Ralph Waldo Emerson, nicknamed the Concord Sage, was the leading voice of intellectual culture in the USA during his time. Though Melville later admitted Emerson was “a great man”, he initially though he had “a self-conceit so intensely intellectual that first one hesitates to call it by its right name”. The minister and Transcendentalist Theodore Parker recognized Emerson’s ability to inspire and influence others: “the brilliant genius of Emerson rose in the winter nights, and hung over Boston, drawing the eyes of ingenuous young people to look up to that great new start, a beauty and a mystery, which charmed for the moment, while it gave also perennial inspiration, as it led them forward along new paths, and towards new hopes”.
Emerson influenced not only his contemporaries such as Henry David Thoreau but also later thinkers in the USA and around the world to date. Nietzsche recognized Emerson’s influence over him as did William James, Emerson’s godson. T.S. Eliot found Emerson’s essays to be an “encumbrance”. Why not use your Jacamo discount codes to buy some of his work and see what you think?
Everybody loves the weekend. There are so many reasons to love it. Primarily it is a time when we don’t have to work- which means no waking up at stupidly early hours in the morning, and no fighting with others during the rush hour commute to work. It also means that we don’t have to eat mass produced sandwiches for lunch, or drink coffee out of a soggy paper cup. Another amazing thing about the weekend is that i know that when i get home, i can just relax, without ironing my husband’s shirt for work the next day, and without having to make sure that my son has done his homework to a high enough level. In short the weekends are bliss.
However, i haven’t yet got to the highlight of my weekend, the point around which the rest of the 48 hours evolves. This highlight is the lottery results saturday when i find out how much money I haven’t won this week, but could have won had i bought a few more tickets! The lottery offers me hope in my life when there are few other sources of such hope and excitement. Shame I haven’t won...yet!
I'm so excited that The Chariot are coming back to play in the UK again, and to make it even better, they're playing with Norma Jean, another amazing hardcore band.
They're calling it the Evil Tiger Vulture Tour and it's going all through the UK and Europe. Norma Jean are headlining, playing with The Chariot and now Dead and Divine have been announced. Stray From The Path had been previously announced but there are now rumours they may have been replaced by Dead and Divine.
I saw The Chariot earlier this year and it was amazing, they just go absolutely buck wild, throwing themselves around the place, onto the crowd, throwing their instruments, taking the drum kit apart and setting it up in the pit mid-show, all sorts of crazy stuff!
This video for their single 'The City' is 100% real and 100% accurate of what they're all about. I've got some live videos from when I saw The Chariot earlier this year and oh my god they're insane! I've stored them all on my r4ds because they were taking too much memory on my phone,
I've not seen Norma Jean before, but they've sure got an act to follow on this tour!
Here is a list of some of the most unusual deaths which occurred during the 18th century. I bet these individuals wish they’d got to www.sunlife50plan.co.uk and got themselves life insurance! Julien Offray de La Mettrie died in 1751 after overeating at a feast that was held in his honour. Similarly, Adolf Frederick, the King of Sweden, died of digestion problems after consuming too much food at a meal in 1771. After consuming lobster, sauerkraut, smoked herring, and caviar, with liberal lashings of champagne, the King ate fourteen servings of his preferred dessert. He died shortly afterwards, leading to his fame in Sweden as “the king who ate himself to death”.
In 1762 Crown Prince Sado was sealed in a rice chest after his father, the Emperor Yeongjo of Joseon decided he was not a fit heir to succeed him. The Crown Prince survived a whopping 8 days in the chest! In 1755 a freak accident befell Henry Hall who had molten lead fall into his throat whilst looking up at a burning lighthouse!
The medieval Iranians erected large lighthouses along the opening mouth of the Persian Gulf, attested to by Jia Dan, a Tang Dynasty Chinese writer who wrote between 785 and 805. Arab writers al-Mas’udi and al-Muqaddasi confirmed the same in their writings a century later. The medieval mosque in Canton, China, harboured a minaret that also served as a lighthouse. During the Song Dynasty, a pagoda tower was built in medieval Hangzhou known as Liuhe Pagoda, which served as a lighthouse on the Qiantang River. The Liuhe Pagoda dates to 1165. None of these lighthouses used led gu10 light bulbs obviously!
After the fall of the Roman empire, the Roman lighthouses fell into disuse and disrepair. A few remained functional however, one being the Tower of Hercules in A Coruña, Spain, and some others surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. As Europe began to pull itself back together and navigation again, lighthouses began expanding into Western and Northern Europe. Hook Lighthouse is one of Europe’s oldest functioning lighthouses, built during the medieval era.
