The Beatles’ second appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show took place in Miami’s Deauville Hotel. The Beatles arrived in Miami on Thursday, February 13, and the concert took place on the night of the 16th. The link below is of a rehearsal, which was filmed but not aired.
Rehearsal video here~
BEATLES REHEARSALS : R. CORTES : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
See also~
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/beatles-second-ed-sullivan-show/
“Apotheosis” is a Greek word meaning to deify or to glorify in a divine way. It can refer to the theological act of raising an individual to a divine status, and also a glorification of a subject in a work of art.
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When Washington died in 1799, the country was beside itself with grief. And things got a little strange. Shortly after his death, artwork appeared representing Washington ascending to heaven.
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This kind of thing was pretty un-Republican however, and thankfully it didn’t catch on for future presidents. At least not until Lincoln’s assassination, after which artists directly referenced the images of the 1st president’s divine ascension and applied them to the 16th.
> > > > >http://www.philosophersguild.com
Lincoln and Washington~ https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/pga.01775/
Washington & Lincoln Apotheosis~ https://rememberinglincoln.fords.org/node/240
[Daumier died on February 10, 1879]
http://www.edsullivan.com/the-beatles-on-the-ed-sullivan-show-on-february-9-1964/
The Beatle’s first live appearance on U.S. television was February 9, 1964. However, Americans did have previous chances to see them via stories on the evening news, and a taped segment on The Tonight Show with Jack Paar. The common thread to these appearances is the sarcasm and bad jokes which the reporters and Paar felt compelled to use in order to dismiss the Beatles as an inexplicable phenomenon. All of them were probably taken aback when they finally realized that the Beatles weren’t going to go away any time soon.
November 18, 1963 on “The Huntley-Brinkley Report”~
Nov. 22, 1963 on “CBS Morning News With Mike Wallace”~
January 3, 1964 on the :Jack Paar Tonight Show”~
http://www.45spaces.com/the-beatles-on-tv/r.php?r=the-jack-paar-show
http://www.pophistorydig.com/topics/beatles-in-america-1963-1964/
On February 8, 1735, a ballad opera called “Flora” premiered in Charleston, South Carolina, in a makeshift theatre — going down in recorded history as the first opera of any kind to be produced in North America.
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/20/136469565/flora-an-18th-century-british-invasion
https://gratefulamericanfoundation.com/11274/
Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is the most important Chinese traditional festival. Chinese New Year (CNY) celebrations run from Chinese New Year’s Eve, the last day of the last month of the lunar calendar, to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, making the festival the longest in the Chinese calendar.
Legend says that there was a man-eating beast, “nian”, in ancient China. “Nian” would come from the mountain once a year on the New Year Eve and infiltrate houses silently to prey on humans and animals. People later learned that “nian” was afraid of loud noises and the colour red, so people use explosives, fireworks and colour red to scare “nian” away.
CNY is centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions. Traditionally, the festival was a time to honour deities as well as ancestors. It is a time for family reunion and celebration. It is as important as the Thanksgiving Day and Christmas combined in the Western culture.
More information can be found at this wonderful blog:
Photographs from the Great Baltimore Fire~
http://darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2014/02/great-baltimore-fire-of-1904-110-years-later/#1
The Great Baltimore Fire of 1904 started at 10:50 a.m. on Feb. 7 and raged on until 5 p.m. the next day. It destroyed over 1,500 buildings and is the third worst fire in this country’s history (right behind the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906). Incredibly, only one life was lost as a direct result of this huge conflagration.
The panoramic photo above, from the collection of the Library of Congress, gives an idea of the complete and total devastation of downtown Baltimore. If you click on the link you will be able to see a much larger version of this image: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/pan.6a05843/
The Misty Miss Christy 