Sir Gilbert Claughton School
July 4th, 2009Sir Gilbert Claughton School was a secondary school located on Blowers Green Road in Dudley, England, in the Queen’s Cross area of the town. It opened in 1904 and closed in 1990.
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Grammar school
It opened in 1904 as the Dudley Upper Standard School, but after three years it became the Higher Elementary School. Another name change came in 1929, when it became the Dudley Intermediate School. In December 1957, it adopted the Gilbert Claughton title as the Sir Gilbert Claughton Grammar School.
A new classroom block was added in the late 1950s, mostly for the teaching of Science and other practical subjects.
Comprehensive school
Its status changed to comprehensive in 1975 and falling numbers on the school roll saw it close in 1990.
However, the school’s youngest two year groups were transferred to Holly Hall School and the new Castle High School (formed by a merger of The Dudley School and The Blue Coat School) in September 1989, leaving only the Fifth Year pupils at Sir Gilbert Claughton (Year Eleven came into force the following term). The school closed completely in July 1990 when the final year of pupils completed their GCSE studies.
The school traditionally provided education for pupils mostly within the 11 to 18 age group, and at one stage the school included a unit for hearing impaired pupils. In its final 18 years, however, the school only educated pupils within the 12 to 16 age group, and its closure coincided with the end of the local authority’s policy of pupils spending four years at secondary school instead of the traditional five years.
The sixth form had already closed, meaning that school leavers wishing to continue in education mostly went to the sixth form at The Dudley School or to Dudley College.
Current use
It was then turned into offices by Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council.
I Need You (The Beatles song)
July 4th, 2009| “I Need You” | ||
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| Song by The Beatles | ||
| Album | Help! | |
| Released | 6 August 1965 | |
| Recorded | Abbey Road Studios 15–16 February 1965 |
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| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 2:28 | |
| Label | Parlophone, Capitol, EMI | |
| Writer | George Harrison | |
| Producer | George Martin | |
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“I Need You” is a Beatles song on the album Help! (see 1965 in music). It is the second George Harrison song the band recorded (on 15 and 16 February 1965) and released, after a two album–long hiatus. The song was performed in their second movie Help!.
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The song is a simple, melancholy number, with a lead guitar sound achieved by Harrison’s first recorded use of a volume pedal. The confessional lyrics are commonly thought to be about Harrison’s relationship with Pattie Boyd, whom he had met in March 1964 while filming A Hard Day’s Night. (They married in January 1966.)
Credits
- John Lennon – harmony vocal, acoustic rhythm guitar
- Paul McCartney – harmony vocal, bass
- George Harrison – double-tracked lead vocal, lead guitar
- Ringo Starr – drums, cowbell
Other versions
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers played the song in tribute to Harrison at 2002’s Concert for George (see 2002 in music).
Les Fradkin has an instrumental version on his 2005 release- “While My Guitar Only Plays”.
Notes
- ^ a b c d MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles’ Records and the Sixties (Second Revised Edition ed.). London: Pimlico (Rand). pp. 145–146. ISBN 1-844-13828-3.
- ^ a b Lewisohn, Mark (1988). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York: Harmony Books. p. 54. ISBN 0-517-57066-1.
- ^ Harry, Bill (2000). The Beatles Encyclopedia: Revised and Updated. London: Virgin Publishing. p. 199. ISBN 0-7535-0481-2.
- ^ (2002) Album notes for Concert for George, 25 . London: Oops Publishing (R2 745/16).
Battle of Camden Point
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The Battle of Camden Point took place on July 13, 1864 near Camden Point, Missouri, USA.
During the mid-1864 Paw Paw Rebellion in north-western Missouri, detachments of Federal troops crossed the Missouri River and occupied Platte County, Missouri. At this time a Confederate cavalry force approximately 200-300 strong under Colonel J.C. Thornton was organizing around Camden Point. On July 13, Thornton’s men held a picnic in an open pasture near the town. Detachments of the 2nd Colorado Volunteer Cavalry and 15th Kansas Cavalry ambushed Thornton’s picnicking force, routing it and killing six and wounding approximately 25 Confederates, having suffered one killed and one wounded. Ammunition, weapons, and gunpowder were captured and Camden Point was burned.
The battle flag of the Confederate force was captured as well, and now resides in the possession of the Colorado State Historical Society. In 1871, a memorial to the Confederates killed in the engagement was erected at the Camden Point Cemetery where the Confederate slain are buried and is the oldest Confederate memorial west of the Mississippi River.
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| Great Natchez Tornado | |
| Date: | May 7, 1840 |
| Time: | Unknown |
| Rating: | F? tornado |
| Damages: | Unknown |
| Fatalities: | 317+ |
| Area affected: | Natchez, Mississippi |
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The Great Natchez Tornado hit Natchez, Mississippi on May 7, 1840. It is the second deadliest single tornado in United States history, killing 317 people (the only tornado in the United States to have killed more people was the Tri-State Tornado). It is also one of the few tornadoes to have killed more people than it injured: only 109 were injured.
The tornado formed southwest of Natchez and moved northeast along the Mississippi River. It then moved into the town of Natchez and destroyed many buildings. The final death toll was 48 on land and 269 on the river, mostly from the sinking of flatboats. The death toll is slightly disputed because of the land death toll of 48. It is believed that people died on plantations, and since this was pre-Civil War Mississippi, slave deaths weren’t usually counted. The Fujita scale rating of this tornado is almost certainly an F5 but since there was no Fujita scale at the time, this tornado remains uncategorized.
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- List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
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| 1 | “Tri-State” | March 18, 1925 | 695 | |
| 2 | Natchez, MS | May 7, 1840 | 317 | |
| 3 | St. Louis and East St. Louis | May 27, 1896 | 255 | |
| 4 | Tupelo, MS | April 5, 1936 | 216 | |
| 5 | Gainesville, GA | April 5, 1936 | 203 | |
| 6 | Woodward, OK | April 9, 1947 | 181 | |
| 7 | Amite, LA and Purvis, MS | April 24, 1908 | 143 | |
| 8 | New Richmond, WI | June 12, 1899 | 117 | |
| 9 | Flint, MI | June 8, 1953 | 115 | |
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Senate Document No. 199 (27th Congress, 2nd Session) was the report of the Commission to fix the demarcation between the United States and the Republic of Texas. In the Journal of the Joint Commission under date of May 26, 1840 at page 62 of said document, is written the following:
“We crossed to-day the path of a recent tornado, which had prostrated trees and cane on the river banks. Its course was observed to be from south 72 degrees west to north 72 degrees east, and the track to be from three to four hundred yards wide. This was supposed to be the same tornado which occasioned such dreadful destruction of human lives and houses in Natchez on the 7th of May.”
These observations were made on the Sabine River which is the boundary between Louisiana and Texas.
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Sir John Stewart, 1st Baronet
July 3rd, 2009Sir John Henderson Stewart, 1st Baronet (1877 – 6 February 1924) was a Scottish whisky distiller.
Stewart was sole partner of Alexander Stewart & Son, whisky distillers, of Dundee, and was also deputy chairman of Sheffield Steel Products. He was created a baronet in the 1920 Birthday Honours.
On 7 February 1924 his body was discovered at Fingask Castle, his Perthshire home, by two businessmen who had come for a meeting with him. He had been shot through the head. He was last seen the previous day by the driver of a taxi which he took to the castle, which was otherwise unoccupied at the time, from Dundee. He was deeply in debt at the time, as his business was not doing well and an Edinburgh company in which he also had large interests, Aitken, Melrose & Co Ltd, had collapsed the previous day. An inquest returned a verdict of suicide. He was 44 years old.
On 1 October 1924, one of Stewart’s creditors, John Quiller Rowett, to whom he owed nearly £100,000, hanged himself in his London home.
Walter Millis
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Walter Millis (March 16, 1899 – March 17, 1968) was an editorial and staff writer for the New York Herald-Tribune from 1924 to 1954. Millis was a staff member of the Fund for the Republic from 1954 to 1968. He later became the director of the Fund for the Republic’s study of demilitarization in 1954.
Millis, widely recognized as a historical writer, wrote Road to War: America 1914-1917, Arms and Men: A study of American Military History, The Martial Spirit: A Study of Our War with Spain, An End to Arms. He also edited The Forrestal Diaries.
Family
He was married to the former Norah Thompson.
Aitone
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Ackton is a hamlet in the English county of West Yorkshire. The “Ack” in the name “Ackton” indicates that the village was first established in a heavily wooded area of oak trees. The village is known as Aitone in the Domesday Book.
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Gabby Pahinui
July 3rd, 2009| Gabby Pahinui | |
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| Birth name | Charles Philip Pahinui |
| Also known as | Gabby Pahinui, Pops Pahinui |
| Born | April 22, 1921 |
| Origin | Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Died | October 13, 1980 (aged 59) |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Slack-key guitar |
Charles Philip “Gabby” or “Pops” Pahinui (April 22, 1921 - October 13, 1980) was a slack-key guitarist.
Gabby was raised in the Kaka’ako area of Honolulu in the 1920s. It was impoverished at the time, very much resembling a shanty-town with small cluttered buildings and tin roofs falling apart. He spent his childhood supporting his family by selling newspapers and shining shoes. He dropped out of school after 5th grade at Pokukaina School.
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Gabby landed a gig as a back-up guitarist for Charley ‘Tiny’ Brown. He quickly mastered the steel guitar without ever learning to read music. Because most musicians of the time only played in bars, Gabby also formed a drinking habit that stuck with him throughout his life.
Though a master of the steel guitar, Gabby is most known for his mastery of the slack-key guitar. Gabby learned slack-key from Herman Keawe whom Gabby acknowledges as being “the greatest slack-key player of all time.” Herman, like Gabby, lived in the Kaka’ako area.
Gabby married Emily at age 17 in 1938. They had ten children, four daughters and six sons.
In 1946, Gabby made his first recording, “Hi`ilawe,” for the Bell Records label. This may be the first record of a Hawaiian song with slack-key guitar. The following year came “Hula Medley,” the first record of a slack-key guitar instrumental. During this period he made two other influential sides for Bell, the vocal “Wai O Ke Aniani” and the instrumental “Key Koalu” (a misspelling of “K? H?`alu,” the Hawaiian term for “slack key”), plus another version of “Hi`ilawe” for Aloha Records.
Gabby played with many of the great bands and musicians of his time, including Andy Cummings, Lena Machado, and Ray Kinney. He also appeared on Hawaii Calls, a popular international radio show that began in the 1930s. Eventually, Gabby moved Emily and the children to Waimanalo, which had become a popular second home location for many musicians. The all-weekend jam sessions at the Pahinui home were legendary.
Examples of his session work from the late 1950s through the 1960s can be found on the two volumes of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar (Waikiki Records 319 and 320) and two more LPs titled Kani Ka Pila! Let’s Play Music! Volumes 1 and 2 (Hula Records 517, 1966; Hula 531, 1969). These are combo recordings (steel guitar, slack key guitar, uke, bass, vocals, sometimes percussion) made with bandmates such as Atta, Barney, and Norman Isaacs, Charles Kaipo Miller, and a young Peter Moon, and they reflect the style of nightclub music popular around Waik?k? at the time.
A 1961 solo session organized by Dave Guard of the Kingston Trio features just Gabby, with bass and `ukulele backing, doing some of his classic material, including new versions of three of his four 1946-47 tracks. No record company was interested in the material, however, and it was not released until 1978. The final package was Pure Gabby (Hula 567), a two-record set, one LP consisting of the music and the second of an interview conducted by Guard.
With his success, Gabby still had financial trouble. He made ends meet by working for City and County of Honolulu road crews, doing pick and shovel work.
Later career
The Hawaiian Renaissance of the ’70s launched a cultural reawakening of all things Hawaiian. Gabby played an important part in the rise of this Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance. First there were the albums recorded through the 1960s with the enormously popular and influential Sons of Hawaii, which he started with `ukulele virtuoso Eddie Kamae: their self-titled debut album (Hula HS 503, 1961); Music of Old Hawai`i (Hula HS 506, 1964); and Folk Music of Hawai`i (Panini 1001, 1971).
Then, starting in 1972, he made four albums with what came to be called the “Gabby Band.” The first album featured Gabby backed by four of his sons plus old friends Leland “Atta” Isaacs and bassist Manuel “Joe Gang” Kuhapu, but the group eventually expanded to include Sonny Chillingworth, younger-generation players Peter Moon and Randy Lorenzo, and mainland admirer Ry Cooder. The albums are:
- Gabby (1972; often called “Brown Gabby” or “The Brown Album” because of its sepia cover photo)
- Rabbit Island Music Festival (1973)
- Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band, Vol 1 (1975)
- Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band, Vol 2 (1976)
As he enjoyed his new success in the ’70s, his life-long drinking and a bad road crew accident left his health failing. He retired from road work but took up teaching in the City and County’s cultural programs. He died in 1980 at the age of 59.
Gabby was memorialized in Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s haunting performance of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World” on his 1993 Facing Future album. In the opening moments of the song, Israel can be heard saying, “‘Kay, this one’s for Gabby.”
Gabby’s children are active in the Hawaiian music scene, notably Cyril Pahinui, Bla Pahinui and Martin Pahinui, all of whom played on the Gabby Band recordings and have since become professional musicians. (Philip, who played on the first two “Gabby Band” albums, chose not to pursue music professionally.)
References
- “Gabby Pahinui” in Da Kine Sound: Conversations with People who Create Hawaiian Music, ed. Burl Burlingame and Robert Kamohalu Kasher (1978, Press Pacifica)
- Hawaiian Son, James D. Houston with Eddie Kamae (2004, `Ai P?haku Press)
- The History of the Slack Key Guitar, CD booklet notes by Jay Junker, Harry B. Soria, Jr., and George Winston (1997, Hana Ola Records)
- “Pahinui, ‘Gabby’ Charles Philip,” unsigned, in Hawaiian Music and Musicians, ed. George S. Kanahele (1979, University Press of Hawai`i)
- “Sons of Hawai`i,” Keith Haugen, in Hawaiian Music and Musicians
Steffi DiDomenicantonio
July 3rd, 2009Steffi DiDomenicantonio (born April 28, 1989), nicknamed Steffi D, is a Canadian singer from Orleans, Ontario, and the fifth-place finalist in the 2006 season of Canadian Idol. A student at École secondaire publique De La Salle, she has been a stage performer at several Ottawa-area theatrical venues since the age of four, On Canadian Idol, she was known for the trademark bow in her hair and for having a flair for the music of the 1920s.
She was recently selected to play the role Ilse in the first national tour of the smash Broadway musical Spring Awakening.
Songs that she has performed on Canadian Idol include:
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| Top 22 | N/A | “I Only Have Eyes for You” | Ella Fitzgerald | Bottom 4 |
| Top 18 | N/A | “White Flag” | Dido | Safe |
| Top 14 | N/A | “Kiss Me” | Sixpence None the Richer | Safe |
| Top 10 | Canadian Tunes | “Alone in the Universe” | David Usher | Bottom 3 |
| Top 9 | The Rolling Stones | “Miss You” | The Rolling Stones | Bottom 3 |
| Top 8 | 1980s Music | “It’s My Life” | Talk Talk | Safe |
| Top 7 | Songs of Classic Rock | “Life on Mars?” | David Bowie | Bottom 2 |
| Top 6 | Acoustic Music | “Love Fool” | The Cardigans | Bottom 3 |
| Top 5 | Country-Rock Hits | “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” | Nancy Sinatra | Eliminated |
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- Armstrong, Denis (25 August 2006). “Steffi has no regrets”. Calgary Sun. http://www.calgarysun.com/cgi-bin/publish.cgi?p=152630&x=articles&s=showbiz. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
- Zondanos, Mary (31 August 2006). “My Style: Steffi DiDomenicantonio”. NOW (Toronto). http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2006-08-31/goods_mystyle.php. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
- Cannavan, Sarah (21 August 2006). “Steffi D’s mom along for ride” (PDF). Metro (Ottawa). p. 3. http://www.metronews.ca/uploadedFiles/PDFs/Metro_Ottawa_0821_2006.pdf. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.