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A postally unused carte postale published by A. Sauvaigo of Nice.
Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo refers to an administrative area of the Principality of Monaco.
Monte Carlo (literally "Mount Charles") is situated on a prominent escarpment at the base of the Maritime Alps. Near the quarter's western end is the world-famous Place du Casino, the gambling center which has made Monte Carlo an international byword for the extravagant display and reckless dispersal of wealth.
It is also the location of the Hôtel de Paris, the Café de Paris, and the Salle Garnier (the casino theatre which is the home of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo).
The quarter's eastern part includes the community of Larvotto with Monaco's only public beach, as well as its new convention center (the Grimaldi Forum), and the Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort.
At the quarter's western border, one crosses into the French town of Beausoleil (sometimes referred to as Monte-Carlo-Supérieur), and just 8 kilometres (5 mi) to its east is the western border of Italy.
Monte Carlo is host to most of the Circuit de Monaco, on which the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix takes place.
The Opéra de Monte-Carlo or Salle Garnier was built to designs of the architect Charles Garnier, who also designed the Paris opera house.
Although much smaller, the Salle Garnier is very similar in style, with decorations in red and gold, and frescoes and sculptures all around the auditorium. It was inaugurated on 25 January 1879 with a performance by Sarah Bernhardt dressed as a nymph.
Monte Carlo has featured in numerous films and television series, most recently in the 2011 movie of the same name.
Monte Carlo was the setting for the 1922 Erich von Stroheim silent film Foolish Wives, although it was filmed in California.
The casino featured in the James Bond films Never Say Never Again (1983), and GoldenEye (1995).
The Car Crash
To Catch a Thief (1954) was an Alfred Hitchcock film with Monte Carlo and its famous casino as the setting. It featured Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, the future Princess Grace of Monaco, as the stars.
There is a scene in the movie where the-then Grace Kelly drives a car very quickly—and dangerously—along the steep winding roads of Monaco that surround the heights of Monte Carlo; a tragic precursor to her actual fate in 1982.
On the 13th. September 1982, Kelly was driving back to Monaco from her country home in Roc Agel. She lost control of her 1971 Rover P6 and drove off the steep, winding road down the 120 foot (37 m) mountainside.
Her daughter Stéphanie, who was in the passenger seat, tried but failed to regain control of the car. Kelly was taken to the Monaco Hospital (later named the Princess Grace Hospital Centre) with injuries to the brain and thorax and a fractured femur.
Doctors believed that she had suffered a minor stroke while driving. She died the following night aged 52 at 10:55 p.m. after Prince Rainier chose to take her off life support.
Stéphanie suffered light concussion and a hairline fracture of a cervical vertebra, and was unable to attend her mother's funeral.
Notable Residents of Monte Carlo
Notable residents of Monte Carlo include:
- Shirley Bassey (singer) United Kingdom
- Bono (singer with U2) Republic of Ireland
- Jenson Button (former Formula One driver) United Kingdom
- David Coulthard (former Formula One driver) United Kingdom
- Mohamed Al-Fayed (ex-Harrods owner) Egypt
- Matthew Goss (professional cyclist) Australia
- Philip Green (entrepreneur) United Kingdom
- Stelios Haji-Ioannou (owner of EasyJet) Cyprus Greece United Kingdom
- Lewis Hamilton (Formula One driver) United Kingdom
- Justin Hayward (singer with the Moody Blues) United Kingdom
- Gina Lollobrigida (actress) Italy
- Helmut Newton (photographer) Germany Australia
- Mike Oldfield (musician) United Kingdom
- Paula Radcliffe (marathon world record holder) United Kingdom
- David Shilling (milliner) United Kingdom
- Ringo Starr (drummer with the Beatles) United Kingdom.
Walking around during Vivid we came across this decorated pair.
They were stepping rythmically across the cobbled streeet, clicking their heels together on completing each step.
The result was remarkably like a clock ticking...
This photo was published by Backpacker Magazine some time around 2005.
Photo credit: Paxson and Brett Woelber
Test of Autononomous Moth Trap, Aranda, ACT, Australia, 3-4 June 2021.
This is an early test of what is effectively a camera trap for moths using the design (and - right now - the AI model) published by Kim Bjerge and colleagues in Sensors in January 2021: An Automated Light Trap to Monitor Moths (Lepidoptera) using Computer Vision-Based Tracking and Deep Learning (doi.org/10.3390/s21020343).
Since the AI was trained only on a small number of European noctuoid moths, the classification here is meaningless - no Xestia c-nigrum - and the cold weather in the ACT limits insect activity right now.
ShopHouse, Chipotle's New Asian Spin-Off, is open in D.C.
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Quidam
Quidam ha debuttato sotto il tendone ad aprile 1996 a Montreal. Da allora, la produzione ha visitato cinque continenti ed ha emozionato milioni di persone. Nel dicembre 2010, Quidam ha intrapreso un nuovo viaggio, presentare la stessa entusiasmante produzione nei palazzetti, partendo dal Nord America. Il cast internazionale comprende 45 acrobati, musicisti, cantanti e artisti di prima classe.
La giovane Zoé è annoiata; i suoi genitori, distanti e apatici, la ignorano. La sua vita ha perso qualsiasi significato. Cercando di riempire il vuoto della sua esistenza, scivola in un mondo immaginario - il mondo di Quidam - dove incontra dei personaggi che la incoraggiano a liberare la sua anima.
Cirque du Soleil
Dai circa 20 artisti di strada di cui la compagnia era formata al suo inizio nel 1984, il Cirque du Soleil, basato in Quebec, è oggi la società leader nel settore dell’entertainment. Il gruppo conta 4.000 lavoratori, di cui oltre 1.200 artisti di oltre 50 nazionalità diverse.
Cast
The cast of Quidam has over 50 acrobats, musicians, singers, and characters, some of which are detailed below.
Zoé: She is the principal character in Quidam. Although average in nature, she longs for excitement.
Father: Completely, though unwittingly, self-absorbed. His white shoes are the only indication of a hidden personality.
Mother: Conveys an air of absence and alienation. Inside her lie fear, frustration, and desire.
Quidam: The show's titular character, who is anonymous, everyone, and no one. He may have stepped out of a surrealist painting or been conjured up out of Zoé's imagination.
John: Part game-show host and part substitute teacher who is the guide through the world of Quidam. Also is represented as a father figure to Zoé hence him stepping into her father's shoes.
Target: A living human bullseye fired at by everyone but is always smiling.
Chiennes Blanches: The silent chorus, the nameless and the faceless, the dehumanized, mechanical crowd, simultaneously leading and following. They also accompany the principal characters as they make their entrances and exits.
Boum-Boum: Enjoys screaming at the audience and walking away proudly, but will run away if an audience member screams back.
Rabbit: A minor character who chases and gets chased by other characters.
Aviator: A character who has skeletal wings who looks like he is not ready to take off.
Les Égarés: Lost individuals who gather together in the streets and abandoned buildings of Quidam. They perform in the banquine act.
Acts
Quidam combines a mix of acrobatic skills and traditional circus acts.
German Wheel: An acrobat performs tricks within a German wheel.
Diabolo: A performer manipulates diabolos (i.e., Chinese yo-yo), which are two sticks linked by a string on which a wooden spool balances.
Aerial contortion in silk: Intensity, power and grace combine when a young woman becomes one with the column of red fabric which supports and cradles her.
Skipping ropes: Drawing inspiration from dance, acrobatics, and the art of manipulation, a group of 20 acrobats performs this familiar child's game in a steady stream of solo, duo, and group jumps and figures.
Aerial hoops: Two performers use hoops attached to the ceiling to perform tricks.
Handbalancing: Using strength and balance, a performer contorts into poses while on balancing canes.
Spanish webs: Artists fly over the stage, attached to trolleys on the overhead tracks. In turn or as a group, they occasionally perform a sudden drop, stopped only by the ropes looped around their waists or ankles.
Statue: Never losing contact, two strong, flexible performers move almost imperceptibly, assuming positions impossible without an impeccable sense of balance.
Banquine: An Italian acrobatic tradition going back to the Middle Ages that combines gymnastics and ballet. Showcasing the agility of the human body, up to 15 artists perform sequences of feats and human pyramids with their perfectly synchronized movements.
Juggling: Up to five balls fly through the air, with additional manipulation of a briefcase, umbrella, and bowler hat.
The Postcard
A postcard published by F. Frith & Co. Ltd. of Reigate. The card was printed in England.
The card was posted in Swanage on Tuesday the 11th. August 1931 to:
Mrs. Carlisle,
'Twysdens',
Foots Cray,
Kent.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"This little man called
Quarter Jack strikes the
quarters at Wimborne
Minster.
It rained all the way home
from W. to S.
Your first letters came on
from the Grosvenor this
evening!
So now we know where
we are!
Thanks for them.
L.M."
Wimborne Minster
Wimborne is a market town in Dorset in South West England
For hundreds of years Wimborne Minster has been a centre for pilgrimage, prayer and worship. It is not a museum, although it has inherited many noteworthy treasures and artefacts.
The Minster's two Towers are visible as one enters the Town, and from various vantage points within the Town.
The foundation goes back to c. 705 AD when Cuthburga, sister to Ina, King of the West Saxons, founded a nunnery on the site. 500 nuns are reputed to have lived at Wimborne, many of whom followed St. Boniface to the then-pagan Germany, as missionaries.
The Nunnery was destroyed by the Danes in 1013, but an old Saxon Chest still remains in the Minster today.
The present building dates from c. 1120 with many additions spanning the centuries.
Education has always been a priority. Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, founded a school at Wimborne Minster in 1497, and her parents' tomb is in the Minster.
A Chained Library was established in 1695, although the first books had been donated in 1686. The Chained Library, one of only four in the country, is open to the public from Easter to the end of October most weekdays.
In 1612, the Quarter Jack was placed on the north side of the West Tower where he can be seen striking his bells every quarter-hour throughout the day and night.
Time was important to local people in the 14th. century, and this was provided via the Astronomical Clock in the West Tower and the three-faced sundial.
Other points of interest include the Man in the Wall, the Man with two left feet, and the only memorial brass dedicated to a king in the country. The Minster also has a fine set of thirteen bells.
Louisa Fagan
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 11th. August 1931 was not a good day for Louisa Matilda Fagan (née Ballard), because she died in London on that day.
Louisa, who was born in Naples on the 9th. January 1850, was an Italian–British female chess master.
Miss Ballard learned to play chess as a child from her father William. She married an Irishman, J. G. Fagan who was an officer with the Bombay Lancers, and as a result, the Fagans lived for a period of time in India.
Mrs. Fagan was part of the chess scene in India, and had some of her problems published in The City of London Chess Magazine.
She was a winner of a chess tournament in Bombay, in which 12 men took part. She won all her games, but was disqualified because she was a woman playing in a club whose membership was confined to men. She appealed this decision in court and won.
Mrs. Fagan became an emancipation activist, and was one of the founding members of the Ladies' Chess Club of London, which had 100 members at its peak and lasted until after the Great War.
She took 2nd. place, behind Mary Rudge, in the first Ladies’ International Chess Congress held at the club in London from June 22nd. to July 3rd. 1897.
She was the younger sister of Dr. William Robert Ballard, born in Naples in 1848. He was a strong London chess player in the late 19th. and early 20th. century.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 21st of October 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
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Opening-act dei Duran Duran, il 12 giugno 2016, nell’ambito del Street Music Art all’Assago Summer Arena a Milano, le Bloom Twins.
Bloom Twins are a Ukrainian-born English pop music group made up of twin sisters Anna and Sonia Kuprienko. They refer to the style of their music as "dark pop." The girls released their first digital single in June 2013 and are currently producing an EP due in the fourth quarter of 2014.
Sister act Bloom Twins merge several genres, adding flute, harmonica, piano and electronica to a diverse vocal style to create something new, fresh and unique.
After uploading their debut track ‘Fahrenheit’ to You Tube in 2013, Bloom Twins made a double impact on both music and fashion, opening the door to numerous profile pieces in magazines such as Paradigm, Vogue and ID. Soon after, a support slot for Eels at O2 Academy in Liverpool was followed by Iggy’s artist of the week at MTV. 2014 saw numerous releases and videos bringing more attention. Following the release of “Get up, Stand up” the Bloom Twins were featured on BBC NewsNight with Jeremy Paxman and graced pages of broadsheet newspapers such as The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Daily Mail as well appeared on Simon Lederman's show on BBC Radio London 94.9, Gary Crowley’s and on BBC Introducing.
A period out of the country halted momentum before they made a breakthrough appearance in Unicef’s Imagine campaign alongside Katy Perry and Will.i.am among other heavyweights of music and media.
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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 1st of May 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images or have any stories or information to add please comment below.
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The Postcard
A postcard that was published in 1910 by Stengel & Co. of Dresden. The card has a divided back. It looks as though some form of market was in progress when the photograph was taken.
The card was posted in Graz on Friday the 6th. October 1911 to:
Mister Arthur Craig,
26, Hillend Road,
Arbroath,
Scotland.
Graz
Graz is the capital city of the Austrian state of Styria, a green and heavily-forested region on the eastern edge of the Alps.
Graz is the second-largest city in Austria after Vienna. As of the 1st. January 2021, Graz had a population of 331,562.
Graz is known as a college and university city, with four colleges and four universities. Combined, the city is home to more than 60,000 students. Its historic centre (Altstadt) is one of the best-preserved city centres in Central Europe.
In 1999, the city's historic centre was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites, and in 2010 the designation was expanded to include the Eggenberg Palace on the western edge of the city.
Graz was designated the Cultural Capital of Europe in 2003, and became a City of Culinary Delights in 2008.
Origin of the Graz Name
The name of the city, formerly spelled Gratz, most likely stems from the Slavic 'Gradec,' which means 'Small Castle'. Some archaeological finds point to the erection of a small castle by Alpine Slavic people, which over time became a heavily defended fortification.
The German name 'Graz' first appeared in records in 1128.
Graz is situated on both sides of the Mur River in southeast Austria. It is about 150 km (93 mi) southwest of Vienna (Wien). the south. Graz is the state capital and largest city in . It is located in the Graz Basin and surrounded by mountains and hills to the north, east and west.
The city center sits at an elevation of 353 m (1,158 ft), the highest point is Plabutsch mountain with 754 m (2,474 ft) at the western border. The mountain Schöckl is just a few kilometers to the north, and surmounts the city by 1,100 m (3,600 ft).
History of Graz
During the 12th. century, dukes under Babenberg rule made the town an important commercial center. Later, Graz came under the rule of the Habsburgs and, in 1281, gained special privileges from King Rudolph I.
In the 14th. century, Graz became the city of residence of the Inner Austrian line of the Habsburgs. They lived in the Schlossberg castle, and from there ruled Styria, Carinthia, most of today's Slovenia, as well as parts of Italy (Carniola, Gorizia and Gradisca, Trieste).
In the 16th. century, the city's design and planning were primarily controlled by Italian Renaissance architects and artists. One of the most famous buildings representative of this style is the Landhaus, designed by Domenico dell'Allio, and used by the local rulers as a governmental headquarters.
The University of Graz was founded by Archduke Karl II in 1585. It is the city's oldest university. For most of its existence, it was controlled by the Catholic church, and was closed in 1782 by Joseph II in an attempt to gain state control over educational institutions.
Joseph II transformed it into a lyceum where civil servants and medical personnel were trained. In 1827 it was re-established as a university by Emperor Franz I, and was named 'Karl-Franzens Universität.' More than 30,000 students are currently enrolled at this university.
Astronomer Johannes Kepler lived in Graz for a short period beginning in 1594. He worked as district mathematician and taught at the Lutheran school, but still found time to study astronomy. He left Graz for Prague in 1600 when Protestants were banned from the city.
Ludwig Boltzmann was Professor for Mathematical Physics from 1869 to 1890. Nobel Laureate Otto Loewi taught at the University of Graz from 1909 until 1938.
Ivo Andrić, the 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature Laureate obtained his doctorate at the University of Graz. Erwin Schrödinger was briefly chancellor of the University of Graz in 1936.
Graz is home to the region's provincial armory, which is the world's largest historical collection of late medieval and Renaissance weaponry. It has been preserved since 1551, and displays over 30,000 items.
Archduke Karl II of Inner Austria had 20,000 Protestant books burned in the square of what is now a mental hospital, and succeeded in returning Styria to the authority of the Holy See.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was born in Graz in what is now the Stadtmuseum.
On the 2nd. April 1945, while the heaviest Allied bombing raid of Graz occurred, the Gestapo and Waffen-SS committed a massacre against resistance fighters, Hungarian-Jewish forced laborers, and POWs at the SS barracks at Graz-Wetzelsdorf.
Main Features of Graz
For the year that Graz was Cultural Capital of Europe, new structures were erected. The Graz Museum of Contemporary Art (German: Kunsthaus) was designed by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, and is situated next to the Mur river. The Island in the Mur is a floating platform made of steel. It was designed by American architect Vito Acconci, and contains a café, an open-air theatre and a playground.
The Historic Centre of Graz
The historic centre of the city consists of over 1,000 buildings, their age ranging from Gothic to contemporary.
The most important sights in the historic centre are:
-- Town Hall (Rathaus).
-- The Castle Hill, a hill dominating the historic centre (475 m (1,558.40 ft) high), site of a demolished fortress, with views over Graz.
-- The Clock Tower (Uhrturm) is a symbol of Graz, at the top of the Castle Hill.
-- The New Gallery (Neue Galerie), a museum of art.
-- The Castle Hill funicular (Schlossbergbahn), a funicular railway on the Castle Hill's slope.
-- The seat of Styria's provincial parliament (Landhaus), a palace in Lombardic style. It is one of the most important examples of Renaissance architecture in Austria, and was built by Italian architect Domenico dell'Allio between 1557 and 1565.
-- The Armoury (Landeszeughaus) is the largest of its kind in the world.
-- The Graz Opera House (Opernhaus), the principal venue for opera, ballet, and operetta performances. It is the 2nd. largest opera house in Austria.
-- The Graz Theatre (Schauspielhaus), Graz's principal theatre for productions of plays.
-- The Cathedral (Dom), a rare monument of Gothic architecture. Once, there were many frescos on the outer walls; today, only a few remain, like the Landplagenbild ("picture of plagues") painted in 1485, presumably by Thomas von Villach. The three plagues it depicts are locusts, pestilence and the invasion of the Turks, all of them striking the town in 1480. It features the oldest painted view of Graz.
-- The Mausoleum of Emperor Ferdinand II next to the Cathedral, the most important building of Mannerism in Graz. It includes both the grave where Ferdinand II and his wife are buried, and a church dedicated to St. Catherine of Alexandria.
-- The Graz City Park, located in the middle of the city centre during the Habsburg monarchy. During the Covid-19 pandemic, eccentric parties were celebrated there. The man responsible, Jonas Fabio Cristo Pinter, an Italian club owner, was arrested and the partying stopped.
-- The Castle (Burg), with a Gothic double staircase, was built between 1438 and 1453 by Emperor Frederick III, because the old castle on the Schlossberg Hill was too small and uncomfortable. The castle remained the residence of the Inner Austrian Court until 1619. Today, it serves as residence for the Styrian government.
-- The Painted House. It is completely covered with frescos painted in 1742 by Johann Mayer.
-- The Museum of Contemporary Art Graz (Kunsthaus).
-- The Island in the Mur (Murinsel), an artificial island in the Mur River.
-- Buildings, inner courtyards (e. g. the Early Renaissance courtyard of the Former House of Teutonic Knights in Sporgasse 22) and roofscape of the old town.
-- Hauptplatz. The statue in the centre of the square commemorates Erzherzog Johann von Österreich / Archduke John of Austria, who was born in Florence in 1782 and died in Graz in 1859. Johann was an Austrian field marshal and Imperial regent who was a great modernizer and an important figure of identification for Styria
The monument features a large bronze statue (3.1 m high) of Archduke Johann in courtly civilian clothes with a document in his right hand. It stands on a square pedestal.
On the corners of the pedestal are allegorical statues representing the cornerstones of the Archduke's achievements:
-- Eisenbahnbau - Railway construction, a scholar with a triangle, blueprint and an arch.
-- Wissenschaft - Science, a classical female figure with a parchment role and a globe.
-- Bergbau - Mining, an old miner.
-- Landwirtschaft - Agriculture, a young woman with a corn wreath.
The statue stands in a fountain basin which has on its four corners allegorical representations of the rivers in Styria,
Graz Museums
The most important museums in Graz are:
-- Schloss Eggenberg with Alte Galerie featuring paintings and sculptures from the Romanesque to the end of the Baroque period, a Coin Collection, a Lapidarium (Roman stonework collection), an Archeological Museum, along with a special exhibition area and the 90,000 square metre landscaped gardens.
-- Museum im Palais: museum of Styrian cultural history from the Middle Ages to the present.
-- Neue Galerie: visual arts from the 19th. and 20th. centuries.
-- Natural History Museum: exhibition of botany, mineralogy and zoology.
-- Stadtmuseum Graz: city museum.
-- Kunsthaus: exhibition hall of contemporary art.
-- Forum Stadtpark: museum of contemporary art.
-- Camera Austria: museum of contemporary photography.
-- Landeszeughaus: medieval armory comprising 32,000 pieces of armour and weaponry, largest of its kind in the world.
-- Volkskundemuseum: museum of folk culture and lore.
-- Diözesanmuseum: museum of the Roman Catholic Church.
-- Künstlerhaus: exhibition hall of contemporary visual arts.
-- Literaturhaus: museum of contemporary German literature.
-- Museum der Wahrnehmung: museum of the senses, samadhi bath.
-- Kindermuseum Frida & Fred: museum for children.
-- Tramway Museum: 40 historic trams, the oldest dating from 1873.
-- Kriminalmuseum: museum of criminology.
-- Luftfahrtmuseum: (Graz airport) aviation museum.
-- Hanns Schell Collection: key and lock museum, largest of its kind in the world.
-- Austrian Sculpture Park: seven hectares of contemporary sculpture.
-- Botanical Garden of Graz: three architecturally interesting glass houses plus gardens.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 6th. October 1911, after holding his last cabinet meeting, Sir Wilfrid Laurier formally resigned as Canadian Prime Minister, in favor of Robert L. Borden, who was sworn in four days later.
David T. Griggs
The day also marked the birth in Columbus, Ohio of David T. Griggs, American geologist described as "the father of modern rock mechanics." David died in 1974.
Elmer McCurdy
On the following day, the 7th. October 1911, Elmer McCurdy, 31, was shot and killed by lawmen in Oklahoma, having botched a train robbery three days earlier.
McCurdy achieved fame 65 years later when in December 1976, a TV crew discovered that a dummy on display in an amusement park in Long Beach, California, was actually McCurdy's mummified body.
McCurdy finally received a burial in Guthrie, Oklahoma, in 1977.
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Un héros dans le combat contra la peste, un héroe en la lucha contra la Peste Negra, un eroe in la lotta contro la morte nera.
Already in December of the year 1678 occurred in the then suburban "Leopoldstadt" the first cases of plague, but they were covered up and trivialized by the authorities. The disease spread rapidly in other suburbs, which were outside the imperial capital. Thus, the poorer classes belonged to its first victims. Although the number of deaths from month to month rose, all warnings and criticisms of pleague doctor, Paul de Sorbait, on the inadequate situation of the medical service and the hygiene remained unheard.
The dedicated physician had already published in January 1679 a "plague-order", which provided extensive measures to protect the population during an outbreak of plague. In this plague-order Paul de Sorbait described the former knowledge about the disease and described it: "the most part of those so caught by it, with bumps, glands, swelling marks or with splenic fever, brown and black spots and kale, pest lumps in addition to great interior heat and within a few days or hours fatally ends".
In July of the same year the "spark of pestilence" (Pestilenzfunken) jumped over the city walls: A terrible and great death began within the city of Vienna. A chronicler reported, "at last she (= plague) but took the audacity, penetrated into the city itself and caused a shocking defeat among the rich and aristocratic nobility in the palaces and stately buildings. There you saw whole carts full of noble and ignoble, rich and poor, young and old of both sexes, carried out by all alleys to the door."
The people in town were full horror and panic: The bodies lay for days on the road, because there was a lack of infirmary servants and gravediggers. Quick released prisoners then took over those services. Instead of single burials large pits were created outside of the city to accommodate the dead in mass graves. Those who could afford it, fled from the city. Emperor Leopold I and his family left Vienna on 17 August. He first went on a pilgrimage to Mariazell (Styria) and then fled to Prague. As there the plague also broke out, he retreated to Linz, where he remained until the final extinction of the plague in 1680.
The exact number of people who died in 1679 from the plague in Vienna probably never will be determined. The gigantic death rates of contemporary reports, oscillating between 70000 and 120000 dead, from the still preserved coroner's reports can not be proved. According to those records, the disease about 8,000 inhabitants would kill. But it is questionable whether in the prevailing confusion all cases of death were reported to the coroners and how many died on the run.
Plague in Vienna
Detail of the woodcut "Dance of Death"
Hans Holbein the Younger
(public domain)
The great dying - The plague or the "Black Death" in Europe
The plague is one of the severe acute bacterial infectious diseases that today already in case of suspicion are reportable. Only a little more than 100 years ago, at the occasion of the plague epidemics in Hong Kong and India set in the modern pest investigation: The Swiss tropical doctor Alexander Yersin discovered in 1894 the plague pathogen: The bacillus received after this researcher the name "Yersina pestis". Already at that time, the science recognized the role of certain rodents in the pathogenesis of plague epidemics and the participation of the rat flea or human flea as possibilities of transmission of plague to humans.
Since ancient times, the plague was one of the heaviest and most frequent epidemics. However, one designated for a long time also other epidemics such as smallpox or dysentery as pest because they equally were associated with high mortality. The term "pest" but meant in a figurative sense misfortune and ruin. The word therefore in the past has been avoided as far as possible, and the historians tried to express it with other words as "tiresome disease", "burning fever" or "contagion" (= contamination, infection).
In the years 1348 to 1352, Europe was overrun by the worst plague in history. The disease, which evolved to become a pneumonic plague, destroyed a third of the population at that time. According to the estimations, thus around 25 million people were fallen victim to the "Black Death". The pneumonic plague was not transmitted by flea bites - like the bubonic pest - but by highly infectious droplets containing bacilli with coughing and sneezing from person to person. In Vienna this plague epidemic reached its peak in 1349.
In the next 400 years followed at irregular intervals ever new plagues and spread fear, terror and death. Effective drugs were missing, and since the disease by the Catholic Church was interpreted as God's punishment, the population put itself under the protection of many plague saints, the Holy Trinity or the Virgin Mary. Eloquent testimonies of those efforts are still churches and chapels, pest altars, pest crosses and plague columns. The adoration of the Holy Trinity in the time of need of the 17th century especially by newly founded religious brotherhoods was disseminated - thus, also in Vienna in 1679 a Trinity Column was erected - the Plague Column at the Graben. As a monument to the last plague in Vienna in 1713 today reminds the Charles Church, which is, however, devoted to the plague saint Charles Borromeo.
As medical measures against a Pest disease recommended doctors sweating cures, bloodletting, chewing of juniper berries or Angelica roots, but also the administration of theriac, a popular drug of the Middle Ages. Frequently, garlic, laurel, rue, and a mixture of sulfur powder are listed in the prescriptions. The recipes, however, differ as to whether they are used for poor or rich Pest patients. One of the few effective medical attendances was the opening of the bumps (buboes) to drain the pus, which also the sufferers felt as a blessing. As a miracle drug was considered the applying of an impaled toad on the bumps, previously put in vinegar or wine bath. Such prepared toads were also attributed great healing power during the plague in 1679 in Vienna.
Quotes:
From Vienna "plague-order" of pest doctor Paul de Sorbait, 1679
"after the experience brings with it that cleanliness is a strange useful and necessary means, both to prevent the intrusion of infection, as well as the same to avert. Herentwegen (= hence) uncleanliness causes such evil and keeps it. So is our earnest command, that firstly no blood, viscera, heads and leggs of the killed cattle, nor herb leaves, crabs, snails, egg shells or other filth (= waste, manure) on those streets and squares (must be) poured out: ditto (Ingleichen) no dead dog, cats or poultry are thrown into the streets, but all of them carried out of the city".
From "Merck's Wienn" of preacher Abraham a Sancta Clara, 1680
"As a whole, there is not a lane or a road wich the raging death had not crossed. Throughout the month, in Vienna and around Vienna one saw nothing else but wearing the dead, conducting the dead, dragging the dead and burying the dead".
"From what the plague was caused but I know all of that/ that this poisonous arrow (= plague) mehristen Theil (= for the most part) from the hand of God is abgetruckt (= shot)/how its diverse testimony proves the divine Scripture (= Bible). From which apparently manifest and obvious/that the pestilence was a ruthe (= rod)/so the sublime hand of God wreaths I trust but leastwise the tree to show /from which God the rod braids. This tree is the sin".
* Song of dear Augustine
Oh du (you) lieber (dear) Augustin
S'money is gone, d'joy is gone,
Oh du lieber Augustin,
Everything is gone!
Oh, and even the rich Vienna
poor now as Augustine
Sighs with me in the same sense
Everything is gone!
Every day otherwise was a feast,
Now what? Plague, the plague!
Now only a huge nest of corpses,
That's the rest!
Oh du lieber Augustin,
Lie only down into the grave you,
Oh my dear Vienna
Everything is gone!
Text source: Rathauskorrespondenz
Plague in Vienna
Plague doctor - through these clothes the doctors during the plague epidemic of 1656 in Rome hoped to protect themselves from the pest contamination. They wore a wax jacket, a type of protective eyewear and gloves. In the beak there were "wolriechende Specerey (odoriferous specialties)".
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Sur le seuil
À l’abri du passage, un couple s’est installé sur le seuil d’une porte pour manger rapidement une petite collation. Quelques minutes volées au rythme de la journée, assis côte à côte dans un espace qui n’était pas destiné à devenir un lieu de repas. La rue devient alors une salle à manger improvisée, offrant un instant de pause et de proximité au milieu du tumulte urbain.
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Published by World's Work in 1970.
One of my favourite books, although my copy is a tattered old ex-library one...
My photograph was published in the December issue of the Modern Luxury Dallas magazine (media.modernluxury.com/digital.php?e=DALL)! I requested the editor to send me a copy and he sent me two. That is what came in the mail today! :D
Original photo in comments.
The Postcard
A carte postale that was published by E. L. D. that was posted in Paris on Tuesday the 13th. November 1945 to:
Mr. Archie Newbury,
Albion House,
Bay Road,
Sholing,
Southampton,
England.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"My mother and I are
always very pleased
to hear from you.
I hope you are getting
accustomed to school
and are very good, at
least in talking and
reading French.
I give you my approval".
The message continues on the front of the card.
Francis Garnier
Marie Joseph François Garnier (25th. July 1839 – 21st. December 1873) was a French officer, inspector of Indigenous Affairs of Cochinchina, and explorer.
He eventually became mission leader of the Mekong Exploration Commission in 19th. century Southeast Asia.
Francis Garnier - the Early Years
Garnier was born at Saint-Étienne, Loire, and entered the French Navy. After voyaging in Brazilian waters and the Pacific, he obtained a post on the staff of Admiral Léonard Victor Charner, who from February 1860 to November 1861 was campaigning in Cochinchina.
After some time spent in France, Garnier returned to the East, and in 1862, he was appointed inspector of native affairs in Cochinchina, and entrusted with the administration of Cholon, a suburb of Saigon.
Exploration of the Mekong and Yangtze rivers
It was at his suggestion that the Marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat determined to send a mission to explore the valley of the Mekong River, but as Garnier was not considered old enough to be put in command, the chief authority was entrusted to Captain Ernest Doudard de Lagrée.
In the course of the expedition – to quote the words of Sir Roderick Murchison that were addressed to the youthful traveller when, in 1870, he was presented with the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society of London:
"From Kratié in Cambodia to Shanghai, 5,392 miles
were traversed, and of these, 3,625 miles, chiefly of
country unknown to European geography, were
surveyed with care, and the positions fixed by
astronomical observations, nearly the whole of the observations being taken by Garnier himself".
A year earlier he received an award to be shared with David Livingstone at the 1869 Geographical Congress in Antwerp.
Volunteering to lead a detachment to Dali, the capital of Sultan Suleiman, the sovereign of the Muslim rebels in Yunnan, Garnier successfully carried out the more-than-adventurous enterprise. When shortly afterwards Lagrée died, Garnier naturally assumed the command of the expedition, and he conducted it in safety to the Yangtze River, and thus to the Chinese coast.
On his return to France, he was received with enthusiasm. The preparation of his narrative was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War, and during the siege of Paris, Garnier served as principal staff officer to the admiral in command of the eighth sector.
Returning to Cochinchina, he found the political circumstances of the country unfavourable for further exploration, so accordingly, he went to China, and in 1873 followed the upper course of the Yangtze River to the waterfalls.
Intervention in Tonkin
In late 1873 Garnier was sent by Admiral Dupré, the governor of Cochinchina, to Tonkin, to resolve a dispute between the Vietnamese authorities and the French entrepreneur Jean Dupuis.
Persuaded that the time was ripe for a French conquest of Tonkin, Garnier captured Hanoi, the capital of Tonkin, on the 20th. November 1873. In the next few weeks a small French force under Garnier's command captured most of the citadels of the Red River Delta.
The Vietnamese authorities, despairing of meeting the French with their own forces, appealed to the notorious Chinese soldier of fortune Liu Yongfu to come to their aid with his Black Flag Army.
The Defeat and Death of Francis Garnier
On the 21st. December 1873, Liu Yongfu and around 600 Black Flags, marching beneath an enormous black banner, approached the west gate of Hanoi. A large Vietnamese army followed in their wake.
Garnier began shelling the Black Flags with a field piece mounted above the gate, and when they began to fall back he led a party of 18 French marine infantrymen out of the city to chase them away.
The attack failed. Garnier, leading three men uphill in a bayonet attack on a party of Black Flags, was stabbed and hacked to death by several Black Flag soldiers after stumbling in a watercourse.
The youthful Adrien-Paul Balny d'Avricourt led an equally small column out of the citadel to support Garnier, but was also killed at the head of his men. Three French soldiers were also killed in these sorties, and the others fled back to the citadel after their officers fell.
Colonel Thomazi, the historian of French Indochina, gave the following detailed description of Garnier's last moments:
"At midday on the 21st. December he was in
conference with the ambassadors when an
interpreter ran up, announcing that bands of
Black Flags were attacking the town by the
western gate.
Garnier immediately hurried to the spot, but
some of his men had got there before him, and
their fire had sufficed to force the bandits to
retreat behind the bamboo hedges.
A 40-millimetre gun arrived at this moment.
Garnier rallied a dozen men, three of whom
dragged this small cannon, and left the town
at a run to pursue the enemy. As the gun could
not move quickly enough across the fields, he
left it behind with its gunners.
Garnier then divided the nine men who remained
with him into three groups. The first two groups
moved off to the left and the right, to re-join one
another further on, while he marched in the middle,
followed only by two men.
One and a half kilometres from the town he found
himself in front of a dyke, and slipped and fell while
trying to cross it. Some Black Flags hidden behind
the dyke ran out, while others opened fire.
At this moment the two men who were accompanying
Garnier were 100 metres behind him. One of them
was killed by a bullet and the other wounded. Garnier
cried:
'To me, brave boys, and
we'll give them a thrashing!'
He then fired the six rounds from his revolver in an
attempt to rescue himself, but the bandits surrounded
him, pierced him with thrusts of sabres and lances, cut
off his head, odiously mutilated his corpse, and ran
away.
The two other groups, rushing up to the sound of the
shooting, were only able to recover his bloodied
corpse and bring it back to Hanoi".
Garnier's death effectively ended the first French adventure in Tonkin. The French government disavowed Garnier's adventure, and hastened to conclude a peace settlement with the Vietnamese, abandoning most of its claims in Tonkin.
Francis Garnier's Achievement
Garnier's chief fame rests on the fact that he both conceived the idea of exploring the Mekong and carried out the larger portion of the work himself.
During the French colonial period he was also honoured for his feats of arms in Tonkin, which paved the way for the eventual French conquest of Tonkin in the 1880's.
Commemoration of Francis Garnier
In 1883, nine years after Francis Garnier's death, the French naval officer Henri Rivière was also killed by the Black Flags in Tonkin, in remarkably similar circumstances.
Garnier and Rivière were honoured during the French colonial period as the two pre-eminent French martyrs of the conquest of Tonkin. In 1884, during the Sino-French War, two gunboats of the Tonkin Flotilla were named after the two men.
During the siege of Tuyên Quang (November 1884–March 1885), Liu Yongfu's Black Flags, who formed part of the besieging Chinese army, taunted the men of the French garrison by chanting the names of their two most famous victims: 'Garnier! Rivière! Garnier! Rivière!'
In 1943, French Indochina issued a postage stamp commemorating Garnier.
A warship was named after him during World War II but was scuttled after a fight with the Japanese, near the Cambodian town of Kratié.
In 1973 a new ship, Francis Garnier, was built. It is still in service, and assisted the humanitarian efforts following the 2010 Haiti earthquake as part of Opération Séisme Haiti 2010. She left Martinique carrying 60 Army personnel, land vehicles and excavators; and various relief shipments.
Charles de Gaulle
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 13th. November 1945, the French Constituent Assembly unanimously elected Charles de Gaulle president of the Provisional Government.
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Old Hidden Bridge At The Far End Of The (Secret Gorge Walk)
Roundhay parks secret 300 million year history
ONCE – 300m years ago – an orange lizard called the Europs walked the fields that are now Roundhay Park.
It dwelt among tropical trees and baking heat – for the land was close to the Equator. This is the secret history of the north Leeds playground being brought to life by the Friends of Roundhay Park. They have published 5,000 copies of A Walk Back in Time, a glossy guide to the geology of the parkland. A trail with nine marker stones has been created and will be launched officially on Wednesday. The Friends will gather at the Education Centre in the Mansion at 2pm to hear a talk by expert geologist Bill Fraser, a teacher in Garforth, before walking the trail. Mr Fraser has a collection of fossils from Roundhay Park and has provided the scientific basis for the guide book.Bob Reid, one of the Friends, was the driving force behind the creation of the trail "The dates given in the guide are not fictitious – they are real, based on the evidence of radioactive decay," he said.
Glacier
At different times, Roundhay Park has been under both freshwater and sea water. We tend to think the park is as it has always been but over millions of years it has been continually changing . "The V-shaped ravine was formed by melt water from a glacier. "And a geological fault runs in front of the Mansion and is said to form the northern boundary of the Yorkshire coalfields .Bob visited viewing site No. 6 – Dog Mouth Spring – which is found in the woodland. The rock here is sandstone which is porous and allows water to bubble from it. At marker No. 9 by the banks of the Waterloo Lake, visitors can look back to the head of the lake where the fault crosses the valley. And the last marker, No. 10, also by the lakeside, reveals sandstone rock where burrowing worms have left their imprint. A Walk Back in Time costs 1 and can be bought at the Roundhay Park visitor centre, City Stationers at Oakwood, and at the tourist centre in Leeds City Station.
The Gorge at Roundhay Park has recently been cleared and new pathways introduced, a waterfall leaves the Upper Lake and tumbles down into this area of outstanding natural beauty. Take a short walk along the edge of the Gorge and emerge at the Caste Folly. You can also take the longer 'Secret Gorge Walk' This peaceful walk passes through an area of outstanding natural beauty. The walk has rough, good quality footpaths with sections of steep ground - approximately 2.7 km,
Secret Gorge Walk "The Ravine"
This peaceful walk passes through an area of outstanding natural beauty. The walk has rough, good quality footpaths with sections of steep ground.
Approx 2.7Km
Upper Lake Walk
This walk circumnavigates the Upper Lake with wooded areas, natural water space and a host of wildlife.
The walking surface is rough in sections but mainly flat.
Approx 0.7Km
Lake View Walk
This walk circumnavigates Waterloo Lake passing Parkland, Woods and the Dam. The main focus of the walk is the tranquil beauty of the Lake. The walking surface is rough in sections but mainly flat. Approx 2.7Km
Roundhay Park
Roundhay Park in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is one of the biggest city parks in Europe. It has more than 700 acres (2.8 km2) of parkland, lakes, woodland and gardens which are owned by Leeds City Council. The park is one of the most popular attractions in Leeds, nearly a million people visit each year. It is situated on the north-east edge of the city, bordered by the suburb of Roundhay to the west and Oakwood to the south.
Old History
In the 11th century William the Conqueror granted the lands on which the park stands to Ilbert De Lacy for his support in the Harrying of the North in the winter 1069-70. De Lacy, who founded Pontefract Castle, was a knight from Normandy. During the 13th century, the area was used as a hunting park for the De Lacys who were the Lords of Bowland on the Yorkshire-Lancaster border. Ownership of Roundhay passed through succession to John of Gaunt and then to his son, Henry IV. In the 16th century Henry VIII gave the park (though not the manor) to Thomas Darcy. Through succession and marriage, it was acquired by Charles Stourton (1702-1753) in the 18th century.
In 1803, Charles Stourton's nephew, another Charles Stourton (1752–1816), sold the estate to Thomas Nicholson and Samuel Elam. Nicholson took the northern part which became Roundhay Park. Thomas Nicholson's land had the remains of quarries and coal mines. He disguised these former industrial areas by constructing the Upper Lake and the Waterloo Lake. The mansion house was built between 1811 and 1826 with a view over the Upper Lake. Nicholson constructed a castle folly. The Nicholson family was responsible for building the Church of St John, almshouses and a school on the south side of the park. After Thomas Nicholson's death in 1821, the estate passed to his half-brother Stephen. In 1858, his nephew William Nicholson Nicholson inherited the land on the death of his uncle. In 1871 Roundhay Park was put up for sale. It was purchased for £139,000 by a group including the Mayor of Leeds, John Barran. Leeds City Council was unable to buy such a large tract of land without an Act of Parliament, which was obtained on 21 June 1871. The local authority agreed to pay the same price and gave the estate to the people of Leeds as a public park.
Leeds architect, George Corson, won the competition for landscaping Roundhay Park. Some parts of the estate were then sold for building plots to offset the cost to the council and Barran. Prince Arthur officially re-opened the park in 1872 in front of 100,000 people. In 1891 the first public electric tram with overhead power (trolley system) in Britain was inaugurated linking Roundhay Park with Leeds city centre 3 miles (4.8 km) away. The tram terminus is now a car park but some of the trolley poles remain.
The Albertina
The architectural history of the Palais
(Pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
Image: The oldest photographic view of the newly designed Palais Archduke Albrecht, 1869
"It is my will that the expansion of the inner city of Vienna with regard to a suitable connection of the same with the suburbs as soon as possible is tackled and at this on Regulirung (regulation) and beautifying of my Residence and Imperial Capital is taken into account. To this end I grant the withdrawal of the ramparts and fortifications of the inner city and the trenches around the same".
This decree of Emperor Franz Joseph I, published on 25 December 1857 in the Wiener Zeitung, formed the basis for the largest the surface concerning and architecturally most significant transformation of the Viennese cityscape. Involving several renowned domestic and foreign architects a "master plan" took form, which included the construction of a boulevard instead of the ramparts between the inner city and its radially upstream suburbs. In the 50-years during implementation phase, an impressive architectural ensemble developed, consisting of imperial and private representational buildings, public administration and cultural buildings, churches and barracks, marking the era under the term "ring-street style". Already in the first year tithe decided a senior member of the Austrian imperial family to decorate the facades of his palace according to the new design principles, and thus certified the aristocratic claim that this also "historicism" said style on the part of the imperial house was attributed.
Image: The Old Albertina after 1920
It was the palace of Archduke Albrecht (1817-1895), the Senior of the Habsburg Family Council, who as Field Marshal held the overall command over the Austro-Hungarian army. The building was incorporated into the imperial residence of the Hofburg complex, forming the south-west corner and extending eleven meters above street level on the so-called Augustinerbastei.
The close proximity of the palace to the imperial residence corresponded not only with Emperor Franz Joseph I and Archduke Albert with a close familial relationship between the owner of the palace and the monarch. Even the former inhabitants were always in close relationship to the imperial family, whether by birth or marriage. An exception here again proves the rule: Don Emanuel Teles da Silva Conde Tarouca (1696-1771), for which Maria Theresa in 1744 the palace had built, was just a close friend and advisor of the monarch. Silva Tarouca underpins the rule with a second exception, because he belonged to the administrative services as Generalhofbaudirektor (general court architect) and President of the Austrian-Dutch administration, while all other him subsequent owners were highest ranking military.
In the annals of Austrian history, especially those of military history, they either went into as commander of the Imperial Army, or the Austrian, later kk Army. In chronological order, this applies to Duke Carl Alexander of Lorraine, the brother-of-law of Maria Theresa, as Imperial Marshal, her son-in-law Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen, also field marshal, whos adopted son, Archduke Charles of Austria, the last imperial field marshal and only Generalissimo of Austria, his son Archduke Albrecht of Austria as Feldmarschalil and army Supreme commander, and most recently his nephew Archduke Friedrich of Austria, who held as field marshal from 1914 to 1916 the command of the Austro-Hungarian troops. Despite their military profession, all five generals conceived themselves as patrons of the arts and promoted large sums of money to build large collections, the construction of magnificent buildings and cultural life. Charles Alexander of Lorraine promoted as governor of the Austrian Netherlands from 1741 to 1780 the Academy of Fine Arts, the Théâtre de Ja Monnaie and the companies Bourgeois Concert and Concert Noble, he founded the Academie royale et imperial des Sciences et des Lettres, opened the Bibliotheque Royal for the population and supported artistic talents with high scholarships. World fame got his porcelain collection, which however had to be sold by Emperor Joseph II to pay off his debts. Duke Albert began in 1776 according to the concept of conte Durazzo to set up an encyclopedic collection of prints, which forms the core of the world-famous "Albertina" today.
Image : Duke Albert and Archduchess Marie Christine show in family cercle the from Italy brought along art, 1776. Frederick Henry Füger.
1816 declared to Fideikommiss and thus in future indivisible, inalienable and inseparable, the collection 1822 passed into the possession of Archduke Carl, who, like his descendants, it broadened. Under him, the collection was introduced together with the sumptuously equipped palace on the Augustinerbastei in the so-called "Carl Ludwig'schen fideicommissum in 1826, by which the building and the in it kept collection fused into an indissoluble unity. At this time had from the Palais Tarouca by structural expansion or acquisition a veritable Residenz palace evolved. Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen was first in 1800 the third floor of the adjacent Augustinian convent wing adapted to house his collection and he had after 1802 by his Belgian architect Louis de Montoyer at the suburban side built a magnificent extension, called the wing of staterooms, it was equipped in the style of Louis XVI. Only two decades later, Archduke Carl the entire palace newly set up. According to scetches of the architect Joseph Kornhäusel the 1822-1825 retreaded premises presented themselves in the Empire style. The interior of the palace testified from now in an impressive way the high rank and the prominent position of its owner. Under Archduke Albrecht the outer appearance also should meet the requirements. He had the facade of the palace in the style of historicism orchestrated and added to the Palais front against the suburbs an offshore covered access. Inside, he limited himself, apart from the redesign of the Rococo room in the manner of the second Blondel style, to the retention of the paternal stock. Archduke Friedrich's plans for an expansion of the palace were omitted, however, because of the outbreak of the First World War so that his contribution to the state rooms, especially, consists in the layout of the Spanish apartment, which he in 1895 for his sister, the Queen of Spain Maria Christina, had set up as a permanent residence.
Picture: The "audience room" after the restoration: Picture: The "balcony room" around 1990
The era of stately representation with handing down their cultural values found its most obvious visualization inside the palace through the design and features of the staterooms. On one hand, by the use of the finest materials and the purchase of masterfully manufactured pieces of equipment, such as on the other hand by the permanent reuse of older equipment parts. This period lasted until 1919, when Archduke Friedrich was expropriated by the newly founded Republic of Austria. With the republicanization of the collection and the building first of all finished the tradition that the owner's name was synonymous with the building name:
After Palais Tarouca or tarokkisches house it was called Lorraine House, afterwards Duke Albert Palais and Palais Archduke Carl. Due to the new construction of an adjacently located administration building it received in 1865 the prefix "Upper" and was referred to as Upper Palais Archduke Albrecht and Upper Palais Archduke Frederick. For the state a special reference to the Habsburg past was certainly politically no longer opportune, which is why was decided to name the building according to the in it kept collection "Albertina".
Picture: The "Wedgwood Cabinet" after the restoration: Picture: the "Wedgwood Cabinet" in the Palais Archduke Friedrich, 1905
This name derives from the term "La Collection Albertina" which had been used by the gallery Inspector Maurice von Thausing in 1870 in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts for the former graphics collection of Duke Albert. For this reason, it was the first time since the foundation of the palace that the name of the collection had become synonymous with the room shell. Room shell, hence, because the Republic of Austria Archduke Friedrich had allowed to take along all the movable goods from the palace in his Hungarian exile: crystal chandeliers, curtains and carpets as well as sculptures, vases and clocks. Particularly stressed should be the exquisite furniture, which stems of three facilities phases: the Louis XVI furnitures of Duke Albert, which had been manufactured on the basis of fraternal relations between his wife Archduchess Marie Christine and the French Queen Marie Antoinette after 1780 in the French Hofmanufakturen, also the on behalf of Archduke Charles 1822-1825 in the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory by Joseph Danhauser produced Empire furnitures and thirdly additions of the same style of Archduke Friedrich, which this about 1900 at Portois & Ffix as well as at Friedrich Otto Schmidt had commissioned.
The "swept clean" building got due to the strained financial situation after the First World War initially only a makeshift facility. However, since until 1999 no revision of the emergency equipment took place, but differently designed, primarily the utilitarianism committed office furnitures complementarily had been added, the equipment of the former state rooms presented itself at the end of the 20th century as an inhomogeneous administrative mingle-mangle of insignificant parts, where, however, dwelt a certain quaint charm. From the magnificent state rooms had evolved depots, storage rooms, a library, a study hall and several officed.
Image: The Albertina Graphic Arts Collection and the Philipphof after the American bombing of 12 März 1945.
Image: The palace after the demolition of the entrance facade, 1948-52
Worse it hit the outer appearance of the palace, because in times of continued anti-Habsburg sentiment after the Second World War and inspired by an intolerant destruction will, it came by pickaxe to a ministerial erasure of history. In contrast to the graphic collection possessed the richly decorated facades with the conspicuous insignia of the former owner an object-immanent reference to the Habsburg past and thus exhibited the monarchial traditions and values of the era of Francis Joseph significantly. As part of the remedial measures after a bomb damage, in 1948 the aristocratic, by Archduke Albert initiated, historicist facade structuring along with all decorations was cut off, many facade figures demolished and the Hapsburg crest emblems plunged to the ground. Since in addition the old ramp also had been cancelled and the main entrance of the bastion level had been moved down to the second basement storey at street level, ended the presence of the old Archduke's palace after more than 200 years. At the reopening of the "Albertina Graphic Collection" in 1952, the former Hapsburg Palais of splendour presented itself as one of his identity robbed, formally trivial, soulless room shell, whose successful republicanization an oversized and also unproportional eagle above the new main entrance to the Augustinian road symbolized. The emocratic throw of monuments had wiped out the Hapsburg palace from the urban appeareance, whereby in the perception only existed a nondescript, nameless and ahistorical building that henceforth served the lodging and presentation of world-famous graphic collection of the Albertina. The condition was not changed by the decision to the refurbishment because there were only planned collection specific extensions, but no restoration of the palace.
Image: The palace after the Second World War with simplified facades, the rudiment of the Danubiusbrunnens (well) and the new staircase up to the Augustinerbastei
This paradigm shift corresponded to a blatant reversal of the historical circumstances, as the travel guides and travel books for kk Residence and imperial capital of Vienna dedicated itself primarily with the magnificent, aristocratic palace on the Augustinerbastei with the sumptuously fitted out reception rooms and mentioned the collection kept there - if at all - only in passing. Only with the repositioning of the Albertina in 2000 under the direction of Klaus Albrecht Schröder, the palace was within the meaning and in fulfillment of the Fideikommiss of Archduke Charles in 1826 again met with the high regard, from which could result a further inseparable bond between the magnificent mansions and the world-famous collection. In view of the knowing about politically motivated errors and omissions of the past, the facades should get back their noble, historicist designing, the staterooms regain their glamorous, prestigious appearance and culturally unique equippment be repurchased. From this presumption, eventually grew the full commitment to revise the history of redemption and the return of the stately palace in the public consciousness.
Image: The restored suburb facade of the Palais Albertina suburb
The smoothed palace facades were returned to their original condition and present themselves today - with the exception of the not anymore reconstructed Attica figures - again with the historicist decoration and layout elements that Archduke Albrecht had given after the razing of the Augustinerbastei in 1865 in order. The neoclassical interiors, today called after the former inhabitants "Habsburg Staterooms", receiving a meticulous and detailed restoration taking place at the premises of originality and authenticity, got back their venerable and sumptuous appearance. From the world wide scattered historical pieces of equipment have been bought back 70 properties or could be returned through permanent loan to its original location, by which to the visitors is made experiencable again that atmosphere in 1919 the state rooms of the last Habsburg owner Archduke Frederick had owned. The for the first time in 80 years public accessible "Habsburg State Rooms" at the Palais Albertina enable now again as eloquent testimony to our Habsburg past and as a unique cultural heritage fundamental and essential insights into the Austrian cultural history. With the relocation of the main entrance to the level of the Augustinerbastei the recollection to this so valuable Austrian Cultural Heritage formally and functionally came to completion. The vision of the restoration and recovery of the grand palace was a pillar on which the new Albertina should arise again, the other embody the four large newly built exhibition halls, which allow for the first time in the history of the Albertina, to exhibit the collection throughout its encyclopedic breadh under optimal conservation conditions.
Image: The new entrance area of the Albertina
64 meter long shed roof. Hans Hollein.
The palace presents itself now in its appearance in the historicist style of the Ringstrassenära, almost as if nothing had happened in the meantime. But will the wheel of time should not, cannot and must not be turned back, so that the double standards of the "Albertina Palace" said museum - on the one hand Habsburg grandeur palaces and other modern museum for the arts of graphics - should be symbolized by a modern character: The in 2003 by Hans Hollein designed far into the Albertina square cantilevering, elegant floating flying roof. 64 meters long, it symbolizes in the form of a dynamic wedge the accelerated urban spatial connectivity and public access to the palace. It advertises the major changes in the interior as well as the huge underground extensions of the repositioned "Albertina".
Christian Benedictine
Art historian with research interests History of Architecture, building industry of the Hapsburgs, Hofburg and Zeremonialwissenschaft (ceremonial sciences). Since 1990 he works in the architecture collection of the Albertina. Since 2000 he supervises as director of the newly founded department "Staterooms" the restoration and furnishing of the state rooms and the restoration of the facades and explores the history of the palace and its inhabitants.
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The Postcard
A postally unused Sovereign Series postcard. The card was published by Prescott Pickup & Co. Ltd. of Allscott, Telford, Salop, England. On the back of the card they state:
'A series of 60 postcards.
Illustrated souvenir album
£3'.
The series features images of the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer on the 29th. July 1981, and also various scenes both prior and subsequent to the event.
The card was printed in England.
The Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer took place on Wednesday 29th. July 1981 at St Paul's Cathedral in London. The groom was the heir to the British throne, and the bride was a member of the Spencer family.
The ceremony was a traditional Church of England wedding service. The Dean of St Paul's Cathedral Alan Webster presided at the service, and the Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie conducted the marriage.
Notable figures in attendance included many members of other royal families, republican heads of state, and members of the bride's and groom's families. After the ceremony, the couple made the traditional appearance on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.
The United Kingdom had a national holiday on that day to mark the wedding. The ceremony featured many ceremonial aspects, including use of the state carriages and roles for the Foot Guards and Household Cavalry.
Their marriage was widely billed as a 'Fairytale Wedding' and the 'Wedding of the Century'. It was watched by an estimated global TV audience of 750 million people.
Events were held around the Commonwealth to mark the wedding. Many street parties were held throughout the United Kingdom to celebrate the occasion.
The couple separated in 1992, and divorced in 1996 after fifteen years of marriage.
The Tragic Death of Diana, Princess of Wales
Diana, Princess of Wales died after a high-speed car crash at the age of 36 on the 31st. August 1997 at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris.
When Diana married Charles, she was a naïve yet hopeful young woman seeking true love. But by the time she died, Diana was jaded, bitter, and impossibly scarred by her disastrous marriage and being hounded by the media.
Twenty years after Princess Diana's funeral, people recall the iconic moments, from the sea of flowers and mementos left outside Kensington Palace to the heart-breaking image of Prince William and Prince Harry walking behind their mother's casket.
Diana’s younger brother Charles, the ninth Earl Spencer, held nothing back during his funeral oration. Funeral attendees may have been expecting a tearful remembrance of Diana’s life. Instead, they felt the full brunt of her brother’s fury at those he felt were responsible for her death.
In paying tribute to his sister, the 9th Earl Spencer reportedly angered the Queen and created a rift in the royal family that has only begun to heal in recent years with the births of Prince George and Princess Charlotte.
What Charles Spencer said in Westminster Abbey is as follows:
Charles Spencer's Funeral Speech
'I stand before you today, the representative of a family in grief in a country in mourning before a world in shock.
We are all united not only in our desire to pay our respects to Diana but rather in our need to do so.
For such was her extraordinary appeal that the tens of millions of people taking part in this service all over the world via television and radio who never actually met her, feel that they too lost someone close to them in the early hours of Sunday morning. It is a more remarkable tribute to Diana than I can ever hope to offer her today.
Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity. All over the world, a standard bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a very British girl who transcended nationality. Someone with a natural nobility who was classless and who proved in the last year that she needed no royal title to continue to generate her particular brand of magic.
Today is our chance to say thank you for the way you brightened our lives, even though God granted you but half a life. We will all feel cheated always that you were taken from us so young, and yet we must learn to be grateful that you came along at all. Only now that you are gone do we truly appreciate what we are now without, and we want you to know that life without you is very, very difficult.
We have all despaired at our loss over the past week and only the strength of the message you gave us through your years of giving has afforded us the strength to move forward.
There is a temptation to rush to canonise your memory, there is no need to do so. You stand tall enough as a human being of unique qualities not to need to be seen as a saint. Indeed to sanctify your memory would be to miss out on the very core of your being, your wonderfully mischievous sense of humour with a laugh that bent you double.
Your joy for life transmitted where ever you took your smile and the sparkle in those unforgettable eyes. Your boundless energy which you could barely contain.
But your greatest gift was your intuition, and it was a gift you used wisely. This is what underpinned all your other wonderful attributes and if we look to analyse what it was about you that had such a wide appeal, we find it in your instinctive feel for what was really important in all our lives.
Without your God-given sensitivity we would be immersed in greater ignorance at the anguish of AIDS and H.I.V. sufferers, the plight of the homeless, the isolation of lepers, the random destruction of landmines.
Diana explained to me once that it was her innermost feelings of suffering that made it possible for her to connect with her constituency of the rejected. And here we come to another truth about her. For all the status, the glamour, the applause, Diana remained throughout a very insecure person at heart, almost childlike in her desire to do good for others so she could release herself from deep feelings of unworthiness of which her eating disorders were merely a symptom.
The world sensed this part of her character and cherished her for her vulnerability whilst admiring her for her honesty.
The last time I saw Diana was on July the 1st., her birthday in London, when typically she was not taking time to celebrate her special day with friends but was guest of honour at a special charity fund-raising evening. She sparkled of course, but I would rather cherish the days I spent with her in March when she came to visit me and my children in our home in South Africa. I am proud of the fact apart from when she was on display meeting President Mandela we managed to contrive to stop the ever-present paparazzi from getting a single picture of her -- that meant a lot to her.
These were days I will always treasure. It was as if we had been transported back to our childhood when we spent such an enormous amount of time together -- the two youngest in the family.
Fundamentally she had not changed at all from the big sister who mothered me as a baby, fought with me at school and endured those long train journeys between our parents' homes with me at weekends.
It is a tribute to her level-headedness and strength that despite the most bizarre-like life imaginable after her childhood, she remained intact, true to herself.
There is no doubt that she was looking for a new direction in her life at this time. She talked endlessly of getting away from England, mainly because of the treatment that she received at the hands of the newspapers. I don't think she ever understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneered at by the media, why there appeared to be a permanent quest on their behalf to bring her down. It is baffling. My own and only explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. It is a point to remember that of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this -- a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age.
She would want us today to pledge ourselves to protecting her beloved boys William and Harry from a similar fate and I do this here Diana on your behalf. We will not allow them to suffer the anguish that used regularly to drive you to tearful despair.
And beyond that, on behalf of your mother and sisters, I pledge that we, your blood family, will do all we can to continue the imaginative and loving way in which you were steering these two exceptional young men so that their souls are not simply immersed by duty and tradition, but can sing openly as you planned.
We fully respect the heritage into which they have both been born and will always respect and encourage them in their royal role. But we, like you, recognise the need for them to experience as many different aspects of life as possible to arm them spiritually and emotionally for the years ahead. I know you would have expected nothing less from us.
William and Harry, we all cared desperately for you today. We are all chewed up with the sadness at the loss of a woman who was not even our mother. How great your suffering is, we cannot even imagine.
I would like to end by thanking God for the small mercies he has shown us at this dreadful time. For taking Diana at her most beautiful and radiant and when she had joy in her private life. Above all we give thanks for the life of a woman I am so proud to be able to call my sister, the unique, the complex, the extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana whose beauty, both internal and external, will never be extinguished from our minds'.
The Tick was a comic book series created by Ben Edlund in 1988 and originally published in black-and-white by the New England Comics store in Boston, Massachusetts. The series provided modest beginnings for its title character, who would later feature in his own television programs and merchandise. The final plot in the comic was never concluded as Mr Edlund left New England Comics to work on the animated series. He has made it clear he never intends to produce the final, 13th issue. Issue 1
Special edition, stamped with a serial number from 1 to 5000, released March 1988. First edition released June 1988.
Ben Edlund, Writer & Artist; Bob Polio, Art Director; George Suarez, Editor & Publisher.
The Tick is in a padded room, confined by a straitjacket. He is bored and decides he will "leave this place." He ends up in the city on patrol against crime. During his patrol he accidentally encounters a group of ninjas interrogating Shing. The Tick, not realizing that he has encountered a crime in progress, leaves to fight crime, with ninjas, hotly, but artlessly, in pursuit. The Tick ends up in a coffee shop demonstrating to a citizen that he is a Tick by demonstrating his sucking ability through a straw. After losing consciousness, the Tick awakes in a subway tunnel, not realizing where he is. Clark Oppenheimer on a nearby train platform sees the Tick in the tunnel and springs into action to save the doomed citizen. The Tick resists being saved, thinking he is in the belly of a whale and Clark an enlarged enzyme, resulting in the two of them being struck by a train. After being disgorged from the tunnel, somewhat worse for wear, Clark runs off to his job at a local newspaper.
Clark Oppenheimer is a subtle but noticeable parody of Superman.
The full story of the Tick's escape from the asylum is revealed in The Tick: Luny Bin series.
The first panel of page 17 is a recreation of the Edward Hopper painting, Nighthawks. This painting appears many times in Tick comics and in the animated series.
Second edition released March 1989 with four extra pages of the Tick. Appearances from the NEC Newsletter. Third edition released Jun 1989. Fourth edition released December 1989. Fifth edition released April 1991. Sixth edition released January 1995. Seventh edition released April 1996. A Special Edition Reprise, with the same cover as the Special Edition with a second cover wrap and serially numbered 5001-14000, released April 1996. Eighth, 10th anniversary edition, released August 1996. Ninth edition, released March 1998.