A Romanian Book on Bishop Wulfila

source: Erbiceanu family archive

(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Ulfila.JPG)

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(click here for the Romanian version)

I would love to have access to this book, only it is very hard to find it: a book published in Bucharest in 1898, and carrying a pretty long title, Ulfila, Viata si Doctrina lui, sau Starea Crestinismului in Dacia Traiana si

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Mesopotamian Lyre

source: British Museum

(published on Facebook by Veterodoxia)

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Silver lyre; the silver which covers this lyre and its bull's head, and the shell, lapis lazuli and red limestone inlay decoration are ancient, but the frame, the pegs, strings and bridge are modern; the original silver pegs are exhibited separately; the panel on the front of the lyre depicts

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The San Francisco Swedenborgian Church

(published on Facebook by SF Swedenborgian Church)

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One day I will come with my own story about a Swedenborgian church I once discovered. Give me some time, though.


(Church in America)

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Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944)

(http://bourbonandpearls.blogspot.com/2011/12/die-feuerzangenbowle.html)

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Okay, before starting the talk over Feuerzangebowle the movie, let's explain a little bit what a Feuerzangenbowle means. It's a traditional German drink, a punch made basically from rum and mulled wine: a rum-soaked sugarloaf is set over a bowl filled with heated dry red wine (mixed

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O Poveste cu Mos Craciun

(click here for the English version)



Povestea a inceput intr-o zi de sambata. Ma dusesem sa vad bradul de Craciun din fata Casei Albe. Ca intotdeauna era inconjurat de trenulete care alergau pe sine, iar copii erau pretutindeni, galagiosi si fericiti.

Evident ca primul gand care mi-a venit in cap a fost sa incerc sa fac un video, numai ca soarele imi juca feste, asa ca filmuletul a iesit

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Praying Knife

left and right views of an etched, engraved and gilded steel knife
ivory, brass and silver handle
unknown maker, Italy, 1500–50

Victoria and Albert Museum

(published on Facebook by Sine musica nulla vita)

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Knives with musical notes on the blade, known as notation knives, are extremely rare. This example is etched with notations expressing gratitude for a

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René-Xavier Prinet: Kreutzer Sonata

René-Xavier Prinet: La Sonate à Kreutzer

signed R.X.Prinet (lower right)

oil on canvas

(published on Facebook by Sine musica nulla vita)

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Provenance:


Exhibited at Paris (Salon), 1901, Munich, 1901, Stuttgart, 1901



Acquired by Prince Regent of Bavaria in 1901 at L'Art Français Contemporain, L'Union Artistique Wurtembourgeosie de Stuttgart)



Sold

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Prayer in Christmas

(http://www.inspirational-bible-verses.com/prayer-bible-verses.html)

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Yesterday I found in NY Times an op-ed with the name The Moral Animal. It was making a conjunction between evolutionism and religion. I have encountered such opinions also before: that religion appeared at some point in the beginnings of humanity, due to the necessity of primitive

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Leo Monosson

Leo Monosson (1897-1967)

(http://www.cabaret-berlin.com/?p=705)

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Leo Monosson - Du schwarzer Zigeuner 1933

Harry Hiller Tanz-Orchester, Grammophon

(video by HeadHunter131)





(Les Troubadours du Temps Jadis)

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Heinz Rühmann

Heinz Rühmann als Kameramann, 1942

source: German Federal Archives
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1986-098-18,_Heinz_R%C3%BChmann_als_Kameramann.jpg)

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Heinz Rühmann lived a long life and had a wonderful career. I saw some movies starring him, I was a teenager, and I enjoyed them a lot. I wonder how they would seem to me now,

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Jean Pierre Ferland: Je reviens chez nous

Fais du feu dans la cheminée

(http://www.myspace.com/riquetdeward/photos/407344)

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Il a neigé à Port-au-Prince
Il pleut encore à Chamonix
On traverse à gué la Garonne
Le ciel est plein bleu à Paris

Ma mie l'hiver est à l'envers
Ne t'en retourne pas dehors
Le monde est en chamaille
On gèle au sud, on sue au nord

Fais du feu dans la cheminée
Je reviens

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Episcopul Wulfila

ilustratie de Gustave Doré
(publicata in madamepickwickartblog)

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Gustave Doré: Episcopul Ulfilas, in veacul al patrulea, si-a luat sarcina talmacirii Biblei pe limba gotilor lasand insa ceva la o parte, ceea ce sigur ca pare de mirare: Cartile Regilor. Gotii, socotea el, erau si asa prea indragostiti de razboaie, deci “le trebuia in privinta asta doar o

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Bishop Wulfila

image by Gustave Doré
(published in madamepickwickartblog)

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Gustave Doré: Bishop Ulfilas, in the fourth century, undertook the task of translating the Bible into the Gothic language with a curious omission: he left out the Book of Kings. The Goths, in his opinion, were already too fond of fighting, and “needed in that matter the bit, rather than the spur.”

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A Day To Remember: Puccini Was Born on December 22

A Day To Remember - December 22

Birthday of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
(image published on Facebook by Libri antichi online - Studio bibliografico Apuleio)

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(Old Masters)

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Jeremy Mann: View of a Room

Jeremy Mann: View of a Room

(published on Facebook by Jeremy Mann)

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This dialog of light and shadows is amazing. The work of a wizard. And each piece of furniture there, each thing in the room, like having a story of their own, each one with its story, told with restraint, more jealously hidden, jealousy from each other. And the little that is told,

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Music in the Age of Pyramids

Egyptian Harp of Old Kingdom

(http://www.manuelvela.es/2010/12/music-in-the-age-of-pyramids-2001/)

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Music in the Age of Pyramids is a research project coordinated by the Spanish musicologist Rafael Pérez Arroyo with the collaboration of Syra Bonet. The research process began in 1991. It consisted of a multidisciplinary study of the music, musical

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Edgard Varèse: Ionisation

Varèse with Stravinsky

(published in New York Arts)

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The image above shows both guys, but what follows is related only to one of them. Varèse composed in 1931 Ionisation for thirteen percussionists. It was seemingly the first concert hall composition for percussion ensemble alone (a piano is part of the whole, considered also a percussion instrument,

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Edgard Varèse

Edgard Varèse

source: http://www.zakros.com/mica/soundart/f02/varese.html

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edgard_Varese.gif)

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Varèse's music emphasizes timbre and rhythm. He was the inventor of the term organized sound, a phrase meaning that certain timbres and rhythms can be grouped together, sublimating into a whole new definition of music. Although

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Ioan Bianu

Ioan C. Bianu (1856-1935)

(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Ioan_Bianu.jpg)

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Eram in clasa a sasea, si un unchi mi-a oferit o carte sa ma ajut cu ea la scoala. Era Istoria Literaturii Romane de Ioan Bianu, un manual de liceu, pe care l-am citit cu pasiune. Poate de acolo se trage dragostea mea pentru literatura romana (si poate si faptul ca

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Dimitrie A. Sturdza

Dimitrie Alexandru Sturdza (1833-1914)

Portrait Gallery of the Perry–Castañeda Library of the University of Texas at Austin

Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin

H.F. Helmolt (ed.): History of the World. New York, 1901

(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Sturdza.jpg)

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a fost in mai multe randuri

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Iacob Negruzzi

Iacob Negruzzi (1842-1932)

(fotografie aparuta in revista Familia nr.7, 1890)

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unul din fondatorii Junimii, a condus vreme de 28 de ani revista Convorbiri Literare.







Iacob Negruzzi: Nepasare

(aparuta in revista Familia nr.7, 1890)

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In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie, Iacob Negruzzi este primul la masa

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Nicolae Gane

Nicolae Gane (1838-1916)

(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Nicolae_Gane_-_Foto01.jpg)

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scriitor si om politic, membru al Junimii, a fost unul din cei mai de seama primari ai Iasilor



In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie, Nicolae Gane este primul in randul din stanga al mesei din dreapta.



(vezi si http://ro.wikisource.org/wiki/Autor:

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Nicolae Chiriac Quintescu

Nicolae Chiriac Quintescu (1841-1913)

(http://www.aman.ro/files/digitale/personalitati_doljene/personalitati/Q/quintescu%20nicolae%20chiriac.pdf)

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filolog, traducator, critic literar -  a tradus in 1876 Egmont al lui Goethe, intr-o versiune in care elementul popular este precumpanitor, iar fraza are o cursivitate in buna masura moderna (crispedia)

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Generalul Grigore Crainiceanu

Grigore Crainiceanu (1852-1935)

General de Divizie

source: http://www.mapn.ro/fotodb/ministrii/35_G
(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:GrigoreCrainiceanu.jpg)

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A luptat in Razboiul de Independenta si in Razboiul de Intregire Nationala, a fost Sef al Marelui Stat Major si Ministru de Razboi. A fondat Revista armatei in 1883 și Cercul

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Constantin Erbiceanu

sursa: arhiva familiei Erbiceanu

(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Ulfila.JPG)

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(click here for the English version)

Mi-as dori mult sa ajung sa citesc cartea aceasta, numai ca e foarte greu de gasit: o carte publicata la Bucuresti in 1898, si purtand un titlu deosebit de lung, Ulfila, Viata si Doctrina lui, sau Starea Crestinismului in Dacia

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Andrei Barseanu

Andrei Barseanu (1858-1922)

(http://andrei-barseanu.licee.edu.ro/barseanu.htm)

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A fost in primul rand un mare pedagog, care si-a dedicat toata viata scolii. Isi amintea unul din fostii sai elevi, a nu sti raspunde lui Barseanu la lectii era o rusine pentru elevi. Nu dojenea Andrei Barseanu, ci se uita cu ochii sai buni si blanzi incat ai fi intrat in

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Ioan Bogdan

Ioan Bogdan (1864-1919)

(http://www.saguna.ro/web5/personalitati.html)

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(click here for the English version)

Prima oara am auzit de Ioan Bogdan in liceu: profesorul nostru de istorie il cita pentru a evidentia importanta factorului slavon in evolutia limbii romane. Ne-a vorbit atunci profesorul despre substrat si suprastrat. Orice limba, in afara originii

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Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol

A. D. Xenopol (1847-1920)

(http://www.ghimpele.ro/articole/academia-romana/)

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istoric si filosof al istoriei, autorul primei mari sinteze a istoriei romanilor



In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie este primul din dreapta.



Contrar a ceea ce am crezut multa vreme, Xenopol nu avea ascendenti greci, ci anglo-saxoni. Iata ce ne spune el in Istoria

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Ioan D. Caragiani

imagine din Avdella

(locul natal al lui Ioan D. Caragiani)

(Regional Guide of West Macedonia / Avdella-Grevena)

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In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie, Ioan D. Caragiani este al doilea in randul din dreapta al mesei din dreapta (dupa A. D. Xenopol).


Ioan D. Caragiani era aroman, nascut la Avdella in 1841, a studiat filologia la Universitatea din

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Alexandru Philippide

Alexandru I. Philippide (1859-1933)

source: http://www.academiaromana-is.ro/philippide/pages/Afis%20Philippide_2009_1a.jpg

(http://ro.wikisource.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Alexandru_I._Philippide_-_Foto01.jpg)

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In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie, Alexandru Philippide este al treilea in randul din dreapta al mesei din dreapta (intre Ioan D. Caragiani si

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Nicolae Iorga

Nicolae Iorga, Nicolae Titulescu si Savel Radulescu

iesind de la Camera Deputatilor, 9 Mai 1935

(cred ca la dreapta lui Iorga se afla Tatarascu)

source: http://cutiacuvechituri.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/03web.jpg

(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Nicolae_Iorga,_Nicolae_Titulescu_%C5%9Fi_Savel_R%C4%83dulescu_la_ie%C5%9Fire_de_la_Camera_Deputa%C5%A3ilor.jpg)

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Anton Naum

Casa Vasile Pogor din Iasi, unde se tineau sedintele Junimii

(http://www.iasi-info.ro/16-1-9-Muzeul_Literaturii_Romane_Iasi-36)

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Oricat m-am straduit, nu am reusit sa gasesc o fotografie a lui Anton Naum. Doar in fotografia de grup a unei sedinte plenare a Academiei Romane din 1912: se afla langa Nicolae Iorga (care este usor de recunoscut, slava Domnului

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Constantin Istrati

Constantin I. Istrati (1850-1918)

statuie de Oscar Späthe

image:Cristian-Mihail Miehs
(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Constantin_I._Istrati_-_Parcul_Carol.jpg)

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chimist si medic, coordonatorul construirii Parcului Carol din Bucuresti, colectionar de documente (acte de cancelarie emise in vremea lui Alexandru cel Bun, Stefan cel Mare, Bogdan al

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Ion Simionescu

Ion Th. Simionescu (1873-1944)

(http://istoriculzilei.blogspot.com/2012_01_07_archive.html)

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distins geolog si paleontolog, cu lucrari de referinta in paleontologia si stratigrafia mezozoicului european.



In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie este ultimul la masa din stanga (dupa Grigore Antipa).




Fiica sa, Cecilia Simionescu, este autoarea

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Grigore Antipa

Grigore Antipa (1867-1944)

(http://www.octogonul.ro/octogon/?p=167)

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zoolog, ihtiolog, ecolog, oceanolog, discipol al lui Ernst Haeckel, a fost vreme de cinzeci si doi de ani directorul Muzeului de Istorie Naturala din Bucuresti, muzeu care ii poarta numele.



In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie este al optulea la masa din stanga (intre Anghel

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Anghel Saligny

Anghel Saligny (1854-1925)

(www.emaramures.ro/stiri/13775/ISTORIA-ZILEI-Evenimente-din-17-iunie-calendar-istoric-si-religios-aniversari-vedete)

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constructorul marelui pod dela Cernavoda, la vremea aceea cel mai lung pod din Europa

roman cu ascendenta franceza, acest mare inginer a fost unul din pionierii mondiali ai constructiilor de poduri cu

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Victor Babes

Victor Babes (1854-1926)

source: http://clendening.kumc.edu/dc/pc/babes.jpg
(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Victor_Babes.jpg)

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unul din pionierii bacteriologiei mondiale, fondatorul scolii romanesti de microbiologie


In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie este al saselea la masa din stanga (intre Stefan Hepites si Anghel Saligny).



S-a

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Stefan Hepites

Stefan Hepites (1851-1922)
(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:%C5%9Etefan_Hepites.jpg)

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intemeietorul meteorologiei si seismologiei in Romania




In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie este al cincilea la masa din stanga (intre Petru Poni si Victor Babes).






teodolit folosit de Stefan Hepites la elaborarea primei harti geomagnetice a

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Petru Poni

Petru Poni (1841-1925)

(http://brailachirei.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/expozitie-deosebita-la-casa-%E2%80%9Eperpessicius%E2%80%9D/)

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chimist si mineralog, intemeietorul scolii romanesti de chimie




In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie este al patrulea la masa din stanga (intre Nicolae Teclu si Stefan Hepites).



(1912: Sedinta la Academia Romana)

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Nicolae Teclu

Nicolae Teclu (1839-1916)

(http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fi%C8%99ier:Nicolae_Teclu.jpg)

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fiu al Brasovului, unul din profesorii eminenti ai Vienei, a fost primul chimist roman recunoscut la nivel international.




In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie este al treilea la masa din stanga (intre generalul Crainceanu si Petru Poni).




(1912: Sedinta

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Spiru Haret

Spiru Haret (1851-1912)

statuie de Ion Jalea, 1935

marmura de Carrara




matematician, astronom, pedagog, marele legiuitor al invatamantului romanesc


Un crater lunar ii poarta numele: craterul Haret.

(vezi si Spiritul Haretian in Cultura Romana)


In fotografia facuta in 1912 la Academie este primul din stanga.


(1912: Sedinta la Academia Romana)

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1912: Sedinta la Academia Romana

Sedinta plenara la Academia Romana, 1912

(published on Facebook by Iulian Bilauschi)

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O fotografie care m-a facut sa visez, sa ma las furat de inchipuire: eram si eu in anul acela, 1912, cand elita tarii acesteia era intr-adevar elita, cand printre cei care ne erau modele se numarau Teclu si Babes, Iorga si Saligny. Era vremea cand tara noastra avea un

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Dreaming at Evanescent Cafés

(click here for the Romanian version)


À la moitié du chemin de la vraie vie, nous étions environnés d'une sombre mélancolie, qu'ont exprimée tant de mots railleurs et tristes, dans le café de la jeunesse perdue.


(Guy Debord)


[At the halfway of real life, we were surrounded by a dark melancholy, that so many mocking and sad words have expressed, in the café of lost youth]


A friend

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Cafenele in care sa-ti uiti uitarea

(image from FilmeCarti)

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(click here for the English version)


À la moitié du chemin de la vraie vie, nous étions environnés d'une sombre mélancolie, qu'ont exprimée tant de mots railleurs et tristes, dans le café de la jeunesse perdue.


(Guy Debord)



Deunazi un prieten mi-a dat de stire asupra unei carti nou aparute in traducere romaneasca. Nu stiam

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Patrick Modiano

Patrick Modiano

(image published in Dominique's Villas)

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He was born in the same year I did, 1945. Beginning 1968 he did nothing but write.





(video by Raoulle)



He is trying here to imagine how looked the theatre that once was running in that place. It happened to me once to be somehow in the reverse situation: I was in Riga, by that time under

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Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介)

(1892 - 1927)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Akutagawa_Ryunosuke_photo.jpg)

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He is considered the father of Japanese short story. Kurosawa's Rashômon is inspired by two of his works - and these two works also play an active role in the intrigue of Jarmush's Ghost Dog.



(A Life in Books)

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Setsuko Hara in a Kurosawa's Movie from 1946

Photo of Setsuko Hara from 1946

with her rōmaji signature

(source: Ernie K. in Mary and Leo)

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I found this story in a blog that I came upon looking for more info on Setsuko Hara. It was 1946. Ernie K. was by that time in the Army and was touring Japan with a group of fellow G.I.s. One of the days they came in front of a film studio, it was by pure chance.

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Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles (1910-1999)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_Bowles.jpg)

source: http://www.nndb.com/people/670/000113331/paul-bowles.jpg

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Born in Jamaica, Brooklyn, NY. Student of University of Virginia, where he was interested in Prokofiev, Duke Ellington, Gregorian chants and Blues (plus T.S.Eliot). Dropped twice. Years spent in Paris, where he was in Gertrude Stein's

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A Song Among The Sheltering Years

(cover of the sheet music, 1914)

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I came to this song today by a chain of associations: I talked in my previous post about the journey made by an American artist in the 1870's in Morocco. The story called in my mind a movie, where a journey of three American artists in the 1930's or 1940's through Morocco was unfolding toward tragedy. The American artist

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Edwin Lord Weeks: Man Leading a Camel

Man Leading a Camel

(source: http://hoocher.com/Edwin_Lord_Weeks/Edwin_Lord_Weeks.htm)

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It was 1877. Edwin Lord Weeks commenced to work on the painting whose image is above. It was destined for the 1878 Salon - his first Salon exhibit. He then got ready to spend a long winter in Morocco (the details of which were published in Scribner's Magazine in 1901).

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Edwin Lord Weeks: Courtyard in Morocco

Courtyard in Morocco

source: http://hoocher.com/Edwin_Lord_Weeks/Edwin_Lord_Weeks.htm
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(Edwin Lord Weeks)

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Edwin Lord Weeks: Feeding the Sacred Pigeons, Jaipur

Feeding the Sacred Pigeons, Jaipur

ca. 1894

(source: http://hoocher.com/Edwin_Lord_Weeks/Edwin_Lord_Weeks.htm)

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(Edwin Lord Weeks)

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Edwin Lord Weeks: Tangiers

Tangiers

source: http://hoocher.com/Edwin_Lord_Weeks/Edwin_Lord_Weeks.htm

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In 1871, Edwin Lord Weeks traveled to Morocco, Egypt, the Holy Land and Syria as far as Damascus, accompanied by a friend, the illustrator A P Close. His sketchbooks from that visit overflow with North African scenes. However, at Beirut, Close died following a fever and was buried

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Edwin Lord Weeks: A Persian Cafe

A Persian Cafe

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Weeks_Edwin_Lord_A_Persian_Cafe.jpg)

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(Edwin Lord Weeks)

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Edwin Lord Weeks: Along the Ghats of Mathura

Along the Ghats of Mathura

1883

source: http://hoocher.com/Edwin_Lord_Weeks/Edwin_Lord_Weeks.htm

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Along_the_Ghats_of_Mathura.jpg)

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(Edwin Lord Weeks)

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Weeks at Walters: Interior of a Mosque at Cordova

Interior of a Mosque at Cordova

oil on canvas, ca. 1880

Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edwin_Lord_Weeks_-_Interior_of_a_Mosque_at_Cordova_-_Walters_37169.jpg)

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This work, set in the 8th-century great mosque of Cordova in Spain, may have been begun in 1880 while Edwin Lord Weeks was staying in that city (wiki). The

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Edwin Lord Weeks: Great Mogul And His Court Returning From The Great Mosque At Delhi India

Great Mogul And His Court Returning From The Great Mosque At Delhi India

Portland Museum of Art
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Mogul_And_His_Court_Returning_From_The_Great_Mosque_At_Delhi_India_-_Oil_Painting_by_American_Artist_Edwin_Lord_Weeks.jpg)

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(Edwin Lord Weeks)

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Edwin Lord Weeks: An Open-Air Restaurant, Lahore

An Open-Air Restaurant, Lahore

ca. 1889

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Weeks_Edwin_Lord_An_Open-Air_Restaurant_Lahore.jpg)

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The scene is near Wazir Khan Mosque, famous for its extensive faience tile work. It has been described as a mole on the cheek of Lahore (wiki).



(Edwin Lord Weeks)

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Edwin Lord Weeks: The Barge Of The Maharaja Of Benares

The Barge Of The Maharaja Of Benares

ca. 1883

source: http://hoocher.com/Edwin_Lord_Weeks/Edwin_Lord_Weeks.htm

(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Barge_Of_The_Maharaja_Of_Benares_ca_1883.jpg)

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(Edwin Lord Weeks)

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Edwin Lord Weeks

Edwin Lord Weeks (1849-1903)

source: Joseph Uzanne, Figures contemporaines tirées de l’Album Mariani, Librairie Henri Floury, Paris, vol VIII, 1903 (Biblioteque Nationale de France)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edwin_Lord_Weeks.jpg)

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A distinguished painter of oriental scenes, the son of an affluent tea and spice merchant from Newton, Massachusetts,

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Kurosawa

Photo of Akira Kurosawa directing. Unknown date

黒澤 明

Courtesy of the NY Public Library Public Digital Collection

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Akira_Kurosawa_directing.jpeg)

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The Asian of the Century, they named him. I haven't seen many movies of Kurosawa, as my focus went decidedly to Ozu. And if you say Asian, you should also think at Ray, at

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Pacific Coast Highway, near Cape Sebastian

Pacific Coast Highway, Oregon, Astoria to Depoe Bay

near Cape Sebastian

image: Philip James Corwin/Corbis

(http://homeliving.blogspot.com/2010/11/visiting-america-part-2.html)

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(America viewed by Americans)

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A Modern Christmas Carol at the Hancock Church

Hancock United Church of Christ, Congregational, Lexington MA
photo by John Phelan

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hancock_United_Church_of_Christ,_Lexington_MA.jpg)

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The kids from Lexington, MA in a one-time performance of a modern Christmas Carol, at the Hancock Church. My two granddaughters were in the show. You would recognize them. Daria was in

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Longfellow: Agassiz

Louis Agassiz giving a lecture, 1870

source: Schweizerischer Beobachter
(http://www.1902encyclopedia.com/A/AGA/louis-agassiz.html)

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Agassiz had been among the best friends of Longfellow, and his death was a hard blow for the poet.


I stand again on the familiar shore,
And hear the waves of the distracted sea
Piteously calling and lamenting thee,
And

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Arvid Has Prepared Treats for Santa

Thomas Arvid - Treats for Santa

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Christmas is around the corner and Arvid is ready with some treats for Santa. Surely the old guy won't mind tasting some wine and cookies.

For Arvid art lovers: it's a limited edition of Giclée on paper of 150 17 x 6 inches. If interested you should contact him.


(P and C Art)

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Florent Schmitt: Le Palais Hanté (after Poe)

(http://poeforward.blogspot.com/2012/04/haunted-palace-published-1839.html)

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The works of Poe were highly important in the literary life of turn-of-the-century France. Baudelaire translated his tales. Mallarmé put a collection of his poems into French; and it is not unreasonable to claim that Poe's are among the few works to gain, rather than lose, in

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A State of Mind

New York Stories

(published on Facebook by NY-NY Stories)

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(New York, New York)

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Stravinsky Plays Stravinsky: Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra

Veery Books

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Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra




Igor Stravinsky, piano


Ernest Ansermet conducting the Orchestre des Concerts Walther Straram Paris

rec. 1930





I. Presto

(video by gullivior)






II. Andante rapsodico

III. Allegro capriccioso (5:05)

(video by gullivior)




(Stravinsky)

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Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

(http://www.dancemuseum.org/hall_of_fame/Igor.htm)

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Firstly there were The Firebird, Petrushka and The Rite of Spring. It was then his neoclassical period, with concerti grossi, fugues and symphonies. And eventually he became a serialist. That's in short. He was one of the most influential composers of the 20's century.



Stravinsky Plays

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Surrealism Heroes

(posted on Facebook by SKAALAA)

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Edelina Stoian shared this image on Facebook, a big thank you to her!

Here is my guess:


front row (from left to right): Tristan Tzara, André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Man Ray
rear: Paul Éluard, Hans Arp, Yves Tanguy, René Crevel


(Avangarda 20)

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Poe and Longfellow: The Feud of Two Poems

H.W.Longfellow to R.W.Griswold

autographed letter, Sept, 28, 1850

(image from Longfellow’s Serenity and Poe’s Prediction)

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The letter in the image above is one of the documents related to an unfortunate feud between two great poets: Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Each one great in his own way, both very different each other in all

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Inceput de Decembrie in Parcul IOR

(Bucuresti)

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My Granddaughter Bianca in the School Orchestra

Diamond Junior High School, Lexington, MA

photo by John M. Sullivan

(http://www.panoramio.com/photo/11178557)

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As most of you know, I am the proud grandfather of Bianca and Daria. I will talk today about Bianca. She is a student in the Diamond Junior High School and she plays the viola in the school orchestra. They had a concert and here are 3 videos:

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Charles Simic: The Lunatic

is one snowflake the same or different from another?

(image from Riveredge Nature Center)

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The same snowflake

kept falling out of the gray sky

all afternoon,

falling and falling

and picking itself up

off the ground,

to fall again,

but now more surreptitiously,

more carefully

as ...

(http://facts.ch/articles/8492864-charles-simic-8220the-lunatic

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Charles Simic

Charles Simic

(http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/charles-simic)

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He began to make a name for himself in the early to mid 1970s as a literary minimalist, writing terse, imagistic poems. Critics have referred to his poems as tightly constructed Chinese puzzle boxes. Said the poet, words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is

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Johnny Hallyday - La Chanson du Roumain

Johnny Hallyday

(Music Autographs)

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I got this video from Ioan Cuciurca, and I wish to thank him very much: it's a refreshing song, unexpectedly refreshing, and, as Ioana Bogdan says, it was a time in the sixties - seventies when Romanian popular music was appreciated a lot in France, and not only. What has happened meanwhile? Well, it's much to say.

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The World Was So Different Then...

(posted on Facebook by New Yorkers)

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The world was so different then, like the children playing in the foreground...


(Kate Lester Harrigan)


(America viewed by Americans)


(New York, New York)

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La Sorcière (The Blonde Witch) 1956

(movie poster, from the Lukeraba's Blog)

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I think this poster does not make justice to the film, which is a story of love told with simplicity and honesty. The movie (La Sorcière, made in 1956) is just that: simple and honest. A young man (Maurice Ronet) comes in a village where conditions are primitive and people fear witches and stuff. He meets by chance

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Strada Lunca Bradului - Balconul cu Flori

(Bucuresti)

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7 Etnii la Marea Neagra

(http://sarichioi-ro.jouwweb.nl/excursie-din-sarichioi1/mila-231)

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Domnul Alexandru Ursu Bukovina mi-a atras atentia asupra acestui film: 7 Etnii la Marea Neagra. E un film facut cu suflet, cu inteligenta si cu un simt acut al frumosului.


Intr-o arie geografica foarte restransa, intre granitele a trei state, separate de firul de apa a doua rauri – Prut

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