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wyrmfedgrave · 11 months ago

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1 & 2. Examples of guineas¹, a British coin 1st made for trade in western Africa.

In the 1st, the motto is Latin for "Anne², by the grace of God."

The 2nd reads "William & Mary³, by the grace of God."

3 & 4. The outside & inside of the grim Newgate⁴ prison, a place from which few prisoners ever returned...

5 & 6. Sample covers from Argosy⁵ magazine's long history.

Two of their more famous writers are represented here: the now forgotten Talbot Mundy⁶ & the immortal Edgar Rice Burroughs⁷.

1914: Poetic Addendum.

Intro: "Sors Poetae⁸" is a good example of the type of short poems that Lovecraft sent out during the nearly year long Letter War.

It shows that Howard could write in a normal manner - when he wished to.

Other than the title, there's only a few interesting allusions made here.

There might also be a bit of mystery to be found in it...

Work: "True, your lines... reach the public's eye. But, how much bread will public reading buy⁹?"

"While better men, with 50 times his skill, Are thrust in Newgate, for a tailor's bill¹⁰."

No plot so stale, No levity so strained, That an idle guinea may be gained."

Notes:

1. A guinea was an English coin worth one pound & a shilling (£1.05), which equaled 21 shillings. This would be worth a $1.22 in the U.S. today.

The guinea was used to buy luxury goods, art & high-end items. Yet, it is not in use any longer.

As a word, guinea comes from the 1400s Portuguese Guine, a name which described "the black folk living south of the Senegal River in West Africa."

The word was also used for bird & place names. Plus, it has been used as a curse word cast on various, different minorities...

2. Anne, Queen of England, Scotland & Ireland in the early 1700s. She precided over the Acts of Union that merged Scotland & England.

She favored moderate Tory politicians, who shared her Anglican religious beliefs. And, dismissed many Whigs from their high offices.

Anne grew increasingly sick, suffering thru 17 pregnancies & died without leaving any live children behind...

3. When, in 1689, King James the 2nd deserted the throne of England, Mary & William were offered the kingship - as joint monarchs!

They had to accept a Bill of Rights that limited their royal power & which made Parliament free of any royal interference.

Mary suffered thru at least 4 different miscarriages. But, was lighthearted, gentle & approachable.

She would die of smallpox in 1694.

William, being a cold & distant leader, was not very popular - especially with the Scots.

He had little time for court life & was happiest on the battlefield.

William would die in 1702, after a fall from his horse.

4. Newgate prison in London, England was once situated just inside the city's border - where a gate in the old Roman wall once stood.

Usually, the only way out of this jail was by the hangman's noose!!

Originally commissioned in the 1100s by King Henry the 2nd, Newgate remained in use til 1902!

Today, the only part remaining of this 'chokey' is a wall in the appropriately named Amen Court...

5. Argosy was a U.S. publication that was founded in 1882 - as a children's weekly newspaper!!

It would last til 1979, by becoming a showcase of popular fiction - for every genre imaginable!

Argosy is considered to be the 1st pulp magazine. After many changes in titles, editors & formats, it ended up as a men's adventure 'rag.'

At 1 time or another, the mag included works from O. Henry ("Gift of the Magi"), Robert Heinlein ("Starship Troopers"), Arthur C. Clark ("2001: A Space Odyssey") & Erle Stanley Gardner ("Perry Mason").

Plus, Max Brand ("Dr. Kildare"), Ray Bradbury ("Fahrenheit 451"), Robert E. Howard ("Conan the Barbarian") & Edward R. Burroughs ("Tarzan of the Apes").

Argosy has been revived several times, most recently in 2016.

6. Talbot Mundy was an English writer of adventure fiction.

He worked as a journalist in British India, an ivory poacher in East Africa & as a writer in NYC.

Mundy then went to Jerusalem, where he established that city's 1st English newspaper.

Back in the U.S., he embraced the Theosophy movement. And, got married 5 times.

Mundy would later die of diabetes...

His best known works are "Tros of Samothrace", "Queen Cleopatra" & "Sword of Iskandar."

Mundy's stories have been favorably compared to the works of the more successful H. Rider Haggard ("She" & "King Solomon's Mines") & Rudyard Kipling ("Jungle Books" & "Captains Courageous").

7. The still well known Edgar Rice Burroughs & his eternal creation "Tarzan of the Apes" need little by way of introduction.

Rice is also the creator of John Carter, the "Warlord of Mars" & many lesser known heroes...

Like Lovecraft, Rice was descended from a Puritan in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Rice became a soldier with the 7th U.S. Calvary in Fort Grant, Arizona Territory.

But, a heart problem saw him being discharged in 1897.

Rice then drifted around as a cowboy, factory worker & as a gold dredge manager in south Idaho.

He then worked in the Oregon Short Line Railroad & as a wholesaler - before starting to write.

Rice later became a successful pilot & was in Honolulu during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor!

He received permission & became 1 of the oldest war correspondents during WW2.

Rice made it thru the war, moved out West & earned some $2 million in royalties from 27 Tarzan films!

He died, of a heart attack, & is buried in Tarzana, California.

8. "Sors Poetae" is Latin for "fate of the Poet." Lovecraft was a believer in the idea that the Western World was 'declining.'

This went in hand with his belief that minorities were slowly destroying the English world.

Even the English language was under foreign assault!

This was a common thought at that time. But, we see the same idea cropping up today - with the Rump's MAGA campaign.

The truth is that the U.S. has seen several ups & downs in it's economy.

This is normal for all nations.

9. I take this comment as a reference to the poor pay that pulp writers got in those days. Howard received $200 for his "Call of Cthulhu" novella...

HPL was, at this time, very harsh on commercial works. He felt that any economic reward was diluting the greatness of fictional works.

Lovecraft saw amateur writers as the true heroes of the written word. This because they were free to dream up any new types of fiction.

Like he would eventually do...

10. Who is Howard referencing here? A classical author 50 times better than Jackson & jailed (in Newgate!) for not paying for a suit?!

If anybody knows the identity of this mystery man, I'd appreciate it if you could let me know...

#hpl bio #aside #addendum #poesy #adult hpl #history

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vbartilucci · 1 year ago

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William S. Burroughs with the electrometer or "E-meter", a tool Scientologists use to help "audit" or detect traumatic subliminal memories or "engrams." With the aid of an auditor, the engrams of an initiate can be retrieved from memory, activated and encountered to "clear" deleterious reactions that the initiate may not even be consciously aware of. Burroughs reached the status of "Clear" in his practice of Scientology.

Photo by Charles Gatewood (from the US magazine RE / Search # 4/5 of 1982).

Burroughs attended the Advanced Org in Edinburgh, Scotland where he became Clear #1163 on June 15, 1968. "It feels marvelous," Burroughs told a British Scientology Magazine. "Things you've had all your life, things you think nothing can be done about, suddenly they're not there anymore."

He was on the brink of becoming an "Operating Thetan" when he was later expelled for questioning the tenets of the group, and its' intolerance to criticism or dissent.. He wrote about his experiences with L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics philosophy in his book of essays and a short story "Ali's Smile: Naked Scientology", a collection published in 1973 by Expanded Media Editions.

"Some of the techniques are highly valuable and warrant further study and experimentation. The E Meter is a useful device ...On the other hand I am in flat disagreement with the organizational policy...All organizations create organizational necessities. It is precisely organizational necessities that have prevented Scientology from obtaining the serious consideration merited by the importance of Mr. Hubbard's discoveries. Scientologists are not prepared to accept intelligent and sometimes critical evaluation. They demand unquestioning acceptance."

~ William S. Burroughs, Los Angeles Free Press, March, 1970 — in East Grinstead, West Sussex.

via William S. Burroughs page on FB

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underthecounterculture · 4 years ago

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Kicking Against the Pricks: An Interview with Chris Kelso

Chris Kelso is an award-winning writer, the author of nine novels, three short story collections and editor of five anthologies. His writing, celebrated for its transgressive style and dysfunctional subject matter, has appeared in Evergreen Review, Sensitive Skin and 3AM Magazine. The British Fantasy Society described The Dregs Trilogy – a degenerate platter of snuff movies, psycho killers and…

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#Alexander Trocchi #Chris Kelso #Hugh MacDiarmid #Scottish Literature #William Burroughs in Scotland

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ccohanlon · 3 years ago

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my favourite things

sam shepard’s ‘motel chronicles’, glenn gould playing j.s. bach, books, gaff-rigged bristol pilot cutters, nautical charts, the idea of lamu island and zanzibar, ilford 35mm black & white film, expressions of love in spanish, the meaning of saudade, miles davis, john coltrane, conga drums and bongoes, the backstreets of marrakesh, naples and havana, my 20-year-old leather backpack, my leather-bound pocket atlas (a gift from a woman who worked for me), my maori bone hei matau, british ordnance survey maps, african and latina women, dark skin, long legs and firm round asses,‘oil notes’ by rick bass, joseph conrad’s ‘heart of darkness’, ‘the fly trap’ by fredrik sjöberg, bill drummond doing what he calls ‘art’ and his writings about it, malcolm mclaren talking about almost anything, german-made fountain pens, noodler’s inks, 20th century french novelists, analog moog synthesisers, joan didion’s early essays (especially ‘the white album’), the rolling stones’ original versions of ‘gimme shelter’ and ’sympathy for the devil’, ali farka touré’s modal riffs, the western isles and northwest coast of scotland in spring, the b&w photographs robert frank took in the ’50s as he drove across america, richard misrach’s ‘desert cantos’, wim wender’s ‘paris, texas’ and ‘wings of desire’ (i like his diaristic photo book, ‘once’, too), jim jarmusch’s ‘only lovers left alive’, indian ocean sailing dhows, old boat compasses, my vintage flying boat sextant, the cheap but accurate swiss wind-up watch my mother gave me when i first went to sea, that first glimpse of the mojave desert driving east from l.a. on interstate 40, and of morocco’s atlas mountains, at dawn, sailing through the straits of gibraltar from the west, the mediterranean sea, van morrison’s voice, and aretha franklin’s and julie driscoll’s, the ideas of john cage and of jean-luc godard, cornelius cardew’s ‘scratch music’, gorodish and alba in delacorta’s series of novels, ‘haunts of the black masseur’ by charles sprawson, peter beard’s collaged diaries, steve dilworth’s visceral sculpture, the smooth stones i’ve collected from beaches on three oceans, garlic, wasabi, peking duck in pancakes, ice-cold champagne (bollinger, when I can afford it, or louis roederer cristal), baden powell’s guitar-playing, samba, salvador de bahia, standing at the edge of an empty sahara, sailing a felucca up the nile, the writings of william burroughs, barry gifford and charlie smith, the history of zero, the smell of bangkok by the river at dawn, summer nights in tokyo, long periods of silence, hugging my children, playing my solid mahogany tenor ukulele (a 61st birthday gift from my wife), my fender telecaster and gibson lucille guitars, shona sculpture, an etching i have by armodio (‘l’urlatrice’), the songs of tom waits, alan ginsberg’s photos of beat writers – burroughs and paul bowles, especially – in new york and tangier, jack kerouac’s writings (even though i’ve outgrown them), ‘the outsider’ by colin wilson, bowles’ ‘the sheltering sky’, playing blackjack at caesars’, las vegas, in the early hours of a week-day morning, café tacuba’s huevos con molé in mexico city, the garden derek jarman made at prospect cottage in dungeness, jarman’s diaries, da vinci’s notebooks, don mccullin’s photographs and mary ellen mark’s when she was younger (the ones in goa), dancing alone to 60s’ soul music, the scent of frangipani, the white noise of heavy monsoonal rain, my long, old-school powell skateboard with big urethane wheels, early silver surfer comic books, 70s’ ‘avant-garde’ music scores from peters and universal edition, my all-mechanical olympus 35 sp camera and my rolleiflex tlr, cecil taylor on piano, dave holland on bass, ginger baker on drums, the movie version of joseph conrad’s ‘lord jim’, cary grant in ‘father goose’, david lean’s ‘lawrence of arabia’, donald cammell’s ‘perfomance’, snowdonia in mid-wales, taos in new mexico (and the sangre de cristo mountains), sailing close by stromboli on a calm, moonlit night, the smooth skin and skinny bodies of young japanese women, everything about italian women, palm trees, passionfruit, seedless grapes, mandarins, uncooked cherry tomatoes, the oakland raiders (even when they’re losing), swimming alone in a warm pool, the bath tubs at the ritz-carlton in singapore in the 90s, afternoon tea (pg tips) with scones, thick cream and damson jam (preferably tiptree’s), albert ayler on sax, derek bailey’s free-form solos on guitar, ‘colour: a natural history of the palette’ by victoria finlay, tom mccarthy’s ‘satin island’, william gibson’s science fiction, sylvie guillem dancing, van cliburn playing brahms’ second piano concerto, keith richards’ and john lee hooker’s grungy guitar licks, j.j. cale’s muted finger picking, the long solo voyages of bernard moitessier under sail and the writings that came from them, the voyages of david lewis and of bill tilman (aboard ‘mischief’), old tahiti ketches designed by john hanna, thomas colvin’s modern steel sailing junks, target shooting with a high-calibre handgun (like a colt python .357 magnum), watching dark frontal clouds gather ahead of a storm, the grim stillness of tornado weather in northern oklahoma, big hotel rooms, late night room service, landing in los angeles from the west late at night, yakitori at a basement place i know in hiroshima, the gharana of the tabla, welsh male voice choirs, playing scrabble, the lives of sir richard francis burton and t.e. lawrence, thom gunn’s poems, also e.e cummings’ and mira gonzalez’s, gore vidal on american politics, sex and other writers, the stone hanko engraved for me using an old form of katakana in hiroshima, hand-tooled knives, walking through rome early in the morning, rooftop terraces in trastevere, out-of-the-way trattorie in monti, vitello parmigiano, tortellini, stracciatella, and sambuca, the amalfi coast, iain sinclair writing about his walks around london, living in los angeles (when i have money), driving north from santa monica on the pacific coast highway, big sur 30 years ago,’60s american muscle cars, joyce singing ‘agua de março’ or astrud gilberto, or the version marisa monte and david byrne did for ‘red, hot and rio’, ‘sitting’ by cat stevens. ‘dumb things’ by paul kelly, the emotions singing ‘best of my love’, the idea of the congo and the mekong and of rusty tramp steamers sailing to up-river jungle ports, berlin in autumn just before the leaves fall, all the works of anselm kiefer and cy twombly, francesco clemente’s exotic watercolours, ‘the pugilist’ sculpted in iron by robert brennan, marilyn manson’s ‘we’re killing strangers’, smokey robinson’s ’tracks of my tears’, the first whiff of salt air and coconut oil at an australian surf beach, longboarding on a glassy point break at wategos in byron bay, the mexican movie ‘y tu mama tambien’, almodovar’s ‘todo sobre mi madre’ and ‘matador’, cluttered but stylish old parisian apartments, any clapboard boatshed and jetty on a quiet bay or river bank, a stone cottage above a rocky north atlantic shore (in nova scotia, maybe, or shetland), solitude.

First published in Sick Lit magazine, USA, 2015.

#favouritethings #list #memories #memoir #poetry #diary

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godzilla-reads · 4 years ago

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The Big List of Cat Literature

Nonfiction Books About Cats

“The Tribe of Tiger” by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

“On Cats” by Doris Lessing

“Cat Sense” by John Bradshaw

“The Cat: A Natural History” by Sarah Brown

“Secrets of the Cat” by Barbara Holland

“Cathedral Cats” by Richard Surman

“Cat Confidential” by Vicky Halls

Catty Children’s Books

“Splat the Cat” by Rob Scotton

“Six Dinner Sid” by Inga Moore

“Millions of Cats” by Wanda Gág

“Comet’s Nine Lives” by Jan Brett

“The Tale of Tom Kitten” by Beatrix Potter

“Kitten’s First Full Moon” by Kevin Henkes

“Pete the Cat” by Eric Litwin and James Dean

“They All Saw a Cat” by Brendan Wenzel

“Mog the Forgetful Cat” by Judith Kerr

“The Chinese Siamese Cat” by Amy Tan

Middle Reader Books for Cat Lovers

“Warriors: Into the Wild” by Erin Hunter

“Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl” by Daniel Manus Pinkwater

“Travels of Suki the Adventure Cat” by Martina Gutfreund and Leigh-Anne Ingram

“Royal Rescues: The Naughty Kitten” by Paula Harrison

“Varjak Paw” by S.F. Said

“The Cat Who Came in Off the Roof” by Annie M.G. Schmidt

“Catlantis” by Anna Starobinets

“Crenshaw” by Katherine Applegate

“Catwings” by Ursula K. Le Guin

“The Witches of Worm” by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

“Carbonel: The King of the Cats” by Barbara Sleigh

Feline Classics

“Classic Cat Stories” edited by Becky Brown

“The Cat in the Hat” by Dr. Seuss

“Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” by T.S. Eliot

“The Guest Cat” by Takashi Hiraide

“The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe

“The Cats of Ulthar” by H.P. Lovecraft

“Jenny and the Cat Club” by Esther Averill

Cat Literature

“Tailchaser’s Song” by Tad Williams

“Felidae” by Akif Pirinçci

“Thomasina: The Cat Who Thought She Was God” by Paul Gallico

“How to Tell if Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You” by The Oatmeal

“The Cat Who Could Read Backwards” by Lilian Jackson Braun

“The Book of Night With Moon” by Diane Duane

“Catfantastic” edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Andre Norton

“The Incredible Journey” by Sheila Burnford

“Alfie” by Rachel Wells

“Of Cats and Men” by Sam Kalda

True Cat Stories

“Homer’s Odyssey: A Fearless Feline Tale” by Gwen Cooper

“Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World” by Vicki Myron and Bret Witter

“The Dalai Lama’s Cat” by David Michie

“A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope On the Streets” by James Bowen

“Cat Stories” by James Herriot

“Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat” by David Dosa

“Casper the Commuting Cat: The True Story of the Cat Who Rode the Bus and Stole Our Hearts” by Susan Finden

“Oscar the Bionic Cat” by Kate Allan

“The Cat Inside” by William S. Burroughs

Cat Poetry

“Hate That Cat” by Shannon Creech

“The Owl and the Pussy Cat” by Edward Lear

“I’m Not Sorry: Poems by Cats” by Rosa Silva

“Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse” by Henry Beard

“Cat Poems” by Elizabeth Bishop

“The Great Cat: Poems About Cats” edited by Emily Fragos

“On Cats” by Charles Bukowski

Three Cat Documentaries on Netflix

The Tigers of Scotland (2017)

Catwalk: Tales From the Cat Show Circuit (2018)

#CATS_The_Mewvie (2020)

Famous Authors’ Cats

Mark Twain and Bambino

Ernest Hemingway and Snowball

Stephen King and Smucky

Alice Walker and Frida Kahlo

Doris Lessing and El Magnifico

William S. Burroughs and Smoke

Haruki Murakami and Sundance

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jackkerrouac · 4 years ago

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Beatdom articles - index

2020

AN INTERVIEW WITH ALLEN GINSBERG (NEW)

THE FALL OF AMERICA JOURNALS 1965-1971: A META-REVIEW (NEW)

HUNTER S. THOMPSON AND THE BEATS (NEW)

THE 5 BEST BOOKS ABOUT WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

NEW BOOKS ON HUNTER THOMPSON AND WILLIAM BURROUGHS

WHY DID WILLIAM BURROUGHS SHOOT HIS WIFE?

REVIEW: THE FALL OF AMERICA JOURNALS

A SIXTY-YEAR HISTORY OF THE RUM DIARY

THE HOWLING INFERNO: CRYING OUT IN ANGUISH TO AMERICA

ALLEN GINSBERG’S FIRST POEM?

BURROUGHS AND SCOTLAND

EXPLORING THE LAING-TROCCHI-BERKE CONNECTION

THE PROTESTS OF GINSBERG AND DI PRIMA AS MARGINALIZED MINORITIES

ALLEGORIES FROM THE CAVE: BURROUGHS AND TROCCHI – A PLATONIC LOVE

ALLEN GINSBERG CHANGED MY LIFE

THE BEST AND WORST BEAT BOOK COVERS

VIRGULES / AFTER CÉZANNE

2019

A SHOE THAT FITS THE MIND – GINSBERG’S SOUTH AMERICAN JOURNALS

“HOWL” CONTINUES TO OFFEND IN THE ERA OF TABLOID JOURNALISM

CONVERSATIONS WITH ALLEN GINSBERG

FIFTY YEARS AFTER KEROUAC

SNYDER, KEROUAC, AND THE DHARMA

DADDY’S GIRL

SPECIFICITY: THE SECRET BRILLIANCE OF HUNTER S. THOMPSON

CUTTING UP THE CENTURY: A REVIEW

REVIEW: ON VALENCIA STREET

REFLECTIONS ON JACK KEROUAC’S FAVORITE LINE IN SHAKESPEARE

INSANITY IN GINSBERG’S AND EPSTEIN’S HOWL FROM A FOUCAULDIAN POINT OF VIEW

MOVING TOWARDS THE LIGHT: THE TRIUMPH OF SPIRITUALITY IN THE POETRY OF ALLEN GINSBERG

ALLEN’S BUDDHISM

ENTER THE FREAK KINGDOM

BEAT BOOKS 2019

A LADY’S CHOICE: A REFLECTION ON DIANE DI PRIMA’S “BRASS FURNACE GOING OUT: SONG, AFTER AN ABORTION”

THE GREAT WRITING CAPER

LITTLE WOMEN

WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AND MUSIC: AN INTERVIEW WITH CASEY RAE

AN EXCERPT FROM WORLD CITIZEN

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI TURNS 100

#beat generation #jack kerouac #beatdom #article #BDA

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i-ndil-cuimhne-ar-daniel · 5 years ago

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Tag Game

I was tagged by the wonderful @par-merlin

Thank you for thinking of me ☺️😘

Nicknames : Belle, or mumbles (as in, RocknRolla mumbles; it must be his cute tiger-ears helmet vs the cute tiger-ears diadem I used to wear 😂)

Zodiac : Sagittarius

Height : 169cm

Last thing searched : “Aachen Christmas fair”

Favorite musicians : Joy Division, Rammstein, Metallica, HIM, Iced Earth, The Smiths, etc., although it often more tends to turn into a ‘favorite songs’ kind of thing.

Song stuck in my head : Tell the world I’m sorry (Gardenian)

If you had a time machine, would you go back in time or visit the future? Go back in time. I want to see how Stonehenge was build. Or hang out with the historical figure(s) Merlin was based on, that type of thing.

Do I get asks : Not really

Following : I just checked….uhm….a lot, let’s keep it at that 😂 I’ve clearly got no self-control, and, honestly, I’m fine with that. Seeing all those lovely posts just makes me happy ☺️

Would you rather be rich or famous? Rich, money brings more useful options, and, besides, I’m not the spotlight-loving type

Amount of sleep : Anything from 4 to 8, if I’m lucky

Lucky number : 5

What I’m wearing : Jogging pants, Eeyore socks, Dublin T-shirt, blanket over my shoulders. Comfy.

Dream job : Toy creator or island caretaker (hell, why not: a mix of the two).

Dream trip : England (Scotland), Northern Ireland and Ireland, in an old campervan

If you were an animal, what would you be? Do you know Rags, the Brussels Griffon from the series Spin City? That would be me, but as a Japanese Chin 💖

Favourite food : Surinamese

What are some of your favourite books/films/shows/games/etc.?

• Books : Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, A season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud, The Chosen by Chaim Potok, Naked Lunch by William Burroughs, One flew over the cuckoo’s nest by Ken Kesey, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, In stillen nachten by Till Lindemann, On The Road by Jack Kerouac, It’s a slippery slope by Spalding Gray, Tailchaser’s Song by Tad Williams, Dreamcatcher by Stephen King, and now I’m going to stop myself, because this is getting ridiculous. Obviously, a book lover.

• Films : Anything from John Wick, to Big Fish, to Schindler’s List, to Death to Smoochy, to Frailty, to Hellraiser, to Mad Money, to Hellboy, to Labyrinth, to Mystic River, to Venom, to The League of Extraordinary Gentleman. I’m all over the place, love movies. Special shout-out to the lovelies with dark aesthetics, like The Crow, Reign of Fire and Constantine. And my guilty pleasure: The Boondock Saints.

• Shows : I usually just watch bits and pieces, as I simply haven’t got the patience. But I love the different Tumblr versions of most series 😁 I did watch all episodes of Merlin and CSI NY, and I have a soft spot for shows containing supernatural elements, like Supernatural (duh), Constantine, American Horror Story, etc. Oh, yeah, and I do watch an insane amount of true-crime shows 🙈

• Games: Don’t really play, sorry

Play any instruments : Learned to play the flute as a child, but doubt I could still now. So, no, unfortunately.

Languages : Dutch, English, German

Describe yourself as aesthetics : Cerulean blue clear skies with rays of sunshine bringing little sparks of gold, interspersed with the occasional dark-gray moody episodes. An Irish forest shrouded in early autumn fog; standing on the edge of a cliff. The smell of freshly brewed coffee in the morning, coupled with some leftover pizza. Some days I drink a glass of whiskey before 9 in the evening. Afternoons spend sitting in the windowsill; evenings spend outside, the smell of burning wood and the freshness of the descending cold in the air. Tattoos and hair dye. Book, movie, music, internet, preferably all at the same time. Cuddles and kisses. A happy little mix of très chic, slightly punk, some leftover goth, comfy, and men’s shirts. Will bite when hungry.

Your turn, if you wish to accept : @predatoryflamingo @fayn3ko @managerie76 @ixallow @josephineedwards0617 @professorsparklepants @yourspookyginger @flakelli @frankie27

Sorry if you’ve already been tagged before; I do follow an insane amount of blogs, which means stuff sometimes gets buried underneath a huge pile of posts.

Veel liefs / with love ❤

i-ndil-cuimhne-ar-daniel

#tag #i-ndil-cuimhne-ar-daniel #me

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cleverwordsandotherstuffilike · 6 years ago

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Inventions

Adrenaline: (isolation of) John Jacob Abel, U.S., 1897.

Aerosol can: Erik Rotheim, Norway, 1926.

Air brake: George Westinghouse, U.S., 1868.

Air conditioning: Willis Carrier, U.S., 1911.

Airship: (non-rigid) Henri Giffard, France, 1852; (rigid) Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Germany, 1900.

Aluminum manufacture: (by electrolytic action) Charles M. Hall, U.S., 1866.

Anatomy, human: (De fabrica corporis humani, an illustrated systematic study of the human body) Andreas Vesalius, Belgium, 1543; (comparative: parts of an organism are correlated to the functioning whole) Georges Cuvier, France, 1799–1805.

Anesthetic: (first use of anesthetic—ether—on humans) Crawford W. Long, U.S., 1842.

Antibiotics: (first demonstration of antibiotic effect) Louis Pasteur, Jules-François Joubert, France, 1887; (discovery of penicillin, first modern antibiotic) Alexander Fleming, England, 1928; (penicillin’s infection-fighting properties) Howard Florey, Ernst Chain, England, 1940.

Antiseptic: (surgery) Joseph Lister, England, 1867.

Antitoxin, diphtheria: Emil von Behring, Germany, 1890.

Appliances, electric: (fan) Schuyler Wheeler, U.S., 1882; (flatiron) Henry W. Seely, U.S., 1882; (stove) Hadaway, U.S., 1896; (washing machine) Alva Fisher, U.S., 1906.

Aqualung: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Emile Gagnan, France, 1943.

Aspirin: Dr. Felix Hoffman, Germany, 1899.

Astronomical calculator: The Antikythera device, first century B.C., Greece. Found off island of Antikythera in 1900.

Atom: (nuclear model of) Ernest Rutherford, England, 1911.

Atomic theory: (ancient) Leucippus, Democritus, Greece, c. 500 B.C.; Lucretius, Rome c.100 B.C.; (modern) John Dalton, England, 1808.

Atomic structure: (formulated nuclear model of atom, Rutherford model) Ernest Rutherford, England, 1911; (proposed current concept of atomic structure, the Bohr model) Niels Bohr, Denmark, 1913.

Automobile: (first with internal combustion engine, 250 rpm) Karl Benz, Germany, 1885; (first with practical high-speed internal combustion engine, 900 rpm) Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, 1885; (first true automobile, not carriage with motor) René Panhard, Emile Lavassor, France, 1891; (carburetor, spray) Charles E. Duryea, U.S., 1892.

Autopilot: (for aircraft) Elmer A. Sperry, U.S., c.1910, first successful test, 1912, in a Curtiss flying boat.

Avogadro’s law: (equal volumes of all gases at the same temperature and pressure contain equal number of molecules) Amedeo Avogadro, Italy, 1811.

Bacteria: Anton van Leeuwenhoek, The Netherlands, 1683.

Balloon, hot-air: Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier, France, 1783.

Barbed wire: (most popular) Joseph E. Glidden, U.S., 1873.

Bar codes: (computer-scanned binary signal code):

(retail trade use) Monarch Marking, U.S. 1970; (industrial use) Plessey Telecommunications, England, 1970.

Barometer: Evangelista Torricelli, Italy, 1643.

Bicycle: Karl D. von Sauerbronn, Germany, 1816; (first modern model) James Starley, England, 1884.

Big Bang theory: (the universe originated with a huge explosion) George LeMaitre, Belgium, 1927; (modified LeMaitre theory labeled “Big Bang”) George A. Gamow, U.S., 1948; (cosmic microwave background radiation discovered, confirms theory) Arno A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson, U.S., 1965.

Blood, circulation of: William Harvey, England, 1628.

Boyle’s law: (relation between pressure and volume in gases) Robert Boyle, Ireland, 1662.

Braille: Louis Braille, France, 1829.

Bridges: (suspension, iron chains) James Finley, Pa., 1800; (wire suspension) Marc Seguin, Lyons, 1825; (truss) Ithiel Town, U.S., 1820.

Bullet: (conical) Claude Minié, France, 1849.

Calculating machine: (logarithms: made multiplying easier and thus calculators practical) John Napier, Scotland, 1614; (slide rule) William Oughtred, England, 1632; (digital calculator) Blaise Pascal, 1642; (multiplication machine) Gottfried Leibniz, Germany, 1671; (important 19th-century contributors to modern machine) Frank S. Baldwin, Jay R. Monroe, Dorr E. Felt, W. T. Ohdner, William Burroughs, all U.S.; (“analytical engine” design, included concepts of programming, taping) Charles Babbage, England, 1835.

Calculus: Isaac Newton, England, 1669; (differential calculus) Gottfried Leibniz, Germany, 1684.

Camera: (hand-held) George Eastman, U.S., 1888; (Polaroid Land) Edwin Land, U.S., 1948.

“Canals” of Mars:Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italy, 1877.

Carpet sweeper: Melville R. Bissell, U.S., 1876.

Car radio: William Lear, Elmer Wavering, U.S., 1929, manufactured by Galvin Manufacturing Co., “Motorola.”

Cells: (word used to describe microscopic examination of cork) Robert Hooke, England, 1665; (theory: cells are common structural and functional unit of all living organisms) Theodor Schwann, Matthias Schleiden, 1838–1839.

Cement, Portland: Joseph Aspdin, England, 1824.

Chewing gum: (spruce-based) John Curtis, U.S., 1848; (chicle-based) Thomas Adams, U.S., 1870.

Cholera bacterium: Robert Koch, Germany, 1883.

Circuit, integrated: (theoretical) G.W.A. Dummer, England, 1952; (phase-shift oscillator) Jack S. Kilby, Texas Instruments, U.S., 1959.

Classification of plants: (first modern, based on comparative study of forms) Andrea Cesalpino, Italy, 1583; (classification of plants and animals by genera and species) Carolus Linnaeus, Sweden, 1737–1753.

Clock, pendulum: Christian Huygens, The Netherlands, 1656.

Coca-Cola: John Pemberton, U.S., 1886.

Combustion: (nature of) Antoine Lavoisier, France, 1777.

Compact disk: RCA, U.S., 1972.

Computers: (first design of analytical engine) Charles Babbage, 1830s; (ENIAC, Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator, first all-electronic, completed) 1945; (dedicated at University of Pennsylvania) 1946; (UNIVAC, Universal Automatic Computer, handled both numeric and alphabetic data) 1951.

Concrete: (reinforced) Joseph Monier, France, 1877.

Condensed milk: Gail Borden, U.S., 1853.

Conditioned reflex: Ivan Pavlov, Russia, c.1910.

Conservation of electric charge: (the total electric charge of the universe or any closed system is constant) Benjamin Franklin, U.S., 1751–1754.

Contagion theory: (infectious diseases caused by living agent transmitted from person to person) Girolamo Fracastoro, Italy, 1546.

Continental drift theory: (geographer who pieced together continents into a single landmass on maps) Antonio Snider-Pellegrini, France, 1858; (first proposed in lecture) Frank Taylor, U.S.; (first comprehensive detailed theory) Alfred Wegener, Germany, 1912.

Contraceptive, oral: Gregory Pincus, Min Chuch Chang, John Rock, Carl Djerassi, U.S., 1951.

Converter, Bessemer: William Kelly, U.S., 1851.

Cosmetics: Egypt, c. 4000 B.C.

Cosamic string theory: (first postulated) Thomas Kibble, 1976.

Cotton gin: Eli Whitney, U.S., 1793.

Crossbow: China, c. 300 B.C.

Cyclotron: Ernest O. Lawrence, U.S., 1931.

Deuterium: (heavy hydrogen) Harold Urey, U.S., 1931.

Disease: (chemicals in treatment of) crusaded by Philippus Paracelsus, 1527–1541; (germ theory) Louis Pasteur, France, 1862–1877.

DNA: (deoxyribonucleic acid) Friedrich Meischer, Germany, 1869; (determination of double-helical structure) Rosalind Elsie Franklin, F. H. Crick, England, James D. Watson, U.S., 1953.

Dye: (aniline, start of synthetic dye industry) William H. Perkin, England, 1856.

Dynamite: Alfred Nobel, Sweden, 1867.

Electric cooking utensil: (first) patented by St. George Lane-Fox, England, 1874.

Electric generator (dynamo): (laboratory model) Michael Faraday, England, 1832; Joseph Henry, U.S., c.1832; (hand-driven model) Hippolyte Pixii, France, 1833; (alternating-current generator) Nikola Tesla, U.S., 1892.

Electric lamp: (arc lamp) Sir Humphrey Davy, England, 1801; (fluorescent lamp) A.E. Becquerel, France, 1867; (incandescent lamp) Sir Joseph Swann, England, Thomas A. Edison, U.S., contemporaneously, 1870s; (carbon arc street lamp) Charles F. Brush, U.S., 1879; (first widely marketed incandescent lamp) Thomas A. Edison, U.S., 1879; (mercury vapor lamp) Peter Cooper Hewitt, U.S., 1903; (neon lamp) Georges Claude, France, 1911; (tungsten filament) Irving Langmuir, U.S., 1915.

Electrocardiography: Demonstrated by Augustus Waller, 1887; (first practical device for recording activity of heart) Willem Einthoven, 1903, Dutch physiologist.

Electromagnet: William Sturgeon, England, 1823.

Electron: Sir Joseph J. Thompson, England, 1897.

Elevator, passenger: (safety device permitting use by passengers) Elisha G. Otis, U.S., 1852; (elevator utilizing safety device) 1857.

E = mc2: (equivalence of mass and energy) Albert Einstein, Switzerland, 1907.

Engine, internal combustion: No single inventor. Fundamental theory established by Sadi Carnot, France, 1824; (two-stroke) Etienne Lenoir, France, 1860; (ideal operating cycle for four-stroke) Alphonse Beau de Roche, France, 1862; (operating four-stroke) Nikolaus Otto, Germany, 1876; (diesel) Rudolf Diesel, Germany, 1892; (rotary) Felix Wankel, Germany, 1956.

Evolution: (organic) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, France, 1809; (by natural selection) Charles Darwin, England, 1859.

Exclusion principle: (no two electrons in an atom can occupy the same energy level) Wolfgang Pauli, Germany, 1925.

Expanding universe theory: (first proposed) George LeMaitre, Belgium, 1927; (discovered first direct evidence that the universe is expanding) Edwin P. Hubble, U.S., 1929; (Hubble constant: a measure of the rate at which the universe is expanding) Edwin P. Hubble, U.S., 1929.

Falling bodies, law of: Galileo Galilei, Italy, 1590.

Fermentation: (microorganisms as cause of) Louis Pasteur, France, c.1860.

Fiber optics: Narinder Kapany, England, 1955.

Fibers, man-made: (nitrocellulose fibers treated to change flammable nitrocellulose to harmless cellulose, precursor of rayon) Sir Joseph Swann, England, 1883; (rayon) Count Hilaire de Chardonnet, France, 1889; (Celanese) Henry and Camille Dreyfuss, U.S., England, 1921; (research on polyesters and polyamides, basis for modern man-made fibers) U.S., England, Germany, 1930s; (nylon) Wallace H. Carothers, U.S., 1935.

Frozen food: Clarence Birdseye, U.S., 1924.

Gene transfer: (human) Steven Rosenberg, R. Michael Blaese, W. French Anderson, U.S., 1989.

Geometry, elements of: Euclid, Alexandria, Egypt, c. 300 B.C.; (analytic) René Descartes, France; and Pierre de Fermat, Switzerland, 1637.

Gravitation, law of: Sir Isaac Newton, England, c.1665 (published 1687).

Gunpowder: China, c.700.

Gyrocompass: Elmer A. Sperry, U.S., 1905.

Gyroscope: Léon Foucault, France, 1852.

Halley’s Comet: Edmund Halley, England, 1705.

Heart implanted in human, permanent artificial:Dr. Robert Jarvik, U.S., 1982.

Heart, temporary artificial: Willem Kolft, 1957.

Helicopter: (double rotor) Heinrich Focke, Germany, 1936; (single rotor) Igor Sikorsky, U.S., 1939.

Helium first observed on sun: Sir Joseph Lockyer, England, 1868.

Heredity, laws of: Gregor Mendel, Austria, 1865.

Holograph: Dennis Gabor, England, 1947.

Home videotape systems (VCR): (Betamax) Sony, Japan, 1975; (VHS) Matsushita, Japan, 1975.

Ice age theory: Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American, 1840.

Induction, electric: Joseph Henry, U.S., 1828.

Insulin: (first isolated) Sir Frederick G. Banting and Charles H. Best, Canada, 1921; (discovery first published) Banting and Best, 1922; (Nobel Prize awarded for purification for use in humans) John Macleod and Banting, 1923; (first synthesized), China, 1966.

Intelligence testing: Alfred Binet, Theodore Simon, France, 1905.

Interferon: Alick Isaacs, Jean Lindemann, England, Switzerland, 1957.

Isotopes: (concept of) Frederick Soddy, England, 1912; (stable isotopes) J. J. Thompson, England, 1913; (existence demonstrated by mass spectrography) Francis W. Ashton, 1919.

Jet propulsion: (engine) Sir Frank Whittle, England, Hans von Ohain, Germany, 1936; (aircraft) Heinkel He 178, 1939.

Kinetic theory of gases: (molecules of a gas are in a state of rapid motion) Daniel Bernoulli, Switzerland, 1738.

Laser: (theoretical work on) Charles H. Townes, Arthur L. Schawlow, U.S., N. Basov, A. Prokhorov, U.S.S.R., 1958; (first working model) T. H. Maiman, U.S., 1960.

Lawn mower: Edwin Budding, John Ferrabee, England, 1830–1831.

LCD (liquid crystal display): Hoffmann-La Roche, Switzerland, 1970.

Lens, bifocal: Benjamin Franklin, U.S., c.1760.

Leyden jar: (prototype electrical condenser) Canon E. G. von Kleist of Kamin, Pomerania, 1745; independently evolved by Cunaeus and P. van Musschenbroek, University of Leyden, Holland, 1746, from where name originated.

Light, nature of: (wave theory) Christian Huygens, The Netherlands, 1678; (electromagnetic theory) James Clerk Maxwell, England, 1873.

Light, speed of: (theory that light has finite velocity) Olaus Roemer, Denmark, 1675.

Lightning rod: Benjamin Franklin, U.S., 1752.

Locomotive: (steam powered) Richard Trevithick, England, 1804; (first practical, due to multiple-fire-tube boiler) George Stephenson, England, 1829; (largest steam-powered) Union Pacific’s “Big Boy,” U.S., 1941.

Lock, cylinder: Linus Yale, U.S., 1851.

Loom: (horizontal, two-beamed) Egypt, c. 4400 B.C.; (Jacquard drawloom, pattern controlled by punch cards) Jacques de Vaucanson, France, 1745, Joseph-Marie Jacquard, 1801; (flying shuttle) John Kay, England, 1733; (power-driven loom) Edmund Cartwright, England, 1785.

Machine gun: (hand-cranked multibarrel) Richard J. Gatling, U.S., 1862; (practical single barrel, belt-fed) Hiram S. Maxim, Anglo-American, 1884.

Magnet, Earth is: William Gilbert, England, 1600.

Match: (phosphorus) François Derosne, France, 1816; (friction) Charles Sauria, France, 1831; (safety) J. E. Lundstrom, Sweden, 1855.

Measles vaccine: John F. Enders, Thomas Peebles, U.S., 1953.

Metric system: revolutionary government of France, 1790–1801.

Microphone: Charles Wheatstone, England, 1827.

Microscope: (compound) Zacharias Janssen, The Netherlands, 1590; (electron) Vladimir Zworykin et al., U.S., Canada, Germany, 1932–1939.

Microwave oven: Percy Spencer, U.S., 1947.

Motion, laws of: Isaac Newton, England, 1687.

Motion pictures: Thomas A. Edison, U.S., 1893.

Motion pictures, sound: Product of various inventions. First picture with synchronized musical score: Don Juan, 1926; with spoken dialogue: The Jazz Singer, 1927; both Warner Bros.

Motor, electric: Michael Faraday, England, 1822; (alternating-current) Nikola Tesla, U.S., 1892.

Motorcycle: (motor tricycle) Edward Butler, England, 1884; (gasoline-engine motorcycle) Gottlieb Daimler, Germany, 1885.

Moving assembly line: Henry Ford, U.S., 1913.

Neptune: (discovery of) Johann Galle, Germany, 1846.

Neptunium: (first transuranic element, synthesis of) Edward M. McMillan, Philip H. Abelson, U.S., 1940.

Neutron: James Chadwick, England, 1932.

Neutron-induced radiation: Enrico Fermi et al., Italy, 1934.

Nitroglycerin: Ascanio Sobrero, Italy, 1846.

Nuclear fission: Otto Hahn, Fritz Strassmann, Germany, 1938.

Nuclear reactor: Enrico Fermi, Italy, et al., 1942.

Ohm’s law: (relationship between strength of electric current, electromotive force, and circuit resistance) Georg S. Ohm, Germany, 1827.

Oil well: Edwin L. Drake, U.S., 1859.

Oxygen: (isolation of) Joseph Priestley, 1774; Carl Scheele, 1773.

Ozone: Christian Schönbein, Germany, 1839.

Pacemaker: (internal) Clarence W. Lillehie, Earl Bakk, U.S., 1957.

Paper China, c.100 A.D.

Parachute: Louis S. Lenormand, France, 1783.

Pen: (fountain) Lewis E. Waterman, U.S., 1884; (ball-point, for marking on rough surfaces) John H. Loud, U.S., 1888; (ball-point, for handwriting) Lazlo Biro, Argentina, 1944.

Periodic law: (that properties of elements are functions of their atomic weights) Dmitri Mendeleev, Russia, 1869.

Periodic table: (arrangement of chemical elements based on periodic law) Dmitri Mendeleev, Russia, 1869.

Phonograph: Thomas A. Edison, U.S., 1877.

Photography: (first paper negative, first photograph, on metal) Joseph Nicéphore Niepce, France, 1816–1827; (discovery of fixative powers of hyposulfite of soda) Sir John Herschel, England, 1819; (first direct positive image on silver plate, the daguerreotype) Louis Daguerre, based on work with Niepce, France, 1839; (first paper negative from which a number of positive prints could be made) William Talbot, England, 1841. Work of these four men, taken together, forms basis for all modern photography. (First color images) Alexandre Becquerel, Claude Niepce de Saint-Victor, France, 1848–1860; (commercial color film with three emulsion layers, Kodachrome) U.S., 1935.

Photovoltaic effect: (light falling on certain materials can produce electricity) Edmund Becquerel, France, 1839.

Piano: (Hammerklavier) Bartolommeo Cristofori, Italy, 1709; (pianoforte with sustaining and damper pedals) John Broadwood, England, 1873.

Planetary motion, laws of: Johannes Kepler, Germany, 1609, 1619.

Plant respiration and photosynthesis: Jan Ingenhousz, Holland, 1779.

Plastics: (first material, nitrocellulose softened by vegetable oil, camphor, precursor to Celluloid) Alexander Parkes, England, 1855; (Celluloid, involving recognition of vital effect of camphor) John W. Hyatt, U.S., 1869; (Bakelite, first completely synthetic plastic) Leo H. Baekeland, U.S., 1910; (theoretical background of macromolecules and process of polymerization on which modern plastics industry rests) Hermann Staudinger, Germany, 1922.

Plate tectonics: Alfred Wegener, Germany, 1912–1915.

Plow, forked: Mesopotamia, before 3000 B.C.

Plutonium, synthesis of: Glenn T. Seaborg, Edwin M. McMillan, Arthur C. Wahl, Joseph W. Kennedy, U.S., 1941.

Polio, vaccine: (experimentally safe dead-virus vaccine) Jonas E. Salk, U.S., 1952; (effective large-scale field trials) 1954; (officially approved) 1955; (safe oral live-virus vaccine developed) Albert B. Sabin, U.S., 1954; (available in the U.S.) 1960.

Positron: Carl D. Anderson, U.S., 1932.

Pressure cooker: (early version) Denis Papin, France, 1679.

Printing: (block) Japan, c.700; (movable type) Korea, c.1400; Johann Gutenberg, Germany, c.1450 (lithography, offset) Aloys Senefelder, Germany, 1796; (rotary press) Richard Hoe, U.S., 1844; (linotype) Ottmar Mergenthaler, U.S., 1884.

Probability theory: René Descartes, France; and Pierre de Fermat, Switzerland, 1654.

Proton: Ernest Rutherford, England, 1919.

Prozac: (antidepressant fluoxetine) Bryan B. Malloy, Scotland, and Klaus K. Schmiegel, U.S., 1972; (released for use in U.S.) Eli Lilly & Company, 1987.

Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud, Austria, c.1904.

Pulsars: Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell Burnel, England, 1967.

Quantum theory: (general) Max Planck, Germany, 1900; (sub-atomic) Niels Bohr, Denmark, 1913; (quantum mechanics) Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Germany, 1925.

Quarks: Jerome Friedman, Henry Kendall, Richard Taylor, U.S., 1967.

Quasars: Marten Schmidt, U.S., 1963.

Rabies immunization: Louis Pasteur, France, 1885.

Radar: (limited to one-mile range) Christian Hulsmeyer, Germany, 1904; (pulse modulation, used for measuring height of ionosphere) Gregory Breit, Merle Tuve, U.S., 1925; (first practical radar—radio detection and ranging) Sir Robert Watson-Watt, England, 1934–1935.

Radio: (electromagnetism, theory of) James Clerk Maxwell, England, 1873; (spark coil, generator of electromagnetic waves) Heinrich Hertz, Germany, 1886; (first practical system of wireless telegraphy) Guglielmo Marconi, Italy, 1895; (first long-distance telegraphic radio signal sent across the Atlantic) Marconi, 1901; (vacuum electron tube, basis for radio telephony) Sir John Fleming, England, 1904; (triode amplifying tube) Lee de Forest, U.S., 1906; (regenerative circuit, allowing long-distance sound reception) Edwin H. Armstrong, U.S., 1912; (frequency modulation—FM) Edwin H. Armstrong, U.S., 1933.

Radioactivity: (X-rays) Wilhelm K. Roentgen, Germany, 1895; (radioactivity of uranium) Henri Becquerel, France, 1896; (radioactive elements, radium and polonium in uranium ore) Marie Sklodowska-Curie, Pierre Curie, France, 1898; (classification of alpha and beta particle radiation) Pierre Curie, France, 1900; (gamma radiation) Paul-Ulrich Villard, France, 1900.

Radiocarbon dating, carbon-14 method: (discovered) 1947, Willard F. Libby, U.S.; (first demonstrated) U.S., 1950.

Radio signals, extraterrestrial: first known radio noise signals were received by U.S. engineer, Karl Jansky, originating from the Galactic Center, 1931.

Radio waves: (cosmic sources, led to radio astronomy) Karl Jansky, U.S., 1932.

Razor: (safety, successfully marketed) King Gillette, U.S., 1901; (electric) Jacob Schick, U.S., 1928, 1931.

Reaper: Cyrus McCormick, U.S., 1834.

Refrigerator: Alexander Twining, U.S., James Harrison, Australia, 1850; (first with a compressor device) the Domelse, Chicago, U.S., 1913.

Refrigerator ship: (first) the Frigorifique, cooling unit designed by Charles Teller, France, 1877.

Relativity: (special and general theories of) Albert Einstein, Switzerland, Germany, U.S., 1905–1953.

Revolver: Samuel Colt, U.S., 1835.

Richter scale: Charles F. Richter, U.S., 1935.

Rifle: (muzzle-loaded) Italy, Germany, c.1475; (breech-loaded) England, France, Germany, U.S., c.1866; (bolt-action) Paul von Mauser, Germany, 1889; (automatic) John Browning, U.S., 1918.

Rocket: (liquid-fueled) Robert Goddard, U.S., 1926.

Roller bearing: (wooden for cartwheel) Germany or France, c.100 B.C.

Rotation of Earth: Jean Bernard Foucault, France, 1851.

Royal Observatory, Greenwich: established in 1675 by Charles II of England; John Flamsteed first Astronomer Royal.

Rubber: (vulcanization process) Charles Goodyear, U.S., 1839.

Saccharin: Constantine Fuhlberg, Ira Remsen, U.S., 1879.

Safety pin: Walter Hunt, U.S., 1849.

Saturn, ring around: Christian Huygens, The Netherlands, 1659.

“Scotch” tape:Richard Drew, U.S., 1929.

Screw propeller: Sir Francis P. Smith, England, 1836; John Ericsson, England, worked independently of and simultaneously with Smith, 1837.

Seismograph: (first accurate) John Milne, England, 1880.

Sewing machine: Elias Howe, U.S., 1846; (continuous stitch) Isaac Singer, U.S., 1851.

Solar energy: First realistic application of solar energy using parabolic solar reflector to drive caloric engine on steam boiler, John Ericsson, U.S., 1860s.

Solar system, universe: (Sun-centered universe) Nicolaus Copernicus, Warsaw, 1543; (establishment of planetary orbits as elliptical) Johannes Kepler, Germany, 1609; (infinity of universe) Giordano Bruno, Italian monk, 1584.

Spectrum: (heterogeneity of light) Sir Isaac Newton, England, 1665–1666.

Spectrum analysis: Gustav Kirchhoff, Robert Bunsen, Germany, 1859.

Spermatozoa: Anton van Leeuwenhoek, The Netherlands, 1683.

Spinning: (spinning wheel) India, introduced to Europe in Middle Ages; (Saxony wheel, continuous spinning of wool or cotton yarn) England, c.1500–1600; (spinning jenny) James Hargreaves, England, 1764; (spinning frame) Sir Richard Arkwright, England, 1769; (spinning mule, completed mechanization of spinning, permitting production of yarn to keep up with demands of modern looms) Samuel Crompton, England, 1779.

Star catalog: (first modern) Tycho Brahe, Denmark, 1572.

Steam engine: (first commercial version based on principles of French physicist Denis Papin) Thomas Savery, England, 1639; (atmospheric steam engine) Thomas Newcomen, England, 1705; (steam engine for pumping water from collieries) Savery, Newcomen, 1725; (modern condensing, double acting) James Watt, England, 1782.

Steamship: Claude de Jouffroy d’Abbans, France, 1783; James Rumsey, U.S., 1787; John Fitch, U.S., 1790. All preceded Robert Fulton, U.S., 1807, credited with launching first commercially successful steamship.

Stethoscope: René Laënnec, France, 1819.

Sulfa drugs: (parent compound, para-aminobenzenesulfanomide) Paul Gelmo, Austria, 1908; (antibacterial activity) Gerhard Domagk, Germany, 1935.

Superconductivity: (theory) Bardeen, Cooper, Scheiffer, U.S., 1957.

Symbolic logic: George Boule, 1854; (modern) Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, England, 1910–1913.

Tank, military: Sir Ernest Swinton, England, 1914.

Tape recorder: (magnetic steel tape) Valdemar Poulsen, Denmark, 1899.

Teflon: DuPont, U.S., 1943.

Telegraph: Samuel F. B. Morse, U.S., 1837.

Telephone: Alexander Graham Bell, U.S., 1876.

Telescope: Hans Lippershey, The Netherlands, 1608; (astronomical) Galileo Galilei, Italy, 1609; (reflecting) Isaac Newton, England, 1668.

Television: (Iconoscope–T.V. camera table), Vladimir Zworkin, U.S., 1923, and also kinescope (cathode ray tube), 1928; (mechanical disk-scanning method) successfully demonstrated by J.K. Baird, England, C.F. Jenkins, U.S., 1926; (first all-electric television image), 1927, Philo T. Farnsworth, U.S; (color, mechanical disk) Baird, 1928; (color, compatible with black and white) George Valensi, France, 1938; (color, sequential rotating filter) Peter Goldmark, U.S., first introduced, 1951; (color, compatible with black and white) commercially introduced in U.S., National Television Systems Committee, 1953.

Thermodynamics: (first law: energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted from one form to another) Julius von Mayer, Germany, 1842; James Joule, England, 1843; (second law: heat cannot of itself pass from a colder to a warmer body) Rudolph Clausius, Germany, 1850; (third law: the entropy of ordered solids reaches zero at the absolute zero of temperature) Walter Nernst, Germany, 1918.

Thermometer: (open-column) Galileo Galilei, c.1593; (clinical) Santorio Santorio, Padua, c.1615; (mercury, also Fahrenheit scale) Gabriel D. Fahrenheit, Germany, 1714; (centigrade scale) Anders Celsius, Sweden, 1742; (absolute-temperature, or Kelvin, scale) William Thompson, Lord Kelvin, England, 1848.

Tire, pneumatic: Robert W. Thompson, England, 1845; (bicycle tire) John B. Dunlop, Northern Ireland, 1888.

Toilet, flush: Product of Minoan civilization, Crete, c. 2000 B.C. Alleged invention by “Thomas Crapper” is untrue.

Tractor: Benjamin Holt, U.S., 1900.

Transformer, electric: William Stanley, U.S., 1885.

Transistor: John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain, William B. Shockley, U.S., 1947.

Tuberculosis bacterium: Robert Koch, Germany, 1882.

Typewriter: Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden, U.S., 1867.

Uncertainty principle: (that position and velocity of an object cannot both be measured exactly, at the same time) Werner Heisenberg, Germany, 1927.

Uranus: (first planet discovered in recorded history) William Herschel, England, 1781.

Vaccination: Edward Jenner, England, 1796.

Vacuum cleaner: (manually operated) Ives W. McGaffey, 1869; (electric) Hubert C. Booth, England, 1901; (upright) J. Murray Spangler, U.S., 1907.

Van Allen (radiation) Belt: (around Earth) James Van Allen, U.S., 1958.

Video disk: Philips Co., The Netherlands, 1972.

Vitamins: (hypothesis of disease deficiency) Sir F. G. Hopkins, Casimir Funk, England, 1912; (vitamin A) Elmer V. McCollum, M. Davis, U.S., 1912–1914; (vitamin B) McCollum, U.S., 1915–1916; (thiamin, B1) Casimir Funk, England, 1912; (riboflavin, B2) D. T. Smith, E. G. Hendrick, U.S., 1926; (niacin) Conrad Elvehjem, U.S., 1937; (B6) Paul Gyorgy, U.S., 1934; (vitamin C) C. A. Hoist, T. Froelich, Norway, 1912; (vitamin D) McCollum, U.S., 1922; (folic acid) Lucy Wills, England, 1933.

Voltaic pile: (forerunner of modern battery, first source of continuous electric current) Alessandro Volta, Italy, 1800.

Wallpaper: Europe, 16th and 17th century.

Wassermann test: (for syphilis) August von Wassermann, Germany, 1906.

Wheel: (cart, solid wood) Mesopotamia, c.3800–3600 B.C.

Windmill: Persia, c.600.

World Wide Web: (developed while working at CERN) Tim Berners-Lee, England, 1989; (development of Mosaic browser makes WWW available for general use) Marc Andreeson, U.S., 1993.

Xerography: Chester Carlson, U.S., 1938.

Zero: India, c.600; (absolute zero temperature, cessation of all molecular energy) William Thompson, Lord Kelvin, England, 1848.

Zipper: W. L. Judson, U.S., 1891.

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William S. Burroughs, in the introduction of his novel ‘Naked Lunch’, claims Jack Kerouac, his fellow Beat Pioneer, suggested the book’s title, maintaining that “It means exactly what the words say: naked lunch, a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork." Alan Ginsberg, the third literary iconoclast in that particular group of authors, was said to have misread the title of the manuscript, which was, purportedly, ‘Naked Lust’. Either story works for me, because, as an overweight, middle aged white man, I admit that I lust for whatever is on the end of my every fork on any given frozen moment of my life.

Lunch is an abbreviation taken from the more formal North English Word ‘Luncheon,’ derived from the Anglo-Saxon word nunchin, meaning ‘Noon Drink’, a tradition carried on in the Financial District of Manhattan with the 80% tax-deductible ‘3 Martini Lunch’. Which is probably why the Stock Market is so fucked up.

Lunch is the popular pastime of groups of middle aged women immortalized by Steven Sondheim, in his song ‘Ladies Who Lunch’ from his Musical ‘Company.’ The most famous rendition performed by Elaine Stritch, a venerable Broadway Diva, (or Old Bag, depending on your point of view) whose voice might actually make you LOSE your lunch.

But since 1580 AD, the word has been used to describe the meal taken between two more substantial meals.

However, there are parts of the world where Lunchisthe main meal of the day. In some countries, such as Germany, Portugal, Hungary, parts of Eastern and Southeastern Europe and Asia, lunch is when a person really chows down.

In Bengal, where a traditional lunch is a SEVEN course meal, consisting of vegetables in a coconut sauce, a vegetable curry over rice, a fish curry over rice, a meat curry over rice, deep-fried sweet semolina balls, yogurt, and capped off with ‘Paan’, which is a bitter leaf which acts as the final palate cleanser. Even a fat bastard like me think that’s just a bit much. You shove all that shit down your piehole, you’re not going back to work. You’re napping for about 4 hours.

In Scotland, a country whose sole contributions to humanity are Golf and Whiskey, the NUMBER ONE lunch item, popular to the point where it almost qualifies as The National Dish, is a deep fried Mars Bar. Let me repeat that. THE NUMBER ONE LUNCH ITEM IN SCOTLAND IS A FUCKING DEEP FRIED MARS BAR. Which is not altogether that surprising, when you consider that their most famous dish is Haggis, a savory pudding containing sheep's pluck (heart, liver, and lungs); minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and cooked encased in the animal's stomach. It’s my contention that this is why they began distilling scotch in the first place, because you’d have to be pretty fucking drunk to eat that shit.

Here, in North America, lunch is a moderate meal, generally consumed between 11 AM and 2 PM, depending on your hours. It’s usually a quick meal, if not taken at a restaurant, office cafeteria or food cart, then brought from home and eaten at your desk. The majority of children bring theirs to school in a brown paper bag, in which is usually a sandwich, (traditionally bologna, cheese, tunafish or peanut butter and jelly) and a piece of fruit which is almost always used to barter for something better, like a cookie. My mother used to habitually pack me a smoked turkey on white bread with mayo. Not exactly barterable, especially because it looked like a sliced raw baby sandwich, although I think raw sliced baby would probably taste a shit ton better than that that Anemic, Light Pink Colored Processed Mystery Meat. I know it was supposed to be turkey, but, if it was, I’d bet my next lunch check it was from the neck.

At least in this country, Lunch is really only one of three meals between Breakfast and Dinner. One on either side of the feast the very entity you are reading celebrates.

One is ‘Brunch’, which is a hybrid of a late breakfast and early lunch, hence the compound name. It is almost always served on weekends, and involves standard morning fare: eggs, bacon, pancakes, et. al, combined with menu items that are usually reserved for later in the day; various carved meats and seafood items from the raw bar) The latter, arguably, is merely included to justify day drinking. Which is the only reason anybody ever goes to Brunch. (“Bloody Marys and Mimosas! They’re not ‘Drink Drinks’! They’re both based on Breakfast Juices!’ )

The second meal between Breakfast and Dinner is ‘The Early Bird Special’. There should be an asterisk alongside the phrase, as it is, in reality, actually a dinner, albeit one that is eaten not more than one hour after 3 O’clock. ‘The Early Bird Special’ is not just a meal, it’s a phenomenon.

Because,

1 - It’s usually only found in areas located in warmer climes.

2 - It is generally only available at mass market chain restaurants known for being open 24 hours a day and feature menu items with cute names like ‘Moon Over My Hammy’, and

3 - The demographic of those who partake in it is traditionally one that resides in retirement communities: Men wearing green polyester pants hiked up to their nipples and women sporting angora sweaters draped around their slight, bony shoulders.

Seemingly, it’s the bargain offered by the restaurant on the meal that holds the allure. There appears to be no person over the age of 62 who can resist the temptation of Pot Roast and Gravy, Mashed Potatoes and Creamed Corn, with choice of soup or salad, coffee or soft drink and dessert of the day, even if it means they have to take it between 2:59 and 3:59, and they’ve just finished lunch at 2.

But at whatever time, in whatever form it’s embraced, Lunch is the magical meal that is universally adored. No matter the country, culture or creed, the siren call of the break in the middle of the day to consume sustenance to keep us going until the last school bell rings or we punch out on the time clock, is anticipated with great eagerness.

In the pages that follow, we will discuss how this culinary gift of God is done in the different parts of this country. We will explore menu items germane to specific geographical locations, and how the fare varies from State to State. Some of the opinions voiced between these covers will, no doubt, be fraught with controversy, causing passionate, sometimes hostile debate over which city has the better hot dog, what constitutes a ‘chili’, or the proper way to eat a slice.

But in the end, it is my fervent hope that we can all find common ground in the delightfully diverse meal that, ultimately, unites us all.

So...have your girl call my girl.

Let’s do lunch.

#food #foodblogger #foodgasm #lunch #lunchtime #lunchbox

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Events 8.21 (before 1900)

959 – Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège. 1140 – Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song Wars. 1169 – Battle of the Blacks: Uprising by the black African forces of the Fatimid army, along with a number of Egyptian emirs and commoners, against Saladin. 1192 – Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes Sei-i Taishōgun and the de facto ruler of Japan. (Traditional Japanese date: the 12th day of the seventh month in the third year of the Kenkyū (建久) era). 1331 – King Stefan Uroš III, after months of anarchy, surrenders to his son and rival Stefan Dušan, who succeeds as King of Serbia. 1415 – Henry the Navigator leads Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Conquest of Ceuta. 1680 – Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from the Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt. 1689 – The Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland. 1716 – Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War: The arrival of naval reinforcements and the news of the Battle of Petrovaradin force the Ottomans to abandon the Siege of Corfu, thus preserving the Ionian Islands under Venetian rule. 1770 – James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales. 1772 – King Gustav III completes his coup d'état by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and installing himself as an enlightened despot. 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces begin besieging the French outpost at Pondichéry. 1791 – A Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, turns into a violent slave rebellion, beginning the Haitian Revolution. 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War. 1810 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates. 1821 – Jarvis Island is discovered by the crew of the ship, Eliza Frances. 1831 – Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, which will claim the lives of 55 to 65 whites and about twice that number of blacks. 1852 – Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory. 1858 – The first of the Lincoln–Douglas debates is held in Ottawa, Illinois. 1862 – The Stadtpark, the first public park in Vienna, opens to the public. 1863 – Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by pro-Confederate guerrillas known as Quantrill's Raiders. 1878 – The American Bar Association is founded in Saratoga Springs, New York. 1879 – The locals of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland report their having seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary. The apparition is later named “Our Lady of Knock” and the spot transformed into a Catholic pilgrimage site. 1883 – An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic. 1888 – The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.

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The Difference Between Bombay Tanqueray Hendricks and Beefeater Explained

In warmer months, and all year round, really, you can’t go wrong with bright and botanical gin-based cocktails. Thankfully, there is an amazing array of gins, all of which use their own unique blend of ingredients. To help find the perfect tipple, VinePair took the measure of four popular brands.

While Bombay, Tanqueray and Beefeater fall into the London Dry designation, new kid on the block Hendrick’s Gin has also proven a worthy challenger.

So throw some ice in a Highball, crack open your favorite tonic, and keep reading to learn how each of these brands will fare in your favorite drink.

Origin

Bombay Sapphire can be traced all the way to distiller Thomas Dakin’s 1761 Warrington Gin, which was subsequently renamed and relaunched as Bombay Original in the 1950s. Thirty years later, the Bombay Original recipe was rejiggered with the addition of two botanicals into what is known today as Bombay Sapphire.

Tanqueray’s story begins with Charles Tanqueray, the son of a clergyman who opted out of the church and decided instead to make gin with his brother. Tanqueray entered into the distilling industry in 1830 and would go on to be one of the first known innovators of London Dry gin.

Once advertised as “the gin of England,” Beefeater was founded by Devon-born pharmacist James Burrough in 1863. Although the distillery’s inaugural location was based in Chelsea, it has since been moved to the south London neighborhood of Kennington.

The youngest of the bunch, Hendrick’s Gin, has been produced in the seaside town of Girvan, Scotland, since 1999. The recipe was created by master distiller Lesley Gracie, who has remained at its helm ever since.

Popularity

In 2019, Bombay Sapphire, which is owned by Bacardi, came in at second place with global sales of 4.7 million cases, while Diageo-owned Tanqueray was not far behind in third place, with 4.5 million cases sold.

Beefeater, whose parent company is Pernod-Ricard, found itself fourth on the list, and Hendrick’s, owned by William Grant & Sons, came in seventh with sales of 1.4 million cases.

Alcohol Content in the U.S.

Bombay Sapphire has been steady at 94 proof, barring a strange mix-up in 2017 wherein bottles accidentally produced at 154 proof were distributed in Canada. Tanqueray and Tanqueray No. Ten are both bottled at 94.6 proof, while Hendrick’s comes in at 82.8 proof. And until recently, Beefeater sold in the U.S. was bottled at 94 proof, but following the company’s move to “provide a more consistent brand experience globally,” is now, to many of its fans’ disappointment, bottled at 88 proof.

Flavor

VinePair’s review of Bombay Sapphire praises its appearance, calling it one of the most “striking bottles on the gin shelf.” On the inside, the gin is a complex mix of juniper, licorice, and almond, on both the nose and palate.

Touted by VinePair as the quintessential London Dry, a taste test of Beefeater notes aromas of candied lemon peel, rosemary, and sweet juniper, with black pepper and berries on the palate. However, Tanqueray No. Ten receives slightly higher marks for its delicate lemon thyme, mint, and sweet cucumber aromas and honeyed floral notes on the palate.

Hendrick’s, yet again the outlier, is well known for including rose petal and cucumber essence after distillation, technically taking it out of the London Dry category. Traditionalists need not worry, though, juniper is still one of the 11 included botanicals.

Use in Cocktails

As demonstrated by the tasting notes, this ubiquitous spirit offers a startling array of flavor profiles. While perfect for a variety of cocktails, the individual gin utilized is an intensely personal choice. Any one of these brands could work perfectly in classics like the Aviation, Martini, or Tom Collins. As VinePair discovered, even the pros can’t decide for you.

Why the Pros Love Each

For Renato Marco Tonelli, a blogger and bartender at Evelina in Brooklyn, all four brands are equally versatile, making them must-haves for any bar. However, when it comes to choosing one over another, especially in a classic like the Gin and Tonic, it boils down to personal preference.

“If you want to taste that strong typical flavor that gin has, I would go with Bombay or Tanqueray because of their juniper-heavy flavor and aromatic spice notes,” Tonelli says. For the drinker seeking a slightly more subtle juniper flavor than the aforementioned brands, he believes Beefeater is the best bet, and “for those who aren’t crazy about the traditional taste of gin,” Tonelli suggests Hendrick’s.

Of the London Dry gins, Tonelli touts Beefeater as being “the smoothest and most palatable in my experience.” And when it comes to cocktails like a Negroni, in which the gin “must compete with other strong flavored ingredients,” Tonelli reaches for Tanqueray and Bombay.

The article The Difference Between Bombay, Tanqueray, Hendrick’s, and Beefeater, Explained appeared first on VinePair.

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LIST OF RARE & COLLECTABLE WHISKIES RELEASED FOR THE DISTILLERS’ CHARITY AUCTION ON 10th APRIL 2018

The full list of lots for the second Worshipful Company of Distillers’ Charity Auction will go live at www.distillers.auction on Tuesday 20th March 2018. It features more than 70rare and highly collectable whiskies and experiences that will go under the hammerat Mercers’ Hall, in the heart of the City of London, on Tuesday 10th April.

The evening, hosted by Master of the Worshipful Company of Distillers Bryan Burrough, will begin with a reception attended by the Lord Mayor of London, followed by international auctioneer David Elswood of Christie’s conducting the auction. Tickets to attend (dress code - black tie) are available for £100 at www.distillers.auction. There is also the opportunity on the auction website to register for absentee and telephone bidding.

Estimates for the lots, all of impeccable provenance having been donated directly by the producers or livery men of the Distillers, range from £250 to £25,000.They include some of the most sought-after whiskies in the world, one-of-a-kind expressions, special bottlings never released commercially and private invitations to tastings with the makers.

Bidding is expected to be strong for the Whyte & Mackay contribution of a one-off, specially produced bottle of The Dalmore 1976 Highland Single Malt Whisky 41 Years Old, matured in a Graham’s Port Colheita 1963 Pipe, with details andtasting notes on a scroll handwritten bymaster blender and liveryman Richard Paterson.

William Grant & Sons has provided exceptional whiskies with wonderful stories. Glenfiddich 50 Years Old, vintage distillery bottling from 1991, is number 440 of a limited edition of 500 bottles. This whisky was made from a batch of nine casks laid down in the 1930s, one for each of William Grant's nine children who had helped to build Glenfiddich Distillery in the 1880s.Its bottle of The Balvenie 50 Year Old Cask 191(bottle number 14 of 83), distilled in 1952 and bottled is 2002, is one of the oldest Balvenies ever released and the label reads: “The last cask of The Balvenie Single Malt Whisky from the nineteen fifties is unique and unrepeatable.”

Gordon & MacPhail has gathered six of its historic bottlings of Single Malt Scotch Whiskies, one distilled in each decade from the 1930s to 1980s, to create The Archive Collectionexclusively for The Distillers’ Charity Auction: Strathisla 1937, Linkwood 1946, Talisker 1955, Glen Grant 1965(never released for sale), Ardbeg 1974 and St. Magdalene 1982. This is accompanied by an invitation to the home of this family-owned company.

Compass Box Whisky has also delved into its archive to compileThe Hedonism Collection, from the originalin 2000 (the world’s first Blended Grain Scotch Whisky)to the latest expression released this year: Hedonism (First Edition), Hedonism Maximus, Hedonism 10th Anniversary, Hedonism Quindecimus and Hedonism The Muse. Founder John Glaser will host a special dinner in the Compass Box Blending Room for the winning bidder and five guests.

The Kirin Brewery Company Fuji-Gotemba Distillery has brought together a set of three 21 Year Old bottlings, never before sold together (two no longer available commercially and a Single Malt that has never been released for sale), from its historical whisky library stocks: Evermore 2001 Blended Whisky, Evermore 2002 Blended Whiskyand Fuji-Gotemba Single Malt Whisky distilled in 1981.

Chivas Bros has created The Royal Salute Highland Fling, a two-day trip to Speyside hosted by Peter Prentice, Keepers of the Quaich chairman and global VIP relations director for Chivas Bros. Staying at Linn House, six guests will visit Aberlour, The Glenlivet and Strathisla Distilleries with tastings in the Royal Salute Vault and Chivas Regal Cellar. The trip culminates in a Royal Salute Scottish Dinner and tasting of extraordinary whiskies.

Other highlights include: a magnum of Glenfarclas Highland Single Malt Whisky Aged 50 Years specially selected for The Worshipful Company of Distillers by John L S Grant and George S Grant and donated by Glenfarclas Distillery; Bowmore Single Malt Scotch Whisky 1964 Fino Cask 46 Years Old (one of 72 bottles) given by Beam Suntory UK; a unique bottle of Littlemill The Worshipful Company of Distillers 2018 Edition 40 Years Old selected by master blender Michael Henry; The MacallanSherry Oak 40 Years Oldrare single malt matured in three handpicked Oloroso sherry seasoned casks from Jerez; and number 232 of 500 crystal decanters of cask strength The North British Single Grain Scotch Whisky 50 Years Oldgiven to employees, former employees and friends ofThe North British Distillery Company Limited to celebrate its 125th Anniversary in 2010.

Alongside these legendary names are new distilleries already making their mark. Liverymen Daniel Szor, founder and CEO of The Cotswolds Distillery, is offering aday of whisky making and a hand-drawn cask strength bottle of Cotswolds Single Malt Whisky, and Stephen A Gould, proprietor and distiller at the Golden Moon Distillery, has donated a bottle from the first cask of its initial release of Colorado Single Malt Whiskey.

Bryan Burrough, Master of the Worshipful Company of Distillers, said: “As a Livery Company, charity is at the heart of what we do, and as Distillers we are proud to be leading our fundraising with the Distillers’ Charity Auction. An incredible collection of whiskies has been donated, which we are sure will generate a great deal of interest and excitement from collectors around the world.”

In the spirit of the event, the first two Worshipful Company of Distillers single cask bottlings of The Master’s Cask, signed by the Master of their year of bottling (an unpeated Caol Ila 18 Years Old for Douglas Morton in 2016 and Knockando 18 Years Old for Richard Watling in 2017), are presented for auction in a specially commissioned cabinet.

All proceeds will be donated to the Distillers’ Charity, which supports industry training and education, the Alcohol Education Trust dedicated to improving alcohol education for young people in Scotland, and the Lord Mayor’s Appeal towards the OnSide Youth Zones initiative creating opportunities for young people in London to thrive. More information on these charities can be found at www.distilers.auction.

Follow The Distillers’ Charity Auction on Instagram and Facebook @distillersauction.

The post LIST OF RARE & COLLECTABLE WHISKIES RELEASED FOR THE DISTILLERS’ CHARITY AUCTION ON 10th APRIL 2018 appeared first on GreatDrams.

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