![]() She has made statements and used her social media channels to make public appeals for the release of Paul Whelan, who Russian officials refused to include in the prison swap that brought Griner home in December, and the many other Americans wrongfully detained across the world. ![]() "Every chance I get, wearing a shirt, saying their names, any interview I have – and you’ll see the theme throughout the season – that’s just bringing awareness to everybody that doesn’t have the platform and the followers and the exposure. "I’m really fortunate to have this platform that I have," the eight-time WNBA All-Star and two-time Olympic champion said last week. She is determined to reclaim the life she had before and, while doing so, help others who remain where she once was, reclaim theirs. It isn’t enough for her simply to live well now that she’s home. ![]() More vivid than those scars, however, is Griner’s strength. Or she makes a passing reference to the danger of having hope. You can see their faint outlines when Brittney Griner says, emphatically, that she will not play overseas again without the protection of a Team USA uniform. ![]() You cannot be imprisoned for 10 months, wrongly detained in desperate conditions millions of miles from home and not knowing when you’ll see your loved ones again, and not carry the scars. ![]()
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![]() The first three volumes are free with a ComiXology Unlimited subscription. First, you should absolutely read Moore, Bissette, and Totleben’s run (or Saga of the Swamp Thing) before continuing this article. In this edition of Graphic, we’re going to discuss how they did it.īut before we begin, let’s clarify a few things. In an unexpected but ultimately brilliant move, Berger gave the team complete creative freedom, leading to the greatest reinvention of a character in comic history. In order to capitalize on the movie, DC editor (and member of comic pantheon) Karen Berger put then-upcoming British writer Alan Moore on a team with horror artist Stephen Bissette and inker John Totleben. ![]() That series was abruptly cancelled in 1978, but DC’s interest in old Swampy returned in 1982, when Wes Craven’s feature film about the character hit theaters. Created by Wolverine co-creator Len Wein and horror comics titan Bernie Wrightson, the character’s haunting face and mossy aura made him a visual stand-out since the first issue of his series. Swamp Thing has always been comics royalty. So pull up your blanket, dear reader, switch on your flashlight, and turn the page… ![]() Every month, I’ll be telling you about the best horror in comic books, from the early days of EC Comics to the resurgence of the genre in today’s mainstream and indie publishers. ![]() From the paneled pictures of your darkest dreams, this is Graphic. ![]() ![]() ![]() A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Saxon Academy of Sciences, the Akademie für Mozart-Forschung (he chaired it from 1996–2006) and since 2015 a member of the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and the Arts, he also holds an honorary professorship at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He was also on the graduate faculty of the Juilliard School from 2010–2018. Wolff taught music history at Erlangen, Toronto, Princeton, and Columbia Universities before joining the Harvard faculty in 1976 as Professor of Music and retiring in 2014. He studied organ and historical keyboard instruments, musicology, and art history at the Universities of Berlin, Erlangen, and the Music Academy of Freiburg, receiving a performance diploma in 1963 and a PhD in 1966. ![]() He was born in Solingen, the son of theologian Hans Walter Wolff. Christoph Wolff is an emeritus professor of Harvard University, and was part of the faculty since 1976, and former director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig from 2001 to 2014. He is best known for his works on the music, life, and period of Johann Sebastian Bach. ![]() Christoph Wolff (born ) is a German musicologist. ![]() ![]() ![]() A touching and beautiful picture book about being true to yourself and not letting anyone hold you back. But Grace's Ma and Nana tell her she can be anything she wants if she puts her mind to it. Peter was a boy, and besides, he wasn't black. But her classmates say that Grace absolutely can't play that part. When Grace's school decides to put on a performance of Peter Pan, Grace longs to play the part of Peter. Sometimes she plays the leading part, sometimes she is 'a cast of thousands' and sometimes, when they're not too tired, she can even convince Ma and Nana to join in her magical story creations. She spends her time dressing up and putting on performances for her beloved Ma and Nana, usually helped by Paw-Paw the cat. She didn't care if they were from books or on TV or in films or on the video or out of Nana's long memory. She didn't mind if they were read to her or told to her or made up in her own head. With over a million copies sold this classic story of Grace, her Ma and Nana is a timeless classic of courage and determination, loved and cherished by children the world over. ![]() ![]() In fact, this is the greatest drawback of the book, in my opinion. This is not a romance novel, so there is very little sex in it, but there are LOTS of violent battle scenes. ![]() ![]() The descriptions of Sicily were lush and beautiful (actually all of her locale descriptions are very evocative.). i thought this book was more about the women in Richard's life: his mother, his wife, his sister, Anna, Alys( his jilted betrothed), and the Queen of Jerusalem. ![]() Penman did exceptional research for this book, and I truly enjoyed some of the side characters (where is the full story about Morgan ap Ranulf?) Even the author's note is an exceptional read. "I must confess up front that Penman is one of my favorite authors and Richard I is one of my favorite subjects, so perhaps the five star rating is a bit biased, but I did love reading this book. A powerful tale of intrigue, war, and diplomacy, Lionheart plays out against the roiling conflicts of love and loyalty, passion and treachery, all set against the rich textures of the Holy Land. From New York Times best-selling novelist Sharon Kay Penman comes the stunning story of a great medieval warrior-king, the accomplished and controversial son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine-Richard the Lionheart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Master mine, beloved of my heart, why did you leave me?" I was Weightless against the torrential bliss now descending. Moment of moments! The anguish of past months was toll I counted Greeting but instantly advanced to gather him hungrily in my arms. "My son!" Master spoke tenderly, on his face an angel-bewitchingįor the first time in my life I did not kneel at his feet in Waves of rapture engulfed me as I beheld the flesh and blood form World, the sunlight transmuted into supernal splendor. Before my openĪnd astonished eyes, the whole room was transformed into a strange Was roused from my meditation by a beatific light. Sitting on my bed in the Bombay hotel at three o'clock in theĪfternoon of June 19, 1936-one week after the vision of Krishna-I Scheduled for several public addresses in Bombay before leaving on My Western voyage had, for the time being, been cancelled. When I could not understand the exact message of Lord Krishna, heĭeparted with a gesture of blessing. The divine figure waved to me, smiling and nodding in greeting. Ineffable vision had suddenly burst on my sight as I gazed out of Shining over the roof of a high building across the street, the Shimmering blaze as I sat in my room at the Regent Hotel in Bombay. ![]() "Lord Krishna!" The glorious form of the avatar appeared in a ![]() 8774 Autobiography of a Yogi - Chapter 43 Paramahansa Yogananda Chapter 43: The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar ![]() ![]() But enemies or reluctant lovers, if they don't stop themselves soon, heaven will. But at the end of the day, the two are enemies. But when Ana, a ghost from his past, corners him and promises pain for what he so recently did to her, she and her empty threats captivate him, and he decides to keep her around.In spite of themselves, Ana and Famine are drawn to each other. ![]() Try as he might, he can't forget what they once did to him. And how these blighted bastards deserve it. ![]() But if the horseman remembers her at all, he must not care, for when she comes face to face with him for the second time in her life, she's stabbed and left for dead.Only, she doesn't quite die.If there's one thing Famine is good at, it's cruelty. ![]() They came to earth, and they came to end us all.Īna da Silva always assumed she'd die young, she just never expected it to be at the hands of Famine, the haunting immortal who once spared her life so many years ago. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth-Pestilence, War, Famine, Death-four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() a's return, and the sacrifice it demands, weighs heavily on her heart. Kiss her as you slit her pretty throat." Successful in her quest, Flowridia returns to Staelash for a joyous affair-the long awaited wedding of Marielle and Zorlaeus, an event promising to seal her kingdom and Nox'Kartha as allies. But the city of the dead is full of secrets, and those her lover kept were the darkest of all. All the while, Flowridia is plagued by dreams of Ayla Darkleaf, as well as the tantalizing promise of her lost love's return - for a price. With the strings of life and death held in her grasp, destiny might come at the cost of her soul. Flowridia's powers flourish under Casvir's tutelage, manifesting in talents beyond her nightmares and dreams. After all, he who writes the contracts writes them in his favor. ![]() Casvir's assistance in her kingdom's quest to stop the reborn God of Order could ensure victory, but not without its own costs. Meanwhile, Flowridia embarks on a journey with Imperator Casvir of Nox'Kartha, the mysterious patron of her powers. ![]() ense for her daughter's death - and she deems Flowridia responsible. ![]() War has sparked in the demonic realm of Sha'Demoni, ignited by the wrath of a vengeful goddess seeking recomp. "Look at you, as sweet as springtime, your heart and soul both.Would you destroy all of that to bring about your lost love's return?" The dead lay gone but not forgotten. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gaskell's first novel, Mary Barton (1848), focused on relations between employers and workers in Manchester from the perspective of the working poor North and South uses a protagonist from southern England to present and comment on the perspectives of mill owners and workers in an industrialising city. Initially, Gaskell wanted the novel to be titled after the heroine, Margaret Hale, but Charles Dickens, the editor of Household Words, the magazine in which the novel was serialised, insisted on North and South. The 2004 version renewed interest in the novel and attracted a wider readership. With Wives and Daughters (1865) and Cranford (1853), it is one of her best-known novels and was adapted for television three times (1966, 19). ![]() North and South is a social novel published in 1854–55 by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For them, nature is the source of all creativity, mystery, and beauty. In a world on the verge of being engulfed by the Industrial Revolution, the Romantics took refuge in nature to recover the connection to our primary home. The unity between human beings and nature. There were three fundamental aspects that particularly interested the Romantics, and which again are undeniably relevant in the times in which we live. They spoke of the link between art and life, between the individual and society, between humanity and nature.” As Wulf explains: “They wanted to romanticize the whole world, and that meant perceiving it as an interconnected whole. What is historically known as romanticism was born in Jena, Germany, more than two centuries ago, among a circle of friends comprising young personalities such as Goethe, Schlegel, Schelling, Schiller or Novalis. To be “romantic” was to discover one’s own self and to understand the peaks and troughs of life without being daunted by them, a philosophy well-suited to modern times. Originally, the adjective romantic had nothing to do with the meaning it has today, at least in popular culture. Following the success of The Invention of Nature, in which the German-British historian Andrea Wulf examined the life and work of the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self (2022) explores the romantic spirit. ![]() |