Introducing the first talking watch from IWC:it says everything about its owner

Not needed anymore. Portuguese Regulateur Tourbillon.Ref. 5446:This is one regal timepiece you won’t recognize by its crown but its heart:the tourbillon.The"whirlwind"- as the French word literally translates - at 9 o’clock has a cantilever-mounted escapement,providing an unimpeded view of the mechanism.This complication has been a particular source of fascin-     

Introducing the first talking watch from IWC:it says everything about its owner.

Not needed anymore. Portuguese Regulateur Tourbillon.Ref. 5446:This is one regal timepiece you won't recognize by its crown but its heart:the tourbillon.The"whirlwind"-as the French word literally translates-at 9 o'clock has a cantilever-mounted escapement,providing an unimpeded view of the mechanism.This com- plication has been a particular source of fascin-     

Introducing the first talking watch from IWC:it says everything about its owner

Not needed anymore. Portuguese Regulateur Tourbillon.Ref. 5446:This is one regal timepiece you won’t recognize by its crown but its heart:the tourbillon.The"whirlwind"-as the French word literally translates-at 9 o’clock has a cantilever-mounted escapement,providing an     

Introducing the first talking watch from IWC:it says everything about its owner.

Portuguese Regulateur Tourbillon.Ref. 5446:This is one regal timepiece you won't recognize by its crown but its heart:the tourbillon.Thewhirlwind-as the French word literally translates-at 9 o'clock has a     

Introducing the first talking watch from IWC:it says everything about its owner.

Portuguese Regulateur Tourbillon.Ref. 5446:This is one regal timepiece you won’t recognize by its crown but its heart:the tourbillon.Thewhirlwind-as the French word literally translates-at 9 o’clock has a cantilever-mounted escapement,providing an unimpeded view of the mechanism.This com-     

徜徉异域风情

Portuguese Regulateur Tourbilion.Ref. 5446:This is one regal timepiece you won’t recognize by its crown but its heart:the tourbillon.Thewhirlwind- as the French word literally translates - at 9 o’clock has a cantilever-mounted escapement,providing an unimpeded view of the mechanism.This com-     

江南烟雨里宿眠

Not needed anymore. Portuguese Regulateur Tourbiffon.Ref. 5446:This is one regal timepiece you won’t recognize by its crown but its heart:the tourbillon.Thewhirlwind-as the French word literally translates-at 9 o’clock has a cantilever-mounted escapement,providing an unimpeded view of the mechanism.This com-     

Introducing the first talking watch from IWC:it says everything about its owner.

Portuguese Regulateur Tourbillon.Ref. 5446:This is one regal timepiece you won't recognize by its crown but its heart:the tourbillon.The"whirlwind"-as the French word literally translates-at 9 o'clock has a cantilever-mounted escapement,providing an unimpeded view of the mechanism.This complication has been a particular source of fascination for watch lovers since time immemorial.Its invention over 200 years ago compensated for irregularities in the balance and massively increased accuracy.Although the     

说乔家 道晋商

坐落在晋中平原上的祁县乔家大院是一座具有北方民居风格的古宅,始建于清乾隆二十年(1755),距今已有240多年的历史。 当年的乔家共有四个堂,即:“在中堂”、“保元堂”、“德兴堂”、“宁守堂”,现在我们所看到的宅院     

喜迎羊年话春节

我国是一个农业古国。农耕是最基本的社会活动,农作物有一定的生长过程,受到气候、地域的制约,在不同的季节里,从事不同的农事活动:春种、夏耘、秋收、冬藏。年年如此,往复不止。我们的祖先把一年中某些具有划分季节性的日子定为节日。人们经过一年的辛劳,获得了硕果,必然要休整数日,举行腊祭,酬谢诸神,人们也借此会餐、娱乐,调节物质和文化生活。这种腊祭逐渐演变为现在的春节。     

毛泽东论中国大革命胜利考析 --兼论对陈独秀的历史评价

对于中国大革命,人们历来认为它是失败的.毛泽东却在不少文章和讲话中谈到大革命(毛泽东习惯上称为北伐战争)的胜利,这给了我们评价大革命以新的启示和思考.过去所谓大革命的失败,通常是指蒋介石、汪精卫叛变革命、屠杀人民,进而又使北伐剩下奉系军阀残余势力未能最后消灭.其实这不能界定为大革命的失败:因为蒋、汪不是大革命的目标,北洋军阀才是这次革命的对象,北洋军阀不久就彻底覆灭,北伐(大革命)本身是胜利的,消灭蒋介石国民党反动政权已叫土地革命战争了.过去把胜利了的大革命一直说成是失败,最主要原因当是大革命时的中共主要领导人陈独秀长期受到批判和不公正待遇.现在随着对陈独秀的客观公正评价,应把对大革命的错误结论矫正过来.     

An early Miocene ant (subfam. Amblyoponinae) from Foulden Maar: the first fossil Hymenoptera from New Zealand

Kaulfuss, U., Harris, A.C., Conran J.G. & Lee, D.E., 2014. An early Miocene ant (subfam. Amblyoponinae) from Foulden Maar: the first fossil Hymenoptera from New Zealand. Alcheringa 38, 568–574. ISSN 0311-5518.

The ant subfamily Amblyoponinae is presently represented in New Zealand by one endemic species in the cosmopolitan genus Stigmatomma and an introduced Australian species of Amblyopone. The fossil record of the group is restricted to two species of Stigmatomma from late Eocene Baltic Amber. Here, we describe the third fossil record, an Amblyopone-like specimen from the early Miocene of Otago, southern New Zealand, based on a winged male that resembles the extant A. australis Erichson in size, general habitus and characters of wing venation, but also shares features with the African amblyoponine genus Zymmer. This represents the first fossil record of Amblyoponinae from the Southern Hemisphere and the first example of Hymenoptera among the few pre-Quaternary insect fossils known from New Zealand. It suggests a long history of Amblyoponinae in New Zealand and Australia.

Uwe Kaulfuss [uwe.kaulfuss@otago.ac.nz] and Daphne E. Lee [daphne.lee@otago.ac.nz], Department of Geology, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand; Anthony C. Harris [anthony.harris@otagomuseum.govt.nz], Otago Museum, PO Box 6202, Dunedin 9059, New Zealand; John G. Conran [john.conran@adelaide.edu.au], ACEBB & SGC, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Benham Bldg, DX 650 312, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia. Received 18.3.2014; revised 15.5.2014; accepted 23.5.2014.     

Pre-Roman glass from Mozia (Sicily-Italy): the first archaeometrical data

This study present the results of an archaeometrical investigation performed on a series of opaque pre-Roman glass (vessels and ornaments) dated from the 6th to 4th century BC coming from Sicily. Sixteen core formed vessels, twelve beads, three pendants and one spindle-whorl recovered in the Phoenician-Punic sites of Mozia and Birgi were analysed thought a micro destructive approach. The complete chemical analyses and X-Ray diffraction analyses were performed on small fragments of glass. The aims of this work are: 1) to obtain a chemical characterization of these samples in order to understand the raw materials employed for their production; 2) to obtain information regarding the opacifying phases dispersed in the glass; 3) to make a comparison with the results recently obtained on coeval and similar finds recovered in other cultural context, in particular in Northern Italian Etruscan contexts in order to understand whether they could belong to the same Greek-Eastern production.     

Black-Atlantic counterfactualism: speculating about slavery and its aftermath

This paper critically examines the role of counterfactual thought and argument in a series of interconnected contexts that span what Paul Gilroy termed the ‘black Atlantic’ and what Ali Mazrui described as ‘Global Africa’. The paper aims to show that a more or less explicit use of conjecture and speculative reasoning has characterised attempts to represent and demand recognition for the horror, inhumanity and injustice of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and New World slavery, and their legacies. To do so, the paper examines a number of interrelated examples, including the campaign for reparations for slavery in the USA; African demands for reparations for slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism that draw on ideas about the continent's ‘underdevelopment’; and speculative writing that imagines alternate historical geographies of slavery. The paper argues that their concerns with Atlantic slavery and its consequences evince a particular way of engaging with the past that might, at first sight, appear to be aligned with a broader temporal sensibility associated with notions of ghostly return, haunting and trauma. The paper argues, however, that such an assumption is mistaken and that the presence of counterfactualism here illustrates a rather different philosophy of history at work. By highlighting forms of making the past present that are speculative rather than spectral, the paper aims to open up new lines of geographical enquiry that will enhance understanding of Atlantic slavery and its aftermath.     

Archaeo-Ethnography, Auto-Archaeology: Introducing Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past

After significant research effort and publications over the course of a decade, a new generation of writings and research into archaeologies of the contemporary past is beginning to emerge, with a social and political awareness that appears more acute and more focused than before. Perhaps it is not too much of an exaggeration to say that this new generation of contemporary archaeologies can contribute in some small way to addressing specific problems and challenges that face contemporary and future society. In this introduction we begin to touch on this possibility, and introduce the papers and authors that explore it in further depth.     

The first record of a Maastrichtian ammonite from the Perth Basin,Western Australia,and its biostratigraphical significance

The first known ammonite from the Maastrichtian of the Perth Basin, a single, incomplete specimen of Grossouvrites gemmatus (Huppé, 1854), is described from core material from the Lancelin No. 1 borehole. Foraminiferal and nannoplankton evidence date the ammonite as middle Maastrichtian; its age is also assessed on the basis of dinoflagellate assemblages from this section, but these give a less precise dating. The position of the ammonite with respect to a mid-Maastrichtian disconformity, which probably extended along much of the Western Australian margin is discussed.