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Sleepy Hollow (1999)

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Sleepy Hollow (1999)

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Game Of Thrones - S01E01

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Game Of Thrones - S01E01

“I knew this day would come. I’ve been waiting for it.”

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“I knew this day would come. I’ve been waiting for it.”

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Things like this are a constant reminder as to why I would...

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 03:56:53 -0400

Things like this are a constant reminder as to why I would never be able to make a Miyazaki-esque story despite all attempts. Look at that fucking scenery. Look at it.

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The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great...

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:56:34 -0400

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
Ethel Barrymore

↳ AFI: Some of the Top 25 Greatest Male Screen Legends of American Cinema

orsons: October 31, 1938: Orson Welles speaks at a press...

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:54:28 -0400

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October 31, 1938: Orson Welles speaks at a press conference to address the notorious “panic-mongering” radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds broadcasted the previous night

Men of Marvel (movie ‘verse) vol. I

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Men of Marvel (movie ‘verse) vol. I

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HBICs of history » G e o r g i a n a, duchess of...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:51:26 -0400

HBICs of history » G e o r g i a n a, duchess of Devonshire

Georgiana was a celebrated beauty and socialite who gathered around her a large circle of literary and political figures. She was also an active political campaigner in an age when women’s suffrage was still over a century away. During the 1784 general election, the Duchess was rumoured to have traded kisses for votes in favour of Fox, and was satirised by Thomas Rowlandson in his print THE DEVONSHIRE, or Most Approved Method of Securing Votes.

Famously, when she was stepping out of her carriage one day, an Irish dustman exclaimed: “Love and bless you, my lady, let me light my pipe in your eyes!”, a compliment which she often recalled whenever others complimented her by retorting, “After the dustman’s compliment, all others are insipid.”

Georgiana married the Duke of Devonshire on her seventeenth birthday: 7 June 1774. She had a number of miscarriages before giving birth to four children: three with her husband, and an illegitimate daughter fathered by the second Earl Grey. She also raised the Duke’s illegitimate daughter, Charlotte, who was conceived with a maid. The Duchess introduced the Duke to her best friend, the Lady Elizabeth Foster (who later married the Duke), and lived in a ménage à trois with them for the next 25 years. Lady Elizabeth had two illegitimate children by the Duke, a son and a daughter.

Georgiana is famous not only for her marital arrangements, her catastrophic affairs, her beauty and sense of style and best clothes, and her political campaigning, but also for her love of gambling. Even though her own family, the Spencers, and her husband’s family, the Cavendishes, were immensely wealthy, she was reported to have died deeply in debt because they did not give her any money. She died in March,1806 (aged 48), from what was thought to be an abscess of the liver; At her death, she owed today’s equivalent of £3,720,000. She was so petrified of her husband discovering the extent of her debts that she kept them secret; the Duke only discovered the sum she owed after her death and remarked, “Is that all?

Stills from the set of Phantom Of The Opera (2004)

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:51:21 -0400

Stills from the set of Phantom Of The Opera (2004)

HBICs of history » Marguerite Valois aka Queen Margot Margaret...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:47:07 -0400

HBICs of history » Marguerite Valois aka Queen Margot

Margaret of France (1553 – 1615) was Queen of France and of Navarre during the late sixteenth century. A royal princess of France by birth, she was the last of the House of Valois. She was the daughter of King Henry II of France and Catherine de’ Medici; Margot was famous for her beauty and sense of style (she was one of the most fashionable women of her time, influencing most of Europe’s Royal Courts with her clothing). She was also a gifted poet and writer, notable for both her own scandalous behavior and for revealing that of others. Margaret took many lovers both during her marriage and after her annulment. The most well-known were Joseph Boniface de La Môle, Jacques de Harlay, Seigneur de Chanvallon and Louis de Bussy d’Amboise. When imprisoned by her brother Henry III for eighteen years, she took advantage of the time to write her memoirs, which included a succession of stories relating to the disputes of her brothers with her husband Henry IV. The memoirs were published posthumously in 1628 and scandalised the population.

The marriage of the 19-year-old Margaret to Henry, who had become King of Navarre upon the death of his mother, took place in August 1572 at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. The groom, a Huguenot, had to remain outside the cathedral during the religious ceremony. Just six days after the wedding, on St Bartholomew’s Day, Roman Catholic factions instigated a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of mob violence, both directed against the Huguenots.

After the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre Margaret has been credited with saving the lives of several prominent Protestants, including her husband’s, by keeping them in her rooms and refusing to admit the assassins. Henry of Navarre had to feign conversion to Catholicism.

After more than three years of confinement at court, Henry escaped Paris in 1576, leaving his wife behind. Finally granted permission to return to her husband in Navarre, for the next three and a half years Margaret and her husband lived in Pau. Both openly kept other lovers, and they quarrelled frequently.

Her life has inspired a variety of stories over the centuries, beginning with Shakespeare’s early comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost written during her lifetime, to Alexandre Dumas, père’s 1845 novel La Reine Margot; to a 1994 movie La Reine Margot.

lotr meme → three colours [3/3]white

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:46:29 -0400

lotr meme → three colours [3/3]
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