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- Hong Kong's Chief Executive, Tung Chee-hwa, has refused a request from pro-democracy legislators that he attend a special Legco meeting to explain the decision by the National People's Congress ("NPC") to "interpret" provisions of the Basic Law dealing with democratic... |
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- I never owned a radio flyer as a child -- but I always wanted one. So sad to hear that... |
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- Turning Bangladesh's Beggars Into Businessmen. One of Bangladesh's leading micro-credit groups has launched an initiative to lend money to beggars at easy repayment rates, to wean them off the streets and into small scale ventures. |
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Alsia Well (Mar 31 2004 02:58 GMT) - Holy Well / Spring in Cornwall. This well was once of 'great repute', and used by mothers to help strengthen their rickety children. It was also used for divination, to determine when a maiden and her sweetheart may be united. |
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- We've had a news syndication (RSS/RDF/XML) feed since we started in 2000, this was the first archaeology RSS feed that I'm aware of. I've now created two more feeds and added the customary RSS logos to help people can spot them. |
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- Two studies of ancient monuments in southwest Europe reveal the influence the Sun and stars had on their builders according to Dr Michael Hoskin, a historian of astronomy at Cambridge University. |
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- Archaeologists are excited by a discovery which they say proves that early Scottish settlers travelled through the Cairngorms 7,000 years ago. More than 80 pieces of worked flint and quartz dating from the Mesolithic period have been found at a site in Glen Dee near Braemar. |
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- Now in its 14th Year. The Sarsen Walk Sunday 2nd May 2004 Avebury to Stonehenge Sponsored Walk or Run The Sarsen Trail Walk and Neolithic Marathon, link the two World Heritage Sites of Avebury and Stonehenge, and take in a part of Salisbury Plain which is usually closed to the public. |
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Horton Camp (Mar 31 2004 02:58 GMT) - Hillfort in Gloucestershire. Not much remains of this once important hillfort on a promontary of the Cotswold Edge.The western edge of the camp is the steep edge of the cotswold hills, and there are very little in the remains of decent fortifications here, although the steepness of the hill is a significant barrier in itself. |
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- A 12m high sculpture showing an artist's impression of what lies beneath the floor of Thetford Forest will be officially unveiled tomorrow. The idea sprang from visits to the Neolithic flint mines at Grimes Graves and talking to cyclists, walkers and other forest users. |
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- Holy Well / Spring in Cheshire. The Wizard's Well can be found on the magical outcrop of Alderley Edge in Cheshire, famous for its legend of a band of warriors who reputedly lie sleeping in a chamber below ground, ready to awake in a time of crisis to save their country. The carving of the wizard and the inscription, which reads 'Drink of this and take thy fill for the water falls by the Wizhard's will', were reputedly created by local stone mason Robert Garner, the great-great-grandfather of local author Alan Garner (famous for his book The Weirdstone of Brisingamen) in the 19th century. |
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- The magic of clear fresh water from deep within the earth has always been sacred to mankind. Often overlooked and neglected today, wells were essential to farm and village and those that never failed were venerated. Some had healing powers when the waters were rich in iron, calcium and other minerals. Some are so rich in limestone that they "petrify" anything suspended in the water (Mother Shipton's Cave). The oldest take us back to pre-Christian days and give us glimpses of Pagan deities. |
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- One lucky person contributing a photo in the next day is going to win a Tom Bullock Stone Circles CD-ROM for being the poster of our 6000th photo. We accept photos of megalithic and other prehistoric sites from all over the world; also holy wells, sacred springs and ancient crosses (pre Norman) from the UK and Ireland. |
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- Ahaus (dpa) - Atomkraftgegner haben empört auf die Genehmigung des Atomtransports aus dem sächsischen Rossendorf in das westfälische Zwischenlager Ahaus reagiert. Das Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz und Bundesumweltminister Jürgen Trittin (Grüne) seien «willige Helfer der Atomindustrie», kritisierte die Bürgerinitiative «Kein Atommüll in Ahaus» am Mittwoch. Am Dienstagabend hatte die Behörde grünes ... |
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- View changelog or download. New features in this release include a EL tag that allows JSTL's EL expressions in all attributes, as well as the ability to use Struts Menu outside of a Struts application. I also took the time to add a database-driven example to the sample app. For the database-driven menu (as well as the app I'm writing for Spring Live) - I'm using HSQL. I never even touched the sucker before last week and I gotta say - damn it's easy. |
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Magister (Mar 31 2004 02:57 GMT) - The Web Site "Magister" has been compiled by Philippe Lavergne in French and is aimed at those studying French literature and culture. Although it is specifically aimed at those taking the Prépas or Bac, it is an extremely comprehensive site of use to those studying French literature for A Level or undergraduate studies. The site is divided into the following sections: vocabulary; literary movements; |
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- The Web Site of LIMAG is in French and exists to promote (and, to some extent, disseminate) literature from the former French colonies of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, collectively known as the Maghreb. It provides a brief introduction to almost every francophone writer to emerge from the area, together with a large number of critical essays, bibliographical references, and extracts to download. Two electronic journals are affiliated to the site, together with myriad groups, fora, and associations. The site also features a complete run of the Etudes littéraires maghrébines. It contains a calendar of colloquia, information on conferences, lists of publications, and a list of theses in progress at various universities. |
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- The Web Site "The New Yorker magazine" is the online version of the print magazine, which has published news articles, reviews, profiles, and creative writing since 1925. Past contributors have included James Thurber and Ring Lardner and, more recently, John Updike and Saul Bellow. The site displays selected articles from recent issues as well as a small, rotating selection from the New Yorker archive in a readable and printable format. Also included is a link to a site that displays thousands of the New Yorker's famous cartoons. There are the usual details on subscriptions, submission of materials, and the editorial section. |
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Fabula (Mar 31 2004 02:57 GMT) - "Fabula" is a Web Site devoted to discussion of literary theory and making relevant tools to enhance this study available to French-speaking researchers. It was established in 1999 by Alexandre Gefen (University of Bordeaux III—Michel de Montaigne) and René Audet (University of Laval, Quebec). Discussion focuses on: literary theory; literary poetics; |
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- The Web Site "French literary analysis @ globe-gate" has been compiled by David Gatwood at the University of Tennessee at Martin. It is part of a project named GlobeGate, which focuses on online language resources in Japanese, German, French, Spanish, and Arabic. It features an article on an organized analytical description of literary work as a text - known in French as "explication de texte". The author has included links to many Web Sites on the subject, which are unfortunately not annotated. There is, however, an extremely limited printed bibliography. |
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- The Web Site "Queneau's Cent Mille Milliards de Poémes" is in English and has been published by Beverly Charles Rowe. It provides a full translation into English of Raymond Queneau's (one of the Oulipo group) work, one hundred million milliards of poems. This amazing feat of poetry consists of ten sonnets published in 1961, on card with each line on a separate strip of card, which meant that any line from any sonnet can be combined with the others, as they all use the same rhyme scheme and rhyme sounds. The author has provided a new translation and presents the sonnets in both English and French, with annotations. It is a great resource, which is the type of literature that benefits from the facilities that the Internet can offer. |
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- The Web Site "Miroslav Holub at the complete review" is a page devoted to the Czech scientist/poet Miroslav Holub (1923-1998). It provides biographical, bibliographical, and critical information about the writer, considered to be one of the best poets to come out of the Czech Republic. Holub was famous for his insistence that he was a scientist first and a poet merely as a hobby. The complete review includes reviews and biographical information on a variety of international authors. His works in translation include: |
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- The Web Site "Parapal English writing exercises" features interactive model essays and letters for ESOL and EFL students. The site is in English with Hungarian, Korean, and Spanish versions. It is of great use to both students and teachers as a source of materials. The exercises are interactive and aimed at improving the key skills of writing, reading, listening, vocabulary, and grammar. There are Flash 6 exercises to teach users how to write different types of academic essays and letters. |
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- The Web Site "Jean-Jacques Rousseau - les Confessions" is authored by a teacher of French literature, Jean-Claude Cau and is in French. It features the following sections: biography of Rousseau; Rousseau's works; concordance; |
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- Thw Web Site "Exposition virtuelle de la bibliothèque nationale de France (Virtual exhibition of the French national library)" is in both French and English. It provides a series of thematic exhibitions based on the collections, and includes excellent educational sections with materials for lessons, which include audio files and a range of illustrations. These sections are arranged by theme, level, and discipline and also feature online workshops on a variety of subjects of interest to those studying history, correspondence, and art. Reflecting not only French themes, but those of interest to an international audience, exhibitions include the following topics: Hector Berlioz; |
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- The Web Site "Poésie française (French poetry)" is in French and published by Webnet. The site features over 6,000 poems in French from the medieval period to the start of the twentieth century. There is a useful list of authors, together with their dates, an indication of how many poems are on the site, and the relevant flag if they are not from France, but Canada, Switzerland, Scotland, Germany, Poland, and other countries. The site can be searched by author, country, century, or title. Some of the poems can also be heard through audio files. |
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- The Web Site "Louis-Ferdinand Céline" has been compiled by David Desvérité and is devoted to the writer (1894-1961) originally known as Destouches. His most famous works, Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan, Castle to Castle, and North belong to some of the most innovative twentieth century French writing. Nihilistic and chaotic, Céline delighted in the grotesque and the horrendous. Convicted of collaboration, he fled to Germany and Denmark, before being pardoned and permitted to return to France. The site contains the following sections: |
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- The Flying Boat Era is an online exhibition published by the Government of Canada as part of its Canada's Digital Collection programme. The project looks at the history of the flying boat industry in Newfoundland during the 1930s and 1940s, and its contribution to the development of the aviation industry in the Atlantic. The chapters look at the design of flying boats, pilots like Charles Lindbergh, disasters, the impact of World War Two, and the impact of the industry on eastern Canada. All are illustrated with photographs and images, and there is also a bibliography of related books, articles and web sites. (Institute of Historical Research (IHR)) |
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- Wings Over Alberta is published by the Government of Canada as part of its Canada's Digital Collection project. This particular exhibition looks at Canada's part in the aerial conflict of the Second World War, its involvement in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), and the evolution of the Royal Canadian Air Force. On the site users can either or search or browse the mixture of reference and primary source material available, which cover RCAF efforts overseas and at home, the establishment of and life on the bases in Alberta, and the various Commonwealth air force divisions. Amongst the primary sources are oral testimonies, documents, letters, and uniforms. (Institute of Historical Research (IHR)) |
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- The Web Site "Raymond Queneau" is published in French and written by Suzanne Bagoly of the Centre de Documentation Raymond Queneau, Verviers, Belgium. It is one of the most comprehensive sites on the controversial French author, who was a member of the twentieth century literary group Oulipo. The site contains a biography of the author famous for his use of colloquial language and word play in works such as Chiendent, Odile, Cent mille milliards de poèmes, and Zazie dans le métro. The site also features: a bibliography; |
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- The Web Site "Ryan Memorial Library, St Charles Borromeo Seminary" provides information on the library of the official seminary of the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The library is rich in resources in theology and religious studies, and contains over 134,000 volumes, A/V materials and 500 current periodicals. Subject strengths include: philosophy; patristics; |
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- E-books could get a boost if an experimental $645 tablet/PDA hybrid from NEC takes off.The specs as reported in the Japanese-language PC Watch and translated for Tech Japan: the Linux OS, an 8.4-inch 640X480 touchscreen LCD and a CD-ROM.NEC will make just 4,000 of the Linux tablets the first year, so don't count on seeing one at your local CompUSA, but, as a Slashdot contributor observes, the new machine is a helpful start by a major Japanese company Meanwhile Sun's Linux will be reaching Wal-Mart via Microtel machines, raising the intriguing possibility that perhaps Sun or partners like Microtel will get into the low-cost tablet business. |
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- ICalAndLocalWeDav - This started as a way for my and my wife to share our calendars with each other, without having to have a .Mac account. Most of this information came from this tip ...Comments (0) |
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Passings (Mar 31 2004 02:56 GMT) - Alistair Cooke, long time host of the great Masterpiece Theatre series on PBS and a fine correspondent and broadcaster for the BBC passed away this week, at the ripe old age of 85. What those of you whose only experience... |
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- Even the New York Times: He takes boundless pleasure in language, seeming to to rejoice every time he uses a... |
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- Internet giant AOL has ratcheted up the war against unsolicited e-mail with a publicity-grabbing coup - an online raffle of a spammer’s seized Porsche. AOL won the car - a $47,000 Boxster S - as part of a court settlement against an unnamed e-mailer last year. Source: BBC News... |
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