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4 days ago · Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc [ʒan daʁk]; Middle French: Jehanne Darc [ʒəˈãnə ˈdark]; c.1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.
3 days ago · Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments. Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches. Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked,
3 days ago · The Dying Swan (1917) Bauer. Menilmontant (1926) Kirsanoff. L'Atalante (1934) Vigo. The General (1927) Keaton. The Floorwalker (1916) Chaplin. Ghosts ...
3 days ago · Aphrodite's major symbols include seashells, myrtles, roses, doves, sparrows, and swans. The cult of Aphrodite was largely derived from that of the Phoenician goddess Astarte, a cognate of the East Semitic goddess Ishtar, whose cult was based on the Sumerian cult of Inanna.
2 days ago · Princess Mononoke (Japanese: もののけ姫, Hepburn: Mononoke - hime) is a 1997 Japanese animated epic historical fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Dentsu. The film stars the voices of Yōji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yūko Tanaka, Kaoru Kobayashi ...
Sep 30, 2024 · The madrigal is about a dying swan (swans were believed to be able to sing only at the point of death) who laments the fact that "More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise."
3 days ago · Anna Pavlova was born in Russia in 1881, and died of pleurisy just before her 50th birthday. She is noted for having created the "The Dying Swan" which was later to feature in the ballet "Swan Lake" by Tchaikovsky. The rose named after Anna Pavlova was introduced in 1891 by Beales in the United Kingdom.
