#William Clement Stone

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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

月を狙いなさい。もし失敗しても星に当たるかもしれない。

William Clement Stone W・クレメント・ストーン

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1958- Hay una pequeña diferencia entre la gente, pero esa pequeña diferencia hace una gran diferencia. La pequeña diferencia es actitud. La gran diferencia es si es positiva o negativa.

(William Clement Stone)

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𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐋𝐞𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐬 - 𝐖𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧' 𝐆𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐧 (𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟕) Dave "Curlee" Williams / James Faye "Roy" Hall from: "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" / "It'll Be Me"

Rock 'n' Roll | Rockabilly | 1st Wave Rock and Roll

𝐉𝐮𝐤𝐞𝐇𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐔𝐊 (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Jerry Lee Lewis: Vocals / Piano Roland Janes: Guitar J.M. Van Eaton: Drums

Engineered by Jack "Cowboy" Clement Produced by Jack "Cowboy" Clement

Recorded: @ Sun Records Studios Memphis, Tennessee USA February, 1955

Released: on April 15, 1957

Sun Records

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Ranked the 61st greatest song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.

In 2005, "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On" was selected for permanent preservation in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress.

"Perhaps the quintessential rockabilly anthem" - Charles L. Ponce de Leon

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AD: "Cash Box" Magazine July 20, 1957

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@stitchedgrave tagged me in another tag game thank u <3 we are united in the struggle of dealing with college bureaucracy nonsense it seems.

im tagging @unfading-scrutiny @r0ttdweller @cherubgore @laceandgore @cannibaldotcom n sorry i am stoned out of it so if i forgot anyone i apologize

LAST SONG I LISTENED TO: Lithium- Devonshire Mix by Nirvana. idk what it is about the Devonshire Mix of Nevermind but it hits different. Except In Bloom, i like the final mix of that one because it feels like having my hair blown back by a strong wind.

FAVOURITE PLACE: In Canada, Manitoba. Specifically Lockport, hence why i have dragged the innocent municipality of St. Clements into depravity. But its so pretty to me and its so peaceful, and Half Moon Diner is there. i got to bring my boyfriend there when we visited my family.

In Ireland, Belfast. i love the north as a whole but Belfast is just. sublime. the way it smells in the morning during springtime. ugh.

FAVOURITE BOOK: The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. its just good like idk what to tell you.

CURRENTLY READING: My Dark Vanessa by Katie Elizabeth Russell. usually im not the biggest fan of first person narration (but even thats more to do with writing than reading) but im LOVING it.

FAVOURITE TV SHOW: Honestly probably Blackadder. my dad took my education in film and television as seriously as my mom took jesus, and so he showed it to me when i was like 6. the episode with the boobs. it was great and its been a comfort show ever since. i am also a ride or die Hannibal girlie

FAVOURITE FOOD: my boyfriends' butter chicken. every time he makes it i die and am reborn. he tells me the bits where the chicken skin is burnt is what peanut butter tastes like (i have allergies)

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LGC4TH GIFT FROM CHA HYOSEOP, CHA SORI, KIM CHERRY AND JUJU!

hello everyone and happy fourth year anniversary to lgc! hyoseop was my third time joining, and i'm so glad to have stayed ~~~ as a small gift (who took way longer than intended) i've gathered 92 quotes, and let a generator choose a quote for every muse! it took a while to find all these quotes, so i'd love for you to check out what quote your muse got! it's under the cut below :3

( btw you can use ctrl+f to search for your muse(s)'s name)

ahn jaehwa “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave” - Mary Tyler Moore

ahn jaesun “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it’ll take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway” - Earl Nightingale 

ahn nari “Success is a journey, not a destination” - Ben Sweetland

ahn yein “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced” - Soren Kirkegaard 

ayutthaya maya “The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore” - Ferdinand Magellan

baek byeongkwan “Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict” - William Ellery Channing

baek seona “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great” - Zig Ziglar

cha hyoseop “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door” - Milton Berne

cha sori “You have not failed until you quit trying” - Gordon B. Hinckley 

chen mailyn “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it” - Henry Ford

cho minkyu “Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together” - Marylin Monroe

choi kai “Dreams do not have an expiration date, you can always keep trying” - Unknown

choi kyungsoo “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star” - W. Clement Stone

gong hyejoo “Fairytales are more than true: not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten” - Neil Gaiman

han brooke “Success only comes to those who dare attempt” - Mallika Tripathi

han hyunhee “The elevator to success if out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time” - Joe Girard

han jisoo “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do” - John Wooden

han keeho “Do not fear mistakes, there are none” - Miles Davis

han noeul “I will either find a way or make one” - Hannibal

han rowon “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten” - Jon Bovi Jovi

hou minghao “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward” - C. S. Lewis

im yunseo “I’d rather attempt something great and fail than to attempt nothing and succeed” - Robert H. Schuller

jeon haru “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water” - Rabindranath Tagore

jo daeul “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10.000 ways that won’t work” - Thomas A. Edison

kang maximilian “Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success” - Arianna Huffington

kang minjun “Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where they are, had to begin where they were” - Richard L. Evans

kang yoojoon “If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it” - Ronnie Lott

kim alex “Failure is a detour, not a dead-end-street” - Zig Ziglar

kim cherry “It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it” - Lillian Hellman

kim jinhyuk “In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can” - Nikos Kazantzakis

kim jinseo “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent” - Elearnor Roosevelt 

kim jinyoung “Focus on the step in front of you, not the whole staircase” - Unknown

kim nayoung “I wasn’t afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure” - Anne Baxter

kim seyoon “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’” - Audrey Hepburn

kim yujin “If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain” - Dolly Parton

kuramoto misaki “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant” - Robert L. Stevenson

kurosawa akio “There’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in” - Leonard Cohen

kwon baekhyun “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” W. E. Hickson

kwon hyuntae “Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do” - Benjamin Spock

kwon sena “Your life is a journey, not a race” - Unknown 

lai wenjun “Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live” - Anne Sweeney

lee hanbyul “A journey, no matter how long, still begins with the first step” - Lao Tzu

lee hyunsoo “I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that” - Pipi Longstocking

lee jiho “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today” - H. G. Wells

lee minji “The secret of getting ahead is getting started” - Mark Twain

lee yejin “I hold it true, what’er befall, I feel it, when I sorrow most. Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all” - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

lee yushin “Time you enjoyed wasting, was not wasted” - John Lennon

lim sanghyun “Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker” - Zig Ziglar

liu yuxi “Failure is success if we learn from it” - Malcolm Forbes

min hanbin “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great” - Zig Ziglar

min soyoun “You’ve got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead” - Elvis Presley

moon hayoung “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great” - John D. Rockefeller

moon jiah “We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated” - Maya Angelou

moon jino “Being lost is not bad, as it is what happens before you find your way” - Unknown

moon somin “Follow your dreams, they show which way to go” - Unknown

noh areum “Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine” - Mario Fernández

oh eunhye “Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck” - Dalai Lama

okada mayumi “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward” - Victor Kiam

paeng jinae “Just because everything is different, doesn’t mean anything has changed” - Irene Peter

pak jihan “Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom” - Jim Rohn

park jaekyung “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or we can rejoice because thorn bushes have roses” - Abraham Lincoln

park jungmo “A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new” - Albert Einstein

park seojin “If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results” - Jack Dixon

park taeha “Life isn’t about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself” - George Bernard Shaw

pongsak tee “Some people want it to happen, some wish it to happen, be someone who makes it happen” - Michael Jordan

sato minami “Turn your wounds into wisdom” - Oprah Winfrey

seo minseo “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going” - Sam Levenson

seo nina “A failure is not always a mistake, it may simple be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying” - B. F. Skinner

seo yura “Tomorrow is a mystery, yesterday is history, and today is a gift, that’s why they call it present” - Kung Fu Panda

seong byungho “It is better to look ahead and prepare than look back and regret” - Jackie Joyner-Kersee

shin jieun “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you don’t stop” - Confucius

shin minhyuk “You have not failed, until you make failing stop you” - Unknown

somsri sofia “I love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars” - Og Mandino

son eunho “The only time you should ever look back, is to see how far you’ve come” - BTS

son haeun “Don’t be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

son nabi “The only thing that doesn’t change in life, is that thing changes” - South Park

su parker “Be not afraid of storms because you are learning how to sail your ship” - Louisa May Alcott

takanashi asami “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step” - Martin Luther King Jr.

watanabe miyu “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination” - Jimmy Dean

won yeonwoo “You learn more from failure than success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character”  - Unknown

xue yichen “Doubts kill more dreams than failure ever will” - Unknown

xue yiran “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success” - Joyce Brothers

yamashita ichika “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” - Wayne Gretzky

yang aera “I can accept failure, everybody fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying” - Michael Jordan

yang aeri “To lose is still to learn” - Unknown

yoo daeho “Even if tomorrow the world would go into pieces, I would still plant my apple tree” - Martin Luther 

yoo haemin “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear for failure” - Bill Cosby 

yoon minjae “Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning” - Robert Kiyosaki

yu milan “One that want the fruit, must climb the tree” - Thomas Fuller

zheng amelia “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start” - Nido R Quebin zheng leo “You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that they will somehow connect in your future” - Steve Jobs

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🎬List of Movies🎬

So, @scottishaccentsareawesome, I thought it would take me at least two days to make a list, because I wanted to list them chronologically, but I had WAY. TOO. MANY. MOVIES. ALREADY?????!!!!!!!! I had to stop! :O

So there you go. Below the cut. I am so so SO sorry... xD

Star Wars: Episode IV – Star Wars (1977, George Lucas)

Grease (1978, Randal Kleiser)

Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983, Richard Marquand)

The Goonies (1985, Richard Donner)

Top Gun (1986, Tony Scott)

Dirty Dancing (1987, Emile Ardolino)

Rain Man (1988, Barry Levinson)

Pretty Woman (1990, Garry Marshall)

Hook (1991, Steven Spielberg)

Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (1993, Stuart Margolin)

Jurassic Park (1993, Steven Spielberg)

Stargate (1994, Roland Emmerich)

Batman Forever (1995, Joel Schumacher)

Crimson Tide (1995, Tony Scott)

Jumanji (1995, Joe Johnston)

Sense and Sensibility (1995, Ang Lee)

Mission: Impossible (1996, Brian De Palma)

William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996, Baz Luhrmann)

George of the Jungle (1997, Sam Weisman)

Home Alone 3 (1997, Raja Gosnell)

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997, Steven Spielberg)

Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999, George Lucas)

The Mummy (1999, Stephen Sommers)

Meet the Parents (2000, Jay Roach)

X-Men (2000, Bryan Singer)

Mission: Impossible 2 (2000, John Woo)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001, Chris Columbus)

Jurassic Park III (2001, Joe Johnston)

Kate & Leopold (2001, James Mangold)

Ocean’s Eleven (2001, Steven Soderbergh)

The Princess Diaries (2001, Garry Marshall)

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001, Peter Jackson)

The Mummy Returns (2001, Stephen Sommers)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002, Chris Columbus)

Ice Age (2002, Chris Wedge)

Maid in Manhattan (2002, Wayne Wang)

Spider-Man (2002, Sam Raimi)

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002, George Lucas)

Sweet Home Alabama (2002, Andy Tennant)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002, Peter Jackson)

The Tuxedo (2002, Kevin Donovan)

Treasure Planet (2002, John Musker/Ron Clements)

X2 (2002, Bryan Singer)

Johnny English (2003, Peter Howitt)

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

The Haunted Mansion (2003, Rob Minkoff)

The Last Samurai (2003, Edward Zwick)

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003, Peter Jackson)

National Treasure (2004, Jon Turteltaub)

Ella Enchanted (2004, Tommy O’Haver)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004, Alfonso Cuarón)

Meet the Fockers (2004, Jay Roach)

Ocean's Twelve (2004, Steven Soderbergh)

Spider-Man 2 (2004, Sam Raimi)

The Day After Tomorrow (2004, Roland Emmerich)

The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004, Garry Marshall)

Troy (2004, Wolfgang Petersen)

Van Helsing (2004, Stephen Sommers)

Batman Begins (2005, Christopher Nolan)

Guess Who (2005, Kevin Rodney Sullivan)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005, Mike Newell)

Just Like Heaven (2005, Mark Waters)

Pride & Prejudice (2005, Joe Wright)

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005, George Lucas)

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005, Andrew Adamson)

V for Vendetta (2005, James McTeigue)

Da Vinci Code (2006, Ron Howard)

Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006, Carlos Saldanha)

John Tucker Must Die (2006, Betty Thomas)

Mission: Impossible III (2006, J.J. Abrams)

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

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006, Brett Ratner)

Enchanted (2007, Kevin Lima)

National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007, Jon Turteltaub)

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007, David Yates)

Ocean's Thirteen (2007, Steven Soderbergh)

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007, Gore Verbinski)

Spider-Man 3 (2007, Sam Raimi)

Transformers (2007, Michael Bay)

27 Dresses (2008, Anne Fletcher)

Australia (2008, Baz Luhrmann)

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008, Andrew Adamson)

The Dark Knight (2008, Christopher Nolan)

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008, Rob Cohen)

What Happens in Vegas (2008, Tom Vaughan)

Angels & Demons (2009, Ron Howard)

Avatar (2009, James Cameron)

Bride Wars (2009, Gary Winick)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009, David Yates)

Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009, Carlos Saldanha)

The Proposal (2009, Anne Fletcher)

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009, Michael Bay)

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009, Gavin Hood)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010, David Yates)

Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)

Killers (2010, Robert Luketic)

Knight and Day (2010, James Mangold)

Letters to Juliet (2010, Gary Winick)

Life as We Know It (2010, Greg Berlanti)

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010, Michael Apted)

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011, David Yates)

Johnny English Reborn (2011, Oliver Parker)

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011, Brad Bird)

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011, Rob Marshall)

Real Steel (2011, Shawn Levy)

Thor (2011, Kenneth Branagh)

X: First Class (2011, Matthew Vaughn)

Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012, Steve Martino/Mike Thurmeier)

The Dark Knight Rises (2012, Christopher Nolan)

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012, Peter Jackson)

Pacific Rim (2013, Guillermo del Toro)

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013, Peter Jackson)

Thor: The Dark World (2013, Alan Taylor)

When Calls the Heart (2013, Michael Landon Jr.)

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014, Peter Jackson)

Transcendence (2014, Wally Pfister)

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014, Bryan Singer)

Jurassic World (2015, Colin Trevorrow)

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015, Christopher McQuarrie)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015, Guy Ritchie)

Ice Age: Collision Course (2016, Mike Thurmeier)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016, David Yates)

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016, Bryan Singer)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017, Joachim Rønning/ Espen Sandberg)

Thor: Ragnarok (2017, Taika Waititi)

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018, David Yates)

Johnny English Strikes Again (2018, David Kerr)

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018, J. A. Bayona)

Ocean's Eight (2018, Gary Ross)

Code 8 (2019, Jeff Chan)

X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019, Simon Kinberg)

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022, David Yates)

Jurassic World Dominion (2022, Colin Trevorrow)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022, Joseph Kosinski)

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Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne, illustrated by E.H. Shepard

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, illustrated by Garth Williams

Matilda by Roald Dahl, illustrated by Quentin Blake

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper

The Arrival by Shaun Tan

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Heidi by Johanna Spyri

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Clement Hurd

The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson

I Want My Hat Back by Jon Klassen

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Dall'articolo "The 25 Best Children’s Books of All Time" di Ellen Gutoskey

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Events 11.22 (before 1960)

498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore. 845 – The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon. 1307 – Pope Clement V issues the papal bull Pastoralis Praeeminentiae which instructed all Christian monarchs in Europe to arrest all Templars and seize their assets. 1574 – Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile. 1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island. 1718 – Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") off the coast of North Carolina. The casualties on both sides include Maynard's first officer Mister Hyde and Teach himself. 1837 – Canadian journalist and politician William Lyon Mackenzie calls for a rebellion against the United Kingdom in his essay "To the People of Upper Canada", published in his newspaper The Constitution. 1855 – In Birmingham, England, Albert, Prince Consort lays the foundation stone of the Birmingham and Midland Institute. 1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched. 1873 – The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives. 1908 – The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet. 1921 – During The Troubles in Northern Ireland (1920–1922), 22 Irish Nationalists are killed in Belfast in one day. 1935 – The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila. 1940 – World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa. 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th Army is surrounded. 1943 – World War II: Cairo Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan. 1943 – Lebanon gains independence from France, nearly two years after it was first announced by the Free French government. 1952 – A Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashes into Mount Gannet, Alaska, killing all 52 aboard. 1955 – The Soviet Union launches RDS-37, a 1.6 megaton two stage hydrogen bomb designed by Andrei Sakharov. The bomb was dropped over Semipalatinsk.

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Sales are contingent upon the attitude of the salesman, not the attitude of the prospect. ~ William Clement Stone (Author)

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Lecture Notes MON 11th MARCH

Masterlist

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Modernism, Medium and Modernity 1905-1970

Further Reading: Clive Bell (1881 - 1964) 'The Aesthetic Hypothesis'

Clement Greenberg (1909 - 1994) 'Modernist Painting'

Rosalind Krauss (b. 1940) 'A View of Modernism'

More and Other

Formalism: Significant Form

Significant form doesn’t really address the Avante-Garde and is mostly a theory in art history.

Vanessa Bell and her husband Clive Bell were the most vocal about significant form, where Birkbeck Art House is was where they lived and invited artists, critics and poets alike. Clive Bell also studied in France. In 1910 Fry curated ‘Manet and the Post-Impressionists’ at the Grafton Gallery, London. This exhibition is seen as the event that introduced French modern art into the UK. It was followed by a second exhibition in 1912.

And in 1914 Clive Bell published a book titled "Art”, where he discussed modern art, although it also addressed and encompassed all art. Significant form and aesthetic experience, in 1914 Bell coined the term ‘significant form’ to describe the characteristic he felt all genuine works of art shared. He said: ‘lines and colours combined in a particular way [ create] certain forms and relations of forms, [that] stir our aesthetic emotions’. It was not supposed to be specific to time or place and applied to things as different as a Persian carpet, a ‘negro’ sculpture, and a work by Cezanne. Significant form and beauty are two vastly different things, to the point where some suggest that something is not art if it doesn’t have significant form. This is visible in The Railway Station aka Victorian art. Significant form gave rise to aesthetic experience in those persons sensitive enough to feel it.

Significant Form: effect of line/colour has on our emotional response. (Main criticism: subjectivity)

William Powell Frith, The Railway Station, 1862

Bell thought a viewer could idle away an hour looking at the narrative anecdotes depicted in The Railway Station, but, in his view, this kind of narrative anecdotalist was not art. The Bloomsbury Group actively disliked Victorianism.

Truth to Materials: specific to modern art

“Every material has its own individual qualities … Stone, for example, is hard and concentrated and should not be falsified to look like soft flesh … It should keep its hard tense stoniness.”

Henri Moore, 1934

Henry Moore, Reclining Woman, 1930, green Hornton stone, 59.7 x 92.7 x 41.3 cm

For example the roughness of the stone is textural. This is part of truth to materials. Moreover, from this, sculpture was promoted in schools of art, especially in Russia, while Boa House was developing similar programs by students.

The different shapes of the metals demonstrate their material properties:

- the S-curve shows the great flexibility of tin;

- the triangle plate of brass highlights its qualities as a surface material;

- the steel ring showcases its strength and flexibility;

- the red-painted iron parabola is the stabilising, unifying, and dynamic force of the composition;

- the wood square is the base

Konstantin Medunetsky, Spatial Construction (Construction no. 557), 1919, tin, brass, painted iron and steel, 46 x 17.8 x 17.8 cm (Yale University Art Gallery)

Similar ideas were explored in photography, with Pictorialism: when photography was still new, and debates were still questioning if it was an art form. Ths directly impacted photos, to make them similar to art,

‘Perhaps we will be accused of effacing the specific character of photography. That indeed is our intention.’ – Demanchy & Puyo, 1906

‘Let the amateur photographer use as much oil, gum or platinum as he likes; let him touch up his photograph with paint or attack it with a scrapper; that is perfectly all right with me, so long as he show me a picture such as the next man could not produce.’ – Demanchy.

Avant-Garde: Photographs should not be based on artistic rules from ‘bygone eras of painting.’  Good photographs often ran ‘contrary to the “rules” of art.’ – Werner Graff, 1929

‘The beauty of photography is of the same kind as that of an airplane, an ocean liner, or an incandescent lamp… Photography is beautiful precisely when it is not art.’ – Karel Tiege

Heinrich Kühn, Decanter, 1907

Later people attempted to bring photography back to being “normal”, not art. Make it its own medium, not tampering with technical aspects.

The New Photography or ‘New Vision’

Rejects Pictorialism in favour of sharp focus and mass publication. Particular attention is paid to light and reflection; close-ups and unusual angles. Subjects are selected for sharp lines and reflections. Looking is particularly thematised. The ‘new photography’ is a meditation on vision in a technological society.

Rodchenko, Mother, 1924

Medium specificity: The American critic, Greenberg began writing in the late 1930s and was associated with the Trotskyist magazine Partisan Review. He championed modern art and was particularly important in promoting Abstract Expressionist painting.  While it wasn’t a theory he was proposing, it was just an observation.

Turning away from his earlier political commitments he pursued a formal study of art. Sculpture and painting are static and cannot have narrative. You are limited by the shape and size of the canvas.

Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in his book Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry (1766) Set out what he saw as the key distinctions between the arts of painting, sculpture and poetry.

Greenberg in his essay ‘Towards a Newer Laocoon’ (1940) picked up this line of thinking and argued for the specific, non-literary character of painting.

In subsequent writings, he insisted the task of all art was self-criticism and focus on its inherent properties. This involved eliminating those dimensions or practices that were not specific to that particular art form. This argument is often called ‘medium specificity’.

All you could expect of a painting was for it to be good.            - See Clement Greenberg, ‘Modernist Painting’, 1960.

‘Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye’. – Greenberg

‘Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.’ –Greenberg

(Top Left) Workshop of Titian, The Penitent Magdalen, 1576 (Top Right) Édouard Manet, Olympia (1863) (Bottom Left) Pablo Picasso, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), 1910 (Bottom Right) Piet Mondrian, Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow, 1930

Greenberg argued that he wasn’t developing a theory, but merely observing the development of the best modern art, such as that of Matisse and Picasso.

For Greenberg, it was the flatness of the support (the canvas) that was specific to painting. Greenberg was completely uninterested in the work of the historic avant-garde, which he saw as a side issue. He described this kind of art as a side street or side-stream to the mainstream of modernism. He sometimes referred to ‘novelty art’. In the 1955 essay ‘American-Type Painting’, Greenberg suggested that Abstract Expressionist painters such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hofmann, Barnett Newman, and Clyfford Still were the most advanced of their generation.

Modernity: Culture started to embody ethos of factory and its aesthetic. i.e Tiller Girls (Criticism of this: Charlie Chaplin “Modern Times”) Aka: The Capitalist Aesthetic

Another view of modern art and Modernism articulated by Marxist critics in the 1930s and picked up by art historians in the 1970s

Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Theodor Adorno, & Siegfried Kracaeur.

This account is not concerned with medium specificity or truth to materials, but the use of forms and techniques to break the hold of commercial culture over everyday life.

The critic Meyer Schapiro described Impressionism as an art of spontaneous middle-class sociability.

During the 1930s the Marxist critics Walter Benjamin, Georg Lukács and TW Adorno debated montage.

Benjamin saw montage as a form of ‘Profane illumination’ cutting through the dreamworld of ideology to create a critical consciousness. His main example was drawn from Surrealism.

In contrast Adorno (along with Georg Lukács) believed collage – or montage – simply echoed the fragmenting effects of modern commodity exchange in which anything could appear alongside anything else. The effect was to produce disjointedness and lack of connection.

Kurt Schwitters, Merz Gurnfleck, 1920

Montage is a French word for assembling or editing.

All film involves montage, but mainstream cinema hides the cutting (continuity editing). Soviet film makers emphasised the cut, stressing contradiction or opposition). They connected this idea with Marxist dialectical thought. They juxtaposed different images to create something new. Kuleshov described this as the ‘montage of attractions’. It is sometimes referred to as the creation of a ‘third meaning’.

Kino Prawda was focused on montage and political too, which Greenberg would never approve of. These montage movies were important but lost momentum and are far less important today.

Kuleshov effect:

Eisenstein’s 5 techniques of montage: rhythmic montage; metric montage; tonal montage; over-tonal montage; and  intellectual montage.

Examples from Eisenstein’s fims, 6 mins: 

[mediamixs]

Top 10 Horror Comedies

Horror comedies offer a delightful blend of frights and laughs, creating a unique genre that appeals to fans of both horror and comedy. Here's a list of ten top horror comedies that have left audiences screaming with laughter:

Shaun of the Dead (2004): Directed by Edgar Wright and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, this British gem brilliantly combines zombie horror with sharp humor. Shaun, a slacker, finds himself fighting off a zombie apocalypse while trying to win back his ex-girlfriend and reconcile with his mother.

The Cabin in the Woods (2012): Directed by Drew Goddard and co-written by Joss Whedon, this film deconstructs horror tropes while serving up scares and laughs. A group of friends heads to a remote cabin for a getaway, only to find themselves manipulated in a twisted experiment.

What We Do in the Shadows (2014): Directed by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement, this mockumentary follows the lives of four vampire roommates living in modern-day New Zealand. Their everyday struggles and conflicts lead to hilarious situations, offering a fresh take on vampire lore.

Evil Dead II (1987): Directed by Sam Raimi, this sequel to "The Evil Dead" amps up the humor while retaining the gore and scares. Bruce Campbell's iconic performance as Ash Williams, battling demonic forces in a cabin, has made this film a cult classic.

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010): Directed by Eli Craig, this film flips the "hillbilly horror" trope on its head. Two well-meaning hillbillies, Tucker and Dale, are mistaken for psychotic killers by a group of college students during a camping trip, leading to hilarious misunderstandings.

Zombieland (2009): Directed by Ruben Fleischer, this post-apocalyptic horror comedy follows a group of survivors navigating a world overrun by zombies. With a talented cast including Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin, "Zombieland" delivers plenty of laughs alongside its zombie mayhem.

Ghostbusters (1984): Directed by Ivan Reitman, this supernatural comedy follows a group of eccentric scientists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson deliver memorable performances in this classic film.

Gremlins (1984): Directed by Joe Dante, this dark comedy horror follows a young man who receives a mysterious creature called a Mogwai as a pet. Chaos ensues when he fails to follow the three important rules for its care, leading to the spawning of mischievous and malevolent gremlins.

Dead Alive (1992): Directed by Peter Jackson before he became known for "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, this New Zealand splatstick horror comedy is notorious for its extreme gore and dark humor. When a man's overbearing mother is bitten by a Sumatran rat-monkey and turns into a zombie, chaos erupts.

An American Werewolf in London (1981): Directed by John Landis, this horror comedy follows two American backpackers who encounter a werewolf while traveling in England. Mixing humor with impressive practical effects, this film has become a classic of the genre.

These horror comedies offer a perfect blend of scares and laughs, appealing to fans looking for a thrilling and entertaining movie experience.

[swashbuckler5e]

MOANA 2

Moana (also known as Vaiana or Oceania, in some markets) is a 2016 American 3D computer-animated musical adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 56th Disney animated feature film. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, co-directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, the film introduces Auliʻi Cravalho as Moana and features the voices of Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House, Temuera Morrison, Jemaine Clement, Nicole Scherzinger, and Alan Tudyk. The film features songs written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Opetaia Foa'i and Mark Mancina, and an orchestral score also composed by Mancina

[brookston]

Holidays 11.29

Holidays

Andrzejki (Poland)

Avascular Necrosis/Osteonecrosis Awareness Day

Chadwick Boseman Day

Chia Pet Day

Customer is Wrong Day

Dita e Çlirimit (Liberation Day; Albania)

Don Cheadle Day

Electronic Greetings Day

Feast of Great Expectations

Get Rid of Clutter Day

Global MRKH Awareness Day (Australia)

Insotrancevia Day

International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (UN)

International Day of the Bible [also 11.24]

International Jaguar Day

Invisible Ink Day

Isdal Woman Day

Juniper Day (French Republic)

London Bridge Stabbing Anniversary Day

National Electronic Greetings Day

National Evan Day

National Square Dance Day [also 1.24]

National Tuxedo Cat Day

National Unity Day (Vanuatu)

Newspaper Day

Pay A Blogger Day

Republic Day (Yugoslavia)

Rolling Stones Day (Colorado)

Schrödinger's Cat Day

Tori No Ichi (Rooster Day #3; Japan)

Unity Day (Vanuatu)

Westland Day (New Zealand)

William V.S. Tubman Day (Liberia)

World Anteater Day

World Movement Disorders Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Gnocchi Day (Argentina)

Good Meat Day (Ii Niku no Hi; Japan)

National Chocolates Day

National Lemon Cream Pie Day

National Rice Cake Day

Pop-Tarts Day

5th & Last Wednesday in November

National Package Protection Day [Wednesday after Thanksgiving]

Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting [Wednesday after Thanksgiving]

Thanksgiving (Norfolk Island, Canada) [Last Wednesday]

Women Wednesday (a.k.a. Women Wow or Choose Women Wednesday) [Wednesday after Thanksgiving]

Independence Days

Paravia (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Abibos of Nekresi (Christian; Saint)

Alexander Brullov (Artology)

Ashi Vanguhi (Ancient Persian/Zoroastrian) [2 Days after Full Moon]

Bernardo de Hoyos (Christian; Blessed)

Brendan of Birr (Christian; Saint)

Clement IV, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Cuthbert Mayne (Christian; Martyr)

Cutlass Sharpening Day (Pastafarian)

Feast of All Saints of the Seraphic Order

Festival of Saturnia (for the Sons of Saturn)

Francis Fasani (Christian; Saint)

The Hobos (Muppetism)

Illuminata (Christian; Saint)

James Rosenquist (Artology)

Jefferson (Positivist; Saint)

Our Lady of Beauraing (Christian; Saint)

Radboud of Utrecht (Roman Catholic; Saint)

Sadiron (Christian; Saint)

Saturnin (a.k.a. Saturnius of Toulouse; Christian; Saint)

Sekhmet’s Day (Pagan)

Ummm Bacon Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Vegetarian Remission Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

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

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [54 of 60]

Premieres

Astral Weeks, by Van Morrison (Album; 1968)

The Bank Dick (Film; 1940)

Boulevard of Broken Dreams, by Green Day (Song; 2004)

Bullwinkle’s Ride or Goodbye, Dollink (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 2; 1959)

Calling All Cars (Radio Series; 1933)

The Gay Divorce, by Cole Porter (Broadway Musical; 1932)

Double Fantasy, by John Lennon (Album; 1980)

Hawaiian War Chant, recorded by Tommy Dorsey (Song; 1938)

It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (TV Movie; 2002)

I Want to Hold Your Hand, by The Beatles (Song; 1963)

Jet Fuel Formula, Episode One (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 1; 1959)

Lavender Haze, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2022)

Like a Hurricane, recorded by Neil Young (Song; 1975)

The Lost Weekend (Film; 1945)

Mirai (Anime Film; 2018)

My Life, by Mary J. Blige (Album; 1994)

9 to 5 (Film; 1980)

9 to 5, by Dolly Parton (Song; 1980)

Pong (Video Game; 1972)

Rolling in the Deep, by Adele (Song; 2010)

Terrier Stricken (WB MM Cartoon; 1952)

Today’s Name Days

Christine, Friederike, Friedrich (Austria)

Iluminata, Saturnin, Svjetlana, Vlasta (Croatia)

Zina (Czech Republic)

Saturnius (Denmark)

Edgar, Egert (Estonia)

Aimo (Finland)

Saturnin (France)

Berta, Friedrich, Friederike (Germany)

Fedra, Fedros, Filoumeni, Filoumenos (Greece)

Taksony (Hungary)

Saturnino (Italy)

Ignats, Ojars, Veseta (Latvia)

Butvydė, Daujotas, Saturninas (Lithuania)

Sofie, Sonja (Norway)

Błażej, Bolemysł, Fryderyk, Przemysł, Saturnin, Saturnina, Walter (Poland)

Filumen, Paramon, Valerian (Romania)

Vratko (Slovakia)

Iluminada, Saturnino (Spain)

Sune (Sweden)

Philemona (Ukraine)

Dahlia, Dalia, Daphne (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 333 of 2024; 32 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 48 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 2 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 17 (Xin-Mao)

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

Hebrew: 16 Kislev 5784

Islamic: 16 Jumada I 1445

J Cal: 3 Zima; Threesday [3 of 30]

Julian: 16 November 2023

Moon: 94%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 25 Frederic (12th Month) [Jefferson]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 67 of 89)

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 8 of 30)

[joannerowling]

A non exhaustive list of books we know JKR has definitely read based on interviews, tweets and/or quotes in her books (not citing the most famous authors cause i can't be arsed):

The Iliad

The Bible (beyond the Christian influences in Harry Potter, she once wrote a biblical parody entitled “The visitation of the Corbynites: a festive thread” mocking's the antisemitism of Labour's leader)

More Fruits of Solitude, William Penn (DH's opening quote 1)

The Libation Bearers, Aeschylus (DH's opening quote 2)

The Canterbury Tales (cited as inspiration for the Tales of Beedle the Bard)

Shakespeare's work (cited as what she'd bring to an isolated island, alongside the works of Colette and P. G. Wodehouse) ; Macbeth, Hamlet, and Timon of Athens were specifically cited. Many of her characters have Shakespearian names starting with Hermione

Emma, Pride and Predjudice, Sense and Sensibility (cited in interviews and seen in the backgrounds in her old website; Austen has frequently been named as her favourite writer)

Lolita

The Story of the Treasure Seekers, Edith Nesbit

The Tale of Peter Rabbit and The Tale of Two Bad Mice, Beatrix Potter (the second one cited in her 2006 list of books every children should read for the Royal Society of Literature; also, there's a bit in The Tales of Beetle the Bard which gently parodies Potter's cutesy style, through fictional child lit writer Beatrix Bloxam)

The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

The Chronicles of Narnia

Manxmouse, Paul Gallico

The works of civil rights activist and Communist Jessica Mitford (her most influential role model ; Rowling's oldest daughter was named after her)

The Little White Horse

The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White

In the whodunnits genre: Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, P. D. James, Bruce Wendell

(Her favourite Christie is The Moving Finger, and her favourite Allingham is The Fashion in Shrouds)

A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield (and probably all of Dickens, another extremely obvious influence)

I Capture the Castle, Dodie Smith

Grimble, Clement Freud

Colette's works (cited as one of the three writers whose works she would take to reread on an isolated island)

Roddy Doyle's works, cited as her favourite living writer

Katherine Mansfield's works

Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre (+ more by the Bröntes, obviously: her film and tv production company is called Brönte)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

To Kill a Mockingbird

Animal Farm

The Catcher in the Rye

Catch-22

Robinson Crusoë

Ballet Shoes by Mary Noel Streatfeild

The works of Christina Rossetti (cited in Cuckoo's Calling and The Ink Black Heart; very obviously the influence behind the Goblins in Harry Potter)

The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser (all epigraphs in Troubled Blood)

Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen (all epigraphs in Lethal White)

The Noble Spanish Soldier and The Honest Whore by Thomas Dekker

The Little French Lawyer and The False One, Francis Beaumont and Philip Massinger

The plays of of William Congreve, including The Double-Dealer, The Old Bachelor, The Way of the World, The False One, Love for Love and The Mourning Bride

The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

Every Man in His Humour and Epicoene, or The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

Endymion: or, the Man in the Moon by John Lyly

Orlando Furioso by Robert Greene

The Revenge of Bussy d’Ambois by George Chapman

The Spanish Tragedie by Thomas Kyd

The Bloody Brother by John Fletcher

Telephus by Lucius Accius

De Consolatione Philosophiae by Boethius

The works of Virgil

The works of Horace

Historia Naturalis by Pliny the Elder (shows up in The Silkworm's epigraphs, but before that was probably a huge influence and well of resources for the writing of Harry Potter)

The I Ching, or Book of Changes (all epigraphs in The Running Grave)

Team of Rivals : The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Collected Works of P. G. Wodehouse

The Diaries of Auberon Waugh

Little Women

Poverty Safari : Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass, by Darren McGarvey

Justice : What's the Right Thing to Do?, by Michael J. Sandel

The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt

Black Beauty

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Culpepper's Complete Herbal, cited as a favourite amongst what Rowling calls "reference books". I can't find all the titles, but books like this one inspired the titles and content of the study books in Harry Potter like Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ; for example, A General History of Drugs by Pierre Pomet was shown at the British Library's exhibition Harry Potter: A History of Magic. Equally, an undetermined amount of books on British and world tales which you can guess the influence throughout her books - Cormoran Strike was named after the Cornish giant Cormoran in Jack the Giant Killer, etc.

Suicide and The Division of Labour in Society by Emile Durkheim

Engels and Marx almost certainly (based on tweets)

Again, somebody helps me with the titles cause at this point i'm exhausted xD but JKR has read books written about cults which showed up in The Running Grave and possibly in The Ink Black Heart

And again, several books written by trans people which she said she read while doing research on the topic, cited in the Witch Trials of JK Rowling podcast

Sources : x x x x x + my own memory

Bonus: list of people not appearing in the above list and officially died butthurt about it:

Ursula K. Leguin

Terry Pratchett

😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 11.29

Holidays

Andrzejki (Poland)

Avascular Necrosis/Osteonecrosis Awareness Day

Chadwick Boseman Day

Chia Pet Day

Customer is Wrong Day

Dita e Çlirimit (Liberation Day; Albania)

Don Cheadle Day

Electronic Greetings Day

Feast of Great Expectations

Get Rid of Clutter Day

Global MRKH Awareness Day (Australia)

Insotrancevia Day

International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (UN)

International Day of the Bible [also 11.24]

International Jaguar Day

Invisible Ink Day

Isdal Woman Day

Juniper Day (French Republic)

London Bridge Stabbing Anniversary Day

National Electronic Greetings Day

National Evan Day

National Square Dance Day [also 1.24]

National Tuxedo Cat Day

National Unity Day (Vanuatu)

Newspaper Day

Pay A Blogger Day

Republic Day (Yugoslavia)

Rolling Stones Day (Colorado)

Schrödinger's Cat Day

Tori No Ichi (Rooster Day #3; Japan)

Unity Day (Vanuatu)

Westland Day (New Zealand)

William V.S. Tubman Day (Liberia)

World Anteater Day

World Movement Disorders Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Gnocchi Day (Argentina)

Good Meat Day (Ii Niku no Hi; Japan)

National Chocolates Day

National Lemon Cream Pie Day

National Rice Cake Day

Pop-Tarts Day

5th & Last Wednesday in November

National Package Protection Day [Wednesday after Thanksgiving]

Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting [Wednesday after Thanksgiving]

Thanksgiving (Norfolk Island, Canada) [Last Wednesday]

Women Wednesday (a.k.a. Women Wow or Choose Women Wednesday) [Wednesday after Thanksgiving]

Independence Days

Paravia (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Abibos of Nekresi (Christian; Saint)

Alexander Brullov (Artology)

Ashi Vanguhi (Ancient Persian/Zoroastrian) [2 Days after Full Moon]

Bernardo de Hoyos (Christian; Blessed)

Brendan of Birr (Christian; Saint)

Clement IV, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Cuthbert Mayne (Christian; Martyr)

Cutlass Sharpening Day (Pastafarian)

Feast of All Saints of the Seraphic Order

Festival of Saturnia (for the Sons of Saturn)

Francis Fasani (Christian; Saint)

The Hobos (Muppetism)

Illuminata (Christian; Saint)

James Rosenquist (Artology)

Jefferson (Positivist; Saint)

Our Lady of Beauraing (Christian; Saint)

Radboud of Utrecht (Roman Catholic; Saint)

Sadiron (Christian; Saint)

Saturnin (a.k.a. Saturnius of Toulouse; Christian; Saint)

Sekhmet’s Day (Pagan)

Ummm Bacon Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Vegetarian Remission Day (Church of the SubGenius)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

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

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [54 of 60]

Premieres

Astral Weeks, by Van Morrison (Album; 1968)

The Bank Dick (Film; 1940)

Boulevard of Broken Dreams, by Green Day (Song; 2004)

Bullwinkle’s Ride or Goodbye, Dollink (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 2; 1959)

Calling All Cars (Radio Series; 1933)

The Gay Divorce, by Cole Porter (Broadway Musical; 1932)

Double Fantasy, by John Lennon (Album; 1980)

Hawaiian War Chant, recorded by Tommy Dorsey (Song; 1938)

It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (TV Movie; 2002)

I Want to Hold Your Hand, by The Beatles (Song; 1963)

Jet Fuel Formula, Episode One (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 1; 1959)

Lavender Haze, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2022)

Like a Hurricane, recorded by Neil Young (Song; 1975)

The Lost Weekend (Film; 1945)

Mirai (Anime Film; 2018)

My Life, by Mary J. Blige (Album; 1994)

9 to 5 (Film; 1980)

9 to 5, by Dolly Parton (Song; 1980)

Pong (Video Game; 1972)

Rolling in the Deep, by Adele (Song; 2010)

Terrier Stricken (WB MM Cartoon; 1952)

Today’s Name Days

Christine, Friederike, Friedrich (Austria)

Iluminata, Saturnin, Svjetlana, Vlasta (Croatia)

Zina (Czech Republic)

Saturnius (Denmark)

Edgar, Egert (Estonia)

Aimo (Finland)

Saturnin (France)

Berta, Friedrich, Friederike (Germany)

Fedra, Fedros, Filoumeni, Filoumenos (Greece)

Taksony (Hungary)

Saturnino (Italy)

Ignats, Ojars, Veseta (Latvia)

Butvydė, Daujotas, Saturninas (Lithuania)

Sofie, Sonja (Norway)

Błażej, Bolemysł, Fryderyk, Przemysł, Saturnin, Saturnina, Walter (Poland)

Filumen, Paramon, Valerian (Romania)

Vratko (Slovakia)

Iluminada, Saturnino (Spain)

Sune (Sweden)

Philemona (Ukraine)

Dahlia, Dalia, Daphne (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 333 of 2024; 32 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 48 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 2 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 17 (Xin-Mao)

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

Hebrew: 16 Kislev 5784

Islamic: 16 Jumada I 1445

J Cal: 3 Zima; Threesday [3 of 30]

Julian: 16 November 2023

Moon: 94%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 25 Frederic (12th Month) [Jefferson]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 67 of 89)

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 8 of 30)

[bettedavises]

Hollywood stars and their woman activist dates for the 2018 Golden Globes.

Meryl Streep + Al-Jen Poo, director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance Michelle Williams  + Tarana Burke, creator of the “Me too” movement Emma Stone + Billie Jean King, former World No. 1 professional tennis player and advocate for women’s and LGBT rights Amy Poehler + Saru Jayaraman, a workplace justice advocate for restaurant workers. Susan Sarandon + Rosa Clemente, activist focused on political prisoners Emma Watson + Marai Larasi, executive director of the UK-based black feminist organization, Imkaan Laura Dern + Mónica Ramírez, who fights for the rights of farm workers around the world.