Pope Francis asked Saturday for daily prayers to protect the Catholic Church from what he says are "attacks by the devil," in his latest response to the clerical sex abuse and cover-up scandal roiling his papacy.
David Hockney unveils iPad-designed window at Westminster Abbey
Artist’s stained-glass creation, The Queen’s Window, celebrates Elizabeth II’s reign
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David Hockney with The Queen’s Window in Westminster Abbey. ‘I didn’t want anything figurative … that would have been crass,’ he said. Photograph: AFP/Getty
The Queen’s Window, designed by David Hockney and created by Barley studio in York. Photograph: WPA Pool/Getty Images
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Mary Beard 談老年與創造力creativity AND old age
Japanese female artist草間彌生 Yayoi Kusama 和馬友友,都市極有創造力的藝術家
Shakespeare's Birthplace is a restored 16th-century half-timbered house situated in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, where it is ...
28 May 2018 (BBC Two) 28 September 2018 (Amazon Prime)
King Lear is a 2018 British-American television film directed by Richard Eyre. An adaptation of the play of the same name by William Shakespeare, cut to just 115 minutes, was broadcast on BBC Two on 28 May 2018.[1] The adaptation is set in an alternate universe 21st-century highly militarized London, with the sovereign King Lear calling his family together in order for him to announce the end of his reign and the division of his kingdom among his three daughters.
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust is the independent charity that cares for the world’s greatest Shakespeare heritage sites in Stratford-upon-Avon, and promotes the enjoyment and understanding of his works, life and times all over the world
• Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, is in Washington speaking to lawmakers. After largely avoiding the scrutiny faced by its internet peers, the search giant is being grilled on whether it’s living up to its promise to be a neutral arbiter of online information. ---- A former Google employee criticized the company’s plans to build a search engine that would suit the Chinese government and urged U.S. lawmakers to increase oversight of the technology industry.
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith by cartoonist Billy DeBeck.
Since June 17, 1919,
the word "Google" in The Google Book (1913),
Vincent Cartwright Vickers' children's book
about the Google
and other fanciful creatures who live in Googleland:
The Google has a beautiful garden which is guarded night and day. All through the day he sleeps in a pool of water in the center of the garden; but when the night comes, he slowly crawls out of the pool and silently prowls around for food.[14]
Kasner :極大的數: Milton Sirotta(9歲) 建議 採用 "Google".
"googol" and "googolplex"
Edward Kasner introduced "googol" and "googolplex" in Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).
Larry Page and Sergey Brin 1998年合創公司時, 又將 "googol" 改回 "google,"
The moves to assert control over Catholic and Protestant churches reflect a broader effort to establish control over society under President Xi Jinping.
When President Trump accused China of meddling with U.S. elections, he didn’t offer evidence at first. Then on Twitter, he pointed to a four-page advertorial in The Des Moines Register, paid for by an English-language news organization that usually toes the Communist Party line. The ad highlighted negative impacts of the U.S.-China trade war in a state that is politically significant for Republicans.
China’s foreign ministry pushed back on Mr. Trump’s accusations, saying it had a right to publish in American newspapers. Above, foreign minister Wang Yi.
But some Chinese analysts said the ad showed a lack of judgment. “China should not do this – it’s legal but wrong,” said one.