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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.

ramage: Histoire de la médecine: costumes de médecins durant la peste de 1819 à Marseille by alexisorloff on Flickr. Science!

ramage:

Histoire de la médecine: costumes de médecins durant la peste de 1819 à Marseille by alexisorloff on Flickr.

Science!

dresslefcom: Hunt Street, during the plague in Sydney 1900

dresslefcom:

Hunt Street, during the plague in Sydney

1900

theresponsiveeye: Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa (Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa)Antoine-Jean Gros1804Oil on canvas, 532x720cm  This is a piece of Napoleonic propaganda. According to Wikipedia: “It was an attempt to quell unsavory rumours after Napoleon ordered that fifty incurable plague victims in Jaffa be poisoned (without complete success) during his retreat from his Syrian expedition.”

theresponsiveeye:

Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa (Bonaparte visitant les pestiférés de Jaffa)
Antoine-Jean Gros
1804

Oil on canvas, 532x720cm 

This is a piece of Napoleonic propaganda. According to Wikipedia: “It was an attempt to quell unsavory rumours after Napoleon ordered that fifty incurable plague victims in Jaffa be poisoned (without complete success) during his retreat from his Syrian expedition.”

(Source: paintedimage)