#april napier

[sesiondemadrugada]

May December (Todd Haynes, 2023).

#may december #todd haynes #natalie portman #julianne moore #samy burch #alex mechanik #Affonso Gonçalves #Christopher Blauvelt #sam lisenco #april napier #jess royal

[techaddictsuk]

Raw Justice (1994)

Raw Justice is a simple, direct-to-video flick that is a product of its time featuring an exceptional cast of B-Movie greats, constant action and a peppering of nudity.  #movies #review #pamelaanderson

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#April Bogenschutz #Baywatch #Charles Napier #David A. Prior #David Keith #Good Cop Bad Cop #Leo Rossi #Pamela Anderson #Raw Justice #Robert Hays #Stacy Keach #Ted Prior

[help-i-need-a-cool-username]

I got bored so i did some research on Bruce Wayne's kids. Feel free to let me know if i missed any or wrongly added one (last updated April 2023)

Someone: how many kids do you have?

Bruce: legally, biologically, or emotionally?

The answer is 42 children

Key

bold = the "main" kids

* = at some point this timeline and/or universe was "erased" from existence

** = ambiguous universe (ex: was it a alt timeline or just a dream?)

Legally

aka adopted and/or fostered at some point in time

Dick Grayson

Jason Todd

Tim Drake

Cassandra Cain

Duke Thomas

Jarro

Alina Shelley (Batman: The Dark Prince Charming)

Lance Bruner* (Earth-One)

Turner Hayes (Gotham Knights)

Kal-El (Batman: Last Knight on Earth)

Roger Burnim Jr.* (Brave and the Bold #98)

Nyesha Burroughs Wayne** (Batman '89)

Stepchildren

Jackie Napier (mother: Harley Quinn) (Batman: White Knight)

Bryce Napier (mother: Harley Quinn) (Batman: White Knight)

Stephanie Trevor (mother: Diana) (Batman/Superman Generations)

Biologically

Mother = Talia al Ghul

Damian Wayne

Athanasia al Ghul (Injustice)

Tallant Wayne (Batman: League of Batman)

Ibn al Xu'ffasch (Earth-22)

Unnamed Son

Mother = Selina Kyle (Catwoman)

Helena Wayne (Earth-2)

Aion**

Bruce Wayne Jr.** (Batman ’89)

Tivali Wayne** (Batman ’89)

Mother = Diana (Wonder Woman)

Kull (Dark Nights: Death Metal)

"Batman" (JLA #90)

"Batwoman" (JLA #90)

Mother = Other

Bruce Wayne Jr. (mother: Kathy Kane) (Earth-154)

Bruce Wayne Jr. (mother: Unnamed Wife) (Earth-3839)

Kiki Wayne* (mother: Helen)

Genetically Engineered

Terry McGinnis (Batman Beyond)

Matt McGinnis (Batman Beyond)

Emotionally

aka other people Bruce has mentored/gotten attached to

Barbara Gordon

Stephanie Brown

Harper Row

Cullen Row

Carrie Kelly

Rui Aramiya (Batman and the Justice League)

Barbara Wilson (Batman and Robin (1997) movie)

Drake Winston (Batman ’89)

Mia “Maps” Mizoguchi

Claire Clover

#hinacu dc #batman #dc #batfam #bruce wayne #batkids #multiverse #dc multiverse #robin #batgirl #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #damian wayne #cassandra cain #barbara gordon #stephanie brown

[napoleonic-sexyman-tournament]

So, I saw that you had no propaganda for the Iron Duke himself and thought that should be corrected, because I cannot let this man go unloved.

He is the ultimate sexyman. I don't really get that title or the requirements but I do know this man and he is the ultimate in Regency-era sexiness.

Field Marshal Sir Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington, whose full list of titles merits its own Wikipedia page, he had so many (including Prince of Waterloo of the Kingdom of the Netherlands), was so well known for his debonairness that he was often called "the Beau" or Beau Wellesley.

Our dear Duke with his eyes of "a brilliant light blue," is quite the underdog made good. The fourth son of an Anglo-Irish aristocratic family, he was a bit of a loner as a child, whose star was eclipsed by the academic success of his older and younger brothers. Yet he had a remarkable talent for the violin, which as we know from Mrs. Jefferson is quite a good quality for a man to have. As a young man he was considered extremely good humored and drew "much attention" from female society. The Napiers of Celbridge thought he was a "saucy stripling" and he was also considered quite mischievous. Yet he also had a rich inner life, reading and contemplating the great philosophers of the day.

Yes, we know about his military victories in the Peninsula (the position of Field Marshal of the British Army and the accompanying baton were created for him) and his success at Waterloo, but he was also both romantic and a ladies' man. (I could go on about the military success but that's not really what this is about, is it?)

Want the romantic side? He fell in love with Kitty Pakenham while a lowly aide-de-camp in Dublin but, with no real position or prospects, was laughed away by her brother when he sought to marry her. In a fit of pique he destroyed his violin and turned firmly toward progressing his career. Over a decade later, after he had made something of himself in India, he learned she hadn't married, supposedly because she was still pining for him. Reader, he married her, despite thinking she'd grown ugly, and got two children from her in less than two years. I'm not kidding, this man was virile. They married in April of 1806, their first son was born in February, 1807, and their second son was born in January 1808. Although he wasn't sexual faithful to her, Wellington wore an amulet she gave him for over twenty years, and was still wearing it when he sat with her on her deathbed. When she was surprised he still wore it, he told her if she'd just bothered to check in the last twenty years, she'd have found it. Despite surviving her by twenty years, the Duke never remarried.

Now, please don't think badly of him for the lack of sexual fidelity. It was the Georgian era. Sexual fidelity was not a part of marriage in high society. Men didn't sleep only with their wives and some wives could be quite happy with that (for one, it's much easier not to have one pregnancy after another when your husband is sleeping with someone else). Not that women weren't also sleeping around. Which brings me to one of Wellington's more... interesting conquests: Lady Caroline Lamb, wife of William Lamb (the future Second Viscount Melbourne and Prime Minister). Why do I know that name, you ask? The OG pixie manic dream girl, Caro's much more notably known for her affair with Lord Byron. After that particular bit of nonsense, she was in Brussels with the rest of the English aristocracy during the 100 Days/post Waterloo. She and the Duke supposedly slept together and she took his cloak away as a souvenir.

Who else did the Duke liaise with? Well, there were the usual flings with actresses and singers, such as La Grassini. As previously noted in another post on this tumblr, he was noted as a stronger, better lover than Napoleon by another of their mutual lovers. Wellington also was a client of Harriette Wilson. He visited her when she was in Paris after the Duke of Beaufort bought her off, though this was before Beaufort stopped paying her, prompting her to publish her memoirs. She canvassed her old lovers, including Wellington, to see if they'd pay her not to be in them. Wellington send her a note in return saying "Publish and be Damned." Something about his succinct dismissal of her is just so hot.

Oh, want a bit more of Wellington being a bad boy? In 1829, while Prime Minister, he got into a duel that still is commemorated almost two hundred years later. King's College, London, was set up while Wellington was also advocating for Catholic Emancipation and this led to Lord Winchilsea publicly insulting Wellington's honor to the point that the Duke (who'd never dueled before or supported dueling generally) called him out. They went to Battersea Fields and settled the matter with pistols. Wellington won and Winchelsea apologized. King's College celebrates "Duel Day" every March.

Even better, want to read about Elizabeth Bennet and the Duke being witty and falling in love? Complete with scenes of the Duke showing he knows what to do with his cannon? Then let me recommend the third variation of An Ever Fixed Mark, A Dalliance with the Duke. I dare you not to vote for him for all eternity with that portrayal in your head.

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#extensive wellington propaganda

[thatshowthingstarted]

A 19th Century Abyssinian shield,

The circular dome shield made from hide and decorated in blind, with white metal strapwork and floral appliquets, the central boss engraved description "Magdala 13th April 1868", the reverse with carrying handle,

52cms diameter.

Lord Napier led the expedition of 1868 against Emperor Tewodros II of Abyssinia (modern day Ethiopia). The Abyssinian ruler was holding a number of Protestant missionaries hostage, in his mountain capital of Magdala, as well as two British diplomats who had attempted to negotiate their freedom.

After months of planning, the advance guard of engineers landed at Zula on the Red Sea to constuct a port on 30th October 1867; Napier himself arrived in Zula 2nd January 1868, on the 25th January 1868 Napier led his group south to Ethiopian highlands.

After traversing 400 miles of mountainess terrain in inhospitable weather, Napier's troops reached the foot of Magdala on the 9th April 1868, and the next day, defeated the 9000 troops still loyal to Tewodros at the battle of Magdala for the loss of only two British lives.

Although Emperor Tewodros II surrender his hostages and made repeated efforts for a negotiated surrender, the distrustful Napier pressed on and ordered an assault on the mountain redoubt on 13th April 1868. The British captured Magdala and Emperor Tewodros killed himself. Napier then ordered the destruction of Tewodros' artillery and the burning of Madgala as retribution. This included the expedition and its troops looting many local artifacts which they took back to Britian.

Napier was elevated to the peerage as Baron Napier of Magdala on 11th July 1868 and granted annuity and ammunity for life.

Courtesy: Anderson and Garland

#art #history #design #style #sculpture #antiquity #19th century #imperial #africa #african history #african heritage #tewodros II #magdala #shield #abyssinian #ethiopia #colonialism #colonial violence #napier #anderson&garland

[scotianostra]

April 11th 1882 we saw an incident during the Highland Clearances happened on Skye that has become known as The Battle of the Braes.

Lord MacDonald sought help from the law to evict the stubborn crofters, and in April 1882 the locals woke to the sight of a sheriff officer. Charged with issuing eviction notices, the sheriff was met with an angry reaction and forced to burn the notices.

Following this initial confrontation, reinforcements were requested from Glasgow. 50 police officers travelled to Skye with the intention of evicting the crofters, who once again stood their ground.

Arriving at Braes, the police were faced down by a mob of around 100 men, woman and children from the local community, many of whom were armed with an array of primitive weapons. Wielding clubs, sticks and stones, the Battle of the Braes erupted and the crofters clashed with the police.

Several people were injured in the Battle of the Braes while others were arrested and subsequently fined for their involvement. Despite the outcome, the crofters still stood firm in their refusals and military intervention was considered.

The Battle of the Braes sparked similar unrest elsewhere in Skye, with locals in Glendale incensed at the treatment of other islanders.

Notably, the incident prompted a public outcry. Sympathetic press coverage of the dispute galvanised widespread support for the crofters. Sensing the mood, the government refused to authorise military intervention and a commission was launched to examine the plight of the crofters.

The Napier Commission, chaired by Lord Francis Napier, ultimately led to the introduction of new legislation aimed at improving security for crofters via the Crofters Act of 1886.

The Act was modelled largely on the Irish Land Acts of 1870 and 1881 and granted crofters security of tenure.

Today, the Battle of the Braes is a celebrated event in both the history of Skye and broader Scottish history. A monument commemorates the efforts of the crofters while a popular folk song also celebrates the event.

#scotland #scottish #history #isle of skye #civil unrest #the highland clearances

[vintagesffantasyactors]

As promised, now that we're a few days out from the final submissions deadline, here is a list of all the actors who have been submitted and will be in the bracket so far! If you submitted someone and they aren't on this list, there is a chance I felt they fell into that category of not really having a super strong connection to sci fi/fantasy generally and where the roles noted for them weren't necessarily roles that they're very well known for, or in a couple of cases there were people submitted where the work listed for them was all post 2000. But there were only a very small handful of actors like that; I think almost everyone submitted should be on here.

The final deadline for submissions will still be April 27th. I'll make another post before the polls start with the finalized list of actors for the tournament.

The current list of actors is below:

Bruce Campbell

Tom Baker

Leonard Nimoy

Alex Winter

Mandy Patinkin

Gene Wilder

Jeff Goldblum

Danny John-Jules

Ricardo Montalban

Miloš Kopecký

Tim Curry

William Russell

William Forward

Michael O'Hare

Richard Biggs

Ed Wasser

Michael J Fox

Alec Guinness

Keanu Reeves

Colm Meaney

Clancy Brown

Jeff Conaway

Haruo Nakajima

Paul Darrow

Peter Jurasik

Stephen Furst

Scott Bakula

Andreas Katsulas

René Auberjonois

Armin Shimerman

Donald Sutherland

Kurt Russell

Christopher Lloyd

Jerry Doyle

Fredric March

Alexander Siddig

Bill Pullman

Arnold Vosloo

Keir Dullea

Lionel Jeffries

Buster Crabbe

Boris Karloff

DeForest Kelley

Laurence Fishburne

Ray Bolger

Jeffrey Combs

Andrew Robinson

Michael Dorn

Peter MacNicol

Richard Dean Anderson

Kyle McLachlan

Sam Neill

Mark Hamill

LeVar Burton

James Spader

Peter Weller

John de Lancie

Bruce Boxleitner

Avery Brooks

Jonathan Frakes

Patrick Stewart

Patrick McGoohan

Charlton Heston

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Wesley Snipes

Billy Dee Williams

Bela Lugosi

Val Kilmer

David Bowie

Dick Van Dyke

Doug Jones

Oded Fehr

David Duchovny

Jerry O'Connell

Mitch Pileggi

Michael Shanks

Nicholas Lea

James Doohan

George Takei

Leslie Nielsen

Warwick Davis

Vladimir Korenev

Walter Koenig

Garrett Wang

Rutger Hauer

Rick Moranis

Will Smith

Harrison Ford

Gareth Thomas

William Shatner

Ben Browder

Claude Rains

Tim Russ

Colin Clive

Brent Spiner

Peter Davison

Michael York

Nicol Williamson

James Marsters

Frazer Hines

Nicholas Courtney

Cary Elwes

Chris Sarandon

Lance Henriksen

Bill Paxton

Christopher Reeve

Christopher Lee

Peter Cushing

Raul Julia

Brendan Fraser

Rod Serling

Paul McGann

Anthony Stewart Head

Karl Urban

James Stewart

Mark Goddard

Guy Williams

Alan Rickman

Gary Conway

Vincent Price

Edward James Olmos

John Philip Law

Kerwin Matthews

Patrick Troughton

Ken Marshall

Patrick Swayze

Peter Capaldi

Andre the Giant

Cesar Romero

David Boreanaz

Alan Napier

Roger Delgado

Georges Méliès

Harry Hamlin

Duncan Regehr

Joe Morton

Ernie Hudson

#not a poll #sffantasy mens tournament #announcements

[noelcollection]

The Noel Collection has recently acquired a volume of the Lady’s Magazine containing the issues from Jan. 1790 to Jan. 1791! We hope you enjoy the calligraphic inscription of a previous owner as well as some highlights from the May 1790 issue.

Calligraphic inscription of Elizabeth Brown, a former reader of this book!

An engraving illustration titled “The Escape,” showing Maria and her two children on their way to escape an murder plot devised by Fanny Freeman, her lover’s vindictive wife. The accompanying text reads:

“...it was necessary for her to pass through a wood. The point she had in view employed her mind too much to let her think of interruptions from any monster, in the shape of men, during her progress through it. Yet she could not help stopping, now and then, and looking about her; and sometimes starting, when she heard a rustling noise, occasioned by the brisk blowing of the wind over the trees…” 

A glee in tribute to the owl, in three-part harmony. 

Several poetic riddles (unfortunately without an answer key).

An exhilarating recounting of the great Victualling Office fire on April 10 at Plymouth. A pile of thousands of bundles of brushwood ignited, and it took four engines two hours to put it out. 

Birth notices, including that of Sir Thomas Erskine Napier (son of Captain Charles Napier), who would go on to serve in the British Army’s 52nd  Regiment of Foot during the Napoleonic Wars.

Last but not least, the notice of the passing of Henry Joseph Dabzac, the Irish academician who taught Mathematics, Greek, History, and Law before concluding his life as a principal librarian at Trinity College Dublin. 

Images from:

The Lady's Magazine. London: Robinson and Roberts, May 1790. Catalog record: https://bit.ly/3nLKrkB

#rare books #special collections #magazine #calligraphy #music #engraving

[flurryheaven]

2024 Costume Designers Guild Awards Excellence in Contemporary Film - Nominations

American Fiction (MGM) Costume Designer: Rudy Mance Assistant Costume Designer: Tyler Kinney

May December (Netflix) Costume Designer: April Napier Assistant Costume Designer: Hunter Hamilton

NYAD (Netflix) Costume Designer: Kelli Jones Assistant Costume Designer: Molly Mitchell

Renfield (Universal) Costume Designer: Lisa Lovaas Assistant Costume Designer: Allison Venrick

Saltburn (Prime Video) Costume Designer: Sophie Canale

#costume designers awards #film #costume design #nominations #american fiction #may december #nyad #renfield #saltburn #costumes #best costumes in film

[lboogie1906]

Attorney Zephaniah Alexander Looby (April 8, 1899 - March 24, 1972) was among the small cadre of African American lawyers who began practicing in the southern United States during the 1920s and 1930s. Often considered the “second generation of Black attorneys,” these lawyers followed the first cadre of African Americans who began practicing in the 1880s. They provided much of the legal work that led to the dismantling of segregation in the late 20th Century.

He was born in Antigua and immigrated to the US in 1914 after the death of his father. He earned a BA from Howard University and a JD from Columbia University. He came to Fisk University to work as an Assistant Professor of Economics. He was admitted to the Tennessee bar and practiced in Memphis for three years. He married Grafta Mosby (1934), a Memphis schoolteacher. He returned to Nashville and helped found the Kent College for Law for African Americans.

He entered politics in 1940 when he was narrowly defeated for a position on the Nashville City Council. In 1951, he was elected to the council along with fellow lawyer Robert E. Lillard. They were the first African Americans to serve on the council since 1911.

He was president of the James C. Napier Bar Association (1943-45) an organization of African American attorneys. He worked with Thurgood Marshall on the NAACP-sponsored defense of twenty-three African Americans who had been charged with murder following race riots in Columbia, Tennessee. All of the defendants were acquitted. He filed the first desegregation suit against the Nashville public schools. When the student sit-ins began in Nashville in 1960 he became their first attorney, an action that resulted in his home being dynamited later that year. He and his family were uninjured in the attack. In 1962 he lost a bid to become the first African American elected to the Tennessee Supreme Court.

He remained on the Nashville City Council for twenty years before retiring in 1971. He was a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. His life and works are commemorated by a Nashville library and community center named after him. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #omegapsiphi

[loveydovey-leviathan]

Below is a list of events happening in New Zealand in support of Palestine. All events can be found on the official PSNA website (Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa).

North Island Opononi – Gathering for Palestine Sunday 28 April 1:30 pm Outside the Four Square, Opononi Kerikeri, Bay of Islands - Rally Rally on the First Saturday of the month from now on Next Rally Saturday May 4 Whangarei – Rally Saturday 27 April 11:00 am Whangārei Town Basin in front of Hundertwasser Building  Auckland – TVNZ Picket – TVNZ’s Jack Tame Platforming Genocide Friday 26 April 12:00 mid-day TVNZ - 100 Victoria Street West Auckland  Auckland – Banners around Tamaki Makaurau Saturday 27 April (Delayed from last week due to high winds) 10:00 am Gather at the Market Road Overbridge. Plans to go to (dependant on numbers):

Pedestrian motorway overbridge at Mauranui Ave – Dilworth Road

Omahu Road overbridge

Text Steve on 021 256 511 For further details Auckland – Rally Sunday 28 April 2:00 pm Te Komititanga – Britomart Square Tauranga – Rally Every second Sunday. Next Rally Saturday May 4 10:30 am Watch this space Tauranga – Flag waving Sunday 28 April 11:00 am Coronation Park, Mount Maunganui Hamilton - Rally Saturday 27 April 1:00 pm Flynn Park, Hamilton Rotorua – Flags for Todd McClay Thursday 25 April 4:00 pm National MP Todd McClays Office - 1301 Amohau St, Rotorua Napier - Rally Saturday 27 April 11:30 am Marine Parade Soundshell Roundabout Hastings - Rally Sunday 28 April 2:00 pm Hastings Town Clock – Hastings CBD Palmerston North - Rally Sunday 28 April 2:00 pm The Square, Palmerston North New Plymouth – Flags on the Bridge Friday 26 April 4:30 pm Paynters Ave Bridge, New Plymouth New Plymouth – Rally Saturday 27 April 1:00 pm The Landing, 1 Ariki Street, New Plymouth Whanganui - Rally Saturday 27 April 11:00 am Riverside Market, Whanganui Whanganui – (Kite) Flying Prayers for Palestine Sunday 28 April 1:00 – 2:00 pm Castlecliff Beach Carterton Every Tuesday 12:00 midday Memorial Square. Martinborough – Gathering for Palestine Every Wednesday 11:00 am The square at the top of Kitchener St, Martinborough Featherston Every Saturday 11:00 am The Squircle (opposite the op shop). Wellington No Rally this weekend South Island Nelson – Rally Check out the Te Tau Ihu Palestine Solidarity Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TeTIPalestine/ Takaka – Information and Networking Gathering Saturday 27 April 10:30 am Village Green, Takaka Blenheim Saturday 27 April 11:00 am Blenheim Railway Station Christchurch – Rally Saturday 27 April 1:00 pm Bridge of Remembrance, Cashel Street Dunedin - Rally Saturday 27 April 2:00 pm Otago Museum Reserve to the Octagon, Dunedin Queenstown - Rally NOTE – Next Sunday May 5 1:00 pm Earnslaw Park, Queenstown Invercargill - Rally Friday 26 April 5:30 pm Wachner place Invercargill

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There will also be a PSNA National Meeting 18/19 May 2024 in Auckland.

#palestine #free palestine #palestine solidarity #palestine aotearoa solidarity

[usafphantom2]

#onthisday in 1946 the first Hawker Sea Fury Mk X flew. Powered by the Bristol Centaurus 18 engine the Mk X had a top speed of 465 mph, range of 710 miles with a service ceiling of 36,000 ft.

@classicwarbirds via X

Hawker Sea Fury | Classic Warbirds

The Sea Fury had its roots in the Hawker Tempest Mk III, which would become the Hawker Fury to meet Specification F.2/42, then to meet a revised Specification F.2/43. The Royal Navy were also interested in the aircraft and the design was modified to meet Royal Navy Specification N.7/43. Hawker would work on the Royal Air Force design, named the Fury, while Boulton Paul would work on the naval version, the Sea Fury.

Six prototypes had been ordered by the end of 1943, with one kept back to be used as a test airframe. Two would be powered by the Rolls-Royce Griffon engine, another two powered by the Bristol Centaurus XXII engine and the final prototype would have the Bristol Centaurus XII engine. The 1st September 1944 saw the first of the prototypes fly, when the Bristol Centaurus XII engined version made its first flight. This was followed a couple of months later by one of the Rolls-Royce Griffon powered prototypes which flew on the 27th November 1944, with a Napier Sabre VII engine replacing the Rolls-Royce Griffon fitted to the aircraft later on.

During April 1944 production contracts were placed for 200 Hawker Furys for the Royal Air Force and 200 Hawker Sea Furys for the Fleet Air Arm, of which Boulton Paul would build 100. As the Second World War (1939 – 1945) ended the RAF cancelled their order, but development of the Sea Fury carried on. The first Sea Fury prototype flew on the 21st February 1945 powered by the Bristol Centaurus XII engine and featured an arrester hook. It wouldn't be for another eight months until the first fully navalised Hawker Sea Fury prototype flew when, powered by a Bristol Centaurus XV engine, it took to the skies on the 12th October 1945.

During January 1945 the Boulton Paul contract for 100 Sea Furys had been cancelled which left 100 on order. Half of these were completed as Sea Fury Mk Xs, with the first example flying on the 7th September 1946, and the third aircraft was sent to HMS Victorious (R38) during late 1946, early 1947 for trials. Powered by the Bristol Centaurus 18 engine the Sea Fury Mk X had a top speed of 465 mph, range of 710 miles with a service ceiling of 36,000 ft. Armament was four 20mm cannons. The Sea Fury entered service in August 1947, when No. 803 Naval Air Squadron, Royal Canadian Navy received the type to replace their Supermarine Seafires, with Nos. 778 and 787 Naval Air Squadron of the Fleet Air Arm receiving theirs the next month.

The Sea Fury FB.11 was the next variant and was the most produced. Powered by a 2,480-hp Bristol Centaurus 18 engine, it had a top speed of 460 mph, range of 700 miles and a service ceiling of 35,800 ft. Armament consisted of four 20mm cannons, twelve 3-in rocket projectiles and 2,000lb bombs.

The Hawker Sea Fury, along with the Fairey Firefly, would provide the 'heavy attack' element for the Royal Navy and would be used during the Korean War (1950 – 1953) and a Sea Fury shot down a MiG-15 on the 9th August 1952. One of the few piston-engined aircraft to shoot down a jet aircraft.

By the time production ended 860 Hawker Sea Furys had been built and it was the last piston-engined fighter to serve with the Fleet Air Arm, staying in service until 1953. A number of aircraft were also converted to Sea Fury T.20 two-seater trainers during 1950.

Technical Details

Click on the aircraft image to view a larger version.

Top Speed Range Service Ceiling Armament

Sea Fury Mk X 465 mph 710 miles 36,000 ft four 20mm cannons

Sea Fury FB.11 460 mph 700 miles 35,800 ft four 20mm cannons

twelve 3-in rocket projectiles

2,000lb bombs

Sea Fury FB.11 side profile image

Sea Fury T.20 Two-seat trainer version.

Sea Fury F.50 Designation given to fighter version exported to the Netherlands.

Sea Fury FB.51 Designation given to fighter-bomber version exported to the Netherlands.

Sea Fury FB.60 Designation given to fighter-bomber version exported to Pakistan.

Sea Fury T.61 Two-seater trainer version.

#Youtube

[popculturebuffet]

Ghostbusters 1984 review: Dickless for 40 Years and Running! (Comissioned by Weird Kev)

Hello all you happy people and welcome to the start of our look at ghost busters! Kev's a fan, i'm a fan, your a literal sentient fan that eats children to survive. We're all fans here.

In 1980 Dan Akroyd drove his car into columbia pictures with a dream.. to make a film about his love of ghosts and since he wouldn't leave they sent director ivan reitman to get him to. Instead Ivan agreed with the dream and agreed to not have columbia pictures, which he was mayor of, to press charges. They then went to get their friend Harold Ramis who was, ironically trapped in the phantom zone and with the help of mon el they freed him and all 4 escaped.

Then they had to spend a year curing MOn El's led poisning but unfortuatnely failed and had ot send him to the future. With their venkman gone, they instead went with Bill Murray, who had just finished up being a consuler at a summer camp by the time the summer of 81 rolled around. They had three but they needed a fourth. So the four set out on an epic quest to find their fourth ghostbuster. So they arrived in Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So they tied an onion to their belts, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Give me five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now, where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was they had an onion on their belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.

Any ways they soon found ernie hudson but he was in the thrall of the shadow king so to free him Murray winged him real godo with a boot and then a now free enrie threw him into the sun.

With that production began, but soon mysterious murders began just like what happened in woodsburo a few years ago, and bill murray sadly died confronting ghostface. To revivie him our heroes went back in time and managed to save him and unmask ghostface early, but marty mcfly's parents ceased to exist, so they went back again only to make a world ruled by apes. This was satisfactory enough for a while but when the apes decreed ghosts and all depecitons of them banned our heroes went back AGAIN and finally got a timeline that worked well enough. Bill Murray was a transformer now of course and ernie hudson could turn water into flame, but those were okay. Dan Akroyd, who was now a cartoon dog wrote a new draft, the studio loved it and thus ghostbusters was born.

They cast an all star cast: Some Guy as Walter Peck, some other guy as the mayor, Segornye Weaver who had an uneventful year but wasn't about to tell the cartoon dog, and Rick Moranis, who had his own epic quest with best friend and great white north co-star dave thomas to save the world that we'll get to some other day. THe film was a hit, created a franchise and here we are so join me under the cut will ya.

So the film begins with famous outlaws Billy the Kid and Belle Starr rising from the dead. Depsite having died a decade apart and billy having been about 20 and belle 40, they both look middle aged as they plan to rustle cattle, there apparnetly being no beef in the afterlife

We'll deal with that terror as we get our title sequence, as Ray Jay Parker junior.. sorry three old white men sing the ghost busters theme. All three are here KOng, the leader, Spencer, the dumb one dressed like jack napier for some reason and Tracy, the gorilla who wears hats.

Their the ghost busters, they caper after ghosts and work out of an apartment in what could only be new york. So after the opening they have some banter i've blocked out because I want to live and sad to say it hasn't held up well> Speaking of holding up I can't really keep this up so

APRIL FOOLS BITCHES

Yeah bad news, we will not be covering the 1984 classic ghostbusters.. till October. Yeah this is a hell of a way to do it but in october we'll be starting a yearly look at one of the best comedy franchises around, Ghostbusters, starting with the original timeline: Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, the video game and the first arc of the idw comic. And possibly a brucey bonus as we have an extra week.

To kick this off we decided to look not at the movies.. but at the OTHER ghost busters... the 1975 live action filmation show starring two guys from f troop and a guy in a gorilla suit who dick around an office, get a call from some guy named zero, and then bust ghosts.

This show is also why the real ghostbusters are called that: Filmation made the BOLD choice to do thier own cartoon based on the 70's show to cash in, Columbia said HELL NO, and since they coudln't get it stopped (It was within filmation's rights) instead named theirs the REAL GHOSTBUSTERS. And it was. We'll look at the other one next year for now let's talk about the live action show

The reason I couldn't hold up the gag is simple: The Ghost Busters... is pain. It is deep hurting. it is grief in telvision form. The Ghost Busters.. is lame. Or, at the very least the episode Kev choose by roulette wheel , they went thataway is. Kev is also now barred from using a randomizer for at least a review or two. Sorry kev.

I thought it might at least have a chuckle, I mean it's a series with a giant gorilla and their chasing cowboys. This had to be at least a LITTLE fun right? right?

I mean ... it was a LITTLE fun as Tracy the gorilla.. is genuinely a delight. He throws a man upside down when he tries cheating him in a coin toss, wears delightful hats, and somehow makes a giant propellor work on a model airlplane. Is the schitch he does all that funny? no. Is he still charming anyway because it's a gorilla? yes. Sadly we do NOT get to see a fake gorilla drive a fake car.

The fact a fake gorilla doing mildly amusing schtick is the only thing this episode did that was remotely amusing should tell you to RUN SAVE YOURSELVES FOR THE LOVE OF GOD RUN. RUN. NEVER LOOK BACK. RUN. RUNNNNNN.

But since you didn't take my warning if your onto this paragraph, let the misery continue: While I can enjoy a corny joke on occasion, The Ghost Busters is the corniest of jokes. It is the lamest of ideas. It is just 20 solid minute of dad jokes without the charm of being told by an actual dad. We get a joke where the cowboys ask if Spencer , the idiot of the group wants to wet his whistle.. AND THEN HE DIPS IT IN WATER. GET IT. GET IT. GET IT. GET IT GET...

Every fucking joke is like that: a pun without any sense of irony or whimsy that makes a pun tolerable.

The actual premise is also just.. not funny. Cowboys want to rustle up cattle because hell apparently has none. Maybe that's why theirs so many delightful 40's cannibals, we don't know. So they want to go cattle rustling but DOHOHOHO THEIRS NO CATTLE IN THE CITY and they make soup but it's warm despite no fire because she LEFT IT ON TWICE AS LONG DOHOHOHO. i'm dying inside because this show is inane DOHOHOHOHO.

I"m.. not exaggerating. I'm a forgiving man: I find the good in most stuff I review even fi I don't like it. I try to be positive: it's why most stuff I review or get comissioned for is stuff that's GOOD. And even the mediocre or bad I can still usually find something but this show has a gorilla with hats and NOTHING else. Kong and Spencer have the "schemer guy and idiot" schtick you've seen a million times. The jokes are trite as hell and were played out in 1975 to the point i'm baffled this came out in the 70's. It was aimed at kids sure but kids aren't THIS stupid. I thought given the gorilla it'd at least be goofy fun or so bad it's good.. but it's just nothing. I'm struggling to find things to say that aren't "I died a little on the inside watching this".

The actual "plot" is paper thin, which is fine for a comedy if it's actually funny. To use a refrence to the good ghostbusters, Meatballs, from the same director, is good. it's also a lot of scenes of dicking around with teens. But the bill murray jokes, his friendship with chris makepiece, the jokes that do work, that makin it dance scene.. it has more than enough to compensate. It also has a truly awful scene I skip every time that acts like consent don't exist.

This is just "dick around with cowboys", "Dick around till they go to get the call from ghost man", dick around with cowboys again" , "Dick around a bit after getting their assigment' , "Dick around and pretend to be cowboys", "Catch ghosts embarassingly easy while billy the kid humps the air". The only clever or notable things are the fact the ghosts randomly age and that Bella gets a happy ending as they at least cooked her a meal first.

So yeah this was 25 minutes of my life i'll never get back. I wish I had more to say but this is just.. nothing. Maybe the dracula or frankenstien episodes have more I don't know, and I don't care. This was a MASSIVE disapointment and hopefully the cartoon willl be better. Thanks for reading.

#ghostbusters #bill murray #ernie hudson #harold ramis #dan arkoyd #the ghost busters #filmation

[royal-diaries-podcast]

Dejazmatch Alemayehu Tewodros, Prince Alemayehu/Alamayou of Ethiopia (23 April 1861 – 14 November 1879)

Reginald Easton (1807-93) 'Alamaiou, aged 7 years, son of Theodore, King of Abyssinia' Inscribed 1868 

Dejazmatch Alemayehu Tewodros, often referred to as HIH Prince Alemayehu or Alamayou of Ethiopia (23 April 1861 – 14 November 1879) was the son of Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia. Emperor Tewodros II committed suicide after his defeat by the British, led by Sir Robert Napier, at the conclusion of the British Expedition to Abyssinia in 1868. Alemayehu's mother was Empress Tiruwork Wube. 

Prince Alamayou, son of King Theodore, from album 'Expedition to Abyssinia, 1867–68' April-May 1868

After the Battle of Magdala, the young prince was taken to Britain, under the care of Captain Tristram Speedy.  This decision was apparently made in the fear that the Prince's life would be in jeopardy from an aspirant for the Empire of Abyssinia.  Upon the arrival of the little Prince's party in Alexandria, Speedy dismissed the entire Ethiopian entourage of the Prince much to their distress and they returned to Ethiopia. 

Prince Alemayehu, as photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron at the Isle of Wight in 1868. 

While staying at Speedy's home on the Isle of Wight he was introduced to Queen Victoria at her home at Osborne House. She took a great interest in his life and education. He died at the age of 18 in 1879. Queen Victoria mentioned the death of the young prince in her diary, saying what a good and kind boy he had been and how sad it was that he should die so far from his family. She also mentioned how very unhappy the prince had been, and how conscious he was of people staring at him because of his colour.   

Prince Alemayehu as a young man. Photograph by Edward Hall Speight of Rugby.

Queen Victoria arranged for Alamayehu to be buried at Windsor Castle. A brass plaque in the nave of St George's chapel commemorates him and bears the words "I was a stranger and ye took me in", but Alamayehu's body is buried in a brick vault outside the chapel. In 2007, the Ethiopian government requested the return of Alemayehu's remains for reburial in Ethiopia.

#alemayehu #ethiopian history #queen victoria #british colonialism #british empire #Victoria: May Blossom of Britannia #prince alemayehu

[scotianostra]

On April 4th 1617 John Napier, the mathematician, died.

I hated maths with a vengeance at school, I'm not talking about counting, I can hold my own with that, but real maths. algebra, geometry, topology and worst of all logarithms, which we have Robert Napier to "thank" for, he introduced them in the early 17th century as a means to simplify calculations, aye right!

If John Napier had been born a common man he would maybe have been burnt at the stake, nothing to do with him and his maths nonsense but because he dabbled in the occult at a time when we were routinely setting such people on fire!

James VI was on the throne and his obsession with devilry consigned hundreds of unfortunates to the flames. Unless you were born of a noble family of course. A wee bit background on the Napier's his father was Sir Archibald Napier of Merchiston Castle, and his mother was Janet Bothwell, daughter of the politician and judge Francis Bothwell, Lord of Session, and a sister of Adam Bothwell who became the Bishop of Orkney. Archibald Napier was 16 years old when John Napier was born. John, as was the common practice for members of the nobility at that time, he was privately tutored and did not have formal education until he was 13, when he was sent to St Salvator's College, St Andrews. He dropped out of Uni and toured Europe for a time before returning to Scotland aged 21.

Back to his links with sorcery, several members of John Napier’s family – respected and wealthy participants of Edinburgh society - were commonly known to be wizards or sorcerers. Their necromantic power was feared by nobles as well as peasants from far and wide.

The family wizardry started with Napier's father, Sir Archibald, seventh Laird of Merchiston, who successfully predicted when Mary, then the former Queen of Scotland, would leave Lochleven Castle, where she was imprisoned. The story goes: "Claude Nan, the Queen's secretary, wrote that 'the Laird of Markyston (Sir Archibald), who had the reputation of being a great wizard, made bets with several persons to the amount of five hundred crowns, that by the 5th of May Her Majesty would be out of Lochleven." Mary escaped on 2 May 1568 – and the senior Napier was presumably wealthier for his prediction.

Sir Archibald married Janet Bothwell, sister of Adam, Bishop of Orkney, who the paper said was "a notorious necromancer", so that their son, the future mathematician, inherited "a double inclination towards the magic arts". This might explain some of John's odd behaviour. A necromancer is a wizard or magician by the way, I had to google it!

Tenants who lived on the vast Merchiston estate south-west of Edinburgh thought John to be a bit mysterious at times, Napier would be seen many evenings wearing a long gown, pacing outside his tower chamber, a private work area where he often would pass many long hours alone.

Many people thought that his pet black cockerel was a familiar – a supernatural being which assisted witches and wizards in their magical practice. However, the Napier family held the hereditary role of King’s Poulterer and Napier may have kept the cockerel on a whim but I have read he travelled not only with the bird but also with a black spider in a small box, not normal behaviour.

The Scottish writer and translator Sir Thomas Urquhart, who, told of a demonstration of devastating artillery Napier devised against the threat of invasion by Spain.

"He gave proof upon a large plaine in Scotland to the destruction of a great many herds of cattel and flocks of sheep, whereof some were distant from other half a mile on all sides and some a whole mile,"

A well as being a wizard and mathematician Napier was also a fervent Protestant, much of his writing is vehemently anti-Catholic even by the standards of the time. He was a man of contradictions though, as he is said to have had friends who were Catholic, including Alexander Seton, the Earl of Dunfermline, although the vast majority Catholics back then had to hide their faith.

The last interesting, and worrying, fact I found out about John Napier is that his cause of death according to wiki he died "from the effects of gout" at home in Merchiston tower, now I suffer from gout and it is bloody painful but I didn't know it could kill you!

#scotland #scottish #history #edinburgh #nobility #mathematics

[kristenswig]

Best Costume Design 2023

Winner

Killers of the Flower Moon - Jacqueline West

Nominees

La Chimera - Loredana Buscemi May December - April Napier Poor Things - Holly Waddington Priscilla - Stacey Battat A Thousand and One - Melissa Vargas

#awards 2023 #killers of the flower moon #la chimera #may december #priscilla #poor things #a thousand and one