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The Lady’s Dressing Room by Jonathan Swift. Love triangle. A love triangle (also called a romantic love triangle or a romance triangle) is usually a romantic relationship involving three people.

Love triangle

While it can refer to two people independently romantically linked with a third, it usually implies that each of the three people has some kind of relationship to the other two. The relationships can be friendships, romantic, or familial (often other siblings). "Although the romantic love triangle is formally identical to the friendship triad, as many have noted their actual implications are quite different....Romantic love is typically viewed as an exclusive relationship, whereas friendship is not. "[1] Statistics suggest that, in Western society, "wittingly or not, most adults have been involved in a love triangle".[2] History and definitions[edit] Common themes[edit] Eternal triangle[edit] Homosociality[edit] Marital breakup[edit] In entertainment[edit] Fiction[edit] Television[edit] Music[edit] Bloomsbury[edit]

03milt. Occam's Razor. HowStuffWorks "How Occam\'s Razor Works" ­­You've probably heard it before: The simplest explanation is usually the right one.

HowStuffWorks "How Occam\'s Razor Works"

Detectives use it to deduce who's the likeliest suspect in a murder case -- you know, the butler did it. Doctors ­use it to determine the illness behind a set of symptoms. This line of reasoning is called Occam's razor. It's used in a wide variety of ways throughout the world as a means to slice through a problem or situation and eliminate unnecessary elements. But what we call the razor is a little different than what its author originally wrote.

The Principle of Plurality - Plurality should not be posited without necessityThe Principle of Parsimony - It is pointless to do with more what is done with less Taken together, they represent the basis of humanity's investigation into the universe, and the way we see our environment is largely based upon Occam's razor. However, one of the key things that Occam's razor reveals is the subjectivity with which we view the universe. From Dawn to Dawn - Sixty Troubadour poems in a new freely downloadable translation. This personal selection of Occitan poetry is of verse that I feel has true poetic merit, and nothing is included solely for its historic interest.

From Dawn to Dawn - Sixty Troubadour poems in a new freely downloadable translation.

I considered a simple prose or free verse translation of these poems, but to show the Troubadours without their rhyme schemes, their form, seemed to me too great an admission of failure. Form is half their art and crucially their poems were set to music, a large amount of which survives. Either approach, rhymed or un-rhymed, is of course valid. As always the end result is what counts. Orpheus and Eurydice. Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The story of Orpheus and Eurydice, as told by Apollonius of Rhodes, Virgil and Ovid (and retold by Edith Hamilton in Mythology) Orpheus: "On his mother's side he was more than mortal.

Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice

He was the son of one of the Muses and a Tracian prince. His mother gave him the gift of music and Thrace where he grew up fostered it. The Thracians were the most musical of the peoples of Greece. But Orpheus had no rival there or anywhere except the gods alone. In the deep still woods upon the Thracian mountains Orpheus with his singing lyre led the trees, Led the wild beasts of the wilderness.

Everything animate and inanimate followed him. When he first met and how he wooed the maiden he loved, Euridice, we are not told, but it is clear that no maiden he wanted could have resisted the power of his song. With my song I will charm Demeter's daughter, I will charm the Lord of the Dead, Moving their hearts with my melody. Storyteller Greek Myths "Orpheus and Eurydice" Types of Poem Forms - Alba Poems.

Depending on which source you consult, Alba poems (aka Aube, Aubades, or Morning Love Songs) are claimed to have originated by several different cultures.

Types of Poem Forms - Alba Poems

However, all point to an emergence in the Middle Ages where Occitan Lyric poetry was born and the Alba poems evolved. For those not familiar with the term “Occitan” it refers to a number of Romance language dialects that were (and still are to a lesser extent) spoken in Southern France, Italy (Occitan Valleys), Monaco, and Spain’s Val d’ Aran regions. Mr. Lettiere's English 9. Alba by Ezra Pound - Famous poems, famous poets. - All Poetry. Francesco Petrarch. Petrarca: Love Sonnets in Italian and Love Poetry. Pakistan woman stoned by family outside Lahore court. 27 May 2014Last updated at 10:46 ET Police said Farzana Parveen's family members killed her in broad daylight as she arrived at Lahore High Court A Pakistani woman has been killed by her relatives outside Lahore High Court for marrying against their wishes.

Pakistan woman stoned by family outside Lahore court

Police said 30-year old Farzana Parveen died on the spot after being attacked with bricks and sticks. Her father handed himself in, but police say her brothers and former fiance, who also took part in the attack, were still free. Correspondents say hundreds of girls and women in Pakistan are killed every year by family members. However, many more killings are believed to go unreported. Farzana Parveen's parents accused her husband, Muhammad Iqbal, of kidnapping her, and had filed a case against him at the High Court. However, she testified to police that she had married him of her own accord.