The story of the iconic hand-built cars For over 100 years the Morgan Motor Company have been making exciting sports cars in the beautiful spa town of Malvern in the south-west of England, UK. Morgan cars are famous the world over for their unique blend of charisma, quality materials, craftsmanship and performance. The Morgan Motor Company Ltd. was established in 1909 by H.F.S. Morgan with the design of the Morgan three-wheeler. This was followed in 1936 by the Morgan 4-4, which continues to be produced today, and is the longest running production car in the world. This iconic British sports car is expertly crafted using three core elements: ash, aluminium and leather. Each Morgan is bespoke – tailored to the customer’s specification and hand-built to the highest standard to bring together heritage, innovation and cutting-edge technology. The three Morgan models are the classic roadster, a modern two-seater and also a three-wheeler. The company claims to produce in excess of 1300 cars per year all assembled by hand. The waiting list to buy a car is approximately six months but has on occasion been as long a ten years. The design of many of the vehicles is little changed over the years. The company employs 177 people. Having a long history, it is no surprise that there are multiple generations of families from Malvern still working for the company, something Steve Morris, the managing director of the company is highly proud of: “We have got staff who are third or fourth generation employees of Morgan, some of our craftsmen and women have been here over 50 years. I know it is a cliché but we really are a family here. The business is challenging but we work together to move forwards." However, as of 2019, Morgan’s proud claim of being the largest remaining British car company has no longer been true, following the surprise announcement that it sold a significant stake to the Italian venture capitalist firm - Investindustrial. Although the move ended the Morgan family’s exclusive ownership of its eponymous car maker, it has facilitated expansion at Malvern Link and also provide serious investment for future model development. Sources:
Text http://www.onlybespoke.com/bespoke/morgan-motor-company https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/industry-news/morgan/investindustrial-takeover/ http://www.digitaljournal.com/business/morgan-motor-co-still-makes-cars-by-hand-and-uses-some-wood/article/529889 https://www.circle2success.com/outstanding-manufacturing-visit-to-morgan-motor-company-looking-at-these-iconic-hand-built-cars-the-process-skills-and-growth/ https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/17368388.behind-business-morgan-motor-company-boss-steve-morris/ Photos: https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/morgan/aero-gt https://www.visitthemalverns.org/attraction/morgan-motor-company-factory-tours/ https://www.carmagazine.co.uk/car-news/industry-news/morgan/investindustrial-takeover/ https://www.automotivemanufacturingsolutions.com/morgan-motors-twinning-tradition-and-technology/40242.article https://www.deep.co.uk/projects/morgan-motor-company/ https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/history-morgan-motor-company-picture-special John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan with his future wife, Veronica Duncan, October 1963 byTerry Fincher/Business Insider/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty The mystery that shrouds the murder of Sandra Rivett, a nanny, and the subsequent disappearance of Richard John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan would make an excellent holiday read if only it were not for real. It happened in 1974 and has been grabbing the headlines ever since... by Linda Stratmann via Lord Lucan Mystery site At 9.45 pm on the night of 7th November 1974, a distressed and bloodstained woman burst into the bar of The Plumber’s Arms, Lower Belgrave Street, crying out "Help me, help me, help me. I’ve just escaped from being murdered. He’s in the house. He’s murdered the Nanny!" She was the Countess of Lucan, who had fled from her home at number 46, leaving behind her three children. She was obviously the victim of a serious assault, and the police and an ambulance were called to the scene. The police officers who arrived to investigate found a substantial house with a ground floor, a basement and four upper floors. Forcing open the front door, they searched the premises, and found the children in their bedrooms, unharmed. The door to the basement was open. There was no light in the hall, so they fetched a flashlight. They descended the stairs to the breakfast room, and found the walls splashed with blood, a pool of blood on the floor, with some male footprints in it, and, near the door connecting the breakfast room to the kitchen, a bloodstained sack. The top of the sack was folded over but not fastened. Inside was the corpse of Sandra Rivett, the children’s nanny. She had been battered to death with a blunt instrument. In the hallway was a length of lead piping, covered in surgical tape, very bent out of shape and heavily bloodstained. The back door was unlocked. When Lady Lucan was able to make a statement to the police she named her husband as her attacker and the murderer of Sandra Rivett. Of Lord Lucan, there was no sign. A police officer outside 46 Lower Belgrave Street, the day after the murder. Business Insider/Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix / Getty Shortly after 10 pm, Mrs. Madeleine Floorman, a friend of the Lucans, who lived a short distance away, was dozing in front of the TV after a tiring day when she was awoken by someone pressing the doorbell insistently. Assuming it was a local youth, who had done this kind of thing before, she ignored it and went back to sleep. Some time later, the phone rang. She was sure that the caller was Lord Lucan, but he sounded distressed and became incoherent. She put the phone down and went back to sleep. (Later, some spots of what appeared to be blood were found on her doorstep).
At approximately 10.30 that evening, Lord Lucan telephoned his mother who lived in St John’s Wood, telling her there had been a catastrophe at the house, and he wanted her to collect the children. She went straight there, found the place occupied by police, and informed them that the Lucans were separated, the children were wards of court, and that Lord Lucan currently resided at a nearby flat. She then took the children to her home. The police searched Lord Lucan’s flat. He was not there, but they found his car keys, passport, chequebook, driving licence, wallet and glasses. His blue Mercedes car was parked outside. The battery was flat. (It had been suffering from battery trouble for some time). Lord Lucan was driving another car that night, a Ford Corsair he had borrowed from a friend some 2-3 weeks previously. (He had, in fact, insisted that he wanted the car for that particular evening.) It was about 11.30 pm when he arrived in Uckfield, Sussex, at the home of his friends Ian and Susan Maxwell-Scott. The house was 42 miles from Lower Belgrave Street, a journey of about an hour at average speed, though he was a fast driver and might have taken less time. Ian Maxwell-Scott was away, but his wife admitted Lord Lucan and was surprised to see him in dishevelled daytime clothing. His flannels looked as though they had been stained and something sponged off. This was Lord Lucan’s story, as told to Susan Maxwell-Scott. He had been walking past the Lower Belgrave St house, and had peeped in through the basement window. He had seen someone struggling with Lady Lucan in the basement kitchen. He let himself in through the front door and ran down the stairs. He slipped and fell in a pool of blood, and the man had run off. He had calmed Lady Lucan down and taken her upstairs to try and clean her up, but while he was in the bathroom she had run out of the house shouting "Murder!". He had panicked, realizing things looked very bad for him, and decided to get out. Between that time and arriving at the Maxwell-Scotts he said he had made three phone calls, one to Mrs. Floorman, one to his mother, and he had also tried to telephone Bill Shand Kydd, who was married to Lady Lucan’s sister but there was no reply. Mrs. Maxell-Scott said that he did not tell her where he made these calls from, but she got the impression they had been made after he left the house. At 12.15 he rang his mother from the Maxwell-Scotts house to check that she had the children, and rang Bill Shand Kydd again, but there was no reply. Lord Lucan then wrote two letters, both addressed to Bill Shand Kydd at his home in Bayswater. (They were posted the following day. The envelopes were found to have smears of blood on them.) Mrs. Maxwell-Scott tried to persuade him to remain so they could go to the local police the next morning, but he said he had to "get back". He drove away. There has been no validated sighting of him since. Three days after the murder, the Ford Corsair was found abandoned at Newhaven. Bloodstains were found inside of both type A and type B, also, a piece of bandaged lead piping, unstained, but very similar to the one found in the murder house. Further reading: https://www.businessinsider.com/lord-lucan-bingham-murder-mystery-sightings-sandra-rivett https://www.lordlucan.com/lucan_story.htm
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (definition) Wikiwand (illustration) Trophic cascade is an ecological phenomenon triggered by the addition or removal of top predators and involving reciprocal changes in the relative populations of predator and prey through a food chain, which often results in dramatic changes in ecosystem structure and nutrient cycling. American zoologist Robert Paine coined the term trophic cascade in 1980 to describe reciprocal changes in food webs caused by experimental manipulations of top predators. In many instances, trophic cascades have been initiated by human persecution and harvesting of top carnivores such as: wolves and big cats in terrestrial ecosystems and sharks, tunas, and game fish in aquatic ecosystems. The most notable example of how fundamentally significant a trophic cascade can be is the reintroduction of grey wolves to Yellowstone National Park. In Yellowstone, the grey wolf was locally extinct by 1920 and reintroduced in 1995 and 1996. The dramatic changes brought about by their reintroduction are best described in an excellent short documentary featured on Sustainable Man site. For our language learning purposes, I am reposting both the transcript and the documentary here: (Voiceover. Narrated by George Monbiot) “One of the most exciting scientific findings of the past half century has been the discovery of widespread trophic cascades. A trophic cascade is an ecological process which starts at the top of the food chain and tumbles all the way down to the bottom. And the classic example is what happened in the Yellowstone National Park in the United States when wolves were reintroduced in 1995. Now, we – we all know that wolves kill various species of animals, but perhaps we’re slightly less aware that they give life to many others. Before the wolves turned up – they’d been absent for 70 years – the numbers of deer (because there had been nothing to hunt them) had built up and built up in the Yellowstone Park and despite efforts by humans to control them they’d managed to reduce much the vegetation there to almost nothing. They had just grazed it away. But as soon as the wolves arrived, even though they were few in number, they started to have the most remarkable effects. First, of course, they killed some of the deer but that wasn’t the major thing. Much more significantly, they radically changed the behaviour of the deer. The deer started avoiding certain parts of the park – the places where they could be trapped most easily – particularly the valleys and the gorges and immediately those places started to regenerate. In some areas, the height of the trees quintupled in just six years. Bare valley sides quickly became forests of aspen and willow and cottonwood. And as soon as that happened, the birds started moving in. The number of songbirds and migratory birds started to increase greatly. The number of beavers started to increase because beavers like to eat the trees. And beavers, like wolves, are ecosystem engineers. They create niches for other species. And the dams they built in the rivers provided habitats for otters and muskrats and ducks and fish and reptiles and amphibians. The wolves killed coyotes and as a result of that, the number rabbits and mice began to rise which meant more hawks more weasels more foxes more badgers. Ravens and bald eagles came down to feed on the carrion that the wolves had left. Bears fed on it, too. And their population began to rise as well partly also because there were more berries growing on the regenerating shrubs. And the bears reinforced the impact of the wolves by killing some of the calves of the deer. But here’s where it gets really interesting. The wolves changed the behaviour of the rivers. They began to meander less. There was less erosion. Their channels narrowed. More pools formed. More riffle sections. All of which were great for wildlife habitats. The rivers changed in response to the wolves. And the reason was that the regenerating forests stabilised the banks so that they collapsed less often. So the rivers became more fixed in their course. Similarly, by driving the deer out of some places, and the vegetation recovering on the valley side, there was less soil erosion because the vegetation stabilised that as well. So the wolves, small in number, transformed not just the ecosystem of the Yellowstone National Park – this huge area of land… but also, its physical geography. This time, instead of an article, here is the transcript of this excellent and most informative video (below). The English subtitles can be turned on for better comprehension and there is the usual glossary at the side of the txt. A Brie(f) History of Cheese by Paul Kindstedt “Cheese [is] milk’s leap towards immortality” Clifton Fadiman Before empires and royalty, before pottery and writing, before metal tools and weapons – there was cheese. As early as 8000 BCE, Neolithic farmers living in the Fertile Crescent began a legacy of cheese-making almost as old as civilization itself. The rise of agriculture led to domesticated sheep and goats, which ancient farmers harvested for milk. But when left in warm conditions for several hours, that fresh milk began to sour. It’s lactic acids caused protein to coagulate, binding into soft clumps. Upon discovering this strange transformation, the farmers drained the remaining liquid – later named whey – and found that yellowish globs could be eaten fresh as a soft, spreadable meal. These clumps, or curds, became the building blocks of cheese, which would eventually be aged, pressed, ripened and whizzed into a diverse cornucopia of dairy delights. The discovery of cheese gave Neolithic people an enormous survival advantage. Milk was rich with essential proteins, fats and minerals. But it also contained high quantities of lactose – a sugar which is difficult to process for many ancient and modern stomachs. Cheese, however, could provide all of milk’s advantages with much less lactose and since it could be preserved and stockpiled, these essential nutrients could be eaten throughout scarce famines and long winters. Some 7th millennium BCE pottery fragments found in Turkey still contain telltale residues of the cheese and butter they held. By the end of the Bronze Age, cheese was a standard commodity in maritime trade throughout the eastern Mediterranean. In the densely populated city-states of Mesopotamia, cheese became a staple of culinary and religious life. Some of the earliest known writing includes administrative records of cheese quotas, listing a variety of cheeses for different rituals and populations across Mesopotamia. Records from nearby civilisations in Turkey also reference rennet. This animal by-product produced in the stomachs of certain mammals, can accelerate and control coagulation. Eventually, this sophisticated cheese-making tool spread around the globe, giving way to a wider variety of new, harder cheeses. And though some conservative food cultures rejected the dairy delicacy, many more embraced cheese and quickly added their own local flavours. Nomadic Mongolians used yacks’ milk to create hard, sun-dried wedges of Byaslag. Egyptians enjoyed goats’ milk cottage cheese, straining the whey with reed mats. In South Asia, milk was coagulated with a variety of fruit acids, such as lemon juice, vinegar or yoghurt and then hung to dry into loafs of paneer. This soft, mild cheese could be added to curries and sauces, or simply fried as a quick vegetarian dish. Greeks produced bricks of salty brined feta cheese, alongside a harder variety similar to today’s pecorino romano. This grating cheese was produced in Sicily and used in dishes all across the Mediterranean. Under Roman rule, “dry cheese” or “caseus aridus,” became an essential ration for the nearly 500,000 soldiers guarding the vast borders of the Roman Empire. And when the Western Roman Empire collapsed, cheese-making continued to evolve in the manors that dotted the Medieval European countryside. In the hundreds of Benedictine monasteries scattered across Europe, medieval monks experimented endlessly with different types of milk, cheese-making practices and ageing processes that led to many of today’s popular cheeses. Parmesan, Roquefort, Munster and several Swiss types were all refined and perfected by these cheese-making clergymen. In the Alps, cheese-making was particularly successful, producing a myriad of cow’s milk cheeses. By the end of the 14th century, Alpine cheese from the Gruyere region of Switzerland had become so profitable that a neighbouring state invaded the Gruyere highlands to take control of the growing cheese trade. Cheese remained popular through Renaissance, and the Industrial Revolution took production out of the monastery and into machinery. Today, the world produces roughly 22 billion kilograms of cheese a year, shipped and consumed around the globe. But 10,000 years after its invention, local farmers are still following in the footsteps of their Neolithic ancestors, hand-crafting one of humanity’s oldest and favourite foods. St Valentine's Day special: 12 Nerdy Professions of Love (click on the cherry blossom tree to get there)
Historical Facts – Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. Guy Fawkes (born 1570, York, England—died January 31, 1606, London) was a British soldier and best-known participant in the Gunpowder Plot. Its object was to blow up the palace at Westminster during the state opening of Parliament, while James I and his chief ministers met within, in reprisal for increasing oppression of Roman Catholics in England. The exact date of Guy Fawkes’s birth is unknown, yet there are records that he was baptised on 16 April 1570 at St Michael le Belfrey church in York. His father, who worked for the Church of England, died in 1579 and his mother remarried. Guy became influenced by his stepfather’s Catholic practices and converted to Catholicism during his teenage years. His adventurous spirit, as well as his religious zeal, led him to leave Protestant England (1593) and enlist in the Spanish army in the Netherlands which was fighting the Protestant Dutch forces over the control of the country. There he won a reputation for great courage and cool determination. By 1603, Guy had risen through the ranks of the Spanish military and was recommended for a promotion to captain. It was during his time abroad that Guy adopted the Italian name ‘Guido’, and he developed a great knowledge of the use of gunpowder. Meanwhile, in 1594, the instigator of the plot, Robert Catesby, and his small band of Catholics agreed that they needed the help of a military man who would not be as readily recognizable as they were. They dispatched a man to the Netherlands in April 1604 to enlist Fawkes, who, without knowledge of the precise details of the plot, returned to England and joined them. For 18 months, Guy and 12 others calculated a plan to blow up the House of Lords, kill the king, and replace him with a Catholic alternative. The plotters rented a cellar extending under the palace, and Fawkes planted 36 (some sources say fewer) barrels of gunpowder there and camouflaged them with coals and fagots. They planned to set the gunpowder alight when James I opened the Parliament on 5 November 1605. However, the plot was discovered and Fawkes was arrested in the night of November 4–5, 1605. Only after being tortured on the rack did he reveal the names of his accomplices. Tried and found guilty before a special commission (January 27, 1606), Fawkes was to be executed opposite the Parliament building, but he fell or jumped from the gallows ladder and died as a result of having broken his neck. The Tradition. Today, Guy Fawkes Day is celebrated on 5th November in the United Kingdom and in a number of countries that were formerly part of the British Empire, with parades, fireworks, bonfires, and food. Straw effigies of Fawkes are tossed on the bonfire, as are—in more recent years in some places—those of contemporary political figures. Traditionally, children carried these effigies, called “Guys,” through the streets in the days leading up to Guy Fawkes Day and asked passers-by for “a penny for the guy,” often reciting rhymes associated with the occasion, the best known of which dates from the 18th century: Remember, remember, the fifth of November Gunpowder treason and plot We see no reason Why Gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot…. Fireworks, a major component of most Guy Fawkes Day celebrations, represent the explosives that were never used by the plotters. There is also a tradition that the royal bodyguards, called the Yeoman of the Guard, perform an annual search of the Parliament building to check for potential arsonists, although it is more ceremonial than serious. The Mask. You might recognise the mask as the symbol of the vast hacker collective “Anonymous” and as a familiar site at protests of any kind. But it actually depicts Guy Fawkes. Over the past decade, protesters around the globe appropriated his visage, wrapping the once-reviled fringe rebel into a widespread symbol of resistance. So, how did the face of a 17th century conspirator come to be used in so many different protest movements? Easy: movies and the Internet. The iconic version of the Guy Fawkes mask owes its popularity to the graphic novel (published in serial form throughout the 1980s) and film V for Vendetta, which focuses on a vigilante's efforts to destroy an authoritarian government in a dystopian future United Kingdom. Although he didn't predict the mask's role in popular protest, David Lloyd, the artist who illustrated the comic, told The New York Times, "It's a great symbol of protest for anyone who sees tyranny." After the release of the film in 2005, the mask became a meme spread on message boards like 4chan. This led to the mask being associated with the group “Anonymous” and their protest against the Church of Scientology in 2008. After Anonymous appropriated the mask, it began appearing on protesters around the world, including the Occupy movement. In 2011, the mask became the best-seller on Amazon, earning royalties for Warner Bros. studios who owns the official licence. Collected and adapted from: History Extra Encyclopaedia Britannica The Week The Mary Celeste, 1861 (a public domain image) from ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA by Amy Tikkanen Mary Celeste, formerly Amazon, American brigantine that was found abandoned on December 5, 1872, some 400 nautical miles (740 km) from the Azores, Portugal. The fate of the 10 people aboard remains a mystery. The ship was built in 1861 at Spencer’s Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, and named the Amazon. After being launched on May 18, 1861, it encountered a number of mishaps. During the maiden voyage, its captain caught pneumonia and later died, and the ship was damaged on several occasions, most notably in October 1867, when it ran aground in Cow Bay, Cape Breton Island. The following year the Amazon was sold to American Richard W. Haines, who renamed it the Mary Celeste. The ship underwent significant structural changes over the next several years, and it was eventually sold to a group that came to include Capt. Benjamin Spooner Briggs. On November 7, 1872, the Mary Celeste set sail from New York City, with more than 1,700 barrels of alcohol destined for Genoa, Italy. On board were 10 people, including Captain Briggs, his wife, and their two-year-old daughter. Over the next two weeks, the ship encountered harsh weather. According to the last log entry—dated November 25—the Mary Celeste was some 6 nautical miles (11 km) from the Azores. Ten days later the vessel was spotted by the British brig Dei Gratia. Crew from that ship boarded the Mary Celeste and discovered it deserted. Although there was more than 3 feet (1 metre) of water in the hold—an amount that would not have caused panic—the vessel was seaworthy. Adding to the mystery was the fact that the cargo and personal belongings were largely undisturbed, although a longboat was missing. It appeared that the ship had been abandoned quickly. Crewmen from the Dei Gratia sailed the Mary Celeste to Gibraltar, some 800 miles (1,482 km) away. There British authorities conducted an investigation, which ultimately found no evidence of foul play. The mystery garnered some attention, but it became famous in 1884, when Arthur Conan Doylepublished “J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement,” a short story about a survivor of a ghost ship called the Marie Celeste. In his account, a revenge-seeking former slave killed the passengers. While that was purely fiction, many theories were put forward to explain what happened. Most, however, seemed unlikely. There were no signs of violence or missing cargo, casting doubt on claims of mutiny, murder, and piracy. In addition, there was no evidence to support the claim that an explosion caused by alcohol fumes caused the ship to be abandoned. A more likely scenario is that Captain Briggs erroneously believed his ship was taking on too much water and was about to sink. This theory was supported by the fact that the sounding rod—used to determine the amount of water in the hold—was discovered on deck, suggesting that it had been used just before the ship was abandoned. In addition, one of the ship’s pumps showed signs of trouble; it was disassembled. A faulty reading of the sounding rod and an ineffective pump could have led Captain Briggs to believe the ship was foundering and order it abandoned. A mishap may then have occurred in the longboat, causing all to perish. Despite being seen as unlucky, the Mary Celeste remained in service and went through a number of owners before being acquired by Capt. G.C. Parker. In 1885 he deliberately sailed it into a reef near Haiti as part of a plan to defraud an insurance company. When the vessel failed to sink, authorities discovered his scheme. The Mary Celeste, however, was damaged beyond repair, and it was left on the reef, where it deteriorated. IMHO, there isn't a better way to start a language learning site than with an article about a mighty and noble language project that has been going on for about two decades now. I learnt about it many years ago and have been patiently waiting for Serbian linguists and other language aficionados from these parts to kindly start contributing to the Serbian part of the Project. As a rule, however, our sense of national duty always seems to take on all sorts of not-so-intellectually demanding forms (frequently bordering downright silliness) and rarely ventures into such areas. But, instead of lamenting over the current language and overall cultural situation in our country, I might just as well try to do something about it and hopefully others will join in. So, Step 1: inform the public. Therefore, with this I present The Rosetta Project. For those not in the know, let me first explain about the name. The word Rosetta most frequently refers to the Rosetta Stone – a granite slab chiselled in two languages – Ancient Egyptian and Greek and three different scripts (hieroglyphics, Demotic and Greek) and is considered to be the earliest evidence of translation. Dating from 196 BC, It was found near the town of Rosetta (Rashid) in the Nile Delta in Egypt (1799) and played the key role in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs. It frequently symbolises the diversity of human languages. And, it is owing to this emblematic attribute that the stone lent its name to the project described below. Rosetta Project: Building an Archive of ALL Documented Human Languages (Abridged and adapted from the Home and About pages of the Rosetta Project site.) The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to build a publicly accessible digital library of human languages. The Rosetta Project is The Long Now Foundation's first exploration into very long-term archiving. The first prototype of a very long-term archive is The Rosetta Disk - a three inch diameter nickel disk with nearly 14,000 pages of information microscopically etched onto its surface. it can be read by the human eye using 500 power optical magnification. The disk rests in a sphere made of stainless steel and glass which allows the disk exposure to the atmosphere, but protects it from casual impact and abrasion. With minimal care, it could easily last and be legible for thousands of years. The Rosetta Disk collection has as its core a set of "parallel" information - the same texts, the same set of vocabulary, the same kinds of description - for over 1,000 human languages. The idea to collect parallel texts was inspired by the original Rosetta Stone, which had the same basic text (a decree) inscribed in three different scripts. By working back through known languages and scripts, scholars were able to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing, thereby unlocking the encoded history of an ancient civilization. Since that beginning, The Rosetta Project collection has grown to over 100,000 pages of documents, as well as language recordings, for over 2,500 languages. The collection is now housed as a special collection in the Internet Archive, and we continue to expand the collection through new materials and contributions. As a linguistic collection, The Rosetta Project also serves to draw attention to the drastic and accelerated loss of the world’s languages. Just as globalization threatens human cultural diversity, the languages of small, unique, localized human societies are at serious risk. In fact, linguists predict that we may lose as much as 90% of the world’s linguistic diversity within the next century. Language is both an embodiment of human culture, as well as the primary means of its maintenance and transmission. When languages are lost, the transmission of traditional culture is often abruptly severed meaning the loss of cultural diversity is tightly connected to loss of linguistic diversity. To stem the tide and help reverse this trend, we are working to promote human cultural and linguistic diversity, as well as to make sure that no language vanishes without a trace. |
MORGAN MOTORS GLOSSARY the world over = all over the world craftsmanship = the skill someone uses to make beautiful things with their hands, zanatsko umeće to establish = to found, to create a three-wheeler = a bike or a car that has three wheels, trotočkaš a 4-4 = a " four-by-four", a system in which a car's engine powers all 4 wheels evenly, vozilo sa pogonom na sva četiri točka iconic = important or impressive because it seems to be a symbol of sth core = central, key, essential ash = a kind of a widespread deciduous tree, jasen bespoke = specially made for the customer who orders it, pravljen po narudžbi tailored = fitted, made or produced to fit closely to one's measures, skrojen heritage = qualities, traditions and features that have continued over many years and have been passed on from one generation to another, legacy cutting-edge (adj.) = the latest, most modern, innovative a roadster = a sports car with no roof and only two seats a two-seater = dvosed in excess of = more than to assemble = to put parts together to make the whole approximately = not precisely, not exactly, roughly multiple = more than one significant stake = major part venture capitalist = an investor who provides capital to companies with a high growth potential eponymous = in the title role to facilitate = to make sth easier or more likely to happen Lord Lucan Crime Mystery Glossaryto shroud = surround a situation or an object making it mysterious and secret
subsequent = that comes after or later Earl = grof to grab (the) headlines = get a lot of publicity from media bloodstained = covered with stains of blood a stain = a mark on sth that is difficult to remove, mrlja to burst (into a place) = to enter suddenly with a lot of energy or force Countess = grofica an assault = an attack substantial = big, considerable ground floor = the floor of a building that is level or almost level with the ground outside basement = the floor of a building which is partly or completely below ground level premises = all the buildings and land that something occupies in one place unharmed = not injured or hurt to fetch = go and get to splash = (of a liquid) to hit something and scatter in a lot of small drops to be battered = to be heavily beaten blunt = not sharp lead = soft, grey, heavy metal, olovo, olovni piping = same as pipe, cev to bend/bent, bent = saviti to doze (off) = to sleep lightly usu during the day, to nap, dremati insistently = to keep insisting incoherent = to be talking in a confusing and unclear way a ward of court = pod sudskim starateljstvom to reside = to live or stay somewhere the battery is/was flat = akumulator je (bio) ispražnjen to admit = to allow someone to come in dishevelled = very untidy, unkempt flannels = men's trousers (made of flannel) to sponge (off) = to wipe with a sponge to peep = to have a quick look at something, often secretly ad quietly a smear = a dirty or oily mark to persuade = to talk sbd into doing sth, nagovarati to validate = to confirm or prove that sth is true or correct to abandon = to desert, leave a place bandaged = wrapped, uvijen, umotan CROSSWORD |