Passings...

[foggybottom]

Historical Passings on this Date December 3rd

311 – Diocletian, the Roman emperor who directed the Great Persecution from 303-312, Rome’s longest and bloodiest persecution of Christianity. Diocletion’s successors lifted his proscription, ruling that it had failed. Within 15 years after Diocletian’s death, Constantine made Christianity the preferred religion of the empire.

1894 – Robert Louis Stevenson, the prolific and popular Scottish author who penned Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, suffered from serious illness most of his life and died at age 44.

1919 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, famous French impressionist painter who painted portraits, scenes of daily life, and Reubenesque nudes. One of his paintings, Bal du moulin de la Galette (Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) sold for $78.1 million May 17, 1990 at Sotheby’s New York.

 

[Eulalia]

1894 – Robert Louis Stevenson, the prolific and popular Scottish author who penned Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, suffered from serious illness most of his life and died at age 44.

Under the wide and starry sky
Nail me down and raise me high,
Sub did I live, and victim die,
And I stretch my arms with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me
"Here she hangs where she longed to be,
Crucified mermaid fished from the sea,
And the hunter's prey caught on the hill."

 

[Apostate]

View attachment 786795

Under the wide and starry sky
Nail me down and raise me high,
Sub did I live, and victim die,
And I stretch my arms with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me
"Here she hangs where she longed to be,
Crucified mermaid fished from the sea,
And the hunter's prey caught on the hill."

Not bad, dear lady. Not bad at all.

 

[windar]

Diocletion’s successors lifted his proscription, ruling that it had failed.

So all that crucifying was for naught? See, I told you guys....

 

[connoisseurs]

So all that crucifying was for naught? See, I told you guys....

For sure not for naught! Where would we be without it? Most crucifications on CF are based on the experience and wisdom of the old Romans.

 

[Gibbs505]

View attachment 786795

Under the wide and starry sky
Nail me down and raise me high,
Sub did I live, and victim die,
And I stretch my arms with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me
"Here she hangs where she longed to be,
Crucified mermaid fished from the sea,
And the hunter's prey caught on the hill."

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Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

 

[Eulalia]

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Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

Indeed, but the pic I posted, View attachment 786795
is RLS's gravestone in Samoa, with just those words on it.

 

[Gibbs505]

Indeed, but the pic I posted, View attachment 786795
is RLS's gravestone in Samoa, with just those words on it.

The poem I quoted is
Requiem
By RSL

 

[Eulalia]

The poem I quoted is
Requiem
By RSL

I know, that's what's on his grave in the pic I posted.

 

[poem21045]

The poem I quoted is
Requiem
By RSL

RSL? I think you mean RLS (Robert Louis Stevenson).

 

[Gibbs505]

RSL? I think you mean RLS (Robert Louis Stevenson).

LOL, I missed that!

 

[phlebas]

RSL? I think you mean RLS (Robert Louis Stevenson).

Whereas RSL clubs are a central part of many Australian communities - Returned and Services League - basically licensed community clubs originally founded to support returned servicemen (veterans). The larger ones will have multiple dining areas, live shows, poker machines, bars, sports teams and sports facilities etc. I played cricket for one as a boy.

Returned and Services League of Australia - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Link to a typical Sydney suburban RSL club

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[Gibbs505]

A tragedy in New Zealand, my homeland.
Five deaths and several missing after volcano erupts.

New Zealand volcano: no survivors on White Island, police believe – as it happened

Police update follows reconnaissance flights over island, as death toll expected to rise from five

www.theguardian.com

 

[Loxuru]

Actor Rene Auberjonois (1940-2019)

 

[windar]

Paul Volcker (1927-2019) Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1979 and re-appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1983. He squelched the stubbornly high inflation that persisted through most the 1970s, which has not returned since in the G-7 countries. The cost was a period of very high interest rates that reached over 20% in 1980 and produced a fairly severe recession that lasted through 1982. He re-surfaced in public life at the time of the 2008 financial crisis with the "Volcker Rule" which limited trading for their own account by the big banks, something which had played a large role in the crisis.

He is famously quoted as saying, "The only useful innovation in banking in my lifetime was the ATM".

 

[Gibbs505]

Paul Volcker (1927-2019) Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Board, appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1979 and re-appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1983. He squelched the stubbornly high inflation that persisted through most the 1970s, which has not returned since in the G-7 countries. The cost was a period of very high interest rates that reached over 20% in 1980 and produced a fairly severe recession that lasted through 1982. He re-surfaced in public life at the time of the 2008 financial crisis with the "Volcker Rule" which limited trading for their own account by the big banks, something which had played a large role in the crisis.

He is famously quoted as saying, "The only useful innovation in banking in my lifetime was the ATM".

I remember that high interest period! Shudder!!
The joke was that the mafia was taking the banks to court, restraint of trade!!

 

[foggybottom]

A tragedy in New Zealand, my homeland.
Five deaths and several missing after volcano erupts.

New Zealand volcano: no survivors on White Island, police believe – as it happened

Police update follows reconnaissance flights over island, as death toll expected to rise from five

www.theguardian.com

That is tragic Gibbs, I heard some of those people were right at the rim of the crater when it erupted, that would have been hopeless.

 

[old slave]

A tragedy in New Zealand, my homeland.
Five deaths and several missing after volcano erupts.

New Zealand volcano: no survivors on White Island, police believe – as it happened

Police update follows reconnaissance flights over island, as death toll expected to rise from five

www.theguardian.com

Even the survivors have very serious burns, one more since died in hospital from them. Tragic.

 

[Apostate]

That is tragic Gibbs, I heard some of those people were right at the rim of the crater when it erupted, that would have been hopeless.

Some of my worst nightmares involve falling into molten lava.

 

[Loxuru]

Some of my worst nightmares involve falling into molten lava.

According to the latest investigations, it was not a real eruption of magmatic rock, but a very violent outburst of boiling water and steam.