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Sax Ecosse rehearse Eddie McGuire's new piece "Hidden Dialects" at Crear, May 12, 2009. Photo: Eddie McGuire
Sudbury (/ˈsʌdbəri/, Suffolk dialect: /ˈsʌbri/) is a small market town in the English county of Suffolk. It is located on the River Stour near the Essex border, and is 60 miles (97 km) north-east of London. At the 2011 census, the town has a population of 13,063, rising to 21,971 including the adjoining parish of Great Cornard. It is the largest town of Babergh district council, the local government district, and is represented in the UK Parliament as part of the South Suffolk constituency.
Evidence of Sudbury as a settlement originates from the end of the 8th century during the Anglo-Saxon era, and its market was established in the early 11th century. Its textile industries prospered during the Late Middle Ages; the wealth of which funded many of its buildings and churches. The town became notable for its art in the 18th century, being the birthplace of Thomas Gainsborough, whose landscapes offered inspiration to John Constable, another Suffolk painter of the surrounding Stour Valley area. The 19th century saw the arrival of the railway with the opening of a station on the historic Stour Valley Railway, and Sudbury railway station forms the current terminus of the Gainsborough Line. During World War II, US Army Airforce bombers operated from RAF Sudbury.
Today, Sudbury retains its status as a market town with a twice-weekly market in the town centre in front of the redundant St Peter's Church, which is now a local community point for events such as concerts and exhibitions. In sport, the town has a semi-professional football club, A.F.C. Sudbury, which competes at the seventh level of the football pyramid.
Early history[edit]
Sudbury’s history dates back into the age of the Saxons.[2] The town’s earliest mention is in 799 AD, when Aelfhun, Bishop of Dunwich, died in the town.[3] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the town as Suthberie ("south-borough"), presumed to distinguish it from Norwich or Bury St Edmunds, to the north.[2] The town is also mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, as a market town where the local people came to barter their goods.[3] The market was established in 1009.[4]
A community of Dominicans arrived in the mid-13th century and gradually extended the size of their priory, which was one of three Dominican priories in the county of Suffolk.[5] Sudbury was one of the first towns in which Edward III settled the Flemings,[2] allowing the weaving and silk industries to prosper for centuries during the Late Middle Ages. As the main town in the area, Sudbury prospered too, and many great houses and churches were built, giving the town a major historical legacy. The Woolsack in the House of Lords was originally stuffed with wool from the Sudbury area, a sign of both the importance of the wool industry and of the wealth of the donors.
One citizen of Sudbury, Archbishop Simon Sudbury showed that not even the Tower of London guarantees safety. On 14 June 1381 guards opened the Tower’s doors and allowed a party of rebellious peasants to enter. Sudbury, inventor of the poll tax, was dragged to Tower Hill and beheaded.[6] His body was afterwards buried in Canterbury Cathedral, but his skull is kept in St. Gregory’s with St. Peter’s Church,[7] one of the three medieval churches in Sudbury. Simon's concerns for his native town are reflected in the founding of St Leonard's Hospital in 1372, a place of respite, towards Long Melford, for lepers.[8] For the College of St Gregory, which he founded in 1375 to support eight priests, he used his father's former house and an adjoining plot.[9]
From the 16th to 18th century the weaving industry was less consistently profitable and Sudbury experienced periods of varying prosperity.[10] By means of the borough court, the mayor and corporation directed the affairs of the town. They built a house of correction (1624) for 'rogues, vagabonds and sturdy beggars' and tried to finance the reconstruction of Ballingdon Bridge, which disappeared during a storm on 4 September 1594. Among theatrical companies they paid to visit Sudbury were Lord Strange's Men (1592) and the King's Men (1610). Minor infringements, such as not attending church, were punished by fines, for worse offenders there was a stocks or a whipping. During the Civil War a 12-strong band of watchmen was created to prevent the town's enemies, presumed to be Royalists, burning it down.[11]
Sudbury and the surrounding area, like much of East Anglia, was a hotbed of Puritan sentiment during much of the 17th century. Sudbury was among the town's called "notorious wasps' nests of dissent."[12] During the decade of the 1630s, many families departed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony as part of the wave of emigration that occurred during the Great Migration.
By the 18th century the fees charged to become a freeman, with voting rights, were exorbitant and the borough of Sudbury, along with 177 other English towns, was reformed by a Municipal Reform Act (1835).
Statue of Thomas Gainsborough on Market Hill
During the 18th century Sudbury became famous for its local artists. John Constable painted in the area, especially the River Stour. Painter Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury in 1727, and was educated at Sudbury Grammar School.[13] His birthplace, now named Gainsborough's House, is a museum to his work and is open to the public. It houses many valuable pictures and some of his family possessions. A statue of Gainsborough was unveiled in the town centre outside St Peter’s Church on Market Hill in 1913.[3]
Victorian times to present day[edit]
The 1832 Reform Act saw the villages of Ballingdon and Brundon appended to the town.[14] In the 1841 general election Sudbury became the first place in the UK to elect a member of an ethnic minority to parliament, with David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre, the son of an Indian queen, winning the seat. However, he was not allowed to take his place in parliament as he was subsequently declared insane.[15]
Sudbury's Catholic Church, Our Lady Immaculate and St. John the Evangelist, was designed by Leonard Stokes and erected in 1893. The shrine of Our Lady of Sudbury sits within its nave.[16]
During the Second World War an American squadron of B-24 Liberator bombers of the 834th Squadron (H), 486th Bomb Group (H), 8th Air Force was based at RAF Sudbury. This squadron performed many important bombing and photographic missions during the war, but is perhaps best known as the "Zodiac Squadron", as its bombers were decorated with colourful images of the twelve signs of the zodiac painted by a professional artist named Phil Brinkman,[17] who was taken into the squadron by its commander, Capt. Howell, specifically for the purpose of painting the bombers. Now most of the airfield buildings have been demolished, including the control tower. Sections of perimeter track, aircraft hard stand areas, and two narrow crossing lengths of former runways, provide footpaths between Chilton, Newmans Green and Great Waldingfield.
The Sudbury Society was formed in 1973 after a successful campaign to save the town's corn exchange from developers. However, in protecting its ancient centre the town has not shut itself off from modern development. As the town has expanded (to a population in 2005 of 12,080) modern retail and industrial developments have been added on sites close to the centre and on the eastern edge at Chilton. The 18th and 19th century houses near the town centre have been added to by modern developments. wikipedia
'Mylecharaine', a three act play in Anglo-Manx dialect by Cushag. It was first published by S. K. Broadbend in Douglas, Isle of Man, in 1915.
As for all three of her 'Peel Plays' published in 1908, Cushag has taken her theme from Manx folk traditions.
'Mylecharaine' was one of the most popular and well-known Manx folk songs. Although widely known, it was first collected by A. W. Moore in his 1896 book, 'Manx Ballads and Music', where it was produced in both the Manx original and in an English translation. (A less antiquainted translation is available in Robert Corteen Carswell's excellent, 'Manannan's Cloak: An Anthology of Manx Literature').
(The tune for this song was, interestingly, the starting place for the Manx National Anthem, which was written W. H. Gill and first performed in 1907).
The song is a call response between a daughter and her father, named Mylecharaine (a common Manx surname). It revolves around Mylecharaine's miserly ways, despite having a store of wealth, which he got from "in the Curragh, deep, deep enough". It carries the refrain after every line, "My-lomarcan daag oo mee" / "Alone you left me".
Cushag takes on this rather dark theme and spins a nice narrative around it. She interestingly manages to get a happy ending out of it, by placing the song half-way through, when all seems lost, before it is all regained in the final Act.
The play has some wonderful Manx characterisations - something that Cushag is a master of - and some very nice exchanges in a pleasing Manx dialect. However, the play overall is disappointingly executed, particularly in the final Act (and, startingly, in the sleep-talking scene of Act II, which couldn't possibly work on stage today).
Anyone looking to get a taste of Manx theatre would be well advised to come to Cushag, but a better impression might be made by looking first at her 'Peel Plays', perhaps in particular, 'Lazy Wife'.
Cushag's three 'Peel Plays' can be found online here:
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/pp1908/index.htm
The original poem of Mylecharaine, as it appears in A. W. Moore is online here:
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/mb1896/p052.htm
The tune for Mylecharaine can be fonud here:
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/mb1896/p253.htm
Cushag's Wikipedia page is here:
Luino ( Lüìn in Varese dialect ), called Luvino until 1889, is an Italian municipality of 14,185 inhabitants in the province of Varese in Lombardy . The city, which overlooks the eastern shore of Lake Maggiore or Verbano, also nicknamed "Costa Fiorita", is best known for hosting a well-known market every Wednesday, which involves the entire city center and is a tourist attraction.
It is an important center for tourism and the economy of the upper Varese area. It borders Switzerland to the east , via the Fornasette pass.
Physical geography
Territory
The territory of the municipality is approximately 220 meters above sea level . It is about 23 km from Varese , the capital of the province of the same name to which the municipality belongs.
Climate
The climate of Luino, like that of the entire northern basin of Lake Maggiore , is extremely rainy. The average annual rainfall is between 1800 and 2500 mm in the municipal area. These precipitation values are approximately double those recorded in the city of Milan and triple the averages of the other locations in the Po Valley . Solar radiation is one of the lowest in Italy, with an average of just 4736 MJ/m 2 .
History
Formerly an ancient medieval village of Roman origin, (3rd century necropolises have been found where the railway station is now located, which in the past had great importance: before the birth of the Como-Chiasso axis, it was, in fact, an obligatory passage for the Gotthard ). Luino is mentioned for the first time in official documentation dating back to 1169 with the name of Luvino , which derives from the proper name Luvinum and remained until the royal decree of 27 January 1889, No. 5932, made the current name official .
It is a town located a few kilometers from the Swiss border, on the pre-Alpine slopes surrounding Lake Maggiore . Ernest Hemingway writes in A Farewell to Arms :
«I saw a wedge-shaped gap in the mountains on the other bank and thought it must be Luino»
During the Middle Ages it was the subject of contention between powerful Milanese and Como families, yet still managed to defend its freedom and municipal autonomy. It was occupied in 1512 by the Swiss, but was then reconquered again by the Sforza in 1515. Charles V assigned it the market right in 1541 , alternating with that of Maccagno which until then had enjoyed exclusivity; the concession was confirmed in 1786 and saw Luino winning over Laveno who aspired to obtain the same prerogative. The market is currently held, and has been for many years, on Wednesday of each week. In 1821 the City Council was elected for the first time .
In 1848 the Piedmontese patriots landed here to make the town rise up against foreign occupation and Garibaldi fought against the Austrians in Luina. In 1867, the city dedicated its first Italian monument to the Nice general, when he was, among other things, still alive.
In 1882 the international railway line was inaugurated which connected Luino to Bellinzona , capital of the Canton of Ticino . The local station therefore became an international transit point, especially for goods coming down from Central Europe , through the San Gottardo railway tunnel , to head to the port of Genoa . The improvement of connections (although never fully implemented in the face of the many projects formulated) promoted, in the second half of the nineteenth century, a lively and prolific industrialization in the Luinese area.
Symbols
The coat of arms and the banner were granted by decree of the President of the Republic of 27 April 1970.
«D'azzurro, at the silver castle , on a green terrace, crenellated in the Guelph style, damaged by a swan also in silver, closed in black, towered with two windowed pieces of the field: all lowered to a gold cape , loaded with a black eagle, crowned with the same. Exterior ornaments from the city.
Flag
«Two stripes, one light blue, the other gold: the latter up for auction.
Monuments and places of interest
Religious architecture
Provost Church of St. Peter and Paul
Church of St. Peter
Church of San Giuseppe , there is a late Baroque organ from 1683, which underwent restoration by Vincenzo Mascioni and sons in the early twentieth century.
Sanctuary of the Madonna del Carmine , there is an organ from 1857 by Francesco Camisi, in neoclassical style
Church of Santa Caterina (in Colmegna)
Church of Santa Maria Assunta (in Voldomino)
Church of San Biagio (in Voldomino)
Church of Our Lady of Lourdes (in Creva)
Church of S. Maria Immacolata Motte
BVA Addolorata Church Pianazzo
BVCarmelo Longhirolo Church
BVRosario Church Roggiolo
Other places of interest
Palazzo Verbania , an Art Nouveau building from the early 1900s overlooking the lake, recently reopened after a few years of restoration.
Palazzo Crivelli Serbelloni, seat of the town hall, built in 1775 by the architect Carlo Felice Soave , remained unfinished.
Villa Hussy
Statue of Garibaldi, the work of the sculptor Alessandro Puttinati : in addition to being the first to have been dedicated to him in Italy, it was erected in 1867 when the hero of two worlds was still alive.
In Luino there is the 3V nature trail.
Foreign ethnic groups and minorities
According to ISTAT data as of 31 December 2010, the resident foreign population was 1,039 people.
The most represented nationalities based on their percentage of the total resident population were:
Morocco 179 - 17.23%
Albania 124 - 11.93%
Romania 102 - 9.82%
Switzerland 85 - 8.18%
Germany 84 - 8.08%
Ukraine 75 - 7.22%
Culture
Education
" Vittorio Sereni " Scientific High School in Luino
ISIS City of Luino "Carlo Volontè"
Bernardino Luini State Comprehensive Institute, lower secondary school
Maria Ausiliatrice Parochial Institute, nursery, nursery school, primary school, lower secondary school
Museums
Verbano Railway Museum
Palazzo Verbania, home to temporary exhibitions and archives dedicated to Piero Chiara and Vittorio Sereni .
Luino is an archaeological area. In fact, finds from the Bronze Age have been found here.
Cinema
Luino is the city where Alberto Lattuada filmed Come and have coffee... with us , and Marco Vicario filmed some scenes from The Astrakhan Coat , films based on two novels by Piero Chiara , a writer born in Luino.
In the summer of 2013 Luino was the main location of the film Il pretore directed by Giulio Base. The cast includes Francesco Pannofino , Sarah Maestri (from Luina), Eliana Miglio (also from Luino), Mattia Zaccaro Garau , Max Cavallari and Debora Caprioglio . The magistrate's office, in particular, was set up in the Town Hall. A peculiarity of the film was the massive involvement of the citizens: many people from Luino were in fact recruited as extras in the film released in 2014. The first screening of the film was made in Rome on 2 April 2014 while the following day the film was screened for first time at the Cinema Sociale of Luino with the presence of the cast and director.
Cross-border
The proximity to the Italian-Swiss border means that Luino is strongly affected by cross-border travel, that is, by the presence of Italian workers who travel to Switzerland every day for work.
Industry
Between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, Luino was a highly industrialized city, especially in the textile sector, facilitated by the great availability of water. There were many entrepreneurs, both Italian and Swiss, who chose to found factories and factories in the Luino area.
Towards the end of the 20th century the industry entered a crisis: the industrial areas were mostly abandoned and their redevelopment process began in the third millennium.
Finance
The industrial success was also at the basis of the birth, in 1883 , of the Banca Popolare di Luino (which became Banca Popolare di Luino e di Varese in 1941 ), which became one of the most powerful and branched credit institutions in north-western Lombardy. "La Luino", as it was also known, was taken over by Banca Popolare Commercio e Industria in 1996 and in 2003 it ceased to exist as an autonomous entity; the sign definitively disappeared in 2007 to make room for UBI Banca .
Services
As regards the sector of public and private services, Luino is the main point of reference for the surrounding valleys (station, banks, hospital, municipality, revenue agency, etc.)
Tourism
The lakeside location makes Luino a popular tourist destination, with particularly strong flows from Switzerland and the German-speaking area in general. Given the limited capacity of accommodation facilities, tourism is essentially entrusted to the spontaneous market of second homes.
Infrastructure and transport
Roads
The main road routes of Luino are the state road 394 of Verbano Orientale , the state road 344 towards Porto Ceresio-Luino and the provincial road 69 of Santa Caterina.
Railways
The Luino station , located on the Novara–Pino line , functions as a border stop between Italy and Switzerland : on its grounds the voltage change of the overhead contact line takes place (from the Italian 3 kV DC to the Swiss 15 kV AC) and is equipped with customs offices . Regional connections operated by Trenord operate there as part of the service contract stipulated with the Lombardy Region , as well as international suburban trains operated by TILO on Italian-Swiss routes.
The Colmegna station also falls within the municipal territory , serving the hamlet of the same name .
In the past Luino represented the northwestern terminus of the narrow gauge railways for Ponte Tresa and Varese , which stopped at the stations of Luino Lago , located near the pier, and Luino Scalo .
Lake transport
The Luino pier connects many locations with boats from the Navigazione Lago Maggiore company, including on the Piedmont side of Lake Maggiore. Direct connections are more frequent in the period March-October, and lead to the towns of Cannero Riviera , Cannobio , Locarno and Stresa .
Urban mobility
The city has a system of urban, interurban and international buses with neighboring Switzerland. Urban and interurban bus services are managed by the company Autolinee Varesine Srl on behalf of the CTPI (Consorzio Trasporti Pubblici dell'Insubria)
Administration
Luino obtained the title of city in 1969, following a decree from the President of the Republic. From 1928 to 1948, Germignaga was also part of the territory of the municipality, following the municipal territorial restructuring carried out in the fascist period , as already in the Napoleonic era from 1809 to 1815. In 1955 Luino absorbed the hamlet of Colmegna (which in the eighteenth century constituted the municipality of Colmegna with Casneda) from the municipality of Maccagno and in 1928 the autonomous municipalities of Brezzo di Bedero (which later regained its autonomy) and Voldomino (already annexed in the Napoleonic era). As regards the political orientation of the municipal administration, in the so-called First Italian Republic Luino was essentially governed by centrist councils [14] , whose last exponent was the liberal Pietro Astini, in office between 1993 and 1995 and subsequently lapsed of the resignation of the majority of municipal councilors. The so-called Second Republic , which de facto began with the 1996 elections , saw various civic lists alternate in the municipality, more or less all characterized by rather clear links with political parties: a mandate with a centre-left council was followed in 2000 by the beginning of the hegemony of the centre-right , with the mayors Gianercole Mentasti and Andrea Pellicini re-elected for two consecutive terms each [15] . The center-left then managed to regain the municipality in 2020 , when Enrico Bianchi's civic list overtook the candidates of the outgoing administration, who overall had the majority in the vote count, but were penalized for having presented themselves (following internal struggles) divided into two formations
Twinning
Flag of France Sanary-sur-Mer , since 2001
Other administrative information
The municipality is the seat of the Valli del Verbano mountain community (previously it was the seat of the Valli del Luinese mountain community) and is part of the Regio Insubrica working community, a cross-border cooperation body that federates some provinces of Lombardy and Piedmont and the Swiss Canton of Ticino .
Sports
Pallacanestro Virtus Luino represents the city in basketball, participating in the regional Serie C Silver championship .
The Luino football club , which played some third series seasons, is based in the municipality.
ShutterFly Overseas Outing - Indonesia 2010 (Day 02)
Tangkuban Perahu, or Tangkuban Parahu in local Sundanese dialect, is an active volcano 30 km north of the city of Bandung, the provincial capital of West Java, Indonesia. It is a popular tourist attraction where tourists can hike or ride to the edge of the crater to view the hot water springs upclose, and buy eggs cooked on its hot surface. This stratovolcano is on the island of Java and last erupted in 1983.
According to the local legend of the mountain, the name translates roughly to "upturning of (a) boat" or "upturned boat" in Sundanese, referring to the local legend of its creation. The story tells of "Dayang Sumbi", a beauty who lived in West Java. She cast away her son "Sangkuriang" for disobedience, and in her sadness was granted the power of eternal youth by the gods. After many years in exile, Sangkuriang decided to return to his home, long after the two had forgotten and failed to recognize each other. Sangkuriang fell in love with Dayang Sumbi and planned to marry her, only for Dayang Sumbi to recognize his birthmark just as he was about to go hunting. In order to prevent the marriage from taking place, Dayang Sumbi asked Sangkuriang to build a dam on the river Citarum and to build a large boat to cross the river, both before the sunrise. Sangkuriang meditated and summoned mythical ogre-like creatures -buta hejo or green giant(s)- to do his bidding. Dayang Sumbi saw that the tasks were almost completed and called on her workers to spread red silk cloths east of the city, to give the impression of impending sunrise. Sangkuriang was fooled, and upon believing that he had failed, kicked the dam and the unfinished boat, resulting in severe flooding and the creation of Tangkuban perahu from the hull of the boat.
El Manneken Pis (en dialecto bruselense Menneke Pis, ‘niño que orina’) es una estatua de bronce de unos cincuenta centímetros situada en el centro histórico de Bruselas (Bélgica) que representa a un niño pequeño desnudo orinando dentro del cuenco de la fuente. Junto con el Atomium y la Grand Place es uno de los símbolos de la ciudad y una de sus principales atracciones turísticas, simbolizando el espíritu independiente de sus habitantes.
ShutterFly Overseas Outing - Indonesia 2010 (Day 02)
Tangkuban Perahu, or Tangkuban Parahu in local Sundanese dialect, is an active volcano 30 km north of the city of Bandung, the provincial capital of West Java, Indonesia. It is a popular tourist attraction where tourists can hike or ride to the edge of the crater to view the hot water springs upclose, and buy eggs cooked on its hot surface. This stratovolcano is on the island of Java and last erupted in 1983.
According to the local legend of the mountain, the name translates roughly to "upturning of (a) boat" or "upturned boat" in Sundanese, referring to the local legend of its creation. The story tells of "Dayang Sumbi", a beauty who lived in West Java. She cast away her son "Sangkuriang" for disobedience, and in her sadness was granted the power of eternal youth by the gods. After many years in exile, Sangkuriang decided to return to his home, long after the two had forgotten and failed to recognize each other. Sangkuriang fell in love with Dayang Sumbi and planned to marry her, only for Dayang Sumbi to recognize his birthmark just as he was about to go hunting. In order to prevent the marriage from taking place, Dayang Sumbi asked Sangkuriang to build a dam on the river Citarum and to build a large boat to cross the river, both before the sunrise. Sangkuriang meditated and summoned mythical ogre-like creatures -buta hejo or green giant(s)- to do his bidding. Dayang Sumbi saw that the tasks were almost completed and called on her workers to spread red silk cloths east of the city, to give the impression of impending sunrise. Sangkuriang was fooled, and upon believing that he had failed, kicked the dam and the unfinished boat, resulting in severe flooding and the creation of Tangkuban perahu from the hull of the boat.
The Michael Players RBV perform a Manx Dialect play: Christopher Shimmin's 'The Charm'.
The cast includes:
Rebecca Trainor; Simon Clarke; Nicola Curphey; and Roy Kennaugh.
This play was written by Christopher Shimmin in 1912 in collaboration with Sophia Morrison.
This 2017 performance was presented in the Centenary Centre in Peel, the location of the play's premiere over 100 years earlier.
This photograph was taken by Jiri Podobsky.
This picture comes from the "Manks Concert" held in the Centenary Hall, Peel, to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Sophia Morrison.
The event was organised by Mannin branches of the Celtic Congress, the Celtic League, and Mec Vannin.
Culture Vannin exists to promote and support all aspects of culture in the Isle of Man.
'Mylecharaine', a three act play in Anglo-Manx dialect by Cushag. It was first published by S. K. Broadbend in Douglas, Isle of Man, in 1915.
As for all three of her 'Peel Plays' published in 1908, Cushag has taken her theme from Manx folk traditions.
'Mylecharaine' was one of the most popular and well-known Manx folk songs. Although widely known, it was first collected by A. W. Moore in his 1896 book, 'Manx Ballads and Music', where it was produced in both the Manx original and in an English translation. (A less antiquainted translation is available in Robert Corteen Carswell's excellent, 'Manannan's Cloak: An Anthology of Manx Literature').
(The tune for this song was, interestingly, the starting place for the Manx National Anthem, which was written W. H. Gill and first performed in 1907).
The song is a call response between a daughter and her father, named Mylecharaine (a common Manx surname). It revolves around Mylecharaine's miserly ways, despite having a store of wealth, which he got from "in the Curragh, deep, deep enough". It carries the refrain after every line, "My-lomarcan daag oo mee" / "Alone you left me".
Cushag takes on this rather dark theme and spins a nice narrative around it. She interestingly manages to get a happy ending out of it, by placing the song half-way through, when all seems lost, before it is all regained in the final Act.
The play has some wonderful Manx characterisations - something that Cushag is a master of - and some very nice exchanges in a pleasing Manx dialect. However, the play overall is disappointingly executed, particularly in the final Act (and, startingly, in the sleep-talking scene of Act II, which couldn't possibly work on stage today).
Anyone looking to get a taste of Manx theatre would be well advised to come to Cushag, but a better impression might be made by looking first at her 'Peel Plays', perhaps in particular, 'Lazy Wife'.
Cushag's three 'Peel Plays' can be found online here:
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/pp1908/index.htm
The original poem of Mylecharaine, as it appears in A. W. Moore is online here:
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/mb1896/p052.htm
The tune for Mylecharaine can be fonud here:
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/mb1896/p253.htm
Cushag's Wikipedia page is here:
Triple J Unearthed Party, Live @ Fowlers. 05/10/2011 featuring Triple J's Dj's Zan Rowe, Dom Alessio & Bands : Dialect & Despair, Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!, The Salvadors.
Wild Dolphins 'Doric Dialect' dolphin by Gabrielle Reith at Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen
'Mylecharaine', a three act play in Anglo-Manx dialect by Cushag. It was first published by S. K. Broadbend in Douglas, Isle of Man, in 1915.
As for all three of her 'Peel Plays' published in 1908, Cushag has taken her theme from Manx folk traditions.
'Mylecharaine' was one of the most popular and well-known Manx folk songs. Although widely known, it was first collected by A. W. Moore in his 1896 book, 'Manx Ballads and Music', where it was produced in both the Manx original and in an English translation. (A less antiquainted translation is available in Robert Corteen Carswell's excellent, 'Manannan's Cloak: An Anthology of Manx Literature').
(The tune for this song was, interestingly, the starting place for the Manx National Anthem, which was written W. H. Gill and first performed in 1907).
The song is a call response between a daughter and her father, named Mylecharaine (a common Manx surname). It revolves around Mylecharaine's miserly ways, despite having a store of wealth, which he got from "in the Curragh, deep, deep enough". It carries the refrain after every line, "My-lomarcan daag oo mee" / "Alone you left me".
Cushag takes on this rather dark theme and spins a nice narrative around it. She interestingly manages to get a happy ending out of it, by placing the song half-way through, when all seems lost, before it is all regained in the final Act.
The play has some wonderful Manx characterisations - something that Cushag is a master of - and some very nice exchanges in a pleasing Manx dialect. However, the play overall is disappointingly executed, particularly in the final Act (and, startingly, in the sleep-talking scene of Act II, which couldn't possibly work on stage today).
Anyone looking to get a taste of Manx theatre would be well advised to come to Cushag, but a better impression might be made by looking first at her 'Peel Plays', perhaps in particular, 'Lazy Wife'.
Cushag's three 'Peel Plays' can be found online here:
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/pp1908/index.htm
The original poem of Mylecharaine, as it appears in A. W. Moore is online here:
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/mb1896/p052.htm
The tune for Mylecharaine can be fonud here:
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/mb1896/p253.htm
Cushag's Wikipedia page is here:
The ordainment of young boys or the "Poi Sang Long Ceremony" as it is called in Northern Tai dialect, is held for boys who enter the priesthood at a very young age. It is believed that parents who ordain their own sons as novices will obtain 8 aeons of merit, If they arrange an ordainment for other people's sons, they will receive only 4 aeons of merit. These parents are referred to as "Phor Sang & Mae Sang" (fathers and mothers of ordained children).
The ordainment of a novice is a very important event for the Tais. They believe that children are innocent and pure as a clear glass ball. When they become novices, they emerge even cleaner. Hence the reason why they call the ceremony "the ordainment of an innocent child". (or as crystal sons - see other pictures in this series).
The Poi Sang Long Procession
The procession is lead by a horse assuming as a medium of Chao Phor Kor Mue Lek (The saint with the iron fists), the guardian of Mae Hong Son Province. The procession is trailed by groups of dances. The bands play Burmese music and sound their percussion cymbals as a signal for the audience waiting along the roads.
A son who becomes a novice or a monk is, in popular belief, a mysterious agent for helping save his parents from hell when they die. A novice will be able to help his mother from such an unhappy state in the next life, and a monk will do so for his father. Thus parents are desirous of having at least one of their sons become a novice, or better still a monk.
Orkney Fulmars
The fulmar is known as a mallimack or malli in Orkney dialect. Its common names are the Northern fulmar, fulmar petrel or Arctic fulmar and its proper name is Fulmarus glacialis. Orkney is a paradise for seeing seabirds but don’t get too close to these relatives of the albatross. They repel predators by regurgitating foul oil from their stomachs and can accurately squirt you from three feet to defend their nests. The substance is also used to feed chicks. Fulmar oil was used to light lamps in times past in the Hebridean island of St Kilda and even to pay rent to the laird. Fulmars only arrived in Orkney a century or so ago but there are now 91,000 pairs here.
The fulmar can be seen on cliff ledges across Orkney with Marwick Head, near Birsay and The Noup on Westray being good spots. Half of all the pairs can be found on the cliffs in Hoy and you'll see them if you take the walk to the Old Man. The bird looks gull-like but has tubular nostrils and grey wings which it glides with stiffly and flies with short beats. The head and underparts are white, the back, wings and tail grey. Its span is 45-50cm and wingspan 102-112cm. Pairs are monogamous and return to the same nest site each year. The fulmar feeds on plankton and discarded offal from fishing boats. They only lay one egg but can live for up to 40 years.
Since the 1950s a research project into fulmar breeding has been carried out on the uninhabited Orkney isle of Eynhallow by Aberdeen University. This involves weighing chicks and monitoring numbers.
In the dialect of the place where I was born, people say (or used to say) "crompa'" (to buy) a child, meaning "having/making a child"
The Michael Players RBV perform a Manx Dialect play: Christopher Shimmin's 'The Charm'.
The cast includes:
Rebecca Trainor; Simon Clarke; Nicola Curphey; and Roy Kennaugh.
This play was written by Christopher Shimmin in 1912 in collaboration with Sophia Morrison.
This 2017 performance was presented in the Centenary Centre in Peel, the location of the play's premiere over 100 years earlier.
This photograph was taken by Jiri Podobsky.
This picture comes from the "Manks Concert" held in the Centenary Hall, Peel, to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Sophia Morrison.
The event was organised by Mannin branches of the Celtic Congress, the Celtic League, and Mec Vannin.
Culture Vannin exists to promote and support all aspects of culture in the Isle of Man.
Isola Bella (in local dialect Isola Bela ) is located in Lake Maggiore , is part of the group of the so-called Borromean Islands and is located in the gulf dedicated to the well-known family who still owns it, about 400 meters off the coast of Stresa . It measures 320 meters long and 180 meters wide and is largely occupied by the Italian garden of the Borromeo palace , which occupies the south-eastern coast of the islet.
History:
Until 1632 the lower island or "island below" was a rocky cliff occupied by a tiny fishing village with two churches, one dedicated to San Vittore, present since the 11th century, the other to San Rocco. The Borromeo family , whose initial name was Vitaliani (they came from the locality of the same name in the Padua area), had as a fiefdom from the Viscontis, in the 15th century and in various phases, this entire area of Lake Maggiore, which was precisely called "Golfo Borromeo". Vitaliano I Borromeo was the first to conceive the project of an incredible palace on Isola Bella. But it was built later, especially from 1632: in that year Carlo III Borromeo began the construction of a grandiose palace dedicated to his wife, Isabella D'Adda , entrusting the works to the Milanese designer Angelo Crivelli, who was also responsible for the design of the basic layout of the gardens.
The works suffered a pause in the mid- 17th century due to the serious plague epidemic that broke out in the Duchy of Milan .
Construction regained momentum when the island passed to his sons, Cardinal Giberto III (1615–1672) and Vitaliano VI (1620–1690); the latter in particular, with the financial support of his brother, entrusted the completion of the works to the Ticino architect Carlo Fontana and made the villa a place of sumptuous parties and theatrical performances for the European nobility . Francesco Maria Richini also worked on the palace , and the Milanese sculptor Giuseppe Vismara worked on the gardens. In the neoclassical era, in the late eighteenth century , Giuseppe Zanoja , designer of the ballroom, also worked there .
His successor, his nephew Charles IV (1657–1734), was responsible for completing the gardens which were inaugurated in 1671. The island was renovated to transform it into a fantastic ship, in which the palace part was the bow and the part of the terraced gardens, on what is called an amphitheater or castle (perhaps in memory of a pre-existing medieval castle), the stern. In fact, the project envisaged a long landing place, which was then not fully built, in front of the building in the western part.
Illustrious guests
The most illustrious visits to the island date back to the period of Giberto V Borromeo (1751–1837), from Napoleon with his wife Josephine of Beauharnais to the Princess of Wales, Caroline of Brunswick . She stayed there twice: in 1797, during Napoleon's first Italian campaign, and she then returned, in love with the place, in 1805. From these stays we have Napoleon's room, furnished with Empire style furniture . An anecdote tells about Napoleon 's first wife that, having fallen in love with the place, he did everything to convince the Borromeos to sell Isola Madre or (less probably) the castles of Cannero . She met with the refusal of the Borromeos, but was able to console herself very worthily with the splendid Villa d'Este in Cernobbio , on Lake Como .
Historical events
In addition to the passage of Napoleon , Villa Borromeo on Isola Bella was also the site, from 11 to 14 April 1935, of the meeting between Mussolini , Pierre Laval and MacDonald , of the Stresa conference , aimed at maintaining political order in the face of of the German Anschluss . These state representatives met in the great hall and came to establish the so-called "Stresa agreements".
Description
The palace, open to visits, shows its halls and rooms on the main floor, built from the 17th to the 19th century, and in the lower part the caves, which so enraptured Stendhal . Inside there are paintings by Cerano , by Francesco del Cairo , by Giordano in the room called the Giordano room , they are The Judgment of Paris , Europa kidnapped by Jupiter transformed into Taurus , The triumph of Galatea , by Salvator Rosa , by the Flemish Muller known as Tempesta (an artist hosted for a long time by the Borromeos, his patrons, who had also saved him from the attempted murder trial of his wife), del Nuvolone, Francesco Zuccarelli , etc. Worth mentioning is the tapestry gallery, so called for its enormous Flemish tapestries, six in all, from the 16th century, in silk and gold, whose recurring theme is the Unicorn, emblem of the Borromeo family. In the very particular environments of the caves, covered with stones and shells of an infinite variety of types, archaeological remains of the prehistoric Golasecca culture are also collected .
Also worth mentioning are the botanical gardens with an incredible variety of exotic plants. In them the upper part is the one called "amphitheatre", given that the stage performances that fascinated the Borromeos were held here. There are various statues here, some made by the same designer, Vismara.
Literature
The novel Piccolo mondo antico by Antonio Fogazzaro , a writer from Vicenza, ends on Isola Bella .
Naturalistic relevance
Since historical times the island has hosted one of the two Italian colonies of bats Myotis capaccinii , a rare and protected species
Lake Maggiore or Verbano ( Lagh Magior in Lombard and Piedmontese ) is a pre-Alpine lake of fluvioglacial origin in the Italian geographical region . Its shores are shared between Switzerland ( Canton Ticino ) and Italy (provinces of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola and Novara , in Piedmont , and Varese , in Lombardy ).
The name Maggiore derives from the fact that it is the largest of the lakes in the area, but among the Italian lakes it is the second in surface area after Lake Garda (as well as the second in depth after Lake Como ). In the past it was joined to Lake Mergozzo , from which it was separated due to the formation of the Fondotoce Plain .
Lake Maggiore is located at a height of approximately 193 meters above sea level . Its surface area is 212 km² , most of which, approximately 80%, is in Italian territory. It has a perimeter of 170 km and a length of 64.37 km (the largest among Italian lakes); the maximum width is 10 km and the average width is 3.9 km. The volume of water contained is equal to 37.5 billion m³ with a theoretical replacement time of approximately 4 years. The hydrographic basin is approximately 6,598 km² of which 3,229 are in Italian territory and 3,369 in Swiss territory (the ratio between the surface area of the basin and that of the lake is 31.1). The maximum altitude of the catchment basin is Punta Dufour in the Monte Rosa massif (4,633 m above sea level), while the average altitude is 1,270 m above sea level. The basin is characterized by the existence of around thirty artificial reservoirs with a collection of approximately 600 million of m³ of water which, if released simultaneously, would raise the lake level by approximately 2.5 m. The maximum depth is approximately 370 m (in the cryptodepression between Ghiffa and Porto Valtravaglia ) which is therefore 177 m below sea level.
The major tributaries are the Ticino , the Maggia , the Toce (which receives the waters of the Strona torrent and therefore of Lake Orta ) and the Tresa (in turn an emissary of Lake Lugano and fed by the Margorabbia ). The major tributaries have a different flow pattern, while Ticino and Toce, which have a catchment basin at high altitudes, reach a maximum flow in the period between May and October coinciding with the melting of snow and glaciers ; the other tributaries have a trend strongly influenced by rainfall . Minor tributaries are the Verzasca , Cannobino , San Bernardino , San Giovanni , Giona and Boesio streams . The only emissary is the Ticino which flows from the lake to Sesto Calende .
Envoys
Bardello
Boesio
Mergozzo Canal
Cannobino
Erno
Fraud of Caldè
Fraud of Porto Valtravaglia
Jonah
Maggia
Molinera
Monvallina
Riale Corto
Riale del Molino
Riale del Roddo
Riale di Casere
Rio Ballona
Rio Colmegnino (or Rio di Colmegna)
Rio Colorio
Rio dell'Asino
Rio Molinetto
Rio Valmara
Rone
San Bernardino
Saint John
San Giovanni di Bedero
Thick Forest
Stronetta
Tiasca
Ticino
Toce
Aquanegra stream
Tresa
Trigo
Versella or Varesella
Verzasca
Vevera
Geology
The origin of Lake Maggiore is partly glacial, as evidenced by the layout of the hills formed by moraine deposits of a glacial nature, but it is ascertained that the glacial excavation took place on a pre-existing river valley, the profile of the lake in fact has the typical V shape of river valleys.
Baveno pink granite was widely used as a building material in the past . Furthermore, the ancient construction uses of Angera stone are known (used for example in classical antiquity and in the medieval period), while the Caldè limestone quarries provided for many centuries the raw material for the lime with which high-rise buildings were built. Lombardy and Piedmont: thanks to the ease of transport by boat, first on the lake, then on the Milanese canals
Lake Maggiore is characterized by cold winters, but milder than inland, and moderately snowy (with average accumulations of 10 cm for each snowfall and sometimes even higher than 30 cm up to a maximum of 50 cm), summers are moderately hot, humid and stormy, the average temperature in January is around 2 degrees centigrade, with peaks of 3 degrees on the northern side of the Borromean Gulf (due to the extensive exposure to the sun), night temperatures can drop below 0, up to -10, but very rarely go below this value. In summer the average temperatures are around 22 degrees centigrade, with daytime peaks rarely exceeding 32 degrees. Proceeding towards the internal valleys the temperatures gradually become more rigid. The area is very rainy and sometimes, especially in intermediate seasons, floods can occur. The temperature of the surface waters (up to 2 meters deep) of the lake reach winter peaks of 5-6 degrees, while in summer they reach an average of 22-24 degrees.
Some statistics on Lake Maggiore . It should be noted that during lean periods the water level between Locarno and Sesto Calende can vary by 1 cm, while during floods up to 30 cm
Like all pre-Alpine lakes, Lake Maggiore is crossed, especially in the summer, by two types of prevailing winds, one which blows in the morning from the mountains towards the plain (called moscendrino as it comes from the Monte Ceneri Pass , sometimes tramontana ) and a small breeze that blows from the plain to the mountains especially during the afternoon (called inverna ). These constant winds make the pre-Alpine lakes an excellent field for practicing sports that use the wind, such as sailing and windsurfing . Lake Maggiore has some particular points, especially in the upper part, where the mountains squeeze together to form a narrow valley in which these winds blow very strongly.
Then there are other winds typical of this lake such as the winter wind , which blows from the south-west and generally brings storms, the major one , which comes from the north-east and is very dangerous as it agitates the lake a lot, the valmaggine which blows slightly from the valleys behind Locarno , the mergozzo , which blows especially at night, from the north-west
In Lake Maggiore there are many large, small or tiny islands , divided between 8 in Piedmont, 2 in Switzerland and 2 in Lombardy, for a total of 12.
Borromean Islands
Beautiful island
Isola Madre
Isola dei Pescatori (or Isola Superiore or Isola Superiore dei Pescatori)
Islet of San Giovanni
Malghera islet (or rock).
Brissago Islands
San Pancrazio Island (or Big Island)
Island of Sant'Apollinare (or Isolino)
Castles of Cannero
Isolino Partegora
Sasso Galletto
Between Stresa and Verbania there is the Borromean archipelago: Isola Madre (the largest in the lake basin), Isola Bella and Isola Superiore dei Pescatori (also known more simply as Isola dei Pescatori or Isola Superiore)
Opposite the Swiss town of Ronco sopra Ascona are the two islands of Brissago, the larger of which hosts a botanical garden.
In front of the coast of Cannero Riviera there are the three emerged rocks called Castelli di Cannero: the major rock, totally occupied today by the Vitaliana war artefact, a fortress commissioned by Count Ludovico Borromeo starting from 1518, the minor rock, on which the ruins of the so-called "prisons" stand, but in fact a small advanced tower with a falconette gunboat garrisoning the southern canal port, and finally the little rock (towards Maccagno ) of the "Melgonaro", on which only a stunted but tenacious plant grows fascinated poets and engravers such as Piero Chiara , Marco Costantini , Carlo Rapp .
Finally, we must mention the small island of San Giovanni in front of Verbania (famous because it was the residence of the orchestra director Arturo Toscanini in the seventeenth-century Palazzo Borromeo for many years ), the small island of La Malghera also known as Isola delle Bambole , among 'Isola Bella and that of the Fishermen and therefore the Isolino Partegora in the small gulf of Angera .
History:
The finds and evidence found tell us that following the actual creation of the lake, with the complete retreat of the ice, the surrounding area was inhabited by nomadic groups , who used the territory mainly as a place for hunting and supplies.
In the Chalcolithic historical period, the first residential areas were built in the immediate vicinity of the lake and from that moment there was a slow consolidation of sedentary groups .
On the shores of the lake, the Golasecca culture developed between the 9th and 4th centuries BC , a Celtic -speaking Iron Age civilization . The Golasecchians advanced as far as some areas of present-day Lombardy , only to be pushed back again to their western borders by the descent of the Celts into the Italian peninsula , probably the population of the Taurine Gauls .
The Gauls therefore had supremacy over the lake territory until the advance of the Romans who turned the Piedmont and Lombard areas back into provinces of the empire . The " Verbanus Lacus " (name given to it by the Romans, from which the nomenclature Lake Verbano will probably derive ) or " Lacus Maximus " (another name even attributed to it by Virgil ) will remain firmly in the hands of the Roman Empire . In Roman times, navigation along the lake experienced particular development, so much so that ships could descend the Ticino and thus reach Pavia , from where they could reach, thanks to the Po , as far as the Adriatic Sea . It is no coincidence that the excavations of the Angera settlement have brought to light finds that show strong connections between the lake and the upper Adriatic. This shipping line experienced particular development during the early Middle Ages , when Pavia was the capital of the Lombard kingdom first and then of the kingdom of Italy.
To arrive at a period of rebirth of the cities on the lake we had to wait until the Middle Ages , which led to the creation of villages, castles and in general a very different example of the physiognomy of inhabited places.
In this period the area around the lake, as well as numerous territories in the surroundings of Milan , passed into the hands of various families such as the Della Torre , the Visconti , the ruling house of the Habsburgs from 1713 and in particular the Borromeo family , which had enormous influence for many years on Lake Maggiore, starting from the acquisition of the fiefdom of Arona in 1445. Another very illustrious lineage that had a great influence in the medieval era is that of the Marquises Morigi or Moriggia, who received numerous territories from the Viscontis such as the degagne of San Maurizio and San Martino, the Valtravaglia which were nicknamed "Morigie lands". Over the centuries the families of Borromeo and Morigi fought bitterly for hegemony over these lands. The Borromeo themselves also had, between 1523 and 1524, actual armed clashes against Francesco II Sforza who on several occasions sent troops and armed ships against the Borromeo fortresses located on the islands of Cannero . Other noble families linked to the territory since the Middle Ages were the Besozzi , the Sessa , the Luini and the Capitanei of Locarno.
Starting from the 14th century, navigation along the lake was also exploited to transport the heavy blocks of marble coming from Candoglia and other quarries located in the surroundings of the lake towards the two main Lombard construction sites of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: the cathedral of Milan and the Charterhouse of Pavia
Ever since Taiwan became a full democracy after the ending of martial law in 1987, there has been much more support both unofficial for the teaching and use of dialects other than Mandarin such as Taiwanese (Minnanyu) and Hakka.
"Sri Chum" in northern Thai dialect means "bodhi tree".
This is the biggest Burmese temple in
Thailand and is known to have been built by a wealthy Burmese in 1892.
Important monuments to be found in this temple are a golden stupa enshrining Buddha relics brought from Burma in 1906, a Vihara (chapel) enshrining a Burmes-styled Buddha image. The chapel is constructed of wood and bricks,and has a roof with pointed wooded eaves. The door panels, articulately designed with perforations, are made of teak. Inside the chapel are mural paintings depicting scenes of the Lord Buddha's life as well as a draft of the temple's construction plan.
Tak is one of the western provinces (changwat) of Thailand. Neighbouring provinces are (from north clockwise) Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai, Lamphun, Lampang, Sukhothai, Kamphaeng Phet, Nakhon Sawan, Uthai Thani and Kanchanaburi. The western edge of the province has a long boundary with Kayin State of Myanmar (Burma).
Cannero Riviera ([càn-ne-ro]; Càner in the local Western Lombard dialect ) is an Italian municipality of 917 inhabitants in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in Piedmont . It extends on the Piedmontese shore of Lake Maggiore . The nearby islands called " Castelli di Cannero " actually belong to the city of Cannobio , and are the northernmost Italian islands of the lake. The municipality is part of the union of municipalities of Lake Maggiore .
History
Cannero appears for the first time in a property transfer document in 985 . But municipal independence came in the 14th century . In 1524 the Sforzas destroyed the town as it was a territory loyal to the Viscontis . The castles located on the small islands have a separate story.
The castle called Malpaga was a refuge for the Mazzarditi brothers and conquered by Filippo Maria Visconti . The other fortress called Vitaliana dates back to the 16th century and belongs to the Borromeo family. They were both then abandoned and given their inviting position they were used as a refuge for bandits and counterfeiters, and subsequently used again by the Borromeo family as a citrus grove and rabbit warren.
They chose Massimo d'Azeglio and Laura Solera Mantegazza as their residence in Cannero , whose homes can still be admired today. Present in the territory there are some sections of the defensive system on the northern border towards Switzerland , improperly known as the Cadorna Line .
Symbols
The coat of arms was granted by decree of the President of the Republic of 3 October 1949. The coat of arms is silver, the castle is red, equipped with three Guelph-style crenellated towers, the left tower surmounted by the star of five blue rays; it castle founded on the countryside of azure, storm of silver.
The banner is a blue and white banner.
Monuments and places of interest
Parish Church of San Giorgio
the current parish church of Cannero is dedicated to S. Giorgio and was built in 1836 on the site of the old church destroyed by a flood on 14 September 1829. The building, with a circular plan with dome, has elegant shapes and a very collected and finely decorated. The relics of the martyr Saint Faustus are preserved, transferred from the catacombs of San Callisto in Rome. The organ on the counter-façade, the work of Felice Bossi of Turin , is a wonderful example of nineteenth-century Italian organ building. The Bossi organ, built around 1850, originally had only one manual; in fact the echo organ was added only in 1897, by the Scolari organ builders of Bolzano Novarese . The conservative restoration intervention was expertly carried out by the Fratelli Marzi company of Pogno, which brought the valuable organ back to its ancient splendor.
Church of San Rocco
It dates back to between 1400 and 1500 and is dedicated to the French saint Rocco . The plan has a single rectangular nave, the interior was enriched during the 1600s with the construction of a choir and the creation of a barrel vault with plumes . The most valuable work is the balustrade that serves as an altar enclosure created by Viggiù 's workshop in 1786.
Lake Maggiore or Verbano ( Lagh Magior in Lombard and Piedmontese ) is a pre-Alpine lake of fluvioglacial origin in the Italian geographical region . Its shores are shared between Switzerland ( Canton Ticino ) and Italy (provinces of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola and Novara , in Piedmont , and Varese , in Lombardy ).
The name Maggiore derives from the fact that it is the largest of the lakes in the area, but among the Italian lakes it is the second in surface area after Lake Garda (as well as the second in depth after Lake Como ). In the past it was joined to Lake Mergozzo , from which it was separated due to the formation of the Fondotoce Plain .
Lake Maggiore is located at a height of approximately 193 meters above sea level . Its surface area is 212 km² , most of which, approximately 80%, is in Italian territory. It has a perimeter of 170 km and a length of 64.37 km (the largest among Italian lakes); the maximum width is 10 km and the average width is 3.9 km. The volume of water contained is equal to 37.5 billion m³ with a theoretical replacement time of approximately 4 years. The hydrographic basin is approximately 6,598 km² of which 3,229 are in Italian territory and 3,369 in Swiss territory (the ratio between the surface area of the basin and that of the lake is 31.1). The maximum altitude of the catchment basin is Punta Dufour in the Monte Rosa massif (4,633 m above sea level), while the average altitude is 1,270 m above sea level. The basin is characterized by the existence of around thirty artificial reservoirs with a collection of approximately 600 million of m³ of water which, if released simultaneously, would raise the lake level by approximately 2.5 m. The maximum depth is approximately 370 m (in the cryptodepression between Ghiffa and Porto Valtravaglia ) which is therefore 177 m below sea level.
The major tributaries are the Ticino , the Maggia , the Toce (which receives the waters of the Strona torrent and therefore of Lake Orta ) and the Tresa (in turn an emissary of Lake Lugano and fed by the Margorabbia ). The major tributaries have a different flow pattern, while Ticino and Toce, which have a catchment basin at high altitudes, reach a maximum flow in the period between May and October coinciding with the melting of snow and glaciers ; the other tributaries have a trend strongly influenced by rainfall . Minor tributaries are the Verzasca , Cannobino , San Bernardino , San Giovanni , Giona and Boesio streams . The only emissary is the Ticino which flows from the lake to Sesto Calende .
Envoys
Bardello
Boesio
Mergozzo Canal
Cannobino
Erno
Fraud of Caldè
Fraud of Porto Valtravaglia
Jonah
Maggia
Molinera
Monvallina
Riale Corto
Riale del Molino
Riale del Roddo
Riale di Casere
Rio Ballona
Rio Colmegnino (or Rio di Colmegna)
Rio Colorio
Rio dell'Asino
Rio Molinetto
Rio Valmara
Rone
San Bernardino
Saint John
San Giovanni di Bedero
Thick Forest
Stronetta
Tiasca
Ticino
Toce
Aquanegra stream
Tresa
Trigo
Versella or Varesella
Verzasca
Vevera
Geology
The origin of Lake Maggiore is partly glacial, as evidenced by the layout of the hills formed by moraine deposits of a glacial nature, but it is ascertained that the glacial excavation took place on a pre-existing river valley, the profile of the lake in fact has the typical V shape of river valleys.
Baveno pink granite was widely used as a building material in the past . Furthermore, the ancient construction uses of Angera stone are known (used for example in classical antiquity and in the medieval period), while the Caldè limestone quarries provided for many centuries the raw material for the lime with which high-rise buildings were built. Lombardy and Piedmont: thanks to the ease of transport by boat, first on the lake, then on the Milanese canals
Lake Maggiore is characterized by cold winters, but milder than inland, and moderately snowy (with average accumulations of 10 cm for each snowfall and sometimes even higher than 30 cm up to a maximum of 50 cm), summers are moderately hot, humid and stormy, the average temperature in January is around 2 degrees centigrade, with peaks of 3 degrees on the northern side of the Borromean Gulf (due to the extensive exposure to the sun), night temperatures can drop below 0, up to -10, but very rarely go below this value. In summer the average temperatures are around 22 degrees centigrade, with daytime peaks rarely exceeding 32 degrees. Proceeding towards the internal valleys the temperatures gradually become more rigid. The area is very rainy and sometimes, especially in intermediate seasons, floods can occur. The temperature of the surface waters (up to 2 meters deep) of the lake reach winter peaks of 5-6 degrees, while in summer they reach an average of 22-24 degrees.
Some statistics on Lake Maggiore . It should be noted that during lean periods the water level between Locarno and Sesto Calende can vary by 1 cm, while during floods up to 30 cm
Like all pre-Alpine lakes, Lake Maggiore is crossed, especially in the summer, by two types of prevailing winds, one which blows in the morning from the mountains towards the plain (called moscendrino as it comes from the Monte Ceneri Pass , sometimes tramontana ) and a small breeze that blows from the plain to the mountains especially during the afternoon (called inverna ). These constant winds make the pre-Alpine lakes an excellent field for practicing sports that use the wind, such as sailing and windsurfing . Lake Maggiore has some particular points, especially in the upper part, where the mountains squeeze together to form a narrow valley in which these winds blow very strongly.
Then there are other winds typical of this lake such as the winter wind , which blows from the south-west and generally brings storms, the major one , which comes from the north-east and is very dangerous as it agitates the lake a lot, the valmaggine which blows slightly from the valleys behind Locarno , the mergozzo , which blows especially at night, from the north-west
In Lake Maggiore there are many large, small or tiny islands , divided between 8 in Piedmont, 2 in Switzerland and 2 in Lombardy, for a total of 12.
Borromean Islands
Beautiful island
Isola Madre
Isola dei Pescatori (or Isola Superiore or Isola Superiore dei Pescatori)
Islet of San Giovanni
Malghera islet (or rock).
Brissago Islands
San Pancrazio Island (or Big Island)
Island of Sant'Apollinare (or Isolino)
Castles of Cannero
Isolino Partegora
Sasso Galletto
Between Stresa and Verbania there is the Borromean archipelago: Isola Madre (the largest in the lake basin), Isola Bella and Isola Superiore dei Pescatori (also known more simply as Isola dei Pescatori or Isola Superiore)
Opposite the Swiss town of Ronco sopra Ascona are the two islands of Brissago, the larger of which hosts a botanical garden.
In front of the coast of Cannero Riviera there are the three emerged rocks called Castelli di Cannero: the major rock, totally occupied today by the Vitaliana war artefact, a fortress commissioned by Count Ludovico Borromeo starting from 1518, the minor rock, on which the ruins of the so-called "prisons" stand, but in fact a small advanced tower with a falconette gunboat garrisoning the southern canal port, and finally the little rock (towards Maccagno ) of the "Melgonaro", on which only a stunted but tenacious plant grows fascinated poets and engravers such as Piero Chiara , Marco Costantini , Carlo Rapp .
Finally, we must mention the small island of San Giovanni in front of Verbania (famous because it was the residence of the orchestra director Arturo Toscanini in the seventeenth-century Palazzo Borromeo for many years ), the small island of La Malghera also known as Isola delle Bambole , among 'Isola Bella and that of the Fishermen and therefore the Isolino Partegora in the small gulf of Angera .
History:
The finds and evidence found tell us that following the actual creation of the lake, with the complete retreat of the ice, the surrounding area was inhabited by nomadic groups , who used the territory mainly as a place for hunting and supplies.
In the Chalcolithic historical period, the first residential areas were built in the immediate vicinity of the lake and from that moment there was a slow consolidation of sedentary groups .
On the shores of the lake, the Golasecca culture developed between the 9th and 4th centuries BC , a Celtic -speaking Iron Age civilization . The Golasecchians advanced as far as some areas of present-day Lombardy , only to be pushed back again to their western borders by the descent of the Celts into the Italian peninsula , probably the population of the Taurine Gauls .
The Gauls therefore had supremacy over the lake territory until the advance of the Romans who turned the Piedmont and Lombard areas back into provinces of the empire . The " Verbanus Lacus " (name given to it by the Romans, from which the nomenclature Lake Verbano will probably derive ) or " Lacus Maximus " (another name even attributed to it by Virgil ) will remain firmly in the hands of the Roman Empire . In Roman times, navigation along the lake experienced particular development, so much so that ships could descend the Ticino and thus reach Pavia , from where they could reach, thanks to the Po , as far as the Adriatic Sea . It is no coincidence that the excavations of the Angera settlement have brought to light finds that show strong connections between the lake and the upper Adriatic. This shipping line experienced particular development during the early Middle Ages , when Pavia was the capital of the Lombard kingdom first and then of the kingdom of Italy.
To arrive at a period of rebirth of the cities on the lake we had to wait until the Middle Ages , which led to the creation of villages, castles and in general a very different example of the physiognomy of inhabited places.
In this period the area around the lake, as well as numerous territories in the surroundings of Milan , passed into the hands of various families such as the Della Torre , the Visconti , the ruling house of the Habsburgs from 1713 and in particular the Borromeo family , which had enormous influence for many years on Lake Maggiore, starting from the acquisition of the fiefdom of Arona in 1445. Another very illustrious lineage that had a great influence in the medieval era is that of the Marquises Morigi or Moriggia, who received numerous territories from the Viscontis such as the degagne of San Maurizio and San Martino, the Valtravaglia which were nicknamed "Morigie lands". Over the centuries the families of Borromeo and Morigi fought bitterly for hegemony over these lands. The Borromeo themselves also had, between 1523 and 1524, actual armed clashes against Francesco II Sforza who on several occasions sent troops and armed ships against the Borromeo fortresses located on the islands of Cannero . Other noble families linked to the territory since the Middle Ages were the Besozzi , the Sessa , the Luini and the Capitanei of Locarno.
Starting from the 14th century, navigation along the lake was also exploited to transport the heavy blocks of marble coming from Candoglia and other quarries located in the surroundings of the lake towards the two main Lombard construction sites of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: the cathedral of Milan and the Charterhouse of Pavia
'Mylecharaine', a three act play in Anglo-Manx dialect by Cushag. It was first published by S. K. Broadbend in Douglas, Isle of Man, in 1915.
As for all three of her 'Peel Plays' published in 1908, Cushag has taken her theme from Manx folk traditions.
'Mylecharaine' was one of the most popular and well-known Manx folk songs. Although widely known, it was first collected by A. W. Moore in his 1896 book, 'Manx Ballads and Music', where it was produced in both the Manx original and in an English translation. (A less antiquainted translation is available in Robert Corteen Carswell's excellent, 'Manannan's Cloak: An Anthology of Manx Literature').
(The tune for this song was, interestingly, the starting place for the Manx National Anthem, which was written W. H. Gill and first performed in 1907).
The song is a call response between a daughter and her father, named Mylecharaine (a common Manx surname). It revolves around Mylecharaine's miserly ways, despite having a store of wealth, which he got from "in the Curragh, deep, deep enough". It carries the refrain after every line, "My-lomarcan daag oo mee" / "Alone you left me".
Cushag takes on this rather dark theme and spins a nice narrative around it. She interestingly manages to get a happy ending out of it, by placing the song half-way through, when all seems lost, before it is all regained in the final Act.
The play has some wonderful Manx characterisations - something that Cushag is a master of - and some very nice exchanges in a pleasing Manx dialect. However, the play overall is disappointingly executed, particularly in the final Act (and, startingly, in the sleep-talking scene of Act II, which couldn't possibly work on stage today).
Anyone looking to get a taste of Manx theatre would be well advised to come to Cushag, but a better impression might be made by looking first at her 'Peel Plays', perhaps in particular, 'Lazy Wife'.
Cushag's three 'Peel Plays' can be found online here:
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/pp1908/index.htm
The original poem of Mylecharaine, as it appears in A. W. Moore is online here:
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/mb1896/p052.htm
The tune for Mylecharaine can be fonud here:
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/mb1896/p253.htm
Cushag's Wikipedia page is here:
Triple J Unearthed Party, Live @ Fowlers. 05/10/2011 featuring Triple J's Dj's Zan Rowe, Dom Alessio & Bands : Dialect & Despair, Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!, The Salvadors.
"Sri Chum" in northern Thai dialect means "bodhi tree".
This is the biggest Burmese temple in
Thailand and is known to have been built by a wealthy Burmese in 1892.
Important monuments to be found in this temple are a golden stupa enshrining Buddha relics brought from Burma in 1906, a Vihara (chapel) enshrining a Burmes-styled Buddha image. The chapel is constructed of wood and bricks,and has a roof with pointed wooded eaves. The door panels, articulately designed with perforations, are made of teak. Inside the chapel are mural paintings depicting scenes of the Lord Buddha's life as well as a draft of the temple's construction plan.
Tak is one of the western provinces (changwat) of Thailand. Neighbouring provinces are (from north clockwise) Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai, Lamphun, Lampang, Sukhothai, Kamphaeng Phet, Nakhon Sawan, Uthai Thani and Kanchanaburi. The western edge of the province has a long boundary with Kayin State of Myanmar (Burma).
'Hud Yer Tongue'! Further Writings in the Dundee Dialect' wis set furth bi the Herald Press (Arbroath) in 1964. The'r nae ISBN nummer.
As the teetle says, this is a buik full o screivings in Dundonian Scots.
Photie taen bi Dr Dauvit Horsbroch.
The indigenous Kaqchikel people here, in central Guatemala, speak the Kaqchikel (Kachiquel) dialect.
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Talkin Tarn is a glacial lake and country park near Brampton, Cumbria, England. The lake is a kettle hole lake, formed 10,000 years ago by mass glacial action.
The name is of Brittonic origin. The Brittonic dialect known as Cumbric was formerly spoken in the area. The first element, tal, means "brow" or "end" in Brittonic and modern Welsh, Cornish, and Breton. The second element is unclear. It may come from the Brittonic word which appears in Welsh and Old Cornish as can ("white") and Breton as kann ("bland, brilliant"). Talkin may be a hill-name meaning "white brow".
'Tarn' is derived from Old Norse 'tjǫrn' and then Middle English 'terne' meaning 'small mountain pool' or 'small lake'.
Talkin Tarn Country Park is owned and maintained by Carlisle City Council. It is home to the Boat House Tea Rooms, Brampton Sailing Club, and Talkin Tarn Amateur Rowing Club. The profits from the Tea Rooms and the pay and display car parking are reinvested in the up keep and improvement of the site.
Rowing is an activity at Talkin Tarn. The rowing club, Talkin Tarn Amateur Rowing Club, celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2009. Rowing races were first held on Talkin Tarn in the 1850s, and the Rowing Club was formed in 1859 by local townsfolk, several descendants of whom still live in the area. It is the oldest rowing club in the North of England, with the exception of Tyne Rowing Club, and is the 14th oldest non-university club in the country. Talkin Tarn Annual Regatta has grown considerably in recent years from a total entry of 20 in 1946 and 97 in 1988 to what it is today – very successful and one of the largest one-day regattas outside of London with total entries now in excess of 400.
On 9th November 1983 an Aerospatiale Gazelle Helicopter (reg G-SFTB) crashed into the tarn during a low level training flight from Carlisle Airport. The single occupant escaped the crash but the helicopter, once raised from the bottom, was damaged beyond repair.
Research on climate change carried out at Talkin Tarn was published in 2004.
Old buckles, stone axes, and urns have been found in the area.
More photos of Talkin Tarn here: www.flickr.com/photos/davidambridge/albums/72157633050144969
"Sri Chum" in northern Thai dialect means "bodhi tree".
This is the biggest Burmese temple in
Thailand and is known to have been built by a wealthy Burmese in 1892.
Important monuments to be found in this temple are a golden stupa enshrining Buddha relics brought from Burma in 1906, a Vihara (chapel) enshrining a Burmes-styled Buddha image. The chapel is constructed of wood and bricks,and has a roof with pointed wooded eaves. The door panels, articulately designed with perforations, are made of teak. Inside the chapel are mural paintings depicting scenes of the Lord Buddha's life as well as a draft of the temple's construction plan.
Tak is one of the western provinces (changwat) of Thailand. Neighbouring provinces are (from north clockwise) Mae Hong Son, Chiang Mai, Lamphun, Lampang, Sukhothai, Kamphaeng Phet, Nakhon Sawan, Uthai Thani and Kanchanaburi. The western edge of the province has a long boundary with Kayin State of Myanmar (Burma).
Des rappeurs australiens en concert à la Médiathèque des Musicophages... pour une date unique en France, tu le crois?! Une soirée bien mortelle pour un groupe de rap vraiment unique et bien sympa ...
- photo prise avec un "jetable" rechargé en N&b ! -
Door Vivian Kramer, Colijnsplaat
Ook voor katten interessant ;) het Woordenboek der Zeeuwse Dialecten.
Vibrating stories by the (IKEA) boss.
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He's talking in some kind of Scandinavian dialect. A large stone in front of him vibrates when he mumbles something about discounts and put it yourself together without getting devorced.
Photo January 2014, Efteling (May 31, 1952) after 62 years in time.
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Efteling - Trollenkoning
Sprookjesbos (1952) - the Fairytale Forest is a six-hectare park in the Efteling. An excellent location for a walk through the fairytale books of writers like the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen and Charles Perrault. The Efteling started as a park in 1952 with this Fairytale Forest
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Efteling (Est. 1952) - one of the oldest theme parks in the world. A very popular full-sized fantasy-themed amusement park with many attractions and a wide array of amusement rides that reflect elements from ancient myths and legends, fairy tales, fables, and folklore.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efteling.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
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Triple J Unearthed Party, Live @ Fowlers. 05/10/2011 featuring Triple J's Dj's Zan Rowe, Dom Alessio & Bands : Dialect & Despair, Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire!, The Salvadors.
'Mylecharaine', a three act play in Anglo-Manx dialect by Cushag. It was first published by S. K. Broadbend in Douglas, Isle of Man, in 1915.
As for all three of her 'Peel Plays' published in 1908, Cushag has taken her theme from Manx folk traditions.
'Mylecharaine' was one of the most popular and well-known Manx folk songs. Although widely known, it was first collected by A. W. Moore in his 1896 book, 'Manx Ballads and Music', where it was produced in both the Manx original and in an English translation. (A less antiquainted translation is available in Robert Corteen Carswell's excellent, 'Manannan's Cloak: An Anthology of Manx Literature').
(The tune for this song was, interestingly, the starting place for the Manx National Anthem, which was written W. H. Gill and first performed in 1907).
The song is a call response between a daughter and her father, named Mylecharaine (a common Manx surname). It revolves around Mylecharaine's miserly ways, despite having a store of wealth, which he got from "in the Curragh, deep, deep enough". It carries the refrain after every line, "My-lomarcan daag oo mee" / "Alone you left me".
Cushag takes on this rather dark theme and spins a nice narrative around it. She interestingly manages to get a happy ending out of it, by placing the song half-way through, when all seems lost, before it is all regained in the final Act.
The play has some wonderful Manx characterisations - something that Cushag is a master of - and some very nice exchanges in a pleasing Manx dialect. However, the play overall is disappointingly executed, particularly in the final Act (and, startingly, in the sleep-talking scene of Act II, which couldn't possibly work on stage today).
Anyone looking to get a taste of Manx theatre would be well advised to come to Cushag, but a better impression might be made by looking first at her 'Peel Plays', perhaps in particular, 'Lazy Wife'.
Cushag's three 'Peel Plays' can be found online here:
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/pp1908/index.htm
The original poem of Mylecharaine, as it appears in A. W. Moore is online here:
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/mb1896/p052.htm
The tune for Mylecharaine can be fonud here:
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/mb1896/p253.htm
Cushag's Wikipedia page is here:
www.librosyeditores.com/tiendalemoine/filosofia/2845-meto...
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Método dialéctico y sistémico: un ejercicio para el pensamiento es un texto que presenta un novedoso método de cinco pasos para analizar problemas o eventos en cualquiera de las disciplinas del conocimiento. Creado por los autores, este método combina dos disciplinas importantes de la filosofía: la dialéctica y la sistémica, y su propósito es demostrar que entre el sujeto y el objeto existe una relación circular y no lineal, esto es, que entre el objeto y el sujeto se establece un "diálogo", y que en dicho "diálogo" tanto el sujeto como el objeto "conversan". El método es aplicado a diferentes disciplinas del conocimiento como la administración, la economía, la física, la psicología, la resolución de conflictos, la filosofía, entre otras.
« Pourquoi ce titre NADARAT ( REGARDS ) prononcé dialecte en Mahdoi ? Parce que ma vie à MAHDIA , s’est passée dans un univers de douceur. J’évoque ici cet espace intérieur où les rythmes de la vie se posent, et d’où l’on perçoit toute chose avec attention et innocence. C’est bien de douceur qu’il s’agit. Douceur pour soi-même, par cette attention silencieuse, et douceur pour l’extérieur, par la tranquille acceptation de ce qui est.
Ces images vous évoqueront peut-être ce qui veille en vous et vous appelle
Dans cet univers magique saisi sur ces quelques clichés ne vous est pas étrange, il n’est pas extérieur à vous. Il fait partie de vous comme vous faites partie de lui dans la grande Tunisie. Ne vous émerveillez pas davantage de ce monde magnifique que de votre monde intérieur.
Puissent ces « REGARDS » ravivent cet essentiel qui est en vous … » Amine Boussoffara
Newcastle Road, Sunderland
Photo by Mike Pearce
Bait
Bill Griffiths’ Dictionary of North East Dialect defines bait (sometimes spelled 'bate') as ‘a portable meal’ (2011:6). This seems to be how the word is being used on the side of a mobile food stall in Sunderland.
In modern Standard English the word is used to describe food used to lure prey, particularly in the context of fishing. Its origins lie in the Old English noun bát – ‘what can be bitten’ (i.e. ‘food’), which derives from the past tense of bítan (‘bite’). Cognate with bát are the Old Norse nouns beit ('pasturage') and beita ('food'). The link with animal feed is significant, since – as the Oxford English Dictionary records – historical evidence suggests that bait is often used to describe food for domestic animals, particularly horses.
What is now generally regarded as the North East sense of bait once had a wider geographical spread. Joseph Wright, in Volume 1 of the English Dialect Dictionary (1898) defines bait as a ‘workman or labourer's meal in the middle of the day’ and cites evidence for its occurrence in this sense in locations as far apart as Northumberland and Sussex.
Interestingly, nineteenth-century lexicographical sources record bait- occurring in a number of compounds: Wright gives bait-bag, bait-house, bait-irons, bait-poke, and bait-time. To this list we can now add -box.
References
Griffiths, B. 2011. A Dictionary of North East Dialect (3rd edition). Alnwick: Northumbria Press.
Wright, J. 1898. The English Dialect Dictionary, Vol. I. Oxford: Henry Frowde.
Oxford English Dictionary Online.
ShutterFly Overseas Outing - Indonesia 2010 (Day 02)
Tangkuban Perahu, or Tangkuban Parahu in local Sundanese dialect, is an active volcano 30 km north of the city of Bandung, the provincial capital of West Java, Indonesia. It is a popular tourist attraction where tourists can hike or ride to the edge of the crater to view the hot water springs upclose, and buy eggs cooked on its hot surface. This stratovolcano is on the island of Java and last erupted in 1983.
According to the local legend of the mountain, the name translates roughly to "upturning of (a) boat" or "upturned boat" in Sundanese, referring to the local legend of its creation. The story tells of "Dayang Sumbi", a beauty who lived in West Java. She cast away her son "Sangkuriang" for disobedience, and in her sadness was granted the power of eternal youth by the gods. After many years in exile, Sangkuriang decided to return to his home, long after the two had forgotten and failed to recognize each other. Sangkuriang fell in love with Dayang Sumbi and planned to marry her, only for Dayang Sumbi to recognize his birthmark just as he was about to go hunting. In order to prevent the marriage from taking place, Dayang Sumbi asked Sangkuriang to build a dam on the river Citarum and to build a large boat to cross the river, both before the sunrise. Sangkuriang meditated and summoned mythical ogre-like creatures -buta hejo or green giant(s)- to do his bidding. Dayang Sumbi saw that the tasks were almost completed and called on her workers to spread red silk cloths east of the city, to give the impression of impending sunrise. Sangkuriang was fooled, and upon believing that he had failed, kicked the dam and the unfinished boat, resulting in severe flooding and the creation of Tangkuban perahu from the hull of the boat.