English in South Africa. Art, books, animals, the environment, focusing on climate, vegan. Trying to be wise and aware in a complex world. Rejoin EU. Liberal humanist. 'Guardian reading, tofu-eating, workerati.'
I do love #medievalcat drawings, and agree they have a place in the fediverse, but I see your #medievalcats and raise you some #medievalcrab drawings…
(Pictures are depictions of the Cancerian crab - the #medievalzodiac is a weird and wonderful rabbit hole to explore)
The face of CPR doll "Resuscitation Annie" is based off a death mask of a woman who drowned in Paris in the 1880s. The pathologist on duty became entranced by the girl with the enigmatic half-smile, and so he commissioned a plaster cast made of her face. She became known as "L'Inconnue de la Seine,” or “The Unknown Woman of the Seine.”
In 1955, a toymaker named Asmund Laerdal created what we now know as the CPR doll and based the face off this mask. #histmed #MedMastodon #histodons
@DrLindseyFitzharris Wiw. Thanks for sharing. I spent many years with Annie and never knew her story. Glad I now do. 💗
Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.
@aliutsler I agree. Best hashing for finding the like-minded. 🥰🥰🥰
#shakespearesunday Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.
William Shakespeare, As You Like It
@MaryMRedoutey I love this and I've not read this before! Thank you for bringing it to my attention. Where is it from? 💗💗💗
For #ShakespeareSunday did you know there’s a grove in Stanley Park that was planted only with trees mentioned in the works of Shakespeare? It’s near the Rose Garden and each tree has a label with reference to the play or poem it appears in.
The first was planted by Mrs. Jonathan Rogers in 1916 on the three hundred year anniversary of the Bard’s death.
“The worthy fellow is our general: he is the rock, the oak not to be windshaken.”
Coriolanus (V.ii.116)
#Vancouver #Shakespeare #BritishColumbia
With the latest Elon Musk poll and predictable result Twitter becomes more like the YouTube channel of a contrarian prankster. What’s next? #RIPTwitter #caricature #elonmusk
#tortietuesday Still a tortie, right? Clover is over 70 so she deserves her place. :-)
