Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
Only includes names with the selected topics
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
1-5 of 5
- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Charles Brabin was born on 17 April 1882 in Liverpool, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for While New York Sleeps (1920), The Lights of New York (1922) and Breakers Ahead (1918). He was married to Theda Bara and Susie Jeanette Mosher. He died on 3 November 1957 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Laika, a mixed-breed mongrel, was the first living creature to have orbited the Earth and the first living creature ever to have died in space. She was a stray dog found on the streets of Moscow at an estimated three years of age and recruited by the Soviet space program to serve as the subject of an experimental flight into space for the purpose of studying the effects of space travel on living creatures. She was launched into space in the 1100-pound craft named Sputnik-2 on November 3, 1957.
Her vital signs were monitored with electrodes placed on her body and Soviet space officials at the time stated that Laika survived four days in space and was then euthanized with a poison contained in a special gel to be used as food. However, nearly 45 years later, in October 2002, during a meeting of the World Space Congress in Houston, Dr. Dimitri Malashenkov of the Institute for Biological Problems in Moscow admitted that only five to seven hours post-launch of Sputnik-2, no signs of life were being transmitted from Laika and that by the fourth orbit, it became clear from her extremely rapid heartbeat that she had died from the effects of stress, likely brought on by a combination of fear and the prolonged 104-degree temperature that occurred when Sputnik-2 failed to separate from its booster rocket, causing the thermal control system to fail.
Sputnik-2 continued to orbit for 163 days and 2,370 orbits, until April 14, 1958, when it burned up during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. There was no recovery procedure for orbital flights at the time, so it became obvious that Laika was the only living creature expected to die in space. This discovery outraged animal rights activists around the world. In November 1997, a memorial plaque honoring the Russian cosmonauts was unveiled at the Institute for Aviation and Space Medicine at Star City outside Moscow, with Laika shown in the corner of the plaque. In 1998, a former scientist who had worked with Laika and other animals stated, "The more time passes, the more I'm sorry. We shouldn't have done it. We did not learn enough from the mission to justify the death of the dog." - Famous and controversial scientist/psychotherapist who founded the science of orgonomy, the study of life essence. This school of study had a wide array of principles ranging from the belief that the human muscular structure was directly affected by negative emotional stimuli, to a concept that human life essence, if properley harnessed, could accomplish such tasks as manipulating the weather and curing disease. Reich desisgned several large, booth-shaped machines made from organic marerials and laced with various pipes and metallic objects to assist in this process. After several years of this study, he was finally convicted for practicing fraudulent medicine and was sentenced to prison in Pennsylvania, where he would eventually die of a heart attack in 1957.
Although contemporary science still largely does not accept Reich's basic theories as scientific fact, his studies have been the basis and inspiration for several fields of medicine and therapy today, and many conspiracy buffs believe that Dr. Reich's studies were more accurate then the U.S. government wishes us to believe. - In 1911, McCord got into the movie business in New York when he landed a job as a lab technician with the Kalem Co. He went out to the West Coast in 1915 with the Selznick Co. and became a cutter. He held the post of head of Warners' film editing department for 33 years, resigning in the summer of 1956. He died just over a year later.
- Aldona Jasinska was born on 27 December 1896 in Vilna, Russian Empire [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. She was an actress, known for Ty, co w Ostrej swiecisz Bramie (1937) and Kobiety nad przepascia (1938). She was married to Tadeusz Konczyc. She died on 3 November 1957 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.