Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Interlingua, a language for the world

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Interlingua is an "artificial" language amongst others as Volapuk, Esperanto, and Ido.  Its supporters however claim it is a ...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Bizarre biwa instrument

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The Japanese biwa is a lute derived from the Chinese pipa and earlier Asian lutes.  The Japanese film Kwaidan, based on Lafcadio Hearn’s bo...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Anniversary of Hungarian Revolt of 1956

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October 23 , 1956 was the start of the Hungarian revolution against the puppet state set up by the Soviets.  This event followed smaller rev...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

Balinese music, new to me...

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Lots of percussion it seems from my limited musical knowledge. Called gamelan, pronounced GAM-e-lan.  Influenced  Battlestar Galacti...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Huichol art

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Some Huichol yarn paintings.  Surprisingly, these art forms of using beads or yarn held in place by resin or wax didn't develop until...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Some Crazy African Greys

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Greys seem to pick up on telephone conversations really well.
Saturday, April 06, 2013

More Alan Watts

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Here he takes a somewhat Ram Dass-ian Hindu perspective of life as a game of hide and seek, or the divine disguised as oneself and the wo...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Tara mantra

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Tara is a female Buddha that comes in many forms, most common white or green.  White Tara represents compassion, long life, healing and...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Roman Army

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A few examples of Roman reenactments, the Germans and the British seem to be the most avid fans.
Saturday, March 23, 2013

From the Sublime to the Silly

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Having viewed a few blogs about pens I purchased a blue Kaweco Sport AL with medium nib a while back.  The AL I presume stands for aluminum,...