I'm guessing that Marie was VERY popular.

I've heard that this weekend it will be "time to change"... the time, that is. Sha-na-na-na-na.

Safe house linked to Underground Railroad discovered in Manhattan The Merchant's House is the first landmarked building in the borough.

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This museum looks like it's definitely worth a visit, the next time I'm in NYC.

I'm all for going full "damnatio memoriae" when we here in present-day USA are finally rid of the moronic MAGA cult leader and his reprehensible regime, but if any statues or painted portraits of him remain after he's gone, this would be the only reason to keep them in existence.

In China, these statues of a corrupt 11th-century politician and his wife forever kneel in apology. For centuries, people have visited to curse, spit upon, and hit the statues.

That's SO New England.

[SOURCE: The barbellfilms account on Instagram.]

An 1899 article in the Lakes Herald Newspaper remarked about Sieveking…

"The once slight and delicate frame of an artist to whom physical exercise was unknown, has been transformed into a strong, athletic figure with muscles of iron. He is as strong as two or three ordinary pianists put together."

Sieveking had a great interest in physical culture himself, and he was an early pupil of Eugen Sandow. Thanks to his status as a talented pianist and composer, he quickly became one of Sandow’s most high profile students.

Martinus Sieveking (1867-1950), Dutch pianist who composed and conducted music for Eugen Sandow’s strongman performances in the early 1890s. Sieveking played during Sandow's 1893 tour of America and even appeared in Sandow’s strongman act. He was dubbed the “Sandow of the Keyboard” by newspapers.

Wow.

This arrogant, bigoted A-hole…

The dynastychronicles page on Instagram posted this spoof because they’re up to the season of “Dynasty” when Fallon had recounted her UFO experience after the series finale cliffhanger on “The Colbys”.

The admin of that page also owns the colbysofcalifornia account.

For the past 25 years, San Faustino (Saint Faustinus) has been celebrated as the patron saint of singles on February 15th, regarded by many as the Anti-Valentine's Day.

[NOTE: The medieval marginalia image in this post does not depict San Faustino]

Words of wisdom from Betty Cooper.

#outofcontextarchiecomics #archiecomicsoutofcontext

Paul Giamatti is sufficiently menacing as the 1st season's chief villain, Nus Braka, a crude and heartless Klingon-Tellarite hybrid, and Holly Hunter's quirky captain of the USS Athena and Chancellor of Starfleet Academy, Nahla Ake, brings authority, comic relief, and a moral compass to the stories.

When I first heard about the new series and saw the poster, I expected it to be like "Starfleet 90210", but it has turned out to have a lot more depth, character development, and fine acting than I thought that it would, plus occasional appearances by, and references to, characters from past series.

I love the "Star Trek 60" montage that is shown before each episode of the new series "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy".

The struggle is real... but I've had decades of preparation to meet the challenge head on.

Madonna, Alberto Guerra, and Tony Özkan in "The One", directed by Mert Alas for Dolce & Gabbana.

In the ad, Madonna sings "La Bambola", originally recorded by Patty Pravo (born Nicoletta Strambelli, 1948) in 1968.

“Maria Schiavo (fashion stylist) borrowed my sample of this dress for a Madonna cover shoot for Vanity Fair. Less than a week later, Madonna herself called and requested her own version of the dress for the 1991 Academy Awards… Madonna later famously wore the dress in her SEX book.” ~ Bob Mackie

I’d never noticed before that in “The Nanny” episode “Ode to Barbra Joan” (S1 E20), Fran Drescher wears the same vintage Bob Mackie dress that Madonna wore to perform “Sooner or Later” at the Oscars in 1991, and also on the cover of Vanity Fair. Recently, Sabrina Carpenter wore the dress.

VIDEO SOURCE: the madonnaliteral page on Instagram

I knew that the chess scene in Madonna's "The Power of Good-Bye" video was inspired by a scene in Faye Dunaway's "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968), but I wasn't aware that the beach scene is based on a scene in Joan Crawford's "Humoresque" (1946).

Democracy in the USA for the past decade...

Getting callouses on my finger from hitting that button rapidly to keep replenishing the bottomless pasta bowl and getting more breadsticks...