Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 15
December 4, 2017
Japanese-style Kokeshi Dolls made by Roslina
Beautiful craftmanship
The dolls shown on this page were made by a talented kokeshi collector named Roslina who chose to take up the craft herself. Her dolls are beautiful with a very unique and interesting form. The rounded heads are especially appealing and it is clear from the doll’s happy expessions that Roslina really enjoys her work! Thank you for sharing your dolls with us , Roslina.
“Recitatif”-Ignoring Black and White Stereotypes
I want to read this
Tony Morrison’s “Recitatif” is a short story about two young girls, Twyla and Roberta, and their interactions throughout their entire lives. We know one of the girls is black and one of them is white but Morrison never tells us exactly which one is which so we are never entirely sure. All we know is that the girls are of different class structures. The girls never display any clear stereotypical characteristics of each race but have characteris...
Steampunk at the California State Fair
Steampunk is awesome
My family went to the California State Fair on August 31st. Mightily disspointed that the Sky Coaster had been replaced by a bungee jump.
However, there were some very Steampunky items on display at the fair. 
The was the “Garr Scott”, a true steam-run tractor. It ran a large belt down to a columbine or thresher. It put out a mighty horn blast as steam poured out of the stack. It startled me a number of times. I’m not sure if there is much traffic out in...
The Forgotten Feminist: Mary Wollstonecraft
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“Well behaved women rarely make history”, or so the saying goes. However, sometimes a woman can be so badly behaved that she can be written out of history. Mary Wollstonecraft is a prime example of this. Author of the ‘Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ in 1792 she was one of the first radical writers on women’s rights yet she is often forgotten in the mainstream telling of the women’s liberation movement.
Wollstonecraft was a proponent of the education...
When The Thames Froze Over: The ‘Little Ice Age’ Thames Frost Fairs
Between roughly 1300 – 1850, the world experienced the ‘Little Ice Age’, where there was significant cooling in global temperatures. Temperatures and the effects varied from region to region and year to year, but there were 3 significant intervals of particular cold, c. 1650, c. 1770, and c. 1850. In England, this resulted in particularly cold winters which caused many hardships for its citizens. However, between 1400 and 1835, this also resulted in at least 24 winters whe...
Izetta Jewel
Born Izetta Jewel Kenney on November 24, 1883, in Hackettstown, New Jersey, actress and activist Izetta Jewel arguably impacted all of our lives in a significant and lasting manner.
An incredibly popular stage actress, Izetta Jewel performed on Broadway, and all around the country, moving to Washington, DC around 1912, after her acting career blossomed on the West Coast.
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Ghosts: A White House Ghost Story!
Here’s a good White House ghost story first hand from President Reagan! From Huffpost.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/joan-gage/white-house-ghosts_b_8432426.html
Photo: http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/v...
For more things that go bump in the night (ghosts make great gifts!) please see: https://www.amazon.com/Jan-Olandese/e/B071FK9L75
November 28, 2017
Farnhill Moor Cup-Marked Rocks, Near Skipton, North Yorkshire
Cup-Marked Rock on Farnhill Moor, near Skipton, North Yorks
Cup-Marked Rock on Farnhill Moor with 40 cup-markings.
OS Grid Reference: approx. SE 0064 4710. On Farnhill Moor above the north Yorkshire villages of Farnhill and Kildwick, 3 miles to the southeast of Skipton, there is a little cluster of ancient cup-marked carvings on some gritstone rocks. These carvings or petroglyphs are rather hidden away by the undergrowth at the south side of Jubilee Memorial, a...
November 27, 2017
Bruce Lee: The philosopher and poet
On the 27th of November 1940, Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco’s Chinatown, US. Mostly known for his acting career and his masterful martial arts roles in such movies as The Big Boss(1971), Fist of Fury (1972), Way of the Dragon (1972),Enter the Dragon (1973) and The Game of Death(1973), Lee should be also remembered for his passionate approach to philosophy, art and poetry. All of these trails became important elements of his own life philosophy, which he summarised as follow...
Earth: shipwreck of the World Discoverer, Roderick Bay, in the Solomon Islands.
There are many shipwreck sites visible on Google Earth/Google Maps, but few of them pop up out of lagoons and desolate coves of the world quite as vividly as the World Discoverer does. You can see from the azure blue waters and palm trees that this is a tropical location. It’s a pretty far flung one: this wreck lies in Roderick Bay, in the Nggela Islands, which are part of the nation of the Solomon Islands (the most famous of the islands in this country is Guadalcanal, which o...
