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Better late than never. Thats what some Cambridge University officials are saying after a library book was returned about 50 years after it was chec ...

To say I spent a few hours playing Super Mario Bros. 2 in the late 1980s is akin to suggesting that I consumed the occasional plating of Taco Bell in

The Jerwood Library at Trinity Hall in Cambridge says it is "better late than never".

Banksys cheeky parody of Demi Moores iconic Vanity Fair cover to make auction debut Banksy, Original Concept for Barely Legal Poster (After Demi Moore), 2006. Spray paint and emulsion on canvas, 213 by 123 cm. Estimate: £2-3 million. Courtesy Sothebys. LONDON .- Banksy’s brazen parody of Demi Moore’s iconic 1991 Vanity Fair cover is set to return to the spotlight this spring, when it makes its auction debut in Sotheby’s livestreamed marquee event on March 25 in London, in which the painting...

Singapore-jackson-1828-2 $3,250.00 Title Plan of the Town of Singapore by Lieut. Jackson. / Plan of the British Settlement of Singapore by Capt. Franklin and Lieut. Jackson.   1828 (dated)         1 : 20500 Description Known as the Jackson Plan or Raffles Plan, this is the first published map of Singapore. Published in 1828, the map was drawn by Lieutenant Philip Jackson at the request of Singapore founder Sir Stamford Raffles (1781 - 1826). It is divided into two sections, a map o...

  1828 (undated)         1 : 84480 Description This is the earliest known map of Bangkok, Thailand, issued in 1828 shortly following John Crawfurds diplomatic mission to the royal court of Siam. The map itself purports to be by a native, and was likely drawn for Crawfurd in 1822, when he visited. The map is oriented to the north, with the Royal Palace and temple complex at center. The Chao Phraya River is here identified by the archaic name, Manam. The area covered roughly correspo...

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The Grand Tour and the Global Landscape Tim Barringer Fig. 1. Rome from the Villa Madama by Richard Wilson (1714–1782), 1753. Oil on canvas, 37 5/8 by 52 ¼ inches. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. During the eighteenth century, wealthy and privileged Britons, such as the group portrayed by Nathaniel Dance c. 1760 (Fig. 2), hastened south, to drink at the font of European civilization in Rome amid the ruins of an earlier empire, and to absorb the classics in literature...

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Mary Somerville: the life of the Scottish scientist November 30, 2020 at 11:16 am Mary Somerville was a celebrated lady of science of her day. Her name lives on in the Oxford College named after her, there’s a crater on the Moon that bears her name and in 2017 her face featured on the Scottish £10 note. But who was Mary Somerville, and why is she so celebrated? Advertisement Like many women within the history of science, her story is complicated. While their male peers were allowed to join ...