5/30/2023 0 Comments Lisa kleypas perfect temptations![]() Meantime, an attractive, seductive suitor has set his sights on Win. Then, Win returns to England…only to find that Kev has hardened into a man who will deny love at all costs. So Kev refuses to submit to temptation…and before long Win is torn from him by a devastating twist of fate. But this handsome Gypsy is a man of mysterious origins-and he fears that the darkness of his past could crush delicate, luminous Win. In Seduce Me at Sunrise Kev Merripen has longed for the beautiful, well-bred Winnifred Hathaway ever since her family rescued him from the brink of death when he was just a boy. ![]() In Seduce Me at Sunrise Kev Merripen has longed for th Two of Lisa Kleypas's beloved Hathaways novels, now collected in one volume, Perfect Temptations. ![]() Two of Lisa Kleypas's beloved Hathaways novels, now collected in one volume, Perfect Temptations. ![]() Enter for your chance to win a finished copy of Perfect Temptations by Lisa Kleypas! ![]()
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![]() ![]() The book recreates a very famous incident in 1701 in which Asano Naganori (Lord Asano) was required to commit harakiri. Each plate is preceded by a blank tissue guard. Meiji 25 (1892), string tied, decorated cardboard covers, 17 black and white collotypes, 52 pp. ![]() Photographs/Collotypes & Seibei, Kajima (Photographs) (illustrator). The popularity of the tale grew during the Meiji era, during which Japan underwent rapid modernization, and the legend became entrenched within discourses of national heritage and identity" (Wikipedia). This true story was popularized in Japanese culture as emblematic of the loyalty, sacrifice, persistence, and honor that people should display in their daily lives. They were then obliged to commit seppuku for the crime of murder. After waiting and planning for a year, the r nin avenged their master's honor by killing Kira. The story tells of a group of samurai who were left leaderless after their daimy (feudal lord) Asano Naganori was compelled to perform seppuku (ritual suicide) for assaulting a powerful court official named Kira Yoshinaka. ![]() is a historical eighteenth-century event in Japan in which a band of r nin (leaderless samurai) avenged the death of their master. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” – Melody Beattie. ![]() It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.” – Amy Collette “Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness.“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” – Anonymous.“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” – Henry Ward Beecher.Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.” – Albert Schweitzer “At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.You can change your outlook on gratitude and put things into perspective with these inspirational quotes below: These quotes can help us reflect on all that we have to be thankful for and even inspire a friend or two. Gratitude quotes aren’t just for greeting cards. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Danganronpa 2 by Kyousuke Suga![]() ![]() ![]() When a new class of students at the (in)famous Hope's Peak Academy find themselves on a surprise school trip to a tropical island, they also find that suspicion and death is the only ticket home from this so-called paradise! Here, in the name of "hope," Ultimate Lucky Student Nagito Komaeda is willing to kill anybody and everybody. Danganronpa 2: Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair Volume 3 by Spike Chunsoft Kyousuke Suga at. The manga series Ultimate Luck and Hope and Despair contains bonus scenes not shown in the video game! The ultimate teenage murder game continues!īased on Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair video game, the sequel to the original video game Danganronpa. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Tracy smith life on mars![]() ![]() Smith’s poetry to be high strung and exclusive. Maybe me and poetry aren’t so wrong for each other after all!Įducated at Harvard and Columbia, nurtured at Stanford and currently teaching at Princeton, you might expect Tracy K. Smith’s third published collection, had won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Imagine my surprise and delight to find out that this volume, Ms. ![]() When on a whim I picked up her 2011 collection, Life on Mars, and read one of the first poems, “My God – It’s Full of Stars”, I said to myself – “Woah – dang, I get this!” So when I stumble across a poet whose works do resonate, I tend to take notice. And often it’s the “best” poetry or the most decorated of poets that have me wondering just why it is that I don’t get it, why any sort of appreciation of what is being expressed eludes me, so I assume the lack is my own sensitivity, my own ability to understand or to accept a kinship with it. It makes me feel obtuse, uncomprehending. It’s too big for me, too delicate or too complicated, too deep. I appreciate that.īut often it seems that poetry is outside my ability to experience it, to connect with it. It speaks to that which often cannot otherwise find a voice. It’s an idiom that is unique, that uses the look and the cadence of language to enhance or encapsulate or simplify the ideas conveyed. I love poetry, or at least the idea of poetry. I’ll admit it – I often have problems reading poetry.ĭon’t get me wrong. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Unearthed kaufman![]() But the more they learn about the Undying, the more Jules and Mia start to feel like their presence in the temple is part of a grand design - one that could spell the end of the human race. They came to Gaia certain that they had far more to fear from their fellow humans than the ancient beings whose mysteries they're trying to unravel. but both are keeping secrets that make trust nearly impossible.Īs they race to decode the ancient messages, Jules and Mia must navigate the traps and trials within the Undying temples and stay one step ahead of the scavvers on their heels. The Undying’s advanced technology has the potential to undo environmental damage and turn lives around, and their message leads to the planet Gaia, a treasure trove waiting to be explored. ![]() Beset by rival scavenger gangs, Jules and Mia form a fragile alliance. When Earth intercepts a message from a long-extinct alien race, it seems like the solution humanity has been waiting for. ![]() Despite their opposing reasons for smuggling themselves onto the alien planet's surface, they're both desperate to uncover the riches hidden in the Undying temples. as long as scavengers like Amelia Radcliffe don't loot everything first. The Undying's advanced technology has the potential to undo environmental damage and turn lives around, and their message leads to the planet Gaia, a treasure trove waiting to be explored.įor Jules Addison and his fellow scholars, the discovery of an ancient alien culture offers unprecedented opportunity for study. ![]() When Earth intercepts a message from a long-extinct alien race, it seems like the solution humanity has been waiting for. From the New York Times best-selling author duo Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner comes a "literally breathtaking" new sci-fi series about a death-defying mission on an alien planet. ![]() ![]() For example, at the cropmark site at Forteviot, chemical transformations can be triggered by organic matter accumulation and increased water retention within prehistoric ditch deposits and can have an effect on the type of magnetic contrast. ![]() This study demonstrates that, by focusing on the responses of single archaeological features and assessing their physical and chemical signatures, soil composition and processes involved in the ‘history’ of buried features are of importance in improving our understanding of the reasons behind their detection with geophysical means. Second, the different geophysical results were considered with respect to soil chemical concentrations (total phosphate and multi‐element analysis), texture, pH, conductivity, organic matter content and magnetic susceptibility from archaeological deposits, topsoil and subsoil samples. First, a range of geophysical techniques was employed over archaeological targets. systematically tested a combined approach using geophysical and soil characterisation to understand the proxy responses of known archaeological features. ![]() The results presented here are part of the first research project that. ![]() This article explores the application of geophysical and soil geochemical methods to detect archaeological features in three traditionally ‘difficult’ survey environments in Scotland: wind‐blown sands (Bay of Skaill, Orkney), clay (Chesterhall Parks Farm, Lanarkshire) and glacial drift deposits (Forteviot, Perthshire). ![]() ![]() ![]() Having previously attained the rank of tribune, provincial governor, and probably praetorian prefect, Constantius was raised, on 1 March 293, to the rank of Caesar in the First Tetrarchy organized by Diocletian. ] There is good reason to think that Constantius and Helena lived in concubinage rather than in legally recognized marriage. ] His father was a military officer named Constantius (later Constantius Chlorus or Constantius I), his mother a woman of humble background named Helena (later St. ![]() ![]() The fact that ten Byzantine emperors after him bore his name may be seen as a measure of his importance and of the esteem in which he was held.įlavius Valerius Constantinus, the future emperor Constantine, was born at Naissus in the province of Moesia Superior, the modern Nish in Serbia, on 27 February of 271, 272, or 273. His victory at the Milvian Bridge counts among the most decisive moments in world history, while his legalization and support of Christianity and his foundation of a 'New Rome' at Byzantium rank among the most momentous decisions ever made by a European ruler. His powerful personality laid the foundations of post-classical European civilization his reign was eventful and highly dramatic. ![]() The emperor Constantine has rightly been called the most important emperor of Late Antiquity. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Washington square by henry james![]() ![]() As a result the James children received very erratic educations and Henry Jr. His family led a very cosmopolitan lifestyle, traveling quite a bit to the fashionable cities of Europe. His mother, Mary Robertson Walsh James, was from a wealthy upstate family and was a devoted wife and mother to five children. to pursue an intellectual career and he wrote and lectured on a variety of theological matters. It was this windfall that allowed Henry James Sr. His family’s affluence was due to his paternal grandfather’s sizeable fortune, which had been split among his children, including James’ father, Henry James Senior. Henry James was born on Apto a wealthy family at 21 Washington Place. Though Henry James is one of the few Americans memorialized in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey in England, Greenwich Village’s impact on him and his literature was indelible. ![]() ![]() Spending his childhood on Washington Place, in the refined and sophisticated Greenwich Village, he would write a novel a few years after moving to London entitled Washington Square in 1881. ![]() Though he later made England his home, the memory of his early life in Manhattan would reflect in his writing throughout his life. A prolific writer with an expansive range, Henry James traced his Victorian gentility and class-consciousness from his upbringing in mid-19 th century Greenwich Village. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments 660 curry recipes![]() ![]() ![]() He talked about how British colonisers in the 19th Century grew to like what he calls the saucy flavours of Indian food so much that they got their cooks to "pound the spices together and put them in a jar" so they could carry them back to England. In his own words, the book is "telling the story of how curry travelled out of India, all around the world". In the interview, Iyer expressed his hope for this book to become his lasting legacy to Indian cooking, especially the versatility of curry around the globe. In one of his final interviews, he spoke about his latest – and last – book, On the Curry Trail: Chasing the Flavor That Seduced the World (published in February), to me over Zoom in early March. He is the author of seven cookbooks, including the now iconic 660 Curries. ![]() According to a recent New York Times article, he taught Americans to cook Indian food. Raghavan Iyer, chef, cookbook author, culinary teacher and curry expert passed away on Friday after a prolonged battle with cancer. This was one of the last interviews he did, and we publish this story and his recipe for Sri Lankan prawn curry as a celebration of his life and legacy as the iconic Indian-born American chef and author who taught us to cook Indian food and curries from around the world. Since reporting this story, Raghavan Iyer had sadly passed away. ![]() |