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The view as we headed out on an airboat to tour some Louisiana swamps. By the end of the tour, the sky was raging. The folks at Airboat Adventures were awesome!
Estimated : € 6.000 - 10.000
Sold for € 20.468
- Concept car Unregistered
- Concept car prefiguring the Clio III RS
- Displayed at the 2005 Frankfurt Motor Show
- Superb special finish
- One-off vehicle with Renault Sport badging
Unveiled at the 2005 Frankfurt Motor Show, this Clio III RS Concept Car foreshadowed the production model, which went on sale in mid-2006. Finished in a beautiful shade of pearlescent red, this Renault Sport-badged model differed from the standard Clio III in several respects, including its wider wings, huge air intake with a mesh grille, rear diffuser, twin exhausts and 18in wheels.
The interior was also specially kitted out, with a red dashboard housing instruments with white dials, matching red trim and elegant front and rear bucket seats upholstered in red and grey leather. A panoramic glass roof filled the interior with light, but was not carried over to the production RS, on account of its weight and reduced rigidity in comparison with a steel roof.
Under the bonnet lurked a 2.0-litre 16-valve 4-cylinder engine developing 200bhp, mated to a six-speed gearbox, while the car was equipped with independent steering axis front suspension to curb torque steer.
This concept car entered the collection at the end of 2006, where it has remained on static display ever since. Heralding the future Clio III RS, this unique Renault Sport concept car, in excellent original condition, cannot be registered for road use, but is a very carefully and successfully executed prototype.
The style of the head foreshadows the final phase of Julio-Claudian portraiture, displaying an expressionistic naturalism well-suited to the upheavals of that period.
Acquired in 1952
Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities
Left and right: from a legend rather than the Gospels, the risen Christ appearing first to his mother; in the centre, the Transfiguration, foreshadowing the bringing together of heaven and earth through Christ - transfigured to Peter, James and John, with Elijah and Moses immediately beneath him - on the tablets is written the first sentence of the Creed.
"The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary is renowned for its complete set of medieval stained glass, stone carvings and misericords. Built in the early 1490s, the church is an example of late Perpendicular Gothic architecture that is characterised by slim stone window mullions and light but strong buttresses. The style enabled larger windows than previously, allowing much more light into the building. Grade 1 listed by English Heritage, St. Mary's is of national historical and architectural importance because it houses the most complete set of mediaeval stained glass windows in the country, attributed to Barnard Flower, and its structure and details remains unaltered since originally built."
Source: Wikipedia
1953 Cadillac Le Mans at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance
To foreshadow Cadillac's look for the mid-1950s, GM styling produced this handsome, short-wheelbase two-seater roadster. This one originally built for Fisher Body President J. E. Goodman, was the second of four prototype cars to be made drivable by GM. It was updated with 1959 body panels, quad headlights and revised tailfins, a detachable hardtop, a new 390-cubic-inch V-8 engine, and a low-profile Harrison radiator. It was initially Sea Mist Green, then was repainted and reupolstered in matching Silver-Grey
Owner: General Motors Company
Monterey, CA
Halloween in the mid to late 80's. This is my cousin Robynne. I think this my be a bit of foreshadowing for the goth look she started using in highschool.
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Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City) is a 1920's opera by Erich Wolfgang Korngold with a libretto by Paul Schott. It's set in Brugge, and it would have been a less dead city if the protagonist would have stopped bumping off his friends... I didn't listen to it. Korngold ended up in Hollywood and wrote scores for a number of successful movies.
On this trip, it was a first for us to fly out of Billy Bishop Airport. But it was also our first flight on the Airbus A220. There are lots of pluses with this airplane, (possibly more on-board luggage capacity), clean, unscratched airplane windows, and a stunning on-board entertainment system. But you pay with less headroom above the seats, smaller storage under the seat in front of you, and seats that aren't as cushy.
From Wikipedia:
The Airbus A220 is a family of narrow-body, twin-engine, medium-range jet airliners. The airliner was designed by Bombardier Aerospace and originally marketed as the Bombardier CSeries. Bombardier sold the CSeries airliner program to Airbus and it is now marketed by Airbus Canada Limited Partnership, a joint venture between Airbus and the Quebec government's investment arm Investissement Québec.
The 108 to 133-seat A220-100 (ex CS100) made its maiden flight on 16 September 2013, was awarded an initial type certification by Transport Canada on 18 December 2015, and entered service on 15 July 2016 with Swiss Global Air Lines. The 130- to 160-seat A220-300 (ex CS300) first flew on 27 February 2015, received an initial type certification on 11 July 2016, and entered service with launch customer airBaltic on 14 December 2016. Early operators recorded better-than-expected fuel burn and dispatch reliability, as well as positive feedback from passengers and crew.
Airbus acquired a 50.01% majority stake in the CSeries program in October 2017, with the deal closing in July 2018. As part of the deal, Bombardier retained a 31% stake in the aircraft and Investissement Québec 19%. In August 2019, Airbus opened a second assembly line for the aircraft at its Mobile, Alabama factory. In February 2020, Bombardier exited the programme; Airbus increased its share to 75% while Investissement Québec held the 25% balance.
Watercolor, gouache and photographic Van Dyke print on paper.
I don't exactly remember the dimensions... 8" x 22"? Something like that.
Prints available here: www.kellymckernan.bigcartel.com
It was a busy Friday night and we pulled our mini van off the side of Highway 2 South near Olds, Alberta. I set up my tripod on the shoulder and captured this odd sunset -- intrigued by the light shining though the barn. There was a tap on my shoulder -- an RCMP Police Office, I think mostly wanting to look through the camera to see what the photo was going to look like. It reminds me of the story, "Something wicked this way comes."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjV_7aptx2M
Poor Boy Blues - Gare du Nord
Foreshadowing current reality
:-)
A blue shadow
A poor boy
A few good friends
So lucky
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Montreal
Is this a foreshadowing of things to come? Let’s hope so! It was a spectacular debut for Forgeline-equipped teams, at the 2017 IMSA Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge season opener at Daytona International Speedway this past weekend! Porsche Caymans on Forgeline wheels swept all three spots on the GS class podium, and two of three spots on the ST class podium! In the GS class, we congratulate Bodymotion Racing on their GS class victory and CJ Wilson Racing for their 2nd & 3rd place finishes. And in the ST class, we congratulate Murillo Racing and RS1 for their respective 2nd and 3rd place finishes. What a great way to start the 2017 racing season!
Allards featured large American V8 engines in a light British chassis and body, giving a high power-to-weight ratio and foreshadowing the Sunbeam Tiger and AC Cobra of the early 1960s.
January 22, 2017 - Bottlenose Dolphins Selection – Taiji, Japan
Day Three; the nightmare hasn’t ended.
The day started early again as the first of the skiffs arrived at 06:51am, followed by the others, full of trainers, by 07:00am. The boats drove straight through the pod; a scene that would foreshadow the rest of the day.
By 07:35, during the first of the group selections, a young dolphin thrashed itself so hard against the side of the skiff that it bled. 3 days without food, left in the freezing cold and shallow water, these dolphins were frightened and exhausted.
We noted the first 2 skiffs leaving with 2 dolphins each at 09:21am. They were slung up onto the sides of the boats and dragged through their family, away to their morbid new “home,” alone, hungry and scared. The skiffs continued to plough straight over the families as they were frantically thrashing.
At 11:19am, 3 very small baby dolphins were put into slings and dragged past their frantic mothers, taking the abduction count up to 41 over the past 2 days of selection. There was horrific sights of trainers separating a mother and baby as the mother dove head-first toward the skiff in order to be by her child. The laughing and talking from the trainers rang out through the cove as we watched a complete decimation of a family unravel before our eyes. We were watching a mother’s worst nightmare. We were watching a helpless being have her only friend and companion torn from her.
The hunters took a moment for lunch before resuming, stealing another 6 small bodies for slave labour at around 1pm. At 1:46pm, the last of the babies were stolen for the day, taking the total count up to 53; that was 30 yesterday and another 23 today.
The process of assessing, marking, terrorising and torturing continued until we noticed the tarps start to be withdrawn at around 2:30pm
Another 7 gruelling, nightmarish hours saw the end to the third day. Unfortunately, we are sad to announce that the process isn’t over. The - once - super pod of 200 dolphins will spend yet another night netted into the cove, awaiting scrutiny and invasion of their sacred bodies and that of their children’s, before either being rejected as “not beautiful enough,” or abducted for their profitability potential.
This is all done in the name of marine park revenue. Aquariums, zoos and marine parks alike who keep once wild animals, all play a part in the horrific, six-monthly dolphin hunt that occurs here in Taiji. The captive industry is responsible for the heartache of mothers having their babies dragged away in front of their own eyes. The captive industry is responsible for thousands upon thousands of deaths of innocent animals. The captive industry is responsible for the decimation of the ocean’s diverse and rich ecology. Say no to marine park tickets. Animals behind glass didn’t wilfully give up their free lives.
Sites for more information :
Sea Shepherd Cove Guardians Page (official)
www.facebook.com/SeaShepherdCoveGuardiansOfficialPage
Cove Guardians
www.seashepherd.org/cove-guardians
Photo: Sea Shepherd
It’s late on a warm Saturday afternoon. A slight breeze has kicked in bringing with it a cool foreshadowing of the approaching evening. The sun is low on the horizon and the shadows lay long on the street. As I’m walking along, as if from nowhere, an old and rustically charming building unexpectedly whispers something to me. I don’t understand the words, in truth there can be no words, but I’m suddenly reminded of somewhere I’ve been…or dreamt of being. Maybe it’s the charming colors; or the reflections of the trees in the upper windows; or perhaps it’s just the lazy empty feel it exudes in the waning moments of the afternoon. I can’t put my finger on it. So I go with that for now. But I take a second to steal the moment in a picture….just in case.
Shot along Broadway in old town Redwood City CA
Taken as we departed Sydney for Fiji, little did we know that the dark skies foreshadowed Cyclone Pam that would dance around Fiji and give us a very entertaining time!
So far I have a couple of these in the "Domestic Bliss" series. It's sort of a 50s or earlier feel, but with a dark foreshadowing, like the way we take something, use it for how it was never intended, and become lazy and something else.
Made in Adobe Illustrator CS2 with a G5.
This series will be the last of my uploads for the trip I took to southern Burgundy in September 2023.
Listed as a Historic landmark in 1900, the Romanesque church in the out-of-the-way village of Gourdon is one of the secret wonders of Burgundy. Not particularly outstanding from the outside, its large silhouette nevertheless foreshadows an impressive interior, and indeed it is, with its combination of a whooping three-level, Cluny-inspired elevation, its three naves and its generalized system of groin vaulting. Its collection of sculpted capitals is also famous, as are the alfresco paintings that were discovered in the 1940s as the plastering that was applied to hide them in the 19th century began to peel away. More such discoveries were made in the 1970s and restoration lasted until the early 1990s.
Located on a hilltop in the département of Saône-et-Loire, Gourdon has been inhabited since time immemorial. Valuable traces of Roman presence were found in 1845 and promptly shipped to a museum in Paris (the Cabinet des Médailles) where the are still being exhibited to this day. A monastery was founded here very early on, as there is a written trace of a dependency of the Le Puy cathedral chapter in 534, but claims that it was “a Benedictine priory” seem to me a bit overambitious, in spite of my sympathies for that order: let’s not forget that Saint Benedict died only in 547 in Monte Cassino, and I doubt that his Rule was so well-known in Gaul in his own lifetime that it could have been adopted by a small religious establishment in Burgundy... The monastery did certainly exist, though, as Saint Gregory of Tours visited it in 570 and there met with Didier (or Desideratus). About this last figure, History hesitates between the quality of abbot (that would indeed rather be prior if Gourdon were a priory back then) and that of hermit. In any case, by 1104, when the completed parish church is mentioned (there remains no trace of the in-between period), there is no further mention of that monastery, which must have disappeared in the meantime; it was probably little more than a hermitage, as by Year 1000 the rule had been largely propagated by Saint Benedict of Aniane († 821) and Benedictine houses were flourishing all over the Western world. An already existing priory would most likely never have been so abandoned and shut down. No physical traces of that establishment were ever found by archæologists.
Since around 1100, the church has been left almost intact, except for the bell tower which collapsed in 1881 and was rebuilt in 1889, exactly as it was before.
In most Romanesque churches with historied capitals, you will find one representation of the sin of Lust: a woman having her breasts being bitten by snakes is a classic one.
1964 Cevrolet Corvair Greenbrier Sports Wagon
Display Condition: Last Used
The Greenbrier Van foreshadowed the arrival of the first "mini-van" produced in North America in 1983. The Greenbrier was manufactured from 1961 to 1964 and used a rear-mounted aluminium block, air-cooled engine similar to Volkswagen vans produced at the time.
Chevrolet's research fround that the Volkswagen owners were happy with the size and configuration of their vans, but found them underpowered. Chevrolet attempted to rectify this by outfitting the Greenbrier with a standard six-cylinder 95 horsepower engine.
Manufacturer: General Motors of Canada Limited, Oshawa, Ontario
Engine: 163.6 cubic inches
Configuration: 6 cylinder opposed, OHV, air-cooled
Bore and Stroke: 3.438 x 2.938 inches
Brake Horsepower: 95 horsepower @ 3600 rpm
Transmission: manual 4 forward speeds/1 reverse
The American Federation of Labor (AFL) convention opens at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. October 2, 1933
The convention occurred against the backdrop of a foundering economy during the Great Depression, the election of Franklin Roosevelt the previous November and rising influence of the Communist Party and other radical elements among workers.
John L. Lewis, the president of the United Mine Workers, argued that unions would not survive unless they organized the masses of workers in basic industry. Lewis proposed they be organized along industrial lines, like his own union, instead of craft lines like the building trades.
In response the convention approved organizing workers along industrial lines into locals directly affiliated with the AFL but made no promises to keep them that way.
In fact, such successful organizing drives resulted in the AFL dissolving hundreds of such so-called federal unions, breaking their members up into craft unions that claimed jurisdiction in 1934-35.
While the AFL was angering workers by diluting their bargaining power, left wing elements waged three successful militant strikes in 1934.
These were the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, the leadership of which included some members of the Trotskyist Communist League of America; the 1934 West Coast Longshore Strike, the leadership of which included some members of the Communist Party USA; and the 1934 Toledo Auto-Lite strike, which was led by the American Workers Party. Victorious industrial unions with militant leaderships were the catalyst that brought about the rise of the CIO.
The AFL authorized organizing drives in the automobile, rubber, and steel industries at its convention in 1934 but gave little financial support or effective leadership to those unions.
The AFL's timidity succeeded only in making it less credible among the workers that it was supposedly trying to organize. That was especially significant in those industries, such as auto and rubber, in which workers had already achieved some organizing success, at great personal risk.
Shortly after the 1935 AFL convention, Lewis convened a group within the AFL to organize along industrial lines. The AFL treated the group as an enemy and in November of 1936 the Congress of Industrial Organizations was founded independent of the AFL.
In 1937 the rump group had won significant victories at General Motors and U.S. Steel and workers in basic industry flocked to the new umbrella organization.
The AFL also added members during this period and union membership peaked in the United States in the early 1950s at about 35% of the workforce. The AFL and CIO merged in 1955.
The bold and decisive leadership provided by the CIO garnered the support of millions of workers and helped lead the way to the greatest percentage of union membership in U.S. history.
Union membership in the private sector dropped to 6.4% in 2016 and overall union membership, including government workers, was only 10.7% in 2016.
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The photographer is unknown. The image is an ACME News Service photograph obtained via an Internet sale.
Legend has it that a young Lawrence of Arabia traveled this underwater stream in Oxford.
The legend is disputed, some think it was impossible to go through in 1908. In the '30s it was dredged, yielding a Victorian era punt with three skeletons.
A modern explorer, Alan Trinder, recalls "My lasting memory of that trip is the number and size of rats we encountered."
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Millard Sheets was a member of the church, and he led a team of artists and architects who designed this new building in 1955. Sheets integrated mosaics, woodwork, stained glass and ceramic elements into the whole, foreshadowing the use of many of these materials in his commercial commissions.
DSCF5865
The drawing of the breathing tube belongs to the systems to submerge in and remain underwater. Even if this idea is not new, in Leonardo's drawing, it's possible to find details in which he foreshadows the modern solution.
Seen at the "Machines of Leonardo da Vinci" exhibit in Florence, Italy. The exhibit housed over 40 models of mechanical, building, flying and war machines. They were replicated exactly from his codices by florentine artisans under engineer supervision.
Allards featured large American V8 engines in a light British chassis and body, giving a high power-to-weight ratio and foreshadowing the Sunbeam Tiger and AC Cobra of the early 1960s.
66.5¢ a Gallon for Regular. 67.5¢ for "Ethyl." The pumps didn't even have a 3rd digit! Nobody would have believed that gas would ever be over a dollar!
(Ironic Foreshadowing Pause)
I paid $3.62 a gallon when I filled up tonight. Many are paying $4 and more.
1961 Chevrolet Corvette
Chassis No. 10867S103251
By 1961, the Corvette had evolved into a very credible sports car. Styling was carefully updated under GM design chief Bill Mitchell with a subtle new grille design, while the new rear end treatment foreshadowed the upcoming Sting Ray with a neat ducktail design incorporating four cylindrical taillights. In addition, the growing list of standard equipment now included a tachometer, seat belts, sun visors, dual exhaust, carpeting, an electric clock, outside rearview mirror and an aluminum radiator.
This brawny 1961 Corvette displays an older, yet very well presented resto-mod refinish in silver and white side coves over black interior upholstery. A white vinyl top, cowl hood, vintage Firestone Firehawk radials, steel wheels and chrome wheel covers complete the presentation.
Cabin amenities include a tachometer, clock, defroster, AM/FM radio with premium sound system, and Hurst t-handle shifter. The car’s small-block V8 engine mated to a four-speed manual transmission provides more than enough power to get this vette up and going in a hurry!
The older restoration has begun to show its age in areas, but remains well suited for continued use as an attention grabbing weekend cruiser. This Corvette is sure to please its new owner with a great combination of timeless styling, performance and modern upgrades.
Desirable Early Solid-Axle Corvette!
Classic Resto-Mod!
Beautiful Presentation & Well Outfitted!
Between 1622 and 1625, Gian Lorenzo Bernini sculpted a Baroque, life-sized marble entitled Apollo and Daphne. Apollo clutches Daphne’s hip pursuing her as she flees trying to escape him. Apollo desperate and longing wears a laurel crown foreshadowing Daphne’s metamorphosis into the laurel tree. Daphne is portrayed halfway through her metamorphosis into the laurel tree with her arms already transforming into its branches as she flees and calls to her Father to save her from Apollo.[2]
Artists such as Antonio and Piero del Pollaiolo often manipulated scenes from famous Greek mythology into the setting of their time periods. In Pollaiolo's painting Apollo and Daphne, both Apollo and Daphne are shown dressed in Renaissance garments as Daphne is in the midst of transforming into the laurel tree.
The myth of Apollo and Daphne has been examined as a battle between chastity (Daphne) and sexual desires (Apollo). As Apollo lustfully pursues Daphne, she is saved through her metamorphosis and confinement into the laurel tree which can be seen as an act of eternal chastity. Daphne is forced to sacrifice her body and become the laurel tree as her only form of escape from the pressures of Apollo’s constant sexual desires. Apollo takes Daphne’s eternal chastity and crafts himself a wreath out of her laurel branches turning her symbol of chastity into a cultural symbol for him and other poets and musicians.
Valley Arts Council President Rich DiCarlo presents Naugatuck resident Martha Struber with the Best in Show award Thursday at the council's 'Delicious II' opening reception at Marco Pizzeria and Restaurant in Derby. Her acrylic painting was 'Coke Foreshadowing.'
Quite an oldie actually, but I liked the way it applied to the way I'm currently feeling. It's kinda grainy, and really dark, but I didn't want to fix the exposure, because, right now, I sort of FEEL like I'm in the dark, and that the window is my only source of light. It's kinda creepy how I took this like, two months earlier, on the same day as today. Sort of like foreshadowing. Eep.
foreshadowing
That ominous feeling you get in your gut when things are not quite as they should be,,,, when foreboding patterns form that incessantly warn you, " you don't want to go down that road ", but it can't be avoided as history is set in motion. Daily events, the signs of the times and ancient prophecies of the coming future seem to come closer and closer together with each passing day. Revealing and unfolding each step, each turning one shadow of past revelation into present reality and the pieces of the puzzle are falling into place. One at a time, the picture is seen more clearly each day. That is, for those who are watching, those who are not complacent, they that love this present wicked world are bound in the great deception. To those who watch and pray as the Lord has commanded us, it is all to clear. Perilous times are upon us and see the sign post up ahead,,, look " now entering a time such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be."
What was once considered impossible is now become reality.
Daniel 12:10
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This series will be the last of my uploads for the trip I took to southern Burgundy in September 2023.
Listed as a Historic landmark in 1900, the Romanesque church in the out-of-the-way village of Gourdon is one of the secret wonders of Burgundy. Not particularly outstanding from the outside, its large silhouette nevertheless foreshadows an impressive interior, and indeed it is, with its combination of a whooping three-level, Cluny-inspired elevation, its three naves and its generalized system of groin vaulting. Its collection of sculpted capitals is also famous, as are the alfresco paintings that were discovered in the 1940s as the plastering that was applied to hide them in the 19th century began to peel away. More such discoveries were made in the 1970s and restoration lasted until the early 1990s.
Located on a hilltop in the département of Saône-et-Loire, Gourdon has been inhabited since time immemorial. Valuable traces of Roman presence were found in 1845 and promptly shipped to a museum in Paris (the Cabinet des Médailles) where the are still being exhibited to this day. A monastery was founded here very early on, as there is a written trace of a dependency of the Le Puy cathedral chapter in 534, but claims that it was “a Benedictine priory” seem to me a bit overambitious, in spite of my sympathies for that order: let’s not forget that Saint Benedict died only in 547 in Monte Cassino, and I doubt that his Rule was so well-known in Gaul in his own lifetime that it could have been adopted by a small religious establishment in Burgundy... The monastery did certainly exist, though, as Saint Gregory of Tours visited it in 570 and there met with Didier (or Desideratus). About this last figure, History hesitates between the quality of abbot (that would indeed rather be prior if Gourdon were a priory back then) and that of hermit. In any case, by 1104, when the completed parish church is mentioned (there remains no trace of the in-between period), there is no further mention of that monastery, which must have disappeared in the meantime; it was probably little more than a hermitage, as by Year 1000 the rule had been largely propagated by Saint Benedict of Aniane († 821) and Benedictine houses were flourishing all over the Western world. An already existing priory would most likely never have been so abandoned and shut down. No physical traces of that establishment were ever found by archæologists.
Since around 1100, the church has been left almost intact, except for the bell tower which collapsed in 1881 and was rebuilt in 1889, exactly as it was before.
As I mentioned yesterday, the left side of the main church portal has lost one of its supporting columns. You will appreciate how ancient and worn the remaining one is!
These young people foreshadowed the great youth movement of the Cultural Revolution (1966 -1976).
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Ces jeunes préfigurent le grand mouvement de jeunesse de la Révolution Culturelle (1966 -1976).
July 19, 2018
1:35 pm - 2:35 pm
Doerr-Hosier Center
Andrea Mitchell, Daniel Coats
Property of the Aspen Institute / Photo Credit: Dan Bayer
Photo: University of Illinois Library in Open Content Alliance
Text: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE LEADING MEN OF CHICAGO.
Written by the Best Talent of the Northwest.
CHICAGO: WILSON & ST. CLAIR, Publishers, 1868. (pages 74- )
Charles Volney Dyer, the son of Daniel Dyer and Susan Olin Dyer, was born in Clarendon, Vermont, on the 12th day of June, 1808.
He was the youngest but one of ten children. Daniel Dyer was a farmer, but in the war of the Revolution he enlisted as a private, and subsequently rose to be Adjutant of one of the Massachusetts regiments, and held a commission under Governor Hancock, of which he was ever justly proud. Daniel Dyer was an honest, hard-working man, economical, but hospitable and kind-hearted. Although a man of religious nature, he was no disciple of Calvin, and stood in no terror of the anathemas which the clergy were sometimes wont to invoke upon heretics. The caustic wit which has distinguished the son was also possessed by the father.
Among other recipients of the good farmer's hospitality, was Judge Harrington, of the Supreme Court of Vermont, a cousin of Mrs. Dyer, and famous half a century ago for deciding, judicially, that the claimant of a fugitive slave must produce a bill of sale from the Almighty before he could own a man under Vermont law. He was a sound Democrat, but the staunch patriot could not tolerate slavery in the Green Mountain State. The Judge was a zealous Calvinist, and at one time importuned Daniel for a liberal donation to aid in converting the Indians at Green Bay. After a courteous refusal, being still urged, he replied: "Judge, if any specified number of the human race are to suffer eternal torments, I think it will be for the glory of God to take it all out in Indians."
Mrs. Dyer was a daughter of Gideon Olin, and sister of Judge Abraham Olin—a woman of poetic temperament—of remarkable energy, and distinguished for the peculiar trait which we term "pure grit." An incident will illustrate these characteristics. Several persons of distinction had been thrown into jail for alleged violations of the infamous sedition law. Among others, Matthew Lyon was incarcerated in Rutland for publishing a seditious article. He was unable to procure bail in the enormous sum required, and, to effect his release, Mrs. Dyer, on horseback, visited the principal villages in the State, borrowed all the family silver and gold of political friends, and after transporting it, unattended, for more than a thousand miles, deposited it, to the value of fifteen thousand dollars, with the Sheriff, and demanded and obtained Lyon's release.
Subsequently he was tried and acquitted, and the spoons and gold beads were returned to their respective owners.
Few spots, even in the State so justly eulogized for delightful scenery, are more beautiful than the place where Charles spent his boyhood and early youth. A few miles to the east rises proudly the Green Mountain range, which, a little to the northward, towers grandly upward, forming Killington Peak, which, like a solemn sentinel, stands guard over the lovely valley of the historic Otter Creek. Far to the west, the blue peaks of the Adirondacks pierce the sky. Here, flanked on one side by the old school-house, and on the other by the village church, stood the plain, simple cottage of the farmer. In this quiet and peaceful home Charles spent the first fifteen years of his life, toiling diligently on the farm during the summer, and improving with eager avidity the three months of "winter school." Here he displayed ability so uncommon, and gave such marked promise of intellectual eminence that he was sent to Castleton Academy to fit for college. While here, he boarded with Mrs. Foote, the widowed mother of Solomon Foote, since Hon. Solomon Foote, United States Senator, the patriot, statesman and gentleman. The two young men were roommates, and remained intimate friends until the venerated sage passed away, invoking blessings upon the dear country he had served so long and well.
When fitted for college, young Dyer finally decided to forego the classical course, and entered at once the medical department of Middlebury College, then located in Castleton, and, under the charge of Professor Woodward, became a pupil in the Professor's office. He graduated December 29, 1830, with distinguished honors, the favorite alike of faculty and classmates. Ardently devoted to his chosen profession, he went courageously forth to the struggle of life, conscious of power, and presaging certain success.
In February, 1831, he commenced practice in Newark, Wayne County, New Jersey. He soon acquired a reputation for unusual skill, and became popular among all classes. But the enterprising, far-seeing young man could not content himself with the moderate prospects opening there, and instinctively turned to the great West (then faintly foreshadowing its prospective greatness), and, guided by an unerring intuition, he landed in Chicago in August, 1835. He soon after became acting Surgeon of the garrison, attained speedy eminence in his profession, and became one of the most influential men in the infant colony.
In 1837, he married Louisa M. Gifford, of Elgin, a lady of fine natural endowments and graceful manners, whose excellent sense, fine
culture and domestic accomplishments eminently fitted her for a help-meet for a young man with a full head and an empty pocket, industrious, energetic, impecunious, and determined to wrest success from adverse fate and carve out an honorable career; and the mature woman has more than fulfilled the fair promise of the young bride. Six children have been born to them, three of whom still survive—Stella Louisa, born November 22, 1841, now Mrs. Loring; Charles Gifford, born December 29, 1845, and Louis, born September 30, 1851.
To the shrewdness and indomitable perseverance of the New England character, the Doctor had now added the broad sympathy and greatness of soul begotten by the infinite prairie and the grandeur of the illimitable West. Sagaciously perceiving the miraculous future of the City of the Interior, the first fruits of his energy and frugality were judiciously invested in real estate, which by its rapid appreciation soon rendered him comparatively affluent. The lot on which the Post Office now stands was purchased for four hundred and fifty dollars. A few years after he sold it to Government for forty-six thousand dollars.
Having amassed a handsome competence, in 1854 he retired from practice, and has since devoted himself to the care of his ample estates in the city and vicinity, and, cherishing the true philosophy of life, enjoys in mature years the results of manhood's achievement.
In 1863, Dr. Dyer received, as a personal compliment from President Lincoln, with whom he had long been an intimate friend, the appointment of Judge of the Mixed Court for the Suppression of the African Slave Trade, an international tribunal, holding its sessions in Sierra Leone, and in June sailed with his family for Europe. The following two years, when not on duty, the Judge spent in traveling leisurely through Europe, and resided temporarily in Switzerland, Rome, Florence and Munich.
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Early in life his mind was attracted towards the religions teachings of Emmanuel Swedenborg, and after many years' patient investigation, in 1845 he fully embraced the doctrines of the New Olmreli. Soon after.
Doctor and Mrs. Dyer. Hon. and Mrs. J. Y. Scammon, and John E.
Wheeler organized the New Jerusalem Society, of which the Judge has
since been an active member. The society now numbers many other
persons of wealth and liberal culture, and is a beautiful testimonial to the
zeal and liberality of its founders. If there be any instinctive preference
of religious theories, any correspondence between character and creed,
any theological idiosyneraeies in the moral constitution, then Pr. Pyer
naturally gravitates towards the tenets of Swedenborg. A Calvinist he
could never have been unless early indoctrinated and carefully kept from
investigating more congenial religious systems.
A politician he has never been, and has frequently neglected or refused
nominations when success was certain. But there is no more sturdy
advocate of human rights and equality under the law; therefore from
boyhood he has been a staunch Abolitionist. In 1832. he voted for
"William Wirt: in 1836, refused to vote for Van Buren on anti-slavery
grounds j in 1840. voted for Birney; and from that time forward voted
for Abolition candidates until he first found himself on the winning side
when Abraham Lincoln was chosen President. Dyer, Cashing, Collins,
Allen. Freer and Pinkerton were for years the principal officers of the
"underground railroad" in Chicago, and assisted in rescuing more than a thousand panting fugitives from the odious wretches who, under the
shield of law. hunted down God's creatures innocent of crime.
A true history of the heroic deeds of these then despised Abolitionists
would be more thrilling than a romance. Cue or two instances must
suffice. In 1843, a fugitive from Kentucky, living in Dr. Dyer's family,
was one morning seized on the streets by his "master" and his satellites,
taken to their room in the Mansion House, and bound hand and foot with
cords, until a blacksmith could be obtained to rivet the waiting manacles.
Learning the whereabouts of the poor boy whom he had befriended, the
sturdy lover of right, filled with anger and indignation, turned his steps
toward the Mansion House. Men knew by the look on his face that something
tragic would occur, or the captive be set free. He found the room
fastened, burst it in with a sudden crash, cut the ropes in an instant, and
pointed to the window. The negro sprang out and disappeared.
Paralyzed for a moment by the audacity of the rescuer, the man-stealers turned, foaming with rage, to wreak their Vengeance upon him, but he
had coolly walked out. Following him to the sidewalk, one rushed upon
him with a bowie-knife, uttering horrid imprecations. With a quick
blow of a cane, he was felled as though smitten by lightning from heaven.
The rest discreetly retreated, leaving the bold patriot victorious. The
shattered cane was afterwards presented to the martyred Lovejoy, and the
citizens of Chicago; admiring the cool courage and physical prowess of
their champion, presented to him a splendid gold-headed cane, with
inscriptions commemorating the occasion.
In 1848, a fugitive from Missouri was on trial before a Justice.
Dr. Dyer suggested, as a point of defense, that no proof was before the
Court that slavery was ever established in Missouri. While Dogberry
was- waiting to procure the statutes of that State, the slave was handed
out of the window, passed to those below, and quickly fled. " Where is
the prisoner?" said the Justice. "He has sunk into the bosom of the
community," was the Doctor's instant reply. Rhines, the constable, a
cowardly bully, brandishing a revolver and bowie-knife, threatened to
arrest the Doctor. With a twinkle of the eye, he replied, "You are
more deserving of arrest for displaying so much cutlery on the street
without a license." Rhines subsided.
At an Anti-Slavery Convention held in Chicago, it was resolved to
establish a national anti-slavery newspaper at Washington. Dr. Dyer
was chairman of the committee, and selected Bailey as editor, and
Whittier and Phelps as assistants; and thus began the "National Era."
Though a liberal and public-spirited citizen, Judge Dyer is no philanthropist by profession. His honest nature scorns the systematic puffing
by which the reputation of public benefactors is made—at fifty cents a
line. But his charities have been none the less munificent because known
only to a few friends and to Him who seeth in secret, and before whom
the blessings of many needy ones have risen up as a cloud of fragrant
incense.
In early life he manifested unusual fondness for literature, and eagerly
devoured all the books to which he had access. Thompson, Shenstone
and Burns were his favorite poets; in the world of fiction, John Bunyan
charmed his boyish fancy; and the sermons of Barrows, Tillotson and
Chalmers were almost memorized by repeated perusals. In the leisure of
later life, he has formed an acquaintance with ancient and modern literature,
especially the poets, with whose best passages his retentive memory is
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richly stored. He accounts for this by saying, half apologetically,
that it is easier to remember poetry than to forget it. His conversation,
enriched by the choicest gems of poetry, and anecdotes always apropos,
and enlivened by brilliant flashes of wit and a constant flow of delicate
humor, renders him a most entertaining and charming companion.
Naturally a discriminating judge of art, and an intimate friend of
Story, Rogers, Powers, Mozier and many other eminent artists, his
taste has been cultivated to a degree rarely equaled in one practically
unfamiliar with artistic details.
He has a special fondness for the society of the young, and an
affectionate interest in young men of worth and talent; and words of
encouragement from his lips have cheered many a desponding heart. He
loves to rejuvenate himself by constant youthful association, and thus keep
alive the ardor and freshness of early years; and now, at nearly three
score, his mind retains all the buoyancy and elasticity of youth, and he is
fully en rapport with the radical spirit of the age. A generous but
unostentatious hospitality adds another charm to his pleasant home, and
increases the delight of those who throng its portals. But the most
prominent trait of the Doctor's character, and which renders him a
universal favorite, is his brilliant wit, which, permeated and softened by
the kindness of his great heart, sparkles ceaselessly, like the undulating
sea in the calm sunshine of an autumn day. In repartee he is unapproachable,
and few are found willing to engage in a second tournament
of wit with so formidable an antagonist, although his courteous bon homic
mitigates the pungency of his satire and renders wounded pride impossible.
But he is an honest hater of shams and impostors, and never
spares the lash when specious hypocrites cross his pathway. Woe to the
luckless wight who invites upon his unfortunate head the vials of his
wrath. When he opens his magazine of ridicule, sarcasm and iuvective,
nothing but absolute stupidity or the epidermis of a rhinoceros can
survive the onslaught.
" Sworn foe to cant, he smote it down, With trenchant wit nnsparing;
And, mocking, rent with rnthless hand The robe pretense was wearing."
An incident will illustrate his powers of repartee. When at Teneriffe,
in 1863, the resident Americans celebrated the Fourth of July. Among
the guests were several British officers. While the Judge was responding
to the toast, "The President of the United States," Captain Edwards, a
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British officer, constantly interrupted him by side remarks, such as
" Vicksburg isn't taken yet," etc. When the same officer was responding
to the .sentiment, "The Queen of England," he repeated the stale phrase,
"the sun never sets on her dominions;" to which the Judge, sotto voce,
replied, "That's because the Lord can't trust an Englishman in the dark."
Soon after receiving his commission as Judge of the Mixed Court, a
Kentucky friend met him, and said, "Why do you go to Africa at your
time of life; can't you get nigger enough in America?" "I have been
looking all my life," said the Judge, "for a negro without any Kentucky
blood in him, but in vain. I am going to Africa to find one."
It is a singular and beautiful circumstance that Judge Dyer, who was
sent abroad by the friendship of Mr. Lincoln, before his return, had the
melancholy pleasure of paying the most distinguished honors to his
memory. On the six hundredth anniversary of Dante's birthday, celebrated
at Florence, May 14, 1865, he was invited to respond for America,
and, in so doing, paid a beautiful and touching tribute of affection and
respect to the apostle and martyr of liberty. When he pronounced the
name of Abraham Lincoln, every Italian in that vast assembly of
distinguished men rose reverently to his feet, and stood in profound
silence. Each heart seemed thrilled with a pang of sorrow, and each
countenance betrayed intense emotion. No language can portray the effect
of this spontaneous homage to the memory of the Liberator.
When the news of the assassination reached Rome, the Americans, by
common consent, came together to mingle their tears and sympathies.
Judge Dyer was the only one present who had known Mr. Lincoln
intimately. In a most simple and pathetic manner, he spoke of the great
and good man. As he proceeded, half suppressed sobs were heard on
every side, and as he closed, scarcely able to control his own trembling
utterance, the dew of grief moistened every eye.
Our allotted space is filled, and we have only been able to select here
and there from the wealth of material at our command. It is rank
injustice to compress such a biography into half a dozen pages. It is easy
to say of a man that he has amassed a given amount of wealth, endowed
institutions, founded charities, projected public enterprises, or filled offices
of trust. But no man is richer in those peculiarities which, in the
tout ensemble, constitute the individuality of a man—that which we love
and respect; and to reproduce in space so scanty that rare combination of
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exquisite humor, of solid worth and keenest wit, of sturdy fidelity to
principle and simple kindliness ol' heart, of blunt Saxon speech and
courtly refinement of manners, of exhaustless fund of pleasing anecdote and useful information, of all the wonderful variety of characteristics
which, blended, form the Dr. Dyer whom his friends know and cherish, is simply impossible. Long may Ave continue to enjoy the society of our
genial friend, the prince of humorists aud bright luminary of the social
circle, and to learn from his example the duty of a pure patriot. Though we defraud the Immortals thereby, we most fervently join in the apostrophe of the ancient poet to his loving friend
—
Serus in coelum redeas.
My Easter outfit for church in 1968. The cherries on the outfit, while sweet here, are pretty funny in retrospect - my punk rock stage name many years later would be "Cherry Maraschino". A true foreshadowing of things to come!
One more from 2009 - foreshadowing greatness. Really for me it's Pele as a wee lad and Maradona as a college kid. #fcbarcelona #groundhopping #thechickenbaltichronicles - first press stint with the old Bay Soccer
Vehicular foreshadowing? Striking yellow against those skies, spotted just before the Santa Rosa exit. I think this is the vehicle that planted the "must get yellow car" virus in my head; that retina searing shade was subconsciously linked to road trips of the westbound variety from then on.
And the dog? That animal was having a grand old time; and also thoroughly constrained by this harness looking contraption and a couple of stout chains -- he's just back there being "dog cool" and taking in the scenery :-)