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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
No marking of the pioneering effort that was the M1 ( Report , 3 November) is complete without mention of the extraordinary engineer and designer Sir Owen Williams . His office surveyed the entire route, drew up the masterplan and created the tender package. Williams designed every bridge, viaduct and culvert in phase 1 and 2 – about 250 structures. The elegant bridges, in particular, have become...
Philippine Sports Update (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
MANILA – Manny Pacquiao’s attempt to win his 7th world title puts him on the “cusp of boxing history” according to well regarded boxing historian Bert Sugar. “Manny Pacquiao is on the cusp of everything historical, step-in-the-ladder you can have,” said Sugar in an ESPN video. “He's on the cusp of a seventh championship in seven weight classes.” Pacquiao...
Londonderry NH net (Free subscription) | yesterday
At 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 12, the library will host The Golden Age of New England Whaling, a talk presented by independent historian Mike McKinley. This lecture will focus on the fascinating history of the New England whaling industry during the nineteenth century, including information on the types of whales pursued, descriptions of whaling [...]
Legal History Blog (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
From Ralph Luker:A year after his election, historians assess President Obama: Walter Isaacson, Michael Kazin, Rick Perlstein, Ted Widmer, and Garry Wills, Daily Beast, 2 November; and Doris Kearns Goodwin, Huffington Post, 3 November.And in the New York Times, reporters assess the Obama presidency.
DigElogROCORI (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
*QUICKTIME *iPOD *CELL *You Tube During the 3rd Annual Membership Meeting of the Cold Spring Area Historical Society this year's HISTORIAN of the Year award was presented to WOW Training/DigElog ROCORI and to Duane Kuss, owner and publisher of DigElog ROCORI. Click Here to View DigElog ROCORI'S Feature on the 2008 Historian of the Year: Assumption Nursing Home
Jewish Internet Defense Force (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
(PMW) A "Palestinian historian" and a senior PLO official have denied that the Jewish nation has any historical connection to the Land of Israel, thus continuing the "Palestinian" Authority's ongoing historical revision. In an interview on official PA television, historian Nabil Alqam denied thousands of years of documented Jewish... (Click the title to read more....)
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
• Collector turns detective in search of movie's secret • Lost war propaganda reel could be worth £40,000 Morace Park was footling around on eBay looking for antiques when he stumbled on an item that was listed casually as an "old film" – and even then he was really more interested in the tin it was in. "It had a lovely look to it," said Park. But the contents...
VirtueOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cranmer Scholar Weighs Bible in Light of English Reformation and American Culture By David W. Virtue www.virtueonline.org November 5, 2009 David W. Virtue recently interviewed Cranmer scholar, historian and theologian The Rev. Canon Dr. Ashley Null in the unlikely venue of New York City where neither lives. The occasion was a "Focus on Ministry" conference held at the American Bible Society...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Alan Klotz 511 W 25th Street, #701, 212-741-4764 / info@klotzgallery.com Chelsea November 12 - December 20, 2009 Opening: Thursday, November 12, 6 - 8 PM Web Site At the core of Melissa Ann Pinney’s work lies a series of photographs of Pinney’s daughter Emma, as she moves through childhood to the verge of adolescence. The project swirls out from there, through friends and classmates, past...
Giles Bowkett (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
A few months ago, Yehuda Katz came to LA Ruby and gave a presentation on his plans for Rails 3 and Rails 4. The presentation consisted almost entirely of a history of DHH, based on what appeared to have been a detailed (almost obsessive) analysis of everything DHH had ever put on the web in any way shape or form. Yehuda was looking at e-mails from 2003, Subversion commit messages from Rails 0.13, and...
inca kola news (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sad news from Argentina today. Felix Luna, historian, author, ex-minister of culture, decorated and recognized citizen in the four corners of the world and, most importantly, a kind witty intelligent and excellent person died this morning, aged 84 . ¡Te saludo, Falucho! Felix Luna, Q.E.P.D
ComicMix (Free subscription) | yesterday
Super hero costumes are often criticized by fans and non-fans alike. In particular, the female costumes can sometimes seem a bit too revealing or impractical. Even Wonder Woman is occasionally given guff and there are those who say that if they ever made a new movie with her, her swimsuit-like battle armor would have to go. So we of Crazy Sexy Geeks: The Series decided to ask people: Should Wonder...
kairos : kisses (Free subscription) | yesterday
“Remember, remember the fifth of November The Gunpowder Treason and plot. I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot.” So runs the traditional children’s rhyme. Though, as a child, I always got in a terrible muddle between the fifth of November and the ninth of November, the latter being my birthday… [I first posted these reflections back in 2006, but]...
hamid & company (Free subscription) | yesterday
Posted by Jonathan Jones Wednesday 4 November 2009 guardian.co.uk If it weren't for the great anthropologist, who has died aged 100, I would never have learned a radical new way of looking at art history The news that Claude Lévi-Strauss has died at the grand age of 100 brings back memories of my student days, which coincided with the intellectual dominance of this great French anthropologist....
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contemporary | 11/10/2009
Following close on the heels of the hugely successful India Art Summit held in Delhi, came our very own Art Expo '09 at the Nehru Centre in Mumbai from 25-27 September, an event that brought about mixed emotions to begin with, but as the programme entered it's second day, the murmurs seemed to subside in intensity and at the conclusion, all participants and visitors should have come away a satisfied...
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