Lt. Wllm. Bligh, HMRN

Skilled navigator of oceans near and far. For now, sailing the treacherous waters of X.

[Saleh @Saleh0Art]

- The Fall of Babylon
- John Martin (1789–1854) 🇬🇧

[Historical Chronicles @HistoriaJack]

Fingal’s Cave, Island of Staffa, Scotland

- Thomas Moran, 1884

[Saleh @Saleh0Art]

- Piccadilly Circus at Night
- Charles de Lacy (1856–1929) 🇬🇧

[Canaletto @ArtistCanaletto]

View of the Church and the Doge s Palace from the Procuratie Vecchie #artbots #canaletto

[Childe Hassam @childe_hassam]

The Alhambra (aka Summer Palace of the Caliphs, Granada, Spain) #artbots @hassam

[Lyubov Popova @artistpopova]

Portrait of a Philosopher

[Cy Twombly @artisttwombly]

Bay of Naples #artbots #twombly

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Green frescoes from Pompeii, Italy

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@Empireaesth Reminder that Sadiq Khan wants to have a literal nightclub above his tomb.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Twenty five years ago today, a 62 year old man with cancer in his bones walked 2,687 people out of the South Tower, and then he went back inside.

Rick Rescorla was born in Hayle, Cornwall in 1939. British Parachute Regiment in Cyprus at 18. Colonial police in Northern Rhodesia. Then he came to America, enlisted in the US Army in 1963, and in November 1965 he went into the Ia Drang Valley as a platoon leader with the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry.

Hal Moore called him the best platoon leader he ever saw. His men called him Hard Core. He sang to them in the dark, Wild Colonial Boy in an Australian accent, because he had worked out that men who are singing are not men who are panicking. That is Rescorla on the cover of We Were Soldiers Once and Young, bayonet fixed.

Thirty five years later he was head of security for Dean Witter, later Morgan Stanley, in the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

In 1990 he brought in his old friend Dan Hill and the two of them walked the basement. He warned the Port Authority that the parking garage was wide open, that somebody could drive in a truck full of explosives, walk out and light it off. Nothing was done. Three years later the 1993 bomb went off about thirty feet from the spot he had flagged.

After that he told Morgan Stanley the towers were still a target and the next attack would come out of the sky. He wanted the firm to leave Manhattan. The lease ran to 2006, so they stayed. Twenty two floors of the South Tower, roughly 2,700 people.

So he drilled them. Every three months, everyone, no exceptions, down the stairwells two abreast while he stood there with a stopwatch. Traders pulling seven figures resented being marched down concrete stairs by a Cornishman with a clipboard. He kept doing it anyway.

8:46 a.m. The North Tower is hit. Port Authority comes over the South Tower loudspeakers and tells everyone the building is secure and to go back to their desks. Rescorla picks up a bullhorn and tells his people to get out.

He phones Dan Hill. "The dumb sons of bitches told me not to evacuate. They said it's just Building One. I told them I'm getting my people out of here."

9:03 a.m. The second plane hits the South Tower, floors 77 through 85. His people are already in the stairwells, moving exactly the way they had been drilled, and Rescorla is on the bullhorn singing to them. Cornish songs. A version of Men of Harlech he had rewritten for Cornwall. Men of Cornwall stop your dreaming, can't you see their spearpoints gleaming.

He called his wife Susan from the stairs. They had been married two and a half years, met jogging in New Jersey. He told her to stop crying, that he had to get these people out safely, and that if something happened to him he wanted her to know he had never been happier, that she made his life.

Someone told him to get out. He said, as soon as I make sure everyone else is out.

2,687 Morgan Stanley employees went home that day. Thirteen did not, and four of those were Rescorla and the men who stayed in the building with him: Wesley Mercer, Jorge Velazquez, Godwin Forde.

He was last seen on the 10th floor, walking up.

The South Tower fell at 9:59. They never found him.

[Lt. Wllm. Bligh, HMRN @ASCALONPUBLISH2]

@9Kings1910 @TheLeftMons No doubt there's trouble all around.

[Lt. Wllm. Bligh, HMRN @ASCALONPUBLISH2]

@9Kings1910 @TheLeftMons That's commendably humble of you. But consider that maybe some of the many problems faced by contemporary Anglicism is at least partly the result of royal neglect? Someone was asleep at the wheel.

[Lt. Wllm. Bligh, HMRN @ASCALONPUBLISH2]

@9Kings1910 @TheLeftMons I agree; tolerated yes, but also useful for the people who not too long ago hated royalty during the Beatrice and Sidney Webb era. The King needs to act as the Defender of the Faith, for one thing.

[Lt. Wllm. Bligh, HMRN @ASCALONPUBLISH2]

@shoewizard59 Just marvelous effortless talent.

[Lt. Wllm. Bligh, HMRN @ASCALONPUBLISH2]

@9Kings1910 @TheLeftMons For starters, the whole British government is a left establishment that uses the monarchy as a sword and a shield.

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

Claude Monet

Argenteuil, Seen from the Small Arm of the Seine,

1872

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

This is a rare photo of Donald Trump from 1934, helping Albert Einstein finish the theory of relativity. According to Trump, Einstein had been stuck for weeks.
“Very smart guy. Terrible with numbers. I looked at the board and said, Albert, put a little 2 up there. He loved it."

[Richard Morris @ahistoryinart]

Turner painted this work of the Thames at night in 1797, the year after he showed his first oil painting at the Royal Academy. It was fashionable to show moonlight effects in pictures which were mostly based on Dutch 17thC painters, then popular with British collectors.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

We’ve never seen anything like this before. A man was conscripted into jury duty by the government. He performed his civic duty and followed his conscience, refusing to acquit a woman who confessed to systematically executing her three children. The defense attorney immediately launched a public smear campaign against the juror. Soon several other jurors joined the campaign. Then the media. Even the defense attorney’s wife has joined. Now they’re doxxing the man, digging into his past, contacting his family, showing up at his house. All of this both to punish him for refusing to go with their program, and to pollute any future jury pool by making it clear that anyone who votes to convict Clancy will have their life destroyed. It’s truly one of the most outrageously evil things we’ve ever seen from the Left, and that’s saying something. A direct assault on the integrity of our justice system. They are burning down every boundary and standard in their path. And doing it all for the sake of a child murdering psychopath. Unfathomable.