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• Paris and Het Loo

  
  Blog from abroad — Authority: 109
  For the two weeks after fall break I have been filling my time with mini adventures. The Friday after fall break the Central Program took everybody to the palace of Het Loo and museum Kroller Muller. Het Loo was a palace for the House of Orange built in the 17th century for the royal family to treat guests to hunting ...
  5 days ago

• Fall Break

  
  Blog from abroad — Authority: 109
  Luckily for me, the program in Leiden offers its students a fall break. The break lasted 10 days so my friends and I got loads of traveling in. My fall break plans got off to a bad start because I originally wanted to fly to St. Petersburg, then take a train to Moscow, and then another to Berlin. So two friends and I ...
  5 days ago

• Leiden 2001 - LAube Spirituelle

  
  Media-Club New Albums — Authority: 174
  2001 - LAube Spirituelle Leiden 10 tracks CD Album
  2 weeks ago

• Happy Sinterklaas, wherever you are

  
  Places we go, People we see — Authority: 112
  Sinterklaas visits a store during his busy three-week stay in the Netherlands Wessel and I spent Thanksgiving week in the Netherlands, but of course there was no celebration of the Pilgrims in America (though they did depart from Leiden , in Holland). Instead, we were bombarded with images of Sinterklaas and his ...
  3 weeks ago

• For these pounds and pence

  
  Conortje — Authority: 109
  Against all hope that common sense and a degree of justice would finally win out, Leiden University has stubbornly refused to quit playing their money grabbing games and won’t let my Newfie graduate. It’s insanely frustrating and unjust. I can only assume that a greed for money is their only motivation and ...
  3 weeks ago

• .Astronomy in one word

  
  The Daily ACK — Authority: 103
  
  3 weeks ago

• Time Loop Chaos

  
  The e-Astronomer — Authority: 502
  New experience this morning. I talked at a conference by remote video link. Its the first time I’ve given a talk sitting on my bed. Appropriately the conference in question was .Astronomy-2009, held in Leiden. (Thats “dot-astronomy”.) I was sorry not to be there, as I have never been to Leiden, it looks like a ...
  3 weeks ago

• The .Astronomy Conference

  
  The Daily ACK — Authority: 103
  Im in Leiden this week at the Lorentz Centre for the .Astronomy Meeting . If youre not lucky enough to be here, were streaming the mornings live so you can sit in on the talks... Live TV : Ustream
  3 weeks ago

• A University or No Taxes: take your pick!

  
  John Connell: The Blog — Authority: 466
  Tradition has it that the fine University of Leiden was founded when William of Orange, in gratitude to the townspeople for their stout defence against Spanish attacks, offered the good people the choice between exemption from taxes for a number of years or the founding there of a university. The Leideners, knowing ...
  3 weeks ago

• .Astronomy 2009

  
  Orbiting Frog — Authority: 483
  Well I can hardly believe it but the second .Astronomy conference is nearly here. Next week (Monday to Friday) 50 astronomers gather in the Lorentz Centre in Leiden to discuss all things digitally astronomical. I created and organised the first .Astronomy conference last year in Cardiff and was approached by ...
  4 weeks ago

• Getting Diagnosed with FVL

  
  The Current Situation — Authority: 114
  If you are under a particular age (typically 45) and get a blood clot, or have a history of DVTs, strokes, or pulmonary embolisms in your family, it is a good idea to be tested for Factor V Leiden. While you may not receive much treatment after just one clot, in the future you will be able to take preventative actions ...
  4 weeks ago

• DuPlessis R. & Howell M. (1982) Killing capitalism in its craddle (twice)

  
  Economic History Blog — Authority: 457
  DuPlessis, Robert S. and Martha C. Howell (1982) Reconsidering the Early Modern Urban Economy : The Case of Leiden and Lille. Past and Present, 94/, 49-84.In Marx’s view, capitalism had arisen in the late Middle Ages out of a production system dominated by lords and guilds. In this framework, urban economies can be ...
  5 weeks ago

• Flax. Brassica. “… production of bioethanol from two, as yet unexploited sources of biomass: agricultural residue from flax (for the production of paper fibres for animal bedding), and Brassica carinata crops …”

  
  Biotech — Authority: 125
  According to a Release from FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology:‘The studies developed by the researchers reveal that flax (which is richer in cellulose) can produce up to 0.3 kg of ethanol for every kg of dry biomass, compared with 0.25kg/kg of Brassica. However, when the whole production cycle ...
  5 weeks ago

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