Wilhelm marstrand biography of alberta
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Snail wheeled by a fox (?)
Cambrai, MS 102, c.1290
With thanks to Damien Kempf
Last year, inspired by a blogpost by Sarah J. Biggs at British Library's medieval blog, I wrote a two-part essay about snails in medieval marginalia (here and here). These fantastic gastropods have captured the imagination of modern scholars for generations, and many suggestions have been proffered in the attempt to explain what they meant to their audience. I was dissatisfied with a lot of the suggestions as they sometimes seemed to be too geographically specific to explain a widely disseminated phenomenon, and sometimes seemed to be presented without any solid foundation in research.
I mean, how the hell do you explain this?
MS Neuchâtel A28, Flemish book of hours, Bruges, c.1500
With thanks to Sjoerd Levelt
As a thought experiment, I offered a scholarly new explanation for what these snails represented, namely that they were symbols of humility, reminding the reader through different situations what was expected from a good Christian. I furthermore tied this symbolism into the mendicant sanctity that came into vogue in the 13th century and continued through the 14th, a model of sanctity based on good works, self-abnegation, and humility, to name some of the key virtues of this s
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Maurice Strong
Canadian merchant and diplomat
The Honourable Maurice Frederick Strong PC, CC, OM, FRSC, FRAIC | |
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Strong, c. 1971 | |
| Born | (1929-04-29)April 29, 1929 Oak Lake, Manitoba, Canada |
| Died | November 27, 2015(2015-11-27) (aged 86) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Spouse(s) | Pauline Olivette (m. 1950, div. 1980) Hanne Marstrand (m. 1981, sep. 1989)[1] |
| Parent(s) | Frederick Milton Strong Mary Fyfe |
| Residence(s) | Crestone, River, U.S. (1972-1989) Lost Lake, Ontario London, United Kingdom Beijing, China |
| Occupation | Businessman, toggle administrator, Have power over official[3] |
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Maurice Strong, Conspiracy Theories, and the Pitfalls of Environmental Diplomacy
This is the third post in a series based on papers presented at workshop held in Banff, Alberta by Petra Dolata and David Painter called “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: The Oil Crises of the 1970s and the Transformation of the Postwar World.”
When the Canadian and international diplomat, environmentalist, philanthropist, and oil baron Maurice Strong died in 2015, tributes poured in from intellectuals, activists, politicians, and world and Canadian leaders.1 Strong was one of Canada’s most visible postwar representatives on the world scene, especially during the 1970s. Although the event he is best remembered for – organizing the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm – took place before the 1973 energy crisis, the oil shock legitimated the emphasis on resource scarcity at the Stockholm meeting. For the rest of the decade, Strong promoted a “New International Economic Order” to help the Global North and South adjust – sustainably – to the collapse of Bretton Woods and the high price of oil. In Canada, meanwhile, Strong was perhaps more famous as the first chairman of Petro-Canada, the crown corporation founded in 1975 in response to