eWWII EE-8 field telphone images -
Found these images while rummaging around, repairing the field telephones
used in the sound pieces. The robust and partly corroded technology is
interesting; eventually I was able to get everything working. The
equipment is older than I am.
- Alan
http://www.asondheim.org/fieldphone1.jpg
http://www.asondheim.org/fieldphone2.jpg
http://www.asondheim.org/fieldphone3.jpg
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February 2, 2006
Met Sending Vase to Italy, Ending 30-Year Dispute By RANDY KENNEDY
Reversing its position of more than 30 years, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
announced today that it would relinquish ownership of a 2,500-year-old Greek
vase, one of the finest in the world, to the Italian government, which has
long contended that the vase was stolen from an Etruscan tomb and smuggled
from the country.
In documents delivered today by the Met's lawyers in Rome, the museum
pledged to return the vase and 19 other disputed antiquities after weeks of
negotiations with Italy, which will now consider the offer. Under the
proposal, the vase, 15 pieces of Sicilian silver and four other ancient
vessels would be returned to Italy in exchange for long-term loans of other
prized antiquities, and the Met would assert that the objects were all
acquired in good faith.
The vase - known as a krater, once used to mix wine and water - was painted
by Euphronios, considered the greatest of Greek vase painters. When the Met
bought it in 1972 for more than $1 million from a dealer whose practices
were already under scrutiny, its appearance stunned the art world, and Italy
almost immediately began an investigation with help in the United States
from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Over the years, the case - of its kind, perhaps second only to the dispute
between Greece and Great Britain over the Elgin marbles - became emblematic
of the ethical questions surrounding the acquisition of ancient art by major
museums.
In recent years, the Italian government has begun pursuing antiquities cases
more aggressively, and in 2002 it indicted Marion True, the antiquities
curator of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, on charges of
trafficking in looted objects. Ms. True, who resigned last year, is now on
trial, along with Robert Hecht, the American dealer who sold the Euphronios
krater and the silver objects to the Met.
The Italians also began to focus on objects in the Met's collection that it
believed had been looted, and Italy later issued subpoenas for information
from the Met. Last February, the Met requested a meeting with Italian
officials and in November, Philippe de Montebello, the museum's director,
met in Rome with Rocco Buttiglione, Italy's cultural minister, to hammer out
the outlines of a deal. It remains unclear when the Euphronios vase and the
other objects would return to Italy under the Met's proposal.
http://www.nytimes.com/
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Nomenclature of Opuntia Cactus Spines
I have been enumerating the spines of my opuntia, which are in the
thousands. It seems far too difficult to name them individually; however,
they might well be grouped by tens, hundreds, even thousands. Such
groups are families, for example the kynn family, kgerrard family, and so
forth. I am delighted with the results. Whereas spines previously were
associated only with a particular pad, now they are placed within smaller
communal organizations of both friendship and cameraderie.
For a long time, I worked on the various family names; the following are
the results. Please note there may be repetitions; consider this one of
the follies of the time, the difficulty to track anything at all (given
the relative explosion of information, to which the spines themselves are
immune). Enjoy -
10 ggold
20 crystal
30 cbpp
40 obsidian
50 kynn
60 daz
70 rmc
80 kynn
90 rtaylor
1000 daz
1010 cbpp
1020 ma
1030 daz
1040 rmc
1050 grvsmth
1060 rtaylor
1070 val
1080 daz
1090 rtaylor
2000 seligman
2010 richp
2020 cbpp
2030 xuanmai
2040 val
2050 tss
2060 seligman
2070 rmc
2080 jfn
2090 richp
3000 xuanmai
3010 rmc
3020 jfn
3030 baldwin
3040 daz
3050 kgerrard
3060 checker
3070 bhp
3080 clay
3090 kylet
4000 daz
4010 grvsmth
4020 bord
4030 kgerrard
4040 val
4050 kylet
4060 egg
4070 tomcarr
4080 tss
4090 mcrosby
5000 val
5010 richp
5020 bhp
5030 jfn
5040 kylet
5050 jfn
5060 egg
5070 bitty
5080 jfn
5090 bhp
6000 kuper
6010 mrovner
6020 jfn
6030 rmc
6040 lederman
6050 rmc
6060 kylet
6070 bitty
6080 crystal
6090 bord
7000 mittle
7010 ggold
7020 marathon
7030 bord
7040 kuper
7050 herschel
7060 bartlett
7070 mcrosby
7080 obsidian
7090 jfn
8000 bartlett
8010 ma
8020 rmc
8030 jfn
8040 hd-fxsts
8050 marathon
8060 kuper
8070 cshapiro
8080 bhp
8090 kynn
9000 thor
9010 lederman
9020 ma
9030 snefru
9040 hd-fxsts
9050 claudia
9060 obsidian
9070 herschel
9080 obsidian
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