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Mike Gibb ↔️ look at what they make you give@Operadata
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Looking forward to reading this!
In the meantime, from enWP: "At least two portraits of the Virgin Queen show her holding a sieve in her hand, a symbol of chastity since the vestal virgin Tuccia carried water from the Tiber in a sieve without losing a drop."
ALT Elizabeth I of England, The Sieve Portrait (1583) by Quentin Metsys the Younger. Elizabeth is portrayed as Tuccia, a Vestal Virgin who proved her chastity by carrying a sieve full of water from the Tiber to the Temple of Vesta. She is surround by symbols of imperial majesty including a column with an imperial crown at its base and a globe. The portrait is signed on the base of the globe 1583. Q. MASSYS ANT (for "of Antwerp").
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The last of the summer sun
📷 Le Parisien/ Arnaud Journois
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It also feels familiar because it follows up on a video dedicated to the Enshittificator (4.5M views), which IMHO is punchier. (Visit Oslo also good, though)
youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9…
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That's from an earlier video, dedicated just to the Enshittificator, from the same people
youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9…
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Nice cameo for Tesla in The Prestige (2006), directed by Christopher Nolan.
youtube.com/watch?v=kqxzq6Sb…
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Now listen to Verdi's Don Carlo, which opens in front of his tomb at the monastery of Saint-Just.
(The KHM is great museum for fans of Schiller's Don Karlos or Verdi's Don Carlo, with portraits of many of the lead characters).
youtube.com/watch?v=FwaDw54c…
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Arthur C Clarke on the Saturn V rocket (one of his personal Seven Wonders of the World):
"The Saturn V is the equivalent to going to New York in the Queen Mary with three passengers and sinking it after one voyage"
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France Diplomatie > Centre des Archives diplomatiques de La Courneuve > CP109 ROME vol 61 folio 42 page 3 ; microfilm P/6952
Jules Mazarin, septembre 1637:
al galant’uomo ogni paese é patria.
(au galant homme tout pays est patrie /
To a gentleman, any country is a homeland)
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The Dubois painting is powerful stuff .. so much brutality in the detail, and the sequence of Huguenot Admiral Coligny's end (thrown from the window, beheaded and castrated, dragged through the streets to be hung by the feet in the gibbet of Montfaucon)
