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I can't make any sense of it. The Russians are failing on all counts. What's most obvious is that they are failing on the operationa...

DowneastBlog wishes all its readers of good will a Happy Easter! The painting, oil on wood, is part of a tableau in a chapel in the m...

Kacey Musgraves with Oh, what a world . Album Golden Hour (2018). "Modern Country" singer/songwriter from Golden, Texas. H...

Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924), one of the torchbearers of the Chicago School, has been called both a "fath...

By now it's been over one month since Russia's invasion of Ukraine started, and the fact that Europe now lives through its second bi...

Sir John Lavery RA RSA RHA (20 March 1856 – 10 January 1941) was an Irish painter from Belfast, best known for his portraits and wartime de...

Johnny Marr, ex The Smiths, ex The The, ex Electronic, with New Town Velocity . From his 2013 debut solo album The Messenger . Arguab...

If the past three weeks in Ukraine have proven anything it's that the much vaunted Russian War Machine is still prone to the same old er...

Putin is a rogue, but until a few days ago, I considered him a rational being, no Ahmadinejad-like nutcase eagerly anticipating the end of t...

A timely piece, and an absolute must read , brought to my attention via Tijl De Bie , Professor in Artificial Intelligence at Ghent Universi...

Paul Carrack with How Long . Actually a single from English band Ace's debut album Five-A-Side (1974), of which Carrack was a fo...

It's 2022. Another year has come and gone. DowneastBlog wishes all its reades of good will the very best for the coming year! Sup...

Today, on Christmas Day 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope, purported to be a hundred times more powerful than the Hubble Telescope, was l...

To all my readers of good will, a heartfelt Merry Christmas! Adorazioni dei pastori (1485), in the Cappella Sassetti in Florence's B...

Last week the Parker Solar Probe was hurtling though the Sun's corona at speeds sometimes approaching 100 miles per second : NASA...

Well, unveil... Neutron, the successor to Rocket Lab's Electron was announced in March already, but on 2 DEC the company lifted the v...

Via Tim Dodd , the "Everyday Astronaut"! It is but a small booklet, but it is one of the prized possessions in my library: ...

If you are White and happened to grow up in a stable family, in case you didn't know it yet: you're a White Supremacist! MFBB...

Probably nobody but Europe's muslims are more pleased with all the bruhaha surrounding the covid pandemic, since it allows them to inch ...

So after 16 years at the helm of Germany, Angela Merkel has left office, giving the reins to Olaf Scholz of the SPD, the German socialists...