Ophelia’s Flowers

Posted on October 23, 2016 by bfaure Leave a comment

In a large rectangular room in the Tate Britain Museum, a modestly sized painting draws the eye among all others. A beautiful young woman floats in a stream surrounded by a dense, fecund growth, drifting silently down a quiet stream, surrounded by flowers of florid color and variety. But this is not a scene of serenity. […]... Read More

Poor King George III

Posted on October 14, 2016October 16, 2016 by bfaure Leave a comment

I have had a long respite from the challenges of maintaining an interesting blog, spending a goodly portion of time traveling to London and the surrounding countryside, storing up wonderful memories and visuals I cant wait to share with you. For an amateur historian like myself, the journey was a veritable feast. A city and […]... Read More

Canyonland

Posted on October 11, 2014 by bfaure Leave a comment

It is always a remarkable event when something you assume you know and understand reveals itself once again to be beyond understanding. I have been to the grandest of canyons several times, but the thrill it elicits with the first sighting from the edge of the Colorado Plateau through which it has carved itself over […]... Read More

A Crossroads of Western Civilization

Posted on March 24, 2013 by bfaure Leave a comment

My recent neglect of my duty at the Ramparts has been driven by time constraints, not by the lack of living in interesting times. I thought I would get ‘back in the saddle’ with a good old fashioned immersion in the complex ribbons of history that have formed our perception of ourselves, our western ideals […]... Read More

GEORGE WASHINGTON- Gilbert Stuart- Corcoran Gallery

1792 Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Plan of the City of Washington, March 1792, Library of Congress

Mount Corcoran - Albert Bierstadt- Corcoran Gallery

Niagara Falls- Frederic Edwin Church- Corcoran Gallery

The Last of the Buffalo - Albert Bierstadt - Corcoran Gallery

Ginevra de Benci- DaVinci- National Gallery of Art

Woman Holding A Balance- Johannes Vermeer- National Gallery of Art

Breezing Up - Winslow Homer - National Gallery of Art

Street in Venice - John Singer Sargent- National Gallery of Art

Repose - Singer Sargent - National Gallery of Art

Keelmen Heaving Coals in Moonlight - JMW Turner- NAtional Gallery of Art

Spirit of St Louis- Smithsonian Air and Space

German Messerschmidt - Air and Space Smithsonian

Russian Soyuz- Air And Space Smithsonian

CEREMONIAL DRESS- LAKOTA CHIEF- Museum of the American Indian

CHEYENNE CEREMONIAL DRESS - Ben Nighthorse Campbell- Museum of the American Indian

Re-Acquainting with our National Treasures – the Museums

Posted on October 20, 2012 by bfaure Leave a comment

The national capital of the United States is not only the citadel of governance for the world’s most powerful democracy, it is also the repository for an incredible diversity of treasures of art, science, culture, and history. The city itself was designed as a jewel of urban expression by the famed architect Pierre L’Enfant, presented […]... Read More

Re-Acquainting With Our National Treasures – The Monuments

Posted on October 14, 2012 by bfaure Leave a comment

I had the occasion this past week to plum with some depth the national treasure that is our nation’s capital, Washington D.C. I had visited it some eighteen years before, but viewed the incredible wealth of venues as a quick aside to a business trip. I was determined this time, to absorb with more gravity, […]... Read More

The Trinity Test, The Gadget, July 16, 1945

Los Alamos

Posted on September 10, 2011 by bfaure 1 Comment

I have been away for a well deserved trip and traveled to a favorite corner of the world, northern New Mexico. As a humbly self described amateur historian, the pulse of history that surges through this unique land could occupy me for months. The visible chapters of the untold millennia of earth’s history […]... Read More

The Road to Jerusalem

Posted on July 18, 2011July 18, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

With so much history and epic drama at her disposal, the city of Jerusalem is a beacon for all who love to combine history and travel. This wonderful video below comes via Small Dead Animals through Wizbang and therefore isn’t remotely my find. With so much turmoil and strife ruling the world I thought […]... Read More

Travelling the Past

Posted on July 10, 2011 by bfaure Leave a comment

Its been over thirty years since I performed the daily grind of of getting up very early and taking the forty minute drive to my high school, but it was a drive I knew like the back of my hand, and could perform in my sleep. Every vista, every building, and every curve in […]... Read More

The Tip Of The Spear

Posted on March 5, 2011 by bfaure 2 Comments

I had occasion on a recent trip to place myself into history. In San Diego, California, the USS Midway, an American aircraft carrier is docked as a permanent museum and provides a wonderful window into the forward most arm of America’s military capacity in this dangerous world in which we live. Aircraft carriers in World […]... Read More

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