Richard who won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony and Pulitzer

While I knew Richard Rodgers had talent and had won more than one award, the number that he actually was awarded is staggering. Born in New York, as a child his family moved to Upper Manhattan, and he actually grew up only a few blocks from both Oscar Hammerstein and Lorenz Hart who would later collaborate with him.

It was while studying at Columbia University that he met Lorenz Hart. The two worked in New York until the Depression when they moved west to Hollywood, working for MGM on several movies. It was during this time that “Blue Moon” was released. After the Depression, the two returned to New York where shows such as Jumbo, On Your Toes and Pal Joey were produced.

After Lorenz Hart died in 1943, Rodgers partnered with Oscar Hammerstein II. Their collaboration, Oklahoma! was ground-breaking in musical theatre as it was the first to include complex storylines and the first where songs were incorporate into the story rather than simply being diversions. The two were enormously successful with subsequent projects, with Forbes stating that they were the second-most successful dead entertainers in history.

So what were a few of the awards given to Rodgers:

1. Pulitzer Prize in Drama for South Pacific and for Oklahoma!
2. Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song for “It Might As Well Be Spring” from State Fair
3. Emmy for Winston Churchill the Valiant Years
4. Tony for Best Musical – Sound of Music and South Pacific
5. Tony for Best Original Score – No Strings, South Pacific
6. Grammy for Best Show Album for Sound of Music

In addition to all of these, he was one of the first recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors.

Constellation visible in Melbourne and Sydney

Orientation

The orientation and position of the cross in the sky are constantly changing. It appears to rotate around a point in space known as the South Celestial Pole (it is in fact the earth that is rotating). During the night the orientation of the constellation changes in a regular manner from upright, to lying sideways, to upside-down. Both its position and orientation change over the course of a year. At midnight on 1 April it is upright and high in the sky, but three months later it is lying on its side in the south-west. It will be found upside-down and low in the sky at midnight on 1 October, and at midnight on 1 January it will be lying on its side in the south-east.

Finding south

There is no bright pole star in the southern hemisphere sky that can be used to locate due south in the same way that Polaris indicates north in the northern hemisphere. Instead, there are various ways of locating south by the Southern Cross.

First use the Southern Cross to locate the South Celestial Pole, then drop a vertical line from the South Celestial Pole to the horizon – this marks due south.

First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1948

Omar Nelson “Brad” Bradley (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was a United States Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II, and a General of the Army. From the Normandy landings through the end of the war in Europe, Bradley had command of all U.S. ground forces invading Germany from the west; he ultimately commanded forty-three divisions and 1.3 million men, the largest body of American soldiers ever to serve under a U.S. field commander. After the war, Bradley headed the Veterans Administration and became Chief of Staff of the United States Army. In 1949, he was appointed the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the following year oversaw the policy-making for the Korean War, before retiring from active service in 1953.

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