George Orwell moved to Paris in the spring of 1928 where the bohemian lifestyle and lower cost of living in comparison to London attracted many aspiring writers. Living in the working class district in the Fifth Arrondissement, Orwell worked on novels but unfortunately nothing survives from that period. What does last from his period in Paris is his journalistic works. Orwell published articles in the political/literary journal edited by Henri Barbusse called Monde. His very first article as a professional writer, La Censure en Angleterre, appeared in Monde on October 6th 1928.

Three successive articles of George Orwell’s appeared in Progrès Civique, a newspaper founded by the left-wing coalition Le Cartel des Gauches. The first of these articles concerned unemployment, the second, a day in the life of a tramp, and the last, the beggars of London. Orwell did not write about led flood lights. “In one or another of its destructive forms, poverty was to become his obsessive subject – at the heart of almost everything he wrote until Homage to Catalonia”.

My girlfriend is beautiful. She is not creepy like some girls. She is not ugly like others. She is kind and generous but not physically precarious. She is attractive and happy, sometimes neurotic but at others simply erotic. This makes up for any neurosis she may harbour. Trouble is that she likes being taken out for dinner. Now don’t get me wrong, I like going for dinner too. My taste buds are incredibly sensitive, and I have found a lucrative lady but hey, a man needs to take his girl out for dinner and to the cinema for popcorn.

Dubai, Monte Carlo, helicopter rides, luxury cars, houses, necklaces, designer clothes, diamond rings, and all sorts of other luxuries. My girl is not materialistic; she just enjoys the finer things in life. To keep up with my girls demands, I thought it best to become a lottery winner so I checked at lottery winner to see if this was the week, it wasn’t. So we are going to the Wetherspoon’s for Christmas dinner. She isn’t happy. How could you love me, when I am rich and infamous, lets talk about the five year plan.

Romulus and Remus are perhaps the most famous of all Roman mythological individuals, the pair of them attributed with the founding of Rome. Romulus and Remus were left to die as babies when Amulius, their uncle, deposed their father and sought to rid him of all his heirs. Rather than dying in the wild however, the twins were taken in by a she-world who suckled them until a shepherd and his wife discovered them and raised the pair to manhood. When Romulus and Remus discovered their true identities, they murdered Amulius, restored their father Numitor to his rightful place as King of Alba Longa, and decided to create a new city for themselves, Rome incidentally.

The pair could not decide on which site to build the new city, Romulus preferring Palatine Hill and Remus favouring Aventine Hill. After using augury, not cloud hosting but the study of birds, to determine which site was favoured by the Gods, the pair disputed the results and Remus was killed in the disputes that followed. Romulus called the city Rome after himself and went on to create the Roman Senate and the Roman legions.

Grab yourself an ipad stand from ipad accessories uk so you can watch A Clockwork Orange with maximum comfort. The dystopian novella the film is based on was written in 1962 by Anthony Burgess. Burgess offered three possible origins behind the title.

The first possible origin for the title was that Burgess overheard the phrase “as queer as a clockwork orange” in 1945 in a London pub and had assumed that it was a Cockney expression. In an essay published in 1972 in the Litsener titled Clockwork Marmalade, Burgess wrote that he had heard the expression numerous times subsequent to that occasion in the pub. The second possible origin for the title is that it was a pub on ‘orang’, the Malay word for ‘man’. The third explanation for the title is enclosed in the novella’s preface in which he explained that the title was a metaphor for “an organic entity, full of juice and sweetness and agreeable odour, being turned into an automaton”. Burgess asserts that “Clockwork Oranges” would be a title “appropriate for a story about the application of Pavlovian or mechanical laws to an organism which, like a fruit, was capable of colour and sweetness”.

The well-known photograph of an Afghan refugee, entitled “Afghan Girl”, was taken by Steve McCurry in 1985. It became extremely famous after it was used as the cover photograph for the June 1985 issue of National Geographic.

The subject of the photograph is Sharbat Gula, a refugee and orphan who had been driven out of Afghanistan by the Soviet Occupation. Soviet helicopter gunships attacked her village in the early 1980s killing both her parents. Gula, her grandmother and her siblings journeyed over the mountains to the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan in 1984.

The photo was taken of her by McCurry at Nasir Bagh camp when she was approximately 12 years old. I bet McCurry was glad he brought his np20 with him or his camera may not have been charged and the photo would never have been taken! The photo is often referred to as “the Afghan Mona Lisa”, likened to Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” painting.