#lord berners

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From left: Lord Berners, Bridget Parsons, Lady Diane Abdy, Sir Robert Abdy, Robert Heber-Percy, Alice B Toklas, and Gertrude Stein. Lord Berners was a true English eccentric. He was known for hosting lavish parties and keeping pastel-colored pigeons at Faringdon House, his country home in Oxfordshire. When he died in 1950, he left his entire estate to his lover Robert Heber-Percy who lived there until his death in 1987.

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A brilliant film score from the 1944 movie, The Halfway House.

Lord Berners (1883-1950): Suite orchestrale dalla colonna sonora del film 'The Halfway House' (1944). Arrangiamento di Philip Lane. I. Main Titles II. The Concert [01:46] III. Bicycle Ride [04:41] IV. 'Drowning' Scene [05:16] V. Séance Waltz (orchestrazione di Philip Lane) [07:55] VI. Resolutions & Finale [12:10]

Joyful Company of Singers BBC Concert Orchestra diretta da Rumon Gamba.

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Staff Pick of the Week

The Hundred Year’s War is a slight misnomer; it was actually a series of multiple wars occurring between the years 1138 and 1450 with an occasional peace treaty in between periods of intense battles. Contemporary accounts of the events happening during these years are essential for historians to gain a better understanding of the time period, even if they are exaggerated or clearly biased recordings of the events at hand. One of the many historical accounts from this time is that of Frenchman Sir John Froissart. While not born into nobility, Froissart spent much time surrounded by nobles as he chronicled the happenings of the first half of the War, and his Chronicles are a vital resource for historians about that time. He also wrote a variety of poetry and even an Arthurian Romance, along with his historical accounts.

Today’s Staff Pick of the Week is an edited version of the English translation of The Chronicles of Froissart by John Bourchier, Lord Berners (1467-1533), edited by the English classical scholar G. C. Macaulay (1852-1915). John Bourchier was an English translator, as well as a soldier and statesman. His translation of the book was said to have made a significant advancement in English historical accounts and made the book accessible to a much wider audience than simply those educated to read and understand French.

The edition shown here is the 1959 Limited Editions Club (LEC) production of Froissart's Chronicles, printed by Peter Beilenson (1905-1962) of the Peter Pauper Press, with illustrations by American artist Henry C. Pitz (1895-1976), in an edition of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator. Pitz's marginalia illustrations appear to emulate those of medieval illuminated manuscripts. There are a wide variety of people depicted in clothing of the time of the Hundred Year’s War, as well as shields, weapons, animals, and buildings which are most likely meant to add a visual link to the time in which this account was originally recorded and published. Besides these marginalia, there are 16 full page-spread illustrations reproduced from Pitz's line-and-wash paintings, hand-colored through stencils at the Walter Fischer Studio.

– Sarah S., Special Collections Graduate Intern.

View more Staff Picks.

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Birthdays 9.18

Beer Birthdays

Louis X, Duke of Bavaria (1495)

Henry Stuart Rich (1841)

Elmer Hemrich (1890)

Don Barkley

Paddy Giffen (1950)

Jeff Lebusch (1957)

Five Favorite Birthdays

John Berger; art critic, writer, artist (1926)

June Foray; voice actor (1917)

Leon Foucault; French physicist (1819)

Tim McInnerny; English comedian, actor (1956)

Jonny Quest; cartoon character (1964)

Famous Birthdays

Eddie "Rochester" Anderson; actor (1905)

Lance Armstrong; cyclist (1971)

Frankie Avalon; pop singer (1939)

Lord Berners; English composer (1883)

Robert Blake; actor (1933)

Rossano Brazzi; actor (1916)

Jimmy Brogan; comedian (1948)

Joanne Catherall; pop singer (1962)

Kiki Daire; porn actor (1976)

Agnes de Mille; dancer, choreographer (1905)

Debbi Fields; cookie-maker (1956)

Tara Fitzgerald; English actor (1967)

Michael Franks; jazz musician (1944)

James Gandolfini; actor (1961)

Greta Garbo; Swedish actor (1905)

Bud Greenspan; sports journalist, filmmaker (1926)

Keeley Hazell; English model, actor (1986)

Samuel Johnson; English writer (1709)

Joe Kubert; comic book artist (1926)

Kerry Livgren; rock guitarist, keyboardist (1949)

James Marsden; actor (1973)

Elmer Henry Maytag; appliance manufacturer, cheesemaker (1883)

Jada Pinkett; actor (1971)

Dee Dee Ramone; rock bassist (1952)

Jimmie Rodgers; country singer (1933)

Ronaldo; Brazilian soccer player (1976)

Joseph Story; U.S. Supreme Court justice (1779)

Jason Sudeikis; comedian, actor (1975)

Aisha Tyler; actor, comedian (1970)

Jack Warden; actor (1920)

Fred Willard; comedian, actor (1939)

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♫ if HOME is where the HEART is, then we're all just fucked ♫

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RULES && ROSTER BELOW

♫ THE WRITER - i'm 27 years old, && i'm a tumblr veteran; i work a full-time job && have passion projects on the go. i enjoy hard cider, fall out boy && my cat. also i can't stop yapping. this blog is mostly to engage with friends ( old && new ) && to appreciate the stories && characters i love; i'm prone to tumblr anxiety && the occasional creative block, but at the end of the day i'm very much LIVE, LAUGH, LURK && can be reached easily OOC; i'm also happy to hand out my discord to mutuals.

♫ THE BLOG - due to the themes present in the source material, this blog will contain sensitive subject matter, as well as dark && possibly triggering content; i will do my best to tag everything appropriately. regarding certain* characters, i do NOT intend to water down//sugarcoat their morals, nor do i intend to romanticize the toxic dynamics rooted in canon. NOTE: MY VIEWS DO NOT REFLECT THE VIEWS OF THE CHARACTER OR THE CREATOR.

♫ WRITING // FORMATTING - theoretically, i prefer paras. that being said, i prefer quality over quantity, && don't expect anyone to pull their hair out trying to match my freak. i stick to formatted small text && no longer use icons out of personal preference; how you format on your end is entirely up to you. my only request is that threads are trimmed && ask memes are carried over to separate threads.

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♫ SHIPPING - generally speaking, i don't like to start threads with pre-established relationships unless they are based on canon material, or are discussed in advance; i prefer to ship with people i know && am comfortable with. also, despite being much older than 18, i will not be writing/posting explicit nsfw material on this blog. nsfw mentions might come up and will be tagged.

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jujutsu kaisen: nanako hasaba ( secondary ) || suguru geto ( primary ) || junpei yoshino ( on request )

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THE 236 GREATEST PERSONALITIES IN THE ENTIRE KNOWN HISTORY/COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THIS WORLD! (@INDIES)

i.e. THE 236 GREATEST PERSONALITIES IN WORLD HISTORY! (@INDIES)

Rajesh Khanna

Lionel Messi

Leonardo Da Vinci

Muhammad Ali

Joan of Arc

William Shakespeare

Vincent Van Gogh

Online Indie

J. K. Rowling

David Lean

Nadia Comaneci

Diego Maradona

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Meena Kumari

Julius Caesar

Harrison Ford

Ludwig Van Beethoven

William W. Cargill

Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche

Samuel Curtis Johnson

Sam Walton

John D. Rockefeller

Andrew Carnegie

Roy Thomson

Tim Berners-Lee

Marie Curie

James J. Hill

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Roman Polanski

Samuel Slater

J. P. Morgan

Cary Grant

Dmitri Mendeleev

John Harvard

Alain Delon

Ramakrishna Paramhansa (Official God)

The Lumiere Brothers, Auguste & Louis

Carl Friedrich Benz

Michelangelo

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Ramana Maharishi

Mark Twain

Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri

Bruce Lee

Bhagwan Krishna (Official God)

Charlemagne

Rene Descartes

John F. Kennedy

Bhagwan Ganesha (Official God)

Walt Disney

Albert Einstein

Nikola Tesla

Alfred Hitchcock

Pythagoras

William Randolph Hearst

Cosimo de’ Medici

Johann Sebastian Bach

Alec Guinness

Nostradamus

Christopher Plummer

Archimedes

Jackie Chan

Guru Dutt

Amma Karunamayi/ Mata Parvati (Official God)

Peter Sellers

Gerard Depardieu

Joseph Safra

Robert Morris

Sean Connery

Petr Kellner

Aristotle Onassis

Usain Bolt

Jack Welch

Alfredo di Stefano

Elizabeth Taylor

Michael Jordan

Paul Muni

Steven Spielberg

Louis Pasteur

Ingrid Bergman

Norma Shearer

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

Ayn Rand

Jesus Christ (Official God)

Luciano Pavarotti

Alain Resnais

Frank Sinatra

Allah (Official God)

Richard Nixon

Charlie Chaplin

Thomas Alva Edison

Alexander Graham Bell

Wright Brothers

Arjun (of Bhagwan Krishna’s Gita)

Jim Simons

George Lucas

Swami Sri Lahiri Mahasaya

Carl Lewis

Brett Favre

Helen Keller

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Buddha (Official God)

Hugh Grant

K. L. Saigal

Roger Federer

Rash Behari Bose

Tiger Woods

William Blake

Jesse Owens

Claude Miller

Bernardo Bertolucci

Subhash Chandra Bose

Satyajit Ray

Hippocrates

Chiang Kai-Shek

John Logie Baird

Geeta Dutt

Raphael (painter)

Bhagwan Shiva (Official God)

Radha (Ancient Krishna devotee)

George Orwell

Jorge Paulo Lemann

Catherine Deneuve

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Bill Gates

Bhagwan Ram (Official God)

Michael Phelps

Michael Faraday

Audrey Hepburn

Dalai Lama

Grace Kelly

Mikhail Gorbachev

Vladimir Putin

Galileo Galilei

Gary Cooper

Roger Moore

John Huston

Blaise Pascal

Humphrey Bogart

Rudyard Kipling

Samuel Morse

Wayne Gretzky

Yogi Berra

Barry Levinson

Patrice Chereau (director)

Jerry Lewis

Louis Daguerre

James Watt

Henri Rousseau

Nikita Krushchev

Jack Dorsey

Dev Anand

Elia Kazan

Alexander Fleming

David Selznick

Frank Marshall

Viswanathan Anand

Major Dhyan Chand

Swami Vivekananda

Felix Rohatyn

Sam Spiegel

Anand Bakshi

Victor Hugo

Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Official God)

Steve Jobs

Srinivasa Ramanujam

Lord Hanuman

Stanley Kubrick

Giotto

Voltaire

Diego Velazquez

Ernest Hemingway

Francis Ford Coppola

Michael Douglas

Kirk Douglas

Mario Lemieux

Kishore Kumar

James Stewart

Douglas Fairbanks

Confucius

Babe Ruth

Raj Kapoor

Titian aka Tiziano Vecelli

El Greco

Francisco de Goya

Jim Carrey

Mohammad Rafi

Steffi Graf

Pele

Gustave Courbet

Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi

Milos Forman

Steve Wozniak

Georgia O’ Keeffe

Mala Sinha

Aryabhatta

Magic Johnson

Patanjali

Leo Tolstoy

Tansen

Henry Fonda

Albrecht Durer

Benazir Bhutto

Cal Ripken Jr

Samuel Goldwyn

Mumtaz (actress)

Panini

Nicolaus Copernicus

Pablo Picasso

George Clooney

Olivia de Havilland

Prem Chand

Imran Khan

Pete Sampras

Ratan Tata

Meerabai (16th c. Krishna devotee)

Queen Elizabeth II

Pope John Paul II

James Cameron

Jack Ma

Warren Buffett

Romy Schneider

C. V. Raman

Aung San Suu Kyi

Benjamin Netanyahu

Frank Capra

Michael Schumacher

Steve Forbes

Paramhansa Yogananda

Tom Hanks

Kamal Amrohi

Hans Holbein

Shammi Kapoor

Gerardus Mercator

Edith Piaf

Bhagwan Shirdi Sai Baba (Official God)

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[August 2024 update]

The following relationship connections have been added:

Lord Berners (new name) – Harold Acton

Lord Berners – John Betjeman

Lord Berners – Beverley Nichols

Lord Berners – Harold Nicolson

Lord Berners – William Plomer

Lord Berners – Siegfried Sassoon

Lord Berners – Osbert Sitwell

Rupert Croft-Cooke (new name) – Alfred Douglas

C. H. B. Kitchin (new name) – L. P. Hartley

D. H. Lawrence – Norman Douglas

D. H. Lawrence – David Garnett

W. Somerset Maugham – E. F. Benson

W. Somerset Maugham – Robert Hichens

W. Somerset Maugham – Beverley Nichols

C. K. Scott Moncrieff (new name) – Wilfred Owen

Beverley Nichols – A. C. Benson

Beverley Nichols – Osbert Sitwell

John Gambril Nicholson (new name) – Frederick Rolfe

Walter Pater – Bram Stoker

Thank you for all the responses!

British gay/bi male writers and their social circles

As a great admirer of gay literature, the social circles of gay and bisexual male writers is something that piques my interest. Due to the dangerousness of the matter in the past and also because it revolves around a relatively small niche, it seems that there was high level familiarity between these figures. The United Kingdom, a country whose literary input has abundant homoerotic tones, is a very adequate setting to analyze such a configuration.

I've been building a graph on this subject for some time, and now it seems mature enough for me to post it. It's a diagram based on friendship connections — deep or superficial —, although romantic and family-related connections are also included. Just a mutual recognition of existence isn't enough to justify a connection (otherwise most of them would be linked to Wilde!), and rivalries were not considered too. All the writers included were born during the Victorian and Edwardian eras (1837-1910), where this interconnectivity seemed particularly strong.

This is just an early version, as I imagine there is still a considerable amount of information that I missed. Therefore, I'm very open to suggestions and comments on it!

(Three Irishmen were also included in the diagram: Stoker, Wilde and Reid)

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Lily James and Emily Beecham in The Pursuit of Love (2021) Episode One

In 1920s England, two young cousins yearn to escape from the isolated country house where they have grown up and to find love. But it's not easy.

*The character of "Lord Merlin", played by Andrew Scott, is based on the real-life British composer, writer and all-round eccentric aesthete Lord Berners.

I love period dramas but this is...bad!Bad and boring!What a waste of time!(But i will finish it...one day!)

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Lord Berners

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IMAGENES Y DATOS INTERESANTES DEL DIA 12 DE MARZO DE 2024

Día Mundial del Glaucoma, Día Mundial contra la Censura en Internet, Día Internacional de los Tuiteros, Semana Mundial del Cerebro, Semana Mundial del Glaucoma, Año Internacional de los Camélidos.

Santa Fina y Santa Herlinda.

Tal día como hoy en el año 1989

En el edificio del Laboratorio Europeo de Física de Partículas (CERN), cercano a Ginebra (Suiza), el investigador británico Tim Berners Lee describe en un informe para el CERN cual debe ser el protocolo para la transferencia de hipertextos. Este protocolo permite establecer un sistema de archivos de documentación mediante el uso de conexiones entre documentos de una forma simple. Hasta ahora, para añadir un enlace hay que modificar la ficha del documento referenciado; el nuevo sistema permitirá acceder a él simplemente indicando su "dirección" en la red. Éste el origen de lo que un año después se convertirá en la World Wide Web. (Hace 35 años)

1986

En España, el gobierno del PSOE, convoca un controvertido referéndum para decidir la permanencia en el seno de la OTAN, a la que pertenece desde 1982. El 52,5% de los votantes optará por dar el "sí" a la permanencia, el 39,8 % votará en contra. (Hace 38 años)

1947

En EE.UU el presidente de Harry S. Truman articula un discurso ante el Congreso en el que hace la siguiente afirmación: "Creo que la política de los EE.UU. debe de ser la de apoyar a los pueblos libres que están resistiendo intentos de agresión de minorías armadas o presión exterior". El objetivo final del discurso no es otro que conceder ayuda económica por importe de 400 millones de dólares a Grecia y Turquía, que se enfrentan a serias amenazas comunistas. Esta primera expresión importante de la política norteamericana de "contención" al comunismo durante la guerra fría, pasará a ser conocido como la "Doctrina Truman". (Hace 77 años)

1930

En La India, Mahatma Gandhi inicia una larga marcha hacia el mar en protesta por los impuestos británicos sobre la sal. Liderando a miles de manifestantes, Gandhi y sus seguidores llegarán al Mar Arábigo. Allí secarán su propia sal evaporando agua de mar. Gandhi y 60.000 seguidores serán detenidos, pero este hecho proporcionará respeto, apoyo y reconocimiento al Mahatma y a su movimiento pacífico de desobediencia civil, por parte de la comunidad internacional. (Hace 94 años)

1913

Se comienza a construir Canberra, capital de Australia, así llamada por la esposa del Gobernador general Lord Thomas Denman. En 1908 se eligió su capitalidad como un compromiso entre Sydney y Melbourne, las dos grandes ciudades que rivalizaban por dicho título. (Hace 111 años)

1849

En la India, el ejército Sij se rinde a los británicos al final de la Segunda Guerra sij, logrando así los ingleses anexionarse la región del Punjab, en el noroeste de la India, que permanecerá bajo su control hasta 1947, fecha en que los británicos impondrán la partición del país. (Hace 175 años)

1622

Es canonizada en Roma por el papa Gregorio XVI, Santa Teresa de Jesús, nacida en Ávila (España) en 1515, Doctora de la Iglesia y reformadora de la orden del Carmelo. (Hace 402 años)

1535

En el actual Ecuador, el capitán Francisco Pacheco, perteneciente al ejército del conquistador español Francisco de Orellana y bajo las órdenes de Diego de Almagro, funda, con el objetivo de custodiar la frontera norte, abastecer de maíz, agua y alimento a los barcos españoles, una ciudad con el nombre de Muy Leal y Noble Villa Nueva de San Gregorio de Portoviejo, convirtiéndose en la primera ciudad ecuatoriana más antigua asentada en territorio costero. (Hace 489 años)

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Oscars 2024 Nominations

The 2024 Oscar nominations have been announced. Best Picture American Fiction (Ben LeClair, Nikos Karamigios, Cord Jefferson and Jermaine Johnson, Producers) Anatomy of a Fall (Marie-Ange Luciani and David Thion, Producers Barbie (David Heyman, Margot Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Robbie Brenner, Producers) The Holdovers (Mark Johnson, Producer) Killers of the Flower Moon (Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Martin Scorsese and Daniel Lupi, Producers) Maestro (Bradley Cooper, Steven Spielberg, Fred Berner, Amy Durning and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers) Oppenheimer (Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan, Producers) Past Lives (David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler, Producers) Poor Things (Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone, Producers) The Zone of Interest (James Wilson, Producer) Best Directing Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall) Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon) Christopher Nolan (Oppenheimer) Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things) Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest) Best Actor in a Leading Role Bradley Cooper (Maestro) Colman Domingo (Rustin) Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers) Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction) Best Actress in a Leading Role Annette Bening (Nyad) Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon) Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall) Carey Mulligan (Maestro) Emma Stone (Poor Things) Best Actor in a Supporting Role Sterling K. Brown (American Fiction) Robert De Niro (Killers of the Flower Moon) Robert Downey Jr. (Oppenheimer) Ryan Gosling (Barbie) Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things) Best Actress in a Supporting Role Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer) Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple) America Ferrera (Barbie) Jodie Foster (Nyad) Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers) Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) American Fiction (Written for the screen by Cord Jefferson) Barbie (Written by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach) Oppenheimer (Written for the screen by Christopher Nolan) Poor Things (Screenplay by Tony McNamara) The Zone of Interest (Written by Jonathan Glazer) Best Writing (Original Screenplay) Anatomy of a Fall (Screenplay by Justine Triet and Arthur Harari The Holdovers (Written by David Hemingson) Maestro (Written by Bradley Cooper & Josh Singer) May December (Screenplay by Samy Burch; Story by Samy Burch & Alex Mechanik) Past Lives (Written by Celine Song) Best Animated Feature The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki) Elemental (Peter Sohn and Denise Ream) Nimona (Nick Bruno, Troy Quane, Karen Ryan and Julie Zackary) Robot Dreams (Pablo Berger, Ibon Cormenzana, Ignasi Estapé and Sandra Tapia Díaz) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Amy Pascal) Best Documentary Feature Film Bobi Wine: The People’s President (Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp and John Battsek) The Eternal Memory (Nominees to be determined) Four Daughters (Kaouther Ben Hania and Nadim Cheikhrouha) To Kill a Tiger (Nisha Pahuja, Cornelia Principe and David Oppenheim) 20 Days in Mariupol (Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner and Raney Aronson-Rath) Best International Feature Film Io Capitano (Italy) Perfect Days (Japan) Society of the Snow (Spain) The Teacher’s Lounge (Germany) The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom) Best Animated Short Film Letter to a Pig (Tal Kantor and Amit R. Gicelter) Ninety-Five Senses (Jerusha Hess and Jared Hess) Our Uniform (Yegane Moghaddam) Pachyderme (Stéphanie Clément and Marc Rius) War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko (Dave Mullins and Brad Booker Best Live-Action Short Film The After (Misan Harriman and Nicky Bentham) Invincible (Vincent René-Lortie and Samuel Caron Knight of Fortune (Lasse Lyskjær Noer and Christian Norlyk) Red, White and Blue (Nazrin Choudhury and Sara McFarlane The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Wes Anderson and Steven Rales) Best Documentary Short Film The ABCs of Book Banning (Sheila Nevins and Trish… https://chorus.fm/news/oscars-2024-nominations/

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THE 236 GREATEST PERSONALITIES IN THE ENTIRE KNOWN HISTORY/COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THIS WORLD! (@INDIES)

ie. THE 236 GREATEST PERSONALITIES IN WORLD HISTORY! (@INDIES)

Rajesh Khanna

Lionel Messi

Leonardo Da Vinci

Online Indie

Muhammad Ali

Joan of Arc

William Shakespeare

Vincent Van Gogh

J. K. Rowling

David Lean

Nadia Comaneci

Diego Maradona

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Meena Kumari

Julius Caesar

Harrison Ford

Ludwig Van Beethoven

William W. Cargill

Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche

Samuel Curtis Johnson

Sam Walton

John D. Rockefeller

Andrew Carnegie

Roy Thomson

Tim Berners-Lee

Marie Curie

James J. Hill

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Roman Polanski

Samuel Slater

J. P. Morgan

Cary Grant

Dmitri Mendeleev

John Harvard

Alain Delon

Ramakrishna Paramhansa (Official God)

The Lumiere Brothers, Auguste & Louis

Carl Friedrich Benz

Michelangelo

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Ramana Maharishi

Mark Twain

Swami Sri Yukteswar Giri

Bruce Lee

Bhagwan Krishna (Official God)

Charlemagne

Rene Descartes

John F. Kennedy

Bhagwan Ganesha (Official God)

Walt Disney

Albert Einstein

Nikola Tesla

Alfred Hitchcock

Pythagoras

William Randolph Hearst

Cosimo de’ Medici

Johann Sebastian Bach

Alec Guinness

Nostradamus

Christopher Plummer

Archimedes

Jackie Chan

Guru Dutt

Amma Karunamayi/ Mata Parvati (Official God)

Peter Sellers

Gerard Depardieu

Joseph Safra

Robert Morris

Sean Connery

Petr Kellner

Aristotle Onassis

Usain Bolt

Jack Welch

Alfredo di Stefano

Elizabeth Taylor

Michael Jordan

Paul Muni

Steven Spielberg

Louis Pasteur

Ingrid Bergman

Norma Shearer

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

Ayn Rand

Jesus Christ (Official God)

Luciano Pavarotti

Alain Resnais

Frank Sinatra

Allah (Official God)

Richard Nixon

Charlie Chaplin

Thomas Alva Edison

Alexander Graham Bell

Wright Brothers

Arjun (of Bhagwan Krishna’s Gita)

Jim Simons

George Lucas

Swami Sri Lahiri Mahasaya

Carl Lewis

Brett Favre

Helen Keller

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Buddha (Official God)

Hugh Grant

K. L. Saigal

Roger Federer

Rash Behari Bose

Tiger Woods

William Blake

Jesse Owens

Claude Miller

Bernardo Bertolucci

Subhash Chandra Bose

Satyajit Ray

Hippocrates

Chiang Kai-Shek

John Logie Baird

Geeta Dutt

Raphael (painter)

Bhagwan Shiva (Official God)

Radha (Ancient Krishna devotee)

George Orwell

Jorge Paulo Lemann

Catherine Deneuve

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Bill Gates

Bhagwan Ram (Official God)

Michael Phelps

Michael Faraday

Audrey Hepburn

Dalai Lama

Grace Kelly

Mikhail Gorbachev

Vladimir Putin

Galileo Galilei

Gary Cooper

Roger Moore

John Huston

Blaise Pascal

Humphrey Bogart

Rudyard Kipling

Samuel Morse

Wayne Gretzky

Yogi Berra

Barry Levinson

Patrice Chereau (director)

Jerry Lewis

Louis Daguerre

James Watt

Henri Rousseau

Nikita Krushchev

Jack Dorsey

Dev Anand

Elia Kazan

Alexander Fleming

David Selznick

Frank Marshall

Viswanathan Anand

Major Dhyan Chand

Swami Vivekananda

Felix Rohatyn

Sam Spiegel

Anand Bakshi

Victor Hugo

Bhagwan Sri Sathya Sai Baba (Official God)

Steve Jobs

Srinivasa Ramanujam

Lord Hanuman

Stanley Kubrick

Giotto

Voltaire

Diego Velazquez

Ernest Hemingway

Francis Ford Coppola

Michael Douglas

Kirk Douglas

Mario Lemieux

Kishore Kumar

James Stewart

Douglas Fairbanks

Confucius

Babe Ruth

Raj Kapoor

Titian aka Tiziano Vecelli

El Greco

Francisco de Goya

Jim Carrey

Mohammad Rafi

Steffi Graf

Pele

Gustave Courbet

Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi

Milos Forman

Steve Wozniak

Georgia O’ Keeffe

Mala Sinha

Aryabhatta

Magic Johnson

Patanjali

Leo Tolstoy

Tansen

Henry Fonda

Albrecht Durer

Benazir Bhutto

Cal Ripken Jr

Samuel Goldwyn

Mumtaz (actress)

Panini

Nicolaus Copernicus

Pablo Picasso

George Clooney

Olivia de Havilland

Prem Chand

Imran Khan

Pete Sampras

Ratan Tata

Meerabai (16th c. Krishna devotee)

Queen Elizabeth II

Pope John Paul II

James Cameron

Jack Ma

Warren Buffett

Romy Schneider

C. V. Raman

Aung San Suu Kyi

Benjamin Netanyahu

Frank Capra

Michael Schumacher

Steve Forbes

Paramhansa Yogananda

Tom Hanks

Kamal Amrohi

Hans Holbein

Shammi Kapoor

Gerardus Mercator

Edith Piaf

Bhagwan Shirdi Sai Baba (Official God) .

[thefollyflaneuse]

The Tower, Woolstone, Oxfordshire

In 1938 John Betjeman wrote a feature on ‘Gentlemen’s Follies’ for Country Life magazine. In it he noted a number of well-known follies, including the then very new tower built by Lord Berners at Faringdon, close to where Betjeman lived. He also mentioned another local folly, a tower in the village of Woolstone (then Berkshire, now Oxfordshire). So whilst the house above doesn’t look much like a…

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Birthdays 9.18

Beer Birthdays

Louis X, Duke of Bavaria (1495)

Henry Stuart Rich (1841)

Elmer Hemrich (1890)

Don Barkley

Paddy Giffen (1950)

Jeff Lebusch (1957)

Five Favorite Birthdays

John Berger; art critic, writer, artist (1926)

June Foray; voice actor (1917)

Leon Foucault; French physicist (1819)

Tim McInnerny; English comedian, actor (1956)

Jonny Quest; cartoon character (1964)

Famous Birthdays

Eddie "Rochester" Anderson; actor (1905)

Lance Armstrong; cyclist (1971)

Frankie Avalon; pop singer (1939)

Lord Berners; English composer (1883)

Robert Blake; actor (1933)

Rossano Brazzi; actor (1916)

Jimmy Brogan; comedian (1948)

Joanne Catherall; pop singer (1962)

Kiki Daire; porn actor (1976)

Agnes de Mille; dancer, choreographer (1905)

Debbi Fields; cookie-maker (1956)

Tara Fitzgerald; English actor (1967)

Michael Franks; jazz musician (1944)

James Gandolfini; actor (1961)

Greta Garbo; Swedish actor (1905)

Bud Greenspan; sports journalist, filmmaker (1926)

Keeley Hazell; English model, actor (1986)

Samuel Johnson; English writer (1709)

Joe Kubert; comic book artist (1926)

Kerry Livgren; rock guitarist, keyboardist (1949)

James Marsden; actor (1973)

Elmer Henry Maytag; appliance manufacturer, cheesemaker (1883)

Jada Pinkett; actor (1971)

Dee Dee Ramone; rock bassist (1952)

Jimmie Rodgers; country singer (1933)

Ronaldo; Brazilian soccer player (1976)

Joseph Story; U.S. Supreme Court justice (1779)

Jason Sudeikis; comedian, actor (1975)

Aisha Tyler; actor, comedian (1970)

Jack Warden; actor (1920)

Fred Willard; comedian, actor (1939)

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'…Weekly Commentary: Barbenheimer has burst into the Oscar race with Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” and Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” finally landing in theaters with critical acclaim and a possible colossal box office haul.

Of all the movies screened up to this point this year, Nolan’s movie is one of two films that could have all the key ingredients to win the Academy Awards’ most coveted prize. It’ll be a colossal guild player (watch out for the SAG ensemble), and the regional critics could make it a darling during the precursor season. The ongoing strikes could have a ripple effect on films that are dropping in the later months since their teams won’t be able to promote them in the same way as earlier titles…

The submission deadline for general categories is Nov. 18, 2023. Preliminary shortlist voting will begin on Dec. 18, with the results announced on Dec. 21. The voting period will run from Jan. 11-16, 2024, with the official nominations announcement on Jan. 23.

The 96th Oscars will be held on Sunday, Mar. 10.

AND THE PREDICTED NOMINEES ARE: “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films/Paramount Pictures) Dan Friedkin, Martin Scorsese, Bradley Thomas, Daniel Lupi “Oppenheimer” (Universal Pictures) Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, Christopher Nolan “Maestro” (Netflix) Fred Berner, Bradley Cooper, Amy Durning, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Todd Phillips, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg “The Color Purple” (Warner Bros.) Quincy Jones, Scott Sanders, Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey “Past Lives” (A24) David Hinojosa, Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon “Saltburn” (Amazon Studios) Emerald Fennell, Josey McNamara, Tom Ackerley, Margot Robbie “The Holdovers” (Focus Features) Mark Johnson, Bill Block, David Hemingson “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (Sony Pictures) Avi Arad, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Amy Pascal, Christina Steinberg “May December” (Netflix) Jessica Elbaum, Will Ferrell, Grant S. Johnson, Pamela Koffler, Tyler W. Konney, Sophie Mas, Natalie Portman, Christine Vachon “The Zone of Interest” (A24) Ewa Puszczynska, James Wilson NEXT IN LINE “Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.) “Anatomy of a Fall” (Neon) “Poor Things” (Searchlight Pictures) “Dumb Money” (Sony Pictures) “Air” (Amazon Studios) “Bob Marley: One Love” (Paramount Pictures) “The Book of Clarence” (Sony Pictures) “Nightbitch” (Searchlight Pictures) “The Killer” (Netflix) “Barbie” (Warner Bros.) OTHER TOP-TIER POSSIBILITIES “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” (Lionsgate) “Wish” (Walt Disney Pictures) “Napoleon” (Apple Original Films/Sony Pictures) “The Iron Claw” (A24) “Ferrari” (Neon) “BlackBerry” (IFC Films) “Freud’s Last Session” (Sony Pictures Classics) “Challengers” (MGM) “El Conde” (Netflix) “Priscilla” (A24) ALSO IN CONTENTION “Fair Play” (Netflix) “Foe” (Amazon Studios) “Rustin” (Netflix) “Asteroid City” (Focus Features) “Nyad” (Netflix) “A Little Prayer” (Sony Pictures Classics) “Golda” (Bleecker Street) “Next Goal Wins” (Searchlight Pictures) “Memory” (No U.S. Distribution) “Shortcomings” (Sony Pictures Classics) ALL ELIGIBLE TITLES (ALPHABETIZED BY STUDIO)** “A Haunting in Venice” (20th Century Studios) “The Bikeriders” (20th Century Studios) “Beau is Afraid” (A24) “Dream Scenario” (A24) “The Iron Claw” (A24) “Past Lives” (A24) “Priscilla” (A24) “Showing Up” (A24) “When You Finish Saving the World” (A24) “You Hurt My Feelings” (A24) “The Zone of Interest” (A24) “Air” (Amazon Studios) “The Burial” (Amazon Studios) “Cassandro” (Amazon Studios) “Foe” (Amazon Studios) “Saltburn” (Amazon Studios) “Flora and Son” (Apple Original Films) “Killers of the Flower Moon” (Apple Original Films/Paramount Pictures) “Napoleon” (Apple Original Films/Sony Pictures) “Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie” (Apple Original Films) “Across the River and Into the Trees” (Bleecker Street) “Golda” (Bleecker Street) “The Origin” (Bleecker Street) “Untitled Mike Leigh Film” (Bleecker Street) “Suzume” (Crunchyroll) “The YouTube Effect” (Drafthouse Films) “Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken” (DreamWorks Animation) “Trolls Band Together” (DreamWorks Animation) “Asteroid City” (Focus Features) “Drive Away Dolls” (Focus Features) “Every Body” (Focus Features) “The Holdovers” (Focus Features) “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3” (Focus Features) “A Thousand and One” (Focus Features) “How Do You Live?” (GKids) “BlackBerry” (IFC Films) “Monica” (IFC Films) “R.M.N.” (IFC Films) “The Pot au Feu” (IFC Films) “Migration” (Illumination) “Flamin’ Hot” (Hulu/Searchlight Pictures) “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” (Illumination) “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” (Lionsgate) “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” (Lionsgate) “John Wick Chapter 4” (Lionsgate) “Joy Ride” (Lionsgate) “Baby Ruby” (Magnet Releasing) “Little Richard: I Am Everything” (Magnolia Pictures) “Master Gardener” (Magnolia Pictures) “The Stones and Brian Jones” (Magnolia Pictures)

“Untitled Ernest Cole Documentary” (Magnolia Pictures) “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quanumania” (Marvel Studios) “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” (Marvel Studios) “The Marvels” (Marvel Studios) “Bottoms” (MGM/Orion) “Boys in the Boat” (MGM) “Challengers” (MGM) “Creed III” (MGM) “Landscape with Invisible Hand” (MGM) “The Nickel Boys” (MGM) “Untitled Cord Jefferson Movie” (MGM) “The Eternal Memory” (MTV Documentary Films) “The Delinquents” (Mubi) “Fallen Leaves” (Mubi) “The Settlers” (Mubi) “Unclenching the Fists” (Mubi) “Anatomy of a Fall” (Neon) “Eileen” (Neon) “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” (Neon) “La Chimera” (Neon) “Longlegs” (Neon) “Mothers’ Instinct” (Neon) “Perfect Days” (Neon) “Robot Dreams” (Neon) “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” (Netflix) “The Deepest Breath” (Netflix) “El Conde” (Netflix) “Fair Play” (Netflix) “The Killer” (Netflix) “Leave the World Behind” (Netflix) “Leo” (Netflix) “Maestro” (Netflix) “The Magician’s Elephant” (Netflix) “May December” (Netflix) “Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie” (Netflix) “The Monkey King” (Netflix) “Nimona” (Netflix) “Nyad” (Netflix) “Pain Hustlers” (Netflix) “Rebel Moon” (Netflix) “Reptile” (Netflix) “Rustin” (Netflix)

“Society of the Snow” (Netflix) “Stamped from the Beginning” (Netflix) “About Dry Grasses” (No U.S. Distribution) “Banel Et Adams” (No U.S. Distribution) “The Bastard” (No U.S. Distribution) “Black Flies” (No U.S. Distribution) “The Breaking Ice” (No U.S. Distribution) “The Burti Flower” (No U.S. Distribution) “Caste” (No U.S. Distribution) “Club Zero” (No U.S. Distribution) “Firebrand” (No U.S. Distribution) “Four Daughters” (No U.S. Distribution) “Goodbye Julia” (No U.S. Distribution) “Hopeless” (No U.S. Distribution) “How to Have Sex” (No U.S. Distribution) “If Only I Could Hibernate” (No U.S. Distribution) “Il Sol Dell’Avvenire” (No U.S. Distribution) “Jeunesse” (No U.S. Distribution) “L’Ete Dernier” (No U.S. Distribution) “Le Regne Animal” (No U.S. Distribution) “Lee” (No U.S. Distribution) “Les Meutes” (No U.S. Distribution) “Memory” (No U.S Distribution) “Monster” (No U.S. Distribution) “The Mother of All Lies” (No U.S. Distribution) “The New Boy” (No U.S. Distribution) “The Old Oak” (No U.S. Distribution) “Omen” (No U.S. Distribution) “The Passion of Dodin Bouffant” (No U.S. Distribution) “Rapito” (No U.S. Distribution) “Rein a Perdre” (No U.S. Distribution) “Rosalie” (No U.S. Distribution) “The Settlers” (No U.S. Distribution) “Simple Comme Sylvain” (No U.S. Distribution) “Terrestrial Verses” (No U.S. Distribution) “Trans Los Angeles” (No U.S. Distribution) “Untitled Diane Warren Documentary Project” (No U.S. Distribution) “Bob Marley: One Love” (Paramount Pictures) “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” (Paramount Pictures) “PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie” (Paramount Pictures) “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem” (Paramount Pictures) “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” (Paramount Pictures) “Please Don’t Destroy This Project” (Peacock) “Elemental” (Pixar) “Camp Hideout” (Roadside Attractions) “Chevalier” (Searchlight Pictures) “Magazine Dreams” (Searchlight Pictures) “Next Goal Wins” (Searchlight Pictures) “Nightbitch” (Searchlight Pictures) “Poor Things” (Searchlight Pictures) “Strangers” (Searchlight Pictures) “Theater Camp” (Searchlight Pictures) “The Book of Clarence” (Sony Pictures) “Dumb Money” (Sony Pictures) “The Equalizer 3” (Sony Pictures) “Kraven the Hunter” (Sony Pictures) “No Hard Feelings” (Sony Pictures) “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” (Sony Pictures) “Freud’s Last Session” (Sony Pictures Classics) “A Little Prayer” (Sony Pictures Classics) “The Miracle Club” (Sony Pictures Classics) “Persian Version” (Sony Pictures Classics) “Shadya” (Sony Pictures Classics) “Shortcomings” (Sony Pictures Classics) “Teachers Lounge” (Sony Pictures Classics) “They Shot the Piano Player” (Sony Pictures Classics) “Ferrari” (Neon) “Cocaine Bear” (Universal Pictures) “The Exorcist: Believer” (Universal Pictures) “Fast X” (Universal Pictures) “M3gan” (Universal Pictures) “Oppenheimer” (Universal Pictures) “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” (Warner Bros.) “Barbie” (Warner Bros.) “Blue Beetle” (Warner Bros.) “The Color Purple” (Warner Bros.) “Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.) “The Flash” (Warner Bros.) “Wonka” (Warner Bros.) “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (Warner Bros.) “The Little Mermaid” (Walt Disney Pictures) “Wish” (Walt Disney Pictures) ** This official list is incomplete…'