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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. – More than 3,000 students from across California visited the Presidio of Monterey on May 13 for DLIFLC’s Language Day. Students, educators and other participants were treated to stage performances, classroom displays and ethnic cuisine, highlighting the cultures of the many foreign languages taught here.
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The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center held their annual Language Day 2016 at the Presidio of Monterey, California, May 13 to promote and encourage cultural understanding and customs from around the world.
Approximately 5,000 people attended the event, which features cultural displays and activities as well as ethnic foods served by local international vendors on the Presidio’s Soldier Field every year.
(Photo by Amber K. Whittington)
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The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center opened its doors to the public on May 15 for its annual Language Day event.
The event showcased the cultures of the different departmental languages being taught here through dance, skits and fashion shows.
Exhibits were also presented throughout the school grounds with local Monterey ethnic vendors selling their local cuisines to the customers.
Nearly 2,000 high school students and teachers attended Language Day.
The language of the message on the card is Czech. The card is addressed to a student in "Pisek," which was a city in Bohemia (the present-day Czech Republic).
Many, MANY thanks to Olmin, who translated the text and by so doing determined where the photograph was probably taken, to whom the postcard was addressed, and that the rank of the officer in photo was lieutenant.
Olmin (from below): It is definetely written in Czech language. I'm not sure but I think it was sent from K.u.k. military unit somewhere in Herzegovina (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina) to town Písek, Bohemia (present-day Czech Republic) because in text is written "herzegovinian horse". I try to translate it but I apologize in advance for my English.
Address:
Esteemed gentleman
Mr M. Košatka, student (maybe Kósatka but less likely)
Písek
Jeronýmova street
Text:
Our little herzegovinian horse whereon sitting a mister Lieutenant.
Love to all family.
(and at end is author's signature which is unreadable to me)
As an added bonus from Olmin's wonderful translation, I was able to determine the breed of the beautiful (although somewhat short-legged) little horse. He is a Bosnian Mountain Horse (sometimes called a Bosnian-Herzegovinian Mountain Horse). To see a modern-day photograph of a Bosnian Mountain Horse, click on the link below. cache.daylife.com/imageserve/05j69N38y29HU/610x.jpg
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Bosnian Mountain Horse
Origin: Yugoslavia
Aptitudes: Riding, pack, driving
Average Height: 12.3 to 14.3 hands
Population Status: Common
Originating in the Balkans and closely related to the Hutsul or Hucul of Romania and the Myzequea of Albania, the Bosnian is a small, compactly built horse. The small horse breeds found in the Balkans are all thought to be close descendants of the Tarpan with varying degrees of Mongolian influence. Horses of the area were influenced during the Roman occupation of the Balkan penunsula, and when the Turkish cavalry of the Ottoman Empire overtook the area, the blood of the eastern horses was infused. By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there were several types found within the Bosnian Breed, but not all were considered to be improvements.
Since 1900 the breeding of Bosnian horses has been selective and controlled and the rustic, hardy qualities of this small horse have been preserved. Bosnian horses are bay, brown, black, grey, chestnut, palomino, or dun in color.
This is a strongly made horse. The head is somewhat heavy with a straight profile and small ears. The eye is large and expressive. The neck is short and muscular with a full mane; withers are moderately pronounced; the back short and straight; the croup slightly sloping; the chest deep and wide; and the shoulder long and sloping. The legs are short and strong, well muscled, with broad joints and clean, strong tendons. The hoof is well formed and very hard.
Bosnian horses are bred in large numbers in Yugoslavia and are sill very much in use on farms and for transport. Stallions are strictly controlled by the state, while ownership of mares is left to private breeders. The breed has been used for centuries for transport in the mountains and is surefooted and hardy.
The breed is quite popular in Germany, where numbers are increasing steadily.
(From the International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds by Bonnie Lou Hendricks 1995)
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. - Keeping an annual AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am tradition, members from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center and Coast Guard Station-Monterey represent the military at the tournament’s 15th hole by tending a special pin adorned with the United States flag Feb. 7, 8 and 9, 2014. The 15th hole was designated as the location of the special “Support Our Troops” tent provided by tournament sponsors and organizers, providing free refreshments and a place to pause and relax for service members attending the tournament. Besides special recognition of military personnel at the 15th hole during the final three days of competition, Feb. 5 was designated as Military Appreciation Day, a special day set aside to recognize and honor the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces during tournament week, Feb. 3 - 9.
To learn more about the people and facilities of the Presidio of Monterey (POM) visit the official garrison website at www.monterey.army.mil.
Photo by Michael Beaton, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center held their annual Language Day 2016 at the Presidio of Monterey, California, May 13 to promote and encourage cultural understanding and customs from around the world.
Approximately 5,000 people attended the event, which features cultural displays and activities as well as ethnic foods served by local international vendors on the Presidio’s Soldier Field every year.
(Photo by Amber K. Whittington)
I was replying to misterjt about how yes, indeed, the internet (with the exception of Twitter) seemed to be broken. But then Twitter went down, taking the coherence of my post with it.
I swear I didn't type it up in Japanese.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 2014 Korean Hangul Day Award Ceremony for the Yonsei University Writing Contest and the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Korean Video Contest was held inside the Tin Barn Oct.9. This year’s award recipients representing DLIFLC were: Seaman Lexus Porter, Airman 1st Class Daniel Krall, Pfc. Brent Faurie, Airman 1st Class Richard Vanoverloop, Staff Sgt. Darren Cohen, Staff Sgt. Richard Rah, Airman 1st Class Taylor Purvis, Capt. Todd Boese, Capt. Harper Foley, Pfc. Ollice Page and Airman 1st Class Tommaso Carli. DLIFLC has participated for more than a decade in partnership with the Yonsei University Alumni Association of Southern California. The contest is open to all non-native speakers learning Korean and is used to promote the continuing study and development of the foreign language learning of Korean.
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Dunk Island, known as Coonanglebah in the Warrgamay and Dyirbal languages, is an island within the locality of Dunk in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. It lies 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) off the Australian east coast, opposite the town of Mission Beach. The island forms part of the Family Islands National Park and is in the larger Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.
The island is surrounded by reefs and has a diverse population of birds. The Bandjin and Djiru peoples once used the island as a source for food. Europeans first settled on the island in 1897. Dunk Island was used by the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II. In recent years the island and its resort facilities have been adversely affected by both Cyclone Larry and Cyclone Yasi.
The traditional Aboriginal owners of Dunk Island are the Bandjin and Djiru people, who have lived in this area for tens of thousands of years. After the sea level rise, they paddled to the islands in bark canoes to gather food and materials. The Warrgamay and Dyirbal name for Dunk Island is Coonanglebah, meaning "The Island of Peace and Plenty". It received its European name from Captain Cook, who sailed past it on 8 June 1770, remarked that it was a "tolerable high island" and named it after George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax (a former First Lord of the Admiralty).
Europeans settled the nearby mainland during the 1800s, seeking gold, timber and grazing land. In 1848, John MacGillivray studied the fauna and flora of the island while HMS Rattlesnake was anchored off the island for ten days. He subsequently wrote of its natural features in the Narrative of the Voyage of HMS Rattlesnake, published in England in 1852.
Dunk Island, eight or nine miles in circumference, is well wooded—it has two conspicuous peaks, one of which (the North-West one) is 857 feet in height. Our excursions were confined to the vicinity of the watering place and the bay in which it is situated. The shores are rocky on one side and sandy on the other, where a low point runs out to the westward. At their junction, and under a sloping hill with large patches of brush, a small stream of fresh water, running out over the beach, furnished a supply for the ship, although the boats could approach the place closely only at high-water. — John MacGillivray, Narrative of the Voyage of HMS Rattlesnake
Edmund Banfield
In 1897, suffering from work anxiety and exhaustion, and advised by doctors that he had just six months to live, writer Edmund James Banfield moved to Dunk Island with his wife Bertha – so becoming the island's first white settlers. Previously a journalist and senior editor with the Townsville Daily Bulletin for fifteen years, Banfield let the tranquillity of this unspoilt tropical paradise weave its magic and he lived on Dunk Island for the remaining 26 years of his life until his death in 1923.
A small hut built with the assistance of an Aborigine called Tom was the Banfields' first home. Over a period of time they cleared four acres of land for a plantation of fruit and vegetables. Combined with their chickens, cows and goats as well as the abundance of seafood and mangrove vegetation, they lived very self-sufficiently. Fascinated by Dunk Island's flora and fauna Banfield meticulously recorded his observations and went on to write a series of articles about island life under the pseudonym Rob Krusoe. He was further inspired to write a full-length book entitled Confessions of a Beachcomber (1908). The book became a celebrated text for romantics and escapists and established Dunk Island's reputation as an exotic island paradise.
In the ensuing years, Banfield wrote several other books about Dunk including My Tropical Isle (1911) and Tropic Days (1918). In these he shared the secrets of nature that he had uncovered and described the customs and legends of the Aboriginal people on the island. E. J. Banfield died on 2 June 1923 and his final book Last Leaves from Dunk Island was published posthumously in 1925. His widow remained on the island for another year before moving to Brisbane where she died, ten years after her husband. Today both are buried on the trail to Mt Kootaloo.
Commencement of the resort and World War II
The island was bought in 1934 by Captain Brassey and Banfield's bungalow provided the basis for the beginnings of a resort. The resort was commenced in 1936. The Royal Australian Air Force occupied Dunk Island during World War II, building its airstrip in 1941. They installed a radar station on the island's highest point a year later, which was then dismantled when the war ended in 1945.
Post-war development of the resort
The Brassey family returned to run the resort for a period at the end of the war. The island then went through a succession of owners. In 1956, Gordon & Kathleen Stynes purchased it and relocated their family there from Victoria. They then redeveloped and upgraded the resort's facilities to establish the island as a tourist destination. As a result, Dunk Island became a popular destination for celebrities[11] including Sean Connery, Henry Ford II, and Australian Prime Ministers Harold Holt and Gough Whitlam. The Stynes Family owned and operated the island and resort until 1964, when it was sold to Eric McIlree, founder of Avis Rent-A-Car.
In 1976, Trans Australia Airlines purchased Dunk Island. Ownership passed to Qantas in 1992, following its merger with Australian Airlines. On 24 December 1997, the island was purchased by P&O Australian Resorts, which was acquired by Voyages in July 2004. In September 2009, both Dunk and Bedarra island resorts were purchased by Hideaway Resorts, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pamoja Capital.
Artists' colony
Dunk Island was also home to a small community of artists who lived, worked and showcased their work to many international and local visitors on a property on the southern side of the island. The Colony was established in 1974 by former Olympic wrestler Bruce Arthur, who died at his home on Island in March 1998 and continued to operate under resident metalsmith Susi Kirk until Cyclone Larry damaged much of the colony. Kirk continued to live at the colony until Cyclone Yasi destroyed her home in 2011, and has subsequently continued to live and work on Dunk Island as the last member of the artist colony.
After Cyclone Yasi, 2011–2020
After Cyclone Yasi, Dunk Island was bought by Australian entrepreneur Peter Bond and redevelopment of the resort commenced in 2014. This redevelopment never took place.
In September 2019 Mayfair 101, an Australian family-owned investment conglomerate led by James Mawhinney, purchased Dunk Island. Mayfair 101 also secured over 250 properties on mainland Mission Beach as part of its estimated AUD1.6 billion 10-15-year plan to restore the region. Mayfair 101 was awarded the Dunk Island Spit tender on 14 November 2019 by the Cassowary Coast Regional Council, providing the opportunity for Mayfair 101 to negotiate a 30-year lease over the iconic Dunk Island Spit. The island's redevelopment is being undertaken by Mayfair 101's property division, Mayfair Iconic Properties, which has established a team based at Mission Beach to undertake the significant rejuvenation of the region.
In August 2020, the previous owners of the island, Family Islands Operations, owned by the family of Australian businessman Peter Bond repossessed the island after the owners Mayfair 101 failed to meet their payment obligations.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunk_Island
Image source: Queensland State Archives Item ID ITM435811 Islands - Barrier Reef
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1560. Bare feet and filthy clothes on one hand, and imperious overbearing body language on the other.
This photograph says everything about why there was eventually a mutiny on Australia's first flagship: the silly question of the men demanding more Shore Leave to entertain family and friends on their return from the war was almost incidental.*
* PLEASE SEE IMPORTANT COMMENTS FROM ONE OF OUR MOST IMFORMED AND DEDICATED EX-RAN RESPONDENTS, LES ROBERTS, IN COMMENTS BELOW, ADDED IN BY KOOKABURRA FROM A PRIVATE E-MAIL. LES FEELS - PROBABLY JUSTLY - THAT I HAVE BEEN MUCH TOO HARSH IN MY 'INSTANT' OR KNEEJERK REACTION' [MY WORDS] TO THIS PHOTOGRAPH, AND I GUESS IS SAYING [CORRECTLY] THAT I'VE NOT PROPERLY UNDERSTOOD THE PAY PARADE PROCEDURE TAKING PLACE HERE.
THIS IS A LONG AND COMPLEX ENTRY THAT HAS ELLICITED A LOT OF COMMENT, AND I DON'T QUITE KNOW HOW TO UNSCRAMBLE IT TO ACCOMMODATE THIS ALTERNATIVE VIEWPOINT FROM A TRUE NAVY MAN. SO I'VE ADDED THIS AS A 'LAST WORD' TYPE COMMENT, NOMINALLY UNDER MY KOOKABURRA USER NAME, BUT AS STATED, IT RECORDS LES'S VERY VALUABLE EXPLANATION OF A PAY PARADE AND WHAT IS GOING ON HERE. K,
The original entry continues ...
Again and again, in both the young Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy [as it was once called] , there was a clash of class and cultures in the period when their ships were still mainly run by British officers. Mutinies also occurred in the Royal Indian Navy [as it once was] and in the late-emerging Royal New Zealand Navy, under somewhat different circumstances.
There were at least half a dozen 'mutinies,' or crew protests over various conditions, in the RAN during WWII - and a similar number in the Royal Canadian Navy - which experienced a really odd peacetime spurt of it again in the late 1940s, leading to Rear Admiral E.R. [Rollo] Mainguy's landmark Inquiry.
The 1949 Mainguy Report on 'certain "Incidents" on HMCSs ATHABASKAN, CRESCENT and MAGNIFICENT' can be read here:
www.navalandmilitarymuseum.org/resource_pages/controversi...
This is not meant to be an attack on the 'Mother Navy' and its ancient traditions, but clearly an unsatisfactory situation of 'foreign' control would prevail until the naval colleges of Australia and Canada began to turn out complete generations of their own officer class, and men that shared their own distinctive national values.
Even then, in the Canadian case, the Maingay Report suggests inherited RN attitudes towards the men by Canadian officers needed reform - and got it.
Canadian author Alan Filewood, in his work 'Theatre, Navy and The Narrative of 'True Canadianism', raised the question of whether RCN meant the 'Royal Canadian Navy' or the 'Royal Colonial Navy.' In that work Filewood asserted that the last issue — an assertion of "an uncaring officer corps harbouring aristocratic British attitudes inappropriate to Canadian democratic sensitivities" — went beyond the question of sailors' morale and touched on the basic identity of the Canadian Navy and indeed, on the national identity of Canada as a whole.
'It was to have ramifications in the process undertaken in later decades, painful to many of the officers concerned, of deliberately cutting off many of the British traditions in such areas as ensigns and uniforms.'
At its best, which was usual, the interaction between the Royal Navy and its Dominion offshoots worked fraternally and wonderfully well. At its worst - which was also somewhat too often - it was disastrous.
On Christmas night - Boxing Day, 1941, in Cairns Harbour, the commanding officer of the Armed Merchant Cruiser HMAS WESTRALIA, Captain Hudson, RN, had bridge wing machine-guns trained on his own crew, who - with the ship run out of fresh food after trooping duties to Timor - had been fed only prunes and rice for weeks. Naturally, dysentry was rife.
As he approached Cairns the ship's aircraft was flown off ahead to order fresh food supplies. But when Christmas lunch arrived, it was the Prunes and Rice Special again. Then the men were refused Christmas Day shore leave...
Don't ask what happened. The Frame-Baker 'Mutiny' book source for this says HMAS WESTRALIA's logs for Christmas 1941 have simply disappeared from the RAN's records, and the outcome of that particular incident is simply not known here.
Photo: RAN Naval Historical, it appeared in Ross Gillett's book 'Australian and New Zealand Warships 1914-1945' [Doubleday, Sydney 1983] - taken from a p25 montage.
A two-part COMPENDIUM of 100+ HMAS AUSTRALIA [I] images on the Photostream begins at pic NO. 5476, here:
www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/6785541017/in/photostr...
Photos Courtesy Nicky Belle/LLP
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After a two-year break, DLIFLC held its first Language Day celebration since the beginning of the pandemic. DLI friends and family enjoyed a day of performances by faculty and students and as an additional treat there was a demonstration by the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment Horse Detachment.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Presidio of Monterey and the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center conducted a Military Community Resilient Campaign to promote wellness, safety, team-building, unit morale, and esprit de corps for military members, families, staff and faculty around the Price Fitness Center on Sept. 4. Attendees were able to participate in a variety of activities, physical fitness competitions, food and ware vendors, informational booths and more.
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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. – More than 3,000 students from across California visited the Presidio of Monterey on May 13 for DLIFLC’s Language Day. Students, educators and other participants were treated to stage performances, classroom displays and ethnic cuisine, highlighting the cultures of the many foreign languages taught here.
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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Joint Service Color Guard, along with marching units from the four service branches, once again kicked off Pacific Grove's Good Old Days festival by leading the parade along Pine St. on April 5.
The Annual Good Old Days Celebration and Music Festival started in 1957 and is a two-day event in downtown Pacific Grove with live music, parade, vendors and carnival rides. According to the Monterey Herald, an estimated 40,000 people attended this year.
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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, California -- The 2018 Language Day celebration was held by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, May 11. Language Day is open to the public and attended by schools across the nation to promote an understanding of diverse customs and cultures from around the world. Approximately 6,000 people attended this annual event featuring cultural displays, activities and international ethnic cuisine served by local vendors.
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PHOTO by Joseph Kumzak, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center held their annual Language Day 2016 at the Presidio of Monterey, California, May 13 to promote and encourage cultural understanding and customs from around the world.
Approximately 5,000 people attended the event, which features cultural displays and activities as well as ethnic foods served by local international vendors on the Presidio’s Soldier Field every year.
(Photo by Amber K. Whittington)
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. – More than 3,000 students from across California visited the Presidio of Monterey on May 13 for DLIFLC’s Language Day. Students, educators and other participants were treated to stage performances, classroom displays and ethnic cuisine, highlighting the cultures of the many foreign languages taught here.
Official Presidio of Monterey Web site
Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook
PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center held their annual Language Day 2016 at the Presidio of Monterey, California, May 13 to promote and encourage cultural understanding and customs from around the world.
Approximately 5,000 people attended the event, which features cultural displays and activities as well as ethnic foods served by local international vendors on the Presidio’s Soldier Field every year.
(Photo by Amber K. Whittington)
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- Operation Surf Santa Cruz 2016, a program aimed at helping rehabilitating service members and veterans through learning to surf, took place in the cities of Santa Cruz and Capitola April 12-18. Twenty participants, many amputees, arrived at the Monterey Bay from the Brooke Army Medical Center, Texas, the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the Florida-based Explosive Ordnance Disposal Warrior Foundation and other veteran affairs hospitals and international veterans groups. Operation Surf spent their last two days of surfing at the coastal city of Capitola where they were well taken care of by a small army of volunteers that included service members from Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, located in neighboring Monterey.
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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center held their annual Language Day 2016 at the Presidio of Monterey, California, May 13 to promote and encourage cultural understanding and customs from around the world.
Approximately 5,000 people attended the event, which features cultural displays and activities as well as ethnic foods served by local international vendors on the Presidio’s Soldier Field every year.
(Photo by Patrick Bray)
The PCC Foreign Language Department recognized students Haywood Johnson (third from left) and Michael Winterstein (third from right) for their participation in a series of cultural presentations titled "Around the World without Leaving Campus." Foreign Language students were given passports this fall that could be stamped at the presentations. Johnson, a student in Anita Smith’s (second from left) Spanish class, and Winterstein, who is taking French 111 with Chris Deville (second from right), collected the most stamps. On hand for the recognition were Arts and Sciences Division Dean Stephanie Rook, left, and Patricia Baldwin, University Transfer and Foreign Languages Department chair.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. - The Marine Corps Detachment, Presidio of Monterey conducted a formation run and Field Meet competition on Jan. 13, a training-day for Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center students held prior to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.
During each physical challenge specific teams were unknowingly disadvantaged by methods such as adding extra weight to ammo cans or creating running lanes of different length. Concluding the event Marine Corps Det. Commander Lt. Col. Edward R. Sullivan spoke to the Marines about inequality and the struggles championed by Martin Luther King Jr.
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
Mount Auburn Cemetery is the first rural cemetery in the United States, located on the line between Cambridge and Watertown in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Boston.
With classical monuments set in a rolling landscaped terrain,[2] it marked a distinct break with Colonial-era burying grounds and church-affiliated graveyards. The appearance of this type of landscape coincides with the rising popularity of the term "cemetery", derived from the Greek for "a sleeping place." This language and outlook eclipsed the previous harsh view of death and the afterlife embodied by old graveyards and church burial plots.[3]
The 174-acre (70 ha) cemetery is important both for its historical aspects and for its role as an arboretum. It is Watertown’s largest contiguous open space and extends into Cambridge to the east, adjacent to the Cambridge City Cemetery and Sand Banks Cemetery. It was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2003 for its pioneering role in 19th-century cemetery development.
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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. – More than 3,000 students from across California visited the Presidio of Monterey on May 13 for DLIFLC’s Language Day. Students, educators and other participants were treated to stage performances, classroom displays and ethnic cuisine, highlighting the cultures of the many foreign languages taught here.
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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- The 2014 Korean Hangul Day Award Ceremony for the Yonsei University Writing Contest and the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Korean Video Contest was held inside the Tin Barn Oct.9. This year’s award recipients representing DLIFLC were: Seaman Lexus Porter, Airman 1st Class Daniel Krall, Pfc. Brent Faurie, Airman 1st Class Richard Vanoverloop, Staff Sgt. Darren Cohen, Staff Sgt. Richard Rah, Airman 1st Class Taylor Purvis, Capt. Todd Boese, Capt. Harper Foley, Pfc. Ollice Page and Airman 1st Class Tommaso Carli. DLIFLC has participated for more than a decade in partnership with the Yonsei University Alumni Association of Southern California. The contest is open to all non-native speakers learning Korean and is used to promote the continuing study and development of the foreign language learning of Korean.
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