House of Memory and Imagination for lovers of European literature, history and culture.
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A dragon stone or vishap in Yerevan. Such stones litter the Armenian highlands. Some think they represent animal sacrifices, pagan rituals that came from the steppe with the Armenian language. shorturl.at/lYdKY @WmCollinsBooks @BloomsburyPub #linguistics #archaeology
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Read this incredible article that goes into the importance of building new systems rather than relying on the current inoperative one by our Communications Director, Daniel Coffeen.
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How Decentralization Can Create the Information Resource Economy by @DCoffeen link.medium.com/0CyxbuD2qgb
And that’s what is beautiful! Bovard said, holding on as best he could, being among the strongest among them (because the poet has come).
He looked first at the hillside, then he looked at the water. “Ah! so now, it’s you… Alright then, respect for you too…”
And to show his respect, he took of his hat.
He saw it, casting a glance to the right and to the left, and he said to himself, “It that it?” Then he replied to himself, “That’s it.” CF Ramuz
Skomlin Press retweeted
We moved to Moscow, after the death of my father, for a simple reason: our estate was sold under the hammer for debt — everything, with the exception of one wretched little hamlet, the very one in which I am now finishing my magnificent existence. ow.ly/kUZ030nXM9r
Finished listening to Pale Rider by Laura Spinney. Try #Audible and get it free: audible.com.au/pd/1473585791… – at Melbourne, Victoria
And the scientists and philosophers and hangmen would retreat, speaking with a shudder: “Do not touch this place. It is holy.” ow.ly/c16S30kgt3g
There are children who are ghosts. They carry within themselves the memory of another world — a world beyond the forests, beyond the streams. They have bathed their bodies and their hair in the enchanted spring. That ecstasy has never left their eyes
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“You hear that, you men from Sion, you gentlemen of the law, you gendarmes?…”
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Skomlin Press retweeted
An estimated 50 to 100 million people died during the 1918 flu pandemic—possibly more than both World Wars combined. So... why is the memory of the Spanish flu so flimsy?
@lfspinney explores how collective memory forms in the aftermath of pandemics: n.pr/3c1LocO
Skomlin Press retweeted
A letter to the UK from Italy: this is what we know about your future theguardian.com/world/2020/m…
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@ScottMorrisonMP
We’ve seen your uncertainty about how to act in a crisis, so the medical profession is offering practical advice.
#lockusdown
Dr Adam Visser Director ICU
Toowoomba
Thanks Adam for that - well said.
Agree with everything you’ve said
#stayathome
#shutitdown
Cancel everything Mr Morrison - the healthcare workforce is speaking.
@ScottMorrisonMP
