#lucy hebron

[faithful-grigori]

“#within the context of the short stories this was a very special episode, #as we must expect from the victorians it's not perfect#but on this subject acd tried, #more than once even, #given the five orange pips”

Letters from Watson: The Adventure of the Yellow Face

Part 2: The Fun Bits - includes spoilers

Once again Holmes doing good detective work by looking into the wife's background and any possibility of her papers being available.

However both he and Munroe are jumping to conclusions due to their absolute lack of information about America: suffice to say that if, as I think, this takes place somewhere in 1883-1885, Mrs. Munroe has a perfect right to be frantic about the continued safety of her mixed-race child, especially if her husband did not actually die of yellow fever.

Not that she wouldn't have cause for concern at any other time, but a rich black man in the south in the late 1870's or early 1880's is going to have an extremely complicated life, due to the backlash against reconstruction and the ongoing virulent racism.

Illegal but worth it - this sentiment is going to come up again, but in a case where it will actually be warranted.

The language regarding little miss Lucy is rough and the actions of Holmes and Watson are hasty, but this actually is more heartwarming with context and a concrete date. Yes, the American civil war was over almost twenty years ago, but it, and the previous existence of slavery, would have shaped John Hebron's entire life whether he was born free or not.

Although Mrs Munroe expresses wishes that her daughter were less black, there is the fact that life might be easier for her if she was to mitigate it. Also, although at the time of publication it was surely easy to read Mrs. Munroe's wishes as focused on her daughter's future, there's definitely some unexamined racism in there too. After all, you can love someone and still have an unconscious bias against other members of their demographic.

[holmesillustrations]

Vote for your favourite, the top 9 will proceed in the bracket. Since theyre all different shapes and sizes, make sure to click into the full views!

Paget Eliminations // Other Artist Eliminations

Full captions and details for each illustration below the cut:

All Sidney Paget illustrations are for the Strand Jul 1891 - Dec 1904

"A simple-minded clergyman." Scandal in Bohemia Characters: Holmes

"Farewell then," said the old man." Boscombe Valley Characters: Holmes, Watson, John Turner

"Well, look at this." Speckled Band Characters: Holmes, Helen Stoner, Watson

"Capital!" Copper Beeches Characters: Violet Hunter, Mr Rucastle

"There was a little [Lucy Hebron]" Yellow Face Characters: Lucy Hebron, Holmes, Grant Munro, Watson

"The coachman rushed to the door." Crooked man Characters: Maids and Coachman

"Any news?" he asked." Naval Treaty Characters: Holmes, Watson, Percy Phelps, Annie Harrison

"The driver pointed with his whip—'Baskerville Hall,' said he" Hound of the Baskervilles Characters: Coach driver, Watson, Dr Mortimer, Sir Henry

"Who—who's this?" he stammered." Hound of the Baskervilles Characters: Stapleton, Selden, Watson, Holmes

"My wife threw her arms round me." Dancing Men Characters: Hilton and Elsie Cubitt

"Charles Augustus Milverton." Charles Augustus Milverton Characters: Charles Augustus Milverton

"Lord Mount-James." Missing Three-quarter Characters: Lord Mount-James

[eretzyisrael]

Rabbi Leo Dee: Ordinary Palestinians silently thank Allah for the Jenin operation

When Lucy, Maia and Rina were suddenly and brutally taken from this world during Pesach, I cried in pain. Not against every Arab, not against every Muslim, but against every terrorist.

I have Palestinian friends and acquaintances. That is the norm when you live in Efrat. Indeed it is the norm when you live in any location in Judea and Samaria (unaffectionately known as the “West Bank”).

Our local Rami Levi (read “Tesco��) is located in Area C and I select my tomatoes and cucumbers standing next to Palestinian men and women who live in Bethlehem and Hebron. Unsurprisingly, most of these people are just like you and me. Many of them work in construction in Jerusalem or Beit Shemesh and earn more than twice what a Palestinian Authority employee (even a doctor) would earn in their own territory. This is the majority.

And then there are terrorists. They are not like you and me. They were mostly brought up in UNRWA run “refugee” towns and trained in terrorist skills during summer camps and fed hatred through Palestinian Authority textbooks that glorify past murderers of innocent civilians. That UNRWA even considers them refugees after 75 years is a direct result of United Nations antisemitism. Nobody, today, considers the millions of descendants of those 700,000 Jews expelled from Arab countries in the 1940’s and 1950’s as refugees.

What most people are unaware of is how the “good” Palestinians hate the terrorists. They despise them. However, they live in fear, in a terror state, the Palestinian Authority (PA). And the PA is funded by world governments to rule over the ten cities in the region and much of the land in between. The citizens of those 10 cities would prefer to run themselves under the protection of the IDF, but the presence of the PLO (the heavily armed PA army) is ubiquitous and feared. They unanimously describe the murderers of my family as “inhuman” and “not believing in Allah” when they see me. But only in private. A public statement would likely lead to them, and their families, being shot at in the street. And such shootings occur every day. These “good” Palestinians are the silent victims of PA terror.

Jenin has become a centre for such terror and the IDF is wise and brave to enter and eliminate it. The “good” Palestinians silently thank Allah for the operation, but they have little hope as the international funding of this terror state, which has no human rights (according to Freedom House 2023 data) and grants no freedom of speech, religion or right to vote, goes on and on.

When will the world wake up and realise that funding failed terror states is a crime against humanity? It is a crime against the Israeli victims and survivors, such as my family, and so many more, and against my two million Palestinian neighbours who just want to buy their tomatoes and cucumbers and live with us in Shalom.

[bloomingbedminster]

We received so many lovely designs and I'm glad that we didn't have to choose just one. The public vote was very close with just one vote between the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, but we have a winner!

We're very pleased to reveal that this year's award design is by Charlie Tallis.

We need volunteer judges

This year, judging will take place between Sat 22 June - Sun 14 July. Volunteer judges can do the judging any time during this period.

If you'd like to be a volunteer judge, look at the rounds below and email bloomingbedminster@outlook.com with your preferred round. If the round is green and there is a judge name it is taken.

Good Front Garden Award Rounds

A - Ashton and Ashton Vale

A1 Ashton Gate Road, Ashton Gate Terrace, North Street (from Ashton Road to Greville Road), St Francis Road - Judge: Helen Ireland

A2 Chalcroft House, Leigh Street, Walter Street, Littlecross House, Vauxhall Terrace/Villas (Walter Street) - Judge: Jackie Liddle

A3 Coronation Road (from Beauley Road to North Street), Farleys Yard (near the Toll House on North Street) - Judge: Jackie Liddle

A4 Frayne Road, Clift House Road, Clift Road - Judge: Jackie Liddle

A5 Ashton Road, Wells Street, Bower Ashton Terrace, Bath Street, North Road, Baynton Road - Judge: Stephanie Whyatt

A6 Durnford Avenue, Durnford Street, Duckmoor Road (from Ashton Road to Smyth Road excluding flats), Ashville Road, Hardy Avenue, Raleigh Road (from North Street to Duckmoor Road) - Judge: Stephanie Whyatt

A7 Raynes Road, Banwell Road, Gerald Road, Smyth Road (from Duckmoor Road to Winterstoke Road) - Judge: Laura Murgatroyd and Liz Payze

A8 Drake Road, Dampier Road, Frobisher Road, Smyth Road (from Duckmoor Road to Luckwell Road) - Judge: Kath Leman and Lucy Rae

A9 Friezewood Road, Carrington Road, Truro Road, Balfour Road (including new housing) - Judge: Rebecca Hutchins-Davies

A10 Whitemead House, Winterstoke House and Southbow House - Judge: Matthew Symonds

A11 Duckmoor Road (from Smyth Road to Luckwell Road), Lynnwood Road, Luckwell Road (from Duckmoor Road to Winterstoke Road) - Judge: Kath Leman and Lucy Rae

A12 Silbury Road, Avebury Road, Ashton Rise - Judge: Marie-Elaine Carroll

A13 Ashton Drive - Judge: Yvonne Bushell

A14 Risdale Road, Langley Crescent Road, Tregarth Road, Trevenna Road, Atyeo Close - Judge: Yvonne Bushell

A15 South Liberty Lane including the new house/flats between South Liberty - Judge: Elke Small

A16 Hardy Road, Nelson Street, Trafalgar Terrace, Winterstoke Road (from Hendre Road to Bedminster Down Road), Winterstoke Close - Judge: Maria Alejandra

A17 Gores Marsh Road, Marigold Walk, Longmoor Road, Deep Coomb Road, Colliter Crescent - Judge: Jen Fox

A18 Bower Road, Bower Court, Irby Road, Stella Grove, Gore Road, Hendre Road, Greenhill Grove - Judge: Jenny Bhambri-lyte

A19 Clanage Road, Blackmoors Lane, Rownham Close, Parklands, Courtlands Lane - Judge: Elke Small

A20 Swiss Road, Swiss Drive, Swiss Close, Sanders Close - Judge: Karen Trenear

B - Bedminster

B1 Foxcote Road, Sturdon Road, Luckwell Road (from Winterstoke Road to North Street), Breach Road, Ashfield Road - Judge: Pete Spain

B2 Aubrey Road, West View Road, Ashgrove Road - Judge: Abi Slade

B3 Chessel Street (from Luckwell Road to Garnet Street), Beryl Road, Ruby Street (both sides of Chessel Street), Pearl Street (cul de sac section only) - Judge: Karen Trenear

B4 Thistle Street, The Nursery, Agate Street, Martin Street, Pearl Street (from Chessel Street to South Street), Parker Street, Lindrea Street, Crowther Street - Judge: Morgan Rayner-Philipson

B5 Dorset Street, Sion Road, Prospect Terrace (off Sion Road near South Street Park), Gladstone Street, Gaywood House, South Street, Please don’t miss North Street numbers 127A-135A (down lane behind community garden at North St end of South St), Palmerston Street - Judge: Sophie Majoe and Alex Noakes.

B6 Melville Terrace, Hebron Road, Graham Road, Clifton Terrace - Judge: Hillary Irvine

B7 Braunton Road, Clyde Terrace, Victoria Place, Albert Place - Judge: Hillary Irvine

B8 Elmdale Road (from Palmyra Road to Chessel Street), Pembery Road, Chessel Street (from Garnet Street to British Road), Jasper Street, Garnet Street - Jusge: Mo and Sarah Mulligan

B9 Elmdale Road (from Palmyra Road to Luckwell Road), Derby Road, Thanet Road, Avonleigh Road (from Luckwell Road to Palmyra Road), Palmyra Road, Highridge Road - Judge: Casey Beth Jacobs

B10 Avonleigh Road (from Chessel Street to Palmyra Road), Hengaston Street, Stanley Street, Chessel Street (from Elmdale Road to West Street), Ireton Road, British Road (from South Street to Stanley Street) - Judge: Jan Glynn

B11 British Road (from Cannon Street to Stanley Street), South Road, Clifton Street, Diamond Street, Victor Road, Westbourne Grove - Judge: Elke Small

B12 Dean Crescent, New Charlotte St, Hollidge Gardens, Murray Street, Brook Road, St Pauls Road - Judge: Matthew Symonds

B13 Argus Road, Argus Court, Hope Road, Airpoint (off Crips Road) - Judge: Laura Murgatroyd and Liz Payze

B14 Stanley Street South, Stanley Terrace, Bartletts Road, Buckingham Street, Beaufort Street, Chapel Barton - Judge: Maria Alejandra

B15 Osborne Terrace, Brighton Crescent, Brighton Terrace, Temple Street, Harptree Grove, Churchlands Road - Maria Alejandra

B16 West Street, Cromwell Street - Judge: Laura Murgatroyd and Liz Payze

B17 Church Lane, Church Road, Malago Road, St Johns Road, Granby Mews, Stafford Street (no. 12 and 26)

B18 North Street (from Greville Road to Cannon Street) - Judge: Elke Small

B19 Bedminster Down Road (from Bedminster Road to Parson Street), Bedminster Road (From Bedminster Down Road to Parson Street), Parson Street (from Bedminster Down Road to Bedminster Road), Willada Close, Hall Street and Mansfield Street - Judge: Jackie Smith

B20 Bedminster Road (from junction with Parson Street to roundabout at St John’s Lane), Shepton Walk, Honeywick Close, St Dunstan’s Road, Clinton Road, Francis Road, St John’s Lane (from roundabout to railway bridge) - Judge: Jackie Smith

B21 East Street - Judge: Matthew Symonds

S - Southville

S1 Beauley Road, Kingsley Place, Smyth Terrace, Howard Road, Dalston Road - Judge: Jacqui Lewis

S2 Camden Road, Park Road, Islington Road - Judge: Julia Harrow

S3 Greville Road (from the Hen & Chicken Pub all the way to Milford Street/Greville Street), Greville Mews, Greville Street, Lock Lane (at the end of Greville Street) - Judge: Maddy Taylor

S4 Milford Street, Langton Park - Judge: Andy Foyle

S5 Vicarage Road, Birch Road - Judge: Karen Trenear

S6 Exeter Road, Upton Road - Judge: Stacey Yelland

S7 Dartmoor Street, Exmoor Street, Fairfield Place, North Street (104 – 210), Fairfield Road, Dartmouth Mews (behind old car lot), King William Street, Mount Pleasant Terrace, Myrtle Street - Judge: Ann Hughes and Dave Hobson

S8 Berchel House, Berrycroft, Catherine Mead Street (incl new flats), Lombard Street, Mawdeley House, Warden Road, Dean Lane - Judge: Matthew Symonds

S9 Gathorne Road, Lime Road - Judge: Carmel Ferguson

S10 Argyle Street, Kingston Road, Lydstep Terrace, Merrywood Close, Merrywood Road, Morley Road (including The Edge if you can get access), Summer Street - Judge: Veronica Pollard

S11 Stackpool Road (From Edgeware Road to and including the Cul de sac) - Judge: Jacqui Lewis

S12 Edgeware Road, Stackpool Road (from Edgeware Road to Dean Lane), Upper Perry Hill - Judge: Ursula Gasser

S13 Coronation Road (St Johns Road to Beauley Road), West End - Judge: Jacqui Ham

S14 Acramans Road, Alpha Road, Southville Place, Southville Road (Chesham House/Rock Lodge), Thomas Blount Mews - Judge: Andy Foyle

S15 Allington Road, Pembroke Road, Osborne Road - Judge: Isabel and Athena Kearney

S16 Hamilton Road, Leighton Road - Judge: Maddy Taylor

S17 Raleigh Road & Amerind Grove (from Beauley Road to North Street), Greenway Bush Lane, Jennings Court, Vauxhall Ave (by Jennings Ct), Greenbank Road - Judge: Abi Slade

WH - Windmill Hill

WH1 Cotswold Road (feedback – also a Cotswold Road North but no front gardens on it- please double check if that’s changed) - Judge: Sarah Holder

WH2 Mendip Road, Eldon Terrace, Porlock Road, Quantock Road, Alfred Road (feedback – Porlock Road no addresses in it – check in case this changes) - Judge: Mary Emma Crowder

WH3 Dunkerry Road, Somerset Terrace - Judge: Mary Emma Crowder

WH4 Windmill Hill, Fraser Street, Gwilliam Street, Vivian Street, Algiers Street, Lambourne Close, Orwell Street - Judge: Mary Emma Crowder

WH5 Brendon Road, Dunford Road, Mascot Road, Caen Road, Kensal Road, Kensal Avenue, Holmesdale Road, Paulson Avenue, Paultow Road - Judge: Inge Shepherd

WH6 Nutgrove Ave, Raymend Road, Elvaston Road, Addison Road, Stanbury Road, Atlas Road - Judge: Claire Haines

WH7 Almorah Road, Hill Avenue - Judge: Samantha Rodda

WH8 Park Avenue, Newport Street, Nottingham Street, Water Lane, Maidstone Street, Margate Street - Judge: Dea Bulejsza 

WH9 Merioneth Street, Monmouth Street, Marndyke Street, Montgomery Street - Judge: Rich and Oliver Cross

WH10 St John’s Lane (west) to Wedmore Vale to the Railway Bridge/Malago Road - Judge: Finbar Cullen

WH11 St John’s Lane (east) Wedmore Vale to St Lukes Road - Judge: Finbar Cullen

M - Marksbury Road

M1 Aylesbury Road, Aylesbury Crescent - Judge: Jackie Smith

M2 Highbury Road, Parson Street, Hastings Road, Hastings Close, Wimbourne Road

M3 Martock Road, Martock Crescent, Somermead, Brixham Road, Lydford Walk, Somer Lane

M4 Dawlish Road, Lynton Road, Sidford Road, Haldon Close - Judge: Barney Smith

M5 Marksbury Road, Oakhill Drive, Timsbury Road - add Timsbury Walk - Judge: Barney Smith

M6 Littleton Road, Weymouth Road, Sidmouth Road, Sidmouth Gardens, Wedmore Vale - Judge: Fran Smith

M7 Malago Drive - Judge: Jacqui Lewis

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.19 (after 1930)

1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds. 1941 – World War II: HMS Greyhound and other escorts of convoy AS-12 sink Italian submarine Neghelli with all hands 64 kilometres (40 mi) northeast of Falkonera. 1942 – World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins. 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, fewer than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation. 1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals. 1953 – Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth. 1960 – Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty 1960 – Scandinavian Airlines System Flight 871 crashes near Ankara Esenboğa Airport in Turkey, killing all 42 aboard. 1969 – Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest. 1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose"). 1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003. 1981 – Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity. 1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. 1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced. 1986 – The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written. 1988 – Trans-Colorado Airlines Flight 2286 crashes in Bayfield, Colorado, killing 19. 1990 – Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir valley in Indian-administered Kashmir due to an insurgency. 1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries. 1993 – Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations. 1995 – After being struck by lightning the crew of Bristow Helicopters Flight 56C are forced to ditch. All 18 aboard are later rescued. 1996 – The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. 1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city. 1999 – British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company, forming BAE Systems in November 1999. 2007 – Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast. 2007 – Four-man Team N2i, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Antarctic pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1965 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance. 2012 – The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI. 2014 – A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 Pakistani soldiers and injures 38 others.

[wisteria-lodge]

Signal boosting my favorite Sherlock Holmes story

... because I’m pretty sure people skip this one. Because it IS called “The Yellow Face.” And it was written by a British dude in 1893. So there are a couple of... very reasonable assumptions you could make about the content. But I’m telling you that humanity can be wholesome and pure, so hang around, it’s story time.

We open with Holmes and Watson, who are just sort of wandering around London in silence, “as befits two men who know each other intimately.” (awww). And when they get back to 221B, they’ve got a new client waiting. 

Mr. Grant Munro is one of those mid-thirties guys who looks a lot younger. It turns out he’s recently married an American widow from Georgia, and she’s started acting really REALLY weird. 

Like, she’s sneaking out in the middle of the night without saying where she’s going. Withdrawing a lot of money from the joint bank account, not saying why. Pretending *not* to know a strange Scottish woman who’s new in town. One day this guy gives into temptation and follows her. She goes to a random cottage that she’s secretly renting, in a town called Norbury. He has no idea what is going on, but he comes back to visit this cottage a few times, and every time he walks past it, he sees a strange expressionless yellow-white face at the window. It ducks out of sight whenever he looks too long. 

Anyway, Holmes glances over at Watson, says thank you and that he’ll look into it. When the client leaves, he shakes his head, “There’s blackmail in it, or I am much mistaken.” 

Holmes’ theory is that the American widow’s first husband is still alive, and he’s blackmailing her. Or (second option) the first husband like, went insane or something, the mysterious Scottish woman has worked out the situation, and she’s the one doing the blackmailing.

Homes & Watson and Grant Munro “solve” the case by basically just sneaking into the cottage when they’re not expected. And they find - 

A little, four-year-old African-American girl. In a mask and long white evening gloves.

Holmes goes and takes off the mask first thing, but the little girl is fine, just laughing and smiling at all the confused people. Watson “burst[s] out laughing, out of sympathy for her merriment.” 

But Grant Munro looks at his wife, who’s just run into the room, and says, “My God! What can be the meaning of this!” 

His wife’s backstory comes out. See, her first husband was African-American (she’s got his picture in her locket, Watson calls him “strikingly handsome and intelligent looking”) and the little girl is their daughter. (”Dark or fair, she is my own dear girlie and her mother’s pet!”) She didn’t think that a second husband would sign off on a multiracial daughter, so she’s been letting the Scottish nurse raise her - until she just cracked, missed her little girl too much, and had to have her near, even if it meant doing dumb things like giving her a mask and evening gloves so they wouldn’t accidentally start a rumor about an African-American girl living in the neighborhood. 

And then - actually, I’m just going to let Arthur Conan Doyle (and Watson) do this last part:

It was a long two minutes before Grant Munro broke the silence, and when his answer came it was one of which I love to think. He lifted the little child, kissed her, and then, still carrying her, he held his other hand out to his wife and turned towards the door.

“We can talk it over more comfortably at home,” said he. “I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.” 

Holmes and I followed them down the lane, and my friend plucked at my sleeve as we came out.

“I think,” said he, “that we shall be of more use in London than in Norbury.” 

Not another word did he say of the case until late into the night, when he was turning away, with his lighted candle, for his bedroom.

“Watson,” says he. “If it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper ‘Norbury’ in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you.” 

[travelling-bee]

5 August 2015 - Mask and Gloves belonging to Lucy Hebron

“In the corner, stooping over a desk, there sat what appeared to be a little girl...we could see that she was dressed in a red frock, and that she had long white gloves on...The face which she turned towards us was of the strangest livid tint, and the feature were absolutely devoid of any expression. Holmes, with a laugh, passed his hand behind the child’s ear, a masked peeled off from her countenance.”

The Yellow Face

[foryourart]

Image courtesy of Matthew Marks Gallery. 

Thursday, November 2

Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Peter Hujar, Matthew Marks Gallery (West Hollywood), 10am–6pm.

Art Matters Fall 2017, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 10–11:30am.

Kourtney Roy: Enter as Fiction: CALIFORNIA, KM Fine Arts Los Angeles (Culver City), 11am–6pm. 

Pablo Vargas Lugo: Seascape, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 11am–9pm. 

FANTASIA, ARTAMO GALLERY (Santa Barbara), 12–5pm.

Been Dark Uines Noon Concert, CalArts (Valencia), 12–1pm.

Untested Address Event Series, Klowden Mann (Culver City), 1–4pm.

MFA 2018 Preview Exhibition, UCLA (Westwood), 5–8pm.

Suzanne Lacy and Pablo Helguera in Conversation, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara), 5–6:30pm.

Galeria Perdida: Oh is it, expert, Todd Madigan Gallery (Bakersfield), 5–7pm.

Artist and scholar walkthroughs: Nao Bustamante, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 6pm.

Walton Ford: Calafia, Gagosian (Beverly Hills), 6–8pm.

MOCA Music: DJDS, DJ Frosty, WYLDEFLOWER, and Deejay.fm​, MOCA Grand Avenue (Downtown),  6–9:30pm.

Malik Gaines book release, Ooga Booga (Chinatown), 6–8pm.

Around Town and Day of the Dead Altar, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 6–9pm.

Greg Kahn: Havana Youth, Annenberg Space for Photography (Century City), 6:30pm.

2017 Common Field Convening Los Angeles, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center - JACCC (Downtown), 6:30pm. Through November 5.

Contents Under Pressure No. 1 | Presenting Johnny Quintanilla, Oliver Laurent Salon (Beverly Hills), 7–10pm.

Ism, Ism, Ism: Cine reciclado, MAK Center for Art and Architecture (West Hollywood), 7pm. $7–10.

CraftNight: Día de los Muertos: Workshop with Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Craft and Folk Art Museum (Miracle Mile), 7–9pm. $10.

Liam Young on Adrián Villar Rojas, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (Downtown), 7pm.

ARTIST TALK: PATRICK MARTINEZ, Art + Practice (Leimert Park), 7–8:30pm.

RUSSELL LECTURE > MIGUEL CALDERÓN, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (San Diego), 7pm.

BFA II Solo Dance Concert, CalArts (Valencia), 7–9pm.

Paul Brach Lecture Series: Mara McCarthy, CalArts (Valencia), 7pm.

This is Bob Hope…, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 7pm. $75–100.

Ayer Es Hoy, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.

Latinas Out Loud: ¡Pa’rriba!, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30–10:30pm.

Dancenorth/Lucy Guerin Inc.: Attractor, CAP UCLA (Westwood), 8pm. Also November 3.

JOSHUA LIGHT SHOW, The Broad (Downtown), 8pm. Through November 4.

Verónica Peña, PØST (Downtown), 8pm.

Friday, November 3

Encounters, Utopias, and Experimentation: From Pre-Columbian Tenochtitlan to Contemporary Buenos Aires, The Getty Center (Brentwood), 9:30am. Through November 5.

Docent Guided A+D Walking Tours: The Architects and Visionaries Who Built Palm Springs, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 9:30am. Fridays and Saturdays until April 2018. $25.

Bob Van Breda: Lost & Found, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 10am–5pm. 

STORY TIME AT THE FOWLER, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 11:30am–12:30pm.

Sound Tracks: A Musical Conversation, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 12–1pm.

LECTURE: JEROME SILBERGELD ON CHAEKGEORI (KOREAN SCREEN PAINTING), Fowler Museum (Westwood), 2–3pm.

Jonas Wood: Interiors and Landscapes, David Kordansky (Mid-City), 6–8pm.

Closing reception: Skip Arnold | Stephen Neidich, ltd los angeles (Mid-City), 6–8pm.

Ellen Gallagher. Accidental Records, Hauser & Wirth (Downtown), 6–8pm.

Mikael B: Momentum, Mondrian Los Angeles (West Hollywood), 7pm.

Erica Ryan Stallones: STAR DECK Academy, elephant (Glassell Park), 7–10pm.

Priced Out, Los Angeles Poverty Department (Downtown), 7pm.

In Person: Pablo Vargas Lugo, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 7pm; reception, 6pm.

Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman: Girls, Girls, Girls, La Luz de Jesus Gallery (Los Feliz), 8–11pm.

Nightmusic 8, CalArts (Valencia), 8–10pm.

Andrew DeGraff and Down Time, G1988 (Koreatown), 7–9pm. 

Saturday, November 4

Landscape as Catalyst: Lawrence Halprin's Legacy and Los Angeles, A+D Architecture and Design Museum (Downtown), 9:30am–4pm.

Point/Counterpoint: Contemporary Mexican Photography, Museum of Photographic Arts (San Diego), 10am–5pm. 

Fall Yoga Series, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 10:30am–11:30am. $12–15.

Gallery Talk: Astrid Preston & Rose-Lynn Fisher, Craig Krull Gallery (Santa Monica), 11am.

Grand Avenue Arts: All Access, Grand Avenue (Downtown), 11am–5pm.

Workshop: INHABITANTS, A Physical Theatre Activation Lab with Gema Galiana + Emily Meister, Pieter (Lincoln Heights), 11:30am–3pm. $35.

Performance - Human Nature: Sonic Botany, The Huntington (San Marino), 12–1pm.

ROJO: A Cochineal Natural Dye Workshop with Mimi Haddon, Craft & Folk Art Museum (Miracle Mile), 1–4pm. $60–70.

Aztlán to Magulandia Curator-Led Tour & Book Signing, UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts (Irvine), 1–3pm.

Docent-Led Tour, Claire Trevor School of the Arts (Irvine), 1–2pm.

Can This Marriage Be Saved?, Proxy Gallery (Westchester), 2–4pm.

Alex Israel: Self-Portrait, Mixografia (Downtown), 2–4pm.

California Mexicana: Land Into Landscape, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 2pm.

Día de los Muertos Themed Printmaking Workshop with Art Division at Fisher, USC Fisher Museum of Art (Downtown, 3–6pm.

Video Art + Film Festival: La Esperanza, ESMoA (El Segundo), 3–5pm.

Miguel Rio Branco: Out of Nowhere and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: The Garden of Delights, Christopher Grimes Gallery (Santa Monica), 4–6pm. 

Courtney Murphy: A Night In New Paintings and Eric Nash: BLVD, Skidmore Contemporary Art (Santa Monica), 4–6pm.

Elias Hansen, Not Right Now, Anat Ebgi (Culver City), 4–6pm.

Film: Through the Repellent Fence, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 4pm.

Coastal / Border Performances, Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro), 4pm.

ADC Welcome Back Road to Rio Party!, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 4–6pm. $45.

Christian Rex van Minnen: Mourning Wood in Liminal Dawn, Richard Heller Gallery (Santa Monica), 5–8pm.

Sarah McEneaney and Ann Toebbe: Home Work, Zevitas Marcus (Culver City), 5–8pm.

ektor garcia: cochi, Visitor Welcome Center (Koreatown), 5–9pm.

Gala Porras-Kim: An Index and its Histories, Commonwealth and Council (Koreatown), 5–8pm.

WRDSMTH: I'd Like To Have a WRD With You, Fais Do-Do (West Adams), 5–10pm. $5–75.

44th Annual Día de los Muertos celebration, Self Help Graphics & Art (Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez High School, Downtown), 5–11pm.

Phyllis Green: Life After Life After Life, Chimento Contemporary (Downtown), 5–8pm.

Jeremy Blake: Station to Station, Mel Davis: Meet Me in the Usual Place, and Miriam Schapiro, Honor Fraser (Culver City), 6–8pm.

ICY & SOT, Thinkspace Gallery (Culver CIty), 6–9pm.

Queer Califas: LA Latinx Art, Plummer Park (West Hollywood), 6–9pm.

Guy Yanai: Barbarian In The Garden, Praz-Delavallade Los Angeles (Miracle Mile), 6–8pm.

Victoria Colmegna: Broken Ego, Park View (MacArthur Park), 6–8pm.

Ty Joseph, Gloria Delson Gallery (Downtown), 6–10pm.

Bunnie Reiss: Space Angels, Superchief Gallery LA (Downtown), 6–11pm.

Khipu, Body, Line: A Writing in Space, Getty Center (Brentwood), 7pm.

ARMANDO LERMA: Dreamland and the Discovered Paintings of Joseph Ernst and Philipp Lachenmann Part II, ACE Gallery (Miracle Mile), 7–10pm.

J.A.W. Cooper: Familiars, Flora and Fauna, Viscera, La Luz de Jesus (Los Feliz), 7–10pm.

LAndscape, Monte Vista Projects (Downtown), 7–10pm.

Amy Green: Drench, PØST (Downtown), 7–10pm.

Miami-Dutch: Traffic in the Square, Club Pro Los Angeles (Downtown), 7–11pm.

Nora Riggs: Fancy Hand, QUEENS LA (Montecito Heights), 7–10pm.

Keynote Lecture: William Deverell, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 7pm; reception, 6pm.

Unnatural Selection, Automata (Chinatown), 8pm.

Ballroom B- Oren Pine BFA Mid-Res Recital, CalArts (Valencia), 8–9pm.

2017 Art+Film Gala Honoring Mark Bradford and George Lucas, LACMA (Miracle Mile).

Sunday, November 5

Really?, Wilding Cran Gallery (Downtown), 1–3pm.

Similar Sunlight, Gait (Downtown), 1–4pm.

FAMILY JAM: SALVADOR AND SAMBA WITH VIVER BRASIL, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 1–4pm.

ArtCenter College of Design Open House, ArtCenter College of Design (Pasadena), 1:30–4:30pm.

Art & Nature Family Festival, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 2–5pm.

Rediscovered Botanical Treasures from the Smithsonian and the Hunt Institute, The Huntington (San Marino), 2:30pm.

Talking to Action Book Launch + Roundtable Conversation, Otis College (Westchester), 3–5pm.

Escenas Latinas: Changing the Narrative, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 3pm.

Imagination, Place & Possibility: A Conversation with Curator Lowery Sims and Amalia Mesa-Bains, Craft & Folk Art Museum (Miracle Mile), 3pm.

Heidi Zuckerman: Conversations with Artists, Hauser & Wirth (Downtown), 3–5pm.

ELLEN GALLAGHER IN CONVERSATION WITH LACMA CURATOR CHRISTINE Y. KIM, Hauser & Wirth (Downtown), 3pm.

Presentation: Janine Antoni in Dialog with Artwork from Relational Undercurrents, Museum of Latin American Art (Long Beach), 3pm.

Nikki Maloof: Chauve-Souris and Nerve Center, The Pit (Glendale), 4–7pm.

Big City Forum - community dinner with RootDown LA, Blue Roof Studios (South Los Angeles), 5–9pm.

Juan Bastos: California Portraits, Denenberg Fine Arts (West Hollywood).

Monday, November 6

Kip's Desert Book Club: The Talker by Mary Sojourner, Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center (Twentynine Palms), 7pm.

Too Clever by Half: What We Learn from the Mistakes of Great Literary Characters, Getty Villa (Pacific Palisades), $7:30pm.

Talk: The Director’s Series: Michael Govan and Cheech Marin, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7:30pm.

Pre-release benefit screening of Disney • Pixar’s Coco, Atlantic Times Square (Monterey Park), 8pm. $25–60.

Tuesday, November 7

Film: High Flyers, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 1pm.

Radical Women Walk-through: Micol Hebron, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 6pm.

Wednesday, November 8

CULTURE FIX: SARAH K. CHENAULT ON CREOLE JEWELRY OF AXÉ BAHIA, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 12–1pm.

FOWLER OUT LOUD: UCLA MUSIC OF CHINA ENSEMBLE, Fowler Museum (Westwood), 6–7pm.

South of the Border panel discussion, The Loft at Liz’s (Mid-City), 7–9pm.

Petra Collins in conversation with Miranda July, ARTBOOK @ Hauser & Wirth (Downtown), 6–8pm. 

Por que somos e não somos tropicalistas: Moving image from Recife, Brazil, Human Resources (Chinatown), 7–9pm.

Chasing Coral, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm.

Soundbath With Chakra Crystal Singing Bowls Series, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 7:30–8:30pm. $16–20.

Distinguished Fellow Lecture - The Lords Proprietors: Land and Power in 17th-Century America, The Huntington (San Marino), 7:30pm.

[paoloxl]

Nella notte del 29 giugno 2002 l'esercito israeliano fece saltare in aria la Imara, sede dell'Autorità Nazionale Palestinese nella città di Il complesso, dove avevano sede gli uffici dell'Autorità Nazionale Palestinese e della polizia, era sotto assedio ormai da giorni. 29 giugno 2002: Israele bombarda l'Anp a Hebron Dopo l'ingresso dell'esercito israeliano in città 120 persone, che lavoravano nell'edificio, si erano consegnate. All'interno rimanevano solo più 15 uomini. Durante l'assedio i militari avevano tagliato la corrente elettrica, lasciando l'edificio di più di dodicimila metri quadrati nella totale oscurità. Per costringere i quinidici asserragliati alla resa gli uomini del colonnello Dron Weinberg avevano provato di tutto: dal alncio di razzi dagli elicotteri Apache ai colpi di cannone, dalle ruspe che avevano aperto una breccia nel muro esterno alla lotta psicologica (alcuni padri dei ricercati erano stati fatti entrare nell'edificio per cercare di convincere i figli ad arrendersi). Nel pomeriggio del 29 giugno un ex ministro palestinese, Talal Sadr, aveva ottenuto il permesso di accedere alla sede dell'Anp, era entrato nel complesso per tentare di convincere i 15 a consegnarsi ma era uscito poco dopo dicendo che dentro non aveva trovato nessuno. Dopo questo tentativo i vertici israeliani cominciarono ad essere impazienti, temendo di ripetere l'ennesimo assedio interminabile come quelli del Muqta di Ramallah e della chiesa della natività di Betlemme. L'ultima opzione, suggerita dal colonnello Weinberg, era quella di far saltare in aria l'intero edificio: in serata il capo di stato maggiore Shaul Mofez diede il via libera all'operazione. La prima detonazione fu udita alle 23 di sera, la seconda, ancora più forte, 4 ore dopo. Ingenti cariche di tritolo fecero saltare in aria l'edificio. Dopodichè entrarono i bulldozer a spianare la strada ai soldati: i militari poterono così avanzare tra le macerie sparando. Un portavoce militare israeliano dichiarò che avevano invitato i "terroristi" ad arrendersi ma non erano stati ascoltati, da lì la decisione di chiamare i genieri con le cariche. Quando, alle prime luci dell'alba, i soldati israeliani andarono a scavare tra le macerie, coadiuvati anche da cani specializzati nel rilevare presenze umane, non trovarono alcuna traccia dei quindici ribelli. Nulla si saprà delle 15 persone che si trovavano all'interno. Drigenti palestinesi dichiareranno che la loro sensazione era che i militari israeliani avessero assediato un edificio vuoto e che i 15 palestinesi erano riusciti a fuggire da un cunicolo, prima delle esplosioni. Nei giorni precedenti il ministro della difesa israeliano Benyamin Ben Elizier, l'uomo che ordinò la distruzione del quartier generale, aveva pubblicato un articolo in cui esprimeva il suo sostegno all'iniziativa di pace saudita e alla costruzione di uno stato palestinese.

[holmesillustrations]

Vote for your favourite, the top 9 will proceed in the bracket. Since theyre all different shapes and sizes, make sure to click into the full views!

Paget Eliminations // Other Artist Eliminations

Full captions and details for each illustration below the cut:

All Sidney Paget illustrations are for the Strand Jul 1891 - Dec 1904

"He gave a cry and dropped." Scandal in Bohemia Characters: Holmes, crowd

"He looked about him anxiously." Five Orange Pips Characters: John Openshaw

"Good-bye, and be brave." Speckled Band Characters: Holmes, Helen Stoner, Watson

"Holmes shook his head gravely." Copper Beeches Characters: Violet Hunter, Watson, Holmes

"He lifted the little child." Yellow Face Characters: Effie Munro, Grant Munro, Lucy Hebron, Holmes

"What do you make of that?" Crooked Man Characters: Watson, Holmes

"Holmes examined it critically." Naval Treaty Characters: Joseph Harrison, Holmes, Percy Phelps, Watson

"He held an old and dusty boot in one of his hands." The Hound of the Baskervilles Characters: Sir Henry, Holmes, Watson

"The Hound of the Baskervilles." The Hound of the Baskervilles Characters: Hound, Holmes, Watson

"I suppose that you are the detectives from London?" said he." Dancing Men Characters: Watson, Holmes, Stationmaster

"Exhibiting the butt of a large revolver, which projected from the inside pocket." Charles Augustus Milverton Characters: Watson, Holmes, Milverton

"He looked up with no very pleased expression upon his dour features." Missing Three-quarter Characters: Dr Leslie Armstrong, Holmes, Watson

[escritoire-for-the-light]

JANUARY  19  notes :

1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.

1861 – American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in declaring secession from the United States. 

1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey. 

1899 �� Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. 

1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising. 

1915 – World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target. 

1917 – Seventy-three people are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London. 

1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations. 

1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds. 

1942 – World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins. 

1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation. 

1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals. 

1949 – Cuba recognizes Israel. 

1953 – Almost 72% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth. 

1956 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 111 relating to UNTSO in Palestine is adopted. 

1960 – Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty

1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose"). 

1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003. 

1981 – Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity. 

1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced. 

1986 – The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written.

1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries.

1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city. 

2012 – The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI. 

BIRTH : 1807 – Robert E. Lee, American general and academic (d. 1870) 

1944 – Dan Reeves, American football player and coach

1946 – Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress

1947 – Paula Deen, American chef and author

1953 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor and singer

1956 – Carman, American singer-songwriter, actor, and television host     { Christian }

DEATH : 2008 – Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (b. 1937)

OBSERVANCE : Confederate Heroes Day (Texas), and its related observance: Robert E. Lee Day (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi)

Vodici or Baptism of Jesus (Republic of Macedonia) 

FOR MORE INFO ON THIS DATE : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_19

[quill-of-thoth]

Letters from Watson: The Adventure of the Yellow Face

Part 2: The Fun Bits - includes spoilers

Once again Holmes doing good detective work by looking into the wife's background and any possibility of her papers being available.

However both he and Munroe are jumping to conclusions due to their absolute lack of information about America: suffice to say that if, as I think, this takes place somewhere in 1883-1885, Mrs. Munroe has a perfect right to be frantic about the continued safety of her mixed-race child, especially if her husband did not actually die of yellow fever.

Not that she wouldn't have cause for concern at any other time, but a rich black man in the south in the late 1870's or early 1880's is going to have an extremely complicated life, due to the backlash against reconstruction and the ongoing virulent racism.

Illegal but worth it - this sentiment is going to come up again, but in a case where it will actually be warranted.

The language regarding little miss Lucy is rough and the actions of Holmes and Watson are hasty, but this actually is more heartwarming with context and a concrete date. Yes, the American civil war was over almost twenty years ago, but it, and the previous existence of slavery, would have shaped John Hebron's entire life whether he was born free or not.

Although Mrs Munroe expresses wishes that her daughter were less black, there is the fact that life might be easier for her if she was to mitigate it. Also, although at the time of publication it was surely easy to read Mrs. Munroe's wishes as focused on her daughter's future, there's definitely some unexamined racism in there too. After all, you can love someone and still have an unconscious bias against other members of their demographic.

[holmesillustrations]

Left: “Bending over the prostrate figure of Sherlock Holmes.” Reigate Squires, Sidney Paget, The Strand Jun/Jul 1893 Characters: Cunninghams, Holmes, Watson, Insp Forrester

Right: “There was a little [Lucy Hebron] ” Yellow Face, Sidney Paget, The Strand Feb/Mar 1893 Characters: Lucy Hebron, Holmes, Grant Munro,Watson

[holmesillustrations]

Left: “He lifted the little child.” Yellow Face, Sidney Paget, The Strand Feb/Mar 1893 Characters: Effie Munro, Grant Munro, Lucy Hebron, Holmes

Right: “She raised her veil.” Speckled Band, Sidney Paget, The Strand Feb/Mar 1892 Characters: Helen Stoner, Holmes, Watson

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.19

379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang. 1419 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy. 1511 – The Italian Duchy of Mirandola surrenders to the Pope. 1520 – Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund and dies on February 3. 1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines. 1764 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel. 1764 – Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey. 1788 – The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay. 1795 – The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands, replacing the Dutch Republic. 1817 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru. 1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance. 1839 – The British East India Company captures Aden. 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome. 1861 – American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in declaring secession from the United States. 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict. 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day. 1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey. 1899 – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. 1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising. 1915 – German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target. 1917 – Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage. 1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations. 1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded. 1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in seven hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds. 1941 – World War II: HMS Greyhound and other escorts of convoy AS-12 sink Italian submarine Neghelli with all hands 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Falkonera. 1942 – World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins. 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation. 1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals. 1953 – Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth. 1960 – Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty 1969 – Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest. 1974 – China gains control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of China and South Vietnam 1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose"). 1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003. 1981 – Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity. 1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. 1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced. 1986 – The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written. 1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries. 1993 – Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations. 1995 – After being struck by lightning the crew of Bristow Flight 56C are forced to ditch. All 18 aboard are later rescued. 1996 – The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. 1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city. 1999 – British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999. 2007 – Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast. 2007 – Four-man Team N2i, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Antarctic pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1965 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance. 2012 – The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI. 2014 – A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 Pakistani soldiers and injures 38 others.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.19

379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to Augustus, and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day siege led by Tang dynasty general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern Tarim Basin in Xinjiang. 1419 – Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England, completing his reconquest of Normandy. 1511 – The Italian city-fortress of Mirandola surrenders to the French. 1520 – Sten Sture the Younger, the Regent of Sweden, is mortally wounded at the Battle of Bogesund and dies on February 3. 1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines. 1764 – John Wilkes is expelled from the British House of Commons for seditious libel. 1764 – Bolle Willum Luxdorph records in his diary that a mail bomb, possibly the world's first, has severely injured the Danish Colonel Poulsen, residing at Børglum Abbey. 1788 – The second group of ships of the First Fleet arrive at Botany Bay. 1795 – The Batavian Republic is proclaimed in the Netherlands, bringing to an end the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. 1806 – Britain occupies the Dutch Cape Colony after the Battle of Blaauwberg. 1817 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, crosses the Andes from Argentina to liberate Chile and then Peru. 1829 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy receives its premiere performance. 1839 – The British East India Company captures Aden. 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome. 1861 – American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in declaring secession from the United States. 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict. 1871 – Franco-Prussian War: In the Siege of Paris, Prussia wins the Battle of St. Quentin. Meanwhile, the French attempt to break the siege in the Battle of Buzenval will end unsuccessfully the following day. 1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.[ 1899 – Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed. 1915 – Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising. 1915 – German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target. 1917 – Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage. 1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations. 1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is founded. 1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds. 1940 – You Nazty Spy!, the first Hollywood film of any kind to satirize Adolf Hitler and the Nazis premieres, starring The Three Stooges, with Moe Howard as the character "Moe Hailstone" satirizing Hitler. 1941 – World War II: HMS Greyhound and other escorts of convoy AS-12 sink Italian submarine Neghelli with all hands 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Falkonera. 1942 – World War II: The Japanese conquest of Burma begins. 1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation. 1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals. 1953 – Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.[ 1960 – Japan and the United States sign the US–Japan Mutual Security Treaty 1969 – Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest. 1974 – China gains control over all the Paracel Islands after a military engagement between the naval forces of China and South Vietnam 1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose"). 1978 – The last Volkswagen Beetle made in Germany leaves VW's plant in Emden. Beetle production in Latin America continues until 2003. 1981 – Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity. 1983 – Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia. 1983 – The Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple Inc. to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced. 1986 – The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written. 1991 – Gulf War: Iraq fires a second Scud missile into Israel, causing 15 injuries. 1993 – Czech Republic and Slovakia join the United Nations. 1995 – After being struck by lightning the crew of Bristow Flight 56C are forced to ditch. All 18 aboard are later rescued. 1996 – The barge North Cape oil spill occurs as an engine fire forces the tugboat Scandia ashore on Moonstone Beach in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. 1997 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city. 1999 – British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999. 2007 – Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast. 2007 – Four-man Team N2i, using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Antarctic pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1965 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance. 2012 – The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI. 2014 – A bomb attack on an army convoy in the city of Bannu kills at least 26 Pakistani soldiers and injures 38 others.