ToToToToT No. 14 in C-sharp minor ("Moonlight Heat"), Op. 9, No. 30

[Buzz]

Magic

This week in history Feb 21 - 27:

Feb 21, 1965 Malcolm X assassinated
Feb 22, 1980 U.S. hockey team makes miracle on ice
Feb 23, 1945 U.S. flag raised on Iwo Jima
Feb 24, 1836 Alamo defenders call for help
Feb 25, 1964 Clay knocks out Liston
Feb 26, 1919 Two national parks preserved, 10 years apart
Feb 27, 1827 New Orleanians take to the streets for Mardi Gras

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

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The 1827 celebrations of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, as that sounds like a happy occasion.

February 21 people:

John Henry Cardinal Newman
Léo Delibes
Jeanne Calment
Anaïs Nin
W. H. Auden
Nina Simone
Rue McClanahan
Alan Rickman
Chuck Palahniuk
David Foster Wallace
Mélanie Laurent
Ellen Page

[Maofan7]

W. H. Auden

Stop All The Clocks - W H Auden

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

First World War Poets - Siegfried Sassoon or Wilfred Owen or Alan Seeger?

I Have a Rendezvous with Death - Alan Seeger (1888–1916)

I HAVE a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air—
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.

It may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark land
And close my eyes and quench my breath—
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.

God knows 'twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear...
But I've a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.

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Wilfred Owen (on account of "Dulce et Decorum Est", eys).

Edward Thomas:

I Built Myself a House of Glass

I built myself a house of glass:
It took me years to make it:
And I was proud. But now, alas!
Would God someone would break it.

But it looks too magnificent.
No neighbour casts a stone
From where he dwells, in tenement
Or palace of glass, alone.

or

A Cat

She had a name among the children;
But no one loved though someone owned
Her, locked her out of doors at bedtime
And had her kittens duly drowned.

In Spring, nevertheless, this cat
Ate blackbirds, thrushes, nightingales,
And birds of bright voice and plume and flight,
As well as scraps from neighbours’ pails.

I loathed and hated her for this;
One speckle on a thrush’s breast
Was worth a million such; and yet
She lived long, till God gave her rest.

?

[Maofan7]

A Cat

Can Ksenia Makarova make it back on to the Russian team for Sochi 2014 - Yes or No?

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No.

as a performer: Makarova or Leonova?

[Buzz]

Leonova

Gosviani
OR
Leonova

[l'etoile]

Gosviani. I love Alena but she has terrible jumps.

Grapes or oranges

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oranges

Serafima Sakhanovich or Elena Radionova?

[Maofan7]

Radionova

John Nettles in Bergerac or Midsomer Murders?

[Buzz]

Midsomer Murders


When buying an outfit for an excusive event, do you prefer:

Store brought
OR
Hand made

[l'etoile]

Store bought.

Swimming or jogging

[Maofan7]

Jogging

Toyota or Honda?

[l'etoile]

Honda

Bus or train

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train

running or cycling?

[l'etoile]

Running

Which diva: Sarah Brightman or Tatiana Navka

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Brightman

Charlotte Church or Katherine Jenkins?

[l'etoile]

Charlotte Church

Edward Norton : yay or nay

[orientalplane]

Yay

Russell Crowe - yay or nay?

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Yay.

Desert Island Discs: yay or nay?