Albertus SebaDutch pharmacist, zoologist and collector.
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Tuesday, 7 July 2009
"Cabinet of Narural Curiosities" - Albertus Seba (1665 - 1736)
Albertus SebaDutch pharmacist, zoologist and collector.
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Monday, 6 July 2009
Eva Ionesco: " you can't keep making a living showing your ass all your life."
In response to the emails I received regarding the child model in a previous post, the girl is Eva Ionesco, daughter of the photographer Irina Ionesco.
Adam Et Eve Pierre et Gilles, 1981
(Eva Ionesco and Kevin Luzac)
During the 1980s, Eva attended the prestigious acting school Amandiers.
Saturday, 4 July 2009
Friday, 3 July 2009
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs stays in jail
Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs will stay in prison after his bid to be released on parole was turned down.
As Justice Secretary Jack Straw was finalising his announcement, reports suggested the Great Train Robber could have been freed within days. The ministry brushed them off as "unfounded speculation".
But Mr Straw said Biggs was "wholly unrepentant" about his actions and had "outrageously courted the media" while on the run from prison.
He said it was "unacceptable" that Biggs had chosen not to obey the law and tried to avoid the consequences of his decision.
The decision goes against the parole board's recommendation that he should be released.
Earlier this month, the board acknowledged that Biggs has no regrets about what he did, but said he could be released because the risks he posed of reoffending were "manageable", but warned that he could attempt to exploit his celebrity status.
Mr Straw said Biggs would have been a free man "many years ago" if he had complied with the sentence given to him.
He said: "Mr Biggs chose to serve only one year of a 30 year sentence before he took the personal decision to commit another offence and escape from prison, avoiding capture by travelling abroad for 35 years whilst outrageously courting the media.
"I am refusing the Parole Board's recommendation for parole. Biggs chose not to obey the law and respect the punishments given to him - the legal system in this country deserves more respect than this.
"It was Mr Biggs's own choice to offend and he now appears to want to avoid the consequences of his decision. I do not think this is acceptable."
Biggs's legal adviser, Giovanni Di Stefano, attacked the decision as "perverse".
He said he was planning to launch a judicial review to try to have it overturned.
"All the other Great Train Robbers served a third of their sentences, why should Ronnie Biggs be any different?" he said.
"Ten years is enough. This shows a side of the British Government that is perverse - it is cruel and unusual punishment."
Biggs, who is being held in Norwich prison, is in Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital after breaking his hip in a fall at the weekend.
He has suffered a series of strokes and is fed through a tube. He communicates using gestures or by pointing at letters on a card.
Biggs, from Lambeth, south London, was a member of a 15-strong gang which attacked the Glasgow to London mail train at Ledburn, Buckinghamshire, in August 1963, and made off with £2.6 million in used banknotes.
He was given a 30-year sentence but after 15 months he escaped from Wandsworth prison in southwest London by climbing a 30ft wall and fleeing in a furniture van.
Biggs was on the run for more than 30 years, living in Spain, Australia and Brazil, before voluntarily returning to the UK in 2001.
Ronnie Biggs with the Sex Pistols, "Belsen Was A Gas", from the Great Rock N Roll Swindle
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