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Zhang Jingsheng (20 February 1888 – 18 June 1970) was a Chinese philosopher andsexologist. Born to merchants in ruralGuangdong, he was a militant supporter of theTongmenghui revolutionaries. After being expelled from school, Zhang enteredPeking University and became an advocate for European ideas ofsocial Darwinism,scientific racism, andeugenics. He changed his personal name to Jingsheng, meaning 'competition for survival'. After the1911 Revolution, Zhang went to France to study philosophy, receiving his doctorate in 1919. He soon became a professor at Peking, publishing two books advocating for a utopian society arranged aroundaesthetics. In 1926, he published the sexology textSex Histories. Zhang was ridiculed by the Chinese media and academia for this work, and tabloids gave him the mocking nickname Dr. Sex. After an unsuccessful bookstore venture in Shanghai, he returned home and worked in obscurity. Zhang was persecuted during theCultural Revolution and died in confinement.(Full article...)
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February 20:Day of the Heavenly Hundred Heroes in Ukraine (2014)
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Thefilmography of Billy Wilder, an American filmmaker, comprises 50 films from 1929 to 1981.Billy Wilder's first screenplay was for the German silent thrillerThe Daredevil Reporter (1929). In 1938, he began collaborating withCharles Brackett on screenplays withErnst Lubitsch's romantic comedyBluebeard's Eighth Wife. It was the first of 14 consecutive commercially successful films co-written by Wilder and Brackett, including the comedyNinotchka (1939) and the romantic dramaHold Back the Dawn (1941). In 1944, Wilder directed and co-wrote the screenplay for the film noirDouble Indemnity, which is considered to be a classic of its genre. He followed this withThe Lost Weekend (1945), a drama about a writer struggling with alcoholism, for which Wilder won his firstAcademy Award for Best Director and shared theBest Original Screenplay award with Brackett. He won his second Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay with Brackett forSunset Boulevard (1950), as well as theWriters Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama. During the 1950s, Wilder also receivedBest Director nominations at the Oscars forStalag 17 (1953),Sabrina (1954),Witness for the Prosecution (1957), andSome Like It Hot (1959). (Full list...)
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TheBL 60-pounder gun was a British 5-inch (127 mm) heavyfield gun designed in 1903–1905 to provide a new capability that had been partially met by the interimQF 4.7-inch (120 mm) gun. It was designed for both horse draft and mechanical traction, and served throughout the First World War in the main theatres. It remained in service with British and Commonwealth forces in the inter-war period and in frontline service with British and South African batteries until 1942, being superseded by theBL 4.5-inch (110 mm) medium gun. Shortly after theArmistice of 1918, some 60-pounders were donated to the United States to resolve outstanding contractual obligations, although most were never used, eventually going to scrap drives in the Second World War or put on display as memorials. This 1915 photograph, taken byErnest Brooks, shows aBritish Army artillery unit with a 60-pounder Mk I gun in action on a cliff top atCape Helles, during theGallipoli campaign of the First World War. The gun has the inscription "Annie" painted on the barrel. Photograph credit:Ernest Brooks Recently featured: |
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