With many buildings still dressed in black crepe, this joyous procession could not help but remind spectators of that unhappy occasion.
22.5.07
Marconi at delancey place
and at LoC:
The unknown possibilities...
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pioneer's own set
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historic "S" re-enacted
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Marconi link fixed
Diarmuid went out early the next day again to the hill, and it was not long till he saw the three strangers coming towards him, and he asked them would they like to see any more tricks. They said they would sooner get news of the grandson of Duibhne. "I saw a man that saw him yesterday," said Diarmuid. And with that he put off his arms and his clothes, all but the shirt that was next his skin, and he struck the Crann Buidhe, the spear of Manannan, into the earth with the point upwards. And then he rose with a leap and lit on the point of the spear as light as a bird, and came down off it again without a wound on him. Then a young man of the Green Champions said: "It is a man has never seen feats that would call that a feat"; and he put off his clothing and made a leap, and if he did he came down heavily on the point of the spear, and it went through his heart, and he fell to the ground. The next day Diarmuid came again, and he brought two forked poles out of the wood and put them standing upright on the hill, and he put the sword of Angus Og, the Mor-alltach, the Big-fierce one, between the two forks on its edge. Then he raised himself lightly over it, and walked on the sword three times from the hilt to the point, and he came down and asked was there a man of them could do that feat.
"That is a foolish question," said a man of them then, "for there was never any feat done in Ireland but a man of our own would do it." And with that he rose up to walk on the sword; but it is what happened, he came down heavily on it the way he was cut in two halves.
The rest of the champions bade him take away his sword then, before any more of their people would fall by it; and they asked him had he any word of the grandson of Duibhne. "I saw a man that saw him to-day," said Diarmuid, "and I will go ask news of him to-night."
Part II Book VII: The Green Champions
Gods and Fighting Men [1904]
Lady Augusta Gregory
Celtic Folklore
Internet Sacred Text Archive
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The wikipedia entry on The Green Knight has been parasitized by religious lunatics, and in an effort to wash the foul taste of that nonsense out of my head, turning to the Green Man entry, and from thence to Lady Gregory's scholarly valor, happily for me.
17.5.07
Dogs, as they are physiologically similar to humans, are also often used to help scientists understand certain human behaviors. The Russian scientist, Ivan Pavlov, based his theory of classical conditioning on work with dogs. He rang a bell every time he was going to feed the dogs and noted that, in response to this, the dogs learnt that food was coming every time the bell rang. As the dogs' reactions to eating were to salivate, the bell alone was able to induce salivation. This principle relates to humans in many instances. Advertisements jingles or songs for different types of foods may make you hungry or desire the product advertised subconsciously.Pavlov "worked with" dogs by feeding them. That's nice, a nice image of a nice man learning about things that help us by being nice to dogs. Because every kid knows dogs like to be fed.
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I was liking the Tree of Life until I came to this. It's in the kids' section. Describing what's been going on with science and the experimental animal population as "are also often used to help scientists understand" isn't going to cover it.
Taking a stand without actually standing up. Because you don't want the children to actually see what's happening there, because you can't defend it and you can't explain it to them in a way that will keep their respect. What it will do, if they see it for what it is is change them irrevocably and terribly, sort of like the pictures from Abu Ghraib did to the more naive adults who saw them.
16.5.07
Sympathy for the devilfishLife on Earth
Ceratioidei: Devilfishes, seadevils, deep-sea anglerfishes
also: dreamers, blackdevils, footballfishes,wonderfishes etc
Tree of Life Web Project
Unidentified man, about 40 years of age and a somewhat younger woman, both in Oriental costume, full-length portraits, both seated on a carpet on the floor, the man, on the left, cross-legged, turned three-quarters to the right, holding a string of beads; the woman turned slightly to the left, wearing a beaded cap; between them is a hookah, the stem of which both are holding (detail)
Mathew Brady between 1850 and 1860
America's First Look into the Camera
Today in History May 15
LoC
15.5.07
13.5.07
Nobody never cares for Art...
The effervescent ecstasy, Whose baby are you? by Mark E. Swan
9.5.07
...and it was decreed that the invaders return to their ships and sail a distance of nine waves from Ireland, and if they were able to land again, Ireland would be theirs.
8.5.07
whatever is born to them they bring up
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Lord and Lady Glasgow, whose family has inhabited Kelburn continuously for more than 800 years, and who still live there today, have given the Sao Paulo Crew free reign to paint the medieval stone walls as they see fit.
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Green Cross of Florida
Sustrans is the UK's leading sustainable transport charity. Our vision is a world in which people can choose to travel in ways that benefit their health and the environment.
The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, along the banks of the River Esk near Musselburgh on 10 September 1547, was part of the War of the Rough Wooing.
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