LilacSunday
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"For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;" - Richard II (A3, S2) #ShakespeareSunday
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;" - Richard II (A3, S2) #ShakespeareSunday
November 16, 2025 at 7:20 AM
"For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;" - Richard II (A3, S2) #ShakespeareSunday
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;" - Richard II (A3, S2) #ShakespeareSunday
For within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits...
Richard II 3,2 #ShakespeareSunday
The Iron Crown, portions of which have been dated to c. 500 CE. At the Duomo of Monza.
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits...
Richard II 3,2 #ShakespeareSunday
The Iron Crown, portions of which have been dated to c. 500 CE. At the Duomo of Monza.
November 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
For within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits...
Richard II 3,2 #ShakespeareSunday
The Iron Crown, portions of which have been dated to c. 500 CE. At the Duomo of Monza.
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits...
Richard II 3,2 #ShakespeareSunday
The Iron Crown, portions of which have been dated to c. 500 CE. At the Duomo of Monza.
King Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville: To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee.
Elizabeth Woodville to King Edward IV: To tell thee plain, I had rather lie in prison.
3 Henry VI 3,2. Medieval meet cute, LOVE the banter. #ShakespeareSunday youtu.be/AMqAA-IYaWI?...
Elizabeth Woodville to King Edward IV: To tell thee plain, I had rather lie in prison.
3 Henry VI 3,2. Medieval meet cute, LOVE the banter. #ShakespeareSunday youtu.be/AMqAA-IYaWI?...
Edward IV is captivated by Elizabeth - The Hollow Crown: Episode 2 - BBC
YouTube video by BBC
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November 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
King Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville: To tell thee plain, I aim to lie with thee.
Elizabeth Woodville to King Edward IV: To tell thee plain, I had rather lie in prison.
3 Henry VI 3,2. Medieval meet cute, LOVE the banter. #ShakespeareSunday youtu.be/AMqAA-IYaWI?...
Elizabeth Woodville to King Edward IV: To tell thee plain, I had rather lie in prison.
3 Henry VI 3,2. Medieval meet cute, LOVE the banter. #ShakespeareSunday youtu.be/AMqAA-IYaWI?...
So now prosperity begins to mellow
And drop into the rotten mouth of death.
Richard III 4,4 #ShakespeareSunday
Hellmouth (with possibly angelic rescue!) from Queen Mary Apocalypse, London, early 14th century. British Library Royal MS 19 B XV.
And drop into the rotten mouth of death.
Richard III 4,4 #ShakespeareSunday
Hellmouth (with possibly angelic rescue!) from Queen Mary Apocalypse, London, early 14th century. British Library Royal MS 19 B XV.
November 16, 2025 at 3:59 PM
So now prosperity begins to mellow
And drop into the rotten mouth of death.
Richard III 4,4 #ShakespeareSunday
Hellmouth (with possibly angelic rescue!) from Queen Mary Apocalypse, London, early 14th century. British Library Royal MS 19 B XV.
And drop into the rotten mouth of death.
Richard III 4,4 #ShakespeareSunday
Hellmouth (with possibly angelic rescue!) from Queen Mary Apocalypse, London, early 14th century. British Library Royal MS 19 B XV.
November 14, 1939: Connecticut sailor Paul Sperry receives a patent for the Sperry Top Sider, aka the boat shoe.
He was inspired to create the shoe after slipping on his boat's deck and falling into Long Island Sound. The distinctive sole was inspired by the grooves on his dog's footpads. 1/2
He was inspired to create the shoe after slipping on his boat's deck and falling into Long Island Sound. The distinctive sole was inspired by the grooves on his dog's footpads. 1/2
November 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
November 14, 1939: Connecticut sailor Paul Sperry receives a patent for the Sperry Top Sider, aka the boat shoe.
He was inspired to create the shoe after slipping on his boat's deck and falling into Long Island Sound. The distinctive sole was inspired by the grooves on his dog's footpads. 1/2
He was inspired to create the shoe after slipping on his boat's deck and falling into Long Island Sound. The distinctive sole was inspired by the grooves on his dog's footpads. 1/2
We've lost sight of the overpass
The daylight won't remember that
When speckled fronds raise round your bones
Who took the time to fold your clothes
And shook the Valley of the Shadow
Deep Red Bells by Neko Case, because a song about a serial killer feels very Halloween.
youtu.be/okQfD9B_17Y?...
The daylight won't remember that
When speckled fronds raise round your bones
Who took the time to fold your clothes
And shook the Valley of the Shadow
Deep Red Bells by Neko Case, because a song about a serial killer feels very Halloween.
youtu.be/okQfD9B_17Y?...
Neko Case - "Deep Red Bells" [Live from Austin, TX]
YouTube video by Live From Austin TX
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November 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We've lost sight of the overpass
The daylight won't remember that
When speckled fronds raise round your bones
Who took the time to fold your clothes
And shook the Valley of the Shadow
Deep Red Bells by Neko Case, because a song about a serial killer feels very Halloween.
youtu.be/okQfD9B_17Y?...
The daylight won't remember that
When speckled fronds raise round your bones
Who took the time to fold your clothes
And shook the Valley of the Shadow
Deep Red Bells by Neko Case, because a song about a serial killer feels very Halloween.
youtu.be/okQfD9B_17Y?...
Happy Halloween from William and Joan Judde, seen below in their wedding portrait reminding us that Death is a guest at every wedding.
Above the skull you can make out the inscription WE BEHOWLDE OWER ENDE. More inscriptions in caption. England, c. 1560, Dulwich Picture Gallery, item no. DPG 354
Above the skull you can make out the inscription WE BEHOWLDE OWER ENDE. More inscriptions in caption. England, c. 1560, Dulwich Picture Gallery, item no. DPG 354
November 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Happy Halloween from William and Joan Judde, seen below in their wedding portrait reminding us that Death is a guest at every wedding.
Above the skull you can make out the inscription WE BEHOWLDE OWER ENDE. More inscriptions in caption. England, c. 1560, Dulwich Picture Gallery, item no. DPG 354
Above the skull you can make out the inscription WE BEHOWLDE OWER ENDE. More inscriptions in caption. England, c. 1560, Dulwich Picture Gallery, item no. DPG 354
Got a long line of heartache, I carry it well
The list of lives I've broken reach from here to hell
Bad luck wind been blowin' at my back
I pray you don't look at me
I pray I don't look back...
Thirteen, by Johnny Cash #Halloween
youtu.be/W2apXO0RXYo?...
The list of lives I've broken reach from here to hell
Bad luck wind been blowin' at my back
I pray you don't look at me
I pray I don't look back...
Thirteen, by Johnny Cash #Halloween
youtu.be/W2apXO0RXYo?...
Johnny Cash - Thirteen
YouTube video by NevermoreStranger
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Got a long line of heartache, I carry it well
The list of lives I've broken reach from here to hell
Bad luck wind been blowin' at my back
I pray you don't look at me
I pray I don't look back...
Thirteen, by Johnny Cash #Halloween
youtu.be/W2apXO0RXYo?...
The list of lives I've broken reach from here to hell
Bad luck wind been blowin' at my back
I pray you don't look at me
I pray I don't look back...
Thirteen, by Johnny Cash #Halloween
youtu.be/W2apXO0RXYo?...
Happy #Halloween.
Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle, by Arnold Böcklin, 1871.
At Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle, by Arnold Böcklin, 1871.
At Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
October 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Happy #Halloween.
Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle, by Arnold Böcklin, 1871.
At Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle, by Arnold Böcklin, 1871.
At Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
On a cobweb afternoon
In a room full of emptiness
By a freeway I confess
I was lost in the pages
Of a book full of death...
Like a Stone, by Audioslave #Halloween
youtu.be/7QU1nvuxaMA?...
In a room full of emptiness
By a freeway I confess
I was lost in the pages
Of a book full of death...
Like a Stone, by Audioslave #Halloween
youtu.be/7QU1nvuxaMA?...
Audioslave - Like a Stone (Official Video)
YouTube video by AudioslaveVEVO
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
On a cobweb afternoon
In a room full of emptiness
By a freeway I confess
I was lost in the pages
Of a book full of death...
Like a Stone, by Audioslave #Halloween
youtu.be/7QU1nvuxaMA?...
In a room full of emptiness
By a freeway I confess
I was lost in the pages
Of a book full of death...
Like a Stone, by Audioslave #Halloween
youtu.be/7QU1nvuxaMA?...
Greetings from California. 🐻
"Overall, he was a very polite visitor. He stayed on the boardwalk path, kept two feet on the ground and didn't try to climb over the railings," the zoo said on Facebook.
www.sfgate.com/news/article...
"Overall, he was a very polite visitor. He stayed on the boardwalk path, kept two feet on the ground and didn't try to climb over the railings," the zoo said on Facebook.
www.sfgate.com/news/article...
Wild bear breaks into California zoo, is found communing with the captive bears
A wild, very "polite" and possibly lonely black bear recently paid a visit to its neighbors at a Northern California zoo.
www.sfgate.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Greetings from California. 🐻
"Overall, he was a very polite visitor. He stayed on the boardwalk path, kept two feet on the ground and didn't try to climb over the railings," the zoo said on Facebook.
www.sfgate.com/news/article...
"Overall, he was a very polite visitor. He stayed on the boardwalk path, kept two feet on the ground and didn't try to climb over the railings," the zoo said on Facebook.
www.sfgate.com/news/article...
Video from today's #NoKings protest in Walnut Creek, California.
Biggest crowd yet, thousands of peacefully determined suburbanites filled the plaza and the surrounding streets.
Biggest crowd yet, thousands of peacefully determined suburbanites filled the plaza and the surrounding streets.
October 19, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Video from today's #NoKings protest in Walnut Creek, California.
Biggest crowd yet, thousands of peacefully determined suburbanites filled the plaza and the surrounding streets.
Biggest crowd yet, thousands of peacefully determined suburbanites filled the plaza and the surrounding streets.
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#otd September 22 1692, eight people hang at Proctor's Ledge on Gallows Hill in what will be the last of the Salem witch trial executions. In memory of:
Martha Corey
Mary Easty
Mary Parker
Alice Parker
Ann Pudeator
Wilmot Redd
Margaret Scott
Samuel Wardwell
Martha Corey
Mary Easty
Mary Parker
Alice Parker
Ann Pudeator
Wilmot Redd
Margaret Scott
Samuel Wardwell
September 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
#otd September 22 1692, eight people hang at Proctor's Ledge on Gallows Hill in what will be the last of the Salem witch trial executions. In memory of:
Martha Corey
Mary Easty
Mary Parker
Alice Parker
Ann Pudeator
Wilmot Redd
Margaret Scott
Samuel Wardwell
Martha Corey
Mary Easty
Mary Parker
Alice Parker
Ann Pudeator
Wilmot Redd
Margaret Scott
Samuel Wardwell
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#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit.
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
1🧵
#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil.
1🧵
#PlaymobilÖtzi
#PlaymobilInfestation
September 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This has been the perfect week to watch Pakula's Paranoia Trilogy, which says a lot about what kind of week this has been.
ALAN J. PAKULA'S PARANOIA TRILOGY 📽️
Coming to criterion channel in September!
Coming to criterion channel in September!
September 18, 2025 at 1:18 AM
This has been the perfect week to watch Pakula's Paranoia Trilogy, which says a lot about what kind of week this has been.
Robert Redford was a Red Sox fan! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/16/m...
Robert Redford rooted for the Red Sox, naturally - The Boston Globe
Redford grew up in Santa Monica, where there were no MLB teams nearby. But he became a proud member of Red Sox Nation thanks to Ted Williams.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Robert Redford was a Red Sox fan! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/16/m...
August 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
August 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
She's seen it all. She can do math in her head, she has a 250-degree field of peripheral vision, she can spot your clipped coins when they're still in your pocket, and she can tell from the way you're walking that you have a knife in your sleeve so remember she has one too.
La Maraichere: strong market-woman, equally strongly portrayed in 1789 by Jacques-Louis David. It's his day.
August 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
She's seen it all. She can do math in her head, she has a 250-degree field of peripheral vision, she can spot your clipped coins when they're still in your pocket, and she can tell from the way you're walking that you have a knife in your sleeve so remember she has one too.
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Maybe Robot Fight Club isn't the best way to teach humanoid robots to live among humans. (The clip with a flailing robot was unnerving.)
How about Robot Jane Austen Book Club?
Robot Bird Watching? Let the AI learn to identify birds by their song. www.corememory.com/p/inside-san...
How about Robot Jane Austen Book Club?
Robot Bird Watching? Let the AI learn to identify birds by their song. www.corememory.com/p/inside-san...
Exclusive: Inside San Francisco's Robot Fight Club
A new combat sport has entered the arena
www.corememory.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Maybe Robot Fight Club isn't the best way to teach humanoid robots to live among humans. (The clip with a flailing robot was unnerving.)
How about Robot Jane Austen Book Club?
Robot Bird Watching? Let the AI learn to identify birds by their song. www.corememory.com/p/inside-san...
How about Robot Jane Austen Book Club?
Robot Bird Watching? Let the AI learn to identify birds by their song. www.corememory.com/p/inside-san...
August 2, 1100: King William II of England is killed in a hunting "accident". His younger brother Henry (my 28th GGF) left the King's body where it lay and rode to Winchester, where he seized the treasury and had himself crowned King Henry I a few days later.
August 2, 2025 at 11:45 PM
August 2, 1100: King William II of England is killed in a hunting "accident". His younger brother Henry (my 28th GGF) left the King's body where it lay and rode to Winchester, where he seized the treasury and had himself crowned King Henry I a few days later.
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Update on the great discovery of archived BL manuscript metadata: I started putting together a page at my website to host PDFs of the archived pages I retrieve.
ruffnotes.org/british-libr...
#medievalsky
ruffnotes.org/british-libr...
#medievalsky
British Library Manuscripts Metadata
Since the cyberattack of October 2023, the British Library has restored only a fraction of the manuscripts it digitized over the past decade-plus. Even for those MSS now back online, we have only t…
ruffnotes.org
August 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Update on the great discovery of archived BL manuscript metadata: I started putting together a page at my website to host PDFs of the archived pages I retrieve.
ruffnotes.org/british-libr...
#medievalsky
ruffnotes.org/british-libr...
#medievalsky
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Motherfucking wind farms…
July 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Motherfucking wind farms…