Tag: UK

Sir William Chambers

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I’ve been digging around in my archive. This statue of the Lord Provost of Edinburgh stands in front of the National Museum of Scotland. The most amazing thing about this photo was the reaction of KI. I asked google who this was (photo search). The answer was a description that it was the photo of a statue of a man, possibly in Edinburgh, “but no guarantees”. When I confirmed the information about the location in Edinburgh it stated that the man depicted was Prince Albert. First KI was humble, then with more information it was confidently wrong. A bit more searching and looking at various sculptures, I’m pretty sure that KI is wrong and I am right: it’s Sir William Chambers (incidentally in Chambers Street).

Monday Portrait

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Genius

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“Beauty is a form of Genius–is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Words of Wisdom – Y25 #5

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An Unexpected Quote

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“I’m a Springbok fan. I came to love the game of rugby after I had left South Africa.”

German rugby fan, talking to the SABC.

Nine year ago a South African tv crew stumbled across a German who had travelled to Newcastle to watch the match between South Africa and Scotland. The interview (all of the 30 seconds) was broadcast in South Africa.

Double dipping for

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Interview and FOWC with Fandango: Quote

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