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The Christiest Baptists, in the course of constructing lord knows what (a wheelchair ramp for some of it) have removed the pollinator garden on the verge of their property, which was nowhere near the current construction. Boo hiss Christiest Baptists. Especially as I'm prepared to swear that they took down an old tree on the property, only to replace it with six saplings, which a) is a requirement of the city's when removing trees, and b) have as much chance of surviving as the perpetually dying saplings up by Loblaws.
Now if they had the wisdom of serpents, they'd have sold off the front half of their humoungous lot for housing.
Equally the Ghazale restaurant in the Hot Docs building has vanished. I thought the new owners might have turfed them out, but the new owner is an anonymous philanthropist so maybe not. I'd have thought the foot traffic on Bloor would have guaranteed its existence but it seems they moved over to Walmer north of Bloor.
Started on Inventing the Renaissance. The fact that the Dark Ages weren't was common wisdom when I was an undergrad fifty-some years ago, but it bears repeating. Also good to learn the newer meaning of the term ie periods where written records didn't survive. And of course, if you read any history at all-- as letussay background to Dante-- the fact that the Renaissance happened against a constant background of war, civil and otherwise, chronic violence, plague, and famine, is just a given. It's all in Cellini, all in Cellini: bless me, what *do* they teach them at these schools? Well, not Cellini, or even Dante, for sure. I suppose even a concern with the happenings in the Renaissance is a kind of privilege these days.
Now if they had the wisdom of serpents, they'd have sold off the front half of their humoungous lot for housing.
Equally the Ghazale restaurant in the Hot Docs building has vanished. I thought the new owners might have turfed them out, but the new owner is an anonymous philanthropist so maybe not. I'd have thought the foot traffic on Bloor would have guaranteed its existence but it seems they moved over to Walmer north of Bloor.
Started on Inventing the Renaissance. The fact that the Dark Ages weren't was common wisdom when I was an undergrad fifty-some years ago, but it bears repeating. Also good to learn the newer meaning of the term ie periods where written records didn't survive. And of course, if you read any history at all-- as letussay background to Dante-- the fact that the Renaissance happened against a constant background of war, civil and otherwise, chronic violence, plague, and famine, is just a given. It's all in Cellini, all in Cellini: bless me, what *do* they teach them at these schools? Well, not Cellini, or even Dante, for sure. I suppose even a concern with the happenings in the Renaissance is a kind of privilege these days.
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The Renaissance had that nutjob Savonarola! (sp) And other horrible people, as you learn even if you just read the biographies of the artists (like me).
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The Renaissance in Europe had a lot of nut jobs. Palmer is currently demolishing the belief that it was in any way secular. Of course I think the point of the book is that what's called 'the Renaissance' was just a construct of much later historians.