Angela Lansbury, the star of “Murder, She Wrote,” died on Thursday, her family announced. “The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 AM today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of her 97th birthday,” her family said in a statement to news outlets.
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A comedian does Scrooge Sir Alastair Sim was a British actor who is best known for his role as Scrooge in the Dicken’s Christmas classic, Scrooge c. 1951. It plays somewhere on television every Christmas though recently that is just via streaming. Luckily, someone put up a copy on YouTube for the rest of us. He married his student Naomi in 1930 when he was the Fulton Lecturer in Elocution at New College, Edinburgh University. They were married when Naomi turned 18 in 1930, just when Pluto the planet, not the streaming television station, was discovered. They had one daughter,…
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The Rolling Stones’ website eponymous website, not a single word of his demise, just a full-screen photo of Charlie Watts in a pea coat, wedding band and smirk. Charlie Watts was a class act. This August, Watts age 80, said he would not join Rolling Stones for their 2021 “No Filter Tour,” a 13-date tour begins September 26th in St. Louis and wraps November 20th, right before Thanksgiving, in Austin; but within the month Charlie was gone. While not specified, the Watts’ spokesperson announced the drummer had undergone a successful medical procedure, but the drummer he needed time from which…
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The First Film Sherlock Clive Brook, a popular British actor, the first to play Sherlock Holmes on film. His bearing and elocution set the stage for the popular Basil Rathbone, and even the later, much later, Benedict Cumberbatch. Thatmakes sense as his chart has an incredible preponderance of Gemini spanning the whole of the tenth house, perhaps highlighting both his sardonic wit and acting career. This air preponderance suggests he was very communicative, enjoyed feedback, and probably read all his critical reviews. because he was interested in the ideas of people as they concerned him and his career. An air…
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Thor’s Hammer exposes scandals, and clandestine behavior and how much they will affect you depends upon whether the luminaries or the Ascendant are effected. In Sir Francis Bacon’s, the man accredited with insisting upon experimentation to buttress observation and so considered the Father of Scientific Research, chart it was a deadly combination: first disloyal to his patron and then a corrupt judge. Bacon’s Inductive Reasoning At Cambridge, Bacon read and studied the Scholastics and came to the conclusion they were wrong: observation was not the end all in science for observation without experimentation could be misleading. Sometimes things are not…
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The story from Leo The chart from Celestiology The story Alan Leo’s Modern Astrologer reports on June 25, 1893, right after midsummer’s eve, a murder happened along the Rotherhithe docks in southwestern London. The unfortunately woman screamed when he throat was cut, but the murderer was not apprehended. Reading the note in the vintage magazine, I decided I too would see what I could learn about the crime, so here we go. Leo mentions that Saturn and Uranus on both in the seventh house. Like Leo we are using his Placidus house format — he always did and so we…
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Our header image is William Blake’s rendition of Paradise Lost — written for the poem.
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Jane Austen born December 16, 1775, during the Revolutionary War in Winchester, England. She was a great writer of mystery romances. — Pride and Prejudice is a good intro because it is short. Sense and Sensibility is the better effort. Emma and the great Persuasion are solid literary efforts with the latter her best. Northanger Abbey is an early work with not much there as it is a copy of Italian novellas of the time. Lady Susan, is her epistolary attempt at replicating Samuel’s Richardson’s novel with Pamela, was failure and can safely be ignored; read Pamela instead. * Mansfield…
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Sir Patrick Stewart was born on July 13, 1940 in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England at around 2 o’clock in the afternoon or a rising 23 Libra 19 to Alfred and Gladys Stewart. This gives him the [HS] of “druid’s oak tree” or the ability to call forth distant spirits and make it part of his own reality, a rather good description of his work as Jean-Luc Picard in the Star Trek series and more recently in Paramount’s streaming Picard. Our header picture is Stewart from the BBC T.V. Series, I Claudius. His biography is here. This post was updated on 21…
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Scottish Botanist Robert Brown goes to Australia It is hard to quantify the Scottish botanist Robert Brown’s contributions to botany and physics in a short essay, but he was the first British botanist to support and advocate the natural system of classification. In 1801, Brown went to Australia, landing at King George’s Sound near Albany Western Australia, Australia, to work with Joseph Banks, who later appointed Brown his librarian and bequeathed his extensive botanical collection and library. Brown transferred them to the British Museum and consequently made the head of this new department.
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Alan Turing was born on June 23 1912 at 5:10 pm in London England. He was the son of a civil servant, and at educated a public school in England where his his genius in mathematics was apparent. Enter the machine
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hat’s a lot of septiles While we have looked at a preponderance of septiles in people with health problems (Roger Ailes, Tsavertich Alexei) and even alcoholics (Fitzgerald), this time we see them in Alexander McQueen’s chart — he has 7. Marc Jones wrote that this preponderance indicated fatalistic thinking — that the person could not come with alternatives to a dark scenario and so blindly followed a predetermined path as though they were devoid of will and volition. For McQueen that proved inevitably, and horribly, true. Growing up in East London, McQueen realized somewhere in his teens he was a…
