Charles

At the intersection of Catholicism and Minnesota. Native Texan in a strange land.

[Charles @ChasEdStuart]

@luusssso Top left, first location using this design was in Houston, TX. I shopped there several times. Almost everything on the showroom floor was a demo product. If you wanted something, you'd take order slip and they'd fetch it from the back and send it up by hand or on conveyor belt

[Charles @ChasEdStuart]

@SonnyCrockett92 Coffee first, then your list. See you out there, pal.

[Charles @ChasEdStuart]

@An3rchy @PaulinusOfTrier @AuthGirlPower There are three possible variations after MoF and two of them are "We proclaim your death O Lord..." See e.g. https://t.co/7nHtTqyJjz

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

The oldest known photo in Texas history. Taken in 1849, the Alamo Mission as it appeared 13 years after the infamous battle that saw the deaths of James Bowie, Davy Crockett and William Travis.

The Alamo Mission was originally established as a Spanish mission in the early 18th century and became famous during the Battle of the Alamo. From February 23 to March 6, 1836, a small Texian garrison defended the mission against a much larger Mexican army led by Antonio López de Santa Anna. After a 13-day siege, the defenders were overwhelmed, and nearly all were killed.

The battle became a rallying cry for the Texas Revolution. Just six weeks later, Texian forces under Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto, securing Texas independence.

By 1849, when this photograph was taken, the Alamo had already become a symbol of Texas identity. The structure looked markedly different from its modern appearance, as the iconic curved parapet above the chapel façade had not yet been added. That feature was constructed later in the 1850s by the U.S. Army.

This photograph was taken only 10 years after the invention of practical photography and just 13 years after the battle itself. Some people who fought at the Alamo, survived the Texas Revolution, or personally knew Davy Crockett and William Travis were still alive when this image was captured, creating a remarkably short link between the historic event and the dawn of photography.

© History Pictures

#archaeohistories

[Charles @ChasEdStuart]

@PaulinusOfTrier @An3rchy @AuthGirlPower I'm glad you posted this info. I didn't connect it back to the consecration. I assumed MoF was a preface because of both the pause after the priest raises the chalice and genuflects at the altar, and the singing of the MoF/"We proclaim..." as if it they are prompt/response.

[Charles @ChasEdStuart]

Bradbury

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

First city ever built on mars.

You get to name it.

What's it gonna be?

[The Last Homely House @AHomelyHouse]

A retelling of the Robin Hood legend set in modern day Appalachia, with a veteran forced into outlawry by a corrupt Sheriff, having to then escape to the George Washington National Forest and employ SERE skills to evade detection. He saves a number of people in the towns from the Sheriff's schemes, and gradually becomes a folk hero and accumulates a band of merry men until they finally take down the sheriff and the whole regional government structure that has aided and abetted him. Strictly light-hearted and fictional, of course.

[James II did nothing wrong @James_II_1688]

Follow ye, follow ye, wha wadna follow ye? Lang have you lov'd us an' trusted us fairly! Charlie, Charlie, wha wadna follow thee? King o' the Highland hearts, Bonnie Prince Charlie!

[Charles @ChasEdStuart]

@PaulinusOfTrier @AntiWokeEvil A life well lived and honorably remembered

[Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library @TRPresLibrary]

#OTD in 1944, a fifty-six-year-old brigadier general waded ashore at Utah Beach, walking with a cane.

He was the oldest man in the D-Day invasion, and the only general to land with the first wave at Utah Beach. He was Theodore Roosevelt Jr. — eldest son of the twenty-sixth president, a soldier who had been wounded and gassed in the trenches of the First World War a quarter-century earlier, and who had asked three times for permission to lead the assault before the Army said yes.

The currents at Utah Beach pushed the first landing craft about a mile off course. The men who came ashore looked up to find an unfamiliar shoreline and no clear plan. Roosevelt walked the beach, took his bearings against the landscape, and made a decision: they would attack from where they were. "We'll start the war from right here," he said.

Thirty-six days later, on July 12, 1944, Roosevelt died in his sleep of a heart attack in Normandy. He never made it home. His Medal of Honor was awarded posthumously — for the morning he steadied a beach full of men under fire, on terrain that was not the terrain he had been promised, and decided the war would go forward anyway.

He was the son of a man who once charged up Kettle Hill at the head of the Rough Riders. He died serving the country his father had served, in a war his father did not live to see.

#OTD #OnThisDay #DDay #TheodoreRooseveltJr #UtahBeach #MedalOfHonor #DareGreatly

[Charles @ChasEdStuart]

Sailing into the weekend. Have a nice one - good golf, good tennis, whatever makes you happy.

[Philip K Allan @PhilipKAllan]

Moonlight Barque by the early 20th century English artist Charles Pears

It reminds me of John Masefield’s poem Sea-fever.

#sea #tallships #maritimehistory

[Charles @ChasEdStuart]

@BBGreatMoments The Killer Bs

[Barbarian Herodotus @BBHerodotus]

My organization style is very much in the spirit of Louis L’Amour.

[Charles @ChasEdStuart]

@SonnyCrockett92

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

A bunch of little old Catholic ladies got talked into investing in a wildcat well out in the middle of nowhere. They got worried about the investment, and consulted their priest, who suggested invoking St. Rita, patron saint of impossible causes.

The deal was that the oilman had to take a rose blessed by the priest and sprinkle the petals from the top of the derrick.

That well became the discovery that opened up the largest oil field in the United States.

The wells name was St. Rita.

[Edward Badgette @acrimonyand]

s u m m e r

[Aelfred The Great @aelfred_D]

True Detective Season 2 is phenomenal and I don’t care what anyone says

[Abrace a Tradição @abracetradicao]

O atacante norueguês Erling Haaland adquiriu a edição impressa de 1594 da Heimskringla, de Snorri Sturluson — a crônica mais importante da história dos reis vikings e da cristianização da Noruega por Santo Olavo II.

O exemplar, considerado o livro mais caro já vendido no país (cerca de US$ 134 mil), foi doado integralmente à biblioteca pública de Bryne, cidade natal do jogador, para exposição permanente ao público. Um gesto que une preservação do patrimônio histórico e reforço da memória cristã da Noruega.

[Charles @ChasEdStuart]

I received an order today in a really nice box, and I announced to an empty room that this is a nice box, I think I'll keep it. May your Thursday be as bountiful as mine.