Herbs, flowers, and perfumes formed a large part of everyday life in the Middle Ages and were inextricably linked with magic and medicine. Medicinal plants and herbs were an important and major part in the pharmacopeia. Medicines were made from herbs, spices, and resins. Dioscorides, a Greek, wrote his Materia Medica in 65 AD. This was a practical text dealing with the medicinal use of more than 600 plants in the second century. Although the original text of Dioscorides is lost, there are many surviving copies. His texts formed the basis of much of the herbal medicine practiced until 1500 . Some plants were used for specific disorders, while others were credited with curing multiple diseases. In many cases, preparations were made of many different herbs.
The Unknown People: Part II
Original Broadcast Date: November 21, 1951Writer: Richard FieldingDirector: Lee SholemGuest Cast:Jeff Corey as Luke BensonWalter Reed as Bill CorriganJ. Farrell MacDonald as Pop ShannonStanley Andrews as The SheriffBilly Curtis as Mole-Man #1John T. Bambury as Mole-Man #2Jerry Maren as Mole-Man #3Tony Boris as Mole-Man #4Stephen Carr as EddieHal K. Dawson as Chuck WeberMargia Dean as The MotherByron Foulger as Jeff ReaganHarry Harvey as Doctor SaundersIrene Martin as Mrs. PomfreyJohn Phillips as MattRay Walker as John CraigBeverly Washburn as The Little Girl"The Unknown People - Part 2"Pandemonium has struck the small oil town of Silsby. Luke Benson's bloodthirsty mob has shot one of the two Mole-Men. The creature has been caught by Superman before he could fall into the town's water supply. The other subterranean dweller is being pursued by Benson and the other men, who see grass glowing as they follow. The being is now trapped in a shed that Luke has set on fire. It looks like there may be no hope in sight for the Unknown People.The uninjured Mole-Man has managed to escape the flaming shed and return to his underground world. Meanwhile, Doctor Reed, with the assistance of Clark Kent, is removing the bullet from the other creature in spite of Doctor Saunders' objections. This does not sit well with the angry townspeople. The sheriff, John Craig, Bill Corrigan and Lois Lane try to stop them with no success. Bloodlust has blinded the citizens of Silsby, and they intend to kill the Mole-Man recovering in the hospital.Three of the Mole-Men have arrived on the surface with a weapon of some kind. At the same time, Superman has stopped a bullet from hitting Lois and has taken the mob's guns away. This doesn't stop the panic when they learn of the underground beings returning. Silsby is in an uproar, and the sheriff is locked in his own jail. The small oil community is now plummeting into chaos.Superman has just retrieved the recovering Mole-Man in order to bring him to his comrades. While the Man of Steel is in the hospital, Luke Benson is preparing to fire his gun at the other three subterranean beings. They use their fantastic weapon on him in retaliation. However, Superman's indestructible body prevents anyone else from being harmed."You saved my life," says Luke Benson."That's more than you deserve," Our hero replies.The Mole-Men have gone back to their underground realm thanks to Superman's persuading them to do so. Afterwards, Bill Corrigan reveals that the glowing material that was on things touched by the Mole-Men was harmless, as Clark Kent had suspected earlier. No radium has poisoned anyone in Silsby. Suddenly, the World's Deepest Oil Well has just been blown up by the unusual creatures upon their return to their home."It's almost as if they were saying, 'You live your lives, and we'll live ours'," Lois Lane says.And thus ends the strange mystery of the Unknown People for Superman and his friends.Rating - 5 (out of 5): Did you follow the Yellow Brick Road? If so, you probably met up with Jerry Maren. Mole-Man #3 was also one of the Lollypop Guild Munchkins in the classic film The Wizard of Oz. Thanks to Steve Younis for pointing this fact out.Lippert Pictures, Incorporated, who released Superman and the Mole-Men in cinemas, was responsible for the 1948 film Jungle Goddess, which served as episode three of season two of Mystery Science Theater 3000. The movie's star was none other than George Reeves.The flying sequences at the dam is partially animation like that which was used in the Superman movie serials.When the Mole-Men go to and from the surface, the area is surrounded by derricks and other equipment. However, when the oil well is blown up in the conclusion, it is completely isolated.The scene in which Luke Benson's men chase the Mole-Man into the shed is relatively longer in Superman and the Mole-Men. Notably missing from the television version is a part in which the little creature frightens a drinking homeless man. The cut is perhaps due to time or censorship, brought about by Kellogg's, sponsor for The Adventures of Superman. There is also a conversation between the sheriff and John Craig that was removed from "The Unknown People - Part 2". The dialogue also explains that Clark Kent is in the hospital while Superman is elsewhere.Phyllis Coates would not return for the next season of the series because of disputes with producers about the show's intended direction in spite of Tommy Carr and George Reeves asking for her to return. Coates had always tried to distance herself from Superman related projects, but she'd later play Lois Lane's mother in "The House of Luthor" finale for season one of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.I said last time that this story was like the "Operation: Tolerance" episodes of the radio series. Evidence of this can particularly be seen in "The Unknown People - Part 2". This perhaps due to the fact that Robert Maxwell had been one of the masterminds behind the post-war serials in the Theater of the Mind. The anti-bigotry message seems to carry on in Superman and the Mole-Men as it would later do so in Star Trek and Marvel Comics' X-Men. In fact, I would often compare The Adventures of Superman audio dramas from 1940-1951 to Trek in my reviews of that series. This is maybe coloring my opinion of this and the previous episode because I really enjoyed listening to the radio show.Granted, this works better as Superman and the Mole-Men. The division into two parts does interrupt the flow of the story's action and pace. Still, we are given a compelling tale that is well done by all the cast and crew. Superman and the Mole-Men launched The Adventures of Superman television show and made it the legendary series it is to this very day. "The Unknown People - Part 2" closed the first season and told us that there was more to come. I, for one, cannot wait to see what comes next.Season Rating - 4 (out of 5): The season started strongly with the weakest entry not really coming about until episode nine ("Rescue"). There are a couple average stories ("Double Trouble" and "Drums of Death") that stick out like a sore thumb among classics like "The Stolen Costume" and "The Haunted Lighthouse". However, the first year of the series is a very great one that gives us some of the most memorable shows in The Adventures of Superman.Back to the "Adventures of Superman - Episode Reviews" Contents page.Back to the main TELEVISION page.Your ProfileUsername or E-mailPasswordOnly fill in if you are not human
The sympathetic treatment of the strangers in the film, and the unreasoning fear on the part of the townspeople, has been compared by author Gary Grossman to the panicked public reaction to the peaceful alien Klaatu in the science fiction film The Day The Earth Stood Still, which was released the same year. Both have been considered retrospectively as the product of (and a reaction to) the "Red Scare" of post-World War II era. Grossman also cites the later film The Mole People (1956).
Superman and the Mole Men was filmed in a little more than 12 days starting on July 10, 1951[2] at RKO-Pathe Studios. The feature runs just 58 minutes and originally served as a trial balloon release for the syndicated Adventures of Superman TV series, for which it became the only two-part episode, "The Unknown People".[3] Some elements of the original film were trimmed when converted for television, including some portions of a lengthy chase scene and all references to "Mole Men".
The theme music used for the film had a dreary generic "science fiction sound", with nothing suggesting a specific Superman theme. The title cards were similarly generic, with low-grade animation of comets sailing by Saturn-like ringed planets. The original film score by Darrell Calker was removed when Superman and the Mole Men was re-cut into the two-part Superman TV episode and replaced with the "canned" production library music used in the first season of the series.
Both the two-part TV episode and the full feature are on the 2005 first season DVD release for Adventures of Superman. During 2006, the film was released as a bonus feature on the DVD 4-Disc Special Edition of Superman: The Movie. Superman and the Mole Men received a Blu-ray box set release in 2011. In 2017 Cheezy Movies released it on DVD.
Void from these discussions is that, similar to Lee Walther, the former Navy cryptologist from part one of our series, Graves has never once mentioned having the opinion that these mysterious objects were alien visitors.
This clue is really not a clue. In other words, there is nothing in the sentence that provides a hint as to what the unknown word is. Instead, the student uses their prior knowledge and personal life experience to determine the meaning of an unknown word. An example sentence is below. Keep in mind that there is no signal word or phrase for this type of clue. The unknown word is the word clumsy.
Assuming a student does not know what the word clumsy means he can call on his experience to figure the word out at least partially. For example, many students know how intoxicated people act. It is not a secret that drunken people at not very careful and the sentence indicates that the person was falling down. Therefore, the word clumsy means someone who has poor control of their body. 2ff7e9595c
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