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Touched by Fire and Madness by multimany_Chars

~ Basics ~

Name: Dillion Asho

Apparent Age: 21

True Age: 21

Gender: Male

Virtue: Faith

Vice: Envy

Tribe: Fire-touch

Pack:

Lodge: None

Profession: Street preacher

~ Appearance ~

Height: 5’ 9

Weight: 135

Eyes: green

Hair Color: died a sickly green

Hair Style: long and scraggly

Complexion: pale yellow

Build: malnourished

Scars: None

Distinguishing Features: On his left ear there is a red plastic tag with ID numbers as if he was a wild animal.

~ Attributes ~

Strength *

Dexterity**

Stamina ***

Charisma ****

Manipulation ***

Appearance *

Perception **

Intelligence **

Wits ***

~ Skills ~

Mental

Academics:*

Computer:

Crafts:

Investigation:****

Medicine:**

Occult:

Politics:

Science:

Physical

Athletics:*

Brawl:

Drive:

Firearms:

Larceny:

Stealth:

Survival: *

Weaponry: ***

Social

Animal Ken:

Empathy:*

Expression:**** ( impassioned speeches)

Intimidation:*

Persuasion:*** (conversion)

Socialize:** (fast-talking)

Streetwise:

Subterfuge:

~ Advantages ~

Essence: [][][][][][][]

>Gifts/rites: Insight-

>>The Right Words + 2 to all social rolls, reflexive

>>Camaraderie- Suspicions are set aside and teamwork becomes more beneficial

Manipulation+ Persuasion+ Wisdom, reflexive

>Fervor Gifts

>>Eyes of Gurim Int+Investigation+Purity

The Fire-Touched can judge the state of another werewolf’s soul. Izidakh use this Gift to judge whether an Uratha would be a good candidate for conversion. When used successfully, the Eyes of Gurim can give the Fire- Touched some information about the target’s weaknesses, which he can then exploit when attempting to convert her. This Gift works on any werewolf that the charac- ter can see directly (i.e., it does not work through video cameras or on photographs). The character can recognize members of his own tribe on sight.

Merits: Fetish ***

Klaive: Gurim’s Lash: This weapon is a long, barbed whip made of specially treated leather (or, just as often, human skin). The barbs are the end are made of iron or bone, and must be sharpened and tempered in fire once a month. A spirit of disease is bound into the whip. It inflicts two points of lethal damage normally, and can be used to blind opponents with a called shot (see p. 165 of the World of Darkness Rulebook). Also, when activated, Gurim’s Lash inflicts a gibbering madness upon the victim. Anyone damaged by the lash must succeed on a Stamina + Resolve roll (Natural Immunity benefits apply) with a negative modifier equal to the number of Health points suffered from the lash that scene. If this roll fails, the victim suffers fever, sweats and disorienta- tion (in game terms, a –1 on all Physical and Mental rolls) for the rest of the scene. If the roll is a dramatic failure, this penalty persists for a full day.

Flaws: Can’t lie, Nightmares

Personality quirks:

~ Possessions ~

Weapons:

Health:

Armor type:

Defense rating:

Equipment:

Havens:

Vehicles:

~ Self ~

Harmony: [][][][][][][]

Primal Urge:*

Renown:

Wisdom**

Purity*

Personality: Passionate and outspoken

History:

~ Additional Information ~

Size: 5

Speed: 8

Initiative: 4

~ Basics ~

Name: Stoop-gallant Asho

Apparent Age: 21

True Age: 21

Gender: male

Virtue: Justice

Vice: Wrath

Tribe: Fire-touched

Pack:None

Lodge:None

Profession: speaker of tongues

~ Appearance ~

Height: 5’ 9

Weight: 135

Eyes: green

Hair Color: died a sickly green

Hair Style: long and scraggly

Complexion: pale yellow

Build: malnourished

Scars: None

Distinguishing Features: On his left ear there is a red plastic tag with ID numbers as if he was a wild animal.

~ Attributes ~

Strength ****

Dexterity*

Stamina ***

Charisma *

Manipulation *

Presence: ****

Perception ***

Intelligence *

Wits ***

~ Skills ~

Mental

Academics:

Computer:

Crafts:

Investigation:

Medicine:****

Occult:

Politics:

Science:

Physical

Athletics: ***

Brawl:****

Drive:

Firearms:

Larceny:

Stealth:

Survival:****

Weaponry:

Social

Animal Ken: *

Empathy: *

Expression:****

Intimidation:*

Persuasion:

Socialize:

Streetwise:

Subterfuge:

~ Advantages ~

Essence:[][][][][][][]

Gifts/rites: Disease

Fever Dreams:Presence+Medicine+Wisdom vs resolve+primal urge, 1 essence

The character passes along a spiritual infection to a target. Although this disease runs its course quickly, and rarely does any serious damage to the target, while he is infected he suffers cold sweats, headaches, fever and even mild hallucinations. Needless to say, fighting or even focusing his mind is extremely difficult while the disease holds him.

Virulent Rage: Presence+Expression+Purity vsReseolve+primal urge, 1 willpower

The Fire-Touched infects another being with a portion of her Rage. When used on a werewolf, this Gift usually triggers Kuruth. When used a human being, the Gift causes a terrible fit of violent anger. Worse, this anger is contagious, meaning that if the Fire-Touched uses this Gift in a crowd, it will quickly spiral into a brutal, rioting mob.

Glorious Agony: Strength+Survival+Glory, 1 essence

By activating this Gift, the werewolf taints his own Essence with a spiritual malady. This illness actually makes the werewolf stronger and deadlier, lending the pain of disease and contagion to his claws and fangs. The Fire-Touched must sacrifice his own regenerative powers to allow the disease to run its course, however, and many an Izidakh has perished under the effects. Once activated, Glorious Agony remains in effect for the remainder of the scene and cannot be terminated early.

Merits: Danger Sense **, Quick Healer ****, Natural Immunity *

Flaws: Speaking in tongues, can’t lie, Nightmares, Driving goal (purify the Forsaken),

Personality quirks:

~ Possessions ~

Weapons: Fangs and claws

Health:[][][][][][][]

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~ Self ~

Harmony: 7

Primal Urge: 1

Renown:

Personality:

History:

~ Additional Information ~

Size: 5

Speed:6

Initiative:

Twins’ History: It isn’t surprising that since birth that this set of twins were incredibly close. They would share some kind of unseen bond or extreme empathic link that let them share emotions and thoughts without need of spoken word. They had a normal childhood growing up in the suburbs. They were part of the boy scouts, their parents were teachers as the local elementary and middle school, and they played in youth soccer league. However, their peaceful and average life would come to a violent end on afternoon.

The two boys had come down with a burning fever, their faces were flushed, sweat poured form them endlessly and both were delirious. Strange words were passing their lips, on occasion it would become only gibberish that made no sense. However, the illness burned its way through the twins for almost a week as their parents didn’t want to risk moving them. They were already on death’s door; fear of their only children passing them on was eating them away. The human parents couldn’t possibly know about the Pure blood coursing through the veins of the twins. How could they?

One day, when the sun rose to it’s highest point, the temperature outside soared into the hundreds, it happened. The fire coursing through their veins erupted. Both boys, clawed at their flesh, tears heaping chunks off their frames and casting the bloodied scraps aside. Their agonized screams alerted their parents that something was wrong. By the time, their parents entered the bedroom it was too late. They had fully changed, both were standing tall while wearing sickly green fur that was matted down with blood.

In the agony of the change, the twins saw the truth behind the world. Saw how the life they before was nothing but a lie, they had never been human. Humans were something beneath them and vile. Their old way of life was full of false truths, disgusting assumptions and utter lies. The truth hit them and drove them both mad. They descended upon their parents, rending them asunder and leaving the house and their life behind.

In their flight, they instinctively reverted back to the animal mindset, becoming wolves of sickly and rotting green fur, blood shot eyes and bleeding gums. They prowled the suburbs destroying human buildings and eating whenever they could get a bite. Word spread of the feral animals and soon animal control was called in to handle them. The twins were sedated and tagged. Thinking them nothing but simple wolves gone rabid, animal control caged them and was taking them back to be humanely destroyed.

However, the humans weren’t the only ones to hear about the twins. Word of the wolves daylight assaults on humans and rumors of their noon time change drew the attention of the Pure. The Animal Control van was ambushed, its human members murdered and the twins pulled out of their cages. The Pure Immediately recognized these two for what they were and welcomed them. Over the next few years, they were raised properly by the Pure. They found fellowship within the ranks of the Fire-touched. Dillion emerged as a passionate speaker, able to ignite the fires of faith within the hearts of those who listened to him. His brother earned a new name for his condition. The old phrase meaning illness and disease came to represent the other brother, Stoop-gallant. His mind had been broken by the impurities and lies of the world, like the progenitor of the Fire-Touched, Stoop-gallant’s mind was too pure. He would become the new age Gurim-Ur. He was mad and diseased, his affliction would infect the Forsaken.

Inspection Report, POW Camp 50 “Garswood Park”, Ashton-in-Makerfield, 8 July 1946 (part) by The Makerfield Archive

A report of the visit by Major C H B Readman, 2-4 July 1946, further to a previous inspection on 2-4 January 1946 (appendices omitted):

“...Special Objects of Visit:- Re-education progress report. Select candidates for B[eacons]field*.

Strength... Off[icers]: 2. O[ther] R[anks]: 2578. Total: 2580, of which:

746 at HQ; 454 in Kirkby hostel...; 129 in Garswood I Hostel...; 131 in Garswood II Hostel...; 125 in Golborne I Hostel...; 117 in Golborne [II] Hostel...; 404 in Penketh Hostel...; 102 in Wheathill Hostel...; 76 in Bickerstaffe Hostel...; 61 in Aughton Green Hostel...; 235 in billets.

Screening (by PID, March 1946) figures: A+ 1. A 17. A- 1. B+ 26. B 315. B- 31. C 66. unscreened 2123. Present complexion: grey/black. Candidates for B'field: 13.

Personnel: Acting O.C: Major Benett-Dampier. Interpreter: S/Sgt Bloch.

HQ Camp Leader: O/Fw. Dlugosch (B-). German MO: St.Arzt Koech (C ). Hostel Leaders: Kirkby – St. Fw. Kaesler (B), Garswood I – Wm. Wirtz (B), Garswood II – O/Fw. Ender (B), Golborne I – Fw. Ehmke (B+), Golborne II – Fw Ullbrich (A). [Ex-290 Camp -at former Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery, South Lane Farm, Barrow's Green- Hostels:] Penketh – St. Fw. Bergwardt (B), Wheathill – O/Fw. Juch (B-), Bickerstaffe – O/Maat. Schulz (?), Aughton Green – Fw. Kotscha (?).

RECEPTION Very good. The present OC is most co-operative and interested in re-education. His predecessor, Lt Col Ireland, was demobilised a fortnight ago. Major Dampier was previously 2nd i/c the camp, has been there a year and knows the PW very well. The key man in re-education is the interpreter, S/Sgt Bloch, a German Jewish refugee. He is quite one of the best and most efficient interpreters I have yet encountered and takes a most active part in the re-education of the PW.

HISTORY OF THE CAMP. Since the last TA visit six months ago, the number of PW has increased from 416 to 2580 and the camp has been entirely germanised. There are now 9 hostels, including 4 just taken over from the recently disbanded 290 camp.

The intakes almost all of whom were from the USA were from the following camps: 550 from 176 Camp [Glen Mill, Oldham] in February; 270 from 126 [Melland Camp, Morton, Manchester] and 189 Camp [Dunham Park, Altringham] in March; 202 from 189 Camp in May; 600 from 180 Camp [Marbury Hall, Northwhich] in May; 726 from 290 Camp [Penketh] (disbanded) in June.

Within the last fortnight some 270 PW have been transferred to other camps in the south of England. The main camp and hostel leaders were appointed by the late Commandant on the basis of seniority. With the exception of Fw. Ullbrich (A), hostel leader at Golborne II, whose name I am putting forward for Wilton Park*, none of the other camp/hostel leaders take much interest in re-education, although they are not obstructive.

All the PW are living in huts with electric light, with the exception of the hostel at Wheathill, where they are living in a country house. This is the blackest of the hostels with 85 SS men out of a strength of 102 PW. On my recommendation, these men will be transferred to the main camp in the near future and the hostel probably closed down.

Owing to shortage of transport, I was unable to visit the hostels at Kirkby, Bickerstaffe and Aughton Green. The majority of PW are working on farms and the 235 billetees are distributed over 83 farms. They work well and there have been no complaints from the farmers up to date.

Two PW have just returned from Beaconsfield*, Soldat Caemmerer (A+) and Gefr Radermaker. They were both enthusiastic about their experience there and anxious to pass on their knowledge. Two more are going to the next course, O/Maat Behrens and O'Gefr Junker. I have taken the names of a further 13 suitable candidates.

MORALE This is only fair, despite good treatment and little evidence of barbed wire. As almost all the new intakes come from USA their disappointment at not being repatriated had a depressing effect on the others. Morale has improved somewhat recently owing to the fact that most PW are now going out to work. Post is still very bad from the American and French [occupied] zones [in Germany]. The anti-Nazi PW hope they will be granted more privileges on the lines of the Italian co-operators.

POLITICAL PROGRESS Apart from the official PID screening figures on page 1, of the 2123 PW unscreened, the following have been ballot-screened in other camps: A 122; B 766; C 57, leaving 1178 whose gradings are unknown. The S/Sgt and a reliable white PW estimate that, with the exception of the 4 hostels just taken over from 290 camp [Penketh], there are between 10%-15% Nazis with the balance represented by 70% of varying shades of grey and the rest white. A promising feature is the fact that many of the keenest PW on re-education are those under 25. Of the very few communists among the men, none of them are active. I estimate the political colour of the whole camp is grey/black but recommend that it be screened as soon as possible.

YOUTH In the main camp the figures are as follows:- under 20: 80; 20-25: 310; over 25: 336. A special youth political class is run by Artur Daniel (A), which is well-attended.

RE-EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES Most of the PW are peasants and working class men. Accommodation is adequate. The Welfare fund has only about £30, but this should improve now that PW are working. PW in charge of re-education for the whole camp is Dr Heinz Mohrhoff (A), age 39, a former bank official and economist. He is a most suitable man and is also on the staff of the camp newspaper. Each hostel has or will have its own re-educational leader and in each there is or will be a small democratic study group. The leaders are:- Garswood I – Hans Behrens (BC/ Beaconsfield candidate), Garswood II – Alfred Junker (BC), Golborne I – Walter Schmidt (BC), Golborne II – Wilhelm Heuter, Kirkby – Josef Ringelmann, Penketh – Heinz Helbig (probably). \ In the other 3 hostels ex-290 camp they have not yet been arranged, but S'Sgt Bloch has the matter in hand. It is also proposed to bring the re-educational leaders from the hostels into the main camp for 2/3 weeks' training.

WOCHENPOST & AUSBLICK**: 600 of the former, 40 of the latter. See Appendix B.

NEWSPAPERS: 14 daily papers are purchased out of welfare for the whole camp and in addition they get papers from the Officers' and Sgts' Messes. Steps are being taken to see that all the hostels get at least one daily paper. Some German papers are received from PID, but more are wanted. Blick in Die Welt is very popular.

LIBRARY: there are 672 books in the camp library of various types. A very good selection of some 80 books was recently received from PID, the only criticism being that there were too few of them. In a camp of this size with 9 hostels and 235 billetees, more are urgently required. I understand the camp has recently written to PID about this.

LECTURES (PID): These are now a regular feature of camp life, once every 3 weeks, PW from the two Garswood hostels come to the main camp. The following have been given:- March: “Call to German Youth”, Miss Buller; April: “Church and State in England”, Rev D Thomas; “The English View about the Rise of Nazism”, Mr Chandler; May: “Switzerland as a model for the Reconstruction of Germany”, Dr Gottschalk; “What is Democracy?”, Dr Ulrich; June: “Government by the German People or ...?”, Mr Bullough; “German Trade Unions”, Mr Berger. These are very popular and the dining hall holding 350 in the main camp, where they are given, is always packed, and it has been necessary to give two lectures. Intellectual level – moderate. Future lecturers should be prepared to visit the hostels as well, especially Kirkby and Penketh.

DISCUSSION GROUPS: There is an active democratic study group of abt. 15 PW which meets twice a week under Mohrhoff. I pointed out to him that its activities should be increased to embrace all those interested in democracy in the camp. On my recommendation, a question box and brains trust will shortly be started. I left a set of Oxford pamphlets in German. The reports on the Nuremberg trial are posted up in the Information Room and followed with interest. The following lectures have been given in the main camp and hostels:- March: “Nuremberg. Yes or No?”, Dr Mohrhoff; April: “What is Democracy?”,Dr Mohrhoff; “World Food Crisis and Population Problem”; “What is the meaning of Being German?: The Jewish Question”, S/Sgt Bloch (Camp interpreter); May: “Germany between two wars”; “Germany, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”, S/Sgt Bloch; June: “German Trade Unions”, H Haehnert; “Socialism and Capitalism”, Walter Kresse; “The Jewish Question – seen by a Jew”, S/Sgt Bloch.

FILMS: The camp is on a YMCA circuit and gets a show every 3 weeks. It appears that the operator, Doufel (?) from 189 camp, is an undesirable type. A separate report on him is being submitted.

RADIO: There are 5 sets in the main camp and at least one in every hostel. Foreign stations are difficult to get, so almost all listening is confined to the BBC German programme...

PRESS REVIEW: in the main camp twice a week by Drinnhausen, also in most hostels. Steps are being taken to ensure it is given in all hostels.

ENGLISH INSTRUCTION: at the main camp and in most hostels. See appendix A for details. An English inspector (Miller) recently paid the camp a very brief visit.

ENGLISH FOR ALL: 250 copies received. It is well liked.

Other Camp Activities

RELIGION: The evangelical padre is O/Fkmeister Dantz, an unattractive personality. He is not popular in camp and takes no part in re-educational activity. He takes the view that politics and religion should not be mixed. He visits most of the hostels. There is a church hut in the main camp. Schornstein, a monk, holds prayers for the RCs who also get an occasional visit from a British priest***. In the hostels, PW either go to the local church or are visited by the local priest.

EDUCATION: There are no organised classes apart from English. It is hoped to start some when the PW return earlier from work.

THEATRE: There is a theatre group under Broehl and their first play, “Der Hochstapler” (“The Swindler”), written by a PW is in rehearsal. Up till now only variety turns and sketches have been given. The theatre holds 150.

ORCHESTRA: There is a small orchestra of 5 men under Wernter. They are short of a pianist at present, but have an accordion and player. Light music and jazz are played.

CONCLUSIONS. Re-education is making satisfactory progress. The key man is undoubtedly the interpreter, S/Sgt Bloch. If and when he is released, possibly in two months' time, re-education will have a setback. The present commandant is most co-operative and in full sympathy with the aims of PID, more so than his predecessor. The PW re-educational staff under Dr Mohrhoff is satisfactory. Accommodation is adequate.

RECOMMENDATIONS. (a) that the camp be screened as soon as possible. (b) that more copies of Ausblick** be sent – 40 is too few. (c) that more German papers be sent by PID. (d) that more books be sent. The recent consignment from PID of some 80 books was excellent. (e) that lecturers should also visit, as far as possible, the hostels. Intellectual level – moderate.”

[From National Archives ref. FO 939/132 “Prisoner of War Camps: 50 Working Camp, Garswood Park, Ashton in Makerfield, Lancashire”]

*Camp 300 “Wilton Park”, north-east of Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire, had at first been used to detain and interrogate high-ranking German military personnel. From January 1946 it took on a new role as PID Training Centre. Two distinct programmes were offered. One focussed on preparing Grade A/White POWs with specialist skills or expertise for early repatriation and employment with the Allied Control Commission in Germany. The other was a 6-8 week course for up to 60 students -described by Director of Re-education Cyrus Brooks as “missionary teams”- who would then return to their own camps, suitably equipped and inspired to co-ordinate local de-Nazification and re-education efforts.

**“Wochenpost” and “Ausblick” were PID-produced publications for German-speaking POWs in the UK. “Wochenpost”, a weekly newspaper, sought not only to inform its readers but also to further the process of “re-educating” them. Consequently, some POWs dismissed it as British government propaganda. The monthly “Ausblick” was more popular. As “Neue Auslese”, the latter was also sold in Germany.

***The “British priest” was almost certainly Fr Michael Casey, curate at St Oswald's RC Church, Ashton-in-Makerfield. According to Mary Whittle's “He Walked Tall: The Story of Canon Michael Casey” (self-published, 2002): “Fr Michael also cared for a contingent of German POWs who were confined at a nearby camp for about a year. Again he coached and formed them into football teams – one centre-half being the famous Bert Trautmann... Again, he formed life-long friendships with them, calling to see their families years later when he was stationed in their country...”.

Royalty-free (RF) Clipart Illustration of a Woman Applying A Pink Facial Mask Or Cream On Her Face by textom99

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Royalty-free beauty clipart picture of a woman applying a pink facial mask or cream on her face, on a blue background with white corners.

Cosplay Portrait by Craig Sellars

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Royal Coronation Aurora Doll - Disney Maleficent - Jakks Pacific - Deboxed - Standing - Full Left Rear View by drj1828

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Royal Coronation Aurora is fully deboxed, and is posed standing, supported by a Kaiser stand. She can free stand, but is very unstable that way. Photographed in daylight.

Review of Royal Coronation Aurora Doll

Her face is pretty, but bland and generic. She only has a passing resemblance to the movie character, as portrayed by Elle Fanning. She doesn't have very realistic features, but looks like an ordinary doll painted to look like an animated character. She has a light complexion, small blue green eyes gazing straight ahead, brown eyebrows, small straight nose, light pink lips on a small mouth, large chin, and light rouge on her cheeks.

She has long golden blonde hair that reaches her hips. There is a solitary long curl hanging from her left side. The rest of her hair is slightly wavy, and is grouped in a single mass, which I left alone. It would look better if it were combed out, but I was afraid that it might get frizzy if I attempted to do so. The hair is shiny and soft, and doesn't appear to have any hair product.

The dress is golden brocaded satin, with a floral design. The underside is very light tan in color. There is also a painted floral overlay in pink and green, which is only in the front of the dress (the front of the skirt and bodice). There is golden lace trim at the hem, waist and collar and cuffs. Her collar and cuffs end in white organza. The skirt is pleated, and almost floor length. The bodice has a high waist, with a golden belt sewn around it. Her sleeves are full length. There is a over sized train sewn to the back of the dress, just below the waist. It made of the same material and has the same decoration as the front of the skirt. Its underside is fully lined with gold satin. The dress looks and feels luxurious, and fit for royalty.

She is wearing tan colored heels, with a simulated strap and an unpainted embossed floral design. She is wearing a gold colored plastic crown that is made to look like a floral wreath, that goes halfway around her head. It is secured only by two T-tab fasteners, so it is not meant to be removed or used on other dolls.

Her body is made of hard plastic throughout. She has seven points of articulation: her neck, shoulders, elbows and hips. Her hands are permanently tilted back to make the standard Princess pose. Her feet are fixed at an angle to wear high heels. Her head can turn 360 degrees around, and can tilt up about 20 degrees, and tilt down 10 degrees. Her arms can swivel about the shoulders 360 degrees, and can tilt about 20 degrees. Her forearms can swivel around her elbows almost 360 degrees, but cannot go completely around. They can tilt back about 20 degrees, and forward about 60 degrees. Her hips can swivel 90 degrees both back and forth, and can tilt out about 30 degrees. She has white painted on underwear, which looks like a strapless one piece bathing suit.

Packaging and Deboxing

It was easy to debox Coronation Aurora, compared to most Disney Store dolls. First step was to remove the clear plastic cover from the box, by cutting the tape around the edges, and lifting the tabs free from the cardboard. Aurora is standing on a small cardboard spacer. Behind her is a printed background from the movie, which is common to all the dolls in this series. There was only plastic T-tab fasteners securing her to the backing and the plastic spacer. It was possible to reach all the fasteners and snip them off, without having to remove the large plastic spacer. It turned out that the fastener that was supposed to go into the back of her head didn't make it past her hair, so she didn't have a post sticking out of her head when I snipped the fastener loose. The other end of the fastener was just laying loose in her hair. There was tissue paper around her legs, but only up to her knees, to make the skirt look fuller in the box.

Purchase Details

I just received the four available Jakks Pacific dolls from the Maleficent movie in single doll packages. I ordered them from Toys R Us on Friday night and got them Tuesday, with free shipping. I appreciated the quick shipping, compared to the Disney Store. The dolls are the following, with links to the TRU site. All the dolls are 11 1/2'' H. The Coronation dolls are $39.95 each, the other two are $19.95.

Beloved Aurora Doll

Royal Coronation Aurora Doll

Dark Beauty Maleficent Doll

Royal Coronation Maleficent Doll

Rashaida Suite by T U R K A I R O

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Because of their distinction with the other Sudanese social groups, the Rashayda maintained a kind of pride on their particularities. Their thin features, light complexion, men with swords ("it's our tradition and we keep it by fear... to defend our selves" said Ahmed), women with their facial tattoos and black dresses enlivened with colourful beadwork.

Because of their marginal nomadic lifestyle, most of the Rashayda remains illiterate but developed a strong oral tradition. Their stories relates the news they collected from their incursions. The Rashayda tribe challenges the borders: they got involved in Eritrea or keep "family" relations in Arabia. During the war in Eritrea, they smuggled everything and guns ("this tribe is more efficient than any Antonov!" told me a friend). They also took advantage of the Baja decay and the war tensions to extend their pasturages in the increasing no man's land.

No man's land as a tribal territory, is there a paradox? No man's land becoming the territory of marginals is quite common. But the no man's gained by marginal groups to take an important social position, it is quite original. Moreover, when those marginal enter the guerrilla, it becomes more worrying. The Rashayda rebel group, the Free Lions sized a real regional power. No man's land as a territory of the lords of war?

Robert Thompson by multimany_Chars

~ Basics ~

Name: Robert Thompson

Virtue: Faith

Vice: Lust

Concept: Psychic

~ Appearance ~

Age: 28

Gender: Male

Height: 6’0

Weight: 180

Eyes: One brown and one milky white

Hair Color: Black

Hair Style: Short, neatly combed

Complexion: a little on the fair side, it’s hard to get a tan in Anchorage

Build: slim and trim

Scars: small one on his left cheeks

Distinguishing Features: his milky right eye

Flaws:

>Soul-Scarred

Lingering injury to soul due to contact with some outer creature. Attracts Acamoth, malevolent ghosts and spirits of negative emotions.

>Touch triggered powers: He doesn’t possess any real control over his powers. When his bare skin touches an object, if there has been a significant event in the item’s past, his powers trigger and he’ll gain a vision of it. To off set this, he tends to keep himself bundled up, wears gloves and turtle necks to limit his skin’s exposure to a potential triggering event.

Derangements:

>Narcissism

Mild

>Vocalization

Mild

~ Possessions ~

Weapons: .9mm, pocket knife

Armor: None

Equipment: Cigarettes, lighter, leather gloves, suit.

Havens: Small office in the Diamond Center, paranormal investigations

Vehicles:

~ Self ~

Personality: Bland, monotonous, is lacking all emotion. incapable feeling emotion, any and all emotion, except when he is using his powers to sense the past. The predominant emotion within his vision will color how he reacts and thinks for the next couple of minutes to hours depending on the strength of the vision. So a murder scene may make him more violent or passionate

History: Since birth, Horace hasn’t been right. There was something off about him from the moment he was born. When he was born, Horace didn’t cry or wail as one would expect. He was silent, alive but eerily silent. That didn’t change as he got older. He never cried because he needed changing, was hungry or scared. When his parents played games with him, he wouldn’t laugh either. He attended to them mimicked their actions but didn’t laugh.

His parents were worried about him but they thought it was a phase. When he was old enough to walk and talk and act like a normal child, emotions started showing up…but at inappropriate times at first. He’d laughed when he got hurt, screamed bloody murder when tickled and smiled during horrors scenes. But slowly things seemed to correct themselves. After a couple more years, he was expressing emotions like everyone else.

That’s what he wanted everyone to think and for a time they believed his act. That was until his parents caught him vivisecting the neighbor’s cat. They were horrified and frightened of their son. They took him to a psychiatrist immediately to figure out what was wrong with their boy of 8. After a battery of exams, the doctor declared him to be a sociopath, he could mimic the emotions people expected but he didn’t feel things like happiness, sadness, or even guilt or shame. Truth was, he never was able to feel them and the past few years, he had been experimenting which emotion fit which stimulus. He dubbed them.

They put him on med in hopes of jump starting true emotions. His parents also began strict education on right and wrong. They pounded a black and white morality code into him, leaving no room for grey because they knew he’d find loopholes if possible and get around it. The drugs however didn’t seem to be working. He was given strong medicine and in higher doses. They resulted in him getting massive headaches and hving his sense of touch almost seem to blurr into his sense of sight like he was seeing what it meant to touch something.

Yet he continued his sociopathic tendancies. They were well hidden for another year or two but soon his his teachers brought up that he hadn’t returned the class hamster yet. The parents alarmed rushed to the bedroom and once again, he had been torturing animals. This time, the doctors proposed an extreme treatment. Electroshock. Nearly overdosing him on the psychotropic drugs, the doctors strapped him down to the bed where it was to take place.

Suddenly the boy cried out in sheer agony, his body writhing and convulsing muscles nearly tearing himselves free of their bone anchors. The boy was being electrocuted without the electricity. This went on for minutes until he slumped exhausted. It turned out, the drugs and the intense emotions in the room rewired his brain, giving him postcognitive and pysochmretric abilities.

Now 2 decades later, he had a grasp of his abilities and curse. He learned that any contact with his bare skin could trigger his powers. He doesn’t have the ability to turn them off. To help keep himself from being driven insane, he covers himself up from neck to toe, wearing turtle necks and gloves to minimize the risk of an accidental vision. However, he’d become addicted to the visions. Having never felt anything before they came, the visions have been his only sources of feeling any real emotions. They’re like a drug to him. In order to sate his addictions, he opened up a paranormal investigation and consulting business…let suckers and police pay him to get his next fix.

Carter's Iron Pills for the blood, nerves and complexion. Donât rise - I know how you feel - weak back, trembling, palpitation, headache. - I've had all - but thanks to Carter's Iron Pills I am fully restored and can guarantee they'll do as much for you. by Boston Public Library

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File name: 10_03_001265b

Binder label: Medical

Title: Carter's Iron Pills for the blood, nerves and complexion. Donât rise - I know how you feel - weak back, trembling, palpitation, headache. - I've had all - but thanks to Carter's Iron Pills I am fully restored and can guarantee they'll do as much for you. (back)

Date issued: 1870-1900 (approximate)

Physical description: 1 print : lithograph ; 11 x 8 cm.

Subject: Women; Patent medicines

Notes: Title from item.

Statement of responsibility: Carter Medicine Co.

Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

Rights: No known restrictions.

1959 Barbie Repro and Fuchsia 'N Fur Francie by Black Doll Enthusiast

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This is a complexion comparison between 1959 Debut Barbie and Fuchsia 'N Fur Francie. Their complexions differ. Compare FnF Francie's shoulder with Barbie's chest area. FnF has a reddish-brown complexion while 1959 Barbie Repro has more gray undertones to her dark carmel complexion.

Warning: Zero Gravity ages your shadow by andy teo

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Asia - Philippines / Luzon by RURO photography

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The Kalingas are the indigenous peoples of Kalinga, Philippines. They are generally known to be tall, dark-complexioned, and lissome with high bridsed noses. Physically they are very sturdy and well-built so that their war-like characteristics make them more like soldiers. They are believed to be descendants of the second group of Malays who came to the islands, as presented in Philippine history books.

The name Kalinga is believed to have come from Ibanas Kalinga and Gaddang Kalinga which both mean "headhunters." The Kalingas must have acquired their name because of their tradition of headhuntins during tribal wars.

The Kalingas settle on levelled or terraced areas on the slopes of steep mountains near rivers and streams with free, clear running water through the Chico, Pasil, Tanudan rivers with wide plateaus and floodplains and a large portion of open grass lands.

Many villages or in Kalinga are located in strategic areas where the villagers can be forewarned of intruders, or where the surrounding terrain is rugged and form a natural defense because of "tribal wars". Tribal wars occur when a bodong peace pact system was broken or violated.

The bodong is the most admirable and efficient Kalinga institution. It is a peace pact or treaty between two tribes, wherein the Pagta or laws on inter-tribal relations are made. The bodong is also the Magna Carta of the Kalingas.

The main source of livelihood among the Kalingas is the payew(ricefields) and the uma (swidden farm). Aside from food production, cattle are pastured there, and poultry is raised in the backyard. Small fish (gadiw), shell, and marine life are taken from the rivers. Men hunt for wild pigs, deer, and wild fowl in the forest using spears, indigenous traps or rifles. Fruit trees, coconut, coffee, and bananas are grown while sugarcane is planted and made into basi(wine). Other economic activities among Kalingas are cloth and basket-weaving, blacksmith, and pottery.

The Kalinga household consists of a nuclear family and sometimes, an aged grandparent. In general, the Kalingas show great respect for elders and they are clannish.

The Kalinga society may be stratified into lawa or kapus(poor) and the baknang(wealthy). Among the signs of prestige and wealth are possessions of several ricefields, working animals, heirlooms like china plates and jars, agate head/necklaces, and brass gongs.

The identification of self with the kinship circle could be such that whatever an individual does is the responsibility of the group, and whatever threatens the security of the group must be opposed by the individual.

The Kilmorey Mausoleum by Maxwell Hamilton

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The monument has a distinctive plan of a square surrounded by an octagonal wall.

External detail of the mausoleum. A private cemetery of historical interest in St Margarets/ Isleworth. A full history and description is included in the set. This mausoleum which is now a grade II* listed building, was originally commissioned by the notorious eccentric of his day, the 2nd Earl of Kilmorey (also nicknamed as 'Black Jack’ Needham due to his dark complexion at times),

The monument was built in 1854 for his mistress, Priscilla Hoste, who had originally been his ward of court.

They suddenly eloped abroad and then eventually returned to Twickenham, where she had a son called Charles in 1844. Unfortunately, Priscilla then became seriously ill in 1851 with a terminal heart condition, with the Earl deciding to set about constructing a suitable memorial for her in 1853.

She eventually died in October 1854, and was interred in secret, with no-one knowing about it for years afterwards.

A noted Victorian architect of his time, Henry Edward Kendall was employed to design the mausoleum, which he did in the popular and fashionable Egyptian revival style. This Egyptian design is believed to have been derived from a plate in a French book ‘Description de I'Eqypte ’ published in 1809. The shape of the building relates to the shrines at the heart of Egyptian Temples - the place where a treasured image of a god was installed.

Inside the Mausoleum is a fine white marble carved relief of the death bed scene of Priscilla, with the young son Charles and the Earl in attendance. It was carved in Rome by portrait sculptor Lawrence Macdonald, using more than one artistic style.

It is thought that the pink and grey granite Egyptian style mausoleum cost around £30,000? (a very large sum of money in the 1850’s!) not including the subsequent moving costs.

The Mausoleum was originally erected on a plot that the Earl had secured at the Brompton Cemetery in London, then subsequently dismantled, moved and re-built twice.

First when the Earl moved to Woburn Park Chertsey in 1862, and being of unconventional nature and restless as well; six years later he was on the move again. The next time, it was moved to its present site at Twickenham in 1868, where he lived in Gordon House; eventually to be part of the Brunel University complex which has subsequently been re-developed.

In his day, Lord Kilmorey owned all the land between the mausoleum site and Gordon House. According to some rumours and fact, and being the true Victorian eccentric; some tunnels were built, the main one apparently having a tramway between Gordon House and the Mausoleum. This ensured his privacy could be maintained, and would not have to leave his own property when the time came for him to join Priscilla in the Mausoleum. It is said that ‘when in the mood’ he would summon his servants, and in secret, dress in ‘white garb’ and proceed through the tunnel to the mausoleum, where he would lie in his coffin. He lived to the grand age of 92, and in 1880 on his death, his final wishes were carried out.

Since then the mausoleum has had a chequered history, and the site passed eventually to Hounslow Borough Council on condition that access would be maintained, although it was not for some time that anyone entered this hidden burial site.

In an extremely neglected condition, responsibility for the site was passed to Richmond Council, and the maintenance of the grounds to The Environment Trust for Richmond upon Thames, where volunteers have worked exceptionally hard over several years, to get the gardens into the condition you see them today.

Vinolia Beautifies the Complexion! by Terry Pinnegar

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This Edwardian vitreous enamel advertising sign extols the virtues of Vinolia cream which apparently not only keeps the hands white and the skin soft, it also beautifies the complexion. Must have been good stuff!

This sign is one of Beamish Museum's extensive collection of vitreous enamel advertising signs, many of which are on display around the museum.

Wien, 1. Bezirk, Burgring, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Museo di Storia dell'Arte, Museo de Historia del Arte de Viena, Musée d'Art Historique de Vienne, Museum of Art History, Muzeum Historii Sztuki w Wiedniu (Tizian) by Josef Lex (El buen soldado Švejk)

"Gypsy Madonna"

Despite the closed triangle of the group of figures, the "Gypsy Madonna" (probably so called due to her dark complexion) gives the impression of relaxed naturalness. Unlike his teacher Giovanni Bellini, Titian moulds the body not by means of wrapped robes and veils but rather by use of sparing white highlights and subdued shadows. The painter therey shows himself to be of a younger generation for whom the world has become more sensual und tangible. This devotional picture is one of the oldest works of the painter still preserved.

Trotz der geschlossenen Dreiecksform der Figurengruppe gibt die (wohl nach ihrem dunklen Teint benannte) "Zigeunermadonna" den Eindruck entspannter Natürlichkeit. Anders als sein Lehrer Givanni Bellini modelliert Tizian die Körper nicht durch rundgeführte Gewänder und Schleier sondern durch sparsame Weisshöhungen und dezente Schattenpartien. Darin erweist er sich als Maler einer jüngeren Generation, deren Welt sinnlicher, konkreter geworden ist. Das Andachtsbild gehört zu den ältesten erhaltenen Werken des Malers.

Austria Kunsthistorisches Museum

Federal Museum

Logo KHM

Regulatory authority (ies)/organs to the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture

Founded 17 October 1891

Headquartered Castle Ring (Burgring), Vienna 1, Austria

Management Sabine Haag

www.khm.at website

Main building of the Kunsthistorisches Museum at Maria-Theresa-Square

The Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM abbreviated) is an art museum in Vienna. It is one of the largest and most important museums in the world. It was opened in 1891 and 2012 visited of 1.351.940 million people.

The museum

The Kunsthistorisches Museum is with its opposite sister building, the Natural History Museum (Naturhistorisches Museum), the most important historicist large buildings of the Ringstrasse time. Together they stand around the Maria Theresa square, on which also the Maria Theresa monument stands. This course spans the former glacis between today's ring road and 2-line, and is forming a historical landmark that also belongs to World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Vienna.

History

Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery

The Museum came from the collections of the Habsburgs, especially from the portrait and armor collections of Ferdinand of Tyrol, the collection of Emperor Rudolf II (most of which, however scattered) and the art collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm into existence. Already In 1833 asked Joseph Arneth, curator (and later director) of the Imperial Coins and Antiquities Cabinet, bringing together all the imperial collections in a single building .

Architectural History

The contract to build the museum in the city had been given in 1858 by Emperor Franz Joseph. Subsequently, many designs were submitted for the ring road zone. Plans by August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Null planned to build two museum buildings in the immediate aftermath of the Imperial Palace on the left and right of the Heroes' Square (Heldenplatz). The architect Ludwig Förster planned museum buildings between the Schwarzenberg Square and the City Park, Martin Ritter von Kink favored buildings at the corner Währingerstraße/ Scots ring (Schottenring), Peter Joseph, the area Bellariastraße, Moritz von Loehr the south side of the opera ring, and Ludwig Zettl the southeast side of the grain market (Getreidemarkt).

From 1867, a competition was announced for the museums, and thereby set their current position - at the request of the Emperor, the museum should not be too close to the Imperial Palace, but arise beyond the ring road. The architect Carl von Hasenauer participated in this competition and was able the at that time in Zürich operating Gottfried Semper to encourage to work together. The two museum buildings should be built here in the sense of the style of the Italian Renaissance. The plans got the benevolence of the imperial family. In April 1869, there was an audience with of Joseph Semper at the Emperor Franz Joseph and an oral contract was concluded, in July 1870 was issued the written order to Semper and Hasenauer.

Crucial for the success of Semper and Hasenauer against the projects of other architects were among others Semper's vision of a large building complex called "Imperial Forum", in which the museums would have been a part of. Not least by the death of Semper in 1879 came the Imperial Forum not as planned for execution, the two museums were built, however.

Construction of the two museums began without ceremony on 27 November 1871 instead. Semper moved to Vienna in the sequence. From the beginning, there were considerable personal differences between him and Hasenauer, who finally in 1877 took over sole construction management. 1874, the scaffolds were placed up to the attic and the first floor completed, built in 1878, the first windows installed in 1879, the Attica and the balustrade from 1880 to 1881 and built the dome and the Tabernacle. The dome is topped with a bronze statue of Pallas Athena by Johannes Benk.

The lighting and air conditioning concept with double glazing of the ceilings made the renunciation of artificial light (especially at that time, as gas light) possible, but this resulted due to seasonal variations depending on daylight to different opening times .

Kuppelhalle

Entrance (by clicking the link at the end of the side you can see all the pictures here indicated!)

Grand staircase

Hall

Empire

The Kunsthistorisches Museum was on 17 October 1891 officially opened by Emperor Franz Joseph I. Since 22 October 1891 , the museum is accessible to the public. Two years earlier, on 3 November 1889, the collection of arms, Arms and Armour today, had their doors open. On 1 January 1890 the library service resumed its operations. The merger and listing of other collections of the Highest Imperial Family from the Upper and Lower Belvedere, the Hofburg Palace and Ambras in Tyrol will need another two years.

189, the farm museum was organized in seven collections with three directorates:

Directorate of coins, medals and antiquities collection

The Egyptian Collection

The Antique Collection

The coins and medals collection

Management of the collection of weapons, art and industrial objects

Weapons collection

Collection of industrial art objects

Directorate of Art Gallery and Restaurieranstalt (Restoration Office)

Collection of watercolors, drawings, sketches, etc.

Restoration Office

Library

Very soon the room the Court Museum (Hofmuseum) for the imperial collections was offering became too narrow. To provide temporary help, an exhibition of ancient artifacts from Ephesus in the Theseus Temple was designed. However, additional space had to be rented in the Lower Belvedere.

1914, after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne, his " Estonian Forensic Collection " passed to the administration of the Court Museum. This collection, which emerged from the art collection of the house of d' Este and world travel collection of Franz Ferdinand, was placed in the New Imperial Palace since 1908. For these stocks, the present collection of old musical instruments and the Museum of Ethnology emerged.

The First World War went by, apart from the oppressive economic situation without loss. The farm museum remained during the five years of war regularly open to the public.

Until 1919 the K.K. Art Historical Court Museum was under the authority of the Oberstkämmereramt (head chamberlain office) and belonged to the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. The officials and employees were part of the royal household.

First Republic

The transition from monarchy to republic, in the museum took place in complete tranquility. On 19 November 1918 the two imperial museums on Maria Theresa Square were placed under the state protection of the young Republic of German Austria. Threatening to the stocks of the museum were the claims raised in the following weeks and months of the "successor states" of the monarchy as well as Italy and Belgium on Austrian art collection. In fact, it came on 12th February 1919 to the violent removal of 62 paintings by armed Italian units. This "art theft" left a long time trauma among curators and art historians.

It was not until the Treaty of Saint-Germain of 10 September 1919, providing in Article 195 and 196 the settlement of rights in the cultural field by negotiations. The claims of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Italy again could mostly being averted in this way. Only Hungary, which presented the greatest demands by far, was met by more than ten years of negotiation in 147 cases.

On 3 April 1919 was the expropriation of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine by law and the acquisition of its property, including the "Collections of the Imperial House" , by the Republic. Of 18 June 1920 the then provisional administration of the former imperial museums and collections of Este and the secular and clergy treasury passed to the State Office of Internal Affairs and Education, since 10 November 1920, the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Education. A few days later it was renamed the Art History Court Museum in the "Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna State", 1921 "Kunsthistorisches Museum" . Of 1st January 1921 the employees of the museum staff passed to the state of the Republic.

Through the acquisition of the former imperial collections owned by the state, the museum found itself in a complete new situation. In order to meet the changed circumstances in the museum area, designed Hans Tietze in 1919 the "Vienna Museum program". It provided a close cooperation between the individual museums to focus at different houses on main collections. So dominated exchange, sales and equalizing the acquisition policy in the interwar period. Thus resulting until today still valid collection trends. Also pointing the way was the relocation of the weapons collection from 1934 in its present premises in the New Castle, where since 1916 the collection of ancient musical instruments was placed.

With the change of the imperial collections in the ownership of the Republic the reorganization of the internal organization went hand in hand, too. Thus the museum was divided in 1919 into the

Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection (with the Oriental coins)

Collection of Classical Antiquities

Collection of ancient coins

Collection of modern coins and medals

Weapons collection

Collection of sculptures and crafts with the Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments

Picture Gallery

The Museum 1938-1945

Count Philipp Ludwig Wenzel Sinzendorf according to Rigaud. Clarisse 1948 by Baroness de Rothschildt "dedicated" to the memory of Baron Alphonse de Rothschildt; restituted to the Rothschilds in 1999, and in 1999 donated by Bettina Looram Rothschild, the last Austrian heiress.

With the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich all Jewish art collections such as the Rothschilds were forcibly "Aryanised". Collections were either "paid" or simply distributed by the Gestapo at the museums. This resulted in a significant increase in stocks. But the KHM was not the only museum that benefited from the linearization. Systematically looted Jewish property was sold to museums, collections or in pawnshops throughout the empire.

After the war, the museum struggled to reimburse the "Aryanised" art to the owners or their heirs. They forced the Rothschild family to leave the most important part of their own collection to the museum and called this "dedications", or "donations". As a reason, was the export law stated, which does not allow owners to perform certain works of art out of the country. Similar methods were used with other former owners. Only on the basis of international diplomatic and media pressure, to a large extent from the United States, the Austrian government decided to make a change in the law (Art Restitution Act of 1998, the so-called Lex Rothschild). The art objects were the Rothschild family refunded only in the 1990s.

The Kunsthistorisches Museum operates on the basis of the federal law on the restitution of art objects from the 4th December 1998 (Federal Law Gazette I, 181 /1998) extensive provenance research. Even before this decree was carried out in-house provenance research at the initiative of the then archive director Herbert Haupt. This was submitted in 1998 by him in collaboration with Lydia Grobl a comprehensive presentation of the facts about the changes in the inventory levels of the Kunsthistorisches Museum during the Nazi era and in the years leading up to the State Treaty of 1955, an important basis for further research provenance.

The two historians Susanne Hehenberger and Monika Löscher are since 1st April 2009 as provenance researchers at the Kunsthistorisches Museum on behalf of the Commission for Provenance Research operating and they deal with the investigation period from 1933 to the recent past.

The museum today

Today the museum is as a federal museum, with 1st January 1999 released to the full legal capacity - it was thus the first of the state museums of Austria, implementing the far-reaching self-financing. It is by far the most visited museum in Austria with 1.3 million visitors (2007).

The Kunsthistorisches Museum is under the name Kunsthistorisches Museum and Museum of Ethnology and the Austrian Theatre Museum with company number 182081t since 11 June 1999 as a research institution under public law of the Federal virtue of the Federal Museums Act, Federal Law Gazette I/115/1998 and the Museum of Procedure of the Kunsthistorisches Museum and Museum of Ethnology and the Austrian Theatre Museum, 3 January 2001, BGBl II 2/ 2001, in force since 1 January 2001, registered.

In fiscal 2008, the turnover was 37.185 million EUR and total assets amounted to EUR 22.204 million. In 2008 an average of 410 workers were employed.

Management

1919-1923: Gustav Glück as the first chairman of the College of science officials

1924-1933: Hermann Julius Hermann 1924-1925 as the first chairman of the College of the scientific officers in 1925 as first director

1933: Arpad Weixlgärtner first director

1934-1938: Alfred Stix first director

1938-1945: Fritz Dworschak 1938 as acting head, from 1938 as a chief in 1941 as first director

1945-1949: August von Loehr 1945-1948 as executive director of the State Art Collections in 1949 as general director of the historical collections of the Federation

1945-1949: Alfred Stix 1945-1948 as executive director of the State Art Collections in 1949 as general director of art historical collections of the Federation

1949-1950: Hans Demel as administrative director

1950: Karl Wisoko-Meytsky as general director of art and historical collections of the Federation

1951-1952: Fritz Eichler as administrative director

1953-1954: Ernst H. Buschbeck as administrative director

1955-1966: Vincent Oberhammer 1955-1959 as administrative director, from 1959 as first director

1967: Edward Holzmair as managing director

1968-1972: Erwin Auer first director

1973-1981: Friderike Klauner first director

1982-1990: Hermann Fillitz first director

1990: George Kugler as interim first director

1990-2008: Wilfried Seipel as general director

Since 2009: Sabine Haag as general director

Collections

To the Kunsthistorisches Museum are also belonging the collections of the New Castle, the Austrian Theatre Museum in Palais Lobkowitz, the Museum of Ethnology and the Wagenburg (wagon fortress) in an outbuilding of Schönbrunn Palace. A branch office is also Ambras in Innsbruck.

Kunsthistorisches Museum (main building)

Picture Gallery

Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection

Collection of Classical Antiquities

Vienna Chamber of Art

Numismatic Collection

Library

New Castle

Ephesus Museum

Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments

Arms and Armour

Archive

Hofburg

The imperial crown in the Treasury

Imperial Treasury of Vienna

Insignia of the Austrian Hereditary Homage

Insignia of imperial Austria

Insignia of the Holy Roman Empire

Burgundian Inheritance and the Order of the Golden Fleece

Habsburg-Lorraine Household Treasure

Ecclesiastical Treasury

Schönbrunn Palace

Imperial Carriage Museum Vienna

Armory in Ambras Castle

Ambras Castle

Collections of Ambras Castle

Major exhibits

Among the most important exhibits of the Art Gallery rank inter alia:

Jan van Eyck: Cardinal Niccolò Albergati, 1438

Martin Schongauer: Holy Family, 1475-80

Albrecht Dürer : Trinity Altar, 1509-16

Portrait Johann Kleeberger, 1526

Parmigianino: Self Portrait in Convex Mirror, 1523/24

Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Summer 1563

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: Madonna of the Rosary 1606/ 07

Caravaggio: Madonna of the Rosary (1606-1607)

Titian: Nymph and Shepherd to 1570-75

Portrait of Jacopo de Strada, 1567/68

Raffaello Santi: Madonna of the Meadow, 1505 /06

Lorenzo Lotto: Portrait of a young man against white curtain, 1508

Peter Paul Rubens: The altar of St. Ildefonso, 1630-32

The Little Fur, about 1638

Jan Vermeer: The Art of Painting, 1665/66

Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fight between Carnival and Lent, 1559

Kids, 1560

Tower of Babel, 1563

Christ Carrying the Cross, 1564

Gloomy Day (Early Spring), 1565

Return of the Herd (Autumn), 1565

Hunters in the Snow (Winter) 1565

Bauer and bird thief, 1568

Peasant Wedding, 1568/69

Peasant Dance, 1568/69

Paul's conversion (Conversion of St Paul), 1567

Cabinet of Curiosities:

Saliera from Benvenuto Cellini 1539-1543

Egyptian-Oriental Collection:

Mastaba of Ka Ni Nisut

Collection of Classical Antiquities:

Gemma Augustea

Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós

Gallery: Major exhibits

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Esther Bemba Saolona 1 by Ealonian56

Esther Bemba Saolona a 23 year-old "fair in complexion" orphan from Congo, who was adopted by Mr Jeannot Bemba Saolona, who had amassed $7.2m in "an International Bank"

Schoolgirl Complexion All Over.... by Glen.H

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Eeew! Too much info, thanks Mr Palmolive copywriter.British advert 1936

The rat glared at his old reflection by Deelisch08

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The more the rat glared at his old reflection,

He saw that his snitch had a pale complexion.

Nothing more can be done for this photo-collection.

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Deelisch