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For the Dec. 3rd-4th graduate conference at the University of Cambridge on "Occultism, Magic, and the History of Art"— Four novels by Charles Williams— See also the life,…
Alan Cowell in the The New York Times , October 21, 2006— "Mr. Pinter played the role of Krapp, a 69-year-old man revisiting a tape recording he had made…
For the scholars gathered at a graduate conference today and tomorrow at Cambridge University* on "Occultism, Magic, and the History of Art"— Part I: Krapp Click image for a…
From the Los Angeles Times yesterday— "Chess player Elena Akhmilovskaya Donaldson sits in deep concentration at the U.S. chess championship in Seattle in 2002. (Greg Gilbert / Seattle Times / January 5,…
From About.com — Click image for larger, clearer original — "A fully lit Advent wreath with a central Christmas candle on a home altar, in front of icons of…
A magic— indeed, diabolic— square: For the construction, see a book by W. W. Rouse Ball, founding president of a Cambridge University magic society. For some related religious remarks,…
(Continued from Grim Joke ) Happy Birthday to The Master.
Image from this journal on November 11th, darkened in honor of a Harvard professor who died on that date— Related material: Lincoln and Darwin at Harvard.
Evening numbers for the New York lottery yesterday were 182 and 8691. One interpretation of the latter number is 8/6/91, birth date of the WWW— Friday, August 13,…
Source: Rudolf Koch, The Book of Signs The American Mathematical Society (AMS) yesterday: Lars Hörmander (1931-2012) Friday November 30th 2012 Hörmander, who received a Fields Medal in 1962, died…