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zamyrabyrd

#10320
July 25, 2017, 01:21:37 AM
plastic
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one."

― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Karl Henning

#10321
July 25, 2017, 04:40:40 AM
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#10322
July 25, 2017, 04:40:52 AM
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#10323
July 25, 2017, 04:41:10 AM
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#10324
July 25, 2017, 04:41:26 AM
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#10325
July 25, 2017, 04:41:56 AM
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Karl Henning

#10326
July 25, 2017, 04:42:15 AM
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

aligreto

#10330
July 26, 2017, 08:01:09 AM
indignation

North Star

#10332
July 26, 2017, 08:13:45 AM
polymer
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius

My photographs on Flickr

Karl Henning

#10333
July 26, 2017, 09:26:31 AM
lamprey
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

zamyrabyrd

#10334
July 27, 2017, 05:03:28 AM
Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on July 26, 2017, 09:26:31 AM
lamprey

Yum!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/04/older-than-the-dinosaurs-lamprey-fish-return-to-uk-rivers-after-200-years

King Henry I of England, who was married to Edith, daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland, was known to be especially fond of the fish but died in 1135 after eating "a surfeit of lampreys" while in Normandy. The dish is thought to have given him food poisoning.

Lampreys remained, however, a favourite among royals and Henry's grandson, King John, fined the city of Gloucester 40 marks – about £250,000 in today's money – for failing to deliver him a Christmas pie filled with the fish.

It was traditional for Gloucester to send a Christmas lamprey pie to the English and later the British monarch until 1836 when the practice was discontinued, except for coronations and jubilees. In 2012 a pie was sent to the Queen to mark the Diamond Jubilee but numbers of UK lampreys were so low that they had to be imported from the Great Lakes of North America.
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one."

― Charles MacKay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

aligreto

#10337
July 27, 2017, 07:53:09 AM
Quote from: zamyrabyrd on July 27, 2017, 05:03:28 AM

King Henry I of England, who was married to Edith, daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland, was known to be especially fond of the fish but died in 1135 after eating "a surfeit of lampreys" while in Normandy. The dish is thought to have given him food poisoning.

Lampreys remained, however, a favourite among royals and Henry's grandson, King John, fined the city of Gloucester 40 marks – about £250,000 in today's money – for failing to deliver him a Christmas pie filled with the fish.

It was traditional for Gloucester to send a Christmas lamprey pie to the English and later the British monarch until 1836 when the practice was discontinued, except for coronations and jubilees. In 2012 a pie was sent to the Queen to mark the Diamond Jubilee but numbers of UK lampreys were so low that they had to be imported from the Great Lakes of North America.

history

Karl Henning

#10338
July 27, 2017, 09:48:24 AM
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

aligreto

#10339
July 29, 2017, 01:10:56 AM
piety
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