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I contributed a chapter to
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Title: Blackwork
Fandom:RPF -- 16th century
Word Count: 1360 words
Rating: PG
Characters: Jane Seymour, Edward Seymour
Author's Note: My second yuletide fic! This stocking stuffer was written on the spur of the moment when I spotted a request by kenazfiction that was completely open for the 16th-17th century period. A plot bunny bit hard and, frankly, I would have ( Read more... )

A small set that's inspired, in part, by the recent Tate Exhibit: Holbein in England.


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The British Museum's running a new exhibition: A New World: England's First View of America which features the watercolours of John White who visited what is now North Carolina and Virginia in the late sixteenth century. His granddaughter, Virginia Dare, was the first English child born in North America. (More in a review of the exhibitionSpeaking ( Read more... )

• nutmeg3 pointed out a selection of great Hubble telescope pictures of celestial bodies (over at the Daily Mail)
• I don't have to teach today!
• Today is Sir John A. MacDonald's (first PM of Canada) celebrated birthday (there's some dispute as it was registered in Glasgow as happening on January 10). He'd be 192 years old, bless his rascally soul.
• The AGO is ( Read more... )

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In searching for an apt Latin tag with which to deliver a mock smackdown to my dear friend in snark, crankygrrl, I stumbled on this site: Latin Proverb of the Day.

Glee!

The blogger not only gives you a cunning Latin proverb, each day, but a phonetic pronunciation, the English translation and a lovely, rambling discussion of the proverb.

This evening, I've been screencapping clips from Superman Returns -- I have seventy caps so far from four of the clips and about as much still to come, I figure.

I found the clips more than a week ago, over at IGN's site and couldn't resist nabbing them since they were downloadable. Sad to say, IGN has watermarked the bottom righthand corner of ( Read more... )

Images from some of my favourite cities and sites in Europe:


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