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Category Archive: General

Making Sense of Text: How good is Mojave’s linguistic support?

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Not sure which is the verb, or can’t identify its root form? Did Google Translate just dump some garbage? Mojave’s linguistic abilities are top notch – here are some facts and figures.

October 30, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Plutarch’s Lives in Paint: 20b Cicero

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The best orator of Rome, and a great poet and writer. He became caught up in the struggle between Caesar and Pompey, and eventually fell foul of Antony. Great paintings too.

October 29, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Ondine and her curse

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Invented by the alchemist Paracelsus, these water nymphs became popular in the 19th century with prose poems and a novella. Here they are in paint, by Turner, Waterhouse, Gauguin, Schiele, and others.

October 28, 2018 General, Life, Painting

River Gods and Nymphs

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A common convention in paintings of classical myth, the river god was a bearded old man with a put pouring forth water, often seen with a Naiad, his daughter.

October 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Naturalist Andersens: LA Ring 1882-1889

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His breakthrough came in 1884, with the first of a series of social realist paintings. It was a hard life in the Danish countryside, and death is never far away.

October 26, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Making more of Mojave’s language support: Nalaprop 1.0b6

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Big internal changes now show different scripts, languages, parts of speech – all quickly accessible through a menu. For anyone interested in language(s).

October 26, 2018 General, Language, Macs, Technology

The Naturalist Andersens: HA Brendekilde 1883-1889

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Brought up in a poor country family, he trained as a sculptor first, then switched to painting. A selection of his early social realist works, comparable with those of Jules Bastien-Lepage.

October 25, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Jerusalem Delivered: 6 Erminia and the Shepherds

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The seductive sorceress Armida is quietly wreaking havoc among the crusaders besieging Jerusalem. Then Erminia leaves the city, in search of her love, the wounded warrior Tancred.

October 24, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Radical Views: Egon Schiele 4, 1915-16

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More figurative works from 1915, in which he continued to push boundaries, and one brilliant landscape from the following year.

October 23, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Plutarch’s Lives in Paint: 20a Demosthenes

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One of the great orators of Greece, he fled into exile when found guilty of accepting a bribe, and later took poison before he could be arrested. Includes an unusual painting by Turner.

October 22, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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