quote:Op dinsdag 10 juli 2012 18:24 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:
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Een van de houten balken die bij de zoektocht werd opgedoken. Foto: ministerie van Defensie (NRC)
voor video en meer zie:quote:Water in Dokje van Perry
VLISSINGEN - In het Dokje van Perry in Vlissingen staat weer water. Dat betekent dat de restauratie van het oudste droogdok van Nederland bijna is voltooid. Het dokje is gebouwd in de jaren 1704-1705 naar een ontwerp van de Engelsman John Perry.
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/(...)leid=DMF20120713_133quote:De pistolen die Bonnie Parker en Clyde Barrow in 1934 bij zich hadden toen ze in een hinderlaag van de politie werden gedood, worden geveild. Het .38-pistool dat Bonnie aan de binnenkant van haar dijbeen droeg en het .45-pistool van Clyde moeten elk tussen de honderd- en tweehonderdduizend euro opleveren.
De wapens werden na de dood van het beruchte misdaadkoppel in beslag genomen. Ze worden nu, tachtig jaar later, samen met allerhande andere Bonnie en Clyde-memorabilia geveild in New Hampshire. Mensen kunnen er ook bieden op Clyde's gouden zakhorloge, Bonnie's cosmeticakistje, en een brief die Clyde aan zijn broer schreef toen ze op de vlucht waren.
Bonnie en Clyde zouden sinds hun ontmoeting in 1930 dertien moorden en talloze overvallen hebben gepleegd. Ze werden vaak bijgestaan door bendeleden. De politieman die leiding gaf aan de hinderlaag, Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, zou de wapens van het moordduo hebben gekregen als dank voor de succesvolle actie.
Van die prinses wist ik niet. Het komt wel vaker dat de Chinese overheid er de nadruk op wil leggen dat er eeuwenlang banden zijn tussen Tibet en (de rest van) China.quote:Chinese officials have announced plans to build a £3bn Tibetan culture theme park outside Lhasa in three to five years.
Authorities see developing tourism as crucial to the economic future of Tibet and have set a goal of attracting 15 million tourists a year by 2015, generating up to 18bn yuan (£1.8bn), in a region with a population of just 3 million.
But Tibetan groups have expressed concern that the surge in tourism has also eroded traditional culture and that the income has economically benefited Han Chinese more than Tibetans.
Ma Xinming, deputy mayor of the city, told journalists that the park would cover 800 hectares (1980 acres) on a site just over a mile from the centre. He said it would improve the Tibetan capital's attractiveness to tourists and be a landmark for its cultural industry, state news agency Xinhua reported.
The mayor said it would include attractions themed around Princess Wencheng – the seventh-century niece of a Tang-dynasty emperor who married a king from Tibet's Yarlung dynasty – whose tale has been embraced by Chinese authorities as a parable of ethnic harmony.
The park will include outdoor shows about the princess, along with other educational and entertainment facilities. Business and residential districts would also be included.
Ma said the park would also reduce tourist pressure on the Jokhang Temple and the Barkhor in the heart of old Lhasa, helping to protect the city's heritage.
According to state media, the number of visitors to the region rose by 25.7% year-on-year in the first five months of 2012. The tourism bureau has said Tibet expects 10 million tourists this year – up one million from last year – with tourism revenues growing to 12bn yuan. But foreigners were last month indefinitely banned from visiting, amid growing tension.
The announcement came after two Tibetan men set fire to themselves in Lhasa. Tibetan areas across western China have seen a spate of self-immolations, with those involved protesting against Chinese policies.
Officials in China often see theme parks as a way to develop tourism, though many have failed to attract the investment and visitors they anticipated. Whether the Lhasa government ends up building the project on the massive scale envisaged remains to be seen.
Professor Robert Barnett, an expert on Tibetan culture at Columbia University, said that while some officials had talked about environmentally and culturally appropriate tourism in Tibet, "this represents a nail in the coffin – symbolically and perhaps practically – of attempts by Tibetans and Chinese to promote that."
He added: "To recoup that cost, you have to have tourism on an unimaginable scale."
Barnett said Tibetans might well go to the theme park themselves, but would also be likely to question whether it was good for their culture and worth the huge investment.
"They are very acutely aware of these issues ... but I am not sure they have any form to ask them publicly," he said.
Xinhua reported last month that officials have also earmarked more than 400m yuan to develop tourism in Nyingchi prefecture in southeastern Tibet, renowned for its scenic beauty.
In addition to creating an international "Swiss-style" tourism town, the schemes will involve building 22 "model villages", where tourists will be able to enjoy homestays. Critics have warned the plan could damage the fragile environment.
quote:New inquiry set up into death of UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjöld
Commission will investigate 1961 plane crash after new claims of assassination and cover-up
A fresh international inquiry is to be opened into the mysterious 1961 plane crash that killed the UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjöld following the emergence of new evidence over the past year.
A Guardian investigation in August 2011 and a book published the following month both pointed to witness testimony that the plane was shot down over British-ruled Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia, possibly by western mercenaries, and that the assassination was covered up by the colonial authorities.
The commission of inquiry will include a retired British appeal court judge, Sir Stephen Sedley, as well as Richard Goldstone, a South African judge who was formerly chief prosecutor at The Hague war crimes tribunal. The panel will also include a retired Swedish ambassador, Hans Corell, and a Dutch judge, Wilhelmina Thomassen.
The findings will not carry legal status but will be presented to the UN.
The commission was established after a preliminary review of the new evidence by an "enabling committee" including Lord Lea of Crondall, a former Commonwealth secretary general, Emeka Anyaoku, and the former archbishop of Sweden Karl Gustav Hammar.
"Why are we doing this? Because we believe that the whole of the truth, in significant respects, has yet to be told," said Lea, a former senior trade unionist. "There is prima facie evidence from a book published in 2011, Who Killed Hammarskjöld? by Susan Williams, and from other sources, that there is new information that ought to be evaluated."
"The legacy of colonialism won't go away," said Williams. "Here at last is an opportunity for a distinguished group of international jurists to examine a most disturbing episode at the dying end of colonial rule in Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Hammarskjöld carried the hopes of a generation in Africa, for whom his death was a tragedy."
The unanswered questions the commission will look into include why the sole survivor of the crash said the plane "blew up" before it fell from the sky, why local residents reported seeing a smaller second plane attack Hammarskjöld's DC-6 aircraft, and why the wreckage was not officially found for 15 hours, though it was only eight miles from the airport.
The crash happened during the struggle for post-colonial Congo just over the border. Williams says the evidence suggests the DC-6, known as the Albertina, was fired on by a plane piloted by mercenaries fighting for Katanga separatists who had revolted against the government of the newly independent Congo with the help of Belgian mining interests.
Hammarskjöld was hated by many white settlers in the region for the UN's military support of the Congolese government in Leopoldville, now Kinshasa. He went to Ndola in Northern Rhodesia with the aim of brokering a ceasefire, flying under cover of darkness to avoid being intercepted by Katangese war planes.
A British-run commission of inquiry blamed the crash in 1961 on pilot error and a later UN investigation recorded an open verdict.
Dickson Mbewe, a former charcoal burner, was sitting outside his house near Ndola on the night of the crash.
"Suddenly, we saw another aircraft approach the bigger aircraft at greater speed and release fire which appeared as a bright light," Mbewe, 84, told the Guardian last year.
"The plane on the top turned and went in another direction. We sensed the change in sound of the bigger plane. It went down and disappeared."
http://www.deredactie.be/(...)20718_hut_Antarcticaquote:Bezoek eens de hut van beroemde poolreizigers
wo 18/07/2012 - 17:14
Via Google Maps is het voortaan mogelijk om de hutten van de Britse poolreizigers Sir Ernest Shackleton en Robert Falcon Scott op Antarctica te bezoeken. Digitaal rondwandelen op de Zuidpool kon ook al met Google Street View.
Leven als een poolreiziger op Antarctica. Voortaan is het mogelijk om een glimp van dat leven op te vangen via Google Maps. De internetgigant heeft immers beelden van het interieur van de hutten van de beroemde Britse poolreizigers Sir Ernest Shackleton en Robert Falcon Scott beschikbaar gesteld. Google werkte daarvoor samen met het Antarctic Heritage Trust in Nieuw-Zeeland. De twee hutten dateren respectievelijk uit 1908 en 1911. Ze staan op de World Monuments Watch List en zijn de meest bedreigde historische sites ter wereld.
http://www.omroepzeeland.(...)rakhout#.UBLQvqlLea4quote:Onduidelijkheid blijft over opgedoken wrakhout
Het blijft onduidelijk of het wrakhout dat eerder deze maand werd opgedoken voor de kust van Vlissingen afkomstig is van het admiraliteitsschip Walcheren. Dat zegt de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed.
Onderzoekers hebben foto’s van de balken bekeken, maar daarop zijn te weinig jaarringen te zien om uitgebreid onderzoek naar het hout te kunnen doen. Volgens de onderzoekers is het wel mogelijk dat het wrakhout van het gezonken schip zou kunnen zijn, maar is dat met jaarringenonderzoek niet aan te tonen.
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