Thursday, September 8, 2011

Freddy Mercury

Freddy Mercury
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Mercury was born in the British protectorate of Zanzibar, East Africa. His parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, [a] were Parsis from Gujarat region and province of Bombay Presidency in British India [11]. [B] family name derived from the city Bulsar (also known as Valsad) in southern Gujarat. As Parsis, Freddie and his family practiced the Zoroastrian religion [12]. Bulsara family moved to Zanzibar in order to continue his father's job as a cashier at the British Colonial Office. She has one younger sister, KashmiraIn the early 1970s, Mercury has a long term relationship with Mary Austin, who had met through guitarist Brian May. He lived with Austin for several years in West Kensington. In the mid-1970s, however, the singer began an affair with a male record executive at Elektra Records America, which eventually resulted in the end its relationship with Austin [46] Mercury and Austin. But remained close friends for years, with Mercury often referring to him as the only true friend. In an interview in 1985, Mercury said Austin, "All my girlfriend asked why they could not replace Mary [Austin], but it just might.'s The only I've got is Mary and I do not want anyone else. To me, he usually the law of my wife. For me, it is a marriage We trust each other,. that's enough for me "[47] He also wrote several songs about Austin, the most famous of which is". Love My Life ". Mercury is also the godfather of her eldest son, Richard
According to his partner Jim Hutton, Mercury was diagnosed with AIDS shortly after Easter in 1987 [54] Around that time., Mercury said in an interview to have tested negative for HIV [23] Despite the rejection,. The British press to pursue the rampant rumors over the next few years, fueled by Mercury's appearance was thinner, the absence of the Queen of the tour, and reports from former lovers to various tabloid journals [55] Towards the end of his life. he was routinely stalked by photographers, while the daily tabloid newspaper The Sun shows a series of articles claiming that he was seriously ill. However, Mercury and his colleagues and friends constantly denied the story, even after a front page article published on 29, April 1991 which shows Mercury appears very dull in what is now a rare appearance. [56]On 22 November 1991, Mercury called Queen's manager Jim Beach Kensington home, to discuss public statement. The next day, November 23, following the announcement has been made to the press on behalf of Mercury
 
 

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

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Rita Hayworth does covers from 1940s-1950s

Photoplay 9-1945

Motion Picture 1-1946

Movie Stars 4-1946

Movie Life - 6-1946

ovies 5-1947

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American Restaurants of the 1950s and 1960s






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Quote du Jour

“Ideals are the cheapest things in life...those who never show a grain of effort, courage, or endurance have them on the most copious scale.” William James

The Watch Snob

I know in your past articles you have been very critical of Panerai timepieces. However, I recently read about a new watch with the Panerai badge sporting an in-house movement, the PAM 338, which is smaller. Do you think this could be a turning point for the company, and do you think their in-house movement would be respectable enough to spend almost $8,000 on?

While I am often cast as a Panerai hater, let me set the record straight. The company had a long history as a respectable maker of nautical and diving instruments. The fact that its early dive watches often used Rolex or Angelus movements never troubled me because Panerai never really proclaimed they were watchmakers but rather instrument producers.

But in the 1990s, in a story that is well known to many, a certain second-rate porn-star-turned-action-film-actor discovered the brand, and soon, as the French like to say, Panerai started throwing flowers at themselves. They were bought by a conglomerate, moved from Italy to Switzerland and started charging exorbitant prices for giant watches with pedestrian movements inside. They enjoyed success thanks to guys with bigger wrists (and wallets) than brains.

The new PAM 338 isn’t Panerai’s first attempt at an in-house movement, but I feel like it is the first one really worth considering. Yes, that was painful for me to write. I say that not because the movement breaks new ground but because it is priced more appropriately for a time-only in-house movement. Whether a movement can be called truly in-house when a company shares the stable with Piaget, Jaeger-LeCoultre and Lange is up for debate.

But at least it’s not another gussied up tractor from the House of Swatch. Now, I still don’t think 42mm is small. 40mm would have been a better, more restrained size. But an old dog can only learn one new trick at a time.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Pictures of Korea in 1945

Korean mother and child. Korean countryside near Seoul in fall of 1945

Korean Teahouse, 1945 in Seoul

Refugees: Fusan 1945, now named Busan

Korean Fisherman, Samch'ok, November 1945

Many Korean women carried heavy loads on their heads in 1945

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Our Dancing Daughters

Our Dancing Daughters is a 1928 MGM silent drama film starring Joan Crawford and John Mack Brown (later billed after a career decline as "Johnny Mack Brown"), about the "loosening of youth morals" that took place during the 1920s. The film was directed by Harry Beaumont and produced by Hunt Stromberg. This was the film that made Joan Crawford a major star, a position she held for the following half century.





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Anne Brigman photography

Anne Wardrope (Nott) Brigman (1869–1950) was an American photographer and one of the original members of the Photo-Secession movement in America. Her most famous images were taken between 1900 and 1920, and depict nude women in primordial, naturalistic contexts. [Wikipedia]

The Heart of the Storm

The Source, 1907

Storm Tree, 1915

Dawn

Finis

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Remembering September 11th

Ten years after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, we remember and here, just take a look back.

The South Tower falls

Firemen struggle to extinguish blazes near the disaster site

Rescue workers carry Fire Department Chaplain Father Mychal Judge from the rubble. Father Judge was killed by falling debris

Firefighters search for survivors in the wreckage

A rescue worker pauses to rest during the search and rescue operation

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Letting The Air Out of The "Gold Bubble" Theory

What the gold bears don't seem to realize is that, despite its big gains, the gold market can't be a bubble when almost everyone seems to think it’s overpriced.

This is one of the characteristics of an actual bubble. Almost by definition, only a small group spots a bubble in real time and isn't seduced by the siren song. If you think about it, that makes some sense, because part of what drives the creation and growth of bubbles is the belief that you are not in one. Instead of being suspect, parabolic price appreciation gets rationalized away with statements like, "new economy," "this time, it's different" or "housing prices never go down."

Conversely, a widespread belief that steep price appreciation is unsustainable is a good sign that you are not in the midst of a bubble, since it is an argument against joining the action. Whereas during a bubble all you hear -- in the media, at parties or even from the bagger at the grocery store -- are the reasons you should jump in before it's too late.

The reason I bring all this up is because inane commentary about the gold market being a bubble continues almost daily, even despite last week's sharp correction. However, it recently occurred to me that virtually no one who recognized the tech-stock and/or real-estate bubble now says that gold is a bubble. In fact, almost all of us who identified those bubbles long before they burst actually own gold, and have for quite a while.

It is really only the people who missed the previous two who now think gold is a bubble. They were painfully wrong in the past, so now they are determined to spot the "next" one.

In addition, of course, I suspect that none of them own any gold themselves. So not only did they go 0-for-2 on the prior bubbles (Housing and dot-com), they have also missed out on as much as 600% of appreciation had they bought gold. That is a recipe for bias if I have ever seen one.

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Quote du Jour

“Humankind cannot stand very much reality.” T.S. Eliot


Italian Identity, Lamborghini Style

In Italy, the people are as proud of their sports-car tradition as they are to be home to the Pope. No wonder, then, that Lamborghini chose Rome, the Holy City, as the site of the first drives of its new Aventador LP700-4.

Safeguarded by a red cover, the starter button awaits. With a satanic rumble, the 6.5-liter V-12 behind us erupts, seemingly with the first crank of the starter. In all it does, the Aventador’s new V-12 is a remarkably responsive engine—with just the slightest tap of the throttle, revs rise and fall with F1 quickness.

You’ll want to take a moment—and a few deep breaths—before flooring the throttle. The driver hardly has time to gasp before the Aventador hits 60 mph, which we estimate will take only 2.8 seconds. The 100-mph mark should pass in around 6.5 seconds and the quarter-mile will take less than 11. The rate of acceleration hardly seems to slow below 200 mph, and thanks to the hyperquick gear changes, there is zero perceptible lull during upshifts. The Aventador is equipped with a high-end audio system, but we prefer to listen to the conversation between our right foot and the engine. The V-12 makes a powerful low-frequency roar at lower engine speeds, which becomes a thunderstorm over 3500 rpm. Stay on the throttle and, beyond 5000 rpm, the Lambo V-12 sounds like the apocalypse.


It’s a razor-sharp jet-fighter on wheels, but more important, the Lamborghini Aventador is one of very few truly raunchy automobiles. With its aggressive engine note and aerospace styling, it is completely different from the more sophisticated—and equally new—Ferrari FF. Lamborghini will build 500 units a year, and 750 have already been sold worldwide. In the U.S., it’ll take at least $381,700 to put an Aventador in your stable. That’s a small price to pay, though, for a genuine piece of Italian national identity.