I Am Very Amused!

Hi. My name is Elliott and I live in New York City. Welcome to my blog! My interests (in no particular order) are History, Automobiles - particularly vintage, Jewels, Photography, Fashion - both vintage and contemporary, Old Master Paintings and Drawings, Sculpture, Royalty past and present, Architecture, Advertising Art, Famous People, and things of which I may not yet be aware!

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A conductor on the Pskov-Moscow train feeds a cat named Felix sausage during a short stop in Staraya, Russa. Felix shows up every day at 22:40 & has for several years. All conductors are aware of Felix & prepare sausage in advance.(Source: Reddit)

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Hyperrealistic Paintings by Antonio Santin 

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There are times I can only scratch my head!

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This is just extraordinary. Thank you SO much for posting!!

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Seweryna Szmaglewska - Polish writer; one of the most famous Auschwitz survivors

Seweryna Szmaglewska was born on February 11, 1916 in Przygłów near Piotrków Trybunalski. She studied psychology and literature to become a teacher. After the beginning of German occupation of Poland, she worked in one of the hospitals in Piotrków Trybunalski as a volunteer nurse and was engaged in illegal education. In 1940 she joined a student resistance organization that run an underground library of Polish literature. For her involvement in the resistance she was arrested by the Gestapo. On October 6, 1942, she became a prisoner of the Auschwitz camp.

Immediately after escaping from an evacuation transport (January 18, 1945), she began to write her memoirs which became one of the first – if not the first – personal books about the experience of Auschwitz.

Since 1945, 'Smoke over Birkenau' has been reprinted frequently and widely translated. “Smoke over Birkenau is not a book about death or hatred,” one critic wrote. “It is a powerful act of the will to live and a profession of the noblest humanism. The victorious idea of life is woven through every page. Maintaining, cultivating, and instilling in oneself the imperative: You must endure! You must live! – a plan carried out unswervingly despite everything.”

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Thank you for this magnificent story of the human will. I will be inspired for days!!

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Does anyone know why Tumblr has gone all tiny??

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Dorothy P. Rice (1922-2017) was a health statistician whose work was instrumental for developing Medicare in the United States. She performed numerous studies related to the cost of illness, one of the first scientists to do so.

She studied labor economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and later went on to work for the Social Security Administration. In 1976 she became the director of the National Center for Health Statistics and helped create the National Death Index. Her most important works focused on the lack of health insurance among senior citizens and the economic impact of smoking.

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ab. 1795 Pietro Labruzzi - Portrait of the Architect Giuseppe Valadier

(Art Institute of Chicago)

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Portrait of a Goldsmith, Probably Bartholomeus Jansz van Assendelft by Werner van den Valckert, 1617, Museum of the Netherlands

The man leans out of a window. In his right hand he holds up a gold ring set with a stone. His left hand rests on a touchstone, an instrument for assessing the purity of gold and silver objects. The sitter might be the goldsmith Bartholomeus Jansz van Assendelft. In 1617, the year the portrait was painted, he was appointed assay-master of the Leiden goldsmiths’ guild, which would explain the inclusion of the touchstone.

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Artist : Sun Lijuan delicate and colorful hand embroidery silk art interpretation of a symbolic Chinese lotus design

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Sun Lijuan, from China, is an artist skilled in the art of Su embroidery, a discipline in the art of hand embroidery on silk hailing, from Suzhou and surrounding towns of Jiangsu province.

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Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, Edward Steichen, 1928

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16th century French encryption book from the court of Henri II [2128x1395]

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… as I am ready to close today’s ‘Book of Posts’…

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16th century French encryption book from the court of Henri II. Renaissance Museum in the castle of Écouen, north of Paris. No one seems to have any information on this machine, even the museum where it is housed.

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Fonte : www.antiquesdiva.com - Swedish Rococo Mirror

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Alfalfa, St. Denis, Georges Seurat

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/georges-seurat/alfalfa-st-denis-1886

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Alfalfa, St. Denis (1885) by Georges Seurat (French, 1859-1891), Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.

Seurat was a French post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism. Seurat's artistic personality was compounded of qualities which are usually supposed to be opposed and incompatible: on the one hand, his extreme and delicate sensibility; on the other, a passion for logical abstraction and an almost mathematical precision of mind. His large-scale work, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884–1886), altered the direction of modern art by initiating Neo-impressionism, and is one of the icons of late 19th-century painting.

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THE HEADDRESS

Dame Barbara McCorquodale, née Cartland ‘Barbara Cartland’  (1901-2000)

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Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland, DBE, CStJ (1901-2000) was an English novelist who wrote romance novels, one of the best-selling authors as well as one of the most prolific and commercially successful worldwide of the 20th century. She is the third-best-selling fiction author of all time (estimated 1 billion copies sold). Diana, Princess of Wales, was her step-granddaughter by Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer, Diana’s Step-Mother.

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Helen Keller with Eleanor Roosevelt, 1955 [1200x938] Check this blog!

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Before you completely give up on the human race, remember we had Eleanor Roosevelt and Helen Keller! Here we see them when they met in New York City in February, 1955.