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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.

ralphmelish:

Bal des Ardents by Master of Anthony of Burgundy c. 1470s, showing in the foreground a dancer in the wine-vat, Charles huddling under the Duchess of Berry’s skirt on the left middle, while the dancers in the center burn. With detail

Le Bal des Sauvages was a masquerade ball held on 28 January 1393 at which Charles VI of France took part in a dance with five members of the French nobility. Four of the dancers burned to death in an accidental fire.

savage-america: Bal des Ardents great featured article on wikipedia today, check it out.  Caption note at Wikipedia: “The Bal des Ardents depicted in a 15th-century miniature from Froissart’s Chronicles. The Duchess of Berry holds her blue skirts over a barely visible Charles VI of France as the dancers tear at their burning costumes. One dancer has leapt into the wine vat; in the gallery above, musicians continue to play.”

savage-america:

Bal des Ardents

great featured article on wikipedia today, check it out. 

Caption note at Wikipedia: “The Bal des Ardents depicted in a 15th-century miniature from Froissart’s Chronicles. The Duchess of Berry holds her blue skirts over a barely visible Charles VI of France as the dancers tear at their burning costumes. One dancer has leapt into the wine vat; in the gallery above, musicians continue to play.”