#William H. Pickering

[lindahall]

William Henry Pickering – Scientist of the Day

William Henry Pickering, an American astronomer, was born Feb. 15, 1858, in Boston. Learn more

[artist-william-johnson]

Cotton Pickers, 1940, William Johnson

https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-h-johnson/cotton-pickers-1940

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Marvel Star Tom Hiddleston is a well known Hollywood name, but few people know about his connection to Liverpool.

Loki actor Tom was born in Westminster, London, but he actually has historic Liverpool links, discovered by Find My Past researchers.

His connection to Liverpool began with this his 3x maternal great-grandparents, wealthy German cotton merchants who settled in Toxteth in the 1860s.

Tom’s 3x great grandfather, Friedrich Julius Jacob Hubert Servaes was born in Dusseldorf in June 1831. His wife, Johanne Helene Wilckens was born in Hamburg in 1838.

In the early 1850s, Freidrich, who preferred to go by Julius, travelled to Liverpool to work in the “merchants & bankers” firm, J. H. Schroder & Co.

Julius, the company’s chief clerk ran the Liverpool branch alongside Charles Pickering, a local man from the family of Pickering Brothers , who were well-known Liverpool corn merchants.

The pair proved to be incredibly successful and by the end of the decade, Schroder & Co was the fourth largest recipient of consignments of cotton in the city. As a result, Julius was made an associate partner in 1856.

Life in Liverpool

Census records reveal that by 1871, Julius and his wife, now going by Ellen, lived in a large house at Haymans Green in West Derby along with their four Liverpool born children, Ellen’s brother and five domestic servants. The full household included:

· Julius, then 39

· Ellen, 32 years old

· 10 year old son Francis

· 7 year old Julius Max (Tom’s X2 great grandfather)

· 5 year old Susan

· 2 year old Alfred,

· Ellen’s 23 year old brother Herman Wickens, a gem merchant

· The children’s German governess and nurse, 31 year old Margaret Spethman

· Scottish cook, 23 year old Catherine Johnston

· 28 year old Welsh servant, Mary Wade

· And two house maids from Cheshire, 24 year old Catherine Davies

· And 24 year old Annie Eaves

The grand houses in Haymans green were all home to accomplished wealthy individuals, with the Servaes’ neighbours including a surgeon, Sir Richard Glazebrook, from the well-known Liverpool Glazebrook family and Solicitor George Layton and his Australian Wife.

By 1881, the family were living at Holly Lea House on Aigburth Drive, Toxteth Park.

Three more children had been born to Julius and Ellen, eight-year-old Helen, five-year-old Tonie and three-year-old Julius Junior.

Eldest son Francis was studying medicine at the University of Liverpool and four live-in servants were also in the household.

This included the children’s nurse, Alice Clutterbuck from London, the family’s cook Caroline Williams, waitress Mary White, housemaid Lucy Akers and German sewing maid Pauline Mogler.

This appeared to be another affluent address with their neighbours including architects, merchants, solicitors and landowners.

As a well-respected figure in the community, Julius can be found frequently in local newspapers.

This includes marriage announcements for his children, reports on his involvement with the Liverpool Society of Friends of Foreigners in Distress, where he was appointed vice-chancellor in 1899, and even a brief mention of his death in 1902.

Julius and Ellen lived at Holly Lea until their deaths. Julius passed away in 1902 and Ellen in 1903, both dying at home. They can still be found at the address in 1901.

All of the children except for 25-year-old Tonie had left home and 70-year old-Julius was still working in international trade, with his occupation listed as “commission agent”.

The next generation

Tom’s X2 great grandfather, Julius Maximus Servaes (known as Max) was the second child of Julius and Ellen. He was born in Walton on the Hill in September 1863 and was baptised at St Saviour’s Church on September 17th.

Records reveal that like his father before him, he went on to become a successful merchant at the Liverpool Corn Exchange.

In April 1890 he married Constance Violet Coltart, the daughter of a rope manufacturer from Ruthin, Wales, in the parish of St Michael in the Hamlet, Toxteth.

The pair set up an elegant home at number 3 Parkfield Road, Toxteth Park complete with a live-in cook, nurse and housemaid.

The couple had at least five children;

· Nora, born in 1892

· Reginald Maxwell born in 1894 (Tom’s great grandfather)

· Phyllis, born in 1895

· Herbert, born in 1901

· Audrey Helena, born in 1904

Census records reveal that in 1901, the children were living with their aunt Susan Florence (Max’s younger sister) and her husband William Marshall (a wealthy chemical manufacturer) at Danehurst, Ullet Road, Toxteth Park.

By 1911 Max and Constance were still living at 3 Parkfield Road with 10-year-old Herbert and seven-year-old Audrey as well as the family cook, nursemaid and housekeeper.

By 1939, Max and Constance had moved to 22 Beechwood Road, Cressington before retiring to Contance’s hometown of Ruthin. Max died there in 1947 and Constance in 1952.

Reginald Maxwell Servaes (Tom’s great-grandfather) - born Toxteth park, July 25th 1893

Service records reveal Reginald joined the Royal Navy in 1906 and the 1911 census record shows him serving as a mid-shipman aboard HMS Indefatigable.

He became a sub-lieutenant in 1914 and steadily climbed through the ranks, serving in both world wars.

His naval records even provide insights into his character, describing him as: "A most efficient officer and lieutenant, an excellent leader with tact and good influence, pleasant personality.

‘Influential leader, good intelligence, much tact, powerful personality, physically fit, gentleman in the best sense of the word, very strongly seen as likely to do well in the highest ranks”.

After the war he moved to Chelsea and married Hilda A E Jonhston in 1919 in Croyden.

He became commanding officer of the repair ship HMS Resource in 1937 and Director of Local Defence at the Admiralty in 1938.

He served in World War II as commanding officer of the cruiser HMS London from 1940 and saw action with the arctic convoys before becoming Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff in 1943.

After the War he became Rear Admiral commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron in the British Pacific Fleet in 1945 and Flag Officer commanding the Reserve Fleet in 1947 before retiring in 1948.

He retired to Sussex and died in Cirencester in 1978, leaving behind an estate valued at £47,823, which is roughly £280,000 in today's money

[aic-american]

Cotton Pickers, Thomas Hart Benton, 1945, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

The American Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton painted Cotton Pickers based on notes of a trip he made to Georgia in the late 1920s. He depicted the dignity of the cotton pickers in the face of backbreaking labor and intense summer heat, rendering the dry fields and the working bodies in a sinuous, curvilinear style. Benton held progressive views on race, social relations, and politics, and he believed ardently that African American history was central to the understanding of American culture. Cotton sharecropping, an agricultural system that developed after the Civil War, allowed landowners to rent land to poor farmers in return for a share of the crops. Because sharecropping kept agricultural laborers impoverished, it became a symbol of a racially and economically unjust system. Cotton cultivation became one of Benton’s most important subjects, especially as the rapid industrialization of the nation during World War II changed the American landscape. Prior bequest of Alexander Stewart; Centennial Major Acquisitions Income and Wesley M. Dixon Jr. funds; Roger and J. Peter McCormick Endowments; prior acquisition of the George F. Harding Collection and Cyrus H. McCormick Fund; Quinn E. Delaney, American Art Sales Proceeds, Alyce and Edwin DeCosta and Walter E. Heller Foundation, and Goodman funds; prior bequest of Arthur Rubloff; Estate of Walter Aitken; Ada Turnbull Hertle and Mary and Leigh Block Endowment funds; prior acquisition of Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize; Marian and Samuel Klasstorner and Laura T. Magnuson Acquisition funds; prior acquisition of Friends of American Art Collection; Wirt D. Walker Trust; Jay W. McGreevy Endowment; Cyrus Hall McCormick Fund; Samuel A. Marx Purchase Fund for Major Acquisitions; Maurice D. Galleher Endowment; Alfred and May Tiefenbronner Memorial, Dr. Julian Archie, Gladys N. Anderson, and Simeon B. Williams funds; Capital Campaign General Acquisitions Endowment, and Benjamin Argile Memorial Fund Size: 81.3 × 121.9 cm (32 × 48 in.) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/217201/

[the-telescope-times]

February 18, 1930 Clyde Tombaugh Discovers Planet Nine!

Hubble’s best above but then of course we had to go see with New Horizons after a nearly 10 year trip.

In the 1840s, Urbain Le Verrier used Newtonian mechanics to predict the position of the then-undiscovered planet Neptune after analyzing perturbations in the orbit of Uranus. Subsequent observations of Neptune in the late 19th century led astronomers to speculate that Uranus's orbit was being disturbed by another planet besides Neptune.

In 1906, Percival Lowell—a wealthy Bostonian who had founded Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, in 1894—started an extensive project in search of a possible ninth planet, which he termed "Planet X". By 1909, Lowell and William H. Pickering had suggested several possible celestial coordinates for such a planet. Lowell and his observatory conducted his search until his death in 1916, but to no avail. Unknown to Lowell, his surveys had captured two faint images of Pluto on March 19 and April 7, 1915, but they were not recognized for what they were. There are fourteen other known pre-discovery observations, with the earliest made by the Yerkes Observatory on August 20, 1909.

Percival's widow, Constance Lowell, entered into a ten-year legal battle with the Lowell Observatory over her husband's legacy, and the search for Planet X did not resume until 1929. Vesto Melvin Slipher, the observatory director, gave the job of locating Planet X to 23-year-old Clyde Tombaugh, who had just arrived at the observatory after Slipher had been impressed by a sample of his astronomical drawings.

Tombaugh's task was to systematically image the night sky in pairs of photographs, then examine each pair and determine whether any objects had shifted position. Using a blink comparator, he rapidly shifted back and forth between views of each of the plates to create the illusion of movement of any objects that had changed position or appearance between photographs. On February 18, 1930, after nearly a year of searching, Tombaugh discovered a possible moving object on photographic plates taken on January 23 and 29. A lesser-quality photograph taken on January 21 helped confirm the movement. After the observatory obtained further confirmatory photographs, news of the discovery was telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory on March 13, 1930. Pluto has yet to complete a full orbit of the Sun since its discovery, as one Plutonian year is 247.68 years long. ~

wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto

[winsonsaw2003]

I'm looking for descendants from Edward Presgrave (1795-1830) Of Bourne / Singapore

  Edward Presgrave (1795-1830) was Resident Councillor of Malacca & Singapore in 1820′S. son of Edward Presgrave of Bourne & Ann Clerk.He married Anne Cooper.His issue:- i) Edwina Anne Presgrave (1821-1886) married Charles Harison Drury. Their issue:- ai) Charles Garling Drury(1845-1874) married Agnes Louisa Claridge. His issue:- bi)Charles Arthur Walpole Drury(1874-1958) married Jessie Ellen Lamb. His issue:- ci) Violet Miriam Drury(1899-1984) married Selwyn Guise Cutler. Their issue:- di) Alan Cutler. cii) Shelley Walpole Drury(1900-1995) married Doris Kathleen Kitching. His issue:- di) Derek Shelley Drury(1929-2014) married Jeannette O Unsted. His issue:- ei)Neil T Drury married Lynda S Jones. eii)Linda M Drury married John D Hill. dii) Roger L Drury. ciii) Henry Charles Dru Drury(1901-1999) married Olive Bird White. aii)Edward George Drury(1847-1868). aiii) Edwina Mary Drury(1849-1927). aiv) Bessie Sophia Drury(1851-1933) married James Burn Pennngton. Her issue:- bi) Beryl Pennington(1873-1959). bii) Drury Pennington(1874-1960) married Harriett Fremlin Key. His issue:- ci) Beryl Mary Dora Pennington married Richard T Lawrence. cii) Harold Drury Pennington(1907-?) married Hermione Blackburn. ciii) John Drury Pennington(1910-?). biii) Cyril Burn Pennington(1878-1955). biv) Harold Evelyn Pennington(1880-1915). bv) Guy Drury Pennington(1882-1909). bvi) Gladys Pennington(1886-1887). av) Francis McDowell(Macdonald) Drury (1852-?) married Ida Mariguitte ?. His issue:- bi) Amy Hyacinth Drury(1893-1973) married Nelson Winslow Pickering. Their issue:- ci) Nancy Pickering(1915-1994) married William Jamieson Neidlinger. Their issue:- di) Nancy Neidlinger married Paul Henry Eitapence. Their issue:- ei) Mark Eitapence. eii) Michelle Eitapence. dii) William Jamieson Neidlinger Jr.(1942-2012) married 1stly , Patricia H ? & 2ndly,Elisabeth ?. His issue:- ei) Elizabeth Neidlinger. eii) William Jamieson Neidlinger III. diii) Anthony Winslow Neidlinger married Patricia A Hewett Hussein. cii) Natalie Pickering(1924-2012) married Dayton Béguelin. Their issue:- di) Robert Dayton Béguelin married Susanna Adams Jones. dii) Winslow Drury Béguelin married Sarah Steinkamp Pierce. bii) Enid Drury(1895-1972). avi) Agnes Drury (1854-?). avii) Ernest Thorpe Drury (1856-1880) married aviii) Maud Anna Drury(1858-1928). aix) Nina Lizzie Drury(1861-1942). ii) Edward Presgrave (1823-?) married Margaret Crane.His issue:- ai) Edward Robert John Presgrave (1855-1919) iii) Mary Presgrave(1824-?). iv) Duncan Clerk Presgrave (1826-1883) married Jane Sarah Caunter.His issue:- ai) Isabella Presgrave (1851-?) married Arthur Edward Clarke.Their issue:- bi) Denys Harcourt Clarke (1879-1930) married Emily Dorothy Drake. aii) Edward William Presgrave (1855-1930). aiii) Duncan George Presgrave (1857-1928) married Frances Mary Clare Passmore.His issue:- bi) Sydney Frances Vivien Presgrave (1885-1989) married Sir Reginald George Watson. Their issue:- ci) Clare Watson married Ben Hawes-Watson. cii) Patricia A Watson married Kenneth P Pool. Their issue:- di) Anthony Presgrave Pool married Julia Weil Bendiner. His issue:- ei) Suzanne Harriet Pool. eii) Ralph Sabato Pool. dii) Timothy Kenneth Pool married Felicity Frankham. His issue:- ei) Graham Edward Pool married Fiona M Maycock. His issue:- fi) Mary Elizabeth Pool. fii) Beatrice Emma Pool. diii) Jacqueline Mary Pool married David Morris Fitzgerald Scott. ciii) Betty Watson married Herbert J Payne. Their issue:- i) ? Payne. ii) Nigel Conrad Presgrave Payne married Elizabeth M Morris. His issue:- ai) Conrad Francis Charles Presgrave Payne married Juliet N.C. Charlton aiv)William Garling Presgrave (1859-?). av) Percy Clerk Presgrave (1860-1862). avi) Jessie Harriet Presgrave (1870-?). Please contact me at:- winsonsaw20032000@yahoo.com

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Prince William and Kate recycle 'as much as we can' as plastic is 'enemy'

[mmel]

books read in 2019

january

1.The Little Mermaid — Hans Christian Andersen (1837) (audio) 

2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922) (audio)

3. Jungle River — Howard Pease (1938) 

4. Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov (1955) 

5. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence — Robert M. Pirsig (1974) 

6. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) 

7. Crome Yellow — Aldous Huxley (1921) 

8. The Story of the Eye — George Bataille (1921) 

february

9. The Immoralist — Andre Gide (1902) 

10. 1984 — George Orwell (1949) (audio) (2nd time) 

11. The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger (1951) (audio) (2nd time) 

12. Animal Farm — George Orwell (1945) (audio) (2nd time) 

13. The Woodlanders — Thomas Hardy (1877) 

14. Descartes in 90 Minutes — Paul Strathern (1996) 

15. Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë (1847) 

march

16. Discourse on the Method (1637) (in Heffernan) & 16.5 The Search After Truth by the Light of Nature — René Descartes 

17. Bilingual “Discourse on the Method” & Essays — Descartes & George Heffernan (1994) 

18. Autobiography — John Stuart Mill (1873) 

19. Méditations — René Descartes (1641) 

20. Discourse on Method and Related Writings — René Descartes (Penguin Classics) incl. le monde et les règles 

21. Meno — Plato (385 BC) (audio) 

22. Crito — Plato (audio) 

23. Poetics — Aristotle (audio) 

24. The Apology — Plato (audio) 

25. Phaedo — Plato (audio) 

26. Five Dialogues — Plato (euthyphro, apology, crito, meno, phaedo) (2nd time except euthyphro) 

27. Ion - Plato 

28. The Art of Loving — Erich Fromm (1956) 

29. On Liberty — J.S. Mill (1859) 

april

30. A History of Knowledge — Charles Van Doren (1991) 

31. Why I am So Wise — Friedrich Nietzsche (Penguin abridged Ecce Homo) (1908) 

32. The Varieties of Religious Experience — William James (1902) 

33. Pragmatism — William James (1907) 

34. Candide — Voltaire (1759) 

35. Short stories by Voltaire — Zadig, Micromegas, The World as it Is, Memnon, Bababec, Scarmentados Travels, Plato’s Dream, Jesuit Berthier, Good Brahman, Jeannot and Colin, An Indian Adventure, Ingenuous, One-Eyed Porter, Memory’s Adventure, Chaplain Goudman (1747-1775) 

36. The Great Conversation — Robert M. Hutchins (1952) 

may

37. Aeschylus’ Oresteia Trilogy & Prometheus Bound (458 BC) — Laurel Classical Drama (1965) 

38. Sophocles’ Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes (~400 BC) — Laurel Classical Drama (1965) 

39. Euripides’ Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, The Bacchae (~430 BC) — Laurel Classical Drama (1965) 

40. Mythology — Edith Hamilton (1940) 

41. Erewhon — Samuel Butler (1872) 

42. The Iliad — Homer (850 BC) 

43. The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint Exupery (1943) 

44. Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound (2nd time), The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persians (Penguin Classics) 

45. Teaching From the Balance Point — Edward Kreitman (Suzuki guide — 1998) 

june

46. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (2nd time), Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (2nd time) (Penguin Classics) 

47. The Odyssey — Homer (850 BC) 

48. The Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911) 

49. Coraline — Neil Gaiman (2002) 

50. The Lost Art of Reading — David Ulin (2010) 

51. Sophocles’ Ajax, Electra (2nd time), Women of Trachis, Philoctetes (2nd time) (Penguin Classics) 

52. The House of the Seven Gables — Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851) 

53. The Awakening — Kate Chopin (1899) (audio) 

54. Straight is the Gate — André Gide (1924) 

55. Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë (1847) 

56. Journey to the Center of the Earth — Jules Verne (1864) (audio) 

57. East of Eden — John Steinbeck (1952) 

58. Sons and Lovers — D.H. Lawrence (1913) 

59. Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck (1939) (audio) 

july 

60. Attached — Amir Levine (2010) (audio) 

61. The Prophet — Khalil Gibran (1923) (audio) 

62. The Four Agreements — Don Miguel Ruiz (1997) (audio) (2nd time) 

63. The Transparent Self — Sidney Jourard (1964) 

64. The Return of the Native — Thomas Hardy (1878) 

65. The Souls of Black Folk — W.E.B Du Bois (1903) (audio) 

66. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) (audio) 

67. The Call of the Wild — Jack London (1903) (audio) 

68. The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde (1895) (audio) (2nd time) 

69. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum (1900) (audio) 

70. The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde (1890) (audio) 

71. Justine — Marquis de Sade (1791) 

72. Love and Will — Rollo May (1969) 

73. Nine Stories — J.D. Salinger (1953) 

74. The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution — P.D. Ouspensky (1950) 

75. The Good Earth — Pearl S. Buck (1931) (audio) 

76. The Symposium — Plato (385-370 BC) 

77. Children’s Stories by Oscar Wilde (1888) 

august 

78. Plato’s Apology (3rd time), Crito (3rd time) ; Laches, Gorgias (audio) 

79. Plato’s Greater Hippias, Phaedrus (audio) 

80. The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) (audio) 

81. Plato’s Phaedo (3rd time), Euthyphro (3rd time); Charmides 

82. Eyeless in Gaza — Aldous Huxley (1936) 

83. A Little History of the World — E. F. Gombrich (1936) (audio) 

84. Waiting for Godot — Samuel Beckett (1953) 

85. Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy (1877) 

86. A Little History of Literature — John Southerland (2013) 

87. Sartor Resartus — Thomas Carlyle (1831) 

88. Macbeth — Shakespeare (1606) 

september

89. An Apology for Idlers — Robert Louis Stevenson (Penguin Great Ideas collection of essays) (1877) 

90. The Cloister and the Hearth — Charles Reade (1861) 

91. How to Read a Book — Mortimer Adler & Charles van Doren (1972) (audio) 

92. Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe (1719) (audio) 

93. The Story of Art — E. H. Gombrich (1950) 

94. The Moonstone — Wilkie Collins (1868) 

95. Emma — Jane Austen (1816) 

96. Daughters & Mothers: Mothers & Daughters — Signe Hammer (1975) 

97. Looking Back — Edward Bellamy (1888) 

98. Franny & Zooey — J.D. Salinger (1955) 

99. Persuasion — Jane Austen (1817)

100. Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen (1811) (audio and 2011 Annotated edition!!!) 

101. The Aspern Papers — Henry James (1888) 

october

102. Death of a Salesman — Arthur Miller (1949) 

103. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley (1932) (audio) 

104. Dhalgren — Samuel R. Delaney (1974) 

105. Mansfield Park — Jane Austen (1814) 

106. Northanger Abbey — Jane Austen (1817) 

107. Rebecca — Daphne Du Maurier (1938) 

108. Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen (1813) (second time) (audio) 

109. The American — Henry James (1877) 

110. Washington Square — Henry James (1880) 

111. The Europeans — Henry James (1878) 

112. Watch and Ward — Henry James (1871) 

113. Roderick Hudson — Henry James (1875) 

114. Confidence — Henry James (1879)

115. Portrait of a Lady — Henry James (1881)

116. I’ll Never Be French — Marc Greenside (2008)

117. The Bostonians -- Henry James (1886)

118. Henry James short stories Vol. I 1864-1874 -- A Tragedy of Error; The Story of a Year; A Landscape Painter; A Day of Days; My Friend Bingham; Poor Richard, The Story of a Masterpiece; The Romance of Certain Old Clothes; A Most Extraordinary Case; A Problem; De Grey: A Romance; Osbourne’s Revenge, A Light Man, Gabrielle de Bergerac, Travelling Companions, A Passionate Pilgrim, At Isella, Master Eustace, Guest’s Confession, The Madonna of the Future, The Sweetheart of M. Briseaux, The Last of the Valerii, Madame de Mauves, Adina

119. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul -- Douglas Adams (1988)

120. French Children Don’t Throw Food -- Pamela Druckerman (2012)

121. Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French -- Asselin & Mastron (2001)

122. Henry James: The Young Master -- Sheldon Novick (1997)

123. Henry James short stories Vol. II 1875-1884 Professor Fargo, Eugene Pickering, Benvolio, Crawford’s Consistency, The Ghostly Rental, Four Meetings, Rose-Agathe, Daisy Miller, Longstaff’s Marriage, An International Episode, The Pension Beaurepas, The Diary of a Man of Fifty, A Bundle of Letters, The Point of View, The Siege of London, The Impressions of a Cousin, Lady Barberina, The Author of Beltraffio, Pandora

124. The Trail of the Serpent -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1860)

125. The Silent Language -- Edward T. Hall (1959)

[historysisco]

On This Day in History January 31, 1958: Following the launch the Russian satellite Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, the United States entered the space race with the launch Explorer 1. Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States and its mission was as a cosmic ray detector designed to measure the radiation environment in Earth orbit.

According to the post Explorer 1 Overview from the Explorer and Early Satellites webpage of the NASA website:

Once in space this experiment, provided by Dr. James Van Allen of the University of Iowa, revealed a much lower cosmic ray count than expected. Van Allen theorized that the instrument may have been saturated by very strong radiation from a belt of charged particles trapped in space by Earth's magnetic field. The existence of these radiation belts was confirmed by another U.S. satellite launched two months later, and they became known as the Van Allen Belts in honor of their discoverer.

Explorer 1 revolved around Earth in a looping orbit that took it as close as 354 kilometers (220 miles) to Earth and as far as 2,515 kilometers (1,563 miles). It made one orbit every 114.8 minutes, or a total of 12.54 orbits per day. The satellite itself was 203 centimeters (80 inches) long and 15.9 centimeters (6.25 inches) in diameter. Explorer 1 made its final transmission on May 23, 1958.

After performing more than 58,000 orbits of Earth, Explorer 1 entered Earth's atmosphere and burned up on March 31, 1970.

For Further Reading:

Explorer-I and Jupiter-C from the History of NASA.com

Explorer 1: The First U.S. Satellite by Elizabeth Howell from Space.com dated September 28, 2012 

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Home Soil, TNG, 1988

Ties Of Blood And Water, DS9, 1997

Star Trek, 2009

Measure Of A Man, TNG, 1989

Star Trek Into Darkness, 2013

The Devil In The Dark, TOS, 1967

A Time To Stand, DS9, 1997

In A Mirror darkly, ENT, 2005

Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 Trailer Footage

Data’s Day, TNG, 1991

Blaze Of Glory, DS9, 1997

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, 1991

Projections, VOY, 1995

Rohingya Muslim Refugees Flee Ethnic Cleansing In Myanmar, NBC News, published Oct. 8, 2017, accessed in 2018 via: https://bit.ly/2CY5mHg

Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, TOS, 1969

Balance Of Terror, TOS, 1966

Stigma, ENT, 2003

The Ensigns Of Command, TNG, 1989

Prototype, VOY, 1996

The Butcher’s Knife cares Not For The Lamb’s Cry, DIS, 2017

I, Mudd, TOS 1967

The Offspring, TNG, 1990

Encounter At Farpoint, TNG, 1987

Datalore, TNG, 1988

Birthright part 1, TNG, 1993

Best Of Both Worlds Part 2, TNG, 1990

Where No One Has Gone Before, TNG, 1987

Data’s Day, TNG, 1991

Evolution, TNG, 1989

Who Watches The Watchers, TNG, 1989

The Quality Of Life, TNG, 1992

Emergence, TNG, 1994

Star Trek: The Motion Picture, 1979

Message In A Bottle, VOY, 1998

Ship In A Bottle, TNG, 1993

Doctor Bashir, I Presume, DS9, 1997

Life Line, VOY, 2000

Eye Of The Needle, VOY, 1995

Caretaker, VOY, 1995

Latent Image, VOY, 1999

Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy, VOY, 1999

Virtuoso, VOY, 2000

Author, Author, VOY, 2001

Flesh And Blood, VOY, 2000

Nightingale, VOY, 2000

Images

The Cotton Planter And His Pickers, H. Tees, West Point, Mississippi

The Discovery Of The Mississippi by William Henry Powell, 1853, uploaded by Davepape, 2007

James Hopkinson’s Plantation Slaves Planting Sweet Potatoes, by Henry P. Moore, 1862-63, uploaded by Hohum, 2013

Cotton Field In Mississippi, Popular Science Monthly, Volume 54, 1898

The Nazi Hierarchy, US National Archives And Records Administration, 1933 or 1934, uploaded by Alonso de Mendoza, 2017

Macaca Nigra Self-Portrait Full Body, taken by a female Celebus Crested Macaque using photographer David Slater’s camera, 2008, uploaded by Sandstein, 2011

Macaca Nigra Self-Portrait, taken by a female Celebus Crested Macaque using photographer David Slater’s camera, 2008, uploaded by Crisco 1492, 2015

Am I Not A Man Emblem, Josiah Wedgwood, William Hackwood et Henry Webber, 1787, uploaded by Logan, 2011

Hanging, Burning, & Clubbing Of Indians By Spanish Soldiers, by Joos van Winghe & Theodor de Bry, 1664, via the Peace Palace Library, uploaded by Hansmuller, 2014

Polish Jews Captured By Germans During The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, possibly taken by Franz Conrad, 1943, uploaded by Durova, 2008

Skulls From The Nyamata Memorial Site in Rhwanda, taken by Fanny Schertzer, 2007, uploaded by Inisheer, 2007

Arrest Of Rosa Parks, by Associated Press, 1956, uploaded by Adam Cuerden, 2016

Music

Walk Break 1 by Gavin Luke

Intriguing Developments 4 by Gavin Luke

Seeking Justice 4 by Peter Sandberg

Italian Winter Rain 2 by Peter Sandberg

Pause For Concern 1 by Gavin Luke

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Cotton Pickers, 1940, William Johnson

https://www.wikiart.org/en/william-h-johnson/cotton-pickers-1940

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AH’s “much-beloved” Matthew Clarkson

One of the themes I return to on this blog are all the people who get left out, from those who were obviously prominently placed in AH’s life through family ties - Philip Schuyler, John B. Church - to those who are at the margins because lack of letters or lack of fame pushed them there. In the second category, one can include near lifelong friends Nicholas Fish and John Laurance, and then a long line of others: Rufus King, Nathaniel Pendleton, Oliver Wolcott, William Bayard (his tearful display suggests more than a passing attachment to a fellow lawyer), John Mason, William Jackson, Timothy Pickering, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Josiah Odgen Hoffmann, Richard Varick, Richard Harison  etc. etc. (I think people sufficiently know McHenry, Laurens, Troup, Stevens, and G. Morris.) 

Let’s shine the light on Matthew Clarkson for a moment. Here is how John Church Hamilton describes his father’s death scene:

Meanwhile his numerous agonized friends crowded around the mansion where Hamilton lay, waiting through the sad hours each change in his pallid countenance with breathless apprehension. His elder comrades of the Revolution were there - gray, wondering old men, bowed with years - remembering him a youth in the first hours of his glorious anticipations, in the earliest triumphs of his genius and his valor. The loving, sighing companions of his later years, his grateful clients -  the many witnesses of his benevolence were there. They sat under the trees in mourning, silent woe, awaiting the issue, as though some judgment was coming upon the earth. 

At [AH’s] bedside were his wife and children - the grieving clergy - his tearful physician - and his much-beloved Clarkson.*

*footnote: General Matthew Clarkson. In the Revolution distinguished for his chivalry. In after life, for his piety and eminent virtues. The Life of Alexander Hamilton, vol 7, p. 835.

Of all the people who could be named by JCH, Clarkson? Why?

Matthew Clarkson (b Oct 1758) was a native New Yorker from a prominent family with long-established ties (See Clarksons of New York, A sketch for a history). His family intermarried with the De Peysters and Van Cortlandts in the first half of the century. 

Clarkson volunteered for the Army (or according to the source above, was sent by his father to fight when not yet 17). It’s not clear to me when he and AH first met, but considering that Clarkson was staying with William Livingston on 18July1777 (Gen. Nathanael Greene writes to him there), they may have met as early as 1773. In August 1777, Clarkson was given the rank of major and became an aide-de-camp to Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold.  As Greene wrote to him: “I have the pleasure to acquaint you there is an opportunity now present for you to join the army, I hope to your liking. General Arnold is on his way to the Northern Department, he is in want of an aid-de-camp and I have taken the liberty to recommend you to the General. He is pleased to honor the recommendation and offers you the appointment. You will put yourself in readiness as soon as possible and follow the General to Albany, where you will join his family. Make my compliments to the Governor’s family.” Clarkson was present at the Battle of Saratoga (he’s in the painting as the second to last person on the right; Ebenezer Stevens is the dark haired gentlemen in front of him; Philip Schuyler is a couple of people to the left in brown jacket, non-military dress). He served as Arnold’s aide-de-camp until March 1779, and then became Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln’s aide-de-camp.

Clarkson was taken prisoner upon the capture of Charleston on 12 May 1780, paroled to Pennsylvania, and exchanged that fall. He was present at the surrender of Cornwallis, and in June 1782 requested an extended leave of absence from the army. Clarkson obtained a brevet as lieutenant colonel upon the completion of his military service in late 1783. x 

From G. Washington: 

Major Matthew Clarkson commenced his military Services as a Volunteer early in the present War. In the Year 1777 he received a Majority in the Army of the United States, and was present at the Surrender of Lieut. General Burgoyne at Saratoga, having been active in all the principal antecedent Engagements, which produced that Event—In the Year 1779 was appointed Aide de Camp to Major General Lincoln (now Secretary at War) then commanding Officer in the Southern Department, & in that Character served at the Siege of Savannah. In 1780 he acted as Major of a Corps of Light Infantry during the Siege of Charles-Town. In 1782 He returned to his former Situation as Aide de Camp to Major General Lincoln, and was present at the Reduction of the British Posts of York and Gloucester under the Command of Lieut. General Earl Cornwallis. Soon after this, when Major General Lincoln became Secretary at War, he was appointed his Assistant. In all which Stations, from my own Knowledge and the Reports of the General Officer under whose immediate Orders he has served, I am authorised to declare that He has acquitted himself with great Honour. Given under my Hand And Seal at the Head-Quarters of the American Army the twenty-fourth Day of June in the Year 1782.

Clarkson then worked as a merchant, but mostly did what wealthy and prominent men (”the rich and well-born”) did back then: held a series of prestigious positions, elected and otherwise. I’m just going to copy Wikipedia: 

As a Regent of the University of the State of New York he was presented at the court of French King Louis XVI. He served as a Federalist member of the 13th New York State Legislature in the New York State Assembly for one term from 1789 to 1790, where he introduced a bill for the gradual abolition of slavery in the state.  From 1791 to 1792, he served as U.S. Marshal.  In 1793, he was elected to fill the vacancy, in place of Philip Van Cortlandt, as State Senator in the 17th New York State Legislature representing the Southern District, which consisted of Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk and Westchester counties. He served until 1795 after being reelected to the 18th Legislature, and resigning before he completed his full four year term.He was also a member of the commission to build a new prison 1796-1797 and President of the New York (City) Hospital (1799). In 1802, Clarkson was the Federalist candidate for U.S. Senator from New York but was defeated by DeWitt Clinton. He became President of the Bank of New York in 1804.

In February 1795, Clarkson was appointed commissioner of loans for New York. (See H to George Washington, January 14, 1795).  He resigned this position in September 1801.

On May 21, 1796, Washington nominated Clarkson as the United States commissioner under Article 21 of the treaty signed at San Lorenzo el Real (Pinckney’s Treaty) on October 27, 1795, between the United States and Spain, and on May 24, 1796, the Senate confirmed the appointment.

In 1798 Clarkson became a director of the New York branch of the Bank of the United States. He was also on the committee of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures. 

Clarkson’s first wife was the niece of William Alexander, Lord Stirling. His daughter with her married her cousin, the oldest son of John Jay and Sarah Livingston. (Clarkson first married in 1785, which again fits my pet theory that these men generally did not marry until their military service was complete - AH was the outlier among his friends in doing so.) After Mary Rutherfurd’s death in 1786, he married Sally Cornell in 1792. She died in 1803. Clarkson had eight children total; he didn’t name any of them Alexander, though he did name one William Bayard.  Matthew Clarkson died in 1825. 

So what was the relationship between Clarkson and AH like? He’s one of those we don’t get many letters to/from in part because they’re all usually living in NYC. From Founders, we only have two letters, both professional, from AH to Clarkson. There’s only one letter from Clarkson to AH: 

Dear Sir, I have reflected maturely on our conversation of yesterday. The result is, as far as I can with propriety I decline, at present, any military appointment. The duty I owe my Family seems to demand this of me, nor can I believe I give too great weight to this consideration when I consider the very small probability there is of any serious military operations taking place in this Country and the real injury I should sustain by being called from my present pursuits. These however are my reflections, if they are wrong, counsel me otherways, at any rate believe me with the greatest Regard and Esteem Dear Sir Yours very sincerely.  20August1798, Clarkson to AH, Here’s a digital copy of the letter. 

In preparing for his duel with Burr, while AH gave Church power of attorney, he named Church, John Laurance, and Clarkson as trustees for his property (except his books of Divinity). Founders notes that on April 11, 1805, Church, Laurance, and Clarkson purchased the remaining land, an additional 17 acres, that comprised the Grange property. 

Clarkson was one of the pallbearers at AH’s funeral, alongside Oliver Wolcott, Richard Harrison, Josiah Ogden Hoffman, Richard Varick, William Bayard, and  Laurance.

From the Hamilton side, the strongest statements of the friendship between AH and Clarkson come from JCH and EH, oddly enough. She wrote to Clarkson:

“...As you have always been the friend of my dear husband, I now pray you may be the friend of his Son [Alexander Jr.]....could you permit him sometimes to accompany you in your walks, that he might hear from you thou just sometimes of Religion as well as thou on Other subjects that have always marked your character. ” 17Sept1804, EH to Clarkson; credit: runawayforthesummer

And 25 years later: 

I introduce to your kindness and civilities the sons in law of your respected Friend General Clarkson [a] particular friend of my Hamilton.” 10Apr1830, EH to Marquis de Lafayette, credit: runawayforthesummer

I have not searched for Clarkson’s letters to others to see if more can be ascertained there. I’ll continue to wonder why JCH specifically noted Clarkson’s presence, and what he meant to the Hamilton family. Here’s a pic of the Stuart painting of Clarkson from 1794; he’s wearing his Society of the Cincinnati badge. (Looks like Trumbull based his figure of Clarkson on this one.)

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Cotton Pickers, Thomas Hart Benton, 1945, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

The American Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton painted Cotton Pickers based on notes of a trip he made to Georgia in the late 1920s. He depicted the dignity of the cotton pickers in the face of backbreaking labor and intense summer heat, rendering the dry fields and the working bodies in a sinuous, curvilinear style. Benton held progressive views on race, social relations, and politics, and he believed ardently that African American history was central to the understanding of American culture. Cotton sharecropping, an agricultural system that developed after the Civil War, allowed landowners to rent land to poor farmers in return for a share of the crops. Because sharecropping kept agricultural laborers impoverished, it became a symbol of a racially and economically unjust system. Cotton cultivation became one of Benton’s most important subjects, especially as the rapid industrialization of the nation during World War II changed the American landscape. Prior bequest of Alexander Stewart; Centennial Major Acquisitions Income and Wesley M. Dixon Jr. funds; Roger and J. Peter McCormick Endowments; prior acquisition of the George F. Harding Collection and Cyrus H. McCormick Fund; Quinn E. Delaney, American Art Sales Proceeds, Alyce and Edwin DeCosta and Walter E. Heller Foundation, and Goodman funds; prior bequest of Arthur Rubloff; Estate of Walter Aitken; Ada Turnbull Hertle and Mary and Leigh Block Endowment funds; prior acquisition of Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize; Marian and Samuel Klasstorner and Laura T. Magnuson Acquisition funds; prior acquisition of Friends of American Art Collection; Wirt D. Walker Trust; Jay W. McGreevy Endowment; Cyrus Hall McCormick Fund; Samuel A. Marx Purchase Fund for Major Acquisitions; Maurice D. Galleher Endowment; Alfred and May Tiefenbronner Memorial, Dr. Julian Archie, Gladys N. Anderson, and Simeon B. Williams funds; Capital Campaign General Acquisitions Endowment, and Benjamin Argile Memorial Fund Size: 81.3 × 121.9 cm (32 × 48 in.) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/217201/

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Saturday 30 June 1832

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above an hour washing myself and my drawers very much cousin  very fine morning F70° at 9 a.m. breakfast in the drawing room at 9 ½ - my aunt came just as I had done breakfast – staid talking to her - note from Mrs Briggs with my rent book to say Mr Briggs easier but no better otherwise - would like to see me if I chose and Mrs Briggs thought seeing me would not disturb him – came to my room at 11 – had just noticed an advertisement in the courier of Thursday of a cottages and 12 acres of land to sell near (1 ½ mile from) Missenden, 3 miles from Wendover, 6 from Aylesbury and 8 from High Wycombe – under the Chiltern hills in a pretty glen – to be sold on the 12th instant in London – have been musing about this – it is a nice neighbourhood – till 3 wrote 3pp. and ends to Miss H- and 2 full half sheets to Lady S-  Kind note from Mrs William Priestley in answer to mine of yesterday - off to Halifax at 3 40 ten minutes at Pickersgill’s - down the old bank to Mr Briggs’s - in much pain - in bed - not well enough to see me – then called and sat 1/2 hour with Mrs. Veitch – heard at Whitleys’ that Mr. James Stuart Wortley had made a long good speech but so hissed and hooted by the mob as to be hardly audible – Mr. Michael Stocks (junior) entreated them to give Mr. W- a fair hearing – all the workmen gone from Pickers gills tho’ only about 5 ½ by the old church clock – home at 5 40 – dinner at 6 – came to my room at 6 ½ - till 8 wrote a half sheet full and 1p. and ends of envelope to Lady S- de R- acknowledged her ‘most agreeable letter’ received about a month ago – mention having planned returning to Paris by Guernsey and Jersey Brittany and Normandy when found my steward suddenly taken ill, and his life despaired ‘and myself in common prudence obliged to remain easily within reach till I had fixed upon another agent, and seen everything re-arranged’  - congratulate her on her return to London – fear Lady S- ‘is neither very well, nor is, nor can be in very good spirits – it is not I who do, or ought to ‘take any full share of credit for that match’ – my eye just catches this expression in your letter – I fancied that you, at least, were aware, had it been possible for me to deserve any credit at all, it would not have been exactly in the present case – I knew nothing of it till past the 11th hour, and was ridiculously enough taken by surprise – but I am delighted at Veres’ prospects of happiness and at all her friends being so satisfied – she speaks of Lord Stuarts’ kindness as quite surpassing all she either did or could expect, and says much of all the comfort she shall have in you – I only hope your own health is, or will be perfectly restablished, and that Captain Camerons’ will prove stronger than I have once or twice feared his appearance might indicate’ – I see that your bridal cadeau will be much better chosen than mine’ ........ but tho’ a coffee pot it must be will she not assist me in choosing mine? – Fear the Hamilton Hamiltons will not gain much by leaving Paris for the Brazils – ‘when you see them, do give my kind regards to Mrs. Hamilton, and tell her I am sometimes almost tempted to write and ask her if she can stow me with her baggage’ – nice comfortable letter a few days ago from Lady Gordon – settled where she is I hope till October – then the whole winter in Herefordshire then some hope of Cosmos’ coming over in the spring –‘I should like very much to hear your opinion of French politics’........ ‘From the 3 fold division among the whigs, I hope Mr. James Stuart Wortley has some chance of being brought in for our new borough of H-x’ – made a good speech this morning in the piece hall, but hissed and hooted at by the radicals so as to have a fair hearing entreated for him by Mr. Stocks junior – perhaps the radicals will bring in Stocks and the 2 whig candidates (Wood and Rawdon Briggs junior) be left in the lurch – nearly filled the 1p. of envelope to old Lady S- told her of the N-s persuading me to the Guernsey and Jersey etc. scheme the day all but fixed which I waited to tell her and thought of seeing her but on my arrival here on Monday found my steward ill and despaired of etc. fancied I should have been at liberty in July – now I must stay here, get another steward and manage as well as I can – all sorts of concerns unsettled – must be here some weeks – in fact, know not when I can get off – politics and chitchat – say the whigs are likely to be left in the lurch, and we shall have Wortley and Stocks – cholera within 2 or 3 miles of Langton, and of here too – 3pp. and ends of a whole sheet to Miss H- same news to her about Guernsey and Jersey etc. and my steward in rather different terms stating some other particulars – will burn her last letter but one on my sealing the one I am writing – ‘the settlements

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seem to be very properly done – you need not fear anyones’ thinking them illiberal on your part – I am satisfied they are right, and I give everybody credit – your praises of Donald’s liberality are quite as grateful to me as they can be even to yourself – I am firmly persuaded he will make you happy, and, in doing that, he will contribute more largely to my own happiness than anyone but yourself can ever at all understand’ -........ I am full of hope about you, and so happy on your account, that whenever I think of you (which is not seldom) I quite forget all annoyances’ - .........’I have just written to Lady S. de R- as well as to dear Lady Stuart so dare not put my letter to you in the packet for fear of overweight’  - at 9 10 sent off by John my letter to the ‘Honourable Lady Stuart, Richmond Park’ and my letter to ‘The Lady Stuart de Rothesay’ undercover to ‘Lord Stuart de Rothesay at the Earl of Hardwicks’ 3 St. James’s Square London’ and my letter to ‘Miss Hobart, Honourable Lady Stuarts’ Richmond Park, Surrey’ – went downstairs at 9 ½ and came up again at 10 10 – very fine day F73° now at 10 35 p.m.

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My favorite End o'the World Books of 2016...

My favorite End o’the World Books of 2016…

I know it’s 2017, but it’s barely 2017 and seeing as how I’d (hopefully) be late for my own funeral, I figured it wasn’t too late to talk about my favorite end-of-the-world stories from 2016.

I don’t keep track of how many books I read in a year… I should probably start doing that. I’ve also never made a favorites list for those that were… well, my favorites.  I should probably start doing that…

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El Triángulo de Pickering Objeto nombrado en honor al Físico y Astrónomo Norteamericano, Edward Charles Pickering (1846-1919), director del Observatorio de la Universidad de Harvard por 42 años. El Triángulo de Pickering es parte del remanente de una supernova conocida como la Nebulosa del Velo en la constelación del Cisne. Se estima que este objeto está entre 1470 a 2397 años luz de la Tierra. Fue descubierta por el Astrónomo Alemán, Sir Frederick William Herschel (1738-1822). La imagen fue tomada desde Yauco, Puerto Rico, consta de 223 exposiciones de 300 segundos cada una, con el filtro L-Extreme (7nm banda estrecha H-Alpha y Oxígeno III) y 52 imágenes de 180 segundos, para un total de 21 horas de exposición, alineadas y apiladas, con imágenes de calibración (darks, flats y darkflats) y procesadas en PixIsight. El equipo utilizado fue un telescopio Celestron Edge HD 9.25” con una distancia focal de 1,645mm a f/7 con una cámara a color ZWO ASI2600MC Pro, sobre una montura ecuatorial iOptron CEM60. El software para la captura fue N.I.N.A. y PHD2 para el guiado utilizando un Off Axis Guider con una cámara ZWO ASI174MM Mini (mono). #saludyseguridad #solidaridad #elcampoeslindo #observatorioemmanuelli (at Yauco, Puerto Rico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CW9I2TZldfAX85AZQssywF8rfFvsmVXW29v61A0/?utm_medium=tumblr