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Ed Webb

Timbuktu mayor: Mali rebels torched library of historic manuscripts | World news | guar... - 1 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 28 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Islamist insurgents retreating from Timbuktu set fire to a library containing thousands of priceless historic manuscripts,
  • The manuscripts had survived for centuries in Timbuktu, on the remote south-west fringe of the Sahara desert. They were hidden in wooden trunks, buried in boxes under the sand and in caves. When French colonial rule ended in 1960, Timbuktu residents held preserved manuscripts in 60-80 private libraries.The vast majority of the texts were written in Arabic. A few were in African languages, such as Songhai, Tamashek and Bambara. There was even one in Hebrew. They covered a diverse range of topics including astronomy, poetry, music, medicine and women's rights. The oldest dated from 1204.
  • they exploded the myth that "black Africa" had only an oral history. "You just need to look at the manuscripts to realise how wrong this is."
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  • only a fraction of the manuscripts had been digitised. "They cover geography, history and religion. We had one in Turkish. We don't know what it said."
  • Mali government forces that had been guarding Timbuktu left the town in late March, as Islamist fighters advanced rapidly across the north. Fighters from al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) – the group responsible for the attack on the Algerian gas facility – then swept in and seized the town, pushing out rival militia groups including secular Tuareg nationalists.
  • As well as the manuscripts, the fighters destroyed almost all of the 333 Sufi shrines dotted around Timbuktu, believing them to be idolatrous. They smashed a civic statue of a man sitting on a winged horse.
  • The rebels enforced their own brutal and arbitrary version of Islam, residents said, with offenders flogged for talking to women and other supposed crimes. The floggings took place in the square outside the 15th-century Sankoré mosque, a Unesco world heritage site.
  • They weren't religious men. They were criminals
  • Ed Webb on 28 Jan 13
     
    Such a tragedy
Eduardo Medeiros

Meus herois morreram de overdose - 0 views

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shared by Eduardo Medeiros on 31 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Eduardo Medeiros on 31 Jul 11
     
    Recebi um email essa semana que me intrigou mais do que de costume. O título: Cazuza, um idiota morto. Trata-se de uma psicóloga criticando o público por idolatrar um cara que tinha como principal frase ideológica: "Todos os meus heróis morreram de overdose." De acordo com a psicóloga, que é um profissional que se atém ao comportamento humano e deve zelar para que possamos viver melhor, solucionando problemas e ultrapassando obstáculos, a mensagem sobre o artista deveria ser divulgada para todas as famílias.
David Hilton

Flickr: Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts' Photostream - 4 views

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shared by David Hilton on 13 Oct 09 - Cached
  • David Hilton on 13 Oct 09
     
    Has nearly 80 images of medieval illuminated manuscripts and maps. Very beautiful.
David Hilton

Australia's Prime Ministers: Landmark Speeches - Exploring Democracy - 4 views

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shared by David Hilton on 17 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • David Hilton on 17 Jul 11
     
    Significant speeches from Australian Prime Ministers.
Matt Esterman

National Curriculum - 38 views

In Year 11 students have to complete a research assignment that is mandated by the syllabus, however at our school we basically gave them the list of personalities they could study. I was pushing f...

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started by Matt Esterman on 30 May 09 6 follow-ups, last by Matt Esterman on 05 Jul 09
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