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POPSIvory carving netsuke - Aux Carriage Another outstanding Mammoth ivory hand carves netsuke of Boy Riding on aux Carriage - you actually can imagine this child riding on the open fields of 16th century in Japan.
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POPSFood of the week: Cauliflower Cauliflower traces its ancestry to the wild cabbage, a plant thought to have originated in ancient Asia Minor, which resembled kale or collards more than the vegetable that we now know it to be. The cauliflower went through many transformations and reappeared in the Mediterranean region, where it has been an important vegetable in Turkey and Italy since at least 600 B.C. It gained popularity in France in the mid-16th century and was subsequently cultivated in Northern Europe and the British Isles. The United States, France, Italy, India and China are countries that produce significant amounts of cauliflower.
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POPSHello,sweet Prince New York audiences tend to respond differently from London ones, but it is never clear in advance how this will play out. “When you’re faced with ‘To be or not to be,’ in the first rehearsal,” Mr. Law said, “there’s a sense of ‘Oh, God, I’m stepping into the world’s greatest cliché.’ But without sounding like a naff old actor, I’m Hamlet, and what a great way to question life and death.” He added: “The reason they’re so famous is because they’re beautifully written and incredibly powerful pieces of dialogue. Never underestimate the power of these lines. Our language is littered with words and phrases from this play, and we use them because we have not, in 400 years, found a better way of putting things.”
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POPSUnexplained Mysteries of Aswang An Aswang (or Asuwang) is a mythical creature in Filipino folklore. The aswang is an inherently evil vampire-like creature and is the subject of a wide variety of myths and stories, the details of which often vary greatly. Spanish colonizers noted that the Aswang was the most feared among the mythical creatures of the Philippines, even in the 16th century.
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POPSDisfunction One phrase got me thinking. "God fearing men...". Of course, being an atheist, this doesn't apply to my worldview. But to the majority I wonder if they ever spent much time thinking about it? I always thought this relationship of fear/love was rather strange. Normally, people who are presented a fearful situation react in a flight or fight manner. But neither option is open to theists if they believe their god is all-powerful and everywhere. It seems to infantilize the relationship and cast it in the light of being with an abusing parent. At the same time there is the cognitive dissonance of loving this fearful entity. Most peculiar.
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POPSEmma Watson’s 16th century Ancestor was accused of Witchcraft Emma Watson, who rose to prominence playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series has a woman in her family tree who is convicted of witchcraft in the 16th century. According to Ancestry.com, genealogists have learned that 19 year-old Emma is a distant relative of Joan Playle. Playle, a 16th-century woman of Essex County, England was convicted of witchcraft in 1592. She was excommunicated from the Church of England.
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POPSEmma Watson, star of Harry Potter films, is related to 16th century witch Anastasia Tyler, a genealogist from Ancestry.co.uk, who researched Watson's heritage, said: "It is not every day we are able to trace the branches of a family tree back to the 16th century witch trials. "It shows researching your family's past can have just as many twists and turns as a film blockbuster. "As we researched Emma's family, we learned that her great great great grandmother was named Frances Playle - a very uncommon surname. "The Playles have been in a small area of Essex since the early 1500s." Watson grew up in Oxfordshire, roughly 100 miles from the area. The actress, who achieved straight A grades at A level in English literature, geography and art at Headington School in Oxford, is reportedly set to attend Ivy League Brown University, in Rhode Island, USA, in September.
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POPSScottish Castle: Eilean Donan At the end of the bridge you are faced with the heptagonal and now impenetrable building which was once the main entrance (in the days when there was no bridge across to the island). It is thought that this unique, oddly-shaped part of the castle might have been built in the 16th century to protect the well which it encompasses, as well as to strengthen an existing entrance in the wall behind it. After passing through this gateway, you would have crossed a small wooden bridge across the well, then entered a funnel-shaped courtyard with upper defences, before finally reaching the main castle. The guards could easily have prevented your passage by withdrawing the wooden bridge across the well. The more modern entrance was chosen to be an arch in the south wall and over its portcullis is a Gaelic inscription which translates as: As long as there is a MacRae inside There will never be a Fraser outside
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