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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York. What is a Shirtwaist?
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city of New York and resulted in the fourth highest loss of life from an industrial accident in U.S. history. The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers, who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling to their deaths. Most of the victims were recent Jewish and Italian immigrant women aged sixteen to twenty-three; of the victims whose age is known, the oldest victim was Providenza Panno at 48, and the youngest was 11 year old Mary Goldstein.
Because the managers had locked the doors to the stairwells and exits - a common practice at the time to prevent pilferage and unauthorized breaks - many of the workers who could not escape the burning building jumped from the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors to the streets below.
The Triangle Waist Company factory occupied the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors of the 10-story Asch Building on the northwest corner of Greene Street and Washington Place, just east of Washington Square Park, in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. Under the ownership of Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, the factory produced women's blouses, known as "shirtwaists." The factory normally employed about 500 workers, mostly young immigrant women, who worked nine hours a day on weekdays plus seven hours on Saturdays, earning between $7 and $12 a week.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
A shirtwaist was originally a separate blouse constructed like a shirt.
Alan J wrote:
a dress with the upper portion (the bodice and sleeves) fashioned like a man's shirt, with a turnover collar and buttons down the front
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
women's blouses, known as "shirtwaists"
Adam answered:
According to PBS: A popular fashion item of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the shirtwaist blouse was regarded as the model shirt for the independent, working woman. A button-down blouse, the functional shirtwaist was valued for its ready-to-wear, workplace appeal and its simple design, originally modeled on menswear shirts.
Marian replied:
women's blouse and can also describe a dress style
Dale of Diamond Springs responded:
The shirtwaist was a tailored blouse or shirt worn mainly by working-class women in the early years of the twentieth century. The shirtwaist was often worn with a fitted or looser A-line long skirt. Sometimes it was worn with a "tailor-made," which was a skirt-and-jacket suit. The shirtwaist had a rounded neck or came with a tailored collar. Many buttoned up the back, and women who could not reach behind them had to call upon a husband or female family member to close the tiny buttons. An absolute fucking tragedy! No fire escapes and doors locked! I recommend the PBS documentary American Experience : Triangle Fire (2011). Ah, there's never been any need for unions? Right???
Sally said:
As I recall, a Shirtwaist is a blouse that looks like a man's shirt - collar, pleated and/or button down front, long-sleeved, and buttoned at the wrist.
You know, school teacher style...
PS: I heard about, "The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory" fire my whole youth. It was the 911 of the day, and memorial's were staged for years thereafter. WWII refocused interest away from it, but still, it was the cartelist for changes of the manufacturing practices in the city - in most part because of the incoming UNIONS. Sadly, the changes were not in direct response to the tragedy. IOW, "We feel bad for the girls, and will offer platitudes to them, but as far as we, the owners of the factories are concerned, it's business as usual for the rest of the workers...
BttbBob responded:
A shirtwaist is a fandangled spiffy woman's blouse constructed like a man's shirt that was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries... or some such thing...
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The Triangle fire catastrophe, and others like it, are especially appalling to me on a personal gut level. See, during my 2 1/2 years working at Brooke Army Medical Center in the early 70's, I had to occasionally work in the burn unit there... it's world famous and the unit performs miracles...
... but, it's very grim business indeed... No, it's worse than that... it's awful...
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The 'sign off' photo of the upright 'Casablanca' piano made me smile. It brought back boyhood memories of a friend's family upright player-pump piano in their basement and all the time we boys spent going through and playing the not inconsiderable amount of scrolls...
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A stunning full moon last night with a big ring around it - bad weather within 3 days, I'm thinking...
MAM wrote:
A shirtwaist was originally a separate blouse constructed like a shirt. From the mid-20th century, shirtwaist referred to a dress with the upper portion (the bodice and sleeves) fashioned like a man's shirt, with a turnover collar and buttons down the front. Different embroidery were added to the shirtwaist, like rhinestones and different patterns.
And, Joe S answered:
From the Wiki: From the mid-20th century, shirtwaist referred to a dress with the upper portion (the bodice and sleeves) fashioned like a man's shirt, with a turnover collar and buttons down the front. Different embroidery were added to the shirtwaist, like rhinestones and different patterns.
But what I really want to do is speak to of this Onekama that BadtotheboneBob brought to our attention yesterday. First of all I want you to know that Onekama is the place I was raised and second of all I want to let you know it is not pronounced ONE-kama (or 1,) it is pronounced o-NEK-ama. Onekama was my father's home town, my mother was from Colorado and I was born in Colorado, but we moved to Onekama after the War, that war being Worlds War 2. We moved around a lot during the first few years of my life, in and out of Onekama. We moved back there for good in the summer before I entered Sixth Grade and stayed there.
Onekama is a wonderful place, no as good as it used to be, but still pretty damned good. The town has abundant flowing wells, artisan wells with some of the sweetest water in the world. It also has a great number of mineral springs, also free flowing, and many creeks (pronounced "cricks.") The town has a distinctive smell from the flowing wells and as soon as you come back from and extended absence you draw in a deep breath through your nostrils and say, "Home." It was a marvelous place to grow up.
This is my Sixth Grade picture, that's me in the third row back with the thin circle around my head. The girl next to the end of row 1 is Mary Alice, my first great love, she was a preacher's daughter but I loved her. The blond girl at the end of row 2 is Karen, my second great love. I think the picture was taken in 1955.
Memo to Purple Gene: Dude, I feel for ya. I really do. Thanks for "going to hell and back" to write what needed to be said. Hey, though, someone had to do it, eh? Be that as it may, you deserve a 'V' for valor. I get 'Lifetime', but no way would I ever watch that.
The thought of Lindsay Lohan as Liz is appalling... Cringe-worthy again comes to mind... But, it also brings to mind a poll. Who could possibly portray Liz the best? Take a day, or two, E! fans (I need that myself, frankly, to think it over) and send your thoughts to BCEpoll@aol.com and I'll put together a compilation...
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Big Bang Theory', followed by a FRESH'2½ Men', then a FRESH'Person Of Interest', followed by a FRESH'Elementary'.
On a RERUNDave (from 10/22/12) are Tom Hanks and Tony Bennett.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Kristin Davis and Nat Faxon.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'30 Rock', followed by a FRESH'Up All Night', then a FRESH'The Office', followed by a FRESH'Parks & Recreation', then 'Rock Center'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Newt Gingrich (R-Hair Hat), Ron Shirley, and Grouplove.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 11/8/12) are Robert Pattinson and Carrie Underwood.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 11/13/12) are Keegan-Michael Key & Jordan Peele, Buffalo Girls, and Ceremony.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Last Resort', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', then a FRESH'Scandal'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 11/14/12) are Martin Short, Suraj Sharma, and Ne-Yo.
The CW offers a FRESH'The Vampire Diaries', followed by a FRESH'Beauty & The Beast'.
Faux has a FRESH'The X Factor', followed by a FRESH'Glee'.
MY has an old 'White Collar', followed by another old 'White Collar'.
A&E has 'The First 48', another 'The First 48', followed by a FRESH'The First 48', then a FRESH'Panic: 9-1-1'.
AMC offers 'CSI: The 2nd One', followed by the movie 'Fargo', then the movie 'Casino'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 8 - Ep 11 - Matt LeBlanc, David Mitchell, Donald Sutherland, Mary Portas
[9:00AM] TORCHWOOD - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
[10:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 1 - Ep 4 - Aliens of London
[11:00AM] BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - Season 3 - Ep 2 - Precipice
[12:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 1 - Spanish Pavilion
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Handlebar
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 2 - Ep 2 - D-Place
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 11 - Fleming
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 2
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 3
[6:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 4
[7:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 5
[8:00PM] V FOR VENDETTA
[11:00PM] RICHARD HAMMOND'S CRASH COURSE - Season 2 - Ep 6 - Cattle Rancher
[12:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 4
[1:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 5
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 6
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 1
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 2
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 16 - Episode 3 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'Bad Boys II', 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Miami', and another 'Real Housewives Of Miami'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', followed by the movie 'Accepted', 'Tosh.0', and another 'Tosh.0'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart it's TBA.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Sean Carroll.
FX has the movie 'Iron Man', followed by a FRESH'It's Always Sunny In Philly', then a FRESH'The League', followed by a FRESH'BrandX With Russell Brand'.
History has '101 Gadgets That Changed The World', 'Ancient Aliens', another 'Ancient Aliens', and still another 'Ancient Aliens'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Cherish
[8:15AM] Full Frontal
[10:30AM] Teaching Mrs. Tingle
[12:30PM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-The Ultimate Holy Grail Episode
[1:45PM] Cherish
[4:00PM] Teaching Mrs. Tingle
[6:00PM] Arrested Development-Storming the Castle
[6:30PM] Arrested Development-Pier Pressure
[7:00PM] Arrested Development-Public Relations
[7:30PM] Arrested Development-Marta Complex
[8:00PM] Trapped in the Closet-Part Three
[9:00PM] Strangeland
[10:45PM] Strangeland
[12:30AM] Star Trek: First Contact
[3:00AM] What Alice Found
[5:00AM] The Larry Sanders Show-Broadcast Nudes
[5:30AM] Bunk (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00A] FREAKS AND GEEKS - Kim Kelly Is My Friend (Episode 4, Season 1)
[7:00A] Blind Date
[8:30A] Gigantic
[10:15A] The Shock Doctrine
[11:45A] Blind Date
[1:15P] Gigantic
[3:00P] The Shock Doctrine
[4:30P] This Is Not A Robbery
[5:45P] The Dancer Upstairs
[8:00P] Highlander
[10:00P] Rosemary's Baby
[12:30A] Blue Velvet
[2:45A] Rosemary's Baby
[5:15A] Always Crashing In The Same Car
[5:30A] THE MORTIFIED SESSIONS - Comic Marc Maron & Community's Gillian Jacobs (Episode 2, Season 2) (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath Of The Dragon God', followed by the movie 'Dungeons & Dragons: The Book Of Vile & Darkness'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Jason Sudeikis, Dick Van Dyke, and Nas.
Actress Evangeline Lilly, who plays the character Tauriel, poses on the red carpet at the world premiere of 'The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey' in Wellington, New Zealand, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012.
ABC is turning its first New Year's Eve without Dick Clark in four decades partly into a celebration of the showbiz impresario's life.
Clark, who did the first annual "New Year's Rockin' Eve" special on ABC in 1972, died at age 82 in April. Fergie and Jenny McCarthy will be hosts of a two-hour tribute to Clark that will air at 8 p.m. ET on New Year's Eve.
ABC said Wednesday that Ryan Seacrest will host the countdown show from Times Square, with Taylor Swift, Carly Rae Jepsen, Neon Trees, Flo Rida and Pitbull among the musical guests. Seacrest hosted the past few years with Clark making short appearances. A stroke had diminished Clark's communications skills.
Al Green, Helen Reddy and Three Dog Night performed at Clark's first New Year's special.
Singer Jimmy Buffett (front) acknowledges a member of the crowd, as Jan Scruggs of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund watches, during a groundbreaking ceremony for The Education Center at the Wall in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012.
Photo by Gary Cameron
Russia's Ivanovo region on Wednesday paid 1.5 million pounds ($2.4 million), or 15 times the estimate, for an archive of thousands of letters, photographs and recordings once belonging to leading film director Andrei Tarkovsky.
Tarkovsky, who was born in the region in 1932, is considered one of Russia's greatest film makers, directing acclaimed movies including "Andrei Rublyev", "Solaris" and "The Mirror".
The archive covers the last 20 years of the film maker's life and includes the draft of a letter to Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev from the late 1970s urging him to lift a ban on screenings of his 1966 classic Andrei Rublyev.
In 1982 he decided to leave the Soviet Union and shot "Nostalghia" (Nostalgia) in Italy and "The Sacrifice" in Sweden.
The latter was his last movie. Tarkovsky was diagnosed with cancer in 1985 and died the following year in Paris aged 54.
Oscar-winning director Milos Forman, known for works such as "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest," will be honored with a lifetime achievement award, the Directors Guild of America said on Wednesday.
Forman, 80, will receive the coveted accolade, one of the guild's highest honors, at an awards ceremony in Los Angeles on February 2.
The Czech-American director won two Academy Awards for best director, one for 1975's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and his second for 1984's "Amadeus." Both films also won Oscars for best picture.
Forman will be the 34th recipient of the DGA's lifetime achievement award in the guild's 76-year history, joining the ranks of Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and Stanley Kubrick.
It was the golden age of radio and World War II still raged when Maruja Venegas began broadcasting a show for Peru's children.
Sixty-eight years later, her "Radio Club Infantil" is still on the air, making the 97-year-old Venegas the globe's longest-running radio personality, according to Guinness World Records.
"The children of yesterday are all grown now. They've married. They are grandparents today. So it's them, the grandparents, who support me most," she told The Associated Press in an interview in her home in a middle-class district of the capital.
Venegas was a popular announcer on music programs when she launched the show on Dec. 18, 1944, at the request of government officials to entertain ailing children at a public hospital. The first commercial black and white television broadcasts were still more than a decade in the future for Peru. In the United States, "Fibber McGee and Molly" and "The Al Jolson Show" were going strong.
A Democratic campaign treasurer accused of defrauding the campaign war chests of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein and other California politicians was sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay $10.5 million in restitution on Wednesday.
Kinde Durkee, who controlled the funds of some 400 political candidates and groups, was arrested in September 2011 and charged with criminal mail fraud. She pleaded guilty in March as part of a deal with federal prosecutors.
Durkee, 59, appeared in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California and was ordered by Judge Kimberly Mueller to spend 97 months in federal custody and pay $10,529,915.76 in restitution.
The arrest of the longtime treasurer for Democratic politicians left the campaigns of a number of elected officials in disarray.
Prosecutors have said in court documents that Durkee used money siphoned from her clients to pay expenses such as the mortgage on her condominium, visits to Disneyland, charges on her credit cards, medical bills and her own firm's business costs.
Actress Anne Hathaway (2nd R) of the U.S. gestures to British director Tom Hooper (R), who sticks out his tongue at her, as actress Amanda Michelle Seyfried of the U.S. and Australian actor Hugh Jackman watch them, at a promotional event for the movie "Les Miserables" in Tokyo, Nov. 28, 2012.
Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon
An Egyptian court convicted in absentia Wednesday seven Egyptian Coptic Christians and a Florida-based American pastor, sentencing them to death on charges linked to an anti-Islam film that had sparked riots in parts of the Muslim world.
The case was seen as largely symbolic because the defendants, most of whom live in the United States, are all outside Egypt and are thus unlikely to ever face the sentence. The charges were brought in September during a wave of public outrage in Egypt over the amateur film, which was produced by an Egyptian-American Copt.
The low-budget "Innocence of Muslims," parts of which were made available online, portrays the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, womanizer and buffoon.
The man behind the film, Mark Basseley Youssef, was among those convicted. He was sentenced in a California court earlier this month to one year in federal prison for probation violations in an unrelated matter. Youssef, 55, admitted that he had used several false names in violation of his probation order and obtained a driver's license under a false name. He was on probation for a bank fraud case.
Florida-based Terry Jones, another of those sentenced, is the pastor of Dove World Outreach, a church of less than 50 members in Gainesville, Fla., not far from the University of Florida. He has said he was contacted by the filmmaker to promote the film, as well as Morris Sadek, a conservative Coptic Christian in the U.S. who posted the video clips on his website.
"That '70s Show" star Lisa Robin Kelly is free on bond after being arrested for assault.
Police in the Charlotte, N.C., suburb of Mooresville arrested the 42-year-old Kelly and 61-year-old husband Robert Joseph Gilliam after responding to a disturbance at their home Monday. Both are free on bond.
Gilliam is charged with misdemeanor assault on a female. Kelly is charged with misdemeanor assault. They were taken to the Iredell County Detention Center and released on $500 bond apiece. They have a court date of Jan. 25. It's not known if either has an attorney.
Kelly portrayed Laurie Forman, sister of Topher Grace's lead character Eric, on the FOX series, which ended in 2006. She also appeared on the TV shows "Murphy Brown" and "Married . . . With Children."
Australian comedian Barry Humphries who plays the character the Great Goblin, and his wife Lizzie Spender, pose on the red carpet at the world premiere of 'The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey' in Wellington, New Zealand, November 28, 2012.
There were no bookstores where I grew up. Wasn't one within 300 miles, and that hasn't changed.
My first year of college was at Pepperdine at their old Watts campus, and their bookstore seemed more like an afterthought - a little bungalow between Baxter Hall (one of the boy's dorms) and the tennis courts.
It was tiny, and other than some posters, it offered textbooks, over-priced office supplies, and religious tracts disparaging all other faiths.
The bookstore at Cal State Northridge, OTOH, was huge, and catered to all manners of interests.
I went in with a list of books I needed for classes, and damn near bankrupted myself in the check-out lane.
But, this was back in the 1970's, and the price of textbooks didn't necessitate a vegan diet. Picked up the texts I needed, and then courted poverty with books that intrigued me.
I couldn't believe that so many books I needed to read existed.
Anyway, one of the books I bought that first day at CSUN was 'Bizarre', compiled by Barry Humphries.
I used to move a lot, and it's one of the books that always went with me, regardless. It is one of my 'essential' books.
Here's a cartoon I like.
And while I was hip to Barry Humphries, I was totally oblivious to the whole Dame Edna-thing until relatively recently.
So, to & for all the little 'possums, here's to Barry Humphries!
An American author sued the prolific filmmaker Tyler Perry in a federal court on Tuesday, accusing him of lifting the plot of his 2012 movie, "Good Deeds," from her book.
Terri Donald, who also writes under the pseudonym TLO Red'ness, says Perry based the film on her 2007 book, "Bad Apples Can Be Good Fruit."
The lawsuit, filed in Philadelphia, says Donald sent a copy of her book to Perry's company before production on the movie began.
Donald is seeking $225,000 in initial damages as well as an injunction requiring the company to add a credit for her book in the opening and closing credits. The lawsuit also calls for the company to provide an accounting of the movie's revenues.
Less than three months after he stood as a groomsman in the wedding of two friends he had known since college in Texas, Micah Moore walked into a suburban Kansas City police department and unloaded a dark secret: He had taken the woman's life at the request of her new husband, a charismatic prayer group leader.
Police said Bethany Deaton's death initially appeared to be a suicide. Officers found a note and empty bottle of over-the-counter pain medication along with her body in a minivan parked by a lake on Oct. 30.
It wasn't until Moore confessed nearly two weeks later that police announced she had been killed. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on a first-degree murder charge Wednesday.
Moore, 23, lived with Deaton and her husband, Tyler, in a communal home shared by male members of their prayer group. He told police that several members had sexually assaulted Bethany Deaton and that they were worried she would tell someone. Moore said that's when Tyler Deaton ordered him to kill Bethany Deaton, according to a criminal complaint.
According to the criminal complaint, Moore told police that men in the house began drugging Bethany Deaton and sexually assaulting her soon after she moved in. He said she was seeing a therapist and group members became concerned she would tell the therapist about the assaults.
Moore and other men who lived in the house told police that several group members also were having sexual relations with Tyler Deaton, unbeknownst to his wife. One man, whose name was blacked out of the criminal complaint, told police that Tyler Deaton said after Bethany Deaton died that he had had a dream he killed his wife by suffocating her.
Pirelli's President Marco Tronchetti Provera (L) and Italian actress Sophia Loren pose during the arrivals for the launch of the Pirelli Calendar 2013 in Rio de Janeiro November 27, 2012.
Photo by Ricardo Moraes
An area of Arctic sea ice bigger than the United States melted this year, according the U.N. weather agency, which said the dramatic decline illustrates that climate change is happening "before our eyes."
In a report released at U.N. climate talks in the Qatari capital of Doha, the World Meteorological Organization said the Arctic ice melt was one of a myriad of extreme and record-breaking weather events to hit the planet in 2012. Droughts devastated nearly two-thirds of the United States as well western Russia and southern Europe. Floods swamped west Africa and heat waves left much of the Northern Hemisphere sweltering.
But it was the ice melt that seemed to dominate the annual climate report, with the U.N. concluding ice cover had reached "a new record low" in the area around the North Pole and that the loss from March to September was a staggering 11.83 million square kilometers (4.57 million square miles) - an area bigger than the United States.
"The alarming rate of its melt this year highlighted the far-reaching changes taking place on Earth's oceans and biosphere," WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said. "Climate change is taking place before our eyes and will continue to do so as a result of the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which have risen constantly and again reached new records."
The robed Rastafarian priest looked out over the turquoise sea off Jamaica's southeast coast and fervently described his belief that deliverance is at hand.
"Rasta church is rising," declared Priest Morant, who wore a vestment stitched with the words "The Black Christ." ''There's nothing that can turn it back."
The Rastafarian faith is indeed rising in Jamaica, where new census figures show a roughly 20 per cent increase in the number of adherents over a decade, to more than 29,000. While still a tiny sliver of the mostly Christian country's 2.7 million people, Jalani Niaah, an expert in the Rastafari movement, says the number is more like 8 to 10 per cent of the population, since many Rastas disdain nearly all government initiatives and not all would have spoken to census takers.
Founded 80 years ago by descendants of African slaves, the Rasta movement's growing appeal is attributable to its rejection of Western materialism, the scarcity of opportunities for young men in Jamaica and an increasing acceptance of it.
A melding of Old Testament teachings and Pan-Africanism, Rastafarianism emerged in colonial-era Jamaica in the 1930s out of anger over the oppression of blacks. Its message was spread by the reggae songs created by musical icons Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Burning Spear and others in the 1970s, and the movement has attracted a following among reggae-loving Americans, Europeans and Asians. Academics believe at least 1 million people practice it worldwide.
A three day old baby male Asian Elephant walks with his mother in their enclosure at Chester Zoo in Chester, northern England November 28, 2012.
Photo by Phil Noble
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