Monthly Archives: February 2012

Weekly Photo: Indulge

Thinking about this indulgement, many ideas came to my mind, I thought of ice cream, and cake, and chocolates, and fast food, and shopping and fun. So that, I have here the perfect photo that has all of these things … Continue reading

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Jane Austen words for troubled souls

For many years Patrice Hannon has spent her time teaching her students about the works of Jane Austen. After a while, Hannon noticed how much some students related to Austen’s characters and how they found comfort on the advice given … Continue reading

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People behind masks

“To understand other cultures we must experience them”, says Trish Nicholson, author of the ebook Masks of the Moryons So, after spending some time in the Philippines, Trish wrote this book to take the readers into Mogpog, a little town … Continue reading

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Weekly Photo: Down

For this week, I’ve chosen a wonderful sunny view of the ocean taken from a mountain. Have a nice weekend! Twitter @travelingbook

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Weekly Photo: Regret

How much sorrow it’s expressed by this sculpture that shows the pain and regrets of a tormented soul that desperately prays for its troubles to be ended. Twitter @travelingbook

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The love of a king: Letters from Henry to Anne

First discovered in the Vatican library, a compilation of 18 letters written by the English King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn was published “in Oxford in 1720 by Hearne, in a volume entitled Roberti de Avesbury Historia de mirabilibus gestis … Continue reading

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Shapes

When I saw this scene I immediately knew I wanted to keep it on a photo because of the nice way all the lines, shadows and shapes of the buildings and the streets converge, making of it a nice urban … Continue reading

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Dreams and memories, the instruments of time-traveling

A passionate reader, Herbert George Wells, better known as H.G. Wells, published in 1895 his novel The Time Machine, a story in which the adventures of the Time Traveler are revealed to a group of men of science. As the … Continue reading

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