![]() ![]() ![]() A talented writer in the secure surroundings of the caliph's court, John of Damascus initiated a defense of holy images in three separate publications. ![]() Germanus, Patriarch of Constantinople, Emperor Leo III issued his first edict against the veneration of images and their exhibition in public places. In the early 8th century AD, iconoclasm, a movement seeking to prohibit the veneration of the icons, gained some acceptance in the Byzantine court. A polymath whose fields of interest and contribution included law, theology, philosophy, and music, before being ordained, he served as a Chief Administrator to the Muslim caliph of Damascus, wrote works expounding the Christian faith, and composed hymns which are still in everyday use in Eastern Christian monasteries throughout the world. Born and raised in Damascus, he died at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem. 676 - 4 December 749) was an Arab Christian monk and priest. ![]()
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![]() College Star at UC BerkeleyĪfter high school, Morgan went to the University of California at Berkeley, where she led the Golden Bears to the NCAA Tournament in each of her four years (and to the second round twice). She attended Diamond Bar High School, where she was a three-time all-league pick and was named an NSCAA All-American. ![]() Although she was a multisport athlete growing up, Morgan didn't start playing organized soccer until she was 14 years old. Early LifeĪlexandra Patricia Morgan was born on July 2, 1989, in San Dimas, California. claim its second straight World Cup crown. She overcame an injury to help the Americans win the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, and four years later she tied for the tournament high with six goals to help the U.S. ![]() At the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, Morgan earned her first Olympic gold medal by helping the U.S. women's national soccer team in 2009, and was the first overall pick in the 2011 Women's Professional Soccer draft. Alex Morgan became the youngest member of the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() The pictures are pretty and modern and very pink! I'm considering buying an extra copy just to be able to frame some pages for Brighton's room. The illustrations in this book are absolutely worthy of the Caldecott Honor it received. Here's the kids "hiding" under their wings.Īnd of course, making the big splash at the end. I completely credit Flora for finally teaching Brighton how to stand on one leg. My kids adore this book because they like to act it out, page by page. ![]() They stand on one leg, twirl, dance, and eventually cannonball into the water. Flora and the Flamingo, by Molly Idle, is one of our favorite new books! It’s a wordless story of the interaction between a leggy flamingo and little girl named Flora.Īt first, Flora and the flamingo appear to be shy around each other, but they quickly warm up to each other. ![]() We read a lot at our house, and want to share some picture books with you that the entire family has loved. ![]() ![]() ![]() An architect working on an expansion to the school, he is handsome, has a lovely Southern drawl and really gets Frannie. On a rare faculty night out, she meets Sam. Their relationship is palpable-they swear and joke and snipe like real friends-and the two encourage Frannie to date since pompous Ryan, head of the history department, dumped her. Frannie does have a cheering team-Jill, a fellow therapist at Markham, and Lisa, a new science teacher. She is just the kind of woman speech therapist Frannie Reid would like to be, but that would require a kind of easy confidence she can’t imagine. New headmistress at the Markham School Emma Dunham is beautiful and accomplished-a kind of Grace Kelly figure in the stuffy staff lounge. ![]() After escaping death in a school shooting, a mild-mannered woman begins to demand a little respect. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s like they’ve known each other forever…Īs a film, Marnie has suggestions of a ghost story and a time-slip tale, though it may be both or neither. From the girls’ first meeting at a moonlit mansion, when Marnie smiles down on an awed Anna like an angel in white, their friendship is charming, joyful and mysterious. Accept it on those terms, and it’s wonderful. This is a small film, closer to Arrietty (by Marnie director Hiromasa Yonebayashi) or Poppy Hill than to Princess Mononoke or Spirited Away. Marnie sees Studio Ghibli working in miniature. In the new surroundings, Anna finds a friend a jovial, beautiful girl called Marnie, who lives in a fine house amid marsh and mist. As the film opens, she’s sent away to a coastal town for recuperation – both for her asthma, and because of her foster mum’s concerns that she never seems happy. Marnie tells the story of a solitary, withdrawn, rather boyish-looking girl called Anna. When Marnie Was There, released in cinemas on 10th June through Studio Canal, may be the last feature film made at the world’s most famous anime studio, Ghibli. ![]() ![]() ![]() She wrote “If He Had Been with Me” after her first novel had been rejected over and over, and she had begun giving up hope that she’d ever be an author. ![]() She had caught the reading bug by then, and it never left her. ![]() They ended up redrawing district lines, and she moved to another school where she had a lot of friends from her neighborhood in her class. Nobody would be her friend, however nobody would make fun of her anymore, because she’d just pull out her book. She found that if she focused on reading, she wouldn’t hear them mocking her, and her lack of reaction took all the fun out of teasing her. Laura made a few friends in her neighborhood, just none in her class, and halfway through the school year, the other girls decided she was to be ostracized and mocked. That year, her family moved from a tiny town in Arkansas to St. She was a reluctant and slow reader until she was nine years old. When she’s not at home agonizing over her own novels she works at the public library where the patrons give her more than enough inspiration for her writing. Laura Nowlin holds a BA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Missouri State University.Īlong with being an ambitious writer Laura is also an avid reader that believes books allow her to live many lives in just a single lifetime. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a child, Ros was inspired by her adventurous Aunt Alice and created a list of ten things to do before her wedding day. She only has three weeks before her life changes forever, and she knows exactly how she wants to spend her days. And the duke is a kind man who will care for Rosalind, even if he doesn't love her. The marriage is more an agreement between two families and less a romantic connection between two hearts, but Rosalind becoming a duchess will elevate her family's status to dizzying heights. Rosalind Newbury is counting down the days until her wedding to the Duke of Marlow, a man she has only met twice. ![]() ![]() ![]() But with an investigative journalist digging into his past, a father trying to silence him, and the bully frontrunner standing in his way, Mark will have to decide which matters most: perception or truth, when both are just as dangerous. ![]() Soon Mark feels emboldened to engage with voters-and even start a new romance. ![]() Still, thanks to Scandal and The West Wing, they know where to start: from campaign stops to voter polling to a fashion makeover. He didn’t grow up in this town, and his few friends are all nerds. But when he sees a manipulatively charming candidate for student body president inflame dangerous rhetoric, Mark risks his low profile to become a political challenger. Mark has promised to keep his past hidden and pretend to be the cis guy everyone assumes he is. ![]() Everything Mark knows about politics, he learned from his father, the Congressman who still pretends he has a daughter and not a son. Red, White, & Royal Blue meets The West Wing in Jasper Sanchez’s electric and insightful #ownvoices YA debut, chronicling a transmasculine student’s foray into a no-holds-barred student body president election against the wishes of his politician father. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1964 Knight began selling Onitsuka shoes in earnest throughout the West Coast. While in Japan, Knight met with executives at Onitsuka Tiger, a Japanese shoe company, which agreed to send Knight shoe samples to sell back in the United States. In addition to the challenges related to building a company, Knight also reflects on the challenges and triumphs he faced as a son, as a young man searching for his identity, as a husband, and as a father.Īfter completing undergraduate studies at the University of Oregon and business school at Stanford, Knight returned to his parents’ home in Portland, Oregon, in 1962, where he received a loan from his father to travel around the world. ![]() Shoe Dog is divided into 20 chapters, each one roughly corresponding to one year in Knight’s life. ![]() ![]() The assassination presented Germany and Kaiser Wilhelm II with an opportunity to push for the conflict they had long prepared for. On June 28, 1914, a nineteen-year-old Bosnian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip, shot and killed the Archduke of Austria and heir to the throne, Franz Ferdinand, along with his wife, Sophie, in the capital city of Sarajevo. The forces of nationalism, militarism, and imperialism swelled in the decades following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, gripping the continent with fear, envy, and mistrust.4 Colonial rivalries and a precarious alliance system exacerbated tensions. ![]() The European crisis had been long in the making. His thirteen-year-old daughter, Yolande, and his wife, Nina, were scheduled to leave for England at the end of the month.2 Yolande had received admission to the prestigious Bedales boarding school in Hampshire, where, as her father intended, she would be “trained to become a healthy woman, of broad outlook and spiritual resources, able to earn a living in some line of work which she likes and is fitted for.”3 Du Bois believed that Nina should dutifully relocate as well and settle in nearby London to provide motherly support whenever necessary. It was August 1914, and war engulfed Europe. “The present war in Europe is one of the great disasters due to race and color prejudice and it but foreshadows greater disasters in the future.”1ĭU BOIS FEARED FOR his family’s safety. ![]() |