David Lean – „Lawrence von Arabien“ (1962)

Die Wüste als eine fast „grenzenlose“ Projektionsfläche, Männlichkeit als ein Mythos und das britische Imperium als Fiebertraum. Hier sehen wir keinen „Abenteuerfilm“, sondern eine Obsession in 70 Millimeter. Das vielleicht widersprüchlichste Werk in der Filmografie von David Lean. Ein Epos, mit dem er das Empire zugleich gefeiert und gnadenlos seziert hat. In einem Film, der gleichzeitig eine große antikoloniale Sehnsucht inszeniert und doch an kolonialen Blickregimen festhält. Mit Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif und Claude Rains. (3Sat, Wh.)

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Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Cottage and Museum in Cromarty, telling the story of the town’s most famous son, the geologist and writer Hugh Miller, who lived from 10 October 1802 to 24 December 1856. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/cromarty/hughmiller/index.html

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2 sides of a walnut sized ‘stone’ I found on Rosemarkie Beach yesterday. Wander past the picture perfect, crescent shaped, sandy beach and you reach the world of Hugh Miller. Rocks of all shapes, textures, angles, colours and ages protrude from the sand to invite investigation. To the enquiring mind of Miller this needed explaining. In amongst the fractured bedrock, gems of fossils can be found which only deepened the mystery to him. This object is probably the most beautiful and satisfying thing I have ever found. Happy birthday to me. #geology #fossils #blackisle #hughmiller
2 sides of a walnut sized ‘stone’ I found on Rosemarkie Beach yesterday. Go past the crescent shaped, sandy beach and you reach the world of Hugh Miller. Rocks of all shapes, textures, colours and ages protrude from the sand to invite investigation. In amongst the fractured bedrock, gems of fossils can be found which only deepened the mystery for him. This object is probably the most beautiful and satisfying thing I have ever found. Happy birthday to me. #geology #fossils #blackisle #hughmiller

Hugh Miller’s Birthplace Cottage and Museum in Cromarty, telling the story of the town’s most famous son, the geologist and writer Hugh Miller, who lived from 10 October 1802 to 24 December 1856. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/cromarty/hughmiller/index.html

#Scotland #HughMillersBirthplace #HughMiller #Cromarty #BlackIsle #UndiscoveredScotland

Hugh Miller's Birthplace Cottage & Museum Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland

Information about and images of Hugh Miller's Birthplace Cottage & Museum in Cromarty on Undiscovered Scotland.

“MY SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS is more than the memoir of a prominent figure in Scottish society of the mid-nineteenth century. It a rare and remarkably insightful book. It is a book in which boyhood is examined and displayed with all the attention Miller devoted to his geological specimens”

—David Alston: Hugh Miller & the Crucible of Childhood

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Hugh Miller (1802–1856) and the Crucible of Childhood - The Bottle Imp

In June 1853 Hugh Miller – geologist, folklore collector, writer, evangelical churchman and editor of the Free Church newspaper The Witness – began to publish, in serial form, his autobiographical My Schools and Schoolmasters: or The Story of My Education. It appeared as a book in March 1854 and was to be his most popular […]

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“…the tar which used to boil in it to the heat, like resin in a fagot of moss-fir, was as strange a mixture as ever yet bubbled in witches’ caldron—blood of pterodactyle and grease of ichthyosaur—eye of belemnite and hood of nautilus…”

—Hugh Miller, MY SCHOOLS & SCHOOLMASTERS (1854)

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My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My Education by Hugh Miller

Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

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“I picked up a nodular mass of blue limestone, and laid it open by a stroke of the hammer. Wonderful to relate, it contained inside a beautifully finished piece of sculpture…”

—Hugh Miller, THE OLD RED SANDSTONE (1841)

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The Old Red Sandstone; or, New Walks in an Old Field by Hugh Miller

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Fossil hunter, folklorist, evangelist, stonemason, newspaper editor, social justice campaigner, & geologist, Hugh Miller (1802–1856) – born #OTD, 10 Oct – deserves to be remembered in the company of Carlyle, Ruskin, Matthew Arnold & JS Mill as one of the leading moral & social thinkers of the 19th century

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