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Minnie the Minx, whose real name is Hermione Makepeace, is a British comic strip and comic strip character published in the comic magazine The Beano. Created and originally drawn by Leo Baxendale, she first appeared in issue 596, dated 19 December 1953, making her the third longest running Beano character, behind only Dennis the Menace and Roger the Dodger. Quoted from Wikipedia.
9/15/08 - This is similar to yesterday's photo in the sense that it's a necklace and yesterday's was a bracelet, but it's going to have to do: I'm busy! As much as everyone around here seems to hate our town, I'm glad it's not full of things to do. I'd much rather enjoy people's company than places and things. Going to see Valencia tonight for the hundreth time! :P
Sort of reminds me of Grace Ann's picture only less amazing :)
amazing texture from lala mártin!
"Paper bags and plastic hearts; all our belongings in shopping carts. It's goodbye, but we got one more night. Let's get drunk and drive around and make peace with an empty town." - Boys Like Girls.
1. ~ A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~ Leo Buscaglia, 2. ~ A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it's easy to exchange. ~ Unknown, 3. ~ A good laugh is sunshine in the house. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray, 4. Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknow, 5. “The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.”, 6. This is the sunset that I appreciate on a beautiful summer afternoon. Another day is ending, another step finishing ... ~Quarta Sunset ~16Fev2011, 7. ~ If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~ Claudia Ghand ~ Quinta Flower ~17Fev2011, 8. The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau ~ Quinta Flower 10Fev2011,
9. flickr.com/photos/43944584@N00/5290064807/, 10. HO HO HO..... Merry Christmas!!!!, 11. Feliz Quarta Sunset! :), 12. Untitled
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tagged by blythebook - thank you :)
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.
and its only 13 for me. oh dear.. that's not many... but i do read those that i like,over and over again.. :) like davinci code, angel demon and all the sophie kinsella's series (which are not here :)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen*
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien*
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling*
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens*
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott *
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll *
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis *
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis *
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden *
40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown *
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding*
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker*
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White *
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl*
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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For the first time in ages, Jenni got dolled up and went out again in the Golden Cross, Cardiff on 14/8/15. Here are the pre-party pics
Acte 5 mouvement des gilets jaunes (yellow vests) in Toulouse - France, l'état sort les blindés, le canon à eau, les lacrymogènes, les flashballs et les grenades de désencerclement.
"The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion."
(William Makepeace Thackeray - Indian born English Author and Novelist of 'Vanity Fair', 1811-1863)
As I was leaving the workshop of some weavers with whom I am working in Pili Kothi, an area of Varanasi (Benaras), I saw this young man who had an haircut in the street.
He was looking in the mirror and gave me a side glance in order to know if the work was well done.
I guess he must have felt much more reassured when he saw me taking a few pictures...
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For the first time in ages, Jenni got dolled up and went out again in the Golden Cross, Cardiff on 14/8/15. Here are the pre-party pics
This landmark estate at Wave Hill is a botanical garden house with a rich history. Famous residents include Theodor Roosevelt in his teen years and some claim that this Bronx estate played a part in his respect for preserving nature. Perhaps the birthplace of National Parks is pushing it but you should see the view from there.
Mark Twain leased the estate from 1901-1903 and set up a treehouse parlor in the branches of a chestnut on the lawn. Of Wave Hill winters he wrote "I believe we have the noblest roaring blasts here I have ever known on land; they sing their hoarse song through the big tree-tops with a splendid energy that thrills me and stirs me and uplifts me and makes me want to live always."
Bashford Dean who collected medieval European armor, built Armor Hall to house his remarkable collection. A selection of 197 choice pieces would eventually be moved to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A few famous thinkers were guest here, "Darwin's Bulldog" Thomas Henry Huxley tops that list. William Makepeace Thackeray and Herbert Spencer also stayed here.
Other famous residents of Wave Hill House have included the conductor Arturo Toscanini (1942-1945) who liked to play concerts on the lawn.
From 1950-1956 it was leased to the British government and chief members of the British Delegation to the United Nations lived here. When Queen Elizabeth visited she stayed here too.
"From the sacred shore I stand on, I command thee to retreat;
Venture not, thou stormy rebel, to approach thy master's seat:
Ocean, be thou still! I bid thee come not nearer to my feet!"
But the sullen ocean answered with a louder, deeper roar,
And the rapid waves drew nearer, falling sounding on the shore;
Back the Keeper and the Bishop, back the king and courtiers bore.
And he sternly bade them never more to kneel to human clay,
But alone to praise and worship That which earth and seas obey:
And his golden crown of empire never wore he from that day.
King Canute is dead and gone: Parasites exist always.
From King Canute by William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
Building stone walls to hold back the ocean would seem to be an ultimately pointless exercise. These stone walls among the rocks on the rugged west coast north of Wellington reminded me of King Canute
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It's hard to believe these bulbs are already peeping through the fences in Historic Savannah,welcoming the spring.
The Andrew Low House
329 Abercorn
Lafayette Square (southwest)
The lovely brick Andrew Low House combines Grecian details with elements of the Italian Villa style and boasts one of Savannah's most stunning ironwork balconies. A shuttered piazza overlooks a beautiful brick-walled garden in the rear of the home. The front garden remains much as it did when first planted, with two hourglass-shaped flowerbeds. Handsome inside as well as the out, the Andrew Low House features spacious rooms decorated with beautiful plaster cornices and carved woodwork.
New York architect, John Norris, designed and built this lovely home in 1848-1849 for Andrew Low, a wealthy cotton factor, who came to Savannah from Scotland when he was only 16 years old. He started working in his uncle’s cotton firm and later became a partner and later director of the Savannah operation. In 1843 he married Sarah Cecil Hunter. Unfortunately, Andrew’s wife and 4-year old son died before the house was complete. Five years later, Andrew married Mary Cowper Stiles, daughter of William Henry Stiles, United States Minister to Austria. During the Civil War, Andrew Low was imprisoned at Fort Warren in Boston harbor on suspicion of collaboration with the Confederacy.
The Andrew Low House was host to several important visitors over the years. One such visitor was English author, William Makepeace Thackery, who visited in 1853 and 1856 while on lecture tours.
Know that I write from the most comfortable quarters I have ever had in the United States. In a tranquil old city, wide stretched, tree-planted, with a few cows and carriages rolling through the sandy road, a red river with a tranquil little fleet of merchant men taking cargo, and tranquil ware-houses barricaded with packs of cotton;a famous good dinner, breakfast, etc. and leisure all morning to think and do and sleep and read as I like. The only place I stay in the United States where I can get these comforts -- all free gratis -- is in the house of my friend Andrew Low of the great house of A. Low and Co, Cotton Dealers, brokers.
William Makepeace Thackery
In 1870, Robert E. Lee, former commander of the Army of Northern Virginia paid a visit to Savannah with his daughter, Agnes. The general left the train to face one of the largest crowds that ever assembled to welcome him. Cheer followed cheer. As soon as the crowd would permit, Lee was driven to the home of General Lawton, at the corner of York and Lincoln Streets. Later in the evening he was taken to the Andrew Low House, where he was to sleep.
The Lowes invited some of Lee’s old comrades to dinner on April 2. General Joseph E. Johnson, General Andrew Lawton and General J. F. Gilmer came to pay their respects. It was the first time Lee had seen Johnson since the war. Before leaving Savannah, Lee paid a visit to Joseph Johnston, who was then living at 105 E. Oglethorpe Avenue. At some point during his stay, Lee and Johnston were photographed together at Ryan’s, a local photography studio in downtown Savannah. The familiar picture shows them, "grizzled, old and feeble,” seated on opposite sides of a small table.
That spot of spots! That place of places!! That city of cities!!!
Robert E. Lee to Savanahian Jack MacKay
Andrew Low’s son, William Mackay Low, married Juliette Gordon in 1886. Juliette, commonly known as Daisy, moved in the family home on Lafayette Square. It was that the widowed Juliette founded the Girl Scouts of America. Daisy had become friends with General Robert Baden-Powell, former of the Boys Scouts of England. Baden-Powell and his sister, who had formed a society of “Girl Guides” in England, inspired Daisy to found a similar organization in the United States. She formed two such groups of girls in Savannah in 1912. Members of the Girl Guides, later known as the Girl Scouts, held their meetings in Daisy’s carriage house. Juliette Gordon Low died in 1927 and bequeathed the carriage house to the Savannah Girl Scouts. The National Society of the Colonial Dames in Georgia purchased the Andrew Low House in 1928. After painstaking restoration, the Colonial Dames used the home as their headquarters, and officially opened the home to the public in 1952.
The Andrew Low House has guided tours on the half hour, every day except Thursday
Monday – Saturday: 10:30am-4pm
Sunday 12pm-4pm
For more information:
(912) 233-6854
Andew Low House
The carriage house at 330 Drayton Street is open to the public.
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Homer
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
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Call Number: LC-B2- 4958-15
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Homer
[between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.29046
Call Number: LC-B2- 4958-2
Commemoration of fiftieth anniversary of the Gogol's death (1902) - Greco café, founded year 1760, frequented by Casanova, Stendhal, Fenimore Cooper, Schopenhauer, Gregorovius, Gogol, Turgenev, Melville, Makepeace Thackeray, Taine, Sienkiewicz, Carducci, D'Annunzio, Bjornson, France, Twain, Joyce, Moravia, Pasolini, Pascarella, Palazzeschi, Carlo Levi, Ennio Flaiano, Apollinaire, Berlioz, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Wagner, Liszt, Humperdinck - Via Condotti in Rome
A few more shots from in and around beautiful Glengarriff. William Makepeace Thackaray referred to Glengarriff during his Irish travels "Within five miles of around the pretty inn of Glengarriff there is a country of magnificence that no pen can give an idea.
Beara Peninsula Co Cork.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
Pokhra, Nepal
Anirban Aurgha | a n i r b a n . a u r g h a @ h o t m a i l . c o m
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
With kids like these the house will never be deprived of sunshine :) isn't :)..
These kids I found at the Worldchanger's event and they wanted me to take picture of them, so I ask them to move back and little more back :) and still some more and I can't speak the local language so well , so I place my fingers on my lips and make the sign to smile big and haha these kids bursted out laughing ! I did feel like a clown but then the shot was worth it :)
Canon 40D, Canon 50mm 1.4 USM , 1/250s f/2.0 ISO800 50mm
1 more shot in comment different variation :)