Art and Architecture, mainly

François Marie Arouet (1694-1778) was the son of a treasury official.

Although I assumed my post-WW2 generation invented hopscotch, that seems highly unlikely.

Australia’s favourite and most significant art award opened in Shepparton Art Museum for a Victorian showing of the annual Archibald Prize.

The HandleBar Adelaide uses vehicles devised by brothers Henk and Zwier Van Laar in Amsterdam in the 1990s.

The C17th fur trade became a major commercial growth in Nth America, due to Europe’s demand for beaver hats.

The original house, now called The Cedars in Hansdorf, was built in the late 1870s by Alfred Wheelwright, then he sold the property to a North Adelaide gent and onto other moneyed families.

The female scholar behind Iraq's independence The Librarians Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was the granddaughter of British nobility and the daughter of an monied industrialist.

Scheveningen beach Netherlands, Facebook The Dutch connection to Bondi is deeply rooted, generally featuring Dutch-speakers, Dutch music and traditional foods eg pea soup, rookworst.

Toledo, capital city of Old Castile, started with the Romans.

During our first three years of marriage, while working and travelling around Europe, spouse and I lived in Youth Hostels or slept in the boot of our car.

Saudi authorities beheaded a Pakistani in Feb 2014 for smuggling drugs.

Jacques Goudstikker's gallery, 1927-40 Amsterdam.

entertainment facilities on Eastbourne Pier Like other coastal towns, Eastbourne began to grow rapidly as the medicinal and leisure benefits of sea air and sea bathing became well known.

facade of Joanine Library, University of Coimbra established 1717 Wiki One of the primary functions of libraries was to protect books from the physical effects of climate, theft, vandalism, and bugs.

I’ve cited Kat Lay’s “What effect will Donald Trump’s childhood vaccine recommendations have in the US and beyond?”

I can remember nearly every novel set by English teachers in high school (1960-65) .

Kroyer, Hip, Hip, Hurrah!

Duke and Duchess of York opened Parliament House May 1927.

Built in 1892-4, this Romanesque Revival project was designed by architect Theodore Link for the Terminal Railroad Association of St Louis Mo.

In his essay Civilisation & its Discontents 1929, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) had analysed the aggressive cruelty that changed men into savages.

London-born Eric Ravilious (1903-42) spent his early years in Eastbourne E.

Titus Salt (1803-76) was born near Leeds, educated in Wakefield and served an apprenticeship with a wool-stapler in Wakefield.

Born Nigel Neill in 1947 in Omagh, Nth Ireland to an English mother and a New Zealand father serving in the British army.

Examine the legacy of the islands’ knitting industry.

Shirtwaist designs, The Modern Priscilla Needlework Magazine, 1906 5 Minute History Russians Max Blanck and Isaac Harris immigrated to the U.S in the early 1890s and, like hundreds of thousands of other impoverished Jewish immigrants, they began working in

20th explorers on their way to Antarctica, including Ernest Shackleton, often visited NZ.

Portrait of a Young Woman, 1915 Wiki Pastry Cook of Cagnes, 1922 The Guardian Grotesque self portrait, c1923 Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris.

The theft discussed here was the latest in a series of robberies targeting major European museums, soon after a series of other high-profile heists.

A 2023 survey by Travel + Leisure invited readers to vote on the world’s most beautiful cities.

I have travelled the vast widths of Australia and Canada by very comfortable trains, and long parts of France and India by comfortable trains.