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Post by barb43 on Feb 19, 2023 18:27:02 GMT
I was editing my post while you were posting your comment on him playing Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson. I'd never head of this actor before. Sounds like he was really good at what he did!
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Feb 19, 2023 18:34:10 GMT
I've always liked his portrayal of Dr Watson.
Most adaptions of the Sherlock Holmes stories present Watson as a bumbling fool who is only good for comic relief, but Crawford's version stayed much closer to the original books where Watson was a courageous hero and a good detective in his own right who just seemed a bit slow on occasion because Holmes was just so much smarter than pretty much anyone else.
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Post by barb43 on Feb 20, 2023 3:19:53 GMT
Even tho' the big names in open-seas piracy may have been wealthy by today's standards, they usually lived dangerous poor lives and ate worse, often subsisting on dried beef, bread, and warm beer. Scurvy was always a threat.
Our current mystery man, however, was a British-born adventurer. Orphaned in his teens, he settled in the Caribbean. Not wildly succeeding at common trades such as logging or sugar cane work, he took to piracy. His particular hobby - enjoying local cuisines and writing about them in a diary of his travels - brought a previously unknown wealth of information on foods found in exotic non-Western locales to Europe.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Feb 23, 2023 17:38:09 GMT
William Dampier?
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Post by barb43 on Feb 24, 2023 3:03:04 GMT
Yes! He was an interesting character. He gave us the words "tortilla", "soy sauce", and "breadfruit". He also unwittingly recorded the first ever recipe for guacamole. Parts of his bestselling novel, A New Voyage Around the World, read like a 17th-century episode of No Reservations, with Dampier playing a high-stakes version of Anthony Bourdain. This ^^^ 6-page article on Dampier's life is a fun read, but I can't figure out how to get it to load up so I can share a link to it here. Are you reading the same thing I am, Mel?
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Feb 24, 2023 3:08:52 GMT
This ^^^ 6-page article on Dampier's life is a fun read, but I can't figure out how to get it to load up so I can share a link to it here. Are you reading the same thing I am, Mel? I don't see a link.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Feb 24, 2023 3:15:36 GMT
This 19th century inventor's creation revolutionized ranching. It also saw much use in military settings.
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Post by barb43 on Feb 24, 2023 5:21:42 GMT
Back to William Dampier for a minute ... I searched & found a link to the article I'd copied as a .pdf (it was a google pocket thing & wouldn't show me a link). This is a great read! The Pirate Who Penned the First English-Language Guacamole RecipeWilliam Dampier’s food-writing firsts included the use of the words “barbecue” and “chopsticks.”BY LUKE FATER JULY 26, 2019 www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-food-writerEdited to add: I'll search for our new mystery man's identity this weekend.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Mar 13, 2023 18:14:33 GMT
His invention was inspired by the result of some metal wires getting run through a coffee grinder.
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Post by barb43 on Apr 8, 2023 15:26:32 GMT
His invention was inspired by the result of some metal wires getting run through a coffee grinder. Now that's funny! I hope no one was hurt. I've got to get back into searching out who this guy is because I really want to know his story.
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Post by barb43 on Apr 8, 2023 18:19:51 GMT
Joseph Glidden. As for the use of barbed wire in the military: Today it's evolved into concertina wire, something I'm gonna google later. Great & interesting article. His invention definitely changed the west! www.archives.gov/education/lessons/barbed-wire
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Apr 8, 2023 23:30:28 GMT
Joseph Glidden is Correct!
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Post by barb43 on Apr 12, 2023 3:38:00 GMT
When John Wayne was a 21-yr old bit-part actor, he had the opportunity to meet a real-life, Old West, retired lawman who was pushing 80. That Old West lawman was one of the most famous lawmen of his day. However, in his younger days, he was pretty wild.
When he and John Wayne met, there was a connection. The old lawman reportedly shared many tales about his younger life, how he grew and changed, and his views on "code of the west" subjects. The lasting impression he made on the young Duke came out in many of John Wayne's movies though the years.
Who was this famous real-life Old West lawman?
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Apr 22, 2023 22:58:44 GMT
Wyatt Earp?
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Post by barb43 on Apr 23, 2023 0:36:36 GMT
Yes! Wyatt Earp. This is a great story of John Wayne modeling Wyatt Earp: www.andmeetings.com/blog/post/when-john-wayne-met-wyatt-earp#:~:text=He%20was%20said%20to%20have,Wild%20Bill%20Hickok%2C%20in%201923.&text=Five%20years%20later%2C%20John%20Wayne,known%20as%20%E2%80%9CThe%20Duke%E2%80%9D. Made me even more of a fan that I had been before, and I've always liked John Wayne movies. By the way, that photo is of Wyatt Earp & his wife Josephine in 1906. Earp was born March 19, 1848, in Monmouth, Illinois and he died January 13, 1929, in Los Angeles, California.
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