'The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.' — Dr. Seuss (I Can Read with My Eyes Shut)
About Me
- Sam
- Kindness. Humanism.Secular. Sceptic. History, Pre-Raphaelites, Reading, Life-Long Learning. 'Sanity Is Not Statistical'.'Fill the unforgiving minute...'.
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Monday, 29 October 2012
Helen (1863) - Rossetti
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/rossetti/works/beauties/helenoftroy.aspx - 'The model was Annie Miller.'
Sunday, 28 October 2012
Friday, 26 October 2012
1600s
1607 -http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6616037.stm - Jamestown founded
1609 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/galilei_galileo.shtml - Galileo discoveres Jupieter's four large moons
1610 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t4jx0 - Caravaggio dies
1610/1611 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tempest - The Tempest is written
1611 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x3qy7 - King James Bible published
1616 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/shakespeare_william.shtml - Shakespeare dies - 'Some of his most famous tragedies were written in the early 1600s including 'Hamlet', 'Othello', 'King Lear' and 'Macbeth'. His late plays, often known as the Romances, date from 1608 onwards and include 'The Tempest''
1609 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/galilei_galileo.shtml - Galileo discoveres Jupieter's four large moons
1610 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t4jx0 - Caravaggio dies
1610/1611 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tempest - The Tempest is written
1611 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x3qy7 - King James Bible published
1616 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/shakespeare_william.shtml - Shakespeare dies - 'Some of his most famous tragedies were written in the early 1600s including 'Hamlet', 'Othello', 'King Lear' and 'Macbeth'. His late plays, often known as the Romances, date from 1608 onwards and include 'The Tempest''
Thursday, 25 October 2012
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
RB Quiz - 22 October 2012
Gonerill, Regen, Cordelia - King Lear's daughters - 'pelican daughters' quote
Saturday, 20 October 2012
Millais's Collected Illustrations
John Melhuish Strudwick
When Sorrow comes to Summerday Roses bloom in Vain - http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/john-melhuish-strudwick-when-sorrow.html
Vanity, 1925 (pastel on paper)
http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/283714/Cowper-Frank-Cadogan-1877-1958/Vanity-1925-pastel-on-paper?search_context=%7B%22url%22%3A%22%5C%2Fsearch%3Ffilter_text%3Dvanity%2Bcowper%26x%3D0%26y%3D0%22%2C%22filter%22%3A%7B%22filter_text%22%3A%22vanity+cowper%22%2C%22filter_searchoption_id%22%3A%222%22%2C%22filter_assetstatus_id%22%3A1%2C%22filter_prev_text%22%3A%22vanity+cowper%22%7D%2C%22num_results%22%3A%222%22%2C%22sort_order%22%3A%22relevance%22%2C%22search_type%22%3A%22search_assets%22%2C%22item_index%22%3A0%7D
http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/frank-cadogan-cowper-vanity.html
http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2009/05/frank-cadogan-cowper-vanity.html
Walker Art Gallery
'The Ruins of Holyrood Chapel', Louis Jacques Mand Daguerre, c.1824 - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/daguerre.aspx
'A Monkey' by George Stubbs, 1799 - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/18c/stubbs-monkey.aspx
'Puck', Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1856) - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/puck_hosmer.aspx
'Millie Smith', 1846, Ford Madox Brown - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/millie_smith.aspx
'A Monkey' by George Stubbs, 1799 - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/18c/stubbs-monkey.aspx
'Puck', Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1856) - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/puck_hosmer.aspx
'Millie Smith', 1846, Ford Madox Brown - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/19c/millie_smith.aspx
Friday, 19 October 2012
Dante Gabriel RossettiSancta Lilias 1874
Sancta Lilias - 1874 (according to inscription) painted by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882).
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rossetti-sancta-lilias-n02440/text-exhibition-catalogue-text
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/rossetti-sancta-lilias-n02440/text-exhibition-catalogue-text
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Penguin - Inky Fool
http://blog.inkyfool.com/2012/10/the-etymologicon-in-americas.html
'Pen is the Welsh word for head, thus Penzance in Cornwall is the Holy Headland. Gwyn is the Welsh word for white, as in Gwendolyn, which just means white in the same where that Candida does in Latin. So when Welsh sailors first saw the Newfoundland Auk, with a white patch on his head, they decided to call it a whitehead or penguin.' - Inky Fool
'Pen is the Welsh word for head, thus Penzance in Cornwall is the Holy Headland. Gwyn is the Welsh word for white, as in Gwendolyn, which just means white in the same where that Candida does in Latin. So when Welsh sailors first saw the Newfoundland Auk, with a white patch on his head, they decided to call it a whitehead or penguin.' - Inky Fool
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
One of my favourite lines in Shakespeare
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57532311/j.k-rowling-on-the-private-world-in-my-head/- Charlie Rose mentions Hitchens’ Harry Potter Review - JK Rowling Interview - CBS
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/books/review/Hitchens-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 - Hitchens’ review
‘The distinctly slushy close of the story may seem to hold out the faint promise of a sequel, but I honestly think and sincerely hope that this will not occur. The toys have been put firmly back in the box, the wand has been folded up, and the conjuror is discreetly accepting payment while the children clamor for fresh entertainments. (I recommend that they graduate to Philip Pullman, whose daemon scheme is finer than any patronus.) It’s achievement enough that “19 years later,” as the last chapter-heading has it, and quite probably for many decades after that, there will still be millions of adults who recall their initiation to literature as a little touch of Harry in the night.’
Henry V - Act 4, prologue
‘His liberal eye doth give to everyone, Thawing cold fear, that mean and gentle all Behold, as may unworthiness define, A little touch of Harry in the night.And so our scene must to the battle fly, Where, Oh, for pity, we shall much disgrace, With four or five most vile and ragged foils Right ill-disposed in brawl ridiculous, The name of Agincourt. Yet sit and see, Minding true things by what their mock’ries be.’ http://nfs.sparknotes.com/henryv/page_150.html
Labels:
harry potter,
Henry V,
hitchens,
pullman,
rowling,
shakespeare
Monday, 15 October 2012
Zhukov
Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov - http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/10/stalins-general
Saturday, 13 October 2012
William Hogarth and Georgian Life
http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/09/william-hogarth-and-georgian-life
'It is a sad irony that England’s greatest painter of children (The Graham Children, for example) was childless. However, Hogarth and Jane worked tirelessly for the Foundling Hospital, helping other people’s children. The love for them fuelled Hogarth’s masterpiece, his portrait of the founder of the Foundling Hospital, Thomas Coram'
'It is a sad irony that England’s greatest painter of children (The Graham Children, for example) was childless. However, Hogarth and Jane worked tirelessly for the Foundling Hospital, helping other people’s children. The love for them fuelled Hogarth’s masterpiece, his portrait of the founder of the Foundling Hospital, Thomas Coram'
Labels:
Hogarth
Thursday, 11 October 2012
How I use exercise to deal with my depression - John Crace
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Fibre
http://foodhospital.channel4.com/conditions/diabetes/fibre
'Items such as bran cereal, oats and beans (such as kidneys and lentils) are all good sources of fibre.'
'Items such as bran cereal, oats and beans (such as kidneys and lentils) are all good sources of fibre.'
RB Quiz
8/10/12
Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, 'Mustard Seed' - A Midsummer Night's Dream Fairies
Penny Lane is in Liverpool.
Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth, 'Mustard Seed' - A Midsummer Night's Dream Fairies
Penny Lane is in Liverpool.
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Friday, 5 October 2012
Thursday, 4 October 2012
Great Lives - William Hogarth
Ian Hislop chooses William Hogarth - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dnwsm
'Hogarth has always been a hero of mine' - Ian Hislop
1697 - Hogarth was born during the reign of 'William and Mary' (dies 1764)
1764 - dies in London, David Garrick (actor) was his friend
'Gin Lane' - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hogarth-gin-lane-t01799/text-catalogue-entry
'Marraige a la mode' - http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/william-hogarth-marriage-a-la-mode-1-the-marriage-settlement
Outre - unconventional, bizarre
- Hogarth was involved with a foundling hospital
http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/art64982- Thomas Coram (foudner of the foundling hospital) - portrait by Hogarth
http://www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/ - The Foundling Museum
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/william-hogarth - William Hogarth
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/william-augustus-17211765-duke-of-cumberland-son-of-george30721 - 'William Augustus (1721–1765), Duke of Cumberland, Son of George II ' (attributed to)
http://www.soane.org/collections_legacy/the_soane_hogarths/rakes_progress/- A Rake's Progress
'Hogarth has always been a hero of mine' - Ian Hislop
1697 - Hogarth was born during the reign of 'William and Mary' (dies 1764)
1764 - dies in London, David Garrick (actor) was his friend
'Gin Lane' - http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hogarth-gin-lane-t01799/text-catalogue-entry
'Marraige a la mode' - http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/william-hogarth-marriage-a-la-mode-1-the-marriage-settlement
Outre - unconventional, bizarre
- Hogarth was involved with a foundling hospital
http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/art64982- Thomas Coram (foudner of the foundling hospital) - portrait by Hogarth
http://www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/ - The Foundling Museum
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/william-hogarth - William Hogarth
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/william-augustus-17211765-duke-of-cumberland-son-of-george30721 - 'William Augustus (1721–1765), Duke of Cumberland, Son of George II ' (attributed to)
http://www.soane.org/collections_legacy/the_soane_hogarths/rakes_progress/- A Rake's Progress
Great Lives - Mozart
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00glx0b - Michael Morpurgo chooses Mozart
1756 - born in Salzburg, Austria
1791 - Died
Insalubrious - not conducive to health, unwholesome
'Leopold' - Mozart's father
1756 - born in Salzburg, Austria
1791 - Died
Insalubrious - not conducive to health, unwholesome
'Leopold' - Mozart's father
This Sceptred Isle - 216/216
'The conclusion of the epic series. Anna Massey considers Britain's history, from the Romans to the first Prime Minister.'
55BC - Roman invasion of Britain?
410 AD - Romans leave Britain?
Henry II - 1st of the Plantagenet Kings
1215 - Magna Carta
Act of Settlement - throne of England to go to the Elector of Hanover.
George I - spoke no English
George IV - 'gluttonous rake'
Queen Anne - 1708 - last time a monarch vetoed legislation
55BC - Roman invasion of Britain?
410 AD - Romans leave Britain?
Henry II - 1st of the Plantagenet Kings
1215 - Magna Carta
Act of Settlement - throne of England to go to the Elector of Hanover.
George I - spoke no English
George IV - 'gluttonous rake'
Queen Anne - 1708 - last time a monarch vetoed legislation
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Not a Miracle, but a Trick - The statue of Hermione
http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/winterstale/notes/35
'The statue of Hermione at Paulina's house is not a real statue that comes to life by a miracle, it is actually Hermione herself. '
'The statue of Hermione at Paulina's house is not a real statue that comes to life by a miracle, it is actually Hermione herself. '
The portrait of Benjamin Disraeli
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2012/oct/03/disraeli-portrait-one-nation-labour
'John Everett Millais's elegiac 1881 painting of the prime minister thrills beyond mere portraiture.' - Jonathan Jones
'John Everett Millais's elegiac 1881 painting of the prime minister thrills beyond mere portraiture.' - Jonathan Jones
This Scepred Isle - 215/216
'The Death of Victoria and the Dream of Gerontius'
1899 - Boer War starts
'concentration camps'
'Khaki election' - 1900 - Conservative party reuturned to Office
Princess Helena - Victoria's daughter - referred to as 'Lenchen'
22nd Jan - 1901 - Victoria dies at Osborne House (Isle of Wight), surrounded by children and granchildren
'John Brown' - Scottish
'Nelson's Victory'
- Buried alongside Prince Albert
April 1900 -Victoria travels to Dublin
1899 - Boer War starts
'concentration camps'
'Khaki election' - 1900 - Conservative party reuturned to Office
Princess Helena - Victoria's daughter - referred to as 'Lenchen'
22nd Jan - 1901 - Victoria dies at Osborne House (Isle of Wight), surrounded by children and granchildren
'John Brown' - Scottish
'Nelson's Victory'
- Buried alongside Prince Albert
April 1900 -Victoria travels to Dublin
This Scepred Isle - 214/216
The Boer War Turns the Century - 'As Queen Victoria reaches 80, the country is at war in South Africa.'
1899 - Victoria is 80 years old, Prince of Wales is 58 years old, PM is Lord Salisbury
Boer = Dutch word for farmer
Rhodesia named for Cecil Rhodes (now Zimbabwe)
1895 - Joseph Chamberlain becomes Colonial Secretary
1899 - Victoria is 80 years old, Prince of Wales is 58 years old, PM is Lord Salisbury
Boer = Dutch word for farmer
Rhodesia named for Cecil Rhodes (now Zimbabwe)
1895 - Joseph Chamberlain becomes Colonial Secretary
This Scepred Isle - 213/216
Omdurman, Ladysmith and Mafeking
'Victoria has reigned longer than any other monarch and celebrations are afoot.'
Sep 23 - 1897 - Victoria becomes longest reiginig British monarch
Joseph Chamberlain - Conservative
Queen's Grandson = German Emperor (Kaiser Bill)
1902 - Arthur Balfour succeeds Uncle as PM
June 1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo
1898 - Gladstone died (He tried to achieve Home Rule for Ireland)
Queen Victoria 'adored Disraeli'
1894 - Glastone resigns, succeded by Lord Rosebery (Liberal?)
Joseph Chamberlain - Liberal Unionist Leader?
Sep 2 1898 - Battle of Omdurman, outside Khartoum (Churchill was present at the battle)
'Herbert Kitchener'
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02536/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&search=sas&sText=gladstone&role=sit&rNo=5 -
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02537/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&search=sas&sText=gladstone&role=sit&rNo=7 -
'Victoria has reigned longer than any other monarch and celebrations are afoot.'
Sep 23 - 1897 - Victoria becomes longest reiginig British monarch
Joseph Chamberlain - Conservative
Queen's Grandson = German Emperor (Kaiser Bill)
1902 - Arthur Balfour succeeds Uncle as PM
June 1914 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated in Sarajevo
1898 - Gladstone died (He tried to achieve Home Rule for Ireland)
Queen Victoria 'adored Disraeli'
1894 - Glastone resigns, succeded by Lord Rosebery (Liberal?)
Joseph Chamberlain - Liberal Unionist Leader?
Sep 2 1898 - Battle of Omdurman, outside Khartoum (Churchill was present at the battle)
'Herbert Kitchener'
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02536/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&search=sas&sText=gladstone&role=sit&rNo=5 -
William Ewart Gladstone - George Frederic Watts (oil on panel, 1859)
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02537/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&search=sas&sText=gladstone&role=sit&rNo=7 -
William Ewart Gladstone - Carlo Pellegrini (watercolour, published in Vanity Fair 6 February 1869)
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw02538/William-Ewart-Gladstone?LinkID=mp01789&search=sas&sText=gladstone&role=sit&rNo=14 - William Ewart Gladstone - Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
(oil on canvas, 1879)
(oil on canvas, 1879)
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
31 Healthy Foods You Should Be Eating Now
Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/01/guide-the-31-healthiest-foods-of-all-time-with-recipes/#ixzz288MrQWoP
Monday, 1 October 2012
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