“I think about what I’d think of my decisions when I’m 80 looking back, and it helps me make sound, responsible choices.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19797669
'The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.' — Dr. Seuss (I Can Read with My Eyes Shut)
About Me
- Sam
- Kindness. Humanism.Secular. Sceptic. History, Pre-Raphaelites, Reading, Life-Long Learning. 'Sanity Is Not Statistical'.'Fill the unforgiving minute...'.
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Monday, 6 May 2013
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
World War Two: 1942 and Hitler's Soft Underbelly -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01ndj09/World_War_Two_1942_and_Hitlers_Soft_Underbelly/
David Reynolds presents
'Surrender at Tobruk (Libya)'
Fall of Singapore to the Japanese
David Reynolds presents
'Surrender at Tobruk (Libya)'
Fall of Singapore to the Japanese
Monday, 22 April 2013
Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History - 2. Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians
Lucy Worsley presents
Nov 1688 - William of Orange lands in England with an army
Scrofula = The King's evil
Aged 32, Mary II dies of smallpox
1704 - Anne becomes Queen
Anne had 17 preganancies?
'Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough'
1714 - Queen Anne dies
George II and his son Frederick had a bad relationship
Nov 1688 - William of Orange lands in England with an army
Scrofula = The King's evil
Aged 32, Mary II dies of smallpox
1704 - Anne becomes Queen
Anne had 17 preganancies?
'Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough'
1714 - Queen Anne dies
George II and his son Frederick had a bad relationship
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
The Pre-Raphaelites - Episode 2 - BBC Four
Hogsmill River in Surrey (Ophelia by Millais)
Lizzie Siddall (aged 19) posed in a tin bath for Ophelia painting.
'The Hireling Shephard' - Hunt
John Ruskin married Effie in 1848.
1855 - Effie marries Millais
'Pretty Baa-Lambs' - Ford Maddox Brown
'An English Autumn Afternoon' - Ford Maddox Brown
Lizzie Siddall (aged 19) posed in a tin bath for Ophelia painting.
'The Hireling Shephard' - Hunt
John Ruskin married Effie in 1848.
1855 - Effie marries Millais
'Pretty Baa-Lambs' - Ford Maddox Brown
'An English Autumn Afternoon' - Ford Maddox Brown
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
‘I don’t really think I’m that nice. I think I’m probably just a sociopath who understands that niceness sells’ - Steve Carell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlwxET69wrE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlwxET69wrE
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