• Dancer Ida Rubinstein was immensely wealthy. Her estate had greenhouses growing flowers of many different colors, and her flower gardens were designed so that the flowers could be replaced so that their color would match the color of her dress when she was entertaining. In addition, she filled a room with rows and rows of boxes set on shelves. Each box contained a hat, a pair of gloves, and a pair of shoes in matching colors.
• American dance pioneer Ted Shawn traveled the world looking for inspiration for new dances. While in Rangoon, he watched some Burmese dancers. A man in the audience threw some money on the stage, and a dancer picked the money up. The man in the audience yelled, “What do I get for that?” The dancer put the money in her bodice, then replied, “Only a receipt.”
• Caroline Otéro, a dancer, once advised Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, a dancer and writer, “Don’t forget, there is always a moment in a man’s life, even if he’s a miser, when he opens his hands wide ….” Ms. Colette guessed, “In the moment of passion?” Ms. Otéro replied, “No — the moment when you twist his wrist.”
• Getting money for dates can be tough. The young composer Giacomo Puccini once pawned his coat to get enough money to take a ballerina out.
• Dancer Ann Pennington felt that the best writer in the world was George White — because he wrote her paychecks.
Mothers
• When dancer Norma Miller was born on December 2, 1919 (before the days of Welfare), her father had recently died, and things were tough. Her mother, an African American, had a hard time trying to work and raise an infant at the same time, so she decided to put her daughter in an orphanage. However, at the orphanage, a little girl pulled on her skirt and asked if she was her Mama. This made her think about her daughter wondering who her mother was, and she said, “I’ve changed my mind. I’ll suck salt before I’ll ever leave my children in an orphanage. I’ll never separate us ever!” She kept her word, and she kept her family together.
• As a boy, Patrick Healey-Kay — better known as Anton Dolin — studied under Mme. Seraphina Astafieva. Her way of pointing out mistakes was to rap her dancers on the legs. Her very best dancers were the ones who got the most raps because she wanted them to correct their mistakes and improve their dancing. Pat’s mother once said, “Pat must have pleased her greatly because his legs were always black and blue!”
Movies
• While touring with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, dancers sometimes whiled away the time before a performance by watching a movie — often the movie was being shown in the same theater they would dance in later that night. One day, the Ballet Russe manager, David Libidins, became irate because the film was still being shown when the stage should have been in the process of being prepared for the ballet that night. Although the movie theater manager told him that an audience was still watching the movie, he strode to the front of the theater, and ordered that the lights be turned on. When they were turned on, he was astonished to see that the audience for the movie consisted solely of ballet dancers. For a long time after that, the ballet dancers were forbidden to watch movies.
• Peggygene Evans had a career dancing in the early days of the talkies — and in silent movies. Her manager was her Aunt Ida, who made sure to protect her from Hollywood producers’ casting couches. Whenever Aunt Ida negotiated a deal, she always asked, “Now, are there any strings attached?” If strings were attached, no deal was made. Ms. Evans danced in Lon Chaney’s Phantom of the Opera, and she danced in the first talkie, The Jazz Singer. The 4-foot-11 woman had a childlike quality and when she was 44 years old, she was able to double for 10-year-old Shirley Temple in the dance scenes for The Little Princess.
Born Mary Jane West in 1893, this American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, and comedian was one of the most controversial movie stars of her day. Known for her lighthearted, bawdy double entendres and breezy sexual independence, what is the name of this woman whose career spanned seven decades?
Written and originally recorded by Johnny Nash in 1972, this song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, and in 1993, it became Jimmy Cliff's highest-charting single in the United States. What is the title of this song?
"I Can See Clearly Now" is a song originally recorded by Johnny Nash. It was a single from the album of the same name and achieved success in the United States and the United Kingdom when it was released in 1972, reaching number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and Cash Box charts. It also reached number one in Canada and South Africa. The song has been covered by many artists throughout the years, including a hit version by Lee Towers where it reached the Top 20 in 1982 charting at No. 19 and another hit version in 1993 by Jimmy Cliff, who re-recorded the song for the motion picture soundtrack of Cool Runnings, where it also reached the Top 20 at No. 18 on the Billboard Hot 100.
After Nash wrote and composed the original version, he recorded it in London with members of the Fabulous Five Inc. and produced it himself. Composed in the key of D major with a I-IV-V chord progression, the song's arrangements and style are both heavily laced with reggae influences. Nash had collaborated with Bob Marley earlier, and his approach drew strongly from Marley's reggae style.
After making modest chart advances for a month, the RIAA-certified gold single unexpectedly took only two weeks to vault from No. 20 to No. 5 to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 4, 1972, remaining atop this chart for four weeks, and also spent the same four weeks atop the adult contemporary chart.
Jamaican reggae singer Jimmy Cliff recorded a cover of the song for the 1993 movie Cool Runnings. It was released as a single in 1993, reaching No. 18 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was Cliff's first single to make the Hot 100 in 25 years and is his highest-charting single in the United States. The song reached No. 1 in France, Iceland, and New Zealand. The music video for this version was directed by Academy Award nominated film director, Scott Hamilton Kennedy.
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"I Can See Clearly Now"
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I Can See Clearly Now
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I Can See Clearly Now.
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I Can See Clearly Now.
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“I Can See Clearly Now”
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I Can See Clearly Now. While in Jamaica, Johnny Nash signed Bob Marley to a record contract in 1967.
Photos: Johnny Nash, American singer- songwriter- producer- actor | Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician and actor
Kevin K. in Washington DC, Where Republicans cannot see sedition clearly, even now, wrote:
Gee, I dunno. Memory so foggy. No, wait! “I Can See Clearly Now”.
Jacqueline said:
I Can See Clearly Now. I guessed right, but looked it up anyway.
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ah'm a gonna go with.....
my Wed AM guess o’ the week….I Can See Clearly Now…..that’s it…no encyclopedia, no wikiness…just me n my brain (or whatever the fuck is left of it…)….ahhhhhh, covfefe time once again…..
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
I Can See Clearly Now
Daniel in The City answered:
I Can See Clearly Now
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I Can See Clearly Now.
Deborah, the Master Gardener responded:
It’s gotta be “I Can See Clearly Now.” And no, the rain hasn’t gone. It’s doubled-down. Nice to actually have winter weather for a change.k
Cal in Vermont said:
"I Can See Clearly Now". One of those songs greater than the sum of it's parts.
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I Can See Clearly Now was not my first guess, but there you go.
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Tweet--Having a great time with people telling me the Republican Party will “normalize” after Trump and watching Boebert make carrying a gun into Congress her platform, Cawthorn role play a fascist, and Huckabee Sanders run on turning Arkansas into a theocratic state.
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We are all only temporarily able bodied.
Another lovely afternoon at the laundromat-of-the-darned.
Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'Young Sheldon', followed by another RERUN'Young Sheldon', then a RERUN'Mom', followed by a FRESH'The Unicorn', then a RERUN'Star Trek: Discovery'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Viggo Mortensen and Charles Blow.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Carey Mulligan and Jhene Aiko.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Mr. Mayor', followed by a FRESH'Superstore', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU', followed by 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Keegan-Michael Key, Terry Gross, and Fontaines D.C.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Desus & Mero, and Ryan Shazier.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh is Mary Holland.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Celebrity Wheel Of Fortune', followed by a FRESH'The Chase', then a FRESH'The Hustler'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Michelle Pfeiffer, George Lopez, and Arlo Parks.
The CW offers a FRESH'Walker', followed by a FRESH'Legacies'.
Faux has a FRESH'Hell's Kitchen', followed by a FRESH'Call Me Kat', then a FRESH'Last Man Standing'.
MY here fills the night with LIVE'NHL Hockey'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Killer Cases'.
AMC offers the movie 'True Lies', followed by the movie 'Lethal Weapon', then the movie 'Lethal Weapon 2'.
BBC -
[6:00AM - 11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
[12:00PM - 7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
[8:00PM] ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES
[10:00PM] ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES
[12:00AM] SLEEPY HOLLOW
[2:30AM] SLEEPY HOLLOW
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Southern Charm', followed by a FRESH'Southern Charm', then another FRESH'Southern Charm', followed by a FRESH'Summer House', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
FX has the movie 'Kingsman: The Secret Service', followed by the movie 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle'.
History has 'Swamp People: Serpent Invasion', another 'Swamp People: Serpent Invasion', followed by a FRESH'Swamp People: Serpent Invasion', then a FRESH'Mountain Men'.
IFC -
[6:00am - 9:30am] Community
[10:00am - 1:30pm] Parks And Recreation
[2:00pm - 5:30pm] Three's Company
[6:00pm - 12:30am] Two And A Half Men
[1:00am - 3:30am] Parks And Recreation
[4:00am - 5:30am] Community (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am - 9:40am] the andy griffith show
[10:15am] breakfast at tiffany's
[1:00pm - 1:00am] law & order
[2:00am - 5:00am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Law Abiding Citizen', followed by the movie 'Ant-Man', and 'Resident Alien'.
About those wooly mittens that U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders wore to the presidential inauguration, sparking endless quirky memes across social media? They’ve helped to raise $1.8 million in the last five days for charitable organizations in Sanders’ home state of Vermont, the independent senator announced Wednesday.
The sum comes from the sale of merchandise with the Jan. 20 image of him sitting with his arms and legs crossed, clad in his brown parka and recycled wool mittens.
Sanders put the first of the so-called “Chairman Sanders” merchandise, including T-shirts, sweatshirts and stickers, on his campaign website Thursday night and the first run sold out in less than 30 minutes, he said. More merchandise was added over the weekend and sold out by Monday morning, he said.
The groups that will benefit from the proceeds of the “Chairman Sanders” items include Area Agencies on Aging to fund Meals on Wheels throughout Vermont, Vermont community action agencies, Feeding Chittenden, Chill Foundation, senior centers in Vermont and Bi-State Primary Care for dental care improvements in the state, Sanders’ office said.
Getty Images confirmed that it will donate its proceeds as part of the licensing agreement to put the photo on the merchandise to Meals on Wheels of America.
A German classical music foundation says it has found the rightful heirs of a Jewish woman who was forced by the Nazis to sell two scores by composer Franz Liszt before being deported to a concentration camp.
Klassik Stiftung Weimar said Wednesday that researchers were able to trace relatives of Emma Frankenbacher living in Argentina, where her daughter and son-in-law had fled Nazi persecution in the 1930s.
Frankenberger, who died at 67 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, sold the two handwritten manuscripts to a Liszt museum in 1937 for 150 Reichsmark (about $370 at the time).
Such transactions are usually considered forced sales, as Jews had no other option to but to agree to often very low prices.
The foundation said it has now reached an agreement with the heirs to buy the scores for the museum. It didn’t disclose the purchase price.
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney reportedly wants to keep some of the damage done during the US Capitol insurrection on 6 January.
An aide to Mr Romney told NBC News correspondent Leigh Ann Caldwell that the senator thought it would be wise to maintain some of the damage done to the US Capitol on the day of the attack to keep the incident fresh in the lawmakers' minds.
While many Republican lawmakers spoke out against the violence at the Capitol, Mr Romney was one of the few who directly blamed Donald Trump for inciting the attack.
"We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States," Mr Romney said in a statement.
"Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy. They will be remembered for their role in this shameful episode in American history. That will be their legacy," he said.
Humanity is perilously close to catastrophe, according to a group of scientists that said the coronavirus pandemic, coupled with growing threats from climate change and nuclear weapons, is pushing civilization close to a human-caused apocalypse.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced on Wednesday that its symbolic Doomsday Clock remains at 100 seconds to midnight, the same as last year. That's the closest the timepiece has been to symbolic doom in the more than 70 years of its existence.
The clock doesn't function as a prediction of calamity but rather represents humanity’s perceived proximity to human-caused catastrophe. The Bulletin has maintained the Doomsday Clock since 1947, and it has become a stark visual metaphor since its launch during the Cold War, when the clock's hands were set at seven minutes to midnight.
Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, said the pandemic has functioned as a "historic wake-up call," and one that revealed how many governments and international organizations are unprepared to handle complex and dangerous challenges.
"In this time of genuine crisis, governments around the world too often abdicated responsibility, ignored scientific advice, did not cooperate to communicate effectively and consequently failed to protect the health and welfare of their citizens," she said Wednesday in a news briefing.
The US Department of Homeland Security declared a nationwide terrorism alert Wednesday, citing the potential threat from domestic anti-government extremists opposed to Joe Biden as president.
"Information suggests that some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence," the department said.
The National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin said a heightened threat of attack "will persist in the weeks following the successful presidential inauguration," which took place on January 20.
The alert said there had been mounting threats since last year from domestic violent extremists motivated by Covid-19 restrictions, Biden's defeat of Donald Trump in the November election, police brutality and illegal immigration.
DHS said these motivations could remain in place for the coming months and that the January 6 attack by Trump supporters on Congress could embolden extremists "to target elected officials and government facilities."
A massive Anglo-Saxon burial site has been uncovered in Northamptonshire in the U.K. Nearby, archaeologists also discovered a 4,000-year-old Bronze Age burial site.
The archaeologists uncovered a total of 154 Anglo-Saxon burials, dating back around 1,500 years, holding nearly 3,000 objects, from weapons to jewelry.
A nearby Anglo-Saxon settlement also held 42 structures that were approximately 1,500 years old. The Anglo-Saxon period lasted for about 600 years from about 410 to 1066, when migrants settled in England, so the new discovery would have dated to the early part of that period.
Older finds at the site included 46 prehistoric burials and seven structures — three burial mounds called barrows and four buildings — dating back to the Bronze Age, which lasted from about 2300 B.C. to 800 B.C. in Britain. The treasure trove of artifacts provides a snapshot of how these ancient people lived and died.
The site was only discovered when several companies began developing a new housing estate near the small village of Overstone. Archaeologists from the Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) carried out the site excavation, which was funded by the housing companies that bought the land, Barratt and David Wilson Homes.
Researchers have discovered a common martian mineral deep within an ice core from Antarctica. The find suggests the mineral—a brittle, yellow-brown substance known as jarosite—was forged the same way on both Earth and Mars: from dust trapped within ancient ice deposits. It also reveals how important these glaciers were on the Red Planet: Not only did they carve valleys, the researchers say, but they also helped create the very stuff Mars is made of.
Jarosite was first spotted on Mars in 2004, when the NASA Opportunity rover rolled over fine-grained layers of it. The discovery made headlines because jarosite needs water to form, along with iron, sulfate, potassium, and acidic conditions.
These requirements aren’t easily satisfied on Mars, and scientists began to theorize how the mineral could have become so abundant. Some thought it may have been left behind by the evaporation of small amounts of salty, acidic water. But the alkaline basalt rocks in Mars’s crust would have neutralized the acidic moisture, says Giovanni Baccolo, a geologist at the University of Milan-Bicocca and lead author on the new study.
On Earth, jarosite can be found in piles of mining waste that have been exposed to air and rain, but it’s not common. No one expected to find it in Antarctica, and Baccolo wasn’t hunting for it. Instead, he was searching for minerals that might indicate ice age cycles within the layers of a 1620-meter-long ice core, which record thousands of years of Earth’s history. But in the core’s deepest ice, he came across strange dust particles that he thought might be jarosite.
To confirm the mineral’s identity, Baccolo and his collaborators measured how it absorbed x-rays. They also examined grains under powerful electron microscopes, confirming it was jarosite. The particles were also noticeably cracked and devoid of sharp edges, a sign that they had formed and eroded from chemical assaults in pockets within the ice, the researchers report this month in Nature Communications.
Humans may be fascinated by cubes, but only one animal poops them: the bare-nosed wombat. This furry Australian marsupial squeezes out nearly 100 six-sided turds every day—an ability that has long mystified scientists. Now, researchers say they have uncovered how the wombat intestine creates this exceptional excrement.
The bare-nosed wombat (Vombatus ursinus), which weighs up to 35 kilograms, lives in the grassy plains and eucalyptus forests of Australia, where it spends its nights grazing on plants and its days in underground tunnels. It’s a territorial animal, leaving its unusual droppings as a calling card. But how does such sharp-sided scat come from a round anus?
To get to the bottom of the mystery, scientists dissected a wombat that had died after being hit by a car. They examined the intestines and found that they contain two grooves where the guts are more elastic, which the team first reported in 2018.
In the new study, the researchers dissected two further wombats and tested the guts’ layers of muscle and tissue, finding regions of varied thickness and stiffness. They then created a 2D mathematical model to simulate how the regions expand and contract with the rhythms of digestion. The intestinal sections contract over several days, squeezing the poop as the gut pulls nutrients and water out of the feces, the team reports today in the aptly titled journal Soft Matter.
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