#joseph arnold

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The pan-fried sketches series continues! This time with Rollo Gillespie, using Guts from Beserk for reference.

Bonus: joseph arnold (left) and thomas otho travers (right)

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“Thin Blue Line” Brings the Real-World Dangers of Modern Policing to the Comic Page

Mike Baron’s “Thin Blue Line” Brings the Real-World Dangers of Modern Policing to the Comic Page | #comics #ThinBlueLine #indiecomics #police #comicbooks

On Friday, Blue Line Comics launched a crowdfunding campaign for Thin Blue Line, a 56-page, fictional story inspired by recent, real-world events. Written by Mike Baron (The Punisher) and featuring illustrations by Joseph Arnold and Jeff Slemons, Thin Blue Line tells a story that examines “human fallibility on every level.” Here’s the official breakdown of Thin Blue Line from the project’s…

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1818 Sumatra: Discovery of the world’s largest flower, the “stinking corpse lily”

I was looking at Stamford Raffles’ visit to St. Helena when I came across another person out of the woodwork. Dr. Joseph Arnold, who was part of Raffles’ group, died of fever in Sumatra at age 36. He had recently been alerted by a servant to a bizarre flower. It is now known as Rafflesia arnoldii. The reason I bring it up is that Dr. Joseph Arnold was very strange himself. He wrote a stream-of-consciousness journal, novel, or something, that is quite haunting. 

XV. An Account of a new Genus of Plants, named Rafflesia.

By Robert Brown, Esq. F.R.S. Libr. L.S. Read, June 30, 1820. It is now nearly eighteen months since some account of a Flower of extraordinary size was received by my lamented friend and patron the late revered President of the Royal Society, from Sir Stamford Raffles, Governor of the East India Company's establishments in Sumatra. This gigantic Flower, which forms the subject of the present communication, was discovered in 1818 on Sir Stamford's first journey from Bencoolen into the interior. In that journey he was accompanied by a naturalist of great zeal and acquirements, the late Dr. Joseph Arnold, a member of this Society, from whose researches, aided by the friendship and influence of the Governor, in an island so favourably situated and so imperfectly explored as Sumatra, the greatest expectations had been formed. But these expectations were never to be realized: for the same letter which gave the account of the gigantic Flower, brought also the intelligence of Dr. Arnold's death. As in this letter many important particulars are stated respecting the plant which I am about to describe, and a just tribute is paid to the merits of the naturalist by whom it was discovered, I shall introduce my account by the following extract. " Bencoolen, 13th August, 1818. "You will lament to hear that we have lost Dr. Arnold: he fell a sacrifice to his exertions on my first tour into the interior, and died of fever about a fortnight ago.

"It is impossible I can do justice to his memory by any feeble encomiums I may pass on his character ; he was in every thing what he should have been, devoted to science and the acquisition of knowledge, and aiming only at usefulness.

"I had hoped, instead of the melancholy event I have now to communicate, that we should have been able to send you an account of our many interesting discoveries from the hand of Dr. Arnold. At the period of his death he had not done much; all was arrangement for extensive acquirement in every branch of natural history. I shall go on with the collections as well as I can, and hereafter communicate with you respecting them, and in the mean time content myself with giving you the best account I can of the largest and most magnificent Flower which, as far as we know, has yet been described. Fortunately I have found part of a letter from poor Arnold to some unknown friend, written while he was on board ship, and a short time before his death, from which the following is an extract. " 'But here I rejoice to tell you I happened to meet with what I consider as the greatest prodigy of the vegetable world. I had ventured some way from the party, when one of the Malay servants came running to me with wonder in his eyes, and said, " Come with me, Sir, come! a flower, very large, beautiful, wonderful! " I immediately went with the man about a hundred yards in the jungle, and he pointed to a flower growing close to the ground under the bushes, which was truly astonishing. My first impulse was to cut it up and carry it to the hut.’ [long description follows]

"Dr. Arnold did not live to return to Bencoolen, nor to fulfil the intentions expressed in the above extract; but we have finished the drawing of the whole flower, and it is now forwarded under charge of Dr. Horsfield, to whom I have also intrusted the pistil and buds. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/13692#page/224/mode/1up

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Predator vs. Terminator

art by Joseph Arnold

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Aaron Burr to Joseph Arnold, 1816

New York, 5 August 1816

Sir,

Your order is still unpaid and the gentlemen on whom it is drawn preemptorily refuse to pay. I thought it might be necessary for your justification to protest it, which has been done as you have been many days since advised by the Notary.

I have received a letter from Ransom dated 30th July, requesting that the taxed bills may be reviewed and giving me a deal of advice how to do my own business. I am really quite ashamed and mortified to see such a letter. It is a very trifling and silly attempt to gain a little time and to impose on me. He knew perfectly well that the measures he pretends to advise were unnecessary and if necessary, that I must be much better informed of it than he could be. My bills are against him and not against Campbell.

Ransom has not answered one of my letters for the last six months. How often have I bid him to send me the bond—and yet he dares to tell me that he wishes to be placed in a situation to compel Campbell to pay? Why then does he not send me the bond.

He has been speculating on my money for nearly nine months and now writes me a letter of two pages without a word from which I can infer that he ever means to pay me, nor do I believe that he does if he can any way avoid it.

Whilst the suit was pending he was very liberal of his promises. Now he has got his money, he seems resolved to keep it. If I should not by return of mail receive the money or a satisfactory reply, I shall not write again and he may blame himself for the consequences.

I am Sir Your humble servant,

A. Burr.

Please to transmit my receipt and take up your order. Joseph Arnold, Esqr., Pawlings Town.

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