Film Fact: Rita Hayward, who had the capacity to be more provocative on screen than any other actress of the time, blamed the producer for creating a sex goddess no woman could ever live up to.
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Perfect Pairs
If you’ve ever watch Notting Hill https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125439/ Julia Roberts mentions this movie when she’s in bed with Hugh Grant and describing her life as a movie star and her relationship to men.
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” Gone With the Wind, 1939.
D.H. Lawrence was arguably one of the most talented rebel writers in Nottingham. Critics have outlined his 1913 book “Sons and Lovers” as one of his best pieces of work. It is included in the Modern Library list of 100 best novels in English of the 20th Century. Written in Lawrence’s adaptation of the East Midlands dialect, it controversially explains an almost autobiographical story of a miner’s son who battles through life and relationships.
Hollie Hines
Nottingham, in the heart of the East Midlands, has a population of around 311,000 and is one of the youngest cities in the UK, with over 50% of the population under 30. It’s 30 miles (48km) south of Sheffield and 30 miles (48km) north of Leicester.
The Boot family, born and raised in Nottingham, created one of the biggest chains of pharmacies that is still getting bigger and bigger to this day. John Boot opened a small herbalist store on Goose Gate in 1849 and had expanded the business by 1927 – now Boots is the UK’s leading pharmacy, health and beauty retailer with over 2,500 stores across the UK. Ibuprofen was also invented in Nottingham by Dr Stewart Adams. Dr Stewart Adams left school at 16 and worked as a pharmacy apprentice at Boots laboratories, claiming he was very ambitious at the time. Dr Stewart Adams was working in a house in the south of Nottingham, performing random trials on pain-killing chemical substances – eventually leading to his only successful attempt, ibuprofen, which he tested on himself for a hangover. Thanks Stewart – you’ve rescued many of us from that very same ailment.
“I covet the idea of being sometimes to myself near a fire with a hope of having a warm solitary place to hide in sometimes on winter evenings,” wrote T.E. Lawrence, or Private Shaw as he then was, to a friend soon after he had found this cottage, Clouds Hill, and rented it in 1923. The cottage is alone in a dip in the moor, very quiet, very lonely, very bare. A mile from Camp (Bovington). Furnished with a bed, a bicycle, three chairs, one hundred books, a gramophone of parts, a table…I don’t sleep here, but come out here at 4:30 pm – 9 p.m., nearly every evening, and ream or write, or read by the fire, or play Beethoven and Mozart to myself on the box.” Although T.F. Lawrence left Clouds Hill for long periods he returned whenever he could and finally retired here in 1935. On 8 May of that year he wrote to Lady Astor that wild mares would not persuade him away from his ‘earthly paradise”, Clouds Hill. Five days later he was fatally injured when his motorbike went out of control while he was swerving to avoid two young boys on bicycles near Cloud Hill.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
D. H. Lawrence
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The Beast of Bodim Moor
England is full of beasties, the moors probably having more than most areas (the Highlands of Scotland right up there too). But the particular creature we speak about today is much more recent with 1992 being given as a time when dozens of sightings as well as cases of regular animals being mauled were first reported. It was right about this time as well that it’s name was settled on: The Beast of Bodmin.
The government requested that sighting be reported to them and ask for any evidence to be turned in. Some on brought in a large cat skull, which was eventually identified as a Leopard’s skull, but rather than from the moor lands it was found to have had its previous places as part of a leopard skin rug.
In 1997, October in fact zoo expert personal from Newquay identified some foot prints found to the south of Bodmin Moor to be fresh paw prints put there by a puma. There was even a photograph going around a such a beast—a pregnant female staking Bodmin.
But it continues to be a legend that has never had any clear evidence to support it.
This is dark and brooding country. In a good way. The moor is an International Dark Sky Landscape and as wild and romantic as you could hope for. Its villages, though, are neat and tamed. Each offers appealing cottages, barn conversions and bungalows, and all have busy social calendars.
Marshall University, located in Huntington, was named for Chief Justice John Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. Justice Marshall served as Chief Justice from 1801- 1835 and served as the presiding justice over the Aaron Burr treason trial in 1807.
One thing (and there are many) of note about Key West is that unlike the majority of the USA it has a coral reef offshore. This reef along with the currents created by the Straits of Florida and the ever changing tropical weathers caused a very unfortunate industry—at least for the victims but in fact made Key West a very wealthy city/island — in fact the wealthiest city in Florida in the 19th century. ” The June 10th, 1826 Pensacola Gazette reported that gross duties paid on goods landed in Key West increased from $389 in 1823 to $14,108 in 1824, and this was only the beginning. ” HISTORY OF WRECKING By Jerry Wilkinson
A great number of the citizens partook of this industry which was for the city a money maker and the one who didn’t directly work for the industry probably profited in one way or another from those that did. Key West joined the USA in 1820 and after this there were more changes: Now under US rule, Bahamians that salvaged sunken cargo could no longer take it back to the Caribbean. Instead, they had to go through the process of auctioning it off at the Port of Key West. Many opted to relocate to Key West. Early white settlers also ascended on the island, eager to make fortunes from sinking commercial ships. These salvaging professionals became known as “wreckers.” https://www.24northhotel.com/blog/key-west-shipwreck-salvaging-wreckers/
Eventually, lighthouses were built on the reef as navigational aids. The introduction of steamships, more maneuverable than ships under sail, also dramatically reduced the flow of wrecked vessels, and, consequently, the livelihoods of the wreckers. In 1921, a federal court issued its last wrecking license in Key West. https://marinalife.com/magazine-article/history-florida-keys-wrecking/
To this day there are all manner of reminders of the wreckers in Key West.
1. Key West Wrecker’s Museum: (pictured above) Combines actors, films and the actual artifacts from the 1985 rediscovery of the wrecked vessel Isaac Allerton, which sank in 1856 on the treacherous Florida Keys reef.
2. Audubon House and Tropical Gardens Built by Captain John Huling Geiger in the 1840s for his family, is a cool place to step back in time. Visitors can tour the home to see how a wealthy maritime pilot and wrecker once lived.
3. Sails to Rails Museum Guests visiting Sails to Rails will journey through the Age of Sail, a time when tall ships plied the treacherous waters of the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and the Florida Keys and they will learn about the time in America when railroads opened up the frontiers of an emerging nation.
4. Key West Museum At Fort East Martello . Today, visitors can explore the preserved battlement’s collection of relics from the Civil War, learn about the wrecking and cigar-manufacturing industries which shaped the Florida Keys, view the imaginative metal sculptures of Stanley Papio, as well as meet the Ghosts of East Martello, including the infamous Robert the Doll.
5. Key West Conch Train Tours—drives you about the island and tells you about it’s history and points out places related to the wreckers among many others. https://www.conchtourtrain.com
While Florida seceded and joined the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, Key West remained in U.S. Union hands because of the naval base. Many locals, however, were sympathetic to the South, and flew Confederate flags over their homes.
Conventional wisdom may tell you that if you are hot, drinking something cold will cool down your body. However, research has shown that on a hot day, drinking a hot beverage may help your body stay cool. The reason being that when you drink a hot drink, your body produces sweat to cool down your body temperature. Initially you may be adding heat by drinking the hot liquid, but the amount of sweat that your body produces to cool down more than makes up for the added heat from the liquid. The increased perspiration is key; when the sweat evaporates from your skin, it is able to cool down your body temperature.
At a time it was considered inappropriate to show a toilet being flushed on screen, Alfred Hitchcock saw an opportunity to add some extra shock to his already shocking film—presenting a scrap of paper, which proves an important clue, failing to flush in a toilet. In the book, the clue was an earring found in the bathroom, but Hitchcock changed it to a piece of paper actually in the toilet, partly to add an extra jolt for viewers.
