Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 88
May 31, 2016
Délivrance by Isaies Santamaria Perez & Norman Vickery….
Délivrance
by Isaies Santamaria & Norman Vickery
Dancer: Isaies Santamaria Perez
Music: Moby
Isaies Santamaria Perez. :Photo: Norman Vickery
May 30, 2016
Joseph Edge, the Macclesfield Pedestrian of 1806
Joseph Edge was aged either 61 or 62 years of age when he set off to walk from Macclesfield in Cheshire to London (a journey of 172 miles) in fifty hours or less in the summer of 1806. Several large bets had been placed on his progress, amounting to upwards of 2,000 guineas.
Joseph Edge: The Macclesfield Pedestrian by R Bradbury; Silk Heritage Trust
His first attempt ended in disaster – he set off from the Angel Inn in Macclesfield’s Market Place (it’s now the site of th...
Regency Personalities Series-Henry Richard Charles Wellesley 1st Earl of Cowley
Regency Personalities Series
In my attempts to provide us with the details of the Regency, today I continue with one of themany period notables.
Henry Richard Charles Wellesley 1st Earl of Cowley
17 June 1804 – 15 July 1884
Henry Richard Charles Wellesley
Henry Richard Charles Wellesley 1st Earl of Cowley was born at Hertford Street, Mayfair, London, the eldest son of Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley, and Lady Charlotte, daughter of Charles Cadogan, 1st Earl Ca...
Annie Jump Cannon
She Filled the Sky:The Awesome Astronomy ofAnnie Jump Cannon
This week’s post you get an awesome cartoon by the fabDale DeBakcsy from the Illustrated Women in Science series at MadArtLab in addition to the usual written profile! Enjoy!
350,000 stars classified.It’s one of astronomy’s unbreakable and frankly not even approachable records, the scientific equivalent of the Ripken Streak. Seven hours a day, six days a week, for forty-four years, one woman bent herself to the task of creating...
May 23, 2016
A Historical Framing of Bonnie and Clyde
On the 23rd of 1934, Dallas outlaws and robbers Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow were ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Black Lake, Louisiana. Their exploits captured the attention of the American public during the “public enemy era” between 1931 and 1934 in the Great Depression. Though known today for his dozen robberies, Barrow’s choice of crime was robbing small stores or rural gas stations. The gang is believed to have killed at least nine pol...
The Forgotten Earthquake of 1966
If It Happened Yesterday, It's History
Earthquakes are a constant reminder to all of us, of the volatility of our planet. Millions of people, especially those who live near fault lines, feel the effects of seismic activity, often on a regular basis. With that said, thousands of tremors are recorded every year, often with little effect to our lives, but once in a while a very big earthquake strikes causing complete and utter destruction. Infrastructure, roads and buildings can be rebuilt, but...
A curious case of child stealing in nineteenth-century London
At the beginning of March 1821 a gentleman naming himself as Mr Probus, a minister of the Episcopal Church, took lodgings at the house of an undertaker, no. 12 Maiden Lane, Covent Garden. Mr Probus was around 35 years of age, slender with a sallow complexion marked by small-pox scars, dark haired and with, as was realised too late, an ‘insinuating’ manner of address. He applied for a smart and genteel looking boy to wait on and be a companion to a young gentleman at a fin...
Martha Graham: Live in Your Time….Interview with James Grissom By Telephone, 1990….
Martha Graham in Letter to the World, 1940. Photo: Barbara Morgan (1900-1992)
It is perfectly acceptable to be imitative, particularly when you are young, when you are trying to understand the shape of a stage and how your body works on it. You use your history, whatever it is, and mine included so many people with whom I had studied or who had lived in my mind and heart for so long. People were correct to see traces of these people in my movements and in my choreography.
A...
Susan La Flesche Picotte
Susan La Flesche Picotte was an Omaha Indian who became the first Native American physician and spent her life caring and campaigning for her people.
Susan was born on 17th June 1865 on the Omaha reservation in Nebraska. Both her parents were mixed race and her father, Iron Eyes (Joseph La Flesche), was the chief of their tribe. It was a time of much change and upheaval for Native Americans, and her father tried to manage this by encouraging people, including Susan and her three sisters, to...
Jackalope Art Fair In Pasadena A Big Hit!
Another Great Weekend At Jackalope Art Fair Out and About with ArtQuench We Share our findings of some of the best and most original Arts and Crafts Check the website for upcoming fairs. Jackalope…
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