Interesting Dead Person of the Day

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Wikipedia: Bernard de Mandeville 1670 – 1733

Very little is known about Bernard de Mandeville, and there are no known images of him. He as born in the Netherlands where he took training as a physician, and sometime in the 1690s he went to England to study the language, an early ESL student as it were. He seems to have ended up staying.

His very small canon of literary works show him to have had a keen interest in and talent for Economics and Philosophy. It also shows him to have been fierce satirist, ...... well maybe.

For example, The Grumbling Hive, or Knaves Turn'd Honest (1705), later reworked and expanded into The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits, is Mandeville's best known work, and it is difficult because it is highly ambiguous. Is it a satire? Well,…. maybe. Language is fundamentally indeterminate, and this indeterminacy can be exploited in purposeful ambiguity by writers of great wit. Satire is most devastating when it closely and accurately reflects the object of its attack and when it is not the denotative aspect of the words themselves but rather the cumulative ironic tone they generate that delivers the satiric deathblow. Witness Steven Colbert, and then imagine yourself three hundred years in future: what difficulties would you have in interpreting written transcripts of his monologues? How could you possibly pin down his political stance based on his words alone? Ambiguity is also used by writers in repressive political climates as a means of self-preservation. Was Niccolò Machiavelli a Republican (as in the pre-Julius-Cæsar, anti-monarchist, classical sense) revolutionary exposing the means by which the Church and the aristocracy maintain control of the masses, or was he a cynical and amoral supporter of tyranny? To have openly been the former would have been very dangerous, perhaps even suicidal. So where do we put Mandeville? Taken at flat face value, The Grumbling Hive would appear to be a rousing endorsement of the worst excesses of Reaganonimcs -- unbridled and unethical greed put into ruthless practice leads to general economic welfare through a trickle down process of wealth distribution; the directors of Enron should be celebrated and not reviled. Is Mandeville an ultra-right-wing Libertarian, a sociopathic Adam Smith on steroids? He could certainly be taken that way. But then there is the problem of tone -- The Grumbling Hive is funny. And there is also the problem of reception -- the rich and powerful of Mandeville's time seem to have found The Grumbling Hive an uncomfortable embarrassment rather than an inspiring political/economic gospel.

So where do we put Mandeville? You decide: The Grumbling Hive, or Knaves Turn'd Honest


Other commentary:

http://www.philosophers.co.uk/cafe/phil_oct2003.htm

http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/mandev.htm

http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople....=true&UID=4974

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BBC Obit: Robert Altman

"Robert Altman, the acclaimed director of MASH, Nashville, Gosford Park and The Player, has died at the age of 81, his production company has announced."

Wikipedia: Robert Altman

He was one of my favourites. Sad.

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BBC Obit: Alexander Litvinenko

"Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian security officer who has died in a London hospital after apparently being poisoned, was a fierce critic of Russia's government."

Wikipedia: Litvinenko
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In Australia, near where I live, two men were murdered and the mystery is still unsolved. Jim Barklay was the manager of an isolated cattle station in an area called Wonnongatta, his cook and workman was John Bamford. Both men were last seen in Dec 1917. It was thought that Bamford had killed Barklay as his head was discovered some distance from where the body was partly concealed. Bamford was never tracked down and as winter set in the search was scaled down. When the weather improved around November 1918 some local men again went to the area in search of the man Bamford, as he had not been sighted anywhere during the previous year. While one man Bill Hearn, a huge man, was using a fallen log to re-mount on his big, 16 hands high horse, the log rolled uncovering the body of the man thought to be the murderer of Barklay. Officially the two men were found to have been murdered by a person or persons unknown and up till today there are only rumors, theories and guesses as to what really happened in Wonnongatta in December 1917.

"A snake charmer who made a name for himself as Malaysia's Snake King has died after being bitten by a king cobra. Ali Khan Samsudin, 48, had entered the record books for locking himself in small spaces with hundreds of snakes or scorpions for days at a time. "

BBC Obit: Ali Khan Samsudin

Further details:

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The Star Online: Ali Khan Samsudin
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Augusto Pinochet
November 25, 1915–December 10, 2006
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Pinochet at Wikipedia

BBC Obit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6167237.stm

Salvador Allende
July 26, 1908 – September 11, 1973
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Allende at Wikipedia

When is democracy not democracy? What is historical truth?

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In the 1980s I met a young Chilean man in Vancouver.

His story: In 1973, he was twelve-years-old. One night while he was playing soccer in the street, a group of soldiers grabbed him and his friends and stuffed them into a truck with a lot of other people, some of whom he knew, most of whom he did not. They were all taken to a sports stadium where there were a lot more people. He and his friends were terrified and were crying. A senior army officer saw them and came over. He told the other soldiers that he would "take care of the little bastards." He led the children off and around the stadium to a place were he could boost them over a fence in a place where he could not be seen. He told them to stay together, to go straight home, and to stay inside their houses. The young man said that he never again saw any of the people he had known who had been on the truck to the stadium with him.
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I am certain that there are cephlapods out there who ... err which... will have interesting opinions on this matter...... well maybe.

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I hope this woman will be interesting too, she was my Aunt -

Ellen Margaret Scorey

I sent them twice as much as that, why do Editors have such bit scissors !

Len Beadell constructor of Australia's Gunbarrel Highway.

Somewhere I have his book Too Long in the Bush describing his experience often single-handedly bulldozing day after day.

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He was truly a great rocker and soul singer/songwriter.

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BBC: Momofuku Ando, inventor of instant noodles, dies

"The inventor of instant noodles, Momofuku Ando, has died in Japan, aged 96, of a heart attack."

A moment of silence, please, for the provider of one of the mainstays of IT nutrition.

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Wikipedia: Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau PC, CC, CH, QC, MA, LLD, FRSC] (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000)

Trudeau, love him or hate him, is both interesting and dead. Excerpts from Wikipedia:

"Trudeau was a charismatic figure who, from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, dominated the Canadian political scene and aroused passionate reactions. 'He haunts us still,' biographers Christina McCall and Stephen Clarkson wrote. Admirers praise the force of Trudeau's intellect. They salute his political acumen in preserving national unity and enshrining a liberal civic Canadian identity by giving the Charter of Rights and Freedoms its current legal force. Detractors fault Trudeau for poor administrative practices, arrogance, and lack of understanding of Canada outside Quebec. They deplore his economic policies that increased the national debt, and criticize him for increasing a sense of political alienation in western provinces. Nevertheless, few would dispute that Trudeau was a towering figure who helped redefine Canada.

Trudeau led Canada through some of its most tumultuous times and was often the centre of controversy. Known for his flamboyance, he dated celebrities, sometimes wore sandals or a buckskin jacket in the House of Commons, was accused of using an obscenity during debate there, and once did a pirouette behind the back of Queen Elizabeth II.

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As justice minister, Pierre Trudeau was responsible for removing laws against homosexuality from the Criminal Code of Canada, famously remarking: 'The view we take here is that there's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.'

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Following his death and to the surprise of many, it became known that Trudeau was in fact deeply religious. He hardly ever missed Sunday mass and had required his wife Margaret to convert to Catholicism before their marriage. He had earlier in life broken up with a girlfriend over her growing agnosticism. He experienced a crisis of faith following the death of his son but he had reconciled himself with it by the time of his death.

Though his religious views seemed to have influenced his politics only insofar as they affected his zeal and work ethic, since he championed causes that were strongly opposed by his church, such as the abolition of sodomy laws and the easing of divorce procedures, his political philosophy was deeply affected by personalism and the thought of Emmanuel Mounier."

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Back from the dead... :)

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Wikipedia: Blessed Giles of Assis

Giles/Egidius was the last member of Saint Francis's original apostolic group to join. He was also the last member of the apostolic group to die. Curiously he did both his joining and dying on the feast day of Saint George.

Giles is thought to have actively sought martyrdom in his youth, travelling to North Africa and provoking the Islamic authorities, much to the horror of the North African Christian community who apparently co-existed quite peacefully within the Islamic community. Later he turned to a quiet and simple faith, focusing on duty, humility and manual labour. He was a mystic visionary. He was not a scholar or theologian. His modesty caused him to forbid his own canonization, should the Church have any thoughts in that direction after his death: the Church seems to have respected his wishes; he was beatified but never canonized. He was, however, regarded as a saint in his own lifetime and after. He was immensely popular throughout the middle ages, so much so that any references to Saint Giles are uncertain: there was a relatively minor Saint Giles from France, who is completely eclipsed by Blessed Giles.

There is a line in the Middle English alliterative poem, Gawain and the Green Knight, "Þe lorde sayde, 'Bi saynt Gile,/3e ar þe best þat I knowe!," which probably refers to Blessed Giles rather than Saint Giles, although a reference to the French Giles also has interesting ironies. (Note: the "3" in "3e ar þe best" represents the archaic character "yoch" which is no longer in our orthography.) Interpreting "saynt Gile" as Blessed Giles would go a long way to explaining the poem's curious association with the Order of the Garter. The Gawain poem is a major part of the body of Arthurian literature. St. Francis was steeped in Arthurian romanticism; he refered to his apostolic group as his Knights of the Round Table. St. George, who is the patron saint of England, figures largely in Gile's personal mythology. Garters figure largely in the stories of both St. George and Gawain. And the Gawain poem is about the human weaknesses of pride and cowardice, weaknesses to which Gawain succumbs. If there is a comparsion between Gawain and Giles, it is a modesty topos generated by the comparison between a mere human and a saint. Gawain is a paradigm of knighthood, but in comparison to a saint ...... Still "Bi saynt Gile, 3e ar þe best þat I knowe!" And as the motto says ... Honi soit qui mal y pense!

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Other reading:


http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0423.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01170d.htm

http://www.franciscan-sfo.org/LFSF3.htm

http://www.americancatholic.org/Feat...nt.asp?id=1361


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Frankie Laine 1913-2007;

A decent short bio and some music in his honour cortesy of

http://www.bigbobh.net/dowop/index.htm

Bye bye Frankie - High Noon was the best.


http://www.bigbobh.net/dowop/frankie.html


ps: Tex Ritter sang the movie version of the ballad - I liked Frankie's better. So sue me.

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One of Canada's last WWI veterans dies

Lest we forget.... even if we don't seem ever to learn...

Video: Real Quicktime

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Here's one courtesy of Windrivers' front page, where I found it, and Tom's Hardware.

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Tom's Hardware - Gear Digest: Beautiful Actress, Beautiful Mind, Hot Gadgets

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Wikipedia: Hedy Lamarr

Very interesting woman.

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General Sir Arthur William Currie at Wikipedia

Wikipedia: "General Sir Arthur William Currie, GCMG, KCB (December 5, 1875 – November 30, 1933) was the first Canadian commander of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (a corps of four divisions) on the Western Front during World War I. Currie was among the most successful generals of the war; he is still considered one of the finest commanders in Canadian military history."

Wikipedia: "Under his capable leadership the Canadian Corps won a long series of battles, fighting as a unit for the first time in a major war. They soon earned a fierce reputation as some of the most effective troops on the Western Front."

Currie apparently was not willing just to send his troops "over the top" to meet their deaths. Concern for his men lead him to develop new stategies to break the stalemate of trench warfare. Perhaps the most radical of these was the briefing of the common soldiers, not just the officers.

Wikipedia: "Currie was largely responsible for the tactics and careful planning that led to the unexpected triumph by Canadian battalions at the Battle of Vimy Ridge in April, 1917. One of his most useful innovations introduced at this battle was the creeping barrage, which consisted of troops walking just behind an advancing line of shell fire from Canadian and British artillery, shielding soldiers as they approached the Germans. In addition, constant practice and new troop organization in which each platoon member was trained to carry out all platoon responsibilities, briefing of the frontline troops, the use of counter-battery fire measures and constant patrolling of the enemy defences all contributed to the effectiveness of the Canadian Corps at Vimy and for the rest of the War."

This Easter will mark the 90th anniversary of the battle of Vimy Ridge.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/vimy/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vimy_Ridge

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Kurt Vonnegut: BBC Obituary

BB: "One of the outstanding figures of modern US literature, Kurt Vonnegut, has died aged 84 in New York."

Vonnegut at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut

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Johnny Hart, creator of the B.C. comic strip, died 7th April 2007

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CBC: Second-last surviving WWI Veteran Dies

And so the The War To End All Wars begins to slip from living memory.

Interestingly none of the last three veterans (one still surviving) or their families wanted any part of a state funeral - a major disappointment for our current govt. which is looking for opportunities to tug at the nation's patriotic heart strings in order to drum up support for a certain overseas debacle we seem to have become immersed in -- a debacle quite out of keeping with the norms for Canadian military involvement overseas.
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Wally Schirra, the only astronaut to fly in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs:

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/fea...r_schirra.html

"Schirra's NASA career began with his selection as one of the original seven Mercury astronauts in 1959 and spans the period from Americas first tentative steps into space to the missions to the moon."

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Charles Mingus at Wikipedia

One of the greatest American composers. One of the greatest composers of the 20th century.

Good bass player and OK piano player, too.

Massively and undeservedly underappreciated in his own country.


Sad. :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad:

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BBC: Iceman 'bled to death on glacier'

"Oetzi probably died as the result of a fight: he may either have fled his attacker - who then shot him in the back - or been ambushed."

Oetzi is an interesting guy, and he is dead.

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Gunshot Victim at National Geographic

The victim is a Peruvian native thought to have been killed by Spaniards in the 1536 seige of Lima. He is the first known gunshot victim in the Americas.

Interesting story.

More interesting, however, is the politics of North American media in which no mention of native support of the colonial Spaniards is mentioned. Such mention would not be correct.

:rolleyes:

From the BBC -- Story --Speaking of other victims of the seige, Peruvian archaeologist Guillermo Cock 'said the nature of the injuries found on the bodies - made with indigenous weapons such as stone axes and arrows - indicated that the conquistadors would have had some kind of native support to help in their conquest. 'That really confirms... native support for the conquerors was very important. The chronicles do not acknowledge the participation of the natives... [they] tell you that a couple of dozen cavalry men defeated the Inca troops in Lima.'"

I miss the Squid's cynical take on such things.... sigh!

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Interactive Oetzi at National Geographic

Indulge yourself in a little forensic pathology.

More from National Geographic (click on image below):

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Poor Oetzi murdered, by his own people? How can that be? It is a universal truth that the simple, primitive peoples of Earth are all peace-loving, nature-attuned spiritual beings incapable of harming others. It must have been time-travelling Jesuit Monks from the Spanish Inquisition who killed him, obviously. :guns: :devil:

And, HouseIsland, you are absolutely correct about the Spaniards' native support. It is much easier to gloss over the fact that the Inca and Aztec Empires, were Empires, after all, built by conquering and enslaving their neighbors. Montezuma was stoned to death by his own people. The Spaniards just gave the Rebel Forces an excuse and a rallying point to overthrow their tyranical overlords. Or, we can continue to pretend that a handful of guys on horseback conquered hundreds of thousands of natives single-handedly. Horse pucky! :knife: ;)

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Poor Oetzi murdered, by his own people? How can that be? It is a universal truth that the simple, primitive peoples of Earth are all peace-loving, nature-attuned spiritual beings incapable of harming others. It must have been time-travelling Jesuit Monks from the Spanish Inquisition who killed him, obviously. :guns: :devil:

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Sloppy scholarship here, Squid!

You are forgetting some important facts: Oetzi, like his killer(s), was a white, European/Caucasian, (probably) hetrosexual male, and worse he is dead. Given these facts, you really have no need to fabricate the time-travelling Jesuits. The violence is self-explanatory.

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Edit: My possibly flawed understanding of the Inca was that they were like the Borg. Other societies were given two choices -- be on the receiving end of total genocidal annihilation or be assimilated/integrated. Not sure if the Aztecs/Toltecs/Maya offered choice B or not.

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Sloppy scholarship here, Squid!

You are forgetting some important facts: Oetzi, like his killer(s), was a white, European/Caucasian, (probably) hetrosexual male, and worse he is dead. Given these facts, you really have no need to fabricate the time-travelling Jesuits. The violence is self-explanatory.

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Yes, but these are primitive Caucasoids, therefore not subject to the modern standards of white, Eurasian, heterosexual males. They were untainted by any form of advanced culture or lawyers. :devil:

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Edit: My possibly flawed understanding of the Inca was that they were like the Borg. Other societies were given two choices -- be on the receiving end of total genocidal annihilation or be assimilated/integrated. Not sure if the Aztecs/Toltecs/Maya offered choice B or not.

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All of the major civilizations of Central and South America were rather brutal in their expansionistic *****ions. But, then again, so were they all, around the world. :redeyes:

Edit: a-m-b-i-t-i-o-n-s is filtered? :confused:

A cyber-visit of respect to the grave of a major American culture hero, or at least that is what he should be.

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Monk at Dead Blues Guys

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Also from Dead Blues Guys

Love this guy so much!

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If Monk had been murdered, would his killer have been charged with thelonious slaying?

oooohhhhh groan. Platypus you should be charged with felonious saying...

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Chuck Jones at Wikipedia

"Charles Martin 'Chuck' Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. cartoon studio."

The most famous characters Jones worked with, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, may have been created by Tex Avery, but it was Jones who brought them to life, giving them the personalites we now recognize.

Jones brought so much joy to my childhood.

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A moment of silence in respect, please, and then on to the madcap mayhem.....

Noteable short films by Jones:

For Scent-imental Reasons (1949) -- the link provides titles only.

Scaredy Cat (1949)

The Rabbit of Seville (1950)

The "Hunter's Trilogy": Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, and Duck! Rabbit! Duck! (1951–1953)

Duck Amuck (1952)

Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953)

One Froggy Evening (1955)

What's Opera, Doc? (1957)

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Play Mercy Mercy, Joe!


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Wikipedia: Josef Erich Zawinul -- July 7, 1932 – September 11, 2007

Bigger pic: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...n_freiburg.jpg

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http://www.zawinulsite.com/

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Joe at NPR

Some good links, including one the definitive live version of Mercy Mercy with Cannonball Adderly.

:)

Bye Joe.

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Stonewall Jackson was not only a great commander, he is buried in two different places. You can read about it here. When I worked in the D.C. area, I visited both sites.

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Mendel at Wikipedia

"Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822[1] – January 6, 1884) was an Austrian Augustinian priest and scientist often called the "father of modern genetics" for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants. Mendel showed that the inheritance of traits follows particular laws, which were later named after him. The significance of Mendel's work was not recognised until the turn of the 20th century. Its rediscovery prompted the foundation of genetics."
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Simon Peter Gunanoot, also Simon Peter Johnson, GITKSAN businessman, outlaw (b at Kispiox, BC c 1874; d of pneumonia NE of Stewart, BC Oct 1933).

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Simon Gunanoot at Wikipedia (Gunanoot at left)

Simon Gunanoot was a Gitxsan man, who as a suspect in two murders (1906) eluded the BC Provincial Police for over a decade. He eventually turned him self in and was acquitted on one of the murder charges. The other charge was stayed.

Historical truth is elusive. The comteporary "truth" is that he was an outlaw folk-hero. Whether he committed the murders or not, he was probably most wise to have fled from "justice;" in 1906, there was very little likelihood that he, as a native, would have received anything approaching a fair and inpartial trial. Whether he was fighter for first nations rights or not, he seems to have become a symbol of such.

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Gunanoot with Provincial Police Officals

A more detailed account by Monty Bassett.

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My own tangential account:

I have quite clear but fragmented memories of my very early childhood, starting from about the age of two.

Sometime between the ages of two and four, I accompanied my mother and my aunt on a visit to a certain Mr. Kirby in Hazelton or Smithers. He was, I realized much later, the Constable James Kirby, the leader of the posse that had been outwitted by Gunanoot in 1906. My grandfather (much younger than Kirby) had also been in the BC Provincial Police and had been a friend of Kirby's. I remember from my visit that Kirby, probably in his late nineties at the time, was the oldest person I had ever seen, that he had bright twinkly eyes, that he lived in a tiny log cabin that smelled funny, that he had a very large jar of peppermints from which I was allowed to sample liberally, and that I liked him.

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More stuff:

http://www.northword.ca/connections/...ngunanoot.html

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.c...=A1ARTA0003495

http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/ske/pas/gunanoot.htm

http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/bcgn-bin/bcg10?name=4131

http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/447698 (A mediocre, silly and politically correct folk song about Gunanoot, with some anachronisms).

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Jazz Pages: Albert Mangelsdorf

Mangelsdorf was a very cool trombone player, very popular in Europe in the 70s and 80s. He was a noted solo performer -- quite an accomplishment for a trombone player. He invented/re-invented a technique called multiphonics, in which a note is played on the trombone while the vocal cords sing a different note -- by varying the purity of the resultant interval, overtone sequences can be generated giving the suggestion of chords. I have a number of his recordings on the German MPS label.

Here he is in Berlin performing in a trio with Jaco Pastorius (bass) and Alphonse Mouzon (drums):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvLbOTgxJBQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB-_CYOng4k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzBMW1LoPp0

All these years later and the performance is still outside the envelope for a lot of listeners.

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BBC: German composer Stockhausen dies

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Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockhausen

Stockhausen is an acquired taste, and the acquistion can be difficult. His music still pushes past the boundaries of what most people would call music. But his influence is pervasive, even outside the world of orchestral (classical) music.

From Wikipedia:

"Jazz musicians such as Miles Davis (Bergstein 1992), Cecil Taylor, Charles Mingus, Herbie Hancock, Yusef Lateef (Feather 1964; Tsahar 2006), and Anthony Braxton (Radano 1993, 110) cite Stockhausen as an influence, as do pop and rock artists such as Frank Zappa, who acknowledges Stockhausen in the liner notes of his 1966 debut with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!. The Beatles included an image of Stockhausen on the cover of their 1967 Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Rick Wright and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd also acknowledge Stockhausen as an influence (Macon 1997, 141; Bayles 1996, 222). San Francisco psychedelic groups Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead are vaguely said to have done the same (Prendergast 2000, 54), though Stockhausen himself merely says the former band included students of Luciano Berio and both were "well orientated toward new music" (Texte 4, 505). Founding members of Cologne-based experimental band Can, Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay, actually studied with Stockhausen[citation needed], as did German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk (Flur 2003, 228). New York guitar experimentalists Sonic Youth also acknowledge Stockhausen's influence[citation needed], as do Icelandic vocalist Björk (Guðmundsdóttir 1996; Ross 2004, 53 & 55), British industrial group Coil[citation needed], and British techno artist Aphex Twin[citation needed]. Pianist Glenn Gould occasionally played a humorous character whom he based on Stockhausen, and who can be seen in the Glenn Gould Collection videos. "

He was, however, not universally admired:

'Perhaps the most caustic remark about Stockhausen was made by Sir Thomas Beecham. Asked "Have you heard any Stockhausen?", he replied, "No, but I believe I have trodden in some" (Lebrecht 1983, 334)."'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrzi4YNhvig

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Oscar Emmanuel Peterson: 15 August 1925 – 23 December 2007

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CBC: Canadian jazz great Oscar Peterson dies

Wikipedia: Oscar Peterson

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