Now is summmer time, the seasonal turn is irreversible even though your host don't like this hot season
. Eureka - a wide topic shifted the view from weather to heritage. Let's go to fantasize about these rare world culture and natural heritage during the heat of afternoon.http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ ... N=201.html
UNESCO - the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded on 16 November 1945. For this specialized United Nations agency, it is not enough to build classrooms in devastated countries or to publish scientific breakthroughs. Education, Social and Natural Science, Culture and Communication are the means to a far more ambitious goal : to build peace in the minds of men.
http://www.thesalmons.org/lynn/world.heritage.html
The following properties have been approved by the World Heritage Committee to be included on UNESCO's World Heritage List. The list currently contains 878 different properties as of July, 2008.
If you know of any web links that can be added to this list, please let me know. email: lynn@thesalmons.org
BRIEF EXPLANATION OF WORLD HERITAGE LIST
The World Heritage List was established under terms of the Convention Concerning the Protection of World Culture and Natural
Heritage adopted in November, 1972 at the 17th General Conference of UNESCO.
The Convention states that a World Heritage Committee "will establish, keep up-to-date and publish" a World Heritage List of cultural and natural properties, submitted by the States and considered to be of outstanding universal value.
One of the main responsibilities of this Committee is to provide technical co-operation under the World Heritage Fund for the safeguarding of World Heritage Sites to States Parties whose resources are insufficient. Emergency assistance is also
available under the Fund in the case of properties severely damaged by specific natural or man-made disasters or threatened with imminent destruction. See List of World Heritage in danger.
The Committee named 12 sites in 1978, 44 in 1979, 26 in 1980, 28 in 1981, 24 in 1982, 28 in 1983, 22 in 1984, 31 in 1985, 18 in 1986, 42 in 1987, 36 in 1988, 7 in 1989, 17 in 1990, 23 in 1991, 21 in 1992, 32 in 1993, 29 in 1994, 29 in 1995, 37 in
1996, 46 in 1997, 30 in 1998, 48 in 1999, 61 in 2000, 31 in 2001, 9 in 2002, 24 in 2003, 34 in 2004, 24 in 2005, 18 in 2006,
22-1 in 2007, 27 in 2008. * *Small discrepancies in numbers may be due to different methods of numbering sites, and
overlapping of sites into two countries.
Session I:
Q1. When was UNESCO founded? What is complete name for UNESCO?
Q2. When did World Heritage List adopted at the 17th General Conference of UNESCO?
Q3. On UNESCO's World Heritage List, how many different properties contained on list for time of July, 2008?
Breaking time? not yet！
last Q4. the most sites of world heritage are beautiful/spectacular/rare, some movies would use to be background locations. Recall your memory, please list at least one movie name for any site from session 2 (Italy,Venice. New Zealand,Tongariro National Park. India,Taj Mahal. Czech Public, Prague )
*********** OK, take a break ************
SessionII:
before the meeting of today, sincerely suggest you to skim through the whole artile included the following contents indeed.
1. Italy, Venice and its Lagoon:
http://leonardfrank.com/Worldheritage/Venice.html
Venice, the island city, was founded in the 5th century. From 697 onwards the Republic of Venice, also called the
Serenissima, was ruled by doges. In the 9th century the remains of St. Mark were brought from Alexandria (Egypt) and are kept in the Basilica of San Marco (consecrated in 1094). In the 11th century Venice became a maritime power in the Mediterranean Sea. In the 15th century the dominance of Venice started to decline. The Republic of Venice was ended in 1797 and it became part of Italy in 1866.
2. New Zealand, Tongariro National Park
http://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recrea ... tongariro/
Established in 1887, Tongariro was the first national park in New Zealand and the fourth in the world. It is also a dual
World Heritage area, a status which recognises the park's important Maori cultural and spiritual associations as well as its
outstanding volcanic features.
It is a place of extremes and surprises, a place to explore and remember. From herb fields to forests, from tranquil lakes to
desert-like plateau and active volcanoes - Tongariro has them all.
For detailed information about the walks available, you can download the publication Walks in and around Tongariro National
Park.
Location
Tongariro National Park is located in the central North Island of New Zealand. The nearest towns are Turangi, National Park
and Ohakune.
3. India, Taj Mahal
http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Taj_Mahal.html
"A white marble tomb built in 1631-48 in Agra, seat of the Mugal Empire, by Shah Jehan for his wife, Arjuman Banu Begum, the monument sums up many of the formal themes that have played through Islamic architecture. Its refined elegance is a
conspicuous contrast both to the Hindu architecture of pre-Islamic India, with its thick walls, corbeled arches, and heavy
lintels, and to the Indo-Islamic styles, in which Hindu elements are combined with an eclectic assortment of motifs from
Persian and Turkish sources."
—Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman. Architecture: from Prehistory to Post-Modernism. p223.
"The Mausoleum of the Taj Mahal at Agra stands in a formally laid-out walled garden entered through a pavilion on the main
axis. The tomb, raised on a terrace and first seen reflected in the central canal, is entirely sheathed in marble, but the
mosque and counter-mosque on the transverse axis are built in red sandstone. The four minarets, set symmetrically about the tomb, are scaled down to heighten the effect of the dominant, slightly bulbous dome. The mosques, built only to balance the composition are set sufficiently far away to do no more than frame the mausoleum. In essence, the whole riverside platform is a mosque courtyard with a tomb at its centre. The great entrance gate with its domed central chamber, set at the end of the long watercourse, would in any other setting be monumental in its own right."
"The interior of the building is dimly lit through pierced marble lattices and contains a virtuoso display of carved marble.
Externally the building gains an ethereal quality from its marble facings, which respond with extraordinary subtlety to
changing light and weather."
—Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. p624, 630.
Details
On a platform 22' high and 313' square.
Corner minarets 137' tall. Main structure 186' on a side, dome to 187'.
The mausoleum is 57 m (190 ft) square in plan. "The central inner dome is 24.5 m (81 ft) high and 17.7 m (58 ft) in diameter, but is surmounted by an outer shell nearly 61 m (200 ft) in height."
—Sir Banister Fletcher. A History of Architecture. p630.
Specific design credit is uncertain, and is given by different sources to Istad Usa, Ustad Ahmad Lahori, Isa Muhammad
Effendi, or Geronimo Veroneo.
4. Czech Republic, Historic Centre of Prague
http://leonardfrank.com/Worldheritage/Prague.html
The origins of Praha or Prague, located on the River Vltava or Moldau, date back to the 9th century, when a Castle was
constructed. During the mid 14th century Prague became the capital of the Holy Roman Empire under Emperor Charles IV, also King of Bohemia, and the city became one of the largest in Europe. In 1784 the four independent urban areas Stare Mesto (Old Town, 13th century), Mala Strana (Lesser Town, 13th century), Nove Mesto (New Town, 14th century) and Hradcany (Castle Area, 14th century) were united into one city. Old Town Hall
Qa. Every group(ONE person
) promotes the memorable feature for just one heritage of above-mentioned text. which is your duty would be assigned by your host！ Qb. Do you agree World Heritage Committee provide technical co-operation under the World Heritage Fund for the safeguarding of World Heritage Sites to States Parties whose resources are insufficient. Emergency assistance is also available under the Fund in the case of properties severely damaged by specific natural or man-made disasters or threatened with imminent destruction? If not, share us your opinion.
If yes, please list one Taiwanese site (and reason) to apply from UNESCO to be world cultural or atural heritage, do not care about we did not have any one in the list since we are not the member of UN.
The updated number of UNESCO World Heritage is 885 sites on date of 6/26/'09, the newest are impressive.
http://www.ttv.com.tw/098/06/0980628/09 ... 79501L.htm
That is impossible to travel every heritage, but, view all of they from website/book/infromation that is quite possible.
Hope to have your comments about UNESCO World Heritage List.
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Agenda
Session I:
2:15 ~ 2:30 Greeting / Ordering Beverage or Meal
2:30 ~ 2:40 Opening Remarks / New comers' Self-introduction / Grouping
2:40 ~ 3:00 Group Discussion
3:00 ~ 3:20 Summarization
3:20 ~ 3:30 Regrouping /Break
Session II:
3:30 ~ 4:10 Group Discussion
4:10 ~ 4:40 Summarization
4:40 ~ 4:50 Concluding Remarks / Announcements
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, we could not call out any movie's is taken background at India, Taj Mahal 
, especially thanks to former-President, Kooper's coming