Posts Tagged Quincentenary

A burning Calvin 500 question: can we build a better bobble head already?

I own both the bobble heads below (click on photos for source information), although mine are packed in a box somewhere and I cannot find them (which makes me wonder, a la Schroedinger, if both your Reformers are in a closed box, are they actually dead cats?).

Calvin: I don't care what you say, his head was bigger than that.

Calvin: I don't care what you say, his head was bigger than that.

Luther. Gargantuan Cranium.  Metereologically Independent.

Luther. Gargantuan Cranium. Metereologically Independent.

 

My question: Does anyone know of a better Calvin bobble head? The Luther one is a beauty. Look at that gargantuan cranium, larger than life, just like Luther. Yes, Calvin was the more retiring of the two, but with a noggin as brilliant as his, Calvin, too, deserves an imposing cranium poised on a seemingly under-wrought spring.

If anyone knows of a more Calvin-worthy bobble noggin, please let me know via the comments. ASAP. It would be a blast to be able to buy a better bobble in time for the birthday, dontcha know?

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Calvin’s annual birthday prank

Every year for his birthday Calvin celebrated by quasi “filibustering” the Genevan Senate with a reading from Augustine’s City of God in Latin. He’d promise to buy them each a barrel of wine if even one Senator could remain standing longer than he could (for the reading).

He never had to pay up.

Eventually, the council was so fed up with the event that they decreed that Calvin could only do the reading if he allowed a group of Anabaptists to sing songs while he read.

That was the end of public celebrations of Calvin’s birthday while he was alive.

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A Calvin-centric chronometer


Get the John Calvin birthday clock at Calvin 500

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Hello creation!

Welcome to the John Calvin is 500 blog! We hope you enjoy your stay. We’re just getting going, but here’s what we are about.

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