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18 March, 2016 at 11:04 pm #845108

lagatta
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She was also an exile from the Nazis, in Switzerland. Her husband was Jewish, and she was anti-Nazi herself.

A long life, but a very short career. I suspect the film studios were even creepier to young women back then, when women had so few rights. She hated being type-cast as a “Vamp”.

I love the photo of her with the cat! I saw another one of her, older, with an old-fashioned Siamese cat. Unfortunately I was unable to copy it for some reason.

21 March, 2016 at 5:34 pm #845210

Jeankit
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Born on March 21
1685 Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer.

LOL
1869 Florenz Ziegfeld, producer, creator of Ziegfeld Follies.
😉

Meowvelous!

21 March, 2016 at 6:06 pm #845211

katzenjammer
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3rd pic is timely – as per usual I’m dressing up as a kitty as this Thursday is Purim which is a holiday for masquerading! And yes, I’m going to spin class in my get-up. Make-up? check! Kit ears? check! Claws? Nope – difficult to hold on to handlebars. *wink*

22 March, 2016 at 5:29 pm #845246

Jeankit
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Happy Birthday to:
1923 Marcel Marceau, French mime.

1948 Andrew Lloyd Webber, British composer (The Phantom of the Opera, Cats)

Along with TDK Meowmy Joan it’s also:

Wheaten’s purrday – TDK Karen H is Meowmy! 🙂

22 March, 2016 at 6:52 pm #845249

Jeankit
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Happy birthday to Chico (Leonard) Marx today too!

24 March, 2016 at 5:32 pm #845328

Jeankit
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Today in History 3/24:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
1955: Cat on Hot Tin Roof opens!

or purry version:

LOL

25 March, 2016 at 5:35 pm #845352

Jeankit
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03-25-16 Happy Birthday to:
1934 Gloria Steinem, political activist, editor.

1942 Aretha Franklin, American singer, the “Queen of Soul.”

😀

R-e-s-p-c-t lalala

28 March, 2016 at 6:49 pm #845447

Jeankit
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3/28/16:
Happy Birthday to:

“I’m ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille,”

29 March, 2016 at 9:37 pm #845488

Jeankit
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Today’s Purrday Artist:
Born in 1864 artist and author Paul Ranson.
Below: “The Sorceress and the Cat (La Sorcière au Noir)” 1893.

with
Bonus: Ranson’s “Tiger in the Jungle(Tigre dans les jungles)”.

🙂 enjoy

30 March, 2016 at 5:13 pm #845518

Jeankit
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Today’s History Lesson: Unicorns!
Yes, Unicorns were real 🙂

vs

Fossils of a prehistoric creature called the Siberian Unicorn, or Elasmotherium sibiricum, have been found in the Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan. Most depictions of this animal show it looking kind of like a cross between a rhinoceros and a donkey rather than a noble horse

30 March, 2016 at 9:52 pm #845530

katzenjammer
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Irish Rovers earworm *Sigh*
You all know that only a virgin can tame a unicorn – well now you all know. *wink*

31 March, 2016 at 7:05 pm #845567

Jeankit
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Today’s History Lesson:
Lalalala

On March 31, 1949, RCA Victor introduced the 45rpm single record, which had been in development since 1940. The 7-inch disc was designed to compete with the Long Playing record introduced by Columbia a year earlier. Both formats offered better fidelity and longer playing time than the 78rpm record that was currently in use. Advertisements for new record players boasted that with 45rpm records, the listener could hear up to ten records with speedy, silent, hardly noticeable changes.

4 April, 2016 at 7:54 pm #845687

Jeankit
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In Remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King today:

Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at theLorraine Motelin Memphis, Tennessee.

6 April, 2016 at 8:09 pm #845760

Jeankit
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04-06-16
Happy Purrday Artist Today:
Born today in 1867 illustrator Helen Stratton.

Below: Stratton illustration for Hans Christian Andersen’s “Rudy and Babette Or, Capture of The Eagle’s Nest”.

8 April, 2016 at 7:37 pm #845831

Jeankit
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Purrday Artist of Day:
Born today in 1901 painter Christopher “Kit” Wood.
Below: Wood portrait of Jean Bourgoint, “Boy with a Cat” (1926)

10 April, 2016 at 4:00 pm #845897

lagatta
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That Siamese is just tolerating the young man holding her (or him, but cat looks more female).

11 April, 2016 at 5:37 pm #845913

Jeankit
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April 11, 2016
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/napoleon-exiled-to-elba?cmpid=Social_Facebook_SiteShare

1814 Napoleon exiled to Elba

1970 Apollo 13 launched to moon

1988 Cher wins Best Actress Oscar for Moonstruck

1931 Dorothy Parker resigns as drama critic for The New Yorker

1961 Bob Dylan plays his first major gig in New York City

11 April, 2016 at 7:31 pm #845917

katzenjammer
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“Able was I ere I saw Elba” (hint read it backwards!)
Well from that pic looks like Napoleon didn’t do “hard time” – note the lady, the pup, the servant. Unless you factor in rumour that he was actually poisoned at some point, thus putting an end to any plans of escape.

11 April, 2016 at 8:41 pm #845922

CatWScotia
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To be fair, I heard that he wasn’t deliberately poisoned. It was the green wallpaper that was poisonous, but fashionable at the time. He wasn’t the only victim of fashion, either, I believe.

😮

11 April, 2016 at 11:10 pm #845925

katzenjammer
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I stand corrected CWS. 🙂
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