Monday, October 25, 2010

History: Queen Eadgyth (also Editha, Edith of England) of Wessex (910–946), German queen and wife of Otto I. (the Great, 912-973), later Holy Roman Emperor. Editha’s remains were found in the Cathedral of Madgeburg in 2008. Recent scientific analysis came to the conclusion that they indeed originate from the queen.
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Web: Internet Archive: Web, Texts, Audio and Video archives. Interesting resource
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Life: August Engelhardt (1875 - 1919): Born in Nuremberg. Founder of a sect in the Bismarck Archipelago (now Papua New Guinea) on the island of Kaba Kon in the South Pacific. The first Hippie colony. Propagated the idea of living on coco nuts. Wrote a book called 'A Carefree Future' in 1898.
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Life: Various historic lexica: Lexikon '88, in German
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Movies: Free movies online at OpenCulture
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Manila Ordner, früher aus den Abfällen des Manilahanfs (Abaca) hergestellt, Manilahanf gehoert zu den Bananengeächsen (Musaceae, kein Hanf = Cannabis)), wurde früher zur Herstellung von Schiffstauen verwendet, da salzwasserresistent. siehe Wikipedia und TIS
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Life: Tai Chi Netguide
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Art: How to draw funny cartoons
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Movie (Online): Metropolis (1927). Directed by Fritz Lang. Written by Lang's wife Thea von Harbou. w/ Alfred Abel (Joh Fredersen, capitalist), Gustav Fröhlich (Freder Frederson, son), Brigitte Helm (Maria and Mensch-Maschine), Rudolf Klein-Rogge (Rotwang, mad scientist). Dystopian drama of an uprising of workers against a capitalist society. Rating: 8 out of 10.

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Fritz Lang und Thea von Harbou, 1923 or 1924. Photograph by Waldemar Titzenthaler (1869-1937)
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Friday, October 22, 2010

Mineralwasser KnowledgeMap (Cmap Tools):

Mineralwasser_20101022

Thursday, September 30, 2010

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Astronomy: Peter Apian (Petrus Apianus, 1495-1552): German geographer, mathematician and astronomer. Born as born as Peter Bienewitz in Leisnig in Saxony. Published Cosmographicus liber in 1524.
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Education: Ranking of German Universities at DAAD
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Life: Verbraucherzentrale Deutschland
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Photography: Rachel Chandler. Emerging NYC-photographer. Occasional works for Purple Magazine. purple DIARY has plenty of photos from and/or with Chandler.
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Web: EBook Search Engine, various formats, including pdf, doc, xls etc. Useful.
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Life: Restaurant guides for London, UK: 1.) Urbanspoon London  2.) Harden's  3.) London-Eating  4.) Best London Restaurants
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Monday, April 19, 2010

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Nature: Old trees: 1.) Oberbach, Rhön --> alte Buche, 2.) Schenklengsfeld, Hessen --> 1100 Jahre alte Linde 3.) 1000-jaehrige Eiche in Puschendorf bei Fuerth
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Art: Bettina Rheims (b. 1952): French photographer and artist; specialized on women's photography
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Science: Anthropology: First human (Homo erectus) left Africa ca. 2 mio yrs ago. Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis (extinct ca. 30,000 yrs ago) separated from the common acenstor Homo heidelbergensis ca. 0.5 - 1 mio yrs ago. Early modern man developed ca. 50,000 yrs ago. A genetically different human sample discovered in the Altai mountains in Siberia was recently dated to be 30,000 - 45,000 yrs old. This species may have co-existed with modern humans as well as Neanderthals. Homo floresiensis ('Hobbit'), is a possible species of extinct human discovered in 2003 on the island of Flores in Indonesia. This species is remarkable for its small body (1m) and brain and survived until relatively recent times (possibly died out 12,000 years ago). Australopithecus afarensis ('Lucy') is an extinct hominin which lived between 3.8 and 2.9 million years ago. It was ancestral to genus Homo.

Also see chart at Nature.com:

Tree of genus Homo_Nature Magazine Source:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7243/images/459041a-f2.2.jpg
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Music: Ticket purchases: Ticketseating.com. Sold at market value, which usually is above face value
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Life: Gratis Parken. Database of 1600 free parking lots in Germany.
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

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Language: B.C. = before Christ;  A.D. = anno Domini, "in the year of the Lord". B.C.E. = before the common era; C.E. = common era
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Philosophy: Analekts of Confucius: Full text in Chinese and English. Also in the translation of James Legge
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People: NNDB: Intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people both living and dead, determined to be noteworthy. Includes mapping tool NNDB Mapper
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Technology: Mikrokopter. Small helicopters for fun and technical applications
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Umweltschutz: Info zur Entsorgung von Energiesparlampen bei Lichtzeichen.de
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Astronomy: Asteroid 2008 TC3 collided with earth on Oct 7, 2008. Fragments were found afterward in the Sahara desert.
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Literature: Johann Georg Kruenitz (1728 – 1796): Oekonomische Encyklopädie oder allgemeines System der Staats-, Stadt-, Haus- und Landwirthschaft
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Photography: Quang-Tuan Luong: Scientist turned landscape photographer
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Philosophy: Chinese Text Project by Donald Sturgeon. Many ancient Chinese texts with English translations.
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Music: Chetan Joshi: flute, traditional Indian music
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Shopping: Compare prices for electricity in Germany (Strompreise): Stom-Magazin
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Science: Microscale thermophoresis to study enzyme kinetics. Used by NanoTemper, a startup company by Philipp Baaske and Stefan Duhr in Munich in their Monolith instrument. Can measure enzyme kinetics in biological fluids, such as serum
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Travel: The National Parks by Ken Burns. Includes 'Park Explorer' map
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Medicine: Alzheimer's Disease: Richard Taylor, Ph.D. has been diagnosed with AD in 2001 and is now an advocate for treating AD patients in an enabling manner. His condition is progressing rather slowly.
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Economics: Bernard Mandeville: The Fable of The Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits. Develops the 'paradox of thrift', i.e. that increased individual savings during recession will lower aggregate demand and in turn lower total savings in the population due to decrease of consumption.
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