FYI January 05, 2020

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On This Day

1941 – 37-year-old pilot Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia, disappears after bailing out of her plane over the River Thames, and is presumed dead.[15]
Amy Johnson CBE (born 1 July 1903; disappeared 5 January 1941), was a pioneering English female pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia.

Flying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, she set many long-distance records during the 1930s. She flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary and died during a ferry flight.

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Born On This Day

1892 – Agnes von Kurowsky, American nurse (d. 1984)[64]
Agnes von Kurowsky Stanfield (January 5, 1892 – November 25, 1984) was an American nurse who inspired the character “Catherine Barkley” in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.

Kurowsky served as a nurse in an American Red Cross hospital in Milan during World War I. One of her patients was the 19-year-old Hemingway, who fell in love with her.[1] By the time of his release and return to the United States in January 1919, Kurowsky and Hemingway planned to marry within a few months in America. However, in a letter dated March 7, 1919, she wrote to Hemingway, who was living at his parents home in Oak Park, Illinois, that she had become engaged to an Italian officer. Although Kurowsky did eventually return to the United States, they never met again.[1] Their story is shown in the 1996 film In Love and War.

Hemingway used his experiences in Italy as the basis for ten short stories. Fictionalized characters based on Kurowsky appear in his short stories “A Very Short Story” and “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”, as well as his novel A Farewell to Arms.

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FYI

Vecotor’s World: Flying coach; Life on the edge and more ->
 
 
 
 
By Amanda Gefter, Nautilus: Haunted by His Brother, He Revolutionized Physics To John Archibald Wheeler, the race to explain time was personal.
The postcard contained only two words: “Hurry up.”

John Archibald Wheeler, a 33-year-old physicist, was in Hanford, Wash., working on the nuclear reactor that was feeding plutonium to Los Alamos, when he received the postcard from his younger brother, Joe. It was late summer, 1944. Joe was fighting on the front lines of World War II in Italy.
 
 
 
 
By Matt Wilstein Senior Writer, Daily Beast: The 10 Late-Night TV Moments That Defined the Decade From Jon Stewart’s departure to Jimmy Fallon’s fateful hair ruffle and Jimmy Kimmel’s tearful plea, the 2010s were a time of major upheaval in the late-night landscape.
 
 
 
 
The Old Motor: Looking Back: The Best of Fun Friday Kodachrome Images
 
 
 
 
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Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings: The Art of Centering: Potter and Poet M.C. Richards on What She Learned at the Wheel About Non-Dualism, Creative Wholeness, and the Poetry of Personhood
 
 
 
 

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Kings River Life: “Favorite Books of 2019” from Kings River Life Magazine, plus 8 more
 
 
 
 

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Steven Savage: Steve here checking on the new year!
 
 
 
 
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Ideas

By Randomcitizen4: Newspaper Page Separator
 
 
 
 

Recipes

By Befforoni and Cheese: Chocolate and Peanut Drop Cookie