#15 November 1872

[rabbitcruiser]

Pigeon Point Lighthouse’s Fresnel lens was first lit at sunset, November 15, 1872.

[royalty-nobility]

Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia (1798-1860)

Artist: Carl Timoleon von Neff (Russian, 1804-1877)

Date: c. 1840

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom

Alexandra Feodorovna (Alix of Hesse)

Alexandra Feodorovna (6 June 1872 – 17 July 1918), born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, was the last Empress of Russia as the consort of Tsar Nicholas II from their marriage on 26 November 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March 1917. A granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Alexandra was one of the most famous royal carriers of hemophilia and passed the condition to her son, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia.

[marzipanandminutiae]

A Crimson Peak Timeline

(based on the art book, documents shown onscreen in the movie, and the character bios GDT wrote- where the bios don't contradict film canon. I've attempted to combine the two where contradicting elements are unavoidable.

Sometime during the reign of Charles II (1660-1685). Edward Sharpe created Baronet for services to the crown in providing clay for construction projects. Allerdale Hall built in the parish of Above Derwent, Cumberland, England.

1841. Carter Everett Cushing born the second son of six in an impoverished family that traveled the eastern US for his father's masonry business.

1863. Beatrice Alexandra Chetwynde, eldest daughter of a large, wealthy family, marries Baronet James William Sharpe. The marriage is contracted solely for the Chetwyndes' land, which adjoins the Sharpe estate.

April 1, 1865. Lucille Sharpe born.

Sometime between 1865 and ~1873. Carter marries 18-year-old socialite Eleanor Wyndham-Beckford, to the immense disapproval of her family. Though she is disowned and the couple struggles to make ends meet for years, Carter ultimately becomes a successful developer.

February 18, 1867. Thomas Sharpe born.

C. 1867-1872. The Sharpes employ a wet nurse- and later nanny -named Theresa, who would become the only adult to care about the children in their lives. She would ultimately be sacked after Beatrice caught young Lucille snuggling with her for warmth on a winter's night (on the grounds that a noble child should not be close with servants- a "crime" for which Lucille was beaten severely).

1876. 11-year-old Lucille murders her father with poison distilled from mine tailings, after he took Thomas on a hunting trip and left him in the woods to die of exposure.

Late 1876? A mining vein near Allerdale Hall collapses, killing several child mine-workers. I could have sworn I read somewhere that James foolishly dug a mining tunnel under the house shortly before his death, and that's what destabilized it, but I can't find it now.

October 9, 1877. Edith M. Cushing born, after Eleanor had suffered several miscarriages.

1878. Thomas and Lucille begin a secret sexual relationship.

Early August, 1879. Beatrice catches Lucille and Thomas together; Lucille murders her to keep their secret. The siblings try to run away together but are caught and brought back. Thomas is sent to live with an aunt and uncle in Whitehaven (who in turn send him to boarding school), while Lucille is forced into a mental institution.

Probably summer, 1885. Thomas finishes his schooling and rescues Lucille; they return to Allerdale.

1887. The Sharpe siblings travel to London seeking investors for Thomas' venture to reopen the mines. A wealthy, terminally ill gentleman, Major Richard Upton, takes a liking to Thomas and begs Thomas to marry his disabled daughter, Pamela. At Lucille's urging- since they're running out of both options and money -Thomas agrees. The two attempt to poison Pamela to death, but Lucille ends up strangling her instead.

Sometime between October 1887 and October 1888. Eleanor Cushing dies of cholera and appears to Edith as a ghost.

Early-mid 1890s. Carter and the recently widowed Mrs. McMichael have a brief flirtation that both Edith and Eunice oppose. Though it goes nowhere, the rift between the two girls is never healed.

Late October or November 1892. Edith (age 15) becomes infatuated with a 25-year-old poet who is having marital difficulties. After convincing Carter to hire him as a tutor, all unknowing, she confesses her feelings to him. He not only takes his leave of the Cushing family, but of Buffalo itself, quickly moving away with his wife and children.

1893. The Sharpes travel to Edinbrugh, where Thomas again finds no investors but does attract the attention of a 36-year-old widow of means, Margaret McDermott. Once again, he marries her and helps Lucille poison her, though she is ultimately killed via blunt force trauma.

Summer 1893. Edith asks her best friend, Alan McMichael, to kiss her so she can write about kisses more accurately. It means nothing to her, but sparks an unrequited passion in Alan

1896. Lucille falls pregnant by Thomas. He travels with her to Italy, which he loves and she despises. There he meets a wealthy woman named Enola Sciotti, widowed and bereaved of her only child, and decides of his own accord to marry and murder her in their usual fashion. The Sharpes and Enola return to Allerdale.

1897. Lucille is delivered of a son, who may or may not be sickly. Enola tries to care for her and the child, promising she can save him. The baby either dies of natural causes or Lucille smothers him under the conviction that his cries mean something is terribly wrong with him and he can't live- this is one contradiction in the bios vs. the movie that I prefer to leave vague, since it's possible not even Lucille remembers what happened. Either way, she blames Enola and dispatches her by unknown means. Thomas patents his excavating machine.

Late summer(?) 1901. Alan returns from studying medicine in London and sets up an ophthalmology practice in Buffalo. Edith's debut novel, Figures In The Mist, is rejected for publication by Oglivie and Sons. Thomas seeks investment in the mines from Cushing and Co., unsuccessfully. Edith and the Sharpes begin a friendship. Edith sees her mother's ghost for the second time.

September 14, 1901. President William McKinley dies after being shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. I include this because the fact that the movie doesn't is hilarious to me.

October 21, 1901. At the Cushings' dinner party, Carter bribes the Sharpes to leave, instructing Thomas to break Edith's heart or he'll tell her about the marriage to Pamela. A deleted scene reveals that he was on the verge of relenting and investing in the mines when he read the private investigator's report.

October 22, 1901. Lucille murders Carter at his club, then departs to return to England. Thomas and Edith become engaged.

Late October-early November 1901. Thomas and Edith are married and travel to Allerdale.

November-December 1901 (possibly into early 1902?). The rest of the movie's plot.

[scotianostra]

The Scottish Polymath Mary Somerville died on November 28th 1872 in Naples.

Today Somerville’s name lives on in an Oxford college, but her wider legacy is largely forgotten. She is the face of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s £10 banknote – the first non-royal woman to be honoured in this way.

Born in Mary Fairfax, Jedburgh on 26th December, 1790, Somerville grew up in the Fife seaside town of Burntisland. She was fascinated by the natural world from the start, collecting shells and fossils, and observing birds and sea creatures.

When her father returned from the sea, he discovered 8- or 9-year-old Mary could neither read nor do simple sums. He sent her to an elite boarding school, across the Firth of Forth, Miss Primrose's School in Musselburgh.

Miss Primrose was not a good experience for Mary and she was sent home in just a year. She began to educate herself, taking music and painting lessons, instructions in handwriting and arithmetic. She learned to read French, Latin, and Greek largely on her own. At age 15, Mary noticed some algebraic formulas used as decoration in a fashion magazine, and on her own she began to study algebra to make sense of them. She surreptitiously obtained a copy of Euclid's "Elements of Geometry" over her parents' opposition.

Four years after marrying, Mary Somerville and her family moved to London. Their social circle included the leading scientific and literary lights of the day, including Ada Bryon and her mother Maria Edgeworth, George Airy, John and William Herschel, George Peacock, and Charles Babbage. Mary and William had three daughters and a son who died in infancy. They also traveled extensively in Europe.

In 1826, Somerville began publishing papers on scientific subjects based on her own research. After 1831, she began writing about the ideas and work of other scientists as well. One book, "The Connection of the Physical Sciences," contained discussion of a hypothetical planet that might be affecting the orbit of Uranus. That prompted John Couch Adams to search for the planet Neptune, for which is he is credited as a co-discoverer.

Mary Somerville's translation and expansion of Pierre Laplace's "Celestial Mechanics" in 1831 won her acclaim and success: that same year, British prime minister Robert Peel awarded her a civil pension of 200 pounds annually. In 1833, Somerville and Caroline Herschel were named honorary members of the Royal Astronomical Society, the first time women had earned that recognition. Prime Minister Melbourne increased her salary to 300 pounds in 1837. William Somerville's health deteriorated and in 1838 the couple moved to Naples, Italy. She stayed there most of the remainder of her life, working and publishing.

In 1848, Mary Somerville published "Physical Geography," a book used for 50 years in schools and universities; although at the same time, it attracted a sermon against it in York Cathedral.

William Somerville died in 1860. In 1869, Mary Somerville published yet another major work, was awarded a gold medal from the Royal Geographical Society, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

By 1871, Mary Somerville had outlived her husbands, a daughter, and all of her sons: she wrote, "Few of my early friends now remain—I am nearly left alone." Mary Somerville died in Naples on November 29, 1872, just before turning 92. She had been working on another mathematical article at the time and regularly read about higher algebra and solved problems each day.

Her daughter published "Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville" the next year, parts of a work which Mary Somerville had completed most of before her death.

[portrait-paintings]

Frances Anne Kemble as Isabella in "Measure for Measure"

Artist: Thomas Sully (English-American, 1783-1872)

Date: 1836

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, United States

Frances Anne Kemble

Frances Anne Kemble (27 November 1809 – 15 January 1893) was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-nineteenth century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing, and works about the theatre. She lived for many years in the United States, primarily in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Lenox, Massachusetts.

Kemble's "lasting historical importance derives from the private journal she kept during her time in the Sea Islands" on her husband's plantations, where she wrote a journal documenting the conditions of the slaves on the plantation and her growing abolitionist feelings. She was also an early adopter of spoken word performances combined with music.

[thedeafprophet]

Character Summary: The Vitriolic Thief

Alexander 'Alex' Hastings

Pronouns: He/him

Ambition: Light Fingers

Profession: Silverer /Thief

Main Skills: Shadowy, Dangerous, Glasswork

Main Quirks: Subtle, Steadfast, Magnanimous

They say… “A face seen on wanted posters around the city, and glimpsed in dreams at night. Harsh words for those who cross him, a helping hand for those who need.”

Further Writeup under the cut:

Backstory

Alex was born November 15th, 1872. A troubled childhood, Alex's mother passed shortly after childbirth, and his father passed in a housefire when he was 8. Him and his older sister Adelaide were left to face the world on their own, with the minimal help that came from soceity. Alex ended up falling into crime from a young age and had more then his fair share of experiences with the underhanded parts of life.

Alex was sent to an industrial school when he was 15 years old, where he met and became friends with Jamie and Josephine. 2 years later, he fled from the school with the other two in tow.

His late teen years and early adulthood were spent with a beginning combo of pratical work, Alex working in kitchens, before going further and further into Alex's 'work' with thievery and other crime. He was comitted to not only his own survival, but that of his friends as well. Alex started presenting as a man in his late teen years, and chose the name Alexander for himself when he was around 18.

Most of his crimes were for the purpose of monetary gain needed for survival, but became more and more situations of addrenline and petty venegeance against those 'on top'. Alex also has a history of pyromania, and perhaps a few cases of arson. Suffice to say, he had a considerable police record even back on the surface.

In the end, Alex mainly came down to the Neath because of Josephine's goal of doing so. Prior to the descent , Alex met with a contact familiar with the location in order to gain any potential information on the threats, and things to do there.

The relationship between Alex, Jamie, and Josephine was a bit strained by the time the game began, but that comittment and care still stood.

It was 1898 when Alex came to the Neath, at 26 years old.

Game Timeline Events

Alex's experience in Fallen London began with aquainting himself into the world. He quickly rose among ranks in petty thefts within the underworld's underworld, his experience with crime on the surface giving him plenty of skill to complete the jobs. His storyline consists in part of that of the shadowy Making Your Name questline. Alex toasts to no one but himself.

The crime options of the neath provided far more substainial gain for Alex then the surface did. He found himself an apartment pretty early on, and has refused to leave it ever since. Beyond crime, Alex ended up connecting heavily among the dockworkers in the neath, and often ended up on their side in any form of ongoing strike. Alex knows the bare minimum of right and wrong.

Once he was established in the neath, it was then Alex set out to find a contact from the surface.

Alex's experience with Light Fingers is a whole other post on its own, but to say in short, the experience greatly affected him. He cared quite a bit for the rest of the Light Fingers crew, and the hybrid holds a very important place in his heart. Alex always feared having children for the dread of somehow ending up like the adults who failed him, but that choice was taken out of his hands. He loves his child dearly, and did everything he could to guarantee its safety.

The experiences in Parabola during Light Fingers led Alex to have a great interest in the way of dream weaving, which eventually led to his role as a silverer. He takes on a protective role in dreams, defending against the more violent of nightmares.

Following the end of Light Fingers, Alex was dragged into the Railway Questline at the behest of Jamie, using his thievery skills to help provide resources for the GHR. In his role he met Furnace, of whom he came to greatly respect, and considers her a friend.

The railway also brought Alex to further interactions with a previous enemy, Mr Fires. Events during this lead to further contact between the two, and their antagonistic dynamic took on...more complicated aspects. The exact details of their relationship, well, even they arent too sure about that one....

A few exceptional stories are also canon to Alex's timeline (some spoilers for such stories here):

The Ballad Of Johnny Croak

Alex sided with Johnny and blew up the factory. Following the events of the ES Alex continues to visit Johnny, and occasionally gives the kid a place to sleep if he's ever back in the city. Alex is very protective of the kids, and sees a lot of his childhood self in him

The Icariun Cup

The events of this ES left Alex with the Dawn Burnt affect (this action will have consequences)

and then Adornment and The Queen of Elephants are also considered canon to his timeline.

[sensitiveuser]

Portrait of a Communard (1) : Arthur Arnould (1833-1895)

During the Second Empire, Arthur Arnould was a journalist at the Revue nationale, a newspaper opposed to Napoleon III. In 1870, he joined La Marseillaise.

After the proclamation of the Third Republic, he became assistant librarian of the city of Paris.

On March 26, 1871, he was elected to the Council of the Commune, as a representative of the 4th arrondissement. He was first a member of the Commission of External Relations, whose delegate was Pascal Grousset. In April, he joined the Commission of Labor and Exchange, whose delegates were Augustin Avrial, Léo Frankel, Benoît Malon, and Albert Theisz. He then joined the Commission of Subsistence, under the responsibility of Auguste Viard. Finally, we find him at the Commission de l’Enseingement, under the responsibility of Edouard Vaillant.

During the Commune, Arthur Arnould worked for Le Rappel, La Nouvelle République, and L’ Affranchi. On May 1, alongside Auguste Vermorel, he became an editor at the Journal officiel. When the Committee of Public Safety was created, he was one of the nineteen internationalists of the anti-authoritarian minority, alongside Andrieu, Avrial, Babick, Beslay, Chalain, Clémence, Cluseret, Frankel, Girardin, Langevin, Lefrançais, Longuet, Malon, Pindy, Serraillier, Rheiz, Vaillant, Varlin. As a reminder, the Committee of Public Safety, following the proposal of Jules Miot, was established on May 1, 1871, by 45 votes to 22. The five members were Antoine Arnaud, Gabriel Ranvier, Léo Meillet, Félix Pyat, and Charles Gérardin. The anti-authoritarians saw their power confiscated by the Committee of Public Safety; they were ousted from the delegations. On May 15, Arthur Arnoult signed the declaration of the internationalist minority, which publicly denounced the "dictatorship" of the Committee of Public Safety, "The Paris Commune has abdicated its power into the hands of a dictatorship to which it has given the name of Public Safety."

In November 1872, Arthur Arnould was sentenced in absentia to deportation. He therefore took refuge in Switzerland with his wife Jeanne Matthey (Jenny). In Geneva, among the proscribed, he was active in the Socialist Revolutionary Propaganda and Action Section. In 1873, he was sent to Lugano to attend the congress of the International League for Peace and Freedom. A year after the Saint-Imier Congress, he became close to Bakunin.

In 1874, he left for Argentina with Jenny.

In 1876, Bakunin died. Arthur Arnould was one of the people responsible for managing his manuscripts, which he then passed on to James Guillaume. In Geneva, he contributed to the Bulletin de la Fédération jurassienne, La Commune, and Le Travailleur. He published L’État et la Révolution (in 1877), and his Histoire populaire et parlementaire de la Commune de Paris (in 1878). With Gustave Lefrançais, he wrote Souvenirs de deux communards réfugiés à Genève, 1871-1873.

He also wrote novels under the pseudonym A.Matthey.

In the 1880s, when he returned to France, we can say that the character changed, and not in a good way, for a former communard and anarchist ! In 1881, he joined the Republican Socialist Alliance, a reformist socialist party of which Clemenceau was a member... A few years later, he had to deal with Jenny's death... The worst thing about his evolution was that he would have accepted to be decorated with the Order of Isabella the Catholic ! Then he joined an esoteric sect, the Theosophical Society.

Nevertheless, I would not say that he had completely erased his past as a communard and anarchist, since he still wrote an article about Bakunin in the Nouvelle Revue in 1891.

He died in 1895.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

BORN ON THIS DAY:

Alexandra Feodorovna (6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1872 – 17 July 1918), Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine at birth, was the last Empress of Russia as the consort of Emperor Nicholas II from their marriage on 26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March [O.S. 2 March] 1917.

She was the sixth child and fourth daughter among the seven children of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and his first wife, Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, the second daughter of Queen Victoria and her husband Albert, Prince Consort.

[atotaltaitaitale]

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Thursday Throwback… Wallace Fountain

Wallace fountains are named after their donor, Sir Richard Wallace (1818-1890). Inspired by London's "drinking fountains", they were originally fitted with pewter cups held in place by a chain, which were removed for hygiene reasons in 1952. The first Wallace fountain was installed in 1872 on Boulevard de la Villette.

Born in London Richard Wallace spent most of his life in Bagatelle (Parisian suburbs). Heir to a large fortune, this philanthropist donated 50 drinking fountains to the city after seeing Parisians suffer water shortages during the siege of Paris and the Commune in 1871. Such was the response that he financed a further 10 fountains in 1876, and a further 10 three years later. In this respect, the Wallace fountains were the first major public/private cooperative effort to meet an essential human need: providing access to drinking water for all. Designed as true works of art, the Wallace fountains are adorned with four caryatids, each representing an allegory: Simplicity, Kindness, Sobriety and Charity. Today, 107 of them can be admired in the streets of the capital. The fountains are still in operation today, providing drinking water for tourists and Parisians alike. (They operate from March 15 to November 15, in order to minimize the risk of freezing temperatures during the winter months and jeopardizing internal plumbing)

Sculptor Charles-Auguste Lebourg used cast iron, a hard-wearing material that was easy to produce. The fountain parts, representing 600 kilos of cast iron, were cast in three pieces (base, central part and cap). Today, the original mold is still used to create new models. The choice of color goes back to Napoleon III and his desire to introduce nature into the city. The color was imposed by the City of Paris to ensure the coherence of the urban landscape, like the newsstands and the colonne Morris. (Source

There’s only one Surface-mounted fountain left (rue Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, near the Jardin des Plantes)

[opera-ghosts]

On June 10, 1865, the world premiere of "Tristan and Isolde" by R. Wagner took place in Munich.

„Isolde… wie schön…“

Here are some of the first tenors to have sung the role of Tristan over the years and contributed to the success of this work through their dedication.

Erik Schmedes (27 August 1868, in Gentofte, Denmark – 21 March 1931, in Vienna), Danish heldentenor.

Alois Pennarini (Vienna 1870 - Liberec, Czechoslovakia 1927), Austrian-Hungarian first spinto tenor then heldentenor.

Modest Menzinsky (29 April 1875 in Novosilky, Galicia - 11 December 1935 in Stockholm), Ukrainian heroic tenor.

Karl Kurz-Stolzenberg

Adolf Gröbke (May 26, 1872 Hildesheim - September 16, 1949 Epfach), German tenor.

Iwan Ershov (November 8, 1867 – November 21, 1943), Soviet and Russian dramatic tenor.

Alfred von Bary (January 18, 1873 in Valletta, Malta - September 13, 1926 in Munich), German tenor.

Alexander Bandrowsky (April 22, 1860 in Lubaczów - May 28, 1913 in Cracow), Polish Tenor.

Jacques Urlus (6 January 1867 in Hergenrath, Rhine Province – 6 June 1935 in Noordwijk, Netherlands), Dutch dramatic tenor.

Francesc Viñas (27 March 1863 – 14 July 1933), Spanish tenor.

Richard Schubert (Dessau, Germania; December 15, 1885 - Oberstaufen, Germania; October 12, 1959), German tenor.

Dr. Julius Pölzer (April 9, 1901 in Admont - February 16, 1972 in Vienna), Austrian tenor.

Giuseppe Borgatti (Cento, 17 March 1871 – Reno di Leggiuno, 18 October 1950), dramatic tenor. (with Magini-Coletti as Kurwenal)

Antonio Magini-Coletti (17 February 1855 – 21 July 1912), Italian baritone.

[pixelmason]

Here is the Wikipedia page of Painless Parker. Thankfully, the text in the image is accurate to the page as of Nov 15, 2023.

Here is the full text, the part cropped out is in bold italics:

“Painless Parker (born Edgar R.R. Parker;[1][2] 22 March 1872 – 8 November 1952) was a Canadian-born street dentist[1] described as "a menace to the dignity of the profession" by the American Dental Association.[3] However, "Much of what he championed—patient advocacy, increased access to dental care, and advertising—has come to pass in the U.S."[4]”

Yeah that tracks

[rabbitcruiser]

Pigeon Point Lighthouse’s Fresnel lens was first lit at sunset, November 15, 1872  

[daydreamerdrew]

Comics read this past week:

Marvel Comics:

1872 (2015) #1-4

These issues were published across July 2015 to October 2015. They were written by Gerry Dugan, penciled by Nik Virella, and colored by Lee Loughridge. They were all 22 pages. And there was also a 2-page map of the western AU’s town that was designed and drawn by Manny Mederos.

the Moon Knight stories in The Hulk! (1978) #11-15

These stories were in issues published across August 1978 to May 1979. All were written by Doug Moench.

The story in issue #11 was penciled by Gene Colan, inked by Tony DeZuniga, and colored by Marie Severin. It was 15 pages.

The story in issue #12 was penciled by Keith Pollard, inked by Frank Giacoia and Mike Esposito, and colored by Françoise Mouly. It was 20 pages.

The story in issue #13 was penciled by Bill Sienkiewicz, inked by Joe Rubinstein, and colored by Steve Oliff. It was 20 pages.

The story in issue #14 was penciled by Bill Sienkiewicz, inked by Bob McCloud, and colored by Steve Oliff. It was 23 pages.

And in issue #15 there were two connecting stories starring Moon Knight and the Hulk, both 10 pages, and titled “An Eclipse, Waning” and “An Eclipse, Waxing,” respectively. They were penciled by Bill Sienkiewicz, inked by Bob McCloud, and colored by Steve Oliff.

Ultimate Fantastic Four (2004) #7-12

These issues were published across June 2004 to November 2004. They were written by Warren Ellis, penciled by Stuart Immonen, inked by Wade von Grawbadger, and colored by Dave Stewart. Issues #7 and #9 and #11 were 21 pages, issues #8 and #12 were 22 pages, and issue #10 was 23 pages.

Warren Ellis is replacing Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Millar, who wrote the first arc of the book. And Stuart Immonen is replacing Adam Kubert, and Wade von Grawbadger is replacing Danny Miki (and John Dell).

Hellhunters (2025) #4

This issue was published in March 2025. It was written by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, drawn by Adam Gorham, and colored by Frank Martin. It was 20 pages.

Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandoes (1963) #44

This issue was published in May 1967. The 3-page prologue and the 2/3 of a page epilogue were written by Roy Thomas. The 17 and 1/3 of a page main story was written by Gary Friedrich. And the issue was drawn by John Severin.

John Severin is replacing Dick Ayers, who, not including issue #13 (the Captain America team-up issue), has penciled the series since issue #8. Dick Ayers replaced Jack Kirby. And John Severin is also replacing John Tartaglione, who has inked the series since issue #27, and also inked issue #25.

This is the story of the Howler’s first mission together. Issue #34 was the story of how the Howlers formed.

Nick Fury vs. Fin Fang Foom (2025) #1

This issue was published in March 2025. It was written by J. Michael Straczynski, drawn by Elena Casagrande, and colored by Mattia Lacono. It was 30 pages.

DC Comics:

Batman: Dark Patterns (2025) #1-4

These issues were published across December 2024 to March 2025. They were written by Dan Watters, drawn by Hayden Sherman, and colored by Tríona Farrell. Issue #1 was 24 pages, and issues #2-4 were 22 pages.

Issues #1-3 were the storyline “We are the Wounded,” and issue #4 was the beginning of the storyline “The Voice of the Tower.”

[lboogie1906]

Congressman John Mercer Langston (December 14, 1829 - November 15, 1897) the youngest of four children, was born free in Louisa County, Virginia. He gained distinction as an abolitionist, politician, and attorney. Despite the prominence of his slaveowner father, Ralph Quarles, he took the surname of his mother. When both parents died of unrelated illnesses in 1834, he and his older siblings were transported to Missouri where they were taken in by William Gooch, a friend of Ralph Quarles.

He began his studies at the Preparatory Department at Oberlin College. He completed his studies in 1849, becoming the fifth African American man to graduate from Oberlin. He married Caroline Matilda Wall (1854) an emancipated enslaved from North Carolina. They had very similar backgrounds.

In 1855, he was elected town clerk of Brownhelm Township in Ohio, becoming the first African American elected official in the state. In addition to his law practice and activities as a town clerk, he and his brothers participated in the Underground Railroad. He caught the attention of Frederick Douglass, who encouraged him to deliver antislavery speeches. During the Civil War, he recruited African American volunteers for the Massachusetts 54th Infantry Regiment, officially the country’s first African American military unit.

He helped establish the nation’s first Black law school at Howard University. He became its first dean and served as acting president of Howard in 1872. President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed him minister to Haiti. He became president of Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute. He ran for a seat in Congress as an Independent against a white Democratic opponent. The election results were contested for 18 months. He was declared the winner and served the six remaining months of his term. He lost his reelection, because of his prominence, the Oklahoma Territory town of Langston, and the college created in the town, Langston University, were named after him. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[scotianostra]

On December 26th 1780 Mathematician and scientist,Mary Somerville was born in Jedburgh.

Before Mary Sommerville came around, the word "scientist" didn't even exist!!

Born as Mary Fairfax wasrelated to several prominent Scottish houses through her mother, Margaret Charters. The family moved to Burntisland when Mary was still a child, probably due to the navy connection, her father was William George Fairfax, rose to be a Vice Admiral in the Navy.

What makes Mary's later feats all the more remarkable is that when her father returned from the sea, he discovered 8- or 9-year-old Mary could neither read nor do simple sums. By this time I assume he father had started rising through the ranks as he could afford to send her to a boarding school, Miss Primrose's School in Musselburgh.

Miss Primrose was not a good experience for Mary and she was sent home in just a year. She began to educate herself, taking music and painting lessons, instructions in handwriting and arithmetic. She learned to read French, Latin, and Greek largely on her own. At age 15, Mary noticed some algebraic formulas used as decoration in a fashion magazine, and on her own she began to study algebra to make sense of them. She surreptitiously obtained a copy of Euclid's "Elements of Geometry" over her parents' opposition. In 1804 Mary Fairfax married—under pressure from family—her cousin, Captain Samuel Greig, a Russian navy officer who lived in London. They had two sons, only one of whom survived to adulthood. Samuel also opposed Mary's studying mathematics and science, but after his death in 1807 she found herself with the opportunity and financial resources to pursue her mathematical interests.

She returned to Scotland with her surviving son and began to study astronomy and mathematics seriously. On the advice of William Wallace, a mathematics teacher at a military college, she acquired a library of books on maths and began solving math problems posed by a mathematics journal, in 1811 winning a medal for a solution she submitted.

She married Dr. William Somerville in 1812, another cousin. Somerville was the head of the army medical department in London and he warmly supported her study, writing, and contact with scientists the family moved to London in 1816 where their social circle included the leading scientific and literary lights of the day, including Babbage and the Herschel Brothers

Mary began publishing her work and was winning acclaim across Europe, so much so she was awarded a pension by the Prime Minister Robert Peel in 1834. Scottish scientist David Brewster said of her she was "certainly the most extraordinary woman in Europe - a mathematician of the very first rank with all the gentleness of a woman".

William Somerville’s health deteriorated and in 1838 the couple moved to Naples, Italy where she stayed for almost all of the remainder of her life, working and publishing.

In 1848, Mary Somerville published "Physical Geography," a book which ended up being used for 50 years in schools and universities; although at the same time, it attracted a sermon against it in York Cathedral. In 1869, Mary published yet another major work, was awarded a gold medal from the The Royal Geographical Society, and was elected to the American Philosophical Society. In 1868 aged 87 she was the first person to sign

By 1871, Mary Somerville had outlived her husbands, a daughter, and all of her sons: she wrote,

"Few of my early friends now remain—I am nearly left alone."

In 1868, four years before her death aged 91, she was the first person to sign John Stuart Mill’s unsuccessful petition arguing for women’s suffrage, in her autobiography Somerville wrote that "British laws are adverse to women".

Mary Somerville died in Naples on November 29th, 1872, just short of reaching 92.. She had been working on another mathematical article at the time and regularly read about higher algebra and solved problems each day. Her daughter published "Personal Recollections of Mary Somerville" the next year, completed mostly of before her death.

There’s a wee biography on the link below delving a bit more into Mary Sommerville’s life.

http://dangerouswomenproject.org/.../mary-somerville.../

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St. Stanislaus Church (Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus)

3649 East 65th Street

Cleveland, OH 44105

St. Stanislaus Church, officially the Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus, is the home of a Catholic parish within the Diocese of Cleveland. St. Stanislaus is one of the major historic centers of Polish life in Cleveland, Ohio, especially for Poles with roots in Warsaw and surrounding areas, and is often called the mother church for Cleveland's Polish population. The shrine is located at the intersection of Forman Ave. and East 65th St., in a part of the South Broadway neighborhood previously known as Warszawa; today the area is known as Slavic Village.

The year 1868 marks the beginning of the Catholic Polish immigration to Cleveland. It was then that a few families of Poles settled in the "Forest City." By the end of 1873 their number so increased that Bishop Richard Gilmour found it necessary to organize them into a separate congregation. As they were too poor, and too few in number, to build their own church, Gilmour gave them the use of St. Mary's on the Flats. Catholic Poles of Cleveland were the last to occupy St. Mary's on the Flats, the first Catholic church building in Cleveland, from 1872 to 1879, before organizing as the St. Stanislaus congregation.

The Congregation was founded 1873 — about 25 years after the Diocese of Cleveland was erected by Pope Pius IX and about eight years before obtaining the current property. For the pastoral care of Polish language speakers, Gilmour commissioned Father Victor Zareczny to look after their spiritual interests, which he did from December, 1873, until October, 1877, when Father John A. Marschal was appointed the first resident pastor for Poles. This position he held until January, 1879, when Father Wolfgang Janietz succeeded Father Marschal. In August, 1881, Janietz secured a site at the north-east corner of the intersection of Forman St. and Tod (East 65th) St., in the southern part of Cleveland, where most of the Poles had settled, near to the Cleveland Rolling Mills, which was located near present-day Jones Rd. and Broadway Ave., where many of them had found employment. The property cost $3,000, and comprised thirteen lots, forming a square plat of land, with ample room for all the parish buildings. On the east side of these lots Janietz had a plain frame, 35 ft. by 86 ft., building erected. The upper story served as a temporary church, and the lower story as a school. The building cost $4,600. It was dedicated to St. Stanislaus of Szczepanów by Gilmour, on Sunday, November 13, 1881.

Anton Francis Kolaszewski received Holy Orders on July 1, 1883, from Gilmour. His first assignment as a priest, a few weeks after his ordination, was as the first resident pastor of St. Stanislaus Church, replacing Janietz. Kolaszewski had the frame church enlarged in the following year, at an outlay of $1,500, to accommodate his rapidly increasing parish. In August, 1886, the foundation for the present church, 85 ft. by 200 ft., was begun, and the church enclosed during the following year. Locally made warm red brick and dressed stone were used in its construction.  Steadily it neared completion, until it was ready for dedication on Sunday, November 15, 1891. Boff, administrator of the diocese, performed the dedication ceremony. It has two spires, each 232 ft. in height, and its architecture is pure Gothic. It cost nearly $150,000, inclusive of altars, pews and statuary.   Others wrote it cost $250,000. A parish school was opened simultaneously with the original church, and had been under the care of Sisters of St. Francis. The attendance, in 1903, was about 1,000 pupils.

A tornado on April 21, 1909, destroyed the twin spires at the front of the church. They were rebuilt within the year. Saint Stanislaus’ original height was 232 ft. but currently is 122 ft. In 1962, St. Stanislaus built a new parish social center and gym complex across the street. In 1968, Cleveland Central Catholic High School was established at St. Stanislaus Parish. Cleveland Central Catholic and St. Stanislaus School have Masses in the church. In 1969 Cardinal Karol Wojtyła (the future Pope John Paul II) visited the parish. On June 22, 1976, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The building itself, listed as St. Stanislaus Church, and the neighborhood, listed as Warszawa Neighborhood District, are both on the National Register of Historic Places. The church and school buildings are listed together as a Cleveland Designated Landmark. In 2004, St. Stanislaus completed a $1.4 million renovation of the church's interior and on 8 May of that year, it was re-dedicated as the Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus. In 2008, the administration of the parish was transferred from the care of Sacred Heart Province of the Order to Assumption Province, which is the Polish-American province of the Order. In April 2007, a group of parishioners traveled to Kraków and brought back an icon, written in tempera by Polish iconographer Mado Anna Kucharska, depicting St. Stanislaus with John Paul II. The Main and Side altars of The Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus underwent renovation in February 2011. In 2011, after 105 years of service, the Franciscan order left the Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus.