City of London School and BSA

Four BSA students had been educated at the City of London School. Gardner was the first student admitted to the BSA and its second director (after Penrose).

• Ernest Arthur Gardner (1862-1939), Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge; BSA 1886/87; director 1887-95.
• Charles Henry Hawes (1867-1943), Trinity College, Cambridge; BSA 1904/05.
• Frederick Arthur Charles Morrison (1872-1899), Jesus College, Cambridge; BSA 1896/97.
• John Knight Fotheringham (1874-1936), Merton College, Oxford; BSA 1898/99.

Alfred John Spilsbury (1874-1940), who had been educated at Christ's Hospital and was admitted to the BSA in 1897/98, was later the senior classical master at the City of London School.

Percy Gardner (1846-1937), Ernest's brother and later the Lincoln and Merton professor of classical archaeology at Oxford (where he influenced numerous future students of the BSA), had attended the school under George Ferris Whidborne Mortimer (1805–1871), headmaster 1840-65. Percy Gardner recalled his time at the City of London School (Autobiographica, Oxford: B. Blackwell, 1933):

In those days the School ... was in Milk Street, within a stone-throw of Cheapside, and we boys had to pass through the heart of London daily, and, since there was no play-ground, spent the half-hour allowed for lunch in roaming about the precincts of the Guildhall. ... there was on every side a stirring and an energy which acted upon the minds of boys at an impressionable age, perhaps rather below them above consciousness.

Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926) was the successor to Mortimer as headmaster from 1865 to 1889.

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İnternette Türkçe Kullanımı

İNTERNETTE TÜRKÇE KULLANIMI
İnternet dilinde ilk dikkati çeken özellik, İngilizce sözcüklerin İngilizce karakterlerle ve çok yoğun olarak kullanılmasıdır.
Örneğin;
AnalogBillboardButonChatDomainDownloade-carde-maile-passfitnesshackerhyperlinkimagemaplinkmodemmultimediaplug-inserversitetrojanuserwap vb.
Yeni kavramları karşılamak üzere oluşturulan sözcük öbeklerinde de aynı durum gözlenmektedir. Örneğin;
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Tümüyle veya bir ölçüde Türkçeleştirildikleri halde İngilizce biçimleriyle bir arada kullanılmaya devam edilen sözcük ve sözcük öbekleri de az değil.
Örneğin;
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2Clickle-, klikle-, -tıkla-

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4Domain name - web sitesi adı

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6Freeware -ücretsiz sürüm programı

7News reader - haber okuma

8News server - haber sunucusu

9Nick name -takma ad / müstear

10Home Page -ana sayfa

11Port - kanal

12Snail mail -salyangoz posta

13Subdomain -alt alan

15Web browser -web tarayıcısı vb.


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Az da olsa görülen Türkçe sözcük ve sözcük öbekleri, istendiğinde, Türkçenin bu alanı karşılayabilecek zenginlikte olduğunu gösteriyor.
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- Ada-Net Türkiyede local IP dağıtmaya yetkili firma olarak Ripe Net'in Türkiyedeki Local server'ıdır.
- Download sitemizde yer alan programların tamamı shareware, freeware veya trialware'dir.
- Kayıt ve e-pass yüklemelerimizi online ile yapabilirsiniz.
- Hotmail'den bir e-posta adresini Outlook Express 5 içinden Tools New Account Sign up Hotmail komutuyla bedava alabilirsiniz.
- Grafi 2000 en iyi 800x600 çözünürlükte internet Explorer 4.0 ve üstü Browser'larda görünür.
- Animasyonları izleyemiyorsanız yandaki butona tıklayıp "Shockwave&Flash Player" Pluginini download etmeniz gerekiyor.
- Sağdaki linke tıklayıp e-posta adresi alabilirsiniz.
- Netmeeting aynı zamanda metin tabanlı sohbet, uygulama paylaşımı, whiteboard gibi özelliklere de sahiptir.
Ancak;
- Kullandığınız yazılımı destekleyen bir sunucu üzerinden o an sunucuya bağlı herkesi görüp istediğinizle sesli/görüntülü haberleşme talep edebilirsiniz.
gibi az sayıda örnekte son derece başarılı bir Türkçeleştirme de görülebiliyor.

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Eton and the BSA

Eton had the second largest grouping of students at the BSA after Winchester. The number included one director (Bosanquet, who had also served as assistant director to David Hogarth), and one assistant director (Piddington, assistant to Cecil Harcourt Smith).

Of this group, six had continued their studies at Cambridge:

• Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936), King's College, Cambridge; BSA 1887/88. Later Provost of Eton 1918-36.
• William Loring (1865-1915), King's College, Cambridge; BSA 1889/90 and subsequent years.
• Robert John Grote Mayor (1869-1947), King's College, Cambridge; BSA 1892/93.
• Vincent Wodehouse Yorke (1869-1957), King's College, Cambridge; BSA 1892/93, 1893/94.
• Robert Carr Bosanquet (1871-1935), Trinity College, Cambridge; BSA 1892/93 and subsequent years; assistant director, 1899/1900; director 1900/06.
• Arthur Charles Sheepshanks (1884-1961), Trinity College, Cambridge; BSR and BSA 1907/08; assistant master at Eton 1906-38.

Two went up to Oxford:

• Charles Cuthbert Inge (1868-1957), Magdalen College, Oxford; BSA 1891/92.
• John George Piddington (J.G. Smith) (b. 1869), Magdalen College, Oxford; BSA 1891/92; re-admitted 1895/96 as assistant director to Cecil Harcourt Smith.

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Ciao for now...

Today was our last day in the big city....Bye, bye Buenos Aires and hello Ushuaia. We had a great time in the city....Renting that apartment for a week was a great idea, becuase it gave us a chance to really explore the city without feeling rushed and to see parts of the city we never would have. A couple interesting things happened today, on our last day.

Number one: the family of the landlord came to inspect the apartment and they were not happy about the door. But, instead of just coming to an agreement, they had to fuss and moan for a while before we could get out of there...It was really a long and drawn out ordeal that could have been taken care of in a much more efficient manner. The only good thing was that they arrived at our meeting on time, which is a lot more than we can say about when they came to meet with us in the first place (they were 2 hours late).

Number two: I ate a piece of blood sausage. And I am alive to tell the tale. I was not planning on eating it. I have not eated red meat in...oh about 15 years or so... But S was being a wimp and he wouldnt try it, so I told him that I would try it if he would. I did not think he would go for it, in fact he said no at first. Until everyone else egged him on, telling him that if a vegetarian can eat it, he better be able to... So he ate a small piece and I ate a small piece... It wasnt that great, and I dont think I ever need to have it again. But my mom always told me to try everything at least once.

That is it. Now we say good bye to Buenos Aires and we head to the End of the World, Ushuaia, for some hiking, beautiful sights and general enjoyment...

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Marlborough and the BSA

A series of BSA students had been educated at Marlborough, including one director.

Two contemporaries at Marlborough were Hercules Henry West (1856-1937) [1871-75] and Roandeu Albert Henry Bickford-Smith (1859-1916) [1871-74]. West would have been taught by Francis Storr, and both by William Mordaunt Furneaux. Both were admitted to the BSA around the age of 40 [West in 1896/97 and Bickford-Smith in 1899/1900] and long after the completion of their studies at Trinity College, Cambridge.

One of the key influences for the remaining Marlborough students is likely to have been Lewis Edward Upcott, assistant master at Marlborough from 1875-1911 (and replacing Storr). He would have taught Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) [1881-87], Richard McGillivray Dawkins (1871-1955) [1884-90], John Winter Crowfoot (1873-1959) [1887-92], and John Percival Droop (1882-1963). (Of these, only Crowfoot went to Oxford.) Upcott had been educated at Sherborne and had won a classical scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He had an interest in Greek archaeology and wrote An introduction to Greek sculpture (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887).

A further generation of Marlborough students would have been influenced by Alexander Cradock Bolney Brown ("Sweaty B.") who was assistant master at Marlborough (1908-42). He had been educated at Winchester and then New College, Oxford. During his year at the BSA (1905/06) he excavated in Boeotia. His impact on archaeology is unclear as some his earliest pupils would have served in the First World War.

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John Pendlebury: The Rash Adventurer

The research of John Pendlebury (1904-41) bridged the gap between Bronze Age Crete and Egypt. He was educated at Winchester, and Pembroke College, Cambridge. Grundon's detailed study gives a view of research at the BSA during the 1920s and 1930s. It covers Pendlebury's key work on Crete and his excavations at Amarna. There is a detailed discussion of Pendlebury's role in the defence of Crete in 1941.

Grundon, I. 2007. The rash adventurer: a life of John Pendlebury. London: Libri. [Amazon] [WorldCat]

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BSA Students and the First World War: Harry Pirie-Gordon

Gill, D. W. J. 2006. "Harry Pirie-Gordon: historical research, journalism and intelligence gathering in the eastern Mediterranean (1908-18)." Intelligence and National Security 21: 1045-59.

Abstract
British scholars were active in the Levant during the years leading up to the outbreak of the First World War. Harry Pirie-Gordon toured medieval castles in the region during the spring of 1908 under the auspices of the British School at Athens; T.E. Lawrence used his maps in the following year. Pirie-Gordon continued to travel widely in the Near East as a member of the Foreign Department of The Times and was involved with the survey of the Syrian coastline around Alexandretta. He was commissioned in the RNVR in 1914 and took part in the raid by HMS Doris on Alexandretta. Pirie-Gordon served in an intelligence capacity at Gallipoli before returning to Cairo to work with David Hogarth. In 1916 he was involved with the occupation of Makronisi (Long Island) in the Gulf of Smyrna. Later that year he took charge of the EMSIB operation at Salonica until its purge in early 1917. Pirie-Gordon returned to the Arab Bureau in Cairo and took part in the Palestine campaign.

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BSA Deaths in the First World War

Some 115 male students had been admitted to the BSA before the First World War. Although at least four had died by the outbreak of hostilities (or in the early years of the war), it is surprising how few casualties were sustained from the ranks of former students.

Two were killed at Gallipoli. Lieutenant George Leonard Cheesman, a Fellow of New College who had enlisted in August 1914, was serving with the 10th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. He landed with his unit at Suvla Bay on 7 August 1915 and took up position on the front-line at The Farm. He died in the Turkish surprise attack on Chunuk Bairun, led by Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) on the morning of 10 August 1915. More than 1000 British troops died including Brigadier-General A.H. Baldwin. Captain William Loring was serving in the 2nd Scottish Horse. He had earlier served in the Boer War, first as a corporal in the 19th (Lothians and Berwickshire) Company, Imperial Yeomanry, and then as Lieutenant in the Scottish Horse. In the intervening period he had become Warden of Goldsmith's College. Loring's force landed as an infantry unit at Suvla Bay on 2 September 1915, and he died from wounds on a hospital ship; the date is disputed, either 22 (BSA) or 24 (Commonwealth War Graves Commission) October.

All the other BSA casualties were on the Western Front. Captain Kingdon Tregosse Frost, a lecturer at the Queen's University, Belfast, had joined the Officers' Training Corps (OTC) in Belfast. At the outbreak of war he was sent with the 1st Battalion of the Cheshire Regiment to Belgium as part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). He was involved in the battle of Mons and was killed on 24 August 1914 (not 25 August as on the War Grave, or 4 September as on the BSA war memorial) near Elouges ‘fighting like a demon, having refused to surrender’. He was buried at Wihéries Communal Cemetery, Hainault. Lieutenant Cyril Bertram Moss-Blundell had been due to hold a school studentship at the BSA in 1914/15. He was commissioned in the 14th (Service) Battalion Durham Light Infantry in January 1915; Maurice S. Thompson, a former student of the BSA, had been commissioned in the same Battalion in August 1914. Moss-Blundell and Thompson arrived in France on 11 September 1915, and their unit took part in the battle of Loos on 26 September; during the fighting Moss-Blundell was killed. (Thompson survived the war.)

Captain Guy Dickins, fellow of St John's College, Oxford, was commissioned in November 1914 in the 13th (Service) Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps; Captain Erwin Wentworth Webster, fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and a former student of the BSA, received his commission for the same unit on the same day. Their unit was in France by July 1915. Dickins was injured at Pozières on 13 July 1916, during the battle of the Somme, and died of wounds in a field hospital on 17 July. He was buried at Amiens. Webster survived the Somme, but was killed on 9 April 1917 leading his company into action on the first day of the battle of Arras (First Battle of the Scarpe).

Roger Meyrick Heath had enrolled as a private in the Royal Fusiliers in September 1915. He was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant to the 9th, attached 3rd, Somerset Light Infantry, and posted to France in 1916. He was killed in action near Delville Wood on 16 September 1916, his first day in the trenches.

A plaque listing the casualties was erected in the BSA.

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Health And Fitness Tips: Stay on the fitness track

Making a new year resolution has become a tradition for many people. It's an opportunity for us to forget the past and move on to a better future. But unfortunately when it comes to making a health and fitness resolution, most people can't stick to it. People tend to fall back to their old habits after about one month.

If you're looking for some suggestions on how to keep your health and fitness resolution on track, you've come to the right place. In this article, you will learn some great tips on how to plan and stick to a successful health and fitness programme.

There are tons of excuses for not sticking to a health and fitness resolution and the two most common excuses across the board are LACK of TIME and/or MONEY. Perhaps you've heard all these excuses before. Something like... "can't set aside few hours each day for exercise or can't afford a gym membership or expensive home gym equipments".

Well, the truth is that getting into shape doesn't need you to put aside hours of your time each day or buy an expensive equipment or join a gym membership. Here are some suggestions for you to burn some calories in your body...

- If your house and office are within a walking distance, take the opportunity to walk to work or home as many times as possible. If you take public transport to work, stop somewhere nearby and then walk the remaining distance.

- If your company has stairs, make use of them.

- When you're working, use your breaks to take a walk and stretch out.

- Form a small fitness group with your colleagues. Being around with people who have the same goals can be very encouraging and motivating.

Remember that every additional step you take during the day can help to burn extra calories and move you closer to your goal.

If you prefer to exercise at home, there are many simple strength exercises you can perform easily in just minutes a day without any fancy or expensive equipment. Some examples are push-ups, crunches, squats and lunges. All these exercises are great in strengthening a particular muscle group and burning extra calories. You use your own body weight for resistance. And you can also include additional strength exercises using inexpensive resistance bands that cost under $40. See Bodylastics Home Gym.

When it comes to diet, the most important thing to pay attention to is NUTRITION. It's so important to follow good nutrition principles when you're trying to improve your body. Here are four best fat burning nutrition tips for you...

1. Eat several small meals per day rather than 2-3 large meals.

2. Be aware of what you eat. Small changes can make a big difference. For example: drink water instead of higher calorie drinks.

3. Know how many calories you should take per day to maintain your bodyweight.

4. If you want to lose weight, reduce your food intake. For example, when ordering a restaurant meal, ask for the lunch portion or box half of the meal.

The bottom line is that regular exercise and healthy diet are the greatest gifts that you give yourself. With consistency and discipline, you will stay on the fitness track and lead a more happy and healthy life.

For a complete information on exercise and healthy diets, check out "Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle".

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Telephono

So I guess there is a reason after all that we have cell phones. I sometimes wonder why. But today when I was waiting - by the way, I HATE waiting - for the boys, I realized, cell phones really have done at least one thing for us. They have allowed us to spend our time more economically.

The situation was this. I needed to get money from AMEX; Grant needed a sleeping bag. I was going to ¨pop in and out¨of the AMEX office... That didn´t happen. I ended up spending about an hour in the office and Grant ended up spending about 2 hours getting a sleeping bag. However, I couldnt get out of line to tell them that I was going to take longer than expected and they didnt know why I was taking so long. So we both ended up waiting longer than expected for each other.

So being here has made us all learn how to plan. Well, I use that phrase lightly...Plan. We have tried to plan, but sometimes it doesn´t work. But it has been interesting...Remember when we didn´t have cell phones (gasp). What did we do!?
I kind of like it. People can get ahold of me, they just have to wait. And the same goes for me...So we learn patience and planning. Maybe. Well we are trying to!

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