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Alice in Wonderland and Photography

Originally posted on A R T LR K:

On the 4th of July 1865, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was published in London. Written by Victorian author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898) under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, author, mathematician and Oxford don, this fantasy novel has since made him famous all over the world. Less known is the fact that Dodgson was also an avid and early practitioner of photography. He took it up in 1856, first under the influence of his uncle Skeffington Lutwidge, a...

Grandma Moses’ Emancipation Through Art and Duty

Originally posted on A R T LR K:

On the 7th of September 1860, American folk artist Anna Mary Robertson Moses, better known as Grandma Moses, was born in Greenwich, New York, the US. Little in her early years indicated the artistic path that her life would eventually follow. As a farmer’s daughter she was expected to do her chores, learn how to cook and clean, and marry and raise a family of her own. Anna Mary did just that. In 1886, she worked for the James family where she met Thomas Moses...

The Wealthy Widow Witch

Originally posted on History Witch:

Sometime last night, my History Witch Facebook page crossed over the 6000-follower mark! Thank you to everyone for the support.

Continuing with Witch Season…

This is Ann Hibbins. Ann was a wealthy widow, her second husband (her first husband passed away at a fairly young age), William Hibbins, was a successful merchant and deputy to the General Court in Boston, MA. He also became the assistant to the governor in 1643. His successor, Humphrey Atherton, led...

Reviews ~ Maria, in Film and Life

myeagermind:

Great post

Originally posted on Victoria Adams' Reading Alcove:

History. A subject I have always been thoroughly fascinated with. Not just the dates, places and people often forced upon us by rote in mandatory classes. No, my research has always been from the perspective of what I might have done, thought, or felt. What might have caused these people to do as they did? What human frailty became the pivot, the fulcrum of history?

That inquisitiveness drew me to the tale of Maria Al...

How to Punk Your Steam Part 7.4: Make ’em Laugh (Recommendations in TV, Movies and Books)

Originally posted on For Whom the Gear Turns:

Comedy is an art form, and there are lots of great sources from which to draw. Here are my recommendations for funny Steampunk and period appropriate comedy. Please feel free to leave other suggestions in the comments sections below!

Movies

Wild, Wild, West
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec
The Importance of Being Earnest
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Twelfth Night (the 1996 version is set in the 19th century)

Television

The Amaz...

In Wildness: Chris McCandless, Cheryl Strayed, and journeys of discovery.

myeagermind:

A fascinating story

Originally posted on www.seanmunger.com:

Twenty-three years ago today, on September 6, 1992, a hunter walking along the Stampede Trail in Alaska came across an abandoned 1940s bus which had been there for a long time. Inside he made a horrifying discovery: the dead emaciated body of a young man who was identified as Christopher McCandless, a/k/a “Alexander Supertramp,” age 24. McCandless had hiked into the Alaskan bush months before as part of a journey of sel...

6 September 1940: First Time Bombs on Malta

Originally posted on Malta: War Diary:

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Lt W M Eastman RAOC

FIRST SUSPECTED DELAYED ACTION BOMB TACKLED BY RAOC

Kalafrana was put out of use for almost 24 hours due to the presence of a suspected time bomb close to the slipway. The unexploded bomb estimated as weighing 700lbs was reported following yesterday’s dive-bombing raid. The RAF inspected the bo...

The Molasses Tsunami

Originally posted on historywithatwist:

The devastation wrought by the Great Molasses Flood

In 1919, there occurred an accident so strange and so devastating that, as I learned about it, I was stunned into silence for a few moments while I scratched my head and tried to figure out how the hell that could happen.

On the afternoon of January 15 in that year, the citizens of Boston’s North End were gong about their business when they felt a rumble, followed by a huge crash and then the machin...

Amelia Bassano Lanier – Shakespearean Shero

Originally posted on :

Amelia Bassano Lanier (1569-1645) was the first English woman to publish a book of original poetry. It now appears she may also have been thelong-sought major author of the Shakespearean plays.

She was born into a family of Venetian Jews who had been brought to London to be the Court recorder musicians, and who lived as secret Jews or Marranos practicing their faith covertly. From the age of 7 she was educated like a countess in the household headed by Lord Willoughby,...

Jane Austen and Marriage

Originally posted on The World of HEYERWOOD:

Das Ehesakrament by Pietro Longhi c. 1755 via Wikimedia Commons

Thanks to movies and television, Jane Austen’s novels, especially PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and PERSUASION, are synonymous with happy-ever-after. Many love her works as romantic courtship novels. Ironically, Jane Austen has also been embraced as a feminist author, thanks to her subtle criticisms of male-dominated education and economics, and her personal unmarried state. In recent years,...