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09/05/2008
The Little Ones: Small mercies (Independent)
Next week, the London-based label Heavenly Recordings will be celebrating its 18th birthday in fine style: a weekend of gigs at the Southbank Centre featuring its greatest hits; Manic Street Preachers, Doves, Saint Etienne and The Magic Numbers.
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08/28/2008
Delving into place names provides ‘a window to the past’ (The Bulletin)
Six years in the making, “Central Oregon Place Names: Volume II, Jefferson County” is available.“The study of place names is actually a window to the past,” writes author Steve Lent. “How a place received its name is often confusing or has been distorted through the years. Historical records and pioneer recollections sometimes do not match. It has been a difficult but extremely rewarding search ...
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09/04/2008
Ngāti Apa Deed of Settlement Initialling (Scoop.co.nz)
Ngāti Apa (North Island) and the Crown have initialled a Deed of Settlement that covers all of Ngāti Apa’s (North Island) historical Treaty of Waitangi claims.
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09/04/2008
Flying into the wild - Remote airstrip gives pilots Montana’s only wilderness runway (Missoulian)
A Cessna prepares to touch down at the Schafer Meadows airstrip in the Great Bear Wilderness.
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09/03/2008
Author to give talk, sign book (Newport News-Times)
Author Janice Marschner will present an historical program and do a book signing at the North Lincoln County Historical Museum at 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12. Her book, “Oregon 1859: A Snapshot in Time”, offers a fascinating glimpse of what life was like just as Oregon became a state on Feb. 14, 1859.
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09/02/2008
WHAT IS IN THE NAME OF A PLACE (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 2 (Bernama) †The name of a place reflects the history, culture and traditions of the location, and there can be no end to the folklore, myths and reasons for the name.
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09/01/2008
Kristof: Tortured, but not silenced (International Herald Tribune)
America needs to stand behind Dr. Halima Bashir, a young Darfuri woman whom the Sudanese authorities have tried to silence by beatings and gang-rape.
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09/02/2008
Tortured but not silenced in rural Darfur (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
A few days later, the secret police kidnapped her. 'You speak to the foreigners!' one man screamed . . .An early test of the next president's moral courage will come as he decides how to engage two Sudanese people named Bashir.
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09/02/2008
What's In The Name Of A Place (Bernama)
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 2 (Bernama) - The name of a place reflects the history, culture and traditions of the location, and there can be no end to the folklore, myths and reasons for the name.
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09/02/2008
The web of history comes to life with on-line project (The Inverness Courier)
TWO rusting petrol pumps just a few miles from Inverness would not ordinarily merit much attention from a historical point of view. Having last seen service more than 40 years ago, both are deemed to be in a poor state of repair and one is just about held together with string.
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| BC Geographical Names - Government site lists geographical naming principles and policy, how to propose a geographical name, access to the BC Geographical Names Information System (BCGNIS), links to BC-history/related sites, and to toponymy sites.GeoNative - Luistxo Fernandez lists place names from all over the world in minority languages, which usually never appear in maps. [Basque and English].Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names - Compiled by the Getty Research Institute, TGN is a structured vocabulary developed primarily for the field of art history, but can be used in any in many other applications. The thesaurus contains nearly 1 million place names representing approximately 900,000 places.GNS: GEOnet Names Server - Global searchable database set up by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), US. Foreign place names as approved by the US Board of Geographic Names, other name variants. Approx. 3.3 million entriesInternational Alternative Country Names - A list of names for existing countries and some regions and islands that differ from the standard international and/or English nomenclatures.Place Names Servers on the Internet - A collection of links by Arizona State University.A Political World Gazetteer - An outline of the world's political divisions, organized by continent, nation, national subdivision, and further geographic areas.Toponomastica Toponymy - A database of place-names from the classical Greek and Roman sources, with comments on their etymology, in English, plus toponymy of the Abruzzese Appennine in Italian.UNGEGN - United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names. Contains information and resolutions on the issue of place names.World Ocean Bed History: Geographical Names - Article on the toponymy of the ocean, undersea features and relief.
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