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Belated Happy Purrday to:
Happy Birthday musician, singer and songwriter Ian Anderson. Anderson is sixty-nine today.
Feline fact: Anderson has long been working on charity projects to raise awareness and financial support for projects in defense of small wild cats around the world.
“In raising the consciousness of the public to the plight of many small, wild cats, the Bengal and some other hybrids can be like a signpost pointing the way to a broad and unselfish commitment to save not only endangered species but those whose fate may also one day become inevitable.”
Happy Purrday to:
Happy Birthday actor, filmmaker, environmentalist and philanthropist Robert Redford. Redford is eighty today. 😀
Happy Purrday to Artist:
Born today in 1861 painter Joseph Edward Southall.
Below: “Contentement” (1928).
Enjoy 🙂Happy Belated Purrday to:
“We call him “Cat,” We call him “Crazy” yet is he neither.”Born today in 1880 cartoonist George Herriman.
Below: Self portrait with the characters of his comic strip “Krazy Kat”.
😉
1835
The Great Moon HoaxOn this day in 1835, the first in a series of six articles announcing the supposed discovery of life on the moon appears in the New York Sun newspaper.
Known collectively as “The Great Moon Hoax,” the articles were supposedly reprinted from the Edinburgh Journal of Science. The byline was Dr. Andrew Grant, described as a colleague of Sir John Herschel, a famous astronomer of the day. Herschel had in fact traveled to Capetown, South Africa, in January 1834 to set up an observatory with a powerful new telescope. As Grant described it, Herschel had found evidence of life forms on the moon, including such fantastic animals as unicorns, two-legged beavers and furry, winged humanoids resembling bats. The articles also offered vivid description of the moon’s geography, complete with massive craters, enormous amethyst crystals, rushing rivers and lush vegetation.
Happy Purrday to:
Born today in 1803 illustrator J. J. Grandville.Below: Illustration from “The Public and Private Life of Animals (Adventures of a French Cat)” (1842).
Happy Purrday to:
Happy Birthday artist Margaret Keane. Keane is eighty-nine today.
(Remember growing up & enjoying this artist as a little girl…someday cat lady 😉 )
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/chagalls-ceiling-unveiled
1964
Chagall’s ceiling unveiled
Enjoy 🙂Happy Purrday Artist of Day:
Born today in 1867 painter and printmaker Pierre Bonnard.Below: “The White Cat” (1894).
Happy Belated Purrday to:
Born 10.16 in 1900 author and illustrator Edward Ardizzone.Below: “The dreaded Catipoce”.
Happy Purrday to:
Born 10.16 in 1874 artist Lionel Lindsay.
Enjoy!
Happy Purrday to:
Believe me, I get it. In the last few weeks I’ve watched a lot of cats do a lot of weird and interesting things.”Happy Birthday Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Clinton is sixty-nine today.
Belated Wishes to:
Born today in 1915 comic book creator, author and illustrator Bob Kane.Below: The Cat-Woman’s first mask and costume. From Batman #3 (1940).
All Hallow’s Eve Day fun with special purrday!
🙂Born today in 1883 artist Marie Laurencin.
Below: Self portrait with cat (1912).
Happy Purrday to:
Happy Birthday singer and songwriter Joni Mitchell. Mitchell is seventy-three today.Below: Mitchell’s self portrait used as the cover art for her recording “Taming The Tiger”.
Earworm for the day:
Belated Happy Purrday to:
Born 11/20 in 1625 painter Paulus Potter.Below: “Cat Playing With Two Dogs” (1652).
Furry fun circa 1652 😉Born 11/21 in 1890 painter and illustrator Jeanne Mammen.
Below: “Girl with Cat (Mädchen mit Katze” (1943).
Purry Cubism 🙂Born today in 1862 illustrator Warwick Goble.
Below: Ye old classic, “Puss in Boots”.
Enjoy!
Psst – today’s Purrday Person:
“Some cats, …they’re going to always have that hunger.”Happy Birthday musician Nikki Sixx. Sixx is fifty-eight today.
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