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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 10th of March 1916.
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 and have any stories or information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
The only facts known in relation to British merchant Charles Thompson are the ones he records in his travel account, about which some scholars have hypothesized that it is a fictional narrative. In any case, the work knew huge editorial success; first published in 1744, it was republished in 1752, 1754, 1767, and 1798. From the introduction, one learns that, following his father's death, Thompson inherited a large fortune and, from love of knowledge, in order to appease his sorrow and to satisfy his own natural curiosity, he started out on a long voyage, in the company of a freind who spoke several languages.
The travellers set out from London in March 1730. They crossed over from Dover to Calais, and travelled to Rouen, Paris and Marseille. They went on to Genoa, Milan, Parma, Modena, Bologna, Florence, Pisa and Sienna, to end up in Rome. In October 1731 they visited Naples, and then Ancona, Ravenna, Ferrara and Padua. They sailed to Malta from Venice in May 1732 and reached Chania in early June.
The two travellers left Crete a month later, and, after staying in Milos for a month, they visited Naxos, Paros, Antiparos, Delos, Syros, Kea, Kythnos, and reached Athens. They toured the monuments of the city and several locations in Attica, Boeotia and Phocis (Eleusis, Megara, Corinth, Livadeia, Arachova, Delphi and Thebes). In November 1732 they left for Istanbul, where they stayed for several months. In September 1733, they left the Dardanelles to visit Izmir, Chios, Samos, Patmos, Ephesus, Kos and Rhodes. They ended up in Cyprus in February 1734, from where they crossed over to the lands of the Middle East (Tripolis, Baalbek, Damascus, Beirut, Sidon, Jerusalem). In May 1734 they travelled to Egypt and toured Kairo, Alexandria and Mount Sinai. They returned to England in April 1735.
Thompson includes several details on travelling conditions as well as the history and the monuments of each country in his travel account. However, he is mostly interested in space, modern life, the human factor, social life, economy, production and commerce, and thus achieves to render an comprehensive and to a certain extent objective picture of the lands he visited in the early 18th century.
Written by Ioli Vingopoulou
İngiliz asıllı tüccar Charles Thompson hakkında bildiğimiz şeyler sadece vakayınamesinden aldığımız bilgilerdir. Ancak bu vakayınamenin hayal ürünü bir anlatı olduğu ileri sürülmüştür. Gene de eser büyük başarı görmüş, yayınlandığı 1744 yılından sonra, 1752, 1754, 1767 ve 1798 yıllarında yeniden basılmıştı. Kitabın önsözünde okuduğumuza göre, Thompson, babasının ölümünden sonra büyük bir mirasa sahip olmuş ve "bir yandan bilgilerini çoğaltma arzusu öte yandan baba ölümünün kendisinde yaratmış olduğu üzüntüyü unutmak, son olarak da merağını tatmin etmek için" uzun bir yolculuğa çıkmaya karar verir, yanına ise yoldaş olarak birçok dil bilen bir arkadaşını alır.
1730 yılı Mart ayında Londra'dan yola çıkarlar, Dover'den Calais'ye (okunuş: Kale) geçtikten sonra Rouen, Paris ve Marsilya'yı ziyaret ederler. Yolun devamında Cenova, Milano, Parma, Modena, Bologna, Floransa, Piza ve Sienna'dan geçip Roma'ya varırlar. 1731'in Ekim ayında Napoli'yi ziyaret ederler, arkasından Ancona, Ravenna, Ferrara ve Padova'ya geçerler. 1732 Mayıs ayında Venedik'ten vapura binip Haziran başlarında Hanya'ya varırlar. Bir ay sonra yeniden yola çıkıp Milos adasında bir hafta kaldıktan sonra Naksos, Paros, Antiparos, Dilos, Siros, Kea, Kithnos adalarını ziyaret ederler ve nihayet Atina'ya varırlar. Atina'daki tarihi anıtları, Attika, Viotia (Boeotia), Fokida yörelerini (Eleusis, Megara, Korint, Livadia, Arahova, Delfi, Thiva sitlerini) ziyaret ederler ve 1732 Kasım ayında İstanbul'a gitmek üzere yola çıkarlar. İstanbul'da birkaç ay kalırlar. Yolculuklarının devamında 1733 Eylül ayında Çanakkale'den yola çıkıp İzmir, Hios (Sakız), Samos, Patmos, Efes, Kos (İstanköy) ve Rodos'u ziyaret ederler. 1734 Şubat ayında Kıbrıs'tan geçtikten sonra Orta Doğu'ya devam ederler ve Trablus, Baalbek, Şam (Damascus), Beyrut, Sayda (Sidon), Kudüs'ü ziyaret ederler. 1734 Mayıs ayında Mısır'a seyahat edip Kahire, İskenderiye ve Sina'yı ziyaret ederler. 1735 Nisan ayında ise İngiltere'ye dönerler.
Thompson vakayınamesinde yolculuğun koşulları ve ziyaret ettikleri her yerin tarihi ve anıtları hakkında ayrıntılı bilgiler vermektedir. İlgisinin odaklandığı noktalar doğal mekân, çağdaş yaşam, insan unsuru, toplumsal yaşam, ekonomi, üretim, ticaret gibi konulardır. Thompson bu eseriyle 18. yüzyılın ilk yarısında sözkonusu yerlerle ilgili çok yönlü ve nesnel bir bakış aktarmaktadır.
Yazan: İoli Vingopoulou
UPDATE: After reading the recently published article about the new freshwater crab genus Cantopotamon, the crabs I found are certainly Cantopotamon zhuhaiense, described from the exact locality where I found them. Here is the link to this article:
zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/56/56-41.pdf
The crabs were found in fast to slow-flowing hill streams on altitudes between 50 and 300 meters above sea level. They hide under stones and were occasionally observed leaving the water and climbing rock. At no site C. zhuhaiense was seen thriving sympatrically with the other Potamid I saw, Nanhaipotamon guangdongense, althuogh in the original description, they were observed living in the same habitat as Nanhaipotamon zhuhaiense and N. guangdongense.
Nevertheless, N. guangdongense was present in very small to small, more slow-flowing streams with sandy, muddy, or clay bottom, whereas C. zhuhaiense was found in broader, fast-flowing streams on gravel or sandy bottom.
Zhuhai, Guangdong
Fromer Text:
The freshwater crab genus Candidiopotamon is to date only known from Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands. The species described from Guangdong province by Dai, 1999 is now considered a synonym of C. rathbunae from Taiwan (See Shih & Ng, 2011).
Nevertheless, I found a few specimens resembeling no other Potamids from Guangdong province that I am aware of, but bear similarity to C. rathbunae. For no better name, the specimes are labeled C. cf. guangdongense. It is possible that there is a population of C. rathbunae or a new unknown species in Guangdong. Perhaps, the crabs I found belong to yet another species described by a single or few specimens from unknown localities in Guangdong, as Yarepotamon guangdongense.
The only dorsal image of Y. guangdongense I was able to find is in black and white and really small, and as I did not take an image of the male Gonopod or Maxilliped 3, there is no way to finally determine the status of the photographed specimen (link to the article here: lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/app/uploads/2017/06/45rbz237-264.pdf).
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Bagattelle d’Inverno, l’ultima grande sfida #snellobb04
Birichinate, cammuffamenti, trasvestimenti, scherzi… insomma, in una parola: Carnevale!
Comunque lo si dica e comunque lo si festeggi, il Carnevale è da secoli una festa in cui la parola d’ordine è “divertirsi”.
Quindi, bando all’austerità e bando alle restrizioni, potevamo, noi di MondoSnello, non cogliere quest’occasione perfetta di Gusto e di Benessere, per vivere l’ultimo grande appuntamento delle gare di cucina di Snello Blind Box?
Eccoci qui, allora, amici di Mondosnello, estimatori dei prodotti Snello Rovagnati e appassionati Food Blogger che partecipate con noi ormai da un tempo che comincia a farsi lungo, perfino “tradizionale” (proprio come ci piace ;-)) a darvi il benvenuto a questa quarta sfida tra pentole, fornelli e… qualcosa di speciale – sennò che Carnevale è!
I fantasiosi piatti saranno assaggiati e votati da una giuria di esperti gastronomi di altissimo livello, a cominciare da Gil Grigliatti, gourmet di cultura ed esperienza internazionale. Da giovane è stato fiduciario Slow Food, nonché ispettore della guida dei ristoranti del Gambero Rosso per diversi anni. Autore del blog bilingue di cultura enogastronomica isymposium.org. Ancora Paolo Barichella, esperto di Food Design, autore del blog barichella.it; Alessia Cipolla, architetto e sommelier, autrice de lacostruzionedelgusto.it; Alessandro Salamone, reduce dalla trasmissione di La7 Chef per un giorno, autore di spaghettibites.com e ancora Angela Tomaiuolo co-fondatrice del web magazine milanodabere.it. Inoltre sarà presente Giacomo Kratter, otto volte campione italiano ed ora allenatore della Nazionale Italiana Snowboard. Quella da snowboard però non è l’unica tavola che ama: infatti Giacomo è un grande appassionato di cucina e adora farsi coccolare in ristoranti di lusso.
La giuria per l’occasione sarà presenziata dallo chef stellato e pluripremiato Davide Scabin, uno dei più apprezzati in Italia e all’estero, noto al grande pubblico per la partecipazione, nei panni di giudice dei cuochi in gara, a La Prova del Cuoco condotto su Rai1 da Antonella Clerici.
Per questo, abbiamo deciso di mettere insieme una serie di ingredienti saporiti, variegati, originali, proprio come in ogni ricetta gourmet che si rispetti:
- un pizzico di tradizione – la sede di InKitchen Loft, che ormai è prontissima ad accoglierci, in qualunque veste ci presentiamo
- e uno di modernità – quello che emana netto dalle protagoniste della gara, giovani donne che si muovono agili tra vite professionali sfidanti e articolati ménage familiari
- una buona dose di fantasia - fatta di maschere, costumi e colori sgargianti
- e l’ingrediente segreto – le nostre amate BlindBox, chiuse fino all’ultimo secondo anche al più ardito degli sguardi
- il tutto cosparso con una spruzzata di giocosità bambina – grazie a un buon numero di piccoli “scavezzacollo” che avranno il loro tavolo, i loro ingredienti, i loro cibi, e soprattutto una chef d’eccezione - Stefania Corrado, la “Multitasking Chef” che più che presentazioni merita i nostri più sentiti complimenti ;-) – a guidarli alla scoperta del buon cibo, del gusto e del mangiare bene… sapendolo preparare.
Già, perché, in fondo, soprattutto in un’era estremamente tecnologica come la nostra e come quella di quell’immediato futuro in cui saranno loro i protagonisti del mondo – far mettere “le mani in pasta” ai nostri bimbi lo consideriamo un onore, oltre che un piccolo grande contributo all’educazione dei “buoni mangiatori” di domani…
Amanti della cucina, appassionate del gusto, attente all’armonia dei sapori e alla cura per la buona e la bella tavola
Estimatrici di ricette snelle - per velocità, capacità, leggerezza - esperte nella valorizzazione degli ingredienti di stagione e nella rivisitazione moderna di piatti tradizionali, si sfideranno, si concentreranno su pentole e fornelli dimenticando tutto il resto, per dare il meglio di sé.
Ecco le Food Blogger di Snello BlindBox 04 – Bagattelle d'Inverno, vere animatrici dell'evento, che con le loro ricette e la loro esperienza renderanno onore ai prodotti Snello, Gusto e Benessere.
Loro si presentano così...
Lina D’Ambrosio
spadellatissima.com
Quando le chiedi di descriversi ,lei si presenta così: "Sono industrial designer e grafica, con una grande passione, quella del Food Blogging". Eppure non è tutto: inguaribile amante del buon cibo, dei viaggi, dell'arte e della fotografia, è sempre irresistibilmente affascinata mdai molteplici modi in cui un animo creativo può riuscire a esprimersi. Una frase che la descrive: "Mi piacciono la semplicità e la genuinità delle cose fatte in casa."
Serena Oliva
cucchiaiodistelle.com
Nella vita professionale, è architetto e designer, e per questo studia la relazione tra gli esseri umani e la tecnologia. Tuttavia, ha anche un'altra vita, quella da foodie, in cui è innanzitutto una mamma e una Food Blogger che progetta ricette, cucina piatti colorati, sani e golosi, cuoce il pane in casa e disegna insieme ai suoi bambini. Il motto che ha scelto per sé? "If in doubt, bake a cake"
Irene Prandi
Psicologa, piemontese, animata da una vera passione per la comunicazione e la condivisione, ha trovato nell'arte del cibo un mezzo straordinario per celebrare entrambe. Il suo viaggio da Food Blogger inizia con un blog creato in sordina, tuttavia in molti la notano e in ancora di più la seguono. Insomma, et voilà, il suo cammino continua rigoglioso, condito da sapori, ricette, un grande amore per il territorio, e tanta curiosità per tutto ciò che è "altro".
Arianna Vianelli
unafranciacortinaincucina.com
Non c'è dubbio, il suo nome è già un affermazione forte e chiara. Dice subito chi è e da dove viene. Almeno tanto quanto il suo blog nato dal desiderio di ritagliarsi uno spazio tutto proprio dove raccogliere e condividere le sue più grandi passioni: la cucina, il vino, gli amici e la Franciacorta.
Insomma, semplicità e ironia, ricette ed eventi, vini locali
e non solo, sono gli ingredienti di "una franciacortina in cucina".
Quindi, tra la stuzzicante prospettiva di gustosissimi lecca lecca di parmigiano con crudo e bresaola e prove di formine su pasta sfoglia con fette di prosciutto, in attesa delle prelibatezze imprevedibili che ci prepareranno le nostre sfidanti – adulte ;-) – non resta che invitarvi a conoscere un po’ meglio Lina, Serena, Irene e Arianna, giovani, pimpanti e agguerrite Food Blogger che ancora una volta ci delizieranno di una versione inconsueta e sorprendente dei prodotti che amiamo di più, con un occhio attento, come sempre, alla stagionalità.
SnelloBlindBox_04_CucinaTuVi abbracciamo, dunque, in un turbinio di coriandoli che non lascia presagire niente di… scontato :-)
e invitiamo tutti voi a fare festa con noi a Snello Blind Box 04 – Bagattelle d’Inverno il 6 marzo 2014, alle ore 18.30 e – perché no – a cimentarvi, insieme alle nostre “chef per passione”, in ricette e piatti che, siamo sicuri, saranno gustosissimi. Come raccogliere la sfida? Semplice, partecipando a Snello BlindBox CucinaTu – l’iniziativa pensata apposta per la #gente_di_MondoSnello che ormai ci segue da molto tempo.
In attesa di assaporare tutto il meglio che Snello Blind Box 04 – Bagattelle d’Inverno saprà regalarci – e non abbiamo dubbi - a presto!
Suspended Animation Classic #427
Originally published February 23, 1997 (#8)
(Dates are approximate)
The Flintstones; The Lords of Misrule
By Michael Vance
Yabadabadoo!
“The Flintstones” are back in new adventures that ring true to the Hana-Barbera animated series. It is not without reason that the original animated stories were a hit with both children and adults in primetime television.
Nor was it a fluke that until it was recently surpassed by “The Simpsons” animated series, Fred, Wilma, Barney, and Betty starred in the longest, first-run cartoon in television history.
Unless you’ve been living in the Stone Age … no, wait. Especially if you’ve been living in the Stone Age, you know the premise of the show. Fred Flintstone and cast poke fun at the modern stupidities of society by exaggeration and slapstick.
All of the animated story’s trademarks are included: mountains of food, everything made of stone, prehistoric monsters as the motors driving everything mechanical, and Fred and Barney as dopes saved by the wit and patience of their wives.
Yabadabadoo!
In this issue, Fred inherits a chain of bronto-burger stands and eats it into bankruptcy. He also forgets his anniversary and pays until his ears ring. AndFred and Barney uncover a mechanic’s scam that destroys those incredible stone cars so that he can repair them. The idea in each story is fun!
The art in this title perfectly matches the artistic style of the animated series. Internally consistent, visually appealing, and literate, it is wonderful to find characters who have not changed beyond recognition do to a string of artists who care nothing about continuity.
That disease is far too common in most superhero titles.
Undeniably, this is light entertainment. It is also recommended for young readers, or readers young at heart.
“The Flintstones #21/$1.50, 22 pages, Archie Comics/art and story: Kirschenbaum, Diaz studios, White, Leon, Lockmen/available wherever comics are sold.
MINIVIEW: “The Lords of Misrule” [Dark Horse]. A well done, slow descent into madness and horror with an English accent. As the fantasy world of “Wyrdfane” weeps into reality, will Mr. Goodfellow be sucked into his brother’s insanity? Not for children.
Published May 4th 2013
- As part of 'Courageous Mayhem'
A graphic comic compendium that showcased several comic artists and their stories. Edited by Gar Shanley.
(Prints available)
(Original size A3 - In ink on paper and post production colour created on computer.)
My original Inked A3 Cartoon pages could be Art Exhibited interestingly with the colouring overlaid in Acetate sheets.
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The comic story is an expression of characters heroic personal revolt against austerity and urban imprisonment, it echoes the story of Alexander the Great who is also seen as a Don Quixote. Escaping capitalist mono rationalism Alexander discovers nature is still there alive and full of wonder!
Confronting Darius the local Scrapyard King of Ireland he abducts his daughter a young traveller woman to be his bride Roxanne! Together on the road they joust with the pursuing police and farmers tractors (Quixote's windmills) and Alexander even promises to lead all the animals in a grand revolt!
Until suddenly time and space fall away and the Poet of our Cosmos, interested, arrives to talk with them….
Alexander's search for something lost now ends up on life's cliff and limit where his escape can go no further. But as our hero's mask falls away and now completely naked he discovers he is loved by Roxanne, at last they make love and riding together upon Alexander's loyal bicycle stead Buce Phalus, returning them back to the city to bring their discoveries of love, empathy and a revolution in human values home!
Two of the first issues of the B.E.F. News published June 25, 1932 and July 9, 1932 by the Bonus Expeditionary Force-BEF--or Bonus Army—are published for the estimated 50,000 people that made up their encampments around the Washington, D.C.
The World War I era veterans and their families began arriving in the city in May to press demands for an accelerated wartime bonus that had been promised them in the future.
After nearly two months of demonstrations and lobbying Congress, they were routed from the camps by the U.S. Army on orders of President Herbert Hoover who feared a communist uprising. Two veterans were killed and dozens injured in the eviction.
Smaller groups would return the city in the coming years until the. Bonus was finally paid out in 1936. Congress, with Democrats holding majorities in both houses, passed the Adjusted Compensation Payment Act authorizing the immediate payment of the $2 billion in WWI bonuses, and then overrode Roosevelt's veto of the measure.
For a PDF of this tabloid-size, 8-page newspaper, see flic.kr/s/aHskf3FKxS
Vol. 1 No. 1 June 25, 1932: washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/1932-vol-1-no...
Vol. 1 No. 3 July 9, 1932: washingtonspark.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/1932-vol-1-no...
For more information and related images, see
Courtesy of the Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Not every day i get the Opportunity to have my work seen in a magazine all over the world.
I was contacted last week by the editor of the ROSL a Magazine to ask if they could use my picture ...well you know me by now Sure...Yip Grrrrreat NO Problem.
The issue goes all over the world to all Commonwealth countries.and is dislplayed in overseas house in London and in Edinburgh.
I was as you would say jumping for joy when i seen this today my picture in the big picture and another wee bit of me and The photo "The Belfast Child"around the world
Info about Rosl-The Royal Over-Seas League ,Patron HM The Queen Vice Patron HRH Princess Alexandra Brief history of the Royal Over-Seas League
The Royal Over-Seas League is a unique institution. It is the practical embodiment of an idea conceived by a young man John Evelyn Wrench who saw what was then the British Empire not merely as a political and economic structure but as a 'far flung brotherhood of individual men and women of diverse creeds and races living under
differing conditions in different latitudes'. He sought to encourage friendship and understanding between them.
Founded in 1910 as the Over-Seas Club, it was granted a Royal Charter of Incorporation in 1922. To mark its Golden Jubilee in 1960, Her Majesty the Queen granted the title 'Royal'.
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Published in 1967 for the princely sum of two rupees. The original is of polyconic projection to the scale of 1 inch to 15.78 miles.
Published by Ebal, Brazil 1967-1969
One of the 31 complete runs we acquired from the Pedigree collection Rio Grande do Sol, Brazil
published in Buzz
Photographer: Fayyaz Ahmed
Model: Iffy Zafar
Hair & Makeup: Asma Zuberi @Depilex
Label: Arsalan & Yahseer
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 25th 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.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
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The Columbus Metro Parks has included one of my photos (golden spider web at sunrise, take at Three Creeks Metro Park) in their Autumn edition of the Parkscope. Doing me cute happy dance : )
Helvete yes! I am darn proud, my shot is printed in the local newspaper! Maybe not a big deal for others, but I am excited as hell :) Here's the shot on the other gallery: edwv.de/inhalt/galerie/index.php/Abfliegen-2014/IMG_4723
Whoohooo! :D
"A thousands of heavenly kilometres" the headline says. It's about how many kilometer we've flown and hours. Whatever your measurement is for a lived life. For fun or just a span of time filled with something little extraordinary. :)
This week, I came home to find a plaque that featured one of my photos. In the Fall, my photo was selected from over 500 photos as a winner and lead photo of the Annual Fall Photo contest. The paper has a distribution of approximately 415,000. It was fun to get the call while at WDW. Thanks for looking.
P.S. I have nothing to do with the bomber on the right ;-)
The Postcard
A postcard published by the Lansdowne Production Co. of London bearing an early high-quality image of Hyde Park Corner.
The monochrome photograph has been rather crudely hand tinted - the artist has added pink 'blossoms' to the trees which are the same colour as the lower half of the bus near the Wellington Arch.
The card was posted on Tuesday the 4th. September 1951 to a post box in Tel Aviv.
The Wellington Arch
The Wellington Arch, also known as Constitution Arch or (originally) as the Green Park Arch, is a Grade I-listed triumphal arch by Decimus Burton that forms a centrepiece of Hyde Park Corner in central London.
It stands on a large traffic island with crossings for pedestrian access. When constructed (1826–1830) the arch stood in a different location nearby; it was moved to its current site in 1882–1883.
The arch originally supported a colossal equestrian statue of the 1st. Duke of Wellington by the sculptor Cotes Wyatt, as a result of which it has acquired the name "The Wellington Arch." A bronze quadriga (an ancient four-horse chariot) by Adrian Jones has surmounted the arch since 1912.
History of the Wellington Arch
Both the Wellington Arch and Marble Arch (originally sited in front of Buckingham Palace) were planned in 1825 by George IV to commemorate Britain's victories in the Napoleonic Wars.
During the second half of the 1820's, the Commissioners of Woods and Forests and the King resolved that Hyde Park, and the area around it, should be renovated to match the splendour of rival European capital cities, and that the essence of the new arrangement would be a triumphal approach to the recently completed Buckingham Palace.
The committee of the project, led by the Prime Minister, Lord Liverpool, and advised by Charles Arbuthnot, selected Decimus Burton as the project's architect. In 1828, when giving evidence to a Parliamentary Select Committee, Arbuthnot explained that he had nominated Burton:
"Having seen in the Regent's Park, and elsewhere,
works which pleased my eye, from their architectural
beauty and correctness".
Burton intended to create an urban space dedicated to the celebration of the House of Hanover, national pride, and the nation's heroes.
The renovation of Hyde Park, Green Park, and St. James's Park began in 1825, with the demarcation of new drives and pathways, subsequent to which Burton designed new lodges and gates, viz. Cumberland Gate, Stanhope Gate, Grosvenor Gate, the Hyde Park Gate/Screen at Hyde Park Corner, and, later, the Prince of Wales's Gate, Knightsbridge, in the classical style.
There were no authoritative precedents for such buildings, which required windows and chimney stacks, in the classical style, and, in the words of Guy Williams:
"Burton's reticent treatment of the supernumerary
features and of the cast iron gates and railings was
greatly admired".
At Hyde Park Corner, the King required:
"Some great ceremonial outwork that would
be worthy of the new palace that lay to its rear".
The King accepted Burton's proposal for a gateway and classical screen, along with a triumphal arch, which would enable those approaching Buckingham Palace from the north to ride first through the screen and then through the arch, before turning to descend Constitution Hill and enter the forecourt of Buckingham Palace through Nash's Marble Arch.
The screen became the neoclassical Hyde Park Gate/Screen at Hyde Park Corner, which delighted the King and his Committee, and which the architectural historian Guy Williams describes as:
"One of the most pleasing architectural works
that have survived from the neo-classical age".
The triumphal arch has been described as "One of London's best loved landmarks".
Burton's original design for the triumphal arch, which was modelled on the Arch of Titus at Rome, was more technically perfect, and coherent with the Screen, than that of the arch that was subsequently built.
Burton's original design, however, was rejected by the Committee – who had envisaged a design based on the Arch of Constantine, on which Nash's Marble Arch had been modelled – because it was not sufficiently ostentatious.
Burton created a new design, "to pander to the majestic ego", which was much larger and which was accepted on the 14th. January 1826, and subsequently built as the present Wellington Arch.
The arch has a single opening, and uses the Corinthian order. Much of the intended exterior ornamentation was omitted as a cost-saving exercise necessitated by the King's overspending on the refurbishment of Buckingham Palace, which was underway at the same time.
A contemporary account, written in anticipation of its completion to its original plan, describes what was intended:
"The entabulature is loft and elegant, with a richly
sculptured frieze, and a row of boldly projecting
lions' heads on the cymatium, marking the centres
of columns and other sub-divisions of the order.
Above the entablature, on a lofty blocking course,
is raised an attic, the body of which is embellished
with a sculptural representation of an ancient triumph.
On each of the columns is a statue of a warrior, and
on the summit of the acroterium which surmounts the
attic is a figure in a quadriga or ancient four horse
chariot."
However the arch was left devoid of decorative sculpture as a result of the moratorium in 1828 on public building work. Instead, despite the strong objection of Burton, was mounted with an ungainly equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington by Matthew Cotes Wyatt, the son of the then recently deceased James Wyatt, who had been selected by the statue's commissioner, and one of its few subsequent advocates, Sir Frederick Trench.
The bronze by Matthew Cotes Wyatt, which surmounted the arch, was, at 40 tons and 28 feet (8.53 m) in height, the largest equestrian figure ever made.
However Matthew Cotes Wyatt was not competent: Guy Williams contended that "He was not noticeably talented", and the Dictionary of National Biography states:
"Thanks to royal and other influential patronage,
Wyatt enjoyed a reputation and practice to which
his mediocre abilities hardly entitled him".
Trench, and his patrons the Duke and Duchess of Rutland, had told public subscribers to the statue that it would be placed on top of Burton's triumphal arch at Hyde Park Corner.
Burton expressed his opposition to this proposal "as plainly and as vehemently as his nature allowed" consistently over successive years, because the ungainly statue would "disfigure" his arch.
He claimed that the statue was much too large for the arch and the surrounding neighbourhood. He also noted that the statue would have to be placed, contrary to all classical precedent, across, instead of parallel with, the roadway under the arch.
Burton had envisaged that his arch would be topped with only a small quadriga whose horses would have been parallel with the road under the arch. Burton's objections were extensively endorsed by most of the aristocratic residents of London.
A writer in The Builder asked Lord Canning, the First Commissioner for Woods and Forests, to ban the project:
"We have learnt, and can state positively, that Mr. Burton
has the strongest objection possible against placing the
group in question on the archway... and that he is taking
no part whatever in the alteration proposed to be made
in the upper part of the structure to prepare it to receive
the pedestal... Mr. Burton, through the mildness which
characterizes him, has not expressed this opinion so
loudly and so publicly as he ought to have done.... an
opinion prevails very generally, that he is a party to the
proceedings, and this has induced many to be silent
who would otherwise have spoken."
The Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, contended that another site would be preferable, and proposed, on behalf of the Crown, to offer an alternative location, but the statue's subscribers rejected all alternative proposals.
Every single MP except Sir Frederick Trench wanted the statue to be placed elsewhere. Canning wrote:
"The remonstrances which reach Her Majesty's
Government against the proposed appropriation
of the arch are so many and so strong, the
representations of its architect, Mr. Burton, in the
same sense, are so earnest, and the opinion of
every other eminent architect, artist, or other
competent authority who has been consulted on
the subject is so decided against the placing of
the Wellington statue on the arch."
Decimus Burton himself wrote:
"The arch would, I consider, suffer greatly in importance
if the colossal statue in question be placed there, because
it would become a mere pedestal.
The want of proportion in the proposed surmount, compared with the columns and other details of the architecture, would show that they had been designed by different hands, and without reference for each other. I have desired to witness
the completion of this building, as originally designed by me, and as approved by the Lords of the Treasury, yet I would prefer that the building should remain for the present in its forlorn and bare state, rather than a colossal equestrian
statue should be placed upon it.
I fear that if this appropriation of the building should be decided upon, a proposition would soon be made for removing altogether the facades of columns, the slender proportions of which would appear so incongruous and
out of proportion compared with the prodigious
dimensions of the statue".
Burton had realized that the disciples of Pugin and advocates of Pugin's anti-classicism would remove all classical elements from his arch if permitted the opportunity to do so.
Despite Burton's objections, the Wellington statue was placed on the arch in autumn 1846; Williams contends that the product was "ridiculous". The Builder contended:
"Down, unquestionably, it must come. As the network
of timber is removed, spar by spar, from before it, so
does the folly of the experiment, the absurdity of the conjunction, and the greatness of the sacrifice become apparent.
Its effect is even worse than we anticipated – the
destruction of the arch by the statue, and of the statue
by its elevation on the arch, more complete.
Every post brings us letters urging renewed efforts to
remove the figure to another site".
The issue of the removal of the statue became national. However, the Government failed to remove the statue, despite having professed, when it had been placed, that they would do so if it provoked serious aversion.
Foreign intellectuals who visited London identified the incongruous fusion of the statue and the arch as:
"Spectacular confirmation of the
artistic ignorance of the English".
Guy Williams writes that
"The arch at Hyde Park Corner is a visible reminder
of one of the fiercest attacks that have ever been
launched in the worlds of art and architecture.
The face of London might have been very different
now – freer, perhaps, of the 'monstrous carbuncles'
so disliked by the present Prince of Wales – if Decimus
Burton had been a little more pugnacious, and so better
equipped to stand his ground".
The Quadriga
During 1882, traffic congestion at Hyde Park Corner required Burton's arch to be moved to the top of Constitution Hill to create space for traffic. Burton's great-nephew Francis Fearon suggested that the moving of the arch would be a good opportunity to remove the Wellington statue from the arch. Fearon contended that the:
"The arch should be relieved once
and for all of its unsightly load".
The campaign led by Fearon was successful: Wyatt's incongruous statue was removed to Aldershot, and its place on Burton's arch, which was moved to Constitution Hill in 1883, was occupied by a Quadriga by Captain Adrian Jones.
Jones' statue is not nearly as elegant as Burton's designed statue intended for the arch, but it is more coherent with the arch than Wyatt's statue, and its figures, unlike those of Wyatt's statue, are aligned with the roadway under the arch.
Jones's statue is based on a smaller original which caught the eye of Edward VII at a Royal Academy exhibition. The sculpture depicts Nike, the winged goddess of victory, descending on the chariot of war, holding the classical symbol of victory and honour, a laurel wreath.
The face of the charioteer leading the quadriga is that of a small boy (actually the son of Lord Michelham, who funded the sculpture). The angel of peace was modelled on Beatrice Stewart.
The statue is the largest bronze sculpture in Europe.
Public Access to the Arch
The arch is hollow inside, and until 1992 housed the smallest police station in London. Transferred to the ownership of English Heritage in 1999, the arch is open to the paying public.
The arch offers three floors of exhibits detailing its history, exhibition space, and high terraces on both sides with views of the surrounding area.
One half of the arch functions as a ventilation shaft for the Hyde Park Corner road underpass, constructed in 1961–1962.
Martin Chambers
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 4th. September 1951 marked the birth in Hereford of Martin Chambers.
Martin Dale Chambers is an English musician, who is best known as a founding member and drummer of the rock band the Pretenders. In addition to playing the drums with the group, Chambers sings backing vocals.
Martin Chambers' Career
Prior to joining the as-yet unnamed Pretenders, Chambers played with James Honeyman-Scott in Cheeks, a band led by former Mott the Hoople keyboardist Verden Allen. At the time Chambers joined the band in 1978, he was working as a driving instructor in Tufnell Park, London where he had got a job with the British School of Motoring:
"Because it came with a
car so I could get about."
Because of that he found where Jim and Pete were living and then replaced Jerry Mackleduff on drums. At Chambers's first rehearsal with the group, Hynde recalled:
"We plugged in and started playing "Precious",
and I remember clearly, I had to turn around
and face the wall, I was laughing so hard,
because as soon as Martin started playing with
us, I knew this was it. We had the band."
Martin also recalled the rehearsal:
"We knew it straight away.
We just locked in."
In the Autumn of 1981, The Pretenders cancelled their US and Canada Tour as Chambers had cut his hand, and the injury was so bad that he couldn’t play for a number of weeks. The band decided to postpone the tour rather than replace Chambers.
Chambers proved to be a versatile drummer within the group, with a hard-hitting style that is evident on songs such as "Middle of the Road".
Guitarist Adam Seymour has acknowledged that:
"There's a definite thing going on in
the rhythm between Chrissie's guitar
and Martin's drums that you would
need a scientific equation to explain.
Martin kind of pulls back on the beat
while Chrissie's pushing it forward."
Chambers' first tenure with the group lasted from mid-1978 until the mid-1980's. Coping with the death of bandmates Honeyman-Scott and Farndon proved difficult, and his consequent lack of enthusiasm resulted in his departure from the group during the Get Close sessions.
According to Hynde:
"I felt his playing had deteriorated.
I think he was still very traumatized
by the loss of Pete and Jimmy."
Martin concurred, admitting:
"I wasn't really into it
to be honest."
Chambers rejoined the group in 1994 during the sessions for Last of the Independents, and has been with the group ever since. When he rejoined, Seymour recalled:
"When Martin sat down, it
began to feel like a real band."
Martin summed up his reunion with the group, saying:
"At the end of the day Chrissie asked
me back because no one could make
it work quite like we did."
Hynde concurred, saying:
"I missed him terribly. ... Both he and I
were floundering—and probably not
playing well—and I needed someone
to kick me in the ass and inspire me.
We went through one song and it was
the same buzz as when we first played
together. No one has that swing and
feel."
In late 2008, The Pretenders released the album Break Up the Concrete with Chambers being replaced by Jim Keltner, although Chambers remained an official member and played with the band on live dates.
In addition to playing with the Pretenders, Chambers also plays in the band Miss World fronted by songwriter Jonathan Perkins, who had worked with artists such as XTC and Original Mirrors.
In late September and early October 2009, Chambers sat in on drums for the seven Mott the Hoople reunion shows (2 in Monmouth and 5 at Hammersmith Odeon) alongside former Cheeks bandmate Verden Allen due to the illness of Dale Griffin who had loaned Chambers his kit for his first live show in 1967 at St. Mary's Church Hall, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire.
Suspended Animation Classic #215
Originally published February 7, 1993 (#6)
(Dates are approximate)
Two-Fisted Tales
By Michael Vance
You can’t go home again. What was revolutionary in 1951 is not today because the revolution succeeded. Risqué then, even Marilyn Monroe seems innocent now.
“Two-Fisted Tales” and EC Comics changed comic books forever. In 1951, they were startling; they set a new standard. That standard was adopted, and has now been surpassed many times.
Well, not entirely. The early issues of “Mad” magazine remain unequaled. Certain stories from “Tales from the Crypt”, “Weird Science” and other EC Comics are still classics. But the first issues of “Two-Fisted Tales” now being reprinted seem … tame.
An anthology comic, each issue featured four stories. In the second issue, five artists are represented that all became legends.
John Severin and Bill Elder’s “War Story” is set in the Korean War. “Jivaro Death!” by Harvey Kurtzman takes place on the Amazon River. Both use twist endings that were typical of EC, but atypical of Kurtzman’s later work.
Johnny Craig’s “Flight From Danger” travels to Germany during WWII. Aboard an 18th century ship, Wally Wood spins the tale of a man’s impression into the British navy in “Brutal Capt. Bull”. Craig’s tale of the attempted flight of a scientist to America and Wood’s adventure both fall short of the heights these artists were to reach.
But in ’51, they must have seemed as wild as Monroe.
They lack the sophistication of later “Two-Fisted Tales” stories because most ‘50s comics lacked the maturity that this title and other ECs would eventually inspire. In their day, EC would inevitably become so controversial that they helped trigger the near death of the entire industry under the pink eye of Senator Joseph McCarthy!
Genius has to start somewhere. Alas, genius never stands unchallenged. But don’t save your pennies for later, more innovative issues, or the complete series will never see the light of day. And, at one time, it was the light of day.
“Two-Fisted Tales #2/$1.50, 31 pages, published by Russ Cochran/available in comics shops.
These four images plus two more images used as promos were in The Plain Dealer today. This is a full newspaper page in our Inside & Out section. Promo images are in photostream below.
Our daily circulation is 356,286 with daily readership estimated to be 883,690. So if only one in four readers finds this page, that's still 200,000 "hits," which is much better than this page will do on Flickr!
The images: Flying tigers, Julia butterfly, www.flickr.com/photos/jonfobes/106667951/ Pink orchid and Zebra butterfly.
I hadn't planned to, but I ended up writing the text block for these images, which reads:
Awesome. Orchids. Everywhere.
That pretty much sums up the Cleveland Botanical Garden's "Orchid Mania: Blossoms & Butterflies" show, running through March 26.
The other thing to know about the event can be summed up in even fewer words: bountiful butterflies, approximately three times more than normally seen in the Cloud Forest of Costa Rica biome in the Eleanor Armstrong Smith Glasshouse.
You'll see, among others, Postman, Cattleheart, Zebra Longwing and Julia butterflies and also the captivating Blue Morpho; you'll watch them flutter around orchids, ginger blossoms, leaves, branches and even land on visitors, providing magical moments that have patrons pointing their cameras in three directions at once and clicking shutters as fast as their fingers can function.
And don't forget to visit the spiny desert of Madagascar, also in the glasshouse. The resident chameleon is as beautiful as any flower.
But the stars of this show are the awesome orchids: Big orchids, small orchids, white orchids, purple orchids ... some peer out from frames as living artwork, others spring from free-standing orchid sculptures, and others congregate in pots that haunt every nook and cranny of the botanical garden.
As one weary worker said Thursday during setup for the show, "If there's such a thing as orchid overdose, this might be it!" But of course, there's no such thing as orchid overdose, just as there's no such thing as too much beauty – you always want more.
The Victorians coined the word "orchidelirium" to describe flower madness – now I know why.
Way back in 1908, a weekly - "A Conviccao" - was edited and published by Antonio Xavier Serrao at Cotula vaddo in Saligao village (Goa-India). The picture of the vintage newspaper shows the masthead of its issue dated January 23, 1909. I am anxious to see some of the oldest newspapers.
Says my erudite friend Fr Nascimento Mascarenhas, hailing from Saligao, "A Conviccao, news weekly, Saligao, Cotula. Editor and Publisher Antonio Xavier Serrao (began publishing it in his own printing press, from January 1908 and with some inturuptions, stopped publishing it from 18th May, 1912 no. 188, 4th year... Printed in small folio (no folio pequeno), published from 15th January 1887 to 1895, edited by Gustavo A.de Silva, Leopoldo C.da Gama, Pascoal Joao Gomes and others... May be the copies of this weekly are in the Central Library , Panjim, now shifted to Patto, Panjim. Kindly find out and photograph the first one of January 15, 1887. It will be great." By the way, Fr Nascimento has recently published his fifth Goa book LAND OF THE SAL TREE (pp 290), which contains stories of the history, legends and traditions of Saligao, a typical Goan village and illustrated by Mel D'Souza.
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