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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

tuesday-johnson: ca. 1860’s, [tintype portrait of Confederate Infantryman armed with a revolver and Bowie knife] via Heritage Auctions

tuesday-johnson:

ca. 1860’s, [tintype portrait of Confederate Infantryman armed with a revolver and Bowie knife]

via Heritage Auctions

books0977: Merchant of Images (c.1862). Alexandre Antigna (French, 1817-1878). Oil on canvas. Bordeaux, Museum of Fine Arts. Until 1845 Antigna’s paintings were generally religious scenes and portraits. Yet, after living in the poor quarter of the Île Saint-Louis in Paris he would incorporate images of the suffering and burden of urban poor into his works. By the 1848 Revolution Antigna was devoted to the Realist style, and continued to paint in this manner until c.1860 when he began to produce paintings in the Naturalist vein.

books0977:

Merchant of Images (c.1862). Alexandre Antigna (French, 1817-1878). Oil on canvas. Bordeaux, Museum of Fine Arts.

Until 1845 Antigna’s paintings were generally religious scenes and portraits. Yet, after living in the poor quarter of the Île Saint-Louis in Paris he would incorporate images of the suffering and burden of urban poor into his works. By the 1848 Revolution Antigna was devoted to the Realist style, and continued to paint in this manner until c.1860 when he began to produce paintings in the Naturalist vein.

willigula: WWI poster by Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin, Russian Empire A 1914 poster prepared for a charity clothing drive sponsored by the All-Russian Land Union by an important Russian artist and stage designer. Korovin often worked in the manner of Impressionists, but for this poster, he turns for inspiration to the archetypal image from Russian antiquity, that of Dmitri Donskoi, the first Russian national hero figure. The viewer is left with the feeling that ignoring the drive is really not an option, and that participation is a civic duty of every citizen. A highly desirable, often reproduced poster (see e.g., Baburina, Russian Posters of WWI).

willigula:

WWI poster by Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin, Russian Empire

A 1914 poster prepared for a charity clothing drive sponsored by the All-Russian Land Union by an important Russian artist and stage designer. Korovin often worked in the manner of Impressionists, but for this poster, he turns for inspiration to the archetypal image from Russian antiquity, that of Dmitri Donskoi, the first Russian national hero figure. The viewer is left with the feeling that ignoring the drive is really not an option, and that participation is a civic duty of every citizen. A highly desirable, often reproduced poster (see e.g., Baburina, Russian Posters of WWI).

Not Another Episcopal Church Blog: The Worst Sermon Ever? The Presiding Bishop Explains Away Paul and the Female Slave

While vacationing paying a pastoral visit to Curaçao this past weekend (on my dime?), our Presiding Bishop delivered what may be her worst sermon ever.

turnofthecentury: Arlette Dorgere by Reutlinger thanks to marc verat

turnofthecentury:

Arlette Dorgere by Reutlinger

thanks to marc verat

(via modernfoppery)

smithsonianlibraries: Carousel advertisements from the turn of the 20th Century.  Interestingly he Smithsonian carousel on the Mall is a Herschell.  Want to know more about our carousel’s history?  http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2009/08/oom-pah-pah-carousel-time/ 

smithsonianlibraries:

Carousel advertisements from the turn of the 20th Century.  Interestingly he Smithsonian carousel on the Mall is a Herschell.  Want to know more about our carousel’s history?  http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2009/08/oom-pah-pah-carousel-time/ 

slatevault:

The Smithsonian’s Tumblr reminded me of the best hoax ever. In 1836, the New York Sun had everyone convinced that an astronomer had found evidence of men living on the moon.

And such men! Check out these images of their (imaginary) lives…

(via anotherrunaroundthesun)

"The notion that Christianity was a religion of outcasts in the Roman Empire is totally erroneous. One need only peruse the Roman Missal and observe the social background of the early Martyrs to see that Christians could be found in all layers of society — among the patricians, the families of senators, the emperor’s family, among actors and intellectuals. Nobody can maintain that the early Fathers of the Church were mostly simpleminded illiterates. Ignatius of Antioch, Tatian, Justin, Origen, Tertullian, Cyprian, Clement of Rome, Lactantius, Minucius Felix, Clement of Alexandria, Polycarp of Smyrna, Irenaeus, and Novatian were first rate intellectuals, spiritual men — and certainly not ‘social reformers.’ A religion of slaves undermining an aristocratic-heroic commonwealth: This picture is totally unhistorical. But there always will be a certain breed of ‘conservatives’ with a pagan-heroic outlook who are prone to see in Christianity a weak, unmanly faith of crybabies."

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Marcuse (via zerogate)
zerogate: 1819 Caricature by English caricaturist George Cruikshank. Titled “The Radical’s Arms”, it depicts the infamous guillotine. “No God! No Religion! No King! No Constitution!” is written in the republican banner.

zerogate:

1819 Caricature by English caricaturist George Cruikshank. Titled “The Radical’s Arms”, it depicts the infamous guillotine. “No God! No Religion! No King! No Constitution!” is written in the republican banner.

"The typical leftist is a dreamer without honor, and that is a troubling combination."

—

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Leftism Revisited

(via revoltagainsttime)

(via revoltagainsttime-deactivated20)