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"We come from the earth. We return to the earth. And in between we garden."
"We come from the earth.
We return to the earth.
And in between we garden."
- Author Unknown
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
- Cicero
"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has." - Rene Descartes
"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."
"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."
- Rene Descartes
"Let those who are in favour with their stars Of public honour and ..." - William Shakespeare
Let those who are in favour with their stars
Of public honour and proud titles boast,
Whilst I, whom fortune of such triumph bars,
Unlook'd for joy in that I honour most.
Great princes' favourites their fair leaves spread
But as the marigold at the sun's eye,
And in themselves their pride lies buried,
For at a frown they in their glory die.
The painful warrior famoused for fight,
After a thousand victories once foil'd,
Is from the book of honour razed quite,
And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd:
Then happy I, that love and am beloved
Where I may not remove nor be removed.
Sonnets Xxv: Let Those Who Are In Favour With Their Stars - Poem by William Shakespeare
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." - Cicero
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
- Cicero
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
- Oscar Wilde
"A house without books is like a room without windows."
- Horace Mann
One of The Few: 99-year-old WWii ace pilot takes to the skies in a Spitfire ahead of 78th anniversary of Battle of Britain Day
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A hero Battle of Britain pilot has taken to the skies at the tender age of 99 for the last time - in a Spitfire.
World War II ace Archie McInnes is one of only six surviving RAF pilots who took part in the vital Battle of Britain - known as The Few.
The war hero took to the skies above Kent last week in a refurbished Second World War Spitfire - accompanied by the plane he flew during the war.
The flight was organised and photographed by pal Jonny Cracknell, working alongside the Battle of Britain Museum. Jonny said: 'There are only eight Battle of Britain airmen left, and out of them, Archie is the most active.
There are only six pilots and two aircrew left out of the thousands of heroes who risked everything to protect Britain from the Nazis.
Archie joined the RAF in 1938, the year before the war, and completed pilot training in August, 1940.
After the Battle of Britain ended, on Ocotber 31, 1940, Archie's illustrious career took him on board HMS Victorious - where he was part of the team that hunted the Bismarck.
Archie then took part in the North African campaign, where he was shot down and lost his arm.
Pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain are known as 'The Few' after an iconic speech by then-PM Winston Churchill: 'Never was so much owed by so many to so few.'
The flight was organised ahead of the 78th anniversary of Battle of Britain Day, on September 15.
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Incredible photos: majestic swan family of nine at sunrise; "Born To Explore" producer and host participates in a swan rescue
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As the sun rises through the mist, a pair of swans and their seven cygnets glide majestically along in a scene that evokes the end of the hottest summer on record.
The stunning photograph was taken by James MacDonald on his smartphone when he spotted the birds’ stately, single file procession during a morning run in Bushy Park, south-west London.
Mr MacDonald, 40, a mapmaker for DK Travel guides who lives near the park, said: ‘They were on the move along an inlet from a small pond to a larger lake. I’d seen swans with their young in the park earlier in the year, when the parents are still very protective and won’t let you get near, so it was nice to be able to get close enough to take a picture of these now they are bigger.’
Richard Martin-Barton, of forecasters MeteoGroup, said: ‘It will feel a little bit Mediterranean, thanks to slightly warmer air moving in from Northern Spain. But it’s going to be a case of enjoy it while you can if you live in south-east England because – by the middle of next week – they will see the cooler, wetter conditions the rest of the country will be having.’
Emmy-winning 'Born To Explore' shares passion for adventure
Richard Wiese travels to Windsor, England to participate in a swan rescue for an episode of the Westport-produced travel program, "Born To Explore." The program, which airs Saturdays on ABC, recently took home an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Single Camera Photography. read more »
Ben Franklin was anti-debt to form Society of the Free and Easy for virtuous individuals: free of debt therefore easy in spirit
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10 of Benjamin Franklin’s Lesser-Known Feats of Awesomeness
4. HE WAS NO DEBTOR.
Franklin was terrified of debt and viewed it as similar to slavery because he believed that, through the acquisition of debt, man essentially sold his own freedom. He was so anti-debt that he often spoke (seriously) about forming an international organization called The Society of the Free and Easy for virtuous individuals who, among other things, were free of debt and, therefore, easy in spirit.
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