Thursday
May 17, 2001
Iranian
Takta
The Iranian state TV affiliated company rumored to be developing an Internet
site blocking software for the Telecommunication Company of Iran ... --
Thanks to Payman Arabshahi
UK Persians
Chat club for "PERSIANS in the UK and IRELAND."
Kish Island
News, chat club...
Beyond Iran
The Cleopatra
Costume on Stage and in Film
In seven richly annotated pages, C. David Claudon provides a thorough
look at the clothing of fictional Cleopatras. From Shakespeare's original
all-male production of "Antony and Cleopatra" to Sarah Bernhardt's
19th-century staging of Victorien Sardou's "Cleopatra" to Elizabeth
Taylor's spectacular turn as the Queen of the Nile in 1963, Claudon illustrates
how actresses and costumer designers have dressed the character in ways
"that say more about their own time period than that of Cleopatra's."
Included in this site is a complete list of famous Cleopatras on stage,
film, and TV from 1606 to the present day.
Leaves of Gold
Dig into some masterworks from the golden age of book publishing by hand.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents this beautiful exhibit of illuminated
manuscripts -- "hand-produced books that include drawn, painted, and
gilded decoration on pages made of vellum, a specially prepared and polished
animal skin."
Black Shoals Stock Market Planetarium
Gaze up at the starry heavens of the international finance. Here's the
setup -- this perfectly natural-looking night sky is in fact a real-time
representation of the world's stock markets.
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