Poet, journalist and travel writer Hugo Williams was born in 1942 in Windsor and grew up in Sussex. Siren Song I phone from time to time, to see if she’s changed the music on her answerphone. ‘Tell me in two words,’ goes the recording, ‘what you were going to tell in a thousand.’… (συνέχεια…)
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Ian Emberson (1936–2013) was a poet from Hove, Sussex, proud to have been christened by the poet Andrew Young. After moving around quite a bit, he spent his life in the small town of Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Lingering by the Doorway of the Woods I was picking blackberries when I thought of the… (συνέχεια…)
Richard Aldington (1892-1962) was a writer and poet from Portsmouth, England. He was an early associate of the Imagist movement. To a Greek Marble Πότνια, πότνια, White grave goddess, Pity my sadness, O silence of Paros. I am not of these about thy feet, These garments and decorum; I am thy brother, Thy lover… (συνέχεια…)
29 Ιούλ 2022
Underground/Tube, Subway
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναAthens, Greece ● The Athens Metro ● The London Underground, or Tube ● Τhe New York City Subway
8 Ιούλ 2022
The Flame Trees of Thika
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναThe Flame Trees of Thika is a British television serial of seven 50-minute episodes made by Euston Films for Thames Television in 1981. It was adapted by John Hawkesworth from the 1959 book of the same title by Elspeth Huxley, and is set in and around the town of Thika in Kenya‘s Central Province…. (συνέχεια…)
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Although Elgar is often regarded as a typically English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England but from continental Europe. He felt… (συνέχεια…)
The Channel Tunnel is a 50.46-kilometre railway tunnel that connects Folkestone with Coquelles beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. It is the only fixed link between the island of Great Britain and the European mainland.
«Φρύνος (είδος βατράχου) μέσα στην τρύπα» The unusually named toad in the hole is a traditional British delicacy consisting of a number of sausages baked in a Yorkshire pudding batter. The dish is traditionally served with vegetables, mashed potatoes, and onion gravy on the side. It was invented in the 18th century, when batter puddings first became… (συνέχεια…)
5 Ιούν 2022
Cor Anglais / English Horn
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώνα• Το αγγλικό κόρνο ούτε αγγλικό είναι ούτε κόρνο! • Ο συνθέτης Christopher Ball γεννήθηκε στην Αγγλία και συγκεκριμένα στο Leeds. Τhe cor anglais is neither from England nor related to the various conical-bore brass instruments called “horns,” such as the French horn, the natural horn, the post horn, or the tenor horn. The instrument… (συνέχεια…)
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
In this classic dramatic monologue, the ageing Ulysses (i.e., Odysseus) prepares to leave his home of Ithaca and sail off into the sunset on one last adventure. Is he old and deluded, a man who cannot just accept he’s past it? Or is he a bold and brave adventurer whose persistence we should admire? Readers… (συνέχεια…)
25 Μαρ 2022
Greece Crowning Lord Byron (1895)
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναThe final model was made by Henri-Michel-Antoine Chapu (1833-1891), while the sculpting of the marble was made by Alexandre Falguière (1831-1900). A marble 3-metre tall complex showing Greece personified, crowning Lord Byron with a palm branch—a symbol of immortality—as a token of gratitude. The base of the sculpture is modular with embossed decorations on top… (συνέχεια…)
