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Miranda's travel diary - translation in progress
Entering translated entries of Francisco de Miranda's travel diary (to English, originally in Spanish) on this new blog:
http://franciscodemiranda.posterous.com
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Kepler Mission
I just listened to the Diane Rehm show linked there - interviews and updates on SETI and Kepler, including Jill Cornell Tarter, whose work provided the inspiration for the character Ellie Arroway in 'Contact'.
Here is the link, just in case you are interested:
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Futuresque: new means of transportation for the XXIst Century (2009)
In the streets of Washington D.C., barely a block away from the White House and the Washington Monument... we saw it take to the street, reach the sidewalk and disappear in complicated maneuvers... admirable!
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Proof of a hoax ~ Trial, Granada 1780
(as a follow-up to the previous entries, this is part of the extensive text that revealed the Juan Flores trial for falsifying the inscriptions below)
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Translation in progress
(State of progress in the translation while the labels I was attempting to decipher (see below) were actually an Eighteenth Century hoax)
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Miranda, paleolinguist (2)
Yet another folio with several characters that I have not been able to identify:
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Miranda, paleolinguist
In an early stage in his military career, an intrigued and ever curious young Francisco de Miranda copied these odd inscriptions found on excavations surrounding the Alhambra - he then saved the copies in his Travels archives, along with his diaries:
Translation, anyone?
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