#The Feast of All Saints 2001

[historicalreusedcostumes]

This colors strips gown is worn on Gloria Reuben as Cecile Ste. Marie in The Feast of All Saints (2001) and later altred worn on Paula Boudreau as Mrs. Hopkins in An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving (2008)

[foreignswaggersession]

“These portraits will tell your grandchildren exactly what you looked like the moment I took them.  A frozen moment.  That’s why I became a photographer, to capture moments in time.  So the past would never fade away.” - Marcel Ste. Marie, The Feast of All Saints (2001, Showtime)

“I took up photography as a hobby. . . . Oh, wrestling time to the ground, staring it into submission. Holding it in your hand. ‘I was there. This occurred.’  When you have the ability to stretch a millisecond into an hour, it’s a reduction.” - Louis de Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire (2024, AMC)

[blackinperiodfilms]

My favorite Black couples in Period Films/Series.

An anon recently asked me about my favorite Black couples in period films/series. I have a few! Some of which come along with trigger warnings and a bit of a heads up on not so happy endings. Some of these couples have happy endings, some have endings that leave you wondering, and some have beautiful relationships that ended tragically.

Happy Endings (To me anyway.)

Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) & Rachel Robinson (Nicole Beharie) in 42 (2013).

Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) & Colonel Jim Johnson (Mahershala Ali) in Hidden Figures (2016). 

Chicken George (Regé-Jean Page) & Matilda (Erica Tazel) in Roots (2016).

Marie Ste. Marie (Nicole Lyn) & Richard Lermontant (Jason Olive) in The Feast of All Saints (2001).  

The characters in this miniseries go through a lot. TW for SA.

Not So Happy Endings (SPOILER-ISH!!)

Rosalee (Jurnee Smollett) &  Noah (Aldis Hodge)  in Underground (2016-2017). 

Canceled on a cliffhanger.

Tish Rivers (KiKi Layne) &  Alonzo 'Fonny' Hunt (Stephan James) in If Beale Street Could Talk (2018).

The ending isn’t definite. I choose to think positively about their story.

Cora William (Thuso Mbedu) & Royal (William Jackson Harper)  in The Underground Railroad (2021). 

This story ends tragically. 

Roots: The Next Generations (1979) has generations of a few sweet relationships that I enjoy watching.

[nysocboy]

Insurance companies go to great lengths to produce clever commercials, but they rarely venture into the realm of beefcake. That's why the Eastwood Insurance cowboy was so memorable. In California in the 1990s, a series of at least 30 tv commercials showed the Cowboy riding up to a befuddled car owner, almost always a man, who was paying too much for car insurance, and "saving the day" with Eastwood's low, low prices.

The best commercials had him in the shower, naked except for his white cowboy hat, cruising...um, I mean talking about insurance to another naked guy, who seems more interested in his physique than his insurance policies.

Nudity in unexpected places is always stunning.

Besides, he had quite a smile.

The Cowboy was played by Jason Bradley Jacobs, who has only two acting credits on the IMDB:

A record company executive in Selena, 1997, about the Tejana singer who topped the Latin music charts and sang at the Astrodome.

Maurice Charpentier in The Feast of All Saints, 2001, based on the Anne Rice novel about "the Free People of Colour" in 19th century New Orleans, "a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression."  Anne Rice -- shouldn't there be vampires?

Jason provided the voice and artists' model for a character in a comic book and animated series, Plowboy in the Cornmeal Universe, created by D.W. Newman.  It is set in the Appalachia of 1978, the era of Jimmy Carter, Hee-Haw, and The Dukes of Hazzard, and emphasizes the "raw physicality and blatant sexuality."

I couldn't find anything about the work except for a one-page website full of broken links.  I guess the project was scrapped.  Too bad -- looks like these were gay country boys. 

In 2015, Jason tweeted that he was voicing Raitliff Manor, by D.W. Newman, about the ghost of a Civil War soldier haunting a house.  Nothing on Google about it, but I imagine he was a gay ghost

D.W. Newman's biography on IMDB says that he's a Kentucky country boy, "openly bisexual," with a degree in astronomy, and a bodybuilder. 

No D.W. Newman is listed on bodybuilder websites.  In fact, all I could find out about him was a donation to L.A. teachers and a "like" for Balboa Hybrid Swim Shorts.

There are some nude photos on hook-up sites.

Twitter/X has links to Jacob's other projects, but they are all broken. No new tweets since 2015. Links to his personal website and Facebook are broken. No Instagram.

A frustrated series of broken links and dead ends, with only one real moment, the memory of the Eastwood Insurance Cowboy. And even that is fuzzy.

The full profile, with nude photos, is on RG Beefcake and Boyfriends

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 7.30

Holidays

Asarnha Bucha Day (Thailand)

Comedy Day

Copperhead Day

Crater Day (Virginia)

Day of he Martyrs of the Revolution (Cuba)

Dia del Amigo (Paraguay)

Etherium Day

Father-in-Law Day

Feast of the Throne (Morocco)

Fire Department Employees Day (Tajikistan)

Gastroschisis Awareness Day

Healthcare Now! Medicare Day

International Day of Friendship (a.k.a. Friendship Day; UN)

Jimmy Hoffa Day

Kiss Your Car Day

Marseillaise Day

Martyr’s Day (South Sudan)

Medicare Day

National Climb a Mountain Day

National Golden Girls Day

National Graduates Day (UK)

National Norma Day

National Support Public Education Day

National Whistleblower Appreciation Day

Out & Proud Parents Day

Paperback Book Day

President’s Day (Republic of Molossia)

Share a Hug Day

Sunisa Lee Day (Minnesota)

Teacher Day (Latin America)

Throne Day (Morocco)

Where’s the Beach Day

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (UN)

World Embroidery Day

World Snorkeling Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

International Chicken & Waffles Day

Loaf Day

National Cheesecake Day

Independence & Related Days

British Citizenship Act Day (UK; 1948)

Toronto (f.k.a. York, Canada; Foundation Day; 1793)

Vanuatu (from UK/France, 1980)

Virginia Legislature Day (Virginia; 1619) [1st U.S. Legislative Assembly]

5th & Last Tuesday in July

Simple Abundance Day [Last Tuesday]

Festivals Beginning July 30, 2024

Crop Over (Bridgetown, Barbados) [thru 8.6]

Hawaii Conservation Conference (Honolulu, Hawaii) [thru 8.1]

Feast Days

Abdon (Christian; Saint) [barrel-makers, coopers] *

Balor (Fomorian God of Sorcery; Celtic Book of Days)

Birthday of Isis (Ancient Egypt)

Demento Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Emily Brontë (Writerism)

Festival of Fortune Huiusque Diei (Fortune of the Present Day; Ancient Rome)

Froissart (Positivist; Saint)

Giorgio Vasari (Artology)

Hatebrand (Christian; Saint)

Henry Moore (Artology)

Herbal Ballooning (Shamanism)

Jean Patrick Modiano (Writerism)

Jullitta (Christian; Widow & Martyr)

Kronia (Festival of Kronos, God of the Harvest; Ancient Greece)

Lou Darvas (Artology)

Lughnasadh Bread Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Maxima, Donatilla, and Secunda (Christian; Saint)

Parmesan Day (Pastafarian)

Peter Chrysologus (Christian; Saint)

Robert Barnes (Lutheran)

Rufinus of Assisi (Christian; Saint)

Saint Ann and Gloosca Day (Micmac Peoples, Nova Scotia; Everyday Wicca)

Sennen (Christian; Martyrs)

Sir Steve, of the Kingdom of Gorf (Muppetism)

Tatwine (Christian; Saint)

Ursus of Auxerre (Christian; Saint)

Sennen (Christian; Martyr)

Solanus Casey (Christian; Saint)

Tyr’s Day (Pagan)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 211 [47 of 72]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Alice Picks the Champ (Disney Cartoon; 1925)

Batman: The Movie (1966)

Bird-Brain Bird Dog (MGM Cartoon; 1954)

Calling All Cuckoos (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1956)

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (Film; 2010)

Coyote Falls (WB LT Cartoon; 2010)

Dinner for Schmucks (Film; 2010)

Doggone Tired (Tex Avery MGM Cartoon; 1949)

Enter Sandman, by Metallica (Song; 1991)

Flesh Gordon (Adult Film; 1974)

Flight of the Navigator (Film; 1986)

Flowers and Trees (Silly Symphony Disney Cartoon; 1932)

The Green Knight (Film; 2021)

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (Film; 2004)

Inspector Lews (UK TV Series; 2006)

Is This It, by The Strokes (Album; 2001)

It’s the Natural Things to Do (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1939)

Jungle Cruise (Film; 2021)

Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (WB Film; 2013)

The Lifeguard (Film; 2013)

Little Boy Blue, a.k.a. The Big Bad Wolf (Ub Iwerks ComiColor Cartoon; 1936)

Man Out of Time, by Elvis Costello (Song; 1982)

Mister Roberts (Film; 1955)

Night Shift (Film; 1982)

Nobody Knows My Name, by James Baldwin (Essays; 1961)

An Officer and a Gentlemen (Film; 1982)

The Oily Bird (Noveltoons Cartoon; 1954)

Out of Our Heads, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1965)

Out of the Frying Pan Into the Firing Line (Disney Cartoon; 1942)

The Paper Hangers (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1937)

Ready, Woolen and Able (WB MM Cartoon; 1960)

Rising Sun (Film; 1993)

Robin Hood: Men in Tights (Film; 1993)

Runaway Bride (Film; 1999)

Secret Agent (Fleischer Cartoon; 1943) [#17]

Sinbad the Sailor (Ub Iwerks ComiColor Cartoon; 1935)

So I Married an Axe Murderer (Film; 1993)

Sublime, by Sublime (Album; 1996)

The Trial of Donald Duck (Disney Cartoon; 1948)

Victory Vehicles (Disney Cartoon; 1943)

The Violent Bear It Away, by Flannery O'Connor (Novel; 1960)

War is a Racket, by Smedley D. Butler (Book; 1935)

A Wolf in Sheik’s Clothing (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1948)

Wool, by Hugh Howey (Novel; 2011)

Today’s Name Days

Inga, Ingeborg, Petrus (Austria)

Anđa, Julita, Maksima, Petar, Rufin (Croatia)

Bořivoj (Czech Republic)

Abdon (Denmark)

Kerman, Kermo, Roland (Estonia)

Asta (Finland)

Juliette (France)

Inga, Ingeborg, Petrus (Germany)

Andronikos, Silouanos (Greece)

Judit, Xénia (Hungary)

Donatella, Pietro (Italy)

Madara, Renārs, Rosalinde, Valters (Latvia)

Abdonas, Donatilė, Nortautas, Radvilė (Lithuania)

Aud, Audhild, Aurora (Norway)

Abdon, Julia, Julita, Ludmiła, Maryna, Ubysław (Poland)

Margarita, Marina (Russia)

Libuša (Slovakia)

Pedro (Spain)

Algot (Sweden)

Syla, Sylvan (Ukraine)

Casey, Enrica, Enrique, Etta, Everard, Everett. Hank, Hendrick, Henrietta, Henry, Kacey, Kacie, Kasey, Reece, Reese (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 212 of 2024; 155 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of Week 31 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 25 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 25 (Yi-Wei)

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

Hebrew: 24 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 23 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 2 Purple; Twosday [2 of 30]

Julian: 17 July 2024

Moon: 24%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 15 Dante (8th Month) [Froissart]

Runic Half Month: Thorn (Defense) [Day 7 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 41 of 94)

Week: Last Week of July

Zodiac: Leo (Day 9 of 31)

[cruger2984]

THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT JOHN PAUL II The Patron of Kraków and World Youth Day Feast Day: October 22

"There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us." -from the Eucharistic Celebration Homily, October 1995

One of the greatest popes in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, and before he became known as John Paul the Great, he was born Karol Józef Wojtyła, on May 18, 1920 in Wadowice, Kraków Voivodeship, Poland.

When Karol was just eight years old, his happy family life was saddened by the early death of his parents, Karol Wojtyła, a non-commissioned officer of the Austro-Hungarian Army and captain of the Polish Armed Forces, and Emilia Kaczorowska, a schoolteacher who was of distant Lithuanian heritage, as he said: 'At twenty, I had already lost all the people I loved.'

His elder sister Olga had died before his birth, but he was close to his brother Edmund, nicknamed Mundek, who was 13 years his senior. Edmund's work as a physician eventually led to his death from scarlet fever, a loss that affected Wojtyła deeply.

Karol was an athletic youth, often played football as a goalkeeper, and also performed with various theatrical groups and worked as a playwright. During this time, his talent for language blossomed, and he learned as many as 15 languages including English and Esperanto. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, from 1940 to 1944, Karol worked in a limestone quarry and then in Solvay chemical factory.

In order to fulfill his vocation in October 1942 at the height of World War II, he entered the clandestine seminary of Kraków, run by Adam Stefan Sapieha, the archbishop of Kraków, and after finishing his studies at the seminary, he was ordained priest on All Saints' Day - November 1, 1946, a year after the war ended. He was first assigned in a small parish near Kraków, and then he served as professor and chaplain at the Catholic University of Lublin (now John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin). At a very young age, because of his exceptional talents, he became archbishop of Kraków and then Cardinal.

Following the death of John Paul I, ten days after the funeral, at the age of 58, Karol elected as pope on October 16, 1978, and chose the name John Paul II in honor of his predecessor. Having consecrated his papacy to the Blessed Virgin Mary, as his motto says: 'Totus Tuus', meaning 'I am all yours'.

He embarked in a tireless apostolate around the world. The Pilgrim Pope, as he was known, he visited 129 countries, and travelled more than all previous 263 Popes combined. Moreover, he is credited to be the spiritual inspiration behind the fall of Communism in 1991.

While visiting Jerusalem in March 2000, John Paul became the first pope in history to visit and pray at the Western Wall. In September 2001, amid post-11 September concerns, he travelled to Kazakhstan, with an audience largely consisting of Muslims, and to Armenia, to participate in the celebration of 1,700 years of Armenian Christianity.

On May 13, 1981, the anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady of Fatima, he was shot and critically wounded by Mehmet Ali Ağca, an expert Turkish gunman who was a member of the militant fascist group Grey Wolves, and he miraculously survived the assassination attempt in St. Peter's Square. Ağca was caught and restrained by a nun and other bystanders until police arrived. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Two days after Christmas in 1983, John Paul II visited Ağca in prison. John Paul II and Ağca spoke privately for about twenty minutes.

The pope made two trips to the Philippines: the first on February 18, 1981 where Lorenzo Ruiz is beatified in Manila, to which is the first beatification ceremony to be held outside the Vatican, and in January 15, 1995, during the X World Youth Day, he offered Mass to an estimated crowd of between five and seven million in Luneta Park in the Philippines, which was considered to be the largest single gathering in Christian history. And because of his special relationships with them, he is also known as the 'Pope of the Youth'.

As an extension of his successful work with youth as a young priest, John Paul II pioneered the international World Youth Days. He presided over nine of them: Rome, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Compostella, Częstochowa, Denver (in the state of Colorado), Manila, Paris, and Toronto. The total attendance at these signature events of the pontificate was in the tens of millions. The Great Jubilee of 2000 was a call to the church to become more aware and to embrace his missionary task for the work of evangelization.

During the final days of the pope's life, the lights were kept burning through the night where he lay in the Papal apartment on the top floor of the Apostolic Palace. Tens of thousands of people assembled and held vigil in St. Peter's Square and the surrounding streets for two days. Upon hearing of this, the dying pope was said to have stated: 'I have searched for you, and now you have come to me, and I thank you.'

After a long and painful sickness, John Paul II went home to the Lord, on a sorrowful Saturday, April 2, 2005 at the age of 84, at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. His final words were: 'Pozwólcie mi odejść do domu Ojca. (Allow me to depart to the house of the Father.)'

He was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI on May 1, 2011, and three years on April 27, 2014 on Divine Mercy Sunday, together with Pope John XXIII, he was canonized a saint by Pope Francis.

[brookston]

Holidays 12.5

Holidays

AFL-CIO Day

Bathtub Party Day (a.k.a. Party in the Tub Day)

Battle of Longewaia Day (India)

Bhumibol Adulyadej Memorial Day (Thailand)

Blue Jeans Day

Boycott Day

Celebrate Shelter Pets Day

Children’s Day (Suriname)

Colorado Gives Day (Colorado)

Day of Military Honor - Battle of Moscow (Russia)

Day of the Ninja (a.k.a. International Ninja Day)

Die Like a Pirate Day

Discovery Day (Dominican Republic, Haiti)

Father’s Day (Thailand)

Female Community Health Volunteers’ Day (Nepal)

Folding Chair Day

Fraternity Day

International Ninja Day  (a.k.a. International Creep Like a Ninja Day)

International Volunteer Day

International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development (UN)

Irrational Exuberance Day

Klozum (Netherlands)

Let's Get Organized Day

Montgomery Bus Boycott Anniversary Day

National Communicate with Your Kids Day

National Commute With Your Baby Day

National Day of the Coral Reef (Colombia)

National DeFi (Decentralized Finance) Day

National Devon Day

National Johnny Day

National Kings of Prohibition Day

Ninjas vs. Krampus Day

Play Hookey Day

Roe Deer Day (French Republic)

Quito Day (Ecuador)

Tinsel Day

World Biomedical Engineering Day

World Soil Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Comfort Food Day

National Pigs in a Blanket Day (UK)

National Repeal Day

Sacher Torte Day

Swap a Christmas Cookie Recipe Day

World Turkish Coffee Day

1st Tuesday in December

World Trick Shot Day [1st Tuesday]

Feast Days

Abercius (Christian; Saint)

Bassus of Nice (Christian; Saint)

Clement of Alexandria (Episcopal Church)

Crispina (Christian; Saint)

Dalmatius of Pavia (Christian; Saint)

David Bomberg (Artology)

Faunalia (Honoring Faunus; Ancient Rome)

Faunalia Rustica (Pagan)

Festival of Faunalia (for Old Roman God Faunus)

Gerbold (Christian; Saint)

Ghidra and Mechaghidra Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saints)

Huyghens (Positivist; Saint)

Justinian of Ramsey Island (Christian; Saint)

Nicetius (a.k.a. Nizier; Christian; Saint)

Niels Stenson (Christian; Blessed)

St. Nicholas Eve [Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, UK] (a.k.a. ... 

Avond (Leewvarden, West Friesland, Netherlands)

Bonhomme Noel (Celebration of “Goodman Christmas”)

Klausjagen (Switzerland)

Krampus

Krampusnacht (a.k.a. Krampuslauf; Austria)

Sinterklaas (The Netherlands)

Zwarte Piete (Black Peter, companion of St. Nicholas who keeps track of good/bad kids)

Nones of December (Ancient Rome)

Pelinus of Brindisi (Christian; Saint)

Remember the Spanish Inquisition Day (Pastafarian)

Sabbas the Sanctified (Christian; Saint)

Wes (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [66 of 71]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Anne of Green Gables (TV Mini-Series; 1985)

Band on the Run (Album; 1973)

Beverly Hills Cop (Film; 1984)

Big and Little Wong Tin Bar (Film; 1962)

The Borrowers (Film; 1997)

Bucks for Boris or The Green Paper Caper (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 132; 1961)

Bye Bye Baby, by Mary Wells (Song; 1960)

Cadillac Records (Film; 2008)

Caf�� Flesh (Adult Film; 1982)

Charade (Film; 1963)

Chef Donald (Disney Cartoon; 1941)

Come and Get It, by Badfinger (Song; 1969)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Film; 2008)

Damaged, by Black Flag (Album; 1981)

Flash Gordon (Film; 1980)

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, by Giorgio Bassani (Novel; 1962)

Good Will Hunting (Film; 1997)

Hop Skip and Junk or Bullwinkle’s Big Tow (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 131; 1961)

Juno (Film; 2007)

Let It Bleed, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1969)

Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez (Novel; 1985)

Made in America, by The Blues Brothers (Album; 1980)

The Matchmaker, by Thornton Wilder (Broadway Play; 1954)

Ocean’s Eleven (Film; 2001)

The Pearl, by John Steinbeck (Novella; 1947)

Pioneer Days (Disney Cartoon; 1930)

Serpico (Film; 1973)

The Station Agent (Film; 2003)

Symphonie Fantastique, by Hector Berlioz (Symphony; 1830)

Tweet Dreams (WB LT Cartoon; 1959)

The Village Smithy (WB LT Cartoon; 1936)

Today’s Name Days

Anno, Gerald, Niels, Reinhard (Austria)

Sava, Silva, Silvana, Silviya, Stanislav (Bulgaria)

Krispina, Sabina, Slavka (Croatia)

Jitka (Czech Republic)

Sabina (Denmark)

Selma, Selme (Estonia)

Selma (Finland)

Gérald, Gérard (France)

Gerald, Niels, Reinhard (Germany)

Diogenes, Savas, Savvas (Greece)

Vilma (Hungary)

Giulio, Lucia (Italy)

Klaudija, Klaudijs, Sabīne, Sarma, Sarmīte (Latvia)

Eimintas, Geisvilė, Grafas, Gratas (Lithuania)

Ståle, Stine (Norway)

Anastazy, Gerald, Geraldyna, Kryspina, Krystyna, Pęcisława, Saba (Poland)

Anastasie, Nectarie, Sava (Romania)

Oto (Slovakia)

Anastasio, Elisa, Sabas (Spain)

Sven(Sweden)

Pandora, Sabas, Savas, Wallace, Wally, Walt, Walter (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 339 of 2024; 26 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 49 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 8 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 23 (Ding-You)

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

Hebrew: 22 Kislev 5784

Islamic: 22 Jumada I 1445

J Cal: 9 Zima; Twosday [9 of 30]

Julian: 22 November 2023

Moon: 46%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 3 Bichat (13th Month) [Huyghens]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 10 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 73 of 89)

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 14 of 30)

[tpanan]

My Saturday Daily Blessings

November 30, 2024

Feast of Saint Andrew, Apostle (Catholic Observance) Lectionary: 684

First Reading:                            Rom 10:9-18

Responsorial Psalm:          19:8, 9, 10, 11

Verse Before the Gospel:  Mt 4:19

**Gospel:                        Mt 4:18-22

**Meditation

Sources: Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States, second typical edition, Copyright © 2001, 1998, 1997, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine; Psalm refrain © 1968, 1981, 1997, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved. Neither this work nor any part of it may be reproduced, distributed, performed or displayed in any medium, including electronic or digital, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

** Meditations may be freely reprinted for non-commercial use - please cite:  copyright © 2023 Servants of the Word, source: dailyscripture.net, author Don Schwager. 

Scripture quotations from Common Bible: Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1973, and Ignatius Edition of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 2006, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Bible: Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1973, and Ignatius Edition of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 2006, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.  

[dollycas]

Sunday Salon / Sunday Post – A Week in the Life of Dollycas – Weekly Rewind – New Arrivals

The Sunday Salon is a Facebook group that has become an informal week-in-review gathering place for bloggers. It is also a place to share our thoughts about things of a bookish nature. You can also link up weekly on Readerbuzz. The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have received, and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. HAPPY SUNDAY EVERYONE! Last Saturday Daughter #1 and her family, Son #2 and his family, Natalie and her mom, Mr. Dollycas, and I set off for a weekend of family fun. We formed a convoy and headed to Green Bay. There was rain in the forecast so we had to switch our plan up a bit. Our first stop was Lambeau Field, home of the Green Bay Packers. Some of us had been there before but for others, it was the first time. After Mr. Dollycas and I got our free scooters, the 13 of us embarked on a stadium tour which included visiting the premium sky boxes, the roof, the tunnel the players run from out to the field and out on the field itself all while learning the history of the Packer organization and the stadium. We had 2 tour guides, 1 leading the tour and one with the stragglers, like me. My scooter driving left a lot to be desired but the man had the patience of a saint. After our tour, we visited the Packer Hall of Fame. It is filled with displays and interactive things for kids young and old. After the Hall of Fame, we checked into our hotel, had a quick lunch, and hit the hotel's water park. The kids had fun and so did Mr. D. and I. They had a chair lift to get me in and out of the pool and I loved getting in there to play with them all. They also floated around the lazy river and flew down the slides. Before we left we hit the hot tub and my old bones and muscles loved it. Our day wasn't done though, we changed and headed to a nearby park that was having a festival with food trucks, live music, booths selling everything from crafts, produce, and windows, and a hot air balloon glow. While we were parking the air balloons were up but by the time we reached where they were, they were taking them down due to another storm moving in.  We stayed and listened to the music while the children used up some of their never-ending energy. On the way home we stopped at Texas Roadhouse for supper. It was the first time Mr. D. and I had been to a Texas Roadhouse which the kids didn't believe. We live such sheltered lives. LOL Sunday we went to our original destination, Bay Beach Amusement Park. It is a park full of carnival rides and food. Each ticket is just 25 cents and each ride needs 1 to 6 tickets. We overbought and ended up gifting several to other people in the park. The Ferris wheel behind us in the picture is handicapped accessible so Son #2 and I were able to enjoy the ride. Some of the others were in the gondola right behind us. The views of the bay from the top were amazing! None of us were ready to head home but it was time. I live for days/weekends like this. After my accident in 2001, I had a prognosis of 5 years. There was a cyst on my spinal cord and if it ruptured the doctors thought that would be the end. I was told to live every day like it was my last. Here I am 23 years later. I have faced some stuff over the years that should have broken me. Some days are harder than others and I am ready to throw in the towel. Then there are weekends like last weekend that bring me so much joy. It's true - “Tomorrow is not promised, and the past cannot be changed therefore, live each day to the fullest and know that every new day is a blessing.” — Nishan Panwar How was your week? Weekly Rewind - August 19 - 24, 2024 Monday - My Reading Itinerary Monday! – Week #34 – 2024 Tuesday - A Fatal Feast at Bramsford Manor (A Food and Spirits Mystery) by Darci Hannah #Review / #ARCGiveaway @authordarcihannah @KensingtonBooks Wednesday - Cozy Wednesday featuring Keeled Over at the Cliffside: A Delicious Seaside Cozy Mystery by Nancy Stewart #Review / #Giveaway – Great Escapes Book Tour Thursday - Phoning in a Murder (Jolie Gentil Cozy Mystery Series) by Elaine L. Orr #Spotlight / #Giveaway – Great Escapes Book Tour @elaine.orr1 @ElaineOrr55 Plus - Book Blast – A Corpse at the Witching Hour: A Food Blogger Mystery by Debra Sennefelder Friday - Death and the Visitors (A Mary Shelley Mystery) by Heather Redmond #Spotlight / #ARCGiveaway @KensingtonBooks Saturday - Cayman Conundrum: A Liz Adams Mystery by Stacy Wilder #Spotlight / #Giveaway – Great Escapes Book Tour @authorstacywilder @wilderstacy I hope you have a fabulous week! Your Escape Into A Good Book Travel Agent Read the full article

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Saints&Reading: Thursday, June 13, 2024

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The Ascension of our Lord.

Troparion of the Ascension (tone IV) : O Christ God, Thou didst ascend in glory, O Christ our God, having gladdened Thy disciples by the promise of the Holy Spirit. And this blessing convinced them that Thou art the Son of God, the Redeemer of the world!

Kontakion, (tone VI)

Having accomplished for us Thy mission and united things on earth with things in heaven, thou didst ascend into glory, O christ our God, being nowhere separated from those who love Thee, but remaining everpresent with us and calling: I am with you and no one is against you.

HOLY GEORGIAN MARTYRS OF PERSIA (17th-18thC) c.)

  Throughout history Georgia has frequently been forced to defend what St. Ilia the Righteous called its “threefold treasure”— language, fatherland, and Faith. In this regard, the events of the 17th century are some of the most tragic in all of Georgian history.       In 1616 the bloodthirsty Persian ruler Shah Abbas I invaded Georgia with a massive army. His goal was to level the country completely, to leave not a single building standing. The shah’s army kidnapped hundreds of thousands of Kakhetian Georgians and then sent them to Persia to be sold as slaves. They settled Turkmen in the newly depopulated Georgian regions. In collaboration with the shah, many Lezgin peoples from the mountainous North Caucasus moved south to occupy the homes of the exiled Georgians.       The 17th-century Italian traveler Pietro della Valle described the Georgian exile in Persia: “It would be too long to narrate all that has passed in this miserable migration, how many murders, how many deaths caused by privation, how many seductions, rapes, and acts of violence, how many children drowned by their own parents or cast into rivers through despair, some snatched by force from their mother’s breasts because they seemed too weak to live and thrown down by the wayside and abandoned there to be food for wild beasts or trampled underfoot by the horses and camels of the army, which marched for a whole day on top of dead bodies; how many sons separated from their fathers, wives from their husbands, sisters from their brothers, and carried off to distant countries without hope of ever meeting again. Throughout the camp, men and women were sold on this occasion much cheaper than beasts, because of the great number of them.” (Quoted in David Marshall Lang, Lives and Legends of the Georgian Church (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1956), p. 170.)       The Georgian exiles in Persia included a large number of clergy. Many of them celebrated the divine services in secret and inspired the people to remain faithful to God. Those discovered were punished severely. Many Georgians were martyred for the Christian Faith during the Persian exile. Not only Georgian researchers, but historians and travelers of other nationalities attest to the truth of this. Furthermore, ethnic Georgians currently residing in formerly Persian territories continue to commemorate their fallen ancestors to this day. They make pilgrimages to the sites where their ancestors were martyred and prepare feasts there in honor of their memory. One of these sites has been called “Ascension.”       Of language, fatherland, and Faith, only language remains alive among Georgians in the formerly Persian territories. Most have lost touch with both their fatherland and the Christian Faith. Those fortunate enough to be able to return to Georgia often convert to Orthodox Christianity. In 2001, when Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II visited the ethnic Georgians in Iran, he presented them with a mound of Georgian soil. With great emotion the Georgians scattered the soil over the ground where their ancestors were martyred.       On September 18, 2003, the Holy Synod of the Georgian Orthodox Church prayerfully considered the martyric contest of the Georgians in Persia. The Synod declared all those martyred at the hands of Muslims in the 17th and 18th centuries worthy to be numbered among the saints. Their commemoration day was set on the feast of Holy Ascension, in honor of the place where many of them were martyred.

© 2006 St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood.

MARTYR HERMIAS at COMANA (160)

Icon: AgioErgo on Etsy

Holy Martyr Hermias suffered for Christ in the city of Comana during the persecution under the emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161). The governor Sebastian, who was in Cappadocia to arrest Christians, urged the saint to offer sacrifice to the pagan gods, promising him honors and mercy from the emperor.

The old soldier bravely confessed his faith in Christ. After long exhortation, the governor gave orders to torture the saint. They beat him on the face so that the skin peeled from his face, and they threw him into a red-hot oven. When the oven was opened after three days, the martyr Hermias emerged from it unharmed.

The governor Sebastian ordered the sorcerer Marus to poison Saint Hermias with a potion. The poisonous drink did the saint no harm. A second goblet with even stronger poison also failed to kill the saint. The sorcerer believed in Christ the Savior, and was immediately beheaded. Saint Marus was baptized in his own blood, and received a martyr’s crown.

Saint Hermias was subjected to even more terrible tortures. They raked his body with sharp instruments, threw him in boiling oil, and gouged out his eyes, but he gave thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ. Then they suspended the martyr head downward. For three days he hung in this position.

People sent by the governor to verify his death found him alive. Struck by the miracle, they were blinded with fright and began to call out to the saint to help them. The holy martyr ordered the blind to approach him, and healed them in the Name of Jesus Christ.

In anger the governor ordered the skin flayed from the saint’s body, but he remained alive. Then the crazed Sebastian beheaded him with his own sword. Christians secretly buried the body of the martyr Hermias, whose relics bestowed numerous healings.

Source: Orthodox Church in America_OCA

ACTS 1:1-12

1 The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, 2 until the day in which He was taken up, after He through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom He had chosen, 3 to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. 4 And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, "which," He said, "you have heard from Me; 5 for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. 6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, "Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" 7 And He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. 8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. 9 Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. 10 And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, 11 who also said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven." 12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey.

LUKE 24:36-53

36 Now as they said these things, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, "Peace to you." 37 But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit. 38 And He said to them, "Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39 Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have. 40 When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet. 41 But while they still did not believe for joy, and marveled, He said to them, "Have you any food here?" 42 So they gave Him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. 43 And He took it and ate in their presence. 44 Then He said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me." 45 And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures. 46 Then He said to them, "Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 And you are witnesses of these things. 49 Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high. 50 And He led them out as far as Bethany, and He lifted up His hands and blessed them. 51 Now it came to pass, while He blessed them, that He was parted from them and carried up into heaven. 52 And they worshiped Him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 53 and were continually in the temple praising and blessing God. Amen.

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On this day in Wikipedia: Wednesday, 10th April

Welcome, მოგესალმებით (mogesalmebit), bem-vindo, ողջու՜յն (voġčuyn) 🤗 What does @Wikipedia say about 10th April through the years 🏛️📜🗓️?

10th April 2023 🗓️ : Event - 2023 Louisville bank shooting A mass shooting occurs at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky that leaves five victims dead and eight wounded. "On April 10, 2023, a mass shooting occurred at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Five people were killed, and eight others were injured, including two responding police officers. The shooter, 25-year-old former employee Connor James Sturgeon, was fatally shot by police...."

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10th April 2019 🗓️ : Event - Event Horizon Telescope Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project released the first image of a black hole (depicted), located at the center of the galaxy M87. "The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a large telescope array consisting of a global network of radio telescopes. The EHT project combines data from several very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI) stations around Earth, which form a combined array with an angular resolution sufficient to observe..."

10th April 2014 🗓️ : Death - Dominique Baudis Dominique Baudis, French journalist and politician (b. 1947) "Dominique Baudis (French: [bodi]; 14 April 1947 – 10 April 2014) was the French Defender of Rights (ombudsman). Formerly a journalist, politician and mayor of Toulouse, he had been a member of Liberal Democracy and later of the leading centre-right Union for a Popular Movement...."

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10th April 1974 🗓️ : Birth - Petros Passalis Petros Passalis, Greek footballer "Petros Passalis (Greek: Πέτρος Πασσαλής) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He started his career at Edessaikos and transferred as a great talent at Olympiakos in 1994 where he starred for some years before joining Aris FC in 2001. He retired in 2007. ..."

10th April 1924 🗓️ : Birth - Kenneth Noland Kenneth Noland, American soldier and painter (d. 2010) "Kenneth Noland (April 10, 1924 – January 5, 2010) was an American painter. He was one of the best-known American color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s as a minimalist painter. Noland helped establish the Washington Color..."

10th April 1823 🗓️ : Death - Karl Leonhard Reinhold Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher and academic (b. 1757) "Karl Leonhard Reinhold (26 October 1757 – 10 April 1823) was an Austrian philosopher who helped to popularise the work of Immanuel Kant in the late 18th century. His "elementary philosophy" (Elementarphilosophie) also influenced German idealism, notably Johann Gottlieb Fichte, as a critical system..."

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10th April 🗓️ : Holiday - Christian feast day: April 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) "Apr. 9 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - Apr. 11 All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 23 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.For April 10th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on March 28...."

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[foreignswaggersession]

Was it a mistake between you and the Englishman? Yes. He was father, lover, teacher, all blown into one overpowering figure that held me in its hand. But his hold was so tight, I couldn’t breathe.  I had to cross the sea to break that hold. - Christophe Mercier, The Feast of All Saints (Showtime, 2001)

He was my murderer, my mentor, my lover, and my maker - all of those things at once. - Louis de Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire (AMC, 2024)

To be a man, you have to forget about that kind of…protective love. You can only love another person fully and trust that person fully when you no longer have that need. - Christophe Mercier, The Feast of All Saints (Showtime, 2001)

I'm companion enough for myself now. - Louis de Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire (AMC, 2024)

[lboogie1906]

Bianca Jasmine Lawson (born March 20, 1979) is an actress. She is known for her regular roles in the television series Saved by the Bell: The New Class, Goode Behavior, Pretty Little Liars, and Rogue. She has had recurring roles in the series Sister, Sister, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Steve Harvey Show, Dawson’s Creek, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, The Vampire Diaries, Teen Wolf, and Witches of East End. In 2016, she began starring in Queen Sugar.

She was born in Los Angeles. She is the daughter of actor Richard Lawson, she is the great-niece of Berry Gordy. She attended the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. She went on to study Film and Psychology at USC.

She began acting at the age of nine, having appeared in commercials for Barbie and Revlon.

She has made appearances in two different television miniseries. She appeared in The Temptations as Diana Ross and in 2001, she was cast as Anna Bella Monroe in The Feast of All Saints. Some of her film credits to date include Primary Colors, Save the Last Dance, Bones, and Breakin’ All the Rules. Aside from film and television, she provided her voice to the 2011 video game Star Wars: The Old Republic. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #womenshistorymonth

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Holidays 7.9

Holidays

Arbor Day (Cambodia)

ASB Community Action Day

Call of the Horizon Day

Chicken Days begin (Nebraska)

Constitution Day (Australia, Palau)

Constitutionalist Revolution Day (São Paulo, Brazil)

Day of the Employees of the Diplomatic Service (Azerbaijan)

Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo (Utah)

Donkey Kong Day

Family Day (Ukraine)

Fashion Day

Festival of Grand Unified Theories

Flag Day (Chile)

Goat Mother’s Day

Intern Appreciation Day

International Small Arms Destruction Day

Kirkpinar Oil Wrestling Festival begins (Turkey)

Mars

Mint Day (French Republic)

Muffler Appreciation Day

National Camel Toad Hunting Day (Secular Church of the SubGenius)

National Culture Day (Kiribati)

National Dimples Day

National Lavender Day

National No Bra Day

National Student’s Day (India)

Nunavut Day (Canada)

Paper Napkin Day

Rock Around the Clock Day

Shiman Rokusen-nichi (Day of 46,000; Tokyo, Japan)

Special Recreation Day

State Rebellion Day (São Paulo, Brazil)

Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Day (Ohio)

White Ensign Anniversary Day (UK)

Wimbledon Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Omelette Day

National Chicken Day

National Sugar Cookie Day

World Pakora Day

2nd Sunday in July

Barn Day [2nd Sunday]

Disability Awareness Day (UK) [2nd Sunday]

Father’s Day (Uruguay) [2nd Sunday]

Festival of the Giants begins (Fête des Géants; France) [Sunday after 7.5]

Lá Cuimhneacháin Náisiúnta (National Day of Commemoration; Ireland) [Sunday closet to 7.11]

Independence Days

Argentina (from Spain, 1816)

Kebec (f.k.a. Alaurentia; Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Luxe (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

South Sudan (from Sudan, 2011)

Feast Days

Agilulfus of Cologne (Christian; Saint)

Amandina of Schakkebroek (Christian; A Martyr of Southern Hunan)

Caprotinia (Old Roman Female Slave Festival)

Charlotte the Penguin (Muppetism)

St. Clotilde (Positivist; Saint)

Cyril and Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

David Hockney (Artology)

Day of Unn the Wise Person (a.k.a. Day of Remembrance for Ann the Deep Minded; Pagan)

Dharma Day (Buddhist) [Full Moon, 8th Lunar Month]

Ekādaśī Tithi (Self-Purification Festival; Hindism, Vaishnavism) [11th Lunar Day]

Ephrem of Edessa (Christian; Saint)

Everilda (Christian; Saint)

Feast of the Chinese Martyrs (Christian; Martyrs)

Feast of the Martyrs of Gorkum (Christian; Martyrs)

Feast of Our Lady of Peace (Christian)

Feast of Translation of Nicolas (Christian; Confessor)

Gregorio Grassi (Christian; A Martyr of Shanxi)

Invent a Word Day (Pastafarian)

Marija Petković (Christian; Blessed)

Martyrdom of the Báb (Bahá'í)

Martyrs of Gorkum (Christian; Martyrs)

Mary Hermina Grivot (Christian; Saint)

Mojo Nixon Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Our Lady of Itatí (Christian)

Our Lady of Peace, Octave of the Visitation (Christian)

Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá (Christian; Saint)

Pauline of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (Christian; Saint)

Rusty (Muppetism)

Sabinus (Christian; Martyr)

Solstitium VI (Pagan)

Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canterbury (Anglican commemoration)

Veronica Giuliani (Christian; Saint)

Zeno (Christian; Martyr)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [26 of 53]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

American Pie (Film; 1999)

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Film; 2004)

The Bears and Bees (Disney Cartoon; 1932)

Black Widow (Film: 2021)

Blowin’ in the Wind, recorded by Bob Dylan (Song; 1962)

Blue, by LeAnn Rimes (Album; 1996)

Despicable Me (Animated Film; 2010)

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Film; 2010)

The Golden Compass (a.k.a. Northern Lights), by Philip Pullman (Nove; 1995) [His Dark Materials #1]

Love and Curses (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)

Loving You (Elvis Presley Film; 1957)

The Office (UK TV Series; 2001)

One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing (Film; 1975)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (Film; 2003)

Pluto’s Purchase (Disney Cartoon; 1948)

Predators (Film; 2010)

The Queen Was in the Parlor (WB MM Cartoon; 1932)

Riding Giants (Documentary Film; 2004)

Rookie of the Year (Film; 1993)

Tall Timber (Disney Cartoon; 1928)

This Is a Life? (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Tron (Film; 1982)

Winnebago Man (Documentary Film; 2010)

Today’s Name Days

Augustin, Gottfried, Veronika (Austria)

Leticija, Marija, Veronika (Croatia)

Drahoslava (Czech Republic)

Sostrata (Denmark)

Aive, Aivi (Estonia)

Ilta, Jade, Jasmiina, Jasmin, Nanna (Finland)

Amandine, Hermine, Iphigénie, Marianne (France)

Hannes, Hermine, Veronika (Germany)

Pagratios (Greece)

Lukrécia (Hungary)

Letizia (Italy)

Asne, Tusnelda, Zaiga (Latvia)

Algirdas, Algirdė, Leonardas, Veronika (Lithuania)

Gøran, Jøran, Ørjan (Norway)

Anatolia, Heloiza, Hieronim, Lucja, Łucja, Ludwika, Lukrecja, Mikołaj, Patrycjusz, Weronika, Wszebąd, Zenon, Zenona (Poland)

Lujza (Slovakia)

Verónica (Spain)

Götilda , Jörgen, Örjan (Sweden)

Averil, Avery, Junior, Misty (USA)

Amandine (Universal)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 190 of 2024; 175 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of week 27 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Duir (Oak) [Day 28 of 28]

Chinese: Month 5 (Wu-Wu), Day 22 (Wu-Chen)

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

Hebrew: 20 Tammuz 5783

Islamic: 20 Dhu al-Hijjah 1444

J Cal: 10 Lux; Threesday [10 of 30]

Julian: 26 June 2023

Moon: 55%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 22 Charlemagne (7th Month) [St. Clotilde]

Runic Half Month: Feoh (Wealth) [Day 11 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 19 of 94)

Zodiac: Cancer (Day 19 of 31)

[theonlinemuse]

And even more for the list below the cut because I accidentally deleted the original list, to be regularly updated:

The Bronze Buckaroo (1939)

Lady from Louisiana (1941)

Savage Pampas (1945)

Native Son (1951)

The Tall Target (1951)

The Landowner's Daughter (1953)

El Grito Sagrado (1954)

Tamango (1958)

Porgy and Bess (1959)

Ganga Zumba (1963)

Lola Colt (1967)

The Great White Hope (1970)

Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

Sounder (1972)

Buck and the Preacher (1972)

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)

Thomasine & Bushrod (1974)

Arabian Nights (1974)

Mandingo (1975)

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

Xica (1976)

Sparkle (1976)

Roots (1977)

Ribo ou le soleil sauvage (1978)

A Woman Called Moses (1978)

West Indies (1979)

Freedom Road (1979)

Roots: The Next Generations (1979)

Backstairs at the White House (1979)

Manganinnie (1980)

Quest for Fire (1981)

Women of the Sun (1981)

Ragtime (1981)

Sugar Cane Alley (1983)

For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story (1983)

Cross Creek (1983)

Quilombo (1984)

Solomon Northup's Odyssey (1984)

The Killing Floor (1984)

The Jesse Owens Story (1984)

The Cotton Club (1984)

Silverado (1985)

Shaka Zulu (1986)

Native Son (1986)

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

Sarraounia (1986)

Yeelen (1987)

Angel Heart (1987)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1987)

Harlem Nights (1989)

Erik the Viking (1989)

The Mahabharata (1989)

The Women of Brewster Place (1989)

Tilaï (1990)

The Long Walk Home (1990)

Brewster Place (1990)

The Josephine Baker Story (1991)

Daughters of the Dust (1991)

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

Malcolm X (1992)

The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992)

Sarafina! (1992)

What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)

Queen (1993)

Posse (1993)

Sankofa (1993)

Great Moments in Aviation (1993)

Corrina, Corrina (1994)

The Flintstones (1994)

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994)

Witch Hunt (1994)

Guimba the Tyrant (1995)

Jefferson in Paris (1995)

A Little Princess (1995)

Solomon & Sheba (1995)

Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

The Journey of August King (1995)

Xica da Silva (1996)

The Final Passage (1996)

The Cherokee Kid (1996)

Gulliver's Travels (1996)

Mr. and Mrs. Loving (1996)

Once Upon a Time... When We Were Coloured (1996)

Eve’s Bayou (1997)

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997)

Hoodlum (1997)

Mama Flora's Family (1997)

Boogie Nights (1997)

Miss Evers' Boys (1997)

True Women (1997)

Rosewood (1997)

Beloved (1998)

Ruby Bridges (1998)

Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998)

Peggy Su! (1998)

Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999)

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)

Selma, Lord, Selma (1999)

Annie (1999)

Unbowed (1999)

Deep in My Heart (1999)

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

A Lesson Before Dying (1999)

Liberty Heights (1999)

Força de um Desejo (1999-2000)

Lumumba (2000)

Love's Labour's Lost (2000)

Remember the Titans (2000)

The Colour of Friendship (2000)

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000)

Feast of All Saints (2001)

The Old Settler (2001)

Ali (2001)

Bojangles (2001)

A Samba for Sherlock (2001)

Shaka Zulu: The Citadel (2001)

Boycott (2001)

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002)

O Quinto dos Infernos (2002)

Chicago (2002)

Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

The Rosa Parks Story (2002)

8 Women (2002)

Far from Heaven (2002)

Esperança (2002-2003)

Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)

Wondrous Oblivion (2003)

The Royal (2003-2011)

Kubanacan (2003-2004)

Salem Witch Trials (2003)

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Chocolate com Pimenta (2003-2004)

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Jack Paradise: Montreal by Night (2004)

Um Só Coração (2004)

Ray (2004)

Brother to Brother (2004)

Vanity Fair (2004)

Alexander (2004)

Something the Lord Made (2004)

Iron Jawed Angels (2004)

Lackawanna Blues (2005)

Roll Bounce (2005)

Casanova (2005)

Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

Sinhá Moça (2006)

Wide Sargasso Sea (2006)

Idlewild (2006)

Mad Men (2007–2015)

Oliver Twist (2007)

Talk to Me (2007)

Zorro, La Espada y la Rosa (2007)

September (2007)

Pride (2007)

American Gangster (2007)

Hounddog (2007)

Hairspray (2007)

Murdoch Mysteries (2008-)

Merlin (2008-2012)

Skin (2008)

A Raisin in the Sun (2008)

La Traición (2008)

Little Dorrit (2008)

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

A Ilha dos Escravos (2008)

Bran Nue Dae (2009)

Mississippi Damned (2009)

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009)

Notorious (2009)

Precious (2009)

Children of the Corn (2009)

Black Dynamite (2009)

The Assailant (2009)

The Nativity (2010)

Mrs. Mandela (2010)

Boardwalk Empire (2010-2014)

Love's Labour's Lost (2010)

Spartacus (2010-2013)

Frankie & Alice (2010)

Black Venus (2010)

Shirley (2011)

Black Gold (2011)

The Awakening (2011)

X-Men: First Class (2011)

The Playboy Club (2012)

Endeavour (2012-2023)

Lado a Lado (2012)

Django Unchained (2012)

Call the Midwife (2012-)

Hotel Noir (2012)

Toussaint Louverture (2012)

Hannah's Law (2012)

Treasure Island (2012)

Mabo (2012)

Julius Caesar (2012)

Lincoln (2012)

O Inventor de Sonhos (2012)

Sparkle (2012)

Copper (2012-2013)

Sinbad (2012)

Adesuwa (2012)

The Sapphires (2012)

The Price of Sugar (2013)

Betty and Coretta (2013)

Burton & Taylor (2013)

Njinga: Queen Of Angola (2013)

Tula: The Revolt (2013)

The Bible (2013)

Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)

César Chávez (2013)

Da Vinci's Demons (2013-2015)

1982 (2013)

42 (2013)

The Outlaw Michael Howe (2013)

The Carrie Diaries (2013-2014)

12 Years a Slave (2013)

The Sound of Music Live! (2013)

Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013)

Black Girl in Paris (2013)

They Die by Dawn (2013)

The Butler (2013)

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)

Masters of Sex (2013-2016)

Mr Selfridge (2013-2016)

Dancing on the Edge (2013)

Strange Empire (2014)

Salem (2014-2017)

Pompeii (2014)

Grantchester (2014-)

Get on Up (2014)

Northern Soul (2014)

The Knick (2014-2015)

Crossbones (2014)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2014)

The Musketeers (2014-2016)

Outlander (2014-)

The Keeping Room (2014)

Hieroglyph (2014)

Turn: Washington's Spies (2014-2017)

Palm Trees in the Snow (2015)

Still A Rose (2015)

Born to Be Blue (2015)

Texas Rising (2015)

A.D. The Bible Continues (2015)

The Book of Negroes (2015)

Hetty Feather (2015-2020)

Whitney (2015)

Danny and the Human Zoo (2015)

Iyore (2015)

Good Girls Revolt (2015-2016)

Miles Ahead (2015)

Jekyll and Hyde (2015)

Tut (2015)

The Ark (2015)

Celia (2015-2016)

Poldark (2015-2019)

Pelé: Birth of a Legend (2016)

Of Kings and Prophets (2016)

The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

A United Kingdom (2016)

Bodo (2016)

The Birth of a Nation (2016)

'76 (2016)

An American Girl Story – Melody 1963: Love Has to Win (2016)

Close to the Enemy (2016)

Upstart Crow (2016-)

Sophie and the Rising Sun (2016)

Roots (2016)

Liberdade, Liberdade (2016)

Mercy Street (2016-2017)

Lady Macbeth (2016)

Fences (2016)

Azúcar (2016)

The Nice Guys (2016)

Cheating Husband (2016)

Êta Mundo Bom! (2016)

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill (2016)

Loving (2016)

Underground (2016-2017)

Escrava Mãe (2016)

Free State of Jones (2016)

Velho Chico (2016)

Pambelé (2017)

The Greatest Showman (2017)

1745 (2017)

Novo Mundo (2017)

Double Play (2017)

Gook (2017)

Guerrilla (2017)

White Gold (2017-2019)

Mudbound (2017)

Howards End (2017)

The Good Time Girls (2017)

Timewasters (2017-2018)

The Shape of Water (2017)

Sweet Country (2017)

Black Holler (2017)

The French Dream (2017-2018)

The Adventures Of Selika (2017)

Anne with an E (2017-2019)

Frankie Drake Mysteries (2017-2021)

Taboo (2017)

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)

GLOW (2017-2019)

A Christmas Story Live! (2017)

Still Star-Crossed (2017)

Genius (2017)

Roxanne Roxanne (2017)

The Chosen (2017-2023)

Mindhunter (2017-2019)

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

The Alienist: Angel of Darkness (2018-2020)

The Long Song (2018)

The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)

The Little Drummer Girl (2018)

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Central & Broadway (2018)

Les Misérables (2018)

Ordeal by Innocence (2018)

Happy Birthday, Marsha! (2018)

Flock of Four (2018)

If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

Vita & Virginia (2018)

Wrong Kind of Black (2018)

Where Hands Touch (2018)

Luis Miguel: The Series (2018-2021)

Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

In the Long Run (2018-2020)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018)

The Nightingale (2018)

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

Coisa Mais Linda (2019-2020)

Sanditon (2019-)

World on Fire (2019-)

Dumbo (2019)

The Best of Enemies (2019)

Godfather of Harlem (2019)

Gentleman Jack (2019-2022)

Carnival Row (2019-2023)

Salacia (2019)

Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

Year of the Rabbit (2019)

Our Lady of the Nile (2019)

The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019)

The Spanish Princess (2019-2020)

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

Bolden (2019)

Wu-Tang: An American Saga (2019-2023)

A Christmas Carol (2019)

American Horror Story: 1984 (2019)

Dickinson (2019–2021)

Black Monday (2019-2021)

When They See Us (2019)

The Kitchen (2019)

Mixed-ish (2019-2021)

Dolemite Is My Name (2019)

For All Mankind (2019-)

Seberg (2019)

Sydney to the Max (2019-2021)

Hollywood (2020)

Come Away (2020)

Bridgerton (2020-)

Enola Holmes (2020)

Lovecraft Country (2020)

Misbehaviour (2020)

The Queen's Gambit (2020)

Perry Mason (2020-2023)

Lovers Rock (2020)

Cursed (2020)

The Glorias (2020)

Miss Scarlet and The Duke (2020-)

Mangrove (2020)

The 24th (2020)

High Ground (2020)

Deutschland 89 (2020)

Emperor (2020)

Mrs America (2020)

The Pale Horse (2020)

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)

The Legend of Inikpi (2020)

Sylvie’s Love (2020)

Bad Hair (2020)

Hamilton (2020)

Education (2020)

Son of the South (2020)

The Banker (2020)

Red, White and Blue (2020)

One Night in Miami... (2020)

Hunters (2020–2023)

Summerland (2020)

Operation Buffalo (2020)

The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)

Richard II (2020)

Little Fires Everywhere (2020)

The Witches (2020)

The Secret Garden (2020)

Uncle Vanya (2020)

Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020)

Roald & Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse (2020)

The Green Knight (2021)

Last Train to Christmas (2021)

The Power (2021)

Cruella (2021)

West Side Story (2021)

The Nevers (2021)

Respect (2021)

The Harder They Fall (2021)

King Richard (2021)

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

Doutor Gama (2021)

Anne Boleyn (2021)

Passing (2021)

Fear Street Part One: 1994 (2021)

Tick, Tick... Boom! (2021)

Annie Live! (2021)

The Colour Room (2021)

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

Cruel Summer (2021-)

The Wonder Years (2021-)

The Underground Railroad (2021)

Schmigadoon! (2021-)

Them (2021)

Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia (2021)

The Drover's Wife (2021)

The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)

Domina (2021-)

The Confessions of Frannie Langton (2022)

Bones and All (2022)

Death on the Nile (2022)

The Serpent Queen (2022-)

Remember Me: The Mahalia Jackson Story (2022)

Amsterdam (2022)

Vikings: Valhalla (2022-)

Trees of Peace (2022)

The Walk (2022)

The Outfit (2022)

Enola Holmes 2 (2022)

Catherine, Called Birdy (2022)

Hotel Portfino (2022-)

Mrs Harris Goes To Paris (2022)

Persuasion (2022)

Don't Worry Darling (2022)

Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

The King's Daughter (2022)

A Jazzman’s Blues (2022)

Interview with the Vampire (2022-)

The Woman King (2022)

Alice (2022)

Aníkúlápó (2022)

Dangerous Liaisons (2022)

Freedom’s Path (2022)

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)

Minx (2022-)

Candy (2022)

Our Flag Means Death (2022-)

A League of their Own (2022)

Mr. Malcolm's List (2022)

Call Jane (2022)

The Silent Twins (2022)

Emancipation (2022)

See How They Run (2022)

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022)

The Gilded Age (2022-)

Women of the Movement (2022)

The Porter (2022)

Elvis (2022)

Pinocchio (2022)

Paper Girls (2022)

Till (2022)

Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)

Fannie (2022)

Willow (2022)

Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration (2022)

Kindred (2022)

Holy Family (2022)

Chevalier (2022)

That ’90s Show (2023)

Spinning Gold (2023)

Air (2023)

Great Expectations (2023)

King Shaka (2023)

Nolly (2023)

African Queens (2023-)

Daisy Jones & the Six (2023)

Funny Woman (2023)

Big George Foreman (2023)

My Animal (2023)

The Roar of the Butterflies (2023)

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story (2023)

Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies (2023)

A Town Called Malice (2023)

The Little Mermaid (2023)

Tetris (2023)

Transatlantic (2023)

Shaka iLembe (2023)

The Crowded Room (2023)

Tom Jones (2023)

The Gallows Pole (2023)

Peter Pan and Wendy (2023)

Surrounded (2023)

Rustin (2023)

Black Cake (2023)

Nome (2023)

The Buchaneers (2023)

Lessons in Chemistry (2023)

Queen Cleopatra (2023)

Poor Things (2023)

The Artful Dodger (2023-)

Fellow Travelers (2023)

The Colour Purple (2023)

Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023)

Ordinary Angels (2023)

The Book of Clarence (2023)

The Holdovers (2023)

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

Three Little Birds (2023)

The Winter King (2023)

The New Boy (2023)

Origin (2023)

Sense and Sensibility (2024)

Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

Upcoming

Bob Marley: One Love (2024)

Palm Royale (2024)

Shirley (2024)

The Count of Monte Cristo (2024)

How to Train Your Dragon (2025)

Lady in the Lake (TBA)

The Big Cigar (TBA)

Dark Harvest (TBA)

Six Triple Eight (TBA)

The Nickel Boys (TBA)

Manhunt (TBA)

The Extraordinary Farewell (TBA)

Seacole (TBA)

Wicked Little Letters (TBA)

The Man Who Saved Paris (TBA)

De La Resistance (TBA)

Colour of Autumn (TBA)

The Richest Black Girl in America (TBA)

The Personal History of Rachel Dupree (TBA)

Bitter Root (TBA)

Josephine (TBA)

Eartha Kitt C'est Si Bon (TBA)

In the Pines (TBA)

Caste (TBA)

Steal Away (TBA)

Seize Them! (TBA)

Blitz (TBA)

Silver Star (TBA)

Benn/Eubank (TBA)

Untitled Harriet Tubman Project (TBA)

Untitled Stephanie St Clair Project (TBA)

Bonus:

Perseus (1973)

Hercules (1997)

The Prince of Egypt (1998)

Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998)

John Henry (2000)

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)

The Polar Express (2004)

La Reine Soleil (2007)

The Princess and the Frog (2009)

Chico & Rita (2010)

The Rabbi’s Cat (2011)

Zarafa (2012)

Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (2013)

Aya of Yop City (2013)

Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2015)

Castlevania (2017-2021)

Spirit Riding Free (2017-2020)

Spirit Untamed (2021)

Encanto (2021)

The Bell Affair (2022)

The Black Pharaoh, the Savage and the Princess (2022)

The Sea Beast (2022)

Tiana (2023)

Castlevania: Nocturne (2023-)

Wish (2023)

BLACK WMEN IN HISTRIC/PERID DRAMAS Dreamgirls (2006), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), The Help (2011), Belle (2013), Selma (2014), Hidden Figures (2016), Harriet (2019), Lady and The Tramp (2019), Self Made (2020)

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Holidays 12.7

Holidays

Armed Forces Flag Day (India)

Blue Marble Day

Christmas Jumper Day (UK)

Cypress Tree Day (French Republic)

Dia de las Velitas (Day of the Little Candles; Colombia)

Enlightenment Day

Ferry Floss Day (UK)

Fetes de l’Escalade (Scaling or Climbing Day; Switzerland)

Hang a Wreath Day

Heavy Snow Day (Chinese Farmer’s Calendar)

Human Rights Day (Kiribati)

International Civil Aviation Day (UN)

Letter Writing Day

Memorial Day (East Timor)

National Day (Myanmar)

National FAFO Day

National Fire Safety Day

National Heroes’ Day (East Timor)

National Illinois Day

National Joy Day

National Judith Day

National Letter Writing Day

National Rina Day

National Slime Day

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

Spider-Woman Day

Spitak Remembrance Day (Armenia)

Students’ Day (Iran)

World Kamishibai Day

World TTTS Awareness Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Marshmallow Peeps Day

National Cotton Candy Day [original date, moved to 6.11; also 7.31]

National Prosciutto Day

1st Thursday in December

Kid Lit Art Postcard Day [1st Thursday]

Lover's Fair (Arlon, Belgium) [1st Thursday]

Independence Days

Delaware Statehood Day (#1; 1787)

Farrar Republic (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Fraughtia (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Aemilianus (Greek Church)

Ambrose of Milan (Christian; Saint) [Italy]

Bhairava Ashtami (Indian Goddess of Soma) [8th Lunar Day of Kartik]

Bradley (Positivist; Saint)

Bruma II (Pagan)

Eve of the Immaculate Conception

Fara (Christian; Saint)

Feast of All Monsters (Church of the SubGenius)

Festival of Primordial Beings

Flag Day (India)

Flag Land Base Day (Scientology)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Artology)

Haloia of Demeter (Pagan)

Hanukkah (Judaism) [begins at sundown]

Holiday from Death Day (Pastafarian)

Maria Giuseppa Rossello (Christian; Saint)

Quema del Diablo (Burning of the Devil; Guatemala)

Rosita (Muppetism)

Sabinus of Spoleto (Christian; Saint)

Still Not Dead Day (Pastafarian)

Stuart Davis (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 23 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [23 of 24]

Fatal Day (Pagan) [23 of 24]

Historically Unlucky Day [11 of 11]

Historically Bad Day (Cicero assassinated, Pearl Harbor attack & 4 other tragedies) [11 of 11]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 56 of 60)

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [56 of 60]

Premieres

Abbott Elementary (TV Series; 2012)

Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (TV Mini-Series; 1986)

Bad Day at Flat Rocky or A Record in Bullwinkle’s Blot (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 326; 1964)

The Bells of St. Mary’s (Film; 1945)

Brokeback Mountain (Film; 2005)

Canine Patrol (Disney Cartoon; 1945)

Dominique, by The Singing Nun (Song; 1963)

Edward Scissorhands (Film; 1990)

Frosty the Snowman (Animated TV Special; 1969)

The Golden Compass (Film; 2007)

The Gondoliers, by Gilbert & Sullivan (Comic Opera; 1889)

The Grifters (Film; 1990)

Hallelujah, by Leonard Cohen (Song; 1984)

Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture, by Johan Huizinga (Science Book; 1938)

I’m Not There (Film; 2007)

Jamboree (Rock & Roll Film; 1957)

Kung Fu Fighting, by Carl Douglas (Song; 1974)

The Librarians (TV Series; 2014)

The Long Tomorrow, by Leigh Brackett (Novel; 1955)

Mary Queen of Scots (Film; 2018)

New Kin in Town, by The Eagles (Song; 1976)

Ocean’s Eleven (Film; 2001)

Resign Your Fate to a 52nd State or Moosylvania (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 325; 1964)

Rock! Rock! Rock! (Rock & Roll Film; 1956)

Rosemary, played live by the Gratefull Dead (Song; 1968) [Only Time It’s Played Live]

(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay, recorded by Otis Redding (Song; 1967)

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Film; 1979)

2010: The Year We Make Contact (Film; 1984)

Wild Life, by Paul McCartney & Wings (Album; 1971)

The World’s Fastest Indian (Film; 2005)

Today’s Name Days

Ambrosius, Benedikte (Austria)

Ambrozije, Sabina, Urban (Croatia)

Ambrož (Czech Republic)

Agathon (Denmark)

Piine, Sabiine (Estonia)

Sampsa (Finland)

Ambroise (France)

Ambros, Benedikte, Farah (Germany)

Amvrosios (Greece)

Ambrus (Hungary)

Ambrogio (Italy)

Anta, Antonija, Dzirkstīte, Tonija (Latvia)

Ambraziejus, Daugardas, Tautė (Lithuania)

Hallfrid, Hallstein (Norway)

Agaton, Ambroży, Marcin, Ninomysł (Poland)

Filofteia (Romania)

Ekaterina (Russia)

Ambróz (Slovakia)

Ambrosio (Spain)

Angela, Angelika (Sweden)

Ambrose (Ukraine)

Ambrose, Ambrosine, Jasmin, Jasmine, Jazlyn, Jazmin, Jazmine, Yasmeen, Yasmin, Yasmine, Yazmin (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 341 of 2024; 24 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 49 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 25 (Ji-Hai)

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

Hebrew: 24 Kislev 5784

Islamic: 24 Jumada I 1445

J Cal: 11 Zima; Foursday [11 of 30]

Julian: 24 November 2023

Moon: 27%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 5 Bichat (12th Month) [Bradley]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 75 of 89)

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 16 of 30)