Recondite - (of a subject or knowledge) Little known; abstruse: "recondite information"
Thursday, 22 December 2011
Desert Island Discs Revisited
Robert Fisk
Songs
Benjamin Britten - War Requiem
June 18 1940 - Finest Hour speech
Pachelbel - Canon
Book - Mallory's Mote d'Arthur
'melifluous'
Montgomery's victory over Rommel - 1942 - El Alamein
Songs
Benjamin Britten - War Requiem
June 18 1940 - Finest Hour speech
Pachelbel - Canon
Book - Mallory's Mote d'Arthur
'melifluous'
Montgomery's victory over Rommel - 1942 - El Alamein
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
Book of the Week - The Etymologicon
Episode 2
'The author of the Inky Fool blog leads us on a fascinating journey tracing the connection between seemingly unrelated words and uncovers the links between the 'proof of a pudding', 'sausage-shaped poison', being hoist by a 'petard' and 'feisty heroines'.
The Etymologicon - by Mark Forsyth
broil
botulus = latin word for sausage
botulism = 'sausage disease' - origin
'hoist with his own petard' - Hamlet quote
Paper was invented in China?
Episode 3
Turkey is native to America
Guinea Pigs are found in Guyana, SA
'Magnolia Forests'
1560s - Turkey becomes standard Christmas meal?
Alcohol = origin of word is Arabic
'The author of the Inky Fool blog leads us on a fascinating journey tracing the connection between seemingly unrelated words and uncovers the links between the 'proof of a pudding', 'sausage-shaped poison', being hoist by a 'petard' and 'feisty heroines'.
The Etymologicon - by Mark Forsyth
broil
botulus = latin word for sausage
botulism = 'sausage disease' - origin
'hoist with his own petard' - Hamlet quote
Paper was invented in China?
Episode 3
Turkey is native to America
Guinea Pigs are found in Guyana, SA
'Magnolia Forests'
1560s - Turkey becomes standard Christmas meal?
Alcohol = origin of word is Arabic
This Sceptred Isle
Anna Massey narrates
35. Bad King John and the Loss of Normandy
Aged 42, Richard the lionheart dies, 1199
rejoined
'Arthur of Brittany'
34. Third Crusade and Death of the Lionheart
'Hubert Walter' - Archbishop of Cantebury
Saturday, 17 December 2011
The National Gallery Podcast: Episode Fifty Four
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/paolo-uccello-saint-george-and-the-dragon
'Miranda Hinkley: So the count was living in Austria, but he was actually of Polish origin and that’s where things got sticky, because the Nazis confiscated all of the artworks belonging to foreign nationals in Austria.
Caroline Smith: Yes, any work belonging to a foreign national was potentially subject to confiscation and so after the annexation of Austria in 1938, a significant number of works from the Lanckoroński collection were confiscated: nearly 1,700 works, including the Uccello.'
' Monet was difficult because they had to wait on one of his paintings, and eventually he said, ‘oh, I’ll call it “Impression: Sunrise”’ – although now we think it’s actually a sunset, but that’s another story, isn’t it? But that was the painting that of course attracted the critics and gave the movement its name. It broke the mould entirely, and so 15 April 1874 was a very important day for art history. - Hames Heard, Impressionism
'Miranda Hinkley: So the count was living in Austria, but he was actually of Polish origin and that’s where things got sticky, because the Nazis confiscated all of the artworks belonging to foreign nationals in Austria.
Caroline Smith: Yes, any work belonging to a foreign national was potentially subject to confiscation and so after the annexation of Austria in 1938, a significant number of works from the Lanckoroński collection were confiscated: nearly 1,700 works, including the Uccello.'
' Monet was difficult because they had to wait on one of his paintings, and eventually he said, ‘oh, I’ll call it “Impression: Sunrise”’ – although now we think it’s actually a sunset, but that’s another story, isn’t it? But that was the painting that of course attracted the critics and gave the movement its name. It broke the mould entirely, and so 15 April 1874 was a very important day for art history. - Hames Heard, Impressionism
Friday, 16 December 2011
16 December 2011
'"The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more." – The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer, 2007
Quotes
Hilaire Belloc’s ’Dedicatory Ode’
‘From quiet homes and first beginnings, out to the undiscovered ends, there’s nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter and the love of friends’
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