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Bajcsy-Zsilinszky street

Sat, 17 May 2008 09:24:54 -0400

I know its not easy to prounance the name of this street but it looks wonderful from the top of the St. Stephen Basilica. Have a nice weekend to everyone!
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Bomb

Fri, 16 May 2008 05:01:52 -0400

Yesterday an 1000kg II. World War bomb was find in the neighbourhood of the University. There are large contructions and almost every day they find something. The American bomb was so huge that they have closed a bridge, several roads and evacuated
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from the roof

Thu, 15 May 2008 06:08:08 -0400

Being in Budapest its a must to climb the St. Stephen Basilica:) From the roof its a wonderful view to the city from special angle. During the next days I will share with you some photos about the view there. Spite of the fact that I was born in Bud
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Budapest Cowboys

Tue, 13 May 2008 23:01:13 -0400

In Hungary football is(was?) the most popular sport. The football which is called soccer in the US. The American Football is pretty new in this country, to be honest I am even not familiar with the rules. Budapest cowboys is one of the new Hungarian
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free way

Mon, 12 May 2008 23:01:13 -0400

I recognized that in some other countries the street lamps are working in different ways. The sign is obvious everywhere…red=stop, yellow=ready, and green=go. But the way these colors are changing might be different. In Hungary from green it
Source: Budapest daily photo

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Raiffeisen Bank

Mon, 12 May 2008 06:15:18 -0400

Banks are usually boring, but when they buy and renovate a wonderful building and even the sunset helps, then they can make a miracle.:) News on my other blogs: Impression of Indonesia: Buddha head
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Marching Bicycles

Sun, 11 May 2008 07:25:43 -0400

Abraham asked yesterday in his comment about the marching cyclists on the bridge. I have posted about them before but to see the contrast between the lonely rider and the crowded marching I post a next photo about them:) News on my other blogs: I
Source: Budapest daily photo

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Lonely rider

Sat, 10 May 2008 10:18:34 -0400

I took this photo right before the Criticall Mass event on the 20th of April. This policemen crossed the empty Elizabeth bridge in order to close the roads and making sure nobody will disturb the marching bicycles.
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crosses

Thu, 8 May 2008 23:01:09 -0400

At the end of April I already posted a similar photo of this church. But this picture I find much better and I decided to post it, too. Cranes are very common in Budapest lately, constructings and reconstructing and at times they look strange among
Source: Budapest daily photo

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Platán

Wed, 7 May 2008 23:01:31 -0400

Platán is a pub in Buda at the Elizabeth Bridge. It’s name is not Platán at all. Officially it is called Erzsébet Híd Söröző (Elizabeth Bridge pub) but everybody calls it Platán (platanus, plane tree). Whatever its name is the pub is
Source: Budapest daily photo

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Buda Castle

Wed, 7 May 2008 08:36:07 -0400

The Buda Castle from a different angle. I took this photo from the Gellért Hill. Last year Zannnie has posted a photo about the same place from an other direction. This one.
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The last pic of the series

Mon, 5 May 2008 23:01:40 -0400

This is the last pic of my Elizabeth bridge series. Its even more noble with these clouds. On the Flickr some said the black lamp is disturbing…others said its more interesting with it. What do you think? News on my other blogs: Impressions o
Source: Budapest daily photo

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Elizabeth statue and bridge

Sun, 4 May 2008 23:01:54 -0400

The statue of Queen Elizabeth was made by György Zala and Rezső Hikish and originally the statue was introduced in 1932 to the public. In the background the Elizabeth bridge is visible as part of my series:)
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Elizabeth

Sat, 3 May 2008 23:01:48 -0400

A next piece of my new series about Elizabeth Bridge. I tried to discover it from different angles. News on my other blogs: Me and my crazy mind: Lazy
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Getting off

Fri, 2 May 2008 23:02:03 -0400

Getting off is a photo exhibition of bikers at the Kodály Körönd in Budapest. As they write on their website: “The photos of this exhibition give evidence that for us, Hungarians the bicycle is not simply a means of transport. Rather, it is
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Getting closer

Thu, 1 May 2008 23:01:50 -0400

I took a lot of photos of the Elizabeth bridge and its background on the other day. In the next few days I will share with you all of them:) News on my other blogs: Breathtaking photos: little snail
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Theme day: Numbers

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:01:24 -0400

The theme for may is NUMBERS in the dailyphoto family. I forgot to registrate to the participant-list but anyway..I take part. I know that the instructions were about Arabic numbers, but I like Roman ones:) They look very noble and ancient. Especial
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Mikszath square

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:44:22 -0400

Mikszáth was born in Szklabonya into a family of the lesser nobility. He studied Law at the University of Budapest from 1866 to 1869, although he did not apply for any exam, and became involved in journalism, writing for many Hungarian newspapers i
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Museum of Fine Arts

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:15:00 -0400

The millenary session of the Hungarian Parliament in 1896 passed a law whereby art collections previously held in different institutions were to be unified and placed in the newly-established Museum of Fine Arts. On the basis of a competitive ten
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Restaurant Náncsi Néni

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:40:00 -0400

The restaurant Náncsi Néni is a cult place of Budapest's gastronomy. Local people said it was better before...but thats what older people say all the time..isnt it?:) Being in Budapest after seeing everything in the historical downtown its not
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A Commonwealth of Diverse Cultures - Poland’s Heritage internet project

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:46:53 -0400

Commonwealth of Diverse Cultures: Poland’s Heritage is an international, educational exhibition which presents the history of tolerance and cohabitation of various ethnic groups in the territory of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Site designed b
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Coordinator of Oral History Digital Initiatives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:29:19 -0400

The Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) in the Center for the Study of the American South seeks a Coordinator of Oral History Digital Initiatives to oversee the SOHP's participation in a three-year, cross-university collaboration focused on &quo
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First there was CAPTCHA, now there’s reCAPTCHA

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:59:54 -0400

Captcha programs have been around for some time, but reCAPTCHA is a newer flavor. If you’re like me, you didn’t realize that you are already familiar with captcha (and possibly recaptacha). Most of us encounter it when filling web forms. It ofte
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Digital effort strives to preserve local history - MLive.com

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:07:51 -0400

WHMIDigital effort strives to preserve local historyMLive.com, MI - Apr 24, 2008If you'd like to join this digital history project, call Huntley at 810-229-5212 or send him an e-mail at jason@archerhuntley.com. ...Brighton Businessman Seeks To
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OA to Darwin's private papers

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:15:00 -0400

On April 17, several thousands of Charles Darwin's private papers were made freely available in digital form online. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, where the papers were posted, also hosts digitized OA versions of numerous Darwin publica
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German Wikipedia To Be Published As a Book - Slashdot

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:49:58 -0400

German Wikipedia To Be Published As a BookSlashdot - Apr 22, 2008David Gerard writes "Bertelsmann is to publish a single-volume book of the German Wikipedia in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland. ...
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100K items digitized by U of Iowa

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:14:00 -0400

As announced on on April 16, there are now 100,000 items in the Iowa Digital Library. (Thanks to Charles Bailey.)
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Open encyclopedia of Egytpology

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:29:00 -0400

The UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, an apparently-new project, will offer an "open" and a "full" version of the encyclopedia. The oldest paper on the site was deposited April 3. There will also be a feature for sharing data, including the option to
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Teaching on YouTube

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:38:15 -0400

Today, we have a guest feature by Alexandra Juhasz, Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College, in Claremont, CA. This piece consolidates lengthier blog entries about a course she ran on YouTube, called “Learning from YouTube,” in Fall 2007. T
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Wikimedia Foundation wants research about its projects to be OA

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:23:00 -0400

The Wikimedia Foundation has posted a draft document (started April 7), "Wikimedia Foundation Research Goals" (see the current revision as of this post or the latest revision). The purpose of the document is to "articulate the key areas and broad que
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Encyclopedia Britannica Now Free For Web Publishers

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:01:02 -0400

Thanks to a new program called Britannica Webshare, web publishers — be they bloggers, webmasters, or writers who post frequently on the web — can now get free online access to Britannica and its 65,000 articles. Normally, this service runs $70 p
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Digital Campus #25 - Get With the Program

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:26:38 -0400

We were incredibly lucky to get two of the most sophisticated programming gurus in the humanities, Bill Turkel and Steve Ramsey, on the podcast this week. Bill and Steve are both committed to teaching other humanities scholars how to get started w
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How librarians can promote OA

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:44:00 -0400

Dean Giustini, Top Five (5) Ways for Librarians to Contribute to Open Access (OA) Movement, UBC Academic Search - Google Scholar Blog, April 18, 2008. Increase your own knowledge of OA issues; visit Open Access News daily; Support OA by dev
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Carnivalesque posted

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:00:45 -0400

The latest early-modern edition of the Carnivalesque blog carnival is now up at Walking The Berkshires. Tim has hosted editions of just about every history related carnival and as usual he’s done a fantastic job. There are loads of fascinating po
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Who Owns This Image?: Art, Access, and the Public Domain after Bridgeman v. Corel

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/8208 On Tuesday, April 29, Creative Commons, the Art Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association, the College Art Association, and ARTstor are cosponsoring “Who Owns This Image?: Art, Access, and th
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Remembering April 16th

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:27:04 -0400

One year ago today, 32 Virginia Tech students and faculty lost their lives in the worst school shooting in our nation’s history. Tech will be honoring the victims of this tragedy today with special events and webcasts. Shortly after the events of
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Mass digitization at the U of California

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:46:00 -0400

The California Digital Library has created a web page on its Mass Digitization Projects. (Thanks to Charles Bailey and Klaus Graf.) Excerpt: The UC Libraries are participating in three mass digitization projects: Google Book Search, Microsof
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Call for proposals to host DH2010

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:49:36 -0400

DH (Digital Humanities) is the annual international conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (AHDO), whose constituent organisations are ALLC, ACH and SDH/SEMI. The committees of DH and its constituent organizations now invite
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Lecsó

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:10:00 -0400

My this week's post on the Hungary starts here blog: -------------------------------------------------------------- Last Saturday afternoon I went to the 27th National Folk dance Festival and Fair with my daughter, because I really love the folk mus
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Raspberry Syrup

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:16:00 -0400

Photo: Nóra There wasn't a wide choice of refreshing drinks in my childhood. That time in Hungary we could choose only three or four drinks, for example between Traubi and raspberry syrup. My grandmother used to prepare raspberry syrup every yea
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Somlói

Sat, 5 Apr 2008 13:49:00 -0400

Somlói galuska (pronuance: "SHOM-LO-I GAL-OOSH-KAH") is a popular and well known Hungarian dessert. It is made by layering chocolate and vanilla sponge cake with vanilla custard, raisins, walnuts, chocolate sauce, rum and a generous topping of whi
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backyard

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:01:04 -0400

A traditional house in the downtown of Budapest has two `yards` like this. One was used by the landlords and the other one by the servants. This building is on the Fo utca (Ist district) in Buda.
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Lauder Javne Jewish Community School

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:48:01 -0400

Lauder is the most famous Jewish community school in Hungary. It was established by the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation in order to marking the return of a Jewish presence in Central Europe.
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The Church in the Third district in Budapest

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:01:17 -0400

The intensity of the sunshine in this Spring has brought really wonderful and good feelings with its fresh air! A church in this angle is just one of the sights in the 3rd District in Budapest if you are making a walking excursion. All around, the l
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Momo

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:01:59 -0400

My new puppy is More More. The chinese version of his name is Mao Mao (means HAIRY in Chinese) but in Hungary its easier to pronounce it like Momo. A lively and active 10 weeks old Havanese…which totally changes our lives.
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Kodály Körönd

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 23:01:28 -0400

The corner of the Andrássy Avenue and the Kodály Körönd. There is and underground station of the Millennium Underground Railway and this is the place where I captured this photo a couple of days ago.:)
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Sunbath

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:00:31 -0400

The sunset give a special orange(ish) color to the building of the Parliament. A scene which is always a worth to capture. I know I posted a lot of photos about the parliament building already…but sorry I couldnt resist:)
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Hunter

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:01:39 -0400

Again a hunter!:) He was standing on the fence getting a good position for photos on the Critical Mass last weekend. News on my other blogs: Impressions of Indonesia: ohsoquiet
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Double cross

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:01:41 -0400

This church is the oldest building in Pest. Its first version was raised in the XII. century and the recent shape and design was given to it between 1725 and 1739. News on my other blogs: Breathtaking photos: Blue Tit
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Critical Mass 2008 - Budapest

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:01:23 -0400

About 80.000 people participated yesterday on the Critical Mass event in Budapest marshing for more then 2 hours in the city with bycicles. With this enourmous number of participant the Budapest Critical Mass is the world largest event among the sim
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