The international character of the collection can be accounted for, on one hand, by an active trade in firearms and, on the other hand, by the existence of the princes' interest in weapons of different origins and mechanical types. There is also a small group of oriental guns that are probably booty from the Austro-Turkish wars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. More than three hundred firearms by Viennese makers are still present in the collection, as is an important group of arms made by the otherwise little-known gunmakers active in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia. The firearms collection is one of the largest extant, comprising more than one thousand examples ranging in date from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century and coming from every corner of Europe: France, the Netherlands, Spain, England, Denmark, Italy, and the territories of Central Europe that constituted the Holy Roman Empire. The armory comprises plate armor and edged weapons, firearms and artillery, but it is the hand firearms (guns and pistols) that are of greatest historical and artistic interest. The princely collection of Liechtenstein includes one of the last great armories in Central Europe to survive in the possession of the original family.
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Some speculate that Thomas may have begun “Do not go gentle into that good night” in 1945, when his father’s ill-health first began to seem serious, but there is little reason (other than a somewhat inflated contemporary estimate of how difficult it is to write a villanelle) to suppose that Thomas took six years to write his famous villanelle. Rage, rage, against the dying of the light. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sightīlind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,Īnd you, my father, there on the sad height,Ĭurse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,Īnd learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. 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Hearn worked as a journalist in Kôbé and afterward in 1896 got Japanese citizenship and a new name, Koizumi Yakumo. Kanô Jigorô, the president of the school of that time, spread judo to the world. In 1891, he moved to Kumamoto and taught at the fifth high school for three years. In Matsué, he got acquainted with Nishida Sentarô, a colleague teacher and his lifelong friend, and married Koizumi Setsu, a daughter of a samurai. He afterward moved to Matsué as an English teacher of Shimané prefectural middle school. He arrived in Yokohama, but because of a dissatisfaction with the contract, he quickly quit the job. After making remarkable works in America as a journalist, he went to Japan in 1890 as a journey report writer of a magazine. Rosa Cassimati (Ρόζα Αντωνίου Κασιμάτη in Greek), a Greek woman, bore Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (Πατρίκιος Λευκάδιος Χερν in Greek or 小泉八雲 in Japanese), a son, to Charles Hearn, an army doctor from Ireland. Greek-born American writer Lafcadio Hearn spent 15 years in Japan people note his collections of stories and essays, including Kokoro (1896), under pen name Koizumi Yakumo. More recently, it’s been Ibraim Roberson, and a few notable issues with art from Guiu Vilanova. The series premiered with Raffaele Ienco drawing. He’s joined by a rotating team of artists. When I tell you that the man is a Rhodes scholar, know that I am being literal. His work on “Hercules” is some of my all-time favorite Marvel stuff. He’s also done a lot of good work with “X-Men” characters, especially Magneto. Heard of a little story called ‘Planet Hulk’? They made a famous movie out of that one. Greg Pak isn’t just an influential writer, he’s achieved legend status. This week we are considering the staying power of Marvel’s “Darth Vader” series! With “Don’t Miss This,” we try to spotlight series we think need to be on your pull list. 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And then, of course, there is a corollary: The only software that's worth making is software that does something new. Rosenberg's fly-on-the-wall reporting deftly charts the course taken by Kapor's Open Source Applications Foundation, while acknowledging that every software programmer finds his or her own unique path to a brick wall in the development process. Scott Rosenberg, Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software 3 likes Like Software is easy to make, except when you want it to do something new. Software is easy to make, except when you want it to do something new," Rosenberg observes but the catch is that "the only software worth making is software that does something new." 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