I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 181. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Dry […]
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Two paintings by van Gogh, and others show open fires and stoves heating homes and other places up to 1930.
Paintings of open fires and stoves from 1565 to 1884 show how we lived through the winter before central heating.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Dry for ships, […]
Weaving turned yarn into fabric ready to make into garments. Associations include industry, passing time, fidelity, and the myth of Arachne.
Spinning natural fibres like wool into yarn was “women’s work” and had several connotations, here explored in paintings, and the origin of the word ‘spinster’.
Two artists painted panoramas full of miniature stories, which assembled into broad summaries of contemporary society: Frith and Ford Madox Brown.
He didn’t start painting in Impressionist style until about 1870, and a decade later was migrating towards what became Post-Impressionism.
A merchant has a wife and identical twin sons, with identical twin servants. They are separated by a shipwreck. Years later, chaos ensues.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 180. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Brisk […]
