We understand the very close connection among the three principal monarchs of the early C20th.1. British King George V and Russian Tsar Nicholas II’s mothers, Alexandra and Dagmar, were sisters, the daughters of King Christian of Denmark and h...
Art and Architecture, mainly
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Bobby Shafran drove to Sullivan County Community College in New York for his first day of university. The other students were thrilled to see him there, telling him how their summer holidays had been and asking newcomer about his. He was particularly...
Clive James - eventual death, Sydney beaches and poetry
on Nov 5, 2018 in: Australia, Britain, literature
Born in Sydney, Clive James (1939- ) aka the Kid from Kogarah, remembered his childhood fondly. He grew up in an ordinary suburb near the beaches in Sydney. Buses from Kogarah serviced surrounding beaches like Monterey (2ks), allowing young Clive an...
Deporting or imprisoning desperate refugees is a shame on all Australia
on Nov 2, 2018 in: Australia, history, literature
Over the years in this blog, I have tried to show how Australia’s most creative and productive citizens were once terrified refugees and migrants, forced out of their own countries and waiting to be accepted by Australian society eg Judy Cassab: fr...
Freddie Mercury and Queen; concerts records and films
on Oct 30, 2018 in: Britain, films, literature, London
Lesley-Ann Jones' biography, The Real Life of Freddie Mercury: Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mecury, revealed a brilliant musician keeping his true self hidden from an adoring world-wide audience.Farrokh Bulsara/Freddie Merc...
50,000 Jews lived in Kishinev (now Ukraine) in 1900, 46% of the total population. Kishinev was the 5th largest Jewish city in the Russian Empire city after Warsaw, Odessa, Lodz and Vilna. Thanks to the book, Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History (...
The film “Klimt and Schiele: Eros and Psyche, 1918-2018 - Scandals, Dreams, Obsessions in Vienna's Golden Age” analysed turn-of-the-century Vienna art. The film guided viewers through the Albertina, Belvedere, Leopold, Freud, Kunsthist...
