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BIG TEX

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 06:29:15 +0000

BIG TEX

Big Tex, mascot cowboy 52 meters above the State Fair of Texas until Friday when the fire breaking suspect electrical, reducing the activity structure only a little more charred skeletal framework.

But people who give voice mascot Big Tex said, inviting visitors to the State Fair for 60 years, often with a wave and a booming “Howdy” back and put everything in place next year.

Smoke was seen floating head Big Tex Friday morning, two days before the close of the fair this year. Fire quickly flooded his body and burned his cowboy hat, face, body and legs.

“People walking around the art fair,” said spokeswoman Debbie Flatt right. “Big Tex is like a family.”

Fire believed caused by an electrical malfunction started a figure start, fair officials said in a statement.

State Fair crews could not save the fiberglass pet handbags and belt buckle and the timing of 3 tons, is 4,200 feet of steel rods, Flatt said.

Bill Bragg, located in a room near Big Tex and gives a voice to pets, told reporters that the Big Tex will return next year.

Bill Bragg elected State Fair of Texas (26 January 2002) to voice “BIG TEX!” 52 meters high statue, which was the official mascot of the State Fair of Texas, implement celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2002.

Tex wears size 70 boots and cowboy hat is a massive 75 liters Stetson. Bill “pipes”, will not only be heard through the park 50 acres that booming voice “BIG TEX”, but will also welcome visitors who call the Information Line State Fair, the fair each year (late September-October) 214 / 565 – 9931st Bill is one of the seven (7) persons who exercised voice in the reign of 5o TEX Fair great state of Texas!

HISTORY OF BIG TEX

1949 is designed for 52 m high “Santa Claus” 10 November 1949, the company Christmas shopping Kerens, Navarro County, Texas reinforcement.

“A man with a plan” Howell was a deficit, then Secretary of Kerens Chamber of Commerce.

Click here to learn more and to see a rare picture of Santa Santa.Originální is modeled after Mr. Hardy Mayo, local buyers with broad shoulders, long arms, who stood 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighed 270 pounds.

Click here for more information about the Hardy family in Mayo.

1950 1950 After Christmas, the novelty wore off, and 52 foot giant was transported 60 miles from Dallas, Texas State Fair of Texas and sells for $ 750.00.

1952 mannequin transformed into a giant cowboy has changed its name and character narodil.

Velký BIG TEX debuted in late October married the same year as the official symbol of the Great State Fair of Texas! Several changes in the face and body, found that the first year, and Tex (with his trademark clothes western) to grow during the year.

Dallas artist Jack Bridges and bicycle designers face BIG TEX job. Mr. Bridges is using a picture of your face photo rancher Doc Simmons and Will Rogers picture, new look.

1953 BIG Tex conversation for the first time! In the past year, six (6) other people’s voice, but the most remembered voice of Jim Lowe do.

Mr. Lowe is a pioneer broadcaster in Dallas, and has a top speed morning radio WRR-AM for many years. BIG Tex says “Howdy” about 60 times a day during the State Fair every year.

1997 original and reconstructed body such skeleton is a grid of steel rods in the 4,200 m

2000 BIG TEX was able to move for the first time, and started waving at the State Fair millions of visitors each year passes on the way to the famous “Million Dollar Midway”

2001 Visitors spent a record 21.4 million dollars on food and amusement rides at the great State Fair of Texas.

2002 BIG TEX turned 50, got an all new wardrobe and a new voice.

Yesterday USA Radio Founder Bill Bragg was chosen as the seventh (7th) person to perform the voice of BIG TEX!

”While I can’t speak for the State Fair, I will say that I hope to beat Jim Lowe’s record of doing the voice for 30 plus years”. “Doing TEX is the number one announcing job in Texas and I am deeply honored to have the opportunity”, says Bragg

vital statistics

HEIGHT: 52 Feet

WEIGHT: 6,000 Pounds

HAT: 75 Gallon, measuring 5 feet high

SHIRT: The Williamson-Dickie Company will cover TEX’s 30 foot chest with a shirt that has a 100 inch neck and 181 inch long sleeves.

This is 600 times larger than the shirts they sell in the stores.

The buttons are 3 and a half inches in diameter and the shirt contains 70 yards of blue denim and 80 yards of awning material.

It took 2 weeks and a team of 8 workers to make the shirt at the Dickies work-ware plant in Fort Worth, Texas.

BELT: 23 feet long, with a 50 pound buckle

PANTS: Size 284W x 185L. The rivets are 3 and a half inches in diameter, the inseam is 200 inches, the fly is 56 inches long and his pants weigh a total of 65 pounds. And, the Dickies’ folks worked a week to sew the new pants.

BOOTS: Size 70, measuring 7 foot 7 inches high

FUN FACTS

Charles Noland and a crew of 7 people will use a giant crane to stand BIG TEX upright. Fans have been installed inside the body to cool the workers, who must crawl inside TEX in order to disconnect the crane and attach him to the platform.

While BIG TEX is the undisputed “world’s tallest Texan”, he does have a “little brother” of sorts in Canyon, Texas.

Sylvia Kristel

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:39:31 +0000

Sylvia Kristel

Sylvia Kristel

Sylvia Kristel, who has died aged 60, starred in a series of notorious 1970s soft-porn films beginning with Emmanuelle (1974), which followed the sexual exploits of a bored young diplomat’s wife in the fleshpots of Thailand.

Promoted under the slogan “X was never like this”, the film generated numerous profitable sequels and countless imitations, thanks to Sylvia Kristel’s erotic portrayal of the half-innocent, half sex-crazed Emmanuelle as she gambols naked, joins the “mile-high club”, simulates oral sex, fumbles with other women and fakes orgasm.

Though clumsily directed, badly acted and with risible, badly-dubbed dialogue, to audiences of the early 1970s Emmanuelle looked like the last word in liberated sexuality.

Made when Sylvia Kristel was 22, the film became a sensation, with worldwide audiences estimated at some 650 million.

In France, where it was originally banned for six months, Emmanuelle became the country’s highest-grossing film of all time and was screened at a cinema on the Champs-Elysées in Paris for an unbroken nine years.

Sylvia Kristel also starred in a series of sequels — Emmanuelle 2 in 1975, Goodbye Emmanuelle in 1977 and Emmanuelle 4 in 1984.

“I realised that the public had been deeply affected by Emmanuelle,” she declared, “and wanted to prolong their fantasy, to keep me within it, symbolic and naked, idealised and necessary.”

But her career in sex films drew her down into a netherworld of moguls on the make, who cast her in a succession of even more tawdry pictures that sought to cash in on her reputation as a sex-kitten.

Her autobiography, published in English as Undressing Emmanuelle (2007), also disclosed a turbulent personal life blighted by addictions to drugs and alcohol, and her search for a father figure which had resulted in several abusive relationships with older men.

She had been scratching a living as a clerk to supplement her earnings as a struggling young actress when she was cast in the title role of the original Emmanuelle.

The film was promoted by a photograph of Sylvia Kristel seated topless in a wicker chair, toying suggestively with a string of pearls.

“At last,” ran the caption, “a film that won’t make you feel bad about feeling good.”

In 1977, as she sought to reinvent her acting career in Hollywood, she began a turbulent affair with the British actor Ian McShane, best-known as the cavalier antiques dealer Lovejoy in the successful television series, whom she met on the set of the film The Fifth Musketeer.

The couple lived together in Los Angeles, where Sylvia Kristel took a cameo role as an air stewardess in Airport ’79.

By then she had begun using cocaine, which she described as a “supervitamin”.

McShane once said of Sylvia Kristel that she was unable to walk and talk at the same time; she returned the compliment in her autobiography, observing that he was too short to become a major star and revealing how she had miscarried the baby she was expecting by him after a fight led to her falling down the stairs.

But drugs and alcoholism, combined with management problems, eventually sent her career into terminal decline.

When The Daily Telegraph writer Mick Brown interviewed her in 2007, she was living alone in a tiny flat above a café in Amsterdam, taking the occasional acting job to pay her bills.

“The innocence has long since fled,” he noted, “but the ghost of beauty still haunts her face.”

One of three children of a hotelier, Sylvia Kristel was born in Utrecht on September 28 1952 and brought up in the city’s Station Hotel by alcoholic parents who would turf Sylvia and her younger sister out of their beds if the hotel was full and a late guest arrived, putting them into a stuffy box-room instead.

As a child Sylvia suffered the unwelcome attentions of a hotel manager who, on different occasions, stabbed her with a fork and bound her wrists before licking her face.

Her parents divorced when she was 14 and she remained haunted by the memory of catching her father in bed with another woman.

On completing her convent school education Sylvia took a series of dead-end office jobs, supplementing her wages by taking assignments as a photographic model.

As a child she had displayed an urge towards exhibitionism, dancing naked on the hotel restaurant tables to the astonishment of passers-by (her grandmother, concluding that she was irredeemably vain, would cover the mirrors with newspaper), and in the early 1970s she acted in a handful of mildly titillating films.

She first appeared nude in Because of the Cats (1973), a Dutch-English co-production, and the same year, encouraged by her mother, won the Miss TV Europe contest.

The following year she was approached by the film producer Yves Rousset-Rouard, who had bought the rights to Emmanuelle, a 1950s novel by Emmanuelle Arsan.

Sylvia had no difficulty convincing the director, the improbably-named Just Jaeckin, that she was perfect for the title role, despite not looking remotely like the long-haired Eurasian of the book.

Having signed a three-picture contract, Sylvia Kristel negotiated a fee approaching $100,000 to star in the sequel, Emmanuelle, The Joys Of A Woman (better known as Emmanuelle 2), in the following year.

She went on to make other films with Roger Vadim (with whom she had an affair) and Claude Chabrol, and co-starred with Gérard Depardieu (with whom she also had an affair) in René La Canne (1976). Inevitably, too, she added a notch to the bedpost of Warren Beatty.

But, as she recalled, people preferred seeing her naked, and she was repeatedly typecast in the role of seductress, notably as Constance Chatterley in an adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1981) and in Mata Hari (1985), a film biography of the First World War spy, in which she played the title role.

She appeared as Agent 34-26-34 in The Nude Bomb in 1980, and the following year played a housemaid who seduces a 15-year-old boy in the controversial sex comedy Private Lessons, one of the highest grossing independent films of 1981.

In a television documentary, Hunting Emmanuelle, in 2006, she described how her cocaine habit caused her to make several errors of judgment, including her decision on an impulse to sell her interest in Private Lessons to her agent for $150,000; the film went on to gross more than $26 million in the United States alone.

When her Hollywood career fizzled out in the late 1980s, she returned to Europe and dabbled as an artist, exhibiting her work in Los Angeles, Brussels and Amsterdam.

With her second husband, a paparazzo photographer and film producer, Phillipe Blot, whose projects she helped to finance, she made a motorcycling film called The Arrogant, and another called Dracula’s Widow (both 1988).

But by the time they divorced she was so badly in debt that the bailiffs were called in and she lost her apartment in Los Angeles, and houses in Holland, Paris and Ramatuelle on the French Riviera.

When she wrote to ask for the return of a few family photos the bailiffs refused on the ground that her “personal souvenirs may have a market value’.

To earn money for herself, she agreed to make a further Emmanuelle film, Emmanuelle 7 (1993), this time cast as a business-suited brothel madam, in which all the sex scenes were performed by younger actors.

A heavy smoker since the age of 11, Sylvia Kristel was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2001.

Cancer was also detected in a lung the following year, but she was given the all-clear following an operation.

In June this year she was taken to hospital in Amsterdam after suffering a stroke, which forced the postponement of further treatment, for cancer of the liver.

Sylvia Kristel’s first marriage, which was brief, was to an American businessman.

After her marriage to Phillippe Blot, she lived for 10 years with a Belgian radio producer, Freddy De Vree, who died in 2004.

She is survived by her partner, Peter Brul, and a son from an early relationship with Hugo Claus, a Belgian artist and writer.

Sylvia Kristel, born September 28 1952, died October 17 2012

STUDENT OF THE YEAR

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:30:43 +0000

STUDENT OF THE YEAR

Film: Student of the year
Cast: Sidharth Malhotra, Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan, Rishi Kapoor and Ronit Roy
Director: Karan Johar
Rating: **1/2

A Harry Potter locale, Jaane Tu… Ya Jaane Na-style storytelling, the melodious styling of High School Musical, inspiration from Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar and the typical Johar drama, that’s Student of the Year.Despite being an uncanny mix of all these characterstics, K Jo manages to hold your attention throughout the film.

SOTY is set in St Teresa’s High School (St T’s as they call it) in Dehradun, the most reputed school in the country, where students either come from a filthy rich background, or are on scholarship – the Tatas and the Batas, they say. Here kids either drive a Ferrari or stylish bikes; girls don miniskirts, designer clothes and are dressed well enough for a party each day; and flirting, dating, break ups, patch ups are all a part of their normal life. But every year, the students compete for one competition with all their might – Student of the year.

Rohan Nanda (Varun Dhawan) is a typical spoilt kid. His father is the biggest business tycoon in the country and is a trustee of St. T’s. Shanaya Singhania (Alia Bhatt) is a glamorous but innocent young girl who has only fashion designers on her mind and comes from a broken home. Rohan and Shanaya are childhood sweethearts. Shanaya loves attention, and Rohan gives her just what she wants. But she is quite aware of his flirtatious behaviour. Life is perfect till Abhimanyu Singh (Malhotra) enters their world with an entry like that of Hrithik Roshan in K3G (rememberDeewana Hai Dekho?). No, he’s not as rich…he is an orphan who is in St. T’s on a sports scholarship. Of course the popular rich brat has ego clashes with this small town boy, but they land up becoming best friends till love tears them apart.

Rohan and Abhimanyu are inseparable as they confide in each other, their deepest secrets. While both suffer when it comes to family matters, they are the most popular students of St T’s. Abhimanyu and Shanaya fall for each other, and hell breaks loose, all this, while they compete for Student of the year title with vigour.

SOTY is not a new story – two boys fall for one girl and compete for one trophy. The characters are archetypal – a rich brat becomes friends with abechara garib boy and in between is the K3G’s naive Poo-type blonde. It’s the presentation that attracts you and the stellar performances that grab your attention. One thing is clear – it is not a realistic script. Then again, the filmmakers of SOTY never promised it would be one, unlike other filmmakers these days.

K Jo has done a marvelous job when it comes to grooming these three debutants in their acting skills. Though Alia has very little role to play, with all the attention on the leading boys. She leaves a mark with her glamorous presence. K Jo does a fab job in presenting her as a doll. Varun shines throughout the movie with a very a resilient performance. His dancing skills are commendable. Malhotra too has done an extremely good job and his presence is strongly felt throughout the film.

The other characters are a treat to watch. Rishi Kapoor steals the show as a happy and gay (literally) principle of St T’s. He has once again proved that he is not just a brilliant actor, but a versatile artist. Others like Ronit Roy, Ram Kapoor and Farida Jalal are established performers and have done justice to their roles.

Karan Johar’s direction is commendable, as always. Yet it fails to bring anything new to the movie. The entire film has K Jo’s trademarks which makes it more or less like a combination of all his previous films. Ayananka Bose’s cinematography blends well with the larger-than-life setting. The editing is smooth.

The songs are the high points of the film. Alia’s introduction with Gulabi aankhein and other songs like Yeh chaand sa roshan chehra, Radha, Disco deewane are all chart busters. Vishal-Shekhar deserve a a plaudits for these foot-tapping numbers. The choreography of each number is quite admirable. Ishq Wala Love, the romantic track has excellent music, but could’ve been better if the lyrics made any sense.

All in all, SOTY is not something you would want to miss if the surreal setting with bubble gum romance is your calling. The performances make this film a great watch. It’s a treat for all K Jo fans and if you didn’t really enjoy Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, K3G and other such films by the director, you can easily skip this one.

Spoiler alert: Watch out for the Amar Singh look-alike who tells his son “you can either be rich, or a chamcha”.

Union Public Service Commission Various Vacancies Results-2012

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:10:23 +0000

Union Public Service Commission Various Vacancies Results-2012

The following Recruitment Results ended at Union Public Service Commission for August, 2012. The recommended candidates will be informed individually by post. The use of other candidates were duly considered but regretted that it was not possible to ask for an interview advice /in its place.

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AP High Court Masters/Personal Secretaries Exam Results-2012

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 14:05:25 +0000

AP High Court Masters/Personal Secretaries Exam Results-2012

The following candidates attended the written Examination of test keys on 10.13.2012, and is Meritorious, related to recruitment POST court Masters / Personal Secretaries Sat Hon’ble Judges and registrars, IN Heed Warnings NO.51/2012 and circular ROCNO.6396/2012 dated 13-07-2012 is required to attend the oral Interviews will lead to 6th floor Management Following a Supreme Court Ap, SA date will appear like this.

Candidates will learn that their original Registered, hall ticket and call letter verifying Sat Time of interview.

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APPSC Lecturers Written Exam Results-2012

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:33:29 +0000

APPSC Lecturers Written Exam Results-2012

It is hereby notified that on the basis of the results of the Written Examination held on 09/06/2012 to the post of LECTURERS IN GOVERNMENT DEGREE COLLEGES IN A.P COLLEGIATE EDUCATION SERVICE the candidates with the following Register Numbers have been provisionally picked up for the ORAL TEST (Interview), subject to fulfilling the conditions regarding eligibility and other aspects to the recruitment and subject to outcome of Court Cases, if any The candidates are required to produce the Original Certificates along with one set of copies relating to Age (SSC), Qualifications, Community (Integrated), latest Creamy Layer.

Exemption certificate in case of BCs as per G.O.Ms.No. 3 BC(W) (C2) Dept. dt. 04/04/2006 (prescribed format hosted on website), Certificate relating to claim of age relaxation, and other relevant certificates, at the time of verification of documents, failing which they will not be admitted for interview.

No extension of time will be given for production of original certificates for any reason, whatsoever. The verification of the certificates will be held at 8.00AM in the Commission’s Office from 31/10/2012.

Only eligible candidates will be allowed for the Oral Test to be held at 10.30AM on the same day.

The Interview schedule will be placed in the Website separately. The candidates should download the Interview Call letter (Memo), Revised Vacancy Position, Check lists, Attestation Forms and other relevant forms from the Commission’s website www.apspsc.gov.in from 20/10/2012 and should submit at the time of verification of the certificates.

If, on further verification it is found that any candidate is not eligible with reference to the particulars furnished by him/her in the Application Form / Certificates, the candidature of such candidate / candidates shall be cancelled at any stage in the process of selection.

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Andhra Bank PO Results-2012

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:27:30 +0000

Andhra Bank PO Results-2012

Andhra Bank Results 2012 – PO Results: Andhra Bank has published final results for the post of Probationary Officers Recruitment Project 2012-13. Attended candidates can check their result at below link…

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RRB Jammu Various Vacancies Written Exam Results-2012

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:04:21 +0000

RRB Jammu Various Vacancies Written Exam Results-2012

Railway Recruitment Board (RRB), Jammu is likely to release its written exam 2012 result for recruitment of Depot Material Superintendent (DMS) in Grade- I and III, Stenographer and Sr. P WaySupervisor for its railway offices in this zone.

Written examination was held on April 22, 2012 for filling up this vacancy in Indian Railways.

Now, Candidates those who appeared on written examination held by RRB Jammu for DMS/Stenographer / Sr. P Way Supervisor will be able to check their RRB Jammu Written Exam 2012 Result very soon.

Candidates are recommended to be in touch with us for all further notifications from Railway Recruitment Board Jammu.

We will update here your RRB DMS / Stenographer/ Sr. P Way Supervisor Exam 2012 result very soon here on IndiaMash.

We will activate and update the below RRB Result link as soon as it is officially published by Railway Recruitment Board.

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Herman Melville

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 06:03:37 +0000

Herman Melville

As Herman Melville books go, ‘Moby Dick‘ is widely considered to be his magnum opus. But early reviews trashed the book. Why did the literary world change its mind?

Google celebrated the 161st anniversary of Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” on Thursday.

The book holds a very important place in English literature. A survey of 100 authors from 54 countries named “Moby Dick” as one of the 100 best books of all time, alongside Homer’s “Odyssey” and Dante’s “The Divine Comedy.”

But public opinion was very different 161 years ago.

When “Moby Dick” debuted in 1851, reviewers trashed it. Many argued that it wasn’t even one of Melville’s best books.

“Moby Dick” tells the story of a sailor – call him Ishmael. He finds himself aboard a whaling ship led by Captain Ahab, a peg-legged man with a single mission: Hunt down and kill the whale that took his leg. But as they chase the ferocious Moby Dick, Ahab’s determination soon descends into madness.

Melville laced the book with intricate symbolism and complex themes.

The book explores social status, the destructive power of obsession, the existence of God, good and evil, and whether animals can have human characteristics.

At times, “Moby Dick” dives into these themes with long passages that have nothing to do with the central plot.

Ahab, in particular, has a way of spinning off into lengthy speeches about life and the universe.

Some universities spend entire semesters digging into this weighty novel – dissecting its metaphors and examining its layers of philosophy.

But when Melville debuted “Moby Dick” in the United Kingdom in October 1851 (the book reached American shores a month later), many British reviewers dismissed it.

“This is an ill-compounded mixture of romance and matter-of-fact,” wrote the London Athenaeum at the time.

“The idea of a connected and collected story has obviously visited and abandoned its writer again and again in the course of composition.

The style of his tale is in places disfigured by mad (rather than bad) English; and its catastrophe is hastily, weakly, and obscurely managed.”

The London Spectator wrote that Ahab’s long soliloquies ”induce weariness or skipping.”Ouch.

Sales bombed. “Moby Dick” sold only 500 copies in the United Kingdom, compared to 6,700 for Melville’s first book, “Typee.”

The book faired better in the US, where reviewers appreciated Melville’s originality and complexity.

Still, “Moby Dick” sold fewer copies during Melville’s life than any of his five previous books.

So why do we now revere “Moby Dick”?

Shortly after Melville’s death in 1891, his publisher reprinted several of his novels, including “Moby Dick.

” These new editions excited New York’s literary scene.

Like long-smoldering embers, this underground movement kept Melville’s name alive.

Eventually, the flame spread.

So much discussion surrounded “Moby Dick” that many people gave the book a second chance.

“The 1920s marked the start of a Melville revival among critics and readers,” says PBS in its history of Melville. “By the 1940s, Americans at last recognized his genius.

His reputation has since spread throughout the world.”

The Google homepage today depicts a white whale, a choppy sea, and a skiff captained by a one-legged harpooner.

The doodle, of course, is an homage to “Moby Dick,” which was first published 161 years ago, by Herman Melville.

So who was Melville, exactly? Only one of the titans of modern literature – and a writer responsible, in the words of Nathaniel Philbrick, for “what is generally considered the greatest American novel ever written.”

Melville was born in 1819, in New York, the third of eight children.

As a boy, he was hired to help staff a ship running between the United States and Liverpool,England.

In 1841, he signed on with the crew of the whaling vessel Acushnet and spent several months in the Pacific.

He deserted in the Marquesas Islands, in modern-day Polynesia, and explored Tahiti and Hawaii, before sailing back to the Eastern seaboard.

Later, Melville would mine his experience in the Pacific for the novels “Typee,” “White-Jacket,” and “Omoo: A Narrative of the South Seas.”

“Omoo” and “Typee,” particularly, sold well. In 1850, Melville moved with his young wife, Elizabeth, to a farm in Pittsfield, Mass. He raised a small family – he and Elizabeth had four children in all – and set to work on the long novel that would become “Moby Dick.”

During that time, he befriended the writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, who lived nearby – and to whom Melville eventually dedicated “Moby Dick

” Hawthorne encouraged his younger friend, and may even have helped Melville shape the content and tone of the novel.

Hawthorne praised “Moby Dick” – the story of a white sperm whale and his pursuer, the one-legged Captain Ahab – Melville wrote him a letter that burbles over with giddy happiness.

“A sense of unspeakable security is in me this moment, on account of your having understood the book,” Melville declared.

“I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and dine with you and all the gods in old Rome’s Pantheon.”

“Moby Dick” was published in England in October of 1851 and in the US the following month.

Despite Melville’s high hopes for the novel, the book was slow to catch on. According to PBS, during Melville’s lifetime, the book sold only 3,000 copies.

By comparison, “Typee” sold 6,000 copies in two years.

Melville wrote a few more novels, including the very fine “Pierre,” but he struggled to attain the commercial success of his early career.

In 1856, Melville visited Hawthorne in England, where Hawthorne was working at the American consulate.

Hawthorne was shocked by the state of his old friend.

Melville, Hawthorne concluded, “no doubt has suffered from too constant literary occupation, pursued without much success, latterly; and his writings, for a long while past, have indicated a morbid state of mind… [Melville] informed me that he had ‘pretty much made up his mind to be annihilated’; but still he does not seem to rest in that anticipation; and, I think, will never rest until he gets hold of a definite belief.”

Back in the US, Melville temporarily lectured to support his family, and in 1863, took the extraordinary step of moving back to New York to become a customs inspector. He died in 1891, at the age of 72.

It was only many years later, in the early 20th century, that a group of scholars and writers helped bring to “Moby Dick” the canonical status that it enjoys today.

Herman Melville, an American author, poet and essayist well known for his classic novel Moby Dick, is the subject of the latest Google doodle.

Herman was born on 1 August 1819 to Maria Gansevoort and Allan Melville and was the third son of the eight children in the family.

He was raised in a rather financially and emotionally unstable environment.

In an attempt to improve the family situation, Allan, an import merchant, moved to Albany with his family in 1830 to start a fur business.

However, the venture failed miserably overseas and Allan was forced to declare bankruptcy. He died early at the age of 40 leaving nothing for his family behind.

Melville went to the Albany Academy, where he studied classics.

But his schooling was quite discontinuous.

He studied for a year from 1830-31 and then came back in 1836-37. In between, he went to work on his uncle’s farm in Massachusetts, but not for long.

He eventually travelled back to New York and secured his place as cabin boy on a New York ship bound to Liverpool.

Once he was back, Herman also worked in various jobs including banking and teaching to support his family, but was highly dissatisfied.

A turning point for Herman came when he set sail aboard the whaling ship Acushnet in 1841.

Melville stayed at the Marquesas Islands with his friend Richard Tobias Greene, who provided him with the much needed information for his future novels.

Based on his sea-faring adventures and stays in Polynesia and Tahiti, Melville wrote Typee and Omoo, which were first published in 1847 in England.

This was followed by his next novel Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, published in two volumes in 1849.

Mardi: and a Voyage Thither captured the essence of his Polynesian adventure also reflecting much of Melville’s own life on ships and the South Seas.

Another semi-autobiographical novel Redburn: His First Voyage was published in 1849, which was categorised as a comedy. But Melville’s writings weren’t appreciated much amongst the reading fraternity and did not generate enough revenue for his family’s sustenance.

Melville married Elizabeth Shaw in 1847 and they had four children.

They moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, which was their home for the next 13 years.

It was here that he got acquainted with Nathaniel Hawthorne and they became great friends.

Melville now focussed on his writing and finally completed his masterpiece Moby Dick in 1851, which initially got rather tepid reviews.

Melville wrote many other novels including White Jacket (1850), The Encantadas; or, Enchanted Isles (novella, 1854), Israel Potter (1855), Piazza Tales (1856), and The Confidence Man (1857).

During the 1850s, Melville supported his family by farming and writing stories for magazines.

He later traveled to Europe, where he saw his friend Hawthorne for the last time. By 1856, Melville realised that his novel-writing career was finished.

He returned to New York and stopped writing fiction.

For the next 20 years, Melville worked as a customs inspector and delved into poetry.

Battle Pieces (1866) was well-received. Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land (1876) was followed by his collection John Marr and Other Poems (1888) and Timoleon (1891).

Herman Melville died of a heart attack on September 28, 1891, at the age of 72. At that time, he was almost completely forgotten by all but a few admirers.

Herman Melville is the subject of Thursday’s Google doodle, marking the 161st anniversary of the popular novel Moby-Dick.

The plot of Moby-Dick (which is also known as The Whale) revolves around the escapades of sailor Ishmael, who sets off on a voyage on the “whaleship” Pequod.

Captain Ahab is the captain of this ship and the purpose of his journey is to find Moby-Dick, so he can extract revenge.

Moby-Dick is a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale that had destroyed Ahab’s boat and bit off his leg during a previous voyage.

Among Ahab’s crew is Ishmael, a young man undergoing a gruelling rite of passage and pursuing a different salvation.

As the Pequod circles the globe like a latter-day Noah’s Ark, so Moby Dick ranges and digresses through space and time, through mythologies, religions and philosophies.

Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819 in New York City.

Melville went to the Albany Academy, where he studied the classics.

But his schooling was quite discontinuous. He also tried his hands at various jobs but nothing seemed to catch his fancy.

However, things changed for this great novelist in 1841, when he set sail on the whaling ship Acushnet.

Melville stayed at the Marquesas Islands with his friend Richard Tobias Greene, who provided him with the much needed information for his future novels.

Melville’s first work as an author was Typee that was published in 1846.

He also wrote a sequel to it, Omoo, that was published in 1847.

Both these novels are based on his own adventures while Melville was in Polynesia and Tahiti.

Herman Melville was already an accomplished writer when he wrote down Moby Dick.

His earlier works had earned him quite a bit of fame and Melville was confident that Moby-Dick would be his most sought after book.

However, he was in for a shock as critics gave thumbs down to this book on its release.

The book got its due share of appreciation only a year after Melville’s death and got another boost after the First World War ended.

In his 1921 study The American Novel, Carl Van Doren called Moby-Dick “a pinnacle of American romanticism.”

To reach out to the current generation, the audio recording of Moby-Dick novel was released recently.

Celebrities such as David Cameron, Stephen Fry and Sir David Attenborough have recorded a chapter for this audio version.

The doodle today illustrates a scene from the novel. It shows Captain Ahab, along with the Pequod crew, getting ready to attack Moby-Dick with a harpoon.

Herman Melville’s great American classic Moby Dick is being honored by Google’s latest Doodle.

With a white sperm whale looming in the background, the woodcut like tribute depicts a scene from the novel in which Captain Ahab commandeers a boat with harpoon in hand, ready to strike.

The doodle coincides with the 161st anniversary of Melville’s landmark novel.

Clicking on the Doodle takes users to a Google search of Herman Melville, who was born August 1, 1819 in New York and died on September 28, 1891 at the age of 72.

Although first released in London as a three volume edition on October 18, 1851, it was soon picked up by New York based publisher Harper and Brothers — which consolidated it into a single novel named Moby Dick exactly one month later.

The book is about the sad story of Captain Ahab and his obsession with the whale that took his leg.

A tale of revenge, the novel explores concepts of social class, morality and the existence of God and ultimately our purpose in the universe.

Though it was underappreciated in Melville’s time, his masterpiece would eventually become a centerpiece in the Western canon, considered by many as one of the great American novels.

Though this edition of Google Doodle isn’t as involved as others — like the playable edition of Pac-Man — others are picking up the slack, such as this video that animates the scene.