#瑞士的生活#A Swiss flag touching the rooftops of Geneva's shopping district. The fountain is far away enough as not to soak the emblematic cross, 我在:🔗 网页链接展开全文
#中国文化#A tea animal, who lives on pumpkin and tea... I'm not fully into the mistery of those creatures, but, apparently, they take on the smell of the tea.Has it some other meaning?When we pour tea over those animals,do we make our surrounding prosperous and full of life?查看全文>>展开全文
#西特著#Fremasonry共济会 is an esoteric society with roots in medieval Stonemasonry with independent lodges寄宿 all over the world. With handshakes, signs or words they gain access to their meetings. They believe in a supreme being. With France's exception it’s exclusive for men展开全文
#重要西电影# Based on Thackeray’s novel Kubrick made "Barry Lyndon", a film about an Irish adventurer trying to make his fortune during the 18th c.,for a while becoming famous in Europe’s gambling tables, cheating his ways through… 🔗 网页链接展开全文
#西史事件#The earthquake in Lisbon 1755, when the whole city in Portugal was destroyed and as much as 50000 people were killed, had a great impact on people's mind. Is this the best of all possible worlds? would ask Voltaire. Best to leave cities at all, was Rousseau's conclusion展开全文
#西流行音乐#“who's gonna pay attention to your dreams”."Drive"(1984) by“The Cars“has a floating,slightly melancholic reassuring synthesizer sound, fitting to the new wave style of the band. It’s good night! May the force be with you! 🔗 网页链接展开全文
#重要绘画# Peter Paul Rubens made this dramatic painting for Marie de Medici, Henry IV’s wife, portraying her life. It shows victory over a hydra九头蛇 like monster (alluding to a person responsible for tensions between her and her son, who is painted as Apollo next to herself).展开全文
#西独立电影#“Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)”.A story about the mysterious man“Ghost Dog"employed by a local Mafia. When a mission gets complicated by the showing up of the boss'es daughter, they decide to eliminate this man. 🔗 网页链接展开全文
#摇滚历史#Punk actually means "ruffian"（暴徒）and was a movement starting 1974 against mainstream（主流）that lost its spirit of rebellion, preferring simple chords and fast rhythms. Their lyrics were anti-authoritarian and political, with slogans like Anarchy or No Future.展开全文
#电影结束#The 1st final scene of“North by Northwest”,ending happily,after a dramatic escape.The 2nd,“Sunset Boulevard”ends in an illusion (the aged actress believes to reappear on stage). The 3rd is a sad parting in “Godfather II”. 🔗 网页链接展开全文
#重要西作家#Herman Melville let his character Ishmael “Moby Dick”(1851) humorously describe why from time to time he needs to go to sea and leave his bad temper ashore （岸上）. The story is an epic （史诗）journey on sea in hunt （狩猎）for an enigmatic （谜的）white whale.展开全文
#宗教改革#Many rulers saw the chance to gain independence. 1555 Charles V had to grant them a free choice between the two religions. Looking at their loss the empire stroke back. At the end of the century the Catholic church regained half of the territory lost to Protestantism展开全文
