#hisitory

[acrossthewavesoftime]

Please tell me if you're seeing this, too. Today I found out that the Archives of Ontario digitised more of the pictorial material in their Simcoe family fonds collection, and among tons of sketches and watercolours by the lifelong prolific Elizabeth and some that weren't in her style, but may have been works by friends or her children, there are these three silhouettes:

To state the obvious, the sitters seem to have been portrayed by the same artist, and were a group of two women and a gentleman.

The two women, wearing a simlar bun-like hairstyle, also share similar facial features; both have the same chin and nose. Only the volume of the hair, the softer line between chin and neck in the first woman and the suggestion of a sheer shawl imply that she may be older than the second lady.

The gentleman is rather portly with more than a hint of a double chin and wears a queued wig.

Now, I was curious as to who these people could be, and...

Could they be Samuel Graves, Margaret Graves and Elizabeth Simcoe?

The hairline of the wig rising from the forehead at an almost right angle and chin seem very similar. I'm not quite sure about the nose, but that might have to do with the shadows in the portrait.

Same pointy chin, same rather remarkable nose.

Sadly I have, save for an almost cartoonishly exaggerated doodle of her as an old woman, never seen another portrait of any sort of Margaret Graves.

However, assuming that I could be correct and these are Samuel and his adoptive niece, then it would only make sense for the second woman to be Margaret. Besides, Elisabeth had, save for two paternal aunts, no female relatives of whom you'd expect any sort of facial resemblance. Why would any of the two paternal aunts be depicted with Elizabeth's maternal aunt's husband?

If I'm correct here, and the three are The Three, then these silhouettes were probably made by Mary Anne Burges during one of her extended stays with the Graves' whenever she needed to escape her somewhat troublesome home life. If Mary Anne is the artist, these would have had to have been made prior to 30 December 1782, when Elizabeth (then still Gwillim) married her uncle's godson, a certain John Graves Simcoe. In that case, the Archives of Ontario would be wrong by a full decade, having dated the silhouettes to the 1790s.

Now, I could be wrong of course, because naturally I want my theory to be true, but if I were correct, that would be quite exciting.

Please do tell me what you think!

[i-dont-eat-drywall]

happu 9/11

ONE TIME DURING HISTORY CLASS MY HISITORY TEACHER TRAUMADUMPED HIS 9/11 LORE ONTO US AND I GOT A ASSIGNMENT I DIDNT COMPLETE FOR ONE WEEK AND FOUR DAYS

[rainbowie]

Pompeii ☆ 2016

[procrastinationonvacation]

Do you ever look at the Silmarillion and just... the professor didn’t need to go so hard on the greek history parallels, but he did and I love it.

[yutorikoji]

中学歴史　年号語呂合わせ　明治時代編

[folklifejapan]

The end of  'the last'　(Hanamatsuri at Fukawa )

Hanamatsuri is the festival of winter. Many villages in Shitara-Shinshiro area have their Hanamaturi one after another during winter. The season starts in Dec. And the last Hanamatsuri in one season is held in March at Fukawa布川 village. But Fukawa people decided that they  quit the festival from next year.  March 2nd and 3rd in 2019, it was the last chance to see Fukawa's Hanamatsuti.  Many people, of course including me, rushed to Fukawa to see it and to say good bye.

Two times in recent hisitory, we Japanese had crisis to lose our old good culture. One was in the time of Meiji restoration and another was after world war 2. In either case the huge cultural shock wave came to our society. The  shock made us think lightly of our old culture. Many people threw away many good stuffs and things.

However, at that time Shitara- Shinshiro people didn't abondon their festivals. I think it was becouse of love to the fesitival.

Now one Hanamatsuri is vanishing.  I think there would be some reasons. Especially the biggest one is the decreasing population.

The communities which have supported the festival are weakened year by year. We must devise the way to resist against this undesirable stream.

[deafinatlyme]

The history of ASD is horrible, in the 1800s ASD people got caled idiots and banned from classrooms under the pretence of them being "Unteachable" Then later they thought it was a part of Schizophrenia! then later someone suggested it was due to being raised in a non-loving environment, THEN after that they used "IQ" tests to show that Autistics were "stupid" and shouldn't be allowed back in schools again!! (in attempt to support Eugenics!)

Yeah, I’m not suprised. There’s so much ableist crap aimed at autistic people, I don’t get it.

Hisitory of Autism on Project Autism

(If there’s a better site to use let me know.)

[blazevillains]

ghost it has to to with c!wilburs love life. its that bad. you know his hisitory.

think im gonna write a fic for my crack au

[tlburrell]

Remember when we skinned our knees,

The joy that came when we ran as fast as the wind,

The comfort of our guardian’s arms,

And the security of a friend?

Remember when we first broke our hearts,

The pleasure of that first school dance,

The disappointment when Santa didn’t come,

And the pain of years advanced?

Remember our memories of good and bad,

The joys and sorrows that we had,

The tears that flowed over the years,

And the knowledge of knowing we’re all here.

Our world is changing for good or bad,

I cannot say which way it’ll land,

If it lands good then this is remiss,

If it lands bad then remember this,

We are one people, One nation, One memory

As long as we fight we can’t be erased

From our world’s hisitory. 

[naimasole]

Stonehenge 🗿 . . . #stonehenge #stonehengerocks #unesco #hisitory #prehistory #places #uk #instatravel #traveller #traveler #travelling #visituk #travelgram #ilovetravel #landscape #like4like #likeforlike #likeforfollow #theprettycities #house http://ift.tt/2FHWWpe

[reiseliv-blog1]

Fritid Córdoba, byen fra mange epoker Byen som er erklært verdensarv av UNESCO, ligger i innlandet i regionen Andalucía, i Sør-Spania, og tilbyr en fascinerende blanding av fortid og det moderne. Byen har en tusen år gammel hisitorie, og er et levende vitnesbyrd om de forskjellige kulturene som har slått seg ned her. http://www.reiseliv.no/destinasjoner/europa/cordoba-byen-fra-mange-epoker/

[ofmythandbullshit]

Enlisted men, exhausted after more than 24 hours at general quarters, sleep in tangled patterns aboard the USS Lexington (CV-16), by Edward Steichen, 5th December 1943