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✍🏽🐦⬛ On this day in 1849: Edgar Allan Poe dies after going missing for 6 days. There is much debate and mystery surrounding the exact cause of his death.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American author and poet, often credited as the father of the short story, a pioneer of science fiction, the inventor of the detective story, and the master of the horror genre.
He is best known for his poems The Raven, Annabel Lee, and Helen, the short stories The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Masque of Red Death; and the detective story The Purloined Letter.
📝 Article by Donald L. Wasson
📷 Photo by Mathew Benjamin Brady.
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A 1910 famous portrait of a Parisian woman in her cannabis garden with her cat.
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On this day in 1978, the Toto single “Hold the Line” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #84 (October 7)
It was Toto’s debut single from their self-titled, debut album.
Toto keyboard player and “Hold the Line” songwriter David Paich recalled that the song was relatively easy to develop.
He began with the piano riff, which would become the song's iconic intro and chorus.
After toying with the piano riff one night, he started singing "Hold the line, love isn't always on time", and found the lyric to be a suitable fit. The verses were subsequently finished two hours later.
Jeff Porcaro, the band's drummer, gave a definition for the song:
"'Hold the Line' was a perfect example of what people will describe as your heavy metal chord guitar licks, your great triplet A-notes on the piano, your 'Sly'-hot-fun-in-the-summertime groove, all mishmashed together with a boy from New Orleans singing... and it really crossed over a lot of lines."
Guitarist Steve Lukather remembered hearing "Hold the Line" for the first time on the radio:
"I flipped the first time I heard myself on the radio.
My mom called me up and said, "Turn on KLOS." It was the song "Hold the Line," and I started running around the house in my underwear, screaming, "I'm on the radio!"
My wife was cracking up. It was just a thrill."
It went all the way to #1 in South Africa, #3 in Sweden, #5 in the US and Canada, #8 in Australia, #11 in New Zealand, #14 in the UK, #19 in Italy, #22 in Belgium, #23 in Germany, #24 in Ireland, and #25 in the Netherlands.
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Kent Williams is an American painter and comic book artist known for bringing an expressive, painterly approach to fantasy, horror and comics.
He began his career at Marvel’s Epic Illustrated and became widely recognized for Havok and Wolverine: Meltdown (1988), created with Jon J. Muth.
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This Belgian Kitchen Range Was Made Of Enameled Cast Iron.
Produced by Efel, the range dates to around the 1930s–1940s, when heavy cast-iron stoves were designed as permanent kitchen fixtures rather than disposable appliances.
Its rounded enamel panels, chrome detailing, and integrated cooking surfaces gave it a highly functional look.
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Boracay today ....
Beautiful day at White Beach Station 1,
Boracay Island, Philippines.
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This week in 1977, Queen released the single “We Are The Champions”/ “We Will Rock You” (October 7)
Written by Freddie Mercury, “We Are The Champions” is a song that is still sung in countless victory celebrations around the world, particularly at sporting events, and is one of the most played, sung, and recognizable anthems in rock history.
The flip side (released as a double-A side) was another anthem - “We Will Rock You”, written by Brian May, which is again sung with gusto, stomping feet and clapping hands at events all around the world.
Rolling Stone ranked “We Will Rock You” #330 of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" in 2004, and it placed at #146 on the Songs of the Century list in 2001.
In 2009, "We Are The Champions" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame…
Click on the link below to watch “We Are The Champions”:
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Ten years ago, The Scuba News reported from Coral Cay Conservation's field base in Southern Leyte, where volunteer divers were helping survey Philippine reefs.
CCC closed in 2022, but decades of underwater research have not disappeared with it.
Marine Conservation Philippines has now taken responsibility for preserving the Coral Cay Conservation name and scientific archive, including thousands of pages of reef surveys and marine protected area research.
We look back at the work we covered in 2016 and discover what happened to its legacy.
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Shake 'n Bake sergeants were the Army's fast track to stripes, and veteran NCOs mocked them with a chicken coating name
THE SHORTAGE
By 1967, the Army was quickly running out of noncommissioned officers in the combat specialties. Combat losses, 12-month tours and stateside rules were draining the ranks of leaders. On June 22, 1967, the Army approved a new Noncommissioned Officer Candidate Course. The first class began September 5, 1967, at Fort Benning, Georgia.
THE FAST TRACK
Unit commanders picked candidates from soldiers fresh out of basic training. They needed leadership potential, a clearance and a high infantry score, and not all of them volunteered. Most were two-year draftees. Candidates were promoted to corporal on selection and to sergeant at graduation, and top graduates made staff sergeant. The course folded basic training, advanced training and field work into about 21 weeks. Its last week was a dress rehearsal for Vietnam, with patrols, ambushes and defensive operations.
THE NICKNAME
Veteran sergeants had spent four to six years earning their stripes, and they weren't impressed. They called the new NCOs "Instant NCOs" and "Shake 'n Bake," after the chicken coating mix that hit supermarket shelves in 1965. It "was not meant to be a kind nickname, but it stuck."
THE PROOF
In Vietnam, skeptics changed their minds. One battalion commander, Lt. Col. Winfried Skelton, said that within a short time they "proved themselves completely and we were crying for more." More than 1,000 Shake 'n Bake NCOs were killed in Vietnam, and four received the Medal of Honor.
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The Beauty Of Architectural Photography Captured.
By Lars Hengstler
Ticino, Switzerland 🇨🇭
This is the Italian-speaking corner of Switzerland, where the old villages are built from grey stone, roofs included 🪨.
In Lavertezzo the Verzasca river crashes over marbled rock right below the church 🌊, and farther west in Val Bavona the Foroglio waterfall drops straight down behind the houses.
Late autumn turns the larches rust-red and pulls the clouds down to rooftop level 🍂, which is exactly when you want to be here.
📷: @ronald_soethje
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Paolo Roversi is a fashion and art photography icon from Italy.
Time to revisit his life and works on wonderzofphotography. Enjoy!
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Paolo Roversi (b. 1947) was born in Ravenna, Italy. He developed an interest in photography as a teenager and began experimenting with black-and-white photography in a darkroom he built in his family home. In 1970, he started working as a photojournalist for the Associated Press.
Three years later, following an invitation from Elle art director Peter Knapp, he moved to Paris, where he eventually established himself as a fashion photographer.
He frequently uses long exposures and large-format cameras, particularly the 8×10-inch Polaroid, to create intimate, painterly images that blur the boundaries between photography and fine art.
Among his notable books are Nudi (1999), Studio (2002) and Libretto (2000).
He has lived and worked in Paris for more than five decades and is regarded as one of the most influential fashion photographers of his generation.
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A view from above, a masterpiece from every angle.
The Jaguar E-Type — where beauty meets pure British engineering.
Looking at the view from above this Jaguar E-Type never gets old.
Looks fantastic in any color—art on four wheels.....
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