#Ross Bingley

[istanblogs]

Brotherhood is about feelings, not only blood relative.

Grantchester - Sidney and Geordie

Poldark - Ross and Dwight

War and Peace - Pierre and Andrei

Tudors - Henry and Charles

Victoria - Albert and Ernest

Peaky Blinders - Thomas and Arthur

Bridgerton - Anthony and Benedict

Titanic - Jack and Fabrizio

Pride and Prejudice - Darcy and Bingley

[rock-and-roll-hell]

September 5, 1980

unmasked tour

Bingley hall - Stafford, England

📸: Ross Halfin

"Truth to tell, the last couple of the band's concerts I attended in the States were really very much perfunctory, going through-the-motions sort of affairs. While the gigs were enjoyable on the level of total extravagance, it was obvious that the KIϟϟ members themselves had become jaded and disenchanted with their roles, like a quartet of actors who've played the same parts in the same play for so long that their performances have become quite spiritless. But the departure of Peter Criss (always a weak link) and the arrival of the excellent Eric Carr has heralded a new beginning for the group. The Foxy fellow doesn't bother to sing 'Beth' from a stool and toss red roses into the audience, he just concentrates on the job at hand and contributes a less pedestrian, more driving beat than his predecessor, strengthening up the band's backbone for the first time in years" (Sounds, 9/13/80).

Iron Maiden, who had then recently toured the U.K. in support of their debut album, took a break for KIϟϟ' U.K. leg. KIϟϟ conducted a U.K. press conference on September 4 after arriving in country on the 3rd. The band was invited to a dinner at Legends on Old Burlington Street on the evening of the 4th. The guests included representatives from Phonogram including managing directors, product and marketing managers, and A&R/press staff.

[bethanydelleman]

Hello! How are you?

I am reading about political parties during the Regency era and I have a question. Which of Austen's characters do you think are Whigs and which are Tories?

You really going to force me to relearn what Whigs and Tories were? Cruel, cruel nonnie. I'm going to cheat, this is from my favourite thesis on Jane Austen, Above the Vulgar Economy:

As Josephine Ross in Jane Austen: A Companion maintains,

The clear-cut distinctions of modern parliamentary politics had yet to emerge; and while the Whigs in the House of Commons tended to represent the interests of the aristocracy and upper classes, as well as expressing liberal ideals, the Tories – with their broad adherence to the more traditionally middle-class principles of upholding the Crown and keeping disaffection in check – were more identified with the landed gentry, and educated, but modestly situated, families such as the Austens.

At the time, the two party system was still evolving, and there was a great deal of dissention in the ranks. There were reactionaries, reformers and radical members in both parties. There were conservative, moderate and liberal Tories, and the Whig party was factionalized into Portland Whigs, Rockingham Whigs, Benthamites and Foxites to name a few.

Also, I have gotten the impression from reading other novels (eg. Wives & Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell) from the time that often people knew which party their family voted for, but knew almost nothing else. Something that totally still happens today!

Here is another great passage:

In fact, when Pride & Prejudice was originally written as First Impressions in 1796 and 1797, Austen‟s novel appears to have been taking a stand in favor of two controversial economic proposals being debated in the House of Commons and in the press, a national minimum wage and Poor Law reform, thus Pride & Prejudice was much more than a satire of manners but was also a political critique of Jane Austen's society. Both proposals were championed at the time by Tory Prime Minister William Pitt, the Younger and supported by liberal Tories and moderate Whigs. Both proposals were vehemently opposed by reactionary Tories and radical Whigs. The eligible bachelors in Pride & Prejudice are all associated with the Whig party, as is Lady Catherine de Bourgh, but the characters, like the Whigs in the House of Commons, have very different attitudes towards money and the working class.

Additionally, Austen's contemporaries would have known that Elizabeth Bennet's agricultural county, Hertfordshire, was, at least for the working class, the poorest county in England, just as Fitzwilliam Darcy's Derbyshire, financially stimulated by the Industrial Revolution, was the richest county, and Lady Catherine de Bourgh‟s Kent was a mixed county that varied enormously, from parish to parish, in prevailing wages and in treatment of the poor. The admirable Whig characters, like Fitzwilliam Darcy and Charles Bingley, are kindly and generous, while the radical Whig, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, is selfish and stingy, and George Wickham is simply an opportunist and a scoundrel. By its presentation of the different Whig characters, the text appears to be appealing to Whigs to be generous to the working class and encouraging Tories to look approvingly on those Whigs who are willing to financially support the poor.

Pride and Prejudice also includes a large number of characters who are servants, many identified by name. As most of them have no dialogue and do nothing to forward the plot, their presence in the novel at all may seem curious, but the depiction of the working class in Pride and Prejudice is more subtle to the modern reader than it would have been to Austen‟s original readers. The servants in Pride and Prejudice refute the assumptions of prominent Whig economists and politicians, Edmund Burke, Frederic Eden and Patrick Colquhoun, who depicted the lower class as ignorant, wasteful and immoral. Lady Catherine‟s financial neglect of the poor in Kent conforms to the economists‟ advice based on their assumptions that the working class was already adequately compensated for its labor and that poverty was the result of the irresponsible behavior of the poor. In stark contrast, Fitzwilliam Darcy‟s generosity to the poor in Derbyshire serves as a model response to poverty, and the general prosperity of Darcy‟s home county suggests that the solution to poverty is a combination of higher wages and liberal charity, exactly what the Prime Minister was proposing in 1797.

The general impression that I have gotten is that both Whigs and Tories were relatively ineffective. Anyway, a pretty clear answer for one character:

Pride and Prejudice‟s hero is almost certainly a Whig as well since the choice of the name, Fitzwilliam Darcy, is highly suggestive. Lord Fitzwilliam, later Earl Fitzwilliam, was from the north of England and, as historian William Hague describes him, one of the “Three great Earls of the Whig aristocracy”

Anywho, I'm not going to go through and sort them all since it seems fairly ambiguous who would be affiliated with which party. Also, almost everyone on earth holds some views that are extremely contradictory, so it's impossible to tell.

[snakebusters]

Reptile parties man honours dead American. George Floyd is recognized by having a new species of turtle named in his honour.A peer reviewed paper has formally named a recently discovered species of Australian Saw-shelled Turtle Wollumbinia georgefloydi Hoser, 2021 in honour of George Floyd. Floyd was bashed and killed by four police officers at Minnesota, USA, in 2020 and his death sparked outrage and protests globally. The naming of this turtle in honour of George Floyd follows a massive three volume monograph on the Australasian Tree Frogs published by Hoser in 2020 in which Hoser announced the formal discovery of 62 new species. One of those new to science species was also named in honour of George Floyd. At that time, Raymond Hoser wrote: “The species is named in honour of the late George Floyd, a victim of an unprovoked attack by four thug police officers at Powderhorn, in downtown Minneapolis, USA, on 25 May 2020.” A second frog species was also named Kumanjayiwalkerus kumanjayi in honour of Kumanjayi Walker a 19 year old Aboriginal (Black) Australian who was unlawfully shot and killed by a police officer in 2019. Hoser wrote: “The species Kumanjayiwalkerus kumanjayi sp. nov. is named in honour Kumanjayi Walker, another indigenous Australian victim of an execution by a racist white Australian police officer in the Northern Territory (NT), being one of over 400 such victims in Australia since 1990. The 19 year old was shot and killed by NT Police Officer Zachary Rolfe in November 2019.” Hoser also wrote: “The world is full of memorials and species named in honour mass murderers, thieves and despots and it is appropriate that victims of these people should also be honoured occasionally.” The frog paper was published in hard copy on Friday 5 June 2020 and following publication of this paper, a number of people have heeded Hoser’s words and toppled statues of racists and murderers and thrown them into rivers and lakes. The paper naming the new turtle species in honour of George Floyd was published on 16 August 2021. Wollumbinia georgefloydi occurs in the wet tropics region of north Queensland, Australia, bounded by the Burdekin Gap in the South and found as far north as about Cape Flattery. Hoser also named another newly discovered species Wollumbinia darnellafrazierae Hoser, 2021. Wollumbinia darnellafrazierae is named in honour of Darnella Frazier. Born 2003 in Nashville, Tennessee to parents LaTangie Gillespie and James Frazier. She has three brothers and one sister. Most of Darnella’s life, however, has been spent in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After being active in varsity basketball, she graduated from Roosevelt High School in that city. She is an American woman who (at age 17) video recorded the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and then posted her video on Facebook. Because Frazier’s video contradicted the initial Minneapolis police account of Floyd’s death, it sparked global protests regarding police abuse, lies and corruption. Demonstrations demanding justice for Floyd exploded over the summer of 2020 involving an estimated 26 million U.S. citizens in more than 2,000 cities across the nation. Similar protests took place in over 60 nations around the world. The Frazier video sparked the greatest level of demonstrations and protest in human history. More immediately her video led to more intense monitoring of police behaviour around the world including investigations of past acts of police killings of unarmed black men, women, and children. Without her video, the Floyd death would have been ignored and the victim blamed.The genus name Myuchelys Thomson and Georges, 2009 was illegally coined as a genus name to over-write Wollumbina Wells, 2007 by a pair of taxonomic vandals and police protected criminals, Scott Thomson and Arthur Georges. The name Myuchelys is an objective junior synonym of Wollumbina and the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) has ruled that the illegally coined Myuchelys should never be used. In spite of the ICZN ruling of 2021 against the thieves, Thomson and Georges have aggressively promoted their illegal name online, including on wikipedia pages that they obsessively control and so a warning against their reckless misinformation is given here.Raymond Hoser, is the world’s foremost expert on reptiles and frogs. He has authored numerous major books on wildlife, handles the world’s deadliest snakes on a daily basis, does reptile shows for kids and adults and invented Reptile Parties for birthday parties, which are now copied by businesses worldwide and hailed as one of the greatest wildlife conservation and education initiatives in recent times. To date he has discovered and named over 350 species of reptiles, as well as discovering and naming dozens of species of frogs and mammals. Not as well-known is that in 1990 Hoser was bashed by several police in a police station in Melbourne, Australia and nearly killed in the same manner George Floyd died. Hoser escaped that attack with a broken nose, smashed back and arms and required surgery and years of ongoing medical treatment. He also got hit with a series of falsified criminal charges which he eventually beat. Hoser's story was published in the best-selling books The Hoser Files and Victoria Police Corruption - 2. The Victoria police officer who led the attack on Hoser, Richard George Valentine was found guilty in the courts of unlawful assault at the same time Hoser's name was cleared of the false charges, but Valentine kept his job in the police where he could continue to engage in acts of corruption and brutality. The lead police witness against Hoser was a rent-a-witness, being a police protected criminal and pedophile named Brett David Winduss, whom even Valentine could not protect forever and was eventually jailed for a vicious attack on young girl in Kew, Melbourne. The unprovoked attack on Hoser by the corrupt police was sparked after Hoser complained in writing of another police officer (Ross Bingley) who was corruptly protecting a gang of criminals attacking taxi drivers in the 1980's. While an internal police investigation also found against Bingley, he too kept his job. Hoser noted "Watching the attack on George Floyd on TV, brought back the memories of the pain and suffering I suffered at the hands of Valentine and his gang of thugs 30 years ago. ... it hit a raw nerve. ... even now I suffer 24/7 pain in my back, elbows and hands as a result of several police jumping on top of me on the floor of the Kew Police station. ... this sort of vicious attack you never recover from."

[magravenwrites]

Requests are CLOSED!

Rules:

Please send in your request as an ask!

If you don't specify a pronoun, I will write fem!reader.

I will write character pairings as well as 'x reader'. Just let me know which pairing you want written/made.

Prompts can include song prompts, or be general prompts, but I ask for you to be as specific as you can, so I can try and write something you will like!

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I will write pretty much anything - fluff, angst, au's, crossovers and smut... 😉

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You can find a list of fandoms and characters I write for below the cut.

If you would like to request something for another fandom or character that isn't listed, just send me an ask and I will do my best to complete it for you!

Bridgerton:

Anthony Bridgerton

Benedict Bridgerton

Colin Bridgerton

Simon Basset

Daphne Bridgerton

Eloise Bridgerton

Penelope Featherington

Marina Thompson

Downton Abbey:

Matthew Crawley

Tom Branson

William Mason

Bertie Pelham

Henry Talbot

Thomas Barrow

John Bates

Atticus Aldridge

Mary Crawley

Edith Crawley

Sybil Crawley

Rose MacClare

Anna Bates

Lucy Smith

Grishaverse:

(I have not read the books yet, so works will be mainly based off the show)

Kaz Brekker

Jesper Fahey

The Darkling/General Aleksander Kirigan

Matthias Helvar

Malyen 'Mal' Oretsev

Inej Ghaffa

Alina Starkov

Nina Zenik

Harry Potter:

Harry Potter

Ron Weasley

Bill Weasley

Charlie Weasley

Percy Weasley

Fred Weasley

George Weasley

Cedric Diggory

Neville Longbottom

Draco Malfoy

Oliver Wood

Seamus Finnigan

Dean Thomas

Hermione Granger

Ginny Weasley

Luna Lovegood

Young Sirius Black

Young Remus Lupin

Young James Potter

Young Lily Evans/Potter

Young Tom Riddle

The Hunger Games:

Peeta Mellark

Gale Hawthorne

Finnick Odair

Katniss Everdeen

Johanna Mason

Annie Cresta

Marvel:

(I am not up-to-date on all Marvel films/series, so please bare with me)

Steve Rogers/Captain America

Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier

Sam Wilson/Falcon

Loki Laufeyson

Thor Odinson

Peter Parker/Spider-man

Bruce Banner/Hulk

Clint Barton/Hawkeye

T'Challa/Black Panther

Scott Lang/Ant-man

Peter Quill/Star-Lord

Drax

Dr Stephen Strange

Vision

Nick Fury

MJ

Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow

Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch

Gamora

Maze Runner:

Thomas

Newt

Alby

Minho

Gally

Chuck

Frypan

Winston

Teresa

Narnia:

Peter Pevensie

Edmund Pevensie

Prince Caspian X

Mr Tumnus

Susan Pevensie

Lucy Pevensie

Poison Study/Glass series:

Valek

Ari

Janco

Leif

Yelena

Opal

Iris

Pride and Prejudice:

Mr Darcy

Mr Bingley

Elizabeth Bennet

Jane Bennet

Sense and Sensibility:

Colonel Brandon

Edward Ferrars

Elinor Dashwood

Marianne Dashwood

The Last Kingdom:

Uhtred

Finan

Sihrtic

Osferth

Aethelstan

Alfred

Aldhelm

Gisela

Stiorra

Thyra

Eadith

Aethelflead

Ealhswith

Throne of Glass:

(I have not read the last book yet so please bare with me)

Dorian Havilliard

Chaol Westfall

Rowan

Lorcan

Celaena Sardothien-

-Aelin Galathynius

Manon Blackbeak

Asteria Blackbeak

Elide Lochan

Lord of the Rings:

Aragorn

Legolas

Gimli

Frodo

Sam

Merry

Pippin

Boromir

Éomer

Elrond

Arwen

Galadriel

Éowyn

The Hobbit:

Thorin

Balin

Dwalin

Fili

Kili

Bofur

Thranduil

Bard

Tauriel

Poldark:

Ross Poldark

Francis Poldark

Drake Carne

Sam Carne

Jeffry Charles Poldark

Dwight Enys

George Warleggan

Demelsa

Caroline

Rosina

Elizabeth

Morwenna

Peaky Blinders:

Tommy Shelby

John Shelby

Arthur Shelby

Michael Gray

Ada Shelby

Polly Gray

[wouldntyoulichentoknow]

... carol (or susan) and elizabeth as jane and elizabeth bennet, in pride and prejudice AU? happy mouseday!

POV you’re Doug Bingley Ross and you’re about to fall madly in love if she and her sister would just stop laughing at how dumb your cravat looks!!!

[luissescribano]

#kisstory : Kiss September 5, 1980 UNMASKED TOUR, Bingley Hall, Country Showgrounds, Stafford, England, UK. European openers IRON MAIDEN had recently toured their home country extensively with their first album, so they opted to take a break from the tour, and GIRL, the band featuring Phil Lewis (soon to be singer with L.A. GUNS) and Phil Collen (soon to be in DEF LEPPARD) along with the Laffy brothers, Gerry and Simon, were brought in to open the five shows in England. GIRL had a cover of KISS' DO YOU LOVE ME? on their debut album SHEER GREED. In 1989, NOLA's own LILLIAN AXE covered MY NUMBER, another song from SHEER GREED. From SOUNDS magazine (09/13/1980): "The departure of Peter Criss (always a weak link) and the arrival of the excellent Eric Carr has heralded a new beginning for the group. The foxy fellow doesn't bother to sing BETH from a stool and toss red roses into the audience, he just concentrates on the job at hand and contributes a less pedestrian, more driving beat than his predecessor, strengthening up the band's backbone for the first time in years." Photography by Ross Halfin. Info Troy Allemand Thank Friend. 🔥👊 . . . . . #endoftheroadtour #kiss2019 #kissfans #kissforever #kissband #kissonline #kissarmyrocks #kissarmy #kissrocks #kissteria #kissbandrock #kissnation #kiss #kissmakeup #kissarmysweden #hardrock #kisscollection #legendrock #paulstanley #genesimmons #ericcarr #acefrehleyfans #acefrehley #unmasked #kissendoftheroadtour #fox #demon #starchild #spaceman https://www.instagram.com/p/B2E9B-eIbjD/?igshid=laevkufmpavp

[rapidsnakeremoval]

George Floyd gets a frog named in his honour. He also had a turtle named in his honour as well. George Floyd was recognized by having a new species of turtle named in his honour.A peer reviewed paper has formally named a recently discovered species of Australian Saw-shelled Turtle Wollumbinia georgefloydi Hoser, 2021 in honour of George Floyd. Floyd was bashed and killed by four police officers at Minnesota, USA, in 2020 and his death sparked outrage and protests globally. The naming of this turtle in honour of George Floyd follows a massive three volume monograph on the Australasian Tree Frogs published by Hoser in 2020 in which Hoser announced the formal discovery of 62 new species. One of those new to science species was also named in honour of George Floyd. At that time, Raymond Hoser wrote: “The species is named in honour of the late George Floyd, a victim of an unprovoked attack by four thug police officers at Powderhorn, in downtown Minneapolis, USA, on 25 May 2020.” A second frog species was also named Kumanjayiwalkerus kumanjayi in honour of Kumanjayi Walker a 19 year old Aboriginal (Black) Australian who was unlawfully shot and killed by a police officer in 2019. Hoser wrote: “The species Kumanjayiwalkerus kumanjayi sp. nov. is named in honour Kumanjayi Walker, another indigenous Australian victim of an execution by a racist white Australian police officer in the Northern Territory (NT), being one of over 400 such victims in Australia since 1990. The 19 year old was shot and killed by NT Police Officer Zachary Rolfe in November 2019.” Hoser also wrote: “The world is full of memorials and species named in honour mass murderers, thieves and despots and it is appropriate that victims of these people should also be honoured occasionally.” The frog paper was published in hard copy on Friday 5 June 2020 and following publication of this paper, a number of people have heeded Hoser’s words and toppled statues of racists and murderers and thrown them into rivers and lakes. The paper naming the new turtle species in honour of George Floyd was published on 16 August 2021. Wollumbinia georgefloydi occurs in the wet tropics region of north Queensland, Australia, bounded by the Burdekin Gap in the South and found as far north as about Cape Flattery. Hoser also named another newly discovered species Wollumbinia darnellafrazierae Hoser, 2021. Wollumbinia darnellafrazierae is named in honour of Darnella Frazier. Born 2003 in Nashville, Tennessee to parents LaTangie Gillespie and James Frazier. She has three brothers and one sister. Most of Darnella’s life, however, has been spent in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After being active in varsity basketball, she graduated from Roosevelt High School in that city. She is an American woman who (at age 17) video recorded the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and then posted her video on Facebook. Because Frazier’s video contradicted the initial Minneapolis police account of Floyd’s death, it sparked global protests regarding police abuse, lies and corruption. Demonstrations demanding justice for Floyd exploded over the summer of 2020 involving an estimated 26 million U.S. citizens in more than 2,000 cities across the nation. Similar protests took place in over 60 nations around the world. The Frazier video sparked the greatest level of demonstrations and protest in human history. More immediately her video led to more intense monitoring of police behaviour around the world including investigations of past acts of police killings of unarmed black men, women, and children. Without her video, the Floyd death would have been ignored and the victim blamed.The genus name Myuchelys Thomson and Georges, 2009 was illegally coined as a genus name to over-write Wollumbina Wells, 2007 by a pair of taxonomic vandals and police protected criminals, Scott Thomson and Arthur Georges. The name Myuchelys is an objective junior synonym of Wollumbina and the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) has ruled that the illegally coined Myuchelys should never be used. In spite of the ICZN ruling of 2021 against the thieves, Thomson and Georges have aggressively promoted their illegal name online, including on wikipedia pages that they obsessively control and so a warning against their reckless misinformation is given here.Raymond Hoser, is the world’s foremost expert on reptiles and frogs. He has authored numerous major books on wildlife, handles the world’s deadliest snakes on a daily basis, does reptile shows for kids and adults and invented Reptile Parties for birthday parties, which are now copied by businesses worldwide and hailed as one of the greatest wildlife conservation and education initiatives in recent times. To date he has discovered and named over 350 species of reptiles, as well as discovering and naming dozens of species of frogs and mammals. Not as well-known is that in 1990 Hoser was bashed by several police in a police station in Melbourne, Australia and nearly killed in the same manner George Floyd died. Hoser escaped that attack with a broken nose, smashed back and arms and required surgery and years of ongoing medical treatment. He also got hit with a series of falsified criminal charges which he eventually beat. Hoser's story was published in the best-selling books The Hoser Files and Victoria Police Corruption - 2. The Victoria police officer who led the attack on Hoser, Richard George Valentine was found guilty in the courts of unlawful assault at the same time Hoser's name was cleared of the false charges, but Valentine kept his job in the police where he could continue to engage in acts of corruption and brutality. The lead police witness against Hoser was a rent-a-witness, being a police protected criminal and pedophile named Brett David Winduss, whom even Valentine could not protect forever and was eventually jailed for a vicious attack on young girl in Kew, Melbourne. The unprovoked attack on Hoser by the corrupt police was sparked after Hoser complained in writing of another police officer (Ross Bingley) who was corruptly protecting a gang of criminals attacking taxi drivers in the 1980's. While an internal police investigation also found against Bingley, he too kept his job. Hoser noted "Watching the attack on George Floyd on TV, brought back the memories of the pain and suffering I suffered at the hands of Valentine and his gang of thugs 30 years ago. ... it hit a raw nerve. ... even now I suffer 24/7 pain in my back, elbows and hands as a result of several police jumping on top of me on the floor of the Kew Police station. ... this sort of vicious attack you never recover from." For further information and hi res. photos of the relevant new species contact Raymond Hoser in Australia on: +61412777211

[heatherfield]

Tagged by the lovely @austennerdita2533. Thank you! Sorry it’s taken me awhile to get to it.

1. Favourite book of all time?

I really do have too many favourites, but I’d probably have to choose “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen. Boring, I know, but there it is. :P

2. What are you currently reading?

I just finished the worst book called “Ruby McBride” (and yes, I totally picked it up because of the name) and I’m still working my way through “Dragonfly in Amber” by Diana Gabaldon.

3. Have you ever considered writing a book?

YES. I have a couple of stories in mind that could work. (I don’t imagine ever making a living off of writing, but more and more I’d love to at least get one or two things published—which is not an unreasonable goal, I think.)

4. Favourite series?

“The Christy Miller Series” by Robin Jones Gunn. (Honourable mentions: the “Anne of Green Gables” series and the “Little House on the Prairie” series.)

5. Book you’d like to read?

So many! I’ve been meaning to read “The Luminaries” by Eleanor Catton, among others.

6. What’s on your Tbr pile?

A billion, really, but immediately on my nightstand:

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton

The rest of the “Cousins’ War” series by Philippa Gregory

The Lost Diaries of Susanna Moodie by Cecily Ross (plus the original books by Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Trail)

The rest of the “Morland Dynasty” series by Catherine Eagle Harrod (although it’s a lot and I’m not super eager, so we’ll see)

so many classics! The Professor by Charlotte Bronte comes to mind

“100 Years of Fashion”

the iZombie comics (I’m on the second one)

7. Favourite fictional character(s)?

( @austennerdita2533 I love all of your answers!) Goodness, this is like choosing favourite children. Anne Shirley is way up their, but I also have a soft spot for the less flashy characters, like Fanny Price. Jane Bennet is one of my absolute favourites. 

8. Favourite ship of all time?

How much time do you have??

Christy and Todd from “The Christy Miller Diaries”

Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe

Jane Bennet and Charles Bingley (let’s be real, I love all the Jane Austen couples)

John Harmon and Bella Wilfer from “Our Mutual Friend”

Elizabeth Woodville and Edward IV (That counts, right?)

9. Pick up the book closest to you, open page one and write down the first paragraph.

Sadly, I am in the family room and nowhere near my books.

10. What’s the 1st fandom you were in?

Oh I was going to say “Little House on the Prairie” but first was totally “The Babysitters Club” hahaha.

Tagging: whoever would like to do this! Specifically, @thefaultinourstarwhale, @boleyngirl39, @mystical-flute, @bookwormchocaholic, and @jennellynelly, if you’d like. :D

[nellygwyn]

Covent Garden Lovers

courtesy of Hallie Rubenhold’s “The Covent Garden Ladies”

A list of the notable and famous frequenters of London’s brothels in the latter half of the 1700s. “Patrons du peche” (patrons of sin)

Look out for the royalty, and the great and the “good.”

Lord Chief Justice Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth

Admiral George Anson, 1st Baron Anson

Sir William Apreece

Sir Richard Atkins

Sir John Aubrey, MP

Richard Barry, 7th Earl of Barrymore

Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl of Bathurst

Sir Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan

Captain George Maurice Bisset (yes, THAT George Bisset, of Lady Seymour Worsley’s scandal)

Admiral Edward Boscawen 

Hugh Boscawen, 2nd Viscount Falmouth

James Boswell (diarist, great friend of Samuel Johnson)

Sir Orlando Bridgeman

Thomas Bromley, 2nd Baron Montfort

Captain John Byron (Lord Byron’s grandfather)

John Calcraft, MP

Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll

John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll

John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun

George Capell, 4th Earl of Essex

David Carnegie, Lord Rosehill

John Cleland (writer of the pornographic novel “Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure”)

Henry Fiennes Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln.

Robert “Cock-a-doodle-doo” Coates

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess of Cornwallis

Colonel John Coxe

William Craven, 6th Baron Craven

His Royal Highness, Prince Ernest, Duke of Cumberland

His Royal Highness, Prince Henry Frederick, Duke of Cumberland

His Royal Highness, Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland

The Honourable John Damer

Sir Francis Dashwood, Lord Despenser (founder of “The Hellfire Club” and Chancellor of the Exchequer)

Francis Drake Delevel

Reverend William Dodd

George Bubb Doddington, Lord Melcombe

William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensbury

Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville

George Montagu Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax

Sir Henry Elchin

Richard Edgecumbe, Lord Mount Edgecumbe

Sir Charles Fielding, son of the Earl of Denbigh

The Honourable John Finch

John Fitzpatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory

Samuel Foote (theatre manager and dramatist)

Charles James Fox (prominent Whig statesman, arch-enemy of William Pitt the Younger)

Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland

George Fox-Lane, 3rd Baron Bingley

John Frederick, 3rd Duke of Dorset

His Majesty, King George IV (oh, what a surprise)

Sir John Graeme, 3rd Duke of Montrose

Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning

Charles Hanbury-Williams (British envoy to the court of Russia, introduced Catherine the Great to her lover, Stanislaw Poniatowski)

Colonel George Hanger

Count Franz Xavier Haszlang, Bavarian Envoy to London

Judge Henry Gould

Robery Henley, 1st Earl of Northington

Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (great-great-great-great grandson of King Charles II)

Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke

Joseph Hickey

William Hickey

William Holles, 2nd Viscount Vane

Rear-Admiral Charles Holmes

Admiral Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood

Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk

Thomas Howard, 3rd Earl of Effingham

Admiral Lord Richard Howe, 4th Viscount Howe

Thomas Jefferson (not that TJeffs; manager of the Drury Lane Theatre)

John Phillip Kemble

Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel

William John Kerr, 5th Marquess of Lothian

Sir John Lade

Penistone Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne

William Longhorne (the poet laureate)

Lord Edward Ligonier

Field Marshall John Ligonier, 1st Earl of Ligonier

Simon Luttrell, 1st Baron Carhampton

Thomas Lyttleton, 2nd Baron Lyttleton

Kenneth Francis Mackenzie, 4th Earl of Seaforth

Charles Macklin

The Honourable Captain John Manners

John Manners, 3rd Duke of Rutland

Charles Maynard, 1st Viscount Maynard

Captain Anthony George Martin

James Macduff, 2nd Earl of Fife

Captain Thomas Medlycott

Isaac Mendez

Major Thomas Metcalfe

Sir George Montgomerie Metham

John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich

Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton

Arthur Murphy

Richard “Beau” Nash (famous dandy, popularised ballroom etiquette at the assemblies in Bath)

Francis John Needham, MP

Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny

John Palmer (actor)

Thomas Panton

William Petty, 1st Marquess of Landsdowne

Evelyn Meadows Pierrepoont, 2nd Duke of Kingston

Thomas Potter

John Poulett, 4th Earl of Poulett

William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath

William Powell (manager of Drury Lane)

Charles “Chace” Price

Richard “Bloomsbury Dick” Rigby

Admiral George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney

David Ross (actor)

Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford

Frederick John Sackville, 3rd Duke of Dorset

Sir George Saville

George Selwyn (politician and wit)

Edward “Ned” Shuter (actor)

John George Spencer, 1st Earl of Spencer

Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Sir William Stanhope, MP

Edward Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby

Sir Thomas Stapleton

John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Bute

Frederick St John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke

Colonel Sir Banastre Tarleton

Commodore Edward Thompson

Lord Chief Justice Sir Edward Thurlow

Robert “Beau” Tracy

John Tucker, MP

Arthur Vansittart, MP

Sir Henry Vansittart, MP

Robert Vansittart

Sir Edward Walpole

Sir Robert Walpole (Britain’s first Prime Minister)

John Wilkes

His Majesty, King William IV

Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont

Henry Woodward (actor)

His Royal Highness, Edward, Duke of York

His Royal Highness, Frederick, Duke of York

Lieutenant Colonel John Yorke

Joseph Yorke, 1st Baron Dove

Extra information is my own

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Elizabeth non nutrì il minimo dubbio sulla presenza di Mr Wickham a Netherfield fino a quando, entrata in salotto, non si mise a cercarlo in mezzo al gruppo di giacche rosse presenti in sala. Nessuna di quelle riflessioni che avrebbero potuto darle qualche motivo di allamarsi era venuta a turbare la certezza di incontrarlo. Si era abbigliata con cura maggiore del solito, e si era preparata con entusiasmo alla conquista di ciò che rimaneva da conquistare nel cuore di lui, nella convinzione che non ne restasse tanto da non potercela fare nel corso della serata. Ma ecco che di colpo le nacque il profondo sospetto che Bingley, per fare un favore a Darcy, lo avesse omesso di proposito dalla lista degli ufficiali invitati; non che fosse andata esattamente così, ma la sua assenza fu confermata dall'amico, Mr Denny, al quale Lydia si era sollecitamente rivolta; egli spiegò alle ragazze che Wickham era dovuto recarsi in città per affari il giorno prima, e non era ancora tornato; e, con un sorriso significativo , aggiunse: "Immagino che i suoi affari non lo avrebbero richiamato proprio ora, se non avesse desiderato evitare un certo gentiluomo qui presente."

Orgoglio e pregiudizio, Jane Austen

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Mark 430 Online Marketing: Blog

Name：XiaoShi Zhang

Professor’s name：Barbara Thomas

Course： MARK 430

The impact of the internet on marketing

Why should you study internet marketing?

Owing to the transformation that has been taking place across the globe over the past two decades, it is crucial for people to know about internet marketing. The traditional practices associated with marketing have been changed by the digital age. This shift began in 1994 when the first banner ad was created (Brennan, Ross).

The digital marketing process is still growing and attracting hundreds of thousands of marketing dollars that no one can afford a chance to miss on (Aggarwal 68). Businesses have also shifted to online marketing as a result of developed technology and establishment of solid online platforms that support their connection to the customers. Whether you are a consumer or a business owner/manager, internet is your best friend.

For marketers, there is no better medium of getting access to the largest consumer on the basis of their segmentation than the available online platforms. Consumers have also evolved and seek their products through the internet by searching over the famous sites that sellers use to market their products.

Apart from saving time for both parties involved, it also saves energy and money for them. Other forms of marketing and promotion activities done through the print or televised media only supplement or rather complement internet marketing. Owing to its availability in virtually every place, the process has become even cheaper and reaches an even greater number of clients per single marketing campaign (Aggarwal 68).

E-commerce is the cornerstone on which the future of the global economy is founded. With the capacity at which it is being promoted, developed, and embraced, any individual who will not get on board with the internet transactions and marketing (which basically form the base of e-commerce) will have no place in the business world. This is because the products will be marketed, sold and purchased over the internet (Chih-Hui et al. 96). Internet marketing is the process that will make all these activities possible as it enhances the growth of business-to-business as well as business-to-consumer interactions (e-commerce).

The developments done so far mean that there is a necessity for new strategies, skills, and knowledge highly demanded in this field of business. The marketers are now required to be well-conversant with technology and be able to work together with the IT colleagues. It therefore takes more than the marketing skills and knowledge to succeed in internet marketing.

It is always sound to save the last for the best. The best feature associated with internet marketing that makes it stand out from all other forms is its interactivity capability. Unlike Televised or print adverts, internet marketing comes in form of conversation instead of the normal broadcast. This means that the consumer has a chance to inquire more about a product when it is being promoted before buying it. This process is thus based on the inbound marketing that pulls, rather than push (outbound).

Works Cited

Aggarwal, Benu. "Milestone Internet Marketing: Maximizing Online Revenues and Profitability." Siliconindia, vol. 17, no. 11, 11/1/2014, p. 68.

Brennan, Ross. Marketing Intelligence & Planning. [Bingley, UK], Emerald, 2010.

Chih-Hui, Hsiao, et al. "The Impact of Self-Complexity on Attitudes Towards Online Marketing and Buying Intentions: Using the Internet Addiction as a Moderator." Marketing Review / Xing Xiao Ping Lun, vol. 10, no. 1, Jan. 2013, pp. 79-102.

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Cô dâu bị nhện độc cắn suýt chết khi đi nghỉ trăng mật

Victoria Ross (32 tuổi) trải qua 13 ngày trong bệnh viện sau khi bị một con nhện độc cắn ở đảo Jamaica vào kỳ nghỉ cùng chồng mới cưới.

Victoria và chồng mới cưới Brian đi nghỉ trăng mật ở quốc đảo Jamaica.

Chân của Victoria bị sưng nặng và mưng mủ. Tuy cô đang hồi phục nhưng vẫn phải đối mặt với một cuộc phẫu thuật nữa để triệt tiêu hoàn toàn mầm độc.

Trước đó Victoria và Brian đã kết hôn tại nhà thờ All Saints ở Bingley, Anh vào ngày 17/6 trước sự chứng kiến của 125 người thân và bạn bè. Hai ngày sau, cặp uyên ương bay tới Lucea ở Jamaica để hưởng trăng mật dự định kéo dài hai tuần tại một resort sang trọng.

Victoria cho biết kỳ nghỉ rất tuyệt vời nhưng vào ngày cuối cùng cô bị con nhện cắn khi đang nằm trên giường với chồng. Victoria nói: "Tôi tỉnh dậy và nhận thấy có một vết cắn nhỏ trên chân. Tôi không nghĩ gì đến nó cho đến khi lên máy bay trở về Anh và cảm thấy đau đớn".

Phần chân của Victoria bị nhiễm trùng bởi chất độc của nhện.

Victoria đã đến thẳng bệnh viện sau khi về Anh và được kê cho một liều kháng sinh uống trong 4 tuần. "Vết thương đã khô lại và bong ra, vì vậy tôi không tái khám nữa vì nghĩ đã khỏi rồi", Victoria nói thêm.

Nhưng một tuần sau đó, cô bị ngã quỵ khi đang làm việc, rồi đau đầu và nôn mửa. Victoria được đưa đến bệnh viện A&E Airedale, ở Keighley và được cho biết đã bị nhiễm trùng. 

Victoria ngay lập tức nhập viện. Các bác sĩ ban đầu sợ rằng họ không còn lựa chọn nào khác ngoài việc cắt bỏ chân của Victoria. Cô dâu mới nói: "Tôi không thể tin rằng tuần trăng mật của mình lại khiến tôi mất một chân - hoặc thậm chí có thể sẽ giết chết tôi".

Chiếc giường nơi Victoria bị nhện cắn.

May mắn cho Victoria khi các bác sĩ tìm được phương pháp điều trị mà không phải cắt chân của cô. Hiện cô đã được xuất viện nhưng vẫn phải ngồi xe lăn và phải mất thêm vài tuần nữa mới có thể đi lại bằng nạng.

Victoria cho biết nếu đi du lịch một lần nữa cô ấy sẽ nghiên cứu các địa điểm trước khi quyết định. "Lần tới tôi sẽ không đi đâu có nhện độc nữa cả", Victoria nói thêm.

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