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Month: November 2021

Transparent: “Paradise has many gates”

November 18, 2021May 23, 2023 adminArt, Image and Literature, Library, Word of the Day

Surely we fear from our Lord a stern, distressful day. Therefore Allah win guard them from the evil of that day and cause them to meet with ease and happiness; And reward them, because they were patient, with garden and…

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Acker, Acre, Aker, Akyr… A land, a river, a swamp…

November 9, 2021June 8, 2023 adminLibrary, Word of the Day

The OED lists two meanings for Acker: Acker, n. 1 Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps a variant of eagre n. (although this is first attested later; compare the form agar at that entry). In later use English regional (Yorkshire). †1. A strong or turbulent current in the sea; a flood…

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Orwell’s Animal Farm: “a statement about human society everywhere and at all times”?

November 8, 2021October 3, 2024 adminLibrary, Today in History

Orwell’s Animal Farm is commonly read as a critique of Stalinism. However, is it a cautionary tale of how quickly and easily any power structure might turn totalitarian? Does any power structure contain seeds of totalitarianism? Did the animals of…

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John Clare: Love, Old, Day, See, Green, Summer, Flowers, Heart

November 4, 2021November 5, 2021 adminContent Word Vector, Library

Find John Clare’s POEMS CHIEFLY FROM MANUSCRIPT in our library. Edmund Blunden, who edited the volume, writes: For the present volume over two thousand poems by Clare have been considered and compared; of which over two-thirds have not been published.…

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