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Description: Educator and founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia, North Carolina, Charlotte Eugenia Hawkins Brown was active in the National Council of Negro Women, the N.C. Teachers Association, etc., and was the first black woman to serve on the national board of the YWCA. She lectured and wrote about black women, education, and race relations.
Repository: Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
Collection: Charlotte Hawkins Brown Papers
Call Number: A-146
Catalog Record: id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/000605309/catalog
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Title: Document written by Blanche Kelso Bruce, possibly
a speech, in which he discusses the accomplishments of Henry Ward Beecher
Date Original: n.d.
Description: This document is comprised of 11
leaves containing Bruce's handwritten text in ink on one side of each leaf.
The content is concerned with outlining and discussing the accomplishments of
Henry Ward Beecher, especially those in regard to working for
the rights of African-Americans. Bruce was the first African-American
to serve a full term (1875-1881) in the U.S. Senate.
Creator: Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841-1898
Subject(s): Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841-1898
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887
Alternative Title: 080225-17
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Resource Identifier: 080225-17
Source: The original, accession number 080225-17, from which
this digital representation is taken is housed in The
Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College,
located in the Sandor Teszler Library.
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Academic High School (Vienna)
(Pictures you can see by clicking on the link at the end of page!)
Beethovenplatz
school form - general secondary school (high school humanistic)
Founded in 1553
♁ coordinates 48 ° 12 '5 " N, 16 ° 22 ' 34" OKoordinaten : 48 ° 12 '5 " N, 16 ° 22' 34" E | |
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About 610 students (4 April 2010)
About 60 teachers (4 April 2010)
Website www.akg -wien.at
The Academic Gymnasium in Vienna was founded in 1553 and is the oldest high school in Vienna. The school orientation is humanistic and compared with other traditional high schools of the city rather liberal. The current number of students is about 610 students, divided on 24 classes.
History
16th and 17th Century
At the time of the foundation of the high school, the University of Vienna had the privilege to decide about the estabilishment of educational institutions. In March of 1553, the Jesuits received permission from the university to the founding of the Academic Gymnasium.
The primary objectives of the exclusively Jesuit teaching corps was the provision of religious instruction, the practice of the Catholic faith and the strengthening of the religious attitude of the students. The Academic Gymnasium was located at the time of its inception in the Dominican monastery opposite the then university. The former language was Latin.
18th and 19 Century
The dissolution of the Jesuit order in 1773 by Pope Clement XIV led to a conversion of the teaching staff and educational goals. The new focus was on history, mathematics, German, literature and geography. The management of the school was transferred to the Piarist. Subsequently the school was somewhat cosmopolitan conducted and the spirit of the Enlightenment prevailed both among teachers and among the students. Likewise, new didactic and educational measures, and later the school fees were introduced.
As a result of high school reform in 1849, the eight-year school with the final matriculation examination was developed. The humanistic aspects crystallized out more and more, the focus of the lesson were mainly linguistic-historical, mathematical and scientific aspects not being neglected. The first high school graduates made their final exams at the end of the school year 1850 /51.
Academic High School before the vaulting of the Vienna River (Wienfluß - as small as possible)
Since 1866 the building of the Academic Gymnasium is located on Beethoven place in the first district of Vienna. It was built by Friedrich von Schmidt, who also designed the City Hall, in his typical neo-Gothic style.
The first students (female ones) gratuated in 1886 and 1887 (every year an external student), since the school year 1896/97 there were almost every year high school graduates, a general admission of girls there since 1949 /50.
20th Century
The years following the First World War were extremely distressing for the high school, because there was a very narrow escape for not being closed, the cause was a sharp decline in students. The educational institution was menaced from losing its good reputation and attractiveness.
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After the "Anschluss" of Austria in 1938, the Jewish students had to leave the school, they were 28 April 1938 transfered, some of the students but had logged off before this date. The total loss amounted to nearly 50 percent of the students because the school from all Viennese schools was attended most of all of children of Jewish families. Today, several plaques remember on the outer facade of the high school the transfer and the horrors of Nazism. A known victim of that action was the future Nobel laureate Walter Kohn, he had to leave school in the 5th class.
Wolfgang Wolfring (1925-2001) popularized the high school from 1960 as the site of classical Greek drama performances in ancient Greek original language. Annually took place performances of the classical Greek dramatic literature, among them, King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus and Philoctetes of Sophocles, the Oresteia of Aeschylus and The Trojan Women and Alcestis of Euripides. Protagonists of these performances were later Lawyers Josef and Eduard Wegrostek, Liliana Nelska, Doris Dornetshuber, Gerhard Tötschinger, but also in smaller roles Gabriel Barylli, Paulus Manker, Konstantin Schenk and others.
Over the years the school acquired the old reputation back and enjoyed high access rates. More and more emphasis has been placed on humanistic education, which has been demonstrated mainly by the wide range of languages, school theater performances at a high level and numerous musical events of the school choir the public in general as well.
21th Century
The focus are still on a broad linguistic foundation, which also includes training in languages such as Latin or Greek. The school offers both French and English from the first grade. The other of the two languages begins as early as the 2nd class.
In addition to this a wide range of projects are organized and voluntary activities offered. The goal of the Academic Gymnasium is the general education, which in turn should prepare for a subsequent university study.
One problem is the shortage of space of the school. Since there's a large demand for school places, the school house for financial reasons and such the monument preservation not expandable, not for all admission solicitors school places are available.
Known students and graduates
The Academic High School has produced a large number of public figures in its history:
Birth year before 1800
Ignaz Franz Castelli (1781-1862), writer
Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger (1795-1871), geologist
Stanislaus Kostka (1550-1568), Catholic saint
Leopold Kupelwieser (1796-1862), painter
Joseph Othmar Rauscher (1797-1875), Archbishop of Vienna
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Composer
Johann Carl Smirsch (1793-1869), painter
Birth year 1800-1849
Alexander Freiherr von Bach (1813-1893), lawyer and politician
Moritz Benedikt (1835-1920), a neurologist
Nikolaus Dumba (1830-1900), industrialist and art patron
Franz Serafin Exner (1802-1853), philosopher
Cajetan Felder (1814-1894), Mayor of Vienna
Adolf Ficker (1816-1880), statistician
Anton Josef Gruscha (1820-1911), Archbishop of Vienna
Christoph Hartung von Hartungen (1849-1917), physician
Carl Haslinger (1816-1868), music publisher
Gustav Heider (1819-1897), Art History
Joseph Hellmesberger (1828-1893), Kapellmeister (chapel master)
Hyrtl Joseph (1810-1894), anatomist
Friedrich Kaiser (1814-1874), actor
Theodor von Karajan (1810-1873), German scholar
Alfred von Kremer (1828-1889), orientalist and politician
Kürnberger Ferdinand (1821-1879), writer
Henry of Levitschnigg (1810-1862), writer and journalist
Robert von Lieben (1848-1913), physicist and inventor
Karl Ludwig von Littrow (1811-1877), Astronomer
Titu Maiorescu (1840-1917), Romanian Prime Minister
Johann Nestroy (1801-1862), actor, poet
Ignaz von Plener (1810-1908), Prime Minister of Austria
Johann Nepomuk Prix (1836-1894), Mayor of Vienna
Benedict Randhartinger (1802-1893), Kapellmeister (conductor)
Friedrich Rochleder (1819-1874), chemist
Wilhelm Scherer (1841-1886), German scholar
Anton Schmerling (1805-1893), lawyer and politician
Leopold Schrötter, Ritter von Kristelli (1837-1908) , doctor (laryngologist) and social medicine
Johann Gabriel Seidl (1804-1875), lyricist of the Austrian imperial anthem "God save, God defend our Emperor, our country!" ("may God save and protect our good Emperor Francis")
Daniel Spitzer (1835-1893), author
Eduard Strauss (1835-1916), composer and conductor
Franz von Thun und Hohenstein (1847-1916), Prime Minister of Cisleithania
Joseph Unger (1828-1913), lawyer and politician
Otto Wagner (1841-1918), architect
Birth year 1850-1899
Othenio Abel (1875-1946), biologist
Ludwig Adamovich, senior (1890-1955), President of the Constitutional Court
Guido Adler (1855-1941), musicologist
Plaque for Altenberg, Beer-Hofmann, Hofmannsthal and Schnitzler
Peter Altenberg (1859-1919), "literary cafe"
Max Wladimir von Beck (1854-1943), Austrian Prime Minister
Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866-1945), writer
Julius Bittner (1874-1939), composer
Robert Dannenberg (1885-1942), lawyer and politician
Konstantin Dumba (1856-1947), diplomat
August Fournier (1850-1920), historian and politician
Erich Frauwallner (1898-1974), Indologist
Dagobert Frey (1883-1962), art historian
Albert Gessmann (1852-1920), librarian and politician
Raimund Gruebl (1847-1898), Mayor of Vienna
Michael Hainisch (1858-1940), President of the Republic of Austria
Edmund Hauler (1859-1941), classical scholar
Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929), playwright
Karl Kautsky (1854-1938), philosopher and politician
Hans Kelsen (1881-1973), lawyer, co-designer of the Austrian Federal Constitution
Franz Klein (1854-1926), lawyer and politician
Arthur Krupp (1856-1938), industrialist
Wilhelm Kubitschek (1858-1936), archaeologist and numismatist
Edward Leisching (1858-1938), director of the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna
Felix from Luschan (1854-1924), doctor, anthropologist, explorer, archaeologist and ethnographer
Eugene Margaretha (1885-1963), lawyer and politician
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), founder and president of Czechoslovakia
Alexius Meinong (1853-1920), philosopher
Lise Meitner (1878-1968), nuclear physicist
Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973), economist
Paul Morgan (1886-1938), actor
Max von Oberleithner (1868-1935), composer and conductor
Paul Pisk Amadeus (1893-1990), Composer
Gabriele Possanner (1860-1940), physician
Przibram Hans Leo (1874-1944), zoologist
Przibram Karl (1878-1973), physicist
Josef Redlich (1869-1936), lawyer and politician
Elise Richter (1865-1943), Romance languages
Joseph Baron Schey of Koromla (1853-1938), legal scholar
Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931), writer, playwright
Julius Schnitzler (1865-1939), physician
Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), physicist, 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics
Birth year 1900-1949
Ludwig Adamovich, Jr. ( born 1932 ), President of the Austrian Constitutional Court
Christian Broda (1916-1987), lawyer and politician
Engelbert Broda (1910-1983), physicist, chemist
Thomas Chorherr (*1932), journalist and newspaper editor
Magic Christian ( born 1945 ), magic artist and designer
Felix Czeike (1926-2006), historian
Albert Drach (1902-1995), writer
Paul Edwards (1923-2004), philosopher
Caspar Einem (born 1948), Austrian Minister of Interior, Minister of Transport
Ernst Federn (1914-2007), psychoanalyst
Friedrich Heer (1916-1983), writer, historian
Georg Knepler (1906-2003), musicologist
Walter Kohn (b. 1923), physicist, 1998 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (1901-1976), sociologist
Lucian O. Meysels (1925-2012), journalist and nonfiction author
Liliana Nelska (born 1946 ), actress
Erwin Ringel (1921-1994), physician, advocate of Individual Psychology
Ernst Topitsch (1919-2003), philosopher and sociologist
Milan Turković (*1939), Austrian-Croatian wind blower and conductor
Hans Weigel (1908-1991), writer
Erich Wilhelm (1912-2005), Protestant superintendent in Vienna
Year of birth from 1950
Gabriel Barylli (*1957 ), writer and actor
Christiane Druml (b. 1955), lawyer and bioethicist
Paul Chaim Eisenberg (born 1950), Chief Rabbi of the Jewish Community Vienna
Paul Gulda (b. 1961), pianist
Martin Haselboeck (born 1954), organist
Peter Stephan Jungk (*1952), writer
Markus Kupferblum (b. 1964), director
Niki List (1956 - 2009) , film director
Miki Malör (born 1957), theater maker and performer
Paulus Manker (born 1958), actor and director
Andreas Mailath-Pokorny (* 1959), Vienna Councillor for Culture and Science
Doron Rabinovici (*1961), writer
Clemens Unterreiner (born 1977), opera singer, soloist and ensemble member of the Vienna State Opera
Lovely insight into the construction of women's clothing in the 1880s, and the cost thereof, at least if you were a customer at M. Downes of 72 Grafton Street in Dublin...
Date: Tuesday, 17 July 1883
Size: 23 x 18 cm
NLI Ref.: EPH B421
Reproduction rights owned by the National Library of Ireland
An 82-year old man drove into my car while he was getting gas.
Basically, I decided to stop at a gas station I never stop at. I should never break my habits! This one was significantly more crowded.
I didn't think there was any damage; it was a really weak hit. However, I'd previously failed inspection and had to get a $150 repair for thinking there was no damage in a similar situation. In the 90's a woman barely bumped my Pontiac 6000, and my horn never worked after that. Which will make you fail inspection. Weaksauce.
So having already paid the price for being a nice guy in the 1990s, I vowed never to be the nice guy again. If you so much as touch my car, we will exchange information.
My intent was not to file a claim, but to have the man's information in case I found out later that something broke. But this man refused. This is the 2nd white-haired old person tohit my car and then refuse to give his information. And they call OUR generation entitled?!
I called the police from the gas station, and told the guy this. I also told him, "Becuase you weren't civil, and didn't act like a reasonable human being, I now WILL be filing a claim, and your insurance will go up."
The claim involved me taking my car on a special trip to a body shop to have them inspect it for damage. I assume the cost for these damages were passed onto his insurance company.
Anyway, the cop came, and forced the guy to give him his information. The cop also yelled at him because he left his wife in the passenger seat and went away. Cop told him he's not allowed to leave the scene of an accident like that. The old man still tried to refuse to give his information, saying that we might harass him. As if he has a right to hit peoples' cars with no recourse! Nobody has that right!
He also tried to mis-write his license plate number, which the cop did not catch. BUT ANOTHER TIME, a tractor trailor hit me and gave a fake license plate number. The cop didn't notice. I took down the real number after the cop left. The DMV of Alabama refused to release the guy's identity to the Virignia police! Can you believe that? Why should Virginia let Alabama trucks drive through their state, if they can hit us, and then not have to pay because they lied?!?!?!?!?! So anyway, I learned from that lesson: CHECK THE PLATE NUMBER YOURSELF.
So it took me TWO bad lessons to get to the point of knowing how to handle myself in my best interest!
What a douchebag. And he has USAA too: The ultimate entitlement insurance.
He also tried to make some excuse that a car was coming at him to me. What a fucking load. Your license should be revoked. You live in Virginia and have an Ohio license. I get it: You yourself know you're not qualified to pass a driver's test here.
Chrysler 300M 1999 car, Toyota Camry 2004 car, accident report.
Ohio, Shell, gas station, Annandale, Virginia.
May 30, 2012.
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A beautiful manuscript with the signature of Pope Blessed Pius IX, held in the Archives at Ushaw College. My sermon for today's feast of St Cuthbert can be read here.
Pencils, pencil sharpener and glasses on a check list for organizing financial and personal records and files.
File name: 10_03_000306b
Binder label: Baking
Title: Healthful. Palatable. A superior article for puddings & jellies. [back]
Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 13 x 8 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Cereal products
Notes: Title from item.
Statement of responsibility: Hecker-Jones-Jewell Milling Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
Here are all my fountain pens with fine nibs. I tried to do it from fattest line to thinnest. In order it goes:
Lamy Vista (Safari) steel fine nib
Pelikan M215 steel fine nib
Ohto fine steel one size nib
Cross ATX steel fine nib
Parker Sonnet seel fine nib
Parker Vector steel fine nib
Parker 75 14k gold fine nib
Aurora Ipsilon steel fine nib
Waterman Harmonie steel fine nib
Platinum Preppy steel blue fine nib
Pilot Vanishing Point Déceimo 18k gold fine nib
This is written on run of the mill college ruled filler paper.
I've cleaned out a lot of my pens, and I'm trying to keep most clean unless I'm using them. Right now, I have the Pilot Decimo, Platinum Preppy, Aurora Ipsilon, Parker Vector, Pelikan M215, and Lamy Vista inked. The rest are earning some well deserved rest.
I don't remember ordering, or for that matter eating 1 T. Turd.
I can however highly reccomend Palace Spice should you be in Crystal Palaxce and want a yummy curry.
A parchment title deed between John Grimston and Alexander Johnston involving a parcel of land at Newport, Isle of Wight, in the English Channel, dated January 1, 1559 (in the first year of the reign of Elizabeth I) with wax seal appended. Approximately 12½” x 10¼”, the document is worded in Law Latin, with many abbreviations, making translation difficult.
05/02/16 #1131. Flicking through some of the documents that came with Alfa, some relate to its South African origin
St Andrew, Wingfield, Suffolk
Famously, Suffolk has no motorways. There are A-roads, B-roads, and a-long-way-from-any-other-roads. It is by way of this last category that you reach Wingfield, lost as it is in the lattice of dog-legging, high-hedged lanes somewhere between Eye and Halesworth. Even if there was no church, Wingfield would still be famous. It has a castle which isn't really a castle, and a college which is no longer a college. It was the combined power of these two, coupled with one of the most powerful families in late medieval England, which has given St Andrew the shape we find it in today. And even if it was just the church, this would still be a beautiful place to come, an elegant building of the 14th and 15th centuries set in a small, sloping, rambling graveyard at a curve in the climbing road beside the village pub.
Fine 18th and early 19th century gravestones abound, and not a great deal seems to have happened since, as if the sleepy air of this backwater has had a soporific effect on the powers of the seasons, the village, and even the passage of time itself. But if the graveyard is a place to remember our ancestors now just out of reach, St Andrew itself is a document of the events, enthusiasms and urgencies of longer ago, the Suffolk of more than half a millennium away.
The great defining moment in English history was the wave of virulent disease which swept western Europe in the middle years of the 14th century, for which the Victorians would coin the popular phrase 'the Black Death'. This outbreak of bubonic and pneumonic plagues would, in the short term, carry off half the population of East Anglia, but it was the economic consequences which would have the greater effect in the long term. As the sons of the old landed families were carried off by the pestilence, so the old estates were broken up and sold off to a rising merchant class. The fall in population resulted in a shortage of labour, handing economic leverage to the ordinary people for the first time. A surplus of consumable produce, and money to spend on it, meant that by the second half of the 14th century we can for the first time identify what might be termed a middle class emerging in English society.
The old feudalism was giving way to what was a kind of proto-capitalism. Many families who rose to prominence during this century became fabulously rich. They exhibited their wealth in their houses and their households, and exercised their piety in donations and bequests to the Church, either in the form of buildings and furnishings, or by paying for Priests. Much of this effort was aimed at ensuring the prayers which would be said for them after they were dead. They hoped to escape the long centuries in purgatory which many of them clearly deserved. Part of this project involved an attempt to reinforce Catholic doctrine in the face of local superstitions and abuses, to make sure that the ordinary people knew their duty. Ironically, many of these families would, a couple of centuries later, embrace firmly the new idea appearing on the continent, Protestantism, and oversee a destructive Reformation in the parish churches that their ancestors had built up and beautified.
But that was in the future. Sir John Wingfield, whose family had owned the manor of Wingfield for generations, survived the Black Death, and perhaps as a form of thanksgiving he established a college of Priests here in Wingfield in his will of 1361. The college buildings survive at the heart of later buildings just to the south of the church. Wingfield's personal fortunes had been bolstered by marrying his daughter into one of the parvenu families which rose to prominence in the 14th century. These people were merchants and traders in the northern coastal city of Kingston upon Hull, nearly two hundred miles away, but theirs was a name which would come to be intimately linked with the county of Suffolk. They were the de la Poles.
Wingfield's grandson, Michael de la Pole, would inherit the Wingfield estates. He built the fortified manor house known as Wingfield Castle, and in the later decades of the century and the early years of the next, he oversaw a massive rebuilding of the church. Only the low tower was left from Sir John's day. De la Pole's father William had been made first Duke of Suffolk. He increased the family's wealth by lending it to the Crown. But it is Michael de la Pole's son that history remembers most firmly. John de la Pole, second Duke of Suffolk, was a notable figure in Shakespeare's Henry VI parts I and II. Wounded at Harfleur, he watched his brother die at Agincourt: All my mother came into mine eyes and gave me up to tears. The most powerful man in England, equivalent of Prime Minister and leader of the military, he surrendered at Orleans to Joan of Arc in person, and his family paid £20,000 for his release, roughly ten million in today's money, but a drop in the ocean to them.
John ended up in his grave rather earlier than he might have expected. Exiled for five years under tenuous circumstances, he was murdered by Henry VI's henchmen as the ship taking him into exile left Dover. On the day before he died, he wrote a letter to his young son enjoining him to look after his mother: Always obey her commandments, believe her counsels and advices in all your works. This message was received by the boy's grandmother, who by virtue of her father's marriage was granddaughter of the writer Geoffrey Chaucer.
Sir John Wingfield, his grandson Michael de la Pole and Michael's son the second Duke of Suffolk, John de la Pole, are all buried here in the chancel at St Andrew. To reach them, you step into the porchless north door of the nave; the porch on the south side was intended to serve the college. The nave is wide and square, and full of light even on a dull day thanks to the lack of modern glass. Only the floor tiles strike a jarring note; what was considered the height of taste in the late 19th century is now, rather unfortunately, reminiscent of Burberry - a bit like chav lino, innit. But never mind, for fashions will change again, and in any case the eye is drawn by the creamy light of the stone-faced chancel, the great arcades seeming to swell and soar as they head eastwards to the drama of the great Perpendicular window.
The chancel aisles continue, the arches become resplendent in motifs and riotous capitals. And above, the clerestory does something extraordinary. What had been a simple range of five evenly spaced windows on each side above the arches, becomes a Perpendicular wall of glass, seven windows on each side of the chancel huddling together and picked out in brick which may well have come from the de la Pole's works in Hull. Conversely, the great range of aisle windows in the nave continues into the chancel on the south side, but on the north becomes sparser and erratic, leaving wall space for monuments. For here was the final resting place of one of medieval England's most powerful families.
A marvellous crocketed and canopied archway surmounts what is now the vestry door, but was once the way into the chapel of the Holy Trinity. Beside it, within a magnificent canopied easter sepulchre, lies the effigy of Sir John Wingfield, founder of the feast. Michael, Earl of Suffolk, lies across the chancel between the sanctuary and the south aisle chapel, his great tomb set within the arch of the arcade. Beside him is his wife Katherine, and their effigies are made of wood, a fairly late example of the technique. An earnest little lion sits up, alert, beneath his feet, and under his head is a sleeping, bearded saracen, his mouth grinning in the rictus of death. One of the most spectacular features of the tomb is the way that the sedilia are built into the northern side, which at once shows that the tomb is in its original location, and also unites the de la Poles in the sacramental liturgy of the church.
But the finest monument here is back across the chancel, on the other side of the sanctuary and backing the wall to the chapel. This is John de la Pole, second Duke. He lies in alabaster beside his wife Elizabeth Plantagenet, sister of Edward IV and Richard III. Their tomb echoes that of John's grandfather, but there are subtle differences. His iconography is the same, but the rendering of the images has changed in half a century. Now, the lion is softer, prouder, and the moor is startling and dignified. This dignity extends to the whole structure, surely one of the finest memorials in England from the later part of the 15th century. Looking at Duke John's face, it seems inarguable that he was sculpted from the life. Beside him, his wife, her pillow borne to heaven by flights of angels, the tiny disembodied hand of one surviving poignantly beside her as she sleeps.
St Andrew is a tale of two churches, a church of two halves. Perhaps no other chancel in Suffolk is as magnificent as that of Wingfield, and it does rather put the nave in the shade. The return stalls survive from the days of the College of Priests, with misericord seats and sombre heads on the hand rests, polished by centuries of standing up and sitting down. Beneath them is an acoustic chamber, as at Blythburgh, an early form of amplification designed to add resonance to the voices of those singing the offices.
But within a century, it was all over. The Reformation did for the College of Priests and prayers for the dead, and the Anglican reformers comprehensively wrecked the buildings which their ancestors had built up with such devotion. What little remained was seen off by the puritans a century later. To be fair, some of the loveliest interiors in Suffolk are those which speak of the 17th and 18th century life of the buildings; but here, at Wingfield, the first response is to mourn what must have been lost. Indeed, by the 17th century this chancel was derelict and disused, probably roofless. What survives in the church from those years is ephemeral, unexceptional; except, perhaps, for the hudd, a kind of sentry box used by clergymen at burials in inclement weather. East Anglia has only one other, at Walpole St Peter in Norfolk.
The chancel was mended in a sympathetic manner in the 1860s; fortunately, the 19th century restoration of the furnishings here came later, and the Victorians can be praised for preserving so much. And if the nave speaks predominantly of any period, then it is of the present day, because this is obviously a thriving church.
One curious note, though: in 1911, the chancel was reordered in an Anglo-catholic fashion with furnishings by the great Ninian Comper. Incredibly, these were almost entirely removed and destroyed in another refurbishment in the 1960s, and all that survives of Comper are the candle holders on the return stall. What we see today in any case is the result of another major restoration in 1999.
So often in a quiet, rural backwater like Wingfield we expect, and usually find, a humble church of the common people, a touchstone to the blacksmith and the wheelwright, the ploughboy and the farrier. Well, they are all here - in the graveyard, they are all around. But St Andrew is not a humble church. It is one of the great English testaments, a story of power and glory, of treachery and downfall. The Dukes of Suffolk are no more, but still St Andrew rides the hidden lanes of the county like a great ship, a ship of light. All around, the 21st century seems rather mundane and shabby by comparison.
(c) Simon Knott, 2007, 2015
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St Mary, Yaxley is a pleasing perpendicular church with a tremendously ornate north porch right on the eve of the Reformation - was it a sign of things that would have followed? Inside, the stars are an elaborately carved rood screen and a good collection of medieval glass fragments. The sexton's wheel above the south door is unique in Suffolk, though there's another across the Norfolk border at Long Stratton. The choreographer Frederick Ashton is buried in the churchyard.
I was out in east Suffolk test-driving the new Buildings of England: Suffolk , a real pleasure. At nearly every church I found something I hadn't noticed before.
The new edition is in two volumes, Suffolk:East and Suffolk:West. Pevsner had only needed a single volume of about 500 pages for the first edition, but the fabulous new expanded edition runs to more than 1300 pages. The new Buildings of England volumes for Suffolk are published on April 23rd. People will just have to buy both.
Item Number:35-55
Document Title:LONG LANE APPROACH DRIVE / MIDDLETOWN, CT / LONG HILL ESTATE OF. C.S. WADSWORTH; CONTOUR SURVEY FOR CATTLE PASS; SCALE1"=30'
Project:00035; Wadsworth, C. S.; Long Lane #3359, see also -- -- --; Middletown; Connecticut; 07 Private Estate & Homesteads; 22 PLANS (1901; 1921)
Location:Olmsted National Historic Site, Brookline, MA
Category:PLAN
Purpose:TOPO (Topographical)
Physical Characteristics:0000059484 23" x 15 1/2" ink --graphite draft cloth
Dates:11-OCT-1921; OB REC'D 13-OCT-1921
Notes:[INCLUDES] SECTIONAL DETAIL OF CATTLE PASS / IN SHERMAN HUBBARD LOT / 1/4" SCALE [R]; TOPO FOR CATTLE PASS; REC'D FROM GUGERLY; HOW REC'D: IN LETTER [PI]
Please credit: Courtesy of the United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.
DOCUMENTING A PANDEMIC - A photo album
A message across the street from the Northwood nursing home in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on April 20, 2020. This nursing home at the corner of Gottingen and North streets is the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in Nova Scotia, with about half of the province's Covid-19 cases (as of now) tied to this building. As of April 28, 2020, 22 of the 28 Nova Scotians who died of Covid-19 were seniors living in that long-term care facility.
Good writing succeeds on its ability to engage you, to make you think...
(Very similar to Tolstoy's "What Is Art.")
Title: Aufnahme-Schein.
Alternative title: Certificate of Acceptance.
Creator: Cappes, Philip
Date: October 26, 1845
Place: Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Part Of: Collection of Adelsverein documents
Physical Description: 1 sheet, folded (1 page); 26 x 21 cm
File: vault_a2009_0006_03_opt.pdf
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The NCR Century Symbolic Programming System Card. Hi tech in the 60s and 70s!
Holes would be punched in these cards to input commands and data into a computer.
An early attempt to calculate pi in the appendix of 'Euclide's Elements : the whole fifteen books compendiously demonstrated : with Archimede's Theorems of the sphere and cylinder, investigated by the method of indivisibles : also, Euclide's Data, and A brief treatise [added by Flussas] of regular solids'.
My mother always teased me that every year my New Year's resolution was to "get a tan". I actually dug up an old resolution list today (early teen years, judging by the handwriting) and it's pretty hilarious. My goals haven't changed much either...except the last one!
File name: 10_03_002641b
Binder label: Clothes
Title: 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Correct styles, Fall and Winter, 1899-1900. Boys' and young men's clothing. [back]
Date issued: 1870 - 1900 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 print : chromolithograph ; 16 x 10 cm.
Genre: Advertising cards
Subject: Men; Boys; Dogs; Suits
Notes: Title from item.
Statement of responsibility: Gemmill, Burnham & Co.
Collection: 19th Century American Trade Cards
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Rights: No known restrictions.
As indicated on the front of this card, "Giefer & Lybold, Singing and Talking Comedians" were the "authors of" these songs listed here on the back.
See also the front of this business card and the aluminum card holder that contained a small booklet of these perforated business cards.
Authors Of
Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder.
I'll make that girl my wife.
May-be some day.
Sweet little Daisy McCoy.
I've found that there is no lpace [place] like home, etc., etc.
Original Title: Certificate of ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, accompanied by resolution and transcript of the Journals of the Two Houses of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee
U.S. National Archives' Local Identifier: NWL-233-PETITION-66AH221-1
From: File Unit: Petitions and Memorials of the House Committee on Woman Suffrage from the 66th Congress, 05/19/1919 - 03/03/1921 (Record Group 233)
Created by: U.S. House of Representatives. Committee on Woman Suffrage. (1917 - 1927)
Production Date: 8/24/1920
Persistent URL: research.archives.gov/description/306664
Repository: National Archives Building - Archives I (Washington, DC)
Access Restrictions: Unrestricted
Use Restrictions: Unrestricted
On 12 August 1895 Minnie Dean was hanged at Invercargill gaol after being found guilty of infanticide, becoming the only woman ever to have been executed in New Zealand. Scottish-born Dean lived in Winton, Southland, with her husband Charles Dean, where she looked after unwanted children for payment. Known as ‘baby-farming’, this practice reflected the lack of socially-acceptable alternatives for women having unwanted babies, and Dean took in many children throughout the 1880s. However several of the children died while in her care, prompting police surveillance of her activities. In May 1895 Dean was seen boarding a train carrying a young baby and a hat-box, and disembarking later carrying only the hat-box. Police later unearthed the freshly buried bodies of two babies and the skeleton of an older boy in Dean's garden.
A coroner’s inquest of one of the dead babies, Dorothy Edith Carter, declared that she had "met her death… through poison administered by Minnie Dean." Dean was subsequently tried for infanticide on 18 June, and despite the defence arguing Carter's death was accidental, on 21 June Dean was found guilty of murder and executed a few weeks later.
The execution of a woman was an unusual course of action to be taken by the New Zealand Supreme Court. Before Dean's trial and execution, three other women had been tried and sentenced to death, all in relation to child murder, but in each case those sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. Public interest in the case was high, with souvenirs of the hat-box notoriously being sold outside the courthouse during her trial. The story of Minnie Dean entered into New Zealand folklore, and the case lead to major advances in New Zealand child welfare legislation, with the passing of the Infant Life Protection Act 1893 and Infant Protection Act 1896.
Archives Ref: J1 1895/917
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