Nowadluk (also known as Nora). Nome, Alaska. Early 1900s. Photo by the Lomen Brothers.

Nowadluk (also known as Nora). Nome, Alaska. Early 1900s. Photo by the Lomen Brothers.

Kee-yah’-ta-di aka Loti aka Lotta Atsye. Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico. 1905. New Mexico. Photo by Carl E. Moon.

Kee-yah’-ta-di aka Loti aka Lotta Atsye. Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico. 1905. New Mexico. Photo by Carl E. Moon.

Krysten Ritter (aka Jessica Jones): #fbf behind the scenes selfie shooting Big Eyes – (loved my make up by Gitte Axen and everything else about shooting that movie ) 😜❤️

#fbf behind the scenes selfie shooting Big Eyes – (loved my make up by Gitte Axen and everything else about shooting that movie ) 😜❤️

Giuseppe Verdi

Oggi, con una giornata umida e nebbiosa tipica del novembre di Milano, ho approfittato  per finire il quadro di Giuseppe Verdi da presentare alla mostra che sto preparando  il 4dicembre, nella casa dove fu ospitato mentre studiava presso la Scuola di Musica di Busseto. L’ occasione è il bicentenario dell’arrivo di Maria Luigia, già vedova di Napoleone Bonaparte, nel Granducato di Parma e Piacenza, dove ha lasciato un ottimo ricordo del suo governo e  fra l’altro la stessa Scuola di Busseto . Il ritratto a olio su tela   è ricavato dal famoso originale di Boldini dipinto a pastello su cartone.

Today’s Holiday:Haiti Battle of Vertières’ Day

Today’s Holiday:
Haiti Battle of Vertières’ Day
This official public holiday memorializes the last battle for Haitian independence on November 18, 1803, in which Haitian rebels defeated the French colonialists. The victory at Vertières, near the present-day port city of Cap-Haïtien, signified the end of a long freedom struggle that stretched out over two major phases. Less than two months after the battle, Haiti became the first black independent republic.: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tfd.mobile.TfdSearch

Today’s Birthday:Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832)

Today’s Birthday:
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832)
Nordenskiöld was a Finnish-born Swedish geologist, mineralogist, geographer, and explorer who wrote several valuable books on geography, cartography, and travel. In 1858, he settled in Stockholm and became professor and curator of mineralogy at the Swedish State Museum. He led several expeditions to the Arctic island of Spitsbergen between 1864 and 1873 and later became the first to sail from Norway to Alaska through the Northeast Passage. He was also the first to break through what ice barrier?: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tfd.mobile.TfdSearch

This Day in History:William Tell Shoots an Apple Off His Son’s Head (1307)

This Day in History:
William Tell Shoots an Apple Off His Son’s Head (1307)
Tell is a famous Swiss folk hero who is remembered in a 15th-century chronicle as an expert marksman who assassinated a tyrannical Austrian governor. According to the legend, the governor of Tell’s Swiss canton hung his hat on a stake and ordered all the townsfolk to bow to it whenever they passed. When Tell refused, he was ordered to shoot an apple off his son’s head with a crossbow as punishment. He succeeded and later escaped imprisonment to kill the governor—an event that led to what?: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tfd.mobile.TfdSearch

Quote of the Day:Edwin Abbott

Quote of the Day:
Edwin Abbott
With Women, we speak of “love”, “duty”, “right”, “wrong”, “pity”, “hope”, and other irrational and emotional conceptions, which have no existence, and the fiction of which has no object except to control feminine exuberances.: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tfd.mobile.TfdSearch

Article of the Day:The Garrote

Article of the Day:
The Garrote

Macabre enough to earn an appearance in two James Bond films, the garrote, a weapon used for strangulation, was used in Rome as early as the first century. The device takes many forms and can be made from a variety of materials, including chain, rope, fabric, wire, or fishing line. Used throughout history and as recently as 1974 in Spain, garrotes were also developed as execution devices. What nation became the last country in the world to abolish the death penalty by garroting in 1990?: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tfd.mobile.TfdSearch

Word of the Day:offprint

Word of the Day:
offprint
Definition: (noun) A reproduction of or an excerpt from an article that was originally contained in a larger publication.
Synonyms: separate, reprint
Usage: The researcher was unable to locate the original, full-text publication and had to make do with an offprint that was published later.: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tfd.mobile.TfdSearch

France 24 : Trump selects candidates for attorney general, CIA boss

Trump selects candidates for attorney general, CIA boss

http://f24.my/2fCPsX7

US president-elect Donald Trump has tapped two senior leaders of his national security and law enforcement teams: Senator Jeff Sessions for attorney general and Representative Mike Pompeo as CIA chief, a statement said Friday.

The incoming commander in chief also appointed retired lieutenant general Michael Flynn, a top military advisor for Trump and one of his earliest campaign surrogates, as his national security advisor.

All three have accepted their appointments, the Trump team’s statement said.

“I enthusiastically embrace president-elect Trump’s vision for ‘one America,’ and his commitment to equal justice under law. I look forward to fulfilling my duties with an unwavering dedication to fairness and impartiality,” said Sessions, age 69 and a 20-year veteran of Congress. 

“Anyone looking for signs that he [Trump] might be a more moderate president might not be too reassured by these names that are being put out there,” FRANCE 24’s International Affairs commentator Douglas Herbert said.

In choosing Senator Sessions as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, Trump awarded a loyalist whose hardline and, at times, inflammatory statements on immigration were similar to his own. Sessions opposes any path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and was an enthusiastic backer of Trump’s promise to build a wall on the border with Mexico.

“I enthusiastically embrace president-elect Trump’s vision for ‘one America,’ and his commitment to equal justice under law. I look forward to fulfilling my duties with an unwavering dedication to fairness and impartiality,” said Sessions, age 69.

Trump’s transition team put out a statement on Thursday praising Sessions after their meeting a day earlier.

“The president-elect has been unbelievably impressed with Senator Sessions and his phenomenal record as Alabama’s attorney general and US attorney,” the statement said.

An Army veteran, Sessions is a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and chairman of its Strategic Forces Subcommittee.

The 20-year congressional veteran could face resistance as he seeks Senate confirmation.

In 1986, Sessions became only the second nominee in 50 years to be denied confirmation as a federal judge after allegations that he had made racist remarks. Those included testimony that in 1986 he had called an African-American prosecutor “boy”, an allegation Sessions denied.

Sessions said he was not a racist, but said at his hearing that groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union could be considered “un-American”.

Mike Pompeo, 52, was elected to Congress during the tea party wave of 2010. He has been a fierce critic of Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, which granted Tehran sanctions relief for rolling back its nuclear weapons program.

The Kansas Congressman has also said that Muslim leaders are “potentially complicit” in terrorist attacks if they do not denounce those made in the name of Islam. “They must cite the Koran as evidence that the murder of innocents is not permitted,” he said in a 2013 House floor speech.

A member of the House Intelligence Committee, Pompeo called former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden’s actions “lawless,” referring to Snowden’s cataloguing of surveillance programmes that found the US government collected the phone records of millions of Americans.

In 2014, he was appointed to the House Select Benghazi Committee to probe the 2011 attack on the US diplomatic outpost in Benghazi.

(FRANCE 24 with AP, REUTERS)