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	<title>Manning Clark</title>
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	<description>The historian and the writer</description>
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		<title>Lamps and Lightening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s lighting technology is relatively new. Formerly living rooms were illuminated with the help of torches, torch, oil lamps or candles, but this could only result in a (specific) brightening of the room. The oil lamp with round wicks and glass cylinders represented an improvement of lighting that have existed since about 1800 the.
With the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.manningclark.org/?p=75</link>
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		<title>Clark and download</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clark was an equivalent of Einstein for its times. Despite being considered mad he always supported the theory that a human being could download music and software by Usenext. People never even heard of it and they irrationally accused him of whichcraft.

Clark was deeply offended by this slander and therefore locked himself in his shed, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.manningclark.org/?p=64</link>
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		<title>Clark and jewellery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clark had few birds in his garden, a couple of magpies that were trained especially to steal red shining jewellery pieces. He was training them every day by putting on a white robe few drops of Priscilla’s blood. The magpies in spite of the hard training they received always got back with something wrong.

Once they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.manningclark.org/?p=62</link>
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		<title>Clark and perfume</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Australia nobody knows that the origin of kangaroo’s fragrance rely on the secret recipe of Manning Clark’s wife. His wife was a simple woman who spent the majority of her days in the Australian outback, picking flowers and singing to herself. Everyone considered her mad, as she was seen often killing Kangaroo and burning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.manningclark.org/?p=60</link>
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		<title>Clark and Clocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clark woke up to the sound of ticking clocks every day for most of his youth. He ate shaped clock biscuits, he had a pet mouse he named clock. Clark’s mother was similarly obsessed with ticking objects, such as metronomes and alarm clocks and oven timers.

Those two fell out very often due to arguments over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.manningclark.org/?p=56</link>
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		<title>Clark and games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clark wished he had visited you instead of wasting all my time and money in games. But at least he learnt to speak passable very basic game language now. It&#8217;s ruined his relation with the Chinese though. Hi father was applying to do a master on his behalf but Clark need to take game statistics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.manningclark.org/?p=52</link>
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		<title>Manning Clark and music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clark was a fond music follower he studied when he was young the clarinet. In his later years he helped rising funds for various foundations in order to help young music talents pursue their carer. He was often seen at the opera with his wife during the early year of his marriage.

Clark did not appreciate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.manningclark.org/?p=50</link>
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		<title>Life lasting Recognitions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clark had numerous credits and honours for his work, perhaps the most noticeable one in Australia obviously was the lecture theatre complex in the national University.
After his wife’s’ death in 2000, their house in Tasmania was made into an educational centre in honour to his work and life. Nowadays it is used to discuss and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.manningclark.org/?p=34</link>
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		<title>His reputation throughout his career and after his death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If we look at the numerous monuments dedicated to this prestigious historical figure we realise how even when Clark was close to his death in 1991 he had acquired enormous recognition for his work and his character. Simply by looking at him it becomes apparent how he knew the relevance of his role: he used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.manningclark.org/?p=32</link>
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		<title>Criticisms and defamations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clark’s style so far was eclectic but somehow conform with any historiographical book written at the time in terms of type of criticisms. He did not made large use of world wide economic theories and class struggle. He was referred for his work as a generally lefty author, reputation he ended up living with peacefully. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.manningclark.org/?p=30</link>
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