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...“Colin should have been a monk,” says the social historian and writer, Angus Calder, “studying, writing, following the natural order of the seasons.”...
...from 40 British artists at the Royal Drawing School; among a large and varied collection, Raffles has a 6m-high sculpture by Saad Qureshi and a 5m-wide oil painting, “Naval Officers of World War I” by Sir Arthur...
...Or a monk in a tower drawing some illuminated manuscripts....
...There are just three monks now but in its pomp this was a thriving spiritual, intellectual and commercial centre....
...depths in Richard III at the RSC; Daniel Monks, who is partially paralysed, brings fresh intensity to Konstantin’s desire for change in Jamie Lloyd’s staging of Chekhov’s The Seagull....
...Its assessment followed the news on January 12 that S4 Capital’s Media Monks arm is merging with US data consultancy business 4 Mile Analytics. Terms of the deal were not disclosed....
...Arthur (Devon Terrell), meanwhile, is so inoffensive you might miss him altogether, and Uther is definitely not his dad....
...Kozanji temple in Kyoto, Japan’s ancient capital, is the owner of a set of rust-coloured 12th-century scrolls drawn in beautiful, expressively simple lines by an artist-monk....
...From about 1300, the monks of Furness Abbey had been scouring the hills for iron and felling woods for charcoal....
...“[Arthur] Liberty travelled all around the world bringing goods back, and he had a particular interest in Indian craft — that’s how we started.”...
...Before about 1100, most books had been made by monks or members of the church for the use of their own communities....
...The film Generations of children have grown up on Arthur Ransome’s series of adventure novels set in the English Lake District on the cusp of the second world war....
...“One day,” says Scully, who knew the mountain well because he used to hike along its many footpaths, “I was invited in to see the library and I met one of the monks, Padre Laplana, who is very interested...
...Jago, named after Victorian novelist Arthur Morrison’s fictionalised account of slum life in this part of London, occupies the front half of the first floor and has to serve several functions....
...I was the only boy I knew who liked Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae better than Treasure Island; Arthur Conan Doyle’s The White Company rather than Sherlock....
...Arthur and a supposed visit by a young Jesus Christ....
...One day, the ex-monk sees a man building a stone arch across a stream; he is excited by the idea the arch might hold....
...Virginia Woolf’s Garden: The Story of the Garden at Monk’s House, by Caroline Zoob and Caroline Arber, Jacqui Small, RRP£30/$50 Although not a great gardener, Woolf loved her garden at Monk’s House in Sussex...
...The Monk and the Riddle by Randy Komisar....
...Crete’s most famous frescoes are those dug up – and controversially restored – at Knossos by Sir Arthur Evans....
...A few years ago the dernier cri in Gilbert & Sullivan was director Chris Monks’ audacious comic re-imaginings, setting The Mikado in a cricket club or giving a mock-Tarantino spin to The Pirates Of Penzance...
...Its members included the cream of Edwardian society, such as the Cambridge philosophy professor Henry Sidgwick, the co-discoverer of evolution Alfred Russel Wallace, prime minister Arthur Balfour and the...
...Pendragon castle near the river’s source is named for Arthur’s father. The henge by Eamont bridge is called Arthur’s Round Table....
...Musical performances from the likes of singer Meredith Monk (June 27) and South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim (June 30) follow the discussions....
...One 11th-century Durham monk described his southern counterparts as “meek spirited” – it is unclear whether this was an early reference to southerners being effete or whether he simply meant they were virtuous...
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