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POPSBayerische Staatsbibliothek: Lateinische Handschriften - Collection of Latin Manuscripts The first image shows a Latin love letter with the Middle High German verse Dû bist mîn, ich bin dîn: des solt dû gewis sîn. dû bist beslozzen in mînem herzen: verlorn ist daz slüzzelîn: dû muost immer drinne sîn. English: You are mine, I am yours Of that you may be sure Deep within my heart You're safely locked away But I have lost the key And there you'll ever stay ]
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POPSMe, Myself and I The generally accepted linguistic explanation for the capital “I” is that it could not stand alone, uncapitalized, as a single letter, which allows for the possibility that early manuscripts and typography played a major role in shaping the national character of English-speaking countries. So what effect has capitalizing “I” but not “you” — or any other pronoun — had on English speakers? It’s impossible to know, but perhaps our individualistic, workaholic society would be more rooted in community and quality and less focused on money and success if we each thought of ourselves as a small “i” with a sweet little dot. There have, of course, been plenty of rich and dominant cultures throughout history that have gotten by just fine without capitalizing the first-person pronoun or ever writing it down at all. There have also been cultures that committed atrocities even while capitalizing “you.”
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POPSFour-hundred-year-old Shakespeare book recovered The university hoped to recover the other stolen works, which include a 15th-century manuscript containing a fragment of a poem written by Geoffrey Chaucer, author of "The Canterbury Tales''; an edition of "Beowulf'' printed in 1812; and a book of maps and poetry dating from 1612.
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POPSThe Web's Greatest Links Page Part I (Websites) I saw someone just post the name and the url but none of the sites that it links to, I thought I could do it a little more justice. These are not even a miniscule accounting of the Websites that this page links to. Truly something for everybody. The second part is web blogs...
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POPSBlue www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LhwlsaA-Vc
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POPSCourt Quashes Request for Peer-Review Documents In a decision likely to be welcomed by editors everywhere, a federal judge in Chicago today denied a drug company's efforts to obtain confidential peer-review documents from a major medical journal. Although journals have successfully fended off such requests before, a loss in this case would have set a troubling precedent for other cases, including a similar suit pending in Massachusetts.
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POPSIslam & Wikipedia entry I think I would like to use this for my class. We discuss wikipedia and how to use it as a resource for their middle school papers. We also try to discuss ethical issues and this looks like a short article that could get them thinking about these issues.
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POPSMuslim Bullying How absurd for any religious group to expect for persons of differing faiths or no faith at all to adhere to their quaint religious practices. It reminds me of the resistance to teach evolution in public schools or the attempts to force religion into the public arena. Both spheres have a similar lack of credibility and rationale. Kudos to Wikipedia for not kowtowing to religious fanatics.
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POPSBreathtaking View: Up Close and Personal On Tuesday, December 11, 2007, the three copies of the Magna Carta will be on display in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. If you live close or can travel this will be the trip of a lifetime. Most times, these documents cannot be seen by the public.
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POPS Da Vinci Code Redux The documents in question "reproduces the entire documentation of the papal hearings convened after King Philip IV of France arrested and tortured Templar leaders in 1307 on charges of heresy and immorality," which includes "a 14th-century parchment showing that Pope Clement V initially absolved the Templar leaders of heresy, though he did find them guilty of immorality and planned to reform the order, according to the Vatican archives Web site."
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POPSDark side of bibliomania-Intriguing and compelling read Spiegelman’s crime, his eventual capture and trial is the subject of Travis McDade’s riveting book, The Book Thief: The True Crimes of Daniel Spiegelman (Praeger Publishers). McDade’s book is the first book-length account of a book thief. BOOK REVIEW AT http://www.hindu.com/lr/2007/10/07/stories/2007100750050600.htm
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POPSIndian Pure Land Sutras The infinite universe, consisting of worlds upon worlds ad infinitum. The time during which the evolution of a physical universe took place is too long to be reckoned by any ordinary calendar and cannot be conceived even by a billion genius minds. It was formed, continued stability, it will be gradually destroyed, and will disappear. After this, the process of cosmic activity begins again in a cyclic evolution.
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