the Word for Curly
[4:45A] The Three Stooges - Horses' Collars
[5:15A] The Three Stooges - Hoi Polloi
[5:45A] The Three Stooges - Woman Haters (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[7:45am] columbo - Candidate For A Crime
[10:00am] close up with the hollywood reporter - Comedy Actors
[11:00am] crocodile dundee ii
[1:30pm] airplane!
[3:30pm] k-9
[6:00pm] ghostbusters
[8:30pm] ghostbusters ii
[11:00pm] tremors ii: aftershocks
[1:15am] tremors 3: back to perfection
[3:45am] close up with the hollywood reporter - Comedy Actors
[4:45am] love lust - Love Lust & The Social Network
[5:00am] hogan's heroes
[5:30am] hogan's heroes (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Rush Hour 3', followed by the movie 'Men In Black III', then a FRESH'Wynonna Earp'.
Taylor Swift slammed President Trump (R-Corrupt) on Saturday for “ineffective leadership,” urging her fans to vote him out of office.
"Trump’s calculated dismantling of USPS proves one thing clearly: He is WELL AWARE that we do not want him as our president. He’s chosen to blatantly cheat and put millions of Americans’ lives at risk in an effort to hold on to power,” the pop star tweeted.
Swift was commenting on the president’s opposition to funding the United States Postal Service, which has struggled financially during the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the president’s stance that mail-in ballots could potentially lead to voter fraud, both him and First Lady Melania Trump requested mailed ballots as Palm Beach County voters in Florida, according to a report by USA Today.
The Folklore singer tweeted, “Donald Trump’s ineffective leadership gravely worsened the crisis that we are in and he is now taking advantage of it to subvert and destroy our right to vote and vote safely. Request a ballot early. Vote early.” On Friday, Swift re-tweeted an announcement by Kamala Harris who Democratic nominee Joe Biden picked as his running mate. “YES,” the singer captioned her tweet.
Swift had not openly shared her political preferences for most of her career, creating speculation that she did not want to ruffle fans. However in 2018, she endorsed a pair of Democratic candidates in her home state of Tennessee, while criticizing Republican senator Marsha Blackburn for anti-LGBT views.
The Cavern Club, the historic Liverpool venue where the Beatles played nearly 300 shows prior to the British Invasion, is in danger of permanently closing due to the coronavirus, club owners and local government officials warned Friday.
Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson told the Liverpool Echo that — even though U.K. venues have been allowed to reopen with reduced attendance and social distancing guidelines — the Cavern “could close forever” if the club’s bid to the Government’s Cultural Recovery Fund falls through.
“The fact that the world-famous Cavern could close forever because of Covid-19 should bring home to the Government how much our hugely treasured music industry is in peril. This virus has caused unimaginable pain and grief but it’s proving to be an existential threat to our cultural scene,” Anderson told the newspaper.
“The prospect of losing a national jewel like the Cavern is a horrible scenario for all concerned, be they Beatles fans, music lovers and above all those whose livelihoods depend on it.”
One of the current directors of the club, Bill Heckle, told the Echo that the Cavern Club has been losing £30,000 ($39,000) a week since the beginning of the pandemic, and that the venue recently let go of 20 employees with more layoffs expected. “We made a decision a few years ago to keep as much money in the bank as possible for a rainy day, not realizing it was going to be a thunderstorm,” Heckle said, adding the club’s cash reserves have been halved by the pandemic.
A judge on Friday dismissed much of a lawsuit brought by three songwriters who argue they should be credited for Lizzo’s hit “Truth Hurts.”
Justin and Jeremiah Raisen, as well as Justin “Yves” Rothman, have alleged that the song is copied from “Healthy,” a track they wrote with Lizzo a few months before “Truth Hurts” was composed.
In her ruling on Friday, Judge Dolly M. Gee held that under 9th Circuit precedent, the trio cannot claim joint authorship of “Truth Hurts,” because they have said it is a separate work derived from “Healthy.”
“Even if Counterclaimants are co-authors of ‘Healthy,’ they have not alleged any ownership interest in ‘Truth Hurts,’ which they claim is a derivative work of ‘Healthy,'” the judge wrote.
That is not the end of the dispute, however. According to the ruling, the three songwriters have indicated that they now intend to claim that “Truth Hurts” was the end result of a continuous creative process that began with “Healthy.”
Gee allowed the songwriters to amend their lawsuit to pursue that theory.
The Disney Channel animated series “The Owl House” has made history by having Disney’s first bisexual lead character.
Luz Noceda, the show’s 14-year-old protagonist, is a normal teen who goes on a journey to another world to become a witch. Luz has shown she’s attracted to male characters in the show, and in the two most recent episodes, “Enchanting Grom Fright” and “Wing It Like Witches,” a relationship between Luz and the recurring female character Amity is explored. It is revealed that Amity had intentions to ask Luz to Grom, their world’s version of Prom, and the two share a dance together.
Series creator Dana Terrace substantiated viewers’ theories on Twitter that this was indeed a portrayal of an LGBTQ relationship — something that some Disney leaders weren’t always keen on having in the show.
“In [development] I was very open about my intention to put queer kids in the main cast. I’m a horrible liar so sneaking it in would’ve been hard,” Terrace wrote. “When we were greenlit I was told by certain Disney leadership that I could not represent any form of bi or gay relationship on the channel.”
“I’m bi! I want to write a bi character, dammit!” Terrace tweeted. “Luckily my stubbornness paid off and now I am very supported by current Disney leadership.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci criticized Tucker Carlson on Friday, saying the Fox News host "triggers some of the crazies in society" to threaten him.
Fauci, the top US infectious-diseases expert on the White House coronavirus task force, made the comment in a wide-ranging interview with The Washington Post's Geoff Edgers on Instagram Live.
When asked whether he had heard of Carlson, Fauci said: "He's the guy that really loves me, right?"
Fauci responded: "I'm not concerned about what he says. It's a little bit — I think you could say that when he does that, it triggers some of the crazies in society to start threatening me, actually threatening, which actually happens."
He told The Washington Post on Friday: "I mean, who would have thought when I was in medical school doing things to save people's lives, I'd have to be going around with a security detail? That's really ridiculous."
Typically, when the military notifies the family of a deceased service member, it follows a complex set of protocols. Whenever possible, the news is to be given in person, at the family’s home and with a formal script.
Yet Brian Murray found out about the death of his 21-year-old daughter, Natasha Aposhian, an airman first class, after calling her base and being put on hold for 30 minutes.
His mother had called him to tell him about a news report of a shooting at Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota in which two airmen were killed. Meanwhile, Natasha’s mother, Megan Aposhian, had heard from one of Natasha’s friends at the base that she had been shot, and the Air Force put out a press release, without naming her. When Murray called the base, he was put on hold for half an hour before being put through to Col. Cameron S. Pringle, the commander of the base, who confirmed Natasha was one of the airmen in the article.
Aposhian’s killing comes on the heels of a similar case that has garnered national attention. Vanessa Guillen, 20, a soldier based in Fort Hood, Texas, disappeared on April 22. For weeks, her family pleaded for answers. Her remains were found at the end of June, and prosecutors announced on July 2 they were charging another soldier with killing her and then trying to dispose of her dismembered remains near the base. That soldier, Army Specialist Aaron Robinson, later killed himself when approached by police in July.
Ashton Kutcher is calling for President Donald Trump (R-Failure) and Vice President Mike Pence (R-Pussy Whipped) to help his home state of Iowa after a derecho — which is a violent windstorm akin to an inland hurricane — ripped through the Midwest this week.
“Where is the federal relief for Iowa?” Kutcher tweeted on Friday. “10 million acres of crops have been destroyed. Houses. Communities. Wake up federal [government]! What because it’s not called a tornado or hurricane you don’t need to act fast? Come on!!”
Kutcher tagged the vice president in a follow-up tweet, which came right after Pence had visited Iowa on Thursday to court voters. “You were there campaigning. You saw with your own eyes. Do something,” Kutcher tweeted. The former “That ’70s Show” star then tagged President Trump in a few pictures, including one of a home damaged by falling tree branches.
The derecho covered 700 miles across the Midwest this week, hitting Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Iowa, according to USA Today. Wind gusts were clocked at more than 100 miles per hour and knocked the power out for about 800,000 people. Flooding, crop damage, and fallen trees were widespread. While a few dozen injuries have been reported so far, no deaths have been reported.
Identical twins Brittany and Briana Salyers — who married identical twins Josh and Jeremy Salyers — announced Friday that they are both expecting.
The couples, who first made headlines when appearing on TLC's Our Twinsane Wedding, shared the news in a Baywatch-themed Instagram post.
“Guess what!!?? BOTH couples are pregnant! ????,” they wrote alongside a photo showing Josh and Jeremy dressed up as lifeguards while Brittany and Briana showed off their baby bumps in one-piece bathing suits that read “Baby Watch.”
The baby news comes almost exactly two years after the couples tied the knot in a joint ceremony at the 2018 Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio — where they had first met a year prior.
They were married by identical twin ministers in the ceremony themed “Twice Upon a Time.” At the time, Brittany, who is married to Josh, told PEOPLE that they were excited to all live in the same house and raise their children together.
Trilobites — those ubiquitous, half-billion-year-old armored sea bugs — had eyes that were faceted like disco balls. Now, new images reveal that these eyes were remarkably similar to those of bees and dragonflies.
Trilobites were buglike, many-legged marine arthropods that appeared during the Cambrian period (543 million to 490 million years ago) and died out about 250 million years ago. Paleontologists have found many fossils of trilobites' tough exoskeletons. And while trilobite eyes are sometimes preserved as well and bear a surface resemblance to insects' eyes, prior analysis merely hinted at their complexity.
Now, for the first time, researchers have described the internal structures that made up the eyes of the trilobite Aulacopleura koninckii, which lived about 429 million years ago. The composition and arrangement of light-sensitive receptor cells in these lenses offered scientists a glimpse into trilobite vision, and also hinted at the early evolution of compound eyes.
Though the specimen was collected in 1846 near Lodenice in the Czech Republic, this is the first time its preserved eye has been imaged using microscopy. The technique revealed optical units called ommatidia, hundreds of which make up the compound eyes in modern crustaceans and insects.
Examining the trilobite's tiny eyes was challenging; A. koninckii is "rather flat" — about 0.04 inches (1 millimeter) high, the scientists reported in a new study, published online today (Aug. 13) in the journal Scientific Reports. In this species, the two protruding oval-shaped eyes are located on the back of the head and are especially vulnerable to damage; only the left eye of the specimen was still intact when the researchers found it.
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