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China runs out of surnames from The Register.
China has been forced to mull the possibility of allowing double-barrelled surnames - a break with the ancient tradition that citizens adopt one of a hundred single character surnames…
…In fact, other less common surnames bring the official total of permitted surnames to 161, but this doesn’t do much [...]
2007 IADT Graduate Exhibition
Ya know, sometimes I’m my own worst enemy. I was at the 2007 Graduate Exhibition in Dun Laoghaire’s IADT on Wednesday and I wanted to write about it. So why has it taken me until today? Because I wanted to scan in a few of the postcards, given away on the day, [...]
You heard it here first…
When she’s rich and famous, I want a cut…
Only joking but you heard it here first. I just wanted to highlight justwhisperz photo’s on flickr. She, and she=teenager, only has 50+ photos in flickr but they’re exceptional. I’ve fav’d one and made 3 comments after one visit.
Feile na Deise: Street Pageant
Apparently, it should be Feile na nDeise…with an ‘n’. Search google for ‘feile na deise’ (no n) and I’m higher than the official website!! Go figure?
Anyway, this is ‘Dev’ making his pitch around the time the treaty was negotiated. Goto my flickr site site to see some more photos of the other participants.
Street [...]
John Roberts Weekend, Waterford
A celebration of the work of John Roberts will be held in Waterford city on 27-29 April, 2007. The name of John Roberts is synonomous with Georgian architecture in Waterford city and is also important further afield in Ireland.
‘So what?’, says you. Well…
RIAI’s 3rd annual ‘Simon Open door’ Fundraising Initiative.
Participating RIAI architects throughout Ireland [...]
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