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Hellenistic Art: The Art of the Classical World from the Death of Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium
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America's Cup Xxvii: Stars & Stripes, The Official Record 1988
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Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work
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Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work
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Alexander the Great
( Makers of History )
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Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
by Brent Schlender
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I am very tired of all the negative DO NOT and NO signs that are usually in the library. I came back from a conference last week and promptly ripped them all down and replaced them with nicer, friendlier signs. I like this one because it is positive and not telling people to NOT DO CERTAIN THINGS.
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"My Second University – memories from Romanian Communist prisons”
by Dr. Stanciu Stroia and Dr. Dan Dusleag,
(Universe Inc., New York, 2005, 271 pages,
Index, illustrations, £10.53 ISBN: 0-595-34639-1)
THREE GENERATIONS OF MEDICAL DOCTORS UNDER DICTATORSHIP:
Dr. Stanciu Stroia was born in rural Transylvania. He was a graduate of Cluj University Medical School, with a doctoral dissertation on the “Radiotherapy in Basedow desease”, submitted in 1928. As a junior doctor he moved over to the Regional Hospital of Fagaras where, in the early 1930’s he established the first department of Internal Medicine. By the age of 41 he became the director of that establishment. This was during WWII and only one year earlier the Soviet armies occupied Romania. With them, on the back of Russian tanks came the fifth columnists, the handful of exiled Romanian communists who were going to impose a new “social order” of Stalinist brand. At this point Dr. Stroia’s high-profile medical position, caused him to be invited to join the ranks of the Communist Party, which he refused. This stance marked him as an “undesirable” by the Communist hierarchy. Once Romania turned into a one-party dictatorship, in 1948, the medical know-how became subsidiary to political allegiance: this is how, in 1949, Dr. Stroia was demoted from his position of hospital director. Two years on he was under pressure to become an informer of the Securitate, the ubiquitous Romanian Secret services. This he rejected outright, because of his personal and professional ethics and so, in 1951, he was arrested for allegedly “helping and not denouncing anti-communist partisans”. He was given a six-years prison sentence on trumped up charges of “favoring the crime of plotting against the Romanian state”. Within 48 hours of his arrest, his wife and two young children were evicted from their private property, his estate was nationalized, the medical practice confiscated and the house eventually demolished. During his long prison years, he was not allowed to receive any correspondence or food and clothes parcels, except on one occasion. On his release, in December 1957, Dr. Stroia was made to sign a declaration undertaking not to disclose his prison experiences, under threat of being re-arrested. He was also forbidden to restart his medical practice in his home town and was relocated instead in a remote province. Nine years after his release and after many failed attempts Dr. Stroia was granted, in unusual circumstances, a “political and judicial rehabilitation”, for a crime he has never committed and which was in private, but never officially acknowledged, of having been a “misguided interpretation of the law”. He retired at the age of 64, when Ceausescu just came to power and thereafter he spent all summers in his native village in Transylvania, where he offered free medical consultations.
The second author is Dr.Dan Liviu Dusleag, the grandson of Dr. Stroia. who, like his grandfather, four decades earlier, he refused to join the Communist Party. Also like his grandfather, a year later, he also rejected the offer of becoming a Securitate informer. These were the darkest years of Ceausescu’s surreal dictatorship and as one could see, some forty years on, how the old Communist practice remained unchanged. As a consequence of his refusal Dan Dusleag was denied a passport to travel abroad. By this time, as a student of Bucharest Medical School, Dusleag participated in the Romanian Revolution of December 1989, and in the mass demonstration and sit-in of the Bucharest University Square in the summer of 1990. These were pivotal political events, which ended in mass murders and carnage. In December 1989 students of Timisoara and Bucharest Universities were shot by unknown snipers and their bodies disappeared. After Ceausescu’s downfall, the student demonstrators of June 1990 were somewhat luckier, as few of them were killed: but many were instead severely beaten up and injured, by an angry mob of miners called upon by the neo-communist Romanian president to “restore order” (communist order that is). Unsurprisingly, there was never a will by the Romanian Government to punish those responsible for such atrocities.
Dr. Dusleag’s hopes of Romania ever becoming a free country were shattered, and in 1990 he decided to emigrate to the USA. He completed his training as a paediatrician at the University of Chicago Medical School and currently he is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
There is a third contributor to this book: she is Lucia Dusleag, MD, now retired and living in Toronto: she is the daughter of Dr. Stroia, and the mother of Dr. Dan Dusleag. She transcribed and edited the Romanian version of her father’s memoirs and contributed the Epilogue of the book. Here one could discover some amazing details on the survival of a medical student who was herself the daughter of a political prisoner during the communist dictatorship in Romania: these were years of hunger, of deprivation and of fear of being “found out” and expelled from the Cluj University Medical School, for she was, as she describes “the offspring of a political convict with the right academic credentials, but the wrong social background”.
A UNIQUE MEDICAL TESTIMONY OF PRISON PRACTICE:
“My Second University” marks a distinct departure from the angle and content of other similar stories and there are several reasons, which sets it apart:
First one must point out Dr. Stroia’s dogged courage and determination to put pen to paper at a time when he was still under surveillance by the Securitate. He was conscious that he ran a permanent risk of having his house searched and if the manuscript came to light he would have received a new prison sentence. At his advanced age this will certainly have represented a death sentence.
Secondly Dr. Stroia’s manuscript eventually made its way to the West, where, owing to the love and dedication of his grandson, it was translated in English. Both daughter and grandson carefully edited and provided the footnotes and other background information such as extensive illustrations, bibliography and an Index.
Thirdly and most importantly this memoir has an unique quality, in offering an invaluable insight, from a doctor’s point a view (that is of a doctor-prisoner, who was at the receiving end, as an inmate in a political prison) of how medical care was operated behind bars, in Communist Romania and what were the clinical consequences of the prison’s regime on the detainees, how did the food rationing and the torture affected the physical and mental health of the people inside the penitentiaries.
We read in the chapter on the Consequences of Imprisonment (p. 182):
“As a result of my severe and prolonged scurvy, I must have lost fifty per cent of my nerve cells through irremediable atrophy, an insult from which I never recovered. Only a detailed post mortem pathological exam could demonstrate the extent of injuries sustained by a scurvy-affected brain. Many intellectuals I met in Aiud (prison), especially those experiencing generalised dystrophic symptoms, lost their short and long-term memory. Knowing that I was a physician, they would ask me if this loss was reversible. Of course I had to encourage them, even if they told me, for instance, that they could not remember the names of their own grandchildren.”
A FRESCO OF TRANSYLVANIAN SOCIETY:
But beyond these pages on Romanian prisons, “My second University” is also a Social History of the Romanian professional classes, with roots deep among the rural peasantry of Transylvania. In his family Dr. Stroia represented a first generation of University graduates. He was very proud of his origins and felt always close to the people who tilled the land and raised livestock.
Stroia was not politically engaged against the communist dictatorship and he should have had no reason to fear its wrath, except for the arbitrary repression that such regime meted on innocent people: he became one of its victims and spent six and a half years behind bars, from April 1951 to December 1957. These was the long trail of notorious prisons (Sibiu, Jilava, Aiud, Fagaras), the carcer isolation, the torture, the humiliations, the malnutrition and physical degradation – never the moral collapse, as Dr. Stroia’s kept his spine upright and never cowered.
It is not because one may have read about Solzhenytsyn’ gulags that these memoirs may be less poignant, quite the contrary. But the difference here lies in the tone of the narrative, which is neither strident nor bitter – it is instead quietly factual, almost clinical, as the medical eye surveys the human sufferings and frailties, as well as the medical effects, which the prison regime had on the human body. For this prisoner’s enquiring mind this experience became a learning curve, not so much his Golgotha, for he was far too dignified to present it as such, rather something, which he describes metaphorically as his “second university”.
“My second University” introduces into the narrative a broad variety of characters from the Transylvanian landscape, from humble herdsmen, village priests and minor country squierarchy, to Hungarian aristocrats, like Count Bethlen, brother of the Hungarian PM and Orthodox and Uniate Bishops, and Politicians and, inevitably, fellow members of the medical profession, but also prison warders and torturers, communist satraps, not forgetting the informers and Securitate spies of which there were many. In fact the whole gamut of post-war Romanian panorama is present here, unfolding before our eyes, for this is a very ‘Transylvanian’ book, not just for its contents, characters and situations it describes, but especially for the directness and forcefulness of its presentation.
MEDICAL PRACTICE AFTER PRISON RELEASE:
Once out of prison, as a “re-educated member of the society” (sic!) the news of Dr. Stroia’s release reached the countryside and a delegation of elders, came along begging him to be their village GP:
“ Over time, many area residents started to inquire about my whereabouts, even asking for medical assistance; they remembered the many successful years I spent at their service. Then one day in late March 1958 a group of peasants from the nearby villages of Visnea de Jos, Visnea de Sus, Feldioara and Ucea showed up at my door, led by a local mayor, with a petition signed by eight hundred of them. They requested my acceptance for employment in their clinic, recently vacated because of the death of the local doctor under dubious circumstances. The offer sounded very attractive as the area was located a mere twenty-five kilometres South of Fagaras”.
But for any assignment he would have had to obtain the approval of the secret police: in no time at all he was warned by a Securitate officer never to accept such invitation or else he might not be alive:
“Noticing my hesitation and aware of my popularity, he added an open-ended question:
Taken by surprise, I answered cautiously .
A reply failed to follow. The expression on the man’s face was self-explanatory.
In all truth the officer did me a great favour, allowing me to avoid suspicious situations leading to more trouble. The incident served as a reminder of the document I signed upon my release from prison.”
Dr. Stroia was redirected instead to a remote region, where he had no previous family roots and where he had no previous contacts. Still he had to remain over-cautious:
“With my colleagues I maintained a strictly professional relationship. No social interaction or house visits ever took place. After all these were the directives I had received from the Securitate and had to comply with upon my release. Occasionally, as I was hearing about ex-political detainees being frivolously fired from their jobs, some well-meaning individuals were compelled to remind me: (“Be careful, Doc”).
But in spite of all the care he took Dr. Stroia could not please
the all-powerful Communist Party hacks and Securitate stooges. One of them in particular, the First-Secretary of the District Communist Party, publicly labeled him a “cheat”, and a “bandit”, which was the classic jargon for an “enemy of the people’”, or rather for anybody who did not approve of the Communist practice. Ironically, such attitude was soon going to change when the First-Secretary’s only son, an 18-years old, was in a bad way, after a night’s drinking binge:
“The First-Secretary himself requested an appointment at his house, at the suggestion of other concerned local physicians. His 18-year old son had returned from high school graduation party, which included a lot of plum brandy consumption and had failed to wake up after twenty-four hours deep sleep. With an unconscious son, he was requesting the opinion of the (the old crook) asking for treatment and a fair prognosis. Aided by my knowledge of toxicology acquired during long night shifts at the University emergency room and following a thorough examination I reassured the First-Secretary that despite a lack of guarantees in Medicine, his son would wake up rather than suffer a post-comatose death. Forty-eight hours of toxic sleep later the young man returned to life.
From that moment on I became the ‘saviour’ and the First-Secretary my biggest and most vociferous fan. My presence was acknowledged from a distance and he made sure to shake my hand and congratulate me over again on every social occasion. Shortly thereafter, on June 8, 1966 I obtained my final rehabilitation, as a result of the decision of the regional tribunal.
"He is now fully re-educated!", proclaimed the Judge.
Quite!
“My second University” should be of great interest to the medical and liberal professions in the West to help them realise the extent to which the fellow-medical colleagues in the East suffered under dictatorship. Moreover it is important, as a sobering tale, to see how lucky we were in the West for having missed such experience, because soon after WWII it might have taken very little for the same political practice to engulf the whole of Western Europe. Churchill knew that we missed this turning by a whisker.
I stay at my grandparent's overnight… I always did growing up. Usually, I would sleep on the couch in the living room, and grandpa put chairs for me. She was always afraid I might fall in the middle of the night (even though I always slept by the wall. She’s sick and has a fever, and I get up throughout the night every time she coughs (in case if I need to raise her); then I measure oxygen levels. And then I can’t fall asleep at all or fall asleep at 6 am for another hour. The room that had a fish tank and rugs on the floor now missing all that, and it makes me feel cold. Then time to time, when my strength leaves me, I just want to cover my face and drown in my tears. God, how unbearable it is to be where you grew up and had all those happy moments & memories and to know they will never be the same.
Peril
by Bob Woodward, Robert Costa
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An Anthology of 19th and 20th century Romanian Women
1,100 pages, Social and political Overview, 160 biographies, 600 Quotations, 3,000 references,
E-Book available to download,
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Some Women:
ARISTOCRATS: Pss Catherine Caradja, Pss Marina Stirbey,
BALLERINAS: Alina Cojocaru, Magdalena Popa, Ruxandra Racovitza
COURTESANS: Pss Georges Ghika (Liane de Pougy), Elena Lupescu
DESIGNERS: Mica Ertegün
EXPLORERS: Lady Florence Baker
GYMNASTS: Nadia Comaneci
MOVIE STARS: Lauren Bacall, Aurora Fulgida, Maria Forescu, Nadia Grey, Elvire Popesco, Silvia Sidney
OPERA: Maria Cebotari, Viorica Cortez, Ileana Cotrubas, Angela Gheorghiu, Nelly Miricioiu, Leontina Vaduva, Virginia Zeani
PAINTERS: Ioana Celibidache, Nathalie Dumitresco, Micaela Eleutheriade
PIANISTS: Cella Delavrancea, Clara Haskil, Madeleine Lipatti
POETS: Ana Blandiana, Nina Cassian, Anna de Noailles, Helene Vacaresco
POLITICAL PRISONERS: Ioana Arnautoiu, Madeleine Cancicov, Ana Novac, Elisabeta Rizea, Annie Samuelli, Sabina Wurmbrand
POLITICIANS; Elena Ceausescu, Hortense Cornu, Ana Pauker
REVOLUTIONARIES: Maria Grant Rosetti,
ROYALTY: Carmen Sylva, Pss Ileana, Archduchess of Austria, Queen Marie, Pss of Great Britain, Queen Anna, Pss of Denmark and of Bourbon-Parme, Helen Queen Mother of Romania, Pss of Greece,
SCIENTISTS: Ana Aslan, Ioana Meitani, Elisabeth Roudinesco
STAGE & COSTUME DESIGNERS: Maria Bjornson, Marie-Jeanne Lecca
VIOLINISTS: Lola Bobescu, Silvia Marcovici
WRITERS: Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco, Marthe Bibesco, Alina Diaconu, Dora d'Istria, Marie-France Ionesco, Doina Jela, Oana Orlea
WHAT THE READERS SAY:
* "It is a Herculean Work..." (Editor, Buenos Aires)
* "It is beautifully written and meticulously researched and presented. It is accessible to the lay reader and will be a treasure-trove for further research by academics drawn from a wide range of disciplines " (Political Analyst, UK)
* "For those who think that Romania is nothing more than Dracula and Ceausescu, the book has a lot to teach you... ' (IT geek, London)
* "Constantin Roman invites us for a walk, during which he enjoins past and present alike, in a brisk coming and going of the narrative. It is a narrative that cannot suddenly end, but rather one which compels us to start all over again and revisit. It is a truly wonderful gift, a very happy surprise indeed of an inherently original book, which haunts us like the persistent music of those Romanian women’s voices." (French Government Adviser, Paris)
* There is no doubt, what so ever, that if Romania is the creation of a male society as well as of political conjectures, its place in the Western European psyche is entirely due to its women, who knew how to impose their reputation in the aristocratic salons of Paris, in the world of literature, or in the English clubs so intimately linked to politics. For “Blouse Roumaine” is an incursion charged with passion, which conjures varied names, such as Queen Marie of Romania, Countess Anna de Noailles, the Princess Bibesco, or the actress Elvire Popesco, not forgetting the diabolic Ana Pauker and Elena Ceausescu." (Art Historian, Paris)
* "... an audaceeous choice..." (Reader, France)
* "So long as the masculine and the feminine are not absolutely complementary notions in terms of fair percentages, it is a good idea to write a book about Romanian Women of World repute." (Novelist, Argentina)
* "... it represents the idea of metamodernism as cultural paradigm to an alternative synthesis of modern and postmodern paradigms" (Researcher, New Zealand)
* ...an easy book, which offered me, at least, the joy of reading an interesting, well-documented Anthology, without being bored." (American Scientist)
* ' Blouse Romaine' is a fascinating book about women who, for the sake of their ideals, sacrificed everything in order to safeguard basic values of humanity , generosity and compassion, women who fought the communist dragon imposed by fellow women. (Researcher, Cluj, Transylvania)
The Tale of Genji
by Murasaki Shikibu, ( 紫式部 )
Translated by Royall Tyler
1182 pages
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1982, is popular in Iran, which has published many of his books, including One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.
The latest novel by Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez has been banned in Iran - but only after censors noticed its title had been sanitised.
The book, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, was published in Farsi as Memories of My Melancholy Sweethearts.
The first edition of 5,000 had sold out before the authorities realised.
Review from Amazon.com:
By MICHAEL ACUNA
On the surface Gabo's "Memoria de mis putas tristes" (loosely translated as Memories of My Sad Whores) is a story about an old man who upon turning 90 decides to bed (or attempt to would be a better description) a 14-year-old prostitute who, upon entering the old man's room for the first time, promptly falls asleep. And it is at this time that the old man (unnamed) begins a reverie of his life and in particular of the many women he has bedded and for whose affections he has paid.
In barely over 100 pages, Gabo manages to squeeze in a chronicle of some 500 women: not finding Love with any of them. He says:"Sex is the consolation for not finding enough love."
Many will look at this novella as Gabo's attempt to write a piece that would be placed out of reach to anyone under 18 in the Public Library, alongside "The Tropic Of Cancer" or "Lady Chatterley's Lover." And Gabo would probably think that this would be the ultimate in Coolness. But, "Memoria" is much more than this. What it is is a tribute to all women and the mysteries of all things feminine. The Old Man pays for companionship yes, but he adores these women: they are his respite from Life, all that he craves and they fulfill something much more inside of him, than can the mere act of sex.
The Old man calls the 14-year-old virgin Delgadilla (or the little skinny one) and he lavishes her with gifts. Delgadilla becomes the Old Man's savior and avenging angel, for it is through her innocence and love that he is reborn as a writer and as a human being.
"Memoria de mis putas tristes" is Gabo at his most sensual. That these encounters he details are sometimes graphic and often times brutal does not deflect the sheer beauty and majesty of the writing or of this novella in general.
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Hellenistic Art: The Art of the Classical World from the Death of Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium
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Alexander the Great
by Paul Anthony Cartledge
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Arrian was a Greek who served the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a governor and (perhaps) as a general; after he retired, he specialised in writing military histories. Arrian regarded Alexander as
'a hero totally unlike any other human
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La última obra publicada por el laureado escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, Memoria de mis putas tristes, es una novela breve que narra la conmovedora historia de un anciano periodista que en su cumpleaños número noventa decide regalarse una noche de placer con una adolescente virgen y, sin esperarlo, se enamora por primera vez en su vida... sólo que de una muchacha de catorce años.
Las autoridades iraníes han prohibido la publicación de la segunda edición en farsi de la novela 'Memoria de mis putas tristes', del escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, apuntaron hoy fuentes de la editorial iraní Nilufar.
Seguir leyendo noticia
Según las fuentes, citadas por la agencia de noticias semioficial Fars, la obra, traducida al farsi por Kave Mirabasi, se había publicado por primera vez en Irán hacía tres semanas, pero las autoridades no han permitido su reedición.
Una fuente del Ministerio de Orientación Islámica iraní, cuya identidad no desveló Fars, apuntó que el libro fue publicado en un principio por la negligencia de una persona que ya ha sido despedida de su cargo. Según la fuente, la editorial tendrá también que asumir responsabilidades por la difusión de ese libro "vergonzoso", ya que lo ha publicado siendo consciente de su contenido.
Asimismo, la fuente añadió que de los cincuenta mil libros que se publican en Irán cada año, en ocasiones ocurren casos como éste, que, aunque las autoridades iraníes tratan de impedirlo, no son justificables. La novela, de 124 páginas y publicada en 2004, narra la historia de un periodista que a la edad de 90 años se enamora de una joven de catorce, a la vez que recuerda la relaciones que mantuvo anteriormente con prostitutas.Delgadina, haciendo
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Leonardo Da Vinci
The Complete Paintings
Hardcover Coffee Table Book
DIMENSIONS
11.5ʺW × 1ʺD × 13.5ʺH
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Professor John F. Dewey, FRS, FGS
(Universities of Oxford and California, Davis)
"Continental Drift" offered me a relaxing excellent read full of humour, humanity, wisdom and good science, way beyond the History of Science. This book is an Ode to the Joy of Freedom, of a kind celebrated in Enesco's Rhapsodies, or the cosmic vision of Brancusi's "Column of Infinity": this is Constantin Roman's "Ninth Symphony". I trust the reader would share with me pleasures that have derived from reading ‘Continental Drift’.
Professor Masaaki Shimizu
(Toyama University, Japan) (Resource Geology)
Constantin Roman’s research was carried out in an inspiring scientific environment at Cambridge. , He has brought new ideas and tectonic solutions to the plate tectonics by the introduction of the concept of "non-rigid" plates or "buffer" plates - now called "continuums" - a concept which is still valid today.
Prof Sherban Veliciu,
(Geological Institute of Romania and University of Bucharest)
Constantin Roman's thinking, whilst it flourished in the stimulating Cambridge environment, which represents the pinnacle of British Academia, would not have been possible without the broad culture which he received from Romania. This confluence is reflected in the very spirit of "Continental Drift". For, as we proceed, we must remember that this is not a textbook of popular science on the History of Plate Tectonics, but a series of personal impressions, or "cameos", which some day might complement such History of Science.
Prof. Tom Gallagher
(Institute of Peace Studies, University of Bradford)
Constantin Roman writes with candour, wit, and humility. His remarkable life story unfolds with effortless simplicity thanks to his ability to write mellifluous English influenced by Romanian cadences. This is a book which should interest the Romanian public at home and abroad as well as the general public- academic and non-academic
Prof Dennis Deletant, OBE
University College London
(Slavonic and East European Review, April 2001):
Adaptation to life in Western Europe posed a challenge in itself to East Europeans, but coping with the singular ways of the British added an extra dimension. It is in this part of the book that Roman is at his best. Roman’s story is one of success, unlike that of thousands of his contemporaries in Romania whose lives were sadly constrained by the severe restrictions placed on personal freedom by the Communist regime. His account is inspirational, and at a time when many young Romanians still tend to expect the state to map out their lives for them, it is an example of what individual initiative can achieve in a free-market economy.
Dr Andy Fleet,
Senior Keeper, Natural History Museum, London
(Mineralogical Soc. of GB and Ireland Bulletin, August, 2001):
‘Continental drift’ is by, and about, one individual’s successful attempt to escape a communist corner of this maelstrom. Only in passing is it about geoscience, specifically continental tectonics. The title, which Sherban Veliciu in his ‘Preface’ suggests is a triple entendre, conceals a mixture of personal odyssey, traveller’s impressions and brief cameos.
Some greats of the Earth Sciences appear, Bullard, McKenzie, Matthews, Runcorn, but, with the notable exception of the "friendly, unceremonious" Bullard, it is the ‘great and good’, who came to Roman’s aid as he desperately sought to stay in the UK, who are the memorable characters of the tale. Lord Goodman, the retired diplomat Sir Duncan Wilson, and William Deedes – Private Eye’s ‘Dear Bill’ of the Thatcher years – are among those who helped the young Roman.
There are also digressions which I suspect owe something to Roman’s enthusiasm for culture in its broadest sense and must have made him a compelling companion when he worked as a tour guide in Cambridge to make ends meet. His brief travelogue on the caves of Lascaux, which, with his typical brass neck, he got permission to enter when they were closed to the world, is forgivable alongside his joy and wonder at the visit
Despite these reservations the book does add up very much to an "Ode to the Joy of Freedom" as John Dewey refers to it in his Foreword. Though I am left with the impression that inside there is another, not necessarily shorter, book struggling to get out. One that recounts the same tale of enthusiasm, obduracy and persistence but more fully and less disjointedly. One with more flesh on the bones of the characters involved.
Dr. Nick Petford
University of London
("The Shifting Fortunes of Drift", The Times Higher Education Supplement,
June 20, 2000)
Prof Fotini Pomoni,
University of Athens
Having read "Continental Drift" I was very impressed so I decided to write to you in Romanian, albeit with many mistakes. Ever since I saw you in Bucharest I had the feeling that I met a man about the world with a true sense of humour. Subsequently from the book I discovered many other facets of your DNA. In my opinion you are born a free man unwilling to compromise in charting your future. You have come a long way in a life full of variegated experiences, so I consider you a rich man, a present-day Odysseus, aiming to reach his Ithaca. I wish you therefore not to hasten your pace to reach your Ithaca. Let it unfold as a long journey, a long life.
Dr. Leonore Hoke,
(Consultant Geologist, Austria and New Zealand)
The book finally arrived here on Saturday 12th August. That weekend I went skiing on Mt Egmont and took it with me and read it from cover to cover. I enjoyed it very much and it brought back many memories of Cambridge. It certainly fires up my fighting spirit, something I need here in New Zealand.
Dr Marina Shimizu,
University of Toyama
So, because Masaaki-san (Professor Shimizu, n.t.) started to read the book I took the opportunity of perusing it and I am absolutely stunned. Constantin’s book is not just glib science it is real life. What a style and what humour. Dear Constantin this is something to be read breathlessly. First of all it is a book which, for me, I feel it particularly important and fascinating. Now I understand better the true meaning of its dedication. I thank you so very much – it was a real pleasure reading it.
Prof. Catherine Durandin,
INALCO, Paris
I started your book. It is very witty and like the style. I am convinced that your "Continental Drift" deserves to be translated (in French n.t.). Your portrait is absolutely riveting. I gave the publisher your book with a very enthusiastic reference.
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It was the time of "La Belle Epoque" when Romanian aristocrats in Paris had a high profile riding expensive equipages and running literary salons, frequented by the great and the good.
Romania became idependent barely ten years when it took part in the Paris 1889 Exhibition. This was the year when the Eiffel Tower was erected.
Here we see a detail of the romanian band playing the panpipe (nai) accompanied by violin, basso, accordion and percussion instruments (tambal).
Jules Chéret (May 31, 1836 – September 23, 1932), a contemporary of Toulouse Lautrec, was a French painter and lithographer who became a master of poster art. Often called the father of the modern poster.
Chéret created vivid poster ads for the cabarets, music halls, and theaters such as the Eldorado, the Olympia, the Folies Bergères, Theatre de l'Opera, the Alcazar d'Ete and the Moulin Rouge. So much in demand, he expanded his business to providing advertisements for the plays of touring troupes, municipal festivals, and then for beverages and liquors, perfumes, soaps, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products. Eventually he became a major advertising force, adding the railroad companies and a number of manufacturing businesses to his client list.
As his work became more popular and his large posters displaying modestly free-spirited females found a larger audience, pundits began calling him the "father of the women's liberation." Females had previously been depicted as prostitutes or puritans, and the Cheréts—as his women were popularly called—were neither. It was freeing for the women of Paris, and lead to a noticeably more open atmosphere in Paris where women were able to engage in formerly taboo activities, such as wearing low-cut bodices and smoking in public.
In 1890 he was awarded, by the French Government, the Legion of Honour, for his outstanding contribution to the graphic arts.
(Source: Wikipedia)
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It was the time of "La Belle Epoque" when Romanian aristocrats in Paris had a high profile displaying their flamboyant equipages and running literary salons, frequented by the great and the good.
Romania became independent barely ten years previously, when it took part in the Paris 1889 Exhibition. marked by the iconic Eiffel Tower.
In this picture we see a detail of the Romanian band playing the panpipe (nai) accompanied by violin, base, acordion and percussion instruments (tambal).
The public is very "Belle Epoque"-like and the Art Nouveau was just being launched.
Jules Chéret (May 31, 1836 – September 23, 1932), a contemporary of Toulouse Lautrec. was a French painter and lithographer, otherwise called the "father of the modern poster".
Chéret created vivid poster ads for the cabarets, music halls, and theaters such as the Eldorado, the Olympia, the Folies Bergères, Theatre de l'Opera, the Alcazar d'Ete and the Moulin Rouge. So much in demand, he expanded his business to providing advertisements for the plays of touring troupes, municipal festivals, and then for beverages and liquors, perfumes, soaps, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products. Eventually he became a major advertising force, adding the railroad companies and a number of manufacturing businesses to his client list.
As his work became more popular and his large posters displaying modestly free-spirited females found a larger audience, pundits began calling him the "father of the women's liberation." Females had previously been depicted as prostitues or puritans, and the Cheréts—as his women were popularly called—were neither. It was freeing for the women of paris, and lead to a noticeably more open atmosphere in Paris where women were able to engage in formerly taboo activities, such as wearing low-cut bodices and smoking in public.
He was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French Government in 1890 for his outstanding contributions to the graphic arts.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Religion, Literature, and Art
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This image shows the Comboyne in Wollongong Harbour - Mt Kiera in the background. Permission to publish this image has been obtained from the collections of the Wollongong City Library and the Illawarra Historical Society Wollongong City Library.
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List of wooden ships built by Wright Shipyards, 1867 to 1954
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The SS Comboyne was designed by John Wright and built by his son Ernest Wright at the Wright Shipyards in Tuncurry to the order of Allen Taylor and Co. Ltd. John Wright died on 28th May 1910, shortly after construction commenced. She was launched at Tuncurry on 16th June 1911 by Mabel Wright, Ernest’s wife.
She was a twin screw steamer with a wooden single deck with 2 masts and an elliptical stern. She was especially designed for the shallow bar trade.
Details
Registration ON131486
Sydney Ship registration number: 25/1911
Registered Tonnage (1 shipping ton = 100 cu. ft.)
Gross 281 tons
Net 151 tons
Length - 137.2 ft.
Breadth - 29.7 ft
Depth - 7.5 ft.
Builder: Ernest Wright - John Wright & Co. Ltd.
Engines Fitted
In late June she was towed by the steamer Tuncurry to Sydney to be fitted with engines by Chapman and Co., Druitt-street. “The machinery was installed by Chapman and Co., Ltd. Engines 11in x 22in, stroke 16in, boiler 12ft 6in x 10ft, hatch 36ft x 13ft. Electric light has been fitted throughout, and she has a steam windlass, McFarlane's patent winches, and all the latest appliances for the expeditious handling of heavy cargo. The steamer is for the Camden Haven trade, and is specially adapted for the carriage of passengers, timber, butter, and fish. Designed specially for bar-harbour work, she will carry at least 230 tons on the light draft of 7ft, and must prove a great boon to the trade.” The Sydney Morning Herald 7th November 1911
She underwent trials in Sydney and undertook her maiden voyage to Camden Haven on 6th September 1911.
Hits rocks at Port Kembla and sinks
Just 12 months later she struck the end of the eastern breakwater at Port Kembla and foundered. reported on the event. "She left Sydney on the night of 6th September Saturday night to deliver a cargo of turpentine piles for the new low level jetty in course of construction at Port Kembla. Everything went well till entering the port at about 3 o'clock on Sunday morning [7th September 1912], when the vessel struck the end of the eastern breakwater. Captain Lucey ordered the crew to leave the ship in the lifeboat. When the steamer took her final plunge into 40ft of water, the captain commenced a swim of a quarter of a mile to the shore in the darkness. “The water was bitterly cold, and before he had gone a great distance the captain was attacked with cramps, and it was with the greatest difficulty that he reached the rocks in the vicinity of the Port Kembla Company's jetty, in an exhausted condition. The only article of clothing he had on was a pair of trousers.
The party in the boat made for the Electrolytic Company's works, where they were received by the night watchman, and allowed to dry their clothes in front of the furnaces. At daylight they repaired to the Port Kembla Hotel, where they were accommodated, and remained throughout the day. The major portion of the crew left by this evening's train for Sydney.” The Sydney Morning Herald - Monday 9 September 1912
A few weeks later in late September it was reported that the Comboyne had been re-floated and would be towed back to Sydney by the tug Hero and that extensive repairs would be required.
A Gruesome Find.
The Comboyne again made headlines in early September 1915 when the steamer was coming up the Camden Haven River and the action of the propeller swirled up the head of a man. The Ballarat Courier 22nd September 1915 reported "Investigations by police discovered a body, which was fastened by a rope to a ship's anchor-weighing at least a half a hundredweight. Further scrutiny showed that the head, which has been identified as that of William Purcell, who is believed to have lived at one time at Hunter's Hill, Sydney, had been smashed in."
Total loss near Kiama
Eight years later she foundered again – on this occasion off Bass Point near Kiama. The Sydney Morning Herald 28th September 1920 reported: “The steamer Comboyne, when off Bass Point, near Kiama, early on Saturday morning [27 Sept 1920], in a fog struck a submerged obstruction and sank. The members of the crew took to the boats and were later picked up by the steamer Kiama and convoyed to Kiama, whence they proceeded to Sydney by train.
The Comboyne, bound for Wollongong with a full cargo of timber, was in the charge of Captain Woods. Shortly after midnight a thick fog banked up, but as the master knew the coast and the vessel was standing well off from the shore she proceeded on her way. At about 3 o'clock on Saturday morning the Comboyne had passed Kiama, and was abreast of Bass Point, steaming well over a mile off shore, when a slight bump was felt. Almost immediately the alarm was given from below the deck that the vessel was leaking.
The pumps were manned, and an inspection of the ship was ordered. The water, however, commenced to pour into the vessel so rapidly that the pumps were quite inadequate to cope with it and an examination was made impossible. The master then ordered the boats to be got ready, and attempted to head the Comboyne for the nearest spot where he could beach her. His efforts, however, were unavailing. The vessel, in striking the obstruction, had apparently torn part of her bottom out, and through the holes the water poured in to such an extent that she quickly took a big list and commenced to settle down.
The order was then given to abandon the ship, and in two boats the crew left her. Within a minute or so, and within eight minutes of the accident, the Comboyne heeled over and sank.
The occupants of the boats cruised about until the fog lifted, when they commenced to make for the nearest safe landing. They had not gone far, however, when the steamer Kiama hove in sight. The Kiama, noticing the distress signals, stood by and took them aboard, landing them at Kiama.
All the possessions of the crew were lost with the ship. The Comboyne was a well-known coaster. Owned by Allen Taylor and Co., Ltd., she was a twin-screw steamer of 281 tons, built especially for the timber trade at Tuncurry, N.S.W., in 1911."
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