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alanshemper · 1 year ago
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Members of the Warren Commission gathered around a table including (left-right) former CIA Director Allen W. Dulles, Representative Hale Boggs, Senator John Sherman Cooper, Chairman Chief Justice Earl Warren, Senator Richard B. Russell, John J. McCloy, and Representative Gerald R. Ford
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politicaldilfs · 2 years ago
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Richard B. Russell
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blackgirlsreverything · 2 years ago
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Black Hollywood @ Vanity Fair’s Oscar Party
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todaysdocument · 11 months ago
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Senator Richard Russell and President Lyndon B. Johnson
Collection LBJ-WHPO: White House Photo Office CollectionSeries: Johnson White House Photographs
This black and white photograph shows President Lyndon B. Johnson looming over Senator Richard Russell of Georgia.  They appear to be in a room at the White House.  A portrait of Thomas Jefferson is hanging on the wall over the fireplace.  The president stands very close to the senator in a clearly threatening manner.
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davidhudson · 1 year ago
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Lyndon B. Johnson, August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973.
Confronting Senator Richard Russell, the leader of the filibuster against the civil-rights bill. 1963 photo by Yoichi Okamoto.
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fourorfivemovements · 1 year ago
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Films Watched in 2023: 88. Hold That Ghost (1941) - Dir. Arthur Lubin
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csny · 9 months ago
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btw tonight at work i touched gerald fords autograph
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sesiondemadrugada · 2 years ago
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Outrageous! (Richard Benner, 1977).
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randomrichards · 2 years ago
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CREED 2:
Adonis the champ
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Rematch/Reconnect
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judgemark45 · 4 months ago
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USS Richard B. Russell (SSN-687) the Navy's first ship to bear the name, was the last of the "STURGEON" class attack submarines built.
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thisisyourdriverspeaking · 7 months ago
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Seeing as it's race week, I thought I'd bring back my motorsport number ones posts & look at the number one songs when the F1 drivers were born... but this time with US number one songs. Enjoy.
Fernando Alonso (29th July 1981) - Air Supply - The One That You Love
Lewis Hamilton (7th January 1985) - Madonna - Like A Virgin
Nico Hulkenburg (19th August 1987) - U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Daniel Ricciardo (1st July 1989) - Milli Vanilli - Baby Don't Forget My Number
Valtteri Bottas (28th August 1989) - Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting
Sergio Perez (26th January 1990) - Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You?
Kevin Magnussen - (5th October 1992) - Boyz II Men - End Of The Road
Carlos Sainz Jr - (1st September 1994) - Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love To You
Pierre Gasly - (7th February 1996) - Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day
Alex Albon - (23rd March 1996) - Celine Dion - Because You Loved Me
Esteban Ocon - (17th September 1996) - Los Del Rio - Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)
Max Verstappen - (30th September 1997) - Mariah Carey - Honey
Charles Leclerc - (16th October 1997) - Elton John - Candle In The Wind 97
George Russell - (15th February 1998) - Usher - Nice & Slow
Lance Stroll - (29th October 1998) - Monica - The First Night
Zhou Guanyu - (30th May 1999) - Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
Lando Norris - (13th November 1999) - Santana & Rob Thomas - Smooth
Yuki Tsunoda - (11th May 2000) - Santana & The Product G&B - Maria Maria
Logan Sargeant - (31st December 2000) - Destiny's Child - Independent Women
Oscar Piastri - (6th April 2001) - Shaggy & Rayvon - Angel
All added to the playlist from before 😊
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dannyreviews · 1 month ago
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Golden Age of Hollywood Actors Born Before (And Including) 1936 Still Alive
This only includes actors that had at least one credited role in a Hollywood feature film or short up to 1959.
Elisabeth Waldo (b. 1918)
Caren Marsh Doll (b. 1919)
Patricia Wright (b. 1921)
Jacqueline White (b. 1922)
Annette Warren (b. 1922)
Ray Anthony (b. 1922)
Tommy Dix (b. 1923)
Eva Marie Saint (b. 1924)
Anne Vernon (b. 1924)
Maria Riva (b. 1924)
June Lockhart (b. 1925)
Lee Grant (b. 1925)
Peggy Webber (b. 1925)
Lise Bourdin (b. 1925)
Brigitte Auber (b. 1925)
Kerima (b. 1925)
Terry Kilburn (b. 1926) 
Marilyn Erskine (b. 1926)
Bambi Linn (b. 1926)
David Frankham (b. 1926)
Tommy Morton (b. 1926)
Jill Jarmyn (b. 1926)
Marilyn Knowlden (b. 1926)
Genevieve Page (b. 1927)
Donna Martell (b. 1927)
William Smithers (b. 1927)
Peter Walker (b. 1927)
H.M. Wynant (b. 1927)
Betty Harford (b. 1927)
Cora Sue Collins (b. 1927)
Marilyn Granas (b. 1927)
Ann Blyth (b. 1928)
Nancy Olson (b. 1928)
Peggy Dow (b. 1928)
Earl Holliman (b. 1928)
Kathleen Hughes (b. 1928)
Colleen Townsend (b. 1928)
Marion Ross (b. 1928)
Gaby Rodgers (b. 1928)
Jan Shepard (b. 1928)
Walter Maslow (b. 1928)
Tom Troupe (b. 1928)
Sidney Kibrick (b. 1928)
Garry Watson (b. 1928)
Fay Chaldecott (b. 1928)
Mark Rydell (b. 1929)
Terry Moore (b. 1929)
Vera Miles (b. 1929)
Ann Robinson (b. 1929)
Liseotte Pulver (b. 1929)
James Hong (b. 1929)
Rachel Ames (b. 1929)
Olga James (b. 1929)
Michael Forest (b. 1929)
Vikki Dougan (b. 1929)
Steve Terrell (b. 1929)
Margaret Kerry (b. 1929)
James Congdon (b. 1929)
Betsy Gay (b. 1929)
Jack Betts (b. 1929)
Clint Eastwood (b. 1930)
Joanne Woodward (b. 1930)
Mara Corday (b. 1930)
Nita Talbot (b. 1930)
Taina Elg (b. 1930)
Robert Wagner (b. 1930)
John Astin (b. 1930)
Tommy Cook (b. 1930)
Mary Costa (b. 1930)
Lois Smith (b. 1930)
Will Hutchins (b. 1930)
Peggy King (b. 1930)
Lynn Hamilton (b. 1930)
Don Burnett (b. 1930)
Clark Burroughs (b. 1930)
Robert Hinkle (b. 1930)
Sheila Connolly (b. 1930)
Barbara Bestar (b. 1930)
Rita Moreno (b. 1931)
Leslie Caron (b. 1931)
Carroll Baker (b. 1931)
William Shatner (b. 1931)
Mamie Van Doren (b. 1931)
Robert Colbert (b. 1931)
Barbara Eden (b. 1931)
Angie Dickinson (b. 1931)
Claire Bloom (b. 1931)
Marianne Koch (b. 1931)
Sylvia Lewis (b. 1931)
Carmen De Lavallade (b. 1931)
Zohra Lampert (b. 1931)
Michael Dante (b. 1931)
Ann McCrea (b. 1931)
Jack Grinnage (b. 1931)
Maralou Gray (b. 1931)
Billy Mindy (b. 1931)
Sugar Dawn (b. 1931)
Joanne Arnold (b. 1931)
Joel Grey (b. 1932)
George Chakiris (b. 1932)
Felicia Farr (b. 1932)
Abbe Lane (b. 1932)
Steve Rowland (b. 1932)
Jacqueline Beer (b. 1932)
Colleen Miller (b. 1932)
Joanne Gilbert (b. 1932)
Olive Moorefield (b. 1932)
Neile Adams (b. 1932)
Jacqueline Duval (b. 1932)
Edna May Wonnacott (b. 1932)
Richard Tyler (b. 1932)
Mickey Roth (b. 1932)
Leon Tyler (b. 1932)
Peggy McIntyre (b. 1932)
Christiane Martel (b. 1932)
Elsa Cardenas (b. 1932)
Claude Bessy (b. 1932)
Kim Novak (b. 1933)
Julie Newmar (b. 1933)
Debra Paget (b. 1933)
Constance Towers (b. 1933)
Joan Collins (b. 1933)
Kathleen Nolan (b. 1933)
Brett Halsey (b. 1933)
Robert Fuller (b. 1933)
Pat Crowley (b. 1933)
Barrie Chase (b. 1933)
Jackie Joseph (b. 1933)
Geoffrey Horne (b. 1933)
Tsai Chin (b. 1933)
Lita Milan (b. 1933)
Vera Day (b. 1933)
Diana Darrin (b. 1933)
Ziva Rodann (b. 1933)
Jeanette Sterke (b. 1933)
Marti Stevens (b. 1933)
Annette Dionne (b. 1933)
Cecile Dionne (b. 1933)
Johnny Russell (b. 1933)
Patti Hale (b. 1933)
Gary Clarke (b. 1933)
Shirley MacLaine (b. 1934) 
Sophia Loren (b. 1934)
Shirley Jones (b. 1934)
Russ Tamblyn (b. 1934)
Pat Boone (b. 1934)
Audrey Dalton (b. 1934)
Claude Jarman Jr. (b. 1934)
Tina Louise (b. 1934)
Karen Sharpe (b. 1934)
Joyce Van Patten (b. 1934)
May Britt (b. 1934)
Joby Baker (b. 1934)
Jamie Farr (b. 1934)
Myrna Hansen (b. 1934)
Priscilla Morgan (b. 1934)
Aki Aeong (b. 1934)
Robert Fields (b. 1934)
Dani Crayne (b. 1934)
Donnie Dunagan (b. 1934)
Richard Hall (b. 1934)
Charles Bates (b. 1934)
Marilyn Horne (b. 1934)
Marilee Earle (b. 1934)
Rod Dana (b. 1935) 
Pippa Scott (b. 1935)
Ruta Lee (b. 1935)
Barbara Bostock (b. 1935)
Johnny Mathis (b. 1935)
Leslie Parrish (b. 1935)
Salome Jens (b. 1935)
Yvonne Lime (b. 1935)
Jean Moorehead (b. 1935)
Marco Lopez (b. 1935)
Joyce Meadows (b. 1935)
Christopher Severn (b. 1935)
Richard Nichols (b. 1935)
Carol Coombs (b. 1935)
Nino Tempo (b. 1935)
Patricia Prest (b. 1935)
Dawn Bender (b. 1935)
John Considine (b. 1935)
Jerry Farber (b. 1935)
Clyde Willson (b. 1935)
Bob Burns (b. 1935)
Susan Kohner (b. 1936)
Millie Perkins (b. 1936)
Burt Brickenhoff (b. 1936)
Mason Alan Dinehart (b. 1936)
Anna Maria Alberghetti (b. 1936)
Lisa Davis (b. 1936)
Joan O'Brien (b. 1936)
Richard Harrison (b. 1936)
Tommy Ivo (b. 1936)
John Wilder (b. 1936)
Gary Conway (b. 1936)
Michael Chapin (b. 1936)
Carol Morris (b. 1936)
Fernando Alvarado (b. 1936)
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aconites · 10 months ago
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happy 2024! as it's a new year, i thought this was the perfect time to post a plotting call for those who might be interested in writing with me!  if you want to do threads with someone who will message you at the crack of dawn with random headcanons, musings and create graphics (manips, gifs manips, crackships, etc​ )  for our characters — look no further. i also have no triggers, am sm.ut friendly and i love to do multiple plots with the same partner. bellow the cut you’ll find a list of wanted faceclaims, opposites, ships and plots that i would love to do and if anything catches your interest please give this post a like and i’ll message you. this is for mutuals & non mutuals, so feel free to like this even if we have threads/plots happening already!
faceclaims i’d love to play! * melissa barrera** * greta onieogou* * ana de armas* * phoebe tonkin* * margot robbie* * camila queiroz** * sydney sweeney* * ayca aysin turan * hande ercel * alycia debnam-carey* * simone ashley * melisa pamuk* * adria arjona* * olivia cooke * grace van patten * jessica alexander* * madelyn cline* * madison bailey * priscilla quintana* * meghann fahy * benedetta porcaroli * camila morrone * riley keough * suki waterhouse* * adelaide kane* * florence pugh * sophia bush * ester exposito * lily james * lily collins * gabriella wilde* * sofia carson * josephine langford * danielle rose russell * danielle campbell * abigail cowen* * halston sage * camila mendes * brianne howey * gemma chan * eiza gonzalez * lindsey morgan * zendaya * sabrina carpenter * candice swanepoel * elsa hosk * jasmine tookes * emily ratajkowski
faceclaims i’d love to play against!
* all the ladies above * pedro pascal** * ben barnes** * joseph quinn* * joe keery* *christopher briney* * henry cavill * ricky whittle * casey deidrick* * jd pardo * jamie dornan * adam demos * richard madden * sam clafflin * carlos miranda * scott eastwood * garrett hedlund * drew starkey * clayton cardenas * jonathan bailey * jeffrey dean morgan * rudy pankow * felix mallard * dj cotrona* * charlie hunnam** * sebastian stan* * alex fitzalan * dylan o’brien* * nick robinson * manny montana  * chris evans* * harry styles * jacob elordi * boyd holbrook
some ships i’d love to do! * any of the above fcs combined tbh. ( m/f or f/f ) * click here for full list since tumblr has a text limit.
plots id love to do! * this unhappily married dad/babysitter plot. * * this angsty/fluffy my best friend is having my baby plot. * * this zombie apocalypse/last of us inspired plot* but also any za plot. * celeb plots! especially this one. something like two super famous actors hiding their relationship or famous person/non famous plots?* * single dad/nanny plots! give me something cute and angsty. * * escort/client plot where she breaks the most important rule… don’t fall for your client* * grumpy ceo/soft assistant plots.* * royal plots! bridgerton esqued plots! * * f/f socialites plot… blair/selena/upper east side inspired muses but make it gay* * college professor/teacher’s assistant plot.  * college professor/student plot. * crimey plots? sons of anarchy inspired? or maybe m.afia/m.ob/gang stuff?* * bodyguard/client plots bc i’m a sucker for them* * soulmates plot. i have a whole lore i’ve been wanting to write out for ages so * sugar b.aby / sugar d.addy plots *  * best friends to lovers plots ( gimme angst) * WHEN THE M.OB PRINCESS MEETS THE M.OB PRINCE: forbidden love is always angsty so why not do that and add rival g.angs to the mix?  muse a is the daughter of the head boss of the local g.ang and is sick and tired of having her life controlled by her overprotective father. so, to rebel against his wishes after an argument, muse a decides to go to a nightclub that her father had always forbidden her to attend. unknown to her, the club is run by the rival g.ang’s boss’ son, muse b, and not knowing who she is, can’t stop looking at her on the dance floor. they eventually bump into each other and after having a few drinks, end up at muse a’s apartment and they hook up. i was thinking they both never brought up their families and their true professions and maybe start to hang out/go on dates and then bam, the truth comes out and drama begins. especially when they can’t stay away from each other.
* MY BEST FRIEND IS A ROCKSTAR: (tw: death) muse a & muse b have been best friends since they were kids and grew up together. throughout their childhood, muse b had always told muse a about his plans to become a famous musician and as he grew older, became more and more determined to make those dreams come true. when they both hit their teen years, feelings eventually grew and the two were head over heels for each other but neither of them was ever able to admit it. they were both terrified that the feelings would be unrequited or that it would ruin their friendships so just imagine the angst of them seeing each other with other people and FGHDFG. anyway, when muse b finally turns twenty-one, he decides to move to hollywood to make his dreams come true, and muse a stays in their small hometown. they keep in contact with one another but as time went on, muse b becomes a huge rockstar with his band and their contact start to drift but they always had each other in their thoughts, wishing they were closer to one another. a few years pass and they still speak but it’s not like before. muse b was hugely successful and enjoyed the life he was now living but always felt like something was missing. that someone was missing… it’s not until he gets a distraught call from muse a telling him that her mother died does he rush on a private jet and comes home to her. after helping her arrange the funeral and being there for her through her grief, he suggests that she comes on tour with him and the band. wanting to run away from everything and everyone in her small town, she agrees. queue cute ass moments on the tour bus, traveling the world and falling in love like they did when they were young. add drama, angst ( because they’re both still dumb and won’t admit to their feels) stadium tours, TENSION!!!, groupies, etc, etc. 
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so i have a soft spot for the 2006 film poseidon which is a film i reckon about 24 other people remember existing since warner bros lost like $70million on it, and i just like, need to talk about it.
its a loose remake of a 1972 film, and overall, its a very silly film, however its also connected to massive advancements in oceanography, and through that connection, also connected to an incident that could have killed around 10000 american recruits during ww2 in less than an hour.
and i cannot stop thinking about this stupid film so please enjoy this stupidly long post no one is going to read because I Need To Infodump.
so poseidon (2006)...
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it's a very of its time disaster film with your group of plucky survivors trying to overcome more and more obstacles as they desperately fight for safety. among them, youve got kurt russell as an ex nyc firefighter and mayor because its 2006, of course you do. emmy rossums here because of course she is (again, its 2006), and surprise richard dreyfus is here as a gay naval architect who survives the film. fergie even has a cameo and its honestly a crime that the song she sings for it is not on spotify.
but the film is also very much not a of its time disaster film, because production decided to not update the setting. and i have absolutely no idea why. and its confused me for years now because its an easy fix.
see the 1972 film (the poseidon adventure) and the book its based on, both take place on an ocean liner, and that makes sense for that time.
contrary to popular beliefs, ocean liners =/= cruise ships.
during the late 19th century and most of the 20th century, ocean liners were all the rage, because if you wanted to go from liverpool to new york, they were your best bet.
with the invention of steam engines, they were no longer dependent on weather, and once wood was swapped for steel, they were at serious less risk of sinking. this meant they could run reliable trips from point a to point b and back again. they were essentially buses for the ocean. thats what titanic was btw.
while less popular due to jet travel in the 70s, people were still using them. the ss michelangelo sailed her maiden voyage in 1965, and ran for ten years still. it does make sense for both the book and film to take place on an ocean liner.
it does not make sense for the 2006 iteration to take place on an ocean liner, but it does. and its not even an ocean liner turned cruise ship like the rms queen mary 2 or the ss france/ss norway. there were no ocean liner only businesses operating in 2006 because you can now take a plane rather than a five day trip across the atlantic.
but in poseidon (2006), the rms poseidon is not a cruise ship. it is an ocean liner, and designating it as rms means it is also delivering international royal mail. theres even a plot about a stowaway aboard the ship which is just a tad bit bizarre. its such an odd choice not to simply update it so its a cruise ship. most people dont know the difference between them, theres no reason to specify that it is an ocean liner.
(its especially odd because the gay naval architect apparently knows the vessel very well which, sir, who is paying you to draft up ocean liner designs in 2006??)
weirdly enough though, the film does decide to update the actual cause for the disaster, which will bring us back to the ww2 point.
the general gist of the story is that some environmental event causes the ship to capsize (turn upside down in the water), and our heroes have to escape the ship.
i have attempted to read the book, but i didnt enjoy it and i was getting a feeling that the author, paul gallico, was antisemitic. he was. he specifically expressed it by saying jewish folks love basketball because its a game specialised for tricky characters, to paraphrase. yeah no theres also basketball antisemitism going on.
in the book, its an underwater earthquake that causes the ship to capsize. the quake created a 90ft wave (put a pin in that, we'll get back to it) which i believe hit the ship side-on, after the ship fell into a deep trough.
i have no idea if this is possible irl as im just an autistic with a special interest in ocean liners.
in the 1972 film, its a tsunami that hits the ship. i believe the tsunami is also caused by an underwater earthquake (again, put a pin in that) which would hit the ship on the side and cause it to roll right over (put a pin in this too btw).
again, i dont know about the veracity of this happening irl. i know tsunamis are related to underwater earthquakes, but as far as i know, they dont form into the massive wave until the wave is closer to shore?
but anyway, in the 2006 film, the capsizing is caused by a rogue wave.
as aforementioned, my special interest is ocean liners so i know quite a lot about rogue waves and i dont know how much of that is common knowledge so time for another abrupt explanation of niche topics.
so rogue waves, what are they? well, theyre big fuck off waves. descriptions tend to put them anywhere from 50ft high to 100ft (10 stories high).
for a wave to be considered a rogue wave, it needs to be more than twice the height of any other wave in that region. theyre unpredictable and often occur out of nowhere. theyre more common in some specific regions like off the coast of south africa, and are distinct from tsunamis. they can occur both in the ocean and on the great lakes.
for centuries, sailors have told tales of them but like krakens and sea monsters, they werent believed. this is partly due to survivorship bias because if youre in a wooden sailboat and get hit by a rogue wave, youre not going to survive. it was only after advancements in ship building that people began to survive them. and even then, its not guaranteed.
some theorise rogue waves were responsible for the sinking of both the ss munich/munchen and the edmund fitzgerald.
still, it wasnt until one was recorded by a research post in 1995 that rogue waves genuinely became a serious topic within oceanography.
however, we did have credible reports of them hitting ocean liners long before then. both the rms lusitania (in 1910) and the ss michelangelo (in 1966) were badly damaged when they ran into rogue waves bow first (head-on). they both fell into deep troughs before the wave hit and both of their bows sustained serious damage. three people lost their lives on the ss michelangelo.
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(damage done to ss michelangelo)
despite this, it was preferable for both vessels to hit the wave head-on. both were ocean liners with bows designed to break through waves, and designed to be able to keep sailing even if the bow was caved in.
(fun fact: if titanic had hit the iceberg head on, there was a very good chance she wouldnt have sunk)
now you might want to know why we know it was preferable to be hit head-on, and why i specified the ship would have been hit side-on. this is how the ship was hit in the 2006 film also. and well, this is when were getting into ww2 territory.
the lusitania and michelangelo are not the only ocean liners to encounter a rogue wave. this also happened to the rms queen mary in 1942.
just some quick background on the queen mary; she was launched in 1936 and built with the goal of stealing the blue riband (the record for fastest journey for a passenger line from southampton to new york) from the ss normandie, owned by french line. queen mary was owned by the cunard line whose reputation partly rested on speed. both the lusitania and mauritania (both cunard ships) had won the blue riband at some point. in 1942, queen mary held the blue riband and was considered the fastest passenger liner in the world.
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at that point though, she has been requisitioned by the admiralty for the war effort and was acting as a troop ship. a very effective troop ship as she averaged 28 knots in speed and they managed to up her capacity from around 3300 (including crew) to 16000.
she also was owned by cunard line who have a long history of conferring with the admiralty during peacetimes. their ships were designed with spaces left for guns and weapons. part of why the lusitania was sunk by a u-boat in ww1 was her secretly carrying firearms back from the "neutral" america to the uk despite it still being a passenger ship. the admiralty knew queen mary would be a massive benefit in a war.
this isnt to say that she was perfect, however. she was a famous roller. see, when youre building a ship, you expect it to roll somewhat on any difficult seas. to combat extreme rolling (which can be fatal), ships are built with their centres of buoyancy and gravity close together. this reduces rolling, but can cause very sudden lists (tilts). as queen mary was a big fuck off ship, it was assumed she wouldnt roll badly, so she was designed with a slightly bigger gap between those centres which caused very slow rolling from side to side. this often felt like the ship would never right itself, and as handrails were not considered necessary at first, passengers had to shuffle down hallways.
cunard took her in for repairs and added stabilisers to lessen the roll. they also added handrails. it didnt fix the rolling, but it was bearable and not considered dangerous. she soon became a superstar liner, and again, a very good troop ship.
hitler had even put a monetary bounty specifically on the queen mary for whichever submarine could shoot her, with the iron cross promised also. this did not come to pass.
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(rms queen mary as a troopship)
what did come to pass, however, was a 92ft high rogue wave smashing into her portside (left). this is the absolute opposite of what you want to happen.
there was an attempt to steer her head-on into the wave but ocean liners that size take two miles to stop moving. they also couldnt risk too sudden of a turn because they were in the atlantic in a storm. this attempt to change course is repeated in the 2006 film and is also unsuccessful.
so now when the wave hit queen mary, it caused her to begin listing to starboard (right side) because a 90ft ocean wave just smashed into her. and she began to list. the portholes broke and wager poured in, making the list worst.
at first, it was 15°, then 20°, then 25°, 30°, 40°, 50°, 52°
then she stopped. and she stayed there, listing 52° to starboard. she was nearly capsized. and what must have felt like hours for those 11000 recruits and crew, she just stayed there, nearly on her side in the atlantic ocean.
and then finally, she began to right herself, one degree at a time, until she was back steady as if nothing had happened.
the technicians had later examined the ship and estimated that if shed listed just 3° extra, they would have capsized and sank, taking 11000 men with her.
so i imagine at this point, if youre even reading this anymore, youre like okay, kai, we get it, you dont wanna get hit broadside by a rogue wave, do we need all this detail?
and well, no. you dont need to know it and i dont need to tell it but here i am, telling you so.
but it is very relevant to poseidon (2006) because remember how its a remake of a film based on a book? and that book was written by the basketball antisemite? yeah, so paul gallico was on board the queen mary when this happened.
and this is what inspired him to write the book.
obviously, at the time, we didnt fully understand rogue waves so gallico explained it as an underwater earthquake, but we know now it was a rogue wave.
and so the 2006 film honours that and makes it a rogue wave. they never really explain it so unless youre insufferable like me, you might just be like what the fuck? is that poseidon (god) doing that?
but im gonna redirect your attention to the fact that the queen mary was 3° away from capsizing and that 3° could have caused an entirely different outcome to the war.
if she had capsized, she would have taken 10000 recruits with her and the allies would have lost their best troop ship. morale would have been affected because back then, ocean liners were household celebrities. they were adored by residents.
im not a historian, and especially not a war historian, so im not gonna be like oh look alternate history where the nazis won oooh how edgy?
but like, just a few more feet of water on that wave and parts of ww2 would be so different.
it also would have affected the cunard line massively after the war, and the white star line (titanics owners) as well. i believe their merger was after ww2.
also, gallico would have died so his book wouldnt have existed, neither would the film adaptation or the remake. it all just comes back around like a never ending carousel of feral seahorses.
but anyway, away from all the existential crises. i wanted to actually address what made me want to write this stupidly long post in the first place:
an article i skim read that addressed the veracity of the inciting event in the 2006 film, aka the rogue wave.
after a mostly accurate explanation of rogue waves and at least one misuse of cruise ship for ocean liner, the article concluded that a rogue wave hitting an ocean liner like that was simply so unlikely, it was basically impossible.
and if youve got this far in my ramblings, you might be able to understand the level of bafflement i felt reading that.
because while it is a fair conclusion as it is a very unlikely thing to happen. but THIS FILM EXISTS BECAUSE A ROGUE WAVE SMASHED INTO AN OCEAN LINER AND NEARLY CAPSIZED IT
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Out of curiosity, (code: I want to drag someone into alt next gen hyperfixation hell with me and you are like the og alt next gen Charmed blogger, y'know?) do you have any thoughts on what kids of the following pairings would end up like? Piper/Coop, Paige/Andy, Prue/Drake, or Phoebe/Simon Marks? (110% fine if you don't wanna dream up some new kiddos, I'm just currently spinning around in circles yelling about alt next gen potential and it's been a minute since someone forcibly threw an alternative next gen thing at you, I think?)
wait omg awwwww 💕💞💕💞💕💞💕💞💕💞 also yayyy fun okay okay
so i got to piper & coop and paige & andy. there's 1k words about it under the cut ❤️❤️❤️ but the long and the short of it is
piper/coop
juliet halliwell (temporal manipulation, beaming, sensing love)
esme halliwell (photokinesis, electrokinesis, pyrokinesis, beaming, sensing love)
venus halliwell (empathy, beaming, sensing love
paige/andy
clementine trudeau (empathy, premonition, orbing, telekinetic orbing)
sienna trudeau (orbing, telekineis, telekinetic orbing, healing)
ruby garcia trudeau (nyehehehehehehe)
piper/coop i think would def have three kids and i feel like would maybe be named after different iconic lovers? like coop is obvi a cupid and piper canonically loves rom coms and i think also romance novels so like. i think maybe in a world where we scrap the richard intro episode which was obvs a romeo and juliet allusion and instead create an episode where the pain shared by romeo juliet and everyone else in their families so on and so forth creates a Curse the lover's curse where whenever a feud akin to that form romeo and juliet are essentially reborn, destined to fall in love, and, ultimately, die (thus triggering the end of the feud). so these two spirits just keep getting born over and over again and they keep kind of unlocking the memories blah blah blah and idk maybe coop finds them bc love is his deal and they all save the day the point is we're naming the baby juliet. why tho? like. if she's really just a one off person we helped. i mean, yes, also, juliet of romeo and juliet, but, still, only a person we met once. so let's say that in this au they were witches. or maybe just juliet was. so she cast magic that caught coop or tco's radar. and idk maybe we're very worried about piper's baby. and there's a side plot about that. something bad has happened / is happening idk. and juliet after breaking the curse is thanking piper. then! we are attacked by piper's b plot! juliet saves piper. uses her final words to thank her bc now the curse is broken and i can finally move on instead of being reborn into this cursed life. also, i'm healing ur baby. or i'm seeing into the future about her or something. then idk she turns into butterflies whoosh magical death. and piper's trying to name her firstborn she's holding her and then a little butterfly lands on the baby's nose and the baby cooes as if in recognition BOOM welcome juliet halliwell. her power's included temporal manipulation (she can slow time down "to slip in between the heartbeats" as we see cupid do in heartbreak city and she can freeze time (kind of) like her mama. she cannot move backwards in time (yet)). she can also beam and sense love. the next daughter will be from the plot from piper's favorite book she read as a child that she and coop will get sucked into for an episode (maybe one where they're experience love troubles) and it will help reconnect piper with the concept of love and the first story that really had her wishing to be in love and will help coop understand piper's point of view. the next daughter will be named esme halliwell, after the name of the main charcter in that story. she has fire/lightning/light powers, fire as displayed by p russell (and phoebe) in the line and lightning by the evil enchantress who i do headcanon as a distant ancestor of theirs bc of the whole. you know. paige. is her. thing. and then light powers we sometimes see them do. idk. she can also beam and sense love. the third daughter is gonna conincide with an astrological episode where some demon is trying to warp some astral aligning for evil but the charmed ones stop them and save the day!! look at how beautiful. what's that one star rising so brightly right there? oh, it's venus. meet venus halliwell is an empath (with the empath extension pack ability to impact other people's moods by touching them / being close enough to them) who through that power also unlocks deflection and mimicry. can also beam and sense love.
paige/andy it's not gonna be as detailed as the pipercoop one lol. [a/n: as it turns out i was lying :3] this will be the base text we're using. first born we're going to do an episode tensions have been building between paige and andy because of paige's issues with motherhood and what it means to be a mom and maybe it's a muses episode or a trapped in a painting episode the point is there's something artsy paige is trapped in and she has to create something to get herself out of there meanwhile andy is on the outside fighting to get her out and realizing that they are always stronger together and their fight is stupid blah blah blah. paige makes. a painting. she has to find The Color that is the key to getting her out. it's the color that she uses painting one of her first moments with andy (a paige/henry knockoff) their first stakeout, which is also somewhat tied to a bet. they've been waiting in the car for hours, it's sunset now and the sky is tinged orange and andy's peeled her some baby oranges bc she's complaining about being hungry so on and so forth. paige is freed. andy sees her painting. and the daughter is named clementine trudeau. empathy, premonitions, orbing, telekinetic orbing (but really only on things in her line of sight. maybe we do a color theme for this one. their next daughter is named sienna trudeau. i can't reasonably tell you why so we'll say she pulled a chris and came back from the future, giving her her name. powers are. telekinesis. orbing. telekinetic orbing. welcome back, chris halliwell. except sienna can also heal. the third daughter will be an adopted witch that paige and andy found when she was young and idk on the run kind of a la tyler michaels. she's maybe seven or so when they find her, clem's maybe three and sienna's one. plotline plotline, we take her in. she becomes a part of the family quickly and clem and sienna view her as her older sister almost immediately lol. meet ruby garcia. first name color last name i'm stealing from jerry garcia bc my parents were just at a grateful dead show or whatever call it an homage (jerry was not there, he is dead. rip.) ruby might add trudeau onto her last name as well. tbd. anyways, as it turns out, she is a demon witch (omg!!) powers are. fireballs energy balls telekinesis and flaming. i am actually going to make her zankou's daughter. just for funsies.
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brookstonalmanac · 3 months ago
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Birthdays 8.14
Beer Birthdays
Eugene L. Husting (1848)
Brandon Hernández (1976)
Five Favorite Birthdays
Halle Berry; actor (1968)
Mila Kunis; Ukrainian-American actor (1983)
Gary Larson; cartoonist (1950)
Steve Martin; comedian, actor, writer, banjo player (1945)
Bruce Thomas; English bass player (1948)
Famous Birthdays
Russell Baker; essayist (1925)
Emmanuelle Béart; French actress (1963)
Catherine Bell; actor (1968)
Herman Branson; African-American physicist, chemist (1914)
Sarah Brightman; English singer-songwriter (1960)
John Brodie; San Francisco 49ers QB (1935)
Lodewijk Bruckman; Dutch painter (1903)
Sharon Bryant; R&B singer (1956)
Kevin Cadogan; rock singer-songwriter, guitarist (1970)
Méric Casaubon; Swiss-English author (1599)
Yannoulis Chalepas; Greek sculptor (1851)
Darrell "Dash" Crofts; singer-songwriter and musician (1940)
David Crosby; rock singer (1941)
Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin; Belgian mathematician (1866)
Mstislav Dobuzhinsky; Russian-Lithuanian-American artist (1875)
Slim Dunlap; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1951)
Tracy Caldwell Dyson; chemist and astronaut (!969)
Richard R. Ernst; Swiss chemist (1933)
Erica Flapan; mathematician (1956)
Francis Ford; actor and director (1881)
John Galsworthy; English writer (1867)
Alice Ghostley; actor (1926)
Larry Graham; soul/funk bass player and singer-songwriter (1946)
Buddy Greco; singer, pianist (1926)
Marcia Gay Harden; actor (1959)
Jackée Harry; actress (1956)
Robert Hayman; English-Canadian poet (1575)
Lee Hoffman; author (1932)
Leopold Hofmann; Austrian composer (1738)
Doc Holliday; dentist, wild west gambler (1851)
James Horner; composer (1953)
Ernest Everett Just; African-American biologist (1883)
Jan Koetsier; Dutch composer (1911)
Margaret Lindsay Huggins; Anglo-Irish astronomer (1848)
William Hutchinson; founder of Rhode Island (1586)
Magic Johnson; Los Angeles Lakers (1959)
Stanley A. McChrystal; American general (1954)
John McCutcheon; folksinger (1952)
Paddy McGuinness; English comedian (1973)
Lionel Morton; English singer-songwriter, guitarist (1942)
Bruce Nash; film director (1947)
Frank Oppenheimer; particle physicist (1912)
Hans Christian Ørsted; Danish physicist and chemist (1777)
Susan Saint James; actor (1946)
Paolo Sarpi; Italian writer (1552)
Ben Sidran; jazz and rock keyboardist (1943)
Stuff Smith; violinist (1909)
Danielle Steel; writer (1947)
Jiro Taniguchi; Japanese author and illustrator (1947)
Bruno Tesch; German chemist (1890)
Ernest Thayer; "Casey at the Bat" writer (1863)
Pieter Coecke van Aelst; Flemish painter (1502)
Carle Vernet; French painter and lithographer (1758)
Claude Joseph Vernet; French painter (1714)
Earl Weaver; Baltimore Orioles manager (1930)
Wim Wenders; German film director (1945)
Lina Wertmüller; Italian film director (1926)
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