George Richards
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George Richards
@gergis
Director of @CommunityJameel.
Cairo, Egypt เข้าร่วม Ocak 2009
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Did you know that the oldest recorded poem in English is about Good Friday?
This is The Dream of the Rood - a poem where the cross of Christ talks to the poet about the crucifixion - read in Old English by Dr Alexandra Zhirnova, at @StPaulsLondon.
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congratulations to playrise - a new charity designing and deploying modular, collapsible playgrounds for children living in disaster-relief sites - that launched last week at @MuseumoftheHome and is founded by my old friend hikaru nissanke with alex and ariana meininger




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from the citation: “undeterred, severely wounded by bullets and grenade splinters and bespattered with blood, this sepoy, with superhuman courage and determination, crawled up […] then threw a grenade into the position, killing the enemy gunner and two other men”
𖤓@Vigraharaja
Bhandari Ram with his father after he was awarded the Victoria Cross New Delhi, 1945
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بيان مشترك من البطريركية اللاتينية في القدس وحراسة الأراضي المقدسة.
Joint Press Release: The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land.
lpj.org/en/news/joint-…

possibly my favourite ravilious painting: masterful depiction of the icy fjord; half-sunken ship embodying the fiasco of the norwegian campaign; yet there is a hopefulness. heroes of telemark vibes.
Ravilious@Ravilious1942
Norway, by Eric Ravilious, 1940. Ravilious travelled to Norway with the Royal Navy as an official war artist during the ill-fated operations there in April 1940. Original artwork in the collection of @LaingArtGallery in Newcastle.
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vides ut alta stet nive candidum
soracte, nec iam sustineant onus
silvae laborantes, geluque
flumina constiterint acuto
see how soracte stands deep with glimmering snow, and how the laboring woods no longer bend beneath their burden, and the streams are halted by the sharp frost

Vintage Maps@vintagemapstore
Crete Sunrise and Sunset
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