Father’s day 2012

My favourit children’s book.

concordiamn:

It’s #finalsweek! May the odds be ever in your favor :) #cordmn #study #library (at Carl B. Ylvisaker Library)

Lipswago too …

TORI AMOS live SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW

Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There’s a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby
Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dream that you dare to dream
Really does come true
One day I wish upon a star
Wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Way upon the chimney tops
That’s where you’ll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why, oh why can’t I?
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Way upon the chimney tops
That’s where you’ll find me
Somewhere over the rainbow
Blue birds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why, oh why can’t I?

humanrituals:

Champagne Ship Launch

The tradition of christening a new ship for good luck and safe travel goes way back. Many ancient seafaring societies had their own ceremonies for launching a new ship. The Greeks wore olive branch wreaths around their heads, drank wine to honor the gods, and poured water on the new boat to bless it. The Babylonians sacrificed an ox, the Turks sacrificed a sheep, and the Vikings and Tahitians offered up human blood.

Ship christening in the young United States borrowed from contemporary English tradition. The launch of the USS Constitution in 1797 included the captain breaking a bottle of Madeira wine on its bow. Over the next century, the ritual of breaking or pouring of some “christening fluid” remained, but the fluid itself varied wildly. The USS Princeton, Raritan and Shamrock were all christened with whiskey. The USS New Ironsides was double-christened, first with a bottle of brandy and then with Madeira. Other ships were teetotalers, and launched with water or grape juice. The USS Hartford was christened three times, with water from the Atlantic Ocean, the Connecticut River and Hartford Spring. The USS Kentucky was launched with spring water by her official sponsor, but as the battleship slipped into the water, onlookers gave her a baptism more fitting of her namesake state and bashed small bottles of bourbon against her sides.

It’s not clear how champagne came to be the favored fluid. The Secretary of the Navy’s granddaughter christened the USS Maine, the Navy’s first steel battleship, with champagne in 1890. The shift to that particular sparkling wine might have been meant to coincide with the new era of steel, or it may just have just come into vogue because of association with power and elegance.

When Prohibition went into effect in the U.S., ships went sober again and were launched with water, juice or, in at least one case, apple cider. Champagne came back with the passage of the 21st Amendment and has stuck around since.

theniftyfifties:

Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in ‘To Catch a Thief’, 1955.

(via same-difference-to-me)

Musée océanographique de Monaco - http://www.oceano.mc/

Martha Cooper

My son.

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gotsnurf:

Plowin pow

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One of the best skiing of my life (up date, of course). With Marco Bonvini  @mbonva [ Giovanni Acerboni @GioAcerboni missed]. Last version remixed.