#Queen of Montreuil

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Finished watercolor

[salieri27]

trailer script if my ValJerk AU was a movie

“opens on TFI1 logo and Fox logo Announcer: this summer a man who wishes he was rich gets more than he bargained for Valjean: I want to become rich Queen of the night: take this ring it will make your wish come true “We see Valjean take the ring a blinding flash and we see Valjean now as the evil Monsieur Madeleine” Javert: I have a bad feeling about this Madeleine: I could take care of Cosette Monsieur Thenardier: I want you to treat her as your own Madeleine: and I will “Scene changes to Madeleine whipping Cosette “ Cosette: I don’t want to sweep Madeleine: you will sweep you idle scrap “Scene changes to Cosette escaping the factory” Madeleine: she’s gone Javert: you need to calm down and forget about her Madeleine: I’ll find her and get her back whatever it takes Announcer: this summer one man will learn Madeleine to the Thenadires: if you want to live give me the child Announcer: that power Madeleine: search everywhere she must be found Announcer: can have dire consequences Javert: if you continue with your evil ways you going to end up in hell Madeleine: I DONT CARE Announcer: John malkovich Javert: I don’t want to work for a Mayor who is greedy Announcer: Christian Calverier Thenardier: we must bring Madeleine to justice Announcer: Gérard Depardieu Madeleine: I’ll find her if I have to burn Montreuil to the ground Announcer: in the television event of the year “Madeleine” a TFI1 and Fox co production Saturday July 13 on Fox

@bitchesmockthelaw 

[britishwheel]

Top 8 key lowrider moments in pop films and TV

According to the director of the Netflix documentary 'LA Originals,' Estevan Oriol, the '1964 Impala car has been taken for depicting the lowrider archetype. The same car can be seen on various pop culture events of a lowrider. Even outside this culture, the '1964 Impala' is one of the most widely familiar lowrider cars. Estevan Oriol has played a vital role in lowrider mainstreaming working from the back end. Let's now learn about the key lowrider moments in the below section. 

Top 8 key lowrider moments in pop films and TV

Here is the list of the Top 8 key lowrider moments in pop films and TV -

1.According to the source, 'Tubi, ' - Benjamin Bratt played a San Francisco lowrider that was quoted as Che Rivera in 'La Mission,' a 2009 film. 

2.As seen in the BET+, 'Set It Off,' a female heist classic of 1996 used a large number of Lowriders. Oriol responded that risking a car for bullet damage is the dumbest act when Cleo and Queen Latifah were inside the Impala & under the custody of police withdrawing guns during the shoot. 

3.Available only on DVDs, in the cult Chola coming-of-age drama 'My Vida Loca,' Echo Park, 1993 various dropped vehicles were featured with the presence of mini trucks. Oriol noted the mural piece during the beginning scene & the dropped green truck having hydraulics that soon turned out to be the plot device. 

4.According to Oriol, the 'Lowriders,' film of 2017 was a beautiful moment for a mass media subculture. The movie is directed by Ricardo de Montreuil with the main character played by Demián Bichir & Gabriel Chavarria. Oriol was the main executive producer as well as the consultant behind the execution of this film. He revealed that he successfully find various things that he desired to have from the cars, locations, etc. It is available on Amazon Prime as well as the YouTube. 

5.Cheech Marin's classic 'Up in Smoke,' was added to the 1975 hit 'Low Rider,' song by War, in 1978. The song acquired the number 1 position on the Billboard R&B charts. Oriol finds it hilarious to finalize the primer look & not wait for the final touch to it. It can be seen in the Amazon Prime series. 

6.Available in Amazon Prime, Oriol said that the classic barrio drama named 'the Boulevard Nights,' 1979 was majorly emphasized on the lowriders. In Eastern Los Angeles, 1970 it also portrays the cruising on Whittier Boulevard. 

7.As seen in Direct TV & Amazon Prime, Oriol noticed that in the 'Friday' film, 1995, Big Worm (Faizon Love) character drove the convertible Impala, 1961 of orange color. The original car is named Fresh Squeezed & he added that he shot in Japan as well as here. 

8.Available on the DVDs only, The 'Chico and the Man' TV series, 1974-1978 starring Freddie Prinze showcase the footage of a Gypsy Rose, a well-known world-famous low rider with the 1964 Impala. He said that the series had the best B-roll footage of the 70's L.A. & East L.A. lowriding. 

Lowrider cars are not only popular among car enthusiasts but have also been featured in various magazines, news platforms, pop films & tv. Such key lowrider moments have been very mesmerizing & worth watching. If you also wish to connect to a prominent company dealing with wire wheel tools, then look no other than a British wire wheel firm. British wheel is a trustworthy supplier of wire wheel accessories for lowrider hydraulics & car addicts. They provide spinner caps, wire wheel adapters, and wire wheel installation tools at affordable pricing. Reach out to them to purchase the quality-assured tool for cars! 

[brookston]

Holidays 4.22

Holidays

Ancestor’s Eve (Star Trek)

April Showers Day

Arbor Day (Nebraska)

Chemists Celebrate the Earth Day

Croatian Ustashi Genocide Remembrance Day (Croatia)

Day of Silence (a.k.a. GLSEN Day of Silence)

Discovery Day (Brazil)

Earth Day (UN)

Fern Day (French Republic)

Festival of Fabulous Androgynes

Fighter Aviation Day (Brazil)

Girl Scout Leader Appreciation Day

Global Selfie Earth Day (NASA)

Hari Raya Puasa (Singapore)

Hollow Earth Day

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Serbia)

Inanimate Object Day

”In God We Trust” Day

Instant Book Day

International Lubricant Day

International Marconi Day

International Mother Earth Day

International Narwhal Appreciation Day

International Organ Day (UK)

Kurdish Journalism Day

Love Your Hair Day

National Baseball Day

National Beagle Day

National Donate Life Blue & Green Day

National Fast-Pitch Coaches Association Day

National Girl Scout Leader’s Day

National IT Service Provider Day

National No Email Day

National Pinup Day

National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

National Robe Day

National Send Your Man Nudes Day

National Terry Day

Oklahoma Day (Oklahoma)

Order of the Garter Day

Pat Tillman Day

Record Store Day

Rokjesdag 2024 (Skirt Day; Netherlands) [Varies, Early Spring]

Queen Isabella Day (Spain)

Sniff-the-Breeze Day (Egypt)

Stephen Lawrence Commemoration Day (UK)

Tesla Autonomy Day

Unofficial Programmers’ Day (Russia)

Ustashi Genocide Remembrance Day (Croatia)

Walpurgis celebrations begin (Germanic, Norse, Scandinavian) [thru 5.1]

Zhabdrung Kuchhoe (Bhutan)

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Jelly Bean Day

4th Monday in April

Confederate Memorial Day (AL, FL, GA) [4th Monday]

Public Library Day [Monday of Library Week]

School Librarian Day [Monday of Library Week]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 22 (4th Week)

Earth Week (thru 4.26)

Every Kid Healthy Week [M-F of Last Full Week]

Fibroid Awareness Week (thru 4.27)

National Environmental Education Week (thru 4.26)

National Playground Safety Week (thru 4.26) [Last Full Week M-F]

National Youth Violence Prevention Week (thru 4.24)

Independence & Related Days

Aethodia (f.k.a. Theodia; Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]

Chen Dynasty (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Frăția Blocurilor Unite (FBU or Brotherhood of the United Blocks; Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

National Sovereignty Day (Turkey)

Pristinia (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

Festivals Beginning April 22, 2024

City Restaurant Week (Wilmington, Delaware) [thru 4.27]

Taste of Vernon (Vernon, New Jersey)

Feast Days

Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions (Catholic Church; Saints)

Agapitus I, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Arwald (Christian; Saint)

Azades, Tharba, and other, in Persia (Christian; Martyrs)

Berezozol (Lela's Holiday; Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Bran the Blessed’s Head Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Caius, Pope (Christian; Martyr)

Day of Aradia (Pagan)

Earth Day (Pastafarian)

Epipodius and Alexander of Lyon (Christian; Martyrs)

Festival of Ishtar (Ancient Mesopotamia)

Festival of Jupiter and Juno (Ancient Rome)

Henry Fielding (Writerism)

Hudson Stuck (Episcopal Church)

Hunuman Jayanti (Hindu)

Joanie Jenkins (Muppetism)

John Muir (Episcopal Church)

Lela’s Holiday (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Leonides, Father of Origen (Christian; Saint)

Opportuna of Montreuil (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Pliny the Elder (Positivist; Saint)

R. Crumb Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Richard Diebenkorn (Artology)

Rufus (a.k.a. Rufin) of Glendalough, Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Senorina (Christian; Saint)

Sham el-Nessim (First Day of Spring; Ancient Egypt)

Sidney Nolan (Artology)

Soter, Pope (Christian; Martyr)

Theodorus of Siceon (Christian; Saint)

Theravadin New Year (Buddhism)

Vladimir Nabokov (Writerism)

Yggdrasil Day (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]

Passover [14-15 Nisan] (a.k.a. ... 

Erev Pesach

Exodus

Pesach

Pessach (erster Tag)

Pésaj

חַג הַפֶּסַח

Ta’anit Bechorot (Feast of the Firstborn) [14 Nisan]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

A Dangerous Day (Numerology) [#22 symbolized by a Good Man, blinded by the folly of others, with.a knapsack full of errors on his back.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [20 of 37]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s Nixon’s birthday.)

Premieres

Around the World in a Day, by Prince (Album; 1985)

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin (Novel; 1899)

The Bad Guys (Animated Film; 2022)

Bagdad Cafe (Film; 1987)

Baker Street, by Gerry Rafferty (Song; 1978)

Barney Blake, Police Reporter (TV Series; 1948)

Batty Baseball (MGM Cartoon; 1944)

Big House Bunny (WB LT Cartoon; 1950)

The Birds, The Bees & The Monkeys, by The Monks (Album; 1968)

The Bride of Frankenstein (Film; 1935)

Casual Sex? (Film; 1988)

Concrete Island, by J.G. Ballard (Novel; 1974)

Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)

D’ Fightin’ Ones (WB MM Cartoon; 1961)

Earth (Documentary Film; 2009)

Easy Come, Easy Go (Film; 1967)

Elvis & Nixon (Film; 2016)

It’s a Small World (Disney Ride at New York World’s Fair; 1964

Jane-Eyre (Film; 2011)

Jeeves & Wooster (UK TV Series; 1990)

Jerry and the Lion (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1950)

Kallocain, by Karin Boye (Novel; 1940)

King Tut, by Steve Martin (Song; 1978)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Film; 1962)

Momofuku, by Elvis Costello (Album; 2008)

The Northman (Film; 2022)

Oceans (Documentary Film; 2010)

Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1932)

100 Pygmies and Any Panda (Andy Panda Cartoon; 1940)

The Passions of the Mind, by Irving Stone (Biography of Sigmund Freud; 1971)

peck of Trouble (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1968)

Plague Dogs, by Richard Adams (Novel; 1978)

Poland, by James A. Michener (Novel; 1984)

Seventeen Seconds, by The Cure (Album; 1980)

Something Rotten! (Broadway Musical; 2015)

Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, by Antonin Dvořák (Symphony; 1885)

Tommy (Broadway Play; 1993)

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Film; 2022)

Veep (TV Series; 2012)

Water for Elephants (Film; 2011)

Wild Thing, by The Trigs (Song; 1966)

The Willoughby’s (Animated Film; 2020)

Today’s Name Days

Alfred, Kaj, Leonidas (Austria)

Kajo, Leonida, Soter, Vojmil (Croatia)

Evženie (Czech Republic)

Cajus (Denmark)

Meeri, Meri, Merike, Merje (Estonia)

Aida, Alina (Finland)

Alexandre (France)

Alfred, Kaj, Leonidas (Germany)

Nathanael, Nearhos (Greece)

Csilla, Noémi (Hungary)

Caio, Leonida, Sotero (Italy)

Armanda, Armands, Usins, Vitālijs (Latvia)

Leonas, Leonidas, Norvaidė, Visgailas (Lithuania)

Oddgeir, Oddny (Norway)

Heliodor, Kajus, Leonia, Leonid, Łukasz, Soter, Strzeżymir, Teodor (Poland)

Teodor (Romania)

Slavomír (Slovakia)

María, Sotero (Spain)

Allan, Glenn (Sweden)

Nathan, Nathaniel, Vitalia, Vitaliy (Ukraine)

Caia, Caissa, Kai, Kaila, Kaleigh, Kaley, Kay, Kayla, Kaylee, Kayleigh, Kayley, Kaylie, Kaylin, Kaylyn, Leonidas, Makayla, Mckayla (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 113 of 2024; 253 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 17 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 9 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 14 (Bing-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 14 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 13 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 23 Cyan; Twosday [22 of 30]

Julian: 9 April 2024

Moon: 99%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 1 Caesar (5th Month) [Miltiades]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 35 of 92)

Week: 4th Week of April

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 3 of 31)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 4.22

Holidays

Ancestor’s Eve (Star Trek)

April Showers Day

Arbor Day (Nebraska)

Chemists Celebrate the Earth Day

Croatian Ustashi Genocide Remembrance Day (Croatia)

Day of Silence (a.k.a. GLSEN Day of Silence)

Discovery Day (Brazil)

Earth Day (UN)

Fern Day (French Republic)

Festival of Fabulous Androgynes

Fighter Aviation Day (Brazil)

Girl Scout Leader Appreciation Day

Global Selfie Earth Day (NASA)

Hari Raya Puasa (Singapore)

Hollow Earth Day

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Serbia)

Inanimate Object Day

”In God We Trust” Day

Instant Book Day

International Lubricant Day

International Marconi Day

International Mother Earth Day

International Narwhal Appreciation Day

International Organ Day (UK)

Kurdish Journalism Day

Love Your Hair Day

National Baseball Day

National Beagle Day

National Donate Life Blue & Green Day

National Fast-Pitch Coaches Association Day

National Girl Scout Leader’s Day

National IT Service Provider Day

National No Email Day

National Pinup Day

National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

National Robe Day

National Send Your Man Nudes Day

National Terry Day

Oklahoma Day (Oklahoma)

Order of the Garter Day

Pat Tillman Day

Record Store Day

Rokjesdag 2024 (Skirt Day; Netherlands) [Varies, Early Spring]

Queen Isabella Day (Spain)

Sniff-the-Breeze Day (Egypt)

Stephen Lawrence Commemoration Day (UK)

Tesla Autonomy Day

Unofficial Programmers’ Day (Russia)

Ustashi Genocide Remembrance Day (Croatia)

Walpurgis celebrations begin (Germanic, Norse, Scandinavian) [thru 5.1]

Zhabdrung Kuchhoe (Bhutan)

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Jelly Bean Day

4th Monday in April

Confederate Memorial Day (AL, FL, GA) [4th Monday]

Public Library Day [Monday of Library Week]

School Librarian Day [Monday of Library Week]

Weekly Holidays beginning April 22 (4th Week)

Earth Week (thru 4.26)

Every Kid Healthy Week [M-F of Last Full Week]

Fibroid Awareness Week (thru 4.27)

National Environmental Education Week (thru 4.26)

National Playground Safety Week (thru 4.26) [Last Full Week M-F]

National Youth Violence Prevention Week (thru 4.24)

Independence & Related Days

Aethodia (f.k.a. Theodia; Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]

Chen Dynasty (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Frăția Blocurilor Unite (FBU or Brotherhood of the United Blocks; Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

National Sovereignty Day (Turkey)

Pristinia (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

Festivals Beginning April 22, 2024

City Restaurant Week (Wilmington, Delaware) [thru 4.27]

Taste of Vernon (Vernon, New Jersey)

Feast Days

Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions (Catholic Church; Saints)

Agapitus I, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Arwald (Christian; Saint)

Azades, Tharba, and other, in Persia (Christian; Martyrs)

Berezozol (Lela's Holiday; Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Bran the Blessed’s Head Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Caius, Pope (Christian; Martyr)

Day of Aradia (Pagan)

Earth Day (Pastafarian)

Epipodius and Alexander of Lyon (Christian; Martyrs)

Festival of Ishtar (Ancient Mesopotamia)

Festival of Jupiter and Juno (Ancient Rome)

Henry Fielding (Writerism)

Hudson Stuck (Episcopal Church)

Hunuman Jayanti (Hindu)

Joanie Jenkins (Muppetism)

John Muir (Episcopal Church)

Lela’s Holiday (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Leonides, Father of Origen (Christian; Saint)

Opportuna of Montreuil (Christian; Saint & Virgin)

Pliny the Elder (Positivist; Saint)

R. Crumb Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Richard Diebenkorn (Artology)

Rufus (a.k.a. Rufin) of Glendalough, Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Senorina (Christian; Saint)

Sham el-Nessim (First Day of Spring; Ancient Egypt)

Sidney Nolan (Artology)

Soter, Pope (Christian; Martyr)

Theodorus of Siceon (Christian; Saint)

Theravadin New Year (Buddhism)

Vladimir Nabokov (Writerism)

Yggdrasil Day (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Hebrew Calendar Holidays [Begins at Sundown Day Before]

Passover [14-15 Nisan] (a.k.a. ... 

Erev Pesach

Exodus

Pesach

Pessach (erster Tag)

Pésaj

חַג הַפֶּסַח

Ta’anit Bechorot (Feast of the Firstborn) [14 Nisan]

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

A Dangerous Day (Numerology) [#22 symbolized by a Good Man, blinded by the folly of others, with.a knapsack full of errors on his back.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [20 of 37]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s Nixon’s birthday.)

Premieres

Around the World in a Day, by Prince (Album; 1985)

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin (Novel; 1899)

The Bad Guys (Animated Film; 2022)

Bagdad Cafe (Film; 1987)

Baker Street, by Gerry Rafferty (Song; 1978)

Barney Blake, Police Reporter (TV Series; 1948)

Batty Baseball (MGM Cartoon; 1944)

Big House Bunny (WB LT Cartoon; 1950)

The Birds, The Bees & The Monkeys, by The Monks (Album; 1968)

The Bride of Frankenstein (Film; 1935)

Casual Sex? (Film; 1988)

Concrete Island, by J.G. Ballard (Novel; 1974)

Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)

D’ Fightin’ Ones (WB MM Cartoon; 1961)

Earth (Documentary Film; 2009)

Easy Come, Easy Go (Film; 1967)

Elvis & Nixon (Film; 2016)

It’s a Small World (Disney Ride at New York World’s Fair; 1964

Jane-Eyre (Film; 2011)

Jeeves & Wooster (UK TV Series; 1990)

Jerry and the Lion (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1950)

Kallocain, by Karin Boye (Novel; 1940)

King Tut, by Steve Martin (Song; 1978)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Film; 1962)

Momofuku, by Elvis Costello (Album; 2008)

The Northman (Film; 2022)

Oceans (Documentary Film; 2010)

Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1932)

100 Pygmies and Any Panda (Andy Panda Cartoon; 1940)

The Passions of the Mind, by Irving Stone (Biography of Sigmund Freud; 1971)

peck of Trouble (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1968)

Plague Dogs, by Richard Adams (Novel; 1978)

Poland, by James A. Michener (Novel; 1984)

Seventeen Seconds, by The Cure (Album; 1980)

Something Rotten! (Broadway Musical; 2015)

Symphony No. 7 in D Minor, by Antonin Dvořák (Symphony; 1885)

Tommy (Broadway Play; 1993)

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Film; 2022)

Veep (TV Series; 2012)

Water for Elephants (Film; 2011)

Wild Thing, by The Trigs (Song; 1966)

The Willoughby’s (Animated Film; 2020)

Today’s Name Days

Alfred, Kaj, Leonidas (Austria)

Kajo, Leonida, Soter, Vojmil (Croatia)

Evženie (Czech Republic)

Cajus (Denmark)

Meeri, Meri, Merike, Merje (Estonia)

Aida, Alina (Finland)

Alexandre (France)

Alfred, Kaj, Leonidas (Germany)

Nathanael, Nearhos (Greece)

Csilla, Noémi (Hungary)

Caio, Leonida, Sotero (Italy)

Armanda, Armands, Usins, Vitālijs (Latvia)

Leonas, Leonidas, Norvaidė, Visgailas (Lithuania)

Oddgeir, Oddny (Norway)

Heliodor, Kajus, Leonia, Leonid, Łukasz, Soter, Strzeżymir, Teodor (Poland)

Teodor (Romania)

Slavomír (Slovakia)

María, Sotero (Spain)

Allan, Glenn (Sweden)

Nathan, Nathaniel, Vitalia, Vitaliy (Ukraine)

Caia, Caissa, Kai, Kaila, Kaleigh, Kaley, Kay, Kayla, Kaylee, Kayleigh, Kayley, Kaylie, Kaylin, Kaylyn, Leonidas, Makayla, Mckayla (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 113 of 2024; 253 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 17 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 9 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Wu-Chen), Day 14 (Bing-Chen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 14 Nisan 5784

Islamic: 13 Shawwal 1445

J Cal: 23 Cyan; Twosday [22 of 30]

Julian: 9 April 2024

Moon: 99%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 1 Caesar (5th Month) [Miltiades]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 35 of 92)

Week: 4th Week of April

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 3 of 31)

[languageisleavingmeinsilence]

Sólveig Anspach’s  comedy trilogy  Skrapp út (aka Back Soon) (2008) Queen of Montreuil (2012) L'effet aquatique (2016)

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[pigeons-sitting-on-branches]

Queen of Montreuil (2013) Sólveig Anspach 04-04-2019 Enjoyable comedy drama with some unique amiable characters

[grantmkemp]

Born 84 years ago today, 9th December 1934, Dame Judith Olivia Dench. In Britain, Dench has developed a reputation as one of the greatest actresses of the post-war period, primarily through her work in theatre, which has been her forté throughout her career. She has more than once been named number one in polls for Britain's best actor. My colourised picture from a black, and white promotional still shows Dench in the 1959 TV series "Hilda Lessways" (adapted from the Clayhanger family novels by Arnold Bennett), and according to "Lost U.K. TV Shows Search Engine", this series is believed to be lost. Dench was aged just 25, and this was her first television appearance.

Through her parents, Dench had regular contact with the theatre. Her father, a physician, was also the GP for the York theatre, and her mother was its wardrobe mistress. Actors often stayed in the Dench household. During these years, Judi Dench was involved on a non-professional basis in the first three productions of the modern revival of the York Mystery Plays in 1951, 1954 and 1957. In the third production she played the role of the Virgin Mary, performed on a fixed stage in the Museum Gardens. Though she initially trained as a set designer, she became interested in drama school as her brother Jeff attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. She applied and was accepted by the School, then based at the Royal Albert Hall, London, where she was a classmate of Vanessa Redgrave, graduating and being awarded four acting prizes, including the Gold Medal as Outstanding Student.

In September 1957, she made her first professional stage appearance with the Old Vic Company, at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, as Ophelia in Hamlet.

She remained a member of the company for four seasons, 1957–1961

The 1966 BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles was made to Dench for her performance in Four in the Morning and this was followed in 1968 by a BAFTA Television Best Actress Award for her role in John Hopkins' 1966 BBC drama Talking to a Stranger.

Dench made her debut as a director in 1988 with the Renaissance Theatre Company's touring season, Renaissance Shakespeare on the Road, co-produced with the Birmingham Rep, and ending with a three-month repertory programme at the Phoenix Theatre in London. Dench's contribution was a staging of Much Ado About Nothing, set in the Napoleonic era, which starred Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson as Benedick and Beatrice.

She has acted with the National Theatre in London where she played an unforgettable Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra (1987). In September 1995, she played Desiree Armfeldt in a major revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music, for which she won an Olivier Award.

After the long period between James Bond films Licence to Kill (1989) and GoldenEye (1995), the producers brought in Dench to take over as the role of M, James Bond's boss. The character was reportedly modeled on Dame Stella Rimington, the real-life head of MI5 between 1992 and 1996; Dench became the first woman to portray M, succeeding Robert Brown.

In 1997, Dench appeared in her first starring film role as Queen Victoria in John Madden's teleplay Mrs Brown, which depicts Victoria's relationship with her personal servant and favourite John Brown, played by Billy Connolly

In 1999, Dench won the Tony Award for her 1999 Broadway performance in the role of Esme Allen in Sir David Hare's Amy's View.

In January 2001, Dench's husband Michael Williams died of lung cancer. Dench went to Nova Scotia, Canada, almost immediately after Williams's funeral to begin production on Lasse Hallström's drama film The Shipping News, a therapy she later credited as her rescue.

A major hit for Dench came with Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice, a 2005 adaptation of the novel by Jane Austen, starring Keira Knightley and Donald Sutherland.

In April 2006, Dench returned to the West End stage in Hay Fever alongside Peter Bowles and Belinda Lang.

Dench appeared opposite Cate Blanchett as a London teacher with a dedicated fondness for vulnerable women in Richard Eyre's 2006 drama film Notes on a Scandal, an adaption from the 2003 novel of the same name by Zoë Heller. A fan of Heller's book, Dench "was thrilled to be asked to ... play that woman, to try to find a humanity in that dreadful person".

Dench returned to the West End in mid-2009, playing Madame de Montreuil in Yukio Mishima's play Madame de Sade.

In 2011, Dench starred in Jane Eyre, My Week with Marilyn and J. Edgar

In 2013, Dench starred as the title character in the Stephen Frears-directed film, Philomena, a film inspired by true events of a woman looking for the son which the Catholic Church took from her a half-century before.

In 2016, Dench made Olivier Award history when she won Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in The Winter's Tale, breaking her own record with her eighth win as a performer

In July 2019 Judi presented a 2-part nature documentary series for ITV called Judi Dench's Wild Borneo Adventure in which she and her partner travelled across the island, looking at its remarkable wildlife and efforts by conservationists to preserve it for future generations.

Dench was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1970 Birthday Honours and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1988 New Year Honours. She was appointed Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) in the 2005 Birthday Honours. In June 2011, she became a fellow of the British Film Institute (BFI).

This is my colourised version of a black, and white promotional still from "Hilda Lessways", broadcast in 1959

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[vivelareine]

The queen is very kind to me just now; we are going together to Saint-Cyr, which she calls my cradle. She calls Montreuil my little Trianon. I have been to hers the last few days with her, without any consequences, and there was no attention she did not show me. She prepared for me one of those surprises in which she excels; but what we did most was to weep over the death of my poor little niece [Sophie].

–Madame Elisabeth to the Marquise de Bombelles, 25 June 1787

[esteliel]

Les Mis Tecklenburg

Okay, the long overdue Les Mis Tecklenburg review, which might not be of much use to anyone else but I immediately forget things if I don't write them down so here's more than you probably wanted to know about this production.

The stage itself was amazing and so impressive, because it was HUGE, and they had built actual houses on it with basically two levels for people to stand/sing on. It was really impressive to look at though I'm not sure if it really added that much to the show, because it mostly meant that characters spent a lot of time running from one end of the stage to the other, and that it put characters on different levels when I feel like their actual positions don't reflect that (i.e. Javert spending some time surveying the town below from the highest point up by the cross when he is explicitly NOT above society but below/outside it, and Valjean as Madeleine dealing with the entire Fantine/factory girl fight while standing on the first floor of the factory above everyone else, when I feel that even as Madeleine he never was above people/never distanced himself via authority, but rather tried to keep his distance via escape by walks etc.)

At the front of the stage, there was a huge gap for the conductor, and both at the beginning, when Valjean receives his yellow passport, as well as during their encounter in the sewers, Valjean and Javert stood to each side of it, divided by this insurmountable gap as they faced each other, which on the other hand was using the stage symbolism perfectly! <3

As to the cast, they were generally good, I don't have complaints about a single actor (except for the kids, who were terrible with the exception of Sunday's little Cosette. I don't understand why professional productions don't go for slightly older kids. I don't even expect the quality of Broadway children, but these children were for the most part so horribly wooden that it was painful to watch. If you can't find a seven-year-old with at least a small amount of singing and acting experience, I promise that a twelve-year-old Gavroche will work just as well. :/)

The most important thing, I really, really enjoyed both Valjean and Javert. Valjean especially brought so much into it acting-wise, especially his first Soliloquy - he is so stunned by the bishop's compassion that there's a moment of genuine anger at the bishop for claiming that Valjean's soul exists/is important, and it was just one of the most emotional soliloquys I've ever seen. <3 He's also super cute with little Cosette, and after the Thénardier's inn, they stole that trick where he's dancing with little Cosette, and then behind a wall switch her with adult Cosette who continues to dance with Valjean to show the time skip, which made people laugh. Also Valjean brings little Cosette a red dress to wear instead of a black one, which adult Cosette is also wearing.

Javert was also fun - very focused, very driven, but without falling into that common trap of resorting to shouting or Angry Hammy Javert which was mainly what I got to see lately with Hume and Thaxton. It's just... so nice to sort of wipe the slate clean and see what sort of acting choices someone makes in a non-replica production, because it sometimes makes you realize that bits you hate but which you feel are unavoidable given the book are actually not. Like the Karlstad Thénardiers, who were so good and completely avoided that slapstick comedy route. Anyway, it was really refreshing to watch Kevin Tarte's Javert. I don't even think he did anything unusual acting-wise with Javert, but it was really solid and convincing acting and not a single moment where he took the easier path of Shouting instead of Acting.

Marius was very cute looks-wise, perhaps even a bit too cute because he didn't come across as awkward at all for the most part, but he was enjoyable to watch. Cosette looked way too old on the photos I'd seen but came across as perfectly fine on stage. Fantine was REALLY good, it's rare that I'm surprised by a Fantine's acting ability these days because they mostly tend to go the safe and boring routes, but Milica Jovanovic really pulled it off. I wasn't wowed by Eponine either but she was good too, just not anywhere close to my top 2 Eponines.

Even the Thénardiers were generally entertaining, though I feel like their slapstick routines would have grown boring just as quickly if I'd seen it more than twice. Thénardier had this bit which was hilarious my first evening, where during their negotiation with Valjean, he tries to sneeze into Valjean's coat, only Valjean pulls his coat away and so Thénardier sneezes into his own hands and then tries to wipe them first on Valjean, then on Mme T.'s boobs, but both give him such withering looks that he just gives up.

It was a bit less hilarious the second time around, and if I'd seen it thirty times, it probably would have ceased being funny pretty quickly, but alas that's not going to happen. (I did end up wishing I'd booked a third date...)

Random observations in a list because I've had this doc open for way too long already:

- OMG they sing it SO SO SLOWLY I'm not used to that any more! It was nice in parts, but in other parts it felt super unneccessary and drained scenes of their energy. This also meant that instead of the usual 3 hours running time this ran for 4 hours including the lengthy bows. On Saturday, the show ran from 7:30pm to 11:30pm (and then I was waiting around at the stage door until 1:30am because apparently the cast was inside playing poker, lol. But it was worth hanging around because I got a nice signed photo of a bare-chested convict Valjean showing nips. Not my own, mind you, Patrick Stanke brought those out himself. Clearly he knows what Javert his fans want. :D Made the long wait in the cold worth it though, and I made stage door friends for breakfast the next day yay.)

- There was applause in the weirdest spots? Like, applause for all the Amis dying on the barricade...

- Silververt shoots himself! This is only the second production I've seen after Sweden 2016 that makes Javert commit suicide by his own gun, and I love it - way preferrable to the awkward Broadway suicide staging (and obviously Wattsvert's joyful ascent to chair heaven). During his Suicide, Javert climbs all the way up to the third level of the stage and stands at the foot of the big cross up there. Then he shoots himself at the end of his song and falls down to somewhere hidden behind the small wall. Apparently there's a mattress placed there for him to fall on, and he told us that night that after his Suicide, he just kept lying on his mattress for a long time, listening to the show go on below and soaking in the atmosphere. By that point it was definitely past 10pm, it was completely dark, there were huge trees gently swaying in the wind around the stage, and it was such an amazing atmosphere that I'd have done the same. (Also, during his Suicide, there was a bat attracted by the light that kept fluttering around him while he sang his final verses by the cross, which made all the Tanz der Vampire fangirls around me very happy. I, on the other hand, was happy because I still love Shoujo Cosette's Vampirevert a lot and Javert should totally turn into a bat and suck Valjean's virgin blood more often. <3)

- After the show, we got to walk out across the stage and I feel like they should totally do that at the Queen's because it's such fun to get all close and personal with the set. :D

- Then during bows they teased the hand kiss!!! >:( Argh, I've never been teased more in my life. Very unfair!

- That first evening with the show starting at 7:30pm, Stars took place during actual twilight! So so gorgeous. <3 I love open air theatre (except for my ongoing love-hate relationship with the Globe).

- During the Prologue, Javert just lets the yellow passport drop to the floor, which I've admittedly seen many Javerts do, but here there were several meters between them which added an extra level of derisiveness to it which I've never seen before. And then Javert nodded to his guard underling to hand Valjean his bag, who also gave Valjean a disgusted look and dropped the bag right where he stood to leave with Javert.

- Fantine's death happens in this room which has four wooden pillars and gauze curtains in between, and when Javert comes in for the Confrontation, he's hidden behind the gauze curtain at first, spying on Valjean. And he's wearing leather gloves which he slowly tugs off finger by finger while singing his first lines. <3 Thanks for catering to my kinks.

- Then at the end of the Confrontation when they're facing off, standing almost chest to chest while panting with manly resolve to kill each other if neccessary, Sister Simplice who was watching all of that steps forward and gives them a Look and shakes her head at Javert, and they both awkwardly retreat. (And then scene change so I guess here it is indeed Sister Simplice who helps Valjean escape! <3)

- Oh and also Fantine's Death Room turns into Valjean's Death Room, and this time it's Fantine who gets to approach from behind the gauze, and then later watch Cosette and Marius from behind it for a while until Valjean dies.

- Also in Montreuil after Runaway Cart Javert also brings Valjean his coat, and he helped him into it and on my first day gently smoothed it down his back. <3

- Gavroche has the most ridiculous death. OMG seriously, there's no need to slow everything down so much. Gavroche has already made it back to safety atop the barricade, and remains there for an eternity while triumhantly singing his final two lines, and then is shot. It makes literally no sense that he wouldn't take cover for an entire minute when they've already been shooting at him.

- Also their Enjolras, wtf? I actually liked him, he was charismatic and generally fine and his singing was okay, but then both times, absolutely out of nowhere, he turns his final "is free" into this rock scream. On the other hand, he's the last to die on the barricade, which is always enjoyable to watch.

- Also they have both Javert and the Thénardiers join the cast for the Finale which I neither like nor think makes sense in any way at all, even if you believe that it's supposed to be 'heaven' because the Thénardiers aren't dead. Also except for Valjean, none of the characters even believe in Paradise as Reward for a Virtuous Life - the reward the amis are fighting for is very much about the situation of the living, sigh.

- Anyway, a fun production, I hope I get my boot of this because I need to watch Silververt shoot himself again with company, and definitely worth all the travel. (I should have seen it three times, honestly. <3)

[nirindahouse]

C’était le travail de début de ce #freddiemercury, après le collage de fond et le dessin, le début de la structure. C’est le second Freddie que je réalisais sur 3, celui ci a été … réquisitionné dès son ébauche, le premier a fini déchiqueté dans un sursaut d’énervement car je ne suis pas arrivé au résultat que je voulais et le 3eme a été aussi vendu. #art #artwork by NiriN #artist #popart #popartist #popartlover #popartgallery #collageart #collage #collageartist #collageartwork #artlover #artdealer #artcollector #freddiemercuryforever #freddiemercuryqueen #freddiemercuryfan #queening #queenie (à Montreuil, Ile-De-France, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cah8mBvLgFq/?utm_medium=tumblr

[salieri27]

ValJerk au orgin story  part one

so Valjean was a deer hunter who spent most of his time in the woods of Montreuil he had no friends except Cosset Gavaroch and The Thenadires 

One day after a round of hunting, Valjean ran into Javert who says he is a prison guard the two became friends Valjean expresss his wish to become rich and his job as a deer hunter is just to keep food on the table just as Valjean was saying goodbye to Javert clouds began to form and a lady in black appeared the lady offered Valjean a ring that says it will make his wish come true wanting his wish to come true Valjean puts on the ring as he did a rack of pain doubled him and lady disappeared. Valjean recoverd from his pain but something in his personality changed he motions to Javert to follow him but Javert knew who that lady is The Queen Of The Night. 

Five years later Valjean is now known as Monsieur Madeleine and owns a factory making glass beads and he is the mayor of Montreuil but he is not kind to the people there he refuses to give alms to beggars and makes his factory workers work long hard hours without breaks only Javert knows what caused this, The ring on Madeleines finger 

@catdemontraphouse

[illadelsmonstres-radio]

SETANTA-SIS / Befrasulux, vol.1

Temporada 3 / Programa 6

Data d’emissió: 13/11/19

ESCOLTA’L: mixcloud / ivoox

Primera part del doble capítol que dediquem al math, noise, i post-jazz que es cou als quatre països francòfons d’Europa: França, Bèlgica, Suïssa i Luxemburg.

Playlist

Totorro - Yaaaago (2016)

fago.sepia - 18 (2012)

Kassei - Prak (2018)

Grand Détour - Trahis par la soif (2013)

Ultra Zook - Yapati Yupata (2019)

No Metal in this Battle - Paprika (2017)

Bruant Zizi - Montreuil (2018)

F! - Santo Bouzino (2018)

pneu - Batatanana (2011)

Closet Disco Queen - El Moustachito (2017) 

Marvin - Un chien en hiver (2013)

[brookston]

Holidays 4.22

Holidays

Ancestor’s Eve (Star Trek)

April Showers Day

Chemists Celebrate the Earth Day

Day of Silence (a.k.a. GLSEN Day of Silence)

Discovery Day (Brazil)

Earth Day (UN)

Festival of Fabulous Androgynes

Fighter Aviation Day (Brazil)

Girl Scout Leader Appreciation Day

Global Selfie Earth Day (NASA)

Hari Raya Puasa (Singapore)

Hollow Earth Day

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Serbia)

Inanimate Object Day

”In God We Trust” Day

Instant Book Day

International Marconi Day

International Mother Earth Day

International Organ Day (UK)

Kurdish Journalism Day

Love Your Hair Day

National Baseball Day

National Beagle Day

National Donate Life Blue & Green Day

National Fast-Pitch Coaches Association Day

National Girl Scout Leader’s Day

National IT Service Provider Day

National No Email Day

National Pinup Day

National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

National Robe Day

National Send Your Man Nudes Day

National Terry Day

Oklahoma Day (Oklahoma)

Pat Tillman Day

Record Store Day

Rokjesdag Founders Day (Skirt Day; Netherlands)

Queen Isabella Day (Spain)

Sham el-Nessim (First Day of Spring; Ancient Egypt)

Stephen Lawrence Commemoration Day (UK)

Tesla Autonomy Day

Ustashi Genocide Remembrance Day (Croatia)

Walpurgis celebrations begin (Germanic, Norse, Scandinavian) [thru 5.1]

Zhabdrung Kuchhoe (Bhutan)

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Jelly Bean Day

4th Saturday in April

Beer Clean Glass Day [4th Saturday]

Celebrate Trails Day [4th Saturday]

International Marconi Day [Saturday closest to 4.25]

Just Pray No Weekend begins [4th Saturday]

National Day of Puppetry [4th Saturday]

Independence Days

Aethodia (f.k.a. Theodia; Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]

Chen Dynasty (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Frăția Blocurilor Unite (FBU or Brotherhood of the United Blocks; Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Pristinia (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions (Catholic Church; Saints)

Arwald (Christian; Saint)

Azades, Tharba, and other, in Persia (Christian; Martyrs)

Berezozol (Lela's Holiday; Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Caius, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Earth Day (Pastafarian)

Epipodius and Alexander of Lyon (Christian; Saint)

Festival of Ishtar (Ancient Mesopotamia)

Festival of Jupiter and Juno (Ancient Rome)

Hudson Stuck (Episcopal Church)

Hunuman Jayanti (Hindu)

Joanie Jenkins (Muppetism)

John Muir (Episcopal Church)

Lela’s Holiday (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Leonides, Father of Origen (Christian; Saint)

Opportuna of Montreuil (Christian; Saint)

Pliny the Elder (Positivist; Saint)

R. Crumb Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Rufus (a.k.a. Rufin) of Glendalough, Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Senorina (Christian; Saint)

Sidney Nolan (Artology)

Soter, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Theodorus of Siceon (Christian; Saint)

Theravadin New Year (Buddhism)

Yggdrasil Day (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [20 of 37]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s Nixon’s birthday.)

Premieres

Around the World in a Day, by Prince (Album; 1985)

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin (Novel; 1899)

The Bad Guys (Animated Film; 2022)

Bagdad Cafe (Film; 1987)

Baker Street, by Gerry Rafferty (Song; 1978)

Big House Bunny (WB LT Cartoon; 1950)

The Birds, The Bees & The Monkeys, by The Monks (Album; 1968)

The Bride of Frankenstein (Film; 1935)

Casual Sex? (Film; 1988)

Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)

D’ Fightin’ Ones (WB MM Cartoon; 1961)

Earth (Documentary Film; 2009)

Easy Come, Easy Go (Film; 1967)

Elvis & Nixon (Film; 2016)

Jeeves & Wooster (UK TV Series; 1990)

King Tut, by Steve Martin (Song; 1978)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Film; 1962)

Momofuku, by Elvis Costello (Album; 2008)

Oceans (Documentary Film; 2010)

The Passions of the Mind, by Irving Stone (Biography of Sigmund Freud; 1971)

Plague Dogs, by Richard Adams (Novel; 1978)

Poland, by James A. Michener (Novel; 1984)

Seventeen Seconds, by The Cure (Album; 1980)

Tommy (Broadway Play; 1993)

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Film; 2022)

Veep (TV Series; 2012)

Water for Elephants (Film; 2011)

Wild Thing, by The Trigs (Song; 1966)

Today’s Name Days

Alfred, Kaj, Leonidas (Austria)

Kajo, Leonida, Soter, Vojmil (Croatia)

Evženie (Czech Republic)

Cajus (Denmark)

Meeri, Meri, Merike, Merje (Estonia)

Aida, Alina (Finland)

Alexandre (France)

Alfred, Kaj, Leonidas (Germany)

Nathanael, Nearhos (Greece)

Csilla, Noémi (Hungary)

Caio, Leonida, Sotero (Italy)

Armanda, Armands, Usins, Vitālijs (Latvia)

Leonas, Leonidas, Norvaidė, Visgailas (Lithuania)

Oddgeir, Oddny (Norway)

Heliodor, Kajus, Leonia, Leonid, Łukasz, Soter, Strzeżymir, Teodor (Poland)

Teodor (Romania)

Slavomír (Slovakia)

María, Sotero (Spain)

Allan, Glenn (Sweden)

Nathan, Nathaniel, Vitalia, Vitaliy (Ukraine)

Caia, Caissa, Kai, Kaila, Kaleigh, Kaley, Kay, Kayla, Kaylee, Kayleigh, Kayley, Kaylie, Kaylin, Kaylyn, Leonidas, Makayla, Mckayla (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 112 of 2024; 253 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 16 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 7 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Bing-Chen), Day 3 (Geng-Xu)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 1 Iyar 5783

Islamic: 1 Shawwal 1444

J Cal: 21 Aqua; Sevenday [21 of 30]

Julian: 9 April 2023

Moon: 7%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 28 Archimedes (4th Month) [Pliny the Elder]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 34 of 90)

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 3 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Iyar (a.k.a. ʼIyyār or Iyyar) [אִיָּר / אִייָר‎] (Hebrew Calendar) [Month 2 of 12]

Shawwāl [شَوَّال] (Islamic Calendar) [Month 10 of 12] (Raised)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 4.22

Holidays

Ancestor’s Eve (Star Trek)

April Showers Day

Chemists Celebrate the Earth Day

Day of Silence (a.k.a. GLSEN Day of Silence)

Discovery Day (Brazil)

Earth Day (UN)

Festival of Fabulous Androgynes

Fighter Aviation Day (Brazil)

Girl Scout Leader Appreciation Day

Global Selfie Earth Day (NASA)

Hari Raya Puasa (Singapore)

Hollow Earth Day

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Serbia)

Inanimate Object Day

”In God We Trust” Day

Instant Book Day

International Marconi Day

International Mother Earth Day

International Organ Day (UK)

Kurdish Journalism Day

Love Your Hair Day

National Baseball Day

National Beagle Day

National Donate Life Blue & Green Day

National Fast-Pitch Coaches Association Day

National Girl Scout Leader’s Day

National IT Service Provider Day

National No Email Day

National Pinup Day

National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

National Robe Day

National Send Your Man Nudes Day

National Terry Day

Oklahoma Day (Oklahoma)

Pat Tillman Day

Record Store Day

Rokjesdag Founders Day (Skirt Day; Netherlands)

Queen Isabella Day (Spain)

Sham el-Nessim (First Day of Spring; Ancient Egypt)

Stephen Lawrence Commemoration Day (UK)

Tesla Autonomy Day

Ustashi Genocide Remembrance Day (Croatia)

Walpurgis celebrations begin (Germanic, Norse, Scandinavian) [thru 5.1]

Zhabdrung Kuchhoe (Bhutan)

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Jelly Bean Day

4th Saturday in April

Beer Clean Glass Day [4th Saturday]

Celebrate Trails Day [4th Saturday]

International Marconi Day [Saturday closest to 4.25]

Just Pray No Weekend begins [4th Saturday]

National Day of Puppetry [4th Saturday]

Independence Days

Aethodia (f.k.a. Theodia; Declared; 2010) [unrecognized]

Chen Dynasty (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Frăția Blocurilor Unite (FBU or Brotherhood of the United Blocks; Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Pristinia (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions (Catholic Church; Saints)

Arwald (Christian; Saint)

Azades, Tharba, and other, in Persia (Christian; Martyrs)

Berezozol (Lela's Holiday; Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Caius, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Earth Day (Pastafarian)

Epipodius and Alexander of Lyon (Christian; Saint)

Festival of Ishtar (Ancient Mesopotamia)

Festival of Jupiter and Juno (Ancient Rome)

Hudson Stuck (Episcopal Church)

Hunuman Jayanti (Hindu)

Joanie Jenkins (Muppetism)

John Muir (Episcopal Church)

Lela’s Holiday (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Leonides, Father of Origen (Christian; Saint)

Opportuna of Montreuil (Christian; Saint)

Pliny the Elder (Positivist; Saint)

R. Crumb Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Rufus (a.k.a. Rufin) of Glendalough, Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Senorina (Christian; Saint)

Sidney Nolan (Artology)

Soter, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Theodorus of Siceon (Christian; Saint)

Theravadin New Year (Buddhism)

Yggdrasil Day (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [20 of 37]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Today (because it’s Nixon’s birthday.)

Premieres

Around the World in a Day, by Prince (Album; 1985)

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin (Novel; 1899)

The Bad Guys (Animated Film; 2022)

Bagdad Cafe (Film; 1987)

Baker Street, by Gerry Rafferty (Song; 1978)

Big House Bunny (WB LT Cartoon; 1950)

The Birds, The Bees & The Monkeys, by The Monks (Album; 1968)

The Bride of Frankenstein (Film; 1935)

Casual Sex? (Film; 1988)

Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)

D’ Fightin’ Ones (WB MM Cartoon; 1961)

Earth (Documentary Film; 2009)

Easy Come, Easy Go (Film; 1967)

Elvis & Nixon (Film; 2016)

Jeeves & Wooster (UK TV Series; 1990)

King Tut, by Steve Martin (Song; 1978)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Film; 1962)

Momofuku, by Elvis Costello (Album; 2008)

Oceans (Documentary Film; 2010)

The Passions of the Mind, by Irving Stone (Biography of Sigmund Freud; 1971)

Plague Dogs, by Richard Adams (Novel; 1978)

Poland, by James A. Michener (Novel; 1984)

Seventeen Seconds, by The Cure (Album; 1980)

Tommy (Broadway Play; 1993)

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (Film; 2022)

Veep (TV Series; 2012)

Water for Elephants (Film; 2011)

Wild Thing, by The Trigs (Song; 1966)

Today’s Name Days

Alfred, Kaj, Leonidas (Austria)

Kajo, Leonida, Soter, Vojmil (Croatia)

Evženie (Czech Republic)

Cajus (Denmark)

Meeri, Meri, Merike, Merje (Estonia)

Aida, Alina (Finland)

Alexandre (France)

Alfred, Kaj, Leonidas (Germany)

Nathanael, Nearhos (Greece)

Csilla, Noémi (Hungary)

Caio, Leonida, Sotero (Italy)

Armanda, Armands, Usins, Vitālijs (Latvia)

Leonas, Leonidas, Norvaidė, Visgailas (Lithuania)

Oddgeir, Oddny (Norway)

Heliodor, Kajus, Leonia, Leonid, Łukasz, Soter, Strzeżymir, Teodor (Poland)

Teodor (Romania)

Slavomír (Slovakia)

María, Sotero (Spain)

Allan, Glenn (Sweden)

Nathan, Nathaniel, Vitalia, Vitaliy (Ukraine)

Caia, Caissa, Kai, Kaila, Kaleigh, Kaley, Kay, Kayla, Kaylee, Kayleigh, Kayley, Kaylie, Kaylin, Kaylyn, Leonidas, Makayla, Mckayla (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 112 of 2024; 253 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 16 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Saille (Willow) [Day 7 of 28]

Chinese: Month 3 (Bing-Chen), Day 3 (Geng-Xu)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 1 Iyar 5783

Islamic: 1 Shawwal 1444

J Cal: 21 Aqua; Sevenday [21 of 30]

Julian: 9 April 2023

Moon: 7%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 28 Archimedes (4th Month) [Pliny the Elder]

Runic Half Month: Man (Human Being) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 34 of 90)

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 3 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Iyar (a.k.a. ʼIyyār or Iyyar) [אִיָּר / אִייָר‎] (Hebrew Calendar) [Month 2 of 12]

Shawwāl [شَوَّال] (Islamic Calendar) [Month 10 of 12] (Raised)

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The Dukes of Normandy serie: Richard the fearless 

Richard the first, also called Richard the fearless, was born around 933 and died in 996 and was the first one to claim a Frankish noble title, the title of marquis. He married Emma, Hugues Capet's sister, during a Christian marriage and Gunnor, more danico, like his predecessors. Emma and Richard had no issues and after her death in 968, Gunnor, who came from an important noble danish family, became his official spouse. Richard had six children from Gunnor and five children from mistresses which led to a succession crisis after the death of his grandson, Robert the magnifiscent. Among his children are Emma, queen consort of two kings of England, Hawise, duchess consort of Brittanny and Matilda, countess consort of Blois. When he was still a child, Richard's father, William Longsword sent him in Cotentin for him to learn the tongue of his ancestors. He was about ten when his father was murdered. His mother, Sprota, was married to a rich man and gave him a son and two daughters who later married important Norman nobles. Richard kept a good relationship with his half-brother throughout his life. From 943 to 945, he was kept hostage at the king's court, in Laon under the pretext the king wanted to round his education off. With the help of Osmond of Conteville and some of Hugues the great's vassals, he escaped, pretending to be sick and later, when his guards were away, fled the court of Laon. While he was being held hostage, Herluin, count of Montreuil was governing Normandy before the Normans killed him. In the meantime, king Louis, helped by his vassal, Hugues the great took the young duchy pieces after pieces before he was stopped by an army of vikings, loyal to Richard. One of them, Bernard the Dane, used the king and the duke of the Franks's rivalry to pit them against one another. Without their alliance, Richard easily took back what was rightfully his. Like his father, Richard re-established monastries, put bishops in vacant places in several dioceses and ordered the building of a dynastic sanctuary in Fécamp. He also asked Dudo st Quentin to write about his duchy's history which he did with the help of Gunnor, Richard's wife. His rule was marked by a war against the count of Blois whose ascention to power threatened Normandy and Richard's rule. The Norman marquis won that war yet again with that help of some Norsemen who came back from Spain. Richard also built many castles and fortresses in Normandy in order to protect his borders and kept good relationships with Hugues Capet, son of Hugues the great who would later become the first king of the Capetian dynasty. He also engaged with a conflict with the independent duchy of Britanny which was solved by the marriage of Richard's second daughter, Hawise, with the duke of Britanny and the marriage of the Briton duke's daughter, Judith with Richard's heir, Richard the good. Richard the fearless did not have good relationships with England at first. King Aethelred the second did not much appreciate that the very vikings who came to plunder and attack his kingdom were sheltered by the Norman ruler. Eventually the two men signed to a treaty telling not to attack their respective enemies in 991. This peace largely contributed to the developpment of trading between the two countries as well as king Aethelred's wedding with Emma, Richard's daughter. Richard died the same year as Hugues Capet. Normandy grew under his reign to a prosperous, peaceful and important duchy. He re-established stability in his own lands with strength, insuring that Rollo's legacy would survive.