The Lorraine Motel, which was for whites only before WWII, is now the National Civil Rights Museum. On his last night, King was accompanied there by Jesse Jackson, Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young, and Hosea Williams, among others. Ben Branch, known as the “pied piper” of the civil rights Movement because he was the musician who accompanied King on his travels, was the last person to whom King spoke when he said, “Ben, don’t forget, I want you to play ‘Take My Hand, Precious Lord’ tonight like you’ve never played before. Play it for me. Play it real pretty.” A few minutes later, King was dead.
The Cross of Lorrainewas the emblem of the Free French.
According to food author Craig Claiborne, the first quiche to come to the attention of the American public was the quiche Lorraine, a longtime staple in French farmhouses, in the 1950s. Since then, we have gone through what he called “the quiching of America”, with quiches with every ingredient from asparagus to zucchini.
American actor Barry Nelson was the first to portray BJames ond on screen, in a 1954 television adaptation, “Casino Royale”. In 1961 Eon Productions began work on Dr. No, an adaptation of the novel of the same name. The result was a film that spawned a series of twenty-four films produced by Eon Productions and two independent films. After considering the likes of “refined” English actors such as Cary Grant and David Niven, the producers cast Sean Connery as Bond in the film. Fleming was appalled at the selection of the uncouth, 31-year-old Scottish actor, considering him to be the antithesis of his character. However, Connery’s physical prowess and sexual magnetism in the role came to be closely identified with the character, with Fleming ultimately changing his view on Connery and incorporating aspects of his portrayal into the books.
Seven actors in total have portrayed Bond on film. Following Connery’s portrayal, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig have assumed the role.
Maybe an Idealist can choose a Bond of Oneness (not seven-ness) even while embracing the fragmenting imperatives of science—see
https://www.salon.com/2018/06/23/could-multiple-personality-disorder-explain-life-the-universe-and-everything_partner/
Bond Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London; many of its stores feature luxury items. On the UK version of Monopoly, Bond Street is the third most expensive property, with only Park Lane and Mayfair costing more.
Lord Peter Wimsey’s address is 110A, Piccadilly, in the heart of Mayfair. Sayers chose the apartment number as half of Holmes’ address: 221B Baker Street.
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is 32 Carlisle St, Gettysburg, PA 17325, USA, the location of the Lincoln Diner.
The original location of Mels drive-in was 140 South Van Ness Avenue. It consisted of ample grounds, attractively landscaped with the capacity for 110 cars, and a two-story rectangular building. It was used in George Lucas’s iconic 1973 film “American Graffiti,” the familiar neon sign at the gang’s favorite hangout spot buzzing in the background, blazing “Mels drive-in.”
Googie architecture is a form of modern architecture, a subdivision of futurist architecture influenced by car culture, jets, the Space Age, and the Atomic Age. Originating in Southern California during the late 1940s and continuing approximately into the mid-1960s, Googie-themed architecture was popular among motels, coffee houses and gas stations. The style later became widely known as part of the Mid-century modern style, elements of which represent the populuxe aesthetic, as in Eero Saarinen’s TWA Flight Center. The term “Googie” comes from a now-defunct cafe in Hollywood designed by John Lautner. Similar architectural styles are also referred to as Populuxe or Doo Wop.
Googie’s Coffee Shop was located at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Heights in Los Angeles but was demolished in 1989.
I’ve been there twice! Try the pies.
In play:
Dan Quayle, Republican of Indiana, began his one and only term as Vice President of the United States on Jan. 20, 1989.
Dan (not Daniel) was one of the sons of Jacob and the eponymous founder of the tribe of Dan. Joshua is said to have allocated coastal land to them after the conquest of Canaan.
Lemuel Roberts, American Revolutionary War soldier and historian, born in Canaan, Connecticut, in 1755.
Lemuel Gulliver is the eponymous protagonist of Swift’s four-part novel, Gulliver’s Travels. Only the first part, where Gulliver is a giant amongst the Lilliputians, is commonly referred to.
Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is now usually read as a children’s fantasy, overlooking the angry social satire. Swift’s epitaph, which he wrote himself (in Latin) refers to his use of satire to point out human error and injustice:
Here is laid the Body
of Jonathan Swift, Doctor of Sacred Theology,
Dean of this Cathedral Church,
where fierce Indignation
can no longer
lacerate his Heart.
Go forth, Traveler,
and imitate, if you can,
this vigorous (to the best of his ability)
Champion of Liberty.
German author Henry Witherfeld wrote a children’s book Telegramm aus Liliput translated as Castaways in Lilliput, in which three Australian children get shipwrecked at sea and land on Liliput, discovering the island is real and Lemuel Gulliver had actually visited it. Of course, the Lilliputians now speak English so they can communicate with the children.
In the game of cloaks and daggers, the Zimmerman Telegram stands out.
It was a telegram from Germany to Mexico in early 1917, offering an alliance if the US entered World War I, and proposing that Mexico should regain the territory it lost to the United States in the 19th century.
But how to get the cable to the Mexican Government? The British had cut Germany’s trans-Atlantic cable on the outbreak of the war.
However, the German government had an arrangement with the US government to allow Germany to use the US diplomatic cable from Copenhagen to Washington, provided the cables were sent in clear, not coded, so the US government knew their contents. In a masterpiece of diplomacy, the German government persuaded the US government to allow them to send this one cable in code.
Germany thus persuaded the US to allow Germany to use the US cable to work to set up an alliance that proposed the dismemberment of the US, a considerable example of chutzpah.
The cloak and daggers didn’t end there. By agreement between the US and the British, the US cable from Denmark ended at Land’s End in Cornwall, where the signals were then transmitted by radio across the Atlantic. The British had assured the US that “gentlemen do not read another gentleman’s private correspondence.”
Except, of course, the British were doing exactly that, monitoring all of the cable traffic. When they intercepted the encoded cable, they sent it to their cipher office, Room 40. The British had earlier obtained two current German codes, so within a day Room 40 had translated the cable.
The British realised it was political dynamite and wanted to share it with the US, but of course there was that gentlemen’s mail thing
So, realising that the cable would have been re-transmitted by the German Embassy in Washington to the Mexican Government, they had “our man in Mexico City” use his contacts to have a copy of the cable stolen from the Mexican telegram office. The British then gave a copy of the cable to the US government, telling the innocent Yanks (who had now been double-double-crossed, once by the Germans and once by the British) that it had come into British hands by good intelligence work in Mexico.
But how to get the Americans to be able to decipher it independently, instead of just accepting the British clear version? The British didn’t want to reveal to the Germans that they had their current codes, but they had an older German code, close enough to the current codes that it could give the Americans an opening to start on their own de-ciphering, enough to accept the British version. The British were prepared to let the Germans work out that the British had the older Code, which the Germans weren’t using anymore.
Once Germany announced that it was resuming unrestricted submarine warfare, the British government shared the Mexican copy of the cable and their older German code with the US, and it helped to push the US into the war, after the German Foreign Secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, admitted the cable was genuine.
The US didn’t find out for twenty-five years how their friends in Britain had duped them (all in a good cause, of course!)
The British cover-story of a British agent in Mexico also deceived the Germans, who went on a massive spy-hunt in Mexico City, looking for a British spy in the German embassy.
It’s believed to be one of the first cases where intercepted electronic signals were used to such significant effect.
Variations on the Death of Trotsky is a short one-act comedy-drama written by David Ives for the series of one-act plays titled All in the Timing. The play fictionalizes the death of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky through a number of distinct variations, though all from the same, historically accurate cause: a wound to the head by an ice ax—referred to in the play as a “mountain-climber’s ax”, for comic effect, to distinguish it from an icepick. The assassination, by Spanish communist and NKVD agent Ramon Mercader, occurred in Mexico City, where Trotsky was living in exile.
James Ives was married to Caroline Clark, who was the sister-in-law of Nathaniel Currier’s brother Charles, who recommended Ives to his brother thus forming the successful printing team of Currier & Ives.
When President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Ramsey Clark in 1967 as his last Attorney General, Clark’s father, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, resigned from the court.