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the writing is on the wall for this bar/venue which seems to have made itself unpopular with it's neighbours.
One of a photo collection taken at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Ariznoa. They have an amazing collection, and a friendly and knowledgeable staff. We had a great day there with the whole family. The kids love it… and so do the grown-ups. I had not been since I was a child… anyway. I hope you enjoy the image.
At the beginning of 1936, Orwell was looking for somewhere to live that was very cheap and where he could concentrate on writing his book. He heard that the lease was available on a cottage in the village of Wallington, 35 miles from London, in the Hertfordshire countryside. He caught a train to Baldock, walking the two or three miles to the village. The cottage was a very small sixteenth-century building with a tin roof and almost no modern facilities. Orwell took over the tenancy and moved in on 2 April 1936. He started work on The Road to Wigan Pier by the end of April, but also spent hours working on the garden. (Roses growing there today are said to be the same ones he purchased from Woolworths in nearby Hitchin). He also opened the front room up as a village shop to supplement his income. Orwell married Eileen O'Shaughnessy on 9 June 1936 in Wallington church. His parents in law were still trying to talk his fiance out of the marriage the night before in the Plough Inn next door. The reception was also at the Plough (now a private house).
Orwell left the cottage just before Christmas 1936 to take part in the Spanish Civil War but fled Spain in June 1937 after being wounded in the throat and also falling foul of the pro-Soviet Communist faction in Barcelona. Orwell's experiences in the Spanish Civil War gave rise to Homage to Catalonia (1938) but also coloured his later works such as 'Animal Farm' (1945). Although not written until after he left, the farm in his book 'Animal Farm' is thought to be modelled on Manor Farm in the village.
On arrival back in England, he stayed at the O'Shaughnessy home at Greenwich and then returned to the cottage in the first week of July 1937 finding things in disarray after his absence. He acquired some animals including a goat called 'Muriel', a rooster called 'Henry Ford', and a poodle puppy he called 'Marx' and settled down to writing 'Homage to Catalonia'.
With the coming of the War, Orwell spent more time living in London whilst working for the BBC and sub-let the cottage. He didn't finally give up the lease until July 1947 after he had moved to Jura.
At the time of posting, the cottage was for sale at £450,000.
Broadway and Embarcadero, Oakland, California • More plaques per landmark @ Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon, listed by the National Park Service on the National Register of Historic Places on September 1, 2000 (#00001067).
• To the left of Heinolds’ you see a wonderful mural depicting several stages of Jack’s life. To the left you see Jack and Charmian in front of the Winery Cottage welcoming guests to their estate. Then we see him standing at the steering wheel of the Snark. It is followed by an oval which displays the Wolf House as it was days before the fire. Over a view of Jack London Square as seen from the estuary hovering over Jack’s motto: The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. The famous wolf can be seen to the left of the hut Jack lived in during his Alaska years. – From Walter Schweikert's Bay Area Murals.
• Steeped in maritime lore, Jack London Square is one of Oakland’s most identifiable landmarks and a symbol of the city’s history as a seaport. Fronting a natural estuary leading to San Francisco Bay, the site was the heart of Oakland’s port operations, linking the industries of shipping and agriculture. It remains a vibrant working waterfront.
Jack London (January 12, 1876 – November 22, 1916) was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing.
In an introduction to a collection of stories, he wrote:
I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.
Jack London spent much of his boyhood on the waterfront that is now Jack London Square. Here, his youthful adventures as an oyster pirate and sailor inspired stories like The Sea-Wolf. Visit the life sized bronze stature of Jack London standing watch over the waterfront at the foot of Broadway, created by artist Cedric Wentworth.
London made notes for future books while sitting at the tables of Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon, built in 1883 from the timbers of a whaling ship. Now a National Literary Landmark, Heinold’s preserves its rustic character from an earlier era when it was frequented by eminent politicians, statesmen, authors, and artists, as well as humble sailors shipping out to sea. Adjacent to Heinold’s, a recreated model of the cabin Jack London lived in during his time spent in the Yukon is available for viewing. – From the website of Jack London Square.
I'm busy writing a research proposal for an MA thesis. Or, rather, I'm busy taking pictures of my desk when I should be writing my research proposal.
In most of the standard medieval iconographic compositions, St. Mark the Evangelist is presented accompanied by a lion which sometimes is with wings. The lion figure is present presumably because his Gospel emphasizes the royal dignity of Christ, and the lion is the figure representing his royalty. He is shown most of the times seated with a book or pen presenting his character of Evangelist and secretary of St. Peter. In some occasions, only the figure of the Lion, as one of his attributes, is presented.
St. Mark is known as the author of the second Gospel in the New Testament. This Gospel is dedicated to the life of Christ after his baptism, to his death and resurrection, focusing particularly on the last weeks of his life. Tradition says that St. Mark wrote this Gospel receiving the materials directly by St. Peter whilst accompanying him as a secretary on a journey to Rome. He has died in Alexandria where he also founded a church in this city. Several centuries after his death, his body was carried off by Venetian sailors bringing it to Venice where St. Mark became the patron saint of this city which adopts his emblem, the lion, as its own.
Link to “St. Mark the Evangelist” set
Link to "The four Evangelists" collection
Manuscript title: Biblia latina vulgatae versionis cum prologis
Origin: Engelberg (Switzerland)
Period: 12th century
Image source: Engelberg, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. 5, p. 134v – Biblia latina vulgatae versionis cum prologis (www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/bke/0005/134v)
Miscellany of medical recipes, culinary recipes, and other ephemera, mostly in Italian (Bolognese dialect), some in Latin. Incomplete composite manuscript, compiled for personal use. Variety of scribal hands. One dated folio (32v): "3 Dbre 1614 in bolog(n)oa." Some lively pen trials and doodles (50-51).
A restaurant with sophisticated ambiance and plenty of Picasso's original works accompany guests to enjoy their fine French cuisine - a nice place to be ..
History of the 'Success' from: blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2021/03/31/life-onboar...
In 1852 the Success, a merchant ship, arrived in Melbourne. It was the height of Victorian gold rush, and she was abandoned by her crew. An opportunity was quickly seized, as ‘she was acquired by the British Government to serve as a convict hulk at Hobson’s Bay,’ with 72 cells built to accommodate prisoners.
Maurice Downey relates how:
The unfortunate convicts who were confined below in ‘durance vile’ numbered 120, not one of whom escaped, and no wonder, seeing that they were completely at the mercy of 27 inhuman warders, who made their lives a very hell within their ocean habitation. A mere inspection of these cells and the instruments of torture with which they were amply furnished, is sufficient to make one shudder.
The Success was not the only prison hulk at anchor in Hobson’s Bay; she was joined by the President, Lysander, Sacramento and Deborah, to cope with Australia’s overflowing prison population. The Success, however, was notable for the ‘brutalities’ enacted on board, with prisoners subject to punishment by the dreaded cat-of-nine tails, with some receiving ‘as many as 100 lashes…with this hellish device.’
Further means of punishment included:
Leg-irons, spiked iron collars, straight iron jackets, body irons, with hand-cuffs attached, were also used on some of the prisoners doing their sentences on board the Success. The spiked iron collar was a shocking means of punishment, and was so constructed that the wearer was obliged to remain always in a stooping attitude, which induced ill-health in many, and was the cause of death to not a few.
One observer recalled all the horrors of dungeons and prisons from across the world, ‘but not one of these is to be compared in refinement of cruelty and multiplication of horrors to the floating hells of Victoria.’
The Success’s career as a prison hulk came to an end with ‘the dreadful murder of Inspector-General Price by a large number of convicts.’ John Price was murdered by convicts from the Success in 1859, and the Weekly Irish Times notes how:
His murder was the direct means of leading to the abolishing of the hulk system in Australia, and more than one Australian paper stated openly that as he had sown the wind he had reaped the whirlwind.
Meanwhile, in 1868 the system of transportation to Australia finally ceased, but years of abominable cruelty, especially on the hulks, had left their mark on many.
But the Success was not to be left alone, even after she had been converted to a store hulk. In 1890 she was purchased by entrepreneurs with the intent of making her into a floating museum. They installed former Success prisoner Harry Power as a sort of showman for the former prison hulk, as reports The Sketch. The author of The Sketch article, however, is unsupportive of the Success being made into a tourist spectacle:
A curio – interesting indeed; but her weather-worn face and draggled appearance tell us too plainly that she belonged to another age than ours. She has lived her life, done the duty allotted to her; pity it is she cannot be left in peace.
And although she was scuttled in 1891 with the venture being unsuccessful, she was soon after refloated and sent to tour the world, arriving in England in 1894. She was still touring in 1912, when crowds gathered at Cobh, Ireland, ‘to give a parting cheer to the venturous old ship,’ as reports the Suffolk and Essex Free Press. The Success was setting off to cross the Atlantic, where she was exhibited at the Great Lakes and San Francisco, before being sunk in 1918 or 1919, and then again refloated. The Success appeared at the Chicago World Fair in 1933.
C. Fox Smith, writing for Britannia and Eve in 1936, was highly critical of this use of the Success, deeming her display to represent ‘a floating Chamber of Horrors.’ But for many the Success served as a reminder of a supposedly bygone age of cruelty, which saw the torture of prisoners and the creation of ‘heartrending tales’ from the tightly-packed cells.
WHO WOULD STAR IN A MOVIE ABOUT YOUR LIFE? graffiti message board at 1 West North and North Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland on Tuesday afternoon, 5 July 2016 by Elvert Barnes Photography
Public Art In Public Spaces
elvertbarnes.com/PublicArt2016
Apartment Searching: Baltimore MD Series
which is why i procrastinated and ended up taking a picture of my handy dandy notebook! (name that tv show)
Dr Suess
This is the Captain.
He is upset.
He is a brave seafaring chap who has been documenting his area of the Welsh coast for many a year using photographic means. His pictures adorn many a kitchen wall in the form of calendars and has had numerous appearances in the press and local newspapers.
But a new challenger has sailed in to steal the Captains spoils.
The Man that Grabs Time.
A chance encounter on a stormy night resulted in a boon of popular photographs for the Timegrabber, much to the displeasure of the Captain. Now all the Captain can do is sigh a sad sigh as conversation turns to the now infamous 'Lightning Strikes Pier' shots of legend.
And why is the Captain so displeased?
The man that grabs time is his creation. A young promising fellow whom he groomed in the ways of photography and Flickring.
He has created a Monster.
handwritten by my grandmother...
apparently this recipe was a big deal when it came out in 1975
Recipe:
Bake @375 for 8min - this recipe makes approx 6doz
2 cups oil or margarin
3/4 cups firmly packed lt brown sugar
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp granulated sugar
1 tsp of vanilla
1 tsp of water
2 med eggs
2.5 cups sifted flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups raisins
1 pkg (12 oz) semisweet chocolate chips
1.) Beat softened butter, brown or white sugar, vanilla, water and eggs in a large bowl. until creamy and thoroughly blended
2.) By hand, stir in flour, baking soda and salt until well mixed. Stir in raisins and chocolate chips
3.) Using tsp set spoon dough by tsp onto cookie sheet, allow 1.5" between adjacent cookies
4.) Bake in moderate oven (375) for 8-12 min or until cookies are nicely browned, depending on how crisp or well done you like them.
Title: Bibliotheca chalcographica : illustrium virtute atque erudition in tota Europa, clarissimorum virorum…Collectore Jano Jacobo Boissardo, ves: sculptore Jan: Theod: de Bry Chalcogr:
Author: Boissard, Jean Jacques 1528-1602
Published: Francofurti : Impensis Johannis Ammonii Bibliopola
Year: 1650-1654
Call number: NE 218 .B657 1650
Physical Description: 9 parts in 1 volume. 438 portraits, 21 cm. The cover is most likely vellum with gold decorations, particularly the spine. The fore edges are yellow. There is an index and yellow and blue striped headbands. Almost all illustrations (portraits) and very little writing.
About this book: Also known as “De Bry’s Portraits of Illustrious Men." Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528-1602) was a French antiquary and Neo-Latin poet. He traveled in Germany, Italy and Greece but became ill and died in France (Wikipedia).
Note that there were multiple de Brys. It is unclear as to which one that this book is referring to.
Johann Theodor de Bry was a Flemish-German engraver and publisher. He sometimes collaborated with Jean Jacques Boissard (Wikipedia).
Sources cited:
Jean-Jacques Boissard (n.d.). Retrieved on June 17, 2015 from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Boissard
Johann Theodor de Bry (n.d.). Retrieved on June 17, 2015 from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Theodor_de_Bry