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Shakespeare

**William Shakespeare** (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. They also continue to be studied and reinterpreted.

Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.

Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best work produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them *Hamlet*, *Romeo and Juliet*, *Othello*, *King Lear*, and *Macbeth*, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights.

Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy in his lifetime. However, in 1623, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, John Heminges and Henry Condell, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that included all but two of his plays. The volume was prefaced with a poem by Ben Jonson, in which Jonson presciently hailed Shakespeare in a now-famous quote as "not of an age, but for all time".

References:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William\_Shakespeare
Repertory Theatre

A **repertory theatre** (also called **repertory,** **rep** or **stock**) can be a Western theatre or opera production in which a resident company presents works from a specified repertoire, usually in alternation or rotation. In British English a similar term, "weekly rep", denotes a movement started in the early 1900s that focused on shorter runs of a single new work, rather than having several plays ready to perform at any given time.

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repertory\_theatre
Denzel Washington

**Denzel Hayes Washington Jr.** (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, director, and producer. He has been described as an actor who reconfigured "the concept of classic movie stardom", associating with characters defined by their grace, dignity, humanity, and inner strength. He has received seventeen NAACP Image Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, one Tony Award, and two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for playing Union Army soldier Private Trip in the historical drama film *Glory* (1989), and Best Actor for his role as corrupt detective Alonzo Harris in the crime thriller *Training Day* (2001). In 2020, The New York Times ranked him as the greatest actor of the 21st century.

Washington has received much critical acclaim for his film work since the 1980s, including his portrayals of real-life figures such as South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in *Cry Freedom* (1987), Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X in *Malcolm X* (1992), boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter in *The Hurricane* (1999), football coach Herman Boone in *Remember the Titans* (2000), poet and educator Melvin B. Tolson in *The Great Debaters* (2007), and drug kingpin Frank Lucas in *American Gangster* (2007). He has been a featured actor in films produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and has been a frequent collaborator of directors Spike Lee, Antoine Fuqua, and Tony Scott. In 2016, he received the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards.

In 2002, Washington made his directorial debut with the biographical film *Antwone Fisher*. His second directorial effort was *The Great Debaters* (2007). His third film, *Fences* (2016), in which he also starred, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

References:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denzel\_Washington

-https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000243/
Black Madonna

The term **Black Madonna** or **Black Virgin** refers to statues or paintings of the Blessed Virgin Mary in which she, and often the infant Jesus, are depicted with black or dark skin. The Black Madonna can be generally found in Catholic and Orthodox countries.

The statues or paintings are mostly wooden but occasionally stone, often painted and up to 75 cm (30 in) tall. They fall into two main groups: free-standing upright figures or seated figures on a throne. The pictures are usually icons which are Byzantine in style, often made in 13th- or 14th-century Italy. There are about 400–500 Black Madonnas in Europe, depending on how they are classified. There are at least 180 *Vierges Noires* in France, and there are hundreds of non-medieval copies as well. Some are in museums, but most are in churches or shrines and are venerated by devotees. A few are associated with miracles and attract substantial numbers of pilgrims.

Black Madonnas come in different forms, and the speculations behind the reason for the dark skin of each individual piece vary greatly and are not without controversy. Though some Madonnas were originally black or brown when they were made, others have simply turned darker due to factors like aging or candle smoke.[1] Another cause for the dark-skinned depiction is due to pre-Christian deities being re-envisioned as the Madonna and child.

## Links:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black\_Madonna

-https://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-black-madonna.htm
Charles Dellschau

**Charles August Albert Dellschau** (4 June 1830 Brandenburg, Prussia – 20 April 1923 Houston, Texas) was one of America's earliest known visionary artists,[1] who created drawings, collages and watercolors of airplanes and airships and bound them in 12 known large scrapbooks that were discovered decades after his death.

### References:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles\_Dellschau
American burlesque

**American burlesque** is a genre of variety show. Derived from elements of Victorian burlesque, music hall and minstrel shows, burlesque shows in America became popular in the late 1860s and slowly evolved to feature ribald comedy and female nudity. By the early 1930s the striptease element of burlesque overshadowed the comedy and subjected burlesque to extensive local legislation. Burlesque gradually lost popularity beginning in the 1940s. A number of producers sought to capitalize on nostalgia for the entertainment by attempting to recreate the spirit of burlesque in Hollywood films from the 1930s to the 1960s. There has been a resurgence of interest in this format since the 1990s.

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American\_burlesque
The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell

***The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell*** is an American web television sitcom created by and starring Christine McConnell. It premiered on Netflix on October 12, 2018. The show consists of six episodes and was produced by Netflix, Wilshire Studios and The Henson Alternative, an arm of The Jim Henson Company.[1] The series was not renewed for a second season, however, Christine has continued the production herself on her Patreon platform.

-https://www.youtube.com/user/christinehevers
John Ruskin

**John Ruskin** (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.

His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. He wrote essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, and architectural structures and ornamentation.

The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art gave way in time to plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society.

He was hugely influential in the latter half of the 19th century and up to the First World War. After a period of relative decline, his reputation has steadily improved since the 1960s with the publication of numerous academic studies of his work. Today, his ideas and concerns are widely recognised as having anticipated interest in environmentalism, sustainability and craft.

Ruskin first came to widespread attention with the first volume of *Modern Painters* (1843), an extended essay in defence of the work of J. M. W. Turner in which he argued that the principal role of the artist is "truth to nature". From the 1850s, he championed the Pre-Raphaelites, who were influenced by his ideas. His work increasingly focused on social and political issues. *Unto This Last* (1860, 1862) marked the shift in emphasis. In 1869, Ruskin became the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford, where he established the Ruskin School of Drawing. In 1871, he began his monthly "letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain", published under the title *Fors Clavigera* (1871–1884). In the course of this complex and deeply personal work, he developed the principles underlying his ideal society. As a result, he founded the Guild of St George, an organisation that endures today.

### References:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John\_Ruskin
The Old Vic

**The Old Vic** is a 1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre just south-east of Waterloo station on the corner of the Cut and Waterloo Road in Lambeth, London, England. Established in 1818 as the **Royal Coburg Theatre**, and renamed in 1833 the **Royal Victoria Theatre**. In 1871 it was rebuilt and reopened as the **Royal Victoria Palace**. It was taken over by Emma Cons in 1880 and formally named the **Royal Victoria Hall**, although by that time it was already known as the "Old Vic". In 1898, a niece of Cons, Lilian Baylis, assumed management and began a series of Shakespeare productions in 1914. The building was damaged in 1940 during air raids and it became a Grade II\* listed building in 1951 after it reopened.

The Old Vic is the crucible of many of the performing arts companies and theatres in London today. It was the name of a repertory company that was based at the theatre and formed (along with the Chichester Festival Theatre) the core of the National Theatre of Great Britain on its formation in 1963, under Laurence Olivier. The National Theatre remained at the Old Vic until new premises were constructed on the South Bank, opening in 1976. The Old Vic then became the home of Prospect Theatre Company, at that time a highly successful touring company which staged such acclaimed productions as Derek Jacobi's *Hamlet*. However, with the withdrawal of funding for the company by the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1980 for breaching its touring obligations, Prospect disbanded in 1981. The theatre underwent complete refurbishment in 1985. In 2003, Kevin Spacey was appointed artistic director, which received considerable media attention. Spacey served as artistic director until 2015; two years after he stepped down, he was accused of sexually harassing and assaulting several students. In 2015, Matthew Warchus succeeded Spacey as artistic director.

### References:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Old\_Vic
Jabberwocky

"**Jabberwocky**" is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel *Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There*, the sequel to *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland* (1865). The book tells of Alice's adventures within the back-to-front world of Looking-Glass Land.

In an early scene in which she first encounters the chess piece characters White King and White Queen, Alice finds a book written in a seemingly unintelligible language. Realizing that she is travelling through an inverted world, she recognises that the verses on the pages are written in mirror-writing. She holds a mirror to one of the poems and reads the reflected verse of "Jabberwocky". She finds the nonsense verse as puzzling as the odd land she has passed into, later revealed as a dreamscape.

"Jabberwocky" is considered one of the greatest nonsense poems written in English. Its playful, whimsical language has given English nonsense words and neologisms such as "galumphing" and "chortle".

### References:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky
Cristina Scabbia

**Cristina Adriana Chiara Scabbia** (Italian pronunciation: [krisˈtiːna adriˈaːna ˈkjaːra ˈskabbja]; born 6 June 1972) is an Italian singer and lyricist, best known as one of the two vocalists in the Italian gothic metal band Lacuna Coil.[1] She has a soprano type of voice with a beautiful deep and ethereal, atmospheric colour of voice and has a vocal range of three octaves. She used to write an advice column in the popular rock magazine *Revolver*, alongside musician Vinnie Paul. Scabbia is featured in a Megadeth song "À Tout le Monde (Set Me Free)". She also featured on "The Theory of Everything", an album from Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Ayreon project, with which she is cast as the Mother. She is also the featured artist in the Apocalyptica song "S.O.S. (Anything But Love)" and another version of the Alter Bridge song "Watch Over You". [2] Her highest note ever hit is claimed to be an A7.[3] Scabbia performed a duet with the Italian ex-singer of Linea 77 Emiliano Audisio on the track "Beautiful Lie" to be part of the soundtrack for the 2013 Italian film *Passione sinistra*.

In 1991, Scabbia began singing professionally as a touring musician for other bands and providing backing vocals.[6] Later that year, she met the male vocalist Andrea Ferro and bass player Marco Coti Zelati of Lacuna Coil in Milan's Midnight club and started dating Marco after.[7][8] At the time, the band was named Ethereal, and Scabbia was asked to do vocals by her then boyfriend and bass player, Marco. She was employed to record vocals on the demo tapes, and invited to be a permanent member.[9] After several

changes in the band's line-up, the members were reduced to Ferro, Coti, Zelati and Scabbia. The members recorded a two track demo in May 1996, and were soon signed by the German branch of Century Media, eventually joining with the American branch of the label. Once signed, the band changed their name to Lacuna Coil after learning that a Greek band signed to Century Media had already claimed the name Ethereal. Adding new band members, Lacuna Coil began, releasing their first album in 1999.

## Links:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina\_Scabbia

-https://www.facebook.com/cristinascabbiaofficial/

-https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2977853/
William Faulkner

**William Cuthbert Faulkner** (/ˈfɔːknər/;[1][2] September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essays, and a play. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life.[3]

Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers in American literature generally and Southern literature specifically. Though his work was published as early as 1919 and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner's renown reached its peak upon the publication of Malcolm Cowley's *The Portable Faulkner* and his 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the only Mississippi-born Nobel winner. Two of his works, *A Fable* (1954) and his last novel *The Reivers* (1962), each won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[4] In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel *The Sound and the Fury* sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were *As I Lay Dying* (1930) and *Light in August* (1932). *Absalom, Absalom!* (1936) appears on similar lists.

## Links:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William\_Faulkner

-https://news.virginia.edu/content/exhibition-uncovers-many-faces-william-faulkner

-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuQIZ7V9C7U
Philadelphia Museum Of Art

The **Philadelphia Museum of Art** is an art museum originally chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.[2] The main museum building was completed in 1928[6] on Fairmount, a hill located at the northwest end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway at Eakins Oval.[1] The museum administers collections containing over 240,000 objects including major holdings of European, American and Asian origin.[3] The various classes of artwork include sculpture, paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, armor, and decorative arts.[3]

The Philadelphia Museum of Art administers several annexes including the Rodin Museum, also located on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building, which is located across the street just north of the main building.[7] The Perelman Building, which opened in 2007,[8] houses more than 150,000 prints, drawings and photographs, along with 30,000 costume and textile pieces, and over 1,000 modern and contemporary design objects including furniture, ceramics and glasswork.[9] The museum also administers the historic colonial-era houses of Mount Pleasant and Cedar Grove, both located in Fairmount Park.[10] The main museum building and its annexes are owned by the City of Philadelphia and administered by a registered nonprofit corporation.[7]

Several special exhibitions are held in the museum every year, including touring exhibitions arranged with other museums in the United States and abroad.[11][12] The attendance figure for the museum was 793,000 in 2017, which ranks it among the top one hundred most-visited art museums in the world.[4] The museum is also one of the largest art museums in the world based on gallery space.

## References:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia\_Museum\_of\_Art
Christine McConnell

Christine H. McConnell is famous for her creepy DIY creations. She taught herself photography and managed to make a profession of it. Meanwhile she schooled herself in other disciplines, such as baking and clothing design, all the while staging her own photo shoots of her creations. She developed a web presence for herself, largely based around her Instagram account. She has a reputation for her creepy aesthetic which owes much to her influences, some of which she lists as: Tim Burton, The Munsters, The Addams Family, and Tales from the Crypt, among others. Within a few years she began to attract the interest of numerous publishing and production companies. Many offers for reality TV shows were rejected before a producer pitched the idea of a collaboration with the Jim Henson Company. The resulting show 'The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell' found it's home on Netflix, and premiered in time for the Halloween season of 2018.

## References:

-https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7046695/bio?ref\_=nm\_ov\_bio\_sm

-https://nerdist.com/article/christine-mcconnell-moves-into-haunted-mansion/

-https://www.patreon.com/ChristineHMcConnell
Amy Marie Gaertner

Hey hey everyone, I'm Amymarie! I have a passion for dancing and music- they are some of the most important aspects of my life. I'm in love with all forms of creative expression and also a lover of art, fashion, traveling, cooking and pretty much anything that involves having fun. I come from a small town in Ohio but find myself bouncing around and traveling everywhere! I aim to inspire others to live their best life and spread good vibes along the way! Hope ya'll enjoy my videos.. as always, I cannot thank you enough for your support. I LOVE MY GOOD VIBE TRIBE! xo

-https://www.youtube.com/c/amymarieg/about

-https://www.instagram.com/amymarie/
Fair Use

**Fair use** is a doctrine in the law of the United States that permits limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright holder. Fair use is one of the limitations to copyright intended to balance the interests of copyright holders with the public interest in the wider distribution and use of creative works by allowing as a defense to copyright infringement claims certain limited uses that might otherwise be considered infringement.[1] Like "fair dealing" rights that exist in most countries with a British legal history, the fair use right is a general exception that applies to all different kinds of uses with all types of works and turns on a flexible proportionality test that examines the purpose of the use, the amount used, and the impact on the market of the original work. The innovation of the fair use right in US law is that it applies to a list of purposes that is preceded by the opening clause "such as." This has allowed courts to apply it to technologies never envisioned in the original statute including Internet search, the VCR, and the reverse engineering of software.

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair\_use
Alchemy

**Alchemy** (from Arabic: *al-kīmiyā*) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition practiced throughout Europe, Africa, China and throughout Asia, observable in Chinese text from around 73–49 BCE and Greco-Roman Egypt in the first few centuries CE.

Alchemists attempted to purify, mature, and perfect certain materials. Common aims were chrysopoeia, the transmutation of "base metals" (e.g., lead) into "noble metals" (particularly gold); the creation of an elixir of immortality; the creation of panaceas able to cure any disease; and the development of an alkahest, a universal solvent. The perfection of the human body and soul was thought to permit or result from the alchemical *magnum opus* and, in the Hellenistic and Western mystery tradition, the achievement of gnosis. In Europe, the creation of a philosopher's stone was variously connected with all of these projects.

In English, the term is often limited to descriptions of European alchemy, but similar practices existed in the Far East, the Indian subcontinent, and the Muslim world. In Europe, following the 12th-century Renaissance produced by the translation of Medieval Islamic works on science and the rediscovery of Aristotelian philosophy, alchemists played a significant role in early modern science (particularly chemistry and medicine). Islamic and European alchemists developed a structure of basic laboratory techniques, theory, terminology, and experimental method, some of which are still in use today. However, they continued antiquity's belief in four elements and guarded their work in secrecy including cyphers and cryptic symbolism. Their work was guided by Hermetic principles related to magic, mythology, and religion.

Modern discussions of alchemy are generally split into an examination of its exoteric practical applications and its esoteric spiritual aspects, despite criticisms by scholars such as Holmyard and von Franz that they should be understood as complementary. The former is pursued by historians of the physical sciences who examine the subject in terms of early chemistry, medicine, and charlatanism, and the philosophical and religious contexts in which these events occurred. The latter interests historians of esotericism, psychologists, and some philosophers and spiritualists. The subject has also made an ongoing impact on literature and the arts. Despite this split, which von Franz believes has existed since the Western traditions' origin in a mix of Greek philosophy that was mixed with Egyptian and Mesopotamian technology, numerous sources have stressed an integration of esoteric and exoteric approaches to alchemy as far back as Pseudo-Democritus's first-century AD *On Physical and Mystical Matters* (Greek: *Physika kai Mystika*).

Although alchemy is popularly associated with magic, historian Lawrence M. Principe argues that recent historical research has revealed that medieval and early modern alchemy embraced a much more diverse set of ideas, goals, techniques, and practices.
Clive Owen

**Clive Owen** (born 3 October 1964) is an English actor. He first gained recognition in the United Kingdom for playing the lead role in the ITV series *Chancer* from 1990 to 1991. He received critical acclaim for his work in the film *Close My Eyes* (1991) before earning international attention for his performance as a struggling writer in *Croupier* (1998). In 2005, he won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the drama *Closer* (2004).

Owen has played leading roles in films such as *Sin City* (2005), *Derailed* (2005), *Inside Man* (2006), *Children of Men* (2006), and *The International* (2009). In 2012, he earned his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his role in *Hemingway & Gellhorn*. He played Dr. John W. Thackery on the Cinemax medical drama series *The Knick*, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination.

## Links:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive\_Owen

-https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654110/
Civilisation (Series)

***Civilisation***—in full, ***Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark***—is a television documentary series written and presented by the art historian Kenneth Clark.

The thirteen programes in the series outline the history of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages. The series was produced by the BBC and aired in 1969 on BBC2. Then, and in later transmissions in Britain, the US and other countries it reached an unprecedented number of viewers for an art series. Clark's book of the same title, based on the series, was published in 1969. Its production standards were generally praised and set the pattern for subsequent television documentary series. The *New Yorker* magazine described it as revelatory for the general viewer. The BBC's DVD issue in 2005 has remained in the catalogues, and the 1969 book has never gone out of print.

## References:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilisation\_(TV\_series)
A Clockwork Orange

***A Clockwork Orange*** is a 1971 dystopian crime film written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name and stars Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Adrienne Corri, Miriam Karlin, Michael Tarn, James Marcus, Warren Clarke and Anthony Sharp.

*A Clockwork Orange* is set in a futuristic Britain and follows Alex, a young delinquent who commands his army of *droogs* (from the Russian word друг, "friend", "buddy") into committing rape and "ultra-violence". The film chronicles the horrific crime spree of his gang, his capture, and rehabilitation via an experimental and inhumane psychological conditioning technique. Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a fractured adolescent slang composed of Slavic (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang.

The film premiered in New York City on 19 December 1971 and was released in the United Kingdom on 13 January 1972. The film was met with polarised reviews from critics, and was also heavily controversial due to its depictions of graphic violence. It was later withdrawn from British cinemas at Kubrick's behest, and was also banned in several other countries. In the years following, the film underwent a critical re-evaluation and gained a cult following. It received several awards and nominations, including four nominations at the 44th Academy Awards.

The soundtrack to *A Clockwork Orange* features mostly classical music selections and Moog synthesizer compositions by Wendy Carlos. The artwork for the poster of *A Clockwork Orange* was created by Philip Castle with the layout by designer Bill Gold.

## References:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A\_Clockwork\_Orange\_(film)

-https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/
Garden of Eden

The **Garden of Eden** (Hebrew: גַּן־עֵדֶן – *gan-ʿḖḏen*), also called **Paradise**, is the biblical "garden of God" described in the Book of Genesis and the Book of Ezekiel.[2][3] Genesis 13:10 refers to the "garden of God",[4] and the "trees of the garden" are mentioned in Ezekiel 31.[5][5] The Book of Zechariah and the Book of Psalms also refer to trees and water, without explicitly mentioning Eden.[6]

The name derives from the Akkadian *edinnu*, from a Sumerian word *edin* meaning "plain" or "steppe", closely related to an Aramaic root word meaning "fruitful, well-watered".[3] Another interpretation associates the name with a Hebrew word for "pleasure"; thus the Douay-Rheims Bible in Genesis 2:8 has the wording "And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure", rather than "a garden in Eden". The Hebrew term is translated "pleasure" in Sarah's secret saying in Genesis 18:12.[7]

Like the Genesis flood narrative, the Genesis creation narrative and the account of the Tower of Babel, the story of Eden echoes the Mesopotamian myth of a king, as a primordial man, who is placed in a divine garden to guard the Tree of Life.[8] The Hebrew Bible depicts Adam and Eve as walking around the Garden of Eden naked, due to their innocence.[9]

The location of Eden is described in the Book of Genesis as the source of four tributaries. The Garden of Eden is considered to be mythological by most scholars.[10][11][12][13] Among those who consider it to have been real, there have been various suggestions for its location:[14] at the head of the Persian Gulf, in southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq) where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers run into the sea;[15] and in Armenia.

## Art:

The Garden of Eden motifs most frequently portrayed in illuminated manuscripts and paintings are the "Sleep of Adam" ("Creation of Eve"), the "Temptation of Eve" by the Serpent, the "Fall of Man" where Adam takes the fruit, and the "Expulsion". The idyll of "Naming Day in Eden" was less often depicted. Much of Milton's *Paradise Lost* occurs in the Garden of Eden. Michelangelo depicted a scene at the Garden of Eden in the Sistine Chapel ceiling. In *the Divine Comedy*, Dante places the Garden at the top of Mt. Purgatory. For many medieval writers, the image of the Garden of Eden also creates a location for human love and sexuality, often associated with the classic and medieval trope of the locus amoenus.[52] One of oldest depictions of Garden of Eden is made in Byzantine style in Ravenna, while the city was still under Byzantine control. A preserved blue mosaic is part of the mausoleum of Galla Placidia. Circular motifs represent flowers of the garden of Eden.

## Links:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden\_of\_Eden#Art
High-Art Versus Low-Art

A lasting conflict within the art world consists over the place and importance of works of art in relation to the overall amount of effort and exertion used to create them. Some individuals hold it that art of masterful skill alone is genuine art, while others take other equally extreme positions.

We can see this in just the last few decades with the veritable rise of modernist and post-modernist art, performance art and more.
William Blake

**William Blake** (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. What he called his prophetic works were said by 20th-century critic Northrop Frye to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language".[2] His visual artistry led 21st-century critic Jonathan Jones to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".[3] In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.[4] While he lived in London his entire life, except for three years spent in Felpham,[5] he produced a diverse and symbolically rich *œuvre*, which embraced the imagination as "the body of God"[6] or "human existence itself".[7]

Although Blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. His paintings and poetry have been characterised as part of the Romantic movement and as "Pre-Romantic".[8] A committed Christian who was hostile to the Church of England (indeed, to almost all forms of organised religion), Blake was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the French and American revolutions.[9] Though later he rejected many of these political beliefs, he

maintained an amiable relationship with the political activist Thomas Paine; he was also influenced by thinkers such as Emanuel Swedenborg.[10] Despite these known influences, the singularity of Blake's work makes him difficult to classify. The 19th-century scholar William Michael Rossetti characterised him as a "glorious luminary",[11] and "a man not forestalled by predecessors, nor to be classed with contemporaries, nor to be replaced by known or readily surmisable successors".

## References:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William\_Blake

-https://www.biography.com/writer/william-blake

-https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-blake
Ambrosia

In the ancient Greek myths, ***ambrosia*** (/æmˈbroʊʒə/, Ancient Greek: ἀμβροσία, "immortality") is the food or drink of the Greek gods,[1] often depicted as conferring longevity or immortality upon whoever consumed it.[2] It was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves and served by either Hebe or Ganymede at the heavenly feast.[3][4]

*Ambrosia* is sometimes depicted in ancient art as distributed by a nymph labeled with that name and a nurse of Dionysus.[5] In the myth of Lycurgus, the king attacked Ambrosia and Dionysus' entourage, causing the god to drive Lycurgus insane.

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosia
Ethos

**Ethos** (/ˈiːθɒs/ or US: /ˈiːθoʊs/) is a Greek word meaning "character" that is used to describe the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize a community, nation, or ideology. The Greeks also used this word to refer to the power of music to influence emotions, behaviors, and even morals.[1] Early Greek stories of Orpheus exhibit this idea in a compelling way. The word's use in rhetoric is closely based on the Greek terminology used by Aristotle in his concept of the three artistic proofs or modes of persuasion.
StoneBridge

**Sten Hallström**, also known by his stage name **StoneBridge**, is a Swedish DJ and record producer.[1]

## Biography:

StoneBridge won international renown with the remix of the 1993 hit "Show Me Love" with Robin S. Until then, he had been running the Swedish DJ/remix outfit SweMix, formed at the end of the 1980s.[2] He has released several 12" remixes, CDs, and has several singles, including "Put 'Em High", "Take Me Away" and "Freak On" from the debut album 'Can't Get Enough' 2005. Some of his singles featured the Swedish vocalist Therese. In 2006, he released a DJ mix album, *The Flavour The Vibe*, as well as started working on his follow-up album *Music Takes Me*, which was released in 2007. A follow-up to *The Flavour The Vibe Vol 2* was released in 2008, as well as a *Best of Stoney Boy Music* two one mixes for iTunes. A third artist album, 'The Morning After' was released 2010. In recent years StoneBridge has released several successful singles such as 'Be Kind' (with Crystal Waters 2014), 'You Can Have It All' (featuring Koko LaRoo 2015), 'Believe It' (featuring Koko LaRoo 2015), Turn It Down For What (featuring Seri 2017), #1 Billboard Club Chart singles 'If You Like It (featuring Elsa Li Jones 2016)', Put 'Em High 2016 (featuring Therese), Meet In The Middle (featuring Haley Joelle 2018).

Recent remixes include Ariana Grande 'No Tears Left To Cry', Enrique Iglesias featuring Pitbull 'Move To Miami', Pink 'Beautiful Trauma', Diana Ross classics 'Upside Down/I'm Coming Out' and 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough'. Classic remixes include "Me and My Imagination" by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, "Talkin' 2 Myself" by Ayumi Hamasaki, and "Gimme More" by Britney Spears. In 2008, StoneBridge remixed Ne-Yo's track "Closer", and the comeback single from New Kids on the Block, featuring Ne-Yo, entitled "Single". StoneBridge garnered a Grammy Award nomination for his remix of "Closer". In 2012 StoneBridge received a BMI Songwriter of the year award for his contribution to Jason Derulo 'Don't Wanna Go Home'. StoneBridge is also a resident at Sirius XM/BPM with his show StoneBridge #bpmMix every Saturday 11pm (PST) over North America. He also mixes his weekly StoneBridge HKJ podcast and runs his two record labels Stoney Boy Music and Dirty Harry Records.
Wuthering Heights (1978 serial)

**Wuthering Heights** is a 5-part miniseries broadcast from 24th September 1978. It is regarded as being one of the most faithful to the book since it contains the younger generation

## Cast

* Ken Hutchinson as Heathcliff
	+ Dale Tarry as Young Heathcliff
* Kay Adshead as Catherine Earnshaw
	+ Maria Swailes as Young Catherine
* Brian Wilde as Joseph
* Pat Heywood as Ellen Dean
* John Duttine as Hindley
	+ Mitchell Varnam as Young Hindley
* Maggie Wilkinson as Frances Earnshaw
* Dennis Burgess as Mr Linton
* Wendy Williams as Mrs Linton
* Richard Kay as Lockwood
* John Collin as Mr Earnshaw
* Patricia Healey as Mrs Earnshaw
* Judith Byfield as a Servant Girl
* John Golightly as Dr Kenneth
* David Robb as Edgar Linton
	+ Grant Bardsley as Young Edgar
* Paul Dawkins as Reverand Graham
* Caroline Langrishe as Isabella Linton
	+ Julia Stark as Young Isabella
* Norman Rutherford as Mr Green
* Barbara Keogh as Zillah
* Cathryn Harrison as Cathy Linton
* David Wilkinson as Hareton Earnshaw
	+ Elliot Moss and Simon Massey as Young Hareton
* Andrew Burleigh as Linton Heathcliff
* Kate David as Mary
* Barry Hart as Robert
* Charles Turner as the Sexton
* Richard Usher as a Small Boy
Creation Myth

A **creation myth** (or **cosmogonic myth**) is a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it. While in popular usage the term *myth* often refers to false or fanciful stories, members of cultures often ascribe varying degrees of truth to their creation myths. In the society in which it is told, a creation myth is usually regarded as conveying profound truths, metaphorically, symbolically and sometimes in a historical or literal sense.[7][8] They are commonly, although not always, considered cosmogonical myths—that is, they describe the ordering of the cosmos from a state of chaos or amorphousness.

Creation myths often share a number of features. They often are considered sacred accounts and can be found in nearly all known religious traditions.[10] They are all stories with a plot and characters who are either deities, human-like figures, or animals, who often speak and transform easily. They are often set in a dim and nonspecific past that historian of religion Mircea Eliade termed *in illo tempore* ('at that time').  Creation myths address questions deeply meaningful to the society that shares them, revealing their central worldview and the framework for the self-identity of the culture and individual in a universal context.

Creation myths develop in oral traditions and therefore typically have multiple versions;[3] found throughout human culture, they are the most common form of myth.

## Links:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation\_myth
Columbarium

A **columbarium** (/ˌkɒləmˈbɛəri.əm/;[1] pl. **columbaria**) is a structure for the respectful and usually public storage of funerary urns, holding cremated remains of the deceased.

The term can also mean the nesting boxes of pigeons. The term comes from the Latin "*columba*" (dove) and, originally, solely referred to compartmentalized housing for doves and pigeons called a dovecote.

### References:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbarium
Erotic Art

**Erotic art** is a broad field of the visual arts including any artistic work intended to evoke erotic arousal, usually depicting human nudity and/or sexual activity. It has included works in almost any visual medium, including drawings, engravings, films, paintings, photographs, and sculptures. Some of the earliest known works of art include erotic themes, which have recurred with varying prominence in different societies throughout history. However it has also been widely considered taboo, with either social norms or laws restricting its creation, distribution, and possession, particularly when it is deemed to be "pornographic", "immoral", or "obscene".

## Definition:

The definition of erotic art is somewhat subjective, and dependent on context, since perceptions of both what is *erotic* and what is *art* vary. For example, a sculpture of a phallus in some cultures may be considered a traditional symbol of potency rather than overtly erotic. Material that is produced to illustrate sex education may be perceived by others as inappropriately erotic. *The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy* defines erotic art as "art that is made with the intention to stimulate its target audience sexually, and that succeeds to some extent in doing so".[1]

A distinction is often made between erotic art and pornography, which also depicts scenes of sexual activity and is intended to evoke erotic arousal, but is not usually considered fine art. Some draw a distinction based on the work's intent and message: erotic art would be works intended for purposes in addition to arousal, which could be appreciated as art by someone uninterested in their erotic content. US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously wrote in 1964 that the distinction was intuitive, saying about hard-core pornography which would not be legally protected as erotic art, "I know it when I see it".[2]

Others, including philosophers Matthew Kieran[3] and Hans Maes

## Links:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic\_art
Flag Of Las Vegas

The **flag of Las Vegas**, consists of blue field with a diagonal gray stripe running from the top of the hoist to the bottom of the fly. Las Vegas' city seal, adopted in 1966, is located in the canton (i.e. upper left) breaking the stripe.

The dominant color of the flag is royal blue, which symbolizes the blue skies of the state of Nevada. The gray stripe alludes to Nevada's nickname as "The Silver State". On the same day as the adoption of the flag, these two colors were adopted as the official colors of Las Vegas. The seal shows three tall buildings- the middle is the tallest, the left is the shortest, and the right is midway the height between the two. Each of these buildings have yellow marquees, going downward from left to right. The buildings and marquees symbolize tourism, a major industry for the city. To the left of the buildings is the Hoover Dam, also in white. The dam is a major landmark in the Clark County area. At the base of the dam is the Colorado River, which runs to about the middle of the seal. At the very left is a small portion of a brown cliff, symbolizing the mountainous terrain. To the right of the three buildings is a silhouette of Sunrise Mountain, further conveying the mountains of Las Vegas and the surrounding area. In front of the mountain is a green four-limbed Joshua tree, a reference to the desert landscape of the area. The sun, in yellow with orange rays, rises behind the mountains and is about the height of the right-most building. The sky above this is a lighter shade of blue than the royal blue. A black jet and black contrail above the scene alludes to the importance of air traffic, both civilian and military, in the region. The outer ring of the seal has the words "City Of Las Vegas" on the top portion and "Nevada" on the bottom portion, both in silver lettering.

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag\_of\_Las\_Vegas
Gates Of Hell

***The Gates of Hell*** (French: ***La Porte de l'Enfer***) is a monumental sculptural group work by French artist Auguste Rodin that depicts a scene from the *Inferno*, the first section of Dante Alighieri's *Divine Comedy*. It stands at 6 metres high, 4 metres wide and 1 metre deep (19.7×13.1×3.3 ft) and contains 180 figures. The figures range from 15 centimetres (6 in) high up to more than one metre (3 ft). Several of the figures were also cast independently by Rodin.

## References:

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Gates\_of\_Hell
The Force

**The Force** was an energy field created by all life that connected everything in the universe, and was known by a variety of names throughout galactic history. It was called **the Ashla** by Lasats, **It** by the dianoga Omi, the **Life Current** by Mustafarians, the **Tide** by the Lew'elans, the **Sight** by the Chiss, the **Life Wind** by the Zeffo, the **Great Presence** by the people of the Chaos, and the **Luminous Mist** by the Mist-Weavers. The Force was created by life, and therefore, resided in all lifeforms. It was especially powerful in a select group of individuals who were born with a high concentration of midi-chlorians—microscopic, intelligent lifeforms that formed a symbiotic relationship with and communicated the will of the Force to their host—in their blood. These people were deemed Force-sensitive, and were capable of consciously sensing the Force. With this conscious sense of the Force came the ability to harness it, accessing various Force powers. Unlike organic beings, droids and other artificial constructs existed outside of the Force. As such, they possessed no connection to the energy field that was created and sustained by life. Apart from its scientific aspect, the Force was the basis of various religious organizations such as the Church of the Force, the Guardians of the Whills, and most notably the Jedi Order and the Sith Order. In addition, the Lasats believed that the Force was the "spirit" of the galaxy.

The Force as a recorded concept existed for well over twenty-five thousand years. There were two, overarching and symbiotic aspects of the Force. The Living Force was the energy of all life, which, in turn, fed into the Cosmic Force—that which bound everything together and communicated the will of the Force through midi-chlorians that resided in all lifeforms. The Jedi Order followed a code of selflessness and service to others; therefore, they adhered to the light side of the Force, one of two methods of using the all-encompassing energy field. The Jedi's adversaries, the Sith, coveted strength and power through the dark side of the Force. Their opposing philosophies led to millennia of cyclical conflict between the two orders, and resulted in both the extinction of the Sith and the near annihilation of the Jedi.

References:

-https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Force