Saturday, February 16, 2013
341 OBJECT
ANTIQUE country CROCK BENCH pine SCHOOL DESK square nails OLD- $461
I’m sure you already noticed the shelf on the front. It is mortised into the ends, and the inverted backsplash seen above would tend to lend credence to the “school desk” idea. It would keep books from falling out the back of the shelf.
An interesting note: The shelf is held to the backsplash by square nails, and it is kept level by the mortising into the sides. However, it is not flush with the fronts of the sides. This would almost certainly indicate several decades of shrinkage across the grain, narrowing the shelf from front to back.
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ARNE PIC
arne's daughter's young husband, non smoker, died of lung cancer a few years ago. kasper.
ferd IIIFERDINAND III (1608-1657)- emperor, son of ferdinand II. b gratz 2/1608, became king of bohemia 1625, king of hungary 1627, king of the romans1636, + succeeded as empweoe in 1637. milder in disposition, less fanatical, + somewhat disp[irited on account of the repeated defeats inflicyed on the german arms by duke berhard + general baner, he was at an early period of his reign strongly desirous of peace even at the cost of liberal concessions to protestants; but the determination of france + sweden to humiliate the imperial power prevented negotiations til 1643. between 1643 + 1648 fruitless conferences, the war raging intermittently. in 1647 however, F III guaranteed to hungary religious toleration + finally the peace of westphalia signed. the war had devestated all of germany, paralyzed its trade, killed 1/2 the people, religious toleration to germany, bu not bohemia. france got part of alsace + lorraine, + the son of frederick V gotthe upper palatine; while sweden obtained western pomerania, + became a member of the german diet + unified germany broken up, that w/the death of F III + the german kingdom ceased, until re-established by william I, after the franco-prussian war. during the peace negotiations of westphalia, ferdinand IV, oldest son of F II, was chosen kung of the romans, but he died in 1654. F III died in 1657 shortly after a treaty w/ the poles against sweden.
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EBAY OBJECT
jorge wilmot. did NOT get what it should have! i LOVE this.
Friday, February 15, 2013
back to before FRANCE
FERDINAND II(1575-1637)- emperor grandson of ferdinand I + son of charles, duke of styria + mary of bavaria, b 7/19/1578. educated by jesuits + having imbibed strong anti-protestant sentiments is said to have taken a vow before an altar that, on receiving the crown, promised him by his cousin Matthias, he would at whatever cost re-establish roman catholic religion in his states. in 1618 M II abdicated he thrones of bohemia + hungary in F II's favor, + on the death of M II in 1619 he laid claim to the imperial crown. his keen roman catholic sympathies, allied to a character gloomy, fanatical, + cruel, had already led him to disregard the guaranties of toleration by which his election to the throne had been acceded to, on that account the bohemians, shortly after M died, rose in revolt, + under count thurn, besieged him in vienna, until the arrival of an army under general bonquo; forces their retreat, + allowed him to go to frankfort to be crowned. the bohemias notwithstanding their defeat , chose as their king the elector of palatine frederick V, son in law of james I, king o england, + w/ their assistance of gabor bethlen, prince of transylvania, who revolted against ferdinand in hungary, virtually inaugurated the long struggle for religious liberty known as the 30 years war. ferd however, w/ the support of the catholic league + the alliance of john george I, elector of saxony, was able to completely subdue them. 1620, he deprived them of their constitutional rights, banishing the leading protestant families, expelled reformed preachers + recalled the JESUITS, + by cruel persecutions totally quelled every manifestation of Protestantism. but in hungary not so successful to enable him to be a total dick. instead he concluded peace in 1621 + ceded 1/2 the country to bethlen gabor + granted religious toleration to the rest. in germany, more favorable to roman Catholics; several german princes had entered into a league w/ denmark's christian IV, but that monarch defeated by ferd's general wallenstein, + a peace between then signed in 1629. taking advantage, ferd passed the famous edict of restoration of all german ecclesiastical property that had passed into other's hands since the treaty of passan in 1552. but it was prevented from being fully executed- partly by the unwillingness of the roman catholic princes to give up property that they had gotten, partly by the intrigues of cardinal richelieu, who was jealous of the increasing influence of the emp, but principally through the arrival of gustavus adolphus. uniting w/ the protestant princes of germany, gustavus inflicted a succession of defeat on ferd, who, having at the urgent representations of the cath princes, dismissed wallenstein from command of the imperial army, possessed no general at all adequate to cope w/ the genius of the swedish king. gus will + energy, tehn joined by the elector of saxony, + fortune failed ferd. even after recalling wallenstein, who was defeated at luzen in 11/1632. gus died in the battle, but wallenstein took little advantage of this great loss; + the emp, learning that, he finally mediated. treachery caused wallenstein to be assissinated 2/1634. in the same year the imperial army as successful at nordlingen, + soon after the elector of saxony left the swedes + made peace w/ ferd. swedes foght + france joined the swedes. ferd died 2/1637, was uncomforted by he hope of any near fulfillment of his oath.
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