#thomas hicks

[oldsardens]

Thomas Hicks - A Friendly Warning

[classic-art]

A Friendly Warning

Thomas Hicks, c. 1881-1890 Oil on Canvas  

[useleshistory]

Useless Fact #160

Thomas Hicks was also one of the runners in the men’s marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics, and he’s considered the winner, but aided by questionable measures.  When he was just ten miles away from winning he had to be stopped by his team from lying down and, to keep him going, they gave him rat poison with brandy. So he kept on, suffering and hallucinating and barely able to walk. To pass the line his team had to hold him up while he shuffled his feet like he was still running. He nearly died.

[colleenrants]

Thomas Hicks (USA) was the winner of the 1904 Olympic marathon.  It was an especially hot summer day in St. Louis when he ran, so his trainers gave him two doses of strychnine dissolved in brandy during the race to keep his energy up.

[galleryofart]

The Musicale, Barber Shop, Trenton Falls, New York

Artist: Thomas Hicks (American, 1823-1890)

Date: 1866

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, United States

Description

In The Musicale, Barber Shop, Trenton Falls, New York, a string band performs on a summer evening for the guests and staff of the Trenton Falls Hotel. City life in 1866 America was crowded, dirty, and dangerous, but affluent travelers could get away from it all at this rustic resort in upstate New York. It stood at the edge of a pine forest, surrounded by rose gardens, a greenhouse, and an open-air pavilion for dancing. Most guests arrived by train and were driven from the depot to the hotel in a four-horse coach called the “Tally-Ho.” Up the steps from the porte cochere and across the broad veranda was the hotel office, where guests would sign the register and be shown to their rooms, furnished with pine beds, chairs, chiffonieres, mirrors, pitchers of water, and bound copies of the Psalms. After refreshing themselves from the journey, they could tour the Falls or relax in the parlor, which displayed a life-size portrait of Michael Moore, the proprietor of the hotel, with his wife Maria and their nine children, superimposed on a picture of the Falls.

[galleryofart]

Italian Mother and Child

Artist: Thomas Hicks (American, 1823–1890)

Date: 1868

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, United States

[through-enchanted-eyes]

"A Puritan Maiden" by Thomas Hicks

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Trump allies seek buyout of far-right propaganda-pushing One America News Network

The firm owned by the RNC co-chair's family seeks investors to purchase the conservative network, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Lawrence Yee at The Wrap (01.10.2020): 

Allies of President Trump are seeking a buyout of One America News Network, a conservative cable news channel, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The Journal reported on Friday that Hicks Equity Partners, an investment firm owned by the family of Republican National Committee chairman Thomas Hicks Jr., is courting other GOP donors to buy out OANN’s parent company, Herring Networks Inc. The Journal said the deal is valued at $250 million.

According to OAN’s website, the for-profit company was established in 2004 with primary production operations in California and Washington, D.C.

While it professes to be “a family owned and operated, independent media company,” OANN’s stories often align with White House talking points; on Friday the network posted a story about how Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani had been planning “imminent” attacks on four U.S. embassies — information that was not shared with Congress before the Trump-ordered strike that killed the general.

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OANN has only a fraction of Fox News’ audience and partially relies upon monthly subscriptions to their Facebook feed.