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Shirley Dinsdale, seen here in a brief clip with her famous ventriloquist dummy "Judy Splinters," was a popular children's TV star in the late 1940s and early 50's.

The show premiered on KTLA in Los Angeles and she won the very first Emmy Award for "Outstanding Television Personality" in 1949.

The San Francisco native been given a ventriloquist doll at the age of five to help her cope with a year-long convalescence (she’d been badly scalded by a falling kettle).

She applied herself seriously to learning the skill, and took lessons from professional vents.

By the age of 14, she was appearing on local radio with her wooden partner, Judy Splinters, a bratty, saucy character with pigtails.

National success came within months. In 1942 she became a regular on Eddie Cantor’s radio show, and she also appeared on the programs of Rudy Vallee, Bob Burns, and Nelson Eddy.

Still only 19 years old, she toured with the U.S.O. during World War Two, mostly performing at hospitals.

By 1949, she had her own NBC television show, which was broadcast in Los Angeles, the Midwest and Eastern markets through 1950.

After this, she had local shows in Chicago and New York City.

She was so popular that the Ideal toy company manufactured and sold Judy Splinters dolls.

And then in 1953, when she was only 27 years old, Shirley Dinsdale retired from show business, married and raised a family. 

When her kids were nearly grown, Dinsdale (now Shirley Dinsdale Layburn) enrolled in SUNY Stony Brook and studied respiratory and cardiopulmonary therapy.

In 1973, she became head of the Respiratory Therapy Department of a hospital in Port Jefferson, Long Island. 

1. Everything going on in the stained glass window.

Your eye is naturally pulled to the prince in the middle, but there is a lot happening in the window. Who are those two dogs, why are they wearing studded collars, and why are they the only ones looking directly at the prince?

2. The hungry cat. 

There is a cat dangling off of the fish the woman on the left is trying to get for a cheaper price. He must be very hungry.

3. Belle’s dried flowers.

Belle is drying flowers by hanging them from her ceiling. Now that we know this, we somehow love her even more (something we did not think was possible).

4. Beast definitely did not decorate this room.

The fireplace is framed with gold hearts, there’s a floral pattern on the chair, a portrait of a woman in pink, and a still life with flowers. Is this Mrs. Potts’s doing?

5. That’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” behind Cogsworth!

How have we never noticed this famous (Baroque) Vermeer before??

6. Speaking of which, this painting to the left of Lumiere also looks familiar… 

Yup. It’s “The Laughing Cavalier” by Frans Hals!

7. Belle and Beast’s dinner menu.

Is it just us or does it look like this meal is entirely comprised of cake, pie, and jelly?

8. Gaston seems to have a devil horse. 

Let’s consider what we’re seeing here: Gaston’s horse has red pupils and its nostrils are filled with flames. Devil horse is the only logically conclusion.

9. There is a man stuck the stone pillar on the right side of the doorway.

How did he get up there? We know the enchanted objects wreaked some serious havoc, but what happened??

10.  There’s a golden swan to the very left of this frame.

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THAT IS SO COOL.

gonna give fog a round of applause next time I see some

also I low-key want to study fog now, whoops.

(Also, the line 'This question hung over cloud researcher Thi Thuong- ' made me smile. writer could have gone with 'cloud researcher asked this question' or 'so-and-so decided to seek answers to this question' but no.

The late Opera singer Elizabeth 'Leesa' Foster Esposito, mother of actor Giancarlo Esposito.

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We all were convinced that he was Turkish and got so excited that a Turkish man was playing in a West End musical. “At most he could be Greek” my parents thought, “but he is probably Turkish”.

Pagine da Oz, paese incantato, prima traduzione del meraviglioso regno di oz, di Lyman Frank Baum. Tradotto da Maria Luisa Agosti Castellani e illustrato da Miki Ferro Pelizzari

Here is a pretty cool clock from one of the synagogues.

I'm reminded of the time we read Kafka's The Metamorphosis in school and the teacher asked us to raise our hands if we actually thought it was about a man transforming into a bug, and....I raised my hand. Because yes??? That is literally what happens! However, I also understood and knew it was acting as a metaphor too! But just because it is a metaphoric commentary on mental illness / disability and the way people around you change their treatment of you, doesn't mean the actual story is not literally about a dude who turns into a bug!

In-universe? Elsa has ice powers. Magic that creates ice and snow comes out of her hands, which can bury a whole kingdom without her even realizing it, which can stab you with ice shards or even conjure up a snow-monster to chase you away, and which will slowly transform you into ice if a blast of it hits you in the heart. This magic is linked to her emotions and becomes hard to control when she's upset, but can be controlled by love.

Case in point!