Category: Books
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Hiroshige: One hundred famous views of Edo
A masterpiece of Japanese painting is now available online since the Brooklyn Museum published brilliant reproductions of these exceptionnal prints that deeply impressed the European impressionists. Brooklyn Museum – One hundred famous views of Edo
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Meaning and origin of phrases, sayings and idioms
It is often quite difficult to know where a language idiom is coming from (it is less etymology than social history). For English, I foudn the ideal web site: phrases.org.uk. In their own words: The meanings and origins of over 1,200 English sayings, phrases and idioms. Whether you want to resolve a friendly argument over…
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National Punctuation Day
The first National Punctuation Day was on September 24, 2006. OK. It seems that it was a hit in many different medias and among the US English teachers. This is now time to prepare the next one: Only one month left to collect the examples of the worse punctuation and to find ways to improve…
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Japanese flora
BibliOdyssey, as usual, presents one more impressive antique book: Ten albums of Japanese flora containing more than 700 images from the Museum at the University of Tokyo: honzo database (English home page).
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BibliOdyssey, a quality library
BibliOdyssey is a web site about art in antique prints. You love books, you love quality books, you must stay tuned to BibliOdyssey. Today, I just want to point to one single impressive post there: Drawing on the Renaissance.
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90+ online photography tools and resources
Mashable published a list of Internet resources particularyl useful to photographers. The list is organised aroudn the following categories: Online photo Editors – Editeurs de photo en ligne Photo sharing – Partage de photographies Free photo hosting – Hébergement gratuit de photographies en ligne Photography blogs – Blogs photographiques Mashups – Combinaisons Mobile Photo mixing…
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The Windows upgrade
An upgrade maybe painful: Vista as a fakir chair. Source: Ctrl-Alt-Del.
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Bhagavata Purana, sacred book
For the amateur of lovely art books, the Rylands Library of Manchester University publishes on the Internet this superb copy of the Bhagavata Purana, sacred book of Hinduism. Exceptionally nice visit of a web site that is providing excellent copies of antique books. Source: BiblioOdyssey.