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Hace 11 horas · I made clear I do believe as we want peace we need to prepare for war. There are nasty enemies around who only respect force and think again if we deter. I also made clear my admiration for the sacrifices of my parents generation to see off a major threat to our island home from Germany and to go on with the USA to liberate western Europe. So ...
Hace 11 horas · Olufemi’s view — nearly universally held by today’s art crowd — is peculiar given that the relationship between the good and the beautiful ceased to be a concern for art with the onset of Modernity. The move from “art” to “the art world” mirrors the social and political rise of the individual. From the artefact, the focus moved ...
Hace 11 horas · Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL, commonly known as UNIA), through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Garvey was ideologically a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist, his ...
Hace 1 día · UNITED NATIONS: A Russian-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution that called on all countries to prevent “for all time” the placement, threat or use of any weapons in outer space ...
Hace 11 horas · Tuesday, May 21, 2024 0:18. Some years ago I was asked to speak to the local British Legion. Whilst praising them for the sacrifices our armed services have made, I chose to speak about how we could and should fight fewer wars. We can learn from past wars which were not all well judged. Last Friday I was asked to speak to local Conservatives ...
Hace 11 horas · Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907). This proto-cubist work is considered a seminal influence on subsequent trends in modernist painting.. Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and social issues were also aspects of the movement ...
Hace 11 horas · A History. Part One: India and China: "Zen (Chin. Ch'an, an abbreviation of ch'an-na, which transliterates the Sanskrit Dhyāna (Devanagari: ध्यान) or its Pali cognate Jhāna (Sanskrit; Pāli झान), terms meaning "meditation") is the name of a Mahāyāna Buddhist school of meditation originating in China.
