"Gentleman Jim" Corbett "Father of Modern Boxing" James John Corbett (September 1, 1866 in San Francisco, California ? February 18, 1933 in Bayside, Queens) was best known as the man who defeated the great John L. Sullivan. He also coached boxing at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. He is called the Father of Modern Boxing because of his scientific approach and innovations in technique. On May 21, 1891, Corbett fought Peter "Black Prince" Jackson to a draw after 61 rounds. On September 7, 1892 at the Olympic Club in New Orleans, Louisiana, Corbett won the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship by knocking out John L. Sullivan in the 21st round. Corbett's new scientific boxing technique enabled him to dodge Sullivan's rushing attacks, and wear him down with jabs. Jim Corbett was born with his Sun 8?44 Virgo, and his Moon in 1?29 Gemini. His 5?53 Leo Ascendant and Midheaven @ 24?47 Aries added fire power to his performance in the ring.   Cinderella Man James J. Braddock was born on June 7th, 1905, in New York City, New York. His Sun @ 16? Gemini, conjunct radix Pluto 21? Gemini, is the symbol for a resurrection Phoenix. The fiery phoenix, reborn from its own ashes is portrayed wonderfully in the Ron Howard movie starring Russell Crowe as Jim Braddock - who always found a way to return to the ring. Part of the sub-text, reading between the lines of Braddock's athletic performance, concerns Saturn @ 2? Pisces 52', conjunct the fixed star of good fortune, Formalhaut @ 2? Pisces. This position bestows a 'buffer' effect so that, even during the Braddock - Louis fight, during Braddock's peaking Saturn Return @ 2? Pisces 22' Rx, the extraordinary financial advantage negotiated by his manager [Saturn] helped to sustain Braddock during his retirement years. Braddock vs. Baer - June 13th 1935 Watch various rounds of the Braddock - Baer Championship heavyweight fight. Braddock vs. Louis - June 22, 1937 Jim Braddock defends the Heavyweight Crown against the "Brown Bomber" Joe Louis. Note that on the night of the Joe Louis fight Jim Braddock endured an exact Saturn return, a 'tripple critical day' in biorhythm science. Go to James J. Braddock - The Man for the full story. Although Jim never complained, few knew that during the fight for Louis, Braddock actually received medication for arthritis. Jim barely lifted his left during the fight because the medicine numbed him like a muscle relaxant.   Joe Louis Jess Stearn wrote, "Like so many of my generation, I was fascinated by the meteoric career of an Alabama farm boy who had become a glorious legend in his time, and was now having trouble adjusting to inglorious middle age. ? Joe Louis had active first and fifth houses, and this was particularly good for a boxer. ?The first house,? Doris [Chase Doane, astrologer] explained, ?represents the physical body, and the fifth amusement and also betting and public contests, and the house of hazards and speculation. These two houses provide the astrological environment a boxer needs. He could have all the planetary constants for fighting, but without activity in those two houses he couldn?t make it.? In Louis? chart, all of the required constants were prominent. ?Mars has five aspects, Jupiter six, Neptune six and Mercury six. An active house doesn?t have to have a planet in it; the planet ruling the sign on the cusp can be very active and that links that house?s department of life with the life pattern. In Joe Louis? chart, he had the first [10? Cancer 10' cusp] and fifth [29? Libra 39' cusp] active, without one planet in his fifth house. However, Libra is on the cusp, so Venus, its ruler, is associated, and Scorpio is intercepted?so both Pluto and Mars are associated with this house. All three planets are active by aspect, and aspect shows strength.? Joe Louis is a Taurus [21? 57']. He was born May 13, 1914, in Lafayette, Alabama, at 8:00A.M. Central Standard Time. He had Cancer rising and his Moon in Capricorn [11? 53'], practically opposed to that Cancer reflecting deep feelings that could be easily stirred." -Jess Stern, A TIME FOR ASTROLOGY BACK Russell Crowe Official Cinderella Man Site

The Saints, including St. Joan of Arc, St. Jude, and new saints.
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St. Joan of Arc in reconstruction
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Gladiators ARCHEOLOGY September-October 2007

The Roman Arena
Many popular ideas about the Roman arena were formed in the nineteenth century from popular images and accounts. The influential artist Jean L鯮 G鲴me used genuine gladiatorial art and equipment from Pompeii as models for his paintings of ancient Rome and the arena, but he also invented freely in dramatizing his scenes. Movies from Quo Vadis to Gladiator have drawn on such works to depict a world of strangely armed gladiators, Christians nobly awaiting attack by lions, and "thumbs down" death-gestures by emperors and rabid crowds. Actual Roman images of the arena are quite different: crowds and emperors are rarely shown, we are not sure which direction the thumb actually pointed in the famous death gesture, and victims of attack by big cats were certainly neither dignified nor noble.
Full article

Sandals, Sweat, and Swords
Review of Gladiator May 11, 2000
by Spencer P.M. Harrington

Go to Russell Crowe page @ TDN for more information and link to Gladiator Quiz

ARCHEOLOGY September-October 2007
The magnificent gladiator sculptures recently recovered by Italian authorities are now displayed in a museum near their findspot, Fiano Romano, north of Rome. Here we bring you not only the abstract of our September/October 2007 cover story about the sculptures, but also an exclusive photo gallery of the frieze panels, which once graced a first-century B.C. tomb, and an interview with the archaeologist assisting in the investigation of those responsible for looting them. To put the Fiano Romano finds into context, Shelby Brown, currently vice president for education and outreach of the Archaeological Institute of America, provided us with an overview of the basics of the Roman arena, along with a gladiator glossary and a bibliography for those who want to know more about the games. As a bonus, we've brought back our reviews of recent gladiator productions.

The Bloody Colosseum
by M. Berchtold and G. Giannetti

The Language of the Arena - games, gladiators, gear

More about Hogwarts @ Masked Places Mischief managed.

 

 

"But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. ɯwyn I am, ɯmund's daughter.
You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless!
For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him!"

 

The Ride of the Rohirrim - Merry noticed that Dernhelm had left his place and in the darkness was moving steadily forward, until at last he was riding just in rear of the king's guard.

The Battle of the Pelennor Fields - But Th鯤en was not utterly forsaken. The knights of his house lay slain about him...
Yet one stood there still: Dernhelm the young, faithful beyond fear; and he wept, for he had loved his lord as a father.

 

ɯwyn & Th鯤en at the War of the Ring photo forum
full size

 

LOTR extended edition - Aragorn's age
From: lordabe 02:34

 

 

Sword of Meriadoc Brandybuck

Merry's sword played a crucial role in the War of the Ring. The sword came from a barrow on the Barrow-downs that may have been the grave of the last prince of Cardolan, who was killed in battle against the forces of Angmar in 1409. The Hobbits were trapped in the barrow by a Barrow-wight and when Merry awoke from the Barrow-wight's spell, he had a memory of a Man who had fought the Witch-king of Angmar long ago.

Tom Bombadil rescued the Hobbits and gave them blades from the barrow. The swords had been made for the war against the Witch-king of Angmar by the Men of Westernesse. They were long, leaf-shaped daggers damasked with serpents in red and gold, and they had black sheaths of light metal set with fiery stones. Pippin's sword, "Troll's Bane" was the nickname of the blade he received on the Barrow-downs.

Merry used his sword in Moria and at Amon Hen, where he managed to cut off the hands and arms of several Orcs before he and Pippin were captured. He laid the sword on the lap of King Th鯤en of Rohan when he became his esquire. But the final and most important time that Merry used the sword was at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. As ɯwyn confronted the Witch-king and was nearly slain, Merry pierced the sinew of the Witch-king's knee, causing the Nazgul to stumble forward. Eowyn then thrust her sword between the Witch-king's crown and mantle and he was vanquished. Afterwards, the blade of Merry's sword disintegrated.

So passed the sword of the Barrow-downs, work of Westernesse. But glad would he have been to know its fate who wrought it slowly long ago in the North-kingdom when the Dunedain were young, and chief among their foes was the dread realm of Angmar and its sorcerer king. No other blade, not though mightier hands had wielded it, would have dealt that foe a wound so bitter, cleaving the undead flesh, breaking the spell that knit his unseen sinews to his will.

The Return of the King: "The Battle of the Pelennor Fields," p. 119-20 Sources:
The Fellowship of the Ring: "Fog on the Barrow-downs," p. 157 The Two Towers: "The Uruk-hai," p. 47
The Return of the King: "The Passing of the Grey Company," p. 50-51; "The Battle of the Pelennor Fields," p. 115-17
Appendix A: "The North-kingdom and the Dunedain," p. 321

 

Healing - "My friend," said Gandalf, "you had horses, and deeds of arms, and the free fields; but she, born in the body of
a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours. Yet she was doomed to wait upon an old man, whom she loved
as a father, and watch him falling into a mean dishonoured dotage; and her part seemed to her more ignoble than that of
the staff he leaned on." The Rohirrim

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. links:
Heartwarmers, Jupiter, Tin
Sinbad the Pirate
more Hollywood Royalty

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.

Tess of the Storm Country was the fifth film Mary Pickford [1893 ? 1979] made for Famous Players, and its prime significance is that, beyond any other single item, it was responsible for making her the most famous of all screen actresses, a distinction she retained unchallenged throughout the rest of her career.... Without Mary?s brilliant performance, Tess would have been just another film.
The picture was released by Paramount on March 30, 1914, 5 reels.

With The Mark of Zorro, Douglas Fairbanks? thirtieth feature and his fourth for the newly formed United Artists, the Fairbanks film career made a drastic change; Fairbanks the all-American boy became Fairbanks the swashbuckler.
The Mark of Zorro was the prototype for the Fairbanks features of the Twenties, such as Robin Hood, The Black Pirate, The Gaucho, and The Iron Mask. As such, its importance cannot be overestimated. In the chase through the village toward the close of the film, Fairbanks displays all the stunts, climbs, leaps, and rope swinging that he was to repeat in different costumes and different time periods in all the films to come....
A Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation production. Released by United Artists, December 5, 1920. 8 reels.

-Anthony Slide and Edward Wagenknecht, FIFTY GREAT AMERICAN SILENT FILMS 1912-1920

 

 

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   LINKS
Aragorn-Strider
King Arthur, Knight, and Indiana Jones
BOND, Robin Hood, Sleuth number file Sean Connery Star Chart page
The Colour Index
Higher Connection
Kingdom of Heaven - Star page for Orlando Bloom
Ladyhawke - Numbers here
The Lord of the Rings - Moment
          LOTR Wizard sword and staff reproductions based on film originals
Arda states: The Wizards arrived in Middle-earth after the end of the first millennium of the Third Age. They were sent by the Valar to aid Elves and Men, but none knew this but Cí²¤an the Shipwright, Lord of the Grey Havens where their ships put in. Saruman was, at that time, acknowledged leader of the Wizards; Cí²¤an saw that Gandalf was in fact the greater, so he secretly gave him the Red Ring Narya.
Wizard Directory here.

 

The Matrix - Nebuchadnezzar Hovercraft and Crew and Matrix Sites
Power of the Phoenix - Numbers for The Lake House and Masked Places
Mr. T [The A Team, Rocky] launches his new show "I Pity the Fool" in October 2006.
Mr. T was born 21May52 in Chicago, Illinois
with the 7 Destiny Path. The year 2006 is a Personal 7 Year for Mr. T -
appropriate timing in step with the show!
Star Wars - Numeric Pages: Star Wars safe havens, Star Wars numbers for Episodes IV, V, and VI
On the Big Board, Star Wars III Revenge of the Sith, Trump VIII, Star Wars index
X-MEN numbers, Professor Charles Xavier and Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters

 

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