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Arts & Literature
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I sometimes think there was more to 'The History of Mr Polly', by HG Wells, than I saw at first reading. The idea of getting up, packing a small bag, and just walking away from everything is...
Can anyone please recommend a popular authentic history describing the discovery of the translation and meaning of the Rosetta stone. I wish to give it to my daughter who is an intelligent sixteen...
Can you please tell me how many birds made up the set of Royal Worcester porcelain birds in the 1950s these were by the Doughty sisters
Watching an episode of Antiques Roadshow today, and an landscape of St Michael Mount painted from the seaside village was being discussed. I understood the artist was English, he moved to Cornwall and...
Id like a link to a website that will help me with ideas and writing a drama film
Help appreciated
24d A Shakesperean term for dismissal
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Free-thinker...
I was given a print of a waiter abstract ish , vivid colours mainly of orange and turquoise. He was serving in what looked like a French café. I thought the person that gave me it said it was from a...
Firstly: Hello! Secondly: Sorry if I've posted this in the wrong thread Thirdly: I'm a freelance cartoonist and dad of three. I mostly draw cartoons for Private Eye and the Spectator. I'm developing a...
Hi, has anyone heard of a company called Meirin UK? I am selling my book Remembering Dementia: For the Love of Nellie on Amazon as Kindle versions and as paperback. I am selling the paperback at...
Have just read this book. Is the title "Shroud for a Nightingale" a quotation? If so from where?...
Stamp collectors, if you like! I've always collected stamps, but not for any notion of value. But I know that some of them can be, or can become very valuable. In the last few years, if you go to the...
I believe Gauguins rarely come onto the market and with the record price achieved, does anyone know how much the last Gauguin painting achieved? Also is Nafea Faa Ipoipo one of his more significant...
i have begun the decluttering of my house and one of my sisters, living in Switzerland, has shown an interest in a painting given to me by our father when I got married and moved to England. I have...
The Boy Next Door features a Hardback first edition of the Iliad. (Not only didn't they have books, Homer may not have even wrote it down!) Any other literature disasters in films-apart from adaption...
I`ve been looking for an image (either of the original or a print) of a painting by Jack Russell which showed the winning shot of the NatWest Trophy in 1999 but can`t find one. I`m just wondering if...
What's the term/idiom for something having more space than one imagines?
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In his paintings, were Modigliani's reclining nudes cut off above or below the knee?...I don't think he painted a full length nude. Ta Muchly.
Would someone like to give an example of'Splitting one's infinitives'?
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I'll be buying....
Harry Potter
Sherlock
The Third Doctor
Private Pike
Any more for any more?...