Angelica
Tea
Whitehall
Lace
Encaje
Sandals
St. Michael
John Constable
Mesa Verde
Message
Strait of Messina
Psalm 91:13
"Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet."
13super aspidem et basiliscum calcabis conculcabis leonem et draconem
13Tu marcheras sur le lion et
sur l'aspic, Tu foule
ras
le lionceau et le dragon.
Ps.91:13 Sobre
el león y la cobra pisarás; hollarás al leoncillo y a la serpiente.
13Auf den Löwen und die
Otter wirst du den Fuß setzen,
wirst den Junglöwen und den Drachen zertreten.
13Camminerai su aspidi e vipere,
schiaccerai leoni e draghi.
13Aşa vei putea călca
peste lei şi peste vipere,
peste leii cei tineri şi peste şerpi.
"the life of Britain, her message, and her glory"~~~Winston Churchill
"there is nothing ...half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats"~~~Kenneth Grahame
"at their savory dinner set
Of herbs, and other country messes"~~~Milton
In the chapel of St Michael in Westminster Abbey is a large marble monument to
Algernon Coote, Earl of Mountrath and his wife
Diana. He died on 27th August 1744 and was first buried in a vault in
Henry VII's chapel. His widow died on 14th July 1766 and was buried in a newly made vault in St Michael's chapel and the body of her husband was moved to the new vault.
The monument was designed by Sir William Chambers and made by Joseph Wilton. A life size figure of the Countess rises from her tomb, supported on the left by a descending angel among clouds, who points upwards. Formerly at the top of the monument was the figure of the Earl "seated in glory", with a vacant chair beside him awaiting his wife. In 1876 the monument was reduced in size and the Earl's figure taken away. The Latin inscription can be translated:
Achilles and Ajax playing a board game overseen by Athena.
"they have their ghastly origin in the rank miasma of the tarn"~~~Poe
"a perpetually burning city dump, contributing its miasmas and choking vapors to the murky sky"~~~Loren Eiseley
"A miasma of evil suddenly enveloped Profane from behind"~~~Thomas Pynchon
Mont St-Michel, Normandy, France
"Go, Michael, of celestial armies prince,
And thou, in military prowess next,
Gabriel; lead forth to battle these my sons
Invinvible; lead forth my armed saints
By thousands and by millions ranged for fight.
MILTON: Paradise Lost, VI, 44
"Bond shovelled the great wad of notes out on to the the table"~~~Ian Fleming
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
The Hay Wain is a painting by John Constable, finished in 1821, which depicts a rural scene
on the River Stour between
the English counties of Suffolk and Essex. It hangs in the National Gallery in London and is regarded as "Constable's
most famous image" and one of the greatest and most popular English paintings.[
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