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wardrobeoftime · 1 year

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Galavant + Headpieces

Queen Madalena’s headpieces.

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illustratus · 1 month

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The Battle of Taillebourg, 21 July 1242 by Eugène Delacroix

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blueseysyogurt · 11 months

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if i had a nickel for every time i fell in love with a series named after a bird and had the found family trope i’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

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whatboogerknows · 1 year

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He's not a goat man!

He's the Kohaku River! 😤

(With a splash of the Forest Spirit)

#totk #totk speculation #totk spoilers #zonai #sage of light?#tears of the kingdom #legend of zelda #loz totk #meat arrow forever and for always #loz botw2 #richard #totk rauru #rauru #king rauru #loz rauru #tears of the kingdom rauru

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psirony-darling · 10 days

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An F/O list, even though I don’t post that much about self-shipping. I just feel like posting an F/O list

Asmodeus (Obey Me!)

Satan (Obey Me!)

Belphegor (Obey Me!)

Jess Mariano (Gilmore Girls)

Richard Thorne III (Bedford Diaries)

Jason “The Ogre” Lennon (Gotham)

King Boo (Mario)

Gale (Harvest Moon Animal Parade)

Naminé (Kingdom Hearts)

Lee Healy (Law and Order: SVU)

Divo (No Vampire, No Happy Ending)

Taiyaki (Food Fantasy)

Black Tea (Food Fantasy)

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thepastisalreadywritten · 1 year

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The Strange Historical Origins of the Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme

By Carl Seaver | 24 January 2023

Nearly all children who grew up during the twentieth century are familiar with the nursery rhyme of Humpty Dumpty.

This modern version of the short rhyme runs as follows:

“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;

All the King’s horses

And all the King’s men,

Couldn’t put Humpty together again.”

So far, the story is quite simple. However, there is a much wider story to how this nursery rhyme came into existence and developed over five or six hundred years.

This is the story of the strange historical origins of the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme.

The Modern Origins of Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty has been around for centuries, but the modern, standardized version of the rhyme is largely derived from the version published by an English publisher and organist Samuel Arnold in 1797. This ran:

“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

Four-score Men and Four-score more,

Could not make Humpty Dumpty where he was before.”

Slight evolutions occurred after that throughout the nineteenth century until the twentieth-century version was arrived at.

Was Richard III the inspiration for Humpty Dumpty?

The Humpty Dumpty rhyme can be traced back to at least the late fifteenth century and is an allusion to King Richard III.

Richard III briefly reigned as King of England between 1483 and 1485 after his brother, King Edward IV, passed away.

Edward was to be succeeded by his son and namesake, Edward V, but as the young Edward was a minor in 1483, Richard was chosen to serve as regent until he reached adulthood.

Richard can hardly be said to have honored his brother’s faith in him and quickly placed young Edward and his younger brother Richard in the Tower of London, from where they never reappeared.

The assumption is Richard had his two young nephews killed, and thereafter, he usurped the throne.

He did not go unchallenged in this, and Henry Tudor, a Welsh upstart, overthrew him in 1485 by defeating Richard in combat at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

All of this is relevant to Humpty Dumpty because Richard suffered from scoliosis and was a hunchback.

Additionally, his horse was allegedly called ‘Wall.’

So, in later years, when figures such as the great playwright William Shakespeare wrote about Richard, they emphasized his humped back.

By modern standards of ethics, it hardly seems acceptable to refer to somebody with a physical disability as ‘Humpty Dumpty,’ but this seems to have been a reference to Richard’s humped back.

When the rhyme refers to him falling off of a ‘wall,’ this would seem to be a reference to his horse, which Richard is recorded as falling off of at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

The King’s soldiers and men are a reference to his forces at the battle being unable to win the day against Henry Tudor’s army.

Other Possible Origins of Humpty Dumpty

Richard III’s story is the most plausible origin of the Humpty Dumpty rhyme, but several others exist.

Some suggest that Humpty Dumpty is a derivative of a Swedish or Germanic fairy tale character, many of which were immortalized by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen in the nineteenth century.

There is also a plausible link to seventeenth and eighteenth-century slang terms.

For instance, Humpty Dumpty was a drink consumed in Stuart-era Britain composed of a mix of brandy and ale.

This, combined with other pejorative terms which were used at the time to refer to people of shorter stature, would suggest that at least in the eighteenth century before Arnold publicized the largely modernized version of the rhyme, Humpty Dumpty was a bawdy, insulting comedic figure of some sort which term was widely applied to people when inebriated.

Humpty Dumpty and the English Civil War

One final interpretation is that Humpty Dumpty was the name of a large piece of ordnance, or a canon, which was mounted on the walls of the town of Colchester in the mid-seventeenth century.

During the 1640s, England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland were enveloped by a series of conflicts collectively known as the Wars of the Three Kingdoms or the English Civil War in England.

Colchester was besieged during the civil war between King Charles I and the English Parliament in 1648.

Humpty Dumpty was the name of a huge canon atop the town’s walls.

The Royalists, the King’s supporters, held the town while the Parliamentarians besieged it.

The wall, which Humpty Dumpty was perched on top of, was shattered by parliamentary ordnance fire, and Humpty Dumpty fell off this great wall.

The King’s Men, in this interpretation, were the Royalists, who could not remount the canon, and eventually, after an eleven-week siege of Colchester, were forced to surrender to the Parliamentary forces.

Again, the theory that the Humpty Dumpty rhyme originates in the siege of Colchester in 1648 is speculative.

What seems clear from all of this is that there is no one origin story for the Humpty Dumpty rhyme.

Rather, it was a rhyme inherited from the early modern world from medieval times.

Each successive generation reimagined it to suit the circumstances of their age, whether that was Richard III falling from his horse in 1485, a canon falling from the walls of Colchester in 1648, or somebody who had drank too much brandy and ale falling over in the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries.

Each generation brought its interpretation to the rhyme we all know today.

#Humpty Dumpty #Samuel Arnold #King Richard III #Battle of Bosworth Field #Henry Tudor #King Edward IV #Edward V #Brothers Grimm #Hans Christian Andersen #Wars of the Three Kingdoms #English Civil War

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zachfett · 4 months

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King Ralph (1991) Directed by David S. Ward Cinematography by Kenneth MacMillan

King Ralph received really harsh reception on release, it has a measly 23% on Rotten Tomatoes, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. It's a cute comedy. There's also a lot of fantastic interiors in this film.

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high-quality-tiktoks · 1 year

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Im still not sure it will happen but how cool would that be?

#video #tiktok #tiktoks #history #story time #britain #england #uk #united kingdom #richard of shrewsbury #king edward v #melissafairlady

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roehenstart · 2 years

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Legendary Kings of Scotland.

51. Eugenius IV (Eochaid Buide, King of Dál Riata from around 608 until 629).

52. Fearchair I (Ferchar mac Connaid, King of Dál Riata from about 642 until 650).

53. Donaldus IV (Domnall Brecc or Donald the Freckled, King of Dál Riata, from about 629 until 642).

54. Ferchardus II (Ferchar Fota or Ferchar the Tall, probably King of the Cenél Loairn of Dál Riata, and perhaps of all Dál Riata)

55. Maldvinus.

56. Eugenius V.

57. Eugenius VI.

58. Amberkelethus (Ainbcellach mac Ferchair, King of the Cenél Loairn of Dál Riata, and perhaps of all Dál Riata, from 697 until 698, when he was deposed and exiled to Ireland).

59. Eugenius VII (Likely duplicates Eugenius VI; King of Dál Riata from 726 until 733).

60. Mordacus (Muiredach mac Ainbcellaig), King of the Cenél Loairn, and of Dál Riata, from about 733 until 736.

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dance-magic-dance · 1 year

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finally got around to watching the lost king, that movie about how richard the third was found in a car park. it was good but they showed philippa getting an LNER train to Leicester but the interior was clearly a scotrail train which has a different seat design and also doesn't go to Leicester

#i don't know much but i know my trains #the lost king #richard iii #my kingdom for accurate train interiors

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wardrobeoftime · 1 year

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Galavant + Costumes

Madalena’s white & golden wedding dress and golden coat in Season 01, Episode 01 & 05.

#Galavant #Madalena #costume drama #costumes #costumesource #Fantasy #white #gold #wedding dress #King Richard's Kingdom #Valencia #The Seven Realms

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illustratus · 2 months

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The Sanctuary of Richard III by Paul Hardy

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hopeheartfilia · 1 year

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richard and buckingham s relationship has greatly improved and all i can do is still which richard had a emotional conversation in the rain with the other henry. my henry.

its not that i curently dislike buckingham or anything, and like the themes and all. but. i. think richard should get white haired asassin boy if he wants him

#requiem of the rose king #this scene is such shoujo by the way #henry watching at the cottage from the window #peak fiction i am enjoying life for a little bit #also looking for richard the third songs is an experience◦◦#maybe i should check out the phanthom of the opera or something. need dramatic and tragic and also #crown symbolism. kings and kingdoms #i have a bunch of that in my liked songs but its much Xie Lian and not that much Richard the third

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whencartoonsruletheworld · 1 year

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funniest disney history facts i can think of atm

literally EVERYBODY thought the lion king was gonna flop and pocahontas would be their greatest movie ever made. people begged to ditch lion king and work on pocahontas.

the reason robin hood ends so abruptly is that there was an actual ending planned and storyboarded but the crew spent too long arguing about everyone’s fursonas to finish animating it

madam mim was way less comedic in the original book but because her character was too similar to maleficent (who was in their latest film at the time), the sword and the stone crew decided to differentiate her by making her fucking hilarious

when making a goofy movie, jeffrey katzenberg (studio chairman at the time) told bill farmer to give goofy “a normal voice.” farmer, who had been voicing goofy for eight years at that point, including in the goof troop show that a goofy movie was a sequel to, was very confused. after making an attempt they decided to scrap that note completely.

as of march 2023, farmer is still voicing goofy, and tony anselmo has been voicing donald since 1986. the 2017 reboot of ducktales, which was slated as “wanting to do for donald what goofy movie did for goofy,” featured both actors as those characters; they had also been doing the voices for the original ducktales and goof troop/goofy movie. all the times goofy and donald interact in the 2017 ducktales however, donald was voiced by guest star don cheadle as a joke

current voice of mickey mouse bret iwan has stated that he has attempted to play kingdom hearts and did not do well

disneyland’s current world of color halloween overlay features a plot that is basically “the disney villains simultaneously adopt a goth kid” and i love it

people will make jokes about “well math says that the beast would’ve been 11 when he was cursed” well that was actually the original intent, but a flashback scene of baby beast was scrapped because he looked “too much like eddie munster”

when disney sent a representative to pixar to check on toy story production, she was like “this is all great! what style of music are you thinking” and they were like “for what” “for the songs” “we uh. we weren’t gonna have. any songs” and she went dead silent and then went “i have to make a call” and left the room

saludos amigos and the three caballeros were made as ww2 propaganda. the government commissioned disney to make movies to make latin america like them so that they wouldnt side with the nazis and provide them an in to invade, and latin america really liked donald duck so

saludos amigos was apparently the first time many usamericans realized that latin american people were like. people. film historian alfred charles richard jr said that the film “did more to cement a community of interest between peoples of the americas in a few months than the state department had in fifty years”

while latin america generally liked both films, chilean cartoonist rené rios boettiger fucking hated the chilean segment of saludos amigos, seeing the main character of pedro the plane as a weakass bitch, so in response he created condorito, the most popular comic character in all of latin america

disney wanted to adapt ts eliot’s old possum’s book of practical cats. his widow adamantly refused, and then sold the rights to andrew lloyd webber bc he wanted to make it sexy and she said “tom would’ve liked that”

in case you haven’t seen the defunctland, walt disney wanted epcot to be a futuristic utopia where he was basically the dictator. then he died so they just made it another theme park

speaking of defunctland the first defunctland video was on disneyworld’s alien attraction and please watch it. please it’s so funny

after the huge failure of the black cauldron disney was going to shut down its animation department. the department tried to convince them to keep them alive by showing them the one scene they had finished for the next movie– the mouse burlesque from the great mouse detective. it worked

the only attraction the black cauldron ever got was in tokyo disneyland where they put a tour under cinderella’s castle where everyone had to escape the disney villains trying to kill them, only to end at the horned king and the cauldron, who would try to sacrifice them to satan. this tour was popular but was closed in the early 2000s as the tunnels didn’t fit earthquake regulations and i want it in disneyworld so bad

walt disney once referred to his unionizing workers, led by goofy’s creator art babbitt, as “commie sons of bitches,” and i want a mickey build-a-bear that calls me a commie son-of-a-bitch whenever i squeeze its paw

#disney #disney history #mine

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timmurleyart · 1 year

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Kingdom of heaven. ✝️🗡(mixed media collage on canvas) ⛪⚔️

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shiny-jr · 1 month

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For your damnation au what songs do you think fits each fic. I'm just curious

I'll try to leave this as open-ended as possible, so I mainly chose instrumental songs with a certain vibe that reminded me of said result/MC. I try leaving it vague though.

Heartslabyul with King!MC -> Fallen Down by Ricky Not Montgomery

Savanaclaw with Chief!MC -> Enjoy the Fights by Ludwig Göransson

Octavinelle with Diviner!MC -> Sirens by Ludwig Göransson

Scarabia with Vassal!MC -> Attack on Vah Naboris from Breath of the Wild

Pomefiore with Retainer!MC -> Le Monde by Richard Carter

Ignihyde with ???MC -> Prologue: Beneath Hyrule Castle from Tears of the Kingdom

Diasomnia with ???MC -> Mechanical Lullaby by Bruno Coulais

These may or may not be accurate, especially the last two, but this is what I could come up with after a few listens.

#shiny speaks #damnation twst au

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