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"I am stronger than your god and older than your devil. I am the darkness between stars, and the roots beneath the earth. I am promise, and potential, and when it comes to playing games, I divine the rules, I set the pieces, and I choose when to play.”
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Credits:
* Catwa HD Pro Queen head + Maitreya Lara v5.3 body
* 7 Deadly Skins - Beau Skin in Snow
* Somnus - Ghoul eyes in Night (available at the marketplace. These are the only eyes I use these days because I love them so much!)
* Stealthic - Metropolis hair in Variety
* ISON - Sienna Dress in Ivory
* Reliquary - The Lodestone Heart
* Insomnia Angel - Malpractice -11- Dizzy Eyepatch in Pure A ("Malpractice" gacha item)
* Vibing - Lydia Rings in Gold
* Toksik - Bloom Choker (group gift)
* Toksik - Amai Piercings (group gift)
* SEKAI - Courage face tattoo (group gift)
* Ascendant - Plastic Stars Nails
* Izzie's - Bloody Nose (gift)
* VARONIS - Nighted backdrop
<3 Lacry
(Note: I had to remove the links from flickr. They will be on my blog.)
It´s Friday with a scent of Saturday! Aren´t you excited about it? Because we are!!
To celebrate the next two free days most of us will have, here is a refreshed version of our well-known and very popular Jigoku Dress, which is for sale as part of the new round of The Saturday Sale, and costs 75L during the weekend!.
Take a look to the patterns we offer this time, and fall for it so hard and so deep that you will need to buy it immediately! Come to our mainstore and try the demo out. Feel free to walk around with the dress on, feel it, smell it, and understand why I say all I say. You can thank me later! ;)
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Ebody Reborn (Sb Mounds + Teacups) - Inithium Kupra - Legacy (F + Perky) - Maitreya Lara
☆ Single Pack
‣ 1 Pattern color
‣ 16 Ribbon colors
‣ 3 Metals
‣ Materials on/off
‣ Modify
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✧ Credits ✧
Revoul - Hot Girl Ichiana Braids
Insomnia Angel - Malpractice Eyepatch
Oracle - Akane Top
Oracle - Vesper Boots
"How about a spot of tea before you go?" (updated version of this post!)
Credits:
* LeLutka Lilly 2.5 head + Maitreya Lara v5.3 body
* Bold & Beauty - Mika Skin in Shell + Maitreya Shell body skin
* Nuve - Crystal Eyebrows in Black
* Somnus - Ghoul Eyes in Night (available at the marketplace)
* Monso - Choi Hair - Mix & Pop color pack (Neo Japan 2021 exclusive)
* Insomnia Angel - Malpractice -9- dizzy eyepatch in Noir A (gacha item, still available)
* Insomnia Angel - Charlotte Blouse (School Day Event, first round exclusive)
* Insomnia Angel - Detachable Collar Heart-Cake (School Day Event, first round exclusive)
* Insomnia Angel - Romantica Corset Skirt (Engine Room exclusive)
* Reliquary - The Outlaw's Tea Set (Engine Room exclusive)
* Garmonbozia - Sakura Crown in Gothic (Harajuku Event exclusive; comes with Sakura wings and aura {not pictured})
* Toksik - Amai Piercings (group gift)
* Arata - Maitreya Bento Nail GG#2 (past group gift)
* Swallow - Deer Skull Bento Ring (available at the marketplace)
* The backdrop is a heavily modified version of an old group gift from MINIMAL
<3 Lacry
(Note: I had to remove the links from flickr. They will be on my blog.)
"There's no turning back for you or me; your blood is on my hands now,"
This was the outfit I was wearing for the Pride Festival Party at CerberusXing~
Credits:
* LeLutka Lilly EvoX 3.1 head + Maitreya Lara v5.3 body
* Bold & Beauty - Jin Skin in Shell + Maitreya Shell body skin
* Nuve - Crystal Eyebrows in Black
* IDTTY Faces - Butterfly Kiss eyeshadow #1
* GoreGlam - Dreams Tonite lip oil
* Somnus - Ghoul Eyes in Night (available at the marketplace)
* Barberyumyum - L17 - Fatpack bonus (Anthem June 2021 round; won from giveaway!)
* Insomnia Angel - Romance Blouse + Corset Skirt in Noir
* Insomnia Angel - Luce Lolita Hat (The Warehouse Sale exclusive)
* Insomnia Angel - Malpractice -11- Dizzy Eyepatch in Pure A ("Malpractice" gacha)
* e.marie - Kestra Earrings in Golds
* Toksik - Amai Heels in Grey
* Vibing - Lydia Rings
* SEKAI - Courage face tattoo (group gift)
* Reliquary - The Outlaw's Tea Set
* VARONIS - Nighted backdrop
(Note: I had to remove the links from flickr. They will be on my blog.)
<3 Lacry
"How about a spot of tea before you go?" (updated version of this post!)
Credits:
* LeLutka Lilly 2.5 head + Maitreya Lara v5.3 body
* Bold & Beauty - Mika Skin in Shell + Maitreya Shell body skin
* Nuve - Crystal Eyebrows in Black
* Somnus - Ghoul Eyes in Night (available at the marketplace)
* Monso - Choi Hair - Mix & Pop color pack (Neo Japan 2021 exclusive)
* Insomnia Angel - Malpractice -9- dizzy eyepatch in Noir A (gacha item, still available)
* Insomnia Angel - Charlotte Blouse (School Day Event, first round exclusive)
* Insomnia Angel - Detachable Collar Heart-Cake (School Day Event, first round exclusive)
* Insomnia Angel - Romantica Corset Skirt (Engine Room exclusive)
* Reliquary - The Outlaw's Tea Set (Engine Room exclusive)
* Garmonbozia - Sakura Crown in Gothic (Harajuku Event exclusive; comes with Sakura wings and aura {not pictured})
* Toksik - Amai Piercings (group gift)
* Arata - Maitreya Bento Nail GG#2 (past group gift)
* Swallow - Deer Skull Bento Ring (available at the marketplace)
* The backdrop is a heavily modified version of an old group gift from MINIMAL
<3 Lacry
(Note: I had to remove the links from flickr. They will be on my blog.)
EVENT WE LOVE ROLE PLAY
LE FORME ADELIAH
EVENT SOLA FESTA
TOKSIK CHERUBIC DRESS
EVENT ACCESS
[^.^Ayashi^.^] Kaiyo hair
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BLUEBERRY OAKLEY WINGS
DISORDELY CRYSTAL LOVE
ERSCH HEARTQUEEN
INSOMNIA ANGEL MALPRACTICE
BACKDROP
+Half-Deer+
HPMD
"There's no turning back for you or me; your blood is on my hands now,"
This was the outfit I was wearing for the Pride Festival Party at CerberusXing~
Credits:
* LeLutka Lilly EvoX 3.1 head + Maitreya Lara v5.3 body
* Bold & Beauty - Jin Skin in Shell + Maitreya Shell body skin
* Nuve - Crystal Eyebrows in Black
* IDTTY Faces - Butterfly Kiss eyeshadow #1
* GoreGlam - Dreams Tonite lip oil
* Somnus - Ghoul Eyes in Night (available at the marketplace)
* Barberyumyum - L17 - Fatpack bonus (Anthem June 2021 round; won from giveaway!)
* Insomnia Angel - Romance Blouse + Corset Skirt in Noir
* Insomnia Angel - Luce Lolita Hat (The Warehouse Sale exclusive)
* Insomnia Angel - Malpractice -11- Dizzy Eyepatch in Pure A ("Malpractice" gacha)
* e.marie - Kestra Earrings in Golds
* Toksik - Amai Heels in Grey
* Vibing - Lydia Rings
* SEKAI - Courage face tattoo (group gift)
* Reliquary - The Outlaw's Tea Set
* VARONIS - Nighted backdrop
(Note: I had to remove the links from flickr. They will be on my blog.)
<3 Lacry
"I am stronger than your god and older than your devil. I am the darkness between stars, and the roots beneath the earth. I am promise, and potential, and when it comes to playing games, I divine the rules, I set the pieces, and I choose when to play.”
- The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Credits:
* Catwa HD Pro Queen head + Maitreya Lara v5.3 body
* 7 Deadly Skins - Beau Skin in Snow
* Somnus - Ghoul eyes in Night (available at the marketplace. These are the only eyes I use these days because I love them so much!)
* Stealthic - Metropolis hair in Variety
* ISON - Sienna Dress in Ivory
* Reliquary - The Lodestone Heart
* Insomnia Angel - Malpractice -11- Dizzy Eyepatch in Pure A ("Malpractice" gacha item)
* Vibing - Lydia Rings in Gold
* Toksik - Bloom Choker (group gift)
* Toksik - Amai Piercings (group gift)
* SEKAI - Courage face tattoo (group gift)
* Ascendant - Plastic Stars Nails
* Izzie's - Bloody Nose (gift)
* VARONIS - Nighted backdrop
<3 Lacry
(Note: I had to remove the links from flickr. They will be on my blog.)
12,000 feet height (= 3,6 km).
Long and I know it. I am so sorry.
The video lasts 6 minutes and 6 seconds. The double parachute jump only lasts 20 minutes and was worth every minute.
But you can feel each second what I felt it.
45 seconds of free fall.
My second jump.
Double Jump or Tandem Equipment is a special parachute that has the sole purpose of performing two-person jumps (1 instructor + 1 student).
These parachutes are equipped with all safety devices and are systematically checked and evaluated so that they can provide your moment of fun in complete safety.
The process of opening the parachute consists of several steps aimed at the deceleration of bodies. This process takes approximately 5 seconds and reduces the speed from 200 km / h to 20 km / h. In short, there is no hard jolt and it doesn't hurt.
After opening the parachute the instructor will check and then pass the parachute control so you can feel the feel of turning and diving the parachute.
Near the moment of landing it will regain control.
Several factors influence landing, but all are performed smoothly and by the Instructor. The passenger touches the ground only after the instructor has landed the parachute.
September 22nd., 2010.
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Sad history, if you want to read it.
Skydiving instructor Alex Adelman died Monday (9/7/2012) after being hit in the air by the plane he had jumped at at the National Skydiving Center in Boituva, 116 kilometers from Sao Paulo. Two other skydivers who had also jumped out of the plane, Vanderson Campos Andrade and Conrado Alvares, were hit by their mate, projected by the plane crash, and were injured. According to the Civil Police of Boituva, it is not yet possible to say whether the accident was caused by malpractice of the pilot or the skydivers.
Alex carried a camera and filmed the free fall of his companions. He would have been hit first and was thrown against friends. With the shock the instructor became unconscious and the parachute, which has a safety device, opened automatically. Automatic maneuvering reduced the body's impact on the ground. The instructor was rescued while still alive and taken to the emergency room of Hospital São Luiz, in the city itself, but could not resist.
The other two skydivers were able to operate the equipment and hit the ground, but had fractured lower limbs from the shock. They remained in the same hospital on Monday night, but their health was not considered serious.
Alex had been a skydiver since 1994 and, in March of this year, broke the Brazilian record in the largest formation of vertical free fall in the city of Piracicaba. He specialized in airborne filming.
View of the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, the cathedral of the city of Florence, from Piazzale Michelangelo, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Some background information:
The Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and was structurally completed by 1436, with the dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink, bordered by white. The cathedral complex in Piazza del Duomo includes the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. These three buildings are one of the major tourist attractions of Tuscany and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site covering the historic centre of Florence. The basilica is one of Italy's largest churches, and until the development of new structural materials in the modern era, the dome was the largest in the world. It still remains the largest brick dome ever constructed.
After the cathedral’s nave had been finished by 1380, only the dome remained incomplete. On 18th August 1418, an architectural design competition was announced for erecting the dome. The two main competitors were two master goldsmiths, Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi, the latter of whom was supported by Cosimo de Medici. Ghiberti had been the winner of a competition for a pair of bronze doors for the Baptistery in 1401 and lifelong competition between the two remained sharp. Brunelleschi won and received the commission. Work on the dome started in 1420 and was completed in 1436. The cathedral was consecrated by Pope Eugene IV on 25th March 1436, (the first day of the year according to the Florentine calendar). It was the first "octagonal" dome in history to be built without a temporary wooden supporting frame. And it was and still is one of the most impressive architectural projects of the Renaissance.
With about 400,000 residents in its city centre and more than 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area, Florence is the capital and also the most populous city of the Italian region of Tuscany. The town lies in a basin formed by several hills. The Arno river, three other minor rivers and some streams flow through its metropolitan area. During the Middle Ages the city was a centre of European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is also considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has been called "the Athens of the Middle Ages". A turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 Florence was the capital of the recently established Kingdom of Italy.
The Florentine dialect forms the base of Standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to the prestige of the masterpieces by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini, who were all born in the city. Florence attracts millions of tourists each year, and its historic centre was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982. The city is noted for its culture, art, architecture and monuments. It contains numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Pitti. Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, it has been ranked by Forbes as one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Furthermore, Florence is also an important city in Italian fashion, being ranked in the top 15 fashion capitals of the world.
Florence originated as a Roman city. Around 200 BC, the Etruscans initially formed the small settlement of Fiesole, which was destroyed by Lucius Cornelius Sulla in 80 BC in reprisal for supporting the populares faction in Rome. In 59 BC, the present city of Florence was established by Julius Caesar as a settlement for his veteran soldiers. Originally it was named Fluentia, owing to the fact that it was built between two rivers, but its name was later changed to Florentia (in English: "flowering"). Situated along the Via Cassia, the main route between Rome and the north, and within the fertile valley of the Arno, the settlement quickly became an important commercial centre.
In centuries to come, the city was often troubled by warfare between the Ostrogoths and the Byzantines, which may have caused the population to fall to as few as 1,000 people. Peace returned under Lombard rule in the 6th century. In 774, Florence was conquered by Charlemagne and became part of the Duchy of Tuscany, with Lucca as its capital. The population began to grow again and commerce prospered.
Margrave Hugo chose Florence as his residency instead of Lucca at about 1000 AD. The Golden Age of Florentine art began around this time. The city's primary resource was the Arno river, providing power and access for the industry (mainly textile industry), and access to the Mediterranean Sea for international trade. Another great source of strength was its industrious merchant community. The Florentine merchant banking skills became recognised in Europe after they brought decisive financial innovation to medieval fairs, such as bill of exchange and double-entry bookkeeping system.
In 1115, the Republic of Florence originated, when the Florentine people rebelled against the Margraviate of Tuscany upon the death of Matilda of Tuscany, a woman who controlled vast territories that included Florence. The Florentines formed a commune in her successors' place. Subsequently, the early, modern state of the republic was ruled by a council known as the Signoria of Florence. The republic had a checkered history of factions and counter-factions. But in 1434, the Medici faction gained governance of the city under Cosimo de' Medici.
During this first Medici governance, in 1469, Cosimo’s grandson Lorenzo de' Medici assumed the reins of government. Lorenzo was a great patron of the arts, commissioning works by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli. As he was also an accomplished poet and musician himself, he brought composers and singers to Florence too. By contemporary Florentines (and since), he was known as "Lorenzo il Magnifico" (in English: "Lorenzo the Magnificent").
The Medici kept control of Florence until 1494, when Lorenzo’s son Piero II was expelled by the French king Charles VIII, whose army had invaded northern Italy. In 1498, when the Medici were out of power, Niccolò Machiavelli, a diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, writer, playwright and poet of the Renaissance period, became secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence. His prescriptions for Florence's regeneration under strong leadership have often been seen as a legitimisation of political expediency and even malpractice. In other words, Machiavelli was a political thinker, perhaps most renowned for his political handbook, titled "The Prince", which is about ruling and the exercise of power. Commissioned by the Medici, Machiavelli also wrote the Florentine Histories, the history of the city.
In 1512, Giovanni de' Medici (later Pope Leo X) re-conquered the Republic of Florence. However, Florence repudiated Medici authority for a second time in 1527, during the so-called War of the League of Cognac. But again the Medici re-assumed their rule in 1531 after an 11-month siege of the city. The republican government was disestablished in 1532, when Pope Clement VII appointed Alessandro de' Medici "Duke of the Florentine Republic", making the republic a hereditary monarchy.
In 1569, the Medici became Grand Dukes of Tuscany, ruling for another two centuries. In all Tuscany, only the Republic of Lucca and the Principality of Piombino were independent from Florence. The extinction of the Medici dynasty and the accession in 1737 of Francis Stephen, Duke of Lorraine and husband of Maria Theresa of Austria, led to Tuscany's temporary inclusion in the territories of the Austrian crown. From 1801 to 1807 Florence was the capital of the Napoleonic client state Kingdom of Etruria and from 1808 to the fall of Napoleon in 1814, it was the was the prefecture of the French département of Arno. In 1861, Tuscany became a region of the Kingdom of Italy. In 1865, Florence replaced Turin as Italy's capital, but already six years later, it was superseded by Rome.
After doubling during the 19th century, Florence's population was to triple in the 20th, resulting from growth in tourism, trade, financial services and industry. During World War II the city experienced a year-long German occupation (1943 to 1944) and was declared an open city in late July 1944 as troops of the British 8th Army closed in. The retreating Germans decided to demolish all the bridges along the Arno, making it difficult for troops of the 8th Army to cross. But at the latest moment, the German general was convinced that Ponte Vecchio was not to be destroyed due to its historical value. In November 1966, the Arno flooded parts of the centre, damaging many art treasures.
Today, Florence is known as the "cradle of the Renaissance" for its many Renaissance monuments, churches, and other buildings. 600 years after its completion, the dome, built by Filippo Brunelleschi, is still the largest dome built in brick and mortar in the world. Florence also contains numerous museums and art galleries where some of the world's most important works of art are held. Hence, tourism is, by far, the most important of all industries and most of the Florentine economy relies on the money generated by international arrivals and students studying in the city. The value tourism to the city totalled some 62.5 billion € in 2015 and the number of visitors still increases to the present day.
"How about a spot of tea before you go?" (updated version of this post!)
Credits:
* LeLutka Lilly 2.5 head + Maitreya Lara v5.3 body
* Bold & Beauty - Mika Skin in Shell + Maitreya Shell body skin
* Nuve - Crystal Eyebrows in Black
* Somnus - Ghoul Eyes in Night (available at the marketplace)
* Monso - Choi Hair - Mix & Pop color pack (Neo Japan 2021 exclusive)
* Insomnia Angel - Malpractice -9- dizzy eyepatch in Noir A (gacha item, still available)
* Insomnia Angel - Charlotte Blouse (School Day Event, first round exclusive)
* Insomnia Angel - Detachable Collar Heart-Cake (School Day Event, first round exclusive)
* Insomnia Angel - Romantica Corset Skirt (Engine Room exclusive)
* Reliquary - The Outlaw's Tea Set (Engine Room exclusive)
* Garmonbozia - Sakura Crown in Gothic (Harajuku Event exclusive; comes with Sakura wings and aura {not pictured})
* Toksik - Amai Piercings (group gift)
* Arata - Maitreya Bento Nail GG#2 (past group gift)
* Swallow - Deer Skull Bento Ring (available at the marketplace)
* The backdrop is a heavily modified version of an old group gift from MINIMAL
<3 Lacry
(Note: I had to remove the links from flickr. They will be on my blog.)
Darleen Click
Oh I know I’m going to get called names on this. But I’m not going to play that game anymore. Like the sign at one of the TEA parties that said “it doesn’t matter what this sign says, you going to call it racist anyway.” When even the lawsuits now being brought by 30 plus state AG’s is considered racist, it is time to stop playing that game.
I’m flipping outraged even more so by Obama’s “victory lap” where he pretends this crap-sandwich is what “The American People were begging for”. Not one bit of graciousness in his “victory” but that nose up arrogance as his Social Democrats were literally breaking out the champagne.
I expect this will also flush out the usual Stockholm-syndrome “conservatives” who wring their hands and say “oh you can’t say that! People will take offense!”
Heck, I want to shake them up. This is supposed to be a post-racial era? Then deal with the fact that the President of the United States is the head of a gang that just raped our American principles.
I made it a cartoon and not a photoshop and the “woman” is green. Deal, people.
April 1 2021 we lost my sister, Karen, after a long battle in the hospital. 6 weeks, and 7 surgeries. Ventilator, tracheostomy, PEG feeding tube...and what killed her was reckless actions by medical staff. On Tuesday, 3/21, is mediation for a settlement. If nothing is agreed upon, we go to trial for medical malpractice and wrongful death in Jan 2024. Please keep me and my family in your prayers that God will look out for us. Thank you ♥
I received an award for savings woman's life. Without anything being available to me (not even medical history) I had seconds to decide whether or not to give an emergency injection. Seconds to decides between saving someone's life & my malpractice insurance... There's nothing scarier than being responsible for someone else's life. Don't know how I would live with myself if the situation took a different turn. Nothing can be more beautiful & fragile than human life
Nederlands:
www.gilderotterdam.nl/?P=HopEntrepot&prevpage=HopSpBrug
English:
Entrepot building "The Five Continents" and the Entrepothaven
At the end of the 19th century, a number of new harbors were dug on Feijenoord due to the strong increase in trade. The Binnenhaven and the Entrepothaven were realized together with the Entrepotgebouw and the Poortgebouw by the R.H.V. (Rotterdam Trade Association) by Lodewijk Pincoffs.
The Entrepotgebouw was built between 1875 and 1879 by the architectural firm Morre en Co from Delft in the so-called utilitarian eclectic architectural style. It had for that time the unprecedented dimensions of 200 m. long and almost 40 m. wide. Four fire walls have been installed straight through the building, which divide the total complex into five. These pieces were given the names of the continents of Africa, Europe, America, Asia and Australia. The building was the most modern storage building in the world! The main products that were there were coffee, tea, sugar and spices. Import duties/excise duties did not have to be paid until the goods left the warehouse area. A wall was therefore built around the entire area on which the Entrepotgebouw stood, part of which can still be seen if you take a walk around the entire building! The building had its own harbor (the Entrepothaven) and a railway connection.
In 1882 the R.H.V. bankrupt and in 1885 the municipality of Rotterdam took over the exploitation of the Binnenhaven, Entrepothaven, Entrepotgebouw and Poortgebouw. Lodewijk Pincoffs had borrowed a lot of money to be able to invest. Things didn't quite go as planned, but to disguise that he falsified the accounts. He plugged one hole after another and fled to America in 1879, where he started a cigar shop and eventually died in anonymity. He was sentenced in absentia to 8 years in prison, but America did not extradite him.
Today, expensive apartments have been built in the former warehouse. Shops, restaurants and a supermarket are now located in the building along the Entrepothaven. The Entrepothaven has been transformed into a luxury marina, in which very expensive ships can be seen.
Lodewijk Pincoffs was of course not convicted for nothing. Nevertheless, it was decided in 1992 to name a road, a square and a bridge after him. There is also a statue in front of the Entrepotgebouw and in 2008 Hotel Pincoffs opened its doors on Stieltjesstraat, near the Five Continents. All this because of the very great significance he has had for Rotterdam, despite his malpractice.
It was also taken into account that he did not commit fraud for his own gain. He just wouldn't admit that at some point things didn't go as he promised his investors.
Many historians agree that the development of Rotterdam into the largest port city in the world (1962 - 2004) would not have taken place without Lodewijk.
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Face and Head:
Cheerno - W24 cowboyhat glitz
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/CheerNo/179/121/1639
Cryptid - Les Ficelles Macabres (add-on for the Cryptid Agma Head that adds blood to the teeth.)
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Oblivion/10/96/3251
Insomnia Angel - malpractice -9- dizzy eyepatch
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cerberus%20Crossing/126/21...
PADO - naruko angry hairpin (tws gift)
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dear/68/135/24
Petrichor - Ariah Ears
Petrichor - Arkas Horns
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lune/129/128/1515
Raven Bell - Faithe Hair
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Neo%20Star/27/223/3502
Suicidal Unborn - Spectrum Eyes V.2 Mist
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Dead%20Zone/64/110/2501
Unholy - ACANTHA SPIKED COLLAR
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Vortex/110/152/2010
Body:
Lavu - Swain tank top
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Magic%20Sky/181/122/2022
Petrichor - Matevari Boa
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lune/129/128/1515
Arms and Hands:
Contraption - Desideratus Rings
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Contraption/117/67/119
L'Emporio&PL - Fishnet Sleeves
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Surreale/27/49/34
Petrichor - Vaera Claws
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lune/129/128/1515
Random Matter - Verona Telescopic Cigarette
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Pure%20Blood/127/164/503
TuTys - Mesh Pet Carrier - Chiwawa
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ubunil/218/139/134
Unholy - ACANTHA SPIKED CUFFS
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Vortex/110/152/2010
Legs and Feet:
Muho - Foliao shorts
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Magic%20Sky/181/122/2022
Sibilla - Unrheels / Unrigged Heels 001
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sibilla/125/176/2526
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Face and Head:
Clever Language - Frown #001
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sweets/128/220/3002
H4 - medium tired eyes
marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/245679
xMTSBD.Co - SwaiVBoi - Eyeliner
marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/238479
TF - Antikrist Three Scar
TF - Antikrist Nose Wound
TF - Antikrist Cheek Scar
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Rivera/94/176/547
Tivoli - Nick Brows
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hutter/246/65/3039
ToXXic KISSes - Empathy Scars Male
marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/251068
Body:
DAPPA - Malice Tattoo
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Domain/116/111/22
Vermilion - .Obsidian. Shattered - Blood
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tomoeda/94/36/1502
Arms and Hands:
HOLD - HAND BRUISE AND BANDAGE
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Heijenoort/220/203/1001
Hollow - Still Doll (Finger cuts.)
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Tomoeda/94/36/1502
KNIFU - Devils Idol Hand Tattoo
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Champ/47/191/14
Legs and Feet:
Freya - Socksv2 damaged (The fishnets with the booboos n such.)
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Hoodlem - Toe Blender x Snow
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Piazza di San Giovanni with the cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore in the background, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Some background information:
The Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and was structurally completed by 1436, with the dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink, bordered by white. The cathedral complex in Piazza del Duomo includes the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. These three buildings are one of the major tourist attractions of Tuscany and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site covering the historic centre of Florence. The basilica is one of Italy's largest churches, and until the development of new structural materials in the modern era, the dome was the largest in the world. It still remains the largest brick dome ever constructed.
After the cathedral’s nave had been finished by 1380, only the dome remained incomplete. On 18th August 1418, an architectural design competition was announced for erecting the dome. The two main competitors were two master goldsmiths, Lorenzo Ghiberti and Filippo Brunelleschi, the latter of whom was supported by Cosimo de Medici. Ghiberti had been the winner of a competition for a pair of bronze doors for the Baptistery in 1401 and lifelong competition between the two remained sharp. Brunelleschi won and received the commission. Work on the dome started in 1420 and was completed in 1436. The cathedral was consecrated by Pope Eugene IV on 25th March 1436, (the first day of the year according to the Florentine calendar). It was the first "octagonal" dome in history to be built without a temporary wooden supporting frame. And it was and still is one of the most impressive architectural projects of the Renaissance.
With about 400,000 residents in its city centre and more than 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area, Florence is the capital and also the most populous city of the Italian region of Tuscany. The town lies in a basin formed by several hills. The Arno river, three other minor rivers and some streams flow through its metropolitan area. During the Middle Ages the city was a centre of European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is also considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has been called "the Athens of the Middle Ages". A turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 Florence was the capital of the recently established Kingdom of Italy.
The Florentine dialect forms the base of Standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to the prestige of the masterpieces by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini, who were all born in the city. Florence attracts millions of tourists each year, and its historic centre was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982. The city is noted for its culture, art, architecture and monuments. It contains numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Pitti. Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, it has been ranked by Forbes as one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Furthermore, Florence is also an important city in Italian fashion, being ranked in the top 15 fashion capitals of the world.
Florence originated as a Roman city. Around 200 BC, the Etruscans initially formed the small settlement of Fiesole, which was destroyed by Lucius Cornelius Sulla in 80 BC in reprisal for supporting the populares faction in Rome. In 59 BC, the present city of Florence was established by Julius Caesar as a settlement for his veteran soldiers. Originally it was named Fluentia, owing to the fact that it was built between two rivers, but its name was later changed to Florentia (in English: "flowering"). Situated along the Via Cassia, the main route between Rome and the north, and within the fertile valley of the Arno, the settlement quickly became an important commercial centre.
In centuries to come, the city was often troubled by warfare between the Ostrogoths and the Byzantines, which may have caused the population to fall to as few as 1,000 people. Peace returned under Lombard rule in the 6th century. In 774, Florence was conquered by Charlemagne and became part of the Duchy of Tuscany, with Lucca as its capital. The population began to grow again and commerce prospered.
Margrave Hugo chose Florence as his residency instead of Lucca at about 1000 AD. The Golden Age of Florentine art began around this time. The city's primary resource was the Arno river, providing power and access for the industry (mainly textile industry), and access to the Mediterranean Sea for international trade. Another great source of strength was its industrious merchant community. The Florentine merchant banking skills became recognised in Europe after they brought decisive financial innovation to medieval fairs, such as bill of exchange and double-entry bookkeeping system.
In 1115, the Republic of Florence originated, when the Florentine people rebelled against the Margraviate of Tuscany upon the death of Matilda of Tuscany, a woman who controlled vast territories that included Florence. The Florentines formed a commune in her successors' place. Subsequently, the early, modern state of the republic was ruled by a council known as the Signoria of Florence. The republic had a checkered history of factions and counter-factions. But in 1434, the Medici faction gained governance of the city under Cosimo de' Medici.
During this first Medici governance, in 1469, Cosimo’s grandson Lorenzo de' Medici assumed the reins of government. Lorenzo was a great patron of the arts, commissioning works by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli. As he was also an accomplished poet and musician himself, he brought composers and singers to Florence too. By contemporary Florentines (and since), he was known as "Lorenzo il Magnifico" (in English: "Lorenzo the Magnificent").
The Medici kept control of Florence until 1494, when Lorenzo’s son Piero II was expelled by the French king Charles VIII, whose army had invaded northern Italy. In 1498, when the Medici were out of power, Niccolò Machiavelli, a diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, writer, playwright and poet of the Renaissance period, became secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence. His prescriptions for Florence's regeneration under strong leadership have often been seen as a legitimisation of political expediency and even malpractice. In other words, Machiavelli was a political thinker, perhaps most renowned for his political handbook, titled "The Prince", which is about ruling and the exercise of power. Commissioned by the Medici, Machiavelli also wrote the Florentine Histories, the history of the city.
In 1512, Giovanni de' Medici (later Pope Leo X) re-conquered the Republic of Florence. However, Florence repudiated Medici authority for a second time in 1527, during the so-called War of the League of Cognac. But again the Medici re-assumed their rule in 1531 after an 11-month siege of the city. The republican government was disestablished in 1532, when Pope Clement VII appointed Alessandro de' Medici "Duke of the Florentine Republic", making the republic a hereditary monarchy.
In 1569, the Medici became Grand Dukes of Tuscany, ruling for another two centuries. In all Tuscany, only the Republic of Lucca and the Principality of Piombino were independent from Florence. The extinction of the Medici dynasty and the accession in 1737 of Francis Stephen, Duke of Lorraine and husband of Maria Theresa of Austria, led to Tuscany's temporary inclusion in the territories of the Austrian crown. From 1801 to 1807 Florence was the capital of the Napoleonic client state Kingdom of Etruria and from 1808 to the fall of Napoleon in 1814, it was the was the prefecture of the French département of Arno. In 1861, Tuscany became a region of the Kingdom of Italy. In 1865, Florence replaced Turin as Italy's capital, but already six years later, it was superseded by Rome.
After doubling during the 19th century, Florence's population was to triple in the 20th, resulting from growth in tourism, trade, financial services and industry. During World War II the city experienced a year-long German occupation (1943 to 1944) and was declared an open city in late July 1944 as troops of the British 8th Army closed in. The retreating Germans decided to demolish all the bridges along the Arno, making it difficult for troops of the 8th Army to cross. But at the latest moment, the German general was convinced that Ponte Vecchio was not to be destroyed due to its historical value. In November 1966, the Arno flooded parts of the centre, damaging many art treasures.
Today, Florence is known as the "cradle of the Renaissance" for its many Renaissance monuments, churches, and other buildings. 600 years after its completion, the dome, built by Filippo Brunelleschi, is still the largest dome built in brick and mortar in the world. Florence also contains numerous museums and art galleries where some of the world's most important works of art are held. Hence, tourism is, by far, the most important of all industries and most of the Florentine economy relies on the money generated by international arrivals and students studying in the city. The value tourism to the city totalled some 62.5 billion € in 2015 and the number of visitors still increases to the present day.
Pictures from the farm, August 2009--Classified, as subject still listed as evidence in malpractice suit, Jones vs. the State of Kentucky; Wrongful Death by Premature Autopsy.
Catfish diner! Today's OARCB (old ass rivet counter boomer) mundane high sun, silver box, gravel pile, leaning, wirey, mindless wedgie! And let me say welcome to the second half of 2024, the first day of July, and the start of National Central Kentucky Norfolk Southern Week! And I'd be sued for railfan malpractice if I didn't kick it off with a shot from Rosemont! So here's a southbound from May 27, 2024.
Seems like photographic malpractice to post a photo from this day that doesn't have the wind involved.
The weather was such a part of the day, a silent collaborator. Sun when we needed it, wind when I called for it, the bay never got too choppy.
It was a fun photo session, but it was an even better day in the ocean, amongst the elements.
Maybe that's a neat little trick, because even if the session hadn't worked out, we still would've had a fun day on a boat. Maybe it's about creating a situation so cool, doesn't matter whether the photos or good or not.
See the whole series on THE PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNAL!
It can be easy for some counselors to treat the Bible like Tylenol, but Scripture was never intended to be prescribed for mechanical ingestion every six hours to make people feel better… Counselors who prescribe Scripture are in danger of approaching their counselees in a routine, uninterested, and dispassionate way. They instruct counselees to memorize this verse and to write out that verse, but they don’t use the powerful Word as a dynamic means to encounter the living Christ. They rarely delve into the depth of biblical passages, the character of God, the beautiful implications of the gospel, or the nature of the sinful heart that fuels idolatry and deception. It is spiritual malpractice. (Dan Wickert)
It can be easy for some counselors to treat the Bible like Tylenol, but Scripture was never intended to be prescribed for mechanical ingestion every six hours to make people feel better… Counselors who prescribe Scripture are in danger of approaching their counselees in a routine, uninterested, and dispassionate way. They instruct counselees to memorize this verse and to write out that verse, but they don’t use the powerful Word as a dynamic means to encounter the living Christ. They rarely delve into the depth of biblical passages, the character of God, the beautiful implications of the gospel, or the nature of the sinful heart that fuels idolatry and deception. It is spiritual malpractice. (Dan Wickert)
Using Guilt For Your Own Means.
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秘密跳ねくぼみ扱いにくい可能性の推論の結論は明らか義務以上の仕事の犯罪行為が明らかに.
Steve.D.Hammond.
A random beer rant, while drinking on the beer patio at ...
Decatur, Georgia, USA.
21 September 2019.
▶ Not to call out 3 Taverns because the malpractice is industry-wide, but, Lordy, how I detest murky beers. I drink with all five of my senses and that includes eyesight. (And, yes, I listen to my beer à la Fred Eckhardt).
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Just one of those goth-rori everyday outfits
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Parasol - Witch Wand Umbrella - Insomnia Angel
Head bows - Halloween Bat Ribbon - *G-field*
Earrings - rosier earrings - +koii+
Choker - Ribbon Choker - **Ambrosia** ??
Necklace - Margot princess rosary - Insomnia Angel
Phone - Neko Neko phone - [mizu]
(Heavily modded)
Dress - Mia Dress - Insomnia Angel
Cuffs - sweetness gacha - Insomnia Angel
Garter - malpractice 7 - Insomnia Angel
Shoes - Sweetish Heels - Toksik
A few of my friends (old and new, from all walks of life) have asked those in their circles not to speak out to say we are ashamed. Sorry -- no.
I am ashamed.
I am ashamed of my country. I am ashamed that our collective, democratic voice has risen up as an outcry against people of color, people of non-Christian religions, LGBTQ families, environmental protections, and women's autonomy.
I am ashamed that our collective power now stands behind a man so racist he wishes to create a barricade between us and a non-white nation. A man who conflates black people with criminality in a time when their lives are deeply at risk in an onslaught of near-daily police shootings. I am ashamed that our nation will now be led by a man championed by the KKK, an organization which continues to terrorize, threaten, and kill members of our communities.
I am ashamed of the harm we are doing for people of low income and people with disabilities, who rely on our health care system to ensure that they have access to the medical care they need to survive.
I am shocked and hurt that we have put our collective support behind a man who wishes to take away my rights as a queer person, who threatens to revoke my right to marry, my right to have and protect a family.
I am deeply, profoundly ashamed that we have invited a man who openly brags about committing sexual assault to be the leader of our country. We have stepped beyond sexism. When our leader boasts about such action, he reframes it as a point of pride. By electing him, we are not merely condoning rape and sexual assault -- we are promoting it.
This is our president. The person children strive to be when they grow up.
Yes, I am deeply, painfully ashamed.
You should be too.
I am ashamed to be a white women, when the records show that women like me all over the country chose to set aside our endangerment and marginalization, shrugging off attitudes and actions that are destructive and outright violent.
I am ashamed to see that our value system favors ego and anger, fame and notoriety. We were confronted with a choice between a woman with decades of experience in policy, government, and international relations, revered by her colleagues and constituents, or a man with literally no experience in elected office or government, famed for volatility, malpractice, and abuse. I am ashamed --I am appalled-- that we chose a reality TV monster over a seasoned, proven professional.
And yes, I am ashamed to see us reinforce the message that experienced women are less qualified than men with no experience at all.
I am baffled that in considering the office of our presidency, we created a conversation about likability rather than experience, aptitude, and success. I am ashamed that the conversation started, and I am ashamed that it has continued.
And, most shamefully, I am guilty for my own part in this election. Guilty that I did not speak out sooner, speak out louder. That I chose not to make waves, not to argue with those who claimed Clinton and Trump are interchangeable. As they claimed that politics are private. They are not. They affect us all. The choices we make will elevate our neighbors, or endanger them.
So I am astounded by our collective apathy, by the number of Americans who shrugged their shoulders at the marginalized, terrified people who are directly endangered by Trump's threats, and his newly empowered followers.
I am ashamed to see how many Americans chose not to vote.
We have an incredible system of government that allows individual people to raise their voices and stand up for their values. That allows us as a nation to raise our collective voice and declare what we stand for.
This week, we have witnessed our values laid out on stark contrast:
We have told immigrants that their incredible contributions are not valued.
We have told Muslims that they will always be terrorists in our eyes.
We have told women that their bodies are the property of powerful men.
We have told the LGBTQ community that they deserve a lesser life.
We have told children that we don't care about the world we leave for them.
And we have told black people that their lives do not matter.
I am ashamed. I am sick.
I am humiliated to be complicit.
And I really, deeply hope you are too. It's the only way we can move forward.
Ricky : "So Mom, this is where the magic happens, huh?"
Me : "Haha! It's not really magic Ricky, but yes, this is where I work."
Ricky : "So you are like a makeup artist?"
Me : "Sort of.."
Ricky : "I see a sharp thing over there. What's that for?"
Me : "It's for carving..."
Ricky : "WHAT??!!! CARVING??!!"
Me : "I may do a little plastic surgery here and there.."
Ricky : "MOM! You went to SVA, an art college! You did not go to med school!!"
Me : "I taught myself, it's fine."
Ricky : "It is NOT fine! Do you know what medical malpractice is??!! Omg, Mom! Does Dad know you are doing this??"
Me : "He knows."
Ricky : "I am living in a crazy house!"
The infamous hospital closed in 2013 after numerous complaints of malpractice and Medicare fraud. Organized initially as Franklin Boulevard Community Hospital in the 1920s, it was later renamed West Side Community Hospital until it was acquired by a for-profit investor who later went to the prison. The 56,582 square-foot facility at 3240 W. Franklin Blvd. was purchased for a mere $250,000 in 2014. NOTE: A demolition permit was issued for the entire complex in June 2022.
View of Ponte Vecchio, a bridge crossing the Arno River in the city of Florence, from Piazzale Michelangelo, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Some background information:
The Ponte Vecchio (in English: "Old Bridge") is a medieval stone closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge over the Arno River, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops, while the present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. Ponte Vecchio is one of the city of Florence’s landmarks and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site covering the historic centre of Florence. As the pedestrian bridge spans the Arno at its narrowest point, it is believed that already in Roman times a bridge existed at the same spot.
The bridge first appears in a document of 996. After being destroyed by a flood in 1117, it was reconstructed in stone but swept away again in 1333. In 1345, it was rebuilt again. The bridge consists of three segmental arches: the main arch has a span of 30 metres (98 feet), while the two side arches each span 27 metres (89 feet). At the central opening of Ponte Vecchio a little loggia is located, covering the bridge’s weathered dedication stone. It is said that the economic concept of bankruptcy originated here: When a money-changer could not pay his debts, the table on which he sold his wares (the "banco") was physically broken ("rotto") by soldiers, and this practice was called "bancorotto" (in English: "broken table"). Not having a table anymore, the merchant of course was not able to sell anything.
With about 400,000 residents in its city centre and more than 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area, Florence is the capital and also the most populous city of the Italian region of Tuscany. The town lies in a basin formed by several hills. The Arno river, three other minor rivers and some streams flow through its metropolitan area. During the Middle Ages the city was a centre of European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is also considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has been called "the Athens of the Middle Ages". A turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 Florence was the capital of the recently established Kingdom of Italy.
The Florentine dialect forms the base of Standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to the prestige of the masterpieces by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini, who were all born in the city. Florence attracts millions of tourists each year, and its historic centre was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982. The city is noted for its culture, art, architecture and monuments. It contains numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Pitti. Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, it has been ranked by Forbes as one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Furthermore, Florence is also an important city in Italian fashion, being ranked in the top 15 fashion capitals of the world.
Florence originated as a Roman city. Around 200 BC, the Etruscans initially formed the small settlement of Fiesole, which was destroyed by Lucius Cornelius Sulla in 80 BC in reprisal for supporting the populares faction in Rome. In 59 BC, the present city of Florence was established by Julius Caesar as a settlement for his veteran soldiers. Originally it was named Fluentia, owing to the fact that it was built between two rivers, but its name was later changed to Florentia (in English: "flowering"). Situated along the Via Cassia, the main route between Rome and the north, and within the fertile valley of the Arno, the settlement quickly became an important commercial centre.
In centuries to come, the city was often troubled by warfare between the Ostrogoths and the Byzantines, which may have caused the population to fall to as few as 1,000 people. Peace returned under Lombard rule in the 6th century. In 774, Florence was conquered by Charlemagne and became part of the Duchy of Tuscany, with Lucca as its capital. The population began to grow again and commerce prospered.
Margrave Hugo chose Florence as his residency instead of Lucca at about 1000 AD. The Golden Age of Florentine art began around this time. The city's primary resource was the Arno river, providing power and access for the industry (mainly textile industry), and access to the Mediterranean Sea for international trade. Another great source of strength was its industrious merchant community. The Florentine merchant banking skills became recognised in Europe after they brought decisive financial innovation to medieval fairs, such as bill of exchange and double-entry bookkeeping system.
In 1115, the Republic of Florence originated, when the Florentine people rebelled against the Margraviate of Tuscany upon the death of Matilda of Tuscany, a woman who controlled vast territories that included Florence. The Florentines formed a commune in her successors' place. Subsequently, the early, modern state of the republic was ruled by a council known as the Signoria of Florence. The republic had a checkered history of factions and counter-factions. But in 1434, the Medici faction gained governance of the city under Cosimo de' Medici.
During this first Medici governance, in 1469, Cosimo’s grandson Lorenzo de' Medici assumed the reins of government. Lorenzo was a great patron of the arts, commissioning works by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli. As he was also an accomplished poet and musician himself, he brought composers and singers to Florence too. By contemporary Florentines (and since), he was known as "Lorenzo il Magnifico" (in English: "Lorenzo the Magnificent").
The Medici kept control of Florence until 1494, when Lorenzo’s son Piero II was expelled by the French king Charles VIII, whose army had invaded northern Italy. In 1498, when the Medici were out of power, Niccolò Machiavelli, a diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, writer, playwright and poet of the Renaissance period, became secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence. His prescriptions for Florence's regeneration under strong leadership have often been seen as a legitimisation of political expediency and even malpractice. In other words, Machiavelli was a political thinker, perhaps most renowned for his political handbook, titled "The Prince", which is about ruling and the exercise of power. Commissioned by the Medici, Machiavelli also wrote the Florentine Histories, the history of the city.
In 1512, Giovanni de' Medici (later Pope Leo X) re-conquered the Republic of Florence. However, Florence repudiated Medici authority for a second time in 1527, during the so-called War of the League of Cognac. But again the Medici re-assumed their rule in 1531 after an 11-month siege of the city. The republican government was disestablished in 1532, when Pope Clement VII appointed Alessandro de' Medici "Duke of the Florentine Republic", making the republic a hereditary monarchy.
In 1569, the Medici became Grand Dukes of Tuscany, ruling for another two centuries. In all Tuscany, only the Republic of Lucca and the Principality of Piombino were independent from Florence. The extinction of the Medici dynasty and the accession in 1737 of Francis Stephen, Duke of Lorraine and husband of Maria Theresa of Austria, led to Tuscany's temporary inclusion in the territories of the Austrian crown. From 1801 to 1807 Florence was the capital of the Napoleonic client state Kingdom of Etruria and from 1808 to the fall of Napoleon in 1814, it was the was the prefecture of the French département of Arno. In 1861, Tuscany became a region of the Kingdom of Italy. In 1865, Florence replaced Turin as Italy's capital, but already six years later, it was superseded by Rome.
After doubling during the 19th century, Florence's population was to triple in the 20th, resulting from growth in tourism, trade, financial services and industry. During World War II the city experienced a year-long German occupation (1943 to 1944) and was declared an open city in late July 1944 as troops of the British 8th Army closed in. The retreating Germans decided to demolish all the bridges along the Arno, making it difficult for troops of the 8th Army to cross. But at the latest moment, the German general was convinced that Ponte Vecchio was not to be destroyed due to its historical value. In November 1966, the Arno flooded parts of the centre, damaging many art treasures.
Today, Florence is known as the "cradle of the Renaissance" for its many Renaissance monuments, churches, and other buildings. 600 years after its completion, the dome, built by Filippo Brunelleschi, is still the largest dome built in brick and mortar in the world. Florence also contains numerous museums and art galleries where some of the world's most important works of art are held. Hence, tourism is, by far, the most important of all industries and most of the Florentine economy relies on the money generated by international arrivals and students studying in the city. The value tourism to the city totalled some 62.5 billion € in 2015 and the number of visitors still increases to the present day.
A Mental Health Patient, recently discharged from the hospital to the street. Note the wrist tag and the hospital gown.
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Christian Movie "The People of the Heavenly Kingdom" Clip 1 - A Christian Acts Honestly and Receives God's blessing
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Introduction
The Lord Jesus said, "Truly I say to you, Except you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven" (Matthew 18:3). Christian Cheng Nuo is a doctor. In her life, she strives to be an honest person according to the Lord's words. Once, during a dispute over a patient's treatment, she honestly discloses the hospital's mistakes to a deceased patient's family members. This in turn impacts the hospital's reputation, and she is dismissed by the hospital on the grounds of medical malpractice. Her "bad track record" causes Cheng Nuo to be repeatedly rejected during her search for a new job. She battles fiercely with herself: Telling the truth is the reason she can't find a job, but not telling the truth violates God's words …. How should she follow the Lord's words and be an honest person? Through seeking, she finally finds a way to practice the truth and be an honest person, and unexpectedly receives God's blessing in the process …
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Name: Nurse "Bionic" Mahoney
Powers: Healing of the body of mind with science and Compassion
Likes: Providing patients with care for speedy recoveries, patient advocacy, finding the cure.
Dislikes: diseases, malpractice, human suffering.
In a world of sickness and uncertainty, Nurse Mahoney's healing capabilities can heal all maladies of the body and mind. Nurse Mahoney's superhuman strength fueled by the sciences and knowledge of sciences and human kindness brings hope even in the darkest of hours.
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On 9/22/10 I had to get surgery to remove a tumor to have it biopsied. I had to go under full anesthesia of propofol and lidocaine for a local anesthetic. It took about 7 days for me to get the biopsy results at my recheck appointment and it was determined that it was a benign tumor called a fibroadenoma. It was slightly painful and more painful than I originally thought but this was mainly because my body had reacted to the absorbable sutures and bandage, I was also quite nauseous because of the anesthesia, but that was minimal and at times when I forced me self to do things. I made three attempts to go to work and one attempt to go to class but as soon as I get to work/class I felt so sick and painful I had to leave.
I have absorbable sutures and they can take up to 4 months to fully absorb. At my recheck appointment the surgeon told me that he didn't like how the surgery incision looked because it was more raised then he would have liked, mainly because my body had reacted to the sutures. He then advised me simply to put an antibiotic ointment on the site, which I have been doing. I only wear a bra when I am going out into public, i.e going to the mall, and these only cause my site to get more inflamed and puss filled. About three days ago I had to wear a bra to class only to come home to a puss filled, inflamed incision. This then needed to be cleaned and scrubbed. Myself, along with my boyfriend, are keeping an eye on it and thoroughly taking care to reduce infection.
In times like this I am really thankful I have someone like Adam to take care of me when I feel and look like shit, this experience has made me fall even more in love with him.
I've had this tumor for about 6 months and I went for a ultrasound of it in February, and the doctor wrote on the report that he did not see anything on the ultrasound. Which of course couldn't be more false and if this tumor did come back to be cancerous I'm sure I would've gone a route of malpractice lawsuit against this doctor. This doctor was very ignorant to me and couldn't seemingly care less about my case. He stated to me at my appointment that "I was fine, and could go home" so of course having a doctor say this to me I was relieved but still skeptical about his actual report. Thus then about 6 months later at my OB/GYN visit I informed my OB again and she immediately referred me to a breast specialist and surgeon of Dr. David May. Dr. David May was a wonderful doctor and he made me feel completely comfortable. Dr. May preformed another ultrasound on me and then it was determined that I needed surgery, and thus I had surgery!
So that's my story, summed up as much as I can.
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Once Elizabeth recovered from her shock of seeing a little girl in Rat’s house, she told Rat to take the child across the street so they could talk openly.
Rat returned from dropping her off at Abigail’s and sat in the chair. Elizabeth channeled her sister Emily's icy stare to look at Rat.
Rat finally took a deep, maybe defeated sigh, clasped her hands, shrugged her shoulders, and began her story.
Elizabeth listened, half-furious, half-confused at the tale Maddy wove:
More than a year ago, Booley and Rat’s marriage was unraveling and their finances were strained. One day, she got a call that offered her something else -- or someone else – to focus on.
“Oh no,” Elizabeth interrupted. “It better not be who I think it is.”
It was.
Note: Booley and Rat’s marital and financial strain during this time was covered in a few series of photos you can find here: www.flickr.com/photos/bogostick/albums/72157716987484267
Years before Maddy “Rat” had been a craft shop owner, she worked as a housekeeper and cook for the community’s lone family physician, Rick Ross. It was Rat’s long hours there and then later at the craft shop – along with Booley working at the coffee shop and a radio station – that had caused Elizabeth to step in as an “aunt” to Booley and Rat’s children.
Elizabeth knew Rat had an unrequited crush on this handsome doctor – and his opulent lifestyle. But his life was a mirage. He eventually left town after being accused of medical malpractice (Don Buzzle was involved in this unfortunate event). He left town to restart his life away from a small doll town where everybody knew everything about everyone.
However, last spring, Rick called her. He was ready to reclaim his reputation and return to town, but he needed a little financial help getting back on his feet and getting back to Metro Community.
Maddy began sending him a little money here and there from Booley and Rat’s businesses when she could -- and without Booley's knowledge, of course.
One day Rick called the craft shop, saying he was ready to come home but now needed help making the physical journey.
So yeah it's been a rough week to say the least.
My beloved grandma and aunt are very sick.
This week I am going through a lot of very difficult and emotional feelings in regards to my malpractice case (Day 86). Things are finally happening. Good and NOT so good. Mostly not so good things with the case.
Our beloved cat passed away last night. She was our first baby.
And last but certainly not least, one of my most cherished friends Chris (Public Nuisance) deleted his Flickr account last night. He asked me to let his friends know on here that he IS okay and you can email him at this address -
cnusbtkg@yahoo.com
In fact PLEASE DO email him, I know he would really appreciate the love, support, and friendship.
Flickr is already NOT the same without him and I am VERY sad to see him no longer around. Yes he is gorgeous but it's his talent, friendship, and personality that will be most missed around here. I know he brought a lot of joy to a lot of people. Myself included. I will TRULY miss his stream. His icon. His face. His talent. His amazing comments. His *Muah!* and *XoX*'s. His everything. He has a way of making EVERYONE feel beautiful and special. He is and will always be an AMAZING man and friend.
So with all of that going on..........I have to take a few days to just BE. I am one of those people that just keep on keeping on but in this case I know I need to take a break. There is just too much going on and I need to step back. I deserve to step back. I will try to still take my 365 shots but it will be a few days before I upload them.
I will truly miss you guys but I know I just HAVE TO DO THIS. I have always been one of those people that would rather help others than to receive help. In fact it is VERY difficult for me to let others help me but I know that I really need to work on that. It's just really hard to change my ways after being this way for 31 years.
While I am trying to just BE, I am going to try to let my loved ones support me the way I know they want to.
I hope you all are well. I will be back soon.
Thanks again for everything.
Love, Kell
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PS On a totally random note............someone sent me an ecard but it is not opening, I want to be sure to thank whomever sent it. Please let me know and thank YOU.
PPS If Chris touched your life, please let him know. I know he touched MANY people.
The Bundaberg Region.
The rich volcanic soils of the plains near Bundaberg and the Burnett River were covered with thick scrub and bush but a few adventurous pastoralists tried to establish sheep grazing there in the 1850s. It was easier away from the Bundaberg site at Gin Gin and Gayndah further inland. More white settlers came in the mid-1860s as timber cutters. In these early years clashes with the local Aboriginal people were often violent. Aboriginal massacres are known to have occurred at Gin Gin in 1850, in North Bundaberg in the early 1860s. The first timber cutters arrived in the Bundaberg area 1867 followed by the first white farmers also in 1867. The first saw mill was erected in 1868. The town site was surveyed and laid in 1870. Experimental sugar cane farms began around 1871 and within a few months the sugar mills was built. As sugar plantations increased Bundaberg ended up with four major sugar mills. The sugar cane plantations were usually owned by the mills, run as large plantations and they employed Kanaka or South Sea Islander indentured labourers. Thus like Maryborough Bundaberg became a main entry point for the South Sea Islanders. The town grew quickly as more farmers took up small selections or acreages often growing maize or small amounts of sugar cane. The local Kolan Shire council was formed in 1873 and Bundaberg was emerging as a town. It became a municipality in 1881 and a city in 1913. The discovery of copper and that start of mining operations at nearby Mt Perry in 1871 really boosted the prospects of Bundaberg. The first bank opened in 1872, the first newspaper began publication in 1875 and a coach service operated to Maryborough until the railway line was completed in 1888. The government wharf in Bundaberg was built in 1875 with the main cargoes being timber and maize. The Primitive Methodists built an early brush and timber church in 1877 and the Anglicans completed their first church in 1876. But the Catholics were the first to build a permanent church which was consecrated in 1875. The town was well established but the big transformation occurred in the early 1880s when the land owners developed the sugar industry to its full extent until sugar eclipsed all other crops. In 1881 the Bundaberg region produced 3% of QLD’s sugar crop. In 1883 it produced 20% of QLD’s sugar crop. This domination of sugar persisted from 1880 through to 1915. New sugar mills started up with the new Millaquin mill in 1882 and mills for the Youngs of Fairymead and the Gibsons of Bingera. Stable prices for sugar assisted with this development of sugar mills and by the mid-1880s more sugar farms were being established reliant on European labour instead of South Sea Islander labour. The 1885 QLD Royal Commission into malpractices with the Kanaka trade meant the government intervened more to control conditions of the indentured labourers and limited the trade. These restrictions were lifted in 1891 to boost the sugar industry again but the emerging labour unions and associations of white labourers opposed the revival of the Kanaka trade as their employment suffered because of the trade. The new Commonwealth government of 1901 made the decision to cease the trade from 1906. As the sugar industry had to restructure itself the QLD government started to build and financially back the sugar mills itself at Gin Gin and Isis. They also tried to control the mills of Fairymead and Bingera and CSR (Colonial Sugar Refining.)The Labour government of QLD established sugar price control in 1915 and set up a board of appeal for complaints from growers against the sugar mills. By 1915 Bundaberg was in fierce competition with sugar cane areas in the Far North QLD and the industry was much regulated. But it has survived well to the present day. This has been assisted by a new port at Burnett Heads which was built in 1962.
Apart from the sugar industry the growth of Bundaberg has been assisted by mining, fruit and vegetable growing and the development of side products from sugar – molasses and rum distilling. The first rum was distilled from the Millaquin sugar mill in 1888. The town was boosted greatly by the opening of the railway from North Bundaberg to Mt Perry copper mines in 1884 which in turn encouraged the establishment of foundries and works to support the mines in Bundaberg. By the 1880s Bundaberg has some grand buildings appropriate for a regional city. The commercial and civic heart of the town was in Bourbong Street with the Post Office 157 Bourbong St (1891), the War Memorial 180 Bourbong St (1922), the School of Arts building 184 Bourbong St (1889), the former Commercial Bank 191 Bourbong St (1891) etc.
Fairymead Plantation Homestead.
One of the great plantation homesteads, not quite as grand as the Southern American slave homesteads, is Fairymead in Bundaberg. It was built in 1890 in the Indian bungalow style of the British Raj occupation of India. It was built for Ernest and Margaret Young the owners of the Fairymead sugar mill. Margret Young’s brother was an architect and designed the house for the subtropical Bundaberg climate. It has 16 foot ceilings and a wide veranda encircles the house. The house was near the mill on the plantation and after World War One was used as accommodation for mill workers until Ernest Young’s grandson and his family moved back into the house in 1960. In 1988 it was donated to the City of Bundaberg and it was eventually transported into the Botanic Gardens site. The house is furnished as it was in 1890 and the interior arrangement of rooms has been little altered since then. The Fairymead sugar plantation was established by three Young brothers in 1880 when they bought 3,200 acres near Bundaberg. Their first sugar was sent to the Millaquin sugar mill until they completed their own sugar mill in 1884. They introduced a railway system to bring the cane to the mill and from 1902 they had irrigation water available if needed for the plantation. They pioneered mechanised single row harvesting of the cane in 1938 which was developed after World War Two to cover two rows. In the 1970s several Bundaberg mills and companies merged to form the Bundaberg Sugar Company.
Hinkler House and the Aviation Museum.
Also situated in the Botanic Gardens is the transported home of Bert Hinkler and the Aviation Museum. Bert Hinkler flew the first solo flight from England to Australia in 1928 with his landing spot where the Bundaberg Botanic Gardens now exist. Hinkler was born in Bundaberg in 1892. In 1913 he went to England and joined the Royal Naval Air Service just before the outbreak of World War One. After a distinguished aviation career during the War he remained in England working for an aviation manufacturer A.V Row or Avro as they were known. They later became Hawker Siddeley Aviation which manufactured planes until 1963. Bert Hinkler got his own plane and attempted a flight to Australia in 1920 but war in Syria forced his to abandon this attempt. He set out again on 7 February 1928 reaching Darwin on 22 February and Bundaberg on 27 February. He valiantly flew other record breaking solo flights until his death in Italy in 1933. In 1925 he built a typical two storey detached house in Southampton for his residence. After his death in 1933 it became the property of the City of Southampton and after much negotiation the house was sent brick by brick to Bundaberg in 1983. It was rebuilt as it was in the Botanic Gardens and opened as a museum in 2008. The Commonwealth electorate around Bundaberg is named Hinkler in his honour.
The Hinkler Hall of Aviation has six aircraft, paintings, static displays and interactive displays. It contains much memorabilia about Bert Hinkler and his various record breaking flights, and the Arvo airplane manufactory.
Florence (Italian: Firenze, pronounced [fiˈrɛntse]; Old Italian: Fiorenza, Latin: Florentia) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 367,569 (1,500,000 metropolitan area).
The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance, the city is often considered the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance; in fact, it has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages. It was long under the de facto rule of the Medici family. From 1865 to 1870 the city was also the capital of the Kingdom of Italy.
The historic centre of Florence continues to attract millions of tourists each year and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982.
Florence was originally established by Julius Caesar in 59 BC as a settlement for his veteran soldiers. It was named Florentia ('the flourishing') and built in the style of an army camp with the main streets, the cardo and the decumanus, intersecting at the present Piazza della Repubblica. Situated at the Via Cassia, the main route between Rome and the north, and within the fertile valley of the Arno, the settlement quickly became an important commercial centre. The Emperor Diocletian is said to have made Florentia the seat of a bishopric around the beginning of the 4th century AD, but this seems impossible in that Diocletion was a notable persecutor of Christians. In the ensuing two centuries, the city experienced turbulent periods of Ostrogothic rule, during which the city was often troubled by warfare between the Ostrogoths and the Byzantines, which may have caused the population to fall to as few as 1,000 people. Peace returned under Lombard rule in the 6th century. Florence was conquered by Charlemagne in 774 and became part of the Duchy of Tuscany, with Lucca as capital. The population began to grow again and commerce prospered. In 854, Florence and Fiesole were united in one county.
Margrave Hugo chose Florence as his residency instead of Lucca at about 1000 AD. This initiated the Golden Age of Florentine art. In 1013, construction began on the Basilica di San Miniato al Monte. The exterior of the baptistry was reworked in Romanesque style between 1059 and 1128. This period also saw the eclipse of Florence's formerly powerful rival Pisa (defeated by Genoa in 1284 and subjugated by Florence in 1406), and the exercise of power by the mercantile elite following an anti-aristocratic movement, led by Giano della Bella, that resulted in a set of laws called the Ordinances of Justice (1293).
Of a population estimated at 80,000 before the Black Death of 1348, about 25,000 are said to have been supported by the city's wool industry: in 1345 Florence was the scene of an attempted strike by wool combers (ciompi), who in 1378 rose up in a brief revolt against oligarchic rule in the Revolt of the Ciompi. After their suppression, Florence came under the sway (1382–1434) of the Albizzi family, bitter rivals of the Medici. Cosimo de' Medici was the first Medici family member to essentially control the city from behind the scenes. Although the city was technically a democracy of sorts, his power came from a vast patronage network along with his alliance to the new immigrants, the gente nuova (new people). The fact that the Medici were bankers to the pope also contributed to their rise. Cosimo was succeeded by his son Piero, who was shortly thereafter succeeded by Cosimo's grandson, Lorenzo in 1469. Lorenzo was a great patron of the arts, commissioning works by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli. Lorenzo was also an accomplished musician and brought some of the most famous composers and singers of the day to Florence, including Alexander Agricola, Johannes Ghiselin, and Heinrich Isaac. By contemporary Florentines (and since), he was known as "Lorenzo the Magnificent" (Lorenzo il Magnifico).
Following the death of Lorenzo de' Medici in 1492, he was succeeded by his son Piero II. When the French king Charles VIII invaded northern Italy, Piero II chose to resist his army. But when he realized the size of the French army at the gates of Pisa, he had to accept the humiliating conditions of the French king. These made the Florentines rebel and they expelled Piero II. With his exile in 1494, the first period of Medici rule ended with the restoration of a republican government.
During this period, the Dominican monk Girolamo Savonarola had become prior of the San Marco monastery in 1490. He was famed for his penitential sermons, lambasting what he viewed as widespread immorality and attachment to material riches. He blamed the exile of the Medicis as the work of God, punishing them for their decadence. He seized the opportunity to carry through political reforms leading to a more democratic rule. But when Savonarola publicly accused Pope Alexander VI of corruption, he was banned from speaking in public. When he broke this ban, he was excommunicated. The Florentines, tired of his extreme teachings, turned against him and arrested him. He was convicted as a heretic and burned at the stake on the Piazza della Signoria on 23 May 1498.
A second individual of unusual insight was Niccolò Machiavelli, whose prescriptions for Florence's regeneration under strong leadership have often been seen as a legitimization of political expediency and even malpractice. Commissioned by the Medici, Machiavelli also wrote the Florentine Histories, the history of the city. Florentines drove out the Medici for a second time and re-established a republic on May 16, 1527. Restored twice with the support of both Emperor and Pope, the Medici in 1537 became hereditary dukes of Florence, and in 1569 Grand Dukes of Tuscany, ruling for two centuries. In all Tuscany, only the Republic of Lucca (later a Duchy) and the Principality of Piombino were independent from Florence.
The extinction of the Medici dynasty and the accession in 1737 of Francis Stephen, duke of Lorraine and husband of Maria Theresa of Austria, led to Tuscany's temporary inclusion in the territories of the Austrian crown. It became a secundogeniture of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty, who were deposed for the Bourbon-Parma in 1801 (themselves deposed in 1807), restored at the Congress of Vienna; Tuscany became a province of the United Kingdom of Italy in 1861.
Florence replaced Turin as Italy's capital in 1865, and in an effort to modernise the city, the old market in the Piazza del Mercato Vecchio and many medieval houses were pulled down and replaced by a more formal street plan with newer houses. The Piazza (first renamed Piazza Vittorio Emmanuele II, then Piazza della Repubblica, the present name) was significantly widened and a large triumphal arc was constructed at the west end. This development is largely regarded as a disaster and was only prevented from continuing by the efforts of several British and American people living in the city. A museum recording the destruction stands nearby today. The country's first capital city was superseded by Rome six years later, after the withdrawal of the French troops made its addition to the kingdom possible. A very important role is played in these years by the famous café of Florence Giubbe Rosse from its foundation until the present day. "Non fu giammai così nobil giardino/ come a quel tempo egli è Mercato Vecchio / che l'occhio e il gusto pasce al fiorentino", claimed Antonio Pucci in the 14th century, "Mercato Vecchio nel mondo è alimento./ A ogni altra piazza il prego serra". The area had decayed from its original medieval splendor. After doubling during the 19th century, Florence's population tripled in the 20th with the growth of tourism, trade, financial services and industry.
During World War II the city experienced a year-long German occupation (1943–1944) and was declared an open city. The Allied soldiers who died driving the Germans from Tuscany are buried in cemeteries outside the city (Americans about 9 kilometres (6 mi) south of the city, British and Commonwealth soldiers a few kilometers east of the center on the right bank of the Arno). In 1944, the retreating Germans decided to blow up the bridges along the Arno linking the district of Oltrarno to the rest of the city, thus making it difficult for the British troops to cross. However, at the last moment Hitler ordered that the Ponte Vecchio must not be blown up, as it was too beautiful. Instead an equally historic area of streets directly to the south of the bridge, including part of the Corridoio Vasariano, was destroyed using mines. Since then the bridges have been restored exactly to their original forms using as many of the remaining materials as possible, but the buildings surrounding the Ponte Vecchio have been rebuilt in a style combining the old with modern design. Shortly before leaving Florence, as they knew that they would soon have to retreat the Germans murdered many freedom fighters and political opponents publicly, in streets and squares including Piazza Santo Spirito.
In November 1966, the Arno flooded parts of the center, damaging many art treasures. There was no warning from the authorities who knew the flood was coming, except a phone call to the jewelers on the Ponte Vecchio. Around the city there are tiny placards on the walls noting where the flood waters reached at their highest point.
Florence lies in a sort of basin among the Senese Clavey Hills, particularly the hills of Careggi, Fiesole, Settignano, Arcetri, Poggio Imperiale and Bellosguardo. The Arno river and three other minor rivers flow through it.
Florence is usually said to have a Mediterranean climate. It has hot, humid summers with little rainfall and cool, damp winters. Due to being surrounded by hills in a river valley, Florence can be hot and humid from June to August. Because of the lack of a prevailing wind, summer temperatures are higher than along the coast. The rain which does fall in summer is convectional. Relief rainfall dominates in the winter, with some snow. The highest officially recorded temperature was 42.6°C in July 26, 1983 and the lowest was -23.2°C on January 12, 1985.
Florence is known as the “cradle of Renaissance” (la culla del Rinascimento) for its monuments, churches and buildings. The best-known site and crowning architectural jewel of Florence is the domed cathedral of the city, Santa Maria del Fiore, known as The Duomo. The magnificent dome was built by Filippo Brunelleschi. The nearby Campanile (partly designed by Giotto) and the Baptistery buildings are also highlights. Both the dome itself and the campanile are open to tourists and offer excellent views; The dome, 600 years after its completion, is still the largest dome built in brick and mortar in the world.
In 1982, the historic center of Florence (Italian: centro storico di Firenze) was declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO for the importance of its cultural heritages. The center of the city is contained in medieval walls that were built in the 14th century to defend the city after it became famous and important for its economic growth.
At the heart of the city in Piazza della Signoria is Bartolomeo Ammanati's Fountain of Neptune (1563–1565), which is a masterpiece of marble sculpture at the terminus of a still functioning Roman aqueduct.
The Arno River, which cuts through the old part of the city, is as much a character in Florentine history as many of the people who lived there. Historically, the locals have had a love-hate relationship with the Arno — which alternated from nourishing the city with commerce, and destroying it by flood.
One of the bridges in particular stands out as being unique — The Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge), whose most striking feature is the multitude of shops built upon its edges, held up by stilts. The bridge also carries Vasari's elevated corridor linking the Uffizi to the Medici residence (Palazzo Pitti). Although the original bridge was constructed by the Etruscans, the current bridge was rebuilt in the 14th century It is the only bridge in the city to have survived World War II intact.
The church of San Lorenzo contains the Medici Chapel, the mausoleum of the Medici family – the most powerful family in Florence from the 15th to the 18th century. Nearby is the Uffizi Gallery, one of the finest art museums in the world – founded on a large bequest from the last member of the Medici family.
The Uffizi itself is located at the corner of Piazza della Signoria, a site important for being the centre of Florence civil life and government for centuries (Signoria Palace is still home of the community government): the Loggia dei Lanzi was the set of all the public ceremonies of the republican government. Many well known episodes of history of art and political changes were staged here, such as:
In 1301, Dante was sent into Exile from here (a plaque on one of the walls of the Uffizi commemorates the event).
26 April 1478 Jacopo de'Pazzi and his retainers try to raise the city against the Medici after the plot known as The congiura dei Pazzi (The Pazzi conspiracy) who murdered Giuliano di Piero de' Medici and wounded his brother Lorenzo; the Florentines seized and hanged all the members of the plot that could be apprehended from the windows of the Palace.
In 1497, it was the location of the Bonfire of the Vanities instigated by the Dominican friar and preacher Girolamo Savonarola
On the 23 May 1498 the same Savonarola and two followers were hanged and burnt at the stake (a round plate in the ground commemorates the very spot where he was hanged)
In 1504, Michelangelo's David (now replaced by a reproduction as the original was moved indoors to the Accademia dell'Arte del Disegno), was installed in front of the Palazzo della Signoria (also known as Palazzo Vecchio).
It is still the setting for a number of statues by other sculptors such as Donatello, Giambologna, Ammannati and Cellini, although some have been replaced with copies to preserve the priceless originals.
In addition to the Uffizi, Florence has other world-class museums. The Bargello concentrates on sculpture, containing many priceless works of art created by such sculptors as Donatello, Giambologna, and Michelangelo. The Accademia dell'Arte del Disegno (often simply called the Accademia) collection's highlights are Michelangelo's David and his unfinished Slaves.
Across the Arno is the huge Palazzo Pitti containing part of the Medici family's former private collection. In addition to the Medici collection the palace's galleries contain a large number of Renaissance works, including several by Raphael and Titian as well as a large collection of modern art, costumes, cattiages, and porcelain. Adjoining the Palace are the Boboli Gardens, elaborately landscaped and with many interesting sculptures.
The Santa Croce basilica, originally a Franciscan foundation, contains the monumental tombs of Galileo, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Dante (actually a cenotaph), and many other notables.
Other important basilicas and churches in Florence include Santa Maria Novella, San Lorenzo, Santo Spirito and the Orsanmichele, and the Tempio Maggiore Great Synagogue of Florence.
Florence has been the setting for numerous works of fiction and movies, including the novels and associated films Hannibal, Tea with Mussolini and A Room with a View.
The population of the city proper is 365,744 (2008-11-30), while Eurostat estimates that 696,767 people live in the urban area of Florence. The Metropolitan Area of Florence, Prato, and Pistoia, constituted in 2000 over an area of roughly 4,800 square kilometers, is home to 1.5 million people. Within Florence proper, 46.8% of the population was male in 2007 and 53.2% were female. Minors (children aged 18 and younger) totalled 14.10 percent of the population compared to pensioners, who numbered 25.95 percent. This compares with the Italian average of 18.06 percent (minors) and 19.94 percent (pensioners). The average age of Florence resident is 49 compared to the Italian average of 42. In the five years between 2002 and 2007, the population of Florence grew by 3.22 percent, while Italy as a whole grew by 3.56 percent. The current birth rate of Florence is 7.66 births per 1,000 inhabitants compared to the Italian average of 9.45 births.
As of 2006, 90.45% of the population was Italian. An estimated 60,000 Chinese live in the city. The largest immigrant group came from other European countries (mostly from Albania and Romania): 3.52%, East Asia (mostly Chinese and Filipino): 2.17%, the Americas: 1.41%, and North Africa (mostly Moroccan): 0.9%.
Tourism is the most significant industry within the centre of Florence. On any given day between April and October, the local population is greatly outnumbered by tourists from all over the world. The Uffizi and Accademia museums are regularly sold out of tickets, and large groups regularly fill the basilicas of Santa Croce and Santa Maria Novella, both of which charge for entry.
Florence being historically the first home of Italian fashion (the 1951–1953 soirées held by Giovanni Battista Giorgini are generally regarded as the birth of the Italian school as opposed to french haute couture) is also home to the legendary Italian fashion establishment Salvatore Ferragamo, notable as one of the oldest and most famous Italian fashion houses. Many others, most of them now located in Milan, were founded in Florence. Gucci, Prada, Roberto Cavalli, and Chanel have large offices and stores in Florence or its outskirts.
Food and wine have long been an important staple of the economy. Florence is the most important city in Tuscany, one of the great wine-growing regions in the world. The Chianti region is just south of the city, and its Sangiovese grapes figure prominently not only in its Chianti Classico wines but also in many of the more recently developed Supertuscan blends. Within twenty miles (32 km) to the west is the Carmignano area, also home to flavorful sangiovese-based reds. The celebrated Chianti Rufina district, geographically and historically separated from the main Chianti region, is also few miles east of Florence. More recently, the Bolgheri region (about 100 miles/200 kilometres southwest of Florence) has become celebrated for its "Super Tuscan" reds such as Sassicaia and Ornellaia.
Florence keeps an exceptional artistic heritage. Cimabue and Giotto, the fathers of Italian painting, lived in Florence as well as Arnolfo and Andrea Pisano, renewers of architecture and sculpture; Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio forefathers of the Renaissance, Ghiberti and the Della Robbias, Filippo Lippi and Angelico; Botticelli, Paolo Uccello and the universal genius of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
Their work, together with those of many other generations of artists up to the artists of our century, are gathered in the several museums of the town: the Uffizi, the most selected gallery in the world, the Palatina gallery with the paintings of the "Golden Ages".
The Bargello Tower with the sculptures of the Renaissance, the museum of San Marco with Angelico's works, the Academy, the chapels of the Medicis, Buonarroti' s house with the sculptures of Michelangelo, the following museums: Bardini, Horne, Stibbert, Romano, Corsini, The Gallery of Modern Art, The museum of the Opera del Duomo, the museum of Silverware and the museum of Precious Stones.
Great monuments are the landmarks of Florentine artistic culture: the Baptistry with its mosaics; the Cathedral with its sculptures, the medieval churches with bands of frescoes; public as well as private palaces: Palazzo Vecchio, Palazzo Pitti, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Palazzo Davanzati; monasteries, cloisters, refectories; the "Certosa". In the archeological museum includes documents of Etruscan civilization. In fact the city is so rich in art that some first time visitors experience the Stendhal syndrome as they encounter its art for the first time.
Florentine (fiorentino), spoken by inhabitants of Florence and its environs, is a Tuscan dialect and an immediate parent language to modern Italian. (Many linguists and scholars of Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch consider standard Italian to be, in fact, modern Florentine.)
Its vocabulary and pronunciation are largely identical to standard Italian, though the hard c between two vowels (as in ducato) is pronounced as a fricative [h], similar to an English h. This gives Florentines a distinctive and highly recognizable accent (the so-called gorgia toscana). Other traits include using a form of the subjunctive mood last commonly used in medieval times, a frequent usage of the modern subjunctive instead of the present of standard Italian, and a reduced pronunciation of the definite article, [i] instead of "il".
The Bundaberg Region.
The rich volcanic soils of the plains near Bundaberg and the Burnett River were covered with thick scrub and bush but a few adventurous pastoralists tried to establish sheep grazing there in the 1850s. It was easier away from the Bundaberg site at Gin Gin and Gayndah further inland. More white settlers came in the mid-1860s as timber cutters. In these early years clashes with the local Aboriginal people were often violent. Aboriginal massacres are known to have occurred at Gin Gin in 1850, in North Bundaberg in the early 1860s. The first timber cutters arrived in the Bundaberg area 1867 followed by the first white farmers also in 1867. The first saw mill was erected in 1868. The town site was surveyed and laid in 1870. Experimental sugar cane farms began around 1871 and within a few months the sugar mills was built. As sugar plantations increased Bundaberg ended up with four major sugar mills. The sugar cane plantations were usually owned by the mills, run as large plantations and they employed Kanaka or South Sea Islander indentured labourers. Thus like Maryborough Bundaberg became a main entry point for the South Sea Islanders. The town grew quickly as more farmers took up small selections or acreages often growing maize or small amounts of sugar cane. The local Kolan Shire council was formed in 1873 and Bundaberg was emerging as a town. It became a municipality in 1881 and a city in 1913. The discovery of copper and that start of mining operations at nearby Mt Perry in 1871 really boosted the prospects of Bundaberg. The first bank opened in 1872, the first newspaper began publication in 1875 and a coach service operated to Maryborough until the railway line was completed in 1888. The government wharf in Bundaberg was built in 1875 with the main cargoes being timber and maize. The Primitive Methodists built an early brush and timber church in 1877 and the Anglicans completed their first church in 1876. But the Catholics were the first to build a permanent church which was consecrated in 1875. The town was well established but the big transformation occurred in the early 1880s when the land owners developed the sugar industry to its full extent until sugar eclipsed all other crops. In 1881 the Bundaberg region produced 3% of QLD’s sugar crop. In 1883 it produced 20% of QLD’s sugar crop. This domination of sugar persisted from 1880 through to 1915. New sugar mills started up with the new Millaquin mill in 1882 and mills for the Youngs of Fairymead and the Gibsons of Bingera. Stable prices for sugar assisted with this development of sugar mills and by the mid-1880s more sugar farms were being established reliant on European labour instead of South Sea Islander labour. The 1885 QLD Royal Commission into malpractices with the Kanaka trade meant the government intervened more to control conditions of the indentured labourers and limited the trade. These restrictions were lifted in 1891 to boost the sugar industry again but the emerging labour unions and associations of white labourers opposed the revival of the Kanaka trade as their employment suffered because of the trade. The new Commonwealth government of 1901 made the decision to cease the trade from 1906. As the sugar industry had to restructure itself the QLD government started to build and financially back the sugar mills itself at Gin Gin and Isis. They also tried to control the mills of Fairymead and Bingera and CSR (Colonial Sugar Refining.)The Labour government of QLD established sugar price control in 1915 and set up a board of appeal for complaints from growers against the sugar mills. By 1915 Bundaberg was in fierce competition with sugar cane areas in the Far North QLD and the industry was much regulated. But it has survived well to the present day. This has been assisted by a new port at Burnett Heads which was built in 1962.
Apart from the sugar industry the growth of Bundaberg has been assisted by mining, fruit and vegetable growing and the development of side products from sugar – molasses and rum distilling. The first rum was distilled from the Millaquin sugar mill in 1888. The town was boosted greatly by the opening of the railway from North Bundaberg to Mt Perry copper mines in 1884 which in turn encouraged the establishment of foundries and works to support the mines in Bundaberg. By the 1880s Bundaberg has some grand buildings appropriate for a regional city. The commercial and civic heart of the town was in Bourbong Street with the Post Office 157 Bourbong St (1891), the War Memorial 180 Bourbong St (1922), the School of Arts building 184 Bourbong St (1889), the former Commercial Bank 191 Bourbong St (1891) etc.
Fairymead Plantation Homestead.
One of the great plantation homesteads, not quite as grand as the Southern American slave homesteads, is Fairymead in Bundaberg. It was built in 1890 in the Indian bungalow style of the British Raj occupation of India. It was built for Ernest and Margaret Young the owners of the Fairymead sugar mill. Margret Young’s brother was an architect and designed the house for the subtropical Bundaberg climate. It has 16 foot ceilings and a wide veranda encircles the house. The house was near the mill on the plantation and after World War One was used as accommodation for mill workers until Ernest Young’s grandson and his family moved back into the house in 1960. In 1988 it was donated to the City of Bundaberg and it was eventually transported into the Botanic Gardens site. The house is furnished as it was in 1890 and the interior arrangement of rooms has been little altered since then. The Fairymead sugar plantation was established by three Young brothers in 1880 when they bought 3,200 acres near Bundaberg. Their first sugar was sent to the Millaquin sugar mill until they completed their own sugar mill in 1884. They introduced a railway system to bring the cane to the mill and from 1902 they had irrigation water available if needed for the plantation. They pioneered mechanised single row harvesting of the cane in 1938 which was developed after World War Two to cover two rows. In the 1970s several Bundaberg mills and companies merged to form the Bundaberg Sugar Company.
Hinkler House and the Aviation Museum.
Also situated in the Botanic Gardens is the transported home of Bert Hinkler and the Aviation Museum. Bert Hinkler flew the first solo flight from England to Australia in 1928 with his landing spot where the Bundaberg Botanic Gardens now exist. Hinkler was born in Bundaberg in 1892. In 1913 he went to England and joined the Royal Naval Air Service just before the outbreak of World War One. After a distinguished aviation career during the War he remained in England working for an aviation manufacturer A.V Row or Avro as they were known. They later became Hawker Siddeley Aviation which manufactured planes until 1963. Bert Hinkler got his own plane and attempted a flight to Australia in 1920 but war in Syria forced his to abandon this attempt. He set out again on 7 February 1928 reaching Darwin on 22 February and Bundaberg on 27 February. He valiantly flew other record breaking solo flights until his death in Italy in 1933. In 1925 he built a typical two storey detached house in Southampton for his residence. After his death in 1933 it became the property of the City of Southampton and after much negotiation the house was sent brick by brick to Bundaberg in 1983. It was rebuilt as it was in the Botanic Gardens and opened as a museum in 2008. The Commonwealth electorate around Bundaberg is named Hinkler in his honour.
The Hinkler Hall of Aviation has six aircraft, paintings, static displays and interactive displays. It contains much memorabilia about Bert Hinkler and his various record breaking flights, and the Arvo airplane manufactory.
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LA MIA VITA E’ FINITA IL 10/11/2004
E’ passato anche il 7° anno da quando un intervento di stabilizzazione alla colonna vertebrale, che doveva portarmi dei benefici, mi ha invece rovinato la vita. Per chi non ne fosse a conoscenza, aggiungo solo che sto andando avanti quotidianamente con farmaci che mi calmano il dolore per 6-8 ore, e poi si ricomincia da capo. Dallo scorso anno la mia salute è peggiorata e continuerà così ogni anno che passa, se qualche medico specialista(e ne ho visti ancora tanti in questo altro anno), non riesce a trovare la causa di quello che è successo durante l’intervento nel 2004. Tante promesse, tante belle parole, TANTI SOLDI SPESI, ed alla fine i risultati non si vedono. Vedo ai telegiornali vari, di interventi miracolosi, medito e mi chiedo semplicemente perché il mio caso non viene preso in considerazione seriamente, d’altronde sono un essere umano che ha il diritto di vivere una vita dignitosa e non una vita-calvario quotidiana appena si mette giù il piede dal letto al mattino. Ogni medico quando presta giuramento giura di “ esercitare la medicina in libertà e indipendenza di giudizio e di comportamento; di perseguire come scopi esclusivi la difesa della vita, la tutela della salute fisica e psichica dell' uomo e il sollievo della sofferenza, cui ispirerò con responsabilità e costante impegno scientifico, culturale e sociale, ogni mio atto professionale…….di curare tutti i miei pazienti con eguale scrupolo e impegno indipendentemente dai sentimenti che essi mi ispirano e prescindendo da ogni differenza di razza, religione, nazionalità condizione sociale e ideologia politica”. Io ho il massimo rispetto dei medici e del loro lavoro, ma vorrei che anche loro lo avessero nei miei confronti ed almeno uno meditasse ogni tanto che dopo 7 anni una persona avrebbe anche la necessità di ritornare, almeno per gli anni che gli mancano alla fine, a fare le cose che fanno tutti gli esseri umani o almeno la maggior parte di loro. Io ho già dato molto al destino avverso. Sono diventato oramai una cavia umana, dove in tanti ci hanno guadagnato dei bei soldini in questi 7 anni e tutti quelli che non mi hanno portato dei benefici, se leggessero queste righe, dovrebbero solo vergognarsi e chiedermi scusa per non aver risolto minimamente il mio problema.., ma forse è la mia testa che non funziona più, a forza di Contramal ed altri farmaci, visto che sono anche stato considerato un malato immaginario con qualche tendenza alla pazzia. Ora peso 54, ho perso 12 kg dal 2004, la mia schiena non ha più muscolatura, la mia spalla sinistra oramai è solo un arto con dolori lancinanti tutto il giorno, l’orecchio sinistro fischia continuamente da 6 mesi, tu lo fai presente e non glie ne frega niente a nessuno. Io ho sempre giocato a calcio, anche ad ottimi livelli semiprofessionistici; il Gianni sportivo si chiede come sia possibile che ti abbiano ridotto in questo stato. In casa, i parenti, gli amici ti consolano, ma poi nessuno fa niente per aiutarti, tanto loro stanno bene. Gianpaolo, invece, uomo sfortunato come me, dopo un intervento anche lui di stabilizzazione, mi da il coraggio di andare avanti e mi dice sempre di non mollare che prima o poi ce la faremo ad uscirne fuori!!! Spero che queste righe facciano meditare tante persone sull’importanza della salute dell’essere umano, perché senza quella, tutto il resto CREDETEMI non conta nulla!!!
Ho aperto un forum dove basta scrivere:” interventi chirurgici non riusciti” su google e si trova subito con data 10 ottobre 2011 e chi vuole scrivere o commentare , può farlo iscrivendosi in un semplice minuto. Tutte le storie di malasanità raccolte, serviranno per riuscire a farci ospitare in qualche trasmissione televisiva a confronto con i medici e per aiutare tutti coloro che devono effettuare degli interventi chirurgici in futuro.(questo è il link di collegamento)
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Gianni.
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MY LIFE 'THE FINISHED 10/11/2004
It 'also the past 7 years since an intervention to stabilize the spine, which would bring benefits, but I have ruined my life. For those who do not know it, just add that I'm going on daily with drugs that I soothe the pain for 6-8 hours, and then start over. Since last year my health has deteriorated and will continue so every year that passes, if any specialist doctor (and I've seen many in this yet another year), can not find the cause of what happened during the operation in 2004 . So many promises, so many beautiful words, MONEY SPENT A LOT, and the end results are not seen. I see the various news of miraculous intervention, I meditate and I ask simply because my case is not considered seriously, of course are a human being who has the right to live a decent life and a life-day ordeal as soon as puts down his foot out of bed in the morning. Every doctor when he swears an oath to "practice medicine in freedom and independence of mind and behavior; sole purpose of pursuing the defense of life, protection of physical and mental health of 'man and the relief of suffering, which will inspire with Scientific responsibility and ongoing commitment, culture, society, every act of mine at work ... .... to treat all my patients with the same care and commitment regardless of the feelings they inspire me, and without any distinction of race, religion, nationality, social status and ideology politics ". I have the utmost respect for doctors and their work, but I wish they, too, they had towards me and at least one meditate from time to time after 7 years a person would also need to return, at least for the years that are left to , to do things that make all human beings, or at least most of them. I have already given much to fate. I am now become a human guinea pig, where many have earned pennies in these beautiful 7 years and all those who did not bring benefits, if they read these lines, should just be ashamed and apologize for not having solved my problem at all .. but maybe my head is no longer working, by dint of Contramal and other drugs, as they have also been considered a hypochondriac with some tendency to insanity. Now 54 weight, I lost 12 kg since 2004, my back muscles no longer, my left shoulder is now only a limb with excruciating pain all day, the left ear whistles continuously from 6 months, you do present and daughters do not give a damn to anyone. I always played football, even at high levels semi-professionally, Gianni sport asks you how you can or whether you have reduced to this state. At home, relatives, friends console you, but then nobody does anything to help, so they are good. Gianpaolo, however, unfortunate man like me, after a stabilization action he gives me the courage to go ahead and always tells me not to give up sooner or later we'll manage to get out! I hope that these lines do so many people meditating on the importance of human health, because without that, everything else counts for nothing believe me!
I opened a forum where it would be: "failed surgery" on google and is immediately dated October 10, 2011, and who wants to write or comment may do so by enrolling in a simple minute. All the collected stories of medical malpractice, need to be able to accommodate us in any television compared with physicians and to help all those who must perform the surgery in the future. (This is the link to)
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Gianni.
French postcard by FA, no. 148. Photo: Reutlinger.
Marthe Régnier (1880-1967) was a famous French stage actress and singer of the Belle Epoque and beyond. She also acted in six silent and sound films.
In 1901 Marthe Régnier entered the Comédie-Française and made her debut in a play called Agnès. After alternating drama (e.g. Hugo) with comedy (e.g Beaumarchais) at the Comédie, she moved in 1903 to vaudeville, where she acted for years at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in plays by e.g. Bernard and Mirbeau. Favorite authors of her were Robert de Flers (l'Ane de Buridan, le Retour), Stève Passeur (Etienne), Paul Gavault (la Petite Chocolatière). In 1934 she acted as Jocaste opposite Jean-Pierre Aumont as Oedipus in Jean Cocteau's La Machine infernale (1934), which premiered at the Comédie des Champs-Élysées in Paris, then the theater of Louis Jouvet. This more or less signed the end of her stage career.
Married in 1902 to playwright Abel Tarride, Régnier was the mother of director Jean Tarride and actor Jacques Tarride. She divorced to marry in 1916 José de Oliveira Murinelly, secretary of the Brazilian embassy in France.. From ca. 1920 she was the mistress of Baron Henri de Rothschild, who, aside of being a millionaire, doctor, and founder of the first (1902) modern children hospital in France, had developed as a playwright (as André Pascal), e.g. of the controversial play on medical malpractice, La Caducée. He was theater manager too, taking over the Théàtre Antoine in the early 1920s. In four years he had the new, ultramodern Pigalle Theater built, which opened in 1929 and was the 'baby' of his son Philippe, but the theater didn't fare too well. Philippe fared better afterward with wine: the famous Mouton-Rothschild. After the early death of Henri de Rothschild's wife in 1926, Régnier became his companion, who would follow him in exile during the war.
Marthe Régnier was highly interested in fashion and jewelry, and as a businesswoman ahead of her time, she was often photographed to publicize her own creations. In the 1910s she launched her own perfume, entitled Suivez-moi, jeune homme [Follow me, young man]. Régnier was portrayed by famous painters like Giovanni Boldini, who painted a magnificent, dynamic portrait of her in 1905, and photographers such as Reutlinger, Henri Manuel and Adolph Meyer.
In 1910, Régnier debuted in the title role of the short film Manon, produced by Pathé Frères and based on the famous novel (1731) by Abbé Prevost and the opera (1884) by Jules Massenet. Her co-actors were also popular stage actors: Jean Périer played Lescaut, while Émile Dehelly played Des Grieux. In 1918 Régnier acted opposite Musidora in Germaine Dulac's film La jeune fille la plus méritante de France (1918). When sound film set in, Régnier returned to the sets to act as the maid in the comedy Y'en a pas deux comme Angélique (Roger Lion, 1931), starring Colette Darfeuil. Next, she was the wife of Jacques Baumer in Étienne (1933), directed by her son Jean Tarride, and with Jean Forrest in the title role. It was based on a play by Jacques Deval, in which she had acted in 1929. Opposite Charles Boyer as Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria, Régnier was Danielle Darrieux's mother, Baroness Vetsera, in the romantic historical drama Mayerling (Anatole Litvak, 1936).
Régnier's last film was Les hommes sans peur (Yvan Noë, 1942), about the inventors of X-Rays, in which she played a sick woman. Perhaps her shots were taken before the German invasion, because Rothschild's biographer Harry W. Paul and others too write that she remained with Rothschild in Lisbon, Portugal, during the war years. Anyway, she stayed close to him till the end. Rothschild, a heavy smoker and diabetic, died near Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1947, at the age of 75. Marthe Régnier died in Paris on 30 August 1967, at the age of 86. She rests in the cemetery of Marly-le-Roi (Yvelines).
In 2011 Boldini’s Portrait of Marthe Régnier was sold to a private European buyer for $1,874,500. In 2012 part of her jewelry was sold in Fontainebleau.
Sources: French Wikipedia, IMDB, Wikimedia Commons, and biographies of Henry de Rothschild by Harry W. Paul and Nadège Forestier,
View of the city of Florence from Piazzale Michelangelo with Ponte Vecchio (crossing the Arno river) on the left, Palazzo Vecchio in the centre and the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore on the right, Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Some background information:
With about 400,000 residents in its city centre and more than 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area, Florence is the capital and also the most populous city of the Italian region of Tuscany. The town lies in a basin formed by several hills. The Arno river, three other minor rivers and some streams flow through its metropolitan area. During the Middle Ages the city was a centre of European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of that era. It is also considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has been called "the Athens of the Middle Ages". A turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family and numerous religious and republican revolutions. From 1865 to 1871 Florence was the capital of the recently established Kingdom of Italy.
The Florentine dialect forms the base of Standard Italian and it became the language of culture throughout Italy due to the prestige of the masterpieces by Dante Alighieri, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Niccolò Machiavelli and Francesco Guicciardini, who were all born in the city. Florence attracts millions of tourists each year, and its historic centre was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982. The city is noted for its culture, art, architecture and monuments. It contains numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Pitti. Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, it has been ranked by Forbes as one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Furthermore, Florence is also an important city in Italian fashion, being ranked in the top 15 fashion capitals of the world.
Florence originated as a Roman city. Around 200 BC, the Etruscans initially formed the small settlement of Fiesole, which was destroyed by Lucius Cornelius Sulla in 80 BC in reprisal for supporting the populares faction in Rome. In 59 BC, the present city of Florence was established by Julius Caesar as a settlement for his veteran soldiers. Originally it was named Fluentia, owing to the fact that it was built between two rivers, but its name was later changed to Florentia (in English: "flowering"). Situated along the Via Cassia, the main route between Rome and the north, and within the fertile valley of the Arno, the settlement quickly became an important commercial centre.
In centuries to come, the city was often troubled by warfare between the Ostrogoths and the Byzantines, which may have caused the population to fall to as few as 1,000 people. Peace returned under Lombard rule in the 6th century. In 774, Florence was conquered by Charlemagne and became part of the Duchy of Tuscany, with Lucca as its capital. The population began to grow again and commerce prospered.
Margrave Hugo chose Florence as his residency instead of Lucca at about 1000 AD. The Golden Age of Florentine art began around this time. The city's primary resource was the Arno river, providing power and access for the industry (mainly textile industry), and access to the Mediterranean Sea for international trade. Another great source of strength was its industrious merchant community. The Florentine merchant banking skills became recognised in Europe after they brought decisive financial innovation to medieval fairs, such as bill of exchange and double-entry bookkeeping system.
In 1115, the Republic of Florence originated, when the Florentine people rebelled against the Margraviate of Tuscany upon the death of Matilda of Tuscany, a woman who controlled vast territories that included Florence. The Florentines formed a commune in her successors' place. Subsequently, the early, modern state of the republic was ruled by a council known as the Signoria of Florence. The republic had a checkered history of factions and counter-factions. But in 1434, the Medici faction gained governance of the city under Cosimo de' Medici.
During this first Medici governance, in 1469, Cosimo’s grandson Lorenzo de' Medici assumed the reins of government. Lorenzo was a great patron of the arts, commissioning works by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli. As he was also an accomplished poet and musician himself, he brought composers and singers to Florence too. By contemporary Florentines (and since), he was known as "Lorenzo il Magnifico" (in English: "Lorenzo the Magnificent").
The Medici kept control of Florence until 1494, when Lorenzo’s son Piero II was expelled by the French king Charles VIII, whose army had invaded northern Italy. In 1498, when the Medici were out of power, Niccolò Machiavelli, a diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, writer, playwright and poet of the Renaissance period, became secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence. His prescriptions for Florence's regeneration under strong leadership have often been seen as a legitimisation of political expediency and even malpractice. In other words, Machiavelli was a political thinker, perhaps most renowned for his political handbook, titled "The Prince", which is about ruling and the exercise of power. Commissioned by the Medici, Machiavelli also wrote the Florentine Histories, the history of the city.
In 1512, Giovanni de' Medici (later Pope Leo X) re-conquered the Republic of Florence. However, Florence repudiated Medici authority for a second time in 1527, during the so-called War of the League of Cognac. But again the Medici re-assumed their rule in 1531 after an 11-month siege of the city. The republican government was disestablished in 1532, when Pope Clement VII appointed Alessandro de' Medici "Duke of the Florentine Republic", making the republic a hereditary monarchy.
In 1569, the Medici became Grand Dukes of Tuscany, ruling for another two centuries. In all Tuscany, only the Republic of Lucca and the Principality of Piombino were independent from Florence. The extinction of the Medici dynasty and the accession in 1737 of Francis Stephen, Duke of Lorraine and husband of Maria Theresa of Austria, led to Tuscany's temporary inclusion in the territories of the Austrian crown. From 1801 to 1807 Florence was the capital of the Napoleonic client state Kingdom of Etruria and from 1808 to the fall of Napoleon in 1814, it was the was the prefecture of the French département of Arno. In 1861, Tuscany became a region of the Kingdom of Italy. In 1865, Florence replaced Turin as Italy's capital, but already six years later, it was superseded by Rome.
After doubling during the 19th century, Florence's population was to triple in the 20th, resulting from growth in tourism, trade, financial services and industry. During World War II the city experienced a year-long German occupation (1943 to 1944) and was declared an open city in late July 1944 as troops of the British 8th Army closed in. The retreating Germans decided to demolish all the bridges along the Arno, making it difficult for troops of the 8th Army to cross. But at the latest moment, the German general was convinced that Ponte Vecchio was not to be destroyed due to its historical value. In November 1966, the Arno flooded parts of the centre, damaging many art treasures.
Today, Florence is known as the "cradle of the Renaissance" for its many Renaissance monuments, churches, and other buildings. 600 years after its completion, the dome, built by Filippo Brunelleschi, is still the largest dome built in brick and mortar in the world. Florence also contains numerous museums and art galleries where some of the world's most important works of art are held. Hence, tourism is, by far, the most important of all industries and most of the Florentine economy relies on the money generated by international arrivals and students studying in the city. The value tourism to the city totalled some 62.5 billion € in 2015 and the number of visitors still increases to the present day.