Made in Heaven

EMI – The long and winding road How collective idiocy left the record companies in bits When the history of our digital times comes to be written, one of the questions that will puzzle historians is why the record companies missed the significance of the internet. Throughout the post-war period, theirs was a big and powerful industry making lots of money, and controlling just about everything - recording artists, publishers, distributors and retailers. By 1982, music had gone digital. (The first

HERODIAS By Gustave Flaubert De Gustave Flaubert Contents Sommaire CHAPTER I CHAPITRE I In the eastern side of the Dead Sea rose the citadel of Machaerus. Dans la partie orientale de la mer Morte est passée de la citadelle de Machaerus. It was built upon a conical peak of basalt, and was surrounded by four deep valleys, one on each side, another in front, and the fourth in the rear. Il a été construit sur une pointe conique de basalte, et a été entouré par quatre vallées profondes

American University of Beirut 2002-2003 The City of God by Saint AUGUSTINE BOOK I (sack of Rome not to be blamed on Christian prohibition of worship of pagan gods) Preface: explaining his design in undertaking this work THE glorious city of God is my theme in this work, which you, my dearest son Marcellinus, suggested, and which is due to you by my promise. I have undertaken its defence against those who prefer their own gods to the Founder of this city - ( ... ) as the plan

something Humans add into the world by the creation of something new or something more but he sees in art something less: The art object is less then its model. Art is imitation. Furthermore art doesn’t imitate the beings but the sensible. Plato compare the work of art to the representation of the word that you can see in a mirror “ With it (the mirror) you can quickly make the sun, the things in the heavens, the earth, yourself, the other animals, manufactured items, plants and everything else mentioned

Spleen and Ideal, Part I Summary Baudelaire famously begins The Flowers of Evil by personally addressing his reader as a partner in the creation of his poetry: "Hypocrite reader--my likeness--my brother!" In "To the Reader," the speaker evokes a world filled with decay, sin, and hypocrisy, and dominated by Satan. He claims that it is the Devil and not God who controls our actions with puppet strings, "vaporizing" our free will. Instinctively drawn toward hell, humans are nothing but instruments

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the Qur'an are from The Noble Qur'an: a New Rendering of its Meaning in English by Hajj Abdalhaqq and Aisha Bewley, published by Bookwork, Norwich, UK. 1420 CE/1999 AH. Abbreviations used: (saas-sall-Allahu 'alyahi wa sallam): May Allah bless him and grant him peace (following a reference to Prophet Muhammad) (as-'alayhi's-salam): Peace be upon him (following a reference to the prophets) Printed and bound by Secil Ofset in Istanbul 100 Yil Mah. MAS-SIT Matbaacilar Sitesi 4. Cadde No:77 Bagcilar-Istanbul

quitting time.” That’s a Chinese proverb and it shows that games are important in the Asian culture. Gambling is very popular in Asia, if we talk in more detail this phenomenon Macau is undoubtedly the most striking example. In fact, casinos have become really important that the Chinese government decided to reserve the exclusive gambling in Macao, which places the city to the rank of "Asian Capital of the game" like Las Vegas in the United States. The urban setting is fully drawn with luxury and international

In the Name of Allah the Beneficent the Merciful Introduction The importance of reciting, studying and contemplating on the verses of the Holy Qur’an cannot be stressed enough. Indeed this great revelation has many depths and mysteries that have yet to be discovered. Those who frequently read the Holy Qur’an can attest to the fact that it is an unending source of information and a bottomless well of fresh knowledge and guidance. Reading it repeatedly does not lead to ennui, but rather

set me on the renowned Way of the goddess, who with her own hands conducts the man who knows through all things. On what way was I borne 5 along; for on it did the wise steeds carry me, drawing my car, and maidens showed the way. And the axle, glowing in the socket - for it was urged round by the whirling wheels at each end - gave forth a sound as of a pipe, when the daughters of the Sun, hasting to convey me into the light, threw back their veils I Les cavales qui m’emportent au gré de mes désirs,