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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Ireland’s Sisyphean Crisis: Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place (adapted from Punch Cartoon, March 1844 ) The first time a whole nation completely imploded financially as a...
Monday, November 08, 2010

Riot Grrrls, Feminism, and Female Combatants

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If, in simplistic terms, it could be argued that first-wave feminism of the early 1900s resulted in enfranchisement of women, and t...
Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Backward Headers and Glances

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Perhaps the best of songs heard, or of any and all true love, or life's fairest episodes, or sailors', soldiers' trying scenes...
Monday, November 01, 2010

Saeculum

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Apamea, Syria, Oct 2010 Now as at all times I can see in the mind’s eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Rihla (Journey 18): Syria – Sun Dials and Solidarity

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Window above main Mihrab, south wall Great Umayyad Mosque, Damascus, Syri a Rihla (The Journey) – was the short title of a 14th ...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Time Lords and Necromancers

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I head for Syria next week and while in Damascus I hope to see in the National Museum the remnants of one of the earliest polar-axis sundial...
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Roger Derham
Galway, Ireland
A. Prof Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Forensic Physician (retd.), author, ex-publisher and journeyman.
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