Jim Jones James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American religious leader and community organizer. Jones was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, best known for the mass murder-suicide in November 1978 of 909 of its members in Jonestown, Guyana,[1] the murder of five people at a nearby airstrip, including Congressman Leo Ryan, and the ordering of four additional Temple member deaths in Georgetown, the Guyanese capital. Nearly three-hundred children were murdered at Jonestown, almost all of them by cyanide poisoning.[2] Jones died from a gunshot wound to the head; it is suspected his death was a suicide. Jones was born in Indiana and started the Temple there in the 1950s. Early life[edit] Jones' mother, Lynetta Putnam Jones Jones was born in a rural area of Randolph County, Indiana,[3] to James Thurman Jones (1887–1951), a World War I veteran, and Lynetta Putnam (1902–1977). Construction of the Peoples Temple[edit] Indiana beginnings[edit] Integrationist[edit]
How Ernest Hemingway's cats became a federal case (+video) Key West has a well-earned reputation as a haven for misfits, outcasts, and free-spirits. The locals don’t even consider themselves part of the United States of America. They refer to the place as the Conch Republic. Skip to next paragraph Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition A judge ruled Ernest Hemingway's cats must be regulated under federal law. So it is more than a bit ironic that Key West is also the location of a knock-down, drag-out fight over the federal government’s power under the US Constitution’s Commerce Clause to regulate… cats. And not just any cats, either. Mr. It also continues to be home to 40 to 50 six-toed cats that are a living legacy of Hemingway. That’s how the federal government became involved. Ernest Hemingway: 10 quotes on his birthday At some point several years ago, a museum visitor expressed concern about the cats’ care. Soon USDA inspectors showed up in Key West.
How to Start Your Own Country The series was released on DVD in the UK on 18 June 2007, having been postponed from October 2005. Episodes[edit] "Birth of a Nation"[edit] Wallace investigates territory for his proposed country, beginning by visiting Sealand. "Citizens Required"[edit] With the help of an advertising agency, Wallace chooses a design for the flag of his country. "For King and Country"[edit] Danny Wallace meets the SAS (Second amendment sisters) and meets the King of Fusa. "State of a Nation"[edit] A sombre visit to death row and an interview with the death row chief " John George" leads him to decide against the death penalty in his country. "The Bank of Danny"[edit] When he struggles to pay his electricity bill, Wallace begins to kick-start his country's economy. "The United Nations"[edit] Wallace attempts to enter the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens with a song called "Stop the Muggin', Start the Huggin'". Citizen TV[edit] The Kingdom of Lovely[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
Greil Marcus Greil Marcus (born June 19, 1945) is an American author, music journalist and cultural critic. He is notable for producing scholarly and literary essays that place rock music in a much broader framework of culture and politics than is customary in pop music journalism. Life and career[edit] Marcus was born in San Francisco and earned an undergraduate degree in American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, where he also did graduate work in political science.[2] He has been a rock critic and columnist for Rolling Stone (where he was the first reviews editor, at $30 a week) and other publications, including Creem, The Village Voice, and Artforum. His 1975 book, Mystery Train, was notable for placing rock and roll within the context of American cultural archetypes, from Moby-Dick to The Great Gatsby to Stagger Lee. His next book, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century (1989), stretched his trademark riffing across a century of Western civilization. Works[edit]
Jean Cocteau Early life[edit] Cocteau was born in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, a village near Paris, to Georges Cocteau and his wife, Eugénie Lecomte; a socially prominent Parisian family. His father was a lawyer and amateur painter who committed suicide when Cocteau was nine. He left home at fifteen. He published his first volume of poems, Aladdin's Lamp, at nineteen. Early career[edit] Friendship with Raymond Radiguet[edit] There is disagreement over Cocteau's reaction to Radiguet's sudden death in 1923, with some claiming that it left him stunned, despondent and prey to opium addiction. The Human Voice[edit] Cocteau's experiments with the human voice peaked with his play La Voix humaine. According to one theory about how Cocteau was inspired to write La Voix humaine, he was experimenting with an idea by fellow French playwright Henri Bernstein.[6] Maturity[edit] Tribute to René Clair: I Married a Witch, Jean Cocteau (1945), a set design for the Théâtre de la Mode. Biographer James S. Filmography[edit]
Kenneth Goldsmith Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961) is an American poet. He is the founding editor of UbuWeb, teaches Poetics and Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a Senior Editor of PennSound. He hosted a weekly radio show at WFMU from 1995 until June 2010. Life[edit] Goldsmith was born in Freeport, New York. Conceptual Poetics and Poetic Practice[edit] Driven by a preoccupation with “Uncreativity as Creative Practice”, Goldsmith is essentially the habitual editor of one large project, contributing to both the study and practice of poetry as a writer, academic, and as curator of the prolific archives at UbuWeb. Extensive creative and critical responses to his work are archived at Kenneth Goldsmith, Electronic Poetry Center with several being consolidated in Open Letter: Kenneth Goldsmith and Conceptual Poetics (2005). The first symposium on Conceptual Poetics was held at the Oslo Poetry Festival in November 2007. Academic[edit] Radio, Sound, Live Events and Collaborations[edit]
Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac (French: [ɔ.nɔ.ʁe d(ə) bal.zak]; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon Bonaparte. Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multifaceted characters, who are morally ambiguous. His writing influenced many subsequent novelists such as Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Eça de Queirós, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Benito Pérez Galdós, Marie Corelli, Henry James, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Italo Calvino, and philosophers such as Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx. Balzac suffered from health problems throughout his life, possibly due to his intense writing schedule. Biography[edit]
Arthur Rimbaud Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (/ræmˈboʊ/[2] or /ˈræmboʊ/; French pronunciation: [aʁtyʁ ʁɛ̃bo]; 20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet born in Charleville, Ardennes.[3] He influenced modern literature and arts, inspired various musicians, and prefigured surrealism. He started writing poems at a very young age, while still in primary school, and stopped completely before he turned 21. He was mostly creative in his teens (17–20). His "genius, its flowering, explosion and sudden extinction, still astonishes". Rimbaud was known to have been a libertine and for being a restless soul. Life[edit] Family and childhood (1854–1861)[edit] In October 1852, Captain Rimbaud, then aged 38, was transferred to Mézières where he met Vitalie Cuif, 11 years his junior, while on a Sunday stroll. Nevertheless, on 8 February 1853, Captain Rimbaud and Vitalie Cuif married; their first-born, Jean Nicolas Frédéric ("Frédéric"), arrived nine months later on 2 November. Travels (1875–1880)[edit]
Klabund Emil Orlik: The poet Klabund, Lithography from 1915 Alfred Henschke (November 4, 1890 – August 14, 1928), better known by his pseudonym Klabund, was a German writer. Life[edit] Klabund, born Alfred Henschke in 1890 in Crossen, was the son of an apothecary. At the age of 16 he came down with tuberculosis, which the doctors initially misdiagnosed as pneumonia. The illness stayed with him for the rest of his short life. In 1913 Klabund came into contact with Alfred Kerr's Magazine PAN, though he continued to publish in the magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus. In 1918 he married Brunhilde Herberle, whom he had met in a sanatorium for lung patients. in 1920 Klabund dedicated the short romantic novel Marietta to his girlfriend and muse Marietta di Monaco. In 1923 he married the actress Carola Neher. In May 1928, during a stay in Italy, he fell ill with pneumonia, which, together with his latent tuberculosis, was life-threatening. Works[edit] Selected filmography[edit] Wood Love (1925)