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Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 1 January 2013 at 22:32
3 Tons of Coins Excavated from Ruins of Han Dynasty Mint in Inner Mongolia primaltrek.com/blog/2013/01/0…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 2 January 2013 at 00:46
For the new year I cast a critical eye over the Chinese market in Khitan antiquities babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/fake-k…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 7 January 2013 at 20:00
Excavation of a royal Buddhist monastery at the Liao dynasty Upper Capital in Inner Mongolia kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 7 January 2013 at 20:23
辽上京考古重大发现——皇城西山坡确认佛教寺院遗址 kaogu.net.cn/cn/detail.asp?…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 8 January 2013 at 00:10
What's new in Unicode 6.3? Not much -- babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/whats-…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 10 January 2013 at 21:09
Serica -- great blog on old Chinese books by Bodleian Curator of Chinese Collections, David Helliwell oldchinesebooks.wordpress.com
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 10 January 2013 at 21:14
Crawford's 19th century "system of phonetic symbols for writing the dialects of China" with examples from the Bodleian oldchinesebooks.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/new…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 10 January 2013 at 21:35
Possibly the 1st Chinese book in the Bodleian--a Jianyang edition of the 4 Books dated 1604 in Thos. Bodley's own hand oldchinesebooks.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/our…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 10 January 2013 at 22:14
Tibetan shorthand contractions babelstone.co.uk/Tibetan/Contra… -- reuploaded to my website after being missing for several years
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 11 January 2013 at 22:44
Another sympton of the broken copyright laws we are shackled by: all Chinese Communist posters deleted on Commons commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:D…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 12 January 2013 at 22:28
The Manchu Hymn and Epic Poetry by Brian Tawney manchustudiesgroup.org/2013/01/03/the…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 15 January 2013 at 18:46
1st 120 years of the Archaeological Journal (1844-1963) available for free download from the ADS archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 16 January 2013 at 23:23
Report on the Dunhuang Wikipedia editathon at the British Library last October en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 23 January 2013 at 21:54
Earliest Protestant missionary tract in Chinese and first Chinese edition of the Gospels at the Bodleian oldchinesebooks.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/the…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 29 January 2013 at 22:34
Sir Thomas Bodley (1545–1613), scholar, diplomat, and founder of the Bodleian Library -- today's ODNB life of the day oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/1.…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 30 January 2013 at 21:31
The rules for long s, revised and expanded babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2006/06/rules-…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 30 January 2013 at 21:34
David Helliwell discusses a 19th century woodblock of the Lord's Prayer and 10 Commandments in Chinese at the Bodleian oldchinesebooks.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/woo…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 8 February 2013 at 23:21
Giving voices to the subjects of Wikipedia articles -- genius idea from @pigsonthewing commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 10 February 2013 at 03:48
Just released "BabelStone Han" version 1.11, with 1,533 additional Han characters babelfonts.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/babels…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 11 February 2013 at 01:05
100 precious seals of the Qing dynasty babelstone.co.uk/Manchu/Qingdai…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 15 February 2013 at 22:21
A day of Tangut studies: a celebration of language and culture in China's Xixia Dynasty -- 25 April at SOAS soas.ac.uk/lci/events/25a…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 28 February 2013 at 20:30
ᡝᠨᡝᠩᡤᡳ ᠶᠠ ᠴᡳ ᡳᠨᡝᠩᡤᡳ ᠣᡥᠣ ? babelstone.co.uk/Calendar/Manch…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 28 February 2013 at 23:42
Today's Date in Manchu .. converts any date from 1901 to 2100 to Chinese calendar and writes it out in Manchu babelstone.co.uk/Calendar/Manch…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 1 March 2013 at 20:10
Today's Date in Tangut -- babelstone.co.uk/Calendar/Tangu…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 3 March 2013 at 00:50
Today's Date in Old Mandarin (written in the Phags-pa script) -- babelstone.co.uk/Calendar/OldMa…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 5 March 2013 at 23:01
Today's Date in Jurchen -- babelstone.co.uk/Calendar/Jurch… ... any suggestions for tomorrow's date?
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 6 March 2013 at 22:15
Today's Date in Khitan (Khitan Large Script) -- babelstone.co.uk/Calendar/Khita…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 16 March 2013 at 15:49
Today's Date in Middle Mongolian (Phags-pa script) babelstone.co.uk/Calendar/Middl… (should be Mongolian calendar but is Chinese calendar at present).
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 19 March 2013 at 01:14
Today's Date in Khitan Small Script babelstone.co.uk/Calendar/Khita… (last in the current series, explanatory blog post to follow)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 24 March 2013 at 00:59
Today's Date in Old Mandarin, Middle Mongolian, Manchu, Jurchen, Khitan, Khitan and Tangut -- babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/todays…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 25 March 2013 at 21:50
ᛏᚪᛏᛒᛖᚱᚻᛏᛖᛋ ᛚᚢᚾᛞᛖᚾᚹᛁᚳ pre-construct.com/Publications/L… -- free download from PCA #archaeology
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 27 March 2013 at 21:59
72 Views of the Blackwater River babelstone.co.uk/Blackwater/ind…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 9 April 2013 at 00:30
Started writing a list of #Tangut books en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_T… ... still a long way to go
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 9 April 2013 at 00:31
Started work on a map of #Tangut geography with place names in Tangut script (click on the blue tags) maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=2…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 10 April 2013 at 01:53
A fragment of Tangut geography babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/a-frag…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 11 April 2013 at 11:49
A fragment of Tangut geography -- now with an appended "Index of Tangut Place Names" babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/a-frag…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 19 April 2013 at 18:08
Photos from a spring evening walk around Moor Park in Farnham when I was feeling rather stressed last Tuesday flickr.com/photos/babelst…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 19 April 2013 at 18:12
Photos from a Tibetan sky burial outside Lhasa in March 1985 flickr.com/photos/babelst…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 28 April 2013 at 11:17
Jurchen geography babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/jurche…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 1 May 2013 at 21:51
Khitan geography (Part 1) babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/khitan…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 4 May 2013 at 16:37
I've expressed an interest in developing a Tangut Manuscript Character Recognition tool for the #bl_labs competition labs.bl.uk/Competition+20…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 4 May 2013 at 23:21
Phonetic reconstructions for 189 Khitan Large Script characters from Liu Fengzhu and Wang Yunlong 2004 babelstone.co.uk/khitan/LiuWang…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 11 May 2013 at 01:56
Khitan geography (Part 2) babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/khitan…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 23:10
Marc Miyake sighs sorrowfully looking at a desolate sky : В ПАМЯТЬ О КЫЧАНОВЕ ЕВГЕНИИ ИВАНОВИЧЕ (1932-2013) amritas.com/130525.htm
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 16 June 2013 at 19:49
On the set of "Robin Hood" (2010) at the Bourne Wood in August 2009 flickr.com/photos/babelst…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 20 June 2013 at 13:52
BabelStone fonts now all on one page babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 21 August 2013 at 20:51
Diary of a Rambling Antiquarian - babeldiary.blogspot.co.uk
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 27 August 2013 at 23:44
The rambling antiquarian hunts for ogham stones in Cornwall babeldiary.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/huntin…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 29 August 2013 at 00:46
The rambling antiquarian hunts for ogham stones in Devon babeldiary.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/huntin…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 31 August 2013 at 00:43
The Rambling Antiquarian visits the Cloud Platform in Beijing babeldiary.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/cloud-…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 31 August 2013 at 16:03
The Rambling Antiquarian encounters a Khitan memorial tablet at the Liao and Jin City Wall Museum in Beijing babeldiary.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/liao-a…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 3 September 2013 at 23:16
A Tale of Two Follies (part 2) babeldiary.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/wilder…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 7 September 2013 at 00:38
The Rambling Antiquarian visits St Laurence Tidmarsh is support of this year's #WikiLovesMonuments competition babeldiary.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/tidmar… #wmuk
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 18:49
Documents for the Encoding of Tangut babelstone.co.uk/Tangut/TangutD… -- background to the Tangut meeting in Beijing (which I will be attending).
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 18:57
Construction of Rapunzel's Tower for "Into the Woods" (2014 film) at Waverley Abbey commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:… -- filming starts next Monday.
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 25 September 2013 at 19:58
Another picture of Rapunzel's Tower under construction for the movie "Into the Woods" flickr.com/photos/babelst…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 30 September 2013 at 21:50
BabelMap online now updated for #Unicode6_3 babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/babelm…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 30 September 2013 at 22:39
A new version of BabelMap supporting #Unicode6_3 has now been released babelstone.co.uk/Software/Babel…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 30 September 2013 at 22:48
A new version of BabelPad supporting tabular columns and sorting (using UCA or CLDR collation algorithms) will be released in 2 or 3 days.
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 5 October 2013 at 16:20
New version of BabelPad supporting #Unicode6_3 has now been released babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/babelp…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 10 October 2013 at 19:36
"if a boy finds eagle droppings, the omen is good; if an old ox is eaten by ants, it’s bad" (newyorker.com/online/blogs/e…) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irk_Bitig
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 22:51
西夏研究国际学术研讨会在英国伦敦大学亚非学院成功举行 xixia.nxu.edu.cn/pageInfo?id=898 #Tangut #soas
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 20 October 2013 at 14:50
What's new in Unicode 7.0 ? babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/whats-… -- looking forward to 2,833 new characters in the next version of #Unicode
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 21 October 2013 at 21:05
Why is a man in a business suit levitating in Unicode 7.0 ? I have just updated my blog post to answer that question babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/whats-…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 21 October 2013 at 21:10
Also answering the other big twitter question -- why did Unicode see fit to encode a pile of poo ? babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/whats-…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 19:30
The #Tolkien Estate torpedoes the encoding of Tolkien's fictional scripts Tengwar and Cirth in #Unicode ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 23 October 2013 at 19:34
... too late to stop the encoding of three Tolkien extensions to the Anglo-Saxon fuþorc which will be in Unicode 7.0 std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/d…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 25 October 2013 at 19:32
'Tomb raiders' a very real threat to China's archaeological treasures news.asiaone.com/news/asia/tomb… -- read and weep
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 29 October 2013 at 17:35
"Brutal and Beautiful" -- #SOAS library last in this slideshow of the best English post-war buildings -- bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 3 November 2013 at 13:43
#SOAS given £20M soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem8… including £5M to endow the David L. Snellgrove Chair in Tibetan and Buddhist art ...
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 3 November 2013 at 13:45
... now a chair in #Tangut studies really would be something -- £5m anyone?
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 5 November 2013 at 23:39
Who am I? Not this guy in a business suit baike.com/gwiki/%E9%AD%8…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 5 November 2013 at 23:43
50,000 views of my #Unicode 7.0 blog post babelstone.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/whats-… over last 2 weeks, nearly 10% of my total blog views over last 8 years
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 6 November 2013 at 00:36
#Unicode has characters for whales 🐳 and snails 🐌 but no sharks or snarks ... yet.
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 10 November 2013 at 23:20
Most BabelStone fonts are now licensed under the SIL OpenFont license babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/index.ht…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 10 November 2013 at 23:25
New version of "BabelStone Phags-pa Book" and "BabelStone Phags-pa Tibetan" fonts that work under Windows 7+ released babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/Phags-pa…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 00:59
Internet Explorer 11: Two Steps Forward and Two Steps Back babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2013/11/i…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 17:53
Internet Explorer 11: Two Steps Forward and Two Steps Back babelstone.blogspot.com/2013/11/intern… (correct link)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 18:05
Li Fanwen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Fanwen wins the Prix Stanislas Julien for his 2008 Tangut-Chinese Dictionary aibl.fr/prix-et-fondat…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Thursday, 14 November 2013 at 19:23
李范文教授因为编辑《夏漢字典》而获得2013年国际儒莲奖 aibl.fr/prix-et-fondat…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 19 November 2013 at 21:27
Viking runestone with Latin runic inscription found on medieval scholar’s farmland at Orphir in Orkney orkneyjar.com/archaeology/20…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 19 November 2013 at 21:34
More pictures of the rune stone theorcadianphotos.co.uk/?q=runes -- inscription ≈ ᛌᛁᚿᛌᛁᛚᛁᛌᛆᚿᛐᛁᚠᛁᛐᛌᛁᛐᚮᚱ (??) for "[qui e]s in caelis, sanctificetur"
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Friday, 22 November 2013 at 23:26
On Christmas Night CD, sung by the choirs of St Thomas-on-The Bourne thebourne.org.uk/index.php/shop… (free audio samples thebourne.org.uk/index.php/shop…)
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Tuesday, 26 November 2013 at 21:41
"BabelStone Han PUA" font contains 945 unencoded CJK characters including 255 not in latest version of BabelStone Han babelstone.co.uk/Fonts/PUA.html
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Wednesday, 4 December 2013 at 17:54
News on the street is that #Unicode7 Man in Business Suit Levitating should have been named Rude Boy Exclamation Mark slowpokecomics.com/2009/04/rude-b…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Saturday, 14 December 2013 at 21:51
“华夷译语”与西夏字符国际学术研讨会综述 cass.cn/kydt/xshy/2013…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Sunday, 22 December 2013 at 19:21
The Rambling Antiquarian visits three pagodas in Beijing babeldiary.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/three-…
Andrew West 魏安 @BabelStone
Monday, 30 December 2013 at 00:26
DYK that 2 dharani pillars erected in Baoding in 1502 are inscribed with latest known examples of the Tangut script? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangut_dh…
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