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  • #855031
    Jeankit
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    TGIF Happy Purrday Artist of the Day!
    Born today in 1610 painter David Teniers the Younger.

    Below: “The Cat’s Concert”.

    Cat's Concert 🙂

    #855096
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Happy Belated Purrday to:
    Born in 1908 painter Remedios Varo.
    purrday
    December 16th!

    #855097
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Psst:
    Guess who is 73 years old today 😉
    Rock ‘n’rollder Keith & kitteh!
    keith & kitteh

    #855498
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Happy Purrday to:
    Born today in 1907 actor Ray Milland.

    Below: Milland in attendance for the signing of Orangey’s contract for the 1951 classic cat film “Rhubarb”.

    Orangie gets contract
    Gotta Luv those Orangies – even in black & white 😀

    #855513
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Happy Birthday to Golden Gate Bridge 01-05-1933!
    http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/golden-gate-bridge-is-born
    golden gate bridge

    Although the idea went back as far as 1869, the proposal took root in 1916 🙂

    #855637
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Happy Purrday to:

    Rod Stewart
    Rod Stewart is 72 today 🙂

    #855647
    Moonshadow_NZ
    Moderator

    Love this thread, I don’t often comment on it but I do check it out JK. I especially love the art you post.

    #855718
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Thanks MS – I truly enjoy sharing the artsy side of kitteh history too! 😀

    Today’s Gorgeous Art Share:
    Born today in 1848 painter Lilla Cabot Perry.

    Below: “Woman with a Cat” (1901).

    gorgeous Woman with cat painting

    #855994
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Happy Belated Purrday wishes to:
    Born in 1904 choreographer George Balanchine.

    Below: Balanchine and his cat Murka.
    goerge balanchine

    with
    Born today in 1832 artist Edouard Manet
    edourad manet cats

    enjoy 🙂

    #856363
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Today in History:
    Mop Tops Arrive in New York!
    Beatles Arrive in NY
    On February 7, 1964, Pan Am Yankee Clipper flight 101 from London Heathrow lands at New York’s Kennedy Airport–and “Beatlemania” arrives. It was the first visit to the United States by the Beatles, a British rock-and-roll quartet that had just scored its first No. 1 U.S. hit six days before with “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” At Kennedy, the “Fab Four”–dressed in mod suits and sporting their trademark pudding bowl haircuts–were greeted by 3,000 screaming fans who caused a near riot when the boys stepped off their plane and onto American soil. 🙂

    #856460
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Belated Purrday Artist:
    Born in 1880 painter and printmaker Franz Marc.

    Below: “Two Cats, Blue And Yellow” (1912)

    yellow blue cats

    “I’m more like a puma, so I’m not sure why people call me Fat Elvis.”

    Happy birthday former Major League Baseball player Lance Berkman. Berkman is forty one today. Baseball Fan or Not – Still Feline Fun!

    Feline fact: Berkman was eventually known as “Big Puma”.
    Puma with fat elvis cat
    hmm…thought cat’s name was Fat Elvis 😉

    #856561
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Purrday Artists – Belated Wishes:
    February 13th Purrday Artist:
    Born today 1938 San Francisco artist Joan Brown.

    Joan Brown artist
    02-12 Born today in 1884 artist Max Beckmann.
    purrday artist

    #856618
    Jeankit
    Participant

    1904 On this day in 1904, Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly premieres at the La Scala theatre in Milan, Italy.
    Madame Butterfly premieres
    Madame butterfly
    The young Puccini decided to dedicate his life to opera after seeing a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida in 1876. In his later life, he would write some of the best-loved operas of all…
    Purry furry addy 😉
    cat with geish girls

    #856695
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Happy Purrday to:
    Born today in 1933 musician, composer and civil rights activist Nina Simone
    Nina & kitteh
    🙂

    #856865
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Happy Purrday to:
    Born today in 1887 sculptor, painter, printmaker, and writer William Zorach.

    Below: “Child with Cat (1926)” (Zorach’s daughter, Dahlov, embracing one of the family’s cats).
    sculpture woman with cat

    Belated Purrday wishes to:
    Born in 1932 actress Elizabeth Taylor.
    Liz Taylor with kitten

    #856899
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Happy Birthday to:

    dr seuss

    On this day in 1904, Theodor Geisel, better known to the world as Dr. Seuss, the author and illustrator of such beloved children’s books as “The Cat in the Hat” and “Green Eggs and Ham,” is born in Springfield, Massachusetts. Geisel, who used his middle name (which was also his mother’s maiden name) as his pen name, wrote 48 books–including some for adults–that have sold well over 200 million copies and been translated into multiple languages. Dr. Seuss books are known for their whimsical rhymes and quirky characters, which have names like the Lorax and the Sneetches and live in places like Hooterville.

    #856982
    Jeankit
    Participant

    Noticed some of the dates for café were for previous days so am posting yesterday’s fun today on a Moanday…enjoy! Dust off your old hula hoop an get goin 😉
    Sunday’s History Lesson:
    Hula Hoop Patented
    1963
    Hula-Hoop patented
    On this day in 1963, the Hula-Hoop, a hip-swiveling toy that became a huge fad across America when it was first marketed by Wham-O in 1958, is patented by the company’s co-founder, Arthur “Spud” Melin. An estimated 25 million Hula-Hoops were sold in its first four months of production alone 😀
    …lalalala…I just want a Huuula Hooop…lalalala!

    #856985
    Moonshadow_NZ
    Moderator

    Never could get the darned thing to stay around my hips and now can’t do it because that movement hurts my knees.
    Guess it’s one of those things I will never succeed at.

    #856987
    katzenjammer
    Participant

    Hula hoop LOL! I don’t have the hips to “hula” with! MS, I share your misery. 😉

    #857015
    Jeankit
    Participant

    MS & KJ – Hula Hoop Work alternative work out!
    hual hoop on ground wo 😉

    Today in History…one ringy dingy was born!
    alexander graham bell
    On this day in 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention–the telephone.
    Three days after filing the patent, the telephone carried its first intelligible message–the famous “Mr. Watson, come here, I need you”–from Bell to his assistant.

    Hmm…Tux says…now, you are talking!
    tuxie phone 🙂

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