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Kenneth Clark's fine tv show: Civilisation
Stourton's book was published in 2017I knew Kenneth Clark (1903-83) from watching his Civilisation series on tv in 1969 and from his involvement with one of my favourite art historians Bernard...
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Medical clowns help patients & save lives.
Clown with young child in bed, ? hospital Biomedical ScienceMedical clowns in a U.S hospital health-care team started when a professional clown at NY’s Big Apple Circus founded Clown Care in 1986....
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3 good men murdered 1964: Mississippi
In June 1964, Michael Schwerner (from NY) and James Chaney (from MS) worked for the Congress of Racial Equality in Philadelphia MS; Andrew Goodman (from NY) was one of the hundreds of college...
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Freud's escape: Nazi Vienna->London 1938
I have blogged about Sigmund Freud’s (1856-1939) escape from Vienna before, and have visited Freud’s homes in Vienna and in London. Now let's read Andrew Nagorski’s new book, Saving Freud...
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Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights/CMHR in Winnipeg Manitoba was originally conceived by media entrepreneur Israel Asper, who established a foundation in 2003 to create the museum, and was...
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America's Cup: Australia's yacht won 1983
America’s Cup history began around Britain’s Isle of Wight as the Royal Yacht Squadron’s £100 Cup, awarded to the race winner. Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, Earl of Wilton, had invited...
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Sacroiliac joint pain - mine
After 60, most people I know have aged less elegantly than they had hoped – memory loss, hearing loss, failing eyesight, arthritis, poor kidney function, blood pressure changes and even poor heart...
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Victorian women artists' glass ceiling
Mary Moser and the Italian artist Angelica Kauffman were among the 36 founder members of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768. Yet when Johann Zoffany was asked to paint The Academicians of the Royal...
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Best We Forget: WW1 for White Australia
Best We Forget: War for White Australia, 1914–18 was the title chosen by author Peter Cochrane. "Lest we forget" was a phrase commonly used in WW1 memorial services in British countries. “Best we...
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President FD Roosevelt's museum-library
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) was born in Hyde Park N.Y, son of James and Sara Delano Roosevelt. He attended Groton Preparatory School Mass, and received a BA from Harvard. Then he next studied...
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Alice Waten star violin teacher-performer
Judah Waten (1911-85), born in Odessa, was a famous author and leftist political activist in Melbourne. His mother Nechama was concerned to give all her children a musical education. Odessa was a...
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Great Ocean Rd - tourist pleasures
Before the Great Ocean Rd was built in Victoria, travel between the coastal settlements along Southern Victoria was rugged. In the 1870s, a trip from Lorne to Geelong was arduous via a rough coach...
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Timișoara Romania: Europe Culture capital
Serbian Orthodox Church and Union Squareunique facade, small towers, beautiful bells and icons.Built in C18th in the Baroque style.Timisoara is in Western Romania, near the borders with Hungary and...
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Jacques Rogge: surgeon sportstar linguist
Belgium-born Jacques Rogge (1942-2021) was educated at the Jesuit Sint-Barbara College in Ghent and the University of Ghent. I imagine that because his grandfather (cycling) and father...
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Polish musician Szpilman/Adrien Brody in The Pianist
Władysław Szpilman (1911-2000) was born in Sosnowiec Poland into a cultured family. He showed an early talent for the piano, training in Warsaw, then in the 1920s continuing in Berlin. In the most...
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Corfu: Venetian, British, Greek, Jewish.
Corfu Island sat in the eastern Mediterranean, off the western coast of Greece, Albania and near South Italy, occupying a militarily and economically strategic point. Corfu was therefore conquered...
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Mark Rothko's unusual chapel, Houston Tx.
Mark RothkoMark Rothkowitz Rothko (1903–70) was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family in Dvinsk Latvia, rejecting Jewish observance as a teenager only once they were in the US. Yet his life in New...
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Historic, cultured, beautiful Old Krakow.
In 1960 my first year in high school, there were 120 students - a few from Russian, German or Romanian parents and 114 from Polish parents. They all wanted to re-visit Poland by 1970, especially to see...
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Lionel Logue saved King George VI. Who??
Lionel Logue (1880-1953) was born in College Town Adelaide, eldest of 4 children of South Australian parents clerk George Logue and his wife Lavinia. Logue attended Prince Alfred College in 1889-96,...
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Ship University: learning, US power1926
As a graduate, James Lough had wanted to link experience with education. Later Lough became Prof of Experimental Psychology at NYU (1901-27), when he wanted to create a new kind of education that...
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