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- Susan posted on 12/29/2007MIT: over 1800 class materials, but only a handful of audio/video lectures. http://ocw.mit.edu/ Yale: 7 "most popular" liberal art classes. http://open.yale.edu/ So it is true: the best things in life are free.
- Susan posted on 12/19/2007NEW YORK — In the year 1215, a group of English barons handed King John a document written on parchment. Put your royal seal on this, they said. John did, and forever changed the relationship between the monarchy and those it governed. The document was the Magna Carta, a declaration of human rights that would set some of the guiding principles for democracy as it is known today. While that original edict was initially ignored and John died the next year, its key ideas were included in other
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- Susan posted on 10/04/2007The story about Oedipus’ children. Greeks, they just cannot help themselves! ----------------- When Oedipus stepped down as King of Thebes, he gave the kingdom to his two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, who agreed to alternate the throne every year.[1] After the first year, Eteocles refused to step down and Polynices attacked Thebes with his supporters (the eponymous Seven). The two brothers killed each other in single combat. Their maternal uncle, King Creon, who had ascended to the throne of Thebes, de
- Susan posted on 08/31/2007Check it out, I have been wasting a lot of company's time on this site lately: http://www.43things.com/
- Susan posted on 06/06/2007Adagio 也回来坐坐吧。 ·兰 舟· 哀歌 什么能填充我心中 巨大的空洞？ 在每一年的这些夜晚 星星从天空消失 空旷的夜将我围裹 这是一个茫茫无边的空洞 我已死去，而你还活着。 来自遥远记忆的风 叹息着哭泣着 在我身边飞舞 渴望进入我的心脏 旋转，上升 在虚空中诞生一个新的星际 而我想到那些血 那些不能触摸的不能在人间留下痕迹的 生命的最后印记 那些在梦里还偶而涌现的哀号 一起遁入黑暗之中 （那会是一个更好的世界吗？） 冷漠流逝的岁月啊 你纵然有无穷的力量让我遗忘 也无法抹去我心中的空洞 你无�
- Susan posted on 04/18/2007不好意思，不巧在枪击案后宣布这件事。我在家里提前休产假，下个星期要生第二个 小孩了，名字嘛中英文的全没起，放权让三岁的小姐姐起名，结果不是Elmo, 就是 Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, 全没戏，只好到时候凭感觉发挥了。 我开始来咖啡做常客的时候，不上班是全职妈妈，也念点书；后来上班了，也做妈 妈，也念点书；现在又上班，又要做两个小孩的妈妈，又想念书，老实说不知道能 不能胜任。我要是有三个生命就好了。想作的事真是太多了。
- Susan posted on 03/07/2007这个昨天晚上在电视上看到的，转来给阿拉丁看看。：) ----------------- A German brother and sister are challenging the law against incest so that they can continue their relationship free from the threat of imprisonment. Patrick Stübing, an unemployed locksmith, and his sister Susan have had four children together since starting a sexual relationship in 2000. Three of the children are in foster care, and two have unspecified disabilities. The couple, who live near Leipzig, grew up separately and o
- Susan posted on 12/22/2006Can someone tell me how to post a WMV file? If there is not enough space currently in cafe, then forget it.
- Susan posted on 10/31/2006十一月七日选举日在即，我还没选举资格，不过看看也是好玩的。本州的PROPOSITION共 有十九个，没时间全看，只挑几个有意思的讲讲。。
- Susan posted on 10/21/2006（阿姗） 自从我没有考上大学，我的生命就完全改变了。我这种失败者只有两种选择：参军，或做吸血鬼。当然，两个选择都是极糟的，却也各有好处。参了军，就不会立刻去死；而做了吸血鬼，就在鬼界永生。我妈妈伤心透了。她一直以为凭我的聪明，肯定能象我姐姐那样，轻而易举的考过那些破烂的入学试。唉，其实去年我根本就没心思复习考试，因为我哥哥大明和我最要好的朋友阿强都没有考上大学。他们从此在我生活中消失了。我呢，很快的，也将要消失。 ...... （八十一子） 这天太阳刚一落山我就醒了。这很奇怪。平日里我都是要到月亮升起很高了才会
- Susan posted on 08/30/2006Theogony reading notes Introduction: Theogony is a Greek poem that explains the beginning of the universe and the origins of Gods in Greek mythology. ***. I just learned the origins of the terms “Hellenic” and “Hellenistic”. Greeks consider themselves descendents of Hellen, the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, who repopulated the earth by throwing rocks after the great flood. Deucalion in turn is the son of the famous hero Prometheus, who brought fire to mankind. ***- Remember the painting
- Susan posted on 07/11/2006Saw the movie over the weekend. Very impressed. It is a story about reporters at CBS news television fighting McCarthism in 1950's America. Highly recommended to Cafe guests in China. The Quotes below are from the movie. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No one familiar with the history of this country can deny that Congressional committees are useful. It is necessary to investigate before legislating, but the line between investigating and
- Susan posted on 06/30/2006In the interview, the world's 2nd richest man said the death of his wife influenced his decision to donate 85% of his wealth to charity. I googled and found he really had an amazing wife: --------------------------------------------------- At forty-five, Susan Buffett left her husband - in form. Although she remained married to Warren, the humanitarian / singer secured an apartment in San Francisco and, insisting she wanted to live on her own, moved there. Warren was absolutely devastated; throughout hi
- Susan posted on 04/21/2006先占个地方写一点。。。 最可怕的女人 “红颜祸水”其实都不可怕，我比较害怕的女人是像晋文公的齐国夫人那号的，为 了逼丈夫成大业，不惜杀掉一群无辜的下人。(当然了，男人做这种事是有过之无不 及。) 晋文公本来是个很好的family man，被最爱自己的一帮人逼着求功名，为子孙后代 当败家子打下了良好的基础，所以他后来变得神经兮兮的，也是情有可原地。 网上古狗了一下这位夫人，居然有文章说她“有胆有识”。什么逻辑啊？拣事业有成 的男人嫁的叫势力眼；挑个潜力股然后拼命培养丈夫成材的就是好太太？我劝男士 们离这种女人远一
- Susan posted on 03/10/2006Ok, I am a little rusty on this Math thing… Please help. Except(b) Intersect Except(c) Intersect Except(d) = I- (b Union c Union d) Is this correct? Does it make sense at all? Thank you very much. My mind is very clouded lately, I can’t think straight.
- Susan posted on 03/08/2006Myrrh --- Wikipedia Myrrh is a red-brown resinous material, the dried sap of the Commiphora myrrha tree, native to Somalia and the eastern parts of Ethiopia. A number of other Commiphora or Balsamodendron saps are also known as myrrh, including that from Commiphora erythraea (sometimes called East Indian myrrh), Commiphora opobalsamum and Balsamodendron kua. Its name is derived from the Hebrew murr or maror, meaning "bitter." Myrrh is a constituent of perfumes and incense, was highly prized in ancient
- Susan posted on 03/02/2006Migrant Mother, Dorothea Lange's 1936 photograph of Florence Owens Thompson and children became the most famous image of the Great Depression in the United States. Its one of the classic photographs of the 20th century, and is now an icon of resiliance in the face of adversity. --- From Wikipedia
- Susan posted on 02/23/2006SEVEN DEADLY SINS It was not until the late 6th century that St. Gregory the Great (then Pope Gregory I) described the seven sins in his Moralia in Job. He reduces the list to seven items. His ranking of the Sins' seriousness was based on the degree from which they offended against love. It was, from least serious to most: lust, gluttony, sadness, avarice, anger, envy and pride (abbreviated into the mnemonic palegas). Sadness would later be replaced by acedia, or sloth, in putting off what God asks you
- Susan posted on 02/14/2006Vice President Dick Cheney revealed today that he shot a fellow hunter while on a quail hunting trip over the weekend because he believed the man was the fugitive terror mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri. Mr. Cheney acknowledged that the man he sprayed with pellets on Saturday was not al-Zawahiri but rather Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old millionaire lawyer from Austin, blaming the mix-up on “faulty intelligence.” “I believed I had credible intelligence that al-Zawahiri had infiltrated my hunting party
- Susan posted on 02/03/2006What is your opinion on this case? --------------------------------------------- HOUSTON, Texas (AP) -- Andrea Yates left jail early Thursday for a state mental hospital where she will await her second capital murder trial for the drowning deaths of her young children. Yates' attorney posted her $200,000 bond, releasing her from incarceration for the first time since the five children were drowned in the family bathtub in June 2001. State District Judge Belinda Hill set the bond Wednesday. Ya
- Susan posted on 12/22/2005I just realized there is something I really like about the Intelligent Design theory. I think it should be taught not only in Science class but also in Engineering school. At least I wish I had learned ID when I was in school: then whenever my computer program didn’t run I could have just told my professor:”I can’t explain why it happens, but have you thought maybe there is a possibility that a supernatural power is behind this, based on Chapter one? Have you? Have you?” The professor just had to let me
- Susan posted on 12/11/2005Book Review on “Cicero, The life and times of Rome’s greatest politician” Anthony Everitt’s biography “Cicero, The life and times of Rome’s greatest politician” gives a vivid account of the life of Cicero and the political struggles he participated in during the last decades of the Roman Republic. It is well structured, easy to follow and quite entertaining. The most benefit I got out of this book is some insights into the Roman Republic’s political system --- how it worked and why it failed ---
- Susan posted on 11/27/2005Heresies in Early Christianity Developments Chronological timeline: 110-160: Marcion of Sinope 144: Marcion was excommunicated from the Church of Rome. 303-305: Persecution of Christians by Roman Emperor Diocletian. 312: the birth of the Donatist movement came out of opposition to the appointment of Caecilian as bishop of Carthage. 313: Roman Emperor Constantine legalizes Christianity. the emperor as the devil. In particular, the birth of the Donatist movement came out of opposition to the appo
- Susan posted on 11/21/2005Ramesses’ Royal Ladies Ramesses II is the last great Pharaoh in Ancient Egypt. During his reign of over sixty-six years (1279BC-1213BC) in the 19th dynasty, Egypt enjoyed peace and prosperity. The longevity not shared by most of his contemporaries allowed him to build monuments extravagantly through the entire empire, and his name was respected throughout the kingdoms the archaeologists now called “Ancient World”. I am, however, more interested in the royal women that lived in his era, starting from t
- Susan posted on 10/29/2005Religions in the Hellenistic Age The Hellenistic age brings local god and goddess together throughout the Near East. It is an era of “Syncretism”, when different religions co-existed and influenced each other. Among them, several Mystery cults provided something traditional Greek Gods couldn’t: promise of eternal life through the highly personal, emotional experience of initiation rituals. Chronological timeline: 338BC: Philips II conquers Greece, setting the foundation for the Hellen
- Susan posted on 10/14/2005文/ － 10/1/2005 探访张爱玲的洛杉矶 南方周末 ■编者按 10年前，1995年9月8日，作家张爱玲在洛杉矶一所公寓里悄然离世。时值中秋。 张爱玲在洛杉矶生活的23年里，美国经历了从越战到后冷战时代的剧变，洛杉矶崛起为太平洋沿岸最发达、城市化最广泛的后工业资本主义都会。洛杉矶地区令人叹为观止的“地理去中心化”（城市郊区化）、“人文价值边缘化”（因少数族裔人口激增而致）及“汽车和高速公路异化征候”等当代都市万象，在她晚年的书信与写作中（尤其是生前未发表的散文《一九八八至———？》）均有所反
- Susan posted on 09/29/2005Ötzi the Iceman was found in 1991 by two hikers at about 10,500 feet in Itlay’s Otzi Alps area near the border between Austria and Italy. An oldest human mummy ever being discovered, his frozen body, along with many of his clothes and belongs, are perfectly preserved, giving anthropologists ideal materials to study ancient humans in the Neolithic Age. Today, Ötzi resides in a cold-storage vault in the Archaeological Museum of Bolzano in Italy. How did he live: The analysis of the bones shows
- Susan posted on 09/24/2005Zoroastrianism was the dominant world religion during the Persian empires (559 BC to 651 AC), and was thus the most powerful world religion at the time of Jesus. Created by Prophet Zarathushtra, known to the Greeks as Zoroaster, it had a major influence on other religions. Although no longer a major religion, today it is still practiced world-wide, especially in Iran and India. Chronological timeline: 628 BC: Zoroaster was born. 598 BC: Zoroaster had a religious vision and started to practice and t
- Susan posted on 08/16/2005Watched the 1st half of the Alexander yesterday and felt some gay-related dialogues are not very necessary. For instance: when Alexander’s mother asked him to get married, he answered:”But I love Hephaestion!” When Alexander indeed got married, Hephaestion sneaked in at the wedding night, almost in tears, and proclaimed his love to Alexander again. I would think Alexander, although having a homosexual relationship with Hephaestion, would be accustomed to sleeping with women. He has concubines
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