ELIA KAZAN, MOST-HONORED HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR

Elia Kazan was an American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history". Born in Constantinople, to Cappadocian Greek parents, his family came to the United States in 1913. He was born this day in 1909. Hence this post today.  

Born: 7 September 1909, Fener, Turkey

Died: 28 September 2003, Manhattan, New York, United States

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WORLD-FAMOUS CARDIOVASCULAR SURGEON MICHAEL DeBAKEY

Houston Surgeon Michael DeBakey Performs First Successful Coronary Artery Bypass

On 23 November 1964, Dr. Michael DeBakey and his team performed the world's first successful coronary artery bypass graft surgery in Houston. DeBakey, Denton Cooley, and many others in Houston revolutionized cardiovascular surgery by developing new techniques for the treatment of patients with congenital anomalies, aneurysms, and vascular-occlusive diseases. Cooley and his associates performed the first heart transplant in the United States in 1968. The patient lived 204 days. By 1987, 80 percent of patients lived at least one year. Some patients have survived more than ten years with new hearts. Heart transplantation is no longer experimental. More than 3000 transplants are performed each year worldwide.

He was born this day in 1908. Hence this post today.  

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Medical Research – http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/smmrj 

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AKIRA KUROSAWA BIOGRAPHY

AKIRA KUROSAWA BIOGRAPHY

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JOHN DALTON, WHO DISCOVERED THE ATOMIC THEORY

JOHN DALTON BIOGRAPHY 

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DISCOVERED THE ATOMIC THEORY

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Born on September 6, 1766, in the small community of Eaglesfield in England, John Dalton was the son of Joseph Dalton who was a poor weaver that was fortunate to own a house on a small patch of land, and his wife Deborah Greenup, who had come from a rich Quaker family in the same country and had married for love.

 

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JANE ADDAMS, WHO CREATED THE FAMOUS SOCIAL SETTLEMENT, HULL HOUSE

JANE ADDAMS : HULL HOUSE

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Here is a documentary on Jane Addams, a pioneer in creating one of the most instrumental social settlements of North America.

 

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HOW JANE ADDAMS CHANGED THE WORLD

HOW JANE ADDAMS 

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​@Mr. Beat tells you all about Jane Addams, one of the most important figures in American history. This is part of another mega-collaboration of a bunch of history YouTubers to celebrate women's history month. We're calling it #ProjectHerStory.

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Here’s the story of one of the most important people in American history...Jane Addams. But her impact as a reformer went way beyond the United States. In my opinion, she’s the face of the entire Progressive Era, that period of widespread reform and activism between the 1890s and 1920s.

 

Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860. The youngest of eight children, by most measures Jane’s family was very well off. Her dad, John, was a successful businessman and a member of the Illinois Senate who even knew Abraham Lincoln. Jane adored her father. He definitely was a big influence on her life. Sadly, she never really knew her mother, who died in childbirth when Jane was just two. Growing up, Jane was mostly taken care of by her older sisters.

 

When Jane was four, she got Pott’s disease, which was basically tuberculosis of the spine. This caused a curvature in her spine, which led to health problems the rest of her life. Growing up, she had a limp due to this, and often could not run as quickly as the kids she played with.

 

Jane’s father remarried when she was eight to Anna Haldeman. Jane and Anna got along quite well, and Jane was quite influenced by Anna’s devotion to the poor who lived in Cedarville. That, combined with reading about the poor in Charles Dickens novels, would eventually cause Jane to want to devote her life to helping the poor.

 

With the encouragement of her father, Jane decided to attend college, which is not something most girls did in the 1870s. But Jane was extremely smart, and college wasn’t no thing, yo. She graduated from Rockford Female Seminary, which is now Rockford University, in 1881 at the top of her class, also among the first there to ever get a bachelor’s degree.

 

That summer, Jane’s father suddenly died of appendicitis. I’ve had appendicitis, by the way, and it sucks. I didn’t die from it, though. Anyway, this video isn’t about me. Jane and her sibling each inherited $50,000, which today translates to nearly $1.3 million.

 

Jane decided she wanted to study medicine. That fall, she joined her sister Alice to go to the Woman’s Medical College of Philadelphia. While she was driven and ambitious, a few things came up that took her away from her goals. First of all, she still had health problems. Her spine was still giving her trouble, and her brother-in-law Harry performed surgery to attempt to straighten it. She ended up having a nervous breakdown which caused her to have to withdraw from med school. After this, Jane returned to Cedarville to take care of her stepmom, Anna, who had gotten very sick.

 

Meanwhile, Jane was in a funk, now not knowing what to do with her life. So she went to Europe. Beginning in August 1883, and over the following four years, she would travel all over Europe, constantly looking for direction.

 

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PIONEERS OF HOMEOPATHY : DR GUSTAV WILHELM GROSS

CELLULOIDS GREAT MASTERS : AKIRA KUROSAWA

KUROSAWA and KIAROSTAMI --- The Japanese Emperor and The Iranian Poet!!!

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AKIRA KUROSAWA graced the heavens on this day in 1998. Remembering one of celluloid's greatest masters on his 23rd death anniversary and looking back at excerpts from a wonderful conversation he had with the great ABBAS KIAROSTAMI in September 1993. Kurosawa only had praises of the highest order for Kiarostami's repertoire and believed him to be the only worthy successor to someone like Satyajit Ray.

Kurosawa once said, "I believe the films of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami are extraordinary. Words cannot relate my feelings. I suggest you his films; and then you will see what I mean. Satyajit Ray passed away and I got very upset. But having watched Kiarostami’s films, I thank god because now we have a good substitute for him". And their conversation together is as wholesome as their great celluloid souvenirs and revolves around only one thing which was their eternal love for the Cinema❤️

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///KUROSAWA: I was in Cannes when you too, were there… of course, I had not seen your films then.

KIAROSTAMI: I had the chance to see your Madadayo in Cannes and you were sitting two rows ahead of me. It was a great opportunity to see you and your film at once. You may not know how popular you are in my country. Both the intellectuals and ordinary people like your works. In fact, you and the late Alfred Hitchcock are the most popular foreign filmmakers in Iran. Once one of the officials at the Iranian film industry said that you and Tarkovsky were the only foreign filmmakers whose film compiled with the value system of Iranian arts. I wish I could share the joy of meeting you with others in Iran.

KUROSAWA: I was a friend of Tarkovsky. Our friendship started during a visit to Moscow. I was twice invited to Iran more than a decade ago to join the jury of the Tehran International film festival....I’m sure there are other good filmmakers in Iran. However, what I like about your films is their simplicity and fluency, although it is really hard to describe them. One has to see them.

KIAROSTAMI: Critics believe that the stage and the screen are sacred, so no one should commit anything ordinary there. In their eyes naturalism is commonplace. They say everything must be exaggerated, as they believe your films are.

KUROSAWA: Maybe my actors’ behavior look exaggerated in your country, but they are definitely natural here. Cultural differences must not be taken for exaggeration. I have to say that I honestly enjoyed watching your films. They include appreciation for your working style. How do you work with children, in particular? They do not feel at home in my films and keep watching me in a discreet way.

KIAROSTAMI: Maybe that’s because you are Kurosawa. The children that work for me hardly know me. During the actual filming I try to pretend that I’m not the governor. Usually I ask the crew to judge about their acting. Of course, every needs a special trick, sometimes it is another story.

KUROSAWA: This is the cinema that must be supported and taken seriously. My children and grandchildren never see American films. They have their own boycotting system which rules out violent films. I wish this humanistic cinema could stand against all vulgarity. I’m sure good films are being made everywhere. But filmmaking in Europe and the States is going backwards while good films are being made in Asia and finding their way to International film festivals. The global screen is not for the films of only one country. Films make their viewers familiar with the cultural settings of their country of origins. If they are made according to a national culture then they will be welcomed abroad. My grandchildren and I made ourselves familiar with Iran and her people with your films.

KIAROSTAMI: You have said that films must be made with hearts and seen with hearts.

KUROSAWA: Yes, I did; unfortunately most Japanese people see films with brains and try to find flaws in it. Sometimes, critics ask questions for which I have no answer, because I have not thought about the matter when I was making the film. Films must be rather felt, but there are little feelings in recent films.///

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(Originally published as ‘The Emperor & I’: Abbas Kiarostami Meets Akira Kurosawa' in Film International Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4—Autumn 1993)

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ATOMIC PIONEERS : JOHN DALTON

   Atomic Pioneers - John Dalton 

 

“Matter, though divisible in an extreme degree, is nevertheless not infinitely divisible…I have chosen the word ‘atom’ to signify these ultimate particles.” — John Dalton 

John Dalton (1766-1844) was a man of innovative intellect and many interests who was born in Cumberland, England.  By his mid-teens, he was the teacher at the Quaker school he had attended. He later taught college-level mathematics and chemistry. At 27, he wrote a book on meteorology and kept daily weather observations for 46 years.  Dalton did the first real study of colorblindness, a condition he shared with his brother and which is still often called “daltonism.”  He measured the height of local mountains using a barometer and did experiments with vapor pressure in relation to temperature.  

Yet Dalton’s work with atomic theory is considered his most important.  Contemporaries, including Thomas Thomson and William and Bryan Higgins, probably influenced him. His work, however, contained key ideas that theirs had not, including a method of calculating relative atomic weights.  His main points were: 

1. Elements are made of extremely small particles called atoms.

2. Atoms of a given element are identical and differ from those of other elements.

3. Atoms cannot be subdivided, created, or destroyed.

4. Atoms of different elements combine in simple whole-number ratios.  

5. In chemical reactions, atoms are combined, separated, or rearranged. 

Dalton was the first to establish a table of atomic weights. 

Dalton was one of very few scientists to be honored with a sculpture while still living.  A unit of measure — the dalton (symbol da) bears his name. It is 1/12 the mass of a neutral atom of Carbon 12. #ManhattanProjectNPS #FindYourPark #EncuentraTuParque 

Image caption: Scientist John Dalton, 1766-1844, by Charles Turner

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WOMEN YOU SHOULD KNOW : JANE ADDAMS

On the 161st anniversary of her birth (b. September 6, 1860), we’re celebrating this woman you should know… Jane Addams, the social reformer, pacifist and feminist, whose life and work embody the community-building role that women have played throughout all of history. In 1889, she co-founded one of the first social settlements in the United States, the Hull House in Chicago, Illinois, which was designed to be a haven for new immigrants of diverse communities and enrich their lives by empowering women, helping the less fortunate, fighting for immigrant rights, and offering education in art, music, literature, the English language, American government, technical skills, and more. In 1910, she became the first woman president of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections. She founded the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919, and worked tirelessly against war. She was the first American woman (and second woman) to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. At the end of her life, Jane Addams was also honored by the American government for her efforts for peace. She died May 21, 1935.

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