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lronlacy.bsky.social
@lronlacy.bsky.social
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Pindaric flights - voli pindarici
Training: classical archaeology & Greek
Concern: civilization and more perfect unions
Tuscany, Italy
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For #NOVEMBER 2006
‘The Mountain-path’ Drawing by #JRRTolkien for the 1st ed. #TheHobbit (Ch. IV ‘Over Hill and Under Hill’) 1937. Coloured version by H. E. Hiddett, 1976, reproduced *Tolkien Calendar 2006* (HarperCollins) for November.
#illustrationart #illustrationartists
November 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Union Carbide. November 1964.
#plastics #researchanddevelopment #materials #UnionCarbide
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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In #NOVEMBER 1964
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‘Is it possible that a builder of space simulation equipment has a hand in Becky Hull's ballet lesson?’
#ballet #balletclass #balletlesson #balletteacher #dancestudio
November 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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#NOVEMBER 1954
‘Today’s production booster that adds a bonus of better quality to almost any crop is anhydrous ammonia. It’s the newest member of the Atlantic family of #petrochemicals. That’s why you see a miniature refinery superimposed on the field of growing corn.’
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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has already mastered the secret of juggling molecules, and is producing thousands of products synthetically - dyes, soaps, fibers, plastics. Now the final step, the free transformation of atoms, may be within reach of nuclear chemists probing atomic data.’
#Citibank #chemistry
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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#NOVEMBER 1951
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‘Chemical Industry ... and The National City Bank of New York’
Illustration by #WalterMurch (1907-1967)
#illustrationartists
‘The ancient dream of the alchemist - the transmutation of matter - is only a step away from realization today. The #chemicalindustry ➡️
November 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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‘Der Marshallplan hilft Europa’
Poster promoting the Marshall Plan.
November 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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#OTD in 1948
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L to R: President Truman, George C. Marshall, Paul Hoffman, and Averell Harriman in the oval office discussing the Marshall Plan. 29 November 1948.
#blackandwhitephotography #MarahallPlan #HarrySTruman #GeorgeCMarshall #AverellHarriman #OvalOffice
image from http://aracelirlunpocodehistoria.blogspot.com/2015/06/george-marsallel-plan-marsall-sus.html
November 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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#OTD in 1947
(Thanksgiving school pageant)
Cover of The New Yorker, November 29, 1947
Garrett Price
#TheNewYorkerCover #GarrettPrice #Thanksgiving #Pilgrims #theatre
November 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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‘. . . . .and starts to drill a series of holes in the stout timbers.’
‘Next Week - A Medieval “Blitz”’
#PrinceValiant #HalFoster
November 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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‘Stealthily he climbs onto the frame-work of the drawbridge. . . . .’
#PrinceValiant #HalFoster
November 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Last 3 panels:
‘Swimming under water, Val reaches the drawbridge and inches himself upward.’
#PrinceValiant #HalFoster
November 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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3: ‘Shouts of derision greet them from the castle walls, as Val circles the stronghold, searching for the weak spot.’
#PrinceValiant #HalFoster
November 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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2: ‘Near the Scottish border Val is surprised to find a troop of Arthur’s knights raging about a strong castle. “Gil Hirvis has been raiding our supply lines, but his castle is too strong for our assault,” they tell him.’
#PrinceValiant #HalFoster
November 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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the ladies of Camelot, Prince Valiant is sufficiently cured of his wounds to ride again and sets out to join King Arthur and his hardy knights.’
‘Val and his squire push swiftly northward through the dark oak forests; for Val has a score to settle with Vikings who tortured him.’
November 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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#OTD in 1942
*Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur*, written & illustrated by Hal Foster.
No. 303 - 29 November 1942
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First 3 panels
1: ‘Synopsis: In spite of the tender care showered on him by ➡️
November 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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#OTD in 1941
Cover of The New Yorker, November 29, 1941
Roger Duvoisin (1900-1980)
#TheNewYorkerCover #RogerDuvoisin #theatre
November 29, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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In #November 1938
‘Young girl, migratory worker, besides the tent in which she lives. Kern County, California.’
#FarmSecurityAdministration. November 1938.
#KernCounty #California
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/franklin/index.php?p=digitallibrary/digitalcontent&id=3319
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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“… I am using Jesus and Socrates for their presumed ethical significance in the development of law, or roughly speaking, civilization.” He also stated that the Jesus and Socrates panels were his most successful of the series.’
#Socrates 👉ALT
Socrates’ Boardman Robinson. Mural. Oil on canvas. Department of Justice Building, Washington DC. 1937. Carol M. Highsmith Photography ‘Socrates (469-399 BCE) – At the basis of his teachings, the Greek philosopher Socrates advocated for a purely objective understanding of concepts such as justice and virtue. He also emphasized rational argument and knowing one’s true self. Socrates’ philosophy is recorded in the writings of his pupil, Plato, and Plato’s pupil, Aristotle. Robinson depicts Socrates in a prison cell at the end of his life, awaiting execution for impiety and corruption. Behind him, a Greek vase possibly contains the poisonous hemlock he was sentenced to drink.’ https://www.gsa.gov/fine-arts#/artist/114
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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‘The cycle also includes two smaller panels under aluminum leaf rotundas depicting Jesus and Socrates’
‘Robinson was both a political radical and a committed Christian; of the Jesus and Socrates panels, he wrote, ...
#Jesus 👉ALT
‘Jesus’ Boardman Robinson. Mural. Oil on canvas. Department of Justice Building, Washington DC. 1937. Carol M. Highsmith Photography ‘Jesus (c. 4-6 BCE – c. 30-36 CE) – Jesus was a Jewish teacher and prophet who, in the Christian faith, is believed to be the Messiah and the incarnation of God. https://www.gsa.gov/fine-arts#/artist/114
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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‘Great Codifiers of the Law. Grotius - Vitoria. Socrates’ (Likeness of Vitoria a portrait of Dr. James Brown Scott, then the Secretary of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.)
#HugoGrotius 👉ALT
‘Hugo Grotius (1583-1645) - A Dutch jurist & humanist...the “father of international law.” In 1625, he wrote the 3-volume De Jure Belli ac Pacis (On the Law of War & Peace),...one of the earliest definitive texts on international law, along with those of Alberico Gentili & Francisco de Vitoria, pictured to the right of Grotius. Robinson depicted Grotius along a shoreline gesturing toward a departing ship, suggesting the global reach of his legal writings.’ ‘Francisco de Vitoria (1480-1546) – A Spanish Dominican friar & legal scholar...was one of the founders of modern international law & was known for defending the legal rights of American Indians. ... Robinson based this portrait on [Scott]... Upon viewing the mural, Scott wrote to Robinson, “Words fail me to express my appreciation of the magnificent mural of Francisco de Vitoria...[F]rom the bottom of his heart the unworthy one whose likeness likeness Vitoria bears...thanks you for the most perfect portrait he has ever had.”’
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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‘Holmes’ #BoardmanRobinson. Mural. Oil on canvas. Department of Justice Building, Washington DC. 1937.
#OliverWendellHolmes 👉ALT
‘Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) – An American attorney and law professor, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., served on both the Massachusetts State Supreme Court (1882-1902) and the United States Supreme Court (1902-1932). A widely cited and influential judge, he became well known for his liberal interpretation of the Constitution. A cornerstone of Holmes’s judicial philosophy was his belief that "the life of the law has not been logic, but experience," which is quoted in one of the murals by George Biddle in the Department of Justice building. Holmes passed away in March of 1935 just as Robinson began the mural cycle.’ https://www.gsa.gov/fine-arts#/artist/114
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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‘Thomas Aquinas’ #BoardmanRobinson. Mural. Oil on canvas. Department of Justice Building, Washington DC. 1937.
#ThomasAquinas 👉ALT
‘Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) - Thomas Aquinas was an Italian philosopher, theologian, and Dominican friar. Through the writing of almost eighty works, he attempted to resolve the conflict between faith and intellect. His Treatise on Law recognized four types of law—eternal, natural, human, and divine—with a special interest in the relationship between human nature and morality. Ultimately, the Treatise on Law helped form the basis for Catholic canon law. In a church-like setting, Aquinas in his priestly habit gestures to heaven with his right hand under a vaulted ceiling while holding a bible in his left.’ https://www.gsa.gov/fine-arts#/artist/114
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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In #NOVEMBER 1937
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Completed for #theNewDeal’s Treasury Section of Painting & Sculpture at the Dept. of Justice Blg. in Washington in 1936-1937, Boardman Robinson (1876–1952) painted an enormous set of 18 tempera murals “Great Events and Figures of Law”
MORE Events & Figures:
images from https://www.gsa.gov/fine-arts#/artist/114 Carol M. Highsmith Photography
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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In LATE #NOVEMBER 1936
‘Nationalist SM.81 aircraft bomb Madrid in late November 1936’
#blackandwhitephotography #warphotography #aerialphotography #SpanishCivilWar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War
November 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM