Fantastic. Link…
Friday, August 31, 2007
Thursday, August 30, 2007
French Dressing
A selection from the five volumes [PDFs, each over 500 pages] at Stanford University Library, French clothing 1841-1842. Link…
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland (1900)
"A Comprehensive Delineation of the Thirty-two Counties, with a Beautifully Colored Map of Each, arranged Alphabetically, showing over 11,000 Cities, Towns, Villages, and Places of Public Interest.
Embracing over Two Hundred Illustrations of the Natural Scenery, Public Buildings, Abbeys, Round Towers and other Romantic Places, reproduced by Eminent Artists from Photographs especially taken for this Work."
The history section is quite interesting, for example: "The pagan Irish warriors sometimes took the brains out of champions whom they had slain in single combat, mixed them up with lime, and rolled them into balls, which hardened with time, and which they preserved as trophies. It was with one of these balls, which had been abstracted from his armory, that Conor Mac Nessa was wounded." Link…
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Monday, August 27, 2007
Friday, August 24, 2007
1948 Olympics
Thank you, thank you, thank you ABC for televising this wonderful documentary. This is the end of the marathon.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Cow Parade
CowParade is the world’s largest public art event. From Chicago in 1999 to the present day. Currently in Marseille. Link…
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007
The Sea Slug Forum
The giant Sea Hare can grow to 60cm in length and is found spawning in shallow water during summer and early autumn, from January to March. During summer, beach strandings of hundreds of animals can be found. Sea Hares are poisonous and when they wash up on beaches dogs sometimes lick or eat them.
Just one of many sea slugs to be found at this great resource. Link…
Friday, August 17, 2007
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Rohonc Codex
The Rohonc Codex: (pronounced like 'ro-honts') is a set of writings in an unknown writing system. The origin of the codex is uncertain. The majority of Hungarian scholars think the codex is a hoax by Sámuel Literáti Nemes, a Transylvanian-Hungarian antiquarian, infamous for many historical forgeries (made mostly in the 1830's). Link…
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Jingle Dress Dance
It's quite hypnotic to see these women float around the stage to the beat of the drums - 2007 Gathering of Nations Womens Jingle. A variation - Side Step. How not to do the Jingle Dress Dance. Link…
Monday, August 13, 2007
Friday, August 10, 2007
Skycar
Thursday, August 09, 2007
Theatres on Postcards
Andreas Praefcke's postcard collection of theatres and concert halls worldwide. Includes other material such as stamps, matchboxes and other ephemera. Interesting history and details accompany the images. Link…
2,000 Schoolchildren
From the ABC Lateline interview with Mal Brough (emphasis mine). I sense a loophole forming for the Federal Government here:
TONY JONES: Now, all this is linked to school attendance, isn't it? So who in the tiny remote communities will actually be policing who goes to school and who doesn't and a corollary to this, many of those schools are too small for the numbers of children there for the obvious reason they haven't been going. Will the schools be enlarged, will you build new buildings, will there be extra teachers, will there be more chairs in the classrooms, that sort of thing, is that all going to happen?
MAL BROUGH: They're all of the reasons people have said this thing really couldn't happen in the past because they've known these facts and we've actually hidden that, well we've hidden fact that 2,000 children in the Territory in remote parts are not even enrolled. Forget about those who only attend part-time or never at all they've never been enrolled.
So, you get an influx of 2,000 more children by definition you're going to need teacher, classrooms, books, desks, etc. and we will be calling on the Territory Government to do that. That is their constitutional responsibility and Clare Martin has told the Prime Minister and I that she will ensure that occurs. There will no doubt need to be a short-term accommodation while you build more permanent accommodation.
But you said who will police this. Well first and foremost we've got to make sure we know who these 2,000 plus children are who are never enrolled, get them enrolled, that's our first issue and then when it comes to, yes, get them enrolled and when it comes to a school attendance, we need to then be very vigorous about that and do what again Aboriginal women have told me to do, treat us like white fellows. If our kids don't go to school, cause and effect. And the cause and effect here is of course up to 100 per cent quarantining of their family tax benefit so that they lose the discretionary power. There is a reason for these parents and these carers to get their children to school. Link…
TONY JONES: Now, all this is linked to school attendance, isn't it? So who in the tiny remote communities will actually be policing who goes to school and who doesn't and a corollary to this, many of those schools are too small for the numbers of children there for the obvious reason they haven't been going. Will the schools be enlarged, will you build new buildings, will there be extra teachers, will there be more chairs in the classrooms, that sort of thing, is that all going to happen?
MAL BROUGH: They're all of the reasons people have said this thing really couldn't happen in the past because they've known these facts and we've actually hidden that, well we've hidden fact that 2,000 children in the Territory in remote parts are not even enrolled. Forget about those who only attend part-time or never at all they've never been enrolled.
So, you get an influx of 2,000 more children by definition you're going to need teacher, classrooms, books, desks, etc. and we will be calling on the Territory Government to do that. That is their constitutional responsibility and Clare Martin has told the Prime Minister and I that she will ensure that occurs. There will no doubt need to be a short-term accommodation while you build more permanent accommodation.
But you said who will police this. Well first and foremost we've got to make sure we know who these 2,000 plus children are who are never enrolled, get them enrolled, that's our first issue and then when it comes to, yes, get them enrolled and when it comes to a school attendance, we need to then be very vigorous about that and do what again Aboriginal women have told me to do, treat us like white fellows. If our kids don't go to school, cause and effect. And the cause and effect here is of course up to 100 per cent quarantining of their family tax benefit so that they lose the discretionary power. There is a reason for these parents and these carers to get their children to school. Link…
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Derringers
Derringer is a genericised misspelling of the last name of Henry Deringer, a maker of small pocket pistols in the 1800s. Link…
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Monday, August 06, 2007
18th Century Paintings
"MALE TURKEY - He doesn't fight hard for the female, and when defeated he isn't necessarily a loser. In many cases he becomes well loved among the females. (Translated by Franko Pavicevac)". Part of the Istria on the internet site. Link…
Friday, August 03, 2007
Thursday, August 02, 2007
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
El Camarada
Selected pages from the weekly magazine 'The Comrade'. Published by Ramón Molinas in Barcelona, from November 1887 until October 1891, and directed by Alfredo Opisso. Illustrations from artists like Palmer Cox featured in the educational and moral stories. Link…
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