Beautiful, no?
I’d like to honor some folks whose lives I admire.
Mary Wollstonecraft was a famous woman writer of the late 18th century. Mary was born in Spitalfields, London on 27 April 1759. She was the second of 7 children. Mary had an older brother called Edward or Ned, on who, she claimed her mother lavished affection. Ned was also well educated while Mary only had a basic schooling. She learned to read and write but Mary was mainly self educated. Her first job was a companion to a lady in Bath in 1778. However in 1781 she returned home to London to care for her ailing mother who died in 1782. Wollstonecraft then set up a school with her friend Frances Blood. However Blood died in 1785 and the next year Wollstonecraft closed the school. For a short time she worked as a governess but she did not get on with her employer.
However Mary then tried her hand at writing and in 1787 she
published a book called Thoughts on The Education of Daughters.
In 1788 she
published a novel called Mary: a Fiction. She also published a book for
children called Original Stories From Real Life. Afterwards Wollstonecraft
wrote for Johnson's Critical Review. She also translated foreign books into
English. However her opportunity for fame came when the French Revolution began
in 1789.
Millie Bailey grew up in the Deep
South. During World War II she joined the Army. She ended up the Commander of a
women’s unit. Now she lives in a Senior Apartment complex in Columbia, Howard
County. It’s been a memorable journey for this accomplished Senior Citizen!
https://www.facebook.com/PicturesInHistory/photos/a.542142282630324/1194961087348437/?type=3&theater
Like most of you I had heard of William Blake but as with so many other people I heard of I did not discover this
man’s genius until much later. Here’s a nice, concise article about the man
that’s definitely worth a read.
William
Blake was a famous poet, painter and engraver of the late 18th century and
early 19th century. Blake was a radical, anti authority figure.
William Blake was born at 28 Broad Street in Soho, London on 28
November 1757. His father James Blake was a hosier. He and his wife Catherine
had 6 children. Apart from William they had 4 boys and 1 girl. From an early
age William Blake was artistic. He also had 'visions' of things like angels.
When he was 14 William was made apprentice to an engraver called James Basire.
William served 7 years and became an engraver himself in 1779. Blake also
wanted to paint and the same year he became a student at the Royal Academy of
Arts.
On 18 August 1782 William Blake married Catherine Sophia Boucher
at the Church of St Mary in Battersea. Blake also wrote poems. A book of poems called
Poetical Sketches was published in 1783. In 1789 he published a book of poems
called The Song of Innocence.
In 1793 Blake published Visions of the Daughters of Albion. The
same year, 1793 Blake published The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Also in 1793
Blake published America, a Prophecy.
In 1794 Blake published a book of poems called Songs of
Experience. It included the famous poem The Tiger. The Book of Urizen was also
published in 1794. Also in 1794 William Blake published Europe, a Prophecy.
In 1800 William Blake moved to the village of Felpham near Bognor
in Sussex. Then on 12 August 1803 Blake got into a fight with a soldier named
John Schofield who entered his garden. Schofield later told a magistrate that
Blake damned the king of England during the altercation. William Blake was
tried for sedition (a serious charge) in Chichester in January 1804. However he
was acquitted.
Meanwhile in 1803 Blake and his wife returned to London. In the years 1804-1810 William Blake wrote and illustrated his work Milton A Poem in Two Books. The preface included the famous poem now know as Jerusalem, which was written in 1804. (Blake did not actually give it that title. It was originally called 'And did those feet in ancient time'. Hubert Parry wrote music for it in 1916). In 1820 Blake painted The Goblin. He also painted a miniature called The Ghost of a Flea.
Meanwhile in 1803 Blake and his wife returned to London. In the years 1804-1810 William Blake wrote and illustrated his work Milton A Poem in Two Books. The preface included the famous poem now know as Jerusalem, which was written in 1804. (Blake did not actually give it that title. It was originally called 'And did those feet in ancient time'. Hubert Parry wrote music for it in 1916). In 1820 Blake painted The Goblin. He also painted a miniature called The Ghost of a Flea.
In 1825 Blake was commissioned illustrate Divine Comedy by Dante
but he died before he could complete the task. William Blake died on 12 August
1827. He was buried in Bunhill Fields in London.
His father James Blake was a hosier. He and his wife Catherine
had 6 children. Apart from William they had 4 boys and 1 girl. From an early
age William Blake was artistic. He also had 'visions' of things like angels.
When he was 14 William was made apprentice to an engraver called James Basire.
William served 7 years and became an engraver himself in 1779. Blake also
wanted to paint and the same year he became a student at the Royal Academy of
Arts.
On 18 August 1782 William Blake married Catherine Sophia Boucher
at the Church of St Mary in Battersea. Blake also wrote poems. A book of poems
called Poetical Sketches was published in 1783. In 1789 he published a book of
poems called The Song of Innocence.
In 1793 Blake published Visions of the Daughters of Albion. The
same year, 1793 Blake published The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Also in 1793
Blake published America, a Prophecy.
In 1794 Blake published a book of poems called Songs of
Experience. It included the famous poem The Tiger. The Book of Urizen was also
published in 1794. Also in 1794 William Blake published Europe, a Prophecy.
In 1800 William Blake moved to the village of Felpham near Bognor
in Sussex. Then on 12 August 1803 Blake got into a fight with a soldier named
John Schofield who entered his garden. Schofield later told a magistrate that
Blake damned the king of England during the altercation. William Blake was
tried for sedition (a serious charge) in Chichester in January 1804. However he
was acquitted.
In 1825 Blake was commissioned illustrate Divine Comedy by Dante
but he died before he could complete the task. William Blake died on 12 August
1827. He was buried in Bunhill Fields in London.
Some folks doing "the good work".
“You’ve got to be really gentle with
them," says Trish. “They know what you’re doing. I think they can pick up
your energies.”
Trish & Wally Franklin
Researchers from Mexico and the
United States have concluded that a population of fin whales in the rich Gulf
of California ecosystem may live there year-round -- an unusual circumstance
for a whale species known to migrate across ocean basins.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190110160938.htm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190110160938.htm
From this
I was first introduced to this process as a freshman in an introductory class in Geology at Washington State Univ. Though a Zoology major this intellectual discovery helped shape my entire evolving philosophy of life.
And to think that all that resulted in this:
And what is wonderful and amazing is that now and forever it is all still changing.
A new species combining wolves, coyotes and dogs is evolving before scientists’ eyes in the eastern United States.
Wolves faced with a diminishing number of potential mates are lowering their standards and mating with other, similar species, reported The Economist.
On #NationalBirdDay, a
spotlight on a bird that spends almost as much time in flight as it does in any
one place. The tiny northern wheatears' 9,000-mile cross-hemisphere trek—across
deserts, oceans, and mountain ranges—is one of the animal kingdom’s most
impressive migrations.
OK, just a little astronomy to
maintain perspective.
On October
19th, 2017, the Panoramic Survey
Telescope and Rapid Response System-1 (Pan-STARRS-1) in Hawaii announced
the first-ever detection of an interstellar object, named 1I/2017 U1 (aka.
‘Oumuamua).
In the months that followed, multiple follow-up observations were conducted to learn more about this visitor, as well as resolve the dispute about whether it was a comet and an asteroid.
Rather than resolving the dispute, additional observations only deepened the mystery, even giving rise to suggestions that it might be an extra-terrestrial solar sail. For this reason, scientists are very interested in finding other examples of similar-like objects. According to a recent study by a team of Harvard astrophysicists, it is possible that interstellar objects enter our system and end up falling into in our Sun somewhat regularly.
Bizarre Double Star System Flipped its Planetary Disk on its Side
Astronomers theorize that when our Sun was still young, it was surrounded by a disc of dust and gas from which the planets eventually formed. It is further theorized that the majority of stars in our Universe are initially surrounded in this way by a “protoplanetary disk“, and that in roughly 30% of cases, these disks will go on to become a planet or system of planets.
Ordinarily, these disks are thought to orbit around the equatorial band (aka. the ecliptic) of a star or system of stars. However, new research conducted by an international group of scientists has discovered the first example of a binary star system where the orientation was flipped and the disk now orbits the stars around their poles (perpendicular to the ecliptic).
Plasmas -- hot gases
consisting of chaotically-moving electrons, ions, atoms and molecules -- can be
found inside of stars, but they are also artificially created using special
equipment in the laboratory.
If a plasma comes in
contact with a solid, such as the wall of the lab equipment, under certain
circumstances the wall is changed fundamentally and permanently: atoms and
molecules from the plasma can be deposited on the solid material, or energetic
plasma ions can knock atoms out of the solid, and thereby deform or even
destroy its surface.
A team from the Institute
of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at Kiel University (CAU) has now
discovered a surprising new effect, in which the electronic properties of the
solid material, such as its electrical conductivity, can be changed in a
controlled, extremely fast and reversible manner, by ion impact.
MADRID,
SPAIN—According to an El
País
report, researchers at Spain’s National Archaeology Museum have analyzed the
results of computer tomography scans conducted on three Egyptian mummies
several years ago, and determined that one of the mummies belonged to
Nespamedu, a high-ranking priest who lived between 300 and 200 B.C. The nearly
3,000 images of Nespamedu’s mummy revealed a range of charms and plaques tucked
in its wrappings. The iconography of these items suggests he worked as an eye
doctor in a chapel in Saqqara, and was Ptolemy II’s personal eye physician,
which may have required him to travel to Alexandria. This conclusion is based
on the presence of two plaques that feature the god Thoth and the Eye of Horus.
Thoth was known in Egyptian mythology for replacing Horus’ eye after it was lost
in a battle with Set, the god of chaos. For this reason, Thoth is seen as the
god of ophthalmologists. On his head, Nespamedu wore a headband adorned with a
winged scarab charm with a solar disc that featured an image of the god Khepri,
who was linked to resurrection and rebirth. Nespamedu also wore a Usekh collar,
an item reserved for the Egyptian elite.
A hoard of 6,500-year-old
Copper Age axes and ax hammers – Europe’s largest such find so far – has been
discovered by accident near the town of Polkovnik Taslakovo, Dulovo
Municipality, Silistra District, in Northeast Bulgaria.
The discovery of the hoard
of prehistoric axes and ax hammers from the Chacolithic (Aeneolithic, Copper
Age) has just been announced for the first time by archaeologist Dimitar
Chernakov based in the Danube city of Ruse in Northeast Bulgaria, the Ruse
Regional Museum of History informs.
rchaeologyinbulgaria.com/2019/01/09/europes-largest-hoard-of-copper-age-axes-ax-hammers-discovered-in-northeast-bulgaria/
The core, or “heart" of the ancient city of
Philipopolis, today’s Plovdiv in Central South Bulgaria, during the time of the Roman Empire consisted of six luxury quarters
with residential and public buildings, including a brothel similar to the
famous Lupanar of Pompeii in Italy, archaeologists reveal.
In the Antiquity period, Plovdiv was known as Philipopolis as it was named after King Philip II of Macedon. After Ancient Thrace’s conquest by the Romans in the 1st century AD, it was also called Trimontium because of the three hills on which the ancient city was located.
In the Antiquity period, Plovdiv was known as Philipopolis as it was named after King Philip II of Macedon. After Ancient Thrace’s conquest by the Romans in the 1st century AD, it was also called Trimontium because of the three hills on which the ancient city was located.
