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Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo officiates the Swearing-In Ceremony for Stephen E. Biegun as Deputy Secretary of State, at the Department of State, on December 21, 2019. [State Department photo by Ron Przysucha/ Public Domain]
Why can’t people just say what they mean?
creative commons licensed image via wikipedia
St Stephens green, Dublin, this image has been cropped if anyone wants to c the original just let me know
Stephen is a gemologist and goes on his treasure hunts for estate jewelry that he creates from each piece. You can read about him in <a href="http://www.scottrklinephoto.com/#/Client%20Access/Headshots/1/thumbs".InMenlo
Lighting Info: LP160 with softbox, camera right. The rest is from the lights in the room.
Tombstone of Stephen Alonzo Jackson and his wife in the Sinking Springs Cemetery in Abingdon, VA. I've passed this cemetary dozens and dozens of times and never stopped until now, almost 17 years since I first passed it. I do not really photograph grave yards, I came to the sole purpose of photographing this stone.
Stephen Amell speaking at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
This unidentified photograph is one of three purchased together. From the only labeled photograph, Flora (Wiley) Flanders, I have tentatively identified this man as Stephen B. Flanders of Mount Holly, Vermont. He is buried with his wife in Timouth Cemetery, Rutland County, Vermont, where his birth date is listed as August 2, 1842 and his death date as May 6, 1907.
He served a three year enlistment in the reknowned First United States Sharpshooters Company F, and was one of only six of the original members to re-enlist.
...[I]t was required that the recruit should, in effect, be able to place ten bullets in succession within a ten-inch ring at a distance of two hundred yards....
The uniform of the regiment consisted of coats, blouses, pants and caps of green cloth; and leather leggins, buckling as high as the knee, were worn by officers and men alike. The knapsacks of the men were of the style then in use by the army of Prussia; they were of leather tanned with the hair on, and, although rather heavier than the regulation knapsack, fitted the back well, were roomy and were highly appreciated by the men. Each had strapped to its outside a small cooking kit which was found compact and useful. Thus equipped the regiment was distinctive in its uniform as well as in its service, and soon became well known in the army...
A rebel signal station was discovered some fifteen hundred yards away, from which the movements of our troops could be plainly observed, and from which Gen. Hancock desired to drive the observers. A battery opened fire on them, but the distance was too great for canister, and the saucy rebels only laughed at shell. The men of Co. F., who were in plain view of both parties, watched this effort with great interest for half an hour, when they concluded to take a hand in the affair themselves. Long practice had made them proficient in judging of distances, and up to a thousand yards they were rarely mistaken — this, however, was evidently a greater distance than the rifles were sighted for. They therefore cut and fitted sticks to increase the elevation of their sights and a few selected men were directed to open fire,, while a staff officer with his field glass watched the result. It was apparent from the way the men in the distant tree top looked down when the Sharpes bullets began to whistle near them that the men were shooting under still, so more and longer sticks were fitted to still further elevate the sights; now the rebels began to look upward, and the inference was at once drawn that the bullets were passing over them. Another adjustment of the sticks, and the rebels began to dodge, first to one side and then to another, and it was announced that the range was found. Screened as they were by the foliage of the tree in which they were perched, it was not possible to see the persons of the men with the naked eye; their position could only be determined by the tell-tale Hags; but when all the rifles had been properly sighted and the whole twenty-three opened, the surprised rebels evacuated that signal station with great alacrity. Gen. Hancock had been a close and greatly interested observer of this episode, and bid the men handsome compliments for their ingenuity and skill...
In this carnival of blood — this harvest home of death — Co. F again suffered the loss of brave men. Henry Mattocks, Thomas Brown and John Bowen were killed, and Amos A. Smith and J. E. Chase were wounded. Only eighteen men were now left out of the forty-three who entered the campaign; twenty-five had fallen on the field... So each man of the gallant few who were left of what had been Co. F agreed to call his comrade equal to two men, and so they counted themselves yet a strong company...
Stephen B. Flanders and his wife, Flora, had two children, Charles H. Flanders and Eva L. Flanders Crowther. Their genealogy is detailed in the comments under the Flora J. Wiley Flanders photograph.
I am seeking descendants.
Stephen King took to the stage with the Alabama 3.
November 10, 2006 8:19 AM .
Hodder & Stoughton gave Stephen King the top notch treatment, not only good champagne but also live music from the Alabama 3, who actually numbered four musicians. And Stevie even joined them for one song, despite suffering from flu. And what a sight for sore eyes it was to see a posse of publishing executives clapping along to his out of tune effort. But then, the harmonica player in the band happened to be the son of notorious Great Train Robber Bruce Reynolds, so maybe he'd made them an offer they couldn't refuse?
And, after King's departure, folk were even seen dancing, a spectacle Middle Temple Hall has surely not witnessed before. What is literary London coming to, I ask you.
Stephen Colbert speaking at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con International, for "The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies", at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
Stephen Amell speaking at the 2013 WonderCon at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.
Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhere.
History of the Queen's House
Introduction
The Queen's House, Greenwich, was commissioned by Anne of Denmark, wife of James I (reigned 1603–25). James was often at the Tudor Palace of Greenwich, where the Old Royal Naval College now stands – it was as important a residence of the early Stuart dynasty as it had been for the Tudors. Traditionally he is said to have given the manor of Greenwich to Anne in apology for having sworn at her in public, after she accidentally shot one of his favourite dogs while hunting in 1614.
17th and 18th centuries
Greenwich and London from One Tree Hill.
Greenwich and London from One Tree Hill.
In 1616 Anne commissioned Inigo Jones (1573–1652), who had risen to fame as a designer of court entertainments and was appointed Surveyor of the King's Works the following year, to design a new pavilion for her at Greenwich. It was apparently a place of private retreat and hospitality and was also designed as a bridge over the Greenwich to Woolwich Road, between the palace gardens and the Royal Park.
James I, 1566-1625
James I, 1566-1625
Jones had recently spent three years in Italy studying Roman and Renaissance architecture. It was his first important commission and the first fully Classical building seen in England. Though generally called Palladian in style, its prime model was the Medici villa at Poggio a Caiano, by Giuliano de Sangallo.
Anne of Denmark
Anne of Denmark
Work stopped on the House in April 1618 when Anne became ill: she died the following year. It was thatched over at first floor level and building only restarted when James's son Charles I gave Greenwich to his queen, Henrietta Maria (daughter of Henri IV of France), in 1629. It was structurally completed in 1635. Reflecting Renaissance ideas of mathematical, Classical proportion and harmony, the House's design was revolutionary in Britain at a time when even the best native building was still in red-brick, Tudor-derived style.
Leading European painters - including Jordaens and Orazio Gentileschi - were commissioned to provide decorative ceiling panels and other art works, and Classical sculpture was provided from the collection Charles had purchased en bloc from the Gonzaga dukes of Mantua. Of this original splendour all that survives in the House is the 'grotesque' style painted ceiling of the Queen's Presence Chamber, the ironwork of the 'tulip stairs' (the first centrally unsupported spiral stair in Britain), the much discoloured but original painted woodwork of the Hall, and its finely laid 1635 marble floor.
Gentileschi's ceiling panels, much altered, survive in Marlborough House, London, since Queen Anne allowed their removal in the early-18th century.
Queen Henrietta Maria, 1609-69
Queen Henrietta Maria, 1609-69
Henrietta Maria had little time to enjoy the House. The Civil War broke out in 1642 shattering the Stuart idyll. Always an object of suspicion because of her Catholicism, the Queen went into exile in France and Charles was beheaded in 1649, his property being seized and dispersed by the Commonwealth regime (1649–60). The House lost its treasures and became an official government residence. It however survived, while the Tudor palace on the riverside fell into decay.
Charles I (1600-1649)
Charles I (1600-1649)
After his restoration to the throne (1660), Henrietta Maria's son, Charles II, refitted the House for her temporary use in 1662 before she moved to Somerset House, though she died in Paris in 1669. His principal changes were the addition of two upper 'bridge' rooms to east and west over the road. This produced a square plan on the first floor, rather than the original 'H' of two separate blocks either side of the roadway only connected by a central first-floor bridge.
A Mediterranean brigantine wrecked on a rocky coast
A Mediterranean brigantine wrecked on a rocky coast
From 1673 studio space in the House was allocated to the Willem van de Veldes, father and son Dutch marine artists.
They came to England at the invitation of Charles and founded the English school of marine painting. Find out more about the van de Veldes in the Art of the van de Veldes gallery in the Queens' House.
The House continued to be used for various Royal 'grace-and-favour' residential purposes in the 18th century, when the replacement of most of its original windows with Georgian sashes gave it its modern external appearance.
19th century to present day
In 1805, George III granted the Queen's House to the Royal Naval Asylum - a charity caring for and educating the orphan children of seamen. This moved to Greenwich from Paddington the following year and eventually became part of the Royal Hospital School, which itself moved to Suffolk in 1933.
Playing cricket
Schoolboys playing cricket in front of the Queen's House, c.1898
In 1807–12, to meet the need for dormitories, classrooms and other facilities, the architect Daniel Asher Alexander added the Colonnades and immediately flanking wings which still frame the House in its modern role as the 'jewel in the crown' of the National Maritime Museum which took over in 1934.
Staircase in the Queen's House
Staircase in the Queen's House
The House was first restored to something approaching its 1660s form and was fitted out to display the Museum's early collections in 1933–37. Further major restoration, including of all its services, was completed in 1990 with additional work in 1998–99.
The last included replacement of an unimportant 18th century service stairway with a new public stair and lift connecting basement, ground and first floor, augmenting the original 'tulip stairs' on the Hall (north) side.
From 1990 to 1998 the upper floor of the House was partly refitted as and furnished to give an impression of its use as a Royal residence of the 1670s, and to display the NMM's early art collection. It was also increasingly used as a place for appropriate events and corporate entertainment (analogous to some of its original courtly functions).
Images of Seapower, Queen's House
Images of Seapower, Queen's House
Images of Seapower, Queens House
Images of Seapower, Queens House
Since 2001 the House has been reorganised to showcase the Museum's fine-art collection, with an ongoing programme of displays and temporary exhibitions, including contemporary work. It has an active events and education programme and continues in its successful role as a place for corporate and private entertainment.
Caption: Stephen Shank, of Belgium, presenting a segment of Revelation in unforgettable drama.
Citation: Mennonite World Conference. Twelfth Mennonite World Conference, 1990, Winnipeg, Canada. Slides by T. Klassen; Script by John Dyck. X-9 Box 52 Folder 4 Slide 80. Mennonite Church USA Archives - Goshen. Goshen, Indiana.