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First-year medical students visit the galleries as part of a program co-sponsored by Duke’s School of Medicine and the Nasher Museum. The museum visit is part of a required course called “the practice course,” focusing on doctor-patient relationships. The goal is for students to build their visual and communication skills and learn how to better understand their patients and themselves. Photos by Dr. J Caldwell.
The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was published prior to June 1918 on behalf of the National Portrait Gallery in London. It was printed specially for Samuels of Regent Street and Strand, London.
On the divided back of the card the following has been printed:
'Duke of Monmouth, 1640 - 1685.
Natural son of Charles II.
Defeated at Sedgemoor in his attempt
to attain the Crown of England.
Executed on Tower Hill.
This picture was discovered many years
ago in a farmhouse near Sevenoaks, in
Kent.
Upon the removal of a thick coat of dirt
at the back, the following inscription
could be made out, written in an old-
fashioned hand:
"From Miss Wray and to her father,
Sir William Ultethorne Wray, the son
of Sir Cecil Wray, of Lincolnshire, in
whose possession it was originally."
- Monmouth.'
The Execution of the Duke
Monmouth was beheaded by Jack Ketch on the 15th. July 1685. Shortly beforehand, Bishops Turner of Ely and Ken of Bath and Wells visited the Duke to prepare him for eternity, but withheld the Eucharist, for the condemned man refused to acknowledge that either his rebellion or his relationship with Lady Wentworth had been sinful.
It is said that before laying his head on the block, Monmouth specifically bade Ketch to finish him with one blow, saying he had mauled others before.
Disconcerted, Ketch did indeed inflict multiple blows with his axe, the prisoner rising up reproachfully the while – a ghastly sight that shocked the witnesses, drawing forth execrations and groans.
Some say a knife was at last employed to sever the head from the twitching body. Sources vary; some claim eight blows, the official Tower of London fact sheet says it took five blows. Charles Spencer, in his book Blenheim, puts it at seven.
Monmouth's execution was alluded to in the film Kind Hearts and Coronets, where the executioner says:
"The last execution of a duke in this
country was very badly botched.
But that was in the days of the axe."
Monmouth was buried in the Church of St. Peter ad Vincula in the Tower of London. His Dukedom was forfeited, but his subsidiary titles, Earl of Doncaster and Baron Scott of Tindale, were restored by King George II on the 23rd. March 1743 to his grandson Francis Scott.
Popular Legends
According to legend, a portrait was painted of Monmouth after his execution. The tradition states that it was realised after the execution that there was no official portrait of the Duke, so his body was exhumed, the head stitched back on, and it was sat for its portrait to be painted.
However, there are at least two formal portraits of Monmouth tentatively dated to before his death currently in the National Portrait Gallery in London, and another painting once identified with Monmouth that shows a sleeping or dead man that could have given rise to the story.
A few pics from last year, we waited an hour on a cold windy day to see her but it was worth it.
The BR Standard Class 8 was a class of 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive designed by Robert Riddles for use by British Railways. Only the prototype was constructed, which was named Duke of Gloucester. Constructed at Crewe Works in 1954, the Duke, as it is popularly known, was a replacement for the destroyed Princess Royal Class locomotive number 46202 Princess Anne, which was involved in the Harrow and Wealdstone rail disaster of 1952
Taken from Wiki
The last of Duke Energy's lines crossing Interstate 77 near the VA state line. 230Kv on the left and 115KV on the right.
West Anglia Gala Day. Steam shuttle operated between Ely & Bishops Stortford using 70000 Britannia and 71000 Duke Of Gloucester. Locos were turned on the Ely loop.
500px website
Duke Farms serves as a model of environmental stewardship and inspires visitors to become informed stewards of the land. It is a place of education, enjoyment and research that enhances the environmental health of the region.
First-year medical students visit the galleries as part of a program co-sponsored by Duke’s School of Medicine and the Nasher Museum. The museum visit is part of a required course called “the practice course,” focusing on doctor-patient relationships. The goal is for students to build their visual and communication skills and learn how to better understand their patients and themselves. Photos by Dr. J Caldwell.
Duke Ellington Orchestra @ Williams Trace Baptist Church
November 2007
Barry Lee Hall, Musical Director
The Duke Chapel is located on the west campus of Duke University. The tower is 210 feet high. The chapel (and all the buildings on the west campus) are neo-Gothic architecture in the English style.
The stone is known as Hillsborough Bluestone. A local quarry in Hillsborough, North Carolina was purchased by the University in the 1920's for the construction of west campus.
The English novelist Aldous Huxley, captured the spirit of the new campus. Writing in 1937 he described traveling through "a pleasant but unexciting land" when "all of a sudden, astonishingly, a whole city of grey Gothic stone emerged from the warm pine forest." He was thrilled by the "leaping tower" of the huge cathedral and the "spreading succession of quadrangles." He called the campus "genuinely beautiful, the most successful essay in neo-Gothic that I know."
Thanks Mr. Huxley...I could not have described it better! :)
Vintage postcard. Photo: Yevonde / George Clark Production.
Ivy Duke (1896-1937) was a British actress. In the late 1910s, she appeared in several silent films with Guy Newall. During the 1920s, he also became her director and husband.
Ivy Elsie Duke was born in Kensington, London, in 1896. She was already an established stage actress, appearing regularly in the light musical confections associated with George Edwardes’ Gaiety Theatre, when she began her film career in 1919. She appeared in the films The March Hare (Frank Miller, 1919) and The Double Life of Mr Alfred Burton (Arthur Rooke, 1919), produced by George Clark for Lucky Cat Productions and distributed by Ideal Films. Already in her third film, I Will (Kenelm Foss, 1919), she was paired with Guy Newall, who earlier on had co-written her first film, The March Hare. In late 1919, Lucky Cat Productions became George Clark Productions, and Stoll Pictures - the biggest renter in the 1920s - became the distributor. The company founded its own studio complex at Beaconsfield. After a period of being the star couple directed by others, Guy Newall also became Ivy Duke's director.
In the 1920s, Ivy Duke reached the apex of her film career, taking part in productions like Testimony (Newall, 1920), The Bigamist (Newall, 1921), Beauty and the Beast (Newall, 1922) and Fox Farm (Newall, 1922). In 1922, Duke married Newall, but seven years after the marriage ended in divorce. Their last film together was The Starlit Garden (Newall, 1923). In her last films, Duke worked with other directors and male leads: The Great Prince Shan (A.E. Coleby, 1924) with Sessue Hayakawa, Decameron Nights (Herbert Wilcox, 1924) with an international cast including Lionel Barrymore and Werner Krauss, and, with an interval of several years, her last film: the Anglo-German co-production A Knight in London (Lupu Pick, 1928) with Lilian Harvey, cinematography by Karl Freund, and edited by Michael Powell. The female lead was for Harvey, and Duke played her mother. It's all about a woman who accidentally awakens in a man's hotel bed. With the rise of the sound film, Ivy Duke retired from the film business. A few years later, she died at the age of only 41.
As the site At the Pictures writes: "A reasonable number of their films survive in the BFI National Archive, and several have been screened at the British Silent Film Festival over the years, including Fox Farm from the novel by Warwick Deeping about the romance between a gypsy girl and a blinded farmer, Boy Woodburn from the novel by Alfred Oliphant about a lady horse trainer and her romance with a penniless banker, and Maid of the Silver Sea from the novel by John Oxenham about romance and murder in a Breton fishing community (actually filmed on Sark). Perhaps the most widely seen is The Lure of Crooning Water {...]. In the Lure of Crooning Water, Ivy Duke plays a London stage actress who, suffering from nervous collapse, goes into the countryside for a ‘rest cure’ and amuses herself while there by seducing the married farmer (played by Newall) who has been acting as her host. (This reminds a bit of Murnau's Sunrise). The Garden of Resurrection, from the novel by E. Temple Thurston, reverses this pattern – this time it is Newall who is suffering from extreme depression brought on by his sense of his own ugliness. He goes for a ‘rest cure’, visiting some friends who live surrounded idyllic garden in rural Ireland (although the film was shot in Cornwall). There he meets Ivy Duke….
Sources: Thomas Staedeli (Cyranos), At the Pictures, Wikipedia (English), and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
This is Duke's Mound in Brighton, around a mile east of Brighton Pier, which, as the Geograph website explains, "was originally the exit for Madeira Drive until it was extended to Black Rock." Behind it is the huge mass of the sea wall that was the first line of defense against the sea, enabling Marine Drive and the grand houses above to be built. Madeira Drive was the next step, preventing erosion of the base of the sea wall. As Geograph also explained, "The building on the right houses the electrical equipment used to power the Volks Railway [the 19th century electric railway that runs along the seafront for over a mile] whilst that on the left is used for seafront services by the council." Photo taken on the morning of January 30, 2013.
See: www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2708474
For the history of Madeira Drive, see: www.brightonrun.co.uk/index.php?view=article&catid=51...
For more on Andy Worthington, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/
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(Noar Hill, Hampshire) This species lives in small, compact colonies. There has been an alarming decline in the number of colonies and overall population of this species in recent decades, and the remaining colonies are now scattered and highly localised.