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The great science fiction writer Leigh Brackett was

The “Queen of Space Opera” wrote SF/F for the pulps of the 1940s and 1950s. In 1944 she wrote her first mystery novel, which came to the attention of legendary director Howard Hawks. When Hawks needed help on an adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s ‘The Big Sleep’…

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Science fiction pulp Planet Stories, March 1951.
Science fiction pulp Planet Stories, Summer 1946.
Science fiction pulp Planet Stories, Winter 1954-1955.

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: Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky.

"Nikolai Lobachevsky published his work on non-Euclidean geometry, the first account of the subject to appear in print." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lobachevsky/ @science

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: Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky.

"Nikolai Lobachevsky published his work on non-Euclidean geometry, the first account of the subject to appear in print."

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Lobachevsky/ @science

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"Christian Doppler was an Austrian mathematician who is best known for the Doppler effect in wave theory." https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Doppler/ @science

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Tanith Lee (1947-2015)

"The word of the desert was this: I am made from all the dusts of the bones of men who have perished here, and my rocks are monuments to mountains I have ground away.
There were no green places, no springs. To this desert, such as these were wounds which it had healed with aridity. What it could not eradicate, it buried."

  • Death's Master (1979)

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http://www.daughterofthenight.com/tlbio.html

SabineHammerba, to baroquemusic

https://youtu.be/trbSWPsdVdw?si=KEl56c52dBjzlj0k


Johann Christoph PEZ
09.09.1664-25.09.1716
Komponist
Oberkapellmeister der . in
1706-16


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https://youtu.be/IqBByQvZBp8?si=rf1WNOVzd-LxwASp

Eduard
Dt. ( auf der Reise nach Prag)
08.09.1804-04.06.1875

Mörike wurden von Hugo und anderen vertont.

Viele Sängerinnen und Sänger haben diese aufgenommen.

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SabineHammerba, to classicalmusic

https://youtu.be/1RtDsMJKJaM?si=U1xxMvq-eglER0xt

Giacomo
05.09.1791 - 02.05.1864

Seine frühe "Wirth und Gast" wurde am 06.01.1813 im Kgl. in uraufgeführt. Das Libretto schrieb der Münchner Hofschauspieler Johann Gottfried

Meyerbeer erfreute sich der Wertschätzung von König I. von , der ihn im Sept. 1854 mit einem großen Fest und einem Orden auszeichnete.


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https://youtu.be/IRZw_0lkh3Q?si=qQyc_QPPQDwqBe9W

  1. September
    Kgl. in

Anlässlich des Geburtstags von Königin von wird die in Egypten" von Gioachino gespielt.

Pauline war Königin von 1820-1864. Fast jedes Jahr wurde ihr Geburtstag mit einer Opernaufführung gefeiert.

Sie starb am 10.03.1873.

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https://youtu.be/pQgnEh-Cv9M?si=VBk8MV4pP4AX8Sfw

Der und Wilhelm SPEIDEL, 03.09.1826-13.10.1899, kam 1857 nach wo er mit weiteren Musikern die gründete; heute die für und Darstellende Kunst.

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Happy Birthday Jack Kirby
The once and future king of comics.

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Young Romance Comics #1 (Prize, 1947) The first romance comic book. Jack Kirby & Joe Simon cover “Designed For the More ADULT Readers of COMICS” A painter in his studio says to his model, “No, Linda…we can’t go on like this! You know I’m engaged to your kid sister, Jane!” Linda replies, “But darling…Jane is just a child! She doesn’t have the fire to kindle the spark of your genius! You need me, John!” Just then Jane walks in and is thinking, “Oh John…”
Fantastic Four , Marvel Comics, April 1966. The Fantastic Four (Johnny Storm/The Human Torch, Sue Storm/The Invisible Girl, Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Ben Grimm/The Thing) run for their lives as world devourer Galactus and his herald The Silver Surfer loom above them. “IF THIS BE DOOMSDAY!”
New Gods #7, DC Comics, March 1972 by Jack Kirby & Mike Royer. THE GREAT CLASH! A SHATTERING EVENT WHICH WILL HAUNT THE NEW GODS FOR AGES TO COME, ROARS IN UPON THE DEMON-WORLD OF APOKOLIPS!! SUMMONED BY A VENGEFUL IZAYA, TEAMS OF FLYING MONITORS BRING FIERY DESTRUCTION IN THEIR WAKE!! BUT…FAR FROM BEING A CHRONICLE OF THE CONFLICT, THIS IS, INSTEAD, THE STORY OF PERSONAL STRUGGLES…AND THE STRANGE FORMING OF… ”THE PACT” Two soldiers under attack scream in succession, “WAR! WAR! APOKOLIPS IS UNDER ATTACK!! THE ENEMY HAS BROKEN THROUGH OUR PARA-DEMON AIR DEFENSE!!” “WEAPON UNITS!! OPEN FIRE!!”

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No one ever called Otto Binder (1911-1974) lazy.

Writer of the Adam Link, Robot series in the pulps which were a huge inspiration to and others. Then drifted to comics with long runs at Fawcett and DC and short runs at most others. DC editor E. Nelson Bridwell assessed Binder’s total output at "almost 50,000 pages of comics".
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Wow Comics (Fawcett 1943) art by Marc Swayze Mary Marvel, a brunette girl in a red and yellow costume dress with a yellow lightning bolt on the chest and yellow boots and white cape with a yellow trim sits on a mountaintop as storm clouds and a giant lightning bolt flashes above her. Starring MARY MARVEL the "SHAZAM" girl in "THE SINISTER SECRET OF HOTEL HIDEAWAY"
The Silver Age Superman family (art by Curt Swan and George Klein) Flying or floating in the sky (L-R) Krypto the Super-Dog, Streaky the Super-Cat, Comet the Super-Horse, Mr. Mxyzptlk, The Legion of Super-Heroes in their time bubble. Standing (L-R) Ma and Pa Kent, Jimmy Olsen, Lucy Lane, Perry White, Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Superman, Supergirl, Professor Potter, Bizarro #1, Lara and Joe-El statues. Bottom left corner: Beppo the Super-Monkey. Bottom right corner: Mermaid Lori Lemaris.
Photograph of Otto Binder in a suit and tie.

SabineHammerba, to classicalmusic
SabineHammerba, to classicalmusic

https://youtube.com/watch?v=eW6wcwC1D4U&si=7XM4ciNLdJOYuqCh

Zahllose wunderschöne Melodien, zeitlos und unvergänglich, hat er den Menschen geschenkt. Robert STOLZ, 1880. Bis ins hohe Alter blieb er aktiv; er starb 1975.
1939 verließ er Europa und lebte und arbeitete fortan in den USA. Nach Kriegsende kam er zurück.
Auch 1 gehört zu seinem Werk. DIE ROSEN DER MADONNA (1920).

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=ypRRpxGahug&feature=share7

Zur Erinnerung an

Peter HOFMANN, Tenor
22.08.1944 - 29.11.2010

Gefeierter Heldentenor. Ensemblemitglied an der Staatsoper Stuttgart (1975).
In Hamburg war er ab 1990 im Musical "Phantom der Oper" (Andrew Lloyd Webber) zu erleben.



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