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Today, near the entrance of the nature reserve: a geastrum; see also here.

A beautiful, not very common, fungus.

By Charles Bogle:

A timely reminder of America’s Enlightenment origins

31 August 2006

Washington’s Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer, 543 pages, Oxford University Press, 2004, $17.95

In Washington’s Crossing, published by Oxford University Press as part of its Pivotal Moments in American History series (series editors, David Hackett Fischer and James M. McPherson), Fischer describes how Enlightenment thinking informed the character and decision-making of George Washington at a critical point in the American Revolution.

Fisher argues that although this same Enlightenment thinking molded the outlook of the British commanding officers and their charges, the exigencies of an imperialist policy resulted in brutal treatment of the colonists and spoliation of their property.

The author concludes by calling on his American readers to remember and embrace their Enlightenment origins at the present critical point in their history.

The painting entitled “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” which hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, provides the inspiration for the title of Fischer’s book.

The masterpiece is itself evocative of the Enlightenment and the revolutions it engendered.

In the introduction to his book, Fischer writes that the artist, a German-American named Emanuel Leutze, undertook the painting to encourage the Europeans, who were engaged in the revolutions of 1848, to follow the example of the American Revolution.

See also here. And here.

American revolution and slavery: here.

Today’s Enlightenment perceptions and imperialism: here.

From British daily The Morning Star:

A president’s fall

(Wednesday 30 August 2006)

Frost/Nixon
Donmar, London WC2

SHOWDOWN: Frost/Nixon plays at the Donmar until October 7.

ROBERT TANITCH witnesses the death throes of President Nixon’s credibility as he is interviewed by TV chat show host David Frost.

THIRTY years on and President Richard Nixon is still remembered mainly for the Watergate scandal.

His name is synonymous with political corruption.

He committed the biggest felony in US history and resigned before he could be impeached.

There was no admission of guilt, no apology and then, to the fury of the US public, he was pardoned unconditionally by President Ford.

Nixon has been the subject of a mocumentary called Millhouse: A White Comedy, a film starring Anthony Hopkins, a Shakespearian parody called Nixon as Richard III, an opera called Nixon in China and, of course, cartoons.

Gerald Scarfe drew Nixon many times and always with the utmost contempt and loathing.

One of his many unforgettable images had the President wiping his bum with the Stars and Stripes.

Russell Lees wrote a very funny and completely fictitious play, Nixon’s Nixon, set on the eve of his resignation on August 7 1974, in which the president, desperately trying to think of ways of hanging on to the presidency, came to the conclusion that the best thing to do would be to pretend to be mad and threaten to bomb some country or other and start an international crisis.

Many journalists had tried to nail Nixon and failed. Could David Frost, a lightweight chat show host, get him to confess that he had been involved in a cover-up and had broken the law?

Multatuli was the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820-1887), arguably the most famous and best nineteenth century Dutch author.

A former civil servant in the Dutch colony of Indonesia, his most famous book was the novel Max Havelaar.

In it, Multatuli scathingly attacked the oppressive practice of Dutch colonialism.

He was also a strong critic of Dutch society, including oppression of poor people, the role of Christianity as in practice state religion, etc.

Now, every year, there is a lecture in either Breda in The Netherlands or Louvain in Belgium, to commemorate Multatuli.

So far, so good.

The organizers of the lecture say: ‘In the Multatuli lectures, the possibilities and opportunities for both the national and the international community are being investigated of it being enriched by meeting between people of different cultures’.

So far, so good.

Certainly at a time of rising bigotry, including government sponsored bigotry.

However, what do the organizers write in their invitation of this years’ lecture?

Proudly, they announce “two good quality lecturers”.

They are: “Mr Gerard Kleisterlee, president and chief executive officer of Royal Philips Electronics”.

Philips is one of the big capitalist monopolies of The Netherlands.

Multatuli was a sharp critic of the role of Dutch big business in Indonesia.

Royal Dutch Shell oil was built by exploitation of Indonesia. So, to a large extent, was Unilever.

So, an extremely unexpected person, Mr Kleisterlee, to properly honour Multatuli.

The other lecturer is Ms Agnes van der Hoeven, minister in the Dutch Rightist government coalition for international development.

Though she is a sort of moderate within the government on the subject of Muslim-bashing, and is hated by anti-Islamic extremists for that, she is still part of an unpopular government coalition where her colleague Zalm officially declared “war on extreme Islam” in George W Bush style.

So, as representatives of big business and Rightist government, respectively, probably not the best two lecturers that the organizers would have been able to find.

Maybe the clue is in the last words of the invitation to the lecture.

They say the invitation is by “Colonel Eric T. Linssen, chairman”.

High ranking army officers have often had good relationships to big businessmen and Rightist politicians.

Maybe forget Multatuli’s remark in his Max Havelaar on the Dutch army in Indonesia: “a village where the Dutch army had arrived. So, it was on fire”?

This is a David Attenborough video about Victoria amazonica.

Today in the botanical garden.

The pondskaters stil in the brook.

However, of the aquariums inside the hothouses, I see only two, where about ten used to be.

The catfish, cichlids, and kissing gouramis are still there.

But how about all the other fish?

A big white flower of Victoria amazonica is flowering, a rare, beautiful, sight.

Big catfish in The Netherlands: here.

From London daily The Morning Star:

Sharpen the sickle

(Tuesday 29 August 2006)

POETRY: Ernest Jones

AUBREY BOWMAN studies Chartist Ernest Jones’s best poem.

The sickle, like its less agile big brother the scythe, is often associated with the figure of “time” and, naturally, with work on the land.

In Sonnet 116, Shakespeare referred to “Time’s bending sickle” and, much later, William Blake [see also here; and here] gave us this telling quatrain:

“The sword sang on the barren heath, The sickle in the fruitful field: “The sword/He sang a song of death/But could not make the sickle yield.”

In Chartist Ernest Jones’s poem A Hymn for Lammas Day, the sickle is the image used in an exhortation at the beginning of each verse, addressed to the reapers in the field.

The poem goes on to describe a characteristic country scene at harvest time, with the whitened sheen from the hot summer sun on the cornfields.

In the second verse, we find a change of mood.

No longer the simple pastoral scene of the first verse. “Proud, pomp,” even “golden” are words which, it is true, can describe the fully erect stems of ripened corn, but they are words which can also conjure up a picture of serried ranks’ demonstrators.

The poignant question, “How many will lie on the plain?” posed by Shelley in his poem The Mask of Anarchy about the massacre of Peterloo in Manchester, will still have been within living memory.

In the next lines, we meet the age-old concept of starvation in the midst of plenty, of people dying “in the sight of so rich a store.”

Chartism: here.

1842 British general strike: here.

Early 20th century English socialist MP Victor Grayson: here.

From the Stop the War Coalition in Britain:

More than ever it’s TIME TO GO [for Tony Blair and his pro war policies]

•National Demonstration Manchester
•Saturday 23 September • 1pm
•Labour Party Conference
Assemble Albert Square. Route details here soon.

•TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ
•DON’T ATTACK IRAN
•HANDS OFF LEBANON
•NO TRIDENT REPLACEMENT
Organised by Stop the War Coalition, CND and BMI, and supported by MAB, Islam Channel, Friends of Al Aqsa, CWU, PCS, NUJ, TGWU

See also here.

PCS in 2005 against Iraq war: here.

According to Dutch TV teletext of today:

Brazilian palaeontologists have discovered a new dinosaur species.

Maxikalisaurus topai was 13 meters long and was 9 tons in weight.

This herbivore lived 80 million year ago.

The fossil remains were found while building a road.

See also here.

Update: here.

China: also new dinosaur species.

New animal species? Cartoon on cryptozoology.

According to the counter of ModBlog, where I started my first blog, my blog there is today in the all time top 5 of most visited ModBlogs, with 225,379 visits totally.

Update on ModBlog, 15 October 2006: here.

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Date: 07/30/05 at 1:36 AM
Hi thanks Herr. In my blog archive, searching with words like whale or dolphin, you will find more

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Date: 07/14/05 at 1:19 AM
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What is that baby penguin doing to that other penguin?!?

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Hi, I am from Amsterdam, Holland and came across your ModBlog when I googled the word tube feeding, in fact it was your post about Terrie Schiavo and tube feeding and taxes and George W and I so very much agree with all you wrote that I just had to let you know that millions of people in Europe share your vision on the actual USA politics and politicians. Most of us were and are against the Iraq war also, because the reasons why this war was started were based on lies and intimidation. I was pleasantly surprised to see you linking to the Anne Frank’s house, which is a MUST SEE when you are in Amsterdam. I’ll be dropping in more often, every now and then!
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Date: 03/30/05 at 11:30 AM
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Date: 03/14/05 at 11:41 PM
Whenever there is again a reason to say it again (probably soon), I’ll say it. I always try to bring new, fresh, arguments.

In a way, people die every few minutes, they are “new” reasons.

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Date: 03/14/05 at 10:38 AM (1y6M ago)
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great site! thanks for stumbling across my blog, i hope you’ll return. I’m still trying to figure everything out, I’m new to all of this. Anyway, thanks again and I’ll definitely recommend your site to the one person that will probably ever read mine! keep up the good work and contact me if you’d like.

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Date: 03/12/05 at 7:10 PM (1y6M ago)
There are stories like that on dragonflies too. My father is still a bit scared of these beautiful insects now …

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Date: 03/12/05 at 7:08 PM
:-) I once ran away from pigeon when I was very young because my uncle said they would peck my eyes out. Fortunately it was only a joke on his part. The pigeon thankfully left me (and mes yeux) alone.

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Date: 03/12/05 at 7:04 PM
Yes I can imagine. When I was small and saw an elephant for the first time, I was frightened too … I had thought it’d be as big as in pictures …

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Date: 03/12/05 at 7:04 PM (1y6M ago)
dearkitty- yes, there were eels. And so many fish! When my cousin Dorothy was three years, we took her there. She screamed so loudly when she saw one of the turtles, or tortues, we got stares all around! But she did not yell anymore after we told her that no, the tortue would not eat her.

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Date: 03/12/05 at 7:02 PM (1y6M ago)
Yes Ange Belle, I knew; but I used Anne Frank’s book’s name to reply as it was closest to the name in the question.

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Date: 03/12/05 at 7:01 PM
dearkitty- yes, there were eels. And so many fish! When my cousin Dorothy was three years, we took her there. She screamed so loudly when she saw one of the turtles, or tortues, we got stares all around
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Date: 03/12/05 at 6:59 PM (1y6M ago)
dearkitty - did you know, the Van Daan family was actually the Van Pels family and Dr Dussel was really Dr Pfeffer? Anne changed the names in her diary. ‘Dussel’ means ‘dope’! I learned this in history class. We read the book as a class in its original language as study.

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Date: 03/12/05 at 6:57 PM (1y6M ago)
Hi Belle Ange, as far as I recall, it was called Aquarium du Trocadero, you had to go downstairs. I remember eels and other fish.

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Date: 03/12/05 at 6:54 PM (1y6M ago)
Hi Heather, the name of Anne Frank’s co-inhabitant of the Achterhuis was Mrs Van Daan. Ellen ten Damme is the actress/singer.

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Date: 03/12/05 at 6:51 PM (1y6M ago)
That image is really nice. As for Anne Frank, I did the play, in high school. I was Mrs. Van Damme. (I think that was her name. *grin*) High school’s a long way off.

Danke.

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Date: 03/12/05 at 6:49 PM (1y6M ago)
“Hi, you know the Trocadero Aquarium? And what glacier if I may ask (I was in Canada too, the English speaking Western part)?”

Yes, the aquarium is very nice! I am not sure which aquarium it is, but I will ask and ‘get back to you’, as they say.

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Date: 03/02/05 at 11:42 AM (1y7M ago)
Thanks for your comment lordpuffer. The Anne Frank House site is at http://www.annefrank…&lid=1&setlanguage=2

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Date: 03/02/05 at 11:27 AM (1y7M ago)
cool blog, dearkitty. i’m v v v anti-war. I was born in the Vietnam war and was adopted by an English family. Have never quite finished the Ann Frank diary, although I started it on numerous occasions. I’m a dreadfully lazy reader. I remember at the start something about her being a real chatterbox at school, how she couldn’t stop talking. They had the play on in Birmingham (where I live) a few years ago. One of the saddest parts for me is when they are all talking about what they will do once they’re out of the attic. The future dreams that the audience knew would never happen.

“Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

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Date: 02/21/05 at 12:54 PM (1y7M ago)
Thanks, they are emperor penguins, the biggest species. Even bigger than king penguins.

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Date: 02/21/05 at 12:17 PM (1y7M ago)
cute penguins…..

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Date: 02/14/05 at 8:01 PM (1y7M ago)
Thanks, pathcompanions!

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Date: 02/14/05 at 7:41 PM (1y7M ago)
Thanks for dropping by my new place. You were the first to leave a massage. I like you spot and hope to have something as good in a few weeks.

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Date: 02/12/05 at 1:31 AM (1y7M ago)
thanks, and best for your blog!

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Date: 02/11/05 at 11:35 PM
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Date: 01/30/05 at 9:59 PM (1y8M ago)
Thank you U2. Where is the mute swans site? And sorry with replying so late. Today there were all sort of technical blog problems.

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Not too long ago I created a site to help Save the Mute Swans in New England. I appreciate all your work here. Very well done!

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Date: 01/26/05 at 11:24 PM (1y8M ago)
Hi, theladyofdragons, thanks for visiting.

There are thousands of birds species and in principle I love them all. I just recently saw two ring necked parakeets on a branch of a big tree, nibbling each other heads, a lovely sight. So right now I might pick them; but maybe tomorrow some other species again.

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Date: 01/26/05 at 10:26 PM (1y8M ago)
Hello and thank you for the opportunity to learn from you. I also noticed your a bird enthusyist, any particular kind ?

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Date: 01/24/05 at 11:30 AM (1y8M ago)
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Date: 01/24/05 at 8:34 AM
Thanks patucagold! All the best for you, your blog, and Honduras!

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Date: 01/24/05 at 1:28 AM
I like your blog. You and I seem to share many of the same values.

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Date: 01/19/05 at 12:40 AM
thank for visiting my blog. Yours its great!

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Date: 01/16/05 at 10:12 PM
Thank you Michelle! Good luck with your blog!

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Date: 01/16/05 at 8:59 PM
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Date: 01/14/05 at 7:09 PM
hi meowxx, the link should work … maybe your connection was a bit slow or there was trouble at just that moment

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Date: 01/14/05 at 6:26 PM
thanks for signing my guestbook. I did follow th elink but it did not load up… i am sure it is something great….. thanks anyway…

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Date: 01/13/05 at 10:45 PM (1y8M ago)
Nice dog as well, Brightstars …

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Date: 01/13/05 at 10:29 PM
HEY HEY DEAR KITTY NICE BLOG!!

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Date: 01/10/05 at 1:54 PM (1y8M ago)
Dear kasukabe, keep visiting and one day you may find out …

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Date: 01/10/05 at 1:15 PM
nice blog…=) the penguins are very cute!!! erm…..wht’s ur name??? u nvr put in ur blog so yea i dunno =p

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Date: 01/08/05 at 10:26 AM (1y8M ago)
thanks for visiting kathy

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Date: 01/08/05 at 3:18 AM
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Date: 01/05/05 at 10:17 PM (1y8M ago)
Thanks for your entry. On this subject, see also blogs here in chapter Disasters.

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The devastating tsunamis that engulfed so much of coastal East Asia have created a massive human disaster. Could such devastation have been prevented? What is the real toll? This blog explores what could have been done and what still can be done to alleviate the ongoing consequences of this event?

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A year after Hurricane Katrina, President Bush is still trying to make up for the federal government’s fumbled relief efforts.

Public opinion of Bush’s handling of the crisis is as low as it was just weeks after the hurricane, and a majority of Americans are dissatisfied with the progress made in the region during the last year.

Public perception of the situation is so marked that presidential counselor Dan Bartlett admitted the administration is well aware that New Orleans residents “are skeptical about our commitment.”

Inside Washington, the President continues to face criticism from both Democrats and Republicans.

Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana said the administration was “slow and reluctant,” adding, “the president has not maintained the bully pulpit on Katrina.”

“I might argue that this was the worst thing that’s happened to George Bush in the whole six years of his presidency,” Sen. Chuck Schumer said. “It was a perception-altering event.”

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