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People in Coventry walk to work past smouldering piles of rubble after a bombing raid in 1940.
"Blitz, the German word for 'lightning', was applied by the British press to the tempest of heavy and frequent bombing raids carried out over Britain in 1940 and 1941. This concentrated, direct bombing of industrial targets and civilian centres began with heavy raids on London on 7 September 1940 during what became known as the Battle of Britain. Hitler and Hermann Goering's plans to destroy the Royal Air Force ahead of an invasion of Britain were failing and, also in response to a RAF raid on Berlin, they changed their tactics to the sustained bombing of civilian targets."
Google's daily shows a new doodle -you know, these scribbles of their name that sometimes get true artwork ?!!
Today's doodle is related to Wales saint patron (St David) :
1st March, 2018 doodle by Google
Phil Haig's article [from metro UK website] :
St David’s Day Google Doodle celebrates Welsh National Anthem & Triple Harp - 1 Mar 2018
Happy St David’s Day to all the proud Welsh people celebrating across the country.
[...] Google have got involved with the celebrations this year by rustling up a Doodle to honour St David’s Day and some of the finest traditions in Wales.
The daffodils are recognisable, but what instrument is the woman playing and what piece of music is shown in the Doodle ?"
The artist "combined Americana with European technique. Inspired by the window that recalled the cathedrals he had seen in Europe during his training and travels, [Grant] Wood posed his quintessentially American figures in a "rigid frontal arrangement" that recalls Northern Renaissance art, while mimicking that movement's close attention to detail."
The artist "combined Americana with European technique. Inspired by the window that recalled the cathedrals he had seen in Europe during his training and travels, [Grant] Wood posed his quintessentially American figures in a "rigid frontal arrangement" that recalls Northern Renaissance art, while mimicking that movement's close attention to detail." (From "15 Things You Might Not Know About American Gothic"- June 2015)
Here is a second video, also based on "American Gothic"...
The video-sketch (below) is the first from a series of 30 worldwide famous art pieces revisited on French/German 'arte' programme "A Musée vous, A Musée moi" [French VO].
"The problem we all live with" (painted in1963 by Norman Rockwell) evokes Ruby Bridges, the first black American to enter a white school... she needed to be escorted by guards to access school safely !
Why is punctuation important, and does it matter if we get it wrong ? Neil and Alice discuss rhetoric, commas, and why using full stops when we’re texting can make us sound insincere.
This week's question : What is another word for the keyboard sign that represents a paragraph ?
Is it… a) pilcrow ? b) bodkin ? c) pica ? ... You'll hear the answer at the end of the programme.
Vocabulary
stuffy formal
sloppy careless
stickler somebody who insists on a certain way of doing a particular thing
irony using words to mean something that is the opposite of its most usual meaning
rhetoric the art of persuasive speaking
literal the usual meaning of a word or phrase
clause grammatical unit containing a subject and a verb
emoticons facial expressions made out of keyboard characters
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