这些页面缺席了一段时间，这在很大程度上是由于千载难逢的机会参观了澳大利亚大陆。这是一次宏伟的旅行，去那里非常值得您的时间，努力，也应该有机会。
这次旅行的一部分是在悉尼（New South Wales的首都和一个非凡的城市）度过的。在那里，我很高兴能参观美国画廊Australian National Maritime Museum. Paul Hundley, curator of the gallery, has been in Sydney for 18 years, being a native of Minnesota and having worked at a TMM sister institution, the皮博迪·埃塞克斯博物馆在马萨诸塞州塞勒姆。他给了我一个美好的旅行画廊。
While it is not my intention to spark a political debate on this blog, I thought this was interesting news story.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/us/05/17/ship.cesar.chavez/index.html?hpt=c2
Join us at the Library next Wednesday May 4, 2011 at noon for our next Secrets in the Stacks. This month’s presentation will feature two journals kept by sailors who served on the ironclad monitornantucketduring the Civil War.
First we will look at the journal of Walter Jacobs, a Union sailor during the Civil War. A recent acquisition, Jacobs’ journal covers the time period of August 1863 to December 1864, during which he served on two ships: the screw steamerFlambeauand thePassaic-class monitornantucket. Jacobs served on the ironclad from February 1864 to December 1864. Besides accounts of naval action, Jacobs offers rich detail on life aboard Civil War ships and ironclads, as well as a sailor’s opinion on everything from the Union war effort to politics to African Americans serving in the Union navy and army.
One Saturday in March of 1864, a man aboard the whale shipJohn P. Westwrote in his journal, “My皮奇放置4eggs.” He also documented the day that his dog fell overboard (Logbook #027). Nine years earlier Asenath Taber, daughter of a whaler, noted the “beautiful little chicken” her family had on board their ship (Logbook #002). For these and other people at sea, animals could provide food, serve as companions, and bestow a sense of comfort during what were often years-long journeys abroad.
The life of a whaler was often one of extremes – some days were exciting, with several whales encountered and caught, while others were long and lonely, with nothing on the horizon and feelings of listlessness and homesickness setting in. Sightings of whales and other animals receive frequent note in many of the journals, with log keepers recording a variety of wild encounters, including sperm whales, right whales, turtles, porpoises, Portugese man o’ war, an array of birds and fish, and – as the log keeper aboard theCourserstates rather ominously in his entry from October 6, 1860 – “Monsters of the Deep” (Logbook #300).
“Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” (Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense)
With the news of the former Secretary of Defense’s new book appearing, entitled已知和未知, I was instantly reminded of the quote above. Many in the media at the time believed that this just added to a growing mountain of funny Rumsfeld quips. I was also reminded, however, of a talk I gave here at the Library 2 weeks ago for CNU’s Latin Day to a group of young Latin students from around Hampton Roads.
