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"How wonderful to be alive,
- he thought.
But why does it always hurt?" - Boris Pasternak.

Boris Pasternak,writer of Doctor Zhivago,painted by his father Leonid Pasternak,a Jewish-Russian painter (1862 Odessa-1945 Oxford)

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2021-05-30

May 25, 1875: Oscar Wilde was raised a Master Mason in Apollo University Lodge, based at the University of Oxford.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
https://t.co/UjuDuBuUwV

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2021-05-25

oxford university says the human body will look like this in 1000 years

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2021-05-19

For Echoes of the Past, another from the Pitt Rivers Museum from June 2019, a very old mousetrap.
My show over but see my catalogue here ...
https://t.co/AGlWRBXM2x
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Kevin Hinton - Site 56

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2021-05-18

Amiga Games That Weren't blows the lid on CyberSpace - an unreleased cyberpunk game by Oxford Digital Enterprises, based on a table top role-playing game. Featuring previously unseen screens from the cancelled edition and interviews with the team.

https://t.co/YMqgxLN78t

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2021-05-18

Expectations of the weather in May vs the actual weather in May

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2021-05-18

Today's painting. Creation Myth. Wyndham Lewis (1933 New College Oxford )

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2021-05-16

Congratulations 2020 and 2021 graduates! This portrait of an unknown Graduate of Merton College, Oxford is attributed to George Knapton (c. 1754/1755, ). 1/

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2021-05-16

Who else has been on the lookout for birds this spring? 🐦👀

What have you seen around Oxford, or wherever you are in the world? Has anyone been lucky enough to spot a Kingfisher?

This study of a Kingfisher is by Victorian artist and art critic John Ruskin c. 1871.

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2021-05-15

THREE BLIND MICE is a nursery rhyme some believe refers to the horrific fate of three famous Protestants (Ridley, Latimer and Cranmer) accused of plotting against the Catholic, Queen Mary I of England ("Bloody Mary"). Burned at the Stake.

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2021-05-13

ooh - I found another image for Figures and Form, a pastel drawing from a life class at Sunningwell - https://t.co/neqZhm5dXD - in 2019
Good times - hope to go back someday
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[ Kevin Hinton - Site 56 ]

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2021-05-13

For today’s theme, Figures and Form, here’s Manny a from November 2019.
The show’s over N&W but still online. See my catalogue here ...
https://t.co/AGlWRBXM2x
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Kevin Hinton - Site 56

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2021-05-12

https://t.co/LVyr8UDb9g Landscape near Segonzano in the Cembra Valley. 1495. Watercolor on paper. Albrecht Durer, artist.
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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2021-05-10

Egyptologist, archaeologist, and artist Howard Carter was born in 1874. Watercolour falcons by Carter (MSS. vii.1.6.1 & MSS. vii.1.6.2 - © Griffith Institute, University of Oxford)

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2021-05-09

A nice mug of tea, an old daily sketch for today’s theme ‘Home Comforts’.
More artists at https://t.co/FLTbtSgUVn
See my show catalogue at ...
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[ Kevin Hinton - Site 56 ]

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2021-05-04

in 1930 Pluto was officially named, after a public competition. The winner was 11-year-old Oxford student, Venetia Burney, who proposed naming the (dwarf) planet after the Greek god of the underworld.

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2021-05-01

The f'n Oxford Dictionary agrees with Radley (and every non-sedition loving American) here. So in answer to your pithy demand:

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2021-05-01