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Human evolution: Understanding the Neanderthals and the origins of our species

Edit The Guardian 12 Feb 2016
Back to school. A brand new series of evening classes on the subjects you used to learn, taught by the teachers you wish you’d had. The Neanderthals are our best known ancient relatives, but their relationship to us is widely misunderstood ... Over the course of the evening, you’ll discover the origins and evolution of our species, and explore what makes us human ... His books include The Origin of Our Species and Homo Britannicus ... Details ... 100....

From the Archives: November 21st, 1968

Edit The Irish Times 21 Nov 2015
My first sight of him was in a London restaurant called Appenrodts. I was twelve years old and life to me appeared in a series of luminous blurred impressions like blossoming trees in a picture by Manet ... My sister Mana was there too but that was a matter of course. Mana was always there. and the other people were all grown up and that was natural too ... . I mean me stepmother was Greek, you see – oh yes, dear ... . like Sarah in Britannicus.”....

Why Palladio is the world's favourite 16th-century architect

Edit The Guardian 11 Sep 2015
@ollywainwright ... Giacomo Leoni’s English translation of Palladio’s I quattro libri dell’architettura (The Four Books of Architecture, first published in 1570), and Colen Campbell’s 1715 survey of English architecture, Vitruvius Britannicus ... Twitter ... Meanwhile, Colen Campbell’s design for Wanstead House in Essex, published in Vitrivius Britannicus, found itself duplicated in two very different political statements ... Twitter ... ....

Palladio: The architect who inspired our love of columns

Edit BBC News 10 Sep 2015
Image copyright Library of Congress Image caption Design for US Capitol, Washington DC - by William Thornton, 1793-1800. Andrea Palladio - an Italian who lived 500 years ago - is the only architect whose style is recognised with a suffix in English ... Hind has co-curated Palladian Design ... From the grandest to the most humble ... Image copyright Riba Image caption Banqueting House, London (from Vitruvius Britannicus) - by Colen Campbell, 1715....

Dr. Laura Wiebe And Dr. Melissa Loehnig Present Recital (CMU - Central Methodist University)

Edit noodls 10 Mar 2015
(Source. CMU - Central Methodist University) Both on Faculty of Central Methodist University. Two professors from Central Methodist University's Swinney Conservatory of Music, Dr. Laura Wiebe and Dr ... Dr ... Dr ... The remaining first half of the recital will comprise "Che farò senza Euridice?" from Orfeo ed Euridice by von Gluck; "We the Spirits of the Air" from Orpheus Britannicus by Purcell and with soprano, Dr ... 84, No....

Aminatta Forna: don’t judge a book by its author

Edit The Guardian 13 Feb 2015
When I was a child I did not want to be a writer. Instead, I wanted to be many things. When I was seven I wanted to be an inventor. A few years later, and several career changes on, my new determination was to become a wildlife biologist ... And inside, the butterflies, pinned down with open wings, labelled with both their Latin and common names ... Papilio machaon britannicus Seitz or Swallowtail ... *** ... ....

Idea-thieves and plagiarists undermine society

Edit TheNational 23 Dec 2014
A procession winds its way through the crowded streets of 9th century Rome. At its head is his holiness the Pope ... This is a contested account about Pope Joan Britannicus, a woman of great intellect, who is said to have risen through the ranks and attained the highest office in Christendom – the first and only female Pope, albeit in the guise of a man ... Unfortunately, the internet has greatly simplified the act of plagiarism ... ....

Britten Sinfonia/Ward review – typically self-effacing, but satisfying

Edit The Guardian 21 Nov 2014
John Woolrich goes back a long way with the Britten Sinfonia – more than 15 years in fact ... Music by Purcell and Wolf began the concert – three of Purcell’s songs from Orpheus Britannicus, realised by Michael Tippett and then given string-orchestra arrangements by Woolrich, and seven numbers from Wolf’s Italian Lieder Book, turned into string miniatures, their vocal lines ambiguously absorbed into the textures ... ....

GCHQ: 'This is not Blitz Britain. We sure as hell can’t lick terrorism on our own’

Edit The Daily Telegraph 11 Oct 2014
Related Articles. Police on alert amid fears Isil-inspired terrorists may target them 10 Oct 2014. Convicted terrorist wins new round in human rights battle 10 Oct 2014. London Isil terror raids questioned as it emerges one of the suspects is Iraqi Kurd 09 Oct 2014. Salman Rushdie condemns 'hate-filled rhetoric' of Islamic fanaticism 09 Oct 2014 ... “This happened on our watch.’’ ... “It’s Civis Britannicus sum ... ....

Is this the end of Britishness?

Edit The Guardian 16 Sep 2014
In 1951, a little-known Bengali journalist, already well into middle age and staring failure in the face, published a book that has since become a classic of Indian literature ... But the larger journey it recounted was an intellectual one – how he had been brought into contact with European, especially British, civilisation, and how much its ideas and art had come to matter to him ... ‘Civis Britannicus sum’ ... Civis Britannicus sum....

Continental swallowtail breeding in UK for first time

Edit The Guardian 11 Jun 2014
Conservationists say spectacular butterfly seen hatching along the south coast, and could establish permanent foothold. Dozens of continental swallowtails have been spotted along the south coast. Photograph ... There is already a swallowtail subspecies in Britain, Britannicus, but it is a smaller, weaker insect than its continental cousin and is only found on the Broads in Norfolk ... Swallowtail (Papilio machaon britannicus). Photograph ... ....

Butterflywatch: Channel hoppers

Edit The Guardian 01 May 2014
A swallowtail comes to rest on a clump of ragged robin ... It is Britain's largest native species, but over centuries mostly confined to the East Anglian wetlands, it has evolved into a subspecies, britannicus, which is smaller and weaker than the continental gorganus. Britannicus caterpillars will only feed on the rare milk parsley, which ensures it seldom strays beyond the Norfolk Broads ... ....

Toby Stephens interview: 'Downton wouldn't be right for me'

Edit The Daily Telegraph 06 Feb 2014
Related Articles. Maggie Smith's actor son Toby Stephens pleads for 'class-blind’ casting 03 Oct 2012. Sexual chemistry. Anna Chancellor and Toby Stephens 26 Jun 2013. Dame Maggie Smith. I've never watched Downton Abbey 15 Feb 2013 ... For a long time, he says, he suffered from feeling he could only play cad, bounder, bad boy or posh bloke ... You can't polish a turd you know." ... We got one another." ... It was a matinee of Racine's Britannicus ... ....
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