#sir walter herbert

[richmond-rex]

The regularity of payments to servants of Sir Walter Herbert for bringing of gifts to [Henry VII] is suggestive of a long-standing relationship maintained until the end of their lives. Every year, in August, Sir Walter Herbert sent a gift of a hawk to the king. It is possible this was to commemorate the king’s Bosworth battlefield victory, where Walter may have had fought, or simply because it was hunting season and the King’s love of hawking was well known. Herbert was not alone in gifting the king hawks, of course, but he does appear to be the most consistent in his gifts.

— Margaret Condon, Samantha Harper and James Ross, The Chamber Books of Henry VII and Henry VIII, 1485-1521: An Analysis of the Books and a Study of Henry VII and his Life at Court.

Walter Herbert was the second son of Sir William Herbert (later earl of Pembroke), who had been awarded the custody and wardship of the young Henry, then earl of Richmond, in 1461. [Herbert]'s two eldest boys, William and Walter, were of an age with Henry and the boys would have had lessons together in subjects such as literacy, Latin and numeracy, and they would have trained together in the tiltyard. If not close friends, certainly they were close acquaintances for the eight years that Henry lived at Raglan, and Walter’s regular gifts suggest the former was true.

[mariacallous]

Partial list of the books that Helene Hanff ordered from Marks & Co. and mentioned in 84, Charing Cross Road (alphabetical order):

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice, (1813)

Arkwright, Francis trans. Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon

Belloc, Hillaire. Essays.

Catullus – Loeb Classics

Chaucer, Geoffrey The Canterbury Tales translated by Hill, published by Longmans 1934)

Delafield, E. M., Diary of a Provincial Lady

Dobson, Austen ed. The Sir Roger De Coverley Papers

Donne, John Sermons

Elizabethan Poetry

Grahame, Kenneth, The Wind in the Willows

Greek New Testament

Grolier Bible

Hazlitt, William. Selected Essays Of William Hazlitt 1778 To 1830, Nonesuch Press edition.

Horace – Loeb Classics

Hunt, Leigh. Essays.

Johnson, Samuel, On Shakespeare, 1908, Intro by Walter Raleigh

Jonson, Ben. Timber

Lamb, Charles. Essays of Elia, (1823).

Landor, Walter Savage. Vol II of The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor (1876) – Imaginary Conversations

Latin Anglican New Testament

Latin Vulgate Bible / Latin Vulgate New Testament

Latin Vulgate Dictionary

Leonard, R. M. ed. The Book-Lover's Anthology, (1911)

Newman, John Henry. Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education. Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin – "The Idea of a University" (1852 and 1858)

Pepys, Samuel. Pepys Diary – 4 Volume Braybrook ed. (1926, revised ed.)

Plato's Four Socratic Dialogues, 1903

Quiller-Couch, Arthur, The Oxford Book Of English Verse

Quiller-Couch, Arthur, The Pilgrim's Way

Quiller-Couch, Arthur, Oxford Book of English Prose

Sappho – Loeb Classics

St. John, Christopher Ed. Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw : A Correspondence / The Shaw – Terry Letters : A Romantic Correspondence

Sterne, Laurence, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, (1759)

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Virginibus Puerisque

de Tocqueville, Alexis Journey to America (1831–1832)

Wyatt, Thomas. Poems of Thomas Wyatt

Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton. The Compleat Angler. (John Major's 2nd ed., 1824)

Walton, Izaak. The Lives of – John Donne – Sir Henry Wotton – Richard Hooker – George Herbert & Robert Sanderson

Woolf, Virginia, The Common Reader, 1932.

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Edward Clifford, details from A Lunch Party at Ashridge House (1892). Sitters identified below.

Rt Hon. John ‘Yvo’ Vesey, 4th Viscount de Vesci (1844-1903), husband of (3)

Colonel Hon. Sir Reginald Chetwynd-Talbot (1841-1929), husband of (4), brother of (5, 7, 12, 14, 16)

Viscountess de Vesci (née Lady Evelyn Charteris) (1849-1939), wife of (1)

Margaret, Lady Chetwynd-Talbot (née Stuart-Wortley) (?-1937), wife of (2)

Countess Brownlow (née Lady Adelaide Chetwynd-Talbot) (1844-1917), wife of (15), sister of (2, 7, 12, 14, 16)

Miss Pamela Wyndham (later Baroness Glenconner; Viscountess Grey) (1871-1928), daughter of (10)

Hon. Alfred Chetwynd-Talbot (1848-1913), brother of (2, 5, 12, 14, 16)

Lady Alice Gaisford (née Kerr) (1836-1892)

Mr Harry Cust (1861-1917), cousin and heir of (15)

Mrs Percy Wyndham (née Madeline Campbell) (1835-1920), mother of (6)

George Herbert, 13th Earl of Pembroke (1850-1895), husband of (12)

Countess of Pembroke (née Lady Gertrude Chetwynd-Talbot) (1840-1906), wife of (11), sister of (2, 5, 7, 14, 16)

Countess Cowper (née Lady Katrine Compton) (1845-1913)

Admiral Hon. Walter Carpenter (né Chetwynd-Talbot) (1834-1904), brother of (2, 5, 7, 12, 16)

Adelbert Brownlow-Cust, 3rd Earl Brownlow (1844-1921), husband of (5), cousin of (9)

Marchioness of Lothian (née Constance Chetwynd-Talbot) (1836-1901), sister of (2, 5, 7, 12, 14)

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On July 5th 1530, Scottish folk hero Johnnie Armstrong of Gilnockie was captured and hanged at Caerlanrig chapel.

This was an atrocious betrayal by the Stewart monarch James V, not just because Armstrong was lured into a trap with a "safe passage" promise, but up to 50 border reivers loyal to him were also put to death.

John Armstrong of Langholm and Staplegorton was a notorious Border reiver from the powerful Armstrong family. A plunderer and raider, he operated along the lawless borderlands and would change allegiances as the balance of power shifted. He led a band of a hundred and sixty men, despite having no income from rents. At this time there were no laws against the Reivers, it wasn't until 1667 The borders custom of paying blackmail to avoid kidnapping was outlawed;, both Scottish and English power brokers used the Border Reivers for their own political games until then.

Armstrong operated with impunity for some years under the protection of Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell, as a leader of a gang of raiders. He burnt Netherby in Cumberland in 1527, in return for which William Dacre, 3rd Baron Dacre burnt him out at Canonbie in 1528. Gavin Dunbar, the Archbishop of Glasgow and Chancellor of Scotland, intervened with an excommunication for Armstrong, whose activities made the central authority look weak and were a hindrance to diplomacy with England. When King James V took personal control of the situation, Armstrong and his men were to be dealt with swiftly and severely as rebels. In 1530, he put together an army from the loyal Lairds and marched on the Borders to try to suppress what he saw were the worst of the ‘Theives and lymmaris’.

This led to the execution of William Cockburn of Henderland and Adam Scott of Tushielaw. Armstrong was also captured. The king had promised him safe conduct, but he was hanged and buried along with forty to fifty of his men in the chapel graveyard. A memorial opposite the new church was erected in 1897, and an older memorial stone marks the nearby grave site.

A romanticised picture of Armstrong was promoted by the nineteenth-century writings of Sir Walter Scott and Herbert Maxwell. The ballads first saw print in Allan Ramsay’s collection ‘Ever Green’ in 1724 and later appeared in Caw’s ‘Poetical Museum’ in 1784 and Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.

[blackboar]

On this day: February 2th, 1461: the battle of Mortimer's Cross

The battle of Mortimer's Cross was fought at the end of winter and was rooted in Welsh politics. It was fought at the border between Wales and Herefordshire. On the one side, the new duke of York since the execution of his father a month ago: Edward Plantagenet. Edward was Earl of March before, a huge lordship in Wales and the Welsh Marches, commanding many retainers. Two of its most prominent retainers were there with him: William Herbert and Walter Deveureux.

William Herbert was an ambitious Welshman, and Walter Devereux was a prominent Hertfordshire knight, both dedicated to the House of York.

Facing them, the Lancastrian faction was led by Jasper and Owen Tudor. Jasper, as Earl of Pembroke and half-brother of the king, commanded great influence in southern Wales. His brother Edmund clashed with Devereux in 1456 as York tried to rise in influence in the region. James Butler was with them as Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond. The Butler family was powerful in Ireland and headed the Lancastrian faction in an unstable island where Yorkist influence was prominent. He fought with the Tudors. However, his marriages with the Beauchamp and Beaufort families gave him lands and interests in the Welsh Marches and the West Country, making him a powerful magnate outside of Ireland.

The stakes were high. Edward IV was the only adult Yorkist alive capable of championing the Lancastrians. More locally, Jasper and Owen had a grudge against Deveureux and Herbert, who waged war against their interest in 1456.

The Lancastrians were probably less numerous than the Yorkists, but their aggressive strategy gave them a shot at beating them.

Butler attempted an aggressive encirclement of the left flank, forcing Devereux to retreat. Meanwhile, Pembroke faced the duke of York. Owen's attempt at crushing Herbert and forcing an encirclement could have changed History, but it failed, and his 'battle' began to rout. Herbert's decisive hold allowed a Yorkist victory and the capture and execution of Owen Tudor.

This victory would mean much for the Yorkist. Everyone on the Yorkist side was eventually promoted. Deveureux and Herbert would become lord in 1461, just like Sir Humphrey Stafford, who fought with them. York would become king of England a few months later. The reverse was also true, as Jasper Tudor lost his earldom in favor of the Herberts (1469) and Butler lost his life a few months later and his family lost his earldom of Wiltshire with it. Jasper would regain his lands only after the battle of Bosworth twenty-four years later, in which Walter Deveureux, as lord Ferrers, would die fighting for Richard III.

Sun Dog in the Nuremberg Chronicle.

Edward IV would use the battle as a neat piece of propaganda. A parhelion was seen on the eve of the battle, and Edward IV would say those three suns represented the three surviving sons of York (Edward, George, and Richard). It would symbolize the dawn of a new dynasty for England, but the collision of the three stars would allow Tudor's sun to rise.

[humanistisch]

Nachruf auf Karl Popper | Alles Leben ist Problemlösen

Nach einem überaus freundlichen Telefongespräch mit Professor Dr. med. Herbert Csef aus Würzburg hat er sich bereit erklärt, seinen hervorragenden, umfangreichen und die für mich wichtigsten Aspekte von Poppers Werk umfassenden Artikel abzudrucken, was ich nun ungekürzt tue. Prof. Csef und ich sind natürlich Popper-Fans, und wir hoffen, dass sich aus dieser ersten Zusammenarbeit "noch mehr" entwickeln wird. Das wäre schön. Und auch schön ist: Prof. Csef ist unser 50. Gastautor - danke auch dafür. Karl Popper – „Alles Leben ist Problemlösen“. Erinnerungen an den großen Philosophen zum 30. Todestag Am 17. September 1994 ist Karl Popper in London gestorben. Acht Monate vor seinem Tod schrieb er das Vorwort zu einem Sammelband mit dem Titel „Alles Leben ist Problemlösen“, der Aufsätze aus seiner letzten Lebensphase enthält. Dieses letzte Buch, das zu Lebzeiten erschien, widmet sich allgemeinen Lebensthemen, die jeden Menschen interessieren sollten: Freiheit, Demokratie, Frieden, Zukunftsgestaltung, Lebensbewältigung, Hoffnung und Optimismus. Im Vorwort schreibt er, das Buch sei eine Fortsetzung seines Werkes „Auf der Suche nach einer besseren Welt“, das zehn Jahre zuvor erschien. Popper zeigt sich in beiden Werken als hoffnungsvoller Optimist, der durchaus Skepsis und Kritik kennt, in seinem Grundbestreben jedoch immer wieder nach besseren Lösungen für Lebensprobleme sucht. Und der glaubt, dass dies möglich ist. Überblick über das Lebenswerk von Karl Popper Die philosophischen Schwerpunkte von Karl Popper waren die Erkenntnis- und Wissenschaftstheorie, die Sozial- und Geschichtsphilosophie sowie die politische Philosophie. Er gilt als der Begründer des Kritischen Rationalismus. Aus seiner Denkschule stammen zahlreiche Philosophen, die von seinem Denken geprägt waren und später ebenfalls sehr bekannt wurden, wie z.B. Thomas S. Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, George Soros oder Hans Albert. Mit den Nobelpreisträgern Friedrich August von Hajek, Peter Brian Medawar, Konrad Lorenz, Albert Einstein, John Eccles und Bertrand Russell war er befreundet. Die Philosophen und Politiker Ralf Dahrendorf sowie Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt waren eng mit ihm verbunden und hörten gerne auf seinen Rat. Kurzes biografisches Porträt von Karl Popper Sir Karl Popper wurde am 28. Juli 1902 in Wien geboren. Dort verbrachte er seine ersten 35 Lebensjahre. Sein Vater war Rechtsanwalt. Seine Mutter hieß vor der Ehe Jenny Schiff und stammte aus einer bekannten ungarisch-schlesischen Familie mit zahlreichen Ärzten, Wissenschaftlern und Musikern. Der berühmte Dirigent Bruno Walter war mit Poppers Mutter verwandt. Popper hatte sehr vielfältige Interessen. Er studierte an der Universität Wien neben Philosophie auch Mathematik, Geschichte, Musik und Psychologie. Seine Promotion machte er im Fach Psychologie. Sein Doktorvater war Karl Bühler. Seine Dissertation aus dem Jahr 1928 trug den Titel „Zur Methodenfrage der Denkpsychologie“ (vgl. Csef 2024). Karl Popper interessierte sich auch für Pädagogik. Ein zweites Studium absolvierte er eine einige Jahre am Pädagogischen Institut in Wien. Anschließend arbeitete er fünf Jahre lang als Lehrer. Kurz nach seiner Anstellung als Lehrer heiratete er im Jahr 1930 in Wien die 4 Jahre jüngere Josefine Henninger. Seine Ehefrau erkrankte im Jahr 1977 an Krebs und ist nach drei Operationen im Jahr 1985 gestorben (biografische Angaben nach Salamun 2018). Bei einem Englandbesuch lernte er im Jahr 1935 in London seinen österreichischen Landsmann Friedrich August von Hayek kennen. Der drei Jahre ältere Hajek war zu dieser Zeit bereits angesehener Ökonomie-Professor an der renommierten London School of Economics. Popper war damals noch einfacher Hauptschullehrer in Wien. Im Jahr 1937 musste Popper wegen seiner jüdischen Herkunft ins Exil nach Neuseeland fliehen. Er war für 8 Jahre Dozent am Canterbury University College in Christchurch. Hayek und Popper unterhielten einen regen Briefwechsel und Popper las die Bücher von Hayek. Der einflussreiche Hayek schaffte es nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, Popper ebenfalls an die London School of Economics zu locken. Dort war er schließlich 20 Jahre lang – von 1949 bis 1969 – Professor für Logik und Wissenschaftslehre. Im Jahr 1992 erhielt er mit dem Kyoto-Preis die höchste Auszeichnung, die ein Philosoph erreichen kann. In seiner Autobiographie „Ausgangspunkte – Meine Entwicklung“, die im Jahr 1976 auf Englisch und 1979 auf Deutsch erschien, bekannte Karl Popper, dass sein Freund Hayek ihm zweimal das Leben gerettet habe. Das erste Mal dadurch, dass nach vielen Ablehnungen seines Hauptwerkes „Die offene Gesellschaft und ihre Feinde“ durch die angefragten Verlage ihm Hayek die Erstpublikation im Londoner Routledge-Verlag ermöglichte. Die zweite Lebensrettung war, als das relativ mittellose Ehepaar Popper durch großen Einsatz von Hayek eine finanzielle Lebensgrundlage erhielt. Hayek vermittelte ihm 1946 eine Dozentenstelle und 1949 eine Professorenstelle an der London School of Economics (Popper 1979). „Die offene Gesellschaft und ihre Feinde“ (Karl Popper) In seinem zweibändigen Grundlagenwerk wendet sich Karl Popper gegen totalitäre Systeme wie Faschismus, Nationalsozialismus und Kommunismus. Geschrieben hat er sein Buch in den Jahren 1938 bis 1943 im Exil in Christchurch. Publiziert wurde es zuerst in englischer Sprache im Londoner Routledge Verlag. Anlass für sein umfangreiches Werk war im Jahr 1938 der Einmarsch von Hitlers Truppen in sein Heimatland Österreich. Die Wurzeln totalitärer Staaten sieht er in problematischen Ideen, die Demokratie und menschenfeindliche Tendenzen fördern. Popper hatte besonders einige Philosophen im Visier, die seiner Meinung nach „falsche Propheten“ sind: Platon, Hegel und Karl Marx sowie ihre Anhänger. Popper unterscheidet offene und geschlossene Gesellschaften. In offenen Gesellschaften werden die Grundrechte von Demokratien verwirklicht wie Meinungs-, Vereinigungs- und Versammlungsfreiheit und religiöse Neutralität. In geschlossenen Gesellschaften wie Diktaturen oder anderen totalitären Systemen sind diese Grundrechte eingeschränkt, weil der Staat von oben einen Rahmen vorgibt und die Regeln festlegt. In offenen Gesellschaften sind die Institutionen veränderbar und in einem ständigen Wandel. Die Ziele einer offenen Gesellschaft sind eine ausreichende Grundversorgung und Gleichberechtigung. Das Leitmotiv von Popper ist nicht die Maximierung von Glück, sondern die Minimierung von Leiden. Karl Popper ist der Verfechter einer liberalen Demokratie, die er für die beste Staatsform hält. Die Publikation seines Hauptwerkes gestaltete sich in der Nachkriegszeit schwierig. Wegen der Kritik an dem sowjetischen Sozialismus gab es politische Widerstände gegen eine Publikation in Deutschland. Die alliierten Besatzungsmächte verweigerten die notwendige Lizenz, um den verbündeten Diktator Stalin nicht zu verärgern. Folglich erschien das Buch mit großer Unterstützung seines Freundes Hayek zuerst in englischer Sprache im Londoner Routledge-Verlag. Erst 12 Jahre später erschien die deutsche Fassung im Münchner Francke-Verlag. „Auf der Suche nach einer besseren Welt“ (1984) In seinem Sammelband „Auf der Suche nach einer besseren Welt“ aus dem Jahre 1984 befinden sich Vorträge, die Karl Popper in 30 Jahren gehalten hat. Da ein Teil dieser ausgewählten Reden und Vorträge nicht vor Akademikern oder Philosophen gehalten wurde, hat sich Popper sehr um eine für alle verständliche Sprache bemüht. Enthalten sind z.B. die Rede zum Jubiläum 25 Jahre österreichischer Staatsvertrag oder zu den Salzburger Festspielen im Jahr 1979.  Popper erhielt mehr als 20 Ehrendoktorwürden als Anerkennung für seine herausragenden akademischen Leistungen. Im Jahr 1979 wurde er als Ehrendoktor an den Universitäten Frankfurt am Main und Salzburg ausgezeichnet. Die zu diesem Anlass gehaltenen Vorträge sind ebenfalls abgedruckt. Im Jahr 1983 waren in seinem Heimatland Österreich zwei sehr öffentlichkeitswirksame Ereignisse: das Altenburger Gespräch mit dem Freund und Nobelpreiskollegen Konrad Lorenz im Februar 1983 und das Popper-Symposium zu seinem 80. Geburtstag im Mai 1983 in Wien. Die Vorträge und Diskussionen von beiden Veranstaltungen wurden in einem Sammelband veröffentlicht (Karl Popper und Konrad Lorenz 1985). Im Dezember 1984 hat der damals 82jährige Karl Popper ein Nachwort für dieses Buch geschrieben. Darin teilte er eine wichtige Erkenntnis mit, die als Warnruf für die Zukunft verstanden werden kann: „Wenn es den Menschen sehr gut geht, wird ihnen die freie Atmosphäre zur Selbstverständlichkeit, und sie werden die Wachsamkeit verlieren gegen die Gefahren, die die Freiheit bedrohen. Solange es ehrgeizige, machthungrige Menschen gibt, werden sie deshalb eine allzu glückliche Gesellschaftsform leicht ins Unglück stürzen.“ (Karl Popper 1984, S. 138) Karl Popper war einer der bedeutenden politischen Philosophen des 20. Jahrhunderts, der sich vehement für Freiheit und Demokratie einsetzte. Seit seinem Hauptwerk „Die offene Gesellschaft und ihre Feinde“ warnte er unaufhörlich vor den Feinden der Demokratie und den Gefahren des Totalitarismus. In den aktuellen Bedrohungen anlässlich des Russland-Ukraine-Krieges haben die Warnrufe Poppers universelle Bedeutung. Literatur Csef, Herbert (2024), Karl Popper und die Psychologie. Tabularasa Magazin vom 9. März 2024 Franco, Guiseppe (Hrsg.) (2019), Handbuch Karl Popper. Wiesbaden: Springer VS Verlag Popper Karl (1957), Die offene Gesellschaft und ihre Feinde, Teil 1, Der Zauber Platons, München: Francke Verlag Popper Karl (1958), Die offene Gesellschaft und ihre Feinde, Teil 2, Falsche Propheten: Hegel, Marx und die Folgen, München: Francke-Verlag Popper, Karl (1979), Ausgangspunkte. Meine intellektuelle Entwicklung. Autobiographie. Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe Verlag Popper, Karl (1984), Auf der Suche nach einer besseren Welt. Vorträge und Aufsätze aus dreißig Jahren. München: Piper Verlag Popper, Karl (1994), Rechte und Pflichten derer, die von ihren Mitmenschen lernen wollen. Aufklärung und Kritik Nr. 1, S. 118 Popper, Karl (1994), Die Wege der Wahrheit. Zum Tode von Karl Popper. Aufklärung und Kritik Nr. 2, S. 38 – 49 Popper, Karl (1994), Alles Leben ist Problemlösen. München: Piper Verlag Popper, Karl, Lorenz, Konrad (1985), Die Zukunft ist offen. Das Altenburger Gespräch. Mit den Texten des Wiener Popper-Symposiums. München: Piper Verlag Salamun, Kurt (2018), Ein Jahrhundertdenker. Karl R. Popper und die offene Gesellschaft. Wien: Molden Verlag Ich möchte auch das das Essay im Deutschlandfunk hinweisen: Der Philosoph Karl Popper in einer Aufnahme von 1981. (picture-alliance / akg-images) Der Erfinder des Kritischen Rationalismus Popper kam aus Wien Hietzing, er ist auch in dieser Ausstellung vertreten: https://www.bezirksmuseum.at/de/ausstellung/2024-im-fokus-karl-popper/#:~:text=KarlPopperhatseinen30,Ausstellungum18Uhrerffnet. Über Popper sind bei uns weitere Artikel erschienen: https://humanismus.at/popper1/ https://humanismus.at/popper2/ Read the full article

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Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, C. Aubrey Smith | Little Lord Fau...

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was published as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine from November 1885 to October 1886, then as a book by Scribner's (the publisher of St. Nicholas) in 1886  Polly Hovarth writes that Little Lord Fauntleroy "was the Harry Potter of his time and Frances Hodgson Burnett was as celebrated for creating him as J. K. Rowling is for Potter". The film stars Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, and C. Aubrey Smith. The first film produced by David O. Selznick's Selznick International Pictures, it was the studio's most profitable film until Gone with the Wind. The film is directed by John Cromwell. Cast Freddie Bartholomew as Cedric "Ceddie" Errol, Lord Fauntleroy Dolores Costello Barrymore as "Dearest" Errol C. Aubrey Smith as the Earl of Dorincourt Guy Kibbee as Silas Hobbs Henry Stephenson as Mr Havisham Mickey Rooney as Dick Tipton, a Brooklyn bootblack Una O'Connor as Mary, the Errols' servant Constance Collier as Lady Constantia Lorridaile, Dorincourt's sister Jackie Searl as Tom Tipton Jessie Ralph as the Applewoman from Brooklyn Helen Flint as Minna Tipton Walter Kingsford as Joshua Snade, Minna's lawyer E. E. Clive as Sir Harry Lorridaile, Constantia's husband Ivan F. Simpson as Reverend Mordaunt Virginia Field as Miss Herbert, the singer at party Eric Alden as Ben Tipton, Dick's brother William Ingersoll as the Doctor The budget for the film was $500,000 and the move came in at the figure with a final cost of $590K.  By 1939, the movie was at a profit of $447K! Never miss a video. Join the channel so that Mr. P can notify you when new videos are uploaded: https://www.youtube.com/@nrpsmovieclassics

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ANYONE NOTICE LOTS OF BILLIONAIRES ARE “dying” LATELY…⁉️

ATLAS SHRUGGED OR SOPRANO’D⁉️

2020-2023

Abhay Vakil ($6.2 billion)

Arne Wilhelmsen ($2 billion)

Aloysio de Andrade Faria ($3 billion)

Alberto Bailleres ($8.6 billion)

Alberto Roemmers ($2.4 billion)

Allan Goldman ($2.8 billion)

B. Wayne Hughes ($3.3 billion)

Benjamin de Rothschild ($1.4 billion)

Billy Joe “Red” McCombs ($1.7 billion)

Clement Fayat (1.2 billion)

Carol Jenkins Barnett ($2.3 billion)

Carlos Ardila Lülle ($2.3 billion)

Chuck Bundrant ($1.7 billion)

David Gottesman ($2.9 billion)

Donald Foss ($1.7 billion)

Dmitry Bosov ($1.1 billion)

Dietrich Mateschitz ($20 billion)

Edward "Ned" Johnson III $10 billion)

Edmund Ansin ($1.4 billion)

Eduardo Cojunangco ($1 billion)

Eli Broad ($6.9 billion)

Ennio Doris ($3.4 billion)

Evelyn de Rothschild ($20 billion)

Fayez Sarofim ($1.5 billion)

Fong Yun Wah ($2.2 billion)

Gordon Moore ($6.8 billion)

Herbert Kohler Jr. ($8.8 billion)

Heinz Hermann Thiele ($12.9 billion)

Hiedi Horten ($2.9 billion)

John Martin ($1.2 billion)

Julian Robertson Jr. ($4.8 billion)

Jose Luis Cutrale ($1.9 billion)

Joseph Safra ($25 billion)

Juan Lopez-Belmonte Lopez ($1.8 billion)

John Arrillaga ($2.6 billion)

James Crown ($10 billion)

Kim Jung-ju ($10 billion)

Lily Safra ($1.3 billion)

Lo Siu-tong ($1.3 billion)

Leonardo Del Vecchio ($24 billion)

Lee Man Tat ($17.5 billion)

Lee Kun-hee ($20 billion)

Masatoshi Ito ($4+billion)

Mahendra Prasad ($2.2 billion)

Majid Al Futtaim ($4.2 billion)

Manuel Moroun ($1.7 billion)

Manuel Jove ($2.5 billion)

M.G. George Muthoot ($3.2 billion)

Michael Price ($1.2 billion)

Montri Jiaravanont ($4.7 billion)

Nari Genomal ($1.2 billion)

Olivier Dassault ($4.7 billion)

Onsi Sawiris ($1.1 billion)

Park Yeon-cha ($3 billion)

Pallonji Mistry ($15 billion)

Peter Buck ($1.7 billion)

Petr Kellner ($17.5 billion)

Pierre Bellon ($4.2 billion)

Queen Elizabeth II (Notable $500 million, so they say)

Roberto Ongpin ($1.1 billion)

Robert Brockman ($4.7 billion)

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala ($5.8 billion)

Rudy Ma ($2.5 billion)

Robert Toll ($1.1 billion)

Rahul Bajaj ($8.2 billion)

Randall Rollins ($5 billion)

Sumner Redstone ($2.6 billion)

Suna Kirac ($2.2 billion)

Sir David Barclay ($3.7 billion)

Sheldon Adelson ($35 billion)

Sheldon Solow

Stephen Bechtel Jr. ($1.9 billion)

Tang Shing-bor ($4.7 billion)

Trail Engelhorn (4.2 billion)

Ted Lerner ($6.6 billion)

Teh Hong Piow

Tom Love ($5.5+ billion)

Thomas Lee ($2+ billion)

Teh Hong Piow ($5.7 billion)

Vito Rodriguez Rodriguez ($1.3 billion)

Valentin Gapontsev ($2.8 billion)

Walter Scott Jr. ($4 billion)

Winarko Sulistyo ($1.1 billion)

Whitney MacMillan ($4.3 billion)

W. Galen Weston ($7 billion)

Zuo Hui ($15 billion)

I’m sure I missed a few… this isn’t even counting the millionaires..such as the ones who just died on the submersible that visited the titantic.

(2 were Billionairs.)

Shahzada Dawood & Son ($360 million)

Stockton Rush ($25 million)

Hamish Harding (1.1 billion)

Paul-Henri Nargeolet ($1.5 billion)

You’re telling me these very wealthy people went down on a toy sub controlled by a game controller?

Again I ask….

Atlas Shrugged or Soprano’d?

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A. P. Herbert's Misleading Cases - BBC - June 20, 1967 - July 30, 1971

Comedy (19 episodes)

Running Time: 30 minutes

Stars

Alastair Sim as Mr. Justice Swallow

Roy Dotrice as Albert Haddock

Avice Landon as Florence Haddock

Thorley Walters as Sir Joshua Hoot, QC

[byneddiedingo]

Norah Baring, uncredited actress, and Herbert Marshall in Murder! (Alfred Hitchcock, 1930) Cast: Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Edward Chapman, Miles Mander, Esme Percy, Donald Calthrop, Esme V. Chaplin, Amy Brandon Thomas, Joynson Powell, S.J. Warmington, Marie Wright, Hannah Jones, Una O'Connor, R.E. Jeffrey. Screenplay: Alfred Hitchcock, Walter C. Mycroft, Alma Reville, based on a novel and play by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. Cinematography: Jack E. Cox. Art direction: John Mead. Hitchcock's third talkie, after the commercial success Blackmail (1929) and the comparative flop Juno and the Paycock (1930), is a solid start toward establishing his reputation as a master of the thriller, or in this case the murder-mystery subgenre. Hitchcock's direction of it is full of innovative touches: an opening sequence in which a scream is heard and the camera pans across a series of windows from which curious heads emerge; a neatly staged scene in which the investigation of the murder takes place in the wings of a theater, where people being interrogated sometimes interrupt their testimony to make their entrances; a scene that takes place in the jury room and lingers there as we overhear the sentence being delivered, with only a janitor tidying up in the actual frame; a voiceover by Herbert Marshall as we see his reflection in a mirror -- accomplished in those pre-dubbing days by playing a recording of Marshall speaking his lines. But frankly, Murder! is a bit of a mess, filled with improbable twists. For example, Marshall's character, Sir John Menier, an eminent actor-producer, winds up on the jury even though he has a prior acquaintance with the defendant, Diana Baring (Norah Baring). And somehow, even though he believes her to be innocent, he is bullied by the other jurors into voting guilty. He then turns detective to try to overturn the verdict. The motive for the murder is equally muddled: something to do with the fact that the murderer, who turns out to be a circus trapeze artist who performs in drag, is "half-caste" -- a secret that he is willing to kill in order to protect. But this muddle has its moments, such as the one in which the dignified Sir John spends the night in a house near the murder scene, to be awakened by the landlady (the always valuable Una O'Connor) and her gaggle of noisy kids. Better, tighter scripts were to come, but Hitchcock gives this one better than it deserves.

[why-bless-your-heart]

My grandfather gave me a copy of my great-grandmother's reading list, which she wrote up when she was 19. She also left little reviews for most of these, but for now I'm just sharing the book titles.

Microbe hunters - Paul de Kruf

The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio

The Opinions of Anatole France

The Dark Journey - Julein Green

The Highest up - Mary Roberts Rinehart

It's A Racket! - Hostetter, Besley

The Royal Road to Romance - Richard Halliburton

New Worlds to Conquer - Richard Halliburton

Rasputin: The Holy Devil - Rene Fulop-Miller

Tar: A Midwest Childhood - Sherwood Anderson

Thunder on the Left - Christopher Morley

The Chicken-Wagon Family - Barry Benefield

The Arrow - Christopher Morley

One of Ours - Willa Cather

The American Language - H.L. Mencken

Henry I - William Shakespeare

Playing With Love - Arthur Schnitzler

The Professor's House - Willa Cather

That Man Heine - Lewis Browne

The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche - Anatole France

The Glorious Adventure - Richard Halliburton

Bashan and I - Thomas Mann, translated by Herman G Scheffauer

Comedies of Words and Other Plays - Arthur Schnitzler, translated by Pierre Loving

Before Dawn - Gerhart Hauptmann

Note from Mama L: The play is graphic, clear cut and beautiful. Every person is perfectly drawn - I had never heard of dipsomania. Why didn't they call it tipsomania?

Europe After 8:15 - Willard Huntington Wright, George Jean Nathan, H. L. Mencken, Thomas H. Benton

Happiness in Marriage - Margaret Sanger

Marriage in the Modern Manner, Ira S Wile and Mary Day Winn

Note from Mama L: [These] are both junk books, very poorly written with nothing to say. The most interesting thing in the first one is Truman's notations on the margin. (Go off, Mama L!)

The Road to the Open - Arthur Schnitzler, translated by Horace Samuel.

Gold - Jakob Wassermann, translated by Louise Collier Wilcox

Anthology of World Poetry - Mark Van Woren

The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism - George Bernard Shaw

Essays on Russian Novels - William Lyon Phelps

Poems of Home

The Joy of Living - Hermann Sudermann

Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann

Anthology Of World Poetry - Mark Van Doren

Marriage and Morals - Bertrand Russell

The Three-Cornered Hat - Pedro Antonio de Alarcon

The Outcast - Luigi Pirandello

Story of Philosophy - Will Durant

Open All Night - Paul Morand

The Growth of a Soul - August Strindburg

The American Public Mind - Peter Odegard

Il Duce: The Life and Work of Benito Mussolini - L. Kemechey

Treatise on the Gods - HL Mencken

The Rise of American Civilization - Chas & Mary Beard

The Beaver Coat - Gerhart Hauptmann

The Conflagration - Gerhart Hauptmann

The Weavers - Gerhart Hauptmann

The Child of Pleasure - Gabriele D'Annunzio

The Philosophical Way of Life - T.U. Smith

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemmingway

Factors in the Sex Life of Twenty-two Hundred Women - K.B. Davis

Peacock Pie - Walter De La Mare

Reading With A Purpose: Russian Literature - Avraham Yarmolinsky

Trivia - Logan Pearsall Smith

In Defense of Women - H.L. Mencken

Imperial Palace - Arnold Bennett

Apple Sauce - Ina Michael

Grand Hotel - Vicki Baum

Lola: Or, the Thought and Speech of Animals - Henny Kindermann

Great American Short Stories

Salammbo - Gustave Flaubert

A Simple Soul - Gustave Flaubert

Collected Parodies - Louis Untermeyer

What I Believe - Bertrand Russel

Hypatia: Or, Woman and Knowledge - Dora Russell

A Variety of Things - Max Beerbohm

The Marks of an Educated Man - E.A. Wiggam

The Dramatic Works of Moliere

Michael Kramer - Gerhart Hauptmann

The Water Gypsies - A.P. Herbert

A Tale of Brittany - Pierre Loti

Father - Elizabeth Von Armen

Wanderers - Knut Hamson

Children and Fools - Thomas Mann

Twentieth Century Poetry - Drinkwater, Canby, and Benet

Modern Greek Stories

Madam Chrysantheme - Pierre Loti

The Department Store: A Novel To Today - Margarete Bohme

The Confessions of A Fool - August Strindberg

Tales from the Fjeld - P.C. Asbjornsen, translated by Sir George Dasent

The Twilight of the Souls - Louis Couperus

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson

A Handy Guide for Beggars - Vachel Lindsay

Weird Tales - Eta Hoffmann

The Philosopher's Stone - J. Anker Laresen

[caiternate]

@gideonseymours and i decided that our harrow the ninth literary commentary was looking a little lonely, so, here you go, a complete (to the best of our knowledge and ability) literary commentary for gideon the ninth. as in the harrow commentary, we’ve done our best to compile and source all the quotes and references and left you on your own for the memes. please let us know if there’s anything we’ve missed!

this does include mild spoilers for harrow the ninth; be warned.

p. 40: “…with trump and timbrel.” though the words sound biblical, the main places where this specific phrasing comes up are in “rebecca’s hymn,” an original poem from sir walter scott’s novel ivanhoe (1819), and in the hymn “king jesus hath a garden,” translated from dutch by george woodward.

p. 131: “Fiat lux!” in english, “let there be light!”, from the third verse of the book of genesis in the latin vulgate edition. palamedes is using it a little sarcastically, as camilla catches on to what he’s saying about the weirdness of the different ages of things in canaan house. on the next page, they have a fun exchange where camilla says “swords don’t lie,” to which palamedes responds “no. but they don’t tell the truth either,” which, while not a reference, is a fun piece of foreshadowing, if you’re into that sort of thing.

p. 131 “impossible, warden.”...”improbable, warden.” recalls the classic sherlock holmes-ism “when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth” (from the case-book of sherlock holmes, 1927). camilla’s other exclamations in this scene also have a definite watsonian vibe. they’re such nerds and i’m obsessed with them. 

p. 138: It is finished! this showed up in the harrow commentary, too. it’s the most common translation of τετέλεσται, jesus’ last word(s) before dying on the cross in john 19:30. 

p. 173: “Light is the paper-killer.” could be a cute joke on “fear is the mind-killer” from frank herbert’s dune. certainly on the line between meme and serious reference but i guess if gideon is getting frontline titties of the fifth[1] on pluto, palamedes might have read dune. 

p. 241: “The die is cast.” this is the english translation of “iacta alea est,” julius caesar’s famous declaration when he led an army across the rubicon river to kick off a civil war. it’s an appropriate quote for the necromancer of the second, but whether it’s a deliberate reference or an idiomatic use is unclear. 

p. 311: “Let the dead reclaim the dead.” a paraphrase of the phrase “let the dead bury their dead” from mumford and sons’ “thistle & weeds” luke 9:60. 

p. 367: It is finished! see note on p.138.

p.378: “you are an intellectual cretin and a dog in a manger…” the ancient greek fable of the dog in the manger describes a person who neither uses nor allows other people to use a particular resource. it falls into the middle ground between idiom and reference, but it is an obscure enough pull that, whether or not palamedes was intentionally quoting aesop, we found it helpful to gloss. 

p. 398: Palamedes surveyed his work, and he saw that it was good. the second half of this line is a recurring quote in the creation story in genesis 1. the entire line is found at genesis 1:31. this is, as far as we can find, the only biblical reference given in the narration rather than in dialogue.

p. 438: “The land that shall receive thee dying, in the same will I die: and there will I be buried. The Lord do so and so to me, and add more also, if aught but death part me and thee.” the longest and most obvious bible quote in the book: ruth 1.17, douay-rheims translation. commonly used in wedding vows and repeated by harrow on page 380 of harrow the ninth.

[1] nav, you ass, that’s not even a real publication

[blackboar]

Henry Tudor wanted to marry someone else after hearing the rumor that Elizabeth of York married Richard III?

It was probably discussed. The Tudors might have considered Sir Walter Herbert's sister, as she was sister-in-law with Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland. So Henry wanted to secure a Percy-Herbert alliance while marrying into a renowned Yorkist family.

However, I don't think the rumours triggered this consideration, but more the fact that Richard III had Elizabeth in custody and could marry her to any noble as he wished (like he did with her sister Cecily).

I also have my doubts on whether Henry seriously considered a Herbert alliance. The Herberts were declining with their loss of the Earldom of Pembroke in 1478, whilst the current Earl was married to Richard III's natural daughter. Henry Percy was a notorious fence-sitter whose retainers were utterly pro-Ricardian, and Henry probably knew it. And of course, it wouldn't help Henry's deficit in legitimacy. A foreign match or a match from someone with at least Yorkist blood would be preferable. It was probably a test to see how those players and, more importantly, Richard III might react.

I think they discussed it, but they weren't deciding anything as long as Elizabeth remained formally available.

[splatooshy]

oh absolutely - idk if i want the cat to be a girl or a boy tho.

i’m thinking she’s a comedy genius and names kitty something like:

- Pawline Butterscotch

- Catmilla Fitzroy-Huntington

- Walter Meowsington

- Wallace Catmichael

- Herbert Mewington

- Edmund Catsworth

- Excalipurr

- Mittens Sockington

- Cattie McWhiskers

- Johannes Vermeow

- Reginald Lancatser

- Elmer Cattinson

- Prudence Catvendish

- Elizabeth Fitzcatrick

with a fancy title like ‘sir’, ‘dame’, ‘lady’, or whatever.

she has to outdo damon’s pretentious naming.

of course, he suggests some obscure literature/mythology based names.

and i’m imagining george tells hattie to “call it cat. or dog. or furball. or george.”

i wanna know mooooooooorreeeeee about your oneshotssssssss how are they going?

heyyyyyyy pookie whatcha workin on???

Nxt chapter of Venus and two other little one shots wbu?

[bantarleton]

On 2nd February 1461, the forces of Edward, Earl of March, intercepted an army loyal to Henry VI commanded by the king’s half-brother, Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke, at Mortimer’s Cross in Herefordshire. Edward’s father, the Duke of York, had been killed at Wakefield just two months earlier, but his victory on this cold clear day successfully reversed Yorkist fortunes and would soon lead to his crowning as king Edward IV, following his even more decisive victory at Towton. Jasper Tudor’s father Owen (grandfather of the first Tudor king, Henry VII), was captured as their army disintegrated in defeat. Owen was taken to Hereford where he was executed; according to Gregory’s Chronicle ‘…trusting all eway that he shulde not be hedyd tylle he sawe the axe and the blocke, and when that he was in hys dobelet he trustyd on pardon and grace tylle the coler of hys redde velvet dobbelet was ryppyd of.’ My painting shows Owen and his remaining men as they find themselves fighting for their lives against the advancing Yorkists, victory within their grasp. Edward Earl of March’s standard is in the thick of the fighting, along with the banners of Sir William Herbert and Sir Walter Devereux. Facing them can be seen the banners of Pembroke and the earl of Wiltshire.

Art by Graham Turner. 

[boxcarwild]

Sons Of The Silent Age. Part Two.

1) Joan Morgan (1905-2004) was the daughter of film director Sidney Morgan. She became a leading star of the 1920s after appearing in a number of her father’s films. Her acting career was ended by the arrival of sound film in 1929 and she switched to writing, working on a number of screenplays in the 1930s. She wrote novels under her own name and through using the pen-names Iris North and Joan Wentworth Wood.

2) Walter Summers (1892-1973) was known for his quasi-documentary WW1 epics, his vicious temper and his predeliction for persuading young hopefuls to strip naked during screen tests. His 1927 film The Battles Of Coronel And Falkland Islands was apparently so suspenseful that, during a screening at Balmoral Castle, it caused the Duchess Of York to wet herself.

3) Alma Taylor (1895-1974) appeared in more than 150 film roles, such as Shadow of Egypt which was shot on location in Egypt in 1924. In 1915, she was voted the most popular British performer by readers of Pictures and the Picturegoers, comfortably beating Charlie Chaplin into second place. She acted only occasionally after 1932, appearing in films such as Blue Murder at St Trinian's and A Night to Remember during the 1950s.

4) Cora Goffin (1902-2004) was an actress on the London stage. She acted in two silent films, during which she leapt from a moving horse and threw herself beneath a moving car in Paris. There were reports that she had her legs insured for £20,000 with Lloyd's of London. Goffin married theatre manager Emile Littler in 1933. She became Lady Littler when Emile was knighted in 1974.

5) Henry Edwards (1882-1952) was an English actor and film director. He appeared in 81 films between 1915 and 1952. He also directed 67 films between 1915 and 1937. Edwards was married to actress Chrissie White, who appeared in 20 of his films. 

6) Sydney Fairbrother (1873-1941) came to the screen in 1915 in a film called Iron Justice, and chiefly appeared in comedy roles. Fairbrother had a pet white rat that would sit on her belt all day, quite motionless.

7) Ivy Duke (1896-1937) starred in the 1920 hit film The Lure of Crooning Water. She drank herself to death after her career took a downward turn.

8) Lady Tree (1863-1937) was the wife of the actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, founder of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She was most celebrated for her work in comedy, featuring in the original stage cast of Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance.