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THE BOOKS OF FOUNDATION: BOOK XV - The Rebirth of Ancient Learning

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THE BOOKS OF FOUNDATION - CONTENTS. RECENT IMAGES - from The Books of Foundation. BOOK XV - The Rebirth of Ancient Learning. The lips of wisdom are closed, except to the ears of Understanding.". The Fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of the Christian Eastern Roman Empire (also known as the Byzantine Empire) by the army of the Ottoman Empire on Tuesday, 29 May 1453. Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI. Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II. 30 March 1432 – 3 May 1481. Taklid i Seyf - The Sword of Osman.

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Peter | FRANK HAMPSON - Creator of Dan Dare

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FRANK HAMPSON – Creator of Dan Dare. The Eagle Comic and Dan Dare. FRANK HAMPSON – Creator of Dan Dare. Click on images to enlarge. Hampson was born at 488 Audenshaw Road, Audenshaw, near to Manchester (now Tameside), and was educated at King George V School, a grammar school in Southport. His brother Eric was killed in a naval action during the Second World War. In April the following year, a revised version of the Eagle hit the bookstalls. Hampson then began to devise seven other strip cartoon ideas, w...

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Reflections: August 2014

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ENGLAND and the GREAT WAR. For a number of years after 1918 the First World War was called 'The Great War' in English, and 'Der Große Krieg' in German - simply because it was the great war. The had been no other war like it, and no one contemplated another war so devastating or so terrible. It was the 'War to end all wars'. But, of course, it was not, and 'part two' was to follow about twenty years later. It was, without a doubt, the ' Great. Ferdinand Graf von Zepplin. A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airs...

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Reflections: Egypt in Turmoil - مصر في حالة اضطراب

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Egypt in Turmoil - مصر في حالة اضطراب. What is going on - and who to believe? To understand Egypt you must know her history. Gamal Abd el Nasser. For a people who spend a lot of time saying 'salam alaykum' to one another these people seem, at least at the moment, to be far from peaceful. السلام عليكم) is an Arabic greeting often used by Muslims around the world. It nearly translates to "peace be upon you". So what is going on? Why are so many people in Egypt apparently 'at each others throats? Its ideas ...

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Reflections: December 2012

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REFLECTIONS on 2012 in RETROSPECT. 2012 (MMXII) is a leap year that started on a Sunday and is the current year. In the Gregorian calendar, it is the 2012th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 12th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century, and the 3rd of the 2010s. For people living in the United Kingdom the year 2012 was dominated by the Olympic Games. Tom Daley - only Bronze. This was the year when Tom Daley. But who is the mistletoe for? The most worrying aspec...

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The Art of Zac: Zac's Favourite Art - Norman Rockwell

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Zac's Favourite Art - Norman Rockwell. Norman Perceval Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. Norman Rockwell - Self Portrait. Norman Rockwell - Self Portrait. Norman Rockwell with his wife Mary. Norman Rockwell in his Studio. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the 'Saying Grace' and 'the Four Freedoms' series. On My Honor' - 1953.

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GREAT ART - Elements of Design: CLASSICISM

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ELEMENTS OF DESIGN - CONTENTS. The best of Classical design. Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for classical antiquity, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. The foundations of Classicism are the Six Orders of Architecture as founded on Vitruvian principles. The orders are the Greek Doric, Greek Ionic, Greek Corinthian, Roman Corinthian, Composite and Tuscan (Roman Doric). The Empire style, sometimes considered the second phase of Neoclassicism, is...

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Zac's Elements of Design: January 2015

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Arts and Crafts Zac. The new self portrait shows Zac looking rather bohemian and casual, in a weird Nineteenth Century manner. Like many artists and designers who espoused the Arts and Crafts movement, he is trying to look like a 'regular (working class) guy', while still enjoying all the privileges and advantages that accrued to the tiny percentage of individuals who were extraordinarily wealthy and/or privileged at the time. And not only dress. After all, it is well known that the main complaint agains...

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Zac's Elements of Design: September 2014

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The 'Contemporary Style' (often called the 'International Style' in architecture) cannot be said to have really established itself until after 1945. Had been the dominant style before the 1939-1945 war, being the official style of countries such as Germany, Italy and the US, and also the style of the highly influential movie industry - based in Hollywood. The world war, however, stopped any further developments in design, and there was generally a hiatus in style between 1939 to 1945. The factories in al...