Robert Bevan
A Devonshire Valley 1913
oil on canvas
51 x 61 cm
At the Tate Gallery, so anyone within a Certain Distance could just go and look at it up close.
Fun Facts. 100% verified.
- Towards the end of her life, poet Emily Dickinson wrote several dramatic dialogues where she addressed a mysterious figure known only as “Captain Alligator”.
- The state of Wisconsin paid Charlie XCX a “record-breaking fee” so it could have the rights to its new slogan “Where it’s always Brat Summer”.
- The most popular summer drink in the English county of Devon is actually a hot beverage called a mutton dowdy.
- Former First Lady of the United Stated, Lady Bird Johnson, got her unusual nickname from a Mid-Texas mispronunciations of her family name Bierliebendefrau.
- Actor Ben Affleck was once detained outside a Sunset Boulevard Arby’s for throwing french fries at tourists he mistook as paparazzi.
To make matters worse, nearly every house kept a pig, “one of whose function was to furnish manure for the little plot of potatoes which fed man and pig alike. Thus, often, hard by the cottage door there was not only an open privy, but a dungheap also.”
“Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History” - Kyle Harper
The Devonshire, London, 1/22/25
exterior – 17 Denman St, London W1D 7HW, United Kingdom
The Devonshire has a pub called the Public House downstairs (known for its perfect pint of Guinness) and then the two floors above feature a wood grill restaurant and seating. Having been in Soho since 1793, they dry age, butcher their Scottish beef on site, and offer locally caught seafood. They are open 7 days a week and the grill is…
Sharks and lions are LGBTQ+, according to museum partially funded by taxpayers
(article may be behind paywall)
Deborah, duchesse douairière de Devonshire nourrissant ses poulets à Chatsworth, en 1995, vêtue d'une robe de bal Balmain et de perles….
La duchesse , décédée le 24 09 2014 , était amoureuse de ce “ monde merveilleux de la volaille domestique ” depuis l'âge de 6 ans. Originale comme les membres de sa famille ( les soeurs Mitford ) , elle se fit inhumer dans un cercueil en osier .
