The Jaffa Orange became the symbol of the Palestinian’s land and a symbol of national identity inliterature and art. Palestinian novelist,Ghassan Kanafani, used oranges to symbolise loss in his 1958 short story about the Nakba, calledThe Land of Sad Oranges. ...
Stan Dobson was a British arachnologist from Manchester, who contributed to spider records across Northern England and was an Honorary Member of theBritishArachnologicalSociety(BAS). Dobson’s spider collection, field notebooks and illustrations are housed in the Entomology Department at MM. Most of ...
Futuresonicis one of the most stellar event’s on Manchester’s musical calender. Not only does it symbolise (to me) the beginning of the summer festival season but it’s one of the most musically challenging and varied events of the year. Unlike so many other festivals it doesn’t concen...
The plaque quotes him in Italian and Russian explaining how the two countries are ‘united by centuries-old ties’ and how this statue ‘symbolises both their mutual veneration of the saint and their constant aspiration for the consolidation of friendship and co-operation’. The Basilica is thu...
LITERATURE*** THE PRINCIPLES OF SUCCESS IN LITERATURE by George Henry Lewes This eBook was prepared by Roland Cheney. In the development of the great series of animal organisms, the Nervous System assumes more and more of an imperial character. The rank
Above the garden is a banner with a poem by Carol Ann Duffy called “A Rare Bee” This is more significant than it first appears. The banner has been coated with a new product branded PURETi, which is a harmless substrate made of Titanium Nitrate. This substrate uses light to activate th...
Taking place at The Foundry, artist Paolo Troilo will be unveiling his latest works. The ‘hyper-realist’ paintings were made entirely using Troilo’s fingers, meant to symbolise nature and innovation. Having showed his work in locations such as New York, Rome and London, the exhibition is...
But we’re also a poem of theirs. You can’t despise your creators, or you’ve forgotten your roots. An essential necessity, whose only counterpart in language is a rule. What I’m saying is that humans can only think and communicate in language, and that’s their weakness. Then wh...
without noticing.Do you think this was an important factor in the success of the novel?Yes, I do. It's what I found so particularly clever about the way the novel was written. As the supernatural events occurred you searched for an explanation, and the most likely one seemed to be that...