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Het zal nog enige tijd duren voor ik weer met dit weblog aan de gang kan gaan. Het inloggen is heel problematisch. Kan ook geen enkele reactie lezen. Geduld is het toverwoord:-)
Het zal nog enige tijd duren voor ik weer met dit weblog aan de gang kan gaan. Het inloggen is heel problematisch. Kan ook geen enkele reactie lezen. Geduld is het toverwoord:-)
Dear friends,
Next week there will be a migration of this weblog.
I will need some time to check everything and it will probably be necessary to publicize some things again.
So please be patient en check in with me again in a few
weeks.
Untill then,
greetings Wilhelma
Beste vrienden,
Volgende week 23 augustus vindt er een migratie van dit
weblog plaats.
Dan heb ik even tijd nodig om alles te controleren en
waarschijnlijk enkele dingen opnieuw publiceren.
Dus even geduld en tot over een paar weken.
Groetjes Wilhelma
Did
Van Gogh die from cutting off his ear? No. Vincent Van Gogh, the Dutch painter who cut off his own earlobe in 1888, died on
this date in 1890, two days after shooting himself in the chest with a pistol.
The postimpressionist painter suffered from depression
and epileptoid seizures; to try to overcome the
depression, he left home and moved to Arles,
France. He was joined there for a time by Paul
Gauguin. Though he was a prolific artist x97 he completed nearly 900
paintings, over 1,000 drawings, and 150 watercolors, plus letter sketches and
graphic designs x97 Van Gogh succeeded in selling only one painting in his
lifetime. Since his death, his paintings have been sold for many millions of
dollars, including the Portrait of
Dr. Gachet, which went for $82.5 million in
1990.
Was Pearl S. Buck Chinese? Pearl S. Buck, the author of The
Good Earth, was born in West Virginia (on this date in 1892), but her
missionary parents had lived in China for about a dozen years before her birth
and returned to China three months thereafter. She lived in China for the first
40 or so years of her life, with the exception of sojourns in the United States
to obtain bachelor's (from Randolph-Macon
Woman's College) and master's (Cornell) degrees. Buck is credited with
introducing Americans to Chinese peasant life; nevertheless, she was denounced
during China's Cultural Revolution as an "American cultural
imperialist." The first American woman to win a Nobel in Literature, she
was also a social activist and opened the first international interracial
adoption agency and an orphanage.
Quote: "Like
Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon
it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels." x97 Pearl S. Buck
Is the ballet called 'The Nutcracker' or 'The Nutcracker Suite'? Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet is called The Nutcracker. Tchaikovsky had pulled eight of the ballet's numbers into a collection that would be performed in concerts, which he called The Nutcracker Suite. The excerpts are played out of order: Overture; No. 2 March; "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy"; "Russian Dance"; "Arabian Dance"; "Chinese Dance"; "Dance of the Mirlitons", and "Waltz of the Flowers." When the ballet debuted in Saint Petersburg on December 18, 1892, it was not an instant success. It wasn't until the New York City Ballet's 1954 production of The Nutcracker, choreographed and directed by George Balanchine, that the ballet took flight. Performances soon became a Christmas-season tradition across the US.