Stanley Kubrick’s decision to only use classical music in what would become the iconic soundtrack for “2001: A Space Odyssey”, was made last minute in post-production. Alex North, who’d written an entire score for the film, didn’t find out his music had been discarded until the premiere.
This Day in #History#stamps#stampcollecting Dec 21, 1620: The Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (or thereabout), because they are almost out of beer. (I wouldn’t lie to you.)
Having lived in Leiden in the late 1990's for a few years, I discovered that the pilgrims actually first went to Holland and settled in the city of Leiden. They left after finding the Dutch too permissive for their liking (or at least that is what I heard from the Dutch when I lived there). The following is from the linked Washington Post article:
"It’s fair to say that the Pilgrims left England to find religious freedom, but that wasn’t the primary motive that propelled them to North America.
Remember that the Pilgrims went first to Holland, settling eventually in the city of Leiden. There they encountered a religious tolerance almost unheard of in that day and age. Bradford and Edward Winslow both wrote glowingly of their experience. In Leiden, God had allowed them, in Bradford’s estimation, “to come as near the primitive pattern of the first churches as any other church of these later times.” God had blessed them with “much peace and liberty,” Winslow echoed.
If a longing for religious freedom had compelled them, they probably never would have left. But while they cherished the freedom of conscience they enjoyed in Leiden, the Pilgrims had two major complaints: They found it a hard place to maintain their English identity and an even harder place to make a living. In America, they hoped to live by themselves, enjoy the same degree of religious liberty and earn a “better and easier” living."
As an aside: What is the point of proof printings if you're just going to pass an ill-concieved design anyway? One can go cross-eyed trying to discern the design on the B&O stamp. With the charter as the background, it looks like a double-exposed photograph, and the monocolor printing causes all the design elements to blend together in a scrambled egg mess.
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The original Alex North soundtrack:
https://open.spotify.com/album/4L3uWoXRey8YWDnL7VtvGW?si=7W-QRLvDR3maKzBbzUqx-A
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Dec 21, 1620: The Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (or thereabout), because they are almost out of beer. (I wouldn’t lie to you.)
USA, Scott Nr 548-50 (1920)
"It’s fair to say that the Pilgrims left England to find religious freedom, but that wasn’t the primary motive that propelled them to North America.
Remember that the Pilgrims went first to Holland, settling eventually in the city of Leiden. There they encountered a religious tolerance almost unheard of in that day and age. Bradford and Edward Winslow both wrote glowingly of their experience. In Leiden, God had allowed them, in Bradford’s estimation, “to come as near the primitive pattern of the first churches as any other church of these later times.” God had blessed them with “much peace and liberty,” Winslow echoed.
If a longing for religious freedom had compelled them, they probably never would have left. But while they cherished the freedom of conscience they enjoyed in Leiden, the Pilgrims had two major complaints: They found it a hard place to maintain their English identity and an even harder place to make a living. In America, they hoped to live by themselves, enjoy the same degree of religious liberty and earn a “better and easier” living."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-pilgrims/2013/11/22/9f93e822-52c1-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.236db79b6936
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