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Leopoldina
@leopoldina
05 Jun 2015 12:25:13PM
280 posts

Goatswood and Venexia sims to be closed this month


General Discussion

Yes, they are so talented. All of their sims are so full of detail, both the story and the appearance of them. I think ultimately the complexity of the stories could even scare some people away, but I like how passionate they seem to be with their projects.

You're right, I have visited both Venexia and Goatswood recently and both seemed to be struggling to gather enough players. And as you said, those sims without people to interact with are unfortunately nothing. Its hard enough to bring people to a sim these days it seems, let alone those with more specific and niche settings, like the royal courts for example. That is one of the main problems in keeping a sim in Second life.

I'm hoping that with Project Sansar , or "SL2", there will be a new big influx of people, something to the likes of Second Life during its height of popularity. Maybe with that not only more communities devoted to the most different settings could begin, but also remain active and stable for longer periods of time.

Leopoldina
@leopoldina
05 Jun 2015 07:27:10AM
280 posts

Goatswood and Venexia sims to be closed this month


General Discussion

And so SL's land costs strikes again. It's such a shame to see two beautiful and unique RP sims closing. It's hard to find this type of "niche" RP, here hoping Kingdom of Sand won't follow their destiny.

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ANNOUNCEMENT FROM BAAL AND KORA

It is with great regret that once again the ever present financial burden of the extreme costs of maintaining sims in second life means that we will be forced to close both Venexia and Goatswood.
These closures will take place on 13th June for Venexia and 19th June for Goatswood.
Any rentals outstanding will of course be refunded.
As Kos still has some active players we will try to keep it running for a while longer.
We would like to say a huge thank you to all those who have over the years contributed so much time and creativity towards the great success of these projects.
They have provided us with many lasting memories, and we have derived immense enjoyment from seeing them brought to life by those who have spent time playing there.
We hope that you have enjoyed using as much as we have enjoyed creating them.
For us though this is not the end by any means.
We fully intend to continue what we have begun here in what we consider to be a far more user friendly and far less financially restricting environment.

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updated by @leopoldina: 30 May 2017 11:00:18PM
Leopoldina
@leopoldina
22 May 2015 06:52:27PM
280 posts

Work in Progress


Site News & Guidelines

The new design looks so much clearer! There is in, my opinion, some problem with the lack of hierarchy between the columns, and bigger spaces between each column could look visually better maybe. I don't know which colors could look better, but I find the two main colors chosen makes the website look somewhat dated.

And btw its great no data was lost!

Leopoldina
@leopoldina
22 May 2015 06:40:02PM
280 posts

Decades Ball and Festival -- June 27 Fundraiser for TRC website -- Discussion and Planning


General Discussion

I was thinking that maybe having a little corner for pictures, with some props and background that looked like those of old 19th century pictures and 18th century paintings. It could be something like the photos of the Devonshire 1897 ball's guests, where people could take snapshots for their feed, flickr, blogs, etc.

Leopoldina
@leopoldina
16 May 2015 12:48:21PM
280 posts

Royal Courts Ning: ♥ 2015 Fundraiser ♥ August 1st


Site News & Guidelines

I think maybe adding a subtitle of sorts to the banner, mentioning that its open for other historical communities in SL (and maybe other girds as it has been discussed here) and not only courts could work as a substitute of changing the site's name for now.

I like the idea of scheduled posts exploring SL's new/interesting sims and events that mattered to the historical community, that could be very fun :)

Leopoldina
@leopoldina
22 Feb 2015 07:42:49AM
280 posts

The Conservation of Marie Antoinette’s Chair


History

Published: February 17, 2015 Author: Zoe Allen
Section: Conservation , Creating the new Europe 16001800 Galleries Tags: , , , , , , ,

Zoe Allen, Senior Gilded Furniture and Frames Conservator
Phil James, Technician, Technical Services

Armchair, before treatment with its 1970s upholstery and blue paint, Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sen, Paris, France, about 1785- 1790, walnut, carved and painted, upholstered in silk. Museum no. W.7-1956, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Chair after treatment, Zoe Allen

This painted and gilded carved walnut chair is part of a suite of furniture made for Marie Antoinettes Cabinet Particulier in the palace of Saint Cloud outside of Paris. It was made by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sen (17481803) in 1788 and was painted and gilded by Louis-Franois Chatard, (ca. 1749-1819), Both Sen and Chatard were principle chair makers and gilders to Louis the XVI and Marie Antoinette and this chair bears the makers stamp.

The V&A have a second chair and the rest of the suite has been scattered; Versailles have one chair, there is one in a private collection and the rest of the suite, a fire screen, a lit de repos (daybed) and a bergre (enclosed armchair), is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

[The article is pretty big and with a lot of images, which would be tricky to format here to Ning. I'll leave thelinkto the rest of it, it is veryinterestinganIrecommendeveryone to take a look!]

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Leopoldina
@leopoldina
21 Jan 2015 11:12:28AM
280 posts

Ethel Lang, the last Victorian, has died but Victorianism lives on


History

Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century including some of our attitudes

Kate Williams

The Observer ,Sunday 18 January 2015

Ethel Lang, pictured at 20. Photograph: /Rossparry.co.uk

On Friday, the last Victorian in Britain died. Ethel Lang was 114 and the last person left in Britain born in the reign of Queen Victoria. She was born in Barnsley in 1900 when Victoria was old and sickly. Yet the butterball queen was still writing her diaries, bombarding her prime minister with questions and avidly presiding over a quarter of the worlds population.

It seems incredible that last week there was still one of Victorias subjects left alive. Little could seem more alien to modern Britain than the Victorian period and not only the street scenes of crinoline-clad women in horse-drawn carriages, child chimney sweeps and shocking poverty. When Ethel was born, the second Boer War was well under way and Victoria had just visited Dublin in an attempt to quell calls for home rule. The Labour party had only just been created and Australia was six separate colonies. Just a few years before Ethels birth, Victoria celebrated her diamond jubilee, a blustering celebration of empire, pride and progress.

Victoria died in the year after Ethels birth. Britain was now ruled by Edward VII. But the people clung to the memory of their old monarch and still saw themselves as Victorians.

Ethel, one of six daughters who went to work in a shirt factory when she was just 13, has been our lone Victorian for some time. The last one before her was Londoner Grace Jones , born in December 1899, who died in 2013. In 1993, we lost Charlotte Hughes , Britains oldest verifiable person to date, who was born in 1877 and treated to a New York trip on Concorde for her 110th birthday.

Ethel lived through astonishing changes: six monarchs, two world wars, 22 different prime ministers, the invention of the computer, the internet, heart surgery, IVF, the mobile telephone and GM foods. In the year of her birth, 115 people died in Salford from beer mistakenly poisoned with arsenic ; now we grumble at EU health and safety laws. And the empire is no more: between 1945 and 1965, the number of people living under British colonial rule dropped from 700 million to five million.

But are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century. Britains passion for Christmas and huge white weddings dates from Victorian times both were low-key celebrations before Victoria and her PR machine. We still govern countries as part of the Commonwealth and reserve the right to tell others what to do. Our tiny country is one of five permanent members on the UN Security Council and we believe our alliance with the United States is the strongest in the world. And although beer is arsenic-free, we use substances whose true impact we dont fully know from chemicals in plastics to cosmetic treatments and preservatives.

The sun never goes down on her empire and all glory in being her subjects, said Chief Letsie of Basutoland in the golden jubilee in 1887. Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.

Dr Kate Williamss books include Young Elizabeth: The Making of Our Queen

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