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The 1900s saw dramatic changes in attitudes and legislation regarding women. Some of those who influenced these changes were women writers and among these, two key figures were Vera Brittain and Virginia Woolf. Suffragists and suffragettes # Suffragists asked for their rights in a peaceful way, while suffragettes used also violence to intervene in the political scene and raise awareness about…
Hard Times is a long novel set in the north of England, wrote by Charles Dickens. The fictitious name of the novel is Coke Town, Coke is a type of coal which was mined in the main setting, the industrial town. Hard Times is a Bildungsroman, a novel of formation. Ther are lots of plots sewed togheter in this novel, a main plot cohabiting with many subplots. It was published in 1894, in three books:
Poetry, according to William Wordsworth, is a spontaneous flow of inner feelings and thoughts. In the preface of the lyrical ballads he wrote his concept of poetry. In the preface Wordsworth wrote that he was going to deal with low and rustic life, as a man speaking to men, wanting to be understood by the other people. Coleridge, on the other way, was thinking about producing poetry by using the…
Following the instructions on the DivestOS official website, after rebooting to the unlocked bootloader one should do: If fastboot.zip available: $ fastboot update divested-version-date-dos-device-fastboot.zip If recovery.img available: $ fastboot flash recovery divested-version-date-dos-device-recovery.img I downloaded both files to install DivestOS the fastboot way, but with my Fairphone 3 it…
I have a blog with over 100 articles, mainly Compiti Scolastici (:it: School assignments) , where I also convert images to the recent .avif and .webp formats. Why convert images to modern formats? # Why did I do it? Mainly for three reasons: The score of some pages with many images on PageSpeed was sometimes less than 90/100 and it mildly infuriated me, because the website average is 98/99 out of…
Surfing on F-droid - an open-source app store - I discovered the Atomize app. This app aims to reduce the size of an image in png format , often by up to 70%. In my case, using a few screenshots or manga scans, the reduction often reaches 50% with negligible (unnoticeable) losses in image quality. I was amazed, so I opened the About app screen where I discovered that the app is simply a front-end…
Website map # The site (the lair of the Borto) is divided into two sections: Person :neutral_face: School :school_satchel: :neutral_face: Person # Photo :camera: # The personal section contains a collection of :camera: photos taken by me. Photography has always interested me, and I’ve had several compact cameras since primary schools.
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In this tutorial I’ll use the Goatcounter json api to get the current page views for each article in my hugo static site, and show views in the article meta, in this case next to the reading time, or just below, as you can see. It’s like those old sites with a visit counter on the bottom.
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Shakespeare’s main source for the tragedy Macbeth was Raphael Holinshed’s Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland. According to some critics the tragedy may have been commissioned by the monarch James II, the successor of Elizabeth the I. He was Scottish, he liked magics and he was intrested in everything connected with magicians and witchcraft, on which he also wrote a book.…
Gulliver’s travels was published anonimously in 1726, it consisted of four books, because Gulliver undertakes four voyages in the story. There is a book for each voyage. The protagonist belongs to the middle class. It is considered a travel book because Gulliver undertakes four differendt voyages, people liked stories about exotic places that were different from England. The name of the…
After installing YunoHost on my VPS on a few days, I checked fail2ban logs. Fail2ban is a Python service to ban IPs that try to access your server by reading the access logs, as SSH log, Nginx log by using regular expressions to catch malicious IPs. Long story short, there were about ~800 failed SSH login attempts, and the rising number annoyed me, so I decided to allow only SSH access with…
The Anglo-Saxon period seems like a long and boring era, but it’s not entirely, luckily! Counting epic poems such as Beowulf and elegies as Deor’s Lament , this is the incipit of English Literature , where it all starts. After romanised Celts were left alone by the Roman withdrawal, several Germanic tribes invaded Britain. Jutes, Angles and Saxons A.K.A. Anglo-saxons invaded Britain…
William, duke of Normady, after winning against Anglo-Saxons gained the “Conqueror” alias and made drastic changes to the society. He changed the justice system , introducing sheriffs and the feudal system, he also introduced Norman Rule and wrecked the Anglo-Saxon ruling class . The Norman Rule # The Norman Rule deprived Anglo-Saxons of their properties and land and replaced…
In this article I will expose the fastest method to create a Discord webhook, that is a link that can be used with Python to send messages in specific channels of a server.
The Anglo Saxon society had a hierarchical structure. Since Anglo Saxons were Germans, the Germanic values were held in great consideration: loyalty physical courage (to fight) personal freedom bravery The King # The king, at the top of the society, had its own group of warriors, the thanes , bound by loyalty to him - the most important value. King and thanes togheter form the comitatus .
Julius Caesar was the first Roman emperor to conquer Britain, although only nominally in 55 B.C. . The main reasons were two: Britain had a good soil to farm. Celts were helping Gauls, and they had to be taught a lesson He didn’t tryhard and did this just to scare the Celts from helping Gauls, so he failed and lost. Emperor Claudius, about ~90 years later, in 43 A.D., took control of central…
We’re going to talk about the origins of English culture and literature in this page, right from the beginning. The first inhabitants of British Isles vere the Iberians, many centuries B.C. We say "B.C." (Before Christ) or "B.C.E" for events happened before the year 0, and instead "A.D." (Anno Domini) or "C.E." (Common Era) for events happened after the year 0. After the Iberians (our book -…
OpenSuse is a distro that I can recommend. Fast and stable, European and also easy to customize thanks to YAST. In the first days of use, however, I encountered a problem: I could not install Jekyll, the program written in Ruby that I use to compile most of my static sites.
In this article, we will explain a simple and safe strategy to be able to block most advertisements in apps and when surfing the Internet with an Android 9 or higher device via private DNS.
This is a chapter by chapter summary of the book ‘Dr Jekyll and mr. Hyde’ adapted by Oxford University, it’s an online book shipped with B1 Language for Life, a book for the first year of high school used in Italy.
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