In astrology, the asteroid Itokawa is named in honour of Dr. Hideo Itokawa. His asteroid is used to highlight astronomical or rocketry discoveries and advances. He is affectionately called “Dr. Rocket” because on April 12, 1955. he led his fellow scientists in launching the tiny rocket called Pencil, a miniscule thing about 23CM in length of 9 inches, in the suburbs of Tokyo. That chart, with a sunrise time, is here.
Why the Scandal Matters California Representative Eric Swalwell, who is on the Foreign Intelligence Committee, is in the news for sleeping with a known Chinese spy, Christine Fong, her Chinese name is different depending upon the new source, but the anti-CCP run Epoch Times says Christine’s name is Fang Fang, and she has received lots of secret intelligence briefs from him. This comes from Axios News Media, created in 2016 by former Politico journalists, who broke the story saying Swalwell is claiming this a Trump ploy. This makes no sense because Swalwell was just re-elected, and if it involved the…
Tesla was a Serbian American inventor and engineer . He is credited with discovering and patenting the rotating magnetic field, the basis of most alternating-current machinery Marc Jones has July 10, 1856 in Smiljian Austria-Hungary Empire, now Croatia, but Tesla was not Croatian as widely believed but was an ethnic Serbian and his father was an Eastern Orthodox priest. Though he was famous and respected, he was never able to translate his inventions into long-term financial success—unlike his early employer and chief rival, Thomas Edison. Tesla died unfortunately penniless at the New Yorker hotel in Manhattan letting others make billions…
The dates on Supreme Court Justice Murphy are incorrect. William Francis Murphy was born on April 13th , 1890 not April 13, 1893 in Harbor Beach, Michigan to two Irish immigrants and devout Catholics. He got his law degree at the University of Michigan (LL.B., 1914) and, after serving in the first World War and held several elective posts in the 1920s. His efforts to help the unemployed got President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s attention, who after Murphy finished his term as Mayor of Detroit (1930-1933) appointed him to the governor-general (1933–35) and then U.S. high commissioner (1935–36) in the Philippines,…
Actor James Byron Dean was born on February 8, 1931, at the Seven Gables apartment on the corner of 4th Street and McClure Street in Marion, Indiana, southwest of Fort Wayne. Like the larger city, they named Marion for a Revolutionary War general, this time Brigadier General Francis Marion. His parents Mildred Marie (Wilson) and Winton Dean, a dental technician, were natives of the area. Their only child was Jimmy, and when the boy was about six years old, they moved to Los Angeles for presumably better business opportunities. Unfortunately, Mrs. Dean died a few years later, shortly before her…
Megyn Kelly, Â previously the Kelly File, on the cable network FoxNews, had a major run in with Presidential candidate Donald Trump. Â When asked if this was “political” attack, she said No, Â but I did not agree, so I did her chart. I am not sure why I bothered, for while she claims her political slant is “independent“, like most talking heads, it would be better to phrase it as “opportunistic.” Ms. Kelly has been married twice. The first time to a Daniel Kendall, M.D. The divorce was acrimonious and ended in 2006 with him claiming Megyn did not want a…
I honestly thought the three Warleggan family members the best thing on Poldark. Their acting was quite good and I enjoyed the performances of the actors for George, Elizabeth and Uncle Cary, immensely. I could find little on Philip (Pip) Torrens even browsing through the British papers, though YouTube yielded a few interviews. He has a long and varied career — starting with Oxford Blues (a comedy c. 1986) to Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens ( 2015) and now the Poldark Series (2016-2019). Bloxham to Cambridge Torrens went to public Bloxham School, and then onto Trinity College where he…
Don Knotts was first known as Barney Phyfe in the Andy Griffith (variety) show, but he soon stole center stage with crazy slapstick, off beat comedy and headless chook demeanor. He was great. Celestiology looks to his chart to understood what made Don run.
There are a few issues with Jones’s notation on Danny Cox. First he has him born in Washington DC while Boxing Record lists NYC. We went with Boxing Rec, and suspect that Mr. Cox was born in Hell’s Kitchen near Times Square. The Jones chart is the first in Green; ours follows.
Tunisian Azzedine Alaia, died on Saturday, November 18, 2017 in his adopted home of Paris where he was one of the couture fashion doyens. His company said the cause was a heart attack. He was eight-two years old. Alaia was called a sculptor of the female form, notably worn by the First Lady Michelle Obama who once wore an Alaia sweated to Buckingham Palace (much to Oscar de la Renta’s horror) to Madonna and Lady Gaga and then in the 1995 comedy Clueless Cher, opposes a robber’s demand to hit the pavement, saying her red dress “is an Alaia. It’s like…
The astrological portrait of comedian Jay Thomas throughout his career.
Sada Abe was a prostitute infamous for killing her lover She worked as a maid in a Tokyo hotel, but also served as a geisha-girl prostitute. That is rather ironic as “Sada” in Japanese means “the pure one,” though the obvious pun of the Marquis de Sade somehow always comes to my mind, probably because of her erotic murder. In 1936, Miss Abe strangled her lover cum lover, Kichizo Ichida during mad passion. She was angry as he had just told her e no longer wanted her sexual favours. Bitter, but seemingly sentimental, once he was dead, Sada cut off…
