ANST - Fwd: [TW] Research?
Ellen Ginden
ginden at rocketmail.com
Wed Jun 3 10:18:08 PDT 1998
This has some very good sites on it so I thought that passing
it along to the kingdom might be in order. Hope you like
it.Lady Ellen
---owner-tavernwall at web.ce.utk.edu wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 18:44:34 -0700
> From: Joy <cen41909 at centuryinter.net>
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> Subject: [TW] [TY] Research?
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> here are some interesting links for research:
> http://britannia.com/history/time1.html
> his timeline has brief statements of historical facts
from the
> beginning of the construction of Britain's largest stone
circle at
> Avebury in c. 2300, to 1457, the year of the final
engagement of the
> War of Roses. As current scholarship generates new
information,
> ideas and theories in their fields, the timeline is an
excellent new
> and refreshable reference for students of Celtic
literature, and of
> the early history of Britain. Many of the events and
places are
> highlighted, providing links to elaboration. Hadrian's
Wall, for
> example, brings up a World Heritage Site introduced by
the words of
> G.M. Trevelyan:
> "It is the land of far horizons, where the piled or
drifted
> shapes of gathered vapour are for ever moving along
the farthest
> ridge of hills, like the procession of long primeval
ages that
> is written in tribal mounds and Roman camps and Border
towers
> on the breast of Northumberland."
>
> http://www.jle.lul.co.uk/arch/index.htm
>
> The Jubilee Line Extension project of the London
Underground lets
> you travel deep into the past, with Roman stops at the
London Bridge
> and Stratford, and prehistoric and Medieval stops at
Parliament
> Square. In cooperation with the Museum of London,
excavations of the
> new subway line are being used to find and preserve a
variety of
> ancient objects. The Website of the Jubilee Line Extension
> celebrates the work in progress toward a major addition
to London
> transit -- and sets aside these interesting pages to take
the world
> along on its archeological side trips.
>
>
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/nest/imager/contributions/scharein/KnotPlot.html
> Anyone who sees this Website will be cured of the notion
that
> mathematics is not colorful! Knot theory is a branch of
algebraic
> topology concerned with the embedding of one topological
space into
> another. A visit to this site reveals the power of
computing to
> create images from formulas, and even to animate them.
> A page is included about Celtic knots, where one cannot
help but wish
> the ancient designers of the knots of illumination could
get to see
> the 21st century knots aborning at the Knot Plot site.
These are
> Beautiful pages to explore which showcase the
visualization gifts
> of digital imaging to mathematics -- and the site is,
quite
> literally, mind-bending.
> --
> =FFO=FF=E0
>
>
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