Ciarán Ryan notebook

Canary brains can be regrown - 1999.

Prof Jeffrey Macklis, Harvard Uni

You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do - Henry Ford

Oct 99. New York Times no. 26,267.
Senate starts debate on pact to ban atomic tests. By Helen Dewar.

I love this quote:

“The bottom line is that a ban on nuclear testing prevents us from making our weapons as safe as we know how to make them”

said Senator Jon Kyl

What were Gijsbrecht’s paintings about? He did deceiving pictures - bedriegertje - trompe l’oeil.

Were they really pointing the impermanence of appearances? A moral purpose? Art is fading vanity?

Or were they just funny tricks for the king?

Chris Gulker 1999 - I’ll come back to this - nothing much has changed. http://www.gulker.com

Chris Gulker
Monday, 11 October 1999

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/beware-the-knock-on-thedoor-from-the-information-police-743209.html

Nature tends not to favour large, isolated aggregates of anything. This is whythere tends to be air in every corner of a room - air doesn’t naturally accrete to some mysterious central power in one corner, leaving a vacuumelsewhere in the room. Well, information tends to behave similarly. The adage “information wants to be free” underscores the tendency ofinformation to spread rapidly in all available directions. Evenly distributedinformation empowers all equally.

Western history is full of examples ofsocial arrangements where wealth and power were not equitably distributed,and life was rough in those times. Few of us, probably, would bewilling to trade our life for that of a feudal serf, for example.

Thusan arrangement that allows the unequal distribution of information is the firststep toward the unequal distribution of other things. Yet the mere gatheringof information isn’t illegal - students and researchers do it everyday, and much good has come of that. In any case, it would bedifficult to prevent, even if it were to be outlawed.

In 1999, the Venerable Pong Re Sung Rap Tulku Rinpoche, a seven year old New Zealander was recognised as the reincarnation of a Tibetan lama who died in the 1950s.

The Knack: How to Tell a Ghost Story
Independent, The (London), Oct 29, 1999 by SUSAN HILL

Your character could either see, hear or smell a ghost but try not to say they “sensed it” - sensing something if you don’t hear, see or smell anything is a bit iffy.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19991029/ai_n14261920

The importance of the B vitamins - in meat, cheese - zinc required too

Classical Notes: Oedipus’ fate was in his genes - and he knew it
Independent, The (London), Nov 5, 1999 by Duncan Steen

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19991105/ai_n14268212

His fate was in his genes - but his tragedy was that he knew it.

The angel scroll - found near Dead Sea. Reported in 1999.

Suggests that Jesus was just one of many philosophers within the Essenes sect?

It was around ten o’clock on a blue and golden morning at the end of September and the BOAC Monarch flight from London had …

www.archivo007.com/books/libro3uk.doc

Historical Notes: Immortality restored to Tutankhamen
Independent, The (London), Nov 4, 1999 by Tom Holland

By a final irony, it was the very myth of the Curse which helped to frustrate the vengeance of the priests. No longer a forgotten princeling, Tutankhamen became the most celebrated name in Egyptian history - and thereby gained a true immortality at last.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19991104/ai_n14267973

The Times (UK), October 16, 1999

TOWARDS the end of the Second World War, Adolf Eichmann ordered that a train leave Budapest for Germany crammed with gold, silver, paintings and furs seized from the 600,000 Hungarian Jews he had exterminated. Months later, American troops found the train hidden in a tunnel. Then, according to a new investigation by a presidential commission, they proceeded to help themselves.

According to the report drawn up by the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States, US officials allowed the Nazi loot to be pilfered by American generals, sold to soldiers at auction and turned over to Austria, instead of trying to return it to the survivors of the holocaust.

Damien Whitworth

Swedish idiom - something’s wrong.

Subconcious responds to symbols and archetypes better than concious verbal commands?