LL-L "Holidays" 2009.05.29 (03) [EN]

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From: Mike Morgan <mwmosaka at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Holidays" [EN]

While NOT EXACTLY a holiday, today 30 May (am writing at 1:14 AM Indian
time!) is a day of some pride up north in THIS country (and in neighbouring
Nepal ... and I would expect in Tibet as well) ... in 1953 a Sherpa-raised
Tibetan (? the jury is NOT totally in on that issue yet) by the name of
Tensing Norgay (birth name: Namgyal Wangdi) was one of the 1st two people to
have reached the summit of the tallest peak in the world, Chomolangma
ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ* *(aka Sagarmatha सगरमाथा -- a name which actaully did not exist
yet in 1953 / Mount Everest). The other was (Sir) Edmund Hillary.

mike || U C > || мика  || माईक || マイク || ሚካኤል
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
          (( Michael W Morgan, PhD ))
    to be Assistant Professor in Linguistics
Ethiopian Sign Language & Deaf Studies Program
      Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia)
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וואָס לענגער אַ בלינדער לעבט, אַלץ מער זעט ער.
The longer a blind man lives, the more he sees.
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