That's an interesting point, Pip. I've found the literature of the East and to be just as good as the West's. The fine art isn't quite as good. There...
Actually, there's a great deal of debate on the boxing forum I visit about who the greatest are. Of course, Muhammad Ali was nicknamed The Greatest,...
I for one can't even make distinctions among the English language and I don't understand what you mean by "personally" "greatest" "another" or "yet."...
Agreed, no Polish text is as good in translation. Don't even bother trying to read them or translate them if you can't read the original Polish. It's...
That's fine, he's probably done more harm than good after The Terminator and Aliens. Titanic, Avatar, True Lies, and Dark Angel sucked. You can have...
In terms of literature, over the last century, I give it to the USA. Henry James, Jack London, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Sinclair Lewis, T.S. Eliot,...
While Gone With the Wind is probably about the fifth greatest film of all time, there are recent additions that compare. For instance, Pulp Fiction,...
It doesn't happen all at once. Edmund Waller's reputation was ridiculously high for about a century and a half before it fell. He was considered the...
I know that Beowulf, El Cid, Troy, Jabberwocky, and Gunga Din were definitely inspired by poems. Paintings inspired by poems, didn't StLukesGuild do...
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