A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: here shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. – Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save.− Lev Yashin (1929–1990)
And your prejudice won't keep you warm tonight. − Marr/Morrissey (1984)
Andrea: Unhappy is the land that breeds no hero. Galileo: No, Andrea. Unhappy is the land that needs a hero. − Bertolt Brecht (1939)
You won’t learn much if you approach learning as an easy and straightforward matter, “shot from a pistol” as Hegel put it. Learning is agonistic, deathly struggle. Learning is also life itself.− Jenny Turner (2024)
We probably have no more than two or three years to prove that socialism as formulated by Lenin can work. − Alexander Yakovlev (1988)
On est tout des schtroumpfs à comparés à Fellini. − Denis Villeneuve (2025)
It is I, Seagull! Everything is fine. I see the horizon; it's a sky blue with a dark strip. How beautiful the Earth is ... everything is going well. − Valentina Tereshkova (1963)
Organised labour (especially Sub-Saharan Africa/Caribbean/MENA/Asia/Nordics/Bund-related)
Translations from French and Italian to English (focussed on 20th Century history/politics)
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"The past is never dead, it's not even the past."
Sultan of Gujarat 16th C.
Patanas 16th C.
Sati 16th C.
Valkyria, Tjängvide, 800-1099 CE
Amazon c. 500 BCE
Ms Beulah Faith, 1942
Mrs. Marcella Hart, mother of three, 1943
Mrs Irene Bracker, mother of two, 1943
Real Rosie, 1943
October 1942
Евдокия Бершанская, Мария Смирнова и Полина Гельман 1944
Евгения Максимовна Руднева
Mount Dinara, 1943
Venezia, 1945
Franja Bojc Bidove, 1945(?)
Polish Children's Camp at Pahiatua, New Zealand 1944
School for displaced children, Schauenstein, 1946
Yida refugee camp, South Sudan 2013
Belgian refugee children, London 1940
Greek and Armenian refugee children, Marathon 1915
Tomb of Rekhmire c. 1500 BCE
Melba Rose, aged 2, daughter of Mrs. Rosie L. Madison viewing the Silver Star posthumously awarded her father 1st Lt. John W. Madison, of the 92nd Infantry Division, who was killed in action in Italy with Bri. Gen. Robert N. Young
李月英 1932
דוד ברגלסון עם בנו לוי
נידער מיט קינדער שקלאפערײ
James Joseph Hyde, W/O - RAF Pilot - b.1917 San Juan, Trinidad - d. 1944 Battle of Arnhem, Holland