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Negan chats with Sam Sykes before breaking out Lucille.
Phoenix Comic Fest and Kids Need to Read hosted Drinks with Creators. This event provided an opportunity for Comicon members to meet their favorite writers and creators in an informal atmosphere and have a glass or two while discussing all the things. You never know what might happen with a lively bunch of science fiction and fantasy authors and this year did not disappoint with colorful MC Angela Fox with a swear jar, raffles anchored by James A. Owen, Amy K. Nichols, and Ryan Dalton, meanwhile Sylvain Neuvel leading a group rendition of Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" (youtu.be/AW5pSIW9XGs), and the irrepressible Myke Cole lead the auction shenanigans with frequent encouragement from Sylvain Neuvel, a cartwheel by Christopher Paolini (youtu.be/DH7kKtfCBWA), and a promise of sparing Myke physical damage by Romina Russell auctioned off the signed glasses, banner, and a special edition of the Complete Peanuts collection. All of the three auctions bested last year’s signed photo frame plus starting a family of three with Pierce Brown and picking the children's genders! (youtu.be/XlQZCRaePGw)
Thanks to the everyone who came and helped to make this the most exciting Drinks event to date!
Swear jar - $31
Auction 1 - Signed glasses - $355
Auction 2 - Signed banner, Sylvain’s limited edition dog tag, Porg, cartwheel by Christopher Paolini - $500
Auction 3 - The Complete Peanuts collection, special edition - $275
The proceeds benefited Kids Need to Read.
That need would be to get my hair cut! Dang... it is WAY out of control. I've been wearing a hat for what seems like weeks now.
But in other news, If your into the 365 Days Project and would like a weekly challenge to keep your interest, you can head over to the 365 Days Photo Contest group and submit your photos.
I also shot a video for this that you can find on my blog at stephenpoff.com/blog/?p=440 or you can see it on YouTube at www.youtube.com/the365daysproject
Strobist info: Vivitar 283 through a small softbox at camera left. Fired with a Pocket Wizard.
Dogs need regular exercise, even on cold wet days..
Dog-owners 'lead healthier lives'
If you want to live a healthier life get a dog, research suggests.
The companionship offered by many pets is thought to be good for you, but the benefits of owning a dog outstrip those of cat owners, the study says.
A psychologist from Queen's University, Belfast, said dog owners tended to have lower blood pressure and cholesterol.
Writing in the British Journal of Health Psychology, she says that regular "walkies" may partly explain the difference.
Dr Deborah Wells reviewed dozens of earlier research papers which looked at the health benefits of pet ownership. She confirmed that pet owners tended in general to be healthier than the average member of the population.
However, her research suggested that dog ownership produced more positive influence than cat ownership.
As well as lower blood pressure and cholesterol, she said dog-owners suffered fewer minor ailments and serious medical problems.
There was also the suggestion that dogs could aid recovery from serious illnesses such as heart attacks, and act as 'early warning' to detect an approaching epileptic seizure.
Or in my opinion having something to talk to that doesn't argue or contradict you during a walk may just lower youre stress level
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This 106 year old silver coin is attractive and reasonably priced at around $75.00 CDN. This coin is listed as AU-55; full detail with light friction on the highpoints. Considerable luster remains.
Reverse
The female effigy of Italy standing on a quadriga with a shield in her left hand and an olive branch in the right, with the date below the prancing legs of the horses. On the line of exergue is the name of the author at left and of the engraver at right, with the value is flanked by two knots with the mintmark on the left and the Star of Italy at the right in the exergue
Lettering:
1914
FERT
D·CALANDRA M· A·MOTTI INC·
R
L. 2
Translation:
1914
FERT
D·CALANDRA M· A·MOTTI INC·
R
2 Lira
Engraver: Attilio Silvio Motti
Obverse
Bust of King Vittorio Emanuele III facing right, with the name of the engraver below the neck
Lettering:
VITTORIO EMANUELE III RE D'ITALIA
D. CALANDRA
Translation:
Vittorio Emanuele III King of Italy
D. Calandra
Engraver: Davide Calandra
Edge
Smooth with inscription (the motto of the House of Savoy) between knots and stars
Lettering: FERT FERT FERT
Translation: HIS COURAGE SAVED RHODES (Fortitudo ejus Rhodum tenuit)
Mint
R
Rome, Italy
I need to make some money. Prices listed below. :
Toros - sz 9: $200 great condition
Green glows - sz 9: $200 great condition
(Will sell both glows and toros together for $375)
Jordan fusions - no tags, I'd say sz 8 or 8.5 $85 fair condition
Orange dunks - tags say 8 fit more like 8.5 $80 good condition
Jordan flights - sz. 9 $70 fair condition
Gucci belt - offer (price negotiable)
Please text me at (507)696-0800
Model: Kate Bayle & Geraldine Ilasin
MUA/Hairstyle: Beauty Bea
Thanks to Rene Catedral for the place and T.G Group for the set-up and invitation.
Cars: Rene Catedral and Mike Vite
Middle East Shutter Squad (MESS) 2010
Kuwait - Amiri abandoned Hospital
Camera Nikon D3
Lens Nikkor 50mm 1.4 G
Exposure 0.013 sec (1/80)
Aperture f/4.0
Focal Length 50 mm
ISO Speed 1000
Exposure Bias -1 EV
Flash No Flash
From 1921, a great image but I can not manage to translate the text. It reads ' Vupominku NA 1.Slet S.O.A. Chicago, Ill '. The language is Czech but sure need help with an identification of the event.
Out yesterday evening for a cooler ride on Himmy..
Glad I had a lovely Wold Golden ale waiting for me in the fidge when I got home!!
47 cooler (s)miles
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And I found some : ) This beautiful Begonia was growing at the Reader Rock Garden on 24 July 2013 - I just love its colour. I tend not to photograph Begonias because my photos of them don't turn out well at all. However, this one was OK.
Forecast for today is -20C with a windchill of -29C. By tonight, it will be -26C, windchill -30C. Another bitterly cold day tomorrow (Friday) and then things are supposed to start to warm up a little.
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski (28 July 1812 – 19 March 1887) was a Polish writer, publisher, historian, journalist, scholar, painter, and author who produced more than 200 novels and 150 novellas, short stories, and art reviews, which makes him the most prolific writer in the history of Polish literature and the seventh most prolific in the world.[citation needed] He is best known for his epic series on the history of Poland, comprising twenty-nine novels in seventy-nine parts.
The son of a nobleman, Kraszewski studied at the University of Vilna between 1829 and 1830. He was imprisoned from 1830 to 1832 for participating in a secret patriotic organization. Banished from Congress Poland in 1863, he settled in Dresden, where he remained until 1884. Throughout his life he was active in publishing and journalism. He began publishing in 1830, gradually evolving from a romantic to a realist writer. His literary legacy consists of about 600 volumes of prose, poetry, drama, literary criticism and works on history and philosophy. A major Polish novelist, Kraszewski is known for his cycle of novels on the history of Poland (29 novels in 78 volumes), written between 1876 and 1887, of which the best from an artistic standpoint are The Countess Cosel (1874), Brühl (1875), and An Ancient Tale (1876). Kraszewski's "peasant" novels, including Ulana (1843) and Ostap Bondarczuk (1847), deal with the painful problems of the serf society and community. Outstanding among his social novels on contemporary themes are The Magic Lantern (1843–44) and Morituri (1874–75). The classic Polish realist writers regarded Kraszewski as their forerunner and mentor, however as a novelist writing about the history of Poland, Kraszewski is generally regarded as second only to the Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz.[1]
Kraszewski was considered a real cultural institution uplifting the Polish spirit during the country's partition.[2]
Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Early life and studies
1.2 Adulthood and literary career
1.3 Exile, later life and death
2 Character and style
3 Adaptation
4 Works
5 See also
6 References
7 External links
Biography
Early life and studies
Childhood home in Romanów
Kraszewski was born on 28 July 1812 as the oldest son of Jan Kraszewski and Zofia Kraszewska née Malska. He was born to a noble family whose manor was located in Dołhe near the town of Pruzhany, however, he was born in Warsaw because of his mother who came there in 1812 in fear of the military activities of Napoleon's army heading for Moscow. He spent his childhood in his grandmother's mansion in Romanów in the Podlasie region, where he would come back eagerly when he was young (nowadays the J. I. Kraszewski Museum is located there). From 1822 he went to schools in Biała Podlaska, Lublin and Świsłocz, and in 1829 he commenced studies in Wilno: first he studied medicine, then – despite his father's disapproval – literature. After the outbreak of the Warsaw Uprising in November 1830, he and a group of his friends were arrested and he was kept in a Russian prison for more than a year, and, once released, he stayed in Vilna under strict police surveillance. When he was finally allowed to come back to Dołhe, Kraszewski continued the literary work he had started in Vilna and completed his education (as the Russian authorities had closed down the local University). The habit of avid but careful reading of literature and reviews from all around Europe would not leave him till his death.
Adulthood and literary career
Photograph of Kraszewski taken before 1886
In 1838 he married Zofia Woroniczówna, related to the late primate and poet J. P. Woronicz. He did this against the will of his father, who thought his son wanted to reach too high. Once married, the couple settled in Wołyń. In 1853 – already parents to four children – they moved to Żytomierz. From now on Kraszewski concentrated on his literary work, though he did not avoid other activities (he became the superintendent of a high school, the director of a theatre and the Charity Association). As a result of his dispute with conservative public opinion on his critical assessment of the gentry's attitude towards peasants, in 1859 he accepted the proposal of Leopold Stanisław Kronenberg, a wealthy Polish banker of Polish-Jewish origin from Warsaw, to become the editor of the "Gazeta Warszawska" and he moved with his family to Warsaw. Owing to his editorial skills, the number of the "Gazeta" subscribers within half a year rose from 500 to 8000, but at the same time he had to stand the vicious remarks of anti-Semites. Just before the outbreak of the January Uprising, he was politically active and thus, when the military activities began, he was announced persona non grata in Warsaw by the Petersburg-submissive local authorities and was forced to emigrate, leaving his family in Warsaw. He went to Dresden, where he lived till 1884.[3]
Exile, later life and death
In Dresden he became a one-person Polish institution helping the political refugees, and organising literary life and information about Poland. With the death of many great poets of Romanticism, he became the unquestionable literary authority and the favourite of the public. In 1870 as the editor of "Tydzień" he expressed his skepticism about the dogma, approved at the First Vatican Council, that the pope is infallible as far as questions regarding the faith are concerned. That made him unpopular among the national orthodox church authorities, but he did not lose popularity among his readers. In 1879 in Kraków week-long celebrations on the 50th anniversary of the beginning of his literary career were held. In 1883 he was arrested in Berlin and charged with collaboration with French military intelligence, and a year later he was sentenced by the tribunal in Leipzig to three and a half years of imprisonment in a fortress. He served the sentence in the Magdeburg Fortress. As a result of his illness he was temporarily released on bail and went to Italy to improve his health, and after the earthquake there he sought refuge in Geneva in 1886. There, already suffering from cancer, he contracted pneumonia, which was the direct cause of his death on 19 March 1887. His body was brought to Kraków and placed in the vault where the meritorious were buried in the Church of St. Michael the Archangel and St Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr and Pauline Fathers Monastery.[4]
Character and style
An Ancient Tale by Kraszewski, 1876
In German and Polish: "Józef Ignacy Kraszewski-in this Dresden building, in 1879–1885, lived and wrote the great Polish writer, a man of great industry and a great contributor to Polish culture."
Kraszewski was one of the most prolific Polish writers of all times. His works comprise more than 220 novels (in the nineteenth century published in about 400 volumes), around 150 novellas, short stories and literary pictures, some 20 theatre plays, more than 20 volumes of historical studies (including the 3-volume Historia Wilna ["History of Vilnius"] and the 3-volume Polska w czasie trzech rozbiorów 1772–1799 ["Poland during the Three Partitions 1772–1799]), a few volumes on his travels, more than 10 volumes of social, political and literary journalism [including 5 volumes of Rachunki (1866–69)], more than 6 volumes of poetry, including a 3-volume epos on the history of Lithuania, more than 20 volumes of his translations from 5 languages (English, French, German, Latin and Italian), several thousand columns, press articles and reviews, which, when printed as books, would have to be collected in more than 100 volumes. He wrote many letters – their number is estimated to reach tens of thousands; just a little part of them have been published so far. He was an editor and a publisher. He prepared for publication and published over 40 volumes of historic documents and works of other writers. In the years 1841–51 he edited in Wołyń, and published in Wilno the bimonthly "Athenaeum" (66 volumes), in the years 1859–63 after he moved, Kraszewski was the editor of the daily "Gazeta Warszawska" (from 1861 "Gazeta Polska"), and in 1870–71 in Dresden he edited "Tydzień".
Despite all that, he was not a man who would be interested just in covering paper with print or writing. He was deeply interested in drawing landscapes and architecture (he illustrated his reports from his travels himself; more than 1600 of his pictures have survived until the present day), took up amateur oil painting, collected old prints (there were more than 6000 works in his collection). Kraszewski loved music. He considered playing the piano for one hour every day to be an extraordinary pleasure for him, and his reviews of concerts or opera performances are characterised by solid professionalism. He travelled widely: he visited the whole of pre-partition Poland and almost the whole of Europe. Throughout his adult life he took an active part in political activities, which resulted in him being sent to prison twice. He participated in dozens of social events, and more than once he had to stand up against public opinion.
Page from Kraszewski's 1875 novel Brühl
In his novels he would emphasise loyalty to the real world, thus he would use mimesis, but combined it with his fascination with romanticism. Very well-educated in the field of European literature and aesthetics, he regarded highly not only Balzac, Dickens, Gogol, and later Zola, but also Stendhal, even before he came to be appreciated in his own country, but his heart was always with Adam Mickiewicz. His first works would be influenced by English sentimentalism, especially that of L. Sterne and the French frenetic romantics in the style of the young Victor Hugo or German fantasy in the style of E.T.A. Hoffmann. The group of works closest to the ideals of Romanticism were his novels on the conflict of an artist with reality and on the life of folk people. In some of his works he would concentrate on women's matters (Całe życie biedna 1840, Szalona 1880, Sama jedna 1881), and in dozens – the issues regarding the gentry or the magnates (Latarnia czarnoksięska 1843-4, Interesa familijne 1852, Dwa światy 1854, Morituri 1873). He refers to the 1863 Uprising in a series of political novels written under the name of B. Bolesławita (Dziecię Starego Miasta 1863, Moskal 1865, Żyd 1866 and others). Kraszewski would extend the subject matter of his works, diversify the plot conventions (biography, travel, romance, sensation, etc.) and stylistic forms (realistic way of expression, purpose narration, parable, diary, tale, journal).He also appreciated small literary prose forms, such as, for example, pictures, philosophical sketches and novellas. His works would discuss all the major social and moral issues of his times and would include all the literary motifs favoured by the readers.[5]
Until 1863 he would concentrate on topical issues, during his stay in Dresden – on historical ones. Before he left the country he had written 20 historical novels, while in exile – more than 80. Unlike W. Scott he would give priority to the historical truth over fiction, and opted for criticism against the past. In this spirit he wrote Zygmuntowskie czasy (1846) and Diabła (1855), and in Dresden the so-called Saxon series (Hrabina Cosel 1873, Brühl 1874 and others) as well as a group of over 20 other novels on the eighteenth century (including Bezimienna 1869, Sto diabłów 1870 and Bratankowie 1871). He was successful in using tale narration in many of his works. His most famous enterprise within the genre of historical novels, was the series of 29 novels on the history of Poland. He started it with Stara baśń (1876) – which referred to the legendary epoch. From the very beginning the novel enjoyed great popularity, and was later his most often republished work (up to 2000 it was published more than 60 times). Next he wrote about the Piast dynasty (among others Boleszczyce 1877, Król chłopów 1881), the Jagiellonians (Semko 1882, Matka królów 1883 and others) and the oriental rulers (i.e. Boży gniew 1886). The series was completed with the posthumously published Saskie ostatki (1889).
Kraszewski's literary activities were characterised by patriotic intentions, tinged with antipathy toward the aristocracy, affinity with the gentry (whose vices he would castigate, but whom he considered to be the mainstay of national awareness) and a tendency to idealise the peasants. The realist writers of Poland's "Positivist" period, notably including Bolesław Prus, regarded him as their teacher. Single-handedly he created a whole library of novels, which in the second half of the 19th century were appreciated not only in Poland—where he was popular even in the twentieth century—but in the majority of European countries. Over a hundred of his novels have been translated into foreign languages. Before Henryk Sienkiewicz, he was the most often translated Polish author.
Adaptation
In 2003 the first book in the series, Stara Baśń (An Ancient Tale, 1876), was made into a successful feature film directed by Jerzy Hoffman starring Bohdan Stupka, Michał Żebrowski and Daniel Olbrychski.
Works
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski
Sceny i charaktery z życia powszedniego (1878)
Barani Kożuszek (1881)
Biografia Sokalskiego organisty Kotlety
Boża czekoladka (1858)
Boża opieka. Powieść osnuta na opowiadaniach XVIII wieku
Bracia rywale
Bratanki
Brühl (1874)
Budnik (1847)
Całe życie biedna
Caprea i Roma (1859)
Cet czy licho?
Chata za wsią (The Cottage outside the Village, 1842)
Czarna Perełka (1871)
Czasy kościuszkowskie
Czercza mogiła
Cześnikówny
Cztery wesela
Diabeł (1855)
Dola i niedola. Powieść z ostatnich lat XVIII wieku (1864)
Dwa światy (1856)
Dziad i baba
Dziadunio (1868)
Dzieci wieku (1857)
Dziecię Starego Miasta (1863)
Dziennik Serafiny (1876)
Dziwadła
Emisariusz
Ewunia
Głupi Maciuś
Grzechy hetmańskie. Obrazy z końca XVIII wieku
Herod baba
Historia kołka w płocie (1860)
Historia o bladej dziewczynie spod Ostrej Bramy
Historia o Janaszu Korczaku i o pięknej miecznikównie: powieść z czasów Jana Sobieskiego (1874)
Historia Sawki (1842)
Hołota
Hrabina Cosel (1873, e-book)
Interesa familijne
Jak się pan Paweł żenił i jak się ożenił
Jaryna (1850)
Jermoła (Iermola, 1857)
Jesienią
Kamienica w Długim Rynku
Kartki z podróży
Kawał literata (1875)
Klasztor
Klin klinem
Komedianci
Kopciuszek
Kordecki
Kościół Świętomichalski w Wilnie
Król i Bondarywna. Powieść historyczna
Krzyż na rozstajnych drogach
Krzyżacy 1410
Kunigas (1881)
Kwiat paproci
Lalki: sceny przedślubne
Latarnia czarnoksięska (1843–1844)
Listy do rodziny
Lublana
Ładny chłopiec
Ładowa Pieczara (1852)
Macocha
Maleparta
Męczennicy. Marynka
Męczennicy. Na wysokościach
Milion posagu
Mistrz Twardowski (1840)
Mogilna. Obrazek współczesny
Morituri (1874–1875)
Moskal: obrazek współczesny narysowany z natury (1865)
Na bialskim zamku
Na cmentarzu – na wulkanie
Na tułactwie
Na wschodzie. Obrazek współczesny (1866)
Nad modrym Dunajem
Nad Sprewą
Nera
Niebieskie migdały
Noc majowa
Ongi
Orbeka
Ostap Bondarczuk (1847)
Ostatni z Siekierzyńskich (1851)
Ostrożnie z ogniem
Pałac i folwark
Pamiętnik Mroczka (1870)
Pamiętnik panicza
Pamiętniki
Pan i szewc
Pan Karol
Pan Major
Pan na czterech chłopach (1879)
Pan Walery
Panie kochanku: anegdota dramatyczna w trzech aktach
Papiery po Glince
Pod Blachą: powieść z końca XVIII wieku (1881)
Poeta i świat (1839)
Polska w czasie trzech rozbiorów 1772–1799
Pomywaczka: obrazek z końca XVIII wieku
Powieść bez tytułu (1854)
Powrót do gniazda (1875)
Półdiablę weneckie
Profesor Milczek
Przed burzą
Przygody pana Marka Hinczy. Rzecz z podań życia staroszlacheckiego
Pułkownikówna
Ramułtowie
Raptularz pana Mateusza Jasienickeigo. Z oryginału przepisany mutatis mutandis
Resurrecturi
Resztki życia
Roboty i prace: sceny i charaktery współczesne
Rzym za Nerona (1865)
Sąsiedzi
Sceny sejmowe. Grodno 1793 (1873)
Sekret pana Czuryły. Historia jednego rezydenta wedle podań współczesnych opowiedziana
Serce i ręka (1875)
Sfinks (1847)
Sieroce dole
Skrypt Fleminga
Sprawa kryminalna
Stara baśń (An Ancient Tale)
Stańczykowa kronika od roku 1503 do 1508 (1841)
Stara Panna
Staropolska miłość
Starosta warszawski: obrazy historyczne z XVIII wieku
Starościna Bełska: opowiadanie historyczne 1770–1774
Stary sługa
Sto Diabłów
Syn marnotrawny (1879)
Szalona (1880)
Szaławiła
Szpieg (1864)
Śniehotowie
Tomko Prawdzic
Trapezologion
Tryumf wiary. Obrazek historyczny z czasów Mieczysława I-go
Tułacze (1868)
U babuni
Ulana (1842)
W baśń oblekły się dzieje
W pocie czoła. Z dziennika dorobkiewicza (1884)
W starym piecu
Warszawa 1794 (1873)
Wielki nieznajomy
Wielki świat małego miasteczka
Wilczek i wilczkowa
Wspomnienia Odessy, Jedysanu i Budżaku: dziennik przejażki w roku 1843 od 22 czerwca do 11 września
Wspomnienia Wołynia, Polesia i Litwy
Z chłopa król
Z siedmioletniej wojny (1875)
Z życia awanturnika
Zadora
Zaklęta księżniczka
Zemsta Czokołdowa
Złote jabłko
Złoty Jasieńko
Zygmuntowskie czasy. Powieść z roku 1572 (1846)
Zygzaki
Żacy krakowscy w roku 1549 (Kraków Students in 1549)
Żeliga
Żyd: obrazy współczesne (The Jew: Contemporary Pictures, 1866)
Żywot i przygody hrabi Gozdzkiego. Pan starosta Kaniowski
Żywot i sprawy Imć pana Medarda z Gołczwi Pełki z notat familijnych spisane (1876)
Series "Dzieje Polski" ("The History of Poland") — 29 novels about Poland's history, in chronological order (1876–90)
Adama Polanowskiego dworzanina króla Jegomości Jana III notatki
Bajbuza: czasy Zygmunta III
Banita: czasy Stefana Batorego
Biały książę: czasy Ludwika Węgierskiego
Boleszczyce: powieść z czasów Bolesława Szczodrego
Boży gniew: czasy Jana Kazimierza
Bracia Zmartwychwstańcy: powieść z czasów Chrobrego
Dwie królowe
Historia prawdziwa o Petrku Właście palatynie, którego zwano Duninem: opowiadanie historyczne z XII wieku
Infantka
Jaszka Orfanem zwanego żywota i spraw pamiętnik: Jagiełłowie do Zygmunta
Jelita: powieść herbowa z r. 1331
Kraków za Łokietka: powieść historyczna
Król Chłopów: powieść historyczna z czasów Kazimierza Wielkiego
Król Piast: (Michał książę Wiśniowiecki)
Królewscy synowie: powieść z czasów Władysława Hermana i Krzywoustego
Lubonie: powieść z X wieku
Masław
Matka królów: czasy Jagiełłowe
Na królewskim dworze: czasy Władysława IV
Pogrobek: powieść z czasów przemysławowskich
Saskie ostatki: August III
Semko: czasy bezkrólewia po Ludwiku
Jagiełło i Jadwiga
Stach z Konar: powieść historyczna z czasów Kazimierza Sprawiedliwego
Stara baśń (An Ancient Tale, 1876)
Strzemieńczyk: czasy Władysława Warneńczyka
Syn Jazdona: powieść historyczna z czasów Bolesława Wstydliwego i Leszka Czarnego
Waligóra: powieść historyczna z czasów Leszka Białego
Za Sasów
...Come over here
All you got is this moment
The twenty-first century's yesterday
You can care all you want
Everybody does, yeah that's okay
So slide over here
And give me a moment
Your moves are so raw
I've got to let you know
I've got to let you know
You're one of my kind
I need you tonight
'Cause I'm not sleeping
There's something about you, girl
That makes me sweat
How do you feel
I'm lonely
What do you think
Can't take it all
Whatcha gonna do
Gonna live my life...
Not boxing boots! I need in size 7.5-9 in 9/10 condition! Might trade ringers depending on size and condition. Please help me find a pair:)
It had long been our ambition to convert the basement of the Rotunda back to its condition in 1910. Ickworth Lives, a project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and your donations, is doing just that. Opened on 2nd March 2012, we invite you to discover the real lives of those who lived and worked in this party house in the 1930s.
The exterior of the Earl-Bishop’s Rotunda was virtually finished when he died in 1803, but the interior was still an empty shell, and the curving corridors and wings only a few feet above ground. It was left to the Earl-Bishop’s son, the future 1st Marquess of Bristol, to make what use he could of his father’s extraordinary plan. Having no need for massive galleries, in 1821 he instructed his architect, John Field, to redesign the East Wing as family living-quarters.
Field fitted out the ground floor of the Rotunda as state rooms in an austere Regency style. The West Wing was added purely for symmetry and so was left empty. The Trust is pleased to announce the go-ahead of a package for a project to develop the West Wing to provide new facilities for visitor reception, information, education, shop, restaurant, functions, conferences and events.
As the family lived mostly in the East Wing, the rooms that visitors see in the Rotunda spent much of the year under dust sheets, coming into their own mainly for parties and other special occasions. But as a result, their superb furnishings and decoration have survived in excellent condition and little changed since the heyday of the house in the Edwardian era.
The house, with much of its collections of family portraits, Huguenot silver, Regency furniture and china, and part of the ancient deer-park, passed to the National Trust in 1956.
The East Wing has been transformed into a four star hotel by the hotel company Luxury Family Hotels who lease the East Wing. Until 1997 the East Wing was home to the late 7th Marquis of Bristol who had leased the property from the National Trust.
The hotel has 35 luxury rooms - 11 in the Dower House a separate property situated on the north-west of the estate (opened in autumn 2002) - the hotel complex has three restaurants, a 50ft indoor pool, horse riding facilities and a tennis court.
Ickworth’s 18th-century parkland and gardens include some of the most stunning countryside to be found in East Anglia.
The Park
The extensive 1,800 acres of wooded parkland, created in part by 'Capability' Brown, is a living landscape rich in plant, animal, and bird life. Some parts cultivated and grazed yet much can be explored and enjoyed. Some waymarked field margins may also be walked. Access has been made possible through funding by the Forestry Commission’s Countryside Access scheme.
The Gardens
The gardens surrounding the house were created in the first half of the 19th century by the First Marquess of Bristol. Those in the formal Italian style to the south of the house feature the Gold and Silver Gardens, a Victorian Stumpery and the Temple Rose Garden. A raised terrace walk separates the south garden from the park.
Beyond the restorated church are the remnants of an 18th-century garden created by the First Earl. His summerhouse (circa.1703) and ornamental canal still survive.
if America wants to maintain the primacy of democracy in the world and represent its "arsenal" as already done in the past which is honored and respected, today it must fight for those same values. The current administration in office (on whose certainty of vote there are doubts) is unable to keep America as a beacon in the world as civilization, dignity and respect for the values of democracy.
We have 2 enemies named China & Russia.
If we want to be free we need to fight: the EU and the US should fight with the Ukrainians avoiding what already happened in Hungary in 1956 and in Czechoslovakia in 1967 where people did not act out of laziness with the excuse that human dignity can be trampled on if beyond the borders! Wake up America!
ITALIAN VERSION
se l'America vuole mantenere il primato della democrazia nel mondo e rappresentarne "l'arsenale" come già fatto nel passato a cui si rende onore e rispetto, oggi deve combattere per quegli stessi valori. L'attuale amministrazione in carica (sulla cui certezza di voto ci sono dubbi) non è capace di mantenere l'America faro nel mondo come civilità, dignità e rispetto dei valori della democrazia.
Abbiamo 2 nemici che si chiamano Cina & Russia.
Se vogliamo essere liberi serve battersi: Ue e Usa dovrebbero combattere con gli Ucraini evitando quanto già accaduto in Ungheria nel 1956 e in Cecoslovacchia nel 1967 dove non si agì per pigrizia con la scusa che la dignità umana può essere calpestata se oltre la frontiere! Sveglia America!