(The first link takes me to a Google Maps page, which includes a photograph suggesting that Baden-Powell’s grave is located in an auto supply shop. :eek: )
In play:
When girls, as well as boys, became interested in Scouting after Robert Baden-Powell published his book, Scouting For Boys, Baden-Powell asked his sister, Agnes Baden-Powell, to form a separate Scouting organization for girls. The Girl Guides were thus formed in 1910; Baden-Powell’s wife, Olave, became Chief Guide for Britain in 1918.
Henry Gunther, a native of Baltimore, is believed to be the last soldier killed in World War I. Gunther died at 10:59 am on November 11, 1918, one minute before the Armistice took effect. He was 23 years old.
Both of Gunther’s parents were children of German immigrants.
By 1990, when he was close to the end of his performing career, Gunther Gebel-Williams was working with 21 elephants, 38 horses, 22 tigers, 4 zebras, 3 camels and a couple of llamas. Born to a poor family in Silesia, he started working in a circus at age 13. He became well known from his appearances on television shows like The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show as well as an American Express commercial, in which a panther, Kenny, rode on Gebel-Williams’s shoulders.
The English warrior-king, victor of the Battle of Agincourt and title character of Shakespeare’s Henry V has been played over the years by such actors as Laurence Olivier, Ian Holm, Richard Burton, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Sheen, Tom Hiddleston and Timothée Chalamet.
ETA: No llamas appeared in Branagh’s 1989 adaptation of the play.
After casting Tom Hiddleston as the trickster god Loki in Thor, director Kenneth Branagh instructed Hiddleston to look to two performances by Peter O’Toole as inspiration for how to play the character: King Henry II in The Lion in Winter, and T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia.
Hiddleston has also been quoted that he sees Loki as “a comic book version of Edmund in King Lear, but nastier.”
In a June 1, 2020 piece in The Washington Post, conservative columnist George F. Will wrote, “This unraveling presidency began with the Crybaby-in-Chief banging his spoon on his highchair tray to protest a photograph — a photograph — showing that his inauguration crowd the day before had been smaller than the one four years previous. Since then, this weak person’s idea of a strong person, this chest-pounding advertisement of his own gnawing insecurities, this low-rent Lear raging on his Twitter-heath has proven that the phrase malignant buffoon is not an oxymoron…”
T E Lawrence had to write “Seven Pilllars of Wisdom” all over again, from scratch, after leaving the original behind while changing trains. Somewhere, presumably, tha original still exists, perhaps as the most valuable literary document of the 20th Century.
TE Lawrence died from a motorcycle accident in Wareham, Dorset that occurred on 13 May 1935 on an unnamed road between Clouds Hill and Bovington Camp (Google Maps << map) — it’s about 50 miles S of Bath, and 35 miles SW of Salisbury.
Lawrence was riding a Brough Superior SS100 that he named “George V”. A dip in that road contributed to him not seeing two boys on their bicycles. He swerved to avoid them, lost control, and was thrown over the handlebars. He died six days later.
A memorial marker at lat / long 50.713245, -2.248139 marks the accident site.
*As a motorcyclist myself and a former certified instructor with the MSF, Motorcycle Safety Foundation, I’ll say that it’s very unfortunate but it appears that Lawrence was likely riding too fast for conditions.
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T.E. Lawrence’s fatal 1935 motorcycle accident is depicted in the opening scene of the 1962 film epic Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean, in which Lawrence was played by British actor Peter O’Toole.
Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world in area and the third largest in volume, behind Lake Baikal in Siberia and Lake Tanganyika in East Africa. The surface area of Lake Superior is greater than the combined areas of Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. Lake Superior contains as much water as all the other Great Lakes combined.
Abigail Adams praised George Washington in a letter to her husband John, at the time Washington’s future Vice President, writing, "He is polite with dignity, affable without formality, distant without haughtiness, grave without austerity; modest, wise and good.”
Between 1778 and 1788, John Adams served the United States as a diplomat in France, the Netherlands, and Great Britain. His independent, uncompromising temperament was not a good fit for diplomacy, and his diplomatic successes were combined with notable failures. He described himself as “obnoxious”, a feeling probably shared by colleagues and foreign ministers such as Vergennes of France.
The Dutch Marine Corps, the Korps Mariniers, or the RNLMC, the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is a component of the Netherlands Navy. The Netherlands remained neutral in World War I. They declared themselves neutral in July 1914. In World War II they retained their policy of neutrality but they stood up a military that was underprepared and insufficiently armed. Germany invaded the Netherlands in May 1940 and the Dutch soon surrendered.
The Netherlands was one of nine countries which remained neutral throughout World War I. The other eight countries were Argentina, Chile, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Venezuela, Sweden and Switzerland.
Atlanterhavsveien, the Atlantic Ocean Road in Norway, also known as the Atlantic Road, is a short, scenic, 5-mile road that opened in 1989. It is about 100 miles SW of Trondheim, and the main section of this road is in Møre og Romsdal county and runs from Vevang, over the Storseisundet Bridge in Averøy, over to Kårvåg.
Tønsberg is a city in southern Norway. The city “appears” in several of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films:
In Thor (2010), it is the location of an invasion by Frost Giants during the Viking era
In Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), it is where a sect of Odin worshippers has hidden the artifact then known as the Tesseract
In Avengers: Endgame (2019), it is the location of New Asgard, where Thor and other survivors of the destruction of Asgard have settled
However, the actual city of Tønsberg does not appear in any of the films; in Endgame, the Scottish village of St Abbs was used to stand in for Tønsberg.