"Wars will turn unto a peaceful comic sport": Burgundy (King Henry VI)

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KING EDWARD IV:

... but that we spend the time

With mirthful comic scripts,

Such as befits the pleasure of the court ...

For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.

- Adapted from KING HENRY VI, SHAKESPEARE

.... :D


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// As You Like It: British firm scores hit with manga Shakespeare
LONDON (AFP) — A British publisher has scored a hit with manga comic book versions of Shakespeare's classic plays -- and this week unveiled plans for more.

Publishing house SelfMadeHero presented seven titles from its unusual "Manga Shakespeare" collection, which have already been hits in both Britain and Asia, to the London Book Fair which wound up Wednesday.
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国連(UN)はオーストラリアの大陸棚を確認した

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国連(UN)はオーストラリアの大陸棚(continental shelf)を確認した。

リソース開発のための可能な領域250万平方キロメートルの伸びを示す。


// Australian territory expands with continental shelf ruling
Posted 4 hours 45 minutes ago (April 21, 2008)

A United Nations commission has ruled that Australia can expand its continental shelf by 2.5 million square kilometres.
Federal Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson says the extra area could be full of resources.

"It means for a resource-rich nation such as Australia, added resource entitlements going to issues of oil and gas," he said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/21/2223353.htm

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「学者で記者で芸者」のオーストラリア女性から学んだこと

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「学者で記者で芸者」のオーストラリア女性から学んだこと
こんな話をしてくれたのは、オーストラリア人の学者兼ジャーナリストで、現在浅草で芸者として活躍する「紗幸」さん。
http://www.j-cast.com/tv/2008/04/19019202.html

Australian woman becomes first Western geisha
Melbourne native Fiona Graham was an exchange student in Japan at 15, graduated from a Japanese high school and attended Japan's Keio University and Oxford before completing her doctorate in social anthropology, ... Sayuki - her professional name ...
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23021465-912,00.html


Photos of Sayuki
http://keyshots.smugmug.com/gallery/4014935#251818008_eWCf5


SAYUKI 花柳界歴史上初の外国人芸者
http://www.sayuki.net/



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