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Jackie Robinson In 3-D
With perhaps days/hours to go before the baby, I’m doing a big push on Jackie Robinson to see how far I can get before my life changes so much. I had a big day in the shop yesterday and took th… more →
The Pinetar Rag
Rainer Maria Rilke—Duino Elegies: Part 2
scottadamlerner wrote 2 hours ago: The Second Elegy This elegy begins, “Every angel is terrifying” (1). Ok, so a theme is d … more →
17 inspirational quotes
madhavgopalkrish wrote 5 hours ago: Posted Nov 22nd, 2009 at 1:17 PM and seen 1268 times // // “How wonderful it is that nobody need wai … more →
New Identity Cards Website Launched
macsp2 wrote 15 hours ago: A new website on national ID cards has been launched: http://www.identity-cards.net. The website con … more →
Dancing With The Daffodils
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Steven Harris wrote 20 hours ago: If Paul McCartney was a celebrity hero who left me feeling tongue-tied, today I am thinking of anoth … more →
Botanical Daydreaming
Tanya wrote 1 day ago: When I was a kid, I would, on rainy weekend afternoons such as this, take the large color copy of Au … more →
[video] "Great Depression" cooking with Clara Cannucciari
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1websurfer wrote 2 days ago: What a lovable, charismatic woman! Here’s her first video. 91 year old cook and great grandmo … more →
Fifty-three
sophiehill wrote 2 days ago: The Lake 1937 by L. S. Lowry The Lowry Collection, City of Salford The Lake is deceptively named, th … more →
Cold war ended
mathurneha wrote 2 days ago: The cold war between the actresses Vidya Balan and Bipasha Basu ended at ‘All The Best’ party … more →
Rainer Maria Rilke: Duino Elegies—Part 1
scottadamlerner wrote 4 days ago: I’d heard Rilke’s name thrown around here and there for years before I read any of his w … more →
Fifty
sophiehill wrote 5 days ago: Ombres reflectides 1920 by Lluís Masriera Museu Nacional d’art de Catalunya The Museu Nacional … more →
Special Issue: Security and Data Protection
jamesrbrown wrote 1 week ago: The French journal Cultures & Conflits has dedicated its summer issue (number 74) to the theme o … more →
Forty-eight
sophiehill wrote 1 week ago: Poster for the Paris 1925 Exhibition 1925 by Robert Bonfils Victoria & Albert Museum Posters are … more →
Song of the Day 11/11/2009 Veteran's Day Edition
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adamthepugh wrote 1 week ago: World War I, then normally referred to simply as The Great War, ended with the implementation of an … more →
Required Reading For Your 'Destination Vacation'
Tanya wrote 1 week ago: Jamaica Kincaid’s book A Small Place, reminded me at first of a travel journal, and then of a … more →
Que s’est-il passé en 1989 en Europe de l’Est ?
Frank Ejby Poulsen wrote 2 weeks ago: Comme le temps court ! Tenez, ce banc ! Il a l’air immobile… eh bien, pas du tout, il charge ! Il co … more →
This Blog = Punishable by Death or Imprisonment
Tanya wrote 2 weeks ago: There is a distinct irony inherent in the power of the Party’s control in Orwell’s Ninet … more →
Forty-one
sophiehill wrote 2 weeks ago: Velosipedist 1913 by Natalia Goncharova State Russian Museum, St Petersburg Russia is perhaps not al … more →
Random Beings: Modernism, Categorization, and Virginia Woolf
Tanya wrote 2 weeks ago: I see the concept of “random” coinciding with the quote by D.H. Lawrence that “Individualism makes t … more →
Forty
sophiehill wrote 3 weeks ago: Le Suicide Threat 1987 by Louise Bourgeois Tate, at a temporary exhibition I saw Le Suicide Threat a … more →
