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An excerpt from; Shakespeare - A Renaissance Perennial
By Jeremy Nieboer
This article consists of a consideration of the treatise by Martin Lings entitled ‘The Secret of Shakespeare’ first published in part in 1965 in ‘Tomorrow’ and then in its full version as an essay in[1]’ 2005.
The recently completed mural at the School’s premises at Mandeville Place.
“I am the fiery life of divine substance, I blaze above the beauty of the fields, I shine in the waters, I burn in sun, moon and stars.” Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century Benedictine nun canonized in 2010, was...
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Abraham Maslow was born in 1908 and died in 1970. His parents were Jewish migrants who fled from persecution from what is now known as Ukraine and settled in Brooklyn, U.S. (Boeree, 2007). He was persecuted by anti-Semitic gangs, which...
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To be a flute-maker is to be an endangered species. Flute-makers in Scotland go back to the 17thcentury but now there is only one left. George’s flutes are in demand across the world so what makes them so special? He is an expert in woodwork, a silversmith and also makes his own tools. In the last 40 years he’s made around 1,200 beautiful wooden flutes. George is a senior philosophy student in the Edinburgh School.