Cat School

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"Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours."

Hermann Hesse

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Marjane Satrapi was the voice that turned memory into resistance | Collater.al

Marjane Satrapi died today at 56. With Persepolis she turned her own biography into a political document and left a lasting mark on contempo

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Happy birthday, Josephine Baker, June 3, 1906.

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Yes, often…..Here. “Zouzou”, 1934.

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Happy birthday, Lili St Cyr, June 3 1918.  A goddess on the burlesque circuit and Queen of the city that enthusiastically adopted her, Montreal.  

Her burlesque routines of a beautiful woman doing ordinary things was unmatched on the stage circuit.

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"Once the World was Perfect" by Sahana Ramakrishnan, 2024. Singaporean-Indian artist, born in Mumbai, India, raised in Singapore, now based in Jersey City, USA.

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June 1, 1935 issue

Carroll John Daly, “Lady of Death” (Mr. Strang)

George Harmon Coxe, “The Seventy Grand Bullet”  

Richard Wormser, “The Babbling Voice”

Paul Berdanier, “Illustrated Crimes: The Gigolo Gunman of Astoria, L.I.”    

Glenn Garrison, “Perjurer’s Vengeance"

Anthony Rud, “Terror Cave” (Part 2 of 4; Jigger Masters)    

William Merriam Rouse, “Pop Witherbee’s Ride”   

H. W. Guernsey, “A Test Tube Full”

Seattle Mystery Bookshop

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Birthday remembrance - Clive Brook #botd

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Clive Brook and Mary Nolan in a scene from “Charming Sinners” (1929). A film adaptation of Somerset Maugham’s play “The Constant Wife”. It also stars Ruth Chatterton and William Powell.

~ reviews panned the writing and acting at the time, except for praising Mary Nolan in her role. The film can be found, if you are interested in watching it. 

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Today is the anniversary of the murder of my absolute favourite 'heretic' mystic, Marguerite Porete. She wrote of her belief in the concept of agape, or God as being Divine Love. Through love, charity and annulation of the self, the soul could become one with Love. She felt so strongly about her beliefs that she self published her beliefs in a beautiful book called, The Mirror of Simple Souls. It consists of the a series of discussions and lectures between the soul, charity, reason and Love.

The book came to the attention of the Inquisition which condemned the book as propagating errors, such as the belief that the Church, or intermediators with God, as being unnecessary.

She was ordered to withdraw all books and repent her mistakes. She refused and after a short trial was found guilty and burned at the stake on June 1, 1310.

I am God, says Love, for Love is God and God is Love, and this Soul is God by the condition of Love. I am God by divine nature and this Soul is God by the condition of Love. Thus this precious beloved of mine is taught and guided by me, without herself, for she is transformed into me, and such a perfect one, says Love, takes my nourishment.

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Leslie Howard 

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Remembering Leslie Howard on the anniversary of his death when the plane he was passenger on was shot down by the nazis over the Bay of Biscay, June 1 1943. He was 50.

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"The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters" Francisco Goya

Plate 43 from Los Caprichos (1797–1799)

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Happy birthday, Ifukube Akira (May 31), composer of the iconic Gojira/ Godzilla theme song.

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George Raft has the best view in “The Bowery”, 1933.

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"Deno and Rochelle"

Foremost Exponents of the Apache and Originators of the Charleston Apache

National Vaudeville Yearbook, 1926

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Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA, “Circular of Warning to women arrested by Morals Squad,” 1918.

 Online Exhibits@Yale, accessed May 31, 2019, http://exhibits.library.yale.edu/document/9089.

“The American Plan: The U.S. Government’s Forgotten Plan to Lock Up Women and Free the Country from the Scourge of Disease” by Scott Stern

My research examines the story of the “American Plan,” a program managed by the federal and state governments that led to the arrests of tens of thousands of women on “suspicion” of having venereal disease. Officials subjected these women to invasive gynecological examinations. If the women tested positive for venereal disease, the officials imprisoned them, with virtually no due process, in detention hospitals and reformatories. Most of these facilities had barbed wire, armed guards, or both.

Once imprisoned, the women were treated with painful and ineffective injections of mercury; some were beaten or forcibly sterilized. They were imprisoned for “indeterminate sentences”—that is, until they were “cured,” though no treatment for gonorrhea existed at this time, and there were only limited options to care for syphilis.

read more at:

http://exhibits.library.yale.edu/exhibits/show/student-research-at-yale-unive/ap-1

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and people nowadays complain about mask wearing…..

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new link https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/598342/the-trials-of-nina-mccall-by-scott-w-stern/9780807093184

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On this day, 31 May 1921, one of the worst single incidents of racial violence in US history took place: the Tulsa racist massacre, which left 300 dead after a false allegation of a Black man attacking a white woman. The Tulsa Tribune newspaper included a front-page article titled “Nab Negro for Attacking Girl in Elevator” and a back-page editorial titled “To Lynch Negro Tonight.” Local whites were inflamed, and they attacked the Black community of Greenwood, at the time the most prosperous African American community in the US, commonly known as the Black Wall Street. Mobs were backed up by private planes that reportedly dropped incendiary devices and fired on Black residents. Hundreds were killed and the entire thirty-five-block area was razed to the ground, leaving up to ten thousand people homeless. At the time of writing (early 2021) there are still a few survivors awaiting justice and reparations. Pictured: aftermath of the massacre https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1728795323972277/?type=3