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Annual Lecture
History Roadshow
Making Public Histories seminar series
Historical Fiction Competition
Drought Stories
One Place, Many Stories
Links - organisations
Links - projects
Child Safe policy
Friends of the History Council of Victoria
The Value of History
This calendar lists all upcoming public events that are being organised by the History Council of Victoria (HCV), plus events that are added by our Friends and Members.
If you are a Friend or a Member of the HCV and you're organising an event in Victoria, Australia that relates to History, you are welcome to publicise it here. Click on the 'Host your own event' button at the foot of this page to get started. Please note that there may be a delay (for moderation) before your event becomes visible on the website. (People who haven't yet signed up to the Friends are warmly invited to do so.)
Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 06:00 PM
Old Treasury Building in East Melbourne, Australia
Victoria's Native Vegetation: History, Heritage, Politics
In recognition of 2020 as the UN International Year of Plant Health, this seminar will illuminate the challenging and contested past, present and future of Victoria's native vegetation.
Professional historian Dr Gary Presland, author of many books about Victoria's natural and human heritage (including Understanding our natural world: the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria 1880-2015) will speak about the importance of native vegetation in understanding past human activity.
Professor Mike Clarke from the Centre for Future Landscapes at La Trobe University will consider the place of fire in the history of Victoria's vegetation: 'The Bush will be OK, it's evolved to cope with fire…hasn't it?'.
Dr Lilian Pearce, a research fellow on the ARC-funded project Owning nature: mapping the contested country of private protected areas and a member of the Landscape Reference Group with the National Trust of Australia (Victoria), will consider the changing role of history in contemporary environmental management activities.
This seminar contributes to the 2020 Australian Heritage Festival for which the theme is 'Our Heritage for the Future'. The discussion will be chaired by Professor Alistair Thomson of Monash University.
Bookings for this free event are now open. To reserve your seat, click on the button at the foot of this page.
The seminar is part of an ongoing series, Making Public Histories, that is offered jointly by the Monash University History Program, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building. Each seminar aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories. The seminars are open, free of charge, to anyone interested in the creation and impact of history in contemporary society. Click HERE to learn about other events in the series.
We thank the series sponsors, Monash University Publishing, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building:
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Jennifer Lopez is a lot of things. She's a style icon, an early aughts rom-com queen, a returning rom-com queen, a TV star, a performer, and now a VMA Video Vanguard award winner. After a little less than 20 years of churning out consistent killer, mind-blowing music videos, the Bronx native was finally honored for all of that hard work at the 2018 Video Music Awards with the institution's highest honor.
With a single performance during the show, Lopez reminded viewers she has been one of music's greatest living goddesses — not a queen, but a gold-dipped goddess who demands the appropriate level of worship — since 1999. And with her acceptance speech, the 49-year-old proved she's not leaving her altar, the stage, any time soon.
Like most Vanguard Award recipients before her, Lopez performed a powerful medley before accepting her lifetime achievement gold. The pop diva opened her portion of the show with a gesture towards to her new millennium roots with the club banger "Waiting For Tonight." A projection of neon green palm trees flashed on-stage behind her. Obviously, the visual was a nod to J.Lo's music video for the 1999 track, where she danced in front of a similarly club-y set of fronds. But the image also harkened back to the dress that made Lopez an international household name: the green Versace dress.
That infamous Grammys gown was also covered in green palm fronds.
who told jennifer lopez to snap like that?
But, both those men disappeared quickly as Lopez returned to the stage, supported by only backup dancers, to shake her famous "Booty" to the roar of the crowd. The performer's curves were so revered, if you really pay attention, you'll see her dancers literally bow down to her behind before the music switches to "Dinero," the final song of the medley. Because Lopez just wants the money and the cash flow. She is an unstoppable business woman, you see.
We learned in Lopez's acceptance speech what has driven the former In Living Color fly girl to chase the "Dinero," along with all the other icons of success she has worked for since breaking out in 1997's Selena.
We should all get ready for another 20 years of Jennifer Lopez.


Table Topics | Youth Group Games | Games, ideas, icebreakers, activities for youth groups, youth ministry and churches.
This is an excellent ice breaker activity in it's simplest form!
If you haven't heard of "Table Topics" before, they are a great tool to use to help people get to know each other and to inspire interesting conversation. They are a set of cards, each with a different question on it, and they come in a variety of different types. The best ones to use for your youth group, small group or team building activity might be either the Table Topics Original Cube, the Table Topics Family Cube or the Table Topics Teen Cube. All of these cubes include 135 question cards.
What did you get into trouble for the most when you were young?
In your opinion what are the seven wonders of the world?
Which is more important intelligence or common sense?
If you could do something dangerous just once with no risk what would you do?
Where would you choose to live if you had to leave this country?
Who's the funniest person you know?
What 5 foods do you wish were banished from the earth?
If you could shop for free at one store which one would you choose?
There are a whole heap of ways you could use these cards as an ice breaker game, whether it's for adults, youth or kids. Here are a few ways you could use them.
Mingle & Swap Give each person one card, then get them to line up in two rows standing opposite each other. Give them a couple minutes to ask their question to the person they are facing. Then call time, and get each person to swap cards with the person they just interacted with and then move along the line to the next person. Keep doing this a few times and each person will get a chancer to ask and answer a few different questions to a few different people.
Up the Front Designate a leader or organiser to be a host, and get a few volunteers up from your youth group. Give each person 1-2 minutes and ask them as many questions as you can get through.
Small Group Starter Use them to begin your small group discussion each time you meet. Pick one or two questions and let each person in the group answer and see what kidn of interesting discussion it generates.
If you have any other ideas on how to incorporate these great Table Topic cards, please leave a comment below.
Where can I get these cards from? I really like this one as it can just be casually done, so as to not even be classified as an activity but just general discussion whilst cooking or hanging out!
This sounds like the game I need for my church youth group. I have some really shy members who are not very vocal. However it would be better if the questions were bible-based.


Come join the fun at our annual Youth Ministry Christmas Party!
Yankee Swap: if you want to participate in the Yankee Swap, plese bring two gifts: one to swap and one to donate. The gifts should be no more than $10, and appropriate for ages 11-14.
Ugly Sweater Contest: please wear your ugliest Christmas sweater - or decorate your not-ugly-enough sweater with art supplies on-site!


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Mass Effect: Retribution
by Greg Noe — Mon, 06/27/2011 - 5:00am
You may be surprised to find out the Mass Effect novels are not about Commander Shepard, or any of his squadmates, or feature any of the major events that take place during the games. BioWare and author Drew Karpyshyn have been very careful in not allowing any kind of canon Shepard to be declared. An individual's Mass Effect experience is heavily influenced by the decisions they make, and the writers don't want any outside influence to indicate someone is doing it right or wrong.
But the novels have successfully created their own small cast of characters and locations. Mass Effect: Revelation served as a prequel to the series, and while it introduced us to Captain Anderson and Saren, Kahlee Sanders quickly became the character to identify with. Ascension follows Sanders through her run in with Cerberus and training of human biotics, but also teases at some of the locations we would see in Mass Effect 2.
Now with Mass Effect: Retribution, we continue to follow Kahlee, but seemingly brush up against the world of the games a little closer. In most ways, Retribution doesn't feel as much like a prequel to Mass Effect 3 as Ascension did to 2, but some groundwork is laid.
Here is my review of Mass Effect: Retribution, written by Drew Karpyshyn and released in July 2010.
Mass Effect: Revelation
by Greg Noe — Fri, 04/29/2011 - 5:00am
Mass Effect began here, with its first novel, Mass Effect: Revelation. Released in mid-2007, a half-year before Mass Effect proper was unleashed on the Xbox 360 and Windows, Revelation was meant to not only start the hype for what would become BioWare's flagship series but also begin laying down the structure of the series' large universe.
Authored by Mass Effect writer Drew Karpyshyn, Revelation follows the video game's background hero Captain Anderson about 20 years before the events of the first game. We also meet a few of the series' alien races along with the Citadel Council and first game villain, Saren. An Alliance scientist, Kahlee Sanders, is also introduced and she has served as the main link between the Mass Effect tie-in novels.
I first read Revelation when it was released in 2007, and have since read the second book, Mass Effect: Ascension, which I wrote a review on afterwards. Ascension takes place between the first two games and did an excellent job hinting at what was to come for Shepard and the gang in the second game. I recently received the first three novels (Retribution was released last year) as a gift so I decided to re-read Revelation and write a review on it, enjoy.

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 Весна — курултай в долине реки Талас. Менгу-Тимур, Борак и Хайду, правители соответственно Джучиева, Чагатайского и Угедэева улусов, признают друг друга суверенными государями и заключают союз против великого хана Хубилая на случай, если он попробует оспорить их суверенитет.
 1 апреля — князь Гданьского Поморья Мстивой II принёс вассальную клятву маркграфам Бранденбурга из династии Асканиев.
 17 июня — флорентийцам удалось разгромить прогибеллински настроенных сиенцев в битве при Колле-ди-Валь-д'Эльса и взять власть в г. Сиене.
 По просьбе новгородцев хан Улуса Джучи Менгу-Тимур прислал в Новгород войско для организации похода на ливонских рыцарей, причём одной военной демонстрации у Нарвы было достаточно для заключения мира «по всей воле новгородской»[2]. В Никоновской летописи это было описано так: …князь велики Ярослав Ярославич, внук Всеволожа, посла к Володимерю собирати воинства, хотя ити на немци, а собрася сила многа, и великий баскак Володимерский Иаргаман и зять его Айдар со многими татары приидоша, и то слышавше немци устрашишася, и вострепетавше прислаша дары послы своя, и добиша челом на всеи воли его, и всех подариша, и великого баскака, и всех князей татарских и татар; зело бо бояхуся и имени Татарского. И тако всю волю сътворивше великого князя Ярослава Ярославича, и Наровы всея отступишася и полон весь возвратиша (ПСРЛ, т. X, стр. 147).
 Английский король Генрих III Плантагенет сооружает гробницу Эдуарда Исповедника в Вестминстерском аббатстве.
 Герцогство Каринтия переходит под власть Королевства Чехии.
 Переяславская епархия входит в состав Сарайской, организованной на территории Золотой Орды.
 Гуго III Лузиньян официально в ходе коронации стал королём Иерусалима.
 Николо и Маффео, отец и дядя Марко Поло, возвращаются в Европу из первого путешествия.
 Мариниды отнимают у Альмохадов Марракеш; конец династии Альмохадов.
 Тибетец Пагба по поручению Хубилая создаёт Монгольское квадратное письмо. Хубилай издаёт указ о переходе на новую письменность.
 Завершено строительство Амьенского собора

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 Филипп д'Артуа, сеньор Конша, Нонанкура и Домфрона, сын графа Роберта II д'Артуа.

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См. также: :Категория:Умершие в 1269 году
 27 октября —Ульрих III Спанхейм, герцог Каринтии и Крайны.
 Василько Романович, волынский князь, сын Романа Мстиславича, брат Даниила Галицкого.
 Ибн-Аби Оссейбия, арабский врач.

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BETTENDORF NEWS ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Ryan Kammerer
School: Pleasant Valley
Coach: Jacob Larsen
Sport: Wrestling
Coach's reason for nomination: "Ryan is currently undefeated and has been a leader in the room with his tenacity and effort. He is making a push his senior season to make it on top of the podium in February."
What advice would you give to someone who wants to do this sport? "Wrestling is a tough sport but you control the success you have and it all starts in practice, you can either push yourself or just survive."
Who is someone you look up to in this sport? "Coming from a wrestling family I strive to be a great wrestler like they all were. But I look up to my teammates and they encourage me a lot."
What are your anticipated plans for after high school? "I have some colleges interested in me but I want to see how the rest of the season goes to see what other opportunities I have."
— Alyce Brown
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Q: Using custom fonts in FirebaseRecyclerViewAdapter I've been using the following method to use Custom font in my RecyclerView.
This is the onCreateViewHolder method of my RecyclerViewAdapter
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I was wondering if I could use the same thing in FirebaseRecyclerViewAdapter as I don't have access to that class and it's onCreateViewHolder method.
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Ankara Explosions: At Least 20 People Killed During Peace Rally
A peace rally in the Turkish capital Ankara has been hit by two explosions, causing multiple casualties, reports say.
At least 20 people have been killed, Turkish news agency Dogan said. TV footage shows scenes of panic and people lying on the ground covered in blood, amid protest banners.
The blasts took place near the city's central train station.
The target appears to have been a march calling for an end to the violence with the Kurdish separatist group, the PKK.
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PM Ahmet Davutoglu is being briefed by the interior and health ministers, state news agency Anadolu says.
The blasts were a terrorist attack and are investigating reports that a suicide bomber was behind at least one of the explosions, government officials say.
The leader of the pro-Kurdish HDP party has blamed the state for the attack, and canceled all election rallies.
The HDP was among those calling for Saturday's rally for "peace and democracy", which was due to start at 12:00 local time.
The party tweeted that there were "numerous dead and injured", and that police "attacked" people carrying the injured away.
An HDP rally in the city of Diyarbakir was bombed in June, ahead of general elections.
Turkey is holding another election next month.
NAFTA: Mexico Willing to Discuss Trade Deal with President-Elect Donald Trump
Mexican government says it is willing to discuss the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with President-elect Donald Trump. The …Read More »
5 Step-by-Step Guide to Removing Pet Stains & Smells from Carpets & Furniture
Pet lovers cringe at the mere mention of the word "accident." For households with toddlers and pets, accidents are a …Read More »
Facebook Home: Android apps on Google Play Store
Facebook is releasing Home software that puts feeds from the social network on the home page of Android phones. Home …Read More »
Groundhog Day 2013: Punxsutawney Phil gives his annual prediction of how long winter will last
Pennsylvania's famous groundhog Punxsutawney Phil gave his annual prediction of how long winter will last. Phil emerged from his lair …Read More »
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Alois Mock (born 10 June 1934) is a politician and member of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). He was Vice Chancellor of Austria from 1987 to 1989. As foreign minister he helped take Austria into the European Union.
Born in Euratsfeld, Lower Austria, to August and Mathilde Mock, he studied law at the University of Vienna and later international law in Bologna and Brussels. In Vienna, he became a member of K.A.V. Norica Wien, a Roman Catholic student fraternity, which is a member of the Cartellverband. From 1961-66, he advised the Bundeskanzler Josef Klaus on European Economic Community and EFTA policy and for the OECD in Paris. In 1966 he became Klaus' cabinet secretary. From 1969-70 was the youngest education minister in Austrian history.
After the Nationalrat elections of 1971 - where the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) under Bruno Kreisky won a majority — he became a member of parliament and mayor of Euratsfeld. From 1971-78, he chaired the ÖAAB, the most important grouping of the ÖVP. From 1978-87 he was chairman of the parliamentary party and from 1979 was also federal party chairman. He was later to be succeeded by Josef Riegler, Erhard Busek and Wolfgang Schüssel. In 1979, Mock became the President of the European Democrat Union (EDU), and from 1983 to 1987 also of the international Christian democratic International Democratic Union (IDU). At the 1983 elections the ÖVP got almost the same percentage as Kreisky's SPÖ, who did not want to continue without an absolute majority and therefore retired.
Following the 1986 elections, from 1987 to 1989 Alois Mock was Austrian Vice Chancellor in the government of Franz Vranitzky (SPÖ). He held the position of foreign minister from 1987 to 1995, leading Austria into the European Union. He became one of Austria's most popular politicians. In June 1989, in the area of Odenburg, he cut the wire of the Iron Curtain at the fortified border with Communist neighbour Hungary, together with his Hungarian counterpart Gyula Horn. During the following months thousands of East German citizens could therefore emigrate to Austria and West Germany. This marked the beginning of the fall of Communism.
Together with Hans-Dietrich Genscher of Germany, beside the fact that the Arbitration Commission headed by Robert Badinter and set up by the Council of Ministers of the European Economic Community recommended that only Slovenia and Macedonia should be recognized as independent countries, they decided to acknowledge the independence of Croatia and Slovenia.
In November 1989 Mock was one of the founders of the Central European cooperative called Pentagonale, which later grew from 5 countries to the 18 of the CEI (Central European Initiative). In 1999 he retired from Parliament due to his Parkinson's disease. Currently, he is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Global Panel Foundation, a respected NGO that works behind the scenes in crisis areas around the world.
↑ Cook, Bernard A. (2001). Europe since 1945: an encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis. p. 865. ISBN 978-0-8153-4058-4. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
↑ Allain Pellet (1992). "The Opinions of the Badinter Arbitration Committee: A Second Breath for the Self-Determination of Peoples" (PDF). European Journal of International Law. 3 (1): 178–185.


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Hector Hodler (1. října 1887, Ženeva, Švýcarsko – 3. dubna 1920, Leysin, Waadt, Švýcarsko) byl švýcarský esperantista, syn slavného švýcarského malíře Ferdinanda Hodlera, zakladatelem a vedoucí Světového esperantského svazu (Universala Esperanto-Asocio, UEA).

Hodler zorganizoval službu UEA za první světové války, aby pomáhal rozptýleným a ztraceným členům rodin, zprostředkovával korespondenci a zásilky mezi členy rodin i ve válčících státech. Těchto služeb bylo na statisíce, mezi spolupracovníky byl také Romain Rolland. Hodler redigoval revui Esperanto a je autorem několika překladů literatury do esperanta.

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UAE-headquartered real estate developer, Union Properties (UP), announced it would sell its stake in Emirates District Cooling (Emicool), a district cooling service provider.
UP, the master developer of Dubai Motor City, confirmed that it was in the final stages of selling all of its stake in Emicool, for which it had received "several offers" from UAE-based companies.
In a statement, UP revealed that it was finalising the legal formalities associated with the sale, and that it would announce the buyer shortly.
Emicool was jointly formed in 2003 by UP and Dubai Investments, with its services delivered to Dubai neighbourhoods such as Motor City, Mirdiff Hills, and Sports City.
The sale of Emicool's stake comes as UP works to diversify its operations and expand into new markets.
"The sale of UP's stake in Emicool is another important milestone for us, and will contribute to our new strategy to enhance our investments, diversify our revenue streams, expand our business, and venture into new markets," Ahmed Yousef Khouri, group chief executive officer of UP, said.
"UP will be focussing on developing its business further in other key sectors, and we are confident Emicool will continue its successful journey in the future."
Emicool's future plans include the expansion of its operational capacity to 500,000 tonnes.
Upon completion, Emicool's sale would mark the latest in a series of efforts announced by UP to consolidate its activities and prioritise its core operations.
Last month, UP revealed plans to raise capital through an initial public offering (IPO) for its facilities management (FM) subsidiary, ServeU.
The group will list ServeU's shares on Dubai Financial Market (DFM) in H2 2018, and invest the proceeds from the IPO to enhance its operations and develop its investment portfolio.
Commenting on the decision, Khouri said: "ServeU is one of UP's leading companies and it occupies a very prominent position in the FM sector.
"We believe that ServeU is ready to be publicly listed at a time when UP is heading towards a new era of growth and expansion."
In November 2017, UP announced that it would downsize its contracting business "to a closure level".
Thermo LLC is a subsidiary of the Dubai-listed developer that provides mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) services.
In its financial statement for Q3 2017, UP said that Thermo "faced significant issues, and is still facing them through [its] current business of MEP work".
UP added that the group recorded "significant provisions" on the MEP company's contracts, but the company's board of directors "decided to downsize Thermo [...] to a closure level".
The statement continued: "As claims which were not recognised in the books are still arising, the [board...] continues to review and assess the risk associated with the group's contracting business.
"Accordingly, based on the historical claims arising, management [has] recorded provisions [...] against [Thermo's] work in progress, and on certain contract and retention receivables."


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package quasar.effect

import slamdata.Predef._
import quasar.fp._, ski._

import org.scalacheck.Arbitrary
import scalaz._, Scalaz._

abstract class KeyValueStoreSpec[K: Arbitrary: Equal, V: Arbitrary: Equal: Show] extends quasar.Qspec {

  type S[A] = KeyValueStore[K, V, A]

  def eval[A](program: Free[S, A]): A

  val ops = KeyValueStore.Ops[K, V, S]

  "KeyValueStore" should {
    "retrieve an entry" >> prop { (key: K, value: V) =>
      eval(
        ops.put(key, value) *> ops.get(key).run
      ) must_= value.some
    }
    "delete an entry" >> prop { (key: K, value: V) =>
      eval(
        ops.put(key, value) *> ops.delete(key) *> ops.get(key).run
      ) must_= None
    }
    "modify an entry" >> prop { (key: K, value: V, newValue: V) =>
      eval(
        ops.put(key, value) *> ops.modify(key, κ(newValue)) *> ops.get(key).run
      ) must_= newValue.some
    }
    "move a key" >> prop { (key: K, value: V, newKey: K) =>
      eval(
        ops.put(key, value) *> ops.move(key, newKey) *> ops.get(newKey).run
      ) must_= value.some
    }
    "overwrite a key" >> prop { (key: K, value: V, newValue: V) =>
      eval(
        ops.put(key, value) *> ops.put(key, newValue) *> ops.get(key).run
      ) must_= newValue.some
    }
    "retrieve all keys" >> prop { (key: K, value: V, otherKey: K, otherValue: V) =>
      key ≠ otherKey ==> {
        eval(
          ops.put(key, value) *> ops.put(otherKey, otherValue) *> ops.keys
        ) must contain(key, otherKey)
      }
    }
  }
}

object DefaultEmptyImpl extends KeyValueStoreSpec[Int, String] {
  def eval[A](program: Free[S, A]) =
    KeyValueStore.impl.default[Int, String].flatMap(program foldMap _).unsafePerformSync
}


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Cherry Picked - Lecture: 'If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland'
Lecture: 'If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland'
LAWRENCE — A University of Michigan-Dearborn scholar and author will present "If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland" for the Spring 2019 Oswald P. Backus/Anna Cienciała Memorial Lecture. The event will take place at 5 p.m. Feb. 11 in the Centennial Room of the Kansas Union.
Anna Müller will discuss female prisoners in Poland under communism after World War II, most of whom were jailed for either collaboration with the Nazis during the war or anti-state activities after 1945. Many of the prisoners were falsely accused and sentenced. Müller will discuss the lives of these female political prisoners — arrests, interrogations and confinement — via analysis of original interviews, autobiographical writings, interrogation protocols and cell spy reports.
By focusing both on the women's individual and collective experiences, as well their emotions and processes of growth, creativity and identity transformations, Müller's investigation contributes to a greater understanding of coercion and resistance under totalitarian regimes through the lens of gender studies.
Müller is assistant professor of history and the Frank and Mary Padzieski Endowed Professor in Polish/Polish American/Eastern European Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her highly acclaimed book on the life of women in prison cells in post-war Poland, "If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland", was published in 2017 with Oxford University Press. Since 2010 she has worked for Poland's Museum of the Second World War as a curator responsible for the sections on concentration camps, the Holocaust and eugenics.
This lecture is sponsored by the University of Kansas Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies. It has been made possible by the Oswald P. Backus and Anna Cienciała Memorial Fund.
The Backus/Cienciała Lecture is dedicated to the memory of Professors Oswald P. Backus III (1921-72) and Anna Cienciała (1929-2014). Backus was one of the early driving forces behind the development of KU as a nationally known center for the study of Russia and Eastern Europe. In the 1960s, these efforts led to the formation of the Slavic and Soviet Area Studies program, now known as the Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies.
Cienciała was a longtime professor in history and Russian & East European studies at KU. She was an expert in Polish, European, Soviet and American diplomacy of the interwar period and an inspired teacher of East Central European history. Over the course of her career she wrote two books and edited five. She was the recipient of a number of honors, including the Polish Cross of Merit and the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland with Star.
Müller will also present a lecture at noon Tuesday, Feb. 12, titled "Politics and Poetics: The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, Poland." This informal talk will be held as part of the CREES Brownbag lecture series, presented weekly at noon Tuesdays in 318 Bailey Hall.


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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin – Day 129 of 188
Chapter 1.XI. The Growth of the 'Origin of Species.'
Letters, 1843-1856.
[The history of my father's life is told more completely in his correspondence with Sir J.D. Hooker than in any other series of letters; and this is especially true of the history of the growth of the 'Origin of Species.' This, therefore, seems an appropriate place for the following notes, which Sir Joseph Hooker has kindly given me. They give, moreover, an interesting picture of his early friendship with my father:–
"My first meeting with Mr. Darwin was in 1839, in Trafalgar Square. I was walking with an officer who had been his shipmate for a short time in the Beagle seven years before, but who had not, I believe, since met him. I was introduced; the interview was of course brief, and the memory of him that I carried away and still retain was that of a rather tall and rather broad-shouldered man, with a slight stoop, an agreeable and animated expression when talking, beetle brows, and a hollow but mellow voice; and that his greeting of his old acquaintance was sailor-like–that is, delightfully frank and cordial. I observed him well, for I was already aware of his attainments and labours, derived from having read various proof-sheets of his then unpublished 'Journal.' These had been submitted to Mr. (afterwards Sir Charles) Lyell by Mr. Darwin, and by him sent to his father, Ch. Lyell, Esq., of Kinnordy, who (being a very old friend of my father and taking a kind interest in my projected career as a naturalist) had allowed me to peruse them. At this time I was hurrying on my studies, so as to take my degree before volunteering to accompany Sir James Ross in the Antarctic Expedition, which had just been determined on by the Admiralty; and so pressed for time was I, that I used to sleep with the sheets of the 'Journal' under my pillow, that I might read them between waking and rising. They impressed me profoundly, I might say despairingly, with the variety of acquirements, mental and physical, required in a naturalist who should follow in Darwin's footsteps, whilst they stimulated me to enthusiasm in the desire to travel and observe.
"It has been a permanent source of happiness to me that I knew so much of Mr. Darwin's scientific work so many years before that intimacy began which ripened into feelings as near to those of reverence for his life, works, and character as is reasonable and proper. It only remains to add to this little episode that I received a copy of the 'Journal' complete,–a gift from Mr. Lyell,–a few days before leaving England.
"Very soon after the return of the Antarctic Expedition my correspondence with Mr. Darwin began (December, 1843) by his sending me a long letter, warmly congratulating me on my return to my family and friends, and expressing a wish to hear more of the results of the expedition, of which he had derived some knowledge from private letters of my own (written to or communicated through Mr. Lyell). Then, plunging at once into scientific matters, he directed my attention to the importance of correlating the Fuegian Flora with that of the Cordillera and of Europe, and invited me to study the botanical collections which he had made in the Galapagos Islands, as well as his Patagonian and Fuegian plants.
"This led to me sending him an outline of the conclusions I had formed regarding the distribution of plants in the southern regions, and the necessity of assuming the destruction of considerable areas of land to account for the relations of the flora of the so-called Antarctic Islands. I do not suppose that any of these ideas were new to him, but they led to an animated and lengthy correspondence full of instruction."
Here follows the letter (1843) to Sir J.D. Hooker above referred to.]
I had hoped before this time to have had the pleasure of seeing you and congratulating you on your safe return from your long and glorious voyage. But as I seldom go to London, we may not yet meet for some time–without you are led to attend the Geological Meetings.
I am anxious to know what you intend doing with all your materials–I had so much pleasure in reading parts of some of your letters, that I shall be very sorry if I, as one of the public, have no opportunity of reading a good deal more. I suppose you are very busy now and full of enjoyment: how well I remember the happiness of my first few months of England–it was worth all the discomforts of many a gale! But I have run from the subject, which made me write, of expressing my pleasure that Henslow (as he informed me a few days since by letter) has sent to you my small collection of plants. You cannot think how much pleased I am, as I feared they would have been all lost, and few as they are, they cost me a good deal of trouble. There are a very few notes, which I believe Henslow has got, describing the habitats, etc., of some few of the more remarkable plants. I paid particular attention to the Alpine flowers of Tierra del Fuego, and I am sure I got every plant which was in flower in Patagonia at the seasons when we were there. I have long thought that some general sketch of the Flora of the point of land, stretching so far into the southern seas, would be very curious. Do make comparative remarks on the species allied to the European species, for the advantage of botanical ignoramuses like myself. It has often struck me as a curious point to find out, whether there are many European genera in Tierra del Fuego which are not found along the ridge of the Cordillera; the separation in such case would be so enormous. Do point out in any sketch you draw up, what genera are American and what European, and how great the differences of the species are, when the genera are European, for the sake of the ignoramuses.
I hope Henslow will send you my Galapagos plants (about which Humboldt even expressed to me considerable curiosity)–I took much pains in collecting all I could. A Flora of this archipelago would, I suspect, offer a nearly parallel case to that of St. Helena, which has so long excited interest. Pray excuse this long rambling note, and believe me, my dear sir, yours very sincerely,
C. Darwin.
Will you be so good as to present my respectful compliments to Sir W. Hooker.
[Referring to Sir J.D. Hooker's work on the Galapagos Flora, my father wrote in 1846:
"I cannot tell you how delighted and astonished I am at the results of your examination; how wonderfully they support my assertion on the differences in the animals of the different islands, about which I have always been fearful."
Again he wrote (1849):–
"I received a few weeks ago your Galapagos papers (These papers include the results of Sir J.D. Hooker's examination of my father's Galapagos plants, and were published by the Linnean Society in 1849.), and I have read them since being here. I really cannot express too strongly my admiration of the geographical discussion: to my judgment it is a perfect model of what such a paper should be; it took me four days to read and think over. How interesting the Flora of the Sandwich Islands appears to be, how I wish there were materials for you to treat its flora as you have done the Galapagos. In the Systematic paper I was rather disappointed in not finding general remarks on affinities, structures, etc., such as you often give in conversation, and such as De Candolle and St. Hilaire introduced in almost all their papers, and which make them interesting even to a non-Botanist."
"Very soon afterwards [continues Sir J.D. Hooker] in a letter dated January 1844, the subject of the 'Origin of Species' was brought forward by him, and I believe that I was the first to whom he communicated his then new ideas on the subject, and which being of interest as a contribution to the history of Evolution, I here copy from his letter":–]
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