Wednesday, September 7, 2011

[Celebs_of_TV_and_Magazine2] Interesting Info

 


 Judy Carne... the  sock it to me  ... girl  ,  was once a  Lionel Blair dancer  along with Una Stubbs
and   Amanda Barrie.

There's no need to keep cheese in the fridge,  leave it out on the side,  if it sweats a little
in summer weather... so much the better, it will add to the flavour of the cheese.
Cheese kept in the fridge is inevitably  flat and  tasteless.

Peter Green and Danny Kirwan  were both guitar heroes with the blues group... Fleetwood Mac
they both tripped on acid while   at a party in Munich and both ended up derelicts on the street.

"The Teak Forest".... an  ancient Indian poem,  was Marilyn Monroe's favourite poem.

Richard Monckton Milnes    during the Victorian era had perhaps the largest porn collection
in all of  Europe.  He became an MP and  friend of  Prime Minister  Gladstone.  
He was an ardent suitor of Florence Nightingale, who in the end, refused to marry him.
He also persued a literary   career  championing writers such as Algernon Swinburne and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
   His huge porn collection is now in the London Library.
 

April  1st 1966... Harold Wilson won a landslide victory and the floodgates of Socialism
opened in the  UK.   ( April Fools Day )
 It took the advent of  Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s  to  turn the
socialist tide which she managed to do ..... at least for a while !

600,000  Americans died during the American Civil War in the 1860s...
Thats more Americans than died in WW1  , WW2,  and Vietnam combined !

Not one  reference to  King David or  King Solomon  has been found in the records
of countries  neighbouring Israel.
Not even the Phonecians   have any record of that fabled Empire.

  The infamous ... Marquis de Sade wrote a novel... "Juliet..."
It is  written in  1st person and is nearly as long as Tolstoy's ...War and Peace....

  The infamous.. Lord Byron... wrote  two volumes  of memoirs.  Lord Byron led a roguish
life and was feted by high society in England and Italy... who knows what  intriguing information
about his life and times  were to be found  in those memoirs.
Alas we'll never know.  
On 17th May  1824   Byron's publisher..John Murray.... fed both volumes of the manuscript to the flames
.... he had read them and considered them  far too scandalous to publish.


The famous Dutch painter... Van Dyke... traveled to England in  April 1632 and became Court Painter to   King  Charles 1st .   He only spent  7 years in England yet he completed over  400  portraits
 many of which are among the greatest treasures of museums and private art collections all over the world.
He painted  over 40 portraits of King Charles 1st.


Monday  5th September 1966 .......... the Avengers began filming in colour  in the grounds of
Palace House Hampshire ( Home of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu)
 The lovely Emma Peel was soon to hit the UK  TV screens in full living colour !

1965–68:   With Emma Peel  
At this point the show was sold to a United States network, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC).
The Avengers became one of the first British series to be aired on prime time U.S. television.
The ABC network paid the then-unheard of sum of $2 million for the first 26 episodes.
The average budget for each episode was reportedly £56,000, very  high for the British TV industry.

The fourth series aired in the U.S. from March to December 1966.
Previously the series had been shot on 405-line videotape using a multicamera setup, with very little provision for editing .
The U.S. deal meant that the producers could afford to shoot the series on 35mm film from this point.
It continued to be produced in monochrome.

The use of film rather than videotape was essential, as British 405-line video was technically incompatible with the U.S. NTSC videotape format.
It was also visually inferior to 'filmed' productions, which were standard on U.S. prime time television at that time.

Shakespeare wrote 39 plays and out of all of them.... only  2 plays  are original
ie   The Tempest...  and   Midsummer Night's Dream...
 The rest of the plays are based on existing  stories, plays, myths and history.

Why did no letters of Shakespeare survive ?  why did not even a scrap of his
manuscript survive ?
   We have lots of  manuscripts  and letters  from  his contemporary writers but  nada
from old Bill.
 This seems to me like one gigantic conspiracy ..... did Shakespeare really exist ?
  are his writings the  result of a commitee.... are they  a collected work by many authors
like the Bible ?
 
  Phillip Henslow was a famous diarist in Elizabethan England,  his diary mentions most of
the playwrites of the day but  he never once mentions Shakespeare.

Royce was from a poor family, he was a great mechanic and built a car in Manchester.
Rolls was from a very rich family. Six years after he met Royce..... Rolls died in an air crash
on 12 July 1910 at Hengistbury Airfield Bournemouth when the tail of his Wright Flyer broke off during a flying display.
He became the first Englishman to die in an aircrash. He was age 32.
 

Alexander Pope was a  sex mad, sex starved dwarf   ( 4ft.6" )   he was obsessed with women
and  constantly described their vanities and foibles in his poems.


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