MARCH 29TH
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#MARCH29 #MARCH29TH #OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #JazzAge #MusicSky #MusicianSky #Blues #Ragtime #78rpm #OldMusic #jugBand #TinPanAlley #EarlyRecordings #ClassicJazz #Music #VonTilzer #AlbertVonTilzer #ParlorSongs #PopularSong #TinPanAlley #Victrola #Gramophone
As editor of The Black Women's Health Book: Speaking for Ourselves, White was the driving force that sought out, edited, and published its stories. As one review described it, the book covers, “the vast spectrum of the black women's health experience as patient, healer and wit- ness.” White was also the author of the bio- graphy Alice Walker: A Life – a project that took 12 years of research and writing.
A color photo of Evelyn C. White, circa 2012 Source: ABC Book World
It is the birthday in 1954 of American writer Evelyn C. White.
As a journalist, editor, and author, she has given voice to women with African roots and drawn attention to the issues that shape their lives.
#WriterSky #BookSky #TheBlackWomen'sHealthBook:SpeakingForOurselves #AliceWalker #BOTD
Pearl Bailey, with short curly hair, wearing a a dress with a scalloped lace collar and posing with her hand near her chin.
Kathleen Nolan smiles and looks up at Pearl Bailey, who is also smiling, while handing her the SAG Life Achievement Award statuette.
The late Pearl Bailey was #BOTD in 1918. Her legacy lives on through her work as an actor, singer, and author. She was the first Black actor to win the SAG Life Achievement Award in 1976, and her contributions to the arts would also garner her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988.
A color photo of Jo-Ann Mapson, (circa 2014) wearing glasses and a cowboy hat. Source: Authors Interviews
“A willingness to lose one's self in a story was the first step to learning compassion.”
-American writer Jo-Ann Mapson, born on this day in 1952
In her novels, she writes about the lives of women and how their relationships helped them chart a course through adversity.
#WriterSky #BookSky #BOTD
In The New Yorker magazine and his books, his captivating and insightful storytelling explores the transformational but under-reported forces that shape American culture.
A color photo of writer Alex Wilkinson (undated & uncredited) Source: WOMR
“Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.”
-American literary journalist Alec Wilkinson, born on this day in 1952
#WriterSky #BOTD
He became a founding member of the British comedy troupe Monty Python which produced the popular tv show Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Idle was integral to writing many of the lines the show’s fans often repeat in hopes of finding each other. According to Idle, “Always look on the bright side of life” is now one of the songs most commonly played or sung at British funerals.
A color photo still from the tv show Monty Python's Flying Circus. Terry Jones (left) and Eric Idle, playing a cheeky idiot Image source: The Australian Women's Weekly
It is the birthday of the wry sage who wrote,
“Always look on the bright side of life.”
English actor, writer, and one of the funniest people ever, Eric Idle was born on this day in 1943.
#WriterSky #FunnyGuy #MontyPython #NudgeNudge #KnowWhatIMean #BOTD
Morning #bird
A lesser Goldfinch on a foggy morning at the Kachina Wetlands near Flagstaff AZ.
#birdphotography #photography #birding #birds #wildlifephotography #botd #birdoftheday #yellow
🎧 Japanese Breakfast (feat. Jeff Bridges) - Men In Bars
Michelle Chongmi Zauner 🎂 (born 29 March 29 1989)
“And who am I to leave behind? We built this
And even when it falls apart, it's ours”
#musicsky
#nowspinning
#botd
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Kitzinger’s research and writing focused on the period of time from the birth of a child through the toddler years. She wrote or contributed to dozens of books that re-affirmed the value of breast- feeding, midwifery, and the voices of women in any discussion of the lives of women and children.
A colorful photo of anthropologist and author Sheila Kitzinger in 2013. Photo credit and source: David Sillitoe for the Guardian
English author Sheila Kitzinger was a social anthropologist who specialized in pregnancy, childbirth and infant care.
She was a vocal advocate for women having the information they need to make the many decisions so important to the early life of a child.
#Midwifery #History #BOTD
#BOTD 1908
Dennis O'Keefe: American actor. After a small but impressive role in Saratoga, Clark Gable recommended O'Keefe to MGM, who signed him to a contract in 1937. O'Keefe left MGM around 1940 and continued to work but in mostly lower budget films. T-Men (1947) Raw Deal (1948) Abandoned (1949)
🎧 Sue Foley 🎂- Going Down The Road Again
Sue Foley (born March 29, 1968)
“When a woman gets the blues so bad
Lord, she travels in her mind”
#musicsky
#nowspinning
#botd
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#BOTD 1879 Elizabeth Snow Bangs
The Bangs Sisters, Mary "May" E. Bangs (1862–1917) and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Snow Bangs (1859–1920): two fraudulent spiritualist mediums from Chicago, who made a career out of painting the dead or "Spirit Portraits"
🎧 Terry Jacks 🎂- Seasons In The Sun
Terrence “Terry” Ross Jacks (born March 29, 1944)
“When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
With the flowers everywhere
I wish that we could both be there”
#musicsky
#nowspinning
#botd
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Remembering Vangelis, #BOTD 1943. Best known for his Academy Award-winning score to 'Chariots of Fire', as well as for composing scores to the films 'Blade Runner', 'Missing', 'Antarctica', 'The Bounty', '1492: Conquest of Paradise' and 'Alexander'. #MusicSky #FilmSky #Vangelis 🎬🎼🎹
#filmsky #moviesky #tvsky #songsky #MeaningOfLife
Eric Idle #BOTD
& Graham Chapman in one of the funniest rant conversation bits ever
DENNIS O’KEEFE #BOTD AND HEDY LAMAR HAVING BREAKFAST IN THE FILM NOIR DISHONORED LADY
#filmsky #moviesky #filmnoir #BOTD
#DishonoredLady
Sunday Brunch
Born Today, Nick Ut (March 29, 1951) seen here in camo battle fatigues in Vietnam
#BOTD Nick Ut (March 29, 1951) #Photography
#musicsky #bossanova #Brazil #jazz
Astrud Gilberto #BOTD
João Gilberto & Stan Getz
A masterpiece, for a Sunday morning
#filmsky #moviesky #filmnoir
#NoirNeckties
Dennis O’Keefe #BOTD
as a T-Man (US Treasury Agent) in,
T-Men, 1947
He was #BOTD yesterday, but I can't resist linking to this archive piece about Dirk Bogarde, from The Guardian... #FilmSky
Dirk Bogarde: the rebellion of a reluctant pinup | Film | The Guardian share.google/3tvEd6yWRzd0...
#botd Brendan Gleeson
A favourite:
Gleeson and Jon Voight in John Boorman‘s The General, an almost forgotten portrait of real-life Irish gangster Martin Cahill (1998)
#BrendanGleeson #JohnBoorman #FilmSky
Hello BS. Passe un bon dimanche ☕😎
#BOTD Jacqueline Joubert (1921-2005), French TV presenter born in Paris (France) in 1949
Good morning friends 💛
Today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #Yellow, a bird with Yellow in its plumage.
Combining this with #Stunday as the pic includes stunning beautiful hoar frost on the branches.
Have a lovely Sunday 💛
#SundayYellow #BOTD #Birds #Linnut #Keltasirkku #Nature #Winter #EastCoastKin
