Calcagno family burial monument at Staglieno Cemetery in Genoa, Italy. A bronze masterpiece statue lying on the steps, deposing a last flower on the grave; the personification of sorrow. Work of Adolfo Apolloni in 1904.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor Anthony Head, who recently passed away, had a key role in one of the better animated Batman movies.
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten the late great Anthony Head was Alfred in Gotham by Gaslight. He was good in the role, interestingly Alfred in the movie (as part of the expanded plot stuff not in the original comic) is kind of responsible for the Robin situation, as while Bruce doesn't formerly adopt people in the movie, Alfred does hire local urchins Dick, Jason and Tim to do errands for him in a Baker Street Irregulars dealie, leading to their helping to save the day in the finale.
Hello, I am half-Greek but raised in the US and unfortunately do not speak Greek
My mom was raised in a small village on Crete and I've been trying to find any mention of it online and so far have had no luck. I believe part of the issue is that I've only been able to Google the anglicized version (and even that Im unsure of its spelling.)
By any chance would you be able to help provide how to write Katsfarianon (possibly anglicized wrong) in Greek? If by any chance you know anything off the top of your head itd be appreciated but from my understanding it is very small and almost non-existant now so Im intending on doing most of the research myself
Thank you for indulging me and thank you for this phenomenal blog
Hello! First of all, thank you for your nice words <3
I found your village. It is indeed super small and also you made some typos which is why you couldn't find anything about it, although to be fair it is small enough that there isn't much to find.
So, the name of the place is Katsifarianá. (What you wrote was a misspelled genitive case, as Greek proper names have grammatical cases, but of course such changes are not transferable to the english language.)
In Greek, the name is written as Κατσιφαριανά. Since whatever information is available about it is only in Greek, I am going to give you the bits of information I found here.
Katsifariana is not even exactly a village, it's more like a district / suburb / settlement around three miles from the town of Chania, which is the second largest city in Crete and a very touristy and pretty one.
Even though it's so close, it's not part of the municipality of Chania but of the municipality of Nerokoúros (Νεροκούρος), also called with the atypical plural ¨ta Nerokoúrou¨ (τα Νεροκούρου). (I mean, it's not atypical actually but it needs a whole grammar lesson to explain, so just keep in mind the municipality is known with both names.)
Katsifariana's population is too small to have its own census but the size of the entire Nerokouros municipality is around 5,000 people. Katsifariana is less than 0.7 miles from the main village of Nerokouros. The settlements are built on slightly elevated, mildly hilly ground, Katsifariana on about 30 meters (~ 100ft) from sea level and Nerokouros is on 90 meters (~300ft) and has distant views to the sea.
By the way I believe it is named Katsifariana after some person who settled there and created this small district first (i.e with a surname like Katsifaras). We even have a politician with this surname, but he's not from Crete.
As for the main village of Nerokouros municipality nearby, of which Katsifariana is considered something like a remote and more recent district, it is first mentioned in documents in 1577 by a Venetian nobleman (Crete was a Venetian colony from 1205 to 1669) although given the Greek etymology of the name, Nerokouros must have been older than that and Greek-founded. If the name is indeed greek, it probably refers to a shortage of water resources in the area. Indeed, the historian Stergios Spanakis attributes to the village a Byzantine / Medieval Greek origin, and says such a name was typical of Byzantine Greek settlements. In a census of 1583 coming from Petros Kastrofylakas, a hellenized Venetian chronicler, it is called as "Anerocurú".
In an Egyptian census of 1834 it is referred to as Nerokúru (correctly) and according to it it had 30 Christian Greek and 6 Turkish families. Now, you may wonder why the heck there was an Egyptian census. Well, after Crete stopped being a Venetian colony, it fell to Ottoman Turkish occupation like the rest of Greece. However, in 1821 when the Greeks started the independence war and created the first independent modern Greek state in south mainland Greece, the Cretans participated in it as well, and even though Crete did not manage to become part of the independent state yet at the time, the Ottomans gave the governance of Crete to their vassal Egypt for a short period of time. Hence why the census is Egyptian! Anyway, after that the Turks increased a lot in the region and became the majority at some point but they all left to Turkey in 1922-1923 during the population exchange between Greece and Turkey. Nowadays, the population is showing small rise.
In 1977 - 1982, there was a Minoan settlement discovered by archaeologists in the region. The most notable findings are the ruins of two Minoan houses, of which one must have belonged to an aristocrat and it is called "the Minoan villa". (Don't expect a villa though, it's ruins.) They date from ~1600 BC.
I am not gonna write about the general region of Chania and I don't know if you know about it (both the main city and the whole geographic region are called Chaniá) as it is a very famous area of Greece. It is very beautiful and it combines some spectacular coastline along with some of the biggest mountains in Greece and certainly the biggest in the Greek islands. It is also rich in history and tradition. Go to the Crete page on my blog and read more about Chania if you want there. https://gemsofgreece.tumblr.com/crete
I will end this with a photo collection from the Chania region below the cut, in case you are not familiar with it. You have roots in a beautiful place. I hope this was helpful to you. It was a pleasure for me!
Hi!! Randomly found your blog through a mutual, are the chickens in your banner yours? Do you have more pictures of them?? I'm amazed at the color of the left one, that orange is highlighter worthy!!!
hello!!!!
those were my chickens, yes! they were still pullets (and less than ten weeks old) when that banner pic was taken-- so their first plumage was interesting and looked a lil different than they did after their first molt as adults. but yeeees i love that feather color! her dark brown head and bright neck feathers reminded me of sunflowers 🌻
her name was hank! she was beautiful and anxious her whole life 💞
if you want to see more pics, you can check out the #hank tag on my blog :v
current state of the internet is a FUCKING EMBARASSMENT. was chatting with my grandma bout the history of crochet and knitting (and the comparative ages of those respective technologies) and i was like "oh YEAH and also that ancient greek fiber art we partly figured out from chemically testing the scoured bleached pigments of stolen statuary (tumblr knows what im talking about)—gimme 30 seconds to look up the name."
5 minutes and 3 search-engines later i am crying tears of blood screaming spitting blubbering in despair as my grandma attempts to digitally pat me consolingly on the back. the library of alexandria didn't burn it was "restructured" to "increase shareholder profits"
i am scouring the internet like the victorians scoured and destroyed all trace of joy and color from stolen relics for the LOST NAME OF THE ANCIENT PROCESS of textile-creation akin to knitting/crocheting/nålebinding that at least one academic/crafter used to recreate the leggings on this Glorious Motherfucker:
the google execs erased it. they bleached my bestie AGAIN from history...
Archer statue from the Temple of Aphaia (ca. 480 BC) next to a reconstruction of its original paint job:
The leggings and sleeves would have created using a method called SPRANG which predates knitting and is over 3,000 years old. What's even sexier is modern artisans managed to recreate the entire outfit using the original method!
Mmm-HMM, love me a shapely thigh in harlequin hosiery. Put👏men👏in👏clingy-ass👏clothing👏again👏👏👏
Unfortunately english sources are hard to find, partly because Google's a shithole, but also because this textile project comes from a German museum, in Germany, where people tend to speak (and publish) in German. That said, the original link is to a short-but-sweet article I would have had no problem finding in 30 seconds a mere few years ago. fortunately i have clever beautiful insane people following me, but alas not everyone has such luxury. thanks to everyone in the notes who shoved themselves down this rabbithole with me!
in conclusion let us take a moment to sincerely wish Google a very burn in hell🙏
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