Queen Elizabeth officially opened the newly refurbished Kensington Palace yesterday (15.03.12). She was joined by the Duke of Edinburgh for the tour of the palace buildings, which will be opened to the public on March 26 after £12 million worth of work. The British royals also took in the Victoria Revealed exhibition, where they watched footage of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations and saw displays of outfits worn by the former monarch, including her wedding dress. Charles Mackay, chairman of the Historic Royal Palaces board, which has worked on renovating the palace, told the Daily Mail newspaper: 'We have set out to awake the sleeping beauty of Kensington Palace. 'Our objective was to open up the palace to make...
- 3/16/2012
- Monsters and Critics
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Predictions of the end of the world are nothing new. But, as Cathy Gutierrez, a religion professor at Sweet Briar College, points out, our hyper-mediated environment may be playing an increasing role. “If you’re looking for signs of the end, we are more than capable of delivering them directly to your computer or to your television within seconds,” she says.
There is the general tendency of the mind...
Predictions of the end of the world are nothing new. But, as Cathy Gutierrez, a religion professor at Sweet Briar College, points out, our hyper-mediated environment may be playing an increasing role. “If you’re looking for signs of the end, we are more than capable of delivering them directly to your computer or to your television within seconds,” she says.
There is the general tendency of the mind...
- 5/20/2011
- by D.E. Wittkower
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