Detail of a fireplace at Blickling Hall, Norfolk. Blickling is a fine Jacobean house by Robert Lyminge built on the site of an earlier house. It was extensively remodelled in the eighteenth century.
The Fireplace, 1994
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Kedleston Hall, Kedleston, Derbyshire, United Kingdom,
The marble hall with its elaborate plasterwork executed to the designs of Robert Adam. The fluting of the alabaster columns was carried out in situ.
Photo: Paul Highnam/©Country Life
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little cover for Beautiful, Strange, and New by @moorishflower bc it just ended and was wonderful
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Leroy Robert "Satchel" Paige was born on July 7, 1906, in Mobile, Alabama. Though many speculate it may have been more like 1903.
According to Paige, his mother sent him to earn money carrying luggage for businessmen at the train station, but he was frustrated with the little money it paid. So he rigged a pole to carry several bags at once to make the job pay better, and his co-workers purportedly told him, "You look like a walking satchel tree." And his nickname stuck.
At the age of 42 in 1948, Paige was the oldest major league rookie while playing for the Cleveland Indians. He played with the St. Louis Browns until age 47, and represented them in the All-Star Game in 1952 and 1953. He was the first player who had played in the Negro Leagues to pitch in the World Series, in 1948, and was the first electee of the Negro League Committee to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1971.
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Robert Gant & Hal Sparks in Queer as Folk 3x06, “One Ring to Rule Them All” (2003, dir. Bruce McDonald)
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WHY DID I JUST FIND OUT NICK PRINCIPE (guy who plays Jesse Cromeans aka Chromeskull) IS MAKING A COMIC BOOK SERIES TO FOLLOW THE SECOND MOVIE?????
THAT LOOKS SO FCKING COOL OMG!!!
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