How many things make five?

[shewhomust]

1. Matthias Hunyadi was King of Hungary in the fifteenth century; the surname Corvinus comes from his coat of arms, which shows a raven. Matthias Corvinus was famous, among other things, for his library.
   
   In Neil Gaiman's Sandman, the previously existing character of Matthew Cable is revived by the Dream King in the form of a raven.
   
   I wonder if they are by any chance related?


2. Vermeer's Barbie Doll with a Pearl Earring (the whole gallery is worth exploring).


3. Spam name of the day: I received an e-mail yesterday from Mr. Pope Innocent. Full text is not so interesting: However, we received an email from one Mr. Lonato Paul, who told us That you are dead and he is your next of kin and that you died in a car Accident four months back. To our findings we discover that this Mr. Lonato Paul is a liar and imposer.


4. World Map Drawn in a Fool's Head. (Ca. 1590)


5. From the Travel Guardian: Kevin Rushby seems to have a monopoly of the "he goes there so you don't have to" jobs: this week, not quite falling over a precipice in the Caucasus. Despite which, it's an area I'd love to see (from the comparative safety of my own feet); the audio slideshow explains why.


6. Custom Penguin logos for those very special texts

Five things plus a bonus thing? Yes, that'll make a post. I'm sure there was another thing, but I can't remember it...

Comments

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. *giggles* (Am ill and silly;) I just adore your friend Pope Innocent and how he noticed Mr. Lonato Paul is a liar and imposer. *sneeze* Will look up the other ones later but this just lifted my mood almost as when reading classic Dorothy Parker on receiving the news of the death of, Woodrow Wilson, wasn´t it: "How could they tell?"
Of course, I almost equally much adore the World Map Drawn In A Fool´s Head. I would...

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Those Barbies are great!

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

I sent the link to the Great Art of Barbie to my sister and now I have bonus coolness sister points. Thanks for that!! ;-D

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Calvin Coolidge?

Sorry you are ill; silly is good!

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Don't thank me, thank Gail (she's an art historian)!

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Glad you like...

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

...Oh, dear. Absolutely;) Not being able to remember even the name tells it all, I guess? Though he was a notable racist.

Just complaining a bit to the world once I get the chance! It´s just a stupid cold now, that began as a bad flu but I wrestled it down with medicine that was for once not available at my fav. brasserie.

Parker was just one of my bad influences in youth. Just imagining having a parrot pet called Onan "because he spills his seed", then dying in a boardinghouse (without amy pet lapdog, as far as I remember), after all.

I wonder, how much or little Kurt Vonnegut (who coined the text of the icon above, in case someone didn´t know;) was inspired by Dotty´s own epitaphs she composed for her gravestone: "Excuse My Dust", "This Is On Me" and "If You Can Read This, You've Come Too Close"?

I shall, however, abstain from answering the phone as she always did: "What fresh Hell is this?" because I like (to keep my) friends, though not all of them are Lillian Hellman but then; I am not Dorothy Parker, either!