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Buchanan used to tell his graduate students that if they sought original, creative insights, they needed to "see the world through a different window."
Taken onboard the cruise ship Oosterdam while cruising around Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska
This is a photograph of the South-Western tip of Santorini Island, Greece at sunset. The high dynamic range shot was taken in late October. I was inspired to shoot this by the following poem lines written by George SEFERIS (1900–1971, Nobel Literature Prize laureate in 1963):
“The broken sunset declined and was gone
and it seemed a delusion to ask for the gifts of the sky.”
—George Seferis (Erotikos Logos, transl. by Edm. Keeley)
© 2025 by Ioannis C. PAPACHRISTOS, MD Photography / All rights reserved
This is the house on Vilakazi Street in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, that was the home of Bishop Desmond Tutu and his wife. During the time that Tutu lived here he became a Nobel Laureate for his struggles against apartheid and he led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for President Nelson Mandela. Unfortunately, I did not get a clear shot of the Mandela House which is at 8115 Vilakazi Street.
courtesy of Dr Qamaruddin Isa Daudpota and Ms Humaira Rahman who brought this excellent poem to my notice
This is Woburn Walk in London’s Bloomsbury. It’s pretty, certainly, but what’s of particular interest is that it’s one of the first examples of a pedestrian shopping street in the Regency era (1795-1837).
Woburn Walk was designed by the master builder Thomas Cubitt in 1822. It’s named after Woburn Abbey, the country seat of the Dukes of Bedford, who developed much of Bloomsbury.
One of the Walk’s most notable residents was WB Yeats, the Irish poet and Nobel Laureate. He lived here from 1895 to 1919.
This is the gentle view from St Bartholomew’s churchyard in Burwash, Sussex. It’s hard to imagine a more tranquil setting for one’s final resting place.
Not far from the churchyard is Bateman's, the home of the writer Rudyard Kipling and his family for 35 years. Kipling was well aware of his literary reputation – he was, after all, a Nobel Laureate in Literature and the most famous writer in the English language – and his ashes rest in Westminster Abbey. But I wonder whether he’d rather they were here, in the charming and peaceful village that was his home for so many years.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan is a biologist whose scientific contribution on the atomic structure of the ribosome, where the genetic information is read to synthesise proteins from amino acids, improved understanding of the ribosome has yielded many fundamental biological insights.
In 2009, Ramakrishnan won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on ribosomal structure. He shared the award with Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath.
Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality , his latest book was discussed at Bangalore Literature Festival 24.
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A Painting from my 'Tagore Series' 48"x36"
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রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর
কবি, ঔপন্যাসিক, সংগীতস্রষ্টা, নাট্যকার, চিত্রকর, ছোটগল্পকার, প্রাবন্ধিক, অভিনেতা, কণ্ঠশিল্পী ও দার্শনিক
Smiling... embraced together... we will try to seek agreement, although we differ from each other like two drops of cristal clear water.
Wisława Szymborska Park was opened on the 100th anniversary of the poet’s birth - part of the house wall decorated with a mural graphics corresponding to yet another field of the poetess artistic activity – collages.
"Group outside 19 Dawson Street [headquarters of the Royal Irish Academy], including Eoin O'Duffy, Kevin O'Higgins, William T. Cosgrave, Desmond FitzGerald, Chief Justice Kennedy and W.B. Yeats"
From the catalogue description, we knew a number of the subjects in this Hogan image. In response to the challenge to name the others (including the ubiquitous window-peerer), DannyM8 came back in double-quick time with not only a confirmation of date, but a list of attendees. He found, a description as follows:
A representative committee, of which W.B. Yeats is Chairman and Senator Oliver St. John Gogarty is Vice-Chairman, with the Marquis MacSwiney as Advisor, has succeeded in securing the attendance of a number of distinguished guests in Dublin for the Opening of the Tailteann Games. England, Scotland, America, Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Greece, Persia and Poland will be represented.
In all, we think pictured (many directly identified), we have:
Irish govt reps (in suits and diplomatic garb) - including:
WT Cosgrave (President of Executive Council)
Kevin O'Higgins (Vice President of Executive Council)
Desmond FitzGerald (TD & Minister for External Affairs)
Hugh Kennedy (Chief Justice)
Eoin MacSwiney (Marquis MRIA)
Foreign diplomats (in suits and similar garb) - including
Mirza Riza Khan (Persian Prince & Ambassador)
Magalhaes de Azeredo (Brazilian Ambassador)
Erik Kule Palmstierna (Swedish Baron)
Willem Hubert Nolens (Netherlands Msgr)
Count von Schlitz
In academic garb:
WB Yeats (Senator Poet Nobel Laureate)
Dr R Macalister (Secretary RIA)
LC Purser (Vice-President RIA)
Rev Dr Lawlor (Dean of St Patricks)
Dr R Lloyd Praeger
Sir Frederick Moore VP
Dr RF Scharff
Dr WR Fearon
Dr Kirpatrick
Dr RAS Macalister
EJ Gwynn (Trinity Provost)
Dr George O’Brien
WG Strickland
WF Butler
In uniform:
E O'Duffy (TD & Garda Commissioner)
Col O'Reilly (Aide de Camp)
Capt Murphy (Aide de Camp)
Note: As our "people Identified" bell broke in pieces through overuse (coinciding with the identification of one of the behatted gentlemen pictured), from now on, when the occasion demands we will be seen wearing the People Identified Fez, which we have borrowed from the "Little Museum of Dublin".
Photographer: Hogan, W. D
Collection: Hogan Collection
Date: 4 August 1924
NLI Ref: HOG100
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Tagore was a great humanist, poet, writer, painter, musician, novelist, dramatist, educationist and first Asian to receive Nobel Prize (1913).
A garden view of Bateman’s, the magnificent 17th century sandstone home of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), in his day the most famous writer in the English language. He was just 36 when he bought the house, together with 33 acres of land. The man had money!
Bateman's, now a National Trust property, is in the village of Burwash, East Sussex.
The silhouette of the National Resistance Monument —honouring our executed Freedom Fighters— brings thoughts of death and an eerie chill. People are discerned in the background, strolling along the promenade in Thessaloniki, Greece. The equinox sun gloriously sets behind cloud-laden skies. Autumn came and brought longer nights and cold.
An appropriate poem of Odysseus Elytis’s follows, as homage to National Resistance:
“They will smell of incense, and their faces charred from their passage through the Large Dark Place.
There, where suddenly the Immovable hurled them
Face down, on the earth, whose least anemone would poison the air of Hell
(One hand in front, as though it tried to seize the future, the other beneath the deserted head, turned sideways,
As if it looked for the last time in the eyes of a disembowelled horse, at a pile of smoking ruins)
There time released them. One wing, the reddest, hid the world, while the other moved gently in space,
And their brows held no furrows or remorse, but from a great depth
The ancient unremembered blood began painfully to dawn in the black sky,
A new sun, still unripe,
A sun unable to melt the white frost of lambs from the living clover, and before anything could sprout a thorn it prophesied the darkness…
Beginning valleys, mountains, trees, rivers,
Creation shone from vengeance, the same and not the same, and now they travel forth, the hangman killed in them,
Peasants of the endless blue!
Neither the hour striking twelve in their entrails, nor the Polar voice falling headlong, denied their steps.
They read the world insatiably, eyes opened forever, there were suddenly the Immovable hurled them
Face down, where the vultures plummeted to savor the mud of their entrails and their blood.”
—Odysseus Elytis (“The Sleep of the Brave,” from ‘Six and One Regrets for the Sky,’ translated by Ruth Whitman).
This is my 1941 first edition of A Choice of Kipling’s Verse made by T.S. Eliot published by Faber and Faber – for whom Eliot worked for many years as Literary Editor. He joined the company in 1925 and remained there until his death forty years later. Along the way, in 1948, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and is regarded as one of the great poets in the English language.
In his 32-page essay/introduction to the book, Eliot describes Kipling as "the most inscrutable of authors" and "a writer impossible wholly to understand and quite impossible to believe". However, he also declares, “I can think of a number of poets who have written great poetry, only of a very few whom I should call great verse writers. And unless I am mistaken, Kipling’s position in this class is not only high, but unique.”
Far be it from me to take issue with a Nobel Laureate, but I think Eliot was mistaken; I don’t believe for a moment that Kipling’s work, much of it jingoistic and in the vernacular, has stood the test of time. Even so, this is an interesting edition on many levels, and a pleasure to have on my bookshelf.
♦ While you’re here… I have two Galleries that might interest you: a Bookshops gallery and a Public Libraries gallery. Happy browsing!
Panorama of the VIKOS GORGE, a gorge in the Pindus range of mountains, northern Greece. It lies on the southern slopes of Mount Tymphē.
It is listed as the deepest canyon in the world in proportion to its width: a length of 20 km (12 mi), walls that range from 120–490 m (390–1,600 ft) deep, and a width ranging from 400 m (1,312 ft) to just a few meters at its narrowest part.
The gorge is found in the core zone of the Vikos-Aōos National Park, in the Zagori region, between the villages of Monodendri, Koukouli and Vikos. The gorge collects the waters of small rivers and leads them into the Voidomatēs River which is formed inside the gorge.
The stunning vista of the gorge is strongly reminiscent of some lines written by the Nobel laureate and famous Greek poet:
“The night's stars take me back to Odysseus,
to his anticipation of the dead among the asphodels.
When we moored here we hoped to find among the asphodels
the gorge that knew the wounded Adonis.”
—George Seferis (Mythistorēma, translated by Edmund Keeley)
Original lines in Greek:
🇬🇷
❝Τ’ ἄστρα τῆς νύχτας μὲ γυρίζουν στὴν προσδοκία
τοῦ Ὀδυσσέα γιὰ τοὺς νεκροὺς μὲς στ’ ἀσφοδίλια.
Μὲς στ’ ἀσφοδίλια σὰν ἀράξαμε ἐδῶ-πέρα θέλαμε νὰ βροῦμε
τὴ λαγκαδιὰ ποὺ εἶδε τὸν Ἄδωνι λαβωμένο.❞
This is Rudyard Kipling’s study at Bateman’s in Sussex. He wrote by hand, screwed up his paper and threw it into the wastepaper basket (frequently missing it) and then handed the completed drafts to his secretary for typing – all nicely recreated here by the National Trust, which owns the property today.
Kipling was a small man, so it's interesting to see that the chair in which he wrote had blocks fitted, so that he could reach his writing table.
It's a huge shame about the arctic animal which ended up as a rug, though… but there we are, that’s what they did in those days.
Kipling lived at Bateman’s, in the village of Burwash, for more than 30 years. There's a little more about him, plus an exterior perspective of the house, here.
This isn't exactly the best photograph I've ever taken, but as you can see, I had a problem with the sun streaming through the two windows in front of me.
What does one say about Nadine Gordimer?
That she was an iconic writer?
That she was a Nobel laureate?
That she was a South African?
That she was a voice when so many of us were silent?
Perhaps let her speak for herself: "Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."
The picture of Nadine Gordimer I used is Getty stock. The book is mine, dating back to 1980, an old Penguin edition. Some warp for many reasons
This is Bateman’s, the handsome 17th century sandstone home of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), in his day the most famous writer in the English language. He was just 36 when he bought the house, together with 33 acres of land, in the village of Burwash, East Sussex. The man was wealthy!
Kipling was born in India of British parents, and his best-known work remains The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Kim and the poem If…. His body of work was huge, and in 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Time has moved on, of course, and these days he’s regarded by many as a jingoistic writer. I don’t much care for his work – but I do care for his beautiful house, now owned and preserved by the National Trust.
Rudyard Kipling died in 1936 and his ashes are interred at Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey, London.
Just a few hundred yards from Bateman's, Rudyard Kipling’s 17th century house in the village of Burwash, Sussex, is an elegant sandstone war memorial. There, you will find inscribed the name of John Kipling, the writer’s son. He died in the First World War Battle of Loos at the age of 18.
If that isn’t sad enough, look at the name immediately beneath his: Boy William Langridge, just 16 years old. Utterly tragic – but not uncommon. Many boys lied about their age and signed up for the war, believing it would be a bit of a lark and ‘over by Christmas’. The recruitment officers turned a blind eye and played along with the game.
But back to Kipling. The sadness is that John Kipling had been turned down twice for military service on account of his poor eyesight. But his father, ever one for Patriotism, King and Empire, pulled strings in high places, and John was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant to the Irish Guards.
It was a fatal posting. John was killed in the Battle of Loos, and for ever more Rudyard Kipling would be haunted by guilt. As a consequence, he became closely involved with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. He created the line Known unto God, seen on many an unknown soldier’s headstone. And, from the Book of Ecclesiastes he selected the line Their names liveth for ever more, which is inscribed on the Stone of Remembrance in every Commonwealth war cemetery.
Later, Kipling revised his opinion about imperialism and empire, and wrote this chilling couplet: “If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.”
Many people at the time, and later, regarded him as one of the lying fathers. Such a terrible, grievous family tragedy.
This Ghanta Tala or Bronze Bell is under a huge banyan tree and resembles a gateway to a Buddhist Stupa.Taken at Shantiniketan-Kolkata,India.
Man in Black ~ Université Pierre & Marie Curie ~ Paris ~ MjYj
Pierre Curie was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity, and Nobel laureate. In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize in Physics with his wife, Maria Skłodowska-Curie, and Henri Becquerel, "in recognition of their joint researches on the radiation phenomena ."
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Please research The Bench By The Road Project. On April 23, 2009, I attended a bench dedication in Oberlin, Ohio along with my sister Cheryl. Area residents as well as students from local schools were at a park located at N. Main (Rt. 58) & Lorain Streets. (Rt. 511) for the dedication program “A Bench By The Road, A tribute In Memory Of the Enslaved Persons Who Sought Refuge in Oberlin.” Nobel Laureate (& beautiful Lorain native) Toni Morrison was there and spoke at the dedication program. It was really beautiful & overwhelming for me. The bench in Oberlin is inspired by a comment that Ms. Morrison made in 1989 – ““There is no suitable memorial, or plaque, or wreath or wall, or park or skyscraper lobby. There’s no 300-foot tower, there’s no small bench by the road.” I think it is an honor that Oberlin, in Lorain County was picked as 1 of only 10 places in the country that a bench will be placed! The wording on the bench reads: “The bench by the Road Project was launched by the Toni Morrison Society in honor of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, a native of Lorain, Ohio. This bench is placed in memory of the enslaved men, women and children who followed the path of the Underground Railroad and sought refuge in the community of Oberlin, Ohio, in their quests for emancipation. Their spirit endures and will inspire us until every human is raised up to freedom...
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Kresge Auditorium is an auditorium building for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Every seat in the concert hall has an unobstructed view, since there are no interior supports for the overarching dome. Working with renowned acoustical architects Bolt, Beranek and Newman, architect Saarinen employed free-hanging acoustic "clouds" that absorb and direct sound, instead of a traditional plaster ceiling. These clouds also contain lights, loudspeakers, and ventilation.
Source: www.wikipedia.org
September 8, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts, taken here.
Bronzes of South Africa's four Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Nobel Square, Cape Town.
From left to right Albert Lutuli (1960), Desmond Tutu (1984), Frederik Willem de Klerk and Nelson Mandela (jointly 1993).
One of the iconic buildings on MIT campus - The Stata Center houses CSAIL, LIDS, and the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.
The Ray and Maria Stata Center or Building 32 is a 720,000-square-foot (67,000 m2) academic complex designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Frank Gehry for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Major funding for the project was provided by Ray Stata (MIT class of 1957) and Maria Stata.
September 8, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts, taken here.
66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, 26.06.2016, Lindau, Germany, Picture/Credit: Christian Flemming/Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings
#LiNo16; Johanna Wanka, Federal Minister of Education and Research
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One of the iconic buildings on MIT campus - The Stata Center houses CSAIL, LIDS, and the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.
The Ray and Maria Stata Center or Building 32 is a 720,000-square-foot (67,000 m2) academic complex designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Frank Gehry for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Major funding for the project was provided by Ray Stata (MIT class of 1957) and Maria Stata.
September 8, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts, taken here.
This restful spot is Hazelwood, near Sligo Town, inspiration for The Song of Wandering Aengus by W.B. Yeats:
"I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread."
Date: Circa 1890
NLI Ref.: L_ROY_03292
A dance session in progress in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts known traditionally for research and education in the physical sciences and engineering, and more recently in biology, economics, linguistics, and management as well.
Today, the Institute comprises various academic departments with a strong emphasis on scientific, engineering, and technological education and research. It has five schools and one college, which contain a total of 32 departments. Eighty-one Nobel laureates, 52 National Medal of Science recipients, 45 Rhodes Scholars, and 38 MacArthur Fellows have been affiliated with the university. It is one of the most selective higher learning institutions, and received 18,109 undergraduate applicants for the class of 2016—only admitting 1,620, an acceptance rate of 8.95%.
Source: www.wikipedia.org
September 8, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts, taken here.
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Dr. Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank.
Fast food sales executive. Merrion Square, Dublin. St Patrick's Day.
Breakfast rolls, sausages rolls and baseball cap from Denny's, probably the best rashers in the world. Samuel Beckett (1906-89) thought so anyway, or so the story goes:
"Samuel Beckett was also extraordinary in his ordinariness. Edward Beckett [nephew of the Nobel Laureate] tells a wonderful story of a man from Dingle who worked on the building sites in Paris in the 80s. He travelled back to Dingle regularly and would always buy Denny's rashers for his friend Sam in Paris. On one return trip he did not buy the rashers and the shopkeeper, on reminding him of his usual vituals for the trip back to Paris, was told that Sam had regrettably passed away. It was only then the the realisation that the Sam was Samuel Beckett dawned on the hitherto unsuspecting shopkeeper."
John O'Donoghue, TD, Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, speaking at the Beckett Centenary Dinner in Trinity College Dublin in 2006.
- The Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry 2012, Brian Kobilka listening to a talk at the Astbury Conversation.
MIT's Building 10 and Great Dome overlooking Killian Court.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts known traditionally for research and education in the physical sciences and engineering, and more recently in biology, economics, linguistics, and management as well.
Today, the Institute comprises various academic departments with a strong emphasis on scientific, engineering, and technological education and research. It has five schools and one college, which contain a total of 32 departments. Eighty-one Nobel laureates, 52 National Medal of Science recipients, 45 Rhodes Scholars, and 38 MacArthur Fellows have been affiliated with the university. It is one of the most selective higher learning institutions, and received 18,109 undergraduate applicants for the class of 2016—only admitting 1,620, an acceptance rate of 8.95%.
Source: www.wikipedia.org
September 8, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts, taken here.
Image of an exhibit captured in the Science Gallery Bengaluru
In physics, Raman scattering or the Raman effect is the inelastic scattering of photons by matter, meaning that there is both an exchange of energy and a change in the light's direction. Wikipedia
One of the iconic buildings on MIT campus - The Stata Center houses CSAIL, LIDS, and the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.
The Ray and Maria Stata Center or Building 32 is a 720,000-square-foot (67,000 m2) academic complex designed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Frank Gehry for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Major funding for the project was provided by Ray Stata (MIT class of 1957) and Maria Stata.
September 8, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts, taken here.
The commercialization of Hyde Park continues with this apartment complex on the corner of 51st & Lake Park. This neighborhood that started out as a village beyond Chicago's boundaries, eventually became Chicago's first truly integrated community, and featured quaint shops, independent restaurants, and more Nobel Laureates per square mile than any other place on earth.
Hyde Park's 800-pound gorilla, the University of Chicago, which pleads poverty when pressed for a Level 1 adult-trauma center at its hospitals, seems to have plenty of cash to throw around for just about any other construction project that comes along. Right now, it seems, there's a greater need for corporate cookie-cutter condos, with matching lifestyle and entertainment venues...little boxes, stacked on top of each other.
The only truly unique project on the drawing board is, of course, the Obama Presidential Library. How fitting, an homage to Hyde Park's favorite son, who went to Washington to return government to the people, and sold out to corporate American instead...