Clown with young child in bed, ? hospital Biomedical ScienceMedical clowns in a U.S hospital health-care team started when a professional clown at NY’s Big Apple Circus founded Clown Care in 1986. Clowning became a well-establish...
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Clown with young child in bed, ? hospital Biomedical ScienceMedical clowns in a U.S hospital health-care team started when a professional clown at NY’s Big Apple Circus founded Clown Care in 1986. Clowning became a well-establish...
on Jul 23, 2024 in: Britain, family, literature
Stourton's book was published in 2017I knew Kenneth Clark (1903-83) from watching his Civilisation series on tv in 1969 and from his involvement with one of my favourite art historians Bernard Berenson. And more recently I read Kenne...
on Jul 19, 2024 in: Britain, Christian, history, literature, women
The evidence. A witch kissed the arse of the DevilWitch-hunting plagued Europe, as soon as the idea that witches worshipped the devil took hold. Read an excellent book, Scottish Witches and Witch-Hunters by Julian Goodare ed, 2013. In Scotland,...
The Kingdom of Armenia adopted Christianity as its national religion in the C4th, loyal to the Armenian Apostolic Church. Armenian Christians were just one of many ethnic groups in the Ottoman Empire. But in the late 1880s, some political organis...
Irina Antonova (1922-2020) was born in working-class Moscow. Dad Alexander Antonov trained as an electrician, and was an early member of the Bolshevik party from 1906. Her Lithuanian mother, Ida Heifetz, studied to be a singer then met Alexander...
Irina Antonova (1922-2020) was born in working-class Moscow. Dad Alexander Antonov trained as an electrician, and was an early member of the Bolshevik party from 1906. Her Lithuanian mother, Ida Heifetz, studied to be a singer then met Alexander...
on Jul 9, 2024 in: Britain, Christian, France, history, London
The first London coffee house was opened in 1652 by Pasqua Roseé, a member the English Levant Co. that traded with Turkey. In Smyrna-Izmir, he found a taste for the dark stimulant drink. With time, each British coffee house de...