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Tuesday, 30 April 2013

Charles Cros, poet-inventor-visionary

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                                                                 Image: victorugo.blogspot.com In 1877, Thomas Edison, the famous inv...
Tuesday, 16 April 2013

The First Impressionist Exhibition - Monet and his gang go solo...

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Impression: Soleil levant (Impression: Sunrise) by Claude Monet Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Cézanne, all universally reg...
Monday, 15 April 2013

Arthur Stace : Mr Eternity

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"...I felt a powerful call from the Lord to write 'ETERNITY'. I had a piece of chalk in my pocket and I bent down ther...
Friday, 12 April 2013

La Goulue (the Glutton) swings 'le French cancan'....

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Poster advertising La Goulue and the Moulin Rouge. 1893, and Louise Joséphine Weber, known as La Goulue (...
Saturday, 6 April 2013

La Reine Margot (Marguerite de Valois) and the death of her teenage gigolo lover.

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La Reine Marguerite de Valois by Pieter Paul Rubens "Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stret...
Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Juan Ponce de Leon and the Quest for the Fountain of Youth

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Agueybana (The Great Sun) greets Juan Ponce de Leon at his arrival in Puerto Rico. Painting by Agustin Anavitate. On 2 April 1513, ...
Thursday, 28 March 2013

Ferdinand Magellan - the first man to circumnavigate the globe. Or was he?

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Ferdinand Magellan by an unknown artist. On the twenty-eighth day of the month of March in the year of the world 1521, the Portugue...