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Genealogy The Search For A Personal Past
A once laughable pursuit is now seen by historians as a serious way to explore where we came from and who we are
The stereotype of the genealogist has long been a familiar one in American popular culture. Like the Ichabod Crane schoolmaster and the prissy librarian, the genealogist was a specific type, easily recognizable and faintly ridiculous. She was the elderly lady in comfortable shoes examining musty records in search of enough cerulean in her veins to permit her to snub her neighbors with a clear conscience. He was the retired clergyman supplementing his pension by collecting fees for piloting nervous clients through the turbulent biographical shoals that stand in the way of admittance to patriotic societies. Genealogy, when it was practiced at all, carried an air of quackery about it. And even at its most serious it seemed a somnolent pursuit designed to help old people to while away their time.
If that was ever true (and like most stereotypical propositions it contained a sufficient kernel of truth to make it a useful short hand), it is no longer. Consider the following random examples of the current interest in American genealogy:
• The National Archives in Washington, D.C., once a favored spot for scholarly snoozing, now receives some twenty-three hundred requests for genealogical information every week.
• Frank Bradley of the Genealogy Room of the New York Public Library estimates that the majority of people who come in to start looking up their family histories are in their thirties or forties. The membership of the Daughters of the American Revolution is, according to a spokeswoman, "getting younger," and the Boy Scouts have recently introduced a merit badge in genealogy.
• Alex Haley's suspect but fascinating Roots is far and away the most popular book ever written on a genealogical subject. The television mini-series based on it pulled the highest ratings in history. It was estimated that 130 million people, almost half the population of America, watched at least one segment. John Jakes's harmless flap-doodle, the fictional Kent Family Chronicles , sold close to 30 million copies in paperback between 1974 and 1980.
• Genealogy, once described as "history's neglected stepsister" and dismissed as irrelevant by professional historians, is increasingly being accepted as a legitimate subject for study. Courses in genealogy are commonplace in American colleges, and historians such as Professor Pat Bonomi of New York University have called it "an invaluable tool in the investigation of American social history. "
• Local genealogical societies are sprouting up like so many McDonald's. Formerly limited to a few major cities, genealogical societies are now found from Allenspark, Colorado, to Zelienople, Pennsylvania.
• If a social phenomenon can be considered truly recognized when Madison Avenue takes official notice, then genealogy has arrived. Pan American Airlines runs a campaign noting that "all of us come from somewhere else" and offering to help passengers explore their "two heritages." The Continental Trailways Bus Company has as a slogan "Take Our Routes to Your Roots."
Both as an academic pursuit and as a popular American pastime, genealogy is clearly riding on a fast track.
This current acceptance has been very slow in coming about. Genealogy and derision have had a long and colorful relationship. In the Bible, Timothy warns us, "Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies." In The Acharnians Aristophanes poked wicked fun at sober Euripides' fondness for reciting genealogies. The proverbial expression "to lie like a genealogist" is an old one. It appears that almost from the first moment there were genealogies—and they have been traced as far back as the Pharaohs—there have been genealogists eager to please a client or impress an audience without regard to the pesky standards of accuracy or even plausibility. In ancient Rome patricians who were descended from the founding fathers, and who were eager to maintain the rigid exclusiveness that preserved their sacra gentilica , proudly drew up genealogical tables and then had the results painted on the walls of their homes. Since almost everyone likes to be thought of as patrician, a thriving industry grew up providing plebian parvenus with busts of specious ancestors to worship and tables tracing clients back to Aeneas. It is a practice that continues in much the same form down to the present day. Probably the high-water mark of this sort of f akery is the genealogy of the Hungarian Esterhâzy family, which solemnly traced itself back to Adam's grandfather.
Genealogy is a worldwide interest that appears in almost all cultures, but the pursuit as we know it in America usually comes to us with a pronounced English accent. The British have traditionally set great and bloody store by their ancestry. The War of the Roses and the Hundred Years' War were but two conflicts initiated because of variant interpretations of genealogical niceties. The famous suit of Sir Richard Scrope against Sir Robert Grosvenor is a landmark case in the history of genealogical litigation. Scrope was part of an army that invaded Scotland in 1385 and he appeared on the field with his coat of arms, a gold bend on a field of blue. He was angered to find Grosvenor with the same device. His appeal to the chivalry court was considered to be of sufficient moment to be carried to the king, who decided in Scrope's favor. Grosvenor's claim of descendancy from one who "came over with William the Conqueror" was not the first nor would it be the last to be disallowed.
Until the middle of this century there was a great rush of clients thirsting for noble blood in their ancestry and not very particular about how it got there.
This kind of thing was exactly the sort of feudal European posturing American settlers wished to turn their backs on in the New World. They believed with Voltaire that "he who serves his country well has no need of ancestors. "
Inevitably, prominent families began to emerge; kinship, particularly in Massachusetts, counted for a great deal in the development of the great New England dynasties. Of the twelve original directors of the Massachusetts Bank, nine were related by blood or marriage. As business became more complicated, Boston's leading families responded with a dazzling display of interlocking marriages of convenience, state, and commerce.
For all their notorious closeness, in the early nineteenth century Boston families were surprisingly liberal in reaching out beyond their own family trees to graft on promising stock. As a result, writes the historian Peter Dobbin Hall,"men of obscure origins like Nathaniel Bowditch, son of an impecunious and alcoholic Salem mariner, and Joseph Peabody, son of a rural Essex County farmer, became founding fathers of families whose names are now inevitably identified with Brahminism. " Although family background was important in Boston, formal genealogy was less so. The Cabots and the Winthrops knew who they were and didn't need a genealogical table to tell them.
It was different in the South in the 1830s, where antecedents were not as well established as they were in New England. Under increasing fire from Northern abolitionists over the issue of slavery, many Southerners retreated defensively into an image-saving mythology. Warmed by the extraordinarily popular Scottish border novels of Sir Walter Scott, Southerners cast about to reestablish what they took to be their Old World heritage. In some ways this was an easy task: vital records of the early Southern colonial period are skimpier than they are in the North because a large number of Southern courthouses and city halls were built of wood and had a disquieting history of burning to the ground with the records inside. While detailed records of vital statistics form the bedrock of accurate genealogical research, imprecision and discrepancy were heaven sent to those nineteenth-century seekers of illusion. Connections that would not bear the scrutiny of present-day standards were made, and Southern families could see their lineages as what they had always wished them to be: more patrician, more courtly, more settled into tradition than those swarms of immigrants in the North who were criticizing them for the "peculiar institution" of chattel slavery.
Of course, there is no evidence that the South was favored with a higher class of early settler than the North, but myths are often harder to kill than facts. This noble vision of the Old South was a strong influence on the writing of William Faulkner and other twentieth-century Southern authors whose works, according to one historian, "look back, past the South's supposed aristocratic origins to the pre-settlement wilderness, an Eden whose native inhabitants were as unspoilt and unspoiling as the surroundings from which they drew their character. "
The first great wave of national interest in American genealogy grew out of the 1876 Centennial celebration. This was the era of the founding of such patriotic organizations as the Colonial Dames of America and the Daughters of the American Revolution, both founded in 1890. As they were to do a century later, these organizations took a leading role in the development of local histories and genealogical studies.
By this time a keen sense of social distinction had made itself felt. For example, members of the DAR (who number some 208,CKX) today), must trace their lineage back to people living at the time of the American Revolution, regardless of their rank or station. The Colonial Dames, with a membership of 22,000, must trace themselves back only to officers and officials of the pre-Revolution period. It is a distinction that prompted one CDA member to remark, "The DAR is the Elks Club of American historical societies." In fact, there are three separate Colonial Dame associations. Besides the CDA there is the National Society of Colonial Dames, which is said to have broken off from the parent body over a dispute arising from certain members who traced themselves back to Benjamin Franklin through his illegitimate son, William. For whatever reasons, each group now refers to its rival as the "other Colonial Dames." Then, to remind us all that there is always one rung on the ladder of social prestige more remote than the one we are occupying, there is also the Colonial Dames XVII Century, established in 1915, whose members trace themselves back to officials in office prior to 1699.
The sudden interest in genealogy at the time of our nation's centennial took two separate courses. There was the beginning of solid professional genealogical research into American social history as well as a popular desire to find illustrious ancestors hiding in the family closet. All this resulted in such fervor that one historian called it "a craze that swept America in the 1880's and 1890's."
On the professional side, the New York Public Library acquired the largest public collection of genealogical source materials then available. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society was founded in 1869 and the following year began publication of a regular journal.
For the next fifty years professional genealogists turned out reams of scholarly, often little-heralded work. While many Americans were busy reassuring themselves how good their bloodlines were, genealogists were pointing out how difficult it can sometimes be to tell "good" blood from "bad." A major genealogical study of the period—"The Tuttle Family," published in 1883—traced the family of William Tuttle, a member of the lesser English gentry. The Turtles' twelve children include a non compos mentis son, David; a daughter, Mercy, who murdered one of her own children; another daughter, Elizabeth, who was diagnosed as suffering from periodic dementia; and a son, Benjamin, who murdered his sister, Sarah, by hitting her on the head with an ax. Subsequent generations of Turtles produced two more children described in family records as "distracted" and "demented" and one more ax murderer. However, this troubled family tree also bore some worthy fruit. The mad Elizabeth was an ancestress of the Reverend Jonathan Edwards, whose family has come down to us as representing all that was best in our stern Puritan heritage. The Turtle family, of whom there are now more than a half-million descendants, has gone on to make significant contributions to American culture in politics, art, industry, and religion. But the nagging thought persists that if a metaphysician of the caliber of Jonathan Edwards can find himself genetically bound to a stray lunatic only a few generations back, there is little hope for the rest of us.
Donald Lines Jacobus, one of the founders of the new generation of professionals who helped raise genealogy from pastime to science, played a vigorous role in dispelling mythology with vivid statistics. Commenting in 1930 on the American assumption that our first settlers were of "superior stock," Jacobus found evidence of many cases of lameness, bad eyesight, and other defects among the early New England settlers. A physician's journal of 1650 told of sporadic cases of gonorrhea and six cases of sodomy recorded in a single community. "Certain it is," Jacobus wrote, "that this original homogeneous stock, marrying almost entirely within itself, produced in some localities within a few generations a notably fine crop of imbeciles and other defectives."
As important as this sort of historical research may have been (and contemporary historians consider it of the utmost importance), imbeciles and defectives were not high on the American list of desired elements in a family tree. Until the middle of this century there was a great rush of clients thirsting for noble blood in their backgrounds and not very particular about how it got there. Few were as fortunate as the French general Andoche Junot, who rose from Republican beginnings to a dukedom under Napoleon and was able to remark, "I am my own ancestor."
Americans had to go looking. The great dream was to trace a line back to the earliest settlers and then jump back across the Atlantic where the chase could be taken up again, preferably along the marble corridors of privilege. The task, legitimately undertaken, is all but impossible. It is certainly possible to trace oneself to nobility—as genealogists remind us, we are all related to Charlemagne. And it is perhaps possible to trace oneself back to early colonial settlers. But it is exceedingly difficult to be both early and noble. The hard facts were laid down by J. Gardner Bartlett, a pioneer specialist in British research. "Of the 5,000 heads of families who came between 1620 and 1640 less than 50 or not 1 percent are known to have belonged to the upper gentry of England, and less than 250 or not 5 percent can be considered as from the minor mercantile or landed gentry. No peers nor sons of peers, no baronets, nor their sons, but one knight and no sons of knights, were among the founders of New England. "
When a desperate search for prestigious ancestry is linked with accommodating scholarship, the results can be startling. A family with the surname Cuthbert seriously put forth a claim to be descended from St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne. Unfortunately for this proposition, St. Cuthbert, who died in his island cell in 687, was a man of such an incorruptible and monastic nature that women were not permitted to approach his shrine until the Reformation. A prominent nineteenthcentury New York lady with social ambitions painted the coat of arms of the House of Orange on her carriage because she claimed a right of descent through one Anneke Jans of the New Amsterdam settlement, who was in turn descended from William the Silent. Subsequent research established the Jans claim was almost certainly specious or, if valid, could have come only through illegitimacy, which, by proper uses of emblazonry, would have required the matron to embellish her carriage with the bend sinister. "It is a queer commentary on human nature," Jacobus wrote, "that people who would be shocked by illegitimacy in an American forebear would be so eager to believe that an ancestor was a bastard of the Prince of Orange."
If one's mother runs off with a traveling salesman, it is considered scandalous. But if one's greatgreat-grandmother did so, that is romance.
The idea of maintaining social exclusivity through genealogy sometimes took an unanticipated turn in the late nineteenth century. In Manhattan a group of wealthy and influential Jewish families traced their ancestry from the passenger list of the St. Charles , which landed in New York in 1654. By 1888 Jewish Old Guard society had solidified into what was known as the One Hundred, those whose families had immigrated to the United States prior to 1860. The One Hundred, which prided itself on being better mannered than Mrs. Astor's Four Hundred, were almost as restrictive. For all his freshly minted copper-mine money, Benjamin Guggenheim could not match the social luster of the Seligman family until he persuaded one of the Seligman daughters to marry him, an event which at the time was roughly equivalent to an Astor daughter eloping with the owner of a hardware store.
Americans frequently displayed an ambivalence about genealogy. Although many of us liked to find traces of refinement in our own backgrounds, we disapproved when our neighbors tried to find some in theirs. Being caught taking genealogy and family background too seriously was an open invitation to be made fun of. President Franklin Roosevelt angered a meeting of the DAR in 1938 when he greeted them as fellow "immigrants," but he got a big laugh from the rest of the country. Will Rogers liked to remark that although his ancestors may not have come over on the Mayflower , they were there to meet the ones who did. There is in fact much that is laughable about genealogy, with its tables and quarterings and family crests. A salesman once tried to talk the Crane family of Chicago, which had become wealthy in the plumbing-supply business, into buying a specially prepared Crane coat of arms. The device featured a sink and a bathtub underneath a hand pulling a toilet chain. The proposed motto was Après Moi le Déluge . The Cranes sent the man packing, but his idea was as valid as most of the millions of spurious family crests Americans have bought—and a lot more fun to look at.
While Americans were pursuing genealogy to varying degrees of seriousness—or simply deriding it—professional genealogists were starting to shore up their own calling. Until the middle of this century there were no prescribed standards set for them. "Any person, regardless of education, experience or natural ability, can set up to be a professional genealogist," Jacobus wrote. "Very few genealogists are deliberately fraudulent, but many are so naive or careless or haphazard in their work that the results are fully as bad. "
In the early 1940s such genealogists as Dr. Arthur Adams and John Coddington moved to redress this. In 1966 a national board was established in Washington to certify genealogists as scholars compiling full family histories, American lineage specialists, and records searchers. New genealogical research was put under stricter tests of accuracy and documentation, and existing genealogies had to be reexamined. Even Milton Rubincam, a leading force in the movement to enforce standards, ruefully admitted to the Pennsylvania Genealogical Society that he had had to tear up charts and manuscripts of his own which purported to show that his paternal ancestor William Rittenhouse was a descendant of Rudolf of Hapsburg, of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, and, of course, of William the Conqueror.
The fly-by-night scam artists are still with us. For a few dollars they will mail you genealogical information about as useful as looking up your own name in the telephone book. But the days are gone when someone stood a reasonable chance of getting into the prestigious Holland Society just on the basis of having a van in his name.
The second surge of national genealogical interest, which shows no signs of abating, came in the wake of the 1976 Bicentennial celebration. Again Americans started turning back to their family roots, but this time there was a wealth of material available to the most casual investigator that would have overwhelmed the professional of a generation earlier. Information has been gathered, classified, catalogued, microfilmed, stored on computer print-outs, and deposited in libraries, archives, societies, and museums throughout the country. Thanks to modern microfilming techniques and expanding programs of record acquisition, many original documents previously accessible to only a scattering of diligent scholars can now be made available to almost any interested person. Two of the most famous repositories are the Mormon genealogical library in Salt Lake City and the National Archives. Detailed information on vital statistics, census records, and war records can be easily had from both sources.
If standards of the professional genealogist have improved and become more sophisticated, so have those of the amateur. Almost all genealogists agree that the obsessive pursuit of a noble lineage is passé. "The majority look on genealogy now as an avocation that is part fun, part mystery story, and part treasure hunt," says Frank Bradley. "The victory in genealogy comes in finding out exactly who a particular ancestor was, not in showing how important he was."
If anything, there seems to be a reverse of the old thirst for gentility. Clients now seem almost disappointed if they fail to find at least one skeleton in the family closet. Being descended from a Salem witch is particularly desirable. One man tracing his family back five generations was enchanted when he found an early-nineteenth-century birth certificate. The mother, when asked the identity of the father, was apparently unable or unwilling to come up with a name and simply put down "Gentleman." Obviously, generational distance smooths over the rough edges of family history. If one's mother runs off with a traveling salesman, it is scandal. If one's great-great-grandmother did so, it is romance. Each generation draws its own distinction between passion and propriety.
The creation of a genealogy, whether done by a professional or an amateur, starts as a quest for names, dates, and places. We work backward, forward, sometimes sideways, each time trying to make a connection with a name from the past, and are frequently stopped by that dread abbreviation d.s.p. ("died sine prole"), which means we can pursue that barren limb no farther. But a list of names, however important, is just the beginning of a well-constructed family history. "There is no point in digging up an ancestor," explains Dr. Kenn Stryker-Rodda of the New-York Historical Society, "if you're not going to make him live."
Americans are becoming more interested not just in who their ancestors were but also in how they lived and how it was they succeeded or failed at whatever enterprise, however humble. It is becoming apparent that the ever-increasing number of slim family histories, whether privately printed or merely typed out, are more than something to be distributed among relatives—they are a national education resource. "For years," says Professor Bonomi, "American history was the story of the top 10 percent of the people. Now, thanks to genealogy, we are learning about the other 90 percent."
The pursuit of these family histories cuts across all social, racial, and religious sectors of the population. The Irish, according to the specialist B-Ann Moorhouse, tend more than other ethnic groups "to have one aim and one aim only—to find the exact place of origin in Ireland." But due to the vagaries of spelling and pronunciation, and the indifference of immigration authorities in recording names properly, it is a major genealogical accomplishment just to identify the port of disembarkation. Professor Herbert G. Gutman's scholarly The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925 , has, with Alex Haley's Roots , gained broad recognition for black genealogy, but successfully tracing an African heritage remains a matter of almost incalculable luck. Jews have been aided by Dan Rottenberg's Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jeivish Genealogy , and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New York offers help in tracing the European backgrounds of immigrant Jewish families. All too often the search ends in the memorial volumes that recount the names of those destroyed in the Holocaust.
Many opinions have been put forth to account for America's growing interest in genealogy—the desire for a restless people to find an anchor; the heightened historical sensibility engendered by the Bicentennial; the fact that many Americans have discovered that working out a genealogy table can be as much fun as solving a crossword puzzle; the growing awareness of ethnic roots that reach back before the American experience; the understandable wish to appear more important than one's neighbor; and even the author Jane Howard's mordant theory that it's all due to our spiraling divorce rate: "If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones."
I think the reason is simpler and more basic. We are interested in genealogy because to ask who we are and where we belong in the scheme of things is the most natural and elemental of questions. Indeed, the current debate over evolution and creationism is a genealogical debate on the grandest scale. The surprise is not that Americans have discovered an interest in genealogy but that they had lost it for so long. What seemed a European affectation was actually a human need.
We feel as people always do, especially when they are feeling lost and perhaps a little frightened.
We want to go home.
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This short reflection from me on the shopping preferences of three so-called Millennials of my acquaintance appeared recently as a column for Freight Brokers, the London-based specialist courier firm for the fashion sector. You can read it here. I work with owners Charles and Ben Keisner on new business development. (Get in touch with me if you ship samples around the world and/or have a lot of international ecommerce deliveries and I will connect you with Freight Brokers). I also delivered a version of the column as a talk at a dinner organised by Salesforce Commerce Cloud (see footnote).
A striking example of how fashion shopping has changed came to me when I visited my son Teddy working in Size?, the JD Sports-owned trainer shop in London's Carnaby Street. A twentysomething guy was jabbering on his mobile, discussing the styles that Teddy had brought him. My son later told me the customer was shopping for his brother. He was sending him photos from his phone, then calling him to talk about them. Remarkably, his brother was sitting in Tehran, the capital of Iran, while making his selection. Different times indeed.
Both the man in Size? and his faraway brother are Millennials, reportedly the most important consumer group for fashion (and many other) retailers. Millennials is the large demographic group that embraces anyone born between 1980 and 2000. Whether 36 years old or 16, they are regarded as the first digital generation.
British Millennials number about 18m people, around 28% of our total population, and they are equally split between the sexes. Interestingly, that 18 million is some 5 million fewer than the 37-65 age group. So why are the Millennials important? Well, not least because they are estimated to spend up to 80% more on fashion than other generations. And they will shape the way we all shop tomorrow because of how they shop today.
Whatever strategy a brand or store or site adopts to communicate with this Millennials group, the principles of good retailing remain. The idea is to make money by selling something at a higher price than you bought it and doing more than covering your costs of operations. I get a little nervous when I see companies doing things (mainly online) that don't materially contribute to this aim.
And 18-year-old Genevieve, who is on a short course on fashion retailing as her first step into the industry. She also works part-time in a high-street multiple.
What came over loud and clear is how they have switched in recent years to buying more fashion online than in shops. Teddy reckons his split is 75:25 (possibly the Asos influence there!); Genevieve is 60:40. Florence says it depends on the product type. I was interested to learn that she goes to shops more often for everyday basics and goes online when she is looking for something more special.
Frustratingly, different customers do the same things for different reasons. Florence says she doesn't like the palaver of shopping; she actually used the term "a waste of time". She'd rather spend her weekends relaxing with friends or visiting a museum or gallery. Genevieve lives in east Kent, hardly a fashion hot spot, so online gives her a huge choice that is not available locally. While Teddy acknowledges he is well served in London, he still prefers the convenience of shopping online than tramping around lots of shops.
What all three told me they wanted from retailers, brands and websites is clarity. They want simplicity. They want editing. They want the seller to offer them just relevant product, not irrelevant product.
This brings me again to the principles of good retailing. Even with all the new technology, we cannot underestimate the essential importance of excellent buying, range building and merchandising.
How, I wonder, has a company's buying changed to satisfy the Millennials' expectations. How many give more choices, fewer choices or, most importantly, betterchoices?
The crucial dilemma regarding changing methods of selling is that in the UK we are, quite obviously, over-shopped. And in these austere times, purchases are being made with more discretion. Every fashion company is struggling to be heard and seen. The requirement, surely, must be to get more "must-have" product in front of consumers rather than "nice-to-have" products.
Another key question, of course, is who decides what is "must-have". I was surprised at the effect online reviews had on each of my three kids. They particularly take note of negative reviews. And they are very selective on whose reviews they value – certainly not professional bloggers or celebrities.
None of them admitted to being particularly bothered about celebrity endorsements although Florence agreed that she would not have gone into M&S to buy a piece of the archive collection without Alexa Chung's name being on it. Ditto the Beyoncé and Ivy Park sportswear in Topshop.
Genevieve made a smart point when she said a celebrity endorsement might cause her look at something, but it wouldn't cause her to buy it. It has to be right for her.
My daughters still look at printed fashion magazines for inspiration, but both said they are doing less of that than previously, also pointing out that they cannot afford the clothes usually featured in Vogue and Elle, so don't need to read them too closely.
None is a fan of Facebook. Instagram and Twitter, for my three, are the main providers of new information and inspiration for fashion. But it is significant that mobile is so good for what Twitter and Instagram do.
I don't need to tell you that suggesting that Millennials – a diverse group of men and women with up to 20 years difference in age – is a single entity is somewhat ridiculous, but it is, I concede, a useful starting point for breaking down your consumer target groups still further.
To highlight just one nuance, Genevieve and Teddy are both very happy to transact and pay from their mobiles, while Florence – the eldest – still suspects that they are not as secure as a desktop, so rarely buys on a mobile. And she's willing to miss out on what she wants rather than risk it.
Given the galloping growth of sales across mobiles, she is in a minority but her attitude shows that the Millennials' attitudes are still developing. The happy task of the fashion business is to try and work out what will work most effectively for most of them. There's lots to be done.


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The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million () is a non-fiction memoir by Daniel Mendelsohn, published in September 2006, which has received critical acclaim as a new perspective on Holocaust remembrance. It was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Prix Médicis in France. It was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper History Prize in the UK.  An international bestseller, The Lost has been translated into numerous languages, including French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, German, Romanian, Turkish, Norwegian, and Hebrew.

The Lost tells of Mendelsohn's world-wide travels in search of details about the lives and fates of a maternal great-uncle,  Samuel (Shmiel) Jäger, his wife, Ester, and their four daughters who lived in Bolechow and were killed during the Nazi occupation. According to the author, "My book is about trying to find out exactly, specifically, what happened to those people."

In writing The Lost, Mendelsohn notes a debt to Marcel Proust, telling Salon.com, "Clearly, the book is in some large sense about the possibility of recovering the past, so it's automatically a Proustian book."

Sources and Reviews
New York Times Book Review front-page review by Ron Rosenbaum
Elie Wiesel Review in The Washington Post
New York Review of Books Review by Charles Simic (October 5, 2006)
The Nation review
Charlotte News-Observer review
Newsday review
On Point radio/ WBUR Interview (September 28, 2006)
NPR story/ Fresh Air interview (October 18, 2006)
Pittsburgh Tribune review
Salon.com Interview (December 14, 2006)
Times of London profile
LIRE: Entretien avec Daniel Mendelsohn

External links
The Lost video - Conversation with Daniel Mendelsohn, at publisher Harpercollins
CNN interview transcript - July 13, 2002 interview about the original New York Times magazine article
DanielMendelsohn.com

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Personal accounts of the Holocaust
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An era of profound attention and awareness of environmental and social issues, a return wave to values of authenticity, health consciousness and responsibility opens.
The ninth edition of the Unipol Group initiative, Welfare Italia Forum 2018 held in Rome today as part of the "Welfare, Italy. Workshop for the new social policies" programme.
Urban Up - Unipol Group has chosen to celebrate the Christmas holidays together with the city of Milan, with which it has significantly strengthened its ties in recent years.
In the 54th edition of the Annual Report Oscars the 2017 Integrated Annual Report of the Unipol Group win the Oscar in the Core Category of "listed financial companies" and was also honored with a Special Mention in the category of "Integrated Reporting".
The Unipol Group will be sponsoring the exhibition "Marina Abramović. The Cleaner" to be held at Palazzo Strozzi from 21 September 2018 to 20 January 2019.
Streamlining the insurance business: shareholding in Arca Vita sold to UnipolSai Assicurazioni.
The Petriolo Hot Springs restoration project has begun. It was initiated by UnipolSai, the Unipol Group insurance company, that will invest €4m in the area it owns, and supported by Italia Nostra.
Unipol Gruppo S.p.A. ("Unipol") announces its intention to purchase an aggregate amount of no. 25,000,000 shares of BPER Banca S.p.A. ("BPER" or the "Bank"), equal to approximately 5.2% of the share capital of the Bank (the "Direct Shareholding").
At a time when the overriding emotion in current affairs appears at all costs to be fear, Biografilm takes a different view of the present, transforming the unexpected into probabilities: the teaser title of Biografilm 2018 is DON'T PANIC.
The Unipol Group presented its 2017 Integrated Report, which integrates the company's financial performance with its performance in social and environmental sustainability.
Unipol is the Italian company with the best reputation in the financial (banking and insurance) sector, according to the 2018 Italy RepTrak® classification (public opinion index) released by the Reputation Institute today.
Sale of shares held in Popolare Vita S.p.A.
The sale of the investment held by UnipolSai Assicurazioni S.p.A. in Popolare Vita S.p.A. to Banco BPM S.p.A.was concluded.
For the fifth anniversary of CUBO, Unipol Group present the general catalogue of its art collection "Traces of Italian art identity.
Welfare models and their future sustainability are changing to meet a demand for social protection that is becoming increasingly diversified and customised.
Unipol Gruppo and Legambiente will renew the Bellezza Italia memorandum of understanding, the project for the restoration of degraded areas in Italy.
Unipol Group main sponsor of the exhibition "The Cinquecento in Firenze. From Michelangelo and Pontormo to Giambologna"
The Unipol Group is main sponsor of the exhibition "The Cinquecento in Florence" which, from 21 September 2017 to 21 January 2018, will illuminate the halls of Palazzo Strozzi in the Tuscan capital.
Approval of the reorganization of Unipol Group's insurance unit.
Banking unit restructuring plan guidelines approved.
The Unipol Group has always been committed to the promotion of, and support for, cultural initiatives for the community with a view to social responsibility.
The Group presents its Integrated Report, which for the first time integrates financial data and sustainability information for the purpose of contributing to the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations.
The Unipol Group has given more than €1 million to finance the reconstruction of the Elementary School Pietro Santini in Loro Piceno (Macerata), declared uninhabitable because of the damage suffered during the earthquake shock on 24 August 2016.
Unipol has gained nearly 10 reputation points since 2014. The Group's reputation has grown more than the industry average.
Urban Up – Unipol Projects Cities is present at Milan Design Week with 2 initiatives: URBAN UP - Milan Virtual Experience" and "Live the City".
Unipol Group main sponsor of the exhibition "L'emozione dei colori nell'arte"
The Unipol Group is the main sponsor of the exhibition "L'emozione dei colori nell'arte", on show at the Manica Lunga of the Rivoli Castle Museum of Contemporary Art and in the halls of the GAM Gallery of Modern Art in Turin.
UnipolSai Assicurazioni hereby announces the new partnership making it official sponsor of Ducati Corse for the 2017 MotoGP World Championship, which will commence on 26 March at the Losail circuit in Qatar.
Entrepreneurs, academics and operators in the healthcare, assistance and social security sectors meet to discuss innovative business and social initiatives as well as policy models for the organization of the new welfare demand.
Changes (changes.unipol.it) is the new digital magazine of the Group created to discuss matters related to the changes in our society, seeking to interpret the future while remaining close to our present.
Online today the new unipol.it: the corporate site of the Unipol Group designed to represent and share its commitment and closeness to stakeholders as an expression of Unipol's identity and leadership.
UnipolSai's commitment to sport in 2016 led us to Rio de Janeiro, to experience the Olympics from a unique point of view.
On 10 and 11 January, the Forum devoted to innovative projects with greater strategic vision for the various Euresa partners opens at the headquarters of Unipol in Bologna. All the top managers of the associated companies take part in the Forum.
After the milestones and records achieved with the monohull Maserati VOR70, UnipolSai Assicurazioni is once again partner of Giovanni Soldini and his crew in the new sports venture with the sea as the horizon for major new challenges.
The Board of Directors of Unipol Gruppo Finanziario S.p.A., which met yesterday under the chairmanship of Pierluigi Stefanini, approved the Strategic Plan of the Unipol Group for the 2016-2018 period and the consolidated results at 31 March 2016.
The sponsorship of cultural and sporting events as a vehicle for development and social growth intensifies by considering the concept of sustainability as a strategic goal.
A conference organized by Unipol in collaboration with Censis to launch new welfare policies.
The aim is encourage local supplementary funds and boost awareness and use of supplementary instruments and products.
The rating agency Dagong Credit Rating Europe (Dagong Europe) assigns a rating to UnipolSai Assicurazioni S.p.A. and Unipol Gruppo Finanziario S.p.A. for the first time.
From 18 November, only on the Unipol Group Corporate Channel.
Legambiente and Unipol Group present the new project implemented within Bellezza Italia, a collaboration to give compromised territories back for the common good.
The report "Welfare, Italy. Laboratory for new social policies. Lazio Research Center" by Unipol and Censis is presented.
An exceptional monographic exhibition dedicated to the great French master Claude Monet, leader of the amazing impressionist season alongside Manet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Sisley and Cézanne.
First step in the redevelopment of the Velasca Tower in Milan completed.
The presentation tour of Unipol's Sustainability Report for 2014 starts in Bologna today.
Mandatory conversion of preference shares into ordinary shares of Unipol Gruppo Finanziario S.p.A..
Since 2009, the Unipol Group has chosen to be on the side of the Teatro Stabile in Genoa, a prestigious and historic cultural institution, thus renewing its ties with the Ligurian city and its cultural soul year after year.
First step towards the rationalization process of the Group LinkedIN profiles.
Calculating risk is never a gamble: a meeting organized in Milan within the scope of initiatives to present the 2014 Sustainability Report of the Unipol Group, which is an opportunity for discussion on the implications of gambling, as well as an opportunity for shared responsibility.
UnipolSai Assicurazioni supports one of the most important Italian and international sporting events: the thirty-fifth edition of the Golden Gala Pietro Mennea, the fourth leg of the IAAF Diamond League in 2015, as a growth vehicle for personal and social development.
UnipolSai takes the field with the Italian Singers' National soccer team in support of the Foundation Telethon and the Piedmont Foundation for Cancer Research.
The Municipality of Milan and UnipolSai present the redevelopment project of the Tower Galfa.
Conference relating to technological progress in the insurance sector, held in Rome on the scenarios of the latest generation mobile technology.
The Extraordinary General Meeting approves the mandatory conversion of preferred shares into UGF ordinary shares.
The mv insurance interest-free instalments is even more 'Incredible, but true'.
Success of the product advertising campaign "Incredible, but true", related to the launch of the zero-interest MV policy paid in monthly instalments.
UnipolSai Assicurazioni is the Main Sponsor of CONI (Italian National Olympic Committee), an exclusive for the insurance industry, with a three-year agreement from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2017.
Starting this year, UnipolSai has joined the Maserati team and Giovanni Soldini thus confirming, once again, with the support of VOR 70 Maserati, its commitment towards the most significant Italian sports.
With the birth of UnipolSai Assicurazioni and a significant presence in various market sectors, the Unipol Group consolidates its role as a major player among the economic operators of the Country.
Until 2014, Unipol Gruppo Finanziario has been the partner of Mercedes Benz and Enel for E-mobility, the world's largest joint project for electric mobility.
The Unipol Group is the main sponsor of the exhibition "Van Gogh. L'uomo e la terra" (Van Gogh. The man and the earth) to be held in Milan, at Palazzo Reale from October 2014 to March 2015.
The Unipol Group is the main sponsor of the exhibition Roy Lichtenstein, in collaboration with the Fondazione Torino Musei, the City Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Turin.
Also for this season, the Unipol Group is the institutional sponsor of Fortitudo Baseball Bologna, thus reaffirming its commitment to sport in Bologna, where baseball is now the city's most successful discipline on a national and international level.
On the date hereof, pursuant to the sale and purchase agreement disclosed to the market on March 15, 2014, UnipolSai Assicurazioni S.p.A. completed the transfer to Allianz S.p.A. of an insurance business belonging to the former Milano Assicurazioni.
Sunday, 23 February, the advertising campaign "Incredibile ma vero" is back on TV.
UnipolSai best Auto insurance policy in 2014.
The Unipol Group supports the first major international competition for would-be entrepreneurs.
On air since January 28th 2014 the first advertising campaign "Even Closer" has been designed so as to present to the general public UnipolSai Assicurazioni.
The Municipality of Milan and Unipol work together on the redevelopment of Galfa Tower, built in 1959 by architect Melchiorre Bega, empty and unused for many years.
On 6 January, UnipolSai is established by the merger of Unipol Assicurazioni, Milano Assicurazioni and Premafin in Fondiaria-Sai.
The Group celebrates its 50th anniversary with events and a dedicated logo.
The Unipol Group presents the first joint initiative by Unipol Assicurazioni, Fondiaria-SAI and Milano Assicurazioni.
An exclusive event to celebrate the first 50 years of Unipol: half a century of history during which through an important process of growth and consolidation which started in 1963 the Group has reached the summit of the Italian and European insurance and financial markets.
The year 2013 is an important year for Unipol: we celebrate our first fifty years in business.
The corporate expansion project is completed with the achievement of a leading position in Non-Life insurance in Italy and a considerable size at the European level.
UniSalute achieves direct premium income of € 233m, an increase of 10% compared to 31/12/2011. Against a sluggish Health insurance market, growth rate in direct premiums remains double-digit as in previous years.
In 2012, the Group intranet has been further improved with the redesign of entire sections and the implementation of new features and services.
The Business Plan 2013-2015 is presented to the financial community as prepared by colleagues from all companies in the new Group.
Linear opens a spectacular advertising installation in Milan on one of the squares that are the crossroads of city traffic next to the headquarters of its main competitors: Piazzale Loreto.
On 1 December, Linear celebrates the achievement of fifteen years in business at the NUMA in Bologna.
The awards "Agent of the Year 2012" is held in Istanbul, Turkey. This is the traditional and unique event that celebrates the excellence of the Unipol agency network.
"YOU Soluzioni" arises out of the need to make it easier to understand insurance products, sometimes very complicated to explain and very complex to implement. This new offering architecture brings together the range of products offered by Unipol Assicurazioni.
On 13 September 2012, Unipol completes the capital increase of € 1,100m aimed at the integration project.
A feature of 2012 in Bancassurance was the work done to revamp the product range in order to protect the savings of individuals and employees.
"Valore Comune" comes to life. This is the new line of Unipol Banca products entirely dedicated to customers of Unipol Assicurazioni.
The premises of the new Unipol Tower of Bologna in Via Larga hosting the companies Linear and UniSalute are completed.
On 19 July, Unipol carries out a capital increase of Premafin for the portion reserved for Unipol. Premafin and its subsidiary Finadin simultaneously sign the Fondiaria SAI capital increase necessary to restore the proper solvency margin.
Bologna will have its High School of Music, also thanks to the contribution of the Foundation Unipolis, the corporate foundation of the Unipol Group.
Through its network of claims adjusters, Unipol Assicurazioni is in fact working to check the damage suffered by customers quickly as possible in order to accelerate the compensation formalities.
Unipol Briantea '84, wheelchair basketball team wins the Final Four of the Italian wheelchair basketball Championship held at the Seveso Municipal Palasport.
On 30 April, the General Meeting to approve the financial statements is held. The consolidated financial statements show a consolidated net profit amounting to € 226m.
In Bologna, Via Rizzoli 20, the office that integrates the branch of Unipol Banca with the Bologna Assicoop Agency is opened. The branch of Unipol Banca, which was previously located in Via Indipendenza, is also home to the bank's Emilia Romagna and Triveneto Sales Area.
On 13 April, Unipol Bologna hosts the Board meetings of Euresa Holding and Euresa Geie, which today comprise the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Unipol.
The government decree "Salva Italia" (rescue Italy), which among its provisions imposes limits on the use of cash, requires Public Administrations to pay out pensions for an amount higher than one thousand Euros only by crediting a current account, a postal account or a debit card.
Unipol launches "Sicurezza Stabile", the new global coverage for condominium buildings that allows policyholders to protect the families who inhabit them with exclusive guarantees.
The project involves all the second- and third-level Control Functions and the Group's IT Services Department in a special Joint Table.
In Rome, the new Group offices are opened in Via della Civiltà Romana 7 in the EUR district. The new offices are located in a building complex of about 10,000 sqm. It consists of two opposing blocks of five floors; the two structures look onto, and are connected by, an interior courtyard.
The group faces a substantial rebranding and strategic repositioning, investing in communication and sponsoring initiatives of sporting and cultural events.
On 19 December, a new advertising campaign is launched. With it, Unipol, referring to the Italian economic and social condition, wishes to convey a message of optimism and confidence, "the desire for a better future is not in recession".
On 1 December, after the General Meeting of Unipol Regional Councils, the meeting "Mutuality, solidarity, democracy and economy. Cooperation for an economy at the service of man" is held in Bologna.
On 26 November, the first UniSalute medical center is opened in Bologna.
On 21 November, the official press conference for the presentation of the three-year partnership between the Unipol Group and the Italian Swimming Federation takes place in Rome. It includes an insurance portion and advertising and promotional initiatives.
On 3 November, after a long and strenuous planning, preparation and approval work, the "Unipol Pact" is signed.
Since 9 October, the multi-functional facilities in Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna), which host concerts and theatrical works of national and international stars, as well as sporting events, art exhibitions, congresses and trade fairs, takes the name Unipol Arena.
On 8 October, an arrangement is reached and signed with the trade unions for the renewal of the corporate Supplementary Agreement (CIA) for Unipol Gruppo Finanziario.
On 7 October, the new newsletter devoted to the Unipol sales network and local trade offices is launched: "Push", a new communication tool aimed at pushing to action and promotion of new products and services.
In September, the transfer of the Group's holding offices to the new premises in Porta Europa, Bologna, is completed. There are a total of 385 employees who work at the new premises.
On 29 September, the sale of the investment held in BNL Vita (51% stake) and Cardiff Assicurazione of the BNP Paribas Group is concluded.
On 24 September, the new crèche "Filonido" is opened in Bologna, in the exhibition center.
The new site Sicurstrada.it goes online, in conjunction with "Moving safely in sustainable cities", an initiative for vulnerable road users organized by Unipolis and Unipol at Palazzo d'Accursio in Bologna as part of the European Mobility Week.
On 12 September, the first online episode of "Unit" is published on the intranet Mosaico. This is the new multi-media magazine that aims to keep employees and agents updated on the Unipol world news: a high quality video container, available in streaming that provides greater interactivity.
ClaimCenter is the Group's Information Systems, i.e. the platform on which to build the New Claims System. The product complies with the Italian legislation in terms of claims handling while respecting the specificities of Unipol.
On 1 August enter into a framework agreement to ensure steady growth and mark a division between the holding functions and operational functions of each Company.
The change in business name and the figurative brand of the Group companies require the unification of Life and Non-Life products and the adaptation of application systems and business names and logos on all printed matter and forms produced by the Group.
On 1 July 2011, the business name of the Banking Group UGF Banca returns to be Unipol Banca. Other companies belonging to the banking Group are also involved in the process, namely: UGF Merchant becomes Unipol Merchant and UGF Leasing, Unipol Leasing.
On 1 July, the Unipol Group, which has decided to return to the historical name Unipol for its great recognizability and appreciation in the market, launches new brands for the subsidiaries Unipol Assicurazioni, Linear, UniSalute, Unipol Banca.
On 1 June, the pilot test begins for the sale of insurance, banking and financial services of the Unipol Group in 5 spaces "CoopCiConto" in as many shopping centers in Emilia Romagna in collaboration with Coop Adriatica.
On 19 May, Unipol meets its suppliers on the traditional "Partner Day" in Bologna.
On 18 February, by turning off its main signboards, the Unipol Group endorses "M'illumino di meno" (I'm turning the lights down), the energy saving day promoted by the radio program Caterpillar.
On 1 January, the integration project of Navale Assicurazioni is completed and the merger of Navale into Unipol Gruppo Finanziario is brought to completion.
The new industrial strategy aims at long-term stability and balance of interests among the various stakeholders of the Group. The cultural vehicle becomes a significant driver of social inclusion.
During the year 2010, a program of geographical repositioning of the distribution network is initiated.
In view of the entry into force of the new European Solvency II regulations on the solvency requirements of insurance companies, a new IT platform has been developed.
On 15 October, Unisalute celebrates its first 15 years in business with "Quindicisiamo" at the Futurshow Station in Casalecchio di Reno.
On 10 October, the new websites of the divisions Aurora and Unipol UGF Assicurazioni go officially live. They are characterized by a single web identity and a marked orientation to the user and Web 2.0, with innovative content, image and technology standards.
On 3 October, the first product campaign of UGF Assicurazioni is launched. It is devoted to the new car policy "KmSicuri", with messages conveyed through television, print, radio and web. The product, among other things, proposes a rate depending on the kilometers traveled.
In 2010, the European security watchdog, born on the initiative of Unipolis, Demos and Osservatorio di Pavia is further developed.
The new Board of Directors approves the appointment of Andrea Pezzi as General Manager and Lorenzo Bifone as Chairman.
On 26 September, Fortitudo Bologna Baseball takes the title of European Champion in Barcelona, after winning the Italian Cup and finishing second in the Italian championship. Unipol, in view of its attention to the younger generations through support to sports, is the team's main sponsor.
On 22 September, the exhibition "Salvador Dalì - the dream is getting closer" opens in Milan, which Unipol is sponsoring as part of its culture enhancement strategy. The exhibition will close on 30 January 2011 after witnessing a huge turnout.
The Health business of Unipol, managed on an ongoing basis together with the Accident business, is transferred to the management of Unisalute.
On 22 June, the acquisition of a majority stake in Gruppo Arca is completed. Gruppo Arca comprises Arca Vita and Arca Assicurazioni, and distributes its insurance products through approximately 2,000 branches of more than 30 partner banks.
The unavailability of information systems (disaster recovery) is simulated in Bologna (and later in San Donato Milanese) and the restoration of services checked.
On 26 May, a conference sponsored by Unipol "For a sustainable future. The contribution of labor, enterprise, credit and insurance to a solid and lasting development" is held in Rome.
On 24 May, the business Plan is also presented to suppliers, renewing the UGF Partner Day, the time to meet and share ideas that started in 2009.
The second Forum of Euresa is held in Cologne, Germany. It is organized in plenary sessions, with a debate open to all participants.
Merger agreement of Navale Assicurazioni S.p.A. into Unipol Gruppo Finanziario S.p.A.
On 19 May Unipol and Navale Assicurazioni activate the trade union procedures for merging.
On 15 May, the Chief Executive Officer Carlo Cimbri with the entire senior management of the Group presents the business plan 2010 to 2012.
On 13 May, the Board of Directors approves the Business Plan 2010-2012 and adopts the first Group Sustainability Plan 2010-2012. The business plan marks a new turning point in the life of Unipol and coincides with the reorganization of the Group's governance.
On 29 April, the General Meeting, among other things, approves the renewal of the Board of Directors.
With a public presentation, on 9 April, the project "Culturability" takes shape – i.e. responsibility of the cultural world for a sustainable society".
The literary competition "Sicurstory" is launched in collaboration with the Foundation Unipolis / Sicurstrada and it is addressed to employees, agents and agency staff.
Linear starts a new way to communicate online with a new campaign "Adopt a banner". The actress Stefania Andriola, already Linear testimonial, transforms into in Linear banner woman. The banner interacts with the user directly, suggesting savings of up to 40% on MV TPL through some banners.


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Q: Convert format date string to datetime using T-SQL in SQL Server 2008 How can I convert this format to datetime? I'm using SQL Server 2008.
The string can be d/m/aaaa or dd/m/dddd or d/mm/aaaa or dd/mm/aaaa and I need to convert these formats to datetime. Any idea?

A: You can use CONVERT() as:
DECLARE @S1 VARCHAR(20) = '1-1-2017';
DECLARE @S2 VARCHAR(20) = '11/1/2017';
DECLARE @S3 VARCHAR(20) = '1/11/2017';
DECLARE @S4 VARCHAR(20) = '11/11/2017';

SELECT CONVERT(DATETIME, @S1 , 104) AS S1,
       CONVERT(DATETIME, @S2 , 104) AS S2,
       CONVERT(DATETIME, @S3 , 104) AS S3,
       CONVERT(DATETIME, @S4 , 104) AS S4;

Result:
+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
|         S1          |         S2          |         S3          |         S4          |
+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
| 01.01.2017 00:00:00 | 11.01.2017 00:00:00 | 01.11.2017 00:00:00 | 11.11.2017 00:00:00 |
+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+

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Today we've been packing for a little trip we'll be taking soon. I've been whining about not having anything to wear. Now my problem is that I have too much crap and my effort to pack lightly isn't going so well. So I've come to realize that while having too little is a problem, having too much is a problem as well. We are happiest when we live in the middle of too little and too much. We like the happy medium. It's all a part of balance.
I'm not just talking about possessions, this concept is true when it comes to relationships, work, pleasure, food, activity... just about everything. While no one wants to go without, the pressure of too much causes us stress as well.
The grace comes in understanding this so that I can fix it. I'm going to work on simplifying and doing with less. It's all a matter of priorities.
My first project will be the suitcase.


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Opera House Sydney Australia - Sydney Opera House New South Wales, Australia.Dji Phantom # Advanced. When the Sydney Opera House became a UNESCO World Heritage-listed site in 2007, it was hailed as "one of the indisputable masterpieces of human creativity, not only in the 20th century but in the history of humankind". Now it's your turn to step inside this iconic landmark and discover the stories behind Danish architect Jørn Utzon's remarkable achievement. What inspired him to base his revolutionary design on ships' sails? How did he solve an engineering challenge considered one of the most difficult attempted anywhere in the world? You'll find out on this very special one-hour guided tour into the intricate workings of a living, breathing Opera House.You will explore the hallowed theatres and foyers where more than 1600 concerts, operas, dramas and ballets take place each year and your experienced guide will be on hand to lead you through every aspect of the building's 14-year creation and 58-year history. You'll run your hands over the world-famous shell tiles, take a seat in the elegant custom-made white birch timber chairs and marvel at the vaulted ceilings of one of the biggest pillar-free chambers in the world.Once you've visited areas off limits to the general public and captured photographs from rare vantage points inside the majestic Sydney Opera House, you'll realise that from the outside you're only getting half the story.//www.sydneyoperahouse.com
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Apthorp is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Charles Apthorp (1698–1758), American merchant and slave trader
 John Apthorp (1935-), British businessman specializing in frozen food and alcoholic beverages
 John T. Apthorp (1769-1849), American banker
 William Foster Apthorp (1848-1913), American music professor and critic
 Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824-1896), American astronomer
 Frederick Apthorp Paley (1815-1888), English classical scholar
 Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton (1759-1846), American poet
 Benjamin Apthorp Gould Fuller (1879-1956), philosopher

See also
 The Apthorp, apartment building in New York City
 Apthorp Farm, a one-time farm on the Upper West Side of Manhattan
 Apthorp's Island, Massachusetts
 Apethorpe, village in England


The aim of the course is practical to practise knowledge gained in the courses Geodesy I, II.
The task of Training Terrain is to practise teoreticaly acquired knowledge in Geodesy I, II.
Extent of teaching: two weeks (1 week - surveying work in the field, 1 week - evaluation of measurements, calculations, creating maps elaboration of the technical reports) Results of Fieldwork II: 1st Evaluated notebooks readings 2nd Calculation and adjustment mutually oriented Traverse 3rd Calculation of the leveling and adjustment 4th Elevation surveying sketch 5th Elevation (contour) map 6th Control sections and compared with profiles generated from contour maps 7th Technical Report The results of teaching in the field are handed the task force.


On Tuesday 12 May 2015 McDonald Steed McGrath Lawyers will be joining JusticeNet SA and Adelaide's legal community to raise vital funds for JusticeNet SA by walking 5km through Adelaide's CBD.
JusticeNet is an independent not-for-profit organisation that coordinates free legal assistance to low-income and disadvantaged South Australians including those experiencing disability, poverty or risk of homelessness, asylum seekers and people representing themselves. The funds raised from this event will go to help JusticeNet to provide this essential legal service.
If you would like to be involved by fundraising and walking, you can register at http://justicenet.org.au/events.html. It's free to register and anyone can be involved!


CENTER VALLEY, Pa., OCTOBER 8, 2013 � Olympus, the world�s market leader for portable digital voice recorders, professional dictation devices and Linear PCM music recorders, is proud to announce new applications and solutions to empower your voice allowing your work to be more streamlined, effective and productive. The newly released Olympus Professional Dictation Smartphone App works in perfect harmony with our current DS-7000 and DS-3500 Professional Dictation Systems to further increase the ability of busy professionals to record anytime, anywhere.
Available for download from the Apple� Store or Google Play�, the app is the perfect accessory for on-the-road dictation and allows subscription users to record, edit and send files from their iPhone� or Android� smartphones. For an annual licensing fee, users are able to transmit their files in either DSS or encrypted DSS Pro file format to the Olympus Dictation Management System (ODMS) transcription module, allowing for increased business efficiency and uninterrupted workflow without worrying about compromising security.
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The push-button DS-3500 Professional Dictation System digital voice recorder is designed to dramatically increase efficiency and streamline operations in any professional environment. It�s the perfect blend of premium features and ease of use.
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Date Opp Score G A Pts +/- PIM PPG PPA SHG SHA GWG SOG
Oct 7 LAK 2-3 0 1 1 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 2
Oct 8 ANA 1-2 0 0 0 +1 8 0 0 0 0 0 1
Oct 15 NYI 2-4 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oct 18 VAN 4-0 0 1 1 +1 7 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oct 20 CGY 3-2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Oct 22 EDM 0-2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oct 24 WPJ 2-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Oct 27 TOR 2-4 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 2
Oct 29 OTT 4-5 0 0 0 -2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Oct 31 SJS 5-2 0 2 2 +1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Nov 3 ANA 2-1 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
Nov 5 MON 5-3 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3
Nov 6 WPJ 3-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Nov 9 OTT 3-2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2
Nov 11 CAR 5-1 1 1 2 +1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Nov 15 NYI 4-2 0 1 1 +3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Nov 19 MON 0-4 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Nov 23 FLA 1-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Nov 25 WAS 6-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Nov 26 PHI 2-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Nov 29 PIT 4-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Dec 1 CAR 5-3 0 1 1 +1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Dec 3 TBL 4-2 0 0 0 +1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Dec 5 TOR 2-4 0 0 0 +1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dec 8 TBL 2-3 0 1 1 -1 4 0 0 0 1 0 3
Dec 10 BUF 4-1 0 0 0 +1 2 0 0 0 0 0 3
Dec 11 FLA 6-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Dec 13 DAL 0-1 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
Dec 15 STL 1-4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
Dec 17 PHO 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Dec 20 NJD 4-1 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dec 22 NYI 4-2 1 1 2 +2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Dec 23 PHI 4-2 0 1 1 +1 2 0 0 0 0 0 5
Dec 26 NYI 3-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Dec 28 WAS 1-4 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Jan 2 PHI 3-2 0 1 1 +1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Jan 5 FLA 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6
Jan 6 PIT 3-1 1 1 2 +2 0 0 0 1 0 1 3
Jan 10 PHO 2-1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
Jan 17 NAS 3-0 0 0 0 +1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jan 19 PIT 1-4 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 0 0 0 2
Jan 21 BOS 3-2 0 0 0 -2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Jan 24 WPJ 3-0 0 0 0 +2 0 0 0 0 0 0 5
Jan 31 NJD 3-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Feb 1 BUF 1-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Feb 5 PHI 5-2 1 0 1 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 1
Feb 7 NJD 0-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Feb 9 TBL 4-3 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2
Feb 11 PHI 5-2 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0
Feb 12 WAS 3-2 0 2 2 +2 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Feb 14 BOS 3-0 0 1 1 +1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Feb 16 CHI 2-4 0 0 0 -2 4 0 0 0 0 0 3
Feb 19 CBJ 3-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Feb 21 PIT 0-2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3
Feb 24 NYI 3-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Feb 25 BUF 3-2 0 0 0 +1 2 0 0 0 0 0 4
Feb 27 NJD 2-0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 1
Mar 1 CAR 3-2 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mar 2 TBL 3-4 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Mar 4 BOS 4-3 0 0 0 +1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mar 6 NJD 1-4 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 1
Mar 11 NYI 4-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Mar 13 CAR 4-2 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mar 15 PIT 2-5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Mar 17 COL 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Mar 19 NJD 4-2 1 1 2 +2 2 0 0 0 0 0 4
Mar 21 DET 2-1 0 1 1 +1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mar 23 BUF 1-4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Mar 24 TOR 4-3 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4
Mar 27 MIN 3-2 0 1 1 +1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Mar 28 WPJ 4-2 0 0 0 -1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mar 30 MON 4-1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 5
Apr 1 BOS 1-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Apr 3 PHI 5-3 0 1 1 +1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2
Apr 5 PIT 2-5 1 0 1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Apr 7 WAS 1-4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Apr 12 OTT 4-2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Apr 14 OTT 2-3 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 0 0 0
Apr 16 OTT 1-0 0 0 0 +1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
May 23 NJD 3-5 0 1 1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
May 25 NJD 2-3 0 0 0 +1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals 86 10 25 35 18 116 0 2 1 2 1 154
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Several 'Ron Paul Republicans' win closely contested House races
Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul will retire from Congress next year after serving for 12 terms, but several Republicans influenced by the iconic libertarian-leaning lawmaker will be arriving to take his place.
Thomas Massie won the race to replace retiring Kentucky Republican Rep. Geoff Davis, beating Democrat Bill Adkins by 20 percentage points. Massie, an ally of Paul's son, Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul, raised nearly 10 times as much money as Adkins, according to the Lexington-Herald Leader.
Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash, who was already vying to be the House's next "Dr. No" in his first term, was re-elected with 58 percent of the vote. Democrat Steve Pestka had hoped to win the votes of independents and moderate Republicans who might regard Amash as too extreme, but failed to gain traction against the 31-year-old congressman.
In a neighboring Michigan district, Ron Paul Republican Kerry Bentivolio was elected to the House seat formerly held by GOP Rep. Thaddeus McCotter. McCotter, who had failed to gather enough valid signatures to appear on the ballot, resigned from the House amid a petition scandal. Bentivolio beat Democrat Syed Taj.
Bentivolio spent four decades in the U.S. Army, but was painted by opponents as an eccentric. He raised reindeer and was an occasional Santa Claus. He was elected to Congress by a 7-point margin.
Many other candidates endorsed by Ron and Rand Paul, as well as Paul-influenced organizations like Campaign for Liberty and Young Americans for Liberty, were on the ballot Tuesday, including Texas Sen.-elect Ted Cruz. But these three Republicans most self-consciously identified with the Pauls' calls for deep spending cuts, auditing the Federal Reserve, and a more restrained foreign policy.
They all raised money from Paul's vast national network of donors, which helped them remain competitive in their primaries and the general election.
Amash endorsed Ron Paul for president and was one of three Republican legislators — including the Texas congressman and fellow Paul endorser North Carolina Republican Rep. Walter Jones — who did not formally back Mitt Romney for president.
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How does a medical scribe improve patient care?
What is the importance of a scribe?
Who are the scribes in Jesus time?
What makes a successful scribe?
What did scribes do in their free time?
Why would someone in ancient Egypt want to be a scribe?
What did the slaves eat in ancient Egypt?
Why was being a scribe a difficult job?
How did pharaohs spend their free time?
Why were scribes so highly valued?
Do doctors pay for scribes?
What did pharaohs drink?
What do you wear to a scribe interview?
How long is medical scribe training?
What was a scribes job?
Why do u want to be a scribe?
How fast do you need to type to be a scribe?
Who is a famous scribe?
What did ancient Egyptian pharaohs eat for breakfast?
Is scribing good for medical school?
What did scribes eat?
Is it hard to get a medical scribe job?
Why are medical scribes important?
Scribes help physicians by documenting the patient encounter and retrieving information from a patient's electronic record. Physicians are increasingly turning to medical scribes to reduce the administrative burden associated with EHR use and to free up time to care for more patients.
In the 1st century, scribes and Pharisees were two largely distinct groups, though presumably some scribes were Pharisees. Scribes had knowledge of the law and could draft legal documents (contracts for marriage, divorce, loans, inheritance, mortgages, the sale of land, and the like).
Scribing is a unique gig that requires good listening skills, quick comprehension, typing capabilities, and computer literacy, to name a few attributes. The skills gained in this position create a solid foundation for your career, whether your time as a scribe is long- or short-term.
A scribe was in a position of importance and supervised the work of others. Scribes were free from paying taxes and participating in manual labor. Some scribes became priests, minor officials in the government, or teachers. Craftsmen were the middle class of ancient Egypt.
Who were the scribes? Scribes were people in ancient Egypt (usually men) who learned to read and write. These women would have been trained as scribes so that they could read medical texts.
Tomb paintings, medical treatises, and archaeology reveal a variety of foods. Peasants and enslaved people would, of course, eat a limited diet, including the staples of bread and beer, complemented by dates, vegetables, and pickled and salted fish, but the wealthy had a much larger range to choose from.
Being a scribe was an extremely difficult job because in total, there were hundreds of different hieroglyphs to remember. The scribes used a kind of paper called papyrus, which was made from reeds otherwise known as the papyrus plant.
The Pharaohs lived in temples, and had servants that did everything for them. The Pharaoh spent his free time visiting construction sites built in his honor and taking tours of the city in his chariot. They used things such as a small gong, papyrus, a chariot, and a basket to help them get through their daily duties.
Scribes were in attendance to record the stocks of foods, court proceedings, wills and other legal documents, tax records, magic spells and all of the things that happened every day in the life of the pharaoh. Scribes were one of the most important functions that kept the administration in order.
The provider is paying for the scribe out of his or her own compensation. Scribes improve documentation and give the physician more work-life balance.
Beer was far more popular than water and drunk by adults and children alike. Ancient Egyptians knew many types of beer; most were made from barley, some from emmer wheat, and many were flavoured with honey or ginger. Wine was another drink the Ancient Egyptians held in high esteem.
Wear dress pants, a blouse and some kind of coordinating blazer. Not necessarily a suit but you don't want to be underdressed.
How long does it take for a scribe to be trained? Training is approximately 6–8 weeks. Inpatient scribes complete additional training modules. Generally speaking, it takes approximately 3–4 months for a new scribe to feel efficient and comfortable with EMR and patient flow.
The work of scribes can involve copying manuscripts and other texts as well as secretarial and administrative duties such as the taking of dictation and keeping of business, judicial, and historical records for kings, nobles, temples, and cities.
Ability to adapt to individual site needs. Strong computer skills – technological savvy. A typing speed of 50+ WPM.
The main part of every breakfast for ancient Egyptians was bread, along with onions, garlic, leeks and fruit. Breakfast would be somewhat heavy for many people, since most only ate two meals per day. Bread was a staple of Egyptian meals, and fruit, garlic, leeks, onions and even beans often were eaten alongside it.
Scribing is an incredibly impressive addition to anyone's medical school application. By being a scribe you get both hands-on clinical experience and built-in shadowing opportunities. And because it's a long-term commitment, it will show medical schools that you're invested in your medical career.
Scribes had a good diet. They basically ate what commoners ate. They would eat beans, peas and lentils, probably bread, and fish.
From my experience it's pretty easy. Open availability is key for these companies and they do require at least a 1 year commitment since the turnover rate is so high (most scribes are pre-health students looking for experience).
Medical scribes allow physicians to focus on direct patient care by managing the non-clinical, clerical tasks of documentation and transcription. A scribe's chief purpose is to lessen the physician's burden and improve patient flow.
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Participants are exposed to a range of activities, exercises and other methodologies to develop their knowledge and skills.
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This workshop takes the participants through a simulation based module to understand the finer details and application of a particular culture or that of global customers.


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Praise to Andrei Gourianov, the creator of goScreen, the only really usable virtual desktop manager for Windows. He recently managed to send me my license key within a couple of hours.
The not-so-good precursor: On that said day, my trial version of goScreen (or rather, a very central part of it, the desktop maps) stopped working without prior warning (very unusual for shareware) – unfortunately in a very bad moment for me! There was no way to make it temporarily work again (e.g. by prolonging the trial period), so I had to wait for my license to arrive to continue using goScreen. The good outcome: Andrei was very understanding, responsive and co-operative and sent me my key within exceptionally short time. That saved my day and work, Andrei! Thanks again!
Kudos also to Attila who told me about goScreen the first time. I always missed something like this on Windows.
I have similar challenges regarding my thesis (Working title "Government Application Integration/G2G Architecture: The Design of the Presentation Level Integration"). It's difficult to choose particular technologies and standards if you need to design the software architectures and solutions for 2012+. It often boils down to using a subset/intersection, which is a pity, but sometimes the only way to cope with uncertainty and risks. Not limited to presentation level technologies for sure.
* emerge jboss. Note that the directory layout of JBoss on Gentoo differs from most other distros' and JBoss' official layout (you'll thus need to adjust a couple of ant variables to make the examples work).
* There isn't any ebuild for JOnAS yet. Install it manually or – better – write an ebuild.
* There aren't any apt-sources for JOnAS. Create your own deb of JOnAS and become a package maintainer.
today i'll be at the jugs – java web services event researching for my thesis (eai/g2g/government application integration). cu there.
Recently, Christian gave an interesting talk how to write correct technical/business English. I hope I can adopt the rules he mentioned, both for my technical writing in papers and in this weblog. Concerning this weblog, I should most importantly try to avoid any expressions that might be perceived as rude, offensive or in any other way inappropriate. This probably isn't as easy as it sounds as different cultures perceive things differently.
The slides of Christian's presentation are available on request only (Send him an e-mail message). As a good starting point, he also recommends reading "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk, Jr. which appears to be a classic. Another good web resource: The following Wiki entry.


I have never been a fan of CocoaPods due to its intrusiveness in the build process and insistence on creating Xcode project workspaces. Unfortunately managing dependencies through the use of Git submodules is no better. How many times have you told yourself, "Okay, I understand submodules now" only to be met with fatal: reference is not a tree: when trying to do a git submodule update? Perhaps I'm dense, but I shouldn't have to turn to Google every time I check out a project which uses submodules.
In the tutorial HTTP JSON Request with Swift and Alamofire we used the git submodule approach to add the Alamofire framework as a dependency to our Xcode project. Let's now look at a new approach to managing framework dependencies with Carthage.
Carthage was developed to make framework dependency management in your Xcode projects just a bit easier. Luckily for us, Alamofire now supports using Carthage, and we can leverage that support in our project to get rid of the git submodule approach.
Follow the prompts and once Homebrew is properly installed then you can install carthage with brew install carthage.
Now, let's look at how to add Alamofire to our project using Carthage. The first step is to create a Cartfile in our project folder. The Cartfile is what you might expect: a list of dependencies (and where to fetch them from) for our project. Our Cartfile will contain a single dependency on Alamofire.
Run carthage update. Carthage will now check out and build Alamofire.
*** Checking out Alamofire at "2f39b8634ab85cd6b3a55bbcfdec8cbb6463a6ee"
Once completed you should see a new file and new folder in your project directory: Cartfile.resolved and Carthage, respectively.
You are going to want to check in both Cartfile and Cartfile.resolved, so add them to your repository.
You do not need to add the Carthage folder, so you can add it to your .gitignore file if you like.
Now, let's add the build output from Carthage to our project. First, go to your project's General tab and locate the section Linked Frameworks and Libraries. You can either drag-and-drop the built framework from the Finder, or use the + button and navigate to the folder in Xcode.
Then add an Input File as the framework you want to copy, i.e., Alamofire.framework.
That's it! With your Xcode project set up to pull in the built framework that Carthage created, you're ready to build and run! Much easier than using than CocoaPods or git submodules.
Run carthage update and Carthage will checkout the xcode-6.3 branch of Alamofire and compile it. If you get a build failure make sure you're using the right xcodebuild!
You can check out our example application (for details on the application, see our post here)of using Alamofire and Carthage on Bitbucket. There are two branches, carthage and carthage-xcode-6.3.
Note! If you open the translator project and try to build and are met with No such module 'Alamofire' you didn't build Alamofire with carthage update first!


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Arrested Development Releases New Season Trailer
Netflix has officially released the first trailer for the upcoming season of "Arrested Development" which will be premiering exclusively on Netflix beginning May 26th. The show, which originally ran on FOX November 2, 2003 though February 10, 2006, has returned after repeated attempts by fans to get the show back on the air.
"Arrested Development" follows the fictitious Bluth family, a formerly wealthy and habitually dysfunctional family, and is presented in a continuous format, incorporating handheld camera work, narration, archival photos, and historical footage. Ron Howard serves as an executive producer and the series' uncredited narrator.
Since its debut in 2003, the series has received widespread critical acclaim, including six Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe, and has attracted a cult following, including several fan-based websites. In 2007, Time listed it among the magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME." In 2008, the show was ranked 16th on Entertainment Weekly's "New TV Classics" list. In 2011, IGN named Arrested Development the funniest show of all time.
Despite acclaim from critics, Arrested Development received low ratings and viewership on Fox, which canceled the series in 2006. Rumors of a fourth season and a feature film persisted until 2011, when Netflix agreed to license new episodes and distribute them exclusively on its streaming video service. Fifteen brand new episodes will be released simultaneously on May 26, 2013. The script of an Arrested Development film has also been in development, with the main cast purported to reprise their original roles.
You can watch the trailer for season 4 of "Arrested Development" below:
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Explore Reykjavik on this hop-on hop-off bus tour that will take you to all the important places in Reykjavik. It's the ideal way to explore all the treasures that Iceland's vibrant and historic capital has to offer, in only 24 hours. The buses run at regular intervals, making it perfect for those who want a less managed way to travel around the capital - enjoy city sightseeing at your own leisure!
There are daily departures every 30 minutes from Harpa Concert Hall at 09:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00, 12:30, 13:00, 13:30, 14:00, 14:30, 15:00, 15:30, 16:00 & 16:30. The last arrivat is at 17:30 (5:30 PM) at Harpa Concert Hall.
The hop-on hop-off ticket is valid for 24 hrs, use it as you please.
An audio guide commentary is available in 8 languages (German, Italian, Swedish, Icelandic, French, Spanish, English & Russian).
This tour is the perfect way to explore Reykjavik, using a charming hop-on-and-hop-off bright red tour bus, to see all the magic that the capital has to offer. The ticket lasts for 24-hours and the buses run at regular intervals, making it perfect for those who want a less managed way to travel around the capital. There is no organized schedule or detailed itinerary, instead you have the freedom to see all of Reykjavik's attractions, in any way that you want. There is also a handy audio-guide on board the bus, allowing participants to learn about the many wonderful things that they are seeing.
The buses run regularly and there are a number of different sights to be seen, for example, you could get off the bus at Reykjavik harbour, to enjoy the many trendy cafes and bars that surround it, or even partake in on of the many whale watching tours that depart from there daily.
The bus stops also stops at Lækjartorg, the town square, which is a busy place, filled with shops, cafes and locals; the Whales of Iceland museum, a fascinating place that details the many magnificent marine mammals that populate Iceland's waters; the Harpa concert hall, an iconic building that has become the epicentre of Iceland's buzzing cultural scene, since its opening in 2011; along with the beautiful and unique church known as Hallgrímskirkja, whose distinctive steeple is inspired by the basalt cliffs found on Iceland's south coast, as well as a large statue commemorating Leifur Eriksson, the first European to set foot on American soil!
Reykjavik is a modern, vibrant European capital, with a plethora of cultural, natural and historic attractions, and this hop-on-hop-off bus tour, is one of the best ways to see them all in just a single day. It could be used by people who have just arrived and want to get to know the city, or by people who know Reykjavik well and are looking for an easy way to get around.
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