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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Resources<br><br>Dear Lowlanders,<br><br>I am sure I am not the only one here that has noticed a good deal of interest and knowledge in history among us. This has led me to think it would be good to showcase some of this as long as it is relevant to the Lowlands. So I am proposing another web series with historical information, such as in article ranging from very brief blurbs to lengthy essays, also including things like photographs, drawings, paintings, maps and music, with or without accompanying text. Of interest would be for instance the Hanseatic network topic we've talked about. Also, it would be nice to post some interesting and relevant historical documents.<br>
<br>Some of this overlaps with works already posted in the other series. For instance, there is Pat's article about wall anchors in the gallery (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/reynolds_muurankers.php">http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/reynolds_muurankers.php</a>). In the travel series there are Andrys' article about St. Jacob (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/stjabik.php">http://lowlands-l.net/travels/stjabik.php</a>), Jonny's about Hadeln (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/hadeln.php">http://lowlands-l.net/travels/hadeln.php</a>), Arend's about the Priestless Church (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/ballin-stadt.php">http://lowlands-l.net/travels/ballin-stadt.php</a>) and mine about Ballin-Stadt (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/ballin-stadt.php">http://lowlands-l.net/travels/ballin-stadt.php</a>). Why, I can even see Tom's article about Edinburgh (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/edinburgh.php">http://lowlands-l.net/travels/edinburgh.php</a>) showcased under "History", for it describes a walk along the city's historical high points. I see nothing wrong with double-posting these pieces, i.e. in posting them in the history series as well if the creators agree with this. And, by the way, all of these pages get a good number of visitors pretty much all the time. So don't ever think they're disappearing in a black hole!<br>
<br>Furthermore, over the years there has been a good deal of interest in Lowlands folklore: myths, tales, customs, taboos, songs, nursery rhymes and so forth. It would be good to showcase some of this also, probably in brief blurbs, songs and rhymes just by themselves or with brief introductions.<br>
<br>So I am talking about potentially two new series. Other series might materialize later (such as a more scholarly linguistic one I can envisage).<br><br>I encourage you to think about this and to consider contributing to it. You may do so in any language you wish (yes, Scandinavian, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Estonian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic or whatever, too), though at least English summaries would be nice, which don't have to be written by the original authors. Please bear in mind that you can list any of these contributions as published works on your résumés or curricula vitae. Also bear in mind that, while you give us permission to showcase your works, you remain the actual copyright owners.<br>
<br>Please suggest titles for the propose series.<br></span><ul style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><li>History: <br></li><li>Folklore: <br></li></ul><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Lowlanders, please remember that, no matter how modest, such projects really constitute a type of public service in that it creates educational resources about our languages, cultures and places. This makes a real difference especially among internationally lesser known ones. We are putting them on the map by sharing them with people that previously knew little or nothing about them, that may not even have known they existed.<br>
<br>Thanks and regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br><br>Our series so far:<br></span><ul style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/</a><br></li>
<li><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/travels/">http://lowlands-l.net/travels/</a></li><li><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/">http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/</a></li><li><a href="http://lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/">http://lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/</a><br>
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