Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 158
June 22, 2015
Brave New Publishing—Amazon Testing Paying Authors by the Page
Originally posted on Kristen Lamb's Blog:
Image via Flickr Creative Commons, courtesy of Kenny Louie
We live in a really strange time and technology has altered the publishing landscape into something we could never have imagined in 1999. The changes have been nothing short of science fiction. Well, buckle your seat belts because it is about to happen again. Just about the time we kind of get the knack of things, it seems there is yet another upheaval and we have to adapt.
This is why I wr...
Reflections ~ Father’s Day
Originally posted on Victoria Adams' Reading Alcove:
Courtesy Pixabay.com
Years ago I was approached by the pastor of the church I was attending. Since I was a speaker and teacher within the church, he thought it would be easy for me to “throw something together” for the Father’s Day service. I was given less than 12 hours to contribute an original piece of inspiration. Me? For Father’s Day? Provide inspiration for a national observance that caused me nothing but annoyance each year as I s...
21 June 1940: Two Gladiators Lost
Originally posted on Malta: War Diary:
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One of two Gladiators still in service (NWMA Malta)
TWO GLADIATORS A WRITE-OFF
Two of Malta’s precious Gladiator aircraft were irreparably damaged in separate incidents today. One crashed into an obstruction on the aerodrome during take-off from Hal Far this morning. The pilot, Squadron Leader A C Martin made a viole...
The worst day in Earth’s history: The dinosaur extinction event.
Originally posted on www.seanmunger.com:
Though they’ve been dead for 65 million years, dinosaurs are really hot right now, thanks mostly to the release of the popular movieJurassic World. But then again dinosaurs have never gone out of style. Every few years they crop up again in popular culture, and as every new generation of 7-year-olds becomes fascinated by these real-life monsters their memory lives on. It’s very rare for me to do a post on pre-human history, but due to research I’m co...
June 20, 2015
Enrico Baj: Anarchist at Heart
Originally posted on A R T LR K:
On the 15th of June 2003, Italian painter, sculptor, writer and anarchist Enrico Baj died in Vergiate, Italy. In his works he focused mainly on politically engaged themes such as the threat of nuclear war or the political situation in Italy under Berlusconi. Baj was one of the founders of the Nuclear Art Movement that made reference to contemporary fears about nuclear war and human annihilation. His “obsession with the atomic age even led him to apply the ter...
June 19, 2015
The Napoleonic Expedition to Egypt.
Originally posted on If It Happened Yesterday, It's History:
Napeoleon Bonaparte before the great Sphinx (ca 1868) by Jean-Leon Gerome, Hearst Castle.
The French were among the earliest modern explorers to “rediscover” the great monuments of the Ancient Egyptians. The King of France, Louis XIV, in 1672 commissioned an expedition to the land of the Pharaohs with the purpose of procuring antiquities. With very little success, Louis XIV had laid the groundwork for future expeditions to try and...
June 18, 2015
The clock is ticking in Tokyo…
Originally posted on Birmingham Royal Ballet's tour blog:
On Sunday afternoon the final curtain came down on performances of Swan Lake here in Tokyo.
Capacity audiences were ecstatic with the world-class performances given by the company over three days here at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, as displayed by the masses of ballet fans waiting at stage door following curtain down waiting for autographs and photos.
As the dry ice faded and the towering gothic set was dismantled, the magical starry skie...
Alexander Ekman’s “Thoughts at the Bolshoi”….
Originally posted on NYC Dance Stuff:
Alexander Ekman Performing his Solo “Thoughts at the Bolshoi.” Photo by Jack Devant
June 17, 2015
History at Sunset 2015
Originally posted on Mysteries and Conundrums:
We know that many of you are committed followers of History at Sunset, and so we wanted to share with you the schedule for this year. We kick off on Friday night, with Frank O’Reilly leading a program that will start at the newly cleared overlook of the Rappahannock at Chatham, and then continue to the literal site of the Union pontoon crossing on December 11, 1862. We have only brought visitors to the Stafford side of the river here a couple of...
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