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For the European Parliament in Belgium! That's my pic on the cover!
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And it's something that I believe in, after my years of living in Romania and working with the Roma population.
I helped give a tour of Mission Control today.
This photo appears in a children's encyclopedic book called "Mission to the Moon" published by Weldon Owen. Pretty cool... I'm pubished!!
www.weldonowen.com/childrens_reference/missiontomoon.html
At Amazon www.amazon.com/Mission-Moon-Book-Alan-Dyer/dp/1416979352/...
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Miyavi la Rockstar giapponese al Fabrique il 4 ottobre per il tour del nuovo album, accompagnato dal batterista Bobo.
Ha da poco pubblicato il nuovo album “The Others” e adesso Miyavi, il punto di riferimento del genere Visual Kei, è pronto al tour mondiale.
Miyavi, vero nome Takamasa Ishihara, è un cantautore, musicista e produttore discografico giapponese.
Ha iniziato la sua carriera nel 1999 in qualità di membro del gruppo musicale visual kei Dué le quartz. Dopo lo scioglimento del gruppo avvenuto nel 2002, ha intrapreso una carriera da solista ottenendo grande successo. Nel 2007 è diventato membro del gruppo musicale Skin e nel 2009 ha fondato una sua propria etichetta discografica, a cui ha attribuito il nome di J-glam.
Nel 2007 ha intrapreso il suo primo tour mondiale. In seguito alla nascita della sua prima figlia nel 2009, ha abbandonato i modi eccentrici e stravaganti che lo avevano contraddistinto negli anni precedenti.
È noto per la sua tecnica di fingerstyle-slapping.
My Solitude photo was published in the November issue of DP - Arte Fotográfica.
DP is the Portuguese version of Digital Photographer Magazine.
Pure joy :)
my kitchen is featured in a new Japanese Book published by Paumes, aptly named; San Francisco Kitchens
Reproduced in the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, as published by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, this map portrays the political subdivisions of the Philippines at the end of the Spanish era. We used this map as the basis for illustrating the territories covered by various events in the Revolution against Spain and the Philippine–American War.
Published on June 15, 2012 on The Official Gazette website.
Published work: This is the latest release of the Wedding Directory featuring my portrait of Chuchay Maronilla on the cover.
I wanted to highlight the beautiful flow of the textile and the beautiful design of the wedding gown, while keeping the atmosphere classy and classic. I saw some antique colored bottles on location and decided to highlight these using a strobe back lit.
I have a conservative arsenal of 3 AC powered strobes and 3 Flash heads, but I always try to keep things simple, that is as a matter of taste. I used 3 strobes on this image.
Strobist Info: 250 Jinbei 3/4 power, 80x100 softbox, placed left side, another 150 Heinman Strobe at 1/4 power, bare, on the upper right rear. 430EX placed behind colored glass bottles. Triggered wireless Cactus type mixed in with remote optical triggers.
Black Inc.Books used one of my photos as the cover for this book and credited me on the back cover. The book is only released in Australia and New Zealand - the book is about the coal boom in Australia. I was paid but that is secondary to being credited on the books back cover.
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I Pentatonix - abbreviato "PTX" - gruppo vocale "a cappella", vincitore di 2 Grammy Award, approdano all'Alcatraz di Milano il 19 giugno.
Dal Texas con furore ecco i cinque artisti fenomeno (anche del web) che cantano a cappella, i Pentatonix. Diventano delle stelle della scena musicale internazionale dopo aver vinto un talent americano, The Sing-Off, fino a quando poi YouTube non pensa a fare il resto.
Proprio su YouTube si mettono in luce con la loro versione di Telephone. E poi Somebody That I Used to Know di Gotye, Gangnam Style di Psy, We Are Young dei Fun fino ai Daft Punk e ai Radioactive degli Imagine Dragons featuring la violoncellista Lindsey Stirling, opera originalissima con la quale vincono nel 2013 un YouTube Music Award.
Dal 2011, anno in cui si sono affacciati sulla scena musicale, i Pentatonix hanno conquistato un successo dopo l’altro: hanno venduto 2.8 milioni di copie soltanto negli Stati Uniti e vinto 2 Grammy Awards. L’ultimo album, Pentatonix ha debuttato al primo posto nella Billboard Top 200 Albums e il primo singolo, Can’t Sleep Love, ha già ottenuto più di 14 milioni di visualizzazioni su Youtube.
Scott Hoying - Baritono e coro
Mitch Grassi - Controtenore e coro
Kirstie Maldonado - Mezzosoprano e coro
Avi Kaplan - Basso e coro
Kevin Olusola - Beatbox e violoncello
Apparently, I had the best photo of the worst thing in Nashville. But, as of yesterday, that worst thing (The I-65 Nathan B. Forrest statue which had no remaining defenders) was removed. It's actually a little bittersweet for me because it made me a little Internet famous, but I guess that won't happen any more. I'd sold the photo several times to comedy news shows, such as the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Quibi's America Today and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
This photo has appeared seemingly everywhere without a photo credit, such as all over Twitter. MSNBC never contacted me to use this photo, and they used it without permission. Hopefully, they find me and resolve this.
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I came across this article in the The Wall Street Journal, with a predominant photo display of my work during a Miami Marlins game, almost by accident. Eventually I would have received the report from the agency.
I have countless tear sheets of published photos and captions in news articles. Somehow this was special. Being the WSJ such a prestigious publication I feel honored to have my photo capture chosen for publication among so many professionals that covered the injury incident of Mike Trout during the game.
This is a screen capture of of a section of the online article.
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One of my photos was recently used for the cover of a shopping guide in Rio de Janeiro. They sent me a few copies today.
Lord Smith has today published his recommendations for further devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament.
John Swinney - Deputy First Minister & Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Constitution & Economy.
If you're in the North East of England, keep an eye out for the June edition of Etc magazine to read all about my trip to Vietnam. Now don't all rush at once ...
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 23rd of December 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
Helvetica / Neue Haas Grotesk specimen book published circa 1968. Designed by Hans Neuberg / Nelly Rudin, with photos by the studio of Josef Müller-Brockmann.
Pages from 'The Haworth Water-Wolf and other Yorkshire Stories' by Ian Dewhirst, published by The Ridings Publishing Company in 1967. These pages include 'Keighley War Hospitals' about the roles Morton Banks, Victoria Hospital and Fell Lane Infirmary played during the First World War.
Ian Dewhirst (1936-2019) was an acclaimed local historian. He made an invaluable contribution to preserving, cataloguing and recounting the history of the town. During his life he wrote many articles and books on the town, and gave thousands of talks and tours to various societies and groups, including the History Society. He was born in Keighley in 1936. He went to Keighley Boys’ Grammar School where his talent for poetry flourished and saw various poems published in the school magazine ‘The Keighlian’. He graduated from the University of Manchester in 1958 with a degree in English. He did his National Service as a Sergeant-Instructor in the Royal Army Educational Corps from 1958 to 1960.
He started working at Keighley Library in 1960 and was promoted to Reference Librarian in 1967, a role he fulfilled until retirement in 1991. During that time he wrote ‘A History of Keighley’, published by the Keighley Corporation in 1974, and reprinted several times since. Other publications included ‘The Handloom Weaver and other poems’ (1965), ‘The Haworth Water-Wolf and other Yorkshire stories’ (1967), ‘Scar Top and other poems’ (1968), ‘Gleanings from Victorian Yorkshire’ (1972), ‘Old Keighley in Photographs’ (1972), ‘More Old Keighley in Photographs’ (1973), ‘Gleanings from Edwardian Yorkshire’ (1975), ‘Yorkshire Through the Years’ (1975), ‘The Story of a Nobody: a Working Class Life 1880-1939’ (1980), ‘You Don’t Remember Bananas… A Pennine Half-Century’ (1985), ‘Keighley in Old Picture Postcards’ (1987), ‘Keighley in the 1930s & 40s’ (1989), ‘Victorian Keighley Characters’ (1990), ‘In the Reign of the Peacemaker: Keighley and District in Edwardian Photographs’ (1993), ‘Down Memory Lane’ (1993), ‘A Century of Yorkshire Dialect’ (with Arnold Kellett, 1997), ‘Keighley in the Second World War’ (2005), and ‘Nah Then! A Treasury of Yorkshire Dialect Quotations’ (2010).
Ian began writing the popular ‘Memory Lane’ column for the Keighley News in 1992 and carried on doing so right up until his death. In 1996, he was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Bradford. And in February 1999, he was awarded an MBE by the Queen for his services to local history, at a ceremony held at Buckingham Palace. In 2009 he had a Northern Rail 158 diesel train named after him. In 2018, the Dalesman awarded him the W. R. Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his prolific work as a local historian and public speaker.
He spent almost his whole life in Keighley, living in his parents’ former home on Raglan Avenue, off Fell Lane. He served on the Council of the Yorkshire Dialect Society and spent time as secretary of the Friends of Cliffe Castle Museum and Art Gallery. He died on 20th January 2019 and his funeral service was held at Trinity Church, Fell Lane, on 15th February, followed by a private cremation.
The publication was donated to Keighley and District Local History Society by Andrew Jackson in December 2020. It is held in the History Society's physical archive.
The Postcard
A postcard bearing an early image of the Old Temple Bar. It was published by Raphael Tuck & Sons who describe themselves on the back of the card as "Art publishers to their Majesties the King and Queen".
The card was posted in West London on Monday the 11th. January 1909 to 31, Rue du Mole, Geneva.
The Old Temple Bar
Temple Bar was the principal ceremonial entrance to the City of London from the City of Westminster. In the middle ages, London expanded city jurisdiction beyond its walls to gates, called ‘bars’, which were erected across thoroughfares. To the west of the City of London, the bar was located in the area known as the Temple.
Temple Bar was situated on the historic royal ceremonial route from the Tower of London to the Palace of Westminster, the two chief residences of the medieval English monarchs, and from the Palace of Westminster to St Paul's Cathedral. The road east of Temple Bar and within the City is Fleet Street, while the road to the west, in Westminster, is The Strand.
At Temple Bar, the Corporation of the City of London formerly erected a barrier to regulate trade into the City. The 19th. century Royal Courts of Justice are located next to it on its north side, having been moved from Westminster Hall.
To its south is the Temple Church, along with the Inner Temple and Middle Temple Inns of Court. As the most important entrance to the City of London from Westminster, it was formerly long the custom for the monarch to halt at Temple Bar before entering the City of London, in order for the Lord Mayor to offer the Corporation's pearl-encrusted Sword of State as a token of loyalty.
The term 'Temple Bar' strictly refers to a notional bar or barrier across the route, but it is also commonly used to refer to the 17th.-century ornamental Baroque arched gateway designed by Sir Christopher Wren, which spanned the road until its removal in 1878.
A memorial pedestal topped by a dragon symbol of London, and containing an image of Queen Victoria, was erected to mark the bar's location in 1880.
Wren's arch was preserved and was re-erected in 2004 in the City, in Paternoster Square next to St Paul's Cathedral.
Background
In the Middle Ages, the authority of the City of London Corporation reached beyond the City's ancient defensive walls in several places, known as the Liberties of London. To regulate trade into the City, barriers were erected on the major entrance routes wherever the true boundary was a substantial distance from the nearest ancient gatehouse in the walls.
Temple Bar was the most used of these, since traffic between the City of London (England's prime commercial centre) and the Palace of Westminster (the political centre) passed through it. It was located where Fleet Street now meets The Strand, which is outside London's old boundary wall.
Its name derives from the Temple Church, adjoining to the south, which has given its name to a wider area south of Fleet Street, the Temple, once belonging to the Knights Templar but now home to two of the legal profession's Inns of Court.
The historic ceremony of the monarch halting at Temple Bar and being met by the Lord Mayor has often featured in art and literature. It is commented on in televised coverage of modern-day royal ceremonial processions. The City of London's own website describes the ceremony as:
"The Temple Bar ceremony, which is still
occasionally re-enacted at a monument
to the Bar, involves the monarch stopping
to request permission to enter the City
and the Lord Mayor presenting the Sword
of State as a sign of loyalty".
History of Old Temple Bar
A bar is first mentioned in 1293, and was probably only a chain or bar between a row of posts. More substantial structures with arches followed. After the Battle of Evesham of 1265, Prince Edward punished the rebellious Londoners, who had befriended Simon de Montfort, by taking away all their street chains and bars, and storing them in the Tower of London.
The earliest known reference to Temple Bar is in 1327, concerning a hearing before the mayor regarding a right of way in the area. By 1351, a wooden archway had been built housing a small prison above it. In 1384, Richard II granted a licence for paving the Strand Street from Temple Bar to the Savoy, and collecting tolls to cover the expense.
On the 5th. November 1422, the corpse of Henry V was borne to Westminster Abbey by the chief citizens and nobles, and every doorway from Southwark to Temple Bar had a torch-bearer.
In 1503 the hearse of Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry VII, halted at Temple Bar, on its way from the Tower to Westminster, and at the Bar the Abbots of Westminster and Bermondsey blessed the corpse, and the Earl of Derby and a large company of nobles joined the funeral procession.
Anne Boleyn passed through the Bar on the 31st. May 1534, the day before her coronation, on her way to the Tower. On that occasion Temple Bar had been painted and repaired, and near it stood singing men and children—the Fleet Street conduit all the time running claret.
In 1554, Thomas Wyatt led an uprising in opposition to Queen Mary I's proposed marriage to Philip II of Spain. When he had fought his way down Piccadilly to The Strand, Temple Bar was forced open by him; but when he had been repulsed at Ludgate he was hemmed in by cavalry at Temple Bar, where he surrendered. This revolt persuaded the government to go through with the verdict against Lady Jane Grey.
The notable Scottish bookseller Andrew Millar owned his first London shop at Temple Bar, taken over from the ownership of James McEuen in 1728, to whom Millar had apprenticed.
Sir Christopher Wren's Temple Bar Gate
Although the Bar Gate escaped damage by the Great Fire of London of 1666, it was rebuilt as part of the general improvement works made throughout the City after the fire.
Commissioned by King Charles II, and attributed to Sir Christopher Wren, the fine arch of Portland stone was constructed between 1669 and 1672.
Rusticated, it is a two-storey structure consisting of one wide central arch for road traffic, flanked on both sides by narrower arches for pedestrians.
On the upper part, four statues celebrate the 1660 Restoration of the Stuart monarchy: on the west side King Charles II is shown with his father King Charles I whose parents King James I and Anne of Denmark are depicted on the east side.
During the 18th. century the heads of convicted traitors were frequently mounted on pikes and exhibited on the roof, as was the case on London Bridge.
The other seven principal gateways to London, (Ludgate, Newgate, Aldersgate, Cripplegate, Moorgate, Bishopsgate and Aldgate) were all demolished in the 1760's, but Temple Bar remained despite its impediment to the ever-growing traffic. The upper-storey room was leased to the neighbouring banking house of Child & Co. for storage of records.
In the 1853 Bleak House, Charles Dickens described it as:
"That leaden-headed old obstruction, appropriate
ornament for the threshold of a leaden-headed old corporation".
It was noted in jest that Temple Bar was "A weak spot in our defences", since one could walk through the adjoining barbershop where one door opened on to the City and the other into Westminster.
By 1874 the keystones had dropped and the arches were being propped up with timbers. The steady increase in horse and cart traffic led to complaints that Temple Bar was becoming a bottleneck, holding back the City trade.
Accordingly in 1878 the City of London Corporation, eager to widen the road but unwilling to destroy so historic a monument, dismantled it piece-by-piece over an 11-day period and stored its 2,700 stones.
In 1880 the brewer Henry Meux, at the instigation of his wife Valerie Susan Meux, bought the stones and re-erected the arch as a new gatehouse in the park of his mansion Theobalds Park in Hertfordshire. There it remained, positioned in a woodland clearing, until 2003. A plaque marks the site where Temple Bar once stood.
Temple Bar's Present Location
In March 1938 Theobalds Park was sold by Sir Hedworth Meux to Middlesex County Council, but the Temple Bar Gatehouse was excluded from the sale, and retained by the Meux trustees.
In 1984 it was purchased by the Temple Bar Trust from the Meux Trust for the sum of £1. In December 2001 the City's Court of Common Council resolved to contribute funds for the return of Temple Bar Gate to the City.
On the 13th. October 2003 the first stone was dismantled at Theobalds Park, and all were placed on 500 pallets for storage. In 2004 it was returned to the City of London where it was re-erected as an entrance to the Paternoster Square redevelopment immediately north of St. Paul's Cathedral, opening to the public on the 10th. November 2004.
The total cost of the project was over £3 million, funded mainly by the City of London, with donations from the Temple Bar Trust and several City Livery Companies.
The Temple Bar Memorial
Following the removal of Wren's gate, Horace Jones, Architect and Surveyor to the City of London, designed a memorial to mark Temple Bar, which was unveiled in 1880. The Temple Bar Memorial stands in front of the Royal Courts of Justice.
The elaborate pedestal serves as the base for a sculpture by Charles Bell Birch of a dragon (sometimes erroneously referred to as a griffin) bearing a shield of the arms of the City of London.
The pedestal is decorated with statues by Joseph Boehm of Queen Victoria and her son the Prince of Wales, the last royals to have entered the City through Wren's gate, which event is depicted in one of the reliefs which also decorate the structure.
The Boundary Waters Treaty
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 11th. January 1909, the Boundary Waters Treaty was signed by U.S. Secretary of State Elihu Root and British Ambassador to the United States James Bryce, at Root's home.
Ratified by both nations in 1910, the treaty regulated the usage of all waters shared by the United States and Canada, including the Great Lakes and Niagara Falls.
Four Executions
Also on that day, the death penalty was carried out in France for the first time since the turn of the 20th. century, as the four murderers in the Pollet gang died on the guillotine as a crowd in Béthune cheered.
The Advertiser in Adelaide reported the quadruple execution on the 20th. February 1909.
"On the 11th. January at dawn the guillotine appeared again in France, and the four men whose death warrants were signed by President Fallieres on Saturday were led out to execution. It was a gloomy morning, but a crowd of some 30,000 people had assembled in the square outside the gaol where the execution was to take place.
All night long people had been gathering. At midnight there were 2,000 watchers in the square, and the main street of the town was crowded, as on the eve of a fete. Men brought ladders and benches to the square and mounted them to obtain an uninterrupted view.
Others climbed into the branches of trees, where their presence was revealed by the glow of cigarettes and pipes in the dark among the branches.
As the hours went by the crowd increased steadily. Trains bringing spectators arrived from all the large towns in the area, and even from Paris.
All the hotels were crowded, and in the cafes people passed the night drinking and discussing the exploits of the four doomed men, the leaders of "The Bandits of the North."
At 4 o'clock in the morning Deibler, the public executioner and his four assistants erected the guillotine at the pre-arranged site. The troops had trouble keeping back the crowd, who wished to examine the instrument at close quarters.
Meanwhile the four prisoners, Abel Pollet and his three accomplices, Auguste Pollet (his brother), Canut-Vroman, and Théophile Deroo, were still ignorant of their approaching end.
Each man had been found guilty of three murders. Abel Pollet had confessed of his own accord to participation in no fewer than 250 crimes, including several murders. His accomplices, to judge from their confessions, were scarcely his inferiors in crime.
At 25 minutes to 6, the Public Prosecutor entered the condemned men's cells and said, to them in the traditional formula:
"I regret to have to inform you that the President
of the Republic has rejected your appeal for mercy.
You must prepare for the extreme penalty. Have
courage."
Abel Pollet replied:
"Courage I have always had."
He and his brother accepted the ministrations of a priest, their two comrades having previously received religious consolation. In bidding farewell to the priest who officiated Abel Pollet thanked him and begged him to take care of his wife and children. He said:
"If I had listened to my wife's
advice I should not be here
now."
This was the only indication of remorse that Abel displayed.
The prison barber was then summoned, and in accordance with Deibler's instructions, shaved the prisoners' necks and ripped off their collars. Canut-Vroman asked for a cordial, but was given a large glass of brandy. On the whole, all four men maintained their courage.
At 25 minutes past 7 Deroo was led out to execution. He was dressed only in shirt and trousers, and was bareheaded. As Deroo appeared his face was livid, and he walked feebly with short steps, being shackled round the ankles.
There was a painful silence, and then an outbreak of hoots and curses from the crowd. For a moment Deroo hesitated, but he was quickly hurried forward and flung face downwards on the plank of the guillotine.
Deibler released the knife, there was a flash, a sudden jarring sound, and all was over. The head fell into a basket in front of the knife, while the trunk was hastily flung into another basket at the side.
All the savage instincts of the crowd appeared to be aroused. There were frantic shouts of "Death!" "Death!" mingled with curses. The officers of the troops shouted to their men to stand firm against the threatened rush.
The guillotine was quickly cleaned, and Canut-Vroman was brought forward. He showed no sign of flinching. A moment later his head lay in the sawdust, and the crowd was giving vent to fierce cries of exultation.
Auguste Pollet came next. He fought and screamed.
Last of the four came Abel Pollet, the leader of the gang. Just before leaving his cell, Abel had written a letter of thanks to the governor of the prison, his handwriting being firm and regular.
The crowd's excitement now reached its climax. The people yelled, hissed and shouted abuse. Pollet was unmoved. His last words were:
"Down with the priests!
Long live the Republic!"
His head fell, and there was a savage rush on the part of the crowd, which seemed bent on tearing the corpse to pieces. The troops had all they could do to restrain the public frenzy.
The whole terrible scene was completed in eight minutes.
Suspended Animation Classic #599 First published June 18, 2000 (#25) (Dates are approximate)
Confessions of a Cereal Eater; The Haunted Man
By Michael Vance
Confessions of a Cereal Eater/$2.95 and 32 pages/published by NBM/sold in comics shops, by mail, and on the internet.
Confessions… is an anthology of high school and college memories written by professional Rob Maisch and illustrated by students from an American university. They are well-written, accurate, hut unpleasant memories.
"Taking pride in your bad behavior," writes Maisch, "and the wretched excesses of a life misspent is grist for stern sermons from the pulpit or, in our case, twisted little tales told to amaze and amuse our twisted little readers...."
"Daniel's Den" recounts high school boys at a night club in search of cheap thrills and Rock 'n Roll.
Two roommates fill their first three days at college with an escalating inter-dorm fracas, a drunken bash and indecent exposure in “Movin' In".
In "Scott's Jock", a father publicly embarrasses his son while buying athletic supporters, and “Two in A Canoe" is the story of a first attempt at sex between two teenagers.
Artistically, the best of the batch are "Daniel's Den" and its muscular, angular art, and "Movin' in" which is full of heavy lines, ink washes and attitude. Both emphasize style over accurate portrayals of reality, and are technically flawless.
Confessions… deserves an adult audience not because of profanity and smarmy situations, but because neither are exploitive. And, once again, NBM deserves applause as one of the rare comics publishers that under-stands "adults only" is not always a synonym for gratuitous sex, violence and profanity.
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MINIVIEW: The Haunted Man #1 (of 4) [Dark Horse]. An e-comic (a “weird hybrid of still pictures, animation, music and text” created on a computer) has been released as a comic book about a villain who steals parts of the past as a hero tries to stop him. Regrettably, the villain won’t steal your disappointment.
Its art, an uneasy wedding of computer graphics and traditional paper and ink, is barely less confusing and just as uninteresting as its muddled dialog and plot.
The Little Mermaid" (Danish: Den lille havfrue) is a fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid to gain a human soul and the love of a human prince. The tale was first published in 1837 and has been adapted to various media including musical theater and animated film.
The Little Mermaid lives in a utopian underwater kingdom with her father the sea king; her grandmother; and her five elder sisters, born one year apart. When a mermaid turns 15, she is allowed to swim to the surface to watch the world above, and as the sisters become old enough, one of them visits the surface every year. As each of them returns, the Little Mermaid listens longingly to their descriptions of the surface and of human beings.
When the Little Mermaid's turn comes, she ventures to the surface, sees a ship with a handsome prince, and falls in love with him from a distance. A great storm hits, and the Little Mermaid saves the prince from a near-drowning. She delivers him unconscious to the shore near a temple. Here she waits until a young girl from the temple finds him. The prince never sees the Little Mermaid.
The Little Mermaid asks her grandmother whether humans can live forever if they do not drown. The grandmother explains that humans have a much shorter lifespan than merfolk's 300 years, but that when mermaids die they turn to sea foam and cease to exist, while humans have an eternal soul that lives on in Heaven. The Little Mermaid, longing for the prince and an eternal soul, eventually visits the Sea Witch, who sells her a potion that gives her legs, in exchange for her tongue (as the Little Mermaid has the most intoxicating voice in the world). Drinking the potion will make her feel as if a sword is being passed through her, yet when she recovers she will have two beautiful legs, and will be able to dance like no human has ever danced before. However, it will constantly feel like she is walking on sharp swords, and her feet will bleed most terribly. In addition, she will only get a soul if the prince loves her and marries her, for then a part of his soul will flow into her. Otherwise, at dawn on the first day after he marries another woman, the Little Mermaid will die brokenhearted and disintegrate into sea foam.
The Little Mermaid drinks the potion and meets the prince, who is attracted to her beauty and grace even though she is mute. Most of all he likes to see her dance, and she dances for him despite her excruciating pain. When the prince's father orders his son to marry the neighboring king's daughter, the prince tells the Little Mermaid he will not, because he does not love the princess. He goes on to say he can only love the young woman from the temple, who he believes rescued him, but adds that the Little Mermaid is beginning to take the temple girl's place in his heart. It turns out that the princess is the temple girl, who had been sent to the temple to be educated. The prince loves her and the wedding is announced.
The prince and princess marry, and the Little Mermaid's heart breaks. She thinks of all that she has given up and of all the pain she has suffered. She despairs, thinking of the death that awaits her, but before dawn, her sisters bring her a knife that the Sea Witch has given them in exchange for their long hair. If the Little Mermaid slays the prince with the knife and lets his blood drip on her feet, she will become a mermaid again, all her suffering will end and she will live out her full life.
The Little Mermaid cannot bring herself to kill the sleeping prince lying with his bride and, as dawn breaks, throws herself into the sea. Her body dissolves into foam, but instead of ceasing to exist, she feels the warmth of the sun; she has turned into a spirit, a daughter of the air. The other daughters of the air tell her she has become like them because she strove with all her heart to gain an eternal soul. She will earn her own soul by doing good deeds, and she will eventually rise up into the kingdom of God.
This series was created in 1988 and published in Modular Origami [self-publication]
The model is assembled from 6 modules folded from 7.5cm square Duo-coloured papers. Numerous patterns can be generated by adding simple folds to certain parts of the module.
If the folds are repeated for the back, a hexagonal hole will be formed in the centre of the star. In this model, the pattern on the back of the model has the same pattern as Star A. .
Diagrams are posted in my old website - web.singnet.com.sg/~owrigami/geomet.htm [not updated]
and also at my new website, hosted by Nick Robinson. - www.nickrobinson.info/clients/owrigami/show_diagram.php?d...
I hope you enjoy folding these and perhaps make your own variations.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 15th of October 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
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Candids of audience during the Elizabethtown family movie night (shot for the Etown Advocate newspaper)
The Toronto Zoo is one of my favorite places to go and spend a day. The animals are well looked after, have lots of space and for the most part the zoo is very photographer friendly and provides lots of great photo opportunities.
This is one of my photos of the female Sumatran Tiger. (there's a breeding pair and 2 babies from 2007 housed at the Zoo). There have been days that I've gone and ended up spending the whole day at the Sumatran exhibit, leaving time for nothing else.
I submitted it to their annual photo contest and was thrilled to win first place in the Animals category. I was even more thrilled that it made the cover.