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Altamira Cave
Thanks for the comment. Yes, I remember Picasso's comment - quite an interesting viewpoint (of course!) and rather insightful.
jptanabe, on 08/01/2018
Adding Photographs to Articles
Yes, it is possible to buy rights. It does help when there is nothing in your own collection to serve the purpose. I do not spend on images. I use my image for my collection, the dog, as a default when nothing else works.
blackspanielgallery, on 08/01/2018
Altamira Cave
jptanabe, Thank you for the informative write-up and wonderful product line. Cave art always calls up Marx and Picasso for me. Picasso commented that art has nothing new since the cave artists. In his correspondence with Dr. Kugelmann, Marx ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/01/2018
Oliver Cromwell's house, Ely
Look at a map of the old English counties, which will show that Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Huntingdonshire,Norfolk and Northamptonshire are all in the same vicinity. So movement between these places would have been easy.Sometimes these are ...
frankbeswick, on 08/01/2018
Lascaux Cave Paintings
jptanabe, Thank you for the backstories to the content in your lovely product line. The dotted animals always convinces me that pointillism is retro cave art ;-D.
Have you read the article, back in October 2013, by Dean Snow, "Sexual Dimorphism ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 08/01/2018
Adding Photographs to Articles
My images are from one of three sources: my own, Pixabay and Fotolia. For the latter I buy credits that enable me to publish them.
frankbeswick, on 08/01/2018
Oliver Cromwell's house, Ely
Lady Margaret Cromwell was indeed from Notinghamshire, which could be an ld spelling, and she married Sir william Smyth, died in Lincolnshire, and held title of High Sheriff. I can trace back several generations.
blackspanielgallery, on 08/01/2018
Oliver Cromwell's house, Ely
Oliver Cromwell was born in Huntingdonshire. Huntingdon is only about 40 miles from Northampton and two different titled families called Cromwell in the same locality is unlikely.
As far as I am aware, Oliver Cromwell's grandfather was named ...
Veronica, on 08/01/2018
Oliver Cromwell's house, Ely
What a fascinating line you have. Your genealogy would make an interesting page.
Veronica, on 08/01/2018
Oliver Cromwell's house, Ely
No historian has ever doubted Cromwell's sanity, as far as I know.
I have looked up Lady Margaret Cromwell and found that she came from Northamptonshire. This is a county not far distant from the county of Norfolk, where Cromwell lived. ...
frankbeswick, on 08/01/2018
Oliver Cromwell's house, Ely
The study of history must include those things that make us uncomfortable. We must understand the whole. In past years members of our faculty visited Austria, and several found themselves visiting the Eagle's Nest, a retreat belonging to ...
blackspanielgallery, on 08/01/2018
Oliver Cromwell's house, Ely
You have given me an idea for an article. Thanks.
frankbeswick, on 08/01/2018
Oliver Cromwell's house, Ely
What is left over from harvest is straw, but rushes are a different kind of plant. Straw is the remnant of wheat; rushes are water plants related to reeds and still grow in the watery channels in the fens known as the Broads. Both rushes and ...
frankbeswick, on 07/31/2018
Oliver Cromwell's house, Ely
The rushes left over from the harvest were used in thatch. Nothing was wasted.
That's good information about the word "Fens " - "marsh ". I think it is very localised to Eastern England and therefore little known in our international ...
Veronica, on 07/31/2018
Oliver Cromwell's house, Ely
Readers may wish to know that rushes were so common in the area where Cromwell lived because the land was even then very marshy, and rushes grow in marshes. There are still areas of marsh remaining, and the whole area is known as The Fens [ fen ...
frankbeswick, on 07/31/2018