User:Thornfield Hall

My pride and joy; my gallery at the commons.

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Ny wor an devnydhyer-ma convedhes Kernowek (po ma orth y gonvedhes gen caletter bras).

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ამ მომხმარებელს არ ესმის ქართული (ან უჭირს გაგება).

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the Brontë sisters.

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Jane Austen

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"I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you—especially when you are near me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous Channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly. As for you,—you'd forget me."

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— THORNFIELD HALL^(Talk)

Articles created

1997 Washington Initiative 676

1998 Montana Initiative 137

Ed Troyer

Boise Pioneer Cemetery

Tobie (ship)

Lewis Burwell

Taurus TX22

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This user wishes to visit Maldives.

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An ancestor of this user fought for the Confederate States.

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An ancestor of this user
fought for the United States
in the War of 1812.

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This user is a descendant of the First Families of Virginia.

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This user hates all Apple devices.

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This user has terrible Wi-Fi, so uses a broadband over power lines (BPL) connection.

This Wikipedian knows
how to use a slide rule.

This user uses a TI calculator.

This user likes Arduinos.

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This user has a Police radio.

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to amateur radio.

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to CB radio.

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GMRS

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VLF

This user is interested in reception of VLF radio signals.

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geographic coordinate systems.

SI

This user measures both in metric system and American system units.

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met?

This user prefers metric units, but, having grown up in the United States, cannot relate to them.

This user is interested in Geology.

This user is interested in geophysics.

This user likes vanadinite.

This user's favorite chemical element is Mercury.

This user likes
Beryllium.

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severe weather.

This user loves learning about inorganic chemistry.

This user is interested in zoology.

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Batrachology

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Seamounts

This user is interested in coastal & marine issues.

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This user is interested in extinct animals, especially dinosaurs and early Tetrapods.

This user is interested in Paleontology.

E_{k}={\frac {1}{2}}mv^{2}

This user understands Physics at an intermediate level.

History

This user is interested in occult history.

This user is interested in the age of sail.

This user is interested in the Atlantic slave trade.

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Middle Ages

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This user is interested in the British Empire.

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This user is interested in the history of the German Empire (1871–1918).

This user is interested in the Baroque period.

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Human Prehistory

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This user is interested in Pre-Islamic Arab civilizations.

This user is interested in ancient Egypt.

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Russian History

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Second Elizabethan Age.

This user is interested in the life and times of Peter the Great.

This user is interested in the life and times of Roman von Ungern-Sternberg.

This user is interested in The 1421 Hypothesis and believes it to be true.

This user is interested in naval history.

This user is interested in the First World War.

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Russian Civil War.

This user is interested in the Emu War.

This user is interested in the Rhodesian Bush War.

This user is interested in the Angolan Civil War.

This user is interested in the Falklands War.

This user is interested in the Persian Gulf War.

This user is interested in the South African Wars.

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This user recognizes the US as a terrorist state

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Salazar

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Australian Flag

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British Monarchy

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This user is an advocate of traditional counties.

This user supports an independent Republic of Ireland but thinks Northern Ireland is British

This user supports the United Kingdom withdrawal from the European Union (Brexit).

This user supports the right of the people of the Falkland Islands to self-determination.

This user is against devolution of the United Kingdom.

This user is a fan of Catherine.

This user admires both Queen Victoria and Elizabeth II.

This user is interested in Canadian politics.

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This user supports Wildrose Independence Party of Alberta.

This user supports the British Columbia Liberal Party.

This user claims sovereignty of Marie Byrd Land.

This user wants China and Taiwan to recognize each other as countries.

This user supports the restoration of the Tsar and the Russian Empire as a constitutional monarchy.

This user is pro-Russia

This user is pro-Belarus

This user supports the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

This user is AGAINST the European Union.

This user supports

President Bashar al-Assad.

This user is AGAINST the United States giving foreign aid to Israel.

This user recognizes that America is a police state.

This user opposes the Iraq War.

This user supports homeschooling and is against any bans on it.

This user supports jury nullification.^‡

This user likes to wear a crop top.

This user likes penguins.

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This user wishes the labrador duck wasn't extinct.

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This user wishes the great auk wasn't extinct.

This user is interested in birding.

This user enjoys feeding wild birds.

This user likes Gorillas.

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cynodonts.‡

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Phaleristics

These are my father's decorations from 25 years in the Navy. This is here for that, and as a markup reference for me when adding ribbon racks for articles. Adding certain accoutrements can be especially challenging (for example, the stars on the SSBN Deterrent Patrol insignia), and I suspect this is the cause of the deficits that exist in many relevant articles. I will probably make a more elaborate subpage for this later.

On the topic of phaleristics (Chrome doesn't even realize that is a word), my favorite uniform is the Navy Service Dress Blues and my favorite decorations are the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States) and Navy Cross. Such a complex backstory and history to the former. I love pretty much any kind of polar medal too. In terms of foreign decorations, the Waterloo Medal and the Canadian Forces' Decoration are up there for me as well.

LCDR (O-4), USN

Art

People

Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665
Odalisque, 1874
Nud dormind, unknown date
Miranda, 1875
The Lady of Shalott, 1888
The Tempest, 1916
Lady Godiva, 1897
Graziella, 1878
The Siren, 1900
A Mermaid, 1900
Boreas, 1903
The Young Shepherdess, 1885
The Shepherdess, c. 1895
Bather, 1864
A Little Coaxing, 1890
Seated Nude, 1884
Nymphs and Satyr, 1873
Evening Mood, 1882
Biblis, 1884
A Dream of Spring, 1901
Dawn, 1881
The Two Bathers, 1884
After the Bath, 1875
The Bather, 1879
Bather, 1870
The Wave, 1896
The Nymphaeum, 1878
The Source, 1868
The Woman in the Waves, 1868
The Source, 1862
Mischief and Repose, 1875
Jupiter, in the Guise of Diana, and Callisto, 19c.
The Quiet Pet, 1906
A Fair Reflection, 1915
The Tambourine Girl, 1906
The Signal, 1899
Athenais, 1908
In the Tepedarium, 1913
Summer Idleness: Day Dreams, 1909
A Classical Beauty, Unknown date
A Pompeian Bath, 1890
An Offering to Venus, 1912
In the days of Sappho, 1904
Portrait of a young woman in White, 1798
Diana and Her Nymphs Bathing, between 1722 and 1724
Juditha, 1883
Italia und Germania, 1828
Beach Scenery with bathing women, Unknown date
Two Young Female Friends Kissing, 1789 - 1793
Madame Saint-Ange Chevrier, 1807
Drei Badende, before 1890
Diana in a landscape, 1739
The Great Bathers, 1884-1887
After the bath, 1888
Bathers playing with a crab, ca. 1897
The Braid, 1886-1887
Young Girls at the piano, 1892
Amarillis crowning Mirtillo, 1640-1660
Young Woman going to bed, Unknown date
Ariadne, 1652
Joan of Arc kneeling before angel, late 19c.
Flora, 18c.
Two Venetian Women, 1898
In the Water, early 20c.
The Watercarrier, 1908
Musette, 1900
Sharing the news, 1904
Curiosity, 1892
A Pensive Moment, 1896
On the beach, 1908
The Sisters Zénaïde and Charlotte Bonaparte, 1821
Diana's toillet, 1847
Sapho, unknown date
A Summer Night, ca. 1887
The Sea Maidens, ca. 1885-1886
The First Awakening of Eve, 19c.
Flaming June, 1895
Bride of Belus, ca. 1885
The Chess Game, 1900-1952
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, 1834
Eve, 1889
In Werner's Rowing boat, 1917
Girls from Dalarna Having a Bath, 1907
Victory of Faith, 1891
Woman on a black divan, 1869
The Dream, 1910
The Knight's dream, 1902
Nude Woman, 1902
Portrait of Young Woman, 1520
La donna velata c. 1516
Woman combing her hair, 1885
After a Bath. Woman Drying the Back of her Neck, 1898
Venus Anadyomene, 1520
Venus of the Sea, 1838
Truth, 1870
La comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg, 1840
Marchesa Brigida Spinola Doria, 1606
A Favourite Custom, 1909
Carnival Evening, 1886
The Temptation, 1912
Portrait of Elsa Koeberle, 1898
Cave of the Storm Nymphs, 1903
Ophelia, 1851-1852
Grey Lady, 1883
The Knight Errant, 1870
The Black Brunswicker, 1860
Eve of St. Agnes, 1863
Mariana, 1851
Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, 1489-1490
Idealized Portrait of a Lady, c. 1480
Simonetta Vespucci, 1490
Allegory of Vanity, 1632-1636
Godspeed, 1900
September morning, c. 1912
Two Girls with Starfish, unknown date
Beauty Revealed, 1828
Sarah Goodridge, 1830
Stitching the Standard, 1911
Interior with Young Woman from Behind, 1904
Woman with Seashell, 1885
Study of a Female Model, 19th c.
Study, Unknown date
Bread Baking, 1895
Mimmi Zetterström self portrait, 1876
Portrait of a Woman, 1886
The Artist's Sister-in-law, 1881
Spring, 1884
Sofia Adlersparre self portrait, 1839
At the Dressing-Table (the self-portrait), 1909
Nude, 1911
Bathhouse, 1912
The Bathhouse, 1913
Olga Konstantinovna Lanceray, 1910
Woman combing, 1897
Motherhood, 1905
Hypatia, 1885
Nude girl on a panther skin, 1844
The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed', 1846
Preparing for a Fancy Dress Ball, 1836
Andromeda, c. 1830
Slave Market in Ancient Rome, 1884
Self-portrait, painting "The Ball Player", 1902
The End of the Session, 1886
Truth coming from the well to chastise mankind, 1896
Nor is she submerged, 1898
Esther before Ahasuerus, 1778
Et nous aussi nous serons meres ; car.........!, 1794
Lady with a Squirrel, c. 1526–1528
The Death of Cleopatra, 1659
Cleopatra, 1674
The Death of Cleopatra, 1874
Nude Study, 1935
Georgia O’Keeffe, Hands and Breasts, 1919

Portraiture

Anna Unterberger
Elizabeth Wyn Wood
Mary Darnall Carroll
Countess Cornwallis
Abigail Adams, 1766
Louisa Adams, c. 1821-1826
Louisa Adams, 1816
Louisa Adams, c. 1821-1825
Dolley Madison, 1804
Dolley Madison, 1820
Julia Tyler, 1844
Angelica Singleton Van Buren, 1842
Margaret Kemble Gage, c. 1771
Elizabeth Howard
Rachel weeping, 1776
Mary Willis Burwell, c. 1718-1746
Anna Williams

Literature

Charlotte Brontê
"How dare I, Mrs Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth."
I was mortally afraid of its trampling fore-feet.
During all that time, she never turned a page.
She did not stoop towards me, but only gazed, leaning back in her chair.
It removed my veil from its gaunt head, rent it in two parts, and, flinging both on the floor, trampled on them.
I said my evening prayers.
"Will you give me that?" I asked
"Hush, Hannah! I have a word to say to the woman."
"Poor Carlo loves me" He is not stern and distant to his friends.
"And I am a hard woman - impossible to put off"
...threw himself down on a swell of heath, and there lay still.
The next minute she lay smashed on the pavement.
"You are altogether a human being, Jane? You are certain of that?"
"And have you a pale blue dress on?"
Rochester and Jane Eyre

Other

Wildcat, 1850
Attributes of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, 1769
A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch), 1839
Home in the Woods, 1847
View from Stalheim, 1842
Danish Winter Landscape with Dolmen, 1838
Hellefossen near Hokksund, 1838
Anguish, 1878
Isdalen at Svartediket near Bergen, 1842
Night on the Eve of Ivan Kupala, 1892
Among the Sierra Nevada, 1868
Castle by the River, 1820
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, 1863
Allegory of Sight, 1617
Interior of a Picture Gallery with the Collection of Cardinal Silvio Valenti Gonzaga, 1749
Imaginary Gallery of Ancient Roman Art, 1757
Picture gallery with views of modern Rome, 1757
Zebra, 1763
The Temple of Hercules, 1783
View of Florence from San Miniato, 1837
An Interior, 1837-1840
Cliff Dwellers, 1913
Working Class City, 1920
Nighthawks, 1942
Fog Warning, 1885
Cairn in Snow, 1807
Dovedale by Moonlight, c. 1785
Italian landscape with Umbrella Pines, 1807
The Tribuna of the Uffizi, 1772-1777
St Jerome in His Study, c. 1474
St Jerome in His Study, 1514
Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg as Saint Jerome, 1526
Cabinet of Curiosities, 1690s
Rye, 1878
Oak Grove, 1887
In The Wild North, 1891
Rain in Oak Forest, 1891
The Forest distant views, 1884
Barge Haulers on the Volga, 1870-1873
The Four Times of Day: Night, 1757
Hunter's home, 1826
Glasgow, Saturday Night, unknown date
Reflections on the Thames, Westminster, 1880
Shipping on the Clyde, 1881
Late October, 1882
Canny Glasgow, 1887

Lit

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.
A normal man given a group photograph of school girls or Girl Scouts and asked to point out the comeliest one will not necessarily choose the nymphet among them. You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in your subtle spine [...], in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs—the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limb, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate—the little deadly demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.

What I heard was but the melody of children at play, nothing but that, and so limpid was the air that within this vapor of blended voices, majestic and minute, remote and magically near, frank and divinely enigmatic--one could hear now and then, as if released, an almost articulate spurt of vivid laughter, or the crack of a bat, or the clatter of a toy wagon, but it was all really too far for the eye to distinguish any movement in the lightly etched streets. I stood listening to that musical vibration from my lofty slope, to those flashes of separate cries with a kind of demure murmur for background, and then I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that concord.