The amount of days in a solar year plus the proportions for the Equatorial circumference of the Earth and the proportions of the Great Pyramid of Giza according to Golden Pi = 4/√φ = 3.144605511029693144:
La casualidad ha querido que Tiphaine y Laurence Auzière, hijas de Brigitte Macron y André-Louis Auzière, decidiesen adentrarse en el mundo de la cultura al mismo tiempo y conscientes de que sus apellidos les van a procurar un extra de atención y también de críticas. Nada tienen que ver sus carreras y tampoco el rumbo que han tomado, aunque una mayor visibilidad acompaña a ambas. Tiphaine es abogada y acaba de publicar su primera novela, mientras que Laurence es cardióloga y, junto a su compañero Matthieu Graffenstadden, pinta en óleo "retratos celulares". Las dos ya cuentan entre sus admiradores, no solo con su madre, Brigitte, sino también con su padrastro, Emmanuel Macron.
"Ha sido un apoyo desde el primer momento (...) Es muy sensible a las artes plásticas", ha dicho Laurence en una entrevista conjunta que han hecho las hermanas en la revista Gala. Como amante de la literatura que es Tiphaine aprecia especialmente la opinión del presidente francés sobre su novela Asisse, ya que, asegura, es muy exigente. Afortunadamente, el veredico ha sido más que positivo ya que no solo le ha gustado sino que le ha felicitado por su escritura. "Eso me ha conmovido", ha contado la escritora que, igual que su hermana, mantienen una excelente relación con su padrastro, a pesar de que no siempre fue fácil.
Precisamente sobre esas dificultades que atravesaron como familia en los inicios del romance entre Brigitte y Emmanuel habló hace unos meses Tiphaine en una sincera entrevista en Paris Match. No fue en absoluto fácil convivir con los rumores y las calumnias que acababan rodeando una historia de pisaba tantos tabúes. Recordemos que el ahora presidente galo tenía 17 años cuando se enamoró de Brigitte, su profesora en el instituto, 24 años mayor. Era, además, compañero de clase de Laurence, por lo que en un principio era a ella a la que miraban cuando Emmanuel iba frecuentemente con flores a su casa. Sin embargo, las atenciones eran para Brigitte que pronto tuvo que afrontar la nueva realidad que transformaría la vida de su familia.
Después, el paso del tiempo demostró que la llegada a sus vidas de Emmanuel Macron les regaló un padrastro al que adoran y con el que siempre han podido contar. A Tiphaine no solo la ha animado en su nueva faceta como escritora, también la ayudó en su carrera como abogada cuando el presentó al que acabó siendo su socio en el bufete que fundó. Actualmente, la hija pequeña de Brigitte vive en el campo, cerca de Calais y lleva 13 años casada con Antoine Choteau, un cirujano gastroenterólogo, con el que tiene dos hijos Elise y Auréle. Laurence, sin embargo, dice que nunca podría vivir alejada de la ciudad ya que no le gusta la soledad. La cardióloga y artista está separada Guillaume Jourdan, con el que tiene tres hijos, Alice, Emma y Thomas, que a sus 15 años le encanta conversar sobre geopolítica con el marido de su abuela. Ambas tienen un hermano mayor, Sebastién, que es ingeniero.
The tallest monument in the United States was completed on this date in 1965. The Gateway Arch stands 630 feet tall and is the focal point of the St. Louis skyline. Constructed out of concrete and stainless steel, the arch has a tram system built within it that will take visitors to the very top where they have an amazing view of the city. The arch was built for two main reasons, first was to create jobs, but maybe more importantly to commemorate the Westward Expansion of the United States. According to reports, the cost of the project was estimated to be around $13 million which in today’s money would be around $190 million. The arch has more than 4 million visitors each year and is an important part of the city’s economy.
The last rivet was fitted which completed the installation of the Statue of Liberty on this date in 1886. President Grover Cleveland was on hand to perform the dedication ceremony as well as numerous American and French dignitaries. Lady Liberty was a gift from the people of France to the people of the United States to commemorate their friendship during the American Revolution. The 151-foot tall statue was originally built in Paris then disassembled and shipped to the U.S. in an estimated 200 different crates. The steel framework was designed by Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, who made a name for himself by designing the Eiffel Tower. But the overall design was done by French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi.
3. 1922: First college football game broadcast nationwide on the radio
It was on this date in 1922 the first college football game was broadcast nationwide on the radio. The Princeton Tigers went up against the Chicago Maroons at Stagg Field in Chicago. The Maroons were heavily favored and were one of the most dominant teams in the Big Ten conference. Unfortunately, the broadcast wasn’t live during the game; that didn’t happen until two years later in 1924. What would normally happen was a reporter would sit in the press box at the stadium and would phone the details of what was happening back to the station. An announcer would be standing by to re-enact the play by play using the help of sound effects and sometimes an in-studio audience. Even though Princeton was the underdog, they managed to pull off a major upset and then went on to finish the season with an undefeated record.
Architectural Art, Rome, Arch of Septimius Severus, Temple of Saturn, Italian Antique Painting, 19th Century
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Italian School Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome Rome, 1st Half, 19th Century Watercolor and ink painting on paper 12 x 17.25 inches, image 15 x 20.25 inches, overall
Painting on paper of the Arch of Septimius Severus on the Via Sacra in the Forum Romanum in Rome. It was likely intended as a souvenir for tourists on the Grand Tour. The main arch and a smaller one in the background are painted in great detail, with the inscription on the attic of the arch and the relief friezes on either side rendered clearly. In the background, the ruins of the Temple of Saturn is also shown in great detail. Pedestrians on the road and seated on the ruins in the foreground provide a sense of scale and city life. The subject of the painting is surrounded by a painted grey border, as originally rendered.
The arch was built by the emperor Septimius Severus in 203 AD to commemorate the Roman victories over the Parthians, when Septimius Severus took the city of Ctesiphon and created the new Roman province of Mesopotamia between the years of 197 and 199 in what is today northeastern Iran. The marble and travertine structure is richly decorated with sculpture depicting scenes of battle, triumphal processions, and winged victory figures, as well as the seasons and representations of Mars, the Roman god of war, and other deities. The lettering on the attic is a dedication to Septimius Severus and his sons Caracalla and Geta who “restored the Republic and expanded the dominion of the Roman people.”
The Temple of Saturn was an ancient Roman temple to the god Saturn. Its ruins stand at the foot of the Capitoline Hill at the western end of the Roman Forum. The original dedication of the temple is traditionally dated to 497 BC, but ancient writers disagreed greatly about the history of this site. The ruins, comprising the front porch, have a partially preserved pediment inscribed: “Senatus Populusque Romanus incendio consumptum restituit,” meaning “The Senate and People of Rome restored [the temple] consumed by fire.” The pediment and eight surviving columns represent one of the iconic images of Rome’s ancient architectural heritage.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, an essential part of the education of a young “aristocratic gentleman” of England was to go on a “Grand Tour” of Europe, often Italy, to explore the great architecture, archeology, and culture of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Grand Tour members loved to participate in theatrical spectacles, and during this era, archaeological “discoveries” were sometimes staged for well-to-do visitors on the Grand Tour to give them a taste of the drama of making a find.
Inscription in pencil verso: Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome.
Condition: Generally very good with the usual overall light toning, handling, wear. Upper corners professionally reinforced verso.
References:
Cartwright, Mark. “The Arch of Septimius Severus, Rome.” Ancient History Encyclopedia. 29 June 2013. https://www.ancient.eu/article/502/the-arch-of-septimius-severus-rome/ (8 January 2018).
“Italy on the Grand Tour: Witness Ceremonies and Theater.” J. Paul Getty Trust. 2001. http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/grand_tour/t7_spectacle.html (14 June 2002).
En Terminator 2: El juicio final (1991), hay un cartel que dice "Precaución: 9'11". Esta es una referencia a las tragedias que tuvieron lugar el 11 de septiembre, porque James Cameron obviamente tiene poderes precognitivos que le permiten ver el futuro.
En Terminator 2: El juicio final (1991), hay un cartel que dice "Precaución: 9'11". Esta es una referencia a las tragedias que tuvieron lugar el 11 de septiembre, porque James Cameron obviamente tiene poderes precognitivos que le permiten ver el futuro.
7 Therefore Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep.8 All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them.9 I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved.[a] They will come in and go out, and find pasture.
Lea Thompson posing next to a DeLorean, Lea Thompson in 'Back to the Future.'.PHOTO:
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Lea Thompson finds bits of her past everywhere she goes.
The actress, 63, shared a post on Instagram in May, in which she could be seen posing with a DeLorean while on vacation with her The Chicken Sisters costar Wendie Malick. (The car is a main plot point of the Back to the Future film series, where Thompson portrays Lorraine Baines-McFly.)
"In a weird twist I ran into a super tricked out #deloriantimemachine #bestdayever❤️," Thompson captioned the post, in part, at the time, while sharing an image of herself striking a pose next to the vehicle, which had a "McFly" license plate.
Now, Thompson recalls the moment to PEOPLE in an exclusive conversation, stating, "I don't think there are more than 40 or 50 of them in the world that are fixed up like that — it was just so weird."
"They follow me everywhere, those damn DeLoreans," the mother of two adds.
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The Back to the Future film series follows Michael J. Fox's Marty McFly and the various obstacles he must overcome after traveling through time through the use of a futuristic DeLorean owned by Christopher Lloyd's Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown.
According to Thompson, she and Malick, 73, stumbled upon the DeLorean replica twice during their stay.
Noting that the owner of the vehicle had it "all lit up" when they saw it at night, Thompson explained that the individual instantly recognized her when their eyes met.
"He was like, 'Is that Lorraine McFly?' And I go, 'Yeah.' It was so funny," she says. "I really wanted to meet him because I just think it's so funny to be in this little tiny town in British Columbia and bump into Lorraine McFly."
Thompson's latest project is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by K.J. Dell'Antonia. It follows family feuds tied to rival fried chicken restaurants in a small Southern town.
The first two episodes of The Chicken Sisters are currently airing on Hallmark+, with new episodes dropping every Thursday after.
Aman named Al Bielek, who claimed to be a test subject of various secret U.S. Military Experiments, said that on August 12, 1943, the U.S. Navy carried out an experiment called the “Philadelphia Experiment” on the USS Eldridge, at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, after installing special equipment on it. In this test, they allegedly send the ship and all its crew members 10 minutes back in time, making it apparently ‘invisible’, and then bring them back to the present time.
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As a consequence, many of the sailors onboard went insane, many lost their memory, some were engulfed in flames to their deaths, and others molecularly bonded with the ship’s metal structure. However, according to Bielek, he and his brother, who were aboard the experiment ship at the time, jumped off just before the time warp opened and survived without any injuries. There’s a huge argument as to whether this event is true or not. But if such an experiment really happened then it’s undoubtedly one of the eeriest mysteries in human history.
The Philadelphia Experiment: Project Rainbow
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According to Al Bielek, August 12, 2003, is an extremely important anniversary date in the U.S. Navy’s secret World War II invisibility project known as the Philadelphia Experiment. Bielek claimed that ― on August 12, 1943 ― the Navy, after installing special equipment on the USS Eldridge, made the ship and its crew disappear from Philadelphia harbour for over 4 hours.
The exact nature of this test is open to speculation. Possible tests include experiments in magnetic invisibility, radar invisibility, optical invisibility or degaussing ― rendering the ship immune to magnetic mines. The tests were conducted, only to produce undesirable results. Afterwards, the project — supposedly called “Project Rainbow” — was cancelled.
What Really Happened During The Philadelphia Experiment?
Two separate sets of bizarre events make up the “Philadelphia Experiment.” Both revolve around a Navy Destroyer escort, the USS Eldridge, with the events taking place on two separate days in the summer and fall of 1943.
In the first experiment, an alleged method of electrical field manipulation allowed the USS Eldridge to be rendered invisible on July 22, 1943, in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. The second rumoured experiment was the teleportation and small-scale time travel (with the ship sent a few seconds in the past) of the USS Eldridge from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard to Norfolk, Virginia, on October 28, 1943.
Horrible tales of mangled seamen and sailors stuck within the metal of the USS Eldridge often accompany this experiment, with the USS Eldrige reappearing seconds later in the waters around Philadelphia. Recitation of the events surrounding the second Philadelphia Experiment often includes a cargo and troop transport vessel, the SS Andrew Furuseth. The lore of the second experiment claims those on board the Andrew Furuseth viewed the USS Eldridge and it’s crew as they teleported into Norfolk momentarily before the ship returned to the waters of Philadelphia.
Prior to the mid-1950s, no rumours of bizarre activity surrounded any teleportation or invisibility experiments in North America during the 1940s, let alone in the area surrounding Philadelphia.
Carl Meredith Allen, using the alias Carlos Miguel Allende, sent a series of letters to the astronomer and writer Morris K. Jessup. Jessup authored several early UFO books including the mildly successful The Case For The UFO. Allen claimed to be on the SS Andrew Furuseth during the second experiment, witnessing the USS Eldridge emerge in the waters of Norfolk and quickly disappear into thin air.
Carl Allen supplied no proof to verify what he claimed to witness on October 28, 1943. He did win the mind of Morris Jessup, who began to champion Allen’s view of the Philadelphia Experiment. Jessup, however, died four years after his first contact with Allen from an apparent suicide.
Moving a ship weighing several thousand tons leaves an inevitable paper trail. On the date of the Philadelphia “Invisibility” Experiment, July 22, 1943, the USS Eldridge had yet to be commissioned. The USS Eldridge spent the day of the alleged teleportation experiments, October 28, 1943, safely within a New York harbour, waiting to escort a naval convoy to Casablanca. The SS Andrew Norfolk spent October 28, 1943, sailing across the Atlantic Ocean en route to the Mediterranean port city of Oran, further discrediting Carl Allen’s comments.
And in the early 1940s, the Navy did conduct experiments to make naval vessels “invisible” in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyards, but in a different manner and with a completely different set of desired results.
In these experiments, researchers ran an electric current through hundreds of meters of electrical cable around the hull of a ship to see if they could make the ships “invisible” to underwater and surface mines. Germany deployed magnetic mines in naval theatres — mines that would latch on to the metal hull of ships as they came near. In theory, this system would make the ships invisible to the magnetic properties of the mines.
Seventy years later, we are left without a shred of credible evidence for the Philadelphia Experiment(s), yet rumours persist. If you are still unconvinced, think of the situation from a different viewpoint. No incident, regardless of the horrific nature, would stall the development of teleportation technology if the military believed it feasible. Such a resource would be an invaluable front line weapon in war and the backbone of many commercial industries, yet decades later, teleportation is still caged within the realm of science fiction.
In 1951, the United States transferred the Eldrige to the country of Greece. Greece christened the ship the HS Leon, using the vessel for joint U.S. operations during the Cold War. The USS Eldridge met an unceremonious end, with the decommissioned ship sold to a Grecian firm as scrap after five decades of service.
In 1999, fifteen members of the USS Eldridge crew held a reunion in Atlantic City, with the veterans bemoaning the decades of questioning surrounding the vessel they served on.
1893 Queen Isabella Commemorative Quarter. (Image via me)
A few things I’ve picked up from researching early commemorative coins:
The people behind them always hope they can raise a ton of money for a pet project or monument or expo. They rarely do.
The designs usually get denigrated by the numismatic press – oftentimes with a venom critics reserve for Limp Bizkit albums or Michael Bay movies.
The mint melts down the excess/unsold coins. As a result, the ones that did sell end up becoming valuable decades later – screwing over collectors on a budget like yours truly.
Those issues were all in play for the 1893 Isabella Quarter.
The Queen Isabella commemorative quarter traces its beginnings to the World’s Fair: Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893. Congress had already authorized the minting of a commemorative half dollar featuring Christopher Columbus, but a group of women, led by Bertha Palmer, whose husband, Potter, owned the famed Palmer House hotel in Chicago, thought they could do better.
Spearheaded by renowned women’s rights activist, and future $1 coin subject, Susan B. Anthony, the Board of Lady Managers had been awarded $10,000 in federal funds to help manage the Columbian Expo. In early 1893, the Board went before the House Appropriations Committee to ask that the $10,000 could be paid to them in the form of 40,000 specially designed commemorative quarters, which they could then sell at a profit. Congress obliged and the Board set about becoming “the authors of the first really beautiful and artistic coin that has ever been issued by the government of the United States.”
Obviously, the Board wanted a female on the obverse and decided on Queen Isabella I of Castile, who had provided vital financial support for Columbus’s voyages. Putting a foreign monarch on U.S. currency was unprecedented (indeed, there had a been a revolution over it), but according to Coin Week, the main source of conflict was over design.
Caroline Peddle, a former student of famed artist and coin designer Augustus Saint-Gaudens, was hired by the Board to design the coin. However, her sketches, which included a seated Isabella on the obverse and the inscription “Commemorative coin issued for the Board of Lady Managers of the World’s Columbian Exposition by Act of Congress, 1492–1892” on the reverse, were deemed to look too token-like and rejected. Rather than be allowed to redesign the coin, the Mint took away the reverse side and gave it to one of their in-house artists, Charles Barber, to design.
After some more back-and-forth and additional restrictions imposed by the Mint, Peddle resigned. The Mint then cobbled together some portraits of Isabella and ultimately produced an image of a young Isabella wearing a crown on her head for the obverse. On the reverse, the Mint went with an image of a woman kneeling while holding a distaff and spindle- symbolizing her industry. The Board had suggested an image of the Woman’s Building at the Expo, and Palmer later stated that the Board disliked the Mint’s reverse image because “we did not consider [it] typical of the woman of the present day.” However, the Mint made the final decision and approved the coin design.
To say that the reception for the commemorative quarter was not warm is a bit like saying that the American public didn’t embrace Apple’s Newton. The American Journal of Numsimatics was particularly brutal:
[W]e do not know who designed it, but in this instance, as in the half dollar, the contrast between examples of the numismatic art of the nation, as displayed on the Columbian coins, on the one hand, and the spirited and admirable work of the architects of the buildings, for instance, on the other, is painful. If these coins really represent the highest achievements of our medalist and our mints, under the inspiration of an opportunity without restrictions, the like of which has never been presented hitherto in the history of our national coinage, we might as well despair of its future…
The American Journal of Numismatics in October 1893, quoted by PCGS.
The Journal also drew a “mournful” comparison between the reverse design of the kneeling woman holding the distaff and spindle and the well-known “Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?” anti-slavery Hard Times Token. Surely, the Board felt vindicated by that line – although there’s no evidence Palmer or anyone else affiliated with them ever wrote to the Mint to say: “See? I told you we should gone with the building on the reverse.”
1838 HT-81 “Am I Not A Woman & A Sister?” (Image via me)
Sales figures, meanwhile, were disappointing. Of the 40,000 coins minted, a little more than half (21,180) ended up selling. According to NGC, the quarter’s sales were cannibalized by the Columbian Expo half dollar, which sold for the same price and was more widely available at the fair (5 million Columbian Expo half dollars were minted – 125 times as many compared to the Isabella quarter). While it didn’t come close to selling out, Coin Week points out that the quarters, which sold for $1 each, ended up being profitable for the Board. A $20,000-plus stream of revenue may not have been much, but it was double the original federal appropriation awarded to the Board. Of the remaining 19,000-plus quarters, approximately 15,000 went back to the Mint for melting.
1893 Columbian Expo Half Dollar. (Image via me)
In recent years, the coin’s reputation has been rehabilitated and has become a highly sought-after collector’s item. Contemporary reviewers have praised its quaint design and its uniqueness among U.S. commemorative coins (until the modern commemoratives came around, it held the distinction as the only commemorative quarter in U.S. history – as well as the only one to depict a foreign monarch). Even the reverse of the coin has been somewhat vindicated. Art historian Cornelius Vermeule argued that the design wasn’t necessarily evocative of the anti-slavery token and even traced elements of it back to antiquities. “[S]ome details of drapery to a servant girl from the East Pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, work of about 460 B.C. with additions and revisions in the first or second centuries A.D.,” he wrote.
I love the design and how it distinguishes this coin from other early commemoratives. Too many coins from that era have a generic male bust on the obverse and either an eagle or state symbol on the reverse. Because of the relative scarcity of this coin, buying one wasn’t cheap (this one had been cleaned, which lowered its value, but it still ended up costing over $100). The price tag was worth it, as this has become one of my favorite coins.
So I guess the lesson here is that I should buy more modern commemoratives – even those that I think are ugly. After all, maybe they’ll skyrocket in value in 100 years…
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1838 HT-81 “Am I Not A Woman & A Sister?” (Image via me)
1893 Columbian Expo Half Dollar. (Image via me)
