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akg-images Virtual Watercooler

Week commencing 14th November

10 November 2022

Friday is here and so is the akg-images Virtual Watercooler with snippets of information to make you the premier conversationalist in your workplace. ​

Now that many of us are no longer working remotely, it's time to reacquaint yourself with the art of small talk. Scroll down for next week's topics.

14 November 1883. Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson, was first published in book form in London by Cassell and Company. Stevenson's description of a map with a red 'X' marking the location of buried treasure is what most of us imagine when we think of a treasure map. In fact, most of our apocryphal imaginings of pirates began with this book. ​ (Front cover of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Dated 19th Century. AKG6261583 © akg-images / World History Archive)
14 November 1883. Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson, was first published in book form in London by Cassell and Company. Stevenson's description of a map with a red 'X' marking the location of buried treasure is what most of us imagine when we think of a treasure map. In fact, most of our apocryphal imaginings of pirates began with this book. ​ (Front cover of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Dated 19th Century. AKG6261583 © akg-images / World History Archive)
15 November 1887 - "The Mother of American modernism", Georgia O'Keeffe was born. She is best known for her close-up paintings of flowers which have been interpreted as sexual, but in her own words, this was never O'Keeffe's intention - "Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small – we haven’t time – and to see takes time… So I said to myself – I’ll paint what I see – what the flower is to me, but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it." ​ TAP THE IMAGE FOR MORE. (Georgia O’Keeffe holding a painting, 1960. AKG5543747 © Tony Vacarro / akg-images)
15 November 1887 - "The Mother of American modernism", Georgia O'Keeffe was born. She is best known for her close-up paintings of flowers which have been interpreted as sexual, but in her own words, this was never O'Keeffe's intention - "Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small – we haven’t time – and to see takes time… So I said to myself – I’ll paint what I see – what the flower is to me, but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it." ​ TAP THE IMAGE FOR MORE. (Georgia O’Keeffe holding a painting, 1960. AKG5543747 © Tony Vacarro / akg-images)
15 November 1956 - Elvis Presley made his big-screen debut in Love Me Tender at age 21. Presley went on to make another 30 feature films, the most commercially successful being Viva Las Vegas in 1964. TAP THE IMAGE FOR MORE. (Elvis Presley “Love Me Tender”, 1956. AKG1914252 © akg-images / Album / 20th Century Fox)
15 November 1956 - Elvis Presley made his big-screen debut in Love Me Tender at age 21. Presley went on to make another 30 feature films, the most commercially successful being Viva Las Vegas in 1964. TAP THE IMAGE FOR MORE. (Elvis Presley “Love Me Tender”, 1956. AKG1914252 © akg-images / Album / 20th Century Fox)
17 November 1869 - The Suez Canal officially opened, reducing the shipping distance between Britain and India by some 4,500 miles, and eliminating the need to travel around southern Africa. French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi tried to convince the Egyptian government to let him build a sculpture called “Egypt Bringing Light to Asia” at its Mediterranean entrance. His vision of a 90-foot-tall statue of a woman clothed in Egyptian peasant robes and holding a massive torch would also have served as a lighthouse. His proposal was declined but Bartholdi continued shopping the idea for his statue, and in 1886 he finally unveiled a completed version in New York Harbour - The Statue of Liberty. ​ (Opening of the Suez Canal in the presence of Crown Prince Frederick William on 17th November 1869, by William Pape in 1900. AKG65888 ©akg-images)
17 November 1869 - The Suez Canal officially opened, reducing the shipping distance between Britain and India by some 4,500 miles, and eliminating the need to travel around southern Africa. French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi tried to convince the Egyptian government to let him build a sculpture called “Egypt Bringing Light to Asia” at its Mediterranean entrance. His vision of a 90-foot-tall statue of a woman clothed in Egyptian peasant robes and holding a massive torch would also have served as a lighthouse. His proposal was declined but Bartholdi continued shopping the idea for his statue, and in 1886 he finally unveiled a completed version in New York Harbour - The Statue of Liberty. ​ (Opening of the Suez Canal in the presence of Crown Prince Frederick William on 17th November 1869, by William Pape in 1900. AKG65888 ©akg-images)
18 November 1928 - Steamboat Willie was released by Walt Disney Studios. The film was Mickey Mouse's third outing, but the first to be released with synchronised sound which quickly rendered silent animation obsolete and launched the Disney empire. (Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie, the first cartoon short movie made with sound in 1928. AKG504718 © akg-images / Album / Walt Disney Pictures)
18 November 1928 - Steamboat Willie was released by Walt Disney Studios. The film was Mickey Mouse's third outing, but the first to be released with synchronised sound which quickly rendered silent animation obsolete and launched the Disney empire. (Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie, the first cartoon short movie made with sound in 1928. AKG504718 © akg-images / Album / Walt Disney Pictures)

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