#Admiral Ernest King

[araiz-zaria]

Most Satanic Admiral... GO! 💀🌊🔥

(Suffren is the one on the left, King on the right)

#not art #it's crack o'clock folks #this is one of those high quality shitposts 😎💀🔥 #polls #let's hope that many ppl vote in this one 😏🤣🙈 #naval history #pierre andré de suffren #french navy #ernest j king #ernest king #us navy #maritime history #american revolution #WW II #no RN admirals need to apply 😌🤭😉😺🌊 #yea yea recency bias and all... #but nvm that #who's gonna vote on this poll?? #reblogs are encouraged ofc

[trans-eddie]

one of the kids, (maybe dustin? erica?) has an assignment they can't get through. pride and prejudice by jane austen. they can't focus, can't get through the language, can't deal with the romance, whatever.

and eddie, passionate reader with a broad taste, and steve, secret romantic at heart who only ever completed reading the romance ones, insist on its importance.

they decide to read it out for them, help them get the gist through performance (eddie's idea, really,) and steve and eddie stand opposite each other and dramatically start to read.

but steve is a little too fucking ernest, giving mr. darcy's empassioned confession.

"In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

and eddie, feeling a little breathless, feeds him the rebuff, something in him cringing as he compares how he previously thought of king steve in comparison to elizabeth's perception of mr. darcy.

he compares the mischaracterization based on this perception, darcy posessing the honest affection he boasted because he hid a heart beneath his exterior that he didn't know how to express, was worth all the reverence bestowed on him despite elizabeth's vehement disagreement and bitterness about it. before she got a peek behind the curtain, before she set aside her own prejudices to see the man he truly was.

and they gravitate towards each other, reading their passages, circling the space like a whirlpool in a drain, drawing towards the center until they are sharing the same breaths, and eddie looks in steve's eyes and realizes oh.

oh, oh, oh.

#steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #eddie munson x steve harrington #stranger things

[duchesssoflennox]

Who do you think are the 3 most beautiful granddaughters of Queen Victoria?

Beauty is a subjective matter, and different people may have different preferences and tastes.

I'm sure that all the granddaughters of Queen Victoria are beautiful and unique in their own way... 💓🫶🥺 However, in my opinion, 3 of the most beautiful granddaughters of Queen Victoria are included:

- Princess Margaret of Connaught (1882–1920) was the daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, the third son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She married Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, the future King Gustaf VI Adolf, in 1905 and became the Crown Princess of Sweden. She was known for her beauty, intelligence, and charm, and was popular among the Swedish people. She died in 1920, at the age of 38.

- Princess Victoria Melita of Edinburgh (1876–1936) was the daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. She married twice: first to her cousin Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse; and second to another cousin Kirill Vladimirovich, Grand Duke of Russia. She was considered a beauty in her youth, with dark hair and blue eyes. She was also interested in music and art, and supported her husband's claim to the Russian throne after the revolution.

- Princess Marie of Edinburgh (1875–1938) was the daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. She married King Ferdinand I of Romania in 1893. She was admired for her beauty, elegance, and style, and was nicknamed "the pearl of the crown" by the Romanian people. She was also a patron of arts and culture, and a humanitarian who helped refugees.

#Margaret of Connaught #Victoria melita of Edinburgh #Marie of Edinburgh

[aimeedaisies]

Court Circular | 7th September 2023

Balmoral Castle

The King was represented by the Lord Bridges (former Solicitor to The late Queen) at the Service of Thanksgiving for Sir Matthew Farrer (former Solicitor to The late Queen) which was held in St Magnus-the-Martyr, Lower Thames Street, London EC3, this afternoon.

The Princess Royal was represented by Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence.

St James’s Palace

The Princess Royal, President, Riding for the Disabled Association, this morning visited Digswell Place Group, Digswell Place Stables, Rectory Road, Welwyn Garden City, to mark its Fiftieth Anniversary, and was received by Mr Anthony Chapman (Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire).

Her Royal Highness, President, UK Fashion and Textile Association, this afternoon visited MAES London Womenswear Manufacturer, the Archives, Unit 10 High Cross Centre, Fountayne Road, London N15, and was received by Captain Peter Baker (Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London).

The Princess Royal, Patron, South Georgia Heritage Trust, accompanied by Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, this evening attended the Return of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Quest Crow’s Nest Service at All Hallows by the Tower, Byward Street, London EC3, followed by a Dinner at Trinity House, Tower Hill, London EC3.

#court circular #princess anne #princess royal #tim laurence #timothy laurence #king charles iii

[georgefairbrother]

A little over 40 years after the Abdication Crisis that had peaked in December of 1936, Thames Television, holder of the weekday independent TV franchise for London and the Home Counties, commissioned a dramatisation based on the exhaustive Wolfson History Prize winning biography of Edward VIII by Frances Donaldson.

There was great care taken in terms of casting, production design, and location filming that included Fort Belvedere where many of the real events unfolded. Edward and Mrs Simpson seemed to be as close as you could possibly get to 1930s culture, fashion and upper-class society without a time machine. Written for television by Simon Raven and directed by pioneering British-Asian director Waris Hussein, the series was rewarded with an Emmy and multiple BAFTAs.

In retrospect, it appears to be as faithful to real events as a drama could be, including verbatim conversations and parliamentary statements. Edward VIII, formerly the Prince of Wales known as David, then finally the Duke of Windsor, was played by Edward Fox, and Wallis Simpson by Cynthia Harris. Other key castings included Nigel Hawthorne, yet to find stardom as Sir Humphrey Appleby in Yes Minister / Prime Minister, as the King’s friend and advisor Walter Monckton, David Waller as Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (He reprised this role in 1988 for another adaptation, The Woman He Loved, starring Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour and Olivia de Havilland), Peggy Ashcroft as Queen Mary, Marius Goring as King George V, and Wensley Pithey as a totally convincing Winston Churchill. Versatile British-Australian actor Ed Deveraux played Tory press baron Lord Beaverbrook, a role he later reprised in The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (BBC 1981).

Other notable players included Andrew Ray (Duke of York / George VI), Charles Keating (Ernest Simpson), Patrick Troughton (Clement Attlee), Patricia Hodge (Lady Diana Cooper), Maurice Denham (Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury), Cherie Lunghi (Thelma Furness) and Hugh Fraser (Anthony Eden).

The Duke of Windsor died in 1972, but the Duchess of Windsor, formerly Mrs Simpson, was still alive when the programme was conceived and broadcast. (She died in 1986). She was not best pleased, citing invasion of privacy, and lobbied to have the production stopped. Her opposition was reported in The Sun, and perhaps might have been more newsworthy if not for another significant event in August 1977.

The series ended with the marriage of the Duke and now Duchess of Windsor, some months after the Abdication.

The BFI Screen-Online review stated;

"…The series also carefully juxtaposes Edward’s frequent, and popular, visits to depressed areas with his opulent and carefree private life, and doesn’t shy from showing his admiration for Mussolini in a pair of brief but pointed exchanges with Anthony Eden…Edward Fox gives a fine and charismatic performance as the King, ably suggesting the contradictory impulses that ruled the man. Wallis Simpson, however, is presented rather less sympathetically. In an occasionally heavy-handed performance, Cynthia Harris plays her as a cool and conniving gold-digger, albeit a sometimes naïve and even disarmingly foolish one…"

The portrayal of Edward VIII was a little more sympathetic than in some later productions, including Bertie and Elizabeth (2002). Edward and Mrs Simpson did tend to gloss over the King’s fascist sympathies, although it was at least alluded to as mentioned in the BFI review. Perhaps, in fairness, these along with some alleged shady financial dealings, meddling in Britain’s foreign policy and the cosy relationship with Hitler, didn’t really become apparent until the period after the series ended. Wensley Pithey’s Winston Churchill was accurately shown as a strong and sincere personal friend and advocate for the King and Wallis Simpson, in public and private, to the annoyance of the Baldwin government, but this relationship later soured when Churchill was wartime Prime Minister, over the Duke of Windsor’s behaviour.

#edward and mrs simpson #british royal family #social history #thames television #period drama #duke of windsor #duchess of windsor #abdication crisis #wallis simpson #uk history #royal history #edward viii #british television

[ainulindaelynn]

10 Favorite Movies

Tagged by @aeide, @sleeplessincarcosa, & @brasideios. Thanks for thinking of me everyone :) This was harder than I expected! I rarely watch movies for some weird reason, so subject to frequent change and in no particular order...

1. Fight Club (1999)

Just for the shock value. After finishing this movie, I immediately had to start it over and rewatch on the spot. Only other movie that’s ever done that to me was Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. I love a good concept drop that changes everything.

2. Pride & Prejudice (1995)

I’m willing to die on this hill, folks. 1995 beats 2005 at every angle. You can’t beat Colin Firth at regency drama. King’s Speech? Importance of Being Ernest? Also every moment of this film is crisp and poignant. I turn it on in the background every few years. A solid comfort movie.

3. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Live stunts, which are CRAZY… The shot clipping. The lack of dialogue. The stylistic choices as a whole are just fantastic. And the overarching themes! Not to mention Charlize Theron. And Furiosa being an amputee! SO GOOD.

4. Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001)

It’s cliche, but I’ll never stop finding new things to love about this trilogy. Or admiring Tolkien’s complete obsession and immersion in his own fictional world. The fact that entire books are made from pieced-together napkin scribblings left scattered all over his life is just writer goals.

5. Dirty Dancing (1987)

Guilty pleasure. Despite being a truly horrific dancer myself, I’m a bit obsessed with it. Being able to connect to your body like that… not a very familiar feeling for me 😂 And I have a serious soft spot for Patrick Swayze.

6. Hamilton (2020)

Cheating here, but it’s on Disney+ so I’m not apologizing. I think it takes an undeservedly rosy outlook on history, but the first time I watched this I was floored. Leslie Odom Jr. and Christopher Jackson, in particular, KILLED those performances. Unbelievably good. And I’m weirdly obsessed with the way they use dance and sound to make everything so seamless and alive, while completely in the background is just 🙌

7. Overboard (1987)

TERRIBLE movie. Do NOT recommend. Extremely problematic on every level. But somehow it found its way to the top of my guilty pleasure list and I can’t extract it. But that hard work montage? And the fact that Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn are life partners ❤️

8. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)

My cliche childhood horse obsession loved this movie. But my adult self loves it so much more. I’ve only recently been learning how they handled the representation. And that metaphor, folks. That METAPHOR! No clue how this got made, but I’m behind it.

9. Gladiator (2000)

Even with what I assume are egregious inaccuracies, this is such a fun movie with such a great soundtrack. I love the aesthetic. Russell Crowe and Joaquin Phoenix… the cinematography… That dagger at the end… The commentary on power. And it came out in the golden era of YouTube fanvids. I still can’t listen to this song without seeing specific sword strokes 😂

10. Rogue One (2016)

Jyn Erso is my spirit animal. I love that neither Jyn or Cassian are traditional leads. I love that the team chose NOT to go for the cliche romance, which gives it so much more character and relational depth IMO. I love that it’s hopeless and also …uplifting? And I extra love that it gives (what I perceive to be) a major nod to KotOR’s Unknown World.

Tagging @ruzzsta214, @egoborderline, @xeagle-bearerx, @raenacreates, @inlovewithassassins2, @justalittlerayofpitchblack, @newengland-shrike, @fenharel-enaste, @fanonisrealcanon, @ratcready. As always, no pressure though :)

#tag games #movies

[fromtheboundlesssea]

None could deny that the young prince was greatly admired by all those that came across him. None could imagine the boy who spent many a small council meeting on his father’s knee might one day rule the land under the moniker of the Red King.

edit of King Arthur by Charles Ernest Butler

#my art #neither gods nor men #my edit #to the best of my feeble abilities on my phone #rhaenor targaryen

[nordleuchten]

16, 26 and 27 for the history asks! 🥰

16. Do you own some historical item (e.g. coin, clothing, weapons, books, etc.) If yes, which one is your favourite?

I do not own anything “special” but my family is very tight knit and there are several family-heirlooms that have been passed down through the generations. Since most men in my family have served in the navy, some of the pieces are rather exotic. My favourites are a few pieces of jewellery and a book that my great-grandfather was gifted by his captain as a young lad during one Christmas at sea and that he later gave his young wife when he had to leave her and their children to go to war. My great-grandmother was bombed out several times, but this one book has survived it all.

26. Who do you think is a forgotten hero we should know about and admire?

The courageous man and women who resisted the Nazi dictatorship in Germany and elsewhere and whose names and deeds are too often completely forgotten. The men and women who hide people prosecuted by the Nazis. The men and women who provided food and shelter although their own situation was dire. The men and women who got those prosecuted out of country. The men and women who wrote and published flyers, articles and the like to raise awareness of the heinous crimes committed by the Nazis. The neighbours who knew, that these strange sounds were not coming from the people living right next them, and who choose to keep silent. The shopkeepers who knew, that that one family was not just buying groceries for themselves, and who choose to keep silent. The conductors who knew, that these papers were forged, and who choose to keep silent.

I do not care if you were the founder of your country, a great King or if a whole era was named after you. The likes of George Washington and Queen Victoria can not hold a candle to these brave men and women wo risked their lives and the future of their families, their friends and associates, because they knew that the crimes that were committed in the name of the German people were a perversion of humanity.

27. What’s your favourite historical “What if…” scenario?

@acrossthewavesoftime created a scenario in which George IV grows up in Hannover as the oldest son of the Elector, assumes the identity of his brother Ernest, goes to sea, becomes a celebrated hero, falls head over heels in love with Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and eventually becomes George I of Great Britain. – That has to be my number one.

I otherwise also quote enjoy the question of “What would happen if England would have been invaded during the Napoleonic Wars?”

#ask me anything #my-deer-friend #ask game #personal #history

[penguins-united]

Books read in 2022!!

rereads are italicized, favorites are bolded

1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling

2. Boxers by Gene Luen Yang

3. Saints by Gene Luen Yang

4. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

5. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

6. Immortal Poems of the English Language by Oscar Williams

7. Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway

8. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

9. Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix by JK Rowling

10. The Dead by James Joyce

11. Soldiers Three by Richard Kipling

12. The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

13. Richard iii by William Shakespeare

14. Balcony of Fog by Rich Shapiro

15. All Systems Red by Martha Wells

16. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

17. I have no mouth and I must scream by Harlan Ellison

18. Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

19. The moment before the gun went off by Nadine Gordimer

20. The importance of being earnest by Oscar Wilde

21. A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway

22. Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

23. Rules for a knight by Ethan Hawke

24. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by JK Rowling

25. The Secret History by Donna Tartt

26. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling

27. Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Major Poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins

28. Highly Irregular by Arika Okrent

29. The Green Mile by Stephen King

30. The Swan Riders by Erin Bow

31. The King’s English by Henry Watson Fowler

32. The Truelove by Patrick O’Brian

33. The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett

34. The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O’Brian

35. The Commodore by Patrick O’Brian

36. An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott

37. Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill

38. The Disaster Area by JG Ballard

39. The Tacit Dimension by Michael Polanyi

40. Wicked Saints by Emily A Duncan

41. The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

42. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

43. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

44. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

45. Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

46. The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner

47. A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner

48. Thick as Thieves by Megan Whalen Turner

49. Return of the Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

50. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

51. Confessions of St. Augustine by St. Augustine of Hippo

52. Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett

53. The Yellow Admiral by Patrick O’Brian

54. Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre

55. The Russian Assassin by Jack Arbor

56. The ones who walk away from Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin

57. Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

58. The Iliad by Homer

59. The Treadstone Transgression by Joshua Hood

60. The Hundred Days by Patrick O’Brian

61. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard

62. The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

63. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

64. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (unknown)

65. Persuasion by Jane Austen

66. The Outsiders by SE Hinton

67. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville

68. The Odyssey by Homer

69. Dead Cert by Dick Francis

70. The Oresteia by Aeschylus

71. The Network Effect by Martha Wells

72. All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays by George Orwell

73. This is how you lose the time war by Amal El-Mohtar

74. The Epic of Gilgamesh (unknown author)

75. The Republic by Plato

76. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

77. On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche

78. Ere the Cock Crows by Jens Bjornboe

79. Mid-Bloom by Katie Budris

80. Blue at the Mizzen by Patrick O’Brian

81. 21 by Patrick O’Brian

82. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

83. Battle Cry by Leon Uris

84. Devils by Fyodor Dostoevsky

85. The Uncanny by Sigmund Freud

86. The Door in the Wall by HG Wells

87. Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to You My Lad by MR James

88. The Birds and Don’t Look Now by Daphne Du Maurier

89. The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher

90. Blackout by Simon Scarrow

91. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

92. No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre

93. The Open Society and its Enemies volume one by Karl Popper

94. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

95. The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir

96. The Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease

97. The things they carried by Tim O’Brien

98. A very very very dark matter by Martin McDonagh

99. The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A Hayek

100. The Lonesome West by Martin McDonagh

101. A Skull in Connemara by Martin McDonagh

102. The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh

103. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

104. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

105. The Shepherd by Frederick Forsyth

106. Things have gotten worse since we last spoke and other misfortunes by Eric LaRocca

107. Each thing I show you is a piece of my death by Gemma Files

108. Different Seasons by Stephen King

109. Dracula by Bram Stoker

110. Inker and Crown by Megan O’Russell

111. Out of the Silent Planet by CS Lewis

112. Killers by Patrick Hodges

113. The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett

114. The Rise and Reign of Mammals by Stephen Brusatte

115. Any Means Necessary by Jack Mars

116. The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche

117. In A Glass Darkly by J Sheridan le Fanu

118. Collected Poems by Edward Thomas

119. The Longer Poems by TS Eliot

120. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

121. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene

122. The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche

123. Choice of George Herbert’s verse by George Herbert

[araiz-zaria]

kinda. sorta. more or less 🤪

#not art #nothing of significance ofc 😅 #history memes #sort of #naval history #french navy #jean bart #pierre andre de suffren #admiral satan #if it weren't for ernest king i wouldn't have known suffren #(well okay clerk of eldin was technically first to talk of him in the anglosphere but w/e) #maybe more accurate to say 'francophone' but ajfjdnskjf 🥲🙃 #pierre andré de suffren #bailli de suffren #et voici l'amiral satan 😈

[regina-bithyniae]

I watch a lot of YouTube history lectures, and most are pretty dry, if interesting, so when the odd zinger lands it's enough to raise an eyebrow

In a lecture on Admiral Fletcher, the historian said Admiral Ernest King's weaknesses were alcohol and other mens' wives - but Army wives, never Navy wives. Very true.

Then an old guy gets up in question period and asks "was it the alcoholism that drove him to the army wives, or the army wives that drove him to alcoholism?" In a formal lecture hall with average age 73, and the audience loved it.

#historyposting #boatposting

[theroyalfanzine]

Attendees of King Constantine II’s Funeral

Immediate Family

Queen Anne- Marie

Crown Prince Pavlos

Crown Princess Marie-Chantal

Princess Maria-Olympia

Prince Constantine-Alexios

Prince Achilies-Andreas

Prince Odysseus-Kimon

Prince Arisites-Stavros

Princess Alexia

Carlos Morales Quintana

Arrietta Morales y de Grecia

Anna-Maria Morales y de Grecia

Carlos Morales y de Grecia

Amelia Morales y de Grecia

Prince Nikolas

Princess Tatiana

Prince Philippos

Princess Nina

Princess Theodora

Mr. Mathew Kumar

Princess Irene

Prince Michael

Marina, Consort of Prince Michael

Princess Alexandra Elli Francisca Maria of Greece, Mrs. Mirzayantz

Mr.  Darius Mirzayantz

Foreign Royals

Spain

King Felipe VI

Queen Letizia

Queen Sofia

The Infanta Elena, The Duchess of Lugo

Infanta Cristina of Spain

Don Felipe de Marichalar y Borbón

Doña  Victoria de Marichalar y Borbón

Don Juan Urdangarin y Borbón

Don Pablo Urdangarin y Borbón

Don Miguel Urdangarin y Borbón

Doña Irene Urdangarin y Borbón

Denmark

Queen Margrethe Ii

Crown Prince Fredrik

Prince Joachim

Germany

Princess Benedikte, Dowager Princess of Sayn- Wittgenstein- Berlerberg

Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleberg, The Countess  Ahlefeldt-Laurvig-Bille

United Kingdom

The Princess Anne, The Princess Royal- Representing The King

Sir Vice admiral Timothy Laurence

The Lady Gabriella Kingston-represting The Prince of Wales

Mr. Thomas Kingston

Belgium

King Philippe

Queen Mathilde

Bulgaria

King Simeon II

Germany

Prince Berhand, The Margrave of Baden

Princess Stephanie, The Margravine of Baden

Prince Ernst-August, The Hereditary Prince of Hanover

Princess Ernest-August (Ekaterina), The Hereditary Princess of Hanover

Prince Christian of Hanover

Princess Christian (Sofia) of Hanover

Chantal, Princess of Hanover

Iran

Empress Farrah

Jordan

Queen Noor-representing her stepson

Princess Rayiah bint  al-Hussien

Luxembourg

Grand Duke Henri

Grand Duchess Maria Teresa

Monaco

Prince Albert II

The Netherlands

King Willeim-Alexander

Queen Maxima

Princess Beatrix

Norway

Crown Prince Haakon-representing his father, The King of Norway

Crown Princess Mette-Marit

Princess Märtha Louise

Romania

Prince Radu-representing The Custodian of the Royal Crown of Romania

Sweden

King Carl XVI Gustaf

Queen Silvia  

Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnusson

Russia

Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia

Yugoslavia

Crown Prince Alexander

Crown Princess Katherine

Other Notable People

Pia Getty-sister of his daughter-in-law. Marie Chantal

Marie Blanche Bierlein-mother of his daughter-in-law, Tatiana

Thomas Flohr-father of his daughter-in-law, Nina

#King Constantine #funeral #royal funeral #attendees #royals

[politicsarecool2]

“These sayings/insults are incredible gems from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words! I hope you delight in them as much as I have. 😅♥️

1. "He had delusions of adequacy. ” Walter Kerr

2. "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”- Winston Churchill

3. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. - Clarence Darrow

4. "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”-William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

5. "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

6. "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it.” - Moses Hadas

7. "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” - Mark Twain

8. "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” - Oscar Wilde

9. "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one.” -George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

10. "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.” - Winston Churchill, in response

11. "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here” - Stephen Bishop

12. "He is a self-made man and worships his creator.” - John Bright

13. "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.” - Irvin S. Cobb

14. "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.” - Samuel Johnson

15. "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. - Paul Keating

16. "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.” - Forrest Tucker

17. "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?” - Mark Twain

18. "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” - Mae West

19. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” - Oscar Wilde

20. "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.” - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

21. "He has Van Gogh's ear for music.” - Billy Wilder

22. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it.” - Groucho Marx

23. The exchange between Winston Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison." He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

24. "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln

25. "There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." -- Jack E. Leonard

26. "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." -- Thomas Brackett Reed

27. "He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." -- James Reston (about Richard Nixon) —Robert L Truesdel”

From FB

Unknown MP on witnessing Winston Churchill fail to wash his hands in the members WC after urinating .."At Eton, we were taught to wash our hands!". Winston .. "At Harrow, we were taught not to piss on our fingers!" 🤣

More…

“Dorothy Parker reviewing a book

This book is not one to be tossed lightly aside but hurled with great force.

Parker on Margot Hemingway

Who broke he leg

She broke her leg by sliding down a Barrister.

Margot Asquith to Jean Harlow - who always pronounced the T at the end of Margot.

“ no dear the T is silent - as in Harlow.

Dorothy Parker and a rival were heading towards a door

“Age before beauty “said her rival motioning DP to go first

And Pearls before Swine said DP and she sailed through the door.

Disraeli was once asked the difference between a misfortune and a Catastrophe

He replied

If Gladstone were to fall into the Thames that I suppose would be a misfortune

But if someone were to pull him out that would be a catastrophe.

French Catholic ambassador took the English Protestant ambassador to a gallery and showed him a painting which he knew would enrage him

A painting of Christ with the French King on one side of Christ and the Pope on the other side.

Without missing a beat the English ambassador thanked him for the informative tour and said

I always knew that our Lord was crucified between two thieves but until now I never knew their identity.”

#cute sayings #quotes

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.9 (before 1940)

681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain. 1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin dynasty besiege and sack Bianjing (Kaifeng), the capital of the Song dynasty of China, and abduct Emperor Qinzong of Song and others, ending the Northern Song dynasty. 1349 – The Jewish population of Basel, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated. 1431 – The trial of Joan of Arc begins in Rouen. 1693 – 1693 Sicily earthquake: The first of two earthquakes destroys parts of Sicily and Malta. After the second quake on 11 January, the death toll is estimated at between 60,000 and 100,000 people. 1760 – Ahmad Shah Durrani defeats the Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat. 1787 – The nationally known image of the Black Nazarene in the Philippines was transferred from what is now Rizal Park to its present shrine in the minor basilica of Quiapo Church. This is annually commemorated through its Traslación (solemn transfer) in the streets of Manila and is attended by millions of devotees. 1788 – Connecticut becomes the fifth state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1792 – Treaty of Jassy between Russian and Ottoman Empire is signed, ending the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–92. 1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States. 1799 – British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces an income tax of two shillings to the pound to raise funds for Great Britain's war effort in the Napoleonic Wars. 1806 – Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral. 1816 – Humphry Davy tests his safety lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery. 1822 – The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, beginning the Brazilian independence process. 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. 1857 – The 7.9 Mw  Fort Tejon earthquake shakes Central and Southern California with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). 1858 – British forces finally defeat Rajab Ali Khan of Chittagong. 1861 – American Civil War: "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. 1861 – Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War. 1878 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy. 1903 – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia. 1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time. 1914 – The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States. 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula. 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine. 1918 – Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars. 1920 – Ukrainian War of Independence: The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee outlaws the Makhnovshchina by decree, igniting the Bolshevik–Makhnovist conflict. 1921 – Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia. 1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight. 1923 – Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control. 1927 – A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, kills 78 children.

#Events

[kevrocksicehouse]

Killers of the Flower Moon.

D: Martin Scorsese (2023).

Like so many Martin Scorsese films, organized crime is at the center of Killers of the Flower Moon but it’s not the semi-glamorized subculture of his urban films. The story of a cattle baron William King Hale (Robert De Niro) who initiates a plot to kill members of the native Osage tribe who have become incredibly wealthy after finding oil on their reservation. The “plot” which involves a series of blatant ambushes and poisonings of crucial people is so brazen that in the film it functions like Poe’s purloined letter and it takes awhile for us to realize that Ernest (Leonardo DiCaprio) a WWI veteran who has fallen in love with and married Molly Kyle (Lily Gladstone in a breakthrough role) from a wealthy Osage family, is right in the thick of it. Scorsese tells the story mostly in broad daylight with characters whose morality is as dark or light as in silent movies. De Niro is a glad-handing moralistic man whose evil comes out of pure opportunism – he admires the Osage without really thinking of them as human and his power in the community allows him to contract murder with impunity. (The Osage’s wealth doesn’t really buy them protection). Ernest is the kind of weak and passive man who often figures as the center of Scorsese’s films. DiCaprio manages a difficult role as a man who loves his wife even as he’s convinced to poison her “just to calm her down.” 

If this sounds spoiler-ey, don’t worry. Scorsese unfolds the story with a Biblical sense of fate leading up to a catastrophic conclusion. And even when it takes a left turn and comes to a different, almost bleakly humorous end (as a result of Molly’s intelligence and desperation) he never loses control of the story (at least until a contrived coda that’s a stumble). In Killers a tale of Apocalyptic evil turns into a mere tragedy of shady little people.

#killers of the flower moon #martin scorsese #robert de niro #leonardo dicaprio #lily gladstone #kevrock #review

[disordinarybeauty]

'𝗢 𝘀𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘇𝘇𝗼!

(𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗿).

'O scultore pazzo! (The Mad Sculptor).

Vincenzo Gemito was a Neapolitan artist who lived between 1852 and 1929. He was a sculptor, draughtsman and goldsmith who created realistic and expressive works inspired by the people and the culture of his native city. He was also influenced by the classical sculptures of the archaeological museum of Naples, where he often studied and copied the ancient models.

Gemito’s artistic career began when he was only 16 years old, with the sculpture of The Card Player, which was purchased by King Victor Emmanuel II and displayed at the Capodimonte Museum. He soon became famous for his terracotta and bronze figures of Neapolitan street children, such as The Fisherman and The Water Carrier, which he exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1876 and 1877, receiving great acclaim and commissions.

However, Gemito’s success was overshadowed by a personal crisis that led him to isolate himself from the world for 18 years. He suffered from hallucinations and paranoia, and stopped producing sculptures. He devoted himself instead to drawing, creating powerful portraits of his friends and celebrities, such as Giuseppe Verdi, Ernest Meissonier and Domenico Morelli.

Gemito returned to public life in 1909, when he organized a retrospective exhibition of his works at the Castel Sant’Elmo in Naples. He resumed his sculptural activity, focusing on busts and self-portraits that revealed his psychological turmoil and his artistic genius. He also experimented with new techniques, such as lost-wax casting, which he performed in his own foundry. He died in 1929, leaving behind a legacy of original and influential works that are still admired today.

A selfportrait by Gemito is the subject of the fourth video of my ongoing series DISØRDIN∆RY BƏ∆UTY 🥀🪞 a̶r̶t̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶o̶n̶s̶, an experimental #glitchart series disrupting traditional art standards and altering digital art formats and the experience of viewers. This series is exclusively available on Niio Art.

👁️‍🗨️🧠 LINK

#digital art #new media art #glitch art #glitching #glitched #glitches #video art #napoli #neapolitan #napoletano #napoletani #Vincenzo Gemito #Domenico Barra