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...years as funding and technological limitations hobbled the search effort. Eventually, however, Kirsner's work and research by Mearns using the diary of the Kormoran's captain convinced government to put up more than $4 million for the search, says Ted Graham. "No one had looked in this particular area before - and the technology, the funding and the expertise had not been available until now." Former signaler McDonald, who suspects details of the battle were hushed up at the time, says he won't believe the Sydney has been found until he sees photos, due this week. The discovery...
...Western Australian volunteers formed the Finding Sydney Foundation and began gathering evidence and government support for another search. In 2003, chairman Ted Graham met with David Mearns, the well-known American shipwreck hunter. Says Graham: "I just had the view that unless our generation found HMAS Sydney, and in particular found it while the widows were still alive, it would potentially be forgotten...
...commenters on the video this month captured my sentiments towards the video: “Geez she was like my idol at this point, (when I was like 13). Saaad.....her downfall made my childhood shatter. lol.” What is particular to our generation is that we are constantly surrounded by the images and culture from both sides of this shattered childhood. We live a double-consciousness, where on the same browser page we can watch our innocent pasts and our broken present, both convenient and ephemeral escapes from the reality beyond the YouTube screen...
...felt that the liberal arts…provides them with a very unique perspective on the sciences or the social sciences,” says Homi K. Bhabha, a literature professor and director of the Humanities Center. “Though academically they may be experts in particular areas, one of the things the liberal arts does is create an intellectual bridge across disciplines...
...unlike some holy days - say, Christmas, which some non-Christians in the U.S. observe informally by going to a movie and ordering Chinese food - on this particular Friday, March 21, it seems almost no believer of any sort will be left without his or her own holiday. In what is statistically, at least, a once-in-a-millennium combination, the following will all occur on the 21st...