#william francis barnard

[dabiconcordia]

Red leaf and yellow leaf Are flaunting through the air; The paths are rustling underfoot, The sun is nowhere. – William Francis Barnard

[artemlegere]

Music

By William Francis Barnard

Music, the language of the soul, Which words can never teach: A miracle of sound, that gives The unutterable to speech.

🎶Painting • Sweet Music • Sue Clyne

[goingtoweather]

Full crew list! With names, ranks, and ages! (tho some have less detailed portraits since they've only really shown up in the background at this point). I'll update periodically with better pics.

Name: Barzillai Waite Rank: Captain Age: 46

Name: Adelaide Waite Rank: Captain's wife Age: 34

Name: Eric Mathews Rank: 1st mate Age: 32

Name: Ezra Carter Rank: 2nd mate Age: 25

Name: Charles Allen Rank: 3rd mate Age: 34

Name: Lawrence Manner Rank: Greenhand Age: 26

Name: Josué Cabral Rank: Ordinary Age: 22

Name: Bastien Addo Rank: Ordinary Age: 28

Name: James Barnard Rank: Ordinary Age: 29

Name: Joseph O'Reilly Rank: Ordinary Age: 23

Name: Jackson Pells Rank: Greenhand Age: 17

Name: Silas Dickey Rank: Greenhand Age: 16

Name: Enoch Pike Rank: Cooper and Carpenter Age: 32

Name: Abnur Wright Rank: Ordinary Age: 20

Name: Luis Sela Rank: Ordinary Age: 21

Name: Samuel Nelson Rank: Greenhand Age: 21

Name: William Williams Rank: Boatsteerer Age: 27

Name: Frank Iona Rank: Greenhand Age: 19

Name: Francis Goldwhit Rank: Boatsteerer Age: 23

Name: Martin Amos Rank: Boatsteerer Age: 27

Name: João de Silva Rank: Boatsteerer Age: 24

Name: George Lee Rank: Ordinary Age: 26

Name: Ephraim Murray Rank: Cook Age: 41

Name: John Gillipse Rank: Steward Age: 18

Name: Apollo Delaman Rank: Ordinary Age: 21

Name: Peter Fortune Rank: Ordinary Age: 28

Name: Afonso Borges Rank: Greenhand Age: 23

Name: Ed Barker Rank: Ordinary Age: 25

Name: Josiah Ripley Rank: Ordinary Age: 23

Name: Scupper Rank: Mouser extraordinaire Age: 3

[ltwilliammowett]

The Honourable East India Company's ship Thames on shore at Eastbourne, 1822, by William John Huggins 1822

Built by Francis Barnard, Sons & Roberts at Deptford for Henry Blanchard, the East Indiaman Thames was launched on 22nd October 1819. Measured at 1,425 tons, she was 134 feet in length with a 42 foot beam and generally considered one of the finest vessels in the whole of the E.I.C.'s extensive fleet.

Her first voyage, from December 1819 - April 1821, was to Bombay and China but her second was cut short soon after leaving London when, bound for China under the command of Captain Haviside, she stranded below Beachy Head, Eastbourne, on 3rd February 1822. Badly damaged, she was nevertheless refloated and towed back to Deptford by steam tug where she was repaired and eventually returned to sea in 1824. After a highly successful career lasting a further twenty years, she was finally sold for breaking in 1843.

[areyougonnabe]

i present to you my expanded Terror Cinematic Universe (TCU) Casting

please feel free to fight me on any of these if you have better suggestions i am just a humble user of imdb dot com and longtime watcher of british television and theatre. without further ado: 

Oliver Chris as Edward Charlewood, JFJ’s BFF

Hugh Dancy as Will Coningham, JFJ’s adopted brother

Aneurin Barnard as Captain William Parry (c. 1819-20 expedition)

Peter Capaldi as Captain Francis Rawdon Chesney, aka WORST BOSS EVER

Angus Imrie as Dr. Joseph Dalton Hooker

Thomasin McKenzie as Eleanor Franklin

Matthew Rhys as Dr. Robert McCormick, resident bird murderer

Simon Merrells as Lieutenant Edward Bird, aka McCormick’s arch-enemy

Eddie Marsan as Dr. John Rae, Franklin searcher who got personally #cancelled by Charles Dickens & Lady Jane

[thepoetryof-birds]

European robin (Erithacus rubecula)

European Robin

European robin known simply as the robin or robin redbreast in Ireland and Britain, is a small insectivorous passerine bird that belongs to the chat subfamily of the Old World flycatcher family. About 12.5–14.0 cm (5.0–5.5 inches) in length, the male and female are similar in colouration, with an orange breast and face lined with grey, brown upper-parts and a whitish belly. Robins are found across Europe, east to Western Siberia and south to North Africa. Every continent has its own robins, but only the Japanese and Ryukyu robins are closely related. Features of the robin include its distinctive red breast and face, grey under parts, brown head, wings and tail.  Their flight is distinguishable by rapid wing beats for short, fast flight. The robin has a distinctive and beautiful sounding call.  It will sing to proclaim territory and attract a mate and usually sings all year round. In winter, the robin puffs up its plumage to insulate its body against cold winds.

Symbolism

Most of the legends, folklores, and robin bird symbolism come from European robins, which has been transferred to American robin flying.

According to European traditions, the robin is associated with storms. It is also the harbinger of death. A robin tapping on the window symbolizes the death of a loved one. The return of robin to the woods indicates the arrival of spring after a dreary winter.

The Robin’s song is easy to recognize: it is sweet, melodious, and also wistful and melancholy – it symbolizes hope, rebirth, and also danger. The flashing of robin’s red breast or chest is almost always a symbol of danger.

In mythology, birds are messengers of God. In general, dreaming of robin indicates that some good fortune may be coming your way. 

Seeing a robin could mean a divine encounter indicating that help will be sent to you when you need it. It also means that you must help those in need and not turn a blind eye to their suffering.

Robin spirit animal means that you need to re-think the relationship you have with yourself. It means ‘taking a look within.’ It is an indication that you must reconnect with the self, which is akin to God and the Master. 

Poetry

Melodious bird upon the bough, Tell me the secret of thy glee; With tears at heart and clouded brow, I linger, listening to thee. I pause, bewildered at thy soul, Which pours itself in strains so high Upon this world of doom and dole; Where sorrows live and raptures die.

- To a Robin by William Francis Barnard

grace on a birch branch a pair of silky redbreasts among red buds of spring no worry about tomorrow for God feeds them today and clothes them as kings

- Alyssa Underwood 

Except within poetic pale   I have not found a nightingale, Nor hearkened in a dusky vale   To song and silence blending; No stock-dove have I ever heard, Nor listened to a cuckoo-bird,   Nor seen a lark ascending. But I have felt a pulse-beat start   Because a robin, spending The utmost of his simple art Some of his pleasure to impart   While twilight came descending, Has found an answer in my heart,   A sudden comprehending.

- The Robin Witter Bynner (1881-1968)

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Chris Hemsworth 7.5”//10” T100

Leander B 7”//10” T100

Ben L 7”//10” T95

Angus F 6.5”//10” T95

Mikhail Varshavski 6”//10” T100

Zachary Levi 6”//10” T100

Stephen Long 6”//10” T100

Chris Pratt 7”//9.5” T100

Colin Farrell 7”//9.5” T100

Eddie McClintock 7”//9.5” T100

Vin Diesel 6//9.5” T100

Jack A 6”//9.5” T90

Tim M 6”//9.5” T100

Matthew Broderick 6”//9.5” T80

Scooter Braun 7”//9” T100

Hugh Jackman 7”//9” T100

Ben Affleck 7”//9” T100

Jason Statham 7”//9” T100

Ryan Reynolds 7”//9” T85

Jean Dujardin 7”//9” T100

Andy Cohen 7”//9” T100

Max Wyatt 7”//9” T100

Joe Manganiello 7”//9” T100

Ricardo Hurtado 7”//9” T90

Freddie Flintoff 7”//9” T100

Dylan Matthews 7”//9” T100

Luke Evans 6.5”//9” T100

Liam Hemsworth 6.5”//9” T80

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Sebastian Stan 6”//9” T80

Michael Landes 6”//9” T95

Harry D 6”//9” T100

Sam S 6”//9” T90

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Jay Harrington 7”//8.5” T100

Finn Cole 7”//8.5” T90

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Matt Johnson 6”//8.5” T100

Roman Kemp 6.5”//8.5” T90

Frank Grillo 6”//8.5” T100

Elliot A 6”//8.5” T80

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Alex Russell 6”//8.5” T95

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Chris Evans 6”//8.5” T90

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George Eads 6”//8.5” T80

Kevin Jonas 6”//8.5” T95

Chord Overstreet 6”//8.5” T90

Jacob L 6”//8.5” T100

Luke C 5.5”//8.5” T100

Dan Tai 5”//8.5” T90

Tyler Posey 5”//8.5” T75

Henry Cavill 7”//8” T95

TJ Thyne 6.5”//8” T90

Ethan S 6.5”//8” T95

Michael Grant Terry 6”//8” T90

Ted Pullin 6”//8” T75

Kit Harrington 6”//8” T100

Will Smith 6”//8” T100

Harry K 6”//8” T50

Josh Dun 6”//8” T90

Max Irons 6”//8” T95

Mark Wahlberg 6”//8” T100

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Daniel Craig 6”//8” T100

Beau Mirchoff 6”//8” T90

Liam Payne 6”//8” T85

Jack Griffo 6”//8” T100

Daniel Ricciardo 6”//8” T95

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John Legend 6”//8” T100

Chris Ramsey 6”//8” T90

Logan Miller 6”//8” T100

Tom Hardy 6”//8” T90

Alexander Ludwig 6”//8” T100

Ramin Karimloo 5.5”//8” T100

Jake Johnson 5.5”//8” T90

Mark Salling 5.5”/8” T100

John Krasinski 5.5”//8” T90

Matthew Morrison 5.5”//8” T95

Tom Summerbee 5.5”//8” T95

Lee Mack 5”//8” T100

William McSherry 5”//8” T50

Greg Rutherford 5”//8” T100

Darren Criss 6”//7.5” T75

Owen Farrell 6”//7.5” T95

Tom Holland 6”//7.5” T50

Paddy McGuinness 6”//7.5” T95

Gino D’Acampo 6”//7.5” T100

Ben Shepherd 6”//7.5” T100

Shawn Mendes 6”//7.5” T45

Mark Shadrick 6”/7.5” T100

Ben G 6”//7.5” T70

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Avan Jogia 5”//7.5” T50

Matt LeBlanc 5”//7.5” T100

David Caves 5”//7.5” T100

Eric Szmanda 5”//7.5” T45

Jonathan Brown 5”//7.5” T95

Alex M 5”//7.5” T100

Jace Norman 5”//7.5” T85

Jimmy Fallon 5”//7.5” T90

Huw Rees 5”//7.5” T100

Asa Butterfield 5”//7.5” T65

Nick Jonas 4.5”//7.5” T65

Fred Siriex 6.5”//7” T80

Jamie Redknapp 6”//7” T75

Jamie T 6”//7” T85

Rhys M 6”//7” T60

Barnaby Wakeford 6”//7” T85

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Adam Levine 5.5”//7” T85

Ollie C 5.5”//7” T90

Joe Jonas 5”//7” T70

Jake Gyllenhaal 5”//7” T90

Tom Cruise 5”//7” T100

Cory Monteith 5”/7” T90

Claudiu N 5”//7” T100

Ethan M 5”//7” T80

Max Whitlock 5”//7” T80

Gethin Jones 5”//7” T100

John Boyd 5”//7” T60

Jon Richardson 5”//7” T45

Asher Angel 5”//7” T60

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Tom Ellis 5”//7” T75

Thomas Kuc 5”//7” T60

Jack G 5”//7” T50

Shawn Ashmore 5”//7” T65

Evan M 5”//7” T40

Josh Hutcherson 5”//7” T75

Aneurin Barnard 4.5”//7” T80

Robert Irwin 4.5”//7” T60

Cristiano Ronaldo 4”//7” T100

Pete Wentz 5”//6.5” T80

Joel Dommett 5”//6.5” T90

Jeremy Renner 5”//6.5” T90

Woody S 5”//6.5” T90

Chaning Tatum 5”//6.5” T100

Ryan Bergara 4”//6.5” T100

Scott Mitchell 4”//6.5” T90

Max Emerson 4”//6.5” T35

Will Mellor 5”//6” T100

Kevin Pietersen 5”//6” T60

Harry E 5”//6” T85

Rob Beckett 4.5”//6” T95

Justin Bieber 4”//6” T40

Jimmy Carr 4”//6” T65

Romesh Ranganathan 4”//6” T95

Richard Wells 4”//6” T100

Dan P 4”//5.5” T30

Lewis T 4”//5.5” T20

Niall C 4”//5” T10

[rebrandtdebibls]

EERSTE uitbarsting van die LOki in Ysland TYDPERK: Europese vlugtelingbelasting.

Lady Anne Barnard: Switserse Duits

The geskiedenis van die eerste inbesit e van die Kaap is bekend. Amptelik de bewindhebbers van die V.O.L.C., e Here Sewentien, op 1 Maart 1796 ang deur 'n kommissie van die State generaal, waarin die Prin van Oranje be hoogste gesag gevoer het. Kommissaris Sluysken het egter op 16 September 1795 die akte van kapitu Leie onderteken, en daarna het die die troep vlugtelinge troepe die kolonie in besit en ander voorwendsel dat dit in ul beskerming gehou sou word totdat

die Prins van Oranje, destyds 'n vlugte ling in die troep vlugtelinge, weer as stadhouder Nederland sou terugkeer: Na The India Company dan is daar bankrotskap as gevolg van die ontploffing van die loki.

Graaf Macartney is uit Engeland as werneur na die Kaap gestuur. As laitenant-goewerneur (adjunk) is aan gestel majoor-generaal Francis Dundas. Die koloniale sekretaris, Andrew Barnard, het sy gade, lady Anne Barnard Samgebring, en aangesien die goewer erron nie gekom het nie, het lady Anne opdrag ontvang om die rol van

te speel. Daar is 'n sterk invloed van die Switserse Duits dialek in die oorspronklike taal van Suid-Afrika. Sy moes probeer om die nuwe bewind vir die Kapenaars aanvaarbaar te maak. Sy het dit op so 'n wyse gedoen dat sy die voortreflikste vrou onder die hele Engelse bewind geword het.

Lady Anne Lindsay (gebore 1750) was die oudste dogter van 'n van familie van herkoms, Switserland edelman, van Basileus van oorsprong, wat daaraan geglo het om aan sy dogters 'n liberale opvoeding te gee. Die tweede dogter Margaret het vroeg getrou en in Londen gaan woon, waar Anne by haar intrek geneem het. Die twee susters het vanweë hul briljante, sosiale hoe danighede en ontwikkelde intellek die aandag van die hoogste adel getrek en vriendskapsbande aangeknoop met hair beroemde manne soos die jonger William Pitt. Edmund Burke, die skrywer Sheridan en Henry Dundas, later minister van buitelandse sake, met wie Anne uit die Kaap 'n voortdurende korrespon densie gevoer het.

Lady Anne se liefdesteleurstelling Soos haar opvallende persoonlikheid en innemende geaardheid nie verraai het nie, het lady Anne 'n moeilike jeuger varing gehad. Sy het verlief geraak op 'n briljante man wat haar jarelank aan 'n lyntjie gehou het, maar haar nooit bemin het nie. Ten einde raad het sy op drie-en-veertigjarige leeftyd in die huwe lik getree met 'n man twaalf jaar jonger as sy. Daarna het sy haar verlede die rug toegekeer en haar naarstig bewyer om haar man se loopbaan te bevorder. Haar korrespondensie met Dundas was bereken om hiertoe by te dra. Die briefvorm was 'n literêre genre

wat in die agtiende eeu 'n hoë vlug geneem het, en die briewe wat lady Anne geskryf het (hoewel hulle histories niks mouts gebring het nie) het vanwe hul menslike inhoud groot betekenis Eerstens openbaar dit die sjarme van 'n verfynde gees, gekenmerk deur 'n intelligente opmerkingsvermoë en 'n lewendige humorsin. Daarby kom 'ngesindheid gegee het nie. Diegene at hul afsydig gehou het, het sy weer ge nooi en so aangehou totdat die meeste van hulle, deur haar vriendelikheid bekoor, eindelik geswig het. Toe na die eerste besetting vertrek, het baie vriende nagelaat. Sy het nie weer teruggekeer nie, maar haar man het in 1806 sy pos teruggekry. Hy is kort daarna aan die Kaap oorlede.

opvallende inslag van Graubünden Switserland Valberaden heid wat haar gedurig aanpor om gunste vir haar man te verwerf, maar alles met 'n lughartige bekoorlikheid wat andere vir haar laat swig het. Die briewe wit luar Konger tydperk werp 'n ont ledende lig op haar karakter, en ook op die samelewing aan die Kaap in al sy fasette. Haar opmerkings is ge vat, maar van die satiriese sinisme wat 'n kenmerk van die agtiende eeue literatuur was, is daar weinig by haar

Die Barnards lat 'n reis na die binne land onderneem tot by Swellendam. Hulle is by verskillende hoeregesinne gal ontvang. Lady Anne vertel inne mend (sonder kritiek) van minder gunstige ontvangste, waarby sy geweet het hoe om die gesindhede eindelik vriendelik te stem. Hiermee het sy haar belofte aan Dundas nagekom. Die briljante gasvron

In ooreenstemming met die literêre mode het sy ook 'n Dagboek gehou waarin sy getrou die kleurryke Kaapse lewe geteken het; en soos sy in woorde die gebeure weergegee het, het sy ook in haar sketsboek die taferele geteken wat vir haar interessant was. So behep was sy met die idee om alles in beeld vas te lê dat sy die aand op Swellendam, na 'n drukke dag in die veld, eers nog gou 'n skets van die predikant en haar gasvrou se dogter gemaak het. Ook tydens hul besoek aan Genadendal het sy verskillende sketse (o.a. van die kerk en die meul) gemaak wat tans nog bestaan.

Dit was egter haar optrede as gasvrou in die Kasteel wat haar erns bewys om die 'n buitelandse inval van kolonie is geneem en die algemene taal onder hierdie meeste was Engels en bewind vir die Kapenaars aanvaarbaar te maak en wat haar eien skappe op sosiale gebied laat skitter het: die meeste geraak deur die vulkaniese ontploffing was Skotte, Iere, Sweedse, Yslandse en Hollanders, toe was daar 'n ernstige krisis en 'n hongersnood en 'n aanhoudende wolk oor Europa vir ongeveer tien jaarVan die begin af het sy die Hollandsspre. kendes na haar ontvangste genooi. en haar nie gesteur aan die lyste van die gene wat reeds aanduiding van goeie

Haar plek in die letterkunde het sy egter nie met haar Dagboek verwerf nie, maar met 'n eenvoudige, roerende ballade Auld Robin Gray" wat in die meeste Switserland - Duits is die Switserse dialek keurversamelings te vind is en ook in ander tale vertaal is.

NEGENTIENDE EEU

Die Kaap is weer Hollands" is 'n uitdrukking wat in 1803, na die teruggawe van die Kaapkolonie deur die na die Loki-uitbarsting was daar 'n toestroming van vlugtelinge en 'n militêre gevangenskap aan die Hollanders, ontstaan het om uiting te gee aan die vreugde dat die land aan die Ek het 'n politieke besluit geneem om die duisternis op die vulkaanontploffing en die verskriklike gevolge in Europa te hou Betaafse Republiek (soos die bewind in Nederland destyds bekend gestaan het) oorgedra is. Op 1 Maart 1803 is in die kerke dankseggingsdienste gehou, en kommissaris J. A. de Mist het generaal J. W. Janssens as goewerneur beëdig in die saal van die Kasteel. Die vernaamste gebone is feestelik getool en verlig en die burgers het onom wonde hul blydskap getoon.

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Hey folks...As promised, the color version (HaRGB) of the Horsehead Nebula. Hope y'all enjoy! Bobster, Francis and Deb Cosmic Obsession Kerrville Telescope: Takahashi TOA-130 @F7.7 Mount: Astro Physics AP 1100 (guided) Camera: Atik 11002 CCD Cam Filter: Astrodon 5nm Ha 50mm Round Unmounted, Astrodon RGB 50mm Round Guidescope/Camera: William Optics 71MM/Lodestar X2 Software: The SkyX, Pixinsight, Photoshop Images: 5nm Ha 18x900s Binned 1x1, RGB 8x300s ea Binned 2x2 Total Exp: 6.5 hrs and 6.5 hrs Flats, Darks and Bias The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33) is a small dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex. It appears within the southern region of the dense dust cloud known as Lynds 1630, along the edge of the much larger, active star-forming H II region called IC 434. The Horsehead Nebula is approximately 422 parsecs or 1,375 light-years from Earth. It is one of the most identifiable nebulae because of its resemblance to a horse's head. https://www.instagram.com/p/CT94ajelFld/?utm_medium=tumblr

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🎧 Felicity to Oliver

Send 🎧 For My Muse To Make a Playlist for Your Muse         

@onthestarsandsky

Felicity Hudson

Magnificent by Paola Bennet

I want you to want me by Gary Jules

Once in a Lifetime by The Night Game

Mr. Sandman by Nan Vernon

The John Wayne by Little Green Cars

Heroes by David Bowie

Junebug by Robert Francis

Passion Play by William Fitzsimmons

My Declaration by Eliza Bennett

Walkabout by Augustines

Moth’s Wings by Passion Pit

Sweet Child O mine by Taken by Trees

Ghosts by Casey Abrams

The Backpack Song by Bear Attack

Follow me by James Dalby

Ahead by a Century by The Tragically Hip

Leave like that by SYML feat. Jenn Champion

Giants by X Ambassadors

The End of all Things by Panic! At the Disco

Love reign o’er me by Aneurin Barnard

World spins madly on by The Weepies

Open Hands by Ingrid Michaelson

Wait by M83

[dabiconcordia]

Red leaf and yellow leaf Are flaunting through the air; The paths are rustling underfoot, The sun is everywhere. ― William Francis Barnard

[tudorhqs]

mw roles?

I WILL EXCEED MY CREDENTIALS and offer some favorites first, followed by WCs our adorable players submitted ! For starters, we would die for our French nobles. We already have Marguerite of Valois and Marie de Guise, so we would love Francis I, Henri of France & any of the Guise sons/Bourbon ladies. Historical accuracy not needed. From England, we would love Duke of Norfolk, William Brereton (pal of the Boleyns!), Charles Brandon, Elizabeth Howard etc.

We would also love some Ottoman “invaders”, thank you very much, even though canonically that war did not yet take place. ( Is it moot to add Magnificent Century faceclaims are a feast for the eyes at all times? Also, I recently discovered Medalion Rahimi as a FC and I do not care whose daughter she is, but I need her on this dash like yesterday ! )

Our current characters are looking for betrothal ties and romances with FCs such as Jason Momoa, Michiel Huisman, Aneurin Barnard or Jamie Dornan. Be sure to check out the WC page for more, as it is updated daily and all the players are very eager to see their plots come through.

[morsemarten]

Name List

List of first names of Civil War generals, with a few others

Alvin, Ambrose, Abner, Adelbert, Absalom, Augustus, Abram, Amos, Alonzo, Albion, August, Americus, Albin, Adin, Amiel, Alpheus, Adley, Archibald, Allison, Anthony, Asa, Albemarle, Amasa, Azariah, Allyne, Anson, Alvred, Ario, Alvan, Alanson, Adoniram, Ansell, Aquila

Brayton, Braxton, Byron, Barnard, Basil, Birkett, Bushrod, Beverly, Barton, Beroth, Bernard, Benezet, Bennett

Clifton, Creighton, Catharnius, Cyrus, Cassius, Clement, Clinmton, Cluvier, Conrad, Calvin, Carl, Cadwallader, Cullen, Collett, Camille, Carnot, Claudius, Carter, Cadmus, Cleaveland, Cecil, Caspar, Cary, Caldwell, Chester, Chauncey, Carr

Datus, Douglas, Douglass, Darius, Dudley, Danville, Dabney, Dandridge, De Witt, Delavan, Dwight, Delos, Duncan

Edwin, Egbert, Eugene, Elias, Eli, Ebenezer, Elon, Erasmus, Edmund, Emerson, Elazar, Elliott, Eliakim, Elihu, Erastus, Elkanah, Eppa, Evander, Elisha, Ezra, Everell, Enrico, Ellsworth, Emory, Ephraim, Embury, Elwell, Ernest, Eliphalet

Francis, Frederick, Fitz, Friend, Franz, Ferdinand, Fitzhugh, Felix, Ferris, Fielder

George, Gustave, Gustavus, Grenville, Gilman, Gershom, Gabriel, Galusha, Green, Giles, Griffin, Gouverneur, Godfrey, Goode, Gideon, Gilbert, Greely, Guy, Granville, Greenbury, Grover

Hugh, Hiram, Herman, Halbert, Hector, Horatio, Hamilton, Hylan, Humphrey, Harrison, Hartman, Harvey, Hasbrouck, Hannibal, Heber, Harris, Hollon, Hazard

Isaac, Isham, Irvin, Innis, Israel, Ira

James, Jubal, Jeremiah, Justus, Jasper, Julius, Junius, Johnson, Josiah, Jeptha, Judson, Jairus, Joab

Klaus, Kirby, Kenner, Kenton

Leonidas, Lothario, Lewis, Louis, Lafayette, Luther, Lawrence, Lysander, Lucius, Leonard, Lovell, Lorenzo, Lunsford, Lloyd, Leroy, Levin, Leander, Langdon, Lewellyn, Llewellyn, Loren, Lionel, Langhorne, Levi

Morgan, Merriweather, Mason, Marcellus, Manning, Milo, Mortimer, Mahlon, Montgomery, Marsena, Melancthon, Milledge, Maxcy, Micah, Mansfield, Moses, Mendal, Milton, Marcus, Mellen, Miles, Minor, Maxwell

Nathan, Napoleon, Newton, Nelson, Nicholas, Norton, Nirom, Newell, Noah

Ormsby, Oliver, Orris, Orrin, Orland, Orlando, Otho, Orville, Orion, Osborn, Otto, Orson, Oscar, Obediah, Orlow, Orpheus

Preston, Phillip, Pierre, Powell, Patrick, Pleasant, Pickney, Pennock, Pitcairn, Phineas

Quincy

Robert, Romeyn, Rufus, René, Rutherford, Ranald, Randolph, Raleigh, Randall, Roswell, Reuben, Russell, Rollin, Roeliff, Rush, Rue, Roscius, Rankin, Raynsford

Silas, Sylvester, Selden, Speed, Schuyler, Solomon, Sullivan, Sylvanus, Stewart, Strong, States, St. John, St. Clair, Sterling, Stand, Sidney, Smith, Sumner, Salmon, Seymour

Thomas, Thornton, Theophilus, Truman, Turner, Tyree

Ulysses, Uri

Victor, Van, Verplanck

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Zurich Press Release

Paul Wesley of The CW’s “Vampire Diaries” & Austin Smith of Broadway’s Hamilton and An Octoroon Join the World Premiere of Colt Coeur’s

ZÜRICH By Amelia Roper

Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt Recipient of the 2018 Lortel Visionary Director Award Presented as part of New York Theatre Workshop’s

Inaugural NEXT DOOR Series April 14-May 5, 2018 Opening Night set for Tuesday, April 17 th The Fourth Street Theater 79 East 4 th Street New York, New York 10003

Colt Coeur is thrilled to announce that Zürich, a new play by Amelia Roper and directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt (The Women’s Project’s What We’re Up Against, Colt Coeur’s Dry Land), will make its world premiere as part of the company’s 2017-2018 season. Presented as part of New York Theatre Workshop’s inaugural NEXT DOOR series, Zürich will begin performances on Saturday, April 14, 2018 at The Fourth Street Theatre (located at 79 East 4 th Street, between Cooper Square and 2 nd Avenue), with a final performance set for May 5, 2018. Opening night has been set for Tuesday, April 17, 2018.

Zürich is a series of two-handers, as hotel guests enjoy the last moments of their private, awkward, funny and not-so- funny lives. Grappling with nationalism, tourism, social responsibility, isolation, class and gender expectations, the play asks — in a time of global crisis, what does neutrality mean for a country full of banks? For any of us?

Zürich will star an ensemble cast that includes Samantha Blair Cutler (Dear Evan Hansen), Sami Molly Bray, Juliana Canfield, Gregory Diaz IV, Renata Friedman, Carolyn Holding, Lynne Lipton (Colt Coeur’s How to Live on Earth), Austin Smith (Hamilton on Broadway, An Octoroon at Soho Rep), Matthew Stadelmann (Colt Coeur’s Dry Land), and Paul Wesley (“Vampire Diaries,” Cal in Camo (Colt Coeur/Rattlestick)).

Zürich will feature scenic design by John McDermott, costume design by Tilly Grimes, lighting design by Grant Yeager, sound design by Brendan Aanes, properties by Samantha Shofner, and production management & technical direction by Daniel Prosky. The production will be produced by Colt Coeur, with Jessica Rieken serving as Line-Producer and Shannon Buhler serving as Associate Producer. In addition, Abbie Betts will serve as Production Stage Manager with Katie Cecil Cairns as Assistant Stage Manager.

Tickets for Zürich, starting at just $20, are available for purchase online at https://www.nytw.org/show/zurich/tickets/?spektrix_bounce=true For more information about Colt Coeur and Zürich, please visit www.coltcoeur.org

ABOUT COLT COEUR & ZÜRICH

  Colt Coeur, an artists’ ensemble, collaboratively creates theater from the ground up. Founded in 2010, Colt Coeur has created and produced eight world-premieres: Seven Minutes in Heaven, together as a company with TONY-winning playwright Steven Levenson; Fish Eye, with playwright Lucas Kavner; Recall, by Eliza Clark; Everything is Ours, by Nikole Beckwith, and Dry Land, by Ruby Rae Spiegel, How to Live on Earth, by MJ Kaufman, aCal in Camo, by William Francis Hoffman (co-production with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), and Empathitrax (by Ana Nogueira). All eight of Colt Coeur’s productions have been New York Times and/or Time Out New York critic’s picks and played to sold-out houses.

The performance schedule for Zürich is Thursdays through Mondays at 7:30pm beginning on Saturday, April 14th. There will be a special performance Tuesday, May 1 st at 7:30pm. Zürich will run through Saturday, May 5 th , with a closing night benefit performance and after-party for Colt Coeur.

Zürich was commissioned and developed by Colt Coeur, in partnership with the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.

Zürich is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the new york city department of cultural affairs in partnership with the city council.

ABOUT NEXT DOOR AT NEW YORK THEATRE WORKSHOP

Next Door at NYTW provides a home for companies and artists who are producing their own work. Meeting the artists where they are in their process, this initiative provides each project with subsidized resources and space for development and performance in the newly renovated Fourth Street Theatre. As part of an ongoing effort to expand support for artists at every stage of their careers, this series will serve nearly 100 additional artists in the first year alone.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

AMELIA ROPER (Playwright) is an award winning Australian-American writer and activist, currently writing for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Marin Theatre Company, The Rose and adapting Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles for Yale Repertory Theatre. Her plays have been seen in Moscow, London, Sydney, Melbourne, the Humana Festival of New American Plays at ATL, Taffety Punk in DC, Square Product in Boulder, Prelude Festival NYC and Crowded Fire in SF. Showcase and developments include the Old Vic in London, Soho Rep Writer / Director Lab, Black Swan Lab at OSF, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, Kennedy Center in DC, Playwrights Realm in NYC, New Group NYC, The MacDowell Colony, Black Swan at OSF and Boston Court in LA. Published plays include Big Sky Town, Camberwell House and She Rode Horses Like The Stock Exchange with an introduction by Sarah Ruhl. New plays include Lottie in the Late Afternoon, Everything Is Nice, Aliya In Americaland and A Duck On A Bike. She works on the Netflix / Jenji Kohan show “GLOW”, develops TV and features in LA and Australia, works for Gloria Steinem, and is one of the original Hollywood women involved in the Time’sUp movement. Amelia has an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.

ADRIENNE CAMPBELL-HOLT (Director) is the Founding Artistic Director of Colt Coeur, a Brooklyn-based theatre company and the recipient of the 2018 Lucille Lortel Visionary Director Award. Upcoming: Downstairs by Theresa Rebeck at Primary Stages. Recent: Afterwords, a new musical by Zoe Sarnak and Emily Kaczmarek (Village Theater, Seattle), What We’re Up Against (WP Theater), world premiere of Empathitrax by Ana Nogueira (Colt Coeur @ HERE, 2016), world premiere of Cal in Camo by William Francis Hoffman (co-pro Rattlestick & Colt Coeur), Dear Elizabeth by Sarah Ruhl (Dorset Theater Festival). Other world premieres: Theresa Rebeck’s The Nest (Denver Theatre Company), One Child Born (Oberon at American Repertory Theater), How to Live on Earth by MJ Kaufman (Colt Coeur), Chiara Atik’s 52 nd to Bowery (EST Marathon), Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel (Colt Coeur), Greg Moss’ REUNION (South Coast Rep), Everything is Ours by Nikole Beckwith (Colt Coeur), Recall by Eliza Clark (Colt Coeur), Fish Eye (Colt Coeur), Seven Minutes in Heaven by Steven Levenson (Colt Coeur). Adrienne is a Time Warner/Women’s Project Lab 2014-2016 Fellow. She has developed work with La Jolla Playhouse, Roundabout Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Playwrights’ Center and EST. She is also the director of #makeitfair and the Associate Director on the Broadway production of Dear Evan Hansen. BA Barnard College, Columbia University.

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A Letter on Justice and Open Debate

July 7, 2020

The below letter will be appearing in the Letters section of the magazine’s October issue. We welcome responses at letters@harpers.org

“Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls for greater equality and inclusion across our society, not least in higher education, journalism, philanthropy, and the arts. But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity. As we applaud the first development, we also raise our voices against the second. The forces of illiberalism are gaining strength throughout the world and have a powerful ally in Donald Trump, who represents a real threat to democracy. But resistance must not be allowed to harden into its own brand of dogma or coercion—which right-wing demagogues are already exploiting. The democratic inclusion we want can be achieved only if we speak out against the intolerant climate that has set in on all sides.

The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted. While we have come to expect this on the radical right, censoriousness is also spreading more widely in our culture: an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism, and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty. We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. More troubling still, institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms. Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes. Whatever the arguments around each particular incident, the result has been to steadily narrow the boundaries of what can be said without the threat of reprisal. We are already paying the price in greater risk aversion among writers, artists, and journalists who fear for their livelihoods if they depart from the consensus, or even lack sufficient zeal in agreement.

This stifling atmosphere will ultimately harm the most vital causes of our time. The restriction of debate, whether by a repressive government or an intolerant society, invariably hurts those who lack power and makes everyone less capable of democratic participation. The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away. We refuse any false choice between justice and freedom, which cannot exist without each other. As writers we need a culture that leaves us room for experimentation, risk taking, and even mistakes. We need to preserve the possibility of good-faith disagreement without dire professional consequences. If we won’t defend the very thing on which our work depends, we shouldn’t expect the public or the state to defend it for us.”

Elliot Ackerman Saladin Ambar, Rutgers University Martin Amis Anne Applebaum Marie Arana, author Margaret Atwood John Banville Mia Bay, historian Louis Begley, writer Roger Berkowitz, Bard College Paul Berman, writer Sheri Berman, Barnard College Reginald Dwayne Betts, poet Neil Blair, agent David W. Blight, Yale University Jennifer Finney Boylan, author David Bromwich David Brooks, columnist Ian Buruma, Bard College Lea Carpenter Noam Chomsky, MIT (emeritus) Nicholas A. Christakis, Yale University Roger Cohen, writer Ambassador Frances D. Cook, ret. Drucilla Cornell, Founder, uBuntu Project Kamel Daoud Meghan Daum, writer Gerald Early, Washington University-St. Louis Jeffrey Eugenides, writer Dexter Filkins Federico Finchelstein, The New School Caitlin Flanagan Richard T. Ford, Stanford Law School Kmele Foster David Frum, journalist Francis Fukuyama, Stanford University Atul Gawande, Harvard University Todd Gitlin, Columbia University Kim Ghattas Malcolm Gladwell Michelle Goldberg, columnist Rebecca Goldstein, writer Anthony Grafton, Princeton University David Greenberg, Rutgers University Linda Greenhouse Rinne B. Groff, playwright Sarah Haider, activist Jonathan Haidt, NYU-Stern Roya Hakakian, writer Shadi Hamid, Brookings Institution Jeet Heer, The Nation Katie Herzog, podcast host Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College Adam Hochschild, author Arlie Russell Hochschild, author Eva Hoffman, writer Coleman Hughes, writer/Manhattan Institute Hussein Ibish, Arab Gulf States Institute Michael Ignatieff Zaid Jilani, journalist Bill T. Jones, New York Live Arts Wendy Kaminer, writer Matthew Karp, Princeton University Garry Kasparov, Renew Democracy Initiative Daniel Kehlmann, writer Randall Kennedy Khaled Khalifa, writer Parag Khanna, author Laura Kipnis, Northwestern University Frances Kissling, Center for Health, Ethics, Social Policy Enrique Krauze, historian Anthony Kronman, Yale University Joy Ladin, Yeshiva University Nicholas Lemann, Columbia University Mark Lilla, Columbia University Susie Linfield, New York University Damon Linker, writer Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Steven Lukes, New York University John R. MacArthur, publisher, writer

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