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Odds And Ends And Anything You Fancy
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wulf
God-Emperor
Crucifixions are on hold because of supply issues for the timbers and spikes are on backorder. All of the torture chambers under those secluded estates are down for maintenance, and most of the junta dictatorships have run out of subversives to interrogate, and their police centers are closed for renovation and upgrades.Quite quiet on the forum, the last days?
Things should return to normal soon... hopefully.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
OK8 Let's wait until all these big shots return with their private planes from the climate conference in Glasgow. They will then order to chop a few forests for supplying crucifixion wood, to nail all those who critisized their brilliant and ambitious plans to stop global warming.
Hugin&Munin
Presenter Of Images
And after that many trees are felled to burn the crucified. Of course, these piles of wood have to be soaked with premium petroleum. That will tell global warming what will happen to it if it doesn't stop immediately.OK8 Let's wait until all these big shots return with their private planes from the climate conference in Glasgow. They will then order to chop a few forests for supplying crucifixion wood, to nail all those who critisized their brilliant and ambitious plans to stop global warming.
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
Something like :And after that many trees are felled to burn the crucified. Of course, these piles of wood have to be soaked with premium petroleum. That will tell global warming what will happen to it if it doesn't stop immediately.
"From now on, our country will revert to sustainable energy only! To show the world we are serious, we have just dispensed with all our stocks of fossil fuels and burned them!"
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
The World Series, the culmination of the American baseball season, has just concluded. It is a best of seven series between two teams--the first team to win 4 games is the champion. In 1979, the PIttsburgh Pirates had lost 3 games to the Baltimore Orioles and won only 1, so were on the cusp of elimination as the series returned to Pittsburgh. The only other things you need to know to appreciate the snippet below is that Chuck Tanner managed the Pirates, and Kent Tekulve was their star relief pitcher (and the Pirates did eventually win).
But on their way to Three Rivers Stadium that morning, the players learned that Manager Chuck Tanner’s mother had died. Tekulve recalled that the players, normally boisterous and loud, sat glumly with their backs to their lockers, staring into the middle of the clubhouse, not knowing how to approach Tanner, or what to say.
Finally, not long before batting practice, Tanner appeared in the home clubhouse and told the players, “I know you heard about my mother. She knew we were in trouble, and she went to get help.”
But on their way to Three Rivers Stadium that morning, the players learned that Manager Chuck Tanner’s mother had died. Tekulve recalled that the players, normally boisterous and loud, sat glumly with their backs to their lockers, staring into the middle of the clubhouse, not knowing how to approach Tanner, or what to say.
Finally, not long before batting practice, Tanner appeared in the home clubhouse and told the players, “I know you heard about my mother. She knew we were in trouble, and she went to get help.”
Hugin&Munin
Presenter Of Images
So for you the time will be set back this weekend, for us in the EU it was already the previous weekend
Gibbs505
SERVORUM DOMITOR
Indeed, the EU is ahead of us, how were your spiders!
Hugin&Munin
Presenter Of Images
spiders?
Gibbs505
SERVORUM DOMITOR
Check the attachment I posted!
Hugin&Munin
Presenter Of Images
Since the clock was turned back, they are a tiny bit flattened.
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Earliest photos of British Army Soldiers in the 1840s. No sound
Photos of last survivors of the Napoleonic Wars
Photos of last survivors of the Napoleonic Wars
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Fascinating - for me, at least! Lieut. Col. William Burns (two portraits 4:21 on) may well have been the son of Robert Burns:
Burns, Colonel William Nicol (1791 — 1872)
Second surviving son of the poet, named after William Nicol, the schoolmaster of the Edinburgh High School. He was educated at Dumfries Grammar School, and in London. He married Catherine, daughter of R Crone, Esq of Dublin. They had no family. Having sailed to India as a young man, he ultimately became a Lieut-Colonel in the East India Company's service. He was made a Colonel at home in 1855. When he retired he returned to England to Cheltenham where he stayed with his younger brother. He is buried in the Mausoleum.Writing to George Thomson in a letter dated by Ferguson May 1795, Burns explained why he had called his third son after the schoolmaster. It was because: 'of that propensity to witty wickedness and manfu' mischief, which even at twa days auld I foresaw would form the striking feature of his disposition.'
I love old photos like this. Most of these appear to be portraits, or photos taken at Edinburgh Castle. Very early some of them, 1840s.
I particularly love Roger Fenton's photos from the Crimean War, taken on campaign, showing real soldiers going about their business. These are the closest we will ever get to photos of Napoleonic Wars troops, the uniforms and modes of combat are still very similar.
American Civil War photos are a different class altogether, just a few years later but almost completely lacking that Napoleonic quality. In just a decade we went from the Crimea to the Civil War, from the last great conflict of the old style to the first of the new, with railways, mass armies, trenches, ironclad warships and the Gatling gun.
On a different note, I hope the following story doesn't mean we will see less pictures of naked ladies running around east European cities?
Police investigate people taking partially nude photos near Russian landmarks
Young people jailed for posting online sexually suggestive pictures taken in Moscow, St Petersburg and elsewhere
www.theguardian.com
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
United States, 1840. Several are in Philadelphia and a few, I recognize the locale.I love old photos like this. Most of these appear to be portraits, or photos taken at Edinburgh Castle. Very early some of them, 1840s.
I particularly love Roger Fenton's photos from the Crimean War, taken on campaign, showing real soldiers going about their business. These are the closest we will ever get to photos of Napoleonic Wars troops, the uniforms and modes of combat are still very similar.
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American Civil War photos are a different class altogether, just a few years later but almost completely lacking that Napoleonic quality. In just a decade we went from the Crimea to the Civil War, from the last great conflict of the old style to the first of the new, with railways, mass armies, trenches, ironclad warships and the Gatling gun.
On a different note, I hope the following story doesn't mean we will see less pictures of naked ladies running around east European cities?
Police investigate people taking partially nude photos near Russian landmarks
Young people jailed for posting online sexually suggestive pictures taken in Moscow, St Petersburg and elsewhere
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Start your morning with an example of optimism:
Swedish Conductor Herbert Blomstedt reached 94 in July.
He has concert performances booked out into 2023!
You go, Herb!
Swedish Conductor Herbert Blomstedt reached 94 in July.
He has concert performances booked out into 2023!
You go, Herb!
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
Well, George McClellan for one (the "Young Napolean") liked to pose with his hand in his uniform shirt--old style. I assume the poses were assumed because of the exposure times required. The Civil War did break new ground photographically, however.I love old photos like this. Most of these appear to be portraits, or photos taken at Edinburgh Castle. Very early some of them, 1840s.
I particularly love Roger Fenton's photos from the Crimean War, taken on campaign, showing real soldiers going about their business. These are the closest we will ever get to photos of Napoleonic Wars troops, the uniforms and modes of combat are still very similar.
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American Civil War photos are a different class altogether, just a few years later but almost completely lacking that Napoleonic quality. In just a decade we went from the Crimea to the Civil War, from the last great conflict of the old style to the first of the new, with railways, mass armies, trenches, ironclad warships and the Gatling gun.
On a different note, I hope the following story doesn't mean we will see less pictures of naked ladies running around east European cities?
Police investigate people taking partially nude photos near Russian landmarks
Young people jailed for posting online sexually suggestive pictures taken in Moscow, St Petersburg and elsewhere
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
It was at Antietam in that war that rows of dead on the battlefield were photographed and displayed a few days later in an NYC studio. There are fascinating photos, but I understand(?) they would violate standards to post here.