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- In the Renaissance period being fat meant to show the “value” of the human body and pureness.
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- When we take things for granted
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- Leonardo Da Vinci – The Skills of Da Vinci
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- Vincent v. Gogh – What you say should be applied to others rather than to me
- Winston Churchill – What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to?
- Winston Churchill – How noble a woman’s heart can be.
- Tender Photo Unearthed from a Turbulent Time.
- White’ slaves used for 1860s fundraiser propaganda.
- Poet and essayist Adrienne Rich
- Old Letter – I was ready to sink into the earth with shame
- The Masked Letter
- To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee
- C.S Lewis, A pantomime Aslan would be blasphemy
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- Langston Hughes (1902 – 1967) What happens to a dream deferred?
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- Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) IN THE FOREST
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- The Mermaid by Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Gandhi sitting at a spinning wheel. ~ Mohandas Gandhi In The Story of My Experiments With Truth ~
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- The Eagle Represents …
- Love letter from French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac
- The love letters of John Keats and Fanny Brawne.
- A love letter from Voltaire to Catherine Olympe Dunoyer.
- A love letter from Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson –
- Death is not the worst thing in life.
- A Journey of Self Discovery
- The Present.
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Immortal Beloved
- Ernest Hemingway – Ezra Pound is obviously crazy
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- George Bernard Shaw – You are doomed to deserved failure
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- Oscar Wilde – Art is useless because…
- M. Twain To W. Whitman – What great births you have witnessed!
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- H. G. Wells on American journalists
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- Louie Armstrong – Am Ricely and Chickenly Yours
- King Henry VIII – Wishes he were yours
- Robert Burns -Thou eunuch of language.
- Walt Whitman “Song Of Myself “
- Transitioning into a new phase.
- Our Mask – Being True To Who We Really Are.
- Rhythm Of Love.
- Obituary Of Common Sense.
- This has to be the best divorce letter ever written.
- Life Is …
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- William Wordsworth Poem – Daffodils
- Touch a Woman’s Mind.
- The Long and Winding Road.
- Can Going Without Money Hurt the Economy? One Man’s Quest to Be Penniless
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- Useless but now you know.
- WD -40 Who knew?
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- George Carlin’s Views On Aging.
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Monthly Archives: May 2012
‘Jackie’ the Ripper: Was the Infamous Serial Killer a Woman?
The article that follows – I always had a hunch it could very well be true. Even today I think men are the more suspects and were horrified when it turns out to be a woman who commits such crimes. … Continue reading
Henry viii – Written with the hand of him who wishes he were yours
From the hand of King Henry VIII in 1527 we have a letter (the first part of which was written in English, the second part in French) to the second of hissix wives, Anne Boleyn. At this point, Henry was reluctantly still married … Continue reading
Margaret Thatcher – Anything which weakens you, weakens America
Just a few days after appearing before the Tower Commission as a result of his involvement in the Iran-Contra arms scandal, Ronald Reagan received the following handwritten letter of support from British Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher. In it, Thatcher empathises with ‘Ron’ over his harsh treatment by … Continue reading
Pablo Picasso – I am quite sad that you are ill
Today I bring you a vibrantly illustrated ‘Get Well Soon’ note – presumably coloured in such a way so as to cheer up its recipient – sent to renowned French poet Jean Cocteau in 1916 during a short period of bad health. … Continue reading
Joan of Arc – Joan of Arc’s Call for Arms
November 9th, 1429, with her forces’ weaponry and other supplies severely depleted following months of successful fighting, Joan of Arc dictated and signed the following letter to the population of Riom in the hope of rounding up replenishments in time for the Siege of La … Continue reading
John Irving – I write for young readers, not uptight adults
In September of 2008, believing it to be ‘inappropriate’ reading material for students, a staff member at New Hampshire’s Plymouth High School lodged a complaint with the school’s library in an effort to have John Irving‘s novel,The Hotel New Hampshire, removed from their … Continue reading
Leonardo Da Vinci – The Skills of Da Vinci
Some time in the 1480s (experts tend to agree with 1483/84, at which point he was approximately 32-years-old) Leonardo da Vinci applied for a job at the court of Ludovico Sforza — then de facto ruler of Milan but not officially its Duke for … Continue reading
John Wayne – To Our Very Best Pal JOHN WAYNE (Or Occupant)
It seems the jokes didn’t end when the cameras stopped rolling on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, the much-loved NBC comedy sketch show that originally ran from 1968 until 1973 and, over the course of its 140 episodes, featured countless appearances by celebrities. … Continue reading
Mary Stuart – I am to be executed
I am to be executed For the best part of twenty years until she died, Mary Stuart was either imprisoned or on trial in England at the behest of her first cousin, Elizabeth I. Her entire life was anything but normal, … Continue reading
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