Mack Sennett

Mack Sennett (January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian-born American^[1] director and actor and was known as the innovator ofslapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times asthe "King of Comedy". His short "Wrestling Swordfish" was awarded theAcademy Award for Best Live Action Short Film in 1932 and he earnedan Academy Honorary Award in 1937.^[2]

Early life

Born as Mikall (or Michael) Sinnott in Danville, Quebec, Canada, theson of Irish Catholic immigrant farmers, his father was a blacksmith inthe small Eastern Townships village. When he was 17 years old hisfamily moved to Connecticut.

The family lived for a time in Northampton, Massachusetts, where,according to his autobiography, Sennett first got the idea to become anopera singer after seeing a vaudeville show. He claimed that the mostrespected lawyer in town, Northampton mayor (and future President of the United States) Calvin Coolidge, as well as Sennett's own mother,tried to talk him out of his musical ambitions.^[3]

In New York City, Sennett became an actor, singer, dancer, clown, setdesigner and director for Biograph. A major distinction in his actingcareer, often overlooked, is the fact that Sennett played Sherlock Holmes 11 times, albeit as a parody, between 1911 and1913.^{[citation needed]}

DESIREE GIBSON - WE MISS YOU TERRIBLY! IT'S GOING ON FIVE YEARS NOW AND NOT ONE WORD. . .

DESIREE GIBSON - WE MISS YOU TERRIBLY! IT'S GOING ON FIVE YEARS NOW AND NOT ONE WORD. . . 

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WEST SACRAMENTO CA (IFS) --  It has been along time since any information about Desiree Thompson-Gibson, the niece of famed Sony Music's songwriter Kenneth Howard Smith of Motown and D-Town Records fame.. Smith has been following the case from day one, who has used his resources for ads for television, youtube, and radio over the past year has not produced one clue about her disappearance yet.

Desiree Gibson was born in 1981. Desiree currently lives in California City, California. Before that, she lived in California City, CA in 2009. Before that, she lived in Lancaster, CA in 2010.

CASE INFORMATION - The California City Police Department is asking the public's help in locating a missing California City Woman who has been reported missing since January 7, 2012.   Detectives have been searching for the woman and her estranged boyfriend after a series of incidents with Police.

Detectives have been following leads over the past 10 days in an attempt to locate the woman. Police are also looking for her estranged husband who is wanted by Police. He is also a person of interest who may know the whereabouts of the woman.

CONTACT - If located, please contact Detective John Bishop at 760.373.860

DESIREE THOMPSON-GIBSON with her mother SHERI SMITH - from the Collection of Rillie Lousie Gilchrist.

MISSING PERSON: SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES - Mojave Desert News : News:



Name:   DESIREE THOMPSON

MISSING PERSON: SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES

Desiree Gibson


Posted: Friday, January 20, 2012 12:00 pm

CAL CITY POLICE DEPT.

Name: DESIREE THOMPSON

Allias: Desiree Gibson

DOB: 09/23/1981

Hair: Black

Eyes: Brown

Height: 5-04

Weight: 210

Tattoos: Letters on right forearm, right neck, left wrist

Last Known Address:

21109 68th Street #D, Calif. City, CA 93505

CASE INFORMATION - The California City Police Department is asking the public's help in locating a missing California City Woman who has been reported missing since January 7th. Detectives have been searching for the woman and her estranged boyfriend after a series of incidents with Police.

Detectives have been following leads over the past 10 days in an attempt to locate the woman. Police are also looking for her estranged husband who is wanted by Police. He is also a person of interest who may know the whereabouts of the woman.

CONTACT - If located, please contact Detective John Bishop at 760.373.8606.


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John Roderigo Dos Passos

John Roderigo Dos Passos (/dɵsˈpæsɵs/; January 14, 1896 –September 28, 1970) was a radical American novelist and artist active inthe first half of the twentieth century. He was born in Chicago, Illinois andhe went on to Harvard College, graduating in 1916. He was well traveled,visiting Europe and the Middle East, where he learned about literature,art, and architecture. 

During World War I he was a member of theAmerican Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps in Paris and Italy, laterjoining the U.S. Army Medical Corps.

In 1920 he had his first novel published, One Man's Initiation: 1917, andin 1925 his Manhattan Transfer, became a commercial success. 

In 1928, he went to Russia to study socialism, and later became a leading participator in the April 1935 First Americans Writers Congress sponsored by the Communist-leaning League of American Writers. He was in Spain in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, when the murder of good friend José Robles soured his attitude toward communism and severed his relationship with fellow writer Ernest Hemingway.

He is best known for his critically praised U.S.A. trilogy which consisted of the novels The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money(1936). In 1998, the Modern Library ranked the U.S.A. Trilogy 23rd onits list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

By the 1950s his political views had changed dramatically, and in the1960s, he actively campaigned for presidential candidates Barry Goldwater and Richard M. Nixon.

An artist as well as a novelist, Dos Passos created cover art for hisbooks, was influenced by the modernist movements in 1920s Paris, and continued to paint throughout his lifetime. He died in 1970.

The Fabulous Gabriel

The Fabulous Gabriel

The Fabulous Gabriel was born in 1948, he is a graduate with a masters degree in music and history from Rhode Island College.

Previously he attended Roger Williams College where he received his associates degree he also attended Berklee College of Music for one year, and then Boston Conservatory for another year also attending a graduate extension course in Archaeology at Brown University.

He has many music credits among his years of song writing and entertainment career, he has written songs for the world famous FOUR TOPS, Gloria Gaynor, The Bud girls band for Budweiser and many more.

Gabriel's main instrument is the saxophone, in his earlier years he played the Sax with such famous groups as Tommy James and the Shondells, Wilson Pickett, Gary US Bonds, Bobby Comstock and the Counts, Joey Welz of Bill Haley's Comets, Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars Tour.

He then went on to become an accomplished piano player and songwriter in 1990 he received a gold and platinum album, along with having honors in Cashbox magazine as having the single of the week and one of the most entertaining albums of the year with his controversial Elvis album, "Somewhere Elvis is smiling" Throughout the years The Fabulous Gabriel has written and recorded many original songs which have sold world wide!

Today The Fabulous Gabriel is still writing and performing his mega hit songs.

The Washington Monument Is Completed (1884)

Washington Monument

Washington Monument
Location	Washington, D.C.
Coordinates	38°53′22.08377″N77°2′6.86378″W / 38.8894677139°N77.0352399389°W
Area	106.01 acres (42.90 ha)
Visitation	671,031 (in 2008)
Governingbody	National Park Service
Location of Washington Monument inUnited States Washington, D.C. central

The Washington Monument Is Completed (1884)

In 1783, Congress passed a resolution approving an equestrian statue of George Washington. Plans were made to erect it at the site of the present Washington Monument, but Washington objected to the idea. After his death in 1799, plans for a memorial were discussed but none was adopted until 1832, when blocks of stone began to be collected from each state, some foreign countries, and private individuals. The 555-ft (169-m) monument was finally completed in 1884. Its tip is made of what?

The Washington Monument is an obelisk on the National Mall inWashington, D.C., built to commemorate George Washington, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army and the first American president.

The monument, made of marble, granite, and bluestone gneiss,^[1] is boththe world's tallest stone structure and the world's tallest obelisk, standing555 feet 5 ¹&fras1;₈ inches (169.294 m).^{[n 1]} Taller monumental columns exist,but they are neither all stone nor true obelisks.^{[n 2]}

Construction of the monument began in 1848, but was halted from 1854 to1877, and finally completed in 1884. The hiatus in construction happenedbecause of co-option by the Know Nothing party, a lack of funds, and theintervention of the American Civil War. A difference in shading of the marble,visible approximately 150 feet (46 m) or 27% up, shows where constructionwas halted. Its original design was by Robert Mills, an architect of the 1840s,but his design was modified significantly when construction resumed. Thecornerstone was laid on July 4, 1848; the capstone was set on December 6,1884, and the completed monument was dedicated on February 21, 1885.^[7] Itofficially opened October 9, 1888. Upon completion, it became the world'stallest structure, a title previously held by the Cologne Cathedral. Themonument held this designation until 1889, when the Eiffel Tower wascompleted in Paris, France.

The monument stands due east of the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial. The monument was damaged during the Virginia earthquake ofAugust 23, 2011 and Hurricane Irene in the same year; it remains closed to thepublic while the structure is assessed and repaired.^[8] The National ParkService estimates the monument will be closed until 2014. Difficulties in repairinclude complexities such as the time needed to erect scaffolding.^[9]

History of the monument

Rationale

Hailed as the father of his country, and the leader who was "first in war, first inpeace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen", George Washington (1732–1799) was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States ofAmerica from 1775 to 1798. Even his erstwhile enemy King George III calledhim "the greatest character of the age".^[10]

At his death in 1799 he left a critical legacy: he exemplified the core ideals ofthe American Revolution and the new nation: republican virtue and devotion to civic duty. Washington was the unchallenged public icon of Americanmilitary and civic patriotism. He was also identified with the Federalist Partythat lost control of the national government in 1800 to the JeffersonianRepublicans, who were reluctant to celebrate the hero of the opposition party.^[11]

Proposals for a memorial

Starting with victory in the Revolution, there were many proposals to build a monument to Washington. After his death,Congress authorized a suitable memorial in the national capital, but the decision was reversed when the Democratic-Republican Party (Jeffersonian Republicans) took control of Congress in 1801.^[12] The Republicans were dismayed thatWashington had become the symbol of the Federalist Party; furthermore the values of Republicanism seemed hostile to theidea of building monuments to powerful men. They also blocked his image on coins or the celebration of his birthday. Furtherpolitical squabbling, along with the North-South division on the Civil War, blocked the completion of the WashingtonMonument until the late 19th century. By that time, Washington had the image of a national hero who could be celebrated byboth North and South, and memorials to him were no longer controversial.^[13]

As early as 1783, the Continental Congress had resolved "That an equestrian statue of George Washington be erected atthe place where the residence of Congress shall be established." The proposal called for engraving on the statue whichexplained it had been erected "in honor of George Washington, the illustrious Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the UnitedStates of America during the war which vindicated and secured their liberty, sovereignty, and independence."^[14] Currently,there are two equestrian statues of President Washington in Washington, DC. One is located in Washington Circle at theintersection of the Foggy Bottom and West End neighborhoods at the north end of the George Washington University, andthe other is in the gardens of the National Cathedral.

Ten days after Washington's death, a Congressional committee recommended a different type of monument. John Marshall,a Representative from Virginia (who later became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court) proposed that a tomb be erectedwithin the Capitol. But a lack of funds, disagreement over what type of memorial would best honor the country's firstpresident, and the Washington family's reluctance to move his body prevented progress on any project.^[15]

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