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POPSThe death of language? "What we lose is essentially an enormous cultural heritage, the way of expressing the relationship with nature, with the world, between themselves in the framework of their families, their kin people," says Mr Hagege. "Its also the way they express their humour, their love, their life. It is a testimony of human communities which is extremely precious, because it expresses what other communities than ours in the modern industrialized world are able to express." For linguists like Claude Hagege, languages are not simply a collection of words. They are a living, breathing organisms holding the connections and associations that define a culture. When a language becomes extinct, the culture in which it lived is lost too. ____ According to Ethnologue, a US organisation that compiles a global database of languages, 473 languages are currently classified as endangered. ____ "Most people are not at all interested in the death of languages," Claude Hagege says.
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POPSEmma Watson, star of Harry Potter films, is related to 16th century witch Anastasia Tyler, a genealogist from Ancestry.co.uk, who researched Watson's heritage, said: "It is not every day we are able to trace the branches of a family tree back to the 16th century witch trials. "It shows researching your family's past can have just as many twists and turns as a film blockbuster. "As we researched Emma's family, we learned that her great great great grandmother was named Frances Playle - a very uncommon surname. "The Playles have been in a small area of Essex since the early 1500s." Watson grew up in Oxfordshire, roughly 100 miles from the area. The actress, who achieved straight A grades at A level in English literature, geography and art at Headington School in Oxford, is reportedly set to attend Ivy League Brown University, in Rhode Island, USA, in September.
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POPSCase Studies - RIBA 2008 Awards Realstone are very proud to have been heavily involved in the following projects that have now won awards at the prestigious 2008 RIBA Awards. These winners will be considered for the RIBA national awards on June 27.
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POPS'Oldest English Words' Identified The researchers used the university's IBM supercomputer to track the known relations between words, in order to develop estimates of how long ago a given ancestral word diverged in two different languages. They have integrated that into an algorithm that will produce a list of words relevant to a given date. "You type in a date in the past or in the future and it will give you a list of words that would have changed going back in time or will change going into the future," Professor Pagel told BBC News. "From that list you can derive a phrasebook of words you could use if you tried to show up and talk to, for example, William the Conqueror." That is, the model provides a list of words that are unlikely to have changed from their common ancestral root by the time of William the Conqueror.
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POPSSaxon burials excavated Sometimes you have to excavate for fear of looting of the grave goods. Also, these burials shed more light on Saxon society and burial customs. Osteoarchaeology could be used to discover what they died of, and relate it to modern illnesses and epidemiology. With all of this data, these people's identity can be recovered to a certain extent, and they will be remembered.
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POPSDruids in row over boy's skeleton continues: Rollo Maughfling, the archdruid of Stonehenge and Glastonbury, said: "Beyond all the other philosophical, scientific and religious arguments, in the end it comes down to something called common human decency." It's a very, very bad idea and it's entirely unnecessary, entirely unwarranted Dr Josh Pollard, Bristol University Fellow pagan Arthur Pendragon added: "These are human remains - you wouldn't dig your grandmother up from a churchyard."
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POPS"Ancient rock art baffles experts" continues: "This" is joining more than 100 other Gore-Tex-clad volunteers scouring the moorland of north-east England, searching for traces of the enigmatic and weirdly beautiful carvings our ancestors made on stretches of flat rocks and boulders. The project is a collaboration between English Heritage and Northumberland and Durham County Councils. So far, more than 100 previously unknown carvings have been discovered, featuring a mysterious mix of concentric circles, interlocking rings and hollowed cups. They are broadly dated between 4,000 and 6,000 years old.
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POPSErase the past Classic lefty tactic, erase the past. It isn't important. What could we possible learn from history? In fact let's take it a step further and change the english language. I suppose it is better than Hitler or Stalin's attempts to eradicate the past.
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POPSWorld Heritage Sites In Germany If you read German you may find more details on the German version of this page... HomePage - UNESCO's World Heritage List - Deutsche Version dieser Seite 878 properties are now inscribed on the World Heritage List with 679 cultural, 174 natural and 25 mixed properties in 145 States Parties. 33 of these properties you find in Germany - and again 1 from the Red List ! http://home.bawue.de/~wmwerner/english/heritage.html Note: This is NOT the official HomePage of the German Section of UNESCO. They have a HomePage of their own... http://www.unesco.de/?&L=1
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POPSFour-hundred-year-old Shakespeare book recovered The university hoped to recover the other stolen works, which include a 15th-century manuscript containing a fragment of a poem written by Geoffrey Chaucer, author of "The Canterbury Tales''; an edition of "Beowulf'' printed in 1812; and a book of maps and poetry dating from 1612.
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POPS"Zorba the Israeli" His most famous book, "Zorba the Greek," was published in 1946. Its appearance in English in the United States, in 1954, made its author a runaway success that exposed him to the rest of the world. Zorbas became an adored figure in Western culture, and his prescription for life, passions and animal instincts were idealized. He came to represent all of Greek culture. Kazantzakis wrote many books. "The Last Temptation of Christ" roused a storm of controversy when it appeared. (the film version of the book was released, directed by Martin Scorsese with a soundtrack composed by Peter Gabriel.) "It's the combination of the landscape and the people," Melzer a former philosophy professor says "Greeks have an endless ability to be happy, and we Israelis can only learn from them."
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