Time for that celebration THREAD I promised that I'd host once we hit 1200 followers. So here's the newest painting analysis, this one of Cole's next painting in his Empire series of paintings. This one is about the flourishing of civilisation.

Bonne nuit, Vive la France & Romanian Folklkore Fact of the night is this; Căpcăun is a kind of brutal, man-eating ogre typically depicted with a human body and a dog's head. They represent pure, unyielding physical violence and lawlessness.

« Celui qui n'aime pas n'a pas connu Dieu, car Dieu est amour » 1 Jean 4:8, la Bible

The moon and the helm of a boat, from One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1887

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." Aristotle

La guerre de Cent Ans a duré 116 ans. Et les rois d'Angleterre se sont dits rois de France pendant plus de quatre siècles. Tout commence le 7 octobre 1337. Ce jour-là, le roi d'Angleterre, Édouard III, réclame la couronne de France. Neuf ans plus tôt, en 1328, le roi de France Charles IV meurt sans fils. C'est le dernier des trois fils de Philippe le Bel. Son plus proche parent masculin est son neveu, Édouard III. Le fils de sa sœur Isabelle. Les grands seigneurs français refusent un roi d'Angleterre. Ils choisissent un cousin, Philippe de Valois, qui devient Philippe VI. Pour Édouard, la couronne passe par sa mère. Pour les Français, une femme ne peut pas la transmettre. Édouard s'incline d'abord. Il prête même hommage à Philippe VI pour la Guyenne, ses terres du sud-ouest de la France. Le 24 mai 1337, Philippe VI confisque la Guyenne. Le 7 octobre, Édouard riposte. Il défie « Philippe, qui se dit roi de France ». Commence une guerre de plus d'un siècle. Crécy, Poitiers, Azincourt, Jeanne d'Arc. Elle s'achève en 1453, à Castillon, en Gironde. Les Anglais ne gardent que Calais, reprise en 1558. Mais les rois d'Angleterre ne renoncent pas au titre. Les lys de France restent sur leurs armoiries. Le dernier à se dire roi de France s'appelle George III. Il abandonne le titre en 1801. À cette date, la France n'a plus de roi. Elle a Bonaparte.

Time for that celebration THREAD I promised that I'd host once we hit 1200 followers. So here's the newest painting analysis, this one of Cole's next painting in his Empire series of paintings. This one is about the flourishing of civilisation.

My best work this week.

Figured I should repost this to here. What with how @J0hnADouglas has posted an essay to this effect. Mine predates these recent events by a year, and booooyyyyyyy did I get shouted down at the time. Funny how the turn tables turn.

⚔️🇩🇪15th Century Maille Construction in Germany-Tools & Techniques From the Book: Arms & Armor of the Medieval Knight by David Edge & John Miles Paddock. Places like Nuremberg had armorers that specialized solely in making maille during this period. 15th C. German made Maille shirts usually consisted of all Wedge riveted rings that were generally drawn from wire and were hardened steel, as opposed to alternating rows of stamped out iron rings mixed with riveted ones found more commonly on maille prior to the 14th century. Stamping rings out of a sheet also created excess waste (up to 70% of the sheet metal) & requires the need for 2 different processes. Dealing with two raw products could be too much hassle: For solid-riveted mail, medieval manufactures would have to get access to both wire and sheet metal, making it economically unviable. This may be a factor as to why we see them go to all riveted construction, as theoretically solid rings would be stronger and lighter than all wedge riveted rings (which create a “weak” spot.) Those precursors are produced more efficiently when craftsmen can commit to specializing (all riveted maille which requires one process and technique). It generally took over 30,000 links to make one maille shirt, with the average ring size around 8-10 mm in diameter for German maille during this time.

Absolument. Les institutions de l'Ouest et de l'Occident ont abandonné leurs traditions et histoire littéraire. Ce retombe sur nous, comme les moines du Moyen-Âge à les préserver et consolider.

« L'homme ne peut se refaire sans souffrir, car il est à la fois le marbre et le sculpteur. » Alexis Carrel

I see what you did there...and I'll raise you FMAB musique.

Raconte une histoire avec une seule image.

Julius Caesar's gear kept ending up in other people's hands. Early in the Gallic War, at Gergovia in 52 BC, he lost a fight to Vercingetorix and lost his sword with it. The Arverni hung it in a temple as a trophy. Plutarch says that years later Caesar walked in, saw it hanging there, and smiled. His officers wanted to tear it down. He told them to leave it, because it had been dedicated to the gods. He didn't fight like a general who stayed in the rear. Against the Nervii, with his line collapsing, he grabbed a shield off a soldier in the back ranks, pushed his way to the front and started calling centurions by name. At Alesia, his own account says his men knew he was coming by the color of the cloak he wore into battle, and the Gauls knew it too. That cloak nearly cost him in Egypt. During the fighting in Alexandria in 48 BC he had to jump off a ship and swim for it. He kept his papers above the water with one hand and, according to Suetonius, dragged his general's cloak behind him with his teeth so the enemy wouldn't take it. Cassius Dio says the Egyptians got it anyway and hung it up as a trophy. On the Ides of March he wore no armor at all. He had dismissed his Spanish bodyguard months before. He died in a toga. And that toga became the most powerful thing he ever wore. At his funeral, Mark Antony held it up on a spear so the crowd could see the stab holes and the blood. Rome lost its mind. The crowd built a pyre right there in the Forum, and Suetonius says his veterans threw the armor they had worn in his campaigns into the flames with him. The man had conquered Gaul. Almost none of his armor survives. What people remembered was a sword he let his enemies keep, a cloak he tried to save with his teeth, and a bloody toga that started a civil war.

Hattusa is an ancient city, the capital of the Hittite Empire, located in the Boğazkale district of Çorum province. Used as a settlement by the Hittites around 1650 BC, the site reached the peak of the empire during the reign of Suppiluliuma I in the 13th century BC, and is famous for its massive walls, temples (such as the Great Temple), royal palaces, and underground cisterns. A UNESCO World Heritage site, the city was abandoned with the collapse of the Hittite Empire around 1200 BC and partially used by the Assyrians and Phrygians. Archaeological excavations have been carried out by German teams since 1906, and cuneiform tablets have shed light on Hittite mythology and history.

Halloween in Old Disney 🎃✨

Le genre de projet que si tu peux le supporter, tu devrais.

"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." Elrond, The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien