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 Great works of Art,architecture,Sculpture,Paintings,Litrature,Music,Film from Athrough Z |
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Absalom,Absalom
William Faulkner's great Literature masterpiece.
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Beowulf
An Epic in Old English. Dated in the 8th century; and it is the earliest literature in English.
The critical events are the slaying of the monster grendel and Grendel's mother by the hero Beowulf; and Beowulf's battle with a dragon, in which he is mortally wounded.
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Carmen
A very popular French Opera by G. Bizet.
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Doctor Faustus
A Great literature work by Christopher Marlowe ( german ),in 1589 or 1592.
The story of a Learned Man (scholar) who makes a deal with the devil to find happiness with an emotional involvement and find knowledge in the intellectual world.
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Great Dialogues of Plato
The great dialogues and The Republic by the Greek Philosopher Plato are masterpieces which form part of the most important aspects of writing in the history of Philosophy.
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Hamlet
Shakespeare's masterpiece tragedy play.
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The Great Wave
A painting by the japanese Katsushika Hokusai (1725-1770) from the Tokugawa period.
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The 9th Symphony
This is Beethoven supreme and mastepiece, and most beloved of all his music. The 4th movement with the "Ode to the joy" and the fantastic chorus is the higest of Music achievment.
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Electra
The tragedy play by Euripides written around 410-420 BC.
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Fidelio
Beethoven's only Opera!
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Great Gasby, The
Scott Fitzgerald's greatest novel !
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Henry VIII
by Shakespeare
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Iphigenia
A tragedy play by Euripides.
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Jaws
A big hit film druing the late 1970's. Spielberg was the young director of the movie.
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King Lear
The classic tragedy of a non-wise King and his 3 daughters. Play by Shakespeare.
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Lucia de Lamemoor
Excelent Opera by Donizetti. The best sextet is sung on this Opera!
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Macbeth
Another popular and great Shakespeare's tragedy play!
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Nabucco
Verdi's opera!
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Othello
A tragic play by William Shakespeare. Also Verdi made Othello into an Opera!
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Parnassus, The
A great fresco painted by one of the Giants of "Il Renacimiento" Rapahel.
The fresco is in the Vatican. La stanza de la segnatura; this magnificent work contains most of the great poets from the past: Homer,Dante,Virgil, and many more. Rapahel includes himself on this painting.
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ribbleton
04-Jun-07, 08:01
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Architects
Architects are prone to build a statue of the kind of person it pleases them to be. But few ever stop to ask themselves `What if there is no me like my statue.`
Origin unknown
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ribbleton
04-Jun-07, 08:14
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Mozart` Jupiter symphony
The third movement a unity of music with emotion.
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Raven,The
A poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Surprise Symphony
by Joseph Haydn.
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Tom Jones
A novel by Fielding.
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Unfinished Symphony
By Franz Schubert. Only 2 movements.
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V for Vendetta
A comic book, later adapted to a film.
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Quijote,Don
Don Quijote de La Mancha; by Cervantes.
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Rebel,The
En essay by Albert Camus.
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