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A long time ago in a manuscript far, far away...

The Yoda lookalike appears in a French manuscript known as the "Smithfield Decretals," The Telegraph reported. It's one of several images highlighted in Kempf's new book, Medieval Monsters, which includes a collection of creatures found in documents from the Middle Ages.

"I'd love to say that it really was Yoda, or was drawn by a medieval time traveler," Julian Harrison, a British Library curator who featured the drawing on the library's blog, told NPR. "It's actually an illustration to the biblical story of Samson -- the artist clearly had a vivid imagination!"

Jedi Master's Lookalike Spotted In Medieval Manuscript

And of course the links to the illustrations in the manuscript at the British Library are still eff'ing down due to a cyber attack so they say.


May 4, 1852: Alice Pleasance Hargreaves aka Alice Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland, is born in London (d. 1934).


An acrostic poem at the end of Through the Looking-Glass. Reading downward, taking the first letter of each line, spells out Liddell's full name.

A boat beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July—

Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear—

Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die.
Autumn frosts have slain July.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.

Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.

In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die:

Ever drifting down the stream—
Lingering in the golden gleam—
Life, what is it but a dream?

I did not go on an underground hunt to authenticate, but supposedly this is the only known footage of Alice Liddell:






TV commerical from 1980, C3P0, R2D2, and Boba Fett join some singing and dancing children to sell underwear with printed Empire Strikes Back designs... And that's about all I have to say about that.
"In the not so distant future on a planet called 'Earth' it's... Underoos!"
"Don't be so ridiculous Artoo, Underoos are for earthlings!"



The little girl in the C3P0 Underoos is Erika Eleniak. Her first film role was in the sci-fi blockbuster E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), by Steven Spielberg. Her film credit given was "Pretty Girl". Playboy Playmate of the Month July 1989.




According to VFX artist Paul Huston, scenes of the Rebel attack on the Death Star in 1977's STAR WARS were inspired in part by imagery of kamikaze attacks on U.S. Navy ships during WWII.

The visual cues that inspired the starfighter’s demise came from a panning shot taken by a nervy U.S. Navy cameraman in the midst of a harrowing kamikaze attack in the Pacific more than 30 years earlier. The sailor captured the final moments of a Japanese Zero as it burnt up over the deck of an American aircraft carrier. As VFX artist Paul Huston described the shot in the book Star Wars Storyboards: The Original Trilogy, “[An artist] would show me a shot of a Japanese Zero flying left to right in front of a conning tower of an aircraft carrier and say, ‘The aircraft carrier is the Death Star, the Zero is an X-wing. Do a board like that.’ ” The art became storyboard 168, shot 245, which was entitled, “PORKINS’ X WING COMES APART IN FLAMING PIECES.”

The Real Aerial Battles That Inspired Star Wars

In the United States, May 4 is informally observed as "Dave Brubeck Day". In the format most commonly used in the U.S., May 4 is written "5/4", recalling the time signature of "Take Five", Brubeck's best-known recording.

After graduating in 1942, Brubeck was drafted into the US Army, serving in Europe in the Third Army under George S. Patton. He volunteered to play piano at a Red Cross show; the show was a resounding success, and Brubeck was spared from combat service. He created one of the US armed forces first racially integrated bands, "The Wolfpack".

A US Department of State-sponsored tour in 1958 featuring the band "Dave Brubeck Quartet" inspired several of Brubeck's subsequent albums, most notably the 1959 album Time Out. Despite its esoteric theme and contrarian time signatures, Time Out became Brubeck's highest-selling album, and the first jazz album to sell over one million copies. The lead single from the album, "Take Five", a tune written by Desmond in 5/4 time, similarly became the highest-selling jazz single of all time.

In 2010, Bruce Ricker and Clint Eastwood produced Dave Brubeck: In His Own Sweet Way, a documentary about Brubeck for Turner Classic Movies (TCM) to commemorate his 90th birthday in December 2010.

Dave Brubeck – Take Five
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs


May 4, 1970: At Kent State University in Ohio, national guardsmen called in to control a student antiwar demonstration open fire, between 61-67 shots in 13 seconds toward the parking lot. killing four students and wounding nine during protests against Nixon’s Cambodia invasion. The student antiwar strikes became one of the largest coordinated sequences of disruptive protests in American history, with walkouts spreading across more than 883 campuses involving more than a million students.


Photos by Kent State student Ralph Solonitz. More of his photos at Ralph Solonitz papers and artifacts (Kent State Special Collections and Archives)

I heard this girl was identified 48 years later and spoke with the photographer for the first time on Facebook.


Youth often at times are the by product of how they were brought up. They learn love or hate at home. Sometimes they evolve.


May 4, 1974: ~1,000 people rally on Christopher Street, Manhattan for equal rights for gay and lesbian people.

Intro 475 was defeated for a fourth time in committee on December 19, 1973. It was reintroduced in the Council as Intro 2 in January 1974. On April 18, the General Welfare Committee finally passed it, allowing the bill to go to the full Council. GAA took several actions in support of Intro 2, including a large demonstration at Christopher Park on May 4, and a Gay Rights “Freedom Bus” tour of Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens on May 11-12. The full Council killed the bill on May 23.

It was reintroduced in the Council as Intro 554 in June 1974. GAA held another rally at City Hall in support of the bill on May 5, 1975. What later became known as the “gay rights bill” was introduced in the City Council every subsequent year, but was not passed until March 20, 1986.

The Gay Activists Alliance held a number of zaps and other actions in City Hall Park from 1970 to 1975

May 4, 1974: Cannonade, ridden by jockey Ángel Cordero Jr., wins the 1974 Kentucky Derby, the 100th running of the event with 163,628 people in attendance. Other excitement was a streaker climbed a flagpole at the Derby and sits on top; he is the first known naked flagpole sitter.



May 4, 2024: Congratulations to Mystik Dan (on the inside) by a nose in a nail-biting photo finish!