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| Bluebeards Castle On a Used Postcard from St. Thomas. |
I was looking through some old postcards.and noticed this one from St. Thomas showing what is supposed to be Bluebeard's Castle. Actually I read it wrong at first and thought it said Blackbeard's Castle, but after I got it right, I wondered who is Bluebeard. Do you know?
Here is what I found out.
Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités or Contes de ma mère l'Oye (Stories or Tales from Past Times, with Morals or Mother Goose Tales) is a collection of literary fairy tales written by Charles Perrault, published in Paris in 1697. The work became popular because it was written at a time when fairy tales were fashionable amongst aristocrats in Parisian literary salons. Perrault wrote the work when he retired from court as secretary to Jean-Baptiste Colbert, minister to Louis XIV of France. Colbert's death may have forced Perrault's retirement, at which point he turned to writing. Scholars have debated as to the origin of his tales and whether they are original literary fairy tales modified from commonly known stories or based on stories written by earlier medieval writers such as Boccaccio....
Histoires ou contes du temps passé - Wikipedia
The verb bluebearding has even appeared as a way to describe the crime of either killing a series of women, or seducing and abandoning a series of women.
You can read the story online. Here is the link for more about the story.
Back to the postcard. Bluebeard's Castle, as shown on the postcard, is a hotel.
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New dinosaur discovery may be the closest relative to Tyrannosaurus rex, scientists say.
The scientists initially assumed that the fossils they found, the jaw and part of the skull, belonged to Tyrannosaurus rex, the famed large theropod dinosaur that existed 66 million to 68 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period. But in the last 20 years, further study of the jaw indicated that it was a new species entirely, Lucas said.
The new species has since been dubbed Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis, according to a paper published Thursday in Scientific Reports...
Here is the link for more about that.
Interesting! Biological evolution, or evolution of understanding?
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Here is another postcard I noticed. I can't read the back and don't have any idea who these follows are. If you can provide any clues, please do. I can probably figure out a little more about the probably date of the postcard. Right off, I'd assume it is early 20th century. Maybe in the 20a oe 30s, but I don't know.
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Thunderstorms in the morning and a lot next week.
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| Surf Chart by Surfguru.com, |
Not much to get excited about on that chart.
Good hunting,
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