#Joan Sewell

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Happy (belated) Pride Month 2024!

Happy pride month post, 2024 edition. Slightly late this year but better late than never!

As always, I'm featuring actors who have identified themselves as having an LGBTQ+ identity or relationship, but this list is certainly not comprehensive. There are likely other closeted actors and/or actors who are out but may not have explicitly stated their queerness clearly enough for me to feel comfortable including them. As identity is a deeply personal (and potentially unsafe) topic, I try to err strongly on the side of caution in who I do or don't include. And just like in past years, this post only includes actors who are currently with the show or joined the show/had a new contract since my 2023 post, even if they're not currently involved.

Pictured: Claudia Kariuki (emergency cover, West End) Kelsee Kimmel (Seymour, Canada) Ruby Gibbs (Seymour, Breakaway 6.0) Jenny Mollet (alt A/B/S, Broadway) Meg Dixon-Brasil (swing, West End) Chelsea Dawson (Howard, Australia Tour) Lou Henry (Howard, UK and International Tour) Taylor Sage Evans (alt B/H/P, Boleyn Tour) Danielle Mendoza (Cleves, Boleyn Tour) Cydney Clark (Cleves, Breakaway 6.0) Zelia Rose Kitoko (Cleves, Australia Tour) Harriet Watson (emergency cover, UK Tour) Meghan Corbett (Aragon, Breakaway 6.0) Carlina Parker (alt A/C/P, Boleyn Tour) Aryn Bohannon (alt B/S/H, Boleyn Tour) Laura Dawn Pyatt (Boleyn, UK and International Tour) Gabriela Carrillo (Parr, Broadway) Amelia Atherton (Parr, Bliss 7.0)

——————————— junka_0.0; Joan Marcus; _ruby_gibbs; jenny.mollet (unsure of origin); Pamela Raith; sixthemusicalau, but unsure of origin (possibly James Morgan); Pamela Raith; taylorsageevans; Joan Marcus; ccsweatheart22; sixthemusicalau; Johan Persson; ceghanmorbett; carlina_parker; Matthew Sewell; Pamela Raith; Joan Marcus; thetheatrelifestyle

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Reading List - 2024

Currently Reading:

The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit

Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie

Sweet Sweet Revenge LTD by Jonas Jonasson

Books Read:

101 Famous Poems by Various Authors

The Abraham Lincoln Joke Book by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

The Ancient Aliens Question by Philip Coppens

The Art of Computer Designing by Osamu Sato

The Broken Dice, and Other Mathematical Tales of Chance by Ivar Ekeland

The Cairngorms by Patrick Baker

The Codebreaker's Handbook by Herbie Brennan

The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown

The Complete Book of Kitchen Collecting by Barbera E. Mauzy

Dinosaurs, Beware! A Safety Guide by Marc Brown

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Dreaming the Biosphere by Rebecca Reider

Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel

Funny Number Tricks by Rose Wyler

Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe

Giant Sea Creatures, Real and Fantastic by John Frederick Waters

Great Mysteries of the Ice and Snow by Edward F. Dolan

Hammer of the Gods by Stephen Davis

Hiram's Red Shirt by Mabel Watts

A History of Chess by Jerzy Gizycki

I don't care by JoAnn Nelson

An Introduction to Linguistics by Loreto Todd

Jaws by Peter Benchley

Jungian Archetypes: Jung, Gödel, and the History of Archetypes by Robin Robertson

Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter

MASH: An Army Surgeon in Korea by Otto F. Apel

The Messier Objects Field Guide by Stephen James O'Meara

Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis

Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices by Thomas Brooks

Reflections on Evolution by Fredrick Sproull

Roadie: My Life on the Road with Coldplay by Matt McGinn

Some of The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire by Howard Pyle

Strange Creatures of the Ice and Snow by Edward F. Dolan

Time for Bed, Sleepyheads by Normand Chartier

Weird Islands by Jean de Boschère

Future Reading:

A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

Adventures in Cryptozoology Vol. 1 by Richard Freeman

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez

Ancient Mysteries, Modern Visions by Philip S. Callahan

The Anti-Mary Exposed by Carrie Gress

The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle

The Art Nouveau Style by Stephan Tschudi Madsen

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

Champions of the Rosary by Donald H. Calloway

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft

Cubism by Guillaume Apollinaire

Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett

Evolution by Nowell Stebbing

Expressionism by Ashley Bassie

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by Hal Johnson

Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

Freaks on the Fells by R. M. Ballantyne

Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

Fundamentals of Character Design by Various Authors

Graceling by Kristin Cashore

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Humorous Ghost Stories by Various Authors

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

Illuminated Manuscripts by Tamara Woronowa

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

Joan Miro by Joan Miro

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey

Living by the Sword by Eric Demski

The Longest Cocktail Party by Richard DiLello

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Otis Spofford by Beverly Clearly

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

The Shining by Stephen King

The Silmarillion by J R R Tolkien

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Love by Ann Aguirre

The River by Gary Paulsen

Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman

The Third Man Factor by John Geiger

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories by C. Robert Cargill

The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology by Deena West Budd

The White Mountains by John Christopher

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The Caesars - ITV - September 20, 1968 - October 28, 1968

Historical Drama (6 episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Roland Culver as Augustus

Eric Flynn as Germanicus

André Morell as Tiberius

Barrie Ingham as Sejanus

Ralph Bates as Caligula

Freddie Jones as Claudius

Sonia Dresdel as Livia

Nicola Pagett as Messalina

Suzan Farmer as Livilla

William Corderoy as Drusus Julius Caesar

Derek Newark as Agrippa Postumus

Caroline Blakiston as Agrippina the Elder

Martin Potter as Nero Julius Caesar

Jonathan Collins as Tiberius Gemellus

Pollyanna Williams as Julia Drusilla

Jenny White as Julia Livilla

Karol Keyes as Agrippina the Younger

Barbara Murray as Milonia Caesonia

Jerome Willis as Naevius Sutorius Macro

Kevin Stoney as Thrasyllus of Mendes

Donald Eccles as Marcus Cocceius Nerva

John Phillips as Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso

John Paul as Cassius Chaerea

Joan Heath as Munatia Plancina

Wanda Ventham as Ennia Thrasylla

Sean Arnold as Marcus Aemlius Lepidus

John Normington as Gaius Julius Callistus

John Woodvine as Publius Vitellius the Younger

Gerald Harper as Lucius Vitellius the Elder

Mark Hawkins as Mnester

Roger Rowland as Quintus Veranius

Charles Lloyd-Pack as Crispus

George Sewell as Ennius

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 11.24 (before 1950)

380 – Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople. 1190 – Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem. 1221 – Genghis Khan defeats the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus, completing the Mongol conquest of Central Asia. 1227 – Gąsawa massacre: At an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa, Polish Prince Leszek the White, Duke Henry the Bearded and others are attacked by assassins while bathing. 1248 – An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages. 1359 – Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father, Hugh IV of Cyprus, abdicates. 1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité. 1542 – Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway. 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania). 1750 – Tarabai, regent of the Maratha Empire, imprisons Rajaram II of Satara for refusing to remove Balaji Baji Rao from the post of peshwa. 1832 – South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were null and void in the state, beginning the Nullification Crisis. 1835 – The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety). 1850 – Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein. 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg. 1877 – Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published. 1906 – A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football. 1917 – In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001. 1922 – Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver. 1929 – The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement officially begins when a group of mainly the former White Guard members, led by Vihtori Kosola, interrupted communism occasion at the Workers' House in Lapua, Finland. 1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens. 1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress. 1940 – World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers. 1941 – World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces. 1943 – World War II: At the battle of Makin the USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men. 1944 – World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands.

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Review: I’d Rather Eat Chocolate

“I wish it wasn’t the case that women are automatically considered the deviants for wanting less sex. I’m sick of sucking up to societal expectations that make me doubt if my nature is natural.” -- I’d Rather Eat Chocolate: Learning to Love My Low Libido by Joan Sewell

Synopsis: Joan doesn’t want to have sex with her husband anymore. He’s hot, loving, and considerate of her needs, but no matter what she tries -- and, short of non-monogamy, she tries everything: therapy, earnest heart-to-hearts, blowjobs, lingerie, sex with food, sex without orgasms, sex out of obligation, separate bedrooms -- she can’t seem to match her husband’s libido, nor does she want to. Instead, she makes a case for those with naturally low libidos. She validates the desire to find fulfillment and satisfaction in non-sexual ways, while still providing an exceptionally candid window into her own struggle to stay in a healthy and happy relationship. There are no firm conclusions drawn here, no tidy bow on a messy story, just the validation that comes from listening to someone who gets it (assuming that the reader is also wrestling with the same impossible-seeming conundrum).

What I took from it: Sewell’s writing is wonderfully accessible and down-to-earth, and it’s easy to sympathize with her as she tries to balance her need for happiness (and autonomy) vs. her desire to gratify her husband’s sexual appetite. She doesn’t treat his needs and opinions as lesser than her own, but rather seeks to validate her lack of sexual hunger in the face of overwhelming pressure, not only from him but from society at large.

Each chapter tackles the topic in a different way, making Sewell’s experiences read like a creative experiment and not like a prolonged personal battle. She delves into each area with unquenched optimism (believing, as we do, that the answer is just around the corner) and explores every side effect of her low libido, from guilt (”You initiate sex when your level of desire builds up; I initiate sex when my level of guilt builds up”) to masturbation (”I believe that women’s lower libidos can account for the paradox of masturbation cohabiting with so-called frigidity”) to self-satisfaction (”The problem is I do feel complete without sex, it’s my husband who’s left wanting”). She points out that the latest strains of feminism equate empowerment with an open sexual thirst, and fears that she might be seen as something less than a feminist for her pronounced lack of sexual desire. I appreciated that many of her musings are left as open-ended questions -- for me, at least, this was a book that didn’t guarantee answers, but provided a safe place within which to explore taboo emotions and queries.

As with most self-help books borne of the mid-2000s, however, many passages in I’d Rather Eat Chocolate have aged poorly. There is a fair amount of anti-kink and anti-porn rhetoric, transphobic language, and dead-naming, the latter of which crops up particularly often in Chapter Seventeen: The Chemistry Between Us. Sewell also likes to make sweeping generalizations about cisgender men and women and their sexual appetites, taking what is a very personal experience for her (and, no doubt, many other people -- not just cis women) and trying to translate it into broader statements that may not necessarily be true for everyone.

Where you can find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Thriftbooks

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Sparrows Can't Sing (1963) dir. Joan Littlewood

Starring- Barbara Windsor, James Booth, George Sewell, Stephen Lewis, Roy Kinnear, Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce, Avis, Bunnage, Barbara Ferris, Murray Melvin, Bob Grant, Victor Spinetti, Harry H Corbett, Authur Millard, Queenie Watts, Glyn Edwards, John Junkin

[patheticwithanem]

Oct-Over

free love - HONNE

Right Back Where We Started From - Maxine Nightingale

Dancing in the Moonlight - Toploader

Let’s Always Stay in Love - Meaghan Smith

Hallucinogenics (feat. Lana del Rey) - Matt Maeson, Lana Del Rey

Bad Guy - The Interrupters

Fallin’ (Adrenaline) - Why Don’t We

You & Me - James TW

no song without you - london session - HONNE

Stuck with U (with Justin Bieber) - Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber

Make It Right (feat. Lauv) - BTS, Lauv

Unbreak My Heart - Taylor John Williams

Fake - Lauv, Conan Gray

I Should Probably Go To Bed - Dan + Shay

Cherry - Harry Styles

i loved you first - joan

Remind Me - Conrad Sewell

Waves - Gatton

Paubaya - Moira Dela Torre

Commander In Chief - Demi Lovato

At Least It Was Here (”Community” Main Title) [Full Length Version] - The 88

Everyone Changes - Kodaline, Gabrielle Aplin

(what i wish just one person would say to me) - LANY

HIGHER - Bishop Briggs

God Knows I Tried - Lana Del Rey

Never Break - John Legend

[diyeipetea]

Cécile McLorin Salvant (34ème Jazzèbre / L’Archipel, Perpignan -France-. 2022-10-09) [II/VII] Por Joan Cortès [INSTANTZZ]

Cécile McLorin Salvant (34ème Jazzèbre / L’Archipel, Perpignan -France-. 2022-10-09) [II/VII] Por Joan Cortès [INSTANTZZ]

Festival Jazzèbre 2022 Fecha: domingo, 09 de octubre de 2022 Lugar: L’Archipiel, Salle Le Grenat (Perpignan -France-) Grupo: Cécile McLorin Salvant Cécile McLorin Salvant, voz Glen Zaleski, piano Marwin Sewell, guitarras Paul Sikivie, contrabajo Keita Ogawa, batería   Tomajazz: © Joan Cortès, 2022 Más información acerca de Cécile McLorin…

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Looking back on her career in 1977, Bette Davis remembered with pride, "Women owned Hollywood for twenty years." Between 1930 and 1950, over 40% of film industry employees were women, 25% of all screenwriters were female, one woman ran MGM behind the scenes, over a dozen women worked as producers, a woman headed the Screen Writers Guild three times, and press claimed Hollywood was a generation or two ahead of the rest of the country in terms of gender equality and employment. Oh how the times have changed. But as the movement for Gender Equality and Parity in Hollywood gains significant momentum, it does well to look upon the golden age of Hollywood and the roles women played behind the cameras throughout the industry in Nobody’s Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood, a new history by J.E. Smyth from publisher Oxford University Press. 

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Sparrows Can’t Sing (1963) Joan Littlewood

April 5th 2021

[ladykissingfish]

Konoha Nin and Akatsuki Members as Quotes

Kakashi

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.” — Logan Pearsall Smith

Sasuke

“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.” — Walt Whitman

Naruto

“My life feels like a test I didn’t study for.” — Anonymous

Sakura

“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” — Joan Crawford

Sai

“Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.” — Cullen Hightower

Yamato

“I always wanted to be somebody; but now I realize I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin

Asuma

“If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.” — Clement Freud

Choji

“Inside me there’s a thin person struggling to get out, but I can usually sedate him with four or five cupcakes.” — Bob Thaves

Shikamaru

“Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” — Mark Twain

Ino

“Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.” — Gertrude Stein

Guy Sensei

“A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.” — Justin Sewell

Neji

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has it’s limits.” — Albert Einstein

Lee

“Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you’re donating blood.” — Anonymous

Ten Ten

“A woman’s mind is cleaner than a man’s: She changes it more often.” — Oliver Herford

Kiba

“According to a new survey, 90% of men say their lover is also their best friend. Which is really kind of disturbing when you consider man’s best friend is his dog.” — Jay Leno

Shino

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure that you are not in fact, just surrounding yourself with assholes.” — Unknown

Hinata

“A diamond is simply a lump of coal that did well under pressure.” — Unknown

Jiraiya

“Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Tsunade

“Age is just a number. It’s totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.” — Joan Collins

Orochimaru

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.” — Mark Twain

Konan

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

Nagato

“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” — Isaac Asimov

Itachi

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” — Stephen Hawking

Kisame

“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.” — Mark Twain

Deidara If at first you don’t succeed, fix your ponytail, and try again.” — Anonymous

Sasori

“What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.” — Oscar Levant

Hidan

“If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.” — Groucho Marx

Kakuzu

“Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.” — Jackie Mason

Zetsu

“I intend to live forever. So far, so good.” — Steven Wright

Obito

“I want to be 14 again and ruin my life differently. I have new ideas.” — Unknown

[illustratedvancouver]

I’ve just been informed that Valerie Sewell passed away back on April 5, 2022; I had posted her work a couple times in the past, as I appreciated her light and carefree paintings. I suspect she borrowed a bit from the joyful Pierre Bonnard, adding a bit of Matisse, a bright colour palette, and lots of light!

Above are a few more paintings that I came across online, a classic skyline with plenty of sails on the water, a bright display of umbrellas, and a cheerful scene at Granville Island. The article written by Joan Bazan may have come out of Toronto—I can’t source the publication exactly—but I reckon it’s from the early 1980s. You can almost make out the full text from the article, though it’s a bit hard to read.

Her children are holding a final spring exhibition of her art at VanDusen Botanical Garden, 5251 Oak St, Vancouver. The event takes place on June 5, 2022 from 12 noon until 3pm. Fans and friends are welcome to attend the retrospective, if you are so inclined. Perhaps I will see you there!

“In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Alzheimer’s Society of British Columbia.”

[pathfinderyderss]

Ryder’s Ships, Pairings and Characters - For your Perusal

Dragon Age Origins

Calliope Mahariel x Zevran Aranai

Bridget Surana x Nathaniel Howe

Abigail Amell x Cullen Rutherford

Aine Tabris x Alistair Theirin

Layla Brosca x Leliana

Dragon Age 2

Aislinn Hawke x Fenris

Dragon Age Inquisition

Lara Cadash x Varric Tethras

Nia Adaar x Sera

Harea Lavellan x Solas

Riordan Trevelyan x Josephine Montilyet

Mass Effect

Anastasia Ryder x Vetra Nyx

Anton Ryder x Gil Brodie

Bridget Ryder x Tiran Kandros

Cillian Ryder x Reyes Vidal

Wayhaven Chronicles

Abigail Reed x Mason

Bridget Dimmerling x Adam Du Mortain

Sara Earnshaw x Nathaniel Sewell

Calliope Marinos x Farah Hauville

Fallout Franchise

(3) Joan Teague x Butch Deloria

(New Vegas) Marisol Ortiz x Benny

(4) Bridget Campion x Deacon

Other Franchises

Theodora Kostakis x Asra Alnazar (The Arcana)

Byleth x Felix (Fire Emblem Three Houses)

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 11.24

380 – Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople. 1190 – Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem. 1221 – Genghis Khan defeats the renegade Khwarazmian prince Jalal al-Din at the Battle of the Indus, completing the Mongol conquest of Central Asia. 1227 – Gąsawa massacre: At an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa, Polish Prince Leszek the White, Duke Henry the Bearded and others are attacked by assassins while bathing. 1248 – An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages. 1359 – Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father, Hugh IV of Cyprus, abdicates. 1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité. 1542 – Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway. 1642 – Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania). 1750 – Tarabai, regent of the Maratha Empire, imprisons Rajaram II of Satara for refusing to remove Balaji Baji Rao from the post of peshwa. 1832 – South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were null and void in the state, beginning the Nullification Crisis. 1835 – The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety). 1850 – Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein. 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species. 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg. 1877 – Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published. 1906 – A 13–6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football. 1917 – In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001. 1922 – Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver. 1929 – The Finnish far-right Lapua Movement officially begins when a group of mainly the former White Guard members, led by Vihtori Kosola, interrupted communism occasion at the Workers' House in Lapua, Finland. 1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens. 1935 – The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress. 1940 – World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers. 1941 – World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces. 1943 – World War II: At the battle of Makin the USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men. 1944 – World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands. 1962 – Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin. 1962 – The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast. 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby. 1965 – Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997. 1966 – Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board. 1969 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon. 1971 – During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found. 1973 – A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months. 1974 – Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression. 1976 – The Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people. 1989 – After a week of mass protests against the Communist regime known as the Velvet Revolution, Miloš Jakeš and the entire Politburo of the Czechoslovak Communist Party resign from office. This brings an effective end to Communist rule in Czechoslovakia. 1992 – China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashes on approach to Guilin Qifengling Airport in Guilin, China, killing all 141 people on board. 2009 – The Avdhela Project, an Aromanian digital library and cultural initiative, is founded in Bucharest, Romania. 2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people. 2013 – Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions. 2015 – A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria–Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort. 2015 – A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others. 2015 – An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead. 2016 – The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's more than 50-year-long civil war.

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JOHNNY YOU'RE WANTED (directed by Vernon Sewell, produced by George Maynard; with music composed by Robert Sharples, and cinematography by Basil Emmott; this British B-movie was released in January 1956): A George Maynard production of a 1956 B-movie, a British crime drama directed by Vernon Sewell, starting John Slater and Joan Rhodes. The film's plot is as follows: Johnny (Slater) is a long-distance lorry driver returning to London from a provincial delivery, after having taken in a show by Joan Rhodes on the way. Late at night he stops to give a lift to an attractive female hitchhiker whose car has broken down and who is in a hurry to get to back to London. Later, Johnny pulls in to a transport café to make a telephone call and buy a coffee. When he returns to his truck, the woman is gone. Assuming that in her hurry she has picked up a lift with another driver, he goes on his way, and a few miles down the road is flagged down by another driver to help with a woman who has been found laid at the roadside. It turns out that the woman is Johnny's hitchhiker, and that she is dead.

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A George Maynard production of a 1956 B-movie, a British crime drama directed by Vernon Sewell, starting John Slater and Joan Rhodes. The film's plot is as follows: Johnny (Slater) is a long-distance lorry driver returning to London from a provincial delivery, after having taken in a show by Joan Rhodes on the way. Late at night he stops to give a lift to an attractive female hitchhiker whose car has broken down and who is in a hurry to get to back to London. Later, Johnny pulls in to a transport café to make a telephone call and buy a coffee. When he returns to his truck, the woman is gone. Assuming that in her hurry she has picked up a lift with another driver, he goes on his way, and a few miles down the road is flagged down by another driver to help with a woman who has been found laid at the roadside. It turns out that the woman is Johnny's hitchhiker, and that she is dead.