Sunday, September 16, 2012
ACTRESS
It's September 16. And you know what I mean. IT'S 100 DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS, so let's get the Christmas countdown started!
But did you know this was also the day another tormented soul from Earth has been set free by way of suicide?
Let me tell you the story of Millicent Lilian Entwistle, popularly known as Peg Entwistle.
On Sept. 18, 1932, a hiker discovered the body of Peg Entwistle, two days after the despondent actress jumped from the “H” in the Hollywood sign.
Early in the morning of Sunday, Sept. 18, 1932, a woman hiking in the Hollywood hills came across the dead body of a young woman. The hiker collected some belongings of the woman and left them on the steps of the local police station.
In an anonymous phone call to the police, she described, “I was hiking near the Hollywoodland sign today and near the bottom I found a woman's shoe and jacket. A little further on I noticed a purse. In it was a suicide note. I looked down the mountain and saw a body.”
When police arrived at the scene of the death, they deduced that the young woman jumped from a 50-foot-tall “H,” the first letter in the “Hollywoodland” sign that dominated the landscape over the famous movie-making town. An electrician’s ladder had been left propped against the letter, leaving easy access for any passers-by.
Unable to identify the deceased, the Los Angeles police published her suicide note in the newspaper the next day. It read, “I’m afraid, I’m a coward. I’m sorry for everything. If I had done this a long time ago, it would have saved a lot of pain. P.E.”
Tabloids jumped on the story, and eventually people began referring to her as the “Hollywood Sign Girl,” a nickname still used today.
The body was identified as Peg Entwistle, a 24-year-old actress who had left Broadway to make it big on the silver screen.
Entwistle was born in Port Talbot, Wales, but moved to New York at an early age. She had dreams of becoming a star and after training with New York City’s Theater Guild she starred in several Broadway shows, and also appeared in a Los Angeles production opposite Humphrey Bogart.
While she was in California, Entwistle was called in for a screen test. She performed well and was given a one-movie contract with RKO. Despite the fact it was a small role, Entwistle developed high hopes for her movie career. Unfortunately, early reviews of the film, “Thirteen Women,” were poor and her scenes were almost all cut out of the final product.
For the next few months, Entwistle went to audition after audition, but further parts never materialized. One night, she told her uncle, with whom she lived in a house near the “Hollywoodland” sign, that she was going out to meet with friends.
“She instead made the arduous hike up the canyon hill to the Hollywood Sign, her one-time beacon of hope but now a symbol of failure and rejection,” writes the Hollywood Sign Trust. “She climbed 50 feet up a workman's ladder to the top of the ‘H’ and plunged to her death.”
Ironically, on the day after her death, a letter arrived from the Beverly Hills Playhouse, offering Entwistle a starring role: that of a woman driven to suicide at the end of the play.
Although she wasn’t well known when she was alive, in death Entwistle achieved the stardom she sought. Over the years, many myths have evolved surrounding the story of the “Hollywood Sign Girl,” and Entwistle’s ghost is rumored to linger at the site of her demise.
Moral Lesson: NEVER QUIT IN LIFE. MAYBE THERE WILL BE SOMETHING GOD HAS IN STORE FOR YOU.
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The National Reconnaissance Office, which operates spy satellites, has offered some of its old hardware to NASA.
They had two unused telescopes the same size as the Hubble, but they were built to point down at the Earth, instead of out towards the cosmos.
NASA conducted an investigation to see how powerful these telescopes were and figure out a way to put them to good use.
A group of astronomers came up with a plan, which was recently presented at a meeting at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington.
The plan is to use one of the telescopes to investigate dark energy, which is believed to be the reason for the expansion of the universe speeding up. Discovering more about the nature of dark energy could change the face of physics as we know it, and how we think about the fate of the universe.
If this plan is approved, it will save hundreds of millions of dollars and years of development time towards the study of the mysterious dark energy, which NASA had previously predicted it could not begin until at least 2024.
Some of the most wonderful things to view as an amateur astronomer are star clusters. To see so many stars packed in so tightly in a relatively small area compared to the rest of the cosmos is truly one of the greatest awe-inspiring sights available to most normal people...but let’s step it up.
A team of NASA-funded researchers have spotted two Jupiter-sized gas giants in the open cluster known as the Beehive Cluster in the Cancer constellation. The Milky Way has around 1,000 clusters just like this one. This is the first evidence obtained to show that planets can form in dense stellar locations.
What are the implications? First of all, the night sky from one of these planets has to be one of the most impressive in the universe. The number of extremely bright stars would make our night sky look like stickers on a child’s bedroom ceiling. The grander implication is that we now have evidence that tells us to also look for exoplanets in areas that were previously thought to be void of planets.
Unfortunately for those hoping to mark a new spot on their intergalactic travel list, these planets are best viewed from a distance. While they are the same general size of Jupiter, their temperatures are much higher. Due to their close proximity to their parent stars, their gases are boiling hot and quite inhospitable.
The upside that now that we know where to look and for what, we’re likely to start finding many more. As with all exoplanets, the possibilities abound and we have many discoveries in our future.
Did you know?
Look closely in the upper right corner. Those specks are the Space Shuttle Atlantis docking with the International Space Station, backlit by the Sun!
i care about nature
Ever heard of the Macaya breast-spot frog? Didn’t think so. It’s one of many obscure organisms that made a new list of the hundred most threatened species, announced Tuesday at the World Conservation Congress.
After the press briefing, I chatted with Jonathan Baillie, conservation director at the Zoological Society of London, about some of the guys that rarely get their own campaigns (though I’d gladly launch one to save the Okinawa spiny rat).
To Baillie, all the species on the list are “charismatic,” a term many people use to describe the rhinos, tigers, and bears of the world.
One species in particularly dire straits, he said, is the Red River giant softshell turtle, below.
Photograph courtesy Asian Turtle Program via Conservation International
Hunting and habitat loss have driven the population down to just four individuals, and attempts to breed two of them have failed. Scientists are still searching the Red River in China and Vietnam in hopes of finding more.
Baillie seemed to enjoy talking about Attenborough’s echidna, a species so rare that only one specimen has been caught (hence the unappealing photo of a dead one below).
Photograph courtesy Hein van Grouw
This odd mammal lays eggs and has babies called puggles, and—as if it could get any better—Baillie said Attenborough’s echidnas form a “conga train” during courtship, during which the female is trailed by a bunch of males hopping along.
“You can’t lose that,” he said—and I have to agree. (Watch a video showing the Tasmanian echidna’s four-headed penis.)
Other species he called out include the red crested tree rat and the Seychelles sheath-tailed bat, which uses a membrane between its hind legs to perform aerobatic feats.
The red-crested tree rat. Photograph courtesy Lizzie Noble Fundacion ProAves
The Seychelles sheath-tailed bat. Photograph courtesy Justin Gerlach
Overall, Baillie said, “we have to either care about all life—or we don’t care about any.”
[Seven Reasons Why People are Frightened Of 2012 Apocalypse]
And not
[Seven Reasons Why The Earth Will End at 2012 Apocalypse]
1. Mayan Calendar
The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things:
Building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone andSacrificing Virgins.
Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the Earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it's likely they've got the end of the world right as well.
2. Sun Storms
Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery: our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic, and it's supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the Earth with so much radiation energy, it's been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse, and calculations suggest it'll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012
3. The Atom Smasher
Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest particle accelerator. Basically its a 27km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the Universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it's properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They're predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.
4. The Bible says...
If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn't bad enough,religious folks are getting in on the act aswell. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between Good an Evil, has been set down for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.
5. Super Volcano
Yellowstone National Park in the United States is famous for its thermal springs and Old Faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple - it's sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano, and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we're many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the Earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.
6. The Physicists
This one's case of bog-simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berekely Uni have been crunching the numbers. and they've determined that the Earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they're claiming their calculations prove, that we're all going to die, very soon - while also saying their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 percent- and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs.
7. Slip-Slop-Slap-BANG!
We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that sheilds us from most of the sun's radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call north and south have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so - and right now we're about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is underway, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches.
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