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I continue to tell stories about new repatriates.
Klim writes: We arrived in Israel at the end of October 2022. The journey took exactly one month. We left Russia on September 23 with the understanding that we would not return but not knowing where we would end up.
We didn't have visas to Israel. Three months before that, we received a rejection under the go-no-go program and were gathering additional documents.
We traveled to Kazakhstan, where we managed to schedule an appointment at the consulate in Tashkent within a week. We spent that week driving across Kazakhstan from north to south, staying in both terrible and luxurious apartments.
We gained a positive emotional charge from the Kazakhs. They are all friendly, welcoming, and ready to help.
We were particularly impressed by Turkistan, Shymkent, and Almaty.
The consular check went well, but it was mentally challenging. It was a moment of truth, and we didn't know where to go if the answer was negative.
We spent two weeks in Tashkent waiting for visas for our four children.
I've never eaten so much pilaf in my entire previous life.
After the journey to Almaty, Kazakhstan looked completely different: instead of steppes and deserts, there were mountains, rivers, forests, and snow.
Almaty captured our hearts, and we will definitely return there.
In Russia, I worked in sales for a foreign corporation. It was a great job with a good salary. But for a repatriate, it's probably one of the worst professions.
After eight months in Israel, I started to adapt a bit.
I worked at a factory for six months, and I realized that if this continues, I will go crazy. So now I'm trying to find my niche.
Dasha found a remote job in a Russian company in her field. She's doing great.
Varya goes to school, and she still doesn't understand what the teachers are saying in class, but she's a trooper and trying very hard.
Vasya started attending her third kindergarten, but the first one in Israel. She likes it there now and goes happily. But soon, she'll have to switch to a municipal one..
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Please join us for a conversation on Arctic Transformation: Understanding Arctic Research and the Vital Role of Science, co-organized by the Senate Arctic Caucus and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
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Senator Angus King (I-ME)
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8:35 am: Opening Remarks by
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9:00am: Session I: Improving Understanding of Arctic Environmental Change and Impact
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Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Mr. Richard Glenn
Executive VP, Lands & Natural Resources, Arctic Slope Regional Cooperation
Mr. George Roe
Research Professor, Alaska Center for Energy and Power, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Dr. Paul Mayewski
Director and Distinguished Professor, Climate Change Institute, University of Maine
Introduced by
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Program Officer and Science Advisor, Office of Arctic and Global Prediction, Office of Naval Research
10:30 am: Session II: Keynote Address: Highlights and New Initiatives from President Obama's Visit to the American Arctic
Featuring
Dr. John Holdren
Chair, Arctic Executive Steering Committee, Director of Office of Science and Technology, The White House
11:00 am: Session III: Arctic Science Gap Analysis: Enhancing U.S. and International Science and Research Collaboration
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Dr. John Farrell
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Dr. Catherine Cahill
Deputy Director, Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration
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Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic, CSIS
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Global Energy Expenditure Data: Launch of the IAEA Doubly-labelled Water International Database at the International Symposium on Understanding the Double Burden of Malnutrition for Effective Interventions held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 11 December 2018
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John Speakman, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Alexia J. Alford, IAEA Nutrition Specialist, Division of Human Health
Jennifer Rexford, Professor, Princeton University, USA and H. Sebastian Seung, Evnin Professor of Neuroscience, Princeton University, USA and Yoram Singer, Professor, Princeton University, USA speaking during the Session: Understanding Neural and Digital Networks with Princeton University at the Annual Meeting 2018 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 25, 2018. Copyright by World Economic Forum / Walter Duerst
Memories of 2008 in slides
Marine camp annual exhibition
"To increase better understanding of the importance of national defence and friendship between military and neighbor communities" as they said so there is annual opening of the camp to the public.
Although there were still restricted areas not open, some part of the campus with various vehicles are interesting enough for photographers to capture rare sights not easily seen otherwise.
No time to write down sentimental words for the frame, but I think this image itself is carrying some messages beyond the humble word of mine. I, too, was once a young boy watching war movies with surreal fantacy. As a grown up, I gradaully abhor the war and hero genre and wish their appearance are restricted in novels and movies only.
Wish our descendents can treat those armored vehicles as an exibition of a fainted past and discard them for ever.
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In 2009 there was an exciting experimental project underway in Dublin and it involved Traffic Lights (actually the control cabinets) and Street Art. The beta stage was a huge success and my understanding was that the programme would be extended to include a large number of locations but this does not appear to have happened.
The Project was seeking to solve an ongoing maintenance issue due to tagging, graffiti and stickering of traffic light boxes and the ongoing need to repaint with associated costs.
A secondary aim was the improved visual amenity and creation of locally referenced talking points.
The solution proposed was that by putting artworks onto the boxes they could remove or alleviate the need for maintenance, whilst improving the public realm experience.
The trial took place in the Markets Area of Dublin. There were 11 suitable traffic light boxes in this area.
There was an open call for expression of interest in painting These 11 boxes with art – (no commercial content) and a defined brief was given.
This Beta Project only looked at artworks on the boxes, and not any forms of commercial work or advertising.
Once submissions had qualified (ie fit the criteria – which all submissions incidentally did) they were voted on by those who had participated and those with a stated interested who were invited to an open meeting.
11 designs were selected from 15 submissions.
Photographs in this collection have been produced by Heather Do and Kathleen Markham at the request of UC Berkeley Anthropology 136k class, for the purposes of exploring the cultural heritage sites of surrounding Cafe Vesuvio and City Lights Bookstore to embed the rich cultural heritage in the region. This collection documents the walking path from Vesuvio Cafe in the North Beach area, with the intent to gain more of a spacial understanding of different heritage sites located in San Francisco. This collection contains photos taken of the Bay Bridge in San Francisco from the corner of Taylor St and Vallejo St (37.79822°N 122.41334°W),and of Alcatraz Island from the corner of Green St and Jones St in North Beach (37.79870°N 122.41558°W),
Photographs in this
collection were captured on Monday April 11, 2011,
between 7:00 AM and 11:00 AM
Pacific Time, under cloudy and overcast
conditions. Photos were
captured with a Canon XSI (CAM23). Lenses used were a 18-55mm and a 70-200mm telephoto A tripod was used for pictures from Alcatraz and Bay Bridge; Otherwise the stabilizer was off and auto focus was left on. The photos were developed in Adobe
Photoshop Lightroom 3.
Description written by Kenneth
Chiu and Kathleen Salmond, follows Alonso C. Addison’s
proposed virtual heritage
metadata format in his chapter "The Vanishing
Virtual" in New
Heritage: New Media and Cultural Heritage, edited by
Kalay, et al., and
published by Routledge in 2007.
The region now modernly
known as North Beach was once infamous as the Barbary Coast District renown for
prominence in prostitution and gambling which emerged from the destitute
society of those bankrupt by the gold rush. Once an actual beach, it was later,
the area developed into a residential and commercial region by the end of the
19th century, but the remnant influence of the aberrant society. During
the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the region was rebuilt largely through the
use of immigrant labor consisting primarily of Italian and Chinese society; in
fact during the great fires, many Italians were credited for helping to contain
the fire by drenching their houses in red wine[1] . The region was known for the large number of immigrants and became the precursors to the Italian district and Chinatown. Vesuvio and City Lights Bookstore is embedded in this region in a semi liminal region between the two communities which emerged as a consequence of the development of this region; in fact it lies adjacent to Broadway St. infamous for the clubs consisting of nudity and inebriety. Although, our sites of interest came in the mid 1900’s the region largely represented a lack of affluence, prompting the collaboration among many society to be largely accepting of the diversity in which this community is composed. No wonder the Beatnik culture which emerged in the 1950’s in North Beach became largely accepted and although the movement was ephemeral, the society and notions of the past are largely preserved.
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Dennis is my boss. And he fits the description - the students and staff respect him. He is the kind of guy you like working for. He is understanding but can put the hammer down when he needs to! He is a big guy, dresses well and doesn't mess around! But, he is also understanding. He was a teacher and understands how things work. He lets the staff do their thing and handle our business in the classroom. And he feels that is where we as a staff can be successful. And to me, that is paramount.
I first contacted Dennis back in the Spring of 2007. I was teaching at Holicong Middle School for Central Bucks School District. I got that job right out of college and life was good. But I just wasn't feeling the middle school vibe even though I enjoyed the staff at Holicong. So I found out that Hatboro-Horsham (HH) was hiring a Technology Education teacher at the High School. I really knew nothing about HH but figured I should inquire. So I called the contact person, who was Mr. Williams. Little did I know, he was the Principal! So I called him and we spoke for a few minutes and he sounded like a great guy and seemed very interested that I was interested in the job. He then gave me Lori Gallagher's name (you will see her soon!) Lori was the department head of the Family Consumer Science, Art and Technology Education department. So I gave her a call and she was great in describing the school, department, etc. Long story short, after a great interview, I got the job.
Leaving Holicong was not easy and honestly was one of the hardest career decisions I have ever made. But I have not regretted that decision and have loved every second of being here at HH. And Dennis is one of those reasons why.
Every school has it issues, hurdles and trying times. In today's education field, times have never been harder. Terrible decisions from the State and National level force schools into a corner in nearly every scenario. We have become a society solely dependent upon test scores. How did your school/student score in this test, in that test, etc. It's been somehow used to determine how good a school is these days. Which is a shame because testing has no real world value in society. Can you imagine coming out of college, going in for an interview and the interviewer going "so, back in the 11th grade, how did you test on your Keystone Science test?" Get out. It's meaningless. The employer will be asking you what type of real world experience you have in your field, what can you contribute to your staff/colleagues , how involved are you in extra-curricular activities, do you belong to any professional organizations, etc. We are forced to teach to the test. Not to the student. And that is a sad part of today's education. The decisions being passed down are short sighted. Tax payers want teachers and schools held accountable. And honestly, there is nothing wrong with that. But when you have to find a way to analyze a teacher/administrator and do it by test scores alone, there is a major flaw there.
Dennis is a great leader and someone who understands the hurdles we face going forward. He is the perfect guy to delegate when he needs to and be hands off when he needs to. You can't ask for much more than that!
បុគ្គលិក ACCB ជួបជាមួយសមាជិក YSEALI ដើម្បីនិយាយអំពីបញ្ហាសំខាន់ ដែលប៉ះពាល់ដល់សត្វព្រៃ និងជីវចំរុះក្នុងប្រទេសកម្ពុជា។
អ្នកចូលរួមសិក្ខាសាលា “YSEALI Generation: EARTH" រួមមានយុវជនយុវនារីអាយុពី 18-25 ឆ្នាំ មកពីប្រទេសប្រុយណេ កម្ពុជា ឥណ្ឌូនេស៊ី ឡាវ ម៉ាឡេស៊ី មីយ៉ាន់ម៉ា ហ្វីលីពីន សិង្ហបុរី ថៃ និង វៀតណាម។
ចំណុចផ្ដោតសំខាន់នៃកម្មវិធីនេះ គឺដើម្បីធ្វើឲ្យមានការយល់ស៊ីជម្រៅទៅ លើបញ្ហាប្រឈម ផ្នែកបរិស្ថាន ដែលតំបន់អាស៊ាន និងតំបន់ដទៃទៀតកំពុងមាន។
The "YSEALI Generation: EARTH" participants visit Angkor Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity (ACCB) at Kbal Spean, Siem Reap.
ACCB staff meet with the YSEALI members to talk about critical issues affecting wildlife and biodiversity in Cambodia.
The U.S. Embassy brings together 72 young Southeast Asian leaders to Siem Reap for the workshop aiming to to foster a deeper understanding of challenges to the environment facing the ASEAN region and beyond.
Participants include young people between the age of 18-25 from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
[U.S. Embassy photo by Un Yarat]
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This photograph has been taken at the Palais de Tokyo, during the exhibition "Soleil Froid". I was (and still I am) curious about this man standing in front of this work of Julio Le Parc. But mostly, I liked how his red trousers were matching with the painting…
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In January 2014, three Australians won the opportunity to travel to a cattle and sheep farm in Tasmania to have their questions answered as part of the Target 100 sustainable farming initiative.
It became the subject of a three-part documentary, The Journey of a Bettertarian. The documentary was funded by Target 100 as an initiative by Australian cattle and sheep farmers to deliver more sustainable farming by 2020.
This 3-minute video takes the viewer on a trip to Bangor organised by chef TV personality Darren Robertson and sustainable food advocate Rebecca Sullivan. They are joined by three inquisitive everyday Australians - Joanna Baker, Brett MacLachlan and Rebecca Stokes - who won a competition to learn first-hand about how their beef and lamb is produced, and have their questions answered.
In this episode, we see the participants in the program enjoying a meal prepared at Bangor by Darren Robertson. All reflect on their time together and discuss sustainable farming practices. There is a general consensus to become betternarians - to become better informed about where our food comes from and that we should eat with understanding.
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Spread of Corona Virus How COVID-19 Spreads ? Current understanding about how the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spreads is largely based on what is known about similar coronaviruses. Person-to-person spread The virus is thought to spread mainly from person-to-person. Between people who are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet) Via respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes. These droplets can land in the mouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly be inhaled into the lungs. Spread from contact with infected surfaces or objects It may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads. When does spread happen? People are thought to be most contagious when they are most symptomatic (the sickest). Some spread might be possible before people show symptoms; there have been reports of this with this new coronavirus, but this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads. How efficiently does the virus spread? How easily a virus spreads from person-to-person can vary. Some viruses are highly contagious (like measles), while other viruses are less so. Another factor is whether the spread continues over multiple generations of people (if spread is sustained). The virus that causes COVID-19 seems to be spreading easily and sustainably in Hubei province and other parts of China. In the United States, spread from person-to-person has occurred only among a few close contacts and has not spread any further to date. ift.tt/3aThMi2 / CC BY-SA (ift.tt/1rWN0uR) If you like our videos please do not forget to like, comment, subscribe to the channel. Also, share it with your friends and family. You may Donate to support us at - ift.tt/2Itif07 ************************** Visit our website at ift.tt/2CeHiyS ************************** Our Facebook Page ift.tt/2Fb2CYn ************************** Our Facebook Group ift.tt/2F0p0Ra ************************** Our Youtube channel page www.youtube.com/channel/UClOfk9gsvf5dKLZXuctxTNA ************************** Follow us on twitter twitter.com/navmedvideos ************************** The medical information on this site is provided as an information resource only and is not to be used or relied on for any diagnostic or treatment purposes. This information is intended for medical education, and does not create any doctor-patient relationship, and should not be used as a substitute for professional diagnosis and treatment.
Closing session of the International Symposium on Understanding the Double Burden of Malnutrition for Effective Interventions held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 13 December 2018
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
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Lawrence Grummer-Strawn
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Director, Division for Asia and the Pacific, Department of Technical Cooperation
Cornelia Loechl, IAEA Section Head, Nutritional and Health-Related Environmental Studies
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Closing session of the International Symposium on Understanding the Double Burden of Malnutrition for Effective Interventions held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 13 December 2018
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Maaike Arts
Lawrence Grummer-Strawn
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Director, Division for Asia and the Pacific, Department of Technical Cooperation
Cornelia Loechl, IAEA Section Head, Nutritional and Health-Related Environmental Studies
Light is the left hand of the God, while sound is His right hand. The practitioner, who gets hold of both these hands, can not be separated from Him even if such a person is bombarded with hand grenades and bombs. These two - light & sound - are obtained by walking within.
International Symposium on Understanding the Double Burden of Malnutrition for Effective Interventions held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 10 December 2018
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Opening Session
Aldo Malavasi, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Clemens M. Auer, Special Envoy for Health for the Federal Ministry for Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection
France Beginn, UNICEF
Laurance Grummer-Strawn, World Health Organization
May Abdel-Wahab, IAEA Director, Division of Human Health
Cornelia Loechl, IAEA Section Head, Nutritional and Health-Related Environmental Studies
I had so much fun decorating this house for an amazing and understanding client. Christmas came early because this house was a gift
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These three children certainly aren't errors, but they'll likely make their share of them on their road to wisdom. Let's hope they learn from those errors, and that wisdom and understanding come to them as painlessly as possible.
The kids are playing on the Houdini sculpture in the Houdini square in downtown Appleton during a Saturday farmers' market (early in his life Houdini lived in Appleton). The sculpture has since disappeared. How's that for a trick?
It is nearly ten years since I started the Kent church project, and in that time have visited 292 churches, give or take, and seen and photographed inside most of them. And in that time, I have gone from knowing nothing about churches to having a basic understanding, meaning I need to revisit those I visited early on to record the features I missed.
Lenham is a large market village, and seems to be in rude health, as finding a parking space on a weekday morning was difficult, but it was nearing lunchtime, and the village is blessed with two fine pubs on the village square, and also has a new fish restaurant which was already producing fine aromas.
St Mary stands a little of the square, its tower dominating the view.
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A village centre setting where the church is approached from the north. This side shows ragstone and flint construction. Although the building contains work of earlier periods it is on the whole a fourteenth-century structure. The memorable feature is the size of the internal door which fills the tower arch - although it is not as old as it at first appears. On the south wall of the nave is a faded mural of St Michael. The pulpit is Elizabethan with a slightly later tester that carries the date 1622. Next to the pulpit is a good window in the style of Kempe, signed in the inscription with the `greyhound` symbol of H.W. Bryans who set up his own studio in competition. The other glass is mid-nineteenth century and of poor quality. The lectern, of wood, with nicely carved feet, may be as early as the fourteenth century, and has a crude and rural feel about it. The medieval stalls, which are returned along the west side of the chancel arch, are much restored. On the north wall of the chancel is an extremely strange monument which shows a fourteenth-century priest lying obliquely in two halves! The Royal Arms over the north door date from the reign of Queen Anne.
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LENHAM.
NORTHWARD from Boughton Malherb, close at the foot of the chalk-hills, lies Lenham, written in the book of Domesday, Lerham and Lertham, no doubt corruptly for Leanham, by which name it is called in most of the antient charters and deeds, as well before as since that time. It takes its name from the stream which rises in it, and ham, which signifies a town or village.
The western part of this parish is in the lath of Aylesford, hundred of Eyhorne, and the western division of this county, that is all of it which lies westward of a line drawn from the centre of Chilston-house, northward to the east end of the church, and thence to Warren-street, on the summit of the chalk hills.
The residue of it, including that part of it called East Lenham, is in the lath of Shipway, and hundred of Calehill, and the eastern division of the county.
THE PARISH of Lenham is of large extent, being upwards of five miles in length from east to west, and four in breadth from north to south, where it encompasses the whole width of the valley from the chalk to the quarry hills. However healthy it may be it is far from being a pleasant situation, owing to its untoward soil, which towards the south and west is mostly a deep sand; near the foot of the chalk hills a cludgy chalk mixed with flints, the whole a poor unfertile country, the fields of which are in general large, having but few trees round them, and those of a stunted unthriving aspect; above these hills northward is Downe-court and Warren-street, beyond which the parish extends more than a mile, as far as Ashden and Syndal, in the valley between Hollingborne and Doddington, a poor country and a flinty barren soil.
The town of Lenham stands in the valley between the quarry and chalk hills, which is here about two miles wide, rather nearer the latter, in a damp and moist situation, owing to the springs which rise near it, of which further mention will be made hereafter. It is rather a dull and unfrequented place, and of but little traffic, in short I cannot give a better description of it than in the words of the inhabitants themselves, who, on travellers passing through it, and enquiring if it is Lenham, in general make answer, "Ah, Sir, poor Lenham."
The church stands at the south end of it, and being westward of the line which separates the two divisions of the county, the town itself, as well as the parish, is esteemed to belong to West Kent, and all the parish business is transacted at the Maidstone sessions accordingly; the market, which was granted to the abbot of St. Augustine's, as has been mentioned before, to be held within his manor here, has been discontinued many years, but in 1757 there was an attempt made to revive it for the buying and selling of corn, and other such commodities, and it was ordered by the lord of the manor to be held on a Friday weekly, but I am informed it has been but little resorted to. The fair, which has been mentioned as having been granted likewise to the abbot, is now held yearly by the alteration of the stile on June 6, for horses and cattle, and there is another fair held on October 23, for the like purpose. A market is likewise held at Sandway, in this parish, for bullocks, upon every Tuesday after Allhallows-day, Nov. I, until Christmas.
Near the foot of the chalk hills lie the three estates of Shelve, on the opposite or southern part of the parish, where the soil is mostly a barren sand, there are several small heaths or fostalls; through this part of the parish the high road from Ashford runs over Lenham, formerly called Royton heath, and by Chilston park pales and Sandway, over Bigon-heath, towards Leeds castle and Maidstone; southward of this heath the parish extends westward, taking within its bounds the estate of Ham, the house of which has been rebuilt in a handsome manner within these few years, and thence southward to Runham-place, Platt-heath, and Leverton-street, at the boundary of it, near the quarry hills, where it joins to Bought on Malherb.
The western and south-east parts of this parish are watered by two several streams, for at the eastern extremity of the town of Lenham, at Streetwell, there rises a spring, which is accounted the head of the river Stour, which flowing from thence southward by Royton-chapel, at about a mile distance from its rise, receives into its stream two other small ones from the north-west, which rise in the grounds at Chilston, at a small distance from each other, and then flowing in one stream through the hamlet of Water-street south-eastward, it turns a mill in its way to Little Chart, and so goes on in its way to Ashford and Canterbury.
A head of one of the branches of the river Medway likewise rises at Ewell, adjoining to Bigon-heath, in the western part of this parish, whence it is frequently called the river Len; from hence this stream directs its course first westward, then northward by Runham, and so on to Holme mill in Harrietsham, in its way towards Leeds-castle and the main river at Maidstone.
LENHAM has been supposed by several of our learned antiquaries, among whom are Camden, Lambarde, and Gale, to have been the Roman station, mentioned in the 2d iler of Antonine, by the name of Durolevum, corruptly, as they say, for Durolenum, and the latter, in the British language, signifying the water Lenum, induced them, together with the situation, to conjecture this place to have been that station.
And Camden is further confirmed in this opinion, from this place being situated on a circular way of the Romans, which formerly, as Higden of Chester affirms, went from Dover through the middle of Kent. (fn. 1)
The aqua Lena, or the spring at Streetwell here, so, called perhaps from the strata of the Romans, which led hither, is thought to have been meant by the water Lenum, and that this, might give name to this station; and indeed Roman remains have been from time to time discovered from Keston, by Comb Bank, Stone-street, Oldberry camp, Ofham, Barming, Maidstone, Boxley, &c. in a continued and almost strait line, to within a few miles of this place and Charing.
¶But there having never been any Roman antiquities found at Lenham, induced Mr. Somner and others to look elsewhere for this station. That learned antiquarian, as well as Mr. Burton and Dr. Thorpe, have fixed it at or near Newington, in the great road from Rochester to Canterbury, near which great quantities of urns, and other relics of Roman antiquity, have been dug up.
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