Glastonbury

Had to be, really, didn't it? GlastoBlog a Glastophotoblog. BBC | Glastonbury The BBC provide 'listen again' and 'watch now' buttons for Glastonbury. Relive what you saw, see what you didn't, and remind yourself to get tickets for next year... Glastonbury Festival Official site Playlouder | Glastonbury the 3D lines graphic emerging from the '2004' on this site are very similar to those on the BBC site. I wonder who nicked what off whom? Guardian | How was it for you? BBC | Glastonbury 2004: Your reviews BBC | Glastonbury spirit defies the ra...

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Origami

As I said I would in the Paper Planes section below, here finally is my Origami section. Traditional Origami Origami Diagrams Joseph Wu's Origami Page Robert J. Lang Origami Origami CD Cases Origami CD Case, CD Case Diagram [GIF] 2 CD Case Diagram [GIF] Modern Origami Traditionalists would say that glue and scissors should have no part in Origami, but modern designs allow for very attractive models. Doll's arcade - Arcade machines Canon Papercraft - a lot of very colourful modern designs Yamaha Paper Craft - build a paper motorbike Paper presentation boxes - for gifts, etc Star Wars Origami Diagrams Origami Sekkei Also known as computational origami, origami sekkei is the mathmatical study of the possibilities of paper...

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Cartoon Propaganda

Donald Duck screaming "Heil Hitler!" in his very own, very specific voice? It's not a spoof. Although sort-of kinda hushed up, Disney have now allowed some of their propoganda cartoons to be released for modern viewers. Warner still remain very tight lipped about their fairly racist portrayals of the Japanese in the past. Donald Duck Vs The Axis Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips at The Big Cartoon DataBase Remember: Pay your taxes to defeat the Axis! And what do taxes buy? Guns! I've got digital copies of the following cartoons; if anyone wants a view, let me know. The Spirit of '43 (1943) Der Fuehrer's Face (1944) Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips (194...

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Authors with child muses

Lewis Carroll's Alice Inevitably links are often made between artist and their child muses in a sexual, paedophilic context. One of the most well known of these was Carroll. It has been said that he had an unhealthy fascination with one of his photography models, a girl called Alice. His stories written to entertain her and her sisters are well known, but less is known either about the girl herself or why Carroll and the Liddells fell out suddenly, and speculation on the reason has been rife. Alice Liddell Lewis Carroll The original Alice J. M. Barrie's Peter As many people know, all royalties for productions of Peter Pan (and that includes the films) go to the Great Ormond Street Hospital. Although the copyright ran out in 1987, Parliament actually made a statute law to keep it in perpetuity....

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Union Flag

"The Union Flag shall be azure, the Crosses saltires of St Andrew and St Patrick, quarterly per saltire counterchanged argent and gules: the latter fimbriated of the second, surmounted by the Cross of St George of the third fimbriated as the saltire." Flags.net A comprehensive listing of all world flags, current and historical MrFlag.com | A Short History of the Union Flag MrFlag.com | The Union Flag: A Historical Perspective MrFlag.com | The Union Flag: It's Status as the de Facto National flag of the UK Additional This is just flags in general, but I couldn't pass it up; BBC SPORT | Flags guide a guide to the various Grand Prix fla...

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