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knighthoracely · 5 months ago

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Um..... Guys????? All the other 3 fans who are invested in E&H lore???? Why aren't we talking about this vid???

My wonderful @prawnprank sent me this and we had a discussion concerning what it might mean. This is going to be long, so the rest is under the cut!

Warning: this is NOT a fact that Poki or Daedalic Entertainment (or any of the creators) stated! We just want to share our silly idea with you guys!!!

It seems that the OP has the game on a disk, and it has this interesting little puzzle which needs to be solved before starting the game. Unfortunately, we are not exactly fluent in German, but we had a friend translate it, so we think this idea of ours might be true or at least has a place to be.

So the idea is that the second game took place on the exact date stated in the video — 18.05.2002.

Why, you might ask? Because after choosing all the parts of this date, the OP ends up... in the main menu. Which can pretty much mean that this is when the game took place.

Thus, the first game might have happened a bit earlier — September 2001. Why? Well, we know for a fact that it was September, and Edna's disappearance is still relevant in Harvey's New Eyes — the asylum workers are looking for her, which means it couldn't have been long since she pushed Dr. Marcel down the stairs, and it would be realistic for people to look for her (or her remains) in the spring.

This theory also doesn't clash with the things we see in both games: the tech looks like something from the 2000s (like telephones, TVs, surveillance cameras, TV antennas, etc.), also real songs and movies that are referenced in the game also were released before the 2000s ("Don't Cry for Me Argentina" by Madonna, 1996; "Waterworld" with Kevin Costner, 1995).

Furthermore, it means that we can deduce when the characters with confirmed ages were born.

In alphabetical order:

- Adrian — 1965

- Alfred — circa 1982 I guess?? (idk if we get told whether he & Edna are the same age, correct me if his age is known & is different from Edna's)

- Almo — 1969

- Aluman — 1937

- Barman — 1956

- Beeman — 1952

- Blase — 1962

- Bruce Broker (Juppi) — 1961

- Chauffeur — 1943

- Dr. Marcel — 1933

- Droggelbecher (I'm NOT calling him Droggeljug.) — March 1971 (he's exactly 30,5 y.o. as his dossier states)

- Edna — 1982

- Front Door Officer — 1940

- Herr Mantel — 1926

- Hornbusch — 1932

- Hoti & Moti — 1966

- Hulgor — 1960

- Keymaster — 1974

- Mattis — 1950

- Neurotic — 1972

- Newbie (Tall Asylum Worker) — 1974

- Pastor — 1969

- Peter — September 1961

- Petra — 1967

- Prof. Nock — 1920

- Stiesel (I'M NOT CALLING HIM BABBIT.) — 1968

- Ticket Inspector — 1954

- Tobi (the watchman at the gate) — 1969

Also, we can say Alfred died on 03.08.1991, with Mattis being executed after that date.

So, in conclusion, I must say that it is not confirmed that it is the exact date but it sure seems plausible to us (we also genuinely hope that this wasn't debunked or something, but if it was, please let us know). So, if you like, you can adopt this little headcanon we came up with!

#edna and harvey #edna bricht aus #edna and harvey the breakout #edna konrad #edna and harvey harveys new eyes #edna and harvey harveys neue augen #peter edna and harvey #petra edna and harvey #dr marcel

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ryebecca · 2 years ago

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Hello there! 📚

Here you’ll find all of my moodboards (the ones with an asterisk have a fic attached!) broken down by series/character.

DAGGER DECADES

Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw 1940s: true to me (WWII AU) 1980s: i want to know what love is (POV: it’s 1986 and, like, you’re feeling totally rad and in love with your husband, Lt. Bradley Bradshaw.)

Robert ‘Bob’ Floyd 1510s: no sooner looked, but they loved (Tudor dynasty AU) 1890s: there is a flower within my heart (Gilded Age AU) 1920s: the cooling twilight (speakeasy AU) 1940s: there’s just one place for me, near you (POV: It’s 1943 and you’re sending your boyfriend, Bobby, off to fight in the war.) 1960s: god only knows what i’d be without you (POV: it’s 1966 and you’re feeling groovy and totally in love with your husband, Bobby Floyd.)

Mickey ‘Fanboy’ Garcia 1540s: that which we call a rose (Tudor dynasty AU) 1950s: i only have eyes for you (POV: sock hops, diner milkshakes, and kisses with your boyfriend, Mickey.)

Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin 1510s: the course of true love (Tudor dynasty AU) 1770s: we hold these truths (revolutionary war-era AU) 1920s: smoke and mirrors (speakeasy AU) 1940s: life ain’t always beautiful (noir AU) 1970s: you sexy thing (POV: You’re wearing your bell-bottoms and your best huckapoo shirt as you disco dance the night away with your boyfriend, Jake.)

DAGGERS @ DISNEY

Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw when you wish upon a star (POV: you’re spending the day at the Happiest Place on Earth with your boyfriend, Bradley.)

Robert ‘Bob’ Floyd once upon a dream (POV: Disney, Dumbo, and Dole whips with your boyfriend, Bob Floyd.)

Mickey ‘Fanboy’ Garcia you’ll be in my heart (POV: you’re on your annual Disney vacation with your husband, Mickey - the biggest fanboy there is! And if you spend more time in Galaxy’s Edge than anywhere else, well, you’re not in the least bit surprised.)

Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin a dream is a wish your heart makes (POV: You’re on a Disneyland date with your boyfriend, Jake Seresin - a not-so-secret Disney adult.)

DAGGER WEDDINGS

Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw the best thing that you’ll ever have (POV: embracing all the beachy vibes on your wedding day to Bradley Bradshaw.)

Robert ‘Bob’ Floyd i’ve always been yours (POV: you’re getting married to your childhood sweetheart, Bob Floyd.)

Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin my everything and beyond (POV: You’re getting married to the love of your life, Lt. Jake Seresin.)

DAGGER HONEYMOONS

Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin life is a road (POV: you’re on a whirlwind European honeymoon with your new husband, Jake Seresin.)

LADY MAVERICK’S SOCIETY PAPERS

His Grace, Jacob Seresin, Duke of Hereford Captain Robert Floyd, Viscount Welles

MEET THE DAGGERS PROFESSORS

THE DAGGER CREW (pirate AU)

ETC., ETC., ETC.

Rhett Abbott (Outer Range) wild for you (POV: you, Rhett, and fields of wildflowers. Does he propose in one of those fields once he sees how much joy they bring you? Yes. Yes, he does.) the wedding date (POV: you need a plus one for a wedding, but your friend cancels on you and you’re having trouble finding a date. Rhett offers to go with you - just as a friend helping out a friend…right?)

Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw baby of mine (POV: you’re married to Bradley Bradshaw, but now he’s leveled up to the one, the only, #dad!brad.) thankful for you (POV: you’re celebrating Thanksgiving with your husband, Bradley.) still falling for you (POV: you’re embracing all of the autumn vibes with your husband, Bradley.)

Robert ‘Bob’ Floyd fall into me (Leaf peeping, apple cider donuts, and walking hand in hand with Bob.) i pick you (POV: You’re feeling all of the autumn feels picking pumpkins with your boyfriend, Bob!) the story of us (POV: You’re on a cozy bookstore date with your boyfriend, Bob Floyd.) hail to the chief (President Bob Floyd AU) fun, fun, fun (POV: snacks, drinks, and kisses at the drive-in movies with your boyfriend, Bob.)

Mickey ‘Fanboy’ Garcia melting for you (POV: you’re spending the day snowboarding with your boyfriend, Mickey.)

Harrison Knott (Press Play) take along my love with you (POV: It’s a beautiful day at the beach with your boyfriend, Harrison.)

Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin cabin fever* (Cozy cabin time with Jake.) falling in love (POV: Soaking up all the Fall feels with your boyfriend, Jake.) into the great wide open (POV: a camping trip with the one, the only, Jake Seresin.) rebel, rebel* (TGM x Star Wars) plus one (POV: you’re a bridesmaid at your best friend’s wedding and you need to bring a date. You ask your friend, Jake, to tag along…who may or may not be feeling like more than just a friend these days. But does he feel the same way?) love her like i do* (Summary: You overhear Jake talking to your newborn daughter. Fluff ensues.)

Beau ‘Cyclone’ Simpson you send me (POV: You’re spending a cozy day at home with your husband, Beau.) take me out (POV: Your husband, Beau Simpson, is a pitcher in the MLB. His fast ball was was so notorious in college that his team nicknamed him “Cyclone” - and the name just stuck.)

Ryan (Yellowstone) when you give a cowboy a kiss (POV: life on the ranch with your husband, Ryan.)

#ryebecca's masterlist #*myedit #*mymoodboard #moodboards

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deke-rivers-1957 · 8 months ago

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Kung Fu Elvis Part 3

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If you're new to this series, the point of this is to find out which Elvis character is the best fighter given an uninterrupted hand to hand combat styled fight. The goal is to rank each individual Elvis character and then within each tier determine who would win against who.

How I plan on determining this will be by finding each character's age, size and general background. How well a character does in on screen fights will also be considered but analyzed on a case by case basis. Sometimes an Elvis character loses a fight simply because it's a comedy, or due to the low quality stage fighting wins because his opponents are laughably weak.

At the end of the day this is all headcanon as these are all fictional characters. If you disagree with how I rank a character I would love to hear your thoughts on where you would put them.

Wild in the Country is a movie that doesn't have a particular year. You would have to use the cars seen in the movie to determine when it takes place. Despite the presence of cars from the 40s, you also see a 1961 Chrysler New Yorker. Culturally speaking, you can also tell this is the early 1960s as you have Glenn going to therapy instead of immediately being institutionalized, a black man working with a white attorney showing the progression away from segregation, and college being a somewhat viable option with attendance steadily increasing since 1957. Given that Glenn doesn't have much of a job and has a rough and tumble backstory, it's likely that he isn't getting a full three square meals a day.

Even though I said on some sources, Glenn is stated to be 25, I could see someone make the argument that he's younger. Since no one claimed that he was a bit "too old" to be a college student, I'd say he's about 20/21 years old. Glenn being drunk is a non-issue because I don't see this town as being the type to care about enforcing drinking laws. In fact, Glenn's dad is an alcoholic and his uncle has it readily available which would make it more likely for Glenn to have drank before he turned 21.

Kissin Cousins relies heavily on the US military wanting land to build an airbase for the sake of national defense. Given that the Cuban Missile Crisis would serve as a big motivator to have a solidified air defense, we can assume this movie takes place a little after October 1962. Josh is an Air Force pilot and since he doesn't have anything on his uniform to suggest he was involved in a war or military intervention, it's fair to say that he's been living comfortably yet still has to be at least somewhat fit. Jodie meanwhile has been living up in the mountains his whole life where everyone lives off the land, so there isn't a lot of room to take in an excessive amount of calories. That also means, given his lifestyle and his work as a wrestler, Jodie by necessity has to stay in shape.

Going off of Josh's rank as a 2nd LT. I would say that he's anywhere between 25-30 years old. He never mentions being involved in Korea so that would make him under 30 in 1963. Given that there's no war, it takes a little longer to be promoted so even if Josh went to the academy and graduated, he'd still need a couple more years to be a commissioned officer. If you're in the Air Force, please correct me on how this worked during the 60s. As for Jodie, I have nothing to go off of. We don't have anything in mountain life that's age based. We can only assume that since Jodie is played by Elvis, he's at least an adult. For simplicity's sake, I'd say he's about the same age as Josh.

Despite having a somewhat specific timeline, Kid Galahad doesn't have a specific date. What we can assume is that it's after the 1920s since a poster of the real Jack Dempsey fight from 1921 is shown to be really old. Since the movie was filmed in 1961, I wouldn't be surprised if it was thrown in to a be 40th anniversary nod to it. Given that we see a contemporary Lincoln Continental, I would think this takes place throughout 1961. Mushy Callahan exists in this movie's universe is shown to be an older man, indicating that this takes place well after his prime since he retired in the 1930s. Walter being stationed in Okinawa for the army doesn't really give you a specific clue of when it takes place since the US had a persistent military presence in Japan after their surrender in WWII. Walter never mentions a war though, so we can assume that this takes place after Korea yet before the US sent group troops to Vietnam in 1965. We can assume that him being a soldier and a mechanic meant that he's relatively strong and fit.

Walter only has a canonical baptism date of August 14th 1939 in Cream Valley, New York. Given the context clue of his parents dying when he was 14 months old and that he lived with his family in Kentucky since then, we would assume he was baptized before they died. He was baptized by an Irish Catholic priest if he was allowed to marry Rose, an Irish Catholic so that means his parents likely abided by Catholic guidelines that a healthy baby is baptized within a few weeks or months of birth. Therefore, I would assume he was born in 1939 which in 1961 would make him about 22 years old.

This movie is about as specific as you can get with the time period. The Seattle World's Fair only lasts 6 months from April to October, 1962. We also know that Mike and Danny fly over a potato field. Potatoes can have a variety of planting and harvesting times, but it's common for them to be harvested in August or September. Since the fair isn't overflowing with kids, we can assume most schools have already opened. Sue-Lin's 7 years old so she's old enough to go to school, yet she's able to attend. If we assume that Mr. Ling was saving up money to take Sue-Lin to the fair, he would've had to have been saving money throughout the summer so he can take Sue-Lin right before her schooling starts, so we can assume that this takes place in either August or September, 1962. Mike being a recently destitute crop duster, likely had enough money to eat properly. He would also have to be fit enough to have any chance at becoming a test pilot or an astronaut.

We don't Mike's exact age, but we can make a guess based on certain elements of his life. If he wants to apply to NASA he has to be below the age of 35, have a degree in most commonly engineering, etc. Mike doesn't feel concerned about the age requirement so we assume that he has a few years to wait. We know Mike was in the Army for 3 years and that it takes about 4 years to get a degree in engineering. If we assume Mike did meet that requirement, he likely did it right after he left the Army using his VA benefits. Since the youngest you can be to join the Army is 18, Mike at his youngest finished his degree when he was 25. Since he worked with Danny as a crop duster for 3 years that would make him at least 28. So for simplicity's sake we'll stick with him being 28 years old.

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Glenn might have an age advantage, but he's not at all in a good position to be the best fighter. He's a hot-headed character when he fights and only fought people who were impaired to some degree. He seems to win because of adrenaline and luck. He's similar to Deke from part 1 in that his ability to get proper nutrition is questionable at the very least. Given that he's the young, scrappy and hungry character I don't see him being able to have a long fight. If fact, I can see him being completely unable to win a planned fight. With no motivation to fight as his life isn't on the line, he just wouldn't do that well.

Therefore, Glenn is the worst fighter of this group but that's not an insult. With the exception of Jodie, everyone else has military training. Glenn is still in B tier simply because for the average person, he could beat them in a fight. He just wouldn't stand a chance against the other fighters in this group.

Josh and Jodie only fight each other. No one won because Azalea and Selena interrupted their fight. If you look at this realistically though, I don't see this as an even match. Josh having military training doesn't really help him if he was in a fight. He's an Air Force pilot so he's very unlikely to face someone one on one. Also he would have a gun which doesn't reflect your physical abilities. Jodie is essentially the strongest man in the whole mountain village. You can't live in the mountains your whole life, with no contact to the outside world, and not develop any type of muscle. The only gun they have is a hunting rifle, so must confrontations likely are settled through physical force. That gives Jodie a lot more experience with physical combat.

Therefore, Josh would be in B tier but above Glenn. Josh in general is more physically fit than Glenn. Simply having better nutrition by being in the Air Force would give Josh more energy. Glenn having the age advantage doesn't help him since he wouldn't have the stamina from lack of nourishment. Jodie on the other hand would be in A tier. Brute strength would be enough to win against the average person which Josh basically is. If you take him being a champion wrestler seriously, I don't see how Jodie could realistically lose against someone like Josh in a purely physical fight. I can't rank him higher because even this is based purely on what I think should happen. The movie just doesn't give us enough to know for sure.

Walter won every single fight, won against professional opponents, and won against opponents despite being unarmed. Even in the beginning when he had no technique, he still won his practice match against Joey with one punch. As a professional boxer, he's nothing but physically fit. You know that his camp is going to give him nothing but the best. We see him train and even when he's not training he's working with a heavy duty Model T.

Walter is easily the best fighter of this group. A character like Walter is the reason why this project exists. He is what this project is about: finding the best fighter in the ECU in a hand to hand combat, alone, and uninterrupted. Definitely an S tier fighter as he has direct boxing training, has an age advantage, and has never gotten out of shape. The only thing I question is how realistic it is for him to not get knocked out after being punched. The movie is making it sound as if this is some bizarre ability that I simply don't know if it could even exist in real life. I would still put him ahead of Jodie because if we do believe that Walter's ability to not get knocked out is a legit thing that can happen, then Jodie's brute strength is useless. It would be an insanely entertaining match since you just know that Jodie would be fueled by his hatred for losing.

Mike has only won fights that don't fit my proper criteria. I really think he can win on his own but the movie simply doesn't depict the fights like that. Then again, these are more akin to street fights where things aren't always fair. Adrenaline might play a big role in his fight against Vince, but again Mike being able to maintain a certain level of technique is a sign of skill.

Mike. E is in A tier and I can see him winning some good fights. Despite being a crop duster pilot, Mike being in the Army does give him an advantage. He has to have a bunch of stamina and it shows with him being able to run all over Seattle and still manage to fight Vince. However, without any official solo fights, I can't give him the edge over Jodie. If Jodie being the champion wrestler is a fact, then he would have more canonical solo wins than Mike.

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To summarize for this part:

Walter is in S tier.

Jodie is in A tier.

Mike E. is in A tier but below Jodie.

Josh is in B tier.

Glenn is in B tier but below Josh.

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denimbex1986 · 1 year ago

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'Made for an estimated, fairly astronomical, $180 million, the high-impact biopic has grossed almost one billion dollars globally, at least partially propelled by its unlikely provenance as one-half of the Barbenheimer theatrical dynamic duo. But now that the dust has cleared, discerning spectators are better able to detect creeping critical fallout amid all the ticker-tape praise. How much of Oppenheimer’s figures is a factual biography of legendary U.S. physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer, and how much is sneaky, bio-hazardous radioactive waste dropped on an unsuspecting public?

Oppenheimer: From Book to Screen

To opine that Oppenheimer takes liberties with the massive (800-plus pages) 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning American Prometheus biography by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin is a little like saying Nolan’s dark, ponderous Batman reboots toe the same line as TV’s spoofy, goofy 1960s Batman series. To start with, Nolan’s non-fiction source is a meticulous, sometimes laborious, molecular-level chronicle of the titanic rise and fall of Oppenheimer, whose brilliant leadership of the U.S. Manhattan Project from 1943 to 1945 led to the development of the first atomic bomb—and with it, the quick, horrific end to the Allied campaign against Japan in World War II.

Nolan, however, characteristically declares war on any and all logical timelines from the opening shot. It’s a film that not only plays fast with the facts but shakes and splinters Oppenheimer’s uber-complicated life and times into thousands of jigsaw-puzzle pieces, jerking the spectator to and fro and across time and place from the 1920s to the 1950s. Postulate last year’s Oscar-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once, but set in a physics lab, not a laundromat.

If Oppenheimer was the main man who smashed and weaponized the atom, Nolan mashes Oppenheimer the movie into a galaxy of fissile bits; however kinetic, together their staying power is less than the sum of the parts. He seems to take Mark Zuckerberg’s infamous managerial mantra (Move fast and break things) literally, and like the Facebook mastermind, never stops long enough to pick up—or add up—the pieces.

Given the barrage of kaleidoscopic images, including nebulous visual fireworks, audiences haven’t time to do much figuring either. What might have been presented as a weighty, deliberate three-hour dramatization of a pivotal scientific, military, and political chapter in 20th-century history (and prelude to the U.S.-USSR Cold War arms race) instead takes flight as a slick, tricked-up, even sensationalized Hollywood biopic. It’s a perpetual motion movie machine, but one that might have been powered by magic mushrooms, not enriched uranium.

Barbenheimer

Nevertheless, Oppenheimer is a triumph of sorts, though chiefly in the areas of hype, hoopla, and amazingly lucky timing. First in the equation is the name recognition and box-office draw of Nolan, probably the most bankable director of his generation, whose hits have ranged from serious non-fiction like Dunkirk to sci-fi fantasy like Inception. Then there’s the coincidental, but heaven-sent summer 2023 theatrical run in a post-Covid world where a long-suffering public was feverishly desperate to get off the couch. Lastly was its love-at-first-sight, blind-date pairing with the Barbie blockbuster, an X-factor opening weekend alchemy that got multiplied countless times into box-office gold.

Surprisingly, the lack of a major marquee star (like Leonardo DiCaprio or even Christian Bale) in the title role didn’t abort Oppenheimer’s blast-off. To play Oppie, Nolan opted for the Irish actor Cillian Murphy. Emily Blunt plays Oppenheimer’s volatile wife Kitty, Gary Oldman stars as all-American (to a fault) President Harry Truman, and Ken Branaugh plays the pioneering Danish physicist Niels Bohr.

Skeptical critics may well question Nolan’s top-heavy U.K. roster, particularly Murphy, whose main acting modus operandi as Oppie is either a) wide-eyed focus and astonishment, or b) wide-eyed shock and regret. He’s abetted in his impersonation by Nolan’s hyperactive camera, which is nearly a constant close-up, in-your-face companion to the leads, so much so it chews up more scenery than does Robert Downey Jr. Jettisoning his Iron Man superhero armor, Downey dons a tie and goes gray to play Lewis Strauss, a petty, two-faced Wall Street political insider who is a catalyst in blowing up Oppenheimer’s postwar standing as America’s leading scientist-hero.

Fission and Frisson

While Nolan whiplashes the audience back and forth through the years, he’s loathe to label the times or places, treating them as if they were state secrets. The result is a dizzying centrifugal swirl of shots and scenes, some in color, some black-and-white, drawing on Oppenheimer’s heady college days in Europe and his first faculty job at the University of California-Berkeley and on to his date with destiny as director, founder, and philosopher-king of the WWII Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico. Why the black-and-white? It likely has something to do with Nolan’s film noir framing of the tale, which contrasts Oppie’s bright early decades leading up to the development of the bomb with the shadowy post-war era of the McCarthyist anti-communist witch hunts.

By the late 1940s and early 1950s, much had changed in U.S. foreign and domestic politics, and many on the left were persecuted, prosecuted, or simply silenced. Oppenheimer, once the celebrated scientist and renaissance man who helped win the war (while still subject to debate, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs dropped in August 1945 did likely save millions of lives by averting the Allied land invasion of Japan), is stripped of his cherished top-secret security clearance. For many observers and colleagues, Oppenheimer was never the same afterward. He wasn’t exactly a beaten man, but he was effectively muted, defused, and disarmed. He became head of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., where he would spend the rest of his days in a near-monastic retreat.

Down in Flames

American Prometheus paints a portrait of Oppenheimer as a complicated, contradictory intellectual giant, both ambitious and genteel, shrewd and childishly reckless. Nolan, however, thinks, almost literally, in black and white. Ultimately a neo-Hollywood genre director, he’s always on the hunt for villains, and if he can’t find one or two to blame he will invent them. History reveals that Strauss indeed smuggled in loads of ammunition in the right-wing scheme to take down Oppenheimer, but it’s simplistic and plain wrong to let the other bad actors walk. Among them is the FBI’s autocratic director J. Edgar Hoover, whose G-men began illegally bugging Oppenheimer’s homes and phones in the early 1940s.

There’s also the back-stabbing, malicious physicist Edward Teller, who got cold revenge on his former Los Alamos padrone by testifying Oppie was an unstable security risk—all because he nixed Teller’s pet project to create the “super,” aka H-bomb. There’s even the feckless President Dwight Eisenhower, who did nothing to save Oppenheimer from the humiliating Atomic Energy Commission’s 1954 inquisition ordeal or its damning verdict.

However spotty with the facts, Nolan’s filmic inquiry into the shameful case of J. Robert Oppenheimer really misses the mark when it comes to Oppie’s star-crossed romance with Jean Tatlock who is played by Florence Pugh. Evidently seeing the need to add the sizzle of sex to his film equation, Nolan treats the audience to not one but three gratuitous (and weird) nude scenes.

Hit and Miss Delivery

Historical films necessarily condense, crop, and simplify, but Nolan cuts corners so many times he should be awarded the Ignoble Prize for Ignoring History. It’s not nitpicking to criticize how he turns Albert Einstein into a fatherly Yoda figure for Oppenheimer when in fact the two men weren’t particularly close even though Einstein was in residence at the prestigious New Jersey think tank during Oppenheimer’s tenure.

Their differences stemmed from Einstein’s unbending disbelief in the basic, uncanny tenets of modern quantum mechanics, e.g., that light can be both particle and wave. Nolan dreams up key scenes involving the two of them, one that expands to critical mass in Strauss’ mind as the rationale for his vendetta against Oppenheimer.

If the movie leans on a blitzkrieg of commercial formulaics to lighten up its heavy-duty subject matter, ironically its best moments are when Nolan falls back on old-school textbook filmmaking. While several of the leads fall under Nolan’s command to emote in a blustery, “Look at me, I’m Oscar-positive!” way (Blame Blunt here, with Downey Jr.), Matt Damon has the courage to act admirably at ease instead of acting out. As the brusque Army general who drafts Oppenheimer to assemble and lead the A-bomb dream team, Damon doesn’t quite nail the steely, hard-ass gravitas the role demands, but he deserves a medal for conspicuously cool reserve under fire.

Another exception to Nolan’s showy melodramatics is Oscar winner (Churchill) Gary Oldman. Never known to be camera-shy, Oldman refreshingly underplays his cameo as the folksy, small-minded President Truman, whose victorious handshake welcome to Oppenheimer slowly turns into a virtual slap in the face.

The Trinity Test Scene in Oppenheimer

Audiences may also want to see Oppenheimer for the chilling bravura sequence that culminates in the July 1945 Trinity A-bomb test in the New Mexico desert. Nolan marshals his cast, preps the sets and pyrotechnics, cues the unearthly sights and sounds, and counts down to the blinding mini-apocalypse that changed human history forever. Pondering only the science, theory, and engineering, the product of $2 billion then (around $25 billion today) yet only a few years of round-the-clock work by a team of the best and brightest young Western scientists, the entire endeavor was a magnificent, manifestly diabolical achievement. To date, in nearly 80 years since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki cataclysms, humanity and the planet have been spared the doomsday death and destruction such weapons were born and made to deliver. But for how long?'

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ryanfrogz · 1 month ago

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From time to time I like to browse the Hennepin County Library's collection of old aerial photos just to see what once was. Every time I do, I learn something new. Here's a pretty interesting image from the late 1920s, maybe '27, with some points of interest marked.

The big factory in the center of the photo is the Minneapolis Gas Light Co. The city's last gas light was switched to electric in 1924, but the gasworks provided gas for heating until the 1960s when it was demolished to make way for I-35W. An extensive cleanup of the gasworks was undertaken in the 1980s, but the contamination was so thorough that it's still being removed today. Contaminated groundwater is pumped out and processed before getting discharged into the city's sewer system for further treatment. Coal gasification is a very nasty process and living in the area would've been truly terrible. I don't even want to think about the smell.

Mark #1 is the remnants of the Northern Pacific's "A-Line" bridge. The A-line formed the southern boundary of the U of M's campus, running parallel to Arlington Ave. A good bit of the original grade is still around today, occupied by the U's bus transitway. The bridge was demolished after Bridge #9 (seen below) was built in 1924. The bit seen here was turned into a coal unloader in the 1930s.

Mentioned above, mark #2 is the Northern Pacific's Bridge #9. As the university grew, train traffic and pollution became increasingly problematic, so the line was rerouted to the north and a new bridge was built. Bridge #9 saw rail traffic up to 1981 and is now a pedestrian/bike path.

Mark #3 (in the top left) is the Milwaukee Road's former coach yard. Passenger trains would get prepared here before making the short trip north to the Milwaukee's depot downtown. This site is now home to Metro Transit's main light rail maintenance facility.

Mark #4 is the 10th Avenue Bridge, a vehicle bridge whose construction began in 1926 and what I used to date the photo. Rather confusingly, there was another 10th Avenue Bridge at the time, located a bit to the west (the new one connects to the north bank's 10th Ave, the old one connects to 10th Ave on the south bank). Not quite as trainy as the others but something fun worth pointing out.

Mark #5 was a small engine house, possibly owned by the Minnesota Transfer RR. Steam engines needed a lot of attention & maintenance, and as such small engine houses popped up all over the place. A 1912 Sanborn map shows it being used as an oil warehouse, with oil tanks occupying the former turntable pit, which would've been in the empty lot left of the number.

Mark #6 is an even smaller engine house, owned by the Minnesota Transfer RR and built in the late 1800s. It didn't last nearly as long, disappearing before a 1945 aerial. That's about all the info I have on it.

Lastly, mark #7 is the north approach to the Minneapolis Western Railway's bridge into the Mill District. MWR was formed in 1884 to provide switching services for the mills, and was acquired as a subsidiary of the Great Northern in 1890. The bridge was built shortly after this in 1891, serving as an important link between the riverside mills and the massive grain elevators of St. Anthony and GN's Union yard.

With milling on the decline and NP's bridge just to the east, this bridge was considered obsolete by WW2 and was demolished in 1952. Unlike most things in this photograph, part of the north abutment still remains, hidden beneath I-35W's river crossing. Special care was taken to not damage it during demolition & rebuilding following the 2007 collapse.

And here's another picture from a few years later. The 10th Ave bridge is complete, the A-Line bridge remnant has been converted to a coal unloader, and the Bohemian Flats are still intact.

Bohemian Flats (also called Little Bohemia) was a riverside shanty town inhabited mostly by immigrants from central Europe. Many of its residents worked at nearby breweries and Minneapolis's famous flour mills. Over time, the community was slowly demolished to make way for a municipal port, which imported things like coal and oil. Grain was also loaded into barges at the site and shipped down river. This area was also quite polluted and received an extensive cleanup. It's now home to Bohemian Flats park. Mark 5* is the oil refinery which used the former engine house. Another reason to live anywhere but this area.

#trains #minnesota #history

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allthemusic · 2 months ago

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Week ending: 15th January

I surprised myself by knowing not just one but both of these songs. That's still pretty uncommon, enough to warrant a mention in the intro, for sure. Though both do look like they've become standards, of a sort, so perhaps it shouldn't be too surprising that I knew them? I feel like a lot of the songs from this era were covers of standards, which does give them a sort of sticking power that I suspect a lot of modern chart hits maybe lack. Still, bodes well.

Baby Face - Little Richard (peaked at Number 2)

I know this song, though not from any particular version - rather, my memories of this is linked to a choir even that I was part of in maybe Year 7. It was mostly this choral event themed around the Titanic, and there was a local songwriter who had written a whole long choral work retelling the story of the Titanic (cheery stuff), but then in the second half of the event we just sang a bunch of old-timey songs. One of which was this, I'm pretty sure - though a much more 1920s sounding version of the song that I still remember, but not hugely fondly. In my memory, it was an old-fashioned bit of vaguely mushy cheese. Hence why I was actually kind of surprised when I saw Little Richard doing a version!

But yes, it's the same song. Turns out Baby Face is a standard dating back to 1926 (so not exactly the 1910s, which I'd kind of assumed, given that we sang it at a Titanic-themed event?). A bunch of recordings were made throughout the 1920s and 1930s, it seems to have gone quiet through the 1940s and earlier 1950s, and then this recording kickstarted what looks like a wave of slightly more R&B-styled versions, and it's been a fixture since then, with versions recorded all the way through the 1960s and 1970s and even a few from the 1980s and 1990s. Not bad for a song that I'd firmly associate with a generation a little older than my grandparents.

I have to say, it's almost sickeningly saccharine stuff. Lots of lines about how you've got the cutest little baby face and about how I'm up in heaven when I'm in your firm embrace. There's just about enough edge to Little Richard's voice that he gets away with it, but even so, he can't quite avoid sounding a bit smarmy. That said, the gusto with which he rips into the mnm-baby after the sax solo almost justifies the whole thing. I think it's the tiny little "mmm" that does it, it's almost enough to distract you from the cheese-fest that are the lyrics. Almost.

The sax solo that I mentioned is also pretty great. It sounds like whoever's playing is having a whale of a time. As is the drummer, actually, just thumping along through the whole thing, having fun with it - there's an attack and a drive to it, combined with a bit of piano, that creates this wonderfully full, thick background to the whole song. I think rock and roll is pretty good at that, at just blasting you with a block of thumpy, continuous sound - which is probably what you needed, on 1950s radios and gramophones and TV speakers, come to think of it.

To Know Him Is to Love Him - The Teddy Bears (2)

Another song I know, though this time I just know it as a song, not because I've sung it. Which is a shame, because I think I'd have enjoyed singing this a lot more than I enjoyed Baby Face. It's a stately, melancholy sort of torch song, played in 12/8 time, which gives the whole thing this lilting, elegant feel that's very appealing.

It was by the Teddy Bears, a vocal group best known for originating this song, and also for being including as a vocalist one Phil Spector, a man I we'll be hearing quite a bit more from. He's the songwriter here, and the song was apparently inspired by the inscription on his father's gravestone, of all things, which said that "To Know Him Was to Love Him". Phil apparently saw romantic potential in this, and made it into an honestly kind of beautiful song about being in love with somebody: To know, know, know him / Is to love, love, love him / Just to see him smile / Makes my life worthwhile / To know, know, know him / Is to love, love, love him / And I do, oooh, I do.

I really love the simplicity of all that, the feeling that it's almost impossible not to love this mysterious person, and that even just seeing him smile has this sort of transformative effect on the singer. And kudos to the singer, Carol Connors, because you can 100% hear the affection and love in that and I do lyric, which almost certainly is meant to mimic wedding vows a bit. It's a warmth and a fondness that carries through into the initially promising lines about how I'd be good to him, and about how everyone says there'll come a day / When I'll walk alongside of him. In this initial part of the song, everything seems to be coming up roses, and this is the part of the song that I think I knew before listening.

And then the second half of the song comes and just blows me away. Because at some point, without ever feeling jarring, the song turns on a dime, with this huge soaring note from Carol as she asks why can't he see me? / How blind can he be? / Some day he will see / That he was meant for me. Which immediately changes the tenor of the song. Suddenly, there's something a bit pitiful about how Carol's hanging on for a single smile, desperately trying to reassure herself that everyone can see them together, that someday he's got to notice her. There's so much yearning and longing in it, and setting it off, just these absolutely beautiful harmonies from the two male members of the band. I don't have quite enough music theory to explain why the particular chord progression chosen work so well for me, but they're absolutely gorgeous throughout the second half, soft and understated but still somehow stirring. I like it a lot.

Somehow, this feels like a recording that could have been made (and been a hit) in the 1960s. Or maybe I'm just projecting onto it, given that Phil Spector, 1960s pop auteur extraordinaire, had a hand in it. But I also do think there's something almost a bit Mamas and Papas about the mixed vocal group, especially in the middle bit, once the song turns all angsty. I don't know. Either way, it's a forward-facing sound.

Both of these songs were great, and both have rightly been recorded many, many times. Still, of the two of them, one sounds considerably more forward-facing, and it's not the one that originated in 1926. It's also cool to see Phil Spector actually singing - I didn't realise he made his start in a band. It kind of makes sense that he would, he's just a lot better known as a producer. Which is fair enough, because despite this record's success, the Teddy Bears didn't have many other hits, and disbanded later in 1959, leaving Phil free to apprentice to the legendary Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in New York - which is where he really hits his stride. So yeah, watch this space, I guess?

Favourite song of the bunch: To Know Him Is to Love Him

#uk charts #1959 #little richard #the teddy bears

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buzzdixonwriter · 11 months ago

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Riders Of Death Valley (1941 serial)

Caveat: For wholly irrational / nostalgic reasons, I love this serial so while I will try to analyze its strengths and weaknesses fairly, don’t expect me to be objective.

Riders Of Death Valley is one of the first serials I remember seeing -- indeed, one of the first things I ever saw on television. I know my parents purchased our first TV set no later than October 4, 1957 because I remember watching news about Sputnik on it. We lived in Rocky Mount, NC at the time and I watched afternoon cartoons and cowboy shows on Channel 5 out of Raleigh (the afternoon kid show host called himself Captain Five and used a submarine backdrop for his set). We moved to Barnardsville, NC (near Asheville) prior to my going to first grade in 1960, so my exposure to Riders Of Death Valley occurred sometime in that three year period.

It made quite an impression on young little Buzzy boy. Decades later I found myself surprised at how many scenes and set pieces I remembered accurately (not to mention my first exposure to Felix Mendelssohn's “Fingal’s Cave” movement from The Hebrides, which helped cement my lifelong love of classical music).

Called “the million dollar serial” at the time of its release (it wasn’t; the final budget was $460,000 which represented a hefty chunk o’change back in the day), Riders arguably has the most stellar -- and expensive --- cast of any serial if we go by B-movie standards.*

I’ll go on about the ecology of B-movies in a bit, but right now let’s just focus on Riders’ cast. These were major names in the B-Western genre and the B-Western genre is nothing to sneeze at; several times stars like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers made the top box office draw list even though appearing only in B-Westerns.

And man, if you’re familiar with the world of B-Westerns, you’ll recognize what a stellar cast this was for the day:

Dick Foran (Jim Benton) appeared in 163 movies and TV episodes, often as a supporting character in A-films but better known as a hero of B-movies including horror flicks and Abbott & Costello movies but most famously as one of several singing cowboys in the wake of Gene Autry and Roy Rogers.

Leo Carrillo (Pancho Lopez) is best known today for his role as Pancho on The Cisco Kid TV series but appeared in literally hundreds of films and TV episodes.

Buck Jones (Tombstone) found stardom in the silent era, being one of the most popular cowboy stars in the 1920s. When he balked at becoming a singing cowboy, his career stalled out in the early 1930s though he soon made a comeback with a series of successful B-Westerns. After completing Riders he went on to make nine (!) B-Westerns in the next twelve months, dying tragically in the infamous Coconut Grove fire while reportedly saving the lives of others.

Charles Bickford (Wolf Reade) played small parts in big pictures and big parts in small pictures, and was nominated three times for a best supporting actor Oscar.

Guinn "Big Boy" Williams (Borax Bill) appeared in over 220 movies and TV episodes in a career dating back to the silent era, starring in Westerns in the 1920s and early 30s but moving into amicable sidekick roles by the 1940s.

Lon Chaney, Jr. (Butch) is most famous for his roles in The Wolfman and other horror films, but he made Riders just two years after being nominated for a supporting Oscar in Of Mice And Men as well as appearing in numerous Westerns of the era.

Noah Beery, Jr. (Smokey) is best known today as TV’s Rockford Files dad, but he appeared in hundreds of films and TV episodes as well as starring in a few B-Westerns as an unconventional low key cowpoke. (By astonishing coincidence, he was recently married to Buck Jones’ daughter at the time of Riders filming.)

The rest of the cast includes such recognizable names as Glenn Strange (Frankenstein’s monster and Matt Dillion’s bartender), Roy Barcroft (Republic studio’s go-to guy for screen villainy, freelancing for Universal this time), Monte Blue (silent matinee idol now playing supporting roles), and in an early role, Rod Cameron (who in addition to playing an unnamed bad guy also doubled for Buck Jones…but more on that below).

Lest one think the testosterone levels are off the scale, there are two females in the serial: Jean Brooks played Mary Morgan, heir to a lost gold mine, and Ruth Rickaby as Kate, wife of one of the outlaws.

Of Rickaby, there is no biographical information; she made 21 movies between 1939 and 1961 but nothing else is known about her.

Of Brooks, a sad tale to tell. Though she made 41 films and serials, she’s best known as the suicidal devil worshipper in Val Lewton’s The Seventh Victim. Her early film career saw her using the names Jeanne Kelly (as in Riders) and Robina Duarte in Spanish language films (she was bilingual). Changing her name after marrying screenwriter Richard Brooks, she continued working until 1948 when alcoholism rendered her unemployable. She and Brooks divorced, she married twice after that (and apparently was married before Brooks but no information on that can be found), and eventually died of cirrhosis at age 47.

There’s a point to be gleaned in all that, but I’ll leave it to others to do so.

Riders Of Death Valley was directed by Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor, two old hands at this sort of thing. Screenplay is by Basil Dickey, Sherman L. Lowe, Jack O'Donnell (as Jack Connell), and George H. Plympton off an original story by Oliver Drake. Of O’Donnell little can be gleaned; he apparently enjoyed a career in the 1920s as a successful playwright, did a few stories and screenplays for Hollywood, then ended his professional writing career with Riders, dying in 1965 at age 75.

The other four have screenplay and story credits in B-movies and serials -- particularly Westerns -- stretching into the hundreds. Dickey even wrote the great-grandma of them all, The Perils Of Pauline in 1914!

That being said -- and loving this serial as much as I do -- I gotta say, “It took five of you to come up with this?”

Because to be frightfully honest, this is a paper thin story, on par with comic book writing of the era. Everybody tends to speak in declarative sentences, the writing and characterization is too on the nose.

And ya know what? Who gives a rat’s patoot? The onscreen chemistry of Foran / Jones / Carillo / Williams is what makes this a delight. It’s not a Western, it’s four grown men playing cowboys & outlaws and they know they’re playing cowboys & outlaws and they know the kids in the audience know they know they’re just playing cowboys & outlaws but they’re telling the kids, “We want you to play along, too!”

Now do you understand why I love this serial?

I gotta say, for the most purportedly expensive serial Universal ever made, they sure spent their money in the right place with their casting. Yeah, you can pick this story to shreds easily, but why would you want to do that? It’s four guys and their friends having a good time playing cowboys & outlaws and they want you to have a good time watching them.

The serial was shot in Death Valley and the Alabama Hills in California, familiar territory to B-Western and B-sci-fi fans.

* There are actors who became famous and successful after making serials (John Wayne, Boris Karloff, and Lloyd Bridges to name three), there were actors who once topped box office popularity polls who sank to serial hack work (alas, poor Bela, we hardly knew ye), there were several regularly working character actors who appeared in everything from bit parts in A-pictures to staring rolls in serials (Lionel Atwill falls in this category), but the bulk of serial performers never rose higher than small parts in B-movies. They can’t all be winners, folks…

#Big Boy #serials #Westerns #B-Westerns #Riders Of Death Valley #Dick Foran #Leo Carrillo #Buck Jones #Charles Bickford #Guinn Williams #Lon Chaney Jr #Noah Beery Jr #Jean Brooks

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black-paraphernalia · 4 years ago

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I am posting this next bit of information under Little Known Black History Fact because the WS in American are very good in whitewashing the real truth of history that really happen when it involves blacks in this country; which is always the case. They lie and deny that is what they do they do not want to admit Black History is American History, for this will put the spot light on the evilness of WS in America and how everyone from the White house to the Out house is complicit.

On the cusp of the 100th year anniversary or the Black Wall Street Massacre as horrible and sad it was the little know fact is this was not the first nor will it be the last.

This history of Jim Crow enforced by the Klan provides context for a hard truth: In America, race riots are used to settle social discontent. The origin of race rioting begins with southern whites, resenting black advancement, attacked them to disenfranchise them of both the vote and economic prosperity.

Race riots were not born in the 1960s; they were born in the 1870s. The Meridian, Mississippi race riot of 1871, the Colfax Massacre in Louisiana in April 1873, the New Orleans riot of July 1866, the Memphis, Tennessee riot of May 1866, the Charleston, South Carolina riot of September 1876 and the Wilmington, South Carolina race riot of 1898, to name a few, occurred under the passive and sometimes direct hand of the local police.

The result: The ability of the former slaves to create intergenerational wealth — the key to all success in a capitalist nation — was systematically destroyed for generations.

From the late 1890s through the 1920s, white race riots continued. In the 1921 Greenwood Riot, the entire black neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which was known as the black Wall Street, was burned to the ground. And in the Rosewood massacre of 1923, the entire neighborhood of Rosewood, Levy County, Florida was similarly destroyed.

These and other white race riots (Red Summer of 1919) not only took black lives and wiped whole black neighborhoods off the face of the earth, they ended black economic wealth that could be passed to subsequent generations. It also caused displacement of black expertise and talent, thwarting its concentration and increase.

This economic decimation of black wealth and social stability was made worse by the Great Depression and blacks being denied full access to the various New Deal programs of the 1930s and the benefits of the GI Bill in the 1940s. Thus, during the first four decades of the American Century, blacks were subjected to white race riots and social policies that destroyed their wealth.

The point is that while whites were allowed to create intergenerational wealth and form wealthy communities both before and after the world wars, blacks were, as a matter of policy, prevented from doing the same. The policy outcome of a century of Jim Crow is systemic racism.

Source: Morningcall.com Your View: A history of white race riots in America By ARTHUR H. GARRISONTHE MORNING CALL-JUN 12, 2020

Here is a list of some of the countless massacres in the history of the United States. Look at the dates it was not something that happen way back the,. It happen in the past and the present and if we do not do anything to change it it will happen now and the future. STOP THE MADNESS!!!

Click on the below link for a extensive collection of information about each massacre

Zinn Education Project what you will not learn in the texts books

Most of these massacres were designed to suppress voting rights, land ownership, economic advancement, education, freedom of the press, religion, LGBTQ rights, and/or labor rights of African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asians, and immigrants. While often referred to as “race riots,” they were massacres to maintain white supremacy.

One of the best explanations about why it is important for students to learn this history is included in the article (and related lesson) by Linda Christensen, Burning Tulsa: The Legacy of Black Dispossession.

A tweet thread by historian Stephen West shows how politicians fueled hate crimes during the Reconstruction era, with parallels today. Ursula Wolfe-Rocca writes about Red Summer of 1919, Remembering Red Summer — Which Textbooks Seem Eager to Forget

This list is not complete and definitive.

Black Paraphernalia Disclaimer- images from Google images

#black paraphernalia #black massacres #black lives matter #stop the madness #did you know

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elysian-drops · 4 years ago

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Sorry to ask, but this has been bugging me. In Chapter 46, Tom mentions Dorea went to Hogwarts with him, but she was a 7th year when he entered. My question is how could this be? Assuming that Dorea would have been born in 1920, the earliest she could have had a kid (Henry) was 1937. Since James Potter was born in 1960, that makes the existence of Fleamont Potter impossible since the earliest he could have been born was 1954. So shouldn't it have been Henry who Tom went to Hogwarts with?

Hi there!

No worries, I can understand the confusion if you’re looking at the canon timeline! However, Appetence operates under a slightly different one than the canon does since it’s an AU. I’ve intentionally never assigned concrete dates to anyone’s birth-year (apart from Tom’s but that was to keep the World Wars/Depression intact); not even Harri’s birth-year is explicitly stated nor do any of the newspaper articles indicate the current date. This was mostly done because the canon has some conflicting events in its timeline that would have been a headache to iron out.

As for who went to school with whom in the Appetence universe, Tom would have gone to school with Dorea for a short amount of time! She was in her last year when he entered into his first (so about a 6 year age gap between them) which means he would have graduated long before Henry turned 11 (though, in my headcanon, Henry was home-schooled in an attempt to keep his existence further hidden). From this, we can roughly approximate when characters who were Tom's peers were born but anything after that generation has no assigned birthdate.

In terms of Fleamont, again there’s no mention of a specific birth-year in Appetence but I like to imagine Henry married young.

Hopefully, that helps a bit! The bottom line is that there are no firm “this is the year when so and so was born” in the Appetence universe to keep the timeline from becoming too murky or from bogging down the story.

Thanks for the ask! 💕

#anon ask #answered

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canceraquariuscancer · 4 years ago

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slang from the past that i love and would love to make a comeback

*Any slang mentioned that’s still used today is marked with an exclamation point (!) before the word

The Tudor Period (1483-1603)

Barnicles - glasses

! Break Up - to end a relationship

Green - new, inexperienced

Pigeon - a gullible person

! Scott Free - without any penalty or damage at all

The Elizabethan Era (1558-1603)

Lubberwort - a lazy, stupid person

The Regency/Georgian Era (1811-1820)

A Fudge - a false rumor

All The Crack - very fashionable

Bag Of Moonshine - lot of nonsense

! Bamboozle - trick

Become a Tenant For Life - marry

Befogged - confused

Civil Whiskers - polite small talk

Cock-Sure - proud and confident

Faradiddles - lies

Pudding House - stomach

The Victorian Era (1837-1901)

Bit o’ Raspberry - attractive girl (raspberries were thought to be the most flavorful preserves, so the prettiest girls were called bit of raspberries)

Bubble Around - verbal attack

Chuckaboo - close friend

Dying Duck in a Thunderstorm - u g l y (or, in a nice way, unattractive)

Gigglemug - ‘a habitually smiling face’

Lallygagging - flirting

Rain Napper - umbrella

Sauce Box - mouth

Wooden Spoon - idiot

Edwardian Era (1901-1910)

Bonehead - stupid, foolish person

Boner - a mistake, an error

! Boy! - an emphatic interjection

Bunk - nonsense

! Butterflies in the Stomach - fearfullness, stage fright

! Buzz Off - leave, say good-bye

! Can - to fire

! Cold - completely, immediately

Curtains - the end

! Doll Up - dress up

! Double-Cross - betray

Duck Soup - something easy

! Fall For - fall in love with

! Frog - hoarseness

Gas - a joke

! Goof - someone stupid or foolish

Goop/Goopy - stupid person

Hoosegow - jail or prison

! Ice - diamonds, jewlery

! In the Bag -assured, guaranteed

Jake - good, okay

! Killer - something or someone excellent, outstanding

! Lay Off - to fire (temporarily)

! Lick - a bit, in the smallest amount

! Loaded - rich, wealthy

Louse - mean, despicable person

! Noodle - the head

! Nut - a crazy person

! Nuts! - an interjection of disappointment

Pug-Ugly - very ugly

! Screw - to harm greatly

! Side-Kick - accompanied by someone else

! Snarky - iritable, short-tempered

! Stand Up - to not show for a date

1920′s

Applesauce! - nonsense

! Bee’s Knees - something excellent, outstanding

Big Cheese - important person

! Cat’s Meow - something excellent, outstanding [similar to bee’s knees]

! Cat’s Pajamas - something excellent, outstanding [similar to bee’s knees and cat’s meow]

Cheaters - eyeglasses

! Heebie Jeebies - nervousness

1930′s and 1940′s

! All-Nighter - a store or restaurant is open all night

! Bananas - crazy, insane

Bill and Coo - to hug and kiss

! Bonkers - crazy, insane

Fruit - homosexual

Ginchy - sexy

Malarky - nonsense

Mickey-Mouse - minor, unimportant

Monday Morning Quarterback - someone who offers advice too late

Rhubarb - argument, sqwabble

! Take a Gander - look at, examine

Take a Powder - leave

Tomato - a female

1950′s

Chrome Dome - bald guy

! Eureka! - i’ve got it!

Fantabulous - fantastic, fabulous

I Feel Like A Defective typewriter - i missed my period

Kibosh - to stop something

! Later Aligator/In a While Crocodile - a fun way to say goodbye

Mickey-Mouse - easy, simple

On Cloud Seven - really happy

On the Rag - having your menstrual period

Peepers - eyeglasses

Razz My Berries - impress me

Ring-a-Ding-Ding - similar to ‘woop dee doo’, but it’s used as sarcasm

Zonk - to hit

1960′s

Boob Tube - tv

Cherry - (something) excellent, outstanding

Golden Arches - McDonald’s

Klutz - a clumsy person

On Cloud Nine - really happy

Zonked - tired, exhausted

1970′s

! Cool Beans - amazing, inceredible

Duck Soup - excellent, outstanding

Rug-Rat - small child

! Zippo - nothing

Zonk Out - to fall soundly asleep

1980′s

Crackalack - to happen, take place

Dead Presidents - money

Earthbound - old fashioned

Goober - an unsophisticated person

Paper Shaker - cheerleader

Squerrel - attractive female

1990′s

Betty - a girl

Circle - to marry

Illuminations - good ideas, thoughts

See the Dinosaur - misunderstood completely

Zeen - to understand

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ryebecca · 2 years ago

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Hello, and welcome!

Here you’ll find all of my moodboards (ones with an asterisk have a fic attached!) broken down by series/character.

As of now, I’m really just working with Top Gun: Maverick characters or Rhett Abbott because, let’s be real, that man has a chokehold on me at the moment. Have a request? Drop into my asks and let me know!

Banners by the one, the only, @writercole.

Dagger Decades - coming soon!

Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw 1920s: the cooling twilight (speakeasy AU) 1940s: true to me (WWII AU) 1980s: i want to know what love is (POV: it’s 1986 and, like, you’re feeling totally rad and in love with your husband, Lt. Bradley Bradshaw.)

Robert ‘Bob’ Floyd 1890s: there is a flower within my heart (Gilded Age AU) 1940s: there’s just one place for me, near you (POV: It’s 1943 and you’re sending your boyfriend, Bobby, off to fight in the war.) 1960s: god only knows what i’d be without you (POV: it’s 1966 and you’re feeling groovy and totally in love with your husband, Bobby Floyd.)

Mickey ‘Fanboy’ Garcia 1540s: that which we call a rose (Tudor dynasty AU) 1950s: i only have eyes for you (POV: sock hops, diner milkshakes, and kisses with your boyfriend, Mickey.)

Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin 1770s: we hold these truths (revolutionary war-era AU) 1920s: smoke and mirrors (speakeasy AU) 1940s: life ain’t always beautiful (noir AU) 1970s: you sexy thing (POV: You’re wearing your bell-bottoms and your best huckapoo shirt as you disco dance the night away with your boyfriend, Jake.)

Daggers @ Disney

Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw when you wish upon a star (POV: you’re spending the day at the Happiest Place on Earth with your boyfriend, Bradley.)

Robert ‘Bob’ Floyd once upon a dream (POV: Disney, Dumbo, and Dole whips with your boyfriend, Bob Floyd.)

Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin a dream is a wish your heart makes (POV: You’re on a Disneyland date with your boyfriend, Jake Seresin - a not-so-secret Disney adult.)

Dagger Weddings

Bradley ‘Rooster’ Bradshaw the best thing that you’ll ever have (POV: embracing all the beachy vibes on your wedding day to Bradley Bradshaw.)

Robert ‘Bob’ Floyd i’ve always been yours (POV: you’re getting married to your childhood sweetheart, Bob Floyd.)

Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin my everything and beyond (POV: You’re getting married to the love of your life, Lt. Jake Seresin.)

Dagger Honeymoons

Jake ‘Hangman’ Seresin life is a road (POV: you’re on a whirlwind European honeymoon with your new husband, Jake Seresin.)

Lady Maverick’s Society Papers

His Grace, Jacob Seresin, Duke of Hereford

Etc etc etc (for all the misc. boards!)

Mickey ‘Fanboy’ Garcia melting for you (POV: you’re spending the day snowboarding with your boyfriend, Mickey.)

Harrison Knott (Press Play) take along my love with you (POV: It’s a beautiful day at the beach with your boyfriend, Harrison.)

Ryan (Yellowstone) when you give a cowboy a kiss (POV: life on the ranch with your husband, Ryan.)

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finnishcrimestory · 4 years ago

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The stove murder in Kokemäki

Hilkka Hillevi Saarinen (b. 1st of November 1927, d. 23rd of December 1960) and her husband Pentti Frans Olavi Saarinen (b. 24th of March 1920, d. 1st of August 1986) lived in a large wooden house in Krootila village, Kokemäki. They had five children who had been taken away from them, because Pentti was very jealous under the influence of alcohol and acted violently towards his wife Hilkka and possibly also their children. The children had told that Pentti had in many occasions threatened to kill Hilkka and heard Pentti say that “they (police) would never be able to solve the murder”. In 1960 around Christmas time their eldest son (around the time being 13 years old) came to visit his parents with his friend. Hilkka was nowhere to be seen and when the son asked his father where mom is, Pentti just coldly answered that Hilkka had left while he was sleeping. When the son had asked if mother is in her old working place, Pentti answered “she is never there.”

When the boys arrived (a day earlier than they had promised) and went inside the house, they noticed how weird everything was. Pentti was surprised that they had came a day early and prohibited them going anywhere than the smaller part of the kitchen. When they fetched more bedsheets and other stuff from Hilkka’s room, the son wondered out loud why they won’t turn on the lights. Pentti just simply said the lights don’t work. Even though the room was dark in the bigger part of the kitchen, the son could see that the big stove looked different. Belongings on top of it that had been sitting there for years were scattered around the room. Pentti told him that he had been cleaning, which was very strange since Pentti never took care of any chores around the house, it was always Hilkka’s job. The son also noticed that Pentti’s knuckles in his hand were bruised so badly that his skin had gotten broken.

While the boys were visiting Pentti, he watched them very closely, following their every movement. This resulted to the friend leaving earlier than they had agreed.

Years went by and there was no sign of Hilkka. The eldest son visited the house once in a while and always tried to keep an eye on the things that changed around the house. He checked the cellar, outhouse and grounds around the house. In front of the cowshed there had been a big pile of sand that had suddenly disappeared. As time went by the son started to have strong feelings that Hilkka wasn’t alive anymore. After he had searched the grounds and everything outside, he continued his searching inside the house. He looked around the attic and below the floor boards. The big stove in the house seemed a bit off to him. He started to feel like Pentti had had something to do with Hilkka’s disappearance.

In 1966 the son sent a letter to the local police. He wrote: “I have suspicions that my father knows something about my mothers disappearance, more than he has told. He has clearly dissembled the stove and then laid the bricks back on again. Before this the stove hasn’t even been used in 7 to 8 years. Father was cleaning the house in the dark, even though there was light in the next room when I arrived there. I think the stove should be dissembled. My father can do anything.” However it wasn’t noted. One year later the son wrote another letter to a local paper with a secret name. The title of the writing was “Where do they disappear / I suspect my father to be a murderer”. He wrote about how he thinks his father has murdered his mother, but he changed the details and dates of the happening. Later when the son met Pentti, he had said “we both should just take care of our own things.” Pentti had read the writing and recognized it to be written by his son.

The investigation

It was the year of 1972 when new investigators had been commissioned to dig up some old unsolved cases. They finally took a deeper look in Hilkka’s disappearance. They contacted the eldest son because of the letter he sent to the police and he got the chance to read some interrogation material where was a lot of rumors from around the village. The things the son had been telling in his letter, could’ve easily been true, when taking in consideration all the things that went around the village about Pentti. Pentti had also told couple things that were contradictory.

On 27th of November 1972 on Hilkka’s nameday, 12 years after the disappearance, inspector Gunnar Kivelä, other police men and a mason went to Pentti and Hilkka’s house, with an order to dissemble the stove. Pentti was taken to the police station while they worked in the house. After they had dug about one meter they exposed a mummified head. When they continued digging a whole body was found. The corpse was moved to Pori and on the next day the son went and identified the corpse to be his mother, Hilkka Saarinen. Pentti stated the same he had told his son, he knows nothing about it.

The trial

The case was at first processed in district court. Pentti did not want a defender, but he was anyway assigned one because the court saw that he wasn’t capable to enforce his own welfare. During the trial Pentti denied all the accusations. At some point he told about how Roma people had came inside the house during Christmas in 1960 and apparently they had killed Hilkka. The theory was discarded immediately. Multiple witnesses told the investigators how Hilkka had told about the injuries she had gotten and how Pentti had abused her. Hilkka had visited a doctor on many occasions because of the injuries. Many people around Kokemäki knew how violent and horrible Pentti was towards Hilkka. Alongside the beating Pentti once had shoved Hilkka’s head to a bucket full of feces, and once when they were eating, suddenly Pentti had hit Hilkka with a fork. According to Pentti this happened because Hilkka had “eaten like a pig”.

The district court of Kokemäki saw that Pentti hadn’t killed Hilkka on purpose and that it had been an accident. Pentti was sentenced for 8 years in penitentiary for aggravated assault. However Pentti was released after serving for only one year, because the court of appeals in Turku and the supreme court saw that Hilkka’s cause of death couldn’t be determined with examination. They also saw that a person can’t be sentenced for negligent homicide when 12 years had passed.

Pentti went back to his house which was already deteriorating. He lived there alone until he died on 1st of August 1986. People around Finland gave Pentti a nickname “vapaa muurari (free (or independent) mason)”. The house was demolished in March of 2015 and this case is still officially unsolved. However, pretty much every Finn is certain Pentti killed his wife, probably on purpose.

#finnish crime #true crime #historical murders #Finland #uunisurma #unsolved #solved

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besties-ice-cream · 3 years ago

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I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Besties Ice Cream!

Picture this: a family on a road trip home after a fun summer day in the sun, speeding down the interstate. As the minivan rolls up to the closest town, a green guide sign next to the approaching exit pops up off of the right shoulder, advertising ice cream available for tired travelers in need of a break. As if reading each other’s minds, the parents break into grins, reciting a chant together “I scream, you scream,”—the whole family joins in—” we all scream for ice cream!

It’s a familiar saying—one some of us have likely heard countless times growing up, and perhaps repeated obnoxiously with our friends when the ice cream truck rolled down the street—but just where did this peculiar saying come from?

It’s not hard to imagine some clever person or ice cream connoisseur saying the words when the topic of the scoopable treat came up—the delectable dessert we call ice cream is definitely something worth screaming over—but it’s a silly little saying, nonetheless.

Whether you deem the ten-word saying silly or a poetic work of literary genius, there is a bit of interesting history to the origin of the phrase, dating back to the first half of the twentieth century.

The I-Scream Bar

Unsurprisingly, the origins of one of our favorite ice-cream-related sayings come from an old advertising slogan. The ad industry of the early twentieth century was on a roll with the advent of so many new inventions in need of advertising, and the story goes that the saying “I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream” was originally a slogan for the treat now known as Edy’s Pie. The ice cream treat itself was originally coined the “I-Scream bar,” and, well...you can probably figure out why the origin story of the saying has ties to this particular ice cream bar based solely off of the name

The inventor of the I-Scream bar, Christian Kent Nelson, is said to have come up with a catchy advertising slogan for his bar that went something along the lines of “I-scream, you scream, we all scream for the I-scream bar!” While definitely not as catchy as our modernized saying, it gets the job done.

The I-Scream bar itself is actually a rather significant dessert as far as the history of ice cream is concerned. Up until Christian Kent Nelson created the I-Scream bar, there was no such ice cream bar in existence! The inspiration for creating the ice cream bar reportedly came to Nelson when he was manning his confectionary store in 1920. It was during a particularly sweltering day that a young boy came in to buy ice cream, but then changed his mind and decided to buy a chocolate bar. Nelson reportedly asked the boy why he changed his mind, and he said he wanted both but only had money for one treat.

From there, Nelson worked to create a one-of-a-kind ice cream bar that was coated in chocolate. After finally perfecting the recipe, Nelson began to give out his treats, and they were a smashing success. Nelson eventually partnered with Russell C. Stover, the famed chocolatier, to make the ice cream treat. They renamed the I-Scream bar the Eskimo Pie, and the name was then changed to Edy’s Pie in 2020.

Not Just a Saying—A Song

The next evolution of this catchy slogan came in the form of a jazz song written by Billy Moll, Robert King, and Howard Johnson called “I scream – You scream – We All Scream For Ice Cream.” The song was reportedly a hit in influential jazz clubs across the country, played by such important jazz groups as The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2006.

The song is complete with several verses and a chorus, and lots of “Rahs!” for good measure. Here is the chorus of the well-known song:

“I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

Rah! Rah! Rah!

Tuesdays, Mondays, we all scream for sundaes,

Sis-boom-bah!

Boola-boola, sarsaparoolla,

If you got chocolate, we’ll take vanoola!

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

Rah! Rah! Rah!”

“I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream” continued to rise in popularity through the 1950s and 1960s, becoming even more well known when it was featured in the 1973 movie, Sleeper. The Woody Allen film stars Diane Keaton and is set in a dystopian future—a plot that contrasts quite drastically with the upbeat jazz song. Nevertheless, Allen included the song on the movie’s soundtrack and performed it himself on clarinet with the aforementioned Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the New Orleans Funeral and Ragtime Orchestra.

Well, there you have it—a complete and quirky history of the saying we’ve all heard as kids concerning our favorite summertime treat. Maybe this means we all need to start singing “I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream” when the Besties Ice Cream truck rolls through the neighborhood. Or maybe it just means that we now know a little more about the origins of the silly little saying that has been commonplace vernacular for years and years. Either way, all this talk about ice cream has undoubtedly conjured up nostalgic memories of licking a scoop of sweet, creamy ice cream balanced on a sugary cone.

If that’s what you’re craving, you better reserve Besties Ice Cream Truck for your next party or event, or track us down if you’re in Denver. After all, I scream, you scream, we all scream for Besties Ice Cream!

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wetsteve3 · 4 years ago

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This handsome Swede is an incredibly rare Husqvarna, one of only 21 ever made. The Model 50 was the firm’s sporting single-cylinder, overhead-valve 500cc machine built between 1929 and 1933 and developed in several forms, including a standard sporting model with relatively light weight and good power (360 pounds and 30 HP). The Model 50 was originally built with a JAP OHV 500cc motor, the “dog ear” KO sports/racing motor with a single exhaust port and cast-in rocker supports on the cylinder head, with the rockers running on enclosed roller bearings, although the pushrods and rockers were totally exposed and required frequent greasing to give their best. With 25-30 HP, depending on the compression ratio and camshaft design, these motors gave plenty of performance, although the Husky was a bit heavy for a full-on racing machine.

Husqvarna had used Sturmey-Archer multi-speed rear hubs and gearboxes since the ‘Teens, before embarking on manufacturing its own gearboxes starting in 1933. The Swedish firm was never a huge customer for the giant Sturmey-Archer company (which supplied gearboxes to the whole of the British motorcycle and bicycle industry), and Husqvarna only built motorcycles in the hundreds and low thousands in this era. But when Sturmey-Archer began offering its OHV sports engine to customers in the early 1930s, it was an up-to-date OHV design based largely on the AJS/Sunbeam model, with steel side plates reinforcing the overhead-valve rocker gear. It was a successful system, and both of those factories found racing success in the 1920s using this simple exposed-valve and rocker system. Sturmey-Archer copied the best for its own engine, which was also used with its house brand Raleigh for a short period. In 1931, Husqvarna ordered 21 Sturmey-Archer OHV motors for the Model 50, making this an extremely rare machine.

This 1931 Husqvarna Model 50 TVX was originally owned by an artist in Stockholm, and in the 1960s, it was sold to a gent in Hedemora, ending up in the Hedemora Museum until 2005, when David Janson of Jönköping, Sweden, purchased it and spent three years restoring this rare TVX. It’s a beautiful, sporting and rare Husqvarna, and one of the company’s most attractive models from the 1930s.

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thewildeclub · 4 years ago

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6 and 20 for the quarantine questions? ^-^

*bows* Thank you dearest.

6. Top three cuisines? French (may i direct you to this video to explain why), Japanese (comfort food!), and British (the food is one of my favorite parts of visiting England) 7. What was your first word as a child (that wasn’t a variation of “Mom” or “Dad”)? Do people know this? Let me ask my mom-- She said its was Moo. Classic. 8. What’s a job that you’ve had that people might be surprised to find out you’ve had? I think the two main ones were house cleaner at a historic bed and breakfast and security guard at a college dormitory. 9. Look up. What’s directly across from you? My metal headboard and string lights with some of my favorite postcards hanging from it. 10. Do you own any signed books/memorabilia in general? I don’t think I have any signed books, I used to own Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, but it went MIA. I collect antiques and historic knick knacks. Favorite ones are St. Joan of Arc statue/candle holder, 1960′s library date stamp, 1920′s pocketwatch, and medication bottle from the 1960s. However all my little bits of history are my children. 11. Preferred way to spend a rainy day? Windows open, candles lit with keaton henson playing on the speakers, and reading something engrossing. 12. What do you get on your bagels? There is actually a NY Bagel place down the road and my classic order is poppyseed bagel with pastrami, egg, and swiss and then a garlic and salted bagel with lox and cream cheese. 13. Brunch or midnight snacks? BRUNCH. I was JUST talking to my roommate about my dream brunch. 14. Favorite mug you own? I have two. One is from the Thomas Wolfe House and the other is a giant mug that says Good Morning. 15. What coffee drink would you describe yourself as? Since I contain multitudes, I would say 2 shots of espresso, LOTS of whipped foam and a drizzle of salted caramel. 16. Pick a song lyric to describe your current mood (and drop the name and artist!)

I'm not sick but I'm not well And I'm so hot 'cause I'm in Hell

Flagpole Sitta by Harvery Danger 17. Fruity or herbal teas? Herbal. Lemon and Ginger is my go to. 18. What’s that one TV show that you’re a little bit embarrassed to watch but you still like nonetheless? Ridiculousness? I think thats the name. I hate to say watching fail videos make me laugh so hard. 19. That book you were forced to read for class but actually ended up enjoying? The Great Gatsby. I wanted to hate it and hated it for a little awhile. then realized oh no I love the 1920s and hedonism? 20. Do you match your socks? God no. Where is the fun of that.

#thanks love

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