The museum’s Custodian for Southeast Asian collections, Vanessa von Gliszczynski, showed the group numerous items originating from Southeast Asia, ranging from Batak manuscripts, Malay textiles with calligraphy, inscribed bamboo containers from Sumatra, Javanese copper plates with Kawi inscriptions, Bali...
The thing, though, is that public libraries have always been with me throughout my life. My childhood and teen years were very difficult times but I found comfort, even rescue, in the pages provided for free there. I hope future generations will be able to do the same. Please send any...
Public libraries in Singa-pore have become greatly integrated with the community and are seen as inviting and relaxing, places for meeting people and sharing with other book-lovers. Key challenges include building its professional capability, staying relevant to the soci-ety and the economy, making...
In New Zealand, each library was designed by a local architect, with most stand-alone libraries following a basic plan of a central hall flanked by reading, library and social rooms. Some like Hokitika were magnificent, others more mundane. Only two of the New Zealand buildings remain in us...
Island depended on trade with the West Indies and Africa to survive, not having anything worth exporting. Of course this also means the colony was really dependent on the slave trade. By 1750, Rhode Island had the largest percentage of free and enslaved Africans of all the New England ...
The one megawatt (MW) Narmada Solar Energy Plant project was awarded to SunEdison with a mandate to provide solar power and conserve canal water. 'Floating windbreakers' connect to free floating barrels that rise with the water level, lifting the panels above. By this clever stratagem, water ...
Execution of High-Risk Activities: A pre-job walkthrough meeting will be conducted on the day of the task with all trade crafts involved to ensure HRA planning. HRA's must be affixed to the PTP and/or posted at the work location. Individual subcontractor craft must review the HRAs and PT...
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The thing, though, is that public libraries have always been with me throughout my life. My childhood and teen years were very difficult times but I found comfort, even rescue, in the pages provided for free there. I hope future generations will be able to do the same. ...