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Gandhi (1982)

8.3 (12 Ratings) Rate It

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Sir Ben Kingsley stars as Mohandas Gandhi in Lord Richard Attenborough's riveting biography of the...

Church and People in the Medieval West, 900-1200

Sarah Hamilton

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During the middle ages, belief in God was the single more important principle for every person, and...

Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt

Salima Ikram

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Death, burial, and the afterlife were as important to the ancient Egyptians as how they lived. This...

Stuart Braithwaite recommended Key to the Kingdom by George Washington Phillips in Music (curated)

Key to the Kingdom by George Washington Phillips

2005 | Rock

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"All of his albums are just collections of songs because this was in the pre-album era, but I guess there was one in Mississippi called Key To The Kingdom. He was a spiritual blues singer who played an instrument, a fretless zither. Even though it's the blues era, he can't bend the notes like a guitar player would. He's sometimes known as George Washington Phillips. His music is really serene and otherworldly and pure. It's all very religious but it has its own atmosphere that I've not really heard anywhere else. I think when I really got into Washington Philips was when Sonic Boom put a song of his onto a compilation album called Space Lines. My sister painted a picture of him for Christmas. My sister the painting goth."

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ClareR (5879 KP) rated The Complete Persepolis in Books

Sep 24, 2019

The Complete Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi | 2003 | Biography, Comics & Graphic Novels

8.8

(5 Ratings)

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This was so good. Persepolis tells the story of the authors childhood in Iran, the troubles that the country went through, the war, violence, religious extremism, and political upheavals. It tells of what it was like to grow up amidst all of these things, and what it was like to be sent away on your own, as a young teenager, to be educated in a ‘free’ country (in this case, Austria). It’s not over-dramatised, it’s more of a ‘this is how it was’. The pictures add so much to the story as well. What started out as a book that my son was asked to read for school, turned into a book that I read when he wasn’t reading it - and I think I enjoyed it far more 🤷🏼‍♀️