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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.
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.
TIL that Paul Sperry and I are both descendants of Puritan colonist Richard Sperry, who snuck food to the regicides Edward Whalley and William Goffe when they were hiding from agents of King Charles II in the New Haven Colony in 1661. 2/2
November 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM
TIL that Paul Sperry and I are both descendants of Puritan colonist Richard Sperry, who snuck food to the regicides Edward Whalley and William Goffe when they were hiding from agents of King Charles II in the New Haven Colony in 1661. 2/2
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
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
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.
Especially the human problem with making a decent martini.
September 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Especially the human problem with making a decent martini.
August 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
August 31, 2025 at 4:32 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.
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.
July 19, 1692: Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, and Sarah Wildes, having been found guilty of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials, are hanged at Proctor's Ledge. #OTD
📷 The back of the death warrant, as signed by Sheriff George Corwin.
📷 The back of the death warrant, as signed by Sheriff George Corwin.
July 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
July 19, 1692: Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, and Sarah Wildes, having been found guilty of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials, are hanged at Proctor's Ledge. #OTD
📷 The back of the death warrant, as signed by Sheriff George Corwin.
📷 The back of the death warrant, as signed by Sheriff George Corwin.
July 18, 1692: 75 year old Ann Foster, in her third day of "examination" during the Salem Witch Trials and having already confessed to witchcraft, stated that "...there was three hundred & five [witches] in the whole Country & that they would ruin that place, the Vilige..."
![Record of the multi-day examination of Ann Foster beginning July 15, 1692. Courtesy of The Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive at the University of Virginia. The entry for July 18 begins about halfway down the page:
"18 July 1692. Ann Foster Examined confesed that the devill in shape of a #[black] man apeared to her w'th Goody carier about six yeare since when they made her awitch & that she promised to serve the divill two yeares: upon w'ch the Divill promised her prosperity & many things but never performed it, that she & martha Carier did both ride on a stick or pole when they went to the witch meeting at Salem Village & that the stick broak: as they ware caried in the aire above the tops of the trees & they fell but she did hang fast about the neck of Goody Carier & ware presently at the vilage, that she was then much hurt of her Leg, she further saith that she hard some of the witches say that their was three hundred & five in the whole Country, & that they would ruin that place the Vilige, also saith ther was present at that metting two men besides mr Buroughs the minister & one of them had gray haire, she saith that she formerly frequented the publique metting to worship god. but the divill had such power over her that she could not profit there & that was her undoeing: she saith that above three or foure yeares agoe Martha Carier told her she would bewitch James Hobbs child to death & the child dyed in twenty four howers..."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cnpzha6v2ne3bc2npoghv6xb/bafkreiacgoc7dno6pq6sqr7wdyyndf2em5rdbd7l3c7qkzpvnbecav36xy@jpeg)
July 18, 2025 at 10:43 PM
July 18, 1692: 75 year old Ann Foster, in her third day of "examination" during the Salem Witch Trials and having already confessed to witchcraft, stated that "...there was three hundred & five [witches] in the whole Country & that they would ruin that place, the Vilige..."
Remember your homeland's heritage!
In June 1692, Reverend Cotton Mather drafted a letter from himself and his fellow Puritan ministers urging Salem's Court of Oyer and Terminer to continue prosecuting, if cautiously, witchcraft and "Molestations from the Invisible World." Cite in ALT.
In June 1692, Reverend Cotton Mather drafted a letter from himself and his fellow Puritan ministers urging Salem's Court of Oyer and Terminer to continue prosecuting, if cautiously, witchcraft and "Molestations from the Invisible World." Cite in ALT.
July 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Remember your homeland's heritage!
In June 1692, Reverend Cotton Mather drafted a letter from himself and his fellow Puritan ministers urging Salem's Court of Oyer and Terminer to continue prosecuting, if cautiously, witchcraft and "Molestations from the Invisible World." Cite in ALT.
In June 1692, Reverend Cotton Mather drafted a letter from himself and his fellow Puritan ministers urging Salem's Court of Oyer and Terminer to continue prosecuting, if cautiously, witchcraft and "Molestations from the Invisible World." Cite in ALT.
June 18, 1621: Edward Doty, one of my more troublesome Puritan ancestors, fights in New England's first duel. Doty and fellow Mayflower Compact signer Edward Leister fought each other with swords and daggers, they were separated and both survived. #genealogy 📷 details in ALT.
June 19, 2025 at 1:49 AM
June 18, 1621: Edward Doty, one of my more troublesome Puritan ancestors, fights in New England's first duel. Doty and fellow Mayflower Compact signer Edward Leister fought each other with swords and daggers, they were separated and both survived. #genealogy 📷 details in ALT.
PRINCE HENRY: I never thought to hear you speak again.
KING HENRY IV: The wish was father, Harry, to that thought;
I stay too long by thee, I weary thee.
Dost thou so hunger for mine empty chair...
2 Henry IV 4,5 #ShakespeareSunday 📷 The BBC's The Hollow Crown production of Henry IV (2012).
KING HENRY IV: The wish was father, Harry, to that thought;
I stay too long by thee, I weary thee.
Dost thou so hunger for mine empty chair...
2 Henry IV 4,5 #ShakespeareSunday 📷 The BBC's The Hollow Crown production of Henry IV (2012).
June 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
PRINCE HENRY: I never thought to hear you speak again.
KING HENRY IV: The wish was father, Harry, to that thought;
I stay too long by thee, I weary thee.
Dost thou so hunger for mine empty chair...
2 Henry IV 4,5 #ShakespeareSunday 📷 The BBC's The Hollow Crown production of Henry IV (2012).
KING HENRY IV: The wish was father, Harry, to that thought;
I stay too long by thee, I weary thee.
Dost thou so hunger for mine empty chair...
2 Henry IV 4,5 #ShakespeareSunday 📷 The BBC's The Hollow Crown production of Henry IV (2012).
KING RICHARD II (surrendering to Henry Bolingbroke at Flint Castle):
Cousin, I am too young to be your father,
Though you are old enough to be my heir.
Richard II, 3,3 #ShakespeareSunday 📷 BBC's The Hollow Crown production of Richard II (2012)
Cousin, I am too young to be your father,
Though you are old enough to be my heir.
Richard II, 3,3 #ShakespeareSunday 📷 BBC's The Hollow Crown production of Richard II (2012)
June 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
KING RICHARD II (surrendering to Henry Bolingbroke at Flint Castle):
Cousin, I am too young to be your father,
Though you are old enough to be my heir.
Richard II, 3,3 #ShakespeareSunday 📷 BBC's The Hollow Crown production of Richard II (2012)
Cousin, I am too young to be your father,
Though you are old enough to be my heir.
Richard II, 3,3 #ShakespeareSunday 📷 BBC's The Hollow Crown production of Richard II (2012)
June 10, 1692: Bridget Bishop, the first victim of the Salem Witch Panic, is hanged on Gallows Hill.
📷: The April 19, 1692 warrant for the apprehension of Giles Corey, Mary Warren, Abigail Hobbs, and Bridget Bishop on suspicion of witchcraft.
📷: The April 19, 1692 warrant for the apprehension of Giles Corey, Mary Warren, Abigail Hobbs, and Bridget Bishop on suspicion of witchcraft.
June 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
June 10, 1692: Bridget Bishop, the first victim of the Salem Witch Panic, is hanged on Gallows Hill.
📷: The April 19, 1692 warrant for the apprehension of Giles Corey, Mary Warren, Abigail Hobbs, and Bridget Bishop on suspicion of witchcraft.
📷: The April 19, 1692 warrant for the apprehension of Giles Corey, Mary Warren, Abigail Hobbs, and Bridget Bishop on suspicion of witchcraft.
🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting. Day 10
June 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting. Day 10
🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting. Day 9
June 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting. Day 9
🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting. Day 8
May 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting. Day 8
The Frick's decision to display Cromwell and More glaring at each other across a fireplace makes me so happy.
(It's been years since I visited the Frick and I don't know if they were subsequently separated.) #blueskyart 2/2
(It's been years since I visited the Frick and I don't know if they were subsequently separated.) #blueskyart 2/2
May 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The Frick's decision to display Cromwell and More glaring at each other across a fireplace makes me so happy.
(It's been years since I visited the Frick and I don't know if they were subsequently separated.) #blueskyart 2/2
(It's been years since I visited the Frick and I don't know if they were subsequently separated.) #blueskyart 2/2
🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting. Day 7 (1/2; two-fer explained in next post)
May 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting. Day 7 (1/2; two-fer explained in next post)
🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting. Day 6
May 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
🎨 Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 🗃️ #blueskyart #art #painting. Day 6