"Already, so it was said, we were burdened with territory which we had no population to fill. The Indians within the present boundaries of the republic strained our power to govern aboriginal peoples. Could it be that we would now, with open eyes, seek to add to our difficulties by increasing the number of such peoples under our national care? The purchase price was large; the annual charges for administration, civil and military, would be yet greater, and continuing. The territory included in the proposed cession was not contiguous to the national domain. It lay away at an inconvenient and a dangerous distance. The treaty had been secretly prepared, and signed and foisted upon the country at four o'clock in the morning. It was a dark deed done in the night.... The New York World said that it was a "sucked orange." It contained nothing of value but furbearing animals, and these had been hunted until they were nearly extinct. Except for the Aleutian Islands and a narrow strip of land extending along the southern coast the country would be not worth taking as a gift.... Unless gold were found in the country much time would elapse before it would be blessed with Hoe printing presses, Methodist chapels and a metropolitan police. It was "a frozen wilderness".
quinta-feira, março 30, 2023
A Rússia vendeu o Alasca há 156 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 01:56 0 bocas
Marcadores: Alasca, compra do Alasca, Czar, Czar Alexandre II, Loucura de Seward, Rússia, USA
Frankie Laine nasceu há 110 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 01:10 0 bocas
Marcadores: country, folk, Frankie Laine, Ghost Riders in the Sky, gospel, jazz, Jezebel, música, pop, Rhythm and Blues
Sonny Boy Williamson, pioneiro dos blues, nasceu há 109 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 01:09 0 bocas
Marcadores: blues, harmónica, Keep It To Your Self, música, Sonny Boy Williamson I
Tracy Chapman faz hoje 59 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:59 0 bocas
Marcadores: blues, Fast car, folk, guitarra, homossexuais, música, Rock alternativo, soul, Tracy Chapman
Céline Dion - 55 anos...!
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:55 0 bocas
Marcadores: Adult Contemporary, ballad, Canadá, Céline Dion, dance, gospel, jazz, música, My heart will go on, pop, Quebec, Rock, soul
Norah Jones faz hoje 44 anos
Norah Jones (Brooklyn, 30 de março de 1979) é uma pianista, cantora e compositora dos Estados Unidos. Nascida Geetali Norah Jones Shankar, mudou oficialmente o seu nome aos dezasseis anos.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:44 0 bocas
Marcadores: blues, country, Don't Know Why, jazz, música, Norah Jones, pop, Ravi Shankar
Ronald Reagan foi alvo de um atentado há quarenta e dois anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:42 0 bocas
Marcadores: assassinato, Presidente dos EUA, Ronald Reagan, USA, Washington DC
O álbum Sign o' the Times foi lançado há 36 anos...
Sign o' the Times (often stylized as Sign "☮︎" the Times) is the ninth studio album by American singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Prince. It was first released on March 30, 1987 as a double album by Paisley Park Records and Warner Bros. Records. The album is the follow-up to Parade and is Prince's first solo album following his disbanding of the Revolution. The album's songs were largely recorded during 1986 to 1987 in sessions for releases Prince ultimately aborted: Dream Factory, the pseudonymous Camille, and finally the triple album Crystal Ball. Prince eventually compromised with label executives and shortened the length of the release to a double album.
Many of the drum sounds on Sign o' the Times came from the Linn LM-1 drum machine, and Prince used the Fairlight CMI synthesizer to replace other instruments. Minimal instrumentation is heard on the stripped-down "Sign o’ the Times", the lead single. Four songs contain higher-pitched vocals to represent Prince's alter ego "Camille". The album's music touches on a varied range of styles, including funk, soul, psychedelic pop, electro, and rock.
Sign o' the Times' release was supported by several singles, among them the socially conscious "Sign o' the Times" and "If I Was Your Girlfriend"; in addition to a well-received concert film of the same name. The album peaked at number six on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) four months after its release. It also reached the top 10 in Austria, France, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the UK and number one in Switzerland. "Sign o' the Times", "U Got the Look" and "I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man" were all top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Following Prince's death in 2016, the album re-entered the Billboard 200 at number 20.
Though not as commercially successful as Purple Rain, Sign o' the Times was Prince's most acclaimed album, being voted 1987's best album in the Pazz & Jop critics poll. Included in many lists of the greatest albums of all time, it has been appraised by many critics as Prince's best album, ahead of Purple Rain. Writing for The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), Michaelangelo Matos regarded it as "the most complete example of [Prince's] artistry's breadth, and arguably the finest album of the 1980s". In 2017, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
in Wikipédia
Sign O’ the Times - Prince
Oh yeah
In France a skinny man died of a big disease with a little name
By chance his girlfriend came across a needle and soon she did the same
At home there are seventeen-year-old boys and their idea of fun Is being in a gang called The Disciples, high on crack, totin' a machine gun
Time
Time
Hurricane Annie ripped the ceiling off a church and killed everyone inside
You turn on the telly and every other story is tellin' you somebody died
Sister killed her baby 'cause she couldn't afford to feed it
And we're sending people to the moon
In September my cousin tried reefer for the very first time
Now he's doing horse; it's June
Time
Time
It's silly, no?
When a rocket ship explodes
And everybody still wants to fly
Some say a man ain't happy
Unless a man truly dies
Oh, why?
Time
Time
Baby make a speech, star wars fly
Neighbors just shine it on
But if a night falls and a bomb falls
Will anybody see the dawn
Time
Time
Is it silly, no?
When a rocket blows up
And everybody still wants to fly
Some say man ain't happy, truly
Until a man truly dies
Oh, why?
Oh, why?
Sign o' the Times
Time
Time
Sign o' the times mess with your mind
Hurry before it's too late
Let's fall in love, get married, have a baby
We'll call him Nate, if it's a boy
Time
Time
Goya nasceu há 277 anos
Tras un lento aprendizaje en su tierra natal, en el ámbito estilístico del Barroco tardío y las estampas devotas, viaja a Italia en 1770, donde traba contacto con el incipiente Neoclasicismo, que adopta cuando marcha a Madrid a mediados de esa década, junto con un pintoresquismo costumbrista rococó derivado de su nuevo trabajo como pintor de cartones para los tapices de la manufactura real de Santa Bárbara. El magisterio en esta actividad y en otras relacionadas con la pintura de corte lo imponía Mengs, mientras que el pintor español más reputado era Francisco Bayeu, que fue cuñado de Goya.
Una grave enfermedad que le aqueja en 1793 le lleva a acercarse a una pintura más creativa y original, que expresa temáticas menos amables que los modelos que había pintado para la decoración de los palacios reales. Una serie de cuadritos en hojalata, a los que él mismo denominaba de capricho e invención, inician la fase madura de la obra del artista y la transición hacia la estética romántica.
Además, su obra refleja el convulso periodo histórico en que vive, particularmente la Guerra de la Independencia, de la que la serie de estampas de Los desastres de la guerra es casi un reportaje moderno de las atrocidades cometidas y componen una visión exenta de heroísmo donde las víctimas son siempre los individuos de cualquier clase y condición.
Gran popularidad tiene su Maja desnuda, en parte favorecida por la polémica generada en torno a la identidad de la bella retratada. De comienzos del siglo XIX datan también otros retratos que emprenden el camino hacia el nuevo arte burgués. Al final del conflicto hispano-francés pinta dos grandes cuadros a propósito de los sucesos del levantamiento del Dos de Mayo de 1808, que sientan un precedente tanto estético como temático para el cuadro de historia, que no solo comenta sucesos próximos a la realidad que vive el artista, sino que alcanza un mensaje universal.
Pero su obra culminante es la serie de pinturas al óleo sobre el muro seco con que decoró su casa de campo (la Quinta del Sordo), las Pinturas negras. En ellas Goya anticipa la pintura contemporánea y los variados movimientos de vanguardia que marcarían el siglo XX.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:27 0 bocas
Marcadores: Espanha, Goya, neoclassicismo, pintura, romantismo
Poesia e pintura para celebrar um grande artista...
A CABEÇA LIGADA
Van Gogh, queria algo
tão consolador como a música.
Os campos de trigo e centeio
com ciprestes, os seus obeliscos,
e lírios e grandes nuvens,
a sesta dos camponeses,
a natureza morta
de girassóis e anémonas,
o sereno bivaque de ciganos,
as árvores com o azul tisnado do céu,
loendros, paveias,roçadores
de pastagens limão ouro pálido,
o semeador ferruginoso de ocre,
enxofre e do tamanho de uma catedral,
o voo de corvos sobre ramos
luminosos e ternos
de amendoeiras em flor.
Depois de cortar a orelha
retratou-se com os lábios
pintados de sangue.
Se o sofrimento fosse mensurável,
naquela cara de símio
louco de ser homem
haveria dores
de um inteiro campo de concentração.
in A Ignorância da Morte (1978) - António Osório
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:17 0 bocas
Marcadores: António Osório, impressionismo, pintura, poesia, pós-impressionismo, Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh nasceu há 170 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:17 0 bocas
Marcadores: Países Baixos, pintura, pós-impressionismo, suicídio, Vincent van Gogh
Eric Clapton celebra hoje 78 anos
Eric Patrick Clapton (Ripley, 30 de março de 1945) é um guitarrista, cantor e compositor britânico. Apelidado de Slowhand, foi considerado o segundo melhor guitarrista da história pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:07 0 bocas
Marcadores: blues-rock, Eric Clapton, guitarra, hard rock, Layla, Reino Unido, Rock, rock 'n roll, rock psicadélico