ellauri018.html on line 523: The song captures Simone's response to the murder of Medgar Evers in Mississippi; and the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four black children. On the recording she cynically announces the song as "a show tune, but the show hasn't been written for it yet." The song begins jauntily, with a show tune feel, but demonstrates its political focus early on with its refrain "Alabama's got me so upset, Tennessee's made me lose my rest, and everybody knows about Mississippi goddam." In the song she says: "Keep on sayin' 'go slow'...to do things gradually would bring more tragedy. Why don't you see it? Why don't you feel it? I don't know, I don't know. You don't have to live next to me, just give me my equality!"
ellauri069.html on line 212: Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (15. helmikuuta 1883 Birmingham, Englanti – 1. kesäkuuta 1959 White Plains, New York, Yhdysvallat), oli nimellä Sax Rohmer tunnettu brittiläinen kirjailija. Hänet muistetaan parhaiten romaaneistaan, joissa esiintyi kiinalainen mestaririkollinen Fu Manchu.
ellauri095.html on line 234: On 18 January 1866, Hopkins composed his most ascetic poem, The Habit of Perfection. On 23 January, he included poetry in a list of things to be given up for Lent. In July, he decided to become a Roman Catholic and travelled to Birmingham in September to consult the leader of the Oxford converts, John Henry Newman. Newman received him into the Roman Catholic Church on 21 October 1866.
ellauri095.html on line 238: The decision to convert estranged Hopkins from his family and from a number of acquaintances. After graduating in 1867, he was provided by Newman with a teaching post at the Oratory in Birmingham. While there he began to study the violin. On 5 May 1868 Hopkins firmly "resolved to be a religious." Less than a week later, he made a bonfire of his poetry and gave it up almost entirely for seven years. Fortunately he did not burn his Bridges like Savonarola. He also felt a call to enter the ministry and decided to become a Jesuit. He paused first to visit Switzerland, which officially forbade Jesuits to enter.
ellauri095.html on line 483: The sequence of events is clear. On 18 January 1866 Hopkins composed his most ascetic poem, “The Habit of Perfection” (Täydellinen asukokonaisuus). On 23 January he included poetry in the list of things to be given up for Lent. In July he decided to become a Catholic, and he traveled to Birmingham in September to consult the leader of the Oxford converts, John Henry Newman. Newman received him into the Church in October. On 5 May 1868 Hopkins firmly “resolved to be a religious.” Less than a week later, apparently still inspired by Savonarola, he made a bonfire of his poems and gave up poetry almost entirely for seven years. Finally, in the fall of 1868 Hopkins joined a “serged fellowship” like Savonarola’s and like the one he admired in “Eastern Communion”(1865), a commitment foreshadowed by the emphasis on vows of silence and poverty in “The Habit of Perfection.”
ellauri095.html on line 491: Polemiikki alkoi, kun katolinen kirkko ilmoitti siirtävänsä Newmanin maallisen tomumajan Birminghamin kappeliin, jotta uskovilla olisi helpompi pääsy haudan ääreen.
ellauri107.html on line 448: “Lots of news. Terrible big tornado in the South. Hard luck, all right. But this, say, this is corking! Beginning of the end for those fellows! New York Assembly has passed some bills that ought to completely outlaw the socialists! And there's an elevator-runners' strike in New York and a lot of college boys are taking their places. That's the stuff! And a mass-meeting in Birmingham's demanded that this Mick agitator, this fellow De Valera, be deported. Dead right, by golly! All these agitators paid with German gold anyway. And we got no business interfering with the Irish or any other foreign government. Keep our hands strictly off. And there's another well-authenticated rumor from Russia that Lenin is dead. That's fine. It's beyond me why we don't just step in there and kick those Bolshevik cusses out.”
ellauri108.html on line 277: During the 1950s and 1960s, Rastas were among the thousands of Caribbean migrants who settled in the United Kingdom, leading to small groups appearing in areas of London such as Brixton and Notting Hill in the 1950s. By the late 1960s, Rastafari had attracted converts from the second generation of British Caribbean people, spreading beyond London to cities like Birmingham, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, and Bristol. Its spread was aided by the gang structures that had been cultivated among black British youth by the rudeboy subculture, and gained increasing attention in the 1970s through reggae's popularity. According to the 2001 United Kingdom Census there are about 5000 Rastafari living in England and Wales. Clarke described Rastafari as a small but "extremely influential" component of black British life.
ellauri213.html on line 155: Isaac Williams on elokuvien katsoja, television katselija, toimittaja, bloggaaja, pelaaja, sarjakuvafani ja roolipelaaja. Hän on ollut baarimikko ja tarjoilija, ja nyt hän kirjoittaa listoja CBR:lle. Hän keskittyy tv-sarjoihin ja elokuviin. Vapaa-ajallaan Isaac voi tavata pelaamassa, lukemassa, pelaamassa D&D:tä, kävelemässä Birminghamin pitkiä kanavia pitkin kuin Jeesus ja katsomassa elokuvia.
ellauri262.html on line 253: Mabel Tolkien jäi lapsineen asumaan kotikaupunkinsa Birminghamin tuntumaan. Asuttuaan ensin vanhempiensa luona hän löysi perheelle pian halvan vuokra-asunnon Sareholen kylästä muutaman kilometrin päästä kaupungin eteläpuolelta. Mabel kääntyi katolisexi ja löysi mieleisensä rippi-isän nimeltä Mordor, josta tuli perheen ystävä ja turva, ja poikien holhooja, kun äiti kuoli sokeritautiin Ronin 12. elinvuotena.
ellauri262.html on line 264: Tolkien valmistui Oxfordista kesäkuussa 1915, ensimmäisen maailmansodan jo sytyttyä. Heti valmistumisensa jälkeen hän astui armeijan palvelukseen. Tolkien komennettiin lyhyen koulutuksen jälkeen Ranskaan länsirintamalle, jossa hän palveli viestiupseerina ja osallistui Sommen taisteluun hillomunkin hinnalla. Hän sairastui vuonna 1916 ampumahautakuumeeseen ja pääsi pois rintamalta. Tolkien siirrettiin parantumaan Birminghamiin sotilassairaalaan, josta hänet kotiutettiin jouluksi. Tuolloin hän kirjoitti ensimmäiset Keski-Maa-aiheiset tarinansa. lähde? Käsikirjoitus oli alun perin nimeltään The Book of Lost Tales (suom. Kadonneiden tarujen kirja), jonka tarinoista myöhemmin muodostui postuumisti julkaistu Silmarillion. Kotiutuksensa jälkeen hänet ylennettiin luutnantiksi siitä hyvästä.
ellauri351.html on line 700: Hobsbawmin sanotaan sanoneen, että seksin lisäksi ei ole mitään niin fyysisesti intensiivistä kuin "osallistuminen joukkomielenosoitukseen suuren julkisen korotuksen aikana". Aika intensiivinen hörökorva olikin. Hänen ensimmäinen avioliittonsa oli Muriel Seamanin kanssa vuonna 1943. He erosivat vuonna 1951. Hänen toinen avioliittonsa oli Marlene Schwarzin (vuonna 1962), jonka kanssa hänellä oli kaksi lasta, Julia Hobsbawm ja Andy Hobsbawm. Hänellä oli väh. 1 avioton poika Joshua Bennathan, joka syntyi vuonna 1958 ja kuoli marraskuussa 2014. "Joss" kuoli syöpään viisikymppisenä. Born in Birmingham, Joss was the son of the historian Eric Hobsbawm and the educational psychologist Marion Bennathan. He was raised by his mother and her husband, the economist Esra Bennathan, and went to Newnham Croft primary school, Cambridge, and Bristol grammar school. At the age of 17, Joss married Jenny Corrick and had two children by the age of 20. The couple divorced but remained friends.
xxx/ellauri128.html on line 460: He was born in York and grew up in and near Birmingham in a professional middle-class family. He attended English independent (or public) schools and studied English at Christ Church, Oxford. After a few months in Berlin in 1928–29, he spent five years (1930–35) teaching in British private preparatory schools, then travelled to Iceland and China to write books about his journeys. In 1939 he moved to the United States and became an American citizen in 1946, retaining his British citizenship. Auden oli homopetteri.
xxx/ellauri167.html on line 492: “I should be very happy in your Excellency’s good Opinion, that the Contagion of Illuminatism or Jacobinism had not yet reached this Country; but when I consider the anarchical and seditious Spirit, that shewed itself in the United States from the Time M. Genet and Fauchet (who certainly is of the Order) arrived in this Country and propagated their seditious Doctrines, which the illuminated Doctor from Birmingham has been zealously employed to strengthen, I confess I cannot divest myself of my Suspicions: yet I trust that the Alwise and Omnipotent Ruler of the Universe will so dispose the Minds of the People of these United States that true Religion and righteous Government may remain the Privileges of this Nation!
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