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The writings of John J Reilly, well worth reading
http://pages.prodigy.net/aesir/
Wayback machine link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20051123125736/http://www.johnreilly.info/index.html
Nice section on Eschatology: The science of the Last Things and the writings of John J Reilly. It’s mostly text and well worth reading.
The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den
http://www.fa-kuan.muc.de/SHISHI.RXML
A way of showing the difficulties representing Chinese using the roman alphabet. There are so many homophones that a poem can be written in Chinese employing just one phoneme.
You can listen to the poem in Mandarin and Cantonese using real player which opens outside your browser.
British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1638-60
http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/
Now only accessible on the wayback machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080725004111/http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/
Good site for info. about , the English/ British Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate of the original Old Nol. Learn how Britain functioned without a monarchy.
Bill Cheall – 6th Green Howards
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=5163486976&searchurl=tn%3Dfighting%2Bdunkirk%2Bhamburg%2Bgreen%2Bhowards%26sortby%3D17%26an%3Dbill%2Bcheall&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title2
Like so much of this old content it’s no longer available – but this:
http://www.bardsabode.com/TheGreenHowards.pdf
has some of the content and is worth a look.
Bill Cheall’s war memoire is also available on Amazon:
First hand account of what it was like to be a British soldier in the Second World War, including descriptions of the Dunkirk evacuation and D-Day.
Hook Norton Brewery Company Limited
http://www.hooknortonbrewery.co.uk/
This was my local brew and is like mother’s milk to me. The brewery is well worth a visit and is set in the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside. The factory is powered by a steam engine and it is believed to be the last steam engine in the UK still in daily use for its original purpose.
China’s Great Leap Upward
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0005B4B6-1CEC-1F5D-905980A84189EEDF&sc=I100322
So China will have a man orbiting the Moon during the next Olympics (Beijing 2008)and will land there in 2010. Another major player enters the space race, watch out NASA you have a rival.
Leodis – a photographic archive of Leeds – Home Page
a photographic archive of Leeds, Yorkshire, UK including the first ever moving image in 1888 on Leeds Bridge. Your chance to view some cinematic history.
Chin media, marketing, advertising, urban life – Danwei
http://www.danwei.org/
Unfortunately, no longer online . However, thanks to the wayback machine achieved copies can be seen here: https://web.archive.org/web/*/danwei.org
Media, advertising and urban living in the People’s Republic of China.
Ting – Chinese English Dictionary Study Center
http://hua.umf.maine.edu/Chinese/welcome.html
Unfortunately no longer online – instead I’d recommend using the Pleco app instead
The best site I’ve come across for learning Chinese – you’ll need to tweak your browser settings to get it to work properly though – make sure that it is set to handle simplified Chinese.
Features:
Dictionary search,
Flashcards / Review list,
A wide variety of sound files so you can hear words and phrases,
Flash – Talking maps, family trees, colours charts,
Account creation & storage so you can practice what you have learnt.
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Birmingham: It’s Not Shit
http://www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk/brum.php
Update:
This site has evolved in a good way.
If you want the classic site click here:
http://www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk/2012/12/a-new-dawn.html
No, not Birmingham Alabama! England’s second city.
Chinese Food Web
http://www.nicemeal.com/ – The internet changes, now this site is for food delivery in Ho Chi Minh city
(Used to be) Extensive range of Chinese recipes.
The Visual Telling of Stories – enter
Lovely collection of images collected over 30 years.
From the site: “The Visual Telling of Stories. You can go to the main gate or shuffle about in the Samplers till you get some hang of the place. It was started in 1996. Material is added every day. It is far bigger than you could ever imagine.`”
China Travel Service
Tourist info site about china from the Chinese govt.