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Sun Moon
OMG! July starts out with a big bang. There will be all kinds of planets squaring off, and Uranus will be at retrograde station. And… the first lunar eclipse will be only a few days away. Try to avoid arguments at all costs, and be prepared for anything.
On Wednesday, July 1st, the sky may [...]
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Surnames of Objects
In still other examples of surname adoption, surnames were taken from inanimate objects thought or believed to have unique properties or super-natural characteristics. Science, being what it was during the sixteenth century, still had a long way to go in explaining the properties of most elements. Thus superstitions and pagan beliefs sometimes [...]
Ashtray Blue
Beauty is in the Eye of The….potholder
Art is a strange thing.
It manifests itself in many ways- music, sculpture, dance, written word, spoken word (or unspoken word, if you happen to be a mime) and I have often wondered why people like certain things and others don’t. It’s all a matter of personal taste, but [...]
Old Delft
Pieter de Hooch – Dutch Interior Painter
De Hooch was born in Rotterdam. His father was a bricklayer and his mother was a midwife. He had five brothers and sisters. Not much is known about his early life and large parts of his career are unrecorded.
It is not known how, or why De Hooch decided [...]
