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Stone, Paper, Scissors…
Believe it or not a Paper Scissors Stone Club was founded in England in 1842. Continue reading
Leonard Cohen: Casting light in the darkness
Leonard Cohen turned to songwriting because he wasn’t making a living as a writer. He never looked back. Continue reading
October
A season of melancholy for poets, autumn is often made magical by the blue skies of October. Continue reading
Tiger, tiger…
At the beginning of the 19th century there were 40,000 tigers in the world. Today, around 4,000 are left in the wild, more than half of them in India. Continue reading
The musical surgeon: Theodor Billroth
On the streets of Vienna in the mid-1880s, you could bump into Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, or Gustav Mahler. Continue reading
Chaucer’s unending pilgrimage
The Canterbury Tales are more than 600 years old, but they sound modern when they speak about equality and social justice. Continue reading
