#st. joseph's greenwich

[grandmaster-anne]

Court Circular | 22nd February 2023

Buckingham Palace

The King this morning visited the Felix Project, Unit 12 and 14 Thomas Road Industrial Estate, Thomas Road, London E14, and was received by Colonel Jane Davis (Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London), the Founders of the Felix Project (Mr Justin Byam Shaw and Mrs Jane Byam Shaw) and the Mayor of London (the Rt Hon Sadiq Khan). His Majesty, escorted by Ms Charlotte Hill (Chief Executive), toured the depot and kitchen and met members of the warehouse team, volunteers and representatives from the Project’s community partners, before unveiling a community freezer and joining a Reception for supporters. The Earl of Dalhousie was received by The King this afternoon, delivered up his Wand of Office and took leave upon relinquishing his appointment as Lord Steward. The Earl of Rosslyn was received by The King, kissed hands upon his appointment as Lord Steward and received from His Majesty his Wand of Office. The President of the German Bundestag (Ms Bärbel Bas) was received by The King. The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP (Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury) had an audience of His Majesty via telephone. The Queen Consort, Patron, BookTrust, this afternoon received Mr Joseph Coelho (Children’s Laureate).

Kensington Palace

The Earl of Wessex this morning visited George Town Yacht Club, 612B North Sound Road, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, and departed by boat to visit the Coast Guard Base. The Earl of Wessex, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award Foundation, and The Countess of Wessex, Global Ambassador, this afternoon attended a Reception at Government House, Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman, for young people who have achieved the Gold Standard in the Award. The Countess of Wessex, Global Ambassador, 100 Women in Finance, this morning attended a Reception at Government House. Her Royal Highness later attended the Annual Agricultural Show at West Bay, Grand Cayman. The Earl and Countess of Wessex later departed from Owen Roberts International Airport, Grand Cayman, for Turks and Caicos Islands and were received upon arrival in Grand Turk by the Governor of Turks and Caicos Islands (His Excellency Mr Nigel Dakin). Their Royal Highnesses this evening attended a Reception at the Governor’s Residence, Grand Turk.

St James’s Palace

The Princess Royal, Patron, the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK), this morning attended the London Region Annual Student Conference, Queen Anne Court, Old Royal Naval College, University of Greenwich, Park Row, London SE10, and was received by Mr. Matthew Burrow (Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London). Her Royal Highness, Chancellor, University of London, this afternoon visited the Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care at King’s College London, Bessemer Road, London SE5, to mark its Tenth Anniversary, and was received by Mr. Christopher Wellbelove (Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London). The Princess Royal, Commandant-in-Chief (Youth), St. John Ambulance, this evening attended the Youth Award Ceremony at the Old Palace, Hatfield House, Hatfield, and was received by His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire (Mr. Robert Voss).

Kensington Palace

The Duke of Gloucester, Patron, British Society of Soil Science, this afternoon received Dr Jacqueline Hannam (President), Professor Paul Hallett (President Elect) and Mrs. Sarah Garry (Executive Officer).

St James’s Palace

Princess Alexandra, Deputy Colonel-in-Chief, this afternoon presented medals to members of The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeths’ Own) at St. James’s Palace.

#court circular #princess anne #princess royal #king charles iii #earl of wessex #countess of wessex #queen camilla #duke of gloucester #princess alexandra of kent #british royal family

[ireadyabooks]

Pre-Order Giveaway: This Time It’s Real by Ann Liang!

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[novenaapp]

St. Joseph's Church

371 Sixth AvenueNew York, NY 10014 COME AND ADORE We’re happy to announce the opening of Manhattan’s first-ever perpetual adoration chapel here at St. Joseph’s in Greenwich Village! The chapel will serve everyone in the Archdiocese. The chapel will be open the week of July 30th. You can now sign up for adoration times throughout the week using the link below.Thank you for helping people…

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[generated-worlds]

Imi Knoebel - 'Once Upon a Time'

Heading from Greenwich to London Bridge station with an intense feeling of imposter syndrome and anxiety. I hadn't been feeling confident in myself for a couple days after having a spiraling episode of looking over all my design work and thinking 'how could anyone believe this?' or 'Am I even good at what I do?'. In short, I wasn't feeling all too good in myself but I was happy that I was meeting my girlfriend in Bermondsey St for a drink on a Friday evening and some reasurring conversation.

I was early, as usual, and my plan was to look around the White Cube gallery until it was time to meet - Imi Knoebel was exhibiting and the show was called 'Once Upon a Time'. I didn't read the exhibition text and headed in to the first room where I saw a series of huge, varying shapes of coloured texture. They looked like organs. There was a liver, a lung, brain, a heart. The clinical vibe of the White Cube only added to this feeling. The invigilator wearing black, reading a book and tucking her body into the corner of the room as much as possible was completely oppressed by these coloured shapes. I was eager to know more, where these shapes were coming from, maybe even what they meant.

The next room had many more painted shapes, but this time they were smaller, block colour rather than varying shades, and they were pinned to the wall with a single nail. The hole for the nail was pre-fabricated, meant for the nail to go exactly there and for the uneven shape to fall and rest in exactly this position. There was a calm and subtle order to this series of seemingly random shapes and colours. The pieces looked like paper but were actually thinly cut wood panneling. When I noticed it was wood it was then I noticed this singular piece, away from the shapes, that for a moment I thought was from a different artist. It was a rectangular cut peice of wood board. There was no paint or marks it was just the naturally occuring changing shades and lines flowing through the wood that Imi wanted to present. It was satisfying, possibly a little presumptious but I liked the simplicity of it and the desire to show off what naturally occurs.

Finally, in the last room were two more of these wooden boards and an installation. The installation was a large pink wooden box with a metal frame, high enough that you couldn't look inside but you could see that there was a dry, desert plant coming out the top. Sitting in the corner of the room, large enough to take up significant space in the large gallery rooms of the White Cube, it sat there beautifully. I loved that I couldn't see inside except the small part of the plant that was revealed reaching out the top.

I went to the shop and flicked through a book about Imi Knoebel. There was a couple pages that had a conversation between him and Joseph Beuys who was his tutor at one point. Imi was talking about how he didn't see himself as talented, that he couldn't draw people or faces, didn't understand techniques, never even thought of himself as an 'artist' - he wanted to be a designer. He had no compulsion to exhibit himself. What he found from this is that it gave him a freedom. Not being locked in was incredibly important for his work. Reading this I became lighter. It was exactly what I wanted to read while I was feeling this way - stuck, in a slump, wanting more but not knowing how to get there. It was because I had this intense desire to be recognised as 'something', an artist, a writer, whatever and in that was an insecurity that was locking me in. I went around the exhibition once more with this lighter feeling and new perspective. You could see the inner designer in his work, his work was playful and took up room, it didn't take itself seriously but had something important to say. 'Rest easy, there's beauty in rest, in letting things be as they are'.

#art writing #art review #criticism #exhibition #white cube #imi knoebel

[atlanticcanada]

N.S. announces comfort centre locations after extensive damage from Fiona

As Maritimers assess the damage left behind from post-tropical storm Fiona, a number of comfort centres have been made available for residents to get food and water, recharge devices and receive up-to-date information.

Here is a list of the comfort centre locations announced so far.

NOVA SCOTIA

Halifax

Beaver Bank Kinsac Community Centre located at 1583 Beaver Bank Road in Beaver Bank

Royal Canadian Legion Branch #58 located at 23566 Nova Scotia Trunk 7 in Sheet Harbour

Prospect Road Community Centre located at 2141 Prospect Road in Hatchet Lake

Cole Harbour Place located at 51 Forest Hill Parkway in Cole Harbour

Lebrun Recreation Centre located at 36 Holland Avenue in Bedford  

Kings County

Canning Multiplex located at 977 Jordan Rd. in Canning 

Greenwich Fire Hall located at 9798 Highway 1 in Greenwich      

Port Williams Community Centre located at 1045 Highway 358 in Port Williams  

Cape Breton

Big Pond Fire Hall located at 7193 East Bay Highway in Big Pond

Boisdale Fire Hall located at 3810 Grand Narrows Highway in Boisdale    

Gabarus Fire Department located at 8791 Gabarus Highway in Gabarus  

Georges River Fire Hall located at 1208 George's River Rd. in North Sydney             

Howie Centre Fire Department located at 47 Tometary Dr. in Howie Centre          

Louisbourg Fire Hall located at 7485 Main St. in Louisbourg

New Waterford Fire Hall located at 3336 Walsh Ave. in New Waterford

North Sydney Fire Hall located at 14 Pierce St. in North Sydney

Reserve Mines Fire Department located at 195 Main Street in Reserve Mines

Sydney City Hall located at 320 Esplanade in Sydney

Membertou Convention Centre located at 50 Milliard St. in Membertou

Colchester County

Bass River Fire Hall located at 5554 Highway 2 in Bass River         

Bible Hill Community Hall located at 69 Pictou Rd. in Bible Hill     

Brookfield Fire Station located at 110 Highway 289 in Brookfield              

Cobequid Fire Brigade located at 3830 Highway 236 in Lower Truro          

Onslow Belmont Fire Hall located at 12355 highway 2 in Lower Onslow  

Salmon River Fire Hall located at 1102 Salmon River Rd. in Salmon River 

Stewiacke Community Centre located at 111 Highway 2 in Stewiacke      

Tatamagouche Fire Hall Colchester located at 202 Main Street in Tatamagouche

Truro Fire Hall located at 165 Victoria Street in Truro      

Antigonish

St. Joseph's Lakeside Community Centre located at 2752 Ohio East Rd.

Pictou County

Eureka Fire Department Pictou located at 5222 Trafalgar Road in Eureka

Linacy  Fire Department located at 6735 Highway 4 in Linacy       

New Horizons Club located at 14 Kempt St. in Pictou       

Pictou Fire Hall located at 166 Church St. in Pictou

Plymouth Fire Hall located at 4667 East River East Side Road in Plymouth              

Stellarton Fire Hall located at 10 Jubilee Ave. in Stellarton             

Summer Street Industries located at 72 Park Street in New Glasgow       

Town of Westville Municipal Building located at 2042 Queen St. in Westville    

More comfort centres are expected to be added throughout the Maritimes once travel is deemed safe. 

This is a developing story and will be updated.   

from CTV News - Atlantic https://ift.tt/f46DHz5

#new brunswick #prince edward island #nova scotia #news #politics #canada #CTVAtlantic

[catholicartistsnyc]

Meet: Melissa Maricich

MELISSA MARICICH is an NYC-based actress, singer, dancer, producer and writer, as well as a Catholic Artist Connection board member. (www.mmaricich.com or [email protected])

CATHOLIC ARTIST CONNECTION (CAC): What brought you to NYC, and where did you come from? How long have you been here, and why did you decide to move here? 

MELISSA MARICICH (MM): I was born and raised near Seattle, Washington. Specifically, a lovely spot called Maple Valley, where I grew up on multiple acres of countryside as one of nine kids. I started out as a dancer, but once my voice sort of "kicked-in" during high school I became involved in musical theatre which led to greater interest in acting and film. Because New York has both theatre and film I was encouraged to move here rather than LA initially. A couple of years after gaining experience in the professional scene in Seattle I did just that, and moved to New York to further my opportunities of work in the entertainment industry.

CAC: How do understand your vocation as a Catholic artist? Do you call yourself a Catholic artist?

MM: I want it to be very clear in my interactions with people that I am a Catholic, but I don't think my work could be termed "Catholic Art.” Our vocation as Catholics is to love and serve God and our neighbors, which we should do through our work, whatever that work may be; whether as postal workers or Hollywood / Broadway stars. I see my work as being a job (that I love to do), that often takes place in the secular arena, which is part of what gives me a greater opportunity to share the Good News of the Gospel.  Whatever our daily occupation may be, it should be a means by which we strive to serve and love. 

CAC: Where have you found support among your fellow artists for your Catholic faith?

MM: One of the beautiful things about life in New York is the hugely diverse places and ways one can make connections. I've met Catholic actors and artists in as many ways as the number of individuals I've connected with.  I've also hugely benefited from the Sheen Center and people I've met there - very particularly all the people I'm involved with for Catholic Artists Connection and Catholic Artists NYC... a perfectly "unbrazen" plug on my part, for the people making this very interview possible :)

CAC: How can the artistic world be more welcoming to artists of faith?

MM: The artistic world would have to make a decision to be humble enough, and open-minded enough, to entertain the thought that those with faith could have good reason for their beliefs. However we can only be responsible for ourselves and I think the artistic world will be more open to us once it is confronted with, and realizes, how many more of its members are people of faith than it currently suspects. That accomplishment rests in great part on our being more courageous, vocal and generous in sharing the Gospel. Of course, that definitely requires Prudence about the right time, place, and manner in which we share. (As an aside, I think that is a beautiful function the secular world unwittingly provides us with - opportunities to grow in virtue: particularly Prudence, Courage and Charity/)

CAC: Where in NYC do you regularly find spiritual fulfillment? Which parish(es) do you attend? 

MM: I've found a home and welcome at St. Joseph's Church in Greenwich Village. It has a vibrant community, with particular connections to NYU and the students there. It is served by wonderful Dominican priests. I've met performers through some of the parish ministries, even the Thomistic Institutes' talks and lectures there (which are hugely formative and inspiring I might add). I highly recommend signing up for the emails and updates for the Thomistic Institute events. I've not once been sorry I spent my time in attending them!

CAC: Where in NYC do you regularly find artistic fulfillment?

MM: A number of mentors, teachers and coaches are of course essential in this. It's fulfilling and satisfying to work with people who help you to be your best, who challenge you and help you to actualize your potential. I have a wonderful voice teacher (feel free to contact me if you are looking for one!). The Barrow Group (take Seth Barrish's class) and Jon Shears' "Take Action" Workshop (film work) are both wonderful resources. The Growing Studio and Max Theatrix are particularly helpful for musical theatre performers and making connections. The Growing Studio is how I was connected to my current agent. 

CAC: How have you found or built community as a Catholic artist living in NYC?

MM: I'd say the simplest description for how it has, and is continuing to happen for me, is simply by being open with the people I meet and by connecting as much in the moment with those who I come across as I possible. You'd truly be shocked at the strange way you can meet people in the business, and even other Catholic performers. Especially if you're simply willing to smile, say hello and introduce yourself. 

CAC: What is your daily spiritual practice?

MM: It can shift from time to time, but there are particular forms of prayer and different saints that tend to regularly be in the forefront. The Rosary - and with it Marian Consecration. St. Joseph, Francis of Assisi, Peter, Therese, Padre Pio, etc. etc. Whenever possible during the week daily Mass, and Adoration. And some kind of religious reading of which there's a large variety. Definitely anything Chesterton, or Lewis. Other recommended material is The Light of Christ, by Fr. Thomas Joseph White. A number of podcasts of which the most recent addition is Stacey Sumereau's "Called and Caffeinated". And Bishop Barron's "Word on Fire" is a staple.

CAC: What is your daily artistic practice? 

MM: They aren't ALL always daily simply due to constrictions of time, but, as much as I can I'll have hour-long voice practices a couple times a week, dance classes, reading on pertinent info for acting/material that is inspiring for production/writing ideas. 

CAC: What resources have you found helpful in securing housing/roommates?

MM: 80/20 Housing is quite the resource. For females, look into St. Agnes Residence or other women's residences. Unfortunately I don't know of the equivalent for guys... sorry fella's!

CAC: How can you find work in NYC? 

MM: If you are looking for a survival job, be willing to tell/mention it to random people you know or meet that you are looking for a job. I got my first hostessing job (glamorous, I know) because I mentioned in passing that I was looking for consistent work to a girl I was doing a temp-job with. She said, totally off-the-cuff "Oh, my roommate is leaving a place right now, and they are looking to fill it. I'll send them your resume." 

CAC: What other practical resources would you recommend to a Catholic artist living in NYC?

MM: Gingerb3ardMen Photography. Billy Bustamente Photography. Sean Turi Photography.

CAC: What are your top 3 pieces of advice for Catholic artists moving to NYC?

MM: Don't be afraid, and give yourself some grace and slack in expectations when you first arrive. (Of course don't slack in your devotion to doing what you know is necessary in pursuing excellence in your craft but DO cut yourself-slack in your expectations of immediate or worldly "success"). And make sure to get out of the city every now and then! Take the train up the Hudson or somewhere cute on Long Island. Get out of town every now and again. 

If you have recently arrived in this busy City, Welcome! Glad to have you here and look forward to meeting you soon!

#catholic #artist #catholic artist #catholic artists nyc #catholic artist connection #new york #new yorker #st. joseph's greenwich #church #thomistic institute #dominicans #barrow group #growing studio #max theatrix #80/20 housing #st. agnes residence #gingerb3ardmen #billy bustamente #sean turi #melissa maricich

[scotianostra]

Lady Jeanne Campbell, the daughter of Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll  and a leading socialite during the 20th century was born on December 10th 1928.

I knew nothing of Lady Jean Campbell before stumbling on her today in search of posts,  but I thought that any Campbells out there might be interested in her, especially those in the USA.

In January 1974, her half-brother, Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll, set up the Clan Campbell Society of the United States in New York City. She was appointed by him to serve as the Society's High Commissioner, which, essentially, was the personal representative of the head of the Campbell Clan in the States.

I will leave the main story for you to read on the link at the bottom, but in an eventful life Jeannie, as she was known to her friend's was twice married, her first hubby was the American novelist  Norman Mailer, in a bad tempered relationship he once dangled her by the ankles from a second-story window  and after a year, Jeannie left him. In the aftermath, Mailer painted an unflattering portrait of her in his novel An American Dream, which Jeannie called “the hate book of all time.” 

According to one source, while in the United States she bedded John F Kennedy at her Georgetown house in October 1963; the Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev at his dacha in April 1964; and Cuban President Fidel Castro in Havana the following May, which makes for a good story, but  according to her second daughter, Cusi Cram, Jeannie never met Castro and never went to Havana. She did interview Khrushchev, but there is no evidence that she had a romantic relationship with him. Her daughters confirm that she had a relationship with Kennedy but that it was “mostly a friendship.”

She was left  half a million dollars in trust, by her grandfather,  Lord Beaverbook assuming that her mother would later pass on the rest of his fortune. Jeannie’s mother, however, disinherited her, and Jeannie spent the second part of her life in comparatively straitened circumstances. (Though her New York apartment was small, she did sleep in what was once Napoleon’s campaign bed.)  

Later in life she became increasingly spiritual, she converted to Catholicism. At St. Joseph’s Church in Greenwich Village she attended daily Mass, acted as a lay reader and worked tirelessly in the church’s homeless shelter.

The second pic shows Jeannie with Mailler.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/default_content/12451413.lady-jeanne-campbell/

#Scotland #socialite #anglo-scottish #usa #writer #journalist #history

[lesser-known-composers]

Sonata prima from Il primo libro delle sonate op.5, published 1674 Giovanni Battista Mazzaferrata (d. 1691) | The Green Mountain Project

January 9, 2015 St. Joseph's Church, Greenwich Village, NYC

Scott Metcalfe and Ingrid Matthews, violins Emily Walhout, cello Daniel Swenberg, theorbo Jeff Grossman, chamber organ

#Giovanni Battista Mazzaferrata

[bm2ab]

Arrivals & Departures 25 January 2022 Nina Orrico [Nina Oliva] GHS 1962

Nina, beloved wife of "Doc" Orrico, passed away on January 25th, 2022, she was 77 years old. Nina is survived by her loving husband of 54 years, Joseph (Doc) Orrico. Children: Jennifer O'Gorman (Brian), Tracy Orrico (John Lamkin), Keith Orrico (Lori) and Anthony Orrico (Diane). Grandchildren: Devyn, Shea, Bailey, Ruby, Michael, James, Sophia and Mariana. Siblings: Robert, Stephen, Katherine and Gina, and many nieces and nephews. Nina attended Cos Cob Elementary, Central Middle, and Greenwich High School. She took great pride in raising her children, enjoyed many hours with her grandchildren and cherished Sunday dinners with family and close friends. She and Doc enjoyed traveling together, attending their grandchildren's sporting events, going to the movies and out to dinner. Nina was well known frequenting the local beaches, Island beach being one of her favorites. She had an abundance of friends, was a "social butterfly" and lived life to the fullest with lots of laughs, a glass of wine, all while wearing her stylish red flip flops! There will be a memorial service celebrating Nina's life Thursday Feb 3, 2022, 4 p.m.-8 p.m. at the St. Lawrence Club, 86 Valley Road, Cos Cob. "Wherever a beautiful soul has been, there's a trail of beautiful memories"

[historybizarre]

As historical theologian Thomas J. Shelley writes, the neighborhood was the seat of a thriving Catholic community between about 1880 and 1930. It had chapels and churches serving “at least seven different ethnic groups”; by the late nineteenth century, about half of the neighborhood’s Catholics were Irish....

Although the oldest established Catholic church, St. Joseph, took pride in its middle-class, mostly Irish character, another part of Greenwich Village “contained a red-light district with more than a hundred brothels, 198 liquor stores, and a densely populated area of run-down tenements,” Shelley writes.

#history #nyc #greenwich village #gilded age #irish american

[timeless-hollywood-classics]

Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as a great beauty, she became established as a leading lady. Tierney was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film Laura (1944), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven (1945).

Tierney's other roles include Martha Strable Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait (1943), Isabel Bradley Maturin in The Razor's Edge (1946), Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Ann Sutton in Whirlpool (1949), Maggie Carleton McNulty in The Mating Season (1951), and Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God (1955).

I Gene Eliza Tierney was born on November 19, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Howard Sherwood Tierney and Belle Lavinia Taylor. She was named after a beloved uncle, who died young.[4][page needed] She had an elder brother, Howard Sherwood "Butch" Tierney Jr., and a younger sister, Patricia "Pat" Tierney. Their father was a successful insurance broker of Irish descent, their mother a former physical education instructor.[4][page needed]

Tierney was raised in Westport, Connecticut. She attended St. Margaret's School in Waterbury, Connecticut, and the Unquowa School in Fairfield. She published her first poem, entitled "Night", in the school magazine and wrote poetry occasionally throughout her life. Tierney played Jo in a student production of Little Women, based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott.

Tierney spent two years in Europe, attending Brillantmont International School in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she learned to speak fluent French. She returned to the US in 1938 and attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut. On a family trip to the West Coast, she visited Warner Bros. studios, where a cousin worked as a producer of historical short films. Director Anatole Litvak, taken by the 17-year-old's beauty, told Tierney that she should become an actress. Warner Bros. wanted to sign her to a contract, but her parents advised against it because of the relatively low salary; they also wanted her to take her position in society.

Tierney's society debut occurred on September 24, 1938, when she was 17 years old. page needed] Soon bored with society life, she decided to pursue an acting career. Her father said, "If Gene is to be an actress, it should be in the legitimate theatre." Tierney studied acting at a small Greenwich Village acting studio in New York with Yiddish and Broadway actor/director Benno Schneider. She became a protégée of Broadway producer-director George Abbott.

In Tierney's first role on Broadway, she carried a bucket of water across the stage in What a Life! (1938). A Variety magazine critic declared, "Miss Tierney is certainly the most beautiful water carrier I've ever seen!" She also worked as an understudy in The Primrose Path (1938).

The following year, she appeared in the role of Molly O'Day in the Broadway production Mrs. O'Brien Entertains (1939). The New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson wrote, "As an Irish maiden fresh from the old country, Gene Tierney in her first stage performance is very pretty and refreshingly modest." That same year, Tierney appeared as Peggy Carr in Ring Two (1939) to favorable reviews. Theater critic Richard Watts Jr. of the New York Herald Tribune wrote, "I see no reason why Miss Tierney should not have an interesting theatrical career – that is, if cinema does not kidnap her away."

Tierney's father set up a corporation, Belle-Tier, to fund and promote her acting career. Columbia Pictures signed her to a six-month contract in 1939. She met Howard Hughes, who tried unsuccessfully to seduce her. From a well-to-do family herself, she was not impressed by his wealth. Hughes eventually became a lifelong friend.

After a cameraman advised Tierney to lose a little weight, she wrote to Harper's Bazaar magazine for a diet, which she followed for the next 25 years. Tierney was initially offered the lead role in National Velvet, but production was delayed. page needed] When Columbia Pictures failed to find Tierney a project, she returned to Broadway and starred as Patricia Stanley to critical and commercial success in The Male Animal (1940). In The New York Times, Brooks Atkinson wrote, "Tierney blazes with animation in the best performance she has yet given". She was the toast of Broadway before her 20th birthday. The Male Animal was a hit, and Tierney was featured in Life magazine. She was also photographed by Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and Collier's Weekly.

Two weeks after The Male Animal opened, Darryl F. Zanuck, the head of 20th Century Fox, was rumored to have been in the audience. During the performance, he told an assistant to note Tierney's name. Later that night, Zanuck dropped by the Stork Club, where he saw a young lady on the dance floor. He told his assistant, "Forget the girl from the play. See if you can sign that one." It was Tierney. At first, Zanuck did not think she was the actress he had seen. Tierney was quoted (after the fact), saying: "I always had several different 'looks', a quality that proved useful in my career."

Tierney signed with 20th Century-Fox[4][page needed] and her motion picture debut was in a supporting role as Eleanor Stone in Fritz Lang's western The Return of Frank James (1940), opposite Henry Fonda.

A small role as Barbara Hall followed in Hudson's Bay (1941) with Paul Muni and she co-starred as Ellie Mae Lester in John Ford's comedy Tobacco Road (also 1941), and played the title role in Belle Starr alongside co-star Randolph Scott, Zia in Sundown, and Victoria Charteris (Poppy Smith) in The Shanghai Gesture. She played Eve in Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942), as well as the dual role of Susan Miller (Linda Worthington) in Rouben Mamoulian's screwball comedy Rings on Her Fingers, and roles as Kay Saunders in Thunder Birds, and Miss Young in China Girl (all 1942).

Receiving top billing in Ernst Lubitsch's comedy Heaven Can Wait (1943), as Martha Strable Van Cleve, signaled an upward turn in Tierney's career. Tierney recalled during the production of Heaven Can Wait:

Lubitsch was a tyrant on the set, the most demanding of directors. After one scene, which took from noon until five to get, I was almost in tears from listening to Lubitsch shout at me. The next day I sought him out, looked him in the eye, and said, 'Mr. Lubitsch, I'm willing to do my best but I just can't go on working on this picture if you're going to keep shouting at me.' 'I'm paid to shout at you', he bellowed. 'Yes', I said, 'and I'm paid to take it – but not enough.' After a tense pause, Lubitsch broke out laughing. From then on we got along famously.

Tierney starred in what became her best-remembered role: the title role in Otto Preminger's film noir Laura (1944), opposite Dana Andrews. After playing Tina Tomasino in A Bell for Adano (1945), she played the jealous, narcissistic femme fatale Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven (1945), adapted from a best selling novel by Ben Ames Williams. Appearing with Cornel Wilde, Tierney won an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. This was 20th Century-Fox' most successful film of the 1940s. It was cited by director Martin Scorsese as one of his favorite films of all time, and he assessed Tierney as one of the most underrated actresses of the Golden Era.

Tierney then starred as Miranda Wells in Dragonwyck (1946), along with Walter Huston and Vincent Price. It was Joseph L. Mankiewicz' debut film as a director, In the same period, she starred as Isabel Bradley, opposite Tyrone Power, in The Razor's Edge (also 1946), an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel of the same name. Her performance was critically praised.

Tierney played Lucy Muir in Mankiewicz's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), opposite Rex Harrison. The following year, she co-starred again with Power, this time as Sara Farley in the successful screwball comedy That Wonderful Urge (1948). As the decade came to a close, Tierney reunited with Laura director Preminger to star as Ann Sutton in the classic film noir Whirlpool (1949), co-starring Richard Conte and José Ferrer. She appeared in two other film noirs: Jules Dassin's Night and the City, shot in London, and Otto Preminger's Where the Sidewalk Ends (both 1950), reunited with both Preminger and leading man Dana Andrews, who she appeared with in five movies total.

Tierney was loaned to Paramount Pictures, giving a comic turn as Maggie Carleton in Mitchell Leisen's ensemble farce, The Mating Season (1951), with John Lund, Thelma Ritter, and Miriam Hopkins. She gave a tender performance as Midge Sheridan in the Warner Bros. film, Close to My Heart (1951), with Ray Milland. The film is about a couple trying to adopt a child. Later in her career, she was reunited with Milland in Daughter of the Mind (1969).

After Tierney appeared opposite Rory Calhoun as Teresa in Way of a Gaucho (1952), her contract at 20th Century-Fox expired. That same year, she starred as Dorothy Bradford in Plymouth Adventure, opposite Spencer Tracy at MGM. She and Tracy had a brief affair during this time.[10] Tierney played Marya Lamarkina opposite Clark Gable in Never Let Me Go (1953), filmed in England.

In the course of the 1940s, she reached a pinnacle of fame as a beautiful leading lady, on a par with "fellow sirens Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner and Ava Gardner". She was "called the most beautiful woman in movie history" and many of her movies in the 1940s became classic films.

Tierney remained in Europe to play Kay Barlow in United Artists' Personal Affair (1953). While in Europe, she began a romance with Prince Aly Khan, but their marriage plans met with fierce opposition from his father Aga Khan III. Early in 1953, Tierney returned to the U.S. to co-star in the film noir Black Widow (1954) as Iris Denver, with Ginger Rogers and Van Heflin.

Tierney had reportedly started smoking after a screening of her first movie to lower her voice, because she felt, "I sound like an angry Minnie Mouse." She subsequently became a heavy smoker.

With difficult events in her personal life, Tierney struggled for years with episodes of manic depression. In 1943, she gave birth to a daughter, Daria, who was deaf and mentally disabled, the result of a fan breaking a rubella quarantine and infecting the pregnant Tierney while she volunteered at the Hollywood Canteen. In 1953, she suffered problems with concentration, which affected her film appearances. She dropped out of Mogambo and was replaced by Grace Kelly.[4][page needed] While playing Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God (1955), opposite Humphrey Bogart, Tierney became ill. Bogart's sister Frances (known as Pat) had suffered from mental illness, so he showed Tierney great sympathy, feeding her lines during the production and encouraging her to seek help.

Tierney consulted a psychiatrist and was admitted to Harkness Pavilion in New York. Later, she went to the Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut. After some 27 shock treatments, intended to alleviate severe depression, Tierney fled the facility, but was caught and returned. She later became an outspoken opponent of shock treatment therapy, claiming it had destroyed significant portions of her memory.

In late December 1957, Tierney, from her mother's apartment in Manhattan, stepped onto a ledge 14 stories above ground and remained for about 20 minutes in what was considered a suicide attempt. Police were called, and afterwards Tierney's family arranged for her to be admitted to the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. The following year, after treatment for depression, she was discharged. Afterwards, she worked as a sales girl in a local dress shop with hopes of integrating back into society, but she was recognized by a customer, resulting in sensational newspaper headlines.

Later in 1958, 20th Century-Fox offered Tierney a lead role in Holiday for Lovers (1959), but the stress upon her proved too great, so only days into production, she dropped out of the film and returned to Menninger for a time.

Tierney made a screen comeback in Advise and Consent (1962), co-starring with Franchot Tone and reuniting with director Otto Preminger.[4][page needed] Soon afterwards, she played Albertine Prine in Toys in the Attic (1963), based on the play by Lillian Hellman. This was followed by the international production of Las cuatro noches de la luna llena, (Four Nights of the Full Moon - 1963), in which she starred with Dan Dailey. She received critical praise overall for her performances.

Tierney's career as a solid character actress seemed to be back on track as she played Jane Barton in The Pleasure Seekers (1964), but then she suddenly retired. She returned to star in the television movie Daughter of the Mind (1969) with Don Murray and Ray Milland. Her final performance was in the TV miniseries Scruples (1980).

Tierney married two men: the first was Oleg Cassini, a costume and fashion designer, on June 1, 1941, with whom she eloped. She was 20 years old. Her parents opposed the marriage, as he was from a Russian-Italian family and born in France. She had two daughters, Antoinette Daria Cassini (October 15, 1943 – September 11, 2010) and Christina "Tina" Cassini (November 19, 1948 – March 31, 2015).

In June 1943, while pregnant with Daria, Tierney contracted rubella (German measles), likely from a fan ill with the disease. Antoinette Daria Cassini was born prematurely in Washington, DC, weighing three pounds, two ounces (1.42 kg) and requiring a total blood transfusion. The rubella caused congenital damage: Daria was deaf, partially blind with cataracts, and severely mentally disabled. She was institutionalized for much of her life. This entire incident was inspiration for a plot point in the 1962 Agatha Christie novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side.

It is claimed that she had an affair with Mohammad Reza Shah of Iran during the late 1940s.

Tierney's friend Howard Hughes paid for Daria's medical expenses, ensuring the girl received the best care. Tierney never forgot his acts of kindness. Daria Cassini died in 2010, at the age of 66.

Tierney and Cassini separated October 20, 1946, and entered into a property settlement agreement on November 10. Periodicals during this period record Tierney with Charles K. Feldman, including articles related to her "twosoming" with Feldman, her "current best beau". The divorce was to be finalized in March 1948, but they reconciled before then.

During their separation, Tierney met John F. Kennedy, a young World War II veteran, who was visiting the set of Dragonwyck in 1946. They began a romance that she ended the following year after Kennedy told her he could never marry her because of his political ambitions. In 1960, Tierney sent Kennedy a note of congratulations on his victory in the presidential election. During this time, newspapers documented Tierney's other romantic relationships, including Kirk Douglas.

While filming for Personal Affair in Europe, she began a romance with Prince Aly Khan. They became engaged in 1952, while Khan was going through a divorce from Rita Hayworth. Their marriage plans, however, met with fierce opposition from his father, Aga Khan III.

Cassini later bequeathed $500,000 in trust to Daria and $1,000,000 to Christina. Cassini and Tierney remained friends until her death in November 1991.

In 1958, Tierney met Texas oil baron W. Howard Lee, who had been married to actress Hedy Lamarr since 1953. Lee and Lamarr divorced in 1960 after a long battle over alimony, then Lee and Tierney married in Aspen, Colorado, on July 11, 1960. They lived quietly in Houston, Texas, and Delray Beach, Florida until his death in 1981.

Despite her self-imposed exile in Texas, Tierney received work offers from Hollywood, prompting her to a comeback. She appeared in a November 1960 broadcast of General Electric Theater, during which time she discovered that she was pregnant. Shortly after, 20th Century Fox announced Tierney would play the lead role in Return to Peyton Place, but she withdrew from the production after suffering a miscarriage.

Tierney's autobiography, Self-Portrait, in which she candidly discusses her life, career, and mental illness, was published in 1979.

Tierney's second husband, W. Howard Lee, died on February 17, 1981 after a long illness.[24]

In 1986, Tierney was honored alongside actor Gregory Peck with the first Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain.

Tierney has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6125 Hollywood Boulevard.

Tierney died of emphysema on November 6, 1991, in Houston, thirteen days before her 71st birthday. She is interred in Glenwood Cemetery in Houston.

Certain documents of Tierney's film-related material, personal papers, letters, etc., are held in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives, though her papers are closed to the public.

#gene tierney #golden age of hollywood #classic hollywood #old hollywood #classic movie stars

[capitan-blood]

Potrait of James Cook (1728-1779) by William Hodges

James Cook one of the greatest navigators, defined the first navigator of the modern age, when the ideals of gold and the cross disappeared, the voyage of exploration moved in the name of science and reason.

Captain Cook - oil on canvas by John Webber 1776

James Cook (27 October 1728 - February 14 1779). Cook was the first to map the island of Newfoundland, before embarking on three voyages in the Pacific Ocean during which he made the first European contact with the coasts of Australia and Hawaii, as well as the first oficial circumnavigation of New Zealand.

Potrait Elizabeth Batts Cook by William Henderson 1742-1835

>In 1762 he married Elizabeth Batts, and because of his seafaring activity he spent only a few years with her.<

Little more than a teenager, Cook joined the British merchant navy and enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1755. He took part in the Seven Year's war, which involved the main European powers of the time, and subsequently surveyed and mapped much of the mouth of the St. Lawrence River during the siege of Quebec. The skill shown in this task helped bring Cook to the attention of the Admiralty and the Royal Society.

HMS Endeavour. - It was a pivotal moment both in Cook's career and in British overseas direction and exploration, culminating in his 1766 appointment as commander of the ship HMS Endeavour, aboard which he made the first of is three voyages in the Pacific Ocean.

Captain Cook's ship, 'the Resolution', leaving whitby, England - by Michael J. Whitehand

James Cook and Botanist Joseph Banks examining the wild life and flora in Botany Bay.

On these voyages, Cook sailed thousands of miles in areas of the globe then largely unexplored. Combining seafaring art, courage and the ability to effectively lead men in adverse conditions, as well as a great cartographic talent he reached unknown and dangerous areas which he mapped, recording for the first time on European nautical charts the position of several islands and unexplored coasts, examining them and describing its characteristics.

A general chart of the island of Newfoundland. Surveyed by James Cook and Michael Lane 1775.

Him maps map the coasts of numerous territories, from New Zealand to Hawaii, with a precision of detail and a scale of representation never before archieved. In 1779, Cook was Killed in Hawaii in a violent confrontation with the natives on his third exploratory voyage to the Pacific.

The death of Captain James Cook, 14 February 1779 (Royal Museums Greenwich)

#james cook #explorer #navigator #cartographer #hawaii #hms endeavour #hms resolution #hms adventure #hms discovery #southern hemisphere #captain james cook

[xmasqoo-haineke]

Per aspera ad astra (phrase meaning) … Not to be confused with "Per ardua ad astra." … * *  * "Ad astra per aspera" redirects here. For other uses, see Per aspera ad astra (disambiguation). Disclosure: This article may need additional citations for verification.  Find sources: "Per aspera ad astra" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2020)  "Per aspera ad astra", from Finland in the Nineteenth Century, 1894 Per aspera ad astra (or, less commonly, ad astra per aspera) is a popular Latin phrase meaning "through hardships to the stars". The phrase is one of the many Latin sayings that use the expression ad astra, meaning "to the stars". 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Governmental entities[edit] Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin[1] State of Kansas (Ad astra per aspera)[2] Municipality of Cheribon, Netherlands East Indies[3] City of Gouda, The Netherlands[4] Honored Scientist of Armenia[5] Military and government[edit] Department of Civil Aviation, Thailand[6] Military Technical Academy in Bucharest, Romania[7] National Defence Academy of Latvia[8] South African Air Force[9] Spanish Air Force Hon. Julie Payette, 29th Governor General of Canada[10] Royal Life Guards (Denmark) Literature[edit] In Kenta Shinohara's Astra Lost in Space, it is inscribed on a plaque on the bridge of the ship that the crew subsequently decided to name the Astra.[11] In Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan, it was quoted as both the motto of Martian Imperial Commandos, a unit within the larger Martian Army, in addition to being the motto of Kansas, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way. In Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird", it was quoted as the motto of Maycomb, during the school play. In James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"[12] In Pierce Brown's "Red Rising" book series it is a common phrase used by the Golds of The Society. In M.L.Rio's "If We Were Villains" it is the motto of the Dellecher Academy. Music[edit] The subtitle of Moritz Moszkowski's set of fifteen Études de Virtuosité for piano, op. 72 (published 1903). The subtitle of Charles Villiers Stanford's Piano Trio No. 3, Op. 158 (1918). The title of the fourth album by ambient music duo Stars of the Lid (1998). The subtitle of Sergei Bortkiewicz's 3rd piano concerto (1927). The title of a song by Spiritual Beggars from their album Ad Astra (2000). The title of a song by Haggard (band) from their album "Eppur Si Muove" (2004). Acceptance has an instrumental track on their Phantoms album titled "Ad Astra Per Aspera" (2005). The title of the second album (2011) by Abandon Kansas. Per Aspera Ad Aspera, the name of a best-of album by the band ASP (2014). The title of a march by Ernst Urbach op. 4 (1906). The title of an album of marches by the Royal Norwegian Air Force Band. The title of a composition by Hasaan Ibn Ali from his second Atlantic recording, never released, the master tapes of which were destroyed in the Atlantic warehouse fire of 1978.[13] The subtitle of an instrumental song by the symphonic metal band Nightwish (2020). Anime[edit] Mentioned in anime Astra Lost in Space on the Ark Series Spaceship which is later named as ASTRA. Educational and research institutions[edit] Australia[edit] Queenwood School for Girls, Mosman NSW Woodville High School, Adelaide Albury High School, Albury, New South Wales[14] Girton Grammar School, Bendigo, Victoria Austria[edit] Universität Klagenfurt Botswana[edit] St. Joseph's College, Kgale Ecuador[edit] Instituto Nacional Mejía,Quito, Ecuador Estonia[edit] Keila-Joa Boarding School, Türisalu[15] Jakob Westholm Secondary School, Tallinn[16] Honduras[edit] Escuela Nacional de Música, Tegucigalpa Instituto Salesiano San Miguel, Tegucigalpa India[edit] Clarence High School, Bangalore, Karnataka, India - Motto of Redwood House (Ad Astra) St. Augustine's High School, kalimpong, District:Darjeeling, India Maulana Azad Medical College (MAMC), New Delhi, India The Frank Anthony Public School,Kolkata,India The Frank Anthony Public School, Delhi, India - Motto of Ranger House St Joseph's High School, Dharwad, Karnataka, India Antonio D'souza High School, Mumbai, India Technology Research and Incubation Centre, Dimapur, Nagaland Jamaica[edit] Immaculate Conception High School, St. Andrew Mount Alvernia High School, Montego Bay Japan[edit] St. Francis Church, Tokyo, West-Hachioji, Gnosis Essene (HP) Macau[edit] Postgraduate Association of University of Macau, Macau Maldives[edit] MNDF Fire and Rescue Services Training School, K.Viligili New Zealand[edit] Rotorua Boys' High School, Rotorua Nigeria[edit] Ilupeju College, Ilupeju, Lagos Lagos Secondary Commercial Academy, LASCA Kalabari National College, Buguma, Rivers State Oriwu Model College, Igbogbo, Ikorodu Norway[edit] Stavanger Cathedral School, Stavanger Sortland videregående skole, Nordland Lillehammer videregående skole Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Pakistan[edit] St Patrick's High School, Karachi St. Patrick's College, Karachi Paraguay[edit] Universidad Autónoma de Asunción Philippines[edit] Far Eastern University - Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation, Quezon City St. John Paul II College of Davao, Davao City Rosevale School, Cagayan de Oro City Juan R. Liwag Memorial High School, Gapan City Cagayan State University, Tuguegarao City Romania[edit] Mihai Eminescu High School,[17] Suceava Colegiul National "Andrei Saguna" Brasov[18] Colegiul National "Doamna Stanca" Fagaras[19] Alexandru Papiu Ilarian High School,[20] Targu-Mures Andrei Mureşanu High School,[21] Bistrița Márton Áron Főgimnázium [ro], Csíkszereda (Liceul Teoretic "Márton Áron", Miercurea-Ciuc) Ovidius High School,[22] Constanta Military Technical Academy,[23] Bucharest Russia[edit] School no. 1259, Moscow Saint Vincent and the Grenadines[edit] Saint Vincent Grammar School, Kingstown Slovakia[edit] Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies of Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Slovak Organisation for Space Activities Slovenia[edit] Prva gimnazija Maribor, Maribor Gimnazija Jesenice, Jesenice Gimnazija Škofja Loka, Škofja Loka South Africa[edit] Pietersburg Hoërskool[24] Tembisa Secondary School South African Air Force[25][circular reference] Ribane-Laka Secondary School Chistlehurst Academics and Arts School Sri Lanka[edit] St. Paul's Girls' School, Milagiriya, Colombo District, Western Province Sweden[edit] Västmanland Air Force Wing[26] Tajikistan[edit] Gymnasium #1 after V. Chkalov, Buston, Khujand, Sugd region Ukraine[edit] Space Museum dedicated to Korolyov in Zhytomyr Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Bucha Ukrainian gymnasium United Kingdom[edit] The Royal School, Haslemere, Surrey Colfe's School, Greenwich, London Mayfield Grammar School, Gravesend, Kent Dr. Challoner's Grammar School, Amersham, Buckinghamshire British Lawn Mower Racing Association United States[edit] California State University East Bay, Hayward, California[27] Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina[28] Cornelia Strong College, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Coventry High School, Coventry, Rhode Island East Hampton High School, East Hampton, Connecticut Greenhill School, Dallas, Texas[29] Irvington Union Free School District, Irvington, New York Saint Joseph Academy, Brownsville, Texas Lake View High School, Chicago, Illinois Lyndon Institute, Lyndon Center, Vermont Macopin Middle School, West Milford, New Jersey Miami Central High School, Miami, Florida Midwood High School, Brooklyn, New York Mirman School, Los Angeles, California Morristown-Beard School, Morristown, New Jersey Mount Saint Michael Academy, Bronx, New York Satellite High School, Satellite Beach, Florida Seven Lakes High School, Katy, Texas Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey[30] Trinity Prep, Winter Park, Florida[31] Townsend Harris High School, Queens, New York University High School, Fresno, California University of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma, Tennessee Oak Harbor Academy Private School, Lemoore, California Fraternities and sororities[edit] Beta Sigma Psi National Lutheran Fraternity[32] Sigma Gamma Phi – Arethusa Sorority[33] Korp! Amicitia – Estonian student sorority. Freemasons-Knight's Templar, 32nd Degree K.Ö.St.V. Almgau Salzburg - Austrian Catholic Student Association[34] K.a.V. Danubia Wien-Korneuburg im ÖCV - Austrian Catholic Student Association Popular culture[edit] Appears on the hull of the ship 'Searcher' in the second season of Buck Rogers. Garrison Keillor routinely references the phrase as the only Latin phrase he cared to remember on A Prairie Home Companion.[35][36] Per Aspera Ad Astra is a Soviet Russian science fiction film by Richard Viktorov, written by Kir Bulychov. Rip Torn says this phrase to David Bowie in the film The Man Who Fell to Earth. Tomo Milicevic of the band 30 Seconds to Mars has a tattoo on his right forearm reading 'per aspera et astra', with the band's logo in the background in red. Aspera! Per aspera! Per ardua! Ad astra! is the refrain of the song "Aspera" by Erin McKeown on the album We Will Become Like Birds. American singer, rapper, dancer, actress, and songwriter Kiely Williams has "Per aspera ad astra" tattooed on her right forearm. Title of a play depicting the history of the fictional Maycomb County in To Kill a Mockingbird, in which the translation is given as from the mud to the stars. Title of a song by Haggard, from the album Eppur Si Muove. The name of an album by Abandon Kansas. It is one of many hidden messages in the 2009 video game The Conduit. Motto of the Martian Imperial Commandos in Kurt Vonnegut novel, The Sirens of Titan. Title of a song by Seattle-based band Acceptance. Title of a song by Goasia, appearing on the album From Other Spaces (Suntrip Records, 2007) Appears on right side shoulder patch in Star Trek Enterprise, on the "newer" uniform style shown on the series finale. In Star Trek The Next Generation it is shown to be the motto of Starfleet. The official motto of Solforce in the videogame Sword of the Stars. The phrase is used as the name of the tenth track on the score for the film Underworld: Rise of the Lycans by Paul Haslinger. Title of a song by the band Spiritual Beggars from their album Ad Astra. Title of a song by the band Die Apokalyptischen Reiter from their album Samurai. The final mission (Chapter 15) in the Mafia II video game In a tattoo piece in The Raven The phrase has been spoofed slightly by the band Ghost in the song "Per Aspera Ad Inferi" from their album Infestissumam[37] literally meaning "Through hardships to hell".[38] Title of a background music from the Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire video games which plays during a voyage into space. In the 2015 film The Martian, at the end of the film astronaut Mark Watney is giving his first lecture to the Astronaut Candidate Program and the phrase appears embedded in the central floor area of the lecture hall around a logo In Bioware's Mass Effect 3, this phrase is set in the middle of the wall of names dedicated to the fallen crew members of the main ship, the SSV Normandy SR2. Title of character leveling achievements in Mistwalker's mobile game Terra Battle Found in the Gravity Falls Journal #3, penned on the title page. Appears on the journal both in the show and on the real-life replica.[39] The title of a Pee Wee Gaskins album (2010). The title character in Ottessa Moshfegh's novel Eileen accepts and smokes a Pall Mall and refers to the motto on the package translated as "Through the thorns to the stars." On the ship the students find in Astra Lost in Space, there is a plaque with this saying on it. The motto of the Golds in Pierce Brown's Red Rising Series. Ad Astra is a 2019 American science fiction film by James Gray. Appears in the logo of the Universal Paperclips Advanced AI Research Group. Others[edit] As part of the official team crest of Arendal Football As part of the team crest of the former Collingwood Cricket Club. A plaque honoring the astronauts of Apollo 1 at the launch site where they perished. A tribute exhibit to the Apollo 1 Astronauts "Ad Astra Per Aspera - A Rough Road Leads to the Stars" opened on January 27, 2017, the 50th anniversary of the loss of the crew, at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Inscribed on the crest of Pall Mall cigarettes packages[40] The theme of "POR CC XXI" by Kolese Kanisius Jakarta Part of a custom paint job in World Of Tanks Tradewinds Swiss[41] Space Development Network[42] Part three of the book Jepp who Defied the Stars by Katherine Marsh has the phrase as its title.[43] Appears in Morse code on the track titled "Sounds of Earth" on the Voyager Golden Record that has copies aboard the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft that are currently in interstellar space. [44] See also[edit] Per ardua ad astra ("Through adversity to the stars") Per ardua ad astra, additional uses with reference to above article Ad astra per aspera, additional uses Per aspera ad astra, references this article References[edit] ^ "Decorations of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin". Archived from the original on 2008-08-29. ^ "Seal of Kansas". Kansapedia. Kansas Historical Society. March 2014. Archived from the original on 2020-07-06. 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Trafalgar Day 2019

Frederick Marryat wasn’t present at Trafalgar, he was 13 years old and not yet in the service. But the news of Nelson’s death affected him greatly, and he was present with his family at Nelson’s funeral procession. Here is how Christopher Lloyd sets the scene in Captain Marryat and the Old Navy:

On the afternoon of November 6th, 1805, Frederick Marryat was sitting at the back of a classroom in the school for young gentlemen kept by Mr. Freeman at Ponder’s End. The door burst open and the dancing master—a rotund little man whom Marryat detested—bounced into the room. Lord Nelson had won a famous victory. The French and Spanish fleets had been destroyed off Cape Trafalgar. The lieutenant bearing the despatches had arrived in London that morning. But Nelson, the country’s hero, had been killed in the hour of victory.

It was not till Christmas Eve that Nelson’s body, preserved in a cask of spirits, was brought off the Victory to lie in state in the Painted Hall at Greenwich. Fifteen thousand people filed past the coffin there [...] Joseph Marryat and his family had taken their places in the crowd which lined the streets from the first light of dawn. It was a magnificent spectacle, probably the finest ever seen in London before the Jubilees. [...]

The Funeral Car was shaped like the Victory, with the ensign at half-staff hanging at the poop. On this monumental carriage was placed the coffin, ‘considered as the most elegant and superb ever seen in Europe,’ from which the escutcheoned black velvet pall was removed to afford the populace a better view. Surmounting the Car the thirteen-year-old boy could see a high black canopy in the shape of an ancient sarcophagus lid, ornamented with six sable plumes. The procession moved past the place the Marryats were standing on its slow journey to St. Paul’s. “As the triumphal Car disappeared from my aching eye, I felt that death could have no terrors if followed by such a funeral; and I determined that would be buried in the same manner.”

The Battle of Trafalgar by J.M.W. Turner

In his book Captain Marryat: A Rediscovery Oliver Warner affirms, “The story of Nelson’s spectacular victory and death in battle had fixed Marryat in a determination to go to sea. Impatient of discipline, bored with lessons, undeterred by chastisement, he ran away from school more than once.” There would be no more major battles at sea for the duration of the war since the principal Franco-Spanish fleet was destroyed at Trafalgar; but skilled frigate captains could capture plenty of prizes and Midshipman Marryat served under one of the best, Lord Thomas Cochrane.

#trafalgar day #battle of trafalgar #horatio nelson #Napoleonic Wars #captain marryat #frederick marryat #1805 #christopher lloyd #oliver warner #biography

[lukeskywaker4ever]

King Pedro V 1st Trip (May 28th to September 15th, 1854): England, Part 3

In the following days, the itinerary continued to run at an exhausting pace. When he saw the Library of the British Museum, 

he wondered about the possibility of finding works from the old Portuguese convents: “How much wealth was not wasted in 1833, due to the disorder with which everything was done. Monastic orders were abolished, so far we are doing well; but why didn’t the nation take advantage of what it could have done?”

On 10th June, he went, with the queen, to see the reopening of the Crystal Palace, removed from Hyde Park to Sydenham, 

in the London suburbs. 

Under the glass vault, there were 25,000 people. An orchestra, made up of 2000 musicians, played Handel's Alleluia, and the most popular lyric singer of the time, Clara Novelo, 

sang the God save the Queen. But it was not the music, but the building, that fascinated him. About this, he wrote: “It is 2000 feet long and its highest height is no less than 200 to 300 feet. It was made by a private company, under the direction of Sir Joseph Paxton, who, as a simple gardener, had become a celebrity for the conception of the vast plan of the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park in 1851” But he had not yet seen what he would admire. According to him, Paddington Station 

had everything - functionality, modernity, beauty - as much as could be required of a modern work. Recalling the difficulties that Portugal was facing in order to obtain financing for the construction of railway lines, he noted that, in England, on the contrary, they “tingle capital.” Then, and with Prince Albert, he left for Windsor. The fifth - model that the kings had assembled there fascinated him: “There were introduced all the most useful applications of mechanics and all new inventions, not only those that have already been recognized as good, but also those that have yet to be proved.” According to him, kings should undertake these experiences, since they were an “example” that competed “powerfully for the progress of agriculture”. Windsor farmhouse seemed a wonder: “Everything is arranged in such a way that there is no lost material. Both excrement and urine are used in the best way to make artificial fertilizers.” In addition to the queen's hen house, he visited a vegetable garden with four orders of greenhouses and saw a steam engine that moved “all the devices designed to cut the hay, straw and oil cakes, as well as those that crush the broad beans and drain the wheat." He began to dream: “I would have liked to found an establishment of this kind, which would also do me honor. Not so much, but if God wants, I will try to imitate what can be imitated, especially the application of steam engines to agriculture.” After that he went for a horse ride, among the secular trees of the park, with Prince Albert. He was increasingly fascinated with this relative. In fact, he was increasingly fascinated with everything he observed. At the end of a ball in Windsor, D. Pedro took the time to reflect on Portuguese elites: “I take this opportunity to note the difference that exists in the education and manners of English society and ours. Here, these heroes in taverns with a mustache and a telescope embedded in the skull, whose greatest merit is to pretend to be affronted on horseback, to boast of the greatest idleness, spending their entire days between the Two Churches 

and the Calçada do Carmo, 

space they roar constantly. Anyway, there is education here and it is a shame to say it, among us, the upper classes are the least well created.”

Two days later, the prince was leaving London. In Oxford, 

the vice-chancellor received the real power of the institution, the fact that his stay in the place was brief - one day - may have led him to make mistakes in the appreciation of the university, but it is also possible that the aristocratic leisure environment that was breathed there had shocked him. At St. John’s College, 

I wanted to know what subjects were taught. They replied that "everything", something incomprehensible to someone used to think of the university institution as divided and faculties. He liked the architecture of Christ’s Church,

but, once again, he was confused when he was told the content of the teaching. Having questioned the companion about what was taught there, he responded with a curt "yes", which surprised him. At Merton College, 

he noticed the existence of two librarians, both crossed-eyed, which made him even more confused. Then he admired the Radcliffe Camera,

 where, at the time, mostly books on natural sciences were kept, but he did not like the Sheldonian,

whose faces from abroad seemed to him to be "monos". Above all, he admired the wealth of Bodleian, 

who at the time had 500,000 volumes 

in his estate. What the authorities did not reveal to him was the fact that it was partly formed on the basis of the very rich estate of the Bishop of Silves, looted in the 16th century by Sir Francis Drake's soldiers. But the visit was over. Dom Pedro still returned to London in time to hear Rigoletto that night.

Reflecting, already at dawn, on what he had seen in Oxford, here is what he wrote: “I noticed, by the quick examination I made of the University, that it is not in good condition; and this is, in general, the fate of all the great universities, whether the clergy or the secular arm prevails in them.” Oxford, he thought, should exhibit a more modern teaching, which shocked him, in particular, the fact that Aristotle was still seen there as an authority: “A University in the hands of the clergy, and especially that of the Protestant clergy, is an anachronism in century we live in.” He also found it negative that the institution had too many students. First, because "the crowd governs itself badly and bad examples are contagious"; second, because, in the big universities, “whoever donkey enters donkey leaves, because in them there are no coercive means capable of producing the benefit even in less able individuals.” Thirdly, because any centralization of teaching was bad. The following days passed between receptions and visits. He was received by the Lord Mayor of London, to whom D. Pedro spoke in English, and spoke in English made by himself, visited the Bank of England (which he liked), 

St. Paul's Cathedral (which he did not like) 

and visited to the House of Lords 

where he heard a speech on the “question of the East”. At the end, he noted: "The viscount, Wylde, Folque, Sarmento and the brother Luis slept through the whole discussion." Then he found time to express his opinion on topics as varied as the free trade and the railways. About the first, he said: "As a result, I propose for the free trade, but, as a Portuguese, I must be somehow protectionist." About the second he wrote: “As long as we do not establish with solid bases at least one railroad, that unites us with the civilized world, as long as we have beasts that write that a railroad that unites us with Spain threatens our independence and that railroad cars cannot carry heavy weights, let us give up being anything, as we have become barbarians and thus belong only to the European continent, in fact, but not by law.”

The visits continued at a breakneck pace: to the archbishop of Westminster to whom he said “some truths that he did not like too much”, to the asylum of Bethlem, 

which, at the time, housed 300 patients, to the painter Winterhalter, 

who “dried” him, to the Times typography, which he liked, to Christ Hospital, 

in his opinion inferior to Casa Pia, 

to Greenwich, 

registering, once again, his admiration for “that commerce, that animation, that immense navigation”, to some barracks , including Woolwich, 

where he took the opportunity to comment on the advantages of factories being in the hands of private individuals, and to the Portsmouth Maritime Arsenal, 

acclaimed for the “excellence of the English naval military organization.”

#king pedro v of portugal #grand tour #portugal

[red-hot-moon]

Art comparison: Vincent van Gogh & Paul Simonon, part 2

Starry night over the Rhône (1888)  // Greenwich Reach (2002)

Still life with plate of onions (1889) // Last Cigarette (2014)

Green vineyard (1888) // Vineyard in St-Estève (2003)

Portrait of Joseph Roulin (1888) // Angel Gomez Escorial (2006)

Wheat field and mountains (1889) // St Minver, Cornwall (2003)

(part 1)

#vincent van gogh #van gogh #paul simonon #art #impressionism #art comparison