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http://www.bbc.com/news/education-21236111
30 January 2013
In 2009 the Isle of Man’s native Manx language was declared “officially extinct” by Unesco.
But the pupils at primary school Bunscoill Ghaelgagh in St John’s are proof that the language is alive and well – at least for them, if not for their parents.
It is the only school in the world where children are taught in Manx.

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acomódense, abran bien los ojos y traigan café, que hoy hablaremos de las islas, islotes y peñones españoles en el norte de África: las grandes desconocidas, de las que poca gente sabe salvo cuando en las noticias aparece que algún marroquí se ha dejado caer por allí reclamando con mucha más ingenuidad que efectividad la soberanía alahuita sobre ellos y se genera un conflicto bilateral que nunca se sabe cómo terminará.
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Real, como la vida misma, esta entrada de las Frequently Asked Questions de la web de un congreso estadounidense
But I’m Spanish!
Fear not, we will take care of you. Wait until the meetings are over, shoot us an email, and we will send over a beautiful document attesting to your participation in the meetings complete with letterhead and official titles and name of your paper and workshop title.
Maps can be a remarkably powerful tool for understanding the world and how it works, but they show only what you ask them to. So when we saw a post sweeping the Web titled «40 maps they didn’t teach you in school,» one of which happens to be a WorldViews original, I thought we might be able to contribute our own collection. Some of these are pretty nerdy, but I think they’re no less fascinating and easily understandable.
This blog is made up of transcripts of Harry Lamin’s letters from the first World War. The letters will be posted exactly 90 years after they were written. To find out Harry’s fate, follow the blog!
8:31 AM: Ahora estoy completamente despierto
8:45 AM: YA ESTOY, despierto
9:06 AM: Ahora estoy perfecta, abrumadoramente despierto
9:16 AM: Esta es la primera vez que estoy despierto en mi vida a pesar de lo que ponga arriba
9:34 AM: Ahora estoy despierto de verdad por primera vezÉste es un fragmento del diario de Clive Wearing, un eminente pianista, director de orquesta y musicólogo inglés que, tras verse afectado por una encefalitis por herpes simple en 1985, sufre uno de los casos de amnesia más devastadores jamás conocido.
Clive presenta una amnesia anterógrada total, es decir, es incapaz de consolidar nuevos recuerdos. Puede mantener algo en su memoria durante un breve lapso de tiempo –alrededor de 30 segundos-, pero después de esto su conciencia se “resetea” y todo se le antoja nuevo otra vez.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Wearing
http://neurobsesion.com/2010/05/05/reset-por-mercedes-vega/
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/09/24/070924fa_fact_sacks
http://pijamasurf.com/2011/12/el-hombre-que-solo-tiene-7-segundos-de-memoria-clive-wearing/
Fonte: http://vimeo.com/3962842

Completísimo portal coas obras de Xulio Verne. Inclúe textos completos (multilingüe).

Even in 1895, such a project marked an act of colossal intellectual hubris. The two men set out to collect data on every book ever published, along with a vast collection of magazine and journal articles, photographs, posters and all kinds of ephemera — like pamphlets — that libraries typically ignored. Using 3 by 5 index cards (then the state of the art in storage technology), they went on to create a vast paper database with more than 12 million individual entries.
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Otlet and LaFontaine eventually persuaded the Belgian government to support their project, proposing to build a “city of knowledge” that would bolster the government’s bid to become host of the League of Nations. The government granted them space in a government building, where Otlet expanded the operation. He hired more staff, and established a fee-based research service that allowed anyone in the world to submit a query via mail or telegraph — a kind of analog search engine. Inquiries poured in from all over the world, more than 1,500 a year, on topics as diverse as boomerangs and Bulgarian finance.
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