Microsoft Corp. is to exit its Encarta encyclopedia business later this year after losing ground over the years to freely available reference material on the Internet on web sites like Wikipedia Encylopedia. “People today seek and consume information in considerably different ways than in years past,” the software maker said in a notice posted on [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Encarta Will be Axed by Microsoft in June 2009
Posted in News, tagged Britannica, Encarta, Encylopedias, Microsoft, Newspapers, Reference Sources, Research, Wikipedia on March 31, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The Former Panama Canal Zone Balboa High School
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Balboa High School, Books, Education, History, Panama, Panama Canal Zone, Riots, Southern Command on March 31, 2009 | 17 Comments »
The Balboa High School (BHS) was a public high school in the former Canal Zone under the administration of the U.S. Department of Defense. It was the Alma Mater for thousand of students who then populated the extinct Panama Canal Zone. The history of the BHS is intimately bound to the history of the Panama [...]
Photography of the Day: Colorful Balcony
Posted in Photography, tagged Balconies, Buildings, Casco Viejo, Panama, Photographs, Structures on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Venice Carnival Reveler
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Beauty, Carnivals, Colors, Costumes, Flower Stores, Mannequin, Panama, Revelers, Venice Carnival on March 30, 2009 | 6 Comments »
About two week ago, I was very excited designing my own customized business cards. The project came out fine and I penned a post about it here at Lingua Franca. After I was done designing the cards, I went to Multimax (five minutes drive from my house) to buy the inkjet cardboard to print the [...]
El Prado Boulevard
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Balboa, Boulevards, El Prado Boulevard, Panama, Panama Canal Zone, Parks on March 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
El Prado “The Prado was a very special place to me… Lined with two rows of Royal Palm trees, quite a beautiful sight to see. Once a year, the base of the trees were hand-painted white… It made the trees look royal and bold, and they grew to a very tall height. Large, white-washed homes, [...]
Photograph of the Day: Green Doors
Posted in Photography, tagged Architecture, Casco Viejo, Doors, Houses, Panama, Photographs, Pictures, Structures on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Joke: Public Administration
Posted in Jokes, tagged Banking, Economy, Finance, Government, Humor, Public Administration on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hell, back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed and it closed. Now we are trusting the economy of our country and our banking system to the same nit-wits who couldn’t make money running a whore house [...]
The Balboa Clubhouse
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Balboa, Balboa Clubhouse, Memories, Panama, Panama Canal, Panama Canal Zone, Zonians on March 29, 2009 | 13 Comments »
“In one direction of the Prado, was the Clubhouse, a fine place to eat… Or swim at the pool, buy a comic, or go to the movies for a treat.” Snow W. Frost 07-01-2000 In the immediate background of Steven’s Circle, sits the Balboa Clubhouse, long a landmark and gathering place for Panama Canal Zone [...]
Photograph of the Day: Say It With Flowers
Posted in Photography, tagged Arboretum, Beauty, Dallas, Flowers, Michael Moore, Photograph on March 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chain-smoking Cigars and the Panama Canal Project
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Constructions, Engineering, John F. Stevens, Monuments, Panama, Panama Canal, Railroads on March 28, 2009 | 10 Comments »
It’s a well spread out myth, that the father of the construction of the Panama Canal is George Washington Goethals. That is incorrect. The fact of the matter is that the Panama Canal has not one, but three fathers, (i.e., John Findley Wallace, John F. Stevens and George W. Goethals). John F. Wallace was a [...]
