A film about the Blitz on my home City of York. I can remember the incendaries falling on houses in St. Johns Street where I lived at the beginning of the war. It is said that the raids were in retaliation of our bombing of a similar historic city in Germany - i.e. Lubeck, which I visited in 1998.

BAEDEKER RAIDS on York 29/4/1942 - Part 3 In 1942 I lived in my home City of York and after my Dad had left for the war (we saw him again six years later) mother and I and small brother John lived with Auntie Betty in St. Johns Street in a direct line with York Station and the Minster. My memory of the raid was seeing the lady across the street throwing a burning matress from an upstairs window. I should have been in the brick and concrete air-raid shelter in the back yard! I don't think as kids we were afraid - just the grown-ups who actually realised what might have happened. Regarding this film - I recognise the places, like Nunthorpe Grove. I attended Nunthorpe School ten years after the war and lived in Nunthorpe Avenue.

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Continuing the story of York's bombing... BAEDEKER RAIDS on York 29/4/1942 - In 1942 I lived in my home City of York and after my Dad had left for the war (we saw him again six years later) mother and I and small brother John lived with Auntie Betty in St. Johns Street in a direct line with York Station and the Minster. My memory of the raid was seeing the lady across the street throwing a burning matress from an upstairs window. I should have been in the brick and concrete air-raid shelter in the back yard! I don't think as kids we were afraid - just the grown-ups who actually realised what might have happened. Regarding this film - I recognise the places, like Nunthorpe Grove. I attended Nunthorpe School ten years after the war and lived in Nunthorpe Avenue.

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A video by Atlanta artist Corey Barksdale protesting the fame and prestige of the Mona Lisa. This video is a response to the Youtube video Testing the Mona Lisa. http://www.coreybarksdale.com/ Fame Historian Donald Sassoon cataloged the growth of the painting's fame. During the mid-1800s, Théophile Gautier and the Romantic poets were able to write about Mona Lisa as a femme fatale because Lisa was an ordinary person. Mona Lisa "...was an open text into which one could read what one wanted; probably because she was not a religious image; and, probably, because the literary gazers were mainly men who subjected her to an endless stream of male fantasies." During the 20th century, the painting was stolen, an object for mass reproduction, merchandising, lampooning and speculation, and was reproduced in "300 paintings and 2,000 advertisements".[30] The subject was described as deaf, in mourning,[31] toothless, a "highly-paid tart", various people's lover, a reflection of the artist's neuroses, and a victim of syphilis, infection, paralysis, palsy, cholesterol or a toothache.[30] Scholarly as well as amateur speculation assigned Lisa's name to at least four different paintings[32] and the sitter's identity to at least ten different people.[33] Crowd in front of Mona Lisa at the Louvre. Visitors generally spend about 15 seconds viewing the Mona Lisa. Crowd in front of Mona Lisa at the Louvre. Visitors generally spend about 15 seconds viewing the Mona Lisa.[34] Until the 20th century, Mona Lisa was one among many and certainly not the "most famous painting"[35] in the world as it is termed today. Among works in the Louvre, in 1852 its market value was 90,000 francs compared to works by Raphael valued at up to 600,000 francs. In 1878, the Baedeker guide called it "the most celebrated work of Leonardo in the Louvre". Between 1851 and 1880, artists who visited the Louvre copied Mona Lisa roughly half as many times as certain works by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Antonio da Correggio, Paolo Veronese, Titian, Jean-Baptiste Greuze and Pierre Paul Prud'hon.[30] Prior to the 1962--1963 tour, the painting was assessed for insurance purposes at $100 million. According to the Guinness Book of Records, this makes the Mona Lisa the most valuable painting ever insured. As an expensive painting, it has only recently been surpassed (in terms of actual dollar price) by three other paintings, the Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav Klimt, which was sold for $135 million (£73 million), the Woman III by Willem de Kooning sold for $137.5 million in November of 2006, and most recently No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock sold for a record $140 million on November 2, 2006. Although these figures are greater than that which the Mona Lisa was insured for, the comparison does not account for the change in prices due to inflation -- $100 million in 1962 is approximately $670 million in 2006 when adjusted for inflation using the US Consumer Price Index.[36] Speculation about the painting Main article: Speculation about Mona Lisa Although the sitter has traditionally been identified as Lisa de Giocondo, a lack of definitive evidence has long fueled alternative theories, including the possibility that Leonardo used his own likeness. However, on January 14, 2008, German academics of Heidelberg University made public a finding that corroborates the traditional identification: dated notes scribbled into the margins of a book by its owner on October 1503 established Lisa de Giocondo as the model for the painting.[37] Other aspects of the painting which have been subject to speculative ideas are the original size of the painting, whether there were other versions of it, and various explanations for how the effect of an enigmatic smile was achieved. In a National Geographic presentation titled "Testing The Mona Lisa" it was deduced after rigorous assessment, the possibility that the figure depicted in the painting, may be maternal, or pregnant. It was found after extensive infrared reflectography, Lisa herself had a haze around her clothing indictative of a guarnello, the attire worn by pregnant women. Another theory proposed by various health professionals was that Leonardo's represenation of her hands as slightly 'large' was further indicative of Lisa's pregnancy. However, on the obverse, as many scholars or persons suggest, this representation is merely a stylistic concept of beauty encapsulated by numerous Renaissance painters, including Leonardo himself.

Information about Canterbury during World War Two, when Canterbury was bombed. This short animated video shows the effects of the 'fire bombs' that destroyed parts of the City.

A writer and a scientist follow a shaven-headed "stalker" into forbidden territory, a dangerous wilderness known as the Zone. Tarkovsky forces - or perhaps allows - "reality" to yield up abstract images of startling originality, and his vision of landscape is nothing less than truly mystical - these are places to be found only in humankind's spiritual Baedeker. On top of everything else, Tarkovsky was a director who truly grasped the aesthetic power of color, and this unforgettable Pilgrimage is bathed in eerie sepia hues.

What is so funny??? That's what we kept saying all day.

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Peter's sister taunts the children to eat while Kari DeVries tries to pick up her boyfriend. A great time had by all

The Circus (Bath) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search The Circus Enlarge The Circus The Circus is a famous example of Georgian architecture in the city of Bath, begun in 1754 and completed in 1768. The name comes from the Latin word 'circus', which means a ring, oval or circle. Divided into three segments of equal length, the Circus is a circular space surrounded by large townhouses. Each of the curved segments faces one of the three entrances, thereby ensuring that whichever way a visitor enters there is a beautiful facade straight ahead. The Circus, originally called King's Circus, was designed by the architect John Wood the Elder, although he never lived to see his plans put into effect as he died less than three months after the first stone was laid. It was left to his son, John Wood the Younger to complete the scheme to his father's design. The initial leases for the South West segment were granted in 1755-67, those for the South East segment in 1762-6, and those for the North segment in 1764-6. The Circus was part of John Wood the Elder's grand vision to recreate a classical Palladian architectural landscape for the city. Other projects included nearby Queen Square and the Forum (which was never built). The Circus is the culmination of Wood's career, and is considered his masterpiece.[1] Wood's inspiration was the Roman Colosseum, but whereas the Colosseum was designed to be seen from the outside, the Circus faces inwardly. All three Orders of Roman architecture, (Roman Doric, Ionic and Corinthian) are used, one above the other, in the elegant curved facades. The frieze of the Doric entablature is decorated with alternating triglyphs and 525 pictorial emblems, including serpents, nautical symbols, devices representing the arts and sciences, and masonic symbols. The parapet is adorned with stone acorn finials. The central area was originally paved with stone setts, covering a reservoir in the centre which supplied water to the houses. In 1800 the Circus residents enclosed the central part of the open space as a garden. Now, the central area is grassed over and is home to a group of venerable plane trees. During the Baedeker Blitz of 1942, a bomb fell into the Circus, demolishing several of the houses. These have since been reconstructed in the original style. PS: text taken from wikipedia