Artist Lilian Broca has the most amazing mosaic Queen Esther series, she also has Lilith and Judith. Her work is breathtaking. Link for her work: http://www.lilianbroca.com/queen-esther-mosaics
Bridget Holmes (1591-1691) was a domestic servant at the
English royal court during the 17th century. As a “necessary woman”,
her jobs included cleaning the royal apartments and emptying and scouring
chamber pots. She lived through the reigns of seven monarchs (Elizabeth I,
James I, Charles I, Charles II, James II, William III and Mary II), the age of
Shakespeare, the age of discovery and the age of revolution. She served five of
the Stuart monarchs (Charles I, Charles II, James II, William III and Mary II)
and was considered to be a bit of a fixture at the court. She was so
well-respected and regarded with affection, as a lady of great age and of great
loyalty to the Stuart kings, that James II commissioned this portrait of her in
1686, probably painted by John Riley and John Closterman; an extravagant
commission but one certainly to James’ credit as this is one of the first
pre-eighteenth century portraits of a working class person. In this portrait,
Holmes teasingly brandishes her mop at a Page of the Backstairs, and the set-up
of the portrait treats her with great dignity.
Bridget died in 1691, at the age of 100. One of the longest
serving royal servants in history, she is buried in Westminster Abbey and there
is a monument noting the monarchs under which she dutifully served. This
portrait now resides in the state apartments of Windsor Castle.
Dieselpunk adventurers – among them an explorer, and and aviatrix – from illustrator Marc Scott. Pick an adventure seed, throw in a MagGuffin and you have yourself quite a story.
In 1962, Montreal resident Marilyn Rappaport’s sister was admitted to the Allan Memorial Institute (AMI) at McGill University to treat a minor psychological condition. Instead of receiving the expected care, however, she was subjected to a number of experimental procedures including 107 electric shock treatments and multiple drug-induced comas. Additionally, she underwent intense psychic driving: a treatment which consists of repeated audio messages being played to a patient while they are under the influence of LSD in an attempt to alter their behaviour. When she was discharged in 1964, she had no recollection of who she was, and, to this day, she has no memory of her life before the experiments. The Rappaports have joined other victims who continue to feel violated, and they are in the process of forming a class-action lawsuit against the Government of Canada, the Government of Quebec, and McGill University.
Rappaport’s sister was a victim of MK Ultra subproject 68: A series of experiments carried out during the 1950s and 60s by the Government of Canada in coordination with the US’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Unsuspecting patients like Rappaport’s sister were admitted for routinely-treated conditions such as anxiety or postpartum depression and were then subjected to psychedelic experiments without their consent.
“They basically fried her brain, […] because when she was […] finally discharged, she came home and was telling my mother that she was not my mother,” Rappaport said in an interview with The McGill Tribune. “Today, my sister is 77 years old, and when I visit her, she’s telling me that I’m not her sister. This needs to be corrected because it was criminal and there was no informed consent given.”
Julie Tanny, another Montreal resident, had her father recommended to the AMI in 1957 for treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia, a neurological condition resulting in shock-like pain which is usually concentrated on one side of the face. By the end of the year, his memory had also been completely erased.
The Oscar for most ominous fucking tag line EVER in a Disney film goes to…
I don’t know anything about Christopher Robin The Movie but between the Godfather-style tag and the fedora and umbrella if it’s not a spy thriller where Christopher Robin grew up to be a Cold War spy I shall be very put out.
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