Northwest Review, v28 n2 1990

A call by academicians world-wide to condemn the heinous Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and to free the hostages and kidnapped. Academicians from Israel and abroad are asked to sign.

Der Krieg im frühen Griechenland erlebt in der Homerischen Zeit und dann vor allem im Athen des fünften Jahrhunderts v. Chr. eine besondere, fast schon an die Moderne ab 1800 erinnernde Verdichtung. In Folge der rasanten Entwicklungen nach den Perserkriegen kommt es zum überraschenden Befund: In Athen bedingen sich bald Demokratie und Krieg gegenseitig. Anhand von Szenen aus Homer, der Geschichtsschreibung und der attischen Tragödie gibt der Vortrag Einblicke, wie die allgegenwärtigen Schrecken des Kriegs erfahrbar und mental verarbeitet werden. Kantonsschule Heerbrugg Karl Völkerstrasse 11 9435 Heerbrugg

ABSTRACT The mystery of Mona Lisa, which has danced on the palms of scholars for over 550 years, has been brought to light. It involves the deep passion Leonardo had for Gian Giacomo Captotti, his beloved Salai, their secret wedding in Sforza Castle, and his violent attempt to leave him. The incident resulted in Salai’s tragic death that descended the Renaissance master from the heights of genius to the depths of madness. Leonardo retreated to Vaprio, Italy to the safety of Francesco Melzi, the Milanese nobleman, who was his friend that remained with him the remainder of his life and helped him cover up the murder. Mona Lisa evolved only after the death of Salai. Leonardo da Vinci’s Prototype for Mona Lisa was conceptualized in Leonardo’s brainstorming process to create Mona Lisa, Louvre. Leonardo designed it with many secrets and many secret signatures. The documentation of Leonardo da Vinci’s Prototype for Mona Lisa reveals the content of the drawing and the mystery of Mona Lisa, which must be revealed to all of civilization so Leonardo da Vinci’s soul can rest in peace. In 1984 I broke the code on Leonardo da Vinci’s pictographs, which are Egyptian-type hieroglyphic writings that resemble a kidnap letter. Within five minutes, I recognized them to be Leonardo da Vinci’s sorrowful, murder confession to the untimely death of Gian Giacamo Caprtotti.1. Within this cryptic document lies the key to the mystery of Mona Lisa. After 40 years of inimitable research, and five sojourns across Italy and France, where I walked the footsteps of Leonardo, I completely decoded the documents. I eventually discovered multiple, secret signatures he incorporated into his compositions. I also discovered the purpose of his mind, which was his obsessive quest for immortality, which he attained through cult of fame by becoming Renaissance Man through his inventions, writings, drawings, and paintings, and through the creation of Mona Lisa. Leonardo da Vinci’s Prototype for Mona Lisa is the cryptic drawing Leonardo created at the dept of his madness to design Mona Lisa. Leonardo was still a genius in his madness and this drawing is a most ingenious and fantastic work he designed in his desperation to create Mona Lisa to immortalize himself and Salai as a transmutation as one entity as One in Universal Oneness.

Settlement of the Dnipro-Don Babine culture (general assessment of sources) The paper is devoted to a general characteristic and an estimation of potential of sources on dwelling places of Dnepr-Don Babyne cultures. The special attention is given so-called base for studying culture to monuments, important as on parameters of presentableness of archaeological collections, and in connection with their cultural cleanliness (homogeneity), and also chronological definiteness. Among such reference monuments are allocated eponym dwelling places Babyne-ІІІ and Ovoschevodov – on Dnepr, the Kozacha Prystan’ and Illichivka – on Severski Donets, Leventsivka-І – on Don. Insufficiency of a level of scrutiny of dwelling places, in comparison with burial grounds in spite of the fact that the potential of available sources objectively allows to make much more is ascertained. Pays attention to necessity of preparation of the generalizing monographic (dissertational) research, Babyne cultural circle devoted to dwelling places or any of its regional groups. Keywords: Bronze Age, Babyne Culture, dwelling places, Dnieper-Don region.

The field of adult learning theory, or how adults learn, has exploded in recent years yielding increased knowledge and awareness of how adults learn. While preachers do have a wide variety of ages in their congregations, most of the people they preach to are adults. This dissertation looks at preaching and adult learning theory and what the barriers are to harnessing the knowledge and insight adult learning theory provides to those who preach to adults. Every major area of adult learning theory is examined including andragogy, Kolb’s learning styles, self-directed learning, and transformative learning. Some of the key theorists discussed are Malcolm Knowles, David Kolb, and Jack Mezirow. The preachers included in the research were senior pastors, lead pastors, and solo pastors of US Mennonite Brethren churches in California, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, and Washington. All of them are the main preacher of their church. The pastors were invited to take a survey, fill out participants’ journals, and participate in a focus group. These asked about how they prepare their sermons, what resources and tools they use in sermon preparation, and if they would be open to changing how they preach. The findings showed that preachers do not normally consider resources that are not traditional preaching tools. A second finding revealed that preachers do not have much knowledge about how adults learn. A third finding indicated that preachers are willing to make changes to their preaching style.