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The fine arts, decorative arts and architecture of Europe, North America and Australia, 1650-1933. | |
on Oct 20, 2017 in: Canada
Michael Barclay invited us to share his sensitive obituary. Gordon Downie (1964-2017) was born near Kingston Ont, to Lorna & Edgar. He was the 4th of 5 children, the one who played goalie for Amherstview’s successful hockey team. Downie moved...
Coal was essential for military production during WW2; somehow Britain had to match the quotas needed to keep factories churning out the munitions required at the front. And as Britain was unable to import coal in wartime, the production of coal...
on Oct 13, 2017 in: Britain, Christian, history, literature, paintings, women
We were often told that Eugene von Guerard (1811–1901)’s Australian landscapes of the 1860s and 70s were indebted to the romantic art of Caspar David Friedrich, two generations earlier, or that there was an affinity between his work and that of...
on Oct 6, 2017 in: films, literature, science, women
I’ll soon be seeing Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, directed by Alexandra Dean, at the Jewish Film Festival. The festival programme says: Known for her striking looks and electric onscreen persona, Lamarr’s fans never knew she possessed such a...
The 1889–1890 Flu Pandemic was similar to the great Spanish Flu pandemic and might have prepared doctors and armies in WW1. It was first noted in different countries: China (1888); Athabasca in Canada (May 1889); Greenland (summer 1889), Tomsk in S...
on Sep 29, 2017 in: history, literature
The Early YearsRichard Bruno Heydrich was director of Halle Conservatory of Music and Theatre which he had founded in 1901. He composed and performed choral works, songs, orchestral works and operas a la Richard Wagner. Heydrich’s...
