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zimbabwe: houses of the holy
Who built Zimbabwe? Some say King Solomon and other The Queen of Sheba. Archaeologists claim they have had the right answer for years… …For a reluctant guest as a forcibly detained visitor of the local Africans, German explorer Karl Mauch … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Adam Render German trader, E.M. Forster, Humphrey Bogart, Karl Mauch German explorer, Katharine Hepburn, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Morley, Rozwi tribe Zimbabwe, The Great Zimbabwe Ruins
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somewhere between 2 B.C. and 6 A.D.
There was the Year One. In the sixth century, Dionysius Exiguus presented a calculation of the “first year of our Lord”; it was slightly inaccurate, given the scant and conflicting evidence in the Gospels, and on neither of those accounts … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Newman, Anton Raphael Mengs, Augustus, Ceres pagan madonna, Dionysius Exiguus, E.M. Forster, Edward Gibbon, G.K. Chesterton, geologist jefferson williams, Henry Koster, Hieronymous Bosch, Josephus Flavius, King Herod, Konrad Witz, Leptis Magna theater, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pliny the Younger, Richard Burton
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banished and vanished
Augustus the Imperator. When you have a standing army of 300,000 men you can call yourself just about anything and people will agree with you. In 2 B.C. he had been given the title pater patriae, Father of the Nation, … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustus, Augustus banishes Julia, Augustus banishes Ovid, E.M. Forster, Edmund Spenser, Horace, JMW Turner, Johann Heinrich Schonfeld, john dryden, John Milton, Joseph Mallord William Turner, L. Aemilius Paulus, Livy historian, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maecenas and Augustus, Ovid, Ovid Art of Love, Pablo Picasso, Virgil Aenid, Virgil and Horace
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THE YEAR ONE A.D. (Y0001K Bug)
The year one. In retrospect it was a big date.It was year 754 to the Romans, and year 3761 to the Jews. Decisive years, like decisive battles , are an old favorite with historians. More often however, great historical processes … Continue reading
HE COULDN’T MAKE THE HILLS
I can’t make the hills The system is shot I’m living on pills For which I thank G-d I followed the course From chaos to art Desire the horse Depression the cart I sailed like a swan I sank like … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Bob Dylan, Bob Gruen, David mcgough, Dr. Arthur Janov, E.M. Forster, Eleanor Baird, Gina Serpe, Gregory Mansur, Henry Jenkins, John Lennon 70th birthday, John Lennon Real Love, Leonard Cohen, Levon Helm, Marlon Brando, Mikita Brottman, Oscar Wilde, Philip Norman, Sam Ford, Sean Lennon, The Beatles, Truman Capote, Yoko Ono
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INSTANT GRATIFICATION:Mysterious Strangers of the New Dispensation
“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.” ( J.M. Keynes ) An aristocratic disdain permeated the Bloomsbury group. A contempt for the masses as well as the bourgeois. They were … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Marshall, Alfred Stieglitz, Bertrand Russell, Bloomsbury Group, D.H. Lawrence, Daniel S. Lieber, David Garnett, David Ricardo, Desmond MacCarthy, Duncan Grant, E.M. Forster, Elvis Presley, F.R. Leavis, Friedrich A. Hayek, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.E. Moore, Georges Seurat, Getrude Himmelfarb, Jack Goncalo, Jenny Tucker, John Maynard Keynes, Leon Edel, Leonard Wolf, Lionel Trilling, Lytton Strachey, Mark Twain, Noel Annon, Paul Krugman, Paul Samuelson, Richard P. Smith, Richard Smith Dollar ReDe$ign project, Robert Skildesky, Roger Fry, Shannon Proudfoot, Sir Roy Harrod, Thomas Arnold, Thomas Paine, Virginia Woolf, Zach Ammerman
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WATER SPIDERS: Quantitative and Social Easing
This aspect of Keynes — the shrewd investor, the canny player of financial markets — is rather unexpected in light of the man ’ s early life and beliefs. Keynes was an aesthete, his first allegiance to philosophy and the art of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Upchurch, Bertrand Russell, Cecil Day-Lewis, Clive Bell, Dora Carrington, Duncan Grant, E.M. Forster, Francis Bacon, G.E. Moore, Henry James, Jan Ellen Goldstein, John Maynard Keynes, Kenneth Clark, Leonard Woolf, Lydia Lopokova, Lytton Strachey, Quentin Bell, Roger Fry, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stephen Spender, T.S. Eliot, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, W.H. Auden
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