Helen Gurley Brown

Helen Gurley Brown (February 18, 1922 – August 13, 2012) American author, publisher, and businesswoman. Born: February 18, 1922, Green Forest, Arkansas, US. Died: August 13, 2012 (aged 90) New York City, New York, US. She was editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years.

Title: [Helen Gurley Brown, full-length portrait, sitting on a desk] / World Telegram and Sun photo by John Bottega. Creator(s): Bottega, John, photographer. Date Created / Published: 1964. Medium: 1 photographic print. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-125119 (b and w film copy neg.)

Rights Advisory: No copyright restriction known. Staff photographer reproduction rights transferred to Library of Congress through Instrument of Gift.By John Bottega, World Telegram staff photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Call Number: NYWTS - BIOG--Brown, Helen G.--Author [item] [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C., 20540 USA. Notes: NYWT and S staff photo. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects: Brown, Helen Gurley. Format: Photographic prints--1960-1970. Portrait photographs--1960-1970. Collections: Miscellaneous Items in High Demand. Part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

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Black and White Persian Cats #Caturday

Black and White Persian cats, after a painting by William Luker (1862-1934) 

As in the other self-coloured cats, the chief point is absolute uniformity of colour throughout. It is fatal for a black cat to have a brown, rusty tinge; it should be a glossy jet black, betraying no bands or bars in the full light, and having no undercoat of a lighter shade, and, above all, no spot or tuft of white hairs on the throat. This latter is a very common fault amongst black cats, and it is one which takes away enormously from the value of the specimen, for either show or breeding purposes.

In some other varieties of Persian cats two, or even three, colours for eyes are permissible; but a really good black cat must have the full round eyes of deep orange, and very attractive are these gleaming orbs, shining forth from their dense black surroundings. When black cats are changing their coats they often present a very rusty appearance, and newly born kittens are sometimes like balls of brown fluff. These, however, frequently grow up the very best-coloured blacks. This breed is very strong and healthy, and often grow into large, massive cats. A tortoiseshell female is a splendid mate for a black male, and some of the most noted blacks have been bred in this way. Two brown tabbies will generally produce one, if not more, good blacks in a litter.

Black and White Persian cats, after a painting by William Luker (1862-1934)  

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TEXT and IMAGE CREDIT: The Book of the Cat. Authors: Frances Simpson, Frances Simpson (Miss.) Publisher: Cassell and Company, limited, 1903. Original from: the University of Michiga. Digitized: May 22, 2008. Length: 380 pages. Subjects: Cats. Children's apperception test.

Blue and cream Persian cats #Caturday

Blue and cream Persian cats, after a painting by William Luker (1862-1934) 

The following notes from Mr. Robert Little, to whom I have alluded as a breeder of black Persians, will be of interest:—

"Few of these cats retain their proper colour throughout the year. The sun and exposure induce rustiness, and in some instances to such an extent that the handsome jet exhibit of October or January is hardly recognisable as the same cat in July or August.

"The kittens seldom become really black until some months old. 'Lady Bruin,' for example, was so named on account of her brown or rusty appearance. Her coat is now, and has long been, of the densest black.

"Long-haired black cats as a class are not so heavily or lengthily coated as some others. In many the coat resembles hair rather than fur, and these I have found the more consistently black and less liable to variation in shade. The tendency in all, however, is for the coat to become blacker with age.

"The eyes of the kittens for the first month are blue. They then gradually change, and by the end of the second month it may be fairly ascertained whether or not they will possess the much coveted orange hue. Several months, though, elapse before the shade is permanently determined; but I have never experienced a lighter shade supervening on a darker.

"It is not necessary for both parents, or even either, to possess deep orange eyes in order to secure such in the kittens. I take it, nevertheless, the desired tint must have been 'in the family.'

Blue and cream Persian cats, after a painting by William Luker (1862-1934)

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TEXT and IMAGE CREDIT: The Book of the Cat. Authors: Frances Simpson, Frances Simpson (Miss.) Publisher: Cassell and Company, limited, 1903. Original from: the University of Michiga. Digitized: May 22, 2008. Length: 380 pages. Subjects: Cats. Children's apperception test.

Wild Cats #Caturday

'Cats': their points and characteristics, with Curiosities of cat life, and a chapter on feline ailments. Author: Gordon Stables. Publisher: Dean & son, 1876. Original from: Oxford University. Digitized: Sep 11, 2006. LONDON: DEAN & SON, ST. DUNSTAN'S BUILDINGS, 160A, FLEET STREET, B.C.

Wild Cats. These animals are still to be found in some of the most solitary regions of Skye and Sutherland: and, I am told, they are sometimes seen in the mountainous parts of Connemara. Like the brown Tabby of domesticity, they vary considerably in their markings; but they can never be mistaken for any other. As a rule, the ground colour is yellowish grey, with dark stripes—the markings being at times, as even and beautiful as those of the Bengal tiger. The tail is shorter, and more bushy than that of the domestic cat; and the head, if once seen, or the voice, if once heard, can never be forgotten.

The prey of the Wild Cat is principally rabbits, and game of different sorts, it being the habit of the wild-cat to lie perdu all day, coming out only at night to hunt their quarry, or at early morning.

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TEXT and IMAGE CREDIT: 'Cats': their points and characteristics, with Curiosities of cat life, and a chapter on feline ailments

Amelia Earhart and Lockheed Electra

Title: Amelia Earhart. Born July 24, 1897 Atchison, Kansas, U.S. Disappeared: July 2, 1937 (aged 39) Pacific Ocean, en route to Howland Island. Status: Declared dead in absentia. January 5, 1939 (aged 41). NASA Center: Headquarters. Image #: SI-A-45874. Date: UNKNOWN Photography: Photographs are not protected by copyright unless noted.

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Amelia Earhart standing in front of the Lockheed Electra in which she disappeared in July 1937. Born in Atchison, Kansas in 1897, Amelia Earhart did not begin flying until after her move to California in 1920. After taking lessons from aviation pioneer Neta Snook in a Curtiss Jenny, Earhart set out to break flying records, breaking the women altitude records in 1922.

Earhart continually promoted women in aviation and in 1928 was invited to be the first women to fly across the Atlantic. Accompanying pilots Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon as a passenger on the Fokker Friendship, Earhart became an international celebrity after the completion of the flight. In May 1932 Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across in the Atlantic. In 1935 she completed the first solo flight from Hawaii to California. In the meantime Earhart continued to promote aviation and helped found the group, the Ninety-Nines, an organization dedicated to female aviators.

On June 1, 1937, Earhart and navigator, Fred Noonan, left Miami, Florida on an around the world flight. Earhart, Noonan and their Lockheed Electra disappeared after a stop in Lae, New Guinea on June 29, 1937. Earhart had only 7,000 miles of her trip remaining when she disappeared. While a great deal of mystery surrounds the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, her contributions to aviation and womens issues have inspired people over 80 years.

Willis Haviland Carrier

In Buffalo, New York, on July 17, 1902, in response to a quality problem experienced at the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing & Publishing Company of Brooklyn, Willis Carrier submitted drawings for what became recognized as the world's first modern air conditioning system.

In many industries, such as the manufacture of textiles, food products, high explosives, photographic films, tobacco, etc., regulation of the humidity of the atmosphere is of great importance. "Rational Psychrorhetic Formula;," a paper by Willis H. Carrier, dealt with the subject of the artificial regulation of atmospheric moisture, technically known as air conditioning.

A paper, "Air-conditioning Apparatus," defining the principles governing its application and operation, was delivered by Willis H. Carrier and Frank L. Busey.

THIS FROM: The annual dinner of the members of the Society and of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers and the Boston Section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will be given on January 15, 1912, at the Hotel Somerset. The Boston Society of Civil Engineers will have charge of the meeting and committees are actively at work on the arrangements. Addresses will be made by officials of the three organizations represented. FRIDAY MORNING, PROFESSIONAL SESSION

The concluding professional session of the convention was held on Friday morning in the auditorium, and was exceptionally well attended.

Two papers on air conditioning were then presented by the author, Willis H. Carrier of Buffalo, N. Y., Rational Psychrometric Formulae: Their Relations to the Problems of Meteorology and of Air Conditioning; and Air-Conditioning Apparatus. In the latter paper F. L. Busey of Buffalo acted as joint author. Both papers, which supplemented one another, dealt with the artificial regulation of atmospheric moisture, and gave a theoretical discussion of the subject, developing formulae for the solution of problems. They were discussed by R. C. Carpenter, L. S. Marks, H. E. Longwell, 0. P. Hood, R. C. H. Heck, J. I. Lyle, F. R. Still, Thos. M. Gunn and H. M. Prevost-Murphy.

A paper on Some Experiences with the Pitot Tube on High and Low Air Velocities, was then presented by the author, Frank H. Kneeland of Gary, W. Va., which related to the use of the Pitot tube for the measurement of flow of large volumes of air and tests made at the plant of the United States Coal and Coke Company at Gary. The paper was discussed by G. D. Gebhardt, R. C. Carpenter and W. H. Carrier.

Willis Haviland Carrier (November 26, 1876 – October 6, 1950) was an American engineer and inventor, most widely known as the man who invented modern air conditioning.

Description: Willis Carrier in 1915. Date: 1915. Source: Carrier Corporation.

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Canada Day Then and Now

Canada Day marks the joining of the British North American colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Province of Canada into a federation of four provinces (the Province of Canada being divided, in the process, into Ontario and Quebec) on July 1, 1867.

Description: Celebrations for the 60-Year Jubilee of Canadian Confederation (1867-1927) on Dominion Day on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada. Date: 1 July 1927. This image is available from Library and Archives Canada under the MIKAN ID number 3202130.

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