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Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos will discuss music as part of the Edinburgh Lectures series.
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In doing his part for those that couldn't make it to php|works this year, George Schlossnagle has posted his slides from the conference.
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By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep.
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By Chris Guy, The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 3--VIENNA -- For Mayor Russell Brinsfield and Chief Sewell Fitzhugh, the event yesterday was more than a celebration of the history of this little village along the Nanticoke River.
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The man recognised as the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is to begin work on the next version of the web at University of Southampton, where he has been appointed a professor.
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BEIJING -- About 200 Tsinghua University journalism students filled a classroom one recent Friday evening for a two-hour lecture on the political history of Tibet.
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Lorin Maazel had a comparatively easy job last night in the first of this week's New York Philharmonic subscription programs. On the first half of the program, he led Mozart's Symphony No. 29 and the Horn Concerto No. 1 by Richard Strauss. He then ceded the podium to Xian Zhang, an assistant conductor at the Philharmonic since 2002, when she won first prize in the Maazel/Vilar Conductors' Competition. Ms. Zhang's task was more rigorous: she led the world premiere of
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An exhibit featuring letters, photos and Nazi-era documents detailing the history of Vienna's Jews opened in the Austrian capital Tuesday.
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Albert Einstein, the man who will help shape the course of the 20th century, is born in Germany. Compiled by Tony Long.
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DynamicWbePages.de has information posted today about a keynote that Rasmus Lerdorf will be giving at the "Bessere Software" Conference happening November 27th through 30th in Frankfurt.   The two-day conference, taking place in November in Frankfurt/Main, will have four tracks covering a wide range of topics from SOA to Ruby on Rails and Web 2.0. Fifteen tutorials will be given on the days before and after the conference. The organizers this year asked Rasmus Lerdorf (Yahoo!) to come be the keynote speaker. The topic of his keynote hasn't been set yet, but despite this he has been assigned his place in the program.   You can get complete details on the conference from the official website.
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I am reminded of an event 93 years ago, in which Franz Ferdinand was shot, plummetting Europe into war. World War III is coming, and the flashpoint is the Islamic world. Much like Serbia in 1913, it is fragile and fragmented and there is a determination by a large focused interest group to see violence done in the name of their agenda. And, in the use of violence, they have successfully advanced their agenda.
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By Jack Komperda Daily Herald Staff Writer  Carol Bohnert takes her agriculture as seriously as her classroom lectures on diagramming sentences.
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For most visitors, stately Vienna evokes images of the blue Danube, of waltzes and minuets, of Mozart and Freud.Comment
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HELSINKI, Finland A rare glimpse into Adolf Hitler engaged in conversation is back by popular demand.
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Music in the Making of Europe 1000-1300 is a series of five public lectures in musicology taking place from December 2004 until May 2005, given by Christopher Page, sponsored by the Department of Music, Royal ...
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 24--Education author Alfie Kohn will speak at Boise State University at 7 p.m. Oct. 4 in the Student Union Special Events Center. Kohn also will give a workshop at 8:30 a.m. Oct. 5 in the Borah High School Auditorium.
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A leading figure in the effort to minimise the impact of disease in developing countries has been knighted.