ANYONE. WANT TO TRADE BITCOIN IN USD VALUE FOR RUBLES?? I will make it worth your while by giving you a total of $50 value in the rubles.
If anyone has a better idea, please let me know.
26 Have you ever lived in a foreign country? Would you? Where?
We lived in Ceylon for three years and in India for two years. I went to preschool in Ceylon and my siblings all went to a Britsh school nearby . In India all of us (E]except for my baby brother who was only three when we arrived there) went to sachool at The American International School, now known as the Amercan Embasy School and considered one of the best schools in the world. My older brother met his furture wife there and they graduated high school together.
26 When you leave your home, what essentials do you have with you?
My glasses, my purse wth my wallet and checkbook and my iPhone, of course
22 What is your favourite writing implement - a fountain pen, ballpoint pen, pencil or something else?
My laptop!
23 Do you own many mirrors?
There's one in the bathroom, but I also had a small two-sided (one side was magnified) roundmirror on a stand which I cannot find!
Another interesting cake; this one is a glass of water and actually looks rather good, in my opinion!
One of a series of interesting cakes! I call this one "Cake on the Beach."
halfshellvenus pointed out that they very likely used ground-up graham crackers for the sand, and I agree with her.I love my birth name because as my niece put it, the Biblical Deborah, a judge, was a Bad-Ass!
2) If you could change your name to anything else, what would it be?
I wouldn't change it for the world. :D
3) What names would you consider giving your children?
I believe in using family names. I named my son Alexander after my grandmother's favorite brother, who, with her other brother, their wives, and the ten children between them, were all shot into a ditch in the Ukraine by the Nazis. Their village is on the infamous Gestapo Coffin Map, which showed the villages that were then Judenrein (Jew-Free)
If I had also had a daughter, she would have been named Sarah after a relative on my mother's side.
The Bad Girls, because it would be an all-girl band.
5) Is there a name that you completely hate? Why?
Leroy, the name of the taunting gardener Leroy Jessup, played by Henry Jones in the original version of the film, The Bad Seed. He was really a nasty character. Also that name just conjures up images of a drooling, knuckle-dragging hillbilly!
This lovely family portrait is by John Singleton Copley. What a lively group portrait! That'll be the longed-for son and heir who's reaching up to his daddy- the bluff, red-faced English squire. The wife looks bored, like she wishes she were anywhere else. Aren't the kids done well? - poliphilo
Compare this to Benjamin West's portrait of his own family a few posts back. This one is much more vivid and alive
The question is
Or would that simply be a stain
on our vast responsibility?
Maybe a teaspoon of sodium would help.
This is Benjamin West's Death of Wolfe. best known for big, splashy paintings of historical events. He did Bible stories, Roman history, medieval history and modern times. and was prolific in producing them. Sadly they are not very much to modern taste, being theatrical, melodramatic and often wildly inaccurate. If you set aside your prejudices it is possible to admire them for their energy and imagination. The best known of them, and one of the most carefully considered is his Death of Wolfe. Wolfe was the general who captured Quebec from the French- thus securing Canada for the British Empire. I do rather like it. As West's histories go it is really quite restrained. Wolfe was famous and singular among officers for carrying a rifle- just like a common soldier- and there it is discarded at his feet. West has done his research. -
poliphilo
16 Do you own your own washing machine in your home, or do you use a laundry service/laundry room in the building or a launderette?
I live in an assisted living facility now where all my laundry is done for me. When I last lived in a house I had my own washing machine, a top- loader, and a standard side-loading dryer.
This is John Singleton Copley's Watson and The Shark. A contemporary of Benjamin West (and also American-born), Copley was the more dynamic of the two painters.Watson and the Shark is the painting Copley took to London as his calling card. It illustrates an actual incident. Watson is the guy who's skinny-dipping. He survived with the loss of half a leg. There'd been nothing quite like it in the history of art and Copley never did anything quite like it again. Only a provincial could have pulled off something so outre and original. It's a heroic image, but it convinces in its heroism. You believe it. Every pose and gesture makes sense. It's dramatic not melodramatic- and it looks forward some fifty years to the romanticism of Gericault and Delacroix. -
poliphilo
Print by Benjamin West of the artist's family. t's called Mr West and his family. The original was painted by Mr West and commemorates a visit of his elderly male relatives to see his new-born second son. The two old gents are Quakers wearing Quaker gear- which is presumably why the Lewes Meeting House aquired it.
Mr West is Benjamin West, the American painter. Born in Pennsylvania, he studied in Italy, as one did, then moved to England where he prospered, becoming court painter to George III and the second president of the Royal Academy, in succession to Joshua Reynolds. He seems to have been an agreeable man. When the American colonies rebelled against the mother country he kept a discreet silence and wouldn't be drawn. Special thanks to
poliphilo.The UK, the Ukraine and Russia.
2. Is there a culture you cannot claim heritage from but which you feel quite close to?
India; having spent two years there as a child it's ingrained within me.
3. What's one language you wish you knew fluently?
Russian. I studied it for four years in high school but it's a very difficult language.
4. If you could move anywhere in the world and be guaranteed a job, etc., where would you go?
The UK.
5. If you had a time machine, and could witness any one event without altering or disturbing it, what would you want to see?
FDR's 4th Inauguration!
More Medieval Life! "Join the Army...Travel to Exotic lands...Meet interesting People...And Kill them."
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