From today’s Writer’s Almanac: It’s the birthday of Voltaire, (books by this author) the man who helped spark the Enlightenment in France, born François-Marie Arouet in Paris (1694). He was a well-known playwright and poet. He spent most of his late life in exile, and he wrote most of his work from England. In the [...]
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On Photography
“We don’t make a photograph just with a camera; we bring to the act of photography all the books we have read, the movies we have seen, the music we have heard, the people we have loved.” – Ansel Adams Seen on a Flickr contact’s profile.
Preach?
“What have they to do at a University who are not willing to be taught, but will presume to teach?” –Samuel Johnson