Mount Hagen also hosts a Sing-Sing over the middle weekend of August. It has slightly more tourist vistors and less tribes than Goroka, bit still pulls together and impressive 60 to 70 tribes. It can be combined with vird watching, visiting a Melpa village, going to other birding or cultural activities in Tari, home of the Huli wigmen, or a a visit to any of the dive resorts.
The Tudor rose (sometimes called the Union rose) is the traditional floral heraldic emblem of England and takes its name and origins from the Tudor dynasty.
When Henry VII took the crown of England from Richard III in battle (1485), he brought about the end of the Wars of the Roses between the House of Lancaster (which used the badge of a red rose) and the House of York (which used a white-rose badge).
Henry’s father was Edmund Tudor from the House of Richmond, and his mother was Margaret Beaufort from the House of Lancaster; in January 1486 he married Elizabeth of York to bring all factions together. (In battle, Richard III fought under the banner of the boar, and Henry under the banner of the dragon of his native Wales.) The white rose/red rose idea was a Tudor invention.
It’s better to actually do something than just talk about it.
«Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today».
-Mark Twain-
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. He wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its seuquel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called «the Great American Novel.»
«For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others».
-Nelson Mandela-
December was originally the tenth month of the year in the Roman calendar until a monthless winter period was divided between January and February. It gets its name from the Latin word «decem» which means tenth. However, when the Romans added January and February to the calendar, it became the twelfth month. The name remained the same however.
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.
— Virginia Woolf
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible.
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newham College, Cambridge, before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer.
Great moments require great speeches. The simplicity of Kennedy’s rhetoric preserves a sense of wonder at going beyond human capabilities, at this great event for science and technology.
