Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the...
“When the Holy One, blessed be He, was about to make the world, all the letters of the Alphabet were still embryonic, and for two thousand years the Holy One, blessed be He, had contemplated them and toyed with them. When He came to create the world,...
"On the 11th day of November in the evening after sunset, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky. I noticed that a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy, was shining almost directly above my head; and since I had,...
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." — Groucho Marx Un Gorrión en la Guerra de las Fieras Antoniorrobles (1895 - 1983) México: Secretario de Educación Pública, 1942 PQ6633 O2 S62 1942 Established in 1919, Children’s Book Week is...
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“I live on a park bench. You, Park Avenue. Hell of a distance Between us two...
“Somewhere within their walls shall all that forwards perfect human life be started, Tried, taught, advanced, visibly exhibited. Not only all the world of works, trade, products, But all the workmen of the world here to be represented.” — “Song of the Exposition,” Walt Whitman Moscow Alexander Rodchenko (1891 - 1956) Moscow...
Virescit vulnere virtus (Virtue grows stronger from being wounded) Orontii finei delphinatis, regii mathematicarvm professoris, de solaribus horologiis… Oronce Fine (1494-1555) Parisiis: apud Gulielmum Cauellat, 1560 First edition QB215 F55 1560 Oronce Fine was the son of a physician who drew, in part, upon astrology for his medicine, as was the...
“A colour shines in its surroundings. (Just as eyes only smile in a face)” - Ludwig Wittgenstein Remarks on Colour Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951) Pasadena, CA: Archetype Press, Art Center College of Design, 2000 xBF 789 C7 W513 2000 During the last few years of his life, Ludwig Wittgenstein...
An Account of the siege of the noblest Austrian city of Vienna by Sultan Suleyman, the grandest Turkish tyrant, with an immeasurable army. With courtesy and allowance of the mightiest Kaiser Carolus & his brother the illustrious King Ferdinand of Hungary and also Bohemia. Viennae avstraiae vrbis...