sexta-feira, julho 10, 2015
Há 30 anos a França matou, num ato terrorista, um fotógrafo luso-holandês e afundou o Rainbow Warrior
Postado por Fernando Martins às 23:30 0 bocas
Marcadores: Auckland, Ecologia, França, Greenpeace, Nova Zelândia, Rainbow Warrior, terrorismo
O pintor impressionista Camille Pissarro nasceu há 185 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 18:50 0 bocas
Marcadores: Camille Pissarro, impressionismo, judeus, marranos, pintura
Carl Orff nasceu há 120 anos
Jessica Simpson - 35 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:35 0 bocas
Marcadores: country, Country pop, dance-pop, Irresistible, Jessica Simpson, música, pop
quinta-feira, julho 09, 2015
Mercedes Sosa nasceu há 80 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:00 0 bocas
Marcadores: Alfonsina y El Mar, Argentina, La Negra, Mercedes Sosa, música, Nueva canción, world music
Bon Scott, o primeiro grande vocalista dos AC/DC, nasceu há 69 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 06:09 0 bocas
Marcadores: AC/DC, blues-rock, Bon Scott, hard rock, heavy metal, If You Want Blood (You Got It), música, Rock and Roll
Vinicius de Moraes morreu há 35 anos
Enfim, depois de tanto erro passado
Tantas retaliações, tanto perigo
Eis que ressurge noutro o velho amigo
Nunca perdido, sempre reencontrado.
É bom sentá-lo novamente ao lado
Com olhos que contêm o olhar antigo
Sempre comigo um pouco atribulado
E como sempre singular comigo.
Um bicho igual a mim, simples e humano
Sabendo se mover e comover
E a disfarçar com o meu próprio engano.
O amigo: um ser que a vida não explica
Que só se vai ao ver outro nascer
E o espelho de minha alma multiplica...
Vinicius de Moraes
Postado por Fernando Martins às 03:50 0 bocas
Marcadores: música, poesia, Vinicius de Moraes
quarta-feira, julho 08, 2015
Beck Hansen - 45 anos!
Postado por Fernando Martins às 23:45 0 bocas
Marcadores: Beck, blues, country, folk rock, hip hop, indie rock, música, Música electrónica, Post Grunge, Rock alternativo, rock experimental, The Golden Age
terça-feira, julho 07, 2015
O Blog Geopedrados fez hoje 10 anos!
Postado por Fernando Martins às 23:10 0 bocas
Marcadores: blogosfera, Geopedrados
Gustav Mahler nasceu há 155 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 15:50 0 bocas
Marcadores: Adagietto Symphony 5, Gustav Mahler, Império Austro-Húngaro, judeus, música, romantismo
Conan Doyle morreu há 85 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:50 0 bocas
Marcadores: Conan Doyle, literatura, literatura policial, policiais, Sherlock Holmes
Ringo Starr nasceu há 75 anos!
Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:50 0 bocas
Marcadores: bateria, folk rock, George Harrison, It Don't Come Easy, música, pop rock, Ringo Starr, Rock, rock psicadélico, The Beatles, world music
A primeira execução de uma mulher nos Estados Unidos foi há 150 anos
At noon on July 6, Surratt was informed she would be hanged the next day. She wept profusely. She was joined by two Catholic priests (Jacob Walter and B.F. Wiget) and her daughter Anna. Father Jacob remained with her almost until her death. Her menstrual problems had worsened, and she was in such pain and suffered from such severe cramps that the prison doctor gave her wine and medication. She repeatedly asserted her innocence. She spent the night on her mattress, weeping and moaning (in pain and grief), ministered to by the priests. Anna left her mother's side at 8 A.M. on July 7, and went to the White House to beg for her mother's life one last time. Her entreaty rejected, she returned to the prison and her mother's cell at about 11 A.M. The soldiers began testing the gallows about 11:25 A.M.; the sound of the tests unnerved all the prisoners. Shortly before noon, Mary Surratt was taken from her cell and then allowed to sit in a chair near the entrance to the courtyard. The heat in the city that day was oppressive. By noon, it had already reached 92.3 °F (33.5 °C). The guards ordered all visitors to leave at 12:30 P.M. When she was forced to part from her mother, Anna's hysterical screams of grief could be heard throughout the prison.
Clampitt and Aiken had not finished trying to save their client, however. On the morning of July 7, they asked a District of Columbia court for a writ of habeas corpus, arguing that the military tribunal had no jurisdiction over their client. The court issued the writ at 3 A.M., and it was served on General Winfield Scott Hancock. Hancock was ordered to produce Surratt by 10 A.M. General Hancock sent an aide to General John F. Hartranft, who commanded the Old Capitol Prison, ordering him not to admit any United States marshal (as this would prevent the marshal from serving a similar writ on Hartranft). President Johnson was informed that the court had issued the writ, and promptly cancelled it at 11:30 A.M. under the authority granted to him by the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act of 1863. General Hancock and United States Attorney General James Speed personally appeared in court and informed the judge of the cancellation of the writ.
On July 7, 1865, at 1:15 P.M., a procession led by General Hartranft escorted the four condemned prisoners through the courtyard and up the steps to the gallows. Each prisoner's ankles and wrists were bound by manacles. Mary Surratt led the way, wearing a black bombazine dress, black bonnet, and black veil. More than 1,000 people - including government officials, members of the U.S. armed forces, friends and family of the accused, official witnesses, and reporters - watched. General Hancock limited attendance to those who had a ticket, and only those who had a good reason to be present were given a ticket. (Most of those present were military officers and soldiers, as fewer than 200 tickets had been printed.) Alexander Gardner, who had photographed the body of Booth and taken portraits of several of the male conspirators while they were imprisoned aboard naval ships, photographed the execution for the government. Hartranft read the order for their execution. Surratt, either weak from her illness or swooning in fear (perhaps both), had to be supported by two soldiers and her priests. The condemned were seated in chairs, Surratt almost collapsing into hers. She was seated to the right of the others, the traditional "seat of honor" in an execution. White cloth was used to bind their arms to their sides, and their ankles and thighs together. The cloths around Surratt's legs were tied around her dress below the knees. Each person was ministered to by a member of the clergy. From the scaffold, Powell said, "Mrs. Surratt is innocent. She doesn't deserve to die with the rest of us". Fathers Jacob and Wiget prayed over Mary Surratt, and held a crucifix to her lips. About 16 minutes elapsed from the time the prisoners entered the courtyard until they were ready for execution.
A white bag was placed over the head of each prisoner after the noose was put in place. Surratt's bonnet was removed, and the noose put around her neck by a Secret Service officer. She complained that the bindings about her arms hurt, and the officer preparing said, "Well, it won't hurt long." Finally, the prisoners were asked to stand and move forward a few feet to the nooses. The chairs were removed. Mary Surratt's last words, spoken to a guard as he moved her forward to the drop, were "Please don't let me fall."
Surratt and the others stood on the drop for about 10 seconds, and then Captain Rath clapped his hands. Four soldiers of Company F of the 14th Veteran Reserves knocked out the supports holding the drops in place, and the condemned fell. Surratt, who had moved forward enough to barely step onto the drop, lurched forward and slid partway down the drop - her body snapping tight at the end of the rope, swinging back and forth. Surratt's death appeared to be the easiest. Atzerodt's stomach heaved once and his legs quivered, and then he was still. Herold and Powell struggled for nearly five minutes, strangling to death.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 01:50 0 bocas
Marcadores: Abraham Lincoln, forca, inocente, Mary Surratt, pena de morte
Cazuza morreu há 25 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:25 0 bocas
Marcadores: Barão Vermelho, Brasil, Cazuza, homossexuais, MPB, música, O Poeta está vivo, punk, Rock, Rock brasileiro, SIDA
segunda-feira, julho 06, 2015
Diogo Cão chegou à foz do Rio Congo há 531 anos
Diogo Cão
A pura glória tem
A humilde singeleza do teu nome.
E cresce eternamente,
como um caule imortal,
No fuste de um padrão
Que a tua inquietação
Ergueu
Neste confim de mundo onde chegou.
Limpo brasão de quem só descobriu
E nada conquistou.
in Diário XII (1977) - Miguel Torga
Postado por Fernando Martins às 05:31 0 bocas
Marcadores: Congo, D. João II, descobrimentos, Diogo Cão, Miguel Torga, Padrão, poesia
El-Rei D. José I nasceu há 301 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 03:01 0 bocas
Marcadores: D. José I, D. Maria I, dinastia de Bragança, El-Rei, Marquês de Pombal
sábado, julho 04, 2015
Porque hoje foi dia da Rainha Santa...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 23:59 0 bocas
Marcadores: Coimbra, Fado da Rainha Santa, Fado de Coimbra, Rainha Santa, Rainha Santa Isabel
Astor Piazzolla morreu há 23 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 23:00 0 bocas
Marcadores: Argentina, Ástor Piazzolla, bandoneón, Invierno Porteño, música, Piazzolla, tango
Bill Withers - 77 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:07 0 bocas
Marcadores: Ain't No Sunshine, Bill Withers, blues, funk, música, rythm and blues contemporâneo, smooth soul, soul
sexta-feira, julho 03, 2015
Romé de l'Isle, o criador da moderna cristalografia, morreu há 225 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 22:50 0 bocas
Marcadores: cristalografia, mineralogia, Romé de l'Isle
Jim Morrison morreu há 44 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:44 0 bocas
Marcadores: acid rock, blues-rock, hard rock, Jim Morrison, música, poesia, rock psicadélico, Touch Me
Mark Sandman morreu há 16 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:16 0 bocas
Marcadores: alternative Rock, blues-rock, indie rock, judeus, Mark Sandman, Morphine, música, Take me with you