I get all warm inside just thinking about what all we DON'T know
Imagine all the death-by-a-million-papercuts stuff going on everywhere.
It's just that we've SEEN it so much that we're kind of like, whatever
Look at the plane crash list
Look at the resignations list
Look at the unsealed indictment spreadsheet
If Joseph DiGenova tells me something is COMING
It is by-God COMING
Interesting, but remember when Trump had Trump Tower swept "remodeled" for bugs, and later did the same with some "remodeling" at the White House?
Anybody got anything about "remodeling" at the U.S. Naval Observatory since Inauguration Day?
WHOA
This is an excellent dig on the Vice President's residence, loads of pics
https://www.messynessychic.com/2017/01/19/where-the-u-s-vice-president-gets-to-live-hint-its-not-the-white-house/
https://www.messynessychic.com/2017/01/19/where-the-u-s-vice-president-gets-to-live-hint-its-not-the-white-house/
"In 2009, a reporter for Newsweek claimed Vice President Joe Biden had revealed that there is an underground “9/11″ bunker underneath the residence. Neighbours backed up the story with claims they had heard loud construction noises in 2002. The VP’s spokesperson was quick to contain the story, publicly stating, “What the vice president described in his comments was not — as some press reports have suggested — an underground facility, but rather, an upstairs work space in the residence.”
During the 1970s, the Rockefellers furnished one of the bedrooms with a contemporary bed designed by the German artist and pioneer of Dadaism, Max Ernst. It was called the “cage” bed and featured the VP’s seal on the headboard
When visiting the Bush family at the house in the early 80s, Mrs. Rockefeller offered Mrs. Bush the bed permanently to the house as part of its collection. Mrs. Bush responded “you are always welcome in this house, but there’s no need to bring your own bed.” The Rockefellers also tried offering it to the succeeding Vice President Dan Quayle. He turned it down too.
Maybe they’ll have better luck with Mike Pence."
QUADS
Speaking of explorers:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/25/lost-portrait-sir-walter-raleigh-identified-amateur-art-historian/
Anybody able to translate the Greek motto on this painting?
hen the painting of an unknown man was sold at Bonhams in 2012 for a few thousand pounds, it was simply described as “portrait of a cleric”.
Thanks to the work of an amateur art historian, it could now fetch many times that sum after being identified as a lost portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh.
Lesley Wood spotted the picture on the eBay site of an art dealer who had purchased it at auction. She bought it on a hunch after studying its details and spotting that an inscription in the top corner, Amore et Virtute, was Raleigh’s motto.
The unsigned portrait is now being sold as the last known portrait of Raleigh, dated to 1613 when he was incarcerated in the Tower of London. He was held there from 1603-16 after being implicated in a plot against James I. He was executed in 1618.
Ms Wood said her research has identified the painting as ‘The Tower Portrait’, referred to in John Aubrey’s Brief Lives, a collection of biographies published in the latter half of the 17th century. That portrait was said to have been acquired by a clergyman, Dr Robert Burhill, and passed down through his family until it was lost.
Ms Wood became interested in Sir Walter Raleigh after studying the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods for her MA in English Literature at Oxford.
She said: “I have never bought anything from eBay before or since, but I saw this painting and it drew me in. I sat up all night researching it.”
In 2014, Ms Wood had the painting x-rayed and analysed under infra-red by the Hamilton Kerr Institute, part of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, which confirmed it dates back to the early 17th century.
The painting remained on her wall until she moved to Switzerland recently to take up a job at an international school. “I couldn’t bring it with me because of the climate so I realised I just had to sell it. I am ever so fond of it but circumstances mean I can’t keep it,” she said.
Although a prisoner in the Tower, Raleigh had two rooms and was allowed servants and visitors. In 1613 he was working on his History of the World, which was published the following year.
According to the auction house, Raleigh is wearing black in the picture because he was in mourning for Prince Henry, who had just died.
The painting will go under the hammer at Duke’s of Dorchester today with a “conservative” estimate of £6,000 but could fetch six figures, according to one expert.
Guy Schwinge, selling the painting for Duke’s auctioneers, said: “It is impossible to say with 100 per cent certainty that this is a portrait of Raleigh, but all the facts point to it being him.
“Paintings of Raleigh are extremely rare and those that exist are in museums. It is extraordinary that this one’s whereabouts were unknown for so long. We are confident it is not a forgery.”
Others sounded a note of caution. Dr Anna Beer, author of Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh, said Raleigh was persona non grata by 1613 and it was unlikely he would have been granted permission to sit for a portrait.