• During World War II, artist Marc Chagall left France to escape the Nazi invasion. He went to the United States, where unfortunately he refused to learn English. For a long time, Mr. Chagall refused to leave France for the United States, in part because of a lack of understanding about the country. In fact, he once asked, “Are there trees and cows in America, too?”
• Mathew B. Brady is famous because of many Civil War photographs; however, from 1858, he began to suffer from poor eyesight and relied on other photographers to focus his camera, although he set up the shot. During the Civil War, he got permission from President Abraham Lincoln to photograph the war, and he trained many photographers to help him do that. After the Battle of Gettysburg, Mr. Brady and several photographers whom he had trained took photographs of the corpses on the battlefield. If it were needed to make a photograph more dramatic, they would change the position of a corpse. Did Mr. Brady take all the photographs that have been attributed to him? Probably not. He took credit for all the photographs that the men he had trained took — something that did not make him popular with these photographers.
• Charles M. Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts, was a soldier in World War II, but fortunately saw little action. He once saw a German soldier crossing the field, so he aimed his rifle at him and pulled the trigger. The rifle did not fire — Mr. Schulz had not loaded it due to forgetfulness. Fortunately, the German soldier surrendered. Mr. Schulz also once thought some German soldiers were in an artillery emplacement, so he got ready to throw a grenade into the emplacement. However, he saw a dog go into the emplacement, so he didn’t throw the grenade because he didn’t want to kill an innocent dog. Fortunately, it turned out that no German soldiers were there. Later, Mr. Schulz said, “I guess I fought a pretty civilized war.”
• In the telling of one World War II joke, the Nazi commandant of Paris ordered Pablo Picasso to appear before him. When Picasso was ushered into the commandant’s presence, the commandant showed Picasso a reproduction of Guernica, the artist’s anti-war mural that showed German bombers’ destruction of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The commandant asked Picasso, “Did you do that?” Picasso replied, “No. You did.”
• Author Quentin Crisp used to make a living as a nude model for art classes. During World War II, a bomb fell near where he was modeling. The art students dove for the floor and relative safety, but Mr. Crisp kept on posing.
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• Many people, including straight people, love the characters of Alison Bechdel’s comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. At a wedding ceremony, one couple had a table set up to display objects representing people they wanted at the wedding, but who were not able to attend the ceremony. One of the items was a button of Mo, the central character in the comic strip (and the one based on its creator).
• Stan Lee created the Fantastic Four with such characters as Richard Reed, who acquired the ability to stretch his body like rubber, and Sue Storm, who acquired the ability to become invisible and to create force fields. When the two characters got married in the comic book, Mr. Lee had artist Jack Kirby draw the two of them as characters attending the wedding.
This love ballad with part of its lyrics sung in French, won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1967, against competition from "Born Free", "The Impossible Dream", "Somewhere My Love" and "Strangers in the Night". What is the title of this song?
"Michelle" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1965 album Rubber Soul. It was composed principally by Paul McCartney, with the middle eight co-written with John Lennon. The song is a love ballad with part of its lyrics sung in French.
At the 1967 Ivor Novello Awards, "Michelle" won in the category of "the Most Performed Work" of 1966, ahead of "Yesterday". "Michelle" won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1967, against competition from "Born Free", "The Impossible Dream", "Somewhere My Love" and "Strangers in the Night." In 1999, BMI named "Michelle" as the 42nd most performed song of the 20th century.
On 2 June 2010, after being awarded the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song by President Barack Obama in a ceremony at the White House, McCartney performed the song for Michelle Obama, who sang along from her seat. McCartney quipped, "I could be the first guy ever to be punched out by a president." Michelle Obama reportedly later told others that she could never have imagined, growing up an African-American girl on the South Side of Chicago, that someday a Beatle would sing "Michelle" to her as First Lady of the United States.
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Billy in Cypress U. $. A. was first, and correct, with:
Michelle
Randall wrote:
Michelle
Alan J answered:
Love is Blue.
mj said:
One of the Beatles quieter offerings
Michelle from Rubber Soul, I think.
Cal in Vermont replied:
"Michelle ma belle
Sont des mots
Qui vont très bien ensemble
Très bien ensemble."
If " Rubber Soul" was not the best album ever, then it was close...
Mac Mac responded:
Michelle
Roy the Libtard, living the hermit life in Tyler, TX wrote:
Happy to be back after a week's break. 1967's Grammy Song of the Year was "Michelle," by Lennon & McCartney. I think the French lines in that song called Michelle "Ma Belle," which actually had not a damned thing to do with the telephone company!
Dave said:
Michelle. A song off the Rubber Soul album, Michelle was primarily written and composed by Paul McCartney, but Paul’s and John Lennon’s agreement while with The Beatles meant all their compositions were labeled Lennon/McCartney. Rubber Soul was very successful both with the public and with critics, and Rubber Soul is rated among the band’s best albums. No singles were released, which drove the album’s sales and led to a more album oriented marketing scheme for the record industry.
Jacqueline responded:
The info I'm finding is Up Up And Away, but this doesn't fit as a love song and sung partly in French. Well, I tried.
Micki replied:
Michelle by The Beatles.
Harry M. wrote:
Michelle - Lennon/McCartney
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Michelle by the Beatles
Deborah, the Master Gardener answered:
“Michelle” by the Beatles. Not what I was expecting. In fact, given its competition, it’s rather plain.
The local wildfires have become much more local overnight. Ash collects like fine, dry snow. Visibility is awful. There’s a line about ¾ of a mile north of us that’s holding. People 3 blocks north have been evacuated. We woke up at 6 and spent a couple hours packing, taking pictures of that which we can’t take, and making the stark decisions about what to take and what we’re willing to never see again. Three of 9 bikes made the cut. First time in 34 years that we’ve been so impacted by fires; we’re sitting tight until given orders to leave. Friends can take us in with our 2 dogs; the older one is still in the hospital, recovering from a really bad bout of pancreatitis. That bill’s going to be a doozy.
Raise your hand if 2020 has been the worst decade in your life.
Dave in Tucson responded:
Written & sung by Paul McCartney & performed by The Beatles, the answer is Michelle. "Tres bon ensemble" (Very good together).
Daniel in The City replied:
“Michelle” My wife, who spells her name with one L, hates it with a passion. We agree it’s insipid drivel.
Kevin in Washington DC, wrote:
It was “Michelle” by the Beatles. A silly little song Paul used to sing in the pubs to pick up chicks, and John suggested they slap on the Rubber Soul album because they needed another song.
DJ Useo said:
I have that song on my computer, in the form of the 5th Dimensions' "Up, Up & Away". A decent enough song. I wonder what Mozart would've thought of it.
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame answered:
The answer is "Up, Up and Away."
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Tonight, Thursday:
CBS opens the night on the East Coast with a FRESH'Big Brother', followed by a RERUN'Young Sheldon', then a RERUN'The Unicorn', followed by LIVE'Dem Convention'.
CBS opens the night extra early on the left coast with LIVE'Dem Convention', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a RERUN'Young Sheldon', followed by a RERUN'The Unicorn', then the local crap that usually airs at 7pm.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert is Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Lili Reinhart and Anitta.
NBC begins the night on the East Coast with a RERUN'The Wall', followed by a RERUN'L&O: SVU', then LIVE'Dem Convention'.
NBC begins the night extra early on the left coast with LIVE'Dem Convention', followed by a RERUN'The Wall', then a RERUN'L&O: SVU', followed by the local crap that usually airs at 7pm.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Rachel Maddow, Fred Armisen, and Tiwa Savage.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Kenan Thompson, Busy Philipps, and Thomas Land.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 11/13/19) are John Cena and Bindi Irwin.
ABC starts the night on the East Coast with a RERUN'Holey Moley', followed by a RERUN'To Tell The Truth', then LIVE'Dem Convention'.
ABC starts the night extra early on the left coast with LIVE'Dem Convention', followed by a RERUN'Holey Moley', then a RERUN'To Tell The Truth', followed by the local crap that usually airs at 7pm.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel, with guest host Anthony Anderson, are Yara Shahidi, Cori Bush, and Deon Forrest.
The CW offers a FRESH'Mysteries Decoded', followed by a RERUN'Penn & Teller: Fool Us'.
Faux fills the night with a RERUN'Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours To Hell & Back'.
MY recycles an old recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Court Cam', and another 'Court Cam'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Dark Knight Rises', followed by the movie 'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Homefront
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Paradise Lost
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Crossfire
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Return to Grace
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - The Sons of Mogh
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - Bar Association
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Birthright
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Birthright
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Starship Mine
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Lessons
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - The Chase
[5:00PM] A FEW GOOD MEN
[8:00PM] THE GREEN MILE
[12:00AM] THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
[2:30AM] THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Starship Mine (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NYC', then another FRESH'Real Housewives Of NYC', and another 'Real Housewives Of NYC'.
Comedy Central has all old 'The Office' all night.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show it's The Daily Social Distancing Show.
FX has the movie 'The Fate Of The Furious', followed by the movie 'The Fate Of The Furious'.
IFC -
[6:15A] Toast of London - The Unspeakable Play
[6:45A] Toast of London - Addictive Personality
[7:15A] Toast of London - Afternoon Tea
[7:45A] K-9
[10:15A] Ghostbusters
[12:30P] Ghostbusters II
[3:00P] White House Down
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men
[1:00A] White House Down
[4:00A] Sherman's Showcase - White Music
[4:30A] Sherman's Showcase - Ray J's Showcase
[5:00A] Sherman's Showcase - Black History Month Spectacular (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] perry mason
[7:00am] perry mason
[8:00am] perry mason
[9:00am] the andy griffith show
[9:30am] the andy griffith show
[10:00am] the andy griffith show
[10:30am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am] the andy griffith show
[11:30am] the andy griffith show
[12:00pm] the andy griffith show
[12:30pm] the andy griffith show
[1:00pm] law & order
[2:00pm] law & order
[3:00pm] law & order
[4:00pm] law & order
[5:00pm] law & order
[6:00pm] law & order
[7:00pm] law & order
[8:00pm] law & order
[9:00pm] law & order
[10:00pm] law & order
[11:00pm] law & order
[12:00am] law & order
[1:00am] law & order
[2:00am] hap and leonard: mucho mojo - Mucho Mojo
[3:00am] hap and leonard: mucho mojo Ticking Mojo
[4:00am] hap and leonard: mucho mojo - Holy Mojo
[5:00am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'The Bourne Identity', followed by the movie 'The Bourne Supremacy', then the movie 'Resident Evil: The Final Chapter'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 7/16/20) is Emily Mortimer.
It was revealed tonight during Deadline’s Emmy season virtual screening of Comedy Central’s Drunk History that the Derek Waters-Jeremy Konner series will not be moving forward with a seventh season, originally ordered last summer.
The series’ sixth — and now final — season, which wrapped its run on Aug. 6, 2019, is up for three Emmy nominations, Outstanding Variety Sketch series, as well as Outstanding Costumes and Production Design for a Reality/Variety/Competition series. Drunk History, which is getting a strong push by ViacomCBS in its farewell awards season, has been nominated in the top variety sketch category every year since the category was launched in 2015.
Drunk History will continue to air around the world in various local formats. Waters, who delivered the news that the series has ended on Comedy Central, has a first-look deal with the network and will segue to working on new projects.
Season 7 of Drunk History was in pre-production and taping some of the comedian narrations when the coronavirus pandemic put a halt to all film and TV production activities in mid-March.
Unrelated to COVID, ViacomCBS’ Entertainment and Youth Group over the past several months has been reevaluating the programming strategies for all brands, charting a new path for Comedy Central.
A Breonna Taylor billboard in Louisville's Irish Hill neighborhood has been vandalized with red paint.
Drivers who were used to seeing the image of Taylor on the billboard on Lexington Road near Spring Street, one of 26 put up around the city with the police shooting victim's face on it, instead saw red paint smeared across the forehead on Tuesday morning.
The 26 billboards were put up by officials with O, The Oprah Magazine, which recently used the same image on a magazine cover.
The billboards call for the three Louisville Metro Police officers who fired their weapons the night Taylor was killed to be arrested and charged for their involvement in the case, which left the 26-year-old Black woman dead in her apartment and led to protests in Louisville and around the nation.
Almost seven in 10 Americans in a new CNN poll said the US response to the coronavirus pandemic made them feel embarrassed.
Sixty-eight percent said that, compared with 28% who said they were proud.
Democrats overwhelmingly said they were more embarrassed than proud (93% embarrassed, 5% proud), while 61% of Republicans said they were proud. The poll found that 33% of Republicans said they were embarrassed by the US response.
President Donald Trump (R-Incompetent) has repeatedly downplayed the threat of the virus despite the mounting death toll. He's taken an anti-scientific approach, repeatedly contradicting the nation's top public-health experts. The president at one point even dangerously suggested that researchers should look into injecting disinfectant as a cure, prompting companies that produce such products to forcefully warn consumers against doing so.
More recently, when confronted with the staggering six-figure death toll from coronavirus in the US, Trump said: "They are dying. That's true. And you — it is what it is."
Goodyear is offering a clarification of its policy on employees' support for political candidates as President Trump calls for a boycott.
Trump in a tweet on Wednesday urged his supporters to not buy Goodyear tires because, he wrote, "They announced a BAN ON MAGA HATS." He was referring to a report showing an image of what appeared to be a Goodyear training slide in Topeka, Kansas, listing "MAGA attire," "Blue Lives Matter," and politically-affiliated material as "unacceptable" at work, while "Black Lives Matter" and "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender pride" was listed as "acceptable."
Goodyear in a statement on Wednesday said that this image "was not created or distributed by Goodyear corporate, nor was it part of a diversity training class." The company's policy, it explained, is that employees are asked "not to engage in political campaigning of any kind in the workplace," and it discourages "forms of advocacy" at work "that fall outside the scope of racial justice and equity issues."
In reference to the presence of Blue Lives Matter on the "unacceptable" list in the viral image, Goodyear addressed beliefs the company is "anti-police." "Nothing could be further from the truth," the statement said, "and we have the upmost [sic] appreciation for the vital work police do on behalf of our shared communities."
The company's statement didn't respond directly to Trump's call for a boycott, but shortly after the president posted his tweet, Goodyear's stock fell three percent. CNN notes the irony of the president going after Goodyear after previously railing against "cancel culture" and takes note of the fact that Goodyear, according to a 2009 statement from the company, is "the exclusive tire for the presidential limo and the standard tire of the U.S. Secret Service."
Former US Department of Homeland Security Chief Miles Taylor claimed Donald Trump (R-Manbaby) was unfocused during security briefings, likening him to a distracted elementary school student.
During an interview on CNN, Mr Taylor recounted a story about an interaction with Mr Trump during which he claimed the president became fascinated by the way hurricanes spin rather than staying focused on the potential damage and loss of life the storm could cause if the White House did not act.
"We had Hurricane Florence bearing down on the United States, it was coming towards the Carolinas on the coast," he said. "We were briefing the president on the damage we expected and also our concerns about significant loss of life if he didn't tell Americans to evacuate."
Mr Taylor said initially he thought the president was intently studying the storm, and described him studying a foam board where pictures of the hurricane and its projected path were hanging.
"Then he turned to me and said 'I've got a question' ... 'do the hurricanes always spin this direction?'" Mr Taylor said. "He meant counter clockwise, that's called the Coriolis effect."
President Donald Trump (R-Nero) on Wednesday praised the supporters of QAnon, a convoluted, pro-Trump conspiracy theory, and suggested he appreciates their support of his candidacy.
Speaking during a press conference at the White House, Trump courted the support of those who put stock in the conspiracy theory, saying, “I heard that these are people that love our country.” It was Trump’s first public comment on the subject and continued a pattern of president appearing unwilling to resoundingly condemn extremists who support his candidacy.
Trump insisted he hadn’t heard much about the movement, “other than I understand they like me very much” and “it is gaining in popularity.”
Trump has retweeted QAnon-promoting accounts, and shirts and hats with QAnon symbols and slogans are not uncommon at his rallies.
An FBI bulletin last May warned that conspiracy theory-driven extremists have become a domestic terrorism threat. The bulletin specifically mentioned QAnon. Earlier last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center warned that the movement is becoming increasingly popular with anti-government extremists.
Life was trying, but it wasn't working out. As the Late Devonian period dragged on, more and more living things died out, culminating in one of the greatest mass extinction events our planet has ever witnessed, approximately 359 million years ago.
The culprit responsible for so much death may not have been local, scientists now say. In fact, it might not have even come from our Solar System.
Rather, a new study led by astrophysicist Brian Fields from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign suggests this great extinguisher of life on Earth could have been a distant and completely foreign phenomenon – a dying star, exploding far across the galaxy, many light-years away from our own remote planet.
Sometimes, mass die-offs like the Late Devonian extinction are thought to be triggered by exclusively terrestrial causes: a devastating volcanic eruption, for instance, which chokes the planet into lifelessness.
Or, it could be a deadly visitor barging in from out of town – an asteroid collision, like the kind that took out the dinosaurs. Death from space, however, could ultimately come from far more remote places.
There's a lot going on in the centre of our galaxy. The Milky Way's core is home to a supermassive black hole as massive as 4 million Suns called Sagittarius A*, and the environment around it is intense.
Blowing out from this region is a nuclear galactic wind. It's carved out two huge gamma-ray bubbles above and below the galactic plane, extending a total of 50,000 light-years into space. These Fermi bubbles are complex, containing a mix of different gases and cosmic rays.
But astronomers have just spotted something new. Within the Fermi bubbles are high-velocity clumps of cold molecular gas - the stuff that stars are made of. Even better, they're not sure how the galactic centre spat that gas out "like bullets", according to the researchers.
To find the clouds of dense, cold molecular gas, researchers studied previously identified clouds of atomic hydrogen in the bubbles, using the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment radio telescope to look for their spectral signature.
Sure enough, they found it in significant amounts: two clouds containing at least 380 and 375 solar masses' worth of molecular gas, and moving at 240 kilometres per second and 300 kilometres per second, respectively.
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