G.D. Falksen's Blog, page 1054
July 27, 2013
Spanish American War Surgeon’s Medical Archive, items...
Spanish American War Surgeon’s Medical Archive, items (possibibly) belonged to Leonard Wood, Rough Rider
July 26, 2013
Dress
Madame Uoll Gross
1889
MET
Dress
Madame Uoll Gross
1889
MET
This is Wernigerode, Germany, a small city in the state...
This is Wernigerode, Germany, a small city in the state Saxony-Anhalt. This is where I will be staying while I am traveling abroad on my youth exchange. My first home stay family lives just a half hour outside of Wernigerode near a small village. It’s beautiful, isn’t it?
Sts Stephen and Christopher 1700s Unknown Greek painter Egg...
Sts Stephen and Christopher
1700s Unknown Greek painter
Egg tempera on oak, 21 x 16 cm
Ikonen-Museum, Recklinghausen
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, certain icons covertly identify Saint Christopher with the head of a dog. The background to the dog-headed Christopher is laid in the reign of the Emperor Diocletian, when a man named Reprebus, Rebrebus or Reprobus (the “reprobate” or “scoundrel”) was captured in combat against tribes dwelling to the west of Egypt in Cyrenaica. To the unit of soldiers, according to the hagiographic narrative, was assigned the name numerus Marmaritarum or “Unit of the Marmaritae”, which suggests an otherwise-unidentified “Marmaritae” (perhaps the same as the Marmaricae Berber tribe of Cyrenaica). He was reported to be of enormous size, with the head of a dog instead of a man, apparently a characteristic of the Marmaritae. This Byzantine depiction of St. Christopher as dog-headed resulted from their misinterpretation of the Latin term Cananeus to read canineus, that is, “canine.”
The German bishop and poet Walter of Speyer portrayed St. Christopher as a giant of a cynocephalic species in the land of the Chananeans (the “canines” of Canaan in the New Testament) who ate human flesh and barked. Eventually, Christopher met the Christ child, regretted his former behavior, and received baptism. He, too, was rewarded with a human appearance, whereupon he devoted his life to Christian service and became an athlete of God, one of the soldier-saints
July 25, 2013
At almost 2:30am this is what I think is funny.
At almost 2:30am this is what I think is funny.
Every one can go home now, they won
Every one can go home now, they won
Toby Stephens as Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre (TV Mini-Series,...
Toby Stephens as Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre (TV Mini-Series, 2006).
A fox turns the tables on photographer Michaela Walch after she...
A fox turns the tables on photographer Michaela Walch after she left her equipment unattended on a camp site in northern Canada.
Picture: CATERS (via Pictures of the day: 24 July 2013 - Telegraph)
Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus...
Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius, Crown Prince of Austria, Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia (20 November 1912 – 4 July 2011)
