Bonsai are miniature trees grown in pots. The aim of bonsai culture is to develop a tiny tree that has all the elements of a large tree growing in a natural setting. This look is achieved, principally, by branch and root pruning and shaping, but other factors are also important. The texture of the trunk, its look of age, the moss and the under plantings in the container — all contribute to the illusion of a miniature tree as it is seen in nature.A presentable bonsai can be cre (more…)
The Great War now known as World War I was one of the crucial events in the history of the 20th century. The war was unprecedented in scale and intensity, with more men fighting and more casualties in action than any war before. Over 60 million soldiers took part. The war claimed over 40 million casualties, including approximately 20 million civilian and military dead. Many of the events attendant upon the war – blockade, revolution, genocide and disease – increased the misery. (more…)
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Newton Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. Booth Tarkington was born in Indianapolis. He first attended Purdue University but graduated from Princeton University in 1893. While at Princeton he was the editor of the Nassau Literary Magazine and formed the Princeton Triangle Club. He was also voted the most popular man in his class. He was one of the most pop (more…)
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Fitzgerald’s 1922 collection isn’t his strongest work, but it does contain gems like “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.” This edition also sports several additional stories not included in the original, such as “Diamond Dick, “The Third Casket,” and “The Unspeakable Egg,” plus a scholarly introduction and other goodies by editor West. Nice if you can afford it. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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The History of England (Originally titled The History of Great Britain) (1754-62) is an enormous History of Great Britain, tracing events from the Saxon kingdoms to the Glorious Revolution. It was a best-seller in its day. It was written by David Hume (1711-1776) an 18th-century Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian, considered among the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. More a category of books than a single wor (more…)
This is an agreeable narrative, easy to read, of the history of the English nation through twenty centuries. It is intended for the reader who wants a comprehensive survey which brings out the important lines of development but does not clog the story with too many facts, dates, treaties and battles. Underlying the account is a professional scholar’s acquaintance with recent historical scholarship, conveyed as a stimulating succession of ideas. The reader gets a strong sense of (more…)
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Having spent the day musing over the origins of the modernwitchcraft, I had a vivid dream. It seemed to be a cold Januaryafternoon, and Aleister Crowley was having Gerald Gardner overto tea. It was 1945, and talk of an early end to the war wasin the air. An atmosphere of optimism prevailed in the “freeworld” , but the wheezing old magus was having none of it.”Nobody is interested in magick any more!” Crowley ejaculated.”My friends on the Continent are dead or in exile, or grown (more…)
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair (1847), a panoramic portrait of English society. Thackeray began as a satirist and parodist, with a sneaking fondness for roguish upstarts like Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair, Barry Lyndon in Barry Lyndon (1844) and Catherine in Catherine (1839). In his earliest works, writing under such pseudonyms as Charles James Yellowplush, Michael (more…)