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| Basque type (Ganiche de Macaye). Anonymous studio photograph for a postcard circa 1910 |
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| Basque-type. Bread carrier. Anonymous photograph, 1908 |
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| Grandfather (holding a baby). Photograph by Marcel Delboy for a postcard sent in 1918 |
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Biarritz (Cote Basque). Harvesting resin in the Pignadas. Anonymous photograph for a postcard sent in 1919 |
Cover of the magazine 'Pour Elle' from October 30, 1940 (France). Cost at the time: 2 French Francs.
Roberto Rey (1905 –1972) was a Chilean film actor who worked in Spain, appearing in more than fifty films during his career including the 1935 musical Paloma Fair.
He was an actor and director, known for El barbero de Sevilla (1938), Un caballero de frac (1931) and Fair of the Dove (1935). He died on May 30, 1972 in Madrid, Spain.
This Harris tweed beret is an easy to wear beret, crafted by Canadian Hat from recycled tweed blazers. Each piece has its unique herringbone pattern and is reversible, achieving a classic black look for work days and a chic tweed side for weekend outings.
Finished with vegan leather piping and fully lined for extra warmth. Available at the store of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montréal.
If there is one military badge universally associated with the Nazi’s, it must be the Totenkopf.
In the early days of the Nazi Party, Julius Schreck, the leader of the Stabswache (Adolf Hitler's bodyguard unit), resurrected the use of the Totenkopf as the unit's insignia. This unit grew into the Schutzstaffel (SS), which continued to use the Totenkopf as insignia throughout its history. According to a writing by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, the Totenkopf had the following meaning:
The Skull is the reminder that you shall always be willing to put yourself at stake for the life of the whole community.
The Totenkopf was also used as the unit insignia of the Panzer forces of the German Heer (Army) and the German forces aiding Francoist Spain, the Condor Legion.
However, they were neither original or the only ones choosing the skull and bones.
The Italian Black Brigades for example:
Domenic Michele Antonio Troiano (1946 –2005) was an (Italian born) Canadian rock guitarist, who was most notable for his contributions to Mandala, The James Gang, The Guess Who, and as a solo artist.
He was raised in Toronto and began playing guitar at age 15. As a professional musician, he was a guitarist for Ronnie Hawkins, James Gang, The Guess Who, and Bush, among others.
Troiano started a solo career in the late 1970s. He performed with the Domenic Troiano Band and scored his biggest hit with the 1979 Disco-themed We All Need Love. He also wrote music for television including the series Night Heat. His guitar work can be heard on recordings by Moe Koffman, Joe Cocker, James Cotton and Long John Baldry. He also had a Canadian release with the band Black Market with the original Independent label El Mocambo Records.
Troiano was strongly associated with the "Toronto Sound" of that era, contributed at least two songs to that genre: "356 Sammon Ave." (1972), a short, instrumental tribute to his parents' former home in East York, and "My Old Toronto Home" (1973).
Green Beret is an India Pale Ale , brewed by Mac’s Brewery in New Zealand.
Powerful and precise, Green Beret packs an arsenal of citrus and pine flavours with a skilfully controlled explosion of hoppy goodness. Mac’s Green Beret IPA is named after the assertive punch of the US hops, but like any good soldier it also knows the virtues of discipline and restraint. The result is a well-balanced IPA that has a complex and rewarding flavour profile.
I found my neighbours may be potential boineros too, walking by on recycling day.
Curt Querner (1904–1976) was a German painter.
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| Self-portrait in the attic (1948) |
Querner was born in Börnchen, a village in Saxony not far south of Dresden. The son of a shoemaker, he trained in metalworking and worked for a time as a factory mechanic (Fabrikschlosser).
From 1926 to 1930 Querner studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.
He exhibited for the first time at the Galerie Junge Kunst,
of Józef Sandel, in Dresden.
Gerhard Hertel (1924 - 2007) was a German tax officer, local politician, and homeland researcher.
In 1941 - although still a minor – he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and sent to Moldova. He did not return to his hometown until 1945 after the end of the Second World War, as a severely disabled person.
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| Unveiling of the Kaiser Friedrich II stele at Castel Fiorentino on December 13, 2000 |
Gerhard Hertel wrote several books as well as numerous essays and short stories, which mainly concerned the history of Freudenstadt. In the book Experiences, Views, Insights from 80 Years, published in 2006, he succeeded in combining his autobiography with the history of the city and thus concluding his life's work.
Hans Driever (1919 - 1994) was a German sculptor and painter.
In 1939 Hans Driever was drafted into the Wehrmacht but deserted a short time later. After a few weeks in a psychiatric institution, he was discharged with the diagnosis “manic-depressive insanity” (Section 51). Further living conditions until the end of the war are unclear.
The artistic work of Hans Driever began in the 1950s,
including the interior design of churches: sacred objects such as tabernacles, candelabras,
baptismal fonts, door designs, figures of saints. He often together with his
second wife, the painter Meta Driever.
In the last two decades of his life, Hans Driever began to
increasingly create surrealist oil paintings. These were only exhibited once in
a gallery in 1982, the estate is largely unknown to the public.
Paul Bernard (1898 –1958) was a French actor. He appeared in thirty-five films, including A Friend Will Come Tonight (1946).
Bernard often played men of sinister charm, usually negative or twisted characters. He was an accomplished stage actor who always preferred theatre to film.
They are not Angels is a French film directed by Alexandre Esway, released in 1947, based on the book by Joseph Kessel who had stayed in the paratroopers camp of Free France, England.
On the eve of D-Day June 6, 1944, a French parachute battalion of the Special Air Service was dropped in Brittany to help the Resistance contain the enemy forces en route to Normandy.
The 1st period tells the chronicle of a training camp in England, a SAS parachute battalion of Free France during the Second World War.
2nd period: in France, the SAS parachute battalion parachuted into Brittany and sabotaged the German installations with the help of the Breton guerrillas. This is the fictionalized story of Colonel Pierre-Louis Bourgoin, Captain Pierre Marienne and the 2nd SAS Parachute Fighter Regiment.
When searching for beret-related material on the web, it is amazing how many pictures come up of a beret wearer (typically female) with the Eiffel Tower in the background (but how many Parisians wear berets these days, eh..?).
It remains a landmark today, visible throughout the central
and some suburban districts of Berlin. With its height of 368 metres (including
antenna) it is the tallest structure in Germany, and the third-tallest
structure in the European Union.
Michael Knapp is Emeritus Professor at the University of Washington.
Dr. Knapp's teaching and research focus on educational
leadership and policymaking, school and school system reform, the professional
learning of teachers and administrators, and methods of inquiry and policy
analysis. Over several decades, he has pursued a program of research that
concentrates on the ways in which leadership and policymaking connect to - and
exert influence on - classroom teaching and school improvement. In recent
years, Dr. Knapp's work as both a scholar and teacher has been probing the
meaning and forms of learning-focused leadership in schools, districts, and
state systems of education.
While Dr. Knapp's work considers a wide range of settings and applications, he has a particular interest in the education of disenfranchised populations, mathematics and science education, and the professional development of educators.
These screenshots are of a beautiful documentary about a Swiss Hiking Group.
It is 1967, and the retirees meet every Tuesday to walk and share moments of friendship. On this day of May, the group walks in Lavaux before ending in songs around a glass of white wine.
The founder tells about the beginnings of the group in 1957. 2, 4, 8 ... up to 15 members, in 1967. The group is solid and "for nothing in the world" its members would miss an outing.
In this document from the Horizons program, retirees confide in the microphone of journalist Yette Perrin.
Jean-Michel André Jarre (1948) is a French composer, performer and record producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and new-age genres, and is known for organizing outdoor spectacles featuring his music, vast laser displays, large projections and fireworks.
Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and grandparents and trained on the piano. From an early age, he was introduced to a variety of art forms, including street performers, jazz musicians and the artist Pierre Soulages. He played guitar in a band, but his musical style was perhaps most heavily influenced by Pierre Schaeffer, a pioneer of musique concrète at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales.
His first mainstream success was the 1976 album Oxygène. Recorded in a makeshift studio at his home, the album sold an estimated 12 million copies. Oxygène was followed in 1978 by Équinoxe, and in 1979, Jarre performed to a record-breaking audience of more than a million people at the Place de la Concorde, a record he has since broken three times. More albums were to follow, but his 1979 concert served as a blueprint for his future performances around the world. Several of his albums have been released to coincide with large-scale outdoor events, and he is now perhaps as well-known as a performer as he is as a musician.
As of 2004, Jarre had sold an estimated 80 million albums. He was the first Western musician officially invited to perform in the People's Republic of China and holds the world record for the largest-ever audience at an outdoor event for his Moscow concert on 6 September 1997, which was attended by 3.5 million people.
