#Bulkeley

[detournementsmineurs]

Constance Gay dans "Vaincre ou Mourir" biopic de Paul Mignot et Vincent Mottez - sur les Guerres de Vendée pendant la Révolution Française et en particulier le Général François Athanase Charette de La Contrie dit "Charette" (1763-1796) - février 2023.

[nakeddeparture]

Dear Barbadians: About Plantations. Isn’t it time you renamed Bulkeley, et al. - St George - Barbados.

https://youtu.be/evQsCjDutCw

Isn’t the word PLANTATION an affront to you? Aren’t you ‘triggered’ when you hear that fuc*ing word? Aren’t you?! If you are not, it tells a sad, sad story about your mental health. Naked!!

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[henk-heijmans]

Barn owl - by Philip Bulkeley, English

[judgemark45]

MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Nov. 13, 2024) Cmdr. Arturo Trejo, commanding officer of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Bulkeley (DDG 84), calls for an all hands call of the crew on the weather decks for an all-hands photo, Nov. 13, 2024. Bulkeley is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joseph Macklin)

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Charles Edwin Bulkeley by photographer Augustus Washington, c. 1852. Connecticut Historical Society Museum, Hartford.

[billherbert23]

How Not To Do This

Driven, if not driven wild, by coincidence, I had occasion just the other day to post something by a very old friend, Martyn Crucefix, on a current website, the Ghost Furniture Catalogue, which I’m co-curating with Sophie Herxheimer. The particular coincidence in this case being that it’s Martyn’s own excellent website I always think of as a corrective contrast to this, far more occasional,…

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

Matt Keeley at NCRM:

Drag queens unite! Drag PAC is looking to challenge anti-trans laws and drag bans around the country.

It was founded by a number of RuPaul’s Drag Race alums, including Willam Belli, Jinkx Monsoon, Miss Peppermint, Monét X Change and BenDeLaCreme, as well as Dylan Bulkeley-Krane, according to The Hill and KFOX-TV. Bulkeley-Krane previously co-founded Disability Action for America, a PAC dedicated to disability rights. Drag PAC announced its existence Wednesday in a new YouTube video, where the queens involved spoke about why they were driven to found it. [...] The queens say that Drag PAC is the first PAC to be led by drag performers. The goal is to “motivate the LGBTQ+ voter base to create a community of empowered and informed citizens that participate in the democratic process, amplifying the values and issues that affect them as unique but equal American citizens,” according to the PAC’s YouTube page. Right now, the PAC’s website is sparse, with the YouTube video, plus links to register to vote and to donate. The PAC has so far raised $15,000 from individuals, according to Open Secrets.

A first in drag politics: drag performer-led Drag PAC is being formed to fight for drag rights as a result of the anti-drag extremism enacted by right-wing government entities, such as drag bans.

The right-wing war on drag is part of the broader war on LGBTQ+ rights and gender nonconforming expressions in public.

See Also:

LGBTQ Nation: “Drag Race” alumni form historic first-ever PAC led by famous queens

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Shot by Phil Bulkeley

[detournementsmineurs]

“Vaincre ou Mourir” biopic de Paul Mignot et Vincent Mottez - sur les Guerres de Vendée pendant la Révolution Française et en particulier le Général François Athanase Charette de La Contrie dit “Charette” (1763-1796) - avec Hugo Becker, Rod Paradot, Gilles Cohen, Constance Gay, Dorcas Coppin, Anne Serra, Francis Renaud, Damien Jouillerot, Olivier Barthélémy, Jacques Milazzo, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Grégory Fitoussi, Jonathan Demurger et le jeune Léon Durieux, février 2023.

[too-antigonish]

Sunday Confessional: Feeling English…

I'm having feelings about the UK in general and England in particular because one of my distant English cousins just passed away. She lived a long, full life and reached a very ripe old age, but over the past few years I've very much wanted to visit her in person (it's been decades since I last saw her) and now I won't be able to.

Worth Clough Cottages where my 4x great-grandparents lived. Built 1814 by Lord Warren-Bulkeley for the miners at the Lord and Lady Coal Pits.

Part of my family came from Stockport to the US in 1862. They were coal miners in Poynton (now part of "Greater" Stockport) when the Lancashire Cotton Famine hit because of the American Civil War. What to do? Pull up stakes and become coal miners in America! Which was having a Civil War!

Wisdom of the move and its timing aside, the funny thing is that the folks who stayed in England and the folks that went to America stayed in touch. In fact we're still in touch 163 years later! I have copies of letters from the original siblings from the 1870s. I have newspaper clippings about various voyages across the Atlantic for visits in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In 1939, just before the start of WWII, two of them—David and Marjorie—came for an extended stay. I have the photographs.

1939 Picnic: English cousins with the Illinois cousins in California

Then came the war. David wrote lots of letters about what things were like in the UK and how he thought the US would have to join the fight. Of course we eventually did. My grandfather ended up in the army and was stationed in England and later in various parts of Europe. He spent all of his leave living with the English cousins and got to know them very, very well indeed.

After the war there were many letters, packages (especially while there was still rationing in the UK), and as often as possible, visits in both directions. One of those visits included me. It was the last trip that my grandparents were able to make to the UK. We spent three weeks in various parts of England, Wales, and Scotland but a full week of that time was spent staying with the cousins—who by now had moved to Bradford and Derby.

House in Bradford where my cousins lived

It was an amazing trip—even if we did spend what I thought was a rather excessive amount of time touring historic coal mines. This was perhaps because my beloved grandfather was only one generation away from the original family business and the side of his family that hadn't mined coal in Poynton? Well, they mined coal in Merthyr Tydfil. 

Still, I managed to see enough of the above-ground part of the UK that you could probably attribute my undergrad in medieval studies to that single trip alone. Coming home, the US was just so painfully *new* and I've never quite gotten over it.

For a whole variety of complicated reasons, I haven't been able to make it back to the UK since. I'm still holding out hope that this will change at some point because I'd *really* like to visit again someday! Until then, I'll do video calls and trade photos with the remaining cousins and we'll see how much longer we can make the 163 year streak last.

Baby Antigonish. At the Bingley Five-Rise Locks on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal. Steepest flight of locks in the UK.

[harvardfineartslib]

Happy National Walking Day!

Pedestrianism, a form of competitive walking, became popular in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain and Ireland, and spread in the United States.

Racers walked for hundreds of miles around a track in six-day races and the one who walked the furthest distance was the winner. In the United States, watching people walk was the most popular spectator sport in the late 1880s.  

Edward Payson Weston (1839–1929) was an American pedestrian. He became famous when he walked 478 miles from Boston, Massachusetts to Washington, D.C. in 10 days and 10 hours, from February 22 to March 4 in 1861. During the walk, he faced snow, rain, and mud, fell several times, and ate while walking.

This portrait is entitled, “Edward Payson Weston Walking from Portland to Chicago.” It must be from 1867 when he covered over 1,200 miles in 26 days. He won a prize of $10,000, but also received several death threats from gamblers who bet against him. He lived to be 90 years old.

We have many other portraits of pedestrians like Weston in our collection of Portraits of boxers and other athletes!

Edward Payson Weston walking from Portland to Chicago Kellog & Bulkeley, printer. 43cmx33cm Harvard Fine Arts Library, Special Collections VSCO230.00310 VSCO230 HOLLIS number: olvwork734269

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The guided missile destroyer USS Bulkeley and the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland steam with other ships of the Nassau Expeditionary Strike Group during a transit of the Atlantic Ocean. 02.25.2008.

[une-sanz-pluis]

Indeed, there are indications that [Eleanor Cobham's] degradation was contrived by the Court, and members of the Household were given exclusive charge of her as she was chivvied from castle to castle in the following years. Eventually, she was placed in the custody of Sir Thomas Stanley on the Isle of Man, of which Stanley was lord. In March 1449 it was decided to transfer her to Beaumaris, where the king's carver, Sir William Beauchamp, was constable of the castle under the overall authority of Stanley and the duke of Suffolk as joint-justiciars of north Wales. The reason for what proved to be the final move in the sorry saga of Eleanor's progress from prison to prison in north-west England is not obviously apparent. It may be that the Household's grip which had closed on north Wales and Cheshire made Beaumaris a more secure place than Man, for although Stanley was lord of the Isle, he is not known ever to have visited it. By contrast, he and his servants would find Beaumaris rather more accessible and easier to police, while at the same time Eleanor would remain reasonably beyond the resources of those who (as in 1447) were thought to be plotting her release. Equally, the Isle of Man was more exposed to naval attacks by the Scots, the Irish and even by the French. Shortly before 1450, hostile Scots, Bretons and others had even landed on the island of Anglesey itself and caused serious damage, and in 1448-49 the Scots were said to be committing depredations there daily. But it is likely that the Isle of Man suffered such attacks even more severely. As it was, Anglesey and Beaumaris castle were urgently reinforced in 1449 against both foreign invaders and Welsh dissidents. These reinforcements (of eight soldiers, and then twelve and one priest) were needed that much more speedily once it was decided to transfer Eleanor Cobham to the island. On 10 March 1449 at Man castle, she was handed over by John Glegge, Sir Thomas Stanley's representative and janitor of Flint castle (where Stanley was constable), to William Bulkeley, the Cheshire esquire who was serjeant-at-arms in north Wales and lived at Beaumaris. Bulkeley was acting on behalf of Sir William Beauchamp, the constable of Beaumaris castle, whence she was taken forthwith with a great company.

Ralph A. Griffiths, "Richard of York and the Royal Household in Wales, 1449-1450", King and Country: England and Wales in the Fifteenth Century (The Hambleton Press 1991)

[billherbert23]

Three Campaign Songs

Resuming for now the Executive Quatrains series which followed Imperator Trumpo’s first Reign of Stupor to post these three campaign songs, one of which features in What Rough Beast: Poems on Trump and Trumpism edited by Merryn Williams and Rip Bulkeley, available for download from Culture Matters here.

They took the most hopefullest 2nd song, as well as an EQ from Trumpo’s first 100 days (back when he first threatened to blow up the world).

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Even now, O race demented, there is time to change your ways;

Use once more what's worth the using. If we 'scape, the more the praise

That we fought our fight with wisdom; or if all is lost for good,

Let the tree on which they hang us be at least of decent wood.

(Aristophanes)

1

Trumpo eats his cow and hen:

patty, nugget - meals for men -

tries to shit em out by sayin

all things must pass

See his giant straining face

statesmanlike and full of grace

Elvis sang in such a place

all flesh is grass

Some eat cats and some eat dogs

some love humans, others hogs

Dionysus told some frogs

all things must pass

Facts and virtues, what are these?

Some have egos to appease

others, learn to use your knees

all flesh is grass

2

Said Trumpo to Hamlet,

what the hell is an arras?

Is this play in the pay of Kamala Harris?

Said Trumpo to Hitler,

we’ll always have Paris -

that and the laughter of Kamala Harris.

Said Trumpo to Stormy,

here’s the nub: I’m embarrassed,

I can’t lay a glove on that Kamala Harris.

Said Trumpo to Putin,

how near, Vlad, too far is!

I’d blow up the world - would Kamala Harris?

3

The shining city? Shock and awe?

Show no pity. Grab and paw.

Last time he won yr empire fell:

if he can’t reign now - he’ll ruin Hell.

His army of Deplorables

thought Liberty deflowerable:

the only Acts of Congress they

conceive of happen in the hay.

Trumpo’s tower of golden trash

is trailers stacked on griftered cash.

Ye whose belts are tightened rust,

yr bet’s a twofer: Double n Bust.

[captain-price-unofficially]

Pentagon says the USS Bulkeley and USS Cole fired roughly a dozen interceptors at Iranian ballistic missiles tonight.