#William Thornley

[oldsardens]

William Thornley - Tantallon Castle

[sardens]

William Thornley - Arrival Of The Fleet

[brokehorrorfan]

Spoke Art has released its remaining New York Comic Con exclusive prints online, including the following genre pieces:

Pearl by Rucking Fotten

X by Rucking Fotten

The Exorcist by Sarah Sumeray

Ghost in the Shell by Chris Thornley

Annihilation by Erica Williams

What We Do in the Shadows by Neil Davies

[ltwilliammowett]

Morning and Evening shipping, by William Thornley (Active 1857-1898

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Moonlit harbor scene — Georges William Thornley

[abraham-stoker]

Bram Stoker was born on 8 November 1847 in Clontarf, then still a small village about three miles from Dublin’s city centre, although it was fast becoming a suburb by the time of Stoker’s appearance. His family was solidly middle class, though upwardly mobile, and possessed a healthy sense of ambition. His father Abraham Stoker senior was a respected, hard-working civil servant, his mother, Charlotte Thornley reform-minded and industrious—and possibly ‘superstitious’, full of horror stories about the effects of the cholera epidemic in 1830s Sligo where she grew up. Stoker had six brothers and sisters—William Thornley, Matilda, Thomas, Richard, Margaret and George.

Information about the first years of his life is vague and much remains unclear. In his tribute to his boss, Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906), Stoker tells the reader something of his own childhood, and mentions that for much of it he had been extremely weak and ill, so ill indeed that he spent a large amount of time laid up in bed: ‘till I was about seven years old I never knew what it was to stand upright’ (Stoker 1906, I: 31). If he is to be believed, this period of his life – the first seven years in which he was effectively bedridden, (possibly) near to death – must have had an extraordinary impact on Stoker’s personal psychology, since it implies that he never went through the normal childhood experiences of learning to walk through crawling and toddling and was instead carried everywhere by others, living on sofas and beds (Belford 1996, 17-20). His early years, then, were those of an invalid, although exactly what was wrong with him remains something of a mystery. By the time he began his writing career, however, he had miraculously overcome his frail past to become an immensely successful athlete, indeed the ‘Athletic Champion of Dublin’ while an undergraduate at Trinity College, and an all round proponent of male physical power. His early life in bed may have made him shy, but he later wrote that his physical prowess and imposing stature helped to overcome any social ineptitude he felt and he became a favourite in the undergraduate community. His status as what we would now call a ‘jock’ was certainly helpful in terms of popularity and social interaction (Murray 2004, 39-43). He entered Trinity in 1864, and there hardly seems to have been a sport in which he did not participate, and he excelled in rugby, walking races, gymnasium, sling shot, high jump, trapeze, and rowing.

Trinity College, Dublin ~ Jarlath Killeen ~ 2016

[kwebtv]

Series Premiere

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer - The High Cost of Dying -Syndication - January 7, 1958

Crime Drama

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Steven Thornley

Produced by

Directed by Lawrence Dobkin

Stars:

Darren McGavin as Mike Hammer

Bart Burns as Captain Pat Chambers

Lynn (Marilyn) Allen as Eva Hollister Ingalls

William Allyn as Floyd Ingalls

Robert Patten as Herb Garth

Eleanore E Tanin as Meg Hollister

Don Kennedy as Plainclothesman

[silverkittenx9]

Well, there's quite a lot, to be honest. Time Squad is one of those few cartoons I've watched that actually deserves more episodes. Had it gotten a third and fourth season, I would've liked to see the following:

Episodes centering around new historical figures such as Mark Twain, Mother Theresa, Pablo Picasso, William The Conqueror, and Martin Luther King Jr. For example, Mark Twain would be illiterate; Mother Theresa is an asshole who hates children; Pablo Picasso is a mime; William The Conqueror is a pro-league gamer; and Martin Luther King Jr. hates people of his own color. A Battle Of Gettysburg episode would've been great. Instead of the soldiers using weapons, they use dodgeballs and it's essentially just elementary school gym class. Oh, and there's also Christopher Columbus and Leif Erikson arguing over who found America first.

Episodes with returning historical figures such as Napoleon Boneparte, the Earl of Sandwich, Abraham Lincoln, Betsy Ross, George Washington, and probably Blackbeard?

Episodes that aren't always about time travel; for example, it could just be daily life in the satellite, episodes about Otto's struggles being a kid, as well as adventures down on the futuristic Earth. I'd like to see more of Otto behaving like an actual kid.

An episode centering around Sister Thornley finding out about Time Squad, causing her to join in order to steal Otto back from Tuddrussel and Larry.

Christmas, Valentine's Day, and Halloween specials.

A plot in a Time squad episode you would have wanted to watch?

in all seriousness i would kill for an episode where otto is homophobic. that or they cause 9/11

[fleurdulys]

The Medway below Rochester - William Thornley

[atundratoadstool]

hello! i have a question about this line from renfield's introductions speech in seward's diary on october 1st: "When an individual has revolutionised therapeutics by his discovery of the continuous evolution of brain-matter, conventional form are unfitting, since they would seem to limit him to one of a class." to me in 2022, "the continuous evolution of brain-matter" as a discovery that could "revolutionise therapeutics" scans as something like the concept now termed neuroplasticity, the idea that the brain retains some ability to physically change in response to stimuli throughout adulthood. i was curious about whether that would in fact be what stoker might have meant to refer to so i did some light googling and found that the concept seems often to be attributed to william james, writing in 1890, but also that it was not accepted by the field of psychology until later. so now i'm just curious if you can shed any light on this - what the line is in fact supposed to indicate van helsing's great discovery to be, and whatever it is, whether stoker thought of it as a real scientific discovery he assigned in his text to his supergenius scientist, or whether it was an idea he viewed as fictional that he thought sounded cool, and its resemblance to later science is a fun coincidence.

I had never considered that it might have been a reference to William James work (I'm completely delighted by the suggestion!), and I very much believe Stoker could have had at least passing knowledge of James's theories. Something I love to bring up (and that is especially pertinent in the wake of the end of Renfield's arc) is that Stoker's brother, William Thornley Stoker, has very firmly been established as a consultant for the novel, and that Thornley was a brain surgeon.

Part of the documentation in Stoker's notes for the novel is a diagram Thornley made him showing the motor cortex of the brain such that Renfield's injury could be accurately described. The actual trephination scene with Renfield is lifted more or less directly from an article Thornley wrote: "On a Case of Subcranial Haemorrhage treated by Secondary Trephining." Jack Seward's sentiments on vivisection also replicate some of Thornley's sentiments in the piece. Van Helsing's "We learn from failure, not from success" seems to have been taken from Thornley's "A Contribution to the Surgery of the Brain" and is echoed his 1894 "Some Lessons of Life" (where a Van Helsingesque "festina lente" also crops up). It is very very evident to me that Stoker had access to medical knowledge concerning the brain and that brain science is something constantly in the background of Dracula. While I have no present knowledge of a connection between James and Thornley, I would be completely unsurprised if Stoker learned of early theories of neuroplasticity through his brother and incorporated them in the novel.

[oldsardens]

William Thornley - Arrival Of The Fleet

[sardens]

William Thornley - Tantallon Castle

[69woooooo69]

My own orginal post and my firat one too

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Woman Seated Holding an Arrow and Four Putti (Venus Holding Cupid's Arrow with a Quiver by Her Side)

George William Thornley, 1881

After Francois Boucher

Lithograph

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/414229

[tenebrum]

William Thornley (1857–1935), Moonlit Harbour Scene

[spaceintruderdetector]

https://archive.org/details/rantsincendiarytractsvoicesofdesperateillumination1558present/mode/2up

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