#100th Anniversary

[princesscatherineblog]

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visit the Tower of London's Ceramic Poppy installation 'Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red' by artist Paul Cummins, commemortating the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of First World War on August 5, 2014 in London, England. 

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Zagato Maserati Mostro, 2015. A special edition of 5 cars to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Maserati that referenced the Maserati 450S of 1957 which raced in the Le Mans 24 Hours

[mexicanblanket]

We used to be a proper country. 🥺

[pterodach]

[dailyzanymerch]

Day 166

Found here.

[lobogonzalez]

A kind of spicy cebration? I guess... for the 100th anniversary of Disney. There will be a new drawing every week

Feel free to ask about the extra-spicy version 🔞😘🔥

[ducklooney]

Classic Warner Bros cartoons - My Meme

Similar to the Disney meme I made a few months ago, which you can see here: https://ducklooney.tumblr.com/post/736089880235524096/classic-disney-cartoons-my-meme-a-meme-a-few

Unfortunately, due to numerous commitments, I am not able to dedicate myself outside of classic Disney, but certainly Warner Bros deserves attention, since this year is the 100th anniversary of its existence, and I am grateful for the many cartoons and ordinary films that they have given. Especially the Looney Tunes and ACME cartoon universe that I enjoyed as a child. So I made a similar meme to Disney's, only with Warner Bros. Yes, I don't like the Wabbit, as that is one of the weakest points of the Looney Tunes for me, but they are certainly still excellent, each in their own way. Classic Looney Tunes, Tiny Toons, Tazmania, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, Duck Dodgers and Looney Tunes Cartoons.

However, this is my opinion and my meme, and this is just for good humor, so please don't be offended. If you like this meme, and these cartoons, feel free to like and reblog this. And happy 100th anniversary Warner Bros, 30th anniversary of the original Animaniacs, and 20th anniversary of Duck Dodgers!

[rabbitcruiser]

Serum Run to Nome: Dog sleds reached Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum - inspiring the Iditarod race - on February 2, 1925.  

[boanerges20]

Suzuki GSX-R1000 100th Anniversary Edition

[bobendsneyder64]

MotoGP in their stories (30-06-24)

[comicchannel]

Funko Pop Moments Disney The Lion King Hakuna Matata - 1313

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[waywardsou1]

I am going to be alive for the 100th anniversary of Supernatural. Sometimes it's good to be young

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

What a difference 100 years makes juxtaposition of Alfa Romeo RL Targa Florio, 1923 & Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio 100th Anniversario, 2023. On April 15, 1923, the four-leafed clover (Quadrifoglio) was first used on the racing version of the RL during the XIV edition of the Targa Florio road race. Only 5 of these special RL racing cars were made. To commemorate 100 years of the Quadrifoglio Alfa Romeo will build a special edition of 100 Giulia models fitted with a 520hp V6 and a mechanical self-locking differential. There will also be 100 Stelvio Quadrifoglio 100th Anniversario SUVs

[douglasbradburyverne]

Character actor John Fielder was born 100 years ago today on Feb 3rd, 1925.

Having appeared in numerous classic films and TV series (Star Trek, 12 Angry Men, etc)... he will perhaps be best known as the very first voice actor to play PIGLET in WINNIE THE POOH. Which he happily portrayed from 1968 until his death in 2005.

[deadpresidents]

Exactly 100 years ago, President Warren Gamaliel Harding escaped the sweltering summer weather and increasingly dark political climate of Washington, D.C. to embark upon a lengthy cross-country trip through parts of the American West still relatively unaccustomed to frequent visits by the nation’s Chief Executive. Billed as a “Voyage of Understanding”, Harding’s trip was seen as a prelude to his potential campaign for re-election the following year, and an opportunity to put some literal and figurative distance between the President and the rumors of rampant corruption swirling around some of Harding’s friends and closest aides from Ohio, as well as several Cabinet members — rumors eventually proven to be true, resulting in indictments, convictions, prison sentences, and even suicides. As President Harding prepared for his Western tour, he could feel the heat as the scandals plaguing his Administration began to reach a boiling point. Speaking privately to the famous journalist and editor William Allen White, Harding said of the Presidency, “My God, this is a hell of a job! I have no trouble with my enemies…But my damn friends, they’re the ones that keep me walking the floor nights.”

Harding’s planned 15,000-mile Voyage of Understanding began on June 20, 1923. Traveling aboard the private Pullman railroad car Superb, the 57-year-old President left Washington, D.C. accompanied by First Lady Florence Harding, Speaker of the House of Representatives Frederick H. Gillett, new Interior Secretary Hubert Work, and a large retinue of aides, friends and their families, doctors, Secret Service agents, and members of the press. Work had become Secretary of the Interior a few months earlier when the previous Secretary, Albert B. Fall, became the “fall guy” for the Teapot Dome scandal. For his role in the scandal, Fall was later convicted of accepting bribes — the first former Cabinet member in American history to serve time in prison for crimes committed while in office. At later points along the journey, Harding’s party was also joined by Secretary of Agriculture Henry C. Wallace (father of future Vice President Henry A. Wallace) and Secretary of Commerce (and future President) Herbert Hoover.

The last week of June 1923 was spent traveling through the Mountain West — Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, and Yellowstone National Park. The beginning of July saw the Presidential party in the Northwest and celebrating Independence Day in Portland, Oregon before boarding the USS Henderson in Tacoma, Washington on July 5, 1923 to sail to Alaska. One of the expected highlights of the Voyage of Understanding was the northernmost  leg of the trip, as Harding became the first incumbent President of the United States to visit Alaska and Canada. The Territory of Alaska had been purchased for the United States by Secretary of State William Seward in 1867 when Warren G. Harding was two years old, and at the time of Harding’s visit, Alaska was still 35 years from being admitted to the Union as the 49th state. But the President spent nearly the entire month of July traveling through the state, mixing public appearances with private recreation and sightseeing. On July 15, 1923, Harding hammered a golden spike in Nenana, Alaska to officially complete the Alaska Railroad. And ten days later, the President crossed into Canada, fishing on the Campbell River in British Columbia on July 25th and then making an official visit the following day in Vancouver, where he was greeted by one of the largest crowds of his voyage — estimated at over 40,000 people — and where he also squeezed in a round of golf at the exclusive Shaughnessy Golf Club.

The President returned to American soil on July 27th, arriving in Seattle and making several speeches in a busy six-hour period — first to Camp Fire Girls at Volunteer Park, then to nearly 30,000 Boy Scouts at Woodland Park, and finishing the day addressing over 30,000 people at what is now Husky Stadium at the University of Washington where he predicted statehood for Alaska, where he had spent most of the month. After making a brief appearance that evening at the Seattle Press Club, Harding boarded his train that night to travel to Portland, Oregon.

But something was not right. The President seemed to be exhausted, perhaps from the grueling trip through geography much wilder than Harding’s native Ohio or swampy Washington, D.C. Despite his exciting journey through Alaska and the energetic welcome provided by the Canadian people, Harding was clearly wiped out by the time he reached British Columbia. The President did head to the country club while in Vancouver, but he was so tired that after six holes of golf his foursome skipped directly to the eighteenth hole, seemingly completing the round without tipping off the press that Harding couldn’t play the entire course.

From the White House, nine days before embarking upon his Voyage of Understanding, Harding wrote a quick note to Solicitor General James M. Beck who had wished the President a safe journey on his upcoming trip. Thanking Beck, Harding wrote, “I shall try to remember not to overdo (it) in crossing the continent.” And, on June 14, 1923, six days before leaving, President Harding wrote a short letter to a young girl from Hartford, Connecticut named Vivian Little, who had recently sent the President a four-leaf clover as a good luck charm. “Thank you so much for the four-leaf clover which you were so good as to press and send to me,” the President wrote. “I hope it will bring me good luck and that it will bring you still more of the same.”

However, any luck that President Warren G. Harding still had seemed to be running out. Ill and exhausted after leaving Vancouver, Harding tried to rest aboard the USS Henderson as it sailed to Seattle in the early morning hours of July 27. At some point around 3 AM, Harding and the other passengers aboard the Henderson were jolted awake as the ship crashed into the USS Zeilin, an American destroyer accompanying the Presidential party while they traveled through the foggy Puget Sound. This was not the first mishap of the Voyage of Understanding. While traveling through Colorado early in the trip, three people from the President’s party had been killed in a car accident. And now, after a few weeks in Alaska where Harding was able to at least temporarily forget about his Administration’s many troubles, the President was not only sick and tired but two of his Navy’s ships had just smashed into each other almost as soon as he had returned to the continental United States. While the USS Zeilin was badly damaged in the collision, the USS Henderson was not and there were apparently no major injuries on either vessel. But when the President’s valet, Major Arthur Brooks, came to Harding’s stateroom aboard the Henderson to inform him that the captain was calling for all hands on deck, he found the depressed President lying on his bed with his face buried in his hands. “I hope the boat sinks,” President Harding quietly muttered.

It was just hours later that Harding made his whirlwind tour through Seattle, putting on a brave face at his public appearances, but clearly not feeling well. While he was never considered a brilliant orator like Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Harrison, or his immediate predecessor, Woodrow Wilson, Harding was a strong speaker and excellent communicator who had a unique ability to connect with audiences, but he was obviously — and unusually — halting and confused while speaking in Seattle on July 27th. As he boarded his train at Seattle’s King Street Station that night, Harding was examined by his doctor and by Interior Secretary Hubert Work, who had once been a physician, and they decided to cancel the next several days of planned activities. Instead of stopping in Portland and then visiting Yosemite National Park, the Presidential party was ordered to proceed directly to San Francisco where Harding could rest before giving a speech on the radio planned for July 31st which was expected to be heard by over 5 million people.

Despite the four-leaf clover that had been sent to him by Vivian Little before his Voyage of Understanding, Warren Gamaliel Harding’s luck seemed to be running out. And, as his train sped through Oregon en route to San Francisco’s Palace Hotel on July 28, 1923, President Harding was also running out of time.  

[dailyzanymerch]

Day 156

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