Mankind has some special ability. As humans we can be aware of the difference between our memories and reality. We are able to know that we don’t know.
We can identify our environment but the world is constantly just a bit different than we remember. The main tool we use to acknowledge that is the brain.
“Culture is dealing with the difference between reality and memory” -Barend van Heusden-
There are four ways of dealing with the difference between reality and memory:
The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of a major controversy, drawing protests from Muslims in several countries. Some of the protests were violent, in which death threats were issued to the writer Salman Rushdie.
The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, denounced a fatwā against him on February 14, 1989.
Holywell Lane Wall: ■ 7.4 metres high x 16.1 metres wide ■ Cost: £1,500 per week.
Great Eastern St. Panels: ■ All 2.9 metres high ■ Far left panel 5 metres wide ■ Inner left panel 4.08 metres wide ■ Inner right panel 4 metres wide ■ Far right panel 4.47 metres wide. Cost: £500 per panel, per week
Cost reductions available for charity/arts projects. Artwork not included in hire fee.
This work was thought to be a painting of Rembrandt’s servant that the artist had placed at his window to fool the passers walking by.
This apocryphal tale about Rembrandt’s mastery of illusion was a variation on Pliny’s account of the ancient Greek artist Zeuxis, whose painting of grapes was so realistic that birds flew down to peck at the fruit.
At which window of the Rembrandt house did the painting once confused people?
Now it surprises visitors of the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.
30 november 2011: The biggest strike seen in the UK within a generation.
Why? The UK has one of the worst budget deficit’s in the EU in the last fiscal year, at more than 10% of GDP. It was second only to Ireland (-32.4%) and Greece (-10.5%). Basically that means the British government spent more than it earned. While that overspend is being reduced, the UK’s debts continue to grow.
Reasons for optimism
A weak pound made British products cheaper, helping exporters.
A powerful stock market rally boosted confidence.
Unemployment rises have been smaller than forecast.
Markets have welcomed Coalition efforts to tackle the deficit.
Reasons for pessimism
The Government has embarked on savage public spending cuts that will dent demand.
The impact is unknown. It could stoke inflation, forcing rate rises to control it.
British house prices remain over-valued.
Western governments and consumers have built up colossal debts that could take more than a decade to clear.
Western economies face a demographic timebomb which could erode the wealth of nations for a generation.
Lending rate between banks and a measure of confidence in each other – has risen more quickly in autumn 2011
Richmond Park is a 2,360 acre (9.55 km2; 3.69 sq mi) park within London.
The acre is related to the square mile, with 640 acres making up one square mile. One mile is 5280 feet (1760 yards). The acre was approximately the amount of land tillable by one man behind an ox in one day. The word “acre” is derived from Old English æcer originally meaning “open field”, cognate to west coast Norwegian ækre and Swedish åker, German Acker, Dutch akker, Latin ager, and Greek αγρός (agros).
The biggest Royal park of London, Richmond park, is close to the Thames and to Wimbledon.
The park is famous for its red and fallow deer, which number over six hundred.
Exceptional good (healthy) food in an environment with a “neighbourhood” feeling in the middle of the biggest city of the European Union. With no plastic around you and many friendly people eating, drinking and chatting you can imagine yourself sitting at the kitchen table of a ‘big italian mamma’.
James “Jamie” Trevor Oliver is an English chef, restauranteur and media personality, known for his food-focused television shows, cookbooks and more recently his campaign against the use of processed foods in national schools.
He strives to improve unhealthy diets and poor cooking habits in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Jamie Oliver’s speciality is Italian cuisine, although he has a broad international repertoire.
Bohemianism – The practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people, with few permanent ties, involving musical, artistic or literary pursuits. Bohemians can be wanderers, adventurers, or vagabonds. Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague.
Scaramouche – The clown character of the Italian commedia dell’arte (17th century) who wears a black mask and black trousers, shirt and hat. In plays he is always beaten a lot for his boasting and cowardice.
Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) was an Italian astronomer, and a famous thinker. Galileo came to accept the findings of Copernicus, that the sun was the center of the then-known universe, and not the earth.
Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) is an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed in 1786. It is comic opera (opera buffa) written in Italian. The libretto was from Lorenzo da Ponte.
Bismillah - An Arabic noun used as a collective name for the whole of the recurring Islamic phrase b-ismi-llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīmi, It is sometimes translated as “In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful”.
Beelzebub – Ba‘al Zəbûb is variously understood to mean “lord of flies”,or “lord of the (heavenly) dwelling”. Originally the name of a Philistine god,Beelzebub is also identified in the New Testament as Satan, the “prince of the demons”.
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Freddie Mercury, 45, died at his London home on November 24, 1991. He had been diagnosed HIV positive several years earlier and died of bronchial pneumonia, brought on by AIDS.
It is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors. It differs from broadcast television in that the signal is not openly transmitted.
Surveillance of the public using CCTV is particularly common in the United Kingdom, where there are reportedly more cameras per person than in any other country in the world.
There are now 10,524 CCTV cameras in 32 London boroughs funded with Home Office grants totalling about £200million. There and elsewhere, its increasing use has triggered a debate about security versus privacy.
