Who Taught Leonardo to Paint?
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The Dream that Gave Us the Periodic Table of Elements
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The Wonder of a Pen
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Top Secret Drum Corps: Swiss Precision at its Finest
Switzerland is like a hidden jewel in the middle of Europe, a mountainous land with [...]
An Old Hymn Given New Beauty
I’m sure that the 19th century English hymn writer, Frances Havergal, never imagined her unassuming [...]
The Divine Prodigality of Beauty (Part 1 – Nature)
The title of this article is a quote from a favorite book of mine by [...]
John Rutter’s Glorious Psalm 23 – Part 2: The Sheep
The Sheep English choirmaster, John Rutter, established the Cambridge Singers in the early 1980s for [...]
John Rutter’s Glorious Psalm 23 – Part 1: The Shepherd
The Shepherd English composer, choirmaster and conductor, John Rutter, sets the most famous of all [...]
The Delicate Art of Hand-Crafting a Tiffany Lamp
“Color is to the eye what music is to the ear.” ~ Louis Comfort Tiffany [...]
The Last Poem of a Dying Clergyman
Sometimes people have a certain intuition, a premonition, of their own imminent deaths. This may [...]