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Artwork - Very powerful edition about latvian art, loaded with images and stories, a project of Soros Foundation Latvia.
Underground - Latvian electronic underground music resource and support site, RealAudio and MPEG Layer 3 audio files, informative
Studija - Visual Arts Magazine - Studija.
Latvian Folklore - Materials about Latvian folklore and folk art. Includes a Latvian folklore groups catalogue which contains descriptions, photos and sound recordings of Latvian folk groups.
Latvian Language and Culture. - Some maps, but mostly information and photos on Latvian cuisine, folksongs, folkart, folkdances, pagan customs.
Elgurt, Josef - Biography and gallery of this artist from Riga, Latvia.
Literature project - Meditative prose and poetry
Art Nouveau Heritage - Highlights this type of architecture that is seen in the capital city of Riga and the rest of the country.
re-lab - An electronic art and media center in Riga, Latvia. Projects range from new media festivals to Internet broadcasting.
DoCoMoMo - National Register Latvia - Purpose of organization is to document architectural structures within a historical context, record the works of famous architects within this style, and develop a glossary of trade terms. Includes building photos and general floor plans.
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz Arts and Entertainment "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Arts and Entertainment The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison Arts and Entertainment Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Arts and Entertainment Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson Arts and Entertainment "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Arts and Entertainment He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Arts and Entertainment "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. -- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Arts and Entertainment "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Arts and Entertainment The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville Arts and Entertainment The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Arts and Entertainment Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts and Entertainment Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon Arts and Entertainment Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha Arts and Entertainment Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. -- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Arts and Entertainment A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Arts and Entertainment Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle Arts and Entertainment
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