Posted: 11/1/2009 4:12:46 PM EDT
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Does anybody remember a famous picture of her topless loading a cannon?
. It's driving me nuts and google is no help. It's famous, and I remember it from my elementary school history textbooks. Or maybe it was my twisted elementary school brain. |
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I beleive the picture you are thinking of is from the French Revolution; the topless woman revolutionary is a common thread in paintings of that era. No the picture you are thinking of, but one I actually had a link to: http://media.ft.com/cms/648bd792-aef8-11de-96d7-00144feabdc0.jpg Thanks. I remember that one. But I either remember her holding a ramrod thrust skyward, or thrusting it into the bore of a cannon. I swear i didn't mean for that to sound all doubletendrish. |
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I beleive the picture you are thinking of is from the French Revolution; the topless woman revolutionary is a common thread in paintings of that era. No the picture you are thinking of, but one I actually had a link to: http://media.ft.com/cms/648bd792-aef8-11de-96d7-00144feabdc0.jpg Eugene De la Croix's Liberty Leading The People. One of my faves. It inspired the Statue of Liberty. |
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Quoted: Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley, Molly Pitcher was a nick-name given to her by the soldiers at the battle of Monmouth, June, 28th, 1778. Buried in Carlisle, PA. Her husband served on a cannon crew, was wounded at Monmouth and she pitched in is how I remember it. http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=16089 link to a plaque about her grave. |
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Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley, Molly Pitcher was a nick-name given to her by the soldiers at the battle of Monmouth, June, 28th, 1778. Buried in Carlisle, PA. Her husband served on a cannon crew, was wounded at Monmouth and she pitched in is how I remember it. http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=16089 link to a plaque about her grave. IIRC, and I may be wrong, the story I got was she carried water in a pitcher for gun crews until her husband got hit, then she took charge of the gun herself. |
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I beleive the picture you are thinking of is from the French Revolution; the topless woman revolutionary is a common thread in paintings of that era. No the picture you are thinking of, but one I actually had a link to: http://media.ft.com/cms/648bd792-aef8-11de-96d7-00144feabdc0.jpg Zomg human breasts, now my 20 month old son is going to become a sexual deviant. The human body is evil |
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It begs the question: is art BOTD? Slippery slope. One beautiful piece of art will lead straight to scat porn, and to save the children we must abolish the human body. yes it would get out of control within a couple minutes heck, i was thinking about post some more extreme nude art after i saw the first pic 
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| I've seen Liberty Leading the People in the Louvre. Note the upper class gentleman with the top hat to her right. To her left is a peasant dressed in rags. The theme is that Liberty leads all the people together in the revolution against the Bourbons. It's not pron, it's art. Pron is suggestive of naughty activity that should be done in private. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley, Molly Pitcher was a nick-name given to her by the soldiers at the battle of Monmouth, June, 28th, 1778. Buried in Carlisle, PA. Her husband served on a cannon crew, was wounded at Monmouth and she pitched in is how I remember it. http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=16089 link to a plaque about her grave. IIRC, and I may be wrong, the story I got was she carried water in a pitcher for gun crews until her husband got hit, then she took charge of the gun herself. Yes, she brought pitcher after pitcher to the exhausted and thirsty fighting men, her husband was struck down at the cannon he was manning, so she took over and helped to kick some butt. |