The Conference

May 2011 menandai 400 tahun King James Version of the Bible. Alkitab versi Raja James dari Inggris lah yang juga dasar terjemahan untuk Alkitab resmi Indonesia. Kalau penasaran mengenai sejarahnya, Thomas Nelson memproduksi rangkaian film Youtube mengenai hal ini.

not for the faint of heart

click the pic to see it On Monday, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM, the  Atomic Bomb  " Little Boy " was dropped on Hiroshima by an American B-29 bomber, the  Enola Gay , directly killing an estimated 80,000 people. By the end of the year, injury and radiation brought total casualties to 90,000–140,000. Approximately 69% of the city's buildings were completely destroyed, and about 7% severely damaged. Research about the effects of the attack was restricted during the  occupation of Japan , and information censored until the signing of the  San Francisco Peace Treaty  in 1951, restoring control to the Japanese. ( Wikipedia )

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical computer designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was recovered in 1900–01 from the Antikythera wreck. Its significance and complexity were not understood until decades later. Its time of construction is now estimated between 150 and 100 BCE. The degree of mechanical sophistication is comparable to a 19th century Swiss clock. Technological artifacts of similar complexity and workmanship did not reappear until the 14th century, when mechanical astronomical clocks were built in Europe. ( Wikipedia ) The ancient Greeks' vision of a geometrical Universe seemed to come out of nowhere. Could their ideas have come from the internal gearing of an ancient mechanism? ... Antikythera mechanism, is by far the most technologically sophisticated artefact that survives from antiquity. Since a reconstruction of the device hit the headlines in 2006, it has revolutionized ideas about the technology of the ancient world, and has captur...

The complex story of a simple language (from Joe Kissel via Interesting of the day ) During college I spent a summer in Indonesia, and naturally I picked up a bit of the language. When I say “the language,” I’m referring to Indonesian or, as it is known in Indonesian, Bahasa Indonesia (“language of Indonesia”). This statement is not as obvious as it may sound; Indonesia is home to hundreds of languages, and of these, Indonesian is not spoken as a first language by the majority of the population. But it is the lingua franca, so it’s useful for citizens and travelers alike. I found Indonesian to be very straightforward and easy to learn, free of most of the irregularities and annoyances of the Romance languages. What I understood at the time was that Indonesian is, for the most part, the same language as Malay (Bahasa Melayu), the national language of neighboring Malaysia. I assumed that there were some differences, but that the main one was simply the name. I had no idea at that ti...

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هذه قبلة الوداع يا كلب ! This is a farewell ... you dog! President Bush and  Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, vs  Muntadhar al-Zaidi an Iraqi journalist with Egypt-based al-Baghdadia television network December 13, 2011  |   Baghdad, Iraq

The Blackfoot continue many cultural traditions of the past and hope to extend their ancestors' traditions to their children. They want to teach their children the Pikuni language as well as other traditional knowledge. In the early 20th century, a white woman named Frances Densmore helped the Blackfoot record chief Mountain Chief for the Bureau of American Ethnology for their language. During the 1950s and 1960s, few Blackfoot spoke the Pikuni language. In order to save their language, the Blackfoot Council asked elders who still knew the language to teach it. The elders had agreed and succeeded in reviving the language, so today the children can learn Pikuni at school or at home. In 1994, the Blackfoot Council accepted Pikuni as the official language. ( Wiki )

Waktu lihat photo ini aku kepikiran, wew, dulu sphinx sampe ketutupan pasir sampai tinggal kepalanya saja.. pasirnya banyak bangeeettt.... After the Giza Necropolis was abandoned, the Sphinx became buried up to its shoulders in sand.... dan beberapa kali digali pada tahun 1400BC, 1250BC, 1817AD, dan The entire Sphinx was finally excavated in 1925 to 1936, in digs led by Émile Baraize .

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The year Queen Victoria died and Emperor Hirohito was born, there already existed a globe-spanning network of electronic communications cables... wew... 1901 sudah ada sambungan telepon di Jakarta The Eastern Telegraph Company expanded the cable length from 8,860 miles on its founding to 22,400 miles just 15 years later. The Company steadily took over a number of companies founded to connect the West Indies and South America, leading to a name change to The Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies. Wikipedia Cable & Wireless Communications Cable to India, Singapore, Far East and Australasia An 1863 cable to Bombay provided a crucial link to Saudi Arabia.[5] In 1870 Bombay was linked to London via submarine cable in a combined operation by four cable companies, at the behest of the British Government. In 1872 these four companies were combined to form the mammoth globespanning Eastern Telegraph Company, owned by John Pender. A spin-off from Eastern Telegraph Company was a second s...

Konstitusi Amerika ternyata terdiri dari 5 lembar.. dan ini adalah lembar pertama. Mungkin setara dengan UUD 1945 nya Indonesia. We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Article 1. Section 1 All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Section 2 The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature. No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and b...

Ever wonder what's like United State before Columbus? (Click the Image)

By  MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE Last updated at 9:48 AM on 17th March 2010 Grinning happily at the camera, this is Barry Soetoro, the cherubic little boy who went on to become America's first black president. The charming images taken at a child's birthday party in Jakarta 40 years ago were released as Indonesia prepares to welcome Barack Obama back to the country for the first time since he became president. The Asia-Pacific tour will also take in Australia and Guam and has been described as an 'extremely important trip' involving 'important partners', a White House spokesman said. Chubby: Barack Obama, then known as Barry Soetoro, centre, is pictured at a classmate's birthday party in Jakarta, Indonesia, in 1971 Read the rest of this entry →