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By Art and Architecture, mainly on Sep 26, 2017 in: Britain, France, history, literature
Nigel Cawthorne’s book Sex Lives of the Kings and Queens of England (Carlton Publishing, 2004) proposed that there was more to fascination with royal sexual antics than mere prurience. Throughout history, the sexual partners of ro...
By Powell River Books Blog on Sep 25, 2017 in: History
John showing Wayne the exposed stone chimney.During September, Wayne and I went up to the Head of Powell Lake with our good friend John. Because the water level has been exceptionally low, a hidden historical treasure has been exposed.The height of P...
By Boing Boing on Sep 24, 2017 in: design, History
Paul McNeil just published his comprehensive typographical overview, The Visual History of Type. To celebrate, he also published a list of his six favorite faces for It's Nice That, starting with the first compact italic: The Aldine Italic...
By North Coast Voices on Sep 20, 2017 in: history
And those of us whose forebears stumbled off a handful of British boats in 1788 are still trying and often failing to understand this rich, enduring culture.......The Monthly, September 2017:Epic of Gilgamesh” is Google’s answer to “what is the...
By kiwi-travel-writer on Sep 17, 2017 in: History, New Zealand, Photos, travel
Happy 124th anniversary to New Zealand! It’s 124 years since our wonderful New Zealand suffragists, won us the ability to vote in our general Parliamentary elections. Some, (usually landowners) but certainly not all, women had been able to vote in...
By artkleko's weblog on Sep 16, 2017 in: history
“Silence at the Table” 70 x 50 cms: Prismacolor Pencils on Canson pastel board, own reference A lonely mug catches the morning light in a deserted room in a disused shearers’ quarters in Tasmania. The dusty room belies its hectic …...
By Art and Architecture, mainly on Sep 15, 2017 in: history, Japan, literature
Once Hitler came to power in 1933, Germany’s 572,000 Jews faced catastrophe as was made perfectly clear in Peter Nash's book Escape From Berlin (Impact Press, 2017). So how did some European Jews receive visas to the Far East? Just as the German...