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Nicholas Birns is a scholar of literature, including fantasy and Australian literature. As a Tolkien scholar he has written on… more

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I’ve been away, but I hope you’re all well. It’s nice to be back & here’s to magical autumn in Brambly Hedge ♥️🍂 (created by Jill Barklem)
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Viaje a las Terranas 🇩🇴
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📍Barna Woods, Galway. Trees damaged during Storm Éowyn transformed into these beautiful pieces.
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All Greece hates…
… God’s daughter, born of love

Helen by H.D.
(No one does alienation — from society & circumstance — like H.D. Calm distant fire)
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All Greece hates the still eyes in the white face, the lustre as of olives where she stands, and the white hands. All Greece reviles the wan face when she smiles, hating it deeper still when it grows wan and white, remembering past enchantments and past ills. Greece sees unmoved, God's daughter, born of love, the beauty of cool feet and slenderest knees, could love indeed the maid, only if she were laid, white ash amid funereal cypresses.
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Pink empress Mantis
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In this NYT review, Jacob Heilbrunn is writing about the past, but could be writing about the Stephen Miller present: "Goebbels had good reason to believe that American bigotry could be exploited for Nazi gain." The spirit of Goebbels stalks the halls of the White House today, and his image.
These New Yorkers Hated Fascists Before It Was Cool
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“In the future, people will look back and thank John Gibbons for what he has done for Irish farmers, just like his father before him”.

Very positive review of THE LIE OF THE LAND in current edition of Village magazine by former Green Party leader, Eamon Ryan.
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Georgia, you’re not alone — we’re with you all the way.
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I met Bishop (now Archbishop) Sarah in 2022 when she was the speaker for the Church Club dinner. We had a wonderful conversation, including about inclusiveness and I spoke to her husband as well. Really great and of course, historic news!
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Sarah Mullally is named as first female archbishop of Canterbury
Sarah Mullally is named as first female archbishop of Canterbury
No 10 announces decision although role will not legally be taken on until January, before an enthronement service Sarah Mullally has been named as the first female leader of the Church of England as Downing Street announced the 106th archbishop of Canterbury nearly a year on from Justin Welby’s resignation over the handling of a safeguarding scandal. This is the first time an archbishop of Canterbury has been chosen since the Church of England allowed women to become bishops in 2014. Continue reading...
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Sarah Mullally is named as first female archbishop of Canterbury
Sarah Mullally is named as first female archbishop of Canterbury
No 10 announces decision although role will not legally be taken on until January, before an enthronement service Sarah Mullally has been named as the first female leader of the Church of England as Downing Street announced the 106th archbishop of Canterbury nearly a year on from Justin Welby’s resignation over the handling of a safeguarding scandal. This is the first time an archbishop of Canterbury has been chosen since the Church of England allowed women to become bishops in 2014. Continue reading...
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Claus Offe was a major thinker who influenced many disciplines. I was privileged to hear him speak once. A very sad loss
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Herausragender Wissenschaftler, bewunderter Autor, befreundeter Kollege, kluger Ratgeber: Claus Offe ist gestorben!
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At Bus Stop Café, Greenwich Village
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She placed this striking young person from the first in a story, saw her, by a necessity of the imagination, for a heroine, felt it the only character in which she wouldn't be wasted;

#WingsOfTheDove #HenryJames
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Herausragender Wissenschaftler, bewunderter Autor, befreundeter Kollege, kluger Ratgeber: Claus Offe ist gestorben!
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A memory of a place and lost things…
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Jane Goodall made the world a better place.

She helped shape how we view the world around us, fought vehemently for the environment, and her love of chimpanzees was infectious. She will be greatly missed.

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Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee researcher and animal advocate, dies at 91
"Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the Jane Goodall Institute said in a Wedne...
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📚These are the new books we are releasing this October. 📚🌟
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“I don’t belong to anyone. I am the daughter of Thomas Gardner of Nantucket.”
yesterdaysisland.com/the-exciting... In 1850, Nancy Gardener Prince, a Black Nantucket descendant who traveled the world in the 1800s, self-published her life story, wh/proved so popular that it went through 3 editions.
The Exciting Life of Nancy Gardner Prince
The Nantucket Historical Association releases The Adventures of Nancy Gardner Prince, an illustrated edition of her remarkable life story.
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Just got back from a family trip to Riga, and came back with some artists I now really like a lot: Janis Rozentāls (1866-1916) and Sigismunds Vidbergs (1890-1970).
Black and white photo of Janis Rozenthals as a young man, in a suit with a moustage and his arms akimbo Black and white photo of Sigismunds Vidbergs as an older man in a black suit
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Rockwell Kent painting of Greenland, at the Baltimore Museum of Art.
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At the university of Delaware botanic Gardens
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WE HAVE WON! 🇲🇩🇪🇺 Moldova has chosen Europe. Mulțumesc!
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One of genealogies of Media Studies is that many early methods began as advocacy strategies of 1940s media reform, in the attempt to change broadcast regulation to allow for more educational channels. Put differently, Media Studies originated as a research movement to build US Public Media.
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If Arthedain had decisively beaten all the other kingdoms in the north in Third Age 1600 that would be about the equivalent. It made France the leading country in Europe.

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One of the most consequential barriers of the Middle Ages….
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The Battle of Bouvines (1214) - an episode of Bow and Blade youtu.be/L3bTxT4LvlU?... #medievalwarfare
The Battle of Bouvines (1214)
Bow & Blade - Episode 39: Philip Augustus, King of France, faced off against an alliance that included the Holy Roman Emperor, the King of England, and the leading nobles of the Low Countries. In…
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The Battle of Bouvines (1214) - an episode of Bow and Blade youtu.be/L3bTxT4LvlU?... #medievalwarfare
The Battle of Bouvines (1214)
Bow & Blade - Episode 39: Philip Augustus, King of France, faced off against an alliance that included the Holy Roman Emperor, the King of England, and the leading nobles of the Low Countries. In…
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I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...
The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus
Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it
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At MSG for hockey
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I was just in Llangollen last month where they put up this plaque.
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