Still, he was not the one that made this region famous and gave it international notoriety. He came up with the phrase while writing for the men’s pulp magazine called Argosy. The name “Bermuda Triangle” was given to this region by writer Vincent Gaddis in 1964. No matter the cause, this region has been the subject of many debates, and its mysteries enchant us to this day, so let’s find out more about it! Most sources, however, refuse to believe that it is a mystery, but we still do not have a completely valid realistic explanation as to why these boats and aircrafts have disappeared. The region is loosely defined, and it is known as the place where several ships and planes disappeared under inexplicable circumstances. Sometimes called the Devil’s Triangle or Hurricane Alley, this is a region found in the western parts of the North Atlantic Ocean. Still, one of the most well-known mysteries found in our oceans is the Bermuda Triangle. A large part of our oceans are still unexplored, and who knows what kinds of mysteries and secrets they hide. When we talk about our planet, the fact that we know little about it is even more true if we focus on the oceans. However, we know very little about our planet, and if we take a step back and look at the universe surrounding us, we know even less. Humans often have a habit of believing they have more knowledge than they do.
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What is interesting to me is that such a wide variety of cheese styles are represented in these two regions - including washed-rind, blue, cooked and fresh. Among the many cheeses in their canon, are other familiar names like Raschera, Robiola di Roccaverano and Castelmagno D.O.P. Like their neighbors in Lombardy, cheesemakers of the Piedmont make Taleggio and Gorgonzola. The town of Bra, home to possibly the most widely respected cheese festival in the world, is situated in this part of Italy. If you were to follow the Po River, heading west out of Lombardy, you would arrive in the Piedmont, another rich cheese-making region. Lombardy is a part of Italy that is home to many well-known cheeses: Taleggio, Mascarpone, Provolone, Grana Padano and Gorgonzola. Lakes stretch out along the countryside and rivers criss-cross the verdant landscape. The terrain is varied, ranging from plains in the southern part, to the Alpine heights of the Valtellina in the north. 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Fear also worked better on them because they were capable of understanding the risks involved with having “bad” thoughts. Party Members (Inner & Outer) like Winston Smith were the most watched & most severely punished because they were smart enough to ask questions, seek the truth, or pose a threat. While still under the boot, the Proles were largely ignored because they were too distracted with their pitiful lives and were kept too stupid to pose a threat even if they wanted to. One thing about 1984 most people forget is that it wasn’t ALL boot-on-the-face. We also live in a world awash in powerful mood altering drugs that are handed out like candy, a world full of mind numbing distractions and a world where people only care about fulfilling their base urges. We live in a world full of drones, cameras, screens that provide endless monitoring of us, secret prisons and Big Brother “keeping us safe” from folks who may not even exist. Both Orwell and Huxley are completely accurate in their predictions of the future. This staging of Animal Farm will see Dutch tenor Marcel Beekman and contralto Helena Rasker return to the stage of Dutch National Opera, as well as baritone Misha Kiria ( Il barbiere di Siviglia, 2018), who is an ideal fit for the grim-comic role of Napoleon – the autocratic pig. In Animal Farm, Raskatov also incorporates his own allusions to Russia’s fraught political history. In 2010, he adapted the literary masterpiece A Dog’s Heart, creating a compelling and fiery musical piece that was unlike any other. Raskatov himself is no stranger to adapting fiction to opera. In Alexander Raskatov, the perfect composer for his dream project was found. “All animals are equal but some are more equal than others” – the world news keeps offering up subtle variations on the same theme.ĭamiano Michieletto had always dreamt of adapting Animal Farm, with its powerful characterisations and surprising twists and turns, for the opera stage. The warning in Orwell’s political satire remains relevant today. George Orwell wrote Animal Farm as a contemporaneous cautionary parable, highlighting how easy it was for the Russian revolution to degenerate into Stalin’s violent dictatorship. Caroline is brought into the confidence of Desmond’s ex-wife Pamela, whom he still meets in secret once a week, whilst trying to navigate the tense relationship with his current wife Anna.Ĭaroline is forced to listen to tapes that Desmond has kept for years – many detailing a lost love affair with another woman Abby – but others hinting at a darker secret, linked to Desmond’s service during the war. Nonetheless, she becomes dramatically immersed in Desmond’s complicated personal life. She has problems with her own – her partner of 10 years has finally proposed and Caroline has been rocked by the realisation that the idea of marriage has come too late for them. Caroline Wallace is a forty-five year old journalist from London, dispatched by her editor to do a piece on Desmond – to whip up some colourful interest and shine a spotlight on his work once again.Ĭaroline is not too interested in Desmond, or his work. The reader is primed from the title on – what is real and what can we believe, both from the characters and from Johnston herself.ĭesmond Fitzmaurice is an aging, once feted but now all-but forgotten Irish playwright, living out his years with his second wife Anna in a large house on the outskirts of Dublin. Jennifer Johnston’s fiction regularly deals with themes of memory, loss and an inability to come to terms with the past and Truth or Fiction is no different. Truth or Fiction by Jennifer Johnston continues my Northern Exposure series which highlight literature from Northern Ireland and is also, helpfully, one of my 20 Books of Summer! From a distance, I’d first thought her a younger woman, but when she was closer I could see the deep etches around her mouth, and also a kind of angry exhaustion in her eyes. The Mother by this time was standing right behind Josie …. Klara feels a pang of tenderness as she watches the two of them. Klara’s life changes in more ways than one when a middle-aged woman purchases her for Josie, her thin, chronically ill daughter. As the novel opens, she’s on sale in the window of an AF shop, where her almost-human traits are cultivated by the kindly Manager. The eponymous Klara is an Artificial Friend, or AF, designed to attend to the needs of teenagers a confidante-handmaiden hybrid. Teenagers slurp yogurt while playing with laptop-like devices called “oblongs ” flocks of “machine birds” fly around outside, not quite visible from the “Open Plan” living rooms indoors. As with Blade Runner, the novel is set in the near future, but with familiar details. Ishiguro poses the question of what it means to be fully human. Ridley Scott’s stylish and unnerving Blade Runner was about synthetic humans known as “replicants.” In Klara and the Sun-the first novel he’s published since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017-Kazuo Ishiguro does Scott one better with a replicant narrator straddling the line between her human and mannequin selves, dependent on the “nourishing” of an anthropomorphized Sun. Although she is still somewhat secretive – her career as one of the countries top spies proving a hard habit to break – the introduction of a face from her past, Marcus Carmichael, forcing her back into the world of spies and secrets, gives us a much broader idea of the tour-de-force behind the TMC. What I liked most about this book, was getting to know more about Elizabeth’s past. And this case is a challenging one for sure. They may all be in their seventies, but they show no sign of slowing up, no matter what challenges are set before them. What I really enjoy about this series is that you never know quite what to expect, and whilst Richard Osman may have been finding his feet with book one, getting to know the characters of Elizabeth, Joybe, Ron and Ibrahim, there is no doubting he has the measure of them this time around and truly brings them all to life. The septuagenarian amatuer sleuths are back and with one heck of a bang. Espionage, diamond theft, drug deals and murder … All in a day’s work for the Thursday Murder Club it appears. Well, this was certainly a change of pace. ' mastery of his subject matter is obvious. So deft and funny that you'd never guess this is Dan Jones' debut work of fiction.' Suzannah Lipscomb 'Battle-bloody, brutal and perfectly pitched.' Daily Mail 'A new champion has entered the front line of historical fiction to stand shoulder to shoulder with Bernard Cornwell.' Jane Johnson The way Dan Jones writes enemies reminds me of Cornwell at his best, turning up tension click by click.' Conn Iggulden 'Oddly joyous - rolling action, fast-paced, a book that draws you in page by page. The Essex Dogs? They fight for each other. And Loveday FitzTalbot, their battle-scarred captain, who just wants to get his boys home safe. Romford, a talented young archer on the run from his past. Father, a priest turned devilish by the horrors of war. Millstone, a stonemason who'll do anything to protect his men. Scotsman, strong enough to tear down a wall. There's Pismire, small enough to infiltrate enemy camps. With sword, axe and longbow, the Essex Dogs will fight, from the landing beaches of Normandy to the bloodsoaked field of Crecy. Swept up in the bloody chaos, a tight-knit company from Essex must stay alive long enough to see their home again. But this war belongs to the men on the ground. The Hundred Years' War has begun, and King Edward and his lords are on the march through France. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo The sensational historical fiction debut from Sunday Times bestseller Dan Jones. no matter how many lives are sacrificed in the process.Īs the curse teeters closer and closer to collapse, the surviving champions each face a choice: dismantle the tournament piece by piece, or fight to the death as this story was always intended. And a new champion has entered the fray, one who seeks to break the curse for good. Reporters swarm the historic battlegrounds. The boundaries between the city of Ilvernath and the arena have fallen. “I feel like I should warn you: this is going to be absolutely brutal.”įor the first time in this ancient, bloodstained story, the tournament is breaking. All of Our Demise is the epic conclusion to Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman’s New York Times bestselling All of Us Villains duology. |