Posted on 07/11/2004 9:34:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The Brendan Voyage
by Timothy SeverinThe Jason Voyage:
The Quest for the Golden Fleece
by Timothy Severin
find it in a local libraryThe Sinbad Voyage
by Timothy SeverinThe China Voyage:
Across the Pacific by Bamboo Raft
by Timothy Severin
find it in a local library
Hamza ran for it, into exile, fearing he'd be executed as so many of his colleagues had been. The bomb that he built (but had insufficient fissionable material to make go boom) has not been found, but...
Saddam's Bombmaker
by Khidhir Hamza
with Jeff Stein
Nuke program parts unearthed in Baghdad back yardExperts said the documents and pieces Obeidi gave the United States were the critical information and parts to restart a nuclear weapons program, and would have saved Saddam's regime several years and as much as hundreds of millions of dollars for research. David Albright, who was a U.N. nuclear weapons inspector in Iraq in the 1990s, said inspectors "understood that Iraq probably hid centrifuge documents, may have had components, and so it is very important that those items be found." ...Obeidi said he felt unsafe in Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion and that he was getting pressure from different corners of the country. He also said other Iraqi scientists were watching to see if he was safe after he cooperated with the U.S. government. Now that he and his family are safely out of Iraq, Obeidi said he believes other scientists would come forward with other components of Iraq's weapons program.
Mike Boettcher,
David Ensor,
and producer Maria Fleet
Unfit for Command:
Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out
Against John Kerry
by John E. O'Neill
Jerome R. Corsi
chapter 3 (PDF)
The New Chinese Empire:
And What It Means for the United States
by Ross Terrill
Paperback
reviewed by Chang Yun-ping
Google search for Ross TerrillChina, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc.:
The Dynamics of a New Empire
by Willem van Kemenade
tr by Diane Webb
library binding
reviewed by Orville Schell
Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all unifying agents. It pulls and whirls the individual away from his own self, makes him oblivious of his weal and future, frees him of jealousies and self-seeking. He becomes an anonymous particle with a craving to fuse and coalesce with his like into one flaming mass... Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil... Common hatred unites the most heterogeneous elements. To share a common hatred, with an enemy even, is to infect him with a feeling of kinship, and thus sap his powers of resistance... We have it from Hitler... that the genius of a great leader consists oin concentrating all hatred on a single foe. [pp 85-87]remind anyone else of a certain election campaign? ;')
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
By these standards of proof (and there are pages of this kind of thing) I could prove that I authored Shakespeare's plays after I invent a time machine in the future. :'D Hey, don't laugh -- my future self visited yesterday and TOLD me this was going to happen.The Bacon family anecdote in Merry Wives of WindsorHere a clear reference to a Bacon family anecdote about Sir Nicholas, Francis' father, recounted in his book of jests, the Apophthegms (published 1625), is found in Merry Wives of Windsor. Of course, it's possible the author of the plays heard this one in a tavern. Or Francis Bacon inserted it as a signature.
by Emmet Sweeney
I wish the Shakespeare bio video were on DVD. In fact, I wonder why A&E hasn't done that. I'm guessing that Shakespeare's family tree, his will, the marks his house made on the house nextdoor, his grave, and the graves of his immediate family were all hoaxed, or at least chosen at random in order to cover the tracks of the guy who really wrote the plays. ;')
William Shakespeare:
Life of Drama
A&E Biography
Playing with Fire
the Folger Consort
Shakespeare and suicide bombers [To barf or not to barf. That is the ...] ^
Posted by aculeus
On News/Activism ^ 03/01/2004 5:42:43 PM PST · 7 replies · 7+ views
Electronic Telegraph | 01/03/2004 | Peter Culshaw
Hamlet must be the best known play in the world. We've had a sci-fi Hamlet, a reggae Hamlet; there has doubtless been a naturist Hamlet. But what we haven't had, as far as I'm aware, is an Arabic Hamlet. Until now. The idea may seem strange, but then other cultures are often in a better position to interpret Shakespeare, because in terms of social structure their societies are often closer to the Shakespearean world than our own. Gregori Kozintsev's Russian version of King Lear, for example, with its brooding landscapes and music by Shostakovitch, is ñ for my money ñ...
Farewell Mapplethorpe, Hello Shakespeare (Roger Kimball on NEA, the W. way) ^
Posted by NutCrackerBoy
On News/Activism ^ 01/29/2004 10:37:21 AM PST · 99 replies · 13+ views
National Review Online | January 29, 2004 | Roger Kimball
Farewell Mapplethorpe, Hello Shakespeare The NEA, the W. way. By Roger Kimball Under normal circumstances, the White House announcement that the president was seeking a big budget increase for the National Endowment for the Arts might have been grounds for dismay. Pronounce the acronym "NEA," and most people think Robert Mapplethorpe, photographs of crucifixes floating in urine, and performance artists prancing about naked, smeared with chocolate, and skirling about the evils of patriarchy. Thanks, but no thanks. But things have changed, and changed for the better at the NEA. The reason can be summed up in two trochees: Dana Gioia,...
Church where Shakespeare is buried beneath under threat ^
Posted by freedom44
On News/Activism ^ 01/03/2004 7:35:22 PM PST · 13 replies · 5+ views
ChannelNewsAsia | 1/3/04 | ChannelNewsAsia
Stratford-upon-Avon, England : The church where England's most celebrated playwright William Shakespeare was baptised and buried is being eaten away by dry rot and an infestation of death watch beetles. Repairs to the crumbling parapet outside the 800-year-old church in Stratford-upon-Avon are almost complete. But other vital restoration work is still ongoing. And it's feared there won't be enough money to finish the job. The cost of restoration is expected to hit the 150,000-pound mark (US$250,000) -50 percent higher than estimated. But friends of the church say falling visitor numbers are making it difficult to raise the funds. Church Trustees...
At Least Shakespeare's Tyrants Went Down Fighting ^
Posted by quidnunc
On News/Activism ^ 12/18/2003 10:37:21 AM PST · 9 replies · 4+ views
The Toronto Sun | December 18, 2003 | Salim Mansur
The words of Maj.-Gen. Raymond T. Odierno of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division may well be the final epitaph for Saddam Hussein. The general said, "He was just caught like a rat." This is what tyrants are: despicable, petty human beings. And when denuded of the ill-gotten power with which they terrorize the weak, the innocent and the defenceless, they are unmasked as slinking cowards. As Saddam's dreadful image filled our television screens, I reached for my copy of the complete works of Shakespeare. It is instinctive to seek the Bard's advice, comfort, insight or wisdom on any situation, for...
Shakespeare Isn't P.C. (Thought Police Rewrite Textbooks) ^
Posted by yankeedame
On News/Activism ^ 08/19/2003 9:20:49 AM PDT · 28 replies · 18+ views
NewMax.Com | Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003 | staff writer
How the Thought Police Rewrite Textbooks and America's History NewsMax.com Wires Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003 MIAMI ñ Diane Ravitch hammers away and hammers away, and even a reader going into her book with a healthy dose of skepticism comes away with the conviction that the "language police" must be fired. It's hard to believe when she says guidelines by the Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley textbook publishers demand that people "over the age of 65 must be fully represented in text and illustrations; there must be a larger number of older women than older men, because 55 percent of older persons are...
Yellow books should be for phone numbers (Shakespeare Needs No Dumbing Down) ^
Posted by presidio9
On News/Activism ^ 06/10/2003 7:52:12 AM PDT · 6 replies · 2+ views
The Sydney Morning Herald | June 11 2003 | Matthew Gibbs
There's something rotten in the state of publishing. I've been a long-time admirer of the cheeky yellow self-help books for Dummies. From investing to home brewing, they offer the challenged reader guidance on mastering life's complexities. But now they've gone too far - Shakespeare for Dummies. This way madness lies. What's dumb is thinking that Shakespeare needs to be dumbed down, as if the unadulterated Bard is too hard . advertisement advertisement If Shakespeare's words and expressions need simplifying, why is our own everyday language crammed with them? For evidence, look no further than the pages of newspapers - and...
Anthropologist says Shakespeare might have smoked marijuana ^
Posted by MikalM
On News/Activism ^ 05/13/2003 9:06:56 PM PDT · 26 replies · 7+ views
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune | 5/4/03 | Peg Meier
<p>To toke or not to toke? That is one question.</p> <p>Several 17th-century clay pipes found at the site of William Shakespeare's home were used to smoke marijuana, a South African anthropologist says. Although he has no proof that the Bard was the guy who smoked the pipes, he surmises that some of Shakespeare's sonnets and plays also lend credence to the possibility that the writer smoked marijuana for inspiration.</p>
Why Shakespeare Is For All Time ^
Posted by Hobsonphile
On News/Activism ^ 01/14/2003 8:28:22 PM PST · 4 replies · 12+ views
City Journal | Winter, 2003 | Theodore Dalrymple
A decade ago, the psychiatrist Peter Kramer published a book called Listening to Prozac, which claimed that our understanding of neurochemistry was so advanced that we would soon be able to design- and no doubt to vary- our personalities according to our tastes. Henceforth there would be no more angst. He based his prediction upon the case histories of people given the supposed wonder drug who not merely recovered from depression but emerged with new, improved personalities. Yet the prescription of the drug (and others like it) to millions of people has not noticeably reduced the sum total of human...
A Scholar Recants on His 'Shakespeare' Discovery ^
Posted by a-whole-nother-box-of-pandoras
On News/Activism ^ 06/25/2002 11:53:32 AM PDT · 15 replies · 6+ views
NY Times | June 20, 2002 | William S. Niederkorn
June 20, 2002 A Scholar Recants on His 'Shakespeare' Discovery By WILLIAM S. NIEDERKORN n 1995 Donald Foster, a professor of English at Vassar College, made a startling case for Shakespeare's being the author of an obscure 578-line poem called "A Funeral Elegy." After a front-page article about his methods of computer analysis in The New York Times -- and after his reputation was further burnished by unmasking Joe Klein as the author of "Primary Colors" -- the poem was added to three major editions of Shakespeare's works. Now, in a stunning development that has set the world of Shakespeare...
Odd Portrait Has Many Guessing Shakespeare Was Gay ^
Posted by socal_parrot
On General/Chat ^ 04/23/2002 10:14:28 AM PDT · 15 replies · 24+ views
Yahoo! News | 4/23/02 | Mike Collett-White
By Mike Collett-White LONDON (Reuters) - A 400-year-old painting previously believed to be that of a woman has been found to portray the male patron and friend of William Shakespeare, its owner said on Tuesday. The picture of the Earl of Southampton, featuring a figure with long, black curly hair, pursed red lips, an earring and a slender right hand, has prompted speculation in British media that Shakespeare was gay. "He is wearing perfectly fashionable male attire of the day, but the earring and the hair are effeminate and unusual for the 1590s," the painting's owner Alec Cobbe told Reuters....
SHAKES-QUEER? New Evidence Emerges to Prove William Shakespeare may be Gay ^
Posted by codebreaker
On News/Activism ^ 04/21/2002 4:57:32 PM PDT · 102 replies · 26+ views
Ananova Breaking News Wire and the London Daily Sun | Monday, April 22, 2002 00:14 GMT | What Tomorrow's Newspapers Say Staff
Ananova Breaking Wire-What the Papers Say-The London Daily SunSHAKESQUEERMe thinks new evidence has emerged that doth suggest William Shakespeare might have been gay.I RULETony Blair delivered an astonishing slapdown to Gordon Brown yesterday by stressing that Britain had elected him to run the country not the chancellorStory Filed: 00:14 Monday, April 22, 2002 Greenwich Mean Time
The Spartans:
The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece,
from Utopia to Crisis and Collapse
by Paul Cartledge
Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein
by Andrew Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn
The Clinton administration had left the Bush approach (apart from an offhand remark by the President-elect, hurriedly renounced, to the effect that normal relations with Saddam were possible). Sanctions were maintained as rigorously as ever. In 1993, Vice President Al Gore announced plans to seek a United Nations investigation of war crimes by the Iraqi regime, though nothing further was ever heard of the idea. When details emerged of a scheme by elements of the Iraqi security service, in association with a gang of whisky smugglers, to assassinate ex-president George Bush during a visit to Kuwait in 1993, Clinton fired off twenty-three cruise missiles at Iraqi intelligence headquarters in Baghdad, one of which went astray and killed Leilah Attar, Iraq's leading female artist. In secret, Clinton reaffirmed Bush's directive to the CIA to unseat Saddam. [ p 165 ]]
Now that looks like some good stuff.
I lucked out, a while back, found a copy of the book (badly damaged dj) for next to nothing in the used bin at the enormous chain bookstore. :')
100 Billion Suns:
The Birth, Life, and Death of the Stars
Rudolf Kippenhahn
Translated by Jean Steinberg
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Ancient Voices
The Birth Of Civilization
A History Of The Mesopotamian World
by Robert A. Guisepi
found it here
Black Holes, Quasars, and the Universe
by Harry L Shipman
paperback
first edition
The Linear B Tablets and Mycenaean Social, Political, and Economic Organization
Lesson 25, The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean ^ | Revised: Friday, March 18, 2000 | Trustees of Dartmouth College
Posted on 08/29/2004 8:19:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
KO-RE-TE, PO-RO-KO-RE-TE [koreter, prokoreter] -- Such officials are known at both Knossos and Pylos. The titles bear a suspiciously close resemblance to the Latin terms curator and procurator ("guardian" and "manager, imperial officer/governor" respectively). The Linear B evidence suggests that the koreter was a local official in charge of one of the sixteen major administrative units within the Pylian kingdom, and the prokoreter was evidently his deputy.
(Excerpt) Read more at projectsx.dartmouth.edu ...
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KEYWORDS: ARCHAEOLOGY; EPIGRAPHY; GGG; GODSGRAVESGLYPHS; GREECE; GREEK; GREEKS; HISTORY; LANGUAGE; LATIN; LINEARB; MYCENAE; MYCENAEAN; MYCENAEANS; Click to Add Keyword[ Report Abuse | Bookmark ]Lasken is often wrong, sez Ev Cochrane, and I have to agree in certain cases (I won't give you one example Cochrane cited, it's too far gone :'), but he seems to be onto something here. He claims that some Linear B tablets contain Latin terms, and must date after circa 207 BC. This is not to say that they all must, nor does it take into account the fact that Latin is older than this and the loan vocabulary could have resulted from the extensive commerce, but not so much older that the existence of the Greek Dark Age isn't shown to be imaginary. :') Notice that the Dartmouth paper just mentions a couple of these as suspicious, but offers no critique of it.A Proper Dating of the Linear B TabletsWhile there is general agreement that the language of the Linear B tablets was Greek, many words lack clear cut Greek etymologies and have not been satisfactorily translated. This has led to suggestions that the tablets may contain a sort of jargon combining several languages. I will demonstrate the equivalence of the Mycenaean terms ko-re-te, po-ko-re-te, e-qu-ta, and ra-wa-ke-ta [with] the Latin terms curator, procurator, equite, and legatus and discuss other evidence suggesting that Latin was included in the Linear B tablets. I am not disputing that Mycenaean is a Greek tongue; however, the scribes who prepared these tablets were also using, to a limited extent, certain Latin terms and constructions.
by Jesse E. Lasken
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Kicking the Sacred Cow:
Questioning the Unquestionable
and Thinking the Impermissable
by James P. Hogan
James P. Hogan
The Yom Kippur War:
And the Airlift Strike
That Saved Israel
by Walter J. Boyne
The Two O'Clock War:
The 1973 Yom Kippur Conflict
and the Airlift That Saved Israel
(hardcover has diff title)
Tesla:
Man Out of Time
by Margaret Cheney
"Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point in the universe. This idea is not novel... We find it in the delightful myth of Antheus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid mathematicians... Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic.? If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature."
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