The final story in Book 5 tells of the spread of grain cultivation through Europe, and attempted murder.
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She wasn’t a late developer at all: for over ten years her work was shunned. Then in 1924, this started to change, as did her painting.
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Known best for his watercolours of his wife and family in their ideal and idyllic Swedish home, his work is far richer and more varied.
Marie’s plan to bring peace to Europe is implemented in double royal weddings. The paintings say it brought a new age to France, but history says otherwise.
An introduction to some of the history and panegyric behind Rubens’ Marie de’ Medici Cycle, in the Louvre.
Unicode is wonderful, a foundation for culture, but flawed. With characters that are visually indistinguishable having different encodings, it is rotting our filenames, URLs, and strings.
The story of how the nymph Arethusa escapes pursuit by a river god, thanks to the divine intervention of Diana.
Evolution from realism to the more painterly. Then in the late 1890s, city landscapes in which the people are the landscape. Remarkable paintings seen in detail.
Making sure that macOS doesn’t mangle source code behind your back, and a simple solution to getting notes exported in the right order.
The Eclectic Light Company 