Notes

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θέλημα

Cus tom! that skil ful but unhur ry ing man ager who begins by tor tur ing the mind for weeks on end with her pro vi sion al arrange ments; whom the mind, for all that, is for tu nate in dis cov er ing, for without the help of cus tom it would nev er con trive, by its own efforts, to make any room seem habitable.

On Ilkla Moor Baht ‘at (Standard English: On Ilkley Moor without a hat) is a popular folk song from Yorkshire, England. … According to tradition, the words were composed by members of a Halifax church choir during an outing to Ilkley Moor near Ilkley, West Yorkshire.The song’s origins are believed to be as a ditty to poke fun at a courting couple, as sung by a mischievous local choir.
…continues in use as a hymn tune in the United States, where it was not adopted as the tune of a popular secular song. In America Cranbrook is the tune customarily used with the lyrics of Philip Doddridge’s Grace! ‘Tis a Charming Sound. British visitors to an American church which sings Doddridge’s lyrics to Cranbrook, which they recognise as Ilkley Moor, may have difficulty suppressing laughter. 

 The Stone of Scone, also commonly known as the Stone of Destiny or the Coronation Stone is an oblong block of red sandstone, .. The top bears chisel-marks. At each end of the stone is an iron ring, apparently intended to make transport easier. Historically, the artifact was kept at the now-ruined abbey in Scone, near Perth, Scotland. It was used for centuries in the coronation of the monarchs of Scotland, the monarchs of England, and, more recently, British monarchs.
…In 1296 the Stone was captured by Edward I as spoils of war and taken to Westminster Abbey, where it was fitted into a wooden chair…
…(theory posits that the monks at Scone Palace hid the real stone in the River Tay or buried it on Dunsinane Hill, and that the English troops were fooled into taking a substitute.)
On Christmas Day 1950, a group of four Scottish students took the Stone from Westminster Abbey for return to Scotland. In the process of removing it from the Abbey, they broke it into two pieces. … The Stone was then passed to a senior Glasgow politician who arranged for it to be professionally repaired by Glasgow stonemason Robert Gray.  … Once the London police were informed of its whereabouts, the Stone was returned to Westminster. Afterwards, rumours circulated that copies had been made of the Stone, and that the returned Stone was not in fact the original.

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Hugues Picherit (painter)

“but don’t for get that I no longer love you, and your love doesn’t mean any more to me than a dog’s, and dogs are kicked.”

her hands fold ed as in prayer, and the sacred light of the star of love casts its blue rays over her.

Curie visited Poland a last time in the spring of 1934. Only a couple of months later, she was dead. Her death near Sallanches, Savoy, in 1934 was from aplastic anemia, almost certainly due to exposure to radiation. The damaging effects of ionizing radiation were then not yet known, and much of her work had been carried out in a shed with no safety measures. She had carried test tubes containing radioactive isotopes in her pocket and stored them in her desk drawer, remarking on the pretty blue-green light that the substances gave off in the dark.