“The excessive use of force creates legitimacy problems, and force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
David and Goliath is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). It was painted…
The 1960 film adaptation by George Pal of The Time Machine (1895) by H.G. Wells is a classic. It is a faithful adaptation that does the imaginative genius of Well’s due homage. There is one addition to the story in the film that Well’s did not include himself in his…
In a dark room, lit, with meager lighting, far below the surface of New Earth sit a group of people. They are battle-weary and smell of blood. Not human blood. A young warrior stands and places an old machine upon a roughly hewn altar inside this cathedral-like space. As the…
Duke turned back. He was suddenly stopped, dead, in his tracks. He was a killer. Created to terminate. Unity of form and function with one purpose. There was no place for emotion within his strict code of being. But he felt it. Something. He felt connected. Just by looking at…
The Rayner Hoff Statues.
It was during my research into War memorials of WW1 and specifically the deliberate elision and omission of dead bodies or corpses from them, that I came across the ANZAC memorial in Sydney. The ANZAC War Memorial was completed in 1934 and is the main commemorative…
“Let's go Major” Duke was impatient. Time really was of the essence now. She had to be stopped.
“I am trying to reconfigure the portal to send us back to a day before she is facing that Court-Martial. Dr. Harker will not be expecting that nor us,” The Major retorted.
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Life During Wartime?
On Monday, November 22nd, 2021 a memorial to the dead and a tribute to key workers who have been on the frontline of the battle against Covid 19 was unveiled in Barnsley. It may well be the first. The sculptor responsible for this creation Graham Ibbeson has…
“The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting that which he sees before him. …
So this was it. The final battle. After love and betrayal must come revenge. It is a cycle that must be. It is the trinity of tragedy that is ever-present in man's and women’s desire to be loved.
A woman deals with betrayal differently from a man. She prepares. She…
Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict
Kyle Rittenhouse was found Not Guilty on all charges.
Even though everyone knew that this was going to be the verdict it still came as a shock. That there was still shock and dismay about the judicial fait accompli which began the moment he picked up his…
Column @ timetravelnexus.com on iconic books, TV shows/films: Time Travel Peregrinations. Reviewed all episodes of ‘Dark’ @ site. https://linktr.ee/marcbarham64
