John Knox was born in Haddington, Scotland, near Edinburgh in 1505; he died at the age of 68 in 1572.
for the text at :
http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/validate.asp?j=pfie&vol=1&issue=3&year=2003&article=8_Davis_PFIE_1_3_web
on Scottish “purity”
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John Knox was born in Haddington, Scotland, near Edinburgh in...
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deadpaint: Orchard in Blossom with View of Arles (with Populars...
Orchard in Blossom with View of Arles (with Populars in the Foreground) (1889) - Vincent van Gogh.
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2headedsnake: cruzine.com Yaroslav Gerzhedovich
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THE DEAD CHRIST Schelte Adams Bolswert after Peter Paul...
THE DEAD CHRIST
Schelte Adams Bolswert
after Peter Paul Rubens.
undated
My apologies to Species Barocus from whom I got this picture, but for some reason or other I can neither follow, nor reblog from some of the tumblr blogs (I suspect it has something to do with an incompatibility between their themes and mine).
The info about the painter comes from:
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23silence: Gabriel Ferrier - Ganymede, 1874
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23silence: John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925) - The Black...
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suzywire: James McNeill Whistler — Nocturne in Black and Gold:...
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“In some part of the Country, they haue yearely a...
“In some part of the Country, they haue yearely a sacrifice o!
children. Such a one was at QuiyauKcahanack, some io miles from
1ranges Towne, and thus performed.
Fifteen of the properest young boys, between ten and fifteen years of age they painted white. Having brought them forth, the people spent the fore noon in dancing and singing about them with Rattles. In the afternoon they put those children to the root of a tree. By them all the men stood in a guard, every one having a Bastinado in his hand, made of reeds bound together. This made a lane between them all along, through which there were appointed five young men to fetch these children: so every one of the five went through the guard to fetch a child each after other by turns, the guard fiercely beating them with their Bastinadoes, and they patiently enduring and receiving all defending the children with their naked bodies from the unmerciful blows, that pay them soundly, though the children escape.
All this while the women weep and cry out very passionately, providing mats, skins, moss, and dry wood, as things fitting their children’s funerals. After the children were thus passed the guard, the guard tore down the trees, branches and boughs, with such violence that they rent the body, and made wreaths for their heads, or bedecked their hair with the leaves.
What else was done with the children, was not seen, but they were all cast on a heap, in a valley as dead, where they made a great feast for all the company.
The Werowance being demanded the meaning of this sacrifice, answered that the children were not all dead, but that the Okee or Devil did suck the blood from their left breast, who chanced to be his by lot, till they were dead, but the rest were kept in the wilderness by the young men till nine months were expired, during which time they must not converse with any, and of these were made their Priests and Conjurers.This sacrifice they held to be so necessary, that if they should omit it, their Okee or Devil, and all their other Quiyoughcosughes, which are their other Gods, would let them have no Deer, Turkeys, Corn, nor fish, and yet besides, he would make a great slaughter amongst them.
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missfolly: Brothel Scene (sent and dedicated to Vincent van...
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birikforever: George Frederick Watts - Endymion
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songsofdistantearth: The Most Kissed Face
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Israeli military, intelligence sites down after 'Anonymous' threat.
Israeli military, intelligence sites down after 'Anonymous' threat.:
The Israeli army and intelligence agencies’ websites were offline on Sunday, two days after hacker group Anonymous warned it would “strike back” for Israel’s capture of Gaza-bound ships on Friday.
Anonymous, a network of online activists who have attacked government and financial websites around the world, released a statement Friday warning that the group would take action against the navy’s seizure of two ships aiming to break Israel’s blockade on the Gaza Strip.
”Your actions are illegal, against democracy, human rights, international, and maritime laws,” the statement addressed to the government of Israel and posted on Youtube and Anonymous-affiliated sites said.
“Justifying war, murder, illegal interception, and pirate-like activities under an illegal cover of defense will not go unnoticed by us or the people of the world.”
Websites for Israel’s army, internal Shin Bet security service, and Mossad spy agency could not be accessed on Sunday. It could not be confirmed that Anonymous was responsible.
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Would anyone the date, provenance or the whereabouts of...
Would anyone the date, provenance or the whereabouts of this?
just found out that it was from Delphi.
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artemisdreaming: Calla Lilies, Irises and Mimosas, 1931 Henri...
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artemisdreaming: Interior with a Violin Case, 1918-19 Henri...
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Charles-August Mengin, Sappho, 1877 Charles-August Mengin...
Charles-August Mengin, Sappho, 1877
Charles-August Mengin (1853-1933) was a French academic painter and was one of those artists who is remembered for a single painting, his Sappho, now in Manchester Art Gallery.
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grooviejazz: ‘Rose’ by Ferenc Snétberger & Markus...
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thomerama: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot - Young Girl Reading...
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politico: newsweek: firstbook: Our friends at Random House...
Our friends at Random House Children’s Books have generously agreed to donate one brand-new book for each new follower we gain on Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter this week. Those books will go to thousands of schools and programs serving kids from low-income families across the country.
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Likewise. Followed and re-blogged.
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November is the Native American Heritage Month....
November is the Native American Heritage Month. see
http://blog.historians.org/resources/1465/native-american-heritage-month
Marcus Amerman is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He was born in Phoenix, AZ and grew up in the Pacific Northwest before settling in Santa Fe, NM. He received a BA in Fine Art at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA and took additional art courses at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, NM. He credits the Plateau region and its wealth of talented bead artists with introducing him to the “traditional” art form of beadwork. He quickly made this art form his own, however, by creating a new genre of bead artistry in which beads are stitched down, one by one, to create realistic, pictorial images, not just large color fields or patterns.
Amerman draws upon a wide range of influences to create strikingly original works that reflect his background of having lived in three different regions with strong artistic traditions, his academic introduction to pop art and social commentary, and his inventive exploration of the potential artistic forms and expressions using beads. Although he is best known for his bead art, he is also a multimedia artist, painter, performance artist (his character “Buffalo Man” can be seen on the cover of the book Indian Country), fashion designer, and glass artist, as well. His work is in the permanent collections of museums such as the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the Portland Art Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History, among many others.
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