Posted by: sayingenough on: October 12, 2009
Numbers are all around us. They’re in the food we eat – “4 table spoons of sugar, 250g of butter, etc.” They’re on our television screens – the TV show Numb3rs is about a mathematical genius, Charlie Eppes who helps his brother, FBI Special Agent Don Eppes, solve cases using numbers. They’re in Pop music [...]
Posted by: sayingenough on: September 21, 2009
The Lily Maid of Astolat
History, being rather unclear, has many different versions of Elaine, Lily Maid of Astolat, from the time of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. In the French version of King Arthur, Mort Artu, she tries to get Sir Lancelot to wear her sleeve in a joust after she [...]
Posted by: sayingenough on: July 24, 2009
France was not always the generally peaceful country which we know today. In the 1700s, France underwent an enormous upheaval which undermined its Monarchy and changed to a Republican government.
But how did it all start? Well, in 1789, the people of France decided that it was…
…the Last Straw
When King Louis XVI of France ascended to [...]
Posted by: sayingenough on: April 7, 2009
When you think of classical music, three composer’s names tend come up: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach.
Despite them all having been around at different times (though Mozart and Beethoven met briefly in Vienna), they had something in common. They were all geniuses. And they were all not appreciated in their [...]
Posted by: sayingenough on: January 6, 2009
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born in Caprese in Tuscany, Italy in 1475.
He was a Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer, and though he much preferred sculptures to paintings, two of his paintings – the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and The Last Judgment – are considered to [...]
