题目Hippos(河马)have always attracted people's interest.Modern hippos in Walt Disney movies can dance lightly.A stone hippo in a 13th-century church in France has wings.And in ancient Egyptian fairy tales,the hippo was a goddess that guided the dead to the afterworld.Desp...
(3) Perhaps the epitome of mythology and its use as a tool to pass on cultural values can be found in Aesop’s Fables, told and retold during the era of the Greek Empire. Aesop, a slave who won the favor of the court through his imaginative and descriptive tales,...
In the middle of it was a huge fountain, depicting in stone several of the past kings: Linku’s grandfather, his great grandfather, and his great-great grandfather. He was the founder of the kingdom, the first to rule the great land of Masai Mara. Linku and N’Daku sat upon the ed...
Curry is a townland in the hinterland of Tubbercurry, so he frequently said he was from Tubbercurry as it was the nearest big town to where he was from, and he considered it his hometown. My Grandfather had to leave school at the age of 14, as his father told him that the family...
That film Lee, years in the making, was finally released in UK cinemas this weekend. These are my thoughts on the film and Lee Miller’s background and wider history –Jeremy Miles Elizabeth ‘Lee’ Miller was a complicated and troubled woman who lived an extraordinary life, careering with...
Also of note was how the film featured only one piece of promotional material before its release in its native Japan in the form of a single poster. That’s right, The Boy and the Heron had no trailers, commercials or merchandise until after it was released. It’s hard to think of ...
I also can’t help wonder at how many ideas were rejected before the final one was approved, and if they felt the spirit while decorating the mall. Or were they going through the motion? It’s a struggle to be completely merry when you’re cresting the wave of cherophobia, but ...
On the plus side, I had an interesting trip or two; on the minus, I suffered through a prolonged & rather aggravating home construction project, followed by the angst & dislocation of three (!!!) hurricanes in little over a year (admittedly, one of these was mostly a bad rain storm ...
I don’t think things really have particularly changed in terms of the usage of situations. The pandemic, be it manufactured in the laboratory or not, I tend to believe it was, is merely an extension of what we saw in the 20th century with two world wars, it’s an extension of what...
“When I was playing with theE Street Bandin 2014, we were in Perth, Australia, the home ofBon Scott, and I wanted to pay my respects at his grave,” Morello toldGuitar Worldin a recent interview. “So I’m wandering around this Perth-ian graveyard at, like, 11:30 at night, and ...