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based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … January 9

259 – Died: Saint Polyeuct, lover of Saint Nearchus. Soldiers in the Roman army and deeply attached to each other, Polyeuct and Nearchus were both stationed in Militene, Armenia. The earliest account of Polyeuct's martyrdom was written by Nearchus.

The primary thread of their story is the desire of these two friends to spend eternity together. According to the text, when the emperor issued a new edict against Christians, Nearchus was worried that, since Polyeuct was a pagan and Nearchus a Christian, his own possible martyrdom and the eventual death of Polyeuct might lead to their being in separate places in the afterlife. Polyeuct reassured him that he had long been drawn to Christianity and intended to die a Christian. With a convert's fervor, Polyeuct then attacked a pagan procession and had himself arrested. The judge turned out to be his own father-in-law, Felix, who begged him to reconsider.

Polyeuct's wife, Paulina, came to court and unsuccessfully implored him, for the sake of their marriage and their son, to change his mind. After severe tortures, he was condemned to death. Just before he was beheaded, Polyeuct saw Nearchus near. His final words to Nearchus were "Remember our secret vow."

Nearchus was later martyred, being buried alive.

Before his own death, Nearchus recorded this story, which was recounted annually at the church at Militene and eventually erected over Polyeuct's tomb in Militene. In the year 527, a great church with a gold-plated ceiling was built in Constantinople and dedicated to St. Polyeuct. Later in the same century, Gregory of Tours wrote that the most solemn oaths were usually sworn in this church; because Polyeuct had come to be considered the special heavenly protector of vows and avenger of broken promises.

1900 – Richard Halliburton (presumed dead after March 24, 1939) was an American traveler, adventurer, and author. Best known today for having swum the length of the Panama Canal and paying the lowest toll in its history—thirty-six cents—Halliburton was headline news for most of his brief career. His final and fatal adventure, an attempt to sail a Chinese junk, the Sea Dragon, across the Pacific Ocean from Hong Kong to the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco, made him legendary.

Richard Halliburton was born in Brownsville, Tennessee. The family moved to Memphis, where he spent his childhood. He attended Memphis University School. He also showed promise as a violinist, and was a fair golfer and tennis player. In 1915 Richard developed a rapid heart condition and spent some time at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, run by the innovative John Harvey Kellogg, whose philosophy of care featured regular exercise, sound nutrition, and frequent enemas.

Leaving college temporarily during 1919, Halliburton became an ordinary seaman and boarded the freighter Octorara bound from New Orleans to England. He toured historic places in London and Paris, but soon returned to Princeton to finish his schooling. Travel inspired in him a lust for more travel.

Halliburton idolized mountain climber George Mallory, who died in 1924 while trying to climb Mt. Everest. He knew and admired aviatrix Amelia Earhart. He knew journalist Lowell Thomas, who had made Lawrence of Arabia a living legend. Halliburton craved the celebrity of Rudolph Valentino, the great romantic screen star of the silent era. Richard was acquainted with and looked up to swashbuckling cinema star Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., who was also a world traveler.

Halliburton's first book, published in 1925, The Royal Road to Romance, became a bestseller. Two years later he published The Glorious Adventure, which retraced Ulysses' adventures throughout the Classical Greek world as recounted in Homer's The Odyssey, and which included his visiting the grave of English poet Rupert Brooke on the island of Skyros. In 1929 Halliburton published New Worlds To Conquer, which recounted his famous swim of the Panama Canal, and his retracing the track of Cortez' conquest of Mexico.

Halliburton's sexual associations with members of his own sex became apparent. To protect the image of heroic masculinity he had cultivated to win over an admiring public, he kept secret his true sexual orientation. He seems also to have kept it a secret from his doting parents, who longed for grandchildren from their one surviving son. Among those romantically linked to him were film star Ramón Novarro and philanthropist Noel Sullivan, both of whom shared his enjoyment of the bohemian lifestyle. Halliburton's most enduring relationship was with freelance journalist Paul Mooney, with whom he often shared living quarters and who assisted him with his written work.

In 1931 Halliburton hired pioneer aviator Moye Stephens on the strength of a handshake —for no pay, but unlimited expenses —to fly him around the world in an open cockpit biplane. The modified Stearman C-3B was named the Flying Carpet after the magic carpet of fairy tales, and this became the title of his 1932 best-seller. They embarked on "one of the most fantastic, extended air journeys ever recorded" taking 18 months to circumnavigate the globe, covering 33,660 miles (54,100 km) and visiting 34 countries.

Halliburton (R) with Moye Stephens

On March 3, 1939, Halliburton began to sail a Chinese junk across the Pacific Ocean. The Sea Dragon, a gaudily decorated 75-foot (23 m) junk, was made to his commission in the shipyards of Kowloon by cartwright Fat Kau. Emblazoned with a colorful dragon and equipped with a diesel engine, the Sea Dragon was supposed to make its maiden voyage from Hong Kong to the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco (at Treasure Island).

Three weeks out to sea on March 23 the ship encountered a typhoon. The junk was last sighted by the liner SS President Coolidge, itself battling mountainous seas some 1900 km west of Midway Island. That was the last seen the junk. After an extensive US Navy search with several ships and scout planes over thousands of square miles and many days, the effort was ended. In 1945 some wreckage identified as a rudder and believed to belong to the Sea Dragon washed ashore in California.

Missing at sea since March, Halliburton was declared dead on October 5, 1939 by the Memphis Chancery Court.

Simone de Beauvoir (R) with Jean-Paul Sartre

1908 – Simone de Beauvoir (d.1986) is best known for her revolutionary study of women's condition, The Second Sex (1949), a work that changed women's lives worldwide. In 1999, an international colloquium was held in Paris to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Second Sex. The conference included a number of papers on Beauvoir and lesbianism, a topic that, a decade earlier, would have been virtually unthinkable.

In 1990, however, when Beauvoir's journals and two volumes of her letters to Jean-Paul Sartre were made available, it became clear that Beauvoir had had a number of same-sex relationships throughout her life. These revelations, along with others, completely shattered the heretofore unassailable myth of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre as the twentieth century's most perfect couple. Today, Beauvoir's same-sex relationships are widely acknowledged, although attempts to excuse them (as "bohemian existentialist experimentation," to give but one example), in the interest of preserving Beauvoir's heterosexual image, persist.

Beauvoir was born in Paris into a bourgeois Roman Catholic family. Her family's fortunes declined after World War I, but she was nevertheless the beneficiary of an expensive private education. She then studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, where she met Sartre in 1929.

From 1931 to 1941 Beauvoir taught philosophy in secondary schools in Marseilles, Rouen, and Paris. In 1943, she published her first novel, L'Invitée, one of several fictional works dealing with her relationship with Sartre.

Although she herself seems not to have been involved in resistance efforts during the Nazi occupation of Paris, in 1945, soon after the end of World War II, she published Le Sang des autres, a novel reflecting on the question of political involvement and the French Resistance.

The feminist classic The Second Sex followed in 1949 and was eventually to make her reputation. Her strongest novel, Les Mandarins, appeared in 1954; a semiautobiographical work, it too focused on her relationship with Sartre, the subject that has preoccupied both her autobiographical works and the scholarship devoted to her life and work.

Beauvoir's same-sex relations, characterized by intense emotion and in most cases with a confirmed sexual component, likely began with Beauvoir's school friend "Zaza." Several of these relationships occurred during Beauvoir's career as a philosophy teacher during the 1930s and 1940s, and involved her students (who seemed to be the initiators, able to resist neither Beauvoir's physical nor her intellectual magnetism).

In one case, Beauvoir's rendez-vous were structured around philosophy lessons. Exasperated at having to discuss Kant before climbing into Beauvoir's bed, the student Nathalie Sorokine called Beauvoir "a clock in a refrigerator." When Sorokine's mother complained to the school, Beauvoir was fired, effectively ending her teaching career.

When Beauvoir was asked point blank in an interview if she were a lesbian, she angrily denied it. It should be noted, however, that Beauvoir tended to define things narrowly (she also claimed she was not a philosopher, again according to a strict definition). For Beauvoir, a lesbian is a woman who refuses to have anything (sexual) to do with males.

Further, Beauvoir was a major participant in the public erasure of her lesbian identity. A comparison of the unpublished diaries with published works shows a very different representation of the relationship with Zaza in Beauvoir's autobiography Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958) or of Beauvoir's lover Olga as the fictional Xavière in her novel She Came to Stay (1943). It has only recently been recognized that Beauvoir was the model for the lesbian Inès in Sartre's No Exit (1944).

In the early 1960s, Beauvoir began a relationship with Sylvie le Bon which lasted to the end of Beauvoir's life. In 1980, following Sartre's death, Beauvoir adopted Sylvie so that the latter could legally care for Beauvoir, who was to die six years later. Their relationship offers a model of the lesbian couple described theoretically in The Second Sex.

1941 – Joan Baez is nothing less than a legend, both as a folk musician and as a catalyst for social change. A singer, guitarist, and songwriter with eight gold records and six Grammy nominations thus far, Baez has long been visible as a protest figure supporting civil rights, peace efforts, and human rights through her direct activism and numerous free concerts.

Born on Staten Island, New York to a Scottish mother and Mexican-American father, Baez moved with her family to California when she was a small child. She lived in Baghdad from 1951 to 1952; there, confronted with rampant poverty and human suffering in the streets, she first realized her passion for social justice.

Baez stood out as an artistic nonconformist and peace activist in her high school in Palo Alto, California, and then at Boston University—where she remained for only a short time. She had begun playing at local coffeehouses and decided to drop out of school in 1958 to concentrate on her musical career.

Baez started playing in clubs such as Gate of Horn, which belonged to impresario (and Baez's future manager) Albert Grossman, and appearing with well-known musicians such as Pete Seeger.

In 1960 her first album, Joan Baez, was released to huge acclaim. Gifted with an extraordinarily beautiful voice, she also brought an unusual intelligence to the interpretation of folk songs, both traditional and new.

Baez became increasingly involved with the civil rights movement, using her growing fame as a means of drawing attention to a cause she believed in deeply. She especially worked in conjunction with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Dr. King's speeches and Baez's singing were a staple of demonstrations and rallies during the turbulent 1960s.

Baez also became very active in promoting nonviolence. During the Vietnam War, she visited Hanoi for thirteen days to witness the horrors of war herself, and for ten years she withheld the percentage of her income taxes that would have been put toward military expenses. In 1967, she was arrested twice—and jailed for a month—for blocking the entrance of the Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland, California.

All the while she continued recording albums in her signature clear soprano, both writing her own material and performing classic songs of resistance such as "We Shall Overcome," "Oh, Freedom," and "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?"

She founded both the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence (now The Resource Center for Nonviolence) in California in 1965 and the Humanitas International Human Rights Committee, which she headed from 1979 until its demise 13 years later.

Although she may be most famous for her civil rights and peace activism, Baez has also been prominent in the struggle for gay and lesbian rights.

She has been open about the relationship she had with a woman in 1962; in an interview a decade later, she told a reporter that she basically considered herself bisexual, a statement she stood by despite the controversy it sparked. She did marry activist David Harris in 1968, and had their son Gabe in 1969; although the couple eventually divorced, Baez never again pursued a lesbian relationship.

Still, she has been visible in the gay community; in 1978 she performed at several benefit concerts to defeat Proposition 6 (the Briggs Initiative), which proposed banning all openly gay people from teaching in the public schools of California. Later that year, she participated in memorial marches for the assassinated San Francisco city supervisor, openly gay Harvey Milk.

Alongside Janis Ian, she played a benefit for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in 1994, and has performed numerous times with the lesbian duo the Indigo Girls.

1994 – Elijah Daniel is an American comedian, rapper, and author. He became popular online through his comedy on YouTube and social media. Daniel is the author of the erotic novel Trump Temptations. His book went viral, and saw significant sales the day it was published; rising to the top of sales lists in multiple categories. Daniel's book received favorable reception. Trump Temptations became the top seller on Amazon.com in three categories: humorous erotica, LGBT erotica, and gay erotica.

Elijah Daniel was born in Detroit, Michigan. He was raised evangelical Christian. After his grandmother became ill, Daniel moved into her residence to care for her. During this period, he began to write comedy to occupy himself. He publicized his comedy work through posts on Twitter, and videos to Vine.

Daniel led an online White House petition in 2013 to make the Miley Cyrus song "Party in the U.S.A." the U.S. national anthem. It received international coverage. Starting in 2014 Elijah began hosting a weekly internet prank with CollegeHumor called Text Prank Thursday, where he would have his Twitter followers text random phone numbers saying whatever he told them to say. Daniel told Vice that he cultivated a group of followers online who appreciated his absurd and bizarre comedic antics. By 2016, his Twitter following had grown to over 95,000.

In 2016 Daniel stated on Twitter that he was going to get drunk and write an erotic novel starring Donald Trump. Daniel was inspired by a tweet which said the user wished to perform a sex act on Bernie Sanders. Daniel wrote the work as a parody of Fifty Shades of Grey. Within four hours, he had released the erotic novel titled Trump Temptations: The Billionaire & The Bellboy on Amazon. The work was Daniel's debut novel.

Trump Temptations became the number one best seller on Amazon.com in three categories: humorous erotica, LGBT erotica, and gay erotica.The book was listed on Amazon above Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James, and was featured in The Washington Post, Daily News, Los Angeles Times, GQ, Gay Star News, London Evening Standard, The Daily Telegraph, and Vice. The Guardian classed the work as part of the "small but burgeoning new genre: satirical books about Donald Trump" that began with the 2016 presidential campaign. Cosmopolitan called the book a literary success.

Daniel hired Trump impersonator Chris Ferretti to read the audiobook.

Trump biographer Marc Shapiro wrote in Trump This!, that Daniel's novel was one of the most infamous works capitalizing on interest in Trump. An article in Fortune said that Daniel displayed a Trump-like skill to capitalize on a niche demand.

After the Orlando nightclub shooting in June 2016, Daniel publicly urged on Twitter for any individual who is closeted to feel free to contact him privately for support, and he published "An open letter to the LGBT kids who feel lost and scared" on Fusion.net. The letter positively received by ATTN:, which called it a powerful commentary on the attack.

On August 30, 2017, Elijah Daniel performed a publicity stunt centered around Hell, Michigan – an unincorporated town that allows visitors to pay for the opportunity to hold the title of "mayor" for a day. In what he called "a copy-and-paste of Trump's Muslim ban", he announced a satirical law that banned heterosexuals from entering and living in the town. In response, Daniel released an edited version of The Bible called "The Holy Bible… but Gayer" two weeks later. Sales of it were briefly banned on Amazon before being restored.

2016 – When Hubert Edward Spires was twenty years old, he decided to serve his country by joining the military. Because he was a gay man in a very different time, though, he was removed through an "undesirable" discharge. On this day in 2016, the 91-year-old Connecticut man finally received the honorable discharge he was denied 68 years ago.

In 1946, he joined what was then called the U.S. Army Air Force and became a chaplain's assistant at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio. Spires quickly took to the work, which included writing letters to families worried about their loved ones, playing organ during Catholic Mass and preparing the chapel for various services. When it became known that he was a homosexual he was given an "undesirable" discharge.

Because of the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell in 2010, it became possible for Spires to apply to have the status of his discharge changed. The 91-year-old Spires filed a federal lawsuit seeking an honorable discharge so he can receive a military burial.The Air Force has changed the 91-year-old's records to an honorable discharge. Spires said, "I can go to my grave with my head held high."

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PANAMÁ...

O Panamá é um país no istmo que liga a América Central à do Sul. O Canal do Panamá, uma reconhecida proeza de engenharia, corta o centro do país, ligando os oceanos Atlântico e Pacífico e criando uma importante rota de navegação. Na capital, a Cidade do Panamá, arranha-céus modernos, cassinos e casas noturnas contrastam com as construções coloniais do distrito de Casco Viejo e com a floresta tropical do Parque Natural Metropolitano.

Confira algumas curiosidades:

1- Panamá significado, na língua indígena, "abundância de peixes, árvores e borboletas”.

2- A população do Panamá é de 4,351 milhões de habitantes, sua capital é a cidade do Panamá com cerca de 1,5 milhão de habitantes.

3- O país registrou um PIB de 63,61 bilhões USD (2021).

4- O Panamá tem mais espécies de aves do que todo o território dos Estados Unidos e Canadá. Inclusive, ao todo, são 986 registradas. Por isso, o país é tão popular como destino para observação de pássaros.

5- O Canal do Panamá é o único lugar do mundo onde os comandantes dos navios militares são obrigados a ceder o controle do barco durante a travessia. Uma equipe de 200 pilotos encarrega-se de levar os barcos de um oceano ao outro sem acidentes. O Canal do Panamá gera um terço de toda a economia do país.

6- O cargueiro Ancon foi o primeiro navio a transitar pelo Canal, em 15 de agosto de 1914.

7- A Cidade do Panamá possui o Conselho Municipal mais antigo em funcionamento contínuo do continente americano.

8- O Panamá é o único lugar do mundo que permite ver o sol nascer no Oceano Atlântico e se pôr no Oceano Pacífico. A vista é do ponto mais alto do país, o Vulcão Baru.

9- No Panamá, é possível nadar nos Oceanos Atlântico e Pacífico no mesmo dia.

10- O Panamá foi o primeiro país, além dos Estados Unidos, onde a Coca Cola foi vendida, em 1906.

11- O país também foi o primeiro na América Latina a adotar o dólar americano como moeda oficial. Inclusive, isso aconteceu em 1904, logo após sua independência da Colômbia e o acordo para a construção do Canal.

12- Nossa Senhora da Assunção, primeira cidade europeia no Pacífico americano, foi construída no Panamá, em 15 de agosto de 1516.

13- Um carimbo teve papel decisório para a construção do Canal no Panamá em vez da Nicarágua. Os senadores dos Estados Unidos decidiram pelo Panamá porque, ao ver selos postais da Nicarágua representando um dos vulcões, acharam o território panamenho mais seguro. Inclusive, o selo inclusive ainda pode ser visto no National Postal Museum, em Washington, D.C.

14- Existem 365 ilhas no Arquipélago de San Blás, no lado do Oceano Atlântico do Panamá. Portanto, isso significa que há uma ilha para ser visitada a cada dia do ano.

15- A ave nacional do Panamá é a hárpia. Inclusive, é uma das maiores espécies de águia no mundo.

16- O Panamá elegeu sua primeira presidente em 1999: Mireya Moscoso, que governou o país até 2004. A primeira vice-presidente, por sua vez, foi Isabel Saint Malo, que também atuou como Ministra das Relações Exteriores de 2014 a 2018.

17- Edward Murphy Jr. conhecido pela Lei de Murphy, nasceu na zona do Canal do Panamá, em 1918.

18- A Cidade do Panamá é a única capital que possui uma floresta tropical dentro dos limites urbanos.

19- Segundo estudos, o Homo sapiens existe por causa da mudança nos padrões climáticos causada pelo surgimento do istmo do Panamá. Sem ele, os humanos ainda viveriam nas árvores!

20- O pedágio de valor mais baixo já pago para transitar pelo Canal do Panamá foi de 36 centavos, pago pelo americano Richard Halliburton, que nadou pelo istmo em 1928.

21- O senador John McCain nasceu em Coco Solo, Panamá, em 29 de agosto de 1936.Inclusive, na época, a região fazia parte do território dos Estados Unidos no Panamá.

22- Confira algumas fotos:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnvL2skthVY/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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alwayslookingbeyond · 2 years

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» let those who wish have their respectability—i wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic. —richard halliburton

#nature #sunrise #hiking #flowers #plants #texas #trails

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jandby · 2 years

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As a kid, I read about Petra in Richard Halliburton’s “Complete Book of Marvels” and have wanted to go there ever since

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yourdailyqueer · 3 years

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Richard Halliburton (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: 9 January 1900

RIP: 24 March 1939

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Writer, traveller, journalist, public speaker

Note: Best known today for having swum the length of the Panama Canal and paying the lowest toll in its history - 36 cents in 1928.

#Richard Halliburton #lgbt history #bisexuality #lgbt #lgbtq #male #bisexual #1900 #rip #historical #white #writer #traveller #journalist #athlete #swimming #public speaker

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 3 years

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I waltzed out of bed, hornpiped to my bath, boleroed into my clothes, fandangoed to breakfast, cancaned out the front door, and mazurkaed down the street in search of those mad, mad pipes.

[Richard Halliburton: from the "Royal Road to Romance"]

#quotes #words and writing #Richard Halliburton

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Wish List Wednesday

Let's talk about Richard Halliburton [1900-1939 [??])

I bet you didn't learn about Richard in history class. I'm a history buff, and I didn't either.

Rejecting marriage, family, and a host of other conventions of the day, Halliburton became an adventurer (no school guidance counselor offered me this as an option and I remain bitter), dedicating his first book to his Princeton roommates. He sought a "vivid life" and, by all accounts, achieved one, becoming a famous traveler whose writings thrilled those of us who prefer our armchairs until his disappearance in an attempt to sail a Chinese junk across the Pacific. Today, we would probably call him bisexual and his romances and flings were and remain part of his legend.

There have been several titles written about Halliburton but the one I would like to add to my collection (it's too much money, so on the wish list it stays) is this one:

What titles are you wishing for, readers? Tune in tomorrow for Topical Thursday and don't forget to send your thoughts, requests, topic, recommendations, etc.

#richard halliburton #my reading life #wish list wednesday

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itsnothingbutluck · 3 years

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Richard Halliburton: the lightest “ship” to ever transit the Panama Canal.

Question: In 1928, writer and adventurer Richard Halliburton paid a toll of 36 cents—the lowest in the history of this body of water—to complete what historic swim?

Answer: A full transit of the Panama Canal

Richard Halliburton made a career of traveling the world and writing books about his adventures. He famously said, in response to his father’s plea for him to settle down, “I’ll be especially happy if I am spared a stupid, common death in bed.” Indeed, his own death in 1939 was anything but. He perished in an attempt to sail a Chinese junk across the Pacific.

Before his demise, Halliburton’s pursuits included an around-the-world biplane flight and a Mediterranean journey that followed the path of Homer’s Odyssey. But despite the grand scope of many of his expeditions, history best remembers him for swimming the 48-mile length of the Panama Canal, which took 50 hours over ten days.

While Halliburton was neither the first nor the fastest swimmer to accomplish the feat, he was the first to travel through all three sets of locks. In doing so, according to newspaper accounts, “it required as much mechanical labor to bring Halliburton, the lightest ship in Canal history, through the locks as it did for the 40,000-ton airplane carrier Saratoga, the heaviest. Charges for the passage were made in accordance with the ton rate, and Halliburton, weighing 150 pounds, paid just 36 cents.” Today, the average toll is $54,000, and the most expensive toll in history—so far—was $375,600, paid by the Norwegian Pearl...

#Strong Swimmers #richard halliburton

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Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic. ― Richard Halliburton

#Richard Halliburton #Richard Halliburton quotes #Richard Halliburton romantic quotes #romantic quotes #LoveQuotes

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🌟✨ Celebrating Visionaries: Joan Baez, Richard Halliburton, and Simone de Beauvoir ✨🌟

Today, we pay homage to three remarkable souls whose contributions to music, exploration, and philosophy have left an indelible mark on our world. 🌍🎶

🌹 Joan Baez - The Voice of Activism:

Born on January 9, 1941, Joan Baez has graced our hearts with her soul-stirring folk music. Her melodic voice became a symbol of protest during the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War era. Her commitment to justice and peace continues to inspire generations.

🌍 Richard Halliburton - The Adventurous Explorer:

On January 9, 1900, the life and extraordinary journey of Richard Halliburton began. He traveled the globe, scaling mountains, and retracing the steps of historical figures. His travel writing brought the world closer to readers, igniting wanderlust in countless souls.

📚 Simone de Beauvoir - The Existential Intellectual:

Born on January 9, 1908, Simone de Beauvoir was a pioneering philosopher, novelist, and feminist. Her groundbreaking work, "The Second Sex," laid the foundation for modern feminist theory. She challenged societal norms, advocating for women's autonomy and equality.

As we celebrate the birthdays of these visionaries, let us remember the power of music, the allure of exploration, and the significance of questioning the status quo. Their legacies remind us that the pursuit of justice, knowledge, and self-expression knows no bounds.

Happy Birthday to Joan Baez, Richard Halliburton, and Simone de Beauvoir! 🎂🌹🌍 Let their contributions to the world continue to inspire and shape our journey through life. 🎶🌄📚

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why-bless-your-heart · 2 years

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My grandfather gave me a copy of my great-grandmother's reading list, which she wrote up when she was 19. She also left little reviews for most of these, but for now I'm just sharing the book titles.

Microbe hunters - Paul de Kruf

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

The Opinions of Anatole France

The Dark Journey - Julein Green

The Highest up - Mary Roberts Rinehart

It's A Racket! - Hostetter, Besley

The Royal Road to Romance - Richard Halliburton

New Worlds to Conquer - Richard Halliburton

Rasputin: The Holy Devil - Rene Fulop-Miller

Tar: A Midwest Childhood - Sherwood Anderson

Thunder on the Left - Christopher Morley

The Chicken-Wagon Family - Barry Benefield

The Arrow - Christopher Morley

One of Ours - Willa Cather

The American Language - H.L. Mencken

Henry I - William Shakespeare

Playing With Love - Arthur Schnitzler

The Professor's House - Willa Cather

That Man Heine - Lewis Browne

The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche - Anatole France

The Glorious Adventure - Richard Halliburton

Bashan and I - Thomas Mann, translated by Herman G Scheffauer

Comedies of Words and Other Plays - Arthur Schnitzler, translated by Pierre Loving

Before Dawn - Gerhart Hauptmann

Note from Mama L: The play is graphic, clear cut and beautiful. Every person is perfectly drawn - I had never heard of dipsomania. Why didn't they call it tipsomania?

Europe After 8:15 - Willard Huntington Wright, George Jean Nathan, H. L. Mencken, Thomas H. Benton

Happiness in Marriage - Margaret Sanger

Marriage in the Modern Manner, Ira S Wile and Mary Day Winn

Note from Mama L: [These] are both junk books, very poorly written with nothing to say. The most interesting thing in the first one is Truman's notations on the margin. (Go off, Mama L!)

The Road to the Open - Arthur Schnitzler, translated by Horace Samuel.

Gold - Jakob Wassermann, translated by Louise Collier Wilcox

Anthology of World Poetry - Mark Van Woren

The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism - George Bernard Shaw

Essays on Russian Novels - William Lyon Phelps

Poems of Home

The Joy of Living - Hermann Sudermann

Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann

Anthology Of World Poetry - Mark Van Doren

Marriage and Morals - Bertrand Russell

The Three-Cornered Hat - Pedro Antonio de Alarcon

The Outcast - Luigi Pirandello

Story of Philosophy - Will Durant

Open All Night - Paul Morand

The Growth of a Soul - August Strindburg

The American Public Mind - Peter Odegard

Il Duce: The Life and Work of Benito Mussolini - L. Kemechey

Treatise on the Gods - HL Mencken

The Rise of American Civilization - Chas & Mary Beard

The Beaver Coat - Gerhart Hauptmann

The Conflagration - Gerhart Hauptmann

The Weavers - Gerhart Hauptmann

The Child of Pleasure - Gabriele D'Annunzio

The Philosophical Way of Life - T.U. Smith

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemmingway

Factors in the Sex Life of Twenty-two Hundred Women - K.B. Davis

Peacock Pie - Walter De La Mare

Reading With A Purpose: Russian Literature - Avraham Yarmolinsky

Trivia - Logan Pearsall Smith

In Defense of Women - H.L. Mencken

Imperial Palace - Arnold Bennett

Apple Sauce - Ina Michael

Grand Hotel - Vicki Baum

Lola: Or, the Thought and Speech of Animals - Henny Kindermann

Great American Short Stories

Salammbo - Gustave Flaubert

A Simple Soul - Gustave Flaubert

Collected Parodies - Louis Untermeyer

What I Believe - Bertrand Russel

Hypatia: Or, Woman and Knowledge - Dora Russell

A Variety of Things - Max Beerbohm

The Marks of an Educated Man - E.A. Wiggam

The Dramatic Works of Moliere

Michael Kramer - Gerhart Hauptmann

The Water Gypsies - A.P. Herbert

A Tale of Brittany - Pierre Loti

Father - Elizabeth Von Armen

Wanderers - Knut Hamson

Children and Fools - Thomas Mann

Twentieth Century Poetry - Drinkwater, Canby, and Benet

Modern Greek Stories

Madam Chrysantheme - Pierre Loti

The Department Store: A Novel To Today - Margarete Bohme

The Confessions of A Fool - August Strindberg

Tales from the Fjeld - P.C. Asbjornsen, translated by Sir George Dasent

The Twilight of the Souls - Louis Couperus

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson

A Handy Guide for Beggars - Vachel Lindsay

Weird Tales - Eta Hoffmann

The Philosopher's Stone - J. Anker Laresen

#She's definitely where I get my reading from #My grandparents were... not good at their job #so my dad got a lot of his nurturing from her #she would give him books as gifts every occasion #Mama L's Booklist

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