Scots - a language of European civilisation' - on Angus McIntosh

The Second Angus McIntosh LectureScots as a language of European civilisation(organised by the Scottish Text Society)Edinburgh, 22 March 2010Dr Caroline Macafee   Photograph by Andrew Swanston, frontispiece, Michael Benskin and M. L. Samuels eds., So Meny People Longages and Tonges. Philological Essays in Scots and Mediaeval English Presented to Angus McIntosh (privately published, 1981)  I’ve taken as my title ‘Scots: a language of European civilisation’ because when I think of Angus McIntos...

Conservative critique of charity

See the Oldest Printed Advertisement in English: An Ad for a Book from 1476

Nobody pays much mind to advertising, at least the haphazard kind of advertising that clutters the space around us. But here in the 21st century, when both that space and the ads that appear throughout it are as likely to be digital as physical, we might take a moment to look back at how the practice of putting up notices to sell things began. In the English language, it goes back to at least to the mid-fifteenth century — specifically, to the year 1476, when Britain’s first printer William C...

Molklo vs moloko

mallet (n.)"small wooden hammer," chiefly used for driving another tool, late 14c., from Old French maillet "mallet, small wooden hammer, door-knocker," diminutive of mail, from Latin malleus "a hammer, mallet," from Proto-Italic *molalo-, *molklo- "hammer," from PIE *molkh-tlo- "crushing instrument," source also of Russian molot, Czech mlat "hammer," from PIE root *mele- "to crush, grind." It is wielded with one hand, whil...

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Becoming a semiotic technology – a historical study of Instagram's tools for making and sharing photos and videos: Internet Histories: Vol 2, No 1-2

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Once in the Saddle - The Memory and Romance of the Trail Driving Cowboy

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CITIZEN = NIETZSCHE - minus an H

This is a stunning insight. Does KANE maybe mean "Enoch"? Or if we move the H - Enokh? "Nake"(d)? Kean? Acne? Alaska and Nebraska? California and Nebraska? California And the NorthEast? NorthEast Atlantic City No electricity vs alternating current North Eastern Alternating Current K E (?) Alternative News KANE as KANT ? "Her Son; Wellesley" (Side bar for ZTORY) Better yet: N I E T Z S C H E A N Minus the Eye and CHARLES FOSTER KANE As: ? CHARANI STROKER FEEL ARIAN CHARLIE FOSTER KAN...

Penrose Tiling and Phi - The Golden Ratio - 1.618

Φ About Contributors Resources Contact Store Site Map The Golden Ratio: Phi, 1.618Golden Ratio, Phi, 1.618, and Fibonacci in Math, Nature, Art, Design, Beauty and the Face. One source with over 100 articles and latest findings. Phi Design/Art Beauty/Face Life Math Geometry Markets/Gaming Cosmos Theology Blog You are here: Home / Geometry / Penrose Tiling and PhiPenrose Tiling and Phi May 13, 2012 by Gary Meisner 5 Comments Tiling in 5-fold symmetry was thought impossible! Areas can...

Comparing Shakespeare’s Prince Hal and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton copy

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The Mystique of the Norton Lectures - The Harvard Crimson

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Pan

Pan Arcadian shepherd god with upper body of a man and horns and lower part like a goat, late 14c., a god of the woods and fields, from Latin, from Greek Pan. Klein says perhaps cognate with Sanskrit pusan, a Vedic god, guardian and multiplier of cattle and other human possessions, literally "nourisher." Similarity to pan "all" (see pan-) led to his being regarded as a personification of nature. Pan-pipe, upon which he supposedly played, is attested from 1820. from https://www.etymonline.c...

EVE Online has a god named Bob

EVE Online has a god named Bob How the sci-fi virtual world spawned a strange new religion By Cassandra Khaw Mar 31, 2015, 8:40am EDT It started with a joke. Or more accurately, a bizarre jeer. "Early on, [members of the EVE Online corporation Adhocracy]...

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Filmmaker Miranda Pennell first trained in contemporary dance, and later studied visual anthropology. Her film and video work exploring different forms of collective performance whether dancers, soldiers or fight directors, has been broadcast internationally and shown in festival and gallery contexts. Her recent moving-image work uses archival materials as the starting point for a reflection on the colonial imaginary. Her film Why Colonel Bunny Was Killed (2010) was awarded best interna...

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