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My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning

The Common-place Book of the Mercurius Aulicus, a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense. Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"? A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

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Winifred Margaret Watson-Armstrong (1912). Thomas Bowman Garvie (English, 1859-1934). Oil on canvas. Cragside, National Trust.

A head-and-shoulders portrait of Watson-Armstrong (1894-1912), turned to the left, her head facing out, wearing a grey dress, white scarf, and orange and white scarf around her hair. The daughter of William Watson-Armstrong, 1st Lord Armstrong of Bamburgh and Cragside, and his first wife, Winifreda Adye, Watson-Armstrong died aged 18 in 1912, the year of the portrait.

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