• As one of the few African-American students at Harvard in the 1890s, W.E.B. Du Bois faced prejudice. At a social function, a young woman insisted that because of his race, he must be a waiter — he couldn’t be a guest.
Problem-Solving
• As a young man during World War II, journalist Meyer Berger wanted to enlist in the Army but he was unable to because of his poor eyesight. Fortunately, when Mr. Berger attempted a second time to enlist, an understanding officer told him to wait for five minutes in the room where the eye chart was located. During those five minutes, Mr. Berger memorized the eye chart. Years later, he could still recite the chart horizontally, vertically, forwards, and backwards. In the Army, he had to keep his poor eyesight a secret until he was shipped overseas, so he was put in a regimental band with orders to hold a French horn to his lips — and not attempt to play it. While stationed overseas, his fellow soldiers put what eyesight Mr. Berger had to good use — Mr. Berger wrote love letters for them.
• When Jerry Spinelli, author of the Newbery Medal-winning Maniac Magee, attended his ninth-grade prom, the girls were angry because they were not allowed to wear strapless gowns. Not content with merely being angry, the girls also took action. Many of the straps worn to the prom that evening were flimsy — one “strap” consisted of a single piece of thread. Another girl’s “straps” were actually lines painted with eyeliner. Of course, some girls wore real straps — but they carried scissors in their purses. By the last dance, every girl had bare shoulders.
• M.E. Kerr, one of the pseudonyms of Marijane Meaker, is the author of such young people’s books as Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack. She enjoys frequent visits by teenagers in her neighborhood, but she has devised a means to get privacy when she needs it. Whenever she wants to be alone, she hangs a stuffed rabbit on her door. If the neighborhood teenagers see the stuffed rabbit, they don’t visit.
• Nicholasa Mohr worked as a professional artist before she began to write such children’s books as Nilda. As a child, she lived in a rough neighborhood, and to keep the tough kids from beating her up, she offered to draw their portraits. Ms. Mohr says, “I would make sure they looked really good, almost like movie stars!”
• The door to Jane Austen’s sitting room creaks. Why didn’t Ms. Austen have it oiled? It gave her warning that visitors were coming, so she was able to hide her writing before her visitors came into the room.
Public Speaking
• On March 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his famous March on Washington Address — the one in which he said, “I have a dream.” Among the people present that day was novelist Alice Walker, who later wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple. On the day of Dr. King’s speech, Ms. Walker climbed a tree in the national capitol — from her perch, she saw very little, but she heard everything.
• Maxine Hong Kingston won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction with her 1976 book, The Woman Warrior. When she gave a speech at the awards ceremony, she was unable to see over the podium because she is only four feet, nine inches tall. Therefore, she bent sideways around the podium and gave her acceptance speech.
Research
• While doing research for her children’s book A Snake’s Body, Joanna Cole met in her home with a snake expert from the New York City Museum of Natural History. He had brought a snakeskin for her to look at, but when he showed it to Ms. Cole, her pet dog, Taffy, jumped in the air and grabbed it. Taffy then disappeared under a bed, where she apparently ate the snakeskin. The snake expert told Ms. Cole, “Don’t worry. We have plenty of them back at the lab.”
A deerstalker is a type of cap that is typically worn in rural areas, often for hunting, especially deer stalking. Because of the cap's popular association with Sherlock Holmes, it has become stereotypical headgear for a detective, especially in comical drawings or cartoons along with farcical plays and films.
The deerstalker's main features are a pair of semicircular bills or visors worn in front and rear. The dual bills provide protection from the sun for the face and neck of the wearer during extended periods out of doors, such as for hunting or fishing. These are usually stiffened with pasteboard, cardboard or layers of heavy canvas. For a brief period during the 1970s some deerstalkers were manufactured with bills stiffened by the steam-cooked and pressure-molded wood fiber construct called Masonite. The Masonite tended to crack and break into segments. Over time, the Masonite insert was also apt to crumble at the corners.
The most famous wearer of a deerstalker is undoubtedly the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, who is popularly depicted favouring this style of cap. Holmes is never actually described as wearing a deerstalker by name in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, though. However, most notably in "The Adventure of Silver Blaze", the narrator, Doctor Watson, describes him as wearing "his ear-flapped travelling cap", and in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", as wearing a "close-fitting cloth cap". As the deerstalker is the most typical cap of the period matching both descriptions, it is not surprising that the original illustrations for the stories by Sidney Paget (who favored a deerstalker himself) in the United Kingdom, and Frederic Dorr Steele in the United States, along with other illustrators of the period, depicted Holmes as a "deerstalker man", which then became the popular perception of him.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Deerstalker cap.
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Mary Trump said that Joe Biden should call him "Donald" during the debates becase he would not like it; I suggest Biden alternate between " Number 1 Recreant " and " Number 2 Bezonian " because he will not know what either word means and think that it is a complement. For example: "Since you are the Number 1 Recreant in the world, what advice can you give the American people about fighting wildfires". Or : " I know a famous besonian like yourself must have a simple erudite solution to the problem of global warming." Then in summation Biden can expain the meanig of those two words and what they show #45 to be.
mj wrote:
I'm not sure why, but I could use one to get the nasty critters
Out of my yard. He wore a deerstalker cap.
Alan J answered:
A Deerstalker.
Randall replied:
Deerstalker
Cal in Vermont responded:
A deerstalker. Used for stalking deer, I presume eh wot?
Dave wrote:
Deer Stalker. A cap with bills both front and rear, ear muffs and soft ear flaps with ribbons attached. The bills are for shade during the long hours stalking the elusive red deer. The ear flaps can be either up, tied together by the ribbons on top of the hat, or down with the ribbons tied together under the wearer’s chin.
zorch responded:
It used to be called a deerstalker. Now it’s usually called a Sherlock Holmes cap.
Mac Mac replied:
Deerstalker
David of Moon Valley wrote:
ummmm...
…i remember it as being a Deerstalker, although i don’t know that it is still called that…but i liked reading the Doyle stories i bought one back in the 70s though i sure didn’t wear it out of the house much…just wasn’t my style i reckon….
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
A deerstalker is a type of cap that is typically worn in rural areas, often for hunting, especially deer stalking.
Deborah, the Master Gardener answered:
Sherlock Holmes wears a hat called a deerstalker. I don’t know the history of it, and it looks practical, if stiff.
We’re having a good friend stay with us this weekend, for an annual event we all attend in the Napa Valley. She’s the first non-family person to stay with us since the Before Times. She’s from the midwest, very science-based and following CDC guidelines (the real ones, not the faked ones). I’m a little nervous, but happy for some small semblance of normalcy. Also, the house is really, really clean. And damn, RBG…just when we thought 2020 had been the worst year ever, it gets even worse.
Also, maybe this is just my experience, but by 7 a.m. I’d already straightened out 7 Twitter users who thought their Christianity was shared by RBG. How does one know her and not know that she’s Jewish? Oy vey.
Dave in Tucson replied:
Sherlock Holmes wears a deerstalker hat. Why it's called a deerstalker I haven't a clue.
Would have made for an interesting Michael Cimino film though...
Jacqueline responded:
Deerstalker.
DJ Useo said:
I always called them "deerstalkers". People wear even funnier clothes for golfing.
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) wrote:
I know that one, it's the deerstalkers cap. I'm a big fan of Sherlock. Getting ready for bed, I'm whipped.
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CBS starts the night, as usual, with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a FRESH'Love Island', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 3rd One'.
NBC opens the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
ABC fills the night with FRESH'72nd Emmy Awards'.
The CW offers a RERUN'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 '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 'The Magnificient Seven', followed by the movie 'Jack Reacher: Never Go Back', and 'Court Cam'.
AMC offers the movie 'Independence Day', followed by 'The Walking Dead', and the movie 'Independence Day', again.
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[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH: WILD WEST - DESERT HEARTLANDS
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[9:00AM] TOP GEAR
[10:00AM] TOP GEAR
[11:00AM] THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS
[2:00PM] THE MATRIX
[5:00PM] THE MATRIX RELOADED
[8:00PM] TOP GEAR
[9:30PM] THE MATRIX
[12:30AM] THE MATRIX RELOADED
[3:30AM] TOP GEAR
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - THE DOGS OF WAR (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 'Little Fockers', followed by hours of old 'South Park'.
FX has the movie 'X-Men: Apocalypse', followed by the movie 'Thor: The Dark World', then the movie 'Thor: The Dark World', again.
History has 'Apocalypse Earth', followed by a FRESH'Apocalypse Earth'.
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[6:00am] The Three Stooges - Back From The Front
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[7:15am] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return - The Loves Of Hercules
[9:15am] Piranha 3D
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[4:30pm] The Goonies
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[10:00pm] Jurassic Park III
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MSNBC says that Donald Trump (R-Sadist) is endangering the lives of journalists after the president mocked reporter Ali Velshi for getting shot in the leg with a rubber bullet by police while covering a protest.
Velshi was shot by police with a rubber bullet on-air back in May while covering protests in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd. On Friday, Trump spoke at a rally in Minnesota and called the sight of Velshi being hit in the leg as “the most beautiful thing” and an example of “law and order.”
“Freedom of the press is a pillar of our democracy. When the president mocks a journalist for the injury he sustained while putting himself in harm’s way to inform the public, he endangers thousands of other journalists and undermines our freedoms,” an MSNBC said in a statement.
Trump incorrectly referred to Velshi being hit by a canister of tear gas rather than a rubber bullet and mocked him as though the reporter was wailing, “My knee, my knee,” earning jeers and applause from the crowd.
“He got hit on the knee with a canister of tear gas, and he went down. He was down. ‘My knee, my knee,'” Trump said mockingly at his rally from Bemidji, Minnesota. “Nobody cared, these guys didn’t care. They moved him aside. And they just walked right through. It was the most beautiful thing.”
This is Spinal Tap co-creators Harry Shearer, Rob Reiner, Michael McKean and Christopher Guest were singing Gimme Some Money on Friday. That’s after settling a long-running dispute over money derived from the film and merchandising related to the cult classic mockumentary, This Is Spinal Tap.
The group, Vivendi, and StudioCanal told a California federal court Friday that they had finally reached a settlement.
Shearer started the legal ball rolling in 2016, claiming that he and his co-creators had received just $81 in merchandising income and $98 in music sales income from their work on Spinal Tap. The so-called “Hollywood accounting” practices were blamed, plus Vivendi’s screwing up trademark rights. The suit asked for damages and requested reversion of rights to the project.
Eventually, Universal Music settled the claims to revenue from the soundtrack rights.
The parties said in a status report to the judge that they reached agreement on Thursday and are working on a final settlement agreement. The agreement purportedly will include “restructuring the parties’ relationship and modifying contracts pertaining to the picture’s distribution.”
Maya Rudolph has gone from zero to two Emmys in just three days. On Saturday night she snagged her second trophy of the week-long Creative Arts Emmys virtual ceremony—this time for her turn as Kamala Harris in Saturday Night Live, hosted by Eddie Murphy. And just this past Thursday, Rudolph took home her very first Emmy for voicing the role of Connie the Hormone Monstress in Big Mouth.
Add to this the fact that Rudolph was double-nominated in her guest actress category Saturday night, the other nom being for her role as the judge in The Good Place, and it looks like this has been her year in terms of career recognition. She beat Bette Midler, Wanda Sykes, Angela Bassett and Phoebe Waller-Bridge to take home the gold this time.
Speaking in the virtual backstage press room, Rudolph said her Good Place role was modeled on a very special real-life person, who sadly passed away yesterday—Ruth Bader Ginsberg. “I was actually thinking about The Good Place a lot and about how we modeled her robe after Ruth Bader Ginsberg and how much of that was an homage to an iconic human being. “When you think of a judge, when you think of all-knowing, when you think of powerful, when you think of all good, yeah, we modeled her robe after RBG, so that was pretty cool.”
Rudolph did not pre-record an acceptance speech for the virtual ceremony, explaining live after her win: “That feels a little presumptuous, and not to mention just physically, emotionally exhausting. If I’m going to experience defeat I’d rather not have gone through all the hair and makeup.”
Following five nominations throughout his career, Eddie Murphy finally hooked his first Primetime Emmy win for hosting Saturday Night Live in the Guest Actor Comedy Series category.
Murphy’s appearance last December repped his first time on SNL in 35 years; the NBC latenight sketch series having launched him when he was a young stand-up into the blockbuster star of The Nutty Professor and Beverly Hills Cop and Oscar nominated supporting actor of Dreamgirls.
Murphy won tonight in a very competitive category against Brad Pitt and Adam Driver who were also up for hosting duties on SNL, Fred Willard in Modern Family (in a posthumous nomination), Dev Patel in Amazon’s Modern Love and Luke Kirby as Lenny Bruce on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Murphy wasn’t available virtually to accept his first Emmy tonight on the Creative Emmys FXX telecast.
Murphy was previously nominated for Emmys for SNL in 1983 (Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy, Variety, or Music series), 1984 (Writing in a Variety or Music Program, Outstanding Individual performance in a Variety or Music Program), and in 1999 for The PJs (Outstanding Animated Programming, Hour or Less).
Walmart, Amazon and other corporate giants donated money to the reelection campaign of a Tennessee state lawmaker who had used social media to amplify and promote the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to an Associated Press review of campaign finance records and the candidate’s posts.
The corporate support for a QAnon-promoting politician is another example of how the conspiracy theory has penetrated mainstream politics, spreading beyond its origins on internet message boards popular with right-wing extremists.
Dozens of QAnon-promoting candidates have run for federal or state offices during this election cycle. Collectively, they have raised millions of dollars from thousands of donors. Individually, however, most of them have run poorly financed campaigns with little or no corporate or party backing. Unlike state Rep. Susan Lynn, who chairs the Tennessee House finance committee, few are incumbents who can attract corporate PAC money.
Though she repeatedly posted a well-known QAnon slogan on her Twitter and Facebook accounts, Lynn told the AP in an interview Friday that she does not support the conspiracy theory.
Just when we think we know everything there is to know about the Titanic—unsinkable ship, giant iceberg, "I'm the king of the world," etc.—along comes fascinating new research that raises big questions about what really transpired on the fateful night of April 14, 1912. Did a weather fluke from space actually cause the Titanic to sink?
The new study's key finding is that the northern hemisphere was in the grips of a “moderate to severe” magnetic storm that night, which could have altered the Titanic’s navigational readings, affecting both its planned course and the information the crew shared about their location during SOS signals.
The idea is pretty simple. The sun, which is powered by an innate nuclear dynamo that’s burning at millions of degrees, is covered with sunspots. These, in turn, are punctuated by giant explosions the size of the Earth or even larger: solar flares.
If a solar flare is severe enough, marked on that historic night by the telltale Aurora Borealis, it can skew the Earth’s magnetic field and wreak havoc with magnetic instruments like compasses. Even today, solar flares interfere with the electrical grid and space traffic, and truly precious file backups may be kept in protective Faraday cages.
Zinkova posits that the impact on compasses affected the coordinates reported in distress signals. “The Titanic’s Fourth Officer Joseph Boxhall worked out the ship’s SOS position. Boxhall’s position was around 13 nautical miles (24 km) off their real position,” Zinkova writes.
Pope Francis is giving his blessing to a new Vatican think tank that is seeking to prevent the Mafia and organized crime groups from exploiting the image of the Virgin Mary for their own illicit ends.
The Vatican’s Pontifical Marian Academy launched the think tank Friday at a conference titled “Liberating Mary from the Mafia.” It was a reference to the historic relationship between the Italian mob and the Catholic Church, and the popular displays of Marian devotion by mobsters in Italy and beyond.
In a message from the pope read out at the start of the conference, held at Rome’s Museum of Civilizations, Francis said the religious and cultural image and patrimony of the Madonna “must be preserved in its original purity.”
The Catholic Church in Italy has long been associated with the Mafia, thanks in part to their post-war common cause against communism. While some Catholic priests have courageously opposed the mob — and paid for it with their lives — others have been called to explain their celebration of funerals, weddings and other sacraments for mafia dons, acceptance of their donations and participation in their religious processions.
State and federal authorities are investigating the mysterious loss of a significant swath of a rare desert wildflower that’s being considered for federal protection at a contentious mine site in Nevada with some of the largest untapped lithium deposits in the world.
The Australian mining company, Ioneer Ltd., and state biologists investigating the unprecedented incident believe small mammals most likely caused the damage to thousands of plants at the only place Tiehm’s buckwheat is known to exist.
Conservationists suspect a more sinister scenario: Somebody dug them up while federal wildlife officials consider listing the plant as an endangered species.
The Center for Biological Diversity, which petitioned to list the plant earlier this year, reported “mass destruction” at the site about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of Reno to state and federal officials Tuesday.
It estimates as many as 17,000 plants were lost — up to 40% of the entire population.
The Sicilian town of Corleone, made famous by the fictional Mafia clan in “The Godfather,” has ordered schools closed and a limited lockdown after a spate of coronavirus infections were tied to a big wedding there last week.
The city administration told all 250 guests at the Sept. 12 wedding and anyone who lives with them to self-isolate and inform their doctors and city health authorities while awaiting virus tests. In a Facebook post, Mayor Nicolò Nicolosi said he expected “maximum cooperation to overcome the current crisis.”
The town, which is part of the province of Palermo, has reported at least seven positive cases in recent days. Nicolosi said Friday that schools in Corleone and nearby towns were ordered closed because 30 of the wedding guests were students. Italian schools reopened for the first time since March on Monday.
Palermo and Sicily in general were spared the first big wave of COVID-19, which hit harder in Italy’s north. But like the rest of southern Italy, Sicily has seen a new spate of infections since August, with more than 500 of Sicily's 5,500 cases overall registered in the past three weeks.
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