:: S.I.Lex :: Kaga-artgallery - Freedom Rider Joan They too needed emancipation... --Ulysses S. Grant This is Joan Trumpauer Mulholland's mugshot. She is the woman below whose sitting at the Woolworth counter with canister full of sugar emptied all over her. I got this photo from the website for the book Breach of Peace, which is itself an arresting and stunning artistic feat. I was surfing through Eric's site yesterday while working on the Rand Paul entry when I came across this letter, in which a superintendent of the jail where Mulholland is being kept, writes her mother. I have your letter in regards to your daughter Joan Trumpower. I don't mean to pick on Rand Paul over this courage point. Sorry, I digress. I've got the movement in my blood, but no way can I imagine being white, nineteen, violating the law, and being sent off to jail. We need to be careful about talking up what we "would have done."
Les familles de champignons, les lépiotes ou lépiotacées Une famille où les nains sont particulièrement dangereux ! Classification de la famille :Division : amastigomycotaSous-division : basidiomycotinaClasse : homobasidiomycètesSous-classe : agaricomycètidéesOrdre : agaricales La famille des lépiotacées, est ainsi nommée afin de créer une scission d'avec le genre agaricus. Elle compte aujourd'hui, avec le genre agaricus, une soixantaine d'espèces répertoriées. Parmi celles-ci, certains membres sont d'excellente qualité gustative alors que d'autres sont particulièrement toxiques, voire mortels ! Parmi les caractères déterminants de cette famille, il faut souligner l'existence systématique d'un anneau et l'absence de volve. La majorité des lépiotes de petite taille sont toxiques ; afin d'éviter les accidents, une bonne règle de prudence consisterait, pour les non-initiés, à éviter la cueillette de specimens dont la taille est inférieure à 10 cm. Vous trouverez dans ce Mémento, par ordre alphabétique :
British Library makes Google search deal 20 June 2011Last updated at 12:02 The British Library receives more than one million visitors a year Thousands of pages from one of the world's biggest collections of historic books, pamphlets and periodicals are to be made available on the internet. The British Library has reached a deal with search engine Google about 250,000 texts dating back to the 18th Century. It will allow readers to view, search and copy the out-of-copyright works at no charge on both the library and Google books websites. The library gets more than a million visitors a year. The works selected to be digitised date from between 1700 and 1870, and the project will take some years to complete, with Google covering the costs of digitising. Among the first works to go online are a pamphlet about French Queen Marie Antoinette and Spanish inventor Narciso Monturiol's 1858 plans for one of the world's first submarines. Google has similar partnerships with about 40 libraries around the world.
Web 2.0 et bibliothèques : une contribution « Bertrand Calenge : Appelé il y a plusieurs mois à rédiger une conclusion prospective à un ouvrage du Cercle de la Librairie consacré à "Web 2.0. et bibliothèques", j’ai assisté – et parfois participé – à un débat entre les auteurs pressentis, concernant le statut juridique des différents articles : Creative commons ou non ? Je ne m’étendrai pas sur ces débats houleux, mais noterai que les auteurs survivants se sont vu octroyer dans leur contrat d’édition un article complémentaire et inédit , stipulant que leur contribution pouvait être publiée séparément sous forme électronique "à condition qu’il n’y ait pas de commercialisation, que l’ensemble des textes ne soit pas réuni sur un même site et que chaque texte renvoie à l’ouvrage dont il est une partie". Avec ce billet – un peu long je vous l’accorde, car l’imprimé est plus bavard que l’écriture ‘webienne’ – je vous propose ces quelques lignes de contribution à un ouvrage à ne pas rater, "Le Web 2.0 en bibliothèques : quels services ? quels usages ?"
Arabic calligraphy The Arabic alphabet ARABIC is written from right to left. There are 18 distinct letter shapes, which vary slightly depending on whether they are connected to another letter before or after them. There are no "capital" letters. The full alphabet of 28 letters is created by placing various combinations of dots above or below some of these shapes. The three long vowels are included in written words but the three short vowels are normally omitted – though they can be indicated by marks above and below other letters. Although the Arabic alphabet as we know it today appears highly distinctive, it is actually related to the Latin, Greek, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabatian alphabets. The numerals used in most parts of the world – 1, 2, 3, etc – were originally Arabic, though many Arab countries use Hindi numerals. The following four lessons (part of the Babel course) give a fair idea of what is involved in learning to read and write Arabic: Styles of calligraphy Examples of calligraphic art Articles
Pentagon Will Help Families Travel to Dover Department of Defense, via thememoryhole.org/Associated PressAn undated photograph released by the U.S. Department of Defense shows the flag-draped coffins of U.S. war casualties arriving at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Updated | March 19 Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today that the Pentagon would pay for families to travel to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware if they want to be present when the body or remains of a loved one is returned from war. Mr. To see the full article, subscribe here. Department of Defense, via thememoryhole.org/Associated PressAn undated photograph released by the U.S. Updated | March 19 Defense Secretary Robert M. Mr.