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P-95-N-507 From the Munroe Studios photograph collection on March 24, 1964 for McMahon Engineering. The first day of construction of the First National Bank of Menasha.
P-95-N-511 From the Munroe Studios photograph collection on March 24, 1964 for McMahon Engineering. The first day of construction of the First National Bank of Menasha.
P-95-N-508 From the Munroe Studios photograph collection on March 24, 1964 for McMahon Engineering. The first day of construction of the First National Bank of Menasha.
P-95-N-509 From the Munroe Studios photograph collection on March 24, 1964 for McMahon Engineering. The first day of construction of the First National Bank of Menasha.
P-95-N-510 From the Munroe Studios photograph collection on March 24, 1964 for McMahon Engineering. The first day of construction of the First National Bank of Menasha.
Canon Sylvester McMahon died 12th September 1916 Redcar Cemetery
McMahon Rev. Canon Sylvester, Lobster Road, Coatham, Redcar
"Canon Sylvester McMahon was not from Redcar but was described then as the only boy from Middlesbrough to become a Canon. His parents were born in Ireland, his family came to Middlesbrough when he was a babe in arms and there is a record of Sylvester’s baptism in the Cathedral at Middlesbrough. He was educated in France and Spain.
His tomb can be seen in section E. The inscription reads
‘Pray for the soul of Canon Sylvester McMahon died September 12th 1916’
‘Eternal rest give him O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon him.’
The tomb is an impressive sarcophagus with a circle at its head meaning never ending and signifies eternity. There is also the chalice or host – the body of Christ.
When Canon Riddle died Sylvester came from Hull where he was a curate and because there was no presbytery he was living in Queen Street.
Cockcroft (1985) states that before the 1870s there were perhaps around 30 members of the Roman Catholic Church living in Redcar. With the opening of the iron works came many Irishmen and their families seeking work, bringing with them strong Catholic beliefs.
The Daily Gazette stated that ‘a new Church was needed as the existing building in Thrush Road had become inadequate. As a debt existed on this building there seemed up to two years ago little prospect of the much needed church being erected. As a result of a special effort the debt was wiped off and with the proceeds of the sale of the old church on the West Dyke side of the town there was last summer a sufficient sum in hand to justify a new scheme being undertaken. The foundation stone of a handsome church in Lobster Road adjoining the school was laid by Bishop Lacy of Middlesbrough. The church was opened for worship on the 17th June 1914 at the cost of £3,000. It is a stone building of Gothic design and has been much admired and loved. The congregation was large and the numbers were swelled by the Catholics of Teesside, many of whom are in the habit of spending the summer holidays at Redcar as well as by citizens of the seaside town.’
Canon McMahon was one of the welcomers to the Belgian refugees in 1914. Redcar and Saltburn news reported that over 200 people attended a whist drive and dance at Redcar Pier Pavilion to raise money to help them. The Catholic ladies of the town provided the refreshments. Prizes were given by Canon McMahon, Mrs I. Lonsdale and Mr R. McClean. Picture the scene as Mr Burton’s Orchestra strikes up and a melody floats over the pier with the waves lapping gently and that movement you can only feel whilst on a pier.
Mrs Lonsdale was a well known Alderman and Mayor living in the High Street and was a café proprietor and raised much money for good causes in the town. Mr Robert McClean (his parents were from Durham) is buried not far from the Canon and was honoured by the Gazette staff in 1916 on leaving journalism after 12 years to embark upon a commercial career. He was well known in political circles in Cleveland and became the town clerk of Redcar. He was honorary secretary to the Irish organisation on Teesside. He was a friend of the Canon and he baptised Robert’s oldest son Robertus. They all have their own stories to tell.
Recognition of his qualities as a Priest and of his successful work in the face of many obstacles came in 1915 when he was invited by the Bishop to fill a vacancy in the Chapter of Canons in the Cathedral. In public affairs Canon McMahon took little part as he had a quiet and retiring disposition. He had no love for the platform but to those who knew him well he revealed a breadth of mind and a generosity of heart.
Golf and football were his passions. He was often to be seen at First League matches at Middlesbrough ‘UP the Boro’. In April 1912 the Cleveland Golf Club held a special holiday competition. It was decided on the Redcar links in a gale and Canon McMahon was featured in the list of winners.
Dr Brownlie ( Redcar’s Doctor) who then lived on Newcomen Street and later moved to Drayton House in Station Road was a friend of Sylvester. Dr Brownlie is buried in section H of the cemetery. You can imagine these two men of duty having a game of golf together. Sylvester would perhaps share his sadness in October 1914 when he received a letter informing him that the men of the battalion of Irish Guards had knelt and offered prayers before making a famous charge into battle.
They may have been discussing how the war had damaged the golf course. Troops were now drilled on the course and a 9 ins gun placed on the 12th green causing further problems. The clubhouse was commandeered to billet the troops and was burned down in 1918 before it was handed back. (Cleveland Gold Club 1887-1987 B. Morris).
He must have attended a lot of funerals of young men and the cemeteries and church yards would be very busy with many burials. One such case was of Private Fitzgerald of the Royal Munster Fusiliers. He was 20 years old and had been twice wounded in action and sent home. He died in the Marske Miner’s Hospital. A large contingent of the Munsters paraded with their officers headed by the battalion drum and fife band. At the close of the service three volleys were fired over the grave and buglers sounded the last post.
He told his congregation “that our safety was due he said to the valour of the men on the field and sea, and we owed a duty which should be discharged in prayers for their welfare.”
In Catholic troops stationed on the coast he showed a warm interest and this did not fail to impress those who wore the King’s uniform. This was illustrated by a generous donation to his testimonial fund from Munster Fusiliers sent from Cork and by the good wishes forwarded to him on the 25th anniversary of his ordination by soldiers engaged on the Somme and Salonika.
There was a Mass of thanksgiving sung by Monsignor McCabe of Whitby. The Canon was presented with 100 guineas and an illuminated address. The proceedings were presided over by Mr R. McClean Chairman of the Presentation Committee supported by Col. Locke JP and Councillor Metcalf and a number of other canons from around the district. One gratifying feature was the readiness with which friends outside his own flock had seized the opportunity to do honour to Canon McMahon on the occasion of his jubilee. It was said that no mission had a more loyal congregation than Redcar. What had been accomplished was in the main due to the way the people had rallied round him and he assured them that it was his desire to spend the remainder of his ministerial life in Redcar.
Sadly two weeks after this celebration he died.
The Canon was ill just over a week but his condition first gave anxiety at the weekend and despite the unremitting attention of Dr Brownlie, one of his oldest friends in the town all hope of recovery vanished and the end came at the age of 51.
The heavy oak coffin was brought into the Church the evening before the funeral, which will always stand as a memorial to the Canon’s labours in Redcar. A Requiem was sung by Cannon Hall from Hull. The Rev. G. Brunner, Bishop’s secretary was master of ceremonies.
With all the honours which his church could bestow, the Rev. Canon McMahon was interred in the cemetery amid manifestations of sorrow by no means confined to those whom he had served for the long period of 23 years with a zeal and optimism which will gratefully be remembered. The uncertainty of life was never more strikingly illustrated than in his case. The catholic clergy of Teesside and the North and East Ridings were represented in the large crowd of mourners. Over 100 of the Yorks and Northumberlands paraded under the command of Lord Bellew. Ten soldiers who returned from active service were the under bearers. Mrs Ross of London (sister) was the chief mourner. Well known local people included Dr and Mrs Brownlie, Colonel Locke J.P., Councillor J. Devine, Mr R. McClean and the Vicar of Redcar Rev. Mayhew. " Dot Ahmed, Friends of Redcar Cemetery.
Rooftop Escape Well it's late afternoon in Sydney town on Sunday 21st April, 2024.
And the 'Scenic Eclipse II' cruise ship is departing the harbour, aided by a tugboat from Sydney's 'Port Authority'.
Meanwhile a ferry has arrived at the McMahons Point Wharf, on its trek from Darling Harbour to the city via Luna Park.
And across the harbour at Millers Point the sun is shining on the Victorian-era terraces.
And all viewed from my rooftop location along View Street (near the top of Walker Street) at North Sydney. Not far from Lavender Bay.
Photographed with my zoom lens to let you see all the details across the harbour, lol.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software
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Today a Russian court sentenced 32-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in a high-security penal colony after convicting him of espionage in a secret three-day trial. The U.S. government considers Gershkovich “wrongly detained,” a rare designation signifying that he is being held as a political bargaining chip.
Today, President Joe Biden said that Gershkovich was “targeted by the Russian government because he is a journalist and an American. We are pushing hard for Evan’s release and will continue to do so.” He added: “Journalism is not a crime. We will continue to stand strong for press freedom in Russia and worldwide, and stand against all those who seek to attack the press or target journalists.”
Last night, a faulty update of software from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike crashed computer systems all over the world. Banks and hospitals were locked out of their own programs, and government services shut down. In the U.S., more than 2,600 flights were canceled and 9,000 were delayed. Bloomberg’s David Rovella quoted Australian security consultant Troy Hunt: “I don’t think it’s too early to call it,” Hunt said. “This will be the largest IT outage in history.”
Also making history last night was the final night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the night on which former president Donald J. Trump accepted the party’s presidential nomination. Coming as it did just days after a would-be assassin took a shot at Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, killing one attendee and badly wounding two others, the convention was billed by Republican operatives as a way for Trump to rebrand himself as a candidate of “unity.”
This was certainly the way many major newspapers billed Trump’s acceptance speech this morning, in stories that, as media journalist Parker Molloy noted, were probably based on prepared remarks delivered to news agencies in advance of the speech. But it was not how the evening played out.
Since Saturday’s shooting, it has been notable that there has not been a medical review of Trump’s injuries, although he has said he was injured by a bullet that ripped through his ear. This matters not only because of the extent of his injuries, but also because Trump has made the story part of his identity without any fact check, and the media appears simply to be letting it go on Trump’s say-so, something that adds to the sense that media outlets are treating Trump and Biden differently.
Last night, Trump perhaps tried to address this lack by recounting last Saturday’s shooting. Interestingly, he did not say he was hit by a bullet, but that when he felt the injury he thought, “it can only be a bullet.” Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo today noted a report from local Pennsylvania television station WPXI that four motorcycle officers standing within feet of Trump suffered minor injuries from flying debris. Trump has likely cut off further discussion of the topic by saying it is too painful to tell the story again.
With that story behind him, Trump hit the theme of unity, saying he would bring the country together. “The discord and division in our society must be healed, we must heal it quickly. We are bound together by a single fate, a single destiny,” he said. “We rise together. Or we fall apart…. I am running to be president for all of America, not half of America, because there is no victory in winning for half of America. So tonight, with faith and devotion, I proudly accept your nomination for president of the United States.”
But that was just in the first ten minutes. Then Trump ignored the teleprompter and things veered far off course, reflecting the candidate that has stayed in the safe spaces of Mar-a-Lago and rallies of his loyalists for years. Trump rambled for more than 90 minutes, making it the longest acceptance speech in U.S. history and outlasting the interest of the audience, some of whom fell asleep.
He went on to recite his usual litany of lies: that Democrats cheated in the 2020 presidential election (they did not), that crime is going up (it’s plummeting), that inflation is the worst we’ve ever had (it’s around 3%; the worst was around 23%), that Democrats want to quadruple people’s taxes (CNN fact checker Daniel Dale calls this “imaginary”), and so on. Dale called it “a remarkably dishonest acceptance speech.”
Journalist James Fallows posted: “Of the maybe 10,000 political speeches I've heard over the years, this was overall the worst.” Statistician Nate Silver’s judgment was harsher, in a way: he began with “It’s a weird but a pretty good speech,” then posted “Semi-retract this tweet, this speech is boring AF, but there are worse things politically speaking than being boring.” Shortly after, came: “Fully RETRACT and RESCIND, sometimes it seems like both parties are trying to throw this election.”
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes watched the unhinged speech and concluded: "This is not a colossus, this is not the big bad wolf, this is not a vigorous and incredibly deft political communicator. This is an old man in decline who's been doing the same schtick for a very long time and it's really wearing thin."
The point, though, as Trump meandered through attacks on immigrants and a diatribe about the fictional character cannibal Hannibal Lecter—who he might think was real—as it always has been, was to present a picture of the U.S. under siege by enemies who are persecuting him because he represents true Americans and that he must be returned to office because only he can vanquish those enemies. Greg Sargent of The New Republic noted that Trump cannot offer a “unity” message because “Trump himself knows the MAGA masses will not be satiated without expansive displays of rage, cruelty and sadism directed at hated out groups and designated enemies of MAGA.”
For years, observers have noted that Trump’s approach to politics is patterned on the “kayfabe” at the heart of professional wrestling. Kayfabe is the performance aspect of professional wrestling, in which the actors play out relationships and scenes in which there are good and evil, love and hate, loyalty and betrayal. According to journalist Abraham Josephine Reisman, in old-school kayfabe the actors never let their masks slip, and while the audience knew what they were seeing must be fake, they played along with the illusion.
But in the 1990s, the barrier between reality and illusion blurred as wrestlers and promoters tried to increase the viability of the fading industry by tossing reality into the performances: real-life insults—the more outrageous the better—and real-life events. Decoding what was real and what was not drove engagement until in 1999, an estimated 18% of Americans, about 50 million people, called themselves fans. This “neokayfabe,” Reisman wrote in the New York Times in 2023, “rests on a slippery, ever-wobbling jumble of truths, half-truths, and outright falsehoods, all delivered with the utmost passion and commitment.”
Neokayfabe, Reisman wrote, “turns the world into a hall of mirrors from which it is nearly impossible to escape. It rots the mind and eats the soul.”
Trump participated in a storyline in this neokayfabe with World Wrestling Entertainment owner Vince McMahon in 2007, in part billed as a battle over hair. Eventually he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, and many observers have made the link between neokayfabe and his approach to politics. Indeed, he even blended the two explicitly when he chose McMahon’s wife, Linda, to head the U.S. Small Business Administration during his presidency.
Neokayfabe and politics came together again last night at the Republican National Convention, as Linda McMahon, wrestler Hulk Hogan, and musician Kid Rock, whose music has been featured at wrestling events and who is also a member of the WWE Hall of Fame, all participated.
“So all you criminals, all you lowlifes, all you scumbags…. Whatcha gonna do when Donald Trump and all the Trumpamaniacs run wild on you, brother?!" Hogan yelled to wild applause after ripping off his shirt to show a Trump-Vance shirt. Like the other performers at the convention, he painted a portrait of Trump’s presidency, and of the United States since Trump left office, that was a fantasy of good and evil. Hogan reinforced that there was no way Trump was going to reach toward unity in Milwaukee. His approach to the world cannot be moderated. It depends on the idea that there are two teams in the performance and one must vanquish the other.
Part of that storyline requires rewriting not just the recent past, but our history. At the convention last night, Donald Trump Jr.’s fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle, said: “It is no wonder that the heroes who stormed the beaches of Normandy and faced down communism sadly say they don’t recognize our country anymore.” But the Allied soldiers in World War II were not fighting communism. They were fighting fascism. The three great Allied powers were Great Britain, the United States, and the communist Soviet Union.
It might be that Guilfoyle misspoke, or that she doesn’t know even the most basic facts of our history. Or it might be that by rewriting that history to put America on the side of the fascists, people like Guilfoyle hope to make that alliance more palatable to MAGA followers today.
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Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth, and Tori Spelling in Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990) Shannen Doherty [12.04.1971 - 13.07.2024]
Наверное самые известные картины/сериалы с ней «Беверли-Хиллз, 90210», «Смертельном влечении» и «Зачарованные». Отец был ирландцем, по матери в роду англичане, шотландцы и северные ирландцы. Шеннен умерла в 53 года, от рака, который был обнаружен в 2015 (на поздней стадии), после терапии началась ремиссия в 2017 (и она успела ещё посниматься), но он вернулся в 2020, четвёртый муж не давал ей развод, чтобы не платить алименты, хотя ей были нужны деньги для оплаты астрономических мед. счетов, страховки без съёмок тоже не было, и потом ещё перестали показывать популярный сериал «Зачарованные» с ней перестав отчислять гонорары за каждый показ, но она боролась до конца все эти годы, такой печальный финиш, жаль!
Один из списков (Топ-20) лучших фильмов с ней:
1. Heathers 1988, 102 min. Michael Lehmann (раз 10 смотрел очень нравится)
Starring: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty
Black Comedy • Comedy Thriller • Comedy
2. Mallrats 1995, 94 min. Kevin Smith
Starring: Shannen Doherty, Jeremy London, Jason Lee
Buddy Film • Comedy • Comedy of Manners
3. Girls Just Want to Have Fun 1985, 90 min. Alan Metter
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Lee Montgomery, Helen Hunt
Comedy Drama • Teen Movie
4. Jailbreakers 1994, 76 min. William Friedkin
Starring: Charles Napier, Adrienne Barbeau, Adrien Brody
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
5. The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon 2008, 88 min. Farhad Mann
Starring: Michael Shanks, Shannen Doherty, JR Bourne
Action • Action Thriller • Adventure
6. Another Day 2001, 90 min. Jeffrey Reiner
Starring: Shannen Doherty, Max Martini, Julian McMahon
Drama • Made-for-Television • Science Fiction
8. Striking Poses 1999, 93 min. Gail Harvey
Starring: Shannen Doherty, Joseph Griffin, Tamara Gorski
Post-Noir • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
9. Satan's School for Girls 2000, 87 min. Christopher Leitch
Starring: Shannen Doherty, Julie Benz, Daniel Cosgrove
Horror • Made-for-Television • Religious Horror
10. The Rendering 2002, 93 min. Peter Svatek
Starring: Shannen Doherty, Peter Outerbridge, Stephen Young
Made-for-Television • Mystery • Psychological Thriller
11. Kiss Me Deadly 2008, 87 min. Ron Oliver
Starring: Robert Gant, Shannen Doherty, Fraser Brown
Action • Made-for-Television • Spy Film
12. View of Terror 2003, 93 min. Louis Bélanger
Starring: Shannen Doherty, Michel Francoeur, Jayne Heitmeyer
Made-for-Television • Psychological Thriller • Thriller
13. Burning Palms 2010, 112 min. Christopher Landon
Starring: Dylan McDermott, Zoe Saldana, Lake Bell
Black Comedy • Comedy Drama • Drama
14. Growing the Big One 2010, 89 min. Mark Griffiths
Starring: Shannen Doherty, Kavan Smith, Aaron Pearl
Made-for-Television • Romance
15. Witchslayer Gretl 2012, 87 min. Mario Azzopardi
Starring: Shannen Doherty, Paul McGillion, Emilie Ullerup
Adventure • Fantasy • Fantasy Adventure
16. Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys 2014, 87 min. James Cullen Bressack
Starring: Shannen Doherty, Jason Brooks, Zack Ward
Horror • Made-for-Television • Monster Film
17. Back in the Day 2016, 121 min. Paul Borghese
Starring: William DeMeo, Alec Baldwin, Joseph D'Onofrio
Drama • Gangster Film • Period Film
18. No One Would Tell 2018, 90 min. Gail Harvey
Starring: Shannen Doherty, Matreya Scarrwener, Mira Sorvino
Drama • Female-Directed Film • Made-for-Television
19. Fortress 2021, 99 min. James Cullen Bressack
Starring: Jesse Metcalfe, Bruce Willis, Chad Michael Murray
Action • Glamorized Spy Film • Spy Film
20. Hot Seat 2022, 99 min. James Cullen Bressack
Starring: Mel Gibson, Shannen Doherty, Michael Welch
Action Thriller • Action • Thriller
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Nowhere (Gregg Araki, 1997) / Нигде
James Duval, Rachel True, Chiara Mastroianni, Kathleen Robertson, Jordan Ladd, Christina Applegate, Sarah Lassez, Jaason Simmons, Ryan Phillippe, Heather Graham, Scott Caan, Shannen Doherty, Mena Suvari
Heathers (Michael Lehmann, 1988) / Cмертельное влечение
Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker
Gone in the Night (Bill L. Norton, 1996) / Исчезнувший в ночи
Shannen Doherty, Kevin Dillon, Ed Asner, Dixie Carter
Almost Dead (Ruben Preuss, 1994) / Почти труп
Shannen Doherty, Costas Mandylor, John Diehl, William R. Moses, Steve Inwood, Penelope Branning
Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990-2000) / Беверли Хиллз 90210
1 сезон (1990-1991)
Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth, Ian Ziering, Gabrielle Carteris, Luke Perry, Brian Austin Green, Douglas Emerson, Tori Spelling, Carol Potter, James Eckhouse
Charmed (1998-2006) / Зачарованные
1 сезон (1998-1999)
Shannen Doherty, Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano, T. W. King, Dorian Gregory
#doherty
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LUANES WORLD - LE MONDE PERDU PHOTO CONTEST Summer 2024 #Entry 3 I never met a sunset I didn't like...
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LUANES WORLD - LE MONDE PERDU PHOTO CONTEST Summer 2024 #entry2I drifted into a summer nap, under the hot shade of July
Serenaded by a cicadae lullaby to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder
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The Melbourne Sun- July 14, 1969- Page 17- Apollo 11 Pre-Launch Activities The full page 17 from Melbourne newspaper 'The Sun' from Monday July 14, 1969 featuring articles within the newspaper on the Apollo 11 Pre-Launch Activities and its crew members Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr.
Featured is an article about the possibility of Australia having three nuclear power stations by 1980, 10 by 1990, and many more by 2000, allowing for many benefits such as desalinated water for irrigations. Noted in the article was a proposed site for a first station at Jervis Bay in New South Wales, as it was part of the Australian Capital territory at the time. While initial construction began on the proposed Jervis Pay nuclear plant under the Gorton government, it was paused by Gorton’s successor Prime Minister Billy McMahon, before being cancelled altogether by McMahon’s successor Gough Whiltam, this dooming the budding industry. In 2024, nuclear energy has once again become a topic of debate, with Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton proposing it as part of his election platform for the next Federal Election.