Wives photos on Flickr

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wives ! gone for a couple days taking pics and they come up with all these projects that simply 'need' to be done.....open windows add for a nice breeze to the living room area and I kind of like the natural wood colors, probably do need to patch the leaky roof though.......

Trump's Wives by keycmndr (aka CyberShutterbug)

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MAROCO 01-2015 016 by Elisabeth Gaj

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The Bahia Palace, set in extensive gardens, was built in the late 19th century by the Grand Vizier of Marrakesh, Si Ahmed ben Musa (Bou-Ahmed). Bou Ahmed resided here with his four wives, 24 concubines and many children. With a name meaning "brilliance", it was intended to be the greatest palace of its time, designed to capture the essence of Islamic and Moroccan architectural styles. Bou-Ahmed paid special attention to the privacy of the palace in its construction and employed architectural features such as multiple doors which prevented passers-by from seeing into the interior. The palace took seven years to build, with hundreds of craftsmen from Fes working on its wood, carved stucco and zellij.The palace is set in a two-acre (8,000 m²) garden with rooms opening onto courtyards. The palace acquired a reputation as one of the finest in Morocco and was the envy of other wealthy citizens. Upon the death of Bou-Ahmed in 1900, the palace was raided by Sultan Abd al-Aziz.

ＦＩＲＳＴＷＩＶＥＳＣＬＵＢ by Yυƙι Dҽ Lαυɾҽɳƚιιʂ

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ᴴᵉʳᵉ ˢʰᵉ ᶜᵒᵐᵉˢ,

ʸᵒᵘ ᵇᵉᵗᵗᵉʳ ʷᵃᵗᶜʰ ʸᵒᵘʳ ˢᵗᵉᵖ,

ˢʰᵉ'ˢ ᵍᵒⁱⁿᵍ ᵗᵒ ᵇʳᵉᵃᵏ ʸᵒᵘʳ ʰᵉᵃʳᵗ ⁱⁿ ᵗʷᵒ,

ᴵᵗ'ˢ ᵗʳᵘᵉ

ᴵᵗ'ˢ ⁿᵒᵗ ʰᵃʳᵈ ᵗᵒ ʳᵉᵃˡⁱᶻᵉ

ᴶᵘˢᵗ ˡᵒᵒᵏ ⁱⁿᵗᵒ ʰᵉʳ ᶠᵃˡˢᵉ ᶜᵒˡᵒʳᵉᵈ ᵉʸᵉˢ

ˢʰᵉ ᵇᵘⁱˡᵈˢ ʸᵒᵘ ᵘᵖ ᵗᵒ ʲᵘˢᵗ ᵖᵘᵗ ʸᵒᵘ ᵈᵒʷⁿ,

ᵂʰᵃᵗ ᵃ ᶜˡᵒʷⁿ

'ᶜᵃᵘˢᵉ ᵉᵛᵉʳʸᵇᵒᵈʸ ᵏⁿᵒʷˢ, ˢʰᵉ'ˢ ᵃ ᶠᵉᵐᵐᵉ ᶠᵃᵗᵃˡᵉ

ᵀʰᵉ ᵗʰⁱⁿᵍˢ ˢʰᵉ ᵈᵒᵉˢ ᵗᵒ ᵖˡᵉᵃˢᵉ, ˢʰᵉ'ˢ ᵃ ᶠᵉᵐᵐᵉ ᶠᵃᵗᵃˡᵉ

ˢʰᵉ'ˢ ʲᵘˢᵗ ᵃ ˡⁱᵗᵗˡᵉ ᵗᵉᵃˢᵉ, ˢʰᵉ'ˢ ᵃ ᶠᵉᵐᵐᵉ ᶠᵃᵗᵃˡᵉ

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EGYPT 38 by Elisabeth Gaj

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PIRAMIDS OF GIZA

The only survivor of the Seven Wonders of the World.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the main part of a complex setting of buildings that included two mortuary temples in honor of Khufu (one close to the pyramid and one near the Nile), three smaller pyramids for Khufu's wives, an even smaller "satellite" pyramid, a raised causeway connecting the two temples, and small mastaba tombs surrounding the pyramid for nobles. One of the small pyramids contains the tomb of queen Hetepheres (discovered in 1925), sister and wife of Sneferu and the mother of Khufu. There was a town for the workers of Giza, which included a cemetery, bakeries, a beer factory and a copper smelting complex. A few hundred meters south-west of the Great Pyramid lies the slightly smaller Pyramid of Khafre, one of Khufu's successors who is also commonly considered the builder of the Great Sphinx, and a few hundred meters further south-west is the Pyramid of Menkaure, Khafre's successor, which is about half as tall. In May 1954, 41 blocking stones were uncovered close to the south side of the Great Pyramid. They covered a 30.8 meter long rock-cut pit that contained the remains of a 43 meter long ship of cedar wood. In antiquity, it had been dismantled into 650 parts comprising 1224 pieces. This funeral boat of Khufu has been reconstructed and is now housed in a museum on the site of its discovery. A second boat pit was later discovered nearby.[

Wives by Christopher Flower

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Catherine Regina VXOR Henrici VIII by Ann Longmore-Etheridge

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This portrait of Katherine Parr is clearly from a template produced for multiple portrait copies of the queen to be hung in the halls of English nobility. It seems to generally fit the overall image of Katherine as reddish-blonde-haired, blue eyed, healthy, and attractive.

Portrait painted by an unknown artist, possibly a follower of Hans Eworth, in the 16th century.

Oil on panel. Collection of Appleby Castle.

Philip Mould: "As the famous rhyme suggests, Katherine Parr’s record as the last of Henry VIII’s six wives was unique. She survived. Though Anne of Cleves, the sad ‘Flanders Mare’ unable to arouse England’s most insatiable monarch, lived on until 1557 it is only Katherine who was neither divorced, beheaded, or died. She was by any standards a remarkable woman: beautiful enough to marry the King of England, despite having neither royal nor court background; shrewd enough to remain his Queen, despite court plots and an attempt on her life; and courageous enough to sustain the Protestant cause, despite Henry’s latent sympathies for the Roman faith. She was Regent of England during Henry’s invasion of France in 1544. And with her publication of religious works such as Prayers or Meditations in 1545, she became not only the first English Queen to publish a work of prose, but the first woman to do so in the sixteenth century.

Katherine became Queen of England in July 1543. Henry was her third husband, but, on this occasion, not her first choice. She had instead fallen in love with the dashing courtier Thomas Seymour, and was understandably wary of Henry’s past form when it came to marital relations. Five wives had failed – what chance did a sixth have of success? Nonetheless, to turn down the King’s offer of marriage was unthinkable. Katherine, a deeply devout woman, determined that if she was to be Queen, she would be Queen with a purpose. That purpose was to further the cause of the Protestant Reformation.

In doing so Katherine, literally, risked her life. Never afraid to exercise her sharp mind, Katherine had become accustomed to discussing religion with Henry VIII. Though this was at first welcomed by the King, the conservative factions of court and church were terrified of any radical words whispered into the Royal ear - that after all was how Anne Boleyn had first led Henry towards Lutheranism. To conservatives like Bishop Gardiner and Chancellor Wriothesley the answer seemed obvious – Katherine should meet the same fate as Anne. At first, Henry, increasingly irascible from ulcerated legs, indicated that Katherine’s days were numbered. An arrest warrant was drawn up, and, amid rumours of ‘a new queen’, arrest could only have been followed by death. But Katherine succeeded in persuading Henry of her good faith and innocent naivety. “Is it even so, Sweetheart?”, said the King, “Then perfect friends we are now again…” Thus did Tudor Royalty kiss and make up.

Katherine’s victory checked any conservative renaissance in the final years of the King’s reign. From now all eyes turned to the future (Protestant) reign of Edward VI. Here, Katherine appears to have been less successful, and for once followed her heart rather than her head. With ill-considered haste, she took Thomas Seymour as her lover within weeks of Henry’s death in 1547, and married him just months later. In doing so she lost any chance she may have had in exercising power during Edward’s minority. And yet, perhaps her final and most enduring success was yet to come, for in helping to restore the Princesses Mary and Elizabeth to the line of succession she had extended the Tudor dynasty by half a century. Katherine died after giving birth to a daughter in 1548.

The iconography of Katherine Parr is of particular interest. It is ironic that so few portraits of the Queen appear to survive, given that she was the foremost patron of portraiture in mid-Tudor England. There are several reasons why the Queen liked portraiture, not least because she evidently liked art. But perhaps the most intriguing reason may lie in Henry VIII’s habit (undoubtedly annoying to Catherine) of repeatedly portraying himself with Jane Seymour. Was Katherine’s jealousy manifested in art? Was her decision to commission the first full-length portraits of Elizabeth and Mary as Princesses, part of her desire to elevate them from illegitimate bastards to heirs of the English crown? Whatever the reasons, her legacy to the advancement of English portraiture cannot be doubted.

There are five recorded certainly known portraits of Katherine Parr that survive. The first is a miniature formerly in the collection of Horace Walpole (now at Sudeley Castle), which is probably by Lucas Hornebolt. The second and third, in the National Portrait Gallery, are a full-length (once erroneously called Lady Jane Grey) by Master John, and a half-length by an unknown artist. A fourth (Lambeth Palace) shows a young Katherine in the 1530s. And now the present example represents a fifth, and shows the Queen towards the end of her life.

And yet, Katherine’s own records show that she commissioned at least more than a dozen portraits of herself; “give me one of your small pictures”, her fourth husband Thomas Seymour wrote, “if ye have any left…” The contrast between Katherine’s commissions and those extant portraits gives a useful indication of how little survives from the sixteenth century – in this case less than a third. The Queen’s chamber accounts show that John Bettes the Elder painted up to seven miniatures – none survive – and nor apparently do any other miniatures by Hornebolt, aside from the possible Sudeley example.

Records also show that Katherine was painted by Hans Eworth, the Dutch artist considered the closest thing to Holbein’s heir . Such patronage was an indication of Katherine’s desire to support the new, for Eworth had only arrived in England c.1543. His earliest known work is dated 1549. The almost enamel-like flesh tones and bright colouring of the cheeks in this portrait, together with the distinctive modeling of the eyes, may suggest that the artist of this picture was influenced in some way by Eworth’s now lost original. The accomplished handling of the detail in Katherine’s out-turned collar, and the delicate portrayal of her hair, is also reminiscent of Eworth’s Mary Neville, Lady Dacre (National Gallery of Canada). That the jewelry Katherine wears in this portrait is similar to that recorded in her inventories, not to mention the intelligent depiction of Katherine’s slight physique, further suggests that it is based on a contemporary ad vivum example."

Some things are scarier than Halloween... by Skye McLeod Fairywren, Blogger

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Most wives and husbands enjoy sneaking up on each other for an occasional opportunity to pinch the other's butt for a little "instant karma", don't you agree? Scary stuff!!! ;-)

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Skye:

Bento Mesh Head: Tala by CaTwa

Bento Mesh Body: Maitreya Lara

Face Applier: Glam Affair

Hair: Hairplay - Front Blow (browns) by Tableau Vivant

Tia Top (gift): Wicca's Wardrobe

Bloodshed Bento Gloves: Wicca's Wardrobe (Ironwood Hills - Haunting 2018 this October 2018 - Maitreya Only! HUD for 6 textures/5 metals)

Skirt & Boots: Kitsune Tsuki by Caboodle now @ the Neo-Japan event.

Peeker Earrings (Siam): [ContraptioN]

Pose: umbrella_Pose_7 by -STEP- Animations & Poses

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Asher:

Mesh Head: Justin by CaTwA

Mesh Body: ADAM

Face Applier: L'Etre Homme

Hair: MYST by EMO-tions

Pants: Signature

Trail Boots: Adriatic Line

POSE: *StoryTeller* Help!-1 [Poseball]

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Halloween Abandoned Mesh House (3 textures): irrISIStible

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BOUDOIR HALLOWEEN FURNITURE:

High Society Halloween Sofa

High Society Halloween Chair

High Society Halloween Throne

High Society Halloween Mirror

SIM: IPPOS @ maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Ippos/7/16/22

Stepford Wives by Anna Theodora

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I'll be away for a few days, traveling to a small city with little (if any) internet connection. I'll be back tuesday, probably.

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Model: Bruna Raquel

Make up: Carlos Secati

Hair: Julio Nunes

Stepford Wives by Anna Theodora

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Kissing Rock, Lock 7 Information Centre, 14 Chapel Street South, Thorold, ON by Snuffy

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Excerpt from www.roadsideamerica.com/story/29574:

Kissing Rock: The slab of stone next to the Lock 7 Viewing Complex on the canal is emblazoned with the words: "Kissing Rock." Sailors heading out onto Lake Erie or Ontario would drag their wives and girlfriends to this spot for a farewell smooch. The act would ensure their safe return. That's the legend, further extended as imparting general good luck to non-seafaring visitors in return for their lip-locks witnessed by the Kissing Rock.

The heart with the "C.S." stands for Charles Snelgrove, the Great Lakes sailor who supposedly started the kiss-or-die tradition.

Stepford Wives by Anna Theodora

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I'll have it said, I didn't even feel like logging to flickr anymore.

Not only because of how messy it looks (and how unnecessary it is to copy other sites' layout), but because of the changes that were made in values and types of membership, which are absolutely ridiculous.

I can get used to the new layout, but flickr has just sent some really nasty messages with these changes. We are not clients anymore, they are not interested in us as people. We are their product now. They'd make a lot more money with advertisings all over the site than if every member held a pro account...

Mafia wives by Oppai.Dolly

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The Wives by Tenzin Chopak

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Ex Wives Club by Doug

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Tuscany

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Stepford Wives by Anna Theodora

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