Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Bored Panda Selections
As a subscriber to the website Bored Panda, I receive regular updating emails as to new posts on that site. One email received in the last week mentioned so many articles of interest that I can’t resist posting snippets and pics to the most interesting, with links to the sources for each.
Homeowners Outraged After Realizing Their Builders Built A Plastic Lake Instead Of The Real One Their Pictures Showed
Developers from Changsha, Hunan [China], used an advertisement to trick homeowners into thinking that by buying an apartment in their building, they’d be living next to a park with a small lake in the middle of it. Well, the reality was as different as a mirage is from an oasis. Instead of a picturesque lake, homeowners found themselves living next to a ‘lake’ made of blue plastic covering, meant to mimic water.
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Woman Saves A Scorched And Screaming Koala With The Shirt Off Her Own Back
The Red List of Threatened Species had already classified the koala as vulnerable, but the species is being threatened even more by devastating bushfires that have already burned more than 2.5 million acres of Australia’s east coast.
But one recent act of bravery has given the country hope in fighting the blaze. After spotting a koala crossing a road amongst the flames in New South Wales, a local woman named Toni rushed to the animal’s aid, wrapping it in her shirt and pouring water over it.
The hero said she was planning to take the injured koala to the nearby Port Macquarie Koala Hospital, a facility that is taking care of up to 15 affected koalas.
The hospital and a few other organizations created a GoFundMe campaign to purchase automatic drinking stations and install them in the burnt areas to help in koala and wildlife survival. However, since people have already raised over $879,000 (the goal was $25,000), the project is being expanded
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The City Council In A Canadian Town Voted Down A Rainbow Crosswalk, Citizens Found A Loophole And Painted 16 Of Them
The city council of the Canadian town of Chilliwack voted down a proposal to install a rainbow crosswalk in September 2019. They argued it would be seen as a political statement and therefore would have a great potential of dividing people. But that didn’t stop the citizens from making it happen it anyway as they managed to find the loophole in this whole plot. Apparently, since the city doesn’t have jurisdiction over private lands, it is possible to do it on privately owned property. People took this opportunity and made 16 rainbow crosswalks in total this way.
Other cities in British Columbia are jumping in by painting rainbow crosswalks as well but the mastermind behind the Chilliwack’s rainbow crosswalk idea, Amber Price, has come up with an even grander idea. She said she’d love to see Chilliwack become a world record holder for the most rainbow sidewalks. With this dedication, it seems like everything is possible!
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South Dakota Spends $450k On An Antidrug Campaign Which Says That Everyone In The State Is On Meth
Making a powerful and memorable PSA campaign is a hefty task. But is it really that hard not to make it sound like everyone in your state is high on meth? We are looking at you, South Dakota. Apparently, the state recently launched a campaign that aims to raise awareness of the meth epidemic, however, many people interpreted the campaign’s tagline “Meth. We are on it” as claiming that everyone in South Dakota is doing methamphetamine.
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Russian Street Artist Draws Realistic Portraits In One Hour
Originally from Cheboksary, Nikolay Yarakhtin has been transferring every unique feature of different faces onto blank canvas using just a pencil for 28 years.
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Impressive “Ghost Plane” Performance Out Of 800 Drones Appeared At Chinese Air Show
Participants of the 2019 Nanchang Flight Convention had a magnificent chance to witness just how jaw-dropping aeronautics really is. 800 individual drones took flight to light up the night sky in the shapes of airplanes and helicopters.
The spectacular performance of the drones was a coordinated effort to celebrate aeronautics in China by showcasing the different kinds of aircraft available today. Drone formations took the shape of everything from passenger carriers to military helicopters to fighter jets to old-school propeller planes.
One of the most spectacular parts of the performance was the “ghost plane”. It illuminated the night sky in eerie blue with a rhythmic red light pulsing front to back every once in a while for added effect.
Drone technology has progressed quite a bit over the past years. Companies and hobbyists alike are experimenting with a variety of tech, enabling drones to do more than just fly. Coordinated shows such as the one in Nanchang are all thanks to wireless dongles built into the drones, allowing them to communicate their movements in sync based on a set program.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2019
10 Stunning Models from 100 Years Ago, Part 1
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Additional comments and pics from moi
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Ione Bright in 1912
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Ione Bright was born on May 11, 1887 in California, USA. She was an actress, known for Mixed Nuts (1917). She died on August 17, 1976 in Whittier, California.
A colourised version of the above pic.
Another pic, also from 1912
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Lota Cheek in 1923:
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Lota Cheek may sound like a made up name designed to be remembered, however it was her real name:
Wilmington Morning News - Jun 15, 1922
She was the daughter of Georgia farmer Leon Cheek. After winning a beauty contest in 1921, in which she was declared America's prettiest girl, she became a successful actress in New York City. In 1922, she was involved in a scandalous divorce case (her husband was simultaneously married to another woman). By 1925, she had remarried and took the name of her new husband, Sanders. The last record of her is from 1927, when she was featured in an ad for Colgate toothpaste.
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Dorothy Mackaill in 1923:
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Dorothy Mackaill was 11 when her parents separated; she then lived with her father. A rebellious teenager, Dorothy -- who had long wanted a career in the theater -- ran away to London and finally persuaded her father to pay for her board and lessons. Her first job was in the chorus; she then traveled to Paris, where she met a Broadway choreographer who got her a job with the Ziegfeld Follies, in New York. At the Follies, Dorothy became friends with ones of its stars, Marion Davies. Her later career in movies fluctuated from good films to pot boilers. She retired in 1955, thereafter living in Hawaii and making an occasional TV appearance. She resided in Honolulu for the last 35 years of her life and died there of liver failure in 1990. She was cremated and her ashes were scattered at sea off Waikiki Beach.
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Vanessa Parker in 1900.
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All that I have been able to learn is that Vanessa Parker was an actress.
Monday, November 25, 2019
Quote for the Day
Remember the scene in Forrest Gump where Forrest, in uniform, makes a speech at an anti-war rally but the sound gets cut. The guy depicted with him in the stars and stripes shirt is Abbie Hoffman, noted anti-war activist at the time of the Vietnam War.
Hoffman (God knows what the poster in the background is.)
Here is a quote by one of his contemporaries, author Kurt Vonnegut . . .
. . . about Abbie Hoffman:
During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not.
BTW, Hoffman suicided in 1989 at the age of 52, depressed at reaching middle age and that the liberal upheaval of the 1960s had produced a conservative backlash in the 1980s. In 1984, he had expressed dismay that the current generation of young people was not as interested in protesting and "social activism" as the youth had been during the 1960s.
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