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Archaeology in the Isle of Man - Comprehensive site for manx archaeology maintained by David Radcliffe. Includes a link to Isle of Man Government site with some information on the Manx Museum.
Culture of the Isle of Man - Site devoted to promotion of Manx culture. Links to Manx Heritage, Arts Council, music, festivals, language, Erin Arts Centre, Celtic League, Mec Vannin and other products and services.
A Manx Note Book - A compendium of matters past and present related to the Isle of Man: genealogy, history, buildings including parish churches and lighthouses, Manx publications, 17th to 19th-century views of the island.
Manx Blind Welfare - The Manx Blind Welfare Society (MBWS) provides support and information for hundreds of people with sight problems on the Isle of Man.
Isle of Man Photographic Society - Includes history and links to photos.
Isle of Man Lesbian & Gay Switchboard - Offering befriending, information and support, using counselling based skills, primarily to gay men and women living on the Island.
Friends of the Earth Isle of Man - Isle of Man branch of Friends of the Earth. Campaign against a mass burn incinerator.
Shennaghys Jiu - Celtic Youth Festival in the Isle of Man.
Mec Vannin - The Manx Nationalist Party - A political party advocating the full republican independence of Mannin (the Isle of Man).
Manx Discussion Group - A Yahoo! Group for Manx and Isle of Man related discussion.
Basking Shark Project - Includes scientific information, research, sharkwatch, Sharky Club, photographs and message board.
The Treasury - Coins - Details of the currency of the Isle of Man with images of all the current coins and notes in circulation, along with commemorative issues.
Centre for Manx Studies - A focal point for research into and teaching about the Isle of Man and its history. Provides assistance to researchers. Supported by Manx National Heritage, University of Liverpool and IOM Dept. of Education. Has a Manx Gaelic version of the site.
Isle of Man - History and Culture - Rich in history, the Isle of Man can look back on a tapestry of events from the introduction of farming in the fourth millennium BC, the Manx Iron Age from 500 BC to 500 AD, the Celtic traditions, through to Christianity and Viking rule of the ninth century.
THI's Den of Iniquity - Discussion forums, daily cartoon strip, news, and chat.
Baha'is of the Isle of Man - Contact information, a questionnaire, and introductory information on Bahá'í.
Ariel Pay It Forward - Personal weblog of Ariel from the Isle of Man.
Temple of Manannan Mac Lir - Information about Manx/Celtic God Manannan Mac Lir.
Isle of Man Yahoo Groups Mailing List - Discussion, news and views for those interested in the island. Access for members only.
Isle of Man Folklore - Superstitions and four Manx legends from a collection of traditional tales compiled by Sophia Morrison in 1911.
Wikipedia: Tynwald Day - Account of the island's national holiday and the ways in which it is celebrated.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age. -- Jeanne Moreau Society and Culture Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they oppose it. -- Sigmund Freud The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow. -- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Society and Culture We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin Society and Culture Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo Society and Culture If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna Society and Culture "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -- Oscar Wilde If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Society and Culture No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Society and Culture "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was doing spying. -- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Society and Culture Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Society and Culture Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen Society and Culture Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli Society and Culture Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison Society and Culture The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Society and Culture "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. -- Paulo Freire I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people. -- Ed Bluestone The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Society and Culture When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright Society and Culture The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. -- W. C. Fields "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Society and Culture I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner Society and Culture I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Society and Culture Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture
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