I don't think the Queen Mum was 'notorious' - certainly very notable, but mostly in a favourable way!
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Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Got it : 'notable'. Thought 'notorious' meant the same!I don't think the Queen Mum was 'notorious' - certainly very notable, but mostly in a favourable way!
I don't think the Queen Mum was 'notorious' - certainly very notable, but mostly in a favourable way!
That's a very rare slip from @LoxuruGot it : 'notable'. Thought 'notorious' meant the same!
Yes, it's a word that trips up even monolingual English speakers. Like Wragg says, you don't often nod!Got it : 'notable'. Thought 'notorious' meant the same!
Mikerytel
Senator
a day late but this was one of the worst mass shootings in recent memory, guys name was Stephen paddock who didn't leave any notes behind as to why he would do that
Naraku
Draconarius
The record for longest lived world leader ever is Chau Sen Cicsal Chhum, Cambodian Prime Minister in 1962 who died at the age of 103 years 143 days in 2009.
Among living leaders, former Ecuadorian dictator Guillermo Rodriguez is the oldest. He will turn 101 on 3 November.
On a personal note: my mother turned 95 on the first. Like Carter, she was born in Georgia; though in Atlanta, not Plains.
Mikerytel
Senator
Today is hooters 41st anniversary, and the first hooters girl Lynne Austin
helped put them on the spotlight, other photos of Lynne Austin will be in lovely ladies thread
Naraku
Draconarius
Lynne Austin was an aspiring model from Plant City when the creators of an untried concept for a wings restaurant hired her as their first waitress. They used her image to advertise and she appeared on posters sold at the restaurant which led to her becoming the July 1986 Playmate of the month and a brief acting career and a career on radio in the Bay Area.. She is now 63 years old.
There is a Hooters still at the original location in Clearwater on Gulf-to-Bay Blvd (about 15 to 30 minutes from my house, depending on traffic), although the building has been remodeled.
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Frank Petrexa
Tribune
Late in the evening of October 8, 1871, the O’Leary barn in Chicago (now the site is in a fire training facility) caught fire. The O'Leary's ramshackle home was spared, but they lost their few animals and Mrs. O’Leary’s milk wagon business. When the fire burned itself out 30 hours later, much of the city, including both poor and wealthy homes, a number of banks and luxury hotels, numerous churches (including Holy Name Cathedral), the courthouse, and the redlight district were in ruins. 90,000 people (out of 330,000) were homeless (but “only” some hundreds died).
The wind was strong, the fire easily jumped the river branches, and the water streams of the firefighters were blown off the flames. A pharmacist near the O’Leary’s had access to a fire box, turned in two alarms, but never got through. The fire was finally spotted by a watchman in the courthouse.
The city was mostly wood (and tar) construction. As a rail hub, its yards held piles of lumber, coal, dry grain, and tankers of kerosene. Wind-blown embers ignited new fuel easily.
Mayor Mason with an adult son tried to rescue papers. He failed, and it took three hours to walk the two miles back home—streets blocked by fire, bridges destroyed or crammed with refugees.
General Sheridan, the Civil War hero commanding the Army’s Department of the Missouri, wired for tents, provisions, and troops. He also unsuccessfully tried to retrieve papers. Then he and some subordinates took axes (and later gunpowder) to wooden buildings attempting (ineffectually) to create a fire break.
Edward Armitage in 1872 created “In Memory of the Great Fire at Chicago", based on Matthew (“..thirsty and you gave me drink, naked and you clothed me”). I guess Victorian nudity was OK if it was biblical. It’s like a pieta’.
The wind was strong, the fire easily jumped the river branches, and the water streams of the firefighters were blown off the flames. A pharmacist near the O’Leary’s had access to a fire box, turned in two alarms, but never got through. The fire was finally spotted by a watchman in the courthouse.
The city was mostly wood (and tar) construction. As a rail hub, its yards held piles of lumber, coal, dry grain, and tankers of kerosene. Wind-blown embers ignited new fuel easily.
Mayor Mason with an adult son tried to rescue papers. He failed, and it took three hours to walk the two miles back home—streets blocked by fire, bridges destroyed or crammed with refugees.
General Sheridan, the Civil War hero commanding the Army’s Department of the Missouri, wired for tents, provisions, and troops. He also unsuccessfully tried to retrieve papers. Then he and some subordinates took axes (and later gunpowder) to wooden buildings attempting (ineffectually) to create a fire break.
Edward Armitage in 1872 created “In Memory of the Great Fire at Chicago", based on Matthew (“..thirsty and you gave me drink, naked and you clothed me”). I guess Victorian nudity was OK if it was biblical. It’s like a pieta’.
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I happen to be in Chicago this evening. Something to think about and try to imagine. Thanks
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
As I recall, the fire started by one of Mrs. O'Leary's cows that kicked an oil lamp, which broke, and ignited some hay in the barn, right?
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
The book by Carl Smith (Chicago's Great Fire) goes into this in depth. Numerous official inquiries exonerated the O'Learys (her husband was a low-wage unskilled laborer). The O'Learys were asleep when their tenant discovered the fire and alerted them. Kerosene isn't free, so it is questionable that a burning lamp would be in the barn when no one was there. So no one knows how the fire started (there is such a thing as "spontaneous combustion", for example, where heat from decaying organic matter can ignite, say, dry hay, and smoking materials can smolder for a long time unobtrusively). The O'Learys were poor Irish immigrants, scorned at the time like third-world migrants to the US and Europe are today. So the popular imagination of what happened never died.
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
Near the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania, there is a coal seam that has been smoldering for years and the toxic gases released forced abandonment of a church. I've also read (the author is reliable) that a deposit of dung from the Giant Ground Sloth (extinct for thousands of years) is smoldering away in a cave. A few years ago, the Forest Service was sued over a wild fire in northern New Mexico. They had cleared brush to prevent wild fires. They had burned the piles in the summer in a controlled burn. The fire wasn't completely extinguished, it smoldered over the winter (with snow and rain), and ignited a very destructive wild fire the next year. So as the Forest Service's "Smokey the Bear" says, make sure your campfire is completely out.
Migoz2
Senator
It is also entirely untrue and a scurrilous rumour that a young servant called Barbara Moore, running away from a house where the master was trying to make her do something that she just doesn't do, was hiding in the barn that night and trying to get warm..............
I told him over and over again that I refuse to swallow!!!
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Just telling : in the version I once read, Mrs. O'Leary was in the barn, to milk cows. It was already evening and dark, so she needed light. Then a cow accidentally kicked down the petroleum lamp...
No, that's a hoax! Truth is, the barn next door was used to store Riesling wine. Barbara Moore, carrying a petroleum lamp wanted to get a bottle! However, by mistake, she unintentionally entered Mrs. O'Leary's barn, and inside, she tripped over her own hideous shoes, so the lamp broke and set the place on fire!
malins
Stumbling Seeker
These can go on for centuries, there's one described by Goethe in 1770 that's still going today although it has become very weak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brennender_Berg ... the phenomenon was actually a minor plot device in one of my stories
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
This is what Mrs. O'Leary had to deal with the rest of her lifeJust telling : in the version I once read, Mrs. O'Leary was in the barn, to milk cows. It was already evening and dark, so she needed light. Then a cow accidentally kicked down the petroleum lamp...
No, that's a hoax! Truth is, the barn next door was used to store Riesling wine. Barbara Moore, carrying a petroleum lamp wanted to get a bottle! However, by mistake, she unintentionally entered Mrs. O'Leary's barn, and inside, she tripped over her own hideous shoes, so the lamp broke and set the place on fire!
Late last night, when we were all in bed
Mrs. O'Leary left a lantern in the shed
Well the cow kicked it over, and this is what they said:
"There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight!"
(Little kids still sing this thing at camps and what not.)
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Today, 90 years ago.
On October 9th 1934, King Alexander I of Yugoslavia disembarked in Marseille for an official visit to France. He was driven slowly from the port to the railway station, cheered by a crowd. Suddenly, an assassin managed to lure the police guard, jumped on the car’s footboard and shot the king, who immediately died.
In the ensuing chaos, twenty people were wounded and six people were killed, four in the crowd and two more in the car, by stray bullets fired by either the police or by the assassin. The most notorious victim, besides the king, was Louis Barthou, then French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and former Prime Minister, who had been sitting next to the king, but got hit by a stray bullet fired by the police. A mounted lieutenant-colonel finally managed to neutralize the assassin, by a blow with his saber. Wounded, the man tried to escape, but he was subsequently killed by the outrageous mob, before the police could ntervene.
The assassin was a Bulgarian of Macedonian origin, most likely hired by Croat nationalists, who vehemently opposed the Serbia-centered policy of the king. It is however suspected that the Italian secret service had also a part in the assassination, as Italy did not want a good relationship between France and Yugoslavia, respectively its western and eastern neighbouring country. Particularly since King Alexander wanted to build a strong, unified country, a nation to be taken into account in international politics, with the support of France.
Many photographers were present along the route to be followed, and even film cameras. The assassination of King Alexander is hence the first such event to be caught on film.
On October 9th 1934, King Alexander I of Yugoslavia disembarked in Marseille for an official visit to France. He was driven slowly from the port to the railway station, cheered by a crowd. Suddenly, an assassin managed to lure the police guard, jumped on the car’s footboard and shot the king, who immediately died.
In the ensuing chaos, twenty people were wounded and six people were killed, four in the crowd and two more in the car, by stray bullets fired by either the police or by the assassin. The most notorious victim, besides the king, was Louis Barthou, then French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and former Prime Minister, who had been sitting next to the king, but got hit by a stray bullet fired by the police. A mounted lieutenant-colonel finally managed to neutralize the assassin, by a blow with his saber. Wounded, the man tried to escape, but he was subsequently killed by the outrageous mob, before the police could ntervene.
The assassin was a Bulgarian of Macedonian origin, most likely hired by Croat nationalists, who vehemently opposed the Serbia-centered policy of the king. It is however suspected that the Italian secret service had also a part in the assassination, as Italy did not want a good relationship between France and Yugoslavia, respectively its western and eastern neighbouring country. Particularly since King Alexander wanted to build a strong, unified country, a nation to be taken into account in international politics, with the support of France.
Many photographers were present along the route to be followed, and even film cameras. The assassination of King Alexander is hence the first such event to be caught on film.
The "Serbia-centered" policy was a general grievance of all the other nationalities in Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav state (read Serbia) treated their previous Austro-Hungarian citizens as the defeated peoples of a former enemy. Croatian nationalists or Italian operatives...or the two working together...may have been involved. Whatever. The king's successor was an 11 year old boy, and the regent (Prince Paul) was a playboy of little consequence. The weakened state was fragmented, damaged as a possible French counterweight to Germany, and, as with many composite states, was held together mostly with an iron fist.
During WW II, a Croatian puppet state, closely allied with Italy, and dominated by Germany, waged war against Serbs. The Serbs reciprocated, and Yugoslavs fought each other as well as partisans against the Axis occupiers. What happened in Yugoslavia in the 1990s was just another replay. It is the Balkans after all.