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Gentle Giant
Formed at the dawn of the progressive rock era, Gentle Giant seemed poised for a time in the mid-’70s to break out of their cult-band status, but they somehow never made the jump. Somewhat closer in spirit to Yes and King Crimson than to Emerson, Lake & Palmer or the Nice, their unique sound melded…
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Homo ludens erectus sapiens
to write, to compose,to tell a story,while hungry in being,the individual within the self, and amongst masses– passed, current, envisioned –insignificance is not truly a word
Architecture, Baltimore, beauty, Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Books, Cite de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Dublin, George Peabody Library, Hachioji Library at Rama Art University, libraries, Madrid, Mafra, Mafra Palace Library, Mexico, Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Monastery of St. Gall, Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York Academy of Medicine, New York Public Library, Old Library, Paris, Prag, Rio de Janeiro, Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Sant Gallen, Schwarzman Building, social, Strahov Monastery, Tokyo, Trinity College
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William S. Burroughs *II 5 1914 / The Life You Give
The elder statesman of literature’s Beat Generation — and, by extension, of the American underground culture — few figures outside of the musical sphere exerted a greater influence over rock & roll than novelist William S. Burroughs. A provocative, controversial figure famed for his unique cut-up prose aesthetic, Burroughs lived the rock lifestyle years before…
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Rosa Parks *II 4 1913 — The Life You Give
Rosa Parks, born Rosa Louise McCauley, on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.A., is the civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus precipitated the 1955–56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which became the spark that ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. Born to parents James…
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Felix Mendelssohn *II 3 1809 — The Life You Give
Felix Mendelssohn, born Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, on February 3 1809, in Hamburg, Germany, is, as composer, pianist, musical conductor, and teacher, one of the most-celebrated figures of the early Romantic period. In his music Mendelssohn largely observed Classical models and practices while initiating key aspects of Romanticism—the artistic movement that exalted feeling and the…
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