The real inventor of the telegraph
An evening pause: In honor of the 100th anniversary of the sending of the first round-the-world telegram on August 20, 1911, here is the story of the real inventor of the telegraph. And it ain’t what you think.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Hugh Jackman – O what a beautiful morning
Angst
Hope and Crosby – The Road to Morocco
Quadriga Consort – Pulling the sea-dulse
Linda Ronstadt – Long long time
St. Olaf Chapel Choir – John Rutter’s What Sweeter Music
America’s first jet
A living room electon microscope
Ray Lynch – The True Spirit of Mom and Dad
Danielle “ate the sandwich” Anderson – Things we have in common
An evening pause: Danielle “Ate the Sandwich” Anderson.
Bonnie Raitt – Angel from Montgomery
John Sebastian – Darling be home soon
An evening pause: As performed at Woodstock, 1969.
Go, and beat your crazy heads against the sky.
Try, and see beyond the houses in your eyes.
It’s okay to shoot the moon.
Danny Kaye and Beverly Sills – Opera parody
Cosmonaut Titov becomes the first man to fly in space more than 24 hours
An evening pause: Fifty years ago today Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov became the second Russian to fly in space, and the first to stay in orbit more than one day. During his seventeen orbit flight he also was the first human to experience space sickness and to sleep in space.
The newsreel below is somewhat comical, as the Soviets were not very forthcoming with information. To provide visuals the newsreel used film footage showing a V2 rocket from World War II, as well as a very unrealistic globe with an equally unrealistic spacecraft to “demonstrate the course of an orbit around the earth.”
Nonetheless, because the newsreel is of that time, it illustrates well the fear the west had of the Soviet’s success in space. For a communist nation to be so far ahead of the U.S., which so far had only flown two suborbital flights, was a challenge to the free world that could not stand.
John Cleese – How to irritate people by being considerate
A Bell for Adano
An evening pause: This lovely and poignant scene from the 1945 film, A Bell for Adano, showcases the superb acting of Gene Tierney and John Hodiak. He is an American commander of Italian descent put in charge of an Italian village now under U.S. rule near the end of World War II. She is a local Italian girl longing to find her sweetheart who went off to fight for Italy and is now missing.
The movie was based on a short but profound book by John Hersey. And what I remember most from that book is this speech by the Hodiak character in trying to explain to the Italians the right way for government officials to act:
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Downhill mountain biking in southern Utah
Moody Blues – Your Wildest Dreams
An evening pause:
And when the music plays
And when the words are
Touched with sorrow
When the music plays
I hear the sound
I had to follow
Once upon a time
Once beneath the stars
The universe was ours
Love was all we knew
And all I knew was you
I wonder if you know
I wonder if you think about it
Once upon a time
In your wildest dreams
Judy Garland – Pretty girl milking her cow
Catherine Destivelle – solo climb in Mali
Simon & Garfunkel – The Boxer live in Central Park
Moving Graffiti
An evening pause: from blublu.org.
Those Dancing Days – Home Sweet Home
Connie Dover – Where shall I go?
The Muppets – Movin’ right along
Driving cross country in four minutes
Candid Camera demonstrates the power of conformity
Quadriga Consort — Cliffs of Dooneen
Hiking the Subway in Zion National Park
An evening pause: The rope work makes me cringe and some of the narration is a bit over the top, but the camerawork is superb, giving you a real feel of what it is like to visit this unique place.