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You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginLove you , too, sis' :bearhug:I'm orthodox.... we have Easter next weekend.... Not such a good calendar :icon_lol:Anyway I have FAITH in God, whatever the calendar is! :icon_e_wink:Amen to that Sim! FAITH in God is what I lean on constantly..........blessings to you always! Happy Easter : ) Love you sis!
Love you , too, sis' :bearhug:I'm orthodox.... we have Easter next weekend.... Not such a good calendar :icon_lol:Anyway I have FAITH in God, whatever the calendar is! :icon_e_wink:
I am going to follow it. The holidays/feasts are calculated according to this calendar. For example, Passover and Easter have followed it. There's a reason that Easter is the same time as Passover. Jesus was following this calendar. The day of Easter is also the day of First Fruits. If past events followed this calendar than it follows or makes sense that future events will also follow this. It was important to follow back then so it must be important to follow now.
The overall backstory and primary features of Georges Méliès' life as depicted in the film are largely accurate: he did become interested in film after seeing a demonstration of the Lumière brothers' camera[40], he was a magician and toymaker, he experimented with automata, he did own a theatre (Theatre Robert-Houdin), he was forced into bankruptcy, his film stock was reportedly melted down for its cellulose, he became a toy salesman at the Montparnasse station, and he was eventually awarded the Légion d'honneur medal after a period of terrible neglect. Many of the early silent films shown in the movie are Méliès's actual works, such as Le voyage dans la lune (1902).
A Trip to the Moon or Voyage to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la lune) is a 1902 French black-and-white silent science fiction film. It is based loosely on two popular novels of the time: Jules Verne'sFrom the Earth to the Moon and H. G. Wells' The First Men in the Moon.[1]Some[who?] have claimed that the film was one of the earliest examples of pataphysical film, while stating that the film aims to "show the illogicality of logical thinking".[7] Others still have remarked that the director, Georges Méliès, aimed in the film to "invert the hierarchal values of modern French society and hold them up to ridicule in a riot of the carnivalesque".[7] This is seen as an inherent part of the film's plot: the story pokes fun at the scientists and at science in general, in that upon traveling to the Moon, the astronomers find that the face of the Moon is, in fact, the face of a man, and that it is populated by little green men.[7]
Méliès had intended to release the film in the United States to profit from it. Thomas Edison's film technicians, however, secretly made copies of it and distributed it throughout the country. While the film was still hugely successful, Méliès eventually went bankrupt.[1] This was due to the eventual view which was held towards his films that the special effects were overshadowing the plot.[8]In an interview of Martin Scorsese by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, Scorsese said, “He [Georges Méliès] lost basically most of his financing when the bigger companies came in. What happened here. . . at that time there was a lot going on with copyright and not copyright and that sort of thing.” Stewart said, “There is a story that Edison had taken one of his [Georges Méliès] films, brought it to America and showed it and it became enormously popular in America. But Edison decided not to pay I guess what we would call royalties.” Scorsese replied: “That's right. So what happened, the film was I think the famous one, 'A Trip to the Moon.' They [Thomas Edison and his associates] were just taking the films and making dupes of them. So that was one of the reasons why he [Georges Méliès] was finished financially, ultimately.”[9]
From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre à la Lune, 1865) is a humorous science fantasy novel by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of the president of a post-American Civil War gun club in Baltimore, his rival, a Philadelphia maker of armor, and a Frenchman, who build an enormous sky-facing Columbiad space gun and launch themselves in a projectile/spaceship from it to a Moon landing.The story is also notable in that Verne attempted to do some rough calculations as to the requirements for the cannon and, considering the comparative lack of any data on the subject at the time, some of his figures are surprisingly close to reality. However, his scenario turned out to be impractical for safe manned space travel since a much longer muzzle would have been required to reach escape velocity while limiting acceleration to survivable limits for the passengers.
Tink, please use the hoax -pic site to put up your pics. We can't see them.You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login
You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginTink, please use the hoax -pic site to put up your pics. We can't see them.You are not allowed to view links. Register or Loginwhat.... wow! i had no idea... (dumbo alert!) here i have been uploading to photobucket all this time!!!!great. thats an account i can delete... have too much stuff going on at the mo - since hoax.. twiiter, MJDHI, YT, Others, lol.thanks Mjonmind! :bearhug:
Tink, your pictures are truly amazing! I take it that your father is white?