The
Mickey Mouse Club is an American variety television
show that aired intermittently from 1955 to 1996. Created by Walt Disney and produced by Walt Disney
Productions, the program was first
televised from 1955 to 1960 by ABC, featuring a regular but ever-changing cast of child
performers. Reruns were broadcast by ABC
on weekday afternoons during the 1960s, right after American Bandstand. The show was revived after its initial
1955–1959 run on ABC, first from 1977 to 1979 for first-run
syndication, and airing again
exclusively on Disney Channel from 1989 to 1996.
Previous to the TV series, there was a theater-based Mickey Mouse
Club. The first one started on January
4, 1930 at 12 noon at the Fox Dome Theater in Ocean Park, California with sixty theaters hosting clubs by
March 31. The Club released its first
issue of the Official Bulletin
of the Mickey Mouse Club on
April 15, 1930. By 1932, the
Club had 1 million members, and in 1933 its first British club opened at
Darlington's Arcade Cinema. In
1935, with so many clubs around the world, Disney begins to phase out the club. The Mickey Mouse Club was Walt Disney's second venture into
producing a television
series, the first being the Walt Disney anthology
television series, initially titled Disneyland.
Disney used both shows to help finance
and promote the building of the Disneyland theme park. Being busy with these projects and others,
Disney turned The Mickey Mouse
Club over to Bill Walsh to
create and develop the format, initially aided by Hal Adelquist. The result was a variety
show for children, with such
regular features as a newsreel, a cartoon, and a serial, as well as music,
talent and comedy segments. One unique
feature of the show was the Mouseketeer Roll Call, in which many (but not all)
of that day's line-up of regular performers would introduce themselves by name
to the television audience. Mickey Mouse
himself appeared in every show not only in vintage cartoons originally made for
theatrical release, but in opening, interstitial and closing segments made
especially for the show. In both the vintage cartoons and in the new animated
segments, Mickey was voiced by his creator Walt Disney.
(Disney had previously voiced the
character theatrically from 1928 to 1947, and then was replaced by sound
effects artist Jimmy MacDonald.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mickey_Mouse_Club
The Mickey Mouse
Club Mickey
Mouse is the host of this variety show with a club attended by a variety of
kids being the Mouseketeers. The usual
content includes in-studio comedy and musical acts by those kids, classic as
well as original cartoons and dramatic serials like "Spin and Marty"
and "The Hardy Boys." Release Date: 3 October 1955 (USA) Runtime:
30 min (1957-1959) | 60 min (1955-1957) three seasons
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047757/
House of Mouse (2001–2002)
TV
Series - 30 min - collections
of short cartoons hosted by Mickey and his Disney pals at his club, The House
of Mouse. four seasons http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272388/?ref_=tt_rec_tt
Presidential trivia
Barack Obama is our 44th president, but there
actually have only been 43 presidents: Cleveland was elected for two nonconsecutive
terms and is counted twice, as our 22nd and 24th president. Eight Presidents were born British subjects: Washington,
J. Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, J. Q. Adams, Jackson, and W. Harrison. Fourteen Presidents served as vice presidents: J. Adams,
Jefferson, Van Buren, Tyler, Fillmore, A. Johnson, Arthur, T. Roosevelt,
Coolidge, Truman, Nixon, L. Johnson, Ford, and George H.W. Bush. Vice Presidents were originally the
presidential candidates receiving the second-largest number of electoral votes. The Twelfth Amendment,
passed in 1804, changed the system so that the electoral college voted
separately for president and vice president. The presidential candidate, however, gradually
gained power over the nominating convention to choose his own running mate. For two years the nation was run by a
president and a vice president who were not elected by the people. After Vice President Spiro T. Agnew resigned
in 1973, President Nixon appointed Gerald Ford as vice president. Nixon resigned the following year, which left
Ford as president, and Ford's appointed vice president, Nelson Rockefeller, as
second in line. Four candidates won the
popular vote but lost the presidency: Andrew Jackson won the popular vote but lost
the election to John Quincy Adams (1824); Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote
but lost the election to Rutherford B. Hayes (1876); Grover Cleveland won the
popular vote but lost the election to Benjamin Harrison (1888); Al Gore won the
popular vote but lost the election to George W. Bush (2000). http://www.infoplease.com/spot/prestrivia1.html
Find the ten U.S. presidents related
to each other and read that genealogists have determined that FDR was distantly
related to a total of eleven U.S. presidents, five by blood and six by marriage
at http://www.infoplease.com/spot/inaugural9.html
Six presidents were named
James, four named John, four named William, three named George and two named
Andrew.
The outside of an eye, the part that’s visible when you look at someone’s
face, functions just like a lens. Light
from the sun reflects off some object, such as a dog, then the light travels to
your eye and is focused by a structure called the cornea, which acts like a
lens in a camera. By the time the image
reaches the back of your eye, called the retina, it has been flipped upside
down. The retina has two kinds of cells:
rods
and cones. Rods can detect light and
dark and sense motion and cones detect color. Rod and cone cells are connected to the Optic
Nerve, which carries the image from your eye to your brain. Even though the image that comes through your
eye is upside down, your brain learns to see things right side up. The Mechanics of Vision
Right to Read Week is celebrated across the country at
selected times in February and March.
Find some of the ideas including "favorite fictional
characters" and "drop everything and read" at http://www.ehow.com/info_8628378_right-read-week-theme-ideas.html
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) Born in
New York City, author Madeleine L'Engle is best known for such novels as A Wrinkle in Time (1962) and A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978). She was the only child of Charles Wadsworth
and Madeleine Barnett Camp, a writer and a pianist. L'Engle began writing at a young age,
producing her first story when she was only five years old. "I've been a writer ever since I could
hold a pencil," L'Engle told Humanities magazine. Madeleine L'Engle published her first novel, The Small Rain, in 1945. Four years later, she published her first
children's book, And Both
Were Young (1949). L'Engle's children were the first
audience for her best known work, A
Wrinkle in Time (1962). She read them the story while she worked on
it. After dozens of rejections, L'Engle
was finally able to find a publisher for this innovative tale. A Wrinkle in Time follows the adventures of Meg Murry as
she travels through time and space to find her missing scientist father. She accompanied on this journey by her
brother Charles Wallace and her friend Calvin O'Keefe, which is made possible
by the assistance of three unusual beings known as Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who and
Mrs. Which. For the book, L'Engle drew
inspiration from such varied sources as Albert Einstein's theory of relativity
and works of William Shakespeare. The
following year, L'Engle won the prestigious Newbery Medal for A Wrinkle in Time. The novel, however, was not without
controversy. Over the years, it has been
one of the most banned books because some believe that it is anti-Christian or
that it promotes occultism. The
anti-Christian accusation seems especially odd as faith was always important to
L'Engle. She meditated on religious
issues in such books as And
It Was Good: Reflections on Beginnings (1983). L'Engle also worked at St. John the Divine in
New York City as a librarian and writer-in-residence for more than three
decades. A Wrinkle in Time inspired
L'Engle to write several sequels, creating what has become known as the Time
Quintet. Other titles in this series in A Wind in the Door (1973), A Swiftly Tilting Planet(1978), Many Waters (1986) and An Acceptable Time (1989). L'Engle launched a related series of books,
which feature the descendents of Meg Murry and Calvin O'Keefe, in 1965 with The Arm of the Starfish. The two later titles in this trilogy are Dragons in the Waters (1976) and A House Like a Lotus (1984). In addition to fiction, L'Engle also wrote
poetry and numerous nonfiction titles, including several volumes of
memoirs. She also produced two books, Mothers and Daughters (1997) and Mothers and Sons (1999), with her daughter Maria
Rooney.
Mar. 23, 2015 It’s
starting to look like James Patterson
can’t give his money away fast enough. Just
two weeks after the bestselling writer announced that
he planned to donate $1.25 million to school libraries, he has increased
that total by $250,000. On March 9,
Patterson announced a plan to make grants of $1,000 to $10,000 that schools
could use to repair or improve their libraries in any way. The children’s publisher Scholastic pledged to
match his grants with bonus points for books from the Scholastic Reading Club. More than 750 requests a day started
pouring in. So now Patterson
is raising his total grant to $1.5 million. “I’m blown away by the
number of parents and teachers who have shared the urgent needs of their
community’s school library,” he said in a statement released this morning.
“It’s clear that our school libraries
require critical help. I know we can’t solve the issues overnight, but I hope
at the very least we’re able to raise awareness about the important position
the school library plays in the educational achievement of children.” Patterson’s grant program for school
libraries is modeled after a similar program he
administered last year to give away $1 million to more than 175 independent bookstores. Ron Charles
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/03/23/james-patterson-increases-grants-to-school-libraries-by-250k/
On Mar. 23, 2015, in an attempt to improve air quality, authorities enacted a 24-hour
restriction on cars with even-numbered license plates, halving the number of
cars entering Paris and surrounding areas.
For one day last week, in fact, air quality in Paris was reported to be
the worst among major global cities -- a distinction usually associated with
Beijing or New Delhi. Experts say the
problem is caused by vehicle emissions, an absence of wind to disperse the
pollutants and other meteorological conditions, including sunshine coupled with
a drop in temperatures. Those have
combined to create a stagnant cover of warm air over Paris, which sits in the
Seine basin, a geographic bowl. Critics
have pointed fingers at successive French governments that have promoted diesel
vehicles by subsidizing the fuel so that it is about 15% cheaper than gasoline.
Though diesel is more fuel efficient and
produces less carbon monoxide, it emits nitrogen oxides that react with
sunlight to produce low-level ozone and fine soot particles known to cause
bronchial irritation and cancer. All
over Paris, people are coughing, wheezing and sniffing as a spike in air
pollution has made the French capital one of the smoggiest cities in the
world. Kim Willshire http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-france-paris-smog-20150323-story.html#page=1
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1275
March 25, 2015 On this date in 1867,
Arturo
Toscanini, Italian conductor, was born.
On this date in 1881, Béla
Bartók, Hungarian pianist and composer, was born.
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