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Alanis Morissette with Thank U . Album Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie (1998). Canadian-American singer/songwriter from Ottawa, w...

Dire Straits with You and your friend . Album On Every Street (1991). Once called the greatest British rock band of the 80s by the m...

Like every year, DowneastBlog wishes all its readers of good will a Happy and Blessed Easter! If I am allowed to make a special recom...

For the umpteenth time a bomb attack near the center of Antwerp. Serious damage in 4 streets. The house against which the explosive was used...

Thilo Sarrazin is a former high ranking German public servant , a.o. Finance Senator to the Senate of Berlin. He is also a (former) socialis...

Rob Lee always has incomparable footage. Video from Ukraine’s 72nd Mechanized Brigade in Vuhledar. It shows a Russian T-72B-series tank h...

Spending more time on Twitter has, through getting acquainted there with aviation enthusiasts, rekindled the fascination of my youth for any...

One year into the war, the military of supposed superpower Russia has essentially confined itself to areas which even before the conflict we...

To all my followers and all people of good will, a very happy New Year!!! Sorry for the far too light blogging but I really don't...

To all my fellow Christians and to all people of good will a heartfelt Merry Christmas! This is the Adoration of the Kings by Gerard d...

Altered Images with Don't talk me about love . Album Bite (1983). Scottish new wave/postpunk band from Glasgow. Founded in 1979 ...

Peder Mørk Mønsted (10 December 1859 – 20 June 1941) was a talented Danish landscape painter in the realistic style, although some works sh...

The Alan Parsons Project with Silence and I . From the album Eye in the Sky (1982). English multi-instrumentalist rock band around A...

Metronomy with Corinne . Album The English Riviera (2011) English electronic music band, founded by Joseph Mount in 1999. Hat tip Ou...

Leonard Campbell Taylor RA (12 December 1874 – 1 July 1969) was a British painter, mainly of portraits and interiors in a traditional style....

It's been eleven years already since my father died. For many of my in memoriams I've been using Bachs beautiful "Ich ru...

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...