Claude Crowe, Writer

I write stories with a noir twist.

[🎶𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨ @Old_But_Gold50s]

Ravel's Bolero, but it's played on just one cello...

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Art Deco Lamps by Tiffany

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@margotposts The book is always better than the film versions.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Bee hive in slow motion

[Julia Proofreader @ProofreadJulia]

C. S. Lewis's advice to young writers.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

The souls of animals https://t.co/qJM8IiwpDP

[TheArchivesOfBabel @archivesofbabel]

The Olive Tree of Vouves, in Crete, Greece, is one of the oldest olive trees in the world—estimated to be between 2,000 and 4,000 years old.

Though its exact age remains debated due to lost heartwood, nearby Geometric Period cemeteries suggest deep antiquity.

Still producing olives today, it was grafted with the ‘Tsounati’ cultivar.

Its trunk spans 4.6m in diameter, and branches were used for Olympic wreaths in 2004 and 2008. Declared a protected natural monument in 1997, it now stands beside the Olive Tree Museum, preserving centuries of olive cultivation heritage.

It is a living link to ancient Mediterranean history.

#history #greece

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Birds have intellectual abilities far greater than most people had imagined. “Even inconspicuous and uncelebrated birds are capable of learning, and of sharing their learning with others,” Rivka Galchen writes. https://t.co/ahA2NDEvmC

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of surreal sculpture details 🧵

1. There is no rope in this image... it's marble.

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Vonnegut on the simple, elusive secret of happiness, in a short verse commemorating Catch-22 author Joseph Heller https://t.co/NyUHWEShgs

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

In the 19th century, some Britons protested against the use of enslaved people in West Indies sugar production by buying sugar from the East Indies and using bowls labelled ‘not made by slaves.’ Mary Shelley protested by abstaining from sugar in her tea altogether.

[Impressions @impression_ists]

Gustav Klimt, On Lake Atter

[Carolyn Rockey @CarolynWRockey]

A unique piece of furniture—King Edward VII’s infamous “love chair”—has been put up for sale at the renowned New Orleans antique shop, M.S. Rau Antiques. This extravagant chair once belonged to the future British king, then Prince of Wales, and was originally commissioned for his favorite Parisian brothel. Edward VII, the great-grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II, was well known for his numerous love affairs.
Among his many romantic partners were the famous actress Sarah Bernhardt and aristocrat Alice Keppel, who was the great-grandmother of Camilla Parker-Bowles, Duchess of Cornwall and wife of Prince Charles. The king was also a frequent visitor to high-end brothels, including the luxurious Le Chabanais in Paris. This elite establishment catered to high-profile clients and featured themed rooms decorated in exotic styles, such as a harem chamber, a Pompeian Hall, and a Japanese tea house.
In 1890, a special “love chair” was crafted specifically for the future king. Given his corpulent figure and tendency to tire quickly, this custom-designed piece of furniture allowed him to "entertain" two women at once while minimizing physical exertion.
-Ancient Marvels

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

Italian mobile library.

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@THR Military grade PR shills in action right now in the Blake Lively/Justin Baldoni saga - its very educational to see the tactics and organisations being used to sway public opinion.

[Claude Crowe, Writer @ClaudeCrowe]

@_whitneywebb All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players

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“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” –George Eliot

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Actress Tippi Hedren believed she would be working with mechanical birds in Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963). Instead, live birds were thrown at her and tied to her clothes. She broke down on the final day of filming after being pecked near the eye.
https://t.co/9ddrA03Ebc

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[Claude Crowe, Writer @ClaudeCrowe]

How beautiful is marble? I like the sound of the old-fashioned chisel. More sculptors are working with robots to improve their productivity. https://t.co/KXtBwdj6IT