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Henry Liebling

OMACL: The Life of King Alfred: Part II - 0 views

  • When the king had arranged these matters, he remembered that sentence of divine scripture, "Whosoever will give alms, ought to begin from himself," and prudently began to reflect what he could offer to God from the service of his body and mind; for he proposed to consecrate to God no less out of this than he had done of things external to himself. Moreover, he promised, as far as his infirmity and his means would allow, to give up to God the half of his services, bodily and mental, by night and by day, voluntarily, and with all his might; but, inasmuch as he could not equally distinguish the lengths of the hours by night, on account of the darkness, and ofttimes of the day, on account of the storms and clouds, he began to consider, by what means and without any difficulty, relying on the mercy of God, he might discharge the promised tenor of his vow until his death. After long reflection on these things, he at length, by a useful and shrewd invention, commanded his chaplains to supply wax in a sufficient quantity, and he caused it to be weighed in such a manner that when there was so much of it in the scales, as would equal the weight of seventy-two pence, (58) he caused the chaplains to make six candles thereof, each of equal length, so that each candle might have twelve divisions (59) marked longitudinally upon it. By this plan, therefore, those six candles burned for twenty-four hours, a night and day, without fail, before the sacred relics of many of God's elect, which always accompanied him wherever he went; but sometimes when they would not continue burning a whole day and night, till the same hour that they were lighted the preceding evening, from the violence of the wind, which blew day and night without intermission through the doors and windows of the churches, the fissures of the divisions, the plankings, or the wall, or the thin canvass of the tents, they then unavoidably burned out and finished their course before the appointed time; the king therefore considered by what means he might shut out the wind, and so by a useful and cunning invention, he ordered a lantern to be beautifully constructed of wood and white ox-horn, which, when skilfully planed till it is thin, is no less transparent than a vessel of glass. This lantern, therefore, was wonderfully made of wood. and horn, as we before said, and by night a candle was put into it, which shone as brightly without as within, and was not extinguished by the wind; for the opening of the lantern was also closed up, according to the king's command, by a door made of horn. By this contrivance, then, six candles, lighted in succession, lasted four and twenty hours, neither more nor less, and, when these were extinguished, others were lighted. When all these things were properly arranged, the king, eager to give up to God the half of his daily service, as he had vowed, and more also, if his ability on the one hand, and his malady on the other, would allow him, showed himself a minute investigator of the truth in all his judgments, and this especially for the sake of the poor, to whose interest, day and night, among other duties of this life, he ever was wonderfully attentive. For in the whole Kingdom the poor, besides him, had few or no protectors; for all the powerful and noble of that country had turned their thoughts rather to secular than to heavenly things: each was more bent on secular matters, to his own profit, than on the public good.
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    Alfred's candle clock: instructions and background
Henry Liebling

United Nations Resources for Speakers on Global Issues - Home - 0 views

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    A great palce to find information and facts relating to human rights, MDG.....
Henry Liebling

Working with schools and young people - WWF UK - 0 views

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    "Young people will shape the future of our world. They also have huge influence, here and now."
Henry Liebling

Neighbourhood Statistics - Home Page - 0 views

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    Put in your postcode and review local statistics. 2011 census.
Henry Liebling

Traidcraft - fighting poverty through trade | Traidcraft - 0 views

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    "Traidcraft fights poverty through trade, helping people in developing countries to transform their lives."
Henry Liebling

links - 0 views

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    "the leading organisation in the UK for special needs information"
Henry Liebling

What are we trying to achieve | National Numeracy - 0 views

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    "We want every person in the UK to reach a level of numeracy that allows them to meet their full potential." An independent organisation.
Henry Liebling

The Entire Original Maupassant Short Stories, by Guy de Maupassant - 0 views

  • "But a fear came to me: 'How can you measure her unless you put her into the liquid?' "Then he explained his idea, not without difficulty for he was full. He said to me: 'I take a barrel, and fill it with water to the brim. I put her in it. All the water that comes out we will measure, that is the way to fix it.' "I said: 'I see, I understand. But this water that overflows will run away; how are you going to gather it up?' "Then he began stuffing me and explained to me that all we should have to do would be to refill the barrel with the water his wife had displaced as soon as she should have left. All the water we should pour in would be the measure. I supposed about ten pails; that would be a cubic metre. He isn't a fool, all the same, when he is drunk, that old horse.
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    Short stories. A sale in Vol iii concerns measuring the volume of a person by dispalceemnt and is told as a court case.
Henry Liebling

PRINCIPLES OF REGGIO EMILIA APPROACH TO EARLY CHILDHOOD Powerpoint 2011.pdf (applicatio... - 0 views

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    ppt presentation, lots of provoking images text referebces
Henry Liebling

Reggio Emilia approach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    personal reflection on this approach
Henry Liebling

IECER - The Institute for Early Childhood Education and Research - Faculty of Education - 0 views

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    brief and authoritative
Henry Liebling

ValuesAndPrinciples.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views

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    2 page outline
Henry Liebling

BBC - CBeebies - Something Special - Sign along with Mr Tumble - 0 views

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    Excellent BBC CBeebies program for all young children with signing.
Henry Liebling

Eradicating Ecocide - 0 views

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    "Ecocide is the extensive damage to, destruction of or loss of ecosystem(s) of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other causes, to such an extent that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory has been or will be severely diminished."
Henry Liebling

Company Scorecard | Behind the Brands - 0 views

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    What do we know about the companies that supply much of our food? Can we change anything?
Henry Liebling

The_Ten_Major_Food_Companies.jpg (JPEG Image, 2048 × 1285 pixels) - Scaled (71%) - 1 views

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    Look at this infographic which illustrates the degree of monopolisation in the food system.
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