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Beck Jones

@beckjoneshere.bsky.social

Writer #books, #booksky

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Dan Sheehan@dansheehan.memyon.org · 2d ago

Incredibly prolific film composer David Buttolph was BOTD in 1902 (d. 1983). Over 300(!) film and TV scores, including HOUSE OF WAX (1953), THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953) and the "Maverick" TV series. A long and noteworthy career for a guy you probably never heard of. #filmsky #moviesky

Three men are standing and looking at a wax figure of a woman dressed in a regal 18th century gown and tall wig. A scene from the film HOUSE OF WAX (1953) with Vincent Price and cast. A black and white photo of the smiling face of composer David Buttolph
Warless Goddess@warlessgoddess.bsky.social · 5d ago

Jeanne Gibson, one of the last surviving Rosie the Riveters, died on July 29, 2026. She was 100 Years old. Born in Minneapolis in 1926, she was only 18 when she moved to Seattle to weld U.S. Navy destroyers at Todd Pacific Shipyards. Rest in peace, Jeanne

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Beck Jones@beckjoneshere.bsky.social · 5d ago

With his chemistry background, Primo Levi, #botd in 1919 in Turin, was at first able to get industrial work, but when he later joined a resistance group he was captured. He admitted he was Jewish to avoid being shot. Of the 650 in his transport group to Auschwitz, 20 survived. #booksky #writers

First edition cover of "If This is Man," bey Primo Levi, a memoir he wrote in the evenings after the war when he worked at a DuPont factory and stayed in the factory dormitory because of limited train service. The cover is in Italian and shows an illustration of a man crawling barefoot. The adjacent quote is "We cannot understand [fascism] but we can and must understand from where it spring, and we must be on our guard...because what happened can happen againt...For this reason, it is everyone's duty to reflect on what happened"