![]() That argument, as the subtitle indicates, was that aliens visited our planet in the distant past, and that all sorts of archaeological oddities from the Great Pyramid at Giza to the mysterious Nazca Lines in Peru are testament to their presence.Īnd this spry Swiss gentleman, to whom I speak a few months before his 87th birthday, in no way resiles from that conviction. ![]() His 1968 Chariots of the Gods – subtitled, “Was God An Astronaut?” – was a fixture on every 1970s bookshelf and its argument was propounded in any number of dope-clouded student common-rooms. ![]() ![]() “NGL”, as the young people say: when I was asked to interview von Däniken, my first feeling was astonishment that this titanic figure in late 20th-century popular publishing was still with us.įor those younger readers who won’t remember his work, von Däniken wrote the cult non-fiction book of all cult non-fiction books. I can feel a little shiver of excitement pass through my body – and then back in time, to 14-year-old me, entranced by a garish paperback with his name on the cover. “Hello,” says the brisk and slightly accented voice on the telephone. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The story is deeply human, and there is a major restoration effort that takes place after the book's publication. People really thrill to the story of Quasimodo as, you know, this bell ringer who lives in the in the tower but is also a metaphor for the tower itself. When I talked to Catherine Clark, who's a professor of French history at MIT, she told me that Victor Hugo writes this novel as an outcry to try to bring the state of Notre Dame to state attention and public attention and alert everyone that this architectural heritage is falling apart. ![]() And he really wants this architecture to be restored for future generations. And he really wants to be, basically, a celebrity advocate for Gothic preservation. ![]() The cathedral, by this point, is in a state of neglect and disrepair, still recovering from the French Revolution just a few decades earlier. LAPIN: So Victor Hugo writes "The Hunchback Of Notre Dame" in 1831. INSKEEP: What does that mean, that the novel was part of an effort to restore the cathedral? So as restorations begin again after this week's fire, we've called writer and film critic Andrew Lapin. The novel was an effort to help restore the cathedral back then. The cathedral in the title is immortalized by Victor Hugo's 1831 novel and by later film versions of the same story. "The Hunchback Of Notre Dame" was at the top of Amazon's bestsellers list in France on Tuesday afternoon. ![]() ![]() ![]() He and his step-son, Gunn, would do anything necessary to claim Dragonwyck as his own! Newly married, Rose stayed home (now named Dragonwyck) to deal with Dominic.Įxcept when in bed, the two clashed! Things worsen when her uncle, Murdoc MacTavish, arrived with his men to claim the castle. Right after the wedding, Starla and their mother left for the convent. Knowing the knight would want a meek wife and would chose her twin, Starla, to wed, Rose tricked him into believing the warrior sister was named Starla. Instead of her father, the Dragon Lord arrived. Lady Rose was all thorns on the outside! Trained as a warrior she guarded her mother, twin sister, and people until such time as her father returned. Dominic was to immediately take up residence and marry either the widow or the daughter of the deceased Lord. King John had executed the Baron of Ayrdale for treason. ![]() ![]() Even so, the Dragon Lord was surprised when the king gave him Ayrdale. Dominic Dragon of Pendragon was one of King John's most trusted knights. Set in the year 1214 on English soil, near the border. ![]() ![]() Randy resides in Oregon with his wife, Nanci. , his books sold exceed eleven million copies and have been translated into over seventy languages. Heaven, The Treasure Principle, If God Is Good, Happiness Aīestselling author of over 50 books, including Randy Alcorn is an author and the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries, a nonprofit ministry dedicated to teaching principles of God's Word and assisting the church in ministering to unreached, unfed, unborn, uneducated, unreconciled, and unsupported people around the world. This handy little booklet makes a great gift Heaven: A Comprehensive Guide to Everything the Bible Says About Our Eternal Home (Clear Answers to 44 Real Questions About the Afterlife, Angels, Resurrection. This pocket-sized 60-page booklet provides a sampling of some of the questions and answers found in Randy Alcorn's Revelation 21:16Hisliteralistic Heavenly City is a cube 1400 miles in each direction The vision shows us that, like the 'cube' of the Holy of Holies in the temple of the old covenant, once again God will dwell with man, and in a breath-taking and phenomenal way. ![]() Perfect gift for those who are grieving the loss of a loved oneĬonvenient pocket size is easy to fit in purses, backpacks, and briefcases Apby Randy Alcorn 0 Comments I asked one of our EPM staff members to look through the one-star reviews on Amazon for my book Heaven and compile them for me. ![]() ![]() Share the good news about Heaven with this pack of 20 pocket-sized bookletsġ8 easy-to-understand questions and answers adapted from the best-selling book, ![]() ![]() ![]() This lithograph was located between pages 132 and 133 in the original publication. In Beardsley’s illustration, the mantle in question is being offered to Arthur who holds out his hand to it. When the messenger wears the mantle, she is burned to ashes. The King tells the messenger that he will only take the mantle after the messenger wears it first. Fortunately, Arthur is warned of this deceiving device by the Lady of the Lake. In Malory’s version of the King Arthur story, Morgan le Fey, Arthur’s evil sister, tries to kill Arthur by sending him an enchanted mantle that will burn and kill whoever wears it. The text was modernized for a new, younger audience. The Beardsley illustrated edition was initially released in 1893 under the glorious and lengthy title, The Birth Life and Acts of King Arthur of His Noble Knights of the Round Table Their Marvelous Enquests and Adventures The Achieving of the San Greal and in the End the Morte DArthur with the Dolorous Death and Departing out of This World of Them All. This piece is one of Beardsley’s illustrations of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur, a collection of 360 pieces that he made when he was just 21 years old. ![]() “Arthur and the Strange Mantle” is a lithograph by the English Art Nouveau and Aesthetic illustrator, Aubrey Beardsley, from 1893. Today I will highlight one of my favorite illustrators. “Arthur and the Strange Mantle”, Aubrey Beardsley, 1893, lithograph. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her protagonists wed early in the page-count – and then she lets us watch as their lives begin to fray. They are as much a part of any reader’s mind as Jane Eyre or Jay Gatsby, and in an age when many novels still found their subject in courtship, George Eliot used them to look at marriage instead. Middlemarch has at least three characters whose names have become bywords, starting with its great heroine, Dorothea Brooke the others are the young doctor, Tertius Lydgate, and Dorothea’s first husband, the pedant Edward Casaubon. Each page is a lesson in how to be honest with yourself. If you really read this novel, you will learn about yourself if you listen to her, if you let her sentences penetrate, you will find out things about yourself that you didn’t and maybe don’t even want to know. Her pronouns pull the reader into the narrative, dispensing wisdom, and as often as not suggesting that our first reactions are shallow. It has George Eliot, it has a narrator whose voice and presence are as memorable as that of any character in English literature. ![]() ![]() "He was a man of extraordinary complexity, alternately idealistic and cynical, ruthless but impractical. She was born in 1122 on Bordeaux in the country of Aquitaine,(1) having for a father the future duke of Aquitaine, William X, and her mother Aenor of Chatellerault.(2) In Aquitaine women had liberties rarely found elsewhere in Europe and they mixed freely with men.(3) Her personality, as she grew older, owed a lot to this atmosphere of civility.(4) The first man to exhort an enormous impression upon her was her grandfather, William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, known as the Troubadour (Guilhem loTrobador). ![]() Eleanor of Aquitaine is considered by many to have been the most powerful and enlightened woman of her age, if not the entire medieval epoch. ![]() ![]() Survivors include his loving and devoted wife of sixty-three years, Jeanette McCoy, daughter, Sherrie DeLuca and husband Tom of Little Rock, grandchildren, Blake DeLuca, and wife Kelly of Little Rock and David DeLuca of Little Rock, Other survivors include sister-in-law, Lillian McCoy of Georgia, along with several nieces, nephews, extended family, and friends. He drove over one million accident-free miles, earning himself a place in the Million Mile Drivers Club. McCoy worked for more than forty years as a truck driver, retiring from ABF Trucking after many years. In addition to his parents, Dean was preceded in death by his son, Terry McCoy, siblings, Ed McCoy, Wonnie McCoy, and JoAnn Snider. He will always be remembered as a loving and hardworking husband, father, grandfather, brother, and friend. ![]() His hobbies included baseball and fishing, but he was always happiest spending time with his family. ![]() He was born in Tennille, Georgia on April 21, 1936, to the late Lee Owen "Bud" McCoy and Eula (Amerson) McCoy Roughton.ĭean was a member of Brockington Church of the Nazarene. Dean McCoy of Sherwood passed from this life on December 5, 2021, at the age of 85. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not one, but two hunky hockey stars to fall in love with? Yes, please! I loved this book and I read it basically in one sitting, once I started I just couldn’t put it down, Wes and Jamie’s story hooked me right from the start and I loved taking this journey with them. I’m the one who’s in love with my best friend and pretending I’m not. Take a walk down memory lane with us as we remember the goodness that is Wesmie and be sure to check out our NEW review of Epic at the end!Įarlier, I told him he’d acted like a douchecanoe. ![]() With the recent release of Epic (brand new #Wesmie, yay!!), we thought it would be fun to go back to where it all began and revisit our reviews of Him & Us. ![]() ![]() ![]() The fuck? A rocking horse ? Am I on acid? I feel like I just rolled around in glittery monkey vomit. What the hell did they do to my hair? It feels like I have straw coming out of my head. I wonder if they'll notice if I scratch it. I feel like I haven't slept in a millenium. ![]() I probably should've slept on the twelve-hour flight here. ![]() In the sequel to Lauren DeStefano’s harrowing Wither, Rhine must decide if freedom is worth the price - now that she has more to lose than ever. Worse still, they can’t seem to elude Rhine’s father-in-law, Vaughn, who is determined to bring Rhine back to the any means necessary. But the road there is long and perilous - and in a world where young women only live to age twenty and young men die at twenty-five, time is precious. The two are determined to get to Manhattan, to relative safety with Rhine’s twin brother, Rowan. With Gabriel at her side, Rhine travels through an environment as grim as the one she left a year ago - surroundings that mirror her own feelings of fear and hopelessness. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her, her fortune turns again. Running away brings Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival whose ringmistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Rhine and Gabriel have escaped the mansion, but danger is never far behind. ![]() |