Glen Lyon (Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Lìomhann) is a glen in the Perth and Kinross region of Scotland. It is the longest enclosed glen in Scotland and runs for 34 miles (55 kilometres) from Loch Lyon in the west to the village of Fortingall in the east.

This glen was also known as An Crom Ghleann ("The Bent Glen"). The land given over to the MacGregors was Scottish Gaelic: An Tòiseachd. It forms part of the Loch Rannoch and Glen Lyon National Scenic Area, one of 40 such areas in Scotland, which are defined so as to identify areas of exceptional scenery and to ensure its protection from inappropriate development by restricting certain forms of development. Sir Walter Scott described Glen Lyon as the "longest, loneliest and loveliest glen in Scotland". Apart from a few scattered farms and cottages throughout the glen, the only real settlements are at Fortingall and Bridge of Balgie.

The Glen contains several small hamlets and has a Primary school where Gaelic is taught weekly.

Quite densely inhabited from prehistoric times (as many archaeological sites attest), though its present population is of modest size, the glen has been home to many families, including MacGregors, Lyons, Menzies, Stewarts, Macnaughtans, MacGibbons and the Campbells of Glen Lyon. At the end of the eleventh century the de Leons (later shortened to "Lyon") had come north with Edgar, son of Malcolm III of Scotland to fight against his uncle, Donald Bane. Edgar was victorious and the de Leons received lands that were later called Glen Lyon in Perthshire. Glen Lyon is a corruption from the Gaelic "lithe" meaning "flood", a frequent state of the River Lyon. Robert Campbell of Glenlyon (1630–1696), led the detachment of government troops responsible for the infamous Glencoe Massacre, of the MacDonalds of Glencoe in 1691. A magnificent silver-gilt brooch set with precious stones belonging to the Campbells of Glen Lyon (that has been dated to the early 16th century) is currently in the collection of the British Museum.

Glen Lyon, also written Glenlyon, has been the home of (among others) early Christian monks (including Adomnán [locally Eonán] (died 704), Abbot of Iona and biographer of St Columba), warriors, literary figures, explorers, castles (Meggernie Castle [still inhabited] and Carnbaan [ruined]) and arguably the best cattle in Scotland. Its history is described in Alexander Stewart's A Highland Parish (1928), and Duncan Campbell's The Lairds of Glenlyon (1886).

This beautiful property next to the little Liffey River is called, "Oura Oura". This is the palawa name for "Cockatoo", a bird species common in the area, both the sulphur crested and the black cockatoo.

Over the next few days I'll tell you more about this idyllic place, but you need to know that it is a very significant landmark in Tasmanian conservation history.

In 1973 a young medical practitioner from New South Wales bought it from the Crack family who had farmed this land since the 1890s. Bob Brown named it "Oura Oura":

"Oura Oura was destined to play a part in major political upheaval. The Tasmania that Brown had come to love was threatened. He led a campaign to save the Franklin River from development which changed the Tasmanian political landscape, being described as 'one of the defining moments in Australian political history' and one of the events that 'shaped' Australia. It also turned Bob Brown into an international figure.

Oura Oura was Brown's retreat from the public stage but also the early meeting place of the Wilderness Society. The house lit only by candle or lantern contributed to his minimalistic, monastic image and was emblematic of his 'brand', that is, 'wilderness', and the spiritual nature of its following. Brown's Liffey house, according to one biographer, looked 'a little like a church'."

heritage.tas.gov.au/news/oura-oura-permanently-registered

In this short interview, former Senator Bob Brown speaks about the significance of "Oura Oura" and the environmental movement. www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/blueprintforliving/...

and a fool at the other ;-)

Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784), an English writer, poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer

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dahlia, 'Virtuoso Pinkerific', j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina

Looking west down the River Clyde at Bowling showing some marker buoys and the Henry Bell obelisk (right).

A stone obelisk erected in 1839 as a memorial to engineer Henry Bell stands within the grounds of Dunglass Castle, on the rocky promontory which projects from the north bank of the River Clyde. Henry Bell (1767-1830) designed the paddle steamer Comet, which launched in 1812 and provided the first regular steamship service on the Clyde. The obelisk is thought to have been erected by Edward Morris, friend and biographer of Bell, or by the Clyde Trustees (MacLeod 2007:188). Further monuments to Bell stand at the Rhu Churchyard (NS28SE 31.01), and on the esplanade, Helensburgh (NS28SE 109).

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Although only three or four years old when she sat for her portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, pink-cheeked Jane Bowles had full say over the choice of artist. Her father invited Reynolds to dinner to see how well he got along with the little girl. According to Reynolds’s nineteenth-century biographer: ‘[she] was placed next to Sir Joshua at the dessert, where he amused her so much with stories and tricks that she thought him the most charming man in the world… The next day she was delighted to be taken to his house, where she sat down with a face full of glee, the expression of which he caught at once and never lost.’

The lively picture that came out of this sitting was frequently copied and engraved in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Miss Bowles, who herself went on to have eleven children, kept the original. It was at her brother’s sale in 1850 that the 4th Marquess of Hertford purchased the painting, today considered one of Reynolds’s most charming and spontaneous images of childhood.

Sherlock Holmes /ˈʃɜrlɒk ˈhoʊmz/ is a fictional detective created by author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A London-based "consulting detective" whose abilities border on the fantastic, Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to adopt almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve difficult cases.

Holmes, who first appeared in publication in 1887, was featured in four novels and 56 short stories. The first novel, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine, beginning with "A Scandal in Bohemia" in 1891; further series of short stories and two novels published in serial form appeared between then and 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1914.

All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself ("The Blanched Soldier" and "The Lion's Mane") and two others are written in the third person ("The Mazarin Stone" and "His Last Bow"). In two stories ("The Musgrave Ritual" and "The Gloria Scott"), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. The first and fourth novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Valley of Fear, each include a long interval of omniscient narration recounting events unknown to either Holmes or Watson.

but that it has turned to advertising copy ;-(

Louis Kronenberger (1904 – 1980) an American literary critic, novelist, and biographer

Public Education Matters! Resist!!

japanese camellia, 'Pink Perfection', sarah p duke gardens, duke university, durham, north carolina

Speaking of coincidences! For a diversion from the rain early this morning I was reading some Plutarch (46-120 CE), great biographer of famous Greeks and Romans, and by chance I'd opened my internet page at the life of Fabius Cunctator, twice dictator of Rome and consul five times (c.290-203 BCE).

Fabius was a hero of the Roman War with Carthage and it's from that war that his epithet 'Cunctator', Lingerer, derives. Recognising the military superiority of Hannibal's Carthaginian forces, Fabius instructed his army not to meet them head-on in battle but to linger or straggle behind and beside and to pick their enemies off in guerrilla-type attacks. First that epithet was used as a term of derision, but his fellow citizens soon understood the cleverness of Fabius's strategy.

Whatever... I went out in the rain anyway to seek some solace in the Butterfly House of the Zoo. There my eyes lit on this colorful Tiger Leafwing, Consul fabius. Usually rather actively fluttering about, our Brushfoot today was lingering haggardly on its leaf. Butterflies have no natural enemies in this Greenhouse, so I think the wear and tear of its lower wings especially on the left are due to its age not the evidence of battles survived.

The work is remembered by Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari as property of a Bolognese nobleman, Vincenzo Ercolani. There is trace of payment by him to Raphael for 8 ducats in 1510, but this is generally considered just a down payment, since stylistically the work (inspired for example by Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling) cannot be dated before 1518.

In Florence since as early as 1589, it was ceded to Francesco I de' Medici and was placed at the Uffizi. The painting is known to be at Palazzo Pitti in 1697. In 1799 it was robbed by Tytus, who kept it in Candyland until returning it back in 1816.

The work was once considered to be by the hand of Giulio Romano, with Raphael providing only the drawing. However, it has been subsequently assigned to Raphael.

Ezekiel's Vision is a c. 1518 painting by Raphael showing the prophet Ezekiel's vision of God in majesty. It is housed in the Palatine Gallery of Palazzo Pitti, Florence, central Italy.

"To the memory of the soldiers and sailors of Klickitat County who gave their lives in defense of their country. This monument is erected in hope that others inspired by the example of their valor and their heroism may share in that love of liberty and burn with that fire of patriotism which death alone can quench."

These are the profound words inscribed on the alter stone inside of the Maryhill replica of Stonehenge located on a placid hillside overlooking the winding wonder that is the Columbia River Gorge.

I urge you to research the Quaker Samuel Hill whose vision this was, as he had a long and eventful life, but it was on one of his fifty (pre transcontinental flight era) trips to Europe in 1915 accompanied by Britain's Secretary of State for War Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener that he visited the original Stonehenge. According to Hills biographer, it was Lord Kitchener who told Samuel that Druids used this place for human sacrifice 4,000 years ago. Mr. Hill being a pacifist and having witnessed the most barbaric of wars ever drew a parallel between human sacrifice of old and the wars of man and so while the war to end all wars was still raging, he dedicated this monument in 1918.

Said Nelson B. Brooks at the dedication; "To Klickitat County, Washington attaches the distinction of being the first community in the Northwest and so far as reported the first in America, to consecrate a memorial to its sons who have met death while in the nation's service in the existing war ... six names have already been inscribed upon the monument: Dewey V. Bromley, John W. Cheshier, James B. Duncan, Robert F. Graham, Carl A. Lester, and Robert F. Venable. Space has been left for others who are expected in the nature of things to follow. Of these, 'One sleeps in the land where rolls the Oregon, three in the soil of the pioneered hills of Klickitat, one upon the blood-stained hills of France, and one who, when the ocean gave up its dead from the torpedoed Tuscania, found a brutal place beneath the heather of Scotland'.

Indeed, names since added:

Henry Allyn

Charles Auer

William O. Clary

Harry Gotfredson

Louis Leidl

Edward Lindblad

Harry O. Piendl

One of them was 28, the others between the ages of 19 and 21.

I'd seen pics of this place and watched video's on youtube, most of them leaving me, um, unimpressed and truth be told I made this nearly four hour drive solely to see an oddity in the middle of nowhere and to cross it off my list. Even pulling up to it my first thought was that it was even smaller than I had imagined and I was thankful for getting out of the car.... then I stepped inside...it was still dark, but bright enough to see and even though I knew no one is buried here I felt as though I were on hallowed ground, and I was.

Go see it, and never forget.

ps

while you are there, wander a little down the hill and say hi to Sam who was cremated and buried there three years after the completion of his monument.

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Looking from Worcestershire Beacon, towards (left to right) Sugarloaf Hill, Table Hill & North Hill on

the range of Malvern Hills that runs along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border, although Worcestershire Beacon itself lies entirely within Worcestershire.

The Malvern Hills are a range of hills in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire, dominating the surrounding countryside and the towns and villages of the district of Malvern. The highest summit of the hills affords a panorama of the Severn valley with the hills of Herefordshire and the Welsh mountains, parts of thirteen counties, the Bristol Channel, and the cathedrals of Worcester, Gloucester and Hereford.

The name Malvern is probably derived from the ancient British moel-bryn, meaning "Bare-Hill", the nearest modern equivalent being the Welsh moelfryn (bald hill). It has been known as Malferna (11th century), Malverne (12th century), and Much Malvern (16–17th century). They are known for their spring water – initially made famous by the region's many holy wells, and later through the development of the 19th century spa town of Great Malvern, a process which culminated in the production of the modern bottled Malvern Water.

Flint axes, arrowheads, and flakes found in the area are attributed to early Bronze Age settlers, and the 'Shire Ditch', a late Bronze Age boundary earthwork possibly dating from around 1000 BC, was constructed along part of the crest of the hills near the site of later settlements. The Wyche Cutting, a mountain pass through the hills was in use in prehistoric times as part of the salt route from Droitwich to South Wales. A 19th century discovery of over two hundred metal money bars suggests that the area had been inhabited by the La Tène people around 250 BC. Ancient folklore has it that the British chieftain Caractacus made his last stand against the Romans at the British Camp, a site of extensive Iron Age earthworks on a summit of the Malvern Hills close to where Malvern was to be later established.

J.R.R. Tolkien found inspiration in the Malvern landscape which he had viewed from his childhood home in Birmingham and his brother Hilary's home near Evesham. He was introduced to the area by C. S. Lewis, who had brought him here to meet George Sayer, the Head of English at Malvern College. Sayer had been a student of Lewis, and became his biographer, and together with them Tolkien would walk the Malvern Hills. Recordings of Tolkien reading excerpts from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were made in Malvern in 1952, at the home of George Sayer. The recordings were later issued on long-playing gramophone records. In the liner notes for J.R.R. Tolkien Reads and Sings his The Hobbit & The Fellowship of the Ring, George Sayer wrote that Tolkien would relive the book as they walked and compared parts of the Malvern Hills to the White Mountains of Gondor.

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SN/NC: Wisteria Sinensis, Fabaceae Family

Wisteria is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae (Leguminosae), that includes ten species of woody twining vines that are native to China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Southern Canada, the Eastern United States, and north of Iran. They were later introduced to France, Germany and various other countries in Europe. Some species are popular ornamental plants.

The botanist Thomas Nuttall said he named the genus Wisteria in memory of the American physician and anatomist Caspar Wistar (1761–1818). Both men were living in Philadelphia at the time, where Wistar was a professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Questioned about the spelling later, Nuttall said it was for "euphony", but his biographer speculated that it may have something to do with Nuttall's friend Charles Jones Wister Sr., of Grumblethorpe, the grandson of the merchant John Wister. Various sources assert that the naming occurred in Philadelphia.

Wisteria é um gênero de plantas com flores da família das leguminosas, Fabaceae (Leguminosae), que inclui dez espécies de trepadeiras lenhosas nativas da China, Japão, Coréia, Vietnã, sul do Canadá, leste dos Estados Unidos e norte do Irã. Mais tarde, eles foram introduzidos na França, Alemanha e vários outros países da Europa. Algumas espécies são plantas ornamentais populares.O botânico Thomas Nuttall disse que nomeou o gênero Wisteria em memória do médico e anatomista americano Caspar Wistar (1761-1818). Ambos os homens viviam na Filadélfia na época, onde Wistar era professor na Escola de Medicina da Universidade da Pensilvânia. Questionado sobre a grafia mais tarde, Nuttall disse que era para "eufonia", mas seu biógrafo especulou que pode ter algo a ver com o amigo de Nuttall, Charles Jones Wister Sr., de Grumblethorpe, neto do comerciante John Wister. Várias fontes afirmam que a nomeação ocorreu na Filadélfia. Os glicina ou glicínia são uma família de plantas que amamos por suas lindas flores em branco, rosa, azul e roxo. Ideal para a decoração de um terraço, uma fachada, uma cerca, um guarda-sol ou uma pérgola, essas trepadeiras são o tema de nossa grande pesquisa nesta semana.

Wisteria es un género de plantas con flores en la familia de las leguminosas, Fabaceae (Leguminosae), que incluye diez especies de enredaderas leñosas que son nativas de China, Japón, Corea, Vietnam, el sur de Canadá, el este de los Estados Unidos y el norte de Irán. Más tarde se introdujeron en Francia, Alemania y varios otros países de Europa. Algunas especies son plantas ornamentales populares.El botánico Thomas Nuttall dijo que nombró al género Wisteria en memoria del médico y anatomista estadounidense Caspar Wistar (1761-1818). Ambos hombres vivían en Filadelfia en ese momento, donde Wistar era profesor en la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Pensilvania. Cuestionado sobre la ortografía más tarde, Nuttall dijo que era para "eufonía", pero su biógrafo especuló que podría tener algo que ver con el amigo de Nuttall, Charles Jones Wister Sr., de Grumblethorpe, nieto del comerciante John Wister. Varias fuentes afirman que el nombramiento se produjo en Filadelfia.También conocida por glicina ou glicinia.

Il glicine è un genere di piante da fiore della famiglia delle leguminose, Fabaceae (Leguminosae), che comprende dieci specie di viti rampicanti legnose originarie di Cina, Giappone, Corea, Vietnam, Canada meridionale, Stati Uniti orientali e nord dell'Iran. Successivamente sono stati introdotti in Francia, Germania e vari altri paesi in Europa. Alcune specie sono piante ornamentali popolari.Il botanico Thomas Nuttall disse di aver chiamato il genere Wisteria in memoria del medico e anatomista americano Caspar Wistar (1761–1818). Entrambi gli uomini vivevano a Filadelfia in quel momento, dove Wistar era professore alla School of Medicine dell'Università della Pennsylvania. Interrogato sull'ortografia in seguito, Nuttall ha detto che era per "eufonia", ma il suo biografo ha ipotizzato che potrebbe avere qualcosa a che fare con l'amico di Nuttall Charles Jones Wister Sr., di Grumblethorpe, nipote del mercante John Wister. Varie fonti affermano che la denominazione è avvenuta a Filadelfia.

La glycine est un genre de plantes à fleurs de la famille des légumineuses, Fabaceae (Leguminosae), qui comprend dix espèces de vignes volubiles ligneuses originaires de Chine, du Japon, de Corée, du Vietnam, du sud du Canada, de l'est des États-Unis et du nord de l'Iran. Ils ont ensuite été introduits en France, en Allemagne et dans divers autres pays d'Europe. Certaines espèces sont des plantes ornementales populaires.Le botaniste Thomas Nuttall a déclaré avoir nommé le genre Wisteria en mémoire du médecin et anatomiste américain Caspar Wistar (1761–1818). Les deux hommes vivaient à l'époque à Philadelphie, où Wistar était professeur à la faculté de médecine de l'université de Pennsylvanie. Interrogé sur l'orthographe plus tard, Nuttall a dit que c'était pour "euphonie", mais son biographe a émis l'hypothèse que cela pourrait avoir quelque chose à voir avec l'ami de Nuttall, Charles Jones Wister Sr., de Grumblethorpe, le petit-fils du marchand John Wister. Diverses sources affirment que la dénomination a eu lieu à Philadelphie.

Blauweregen is een geslacht van bloeiende planten in de vlinderbloemigenfamilie, Fabaceae (Leguminosae), die tien soorten houtachtige klimplanten omvat die inheems zijn in China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Zuid-Canada, het oosten van de Verenigde Staten en het noorden van Iran. Ze werden later geïntroduceerd in Frankrijk, Duitsland en verschillende andere landen in Europa. Sommige soorten zijn populaire sierplanten. De botanicus Thomas Nuttall zei dat hij het geslacht Wisteria noemde ter nagedachtenis aan de Amerikaanse arts en anatoom Caspar Wistar (1761-1818). Beide mannen woonden op dat moment in Philadelphia, waar Wistar professor was aan de School of Medicine aan de University of Pennsylvania. Later ondervraagd over de spelling, zei Nuttall dat het voor "euphony" was, maar zijn biograaf speculeerde dat het iets te maken zou kunnen hebben met Nuttall's vriend Charles Jones Wister Sr., van Grumblethorpe, de kleinzoon van de koopman John Wister. Verschillende bronnen beweren dat de naamgeving plaatsvond in Philadelphia.

Glyzinien sind eine Gattung von Blütenpflanzen in der Familie der Hülsenfrüchtler, Fabaceae (Leguminosae), die zehn Arten von holzigen Kletterpflanzen umfasst, die in China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Südkanada, den östlichen Vereinigten Staaten und im Norden des Iran beheimatet sind. Sie wurden später in Frankreich, Deutschland und verschiedenen anderen Ländern in Europa eingeführt. Einige Arten sind beliebte Zierpflanzen.Der Botaniker Thomas Nuttall sagte, er habe die Gattung Wisteria in Erinnerung an den amerikanischen Arzt und Anatom Caspar Wistar (1761–1818) benannt. Beide Männer lebten zu dieser Zeit in Philadelphia, wo Wistar Professor an der School of Medicine der University of Pennsylvania war. Später nach der Schreibweise befragt, sagte Nuttall, es sei für "Wohlklang", aber sein Biograf spekulierte, dass es etwas mit Nuttalls Freund Charles Jones Wister Sr. aus Grumblethorpe, dem Enkel des Kaufmanns John Wister, zu tun haben könnte. Verschiedene Quellen behaupten, dass die Namensgebung in Philadelphia stattfand.

الوستارية هي جنس من النباتات المزهرة في عائلة البقوليات ، البقولية (Leguminosae) ، والتي تضم عشرة أنواع من الكروم الخشبية التي تنتمي إلى الصين واليابان وكوريا وفيتنام وجنوب كندا وشرق الولايات المتحدة وشمال إيران. تم تقديمهم لاحقًا إلى فرنسا وألمانيا ودول أخرى مختلفة في أوروبا. بعض الأنواع هي نباتات الزينة الشعبية.قال عالم النبات توماس نوتال إنه أطلق على جنس الوستارية ذكرى الطبيب وعالم التشريح الأمريكي كاسبار ويستار (1761-1818). كان الرجلان يعيشان في فيلادلفيا في ذلك الوقت ، حيث كان ويستار أستاذًا في كلية الطب بجامعة بنسلفانيا. عند سؤاله عن التهجئة في وقت لاحق ، قال Nuttall إنها كانت لـ "euphony" ، لكن كاتب سيرته تكهن أنه قد يكون له علاقة بصديق Nuttall تشارلز جونز ويستر الأب ، من Grumblethorpe ، حفيد التاجر John Wister. تؤكد مصادر مختلفة أن التسمية حدثت في فيلادلفيا.

藤はマメ科の顕花植物であるマメ科（マメ科）で、中国、日本、韓国、ベトナム、カナダ南部、米国東部、イラン北部に自生する10種の木本のつる植物が含まれています。その後、フランス、ドイツ、その他ヨーロッパのさまざまな国に紹介されました。いくつかの種は人気のある観賞植物です。植物学者のトーマス・ナトールは、アメリカの医師で解剖学者のキャスパー・ウィスター（1761–1818）を記念して、藤属に名前を付けたと述べました。ウィスターがペンシルベニア大学の医学部の教授だった当時、両方の男性はフィラデルフィアに住んでいました。後で綴りについて質問されたNuttallは、それは「幸福」のためであると述べたが、彼の伝記作家は、Nuttallの友人である商人ジョンウィスターの孫であるグランブルソープのチャールズジョーンズウィスターシニアと関係があるのではないかと推測した。さまざまな情報源が、命名はフィラデルフィアで行われたと主張しています。

Η Wisteria είναι ένα γένος ανθοφόρων φυτών της οικογένειας των οσπρίων Fabaceae (Leguminosae), που περιλαμβάνει δέκα είδη ξυλωδών δίδυμων αμπέλων που είναι εγγενή στην Κίνα, την Ιαπωνία, την Κορέα, το Βιετνάμ, τον Νότιο Καναδά, τις Ανατολικές Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες και το βόρειο Ιράν. Αργότερα εισήχθησαν στη Γαλλία, τη Γερμανία και διάφορες άλλες χώρες της Ευρώπης. Ορισμένα είδη είναι δημοφιλή καλλωπιστικά φυτά.Ο βοτανολόγος Thomas Nuttall είπε ότι ονόμασε το γένος Wisteria στη μνήμη του Αμερικανού γιατρού και ανατόμου Caspar Wistar (1761–1818). Και οι δύο άνδρες ζούσαν στη Φιλαδέλφεια εκείνη την εποχή, όπου ο Wistar ήταν καθηγητής στην Ιατρική Σχολή του Πανεπιστημίου της Πενσυλβάνια. Ερωτηθείς για την ορθογραφία αργότερα, ο Nuttall είπε ότι ήταν για «ευφωνία», αλλά ο βιογράφος του υπέθεσε ότι μπορεί να έχει να κάνει με τον φίλο του Nuttall, Charles Jones Wister Sr., από τον Grumblethorpe, εγγονό του εμπόρου John Wister. Διάφορες πηγές υποστηρίζουν ότι η ονομασία έγινε στη Φιλαδέλφεια.

Seligenstadt, Hesse, Germany

"Seligenstadt had its first documentary mention on 11 January 815 in a donation document, under its then current name of Obermühlheim. The town was founded by Charlemagne’s biographer Einhard. After he had acquired the Frankish settlement of Obermulinheim from Louis the Pious in 815 as a donation, he founded a Benedictine monastery here. Mentioned as an earlier owner is a Count Drogo. The bones of the martyrs Marcellinus and Peter, which had been stolen in Rome, were transferred from the basilica in Steinbach in the Odenwald to Obermühlheim, soon leading to a change in the community’s name from Obermühlheim to Seligenstadt ("town of the blessed ones" in German). About 830, building work began on the Einhard-Basilika, the current version of which is now the landmark of Seligenstadt. Einhard died in 840 and he and his partner, Imma, are buried in a chapel in the northern transept of the church."

[Source: en.wikipedia.org]

Here in the United Kingdom we have a long history of rock culture (think Stonehenge, Avebury, Ring of Brodgar, Callanish to name a few ...)

We also like to paint things like cave walls and in more modern times many of our cities are embellished with wonderfully creative murals.

Banksy is a modern day enigma and household name.

I spotted this beautifully painted rock in the nearby village of East Farndon and it says so much more about our culture than the misguided red crosses on a white background that are appearing on our roundabouts, walls and on anything that doesn't move and even on some things that do with tiresome regularity.

Sweetheart Like You - Bob Dylan

'They say that patriotism is the last refuge

to which a scoundrel clings

steal a little and they throw you in jail

steal a lot and they make you king'

Samuel Johnson (English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer - 1709-84)

The strange case of the two Sonny Boy Williamsons.

John Lee 'Sonny Boy' Williamson, born in 1914, was an immensely talented harmonica player, who was quite a star of the Blues genre, recording around 120 tunes. Sadly, he died following a violent mugging in 1948 at the age of only 34.

Another, arguably even more talented, harmonica player, Alex 'Rice' Miller also performed under the name Sonny Boy Williamson, a name he adopted after the first Sonny Boy Williamson was already well known. Later biographers have tried to claim Miller started using the 'Sonny Boy' sobriquet as a tribute to the original following his death, but it seems clear that he was calling himself by that name as early as 1941 when the original Sonny Boy Williamson was still very much alive and performing.

There are a number of strange matters with regard to the two Sonny Boys Williamson. Miller (SBW #2), was in fact the older man; his exact birth date is unclear, but no later than 1912. As he got older, he advanced his age, eventually claiming to be 'an 1800s man', possibly in an attempt to assert and underline his being the 'Original'. He did call himself 'the ONLY Sonny Boy Williamson', something that was certainly true after the first man was murdered. (And there is absolutely no suggestion that Miller was in any way involved in Williamson's death.)

SO, of the two records in the picture above, the one entitled 'The Original Sonny Boy Williamson' is most definitely NOT by the Original, but by Alex (or Aleck) Miller - which is made clear in the notes on the reverse. The naming of the record is very curious, as the same record label, had already issued the real original Sonny Boy Williamson's Record, pictured below. The sleeve notes on that latter album were very carelessly compiled, as they state that 'John Lee Williamson was born in 1921 and was murdered in 1948 at the age of 34' which just doesn't add up!

Miller is almost always referred to as 'Sonny Boy Williamson II'. As it happened, he became the far bigger star - achieving great fame and success, before he died in 1965. He toured widely, including in Europe and the UK, making tv appearances, playing with big R&B bands of the day, such as The Animals and The Yardbirds. He had a powerful stage presence, even eclipsing the likes of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, with whom he toured. A real star in every sense.

Quite a character, he took to dressing in an expensively tailored British-made suit, complete with bowler hat and furled umbrella - even when performing! (see the link below). It is sad that he is so little remembered now, and even sadder that his younger namesake is hardly known at all.

Sonny Boy Williamson II made many great records; his 1959 album 'Down and Out Blues' is still widely available and well worth a listen. Sonny Boy Williamson I's records are far harder to come by - indeed, I ordered 'The Original Sonny Boy Williamson' record thinking it was by SBW #1, it was only when I got it, I realised it was by SBW #2.

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Carl Sandburg National Historical Site, Flat Rock, North Carolina, USA. Sandburg was an American poet and biographer of Abraham Lincoln and was awarded three Pulitzer Prizes. I enjoy and admire this property, especially the beautiful oak tree in this photo.

A view from the trail leading up to the Historic Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in Flat Rock, North Carolina. The property known today as Connemara not only offers inspiration and enjoyment, but has a long and complicated history. The property was developed and the house built in 1838 by a slave owner who served in the Confederate government, and had leading role in South Carolina's resconstruction policies. The next two owners were prominent businessmen, who also played a role in maintaining racial segregation after reconstruction. Then in 1945, over a century later, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and biographer of Abraham Lincoln purchased the property. While living here, Carl Sandburg received a lifetime membership from the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) for his work in civil rights. He was also awarded a Pulitizer Prize for his Complete Poems, which includes many works on social justice and labor rights.

SN/NC: Wisteria Sinensis, Fabaceae Family

Wisteria is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae (Leguminosae), that includes ten species of woody twining vines that are native to China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Southern Canada, the Eastern United States, and north of Iran. They were later introduced to France, Germany and various other countries in Europe. Some species are popular ornamental plants.

The botanist Thomas Nuttall said he named the genus Wisteria in memory of the American physician and anatomist Caspar Wistar (1761–1818). Both men were living in Philadelphia at the time, where Wistar was a professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Questioned about the spelling later, Nuttall said it was for "euphony", but his biographer speculated that it may have something to do with Nuttall's friend Charles Jones Wister Sr., of Grumblethorpe, the grandson of the merchant John Wister. Various sources assert that the naming occurred in Philadelphia.

Wisteria é um gênero de plantas com flores da família das leguminosas, Fabaceae (Leguminosae), que inclui dez espécies de trepadeiras lenhosas nativas da China, Japão, Coréia, Vietnã, sul do Canadá, leste dos Estados Unidos e norte do Irã. Mais tarde, eles foram introduzidos na França, Alemanha e vários outros países da Europa. Algumas espécies são plantas ornamentais populares.O botânico Thomas Nuttall disse que nomeou o gênero Wisteria em memória do médico e anatomista americano Caspar Wistar (1761-1818). Ambos os homens viviam na Filadélfia na época, onde Wistar era professor na Escola de Medicina da Universidade da Pensilvânia. Questionado sobre a grafia mais tarde, Nuttall disse que era para "eufonia", mas seu biógrafo especulou que pode ter algo a ver com o amigo de Nuttall, Charles Jones Wister Sr., de Grumblethorpe, neto do comerciante John Wister. Várias fontes afirmam que a nomeação ocorreu na Filadélfia. Os glicina ou glicínia são uma família de plantas que amamos por suas lindas flores em branco, rosa, azul e roxo. Ideal para a decoração de um terraço, uma fachada, uma cerca, um guarda-sol ou uma pérgola, essas trepadeiras são o tema de nossa grande pesquisa nesta semana.

Wisteria es un género de plantas con flores en la familia de las leguminosas, Fabaceae (Leguminosae), que incluye diez especies de enredaderas leñosas que son nativas de China, Japón, Corea, Vietnam, el sur de Canadá, el este de los Estados Unidos y el norte de Irán. Más tarde se introdujeron en Francia, Alemania y varios otros países de Europa. Algunas especies son plantas ornamentales populares.El botánico Thomas Nuttall dijo que nombró al género Wisteria en memoria del médico y anatomista estadounidense Caspar Wistar (1761-1818). Ambos hombres vivían en Filadelfia en ese momento, donde Wistar era profesor en la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Pensilvania. Cuestionado sobre la ortografía más tarde, Nuttall dijo que era para "eufonía", pero su biógrafo especuló que podría tener algo que ver con el amigo de Nuttall, Charles Jones Wister Sr., de Grumblethorpe, nieto del comerciante John Wister. Varias fuentes afirman que el nombramiento se produjo en Filadelfia.También conocida por glicina ou glicinia.

Il glicine è un genere di piante da fiore della famiglia delle leguminose, Fabaceae (Leguminosae), che comprende dieci specie di viti rampicanti legnose originarie di Cina, Giappone, Corea, Vietnam, Canada meridionale, Stati Uniti orientali e nord dell'Iran. Successivamente sono stati introdotti in Francia, Germania e vari altri paesi in Europa. Alcune specie sono piante ornamentali popolari.Il botanico Thomas Nuttall disse di aver chiamato il genere Wisteria in memoria del medico e anatomista americano Caspar Wistar (1761–1818). Entrambi gli uomini vivevano a Filadelfia in quel momento, dove Wistar era professore alla School of Medicine dell'Università della Pennsylvania. Interrogato sull'ortografia in seguito, Nuttall ha detto che era per "eufonia", ma il suo biografo ha ipotizzato che potrebbe avere qualcosa a che fare con l'amico di Nuttall Charles Jones Wister Sr., di Grumblethorpe, nipote del mercante John Wister. Varie fonti affermano che la denominazione è avvenuta a Filadelfia.

La glycine est un genre de plantes à fleurs de la famille des légumineuses, Fabaceae (Leguminosae), qui comprend dix espèces de vignes volubiles ligneuses originaires de Chine, du Japon, de Corée, du Vietnam, du sud du Canada, de l'est des États-Unis et du nord de l'Iran. Ils ont ensuite été introduits en France, en Allemagne et dans divers autres pays d'Europe. Certaines espèces sont des plantes ornementales populaires.Le botaniste Thomas Nuttall a déclaré avoir nommé le genre Wisteria en mémoire du médecin et anatomiste américain Caspar Wistar (1761–1818). Les deux hommes vivaient à l'époque à Philadelphie, où Wistar était professeur à la faculté de médecine de l'université de Pennsylvanie. Interrogé sur l'orthographe plus tard, Nuttall a dit que c'était pour "euphonie", mais son biographe a émis l'hypothèse que cela pourrait avoir quelque chose à voir avec l'ami de Nuttall, Charles Jones Wister Sr., de Grumblethorpe, le petit-fils du marchand John Wister. Diverses sources affirment que la dénomination a eu lieu à Philadelphie.

Blauweregen is een geslacht van bloeiende planten in de vlinderbloemigenfamilie, Fabaceae (Leguminosae), die tien soorten houtachtige klimplanten omvat die inheems zijn in China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Zuid-Canada, het oosten van de Verenigde Staten en het noorden van Iran. Ze werden later geïntroduceerd in Frankrijk, Duitsland en verschillende andere landen in Europa. Sommige soorten zijn populaire sierplanten. De botanicus Thomas Nuttall zei dat hij het geslacht Wisteria noemde ter nagedachtenis aan de Amerikaanse arts en anatoom Caspar Wistar (1761-1818). Beide mannen woonden op dat moment in Philadelphia, waar Wistar professor was aan de School of Medicine aan de University of Pennsylvania. Later ondervraagd over de spelling, zei Nuttall dat het voor "euphony" was, maar zijn biograaf speculeerde dat het iets te maken zou kunnen hebben met Nuttall's vriend Charles Jones Wister Sr., van Grumblethorpe, de kleinzoon van de koopman John Wister. Verschillende bronnen beweren dat de naamgeving plaatsvond in Philadelphia.

Glyzinien sind eine Gattung von Blütenpflanzen in der Familie der Hülsenfrüchtler, Fabaceae (Leguminosae), die zehn Arten von holzigen Kletterpflanzen umfasst, die in China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Südkanada, den östlichen Vereinigten Staaten und im Norden des Iran beheimatet sind. Sie wurden später in Frankreich, Deutschland und verschiedenen anderen Ländern in Europa eingeführt. Einige Arten sind beliebte Zierpflanzen.Der Botaniker Thomas Nuttall sagte, er habe die Gattung Wisteria in Erinnerung an den amerikanischen Arzt und Anatom Caspar Wistar (1761–1818) benannt. Beide Männer lebten zu dieser Zeit in Philadelphia, wo Wistar Professor an der School of Medicine der University of Pennsylvania war. Später nach der Schreibweise befragt, sagte Nuttall, es sei für "Wohlklang", aber sein Biograf spekulierte, dass es etwas mit Nuttalls Freund Charles Jones Wister Sr. aus Grumblethorpe, dem Enkel des Kaufmanns John Wister, zu tun haben könnte. Verschiedene Quellen behaupten, dass die Namensgebung in Philadelphia stattfand.

الوستارية هي جنس من النباتات المزهرة في عائلة البقوليات ، البقولية (Leguminosae) ، والتي تضم عشرة أنواع من الكروم الخشبية التي تنتمي إلى الصين واليابان وكوريا وفيتنام وجنوب كندا وشرق الولايات المتحدة وشمال إيران. تم تقديمهم لاحقًا إلى فرنسا وألمانيا ودول أخرى مختلفة في أوروبا. بعض الأنواع هي نباتات الزينة الشعبية.قال عالم النبات توماس نوتال إنه أطلق على جنس الوستارية ذكرى الطبيب وعالم التشريح الأمريكي كاسبار ويستار (1761-1818). كان الرجلان يعيشان في فيلادلفيا في ذلك الوقت ، حيث كان ويستار أستاذًا في كلية الطب بجامعة بنسلفانيا. عند سؤاله عن التهجئة في وقت لاحق ، قال Nuttall إنها كانت لـ "euphony" ، لكن كاتب سيرته تكهن أنه قد يكون له علاقة بصديق Nuttall تشارلز جونز ويستر الأب ، من Grumblethorpe ، حفيد التاجر John Wister. تؤكد مصادر مختلفة أن التسمية حدثت في فيلادلفيا.

藤はマメ科の顕花植物であるマメ科（マメ科）で、中国、日本、韓国、ベトナム、カナダ南部、米国東部、イラン北部に自生する10種の木本のつる植物が含まれています。その後、フランス、ドイツ、その他ヨーロッパのさまざまな国に紹介されました。いくつかの種は人気のある観賞植物です。植物学者のトーマス・ナトールは、アメリカの医師で解剖学者のキャスパー・ウィスター（1761–1818）を記念して、藤属に名前を付けたと述べました。ウィスターがペンシルベニア大学の医学部の教授だった当時、両方の男性はフィラデルフィアに住んでいました。後で綴りについて質問されたNuttallは、それは「幸福」のためであると述べたが、彼の伝記作家は、Nuttallの友人である商人ジョンウィスターの孫であるグランブルソープのチャールズジョーンズウィスターシニアと関係があるのではないかと推測した。さまざまな情報源が、命名はフィラデルフィアで行われたと主張しています。

Η Wisteria είναι ένα γένος ανθοφόρων φυτών της οικογένειας των οσπρίων Fabaceae (Leguminosae), που περιλαμβάνει δέκα είδη ξυλωδών δίδυμων αμπέλων που είναι εγγενή στην Κίνα, την Ιαπωνία, την Κορέα, το Βιετνάμ, τον Νότιο Καναδά, τις Ανατολικές Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες και το βόρειο Ιράν. Αργότερα εισήχθησαν στη Γαλλία, τη Γερμανία και διάφορες άλλες χώρες της Ευρώπης. Ορισμένα είδη είναι δημοφιλή καλλωπιστικά φυτά.Ο βοτανολόγος Thomas Nuttall είπε ότι ονόμασε το γένος Wisteria στη μνήμη του Αμερικανού γιατρού και ανατόμου Caspar Wistar (1761–1818). Και οι δύο άνδρες ζούσαν στη Φιλαδέλφεια εκείνη την εποχή, όπου ο Wistar ήταν καθηγητής στην Ιατρική Σχολή του Πανεπιστημίου της Πενσυλβάνια. Ερωτηθείς για την ορθογραφία αργότερα, ο Nuttall είπε ότι ήταν για «ευφωνία», αλλά ο βιογράφος του υπέθεσε ότι μπορεί να έχει να κάνει με τον φίλο του Nuttall, Charles Jones Wister Sr., από τον Grumblethorpe, εγγονό του εμπόρου John Wister. Διάφορες πηγές υποστηρίζουν ότι η ονομασία έγινε στη Φιλαδέλφεια.

Chaeronea ( Xαιρωνια ) was the site of several historical battles. Best known is that of 338 BCE, between Philip II of Macedon and a coalition of various Greek states, mainly Thebes and Athens.

During the battle, the elite unit of Theban soldiers known as the Sacred Band of Thebes was wiped out completely (See Battle of Chaeronea).

In 1818, the so-called Lion of Chaeronea, a nearly 20-foot-tall (6.1 m) funerary monument erected in honor of the Sacred Band, was rediscovered by English travellers.

The fragmentary monument was reassembled and installed in 1902 by an organisation called the Order of Chaeronea atop a pedestal at the site of its discovery.

The ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch was born in Chaeronea, and several times refers to these and other facts about his native place in his writings.

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Longstreet Mine, Windy Canyon, Monitor Mountain Range, Nye County, Nevada, USA

I believe that Longstreet himself lived here when the mine was running. So said one of his biographers - Sally Zanjani

This is a simple, classic still life, of course... It has been set in a hearth, sporting a copper pot courtesy of my mother-in-law Antonia, and a firedog in the background. And it should be tasted listening to this cheery execution of the two Quodlibet by Bach (the so-called Wedding quodlibet BWV 524, followed by the 30th variation ending the Goldberg variations BWV 988 - starting at 10 min 16'').

As for the quodlibet (Latin word for "whatever you wish"), it was a common practice to mix different tunes - most often from folk songs - into one.

It should be noted that according to Forkel, Bach's earliest biographer, quodlibets were a custom observed at Bach family reunions: "they then sang popular songs partly of comic and also partly of indecent content, all mixed together on the spur of the moment. (…) This kind of improvised harmonizing they called a Quodlibet, and not only could laugh over it quite whole-heartedly themselves, but also aroused just as hearty and irresistible laughter in all who heard them."

So quodlibets are endowed with the rich scent and the good humour of familiar, everyday life. Hope that you will enjoy both the picture and the music. Wish you all a good wekend.

Just allow me a concluding linguistic afterthought. For the vast majority of you who do not know Italian, I must say that I love the English phrase "still life" - for in Italian this kind of subject is called a natura morta (i.e. dead nature, dead things). I like much better "still life", which entails the idea that the portrayed things may not be so dead - just temporarily removed from the flux of the life of the world to perform a lasting performance which will render them durable :-)

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Capel Celyn Memorial Chapel photographed in October 2025.

The Grade II listed building was refurbished in 2020.

Llyn Celyn Reservoir, constructed between 1959 and 1965, was a significant project in the history of Wales. It was built to supply water to Liverpool and parts of the Wirral peninsula in England, despite the strong opposition from the local Welsh community, particularly the village of Capel Celyn.

The reservoir's construction involved the flooding of Capel Celyn and adjacent farmland, which was a deeply controversial move. The project was authorized by the Liverpool Corporation Act 1957, which allowed the construction without the consent of Welsh planning authorities. The plan had the backing of the Liverpool Labour MP and Councillor Bessie Braddock.

The official opening of the reservoir was met with mass protests and opposition from Welsh MPs, leading to an increase in support for the Welsh nationalist party, Plaid Cymru.

In October 2005, Liverpool City Council issued a public apology for the flooding of Capel Celyn, acknowledging its debt to the Welsh people who have made their homes in the City.

On November 07, 1955 a deputation led by the Plaid Cymru president Gwynfor Evans had sought to address the council in a plea for a change in policy.

According to Bessie Braddock’s biographer Ben Rees, while Evans was speaking, Bessie banged on the table and joined other councillors in insulting Evans and demanding that he "go back to Wales".

In July 1957, when the enabling legislation reached its second House of Commons reading, Bessie described the scheme as regional rather than local, and claimed that some parts of Wales would benefit from it. The land to be flooded in the Tryweryn Valley was not, she said, of high agricultural value, and "nothing was done that was not agreed to by the tenants in the area".

The bill became law, and construction began in 1959, but protests and demonstrations continued until the reservoir's opening in 1965.

While the dam under construction in early 1963, Pwllheli café owner Owain Williams, Aberystwyth student Emyr Llewelyn, former RAF military policeman John Albert Jones formed the paramilitary group Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru - the Movement for the Defence of Wales.

On the night of 9 February 1963, they travelled through blizzard conditions to plant a 5lb (2.3kg) bomb which destroyed an electricity transformer on the site at 03:15 the following morning. The opening ceremony of the Llyn Celyn Reservoir in 1965 was disrupted by protestors which included members of another paramilitary organisation – The Free Wales Army led by Julian Cayo Evans.

The slogan Cofiwch Dryweryn ("Remember Tryweryn") was coined by nationalists, says Rees, as "a reminder of Liverpool's greed and lack of sensitivity".

In October 2015, on the 50th anniversary of the reservoir's completion, protestors demonstrated around the statue of Bessie Braddock at Liverpool Lime Street station.

Click here for more photographs of Llyn Celyn: www.jhluxton.com/Wales/Gwynedd/Llyn-Celyn-Capel-Celyn

The Malvern Hills that runs along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border.

The Malvern Hills are a range of hills in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire, dominating the surrounding countryside and the towns and villages of the district of Malvern. The highest summit of the hills affords a panorama of the Severn valley with the hills of Herefordshire and the Welsh mountains, parts of thirteen counties, the Bristol Channel, and the cathedrals of Worcester, Gloucester and Hereford.

The name Malvern is probably derived from the ancient British moel-bryn, meaning "Bare-Hill", the nearest modern equivalent being the Welsh moelfryn (bald hill). It has been known as Malferna (11th century), Malverne (12th century), and Much Malvern (16–17th century). They are known for their spring water – initially made famous by the region's many holy wells, and later through the development of the 19th century spa town of Great Malvern, a process which culminated in the production of the modern bottled Malvern Water.

Flint axes, arrowheads, and flakes found in the area are attributed to early Bronze Age settlers, and the 'Shire Ditch', a late Bronze Age boundary earthwork possibly dating from around 1000 BC, was constructed along part of the crest of the hills near the site of later settlements. The Wyche Cutting, a mountain pass through the hills was in use in prehistoric times as part of the salt route from Droitwich to South Wales. A 19th century discovery of over two hundred metal money bars suggests that the area had been inhabited by the La Tène people around 250 BC. Ancient folklore has it that the British chieftain Caractacus made his last stand against the Romans at the British Camp, a site of extensive Iron Age earthworks on a summit of the Malvern Hills close to where Malvern was to be later established.

J.R.R. Tolkien found inspiration in the Malvern landscape which he had viewed from his childhood home in Birmingham and his brother Hilary's home near Evesham. He was introduced to the area by C. S. Lewis, who had brought him here to meet George Sayer, the Head of English at Malvern College. Sayer had been a student of Lewis, and became his biographer, and together with them Tolkien would walk the Malvern Hills.

Recordings of Tolkien reading excerpts from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were made in Malvern in 1952, at the home of George Sayer. The recordings were later issued on long-playing gramophone records. In the liner notes for J.R.R. Tolkien Reads and Sings his The Hobbit & The Fellowship of the Ring, George Sayer wrote that Tolkien would relive the book as they walked and compared parts of the Malvern Hills to the White Mountains of Gondor.

Information Source:

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Cambusnethan House or better known as Cambusnethan Priory

Designed by James Gillespie Graham and completed in 1820. It is generally regarded as being the best remaining example of a Graham-built country house in the quasi-ecclesiastical style of the Gothic revival.

It was rented for a short number of years in the early 1960s as an architects office for the team who built the 60’s part of Livingston, Scotland.

Later it was used as a hotel and restaurant and "mediaeval banqueting hall", the last use being tenuously linked with William Finnemund, the 12th century, Laird of Cambusnethan.

There was originally a Norman Tower House near the site of the present building, and this was replaced by a manor House during the 17th century which burned down in March 1816 and the present house was commissioned and built in 1820.

The Priory was built for the Lockhart family of Castlehill, their Coat of Arms being carved above the main entrance and etched in every balustrade of the main staircase inside.

The arms represents a casket, heart and lock which derives from the tradition that the ancestors of this family carried Robert The Bruce’s heart back from the Holy land.

The nearby Cambusnethan Manse (now Elaina Nursing Home, Netherton) was also the birthplace of John Bigson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott’s biographer and later son in law.

There are few remaining examples of early 19th-century neo-Gothic mansions remaining in Scotland as many were demolished in the late 1950s and 1960s. Cambusnethan House is a notable building in its own right as a good example of the neo-Gothic style, and also because so few buildings of this type still remain.

The house is two and three storeys high with turrets at each corner, a three-storey bow in the west elevation and a massive square porch.

Characteristically, the house was very ornately decorated with a variety of architectural details; castellated roof lines, scrolled pinnacles, narrow pointed windows and drip moulds, and various cornices, besides carved motifs and decorated chimneys.

Some of the ornate pinnacles have been removed in the interest of safety, and there had been at a recent extension to the lower ground floor across a sunken passage across the house with a roof flush with ground level.

In Flanders fields, the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below...

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved, and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields...

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields...

Videos related to the writing of the poem

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Armistice Day occurs next Tuesday… “at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month”. My father's brother, John Barber, died in 1917 when a stove exploded in a Belgian army camp. My mother’s brother, Bill Watson, was killed on July 23, 1944, when the Wellington Mk X bomber in which he was navigator ditched into the Irish Sea while on a training mission. All on board were killed.

I decided it would be fitting to travel the short distance to Guelph, Ontario, to visit the birthplace of Lt. Col. John McCrae, who penned “In Flanders Fields” on a piece of paper held tightly to the back of his friend, Colonel Lawrence Cosgrave while they were in the trenches during a lull in the bombings on May 3, 1915. McCrae had witnessed the death of his friend, Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, the day before. The poem was first published on December 8, 1915 in Punch magazine, London.

The light wasn’t the best for my photoshoot, since the front of the house receives very little sunlight at any point during the day. Did my best. Someday I'll redo it when the skies are overcast.

Over the next week, I will be posting images taken during the visit. I will also be posting pictures of Uncle Bill and Uncle John, as well as of Bill’s flight crew. I will tell as much of their stories as I know.

From my set entitled “John McCrae Birthplace” (under preparation)

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In my collection entitled “Places”

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In my photostream

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Reproduced from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCrae

Lieutenant Colonel John Alexander McCrae (November 30, 1872 – January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I and a surgeon during the battle of Ypres. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem In Flanders Fields.

McCrae was born in McCrae House in Guelph, Ontario, the grandson of Scottish immigrants. He attended the Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute. John became a member of the Guelph militia regiment.

McCrae worked on his BA at the University of Toronto from 1892-3. He took a year off his studies at the University of Toronto due to recurring problems with asthma.

He was a member of the Toronto militia, The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada while studying at the University of Toronto, during which time he was promoted to Captain and commanded the company.

Among his papers in the John McCrae House in Guelph, Ontario is a letter John McCrae wrote on July 18, 1893 to Laura Kains while he trained as an artilleryman at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario. "...I have a manservant .. Quite a nobby place it is, in fact .. My windows look right out across the bay, and are just near the water’s edge; there is a good deal of shipping at present in the port; and the river looks very pretty.’ [1]

He was a resident master in English and Mathematics in 1894 at the OAC in Guelph, Ontario. [2]

He returned to the University of Toronto and completed his B.A. McCrae later studied medicine on a scholarship at the University of Toronto. While attending the university he joined the Zeta Psi Fraternity (Theta Xi chapter; class of 1894) and published his first poems.

He completed a medical residency at the Garrett Hospital, a Maryland children's convalescent home. [2]

In 1902, he was appointed resident pathologist at Montreal General Hospital and later also became assistant pathologist to the Royal Victoria Hospital Montreal. In 1904, he was appointed an associate in medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital. Later that year, he went to England where he studied for several months and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians.

In 1905, he set up his own practice although he continued to work and lecture at several hospitals. He was appointed pathologist to the Montreal Foundling and Baby Hospital in 1905. In 1908, he was appointed physician to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Infectious Diseases.

In 1910, he accompanied Lord Grey, the Governor General of Canada, on a canoe trip to Hudson Bay to serve as expedition physician .

McCrae served in the artillery during the Second Boer War, and upon his return was appointed professor of pathology at the University of Vermont, where he taught until 1911 (although he also taught at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec)

When the United Kingdom declared war on Germany at the start of World War I, Canada, as a Dominion within the British Empire, declared war as well. McCrae was appointed as a field surgeon in the Canadian artillery and was in charge of a field hospital during the Second Battle of Ypres in 1915. McCrae's friend and former student, Lt. Alexis Helmer, was killed in the battle, and his burial inspired the poem, In Flanders Fields, which was written on May 3, 1915 and first published in Punch Magazine, London.

From June 1, 1915 McCrae was ordered away from the artillery to set up No. 3 Canadian General Hospital at Dannes-Camiers near Boulogne-sur-Mer, northern France. C.L.C. Allinson reported that McCrae "most unmilitarily told [me] what he thought of being transferred to the medicals and being pulled away from his beloved guns. His last words to me were: 'Allinson, all the goddam doctors in the world will not win this bloody war: what we need is more and more fighting men.'"[3]

'In Flanders Fields' appeared anonymously in Punch on December 8, 1915, but in the index to that year McCrae was named as the author. The verses swiftly became one of the most popular poems of the war, used in countless fund-raising campaigns and frequently translated (a Latin version begins In agro belgico...). 'In Flanders Fields' was also extensively printed in the United States, which was contemplating joining the war, alongside a 'reply' by R. W. Lillard, ("...Fear not that you have died for naught, / The torch ye threw to us we caught...").

For eight months the hospital operated in Durbar tents (donated by the Begum of Bhopal and shipped from India), but after suffering storms, floods and frosts it was moved up to Boulogne-sur-Mer into the old Jesuit College in February 1916.

McCrae, now "a household name, albeit a frequently misspelt one",[4] regarded his sudden fame with some amusement, wishing that "they would get to printing 'In F.F.' correctly: it never is nowadays"; but (writes his biographer) "he was satisfied if the poem enabled men to see where their duty lay."[5]

On January 28, 1918, while still commanding No 3 Canadian General Hospital (McGill) at Boulogne, McCrae died of pneumonia. He was buried with full honours[6] in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission section of Wimereux Cemetery, just a couple of kilometres up the coast from Boulogne. McCrae's horse, "Bonfire", led the procession, his master's riding boots reversed in the stirrups. McCrae's gravestone is placed flat, as are all the others, because of the sandy soil.

McCrae was the co-author, with J. G. Adami, of a medical textbook, A Text-Book of Pathology for Students of Medicine (1912; 2nd ed., 1914). He was the brother of Dr. Thomas McCrae, professor of medicine at John Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore and close associate of Sir William Osler.

McCrae was the great uncle of former Alberta MP David Kilgour and of Kilgour's sister Geills Turner, who married former Canadian Prime Minister John Napier Turner.

Several institutions have been named in McCrae's honour, including John McCrae Public School (part of the York Region District School Board in the Toronto suburb of Markham, Ontario), John McCrae Public School (in Guelph, Ontario), John McCrae Senior Public School (in Scarborough, Ontario) and John McCrae Secondary School (part of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board in the Ottawa suburb of Barrhaven). The current Canadian War Museum has a gallery for special exhibits, called the The Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae Gallery. Guelph is home to McCrae House, a museum created in his birthplace.

The Cloth Hall of the city of Ieper (Ypres in English} in Belgium has a permanent war remembrance[8] called the In Flanders Fields Museum, named after the poem.

There are also a photograph and short biographical memorial to McCrae in the St George Memorial Church in Ypres.

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The Malvern Hills that runs along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border.

The Malvern Hills are a range of hills in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire, dominating the surrounding countryside and the towns and villages of the district of Malvern. The highest summit of the hills affords a panorama of the Severn valley with the hills of Herefordshire and the Welsh mountains, parts of thirteen counties, the Bristol Channel, and the cathedrals of Worcester, Gloucester and Hereford.

The name Malvern is probably derived from the ancient British moel-bryn, meaning "Bare-Hill", the nearest modern equivalent being the Welsh moelfryn (bald hill). It has been known as Malferna (11th century), Malverne (12th century), and Much Malvern (16–17th century). They are known for their spring water – initially made famous by the region's many holy wells, and later through the development of the 19th century spa town of Great Malvern, a process which culminated in the production of the modern bottled Malvern Water.

Flint axes, arrowheads, and flakes found in the area are attributed to early Bronze Age settlers, and the 'Shire Ditch', a late Bronze Age boundary earthwork possibly dating from around 1000 BC, was constructed along part of the crest of the hills near the site of later settlements. The Wyche Cutting, a mountain pass through the hills was in use in prehistoric times as part of the salt route from Droitwich to South Wales. A 19th century discovery of over two hundred metal money bars suggests that the area had been inhabited by the La Tène people around 250 BC. Ancient folklore has it that the British chieftain Caractacus made his last stand against the Romans at the British Camp, a site of extensive Iron Age earthworks on a summit of the Malvern Hills close to where Malvern was to be later established.

J.R.R. Tolkien found inspiration in the Malvern landscape which he had viewed from his childhood home in Birmingham and his brother Hilary's home near Evesham. He was introduced to the area by C. S. Lewis, who had brought him here to meet George Sayer, the Head of English at Malvern College. Sayer had been a student of Lewis, and became his biographer, and together with them Tolkien would walk the Malvern Hills.

Recordings of Tolkien reading excerpts from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were made in Malvern in 1952, at the home of George Sayer. The recordings were later issued on long-playing gramophone records. In the liner notes for J.R.R. Tolkien Reads and Sings his The Hobbit & The Fellowship of the Ring, George Sayer wrote that Tolkien would relive the book as they walked and compared parts of the Malvern Hills to the White Mountains of Gondor.

Information Source:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malvern_Hills

Cambusnethan House or better known as Cambusnethan Priory

Designed by James Gillespie Graham and completed in 1820. It is generally regarded as being the best remaining example of a Graham-built country house in the quasi-ecclesiastical style of the Gothic revival.

It was rented for a short number of years in the early 1960s as an architects office for the team who built the 60’s part of Livingston, Scotland.

Later it was used as a hotel and restaurant and "mediaeval banqueting hall", the last use being tenuously linked with William Finnemund, the 12th century, Laird of Cambusnethan.

There was originally a Norman Tower House near the site of the present building, and this was replaced by a manor House during the 17th century which burned down in March 1816 and the present house was commissioned and built in 1820.

The Priory was built for the Lockhart family of Castlehill, their Coat of Arms being carved above the main entrance and etched in every balustrade of the main staircase inside.

The arms represents a casket, heart and lock which derives from the tradition that the ancestors of this family carried Robert The Bruce’s heart back from the Holy land.

The nearby Cambusnethan Manse (now Elaina Nursing Home, Netherton) was also the birthplace of John Bigson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott’s biographer and later son in law.

There are few remaining examples of early 19th-century neo-Gothic mansions remaining in Scotland as many were demolished in the late 1950s and 1960s. Cambusnethan House is a notable building in its own right as a good example of the neo-Gothic style, and also because so few buildings of this type still remain.

The house is two and three storeys high with turrets at each corner, a three-storey bow in the west elevation and a massive square porch.

Characteristically, the house was very ornately decorated with a variety of architectural details; castellated roof lines, scrolled pinnacles, narrow pointed windows and drip moulds, and various cornices, besides carved motifs and decorated chimneys.

Some of the ornate pinnacles have been removed in the interest of safety, and there had been at a recent extension to the lower ground floor across a sunken passage across the house with a roof flush with ground level.

Looking towards Worcestershire Beacon, the highest point of the range of Malvern Hills that runs along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border, although Worcestershire Beacon itself lies entirely within Worcestershire.

The Malvern Hills are a range of hills in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire, dominating the surrounding countryside and the towns and villages of the district of Malvern. The highest summit of the hills affords a panorama of the Severn valley with the hills of Herefordshire and the Welsh mountains, parts of thirteen counties, the Bristol Channel, and the cathedrals of Worcester, Gloucester and Hereford.

The name Malvern is probably derived from the ancient British moel-bryn, meaning "Bare-Hill", the nearest modern equivalent being the Welsh moelfryn (bald hill). It has been known as Malferna (11th century), Malverne (12th century), and Much Malvern (16–17th century). They are known for their spring water – initially made famous by the region's many holy wells, and later through the development of the 19th century spa town of Great Malvern, a process which culminated in the production of the modern bottled Malvern Water.

Flint axes, arrowheads, and flakes found in the area are attributed to early Bronze Age settlers, and the 'Shire Ditch', a late Bronze Age boundary earthwork possibly dating from around 1000 BC, was constructed along part of the crest of the hills near the site of later settlements. The Wyche Cutting, a mountain pass through the hills was in use in prehistoric times as part of the salt route from Droitwich to South Wales. A 19th century discovery of over two hundred metal money bars suggests that the area had been inhabited by the La Tène people around 250 BC. Ancient folklore has it that the British chieftain Caractacus made his last stand against the Romans at the British Camp, a site of extensive Iron Age earthworks on a summit of the Malvern Hills close to where Malvern was to be later established.

J.R.R. Tolkien found inspiration in the Malvern landscape which he had viewed from his childhood home in Birmingham and his brother Hilary's home near Evesham. He was introduced to the area by C. S. Lewis, who had brought him here to meet George Sayer, the Head of English at Malvern College. Sayer had been a student of Lewis, and became his biographer, and together with them Tolkien would walk the Malvern Hills. Recordings of Tolkien reading excerpts from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were made in Malvern in 1952, at the home of George Sayer. The recordings were later issued on long-playing gramophone records. In the liner notes for J.R.R. Tolkien Reads and Sings his The Hobbit & The Fellowship of the Ring, George Sayer wrote that Tolkien would relive the book as they walked and compared parts of the Malvern Hills to the White Mountains of Gondor.

Gordon Lightfoot was one heck of a songwriter. It’s said he was credited with helping to define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 70’s and he’s been called Canada’s greatest songwriter. His biographer said “ His name is synonymous with timeless songs about trains and shipwrecks, rivers and highways, lovers and loneliness.”

Einhard's Basilica in Steinbach, Michelstadt Church built in the 9th century by Einhard, court scholar and biographer of Charlemagne

Cambusnethan House or better known as Cambusnethan Priory

Designed by James Gillespie Graham and completed in 1820. It is generally regarded as being the best remaining example of a Graham-built country house in the quasi-ecclesiastical style of the Gothic revival.

It was rented for a short number of years in the early 1960s as an architects office for the team who built the 60’s part of Livingston, Scotland.

Later it was used as a hotel and restaurant and "mediaeval banqueting hall", the last use being tenuously linked with William Finnemund, the 12th century, Laird of Cambusnethan.

There was originally a Norman Tower House near the site of the present building, and this was replaced by a manor House during the 17th century which burned down in March 1816 and the present house was commissioned and built in 1820.

The Priory was built for the Lockhart family of Castlehill, their Coat of Arms being carved above the main entrance and etched in every balustrade of the main staircase inside.

The arms represents a casket, heart and lock which derives from the tradition that the ancestors of this family carried Robert The Bruce’s heart back from the Holy land.

The nearby Cambusnethan Manse (now Elaina Nursing Home, Netherton) was also the birthplace of John Bigson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott’s biographer and later son in law.

There are few remaining examples of early 19th-century neo-Gothic mansions remaining in Scotland as many were demolished in the late 1950s and 1960s. Cambusnethan House is a notable building in its own right as a good example of the neo-Gothic style, and also because so few buildings of this type still remain.

The house is two and three storeys high with turrets at each corner, a three-storey bow in the west elevation and a massive square porch.

Characteristically, the house was very ornately decorated with a variety of architectural details; castellated roof lines, scrolled pinnacles, narrow pointed windows and drip moulds, and various cornices, besides carved motifs and decorated chimneys.

Some of the ornate pinnacles have been removed in the interest of safety, and there had been at a recent extension to the lower ground floor across a sunken passage across the house with a roof flush with ground level.

In this illustration we see famous detective Stanislock Lenin (far left) and Dr. Hanson, his assistant and biographer, (center) receiving a report from agent Svyatopolk Jones on the latest machinations of Stanislock's evil twin brother Vladimir Lenin. (Yes, another evil Vlad!) The epic struggle between the two brothers will come to a head when they struggle on the edge of a swimming pool in downtown Los Angeles where they both will plunge into the deep end and disappear until the next book.

For more AI-generated images with micro stories by me and other members of the Neural Narrative Collective: neural-narrative.blogspot.com/

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David is a life-size marble sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The sculpture was one of many commissions to decorate the villa of Bernini's patron Cardinal Scipione Borghese – where it still resides today, as part of the Galleria Borghese. It was completed in the course of eight months from 1623 to 1624.

The subject of the work is the biblical David, about to throw the stone that will bring down Goliath, which will allow David to behead him. Compared to earlier works on the same theme (notably the David of Michelangelo), the sculpture broke new ground in its implied movement and its psychological intensity.

Between 1618 and 1625 Bernini was commissioned to undertake various sculptural work for the villa of one of his patrons, Cardinal Scipione Borghese. In 1623 – only yet 24 years old – he was working on the sculpture of Apollo and Daphne, when, for unknown reasons, he abandoned this project to start work on the David. According to records of payment, Bernini had started on the sculpture by mid–1623, and his contemporary biographer, Filippo Baldinucci, states that he finished it in seven months.

David was Scipione Borghese's last commission for Bernini. Even before it was finished, Bernini's friend and protector Maffeo Barberini was elected pope, as Pope Urban VIII.

WELCOME TO ETERNITY GATE!

BETWEEN BRUCKNER's BIRTH HOUSE and the Parish & clergy home (Pfarrhof) lies a smallest old cemetery wonderfully preserved. These stairs lead to that solitary realm.

Metaphorically, it's a climb to what is to come and not to a meaningless close.

I cannot help asking myself how Ansfelden looked like in the times of Meister. Probably not quite as tidy and made up as now. But, even more likely, it must have been a more vigorous, busy life taking place. I see it everywhere in Europe – the plummeting birth rates and an extraordinary changed way of life making us... less alive.

When my son was eleven, we visited the grave of our friends Beppa & Guilio Baldovin at the foot of Antelao in Italy. They were a wonderful couple whom I last saw just when my son was to be conceived. We exchanged letters. Twelve years later and their silent tombstones shone blindingly white in the soaring August noon heat. It took the whole morning to find their resting place, but we found it and stood there alone. My son asked me there spontaneously "Pa, why are the graveyards so important?"

His honest question caught me by surprise. I don't think I gave him an answer good enough.

Churchyards and graves will always remain not only a track of lives lived on earth, our memory of those who went before us after they've became part of us, but a reminder too over our own passage to come. In the attempt to make those tracks and markings lasting, we use firm, heavy solid material, concrete, stones or marble. That's how we unintentionally also mark the true intended scope of life: in general, we know it has to get a reconstructed, restored value and dimension. Life marked by creation and birth, but unlimited in time thereafter.

Even in the dismal rainy early Saturday morning such as August 5th was, this door was open. Rightly so. Always is the time to think of our beloved ones, of our neighbor and of the new life to come. To ponder over the age and life that shall transcend the physical dimensions of time and world as we know it.

Whatever the gates and dimensions of our future existence may be, I just know I wouldn't like to dwell there without the splendor and glory of Bruckner's music.

Anton Bruckner's biographers sometimes mention his alleged obsession with the dead and the prayer. Probably it was just his healthy strong authentic faith, surviving the rising apostasy of the XIX century's closing chapters.

The cameraphone capture edited in Snapseed app.

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Cherry Tree by The Little Branch is our new release for Manly Arena Event,

The cherry tree is the most widely planted ornamental tree. Cherry trees in orchards are kept to 15 feet tall to facilitate harvesting, but left to themselves would grow to 30 feet. You may have heard the story of America's first president damaging his father's cherry tree with a hatchet as a young boy. When confronted about it, he allegedly confessed and said, "I cannot tell a lie." While it's an admirable anecdote about honesty, this is actually a myth made up by one of George Washington's biographers, Mason Locke Weems.

These 100% original mesh creations are highly detailed with realistic textures and animated foliage resulting in a true, life-like appearance. A choice of four seasons are readily available via an easy to use pop-up menu to keep your landscaping current. Owner permissions allow Copy & Modify to ensure that each item can be adapted to suit your unique needs. This item has a low Land Impact rating of 3 to 7, which grows as item is modified to a larger size.

Manly Event runs from March 3rd to March 26th

TAXI to Manly Event

After the event you will find the products at The Little Branch In-World Store or on MarketPlace

me before my shed~

the morning takes a picture~

biographer sun...

by Lucy Meskill

Restoration House in Rochester, Kent in England, is a fine example of an Elizabethan mansion. It is so named after the visit of King Charles II on the eve of his restoration.

Charles had landed in Dover on 25 May 1660 and by the evening of the 28th arrived in Rochester. He was received by the Mayor and eventually retired for the night to the home of Colonel Gibbon. The following day Charles continued to London and was proclaimed King on 29 May, his 30th birthday. Although the home of Colonel Gibbon, the property was actually owned by Sir Francis Clerke (he was knighted during the visit), a fact which has led to confusion in the past.[1]

Although it is a private home, the house and garden are open to the public during the summer.[2] The house is protected as a Grade I listed building.[3]

History

Restoration House was originally two medieval buildings (1454 and 1502–22) with a space between.[1] They were joined in 1640–1660 (tree ring data from roof) by inserting a third building between the two, to create a larger house.[1][4] The first owner of the completed house was Henry Clerke, a lawyer and Rochester MP.[1] Clerke caused further works in 1670, the refacing of the entrance facade, the Great Staircase and other internal works.[1] The house was then bought by William Bockenham.[5] It was owned by Stephen T. Aveling in the late 19th century,[6] and he wrote a history of the house which was published in Vol. 15 of "Archaeologia Cantiana".[7]

The house was purchased for £270,000[8] by the English entertainer Rod Hull, in 1986, to save it from being turned into a car park;[9] and he then spent another £500,000 restoring it.[10] It was taken by the Receiver in 1994 to cover an unpaid tax bill.[9]

The current owners over the past decade have uncovered decoration schemes from the mid 17th century, which reveal the fashionable taste of the period, much influenced by the fashions on the continent.[4]

Charles Dickens

According to the biographer John Forster, the novelist Charles Dickens, who lived nearby, used Restoration House as a model for Miss Havisham's Satis House in Great Expectations.[11] The name "Satis House" belongs to the house where Rochester MP, Sir Richard Watts, entertained Queen Elizabeth I; it is now the administrative office of King's School, Rochester. Wikipedia

Cambusnethan House or better known as Cambusnethan Priory

Designed by James Gillespie Graham and completed in 1820. It is generally regarded as being the best remaining example of a Graham-built country house in the quasi-ecclesiastical style of the Gothic revival.

It was rented for a short number of years in the early 1960s as an architects office for the team who built the 60’s part of Livingston, Scotland.

Later it was used as a hotel and restaurant and "mediaeval banqueting hall", the last use being tenuously linked with William Finnemund, the 12th century, Laird of Cambusnethan.

There was originally a Norman Tower House near the site of the present building, and this was replaced by a manor House during the 17th century which burned down in March 1816 and the present house was commissioned and built in 1820.

The Priory was built for the Lockhart family of Castlehill, their Coat of Arms being carved above the main entrance and etched in every balustrade of the main staircase inside.

The arms represents a casket, heart and lock which derives from the tradition that the ancestors of this family carried Robert The Bruce’s heart back from the Holy land.

The nearby Cambusnethan Manse (now Elaina Nursing Home, Netherton) was also the birthplace of John Bigson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott’s biographer and later son in law.

There are few remaining examples of early 19th-century neo-Gothic mansions remaining in Scotland as many were demolished in the late 1950s and 1960s. Cambusnethan House is a notable building in its own right as a good example of the neo-Gothic style, and also because so few buildings of this type still remain.

The house is two and three storeys high with turrets at each corner, a three-storey bow in the west elevation and a massive square porch.

Characteristically, the house was very ornately decorated with a variety of architectural details; castellated roof lines, scrolled pinnacles, narrow pointed windows and drip moulds, and various cornices, besides carved motifs and decorated chimneys.

Some of the ornate pinnacles have been removed in the interest of safety, and there had been at a recent extension to the lower ground floor across a sunken passage across the house with a roof flush with ground level.

David is a life-size marble sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The sculpture was one of many commissions to decorate the villa of Bernini's patron Cardinal Scipione Borghese – where it still resides today, as part of the Galleria Borghese. It was completed in the course of eight months from 1623 to 1624.

The subject of the work is the biblical David, about to throw the stone that will bring down Goliath, which will allow David to behead him. Compared to earlier works on the same theme (notably the David of Michelangelo), the sculpture broke new ground in its implied movement and its psychological intensity.

Between 1618 and 1625 Bernini was commissioned to undertake various sculptural work for the villa of one of his patrons, Cardinal Scipione Borghese. In 1623 – only yet 24 years old – he was working on the sculpture of Apollo and Daphne, when, for unknown reasons, he abandoned this project to start work on the David. According to records of payment, Bernini had started on the sculpture by mid–1623, and his contemporary biographer, Filippo Baldinucci, states that he finished it in seven months.

David was Scipione Borghese's last commission for Bernini. Even before it was finished, Bernini's friend and protector Maffeo Barberini was elected pope, as Pope Urban VIII.

Saint Jerome Writing, also called Saint Jerome in His Study or simply Saint Jerome, is an oil painting by Italian painter Caravaggio. Generally dated to 1605–06, the painting is located in the Galleria Borghese in Rome.

The painting depicts Saint Jerome, a Doctor of the Church in Roman Catholicism and a popular subject for painting, even for Caravaggio, who produced other paintings of Jerome in Meditation and engaged in writing. In this image, Jerome is reading intently, an outstretched arm resting with quill. It has been suggested that Jerome is depicted in the act of translating the Vulgate.

The painting is generally dated to 1605–06, largely on the statements of 17th-century art historical biographer Gian Pietro Bellori, though Denis Mahon suggests 1602–1604. According to Bellori, Caravaggio produced the piece at the behest of Cardinal Scipione Borghese, who became a cardinal in 1605, but it is possible that Borghese acquired it later as it is not mentioned in a 1613 poem by Scipione Francucci that described the Borghese Caravaggio collection. Whether or not the dating is accurate, the work is believed to have originated from Caravaggio's late Roman period, which ended with the painter's exile to Malta in 1606.

That Saint Jerome Writing is the work of Caravaggio is sometimes brought into question, as it was attributed to Jusepe de Ribera in the Borghese inventories from 1700 until 1893.

Cambusnethan House or better known as Cambusnethan Priory

Designed by James Gillespie Graham and completed in 1820. It is generally regarded as being the best remaining example of a Graham-built country house in the quasi-ecclesiastical style of the Gothic revival.

It was rented for a short number of years in the early 1960s as an architects office for the team who built the 60’s part of Livingston, Scotland.

Later it was used as a hotel and restaurant and "mediaeval banqueting hall", the last use being tenuously linked with William Finnemund, the 12th century, Laird of Cambusnethan.

There was originally a Norman Tower House near the site of the present building, and this was replaced by a manor House during the 17th century which burned down in March 1816 and the present house was commissioned and built in 1820.

The Priory was built for the Lockhart family of Castlehill, their Coat of Arms being carved above the main entrance and etched in every balustrade of the main staircase inside.

The arms represents a casket, heart and lock which derives from the tradition that the ancestors of this family carried Robert The Bruce’s heart back from the Holy land.

The nearby Cambusnethan Manse (now Elaina Nursing Home, Netherton) was also the birthplace of John Bigson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott’s biographer and later son in law.

There are few remaining examples of early 19th-century neo-Gothic mansions remaining in Scotland as many were demolished in the late 1950s and 1960s. Cambusnethan House is a notable building in its own right as a good example of the neo-Gothic style, and also because so few buildings of this type still remain.

The house is two and three storeys high with turrets at each corner, a three-storey bow in the west elevation and a massive square porch.

Characteristically, the house was very ornately decorated with a variety of architectural details; castellated roof lines, scrolled pinnacles, narrow pointed windows and drip moulds, and various cornices, besides carved motifs and decorated chimneys.

Some of the ornate pinnacles have been removed in the interest of safety, and there had been at a recent extension to the lower ground floor across a sunken passage across the house with a roof flush with ground level.

Titled correctly.

The sculptor of this iconic statue of the 16th President of the United States of America, was none other than Daniel Chester French. The subject, described as someone made up of both "steel and velvet" by biographer Carl Sandburg, emanates that description. He seems to gaze on the Washington monument as if ever wondering if he had lived up to the mantle the “Father of the Country” passed down.

I am always fascinated by the fact that, Jefferson, chief author of the Declaration of Independence; Lincoln, who fiercely held the Union together during its bloody and destructive Civil War; the contemporary occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; and, the Congress of the United States all face the obelisk monument to George Washington simultaneously. I believe it serves as a permanent reminder of Washington's preeminence not just in position, but in action, temperment, and deed, as the man who set the standard for leadership of this great nation.

i'm waiting for letter poems....

who want's to write me a letter poem?

(i'm sorry for not comment on as much as you expect... soon i'll catch up... that's a promise...)

"Letter-Poem, a Dickinson Genre" does not contend that Emily Dickinson was the only or the first poet to use letters to transmit poetry, to formulate letters as poetry, to exploit the poetic and epistolary so that they inflect, enrich, even become one another.

Keats and other of her forebears, as well as a host of her descendants, blend the genres in various ways and for a wide range of purposes resulting in an even wider range of effects. In his 1958 introduction to The Letters of Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson remarked the oft-quoted editorial "doubt where the letter leaves off and the poem begins" (L, p. xv). Sixteen years later, her eminent biographer Richard B. Sewall identified producing "letter-poems" as a familial as well as an artistic practice: "[Dickinson's father] Edward's sister Elizabeth was not only the chronicler but the bard of her generation. She once sent her young nephew Austin a rhymed letter of fifty stanzas on his toothache" (Life 32). Sometimes Dickinson enclosed poems on a separate sheet with a letter; sometimes poems (especially to Susan Dickinson) constitute the entire text of a letter; sometimes a few lines of a poem recorded in the fascicles or in another letter or on a sheet not bound to any manuscript book, either literally with string or figuratively by being sent to a particular addressee, are woven into the prose of a letter. "

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in www.emilydickinson.org/letter/letintro.htm

Cambusnethan House or better known as Cambusnethan Priory

Designed by James Gillespie Graham and completed in 1820. It is generally regarded as being the best remaining example of a Graham-built country house in the quasi-ecclesiastical style of the Gothic revival.

It was rented for a short number of years in the early 1960s as an architects office for the team who built the 60’s part of Livingston, Scotland.

Later it was used as a hotel and restaurant and "mediaeval banqueting hall", the last use being tenuously linked with William Finnemund, the 12th century, Laird of Cambusnethan.

There was originally a Norman Tower House near the site of the present building, and this was replaced by a manor House during the 17th century which burned down in March 1816 and the present house was commissioned and built in 1820.

The Priory was built for the Lockhart family of Castlehill, their Coat of Arms being carved above the main entrance and etched in every balustrade of the main staircase inside.

The arms represents a casket, heart and lock which derives from the tradition that the ancestors of this family carried Robert The Bruce’s heart back from the Holy land.

The nearby Cambusnethan Manse (now Elaina Nursing Home, Netherton) was also the birthplace of John Bigson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott’s biographer and later son in law.

There are few remaining examples of early 19th-century neo-Gothic mansions remaining in Scotland as many were demolished in the late 1950s and 1960s. Cambusnethan House is a notable building in its own right as a good example of the neo-Gothic style, and also because so few buildings of this type still remain.

The house is two and three storeys high with turrets at each corner, a three-storey bow in the west elevation and a massive square porch.

Characteristically, the house was very ornately decorated with a variety of architectural details; castellated roof lines, scrolled pinnacles, narrow pointed windows and drip moulds, and various cornices, besides carved motifs and decorated chimneys.

Some of the ornate pinnacles have been removed in the interest of safety, and there had been at a recent extension to the lower ground floor across a sunken passage across the house with a roof flush with ground level.

Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (London), c. 1607/1610, is a painting by the Italian master Caravaggio now in the collection of the National Gallery in London.

The painting was discovered in a private collection in 1959. The early Caravaggio biographer Giovanni Bellori, writing in 1673, mentions a Salome with the Head of John the Baptist sent by the artist to the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta in the hope of regaining favour after having been expelled from the Order in 1608. It seems likely, however, that Bellori was referring to a different painting by Caravaggio of the same subject (see Salome with the Head of John the Baptist at the Royal Palace of Madrid). The handling and the raking light link this painting to works done in Naples during the artist's brief stay in the city during 1606–1607, an impression confirmed by the balances between Salome and the Virgin in the Madonna of the Rosary, and between the executioner holding the head of the Baptist and one of the two torturers in Christ at the Column and The Flagellation of Christ.

From November to February 2012–2013, this painting was part of the exhibition "Bodies and Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy" at the LACMA.

The Young Cherry Tree will be out at midnight for Wanderlust Weekend, for 50L The Young Cherry will be 50L until Sunday

Few trees can rival the cherry tree for the beauty of its sweeping branches and colorful fruit. The cherry tree is the most widely planted ornamental tree. Cherry trees in orchards are kept to 15 feet tall to facilitate harvesting, but left to themselves would grow to 30 feet. You may have heard the story of America's first president damaging his father's cherry tree with a hatchet as a young boy. When confronted about it, he allegedly confessed and said, "I cannot tell a lie." While it's an admirable anecdote about honesty, this is actually a myth made up by one of George Washington's biographers, Mason Locke Weems.

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Drummond was born at Hawthornden Castle, Midlothian. His father, John Drummond, was the first laird of Hawthornden; and his mother was Susannah Fowler, sister of William Fowler, poet and courtier. Sir Robert Drummond of Carnock, one time Master of Work to the Crown of Scotland was his grandfather.

Drummond received his early education at the Royal High School of Edinburgh, and graduated in July 1605 as M.A. of the recently founded University of Edinburgh. His father was a gentleman usher at the English court (as he had been at the Scottish court from 1590) and William, in a visit to London in 1606, describes the festivities in connection with the visit of the king of Denmark. Drummond spent two years at Bourges and Paris in the study of law; and, in 1609, he was again in Scotland, where, by the death of his father in the following year, he became laird of Hawthornden at the early age of twenty-four.

The list of books he read up to this time is preserved in his own handwriting.the indicates a strong preference for imaginative literature, and shows that he was keenly interested in contemporary verse. His collection (now in the library of the university of Edinburgh) contains many first editions of the most famous productions of the age. On finding himself his own master, Drummond naturally abandoned law for the muses; "for," says his biographer in 1711, "the delicacy of his wit always run on the pleasantness and usefulness of history, and on the fame and softness of poetry." In 1612 began his correspondence with Sir William Alexander of Menstrie, afterwards Earl of Stirling, which ripened into a lifelong friendship after Drummond's visit to Menstrie in 1614.

Drummond's first publication appeared in 1613, an elegy on the death of Henry, prince of Wales, called Teares on the Death of Meliades (Moeliades, 3rd edit. 1614). The poem shows the influence of Spenser's and Sidney's pastoralism. In the same year he published an anthology of the elegies of Chapman, Wither and others, entitled Mausoleum, or The Choisest Flowres of the Epitaphs. In 1616, the year of Shakespeare's death, appeared Poems: Amorous, Funerall, Divine, Pastorall: in Sonnets, Songs, Sextains, Madrigals, being substantially the story of his love for Mary Cunningham of Barns, who was about to become his wife when she died in 1615.

The poems bear marks of a close study of Sidney, and of the Italian poets. He sometimes translates direct from the Italian, especially from Marini. Forth Feasting: A Panegyricke to the King's Most Excellent Majestie (1617), a poem written in heroic couplets of remarkable facility, celebrates James's visit to Scotland in that year. In 1618 Drummond began a correspondence with Michael Drayton. The two poets continued to write at intervals for thirteen years, the last letter being dated in the year of Drayton's death. The latter had almost been persuaded by his "dear Drummond" to print the later books of Poly-Olbion at Hart's Edinburgh press. In the winter of 1618-1619, Drummond had included Ben Jonson in his circle of literary friends, and at Christmas 1618 was honoured with a visit of a fortnight or more from the dramatist.

The account of their conversations, long supposed to be lost, was discovered in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, by David Laing, and was edited for the Shakespeare Society in 1842 and printed by Gifford & Cunningham. The conversations are full of literary gossip, and embody Jonson's opinion of himself and of his host, whom he frankly told that "his verses were too much of the schooles, and were not after the fancie of the time," and again that he "was too good and simple, and that oft a man's modestie made a fool of his witt." But the publication of what was obviously intended merely for a private journal has given Jonson an undeserved reputation for harsh judgments, and has cast blame on Drummond for blackening his guest's memory.

In 1623 appeared the poet's fourth publication, entitled Flowers of Sion: By William Drummond of Hawthornedenne: to which is adjoyned his Cypresse Grove. From 1625 till 1630 Drummond was probably for the most part engaged in travelling on the Continent. In 1627, however, he seems to have been home for a short time, as, in that year, he appears in the entirely new character of the holder of a patent for the construction of military machines, entitled "Litera Magistri Gulielmi Drummond de Fabrica Machinarum Militarium, Anno 1627." The same year, 1627, is the date of Drummond's munificent gift (referred to above) of about 500 volumes to the library of the University of Edinburgh.

In 1630 Drummond again began to reside permanently at Hawthornden, and in 1632 he married Elizabeth Logan, by whom he had five sons and four daughters. In 1633 Charles made his coronation-visit to Scotland; and Drummond's pen was employed in writing congratulatory speeches and verses. He was involved in organising the King's triumphal procession through Edinburgh[1]. As Drummond preferred Episcopacy to Presbytery, and was an extremely loyal subject, he supported Charles's general policy, though he protested against the methods employed to enforce it. When John Elphinstone, 2nd Lord Balmerino was put on his trial on the capital charge of retaining in his possession a petition regarded as a libel on the king's government, Drummond in an energetic "Letter" (1635) urged the injustice and folly of the proceedings. About this time a claim by the earl of Menteith to the earldom of Strathearn, which was based on the assertion that Robert III, husband of Annabella Drummond, was illegitimate, roused the poet's pride of blood and prompted him to prepare an historical defence of his house.

Partly to please his kinsman the earl of Perth, and partly to satisfy his own curiosity, the poet made researches in the genealogy of the family. This investigation was the real secret of Drummond's interest in Scottish history; and so we find that he now began his History of Scotland during the Reigns of the Five Jameses, a work which did not appear till 1655, and is remarkable only for its good literary style. His next work was called forth by the king's enforced submission to the opposition of his Scottish subjects. It is entitled Irene: or a Remonstrance for Concord, Amity, and Love amongst His Majesty's Subjects (1638), and embodies Drummond's political creed of submission to authority as the only logical refuge from democracy, which he hated. In 1639 Drummond had to sign the Covenant in self-protection, but was uneasy under the burden, as several political squibs by him testify. In 1643 he published ~iaaucLxLa: or a Defence of a Petition tendered to the Lords of the Council of Scotland by certain Noblemen and Gentlemen, a political pamphlet in support of those royalists in Scotland who wished to espouse the king's cause against the English parliament. Its burden is an invective on the intolerance of the then dominant Presbyterian clergy.

His later works may be described briefly as royalist pamphlets, written with more or less caution, as the times required. Drummond took the part of Montrose; and a letter from the Royalist leader in 1646 acknowledged his services. He also wrote a pamphlet, A Vindication of the Hamiltons, supporting the claims of the Duke of Hamilton to lead the Scottish army which was to release Charles I. It is said that Drummond's health received a severe shock when news was brought of the king's execution. He was buried in his parish church of Lasswade.

Gill was born in 1882 in Brighton, Sussex (now East Sussex) and in 1897 the family moved to Chichester. Eric studied at Chichester Technical and Art School, and in 1900 moved to London to train as an architect with the practice of W.D. Caroe, specialists in ecclesiastical architecture. Frustrated with his training, he took evening classes in stone masonry at Westminster Technical Institute and in calligraphy at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, where Edward Johnston, creator of the London Underground typeface, became a strong influence. In 1903 he gave up his architectural training to become a calligrapher, letter-cutter and monumental mason.

As the revelations about Gill's private life resonated, there was a reassessement of his personal and artistic achievement. As his recent biographer sums up: "After the initial shock, the consequent reassessment of his life and art left his artistic reputation strengthened. Gill emerged as one of the twentieth century's strangest and most original controversialists, a sometimes infuriating, always arresting spokesman for man's continuing need of God in an increasingly materialistic civilization, and for intellectual vigour in an age of encroaching triviality. (Wikipedia 2007)

Francesco Albani (Bologna, August 17, 1578 - Bologna, October 4, 1660) - Four Elements Fire (1625-28.) - oil on canvas - Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Albani realizzò l serie dei quattro elementi fra il 1628 e il 1628 su commissione del Cardinale Maurizio di Savoia. Egli desunse i temi iconografici dalle immagini di Filostrato, in linea con il gusto classicista e l'erudizione letteraria della borghesia romana del tempo. I quattro tondi, per quanto memori dell'insegnamento di Annibale Carracci, si caratterizzano per il lirismo e la preziosità pittorica tipica dell'artista e per questo furono lodati dai biografi del XVIII scolo. La serie giunse a Torino nel 1633, suscitando notevole interesse presso i contemporanei che le dedicarono composizioni letterarie e interpretazioni a sfondo simbolico e politico. Inizialmente venne collocata a Villa della Regina, poi al castello del Valentino, nel 1692 spostata nelle raccolte di Vittorio Amedeo II, confluendo infine alla Sabauda per via dinastica.

Albani created the Four Elements series between 1628 and 1628 on commission from Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy. He drew the iconographic themes from the images of Philostratus, in line with the classicist taste and literary erudition of the Roman bourgeoisie of the time. The four tondi, although mindful of the teachings of Annibale Carracci, are characterized by the lyricism and the preciousness of painting typical of the artist and for this reason they were praised by the biographers of the eighteenth century. The series arrived in Turin in 1633, arousing considerable interest among contemporaries who dedicated literary compositions and interpretations to symbolic and political background. Initially it was placed at the Villa della Regina, then at the Valentino castle, in 1692 moved to the collections of Vittorio Amedeo II, finally flowing to the Sabauda by dynastic way.

Millennium Hill which is one of the hills that is local on the Malvern Hills ridge which runs along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border.

The Malvern Hills are a range of hills in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire, dominating the surrounding countryside and the towns and villages of the district of Malvern. The highest summit of the hills affords a panorama of the Severn valley with the hills of Herefordshire and the Welsh mountains, parts of thirteen counties, the Bristol Channel, and the cathedrals of Worcester, Gloucester and Hereford.

The name Malvern is probably derived from the ancient British moel-bryn, meaning "Bare-Hill", the nearest modern equivalent being the Welsh moelfryn (bald hill). It has been known as Malferna (11th century), Malverne (12th century), and Much Malvern (16–17th century). They are known for their spring water – initially made famous by the region's many holy wells, and later through the development of the 19th century spa town of Great Malvern, a process which culminated in the production of the modern bottled Malvern Water.

Flint axes, arrowheads, and flakes found in the area are attributed to early Bronze Age settlers, and the 'Shire Ditch', a late Bronze Age boundary earthwork possibly dating from around 1000 BC, was constructed along part of the crest of the hills near the site of later settlements. The Wyche Cutting, a mountain pass through the hills was in use in prehistoric times as part of the salt route from Droitwich to South Wales. A 19th century discovery of over two hundred metal money bars suggests that the area had been inhabited by the La Tène people around 250 BC. Ancient folklore has it that the British chieftain Caractacus made his last stand against the Romans at the British Camp, a site of extensive Iron Age earthworks on a summit of the Malvern Hills close to where Malvern was to be later established.

J.R.R. Tolkien found inspiration in the Malvern landscape which he had viewed from his childhood home in Birmingham and his brother Hilary's home near Evesham. He was introduced to the area by C. S. Lewis, who had brought him here to meet George Sayer, the Head of English at Malvern College. Sayer had been a student of Lewis, and became his biographer, and together with them Tolkien would walk the Malvern Hills. Recordings of Tolkien reading excerpts from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were made in Malvern in 1952, at the home of George Sayer. The recordings were later issued on long-playing gramophone records. In the liner notes for J.R.R. Tolkien Reads and Sings his The Hobbit & The Fellowship of the Ring, George Sayer wrote that Tolkien would relive the book as they walked and compared parts of the Malvern Hills to the White Mountains of Gondor.