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Tag Archives: English
Old English Graphotactics
Old English Graphotactics: editions of Old English texts that include the graphotactics of original manuscripts, and to studies of those texts. The bad thing: there are just two texts there till now – Beowulf and Alexander’s Letter in PDF.
Posted in culture, literature
Tagged culture, English, language, literature, manuscripts, reference, studies
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Photographs of English and American Literature
Photographs from the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. Hundreds of portraits – prints and photographs – picturing more than 120 authors writing in English, primarily from the 1860s to the 1920s, and later.
Posted in literature, photography
Tagged American, English, literature, people, photography, pictures, portraits, prints
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Victorian English and Cockney Slang
You live in London or are thinking in a travel to there, it’s always good know some local expressions and words. The Cockney rhyming slang: London slang dictionary has many local expressions to help you. Or read it just for … Continue reading
Cliché Site
Cliché Site: clichés, euphemisms and figures of speech. This is a great site to find English expressions and phrases if it is not your mother tongue. Most of them are from United States, but there are some from other countries. … Continue reading
Bowie Golden Years
Bowie Golden Years: almost everything you wanted to know about David Bowie’s career between 1974 and 1980. A lot of information about recordings, articles, video-clips and cinema.
Posted in music
Tagged articles, David Bowie, English, music, people, songs, videoclips
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Lewis Carroll
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wade; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, … Continue reading
Posted in books, literature, photography
Tagged Alice, books, culture, England, English, illustration, literature, livros, math, mathematics, people, photographer, photography, pictures, Victorian, vintage, wonderland
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Cinema inglês e alemão
Um dos meus feeds preferidos para imagens é o The Cartoonist. As entradas contém sempre algum site curioso, sobre capas de discos, quadrinhos antigos, gravuras, pinturas, fotos, entre outros. Algumas vezes os links não remetem a páginas com imagens, mas … Continue reading
Posted in art, cinema, curious things
Tagged actors, cinema, cinema history, English, films, German, German cinema, movies, pre-cinema, Victorian
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We have a problem
Título em inglês com um post em português, quem sabe desta forma sutil alguns brasileiros percebam que podemos conviver com o inglês, quase, numa boa. Assunto do dia, mas uma vez o Orkut. Sim, nós temos um problema e isso … Continue reading