#aglet

[sesamenom-misc]

where did you learn the word aglet (shoelace cap)

wikipedia rabbit hole

fun fact book/visual encyclopedia/etc

telomere analogy

something else??

this poll

Voting ended onOct 13, 2024

[pangur-and-grim]

the end of an era.

I did my best to give them all good lives.

[animentality]

[callmegallifreya]

How did you learn what an aglet is?

Terry Pratchett

Phineas and Ferb

Somewhere else (tell me where)

What the hell is an aglet?!

Voting ended onMar 17, 2023

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[honeyv22]

The Gen Z experience

[portrait-paintings]

Robert Dudley, first Earl of Leicester (1532/3–1588)

Artist: Steven van der Meulen (Flemish, active c. 1543–1563)

Date: ca. 1565

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Yale Center For British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

Description

This portrait gives a good sense of Robert Dudley’s assertive, self-regarding, and ambitious character. It was painted when he was still a credible suitor for the hand of Elizabeth I. Dudley retained his status as the queen’s favorite his whole life and was rewarded with appointments in the royal household, and grants of land and titles. But he never won the ultimate prize of marrying the queen. In 1560 his wife, Amy Rosbart, was found dead at the foot of a flight of stairs. Though probably an accident, suggestions that Dudley had removed her to make way for the queen did lasting damage to his reputation. A patron of Continental artists, and always conscious of his image, he had the Italian painter Federico Zuccaro make pendant portraits of him and Elizabeth I in 1575. But by this point Dudley’s ambitions to marry the queen were thwarted, and thereafter he poured his energy into war against Catholic Spain.

[momphineasandferbmadeablog]

Phineas and Ferb in 2009: A-G-L-E-T, Don’t forget it!

Me:

[thenamedadjokeswasalreadytaken]

If Phineas & Ferb taught us anything, at least it taught us what the end of a shoelace is called.