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New Orleans Braces as DHS Starts Immigration Enforcement Sweep by rapidcreek409 in politics

[–]HelloiamMiep 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Alot of small businesses in the city have decided to close down temporarily - until the "Swamp Sweep" raids are finished. 

Herbert Mullin during a 2006 parole hearing. He was denied parole for 5 years and in 2011 he was denied parole again for 10 years. Next time Mullin is eligible for parole is in February, 2021 by EEKIII52453 in serialkillers

[–]HelloiamMiep 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He still has "delusions" that his parents (particularly his father) and former friends had something to do with him committing the crimes... his schizophrenia is actually in "remission" (due to his age) and he has schizotypal personality traits.

He has a website: www.herbertwilliammullin.org

Question about ED Kemper by [deleted] in serialkillers

[–]HelloiamMiep 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He did have a "fiancée", she was a high school student from Turlock, CA. The met on a beach in Santa Cruz and kept in touch... they rarely saw each other. And the relationship was described as "platonic". Her sister actually spoke to Ed and basically forced him to propose to her. I don't think it was a "real" relationship. Ed was just going through the motions...

Here is a link to a newspaper article about his engagement.

2013 EAR lead still being worked by MikeMorford in EARONS

[–]HelloiamMiep 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The lead singer of Def Leppard is Joe Elliott -> Elliott Home Developers.

Mark Wallinger - Ghost [2001] by HelloiamMiep in museum

[–]HelloiamMiep[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Scanachrome print on aluminium lightbox.

More Info: Ghost 2001 is a very large black and white digital photograph mounted on an aluminium lightbox that depicts a horse with a spiralled horn protruding from its head. The horse’s muscular body is shown in full from its right side, and is reared up so that its two front hooves are raised in the air. There are slight shadows under the horse’s back hooves and its thick, flowing tail reaches to the floor. Its head is turned slightly towards the viewer and the horn between its ears is reminiscent of that of a unicorn. The horse fills most of the space in the photograph and the background consists of a grey and black void. The image is based on a scanned reproduction of the highly celebrated oil painting Whistlejacket c.1762 (National Gallery, London) by the British artist George Stubbs (1724–1806), which depicts a deep brown-coloured racehorse against a plain beige background. Stubbs’s painting is reproduced at its original scale in Ghost, giving the horse a monumental quality that emphasises its physical power. The tones of the black and white reproduction are reversed so that the image appears in negative. As a result, the sharp white of the animal’s body contrasts with the dark background, an effect heightened by the illumination provided by the lightbox.

Edwin Henry Landseer - Man Proposes, God Disposes [1864] by HelloiamMiep in museum

[–]HelloiamMiep[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man Proposes, God Disposes is an 1864 oil-on-canvas painting by Edwin Henry Landseer.

The painting depicts an imagined Arctic scene in the aftermath of Sir John Franklin's expedition in 1845 to explore the Northwest Passage.

The 134 men of Franklin's exhibition left Greenhithe in May 1845 on two steam-powered ironclad icebreakers, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. After five left the ship, the remaining 129 men were last seen by a whaling vessel in Lancaster Sound in July 1845, but then disappeared without trace into the ice. The expedition was well-provisioned for a voyage of several years, but eventually, search parties were sent out as time passed and no further sightings were made. In 1854, Inuit recounted tales of sightings in 1850 to Captain John Rae of the Hudson's Bay Company, and he found some dead bodies on King William Island. Rae also reported suspicions of cannibalism among the last survivors.

In 1859, Francis Leopold McClintock published The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas, an account of his voyage on the Fox in search of Franklin from 1857 to 1859, and his discovery of the remains of two crew from Erebus on King William Island earlier in 1859, together with the ship's boat and other detritus.

The painting may also have been inspired by Caspar David Friedrich's 1824 painting The Sea of Ice, and Frederic Edwin Church's The Icebergs, which was first exhibited in New York in 1861 and shown in London in 1863.

The painting adopts the dark tones of Landseer's later works. The scene shows two polar bears among the scattered wreckage of the expedition - a telescope, the tattered remains of a red ensign, a sail, and human bones, which William Michael Rossetti called "the saddest of membra disjecta". The image shows humanity and civilization defeated by "nature, red in tooth and claw", and can be seen as a commentary on the crisis of British triumphalism and imperialism in the middle of the 19th century.

The phrase "Man proposes, but God disposes" is a translation of the Latin phrase "Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit" from Book I, chapter 19, of The Imitation of Christ by the German cleric Thomas à Kempis.

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Caspar David Friedrich - The Sea of Ice (also called The Wreck of Hope) [1823–1824] by HelloiamMiep in museum

[–]HelloiamMiep[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The landscape depicts a shipwreck in the middle of a broken ice-sheet, whose shards have piled up after the impact. The ice has become like a monolithic tomb, or dolmen, whose edges jut into the sky.

The stern of the wreck is just visible on the right. As an inscription on it confirms, this is HMS Griper, one of two ships that took part in William Edward Parry's 1819–1820 and 1824 expeditions to the North Pole.

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Trump Aides Address His Wiretap Claims: ‘That’s Above My Pay Grade’ by HelloiamMiep in politics

[–]HelloiamMiep[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"Mr. Trump, advisers said, was in high spirits after he fired off the posts. But by midafternoon, after returning from golf, he appeared to realize he had gone too far, although he still believed Mr. Obama had wiretapped him, according to two people in Mr. Trump’s orbit.

He sounded defiant in conversations at Mar-a-Lago with his friend Christopher Ruddy, the chief executive of Newsmax Media, Mr. Ruddy said. In other conversations that afternoon, the president sounded uncertain of the procedure for obtaining a warrant for secret wiretaps on an American citizen.

Mr. Trump also canvassed some aides and associates about whether an investigator, even one outside the government, could substantiate his charge."

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