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—The Paradise, Series 2, Episode 7
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One Dress a Day Challenge
June: Weddings
The Paradise (s1e8) / Emun Elliott as John Moray
This show takes place sometime in the 1870s. What Moray wears is recognizable even today as morning dress, but was a newish style at the time. Apparently, those who could afford to own riding horses used to exercise their horses in the morning, and the morning coat was developed to look elegant on horseback; the bottom half is cut so as to sweep back smoothly and not leave any fabric hanging over the rider's knees.
With his traditional morning coat, striped trousers, and top hat, Moray wears an ivory brocade waistcoat with gold chain, dove-grey gloves, and a very interesting olive-and-turquoise ascot fastened with a jeweled pin. For boutonniere, he has a spray of ... crocus, I think? (ETA: Or possibly tuberoses--see comments.)
#the paradise#wedding costumes#emun elliott#one dress a day challenge#one dress a week challenge#television costumes#tv costumes#1870s style#1870s fashion#period drama#john moray#the paradise season 1#the paradise s1#classic menswear
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The Burning of Edinburgh by an English army on May 7, 1544 was the first action of the Rough Wooing.
#St. Giles's Cathedrale#Balmoral Hotel#Burning of Edinburgh#Rough Wooing#7 May 1544#480th anniversary#Scottish history#Scotland#summer 2006#travel#architecture#cityscape#tourist attraction#Old Moray House#High Street#Ramsay Garden#Edinburgh Castle#Canongate Tolbooth#Moubray House#John Knox' House#Europe#landmark#street scene#vacation#Royal MIle#original photography
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hello friends and folk music enthusiasts. does anyone have opinions on what I Absolutely Must send to my friend and housemate who is 'looking to get into folk music,' he made us pancakes and now I am making him a playlist.
#news from the cupola#permitting the crowd to contribute as I am very xkcd geologists comic about this...#so far I have thrown in steeleye span john tams jim moray imagined village bellowhead and fullset (among others)#plus three versions of tam lin because I have tam lin on the brain and there are so many excellent variations on it
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dear bbc sherlock fandom,
can an artist pls pls pls draw a clothes swap between shelock and John please
#bbc sherlock#sherlock holmes#sherlock fandom#johnlock#john watson#moray party#sherLOCKED IN#elle im stealing your tag
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The Quatermass Experiment (BBC, 1953)
"One morning, two hours after dawn, the first manned rocket in the history of the world takes off from the Tarooma range, Australia. The three observers see on their scanning screens a quickly receding Earth. The rocket is guided from the ground by remote control as they rise through the ozone layer, the stratosphere, the ionosphere, beyond the air. They are to reach a height of 1,500 miles above the Earth and there learn...what is to be learnt.
For an experiment is an operation designed to discover some unknown truth. It is also a risk..."
#the quatermass experiment#quatermass#bbc#nigel kneale#rudolph cartier#1953#reginald tate#duncan lamont#isabel dean#paul whitsun jones#hugh kelly#john glen#ian colin#frank hawkins#moray watson#katie johnson#i recently acquired (very cheap) the blu ray upscale of Quatermass and the Pit and it's been calling to me ever since.. a long time since i#watched any Quatermass‚ a minor obsession of my misspent youth; so i decided to go back and rewatch the og trilogy#there's no end of academic writing and popular appraisal of TQE‚ celebrating both its almost immeasurable impact both on the very#genre of sci fi as well as its broader legacy in the actual nature of tv production (one of the first real not documentary tv events‚ the#serial completely changed the way popular television was perceived‚ stands as the earliest surviving example of a muti episode#british tv production and quite frankly is a uniquely vital document in brit tv history and wider culture): all that has been said so#instead I'll make a few notes of things I'd forgotten about in the years since i last saw these two surviving episodes. firstly it's#remarkable just how cynical Kneale was right from the beginning of his career; Tate's Quatermass is hard‚ even cold at times‚ and capable#of ruthlessness. the police are obstinate and difficult‚ the press amoral and unethical‚ and the interference of government officials met#with pure contempt. it's a remarkably dark plot‚ with an emphasis on implied body horror that pushes boundaries for the era#there's also a clear anti war sentiment: the rocket crash landing is widely assumed to be an attack by a foreign power‚ there are allusions#made to nuclear weapons‚ but there's also hints that some of the public suspect the weapon could be british in origin and Kneale is#adamantly not taking sides (the rocket crew also includes a german born member‚ perhaps a nod to Cartier‚ an Austrian who had fled Nazi#Berlin before the war). considering the age and the quality of the recordings these eps stand up incredibly strongly today
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#youtube#dr john kopti fakoury#se inscreva no canal#99 app#APP 99 FOI CONDENADO EM 50 MIL REAIS POR DANOS MORAIS#após seu motorista INVADIR casa de MULHER E..
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John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray was an important figure in the reign of David II of Scotland, and was for a time joint Regent of Scotland.
Link: John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray
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Petty Bay on the Moray Firth, Inverness-shire
by Marion Ruscoe 1st ed. 25” OS map (NLS) Petty Bay lies approximately 5 miles east of Inverness. Today it’s bypassed by the A96, but a map of 1798 shows that the original road from Inverness to Ardersier and Fort George looped off the Inverness-Nairn route at Allanfearn and joined the present B9039 at Castle Stuart Farm. The 1st edition 25” Ordnance Survey map indicates a track running down…
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#Alturlie Point#Ardersier#Bailie John Steuart#Castle Stuart#Clach an Abain#Clattach#Culloden Brick and Tile Factory#Earl of Moray#fish trap#Fuaran a’ Ministeir#Lonnie#Mackintosh Mausoleum#Moray Estate#New Statistical Account#Newton of Petty#Old Statistical Account#Ordnance Survey 1st edition#Petty#Petty Old Parish Church#Robert Niklesone#Roy map#SALTWATER MILL#St Columba chapel
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#michael jayston#quiller#action hero#spy#james bond#sinead cusack#moray watson#thriller#action#adventure#classic#awesome#intelligence#secret agent#elton john#political#exotic#Youtube#sweat it out#fan video
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—The Paradise, Series 2, Episode 8
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Gratitude
Though it has been more than three decades since he left this world, on this Dec 18, his birthday, my siblings and I are reminded once again of how my father’s life continues to resonate and endure. We are reminded by strangers writing to inquire about one of his books. By childhood friends who remember visits to our home. They recall his voice, his presence. Intimidating to some, but unfailingly…
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Disney's Robbin Hood marries Maid Marian at the end of the film. Since marriage between commoners and aristocracy were illegal in the time period, we can infer then that Disney's Robbin Hood uses the cannon from Richard Grafton's 16th century Chronicle at Large or latter, when Robbin Hood goes from a yeoman to a member of the aristocracy, either the Earl of Huntingdon, or the later lord Locksley.
This fox is, and always has been, a member of the aristocratic 1% defending his inherited wealth, power and privilege. His vendetta against Prince John and his denouncement of him as a tyrant is personal as Prince John infinged on the rights and privileges of the Nobles, which was illegal, and lead to him taking up arms abd leading a guerilla campaign, and as soon as a Absoulute monarch he personality agrees with returns, he bends the knee in exchangefor a pardon, the restorationon his estates, and a policaly benifical marrage.
Behold the friendly face of Absoulute hereditary power!
In DnD terms, this verson of Robbin Hood is Lawfull Evil, fighting to uphold his own legal power and staiuts against an usurper.
Sad to say it given, he gave me my sexual awakening, but this fox is, and always has been, a fascist.
I mean I'd still fuck both of them but the sex with Rob would be far angrier.
This fox, this guy right here:
He's just a depressed millennial with childhood trauma running a gig economy job. He's not even doing anything particularly illegal, as shown by the only thing Judy (a frighteningly effective cop) can find to charge him with is tax evasion. He's a high functioning borderline genius level guy running street scams due to racial profiling barring access to higher education and better jobs, and once someone gives him an in he proves very very good at solving crimes. He had no ideological stake in this, he's in DnD terms true neutral tending towards chaotic neutral, but he does risk his life to stop and actual fascist coup that was happening hidden behind a facade of public safety (looks at canera), which is something. He's an everyman antihero who sells out for a job with helthcare and/or bunny boobies at the first chance he gets, very relatable.
This Fox, is and always has been, Moray grey.
and he fucking knows it, the sexy beast.
In conclusion, Disney has always been a Conservative company filled with left leaning creators, and Sometimes thier furry kink critique of the current system leaks out and they are at their best when it does.
#disney#Robbin hood#Disneys Robbin hood#zootopia#zootropolis#nick wilde#Nicholas wilde#Nicholas piberius wilde#judy hopps#maid marian#ace attorney#fascisim#shitpost#humor#furry shit
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The Burning of Edinburgh by an English army on May 7, 1544 was the first action of the Rough Wooing.
#St. Giles's Cathedrale#Balmoral Hotel#Burning of Edinburgh#Rough Wooing#7 May 1544#anniversary#Scottish history#Scotland#summer 2006#travel#architecture#cityscape#tourist attraction#Old Moray House#High Street#Ramsay Garden#Edinburgh Castle#Canongate Tolbooth#Moubray House#John Knox' House#Europe#landmark#street scene#vacation#Royal MIle
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I like John Waters as a fish. He's a moray eel which fits. Was hoping his name would be a fish pun on his real name lol
#john waters#helluva boss#rolando#rolando helluva boss#overall better episode than the last#I wish I saw more of his fbish powers
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October 11th 1297 was the date of the letter from William Wallace to the mayor of Lübeck.
Today in 1297 a letter from Sir William Wallace and Sir Andrew Moray to the mayors of Lübeck and Hamburg was drawn up, saying that "The Kingdom of Scotland has, by God's Grace, recovered by battle from the power of the English".
This is a remarkable piece of history, and I am honoured to have seen it in person when it was on loan to Scotland a few years ago.
The Lübeck letter was first discovered preserved in the Lübeck archives in the 1820s. It was often mentioned in books thereafter. In 1942, Lübeck, on the Baltic coast of Germany, was attacked by Allied aircraft. As a result, the town's archives, including the letter, were moved to a saltmine for safety. At the end of the war, the Soviet army took the papers east. The archives were later handed over to the archive administration of East Germany, but the medieval documents were not among the records. It was assumed that they had been lost.
In the 1970s Lübeck documents were found in the archives of the USSR. In 1990, after some negotiation, the town's medieval records, including Wallace and Murray's letter, were returned to Lübeck.
There have been calls for the letter to be returned to Scotland, whereas it would be nice to have it to display in one of our museums I think it is as much a piece of Lübeck's history as ours, and also as recipients of the letter it is rightfully there property.
Originally, there were two letters; one to Lübeck and one to Hamburg. The contents were identical and the letters were scribed within a month of the Scots’ success at Stirling Bridge.
The translated letter reads......
"Andrew de Murray and William Wallace, leaders of the army of the kingdom of Scotland, and the community of the same kingdom, to their worthy, discreet and beloved friends the mayors and communes of Lübeck and Hamburg, greeting, and increase always of sincere friendship.
It has been intimated to us by trustworthy merchants of the said kingdom of Scotland that you by your own goodwill are giving counsel, help and favour in all causes and business concerning us and our merchants, although our merits had not deserved this, and therefore all the more are we bound to you to give you thanks and a worthy recompense, to do which we are willing to be obliged to you; and we ask you that you will make it be proclaimed amongst your merchants that they can have secure access to all ports of the kingdom of Scotland with their merchandise since the kingdom of Scotland, thanks be to God, has by arms been recovered from the power of the English. Farewell.
Given at Haddington in Scotland on the 11th day of October in the year of grace one thousand two hundred and ninety seven.
We request moreover that you will see fit to forward the business of John Burnet and John Frere, our merchants, just as you wish us to forward the business of your merchants. Farewell. Given as before."
Significantly, the letter carries the only known impression of William Wallace's personal seal, which shows the Scottish Lion Rampant on the front and on the reverse, a strung bow with a protruding arrow. The inscription appears to read ‘William, son of Alan Wallace’, which is interesting in relation to determining just who Wallace was exactly. An Aleyn Waleys – described as ‘tenant le Roi du counte de Are’ – signed the 1296 ‘Ragman Roll’ and he is quite possibly William Wallace’s father.
Another thing about the letter is the fact that Moray is involved with it, Andrew de Moray was, in the North of Scotland every bit as important as Wallace, history tells us that he was wounded at Stirling Bridge and died of his wounds in November so how involved in this was he?, if I had a time machine I would use it to learn more about Wallace and Moray.
This is a great piece of history and as I said earlier, I would love it to be part of our archives and on display in a museum, but it is the property of the people of Lübeck and we as a nation are grateful that they lend it to us on occasion.
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