75+ Lovely English Phrases You Ought to Know: From Aurora to Zephyr

If you consider the world’s most lovely languages, lovely English phrases may not be the primary to spring to thoughts. In any case, it doesn’t fairly have the musical lilt of a Romance language. And having studied a number of languages, English additionally doesn’t all the time have phrases for sure distinctive, philosophically-rich cultural phrases, like Japanese…

How the Historical Greeks & Romans Made Lovely Purple Dye from Snail Glands

A lot has been writ­ten about the lack of col­or within the twen­ty-first cen­tu­ry. Our envi­ron­ments supplied prac­ti­cal­ly each col­or identified to man not so very way back — and in cer­tain eras, grant­ed, it obtained to be a bit a lot. However now, each­factor appears to have retreat­ed to a nar­row palette of grays…

Patti Smith Reads Her Remaining Letter to Robert Mapplethorpe, Calling Him “the Most Stunning Work of All”

When you go to listen to Pat­ti Smith in con­cert, you count on her to sing “Beneath the South­ern Cross,” “As a result of the Night time,” and virtually cer­tain­ly “Peo­ple Have the Pow­er,” the hit sin­gle from Dream of Life. Like her 1975 debut Hors­es, that album had a cov­er pho­to by Robert Map­plethor­pe, whom Smith describes as…