February 22

It's February 22nd

It's National Cat Day in Japan


On this day in 1881 – Cleopatra's Needle, a 3,500-year-old Ancient Egyptian obelisk is erected in Central Park, NYC


In 1983 - Styx release "Kilroy Was Here"


Birthdays:



Thomas Jane
on Tubi

Jeri Ryan

on Tubi

Bronwyn Oliver


Nigel Planer


Genesis P-Orridge



Psychic TV "Descending"

(According to Christopher Partridge in 2013s "Esoterrorism and the Wrecking of Civilization: Genesis P-Orridge and the Rise of Industrial Paganism" P-Orridge was devoted to the deity Eshu Elegguá)

Miou-Miou
on Tubi

John Ashton
as the Highway Patrolman in "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension"

Oliver


Harvey Mason



Jonathan Demme
on Tubi

Christine Keeler




Judy Cornwell
on Tubi

Ishmael Reed
"Mumbo Jumbo"
"This 50-Year Old Novel Predicted The Culture Wars"

Ernie K-Doe


Sheila Hancock
on Tubi

James Hong
as Dr. Van Fleet in "Shadowzone"


Texas Johnny Brown


Edward Gorey
on the Internet Archive


Giulietta Masina

on Criterion Channel

Robert Wadlow
The tallest man in recorded history (he was measured by doctors at 8'11.1")


John Mills
on Tubi

Robert G. Young
as Robert Marvin in "Secret Agent"

Sheldon Leonard
as LeStrange in "Ouanga" aka "The Love Wanga"

Lionel Collier of Picturegoer wrote that it was a "drama clumsily built around 'Voodooism'" and that it was "extremely crudely produced and badly acted", though he praised the authentic settings.

Luis Buñuel

on Critrion Channel
on Tubi

Zitkala-Ša
"A Walk in Two Worlds"


Rembrandt Peale
"Rubens Peale With a Geranium"

"Working Sketch of the Mastadon"


Bon Boullogne
"Neptune bringing Amphitrite in his marine chariot"
(The title is confusing since Neptune is Roman, his Greek counterpart being Poseiden. While Amphitrite is Greek, her Roman counterpart being Salacia.)

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