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"Muradup is a small town in the Great Southern region of Western Australia located between Kojonup and Boyup Brook. The town is situated along the Balgarup River. Settlers had appeared in the area in the 1850s but it was not until 1899 that land was set aside for a townsite. The Shire of Kojonup requested for lots to be surveyed in 1905; this was carried out in 1906 and the town was gazetted in 1907 as Muradupp. More land was opened for selection in the area in 1909. A railway siding existed in the town on the Kojonup to Bridgetown line. In 1913 the local progress association asked for a school to be erected on a block that had been set aside in the town. The lands department changed the name of the town from Muradupp to Muradup after deciding the double P at the end of the name was superfluous. Land was granted in the area to returned soldiers in 1918. The first soldier to receive land was O. Fitzpatrick, who received 1,160 acres of land that had been confiscated from an "alien enemy subject" who had been interned. The town was named after the nearby Mooradupp pool, which was first recorded in 1846 when the area was surveyed. The name is Aboriginal in origin but the meaning is not known. References Category:Great Southern (Western Australia) "
"Larry Abramson (; born 1954) is a South African-born Israeli artist. Biography Larry Abramson was born in 1954 in South Africa. In 1961, his family immigrated to Israel and settled in Jerusalem. In 1970, as a high school senior, he was one of the signators of a conscientious objectors to Israeli rejection of Egyptian President Nasser's peace initiative. In 1973 Abramson studied a Foundation Course at the Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. Upon his return to Israel he took a position as printer and curator of exhibitions at the Jerusalem Print Workshop, where he worked for nine years, until 1986. Art career Abramson's first solo exhibition was in 1975. His work during the 1980s dealt with a variety of iconic symbols from modernist European art, particularly the "Black Square" by Kazimir Malevich, which he used to create dynamic situations combining abstraction and a figurative art idiom. During 1993 and 1994 Abramson created the series of work "tsooba," which was exhibited at the Kibbutz Art Gallery, Tel Aviv. The series was composed of 38 landscape paintings (oil on canvas), 38 impressions on newspaper of the landscape paintings, and a group of still life paintings after samples of flora taken from the site. This series relates to a mound of ruins near Kibbutz Tzova, a site which was painted a decade earlier by the artist Joseph Zaritsky. While Zaritsky ignored the Palestinian ruins found on the site and thus abstracted the landscape, Abramson painted the view realistically and then defaced it. By "seeing" the ruins of the Palestinian village, he criticizes the Israeli point of view which seeks to erase the Palestinian identity from the appropriated territory. In 1984, Abramson joined the teaching staff of the art department of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. In 1992 he was appointed head of the Fine Art department, and in 1996 he founded and headed the Bezalel Program for Young Artists (Master of Fine Art). In 2000 and 2003 he was invited as guest lecturer at the San Francisco Art Institute, and in 2002 he joined the academic team planning the establishment of a new art department at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Ramat Gan, Israel. In May 2002 Abramson published in the journal Studio an article entitled "We Are All Felix Nussbaum", in which he raised the problematic relationship between art and history in the post- Holocaust era. In 2005 Abramson mounted an exhibition of works under the name "The Pile" which included charcoal drawings of piles of construction debris, relating to the issue of representation of ruins in art and the figure of Jewish-German painter Felix Nussbaum. This series was exhibited at the Felix Nussbaum Haus Museum in Osnabrück, (Germany) and at the Chaim Atar Museum of Art on Kibbutz Ein Harod in the Jezreel Valley. In 2007 Abramson held an exhibition of recent paintings at the Gordon Gallery in Tel Aviv, and in 2010 an extensive retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Awards and recognition * 1979 The Beatrice S. Kolliner Award for a Young Israeli Artist, Israel Museum, Jerusalem * 1988 America Israel Cultural Foundation * 1991 Jacques Ohana Prize, Tel Aviv Museum of Art * 1993 Sharet Award for Culture and Art, Science, Culture and Sport Minister of Israel * 1998 The Minister of Education, Culture Prize, Ministry of Culture and Education * 2007 Mendel and Eva Pundik Prize for Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art Gallery File:Larry Abramson, Nevo, 1984.jpgNevo, 1984 acrylic on canvas private collection Image:B94 0723 a-h~Larry Abramson-Fro the series Beams.jpgBeam XXIII (From the series "Beams"), 1992 Israel Museum Collection B94.0723 Image:Larry Abramson 002.jpgHevel, 1989-1990 Israel Museum Collection B94.0029 Image:Abramson, larry, return of the black square~b92 1558 1.jpgReturn of the Black Square IV, 1990 Israel Museum Collection B92.1558 Image:Abramson, Larry, Column VII, 1988~B90_0049_1.jpgColumn VII, 1988 Israel Museum Collection B90.0049 File:Larry Abramson, from tsooba, 1993-94.jpgfrom tsoba, 1993-4 oil on canvas private collection Image:Larry Abramson, tsoba, 1993-1994.jpgfrom tsoba, 1993-4 impression on newspaper no.XIV private collection File:Larry Abramson, Panic III.jpgPanic III, 2009 oil on canvas Collection of Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv Image:Larry Abramson, Israel-Palestine I, 2010.jpgIsrael-Palestine I, 2010 oil and acrylic on canvas See also Visual arts in Israel References External links * * * *Larry Abramson at Gordon Gallery website *Larry Abramson at the Jerusalem Print Workshop website Category:1954 births Category:Israeli painters Category:Jewish artists Category:Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design faculty Category:Jewish Israeli artists Category:South African emigrants to Israel Category:South African Jews Category:Living people "
"Bert Gordon (April 8, 1895 - November 30, 1974) was an American comedian and voice actor who appeared in vaudeville, radio, and occasionally films. Gordon was born Barney Gorodetsky. He appeared in many roles over his lengthy career and was known by the moniker "The Mad Russian". He was a regular on The Eddie Cantor Program, and also appeared on The Jack Benny Program, and The Abbott and Costello Program. In 1945 he starred in his own film vehicle, How Doooo You Do!!!, directed by Ralph Murphy; the film takes its title from Gordon's distinctive way of introducing himself, which became a catch phrase in the early 1940s. Gordon played himself in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show in 1964 along with several other radio-era performers.The Return of Edwin Carp - Season 3 : Ep. 27 of the Dick Van Dyke Showe In popular culture Gordon's character was parodied a number of times in Warner Bros. cartoons, including: *Bob Clampett's What's Cookin' Doc? (1944), in which Bugs Bunny wins a "Booby Prize Oscar", and tells it "I'll take youse to bed with me every night,", upon which the Oscar-like statue comes to life and says, in The Mad Russian's voice, "Do you mean it?".Beck, Jerry and Friedwald, Will. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoon. New York, Henry Holt, 1989. p.147"A Tale of Two Gordons" on the WFMU website *Clampett's Russian Rhapsody (1944), in which a "Gremlin from the Kremlin" says "How do you doooo" with Gordon's inflections before hitting Hitler with a mallet. *Clampett's Hare Ribbin' (1944), in which the Gordon character, voiced by Sammy Wolfe, is a dog with red hair who chases Bugs Bunny.Beck, Jerry and Friedwald, Will. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoon. New York, Henry Holt, 1989. p.151 *Abbott and Costello, a contemporary comedy duo, parodied his "How do you dooooooo" catchphrase in an early 1940s episode of their radio series, which was later reissued on vinyl and audio cassette in the 1970s. After 1942, Bert Gordon was no longer referred to on the Eddie Cantor Show as The Mad Russian, but as "Our Russian Friend," this presumably so as not to give offense to Stalin, the Russians having recently switched alliance so as to be on the side of the Allies. Following the defeat of Germany in the spring of 1945, and Russia then being at odds with the United States, Bert Gordon was dropped from the show entirely. ReferencesExternal links * *"A Tale of Two Gordons" on the WFMU website Category:1895 births Category:1974 deaths Category:20th-century American male actors Category:American male comedians Category:American male radio actors Category:Male actors from New York City Category:Vaudeville performers Category:Comedians from New York City Category:20th-century American comedians Category:Burials at Eden Memorial Park Cemetery Category:Jewish American male actors Category:Jewish American comedians "