November 23, 2024 9:40 am

HE REMAIN A CANADIAN POET – Bliss William Carman

Bliss William Carman, was the great-grandson of United Empire Loyalists, who fled to Nova Scotia after the American Revolution, settling in New Brunswick. Born April 15, 1861 (in Fredericton, New Brunswick) and educated at Collegiate Grammar School, Fredericton, Bliss William Carman entered the University of New Brunswick, where he excelled in classics. Enrolled in Oxford University, he studied physics, mathematics …

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NOVELS AND HISTORY – Languedoc-Roussillon themed novels

Many people loves to read. Our proposal call any web-traveler to sit into Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com to share written emotions, observing new creative horizons. Readers enjoy the arts and improve their imagination. Reading makes you smarter, it improves your memory to discover and create yourself. In his book (How to Read and Why), Harold Bloom says that we should read …

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LANGUEDOC/ROUSSILLON – By Hortense Hargreaves, from “Le Ciel est Bleu and other poems”

LANGUEDOC/ROUSSILLON February Hills. Through the snow mimosa stretches. Branch upon branch of glistening yellow Reaches towards ‘Canigou’, mountain of church-like splendour. So many dark days lived by all. Forgotten? Not yet. Cherry orchards. A paradise of fruit so red, so dark, so utterly devoid of shame, waiting for the right moment to please, nodding towards the pine trees, palm trees, …

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YOUR PLAYFUL LANGUEDOC/ROUSSILLON – Bédarieux/France, under the sky of Pierre August Cot, waiting for special courses

Vitruvian Man created by Leonardo da Vinci is a design, where a man in two overlapped positions (with arms and legs spread wide), is inscribed in a circle and a square. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html Throughout the centuries, that image has become a cultural icon. Perfectly proportioned, the symmetry of the human anatomy is correlated with the symmetry of the universe. That man …

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THE INVISIBLE IMPRESSIONISTIC BORDER – Pal Szinyei Merse: Pal Szinyei Merse: the man who paints over the borders

PAL SZINYEI MERSE 1/3 – Now, Chminianska Nová Ves is a village in the Prešov Region of eastern Slovakia, but historical records of the village was first mentioned in 1248. Pál Szinyei Merse (one of the most well-known rapresentativ of Hungarian impressionist painting), was born here into a Hungarian family. In 1864, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts …

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WHERE GREW A LOT OF CELEBRITIES – Sounds, souls and songs from Prešov

Through movement everything manifests. Life starts with sound, and sound creates movement. Inner Musical Landscapes is our musical proposal, that invites you to travel into your moods. Meeting Benches info@meetingbenches.com an inspiration to relax into your inner presence, through heedful listening of the musicians and lands where you’re traveling, also in Prešov. From this town come a lot of famous …

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