Queen Elizabeth II loved pearls, but she might have loved brooches even more. The late monarch had a massive collection, with estimates putting the grand total at 98. They were expensive, too — one of her most famous was assumed to be worth over £9 million. Queen Elizabeth wore a pi...
my trust in the people whom I have known better than almost anybody else in my life, I would say that my sore came from contact with a particular Dreaming, from a particular ancestral site—which is actually not ancestral because it is alive. But this belief—or stating this belief as ...
I tried a bunch of different metaphors, including the two above. In the second version, I kept going back and forth between skyful and mouthful. Which version of the poem do you prefer? Which word–skyful or mouthful? I’m happy to be back this week. I’ve missed celebrating Poetry F...
But when he was the one inflicting pain, the difference between pain and pleasure became obscured in a way that turned them into two sides of a single coin: sensations different in quality but equal in result, equally intense, one stimulus as powerfully able as the next to arouse me. Sinc...
tone for the poem. The word "mere" suggests that love is simple and uncomplicated, but the word "beautiful" implies that it is also powerful and transformative. The speaker is acknowledging that love is not a complex emotion, but it is still something that is worth celebrating and cherishing...
Made from almost 8 pounds of gold and some 6,426 diamonds, a new coin honoring the life ofQueen Elizabeth IImay be “among the most valuable coins of all time.” In fact, the creator of this one-off luxury object has valued it at “around $23 million.” ...
What to know: If all goes as planned and Prince George becomes King following the reigns of his grandfather Prince Charles and his father Prince William, George – now second in line – will be the 43rd monarch since William the Conqueror. But for now, he’s still brushing up on his ...
Some entries not only compared Christ's sacrifice with that of white abolitionist martyrs, but identified them or nearly replaced the first with the second. "The Maiden's Harvest" for the 1845 Liberty Bell, by Maria White of Massachusetts, who married James Russell Lowell in 1844, is a ...